{"id": "enwiki-00030267-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in Canada, Historical documents\nPrime Minister John Thompson's invitation to his Imperial Privy Council swearing-in at Windsor Castle", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030267-0001-0000", "contents": "1894 in Canada, Historical documents\nPrime Minister John Thompson's death at Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria's response", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030267-0002-0000", "contents": "1894 in Canada, Historical documents\nJoseph Tyrrell's second expedition to the North-West Territories' Barren Grounds described", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030267-0003-0000", "contents": "1894 in Canada, Historical documents\nChignecto Ship Railway would shorten voyages of eastern New Brunswick, P.E.I. and other shipping to U.S.A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030268-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1894, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 89], "content_span": [90, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030269-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1894 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030278-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1894 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030278-0001-0000", "contents": "1894 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government and law\nThe 12th New Zealand Parliament continues with the Liberal Party in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030278-0002-0000", "contents": "1894 in New Zealand, Sport\nLeonard Cuff is appointed a Founding Member of the International Olympic Committee. He remains the member for both New Zealand and Australia until 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030278-0003-0000", "contents": "1894 in New Zealand, Sport, Lawn Bowls\nThe pairs championship is held for the first time. National Champions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030280-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1894 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030284-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1894 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030286-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030290-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1894 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030291-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1894 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030292-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in film\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030293-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030295-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030296-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030296-0001-0000", "contents": "1894 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030296-0002-0000", "contents": "1894 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030297-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030298-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in science\nThe year 1894 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030299-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in sports\n1894 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030300-0000-0000", "contents": "1894 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1894 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030303-0000-0000", "contents": "1894-S Barber dime\nThe 1894-S Barber dime is a dime produced in the United States Barber coinage. It is one of the rarest and most highly prized United States coins for collectors, along with the 1804 dollar and the 1913 Liberty Head nickel. One was sold in 2005 for $1.3 million, and another for $1.9 million in 2007. Only 24 were minted, and of those, only nine are known to survive; all nine (as was the entire mintage) were proof coins; two are heavily worn impaired proofs. In 1957, one of the latter was found in a junk coin box at Gimbels Department Store, and purchased for $2.40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030303-0001-0000", "contents": "1894-S Barber dime, History\nIn the first half of 1894, just 24 proofs of the Barber series dimes were manufactured at the San Francisco Mint. Why only 24 of the coins were minted is unknown. The superintendent of the San Francisco Mint is said to have had them minted as gifts for some important bankers. Another theory is that the mint's annual audit showed a discrepancy of $2.40, so the dimes were struck to compensate for this. Three of the dimes were said to have been given to the superintendent's daughter, who allegedly spent one on a dish of ice cream and sold the other two in the 1950s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030303-0002-0000", "contents": "1894-S Barber dime, Value\nDue to the rarity of the coin and the mysteries surrounding its past, the 1894-S dime is one of the most valuable coins produced in the United States. In the late 1990s, one of the remaining 1894-S dimes was bought for $825,000. Since then they have sold for $1,035,000 in 2005; $1.3 million also in 2005; and $1.9 million in 2007. At a January 7, 2016 auction by Heritage held during the Florida United Numismatists show, the finest known example, graded Proof 66 by Professional Coin Grading Service with a green Certified Acceptance Corp. sticker, sold for $1,997,500. In August 2019, another coin was sold at a Stacks Bowers Galleries auction in Chicago, Illinois for $1,320,000. The buyer was Dell Loy Hansen, the owner of Major League Soccer team Real Salt Lake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums\nA number of referendums on alcohol licensing were held in New Zealand between 2 December 1894 and 15 August 1987. Because of their differing questions and rules, these referendums can be broken down into three time periods divided by what options were presented to voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, Under the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act of 1893\nThe Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893 provided that at each general election voters would decide about the alcohol licensing regime. They would choose between 'licensing': the granting of more licenses, 'reduction', where no new licenses would be granted and 'prohibition' - a total ban on alcohol sales. For the prohibition option to pass it had to receive 60% of the valid votes, and if it failed to reach this threshold its vote total would be added to 'reduction'. Under this system, 'reduction' solidly won all six referendums between 1894 and 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 105], "content_span": [106, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, Under the Licensing Amendment Acts of 1910 and 1918\nThe Licensing Amendment Act of 1910 changed the process above. Now voters would choose between 'licensing' and 'prohibition'. The option to permit licensing narrowly won both the 1911 and 1914 referendums held under this system. The Licensing Amendment Act of 1918 required another referendum before 30 April 1919. This referendum also stated that if prohibition was rejected, in future general elections voters would choose between 'licensing', a 'state monopoly' and 'prohibition'. In the plebiscite voters again narrowly chose licensing over prohibition, though prohibition had been winning until the votes of overseas soldiers (who were strongly in favor of licensing) were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 104], "content_span": [105, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, After the 1919 referendum\nNational Licensing polls were held in conjunction with every general election from 1911 to 1984, except for 1931 and 1951. In 1919 two polls were held, on 10 April 1919 and 17 December 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, After the 1919 referendum\nAfter the failure of the 30 April 1919 referendum voters at each general election would choose between 'licensing', a 'state monopoly' and prohibition'. Because of the previous failures of prohibition in all referendums, the state monopoly and prohibition options required an absolute majority to pass, with licensing continuing unless that level was reached. In 1919, 1922 and 1925 no option reached a majority and so licensing continued by default. In 1928, licensing reached a majority of the vote for the first time. The vote share of licensing never again declined below a majority, and this option won all following referendums until the entire process was made moot by legal reforms in 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, Local option polls from 1893\nFrom 1893 to 1946 Local Option polls were held in each electorate, although \"No-Licence\" required a three-fifths (60%) majority, and also that half or more of those on the roll recorded a vote or the vote would be declared \"void\". Temperance advocates complained that their \"democratic right\" in those electorates with only a simple majority was denied. As general elections were usually held in October or November, electorates did not go \u201cdry\u201d until the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 81], "content_span": [82, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, Local option polls from 1893\nIn the 1893 election Clutha went \"dry\", and in the 1902 election Ashburton and Mataura. In Bruce, Chalmers and Newton the poll was declared void. In 1905 election Grey Lynn, Invercargill, and Oamaru went dry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 81], "content_span": [82, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, Local option polls from 1893\nWith adjustment of electoral boundaries by the Representation Commission because of population changes this led to \"repeated major dislocation to liquor licensing districts\". From 1914 the Licensing Act required that where possible that no hotel should be placed in a no-licence district. In 1927 the boundary between Parnell and Auckland East was adjusted so that the Ellerslie and Alexandra Park raceways would remain in the \"wet\" Parnell electorate and could be granted temporary liquor licences on racedays. MP John A. Lee who lost Auckland East in the 1928 election by 37 votes blamed the adjustment for his loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 81], "content_span": [82, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030304-0008-0000", "contents": "1894\u20131987 New Zealand alcohol licensing referendums, Local option polls after 1987\nWhile the national triennal poll had been abolished in 1987. local restoration polls were held in four \"dry\" areas in conjunction with the 1996 general election. Grey Lynn recorded a majority for local restoration; Eden, Roskill and Tawa did not. In the 1999 general election all the three remaining areas voted to \"go wet\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030305-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 Football League season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era. Under George Ramsay's management committee Villa won the FA Cup for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030305-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Aston Villa F.C. season\nA league match in November 1894 against Sheffield United at Perry Barr was played in driving freezing rain. Villa's players had dry clothes available, and were given hot drinks, a courtesy apparently not extended to the visitors. The Sheffield players were worse affected, several needing treatment for exposure, and by the end of the match only six were still on the field. Villa's Jack Devey put on an overcoat, and Charlie Athersmith played under an umbrella borrowed from a spectator before collapsing in the dressing-room afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030305-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Aston Villa F.C. season\nVilla registered the biggest away win\tin the League when they defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers 0\u20134 on 22 December 1894, and beat Small Heath in the final of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030305-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Aston Villa F.C. season\nTwenty thousand people saw Sunderland win the championship with a 2\u20131 scoreline and rendered Everton's final game meaningless. As it was, Everton could only draw that game at Aston Villa 2\u20132, a result which would have taken the title to Sunderland regardless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030305-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1895 FA Cup Final was contested by Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion at Crystal Palace. Aston Villa won 1\u20130, with Bob Chatt being credited with scoring the fastest goal in FA Cup Final history, scored after just 30\u00a0seconds. This record would stand for 114 years before being broken by Louis Saha of Everton in the 2009 FA Cup Final with a goal after 25\u00a0seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030306-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Bristol & District League\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the third in the history of the Bristol & District League, which was renamed the Western League the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030306-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Bristol & District League\nHereford Thistle were the Division One champions in their debut season, but they left the league at the end of the season. Warmley Reserves won Division Two for the second year in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030306-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Bristol & District League, Final tables, Division One\nTwo new clubs joined Division One for this season, increasing the number of clubs from ten to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030306-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Bristol & District League, Final tables, Division Two\nTwo new teams joined Division Two this season, increasing the number of clubs from ten to 11 after Trowbridge Town Reserves left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030306-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Bristol & District League, Final tables, Division Two\nSt Paul's finished as runners-up in Division Two, and were elected to Division One for the following season ahead of Warmley Reserves as Warmley's first team were already playing in the top level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030307-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 British Home Championship\nThe 1894\u201395 British Home Championship was an international football tournament played between the British Home Nations. The competition was won by England, who like second placed Wales, did not lose a game. Wales however failed to win one either, scoring three draws and so finishing behind England. Scotland took joint second place with three points gained from a win, draw and a loss. Ireland came last with a single point garnered from their draw with Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030307-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 British Home Championship\nEngland and Ireland played the first match of the competition, the Irish suffering a 9\u20130 defeat in Derby to give England the immediate advantage. Ireland and Wales then played a 2\u20132 draw in Belfast before England and Wales drew at the Queen's Club, the only international football match ever played there. Wales finished their competition as Scotland entered it, the teams drawing in Wrexham to give Wales three points in an unbeaten tournament. Scotland beat Ireland in their second game, ending Ireland's tournament with a single point before England and Scotland, level on points, played out the decider at Goodison Park. In the event England were just too strong, easily dismissing their opponents 3\u20130 to win the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030308-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was Burslem Port Vale's third consecutive season of football in the English Football League. The progress of the previous season was lost, as 19 of the 30 league games ended in defeat. Only nearby Crewe Alexandra finished below the Vale, however only Walsall Town Swifts failed to gain re-election \u2013 despite finishing two points ahead of Vale. As was the case in 1892\u201393, the Vale found great difficulty in scoring goals, with only Crewe scoring fewer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030308-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nA season to forget, the club fared no better the following season, and lost their Football League status between 1896\u20131898. Their 2\u20132 draw at Crewe on 5 January 1895 was their final away draw until 3 December 1898, as the team fared extremely poorly on the road, losing almost all their away games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030308-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nAn opening day victory over Walsall Town Swifts betrayed what would be a difficult season for the \"Valeites\". Following the opening day they won just one of their next 21 league games, with only four of these games ending in a draw. During this streak they lost 10\u20130 at Notts County on 26 February 1895, after three players failed to turn up, leaving reserve players to make up the numbers. Seemingly destined for a rock bottom finish, they rallied at the season's end to win five of their last seven games. One of these victories was a 7\u20131 demolition of Lincoln City, with big victories also coming over Grimsby Town and Crewe Alexandra. At the end of the season the Vale were 30 points behind champions Bury, and six points off safety, but were re-elected to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030308-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nGoalkeeper Tom Baddeley was the only ever-present throughout the season, with left-back Dick Ray missing just one game. Billy Beats, George Samuel Eccles, Meshach Dean, and Alf Wood, favourites of previous campaigns, rarely missed a match. At the end of the season Wood left for Southampton, and Ray for Manchester City. With their places filled with reserves the next season looked bleak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030308-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nFinancially the club struggled, with attendances down due to continuing defeats, the pay rises the players had for the good work the previous season damaged the budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030308-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nFor the fourth consecutive season they exited the FA Cup in the first round of qualification, for the second consecutive season they scored three goals in their defeat, this time Stourbridge scored five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030309-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1894\u201395 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030310-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1894\u201395 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1894\u201395 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, led by 1st year head coach John Gray, played their home games at Main Building. The 1894\u201395 team was the first at Drexel, and the 5th collegiate team to start up in the US. The first game of the season against Temple University was the first intercollegiate event ever played at the school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the 22nd Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nOn 11 August Dumbarton travelled down the coast to open Somerset Park for the season and came away with a 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nThe first real test for the new look Dumbarton team came a week later with a visit to Ibrox in the league. Rangers ran out easy 3-0 winners, but it was not all gloom as the result may have been different but for the lack of a Dumbarton striker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nAfter a free week, Dumbarton entertained Leith Athletic in the league and recorded their first win by 3-2. Leith however were not aided by an injury to one of their players requiring them to play with a man short for most of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nOn 8 September it was a trip north for a league match against Dundee and after holding their own in the first half it was the home side who triumphed 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nA week later St Bernards were entertained at Boghead and after well contested game it was the visitors who left with both points after a 4-3 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nOn 22 September, Dumbarton travelled to Paisley to play St Mirren in the league. Goal scoring was no problem but it would be their old colleague John Taylor who did the damage by scoring a hat-trick for the Saints in a second 4-3 defeat in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nThe run of defeats continued a week later when unbeaten league leaders Hearts left Boghead having inflicted a crushing 4-1 defeat on the Dumbarton men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0008-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nSo at the end of September Hearts led the league with 10 points from 5 matches, followed by Rangers with the same number of points from 6 games. Dumbarton lagged at the bottom along with Leith and Third Lanark with just one win to show from 6 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0009-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nAfter a free week, Dundee came to Boghead to fulfil the return league fixture and unfortunately the result was no different with a 4-2 defeat being suffered. As in previous weeks the problem seemed to be staying power as Dumbarton led 2-1 going into the second half. In addition an injury to D Thomson required yet a further call on the 2nd XI with James Hartley being the newest recruit so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0010-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nThe downward spiral continued on 13 October when a visit to Parkhead finished in a 6-0 thrashing from Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0011-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nAnd it was no different the following week where Dumbarton continued their travels, this time to Tynecastle, and suffered a 3-1 defeat to unbeaten Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0012-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nAt the end of October Hearts were running away at the top of the league unbeaten with 18 points from 9 games followed by Rangers with 12 points from 8 games. Dumbarton were marooned at the bottom with 2 points to show from their 9 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0013-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nA home game at Boghead on 3 November against Clyde brought some hope of a return to winning ways, but things were against Dumbarton from the start as Tom McMillan was missing due to injury requiring a shuffling of the pack. As it happened his defensive skills were much missed as Clyde left with a 2-1 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0014-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe return of McMillan a week later against Third Lanark at Cathkin Park did little to stem the run of bad results and Dumbarton left having suffered a 6-3 beating. Again it was a case of holding their own until the latter stages of the game before tiring badly. It proved however to be Tom McMillan's final appearance for the club - during his ten seasons he set a record of 111 appearances in all national competitive matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0015-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nOn 17 November Dumbarton travelled to Cappielow in a friendly against Second Division Morton. The match was evenly contested but finished in a 2-1 victory for the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0016-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nA week later there was a welcome relief from the league with Dumbarton\u2019s first tie in the Scottish Cup. However this was no walkover with the visit of Ayrshire side Galston who had already a few scalps to their name in the competition. Being his 100th appearance for Dumbarton, McLeod switched to striker with 2nd XI player, Robert Colquhoun replacing him as goalkeeper, and while his effect up front was ineffectual, Dumbarton managed to scramble a 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0017-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe league at the end of November looked more and more like Hearts for the taking with 11 wins from 11 games, Rangers trailing 8 points behind, though with 2 games less played. Dumbarton sat at the bottom with their solitary win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0018-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nThe first Saturday in December saw a return to league duty and the daunting visit of Rangers to Boghead. Rangers were trying their best to keep pace with league leaders Hearts but on Dumbarton\u2019s side was the fact that Rangers had not yet won a league match at Boghead. As it was Rangers wait would be extended for a further season with Dumbarton pulling off an incredible 1-0 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0019-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nOn 8 December Dumbarton carried forward their new found confidence with a friendly win at Alexandria against Vale of Leven by 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0020-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nThe mini revival came to an end the following weekend with a 2-1 second round Scottish Cup defeat against King\u2019s Park at Stirling. The task was more challenging than would have been the case with the loss of Tom McMillan and yet another 2nd XI debutant, George Jackson, taking his place in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0021-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nThings went from bad to worse on 23 December when Dumbarton returned from Edinburgh having suffered a 5-0 league thrashing from St Bernards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0022-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nOn the last day of the year Dumbarton played a friendly at Tontine Park against neighbours Renton and came away with a 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0023-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nThe league at the end of 1894 still looked like a stroll for Hearts, though having tasted defeat for the first time, they headed Rangers by 6 points with 6 games to play. Dumbarton were joined at the bottom by Leith Athletic both with 2 wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0024-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThe first two weekends in January saw little football due to frost, but on 19 January Dumbarton and Vale of Leven turned out to play the semi final of the county cup at Boghead. The state of the pitch was still considered unplayable by the referee, nevertheless a friendly was played which ended in a 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0025-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThe weather put paid to the rest of the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0026-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nWhilst freezing conditions continued to play havoc with club matches, William Thomson played for the Scottish League XI against the Irish League in Belfast on 2 February \u2013 the Scots winning 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0027-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nDumbarton returned to competitive football for the first time in over two months on 2 March but the tale of woe continued with another league defeat this time to Third Lanark at Bognead losing 4-2. Again it was a case of the Dumbarton men failing to last the pace as they held their opponents at 2-2 till late in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0028-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nAnother home league game was played a week later this time against Celtic and while the result was yet another defeat the scoreline of 2-0 reflected the stiff resistance put up by the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0029-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nThe league game against Clyde on 16 March was another of those which had marked most of the season \u2013 Dumbarton having most of the play \u2013 1-0 up at half time \u2013 then fell away as the game went on \u2013 eventually losing 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0030-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nAfter a free week Dumbarton played their penultimate league match against St Mirren at Boghead on 30 March. As had been the case for most of the season Dumbarton put on agreat show in the first half and led 2-0 \u2013 but unlike the rest of the season this time they maintained their form and ran out 4-1 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0031-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nSo at the end of March \u2013 Hearts having long ago secured the championship, the only matter to be decided in the league was who would join Dumbarton and Leith Athletic in the bottom 3 places and be subject to the dreaded election process for relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0032-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThe final league game of the season took place on 6 April against fellow strugglers Leith Athletic in Edinburgh. A win would see Dumbarton lift themselves off the bottom of the table but this would be a hard ask as not a single point had been earned away from Boghead all season. As it was the result was a 1-1 draw and both clubs finished on equal records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0033-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThe Easter weekend was spent across the border where Dumbarton played friendlies against Arsenal on 13 April and Chatham two days later losing 5-1 and 3-2 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0034-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nOn 20 April while Dumbarton had a rest weekend, neighbours Renton aimed to follow up their success ten years earlier with a win in the Scottish Cup final against St Bernards. It would a big ask of the Second Division side and it was the capital side who walked away with the cup after a close 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0035-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThe last game of the month saw Dumbarton entertain Vale of Leven in the semi final of the Dumbartonshire Cup and achieved a well-earned 5-0 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0036-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nOn 4 May Dumbarton travelled to Aberdeen to play a friendly against Orion and in an evenly contested match the home side won 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0037-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nWith the county cup final fixed for the 25th, a practice match was played against junior side Dunipace which Dumbarton won comfortably 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0038-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nAnd so the final game of the season saw Dumbarton come up against the Scottish Cup runners up Renton for ownership of the county cup and it was Dumbarton who kept a tight grip on the trophy for the seventh year in a row with a 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0039-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, June\nThe season ended on a positive note as Dumbarton retained their First Division status in the league elections on 3 June \u2013 results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0040-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nAt the start of their second 'professional' season, Dumbarton were struck immediately by mass desertions not only across the border but to fellow league clubs who could afford to pay more for talented players. So before season 1894-95 has started, Dumbarton had lost the services of Billy Andrews to Bolton Wanderers, Lawrence Bell to Third Lanark, Bob Ferrier to Sheffield Wednesday, Alf Smith to Third Lanark, John Taylor to St Mirren and Albert Saunderson to Stoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0041-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nSo at the start of the season the first XI started out with a number of new faces, and coming into the team were Tom Keir (full back); Hugh Craig (right wing); William Forsyth and William Boyle (centre forwards) and James Gracie (left wing) all promoted from the second XI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030311-0042-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the first round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Queen's Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030312-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the second season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, finishing 8th place for the 2nd consecutive season. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup for the first time in their history, making it to the semi-finals of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030313-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Eastville Rovers F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the twelfth to be played by the team now known as Bristol Rovers, and their eleventh playing under the name Eastville Rovers. The first team played its third season in the first division of the Bristol & District League (now known as the Western Football League), while the reserves competed in the second division of the same competition for the second time. The season was notable for having the first modern Bristol derby when Bristol South End, who later became Bristol City, hosted Eastville Rovers on 22 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030313-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Season review\nThe 1894\u201395 season began with the announcements that H. McBain would replace F.A. Yates as club captain, and that the team would move to a new ground on the opposite side of Ridgeway Road from their home the previous season in Ridgeway. Following a lacklustre campaign the previous season, where both the first team and the reserves finished just one place off the bottom of their divisions, the 1894\u201394 campaign was one of consolidation. The first team would eventually end the year in a mid-table position, while the reserves finished in 7th place out of 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030313-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Season review\nA large growth in the number of spectators watching their games was noted by the Bristol Mercury in October, with crowds of several hundred regularly watching the first team this season. In previous years their attendances had been as low as a few dozen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030313-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Match results, Bristol & District League, Division Two\nNote: Three results were given against Warmley Reserves in the press over the course of the season. It's possible that one of these was a friendly match, or that the result of one of these ties was overturned and the game re-played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 92], "content_span": [93, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030313-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Match results, Gloucestershire Senior Challenge Cup\nAfter receiving a bye in the first round thanks to them reaching the final the previous season, Eastville Rovers were eliminated from the cup at the quarter-final stage. They were drawn to play Mangotsfield at home in a game that was played in a snowstorm and Mangotsfield prevailed 5\u20133. This was in spite of the fact Mangotsfield were reduced to ten men during the first half when their captain, Brain, suffered a broken collarbone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 89], "content_span": [90, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030313-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Statistics, Cumulative record\nThe total cumulative record of Eastville Rovers up to the end of the 1894\u201395 season is shown below. This is calculated by adding the numbers in the section above to the total games played up to the end of the previous season. Friendly matches are not included in this table, and games held at neutral venues are considered to have been played away from home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season\nIn the 1894\u201395 season, the English football team Everton F.C. finished second in the 1894\u201395 Football League. It was the team's best result since winning the League in 1891. Everton reached the quarterfinals of the F.A. Challenge Cup where they lost to Sheffield Wednesday F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Regular Football League First team\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Regular Football League First team\nNumber of games in which this eleven lined up = 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Other members of the first team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Other members of the first team squad\nBob Howarth was the biggest name to leave Goodison Park during the summer as he returned to Preston North End. This gave Charlie Parry the chance to win back the left back shirt that he had lost when Howarth had arrived two years earlier. Reserve goalkeepers, John Whitehead and David Jardine both moved on, to Liverpool and Nelson respectively to seemingly cement Richard Williams' place between the posts. Two other fringe players, defender, Billy Lindsay and half back, Jack Walker left in search of regular first team football at Grimsby and Ardwick respectively. The only major inclusion to the first team squad was the signing of Tom McInnes from Scottish side Third Lanark. He instantly slotted into the inside right birth while Jack Bell moved out to outside left with Alf Milward making way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Other members of the first team squad\nEverton got off to a flying start when winning all their opening eight games and talk of the title coming to Goodison Park was high by the time of the ninth game at Blackburn. It was here that Jack Southworth suffered a leg injury that ended his career and without him Everton's air of invincibility slipped. Blackburn came from behind to beat the ten men and Everton then suffered a string of draws before returning to winning ways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0005-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Other members of the first team squad\nFred Geary took over at centre forward but yet again found himself losing the berth as Abe Hartley proved more potent in front of goal. Despite having seen off two rivals, Richard Williams' place in goal remained one that the selectors aimed to rectify. Reserves William Sutton and Tom Cain each got their chance but both were considered unworthy, which saw the board spend \u00a3150 to bring 'Happy' Jack Hillman from Burnley with Williams leaving to join Luton. Hillman was established as the regular keeper by the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Other members of the first team squad\nDespite the loss of Southworth, Everton maintained a strong title challenge and topped the table throughout the remainder of 1894 before dropping to third after a defeat by Wednesday on New Year's Day 1895. Everton never regained top spot and their failure to win the title was put down to their failing to win any of their final three games when victories would have seen them crowned champions. The first of the trio of games was a shock 2\u20133 reverse against Derby when a draw would have been enough to take them top. It was the penultimate game that proved crucial however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Other members of the first team squad\nThe destiny of the title was still in Everton's hands going into the final two games but their opponents in the first of those two games were title rivals Sunderland at Newcastle Road in what was effectively a title decider. This was Sunderland's final game and they needed only to draw to clinch the title for themselves. Twenty thousand people saw Sunderland win the match and the championship with a 2\u20131 scoreline and rendered Everton's final game meaningless. As it was, Everton could only draw that game at Aston Villa 2\u20132, a result which would have taken the title to Sunderland regardless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030314-0008-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Everton F.C. season, Other members of the first team squad\nEverton's best season since being crowned champions in 1891 was viewed on Merseyside as a huge disappointment as everyone connected with the club felt that the title had been theirs to win and instead had been gift wrapped for a Sunderland side who, while deserving champions, seemed flattered by their five-point margin of victory. In addition Sunderland had taken three of the four points on offer from their encounters with Everton that season, making claims by Evertonians that the better side had finished second ring a little hollow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup\nThe 1894\u201395 FA Cup was the 24th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The cup was won by Aston Villa, who defeated West Bromwich Albion 1\u20130 in the final of the competition, played at Crystal Palace in London. This was Villa's second victory in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup\nThe Trophy was stolen from a display in the shop window of W. Shillcock (a football fitter) in Newton Row, Birmingham, after the Final and never recovered despite a \u00a310 reward. According to the Police, it was taken sometime between 21:30 on Wednesday 11 September and 7:30 the following morning, along with cash from a drawer. The cup was replaced by a copy of the original, made by Howard Vaughton, the former Aston Villa player and England international, who had opened a silversmith's business after his retirement from the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, four qualifying rounds, three proper rounds, and the semi-finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup, First Round Proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. The 16 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Notts County, Darwen, Bury, Newcastle United, Newton Heath and Woolwich Arsenal from the Second Division. The other Second Division sides were entered into the First Round Qualifying, with the exceptions of Burton Swifts, who started in the Second Round Qualifying, and Manchester City, who played no part in the season's competition. Of the qualifying League sides, only Burton Wanderers and Leicester Fosse qualified to the FA Cup Proper. Eight non-league sides also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup, First Round Proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 2 February 1895. One match was drawn, with the replay taking place in the following midweek fixture. The Barnsley St Peter's \u2013 Liverpool game was voided following a dispute over extra time being played. The match was replayed nine days later, resulting in a 4\u20130 win to Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 16 February 1895. There were two replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup, Third Round Proper\nThe four Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 2 March 1895. There were no replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0008-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were both played on Saturday, 16 March 1895. Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion went on to meet in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030315-0009-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FA Cup, Final\nThe Final was contested by Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion at Crystal Palace. Aston Villa won 1\u20130, with Bob Chatt being credited with scoring the fastest goal in FA Cup Final history, scored after just 30 seconds. Devey found Hodgetts, whose cross was laid off by Athersmith to Chatt, whose half volley took a deflection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1894\u201395 season was their second season, as the club's foundation was on 15 November 1893. Roland Geldner was the club's first chairman remained as chairman. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein neighborhood of Kleinbasel (lesser Basel). The Swiss national championships had not yet been called to into life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nFerdinand Isler was selected as team captain, he was responsible for leading the team trainings and choosing the player line-ups. During the summer the players of FC Basel attended the RTV/Realsch\u00fcler-Turnverein (secondary school student gymnastics club) football training sessions to prepare for their first meeting with the then already prestigious Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich. Gymnastics teacher Adolf Glaz, who had founded the RTV, had introduced his students to the new football game in 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nOn 21 October 1894 Basel played their first game in the city on the Limmat, which was very positively commentated by GC in the local newspaper: It really deserves credit for the fact that they dare to travel so far, despite their short existence. Our colleagues in Basel have the same principles as we do. They find that one can only learn the game properly through playing many matches and possibly suffering defeats. Therefore, we pay the highest appreciation to the young club, that has to make significant sacrifices in order to achieve this aim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0002-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nDespite all expressions of respect, the game on the Zurich swamp-like undergroun ended with a 0\u20134 defeat for Basel. After the heated fight between the two teams, the guests were entertained and then accompanied by the hosts to an evening drink and finally to the train station. Because of this, the FCB players looked forward to the return match against GC two weeks later. Over a dozen members gathered at the train station in Basel to accompany the guests through the city and to have a \"morning pint\" before the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0002-0002", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe spectators were shown an attractive game, which FCB only lost 0\u20134, they had improved compared to the first leg. It was noteworthy that Basel put the ball in the opponents goal twice before half time, but the both goals fell from an offside position. As in Z\u00fcrich two weeks earlier, in Basel too, after the game they treated themselves to a dinner and the opponents were also accompanied back to the train station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nFor this season club organised ten friendly matches for their first team. The first was a match against FC Gymnasia (from the Greek \"gymnasion\": place of physical training) a team formed by gymnasts and junior high school students and in 1884 the first football was purchased for their gymnastics lessons. Before and between the two games against Grasshopper Club, Basel played two games against RTV. These were their second and third comparisons and they were all quite rough fights. In the autumn Basel were hosts to FC Excelsior Z\u00fcrich, the second well established club from Z\u00fcrich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0003-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe return match was played during the spring and attracted over 2,000 spectators, a respectable number because at that time the city that had about 70,000 inhabitants. They were also hosts to locals Buckjumpers Club Basel, another club formed by gymnastic and high school students, and were hosts to French team FC Mulhouse, who were to become a regular friendly opponent in the next few years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nAnother team to guest in Basel was the German team Karlsruher FC Kickers. The Kickers had played against the FC Old Boys Basel that morning and won 10\u20130. The Karlsruher FC Kickers competed with only four of their own players, the remaining seven were players from three other Karlsruhe clubs, so it was actually a Karlsruhe selection. An explanation to this is, among the oldest football clubs in Karlsruhe were the International Football Club (1889), who later merged with the Karlsruher FV (1891) and the FC Karlsruher Kickers (1893). These later merged with the Karlsruher FC Ph\u00f6nix (1894) and these tams were all predecessor clubs of today's Karlsruher SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Overview\nIn May there was a game against Abstinenten-Fussballclub Patria Basel and the first game against newly formed FC Old Boys Basel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030316-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 FC Basel season, Notes, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the seventh season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League\nDuring the first five seasons of the league the re-election process had concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league, but as of the 1894\u201395 season the re-election requirement was reduced to the last three clubs in Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League\nHowever, as Lincoln City (fourth from last) and Walsall Town Swifts (third from last) both finished with 20 points, they were both subjected to the re-election process, and Walsall eventually resigned from the league. After this, and until the 1976\u201377 season, goal average (explained below) was used to determine a club's exact position and there were no more anomalies in the re-election processes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League\nGoal average was calculated by dividing the goals scored with goals conceded, and would more appropriately be called goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League, League standings\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League, League standings\nMatch results are drawn from website and Rothmans for the First Division and from Rothmans for the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League, Test matches\nThe Football League test matches were a set of play-offs, in which the bottom First Division teams faced the top Second Division teams. The First Division teams, if coming out as winners, would retain their places in the division. If a Second Division team won, it would be considered for First Division membership through an election process. Losing Second Division teams would stay in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030317-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football League, Test matches\nAs a result of these matches, Bury, Derby County and Stoke were placed in the First Division the following season, while Liverpool, Notts County and Newton Heath went into the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030318-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 3 teams, and Akademisk Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030319-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1894\u201395 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Stade Fran\u00e7ais that defeated the Olympique in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030319-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe tournament was played by four clubs from Paris\u00a0: Stade Fran\u00e7ais, Racing, Cosmopolitan Club et Olympique.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030319-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe first two of the pool were admitted to the final .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030320-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1894\u201395 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030321-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1894\u201395 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished first out of 10 clubs in the Scottish Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030322-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1894\u201395 comprised 4 teams, and Linfield won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030323-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Kent Football League\nThe 1894-95 season was the 1st in the history of the Kent League. Chatham were champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030324-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the third season in Liverpool F.C. 's existence, and was their second year in The Football League, in which they competed in the First Division for the first time. The season covers the period from 1 July 1894 to 30 June 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030324-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Liverpool F.C. season, Test Match 1895\nLiverpool lost 1-0 to Bury on 27 April and were relegated back to the second division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030325-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was Manchester City F.C. 's fourth season of league football and third season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030325-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Manchester City F.C. season\nIn their first season after Ardwick A.F.C. 's reformation as Manchester City, the team fared somewhat better than in their previous season, including recording a record league score of 11-3 at home against Lincoln City, though in this season City for the only time in their history declined to enter the FA Cup (the following season they entered but chose to withdraw later).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030325-0001-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe season also marks the first season with club legend Billy Meredith on the teamsheet - arguably City's first (chronologically) player of legendary status, and was the first season in which a player scored more than ten goals over the course of one season, partially because of the increasing size of the Football League's Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030326-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1894\u20131895 was contested by six teams from the cities Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Rotterdam and Wageningen. The teams participated in the competition that would later be called Eerste Klasse West. But since the western football district of the Netherlands was the only one to have a competition at the time, it could be regarded as a national championship. This was also the reason that Go Ahead Wageningen participated, as they would later play in the eastern division. Koninklijke HFC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the first season in which football club New Brompton F.C. (later renamed Gillingham F.C.) competed in a league competition. The club had been formed a year earlier but had played only friendlies and ties in the qualifying rounds of the FA Cup and FA Amateur Cup in the previous season. In May 1894, however, the club was accepted into membership of the newly formed Southern League and played its first league match on 15 September 1894 against Sheppey United. New Brompton dominated Division Two of the new league, winning all bar one of its matches, and win on to clinch promotion to Division One by winning an end-of-season \"test match\". The club also entered the FA Cup for the second time but could only reach the third qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season, Southern League\nIn May 1894 New Brompton joined the Southern League, a new league formed by the leading clubs in the South of England at a time when the Football League included only teams from the Midlands and North of the country. The club, which switched from amateur to professional status upon being accepted into the league, was placed in Division Two because it was one of the last to be invited to join the league and all the places in Division One had already been allocated. Two other Kent clubs, Bromley and Sheppey United, were also in the division, and New Brompton's first fixture was away to Sheppey on 15 September 1894. In front of a crowd of approximately 3,000 fans New Brompton emerged victorious by a score of 6\u20130, David Hutcheson scoring a hat-trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season, Southern League\nThe team followed the success of their first match with a further seven consecutive victories, in which 32 goals were scored and only five conceded, before the only defeat of the season came on 9 March 1895 with a 3\u20131 defeat at home to Bromley. Two weeks later New Brompton gained their revenge with a 3\u20132 win at Bromley's ground, and followed this up with victories on consecutive days over Old St Stephen's and Chesham, in which the team scored a total of 15 goals without reply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0002-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season, Southern League\nThis left the team with a final record of eleven wins and one defeat from twelve matches. The top goalscorer for the season was Arthur Rule, who scored nine times in the final three matches of the season to finish with a total of 18 goals in just nine matches. After the 1894\u201395 season he never played for New Brompton again, and details of his subsequent career are unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season, Southern League\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season, Southern League, Test match\nAt this time automatic promotion and relegation was not in place and the club was required to play a \"test match\" against Swindon Town, who had finished bottom of Division One. The match was played at a neutral venue in Caversham, near Reading, and New Brompton won 5\u20131 to gain promotion to the higher division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season, FA Cup\nNew Brompton entered the FA Cup at the second qualifying round, defeating Chatham of the Southern League Division One before a club record crowd of approximately 8,000 fans. The club was then eliminated by another Division One team, Millwall Athletic, in the third qualifying round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030327-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 New Brompton F.C. season, Squad statistics\nThe club used 18 players during the course of the season, with only two, H. Buckland and A. Meager, playing in all 15 of the team's competitive matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030328-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was Newcastle United's second season in the Second Division of The Football League. Newcastle suffered their record defeat in the final game of the season, a 0\u20139 loss against Burton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030329-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was Newton Heath's third season in the Football League and their first outside the top flight. They finished third in the Second Division, earning the right to play in a Test match against Stoke City in order to regain their top-flight status. They lost the match, which was played at Vale Park, Burslem, 3\u20130 and remained in the Second Division. In the FA Cup, the Heathens were knocked out in the First Round after losing 3\u20132 to Stoke City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030329-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Newton Heath F.C. season\nA league match against Walsall Town Swifts was played on 9 March, with Newton Heath winning 14\u20130. However, Walsall had complained about the state of the pitch before the game, and an extra layer of sand was added prior to kick-off. Walsall's protest was upheld by The Football League, the result was nullified and the match was replayed on 9 April; Newton Heath won the replay 9\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030329-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1894\u201395, but were knocked out in the first round of both competitions. As in the previous season, a Newton Heath team also competed in the Lancashire Palatine League, along with Bury and Liverpool. They beat Liverpool at home, but drew at Anfield and lost both matches against Bury. It was to be Newton Heath's last entry in the Palatine League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030330-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Northern Football League\nThe 1894\u201395 Northern Football League season was the sixth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030330-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 8 clubs which competed in the last season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030331-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1895 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's tenth season of play. After qualifying for the final championship match in 1894, the club placed second in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030331-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Team business\nFormer player and Stanley Cup trustee P. D. Ross was elected president of the Hockey Club for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030331-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Pre-season\nOttawa played four pre-season games, on December 27, 1894, at home against Montreal HC, winning 5\u20131. Chauncy Kirby would play goal for Ottawa. The clubs played a rematch exhibition in Montreal on December 30. In this game, spirits were high in the Victoria Skating Rink as the crowd rushed onto the ice after Ottawa tied the game 2\u20132. Captain Young would order Ottawa off the ice and the game did not resume.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030331-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Pre-season\nA team composed of American collegiate players visited Ottawa for a two-game series at the start of January. The first game, on January 2, 1895, was played under American rules (with a ball, and the positions titled goal, quarterback and three forwards) and was won by the Americans 5\u20133. The second game was played under Canadian rules and was won by Ottawa 15\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030331-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season\nOttawa entered the season without a regular goalie as a replacement for Albert Morel was needed. New player Fred Chittick would win the job, but the club would not keep pace with Montreal Victorias and finished second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030331-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nA game involving Quebec was noteworthy, on February 23 against Ottawa, won by Ottawa 3\u20132. The game, played at Quebec, was very rough and the crowd became hostile towards the visitors. At the end of the match, the crowd pursued referee Hamilton and Umpire Findlay as they left the arena, and dragged them back to force them to declare the game a draw. Police were called to break up the demonstration. Subsequent to the match, the AHAC decided to suspend the Quebec hockey club for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030331-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Final Standing\n\u2020\u2020 Quebec team suspended after attack on officials after game of February 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030332-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season is the 21st season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030332-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 19 competitive matches during the 1894\u201395 season. They finished third in the Scottish League Division One, behind Celtic and winners Heart of Midlothian, with a record of 10 wins from 18 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030332-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe club ended the season without the Scottish Cup. They were knocked out of the first round by Heart of Midlothian, losing 2\u20131 at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030333-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1894\u201395 Rugby Union County Championship was the seventh edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030333-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Rugby Union County Championship\nYorkshire won the competition for the sixth time, defeating Cumberland in the decisive tie of the Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030334-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Cup\nThe 1894\u201395 Scottish Cup was the 22nd season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by St Bernard's when they beat Renton 2-1 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030335-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1894\u201395 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030335-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Districts season, History\nThe scoring was tweaked again this season, to give greater emphasis on try-scoring. A 'goal' - a try and conversion - remained 5 points; but the try was now greater value than the conversion (3pts to 2pts).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030335-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Districts season, History\nGlasgow District beat Edinburgh District in the Inter-City match. The gate money was estimated at \u00a3150. The Scottish Referee noted that it was unfortunate that Glasgow District's and West of Scotland FC's player Charles Nicholl was not eligible for Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030335-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Districts season, History\nThe North of Scotland v South of Scotland match was called off due to the frost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030336-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Division One\nThe 1894\u201395 Scottish Division One season was won by Heart of Midlothian by five points over nearest rival Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030337-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1894\u201395 Scottish Division Two was won by Hibernian, with Cowlairs finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030338-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Scottish Football League, Overview\nHibernian topped the Scottish Division Two for the second successive year. Renton failed to show for their fixture at Dundee Wanderers, hence only 17 games played for both clubs. Dundee Wanderers were awarded the two points for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030339-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1894\u201395 Sheffield Shield season was the third season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Victoria won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the 14th season of competitive association football and third season in the Football League played by Small Heath F.C., an English football club based in Birmingham. In 1893\u201394, Small Heath finished in second place in the divisional championship and gained promotion by defeating Darwen 3\u20131 in a test match. The club had struggled financially during the season, and there were suggestions that it might have disbanded had promotion not been secured. In their first season in the First Division, they finished in 12th place in the 16-team division, thus avoiding the possibility of relegation via the test matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season\nSmall Heath entered the 1894\u201395 FA Cup at the first round proper, and for the second consecutive year lost in that round to the eventual losing finalists, who this season were West Bromwich Albion. In local competitions, they were eliminated in the semi-final of the Birmingham Senior Cup, also by West Bromwich Albion, and lost to Aston Villa in the final of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup. The committee opted not to compete in the United Counties League, a supplementary competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-one different players represented the club in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and there were nine different goalscorers. Two players, Bill Purves and\u00a0\u2013 for the third consecutive season\u00a0\u2013 Billy Ollis, appeared in every League match, and none of the first-choice eleven missed more than four League matches. The top scorer, for the second year running, was inside-forward Frank Mobley with 13\u00a0goals. The match against Sunderland attracted a crowd estimated at\u00a015,000, around double the highest attendance from previous years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nHaving won the inaugural Second Division title in 1892\u201393 but missed out on promotion via the test match system, in 1893\u201394 they finished second in the division and were promoted to the First Division by defeating Darwen 3\u20131 in the test match. The club had been in financial difficulty during the season, and the Birmingham Daily Post speculated that failure in the test match \"would in all probability have meant the disbanding of the club\". The accounts showed income of \u00a31,816 and expenditure of \u00a32,039, a deficit of \u00a3222 on the year. Nevertheless, in preparation for the new season, the club began work on a grandstand and relaid the pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nAll the regular first-choice players signed on again for the new campaign, apart from goalkeeper George Hollis. Of the less regular team members, Bernard Pumfrey left for Midland League club Gainsborough Trinity, William Reynolds and Gilbert Smith were released to join Birmingham & District League club Berwick Rangers, and Chris Charsley retired from League football to concentrate on his police career. Small Heath signed the former Sunderland full back Jack Oliver, whom they had failed to recruit earlier in the season, and forward Charlie Letherbarrow from Walsall, but those were the only major signings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0004-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThe squad was boosted by players from local football, who included Alec Leake, Bill Lewis and a young Billy Pratt. Alfred Jones continued as secretary-manager, and Caesar Jenkyns retained the captaincy. There were no changes to the team's kit of light blue shirts with navy collar trim, cuffs and pocket, white knickerbockers and navy socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nSmall Heath's First Division campaign began on Saturday 1\u00a0September with a visit to local rivals and League champions Aston Villa, which turned out rather closer than predicted. Jack Hallam opened the scoring from a Tommy Hands cross with the first League goal of the season, \"for the match was started punctually, and it would have been a sheer impossibility to score faster than the Small Heath player did.\" Villa equalised some 20\u00a0minutes later, took the lead immediately afterwards, and retained that lead to the end. The Birmingham Daily Post picked out Hallam and Caesar Jenkyns for praise, was disappointed by Fred Wheldon, \"usually the bright particular star of the front rank\", and suggested that Jack Oliver would be a success \"when he has lost a little superfluous flesh\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nOn the Sunday, Jenkyns was involved in an incident after he and an acquaintance staked a quart of beer on a bicycle race. Solihull Police Court later heard how, after Jenkyns lost the race, he knocked his opponent off his bicycle, hit another man, and returned to the public house where he struck a third man in the face. He was convicted on three counts of assault, and fined 20s plus costs on each count. In the following day's visit to Everton, Small Heath had Oliver and Charles Partridge to thank for the score being restricted to 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe new grandstand was open for the first home match of the season, against Bolton Wanderers, and those spectators not distracted by the visit to the city of the Duke and Duchess of York (the future George V and Queen Mary) saw a much improved performance from the forwards that produced a 2\u20131 win with goals from Frank Mobley and Wheldon. The visit to Wolverhampton Wanderers ended in defeat by the same score. Oliver conceded a penalty kick for a foul on Charlie Reynolds, Wheldon equalised before half-time, and Wolverhampton regained the lead straight after the interval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0008-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\n\"The surprise of Saturday's football\" came when a late goal from Hands was enough to beat Preston North End, though there was a suggestion in the press that the team would do well to moderate their tactics, which \"were not of the gentlest\". For Preston's visit to Coventry Road the following weekend, the club applied for a licence to sell alcohol within the ground, as it was the only First Division club without such a licence. The application was refused, the licensing magistrate \"remarking that if the public wanted drink they could go outside to get it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0009-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe Leicester Chronicle suspected that \"it will be a long time, perhaps, before we have another match so keenly contested\". The visitors scored early on, but Small Heath's shoot-on-sight policy produced goals for Hands, after a clash with Mobley left Preston goalkeeper James Trainer on the floor, and for Wheldon, before Edward Brueton, deputising in goal for the injured Partridge, let in a soft goal just before half-time. The second half brought \"more finesse and less vigour\" from the home side, but Preston grew stronger, took the lead, and Small Heath \"appeared to be done with\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0009-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThen Trainer could only turn Mobley's lob in off the post, the same player gave his side the lead, but \"before the Small Heath contingent had finished congratulating one another\", \"North End charging down the field finely from the centre kick scored again before the whistle sounded\" to make the final score 4\u20134. Match receipts totalled nearly \u00a3250, a ground record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0010-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nAfter Wolverhampton Wanderers took a three-goal lead at Coventry Road, the Daily Post suggested that Caesar Jenkyns must have spent the interval \"exhorting his men to make a famous effort\", for \"they responded nobly to his appeal\". Adopting a strategy of all-out attack, running the ball upfield at full speed before crossing to as many of the forwards as could converge on goal, they scored four times in 25\u00a0minutes to demoralise the opposition and win the match. The quality of Hands' movement and crosses was singled out for particular praise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0010-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nSmall Heath then played West Bromwich Albion in a benefit match for Fred Wheldon, who had first played for the club on trial in 1890, and since signing, before the 1890\u201391 season, had not missed a game in League or FA Cup. Hands and triallist goalkeeper Charlie Williams of Swindon Town were injured during the game, and unfortunately for the beneficiary, only 2,000\u00a0spectators turned up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0011-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nA creditable performance in a losing cause at Burnley, marred only by the forwards' lack of composure in front of goal, was followed by the visit of Aston Villa. Bob Gordon scored early, but thereafter was marked out of the game by Jenkyns. Villa had the better of the first half but Wheldon tied the scores from a penalty kick just before half-time; just after, the home side took the lead with \"a determined and characteristic rush\", but Dennis Hodgetts equalised, again from a penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0011-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe defences, Partridge and Jenkyns for Small Heath and the Villa backs in particular, had the best of the remaining time, and the match was drawn. After only four games, gate receipts, including the \u00a3450 paid by that day's 14,600\u00a0spectators, already amounted to half that of the preceding season. Small Heath finished October with a 2\u20132 draw on a waterlogged pitch at Stoke which left them in ninth place in the League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0012-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThree goals behind in the first 20\u00a0minutes, Small Heath had fought back to level terms when a powerful shot from Everton's Alex Latta was given as a goal, despite having gone well wide, the referee believing it had passed through a hole in the net. William McGregor, former president of the League, suggested that it \"was the worst decision he had seen since the establishment of the goal-nets\", and Latta himself agreed that the ball had gone wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0012-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe crowd were unimpressed\u00a0\u2013 \"ironical shouts of 'Goal' were the reception of any shots by Everton, of good or bad quality, that followed\"\u00a0\u2013 until with ten minutes left, Jenkyns tied the scores with a header from a free kick. While confirming that the result had to stand, the League appointed a committee to look into the circumstances of the phantom goal, and issued an instruction to referees to \"inspect and observe the condition\" of goalnets before each match in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0013-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nIn contrast, Small Heath put on \"a very indifferent display\" in losing 4\u20131 at West Bromwich Albion. They scored twice, very much against the run of play, to come back from 2\u20130 down to beat Stoke 4\u20132, and their good fortune continued at Bolton Wanderers. The home goalscorer, Alex Paton, left the field injured before half-time, goalkeeper John Willie Sutcliffe was insistent that Jack Hallam's equaliser had been punched into the goal\u00a0\u2013 Hallam was equally insistent that it had not\u00a0\u2013 and after Wheldon scored Small Heath's winner, the referee ended the game a few minutes early. Bolton applied to the League for the match to be replayed because of the short time\u00a0\u2013 the referee admitted to having ended the game 2\u00bd\u00a0minutes early, though not the 5\u00a0alleged by Bolton\u00a0\u2013 but the result stood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0014-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nUnusually, Small Heath led at half-time at home to Sheffield United. Charlie Letherbarrow, in only his second appearance for the club, scored after ten minutes and again approaching the interval to regain the lead. Between the two legitimate scores, he hit a swerving shot which looped up off the chest of goalkeeper William Foulke and into the net, but the referee judged that the ball had been played in from behind the goal-line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0014-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nIn the second half, Wheldon converted a penalty kick when Foulke pushed Hallam out of the way as he attempted to reach a cross from Tommy Hands, and Letherbarrow completed his hat-trick as Small Heath won 4\u20131. Jack Oliver received a good reception when he returned to his former club\u00a0\u2013 Small Heath were introduced as \"Oliver's team\"\u00a0\u2013 but Sunderland took no pity, winning 7\u20131. At Liverpool, an exciting game produced a 3\u20131 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0014-0002", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe three home forwards worked as one, putting extra pressure on the centre of the visiting midfield, and the defence was unable to hold them out. The game was rough at times, Liverpool's Joe McQue attracting particular attention because of an incident in the corresponding match the previous season when Caesar Jenkyns was sent off for his violent reaction to McQue kicking Frank Mobley in the abdomen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0015-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nPlaying a close-passing game that made them better able to cope with the high winds and blizzards that had caused the postponement of several League matches, Nottingham Forest earned themselves a Christmas bonus of 10s a man for inflicting Small Heath's first home defeat of the season. Boxing Day produced a 2\u20130 defeat to a Sheffield Wednesday team playing a better all-round game, and the next day, Small Heath beat a touring Scottish Borderers side 11\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0015-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nInjury deprived Small Heath of four regular first-team players for the last game of the year, at home to Liverpool, and both Tilson Pritchard and Ernie Moore made their debuts at full-back. Jenkyns moved back to play behind the other half-backs to protect the understandably nervous reserves, and once the nerves wore off, Pritchard in particular \"could scarcely be improved upon.\" Mobley opened the scoring in the first half, and with the wind behind them in the second half, Small Heath won 3\u20130 to go into the new year in 10th place in the League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0016-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nOn a hard pitch in very cold weather, Small Heath had already conceded twice at Blackburn Rovers before Billy Ollis was injured midway through the first half and played no further part. The visitors put up a fight, but the numerical disadvantage was too much for them and the final score of 9\u20131 remains the club's joint-record losing margin. With no competitive fixture scheduled for the next two weeks, the club undertook a tour. Their opening match, in Plymouth, was the first visit of a professional club to the south-west of England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0016-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nThe Home Park club had ambitions to bring professional league football to the region, and in front of a crowd of 4,000 their team performed well before conceding three second-half goals. Small Heath's tour ended with a 2\u20131 defeat at Manchester City, and they returned to a celebratory dinner in honour of the club's promotion to the First Division. The chairman presented medals to the players, congratulated them on their showing thus far, and proposed a toast to their health, in the hope that a full-strength team might be available by the next League match in ten days time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0017-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nIn a \"remarkable encounter\", Burton Swifts led 3\u20132 at half-time in the Birmingham Senior Cup first round. Their second goal was something of a freak, as an errant clearance by Purves was met on the volley and returned into the net by Davie Willocks. Swifts took a two-goal lead for a third time before Small Heath drew level, after which they \"pressed hotly, but were kept out until twenty seconds from the finish, and when extra time seemed inevitable, Walton headed the ball through amidst great cheering\" and the referee blew the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0018-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nA visit to the Brine Baths at Droitwich Spa failed to help the players adjust to Nottingham Forest's pitch, which had been flooded when the River Trent burst its banks a few days before. They conceded two early goals, but \"kept up a strong pressure\" thereafter, and the Birmingham Daily Post suggested that \"the forwards played magnificently, and had the half-backs supported them a little more efficiently they might have broken down even the stalwart defence\" of the home club. The Nottinghamshire Guardian had predicted that Forest \"should have but little difficulty in disposing of Small Heath\", but later admitted that the latter \"gave the Forest a far better game than had generally been anticipated.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0019-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nFebruary opened with the FA Cup tie at home to West Bromwich Albion. Albion scored first, charging both ball and goalkeeper into the net, and doubled their lead after a misunderstanding between Oliver and Jenkyns. Half an hour into the game, Wheldon made a \"characteristic\" dribble, his shot was parried and Walton scored from the rebound. The pitch was very muddy, but the Small Heath forwards persisted with a close-passing game when \"a kick and a rush would have served better\", and although \"the Birmingham enthusiasts nearly shouted themselves hoarse in encouraging the Heathens\", there were no more goals. A collection was taken at the match for the families of the 77\u00a0miners killed in flooding at the Diglake Colliery, at Audley, Staffordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0020-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nJoe Fountain made his debut against Sunderland as a late replacement for Wheldon, whose sister had died on the morning of the match. On a slippery pitch \"thickly strewn with chaff and hayseeds\", Small Heath fell a goal behind in a first half dominated by the defences of both teams. The special training undertaken by the home side in preparation for the match took effect, as \"in the closing stages they looked winners all over\", and Sunderland had goalkeeper Ned Doig to thank for restricting the scoring to just Tommy Hands' equaliser. The attendance of 15,000 was nearly double the highest recorded in previous seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0021-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nBoth clubs having been eliminated from the FA Cup, Small Heath arranged a friendly with Notts County, refereed by the Test cricketer and former England international footballer Billy Gunn, which gave them an opportunity to try out reserve players Jack Jones and Alec Leake. On a hard, snow-covered pitch, Billy Walton scored all three goals in a 3\u20133 draw, but the attendance of under a thousand, though understandable because of the weather conditions, was disappointing. Jones made his competitive debut, standing in for the injured Hallam, as Small Heath again struggled in muddy conditions and, for the fourth time this season, lost to West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0022-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nReserve Tom Watson replaced Partridge in goal and Hallam returned to the forward line for the second round of the Birmingham Cup, at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Wheldon scored with two minutes left to take the lead, but the Wanderers still had time to tie the scores at 3\u20133. After consulting both captains, the referee ordered half-an-hour's extra time, but Wanderers, whose players had already returned to the dressing-rooms, refused to play, so Jenkyns claimed the game for Small Heath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0023-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nAfter seven defeats in the last nine League matches, Small Heath did little in the draw with Blackburn Rovers to allay the prospect of the relegation test matches. Numerous chances were wasted. According to the Birmingham Daily Post, \"not one of the forwards seemed capable of administering a sharp kick\", and \"have themselves to blame for not securing a victory\". With five matches remaining, they were in 11th position in the League, but only two points clear of the test match zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0024-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nOn a lighter note, the annual theatrical sports, hosted in conjunction with the Prince of Wales Theatre, featured a fancy-dress procession from the city centre to the Coventry Road ground for athletic events including sprint and 440-yard (400\u00a0m) races for the footballers (won by Caesar Jenkyns and Teddy Jolly respectively), a skipping race for the ladies of the theatre, sack race (won by Harry Lupino) and egg-and-spoon race open to all, and a handicap race for the members of the orchestra\u00a0\u2013 the handicap being that they had to carry their instruments. The entertainment finished with a football match between Small Heath F.C. and a theatre XI, refereed by music hall artiste Vesta Tilley. Despite the cold wind and intermittent snow, the event attracted 8,000\u00a0spectators and raised \u00a3100 for each of three local hospitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0025-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nSmall Heath withdrew their claim to the Birmingham Cup match, and the Birmingham Association ordered a replay, again at Coventry Road. This time round, Small Heath held on to their 3\u20132 lead. The League match at home to Sheffield Wednesday was one of several victims of the weather. The referee had initially passed the ground fit for play, but continued heavy rain turned the pitch into a quagmire and forced a late postponement. Derby County took what the local newspaper described as \"the last chance the County had of escaping the test matches\", scoring three times in the first 15\u00a0minutes as they beat Small Heath by five goals to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0026-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nCaesar Jenkyns, who \"has been playing so well with Small Heath this season that his selection as centre half was a foregone conclusion\", \"proved himself clever in tackling the English forwards and often getting the ball from them\", as Wales drew with England at Queen's Club. In the semi-final of the Birmingham Cup, a weakened Small Heath team lost to West Bromwich Albion in a rough game. Albion's Tom Hutchinson was accompanied off the field by a policeman when sent off for injuring Charles Partridge, and during extra time, Charlie Perry was carried off with a leg injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0027-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe players went to Malvern for special training before the home game with Burnley. Joe Fountain was an \"excellent\" stand-in for the injured Tommy Hands at outside left and Jenkyns was \"a tower of strength\" as Wheldon scored the only goal of a scrappy game to bring Small Heath's points total to 22 with three matches left. The Daily Post predicted that 24 would be enough to avoid the test matches. On Easter Monday, Hands returned to the team for the last home League match of the season, a goalless draw with Sheffield Wednesday in which both teams had numerous chances to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0028-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nAt Derby, County took the lead after 17\u00a0minutes when an attempted clearance by Jenkyns was turned into his own net, and increased it to 4\u20130 in the second half before Frank Mobley broke away to score a late consolation. As the players were leaving the field, they were verbally abused by a section of the crowd, who believed the play had been unnecessarily rough. Jenkyns, who appeared to be singled out for particular abuse, grabbed one of the spectators by the throat. Other players separated the pair, and the police became involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0028-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nAfter an investigation, the club committee decided to suspend Jenkyns for the rest of the season, and release him thereafter. The Dart suggested that \"the supporters of this club praise the executive for their maintenance of discipline and decorum\". Jack Oliver took over the captaincy and Teddy Jolly played at centre-half for the Birmingham Charity Cup semi-final, in which Small Heath finally beat West Bromwich Albion at the sixth attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0029-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nIn their last game of the League season, away to Sheffield United, Small Heath scored first when Foulkes' attempted clearance rebounded off his teammate Walter Hill into the net, and Mobley extended the lead after a break down the left by Hands. Although United came close to scoring from a second-half scrimmage when the ball appeared to cross the line, Small Heath held on to ensure their First Division survival with an unexpected victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0030-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nAfter overturning a two-goal deficit to beat Woolwich Arsenal 4\u20133 in a friendly at Plumstead, Small Heath took on Aston Villa in their last match of the season, the final of the Birmingham Charity Cup. Unfortunately for the charities, the weather was poor and the attendance low, but those spectators present saw an exciting game. Wheldon scored first with a fierce shot that entered the net off the goalkeeper and the underside of the bar, then Bob Chatt equalised from a free kick and Charlie Athersmith outpaced Oliver and his parried shot was forced over the line. Mobley tied the scores with a long shot, but in the second half with the wind behind them, Villa scored three times to Jack Hallam's one to take the match 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0031-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nSmall Heath conceded more goals than any other team in the division, but finished 12th of\u00a016, thus avoiding the risk of relegation via the test matches. Despite the misgivings of the Daily Post that \"it cannot be expected that eleven or twelve men will stand the strain of a season's work amongst the first division clubs\", no member of the first-choice team missed more than four League matches. Bill Purves and Billy Ollis were ever-present, Ollis for the third season running, and Fred Wheldon missed a match for the first time in five years. Ten other men appeared at least once. Frank Mobley was leading scorer, with 13\u00a0goals, followed by Wheldon with\u00a011; no other player reached double figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0032-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nApart from Caesar Jenkyns, who signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he was appointed captain, all the regular first-team players remained with the club. Goalkeeper Joe Fall signed from Newton Heath for a fee reported as \u00a320, and defender Harry Haynes joined from Wolverhampton Wanderers. The Dart thought that Jenkyns would be missed \"a great deal more than some of [the] supporters imagine\", and that apart from Fall, who was expected to be \"a big improvement\" on Partridge, the 1895\u201396 team would be noticeably weaker than that of the season just ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0033-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Match details\nFor consistency, attendances and goalscorers' names in the League and FA Cup match details tables are sourced from Matthews' Complete Record. Information in contemporary newspaper reports could, and often did, differ. League positions are sourced from 11v11.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030340-0034-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Small Heath F.C. season, Squad statistics\nThis table includes appearances and goals in nationally organised competitions\u00a0\u2013 the Football League and FA Cup\u00a0\u2013 only. For a description of the playing positions, see Formation (association football)#2\u20133\u20135 (Pyramid).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the tenth since the foundation of Southampton St. Mary's F.C. and their first in league football, being founder members of the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season\nThey finished the league season in third place behind the champions, Millwall Athletic, and Luton Town. In the FA Cup they reached the First Round Proper for the first time, where they were defeated by Nottingham Forest, of the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nIn 1894, Southampton St Mary's were one of the nine founder members of the Southern League, which had been created to enable clubs in southern England who were not admitted to the Football League, to play competitive football on a regular basis. St. Mary's were not originally invited to join the new league and their initial application to join had been rejected, even though seven of the original nine clubs were wholly or mainly amateur, whereas Southampton had employed their first professional footballer in 1892 and by now the team was composed mainly of professionals. Because of the interest in the new league, a Second Division was to be created, which Southampton were considering applying to join when the 2nd Scots Guards withdrew and St. Mary's were invited to take their place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nIn his preview of the forthcoming season in the Southampton Times, \"Ariel\" predicted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nIt is very wonderful to notice the pertinacity with which the prophets continue to prophecy. Southampton St. Mary's have not yet played in the competition, but their position at the end of the season has already been positively fixed by some people, and I have not heard anybody place them lower than third on the list, Millwall Athletic and Luton only taking precedence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0005-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nFor the start of their League career, Saints signed several new players on professional contracts, including Charles Baker and Alf Littlehales from Stoke and Fred Hollands from Millwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0006-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nSaints' first league match was played at the Antelope Ground on 6 October 1894 in front of a crowd estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000, who paid 6d each for admittance; Harry Offer, Jack Angus and Fred Hollands scored in a 3\u20131 victory over Chatham. During the match, Chatham's centre-forward, Gamble, was sent-off for making \"uncomplimentary\" comments to the referee following Southampton's second goal, for which he claimed the ball had been \"carried right into goal on one of the player's arms\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0007-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nThe Saints' first home defeat came against Luton on 22 December (2\u20131), having previously lost at Luton by a 4\u20131 scoreline; the worst defeat (4\u20130) came at Millwall on 23 March with their best result coming a week later, a 7\u20131 victory over Swindon Town on 30 March, with two goals each from Jack Angus and Herbert Ward. Saints finished their inaugural league season in third place, behind Millwall and Luton Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0008-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nSaints supplemented their fixture list with several friendly matches, including matches in November against Football League clubs, Stoke and Bolton Wanderers, the latter being won 5\u20132. On 19 January, the Saints entertained a team from the Wiltshire Regiment, winning 13\u20130 on a \"quagmire of a pitch\" at the Antelope Ground, with Joe Rogers scoring ten goals. in April, after the league season had ended, the Saints entertained teams from Tottenham Hotspur (drawn 0\u20130) and the famous Corinthian club, which was won 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0009-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Summary of the season\nThe Saints continued to take part in the local cup tournaments, winning the Hampshire Senior Cup for the third time with a 5\u20131 victory in the final over the Royal Artillery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0010-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the FA Cup, Southampton met Newbury on 13 October 1894 in the First Qualifying Round at the Antelope Ground. Saints were \"in particularly rampant mood\" and won 14\u20130, with hat-tricks from Herbert Ward and Arthur Nineham; this is still Southampton's biggest victory in a competitive match. They had easy victories in the next three rounds, defeating Reading 5\u20132, Marlow 7\u20133 and Warmley 5\u20131, with all four qualifying matches being played at the Antelope Ground. This meant that the Saints went into the draw for the First Round proper for the first time, from which they received yet another home tie, against Nottingham Forest of the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0011-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe match against Nottingham Forest was played at the Antelope Ground on 2 February 1895. On the day of the match, the pitch was covered with three inches (76\u00a0mm) of snow. After a long delay, while the referee assessed whether or not the frozen ground was fit to play on, the crowd (estimated at 7,000) were admitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0011-0001", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nDespite scoring 31 goals in the qualifying stages, the Saints were no match for the \"skill, subtlety and cohesion\" of their opponents who ran out 4\u20131 victors, with two goals from Thomas Rose The local press blamed the defeat on the failure of the Southampton players to train adequately and also suggested that the \"more northerly visitors were more accustomed to the Arctic conditions\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030341-0012-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Player statistics\nThe players who appeared in the Southern League or FA Cup matches were as follows. This list does not include players who only played in friendly or reserve team matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030342-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southern Football League\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the first in the history of the Southern League. Sixteen clubs joined the new league, which was split into two divisions. Millwall Athletic won Division One without losing a match, and were invited to join the Football League but declined because of travelling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030342-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, the bottom three clubs in Division One played the top three clubs in Division Two in test matches to decide on promotion and relegation. Division Two champions New Brompton were the only lower division club to win, although their opponents, Swindon Town, were not relegated, with the First Division expanding to 10 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030343-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was Stoke's sixth season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030343-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Stoke F.C. season\nStoke's league struggles continued in the 1894\u201395 season as they were almost relegated but survived after winning five out the final six matches. This meant that Stoke played a test match against Second Division side Newton Heath which the \"Potters\" won 3\u20130 to preserve their First Division status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030343-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, League\nStoke had a poor 1894\u201395 season and by the end of February 1895 they looked destined for relegation. However Stoke made it in to the end of season test match with a remarkable run of five victories and a draw in their final six fixtures. Goal average just favoured West Bromwich at the foot of the table who finished a position higher. In the test match Stoke were paired with Newton Heath the venue being nearby Burslem, Stoke, backed by over 3,000 fans won 3\u20130, two goals coming from Joe Schofield, who was for the fourth season running was leading goalscorer, on this occasion jointly with Billy Dickson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030343-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, League\nThat late recovery was largely fuelled by the signing of Sunderland's Scottish forward, Tommy Hyslop who scored seven goals in seven games including a hat-trick on his debut against Derby County. Hyslop went on to be capped for Scotland whilst at Stoke becoming the clubs's first Scottish international.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030343-0004-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, FA Cup\nStoke exited the FA Cup at the Second Round again this time losing 2\u20130 away at Staffordshire rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030344-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Swindon Town F.C. season\nThe 1894\u201395 season was Swindon Town's first season in the Southern League, the club's first season within a league structure. Swindon also competed in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030345-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 United Counties League\nThe 1895 United Counties League was a league based competition between six East Midlands and Sheffield based clubs. The league was not finished as clubs failed to complete their fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030345-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 United Counties League, Table\nThis is the state of the table when the competition folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030346-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1894\u201395 Welsh Amateur Cup was the fifth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Caergwrle Wanderers who defeated Bangor Reserves 2-1 in the final, at Flint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030347-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in American soccer\nThe following article lists notable events during the 1894\u201395 season in American soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030347-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in American soccer, Leagues, ALPF\nOrganized by franchise owners of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, the ALFP played its only season this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030348-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in English football\nThe 1894\u201395 season was the 24th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030348-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in English football, League competitions, Football League\nFollowing the collapse of Middlesbrough Ironopolis and the resignation of Northwich Victoria, three new teams were admitted to the Second Division, bringing it to 16 teams. These new teams were Bury, Leicester Fosse and Burton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030348-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in English football, League competitions, Southern League\nThe Southern League, a competition for both professional and amateur clubs, was founded in 1894 under the initiative of Millwall Athletic (now simply Millwall), to cater for teams in southern England, who were unable to join the Football League. The nine founder members were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030348-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030349-0000-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in Scottish football\nThe 1894\u201395 season in Scottish football was the 22nd season of competitive football in Scotland and the fifth season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030349-0001-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in Scottish football, Scottish Division Two\nHibernian topped the Scottish Division Two for the second successive year. Renton failed to show for their fixture at Dundee Wanderers, hence only 17 games played for both clubs. Dundee Wanderers were awarded the two points for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030349-0002-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nSt Bernard's won the Scottish Cup after beating Renton 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030349-0003-0000", "contents": "1894\u201395 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nAshfield were winners of the Junior Cup after beating West Calder Wanderers 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030350-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\n1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1895th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 895th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 95th year of the 19th\u00a0century, and the 6th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1895, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030351-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 (1995 film)\n1895 is a 1995 Estonian animated film directed by Priit P\u00e4rn and Janno P\u00f5ldma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030351-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 (1995 film)\nThe film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of cinema. The film speaks about brothers Auguste and Louis Lumi\u00e8re, presenting new facts and events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030352-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 (2008 film)\nBlue Brave: The Legend of Formosa 1895, known simply as 1895 (Chinese: 1895\u4e59\u672a), is a Taiwanese Hakka film based on the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1895, with emphasis on the Hakka fighters and their families in the conflict. The film has a limited budget of NT$60 million with roughly half of it provided by the Council for Hakka Affairs of the Executive Yuan. The film was released on November 7, 2008, and was the highest-grossing Taiwanese film in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030352-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 (2008 film), Reception\nThe film won the Best Drama Series award in the Asian Television Awards in 2009. A review published in the Taipei Times stated that the film \"educational at best\" and geared toward students and teachers of history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season\nThe 1895 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season lasted from January 3 until March 8. Each team played 8 games, and Montreal Victorias were first with a 6\u20132\u20130 record. After a required Stanley Cup challenge played between the 1894 winners, Montreal HC and Queen's, champion of the Ontario Hockey Association, the Victorias inherited the Stanley Cup as league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Regular season, Highlights\nThe Crystals suffered three straight defeats to open the season. After this, they decided independently to merge with the Montreal Shamrocks. On February 2, this new team defeated Quebec 2\u20131. The game was protested by Quebec and the result was cancelled and not replayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Regular season, Highlights\nAnother game involving Quebec was noteworthy, on February 23 against Ottawa, won by Ottawa 3\u20132. The game, played at Quebec, was very rough and the crowd became hostile towards the visitors. At the end of the match, the crowd pursued referee Hamilton and Umpire Findlay as they left the arena, and dragged them back to force them to declare the game a draw. Police were called to break up the demonstration. Subsequent to the match, the AHAC decided to suspend the Quebec hockey club for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Game void following protest by Quebec over Crystals use of ineligible players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Schedule and results\n\u2020\u2020 Quebec team suspended after attack on officials after game of February 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: Although A. Mcdougall is recorded in most hockey sources as to playing goal for the Montreal Victorias on January 12, 1895, and allowing one goal only, primary sourcing can show that Hartland MacDougall actually played goal for the Vics between January 12 and January 26 before being replaced by Robert Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenges, Montreal vs. Queen's\nOn March 8, 1895, the Montreal Victorias won the 1895 AHAC title, finishing the season with a 6\u20132 record. Under the Stanley Cup rules, the team would also be awarded the Stanley Cup as league champions. However, the trustees ruled that a challenge between the previous year's champion Montreal HC and the squad from Queen's University, the champions of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), would have to be played first to determine if the Cup remained with the AHAC. Thus, it was decided that if the Montreal HC won the challenge match, the Victorias would become the Stanley Cup champions. The Montreal HC would eventually win the game, 5\u20131, and their crosstown rivals were crowned the champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenges, Montreal vs. Queen's\nBilly Barlow, the star player of Montreal was not able to play and Clarence McKerrow took his place. McKerrow had not played any games for Montreal, and could be considered a ringer, but there was no protest from Queen's. The Queen's team, although described as looking fast in their tiger jerseys, were no match for Montreal and the game proved uninteresting. R. McLennan of Queen's would later play for Dawson City in its 1905 challenge of Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030353-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 AHAC season, Stanley Cup Engravings\nWhile the Montreal Hockey Club won its challenge 5\u20131, it was not presented with the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030354-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1895 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach Eli Abbott, in his third season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In what was the fourth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of zero wins and four losses (0\u20134). The 1895 squad also was the first to compete in a conference, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030354-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Alabama Crimson White football team\nAfter a one-loss season in 1894, Abbott returned as head coach and led the 1895 squad. Alabama opened the season with a loss at Columbus against Georgia. The Crimson White next lost a pair of games in Louisiana over a span of just three days. After a loss to Tulane at New Orleans, Alabama was defeated by LSU in the first all-time game between the schools. They then closed the year with a 48\u20130 loss to Auburn in the first Iron Bowl ever played at Tuscaloosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030354-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nIn what was the first ever game played in the state of Georgia, in their first all-time game against the University of Georgia, Alabama lost 30\u20136 before 500 fans in Columbus. Alabama took their only lead of the game early after Borden Burr scored a touchdown following a blocked punt. C. S. Pelham then kicked the PAT and Alabama led, 6\u20130. From that point, Georgia scored 30 unanswered points with touchdowns by Edgar Pomeroy, Rufus Nally and Craig Barrow in the first half; and touchdowns by Pomeroy and Fred Price in the second half for their 30\u20136 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030354-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nAfter they defeated Tulane in their first matchup in 1894, Alabama was shut out 22\u20130 before 1,000 fans in New Orleans. A. K. Foote scored both of Tulane's first-half touchdowns to give them an 8\u20130 halftime lead. Tulane extended their lead in the second half with two touchdowns by Warren Johnson and one by S. S. Rubira on a 50-yard run in their 22\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030354-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, LSU\nTwo days after their loss against Tulane, Alabama lost, 12\u20136, to long-time rival LSU at Baton Rouge in their first all-time meeting against the two schools. After a scoreless first half, Alabama took a 6\u20130 lead on their first drive of the second half on a T. W. Powers touchdown run. However, LSU scored twelve unanswered points on a pair of Sam Lambert touchdowns that gave them the 12\u20136 victory. This game was originally scheduled to be played on Friday, November 15, but was rescheduled for the Monday that followed due to a train delay as they traveled from Tuscaloosa across the Mississippi Valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030354-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nIn the first all-time Iron Bowl played in Tuscaloosa, Alabama was defeated by the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Alabama (now known as Auburn University), 48\u20130. The 48-point margin of victory still stands tied with the 1900 Iron Bowl as the largest for Auburn in the Iron Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030354-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1895 football team according to the roster published in the 1896 edition of The Corolla, the University of Alabama yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030355-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the ninth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Tipperary were the champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030356-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the eighth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030356-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nAs counties were represented in that era by their champion clubs, Tipperary was represented by Arravale Rovers while Pierce O'Mahony's club from Navan played for Meath. Tipp won, with all four of its points scored by Willie Ryan. The referee later admitted that he should have not awarded one of Tipperary's points, but Meath sportingly did not ask for a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030356-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was Tipperary's second All-Ireland football title following success in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030357-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1895 was the ninth series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Kilkenny 6-8 to 1-10 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030357-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The two provincial representatives make up the two final teams with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030358-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 8th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 15 March 1896 between Kilkenny, represented by club side Tullaroan, and Tipperary, represented by club side Tubberadora. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 6-8 to 1-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030359-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 America's Cup\nThe 1895 America's Cup occurred just two years after the 1893 America's Cup pitting the New York Yacht Club against the Royal Yacht Squadron. The 1895 race was between the Herreshoff designed sloop Defender owned by Charles Oliver Iselin, William Kissam Vanderbilt, and Edwin Dennison Morgan from the New York Yacht Club, and the Watson designed Valkyrie III owned by Lord Dunraven of the Royal Yacht Squadron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030359-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 America's Cup, The races, First race\nThe first race, on September 7, 1895, was set to be a windward-leeward course of fifteen miles length. The Weather for the day was described as light and shifting wind. In the first leg of the course the racing was close with Defender taking a slight lead by the windward mark. After rounding the mark the wind shifted, turning the running leg into a reaching leg, as a result Defender quickly increased its lead against Valkyrie III. Defender crossed the line eight minutes and forty-nine seconds ahead of \"Valkyrie III\" to win the first race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030359-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 America's Cup, The races, Second race\nThe second race occurred on Tuesday September 10, 1895. The race was set as a triangle course with each leg having a length of ten miles. In the pre-start maneuvering, Valkyrie III's boom struck Defender, severing the starboard spreader. Valkyrie III led throughout the race, although Defender closed the gap between the boats in the second and third legs of the race. Valkyrie III crossed the line forty-seven seconds before Defender. However, after hearing the protest from Defender against Valkyrie III, the Race Committee awarded Defender the race as it ruled Defender had right of way over Valkyrie III as Defender was leeward of Valkyrie III at the time of collision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030359-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 America's Cup, The races, Third race\nThe third race was sailed on Thursday September 12, 1895. After both Defender and Valkyrie III crossed the starting line sailing before the wind, Valkyrie III withdrew from the race claiming the committee could not guarantee a course that was free of spectator craft. Defender completed the race, winning the best of five regatta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030360-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1895 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 4th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 10 and ended on August 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030360-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nLomas won the tournament achieving its 3rd consecutive title. The runner-up was Lomas Academy, a second team from the same institution. This was the last tournament played by Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway before merging with Belgrano Athletic Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030361-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team\nThe 1895 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1895 college football season. During the 1895 season, Arkansas Industrial played no intercollegiate football games. Its only game was against Fort Smith High School, resulting in a 30\u20130 victory for Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030362-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Armenian reforms\nThe Armenian Reform Program of May 11, 1895, was a set of reforms proposed by the European Powers. The program was signed in October 1895 and presented to Sultan Abdul Hamid II. However, this program was never implemented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030363-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1895 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1895 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Harmon S. Graves, the Cadets compiled a 5\u20132 record, shut out five of their seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 141 to 32. The Army\u2013Navy Game was not played in 1895. On November 2, 1895, Army lost to Yale by a 28 to 8 score in what one press account called the greatest and most exciting game of football ever played on the West Point grounds.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030363-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Army Cadets football team\nNo Army Cadets were honored on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030364-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1895 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1895. The season was a fairly inactive one, with 6 storms forming, only 2 of which became hurricanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030364-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nThe first storm formed on August 14 and lasted until August 17. It formed in the Gulf of Mexico and moved north, making landfall in Alabama. Its maximum sustained winds were at 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030364-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThe second storm formed on August 22 and lasted until August 29. It formed directly to the east of the Lesser Antilles and scraped the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula but did not hit it, and made landfall in the southernmost part of Texas. Its maximum sustained winds were at 110\u00a0mph (180\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030364-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nThe third storm formed on September 28 and lasted until October 7. It formed right on the east of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. It hit the Yucat\u00e1n then curved over and under Florida, then went through the Bahamas. Its maximum sustained winds were at 55\u00a0mph (89\u00a0km/h). This storm was responsible for an estimated 56 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030364-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four\nThe fourth tropical storm probably formed on October 2 in the western Caribbean Sea. It apparently crossed the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula on October 4, just a few days after Three struck the same area. It peaked as a minimal tropical storm with wind of 35 knots (65\u00a0km/h; 40\u00a0mph). This cyclone moved into Texas and Louisiana on October 7, producing breezy conditions and some rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030364-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe fifth storm formed on October 12 and lasted until October 26. It formed to the east of the southern Lesser Antilles and Windward Islands as a tropical storm. After passing through the Windwards, it reached hurricane status and eventually strengthened to a Category\u00a02 as it moved westward through the southern Caribbean Sea. Reaching its peak of 105\u00a0mph (169\u00a0km/h), the storm then curved northward and eventually northeast, hitting Cuba and the Bahamas before moving out to sea. Some lives were reportedly lost in Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030364-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nThe final storm formed on October 13 and lasted until October 17. The storm was fairly short-lived and mostly maintained its peak intensity as a minimal 40\u00a0mph (64\u00a0km/h) tropical storm, forming in the Bay of Campeche and curving east-northeast past the tip of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula and making landfall in southwest Florida. It weakened to a depression after moving inland and crossing the southern half of the state, finally dissipating off the southeast Florida coast near the Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030365-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1895 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University (then known as Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) in the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers' fourth overall season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach John Heisman, in his first year and finished with a record of two wins and one loss (2\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030365-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play\nThe team executed a \"hidden ball trick\" in the game against Vanderbilt as Auburn seemed to run a revolving wedge. Vanderbilt still won however, 9 to 6; the first time in the history of southern football that a field goal decided a game. \"Billy\" Williams recalled:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030365-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play\nI was playing left half for Auburn and Tichenor was quarterback. We were on Vandy's 15-yard line and had the ball in our possession. Tich passed the ball to me; I raised his jersey and hid the ball under it, at the same time dashing toward our right end, protected by several members of the Auburn team...Vandy thought I had the ball. Tich journeyed around his own left and went over the Vanderbilt's goal line. The first time the Vandy players knew Tich had the ball and had made a touchdown was when they saw him pulling the ball from under his jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030365-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play\nQuarterback Reynolds Tichenor described the nature of the play as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030365-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play\n\"The play was simply this. When the ball was snapped it went to a halfback. The play was closely massed and well screened. The halfback then thrust the ball under the back of my jersey. Then he would crash into the line. After the play I simply trotted away to a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030365-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play\nThe Tigers again used the play against Georgia. Georgia coach Pop Warner later used the trick in 1897 while at Cornell against Penn State; and again and most famously in 1903 while at Carlisle against Harvard, attracting national attention in a close loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030366-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1895 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. The Orioles finished first in the National League, winning their second straight pennant. However, for the second straight year, they failed to win the Temple Cup, losing to the second-place Cleveland Spiders 4 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030366-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030366-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030366-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030366-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030367-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Birthday Honours\nThe 1895 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published in The Times on 25 May 1895 and in The London Gazette on 25 May 1895 and on 11 June 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030367-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030367-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Privy Councillor\nThe Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 74], "content_span": [75, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030368-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Boorowa colonial by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Boorowa in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 24 January 1895 because Thomas Slattery (Protectionist) resigned to concentrate on his legal practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030369-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1895 Boston Beaneaters season was the 25th season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030369-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030369-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030369-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030369-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030369-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030370-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston College football team\nThe 1895 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030371-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1895 occurred on Tuesday, December 10, 1895. Democratic candidate Josiah Quincy defeated Republican candidate and incumbent Mayor of Boston Edwin Upton Curtis, and one other contender, to win election to his first term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030371-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston mayoral election\nDue to a change of the city charter in June 1895, this was the first Boston mayoral election for a two-year term; prior mayoral elections had been held annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030371-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Boston mayoral election\nQuincy was inaugurated on Monday, January 6, 1896. His grandfather Josiah Quincy IV (known as Josiah Quincy Jr.) and great-grandfather Josiah Quincy III also had served as Mayors of Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030372-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Bowral colonial by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Bowral in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 June 1895 because William McCourt (Free Trade) was forced to resign because he was bankrupt, but was re-elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030373-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Brooklyn Grooms season\nThe 1895 Brooklyn Grooms finished the season in fifth place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030373-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030373-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030373-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030373-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030374-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1895 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1895 college football season. The team's coach was Wallace Moyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030375-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Buchtel football team\nThe 1895 Buchtel football team represented Buchtel College in the 1895 college football season. The team did not have a coach; their captain was Frank Rockwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030376-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1895 Calgary municipal election was scheduled for December 9, 1895 to elect a Mayor and nine Councillors to sit on the twelfth Calgary City Council from January 6, 1896 to January 4, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030376-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Calgary municipal election, Background\nVoting rights were provided to any male, single woman, or widowed British subject over twenty-one years of age who are assessed on the last revised assessment roll with a minimum property value of $200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030376-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030377-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1895 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1895 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Frank Butterworth and compiled a record of 3\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030378-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Canterbury colonial by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Canterbury in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 June 1895 because Varney Parkes (Free Trade) was forced to resign because he was bankrupt, but was re-elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election\nThe third election to the Cardiganshire County Council took place in March 1895. It was preceded by the 1892 election and followed by the 1898 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Overview of the Result\nThe Liberals were again returned with a large majority. There were a large number of unopposed returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nThe following aldermen, all of whom were Liberals, retired at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nOnly C.M. Williams in Aberystwyth and David Lloyd in Aberbanc sought election. Levi James (Cardigan), William Davies (New Quay), J.T. Morgan (Talybont) and David Jenkins, Glandovey (elected from outside the Council) all stood down and did not seek re-election. John Davies, Tanycoed and John Owen, Blaenpennal, who had filled aldermanic vacancies since 1889 did likewise. All those who stood down retired from county politics apart from J.T. Morgan who was re-elected as an alderman despite not facing the electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections\nThere were fewer contested elections than on the previous two occasions as the politics of the county seems to settle down after the initial contests. In Aberystwyth it was said that the Town Council elections the previous November had elicited much greater interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections\nThose seats that were contested witnessed a swing towards the Conservative candidates, who captured a total of seven seats. These included significant victories at Cardigan and Llandysul. The contest in Bow Street could also be regarded as a Conservative gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections\nIt was said that a plough belonging to a farmer in Borth was destroyed due to his support for the Conservative candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, The New Council\nThe Liberals once again had a comfortable majority. Morgan Evans of Llanarth was elected chairman for 1895/96.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberarth\nTwo Liberals faced each other although the sitting member was described as a Conservative in some quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberbanc\nDr David Lloyd, whose aldermanic term had come to an end, was elected unopposed in place of Evan Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberystwyth Division 2\nThe sitting member was returned unopposed after E.V. Wynne, chemist, withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Cwmrheidol\nNicholas Bray regained the seat he lost in 1892 after winning the initial election in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Felinfach\nThis ward was now commonly described as Felinfach rather than Llanfihangel Ystrad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Lampeter Borough\nHarford, elected in a close contest in 1889, did not initially seek re-election in 1892, but was returned unopposed after David Lloyd was made an alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Llanddewi Brefi\nDavid Davies had lost his seat at the previous election in 1892 and narrowly lost the by-election following the successful candidate's election as alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Llandysul South\nThe sitting member, Enoch Davies, was returned for the neighbouring Penbryn Ward, leading to the loss of this ward to the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Llangeitho\nRobert J. Davies of Cwrt Mawr had died shortly after the 1892 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0017-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Nantcwnlle\nHaving captured the seat in 1892, Jenkin Howells held on by a mere three votes over David Jones of Station Road, Lampeter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0018-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Taliesin\nJohn Jones, elected unopposed in 1892, was returned by a small majority over another Liberal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0019-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Trefeurig\nThis was the first time Llewelyn Edwards had won a contested election, having been defeated at Llanbadarn Fawr in 1889 and 1892. On the former occasion he was made an alderman despite his defeat and on the latter elected unopposed for Trefeurig following Peter Jones's elevation to the aldermanic bench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0020-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Tregaron\nD.J. Williams had previously represented Tregaron as a Liberal Unionist from a by-election in 1889 until 1892 when he did not stand. He was elected for Llanddewi Brefi at a by-election in 1892", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0021-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nThe overhaul of the aldermanic bench saw the election of key figures from the liberal ranks. Having avoided the principle of electing from outside the Council four years previously this practice was now adopted once again, leading to criticism, most notably from the Liberal-supporting Cambrian News. It was noted in particular that three defeated candidates were elected, namely James Stevens at Cardigan, Daniel Jones of Llanon and Davies of Cwrtmawr. J.T. Morgan of Talybont was also re-elected although he had not contested the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0022-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Aldermanic Vacancies 1895-1901\nDaniel Jones died a few months after the election. In August 1895, James James of Ffynonhowell, from outside of the Council, was appointed to succeed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0023-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Aldermanic Vacancies 1895-1901\nTherefore, the following appointment was made for the remainder of the six-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 74], "content_span": [75, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0024-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Aberystwyth Division 4 by-election\nThe Liberals comfortably retained the seat although the Aberystwyth Observer complained that the Conservatives 'made no special effort' to support their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 92], "content_span": [93, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0025-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Llanarth by-election\nFollowing the appointment of Morgan Evans as alderman, James Evans of Esgerwenfawr was selected as a candidate by the local Liberals, and was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0026-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Llanwnen by-election\nThe Liberals narrowly held the seat following the election of T.H.R. Hughes as alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030379-0027-0000", "contents": "1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Penbryn by-election\nFollowing the appointment of Dr Enoch Davies as alderman, the previous member, Peter R. Beynon won the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030380-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1895 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1895 college football season. The Indians were coached by Vance C. McCormick in his 2nd year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 4\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030381-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlton Football Club season\nThe 1895 VFA season was the 19th season in the Victorian Football Association to be contested by the Carlton Football Club. The club finished eleventh out of thirteen teams, with a record of 5\u201311\u20132 from eighteen matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030381-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nThe 1895 VFA season was the 19th season of the VFA competition since its inception in 1877; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 19th season contested by the Carlton Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030381-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nCarlton's primary home ground in 1895 was the University Cricket Ground, within the grounds of the University of Melbourne in Carlton; but, home matches were also moved to the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Jolimont and Victoria Park in Abbotsford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030381-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nMr F. B. Bromby took over the role as president of the football club in 1895. Bromby replaced Mr A. Gillespie, who had served in the role since 1886. Bromby spent only one season as president, before being replaced by Mr A. H. Shaw in 1896. Tom Blake took the role of club captain, taking over from Peter Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030381-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Non-premiership matches\nCarlton's played four non-premiership matches in 1895, including matches against junior clubs. Three were played in the pre-season, and one was played on the same weekend as Round 1 of the premiership seasons, during which Carlton had a bye. The number of players fielded by the junior clubs, if different to twenty, is indicated in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030381-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Premiership season\nCarlton won five matches and drew two out of its eighteen games to finish 11th out of 13 for the season. All matches were played at 3pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030381-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Carlton Football Club season, Ladder\nThe Association had no formal tie-breakers in cases where clubs were equal on premiership points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030382-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election\nThe third election to the Carmarthenshire County Council was held in March 1895. It was preceded by the 1892 election and followed by the 1898 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030382-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Contested elections\nThere were a large number of contested elections and the majorities were small in most instances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030382-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results\nThis section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. This was the inaugural county election and therefore no comparison can be made with the previous elections. In some cases there is an ambiguity in the sources over the party affiliations and this is explained below where relevant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030382-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results\nThis table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 48 councillors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030382-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward results, Llanelly Division.1\nWilson had been elected as an Independent in 1892, defeating Gwilym Evans", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 79], "content_span": [80, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030382-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward results, Pembrey North\nBuckley, the prospective Unionist candidate for West Carmarthenshire, had been returned as an Independent Liberal in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030382-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nAn unsuccessful attempt was made to select aldermen from among sitting members only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030383-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Centenary Gentlemen football team\nThe 1895 Centenary Gentlemen football team was an American football team that represented the Centenary College of Louisiana as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In their second year while located at the Jackson, Louisiana campus, the team compiled a 1\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030384-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Central Colonels football team\nThe 1895 Central Colonels football team represented Central University in Richmond, Kentucky during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030385-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Centre football team\nThe 1895 Centre football team represented Centre College in the 1895 college football season. The head coach was Richard Lowndes, coaching his first season with the Praying Colonels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team\nThe 1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team represented the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) during the 1895 college football season Under the management of Harry Cornish the AAs athletic manager since 1893 the CAA went 9\u20133\u20131 against its opponents along with another exhibition win over the Swift & Co Stock Yarders at the beginning of the season the CAA outscored its opponents 214 to 52 and had an undefeated record at home CAA played its home games at CAA Field located on the corner of 35th Street and Wentworth Avenue in Chicago", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, August\nAugust 1: Captain Camp began preparations for the 1895 Chicago AA football team. He asserted that the majority of last years players will join.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September\nSeptember 7: There was an interest meeting at the Chicago AA Gymnasium. Returners from the 1894 team included John Slater, Oberne, Lucas, Brown, Jake Camp, and Ben Thomas. New players were R. E. Grout, R. T. Hoagland, E. M. Smith, C. B. Coffeen, H. A. Parkyn, D. A. Stone, R. Bartl, H. G. Hadden, L. McKinley, Harvey, Barr, and Gage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0002-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September\nThe experience of the men ranged from the high school team at Hyde Park, the local YMCA, minor teams like Oak park, athletic Clubs like Chicago AA and Johnstown AC, and major colleges like Illinois, Michigan, Virginia Military Institute, Iowa, Minnesota, and Cornell. A schedule was announced for the season as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September\nGames would also be arranged with Northwestern and Chicago universities, and a trip to California may be taken around Christmas time. Practices would begin on September 10, and be held every Tuesday and Thursday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.\nChicago AA defeated the Swift & Co. Stock Yarders 28 to 0 at their own CAA field. The game was an exhibition for the coming season, and so the Stock Yarders were given a chance to continue playing many times after fumbles and turnovers. CAA played well, scoring six touchdowns, although there was an instance where Thompson, playing left tackle, accidentally tackled Captain Camp, confusing him for a Stock-Yard player, and consequentially stopped a sure touchdown for the AA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.\nSeptember 16: A game is arranged with Chicago University for the twenty-eighth of September at Marshall Field. It was dubbed as the first real contest for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.\nSeptember 18: The Armour Institute of Technology released their schedule for 1895, and they were set to play the CAA on October 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.\nSeptember 21: Englewood YMCA didn't show up for their match with Chicago AA. The team instead played against itself, with some additional players from Swift & Co. The \"regulars\" won 4\u20130 in a 30-minute contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, September 28: Chicago\nChicago AA lost to the Chicago University Maroons, 0\u20138, in their first recognized game of the 1895 season. It was an overcast day with a light drizzle. Chicago AA's quarterback was injured in the game, although it was slight. Chicago AA was favored 3\u20132 over Chicago. Chicago would hold CAA scoreless, which would only happen again in the athletic associations blowout loss to Orange AC. Stone was credited with the best CAA performance of the day, along with Right half back Slater. The attendance figure is unknown, but there was reportedly a large crowd around Marshall field spectating the affair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October\nOctober 2: There was a report that star center Stevenson would play for Rush Medical for the remainder of their 1895 season, but this claim would never materialize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 5: Rush Medical College\nChicago AA defeated Rush Medical 30 to 0. It was reported that a great deal of fumbles killed any chance for Rush Medical to win the contest. Another report speculates that Chicago AA would have scored yet another touchdown, but were only given 3 downs instead of 4 by mistake. Slater had the best performance, and scored the most touchdowns in the game. Haddon, Hoagland, and Thompson also scored. The most points of the day were the result of fullback brown and his five PATs (at the time called goals after touchdowns, and worth 2 points) for 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 96], "content_span": [97, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 5: Rush Medical College\nOctober 8: Mr. Cornish sent a letter to Chicago's athletic department, requesting a 2nd game between them and Chicago AA. He cited the 1894 season, where Chicago AA successfully defeated the University team in late September, but agreed to a 2nd contest so Chicago could get a 2nd chance (which they would capitalize on with a 20 to 0 win over the athletic association in mid October). He asserts that this would be nothing but practice for the Maroons, and he is not challenging, but merely suggesting another game should be played if convenient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 96], "content_span": [97, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 5: Rush Medical College\nOctober 10: Chicago AA practiced with Rush Medical in preparation of their October 12 matchup with the Illinois Fighting Illini football team. During this practice, the AA players decide to practice several \"feint\" (trick) plays, most notably the \"criss-cross\" play, which isn't explained, but appears numerous times throughout the remainder of the season and greatly benefited CAA's offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 96], "content_span": [97, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 12: Illinois\nChicago AA defeated Illinois8 to 0 at CAA field. Illinois came into the game 1\u20130 after a 48 to 0 clobbering of Wabash, while the CAA was fresh off their blowout of Rush Medical. Camp and Parkyn scored the two AA touchdowns, Camp in particular was a surprise in the CAA line-up, as he had just recently come from a sick bed and was reportedly in no condition to play. Slater was mentioned as playing the best game, with many gains down the left side of the field, as that was Illinois' weak spot. Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (DCAC) would also release their schedule for the 1895 football season, which included a game with Chicago AA on November 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 12: Illinois\nOctober 16: The match against Lake Forest was postponed to October 22. In the meantime, the CAA arranged a game with the Indianapolis Light Artillery, who were seeking a match to start off their 1895 season. The contest would be held October 19 in Indianapolis, and a congregation of CAA supporters would decide to make the trip to Indiana for this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 19: Indianapolis Light Artillery (first match)\nIn Chicago AA's first game outside of Chicago, the athletics managed to stack up 16 unanswered points in the 1st half to win uncontested, 16 to 0 against the Artillery. This was one of the first games played in Indianapolis in 1895, as the city had \"opened\" the football season on the same day. The Indianapolis Journal described the CAA team as a machine, and gave credit to Brown, Slater, Camp, Hadden and Coffeen for good runs. Thompson made the first touchdown, followed by Brown, and then Camp, with Brown going 2 for 3 on PATs. The ILA team had some minor disagreements with the referring, but overall claimed the CAA had great teamwork, and was well trained in interference (blocking and tackling).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 119], "content_span": [120, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 19: Indianapolis Light Artillery (first match)\nOctober 22: Mr. Mulliken, a man with past experience at Columbia and on the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, decides to join the Chicago AA eleven. CAA also began preparation for their journey to the east, and sent out the first roster of those going. The initial list was, Stone and Thompson as Left Ends, Thomas Left Tackle, Ryan Left Guard, Stevenson Center, Bartl and Mulliken Right Guards, McCormick Right Tackle, Hadden Right End, Aldrich Quarterback, Coffeen, Blaney and Hoagland Right Half Backs, Slater Left Half Back, and Brown Full Back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 119], "content_span": [120, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0016-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 19: Indianapolis Light Artillery (first match)\nCamp would not attend the trip East due to ill health. Another important event to note is the football teams of Rush Medical College and Lake Forest combining for the remainder of the 1895 season. Rush would bolster the Lake Forest ranks, while also attempting Lake Forest's reportedly impossible schedule of Northwestern, Michigan, and Illinois, who at the time had a combined record of 9-3, with Michigan undefeated. Lake Forest had also just come from contests between the likes of Wisconsin and Chicago, who had beaten them 52 to 0 and 26 to 5 respectively. They had even lost to the minor team Amour, 6 to 0, and so when a merger was proposed between them and Rush, the agreement was made. The two teams hoped to stand a better chance against the CAA as well when they play them this afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 119], "content_span": [120, 919]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0017-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 22: Rush-Lake Forest\nThe contest was yet another blowout for the semi-professionals, as Rush-Lake Forest suffered from injury, and CAA's FB Brown had a perfect 5 for 5 PAT streak, culminating in a 30 to 0 shellacking of the makeshift college team. Thomas scores the first Touchdown, followed by Blaney twice to end the first half. Blaney attained another touchdown at the beginning of the next half, with Thomas also scoring the last touchdown, and Brown rounding out the score to 30 with his impeccable kicking. Although the score is large, one writer for The Inter Ocean newspaper claimed that CAA played horribly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 93], "content_span": [94, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0017-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 22: Rush-Lake Forest\nHe asserted that \"if yesterday's showing is a test of the ability at the game, it [The Chicago AA team] would have to work hard to defeat the Yohokas Pigskin Pelters or any like organization.\" In other news, the CAA would hold a practice with the Illinois Cycling Club this afternoon, the last practice before their trip east on October 24 at 10:30 A. M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 93], "content_span": [94, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0018-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, Eastern trip\nOctober 24: The football team left this morning. Because of A. B. Camp's continued absence from ill health, Center Archibald Stevenson was appointed as new captain for the Chicago Athletics. The final lineup for those leaving with the team were Stone, Thompson, Stevenson, McCormick, Hadden, Huddelson, Aldrich, Slater, Brown, Blaney, Coffeen, Brown, and Mulliken. The first game scheduled in the East was against the Newton Athletic Club of Boston on October 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0019-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, Eastern trip\nOctober 25: The schedule for Chicago AA's trip was highlighted by the Chicago Inter Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0020-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, Eastern trip\nPenn and Orange AC were outlined as the most difficult games of the trip, with the Penn Quakers in particular on a ten game win streak, along with having outscored their opponents 298 to 0. A Thanksgiving Day game against the Boston Athletic Association was also scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0021-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 26: Newton AC\nIn the first contest of C.A.A's trip east, the Athletics edged the men of Newton AC in the closing seconds of the first half. Under the watchful eyes of 2800 spectators, CAA had the ball on Newton's 5 yard line, with 35 seconds to go. First, second, and third down went by with no gain for the Chicago AA Eleven. With 10 seconds remaining, it was still Chicago's possession, and with one last shove at the Newton Defensive Line, Full Back Brown rolled into the endzone over a mass of players, achieving a walk-off touchdown and subsequent PAT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0021-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 26: Newton AC\nThe game could've been won in the first half, had Chicago AA not fumbled on the Newton AC 4 yard line, but besides that the game was close and both sides held up well. Stevenson was the center of attention for the Athletics, holding the line firm and knocking back Newton's star player, Mr. Draper, numerous times throughout the contest. Brown also had a good game, and Bartl got injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0022-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 29: MIT\nCAA crushed the MIT engineers at their own field in Cambridge, MA. The two teams were in poor condition, but MIT was worse, having six substitutes starting, instead of their more experienced players. The football teams had also played a tie game in 1894, where both organizations were in their prime. Slater was yet again a star player, pulling off 3 touchdowns, while Hadden played well in his new Right Tackle position, and scored 3 touchdowns himself. Brown also had a great day, going 7 for 8 in PATs, with 2 touchdowns of his own. Other players that put points on the board for CAA was Thomas with two and Huddelston with one. With 4 minutes left to play the game was called, as MIT had absolutely no chance of recovering the deficit, and were thoroughly defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0023-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 29: MIT\nOctober 31: The Philadelphia Inquirer named Chicago AA,\"strongest eleven in the west, college or otherwise.\" The game against Penn decided to be at 3:00 in the afternoon, with an admission of 50 cents, and an extra 25 for reserved seating. It would be played at Penn's own Franklin Field, on the corner of 33rd and spruce streets. The last time the Chicago Athletic Association played the Pennsylvania Quakers, it was 1892, and the situation at hand was remarkably similar to that of the 1895 contest. Penn was 10-0, having shut out 9 and outscored their opponents 349 to 6. Chicago lost that contest 10 to 12, but was the first opponent of the season to scored double digits against the Quakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0024-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn\nCAA played rough, dirty in the eyes of some, as they lost to the superior university team of Pennsylvania, 4 to 12. CAA came into this prime matchup 6-1, while outscoring their opponents 142 to 8, and recording 6 shutouts. Penn on the other hand, was 10-0, having shut out all ten opponents, and outscoring them 370 to 0. They had won the last 22 contests they had played in, 19 being shutouts, and had not lost a contest since November 30, 1893, against the Harvard Crimson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0024-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn\nThe game was actually considered a success for the CAA, as it was the first points scored against the Eastern school in their 1895 season. Chicago AA was also the first team in the 1895 season to tie Penn at some point in the game (besides a 0-0 tie of course, as every contest starts off with both teams tied at 0), when Slater managed to score on Quakers, 4-4, midway through the 2nd half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0024-0002", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn\nThe Penn team was so beaten up by the semi-pros, John C. Bell, head of the University football committee, took out his Penn players in the fear that too many players would get injured. Seeing as the score was still tied 4 to 4, he eventually let his players back in, where they would score two unanswered touchdowns for the final 4 to 12 score. Penn was furious after the game, and on November 7, they officially declared that the school would never play another athletic club, association, or non-collegiate team again, cancelling their 1895 matchup against undefeated Boston AA. The University juggernauts would end the season 14-0, and were declared national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and co-national champions with Yale by well-known football historian Parke H. Davis (all retroactively).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 963]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0025-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn\nNovember 4: The CAA football team was looked after by the upstart Manhattan Athletic Club. They were allowed to hold a daily practice on Manhattan Field, and at the city gym in NYC. The Inter Ocean newspaper reported on a speculated, \"four-cornered\" athletic league, between the Chicago, Boston, Crescent, and Orange Athletic Associations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0026-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn\nNovember 5: The CAA was again dubbed champions of the West, this time by The Sun (New York City), ahead of their match against the Orange Athletic Club. The New Jersey based organization currently held a mediocre 3-2-1 record, although those two losses were against Lafayette (final record of 6-2) and Yale (final record of 13-0-2, and co national champion by Davis), and the tie was against Princeton (final record 10-1-1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0027-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 5: Orange Athletic Club\nCAA suffered their only loss against a non-collegiate football team, getting blanked by the superior athletic club in front of the biggest crowd they would see that year. Hadden had the best performance of the day for Chicago as Right Tackle, while Slater also played well against the Jersey men. Although this was a crushing defeat, CAA did not lose its contention for Champions of the West, as Eastern organizations like Orange AC did not hold much weight in the \"standings\" that sportswriters in the Midwest factored into their opinions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0027-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 5: Orange Athletic Club\nA record of the attendance for the game is highly contested, with 4 different newspapers given figures of three, four, five, and nine thousand. Orange AC would finish 6-4-1, beating Navy 10 to 6, forfeiting their game against Crescent AC for a 0-2 \"loss\", losing their rematch against Yale 0 to 26, and finally playing Crescent AC on Thanksgiving Day for a 10-0 shutout. Their Scrub (practice) team also beat Elmira AC 6 to 0, and their consolidated (combined) team lost to the Entr\u00e9 Nous Club of Paterson, 0-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0028-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 7: Wilmington YMCA\nCAA demolished the local YMCA of Wilmington, Delaware, 40-0 in their most denominating victory of 1895. Blaney, Coffeen, and Thomas all had a good day, with Thomas tallying three touchdowns, and Blaney scoring on an 85 yard run. With Fullback Brown not playing, for unknown reasons, Huddelson took over that duty. He would go a perfect 6 for 6 on PATs (at the time called goals after touchdowns). Hadden would also score 2 touchdowns, and Coffeen scored another on a 75 yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0028-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 7: Wilmington YMCA\nThere was betting among the spectators that Chicago AA would reach the \"century-mark\" (100 points), which at that time was incredibly more common than it is in the modern (post-WWII) era of football. YMCA only had the ball three times throughout the entire contest, and each of those possessions ended with a YMCA fumble. A reporter for the Chicago Tribune, who wrote an account of the game, mused that the YMCA boys were \"saplings in a tornado.\" After the game, CAA would head back up to Pennsylvania on the B&O Railroad, for their game against the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club of Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0029-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 7: Wilmington YMCA\nNovember 8: An article in the Pittsburgh press states that after their crushing defeat from Orange AC, the New Jersey athletic club is slated to be the 1895 \"Athletic Club Champions\". They also highlight how Chicago AA could still win the informal tile. If Boston AA beats Crescent AA, Crescent AA defeats Orange AC, and Boston AA loses their Thanksgiving Day contest against the CAA, then Chicago would have a legitimate claim to the distinction. The players arrived today in Pittsburgh, reportedly exhausted, and went right to bed. Shortly after noon, they rose to practice at Exposition Park, ahead of their match against DCAC. After the practice, Brown met up with an old college friend, Ed Young, who was captaining the Duquesne team, and they spent their day talking over the old Cornell days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0030-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nThe Chicago Athletics faced off against the Duquesne AC on November 9, pulling out a 34 to 4 thumping, although allowing the Pittsburgh men an uncharacteristic touchdown. It was a muddy day on Exposition Field. Six different men scored points for this game, a CAA record for the year. Thomas garnered two touchdowns, while Blaney, Hadden, Brown, and Slater each tallied a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0030-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nFor the first time in 1895, two different men scored PATs for the Athletics, Huddelson with three and Brown with one, and CAA also got its first known points off of the other team, when they blocked a kick in the endzone and DCAC player Vaill fell on it for a safety. Blaney was not actually supposed to be present, as he told the team the day before he was going to visit his folks in Pittsburgh. After this game, the team left for their home in Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0030-0002", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nThey had gone 4-2 on their eastern trip, an impressive total for a journey that lasted less than two weeks. Stevenson, Barter, Hadden, and Blaney did not leave with the team though, instead staying in Pitt to hear cash offers from the Duquesne and Pittsburgh Athletic Clubs to play for them instead. None of them would knowingly end up accepting this money, although it is unknown what Barter decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0031-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nNovember 13- Bob Wrenn, Harvard's star quarterback, agreed to play his position for CAA in their thanksgiving day game against Boston AA. He had been refereeing many games throughout Chicago while he stayed in the city, including Chicago vs Wisconsin on November 2, Chicago vs Northwestern on the 16th, and Wisconsin vs Minnesota the day after that in Minneapolis. He was absent from the roster of the CAA and so its assumed that he did not follow through with his reported confirmation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0031-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nHe was also still in Chicago at the time, as he was the umpire for Indiana vs Wabash the day after Thanksgiving. There was no follow up piece to explain why he did not play with the CAA on November 28, but he would not be there for the contest in a playing capacity, with Bill Aldrich leading the Athletic men instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0032-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nNovember 14-The football Committee of the Chicago Athletic Association held a meeting on their current roster, and decided it would not be good enough for their games ahead. They stated that only five of their starting eleven were \"first class\" (there is no mention of who those players were). Manager Cornish was told to scour the Northwest for players, and to especially seek out the infamous \"Pudge\" Heffelfinger, who was currently coaching at Minnesota, along with any good half backs and tackles. The object was to get the best from Beloit, Lake Forest, and any other top colleges in the region. The remaining contests were a rematch with the Indianapolis Light Artillery on November 23 , first mentioned today, and the Thanksgiving game against BAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0033-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nNovember 15- Several mid and northwest universities voiced their displeasure in the new CAA endeavor to find more skilled players for their football team. Possible targets were narrowed down to Northwestern half backs, Captain Jesse Van Doozer and Potter, Captain Woolsey from lake Forest, and player-coaches Heffelfinger and Atkinson from Minnesota and Beloit respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0034-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nNovember 20- The infamous Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first men to accept manager Cornish's call for players, and agrees to play with the CAA in their thanksgiving Day contest. This was great new for the team, as Pudge was a 3-time All-American and played at Yale prior to his short coaching career with Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0035-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nNovember 23- Van Doozer and Potter both agree to play for the CAA. Northwestern reportedly did not object to the decision, as long as he returned to the University for football after the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 111], "content_span": [112, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0036-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nCAA defeated the much-improved Indianapolis Light Artillery team of Indiana on an icy November afternoon. ILA came into the contest with new players just like CAA, the most notable being star Pennyslvannia halfback Winchester Osgood, along with players from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Purdue, and Butler. CAA did not actually employ their entire starting roster, saving Hadden and Brown for the BAA game (the players Cornish had recruited recently would also not show up until the Thanksgiving Day game). It was a rough and rowdy affair for players and spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0036-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nThe crowd was reportedly unruly, with manager Cornish getting a punch to the nose by a rogue onlooker, and the police barely being able to keep the crowd off the muddy field. Thomas scored the single CAA touchdown in the 2nd half for a bare 4-0 win, defeating any chance for the ILA to avenge their late October loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0037-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nNovember 24- Coach Stickney of Wisconsin University agreed to play half-back for the CAA on Thanksgiving. The leader of his football team, Captain Richards, has yet to be confirmed. Richards will play according to some Madison Businessmen \"in the know\", while Richards' fraternity brothers denies this claim. If he does play he would be put in as full back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0038-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nNovember 25- Preparations for the BAA-CAA game were nearly complete, with addition seats added to CAA \"stadium\" to accommodate for three thousand more. An addition three thousand were suspected to stand around the field as well. Tickets were also sold for special box seats on Carriages next to the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0039-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nNovember 26- In an article for the Daily Inter Ocean, Pudge Heffelfinger declared that this Thanksgiving contest would be his last appearance as a player or coach, and he is retiring from Athletics to get married. Another article states that the Boston AA and Chicago AA contest, combined with the college game of Chicago vs Michigan, would go down as the greatest day of Chicago Football up to this point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0040-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nNovember 27- The day before Chicago AA's Thanksgiving Day showdown against the Boston AA, the whole city of Chicago was in a buzz. The Chicago AA colors of cherry, black, and white, were seen on streamers, banners, pins, ribbons, and commemorative buttons were worn and sold throughout the day. The Chicago Tribune went so far as to report, \"never before in the history of Western football have so many players of national reputation been got together on a Western field as will meet tomorrow at the Chicago Athletic Association field tomorrow forenoon at 11 o'clock.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0040-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nAn analysis of the two teams were written in the newspaper, including a list of their game records, and a comparison of their players based on position. CAA would come into this game 9-2, not including the game against Swift & Co., while BAA was undefeated, albeit with 3 ties, 6-0-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0040-0002", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nOn this assessment alone CAA would be seen as the better team, but BAA's 3 ties were against Crescent AC, which was another contender for the title of most accomplished athletic club team of 1895, Yale, which would go 13-0-2 in 1895, to be named co-national champion by Parke Davis, and finally Harvard, which ended 8-2-1, with losses only to a good Princeton team and consensus national champion Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0040-0003", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nIn terms of impressive wins, both teams were lacking, but CAA prevailed with their shutouts of major college Illinois 8 to 0, and an impressive Indianapolis Artillery team 16 to 0, while Boston AAs best win was against minor college Amherst, 20 to 0. Comparing shutouts, CAA had seven, while BAA had five, but CAA suffered more shutouts from opposing teams (two), than BAA (zero).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0040-0004", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nCAA had outscored its opponents 210 to 48 in 12 official games, an average of 17.5 to 4 per game, and BAA had outscored its opponents 142 to 8 in 9 games, 15.8 to 0.9 for a points per game average. Based on this, Chicago AA had a slightly more productive offense, while Boston AA held the advantage on defense. After a comparison of the players, Chicago AA was heavier man for man, with the exception of a couple substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0040-0005", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)\nThe matchup of tackles Pudge Heffelfinger for CAA and Bert Waters for BAA was highly coveted, as both men had been All-Americans multiple times, and were heralded as \"the heroes of many hard-fought games, and each will try to outplay the other.\" Including both teams, members of former colleges had come from Harvard, Yale, Knox, Dartmouth, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Boston University, MIT, Minnesota, Michigan, and Butler, some very recently, to play in the athletic club's season, or just for the Thanksgiving Day game. The final analysis of the two teams is that they are generally equal, with neither one particularly favored to win. In the evening, the Boston and Chicago AA players went to a performance of Bonnie Scott at McVicker's theatre, and then had a grand dinner together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 116], "content_span": [117, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0041-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA\nThe first Thanksgiving Day game of the Chicago AA football team was in 1888, when the team was known as the \"All-Chicago\" team, composed mostly of football club members from the nearby University of Chicago. They would clobber Michigan 24 to 4, and go on to win four of the next six Thanksgiving Day contests, shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0042-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA\nAs seen from the record above, this was not the first time Chicago AA had played the Boston Athletic Association in a Thanksgiving Day football game, with the two clubs playing twice in 1892-98, both Chicago victories. The 1895 edition of the contest was widely acclaimed by Eastern and Western sports journalists on the day before the game, and somewhere between seven and ten thousand spectators attended the contest in Chicago. With both teams considered very similar in individual player stats, Win-Loss records, and margins of victory, it was only fitting that the two Athletic Associations tied, 4 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0042-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA\nThe Chicago Tribune gives a full account of the game, along with personal opinions and accounts from the players, captains, coaches, crowd, the referees, and the writer themselves. The game, along with the Michigan vs. Chicago contest (Michigan won 12 to 0) made the front cover of their November 28 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0043-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nCaptain Stevenson won the coin toss and chose to kick first. Richards punted the ball to the BAA 20-yard line, on a low and bouncy kick. Smith recovered the football and was tackled before gaining any ground. The BAA was held firm, and decided to punt off the ball to assess how strong CAA would play on offense, to determine their style of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0044-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nBrown caught the kick and gained no yards. On then the next play Thomas was instructed by Stevenson to run the ball between the Right Guard and Tackle, and gained 5 yards. The same play was tried again with Richards, but he was stuffed at the line of scrimmage. Van Doozer went between a Tackle and End, and made a short gain. On 4th down Richards was called a again, but was tackled behind the line by Bert Waters on a slow pitch play, and the ball was turned over to BAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0044-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nAfter these possessions, the teams decided there plans of action. Boston AA would routinely attack the left side of the CAA line, while Chicago AA would try to run through the center and right half of Boston AA. These accounted for the majority of gains throughout the rest of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0045-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nBoston AA tried to run Gonterman around CAA's right end, but he was quickly sacked for a 5-yard loss, and the BAA captain decided that end runs would be near-impossible with the poor field condition. Unable to make the necessary gains for a first down after Gonterman's loss, BAA decided to punt, but the throw from the center to BAA quarterback Curtis was poor, and the kick was blocked, with W. H. Thompson coming down with the ball for Chicago AA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0046-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nSince the two teams determined going through the center was the only reasonable way of gaining yards, Ben Thomas was sent through the Right Guard, but was tackled for loss. On the next play Brown managed to break through the center for 2 yards, and Thompson did the same for a short gain, largely thanks to the blocking of Stevenson, McCormick, and Heffelfinger. Richards, a recent addition to the Chicago AA lineup, made his first yards for the CAA, running through BAA Right Guard LeMoyne for another short gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0046-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nNew Right Half-back Van Doozer would have his first on the next play, going a few yards in an opening made by ben Thomas between LeMoyne and Russell, but was stopped by the BAA backfield. The BAA center was holding well so Richards tried running through the Right End for no gain. Thomas tried breaking through the Center one more time but slipped in the snow and was unable to block Bert Waters. CAA ran out of downs and turned the ball over to BAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0047-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nAnthony, Boston AA's Left Half-back, led the next two downs with a solid 8-yard run through CAA's Left Tackle (Thompson), and again for a small gain. Full -back Curtis found rare hole in the Center and ran for another gain of 8, being brought down by Thomas. Waters pounded through the line for 5 yards, hitting at Chicago AA's weaker left side. Gonterman would try an end run on the next play, but again it was stopped for no gain. Anthony was given the ball and made 5 yards for the first down through Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0047-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nHe sent through again but gained practically nothing after Thomas tackled him. The same tactics were employed over and over again, with short gains of 2 to 5 yards. Finally Boston AA was taken back when Hudelson tackled Anthony for a 2-yard loss. On the very next play, Curtis broke through the line between Guard and Tackle, and ran 20 yards to the CAA 5-yard line. Anthony was put to work again and cut the yards-from-goal to 3. The Chicago line reportedly tightened and the Boston players were forced back on the next play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0047-0002", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nThis play would also lead to a minor scuffle, as a Chicago AA player managed to get the ball during the assault, and Bert Waters tackled him and tried to take the ball from him on the ground. Thompson saw the scheme and jerked Waters away, and then Curtis interfered and a minor fight broke out. The referees eventually ruled to give Boston AA the ball on the reasoning that it had been downed by a Boston AA player and taken from him by the CAA player. The CAA line managed to push BAA back again, and turned the ball over on downs near their goal-line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0048-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\n1st, 2nd, and 3rd down went by with short gains by Richards, Brown, and Thomas, and on 4th down, rather than risk the chance of losing the ball so close to the goal line, a kick was called. Richards was signaled, and successfully punted the ball 25 yards to Curtis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0049-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nAfter no gain on 1st down, Curtis made the best gain of the day, running 25 yards down the left side, guarded by a group of blockers led by Bert Waters. On the next play Boston got called for off-sides and moved back 10 yards. The play after that, Russell was knocked out for a few minutes, and the team surgeons deliberated before allowing him back on his feet. The Heavyweight Anthony was tried again through the End and Tackle, but was stopped by Van Doozer after 3 yards. The right end was attempted, but failed once again, with Chicago AA taking the ball on downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0050-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nThe Boston AA line was getting harder to break through, and with no chance of gaining the 5 yards needed for a 1st down, Brown attempted a kick. The kick would be blocked though, and Russell fell on it for crucial CAA loss. By this point, the ball was near Chicago AA's goal-line again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0051-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nFirst down saw the ball reach CAA's 5-yard line, by 2nd down it was on the 1-yard mark, and on 3rd down Anthony was sent over for the first touchdown of the game. The ensuing extra point, or goal after touchdown as it was called back then, was missed by Russel, as the ball was reportedly wet and slippery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0052-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nRichards kicked off, but Bert Waters blocked it with his bare hands, and Richards fell on it for no-gain. The game tempo began to speed up, with both teams beginning to play fast, continuing their tactics of attacking the weak side of the line for small gains. Van Doozer was signaled to take the ball, but the Guards did not make a big opening for him, and he only gained a yard. The same run was tried again with Thompson (he did not usually play as a Back) through the Right Guard, but the experiment failed, with BAA's right wing holding strong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0053-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nBoston AA would get the ball on turnover of downs, but Chicago AA held firm and soon got the ball back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0054-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nOn the first down Slater made a spectacular run for 15 yards down the west side of the field. After a few short gains the BAA line held, and the ball was turned over yet again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0055-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nGonterman tried yet another end run, and managed to gain the first yards of that play for either team, running for 3, but the CAA line held well, and Boston AA decided to kick prematurely. Once again the execution failed, as Curtis failed to catch the ball passed back from his quarterback, and the ball rolled to BAA's 10 yard line, with Curtis right after it, followed by Van Doozer, who sacked Curtis for a massive BAA loss. Boston AA immediately punted again, and Richards muffed the kick, allowing BAA to take the ball at a comfortable midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0055-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half\nBoston AA kicked for the third time in a row (most likely attempting to run out the clock, as that was seem as a legitimate option in 19th century football), and Richards plunged into the snow on the side-line and fell on it. Time was called with the ball on Chicago AA's 40-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0056-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nDuring the halftime, the CAA team held a meeting, and it wad decided that Heffelfinger would move to right behind the left side of the line, to patch up any weakness it might have had. Russell kicked off, and the ball went flying over the goal line. On the 2nd attempt, Brown caught the punt and began to run, but fell over and fumbled the ball. Luckily it was recovered by Thompson, who fell on it immediately. Deciding to play a punting game, Brown was told to punt the ball back. Bert Waters tried to stop it, but he was too late, and the ball flew to the BAA 20 yard line, where Dick Waters (there were too players on the BAA team with the last name of Waters, whether or not they are related is unknown) fell on it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0057-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nChicago AA held the line, and soon had the ball again with a great position to score. It looked like CAA would tie the game up with three short gains by Heffelfinger, but a fumble on a backwards pass lost this advantage, and Boston AA recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0058-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nCurtis made another run of 15 yards down the left side of the field, and was tackled in a joint Heffelfinger and Brown attack. A fumble ensued on the following play, but BAA recovered it. They would make no more gains though, and punted off to Slater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0059-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nHeffelfinger broke through the weaker left side of BAA and made 5 yards with 3 men on his back. Richards was sent on the next play through the middle but was nailed by Bert Waters. Captain Stevenson was forced to call for a kick, and Brown sent the oval 25 yards down the field. It was a very low ball, and touched a number of CAA and BAA hands, before finally being recovered by Boston AA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0060-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nBoston AA could not find a weak point in the Chicago AA defensive line now that Heffelfinger was playing on the left, so the ball was turned over again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0061-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nThompson, who had been out for a minor injury, came in to play the downs. Thomas was sent through the middle, but turned the ball over on a fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0062-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nOnce again the men of Boston could not advance the football, and was sent back to CAA for another set of downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0063-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nWith the ball in the hands of Jesse Van Doozer, the Chicago AA sat back, and watched the Nebraska native wrap up 6 gains on downs, greatly helping to achieve their first, and only touchdown of the day. On the first attempt he made 2, and then a run of 8 yards, before a rare slip with no gain. On the next couple plays Van Doozer made his way slower down the field, with small gains of 2 to 4 yards per down. Richards was sent for 4 more yards, and then Brown went through the center for 7 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0063-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nOn the next play Van Doozer brought the ball all the way to the goal-line, and on the play after Brown wrapped up the possession with a hard-fought touchdown. Chicago AA 4, Boston AA 4. The CAA crowd cheered with excitement, thinking they were about to win the brutal Thanksgiving day contest, but Brown missed what was called a \"sure goal\", the score stood, tied 4 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0064-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nRussell kicked the ball back to Chicago, and Thomas carried it 8 yards before being tackled by Bert Waters. On the next play the best run of the day would occur. Heffelfinger was given the ball, and making an opening between Guard and Tackle, dashed through, and ran 40 yards before a late tackle by Gonterman, who came from behind and saved the game for BAA. Another few short gains would occur, before another critical point of the contest was revealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0064-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nHeffelfinger took the ball and ran through the center, with nearly every player dog piling, while the ball rolled out and on to the side-line. Slater, who was one of the only men not in the push, did not see the ball at first, and if he had noticed it sooner, must likely would have scored the winning points of the day. But his sight was too late, and by the time he got to the ball, was tackled by a BAA defender. the tactic of bombarding the weak side of the line continued, with LeMoyne receiving an injury from the practice and sitting out the remainder of the game. Slater had just been given the ball when the final time was called, cementing the final score, 4 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0065-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nChicago AA had kept the ball almost entirely in BAA's side of the field during the 2nd half, just as BAA had done to Chicago AA in the 1st half. Both teams left disappointed, with Chicago AA sure they could have scored again had they been given more time. Many praised Van Doozer, Heffelfinger, Stevenson, Bert Waters, and Curtis for their excellent play, and the game was deemed very clean, with the sole blemish being the scuffle in the 1st half. CAA was also praised for their individual work, while BAA was credited with the better team work. After the game, the two teams went back to CAA headquarters, and enjoyed a long meal together, filled with congratulations from the coaches and captains on their spectacular seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0066-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half\nThis would be the final game of Chicago Athletic Association's 1895 football season. They would finish the season 9-3-1 (or 10-3-1, counting the game against Swift & Co.). Boston Athletic Association would also conclude their football season, finishing with an undefeated (but certainly not unblemished) record of 6-0-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0067-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Post-Season, December\nDecember 13- Harry S. Cornish tendered his resignation after three seasons with the Chicago Athletic Association. He had been Athletic manager since June 1, 1893, and was paid $2500 per year for his assistance with the team. His contract was not set to expire until May 31, 1896. There were rumors that he had accepted an offer from the upstart Manhattan Athletic Club, and if so, would have become his 3rd job as Athletic manager for an Athletic Club, working at the Boston Athletic Association as well from 1892 to 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0068-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Post-Season, December\nDecember 31- William hale (Billy) Thompson was elected the new captain for next year's football team. He set out to help his team immediately, defending them from the professionalism claims of Casper W. Whitney, a writer for a Chicago newspaper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0069-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Roster\nThere are a few things to note about the 1895 Chicago Athletic Association roster. One is that positions were not as set in stone as they are in the modern day, and no one on the team had the same position for the whole season (possibly with the exception of star center Archibald Stevenson, who only missed the exhibition against Swift & Co.). Furthermore, it was a rarity for a team member to play every game in the season, due to the moderate influx of new players every couple weeks and higher risk of injury from the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0069-0001", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Roster\nOnly Ben Thomas, a Left Tackle/Guard, managed to play every game, and if you don't include the exhibition, that only adds Stevenson. There were several \"regulars\" though, those who played at least seven or more games in the season. Those players were Fred Slater, Paul Brown, Ben Thomas, CB Coffeen, DA Stone, Harry G. Hadden, Archibald Stevenson, JR Huddelson, Aldrich, and Olin McCormick. Notable members of this roster are Harry Hadden, who coached Notre Dame in 1895, Jesse Van Doozer, Northwestern's 1897 coach, and the infamous \"Pudge\" Heffelfinger, who played 4 years at Yale, was a three-time All American, and is credited as the first professional (paid) American football player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030386-0070-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Roster, Past playing experience\nMost members of the team also had past playing experience at colleges, universities, local, and athletic (semi-pro) teams. Teams are listed chronologically when possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030387-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Colts season\nThe 1895 Chicago Colts season was the 24th season of the Chicago Colts franchise, the 20th in the National League and the 3rd at West Side Park. The Colts finished fourth in the National League with a record of 72\u201358.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030387-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030387-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030387-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030387-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030387-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030388-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1895 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1895 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 10\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 260 to 66.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030389-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1895 Chicago Physicians and Suregons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois College of Medicine in the 1895 college football season. In the football team's first year of existence the Surgeons achieved a 3\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 76 or 82 to 58.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1895, Republican George Bell Swift was elected, winning a majority of the vote and defeating Democratic nominee Frank Wenter by more than a twenty point margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Background\nNationally, amid the Panic of 1893, the Democratic Party had experienced a national decline in support and Republicans a national rise in support. In the 1894 United States elections, Republicans took control of both chambers of US congress from the Democrats. In the United States House of Representatives election, Republicans won what is the largest-ever seat gain in the chamber's history. In Illinois, Republicans won increased majorities in the Illinois General Assembly, and increased their share of Illinois' then-22 US congressional seats from 11 to 20. In the Cook County elections, Republicans won all countywide offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Background\nIn Chicago, the local decline in Democratic support was attributable to both local matters and the overall national decline in support of Democrats. Local matters that contributed to this decline in support included fallout of the Ogden Gas Scandal and an especially strong disapproval in Chicago of Democratic President Grover Cleveland's intervention in the Pullman Strike and the economic fallout of the Panic of 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Background\nIncumbent Democratic mayor John Patrick Hopkins's tenure had been marred by numerous scandals, criticisms, and shortcomings. This included incidents political corruption in the city such as the Ogden Gas Scandal, rampant public gambling that drew the ire of the Chicago Civic Federation, an indecisive response by Hopkins to the Pullman Strike that was assailed by Republican press outlets. Additionally, the misappropriation of significant amounts of campaign contributions by Hopkins had upset many in the Chicago Democratic party, including those who belonged to the party's former Harrison faction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination\nWhile Democratic incumbent John Patrick Hopkins had initially voiced his intent to resign at the end of his term, amid the fallout of the Ogden gas scandal he began considering reversing this decision, in hopes that he might be able to redeem himself before the voters. However, prospects of him seeking reelection were quickly squashed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination\nThe only two individuals ultimately interested in the nomination were Chicago Postmaster Washington Hesing and President of the Sanitary District of Chicago Frank Wenter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination\nIn his pursuit of the nomination, Wenter received support from the wing of the party that had in the past backed Carter Harrison Sr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination\nBy the time of the convention, well nothing was certain, the race for the nomination appeared to be in Wenter's favor. At the convention, Wenter was easily chosen by acclamation, with Hesing withdrawing before the nomination process even finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican nomination\nThe Republican nomination went to George Bell Swift. Swift had previously served as acting mayor of Chicago in 1893, following the assassination of Carter Harrison Sr. This brief tenure had been controversial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, People's (Populist) nomination\nThe People's (Populist) party nominated Bayard Taylor Holmes, an advocate for improved medical education and public health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nWenter worked hard to campaign against Swift. During the campaign, speeches held by Democratic candidate Wenter attracted large and enthusiastic crowds. Substantial funds were raised for his campaign and a large campaign committee was formed to support its operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nWenter sought to present himself as an individual who was not a \"machine politician\", and was not intending to run on Hopkins' record. He argued the central concern of the election should be \"competence\". He contrasted his well-regarded record as head of the Sanitary District with what had been a controversial brief tenure of Swift as interim mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030390-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nSwift received 37.11% of the Polish-American vote, while Wenter received 57.96%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election\nThe Christchurch mayoral election held on 27 November 1895 was contested by city councillors Howell Widdowson and Harry Beswick. Both candidates were young solicitors with few prior civic roles. Initially, the incumbent mayor\u2014Walter Cooper\u2014was one of the candidates but he withdrew. Widdowson attracted some controversy over the question whether he put his nomination forward ahead of a more senior city councillor; many voters still expected at the time that a mayoralty should be assigned to the most senior councillor. Another important issue for many voters was that Widdowson was a tee-totaller and was thus regarded as a prohibitionist, with Beswick seen as the representative of the liquor lobby. Beswick won the election with a clear majority and was installed as mayor of Christchurch on 18 December 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign\nWalter Cooper, the incumbent mayor, had served one term; at the time a mayoral term was one year. Cooper had always maintained that mayors should only serve one term. A public meeting was called for 30 October 1895 to persuade Cooper to stand for another term. Cooper acceded to the request but would retire from any contest as soon as another candidate came forward who met \"his standard\" as he had laid down a year earlier. Cooper's remarks were met with surprise by some as councillor Widdowson had already declared his intention to stand for mayor; presumably Widdowson did not meet Cooper's standards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign\nWiddowson had received a requisition and agreed to stand for the mayoralty; both the requisition and his acceptance were published in newspapers on 19 October. Councillor George Bonnington, a chemist who represented the South-East Ward, was also asked to stand but he declined. On 29 October, a meeting was held by supporters of Widdowson. They organised themselves into committees for the election campaign. Thus, both Cooper and Widdowson were official candidates by early November, and Widdowson was formally nominated to the returning officer on 12 November. On 15 November, it was announced that Cooper had withdrawn from the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign\nNominations for the mayoralty closed on 18 November. Beswick received a requisition that day, acceded to the request, and put his nomination forward. With an election required, the election day was set for 27 November and the city council offices were the only polling booth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign\nBeswick held a meeting for his supporters on 19 November where election committees were formed. Neither candidate called a public meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign\nAt the time, it was still seen as customary by many for the mayoralty to be awarded to the most senior councillor. That person was councillor John Tippett Smith and when accusations came up that Widdowson had jumped the queue, Widdowson was adamant that he had only acceded to the requisition after Smith had decided to stand aside. Smith, however, stated that he had decided to stand after having received his own requisition. His supporters had asked him to see who else would stand before announcing his own candidacy. Nobody had asked him on behalf of Widdowson whether he intended to stand before Widdowson's nomination was announced. Smith then decided not to put his name forward as a three-person contest would have favoured Cooper and his main objective was for Cooper not to be re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Candidates\nBoth candidates were young solicitors with little prior public service. Their early Christchurch careers had many parallels, with them attending the same school and being admitted to the bar within three days of one another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Candidates, Beswick\nHarry Joseph Beswick (born 1860) was born in nearby Kaiapoi. His father was active in local political affairs and had been a member of parliament for the Kaiapoi electorate in the 1860s. Beswick received his schooling in Christchurch at Christ's College (1873\u201379) and was admitted to the bar on 14 September 1883. Beswick was a bachelor and known for his sporting successes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Candidates, Widdowson\nHowell Young Widdowson (born 1859) was also educated at Christ's College (1873\u201377). He was admitted to the bar on 11 September 1883. Widdowson married in April 1885 at Trinity Congregational Church in Christchurch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Results\nThe election was held on Wednesday, 27 November 1885, from 9\u00a0am to 6\u00a0pm, with Henry Thomson acting as returning officer. To many people, it was an important issue that Widdowson was a tee-totaller as prohibition was heavily lobbied for, especially by women. At 7:05\u00a0pm, the returning officer released the results and declared Beswick elected. The turnout was the highest that had ever been recorded in Christchurch, with the previous high set the previous year, exceeded by either more than 100 or 200 votes (sources differ). It was noted that Beswick was the first bachelor ever elected as Christchurch mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030391-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Results\nIn October 1896, Mayor Beswick decided to stand for Parliament in the three-member City of Christchurch electorate. He was eventually backed by the National Conservative Association. Beswick did not stand for re-election as mayor, but a contest was held by former mayor Cooper and senior councillor John Tippett Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1895 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The Reds finished in eighth place in the National League with 66 wins and 64 losses, 21 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nAfter finishing the 1894 season with a record of only 55\u201375, the Reds replaced Charles Comiskey as player-manager with first baseman Buck Ewing. Ewing was previously a player-manager with the New York Giants of the Players' League in 1890, leading them to a 74\u201357 record and a third-place finish. He spent the last two seasons playing with the Cleveland Spiders, and in 1893 with Cleveland, Ewing hit .344 with six home runs and 122 RBI before missing much of the 1894 season with injuries. He also once led the National League in home runs with ten in 1883 while playing for the New York Giants, and in triples with twenty with the Giants in 1884.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Reds would suffer a big blow, as outfielder Bug Holliday would have an appendectomy and would miss most of the season recovering. Cincinnati signed outfielder Dusty Miller, who last played in the majors with the St. Louis Browns in 1890. The Reds also acquired Billy Rhines, who previously pitched with the team from 1890\u20131892 before playing with the Louisville Colonels in 1893. Rhines missed the entire 1894 season due to injuries, and had not pitched a full season since 1891 when he went 17\u201324 with a 2.87 ERA with Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nDuring the season, the Reds acquired outfielder Eddie Burke from the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nCincinnati got off to a hot start, as they had a league-best 18\u20138 record after twenty-six games. The Reds though went 3\u201312 in their next fifteen games to fall into seventh place, five games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. Cincinnati got back into the pennant race after posting a 19\u20139 clip in their next twenty-eight games, pushing their record to 40\u201329, sitting in third place, one game behind the Pirates and Cleveland Spiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0004-0001", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe team went on a 5\u20139 slide in their next fourteen games to fall into sixth place, 5.5 games out of first, before reeling off five wins in a row, but they only moved up to fifth and were still five games behind the first place Spiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0004-0002", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nAfter winning two of their next three games to move into fourth place with a 52\u201339 record, Cincinnati would win only fourteen of their last thirty-nine games to drop out of the pennant race and finish with a 66\u201364 record, which put them in eighth place, 20.5 games behind the pennant winning Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nDusty Miller had a spectacular season with the Reds, as he hit a team high .335 with ten homers and 112 RBI, as well as swiping 43 bases in 132 games. Player-manager Buck Ewing hit .318 with five home runs and 94 RBI, while Bid McPhee batted .299 with a homer, 75 RBI and a team high 107 runs scored. Dummy Hoy led the Reds with 50 stolen bases, while hitting .277 with three home runs and 55 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Billy Rhines had a very solid comeback season, leading Cincinnati with a 19\u201310 record in 38 games pitched, 33 starts and 25 complete games. Frank Dwyer had an 18\u201315 record with a team-best 4.24 ERA in 37 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030392-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030393-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1895 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach W. Durant Berry, the Bearcats compiled a 3\u20133 record. Randolph Matthews was the team captain. The team played its home games at Union Ball Park in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030394-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 City of Auckland by-election\nThe City of Auckland by-election of 1895 was a by-election held on 24 July 1895 during the 12th New Zealand Parliament in the urban seat of the City of Auckland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030394-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 City of Auckland by-election\nThe contest was won by Thomas Thompson of the Liberal Party. Thompson convincingly beat the conservative candidate Richard Monk recording nearly a two thousand vote majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030394-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 City of Auckland by-election, Background\nThe by-election was triggered due to the resignation of sitting MP George Grey. Thomas Thompson was the Liberal Party candidate. He had previously represented the Auckland North electorate from 1884 to 1890, then the City of Auckland electorate from 1890 to 1893. His sole opponent was Richard Monk, previous Waitemata MP from 1886 to 1890, then from 1893 to 9 February 1894 when his election was declared void.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030394-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 City of Auckland by-election, Results\nThompson represented the seat until he retired as an MP in 1899. In 1903 he was elevated to sit in the Legislative Council until his term ended on 17 March 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030395-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Cleveland Spiders season\nThe 1895 Cleveland Spiders finished with an 84\u201346 record and a second-place finish in the National League. After the season they played the first-place Baltimore Orioles in the Temple Cup series, defeating them 4 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030395-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030395-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030395-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030395-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030396-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Colgate football team\nThe 1895 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1895 college football season. The team captain for the 1895 season was L. Jay Caldwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030397-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1895 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1895 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. Whitney began publishing his All-America Team in 1889, and his list, which was considered the official All-America Team, was published in Harper's Weekly from 1891 to 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030398-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1895 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1895. North Carolina won the SIAA in its inaugural year. North Carolina running back George Stephens caught the first forward pass in the history of the sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030398-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWC = selected by \"Whitper Casney\" (a play on Casper Whitney) in the University of Virginia's College Topics. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S. It seems the team also picked players from prior years including 1894, at least.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030399-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1895 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1895 college football season. The season marked the program's second conference championship and second head coach, Fred Folsom. The team recorded a record of 3\u20130 in the CFA and 5\u20131 overall, marking its second conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030399-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nFolsom held multiple coaching stints from 1895\u20131899, 1901\u20131902, and 1908\u20131915, ending his tenure with the most wins in program history. Colorado Stadium was renamed as Folsom Field in 1944, following his death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030400-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Columbian Orange and Blue football team\nThe 1895 Columbian Orange and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Columbian University (now known as George Washington University) as an independent during the 1895 college football season. Their coach was unknown as they compiled a 0\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition\nThe Women's Exhibition from the Past and Present (Danish: Kvindernes Udstilling fra Fortid og Nutid) held in Copenhagen in 1895 was an art and culture exhibition for women from the Nordic countries. Inspired by the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, it was designed to demonstrate how far Nordic women had advanced in the areas of education, employment and art. The first of its kind in Europe, it was considered a great success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition, Background\nThe Chicago World's Fair in 1893 had impressed Danish visitors with its Woman's Building containing presentations of art and literature. Sophie Oxholm (1848\u20131935), who had visited the exhibition, was obviously impressed by the exhibition, especially the show of Danish needlework. On her return to Denmark, she immediately brought a number of influential women together with a view to arranging a Nordic women's exhibition in Copenhagen the following year. Despite initial enthusiasm, as a result of budgetary and management problems, it was announced in February 1894 that the exhibition would not be held until 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition, Background\nOxholm, who experienced difficulty in managing the arrangements, gave up her position as head of the coordinating committee in early 1895. She was replaced by Bertha Buch of the Women's Society but it was Emma Gad (1852\u20131921) who proved to be the most effective member. Appointed deputy chair, Gad managed to complete all the arrangements on time. These included selecting the site of the exhibition which was ultimately shared between the Industrial Association building (Industriforeningen), which had been built in connection with the 1872 Nordic Exhibition, and the premises of Den Frie Udstilling. It was therefore possible for the exhibition to open on 22 June 1895 in the presence of Queen Louise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition, Exhibition\nIn addition to exhibits from Denmark, the exhibition contained areas specifically dedicated to the Danish provinces and overseas territories (Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Danish West Indies) as well as to Norway and Sweden. There are records of the 2,415 exhibits covering painting, curiosities (including items associated with celebrated women), arts and crafts, costumes, jewellery (including gold- and silverware), literature (manuscripts, journals and books) and appliances. There were also separate listings of exhibits relating to housekeeping, philanthropy, hygiene, education, household crafts (spinning and weaving, leather, wood, embroidery, silk painting, and whitework), music and art.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition, Exhibition\nFor the Den Frie Udstilling building, there was a separate inventory of 301 artworks, paintings and sculptures, listed by artist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition, Key organizers\nThe two women who were instrumental in organizing the exhibition were Sophie Oxholm and, above all, Emma Gad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition, Outcome\nThe Women's Exhibition was a great success. Not only was it appreciated in Denmark and beyond, it made a substantial profit. Gad had hoped the money could be used for an independent \"Women's Building\" (Kvindernes Bygning) with a meeting room, reading room, restaurant and accommodation for women from the provinces. Work did not begin on the building until 1929. It was completed in 1937.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030401-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition, Exhibitors\nWorks by the following artists were included in the Women's Exhibition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030402-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1895 Cork Senior Football Championship was the ninth staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030402-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Cork Senior Football Championship\nFermoy won the championship following a 0-06 to 0-01 defeat of Nils in the final at Cork Park. This was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030403-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1895 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the ninth staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030403-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 3 November 1895, Blackrock won the championship following a 1-02 to 1-01 defeat of Ballyhea in the final. This was their sixth championship title and their third title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030404-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1895 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1895 college football season. In their second season under head coach Marshall Newell, the Big Red compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 162 to 82. Quarterback and team captain Clint Wyckoff was selected by both Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney as a first-team player on the 1895 College Football All-America Team and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030405-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 County Championship\nThe 1895 County Championship was the sixth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 6 May to 2 September 1895. Surrey claimed their fifth title, which was decided by the percentage of completed matches by each side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030405-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 County Championship\nThe competition saw the first participation in the competition by Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030406-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Crescent Athletic Club football team\nThe 1895 Crescent Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Crescent Athletic Club in the American Football Union (AFU) during the 1895 college football season. The team played its home games at Eastern Park in Brooklyn and compiled an 8\u20132\u20131 record and claimed the AFU championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030406-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Crescent Athletic Club football team\nCrescent was scheduled to play the Orange Athletic Club for the AFU championship on November 16, but Orange objected to Phil King playing for the Crescents on grounds that he had previously been paid to coach for Princeton and was therefore not an amateur. The Crescents denied the Orange contention that King was disqualified under the AFU rules. The Orange club scheduled a game with Yale on the day that had been set with the Crescents. On the date set for the game, the Crescents appeared on the field without an opponent, ran one play for a touchdown, and claimed a disputed UFA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030406-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Crescent Athletic Club football team\nW. D. Hotchkiss, a former player at Williams College, was the team captain and played at the center position. Other key players included Phil King and Harry Beecher at quarterback, Juan Smith at halfback, and Billy Ohl at fullback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030406-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Crescent Athletic Club football team\nDuring the season, most of the players lived at the Crescent Athletic Club's clubhouse and ate at the clubhouse's training table. The new clubhouse opened in mid-October 1985. It was a four-story building with reading and smoking rooms, grill room, and offices on the first floor; card, chess and billiard rooms on the second floor; dining rooms on the third floor; and gymnasium with domed ceiling on the fourth floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030407-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Currie Cup\nThe 1895 Currie Cup was the third edition of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030407-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Western Province for the third time, who won all five of their matches in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030408-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Dalmatian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030409-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Danish Folketing election\nFolketing elections were held in Denmark on 9 April 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030410-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1895 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1895 college football season. Head coach William Wurtenburg scheduled a 13-game season for 1895, a still-standing record at Dartmouth for most games played in a single year. The team went 7\u20135\u20131, which included a 2\u20130 record against Triangular Football League opponents. The season began with a 50\u20130 shutout of Phillips Exeter Academy, which was followed by a close game with Harvard. The match was hard-fought; Harvard won by a slim 4\u20130 margin, the closest that a Dartmouth team had gotten to beating Harvard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030410-0000-0001", "contents": "1895 Dartmouth football team\nThe squad then played three smaller colleges, winning two of the games and tying the other. The team then went back-and-forth between losing and winning, falling twice to Yale and once to West Point, but defeating MIT and Boston. Conference opponents Williams and Amherst were defeated by a combined score of 30\u20135, and the team was awarded its third straight Triangular Football League championship. The season ended on a negative note, however, with a close 10\u20134 loss to Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030411-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Dominican Republic arbitration referendum\nA four-part referendum on arbitration over a border dispute with Haiti was held in the Dominican Republic on 2 June 1895. Voters were asked whether an arbitration tribunal should be established, whether Pope Leo XIII would be an appropriate arbitrator, what compensation Haiti should receive if the outcome was favourable to the Dominican Republic, and whether the government should comply with the tribunal outcome if it was unfavourable to the Dominican Republic. All four proposals were approved by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030411-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Dominican Republic arbitration referendum, Aftermath\nAs a result of the referendum, the two countries signed an arbitration agreement on 3 July 1895. However, the Vatican declined the request, noting that it was \"restricted to the simple interpretation of Article 4 of the Treaty of 1874.\" Subsequently the countries agreed to form a mixed demarcation commission on 28 May 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030412-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1895 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team represented Drake University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Hermon Williams, the team compiled a 1\u20134 record and was outscored by a total of 48 to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030413-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1895 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030414-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Duquesne Country and Athletic Club season\nThe 1895 Duquesne Country and Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club in the 1895 football season. In their inaugural 1895 season, the team compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record, and won the unofficial Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit championship for the season when they defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club on Thanksgiving to end the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030415-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Edinburgh Corporation election\nAn Election to the Edinburgh Corporation was held on 5 November 1895, alongside municipal elections across Scotland, and the wider British local elections. Contests took place in 2 of the cities 13 wards, with candidates in the remaining 11 being returned unopposed. The election was relatively quiet, with no particularly important issues being raised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030416-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1895 municipal election was held January 14, 1895 to elect the town council (consisting of a mayor and six aldermen, each elected for a one-year term) and four trustees for each of the public and separate school divisions. This was the first election in Edmonton history in which there was a contested race for mayor, and also the first during which school trustee elections were held concurrently with those for town council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030416-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nVoter turnout figures for the 1895 municipal election are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030417-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Elmira Athletic Club football team\nThe 1895 Elmira Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Elmira Athletic Club of New York as an independent during the 1895 football season. The team compiled a 6\u20132 record, shut out three opponents, and outscored their opponents by a total of 85 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030418-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 English cricket season\n1895 was the sixth season of County Championship cricket in England. It was the first season in which the official definition of first-class cricket was activated, following the 1894 ruling. Surrey won the championship for the fifth time in six years, despite increased competition, as the tournament was expanded from nine to fourteen teams. The points system was changed as the teams played differing numbers of matches and the new system involved division of the number of points gained by the number of matches that had ended in either a win or a loss. Draws were thus completely disregarded, as they gave zero points. Derbyshire was the best of the rookie teams, finishing in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030418-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 English cricket season\nAnother championship made its bow as this season was the first to stage the Minor Counties Championship. The inaugural title was shared by three teams: Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030418-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 English cricket season\nIn the early part of the season, improved batting conditions and long spells of dry weather enabled much heavier scoring than in previous seasons. There were a number of very large scores up until mid-July, when Archie MacLaren played his famous innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton. After that, rain returned and most pitches from 20 July onwards were \"sticky wickets\", with the result that bowlers dominated the latter part of the season. Charlie Townsend in particular was able to generate prodigious spin of the ball on these treacherous pitches and took 122 wickets in the last 11 county games. Other established bowlers like Peel, Richardson, Mold and Briggs were very difficult to bat against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030418-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 English cricket season\nAt the age of 46 (when the season began), W. G. Grace enjoyed a remarkable career revival and was the leading run-scorer in all first-class matches, averaging over 50. He became the first player ever to score 1,000 runs during the month of May and also the first to reach the career landmark of one hundred first-class centuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030419-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Entre Nous Athletic Association football team\nThe 1895 Entre Nous Athletic Association football team was an American football team that represented the Entre Nous Club of Paterson, New Jersey, as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team shut out nine of their ten opponents and compiled a 9\u20131 record, losing only to the Consolidated team of Princeton University. They outscored their opponents by a total of 328 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030420-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1895 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 26th in Budapest, Hungary. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030421-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1895 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Bruges\u2013Ostend Canal in the Belgian city of Ostend on 15 September. The competition was for men only, and the regatta had four boat classes (M1x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030421-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 European Rowing Championships\nAt the FISA Congress held on 14 and 15 September, five nations were represented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030422-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 FA Cup Final\nThe 1895 FA Cup Final was contested by Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion at Crystal Palace. Aston Villa won 1\u20130, with Bob Chatt being credited with scoring the fastest goal in FA Cup Final history, scored after just 30\u00a0seconds. This record would stand for 114 years before being broken by Louis Saha of Everton in the 2009 FA Cup Final with a goal after 25\u00a0seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030422-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 FA Cup Final, Summary\nAston Villa and West Bromwich Albion became the first pair of clubs to meet in the FA Cup Final for a third time: the teams had previously met in the 1887 final, won by Villa, and the 1892 final, won by Albion. The final was played for the first time at Crystal Palace, which was to host the finals for the next twenty years. The weather for the final was described as \"a beautiful spring day\", and consequently the crowd and press were still coming into the ground when the game kicked off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030422-0001-0001", "contents": "1895 FA Cup Final, Summary\nFrom the kick-off, John Devey, the Villa centre-forward, swung the ball out to his inside-left, Dennis Hodgetts. Hodgetts' long cross-pass found Charlie Athersmith on the right, and his centre fell to Bob Chatt who sent the ball goalwards on a half volley. Albion's keeper Joe Reader was only able to get his fingers to the shot, and turned the ball across the goal mouth and, after a goalmouth scramble involving Devey and Albion defender Jack Horton, the ball was turned in to the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030422-0001-0002", "contents": "1895 FA Cup Final, Summary\nThere are no accurate timings for the goal and different reports time it at between 30 and 39\u00a0seconds. At the time, many of the crowd and press missed the goal as they were still taking their seats, and the press reports indicated that Chatt had scored. According to Ward & Griffin in their \"Essential History of Aston Villa\" however, \"after the game, the Villa players confirmed that John Devey had netted after Chatt's shot had been blocked straight into the latter's path and had ricocheted off his knee.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030422-0001-0003", "contents": "1895 FA Cup Final, Summary\nDespite this claim, The Football Association still credit the goal to Chatt as having been scored on thirty seconds. The fastest accurately timed goal was Louis Saha's effort for Everton after 25\u00a0seconds in the 2009 final. Despite pressure from the Albion forwards, especially from Billy Bassett, Villa were able to hold on to their lead until half-time. In the second half, Villa began to press forward again with Chatt and Devey forcing excellent saves from Joe Reader. Neither side was able to add to the score and Villa won the cup for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030423-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Furman Purple Hurricane football team\nThe 1895 Furman Purple Hurricane football team represented the Furman Purple Hurricane of Furman University during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030424-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1895 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. Led by sixth-year head coach William McCracken, Geneva compiled a record of 0\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and completed the season with a 3\u20134 record, Georgia's first losing season. Georgia lost twice to North Carolina, and played Alabama for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Before the season\nGeorgia's entire student body consisted of 126 students. This was Georgia's first year in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), a conference that it founded along with Alabama, Auburn, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Before the season\nThis was the Georgia Bulldogs' first season under the guidance of head coach Pop Warner. Warner was hired at a salary of $34 per week. While at Georgia, Warner also served as a co-coach at Iowa State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nIt was in 1895, in the first of the two games between Georgia and North Carolina, in which North Carolina completed the first recorded forward pass, even though the play was illegal at the time. According to John Heisman, the North Carolina quarterback was trying to punt the ball but, because the punt was about to be blocked, he threw the ball instead. Another North Carolina player caught the ball and scored a touchdown on a 70-yard play. Georgia coach Pop Warner complained to the referee that the play was illegal, however, the referee let the play stand because he did not see the pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nGeorgia's starting lineup was Ferrell (left end), Price (left tackle), Connally (left guard), Cochran (center), Moore (right guard), Kent (right tackle), Killorin (right end), Barrow (quarterback), Nalley (left halfback), Morris (right halfback), and Stubbs (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nVanderbilt beat Georgia 6\u20130. The Bulldogs disputed the touchdown and left the contest in a forfeit. Pomeroy fumbled and Vanderbilt's Elliott scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nGeorgia's starting lineup was: Clark (left end), Price (left tackle), Middlebrooks (left guard), Cochran (center), Walker (right guard), Kent (right tackle), Ferrell (right end), Barrow (quarterback), Nalley (left halfback), Morris (right halfback), Stubbs (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThough the game was scheduled for 1:30 p. m., bickering between officials delayed the contest. John Heisman tried a hidden ball trick in the 16\u20136 win over Georgia, which Warner was to later use at Carlisle to defeat Harvard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030425-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nGeorgia's starting lineup was: Morris (left end), Price (left tacle), Middlebrooks (left guard), Cochran (center), Walker (right guard), Kent (right tackle), Ferrell (right end), Barrow (quarterback), Pomeroy (left halfback), Nalley (right halfback), Stubbs (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030426-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia vs. North Carolina football game\nThe 1895 Georgia vs. North Carolina football game, played October 26, 1895, was a college football game between the Georgia Bulldogs and North Carolina Tar Heels. The game features what some claim is the first (legal or otherwise; the legal pass starts in 1906) forward pass. This was also the first season of the newly formed Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030426-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia vs. North Carolina football game, Game notes\nBob Quincy notes in his 1973 book They Made the Bell Tower Chime:\"John Heisman, a noted historian, wrote 30 years later that, indeed, the Tar Heels had given birth to the forward pass against the Bulldogs (UGA). It was conceived to break a scoreless deadlock and give UNC a 6\u20130 win. The Carolinians were in a punting situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown.\" The ball was thrown out of desperation by back Joel Whitaker. Georgia coach Pop Warner complained to the referee that the play was illegal, however, the referee let the play stand because he did not see the pass. Only 4 minutes of game time had passed when Stephens scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030426-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Georgia vs. North Carolina football game, Aftermath\nThe teams played a second time and North Carolina won 10 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election\nThe third election to Glamorgan County Council election was held on 4 March 1895. It was preceded by the 1892 election and followed by the 1898 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election\nGlamorgan County Council had been established by the 1888 Local Government Act, and the first elections held in early 1889. The county of Glamorgan was at this time becoming heavily industrialised, although some areas such as the Vale of Glamorgan remained essentially rural. The rise of nonconformist liberalism, especially since the 1860s, throughout Wales, had challenged the prevailing influence of the landed gentry. However, even in 1889, the traditional forces remained influential and no working men were elected to the Council. This changed in 1892 with the unopposed return of David Morgan in Aberdare and the success of Isaac Evans in Resolven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the Result\nAs in most parts of Wales, the Liberal Party was once again triumphant and won a majority of the seats. In 1895 there were more unopposed results than in previous elections and the Conservatives made some headway, reflecting the position in the United Kingdom as a whole where the party took power that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the Result\nResults are drawn from the Cardiff Times. Results also appeared in the Celt (Bala). Some additional results are drawn from local newspapers in South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Boundary Changes\nThere were some boundary changes at this election. In the Aberdare area the wards were reorganised too reflect those operating for the new Aberdare Urban District Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Boundary Changes\nAn additional ward was created at Cadoxton following the division of the existing Barry division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Unopposed Returns\nAs in previous elections there were a fair number of unopposed returns, including some seats not contested by the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nOf the eleven retiring aldermen, two were Conservatives. Following the episode in 1892 when all but two aldermen did not seek re-election, only for the Council to decide that this was a pre-requisite for election as aldermen, a larger number sought re-election. Each was re-elected, including Sir John Llewelyn at Loughor and Penderry, although he faced Liberal opposition unlike in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nThose who did not seek re-election included F.L. Davis at Ferndale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Contested Elections\nThere were more uncontested elections than in the previous two contests for the County Council and the vast majority of those contested were straight fights between Liberal and Conservative candidates (or in some cases Independents who were widely regarded as Conservatives). In a small number of cases, Liberals faced each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberaman\nThe sitting member, first elected at the 1889 election and re-elected in 1895 was opposed by Thomas Rees, landlord of the Swan Hotel, Aberaman and elected a member of the Aberdare Urban District Council at the inaugural 1894 election. The Merthyr Times opined that there was no necessity for a contest, and that the unsuccessful candidate had wasted his time and money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberavon\nJohn Morgan Smith had previously stood as an Independent, though this was commonly regarded as meaning Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Blaengwawr\nThe new Blaengwawr ward was created following boundary changes connected to the formation of the Aberdare Urban District Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Bridgend\nThe election was fought on party lines and covered in detail in the Glamorgan Gazette. The election was said to have attracted 'an exceptionally keen and widespread interest, not only immediately within the town boundaries, but in many an adjacent town, hamlet and village besides'. Against the tide in the county the Liberals captured Bridgend for the first time", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Caerphilly\nAs a result of boundary changes, two sitting members opposed each other. Hill-Male admitted that he had once been a Conservative but claimed to have been converted to the Liberal cause during his twenty years in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cwmavon\nIt was reported that Thomas Davies, the sitting member, was expected to be returned unopposed, but he was opposed by Llewellyn Griffiths, overseer, and a fellow deacon at Penuel Baptist Church, Cwmavon. Davies eventually withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cyfarthfa\nThe result was largely attributed to the fact that Thomas was a member of several public bodies and this was a difficult argument to counter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0017-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ferndale\nMorgan Thomas, the sitting member, was defeated by another Liberal candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0018-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Gadlys\nMorgan was re-elected although heavily defeated in the Aberdare Urban District Council election a short time before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0019-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Llwydcoed\nAs a result of boundary changes, the Hirwaun Ward had been abolished and the sitting member, Richard Morgan, challenged the incumbent, Rees Hopkin Rhys in the Llwydcoed Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0020-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Maesteg\nJames Barrow, the sitting member, was opposed by another Liberal candidate, Jenkin Jones, due to his voting against disestablishment at a council meeting. It was a lively election, with all workmen having a holiday, leaving the streets crowded throughout the day. On the following day, some od Barrow's supporters paraded through the locality on horseback but were attacked by women who threw buckets of water and ashes over them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0021-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Merthyr Town\nThis result was attributed by the Merthyr Times to Liberal Party apathy and to publicans' support for the Conservative candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0022-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Merthyr Vale\nThere was initially some uncertainty whether Walter Bell, who had been narrowly defeated in 1892, would oppose the sitting member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0023-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ogmore\nIn this largely rural ward, J.D. Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr captured the seat, reversing the result of three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0024-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pontlottyn\nTwo rival Liberal candidates enabled innkeeper David Benjamin Owen to win by 23 votes from Baptist minister John Penry Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0025-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nIn addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1895 election, there were twelve Aldermanic vacancies (the additional one following the death of a sitting alderman).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0026-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nThe following aldermen were appointed by the newly elected council. They included three miners' agents who, together with Moses Moses, elected as alderman in 1892, made four labour members on the aldermanic bench. Conversely, following the retirement of Sir William Thomas Lewis, Sir John Llewellyn was now the only Conservative among the aldermen. Lewis and another retiring alderman, the prominent Liberal, Thomas Williams of Gwaelod y Garth, received some votes (presumably from Conservative councillors) but the liberal group held to the convention that only elected councillors could be made aldermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0027-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Gadlys by-election\nFollowing the election of David Morgan as alderman, Richard Morgan, member for Hirwaun from 1889 until 1895 was selected as Liberal candidate following a well-attended public meeting. As a result of boundary changes, Morgan had contested Llwydcoed against Rees Hopkin Rhys and had been narrowly defeated. Richard Morgan's selection was not immediately accepted and other meetings were held to promote other candidates, including Benjamin Evans. Eventually, however, Richard Morgan was comfortably elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0028-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Garw Valley by-election\nFollowing the election of John Thomas, miners' agent, as alderman, D. Johns was elected after a contest with two other Liberal candidates, including Thomas Lewis who was also unsuccessful at the initial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0029-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Gellifaelog by-election\nFollowing the election of Evan Lewis as alderman, concerns had been expressed that a split Liberal vote would lead to a Conservative victory. But this did not prove to be the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0030-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Loughor and Penderry by-election\nFollowing the election of Sir John Llewelyn as alderman, Samuel Thomas, defeated by Llewelyn at the original election, was now returned. His opponent had sought to succeed Llewelyn on his appointment as alderman in 1889 but was defeated on that occasion by Edward Rice Daniel. This can be considered a Liberal hold as Daniel had stood down at the original election in favour of Llewelyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 86], "content_span": [87, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0031-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Maesteg by-election\nFollowing the election of James Barrow as alderman, Jenkin Jones, narrowly defeated in a hotly contested initial election, was on this occasion successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0032-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Pontypridd by-election\nFollowing the re-election of Walter Morgan as alderman, Hopkin Smith Davies, who stood down in his favour, was returned amongst 'great enthusiasm'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030427-0033-0000", "contents": "1895 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Resolven by-election\nFollowing the election of Isaac Evans as alderman, Daniel Evans of Abergwynfi was elected in a four-cornered contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030428-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Grand National\nThe 1895 Grand National was the 57th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 29 March 1895. It was won by Wild Man From Borneo in 10 minutes 32 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030429-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Greek legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Greece on 16 April 1895. Supporters of Theodoros Deligiannis emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, with 150 of the 207 seats. Deligiannis became Prime Minister for the third time the 11 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030430-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Greensburg Athletic Association football season\nThe 1895 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their sixth season in existence. The team finished 9\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030431-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Guilford Quakers football team\nThe 1895 Guilford Quakers football team represented Guilford College during the 1895 college football season. They had a 1\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030432-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1895 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1895 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8\u20132\u20131 record under first-year head coach Robert Emmons. The team's sole losses were sustained against Princeton and Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030433-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1895 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1895 college football season. Prior to the fall of 1895, Haskell had field a baseball team. The 1895 season was the school's first competing in football. No record has been found identifying a coach for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1895 Home Nations Championship was the thirteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 5 January and 16 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship\nScotland won all their three matches to win the championship outright for the fourth time (excluding two other titles shared with England), and completed the Triple Crown for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal and a goal from mark were both worth four points. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea), Tom Pearson (Cardiff), Owen Badger (Llanelli), Arthur Gould (Newport) (capt. ), William Llewellyn Thomas (Newport), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Ben Davies (Llanelli), Tom Graham (Newport), Arthur Boucher (Newport), Wallace Watts (Newport), Jim Hannan (Newport), Tom Jackson (Swansea), Charles Nicholl (Llanelli), Frank Mills (Cardiff), William Elsey (Cardiff)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nEngland H Ward (Bradford), John Fegan (Blackheath), FA Leslie-Jones (Oxford Uni), EM Baker (Oxford Uni), WB Thomson (Blackheath), RHB Cattell (Moseley), EW Taylor (Rockcliff), Sammy Woods (Blackheath) capt., FO Poole (Oxford Uni), William Bromet (Richmond), Frank Mitchell (Cambridge Uni), William Eldon Tucker (Cambridge Uni), C Thomas (Barnstable), GM Carey (Oxford Uni), HW Finlinson (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nScotland: AR Smith (Oxford Uni), James Gowans (London Scottish), GT Campbell (London Scottish), Willie Neilson (London Scottish), Robin Welsh (Watsonians), JW Simpson (Royal HSFP), M Elliot (Hawick), WB Cownie (Watsonians), JH Dods (Edinburgh Acads), WR Gibson (Royal HSFP) capt., WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads), Robert MacMillan (London Scottish), GT Nielson (West of Scotland), TM Scott (West of Scotland), HO Smith (West of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea), Tom Pearson (Cardiff), Owen Badger (Llanelli), Arthur Gould (Newport) capt., Evan Lloyd (Llanelli), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Fred Parfitt (Newport), Tom Graham (Newport), Arthur Boucher (Newport), Ernie George (Pontypridd), Jim Hannan (Newport), Harry Packer (Newport), Charles Nicholl (Llanelli), Frank Mills (Cardiff), Tom Pook (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nIreland G. R. Symes (Monkstown), W Gardiner (NIFC), S Lee (NIFC), TH Stevenson (Queen's Uni, Belfast), Joseph Magee (Bective Rangers), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Benjamin Tuke (Bective Rangers), TJ Johnstone (Queen's Uni, Belfast), H Lindsay (Armargh), AA Brunker (Landsdowne), JH O'Conor (Bective Rangers) capt., HC McCoull (Belfast Albion), Thomas Crean (Wanderers), Andrew Clinch (Wanderers), CV Rooke (Monkstown)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley), John Fegan (Blackheath), FA Leslie-Jones (Oxford Uni), EM Baker (Oxford Uni), WB Thomson (Blackheath), RHB Cattell (Moseley), EW Taylor (Rockcliff), Sammy Woods (Blackheath) capt., FO Poole (Oxford Uni), William Bromet (Richmond), Frank Mitchell (Cambridge Uni), William Eldon Tucker (Cambridge Uni), C Thomas (Barnstable), GM Carey (Oxford Uni), HW Finlinson (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nScotland: AR Smith (Oxford Uni), James Gowans (London Scottish), GT Campbell (London Scottish), W Nielson (London Scottish), Robin Welsh (Watsonians), JW Simpson (Royal HSFP), Paul Robert Clauss (Birkenhead Park), WB Cownie (Watsonians), JH Dods (Edinburgh Acads), WR Gibson (Royal HSFP), Thomas Hendry (Clydesdale), Robert MacMillan (London Scottish) capt., GT Nielson (West of Scotland), TM Scott (West of Scotland), JN Millar (West of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nIreland J Fulton (NIFC), W Gardiner (NIFC), A Montgomery (NIFC), J O'Connor (Garryowen), Joseph Magee (Bective Rangers), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Benjamin Tuke (Bective Rangers), EH McIlwaine (NIFC), W O'Sullivan (Queen's C., Cork), WJN Davis (Edinburgh Uni. ), MS Egan (Garryowen), HC McCoull (Belfast Albion), Thomas Crean (Wanderers), Andrew Clinch (Wanderers), CV Rooke (Monkstown) capt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley), John Fegan (Blackheath), TH Dobson (Bradford), EM Baker (Oxford Uni), WB Thomson (Blackheath), RHB Cattell (Moseley), EW Taylor (Rockcliff), Sammy Woods (Blackheath) capt., FO Poole (Oxford Uni), William Bromet (Richmond), Frank Mitchell (Cambridge Uni), William Eldon Tucker (Cambridge Uni), C Thomas (Barnstable), GM Carey (Oxford Uni), HW Finlinson (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nScotland: AR Smith (Oxford Uni), James Gowans (London Scottish), GT Campbell (London Scottish), W Nielson (London Scottish), Robin Welsh (Watsonians), JW Simpson (Royal HSFP), WP Donaldson (West of Scotland), WB Cownie (Watsonians), JH Dods (Edinburgh Acads), WR Gibson (Royal HSFP), WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads), Robert MacMillan (London Scottish) capt., GT Nielson (West of Scotland), TM Scott (West of Scotland), JN Millar (West of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea), Tom Pearson (Cardiff), Owen Badger (Llanelli), Arthur Gould (Newport) capt., Thomas (Newport), David Morgan (Llanelli), Ralph Sweet-Escott (Cardiff), Albert Jenkin (Swansea), Arthur Boucher (Newport), Ernie George (Pontypridd), Jim Hannan (Newport), Harry Packer (Newport), Charles Nicholl (Llanelli), Frank Mills (Cardiff), Wallace Watts (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030434-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nIreland J Fulton (NIFC), W Gardiner (NIFC), S Lee (NIFC), AP Gwynn (Dublin Uni. ), TH Stevenson (Queen's Uni, Belfast), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), MG Delany (Bective Rangers), EH McIlwaine (NIFC), JH Lytle (Lansdowne), AA Brunker (Landsdowne), EG Forrest (Wanderers) capt., HC McCoull (Belfast Albion), Thomas Crean (Wanderers), Andrew Clinch (Wanderers), CV Rooke (Monkstown)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030435-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Hyde Park Athletic Association football team\nThe 1895 Hyde Park Athletic Association football team represented the Hyde Park Athletic Association of Hyde Park, Boston, during the 1895 college football season. The Athletics compiled a 0\u20133\u20132 record, a low point for the team after winning the suburban league championship the last two years, and were outscored 78 to 8. They would lose their silver cup to Newton Athletic Association in a three-game championship series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030435-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Hyde Park Athletic Association football team\nDuring the season, Hyde Park AA and Newton AA played a three-game series for the honor of a silver cup that was bestowed upon the champion of the \"suburban league\", which had apparently disbanded the year prior, and needed to resolve the question of who would keep the silver trophy indefinitely. The cup would be given to whichever team managed to win two or more of the contests, which would turn out to be the NAA, compiling a 2\u20130\u20131 record against Hyde Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030436-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 ICA Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1895 ICA Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Cologne, Germany from 17 to 19 August 1895. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030437-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Illinois Cycling Club football team\nThe 1895 Illinois Cycling Club football team was an American football team that represented the Illinois Cycling Club in the 1895 college football season. The Illinois Cycling Club played the Cycling Club from Lake View for the \"Chicago Cycling Club Championship\" on Thanksgiving Day. The prize was a white rooster that had been traded by the two teams since at least the year prior. In 1894, Illinois Cycling Club defeated the Lake View Cycling Club to take possession of this rooster, which became their team mascot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030437-0000-0001", "contents": "1895 Illinois Cycling Club football team\nLake View CC was undefeated coming into the contest, but fell to the Illinois cyclists 0 to 16 in front of a Thanksgiving crowd of 2,000, which was exactly the same as the final score for the 1894 contest. After the game, Lake View asserted that the game would not count to determine the championship, as the field was snowy and small. Illinois agreed, and the championship was split between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030437-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Illinois Cycling Club football team, Second team schedule\nThe Cycling Club's second team played one game, against the secondary from Irving Park on Thanksgiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030438-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1895 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1895 college football season. In their first season under head coach George Huff, the Illini compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record. Fullback Robert J. Hotchkiss was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030439-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1895 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1895 college football season. Prior to 1895, Indiana had fielded a football team in seven seasons and had yet to win an intercollegiate football game. For the 1895 season, Indiana hired former Harvard quarterback and national tennis champion Robert Wrenn to coach its football team. Under Wrenn's leadership, the Indiana football team compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record, including the university's first intercollegiate football victories, over Rose Polytechnic (8\u20134) and Wabash (12\u201310).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team\nThe 1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team was an American football team that represented the Indianapolis Light Artillery in the 1895 college football season. The team had a 5\u20132 record and outscored its opponents 108 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team\nThe Artillery team had been playing since at least 1894, with contests against Purdue, Illinois, Chicago AC, and Butler on Thanksgiving. Their team manager was Robert (Bob) Navin. An October 18, 1895, article in the Indianapolis Journal asserted that the average weight of the team was 178 pounds and that the team consisted of several former collegiate football players who had finished their college days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0001-0001", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team\nThese included Mr. Loose from Oberlin College, Mr. Dyer from the Harvard freshman team, Hal Joss from Michigan University, Nelson Olin and Sam Patterson from Purdue University, Harry Olin from Annapolis (possibly the Naval Academy), Al Sommerville from Butler in 1893, and Don Scott from Illinois University. Other players were Mr. Railsback, Mr. Johnson, and the quarterback William Hall, whose only prior experience was on the local high school team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team\nAs the season went on, different players came in to fill the positions of the injured. Football of the day was quite dangerous, and \"season-ending\" injuries were very common. By the time the team played Indiana, new players included Mr. Christian, Smithy, and Owings, and by the Noblesville game, additions of Mr. Clemens, and J. Thompson were made. The final addition was Winchester Osgood for the Notre Dame game. Osgood was a star player from Penn and had helped to coach the Indiana University in the first half of 1895 before becoming a coach and player for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0002-0001", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team\nSeveral men on the Artillery football team combined with football players from Butler University to play the Knightstown Club on November 1, 1895, a contest they would lose 6\u201312 before approximately 1500 spectators. The day before the Thanksgiving day game, Nelson Olin was forbidden from playing against Butler when it was brought to light that he made numerous penalties against the Chicago AC earlier in the week. A fight broke out within the team, and some players threatened to root for Butler, detail the Artillery team's weak spots for them, or play to mess up the Artillery team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0002-0002", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team\nAt this time, their manager, Bob Navin, was sick in bed and so could not resolve the issue. Regardless, the Light Artillery won 28\u20130 in the most lopsided contest of the season. The contest with Butler was also, according to a November 29 article in the Indianapolis Journal, a \"best two out of three\" event, as, in the 1894 season, the two teams had played twice, with Indianapolis Light Artillery winning the first and Butler winning the second 6\u20134 on Thanksgiving Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Previous season\nThe 1894 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team was born out of a $15,000 debt on the regiment's armory, which the organization decided to gather through entertainment. After securing their first win over Butler, 10\u20130, on September 28, the Indianapolis Light Artillery traveled to West Lafayette to play the Purdue Boilermakers on Stuart Field. Although they lost 4\u20136, Purdue would go 9\u20131 and become IIAA state champion in the league's last year of existence. The Artillery team beat Illinois 18\u201314, DePauw 46\u20135, and Wabash 38\u201312, before a Thanksgiving Day rematch against Butler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0003-0001", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Previous season\nHowever, another match-up between DePauw and Purdue had also been scheduled in the city for the same day and time, which angered all four parties, considering the attendance and profit for both games would essentially be split in half. Purdue argued that IIAA rules mandated they play the Thanksgiving Day game against DePauw as they were the two best teams in the league, while Butler and the ILA argued that there was no rule specifying that another match-up could not be played by another member of the IIAA on the same day as the league championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0003-0002", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Previous season\nWith neither party willing to back down, the two games went on despite the financial losses. The ILA's game against Butler would be played at 2:30 in the afternoon at the baseball park, with reserved room coming at 50 cents a seat. The Indianapolis Light Artillery lost to the Bulldogs, 4\u20136, in their final game of the season. In early 1896, after a more heated argument in the IIAA's president's meeting over whether or not to allow Athletic Clubs on the schedule any longer, Purdue backed out of the league, which led to its subsequent dissolution before the 1896 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Post-season\nWilliam (Winchester) Osgood would not coach the Light Artillery again, as he would join the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98, part of the greater Spanish American War), and reportedly died in March 1896. Alfred H. Sommerville would also see no more time on the gridiron, as he would die at the Indianapolis gas works by scolding hot Naphtha in May 1896. On October 6, 1896, the Indianapolis Light Artillery was banned from using the name \"light artillery,\" as only 5 or 6 of the men on the football team were actually from the regiment. The team disbanded, and reformed into the Indianapolis Athletic Association on October 10, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, October 19: Chicago AC\nThis was the first football game of the 1895 season in Indianapolis, as the city formally opened its football exhibitions. Chicago AC was considered, according to the Indianapolis Journal, one of the best teams of the west (more specifically Midwest) besides Michigan University. The contest was 50 minutes long, with two 25 minute halves. Chicago AC (Also known as Chicago Athletic Association, or C.A.A) scored all of their 16 points against the Light Artillerymen in the first half. Less than 400 people watched because of a very cold wind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, October 24: Indiana\nOn October 23rd, the Indianapolis Light Artillery football team set out for Bloomington for their first collegiate contest of the year. Coming into the game, Indiana was 2\u20130, having won easy contests against the Louisville and Noblesville Athletic clubs, by scores of 36\u20130 and 30\u20130, respectively (two teams the Light Artillery would beat later in the season). The weather was cool and cloudy. The game was an hour-long, with 30-minute halves. The halftime score was 10\u20134, and the final was 16\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0006-0001", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, October 24: Indiana\nOne of the touchdowns scored for Indiana was by player-coach William Osgood, who would go on to assist the Light Artillery in the remainder of their football season, presumably when Robert Wrenn was hired as the new head coach for Indiana. Indiana would finish with a casual 4\u20133\u20131, although they did manage to secure their first intercollegiate win since the program was established in 1887 by beating Rose Polytechnic 8\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, November 1: Knightstown Club\nThis unofficial match-up was played between a handful of players from Butler and Indianapolis Light Artillery against the Knightstown Club on the first day of November. Heralded as the most exciting and interesting game of football seen in Indianapolis for the 1895 season, 1500 spectators showed up for the exhibition. Knightstown scored first, going up 6\u20130 before they were tied 6\u20136 right before the half. The club would ultimately prevail though, beating the mix of college and semi-professional football players 12\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, November 2: Noblesville AC\nThe game was played in Indianapolis, in the same ballpark as the one against Chicago AC. Noblesville came in with at least one loss to Indiana, and that is all that is known about the rather obscure program. Surrounded by an apparently riotous crowd, the Indianapolis Light Artillery met the Athletic Club on the afternoon of November 2. By halftime, the score was a tight 6\u20134 in favor of the Artillerymen, but the military team blew away the athletic club in the 2nd half, securing their 3rd official victory, 22\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, November 17: Louisville AC\nA good match-up between the ILA and the Louisville AC was played in Louisville in front of a crowd of 800 on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The contest was 70 minutes long, with two 35-minute halves. The Artillerymen scored early points in the first half to go up 10\u20130, before Louisville rallied with two field goals to usurp the military team 12\u201310 at the half in favor of the AC. This was the first time since Chicago AC that the Light Artillery had faced a halftime deficit. The military team came out of the 2nd half with 10 unanswered points by left halfback Thompson and kicker Don Scott to win 20\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, November 22: Notre Dame\nIn a minor upset, The Indianapolis Light Artillery beat Notre Dame 18\u20130, on their own Cartier Field in South Bend. This game is famous because of HG Haddon, coach of the 1895 Notre Dame football team, who inserted himself into the lineup as a left tackle, gaining considerable ground on the semi-professionals before the end of the game through a returned kickoff, recovering a fumble, and a number of other carries. Immediately after the game, the ILA left for Chicago for a rematch with the Chicago Athletic Association's football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 79], "content_span": [80, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, November 23: Chicago AC\nIn the second contest between the two teams, Chicago AC won by a narrow margin of 4\u20130. The day was cold and icy, with only 500 spectators coming to watch the event in Chicago. The game was 40 minutes long, with two 20-minute halves. After a scoreless half, Chicago scored a controversial touchdown that awarded them the 4 points they needed to win. The Light Artillery blamed the linesman for bad officiating and bias towards the Chicago team, as one of the linesmen was a brother of a Chicago AC player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 79], "content_span": [80, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030440-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Indianapolis Light Artillery football team, Games, Thanksgiving Day Game: Butler\nThe Indianapolis Light Artillery destroyed Butler to close out the 1895 season at the East Ohio-Street grounds in Indianapolis. The game was over from the start, with the Butler players apparently unable to move the ball without penalties, and a 22\u20130 ILA lead by the half. The game was 70 minutes long, with two 35-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030441-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1895 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 27 November 1895 as part of that years local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030442-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Inverness Burghs by-election\nThe Inverness Burghs by-election, 1895 was a parliamentary by-election held on 31 August 1895 for the House of Commons constituency of Inverness Burghs, which was made up of the towns of Inverness, Fortrose, Forres and Nairn in the Scottish Highlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030442-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Inverness Burghs by-election, Vacancy\nUnder the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The vacancy in Inverness Burghs was caused by the appointment of the sitting Liberal Unionist MP, Robert Finlay to become Solicitor General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030442-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Inverness Burghs by-election, Candidates\nFinlay stood again in the Liberal Unionist interest. The Liberal Party had held the seat from 1892, when Gilbert Beith took it from Finlay, until the general election of 1895 when Finlay had regained it. Beith had stood down and the Liberals had a new candidate, Henry Bell. But on 26 August 1895, the local Liberal Association held a meeting to consider whether or not to oppose Finlay and it was unanimously agreed not to field a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030442-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Inverness Burghs by-election, Candidates\nThere being no other nominations therefore, Finlay was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030443-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team\nThe 1895 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The Cyclones compiled a 3\u20134 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 82 to 70. Ed Mellinger was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030443-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team\nWhile Pop Warner is listed as the team's head coach, The Des Moines Register reported that he only worked with the team before the season started, and \"it is believed he only saw the team play once\" during the five-year period he was listed as the coach. Ira C. Brownlie, who founded the Iowa Agricultural football program in 1892, later recalled: \"In 1895 the great Pop Warner came out to Ames to coach. He would remain with us from July to October 1. . . . He was at Ames for five years that way.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030443-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030444-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1895 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa during the 1895 college football season. It was the last Hawkeye football team to go without a head coach when the university decided to forgo hiring a professional football coach. The plan backfired, and although the team posted victories over Parsons and Penn College, they failed to score in each of their five losses. The next year, Iowa hired Alfred E. Bull as their coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030445-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Senate election\nIn the 1895 Iowa State Senate elections Iowa voters elected state senators to serve in the twenty-sixth Iowa General Assembly. Elections were held in 31 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030445-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Senate election\nA statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1895 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030445-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 34 seats to Democrats' 16 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030445-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 10 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030445-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1895 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 43 seats and Democrats having 7 seats (a net gain of 9 seats for Republicans).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030446-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Republican nominee Francis M. Drake defeated Democratic nominee Washington I. Babb with 52.00% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030447-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Italian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Italy on 26 May 1895, with a second round of voting on 2 June. The \"ministerial\" left-wing bloc remained the largest in Parliament, winning 334 of the 508 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030447-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Italian general election, Historical background\nIn December 1893 the impotence of the Giovanni Giolitti cabinet to restore public order, menaced by disturbances in Sicily and the Banca Romana scandal, gave rise to a general demand that Francesco Crispi should return to power. Although Giolitti tried to put a halt to the manifestations and protests of the Fasci Siciliani, his measures were relatively mild. In the three weeks of uncertainty before Crispi formed a government on December 15, 1893, the rapid spread of violence drove many local authorities to defy Giolitti\u2019s ban on the use of firearms. In December 1893, 92 peasants lost their lives in clashes with the police and army. Government building were burned as well as flour mills and bakeries that refused to lower their prices when taxes were lowered or abolished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030447-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Italian general election, Historical background\nOn January 3, 1894, Crispi declared a state of siege throughout Sicily. Army reservists were recalled and General Roberto Morra di Lavriano was dispatched with 40,000 troops. The old order was restored through the use of extreme force, including summary executions. A solidarity revolt of anarchists and republicans in the Lunigiana was crushed as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030447-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Italian general election, Historical background\nThe repression of the Fasci turned into outright persecution. The government arrested not just the leaders of the movement, but masses of poor farmers, students, professionals, sympathizers of the Fasci, and even those simply suspected of having sympathized with the movement at some point in time, in many cases without any evidence for the accusations. After the declaration of the state of emergency, condemnations were issued for the paltriest of reasons. Many rioters were incarcerated for having shouted things such as \"Viva l'anarchia\" or \"down with the King\". At Palermo, in April and May 1894, the trials against the central committee of the Fasci took place and this was the final blow that signaled the death knell of the movement of the Fasci Siciliani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030447-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Italian general election, Historical background\nOn June 16, 1894, the anarchist Paolo Lega tried to shoot Crispi but the attempt failed. On June 24 an Italian anarchist killed French President Carnot. In this climate of increased the fear of anarchism, Crispi was able to introduce a series of anti-anarchist laws in July 1894, which were also used against socialists. Heavy penalties were announced for \"incitement to class hatred\" and police received extended powers of preventive arrest and deportation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030447-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Italian general election, Historical background\nCrispi steadily supported the energetic remedies adopted by his Minister of Finance Sidney Sonnino to save Italian credit, which had been severely shaken the financial crisis of 1892\u20131893 and the Banca Romana scandal. In 1894 he was threatened with expulsion from the Masonic Grande Oriente d'Italia for being too friendly towards the Catholic Church. He had previously been strongly anticlerical but had become convinced of the need for rapprochement with the Papacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030447-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Italian general election, Historical background\nCrispi\u2019s uncompromising suppression of disorder, and his refusal to abandon either the Triple Alliance or the Eritrean colony, or to forsake his Minister of the Treasury, Sidney Sonnino, caused a breach with the radical leader Felice Cavallotti. Cavallotti began a pitiless campaign of defamation against him. The unsuccessful attempt upon Crispi\u2019s life by the anarchist Lega brought a momentary truce, but Cavallotti\u2019s attacks were soon renewed more fiercely than ever. They produced little effect and the general election of 1895 gave Crispi a huge majority. Nevertheless, the humiliating defeat of the Italian army at Adwa in March 1896 in Ethiopia during First Italo-Ethiopian War, brought about his resignation after riots broke out in several Italian towns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030448-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1895 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) during the 1895 college football season. In their second season under head coach Hector Cowan, the Jayhawks compiled a 6\u20131 record (2\u20131 against WIUFA opponents), tied for the WIUFA championship, shut out five of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 192 to 14. The team's only loss came against Missouri in the final game of the season. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. W. H. Piatt was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030449-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Kensington South by-election\nThe Kensington South by-election of 1895 was held on 28 November 1895. The by-election was held due to the elevation to hereditary peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP and journalist, Sir Algernon Borthwick, Bt who had been elected unopposed earlier in the year in the 1895 United Kingdom general election. It was won by the 24 year old Conservative candidate Henry Percy, styled Lord Warkworth as he was then the eldest son of the then Earl Percy (in turn the eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030450-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1895 Kentucky Derby was the 21st running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1895. This is the most recent edition of the Kentucky Derby to be run at a distance of 1+1\u20442 miles (2.4\u00a0km), as the race was shortened to 1+1\u20444 miles (2.0\u00a0km) in 1896, and has been maintained since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030451-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1895 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030452-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Republican nominee William O'Connell Bradley defeated Democratic nominee Parker Watkins Hardin with 48.29% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030453-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Kesteven County Council election\nThe third set of elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Thursday, 7 March 1895. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo. The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council; elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030453-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Kesteven County Council election\nForty-six electoral divisions of the new Council were outlined in December 1888. For the 1892 election, Sleaford and Bourne, which were initially two member divisions, were split, the former into Sleaford East and Sleaford West, the latter into Bourne and Morton. Nearly every candidate was returned unopposed, with contests in only eight divisions. Of these, six involved political parties; the Liberals won four and the Conservatives two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030453-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Kesteven County Council election, April 1895 by-election\nThe Council met on 16 March 1895 to elect its chairman and aldermen. The only sitting councillor elected an alderman was W. B. Harrison of Grantham no. 7 division. This triggered a by-election, in which two candidates came forward. The first, Joshua Lincoln, was an alderman on Grantham Municipal Borough Council, while his opponent was Charles Basker, a magistrate and town councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030454-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1895 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the seventh staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030454-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nTullaroan won the championship after a 1-04 to 1-02 defeat of Callan in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030455-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 LSU football team\nThe 1895 LSU football team represented Louisiana State University during the 1895 college football season. Coach Albert Simmonds, in his last year at LSU, helped the Tigers to an undefeated season in 1895. This was the first unbeaten season in LSU football history. The season also featured the first home victory in LSU history with a win over Tulane in front of 1,500 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030455-0000-0001", "contents": "1895 LSU football team\nA contemporary account reads \"The Tulane football team, with its band of shouters and several crippled players, returned to the city yesterday morning wearing dejected faces, as a result of the defeat administered at Baton Rough Saturday.\" LSU joined the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in 1895, and began playing as part of the conference in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030456-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Lafayette football team\nThe 1895 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1895 college football season. Lafayette finished with a 6\u20132 record in their first year under head coach Parke H. Davis. Significant games included victories over Cornell (6\u20130) and Lehigh (22\u201312 and 14\u20136), and losses to Princeton (0\u201314) and Penn (0\u201330). The 1895 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 162 to 62. Lafayette won the 1895 Middle States League championship. No Lafayette players received recognition on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030457-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1896 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their first season in existence. The team finished 7-4-0. This season John Brallier became the first openly professional football player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030458-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Lehigh football team\nThe 1895 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Laurie Bliss, the team compiled a 3\u20136 record and outscored opponents by a total of 134 to 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030459-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia in 1895. In the presidential election, incumbent Joseph James Cheeseman of the True Whig Party (the sole legal party) was re-elected for a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030460-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1895 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the seventh staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030460-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nSt. Michael's won the championship after a 2-03 to 0-01 defeat of Boher in the final. It was their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1895. This was an 'all up' election following boundary changes which extended the area of the city and increased the number of wards from 16 to 28. Three councillors were elected for each ward. The candidate with the most votes was elected for three years, the candidate with the second highest number of votes was elected for two yearsand the candidate with the third highest number of votes was elected for one year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results, Abercromby\nA parish ward, formerly Abercromby and part of Rodney Street ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results, Great George\nParish ward. Formerly Great George plus part of Rodney Street ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nFollowing the expiry of the terms of office of eight aldermen at the Council meeting on 9 November 1895 the following were elected as aldermen by the Council, according to the provisions of the Municipal Corporation Act, 1882.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nSix additional aldermen were elected by the Council following nominations by the Urban District Councils of the added areas, under section 7 of the Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 10) Act, 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nSix additional aldermen were elected by the Council pursuant to the Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 10) Act, 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.7, St. Domingo\nCaused by the election of Councillor John Houlding (Conservative, St. Domingo, elected 1 November 1895) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 10, Low Hill\nCaused by the election of Councillor Ephraim Walker (Conservative, Low Hill, elected 1 November 1896) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 12, Edge Hill\nCaused by the election of Councillor Edward Hatton Cookson (Conservative, Edge Hill, elected 1 November 1895) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 18, Castle Street\nCaused by the election of Councillors William Bartlett (Conservative, Castle Street, elected 1 November 1895) and Joseph Bond Morgan (Conservative, Castle Street, elected 1 November 1895) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 21, Abercromby\nCaused by the election of Councillor Thomas Menlove (Conservative, Abercromby, elected 1 November 1895) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 26, Dingle\nCaused by the election of Councillor Joseph Ball (Conservative, Dingle, elected 1 November 1895) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 17, St. Anne's, 17 December 1895\nIn his place, Councillor Jeremiah Miles (Liberal, St. Anne's, elected 1 November 1895) was elected as an alderman by the Council on 4 December 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 88], "content_span": [89, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 18, Castle Street, 19 February 1896\nFollowing the death of Alderman Henry Charles Hawley on 8 January 1896,Councillor Henry Hugh Hornby JP (Liberal Unionist, Castle Street, elected 1 November 1895) was elected by the Council as an alderman on 5 February 1895, necessitating a by-election in the Castle Street ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 10, Low Hill, 15 March 1896\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Charles Stewart Dean (Conservative, Low Hill, elected 1 November 1895), which was reported to the Council on 4 March 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030461-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.17, St. Anne's, 16 June 1896\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Richard Ripley (Conservative, St. Anne's, elected 1 November 1895) was reported to the Council on 3 June 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030462-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election\nThe Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, 1895 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 29 November 1895 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool East Toxteth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030462-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Vacancy\nOn 14 November the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Baron Henry de Worms was ennobled as Baron Pirbright. His previous title was as a Hereditary Baron of the Austrian Empire, but his British peerage gave him a seat in the House of Lords, and automatically disqualified him from the Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030462-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives selected as their candidate Augustus Frederick Warr, a local solicitorworking in the field of commercial law. Warr was a Liverpool City Councillor and a former President of the Liverpool Law Society. His father, who died later that year, had been the vicar of St Saviour's Church in Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030462-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Result\nThe writ was received on 26 November, and Friday 29 November was set as nomination day, with polling on Tuesday 3 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030462-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Result\nHowever, at the close of nominations on Friday, Warr was the only candidate, so he was returned unopposed without any need for a vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030462-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Aftermath\nWarr was re-elected unopposed at the next general election, in 1900. He resigned his seat in October 1902,and died in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030463-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Ljubljana earthquake\nThe 1895 Ljubljana earthquake (Slovene: ljubljanski potres) or the Easter earthquake (Slovene: velikono\u010dni potres) struck Ljubljana (the capital and largest city of Carniola, a Crown land of Austria-Hungary and the capital of Slovenia) on Easter Sunday, 14 April. It was the most, and the last, destructive earthquake in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030463-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Ljubljana earthquake, Earthquake\nWith a Richter magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII\u2013IX, the earthquake struck at 20:17 UTC (22:17 local time). The earthquake's epicentre was located in Jan\u010de, about 16 kilometres (10\u00a0mi) to the east of the Ljubljana downtown. The focus was 16 kilometres (10\u00a0mi) deep. The shock was felt in a circle with a radius of 350 kilometres (220\u00a0mi) and an area of 385,000 square kilometres (149,000\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), reaching as far away as Assisi, Florence, Vienna, and Split. More than 100\u00a0aftershocks followed in the next ten days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030463-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Ljubljana earthquake, Earthquake, Damage\nThe largest damage was caused in a circle with a radius of 18\u00a0km (11\u00a0mi), from Ig to Vodice. At the time, Ljubljana's population was some 31,000, with around 1,400 buildings. About ten percent of buildings were damaged or destroyed, although few people died in the destruction. On Vodnik Square (Vodnikov trg), an old monastery, which contained a diocesan girls' college and a library was sufficiently damaged that it had to be razed, and the site eventually was turned into an outdoor market (Ljubljana Central Market, Osrednja ljubljanska tr\u017enica), now an important site in the city. The damage was estimated to 7\u00a0million guldens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030463-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Ljubljana earthquake, Earthquake, Response\nThe next morning, the Municipal Council adopted emergency measures to assist the worst-affected victims, to direct the police force in extra security measures, and to direct the police force to inspect the damaged houses. All the city's schools were temporarily closed, and some factories temporarily ceased operation. A few days later, emergency shelters were created for the homeless. Many citizens of Ljubljana left the city as refugees. Lack of food was quickly felt in the city, and five emergency kitchens were established, which were free or low cost and distributed several thousand hot meals each day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030463-0003-0001", "contents": "1895 Ljubljana earthquake, Earthquake, Response\nOther areas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially Vienna, the Czech Lands and Croatia-Slavonia assisted in the aid. Among the individual members of the Municipal Council, the Liberal Nationalist Ivan Hribar, showed particular organizational abilities in providing aid. Shortly thereafter, he was elected mayor and organized the town's extensive reconstruction. The damage was substantial. Most houses were damaged on Hospice Street (\u0160pitalska ulica, today Stritar Street, Stritarjeva ulica), where all houses were destroyed except for one, and the markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030463-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Ljubljana earthquake, Post-earthquake development\nUntil the event, Ljubljana had a provincial appearance. Expansion of the city and a widespread Vienna Secession architectural change began, which today is juxtaposed against the earlier Baroque style buildings that remain. Many buildings, such as the Mladika, were constructed in the aftermath. The rebuilding period between 1896 and 1910 is referred to as the \"revival of Ljubljana\" not just because of these architectural changes from which a great deal of the city dates back to today, but for reform of urban administration, health, education and tourism that followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030463-0004-0001", "contents": "1895 Ljubljana earthquake, Post-earthquake development\nFrom 1895 to 1910, 436 new buildings were created and hundreds of buildings were renovated or extended in the Vienna Secession style. Most of Ljubljana's bridges, monuments, parks, and main buildings date back to the post-earthquake development. A chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, was erected in 1895 in Jan\u010de by the people of Ljubljana so that Mary would protect them from such disasters. In 1897, the first Austro-Hungarian seismological observatory was established in Ljubljana at Vega Street (Vegova ulica).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030464-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Louisville Athletic Club football team\nThe 1895 Louisville Athletic Club football team was an American club football team that represented the Louisville Athletic Club during the 1895 college football season. Under Coach Frew, who also played halfback, the team compiled a 2\u20134 record, and was outscored by their opponents by a total of 92 to 70.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030465-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Louisville Colonels season\nThe 1895 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 35\u201396 record and last place in the National League for the second straight season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030465-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030465-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030465-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030465-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030465-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030466-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Maltese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Malta on 26 and 27 August 1895. For the first time since 1883, every seat was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030466-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Maltese general election, Background\nThe elections were held under the Knutsford Constitution. Ten members were elected from single-member constituencies, whilst a further four members were elected to represent nobility and landowners, graduates, clerics and the Chamber of Commerce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030466-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Maltese general election, Results\nA total of 10,426 people were registered to vote, of which 5,847 cast votes, giving a turnout of 56%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030467-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1895 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 1895 college football season. In its inaugural season, the team did not have a coach, and were outscored by their opponents 0\u201336 in two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030467-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nMarshall would not field a team the following year, returning for the 1897 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030467-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Ashland High School\nThis game was the first in Marshall school history. The Ashland football team outweighed the Marshall squad by an average of 163 pounds to 135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030467-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, Kingsbury High School\nKingsbury High School, from Ironton, Ohio, served as the opponents in Marshall's first ever homecoming football game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030468-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Maryland gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030468-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Maryland gubernatorial election\nRepublican candidate Lloyd Lowndes Jr. defeated Democratic candidate John E. Hurst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030469-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1895 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1895 college football season. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 1\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030470-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Incumbent Republican Governor Frederic Greenhalge was re-elected to a third term in office, defeating Democratic U.S. Representative George Fred Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030471-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 116th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1895 during the governorship of Frederic T. Greenhalge. William M. Butler served as president of the Senate and George von Lengerke Meyer served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030471-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Massachusetts legislature\nNotable legislation included an act related to \"the Question of Granting Municipal Suffrage to Women.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030472-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Mexico Census\nThe 1895 Mexico Census was the first census that took place in Mexico (excluding the 1793 Census which has been lost). It took place on October 20, 1895, and the total population was 12,700,294. The results also showed that most Mexicans were Catholic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030472-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Mexico Census, Languages in Mexico\n83.3% of Mexicans spoke Spanish with the remainder of the population mostly speaking indigenous languages. The most widely spoken indigenous languages were Nahuatl and Mayan. The most widely spoken European language besides Spanish was English.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030473-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1895 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1895 college football season. In their first season with a head coach, they went undefeated with a 3\u20130 record. Their coach was C. K. Fauver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030474-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1895 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal School (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1895 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Marcus Cutler, the Normalites compiled a record of 3\u20133, and outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 119 to 54. Benjamin J. Watters was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1895 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1895 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach William McCauley, the team compiled an 8\u20131 record, won seven of their games by shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 266 to 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1895 Wolverines won their first five games by a combined score of 220 to 0. The sole loss of the season was a 4\u20130 setback against the Harvard Crimson, then one of the three great football powers. Michigan finished the season with a 12\u20130 win over Western rival, Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons. Undefeated against Western opponents, the 1895 Wolverines laid claim to the Western football championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team\nFrederick W. Henninger was the team captain. Six Michigan players received All-Western honors: Gustave Ferbert (first-team halfback), John A. Bloomingston (first-team fullback), James Hooper (first-team guard), Frank Villa (first-team tackle), Henry M. Senter (first-team end), and James Baird (substitute quarterback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 1: Michigan Military Academy\nOn October 5, 1895, Michigan defeated the Michigan Military Academy (M.M.A.) from Orchard Lake, Michigan, by a score of 34 to 0. The game was played in 20-minute halves at Regents Field in Ann Arbor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 1: Michigan Military Academy\nRight halfback John W. Hollister scored Michigan's first touchdown, and fullback John A. Bloomingston kicked the goal from touchdown to give Michigan a 6-0 lead. Left halfback Gustave Ferbert then scored, and goal was made to extend the lead to 12-0. Hollister scored again, goal was made, and Michigan led, 18-0. Frank Villa scored the fourth touchdown, goal was missed, and Michigan led, 22-0, at halftime. In the second half, right tackle Jesse Yont scored a touchdown, goal was made, and Michigan led, 28-0. Herbert Gates, a substitute at right halfback, scored the final touchdown on a 40-yard run, and goal was made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 1: Michigan Military Academy\nA newspaper account of the game noted that the score would have been more lopsided except that the Wolverines gave up the ball several times \"on fouls and off-sides.\" The account also reported that \"Michigan showed up vastly better than last year at this time in every feature of the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 1: Michigan Military Academy\nMichigan's lineup against M.M.A. was George Greenleaf (left end), Villa (left tackle), James Raikes (left guard), Bert Carr (center), Frederick W. Henninger (right guard), Yont (right tackle), Loomis Hutchinson (right end), William Franklin Holmes (quarterback), Ferbert and J. De Forest Richards (left halfback), Hollister and Gates (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 89], "content_span": [90, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 2: Detroit Athletic Club\nOn October 12, 1895, Michigan defeated the Detroit Athletic Club (D.A.C. ), 42-0, at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The game began shortly after 3:00\u00a0p.m. and was played in 25-minute halves in front of a crowd of 600 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 2: Detroit Athletic Club\nMichigan scored the first touchdown of the game 30 seconds after the game had commenced on a 70-yard end run by the quarterback and Wyoming-native, J. DeForest Richards. Tackle Jesse Yont from Nebraska was the high scorer with 16 points four touchdowns. Fullback John A. Bloomingston from Chicago scored 14 points on a touchdown and five goals after touchdown. (Under 1895 rules, a touchdown was scored as four points, and a successful kick for a \"goal after touchdown\" was scored as two points.) Halfback John W. Hollister added three touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 2: Detroit Athletic Club\nMichigan's lineup against the D.A.C. was George Greenleaf (left end), Frank Villa (left tackle), John McLain Johnson (left guard), Carr (center), Frederick W. Henninger (right guard), Yont (right tackle), Hollister (right end), James Baird (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert (left halfback), Richards (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve\nOn October 19, 1895, Michigan defeated the team from Cleveland's Western Reserve by a score of 64 to 0. The game began at 2:30\u00a0p.m. and was played in 40-minute halves at Regents Field in Ann Arbor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0010-0001", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve\nThe margin of victory was a surprise as Western Reserve had won the Western football championship in 1894 and had narrowly lost to Eastern football power Cornell the previous week by a score of 12 to 4. Against Michigan, however, Western Reserve had the ball only five or six minutes in the entire games and, as one newspaper wrote, \"was never in the hunt.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve\nMichigan scored 11 touchdowns in the game, three by fullback John A. Bloomingston, two each by tackle Frank Villa and end Henry M. Senter, and single touchdowns by right guard Frederick W. Henninger, Jesse Yont, J. De Forest Richards, and halfback Gustave Ferbert. Bloominston also kicked 10 goals from touchdown giving him 32 points in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve\nA Chicago newspaper described Michigan's performance as follows: \"Michigan's advantage in weight was great and the interference and general team plays showed great improvement. Michigan's gain was on the main short and fast dashes through the line and close in on the end, but there was no lack of pretty end skirting with brilliant interference.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve\nMichigan's lineup against Western Reserve was Senter and Palmer (left end), Villa (left tackle), James H. Hooper (left guard), Bert Carr (center), Henninger (right guard), Yont (right tackle), George Greenleaf (right end), James Baird (quarterback), William Franlin Holmes and Richards (left halfback), Ferbert (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical\nOn October 26, 1895, Michigan defeated a combined team from Lake Forest University and Rush Medical College, both located in Chicago, by a score of 40 to 0. Because the two institutions were separate from each other, the combined group had insufficient practice to perfect its team work. The game was played at Regents Field in Ann Arbor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical\nThe Lake Forest/Rush team fumbled the opening kickoff. After a couple of plays from scrimmage, left guard James Hooper made \"a brilliant run\" for Michigan's first touchdown, and fullback John A. Bloomingston kicked goal to give Michigan a 6-0 lead. Left tackle Frank Villa scored Michigan's second touchdown from which goal was missed, and Michigan led, 10-0. Right tackle Frederick W. Henninger scored Michigan's third touchdown, and Bloomingston kicked goal. Villa scored the fourth touchdown, and goal was kicked to give Michigan a 22-0 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical\nIn the second half, Villa scored Michigan's fifth touchdown, and Bloomingston kicked goal to give Michigan a 28-0 lead. Henninger followed a short time later with Michigan's sixth touchdown, and Bloomingston again kicked goal. Michigan led, 34-0. Villa scored Michigan's seventh and final touchdown, and goal was kicked to extend the lead to 40-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0017-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical\nMichigan's lineup against the Lake Forest/Rush team was Henry M. Senter (left end), Villa (left tackle), Hooper (left guard), Bert Carr (center), John McLain Johnson (right guard), Henninger (right tackle), George Greenleaf (right end), J. De Forest Richards (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert (left halfback), William Franklin Holmes (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0018-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 5: Oberlin\nOn November 2, 1895, Michigan defeated Oberlin, 42\u20130, before 800 spectators at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The game was played in 25-minute halves. Through its first five games, Michigan had won all five games and outscored opponents, 222 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0019-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 5: Oberlin\nA Chicago newspaper's account of the game reported: \"Michigan was crippled by the absence of Baird, Senter and Hall, but the play showed improvement over last week. Bloomingston and Ferbert were the star ground gainers.\" Michigan's seven touchdowns were scored by left halfback Gustave Ferbert, fullback John A. Bloomingston, left tackle Frank Villa, right tackle Frederick W. Henninger, left end Thad Farnum, quarterback Bill Morley, and substitute right halfback Emmett Shields. Bloomingston succeeded in kicking all seven goals after touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0020-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 5: Oberlin\nMichigan's line-up for the game was George Greenleaf (right end), Jesse Yont and Henninger (right tackle), Henninger and John Wombacher (right guard), Bert Carr and Denby (center), James Hooper (left guard), Villa (left tackle), Farnum (left end), Morley (quarterback), John W. Hollister and Shields (right halfback), Ferbert (left halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0021-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\nMichigan traveled east to face Harvard on November 9, 1895. Harvard was one of the elite teams in the early days of college football, winning three national championships in the 1890s, and the match between great squads from the east and west was widely anticipated. Before game, The World of New York wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0022-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\n\"The football team of the University of Michigan, reputed to be the strongest eleven in the West, is now quartered at Auburndale awaiting tomorrow's game with Harvard on Soldier's Field. Nineteen men have come East on the team. Their line is very evenly balanced, and Bob Wrenn has written to Cambridge that the Michigan quarter-back is the best in the business. They have a long string of victories to their credit this fall, and Harvard will have to play football to score. There is absolutely no way of judging the relative merits of the teams, so the veil of doubt will add to the interest of the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0023-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\nThe game was played at Soldier's Field in Boston as a \"drizzling rain fell throughout the game\" on a field that was wet, muddy and slippery. Despite the inclement weather, 6,000 spectators attended the game. The Michigan team was heavier than Harvard's, and Michigan's \"interference\" was reported to be \"clearly superior\" to Harvard's. Michigan's offense had success in easily making holes in Harvard's line, but lost the ball repeatedly through off-side penalties. With the game played in the rain, both teams played a kicking game, punting the ball back and forth to gain advantage in field position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0023-0001", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\nThe punting game favored Harvard, as \"an exchange of punts nearly always resulted in a loss of ground to Michigan.\" The first half ended with no scoring. In the second half, Harvard blocked two Michigan punts and scored the game's only touchdown on a blocked punt. The score came when Harvard kicked to Michigan's 18-yard line, and Bloomingston immediately attempted to punt the ball back to Harvard. Norton Shaw of Harvard blocked the punt, and the ball was driven behind the goal line where a Harvard player fell on the ball for a touchdown. Harvard failed to convert its goal after touchdown resulting in the score of 4 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0024-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\nA press account of the game praised Michigan's efforts, noting that \"they played a strong, fast game but weakened in the second half.\" The report continued: \"The Michigan team deserves great credit for their work and the dash and spirit of their play. Both sides played straight foot ball, resorting very little to trick plays of any kind.\" Another newspaper praised the performance of the Michigan team as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0025-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\n\"[T]he wearers of the Crimson have not had such a battle before in years. The boys from Michigan simply covered themselves in glory by their splendid work. The play throughout was clean football, devoid of all roughness, and they early on earned the good will and applause of the crowd by their fairness and ever-apparent desire to keep from making it a slugging game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0026-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\nAfter the season had ended, Edwin Denby, a Michigan player who later became U.S. Secretary of the Navy, wrote an account of the season in the university yearbook, The Palladium. With respect to the Harvard game, Denby noted that the Michigan football team had traveled to \"the distant and holy places of the East\" and proved to the Eastern press \"that we were farmers, miners, cutthroats, thugs and garroters, and to the reasonable people of the country that the men who came out of the West knew one or two games besides mumblepeg and marbles.\" Denby continued that the loss to Harvard was \"a virtual victory\" and asserted that those best qualified to judge were of the opinion that, \"given equal conditions,\" Michigan would have won:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0027-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\n\"We had traveled twenty-four hours by rail and rested less than two days before going on the field, we had changed drinking water and diet, we played before some thousands of Harvard sympathizers (though they displayed an impartial appreciation of the good plays of either side, and acted throughout in a thoroughly gentlemanly manner) and finally we played in the rain and on wet and slippery ground, conditions entirely new to us. And so they won, and, even as to that, there were not wanting whispers that without a fortuitous accident \u2014 however, post-mortems are always distasteful. Let us accept the fact that we were beaten, and record our intention of turning the tables next year. It is poor policy to belittle a successful antagonist. Better exalt him for the supreme skill he displayed in winning from such a foe, and so honor yourself.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 922]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0028-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard\nThe game was played in 25-minute halves, and Michigan's lineup was Senter (left end), Villa (left tackle), Hooper (left guard), Carr (center), Hall (right guard), Henninger (right tackle), Greenleaf (right end), Baird (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert and Holmes (right halfback), John W. Hollister (left halfback), and John A. Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0029-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue\nAfter the loss to Harvard, Michigan faced Purdue at home in Ann Arbor. Michigan won a close game by a score of 12 to 10. Michigan scored two touchdowns (one each by Gustave Ferbert and Frederick W. Henninger), and John A. Bloomingston converted on both goals after touchdown. Purdue was the only team other than Harvard to score on the 1895 Michigan team. Both teams scored two touchdowns, and the margin of victory came on a missed goal after touchdown by Purdue. In light of Michigan's dominance in its earlier games against Western teams, a larger margin of victory had been expected, leading one newspaper to suggest a two-point win was a cause for \"mourning\" in Ann Arbor:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0030-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue\n\"There is mourning in the Michigan camp tonight over the downfall of the football team, for such it seems, when they managed to win from Purdue today, 12 to 10. It had been expected that the game would be fairly close, as the Purdue eleven is strong, and Michigan has shown a great falling off this week in consequence of her trip to Boston and hard game with Harvard. Then, too, three men were missed from the team \u2013 Carr at center, Baird at quarter, and Villa at tackle. The defense was thought to be strong enough to shut out Purdue, however, but it was not in evidence, and the offensive work was ragged and dispirited.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0031-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue\nIn his review of the season in The Palladium, Edwin Denby wrote that the closeness of the Purdue game could be explained by the fact that many of the regulars had been battered in the Harvard game and were replaced by substitutes in the Purdue game.\" However, Denby gave credit to Purdue as \"the best we met in the West.\" Denby also opined that the last five minutes of the Purdue game \"were worth most of the other games of the season put together.\" He described the line-plunging of Giovanni Villa against Purdue as follows: \"It was exhilerating [ sic] to note how when Villa took the ball and plunged through the Purdue line as the beautiful lady in the circus jumps through paper hoops, the rest of the Michigan men slouched down the field, crushing and driving everything before them by sheer muscle and determination.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0032-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue\nThe game was played in halves of 30 and 25 minutes, and Michigan's lineup was Greenleaf (right end), Henninger (right tackle), Hall (right guard), Edwin Denby (center), Hooper (left guard), Yont (left tackle), Senter (left end), Holmes (quarterback), John W. Hollister (right halfback), Gustave Ferbert (left halfback), and John A. Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0033-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota\nMichigan faced the University of Minnesota on November 23, in a game played at the baseball park in Detroit. Michigan easily won the game by a score of 20 to 0. The playing field was soft and slippery from snow and rain, and \"the wet ball caused a good deal of fumbling, especially on the part of the Minnesota team.\" One account described the playing surface as \"a field of mud several inches deep. Minnesota was \"practically on the defense throughout the game,\" and \"only twice were her runners able to get through Michigan's line for substantial gains.\" The report of the game published in the Daily Inter Ocean from Chicago described a dominating performance by the Wolverines:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0034-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota\n\"The men from the far Northwest were clearly outclassed at every point, but played a plucky game. At times their defense was strong and then partly weak, Senter and Ferbert getting through several times for long fifty-yard runs. ... The Michigan men played savagely during the first half ... For Michigan the particulars were Senter, Ferbert, Bloomingston and Henninger, though the entire team played excellently and was very strong in interference.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0035-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota\nHalfback Gustave Ferbert scored two touchdowns for Michigan, and Hall and Farnum added one each. Bloomingston kicked a goal from touchdown; another goal was also kicked but the name of the player was not specified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0036-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota\nMichigan's lineup in the game was Farnham (right end), Frederick W. Henninger (right tackle), Hall (right guard), Edwin Denby (center), Hooper (left guard), Villa (left tackle), Senter and Greenleaf (left end), Richards and Morley (quarterback), Ferbert (left halfback), John W. Hollister and Holmes (right halfback), and John A. Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0037-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago\nThe final game of the season matched Michigan against Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons. The game was played on Thanksgiving Day in front of more than 6,000 spectators at Marshall Field in Chicago. Due to the inclement weather, the field had to be \"carefully scraped and sawdust scattered over the thin layer of ice\" before the game began. Michigan's first scoring drive came in the first half when the right halfback, John W. Hollister, took the ball on Chicago's 45-yard line and ran around the right end for a 35-yard gain, a play the press called \"a prettily-executed criss cross.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0037-0001", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago\nLater in the drive, Frederick W. Henninger fumbled the ball which rolled beyond the goal line where it was recovered by Richards for the game's first touchdown. The running of Michigan's fullback John A. Bloomingston, a Chicago native, was reportedly the high point of the game. A Chicago newspaper described one run by Bloomingston as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0038-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago\n\"Chicago could not gain, and Neel was forced to punt again. Bloomingston received the ball, and, dodging the tacklers, who sought to bring him to the ground, ran back the entire length of the kick. It was a splendid performance, and no small part of the applause the hero received came from Chicago throats.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0039-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago\nThe final score was 12\u20130. Michigan's dominance over Stagg's team led one Chicago newspaper to write the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0040-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago\n\"The Michigan team is the finest set of football players Ann Arbor has ever sent out and completely out-classes any team in the West. ... The Michigan play both individually and in team work was magnificent. Even the worried Chicago substitutes and coaches on the side line could not refrain from an occasional word of admiration at the perfect defense of the visitors. The very appearance of the team was enough to bring applause from the most prejudiced Chicago supporter. ... [ T]he local team appeared like school-boys before them. It seemed almost wonderful that these giants could be kept from sweeping down the field and scoring as they willed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0041-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago\nMichigan's lineup against Chicago was Senter (left end), Villa (left tackle), Hooper (left guard), Carr (center), Hall (right guard), Henninger (right tackle), Farnum (right end), Richards (quarterback), Ferbert (left halfback), Hollister (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0042-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago\nFollowing the game The World of New York wrote that the Michigan players had \"clinched their claim to the Western championship.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0043-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, All-Western selections\nFollowing the 1895 season, a number of Michigan players were honored on All-Western teams. One Chicago newspaper, the Daily Inter Ocean, included six Wolverines on its All-Western team. The Michigan players recognized by the Daily Inter Ocean were Gustave Ferbert (first-team halfback), John Bloomington (first-team fullback), James Hooper (first-team guard), Giovanni Villa (first-team tackle), Henry Senter (first-team end), and James Baird (substitute quarterback). In announcing its All-Western selections, the Daily Inter Ocean made the following comments about the Michigan players selected:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0044-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 18 players earned varsity letters for their participation on the 1895 Michigan football team. Players who started at least five of Michigan's nine games are displayed in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0045-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff\nThe coaching and training staff of the 1895 Michigan Wolverines consisted of four men. Former Princeton football star William McCauley was the coach. Keene Fitzpatrick, considered \"one of the pioneers of intercollegiate sport,\" was the trainer (and also the school's track coach). Charles A. Baird, who was named the university's first athletic director three years later, was the team manager. Frederick Henninger was the team captain. A newspaper profile of Henninger in November 1895 said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0046-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff\n\"The University of Michigan team, captained by F. W. Henninger, is one of the strongest football elevens in the west. Henninger is a veteran of last year's eleven, is 5 feet 10 inches tall aud weighs 180 pounds. He is an excellent field general, plays right guard and is said to be the strongest man on the team.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0047-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff\nIn his review of the 1895 season, Edwin Denby described the contributions made by the team's four leaders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030475-0048-0000", "contents": "1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff\n\"If to any one man above another credit is due for this result, McCauley should receive it. Not only his splendid coaching, but his quiet, gentlemanly, kindly manner, his forbearance, and his abstention from the use of language too strong for the public prints, all had their good effect upon the team. And certainly he would have found it hard to get such excellent support from any three other men as he got from Fitzpatrick, Henninger and Baird. They have all won the high regard of the entire university and the sincere liking of those who have come in personal contact with them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030476-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1895 college football season. It was the only season under head coach Pudge Heffelfinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030476-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nOn January 11, 1895, the Presidents of several schools met in a preliminary meeting and formed a group which would become the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, known today as the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030476-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nAs a result of this emerging conference, this season would be Minnesota's last season as an Independent. Minnesota won its first ever match with Chicago with a last minute touchdown to win a very close, physical game by a score of 10-6. Financially, the team rebounded from some lean years. They \"secured a large subscription from the business men of the city, the attendance at all of the games was good, and at the close of the season there was a large surplus in the treasury.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030477-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Minor Counties Championship\nThe 1895 Minor Counties Championship was the first running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 3 June to 29 August 1895. The inaugural title was shared between three counties\u2014Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire\u2014as they finished level on three points apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030477-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Minor Counties Championship\nThe leading run-scorer was Thomas Pointon, playing for Cheshire, whose score of 110 against Durham was one of only six centuries scored over the course of the season. The leading wicket-taker, Oxfordshire's Peter Rogers, took three ten wicket match hauls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030478-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1895 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030479-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1895, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat John Marshall Stone was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030479-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Background\nA new state constitution was adopted in 1890, which extended Stone's term to six years. Determined to keep control and maintain white supremacy, the Democratic-dominated legislature effectively disfranchised most African Americans in the state by adding a requirement to the constitution for voter registration for payment of poll taxes. Two years later, they passed laws requiring literacy tests (administered by white officials in a discriminatory way), and grandfather clauses (the latter benefited white citizens). These requirements, with additions in legislation of 1892, resulted in a 90% reduction in the number of blacks who voted in Mississippi. In every county a handful of prominent black ministers and local leaders were allowed to vote. African Americans were essentially excluded from the political system for 70 years, until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 961]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030479-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election, General election\nIn the general election, Democratic candidate Anselm J. McLaurin, a former U.S. Senator, defeated Populist nominee Frank Burkitt, a newspaper editor and state representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030480-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1895 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as a member of the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) during the 1895 college football season. In its first season under head coach C. D. Bliss, the team compiled a 7\u20131 record (2\u20131 against WIUFA championship) and finished in a three-way tie with Kansas and Nebraska for the conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030481-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 National Association Foot Ball League season\nThe National Association Foot Ball League, organized on January 8, 1895 played its first season in the spring of 1895, with four teams playing Sunday afternoon games. In the league opener on March 3, 1895, Centreville A.C. of Bayonne, New Jersey visited the Brooklyn Wanderers on the grounds of the Varuna Boat Club in South Brooklyn, and won, 5 to 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030481-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 National Association Foot Ball League season, League standings\nAccording to a contemporary newspaper account at season's end, with forfeited games included in the standings, the final results for 13 scheduled games were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030481-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 National Association Foot Ball League season, League standings\nThe Scottish-Americans team had disbanded before the end of the season and second place (and a silver medal) was awarded to the Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030482-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1895 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1895 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Matthew McClung, the Midshipmen compiled a 5\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 152 to 16. The Army\u2013Navy Game was canceled due to Presidential cabinet order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030482-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Navy Midshipmen football team, Schedule\n* Virginia forfeited due to major fire at the University of Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nThe 1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1895 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Charles Thomas and played their one home game at the \"M\" Street Park in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Western Interstate University Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nThomas spent two years as an assistant before being promoted to head coach following the departure of Frank Crawford at the conclusion of the 1894 season. After the season, Nebraska's second consecutive WIUFA conference championship, Thomas left to become the head coach at Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Sioux City AC\nNebraska's trip to Sioux City was the longest road trip in the program's young history, a record surpassed several times later in the season. Nebraska dominated the game, shutting out Sioux City and setting new program records for points scored and margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Butte AC\nNebraska again undertook its longest-ever road trip, traveling over 1,000 miles to Butte, Montana to face the Butte Athletic Club. Butte's ball control-heavy game plan meant Nebraska had only one possession in the game's first twenty minutes, and Butte led 12\u20130 by the half. A late Nebraska touchdown was not enough to overcome the early deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Denver AC\nThe third game between Nebraska and the Denver AC was considerably less emotional than the 1893 matchup, which resulted in Denver choosing to forfeit the contest during the second half. The Bugeaters used a strong run game to control the game and win 12\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Omaha\nNebraska's first game against the University of Nebraska\u2013Omaha was a resounding Bugeaters victory. NU led by 12 at halftime and scored 24 more unanswered points to win 36\u20130. This was the only game ever played between Nebraska and Omaha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nNebraska and Missouri met in Omaha to open the 1895 WIUFA season. The Bugeaters trailed 10\u20136 at halftime, but scored the second half's only touchdown to win 12\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nUniversity of Missouri records suggest the final score of this game was a 12\u20130 Nebraska victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nNebraska failed to take advantage of several first-half scoring opportunities, and the game reached halftime tied at zero. Both teams scored a touchdown and missed the following field kick, tying the game at four. Near the end of the game, Nebraska's players reportedly became confused about the amount of time remaining and eased back on their defensive effort, allowing Kansas to score the game-winning touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Doane\nNebraska traveled to Crete to meet Doane for the seventh time, dominating the game en route to a 24\u20130 victory. Wins over Doane and Omaha allowed the Bugeaters to claim a third unofficial Nebraska state championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Grinnell\nA year after a 22\u20130 Nebraska win over Grinnell, the Pioneers returned the favor, shutting out the favored Bugeaters 24\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nBy 1895, the Nebraska-Iowa contest was being held annually on Thanksgiving Day. The 1895 iteration was a defensive struggle, remaining scoreless until a second-half NU touchdown and subsequent field kick gave the Bugeaters a 6\u20130 win. The Bugeaters victory, combined with Missouri's defeat of Kansas, resulted in a three-way tie for the WIUFA championship. The tie-breaking system of the time awarded the conference pennant to the team that had allowed the fewest points on the season; this method of selection left Nebraska in third place, but the university later claimed the conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030483-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nUniversity of Iowa records suggest that this game was played on November 19, 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030484-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New Brunswick general election\nThe 1895 New Brunswick general election was held in October 1895, to elect 46 members to the 29th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The government of Andrew George Blair was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030484-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New Brunswick general election\nThe election was held before the adoption of party labels. Codewords were ministerialist or anti-ministerialist, and Government or opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030484-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 New Brunswick general election\nOf forty-six MLAs, thirty-four supported the government, nine formed the opposition, and the other three were neutral. Among the opposition ranks were two Patrons of Industry MLAs, representing the organized farmers movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030485-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1895 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1895 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team played a six-game schedule without facing any other college teams, and finished with a record of 1\u20134\u20131 or 2\u20133\u20131, per 1895 sources or modern sources, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030485-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New Hampshire football team\nAt the close of the 1894 season, the team had selected William C. Dudley to again captain the 1895 squad. However, with Dudley and seven other members of the team having left college, Everett S. Whittemore became captain of the 1895 squad, until he resigned the position mid-season and was replaced by Fred F. Hayes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030485-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded 4 points for a touchdown, 2 points for a conversion kick (extra point), and 5 points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030485-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nA report in The New Hampshire College Monthly by the team's student manager stated that the team played six games, Recaps of seven games were provided in the College Monthly; six varsity contests plus a game played by the second team (backups). On November 2, the varsity defeated Somersworth High School while the second team defeated Berwick Academy. College Football Data Warehouse and the Wildcats' media guide list both of those contests, while omitting the October 12 loss against the Portsmouth Athletic Association. While the student manager's report noted that the \"Portsmouth game was postponed three times\", the College Monthly is clear that the game did get played; thus it is included in the overall record per 1895 sources, in lieu of the second team's win over Berwick Academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030486-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New Jersey Athletic Club football team\nThe 1895 New Jersey Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the New Jersey Athletic Club as an independent during the 1895 football season. The team shut out four of its opponents, compiled a 5\u20133 record, and outscored their opponents by a total of 131 to 72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030487-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Republican nominee John W. Griggs defeated Democratic nominee Alexander T. McGill with 52.28% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030487-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nGriggs was the first Republican elected Governor of New Jersey since Marcus Lawrence Ward in 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030488-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot\nThe 1895 New Orleans dockworkers massacre was an attack against black, non-union dockworkers by unionized white workers on March 11 and 12, 1895. The mob killed six black workers. The incident had its roots in both economic pressure and racial hatred. The riot marked the end of fifteen years of racially unified unions in New Orleans, for example in the successful 1892 New Orleans general strike just three years before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030488-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot\nIn the economic slowdown following the Panic of 1893, the Harrison Line of Liverpool led a number of other shippers in announcing, in February 1895, that they were letting 300 organized white workers go, and replacing them with unskilled non-union black workers. Union workers had just displayed racial unity in the general strike, even in the face of provocations and harassment from the strongly anti-union New Orleans Times-Democrat, for one example.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030488-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot\nBut this time, under pressure, a \"race to the bottom\" bidding war between white and black groups developed into violence. Gangs of white screwmen and longshoremen began organized assaults in March. On the 11th, a black dock worker named Philip Fisher was wounded by gunfire. The next dawn, a mob of several hundred whites descended on an ocean-going ship being loaded and started firing on black longshoremen. Between this site and a coordinated attack on another cotton vessel upriver, six were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030488-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot\nThe men killed in the massacre were Henry James, Jules Calise Carrebe, Leonard Mallard, William Campbell and two unknown men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030488-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot\nGovernor Murphy J. Foster called in the state militia to reinstate order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030488-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot\nDespite continuing tensions and the race riot of 1900, in the 20th Century New Orleans black and white dockworkers would implement racially cooperative work rules, for example 50/50 representation on jobs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030489-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New South Wales colonial election\nThe 1895 New South Wales colonial election was held on 24 July 1895 for all of the 125 seats in the 17th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. Section 23 (1) of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act of 1893 conferred a right to vote on 'every male person, being a natural born [British] subject, who shall have resided or had his principal place of abode in New South Wales for a continuous period of one year'. males. The 16th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 5 July 1895 by the Governor, Lord Hampden, on the advice of the Premier, George Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030489-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New South Wales colonial election, Results\nNew South Wales colonial election, 24 July 1895\u200aLegislative Assembly << 1894\u20131898 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030490-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1895 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030490-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030491-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New York Giants season\nThe 1895 New York Giants season was the franchise's 13th season. The team finished in ninth place in the National League with a 66-65 record, 21.5 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030491-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030491-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030491-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030491-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election\nThe 1895 New York state election was held on November 5, 1895, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer and a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate. Besides, the voters were asked if they approved of the State's issuing bonds for $9,000,000.00 to spend on canal improvements, which the electorate answered in the affirmative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, History\nThe Socialist Labor state convention met on July 6 at Troy, New York, and nominated Erasmus Pellenz, of Syracuse, for Secretary of State; Patrick Murphy, of New York City, for Comptroller; William F. Steer, of Albany, for Treasurer; Morris Berman, of Monroe County, for State Engineer; John H. Moore, of Staten Island, for Attorney General; and Henry Gray, of Westchester County, for the Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, History\nThe Republican state convention met on September 17 at Saratoga, New York. The incumbent state officers, elected in 1893, were re-nominated, and Celora E. Martin was nominated for the Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic state convention met on September 24 and 25 at Syracuse, New York. Perry Belmont was Tempoarary Chairman until the choice of Ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower (in office 1892\u20131894) as Permanent Chairman. John D. Teller for the Court of Appeals, and Horatio C. King for Secretary of State, were nominated by acclamation. John B. Judson was nominated for Comptroller on the first ballot (vote: Judson 311, John E. Ashe 99). Norton Chase for Attorney General, and De Witt C. Dow for Treasurer, were nominated by acclamation. Russell R. Stuart was nominated for State Engineer during the first ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, History\nLawrence J. McParlin was nominated by the People's Party for Attorney General, but declined to run. He ran instead for Surrogate of Niagara County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, Results\nThe whole Republican ticket was elected. This was one of the very rare occasions when all incumbent state cabinet officers were re-nominated and re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, Results\nThe incumbents Palmer, Roberts, Hancock, Colvin and Adams were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, Results\nObs. : \"Defective, blank and scattering\" votes: 19,618 (Comptroller); 19,536 (Secretary)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 New York state election, Results\nDue to the adoption of the new State Constitution in 1894, the state officers and state senators were elected for an exceptional three-year term to serve 1896 to 1898, so that from 1898 on the Governor, the state officers and the state senators would be elected at the same time and serve concurrently a two-year term. Thus, this was the last regular election of state officers in an odd-numbered year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030492-0008-0001", "contents": "1895 New York state election, Results\nUntil 1938, in odd-numbered years only the members of the New York State Assembly (which continued to serve a one-year term) were elected, and vacancies were filled, including the judgeships of the New York Court of Appeals which did not occur regularly but depended on the birth year of the incumbents (if age-limited), the year when elected (if the term expired), deaths in office, or resignations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030493-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Newton Athletic Association football team\nThe 1895 Newton Athletic Association football team represented the Newton Athletic Association of Newton, Massachusetts during the 1895 college football season. Under the leadership of various elected captains throughout the season, the Athletics compiled at least a 4\u20134\u20131 record, and outscored their opponents by a total of 76 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030493-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Newton Athletic Association football team\nDuring the season, Newton AA and Hyde Park AA played a three game series for the honor of silver cup that was bestowed upon the champion of the \"suburban league\", which had apparently disbanded the year prior, and needed to resolve the question of who would keep the silver trophy indefinitely. The cup would be given to whichever team managed to win two or more of the contests, which would turn out to be the NAA, compiling a 2\u20130\u20131 record against the fellow athletic association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030494-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Noblesville Athletic Club football team\nThe 1895 Noblesville Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Noblesville Athletic Club of Indiana in the 1895 college football season. Under coach and team manager Shubert Vestal, who played for Noblesville in 1894 as quarterback, the Athletic Club compiled a 3\u20133\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030495-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1895 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina during the 1895 college football season. They played nine games with a final record of 7\u20131\u20131. The team captain for the 1895 season was Edwin Gregory. The team went 3\u20130\u20131 on a 6-day, 4 game road trip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, North Carolina A&M\nThe season opened with a defeat of the rival A and M college by a 36\u20130 score Nicklin had runs of 57, 67, and 80 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, North Carolina A&M\nThe starting lineup was Gregory (left end), Steele (left tackle), Hurley (left guard), White (center), Collier (right guard), Wright (right tackle), Merritt (right ed), Whitaker (quarterback), Nicklin (left halfback), Moore (right halfback), McRae (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia\nThe Georgia Bulldogs, coached by Pop Warner, were defeated 6\u20130 what some claim is the very first (legal or otherwise; the legal pass starts in 1906) forward pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia\nBob Quincy notes in his 1973 book They Made the Bell Tower Chime:\"John Heisman, a noted historian, wrote 30 years later that, indeed, the Tar Heels had given birth to the forward pass against the Bulldogs (UGA). It was conceived to break a scoreless deadlock and give UNC a 6\u20130 win. The Carolinians were in a punting situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0004-0001", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia\nThe ball was thrown out of desperation by back Dr. Joel Whitaker. Georgia coach Pop Warner complained to the referee that the play was illegal, however, the referee let the play stand because he did not see the pass. Only 4 minutes of game time had passed when Stephens scored. Governor William Y. Atkinson attended the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nCarolina outcoached Vanderbilt on its way to a 12\u20130 victory. Butler had a punt return for a touchdown. The game was called due to darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia again\nThe Georgia and Carolina teams played a second time to round out the road trip and North Carolina won 10\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 74], "content_span": [75, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, VAMC\nNorth Carolina beat VAMC in Charlotte, North Carolina with 1,000 looking on. North Carolina scored three touchdowns in the first half and then scored two more touchdowns in the second half. VAMC then drove to North Carolina's three-yard line, but was stopped on downs. The final score was 5\u201332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, VAMC\nThe starting lineup was Gregory (left end), Wright (left tackle), Hurley (left guard), White (center), Collier (right guard), Baird (right tackle), Merritt (right ed), Stanley (quarterback), Nicklin (left halfback), Moore (right halfback), Butler (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030496-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Virginia\nVirginia defeated North Carolina 10\u20136 in this year's version of the South's Oldest Rivalry. Virginia thereby claims a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030497-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1895 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The Aggies had the exact same schedule as the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030498-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 North Dakota Flickertails football team\nThe 1895 North Dakota Flickertails football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. They had a 1\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030499-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Northwestern Law football team\nThe 1895 Northwestern Law football team was an American football team that represented the Northwestern University School of Law in the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030500-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1895 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1895 college football season. In their first year under head coach Jesse Van Doozer, the Purple compiled a 6\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030501-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1895 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1895 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach H. G. Hadden, the team compiled a 3\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 70 to 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030502-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Occidental football team\nThe 1895 Occidental football team represented Occidental College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20130, including a victory over USC, and outscored opponents by a total of 106 to 6. At the end of the season, the Los Angeles Athletic Club declared Occidental to be the Southern California football champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030502-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Occidental football team\nSalem Wales Goodale played at the right halfback position and was the team's captain. Goodale was an Amerst College alumnus. An Occidental professor, Goodale was placed in charge of athletics at Occidental and became known as \"the Walter Camp of the West.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030502-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Occidental football team\nOther key players included \"Little Lewis\" Murray at left end, Pedro Recio at left tackle, Will Salisbury at left guard, V. Place at center, A. L. Randall at right guard, J. Ramsaur at right tackle, Winthrop Blackstone at right end (also team manager), Bradshaw at quarterback, Will Edwards at left halfback, and Will Ramsaur at fullback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030503-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1895 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its second season of intercollegiate football, Ohio compiled a 2\u20133 record and was outscored by a total of 128 to 78. Harvey Derne was the team's head coach; it was Derne's first and only season in the position. The team's 60\u20130 victory over Lancaster set a record for the largest margin of victory in school history. That record stood for 21 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030504-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1895 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1895 college football season. The team was coached by Jack Ryder, who was in his fourth and final year of coaching the Buckeyes. The team captain was Renick W. Dunlap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030505-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Republican nominee Asa S. Bushnell defeated Democratic nominee James E. Campbell with 51.00% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030506-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1895 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the Oklahoma Sooners of the University of Oklahoma during the 1895 college football season and was its first football team ever fielded. The team completed its inaugural season with a 0\u20131 record. The Sooners played their first football game in history against a town team from Oklahoma City and lost by a final score of 34\u20130. This was the program's one and only season under the guidance of head coach John A. Harts. The next season he was gold prospecting in the Arctic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030507-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1895 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1895 college football season. The game against LSU was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030508-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Open Championship\nThe 1895 Open Championship was the 35th Open Championship, held 12\u201313 June at the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Defending champion J.H. Taylor won the Championship for the second time, by four strokes from runner-up Sandy Herd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030508-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Open Championship\nHarry Vardon, one of the early starters, led after the first round with an 80 but had an 85 in the afternoon to finish the day on 165. Herd had the best round of the afternoon with a 77 and led overnight on 159, five strokes clear of Taylor and Andrew Kirkaldy on 164.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030508-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Open Championship\nHerd played steadily in the third round and finished with 82 to lead on 241. Taylor, playing in the last group, scored 80 to finish on 244. The Championship resolved into a battle between Herd and Taylor. Herd started well but took seven at the 5th. Playing in wind and rain, Herd eventually scored 85 to finish on 326. Taylor need an 81 to win and after 12 holes had only taken 49 strokes. Despite taking six at the next two holes he reached the 17th tee needing to take 12 or less to win. Playing carefully he scored five at the dangerous 17th and then four at the last to win by four strokes and retain the title. His 78 was the best round of the afternoon by four shots, the next best being an 82 by Ben Sayers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030509-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Orange Athletic Club football team\nThe 1895 Orange Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Orange Athletic Club in the American Football Union (AFU) during the 1895 college football season. The team played its home games at the Orange Oval in East Orange, New Jersey, compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record (1\u20131 against AFU opponents), and shut out six opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) during the 1895 college football season. The team was a member of the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association. In their first and only year under head coach Paul Downing, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20132\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 82 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe Aggies played Pacific University to a scoreless tie, but lost to Willamette (6-36) and Oregon (0\u201346). A. J. Simpson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process\nThe coming of fall and the opening of a new academic year brought with it talk of football, the collegiate sport which had already found a dedicated following in the small community of Corvallis, Oregon. Rumors swirled that the 1894 Oregon champion Portland University squad was attempting to induce Oregon Agricultural College star Miles Phillips to enroll in their school. Although the return of Phillips remained undetermined, local fans looked forward to the return of \"Mac McAllister, Bodine, the Simpsons, Terrell, and other strong players,\" and prospects for organization of \"a crack team\" for 1895 were regarded as excellent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process\nIt was reported that a large \"entertainment\" was to be held in Corvallis on October 15 to raise funds for support of the OAC football team to help cover its expenses for the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process\nLieutenant C.E. Dentler was elected manager of the Oregon Agricultural Football team for 1895. Dentler, representative of the school to the State Football Association in Salem, was regarded as a heady administrator and was said to be \"hostile to slugging and brutality in the football game.\" The local press promised that \"anything bordering on the latter will be eliminated from the OAC team's tactics under his management.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0004-0001", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process\nThe violence of the game had been in the public mind since Harvard President Charles William Eliot made news denouncing the barbarity of the sport back in February, blaming the mayhem on \"graduates, fathers, mothers and sisters, leaders of society, and the various gamblers and rowdies\" who whipped up at atmosphere of violent frenzy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process\nDentler attended a meeting in Salem on Saturday, October 5 to organize a schedule for 1895 for the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association. Joining Dentler were representatives of the University of Oregon, Willamette University, Pacific University, and Portland University. President E. E. Washburne of Portland University was selected as president of the conference by virtue of his school having won the championship in 1894. The conference representatives agreed to accept the Harvard\u2013Pennsylvania\u2013Cornell rules for the 1895\u201396 season and adopted the Spalding football as the official ball of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 85], "content_span": [86, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected\nWith the framework for intercollegiate play arranged, Manager Dentler located a potential coach for the team, formerly associated with the University of California squad at Berkeley. Subscriptions were collected on campus to cover the expense of bringing the coach to town, with a local newspaper declaring:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected\n\"In a day or two the papers will appear among the businessmen and citizens and will doubtless meet with hearty and substantial responses. The team is out for the championship and there are undoubtedly plenty of people in town anxious enough to see them win that the question of a few dollars to pay for a competent coacher will not be allowed to stand in the way of success.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected\nIt would be the University of Oregon in Eugene that landed an ex-Berkeley star as its coach for 1895, when former quarterback Percy Benson committed for the position. With an October 25 matchup looming against the Webfoots, as of the first of October OAC's football volunteers were taking to the field for practice without a head coach. The Corvallis Gazette reported that negotiations to hire an experienced coach were \"pending\" and that \"unless there is some hitch in the proceedings he will be here in the course of a week or ten days. \"There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm so essential in maintaining interest in the work,\" the paper warned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected\nOAC would finally land four-year Stanford University football star and 1894 team captain Paul Downing to coach the Aggies squad for the 1895 season. A short-term, temporary hire, it would be the 22-year old Downing's single year at the helm of the orange-and-black.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected\nDowning arrived in Corvallis from California on Sunday, October 19 \u2014 a scant one week before the scheduled battle against the rival Oregon Webfoots in Eugene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Exhibition game\nPrior to the hiring of a coach, an exhibition game was played on the OAC grounds on Saturday, October 12, 1895, a split-squad game pitting veterans versus new members of the team. The match was won by the veterans by a score of 16 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 78], "content_span": [79, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\nNegotiations between team managers took place in Corvallis in early October for the scheduled October 26 game pitting the OAC Aggies and the U of O Webfoots. The Oregon squad agreed to pay OAC's travel expenses and a quarter of the gate to the visitors. A ticket price of 50 cents was established for the game, with Webfoot team manager C.W. Keene compelled to write to the Eugene Guard in explanation of the doubling of ticket price from the previous year:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\n\"A football game represents an immense expenditure not only of labor but of cash, and this year our expenses have far exceeded those of any preceding year. We are very anxious to win the pennant and have determined to spare nothing which can help us. We have brought a coach from California; our suits have cost us a great deal, and a considerable sum has been expended on the grounds and seats.... Now there is one thing very certain, namely, we can never come out even on our expenses on a basis of 25 cents admission. So we will have to ask our supporters and friends to stand this extra charge and to help us in our struggle which means a great deal to our Alma Mater and thence indirectly to Eugene.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\nThe Oregon\u2013OAC game was scheduled independently of the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association's short tournament format, with the Corvallis press emphasizing its unofficial nature and attempting to instill low expectations among its readers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\n\"Next Saturday OAC goes to Eugene for a friendly practice game. They may be expected to return as defeated as the Eugene team has been practicing under the late captain of the Berkeley team as coacher for a couple of weeks and is prepared to put up a better game than the [Aggies].\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\nThe game against the University of Oregon squad was anxiously anticipated. Well before gametime of 3:00 pm the grounds began filling with fans. A high wall had been erected to enclose the north side of the playing area, while on the south end a mounted policeman kept watch for those attempting to sneak in without a 50 cent ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0017-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\nThe game was not close. Early in the first half LHB Bishop of the U of O broke free on a long run, scoring a 4-point touchdown. The Webfoots connected on the kick after touchdown for two more points, making the score 6\u20130. OAC was stopped and on the next possession E.P. Shattuck scored for Oregon again, making the score 10\u20130 after a missed conversion attempt. Two more first half touchdowns and conversions followed and the home team took a commanding 22\u20130 score to the halftime intermission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0018-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\nThe second half proved to be an even bigger debacle for the overmatched and shut-out Aggies, with the Oregon squad stacking on another 24 points for a final score of 46\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0019-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\nBy previous agreement the University of Oregon as winner moved on to play a practice game against Willamette University at the Oregon State Fairgrounds the following week, with the OAC squad left to lick their wounds in Corvallis, an open week allowing time for some much-needed practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0020-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon\nThe daily newspaper in Eugene did not miss the opportunity to have a laugh, declaring that the 46-point shellacking \"seems to have paralyzed the Farmers of the hayseed city, usually called Corvallis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0021-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University\nThe third and final game was played against Willamette University, hosted by the Salem school on a gridiron field at the Oregon State Fairgrounds. There were 1,000 or more fans on hand to watch the opening kickoff at 3:40 pm. According to a report in a Salem newspaper, OAC \"had Bidwell, [Oregon Normal School's] best man, two coaches, and half a dozen ringers and coppers\" stuffed onto their roster in an effort at competitive advantage. The effort proved fruitless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0022-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University\nThe opening kick was received by Bidwell of the Aggies, who briefly lost control of the ball before being buried under a sea of humanity. The first OAC drive was rapidly halted and Willamette took over, with Walter Paige and Mark Savage successfully gaining ground around end. Savage ultimately scored the first touchdown of the game for the Willamettes at about the 10 minute mark, a 4-point score that was met by wild applause by the fans and the blowing of a multitude of tin horns in celebration. The conversion kick was good and Willamette led by a score of 6 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0023-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University\nBack in possession of the ball and resuming play from midfield, OAC Center Terrell raised the ball and plowed forward into the Willamette defense. The ball was soon turned over, however, and Walter Paige again made a long run for the home team, scampering many yards along the sideline. This time it would be Right Halfback Mark Savage finishing for the Willamette team, with Murphy adding a successful conversion to make the score 12 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0024-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University\nCorvallis' team then went on a long drive, taking the ball all the way down to the Willamette 5-yard line, but they failed to score. With time in the half running down, Willamette Right End Guiss broke free on what was described as a \"zig-zag play,\" with his long run setting up a third touchdown of the half for the Salem squad. The 2-point conversion kick was again good and the Willamettes took an 18\u20130 score into the halftime intermission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0025-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University\nEarly in the second half, Willamette Quarterback Murphy broke a long run around end, scoring yet another touchdown. The conversion was missed, leaving the score 22 to zero. On the ensuing possession the Aggies scored their one and only touchdown of the 1895 season when Right Halfback Oberer managed to break a tackle and streak around Willamette's left end. With the successful conversion the score became 22\u20146.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030510-0026-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University\nThe Aggies were unable to keep pace, however, giving up another 14 points before the game was called at 5:20 pm on account of a rolling fog that made it impossible to see across the width of the field. The final score: Willamette 36, OAC 6. Both teams exchanged cheers following the conclusion of play and the fans began to rush for the streetcars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 92], "content_span": [93, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030511-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1895 Oregon Webfoots football team was an American football team that represented the University of Oregon in the 1895 college football season. It was the Webfoots' second season. They were led by head coach Percy Benson, previously a star player for the University of California team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030511-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe Webfoots were part of a five team conference called the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association, which met in Salem on October 5, 1895, to elect officers, establish official rules, and set a schedule for the year. Other members of the conference included Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis, Portland University (a short-lived private school which closed in 1900), Pacific University in Forest Grove, and Willamette University in Salem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030511-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe first two games of the 1895 season \u2014 against OAC and Willamette \u2014 were regarded as exhibition practice games, the final two contests being official conference games that were part of the \"league series.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030511-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThey finished the season with a record of four wins and zero losses (4\u20130), winning the OIFA's pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030512-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe 1895 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific during the 1895 college football season. In their first game in program history, the Tigers tied San Jose State 6 to 6 in January 1896 (the game took place during the 1895 academic year however, so that is the year it is represented in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030513-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election\nThe third election to Pembrokeshire County Council was held in March 1895. It was preceded by the 1892 election and followed by the 1898 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030513-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Overview of the result\nIn 1895 there were fewer uncontested returns than at the previous election in 1892, as the Conservatives launched a determined effort to take control of the county council. This resulted in substantial gains at the expense of the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030513-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Carew\nThe result did not appear in the local press but Lort Phillips was said to have been returned by a 'good majority'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030513-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Haverfordwest, Prendergast and Uzmaston\nThe mayor, as returning officer, gave his casting vote in favour of the Liberal candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 92], "content_span": [93, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030513-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Llangwm\nCarrow appears to have been elected as a Liberal in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030513-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Election of aldermen\nThe election of aldermen reflected Conservative successes at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030514-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1895 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 14\u20130 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. They outscored their opponents 480 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030515-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Penn State football team\nThe 1895 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team was coached by George Hoskins and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030516-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Peruvian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Peru in 1895. Nicol\u00e1s de Pi\u00e9rola of the Democratic Party was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030517-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030517-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030517-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030517-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030517-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030518-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Philadelphia mayoral election\nThe Philadelphia mayoral election of 1895 saw the election Charles F. Warwick, who defeated then-Pennsylvania Governor Robert E. Pattison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030519-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Philippine municipal elections\nIn 1893, the Maura Law was passed to reorganize town governments with the aim of making them more effective and autonomous. The law changed the title of chief executive of the town from gobernadorcillo to capitan municipal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030519-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Philippine municipal elections\nUnder the Maura Law, Luzon and Visayas were divided into provinces, which is administered by a governor, assisted by the provincial council (junta provincial). Each province was divided into towns (pueblos), whose affairs were managed by the municipal councils with the aid of principales. The towns were in turn divided and subdivided into wards (barrios), headed by tenientes del barrio, and barangays under cabezas de barangay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030519-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Philippine municipal elections\nFully implemented in 1895, the Maura Law was the most laudable Spanish reform in Philippine local government in its time. It gave the Filipinos greater participation in the administration of their affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030520-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Pittsburgh Athletic Club football season\nThe 1895 Pittsburgh Athletic Club football season was their fifth season in existence. The team finished with a record of 7\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030521-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 14th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; their 9th in the National League. The Pirates finished seventh in the National League with a record of 71\u201361.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030521-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030521-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030521-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030521-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030521-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030522-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 17 November 1895. They were boycotted by the Progressive Party and the Portuguese Republican Party, resulting in the Regeneration Party and a small number of independents winning all the seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030522-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Portuguese legislative election, Results\nThe results exclude the six seats won at national level and those from overseas territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030523-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1895 Preakness Stakes was the 20th running of the $1,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run on May 25, 1895 at Gravesend Race Track, in Coney Island, New York. Ridden by Fred Taral, Belmar won the mile and a sixteen race by one length over runner-up April Fool. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:50 1/2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030523-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Preakness Stakes\nBred by James Galway at his Preakness Stud in Passaic County, New Jersey, he raced under the nom de course Preakness Stables.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030523-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Preakness Stakes\nIn 1895, the Kentucky Derby was run on May 6, 1895 and the Preakness Stakes twenty days later on May 25. When the New York Jockey Club ceased operations, the running of the Belmont Stakes was delayed until November 2 once the Westchester Racing Association took over the racetrack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030523-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1919 Preakness Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the second leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030524-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours\nThe 1895 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were announced in the British national press on 1 July 1895 following the resignation of Lord Rosebery's government on 22 June. The appointments to the Order of the Bath appeared officially in the London Gazette of 2 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030525-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1895 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 10\u20131\u20131 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined score of 224 to 28. The team's sole loss was in the last game of the season by a 20\u201310 score against Yale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030525-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Princeton Tigers football team\nTwo Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Dudley Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030526-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1895 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1895 college football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 4\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 84 to 58 in their third season under head coach D. M. Balliet. C. H. Robertson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030527-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Quchan earthquake\nThe 1895 Quchan earthquake occurred at about 11:30 local time (08:30 UTC) on 17 January. It had an estimated magnitude of 6.8 on the surface wave magnitude scale and a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It caused severe damage in Quchan County, particularly to the town of Quchan itself and there were an estimated 1,000\u201311,000 casualties. It was the last in a sequence of major damaging earthquakes that struck the area between 1851 and 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030527-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Quchan earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe Kopet Dag mountain range lies at the northern edge of the complex zone of deformation caused by the continuing collision of the Arabian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. To the west it links with the Caucasus Mountains through the Caspian Sea. There is currently about 3\u00a0mm per year of shortening across the Kopet Dag as a whole. The Quchan Fault zone, trending NNW-SSE, is one of a set of active right lateral strike-slip faults that accommodate part of the shortening across the Kopet Dag and extension along its length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030527-0001-0001", "contents": "1895 Quchan earthquake, Tectonic setting\nIt has an estimated displacement rate of about 1.5\u00a0mm per year. The damage areas of the sequence of earthquakes that affected the Quchan area between 1851 and 1895 follow the projected path of the Quchan fault and its likely continuation as a thrust fault in the Atrak valley, where it forms a surface anticline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030527-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Quchan earthquake, Earthquake\nThe 1895 earthquake was preceded by a group of four foreshocks that were felt in Mashhad over a period of three days. The area affected by this earthquake was very similar to that affected by the 1893 shock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030527-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Quchan earthquake, Damage\nThe town of Quchan, newly rebuilt after the 1893 earthquake, was again devastated by the 1895 shock. The Imamzadeh of Sultan Ibrahim, which survived the earlier earthquake with some damage, collapsed completely. 600 people were trapped in a mosque that collapsed and a similar number were killed in public baths. The houses that had been rebuilt after 1893 were again ruined, but their lighter construction meant that there were far fewer casualties. The foreshocks may also have provided warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030527-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Quchan earthquake, Aftermath\nInitial attempts to move Quchan to a new location following the earthquake caused rioting. Only after the governor was replaced was the town moved about 10\u00a0km to the east, although some families refused to leave their farms and rebuilt their houses in the old location. The new site is, however, still within the epicentral area of the 1893 and 1895 earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030528-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1895 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 1895 college football season. It was the first season in school history. Rhode Island finished the season with a record of 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030529-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 3, 1895. Republican nominee Charles W. Lippitt defeated Democratic nominee George L. Littlefield with 56.89% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030530-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1895 Richmond Colts football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as an independent during the 1895 college football season. Led by Dana Rucker in his fourth and final season as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 0\u20135\u20131. For the second straight season, the team was winless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030531-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team\nThe 1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team was an American football team that represented Rush Medical College and Lake Forest University during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20136 record, shut out three opponents (while being the recipient of a shutout five times), and was outscored by their opponents by a total of 182 to 67. They are noteworthy in college football for becoming one of, if not the only example of a mid-season consolidation of two distinct football programs into a single team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030531-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team\nBefore the merger of each school's football program, Rush Medical and Lake Forest both had plans for a regular season and schedule, which included many of the same opponents, such as Chicago, Beloit, Chicago Athletic Association, and the Armour Institute of Technology. The idea of a merger between the two teams was first proposed by G. W. King on or around October 10, 1895, and was quickly adopted on October 12 with the help of J. D. Nary and J. H. Rice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030531-0001-0001", "contents": "1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team\nThe consolidation of both programs was easier than would otherwise be expected, given that Rush Medical was already affiliated with Lake Forest, the former being an affiliate graduate college of the latter. The plan was for Rush Medical, which had attained several experienced football players from their successful 1894 season, to forgo their men to Lake Forest, in return for the university's superior schedule, which included regional powerhouses Wisconsin, Michigan, and Notre Dame. The law programs of Chicago University and Lake Forest were also combed for possible talent. With the consolidation, the combined team hoped to stand a better chance against the more accomplished Midwestern football programs. Unfortunately, this strategy did not seem to play out for either team, and the Rush-Lake Forest experiment lost the majority of their remaining contests for the 1895 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 922]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030531-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Pre-merger schedules, Rush Medical schedule\nThe original captain for Rush Medical was Mr. Sager, a longtime fullback for the Chicago Athletic Association, and the coach was Mr. Searie. Many of the men on the Rush Medical roster had previous experience on collegiate and semi-professional teams, which included the Chicago Athletic Association, Purdue, Grinnell, Lake Forest, Washington &Jefferson, Kalamazoo, Minnesota, and Illinois. The team manager was H. C. Parks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030531-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Pre-merger schedules, Lake Forest schedule\nLake Forest was originally coached by Vic Harding, and kept their captain Marion Woolsey after the merger. The Foresters compiled a 1\u20132 record, and were outscored 66 to 6 by their opponents. The reason for this confusion lies with the October 12 contest against Wisconsin, as the game was originally recognized as a Lake Forest game (as opposed to Rush-Lake Forest).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030531-0003-0001", "contents": "1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Pre-merger schedules, Lake Forest schedule\nBy October 12 however, Rush Medical football players were already practicing with the Lake Forest eleven, and the team that played against the Badgers was composed of men from both teams, seven from Rush Medical and four from Lake Forest. Lake Forest also does not recognize this contest in their official season records, and so it is safe to retract this contest from Lake Forest's individual schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 79], "content_span": [80, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030531-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Rush-Lake Forest second team schedule\nAs part of the consolidation on October 12, a second team was formed to practice against the Varsity team in between match days. The seconds were captained by Mr. Stoops, a left tackle, and compiled (at least) a 0\u20132 record against regional academy teams and other collegiate secondaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030532-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1895 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1895 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach H. W. Ambruster, the Queensmen compiled a 4\u20134 record and were outscored by their opponents, 131 to 98. The team captain was William A. Ranney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030533-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Rylstone colonial by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Rylstone in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 October 1895 because the Committee of Elections and Qualifications declared that the election of John Fitzpatrick at the election for Rylstone in July, with a margin of 6 votes, was void because of gross negligence by the returning officer by not initialing 266 ballot papers (19.6%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030534-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 SAFA season\nThe 1895 South Australian Football Association season was the 19th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030534-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 SAFA season\nThe 'Port' Natives Club (renamed as West Torrens from 1897) was formed as a new Club by a group of players not tied to any District including some periphery Port Adelaide players who wanted more playing time. The Club's application to join the Senior competition was approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030534-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 SAFA season\nA summary of the 1895 season, including Tables of Games won, goal and behinds scored by each club vs each other club, top goal kickers, and a list of 1st and 2nd places since 1877 was published in the SA Register.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030535-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Salvadoran presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in El Salvador in January 1895. Provisional president General Rafael Antonio Guti\u00e9rrez was the only candidate and was elected with only 91 votes against. Separate elections were held for the vice presidency, in which Prudencio Alfaro defeated Carlos Mel\u00e9ndez and four minor candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030536-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 San Diego mayoral election\nThe 1895 San Diego mayoral election was held on April 2, 1895 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent Mayor William H. Carlson was reelected Mayor with a plurality of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030536-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIncumbent Mayor William H. Carlson stood for re-election to a second term as an independent. His reelection was contested by W.A. Sloane, a Republican, Charles S. Hamilton, a Democrat, and Daniel Stone, a Populist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030536-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nOn April 2, 1895, Carlson was narrowly re-elected mayor with a plurality of 33.9 percent of the vote. Stone came in second with 31.6 percent of the vote. Sloane and Hamilton trailed behind with 18.1 percent and 16.4 percent respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030537-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1895 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1895 college football season. In their third year of play, the Spartans achieved their first tie, a 6\u20136 decision against nearby College of the Pacific (this was also the first football game for Pacific). The contest was played in late January of 1896, but as was done in 1892, their game was counted in the 1895 academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030538-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Serbian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Serbia in April 1895. They followed a royal coup d'\u00e9tat by King Alexander in May 1894, in which he suspended the 1888 constitution and restored the 1869 constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030538-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Serbian parliamentary election, Background\nWhilst the 1888 constitution had increased the number of people eligible to vote, reverting to the 1869 constitution saw the government given the right to appoint one-third of the members of the National Assembly, whilst in many constituencies the Assembly members were elected indirectly through electoral colleges. The changes were expected to reduce the number of candidates of the People's Radical Party elected to the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030538-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Serbian parliamentary election, Results\nThe elections resulted in a victory for the Progressive Party government. Only six members of the People's Radical Party were elected, as well as 30 Liberals. Of the sixty appointed members, 49 were supporters of the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030539-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1895 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the inaugural season of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030540-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Singapore Amateur Football Association Challenge Cup\n1895 Singapore Amateur Football Association Challenge Cup was the fourth season of the Amateur Challenge Cup, the predecessor of the Singapore Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030540-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Singapore Amateur Football Association Challenge Cup\nThe Final was played between Royal Artillery and 5th Northumberland Fusiliers I, the former winning 3\u20131 to win the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030541-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1895 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1895 college football season. This was the first winning season in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030542-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe inaugural 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1895 college football season. The association's inaugural season began on October 12, 1895. The first conference game was played on October 26 with North Carolina at Georgia, featuring what some claim is the first forward pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030542-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe SIAA was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt. The conference was originally formed for \"the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030542-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (S. I. A. A.) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools. Every member of the current Southeastern Conference except Arkansas and Missouri, as well as six of the 15 current members of the Atlantic Coast Conference plus the University of Texas at Austin, now of the Big 12 Conference (and previously of the now defunct Southwest Conference), formerly held membership in the SIAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030542-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nNo conference members claimed a championship. Some publications dubbed North Carolina the SIAA champions for racking up a 3\u20130\u20131 road trip against SIAA opponents. Fuzzy Woodruff said Vanderbilt was the undisputed southeastern champion, but Virginia held preeminence in the entire South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030543-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election\nThe 1895 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 10 April 1895, following the retirement of the previous Speaker Arthur Wellesley Peel. The election resulted in the election of Liberal MP William Court Gully by the narrow margin of 11 votes. It was the first contested Speaker election since 27 May 1839. The next contested election would not be for another 56 years, until 31 October 1951.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030543-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election\nThe election was conducted by means of a conventional parliamentary motion, originally to elect Gully. He was proposed by Samuel Whitbread and seconded by Augustine Birrell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030543-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election\nSir John Mowbray then moved an amendment to the original motion to elect Sir Matthew White Ridley, who was then seconded by John Lloyd Wharton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030543-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election\nBoth Gully and Ridley then gave their speeches of submission to the will of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030543-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Results\nMPs voted on the motion that Gully take the Chair as Speaker, which was approved by 285 votes to 274. Gully was then conducted to the Chair by Whitbread.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030544-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1895 St. Louis Browns season was the team's 14th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 4th season in the National League. The Browns went 39\u201392 during the season and finished 11th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030544-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030544-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030544-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident\nThe St. Neots Derailment 1895 occurred near to St. Neots railway station on 10 November 1895 when a Great Northern Railway Scottish express from Kings Cross encountered a broken rail. The train left Kings Cross on time at 23:30 on Saturday night and proceeded at normal speed, which would have been about 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h). It was hauled by one of the GNR's latest and largest of its 8 foot singles, number 1006. The consist was of eight vehicles: a guard's van, a coach, a Pullman sleeping car (Iona), a corridor coach, another sleeping car, two further coaches and a final guard's van. It was carrying only twenty seven passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident, Derailment\nAbout forty yards south of St. Neots station a broken rail derailed the train, the coupling of the second sleeping car parting. The hind part of the train veered to the left and struck a row of goods wagons in a siding to the north of the station. The forward part of the train came to a stand about 1\u20444 mile (400\u00a0m) further on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident, Casualties\nThere was one death, a lady, Louisa O'Hara, who was propelled out of the sleeping car and struck her head against a goods wagon. Some four to six passengers were more or less severely injured, the guard also having struck his head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident, Early indications\nAlthough the train crew became aware of unusual noises and movement within the train, it was impossible, in the darkness, for them to tell what was amiss. It transpired that a portion of the left hand rail had broken, derailing the coaches, which had scraped along the platform leaving a trail of debris. The coupling of the second sleeping car finally parted as it passed over the crossover to the siding, colliding with a row of coal wagons. It took the brunt of the impact, losing its roof, much of its body work being shattered, and the floor being driven back into the following coach. The next two coaches were thrown partly over and telescoped together, but the guard's van remained virtually undamaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident, Early indications\nMeanwhile, once stationary it was discovered that the front section of the train was also derailed. The first two carriages were undamaged (and were used to carry the uninjured passengers on to Peterborough) but the Pullman car had damage to its wheels and undergear, while the following coach had lost all its glass on the left hand side. It too appeared to have struck some wagons but stayed upright and passed beneath the bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident, Inspection and report\nOn inspection the fracture faces of the broken rail were clean and bright, so it was clear that no inspection could have previously found a fault. Sir Henry Oakley, the General Manager of the Great Northern Railway stated, \"I have no doubt whatever that the disaster was caused by a faulty rail, and by that I mean one of faulty manufacture -- too brittle for its purpose.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident, Inspection and report\nSir Francis Marindin of Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate suggested that the first fracture of the rail took place over a chair at a minute induced flaw, which did not exist when the rail was manufactured. He also commented on the abnormally heavy axle loading of the locomotive: nearly 20 tons on the driving axle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030545-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 St. Neots rail accident, Aftermath\nThough probably not as a direct response to this accident, the Stirling Singles were replaced in the next few years by Ivatt's Atlantics. At this time also, cast, or wrought, iron rails were being replaced with steel and manufacturing processes were steadily improving. Serious accidents due to rail breakage, therefore, remained rare, though a full understanding of crack propagation from internal defects did not come about until the mid-twentieth century and the work of the British Rail Research Division, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030546-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Stanford football team\nThe 1895 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1895 college football season and was coached by Walter Camp in his second consecutive and third overall year with the team. It was also his last year at Stanford; he returned to Yale after the season where he served as a volunteer advisory coach for 15 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030547-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 State of the Union Address\nThe 1895 State of the Union Address was written by Grover Cleveland. It was presented on Monday, December 2, 1895, to both houses of the 54th United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030547-0000-0001", "contents": "1895 State of the Union Address\nHe said, \"Although but one American citizen was reported to have been actually wounded, and although the destruction of property may have fallen more heavily upon the missionaries of other nationalities than our own, it plainly behooved this Government to take the most prompt and decided action to guard against similar or perhaps more dreadful calamities befalling the hundreds of American mission stations which have grown up throughout the interior of China under the temperate rule of toleration, custom, and imperial edict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030548-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20134\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 204 to 173. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030549-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Swiss referendums\nThree referendums were held in Switzerland during 1895. The first was held on 3 February on a popular initiative on a federal law on Swiss embassies abroad, and was rejected by a majority of voters. The second was held on 29 September on a federal resolution on amending the constitution regarding the institution of a match monopoly, and was rejected by a majority of voters and cantons. The third was held on 3 November on a constitutional amendment regarding the military, and was also rejected by a majority of voters and cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030549-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Swiss referendums, Background\nThe referendums on a match monopoly and the military were mandatory referendums, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The embassies referendum was an optional referendum, which required only a majority of the public vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030550-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Sydney-Phillip in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 October 1895 because of the resignation of Dick Meagher (Protectionist).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030550-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Background\nMeagher had defended George Dean who had been charged with attempting to murder his wife. Dean was convicted and sentenced to death, however Meagher managed to persuaded two out of three royal commissioners to find that the conviction was unsafe and, as a result, Dean was pardoned. The publicity from the case helped Meagher win the election for Sydney-Phillip in July 1895. Rumours began to circulate that Dean had confessed to buying the poison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030550-0001-0001", "contents": "1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Background\nJack Want, the Attorney General, read to the Legislative Council an account by Sir Julian Salomons of his conversation with Meagher, in which Meagher told Salomons that Dean had confessed to Meagher. Meagher initially denied the accusation, however subsequently confessed stating \"I am determined to endure mental torture no longer, nor to stifle the voice of truth \u2026 This awful lesson of my life I will endeavour to atone for in another clime. My resignation of my seat in Parliament accompanies this declaration\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030550-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Background\nSir Henry Parkes announced himself as a candidate, however he withdrew prior to the nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030550-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Aftermath\nMeagher was struck off the roll of solicitors and was convicted of conspiracy to pervert the cause of justice, but the conviction was quashed on appeal. Meagher was returned to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Tweed at the election in 1895. It would take 25 years and an act of parliament before he was re-admitted as a solicitor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030551-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Syracuse Athletic Association football team\nThe 1895 Syracuse Athletic Assciation football team was an American football team that represented the Syracuse Athletic Association as an independent during the 1895 football season. The team compiled a 1\u20135 record and was outscored by its opponents by a total of 116 to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030552-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1895 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1895 college football season. The head coach was George O. Redington, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030553-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Tennessee Docs football team\nThe 1895 Tennessee Docs football team represented University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis, Tennessee in college football during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030554-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team unofficially represented the University of Tennessee in the 1895 season. In October 1894, the Athletic Association had resolved to drop varsity football and look forward to baseball in the spring of 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030554-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nW.B. Stokely, a UT senior who transferred from Wake Forest University in 1894, again persuaded a group of students to form a team in the fall of 1895. Stokely, who was elected captain, gave encouragement and direction to the other players. Even though the institution chose not to be represented officially on the gridiron in 1895, as in 1894, Stokely and his unofficial team kept football interest alive during this period when almost certainly it otherwise would have been allowed to lapse completely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030554-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThese unofficial games, referred to as \"The Lost Years\", are not included in NCAA statistics or in official UT win-loss records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030555-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1895 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1895 college football season. The team beat Tulane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030556-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1895 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the sixth staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030556-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nTubberadora won the championship after a 3\u201309 to 2\u201307 defeat of Suir View in the final. It was their first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030557-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Tufts Jumbos football team\nThe 1895 Tufts Jumbos football team was an American football team that represented Tufts College\u2014now known as Tufts University\u2014as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 132 to 101. Marshall Newell, a four-time consensus All-American at Harvard, was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030558-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1895 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030559-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1895 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 18 August to 25 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 25 June to 29 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 16th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030559-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nMalcolm Chace / Robert Wrenn defeated Clarence Hobart / Fred Hovey 7\u20135, 6\u20131, 8\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030559-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nHelen Hellwig / Juliette Atkinson defeated Elisabeth Moore / Amy Williams 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 12\u201310", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030559-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nJuliette Atkinson / Edwin P. Fischer defeated Amy Williams / Mantle Fielding 4\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030560-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nFred Hovey defeated defending champion Robert Wrenn in the challenge round 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1895 U.S. National Championships. Sixt\u0435\u0435n-year-old Dwight F. Davis who was to introduce the Davis Cup in 1900 took part in the competition for the first time, but lost his first match in four sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030561-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nJuliette Atkinson won the singles tennis title by defeating reigning champion Helen Hellwig 6\u20134, 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the Challenge Round of the 1895 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship. Atkinson had won the right to challenge Hellwig by defeating Elisabeth Moore 6\u20133, 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 6\u20130 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 25 through June 29, 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030562-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1895 U.S. Open was the first U.S. Open, held on Friday, October 4, at Newport Golf Club in Newport, Rhode Island. Horace Rawlins won the inaugural event, two strokes ahead of runner-up Willie Dunn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030562-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. Open (golf)\nEleven players began the tournament (three withdrew before play began), completing four loops around Newport's nine holes, which measured 2,755 yards (2,519\u00a0m). At the end of the first 18-holes Willie Campbell, Willie Dunn, and James Foulis were tied for the lead with 89, with Horace Rawlins two back at 91. Rawlins shot 41 on each of the last two loops of the course to post an 82 and 173 total, two ahead of Dunn and three ahead of Foulis and Canadian Andrew Smith, the lone amateur in the field. Rawlins won a winner's share of $150 and a gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030562-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe U.S. Open was played a day after the U.S. Amateur championship. The two championships were held on the same course for the next two years, at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in 1896 and the Chicago Golf Club in 1897. The U.S. Open was 36 holes total through 1897, increased to 72 in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030562-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe golf championships at Newport in 1895 were originally scheduled for September, but were postponed due to the America's Cup yacht races, won by Defender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030563-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1895 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1895 college football season. The team competed as an independent without a head coach, compiling a 0\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030564-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1895 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030565-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 United Kingdom general election\nThe 1895 United Kingdom general election was held from 13 July to 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery. The Irish Parliamentary Party was split at this time; most of its MPs (the \"Anti- Parnellites\") followed John Dillon, while a rump (the \"Parnellites\") followed John Redmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030566-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 United Kingdom general election in Ireland\nThe 1895 United Kingdom general election in Ireland took place from 13 to 29 July 1895. The divide between the anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation and the pro-Parnellite Irish National League continued, and with only minor variation in seats. In the overall election result, the Conservative\u2013Liberal Unionist coalition beat the Liberal Party government led by the Earl of Rosebery. Lord Salisbury returned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, having previously served from 1885 to 1886, and again from 1886 to 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030567-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 United States House of Representatives election in Utah\nThe United States House of Representatives election in Utah for the 54th Congress was held on November 5, 1895, in anticipation of statehood, which was achieved on January 4, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030567-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 United States House of Representatives election in Utah, Background\nUtah Territory had been represented by a delegate since 1851. Utah Territory was originally significantly larger than the current State, including most of Nevada, and portions of Colorado and Wyoming, which borders it held when the first delegate was elected, and was reduced in size in several stages. The territory had been colonized by Mormons who had sought to join the Union as the State of Deseret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030567-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 United States House of Representatives election in Utah, Background\nDue in large part to controversies over the beliefs of the Mormon majority, especially in regards to polygamy, the territory's admission as a State was delayed for a long time, and by the time of its admission, it was one of only four remaining territories in the contiguous United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 72], "content_span": [73, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030568-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were nine elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1895, during 53rd United States Congress and the 54th United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030568-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 United States House of Representatives elections\nEight were special elections to fill vacant seats and one was an initial election for a seat in the new state of Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030569-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThe 1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held in January 1895. Incumbent Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar was re-elected to a fourth term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030569-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nAt the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a resolution of the Massachusetts General Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030569-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Background, State legislature\nAt the time, the Massachusetts legislature was controlled by the Republican Party, as it had been since that party's founding, typically in dominant fashion. The 1894 election in particular, which coincided with the landslide election of Governor Frederic Greenhalge, returned the strongest Republican majority in 21 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030569-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Background, State legislature\nThe Senate was composed of 36 Republicans and only 4 Democrats, and the House had 194 Republicans and 45 Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030569-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Election, Caucuses\nIn caucuses held on January 9, Republicans re-nominated Hoar unanimously. Democrats, as a matter of party honors, nominated former U.S. Representative John E. Russell of Leicester, also unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030569-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Election, Election\nBoth houses convened on January 15 and ratified Hoar's re-election along strict party lines, with many members not bothering to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030570-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1895, in nine states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030570-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 United States gubernatorial elections\nKentucky, Maryland and Mississippi held their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year. New Jersey at this time held gubernatorial elections every 3 years, which it would abandon in 1949. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both elected its governors to a single-year term, which they would abandon in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030571-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 University of Utah football team\nThe 1895 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1895 college football season as an independent. Head coach Walter Shoup led the team to a 0\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030572-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Utah gubernatorial election\nThe 1895 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1895. It was the first gubernatorial election in the state of Utah and it was held before it became a state on the 4 of January, 1896, to set up the machinery for the new state. Republican Heber Manning Wells defeated Democratic nominee John Thomas Caine with 50.32% of the vote. Wells' first term was to run for five years, until the next general election in 1900. Also, Populist Henry W. Lawrence ran but only won 4.95% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team\nThe 1895 VAMC football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in the 1895 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Arlie C. Jones and finished with a record of four wins and two losses (4\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1895 football team according to the roster published in the 1896 and 1903 editions of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Season summary, Virginia\nOn October 5, 1895, VAMC played their first game of the season against the University of Virginia at Madison Hall Field in Charlottesville, Virginia and lost 0\u201336. Virginia scored in the first five minutes of the game, with a rushing touchdown by quarterback Archie Hoxton. VAMC failed to get within 25 yards of the end zone during the entire game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Season summary, St. Albans\nVAMC played St. Albans Boys Lutheran School on October 12, 1895 and won 12\u20130 in front of 600 spectators. Neither team scored points in the first half, but VAMC scored two touchdowns in the second half, with T. D. Martin kicking two successful extra points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Season summary, Washington and Lee\nVAMC played their third game of the season on October 26, 1895 against Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA with 500 in attendance. VAMC halfback A. P. Eskridge recorded a forty five-yard run and a touchdown, and halfback J. Lewis Ingles had an eighty five-yard touchdown run. The other touchdowns were scored by Miles Hart (2) and William Mayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Season summary, Roanoke YMCA\nOn November 9, 1895, VAMC played against the Roanoke YMCA on the Roanoke Athletic Club grounds in front of 300 people. VAMC scored a touchdown within the first ten minutes of play, and then on the next drive, VAMC turned the ball over on downs. Roanoke then passed the ball to their fullback Meade, who then attempted a failed dropkick. On the very next play, VAMC scored a rushing touchdown. VAMC then scored again six minutes into the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0005-0001", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Season summary, Roanoke YMCA\nRoanoke was then able to drive down the field and made it to the four-yard line, but then their halfback S. Handy fumbled and it was recovered by VAMC. However, Roanoke YMCA was then able to record a safety, their only points of the game. The game was then called because of darkness, and VAMC won 16\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nVAMC lost a second game on November 16, 1895 against the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina with 1,000 looking on. North Carolina scored three touchdowns in the first half and then scored two more touchdowns in the second half. VAMC then drove to North Carolina's three-yard line, but was stopped on downs. The final score was 5\u201332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030573-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 VAMC football team, Season summary, Virginia Military Institute\nOn November 28, 1895, VAMC played their final game of the season against the Virginia Military Institute in Lynchburg, Virginia in front 3,000 spectators. VMI was the first team to put points on the board, when their halfback Dickinson scored a rushing touchdown at the end of the first half. However, VAMC's Miles Hart was able to rush into the end zone for a touchdown and R. N. Watts kicked the extra point to win the game, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 68], "content_span": [69, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season\nThe 1895 Victorian Football Association season was the 19th season of the Australian rules football competition. The season was opened on 4 May, and concluded on 21 September. Fitzroy won the premiership by six points, with a record of 12 wins, 5 draws and one loss. It was Fitzroy's first VFA premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Premiership season\nIn 1895, the VFA competition consisted of thirteen teams of 20 on-the-field players each. Unless otherwise noted, matches began at 3pm. Because there was an odd number of teams, at least one team had a bye each week; the idle club often travelled to Ballarat to play one of the local senior clubs in a non-premiership match. When reporting match scores in 1895, the number of goals and behinds scored by each team is given; however, only the number of goals scored is considered when determining the result of a match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Ladder\nThe Association had no formal tie-breakers in cases where clubs were equal on premiership points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Premiership\nFitzroy was the winner of the 1895 premiership with 58 points, finishing six points clear of Geelong, Collingwood and Melbourne, who finished equal-second on 52 points. Fitzroy finished with fewer wins than either Geelong or Melbourne, and scored 51 goals fewer than Geelong, but it lost only one match for the season, and conceded 15 goals fewer than any other team. The premiership was the first in the history of the Fitzroy Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Premiership\nFitzroy was unbeaten in its last fourteen matches, coming from behind to claim the premiership from Geelong and Melbourne. Geelong, who had begun the season with a ten-match winning streak, and Melbourne, who had begun the season with an eight-match winning streak, were considered most likely to win the premiership at mid-season, but both teams' form deteriorated in the second half of the season to finish 13\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Premiership\nFitzroy officially clinched the premiership in Round 19, its last match for the season; both Fitzroy's draw against South Melbourne and Geelong's unusual 0.9 \u2013 1.0 loss to Port Melbourne separately ensured that Fitzroy could not be matched or passed for first place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Leading goalkickers\nThe leading goalkicker for the season was Decoit of Geelong, kicking 42 goals. He finished comfortably ahead of the second-placed Archie Smith of Collingwood. The high-scoring Geelong team produced three of the top five goalkickers for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Non-premiership matches\nAssociation teams often played exhibition matches separate to the premiership season, particularly during bye weeks. This is not a complete list of all such matches, but is a selection of the most notable such games in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Non-premiership matches, Charity Saturday\nOn the Saturday between Rounds 5 and 6, a charity event was held. Although the league had previously held charity days during the premiership season, this was the first time that the premiership season had been suspended entirely to accommodate the event. Two shortened matches, each lasting approximately one hour and played across two separate periods, were played as part of the event; two pairs of fierce rivals were selected to maximise interest in the matches. The charity event trialled the use of boundary umpires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 58], "content_span": [59, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Non-premiership matches, Charity Saturday\nAdditionally, a 130-yard sprint race, open to any Association players and run without handicap, was held. The race was won by Drew of Port Melbourne; Palmer of Essendon finished second and Morton of Footscray finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 58], "content_span": [59, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Non-premiership matches, Norwood's tour of Victoria\nNorwood, the winners of the 1894 South Australian Football Association (SAFA) premiership, undertook a two-week tour of Victoria in May and June, playing five exhibition matches against Association clubs and a combined Ballarat team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 68], "content_span": [69, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030574-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 VFA season, Non-premiership matches, Norwood's tour of Victoria\nWhile Norwood finished with one win and two draws from the five matches, the tour proved to be a financial disaster for the club, as all five matches were poorly attended. With Norwood's share of the gate takings being a mere \u00a330, the club lost \u00a3170 on the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 68], "content_span": [69, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030575-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1895 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their fifth season of organized football. The Keydets went 5\u20131, which was the program's fifth winning season in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030576-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1895 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team's head coach was Charles L. Upton, who only coached one season in that capacity, at Vanderbilt for one year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030577-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1895 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University during the 1895 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was James McDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030578-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1895 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1895 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Harry Arista Mackey, the team went 9\u20133 and claims a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030579-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wake Forest Baptists football team\nThe 1895 Wake Forest Baptists football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest College during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030580-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington & Jefferson football team\nThe 1895 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. Led by E. Gard Edwards in his second and final year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 6\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030581-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1895 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1895 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Fred Waite and compiled a record of 2\u20130, its first undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030582-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington Senators season\nThe 1895 Washington Senators baseball team finished the season with a 43\u201385 record, tenth place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030582-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030582-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030582-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030582-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030582-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030583-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Washington football team\nThe 1895 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20130\u20131 record, shut out three of five opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 98 to 8. Ralph Nichols, who had been the team captain in 1894, was the coach in 1895. Martin Harris was the 1895 team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030584-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1895 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030584-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nIn 1895 incumbent Mayor Charles Luke was defeated by MP and former Mayor George Fisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030585-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 West Cavan by-election\nThe West Cavan by-election, 1895 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of West Cavan on 22 August 1895. The sitting member, Edmund Vesey Knox of the Irish National Federation, who had sat for the constituency since a by-election in 1890, had been re-elected in the general election of 1895. However, having been elected also for the constituency of Londonderry City, he chose to sit for that constituency instead. The West Cavan seat thus became vacant, and in the ensuing by-election, another Irish National Federation candidate, James Patrick Farrell, was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030586-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 West Dorset by-election\nThe 1895 West Dorset by-election was held on 14 May 1895 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP Henry Richard Farquharson. The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate Robert Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030587-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1895 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Harry McCrory, the team compiled a 5\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 58 to 10. The team's sole loss was to Washington & Jefferson by a 4\u20130 score. William J. Bruner was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe Alumni Athletic Advisory Board led by J.D. Scott, one of Pitt football's founding fathers, and the Athletic Association re-energized the Athletic Department at the Western University of Pennsylvania following the disarray of 1893 and 1894. Their first objective in the fall of 1895 was to place a football team on the field. W. A. Stuart, a former State College fullback, was hired to coach the team. After the first two games coach Stuart was dismissed and J. P. Linn replaced him. Coach Linn had played end at Washington & Jefferson University. He coached the remaining five games of the season and then departed for Seminary School. In its first and only season under head coach J. P. Linn, the team compiled a 1\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 136 to 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nOn October 5 the first game pitted WUP against the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club at Exposition Park. The WUP players were outweighed and outclassed against one of the best club teams in the Pittsburgh area. Five different players scored touchdowns for the Duquesnes. The A.C. made numerous substitutions for the second half. John Rugh replaced Cohen at left guard for the WUP eleven. The second half highlight was an 85 yard kickoff return by Floyd Rose (former WUP quarterback). The final score read 36-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nThe WUP starting lineup for the season opener was William Bigger (left end), George Neale (left tackle), Cohen (left guard), Charles Burheim (center), Smith (right guard), Morris Gelb (right tackle), Al Marshall (right end), Kittner (quarterback), J.P. Linn (left halfback), Edward Mayer (right halfback) and James Frazier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Greensburg Athletic Association\nOn October 12, the Greensburg Athletic Association ran roughshod over the WUP eleven in Greensburg. The game featured arguments with officials about the rules and accusations of stealing signals. The WUPs requested that umpire Jamison of Greensburg be replaced with Boswell of the WUP. The home team objected and their Captain Atherton assaulted Mr. Boswell. Injuries to Neale and Marshall of the Western U. did not help matters. WUP could only manage a safety and lost the game, 40\u20132 according to The Pittsburgh Post, 24-2 according to The Pittsburgh Press, and 42-2 according to the Coffin Corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Greensburg Athletic Association\nThe WUP lineup for the Greensburg game was Ned Johnston (left end), George Neale (left tackle), Cohen (left guard), Young (center), Smith (right guard), John Rugh (right tackle), Davis (right end), James Frazier (quarterback), Al Marshall (right halfback), Edward Mayer (left halfback) and Thomas (fullback). The attendance was about three hundred and the referee was Hargrave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Emerald Athletic Club\nOn October 19, the first game under the tutelage of J.P. Linn was against the Emerald Athletic Club at Emerald Park. This was Emerald's first game and they were coached by WUP halfback George Neale. WUP showed marked improvement over their previous games and secured a victory by the score of 22\u20130. More than two thousand fans witnessed the game refereed by McNeill that was well played and free from arguments and fisticuffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Emerald Athletic Club\nThe WUP lineup for the Emerald game was William Bigger (right end), John Scott (right tackle), Cohen (right guard), Young (center), Charles Burheim (left guard), Murray (left tackle), Morris Gelb (left end), James Frazier (quarterback), Thomas (right halfback), George Neale (left halfback) and Charles Rankin (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe first game of the Backyard Brawl took place October 26, 1895 in Morgantown, West Virginia. Since the Western boys had to catch a train home, the game was composed of 25-minute halves. The game was hotly contested and not without disputes. Keely of West Virginia scored a touchdown twelve minutes into the game but the goal kick after was missed by Leps. Later in the first half, Rugh of the Universities caught a bad punt by Rankin behind the goal. West Virginia argued that they should get credit for a touchdown. The WUP eleven argued it was a touchback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0008-0001", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nAccording to the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer reporter - \"after some heated discussion, both teams agreed that a safety would be called instead of a touchdown for the Mountaineers.\" That made the score at halftime 6\u20130 in favor of the Mountaineers. The second half was scoreless. Then,The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer published the score as 10\u20130. The Pittsburgh papers have it as 6\u20130. The Pitt Media Guide lists the score as 8-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0008-0002", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe Western University Courant article written by Ned Johnston, who was on the field, stated both teams agreed to keep the score 4-0 and that the argument was settled as a touchback. He also expressed disappointment in the boorish behavior of the \"semi-civilized\" Mountaineer fans and the six hour train ride to get to and from Morgantown. A truly heated rivalry was born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe WUP starting lineup for the first West Virginia game was Charles Burheim (center), John Rugh (left guard), Cohen (left guard), Morris Gelb (right tackle), Murray (left tackle), Thomas (right halfback), George Neale (left halfback), Al Marshall (right end), J. P. Linn (left end), James Frazier (quarterback) and Charles Rankin (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Washington & Jefferson\nOn November 2, WUP traveled to Washington, Pennsylvania to take on the Washington & Jefferson. The WUP eleven was outweighed and unable to stop the rushes of the Washington & Jefferson backfield. Frye and Fiscus scored for Washington & Jefferson in the first half and the score stood 10\u20130 at halftime. In the second half Washington & Jefferson continued to run through the WUP defense as Brownlee, Fiscus, Frye and Ely each scored a touchdown. The final score read 28\u20130. The Pittsburg Post summed it up best \"The W.U.P. played a clean, fast game but could do nothing with the W. &. J. line.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 96], "content_span": [97, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Washington & Jefferson\nThe WUP lineup for the W. & J. game was Al Marshall (left end), Smith (left tackle), Young (left guard), Charles Burheim (center), Cohen (right guard), John Rugh (right tackle), Montgomery (right end), James Frazier (quarterback), Davis (right halfback), Thomas (left halfback), and George Neale (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 96], "content_span": [97, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Carnegie Athletic Club\nOn November 16, the WUP eleven took on the Carnegie Athletic Club in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The Western University played their best game of the season but came up short on the scoreboard. In front of 1500 fans, WUP quarterback Frazier received the opening kick and ran it back for a touchdown. He followed that with the goal kick after and WUP was ahead 6\u20130 one minute into the game. The University boys did not score again. Carnegie was able to score two touchdowns and a goal kick after against the WUP defense. The final score read 10\u20136 in favor of Carnegie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 96], "content_span": [97, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Carnegie Athletic Club\nThe WUP lineup for the Carnegie A.C. game was Al Marshall (left end), Morris Gelb (left tackle), Cohen (left guard), Charles Burheim (center), John Rugh (right guard), Murray (right tackle), Ned Johnston (right end), James Frazier (quarterback),George Neale (right halfback), Thomas (left halfback), and J.P. Linn (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 96], "content_span": [97, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nOn Thanksgiving Day, the Wheeling Tigers hosted the WUPs' final game of the 1895 season at the State Fairgrounds in Wheeling, West Virginia. The WUP defense played well in the first half and held the Tigers to a late touchdown by John Edwards. Robert Edwards kicked the goal after. Early in the second half the Wheeling offense advanced the ball deep into WUP territory. Cal McAninch finally scored from the three yard line. Robert Edwards kicked the goal after and the Tigers were ahead 12\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0014-0001", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nThe WUP offense was able to move the ball into Tiger territory on several possessions but the Tiger defense would stiffen and get the ball back on downs. The Tigers were again close to scoring as time ran out. The 2,500 spectators were treated to a good turkey day football game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nThe WUP lineup for the Wheeling game was Al Marshall (left end), Hall (left tackle), Cohen (left guard), Young (center), John Rugh (right guard), Morris Gelb (right tackle), Ned Johnston (right end), James Frazier (quarterback),George Neale (left halfback), J.P. Linn (right halfback), and Charles Rankin (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030588-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1895 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion\nThe 1895 Wilcox rebellion was a brief war from January 6 to January 9, 1895, that consisted of three battles on the island of O\u02bbahu, Republic of Hawaii. It was the last major military operation by royalists who opposed the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion\nBecause of its brevity and lack of casualties, this conflict is largely forgotten; in some cases those who rediscover it coin a new name for the conflict, but it is frequently referred to as the \u201cCounter-revolution\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Background, Republic of Hawai\u02bbi\nFollowing the 1887 Hawaiian Constitution and the 1893 coup d'\u00e9tat, a temporary government was formed by the Committee of Safety until an assumed annexation by the United States. They were successful with President Benjamin Harrison in negotiating an annexation treaty; however, Harrison's term in office came to an end before the treaty could be ratified by Congress. The new President, Grover Cleveland, opposed the idea of annexation, being an anti-imperialist himself, and withdrew the annexation treaty upon taking office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0002-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Background, Republic of Hawai\u02bbi\nAfter commissioning the secret Blount Report, he stated that the U.S. had inappropriately used military force and called for the reinstatement of Queen Lili\u02bbuokalani. The matter was referred by Cleveland to Congress after Sanford Dole refused Cleveland's demands, and the U.S. Senate held a further investigation, culminating in the Morgan Report, which completely rejected that there had been any U.S. involvement in the overthrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Background, Republic of Hawai\u02bbi\nThe Provisional Government feared that President Cleveland might continue to support the queen by restoring the monarchy. The Provisional Government also realized there would be no annexation until Cleveland's term of office ended; and they wanted to establish a more permanent government until another president, more favorable toward annexation, came to office. Therefore, the Provisional Government called to order a Constitutional Convention on May 30, 1894. The Constitutional Convention drafted a constitution for a Republic of Hawaii. The Republic of Hawaii was proclaimed on 4 July 1894 at Aliiolani Hale. The Republic was a single-party oligarchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Background, Royalist plans\nIn 1895, Robert Wilcox was brought into a plot to overthrow the Republic of Hawai\u02bbi and return Queen Lili\u02bbuokalani to the throne. Among the plotters was Sam Nowlein, former Head of the Royal Guards of Hawaii (which had been disbanded in 1893); Joseph Nawahi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Charles T. Gulick, an advisor to both Kal\u0101kaua and Lili\u02bbuokalani; and William H. Rickard, a sugar planter of British parentage. These men planned to attack government buildings in downtown Honolulu at night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0004-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Background, Royalist plans\nThey had recruited a number of poor Hawaiians, most of them day laborers from the outskirts of Honolulu, but failed to fill their quota of 700 recruits. In addition the recruits lacked weapons, training and discipline, and were pitted against the formidable forces of the Provisional Government, which had spent the royal treasury and secured loans to arm itself thoroughly against such an attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Background, Royalist plans\nThe rebels had purportedly smuggled arms to Lili\u02bbuokalani to resupply them once the palace was secured. A shipment of guns and ammunition from California had been smuggled on board the Schooner Wahlber to be put aboard the Steamer Waimanalo near Rabbit Island and shipped to a secret Honolulu location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of Diamond Head\nRumors were circulating on January 6, 1895, that armaments were being landed on Waik\u012bk\u012b beach, O\u02bbahu. A squad of six policemen led by Captain Parker, a veteran of the 1889 rebellion who commanded the 30 Royal Guards in the Palace, had been sent to Henry Bertelmann\u2019s house near Diamond Head to search for the weapons. They did not know Bertelmann was a Lieutenant in the insurgency. As Deputy Marshal Brown read the warrant to Bertleman, the squad was fired upon by three Royalists returning from the beach, that took shelter in Bertleman\u2019s canoe house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0006-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of Diamond Head\nThe police advanced toward the canoe house until the Royalists were driven off, but not before Charles L. Carter, an armed civilian accompanying the police, was shot three times in the chest. Bertleman shot and wounded police lieutenant Holi as the policemen returned to the house. The policemen subdued Bertleman and another rebel, John Lane, in the first clash and took shelter in Bertleman\u2019s house. 70 royalists in the surrounding area joined the battle attacking the house. They were commanded by Colonel Robert Wilcox and Lieutenant Lot Lane, an intimidating six foot Irish-Hawaiian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0006-0002", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of Diamond Head\nThe Royalists surrounded the house but three men escaped: Captain Parker, Deputy Marshal Brown, and Alfred Wellington Carter (Charles Carter's cousin). The police officers mounted their horses and sent word of the uprising, while Alfred Carter searched for a doctor. A detachment of the National Guard of Hawaii, Company E commanded by Lt. King, drove back the Royalists towards Diamond Head by 9:00, allowing Alfred Carter to bring doctors Walter, Murry, and Doyle to his cousin. The battle continued into the night. The Royalists managed to repel the soldiers from their fallback position. By dawn of January 7, the government forces withdrew to Sans Souci Beach in Waikiki near Sans Souci Hotel run by Royalist George Lycurgus at Kapiolani Park west of Diamond Head and awaited reinforcements, ending the battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 861]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of Diamond Head\nC. L. Carter, nephew of supreme court justice Albert Francis Judd and son of former Kingdom diplomat Henry A. P. Carter, died from his wounds later that day. Two other police officers were also wounded and sent to a hospital. Bertleman and Lane were sent to the police station, where they were imprisoned. Although the royalists had triumphed in the first battle of the war, they had lost the element of surprise. Consequently, this victory would be short-lived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u014d\u02bbili\u02bbili\nOn January 7, 1895 martial law was declared in Hawaii by President Sanford B. Dole. The men led by Lt. Sam Nowlein rendezvoused with Col. Robert W.K. Wilcox at Diamond Head. Following the Republic government\u2019s humiliating defeat, Marshal Edward G. Hitchcock deployed men and three artillery cannons to stop the Royalists\u2019 march on Honolulu. An additional detachment of 25 men led by Lt. Coyne was sent, and met Lt. King near Sans Souci Beach at Kapiolani Park on the east end of Waikiki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0008-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u014d\u02bbili\u02bbili\nKing had sent a group of men to the rim of Diamond Head to attack the Royalists from above, while Coyne had received a field piece and zeroed in on a group of 100 Royalists on the slopes of the volcano. The artillery was at first too inaccurate to be effective, and it took several barrages to dislodge Wilcox\u2019s men. It is noted that one round was so inaccurate that it missed Diamond Head completely, sailing over the crater and landing in the sea. The final bombardment inflicted several casualties and scattered the group. Wilcox saw no tactical importance in remaining on Diamond Head and ordered his men to retreat to Waialae to rest. The new strategy was to move north into Ko\u02bbolau mountains then west, avoiding the Government forces in south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u014d\u02bbili\u02bbili\nNowlein's men opened fire near Diamond Head at Mau\u02bbumae at a group of police along Waialae Road commanded by T. B. Murray and, though they caused no casualties, the police withdrew anyway. The Republic\u2019s army moved toward the Royalists with two of the government's cannons. The third cannon was put aboard a commandeered tugboat named Eleu to form a makeshift Patrol Boat. The Eleu attacked Wilcox\u2019s men with grapeshot at Waialae, on the northeast side of Diamond Head. The Royalists were centered around Anton Rosa\u2019s residence, the former headquarters for the Royalists with an arms cache, which was captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u014d\u02bbili\u02bbili\nNowlein's men were to capture Punchbowl, but had been waiting in hiding at Mau\u02bbumae as government troops were moving toward Diamond Head. T. B. Murray's group of police on reconnaissance along Waialae Road were sent toward their position. As they approached, Nowlein's men fired at them and the policemen retreated. Murray's men returned with Company F commanded by Captain C. W. Zeiler from Palolo, sent to engage Nowlein at Kaimuki as they moved toward Mo\u02bbili\u02bbili. Nowlein's men were driven back to Mau\u02bbumae, where there were ammo caches and boulders for cover. The fighting led to a deadlock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0010-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u014d\u02bbili\u02bbili\nDue to the distance between the opposing forces, and protective cover on both sides, neither combatant could inflict casualties on the other. Finally the government forces broke the stronghold when a howitzer was brought to bear to end the stalemate and 33 of Nowlein's men surrendered, though Nowlein himself escaped with officers and a few men although he disliked the idea of abandoning his men, his officers convinced him that it was strategic to prevent him from being captured or killed if he remanded in the stronghold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u014d\u02bbili\u02bbili\nAs the Eleu began to attack Waialae, Wilcox moved his men through the mountains, advancing toward Honolulu. His men moved to the settlement of Mo\u02bbili\u02bbili, at the mouth of M\u0101noa Valley, where they encountered a line of Captain Zeiler\u2019s Company, and also met with artillery fire. Captain Camara supported Zeiler in securing his flank, positioning his Company C in Nu\u02bbuanu and Punchbowl, cutting off the western advance by the Royalists. The Royalists retreated and entrenched themselves among the stone walls and lantana foliage of the area. Zeiler advanced on them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0011-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u014d\u02bbili\u02bbili\nWilcox awaited Nowlein's attack on Punchbowl to relieve his men of the government forces, but this never came. The Royalists could not hold their ground against Zeiler's men and retreated into the valley. At the end of the battle 40 Royalists surrendered and were taken prisoner, while one of Zeiler's men was wounded. The battle had lasted a day, and several Royalists had been killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u0101noa\nThe final battle took place on January 9. The Royalists had withdrawn following their defeat at Mo\u02bbili\u02bbili. Wilcox was down to 100 men and retreated into M\u0101noa Valley. Most of Wilcox's men had not eaten since the start of the rebellion and spirits were low. The Republican Government forces did not immediately pursue the Royalists because a riot had broken out among Japanese plantation workers in \u02bbEwa, and the government, in reaction, drew forces away from the nearly crushed rebellion to deal with this new threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0012-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u0101noa\nReconnaissance patrols were sent into and around the Ko\u02bbolaus and concluded that the Royalist force was still in M\u0101noa Valley. They employed the Eleu to patrol the coast and destroyed suspicious unattended boats. The government forces that remained were ordered to guard the entrance to the valley in order to keep the Royalist force contained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u0101noa\nA Royalist force of 50 men was spotted on the evening of the 9th attempting to scale Tantalus and move through Punchbowl to enter the city. A gun battle ensued between Company A commanded by Capt. P. Smith, backed by Company D. commanded by Lt. Jones with a field piece against the Royalists, leaving one Royalist dead. The Royalists were pushed to the back of the valley where they were surrounded by mountains on three sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0013-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u0101noa\nUntil nightfall, the doomed company withstood the ensuing siege and artillery barrage in the pocket known as \u201cthe Pen\u201d, at the base of Pu\u02bbu Konahuanui. The Royalists then climbed the steep slopes to escape under the cover of darkness. The battle had lasted three hours with two rebels captured, three confirmed dead, and most managing to escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Battle of M\u0101noa\nAfter the climb up the ridge the royalists\u2019 fates varied. Many felt the revolution was a failure and deserted. Others wished to continue the fight but were separated from Wilcox\u2019s leadership and would eventually be captured or killed by government forces routing out the remaining Royalists. Wilcox moved over ancient footpaths to Nu\u02bbuanu Valley and Kalihi, where the group of 10 eventually disbanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Aftermath\nSkirmishes continued for a week after the victory in M\u0101noa as the military eradicated the areas of resistance in the Ko\u02bbolaus. Contrary to popular belief of the tropical forests of Hawaii having excesses of edibles they are actually scarce. The early native Hawaiians brought crops of their own when they settled the islands, although vegetation is bountiful, few plants are fit for eating. As a consequence most insurgents were driven out by starvation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Aftermath\nAll the Royalist leaders were arrested. A barracks was converted into a prison to hold the captured rebels. On January 8, 1895, the captain of the Steamer Waimanalo, William Davies, and several crewmembers were arrested for distributing arms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0017-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Aftermath\nNowlein was caught with three lieutenants on January 14 in Mo\u02bbili\u02bbili. They had been fed by native Hawaiian sympathizers while in hiding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0018-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Aftermath\nWilcox hid for several days in the mountains and made his way to Nu\u02bbuanu Valley and Kalihi with 10 loyal conspirators, but the group was disbanded. He surrendered on January 16, 1895, in a fishing hut near Kalihi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0019-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Aftermath\nLane hid in the Ko\u02bbolaus above M\u0101noa for ten days after the final battle. He came out of hiding after fighting subsided believing a foreign intervention had come, after asking a passerby he discovered the revolution was crushed. Contrary to the fears of Lane and the warning to government forces to use caution when encountering him, he surrendered peacefully to police becoming the last insurgent to be captured. After being brought to police headquarters he was escorted by six guards in fear he may overpower the regular amount for a normal prisoner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0019-0001", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Aftermath\nHe was locked in with over a hundred under-nourished prisoners of war, he protested that night using the guards\u2019 fears about him to provide food for his fellow inmates. It was believed that most of the Royalists had evaded capture, and with their identities not known had slipped back into the community to return to their lives before the revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030589-0020-0000", "contents": "1895 Wilcox rebellion, Aftermath\nA weapons cache was found and attributed to Lili\u02bbuokalani. She was arrested on January 16. Wilcox was tried for treason (as he had after the Wilcox Rebellion of 1889) by a military tribunal with the other military leaders. This time he was found guilty and sentenced to death, but the sentence reduced to 35 years. Lili\u02bbuokalani and other political leaders were tried and convicted for misprision of treason by those who had overthrown the Kingdom. The former attorney general of the Kingdom Paul Neumann served as legal defense, and prosecutor was William Ansel Kinney. Lili\u02bbuokalani formally abdicated her throne to prevent further bloodshed over the controversial government in a five-page letter on January 24, 1895. The president of the republic, Sanford B. Dole, pardoned the royalists after they served part of their prison sentence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team\nThe 1895 Willamette Bearcats football team represented Willamette University during the 1895 college football season. The team was a member of the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association. The 1895 season was the school's second year of organized football and saw the squad finish with a record of 2 wins, 2 losses, and no ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 1: Oregon Normal School\nThe Willamette team traveled to Monmouth for an October 26 game against Oregon Normal School, today's Western Oregon State College. A sizeable contingent of fans made the 12 mile trip from Salem to the site of the game, bringing with them numerous horns, which raised a deafening blast each time the Bearcats scored. The horns were to blow many, many times during the course of the afternoon as the Bearcats demolished the home team by a score of 44 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 1: Oregon Normal School\nAt the end of the contest the school's rooters chanted in unison: \"Rah, Rah, Rah! / Zip, Boom, Bah / Willamette, Willamette / Ha Ha Ha!\" as the elated victors rejoiced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 1: Oregon Normal School\nBy previous arrangement the winner of the Willamette\u2013Oregon Normal game was to play the winner of the University of Oregon\u2013Oregon Agricultural College contest in a practic game at the Oregon State Fairgrounds the following week, and the Bearcats prepared themselves for the challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 2: University of Oregon\nOn Saturday, November 2, 1895, Willamette met the team of the University of Oregon Webfoots at the State Fairgrounds in a practice game ahead of the regular conference tournament. The game was played in a steady rain which, one young fan noted, \"dripped off our neighbors' umbrellas and ran down our necks and up our sleeves and filled our laps and spoiled our dresses and soaked our feet.\" By the end of the game the field was rendered a bowl of mud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 2: University of Oregon\nThe Eugene squad was perceived as heavy favorites coming into the day and for the first ten minutes gave every impression of massive superiority as the Willamette ends pinched in too tightly and failed to hold the corners on defense and the halfbacks \u2014 who played in this era akin to modern linebackers \u2014 failed to fight through blocks to make tackles. The Lemon Yellow scored a touchdown in short order, making the score 4\u20140 in favor of the visitors following a missed conversion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 2: University of Oregon\nWillamette battled back, however, with their star End Guiss breaking off a long run before being run down by Oregon defenders just short of the goal line. Although thwarted on his first attempt, Guiss broke another long run around the left side later in the half to knot the score at 4 to 4. The kick after the touchdown was again unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0007-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 2: University of Oregon\nMacy and Hawley managed to keep Willamette in the game by blocking an astounding six kicks. A small scuffle erupted between Coleman of Oregon and McCormick of Willamette, in which, as the young Salem girl described it, they \"got mad and slapped each other's faces and dared each other like two small boys \u2014 I didn't think that was at all nice.\" The crew of three referees shared this assessment and both were thrown out of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0008-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 2: University of Oregon\nA late score won it for the visitors, who triumphed 8 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0009-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 3: Oregon Agricultural College\nThe third game was played against Oregon Agricultural College (today's Oregon State University), and took place on a gridiron field at the Oregon State Fairgrounds. There were 1,000 or more fans on hand to watch the opening kickoff at 3:40 pm, received by Bidwell of the Aggies, who briefly lost control of the ball before being buried under a sea of humanity. The first OAC drive was rapidly halted and Willamette took over, with Walter Paige and Mark Savage successfully gaining ground around end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0009-0001", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 3: Oregon Agricultural College\nSavage ultimately scored the first touchdown of the game for the Willamettes at about the 10 minute mark, a 4-point score that was met by wild applause by the fans and the blowing of a multitude of tin horns in celebration. The conversion kick was good and Willamette led by a score of 6 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0010-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 3: Oregon Agricultural College\nBack in possession of the ball and resuming play from midfield, OAC Center Terrell raised the ball and plowed forward into the Willamette defense. The ball was soon turned over, however, with Walter Paige making a long run for the home team, scampering many yards along the sideline. This time it would be Right Halfback Mark Savage finishing for the Willamette team, with Murphy adding a successful conversion to make the score 12 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0011-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 3: Oregon Agricultural College\nCorvallis' team then went on a long drive, taking the ball all the way down to the Willamette 5-yard line, but they failed to score. With time in the half running down, Willamette Right End Guiss broke free on what was described as a \"zig-zag play,\" with his long run setting up a third touchdown of the half for the Salem squad. The 2-point conversion kick was again good and the Willamettes took an 18\u20130 score into the halftime intermission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0012-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 3: Oregon Agricultural College\nEarly in the second half, Willamette Quarterback Murphy broke a long run around end, scoring yet another touchdown. The conversion was missed, leaving the score 22 to zero. On the ensuing possession the Aggies scored their one and only touchdown of the 1895 season when Right Halfback Oberer managed to break a tackle and streak around Willamette's left end. With the successful conversion the score became 22\u20146.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0013-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 3: Oregon Agricultural College\nThe Aggies were unable to keep pace, however, giving up another 14 points before the game was called at 5:20 pm on account of a rolling fog that made it impossible to see across the width of the field. The final score: Willamette 36, OAC 6. Both teams exchanged cheers following the conclusion of play and the fans began to rush for the streetcars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0014-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 3: Oregon Agricultural College\nGuiss ended the day with three touchdowns, team captain Murphy with two, and Paige and Mark Savage one each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0015-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Season history, Game 4: University of Oregon\nThe final game of the season for Willamette was against the University of Oregon, held on Thanksgiving Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030590-0016-0000", "contents": "1895 Willamette Bearcats football team, Roster\nThe following individuals played for the 1895 Willamette University team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030591-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1895 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 8 July until 15 July. It was the 19th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1895. There were 18 competitors for the men's singles title, 9 for the ladies' singles and 7 pairs entered the gentleman's doubles. The meeting recorded its only loss, of 33 pounds. The tournament saw the Wimbledon Championship's first royal visitors when the Crown Princess of Austria, Princess St\u00e9phanie of Belgium and Prince Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann watched the Gentleman's Doubles Challenge Rounds on 15 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030591-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Wimbledon Championships\nThe entry fee was \u00a31 and 1 shilling (equivalent to \u00a3116 in 2019) for the gentleman's singles with the same amount levied per gentleman's doubles pair. The entry fee for the ladies singles was 10 shillings (s) and 6 pence (d). Ground admission for the whole meeting was 7s 6d. Daily entry for the first three days cost a shilling; it was 2s and 6d thereafter. A reserved covered seat on Centre Court for the duration of the championship cost 7s 6d or a shilling per day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030591-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Gentlemen's Singles\nWilfred Baddeley defeated Wilberforce Eaves 4\u20136, 2\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030591-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Gentlemen's Doubles\nHerbert Baddeley / Wilfred Baddeley defeated Wilberforce Eaves / Ernest Lewis 8\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030592-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Doubles\nWilberforce Eaves and Ernest Lewis defeated Walter Bailey and Charles Simond 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Herbert Baddeley and Wilfred Baddeley defeated Eaves and Lewis 8\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1895 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030593-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nWilfred Baddeley defeated Wilberforce Eaves 4\u20136, 2\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1895 Wimbledon Championships. The reigning champion Joshua Pim did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030594-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Singles\nCharlotte Cooper defeated Helen Jackson 7\u20135, 8\u20136 in the All Comers' Final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1895 Wimbledon Championships. The reigning champion Blanche Hillyard did not defend her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030595-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1895 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1895 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030596-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1895 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 23 and 24 February 1895 at the ice rink Mj\u00f8sen in Hamar, Norway. There was no defending champion. In 1894 no champion was declared because none of the skaters won three distances. Jaap Eden became the first skater to win two world titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030596-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nFour distances had to be skated: 500, 1500, 5000 and 10,000 m. One could earn the world title only by winning at least three of the four distances, otherwise the title would be vacant. The winner of the 500 and 1500 meter was decided by a skate off of the best four skaters of the distance. Silver and bronze medals were not awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030597-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 World Championship (football)\nThe 1895 World Championship was a football match that took place at Tynecastle Park on 27 April 1895 between the winner of the English Football League First Division, Sunderland, and Scottish League Division One, Heart of Midlothian. The match was won by Sunderland 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030597-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 World Championship (football)\nThe wealthy miner Samuel Tyzack, who alongside and shipbuilder Robert Turnbull funded the Sunderland side known as the \"team of all talents,\" often pretended to be a priest while scouting for players in Scotland, as Sunderland's recruitment policy in Scotland enraged many Scottish fans. In fact, the Sunderland lineup in the 1895 World Championship consisted entirely of Scottish players - Scottish players who moved to England to play professionally in those days were nicknamed the Scotch Professors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030597-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 World Championship (football)\nThe game was not the first \"World Championship\" game between English and Scottish sides; and it was the second such club competition won by an English team, with previous winners being Aston Villa and Renton (both Scottish Cup and FA Cup winners, as the leagues had not been yet created at the time). The Scottish and English leagues were pre-eminent in the world at that time. However, it was the first ever game played between the respective champions of two different leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030597-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 World Championship (football)\nThis was the only international competition Sunderland won; they subsequently participated in the British League Cup in 1902 and the Empire Exhibition Trophy in 1938 but exited early in those competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030598-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1895 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1895 college football season. In its second season under head coach Justus F. Soule, a professor of Latin and Greek, the team compiled a perfect 1\u20130 record. In the program's first intercollegiate football game, the team defeated the Colorado State Normal team from Greeley, Colorado, by a 34-0 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030598-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nFor the second of three consecutive years, Herbert J. Brees was the team captain. Brees was a native of Laramie who went on to a career in the United States Army. He retired from the Army in 1941 with the rank of lieutenant general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030599-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1895 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 13\u20130\u20132 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030600-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike\nThe 1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike began in 9 May [O.S. 27 April], in the Russian Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030600-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike\nYaroslavl Great Manufacture was one of the biggest companies in Russia, out of about 70 in the city of Yaroslavl; it exported its linens to Europe. The company decided to establish new tariffs to reduce salaries, a decision which was not welcomed between workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030600-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike\n4,000 workers participated in the strike. In response, a division of soldiers broke up their meeting, killing thirteen men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030600-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike\nThe tsar Nicholas II, on a telegram about the official report, commented: \u00abI am very satisfied with the way the troops behaved at Yaroslavl during these factory uprisings\u00bb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030601-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 college football season\nThe 1895 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1895\u201396 academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030601-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 college football season\nThe 1895 Penn Quakers football team, led by head coach George Washington Woodruff, compiled a perfect 14\u20130 record and is recognized as the 1895 national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. One selector, Parke H. Davis, recognized both Penn and Yale as co-national champions. Yale compiled a 13\u20130\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030601-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 college football season\nIn the Midwest, Michigan led the way with an 8\u20131 record, the only loss coming in a road game against Harvard. In the South, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association played its first year of college football with Vanderbilt winning the first conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030601-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 college football season\nTen of the eleven players selected by Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney to the 1895 All-America college football team came from Penn, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The eleventh player was quarterback Clint Wyckoff from Cornell. Six of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Wyckoff, halfbacks Sam Thorne (Yale) and George H. Brooke(Penn), fullback Charley Brewer (Harvard), end Charles Gelbert (Penn), tackle Langdon Lea (Princeton), and guard Charles Wharton (Penn).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030602-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Argentine football\n1895 in Argentine football saw Lomas retaining a new edition of the league championship to become the first team to win the Primera Divisi\u00f3n title 3 times in a row. The runner-up was its related team Lomas Academy. This was the last tournament played by Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway before merging with Belgrano Athletic Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030602-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in Argentine football, Primera divisi\u00f3n, Final standings\n1 It was registered as the football team of the School. The English High School A.C. (named \"Alumni\" since 1900) would be established in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030603-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1895 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030604-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030604-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1895 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030604-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1895 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030605-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Australian soccer\nThe 1895 season was the twelfth season of competitive association football in Australia. There were three league competitions fielded by Northern District British Football Association (Northern NSW), South British Football Soccer Association (New South Wales) and Queensland British Football Association. and two cup competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030605-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030609-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Canada, Historical documents\nMaria Grant, elected to Victoria, B.C. school board, hopes next election will return two more women", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030609-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in Canada, Historical documents\nMedical education of women, and how to answer objections to it", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030609-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 in Canada, Historical documents\nDominion's Indian Head farm sees trees leafed out by May 1 (3 weeks early), but fruit destroyed by 18\u00b0 Fahrenheit (-7\u00b0 Celsius) cold snap", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030609-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 in Canada, Historical documents\nToronto Trades and Labor Council supports continued restriction of Chinese immigration", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030610-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1895, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 89], "content_span": [90, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030610-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in Canadian football, Dominion Championship\n1895 Dominion Championship Game: Montreal AAA Grounds - Montreal, Quebec", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030611-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1895 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030618-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Italy, Events\nIn 1895 Luigi Lavazza started to roast his own coffee in a small grocery store in the Via San Tommaso 10 in Turin, eventually becoming the worldwide coffee brand Lavazza. Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi experiments with wireless telegraphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030620-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 1890 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 2,093,890, ranking as the ninth most populous state in the country. By 1900, Michigan's population had increased by 15.6% to 2,420,982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030620-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in Michigan, Population, Cities\nThe following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 7,500 based on 1890 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1880 and 1900 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. In recent decades, all of the state's most populous cities lie in the southern half of the lower peninsula. In 1890, owing largely to an economy based on extraction of natural resources, six of the state's largest cities were located north of 44\u00b0 latitude; in the chart below, these cities are shaded in aqua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030620-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 in Michigan, Population, Counties\nThe following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 35,000 based on 1890 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1880 and 1900 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030621-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1895 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030621-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government and law\nThe 12th New Zealand Parliament continues with the Liberal Party in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030623-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1896 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030627-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1895 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030631-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1895 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030635-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in association football\nThe following are association football events in the year 1895 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030636-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1895 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030637-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 1895 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030638-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in film\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1895 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030639-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030641-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030642-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in poetry\nO beautiful for pilgrim feetWhose stern impassion'd stressA thoroughfare for freedom beatAcross the wilderness. America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw,Confirm thy soul in self-control,Thy liberty in law. -- Lines 9\u201316, \"Pikes Peak\", the original name of Katharine Lee Bates' poem, first published on July 4 and later set to music and known as \"America the Beautiful\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030642-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030642-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030642-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030643-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030644-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in science\nThe year 1895 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030645-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in science fiction\nThe year 1895 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030645-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 in science fiction, Awards\nThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030646-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in sports\n1895 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030647-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1895 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030648-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 in the Philippines\n1895 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030651-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina\nThe 1895 population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the third census of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina taken during the Austro-Hungarian occupation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030652-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb\nOn the initiative of Croatian ban K\u00e1roly Khuen-H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry, in mid-October 1895 Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph visited Zagreb, at the time the capital of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, in order to attend the opening of the Croatian National Theatre. A group of Croatian students used the visit to protest the rule of the Hungarian Khuen-H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry as Croatian ban. They were led by Stjepan Radi\u0107, who would later form the influential Croatian People's Peasant Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030652-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb, Events\nThe emperor arrived in Zagreb by train on October 14, 1895. Upon his arrival a group of students chanted \"Slava Jela\u010di\u0107u\" (\"Glory to Jela\u010di\u0107\"), in reference to the former Croatian ban Josip Jela\u010di\u0107 who had risen up against the Hungarians in the Revolutions of 1848. That day the emperor attended the unveiling ceremonial completion of the Croatian National Theatre. Music by Ivan Zajc was subsequently performed inside the theatre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030652-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb, Events\nThe following day, the emperor attended an honorary dance at the Kolo building. On this day a group of students led by Stjepan Radi\u0107, then a 24-year-old student of the Faculty of Law, planned a burning of the Hungarian tricolour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030652-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb, Events\nOn October 16, the final day of the imperial visit, the students marched to Ban Jela\u010di\u0107 Square where they chanted \"\u017divio hrvatski kralj Franjo Josip I\" (\"Long live Croatian king Franz Joseph I\"), \"Slava Jela\u010di\u0107u\" and \"Abzug Magjari\" (\"Away with Hungarians\"). They doused the Hungarian tricolour in brandy and set it on fire. They then marched towards the University of Zagreb. The city police soon informed ban Khuen-H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry of the act, and he ordered that the students be arrested. By the end of the following day, 24 were arrested, Radi\u0107 among them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030652-0004-0000", "contents": "1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb, Aftermath\nThe students were subsequently charged for the incident. Stjepan Radi\u0107 was sentenced to six months in jail, Gjuro Bala\u0161ko to five, and Milan Dorwald, Osman Had\u017ei\u0107, Vladimir Vidri\u0107, Josip \u0160ikutri\u0107, Vladimir Frank and Ivan Frank to four months, while the rest were mostly sentenced to two months. The students were all barred from the University of Zagreb while Stjepan Radi\u0107 was barred from all universities in the empire. This led him to continue his studies abroad in Paris. The other students went to the Charles University in Prague and the University of Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030652-0005-0000", "contents": "1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb, Aftermath\nThese students would form the basis of the Croatian Moderna, a cultural and political movement active at the turn of the century, characterized by anti-traditionalism, cosmopolitanism, and focus on artistic freedom. In 1897, the Prague group of students began publishing Hrvatska misao, while in 1898 the Vienna students began publishing Mladost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030652-0006-0000", "contents": "1895 visit by Emperor Franz Joseph to Zagreb, Aftermath\nThe flag burning also resulted in a schism within the Croatian Party of Rights. Its leader Fran Folnegovi\u0107 distanced himself from the incident, and the dissenters, headed by Ante Star\u010devi\u0107 and Josip Frank, formed a splinter party, Croatian Pure Party of Rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 55], "content_span": [56, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030653-0000-0000", "contents": "1895 vote of no confidence in the Rosebery ministry\nThe vote of no confidence in the Rosebery ministry of 21 June 1895, also known as the Cordite vote, was the occasion on which the Liberal Government of the Earl of Rosebery was defeated in a vote of censure by the House of Commons. The motion was to reduce the salary of the Secretary of State for War as a censure over deficient supply of cordite to the Army, and when it was passed the Secretary of State Henry Campbell-Bannerman offered his resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030653-0000-0001", "contents": "1895 vote of no confidence in the Rosebery ministry\nAs Campbell Bannerman was the most popular Minister in a Government which was suffering internal division and whose members had grown tired of office, the Government chose to interpret the issue as one involving confidence in the Government and therefore resigned. The incoming Conservative government soon sought a dissolution of Parliament and won the ensuing general election. The vote is the last time in the History of the British Parliament that a government has been defeated on a confidence motion when it had a workable majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030653-0001-0000", "contents": "1895 vote of no confidence in the Rosebery ministry, Background\nArchibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery had become Prime Minister in March 1894, following William Ewart Gladstone's resignation, being the personal choice of Queen Victoria. Rosebery was told by the Queen's emissary (her physician, Sir James Reid) that he was \"the only man of your party she likes and trusts\". His choice over several other men with larger followings in the party, particularly Sir William Harcourt and John Morley led to inevitable tension, and Harcourt in particular did nothing to help the Government out of its difficulties. The Government was dependent on the Irish Parliamentary Party for its majority in the House of Commons, but could offer them little towards their goals as Gladstone's Second Home Rule Bill had been defeated by the House of Lords in 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030653-0002-0000", "contents": "1895 vote of no confidence in the Rosebery ministry, Background, Cordite\nCordite was a new form of explosive which had only come into use a few years before 1895, and the Army was in the process of equipping with it. In the Army Estimates for 1895, Secretary of State for War Henry Campbell-Bannerman reported that new barrels for the Army's .303 rifles which were suitable for cordite bullets were being fitted, but that \"it is unnecessary at present to provide for more than a liberally estimated supply for one year\". The Conservative frontbench had been assured privately that there were adequate supplies, and cordite could be manufactured quickly, but the party chose to raise the issue in the House of Commons on 21 June when the Army Estimates came up for debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030653-0003-0000", "contents": "1895 vote of no confidence in the Rosebery ministry, Motion and Vote\nThe motion was made during committee and so the vote had a low turnout compared with other votes of no confidence. The opposition therefore made a motion that the secretary of war's salary be reduced by \u00a3100, effectively removing the confidence of the house from the secretary of state. The motion was passed by 7 votes. While this might have been treated merely as a vote of no confidence in Secretary for War Campbell-Bannerman, Rosebery chose to treat it as a vote of censure on his government. On 22 June, he and his ministers tendered their resignations to the Queen, who invited the Unionist leader, Lord Salisbury, to form a government. The following month, the Unionists won a crushing victory in the 1895 general election, and held power for ten years (1895\u20131905) under Salisbury and Arthur Balfour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030654-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 English Football season fell in what was to be called Aston Villa's golden era. Under George Ramsay's management committee Villa were League champions for the second time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030654-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season Highlights\nDerby County won all 10 home games and led the table at the end of December, with Villa in third. Six consecutive wins took Villa to the top in January and they finished with a four-point margin over Derby, taking the title when Derby dropped a point on 4 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030654-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season Highlights\nVilla paid Burnley \u00a3250 for international back James Crabtree in the summer of 1895. Crabtree, Reynolds and Jimmy Cowan formed an outstanding line of half-backs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030654-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season Highlights\nJohn Campbell was a Scot from Celtic where he had won the Scottish championship twice, and later returned to the club. He had developed an outstanding reputation in Scotland, and emphasized his skill by scoring his 26 goals in just 26 games. 5\u00a0feet 9\u00a0inches (1.75\u00a0m) tall but nearly 12 stone (170\u00a0lb; 76\u00a0kg) in weight, he was said to be difficult to stop when running at the opposition's defence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030654-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season Highlights\nThis was the season Villa lost the FA Cup \u2013 literally. Following their FA Cup win in 1894/95, it was on display in a shop window in Birmingham. In the night of 11\u201312 September 1895 it was stolen and never seen again. A replica had to be made to the same design. Villa were fined \u00a325. Luckily they had it insured for \u00a3200!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030654-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season Highlights\nJames Cowan missed the new year fixture due to his attending (and winning) the illustrious 100 yard New Year Sprint event held at Powderhall, Scotland. The club fined him but he still made a healthy profit due to the prize money!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030655-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 7 teams, and F.C. Li\u00e9geois won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030656-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 British Home Championship\nThe 1895\u201396 British Home Championship was an edition of the annual international football tournament played between the British Home Nations. Despite England achieving an almost record 9\u20131 victory over Wales, the trophy was won by Scotland who won two and drew one of their matches, the draw coming in a hard-fought duel with Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030656-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 British Home Championship\nWales and Ireland kicked off the tournament with the Welsh heavily defeating the Irish in Wrexham. England too beat the Irish in their opening game, although by a smaller scoreline and England then achieved their 9\u20131 victory over Wales with Steve Bloomer scoring five, an England record. Scotland too beat Wales, scoring four without reply before being held by the Irish in an exciting and close match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030656-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 British Home Championship\nIn the final game at Celtic Park, England and Scotland played for the trophy, England only needing a draw whilst the Scots required a win to take the tournament. To improve their chances, Scotland decided to select England-based players for the first time, holding a selection trial between their 'Home' and 'Anglo' players which became an annual event for the next 30 years. In a close and dramatic game, Scotland narrowly beat the English 2\u20131 and won the championship. The decisive Scotland v England match, watched by a crowd of 60,000, generated receipts of \u00a33,640, a world record at the time for a football match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030657-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1895\u201396 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1895\u201396 college men's basketball season. The team had finished with an overall record of 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030658-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was Burslem Port Vale's fourth consecutive season of football in the English Football League. Another poor season struggling at the wrong end of the table, this time they failed to gain re-election; two seasons in the Midlands League followed, and despite a finish of 7th and then 5th they were re-elected back into the Football League for the expanded 1898\u201399 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030658-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nA season to forget, a 5\u20134 victory over eventual champions Liverpool was one of the few memorable days. This came during a run of games which saw 65 goals in 11 games. Overall a leaky defence kept just 5 clean sheets in 30 league and 4 cup games. On their travels the team lost all their games save for a 2\u20130 win over Rotherham Town on the opening day. From 21 September 1895 to 18 April 1896 they recorded 14 straight losses away from home, and went 27 games without a draw away from home between 26 January 1895 and 3 December 1898 \u2013 both club records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030658-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nVale finished in 14th place, with 18 points, 28 points short of champions Liverpool. They finished four points behind Lincoln City, who were safe from re-election. Having twice successfully applied for re-election in the past three seasons, this time round they lost their league status. Nearby Crewe Alexandra fared even worse than Vale, and didn't return to the Football League until 1921, whilst Rotherham Town were never to return. However Vale spent just two seasons in the Midland League before winning back their league status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030658-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe club suffered heavy defeats at Anfield, at Darwen, at Leicester Fosse, and in both clashes with Notts County and Grimsby Town. However they did manage victories over future giants of the game Liverpool, Newton Heath (later Manchester United), and Newcastle United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030658-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nTop scorers of previous years were lost, Billy Beats sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers in pre-season, whilst Meshach Dean lost his touch. Goals at a premium, Ernest Beckett (8), and Jim Mason (6) were the only players to score with anything approaching regularity. Highly impressive goalkeeper Tom Baddeley was an ever-present for the second successive season, with left-back George Youds and centre-half Ralph Barlow missing just one match each. At the end of the season Baddeley and Eccles left for Wolves, Eardley and McDonald left for Stoke; all wishing to remain Football League players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030658-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nAgain Vale failed poorly in the FA Cup, easing past Scottish club Hereford Thistle in the first round of qualification with a walkover. The Second Round held league rivals Burton Swifts, who managed to draw at Vale's home and then win the replay with the odd goal. Facing rivals Stoke in the Staffordshire Senior Cup, they lost 4\u20130 at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030659-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1895\u201396 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030660-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team\nThe 1895\u201396 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team represented the University of Chicago in intercollegiate basketball during the 1895\u201396 season. The team finished the season with a 5\u20132 record and have the distinction of playing in the first five-on-five college basketball game played in United States history versus the Iowa Hawkeyes. The team played their home games on campus in the Men's Gymnasium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030660-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team\nThe team consisted of seven players; Allen T. Burns and George H. Garrey at guard; Henry D. Hubbard and Arthur J. Mullen at forward; with Earl W. Peabody, Edgar B. Van Osdel and Leon S. Alschuler as centers. The Maroons were coached by Horace Butterworth who would eventually become Northwestern's baseball coach and athletic director followed by becoming head football coach for Temple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030661-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1895\u201396 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1895\u201396 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, led by 1st year head coach F. Knight, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the 23rd Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nDumbarton\u2019s first outing of the season was a formidable one with Rangers visiting Boghead on 17 August on league business. Rangers had never won at Dumbarton, and despite the fact that the new team were an untried unit, the Sons went into an early 2-0 lead with both goals scored by Saunderson. Nevertheless Rangers talent eventually came through and they scored four goals before half time. The final score was a disappointing, though hardly unexpected, 5-3 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nA week later Dumbarton travelled to meet Dundee in the league at Carolina Park. In a disappointing performance the Sons were well beaten in a 4-1 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nThe last day of the month saw the two clubs who were so far pointless in the league meet at Boghead \u2013 and it was the Sons who came out best against Clyde in a nine goal thriller 5-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nAt the other end of the league table it was Celtic who were making the early running with 6 points from their first 4 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nOn 7 September the destination was Logie Green to play St Bernards. The Edinburgh side were currently in fine form having dropped just one point from their first 3 matches, but they found the Sons more than a handful as the visitors built up an early 2-0 lead. The stamina of the professionals however was to tell and in the end the home side escaped with a rather fortunate 4-3 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nThe following Saturday saw Dumbarton at home to entertain St Mirren, and in a spirited performance it was two home wins in a row with a well deserved 4-2 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nOn 21 September it was a trip back to Edinburgh, this time to Easter Road to take on Hibernian. At half time Dumbarton were well in the game being only 2-3 behind but in the second half the Sons had no answer to the powerful Hibs front men and at full time the home team had added four more goals for a 7-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nThe final league game of September was another big challenge as Celtic visited Boghead. Things got tougher before the match began as Dumbarton had to draft in two players (Black and Reid) from Newtown Thistle, to replace Saunderson and Weir on the left wing. Nevertheless if Celtic thought that they might copy Hibernian\u2019s goal feast of the previous week then they were mistaken. Although two goals down early on, the Sons got one back, from the replacement Black, by half time. Celtic scored a third, but Nash replied for Dumbarton and in the end were unlucky not to earn at least a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nSo the league positions after 7 games showed Hibernian at the top with 11 points, a point ahead of Hearts and Celtic. Dumbarton were in 8th place with 4 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0010-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nOctober opened with a trip to Cathkin Park to play Third Lanark in the league. Once again there were forced changes in the team due to the departure of James Hartley to Sunderland. So with Saunderson still unavailable a reshuffle was required and new boy Morrice from Newtown Thistle was introduced at right back. Alex Miller at left back celebrated his 100th appearance in a Dumbarton shirt but the other changes had an unsettling effect and in a disappointing game Dumbarton went down to a 5-2 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0011-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nOn 12 October Dumbarton had a break from competitive football and arranged to play a friendly against Alliance League side Royal Albert in Larkhall. Unfortunately the home forwards were none too \u2018friendly\u2019 and the Sons came away after a sound 5-1 beating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0012-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nThe following Saturday it was back to league business with a home tie against champions Hearts. Again changes to the team were required with another new face at right back \u2013 Campbell from the reserves \u2013 and Nash was also missing. It was not unexpected that the Sons would struggle and so it was as they received a 9-2 thrashing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0013-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nOn 26 October it was another home fixture and again against an Edinburgh side, this time St Bernards. The Dumbarton team showed yet another change with John Gillan \u2013 an Aston Villa reserve - being played at centre half. The Saints had, like the Sons, been having a poor season but in a game which raged from one end of the field to the other it was the homesters that came out on top by 4-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0014-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nAt the end of October Hibernian, Celtic and Hearts were equal at the top of the league on 16 points from 11 games. Dumbarton stayed in 8th place but now had 6 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0015-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe first Saturday in November saw Dumbarton on their travels again attempting to break their \u2018duck\u2019 away from home. This time the team to face St Mirren was unchanged from the week before and while the first half was a drab affair but as soon as Dumbarton scored a minute into the second half the play improved and after an exciting 45 minutes the Sons held on for a 2-1 win and their first 2 points on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0016-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nOn 9 November Dumbarton entertained Hibernian at Boghead and hoped to improve on the away fixture in September. The team showed one change with Miller coming back in at left back in place of Thomson. However on the day luck was to desert the Sons by losing Nash in the first half and Hendry in the second to injuries. Nevertheless the remaining players made an impressive showing and only lost out to the league leaders by 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0017-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe following weekend Dumbarton welcomed county neighbours Newtown Thistle for a friendly. The match was a poor one but at the finish the Sons chalked up another victory by 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0018-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nOn 23 November, for the second week in a row, it was a friendly fixture, this time with a trip to play Second Division strugglers Motherwell. There was another new face in at centre forward, Hugh McIlhany replacing James Stevenson who had moved south to join Preston North End, but it was the home team that started strongly and by half time were 3-0 up. Dumbarton improved in the second half and replied with two goals but were unable to find an equaliser and thus lost 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0019-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe final game of November was played at Barrowfield against Clyde. The team was missing Gracie at centre forward and Docherty in goal and in their place came Samuel Woods from Greenock Morton and Richardson from the reserves. The home tie in August had been a thriller but this time it was mostly one way traffic with Clyde easing past a poor Dumbarton side 5-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0020-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe league now had Celtic pulling ahead at the top with 22 points from 14 games \u2013 four in front of Hibs and Hearts. Dumbarton maintained 8th place with 8 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0021-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nOn 7 December Dumbarton welcomed Dundee to play their return league fixture. Back in the team was regular goalkeeper Docherty and it was good thing too as he saved the Sons from a sound beating. Nevertheless Dundee left Boghead with both points after a 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0022-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nA week later it was another home fixture, this time against Third Lanark. With inside right Woods missing, Hugh Malloy from Abercorn was brought in. The game was an exciting one with Docherty again playing exceptionally in goal but in the end the stamina of the professionals told and the game finished 4-2 in their favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0023-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nCeltic, the league leaders, at Parkhead can be no tougher challenge and this is what Dumbarton faced on 21 December. Woods replaced Weir on the left wing but in front of a meagre crowd the result was never in doubt and the Celts ran out easy 3-0 victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0024-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nDumbarton\u2019s match against Hearts a week later fell victim to the weather, so at the end of 1895 it was Celtic who were in control at the top of the league with 28 points from 17 games, and Rangers 8 points behind with 3 games in hand. Dumbarton had slipped to 9th with 8 points, the same as Clyde in 8th and St Mirren in 10th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0025-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nDumbarton travelled north for the New Year holidays and played Arbroath and Victoria United (Aberdeen) on 1 and 2 January. Unfortunately the Sons losing streak continued with 3-0 and 8-0 defeats respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0026-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nOn 4 January Dumbarton headed to Ibrox to play their penultimate league fixture. Rangers were still in with a chance of the title assuming they won all their remaining games. The Dumbarton team showed two changes with McNicol replacing Thomson at right back and Hastings stepping up from the reserves to take Nash\u2019s place. Surprisingly Saunderson put Dumbarton into the lead but by half time Rangers had equalised and despite another splendid display from Docherty in goals Rangers superior stamina told in the end as they strolled to a 3-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0027-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nAfter a postponement due to bad weather, Dumbarton got their Scottish Cup campaign off and running on 18 January. Coincidentally it was Rangers again but this time at Boghead. Thomson and Nash returned to the team and in a brilliant display which had been lacking for some time, Dumbarton were within three minutes of creating the biggest upset of the season. Woods had scored early in the second half to give Dumbarton the lead only for Rangers to secure a replay with a last gasp equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0028-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nA week later it was back to Ibrox and another shock looked on as Dumbarton took a first minute lead through a McIlhany goal. However as had been the case earlier in the month the professionals changed up a gear and moved into the next round of the cup with a 3-1 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0029-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nOn 1 February Dumbarton had a week free from league and cup commitments and travelled to Edinburgh to play Leith Athletic. Unfortunately Dumbarton played poorly apart from keeper Docherty and despite his performance the home team won 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0030-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nThe following Saturday it was county cup duty as Dumbarton took on Newtown Thistle at Boghead in the semi final. Although the \u2018juniors\u2019 opened the scoring Dumbarton were soon in control and ran out comfortable 5-1 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0031-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nHearts and Dumbarton finished off their respective league campaigns on 15 February at Tynecastle. The Sons were anchored at the bottom of the league and this showed as there was never a serious challenge mounted and the Hearts were untroubled in a 7-0 rout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0032-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nFollowing a free week, on 29 February it was the battle of the wooden spooners as Dumbarton travelled to Greenock to play Morton who had finished bottom of the Second Division. At half time the Sons led 3-2 but in a miserable second half performance the Sons were completely outplayed and were deservedly beaten 7-3, although losing Campbell to injury with the score at 3-3 did not help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0033-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nThe first weekend in March was a quiet one for competitive matches as international trials were being held, however the bad news for Dumbarton was that Miller had decided to move to Small Heath. With Docherty trialling with Celtic the Sons defence was in poor shape losing such talent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0034-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nOn 14 March it was the final of the Dumbartonshire Cup. Dumbarton were attempting to retain the cup for the eighth successive year, but while the Sons season had been a poor one, Renton\u2019s had been successful \u2013 not only riding high in the Second Division but also semi finalists in the Scottish Cup. Once only second in importance to the national competition, the county cup had lost much of its appeal, nonetheless a crowd of 4,000 turned up to witness the contest. Renton were at full strength while Dumbarton were missing a few first teamers \u2013 and while the Sons kept things level until half time, Renton piled on the pressure in the second half and won comfortably by 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0035-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nAfter a free week, Dumbarton took on St Mirren at Paisley on 28 March in a friendly fixture. The Sons had won both the league fixtures against the Buddies but in a \u2018wretched\u2019 display Dumbarton were overwhelmed by an average St Mirren side 7-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0036-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nA friendly against Linthouse was planned for 4 April, but it was decided to cancel in view of the Scotland v England international on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0037-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThe following week Dumbarton travelled to play a friendly against local team Helesburgh and in a high scoring game came out on top 4-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0038-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nOn 20 April it was on the road again to play Linthouse and once more it was a successful trip as a 2-0 victory was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0039-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nDumbarton\u2019s final game of the season was played a week later against Renton at Boghead \u2013 a chance for revenge for the county cup defeat. However it was the visitors who came away best with a 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0040-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nOn 26 May the Scottish League met to decide on promotion and relegation issues between the bottom three clubs of the First Division and the top three clubs of the Second Division. Dumbarton\u2019s case for remaining in the top flight was poor this being the second successive season that they were up for election \u2013 and so relegation it was, with Abercorn replacing the Sons. Full election results as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0041-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nSadly the relegation had repercussions as Alex Lawrence had to give up the presidency of the Scottish League due to the fact that the chair had to be held by a representative of a First Division club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0042-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, June\nBetter news was had at the SFA meeting on 2 June when Dumbarton were selected as one of the 12 clubs exempted from qualifying for the Scottish Cup next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0043-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Players\nWith a combination of dwindling crowds and funds together with the inability to attract the best players, the decision was made to return the club to amateur status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0044-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Players\nDespite the fact that the bulk of the first team backed the decision, a number of players made the move elsewhere, with Tom Keir heading to Hearts, John McLeod to Rangers, James Stevenson to Preston North End as well as Hugh Craig who also travelled south of the border and Tom McMillan who retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0045-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Players\nSo the new season began with a number of new faces in the first XI, most stepping up from the reserves but included John Docherty (goalkeeper) from Vale of Leven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030662-0046-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the second round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Third Lanark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030663-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the third season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, finishing in 5th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the thirteenth to be played by the team now known as Bristol Rovers, and their twelfth playing under the name Eastville Rovers. The first team played their fourth campaign in division one of the Western League (known in previous seasons as the Bristol & District League), while the reserves competed in the second division of the same competition for the third time. The season was notable for Rovers having entered the FA Cup for the first time in their history, and for the first team playing their 100th competitive match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season\nThe senior squad finished the season as joint runners-up of the Western League first division after tying for second place in the table with Staple Hill and a playoff match to separate them ended in a draw, while the reserves ended their campaign in fifth place in division two. The first team were also runners-up in the Gloucestershire Senior Cup, losing out in the final to long-time rivals Warmley, but the campaign was marred by the death of an opposing player in their semi-final with Bedminster following a clash of heads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season\nThe club's d\u00e9but in the FA Cup came in the preliminary round and ended in a 2\u20130 defeat, again to Warmley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Season review\nThe 1895\u201396 season began with the news that Lewis John had been appointed as the new club captain, replacing H. McBain who had been skipper the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Season review\nRovers started the season strongly, winning eight of their first nine games, although one of those victories was later expunged from the record after Cardiff were expelled from the league. Their form trailed off slightly after that, but they ended the season well enough to finish joint second place in the table. The Western League had decided that goal average would no longer be used to split teams tied on points and that a test match would be held to decide the finishing order. A match was duly arranged between Rovers and Staple Hill to determine who would be runners-up, but the game ended in a 2\u20132 draw, leading to the teams being named joint runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Match results, Western League, Division Two\nThe results of the away match against Bedminster Reserves and the remaining game against Cumberland are not known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Match results, FA Cup\nThe lineups for Eastville Rovers' first ever game in the FA Cup (referred to at the time as the English Cup) is shown below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Match results, Gloucestershire Senior Challenge Cup\nRovers were runners-up in the Gloucestershire Senior Cup this season, losing out to Warmley in the final which was watched by around 6000 spectators \u2013 believed to have been a record attendance for the area at the time. They were narrowly beaten by a single goal to nil by the Warmleyites in a re-match of the 1889 final which Rovers had won by the same scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 89], "content_span": [90, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Match results, Gloucestershire Senior Challenge Cup\nTheir semi-final victory was marred by the death of Bedminster outside-right Herbert Edward \"Teddy\" Smith. He was involved in a clash of heads with Rovers' fullback Lovett during the first half when both were attempting to head the ball, Smith receiving a heavy blow to the side of his head. Both men continued playing after initially falling to the ground. When the game resumed for the second half Smith was late re-joining his teammates and play went on without him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 89], "content_span": [90, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0008-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Match results, Gloucestershire Senior Challenge Cup\nWhen he eventually made it back onto the field he was reported as appearing pale and confused and unable to participate in any meaningful way. A few minutes later he was forced to leave the match after vomiting and was taken to his parents' house in Southville where he lost consciousness in the evening and died early the following morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 89], "content_span": [90, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030664-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Eastville Rovers F.C. season, Statistics, Cumulative record\nThe total cumulative record of Eastville Rovers up to the end of the 1895\u201396 season is shown below. This is calculated by adding the numbers in the section above to the total games played up to the end of the previous season. Friendly matches are not included in this table, and games held at neutral venues are considered to have been played away from home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season\nThe 1895/96 Football League season was the eighth in Football League history with Everton having been an ever present in the top division. The club played thirty-three games in England's two major competitions, winning eighteen, drawing seven and losing eight. The club finished the season in third place, six points adrift of Champions Aston Villa, and were defeated in the quarter final of the F A Cup by eventual winners The Wednesday. Their Goodison Park home hosted the drawn semi final between Wednesday and Bolton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nThe Everton board kept faith in the squad that had finished runners up the previous season with no major signings or departures during the summer. This meant that Jack Hillman was the undisputed first choice goalkeeper for the season and would go on to play all bar the final game in which Harry Briggs made his club debut in a 2\u20131 victory at Stoke. Bob Kelso, Charlie Parry and James Adams resumed their battle for the two full back positions from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0001-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nAdams missed the first game of the season but returned to miss just one other game as he established himself as the first choice full back but Both Kelso and Parry fell out of favour as reserve, Smart Arridge emerged as a solid full back partner to Adams. Kelso, who played the first five games of the season, made just one further appearance for the club in the half back line before leaving to join Dundee in February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0001-0002", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nParry's long love, hate relationship with the Goodison Park club finally came to an end after his second appearance of the season when he gave away a penalty, which was missed, in a 3\u20134 defeat at Aston Villa in September. Before the year was out the Welsh International defender had moved on to Ardwick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nThe solid half back line of Dickie Boyle, Johnny Holt and Billy Stewart, considered so instrumental in the club's title push last year was unsurprisingly unaltered and the trio continued in the same vein as they had done the previous year. Hugh Goldie, a summer signing from St Mirren proved a successful reserve when required and regularly filled in for the regular trio when required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nEverton were strongest in the forward line where Jack Bell, Tom McInnes, Edgar Chadwick and Alf Milward remained regulars but the club's record hat-trick scorer, Alex Latta began to find opportunities limited as he slipped down the pecking order behind Abe Hartley. The arrival of John Cameron, yet another Scot, from Queens Park, in September further reduced Latta's opportunities and he left before the end of the season for local rivals Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nWhile the club seemed prepared to mount a fresh title challenge on the field, they were anything but prepared off it as chairman, George Mahon announced a healthy \u00a36,000 profit at the club agm before promptly resigning, along with four other directors over 'acute administrative difficulties'. Six new directors were elected along with a new Chairman, Dr Baxter who pushed through the building of a new stand on the Bullens Road end of the ground and put a roof on the Goodison Road Stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nThe club made an indifferent start to the League campaign, winning four, drawing three and losing four of their first eleven games before embarking on a run of nine consecutive victories from November to January that took them top of the table and marked them as favourites to win their second League Title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nThe Toffeemen were knocked off the top of the table on 4 January when Derby County won a game in hand to go a point clear. The Merseysiders' title challenge stuttered in the first three months of the year, winning just two of their next six games and leaving the club six points adrift of Aston Villa but with four games and eight points to play for against Villa's two remaining games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0006-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nOn 3 April Everton embarked on a hectic schedule of four games in eight days to win the title but their hopes were dashed at the first hurdle when a 2\u20132 draw at home to Derby County was coupled with victory for Villa at Nottingham Forest to leave Everton seven points adrift with just three games to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nThe Toffeemen finished the season in third position, six points behind champions, Villa, one place and three points worse off than when finishing Runners Up the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nIn the F.A. Cup Everton came through their first two ties comfortably defeating top flight opponents Nottingham Forest in Nottingham and Sheffield United at Goodison Park to an aggregate of 5\u20130. However confidence was low when the side traveled to Sheffield Wednesday on quarter final day, just nine days after the side had lost a League game at the same venue 1\u20133. They fared even worse in the cup tie, losing 0\u20134 to the eventual cup winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, Final league table\nKey: P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030665-0010-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Everton F.C. season, The Football League\nEverton home games were played at Goodison Park while away games were played at the venues stated", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup\nThe 1895\u20131896 FA Cup was the 25th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The cup was won by The Wednesday, who defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers 2\u20131 in the final of the competition, played at Crystal Palace in London. This was Wednesday's first victory in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, four qualifying rounds, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. The 16 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Notts County, Darwen, Burton Wanderers, Liverpool, Newton Heath and Woolwich Arsenal from the Second Division. The other Second Division sides were entered into the First Qualifying Round. Of those sides, only Grimsby Town, Newcastle United, Crewe Alexandra and Burton Swifts qualified to the FA Cup Proper. Six non-league sides also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 1 February 1896. Two matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 15 February 1896. There were three replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 29 February 1896. There were no replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were both played on Saturday, 21 March 1896. The Wednesday and Wolverhampton Wanderers went on to meet in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030666-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FA Cup, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 18 April 1896 at Crystal Palace. Less than 50,000 supporters attended the match. The match finished 2\u20131 to The Wednesday, through two early goals from Fred Spiksley. Between the two goals, David Black had equalised for Wolves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1895\u201396 season was their third season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. Emanuel Schiess was elected as second chairman in the club's history at the club's AGM. FC Basel's home ground was the Landhof, in the Wettstein neighborhood of Kleinbasel (lesser Basel), but they also played home games at the Stadion Sch\u00fctzenmatte in the Bachletten quartier in Grossbasel (greater Basel). The Swiss national championships had not yet been called to into life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season, Overview\nRoland Geldner had been the club's chairman, but he stood down at the club's AGM held on 1 September 1895 and Emanuel Schiess was elected as new chairman. At this AGM on it was announced that 31 footballers had joined the club since the first day, 14 members had since left and so they had 17 active footballers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe Swiss Football Association (ASF-SFV) was founded on 7 April 1895. FC Basel were founder members, although they were not present at the founder meeting. Basel goalkeeper and local businessman John Tollmann joined the ASF-SFV board of directors and was the first secretary-treasurer. Local rivals Old Boys were soon to become ASF-SFV members. The idea of a Swiss national championship following the form of the English championship was discussed as priority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season, Overview\nFerdinand Isler was selected as team captain, he was responsible for leading the team trainings and choosing the player line-ups. For this season club organised ten friendly matches for their first team. Six of these matches were held in Basel, two in the Landhof, two on the Sch\u00fctzenmatte and from the other two games the playing fields are uncertain. In the autumn season Basel played twice against FC Excelsior Z\u00fcrich, were defeated away and drew at home and in the spring they played them again twice and managed two victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0003-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season, Overview\nBasel played twice against French team FC Mulhouse, drawing away and winning at home. They also played twice against Grasshopper Club and won both games. Last season the team had lost the game against Buckjumpers Club Basel, this season they won the revenge. But the Buckjumpers were to dissolve their club at the end of the season, due to lack of members and therefore a number of their remaining members joined Basel before the beginning of the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season, Overview\nAt the end of November 1895 Basel also played their very first game against Anglo-American Club Z\u00fcrich, the game ended with a defeat. The ten games ended with six victories, two draws and two defeats. The team scored 18 scored goals and 15 conceded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030667-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 FC Basel season, Notes, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Much match documentation for this season is missing.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the eighth season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at the website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Test Matches\nThe Football League test matches were a set of play-offs, in which the bottom First Division teams faced the top Second Division teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Test Matches\nThe format had changed from previous seasons, with the number of participants has reduced from six to four (two from each division). Now, each First Division team plays both Second Division teams in a mini league format. The top two finishers would then be considered for election for First Division membership, whilst the bottom two finishers would be invited to play in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Test Matches\nThe First Division teams, if finishing in the top two, would retain their places in the division. If a Second Division team does so, it would be considered for First Division membership through an election process. Bottom-two Second Division teams would stay in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Test Matches, Summary\nReference works, such Encyclopedia of British Football and Association Football, present the following table with the heading given above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030668-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football League, Test Matches, Consequences\nIt is likely that the league decided on re-election to the First Division and on promotion and relegation on the basis of the summary table above. It is not clear why all the four teams did not play each other, since it would only have required two more matches for each of them. It seems those teams who had lost in the first round hardly had any chance of ending up among the top teams in this system, and the election outcome effectively seems to have confirmed the first round results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030669-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 3 teams, and Akademisk Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030670-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1895\u201396 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Olympique that defeated Stade Fran\u00e7ais in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030670-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe tournament was played by five clubs from Paris: Racing, Stade fran\u00e7ais, Cosmopolitan Club, Olympique et Union Sportive de l'Est. The final pits the top two in the pool that had finished tied with six points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030671-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1895\u201396 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030672-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1895\u201396 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished third out of 10 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030673-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Hongkong Football Cup\n1895\u201396 Hongkong Football Cup was the 1895\u201396 season of the predecessor of Hong Kong Challenge Shield, Hongkong Football Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030673-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Hongkong Football Cup\nThe holder of the cup this season was Kowloon Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030674-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team\nThe 1895\u201396 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa in intercollegiate basketball during the 1895\u201396 season. The team finished the season with a 2\u20135 record. This squad is historically significant to the sport of college basketball: when they played the University of Chicago on January 18, 1896, the teams faced off with only five players to a side, establishing the first \"modern\" game of college basketball ever played. Chicago won the game, 15\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030675-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1895\u201396 comprised 4 teams, and Distillery won the championship after a play-off with Cliftonville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030676-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the fourth season in Liverpool F.C. 's existence, and was their third year in The Football League, in which they competed in the Second Division. The season covers the period from 1 July 1895 to 30 June 1896. Liverpool won the second division title and got promoted to the first division after winning two and drawing one of four test matches, which were played at home and away against Small Heath and West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030676-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Liverpool F.C. season\nLiverpool scored 106 league goals in 30 games, a record total for a league season which still stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season\nThe 1896 Manitoba Hockey Association season was a series of five games contested by the senior ice hockey teams of Winnipeg Victorias and the Winnipeg Hockey Club. During the season, on February 14 the Victorias played a Stanley Cup challenge match in Montreal, defeating the Montreal Victorias. Winnipeg won 2\u20130 to win the Cup. This was the first time the Stanley Cup champion was from a league other than the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada. The Victorias won the season series to retain the Cup for the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Season, Schedule\n\u2021 Game awarded to Winnipeg when Armytage refused to accept a penalty.\u2020 Exhibition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Exhibitions\nIn January, the Winnipegs travelled to St. Paul, Minnesota, to play matches during the winter carnival. Winnipeg defeated St. Paul 18\u20132 and a Minneapolis ice polo team 7\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Playoffs\nThere were no playoffs as the Victorias won first place exclusively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Montreal\nThe first successful challenge to the Cup came in February 1896 by the Winnipeg Victorias, playing as the 1895 champions of the MHA. On February 14, Winnipeg beat the defending champion Montreal Victorias, 2\u20130, becoming the first team outside the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) to win the Cup. Winnipeg took a 2\u20130 lead on goals by Armytage and Campbell in the first half, then went on the defensive in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 77], "content_span": [78, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Montreal\nAccording to The Globe, in its report on the game:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 77], "content_span": [78, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Montreal\n\"The westerners started in with a rush and scored the two games; one in ten minutes and one in nine minutes before the Vics seemed to waken up. For the rest of the first half, the honors were even. In the second half, the Winnipeggers were strictly on the defensive. Shot after shot was fired on their goal but the Vics could not score due to the superb work of Merritt, the visitor's goalkeeper. The match ended 2 to 0 in favour of the visitors. Both sides were dissatisfied with the work of Mr. Alexis Martin of Toronto as referee; claiming he was utterly ignorant of the rules, an opinion which seemed to be shared by the spectators.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 77], "content_span": [78, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, First goal\nJack Armytage's biography at Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame: \"One of his greatest games was on February 14, 1896, in a sudden death game for the Stanley Cup when Jack Armytage scored the winning goal in 2-0 victory over Montreal; the first time the Cup came West.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, First goal\nThe first goal of the game was scored by Jack Armytage, although Dan Bain's Hockey Hall of Fame biography lists Bain as the goal scorer. \"On February 14, 1896, the team traveled east to try to strip the Montreal Victorias of their Stanley Cup. Bain scored the winning goal in the Westerners' 2-0 upset to claim the hallowed silverware.\" This is likely a misplaced reference to the 1901 challenge game for the Cup won 2\u20131 in which Bain scored both goals for Winnipeg, the second in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030677-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, First goal\nNewspaper accounts of the time list Armytage as the scorer, on a pass from Howard: According to the Winnipeg Tribune, in its report on the game: \"It was rushed to the Montreal end where Howard lifted it from the corner to the front of the posts where Armytage was waiting and sent it through in 10 minutes.\" According to the Ottawa Journal, in its report on the game: \"Armitage scored after 10 minutes of play on a pass from Howard.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030678-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was Manchester City F.C. 's fifth season of league football and fourth season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030678-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Manchester City F.C. season, Football League Second Division, Test matches\nAs Manchester City finished second in the league, they were entitled to play test matches to compete for promotion to the Football League's First Division. Though they played both teams bottom of the First Division for the 1895\u201386 season, they lost both matches on aggregate and thus failed in their promotion bid, remaining in the Second Division for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season\nThe National Association Foot Ball League, which had played its first season in the spring of 1895, re-organized for the winter. The league opened its 1895\u201496 season on December 15, 1895, with five teams scheduled to play an 18 game schedule until the season's end on April 26, 1896. In addition to 1895 champion Centreville A.C. of Bayonne, New Jersey, the runner up Brooklyn Wanderers and the reorganized Scottish-Americans of Newark, two new teams joined, the New York Thistles and International A.C. of Paterson, New Jersey (which played its games at the grounds at (Communipaw). For the second season, the NAFBL mandated that the goals have nets in all league matches, and adopting the penalty kick rule. A schedule was issued in November. By the time league play started, however, the Brooklyn Wanderers had withdrawn, leaving only four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season\nThe season ended early and the Scottish-Americans claimed the championship of the league after beating Centreville A.C. on April 5, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nWhile the New York Sun and the New York Times reported early results, press coverage of the league ended after January. Results of league games were", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nDecember 15: Scottish-Americans 1, Internationals 1 (Paterson); Centreville 4, New York Thistles 2 (Bayonne)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nDecember 22: Centreville 3, Internationals 2 (Bayonne); Scottish-Americans 7, Thistles 1 (Newark)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nDecember 29: Scottish-Americans 7, Centreville 0 (Newark)\u00a0; Internationals 7, Thistles 1 (Paterson)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nJanuary 19: Scottish-Americans 3, Internationals 3 (Newark). The game was marred by a serious injury to one of the players, Findley, a left wing for the Scottish-Americans", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nJanuary 26: Scottish-Americans 12, Thistles 1 (Newark); Centreville 2, Internationals 1 (Paterson);", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nLeague play then halted, with the Scottish-Americans in first place (at 3 wins and 2 draws); followed by International (2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss); Centreville (2 wins and 2 losses), and the New York Thistles, who lost all four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030679-0008-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 National Association Foot Ball League season, Regular season\nThe following Sunday, on February 2, an all-star benefit game for Findley was played before 1,500 spectators at by teams composed of seven of Findley's Scottish-Americans teammates (Wildt, Wilson, Cutler, McDonald, Singleton, McCullouch and Gaffney) and other locals against players for the other NAFBL teams, Centreville (Smith, Winter, Buell, Spaven and Oliver), the Internationals (Taylor, Flynn and O'Donnell), and the Thistles (T. Hopkins). As \"The Jerseymen\", the Scottish-Americans beat the \"New Yorkers\", 2 goals to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030680-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1895\u20131896 was contested by seven teams from the cities Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Rotterdam and Wageningen. The teams participated in the competition that would later be called Eerste Klasse West. But since the western football district of the Netherlands was the only one to have a competition at the time, it could be regarded as a national championship. This was also the reason that Go Ahead Wageningen participated, as they would later play in the eastern division. HVV Den Haag won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030681-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was Newcastle United's third season in the Football League Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030682-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was Newton Heath's fourth season in the Football League and their second in the Second Division. They finished sixth in the league, which was not enough to earn a chance for promotion back to the First Division. In the FA Cup, the Heathens were knocked out in the Second Round, losing 5\u20131 in a replay against Derby County after vanquishing Kettering Town in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030682-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1895\u201396. They were knocked out of the Lancashire Cup in the first round, losing 2\u20131 at home to Bury. In the Manchester Cup, they received a bye to the third round, but were immediately knocked out by Fairfield, losing 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030683-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 North Wales Coast League\nThe 1895\u201396 North Wales Coast League was the third season of the newly formed North Wales Coast League after its establishment in 1893. The league was won by Bangor, which is considered part of Bangor's 'Grand Slam' season as they also won the Welsh Cup, North Wales Coast Senior Cup and North West Wales Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030684-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Football League\nThe 1895\u201396 Northern Football League season was the seventh in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030684-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 8 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the first ever season of semi-professional rugby football, which formed the foundation of the modern-day sport of rugby league. Twenty-two Northern English teams from both sides of the Pennines broke away from the Rugby Football Union to create and compete in their own competition. The inaugural championship ran from September 1895 until April 1896. The Northern Union's first season would prove so popular that the following season saw the addition of several more clubs, and the tournament was split into two separate county competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Background\nThe Rugby Football Union (RFU) had been organising the British rugby football season for much of the late 19th century, maintaining rules of strict amateurism. However clubs from the largely working-class areas of Northern England believed that their players should be compensated for time taken off work as a result of playing rugby. It was put forth in an RFU meeting that broken time payments should be allowed, but the motion was voted down and all clubs were required to prove their amateurism or face expulsion from the Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Background\nOn Thursday, 29 August 1895 delegates from twelve Yorkshire and nine Lancashire clubs met at The George Hotel in Huddersfield to discuss their dispute with the RFU over compensating players. They voted unanimously to resign from the RFU and set up the Northern Rugby Football Union (to later be renamed the Rugby Football League) and run a competition of their own in which broken time payments were allowed. Mr H. H. Waller, chairman of the Brighouse club, was elected the first ever chairman of the Northern Rugby Football Union. Of the clubs at that meeting, only Dewsbury backed out for the time being, but two Cheshire clubs, Stockport and Runcorn had joined up by the time the new 'Northern Union' played its first games on 7 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Rule changes\nEach team was to play all other teams twice \u2013 once at home and once away. This meant a longer than normal football season so it started a fortnight earlier than usual. In addition to the overall Northern Union championship, these games' results also counted towards final placings in the separate county competitions. The team with the highest standing on the table at the end of the season would be crowned champions of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Rule changes\nThe points system for the Northern Union's rugby was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe new Northern Union competition kicked off on Saturday, 7 September 1895 and, before it had got properly started (before the second weekend's fixtures), there was a move to change the rules of the game to further the interest of spectators and to make rugby that was distinctively different from that authorised by the RFU. In an experimental game at Valley Parade on 1 October between Manningham and Halifax, thirteen players were on each side, line-outs were abolished and, for part of the game, a round ball was used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0005-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nA fair crowd was attracted and virtually all the officials of the Northern Union looked on. Play was started with the round ball, but midway through the first half it burst. A conventional oval ball replaced it until another round ball could be found in the second half. Little attempt was made to dribble and kick the round ball and it was thus deemed not to be a success. The game ended 3\u20133, but the long-term ramifications for the Northern Union were to be great indeed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe championship hung in the balance until the final game of the tournament. Manningham needed travel to Hunslet and win in order to beat Halifax by a single point and claim the first Northern Union title. The Manningham team left Midland Station at 2.10, but the committee elected to travel in two stagecoaches. A large following travelled with the team and the road adjacent to the ground was crowded with various vehicles flying banners, flags and even Chinese umbrellas in Manningham\u2019s claret and amber colours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe match was played at a furious pace. A crowd of around 15,000 saw the game swing from end to end. The referee at one point had to halt the match in order to caution the players of both sides as the game was getting extremely rough. The match remained scoreless until the second half when Manningham's Jack Brown attempted a drop kick. The ball struck the post, but flew over the bar to wild cheers. Manningham won 4\u20130 and thereby became the first ever champions of the Northern Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe Northern Union held an additional contest, for determining county champions, and it was won by Lancashire with Yorkshire second and Cheshire third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe season ended on 29 April, which made it three weeks longer than the footballers at the time were used to. Some clubs had also found the regular trans-Pennine journeys more difficult than they'd expected. Therefore, before the season was over the Union had decided to discontinue the championship for the foreseeable future, and instead run enlarged county senior competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0010-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe leading try scorer for the season was Jack Hurst from Oldham who crossed the line 28 times. The leading goalkicker for the season was George Lorimer of the Champions, Manningham, who was successful 35 times. The leading point scorer was shared between Cooper of Bradford and George Lorimer of Manningham with a total of 106 points each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0011-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary, Championship ladder\nLeague points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030685-0012-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary, Championship ladder\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0St. Helens had 2 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 81], "content_span": [82, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030686-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1895\u201396 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 11th season of play. Ottawa placed second in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030686-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Team business\nAt the team annual meeting, the following officers were elected:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030686-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nAfter playing both goal and forward in the previous season, Harry Westwick played forward only and he responded with 8 goals. Alf Smith was close behind with 7 goals. Fred Chittick played all eight games for Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030686-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nOttawa was the only team to defeat the Montreal Victorias, defeating them 3\u20132 in Montreal before 5000 fans. The Victorias won the return match in Ottawa by the same 3\u20132 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030687-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Rangers F.C. season\nThe Rangers 1895\u201396 season was the 22nd of competitive football in the Scottish Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030687-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 22 competitive matches during the 1895\u201396 season. They finished second in the Scottish League Division One with a record of 11 wins from 18 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030687-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe club ended the season without the Scottish Cup after being knocked out in the quarter final stage by Hibernian by 3\u20132. The club had beaten Dumbarton and St Mirren during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030688-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1895\u201396 Rugby Union County Championship was the eighth edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at that time. The competition was reorganised with a reduction of groups from four to three, and the winners of the south-east and south-west groups competing in a play-off for the right to play the northern group winners in the final. This was the third format of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030688-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Rugby Union County Championship\nYorkshire won the competition for the seventh time defeating Surrey in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030689-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Scottish Cup\nThe 1895\u201396 Scottish Cup was the 23rd season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Heart of Midlothian when they beat Hibernian 3-1 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030690-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1895\u201396 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030690-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Scottish Districts season, History\nGlasgow District and Edinburgh District fought out a nil - nil draw in the Inter-City match. This was the first draw in the fixture since 1879; and the first nil-nil since January 1876 (back when the Inter-City was a twice-a-season format).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030690-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Scottish Districts season, History\nThe North of Scotland played Edinburgh Wanderers at the end of the season. It was intended to be a XV a side match, North had selected their side, but it seems likely that Wanderers only turned up with XI players so a XI a side match had to be played instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030691-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Scottish Division One\nThe 1895\u201396 Scottish Division One season was won by Celtic by four points over nearest rival Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030692-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1895\u201396 Scottish Second Division was won by Abercorn with Linthouse finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030693-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Scottish Football League, Overview\nAbercorn came first in the Scottish Division Two. Leith Athletic and Renton finished second and third", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030694-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1895\u201396 Sheffield Shield season was the fourth season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the 15th season of competitive association football and fourth season in the Football League played by Small Heath F.C., an English football club based in Birmingham. In 1894\u201395, the newly promoted Small Heath maintained their First Division status, finishing 12th in the 16-team division. In 1895\u201396, the team finished 15th and were relegated through the test match system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season\nSmall Heath entered the 1895\u201396 FA Cup at the first round proper, and lost in that round for the fourth consecutive year, this time to Bury. In local competitions, they were eliminated in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup by Sheffield Wednesday, and lost to West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup, which they had entered for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season\nThirty-two different players represented the club in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and there were 14 different goalscorers. For the fifth time, Fred Wheldon appeared in every League match, in his last season with the club before joining local rivals Aston Villa for an initial transfer fee of \u00a3350, believed to be a record. The top scorer, for the third year running, was Frank Mobley with 11 goals. The highest attendance was around 10,000, significantly down on the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nSmall Heath had finished 12th of 16 teams in 1894\u201395, their first season in the First Division. Alf Jones continued as secretary-manager, and Billy Ollis took over the captaincy after Caesar Jenkyns was dismissed for misconduct. Apart from Jenkyns, who signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he was appointed captain, all the regular first-team players remained with the club. Of the fringe players, Charlie Letherbarrow joined Millwall, with whom he won the Southern League title in 1895\u201396, Ernie Moore and Tilson Pritchard returned to non-League football, and Tom Watson joined the Birmingham police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nGoalkeeper Joe Fall signed from Newton Heath for a fee reported as \u00a320, and defender Harry Haynes joined from Wolverhampton Wanderers. The Dart thought that Jenkyns would be missed \"a great deal more than some of [the] supporters imagine\", and that apart from Fall, who was expected to be a significant improvement on Charles Partridge, the 1895\u201396 team would be noticeably weaker than that of the season just ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThere was no change to the team's kit of light blue shirts with navy collar trim, cuffs and pocket, white knickerbockers and navy socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nBoth Sheffield United and Small Heath fielded the same personnel as in the last game of the previous season, which Small Heath had won to secure their First Division status. The Sheffield Independent's prediction that the result would be reversed proved justified. The players had not yet got used to the new rule forbidding the thrower to step over the line while taking a throw-in, and after penalising the Sheffield captain for a foul throw, the referee took time out to demonstrate the correct procedure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nWith Joe Fall still unavailable because of an injury sustained in pre-season training, Charles Partridge was replaced in goal by reserve Jim Roach, who made an eventful debut at local rivals Aston Villa. According to the Birmingham Daily Post, he should take no blame for any of the five goals conceded before half-time, due in part to the sun in his eyes and with the half-backs \"little more than landmarks on the field\". On change of ends, the balance of play tilted towards the visitors, but the match still finished 7\u20133. Fall returned to fitness for Small Heath's third defeat of the season, at home to Stoke in a game characterised by excessive foul play. At Nottingham Forest, Tommy Hands and Jack Hallam were lively on the wings, but the weakness of the half-back line was noted in yet another loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nIn temperatures approaching 80\u00a0\u00b0F (27\u00a0\u00b0C), Bolton Wanderers went top of the league by inflicting on Small Heath their fifth defeat in as many games. The forwards, with Frank Mobley the honourable exception, were \"lamentably deficient in shooting ability\", missing two early chances which \"had their shooting been only of a medium character\" would have opened the scoring. With only a month of the season gone, the Post suggested it was high time results began to change or there was a real prospect of relegation via the test matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0008-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nA visit to Preston North End produced a much improved performance but still no points. After Preston opened the scoring against the run of play, Small Heath took the lead through a \"couple of stinging shots\" from Mobley, who appeared to score a third soon after half-time, but it was disallowed because goalkeeper James Trainer was impeded. Small Heath were playing the better football, and the home fans began to jeer their team. Perhaps that had an effect, for after a succession of corners, Preston regained the lead to take the game by three goals to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nOn 12 October, Small Heath finally won a match. They beat Bury 5\u20134 in a game \"remarkable for the poor defence on both sides\". The Dart's gloomy view that \"if they gain any points at all out of [the next four] games it will be a bit of a surprise to a large number of their followers\" was evidence of growing discontent. Many English clubs had imported top Scottish players to strengthen their team, but Small Heath's directors were unwilling to follow suit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0010-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nA disappointingly small crowd saw Small Heath lose 3\u20131 to Aston Villa in a benefit match for Ted Devey, the club's longest-serving player and fans' favourite who had been in poor health. Both clubs had promised full first teams, but numerous regulars were unavailable, and Small Heath fielded their fourth different goalkeeper of the season, Bill Meates, an amateur signed from Eastbourne a few weeks earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0010-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nMeates kept his place for the next League game, and Hands, who was injured against Bury, Billy Walton and Devey were replaced by Jack Jones, Charlie Izon and Alex Leake, the latter two making their first appearances of the season, as Small Heath were \"completely outclassed\" by Stoke. The Heathens had much the better of the first half against Aston Villa, and the pace and trickery of the visitors' forwards was thwarted only by the excellence of the home side's defence. The second half was quite the opposite. Meates made two blunders that led to goals, Villa gained and kept the upper hand, and the final score was 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0011-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe directors changed their minds, and sent secretary Alf Jones and player Jack Oliver to Scotland on a recruitment mission. Their only purchase was greeted with suspicion by the Dart: the 19-year-old Adam Fraser \"is said to be a most capable half-back. Whether he is worth all the trouble the club have gone through to secure him remains to be seen, but if he is anything like a 'class' player it is strange that he has never been heard of before.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0011-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nIt was reported that the Cambridge University and England full back Lewis Vaughan Lodge had agreed to play for the club, but he did appear until February. Meanwhile, after a casual start, Small Heath came back from a three-goal deficit to beat Leyton 8\u20133 in a friendly. Winning ways continued in the League as they beat Nottingham Forest with a goal in the first five minutes, scored by Hands from a Hallam centre. Roach's performance in goal suggested he was the best of the four tried thus far, and Frank Lester made a promising debut at back, but both teams' forwards were disappointing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0012-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe visit to Bolton Wanderers was postponed after severe weather in the north-west left the ground waterlogged, so the next game was at home to Preston North End on 23 November. Wheldon, back to something approaching his best, scored twice from distance to lead 2\u20131 at half-time. During the interval, Preston's goalkeeper John Wright was found to have broken his wrist and could not continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0012-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nLester turned the ball into his own net to bring the scores level, but despite the brilliance of Bob Holmes, playing on his own at back after Sandy Tait had gone in goal, Preston could not prevent Small Heath exploiting their numerical advantage. The third goal ended with ball, goalkeeper and all five Small Heath forwards in the net, after which Jones scored twice to make the final score 5\u20132. Walton, now playing at centre half, drew particular praise for his judgment and the quality of his passing. The two points gained took Small Heath off the bottom of the table for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0013-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nFraser made his first-team debut in a benefit match for Sam Holmes of Walsall, and his League debut the following Saturday at Derby County alongside Dan Bruce. Bruce, a Scottish forward signed from Notts County for a \u00a3100 transfer fee\u00a0\u2013 the first time that Small Heath had paid a three-figure sum for a player\u00a0\u2013 came with a \"great reputation as a cool, clever player, and a good shot\", but was far from fit. Small Heath never threatened, each of the five Derby forwards scored in the first half, and the final score was 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0014-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nA poor performance followed at home to Everton. In the face of wind laced with flurries of snow, Small Heath \"almost to a man, blocked their goal in such a manner as to render it well nigh impossible for Everton to score through such a forest of legs.\" On Small Heath's sole attack, they might have scored, the ball coming down off the crossbar a foot over the line before spinning back into play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0014-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe Daily Post wondered whether, as had happened more than once in recent matches, \"a strong and unanimous appeal by Small Heath might have gained them a goal\". Everton went into the interval a goal ahead and scored two more in the second half to go top of the League. Caesar Jenkyns, now captain of Arsenal, was among the spectators, and the Daily Post speculated on how much difference his captaincy might make to his old club's current predicament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0015-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe expected heavy defeat at Sunderland failed to materialise, that club's winning goal coming only when Jack Oliver\u00a0\u2013 a native of the town\u00a0\u2013 chested the ball into his own net while attempting to block a shot. The Leicester Chronicle suggested that if Small Heath could only maintain similar form, they would soon be out of trouble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0015-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nAn exciting though unscientific local derby against West Bromwich Albion, the closest team to Small Heath in the table, produced a 2\u20132 draw in which Fraser's courage and judgment in a defensive role was remarked upon, and Bruce and James Adlington scored their first goals for the club. On an icy surface on Boxing Day, the home forwards' enthusiasm was rewarded with a goal scored by Adlington from a Wheldon cross to beat Burnley and narrow the gap to just one point behind that club and West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0016-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nAfter the last scheduled match of 1895, at Everton, was abandoned after 37 minutes because of bad weather and the state of the pitch, there was discontent among the crowd. Some of those present demanded their money back, and one spectator took the host club to court claiming the return of his admission money. The case was decided in favour of the club, the judge ruling that the paying spectator is not entitled to a full 90 minutes' football, but only to that portion which can reasonably be completed within the rules of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0017-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\n\"There was only one team in it at Coventry-road on Saturday, and that team was not the Heathens.\" So said the Sheffield Independent as Derby County won 3\u20131 to return to the top of the table. In the next week, Small Heath were eliminated in the first round of two local cup competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0017-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nTommy Hands scored and Billy Ollis was carried off injured as they lost 2\u20131 to West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup, a competition they had entered for the first time, and in the Birmingham Cup, they lost by the same score at Sheffield Wednesday in a game marked by poor forward play by both sides. The programme for January finished with home and away matches against Wolverhampton Wanderers. At home, Hands and Mobley were left out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0017-0002", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAdlington, who had scored in four successive matches, Bruce and Ollis scored before the interval, but the second half was one-sided in the opposite direction. Wanderers came back to 3\u20132, \"shots innumerable were sent in\", but Small Heath held on for their fifth win of the season. At Wolverhampton, Wheldon opened the scoring for the visitors much against the run of play, but thereafter Wanderers scored at will to make the final score 7\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0018-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nSmall Heath were without several first-team regulars against a full-strength Bury side in the first round of the FA Cup. During the first half the play was fast-paced, end-to-end and goalless until Harry Haynes left the field with a knee injury. He resumed after the interval, limping heavily, but during his absence Bury took a 2\u20130 lead, which they were to double before Lewis scored a late consolation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0018-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nTwo days later, in the replay of the match abandoned for bad weather, Small Heath's forwards pressed hard early on, but faded after Hugh Goldie scored somewhat against the run of play and Everton won 3\u20130. The Liverpool Mercury picked out debutant Tom Farnall as making a good impression at right-half. An improved performance secured a draw at home to Sheffield Wednesday, Leake scoring a headed goal, his first for the club. Wednesday had a goal from a free kick disallowed because the ball had not touched another player on its way into the net, though Meates made a desperate attempt to save it after it appeared to have deflected off Fred Spiksley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0019-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nBy this stage of the season, criticism of the club both on and off the field was widespread. The Sportsman's investigation into the finances of Midlands football clubs criticised the committee's perceived reluctance to act:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0020-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nWhen this club obtained its position in the First League last season the committee had a splendid chance of obtaining big 'gates' and doing well. But the chances were thrown away. They were afraid to speculate\u00a0... and went on with the old team last season, and they delayed enterprise this year until too late.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0021-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nThe test matches were expected \"almost as a matter of certainty, and with an air of resignation born of a long series of feeble and disappointing exhibitions.\" While recognising that \"the majority of the players had fallen far short of expectation\", the Sheffield Independent questioned the managerial wisdom of \"continually changing the players, as has been done now for some time\"\u00a0\u2013 playing four different centre-forwards in a month, and fielding players who were apparently not physically fit, as Dan Bruce against Sheffield Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0022-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAfter a lively friendly against Aston Villa produced a 2\u20131 win for Small Heath, they returned to losing ways at Bolton Wanderers. Harry Haddon, a soldier stationed at Lichfield, set up a goal for Mobley, but by then the home side were 3\u20130 up against a struggling defence. Small Heath put out a strong side against Blackburn Rovers\u00a0\u2013 the Leicester Chronicle believed that \"at no period of the season have they had such a representative team\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0022-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nWhile Corinthian back Lewis Vaughan Lodge's long-expected first appearance for the club\u00a0\u2013 which proved to be his last\u00a0\u2013 was marred by a lack of discipline positionally, Haddon enhanced his reputation at centre-forward and contributed to Wheldon's fine winning goal after debutant Bill Robertson had scored from a penalty kick. The Rovers forwards played an effective dribbling game, but Small Heath's once-characteristic \"dash\" earned them victory and took them into March off the bottom of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0023-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nA 1\u20130 defeat of Bury, courtesy of Haddon after a Wheldon header had been ruled out for offside, took Small Heath out of the test match positions at the expense of Wolverhampton Wanderers, but the latter club had the easier run-in to the end of the season. After a more than usually entertaining friendly at Leicester Fosse finished 3\u20132 to the home side, Small Heath resumed their League campaign with a visit to Blackburn Rovers, in which a performance \" much better\u00a0... than was expected of them\" still ended in defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0023-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThey came close to opening the scoring, from a Mobley cross and a \"grand shot\" by Wheldon, but went two goals behind, before Haddon's second-half score left 20 minutes for the visitors to try in vain for an equaliser. The annual theatrical sports, run by the Small Heath club in association with the Prince of Wales Theatre, raised \u00a3350 after expenses, to be distributed among the local hospitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0024-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nOnly around 500 spectators watched Small Heath lose 4\u20133 to Notts County of the Second Division in a friendly on a miserably wet day, the small attendance meaning that the home side would have lost money on the arrangement after paying Notts their guarantee. A game of two halves followed at Burnley on Good Friday; playing with the wind, Robertson opened the scoring for the visitors after four minutes and several shots hit the woodwork, but on change of ends Burnley forced the pace and had a goal disallowed before scoring the equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0024-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe next day, Sheffield Wednesday took a 3\u20130 half-time lead playing into the sun and wind. Perhaps with the approaching FA Cup Final on their minds, they took it easy in the second half, but a weakened Small Heath team, with Fountain, Jones and Pratt replacing Hands, Haddon and Lester, were still unable to score. The Sheffield Independent picked out Leake at centre half as playing excellently, and the full-backs Oliver and Pratt as \"safe, but not too speedy\". On Easter Monday, a goalless draw at West Bromwich Albion, thanks largely to Joe Fall and his defence, kept Small Heath out of the bottom two places with two games left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0025-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nSmall Heath dominated the play against Sheffield United, but visiting goalkeeper William Foulke was on fine form, and his team had a one-goal lead at the interval. Mobley scored twice in the second half, and both were in controversial circumstances. After a United defender won the ball from Tommy Hands, Hands kicked out at him; the referee turned to have a quick word with Hands, meanwhile the ball fell to Mobley, standing in an offside position, who put it in the net, and the referee, who had not seen Mobley's offside, awarded the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0025-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nEncouraged by this stroke of luck, Small Heath pressed, and from a Leake cross, Wheldon executed an overhead kick from which the ball rebounded off the crossbar to Mobley, again standing offside, who tapped it in for the winning goal. The victory left them needing only a draw from the final match of the season, at home to Sunderland, to avoid the test matches. In the event, they were outclassed. Though as usual the defence was satisfactory, the forwards' positioning was poor, Hallam and Walton were sadly missed, and they lacked anyone of influence to organise them. A 1\u20130 defeat, combined with Wolverhampton's 5\u20130 thrashing of Bolton Wanderers, confirmed Small Heath's participation in the test matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0026-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, Test matches\nThe format was that of a four-team league, in which each would play the two teams from the other division on a home-and-away basis. Small Heath's campaign began at Liverpool, whose forwards were restricted to one goal in the first half through the efforts of Lester and Oliver, but in the second, the Liverpool Mercury's report that \"the whole of the play was confined to the visitors' quarters\" was little of an exaggeration as the home side won 4\u20130. In the home match, Hallam and Walton came in for Mobley and Farnall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0026-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, Test matches\nSmall Heath came close to conceding when Tom Bradshaw spotted Meates off his line, but Jack Oliver got back in time to clear. They had more of the play, with Wheldon was particularly dangerous in attack, and threw caution to the winds as full-time approached, but the game finished goalless. A 3\u20130 defeat at Manchester City confirmed Small Heath's relegation to the Second Division for the 1896\u201397 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0026-0002", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, Test matches\nMeates opened the scoring for City when he sliced the ball into his own net in attempting a clearance, and after Hallam failed to take a good chance in the first half and struck the crossbar in the second as the visitors tried hard to equalise, City scored twice more towards the end of the match. For the last test match, at home to Manchester City, Small Heath selected Thomas Dunlop and Walter Abbott instead of Oliver and Hands. Small Heath had all of the play, \"shots without number\" were attempted but only one was scored by half-time. They scored a further seven in the second half, with hat-tricks for Jones and Wheldon and a goal on debut for Abbott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0027-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAfter opening their campaign with six defeats, Small Heath spent most of the season in the bottom two positions. They conceded more goals than any other team in the division for the second consecutive season, and scored fewer than all but bottom club West Bromwich Albion. The directors came under criticism for failing to improve the team and for their selection policy: making too many changes to the team from one game to the next, and playing men when they were unfit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0027-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nA draw from the final match of the season, at home to Sunderland, would have secured their First Division status for another year, but they lost, finished 15th of the 16 teams, and were relegated via the test matches. The League's Annual General Meeting heard proposals from Small Heath F.C. that the First Division be expanded to 18 teams, and that a two-thirds majority be sufficient to carry a motion rather than three-quarters. Both motions were lost, thus confirming that the team would play in the Second Division for the 1896\u201397 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0028-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nThe average league attendance remained steady in the low 6,000s, although the highest attendance was 10,000, compared with 15,000 the previous season. The balance sheet showed expenditure of \u00a34,158, of which players' wages, bonuses and transfer fees accounted for \u00a32,536. During the season the club bought the lease of the Coventry Road ground, which had 11 years remaining, and made improvements to the standing accommodation. Most of the club's income came from net gate receipts of \u00a33,733, and the club lost \u00a3185 on the year to 30 April. Both income and expenditure had doubled over the last two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0029-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nThe Nottinghamshire Guardian suggested Small Heath would \"have to greatly improve their present team if they are to make a very prominent display even in [the second] division next season.\" Harry Haynes moved on to Southern League club Southampton St Mary's, Ted Devey left for Burton Wanderers, and Adam Fraser returned to Scotland, but the major loss was that of Fred Wheldon. Wheldon had scored 116 goals from 175 matches in league and FA Cup for Small Heath, and the only match he missed in six seasons was when his sister died on the morning of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0029-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nHe joined local rivals and League champions Aston Villa for a fee which, after much speculation, was confirmed at Small Heath's Annual General Meeting as \u00a3350 guaranteed, plus the proceeds of a match to be played between the two clubs. The \u00a3350 fee was reported to be a transfer record. He went on to win three Football League titles with Aston Villa, including a League and FA Cup double in his first season with the club, topped the First Division scoring charts in 1897\u201398, and scored six goals in four games for the England national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0030-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Match details\nFor consistency, attendances and goalscorers' names in the League and FA Cup match details tables are sourced from Matthews' Complete Record. Information in contemporary newspaper reports could, and often did, differ. League positions are sourced from League positions are sourced from 11v11.com.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030695-0031-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Small Heath F.C. season, Squad statistics\nThis table includes appearances and goals in nationally organised competitions \u2013 the Football League, including relegation test matches, and FA Cup \u2013 only. For a description of the playing positions, see Formation (association football)#2\u20133\u20135 (Pyramid).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the eleventh since the foundation of Southampton St. Mary's F.C. and their second in league football, as members of the Southern League. They finished the league season in third place behind the previous season's champions, Millwall Athletic, and Luton Town. In the FA Cup they reached the First Round Proper for the second consecutive season, where they were defeated by Sheffield Wednesday, of the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Pre-season\nIn the spring of 1895, Charles Robson had been appointed secretary to Southampton St Mary's Football Club, then playing in the Southern League. As secretary, he was responsible for signing new players and agreeing player contracts as well as being involved in team selection \u2013 the day to day coaching and training of the players was in the hands of the trainer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Pre-season\nOne of Robson's first acts as secretary was to accompany Alfred McMinn, one of the club committee, on a trip to the Potteries to recruit players. McMinn was a native of Staffordshire and was \"most persuasive on his home turf\". On this trip, Robson and McMinn signed six players: Jack Farrell, Samuel Meston and Willie Naughton from Stoke, Watty Keay from Derby County, Joe Turner from Dresden United and Alf Wood from Burslem Port Vale, as well as recruiting Stoke's long-serving trainer, Bill Dawson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0002-0001", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Pre-season\nThe Saints committee were anxious to secure their services and signed then before the Football League season was over. Port Vale and Stoke lodged a complaint with the Football Association about \"poaching\", and an emergency FA meeting was held at Sheffield, resulting in the Saints being severely censured for negligence. St Mary's were ordered to pay their own costs, plus \u00a34 6s 3d to Stoke and \u00a31 13s to Port Vale. McMinn was suspended for a year and Dawson for a month. Wood's registration with St Mary's was cancelled (shortly afterwards he moved to Stoke).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Pre-season\nA proposal was put forward that the name of the club should be amended from Southampton St. Mary's to plain Southampton F.C. \u2013 this was rejected on the grounds that the club could no longer be called \"The Saints\" if the official name was changed. One change that was approved was that the team jerseys should be red and white halves rather than red and white quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the Saints' second in the Southern League, having finished third in the inaugural season. The team started the season badly, losing four of the first five matches, all of which were away from home. The poor start to the season was blamed on the inability of the new players to settle in the area. Eventually, under trainer Dawson's guidance, the team's form improved and there were only two further league defeats; after mid-December, the team suffered only one defeat and kept eight \"clean sheets\", despite first-choice goalkeeper Tom Cain missing several matches through injury. At the end of the season, they finished third behind Millwall Athletic and Luton Town, with the top three positions identical to the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nTop scorer in the league was Jack Farrell with ten goals from his 17 appearances. The highlight of the league season was the visit of Millwall on 21 March 1896 when a crowd of 8,000 saw the Saints defeat the reigning champions 2\u20130, with goals from Charles Baker and Joe Turner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nIn addition to the Southern League and FA Cup matches, the club played nearly 30 friendly matches, including a 9\u20130 victory over the Dublin Fusiliers and a 13\u20130 victory over the City Ramblers, in both of which Jack Farrell scored five goals. There were also victories over Dundee and Tottenham Hotspur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nAt the end of the season, the Saints had to vacate the Antelope Ground, which had been sold for re-development, and moved to the County Ground, partly through the connections of the club's president, Robson's former Hampshire strike partner, Dr. H. W. R. Bencraft, who was also Hon. Secretary to the cricket club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the FA Cup, an away victory over local rivals Freemantle in the First Qualifying Round was followed by comfortable home victories over Marlow (5\u20130), Reading (3\u20130) and Uxbridge (3\u20130). In the First Round proper, the Saints received a home draw against opposition from the Football League First Division for the second consecutive year, this time against The Wednesday. Saints' trainer, Bill Dawson, spent the week leading up to Wednesday's visit with extra training for the players, taking them through their paces on Shawford Down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030696-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nFor the match, played at the Antelope Ground on 1 February 1896, the crowd was estimated at 12,000, by far the largest yet recorded for a football match in Southampton. The Saints had to play their third-choice goalkeeper, Walter Cox as Tom Cain was injured, and the Royal Artillery refused to allow on-loan 'keeper \"Gunner\" Reilly to play. The Saints took an early lead, through Watty Keay, before two goals from Alec Brady gave Wednesday the half-time lead. Wednesday increased their lead shortly after the break, and although Joe Turner got one back, the Saints were unable to score an equalizer. Wednesday ran out 3\u20132 winners and went on to win the Cup the following April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030697-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southern Football League\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the second in the history of the Southern League. Luton Town applied for election to the Football League. However, the election was not successful. Millwall Athletic won Division One for the second successive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030697-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southern Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured one new club, who had been promoted from Division Two the previous season: New Brompton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030697-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southern Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured four new clubs, all of which were newly elected:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030697-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, test matches were held between the bottom three clubs in Division One and the top three clubs in Division Two. Wolverton LNWR and Sheppey United were promoted after the play-offs, whilst Clapton remained in Division One. Although they later resigned from the league, 1st Scot Guards (who they had beaten in the play-offs) were not promoted in their place, and instead Royal Ordnance Factories kept their place in Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030697-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nLuton Town applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. However, in the election they were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030698-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1895-96 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's first in the Northern Rugby Football Union, following the dispute and split with the Rugby Football Union. In a difficult season, the club finished fourteenth out of 22 teams in the national competition, having two points deducted from their league total for fielding an ineligible player, and seventh in the concurrent Lancashire Senior Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030698-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 St Helens RLFC season, National Championship\nLeague points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030698-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 St Helens RLFC season, National Championship\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0St. Helens had 2 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030699-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was Stoke's seventh season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030699-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Stoke F.C. season\nStoke enjoyed their best season yet under new manager Bill Rowley finishing in 6th position with 30 points. Stoke only drew one game this season and that came in the FA Cup against Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030699-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, League\nIn the summer of 1895 the club had become a Limited liability company and long serving goalkeeper Bill Rowley was given the position of secretary-manager. One of Rowley's best pieces of business was to bring William Maxwell to the club from Dundee. Maxwell went on to score 75 goals in 156 matches in six seasons with Stoke. Before the start of the season, there was a mini-exodus of players to Southampton St. Mary's such as Jack Farrell, Samuel Meston, Willie Naughton and trainer Bill Dawson. Some players would later return to Stoke after their spell on the south coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030699-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, League\nOne of Stoke's most bizarre transfer deals took place in February 1896 when they signed Allan Maxwell from Darwen. Instead of requesting a transfer fee Darwen wanted a set of wrought iron gates to be supplied by Stoke. On the pitch Stoke finished their highest position yet of sixth place, picking up 30 points in the process. No league draw was forthcoming for Stoke their only draw came in the FA Cup against Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030699-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, FA Cup\nFor the second season running Stoke were knocked out of the FA Cup by Wolverhampton Wanderers this time 3\u20130 in the third round. Prior to this Stoke were in free scoring form beating Tottenham Hotspur 5\u20130 and Burnley 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030700-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Swindon Town F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was Swindon Town's second season in the Southern League, the club's first season within a league structure. Swindon also competed in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the inaugural season of Thames Ironworks, the club that would later become West Ham United. The club was founded by Dave Taylor and Arnold Hills in 1895 as the works team of the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company. Taylor was a foreman at the Ironworks and a local football referee. Thanks to Ironworks owner Arnold Hills' financial backing, he was able to announce on 29 June 1895 the following in the company's weekly journal:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nFifty would-be players paid half-a-crown for a year's membership, and Taylor spent the summer arranging the fixtures for Thames Ironworks F.C. and their reserves. Before the Irons played their first game Taylor returned to refereeing, handing over organizational duties to Ted Harsent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe birth of Thames Ironworks F.C. coincided with the demise of Old Castle Swifts, the first professional football club in Essex. Thames took over the tenancy of Castle Swifts' Hermit Road ground in Canning Town and also signed four of their players. The Hermit Road ground had been described as a 'cinder heap' and 'barren waste'. It was surrounded by a moat and had canvas sheeting for fencing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe Swifts that joined the Ironworks team were right-back and winger Robert Stevenson and forwards Jamie Lindsay and George Sage. Scotsman Bob Stevenson became the club's first ever captain and he is credited as being the team's first player of note. He would also play at full-back and centre-forward during his Irons career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nLooking to bolster their attacking strength, the Irons had also recruited Ironworks employee George Gresham, an inside-forward who had played for Gainsborough Trinity, who would go on to score many goals for the club in the following four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe original colours of the team were Oxford Blue due to Arnold Hills being a former student of the University of Oxford, although they used a variety of kits, often wearing navy blue or white. The Ironworks played their first ever fixture against Royal Ordnance reserves on 7 September 1895, the game ending 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nOther players likely to have been involved in this first game were Iron Works employee Charlie Dove, who had played at full-back and centre forward during his time as a school player, and Essex cricketer John Wood, who was the cousin of jockey Fred Archer. Dove was mainly used as a defender by The Irons, but would play every position for them during his stay there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0007-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe Irons' biggest win of the season came in their third friendly fixture on 28 September 1895 when they beat Manor Park 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0008-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe newly formed club had the audacity to enter the FA Cup competition, as recorded in the Thames Iron Works Gazette:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0009-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nIn Thames' first competitive game they took on Chatham in a preliminary qualifying round of the FA Cup . The match was played at Chatham's ground in Kent as they had rated the Irons' Hermit Road Ground as unsuitable. On 12 October before a crowd of 3,000 they lost to Chatham 0\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0010-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nTheir biggest defeat came on 14 December when they lost in an away game to Iron Works rivals Millwall 0\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0011-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\n25 December saw Thames Ironworks face South West Ham at home, and they won 4\u20131, beginning a run of ten straight wins that ended on 17 February 1896, when they lost to South London team Vampires F.C. 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0012-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nIn the semi-finals of the West Ham Charity Cup held on 15 February 1896, Thames Ironworks beat Park Grove 1\u20130, in a game staged in Plaistow. Park Grove protested over a technicality and forced a replay at Beckton Road, which The Ironworks won 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0013-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nOn 7 March Thames Ironworks played Fulham for the first time in a friendly, winning the game 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0014-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nFollowing a number of trials against local sides, 16 March saw an experimental 'floodlit friendly' at the Hermit Road ground for Thames Ironworks, in their first encounter with Woolwich Arsenal. George Gresham scored twice, in an epic encounter that finished in favour of Woolwich Arsenal 5\u20133. George Gresham scored two of the Irons goals that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0015-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThese early attempts at floodlighting were set up using Thames Iron Works engineers and equipment, and caused an amount of notoriety. They were also used for \"The Irons\" next game, in their first ever meeting with West Bromwich Albion, which they lost 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0016-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe following day, an epic confrontation followed as Thames Ironworks faced Barking in the final of the West Ham Charity Cup on 21 March 1896 at The Old Spotted Dog Ground in Upton Lane. Drawing 2\u20132, the match was replayed a week later, and again the teams drew, this time 0\u20130. Eventually the final was replayed for the second time on 20 April 1896 and the Irons won 1\u20130, lifting a trophy in their first ever season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030701-0017-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThames Ironworks won 30 of their 47 games in the 1895\u201396 season, drawing 5 and losing 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030702-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1895\u201396 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the first scholastic year in which two organized college teams played against one another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030702-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nJohns Hopkins University and Yale University competed in two February games, marking the beginning of collegiate ice hockey in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030703-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1895\u201396 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represents the University of Washington during the 1895\u201396 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030704-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1895\u201396 Welsh Amateur Cup was the sixth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Queensferry Ironopolis who defeated Shrewsbury Athletic 3-0 in the final, at The Racecourse, Wrexham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030705-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Welsh Cup\nThe 1895\u201396 Welsh Cup was a knock-out football competition contested by teams from Wales. Bangor City F.C. defeated Wrexham F.C. in the final by a score of 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030705-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Welsh Cup, First round, Division Three\nAberystwyth Town receive a bye to the next roundWhitchurch receive a bye to the next roundPorthmadoc receive a bye to the next round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030705-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Welsh Cup, Second round\nPorthmadoc scratch to Oswestry UnitedRhayader scratch to HerefordBangor receive a bye to the next roundAberdare receive a bye to the next round", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030706-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Western Football League\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the fourth in the history of the Western Football League, and the first to be held under this name. The league had been known as the Bristol & District League until this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030706-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Western Football League\nWarmley were the Division One champions for the third time in four years. Barton Hill won Division Two but were not promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030706-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Western Football League, League constitution and rules\nThe twelve teams that would take part in Division One were agreed at a meeting of the league on Wednesday 8th May 1895. The top eight finishers from the previous season (Hereford Thistle, St George, Warmley, Staple Hill, Gloucester, Eastville Rovers, Trowbridge Town and Clifton) were all automatically granted a place in the division for the 1895\u201396 campaign, while the bottom four finishers (Bedminster, Mangotsfield, Swindon Wanderers and Clevedon) would all need to apply for re-election to retain a spot in the top flight. Clevedon opted not to return to the league this season, but Barton Hill, Cardiff and St Paul's all submitted applications to the league. The result of the election is shown in the table below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030706-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Western Football League, League constitution and rules\nA change to the way teams were ranked in the league table was agreed at a committee meeting in September 1895. Up to this point when teams finished level on points goal average was used as a tie-breaker, but for this season the use of goal average was abolished and any teams tied on points would play a test match at the end of the season to decide their ranking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030706-0004-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nTwo new clubs joined Division One for this season, though the number of clubs remained at 12 after Hereford Thistle and Clevedon left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030706-0005-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One, Test match\nSince Eastville Rovers and Staple Hill were tied on points at the end of the season a one-off test match was arranged between the two teams to decide which team would finish second and which finished third. The match ended in a 2\u20132 draw, leading to the two teams being declared joint runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030706-0006-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nFour new teams joined Division Two this season, though the number of clubs remained at 11 after Mangotsfield Reserves, Waverley and Willsbridge left the league and St Paul's were elected to Division One. Willsbridge's withdrawal was due to them having no ground available on which to play their home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030707-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1895\u201396 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1895\u201396 season. The team finished the season with an 8\u20135 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030708-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1895\u201396 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 1st season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030708-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nYale can trace its ice hockey history back to 1893, however, it wasn't until 1986 that they played their first intercollegiate match. Malcolm Chace, who was also a nationally-ranked tennis player, founded the Yale men's team in his senior year, serving as both captain and manager of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030708-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nAs there were no on-campus facilities capable of supporting an ice rink the team played all of their games on the road. Because there was no governing body overseeing the structure of the season, all games played by Yale are counted for their historical record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030709-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in American soccer\nThe following article lists notable events during the 1895\u201396 season in American soccer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030709-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in American soccer, Changes from 1894\u201395\nMost notably, the American League of Professional Football disbanded after playing one season. The ALPF was a winter soccer league organized by baseball owners of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. The goal of this league was to maintain brand relevance of their existing baseball clubs during the offseason, and to attract extra funds during the late fall and winter months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030709-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in American soccer, Changes from 1894\u201395\nSubsequently, the National Association Football League conducted its first season this year, having four teams play in the inaugural season. A fifth team, New Rochelle F.C., failed to start the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030709-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in American soccer, Honors and achievements\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honor. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030710-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official league existed at the time. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and was disputed between 7 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030711-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in English football\nThe 1895\u201396 season was the 25th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030711-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030712-0000-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in Scottish football\nThe 1895\u201396 season of Scottish football was the 23rd season of competitive football in Scotland and the sixth season of the Scottish Football League. This season also saw the introduction of the Scottish Qualifying Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030712-0001-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in Scottish football, Scottish Division Two\nAbercorn came first in the Scottish Division Two. Leith Athletic and Renton finished second and third", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030712-0002-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nHeart of Midlothian won the Scottish Cup after beating rivals Hibernian 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030712-0003-0000", "contents": "1895\u201396 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nCambuslang Hibs won the Junior Cup after beating Parkhead 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030713-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\n1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1896th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 896th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 96th year of the 19th\u00a0century, and the 7th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1896, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season\nThe 1896 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season was the tenth season of play of the league. Each team played eight games, and Montreal Victorias were first with a 7\u20131 record. During the season, on February 14 the Victorias hosted a Stanley Cup challenge match with the Winnipeg Victorias club. Winnipeg won 2\u20130 to win the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season, Season\nThe Crystals were allowed to change their name to Shamrocks, which matched their new affiliation with the Shamrock A.A.A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season, Season, Highlights\nThe Victorias were truly the class of the league and only lost once, 3\u20132 to Ottawa. Their regular season team goal total was nearly double that of Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season, Playoffs\nThere were no playoffs as Montreal won first place exclusively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season, Exhibitions\nAfter the season, Montreal and Shamrocks played an exhibition series of games in the United States:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season, Exhibitions\nThe Montreal Victorias travelled to New York City for an exhibition against the New York Athletic Club. The Athletic Club records the date as March 4, (although the date conflicts with an AHAC game), won by the Vics 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Montreal\nThe first successful challenge to the Cup came in February 1896 by the Winnipeg Victorias, the champions of the Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA). On February 14, Winnipeg beat defending champion Montreal Victorias, 2\u20130, becoming the first team outside the AHAC to win the Cup. Winnipeg took a 2\u20130 lead in the first half of the game on goals by Armytage and Campbell, then played on the defensive in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 75], "content_span": [76, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030714-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 AHAC season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030715-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030715-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). At this time, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030715-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nIn contrast to the inaugural contest, the election of 1896 created little excitement, with three of the five seats being uncontested. Of the two contested sets, it was the Gadlys Ward that attracted most coverage in the local press The election provides evidence of the way in which the nonconformist middle-classes of Aberdare, closely allied to the Liberal party were increasingly dominating the public life of what was an important politicale centre in Wales. At this time, also the working classes were beginning to become organised through the miners' union and, to a lesser extent, the Independent Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030715-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe election is interesting and relevant because it demonstrates the nature of social interaction between the middle- and working-classes in the industrial south Wales of the 1890s. It was a time of industrial disputes and conflicts but also of concern about lack of educational opportunities for working-class children and the state of housing. It would appear that the miners and other workmen, once a set of middle-class councillors had been elected, were willing to allow those members to represent the community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030715-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Aberdare Urban District Council election, Aberaman Ward\nThomas Rees, landlord of the Swan Inn, Aberaman, had run unsuccessfully for the county council the previous year but had been defeated by the sitting member, Thomas Davies of Abercwmboi. Hr narrowly held his seat against another Liberal candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030715-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Aberdare Urban District Council election, Gadlys Ward\nGriffith George held on against an unsuccessful candidate at the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030715-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Aberdare Urban District Council election, Town Ward\nThomas Thomas, the sitting member and a former county councillor was said to have been removed as candidate by the Liberal and Labour Association in favour of Lewis Noah Williams, a prominent local businessman and son of William Williams (Carw Coch). John William Evans, who had ousted Thomas from the seat at the 1895 election was also nominated but also withdrew before the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030716-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Add-Ran Christian football team\nThe 1896 Add-Ran Christian football team represented Add-Ran Christian University\u2014now known as Texas Christian University (TCU)\u2014as an independent during the 1896 college football season. They played their home games in Waco, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030717-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1896 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach Otto Wagonhurst, in his first season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In what was the fifth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of two wins and one loss (2\u20131, 1\u20131 SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030717-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Alabama Crimson White football team\nIn spring 1895, the University Board of Trustees passed a rule that prohibited athletic teams from competing off-campus for athletic events. As such, all games scheduled for the 1896 season were played on campus at The Quad. In their first game, Alabama shutout the Birmingham Athletic Club before they lost their only game of the season against Sewanee. The Crimson White then closed the season with their second shutout victory of the year against Mississippi A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030717-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Birmingham Athletic Club\nIn the first game played against the Birmingham Athletic Club (B.A.C.) since the 1893 season, Alabama defeated the Athletics 30\u20130 in Tuscaloosa. Alabama scored their first touchdown early in the first half when a B.A.C. fumble was recovered and returned 50-yards for a touchdown. They scored four more touchdowns and made five successful PAT's in their 30\u20130 shutout victory. In what was the final all-time contest against the Athletics, the victory improved Alabama's all-time record against the Birmingham Athletic Club to 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030717-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Sewanee\nAgainst Sewanee, Alabama lost their first game of the season, 10\u20136. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Sewanee to 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030717-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Mississippi A&M\nIn their final game of the season, Alabama defeated the Mississippi A&M Aggies, 20\u20130, at Tuscaloosa in the first all-time meeting between the long-time rivals. Alabama took a 12\u20130 halftime lead after Putnam and Frank White scored touchdowns with A. B. McEachin converting both PAT's. In the second half Samuel Slone scored on a 45-yard touchdown run and the Aggies quarterback was sacked for a safety on the last play of the game to make the final score 20\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030718-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Alabama gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 3, 1896, in order to elect the Governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat William C. Oates decided not to run for a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030719-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Albion football team\nThe 1896 Albion football team was an American football team that represented Albion College in the 1896 college football season. Under first-year head coach and former star halfback F. J. Shipp, Albion compiled a 4\u20134 record, and were outscored by their opponents 124 to 67. In the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, the team finished with a 2\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030720-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the tenth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. It was the first championship in which a goal was worth three points. Limerick won their second, and so far last, title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030720-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Leinster\nThe final was abandoned after 50 minutes of play. It was refixed on several occasions but never replayed. On 2 January 1898 Dublin were awarded the Leinster title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 64], "content_span": [65, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030721-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the ninth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030721-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nLimerick were represented by the Commercials club with Young Irelands representing Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030721-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nBill Murphy scored Limerick's decisive goal, after which Limerick sat back to defend their lead. Limerick have not appeared in an All-Ireland football final since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030722-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1896 was the tenth series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Dublin 8\u201314 to 0\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030722-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Rule change\nAt the Gaelic Athletic Association's (GAA) annual congress it was decided to change the value of a goal. From 1892 until 1896 a goal was worth five points; however, the new change resulted in a goal being worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030722-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The two provincial representatives made up the two final teams with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030723-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1896 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 9th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1896 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 27 March 1898 between Dublin, represented by club side Commercials, and Tipperary, represented by club side Tubberadora. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 8-14 to 0-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030724-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1896 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 5th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 10 and ended on August 15. The championship took the format of a league of 5 teams, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030724-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe title was won by Lomas Academy, the second team of Lomas Athletic Club, which played its last tournament being then dissolved. Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway merged with Belgrano Athletic Club which debuted that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030725-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team\nThe 1896 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1896 college football season. During the 1896 season, Arkansas again played two games against Fort Smith High School. Arkansas won both games by scores of 10\u20130 and 6\u20132. On October 24, 1896, Arkansas played the second intercollegiate football game in program history, facing the team from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. Drury defeated Arkansas by a 34\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030725-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team\nThe roster of the 1896 football team included the following players: H. Y. Fishback (captain); L. R. Putnam; Frank James; T. O. Potts; R. P. Rutherford; V. V. Allen; E. Carter; J. W. Pollard; A. J. McDaniel; L. G. Crowley; J. Mitchell; G. W. Gunnel; F. Horsfall; L. F. Owens; and T. A. Edwards. John C. Futrall was the team's \"manager\", and B. N. Wilson was the \"trainer\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030726-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 7, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030726-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Democratic Governor James Paul Clarke did not stand for re-election, but instead ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030726-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nDemocratic nominee Daniel W. Jones defeated Republican nominee Harmon L. Remmel and Populist nominee Abner W. Files with 64.26% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030727-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1896 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1896 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach George P. Dyer, the Cadets compiled a 3\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 93 to 45. The Army\u2013Navy Game was not played in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030727-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Army Cadets football team\nNo Army Cadets were honored on the 1896 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash\nThe 1896 Atlantic City rail crash occurred soon after 6:30 pm on July 30, 1896, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 people and seriously injuring approximately 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Accident\nA train consisting of five cars left Atlantic City over the West Jersey Railroad bearing a special excursion of members of the Improved Order of Red Men and their friends from Bridgeton and Salem, New Jersey, and had reached the crossing of the Reading Railroad when it was struck by the 5:40 down express train from Philadelphia. Two cars were demolished and the two cars following were telescoped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Accident\nThe engine of the Reading train was wrecked, the engineer killed, and the fireman fatally injured. The car behind it was thrown from the track and many of its occupants were killed or injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Accident\nIn 1896, leaving Atlantic City, the tracks of the West Jersey Road were parallel to those of the Camden and Atlantic Railway until they crossed the drawbridge, when they switched off to the south, crossing the Reading Road at an oblique angle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Accident\nJohn Greiner, the engineer of the West Jersey train, saw the Reading train approaching the crossing at a swift speed, but as the signals were open for him to proceed on his way, he continued. His engine had barely cleared the crossing when the locomotive of the Reading train, which left Philadelphia at 5:40 pm, struck the first car full in the centre, throwing it far off the track in a nearby ditch, and submerging it completely. The second car of the West Jersey train was also carried into the ditch, the third and fourth cars being telescoped. The engine of the Reading train was thrown to the other side of the track, carrying with it the first coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Accident\nA few minutes after the collision, the boiler of the Reading locomotive exploded, scalding several people to death and casting boiling spray over many of the injured passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nAs soon as the news reached Atlantic City it spread rapidly, and thousands of people came to the scene. The road leading to the collision was a constant scene of hackney carriages, omnibuses, bicycles, and all kinds of vehicles, while thousands of pedestrians hurried along the path to render what assistance they could or to satisfy their curiosity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nAfter darkness, the work of rescuing the injured and recovering the bodies of the dead was performed by the glare of huge bonfires. As onlookers watched through the night, the mangled and burned bodies of the dead were carried from the wreckage that trapped them and laid side by side on the gravel bank near the track, with no covering other than the few newspapers gathered from the passengers. The wounded were gathered together quickly and carried by train and wagon to the Atlantic City Hospital, where six of them died soon after their arrival. Two others died within a day, with 42 people having been killed at the collision scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nThe old Excursion House at the foot of Mississippi Avenue was converted into a morgue, and the dead were taken there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nDuring the first night after the crash, the streets in the vicinity of the Excursion House and the City Hospital, as well as the road leading to the scene of the accident, were packed with people anxious to learn the latest news.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nThe Bridgeton and Salem excursionists who escaped injury were brought back to Atlantic City and sent home on a special train several hours later in the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nJames W. Hoyt, Secretary of the New Jersey Department of Public Safety, immediately upon learning of the extent of the accident, telegraphed for the Philadelphia Medical Emergency Corps, fifteen of whom responded, and hurried to Atlantic City on a special train that left Philadelphia at 10:45 pm. These surgeons materially aided Atlantic City's volunteer corps, which was composed of almost every physician then living in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nMany of the injured were taken to hotels, as the city hospitals soon became overcrowded. About thirty of the wounded had their injuries dressed and were able to proceed on their way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Emergency response\nThe wife of Edward Farr, the Reading engineer who died while on the job, and was found with one hand on the throttle and the other on the brake, when informed of the accident and of her husband's death, was unable to withstand the shock, and fell to the floor dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Inquest\nCounty Coroner William McLaughlin, immediately upon hearing of the accident, went to the scene. He went directly into the block tower and questioned operator George F. Hauser. Hauser told him that he thought the excursion train had time to cross the tracks of the Reading before the express got there and he set the \"clear\" signal for the West Jersey train. (The signalling system worked as follows: the interlocking block system was used. There were three poles with semaphores controlled by the tower on the reading tracks and two on the West Jersey. The pole furthest from the tower on the Reading tracks was distant about 2,000 yards. The other two were much closer. When the operator set the \"clear\" signal on the Pennsylvania track, this would automatically set the \"danger\" signal on the Reading track, and vice versa.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Inquest\nBefore Hauser could make a further explanation to the coroner he received an order from the railroad officials not to say anything. He obeyed. Pending an investigation, Hauser was arrested by the coroner, but was released on $500 bond. A jury was impanelled the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Inquest\nTestimony on August 4 seemed to implicate the dead Reading Railroad express engineer, Edward Farr. His action in running at a speed of forty-five miles an hour past a danger signal seemed inexplicable to those present at the inquest. His reputation was that of an experienced engineer and a man of exceptionally good moral character, and not of a reckless or careless disposition. Only two weeks previous to the accident his train was signaled to stop at that very crossing, and he obeyed promptly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Inquest\nThe coroner's jury returned verdicts on August 7. Six jurors merely stated the manner of the passengers' deaths. Three found that \"Engineer Edward D. Farr of the Atlantic City Railroad failed for have his engine under proper control on approaching [the] crossing, and that Tower Man George F. Hauser, in giving the excursion train of the West Jersey Railroad the right of way over a fast express used bad judgment... [ and] that Engineer John Greiner of said excursion train erred in not exercising greater care on crossing ahead of said fast express.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030728-0017-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic City rail crash, Inquest\nThree others found that \"the cause of the collision was the failure of Edward Farr, engineer of Train No. 23, to give heed in time to the semaphore signals and crossing under the rules...the tower man, George F. Hauser, may have used poor judgment in his estimate of the distance away of the Atlantic City Railroad train when he gave the white boards to the West Jersey and Seashore Excursion Train No. 700.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1896 Atlantic hurricane season was fairly inactive but produced one of the costliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States until that point, along with several other destructive tropical cyclones. The season began in early July with a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and ended in late November with a slow-moving tropical storm over the Lesser Antilles. Of the season's seven documented systems, six are believed to have become hurricanes, and two intensified into major hurricanes\u2014the equivalence of Category 3 or greater on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0000-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season\nAll but one of the systems directly affected land to some degree; Hurricane \"Six\" remained over open water and only posed a threat to shipping lanes. In addition, a possible storm was identified off the coast of North Carolina on August 28\u201329, but modern reanalysis efforts have found insufficient evidence to classify it as a tropical cyclone. Tropical systems in the 1896 season killed at least 286 people and inflicted more than $10 million (1896 USD) in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe first hurricane made landfall in the Florida Panhandle on July 7, causing wind damage and coastal flooding in Pensacola, and destroying boats at port. No activity was observed until late August when a hurricane triggered widespread river flooding in Puerto Rico. After moving north, this storm struck eastern New England. Hurricane \"Three\" avoided land, but its outer periphery generated gusty winds in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season\nOn September 29, fast-moving Hurricane \"Four\" became one of the costliest United States hurricanes on record at the time after swamping Florida's Cedar Keys with a large storm surge and subsequently causing extensive devastation in the eastern United States. The hurricane caused 202 deaths and more than $9 million in damage across eight states, plus Washington, D.C. and the Great Lakes. About two weeks later, Hurricane \"Five\" roughly paralleled the U.S. East Coast, causing substantial coastal flooding and destruction of beachfront property. Little is known about the season's sixth hurricane which never affected land. Torrential rainfall associated with the final tropical storm of the season triggered deadly flooding on Montserrat, where nearly 50 people drowned and many more lost their homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nThe first documented tropical cyclone of the 1896 season has unclear origins. Although its official track in the National Hurricane Center's Atlantic hurricane database shows a northwestward path over Cuba, contemporary United States Weather Bureau maps indicated formation in the western Gulf of Mexico, and news reports discussed an eastward motion of the storm. Additionally, no severe weather was observed in Cuba during the month of July. In any event, the storm likely intensified into a hurricane on July 5, and around midday on July 7, it made landfall on the Florida Panhandle east of Pensacola, at Category 2 intensity. Upon moving ashore, the hurricane produced powerful winds as high as 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). The storm rapidly weakened as it moved inland, and after tracking north for five days, its remnants dissipated near Baffin Bay on July 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 912]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nWidespread damage was reported in Pensacola and along the coast, with watercraft suffering the greatest losses. In the city's harbor, the storm sank nine fishing boats, damaged two barques and a brig, and wrecked numerous smaller vessels. The winds damaged chimneys, signs, awnings, overhead wires, and some buildings throughout the city. About 35 house were unroofed, along with several stores, a hotel, and a church. Fallen trees rendered streets impassable, and railroads near the shore were washed out. Total damage in the city was estimated at $100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nAs the storm moved inland, gusty winds and heavy rainfall extended into parts of Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and southern Virginia. Precipitation peaked at 12.0 inches (300\u00a0mm) in Greenwood, South Carolina. On the morning of July 8, rainbands on the storm's eastern side spawned a tornado in Halifax County, North Carolina, that killed one person and destroyed several houses. Several more tornadoes developed in Virginia later in the day, causing five injuries and scattered damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nOn August 30, a tropical storm materialized east of the Lesser Antilles, on a northwestward course. The next night, it made landfall on the southern coast of Puerto Rico as a Category 2 hurricane, accompanied by severe rain and wind. The storm passed just north of Hispaniola and Cuba over the next several days, delivering tropical storm-force winds to the islands. On the evening of September 6, while near the Bahamas, a steamship crossed the center of the hurricane and recorded a barometric pressure of 28.24\u00a0inHg (956\u00a0mbar).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0004-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThis corresponds to maximum sustained winds of 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h), or a Category 3 major hurricane, which represents storm's peak intensity. The ship suffered extensive damage and lost one crew member when he fell overboard. Tracking generally northward, the storm weakened to minimal hurricane intensity before making landfall over eastern Massachusetts on September 10, with 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) maximum sustained winds extending to a radius of 35\u00a0mi (55\u00a0km) from the center. Sustained hurricane-force winds were observed in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts as the storm moved ashore. The system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nSeveral rivers in Puerto Rico overflowed, leading to extensive flooding. Five homes were destroyed along the coast of Juana D\u00edaz. Later, the storm generated damaging winds along the Northeastern United States coast from New Jersey to eastern New England, wreaking havoc on beachfront property and small craft. High storm tides inundated streets, wharves, and cellars along the coast, while farther inland, high winds damaged crops and stripped orchards of their fruit. Wind gusts reached 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) at Point Judith, Rhode Island, where five vessels were destroyed, and 75\u00a0mph (121\u00a0km/h) on Block Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0005-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nIn Providence, the storm brought down communications wires and lodged numerous yachts against the coast. To the north, four sloops sank in Dorchester Bay. In Boston, the storm caused minor wind damage, mostly limited to chimneys, fences, and signs. On September 14, a stricken Italian barque called the Monte Tabor grounded out on a sandbar off Cape Cod after encountering the hurricane several days earlier. Seven of the ship's crew members made it safely to shore, but inexplicably, three others\u2014including the captain\u2014committed suicide upon running aground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nAn unusually large storm formed east of the Lesser Antilles by September 18. It tracked northwestward, and on September 22, falling air pressure was observed at Havana, Cuba, some 500\u00a0mi (800\u00a0km) southwest of the storm's center. Several ships encountered the hurricane in the Gulf Stream on September 23, with one of them suffering damage to her sails.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0006-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nThe hurricane recurved to the northeast far from the East Coast of the United States, but still produced northeasterly wind gusts as high as 58\u00a0mph (93\u00a0km/h) at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and 51\u00a0mph (82\u00a0km/h) at Cape Hatteras, roughly 300\u00a0mi (480\u00a0km) northwest of the hurricane. Although its intensity and path are not certain, the Atlantic hurricane database tracks the storm until dissipation south of Iceland on September 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe most destructive tropical cyclone of the season, and one of the costliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States at the time, passed through the Leeward Islands as a tropical storm on September 22, and moved westward Through Caribbean Sea south of Hisponiola and Jamaica. Intensifying into a Category 3 major hurricane, the storm moved through the Yucat\u00e1n Channel on September 28, then accelerated toward the north-northeast. In the early morning on September 29, the hurricane struck Florida's Cedar Keys and moved inland across Levy County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0007-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe small but intense hurricane sped northward through northern Florida and southern Georgia; its rapid movement allowed it to maintain much of its severity over land. Extremely high winds accompanied the hurricane to the east of its track through the Mid-Atlantic states, and a band of heavy rain fell to its west from northern North Carolina to southern Pennsylvania. While becoming extratropical, the storm struck Washington, D.C., late on September 29, and after crossing central Pennsylvania, it dissipated near the Southern Tier of New York. Its remnants merged with another low pressure area over the Great Lakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe Cedar Keys were struck by a devastating 10.5\u00a0ft (3.2\u00a0m) storm surge that undermined buildings, washed out the connecting railroad to the mainland, and fully submerged the smaller, outlying islands where 31 people were killed. Strong winds destroyed many of the red cedar trees that played an important role in the economy of the region, and several cedar mills were severely damaged or destroyed. In interior Florida, the hurricane devastated many communities, leaving thousands of people homeless. Few homes or businesses were left standing in the hardest-hit areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0008-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nIn northern Florida and southern Georgia, the hurricane razed millions of acres of pine forests, which crippled the local turpentine industry. In Savannah, Georgia, a 45-minute onslaught of fierce winds unroofed thousands of structures and left parks in a state of disarray. Damage to shipping and shoreline settlements in the Sea Islands was extensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nAs the hurricane continued northward, cities and agricultural districts alike suffered extensive damage in Virginia. Flash flooding in the Shenandoah Valley culminated in the failure of an earthen dam upstream from Staunton, unleashing a torrent of water that swept homes from their foundations and ravaged the town's business district. In Washington, D.C., thousands of trees were uprooted or snapped, communications were severed, and localized streaks of violent gusts damaged many public and private buildings. Many trees, some of historical significance, were blown down on the White House grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0009-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nIn Pennsylvania, flooding rains and powerful wind gusts produced widespread destruction, washing out railroads in western areas while demolishing hundreds of barns in and around Lancaster County. The storm demolished a 5,390\u00a0ft (1,640\u00a0m) bridge over the Susquehanna River, while the Gettysburg Battlefield lost hundreds of trees, a few of which landed on historical monuments. Damaging winds brought down trees and powerlines throughout the Northeastern United States, and the hurricane's extratropical remnants wrought havoc on shipping in the Great Lakes. Along the storm's path, it caused at least 202 deaths, and wrought more than $9.6 million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThis cyclone was first noted in the southern Gulf of Mexico as a weak tropical storm on October 7. It tracked toward the east-northeast and made landfall in a sparsely populated region of Southwest Florida around 00:02 UTC on October 9. After crossing the Florida Peninsula, it turned more northeastward and gradually intensified. The unusually slow-moving hurricane attained its peak intensity early on October 11, with estimated maximum sustained winds of 100\u00a0mph (155\u00a0km/h). Shortly thereafter, it made its closest approach to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, passing roughly 115\u00a0mi (185\u00a0km) to the southeast. For several days, the hurricane brushed the coast from Virginia to southern New England with hurricane-force wind gusts. The storm became extratropical by 00:00 UTC on October 14, and struck the coast of central Nova Scotia before dissipating on October 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 924]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe storm had generally minor effects in Florida, mostly limited to coastal flooding in northeastern portions of the state. The Mid-Atlantic coastline experienced flooding storm tides that inundated and greatly eroded Cobb's Island, part of the Virginia Barrier Islands. Hotels and cottages there were extensively damaged. The storm claimed about 50 acres (20\u00a0ha) of Cobb's Island, reducing its size by two-thirds; subsequently, the inhabitants abandoned the island and its use as a resort ended. Along the Jersey Shore, low-lying railroads were flooded, boardwalks were destroyed, and many beach houses sustained damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0011-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe hurricane did $200,000 in damage to coastal installations on New York's Coney Island. To the north, wind gusts as high as 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) affected eastern New England, where shipping interests were heavily impacted by the storm. Three sailors died when a schooner went aground along the coast of Delaware, and another was tossed overboard while battling rough seas offshore. Overall damage amounted to $500,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six\nLittle is known about the sixth storm of the season, which was first observed near on October 17, and intensified into a moderate hurricane as it roamed the open Atlantic for two weeks. It was last noted near on November 9. On October 28, a ship was damaged by a severe squall or possible tornado, accompanied by frequent thunder and lightning, about 800\u00a0mi (1,300\u00a0km) to the northwest of the storm's estimated track. This incident may have been related to the hurricane if it were exceptionally large, and represents the only extant observation of the storm that modern reanalysis efforts were able to uncover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven\nThe final documented system of 1896 formed over the far southern Windward Islands on November 27. As the storm slowly tracked northward, torrential rainfall and strong winds overspread Trinidad, Saint Vincent, and Barbados. Several days of rainfall over Montserrat culminated in a \"cloud burst\" late on November 28, with improving conditions reported by the next morning. The storm remained below hurricane intensity and was last noted on November 29, just over 100\u00a0mi (160\u00a0km) northeast of Anguilla. In the affected islands, heavy precipitation gave rise to flash flooding along mountain streams and in valleys, destroying crops and property. Cotton, coffee, and sugar plantations sustained significant damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven\nOn Montserrat, one plantation recorded at least 21.15\u00a0in (537\u00a0mm) of rain in 21 hours, though the rain gauge overflowed between each of the three observations, preventing an accurate total from being obtained. It was speculated that several feet of rain may have locally fallen on certain hillsides, as evidenced by landslides that swept away trees, boulders, and large volumes of earth. Thirty-one people drowned in Plymouth after their homes were swept into the sea. Roadways were washed out in many places and the torrents reportedly washed out all but one bridge on the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030729-0014-0001", "contents": "1896 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven\nIn total, 46 people drowned in the floods, while many others were left homeless. Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain estimated monetary damage at \u00a310,000 ($49,000). The destruction was compounded by a series of earthquakes that began during the storm's passage. A ship called the ship Grecian, bound from Trinidad to London, England, grounded out on a rocky section of Montserrat's coastline. Twenty-nine out of the 30 crew members died in the wreck; the sole survivor was the first mate, who reached solid ground by clutching to a piece of floating debris, and walking inland several miles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030730-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1896 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers' fifth season. The team was led by head coach John Heisman, in his second year, and finished with a record of three wins and one loss (3\u20131 overall, 3\u20131 in the SIAA). The team's captain was Reynolds Tichenor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030730-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe Georgia\u2013Auburn game was a 12 to 6 victory by Georgia to finish its first undefeated season under Pop Warner. The game featured Tichenor's brilliant punt returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030731-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe Baltimore Orioles won their third straight National League pennant in 1896. After the season, they faced the Cleveland Spiders in the Temple Cup for the second year in a row. After losing 4 games to 1 in 1895, the Orioles swept the Spiders in four straight. The Orioles had now played in the Cup in each of its first three seasons, with this one being their first win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030731-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030731-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030731-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030731-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030731-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030732-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing\nThe 1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing was an attack carried out by anarchists on the Feast of Corpus Christi procession in Barcelona on June 7, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030732-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing, Background\nAnarchism in Spain had been increasingly popular among workers' groups since in 1870s. The continual failure of general strikes as a tool for galvanizing change to working conditions disappointed many, and the advocacy for use of violence began to take hold. In Catalonia, radical anarchist sentiment was particularly strong and previous attacks had been carried out by Paul\u00ed Pall\u00e0s against Arsenio Mart\u00ednez Campos in September 1893 and by Santiago Salvador at the Liceu Theatre in November 1893. Both assailants were soon executed and in 1894 the government began an outright suppression of anarchism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030732-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing, Bombing\nA small group of anarchists originally planned to bomb the Corpus Christi procession on June 6, 1896, at Barcelona Cathedral. The group, led by Nogues Molas, abandoned the plot at the last minute, but another group convened the next day for the next stage of the procession. A single bomb was dropped from a building above on the procession as it passed through Carrer dels Canvis Nous street at 9 a.m. on June 7, 1896. Three congregants were killed instantly and many others were wounded. Another nine would die from their injuries in the following days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030732-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing, Bombing\nThe identity of the perpetrator or perpetrators is disputed and remains controversial. Anarchists at the time denied any role in the bombing as its intended target, poorer working-class churchgoers, did not align with typical propaganda of the deed actions that targeted the rich bourgeoisie. Anti -clerical sentiments are found, however, in some late 19th century anarchist circles so the symbol of the Catholic Church could have been the intended target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030732-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing, Bombing\nTrade unionist and militant anarchist Tom\u00e1s Ascheri is the most commonly accepted perpetrator and was accused and tried for the attack, although he denied his role until a confession was obtained under torture in 1897. Some anarchists claimed that a French agitator, Fran\u00e7ois Girault, later confessed to the attack before fleeing to Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030732-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing, Aftermath\nThe infamous Montju\u00efc trials took place in 1897 where 87 alleged conspirators were accused and tried. Many of the detainees were outspoken against the use of violence and condemned the attack. Five defendants were sentenced to death and executed, including Ascheri, and another 67 were sentenced to imprisonment. While the sentences removed many prominent anarchist leaders from further activities, allegations of forced confessions and torture of defendants further radicalized other anarchists throughout Spain. In August 1897, Spanish Prime Minister Antonio C\u00e1novas del Castillo was assassinated by anarchist Michele Angiolillo for his role in the Montju\u00efc trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030732-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing, Aftermath\nAnarchist sentiment only hardened in Barcelona and 13 years after the Corpus Christi bombing, Barcelona workers staged a general strike in 1909 that was violently suppressed. Later, during the Spanish Civil War, Barcelona was the epicenter of the brief Anarchist Catalonia state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030733-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Belfast North by-election\nThe Belfast North by-election of 1896 was held on 22 January 1896. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Unionist Party MP, Edward Harland. It was won by the Irish Unionist Party candidate James Horner Haslett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030734-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Belgian general election\nPartial legislative elections were held in Belgium on 5 and 12 July 1896. Under the alternating system, elections were held in only five out of the nine provinces: Antwerp, Brabant, Luxembourg, Namur and West Flanders. Thus, only 77 seats out of the 152 seats in the Chamber of Representatives were up for election. The Catholic Party retained their absolute majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030734-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Belgian general election\nThe Liberal Party, who lost two-thirds of their seats in the previous elections, saw their number of seats decrease further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030735-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Beloit football team\nThe 1896 Beloit football team was an American football team that represented Beloit College in the 1896 college football season. Under first-year head coach Charles M. Hollister, Beloit compiled a 2\u20131\u20133 record and outscored their opponents 86 or 92 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030736-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Birthday Honours\nThe 1896 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published in The London Gazette on 20 May and 26 May and in The Times on 20 May 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030736-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030736-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Privy Councillor\nThe Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 74], "content_span": [75, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030737-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1896 Boston Beaneaters season was the 26th season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030737-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030737-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030737-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030737-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030737-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030738-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston College football team\nThe 1896 Boston College football team represented Boston College during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030738-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Boston College football team\nThis was the first year of the Boston College\u2013Holy Cross football rivalry, and produced one of its most controversial games. BC and HC both claim to have won their November 14 matchup at the South End Grounds, after each one refused to follow referees' instructions following a disputed play with three minutes remaining in the game. Holy Cross was leading 6\u20134 when Boston College scored what its players, and a raucous home crowd, asserted was the go-ahead touchdown; Holy Cross maintained the runner had been tackled for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030738-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 Boston College football team\nOfficials initially ruled in favor of Holy Cross, and Boston College's players refused to take the field, leading the officials to declare a 6\u20134 Holy Cross win. Under pressure from the Boston crowd, however, they reversed their decision and asked Holy Cross, which had now left the field itself, to resume play. Holy Cross players refused. The game restarted with only Boston College players, who promptly scored a touchdown (then worth 4 points) to end the game with an 8\u20136 victory. Decades later, the two colleges continued to disagree on who had won the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa\n1896 British Isles tour to South Africa was a rugby union tour undertaken by the British Isles, one of the first British and Irish Lions tours. The team toured South Africa for the second time in 1896. Between 11 July and 5 September, they played 21 games, including four tests against South Africa. The British Isles XV won the Test series 3\u20131 and completed the 17-game provincial program unbeaten, scoring 204 points and conceding just 45 in all matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nThe squad had experience on their side in the shape of two veterans of the 1891 campaign, the captain Johnny Hammond and fellow forward Froude Hancock. For the first time the squad also included a notable Irish contingent. Nine Irishmen were included in the touring party of 21. These included Thomas Crean, Larry Bulger, Jim Sealy, Andrew Clinch and Louis Magee, all of whom had just helped Ireland win the 1896 Home Nations Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nRobert Johnston had won two caps for Ireland in 1893. The other three \u2013 Arthur Meares, Cecil Boyd and James Magee, the brother of Louis \u2013 had not yet been capped by Ireland at the time of this tour. Crean and the Magee brothers were amongst the few Catholics in the touring party and on the Sunday after they arrived, they begged to be excused from joining an excursion to Hout Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nOn being pressed for a reason for such a refusal, they shyly admitted that they had been three Sundays on board ship, without Mass, and they would like to attend church. The management committee replied that they could all go to their various churches if they pleased, and that the excursions would start afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nHammond's squad was considered to have an outstanding pack but be comparatively weak in the three-quarter line. Louis Magee and England full-back Fred Byrne were the stars of the backline, but it was a forward eight inspired by Tom Crean that laid the foundations for the team's success. Hammond, was injured early in the tour and it was Crean who took over the role in his absence. The team's only draw came in an early game against Western Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nBefore the game, the new Prime Minister of the colony, Sir Gordon Sprigg, insisted on entertaining the tour party in the grand manner of his predecessor, Cecil Rhodes. Crean, captain for the day, sensing a ruse, sternly warned his players to limit their lunchtime consumption to just four tumblers of champagne, but it would appear some lost count. They escaped with a lucky 0\u20130 draw, but in a later game a much more sober team avenged the result 32\u20130, their biggest win of the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0003-0002", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nFacing a South Africa side captained by Ferdie Aston, brother of Randolph Aston, a member of the 1891 British team, the tourists dominated at forward throughout but could only score two tries in an 8\u20130 win. South Africa scored their first tries in international rugby in the second Test but still went down 17\u20138. In the third, the hosts actually led but were overhauled to go down 9\u20133, with Byrne kicking a conversion and a drop goal to set a record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0003-0003", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nHe remained the only player to score 100 points while on tour in South Africa until 1960 when Don Clarke of New Zealand beat his record. South Africa improved, however, and won the final test 5\u20130 at Newlands. It was the previously flawless Byrne who lost possession to spark the attack from which Alf Larard scored the game's only try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nWhen the tour ended, both Crean and Johnston remained in South Africa. During the Second Boer War they both served with the Imperial Light Horse and were both subsequently awarded the Victoria Cross. One member of the Lions squad, Cuth Mullins, was a South African who was studying at the University of Oxford. His brother, Charles Herbert Mullins, also won a VC during the same engagement as Johnston. The fly half, Rev. Matthew Mullineux, was awarded the Military Cross in the First World War while another member of squad Walter Carey became the Archbishop of Bloemfontein; both men became Military Chaplains for the British Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Tour overview\nAs on the previous tour in 1891, the tourists played in red and white hooped shirts and dark blue shorts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, Match summary\nComplete list of matches played by the Lions in South Africa:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, First Test\nBritish Isles: CA Boyd, LQ Bulger, JF Byrne, OG Mackie, R Johnston, M Mullineux, AM Magee, RC Mullins, AF Todd, W Mortimer, PF Hancock, WJ Carey, J Sealy, AD Clinch, TJ Crean capt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, First Test\nSouth Africa: D Lyons, Percy Twentyman-Jones, Biddy Anderson, Ferdie Aston, E Olver, FR MyBurgh capt., Frank Guthrie, JJ Wessels, P Scott, PJ Meyer, M Bredenkamp, Frank Douglass, BH Heatlie, CG van Renen, HC Gorton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Second Test\nBritish Isles: JT Magee, LQ Bulger, JF Byrne, OG Mackie, R Johnston, SP Bell, AM Magee, J Hammond capt., AF Todd, W Mortimer, PF Hancock, WJ Carey, J Sealy, AD Clinch, TJ Crean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Second Test\nSouth Africa: Davey Cope, Theo Samuels, HH Forbes, Ferdie Aston capt., Bill Taberer, A Larard, G St. L Devenish, JJ Wessels, P Scott, AM Beswick, Jim Crosby, Charlie Devenish, Tom Mellett, JB Andrew, CW Smith", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Third Test\nBritish Isles: AWD Meares, LQ Bulger, JF Byrne, OG Mackie, R Johnston, SP Bell, AM Magee, RC Mullins, AF Todd, W Mortimer, PF Hancock, WJ Carey, J Sealy, AD Clinch, TJ Crean capt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Third Test\nSouth Africa: Theo Samuels, Percy Twentyman-Jones, Biddy Anderson, Ferdie Aston capt., Albert Powell, Bill Cotty, Jackie Powell, JJ Wessels, P Scott, AM Beswick, M Bredenkamp, DJ Theunissen, EW Kelly, PJ Dormehl, CW Smith", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Fourth Test\nBritish Isles: AWD Meares, JT Magee, JF Byrne, OG Mackie, LQ Bulger, SP Bell, AM Magee, J Hammond, AF Todd, W Mortimer, PF Hancock, WJ Carey, J Sealy, AD Clinch, TJ Crean capt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030739-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Fourth Test\nSouth Africa: Theo Samuels, Percy Twentyman-Jones, Biddy Anderson, Ferdie Aston, T Hepburn, A Larard, T Etlinger, HA Cloete, P Scott, AM Beswick, P De Waal, HD Van Brockhuizen, BH Heatlie capt., PJ Dormehl, CG Van Renen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030740-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season\nThe 1896 Brooklyn Bridegrooms finished the season in tenth place in the crowded National League race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030740-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030740-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030740-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030740-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030741-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1896 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University in the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030742-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Buchtel football team\nThe 1896 Buchtel football team represented Buchtel College (later renamed as the University of Akron) in the 1896 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Harry Wilson. They were outscored by their lone opponent 0\u201332 and finished with a record of 0 wins and 1 loss (0\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030743-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Buffalo football team\nThe 1896 Buffalo football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 1896 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20131\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 210 to 41. The team had no coach and played its home games at Buffalo Athletic Field and Olympic Park in Buffalo, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030744-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Bulgarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 29 November 1896. The elections were marred by disturbances, particularly in Sofia. The elections were won by the ruling party (the People's Party) led by Prime Minister Konstantin Stoilov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030745-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1896 Calgary municipal election was scheduled for December 14, 1896 to elect a Mayor and nine Councillors to sit on the thirteenth Calgary City Council from January 4, 1897 to January 3, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030745-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Calgary municipal election\nThe entire council was acclaimed upon the close of nominations on December 7, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030745-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Calgary municipal election, Background\nVoting rights were provided to any male, single woman, or widowed British subject over twenty-one years of age who are assessed on the last revised assessment roll with a minimum property value of $200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030745-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030746-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1896 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1896 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Frank Butterworth and compiled a record of 6\u20132\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election\nThe 1896 Canadian federal election was held on June 23, 1896, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 8th Parliament of Canada. Though the Conservative Party, lead by Prime Minister Charles Tupper, won a plurality of the popular vote, the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier, won the majority of seats to form the next government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election, Description\nThe governing Conservative Party, since the death of John A. Macdonald in 1891, was disorganized. Following Macdonald's death, John Abbott spent a year as Prime Minister before handing over to John Thompson. Thompson proved a relatively popular Prime Minister, but his sudden death in December 1894 resulted in his replacement by Mackenzie Bowell, whose tenure as Prime Minister proved a disaster. The Conservatives soon became viewed as corrupt and wasteful of public funds, partially due to the McGreecy-Langevin Scandal. Issues like the Manitoba Schools Question had cost the party support in both French and English Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election, Description\nThough Bowell nominally remained Prime Minister until the election was called, leadership of the Conservative Party had been functionally taken over by Sir Charles Tupper, a Father of Confederation and former Premier of Nova Scotia. Earlier, in February 1896, Tupper introduced remedial legislation to settle the Manitoba dispute, but it was filibustered by an alliance of extreme Protestants led by Dalton McCarthy and the Liberals. This filibuster resulted in Tupper abandoning the bill and asking for a dissolution. Parliament was dissolved on April 24, 1896, and, in accordance with an agreement between Bowell and Tupper that the latter would become Prime Minister following the election call, he became prime minister on May 1, 1896, thus forming the 7th Canadian Ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election, Description\nTupper argued that the real issue of the election was the future of Canadian industry, and he insisted that Conservatives needed to unite to defeat the Patrons of Industry. However, the Conservatives were so bitterly divided over the Manitoba Schools Question that wherever he spoke, he was faced with a barrage of criticism, most notably at a two-hour address he gave at Massey Hall in Toronto, which was constantly interrupted by the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election, Description\nThe election saw a great change in the Liberal Party. While the Liberals had traditionally been the party for radical change and free trade, in the 1896 election, they embraced a much more conservative platform. That helped many of the traditional supporters of the Conservative Party move to the Liberals. The most important change was Laurier's support of the National Policy, an important cause to the powerful business interests of Montreal and Toronto. The Liberal campaign was directed by an ex-Conservative, Joseph Isra\u00ebl Tarte. Laurier was also a strong supporter of provincial rights, and a number of powerful Liberal premiers supported the campaign, such as Ontario's Oliver Mowat and Nova Scotia's W. S. Fielding, both of whom who won seats in the House and were appointed to cabinet after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election, Description\nEnding up, the Conservatives won the most votes in the 1896 election (48.2% of the votes, in comparison to 41.4% for the Liberals). However, while they captured about half of the seats in English Canada, they suffered losses in Quebec, where Tupper's reputation as an ardent imperialist was a major handicap. Tupper's inability to persuade Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau to return to active politics as his Quebec lieutenant ended any chances of the Conservatives winning that province. Laurier's Liberals won a landslide victory in Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election, Description\nAlthough Laurier had won the election on June 24, Tupper initially refused to cede power, insisting that Laurier would be unable to form a government even if the Liberal Party won 55% of the seats in the House of Commons. However, when Tupper attempted to make appointments as prime minister, Governor General Lord Aberdeen refused. Tupper resigned, and the governor general invited Laurier to form a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030747-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Canadian federal election, National results\n* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030748-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1896 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1896 college football season. The Indians were coached by Bill Hickok in his 1st year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 5\u20135 and outscored opponents 164 to 102.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030748-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlisle Indians football team\nCarlisle played games against college football's \"Big Four\" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Penn) and nearly defeated Yale. The New York Times reported on a run by Isaac Seneca that nearly won the game against Yale:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030748-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlisle Indians football team\n\"Seneca was given the ball to go through the centre. He got through with one or two Yale men hanging on to him. Then he squirmed and shook off the Yale men, dodged a man or two, and, making a splendid run down the field, made what was thought to be a touchdown. Nearly all on the grounds shouted themselves hoarse. Men waved their hats in the air, pretty gals clapped their hands ...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030748-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlisle Indians football team\nHowever, the referee waved off the touchdown, ruling that Seneca was \"down\" when the Yale players hung on to him. The New York Times wrote the next day that the referee had made the wrong call and that Carlisle had been robbed of a touchdown, but the game went into the record books as a 12\u20136 win for Yale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030749-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlton Football Club season\nThe 1896 VFA season was the 20th season in the Victorian Football Association to be contested by the Carlton Football Club. The club finished equal-last out of thirteen teams, with a record of 2\u201314\u20132 from eighteen matches. It was the final VFA season contested by the club before joining the newly established Victorian Football League in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030749-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nThe 1896 VFA season was the 20th season of the VFA competition since its inception in 1877; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 20th season contested by the Carlton Football Club. It was the last time the club ever competed in the VFA as a senior club, before the club joined the Victorian Football League competition the following year; Carlton would later return to the former VFA from 2000 to 2002, but fielding its reserves team rather than its senior team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030749-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nCarlton's primary home ground in 1896 was the University Cricket Ground, within the grounds of the University of Melbourne in Carlton; but, home matches were also moved to the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Jolimont, and to the Richmond City Reserve in Richmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030749-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nMr A. H. Shaw took over the role as president of the football club in 1896. Shaw replaced Mr F. B. Bromby, who had served in the role for one year in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030749-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Non-premiership matches\nCarlton's played one non-premiership match in 1896. This match was played against Ballarat Imperial in Ballarat on the same weekend as Round 1 of the premiership seasons, during which both clubs had a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030749-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Premiership season\nIn a generally uncompetitive season, Carlton finished with a record of 2\u201314\u20132 from eighteen matches, to finish equal last in the Association with Richmond. A draw against equal sixth-placed Port Melbourne was Carlton's best result, as all other premiership points earned came against teams finishing ninth or lower. Throughout the season, Carlton was in a battle with Richmond for last place on the ladder; Richmond ultimately won its last two matches, breaking a streak of fifteen losses in a row, to draw level with Carlton, thus resulting in the two clubs sharing last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030749-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Carlton Football Club season, Ladder\nThe Association had no formal tie-breakers in cases where clubs were equal on premiership points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nThe 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated much of the East Coast of the United States, starting with Florida's Cedar Keys, near the end of September 1896. The storm's rapid movement allowed it to maintain much of its intensity after landfall and cause significant damage over a broad area; as a result, it became one of the costliest United States hurricanes at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0000-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nThe fourth tropical cyclone of the 1896 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed by September 22, likely from a tropical wave, before crossing the Caribbean Sea just south of the Greater Antilles. It entered the Gulf of Mexico as the equivalent of a major hurricane on the Saffir\u2013Simpson scale, and struck the Cedar Keys\u2014an offshore island chain that includes the island and city of Cedar Key\u2014early on the morning of September 29 with winds of 125\u00a0mph (205\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0000-0002", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nThe area was inundated by a devastating 10.5\u00a0ft (3.2\u00a0m) storm surge that undermined buildings, washed out the connecting railroad to the mainland, and submerged the smaller, outlying islands, where 31 people were killed. Strong winds also destroyed many of the red cedar trees that played an important role in the economy of the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nThe cyclone continued inland over the Suwannee River valley, causing widespread destruction in dozens of communities across interior northern Florida; in the hardest-hit settlements, intense winds left few trees or buildings standing. The hurricane razed 5,000\u00a0sq\u00a0mi (13,000\u00a0km2) of dense pine forests in northern Florida, crippling the turpentine industry. Crops and livestock were destroyed, and thousands of individuals were left homeless. The storm killed at least 70 people in mainland Florida, while inflicting approximately $3 million (equivalent to $92\u00a0million in 2019) in property damage across the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nSpeeding north, the hurricane ravaged southeastern Georgia and the Sea Islands. In Savannah, a 45-minute onslaught of fierce winds unroofed thousands of structures. Parks, cemeteries, and streets in the city were littered with fallen trees, and the Savannah River saw dozens of wrecked boats. At least 37 people in Georgia lost their lives. Strong winds and high tides battered southeastern South Carolina, ruining rice crops and peeling off roofs. The storm then tracked through mostly rural sectors of North Carolina and did significant wind damage in the Raleigh\u2013Durham area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nAlthough the hurricane was weakening and transitioning into an extratropical cyclone late on September 29, its rapid forward movement contributed to high wind velocities across parts of the Mid-Atlantic states, with gusts approaching 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). Additionally, torrential rains fell west of the storm's track. In Virginia, cities and agricultural districts alike suffered extensive damage. Flash flooding in the Shenandoah Valley culminated in the failure of an earthen dam upstream from Staunton, unleashing a torrent of water that swept houses from their foundations and ravaged the town's commercial district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nIn Washington, D.C., thousands of trees were uprooted or snapped, communications were severed, and localized streaks of violent gusts damaged many public and private buildings. The White House grounds were left in disarray. High tides in the Chesapeake Bay triggered flooding in coastal cities. In Pennsylvania, flooding rains and powerful wind gusts produced widespread destruction. Railroads in western parts of the state were plagued by washouts and landslides, while in southeastern areas, hundreds of barns were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0002-0002", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane\nThe storm demolished a 5,390\u00a0ft (1,640\u00a0m) bridge over the Susquehanna River, while the Gettysburg Battlefield lost hundreds of trees, a few of which struck and damaged historical monuments. Strong winds extended as far east as Long Island. Heavy rainfall reached west into Ohio, and the hurricane's extratropical remnants wrought havoc on shipping in the Great Lakes. The storm caused at least 202 deaths and wrought more than $9.6 million (equivalent to $295\u00a0million in 2019) in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nAlthough little is known about the system prior to its passage through the Leeward Islands as a tropical storm on September 22, it likely originated from a tropical wave that exited the western coast of Africa. Its track has been re-analyzed multiple times since the early 20th century. For several days, the storm moved westward through the northern Caribbean Sea, passing just south of Jamaica as a low-end hurricane on September 25. The cyclone steadily intensified, turned northward, and moved through the Yucat\u00e1n Channel on September 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe aftermath of the storm in western Cuba was consistent with the effects of a Category 1 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson scale, suggesting that the storm was a major hurricane of Category 3 intensity while passing west of the island. As the storm entered the Gulf of Mexico, it began to accelerate and curve toward the north-northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nIn the early morning on September 29, the center of the hurricane made landfall on Cedar Key, Florida, with a minimum central pressure of 960\u00a0mb (28.35\u00a0inHg), and moved inland across Levy County. The cyclone possessed an unusually tight core, with a 17\u00a0mi (27\u00a0km) radius of maximum wind, and was traveling at a swift pace of about 35\u00a0mph (55\u00a0km/h). Consequently, its estimated maximum winds of 125\u00a0mph (205\u00a0km/h) were higher than pressure alone would suggest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0004-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe small but intense hurricane continued northeastward through northern Florida and southeastern Georgia, and its core contracted further; outside of a narrow corridor along the storm's track, winds were comparatively light. At Savannah, Georgia, air pressure fell 15\u00a0hPa (0.45\u00a0inHg) in 45 minutes as the storm center passed just to the west around midday on September 29. The system weakened as it sped northward through the Carolinas, but when it reached the Mid-Atlantic states on the evening of September 29, its increasingly rapid forward movement contributed to renewed wind violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0004-0002", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nA band of heavy rain was observed along and west of the storm's track from northern North Carolina to southern Pennsylvania, with the heaviest totals exceeding 6\u00a0in (150\u00a0mm). As the storm transitioned into an extratropical cyclone by early on September 30, its envelope of damaging winds expanded. The extratropical system passed west of Washington, D.C., and progressed into central Pennsylvania, dissipating near the Southern Tier of New York. Its remnants continued into the St. Lawrence Valley, where they merged with another low pressure area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath\nAs the hurricane passed to the south and then to the west of Cuba, strong winds and heavy rain showers were reported along the length of the island, beginning with Santiago de Cuba. Winds reached hurricane force at Cape San Antonio, the western tip of Cuba, and 60\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h) at Havana. However, few details of the effects in Cuba are available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath\nThe hurricane chiefly affected the eastern United States, impacting a broad region from Florida to New York over the course of just 24 hours. It was, at the time, one of the costliest hurricanes ever to strike the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida\nNewspapers referred to the hurricane as the \"worst ever known\" in Florida. It caused at least $3 million (equivalent to $92\u00a0million in 2019) in property damage throughout the state, and estimates of the number of individuals left homeless by the storm ran as high as 10,000 to 12,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nWhile the hurricane was still in the Gulf of Mexico on September 28, the Norwegian barque Saturn foundered off Key West. Her crew was rescued by a steamship and brought to New York City. As the storm came ashore, the Cedar Keys were struck by a 10.5\u00a0ft (3.2\u00a0m) storm surge that victims often erroneously called a \"tidal wave.\" Yankeetown received an even higher storm surge of 12.6\u00a0ft (3.8\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0008-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nThe main street through the center of Cedar Key\u2014the most populous island in the Cedar Keys island chain\u2014was severely flooded by 8\u00a0ft (2.4\u00a0m) of water, which invaded every building and left large sinkholes when it receded. Sidewalks along the street were washed out. The surge of water undermined the foundations of stone buildings, weakening many of them to the point of collapse, while sweeping away weaker structures. Inside the buildings left intact, mud was sometimes found several feet deep. The hurricane also contaminated wells with seawater and debris, so residents were forced to travel for clean water. Hardest-hit were the small outlying islands, which were fully submerged by the storm surge and \"completely cleared out\". Survivors often braced against young, supple trees that were able to withstand the storm's force, or used pieces of debris as flotation devices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 963]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nPowerful winds added to the destruction by damaging or leveling numerous churches and houses that managed to remain out of the flood's reach. The hurricane's cumulative force wrecked at least 100 homes on Cedar Key, and damaged or destroyed every building on nearby Atsena Otie Key. A fire broke out during the storm and reduced two large Cedar Key hotels to mounds of coquina. When the storm abated, streets were strewn with piles of debris, including trees, roofs, railroad ties, and boats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0009-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nA large ship called the Luna Davis was tossed ashore and sat in the middle of Cedar Key's business district for weeks after the storm. Interests in shellfish harvesting took a significant blow, as the hurricane ruined oyster beds and carried most fishing boats out to sea. The 4\u00a0mi (6.4\u00a0km) stretch of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad connecting Cedar Key to the mainland was completely washed out, leaving boats to transport people, mail, and supplies until the railway was rebuilt in mid-October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nThe hurricane destroyed large swaths of red cedar trees (Juniperus virginiana) in the islands and along the adjacent coastline, although that resource had already been in decline due to unsustainable harvesting practices. Cedar wood from the area was prized for making high-quality pencils; some companies produced the pencils locally while others shipped processed cedar to their factories elsewhere. The Eagle Pencil Company mill on Cedar Key was destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0010-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nAcross the channel on Atsena Otie Key, the Eberhard Faber mill lost 3,000 cases of cedar slats, as well as unprocessed timbers, at a loss of around $40,000 (equivalent to $1.2\u00a0million in 2019). Several other mills were destroyed. Damage to the Faber facility was repaired following the storm, but it closed just two years later due to a shortage of local cedar wood. Atsena Otie Key was abandoned a few years after the hurricane, largely attributable to the closure of the mill, which provided income for 100 households on the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nIn total, 31 people are known to have been killed by the hurricane in the Cedar Keys, mostly on the exposed outer islands; very few casualties were reported on Cedar Key itself. Immediately after the storm, there were unconfirmed reports that an entire fleet of sponge diving boats sank near the Cedar Keys, leading to the deaths of some 700 men. Only a few bodies of sponge divers were recovered, and modern historians believe that most of the vessels actually rode out the storm in sheltered parts of the island chain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0011-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nWhen news of the disaster in the Cedar Keys reached the mainland, many less damaged communities in Florida and Georgia formed relief groups to collect donations for storm victims. Answering pleas to \"feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and provide shelter for the homeless,\" Jacksonville sent thousands of dollars in aid, while Albany residents donated 8,000\u00a0lb (3,600\u00a0kg) of emergency supplies within days of the storm. Henry Flagler pledged a donation of $1,000 (equivalent to $0.3\u00a0million in 2019). By the end of October, the Jacksonville relief committee turned its focus to distributing goods and provisions instead of money, shipping hundreds of barrels of nails\u2014highly sought-after for rebuilding efforts\u2014to the hardest-hit areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Cedar Keys and Levy County\nThe destruction of timber continued onto the mainland, prompting one observer to remark that no usable trees were left standing between the mouths of the Waccasassa and Suwannee rivers. In Williston, nearly a dozen residences were destroyed, killing at least one person and injuring 15 more. Six prison inmates were killed by a falling tree on a farm near the town, and in total, about 13 people lost their lives in mainland Levy County. Damage throughout the county, including the Cedar Keys, was estimated at $450,000 (equivalent to $13.8\u00a0million in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Interior\nAlong the coast about midway between Tampa and Cedar Key, eight people on a sailboat died when their vessel was driven aground. In Tampa, the storm flooded low-lying areas, wrecked a bridge over Spanishtown Creek, and crumbled sea walls. As the hurricane proceeded inland, it devastated interior parts of the state. Reports from the hardest-hit localities were slow to reach the outside world because of extensive damage to communications infrastructure, as well as obstructed or washed out railroads. Initial reports indicated that at least 20 communities were \"wrecked\" by the hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0013-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Interior\nIn these areas, almost all stores and houses were demolished, particularly in western Alachua and eastern Lafayette counties. Debris was often carried for miles. Farmers lost livestock, crops, and provisions needed for the winter, and hundreds of families were left homeless with little or no food. Along the Suwannee River, storm victims sought refuge in a makeshift shelter constructed from stray timbers. Extreme winds razed entire pine forests across numerous counties, initially uprooting weaker trees before shearing the rest off at their trunks during the height of the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0013-0002", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Interior\nBy one estimate, the hurricane wiped out 5,000\u00a0sq\u00a0mi (13,000\u00a0km2) of timber across the state. This transformed the landscape and gave it a \"prairie-like appearance\". The turpentine industry was decimated, as the value of the lost pine timber was estimated at $1.5 million (equivalent to $46.1\u00a0million in 2019). Additionally, stills used to process turpentine were mangled. Consequently, some 2,500 turpentine workers were left unemployed. Phosphate processing plants east of the Suwanee River also sustained $500,000 in damage (equivalent to $15.4\u00a0million in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Interior\nBy several days after the hurricane, 12 people were reported dead across Alachua County. Five of them were in High Springs, including two seeking shelter in a box car that was blown off the tracks. Four turpentine workers in LaCrosse were crushed to death when a fallen tree landed on their cabin, and three others in the town were killed. In Newberry, which was \"totally wrecked\", three people died. About 20 homes and businesses in Gainesville were ravaged, as were a sawmill, church, and warehouse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0014-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Interior\nIn Boulogne, Nassau County, five people were killed when a school building collapsed; four were crushed inside, and a baby was fatally struck by airborne timbers from the disintegrating structure. One child escaped the school but later died along with two others when her house collapsed. Another school collapse in Hilliard took the lives of four individuals. Along the St Marys River in Kings Ferry, strong winds drove two ships into a marsh, killing three sailors. Six others died nearby. One sawmill owner donated free lumber to Kings Ferry residents so they could rebuild their homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Interior\nSeveral communities in Baker County were devastated, leaving seven people dead, as many as 100 injured, and hundreds destitute. The county sheriff estimated that merely a dozen houses out of a thousand survived the storm, that thousands of cows were killed, and that hundreds of thousands of trees were toppled. Not one church or school was left standing in the county, and damage there was estimated at $250,000 (equivalent to $7.7\u00a0million in 2019). Eight people were killed in Suwannee County, including two children crushed by the collapse of their home near Wellborn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0015-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Florida, Interior\nIn Columbia County, dozens of buildings suffered near or total destruction, while nine people were killed. One woman lost her life in Grady, a small settlement in Lafayette County. Additionally, there were five fatalities in Bradford County, including one man reportedly struck by flying bricks that were lofted nearly a half mile downwind. Strong winds and heavy rainfall affected areas as far southeast as St. Augustine. In Fernandina Beach, the hurricane toppled oak trees and destroyed buildings. Although wind gusts in Jacksonville reached 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h), the effects were generally insignificant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nThe hurricane still had considerable strength when it entered southeastern Georgia. The winds brought down telephone, telegraph, and electric wires throughout the region, severing communications. Damage in the Sea Islands was extensive, costing an estimated $500,000 (equivalent to $15.4\u00a0million in 2019); by some accounts, the winds were more intense than in the catastrophic hurricane of 1893, but without the exceptionally high storm surge. The tropical cyclone caused severe damage to the islands' plantations, ruining around a third of the rice crop, devastating the cotton crop, and killing up to 100 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0016-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nCharlton and Camden counties bore the brunt of the storm's force in Georgia, as evidenced by the complete clearing of dense pine forests east of Folkston. This dealt a $500,000 (equivalent to $15.4\u00a0million in 2019) blow to the turpentine industry. Many structures in Folkston were destroyed, including multiple churches, a courthouse, and a school that collapsed with 38 students inside, all of whom safely escaped. In small communities throughout extreme southeastern Georgia, the storm caused widespread destruction of homes and businesses. Six people in Camden County were killed, including four in a logging settlement that was ravaged near the Florida border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nIn Brunswick, freight cars in rail yards were badly damaged, and railroads were clogged by fallen trees and utility poles. Estimates of property damage in Brunswick ran as high as $500,000 (equivalent to $15.4\u00a0million in 2019), while five people died and many more were injured by flying debris. Hurricane-force wind gusts lifted the roof off the Oglethorpe Hotel and shattered its windows, while the L'Arioso Opera House, regarded as one of Brunswick's \"most beautiful buildings\", collapsed in the hurricane. At least six churches were severely damaged in the city, along with dozens of stores and residences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0017-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nThe hurricane sank numerous large vessels in the Brunswick harbor, including one loaded with 5,000\u00a0lb (2,300\u00a0kg) of dynamite, and blew others aground. Observers reported the masts of submerged sailing ships protruding from the surface of the water. On St. Simons Island, the storm destroyed bath houses, cottages, churches, and a pier, and inundated a hotel with sea water. Black settlements on the island suffered extensively. Overall, damage on St. Simons Island totaled $150,000 (equivalent to $4.6\u00a0million in 2019). To the north, damage was similarly severe in Darien. Eight people there were reported dead and buildings were \"torn to pieces.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0018-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nSustained winds in Savannah reached 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h), though maximum gusts were not ascertained because the recording anemometer malfunctioned at the height of the storm. The hurricane passed in an unusually brief period of two hours, with most of the damage being done over the course of about 45 minutes. Roofs were \"rolled up like tissue-paper\" in the fierce winds, while chimneys and brick walls were toppled. In all, thousands of buildings in the city were unroofed, with many of them totally destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0018-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nTrees were variously uprooted or snapped in parks and cemeteries, including Forsyth Park, considered the \"pride of the city\", which lost between half and three quarters of its trees. Piles of debris left streets impassable, even to pedestrians. Numerous large ships were driven ashore, though some survived unscathed, and dozens of smaller vessels were wrecked along waterways in the city. Several people, including the captain, drowned when the tugboat Robert Turner capsized in the Savannah River. Another craft, the Island Flower, sank nearby, killing three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0018-0002", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nThe storm surge associated with the hurricane flooded low-lying coastal areas and washed away several miles of the Tybee Railroad. Wind gusts estimated at over 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h) demolished hotels and beachfront cottages on Tybee Island. Near Wilmington Island, a fisherman drowned after getting caught in the storm on a small boat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0019-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Georgia\nIn Burroughs, along the outskirts of Savannah, two churches were leveled and three people were killed. Residents there were forced to abandon their homes and endure the storm in open fields to avoid injury. Initial estimates placed damage in Savannah at more than $1 million (equivalent to $30.7\u00a0million in 2019), a quarter of which resulted from devastation to railroads. In particular, the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway and Central of Georgia Railway sustained extensive losses, and about 50 streetcars in Savannah were destroyed. Overall, the storm killed at least 17 people in and around Savannah. Even before the storm subsided, people crowded the streets in a \"stampede\" to verify the safety of friends and family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0020-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, The Carolinas\nSouthern South Carolina also saw the damaging effects of the storm, which was accompanied by estimated winds of up to 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). On the north side of the Savannah River, mills and outbuildings on rice plantations were destroyed. Powerful gusts shifted a drawbridge spanning the river north of Hardeeville. Seven people in Hardeeville died in building failures, while train stations were blown down there and in Yemassee. Around Beaufort, the storm wrecked numerous boats and effected significant damage to homes and businesses. Wharves and warehouses were flooded, though low astronomical tides limited the extent of the inundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0020-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, The Carolinas\nThe winds peeled off tin roofs, allowing rainwater to douse home interiors. In Charleston, tropical storm-force winds blew down fences, signs, and other light installations, but damage was generally minor, and no deaths were reported. The storm churned Charleston Harbor until waves breached seawalls and flooded low-lying areas. Total damage in the state was around $25,000 (equivalent to $0.77\u00a0million in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0021-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, The Carolinas\nIn North Carolina, the weakening tropical cyclone tracked through predominately rural areas, limiting its adverse effects. Nonetheless, severe winds affected the Raleigh\u2013Durham area, uprooting trees and littering streets with debris. One woman was killed when a large oak tree fell on her bedroom. Damage to utility lines left Raleigh without communications or electricity, while in Durham, a four-story tobacco curing barn collapsed with about 475,000\u00a0lb (215,000\u00a0kg) of tobacco inside, worth as much as $60,000 (equivalent to $1.84\u00a0million in 2019). About $20,000 (equivalent to $0.61\u00a0million in 2019) in other property damage was attributed to the storm. Residents in Chapel Hill described the storm as the most severe in recent memory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0022-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Virginia and West Virginia\nAs the cyclone expanded and accelerated, it entered Virginia with renewed violence, and produced what still stands as the most severe windstorm in Richmond's history. Generally, the strongest winds were mostly confined to east of the storm center's track. The East End of Richmond was hit particularly hard, but damage to church steeples, roofs, and chimneys was common throughout the whole city. Downed trees and broken branches carpeted the ground and clogged streets. All telegraph lines except one, which ran to Wilmington, North Carolina, were rendered useless, while communications in Petersburg were entirely cut off. Damage in Richmond totaled $150,000 (equivalent to $4.6\u00a0million in 2019). Rural areas were also severely impacted; in Boydton, the storm destroyed many barns and stables, crushing the livestock inside them. In farmlands throughout central Virginia, fences, crops, and outbuildings were blown down, stunting agriculture in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 1034]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0023-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Virginia and West Virginia\nThe destruction continued into northern portions of the state; brick walls were toppled and about 500 shade trees felled in Fredericksburg. Farms in Fairfax and Arlington counties were substantially damaged, and dozens of windmills were destroyed around Falls Church. Wooden houses were blown away. In Alexandria, four people were killed, while factories and homes along the Potomac River were damaged. One of the fatalities occurred when a three-story brick building partially collapsed onto the roof of a smaller house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0023-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Virginia and West Virginia\nAcross the city, large sheets of tin roofs were peeled off buildings and followed erratic paths before hitting the ground in a clangor that \"produced a pandemonium long to be remembered.\" Property in Alexandria incurred about $400,000 in damage (equivalent to $12.3\u00a0million in 2019). Despite the destruction in the city, surveys of the storm's effects revealed that initial reports of its severity were exaggerated. In some cases, damage was enabled or worsened by pre-existing structural flaws. In Manassas, the winds shifted a church 6\u00a0in (0.15\u00a0m) off its foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0024-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Virginia and West Virginia\nHeavy rain fell along and west of the storm's track, most prodigiously in the Shenandoah Valley. Reports of 5\u00a0in (130\u00a0mm) or more were common; in Dale Enterprise, 6.3\u00a0in (160\u00a0mm) of rain fell in a period of 18 hours. Nearly 7\u00a0in (180\u00a0mm) of rain fell over Staunton in a similarly short span of time. The rapid inflow of water caused a lake in Staunton's Gypsy Hill Park to rise until its earthen dam failed around 10 p.m. local time, sending a large volume of water rushing into the town's business district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0024-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Virginia and West Virginia\nAlong the way, the torrent swept away 25 homes, one of which was occupied by a family of four. Power was cut to the town after floodwaters inundated the electric plant, and multiple hotels, stores, and other businesses were extensively damaged. As waters rose, victims were forced to await rescue from their roofs. A local waterway known as Lewis Creek also overflowed its banks and contributed to the flooding. The Staunton flood took the lives of six people, and inflicted as much as $500,000 (equivalent to $15.4\u00a0million in 2019) in property damage. In the countryside, about 40 horses and mules drowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0025-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Virginia and West Virginia\nDeadly flooding also took place in Rockingham County, affecting the communities of Bridgewater, Elkton, and Keezletown. Three fatalities were reported in the county, and local infrastructure sustained $20,000 in damage (equivalent to $0.61\u00a0million in 2019). The South Fork Shenandoah River at Luray swelled to 25.4\u00a0ft (7.7\u00a0m)\u2014flood stage being 14\u00a0ft (4.3\u00a0m)\u2014which still stands as one of its highest historical crests. In Stephens City, rushing waters crumbled bridges and washed out corn crops. A waterway in Waynesboro reportedly rose 15\u00a0ft (4.6\u00a0m) and flowed with enough force to wipe nearby buildings off their foundations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0025-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Virginia and West Virginia\nUrban flooding also plagued Roanoke streets. From there to Hagerstown, the Norfolk and Western Railway was severely washed out in multiple places. In total, property damage in Virginia amounted to at least $1 million (equivalent to $30.7\u00a0million in 2019). Strong winds and significant rainfall extended into West Virginia, chiefly in northern and eastern parts of the state. Trees, fences, and houses were blown down in the Eastern Panhandle region, while flash floods undermined railroads and destroyed entire fields of crops. Some livestock drowned around Old Fields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 75], "content_span": [76, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0026-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Washington, D.C.\nIn Washington, D.C., the storm's approach late on September 29 was marked by nearly continuous cloud to cloud lightning. Five-minute sustained southerly winds reached 66\u00a0mph (106\u00a0km/h), and peak gusts approached 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h); barometric pressure fell to 987\u00a0hPa (29.15\u00a0inHg). At the time, it was the worst storm to ever affect the city. The winds brought down signs, awnings, trees, and brick walls, while unroofing homes, toppling church steeples, and shattering windows. Electric, telegraph, and telephone utilities were lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0026-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Washington, D.C.\nThe destruction was not uniform, as poorly built structures often survived unscathed in the vicinity of much stronger buildings that incurred significant damage. It was deduced that the strongest gusts occurred in narrow \"streaks\". Approximately 5,000 trees were destroyed in the city, many of them being snapped 10 to 15\u00a0ft (3.0 to 4.6\u00a0m) above the ground. Some of the worst damage occurred in cemeteries, such as the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, where 300 trees were prostrated. In a few cases, the fallen trees unearthed underlying coffins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0027-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Washington, D.C.\nA residence building under construction at the Catholic University of America was dismantled, and the personal home of President Grover Cleveland in Woodley Park lost its roof. Roofs of several government offices were also torn away, and the steeple of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church was \"reduced to match wood\". The Smithsonian Institution Building sustained notable damage. Fallen trees littered the grounds of the White House, among them being historic specimens like an elm planted by Abraham Lincoln. Some of the more celebrated trees were picked apart by passersby trying to procure souvenirs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0027-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Washington, D.C.\nThe White House itself suffered some minor damage, mostly limited to dislodged coping and copper roofing, along with a few broken windows. Nearby, five men were entrapped and one killed when the Abert Building\u2014a newly built, five-story brick structure on Pennsylvania Avenue\u2014partially collapsed in the storm, crushing two adjoining buildings. Over the coming months, tenants filed multiple lawsuits against the building's owner after at least one local builder asserted that the wall failure resulted from neglectful construction. The Abert Building was completely repaired by October 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0028-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Washington, D.C.\nOn the Potomac River, where tides ran well above normal, ships broke free from their moorings and drifted downstream. In one instance, a large steamship called the George Leary struck and damaged six other ships. Numerous vessels capsized in the river, including the steamer Mary Washington and the schooner John W. Linnell. At the Washington Navy Yard, multiple buildings sustained damage. Overall losses in Washington, D.C. were approximately $400,000 (equivalent to $12.3\u00a0million in 2019), and at least two dozen individuals in the city suffered injuries from falling debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0029-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Maryland\nDestructive winds continued into central Maryland. A report from Sandy Spring estimated that 20% of trees in the region were uprooted, splintered, or violently twisted, often falling on utility wires and roads. Some of the trees left standing were stripped of their limbs and reduced to bare trunks. Telegraph poles crashed to the ground in large numbers. In some cases, damage patterns and eyewitness accounts suggested the formation of tornadoes embedded within the larger storm system. As in northern Virginia, churches, homes, and businesses incurred significant damage, some being wholly destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0029-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Maryland\nMontgomery County was hit particularly hard; the storm wrecked an amusement park in Bethesda, forcing it to permanently close, while Gaithersburg was \"most disastrously wrecked\". Several individuals lost their lives in Montgomery County, including one man who died of a stress-induced heart attack. Most of the farms in central Maryland were affected to some degree. Periods of exceptionally heavy rainfall, amounting to 4.90\u00a0in (124\u00a0mm) in Flintstone and 3.91\u00a0in (99\u00a0mm) in Cumberland, caused rapid rises along waterways in the Potomac River watershed, inundating adjacent low-lying areas. The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad line in Cumberland was washed out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0030-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Maryland\nHigh tides in the Chesapeake Bay flooded streets in Annapolis. Farther north, at Baltimore, water funneled into the Inner Harbor and flooded the city's waterfront. Pratt Street was submerged waist deep, while an overflowing Jones Falls filled bordering streets with 8\u00a0ft (2.4\u00a0m) of water. Floodwaters drained into cellars and lower levels of warehouses, and forced some families to evacuate their homes. Hundreds of structures in Baltimore were damaged by the windstorm, and several small fires were ignited by downed power lines. Throughout Maryland, the storm took the lives of eight people and wrought $500,000 in damage (equivalent to $15.4\u00a0million in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0031-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Pennsylvania\nThe storm arrived in Pennsylvania as an extratropical cyclone late on September 29, still accompanied by strong winds that disconnected wires and interrupted communications throughout the state. Property damage was severe in southeastern parts of the state, especially York and Lancaster counties, where barns were demolished and houses unroofed. Wind gusts in Harrisburg peaked at 72\u00a0mph (116\u00a0km/h) shortly after midnight. Debris from trees and buildings rained down on the city's streets as the storm produced erratic damage patterns, characterized by distinct two- or three-block gaps in the destruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0031-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Pennsylvania\nLarge trees were uprooted \"with masses of earth clinging to them as big as a room.\" In all, damage reached $200,000 (equivalent to $6.1\u00a0million in 2019) in Harrisburg. On the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Philson, two freight trains violently collided, killing six vagrants. Several more train wrecks were attributed to obstructing storm debris. In Steelton, an overpass collapsed onto the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad shortly before a train careened through the rubble, damaging the locomotive and several cars. Additionally, two roundhouses were destroyed in Lebanon, with eight locomotives sustaining damage in one of the structures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0032-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Pennsylvania\nThe third incarnation of the Columbia\u2013Wrightsville Bridge\u2014a 5,390\u00a0ft (1,640\u00a0m) covered railroad bridge across the Susquehanna River\u2014was shoved off its piers and demolished by the intense winds. Several people were reportedly inside the bridge when it collapsed, but this was not confirmed. The stone, wood, and steel span was replaced by a steel truss bridge less than a year later. At Sunbury, two steamboats sank in the Susquehanna. Across Lancaster County, hundreds of farmers lost their entire tobacco crops that were stored in barns and ready for market. Some of the tobacco barns were carried off their foundations and blown afield. The storm also destroyed more substantial brick structures. Damage in the county was estimated at $1 million (equivalent to $30.7\u00a0million in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0033-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Pennsylvania\nTwo men died in the Patterson Coal Company miners' village in Shamokin that was devastated by the winds and a subsequent fire that together destroyed dozens of houses and shanties. The storm destroyed equipment and facilities at the nearby Colbert Colliery, putting hundreds of miners out of work. In Reading, two men died in the collapse of an iron furnace casting house which left five others badly injured. Six children lost their lives to a storm-induced fire in tenement housing belonging to a mining company in Natalie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0033-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Pennsylvania\nHundreds of trees were blown down or broken on the historic battlefield at Gettysburg National Park, largely on Culp's Hill and Big Round Top. The 66th Ohio Infantry monument on Culp's Hill was destroyed by a fallen tree, and the nearby monument to the 78th and 102nd New York Volunteer Infantries sustained minor damage. In addition to the winds, several inches of rain fell in parts of the state; Altoona recorded 3.79\u00a0in (96\u00a0mm) of precipitation. Flash flooding along the Juniata River rushed through Huntingdon, washing out streets and railways, inundating homes, and drowning livestock. Washouts and landslides plagued railroads throughout western Pennsylvania. Overall, the storm caused over $2 million (equivalent to $61.5\u00a0million in 2019) in damage in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0034-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Great Lakes region\nStrong winds associated with the extratropical cyclone impacted parts of central and western New York State, particularly around Syracuse; there, it was considered the worst storm in recent memory. Homes, barns, and factories lost their roofs in several towns, with some buildings near Ithaca being totally destroyed. Trees and communications lines suffered a similar fate as in many other areas along the storm's path. Trees in orchards were stripped of nearly all their fruit. Buffalo endured 53\u00a0mph (85\u00a0km/h) winds that tore wires and damaged roofs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 67], "content_span": [68, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0034-0001", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Great Lakes region\nFarther east, wind gusts exceeded 60\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h) at New York City, bringing down overhead wires. A switchboard at a telephone exchange in Brooklyn sparked a fire that caused $30,000 (equivalent to $0.9\u00a0million in 2019) in damage. Several steamships limped into port at New York with significant damage. From New Jersey to Long Island, trees, fences, chimneys, windows, and political campaign signs fell victim to the storm. On the Hudson River at Newburgh, in the early morning hours on September 30, a tugboat collided with a passenger vessel, injuring two crew members of the former craft. \"Considerable\" wind damage extended north through the Hudson Valley, and trains along the West Shore Railroad were delayed by landslides and washouts. Total property damage in New York was assessed at $50,000 (equivalent to $1.5\u00a0million in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 67], "content_span": [68, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0035-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Great Lakes region\nHeavy rainfall doused parts of Ohio for four days beginning on September 27. Resulting floods damaged crops and property, and the inclement weather disrupted William McKinley's presidential campaign activities at his home in Canton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 67], "content_span": [68, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030750-0036-0000", "contents": "1896 Cedar Keys hurricane, Impact and aftermath, Great Lakes region\nOn September 30, gales from the former hurricane swept across the Great Lakes. Hundreds of spectators lined the shores of Lake Michigan at Chicago, Illinois, to watch the enormous waves. A schooner was torn from its moorings at Chicago, and crashed into nearly a dozen smaller vessels while being blown about. The schooner Belle from Racine, Wisconsin, went missing amid the storm, while the barge Sumatra broke up and capsized near Milwaukee, taking the lives of four crew members; the captain, first mate, and cook were safely rescued. The storm damaged around $75,000 worth of property on the Great Lakes (equivalent to $2.3\u00a0million in 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 67], "content_span": [68, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030751-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Centenary Gentlemen football team\nThe 1896 Centenary Gentlemen football team was an American football team that represented the Centenary College of Louisiana as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In their third year while located at the Jackson, Louisiana campus, the team compiled a 1\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030752-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1896 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Central Michigan was founded in 1892 and fielded its first varsity football team in 1896. Under head coach Pete McCormick, the first Central Michigan football team compiled a 3\u20131 record and outscored their four opponents by a combined total of 62 to 22. All four games were played against high school teams. On October 31, 1896, the Central Michigan football team lost to Alma High School, 14\u20135, in a game played in Mount Pleasant. On November 21, 1896, Central Michigan defeated Bay City High School by a 14\u20134 score at Mt. Pleasant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030753-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Centre football team\nThe 1896 Centre football team represented Centre College in the 1896 college football season. Centre finished the season 6\u20130\u20131 and outscored their opponents 184\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030754-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Championship of Australia\nThe 1896 Championship of Australia was an Australian rules football match that took place on 12 June 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030754-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Championship of Australia\nThe championship was contested by the premiers of the VFL, Collingwood and the premiers of the SAFL, South Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030754-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Championship of Australia\nThe match was played at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030754-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Championship of Australia\nThis was the last Championship of Australia match to be held until 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030755-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Colts season\nThe 1896 Chicago Colts season was the 25th season of the Chicago Colts franchise, the 21st in the National League and the 4th at West Side Park. The Colts finished fifth in the National League with a record of 71\u201357.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030755-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030755-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030755-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030755-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030755-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030756-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1896 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1896 Western Conference football season. In their fifth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 15\u20132\u20131 record, finished in fourth place in the Western Conference with a 3\u20132 record against conference opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 368 to 82.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030757-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1896 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team was an American football team that represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago in the 1896 college football season. The doctors compiled a 2\u20134\u20132 record, and were outscored by their opponents 84 to 56. In a game proclaimed to be the \"Western medical school football championship\", Chicago P&S forfeited the contest in the 2nd half, because of their refusal to play after a disputed Rush Medical touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030758-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game\nThe 1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game was the first five-on-five college basketball game played in United States history. Although the sport had been first played in 1892, seven to nine players had been used on a side. At the urging of the University of Chicago's head football coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Chicago's men's club team traveled to Iowa City, Iowa, to play the University of Iowa on January 18, 1896, in an experimental game. The match was played in Close Hall, and due to seating capacity constraints, only approximately 500 people were able to watch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030758-0000-0001", "contents": "1896 Chicago vs. Iowa men's basketball game\nIowa physical education teacher Dr. Henry F. Kallenberg reduced the teams to five players on a side, and the modern version of basketball was born. Kallenberg came to Iowa from Springfield College, where he was a classmate of Dr. James Naismith. Chicago won, 15\u201312, to secure modern college basketball's first-ever win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030759-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Chilean presidential election\nThe Chilean presidential election of 1896 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Federico Err\u00e1zuriz Echaurren. The election was marred by controversy, and there had to be a confirmation in Congress to satisfy Err\u00e1zuriz's opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030759-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Chilean presidential election, Campaign\nFor this campaign the political forces organized themselves in two big alliances: Liberal-Conservative Coalition, whose candidate was Federico Err\u00e1zuriz Echaurren, and the Liberal Alliance, whose candidate was the Senator for Santiago Vicente Reyes Palazuelos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030759-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Chilean presidential election, Campaign\nThe campaign itself was furious and fairly even. Reyes was a member of the Doctrinary Liberal party and boasted of being a \"free-thinker\". On the other hand, Err\u00e1zuriz was very popular with the conservatives and belonged to a well-known political family of impeccable catholic credentials. The economic issues also came to the fore: Reyes and his followers were in favor of going back to the metallic conversion, while Err\u00e1zuriz (whose voting base was heavily influenced by the large land-owners and agricultural producers) was in favor of a variable conversion system that could keep the exchange rate favorable for their exports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030759-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Chilean presidential election, Campaign\nAfter a very close vote, in which the decision Err\u00e1zuriz won, the Liberal Alliance refused to recognize the result. The decision was moved to the full congress, where finally Err\u00e1zuriz prevailed by only two votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1896 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in third place in the National League with a record of 77\u201350, 12 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nAfter a late season collapse by the Reds in 1895, in which the team won only fourteen of their last thirty-nine games to fall completely out of the pennant race to an eighth-place finish, the club began to make changes to get younger players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nBuck Ewing returned as player-manager, and the team made a big trade, as Arlie Latham, Ed McFarland, Morgan Murphy and Tom Parrott were traded from Cincinnati to the St. Louis Browns for Red Ehret and Heinie Peitz. Ehret struggled in 1895, with a 6\u201319 record and a 6.02 ERA. His best season came in 1890 with the Louisville Colonels of the American Association, when Ehret was 25\u201314 with a 2.53 ERA in 43 games. Ehret also led the National League in shutouts with four during the 1893 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Peitz hit .284 with two home runs and 65 RBI with the Browns in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Reds also acquired Charlie Irwin from the Chicago Colts to play third base. Irwin missed most of the 1895 season, but in 1894 he batted .296 with eight home runs and 100 RBI with Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOffensively, Eddie Burke led the team with a .340 batting average and 120 runs scored, as well as hitting a homer and 52 RBI. Dummy Hoy also scored 120 runs, as he hit .298 with a team tying high four home runs and 57 RBI. Dusty Miller had a club high .321 average, 93 RBI and 76 stolen bases, as well as tying Hoy with four home runs. Bid McPhee had another solid season, as he hit .305 with a homer and 87 RBI while stealing 48 bases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nFrank Dwyer led the pitching staff with a 24\u201311 record and a 3.15 ERA in 36 games, 34 of them starts. Ehret went 18\u201314 with a 3.42 ERA in his first season with the Reds, which marked a big improvement over his horrible 1895 season with the Browns. Billy Rhines led the league with a 2.45 ERA, however, he missed some time due to injuries and finished the year with a record of 8\u20136 in 19 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nAfter starting the year with a 9\u20137 record and in fifth place, Cincinnati posted ten wins in their next twelve games to improve to 19\u20139, and sit in first place in the National League. The Reds slipped out of first place with a 3\u20135 record in their next eight games, and continued to slump to a 27\u201320 record, fourth in the league. Cincinnati then rebounded, going 14\u20132 in their next sixteen games to push their record to 41\u201322, and be in a first place tie with the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0006-0001", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe club stayed hot, going 12\u20132 in their next fourteen games to push their record to 53\u201324, and take over first place by themselves, three games up on the Orioles. Cincinnati then went 8\u20132 in their next ten games, and pushed their first place lead to five games over Baltimore, and a 34\u20136 record in their last forty games. Despite a solid 8\u20135 record in their next thirteen games, Cincinnati saw their five-game lead evaporate to only a half game over the red hot Orioles. As the season was coming to a close, the Reds completely fell out of the pennant race, as they lost eleven games in a row and would eventually finish in third place with a 77\u201350 record, 12.5 games behind Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030760-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030761-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1896 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In their first season under head coach William A. Reynolds, the Bearcats compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record. The team played its home games at Union Ball Park in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election\nThe City of Christchurch by-election of 1896 was a by-election held on 13 February 1896 during the 12th New Zealand Parliament in the urban seat of the City of Christchurch. The by-election was triggered by the appointment of William Pember Reeves as Agent-General to the United Kingdom. The Liberal Government led by Richard Seddon had trouble finding a suitable candidate and delayed Reeves' resignation until the day he left his home in Christchurch to take up the London post. Nonetheless, rumours of Reeves' pending resignation had been circulating for a month and candidates were lining up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0000-0001", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election\nThe Liberal Party candidate who was secured resigned within a week of Reeves' eventual resignation, and a new candidate had to be found. Three candidates contested the election: Richard Molesworth Taylor was the official Liberal Party candidate, Tommy Taylor was a prohibitionist also with liberal views but an ardent opponent of Seddon, and Charles Lewis was the reluctant conservative candidate of the opposition. Being a Liberal Party stronghold, vote splitting between those candidates who held liberal views secured the election win for Lewis, with the Liberal Party candidate coming last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background\nWilliam Pember Reeves was a lawyer and prominent journalist in Christchurch. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1887 election for the St Albans electorate, and transferred to the City of Christchurch electorate when it was recreated for the 1890 election. Reeves was a cabinet minister in the Liberal Government, but had an uneasy relationship with the premier, Richard Seddon, and was blocked by Seddon from implementing labour reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background\nReeves was offered the position of Agent-General, which he accepted; this was an influential position and when the post became that of a high commissioner ten years later, the salary exceeded that of the prime minister. But nonetheless, Seddon was determined to remove Reeves from his cabinet, and this was a convenient way of achieving this. Rumours about Reeves' pending change of career started to circulate in early December 1895, but the official announcement was left until 6 January 1896, with Reeves leaving Lyttelton for Wellington later that evening, and from Wellington for London only four days later. The Governor, The Earl of Glasgow, received Reeves' resignation from the Christchurch electorate when he reached Lyttelton on 13 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background\nThe local Christchurch newspaper, The Press, commented on Reeves' immediate departure after the official announcement in the following way:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Background\nFor months after they had decided to appoint Mr. Reeves Agent-General, they kept the matter stringing on because they could not find a candidate to their liking to take his place. When at last they made up their minds, they had driven it so late that Mr. Reeves's departure savoured more of flight or an elopement than the dignified farewell of a Minister of the Crown going Home to represent the colony in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott\nJohn Lee Scott (1848\u20131913) was a prominent engineer and businessman, and ran Scott Bros. with his brother George. He had been on the Sydenham Borough Council, and in 1887 he was a member of Christchurch City Council. Scott stood in the 1886 Sydenham by-election and came second to Richard Molesworth Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott\nOn the evening of 3 January, i.e. before the official announcement of Reeves' appointment had been made, he received a large deputation, and Scott informed them that he had already checked with his brother by telegram whether he would consent him leaving the business for parliamentary work. While the deputation was still with him, his brother's positive reply arrived and Scott thus consented to become a candidate. Scott was Seddon's preferred candidate for the Liberal Party, as he was also a prohibitionist and would thus draw votes from Tommy Taylor, whom Seddon tried to keep out of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott\nScott withdrew from the election on 14 January, as it had transpired that his brother and business partner had to be overseas for much of the year, and he had thus to remain in Christchurch to look after their commercial interests. The conservative The Press commented:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott\nBut for Mr. Scott's retirement, the writ would have been issued yesterday. Now we suppose the Government will keep the matter dilly-dallying for an indefinite time while they fish round for another candidate. We say that this is treating the electors of Christchurch with scant consideration or respect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, John Lee Scott\nThe other Christchurch newspaper, The Star, itself a supporter of the Liberal Government, strongly disagreed with this stance and argued that it was only natural for the Liberal Party to find another candidate before issuing the writ.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Tommy Taylor\nTommy Taylor (1862\u20131911) was the first candidate to officially announce his candidacy by advertisement on 7 January. Taylor had started training as a Methodist minister but discontinued when he was found to be \"too unorthodox and argumentative\". As a prohibitionist, he had a national profile, and he had great popular appeal. The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893 was seen as a cynical attempt by Richard Seddon's\u2014himself a former publican\u2014to appeal to the masses, and it turned Taylor into an opponent of Seddon. Taylor's political beliefs were otherwise in line with the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Charles Lewis\nCharles Lewis (1857\u20131927) announced his candidacy on 8 January by advertisement for the conservative opposition. Lewis was born in Christchurch and received his education in Christchurch and England. Upon his return, he was employed as a farmer until he inherited his father's farm in Halswell. He was a member of various local bodies, most importantly the Halswell Road Board. Lewis was asked to stand in rural Canterbury electorates in 1890 and 1893, but he refused; partially because of a weak constitution of his health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0010-0001", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Charles Lewis\nLewis was on the committee of the National Association (i.e. the opposition) and was part of a small majority that decided that this by-election should be contested by conservative interests. Together with two others, he was tasked with finding a suitable candidate, and it was him who informed the print media that a conservative candidate would stand. No candidate being found, Lewis saved the situation by consenting to become the candidate himself. Lewis was practically unknown in the City of Christchurch electorate prior to the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Charles Lewis\nAs the Lyttelton Times reported, the conservatives were hoping that vote splitting would occur between the two candidates with liberal views, and although Christchurch was a liberal stronghold, this was their only chance of getting a conservative candidate elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Richard Molesworth Taylor\nOn the same day as Lewis (8 January), Richard Molesworth Taylor (1835\u20131919) confirmed his candidacy by advertisement in the interest of the Liberal Party, although he was not their official candidate. Taylor came to New Zealand as a child from England, and spent his late teens and early twenties at the Victorian and New South Wales gold rushes. He had a brief involvement in the New Zealand Wars, before becoming a contractor in Auckland and then in Christchurch. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1886 Sydenham by-election and represented Sydenham until 1890, and the City of Christchurch electorate until his defeat at the 1893 election when he refused to align with Richard Seddon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 76], "content_span": [77, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Run up to the election\nThe governor received Reeves' resignation from his ministerial posts and his electorate upon his arrival in Lyttelton on 13 January, but the following day, Scott resigned from the campaign. On 16 January, the Seddon Ministry gazetted Reeves' resignation from his ministerial posts, but not his resignation from the City of Christchurch electorate. On 23 January, Liberal Party organisers met and confirmed Richard Molesworth Taylor as the official government candidate. The following day, Reeves' resignation was finally gazetted. The writ was issued on 31 January and the election advertised by the returning officer, John Whitelaw, on 3 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0013-0001", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Run up to the election\nThe nomination date was set for 5 February, and the election date set for Thursday, 13 February. Polling was from 9am to 7pm, and 11 polling booths were provided throughout the central city, Waltham, Phillipstown, Richmond, Sydenham, Addington, Edgeware (then called Knightstown), and St Albans. Three ministers of the crown travelled from Wellington to Christchurch to support Richard Molesworth Taylor; The Press commented that this had never happened before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results\nThe election proceeded in an orderly manner, unlike many other Christchurch elections at the time. The contest was an open one; any of the three candidates was regarded as being able to win. Lewis won the election, and Tommy Taylor came second. The Press commented that this was a \"crushing defeat\" for the government, as Lewis was a member of the opposition, and Tommy Taylor was one of the \"most uncompromising opponents of the Premier\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results\nLewis was confirmed by the voters in the 1896 and 1899 general elections, but he found the parliamentary work demanding to his health. At the time, sessions regularly extended into the evening or the early morning, sometimes even all night. He missed the last week of the session in 1900 due to exhaustion. When he called a meeting in Christchurch in June 1901 that was poorly attended\u2014The Press argued that people were focussed on the upcoming royal visit instead\u2014he felt unsupported by the constituency and resigned later that week. Subsequently, Lewis served two more terms (1902\u20131908) in the rural constituency of Courtenay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results\nTommy Taylor stood in the City of Christchurch electorate at the December 1896 general election and out of 11 candidates, he came third in the three-member electorate, and began a colourful and successful political career. Taylor was extremely popular and elected Mayor of Christchurch in April 1911. When he suddenly died only three months later aged 49, 50,000 people lined the streets for his funeral procession; the largest funeral that the city has ever seen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030762-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 City of Christchurch by-election, Results\nRichard Molesworth Taylor also stood in the City of Christchurch electorate at the 1896 general election later in the year. He came tenth, securing less than 4% of the votes. It was the last time that he stood for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030763-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1896 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson Agricultural College in the 1896 college football season. Professor Walter Riggs brought the game to Clemson from his alma mater, Auburn, where he was a member of Auburn's first football team. The Tigers completed their first season with a record of 2\u20131, with wins over upstate neighboring colleges Furman and Wofford, and a loss in the first installment of the rivalry with South Carolina. All games were played in the opposing school's home city. The rivalry matchup with South Carolina was held on Thursday morning at the South Carolina state fair, a tradition that would endure until 1960. Riggs served as the team's coach while R. G. Hamilton was the first captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030764-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cleveland Spiders season\nThe 1896 Cleveland Spiders season was a season in American baseball. The team finished with an 80\u201348 record and a second-place finish in the National League. After the season they played the first-place Baltimore Orioles in the Temple Cup series. The same two teams had met the previous season, with the second-place Spiders beating the first-place Orioles 4 games to 1, but this year the results were reversed, as the Spiders were swept in four straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030764-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030764-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030764-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030764-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030765-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Colgate football team\nThe 1896 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1896 college football season. The team captain for the 1896 season was Warwick Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030766-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1896 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1896 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030767-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1896 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1896 college football season. The season marked the program's third consecutive conference championship under head coach Fred Folsom. The team recorded a record of 2\u20130 in the CFA and 5\u20130 overall, marking its first undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030768-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Colorado gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic nominee Alva Adams defeated People's Party nominee Morton Shelley Bailey with 46.22% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030769-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Columbian Orange and Blue football team\nThe 1896 Columbian Orange and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Columbian University (now known as George Washington University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In first second season under head coach Graham Nichols, the team compiled a 2\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030770-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Connecticut gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee Lorrin A. Cooke defeated Democratic nominee Joseph B. Sargent with 62.53% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030771-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1896 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 10th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030771-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Cork Senior Football Championship\nLees won the championship following a 0-03 to 0-00 defeat of Kanturk in the final at Cork Park. This was their third title overall and their first title since 1888.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030772-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 10th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030772-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nBlackrock were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Redmonds in the first round of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030772-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 6 December 1896, Ballyhea won the championship following a 6-10 to 1-2 defeat of Ballygarvan in the final. This remains their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030773-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1896 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1896 college football season. In their first season under head coach Joseph Beacham, the Big Red compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 162 to 82.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030774-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 County Championship\nThe 1896 County Championship was the seventh officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 4 May to 31 August 1896. Yorkshire County Cricket Club claimed victory that year, winning 16 of their 26 matches and losing only three. Five of Yorkshire's players made over 1,000 runs in the season, including John Brown who was placed third nationally, while Yorkshireman Bobby Peel was sixth highest wicket taker and Schofield Haigh held one of the leading bowling averages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030774-0000-0001", "contents": "1896 County Championship\nAlthough Yorkshire had a crop of players accruing these statistics, Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of Sussex took the plaudits for the most runs that year, 1,698, at the highest average, 58.55, while Surrey's Tom Richardson took the most wickets \u2013 191, and William Attewell of Nottinghamshire returned the best average \u2013 14.63 for his 87 wickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030774-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 County Championship, Highlights\nThe highest team total during 1896 was 887, made by Yorkshire against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, composed of centuries from Stanley Jackson (117), Ted Wainwright (136), Bobby Peel (210*) and Lord Hawke (166). The latter two were both career bests. In contrast, the lowest team total was 45 when Surrey were routed by only two Middlesex bowlers. WG Grace's 301 against Sussex was the highest score of the season, while there were three hat-tricks for Richardson, Jack Hearne and Walter Mead. Richardson also took the season's best match figures, 15/113 against Leicestershire, while Mead took 9/75 \u2013 the best innings figures of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030775-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Cowra colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Cowra on 2 April 1896 because of the death of Denis Donnelly (Protectionist).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030776-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1896 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030776-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Dartmouth football team\nThe number of games played in 1896 was reduced from the previous season, down to a more normal level of eight. One notable absence from the 1896 schedule was a game against rival Harvard, the only time during Wurtenburg's tenure that the Crimson were not played. The 1896 season was also the most successful, winning percentage-wise during Wurtenburg's time as coach; the team finished the year with a 5\u20132\u20131 record and a .688 win percentage, the tenth best record in the country out of the thirty major teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030776-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 Dartmouth football team\nFollowing an initial win against the Worcester Athletic Association, the squad suffered back-to-back shutout losses to Yale and Penn. The remainder of the season, however, was highly successful for the team, and they went 4\u20130\u20131 in their final five games. This included defeating both Triangular Football League opponents by a combined score of 42\u20130 for a fourth consecutive championship, and a tie with the Brown team they had lost to the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030776-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Dartmouth football team\nSeveral members of the team would later become college football coaches, including Walter McCornack, Frank Cavanaugh, John B. Eckstorm, David Carr MacAndrew, Joseph H. Edwards, Fred Crolius, and Charles J. Boyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030777-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Davidson football team\nThe 1896 Davidson football team was an American football team represented Davidson University in the 1896 college football season. The team compiled a 0\u20131 record and played just one match against the Charlotte YMCA. The game was played on their own campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030778-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Delaware gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Shortly after his victory in the 1894 gubernatorial election, Republican Governor Joshua H. Marvil died. State Senate Speaker William T. Watson, a Democrat, became Governor and a new election for a full four-year term was scheduled in 1896. Though Watson was considered a potential candidate for re-election, the Democratic convention instead nominated Ebe W. Tunnell, the 1894 nominee for Governor; despite his protests that he would decline the nomination, Tunnell ultimately accepted it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030778-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Delaware gubernatorial election\nThe Republican Party, meanwhile, split in the election and nominated two separate candidates for Governor: the faction of the Republican Party affiliated with wealthy industrialist J. Edward Addicks split off from the main Party and nominated John H. Hoffecker the President of the Smyrna Town Council. The anti-Addicks faction, which held the official Republican banner, nominated former State Representative John C. Higgins. The fragmentation continued throughout the campaign, and despite rumors that the fractions would reunite and nominate a single candidate, they did not do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030778-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Delaware gubernatorial election\nThe split ended up destroying the Republican Party's chances of regaining the governorship; Tunnell defeated Hoffecker and Higgins by a wide margin, though he fell far short of a majority. This ended up being the final election that occurred under the 1831 Constitution; the 1897 Constitution was drafted the following year and ratified prior to the 1900 gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention\nThe 1896 Democratic National Convention, held at the Chicago Coliseum from July 7 to July 11, was the scene of William Jennings Bryan's nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate for the 1896 U.S. presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention\nAt age 36, Bryan was the youngest presidential nominee in American history, only one year older than the constitutional minimum. Bryan's keynote \"Cross of Gold\" address, delivered prior to his nomination, lambasted Eastern monied classes for supporting the gold standard at the expense of the average worker. This was a repudiation of Cleveland administration's policy, but proved popular with the delegates to the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention\nBryan secured the nomination on the fifth ballot over Richard P. Bland. Bryan declined to choose a Democratic vice presidential nominee, leaving the choice to his fellow delegates. Arthur Sewall of Maine was nominated on the fifth ballot. Bryan and Sewall ultimately lost to the Republican candidates, William McKinley and Garret Hobart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Silver in control\nFor three years the nation had been mired in a deep economic depression, marked by low prices, low profits, high unemployment, and violent strikes. Economic issues, especially silver or gold for the money supply, and tariffs, were central. President Grover Cleveland, a Bourbon Democrat was pro-business and a staunch supporter of conservative measures such as the gold standard; he was strongest in the Northeast. Opposed to him were the agrarian and silver factions based in the South and West, which had been empowered after the Panic of 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Silver in control\nA two-thirds vote was required for the Democratic Party nomination and at the convention the silverites just barely had it despite the extreme regional polarization of the delegates. In a test vote on an anti-silver measure, the Eastern states (from Maryland to Maine), with 28% of the delegates voted 96% for gold. The delegates from the rest of the country voted 91% against gold, so the silverites controlled 67% of the delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up\nBryan had an innate talent at oratory. He gave speeches, organized meetings, and adopted resounding resolutions that eventually culminated in the founding of the American Bimetallic League, which then evolved into the National Bimetallic Union, and finally the National Silver Committee. At the time many inflationist farmers believed that by increasing the amount of currency in circulation, the crops they grew would receive higher prices. They were opposed by banks and bond holders who feared inflation, and by urban workers who feared inflation would further erode their purchasing power. The ultimate goal of the League was to garner support on a national level for the reinstatement of the coinage of silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up\nWith others, he made certain that the Democratic platform reflected the now strengthening spirit of the silverites. With his support, Charles H. Jones, of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, was put on the platform committee and Bryan's plank for free silver was adopted sixteen to one and silently added to the Chicago Democratic Platform, in order to avoid controversy. As a minority member of the resolutions committee, Bryan was able to push the Democratic Party from its laissez-faire and small government roots towards its modern, liberal character.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0006-0001", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up\nThrough these measures, the public and influential Democrats became convinced of his capacity to lead and bring change, resulting in his being mentioned as a possible chairman for the Chicago convention. Bryan delivered speeches across the country for free silver from 1894 to 1896, building a grass-roots reputation as a powerful champion of the cause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up\nAt the 1896 convention, Bryan lambasted Eastern moneyed classes for supporting the gold standard at the expense of the average worker. His \"Cross of Gold\" speech made him the sensational new face in the Democratic party. At the start of the convention, former Missouri Congressman Richard P. Bland, a strong supporter of bimetallism, was viewed as the favorite. However, Bland was strongly opposed by many in the South, in part because his wife and daughter were Catholics. Some bimetallist supporters tried to draft Republican Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado, but his candidacy never got off the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan moves up\nSeveral state delegations, mostly from the Northeast, supported the gold standard and refused to take part in the nomination process. Many conservative Democrats looked to former Senator David B. Hill of New York or Governor William Russell of Massachusetts for leadership, but Russell was in poor health and Hill did not gain support for a presidential bid. Eight names were placed in nomination: Richard P. Bland, William J. Bryan, Claude Matthews, Horace Boies, Joseph Blackburn, John R. McLean, Robert E. Pattison, and Sylvester Pennoyer. The only major candidate that did support the gold standard was former Pennsylvania Governor Pattison. After five ballots, Bryan triumphed over Bland and Pattison. Bryan was also nominated for president by the Populist Party and the Silver Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination\nAfter the selection of Bryan, the convention turned its attention to picking a running mate. Newspaper publisher John Roll McLean of Ohio was viewed as a possible candidate, in part because his fortune could help fund the ticket. Former Representative George F. Williams of Massachusetts, businessman Arthur Sewall of Maine, and former Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland of Arkansas were all mentioned as possible candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination\nEight names were placed in nomination: Arthur Sewall, John R. McLean, Joseph C. Sibley, George F. Williams, Walter Clark, J. Hamilton Lewis, George W. Fithian, and Sylvester Pennoyer. After being placed in nomination, McLean, Sibley, and Fithian made it known to the convention that they were not candidates for the vice presidency. Sewall ultimately received the nomination on the fifth ballot. The Populist Party and the Silver Republican Party also both nominated Bryan for president, but the Populists nominated former Georgia Representative Thomas E. Watson instead of Sewell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination, Vice Presidential candidates\nPresident of the Maine Central Railroad Arthur Sewall of Maine", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030779-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination, Vice Presidential candidates\nRepresentative Nominee J. Hamilton Lewis of Washington (Ineligible, not yet 35 years of age)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030780-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1896 Detroit College Tigers football team represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) during the 1896 college football season. Detroit outscored opponents by a combined total of 66 to 40 and finished with a 5\u20132 record in their first year of intercollegiate football. The team's head coach was William S. Robinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030780-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Detroit College Tigers football team\nIn the only intercollegiate football game of the season, Detroit was shut out by St. Ignatius College by a 20 to 0 score on Thanksgiving Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030780-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Detroit College Tigers football team\nLeo J. Keena played at the fullback position for the 1896 Detroit team, and later played for Michigan from 1897 to 1899. Ernest O'Brien was the captain of the 1896 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030781-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Dickinson football team\nThe 1896 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 130 to 90. Nathan Stauffer was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030782-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1896 Drake Bulldogs football team represented Drake University during the 1896 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Fred Rogers, the team compiled a 2\u20133 record and was outscored by a total of 98 to 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030783-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1896 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane\nThe 1896 East Coast hurricane was a slow-moving tropical cyclone that battered the East Coast of the United States from Florida to New England in mid-October 1896. The fifth tropical cyclone of the 1896 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed on October 7 in the southern Gulf of Mexico, and caused minor damage in Florida while crossing the state two days later. From October 10 through 13, the hurricane drifted northeastward along the coast, reaching its peak intensity as the equivalence of a Category 2 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson scale. The hurricane subjected many areas along the East Coast to days of high seas and damaging northeasterly winds, which halted shipping operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane\nThe Mid-Atlantic coastline experienced flooding storm tides that submerged and heavily eroded Cobb's Island, part of the Virginia Barrier Islands. Hotels and cottages there were extensively damaged, and the hurricane brought about the end of the island's stint as a popular summer resort. Along the Jersey Shore, low-lying railroads were flooded, boardwalks were destroyed, and many beach houses sustained damage. The hurricane did $200,000 in damage to coastal installations on New York's Coney Island. To the north, wind gusts as high as 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) affected eastern New England. Four sailors died in two maritime incidents attributed to the hurricane, and overall damage amounted to $500,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe fifth documented tropical cyclone of the 1896 season was first noted in the southern Gulf of Mexico as a weak tropical storm on October 7. It tracked toward the east-northeast and made landfall in a sparely populated region of Southwest Florida around 00:02 UTC on October 9. The storm crossed the Florida Peninsula and emerged over open water near Sebastian. Turning more northeastward, the storm gradually intensified and achieved hurricane intensity on October 10. By that evening, hurricane warnings were hoisted along the East Coast of the United States from Jacksonville, Florida to Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe unusually slow-moving hurricane attained its peak intensity early on October 11, with estimated maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h). Shortly thereafter, it made its closest approach to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, passing roughly 115\u00a0mi (185\u00a0km) to the southeast. For several days, the hurricane brushed the coast from Virginia to southern New England with hurricane-force wind gusts. The storm began to weaken as it slowly gained latitude. Unnseasonably cool temperatures were recorded in New York City as the system passed offshore, suggesting that it had begun losing its tropical characteristics. By 00:00 UTC on October 14, the storm completed its transition into an extratropical cyclone, and no winds stronger than tropical storm-force were observed north of 41\u00b0N. A little over a day later, the hurricane's extratropical remnants struck the coast of central Nova Scotia before dissipating on October 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 977]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nThe relatively weak storm caused little damage upon landfall in Florida, though some coastal flooding occurred near Punta Gorda. An apparent tornado north of the storm's track destroyed a home and an outbuilding. Northeasterly gales and high tides affected northeastern portions of the state, including Fernandina, where lumber docks were flooded and parts of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad were washed out. Street flooding also plagued St. Augustine, but no major damage was reported there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nStrong northerly gales affected the Outer Banks of North Carolina for three days, peaking at 72\u00a0mph (116\u00a0km/h) in Kitty Hawk on October 11. Winds reached 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) along the Virginia Capes and 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) farther west at Norfolk. Just inside the capes, a cargo ship called the Henry A. Litchfield ran aground on October 12. Storm surge flooding inundated the Cape Henry Light keeper's house and washed away telegraph poles, while severe damage was reported in Virginia Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0005-0001", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nThere, high waves destroyed fishing nets and crumbled bulkheads, but advance warning of the storm allowed most vessels to safely ride out the storm in port. Near Norfolk, floodwaters damaged the banks of the Dismal Swamp Canal to the point of collapse in some spots. The storm inundated the Virginia Barrier Islands, completely covering Cobb's Island, a popular summer resort, to a depth of at least 1\u00a0ft (0.30\u00a0m). Pounding waves, reportedly 40\u00a0ft (12\u00a0m) high, crushed some cottages and partially buried others in sand, while depositing numerous boats in the middle of the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0005-0002", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nUnited States Life-Saving Service crews rescued two women in imminent danger of being swept out to sea. As waters rose, residents fled to the upper stories of their homes to await rescue by lifeguards. The Cobb's Island Hotel was a complete loss, and almost every building on the island sustained some degree of damage. The storm claimed about 50 acres (20\u00a0ha) of Cobb's Island, reducing its size by two-thirds; subsequently, the inhabitants abandoned the island, and its use as a resort ended. Due to the slow-moving nature of the hurricane, the flooding persisted for two days before receding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nAlong the coast of Delaware near Cape Henlopen, the schooner Luther A. Roby was driven aground and broken up by the pounding surf. Three crew members died in the wreck, and five others safely reached shore with the help of rescue workers. Offshore, the steamship Baron Innerdale was damaged in the storm, and one of the crew members was swept overboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nThe worst effects were observed along the Northeastern shoreline from New Jersey to New England. In these areas, coastal flooding and persistent gales inflicted an estimated $500,000 in damage to beachfront property. Many small houses, seawalls, wharves, and piers were damaged or destroyed. Wind gusts along the Jersey Shore reached 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h), which unroofed buildings and blew summer cottages off their foundations. Homes and businesses in Asbury Park were bombarded by the debris from a half-mile stretch of boardwalk that was torn apart. Thousands of spectators lined the shoreline there to watch the enormous waves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0007-0001", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nOne of the premier hotels in Sea Isle City was demolished, along with numerous cottages. The storm heavily flooded streets in the city and damaged yachts along the coast. Just south of Sea Isle City, the steamer Spartan went ashore after her captain spent 30 hours fighting the storm at the wheel. In Atlantic City, one amusement pier was heavily damaged by an impact from the dislodged wreckage of a previously sunk schooner, while another was broken up by the surf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0007-0002", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nWinds in Atlantic City gusted to 55\u00a0mph (90\u00a0km/h), and floodwaters surrounded some cottages, forcing residents to leave their homes by boat. The railway to Ocean City was washed out, leaving the community temporarily isolated. Railroad tracks were also submerged to the south at Cape May. Farther inland, the winds brought down some few trees and overhead wires. In Millville, high tides caused the Maurice River to overflow and destroy crops in bordering fields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nHog Island, a barrier island that was mostly washed away by the 1893 New York hurricane, was further eroded by the rough seas. Beaches, pavilions, bath houses, and boardwalks on Coney Island incurred significant damage, with many small buildings along Brighton Beach being \"picked up bodily and carried away.\" Damage on Coney Island was expected to cost at least $200,000. In Far Rockaway, Queens, beachfront houses built on stilts were leveled, while significant flooding extended well inland; multiple hotels were inundated by at least 2\u00a0ft (0.61\u00a0m) of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030784-0008-0001", "contents": "1896 East Coast hurricane, Impact\nIn New England, the storm kept all vessels at port for several days. The strongest recorded winds on land occurred on Block Island, Rhode Island, where gusts reached 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). Elsewhere, winds peaked at 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) on Nantucket, Massachusetts, and 52\u00a0mph (84\u00a0km/h) at Boston. The storm partially destroyed a seawall and shifted a building off its foundation in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. Near South Boston, the storm broke 15 yachts from their moorings and tossed them ashore, sinking several others. The schooner Alsatin sank off Bakers Island; her crew of four was rescued by a passing steamer. At Cohasset, a new lifeboat station constructed by the Massachusetts Humane Society was destroyed. As the former hurricane moved over Nova Scotia, Halifax experienced gusty winds and moderate rainfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030785-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 East Kerry by-election\nThe 1896 East Kerry by-election was held on 27 March 1896 due to the incumbent MP, Michael Davitt of the Irish National Federation also standing in South Mayo and taking that seat so leaving East Kerry vacant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030785-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 East Kerry by-election\nThe Nationalists had split into two factions after the party leader, Charles Stewart Parnell was named as co-respondent in a divorce. James Roche was supported initially by both the Parnellites and the Anti- Parnellites, until it was revealed that he was himself divorced. During the campaign, Roche denied publicly that he knew of the divorce or that he had deserted his wife and children. It was thought Roche lost some support because as a divorced man he was less popular with the Catholic vote. Although he went on to win the seat, the opposing Unionist candidate gained the highest vote ever recorded for a Unionist candidate in Kerry East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030785-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 East Kerry by-election\nRoche served one term and did not stand in the following general election in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030786-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Eastern North America heat wave\nThe 1896 eastern North America heat wave was a 10-day heat wave in New York City, Boston, Newark and Chicago that killed about 1,500 people in August 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030786-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Eastern North America heat wave, History\nThere were ten days of temperatures at least 90\u00a0\u00b0F (32\u00a0\u00b0C) with high humidity and little breeze. The temperatures in New York did not drop below 72\u00a0\u00b0F (22\u00a0\u00b0C) at night, with three consecutive nights at 80\u00a0\u00b0F (27\u00a0\u00b0C) or above. It killed more than the New York City draft riots and the Great Chicago Fire combined. A majority of the deaths were of working-class men in their twenties who performed manual labor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030786-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Eastern North America heat wave, History\nThe New York City Public Works Commissioner ordered that his workers' shifts be modified so they would not be working during midday, and he had fire hydrants opened to cool people on the street. Theodore Roosevelt, then New York City Police Commissioner, distributed free ice from local police stations. After accidental deaths from people falling off the roofs they were sleeping on, the New York City Parks Department allowed people to sleep in parks overnight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030787-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Edinburgh Corporation election\nElection for Edinburgh Corporation were held on Tuesday 3 November 1896, alongside municipal elections across Scotland, and the wider British local elections. The election was relatively quiet, with no particularly important issues being raised, and contests took place in only 2 of the cities 13 wards, with candidates in the remaining 11 being returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030787-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Edinburgh Corporation election\nThe election followed the annexation of Portobello to Edinburgh, and the three new Portobello wards had to elect their initial representation. Contests took place in two of the three Portobello wards, with Portobello West and Portobello east seeing contests. Portobello would in total contribute 5 Unionist and 4 Liberal councillors. This gave the new council a slight Unionist majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030788-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 English cricket season\n1896 was the seventh season of County Championship cricket in England. Yorkshire won the championship title having lost only losing three of their 26 matches, setting a points percentage record with 68.42. Yorkshire's team did not possess the greatest performers statistically, such as Sussex with Ranjitsinhji, or Gloucestershire with W. G. Grace, but a well-rounded squad with four bowlers taking more than 70 wickets in the Championship and five batsmen scoring over 1000 runs gave them the title. Playing against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in May, Warwickshire scored 887 in their first innings, which is still the highest total in the history of the County Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030788-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 English cricket season\nThe highlight of the season, however, was the Australian tour, where Australia won their first Test match in England since 1888, and gave England a fight up until the third Test. On a rain-affected pitch, however, England hauled in a 66-run third test victory thanks to Bobby Peel, who took six for 23. The win sealed the Ashes in favour of England by 2 wins to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030788-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 English cricket season, Ashes tour\nEngland won again, but this time faced a series-decider in the final match at The Oval, without George Lohmann of Surrey and William Gunn of Nottinghamshire, who went on a strike over match fees allegedly received by the amateur WG Grace. In the first Test at Lord's, England won by six wickets, chasing 108 to win, but Australia recovered to win the second Test at Old Trafford, despite 154 from Ranjitsinhji on debut - as the first Indian to play Test cricket, and only the second to score a century on Test debut. The third Test was ravaged by rain, and in poor playing conditions England won by 66 runs. The highest individual score in that match was 47 from Australian Joe Darling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030789-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1896 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Geneva in the Swiss city of Geneva on 6 September. The competition was for men only, five nations competed (Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Italy, and Switzerland), and the regatta had four boat classes (M1x, M2+, M4+, M8+). At the FISA Congress held on the same day as these championships, four nations were represented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030789-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 European Rowing Championships, Event schedule\nFour races took place on 6 September 1896. As only five nations competed, no heats had to be rowed. The regatta used a 2000 m course:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030790-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 FA Cup Final\nThe 1896 FA Cup Final was won by The Wednesday at the Crystal Palace, in a victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030790-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 FA Cup Final, Tournament format\nClubs competed for a new trophy, which remains the oldest surviving FA Cup trophy, although it was retired from use in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030790-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 FA Cup Final, The Final\nFred Spiksley became the star of the show in this Cup Final, scoring the two goals that gave the Wednesday a 2\u20131 win. Within the first minute, a run by Harry Davis, the outside-right, set up Spiksley to slot home the first. David Black soon equalised for Wolves with a cunning hook close to the post. Spiksley however smashed a shot against the upright which bounced into the goal and then out again. The referee gave a goal. The score stayed the same till the final whistle to give Wednesday their first FA Cup win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030791-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Florida gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Florida gubernatorial election was held on October 6, 1896. Democratic nominee William D. Bloxham defeated Republican nominee E. R. Gunby with 66.55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030792-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Frome by-election\nThe Frome by-election, 1896, was a by-election held on 2 Jun 1896 for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030792-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Frome by-election\nThe By-election was called when the incumbent Viscount Weymouth entered the House of Lords as the 5th Marquess of Bath in 1896 on the death of his father. Weymouth had been the Member of Parliament for Frome between 1886 and 1892 and from 1895 to 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030792-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Frome by-election\nWeymouths brother Alexander Thynne stood as the Conservative Party candidate against the Liberal Party candidate John Barlow. The constituency had changed from Conservative to Liberal parties a number of times and Barlow had lost the seat at the 1895 General Election to Viscount Weymouth who had a majority of 383.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030792-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Frome by-election, Result\nBarlow was elected the Member for Frome with majority of 299.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030793-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Furman Purple Hurricane football team\nThe 1896 Furman Purple Hurricane football team represented the Furman Purple Hurricane of Furman University during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030794-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1896 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Led by William McCracken in his seventh and final year as head coach, Geneva compiled a record of 0\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. As a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the team provided Georgia with its first undefeated season, compiling a 4\u20130 record and defeating North Carolina for the first time. The Bulldogs were co-champions of the SIAA with LSU, who joined the conference in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Before the season\nThis was the Georgia Bulldogs' second and final season under the guidance of head coach Pop Warner who had continued as coach for a second season at a salary of $40 per week for ten weeks. \"It was rare in those days that a coach lasted more than one season\". Several veterans returned from last season. Rufus B. Nalley and Richard Von Albade Gammon were both in the backfield, with Gammon at quarterback, and Nalley as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Wofford\nThe season opened in Spartanburg with a 26\u20130 defeat of Wofford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nIn \"the first big football game of the season\", Georgia beat North Carolina 24\u201316 in a close game. \"For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia and North Carolina was successfully challenged.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nThe first touchdown came when George Whitfield Price went around right tackle for 8 yards. \"There were yells of 'Price', 'Price' everywhere\". Carolina's Heyward then got his own touchdown through right tackle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nLater, Carolina's Belden made a great punt, which went over Lovejoy's head. Wright fell on it for a touchdown, giving Carolina the lead. Then Blanch broke through and tied the score with a 30-yard run between right end and tackle. He then later went around right end to put the Bulldogs up by a score as the first half ended. A blocked kick from Blanch and Key led to Georgia's final touchdown. After Green ran for 40 yards on a fake buck, Heyward scored the last touchdown for Carolina from 5 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nThe starting lineup was Wight (left end), Price (left tackle), Blanch (left guard), Atkinson (center, Middlebrooke (right guard), Kent (right tackle), Watson (right end), Gammon (quarterback), Nalley (left halfback), Cothrell (right halfback), Lovejoy (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe Bulldogs defeated the Sewanee Tigers 26\u20130. Sewanee's offense was weak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Auburn\nIn the rivalry game with John Heisman's Auburn to decide the conference, Georgia won 12\u20136 to close its first undefeated season. Georgia's quarterback the following season Reynolds Tichenor was at the same spot for the Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Auburn\nLovejoy scored Georgia's first touchdown, without Nalley using signals. The next touchdown came on another trick, with an onside kick to get the ball. Walter Cothran followed this with an 80-yard touchdown run. Tichenor then had a long punt return for Auburn. Tichenor once said he had been sprawled on the ground, when a big Georgia lineman jumped at him, knees first, with Tichenor rolling out of the way just in time. \"The fellow was very polite,\" Tichenor said. \"We both got up and he apologized very profusely for having missed me.\" Tichenor later transferred to Georgia to attend law school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Auburn\nThe starting lineup was Wight (left end), Price (left tackle), Walker (left guard), Atkinson (center, Blanch (right guard), Walden (right tackle), Dougherty (right end), Gammon (quarterback), Nalley (left halfback), Pomeroy (right halfback), Lovejoy (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030795-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Postseason\nThe 1896 team is considered one of Georgia's early great ones. Georgia did not win another conference championship until the 1920 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030796-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1896 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the team's first season in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030797-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Glasgow Corporation election\nElections to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow were held on Tuesday 3 November 1896, alongside municipal elections across Scotland, and the wider British local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030797-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Glasgow Corporation election\nThe usual process was for one third of the councillors to be re-elected annually, however Glasgow had seen boundary extensions and had transformed from a Town Council to a City Corporation, and as such the election saw all 75 councillors from all 25 wards (3 councillors per ward) seeking re-election simultaneously. This was the first time since 3 November 1846 that all of Glasgow's councillors had been up for re-election simultaneously. The 1846 re-election had occurred as a result of the towns of Calton, Anderston, and the Gorbals being subsumed into Glasgow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030797-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Glasgow Corporation election\nThe election saw a group of social and civic reformers known as the Progressive Union emerge as the largest group on the council. The Progressive's had been inspired by the London-based Progressive Party, although Glasgow's Progressive platform had a more evangelical religious focus, combined with a belief in temperance, observance of the sabbath, and good municipal governance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030797-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Glasgow Corporation election\nContests took place in 23 of the cities 25 wards, with only the wards of Kingston and Sandyford going uncontested. Overall 114 candidates contested the 75 seats. The election saw an unusually heavy turnout, with female voters in particular voting in unprecedented numbers. This was credited to the efforts and influence of the new Progressive Union grouping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030797-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Glasgow Corporation election\nThe election was also the first to be contested by the Workers Municipal Elections Committee, which had been set up in June 1896 and comprised the Irish National League, the Independent Labour Party, and the Co-operative movement. This grouping was brought together under the leadership of John Ferguson (elected for Calton ward), a prominent Irish Home Rule activist with close contacts to both the Labour movement and radical politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic\nThe 1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic affected more than 2,000 people in Gloucester between 5 January and 27 July 1896. A large number of the town's population were not vaccinated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic\nOn 13 August 1896, the Royal Commission on Vaccination's report on the epidemic was published by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Background\nIn Britain, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in the 1850s. In Gloucester, a smallpox outbreak occurred in the mid-1870s. However, the 1890s also saw anti-vaccination beliefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Cases\nPresident of the Local Government Board Thomas Russell stated in 1896 that, between 4 January and 25 July 1896, the number of cases of smallpox in Gloucester totalled 2,008. A large number of the town's population were not vaccinated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Cases, Ethel Cromwell\nEthel Cromwell was around 14 years old when her photograph was taken in a hospital in Gloucester, following admission with smallpox. She was not vaccinated, but recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Response\nAn isolation hospital, the Stroud Road hospital was built in response.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Response\nOne reaction was that it led to prejudice against Gloucesterians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030798-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Gloucester smallpox epidemic, Response\nOn 13 August 1896, the Royal College of Surgeons of England published a report by the Royal Commission on Vaccination, whose members included Lord Herschell and Sir James Paget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030799-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Grand National\nThe 1896 Grand National was the 58th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 27 March 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030799-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Grand National\nWinning jockey David Campbell owned The Soarer until a few weeks before the race when he sold him toHall Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030800-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Greensburg Athletic Association season\nThe 1896 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their seventh season in existence. The team finished 6\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030801-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1896 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1896 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7\u20134 record under first-year head coach Bert Waters. The team won its first six games, but lost four of the final five games, including losses to rivals Princeton and Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030802-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1896 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team compiled a 0\u20134 record. No record has been found identifying a coach for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030803-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Highland Views Athletic Club football team\nThe 1896 Highland Views football team was an American football team that represented the Highland Views club of South Bend, Indiana in the 1896 college football season. The Green and White (the club's colors) had held claim to being the Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan football champions, as they had not lost or been scored against in the past three years. This claim was dashed when the club team lost to Notre Dame, 82 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030804-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1896 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030804-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Holy Cross football team\nIn their first year under head coach Alfred C. N. Peterson, the team compiled a 2\u20132\u20132 record. John J. Finn was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030804-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross' record book considers this its first season of varsity football play. It also featured the first game in the Boston College\u2013Holy Cross football rivalry, as well as the most controversial game in the history of the rivalry \u2013 and of Holy Cross football. BC and HC each claim to have won the November 14 rematch game, after both teams refused to follow referees' instructions following a controversial play with three minutes remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030804-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross was leading 6-4 when Boston College scored what its players, and a raucous home crowd, asserted was the go-ahead touchdown; Holy Cross maintained the runner had been tackled for a loss. Officials initially ruled in favor of Holy Cross, and Boston College's players protested by refusing to take the field, leading the officials to declare a 6-4 Holy Cross win. Under pressure from the South End Grounds crowd, however, they reversed their decision and asked Holy Cross, whose players were already celebrating their win, to resume play. Holy Cross refused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030804-0002-0002", "contents": "1896 Holy Cross football team\nThe game restarted with only Boston College players, who promptly scored a touchdown (then worth 4 points) to end the game with an 8-6 victory. Decades later, the two colleges continued to disagree on who had won the game. Because of the disputed win, some statisticians list Holy Cross with a 1\u20133\u20132 record in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030804-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Holy Cross football team\nOne of Holy Cross' star players this year was Louis Sockalexis, a multi-sport athlete who later found fame as the first Native American player in Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030804-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds and the Worcester College Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030805-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1896 Home Nations Championship was the fourteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 4 January and 14 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite\nThe Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite of 1896 took place in June 1896 to decide whether the constitution of the Sanitary Board should have an official or unofficial majority. It was the only plebiscite conducted by the Hong Kong Government on record. The other de facto referendum launched by the pro-democracy camp through the by-election in 2010 was not officially recognised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite\nThe result of the plebiscite was overwhelmingly for unofficial majority, however no constitutional changes were made for Sanitary Board, though the constitutions of the Executive and Legislative Council were changed as unofficial members were added as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite\nThe 1896 plebiscite could be seen as part of the first major debate on the constitutional reform in the crown colony during the 1890s. It was much earlier than the Governor Mark Aitchison Young's Young Plan in the 1940s and 1950s and the rise of the modern pro-democracy camp in the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nThe Sanitary Board was established in 1883 in responsible of improving the sanitary conditions in the city as the result of Osbert Chadwick's report in 1881 advised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nUnder the 1887 Public Health Ordinance, the Board was composed of four official members and no more than six unofficial members, and that four official members should be appointed by the Governor (two of them being Chinese) and two elected by the ratepayers who were on the jury lists of the election year. Three elections were held in 1888, 1891 and 1894 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nThe bubonic plague of 1894 raised the question of the composition and powers of the Board. The Government's decision of appointing a Medical Officer of Health to the Board in 1895 was against the will of the unofficial members. John Joseph Francis, the three times elected member resigned, and other three unofficial members Ho Kai, William Hartigan and Robert Kennaway Leigh followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nThe members of the Executive Council and the Chamber of Commerce were dissatisfied the sanitation and ineffectiveness of the Board. Prominent leaders including J. J. Keswick of the Chamber of Commerce, Paul Chater and E. R. Belilios were in favour of an official majority while the officers directly responsible to the Governor. Contrast to the abolition of the Board, Ho Kai represented another opinion of maintaining the unofficial majority and larger power of the unofficial members. Governor William Robinson shared the same view with the former, insisted that a Medical Department with a Principal Civil Medical Officer directly under the Government should replace the Sanitary Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nWith regard of the reconstitution of the Sanitary Board, Governor William Robinson conducted a plebiscite in June 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nBesides the reconstitution of the Sanitary Board issues, in 1894 there was a group of petitioners supported by the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council Paul Chater and Ho Kai with 363 signatures asked for a further representations in the Colonial Government. They demanded:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nIn the letter to the Secretary of State Lord Ripon on 5 June 1894, Governor William Robinson addressed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nI believe that the Chinese, who are indifferently represented, and the Portuguese, who are not represented at all, if a plebiscite could be taken, would be in favour of a pure autocracy; the Americans need not to be counted, and the \"Britishers\" with the exception of a few \"unquiet spirits\" would be satisfied to let matters remain as they are.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Background\nAlthough the Governor and the Acting Colonial Secretary Stewart Lockhart, J. J. Keswick and E. R. Belilios opposed the reform, Lord Ripon agreed with increasing the number of unofficial members in the Legislative Council, introducing unofficial element into the Executive Council and creating a Municipal Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Polling\nA plebiscite was held in June 1896 and the question submitted to the voters being whether the Sanitary Board should consist of a majority of officials or of unofficials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Polling\nThe electorates were limited to persons only on the jury lists of the year. There were 788 persons in total out of the 250,000 population in Hong Kong and 362 votes were cast. Most of entitled voters were from the British community. Among them there were three or four Chinese voted for the unofficials and none voted for the officials. Although the majority of the Chinese population was unrepresented, the result was overwhelmingly favour for the unofficial majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath\nAlthough the plebiscite showed a clear view for unofficial majority, Robinson still insisted to have sanitary affairs placed directly under Government control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath\nThe then Secretary of State Joseph Chamberlain was not pleased with the Governor's decision of a plebiscite and stated that \"it is inconsistent with Crown Colony government to seek the guidance of a plebiscite; and in no community whatever whether Crown Colony or not, can a satisfactory solution of a question, in which the whole body of the ratepayers and many outside that body are interested, be induced from an expression of the opinions of one section alone.\" Moreover, in this case the plebiscite had led to a result which was opposed to the Governor's own advice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath\nChamberlain refused any constitutional changes to the Sanitary Board. The election for the unofficial members resumed in 1899. The Sanitary Department was not established until the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance was passed in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath\nHong Kong had to wait until 1936 and the creation of the Urban Council for any further advance toward a municipal council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0018-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath\nNevertheless, the other two suggestions by Lord Ripon were soon carried out, an unofficial member and an official member appointed to the Legislative Council respectively and two unofficial members who were the senior members the Legislative Council appointed to the Executive Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030806-0019-0000", "contents": "1896 Hong Kong Sanitary Board plebiscite, Aftermath\nWei Yuk was the newly appointed unofficial member to the Legislative Council as one of the two Chinese representative alongside Ho Kai who had been the member since 1890. Paul Chater and Jardine representative John Bell-Irving were the new unofficial members appointed to the Executive Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030807-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Hungarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 29 October and 4 November 1896 . The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 290 of the 413 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030808-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 ICA Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1896 track cycling world championships were the fourth world championships for track cycling. They took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. There were four events: separate amateur and professional races in both the sprint and the stayers' race (motor-paced).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030809-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic nominee Frank Steunenberg defeated Republican nominee David H. Budlong with 76.79% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030810-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1896 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1896 Western Conference football season. In their second season under head coach George Huff, the Illini compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record and finished in a tie for last place in the inaugural season of the Western Conference. Guard Charles D. Beebe was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030811-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Illinois gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030811-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Illinois gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Democratic Governor John Peter Altgeld was defeated by Republican nominee John Riley Tanner who won 54.10% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030811-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Results\nThe Democratic state convention was held on June 23, 1896, in Peoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030811-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results\nThe Republican state convention was held on April 29 and 30, 1896 at Springfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030812-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1896 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1896 college football season. In their first season under head coach Madison G. Gonterman, the Hoosiers compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored their opponents 186 to 74.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030813-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThe 1896 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University in the 1896 college football season. This was the inaugural team for the university and played one game, versus Terre Haute High School; later Terre Haute William Wiley High. Few to no records remain, though it is known the Sycamores lost to the High Schoolers. The coach is unknown and the only player known is Lotus Coffman, future college president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030813-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThe Sycamores would ultimately face Terre Haute High a total of seven times between 1896-1902, achieving a record of 1-2-3 (.417) and one unknown outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030814-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Indiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee James A. Mount defeated Democratic nominee Benjamin F. Shively with 50.93% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030815-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1896 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 25 November 1896 as part of that years local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030816-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team\nThe 1896 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Under head coaches Pop Warner and Bert German, the Cyclones compiled an 8\u20132 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 303 to 46. James W. Wilson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030816-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030817-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1896 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa during the 1896 college football season. It was the first Hawkeye football team to win a conference championship. The Hawkeyes went undefeated against the likes of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska and had only one loss, to Chicago. In fact, the team allowed only 12 points the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030818-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1896 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) during the 1896 college football season. In their third and final season under head coach Hector Cowan, the Jayhawks compiled a 7\u20133 record (2\u20131 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the WIUFA, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 40. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. B. D. Hamill was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030819-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030820-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. People's Party nominee John W. Leedy defeated incumbent Republican Edmund Needham Morrill with 50.55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030821-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1896 Kentucky Derby was the 22nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1896. This was the first Derby held at the current distance of 1\u00a01\u20444 miles (2.0\u00a0km). Accordingly, the winning horse, Ben Brush, set the Derby record at that distance with a time of 2:07.75.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030822-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1896 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1896 college football season. It was the school's first season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030823-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1896 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 29 March 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030823-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nConfederation won the championship after a receiving a walkover from Callan in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1896 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. This was LSU's first season playing as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The Tigers, led by coach Allen Jeardeau, went undefeated and were the SIAA co-champions. It was LSU's second undefeated season in football. The 1896 team was also the first LSU team to use the nickname \"Tigers\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Roster\n\u2020 -Team CaptainRoster from Fanbase.com and LSU: The Louisiana Tigers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Centenary\nLSU easily defeated Centenary 46\u20130. Robertson went around right end for the first touchdown. The starting lineup was Westbrook (left end), Nicholson (left tackle), Huyck (left guard), Atkinson (center), Scott (right guard), Robertson (right tackle), Slaughter (right end), Gourrier (quarterback), J. Daspit (left halfback), A. Daspit (right halfback), Lambert (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nThe Tulane game of this year was forfeited during the game due to Tulane having fielded an ineligible player. At the time that the game was declared forfeit, Tulane was leading with a score of 2 to nothing. About 10 minutes into the second half, LSU was moving the ball toward the goal line when a Tulane player named Depleche was injured. The injured player was replaced by George H. Brooke. LSU ran another play and gained 5 yards before realizing the identity of this substitute Tulane player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nLSU's team captain, Edwin A. Scott protested to the game's referee, Lieutenant Wall. Scott cited the rules of the SIAA and the mutual pre-game agreement between the schools as reasons that Brooke should be declared ineligible to play. Tulane's team captain, Louis J. Genella, refused to take Brooke out of the game and stated that Tulane refused to play without him. After a lengthy debate, the referee ruled that Brooke could not play, and that Tulane forfeited the game by refusing to play without him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nDuring the debate, Tulane argued that Brooke, who was previously a two time All-American at Pennsylvania, planned to enroll as a graduate student at Tulane. Brooke refused to sign an affidavit of his intention to enroll at Tulane. Due to the forfeiture, the official score was set at LSU 6, Tulane 0. Dr. William Dudley, President of the SIAA, later ruled that the game referee was right to declare the game forfeited and that men planning to enter a school were not eligible to play. Dudley ruled that prospective players should be enrolled for two weeks before being allowed to play in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nLSU defeated Ole Miss 12\u20136. The game was \"close and hard\" for the first ten minutes, then LSU made a touchdown. LSU scored again in the second half after continuous gains. Then Ole Miss scored late, \"by the hardest sort of playing\". The extra point attempt hit the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nThe starting lineup was A. Daspit (left end), Arrighi (left tackle), Huyck (left guard), Chavanne (center), Schneider (right guard), Scott (right tackle), Slaughter (right end), J. Daspit (quarterback), Schoenberger (left halfback), Gourrier (right halfback), Nicholson (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThe Cadets defeated the Texas team 14\u20130. Sam Gourrier made the first touchdown around Texas' left end. The Times Picayune reported \"The cadets are wild tonight over the victory\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Game summaries, Southern A. C.\nOn a cold, dreary day, LSU defeated the Southern Athletic Club 6\u20130 to secure the state championship. LSU's Robertson got the deciding touchdown. Rain started to pour as soon as the game ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030824-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 LSU Tigers football team, Postseason\nLSU and Pop Warner's Georgia team tied for the SIAA title. Harper's Weekly reported that, aside from the Tulane game, the season was a very clean one. LSU played no ineligible players, was never penalized for slugging, and never complained about the officiating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030825-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Lachlan colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of The Lachlan on 2 April 1896 because of the bankruptcy of James Carroll (Protectionist).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030826-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Lafayette football team\nThe 1896 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the sport of American football during the 1896 college football season. The team was retroactively selected as the co-national champion by two selectors, the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. Lafayette's national championship this season was one of the most surprising and dramatic in the early history of college football. Lafayette began its season by tying Princeton 0\u20130, the first tie in their series, and defeated West Virginia three times in three days by a combined score of 56\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030826-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Lafayette football team\nAt 4\u20130\u20131, Lafayette was set to meet the Penn Quakers on October 24 at Franklin Field. Penn, coached by George Washington Woodruff, was in the midst of a 34-game winning streak and was only guaranteeing Lafayette $150 for a game that would net $10,000. As an intense media war surrounded the game, Lafayette enrolled Fielding H. Yost, a tackle from West Virginia, who Lafayette had defeated in the final game of their series on October 17. With Yost, Charles Rinehart, and the inventor of the football helmet George Barclay on the field, Lafayette won 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030826-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 Lafayette football team\nIt was the first victory of a \"small school\" over one of the Big Four (Harvard\u2013Yale\u2013Penn\u2013Princeton). Penn won its next 31 games. Lafayette closed its season with an 18\u20136 win over Navy. Following the season, Lafayette was recognized as national champions along with Princeton (10\u20130\u20131) and was the first national champion outside the Harvard\u2013Yale\u2013Princeton\u2013Penn rotation prevalent during that era. However, absent from their 1896 schedule was the annual rivalry with Lehigh, which cancelled two games scheduled for November in protest over the eligibility and amateur status of Barclay, who had played professional baseball the previous summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030827-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1897 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their second season in existence. The team finished 7-3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030828-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Lehigh football team\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jweiss11 (talk | contribs) at 02:23, 24 June 2020 (\u2192\u200eSchedule: endash). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030828-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Lehigh football team\nThe 1896 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach L. N. Morris, the team compiled a 2\u20135 record and was outscored by a total of 130 to 80.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030829-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Lichfield by-election\nFulford's election in 1895 was voided on petition on 19 December 1895 and a by-election ensued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030830-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1896 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030830-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 22 November 1896, Caherline won the championship after a 2-06 to 2-01 defeat of Ballingarry in the final. It was their first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030831-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Monday 2 November 1896. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030831-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1895 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030831-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.20 Great George, 20 November 1896\nCaused by the death of Councillor Simeon Smith (Liberal, Great George elected 1 November 1895) on 28 October 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 88], "content_span": [89, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030831-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 4, Fairfield, 16 March 1897\nCaused by the death of Councillor Thomas Hewitson (Conservative, Fairfield, elected 1 November 1895) on 6 February 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030831-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.10, Low Hill, 16 March 1897\nFollowing a petition causing the election of Col. Charles Stewart Dean (Conservative) on 2 November 1896 to be declared void.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030832-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 1896 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 7, 1896. Meredith P. Snyder was elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030833-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Louisiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on April 21, 1896. Like most Southern states between Reconstruction and the civil rights era, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support. As Louisiana had not yet adopted party primaries, this meant that the Democratic Party convention nomination vote was supposed to be the real contest over who would be governor. However, the Republicans and Populists put forward a joint candidate, John N. Pharr. With combined Republican and Populist support Pharr garnered 43% of the vote, although the Democratic nominee, Murphy J. Foster was elected with 57% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030834-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Louisville Colonels season\nThe 1896 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 38\u201393 record and last place in the National League for the third straight season. The team set a Major League record which will never be broken by losing 5 games over the course of 2 days \u2013 a tripleheader on September 7, and a doubleheader on September 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030834-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030834-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030834-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030834-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030834-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030835-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Manila mutiny\nThe 1896 Manila mutiny (Spanish: Mot\u00edn de Manila) was a short uprising in a military installation in Manila, the capital and seat of the Spanish colonial Government in the Philippines. The skirmish was the only recorded incident of rebellion during the revolution that happened within the walls of Manila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030835-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Manila mutiny, Background\nAfter the failed uprising by Andr\u00e9s Bonifacio earlier in August, the Spanish government concentrated the majority of the Spanish-Native army in Manila against Bonifacio and his men, however, after barely a week of fighting, the Spanish army had successfully contained Bonifacio's campaign to mere hit-and-run raids on the hill towns of Montalban. The uprising in the surrounding provinces, particularly Cavite had caught the Spaniards' attention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030835-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Manila mutiny, Background, Battle of Binakayan\nIn November, 1896, Gov. General Ramon Blanco ordered a major offensive to stop the revolution in Cavite. The attack failed to even dent the province which was now firmly under rebel control. After the battle, a period of peace where townsfolk from all over southern Luzon escaped to Cavite, came to be known as \"Ang Panahon ng Tagalog\" or the Tagalog era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030835-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Manila mutiny, The mutiny\nOn the night of 5 December 1896, Corporal Cabrera De los Reyes and Bugler Protasio A\u00f1onuevo led the native conscripts from the 2nd Company of the 69th Regiment \"Iberia\" to attack their Spanish officers and capture the military installations around the walled city. However, due to poor planning, the mutineers were overpowered and De los Reyes and A\u00f1onuevo along with five of their men were captured. Actual fighting lasted barely an hour and the remaining mutineers surrendered themselves to the Spaniards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030835-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Manila mutiny, The mutiny, Katipunan connection\nThe motives of the mutiny are unclear, though it is said to have been inspired by the various uprisings across Luzon particularly that of Cavite, none of the members of the regiment were suspected of being Katipuneros (soldiers of the Katipunan secret society) and they were simply inspired to rise up for freedom by the said uprisings. The two leaders of the mutineers and five of their men were brought to court for rebellion and mutiny and were executed in Bagumbayan field on 26 December 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030835-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Manila mutiny, Aftermath\nThe rebellion was barely notable to Manila society, being only a small skirmish initiated by native troops. The mutineers were put under the first of the numerous executions at Bagumbayan, the most famous of which was that of Dr. Jose Rizal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030836-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Manitoba general election\nThe 1896 Manitoba general election was held on January 15, 1896. Sir Charles Tupper was voted into power for a term which would last only 68 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030837-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1896 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Grenville Lewis and finished with a 6\u20132\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030838-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1896 college football season. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 0\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030839-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Acting Governor Roger Wolcott, a Republican, was re-elected to a full term in office, defeating Democratic U.S. Representative George Fred Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030840-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 117th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1896 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George P. Lawrence served as president of the Senate and George von Lengerke Meyer served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030840-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Massachusetts legislature\nNotable legislation included \"An Act to Provide for the Security and Preservation of the So-called Bulfinch Portion of the State House.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030841-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Melbourne Cup\nThe 1896 Melbourne Cup was a two mile Group One handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 3 November 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030841-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Melbourne Cup\nMarius Sestier filmed the Melbourne Cup. The feature, which consisted of 10 one-minute films shown in chronological order, was premiered at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne on 19 November 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030842-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Mercer Baptists football team\nThe 1896 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University in the 1896 college football season. They finished with a record of 0\u20132\u20131 and were outscored by their opponents 8\u201356.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030843-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Mexican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Mexico in 1896. Incumbent Porfirio D\u00edaz was the only candidate for the presidency, and was re-elected with 100% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030844-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1896 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1896 college football season. Their coach was Ernest Merrill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030845-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1896 college football season. The Aggies compiled a 1\u20132\u20131 record. Although teams representing MAC had played two games against nearby Alma College a decade earlier in 1886, the 1896 season was the first in which MAC fielded a varsity football team for a full season of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030845-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe team opened the season with a 10-0 victory over Lansing High School on September 26, 1896. In the first intercollegiate game of the season, the Aggies lost to Kalamazoo College by a 21 to 0 score on October 17, 1896. The Aggies then played Alma College to a scoreless tie on October 25, 1896, before closing its season with an 18-16 loss to Alma on November 11, 1896. The 1896 Aggies had no coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030846-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1896 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal School (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1896 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Fred W. Green, the Normalites compiled a record of 5\u20131, shut out five of six opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 116 to 18. Benjamin J. Watters was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030846-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nAs of September 27, 1896, as the football season began, the enrollment at Michigan State Normal School was approximately 800 students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1896 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1896 Western Conference football season. In its first and only season under head coach William Ward, the team compiled a 9\u20131 record (2\u20131 against conference opponents), tied for second place in the Western Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 262 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe team started the season with nine consecutive wins in which the Wolverines shut out eight opponents and outscored their opponents by a total of 256 to 4. In the final game of the season, played on Thanksgiving Day at the Chicago Coliseum, the team lost a close game to Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons by a score of 7\u20136. The 1896 Chicago\u2013Michigan rivalry game was the first college football game played indoors, and the last portion of the game was also played under electric lights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team\nEnd Henry M. Senter was the team captain. Halfback Gustave Ferbert was the team's leading scorer with 56 points on six touchdowns (four points each) and 16 kicks for goal from touchdown (two points each). Tackle Frederick \"Pa\" Henninger led the team in touchdowns with nine. Tackle Frank Villa and halfback Hazen Pingree Jr. (whose father Hazen S. Pingree was elected Governor of Michigan during the football season) scored seven touchdowns each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nBefore the 1896 football season took the field, two developments occurred. First, Michigan joined the Western Inter-collegiate Athletic Conference (later renamed the Big Ten Conference). The 1896 season was the first for Michigan in conference play. Michigan's three conference games in 1896 were against Purdue, Minnesota and Chicago. Second, William McCauley, who had led Michigan to a 17\u20132\u20131 record in two seasons as coach, resigned as Michigan's football coach. Princeton graduate, William Ward, was hired to replace McCauley. Before leaving Ann Arbor in November 1896, McCauley assisted Ward in coaching the 1896 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nMichigan conducted tryouts for the 1896 football team at Sand Beach. The Michiganensian for 1897 reported on the group appearing for try-outs as follows: \"Never before had the Athletic field been so teeming with aspirants for foot-ball honors.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 1: Michigan State Normal\nOn October 3, 1896, Michigan defeated Michigan State Normal (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) by an 18\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fletcher scored Michigan's first touchdown after 10 minutes. Hazen Pingree Jr. scored the second touchdown on an end run. William Caley kicked both goals from touchdown. Michigan led, 12\u20130, at halftime. In the second half, Michigan scored on a safety. Several minutes later, Henninger scored a touchdown on a three-yard run, but missed the kick for goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: Grand Rapids\nOn October 10, 1896, Michigan defeated a Grand Rapids team by a 44\u20130 at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The Grand Rapids team was made up of high school men with the exception of McPhearson, who was the coach and played left end. The game was played in halves of 20 and 10 minutes. Frederick W. Henninger scored a touchdown after two minutes of play, but the kick for goal was missed. Three minutes later, Frank Villa scored Michigan's second touchdown, and the goal was again missed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0006-0001", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: Grand Rapids\nAt the 11-and-a-half minute mark, Villa scored Michigan's third touchdown, and William Caley kicked the goal. Hazen Pingree Jr. scored the fourth touchdown on a run around left end for more than 60 yards. Caley again kicked the goal, and Michigan led, 20-0, at halftime. In the second half, Michigan scored four touchdowns in 10 minutes. Michigan's second half touchdowns were scored by Henninger, Pingree, Palmer, and Thad Farnham. Charles Steele kicked all four goals from touchdown in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: Physicians & Surgeons\nOn Thursday, October 15, 1896, Michigan defeated the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons by a 28\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The game was played in 15-minute halves. Villa scored Michigan's first touchdown on a 10-yard run, and Steele kicked the goal. Ferbert scored the second touchdown on a 20-yard run, Steele again kicked the goal, and Michigan led, 12-0, at halftime. Pingree scored Michigan's third touchdown six minutes into the second half. Pingree scored the fourth touchdown, and Hogg's kick for goal failed. Villa scored Michigan's fifth and final touchdown, and Hogg kicked the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: Lake Forest\nOn October 17, 1896, Michigan defeated the team from Lake Forest College by a 66\u20130 at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored 13 touchdowns in the game: three by Gustave Ferbert, three by Edwin H. Gordon, three by Frederick W. Henninger, two by Frank Villa, and one each by Charles Juttner and Norwood Ayres. Ferbert kicked seven goals from touchdown. The game was played in halves of 25 and 15 minutes. Michigan scored 40 points in the 15-minute second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: at Purdue\nOn October 24, 1896, Michigan defeated Purdue by a 16\u20130 score before a crowd of 2,000 at Stuart Field in West Lafayette, Indiana. Villa scored Michigan's first touchdown, and Ferbert kicked the goal to give Michigan a 6-0 lead at halftime. In the second half, Hogg scored a touchdown, but the kick for goal missed, and Michigan led, 10-0. Late in the game, Caley scored a third touchdown for Michigan, and Ferbert kicked the goal to extend Michigan's lead to 16-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: at Purdue\nWhen the Michigan football team arrived at the Ann Arbor railway station on Sunday afternoon following the Purdue game, the players were cheered by a large crowd. The team was also greeted with red fire by Sid Millard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: vs. Lehigh\nOn October 31, 1896, Michigan defeated Lehigh by a 40\u20130 score. The game, played in 30-minute halves, was watched by a crowd of between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators at the Detroit Athletic Club's field in Detroit. Michigan scored seven touchdowns: four by James Hogg, two by Gustave Ferbert, and one by Frederick W. Henninger. Ferbert also kicked five goals from touchdown. Michigan also scored on a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: vs. Lehigh\nDuring the 60 minutes of play, the ball was in Lehigh's possession \"not more than ten minutes,\" and most of that was in the first half. One newspaper account stated that \"the Eastern boys were outclassed from start to finish.\" The same report noted: \"The team play of the University of Michigan was excellent and the interference as good as has ever been seen in this city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: vs. Lehigh\nNo other team defeated Lehigh so soundly. National champion Princeton scored only 16 points against Lehigh; Penn was held to 34 points; and Navy scored only 24. Because Lehigh played the top teams in the east, Michigan's large margin of victory was seen as important in measuring Michigan's standing. The 1897 Michiganensian noted: \"This was the only contest with an eastern team and furnished some basis for comparison. . . . Comparison with the eastern leaders was necessarily indirect, but it can conservatively be said that at this time Michigan was playing in much the same form as the great eastern quartette.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: at Minnesota\nOn November 7, 1896, Michigan won by a 6\u20134 score over previously undefeated Minnesota. The game was played in 35-minute halves before 5,000 spectators at old Athletic Park in Minneapolis. Right end Loomis Hutchinson of Michigan scored in the first half, but he was ruled offside and the touchdown was disallowed. After a scoreless first half, Michigan fullback Ignatius M. Duffy was pushed over for a touchdown in the second half, and Gustave Ferbert kicked the goal from touchdown. Michigan fans in the bleachers celebrated Duffy's touchdown with cowbells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0014-0001", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: at Minnesota\nShortly thereafter, Minnesota scored a touchdown, but the score came at the far corner of the field where a straight kick for the goal after touchdown was impossible. Accordingly, Minnesota attempted a double kick, kicking the ball first to the fullback Loomis. Loomis caught the ball so close to the goal posts that his kick for goal \"was easily stopped by Michigan players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: Oberlin\nOn November 14, 1896, Michigan defeated Oberlin by a 10\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Oberlin was offside on the kickoff, giving Michigan the ball at midfield. Fullback Ignatius M. Duffy scored Michigan's first touchdown, and right halfback William Caley kicked the goal to give Michigan a 6-0 lead. Later in the first half, right tackle Frederick W. Henninger was pushed over the goal line for Michigan's second touchdown, and Caley missed the kick for goal. Neither team scored in the second half. The World of New York reported that the game was seen by 1,000 persons and added: \"Michigan put a substitute team against Oberlin to-day and won by making two touchdowns in the first half. Oberlin forced the fighting towards the end of the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: Wittenberg\nOn November 21, 1896, Michigan played the team from Wittenberg College, prevailing by a 28\u20130 score. The game was played on a mud-covered Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored six touchdowns: three by right halfback William Caley, two by left halfback Hazen Pingree Jr., and one by right end George Greenleaf. Caley and left tackle Frank Villa each kicked one goal from touchdown. The game was played in halves of 20 and 15 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: Wittenberg\nThrough the first nine games, Michigan was undefeated and had scored 256 points, shut out eight opponents, and given up a total of four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0018-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago\nOn Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1896, Michigan lost, 7\u20136, to Chicago before a crowd of between 15,000 and 20,000 persons at the Chicago Coliseum in Chicago. If Michigan had won, it would have been the Western Conference champion. The game featured \"few trick plays,\" as both teams relied on \"straight, hard football.\" Hazen Pingree, Jr. was the star of the game for Michigan, as one newspaper reported that Pingree's effort \"in the first half was the 'whole thing,' the plucky little fellow seldom failing to make the required distance.\" Pingree was unable to play in the second half, and Gustave Ferbert took over in the second half and \"was equally effective.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0019-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago\nChicago's scoring came on a blocked punt resulting in a safety and a drop kicked field goal (worth five points under the rules at the time) by Clarence Herschberger from the 45\u2013yard line. Michigan's sole touchdown came in the second half when Henninger was pushed across the goal line from the two-yard line, and Ferbert kicked the goal Michigan later drove the ball to Chicago's 15\u2013yard line, but Michigan fumbled and Chicago recovered the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0020-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago\n\"There had been every reason to expect a victory from Chicago. Michigan had played strong and consistent foot ball throughout her schedule \u2013 Chicago had been erratic and unsteady. But there is certainly no sport more full of surprises than foot-ball, and the Thanksgiving Day contest of '96 furnished as sensational a surprise in as exciting a contest as had ever come off on a western gridiron. There was one great difference in the character of the play of the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0020-0001", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago\nMichigan was playing her stock game of football, hard and steady, the game she could have been depended on to play at any time. Chicago seemed to have been trained and nerved to this one game. There could have been little doubt what the result of a series of contests would have been. But this one game, Chicago won by good generalship, by the most advantageous use of her greatest resource \u2013 a magnificent player in a telling place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0021-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago, Indoor football\nThe most unusual feature of the Michigan-Chicago game on Thanksgiving Day was that it was played indoors at the Chicago Coliseum and was \"the first collegiate game of football played under a roof.\" Adding to the novelty, as daylight turned to darkness, the field inside the Coliseum was lit with electric lighting. According to a newspaper account, the field grew dark in the second half, and play was halted for ten minutes to discuss whether play should continue. Play was resumed, and the lights were finally turned on after Michigan scored a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0022-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago, Indoor football\nThe crowd was stated in varying press accounts to be either 15,000, or 20,000. Noting that the game was played in the same building \"in which five months ago W. J. Bryan was nominated for the presidency,\" the press proclaimed the experiment in indoor football to be a success:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0023-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago, Indoor football\n\"One thing at least was settled by the game, and that is, that indoor football is literally and figuratively speaking a howling success. The men had no trouble in catching punts, and football was played on its merits, without the handicaps of a wet field or a strong wind. Toward the end of the second half it got very dark, and the spectators were treated to a novelty in the shape of football by electric light.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0024-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago, Indoor football\nAnother newspaper described the novelty of indoor football as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0025-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: at Chicago, Indoor football\n\"Indoor football is an innovation, but it promises to become a permanency for late games. While the other fields about Chicago were sloppy and the players were floundering about in the seas of mud, the athletes in the Coliseum played on dry surface and secure from the elements. A two-inch layer of tan bark was placed over the hard earth, and there was no inconvenience from dust. None of the punts touched the beams overhead and spectators and players were captivated with the comfortable conditions under which the game was played. Darkness came on at 4:00 and the players were scarcely distinguishable for a time, but electric lights soon rendered each play distinct.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0026-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nWilliam Ward did not return as Michigan's football coach in 1897. Ward was a Princeton alumnus who studied medicine at Michigan. He wrote: \"There are many interesting things in coaching, but there are also some drawbacks and disagreeable features, so that I was glad to be through with it, and able to give myself wholly to the study of medicine.\" Ward became a surgeon and was a pioneer in the development of artificial vaginas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030847-0027-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity\nThe following players were members of Michigan's 1896 varsity football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030848-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee Hazen S. Pingree defeated Fusion candidate of the Democratic, People's, and Union Silver parties, Charles R. Sligh with 55.57% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030849-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1896 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1896 Western Conference football season. The 1896 season was the first season under head coach Alexander Jerrems and was the first season of competition in the Big Ten Conference, or Western Conference as it was commonly referred to at the time. Minnesota won its first ever conference game over Purdue but lost its other two matches to Michigan and Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030850-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1896. Republican Party of Minnesota incumbent David Marston Clough narrowly defeated Democratic Party of Minnesota challenger John Lind. Lind later won the 1898 gubernatorial election and became the first Democrat elected to the office of Governor of Minnesota since Henry Hastings Sibley left office in 1860. 1896 was the first of three successive elections in which Lind ran for governor at the head of a coalition consisting of the Democratic Party and the majority faction of the People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030851-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Minor Counties Championship\nThe 1896 Minor Counties Championship was the second running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 25 May to 29 August 1896. Worcestershire won their first outright title, having shared the previous year's championship. Buckinghamshire were runners-up and were the only other team to win more games than they lost. Thirteen teams competed in the championship, down one from the previous year. Bedfordshire, Cheshire and Lincolnshire were absent, while Glamorgan and Northumberland made their Minor Counties Championship debuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030851-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Minor Counties Championship\nThe leading run-scorer, Harry Foster, who played for Worcestershire, was the only batsman to score more than one century over the course of the season. The leading wicket-taker, Buckinghamshire's George Nash, took the two largest match wicket hauls of the season: 14/100 and 12/102 against Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030852-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030853-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1896 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In its first season under head coach Frank Patterson, the team compiled an 7\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030854-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Missouri gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896 and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee, State Treasurer of Missouri Lon Vest Stephens, over the Republican candidate Robert E. Lewis, Prohibition candidate Herman Preston Faris, National Democratic candidate J. McDowell Trimble and Socialist Labor candidate Louis C. Fry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030855-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Montana gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Montana gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030855-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Montana gubernatorial election\nDemocratic and Populist nominee Robert Burns Smith defeated Republican and Silver Republican nominee Alexander C. Botkin with 70.99% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030855-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Montana gubernatorial election, General election, Results\nBy 8 a.m. the following day, the chairman of the central committee for the state's Democratic party announced that, in his estimation, Robert Burns Smith had won the election \"handsomely\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030855-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Montana gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Montana elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season\nThe 1896 New South Wales Rugby Football Union season was the 23rd season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. Six clubs competed from May till August 1896. The season culminated in the premiership, which was won by Randwick. Randwick were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Teams, Senior grade\nSix clubs signed up with the New South Wales Rugby Football Union to play the Senior Premiership. Each of the teams had participated in the premiership previously. At the end of the previous season, both the Balmain Football Club and Paddington Electorate Football Club had withdrawn from the premiership. At the beginning of the new season, a Paddington Football Club was formed which could be considered a new club. However, the Union did not agree and would classify the club as a continuation of the previous one. This would have ramifications for Paddington later in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Season summary\nThe 1896 NSWRFU Sydney Rugby Premiers, Randwick, experienced a great year. Until their defeat at the hands of Wentworth in the Semi Final for the Agricultural Society Trophy, Randwick were undefeated and had positioned themselves in an unassailable position on the premiership ladder. The club had already won the Association Ground Cup in a closely fought match with old rivals Wallaroo. In 19 games played throughout the entire season (including non-premiership matches), Randwick won 16, drew 1 and lost 2, scoring 249 points with 55 against. A remarkable record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Season summary\nMuch of the success of the Wentworth Football Club can be attributed to their captain Billy Warbrick. At the conclusion of the season the team were second to only Randwick in performance and had successfully won the Agricultural Society Trophy. As organiser, coach and captain, Warbrick's experience and knowledge was vital. Excluding the captain, nobody on the Wentworth team had big reputations or had previously been selected for representative positions. Many of the team were Juniors last season and so were pliable in their captains hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Season summary\nDuring the season, a proposal was put forward at a NSWRFU meeting advocating local football rather than the club football in existence. The belief was that football was losing its popularity and that the quality of play was deteriorating. Advocates indicated how cricket had successfully transitioned to local-based competition. The proposal was put to a vote and lost. However, the idea of local football had now been given birth. In analysing the current season, some of the most reliable and energetic players amongst the Seniors in 1896 were playing in the Junior ranks last season. This was seen as proof that the Senior clubs should be searching amongst the Junior teams for their players. It was even stated that the Sydney Rugby community had enough capable players to sustain 10 good Senior teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 1, 27 June, Association Ground Cup\nThe top four teams that qualified for the Association Ground Cup were Randwick, Sydney University, Wentworth and Wallaroo. The games were decided by draw. In the first semi, Randwick defeated the 'Varsity, 21 points to nil. It was a convincing win for the premiers with most of their points being scored in the second half. The second semi final saw a much closer game between Wallaroo and Wentworth. Wallaroo had the upper hand throughout the game and proceeded to the final to face Randwick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 90], "content_span": [91, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 4 July, Association Ground Cup\nA large crowd of 10,000 witnessed one of the most highly anticipated games. The game was a fierce and fast encounter with some players sent from the field. Wallaroo persistently attacked with Randwick holding strong in defence. After half time, the score was 3 points to nil in favour of Randwick. Soon after the second half had begun, Wallaroo took the lead 5 points to 3. However, Randwick soon rectified the result taking the lead once again. From this point to the end of the match, Wallaroo performed attack after attack with Randwick's defence holding firm. The final result gave Randwick their third win in the Cup. With this, Randwick became the permanent holders of the Association Ground Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 89], "content_span": [90, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 4 July, Agricultural Society Trophy\nOnly one game was played for the Agricultural Society Trophy. The University-Pirates game was a fine example of football with \"clean passing runs, able kicks, quick intercepting runs, long passes, fine fainting and capital tackling.\" The Pirates were strengthened by a number of new players who held themselves quite well against the more experienced 'Varsity. At half time, University led 5 points to nil. During the second half, the Pirates scored but missed the conversion which cost them the match. The second game scheduled for the weekend was to be between Wentworth and Paddington. However, the Paddington club, which had been reformed at the beginning of the season, had inherited the past debits of the former club. As these debits were with the NSWRFU, the Union disqualified the club from the competition and awarded Wentworth the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 94], "content_span": [95, 941]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 3, 11 July, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe first semi final for the trophy was played between Randwick and Wentworth. After the previous match against Wallaroo, Randwick had some players who were not at their best due to the intensity of that game. Wentworth, on the other hand, had done everything possible to ensure it had its best players available and were well prepared for the game. As a result, Randwick failed to play the majority of the game with their usual \"dash\" and met strong defence from Wentworth. A single try was scored by the Wentworth Captain to win the match. The second semi final saw Wallaroo play Sydney University. A high scoring match saw points added rapidly. Wallaroo won the game 30 points to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 95], "content_span": [96, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 4, 8 August, Agricultural Society Trophy\nIn the lead up to the game, it was feared that Wentworth would not be able to put up their best team for the match. Some of the players had been selected to play in the NSW representative team and were unavailable. As a sign of good sportsmanship, the Wallaroo captain PM Lane offered Wentworth to pick any player of their choice to ensure the game could be played. The Wentworth captain, W Warbrick, picked AG Fraser from the Randwick club to play for the team. The game was an \"interesting and determined\" one with nothing of excitement to note. Wentworth won with ease with Wallaroo lacking in aggressive tendencies. The defeated team never looked likely to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 96], "content_span": [97, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades\nThe NSWRFU held four junior premierships in conjunction to the main senior competition. All four grades were well represented with some clubs entering multiple teams across the four competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, First Juniors\nInitially, twelve clubs signed up for the First Junior Premiership. These were: Marrickville, Newtown, Paddington Borough, Strathfield, Summer Hill Oaklands, University II, Balmain A, Leichhardt, Petersham, Carlton, Central Cumberland and Woollahra. Both Petersham and Woollahra dropped out of the premiership before it had begun. When the regular season games had been completed, the following teams qualified for the semi finals: Carlton, Paddington Boroughs, Leichhardt and Newtown. In the final Carlton played Newtown. Newtown created an upset, winning the match 6 points to 3 to be declared premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, Second Juniors\nThe Second Junior Premiership saw 17 clubs sign up to compete. These were: Richmond, Hawkesbury College, Wallaroo II, Balmain Junior, Manly Federal, Buccaneer, Oriental, Royal Oak, Federal, Hawkesbury, Shamrock, Homebush, University III, Pioneer, Rockdale, Mercantile and North Sydney. At the conclusion of the regular rounds, eight teams qualified for the finals: Buccaneer, Royal Oak, Homebush, Mercantile, Hawkesbury, North Sydney, Balmain Junior and Rockdale. The final saw Buccaneer play Mercantile. Mercantile won the match 15 points to 5 to be declared premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, Third Juniors\nThe number of teams entered into the Third Junior Premiership was down compared to the previous season with 13 joining the competition. Clubs that signed up were: Ashfield, Glebe, Waverley, Pirates II, Willoughby Oaks, Ryde, Double Bay, Newtown Cambridge, Redfern Waratah, Balmain B, Adelphi, Hunter's Hill and Redfern Norwood. When the regular rounds were completed, the following teams qualified for the semi finals: Glebe, Adelphi, Redfern Waratah and Pirates II. The final saw Glebe play Redfern Waratah. Redfern Waratah won the match 3 points to nil to be declared premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, Fourth Juniors\nForty clubs signed up to compete in the Fourth Junior Premiership in 1896. Due to the large number of teams entered, four divisions were created with teams allocated to each. In Division A were: Granville Royal, Hawkesbury College II, Hawkesbury Excelsior, St Mary's Union, Ardler, Windsor, Rookwood, Liverpool, Iona and Parramatta Ormonde. Division B teams were: Richmond II, Fort Street College, Chelsea, Woollahra Junior, South Sydney Juniors, Adelphi II, Boy's Brigade, Willoughby Federal, Coogee and Mosman. In Division C were: Imperial, Balmain C, Forest Lodge Cambridge, Carolinas, Rosegrove, Toxteth, Endeavour, Balmain Waratah, Warren and Leichhardt Gladstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030856-0014-0001", "contents": "1896 NSW Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, Fourth Juniors\nDivision D teams were: Redfern Cambridge, Enmore Oaks, Summer Hill Oaklands II, Royal, Petersham II, Epsom, Belvidere, Newtown II, Victoria and Erskineville. When the regular rounds were completed, the following teams qualified for the finals: Parramatta Ormonde, Granville Royal, South Sydney Juniors, Woollahra Junior, Forest Lodge Cambridge, Endeavour, Victoria and Newtown II. In the final Woollahra Junior play Newtown II. Woollahra Junior won the match in the dying moments 6 points to 5 to take the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030857-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1896 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1896 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Johnny Poe, the Midshipmen compiled a 5\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 180 to 53. The Army\u2013Navy Game was canceled due to Presidential cabinet order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nThe 1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1896 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Eddie N. Robinson and played their home games in at the \"M\" Street Park in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Western Interstate University Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nFuture College Football Hall of Fame head coach Eddie N. Robinson became Nebraska's third official head coach when Charles Thomas left for Arkansas. Robinson was the first Nebraska coach to require each player to pass a physical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Roster\nBenedict, Bruce EBurt, Frederick HBCameron, John ECook, Hugh HBCorby, [unknown] RTCowgill, Howard QBDungan, Will LTGarrett, Harry FBHansen, Albert LGJones, Harry EKellar, C.E. LGKindler, [unknown] PLAYERMelford, William EPackard, Leonard FBPearse, Arthur RTPlacek, Emil QBRobbins, J.S. CShedd, George HBThorpe, Orley QBTurner, Edmund RGWhipple, Otis EWiggins, Frank E", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Doane\nNebraska hosted Doane in Lincoln for the eighth meeting of these squads. The Bugeaters started slow but pulled away in the second half to win 20\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Missouri\nNebraska made its first trip to Columbia to open conference play in 1896. Missouri scored the only points of the first half, but was unable to answer two second-half Nebraska touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Nebraska Wesleyan (October)\nNebraska hosted nearby Nebraska Wesleyan for the first time, though it was essentially a home game for both teams; Nebraska Wesleyan was then located in the town of University Place, later absorbed into Lincoln. Wesleyan's first points came following a blocked punt, and another touchdown before halftime kept the game close, but they were never able to pull ahead of the Bugeaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 82], "content_span": [83, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Kansas\nKansas rebounded from an error-prone first half, shutting out the Bugeaters in the second half en route to an 18\u20134 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Kansas\nUniversity of Kansas records suggest that this game was played on November 8, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at KC Medics\nNebraska traveled to Missouri for their first meeting with the Kansas City Medics. Both teams agreed beforehand to play a shorter-than-normal game, and the abbreviated first half ended scoreless. The Bugeaters went ahead 6\u20130 after halftime and survived a scare when KC scored with 30 seconds left to play, but missed the game-tying field kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Butte AC\nThe Butte Athletic Club made the lengthy trip to Lincoln after a visit from Nebraska in 1895. Butte dominated the Bugeaters for the second consecutive year, scoring the game's final 14 points to win 20\u20136. This was the final meeting between Butte AC and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa Agricultural\nThis was the first meeting between teams that would later meet annually for decades, as members of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Big Eight, and Big 12. Iowa Agricultural, later renamed Iowa State, entered 7\u20131, but Nebraska controlled the game en route to a 12\u20134 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Nebraska Wesleyan (November)\nNebraska led 28\u20130 at halftime in the second 1896 meeting between the two teams. Wesleyan, playing without several key players, never managed to get the ball inside Nebraska's 10-yard line. Nebraska's wins over Nebraska Wesleyan and victory over Doane made the Bugeaters Nebraska's state champion for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 83], "content_span": [84, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa (November 26)\nHeavy snow and blizzards kept many spectators away on Thanksgiving Day in 1896, and the conditions led to a sloppy, scoreless game. The teams agreed to play for an additional ten minutes to break the tie, again without producing any points. Both teams, displeased with the scoreless draw, agreed to play again two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030858-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa (November 28)\nThe rematch between Iowa and Nebraska was held as scheduled just two days later, and the weather was marginally better. A first-half Iowa touchdown proved to be the only scoring of the game. While this game is an official contest in both schools' record books, it did not take the place of the scoreless conference game on November 26. As such, this game counts toward both teams' overall records, but not toward WIUFA standings or statistics. Iowa still won the conference championship outright at 2\u20130\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030859-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1896 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The Sagebrushers were led by Frank Taylor in his first and only year as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030860-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1896 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1896 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team played a five-game schedule and finished with a record of 2\u20133 or 1\u20134, per 1896 sources or modern sources, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030860-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded 4 points for a touchdown, 2 points for a conversion kick (extra point), and 5 points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030860-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nCollege Football Data Warehouse and the University's media guide do not list the game against Brewster Academy, but do list the game against Somersworth. The New Hampshire College Monthly provides a summary of the Brewster Academy game, and refers to the Bates contest as the \"second game this season\". The College Monthly notes that the Somersworth game was contested by New Hampshire's second team (backups) rather than the varsity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030860-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe October 14 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Colby football programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030860-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nMaine State College (now the University of Maine) released a football schedule in September that listed a game against New Hampshire to be played on November 7. However, that game was not played, and the first Maine\u2013New Hampshire game would not occur until 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030861-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee George A. Ramsdell defeated Democratic nominee Henry O. Kent with 61.41% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030862-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1896 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030862-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030863-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 New York Giants season\nThe 1896 New York Giants season was the franchise's 14th season. The team finished in seventh place in the National League with a 64-67 record, 27 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030863-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030863-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030863-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030863-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030863-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030864-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 New York state election\nThe 1896 New York state election was held on November 3, 1896, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor and a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly. Besides, a constitutional amendment on forestry was proposed, and rejected with 321,486 votes for and 710,505 against it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030864-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic state convention met on September 17 at Buffalo, New York, and endorsed the Free Silver platform of the Democratic national convention. Mayor of Albany John Boyd Thacher, a Gold Democrat, was nominated for governor on the first ballot (vote: Thacher 332, William Sulzer (Free Silver) 88, Wilbur F. Porter 20). Wilbur F. Porter (Free Silver) for lieutenant governor, and Robert C. Titus for the Court of Appeals, were nominated by acclamation. Thacher declined to run, and the Democratic State Committee met on September 28 at the Hotel Bartholdi in New York City, Elliott Danforth presided. They moved Porter one step up, and substituted Frederick C. Schraub (Free Silver) on the ticket for lieutenant governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030864-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 New York state election, Result\nAt this time, automatic \"ballot status\" required 10,000 votes, which was reached by all parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030864-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 New York state election, Result\nObs. : For candidates nominated on more than one ticket, the numbers are the total votes on all tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030865-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 New Zealand general election\nThe New Zealand general election of 1896 was held on Wednesday, 4 December in the general electorates, and on Thursday, 19 December in the M\u0101ori electorates to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 13th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 337,024 (76.1%) voters turned out to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030865-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 New Zealand general election\n1896 was the year the limit of \u00a3200 was placed on each candidate's campaign spending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030865-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 New Zealand general election, Background\nThe Liberal government campaigned on a platform that the election was between the people and the \"selfish few\". The economy stagnated, raising unemployment, which caused support for the Liberals to fall in the cities and they lost many seats, though not enough to be removed from office by the Conservatives. In rural areas, the swing in support was not as large due to the public works and land settlement programmes helping to support the regions. In June 1896 Seddon had replaced Joseph Ward as Finance Minister whilst the latter had resigned after being declared temporarily bankrupt. As such Seddon himself took on the workload of the treasury making him more susceptible to opposition attacks over the economy. He proved to be a cautious financier, budgeting for surpluses while maintaining the spirit of self reliance his predecessor John Ballance had advocated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 915]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030865-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 New Zealand general election, Results, Party totals\nThe following table gives party strengths and vote distribution according to Wilson (1985), who records Maori representatives as Independents prior to the 1905 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030865-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 New Zealand general election, Results, Votes summary\nThe table below shows the results of the 1896 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030865-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 New Zealand general election, Results, Votes summary\nThe election of Thomas Wilford for the electorate of Suburbs of Wellington was declared void by an election petition on the grounds of corrupt and illegal practices. Charles Wilson was elected MP for that electorate following a by-election on 23 April 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030866-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1896 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1896 college football season. They played a single game, against Guilford, winning 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030867-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1896 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1896 college football season. They played eight games with a final record of 3\u20134\u20131. The team captain for the 1896 season was Robert Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030868-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 North Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee Daniel Lindsay Russell defeated Democratic nominee Cyrus B. Watson with 46.52% of the vote. This was the only election in North Carolina between 1872 and 1972 in which the Republican nominee won the governor's office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030868-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 North Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic convention\nThe state Democratic Party convention was held on June 25, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030868-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 North Carolina gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nThe state Republican Party convention was held on May 15, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030869-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1896 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. They had a 3-1-1 record. This was also their first season with games against teams other than North Dakota. Their final 3 games were in a 4-day period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030870-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 North Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Republican nominee Frank A. Briggs defeated People's Party nominee Robert B. Richardson with 55.61% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030871-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1896 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1896 Western Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Alvin H. Culver, and their first as a member of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference), the Purple compiled a 6\u20131\u20132 record (2\u20131\u20131 against conference opponents) and finished in third place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030872-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1896 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1896 college football season. Frank E. Hering was the team's captain and coach. The team compiled a 4\u20133 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 160 to 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030873-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1896 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In its third season of intercollegiate football, Ohio compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 100 to 70. Frank Rembsburg was the team's head coach; it was Rembsurg's first and only season in the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030874-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1896 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Led by Charles A. Hickey in his first an donly year as head coach, Ohio State compiled a record of 5\u20135\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030875-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1896 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1896 college football season. In their second year of football, the Sooners compiled a 2\u20130 record (both against Norman High School) and cumulatively outscored the Tigers by a combined total of 28 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030876-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1896 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Open Championship\nThe 1896 Open Championship was the 36th Open Championship, held 10\u201311 and 13 June at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Harry Vardon won the Championship after a playoff against J.H. Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Open Championship\nSandy Herd led by five shots after a first round of 72. Taylor and James Kay were second after scoring 77. Taylor had reached turn in 35 but came back in a poor 42. The amateur Freddie Tait had the best round of the afternoon with a 75 while Herd had a disappointing 84 and Kay an even worse 88. At the end of the day, Taylor led on 155, with Herd on 156, Willie Fernie and David Brown on 157 and Tait on 158.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Open Championship\nIn the third round, the leading professionals had similar scores but the amateur Tait dropped down the field after an 84. Herd led on 235 with Taylor on 236, Brown and Ben Sayers on 238 and Fernie and Vardon on 239. Taylor the first starter of those in contention and played steadily for an 80 and a total of 316. Fernie started well but took seven at the 7th and also finished with an 80 and a total of 319. Vardon played the best golf of the leading six and came to the last needing a four to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 Open Championship\nHowever he played safely to avoid the bunkers around the green and settled for a five to finish with a 77 and a tie with Taylor. Herd, who had led Vardon by 11 shots after the first round, had another bad afternoon round of 85 after his 84 the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Open Championship\nIn the 36-hole playoff, Taylor started badly and was six strokes behind after eight holes, taking 40 to Vardon's 34. However he gained a shot on five of the next six holes and, although he took six at the 16th, ended the morning golf only two strokes behind. The scores were level after the 1st hole in the afternoon when Vardon took 5 while Taylor scored 3. However, Vardon gained shots at the next three holes. After gaining a stroke at the 12th Taylor was only two behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 Open Championship\nThey then halved the next five holes, both taking six at the long 16th. The championship was decided at the 17th where Vardon holed a 12-yard putt to take a three shot lead to the last. Playing boldly Taylor got into a difficult position in a greenside bunker and took six, while Vardon played safely for a five to win by four shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Open Championship\nJust five days before his 73rd birthday, Old Tom Morris played in his last Open Championship, 36 years after finishing second in the first Championship. At 72\u00a0years, 360\u00a0days he remains the oldest known competitor in the Open Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030877-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Open Championship, Final leaderboard, Playoff\nTaylor and Vardon were engaged in a 36-hole tournament at North Berwick on Friday 12 June and so the playoff was delayed until the following day. Taylor finished joint winner of the North Berwick tournament, with Ben Sayers and Willie Fernie, winning \u00a38. \"After the championship there seemed to a complete collapse of interest in the game, both in the players and spectators.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030878-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Orange Free State presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in the Orange Free State in February 1896. They were held after the former President Francis William Reitz resigned due to bad health in 1895. The two candidates were High Court judge Martinus Theunis Steyn and John G. Fraser. Whilst Steyn supported the proposed merger of the Orange Free State and Transvaal, Fraser was in favour of closer links with the neighbouring Cape Colony and the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030878-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Orange Free State presidential election\nThe election resulted in a convincing win for Steyn, who received 83% of the vote. He was inaugurated as President on 4 March 1896 at the Dutch Reformed Church in Bloemfontein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030879-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach Tommy Code, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 26 to 14. The Aggies defeated Fort Vancouver (18\u20130), but lost two games against Oregon (0\u20132, 8\u201312). A. J. Simpson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030880-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1896 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1896 college football season. It was the Webfoots' third season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach J. F. Frick. They finished the season with a record of two wins and one loss (2\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris\nThe Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris race was the first competitive 'city to city' motor race, where the first car across the line was the winner, prior events having selected the winner by various forms of classification and judging. The race was won by \u00c9mile Mayade who completed the ten-day, 1,710\u00a0km, event over unsurfaced roads in 67 hours driving a Panhard et Levassor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris\nThe event was organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF) and was sometimes retrospectively known as the II Grand Prix de l'A.C.F.. It was run in 10 stages from Paris via Auxerre; Dijon; Lyon; Avignon; Marseille; Avignon; Lyon; Dijon; Sens and return to Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, History\nThe first competitive 'city to city' motoring event had been the 1894 Paris\u2013Rouen where the Count Jules-Albert de Dion was first into Rouen but steam-powered vehicles were ineligible for the main prize. Likewise, in 1895 the nascent Automobile Club de France) (ACF) organised its first event, the Paris\u2013Bordeaux\u2013Paris race, but excluded two-seater cars such that their official winner, a four-seater, finished 11 hours after \u00c9mile Levassor. The outcry resulting from the 1895 result lead the A.C.F. to organise the Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris Trail as the first fully competitive motor race, where the first car across the line was the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, History\nOn 8 February 1896 the race was announced in La France Automobile, the second edition of the A.C.F. 's official magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, Vehicles and entrants\nThe entry list included\u00a0: seven De Dion-Boutons (5 gasoline-powered tricycles and 2 steam-powered cars); five Boll\u00e9es (comprising four L\u00e9on Boll\u00e9e tricycles and tandems plus an Am\u00e9d\u00e9e Boll\u00e9e); four Panhard et Levassors; three Peugeots; two Delahayes; two Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Parisiennes and two Triouleyres. There were also single car entries from Fisson; Landry et Beyroux (or poss. Landoy); Lebrun; Rochet-Schneider; Rossel and Tissandier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, Prologue - pre-selection\nOn 20 September, the weekend prior to the start of the race, a selection trial (prologue) was run from Paris-Mantes-Paris for bicycles and tricycles of less than 150 kilograms. The eight successful machines were classified as either engine powered or engine and pedal powered. The two self-powered machines were the single seat, petrol-powered 'Wolfm\u00fcller' motorcycle (No 31) ridden by D'Ofraiville; and the Hurtu-L\u00e9on Boll\u00e9e tricycle No. 50 of C. Chauveau. The pedal machines (mopeds) were all De Dion-Bouton tricycles ridden by Chevalier (No. 52); Delieuvin (No. 15); Clere (No. 51); Fernand Charron (No. 13); and Comte Laubat Gaston De Chasseloup (No. 14).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, The race\nThe race covered 1,710\u00a0km from Paris to Marseilles and return from 24 September-3 October 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, The race, Daily itinerary\nThe race was scheduled to be run over 10 daily stages without rest days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, On the road\nThe 32 entrants started the first stage from under the Place de l'\u00c9toile in Paris and raced 177\u00a0km to Auxerre where the winner was Lejane who had driven his Boll\u00e9e at over 31\u00a0km/hour. Unfortunately his glory was short lived as he retired the following day. The first of the Panhard et Levassors came to the fore on the second stage from Auxere to Dijon, when \u00c9mile Levassor covered the 150.95\u00a0km over unsurfaced roads in 6 hours 51 minutes, thus taking the overall lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0008-0001", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, On the road\nLevassor increased his lead by also winning the third stage into Lyon, but his race was ruined when he suffered an accident on the fourth stage into Avignon. Although he persevered until the end of the stage, he then handed over the driving to his riding mechanic Charles d'Hostingue and they continued steadily until the finishing fourth overall in Paris. Levassor would never fully recover from the accident and the stress of driving another 36 hours, and died early in 1897. The stage was won by Merkel driving another one of \u00c9mile Levassor's cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0008-0002", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, On the road\nThe fifth stage into the halfway point at Marseille was won by Viet riding on a gasoline-powered De Dion tricycle, and he also won the next stage leaving Marseille back to Avignon. In a remarkable piece of symmetry Merkel again won the stage between Avignon and Lyon, a move that started Panhard et Levassor's dominant performance as Emile Mayade dominated the final three stages back to Paris and overall victory. Panhard et Levassor had won seven of the ten stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, On the road\nThe winning 8\u00a0hp Panhard et Levassor of Mayade had been extensively upgraded for 1896, using their first four-cylinder engine, doubling the horsepower from the 1895 model. It was equipped with tiller steering and candle lamps. The brakes were a spoon-lever pressing on the solid rubber back tyre plus a belt that tightened onto a drum on the transmission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030881-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris, Results\nParis-Marseilles-Paris Trail - 24 September - 3 October 1896 \u2013 1710\u00a0km", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030882-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe first\u00a0edition of Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France, was held on 19 April 1896. The event covered 280\u00a0km (174\u00a0mi) from Paris to the velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was German Josef Fischer who received 1.000 francs for the win, a considerable sum of money at the time. The race, as were all editions until 1909, was motorpaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030882-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Origin\nThe race was created by two Roubaix textile manufacturers, Th\u00e9odore Vienne and Maurice Perez, who had built a velodrome in Roubaix and wished to promote the track. Before its first running, it was first presented to the sponsor, Le V\u00e9lo, as a training race for the then well-established, now defunct, Bordeaux\u2013Paris. As Roubaix was a small provincial town at the time, a professional bike race finishing there would be very good for business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030882-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Origin\nPaul Rousseau, the director of Le V\u00e9lo, agreed to start the race outside the paper's offices in Paris. He designed a route and sent out Victor Breyer, in order to test the route. Breyer drove to Amiens by car, before continuing by bike the following day. When he reached Roubaix, he was cold and covered in mud. He was miserable enough to suggest the race be called off, but a shower and a meal changed his mind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030882-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Race overview\nAs many as half the riders who were supposed to ride stayed in bed, including Henri Desgrange, who later organised the first Tour de France. Notably, the winner of that first Tour de France, Maurice Garin, did start the race, finished third and went on to win the following two editions in subsequent years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030882-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Roubaix, Race overview\nThe race was full of incidents, Welshman Arthur Linton, who finished fourth, crashed six times, once after hitting a dog. The winner, Josef Fischer, had a lead of 23 minutes until he was almost knocked off by a horse and was then halted by cows. When Fischer entered the velodrome in Roubaix he was covered in filth and blood. Only three other riders finished within an hour, all in similar conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030883-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 1896 Paris\u2013Tours was the inaugural edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycle race and was held on 17 May 1896. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Eug\u00e8ne Pr\u00e9vost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030884-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1896 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1896 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 14\u20131 record in their fifth year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Navy (8\u20130), Carlisle (21\u20130), Penn State (27\u20130), Harvard (8\u20136), and Cornell (32\u201310), and its sole loss against undefeated national champion Lafayette (6\u20134). The 1896 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 326 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030884-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Penn Quakers football team\nFive Penn players received recognition on the 1896 College Football All-America Team: end Charlie Gelbert (consensus 1st team); guards Charles Wharton (consensus 1st team), Wylie G. Woodruff (consensus 1st team), and L. J. Uffenheimer (Leslie's Weekly, 2nd team); and fullback John Minds (Philadelphia Inquirer, 1st team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030885-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Penn State football team\nThe 1896 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team was coached by Samuel B. Newton and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030886-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030886-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030886-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030886-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030886-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030887-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh Athletic Club football season\nThe 1896 Pittsburgh Athletic Club football season was their sixth season in existence. The team finished with a record of 2\u20135\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030888-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1896 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1894 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030889-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1896 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 15th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; their 10th in the National League. The Pirates finished sixth in the National League with a record of 66\u201363.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030889-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030889-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030889-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030889-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030889-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030890-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1896 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1896 college football season. The team finished with a 10\u20130\u20131 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Houlgate System, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. They outscored their opponents 299 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030891-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1896 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1896 Western Conference football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 122 to 60 in their first season under head coach Samuel M. Hammond. Alpha Jamison was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030892-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Queensland colonial election\nElections were held in the Australian state of Queensland between 10 March 1896 and 11 April 1896 to elect the members of the state's Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030892-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Queensland colonial election, Key dates\nDue to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030892-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Queensland colonial election, Results\nQueensland state election, 11 March 1896Legislative Assembly << 1893\u20131899 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030893-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Republican National Convention\nThe 1896 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held in a temporary structure south of the St. Louis City Hall in Saint Louis, Missouri, from June 16 to June 18, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030893-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Republican National Convention\nFormer Governor William McKinley of Ohio was nominated for president on the first ballot with 661\u00bd votes to 84\u00bd for House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine, 61\u00bd votes for Senator Matthew S. Quay of Pennsylvania, 58 votes for Governor Levi P. Morton of New York who was vice president (1889\u20131893) under President Benjamin Harrison. New Jersey banker Garret A. Hobart was nominated for vice president over Henry Clay Evans of Tennessee. Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio placed McKinley's name in nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030893-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Republican National Convention\nThe convention was originally slated for the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall. However it was determined that repairs and upgrading the Hall could not be done in time and so a temporary wood convention hall was built in 60 days at a cost of $60,000 on the lawn south of City Hall which was under construction. At the conclusion of the convention, both the temporary building as well as the original Exposition Hall were torn down and a new Coliseum was built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030893-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Republican National Convention\nThe 1896 Convention was held in St. Louis less than a month after the infamous 1896 tornado that devastated a large swath of the city and killed at least 255 people. There was speculation that it might be unfeasible to hold the convention in the city, but, after a concerted cleanup effort was undertaken, the convention went ahead as planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030893-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Republican National Convention, Platform\nThe Republican platform of 1896 favored the gold standard but left the door open to free coinage of silver, it also supported acquisition of Hawaii and parts of the Danish West Indies, favored a canal across Central America, naval expansion, sympathized with revolutionaries in Cuba and Armenia, wanted exclusion of all illiterate immigrants, applauded gains in women's rights and pledged \"equal pay for equal work\". It also supported creation of a \"National Board of Arbitration\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030893-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Republican National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination\nComing into the convention, former Vice President Levi P. Morton had strong support to re-take his former office from delegates who favored the gold standard. However, McKinley's manager, Mark Hanna opposed Morton's addition to the ticket, instead favoring Garret A. Hobart or Minnesota Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis. Though McKinley's camp did not strongly oppose the party's gold standard platform, Hanna feared that the nomination of Morton would cause silver Republicans such as Colorado Senator Henry M. Teller to bolt the party. Hanna was ultimately successful at keeping Morton off the ticket, but many silver Republicans nonetheless supported the Democratic ticket of William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030894-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1896 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 1896 college football season. It was the second season in school history. Rhode Island finished the season with a record of 0\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030895-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 1, 1896. Incumbent Republican Charles W. Lippitt defeated Democratic nominee George L. Littlefield with 56.40% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030896-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Rikuu earthquake\nThe 1896 Rikuu earthquake (Japanese: \u9678\u7fbd\u5730\u9707) is an inland earthquake that occurred on August 31, 1896, near the border between Akita and Iwate prefectures, Japan. Magnitude was 7.2. The earthquake left 209 people dead (205 people dead in Akita Prefecture) and 779 people injured. Senya Fault is a fault which was responsible for 1896 Rikuu earthquake, along with surface rupture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030897-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1896 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1896 college football season. In their first season under head coach John C. B. Pendleton, the Queensmen compiled a 6\u20137 record and were outscored by their opponents, 226 to 74. The team captain was John N. Mills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030898-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 SAFA season\nThe 1896 South Australian Football Association season was the 20th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030898-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 SAFA season\nDuring the 1896 season a rule was introduced for North Adelaide and the Natives (West Torrens) allowing them to field an extra three players to be more competitive with the three more established clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake\nThe 1896 Sanriku earthquake (\u660e\u6cbb\u4e09\u9678\u5730\u9707, Meiji Sanriku Jishin) was one of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history. The 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time) on June 15, 1896, approximately 166 kilometres (103\u00a0mi) off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Honshu. It resulted in two tsunamis which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. The waves reached a then-record height of 38.2 metres (125\u00a0ft); this would remain the highest on record until waves from the 2011 T\u014dhoku earthquake exceeded that height by more than 2 metres (6\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake\nSeismologists have discovered the tsunami's magnitude (Mt = 8.2) was much greater than expected for the estimated seismic magnitude. This earthquake is now regarded as being part of a distinct class of seismic events, the tsunami earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake, Geology\nThe epicenter lies just to the west of the Japan Trench, the surface expression of the west-dipping subduction zone. The trench forms part of the convergent boundary between the Pacific and Eurasian plates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake, Geology, Magnitude\nThe unusual disparity between the magnitude of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami may be due to a combination of forces:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake, Geology, Magnitude\nScientists believe the effect of subducted sediment beneath the accretionary wedge was responsible for a slow rupture velocity. The effects of a 20\u00b0 dipping fault along the top of the subducting plate was found to match both the observed seismic response and tsunami, but required a displacement of 10.4 m. The displacement was reduced to a more reasonable value after the extra uplift caused by the deformation of sediments in the wedge and a shallower fault dip of 10\u00b0 was considered. This revised fault model gave a magnitude of Mw\u202f=8.0\u20138.1. A figure much closer to the estimated actual tsunami magnitude. A magnitude of 8.5 on the moment magnitude scale has also been estimated for this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake, Tsunami\nOn the evening of June 15, 1896, communities along the Sanriku coast in northern Japan were celebrating a Shinto holiday and the return of soldiers from the First Sino-Japanese War. After a small earthquake, there was little concern because it was so weak and many small tremors had also been felt in the previous few months. However, 35 minutes later the first tsunami wave struck the coast, followed by a second a few minutes later. The damage was particularly severe because the tsunamis coincided with high tides. Most deaths occurred in Iwate and Miyagi although casualties were also recorded from Aomori and Hokkaido.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake, Tsunami\nThe power of the tsunami was great: large numbers of victims were found with broken bodies or missing limbs. As was their normal practise each evening, the local fishing fleets were all at sea when the tsunamis struck. In the deepwater, the wave went unnoticed. Only when they returned the next morning did they discover the debris and bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake, Tsunami\nWave heights of up to 9 meters (30\u00a0ft) were also measured in Hawaii. They destroyed wharves and swept several houses away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030899-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Sanriku earthquake, Legacy\nPreventive coastal measures were not implemented until after another tsunami struck in 1933. Due to higher levels of tsunami awareness, fewer casualties were recorded following the Sanriku earthquake. Nevertheless, the earthquake of 11 March 2011 caused a huge tsunami that resulted in thousands of deaths across the same region and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030900-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Scottish Cup Final\nThe 1896 Scottish Cup Final was played on 14 March 1896 at New Logie Green in Edinburgh and was the final of the 23rd season of the Scottish Cup. The Edinburgh derby rivals Hearts and Hibernian contested the match. Hearts won the match 3\u20131, thanks to goals from Davie Baird (penalty kick), Alex King and Willie Michael. Jo O'Neill scored a consolation goal for Hibs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030900-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Scottish Cup Final\nIt is the only Scottish Cup Final to have been played outside the city of Glasgow. Logie Green was then the home ground of another Edinburgh club, St Bernard's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030901-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1896 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030902-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian colonial election\nColonial elections were held in South Australia on 25 April 1896, excepting the Northern Territory, which voted on 2 May. All 54 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent liberal government led by Premier of South Australia Charles Kingston in an informal coalition with the United Labor Party (ULP) led by John McPherson defeated the conservative opposition. Each district elected multiple members, with voters casting multiple votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030902-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian colonial election, Background\nThe period after the 1893 election saw an increasing competition between the two new political parties \u2013 the ULP and the conservative National Defence League (NDL). It also reflected a trend for the conservative members to gravitate to the NDL, and the progressive members to support Kingston, a strong advocate of progressive social policy and reform of the Legislative Council. There was no \"Liberal\" or \"Kingston\" party, but there was a relatively cohesive Kingston group among both independent members and candidates. The Liberal and Democratic Union would not be formed until the 1906 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030902-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian colonial election, Background\nThe election was held concurrently with the first referendum in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030902-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian colonial election, Background\nWomen's suffrage in Australia took a leap forward \u2013 enacted in 1895 and taking effect from this election, South Australia was the first in Australia and only the second in the world after New Zealand to allow women to vote, and the first in the world to allow women to stand for election. However, the first female would not be elected to the Parliament of South Australia until the 1959 election when Jessie Cooper and Joyce Steele were elected for the Liberal and Country League, and the 1965 election for Labor with Molly Byrne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030903-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian referendum\nA referendum was held in South Australia on 25 April 1896, and dealt with matters relating to secular and religious education. The referendum was held concurrently with the 1896 South Australian election, the first in Australia in which women were eligible to vote and stand for office, and was the first referendum to be held in Australia. The South Australian public affirmed the system of free, secular, state education in place at the time, and rejected scriptural instruction in state schools and a capitation grant for religious schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030903-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian referendum, Background\nFollowing the passage of the Free Education Bill in 1891, free and secular education had been provided to South Australian children in state schools. This prompted a number of church groups to campaign for scriptural instruction in state schools. The National Scriptural Education League, led by the Wesleyan pastor Joseph Nicholson, had unsuccessfully attempted to make \"scriptural education without dogma\" a referendum question at the 1893 election. In 1895, Robert Caldwell, an Anglican Member of the House of Assembly called for a poll to be conducted, asking the opinion of the parents of state school children on the matter. The resolution was amended to extend the poll to all voters, and to include the question of capitation grants for non-state schools. The question was finally proposed as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030903-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian referendum, Background\nThe three options had initially been proposed as one question, which voters could either support or reject. However, Frederick Holder and Premier Charles Kingston moved that each part be considered separately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030903-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian referendum, Results\nVoters were instructed to place an 'X' next to a proposal to support it, or leave the proposal blank to reject it. All subsequent referendums have been held in a Yes/No format. Of the 137,781 colonists on the electoral roll, 91,348 voted, a turnout of 66.3%. The total informal vote was 12,830 (14%),.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030903-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 South Australian referendum, Reaction\nThe Anglican bishop of Adelaide John Harmer, who had been an advocate of both scriptural instruction in schools and the capitation grant, distributed a pastoral letter to his diocese in the wake of the referendum, conceding that the result had decisively shown that these reforms would be unlikely to gain support. The Southern Cross, Adelaide's Catholic newspaper, pointed out that the capitation grant alone, and not scriptural instruction, had been requested by the Catholic Church, and that it was the size of the margin, rather than the result, that was of interest. Christian Weekly, a local Wesleyan paper, also called the decision decisive, but maintained hope for future changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030904-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 South Bend Commercial-Athletic Club football team\nThe 1896 South Bend Commercial-Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the South Bend Athletic Club in the 1896 football season. The club was established in 1896, with the headquarters being opened on September 30th, ahead of the upcoming football season. The club compiled a 1\u20131\u20131 record, and was outscored by their opponents 56 to 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030905-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1896 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1896 college football season. The team played Clemson for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030906-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. William Haselden Ellerbe won the Democratic primary and easily won the general election to become the 86th governor of South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030906-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nA new South Carolina Constitution was promulgated in 1895 under the direction of Pitchfork Ben Tillman and it disenfranchised the remaining blacks who were eligible to vote. With the removal of blacks from the electorate, the South Carolina Democratic Party felt safe to have its statewide ticket selected from a primary election. Thus, the 1896 election in South Carolina was the first that featured the use of a primary election by a party to select its nominees of statewide office for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030906-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nGovernor John Gary Evans declined to seek a second term and instead sought election to the U.S. Senate. Three candidates entered the Democratic primary and William Haselden Ellerbe from the start was the heavy favorite to win. He had been a candidate in the previous gubernatorial election, but lost to Evans after Tillman shifted his support from Ellerbe to Evans. This time Tillman fully backed Ellerbe and the other candidates never generated any traction with the voters of the state. The primary was held on August 26 and Ellerbe coasted to victory while the voters were chiefly interested in the battle between Evans and Joseph H. Earle for the open Senate seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030906-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Republican split\nSampson Pope had been an independent candidate in the previous gubernatorial election and gained an impressive 30% of the vote in a state completely run by the Democratic party machine. Upset at the new state constitution promulgated in 1895 and the lack of opposition by the state Republicans, Pope established a new party called the \"Reorganized Republicans\". It was composed chiefly of white men and requested recognition as the official South Carolina Republican Party from the Republican National Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030906-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Republican split\nHowever, the official state party did not want to lose its official status because of the potential spoils system to be gained by the election of William McKinley for president in 1896. They called for a state convention on September 17 in Columbia to nominate a statewide ticket. Sampson Pope likewise called for a convention of his Reorganized Republicans at the same time hoping that the two factions would merge or fuse for the general election. The old guard Republicans refused any merger and would only accept complete subordination forcing the Reorganized Republicans to also nominate a slate of statewide candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030906-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election was held on November 3, 1896 and William Haselden Ellerbe was easily elected as governor of South Carolina against the two Republican candidates. Turnout increased for this election over the previous election because it was a contested election and there also was a presidential election on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030907-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles H. Sheldon declined to run for re-election to a third term. Former Secretary of State Amund O. Ringsrud was nominated as Sheldon's replacement at the Republican convention. Ringrud's main opponent was businessman Andrew E. Lee, who was nominated by a makeshift coalition of Populists, Free Silver Republicans, and Democrats. In the general election, Lee narrowly defeated Ringsrud, the first defeat for the Republican Party in a gubernatorial election since statehood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030907-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nIn the lead-up to the Republican convention, which took place in Aberdeen on July 8, 1896, several candidates either announced their candidacies for Governor or were seen as likely candidates: former Secretary of State Amund O. Ringsrud, Lieutenant Governor Charles N. Herreid, former State Representative Millard F. Greeley from Deuel County, and F. G. Hale, a member of the South Dakota Board of Regents. As the convention approached, Ringsrud emerged as the frontrunner, and ultimately won the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030907-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election, People's Party convention\nAfter three straight elections in which the left-leaning vote in South Dakota was split, a fusion finally took place. The coalition was precipitated by the exodus of Free Silver Republicans from the Republican Party of South Dakota, led by U.S. Senator Richard F. Pettigrew. Pettigrew and the Silver Republicans joined forces with the Populist Party at its convention, which started on July 15, 1896, in Huron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030907-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election, People's Party convention\nIn the months preceding the convention, there was much speculation about whether prominent businessman Andrew E. Lee would be the Populist nominee for Governor, or whether another candidate\u2014like F. M. Goodykoontz or former territorial legislator H. B. Wynn\u2014would replace him. But when Pettigrew's forces joined with the Populists, Pettigrew began negotiating with Henry A. Loucks, a prominent leader in the Farmers' Alliance. The tentative agreement between Pettigrew and Loucks was to name Wynn as their nominee for Governor, and if this failed, to name Lee for Governor and Wynn for Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030907-0002-0002", "contents": "1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election, People's Party convention\nBut Wynn's refusal to accept a position other than Governor, and Lee's refusal to accept any deal with Wynn, ultimately led the convention to nominate Lee for Governor. Shortly after the convention, the Democratic Party endorsed the Populist slate of candidates, declining to hold its own convention. As a result, the People's Party was formed to contest the 1896 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030908-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the members schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1896 college football season. The season began on October 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030908-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nCoach Pop Warner's conference champion Georgia team beat North Carolina 24\u201316 in a close game. \"For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia and North Carolina was successfully challenged.\" Against John Heisman's Auburn team, Georgia also had the first successful onside kick in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030908-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe LSU Tigers, led by coach Allen Jeardeau, went undefeated and were the SIAA co-champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030909-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Southwestern Presbyterian football team\nThe 1896 Southwestern Presbyterian football team represented Southwestern Presbyterian in the 1896 college football season. It was the school's first team, and played its first game against Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election\nThe 1896 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 12 April and on Sunday, 26 April 1896, to elect the 7th Restoration Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 401 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Background\nThe Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a constitutional monarchy, awarding the King power to name senators and to revoke laws, as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the army. The King would also play a key role in the system of El Turno Pac\u00edfico (the Peaceful Turn) by appointing and toppling governments and allowing the opposition to take power. Under this system, the Conservative and Liberal parties alternated in power by means of election rigging, which they achieved through the encasillado, using the links between the Ministry of Governance, the provincial civil governors, and the local bosses (caciques) to ensure victory and exclude minor parties from the power sharing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Spanish Cortes were envisaged as \"co-legislative bodies\", based on a nearly perfect bicameralism. Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, where the Congress had preeminence. Voting for the Cortes was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Congress of Deputies, 88 seats were elected using a partial block voting in 26 multi-member constituencies, with the remaining 313 being elected under a one-round first-past-the-post system in single-member districts. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nIn constituencies electing eight seats or more, electors could vote for no more than three candidates less than the number of seats to be allocated; in those with more than four seats and up to eight, for no more than two less; in those with more than one seat and up to four, for no more than one less; and for one candidate in single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0003-0002", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Congress was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants, with each multi-member constituency being allocated a fixed number of seats: 8 for Madrid, 5 for Barcelona and Palma, 4 for Seville and 3 for Alicante, Almer\u00eda, Badajoz, Burgos, C\u00e1diz, Cartagena, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, Ja\u00e9n, Jerez de la Frontera, La Coru\u00f1a, Lugo, M\u00e1laga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza. The law also provided for by-elections to fill seats vacated throughout the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Senate, 180 seats were indirectly elected, with electors voting for delegates instead of senators. Elected delegates\u2014equivalent in number to one-sixth of the councillors in each municipal corporation\u2014would then vote for senators using a write-in, two-round majority voting system. The provinces of \u00c1lava, Albacete, \u00c1vila, Biscay, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Guip\u00fazcoa, Huelva, Logro\u00f1o, Matanzas, Palencia, Pinar del R\u00edo, Puerto Pr\u00edncipe, Santa Clara, Santander, Santiago de Cuba, Segovia, Soria, Teruel, Valladolid and Zamora were allocated two seats each, whereas each of the remaining provinces was allocated three seats, for a total of 147.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0004-0001", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe remaining 33 were allocated to a number of institutions, electing one seat each\u2014the Archdioceses of Burgos, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Cuba, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; the Royal Spanish Academy; the Royal Academies of History, Fine Arts, Sciences, Moral and Political Sciences and Medicine; the Universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Havana, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; and the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country from Madrid, Barcelona, Cuba\u2013Puerto Rico, Le\u00f3n, Seville and Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0004-0002", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nAn additional 180 seats comprised senators in their own right\u2014the Monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age; Grandees of Spain of the first class; Captain Generals of the Army and the Navy Admiral; the Patriarch of the Indies and archbishops; as well as other high-ranking state figures\u2014and senators for life (who were appointed by the Monarch).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030910-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of each House of the Cortes\u2014the Congress and one-half of the elective part of the Senate\u2014expired five years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The Monarch had the prerogative to dissolve both Houses at any given time\u2014either jointly or separately\u2014and call a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030911-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1896 St. Louis Browns season was the team's 15th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 5th season in the National League. The Browns went 40\u201390 during the season and finished 11th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030911-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030911-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030911-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030911-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030911-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado\nThe 1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado was a historic tornado that caused severe damage to downtown St. Louis, Missouri, East St. Louis, Illinois, and surrounding areas on Wednesday, May 27, 1896. One of the deadliest and most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history, this tornado was the most notable of a major tornado outbreak across the central United States which produced several other large, long-track, violent tornadoes and continued across the eastern United States the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado\nThe St. Louis tornado killed at least 255 people, injured over a thousand others, and caused more than $10 million in damage (equivalent to $311\u00a0million in 2020). More than 5,000 people were left homeless and lost all of their possessions. The hardest-hit areas of the city were the fashionable Lafayette Square and Compton Heights neighborhoods, as well as the poorer Mill Creek Valley. It remains the third-deadliest tornado in United States history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, May 1896 tornado outbreak\nWhile a storm had been predicted for the latter days in May, many disregarded the warning or felt that the city of St. Louis would not be affected. Weather forecasters at the time lacked technology sufficient to predict tornadoes (then commonly called \"cyclones\") of this magnitude, but they were able to predict strong storm systems in general. The day started quietly, with people going about their daily business; the weather in the morning did not indicate any severe weather event. The local weather bureau predicted thunderstorms but nothing more serious. Around noon, the clouds began to appear more ominous and the barometric pressure dropped, alarming those who knew this was an indication of a tornado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, May 1896 tornado outbreak\nInto the afternoon, the skies continued to darken, but the Weather Bureau Observatory was not overly concerned. Many residents, however, fled to their homes, anticipating severe weather. At 4:30 PM local time, the temperature dropped rapidly and black and greenish clouds approached the city; near 5:00 PM, the sky reportedly became as dark as midnight. As the thunderstorm approached St. Louis, the western portion of the city was particularly affected. Winds were initially around 37 miles per hour (60\u00a0km/h), but they quickly increased to almost 80 miles per hour (130\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, May 1896 tornado outbreak\nThe first significant tornado of the day formed near Bellflower, Missouri, and killed one person, a woman. Three students died and 16 were injured when the Dye School in Audrain County was struck around 6:15\u00a0PM. The same tornado killed one student and injured 19 others at the Bean Creek school a few minutes later. At 6:30 PM, two supercell thunderstorms produced two additional tornadoes. One decimated farms in New Minden, Hoyleton, Richview, and Irvington, Illinois. Twenty-seven more people died in the other Illinois tornadoes of this outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, May 1896 tornado outbreak, St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado\nThe tornado spawned from the other supercell touched down in St. Louis, Missouri, then one of the largest and most influential cities in the country. It was one of at least 18 tornadoes to occur on that day, and it quickly became the third-deadliest as well as the costliest tornado in United States history. At least 137 people died as the tornado traversed the core of the downtown area, leaving a continuous, 1-mile-wide (1.6\u00a0km) swath of destroyed homes, schools, saloons, factories, mills, churches, parks, and railroad yards in its wake. A few of the destroyed homes were all but completely swept away. Numerous trees were downed at the 36-acre (0.15\u00a0km2) Lafayette Park, and a barometer recorded a drop to 26.74\u00a0inHg (906\u00a0hPa) at this location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, May 1896 tornado outbreak, St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado\nThe tornado then crossed the Mississippi River and struck the Eads Bridge, where a 2\u00a0in \u00d7\u00a010\u00a0in (51\u00a0mm \u00d7\u00a0254\u00a0mm) wooden plank was found driven through a 5\u204416\u00a0in (7.9\u00a0mm) wrought iron plate. Uncounted others may have died on boats on the river, which could have swept their bodies downriver where they could not be recorded in the official death toll. The tornado continued into East St. Louis, Illinois, where it was smaller, but more intense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0006-0001", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, May 1896 tornado outbreak, St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado\nHomes and buildings along the river were completely swept away and a quarter of the buildings there were damaged or destroyed. An additional 118 people were killed, 35 of whom were at the Vandalia railroad freight yards. By the end of the day, the confirmed death toll stood at 255, with some estimates above 400; more than 1,000 were injured. The tornado was later rated F4 on the Fujita scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, May 1896 tornado outbreak, St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado\nFollowing the cyclone's destruction, members of Light Battery \"A\" and the First Regiment were placed on volunteer duty. Within an hour of the tornado striking, 32 members were on duty with ambulances and hospital corps to assist in rescue operations and to help victims. The mayor asked that both commands remain on patrol duty on May 30. Members of the bicycle corps of Company \"G\" First Regiment assisted when railway service was inaccessible. Telephone and telegraph wires were destroyed and streets were impassable. Officers were summoned to duty by bicycle couriers, as this was the only means of communication. Enough damage was done to the city that there was some speculation that St. Louis might not be able to host the 1896 Republican National Convention in June, just three weeks later, but after a massive clean-up effort, the convention went ahead as planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 98], "content_span": [99, 971]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, Long-term impact\nThe May 27, 1896, St. Louis tornado was the most devastating known in the United States up to that time. Approximately 12,000 buildings were seriously damaged, valued in excess of $10 million. In the wake of highly sensationalized local, national, and international news coverage of the tornado, over 140,000 sightseers flocked to inspect the damaged areas. The cyclone permanently altered the course of residential, commercial, and industrial development in the most heavily damaged areas of the city, though undamaged areas were not affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, Long-term impact\nPolitical reverberations came in the 1897 city elections, when middle-class reform candidates were decisively defeated by a coalition supported largely by the German vote in heavily impacted neighborhoods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, In perspective, St. Louis tornado history\nIt is somewhat rare for the core of a large city to be hit directly by a tornado (due to their relatively small area and the relative lack of large cities in the highest tornado threat region)\u2014especially a large and intense tornado\u2014yet several other tornadoes have tracked through the City of St. Louis during its history. Several of these tornadoes were also very deadly and destructive. Tornadoes have hit St. Louis in 1871 (9 killed); 1890 (4 killed); 1904 (3 killed, 100 injured); 1927 (72-79+ killed, 550+ injured); and 1959 (21 killed, 345 injured). This makes St. Louis the most tornado-afflicted urban area in the U.S. Additionally, the Greater St. Louis area is the scene of even more historically destructive and deadly tornadoes. Oklahoma City is the metropolitan area with the most frequent significant tornadoes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 906]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, In perspective, 1896 tornado season\nIn what was apparently an intense tornado outbreak sequence, other major tornado outbreaks occurred on May 15, May 17, and May 24\u201325, with other smaller outbreaks during the month as well. The middle to end of May was extremely active but sparse records preclude knowing much detail. Tom Grazulis has stated that the week of May 24\u201328 was \"perhaps the most violent single week of tornado activity in US history\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030912-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 St. Louis\u2013East St. Louis tornado, In perspective, 1896 tornado season\nThe 1896 tornado season has the distinction of being one of the deadliest in United States history. There were at least 40 killer tornadoes between April 11 and November 26, including this one, which was the only one to kill more than 100 people in two separate cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 74], "content_span": [75, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030913-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Stanford football team\nThe 1896 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1896 college football season and was coached by Harry P. Cross in the first of his two nonconsecutive seasons with the team. He returned to coach again in 1898. Like the two coaches who preceded him, Cross played football at Yale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030914-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Storrs Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Storrs Aggies football team represented Storrs Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1896 college football season. This was the first year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies completed the season with a record of 5\u20133, against a mix of nearby high school and YMCA teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics\nThe 1896 Summer Olympics (Greek: \u0398\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03af \u039f\u03bb\u03c5\u03bc\u03c0\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03af \u0391\u03b3\u03ce\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2 1896, romanized:\u00a0Therino\u00ed Olympiako\u00ed Ag\u00f3nes 1896), officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad (Greek: \u0391\u03b3\u03ce\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 1\u03b7\u03c2 \u039f\u03bb\u03c5\u03bc\u03c0\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1\u03c2, romanized:\u00a0Ag\u00f3nes tis 1is Olympi\u00e1das) and commonly known as Athens 1896 (Greek: \u0391\u03b8\u03ae\u03bd\u03b1 1896), was the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had been created by French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin, it was held in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics\nFourteen nations (according to the IOC, though the number is subject to interpretation) and 241 athletes (all males; this number is also disputed) took part in the games. Participants were all European, or living in Europe, with the exception of the United States team. Over 65% of the competing athletes were Greek. Winners were given a silver medal, while runners-up received a copper medal. Retroactively, the IOC has converted these to gold and silver, and awarded bronze medals to third placed athletes. Ten of the 14 participating nations earned medals. The United States won the most gold medals, 11, while host nation Greece won the most medals overall, 47. The highlight for the Greeks was the marathon victory by their compatriot Spyridon Louis. The most successful competitor was German wrestler and gymnast Carl Schuhmann, who won four events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics\nAthens had been unanimously chosen to stage the inaugural modern Games during a congress organised by Coubertin in Paris on 23 June 1894, during which the IOC was also created, because Greece was the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games. The main venue was the Panathenaic Stadium, where athletics and wrestling took place; other venues included the Neo Phaliron Velodrome for cycling, and the Zappeion for fencing. The opening ceremony was held in the Panathenaic Stadium on 6 April, during which most of the competing athletes were aligned on the infield, grouped by nation. After a speech by the president of the organising committee, Crown Prince Constantine, his father officially opened the Games. Afterwards, nine bands and 150 choir singers performed an Olympic Hymn, composed by Spyridon Samaras, with words by poet Kostis Palamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics\nThe 1896 Olympics were regarded as a great success. The Games had the largest international participation of any sporting event to that date. The Panathenaic Stadium overflowed with the largest crowd ever to watch a sporting event. After the Games, Coubertin and the IOC were petitioned by several prominent figures, including Greece's King George and some of the American competitors in Athens, to hold all the following Games in Athens. However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, except for the Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics, 108 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Reviving the Games\nDuring the 19th century, several small-scale sports festivals across Europe were named after the Ancient Olympic Games. The 1870 Olympics at the Panathenaic stadium, which had been refurbished for the occasion, had an audience of 30,000 people. Pierre de Coubertin, a French pedagogue and historian, adopted Dr William Penny Brookes' idea to establish a multi-national and multi-sport event\u2014the ancient games only allowed male athletes of Greek origin to participate. In 1890, Coubertin wrote an article in La Revue Athletique, which espoused the importance of Much Wenlock, a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0004-0001", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Reviving the Games\nIt was here that, in October 1850, the local physician William Penny Brookes had founded the Wenlock Olympian Games, a festival of sports and recreations that included athletics and team sports, such as cricket, football and quoits. Coubertin also took inspiration from the earlier Greek games organised under the name of Olympics by businessman and philanthropist Evangelis Zappas in 1859, 1870 and 1875.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0004-0002", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Reviving the Games\nThe 1896 Athens Games were funded by the legacies of Evangelis Zappas and his cousin Konstantinos Zappas and by George Averoff who had been specifically requested by the Greek government, through crown prince Constantine, to sponsor the second refurbishment of the Panathenaic Stadium. The Greek government did this despite the cost of refurbishing the stadium in marble already being funded in full by Evangelis Zappas forty years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Reviving the Games\nWith deep feeling towards Baron de Coubertin's courteous petition, I send him and the members of the Congress, with my sincere thanks, my best wishes for the revival of the Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Reviving the Games\nOn 18 June 1894, Coubertin organised a congress at the Sorbonne, Paris, to present his plans to representatives of sports societies from 11 countries. Following his proposal's acceptance by the congress, a date for the first modern Olympic Games needed to be chosen. Coubertin suggested that the Games be held concurrently with the 1900 Universal Exposition of Paris. Concerned that a six-year waiting period might lessen public interest, congress members opted instead to hold the inaugural Games in 1896. With a date established, members of the congress turned their attention to the selection of a host city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0006-0001", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Reviving the Games\nIt remains a mystery how Athens was finally chosen to host the inaugural Games. In the following years both Coubertin and Demetrius Vikelas would offer recollections of the selection process that contradicted the official minutes of the congress. Most accounts hold that several congressmen first proposed London as the location, but Coubertin dissented. After a brief discussion with Vikelas, who represented Greece, Coubertin suggested Athens. Vikelas made the Athens proposal official on 23 June, and since Greece had been the original home of the Olympics, the congress unanimously approved the decision. Vikelas was then elected the first president of the newly established International Olympic Committee (IOC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Organization\nNews that the Olympic Games would return to Greece was well received by the Greek public, media, and royal family. According to Coubertin, \"the Crown Prince Constantine learned with great pleasure that the Games will be inaugurated in Athens.\" Coubertin went on to confirm that, \"the King and the Crown Prince will confer their patronage on the holding of these games.\" Constantine later conferred more than that; he eagerly assumed the presidency of the 1896 organising committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Organization\nHowever, the country had financial troubles and was in political turmoil. The job of prime minister alternated between Charilaos Trikoupis and Theodoros Deligiannis frequently during the last years of the 19th century. Because of this financial and political instability, both prime minister Trikoupis and Stephanos Dragoumis, the president of the Zappas Olympic Committee, which had attempted to organise a series of national Olympiads, believed that Greece could not host the event. In late 1894, the organising committee under Stephanos Skouloudis presented a report that the cost of the Games would be three times higher than originally estimated by Coubertin. They concluded the Games could not be held, and offered their resignation. The total cost of the Games was 3,740,000 gold drachmas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Organization\nWith the prospect of reviving the Olympic games very much in doubt, Coubertin and Vikelas commenced a campaign to keep the Olympic movement alive. Their efforts culminated on 7 January 1895 when Vikelas announced that crown prince Constantine would assume the presidency of the organising committee. His first responsibility was to raise the funds necessary to host the Games. He relied on the patriotism of the Greek people to motivate them to provide the required finances. Constantine's enthusiasm sparked a wave of contributions from the Greek public. This grassroots effort raised 330,000 drachmas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0009-0001", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Organization\nA special set of postage stamps were commissioned; the sale of which raised 400,000 drachmas. Ticket sales added 200,000 drachmas. At the request of Constantine, businessman George Averoff agreed to pay for the restoration of the Panathenaic Stadium. Averoff would donate 920,000 drachmas to this project. As a tribute to his generosity, a statue of Averoff was constructed and unveiled on 5 April 1896 outside the stadium. It stands there to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Organization\nSome of the athletes would take part in the Games because they happened to be in Athens at the time the Games were held, either on holiday or for work (e.g., some of the British competitors worked for the British embassy). A designated Olympic Village for the athletes did not appear until the 1932 Summer Olympics. Consequently, the athletes had to provide their own lodging.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Organization\nThe first regulation voted on by the new IOC in 1894 was to allow only amateur athletes to participate in the Olympic Games. The various contests were thus held under amateur regulations with the exception of fencing matches. The rules and regulations were not uniform, so the Organising Committee had to choose among the codes of the various national athletic associations. The jury, the referees and the game director bore the same names as in antiquity (Ephor, Helanodic and Alitarc). Prince George acted as final referee; according to Coubertin, \"his presence gave weight and authority to the decisions of the ephors.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Organization\nWomen were not entitled to compete at the 1896 Summer Olympics, because de Coubertin felt that their inclusion would be \"impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and incorrect\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Venues\nSeven venues were used for the 1896 Summer Olympics. Panathenaic Stadium was the main venue, hosting four of the nine sports contested. The city of Marathon served as host to the marathon event and the individual road race events. Swimming was held in the Bay of Zea, fencing at the Zappeion, sport shooting at Kallithea, and tennis at the Athens Lawn Tennis Club. Tennis was a sport unfamiliar to Greeks at the time of the 1896 Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Venues\nThe Bay of Zea is a seaport and marina in the Athens area; it was used as the swimming venue because the organizers of the Games wanted to avoid spending money on constructing a special purpose swimming venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Venues\nFour of the 1896 venues were reused as competition venues for the 2004 Games. The velodrome would be renovated into a football stadium in 1964 and was known as Karaiskakis Stadium. This venue was renovated in 2003 for use as a football venue for the 2004 Games. During the 2004 Games, Panathinaiko Stadium served as host for archery competitions and was the finish line for the athletic marathon event. The city of Marathon itself served as the starting point for both marathon events during the 2004 Games. The Zappeion served as the first home of the organizing committee (ATHOC) for the 2004 Games from 1998 to 1999, and served as the main communications center during those Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Calendar\n\u2021 The iconic Olympic rings symbol was not designed by Baron Pierre de Coubertin until 1912.Note: Silver medals were awarded to the winners with copper medals given to the runners-up and no prizes were given to those who came in 3rd place in any events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Opening ceremony\nOn 6 April (25 March according to the Julian calendar then in use in Greece), the games of the First Olympiad were officially opened; it was Easter Monday for both the Western and Eastern Christian Churches and the anniversary of Greece's independence. The Panathenaic Stadium was filled with an estimated 80,000 spectators, including King George I of Greece, his wife Olga, and their sons. Most of the competing athletes were aligned on the infield, grouped by nation. After a speech by the president of the organising committee, Crown Prince Constantine, his father officially opened the Games with the words (in Greek):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0018-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Opening ceremony\n\"I declare the opening of the first international Olympic Games in Athens. Long live the Nation. Long live the Greek people.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0019-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Opening ceremony\nAfterwards, nine bands and 150 choir singers performed an Olympic Hymn, composed by Spyridon Samaras, with words by poet Kostis Palamas. Thereafter, a variety of musical offerings provided the backgrounds to the Opening Ceremonies until 1960, since which time the Samaras/Palamas composition has become the official Olympic Anthem (decision taken by the IOC Session in 1958). Other elements of current Olympic opening ceremonies were initiated later: the Olympic flame was first lit in 1928, the first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and the first officials' oath was taken at the 1972 Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0020-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events\nAt the 1894 Sorbonne congress, a large roster of sports were suggested for the program in Athens. The first official announcements regarding the sporting events to be held featured sports such as football and cricket, but these plans were never finalised, and these sports did not make the final list for the Games. Rowing and yachting were also scheduled, but were cancelled due to poor weather on the planned day of competition. As a result, the 1896 Summer Olympics programme featured 9 sports encompassing 10 disciplines and 43 events. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0021-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Athletics\nThe athletics events had the most international field of any of the sports. The major highlight was the marathon, held for the first time in international competition. Spyridon Louis, a previously unrecognised water carrier, won the event to become the only Greek athletics champion and a national hero. Although Greece had been favoured to win the discus and the shot put, the best Greek athletes finished just behind the American Robert Garrett in both events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0022-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Athletics\nNo world records were set, as few top international competitors had elected to compete. In addition, the curves of the track were very tight, making fast times in the running events virtually impossible. Despite this, Thomas Burke, of the United States, won the 100-meter race in 12.0 seconds and the 400-meter race in 54.2 seconds. Burke was the only one who used the \"crouch start\" (putting his knee on soil), confusing the jury. Eventually, he was allowed to start from this \"uncomfortable position\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0023-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Athletics\nChile claims one athlete, Luis Subercaseaux, who competed for the nation at the 1896 Summer Olympics. This makes Chile one of the 14 nations to appear at the inaugural Summer Olympic Games. Subercaseaux's results are not listed in the official report, though that report typically includes only winners and Subercaseaux won no medals. An appraisal of a famous photo of series 2 of the 100 meters sprint, performed by facial recognition experts of the Chilean forensic police, concluded that Subercaseaux was one of the participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0024-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Athletics\nThe day after the official marathon Stamata Revithi ran the 40-kilometer course in 5 hours 30 minutes, finishing outside Panathinaiko Stadium. She was denied entry into the official race as the 1896 Olympics excluded women from competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0025-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Cycling\nThe rules of the International Cycling Association were used for the cycling competitions. The track cycling events were held at the newly built Neo Phaliron Velodrome. Only one road event was held, a race from Athens to Marathon and back (87 kilometres).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0026-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Cycling\nIn the track events, the best cyclist was Frenchman Paul Masson, who won the one lap time trial, the sprint event, and the 10,000 meters. In the 100 kilometres event, Masson entered as a pacemaker for his compatriot L\u00e9on Flameng. Flameng won the event, after a fall, and after stopping to wait for his Greek opponent Georgios Kolettis to fix a mechanical problem. The Austrian fencer Adolf Schmal won the 12-hour race, which was completed by only two cyclists, while the road race event was won by Aristidis Konstantinidis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0027-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Fencing\nThe fencing events were held in the Zappeion, which, built with money Evangelis Zappas had given to revive the ancient Olympic Games, had never seen any athletic contests before. Unlike other sports (in which only amateurs were allowed to take part at the Olympics), professionals were authorised to compete in fencing, though in a separate event. These professionals were considered gentlemen athletes, just as the amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0028-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Fencing\nFour events were scheduled, but the \u00e9p\u00e9e event was cancelled for unknown reasons. The foil event was won by a Frenchman, Eug\u00e8ne-Henri Gravelotte, who beat his countryman, Henri Callot, in the final. The other two events, the sabre and the masters foil, were won by Greek fencers. Leonidas Pyrgos, who won the latter event, became the first Greek Olympic champion in the modern era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0029-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Gymnastics\nThe gymnastics competition was carried out on the infield of the Panathinaiko Stadium. Germany had sent an 11-man team, which won five of the eight events, including both team events. In the team event on the horizontal bar, the German team was unopposed. Three Germans added individual titles: Hermann Weing\u00e4rtner won the horizontal bar event, Alfred Flatow won the parallel bars; and Carl Schuhmann, who also competed successfully in wrestling, won the vault. Louis Zutter, a Swiss gymnast, won the pommel horse, while Greeks Ioannis Mitropoulos and Nikolaos Andriakopoulos were victorious in the rings and rope climbing events, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0030-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Sailing and rowing\nA regatta of sailing boats was on the program of the Games of the First Olympiad for 31 March 1896. However this event had to be given up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0031-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Sailing and rowing\nThe Regatta could not take place because some special boats embarkation had not been provided for.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0032-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Sailing and rowing\nThe sailing competitions were cancelled because neither had we provided the special boats for it, nor had foreign applicants registered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0033-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Shooting\nHeld at a range at Kallithea, the shooting competition consisted of five events\u2014two using a rifle and three with the pistol. The first event, the military rifle, was won by Pantelis Karasevdas, the only competitor to hit the target with all of his shots. The second event, for military pistols, was dominated by two American brothers: John and Sumner Paine. They became the first siblings to finish first and second in the same event. To avoid embarrassing their hosts, the brothers decided that only one of them would compete in the next pistol event, the free pistol. Sumner Paine won that event, thereby becoming the first relative of an Olympic champion to become Olympic champion himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0034-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Shooting\nThe Paine brothers did not compete in the 25-meter pistol event, as the event judges determined that their weapons were not of the required calibre. In their absence, Ioannis Phrangoudis won. The final event, the free rifle, began on the same day. However, the event could not be completed due to darkness and was finalised the next morning, when Georgios Orphanidis was crowned the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0035-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Swimming\nThe swimming competition was held in the open sea because the organizers had refused to spend the money necessary for a specially constructed stadium. Nearly 20,000 spectators lined the Bay of Zea off the Piraeus coast to watch the events. The water in the bay was cold, and the competitors suffered during their races. There were three open events (men's 100-metre freestyle, men's 500-metre freestyle, and men's 1200 metre freestyle), in addition to a special event open only to Greek sailors, all of which were held on the same day (11 April).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0036-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Swimming\nFor Alfr\u00e9d Haj\u00f3s of Hungary, this meant he could only compete in two of the events, as they were held too close together, which made it impossible for him to adequately recuperate. Nevertheless, he won the two events in which he swam, the 100 and 1200 meter freestyle. Haj\u00f3s later became one of only two Olympians to win a medal in both the athletic and artistic competitions, when he won a silver medal for architecture in 1924. The 500-meter freestyle was won by Austrian swimmer Paul Neumann, who defeated his opponents by more than a minute and a half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0037-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Tennis\nAlthough tennis was already a major sport by the end of the 19th century, none of the top players turned up for the tournament in Athens. The competition was held at the courts of the Athens Lawn Tennis Club, and the infield of the velodrome used for the cycling events. John Pius Boland, who won the event, had been entered in the competition by a fellow-student of his at Oxford; the Greek, Konstantinos Manos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0037-0001", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Tennis\nAs a member of the Athens Lawn Tennis sub-committee, Manos had been trying, with the assistance of Boland, to recruit competitors for the Athens Games from among the sporting circles of Oxford University. In the first round, Boland defeated Friedrich Traun, a promising tennis player from Hamburg, who had been eliminated in the 100-meter sprint competition. Boland and Traun decided to team up for the doubles event, in which they reached the final and defeated their Greek opponents after losing the first set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0038-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Weightlifting\nThe sport of weightlifting was still young in 1896, and the rules differed from those in use today. Competitions were held outdoors, in the infield of the main stadium, and there were no weight limits. The first event was held in a style now known as the \"clean and jerk\". Two competitors stood out: Scotsman Launceston Elliot and Viggo Jensen of Denmark. Both of them lifted the same weight; but the jury, with Prince George as the chairman, ruled that Jensen had done so in a better style. The British delegation, unfamiliar with this tie-breaking rule, lodged a protest. The lifters were eventually allowed to make further attempts, but neither lifter improved, and Jensen was declared the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0039-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Weightlifting\nElliot got his revenge in the one hand lift event, which was held immediately after the two-handed one. Jensen had been slightly injured during his last two-handed attempt, and was no match for Elliot, who won the competition easily. The Greek audience was charmed by the Scottish victor, whom they considered very attractive. A curious incident occurred during the weightlifting event: a servant was ordered to remove the weights, which appeared to be a difficult task for him. Prince George came to his assistance; he picked up the weight and threw it a considerable distance with ease, to the delight of the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0040-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Wrestling\nNo weight classes existed for the wrestling competition, held in the Panathenaic Stadium, which meant that there would only be one winner among competitors of all sizes. The rules used were similar to modern Greco-Roman wrestling, although there was no time limit, and not all leg holds were forbidden (in contrast to current rules).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0041-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Events, Wrestling\nApart from the two Greek contestants, all the competitors had previously been active in other sports. Weightlifting champion Launceston Elliot faced gymnastics champion Carl Schuhmann. The latter won and advanced into the final, where he met Georgios Tsitas, who had previously defeated Stephanos Christopoulos. Darkness forced the final match to be suspended after 40 minutes; it was continued the following day, when Schuhmann needed only fifteen minutes to finish the bout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0042-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Closing ceremony\nOn the morning of Sunday 12 April (or 31 March, according to the Julian calendar then used in Greece), King George organised a banquet for officials and athletes (even though some competitions had not yet been held). During his speech, he made clear that, as far as he was concerned, the Olympics should be held in Athens permanently. The official closing ceremony was held the following Wednesday, after being postponed from Tuesday due to rain. Again the royal family attended the ceremony, which was opened by the national anthem of Greece and an ode composed in ancient Greek by George S. Robertson, a British athlete and scholar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0043-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Closing ceremony\nAfterwards, the king awarded prizes to the winners. Unlike today, the first-place winners received a silver medal, an olive branch and a diploma, while runners-up received a copper medal, a laurel branch, and diploma. Third place winners did not receive a prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0044-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Closing ceremony\nSome winners also received additional prizes, such as Spyridon Louis, who received a cup from Michel Br\u00e9al, a friend of Coubertin, who had conceived the marathon event. Louis then led the medalists on a lap of honour around the stadium, while the Olympic Hymn was played again. The King then formally announced that the first Olympiad was at an end, and left the Stadium, while the band played the Greek national hymn and the crowd cheered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0045-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Closing ceremony\nLike the Greek king, many others supported the idea of holding the next Games in Athens; most of the American competitors signed a letter to the Crown Prince expressing this wish. Coubertin, however, was heavily opposed to this idea, as he envisioned international rotation as one of the cornerstones of the modern Olympics. According to his wish, the next Games were held in Paris, although they would be somewhat overshadowed by the concurrently held Universal Exposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0046-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Participating nations\nThe concept of national teams was not a major part of the Olympic movement until the Intercalated Games 10 years later, though many sources list the nationality of competitors in 1896 and give medal counts. There are significant conflicts with regard to which nations competed. The International Olympic Committee gives a figure of 14, but does not list them. The following 14 are most likely the ones recognised by the IOC. Some sources list 12, excluding Chile and Bulgaria; others list 13, including those two but excluding Italy. Egypt is also sometimes included because of Dionysios Kasdaglis' participation. Belgium and Russia had entered the names of competitors, but withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0047-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Participating nations, Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees\nNational Olympic Committees did not yet exist. Over 65% of all athletes were Greek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 94], "content_span": [95, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0048-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Medal count\nTen of the 14 participating nations earned medals, in addition to two medals won by mixed teams, i.e. teams made up of athletes from multiple nations. The IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to the three best placed athletes in each event to comport with more recent traditions. The United States won the most gold medals (11), while host nation Greece won the most medals overall (47) as well as the most silver (18) and bronze (19) medals, finishing with one fewer gold medal than the United States, having 155 athletes more than the U.S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030915-0049-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics, Medal count\nTo sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the icon next to the column title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030916-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Athens, the capital of Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896, and were the first Olympic Games of the Modern era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030916-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics medal table\nA total of 241\u00a0athletes from 14 nations participated in 43\u00a0events in nine sports at these games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030916-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics medal table\nTen of the fourteen participating nations earned medals, in addition to three medals won by mixed teams, i.e. teams made up of athletes from multiple nations. The United States won the most gold medals (11) with 14 athletes participating, while host nation, Greece with 169 athletes participating, won the most medals overall (47) as well as the most silver (18) and bronze (19) medals, finishing with one less gold medal than the United States, having 155 athletes more than the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030916-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics medal table\nIn the early Olympic Games, several team events were contested by athletes from multiple nations. Retroactively, the IOC created the designation \"Mixed team\" (with the country code ZZX) to refer to these group of athletes. Some athletes won medals both individually and as part of a mixed team, so these medals are tabulated under different nations in the official counts. Dionysios Kasdaglis, an athlete of Greek origins living in Alexandria, Egypt, is listed by the IOC as Greek during both his competition in the singles tennis competition and the doubles tennis competition along with his teammate, the Greek athlete Demetrios Petrokokkinos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030916-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics medal table\nDuring these inaugural Olympics, winners were given a silver medal and an olive branch, while runners-up received a copper medal and a laurel branch. The IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to the three best placed athletes in each event to comport with more recent traditions. Three ties resulted in medals being shared between athletes, increasing the medal count of various nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030916-0004-0001", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics medal table\nThese include ties between Francis Lane of the United States and Alajos Szokolyi of Hungary, for the third place in the 100\u00a0metres; between Evangelos Damaskos and Ioannis Theodoropoulos of Greece in the pole vault; and between Konstantinos Paspatis of Greece and Momcsill\u00f3 Tapavicza of Hungary, in singles tennis. In addition, bronze medals were not awarded in a number of events where there was no third-place finisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030916-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Summer Olympics medal table, Medal count\nThis is the full table of the medal count of the 1896 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). There are sources, besides the International Olympic Committee (IOC), that display variations in the medal totals, but as the governing body of the Olympic Games, the IOC is considered the most authoritative source for the purposes of this article. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This information is provided by the IOC; however, the IOC does not recognise or endorse any ranking system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030917-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1896 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the first season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte IS won the tournament by defeating IS Idrottens V\u00e4nner in the final with a 3\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030918-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1896 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team compiled a 2\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 110 to 76. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach. Hodge was the captain and quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030919-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Swedish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sweden in September 1896. The Lantmanna Party received a narrow plurality of the vote. Erik Gustaf Bostr\u00f6m remained Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030919-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Swedish general election, Campaign\nThe Liberals and the Swedish Social Democratic Party ran joint lists in some constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030919-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Swedish general election, Results\nOnly 23.9% of the male population aged over 21 was eligible to vote. Voter turnout was 45.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030920-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Swiss federal election\nFederal elections were held in Switzerland on 25 October 1896. The Free Democratic Party retained its majority in the National Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030920-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Swiss federal election, Electoral system\nThe 147 members of the National Council were elected in 52 single- and multi-member constituencies using a three-round system. Candidates had to receive a majority in the first or second round to be elected; if it went to a third round, only a plurality was required. Voters could cast as many votes as there were seats in their constituency. There was one seat for every 20,000 citizens, with seats allocated to cantons in proportion to their population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030920-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Swiss federal election, Results, Summary\nVoter turnout was highest in Nidwalden at 90.3% (higher than the 89.3% in Schaffhausen where voting was compulsory) and lowest in Obwalden at 21.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030921-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Swiss referendum\nA three-part referendum was held in Switzerland on 4 October 1896. Voters were asked whether they approved of a federal law on guarantees in the cattle trade, a federal law on the accounting system for the railways and a federal law on the disciplinary penal code for the federal army. Whilst the law on the railways was approved, the other two were rejected by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030921-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Swiss referendum, Background\nThe referendums were optional referendums, which required only a majority of the public vote, rather than a majority of votes and cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030922-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1896 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1896 college football season. The head coach was George O. Redington, coaching his second season with the Orangemen. The team finished the season with a final record of 5\u20133\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030923-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1896 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1896 college football season. It was the first official Tennessee Volunteers football team since 1893. The 1896 Vols went undefeated at 4\u20130 for the first winning season in school history. This was also the Tennessee's first season in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), though they did not play a conference opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030924-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic nominee Robert Love Taylor defeated Republican nominee G. N. Tillman with 48.75% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030925-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030925-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Texas A&M Aggies football team, References, Additional sources\nThis College football 1890s season article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030925-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Texas A&M Aggies football team, References, Additional sources\nThis article related to sports in Texas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030926-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1896 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030927-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1896 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the seventh staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030927-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nTubberadora won the championship after a 3\u201309 to 2\u201307 defeat of Suir View in the final. It was their second championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030928-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1896 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The game against LSU of this year was forfeited during the game due to Tulane having fielded an ineligible player. At the time that the game was declared forfeit, Tulane was leading with a score of 2\u20130. Due to the forfeiture, the official score was set at LSU 6, Tulane 0 by the game's referee. In addition to the forfeiture, Tulane was further sanctioned by the SIAA by being barred from fielding a team in intercollegiate play for the 1897 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030928-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Tulane Olive and Blue football team, Game summaries, LSU\nThe Tulane-LSU game of this year was forfeited during the game due to Tulane having fielded an ineligible player. At the time that the game was declared forfeit, Tulane was leading with a score of 2 to nothing. About 10 minutes into the second half, LSU was moving the ball toward the goal line when a Tulane player named Depleche was injured. The injured player was replaced by George H. Brooke. LSU ran another play and gained 5 yards before realizing the identity of this substitute Tulane player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030928-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 Tulane Olive and Blue football team, Game summaries, LSU\nLSU's team captain, Edwin A. Scott, protested to the game's referee, Lieutenant Wall. Scott cited the rules of the SIAA and the mutual pre-game agreement between the schools as reasons that Brooke should be declared ineligible to play. Tulane's team captain, Louis J. Genella, refused to take Brooke out of the game and stated that Tulane refused to play without him. After a lengthy debate, the referee ruled that Brooke could not play, and that Tulane forfeited the game by refusing to play without him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030928-0001-0002", "contents": "1896 Tulane Olive and Blue football team, Game summaries, LSU\nDuring the debate, Tulane argued that Brooke, who was previously a two time All-American at Pennsylvania, planned to enroll as a graduate student at Tulane. Brooke refused to sign an affidavit stating his intention to enroll at Tulane, as he was already enrolled in law school at the University of Pennsylvania. Due to the forfeiture, the official score was set at LSU 6, Tulane 0 by the game's referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030928-0001-0003", "contents": "1896 Tulane Olive and Blue football team, Game summaries, LSU\nDr. William Dudley, of the SIAA, later ruled that the game referee was right to declare the game forfeited and that men planning to enter a school were not eligible to play. Dudley ruled that prospective players should be enrolled for two weeks before being allowed to play in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030929-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1896 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 17 August to 26 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 17 June to 20 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 17th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030929-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles\nRobert Wrenn defeated Fred Hovey 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 6\u20130, 1\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030929-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nCarr Neel / Sam Neel defeated Robert Wrenn / Malcolm Chace 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030929-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nElisabeth Moore / Juliette Atkinson defeated Annabella Wistar / Amy Williams 6\u20133, 9\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030929-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nJuliette Atkinson / Edwin P. Fischer defeated Amy Williams / Mantle Fielding 6\u20132, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030930-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRobert Wrenn defeated Fred Hovey in the final 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 6\u20130, 1\u20136, 6\u20131 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1896 U.S. National Championships. This was a repeat of the prior year's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030930-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nWith Malcolm Whitman, William Clothier and Holcombe Ward, three players made their first appearance at the championships who would eventually win the title in later years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030931-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nElisabeth Moore won the singles tennis title by defeating reigning champion Juliette Atkinson 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the Challenge Round of the 1896 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship. Moore had won the right to challenge Atkinson by defeating Annabella Wistar 6\u20133, 7\u20135, 6\u20130 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 17 through June 20, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030932-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1896 U.S. Open was the second U.S. Open, held July 18 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York. James Foulis won his only major title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Horace Rawlins, the defending champion. Like the first Open, it was a sideshow to the U.S. Amateur. However, there were 35 entrants and 28 finished the 36 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030932-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. Open (golf)\nBefore play began, several players signed a petition stating that they would not play if John Shippen, an African-American, and Oscar Bunn, a Native American, were allowed to play. The petition was denied, however, and the players relented. Shippen, a caddie at Shinnecock Hills, shot an opening round of 78, which placed him just two back of leader Joe Lloyd. He was in a position to win the championship until an eleven on the 13th hole of the final round, and finished tied for sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030932-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. Open (golf)\nFoulis, the third-place finisher in the inaugural U.S. Open the year before, recorded rounds of 78-74 to prevail by three over Rawlins. Foulis' 74 set a record that was not broken until 1903, after the rubber-core ball had come into use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030932-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 U.S. Open (golf)\nAt 4,423 yards (4,044\u00a0m), Shinnecock Hills played as the shortest course in U.S. Open history. Its next U.S. Open was 90 years later, in 1986. By then, the course had been lengthened to 6,912 yards (6,320\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030933-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1896 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1896 college football season. The team competed as an independent without a head coach, compiling a 0\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030934-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1896 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030935-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United Kingdom local elections\nThe 1896 United Kingdom local elections took place in late 1896 for municipal councils (including Urban Districts), as well as Rural districts. Municipal elections were held across England and Wales on Monday 2 November, with Scotland holding municipal elections the following day. Municipal elections in Ireland took place later that month, on Wednesday 25 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030935-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United Kingdom local elections\nThe English and Welsh election saw the main parties making inroads into municipal politics, although many contests took place on non-party political lines, with little reference to the candidates party affiliation. Across England and Wales Liberals gained 56 seats, Conservatives 32, Liberal Unionists 1, Independents 5, and Labour 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030935-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United Kingdom local elections\nIn Scotland the newly enlarged Glasgow Corporation saw a group of Progressive candidates, known as the Progressive Union, become the largest force on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030935-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United Kingdom local elections\nThe Irish elections, particularly in Dublin, saw the ongoing battle between rival factions of Irish nationalists; the Redmondites and supporters of John Dillon and the Irish National Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030936-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nThe Wyoming United States House election for 1896 was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic John Eugene Osborne defeated Republican incumbent Frank Wheeler Mondell with 49.14% of the vote making Mondell the third incumbent Representative from Wyoming to lose reelection and was the third time in a row that the incumbent had lost. It was the first time that the House election was won with only a plurality of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030937-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections\nElections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1896 for members of the 55th Congress, coinciding with the election of President William McKinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030937-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections\nIn spite of McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan, both the Democratic and Populist parties gained seats from McKinley's Republican Party. This is most likely a reaction to the extraordinary Republican gains in 1894, in which many normally Democratic districts switched parties due to the severity of and fallout from the Panic of 1893. Many Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern regions that were dominated by Catholic and working-class voters, switched to Republican in 1894, but returned to the Democratic Party during this election cycle. The Populist Party also made huge gains as Republicans were ousted in Western states. Despite this, the Republicans did maintain a strong majority in the House. Also, several Western Republicans split with the party in 1896, forming the tiny Silver Republican Party faction, which advocated a silver standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 905]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030937-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections\nThis election marked the zenith of the Populist Party, which would go on to lose most of its seats in the 1898 elections and thereafter slowly fade from prominence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030937-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections, Early election dates\nThree states, with 8 seats between them, held elections early in 1896:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030938-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1896 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 3, 1896. Republicans lost one seat to the Democrats and two to the Populists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030939-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nElections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida were held November 3, 1896 for two seats in the 55th Congress. These elections were held at the same time as the 1896 Presidential election and the election for Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030939-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nThere were a total of five different parties running, including a short-lived breakaway faction of the Democratic Party known as the National Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030939-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Background\nThe previous two elections had involved only the Democratic and People's Parties. The Republicans returned to Floridian congressional elections in this race, as did the Prohibition Party, which had last run a candidate for Congress in Florida in 1886.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030939-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Election results\nCharles Merian Cooper (D) of the 2nd district did not run for renomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 82], "content_span": [83, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 3, 1896 to select seven Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. Five Democratic incumbents were re-elected, one Republican incumbent was defeated, and the open seat was retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation after the election was solely Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Republican Congressman George W. Murray of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1896, was defeated by Democratic challenger William Elliott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman W. Jasper Talbert of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1893, defeated Republican challenger B.P. Chatfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Asbury Latimer of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1893, won the Democratic primary and defeated two Republican candidates in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Stanyarne Wilson of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1895, won the Democratic primary and defeated two Republican candidates in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Thomas J. Strait of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1893, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican John F. Jones in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman John L. McLaurin of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1893, defeated two Republican candidates in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district special election\nThe seat for the 7th congressional district was declared vacant by the Republican controlled Congress in 1896. A special election was called to be held simultaneously with the regular election and J. William Stokes defeated two Republican candidates in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 116], "content_span": [117, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030940-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district\nJ. William Stokes, the winner of the previous election for the 7th congressional district, defeated Altamount Moses in the Democratic primary and two Republican candidates in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030941-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States elections\nThe 1896 United States elections elected the 55th United States Congress. Republicans won control of the Presidency and maintained control of both houses of Congress. The election marked the end of the Third Party System and the start of the Fourth Party System, as Republicans would generally dominate politics until the 1930 elections. Political scientists such as V.O. Key, Jr. argue that this election was a realigning election, while James Reichley argues against this idea on the basis that the Republican victory in this election merely continued the party's post-Civil War dominance. The election took place in the aftermath of the Panic of 1893, and featured a fierce debate between advocates of bimetallism (\"free silver\") and supporters of the gold standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030941-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States elections\nIn the Presidential election, Republican former Governor William McKinley of Ohio defeated Democratic former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. McKinley took the Republican nomination on the first ballot, while Bryan took the Democratic nomination on the fifth ballot (at age 36, he became youngest presidential nominee of a major party), defeating former Missouri Representative Richard P. Bland and several other candidates. Bryan's Cross of Gold speech, in which he advocated for \"free silver,\" helped deliver him the Democratic nomination, and also attracted the support of the Populist Party and the Silver Republican Party. Though Bryan carried most of the South and the West, McKinley won a comfortable margin in both the electoral college and the popular vote by carrying the Northeast and the Great Lakes region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030941-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States elections\nDemocrats won major gains in the House, but Republicans continued to command a large majority in the chamber. The Populists also won several seats, holding more seats in the House than any third party since the Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030941-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States elections\nIn the Senate, the Republicans maintained their plurality, keeping control of the same number of seats. The Democrats lost several seats, while the Silver Republicans established themselves for the first time with five seats. Republican William P. Frye won election as President pro tempore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030942-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1896, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 3, 1896 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030942-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States gubernatorial elections\nFollowing the death of Delaware Governor Joshua H. Marvil, the General Assembly scheduled the next gubernatorial election for 1896, two years into the term. Delaware's gubernatorial elections have been held in presidential election years ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030942-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Florida, the gubernatorial election was held in October for the last time, moving to the same day as federal elections from the 1900 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election\nThe 1896 United States presidential election was the 28th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1896. Former Governor William McKinley, the Republican candidate, defeated former Representative William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate. The 1896 campaign, which took place during an economic depression known as the Panic of 1893, was a political realignment that ended the old Third Party System and began the Fourth Party System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election\nIncumbent Democratic President Grover Cleveland did not seek election to a second consecutive term (which would have been his third overall), leaving the Democratic nomination open. Bryan, an attorney and former Congressman, galvanized support with his Cross of Gold speech, which called for a reform of the monetary system and attacked business leaders as the cause of ongoing economic depression. The 1896 Democratic National Convention repudiated the Cleveland administration and nominated Bryan on the fifth presidential ballot. Bryan then won the nomination of the Populist Party, which had won several states in 1892 and shared many of Bryan's policies. In opposition to Bryan, some conservative Bourbon Democrats formed the National Democratic Party and nominated Senator John M. Palmer. McKinley prevailed by a wide margin on the first ballot of the 1896 Republican National Convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 935]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election\nSince the onset of the Panic of 1893, the nation had been mired in a deep economic depression, marked by low prices, low profits, high unemployment, and violent strikes. Economic issues, especially tariff policy and the question of whether the gold standard should be preserved for the money supply, were central issues. McKinley forged a conservative coalition in which businessmen, professionals, and prosperous farmers, and skilled factory workers turned off by Bryan's agrarian policies were heavily represented. McKinley was strongest in cities and in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Pacific Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election\nRepublican campaign manager Mark Hanna pioneered many modern campaign techniques, facilitated by a $3.5 million budget. Bryan presented his campaign as a crusade of the working man against the rich, who impoverished America by limiting the money supply. Silver, he said, was in ample supply and if coined into money would restore prosperity while undermining the illicit power of the money trust. Bryan was strongest in the South, rural Midwest, and Rocky Mountain states. Bryan's moralistic rhetoric and crusade for inflation (to be generated by the institution of bimetallism) alienated conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election\nBryan campaigned vigorously throughout the swing states of the Midwest, while McKinley conducted a \"front porch\" campaign. At the end of an intensely heated contest, McKinley won a majority of the popular and electoral vote. Bryan won 46.7% of the popular vote, while Palmer won just under 1% of the vote. Turnout was very high, passing 90% of the eligible voters in many places. The Democratic Party's repudiation of its Bourbon faction largely gave Bryan and his supporters control of the Democratic Party until the 1920s, and set the stage for Republican domination of the Fourth Party System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination, Other candidates\nAt their convention in St. Louis, Missouri, held between June 16 and 18, 1896, the Republicans nominated William McKinley for president and New Jersey's Garret Hobart for vice-president. McKinley had just vacated the office of Governor of Ohio. Both candidates were easily nominated on first ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination, Other candidates\nMcKinley's campaign manager, a wealthy and talented Ohio businessman named Mark Hanna, visited the leaders of large corporations and major, influential banks after the Republican Convention to raise funds for the campaign. Given that many businessmen and bankers were terrified of Bryan's populist rhetoric and demand for the end of the gold standard, Hanna had few problems in raising record amounts of money. As a result, Hanna raised a staggering $3.5 million for the campaign and outspent the Democrats by an estimated 5-to-1 margin. Major McKinley was the last veteran of the American Civil War to be nominated for president by either major party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nOne month after McKinley's nomination, supporters of silver-backed currency took control of the Democratic convention held in Chicago on July 7\u201311. Most of the Southern and Western delegates were committed to implementing the \"free silver\" ideas of the Populist Party. The convention repudiated President Cleveland's gold standard policies and then repudiated Cleveland himself. This, however, left the convention wide open: there was no obvious successor to Cleveland. A two-thirds vote was required for the nomination and the silverites had it in spite of the extreme regional polarization of the delegates. In a test vote on an anti-silver measure, the Eastern states (from Maryland to Maine), with 28% of the delegates, voted 96% in favor. The other delegates voted 91% against, so the silverites could count on a majority of 67% of the delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 952]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nAn attorney, former congressman, and unsuccessful Senate candidate named William Jennings Bryan filled the void. A superb orator, Bryan hailed from Nebraska and spoke for the farmers who were suffering from the economic depression following the Panic of 1893. At the convention, Bryan delivered what has been considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history, the \"Cross of Gold\" Speech. Bryan presented a passionate defense of farmers and factory workers struggling to survive the economic depression, and he attacked big-city business owners and leaders as the cause of much of their suffering. He called for reform of the monetary system, an end to the gold standard, and government relief efforts for farmers and others hurt by the economic depression. Bryan's speech was so dramatic that after he had finished many delegates carried him on their shoulders around the convention hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 1009]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nThe following day, eight names were placed in nomination: Richard \"Silver Dick\" Bland, William J. Bryan, Claude Matthews, Horace Boies, Joseph Blackburn, John R. McLean, Robert E. Pattison, and Sylvester Pennoyer. Despite a strong initial showing by Bland, who led on the first three ballots, Bryan's electrifying speech helped him gain the momentum required to win the nomination, which he did on the fifth ballot after most of the other candidates withdrew in his favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nFollowing Bland's defeat, his supporters instead attempted to nominate him as Bryan's running-mate; however, Bland was more interested in winning back his former seat in the House of Representatives, and so withdrew his name from consideration despite leading the early rounds of voting. Arthur Sewall, a wealthy shipbuilder from Maine, was eventually chosen as the vice-presidential nominee. It was felt that Sewall's wealth might encourage him to help pay some campaign expenses. At just 36 years of age, Bryan was only a year older than the minimum age required by the Constitution to be president. Bryan remains the youngest person ever nominated by a major party for president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Prohibition Party nomination\nThe Prohibition Party found itself going into the convention divided into two factions, each unwilling to give ground or compromise with the other. The \"Broad-Gauge\" wing, led by Charles Bentley and former Kansas Governor John St. John, demanded the inclusion of planks endorsing the free coinage of silver at 16:1 and of women's suffrage, the former refusing to accept the nomination if such amendments to the party platform were not approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 115], "content_span": [116, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0010-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Prohibition Party nomination\nThe \"Narrow-Gauge\" wing, which was led by Professor Samuel Dickie of Michigan and rallied around the candidacy of Joshua Levering, demanded that the party platform remain exclusively one dedicated to the prohibition of alcohol. It wasn't long into the convention when conflict between the two sides broke out over the nomination of a permanent chairman, with a number of presented candidates for the position withdrawing before Oliver Stewart of Illinois, a \"Broad-Gauger\", was nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 115], "content_span": [116, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0010-0002", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Prohibition Party nomination\nA minority report made by St. John that supported the free coinage of silver, government control of railroads and telegraphs, an income tax and referendums was prevented from being tabled giving \"Broad-Gaugers\" confidence, but a number of those who voted in favor of the report were actually fence-sitters, undecided on how to vote, or were against gagging the report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 115], "content_span": [116, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0010-0003", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Prohibition Party nomination\nAfter the report was brought forward by a majority of 188, \"Narrow-Gaugers\" campaigned among wavering delegates of the Northeast and Midwest in an effort to convince them of the electoral consequences that would come should the minority report be adopted, that Party gains in States like New York would reverse overnight in the face of free coinage and populism. When St. John's report was brought up to a formal vote the margins had largely reversed, with it being rejected 492 to 310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 115], "content_span": [116, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0010-0004", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Prohibition Party nomination\nWith the silver delegates still in shock and St. John attempting to move for a reconsideration, a move was made by Illinois \"Narrow-Gaugers\" to offer as a substitute to both the minority and majority reports a single plank platform centered around Prohibition. A rising vote was taken in lieu of a roll call, with the \"Narrow-Gauge\" Platform winning the vote and being adopted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 115], "content_span": [116, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Prohibition Party nomination\nIn an attempt to mollify suffragists who were incensed at the lack of a plank endorsing women's suffrage, the plank itself was adopted through a resolution by the convention by a near unanimous vote. By the time it came to the Party's nomination for president, many of the \"Broad-Gaugers\" were already openly considering bolting and running their own candidate as it became increasingly apparent that the \"Narrow-Gaugers\" had brought a majority of the convention under their influence, formal action was deferred until after the nomination for president was made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 115], "content_span": [116, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0011-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Prohibition Party nomination\nWith Charles Bentley refusing to be nominating under the single-plank platform an attempt was made to nominate the recently retired Governor of the Arizona Territory, Louis Hughes, but as it became apparent that the \"Narrow-Gauger\" Joshua Levering was set to receive the support of most of the convention delegates, they opted to withdraw Hughes's name. Once Levering's nomination was confirmed without any visible opposition, around 200 of those who were suffragists, silverites or populists bolted the convention, lead by Charles Bentley and John St. John, and would join with the National Reform \"Party\" to create the National Party. Afterwards the convention nominated with unanimity Hale Johnson of Illinois for the Vice Presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 115], "content_span": [116, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, National Party nomination\nInitially known as the \"National Reform Party\", the convention itself started only a day before the Prohibition National Convention, also being held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Though initially only a gathering of eight or so delegates, it was hoped that any bolters from the Prohibition Party might find their way there and would support the nomination of Representative Joseph C. Sibley for president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 112], "content_span": [113, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0012-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, National Party nomination\nA sizable bolt did indeed occur upon the nomination of Joshua Levering by the Prohibition Party to the Presidency, with Charles E. Bentley and former Kansas Governor John St. John leading a walkout of \"Broad-Gaugers\" from their convention, St. John himself exclaiming that the regular convention had been \"...bought up by Wall Street.\" The two groups would reorganize as the \"National Party\" and swiftly nominated Charles Bentley for the Presidency, with James Southgate, the State Chairman for the North Carolina Prohibition Party, as his running mate. The delegates approved the minority report that had been rejected at the Prohibitionist Convention calling for free coinage and greenbacks, government control of railroads and telegraphs, direct election of Senators and the President, and an income tax among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 112], "content_span": [113, 933]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Socialist Labor Party nomination\nThe Socialist Labor Convention was held in New York City on July 9, 1896. The convention nominated Charles Matchett of New York and Matthew Maguire of New Jersey. Its platform favored reduction in hours of labor; possession by the federal government of mines, railroads, canals, telegraphs, and telephones; possession by municipalities of water-works, gas-works, and electric plants; the issue of money by the federal government alone; the employment of the unemployed by the public authorities; abolition of the veto power; abolition of the United States Senate; women's suffrage; and uniform criminal law throughout the Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 119], "content_span": [120, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Peoples' Party nomination\nOf the several third parties active in 1896, by far the most prominent was the People's Party. Formed in 1892, the Populists represented the philosophy of agrarianism (derived from Jeffersonian democracy), which held that farming was a superior way of life that was being exploited by bankers and middlemen. The Populists attracted cotton farmers in the South and wheat farmers in the West, but very few farmers in the Northeast, South, West, and rural Midwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 112], "content_span": [113, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0014-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Peoples' Party nomination\nIn the presidential election of 1892, Populist candidate James B. Weaver carried four states, and in 1894, the Populists scored victories in congressional and state legislature races in a number of Southern and Western states. In the Southern states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, the wins were obtained by electoral fusion with the Republicans against the dominant Bourbon Democrats, whereas in the rest of the country, fusion, if practiced, was typically undertaken with the Democrats, as in the state of Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 112], "content_span": [113, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0014-0002", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Peoples' Party nomination\nBy 1896, some Populists believed that they could replace the Democrats as the main opposition party to the Republicans. However, the Democrats' nomination of Bryan, who supported many Populist goals and ideas, placed the party in a dilemma. Torn between choosing their own presidential candidate or supporting Bryan, the party leadership decided that nominating their own candidate would simply divide the forces of reform and hand the election to the more conservative Republicans. At their national convention in 1896, the Populists chose Bryan as their presidential nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 112], "content_span": [113, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0014-0003", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Peoples' Party nomination\nHowever, to demonstrate that they were still independent from the Democrats, the Populists also chose former Georgia Representative Thomas E. Watson as their vice-presidential candidate instead of Arthur Sewall. Bryan eagerly accepted the Populist nomination, but was vague as to whether, if elected, he would choose Watson as his vice-president instead of Sewall. With this election, the Populists began to be absorbed into the Democratic Party; within a few elections the party would disappear completely. The 1896 election was particularly detrimental to the Populist Party in the South; the party divided itself between members who favored cooperation with the Democrats to achieve reform at the national level and members who favored cooperation with the Republicans to achieve reform at a state level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 112], "content_span": [113, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Peoples' Party nomination\nAs a result of the double nomination, both the Bryan-Sewall Democratic ticket and the Bryan-Watson Populist ticket appeared on the ballot in many states. Although the Populist ticket did not win the popular vote in any state, 27 electors for Bryan cast their vice-presidential vote for Watson instead of Sewall. (The votes came from the following states: Arkansas 3, Louisiana 4, Missouri 4, Montana 1, Nebraska 4, North Carolina 5, South Dakota 2, Utah 1, Washington 2, Wyoming 1.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 112], "content_span": [113, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nThe Silver Party was organized in 1892. Near the beginning of that year, U.S. senators from silver-producing states (Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Montana) began objecting to President Benjamin Harrison's economic policies and advocated the free coinage of silver. Senator Henry Teller notified the Senate that if the two major parties did not back down on their financial policies, the four western states would back a third party. The Portland Morning Oregonian reported on June 27, 1892, that a Silver Party was being organized along those lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nNevada silverites called a state convention to be held on June 5, 1892, just days following the close of the Democratic National Convention. The convention noted that neither the Republicans or Democrats addressed the silver concerns of western states and officially organized the \"Silver Party of Nevada.\" Proceeding by itself, the Silver Party swept the state in 1892; James Weaver, the People's Party nominee for president running on the Silver ticket, won 66.8% of the vote. Francis Newlands was elected to the U.S. House with 72.5% of the vote. The Silverites took control of the legislature, assuring the election of William Stewart to the U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0018-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nThe success of the Nevada silverites spurred their brethren in Colorado to action; the Colorado Silver Party never materialized, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0019-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nIn the 1894 midterm elections, the Silver Party remained a Nevada party. It swept all statewide offices, formerly held by Republicans. John Edward Jones was elected Governor with 50% of the vote; Newlands was re-elected with 44%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0020-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nFollowing the Democratic Party debacle in 1894, James Weaver began agitating for the creation of a nationwide Silver Party. He altered the People's Party platform from 1892 and eliminated planks he felt would be divisive for a larger party and began to lobby silver men around the nation. The first major statement by the national Silver Party was an address delivered to the American Bimetallic League, printed in the Emporia Daily Gazette on March 6, 1895. Letterhead for the nascent party promoted U.S. Representative Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania for President, noting that his endorsement by the Prohibitionists would secure that party's support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0021-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nSilver leaders met in Washington DC on January 22 to discuss holding a national convention. They decided to wait until after the conventions of the two major parties in case one of them agreed to the 16:1 coinage demands. Just a few days later, however, party regulars convinced the leaders to change course. On January 29, the leaders issued a call for a national convention to be held in St. Louis on July 22. J.J. Mott, the Silver Party National Chairman, went to great lengths to organize state parties, but his efforts did not produce dramatic results. The Silver State convention in Ohio was attended by just 20 people, even though the president of the Bimetallic League, A.J. Warner, lived there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0022-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nAlthough most Silverites had been pushing the nomination of Senator Teller, the situation changed with the Democratic nomination of William Jennings Bryan. Congressman Newlands was in Chicago as the official Silver Party visitor, and he announced on July 10 that the Silver Party should endorse the Democratic ticket. Chairman Mott, who was in St. Louis making final arrangements for the Silver National Convention, told a reporter five days later \"All the Silver Party wants is silver, and the Democratic platform will give us that.\" I.B. Stevens, a member of the executive committee, told a reporter that the Silver Party \"will bring to the support of [Bryan] hundreds of thousands who do not wish to vote a Democratic ticket.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0023-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, Silver Party nomination\nOn July 25, both Bryan and Arthur Sewall would be nominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0024-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, National Democratic Party nomination\nThe pro-gold Democrats reacted to Bryan's nomination with a mixture of anger, desperation, and confusion. A number of pro-gold Bourbon Democrats urged a \"bolt\" and the formation of a third party. In response, a hastily arranged assembly on July 24 organized the National Democratic Party. A follow-up meeting in August scheduled a nominating convention for September in Indianapolis and issued an appeal to fellow Democrats. In this document, the National Democratic Party portrayed itself as the legitimate heir to Presidents Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 123], "content_span": [124, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0025-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, National Democratic Party nomination\nDelegates from forty-one states gathered at the National Democratic Party's national nominating convention in Indianapolis on September 2. Some delegates planned to nominate Cleveland, but they relented after a telegram arrived stating that he would not accept. Senator William Freeman Vilas from Wisconsin, the main drafter of the National Democratic Party's platform, was a favorite of the delegates. However, Vilas refused to run as the party's sacrificial lamb. The choice instead was John M. Palmer, a 79-year-old former Senator from Illinois. Simon Bolivar Buckner, a 73-year-old former governor of Kentucky, was nominated by acclamation for vice-president. The ticket, symbolic of post-Civil War reconciliation, featured the oldest combined age of the candidates in American history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 123], "content_span": [124, 914]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0026-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, National Democratic Party nomination\nDespite their advanced ages, Palmer and Buckner embarked on a busy speaking tour, including visits to most major cities in the East. This won them considerable respect from the party faithful, although some found it hard to take the geriatric campaigning seriously. \"You would laugh yourself sick could you see old Palmer,\" wrote lawyer Kenesaw Mountain Landis. \"He has actually gotten it into his head he is running for office.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 123], "content_span": [124, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0026-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, National Democratic Party nomination\nThe Palmer ticket was considered to be a vehicle to elect McKinley for some Gold Democrats, such as William Collins Whitney and Abram Hewitt, the treasurer of the National Democratic Party, and they received quiet financial support from Mark Hanna. Palmer himself said at a campaign stop that if \"this vast crowd casts its vote for William McKinley next Tuesday, I shall charge them with no sin.\" There was even some cooperation with the Republican Party, especially in finances. The Republicans hoped that Palmer could draw enough Democratic votes from Bryan to tip marginal Midwestern and border states into McKinley's column. In a private letter, Hewitt underscored the \"entire harmony of action\" between both parties in standing against Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 123], "content_span": [124, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0027-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Nominations, Third parties and independents, National Democratic Party nomination\nHowever, the National Democratic Party was not merely an adjunct to the McKinley campaign. An important goal was to nurture a loyal remnant for future victory. Repeatedly they depicted Bryan's prospective defeat, and a credible showing for Palmer, as paving the way for ultimate recapture of the Democratic Party, and this did indeed happen in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 123], "content_span": [124, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0028-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies\nWhile the Republican Party entered 1896 assuming that the Democrats were in shambles and victory would be easy, especially after the unprecedented Republican landslide in the congressional elections of 1894, the nationwide emotional response to the Bryan candidacy changed everything. By summer, it appeared that Bryan was ahead in the South and West and probably also in the Midwest. An entirely new strategy was called for by the McKinley campaign. It was designed to educate voters in the money issues, to demonstrate silverite fallacies, and to portray Bryan himself as a dangerous crusader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0028-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies\nMcKinley would be portrayed as the safe and sound champion of jobs and sound money, with his high tariff proposals guaranteed to return prosperity for everyone. The McKinley campaign would be national and centralized, using the Republican National Committee as the tool of the candidate, instead of the state parties' tool. Furthermore, the McKinley campaign stressed his pluralistic commitment to prosperity for all groups (including minorities).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0029-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Financing\nThe McKinley campaign invented a new form of campaign financing that has dominated American politics ever since. Instead of asking office holders to return a cut of their pay, Hanna went to financiers and industrialists and made a business proposition. He explained that Bryan would win if nothing happened, and that the McKinley team had a winning counterattack that would be very expensive. He then would ask them how much it was worth to the business not to have Bryan as president. He suggested an amount and was happy to take a check. Hanna had moved beyond partisanship and campaign rhetoric to a businessman's thinking about how to achieve a desired result. He raised $3.5 million. Hanna brought in banker Charles G. Dawes to run his Chicago office and spend about $2 million in the critical region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0030-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Financing\nMeanwhile, traditional funders of the Democratic Party (mostly financiers from the Northeast) rejected Bryan, although he did manage to raise about $500,000. Some of it came from businessmen with interests in silver mining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0031-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Financing\nThe financial disparity grew larger and larger as the Republicans funded more and more rallies, speeches, and torchlight parades, as well as hundreds of millions of pamphlets attacking Bryan and praising McKinley. Lacking a systematic fund-raising system, Bryan was unable to tap his potential supporters, and he had to rely on passing the hat at rallies. National Chairman Jones pleaded, \"No matter in how small sums, no matter by what humble contributions, let the friends of liberty and national honor contribute all they can.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0032-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Republican attacks on Bryan\nIncreasingly, the Republicans personalized their attacks on Bryan as a dangerous religious fanatic. The counter-crusading rhetoric focused on Bryan as a reckless revolutionary whose policies would destroy the economic system. Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld was running for re-election after having pardoned several of the anarchists convicted in the Haymarket bombings. Republican posters and speeches linked Altgeld and Bryan as two dangerous anarchists. The Republican Party tried any number of tactics to ridicule Bryan's economic policies. In one case they printed fake dollar bills which had Bryan's face and read \"IN GOD WE TRUST ... FOR THE OTHER 53 CENTS,\" thus illustrating their claim that a dollar bill would be worth only 47 cents if it was backed by silver instead of gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0033-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Ethnic responses\nThe Democratic Party in Eastern and Midwestern cities had a strong German Catholic base that was alienated by free silver and inflationist panaceas. They showed little enthusiasm for Bryan, although many were worried that a Republican victory would bring prohibition into play. The Irish Catholics disliked Bryan's revivalistic rhetoric and worried about prohibition as well. However their leaders decided to stick with Bryan, since the departure of so many Bourbon businessmen from the party left the Irish increasingly in control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0034-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Labor unions and skilled workers\nThe Bryan campaign appealed first of all to farmers. It told urban workers that their return to prosperity was possible only if the farmers prospered first. Bryan made the point bluntly in the \"Cross of Gold\" speech, delivered in Chicago just 25 years after that city had indeed burned down:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0035-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Labor unions and skilled workers\nBurn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again; but destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0036-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Labor unions and skilled workers\nJuxtaposing \"our farms\" and \"your cities\" did not go over well in cities; they voted 59% for McKinley. Among the industrial cities, Bryan carried only two (Troy, New York, and Fort Wayne, Indiana).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0037-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Campaign strategies, Labor unions and skilled workers\nThe main labor unions were reluctant to endorse Bryan because their members feared inflation. Railroad workers especially worried that Bryan's silver programs would bankrupt the railroads, which were in a shaky financial condition in the depression and whose bonds were payable in gold. Factory workers saw no advantage in inflation to help miners and farmers, because their urban cost of living would shoot up and they would be hurt. The McKinley campaign gave special attention to skilled workers, especially in the Midwest and adjacent states. Secret polls show that large majorities of railroad and factory workers voted for McKinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0038-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nThroughout the campaign the South and Mountain states appeared certain to vote for Bryan, whereas the East was certain for McKinley. In play were the Midwest and the Border States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0039-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nThe Republican Party amassed an unprecedented war chest at all levels: national, state and local. Outspent and shut out of the party's traditional newspapers, Bryan decided his best chance to win the election was to conduct a vigorous national speaking tour by train. His fiery crusading rhetoric to huge audiences would make his campaign a newsworthy story that the hostile press would have to cover, and he could speak to the voters directly instead of through editorials. He was the first presidential candidate since Stephen Douglas in 1860 to canvass directly, and the first ever to criss-cross the nation and meet voters in person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0040-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nThe novelty of seeing a visiting presidential candidate, combined with Bryan's spellbinding oratory and the passion of his believers, generated huge crowds. Silverites welcomed their hero with all-day celebrations of parades, band music, picnic meals, endless speeches, and undying demonstrations of support. Bryan focused his efforts on the Midwest, which everyone agreed would be the decisive battleground in the election. In just 100 days, Bryan gave over 500 speeches to several million people. His record was 36 speeches in one day in St. Louis. Relying on just a few hours of sleep a night, he traveled 18,000 miles by rail to address five million people, often in a hoarse voice; he would explain that he left his real voice at the previous stops where it was still rallying the people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0041-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nIn contrast to Bryan's dramatic efforts, McKinley conducted a novel \"front porch\" campaign from his home in Canton, Ohio. Instead of having McKinley travel to see the voters, Mark Hanna brought 500,000 voters by train to McKinley's home. Once there, McKinley would greet the men from his porch. His well-organized staff prepared both the remarks of the visiting delegations and the candidate's responses, focusing the comments on the assigned topic of the day. The remarks were issued to the newsmen and telegraphed nationwide to appear in the next day's papers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0041-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nBryan, with practically no staff, gave much the same talk over and over again. McKinley labeled Bryan's proposed social and economic reforms as a serious threat to the national economy. With the depression following the Panic of 1893 coming to an end, support for McKinley's more conservative economic policies increased, while Bryan's more radical policies began to lose support among Midwestern farmers and factory workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0042-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nTo ensure victory, Hanna paid large numbers of Republican orators (including Theodore Roosevelt) to travel around the nation denouncing Bryan as a dangerous radical. There were also reports that some potentially Democratic voters were intimidated into voting for McKinley. For example, some factory owners posted signs the day before the election announcing that, if Bryan won the election, the factory would be closed and the workers would lose their jobs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0043-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nBryan's midsummer surge in the Midwest played out as the intense Republican counter-crusade proved effective. Bryan spent most of October in the Midwest, making 160 of his final 250 speeches there. Morgan noted, \"full organization, Republican party harmony, a campaign of education with the printed and spoken word would more than counteract\" Bryan's speechmaking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0044-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, The fall campaign\nSeveral of Bryan's advisors recommended additional campaigning in the Upper South States of Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. Another plan called for a coastal tour from Washington State to Southern California. Bryan however, opted to concentrate in the Mid-West and to launch a unity tour into the heavily Republican Northeast. Bryan saw no chance of winning in New England, but felt that he needed to make a truly national appeal. On election day the results from the Pacific Coast and Upper South would be the closest of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0045-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results\nMcKinley secured a solid victory in the electoral college by carrying the core of the East and Northeast, while Bryan did well among the farmers of the South, West, and rural Midwest. The large German-American voting bloc supported McKinley, who gained large majorities among the middle class, skilled factory workers, railroad workers, and large-scale farmers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0046-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results\nThe national popular vote was rather close, as McKinley defeated Bryan by 602,500 votes, receiving 51% to Bryan's 46.7%: a shift of 53,000 votes in California, Kentucky, Ohio and Oregon would have won Bryan the election despite McKinley winning the majority of the popular vote, but due to the joint Democratic-Populist ticket, this also would have left Hobart and Sewell short of the 224 electoral votes required to win the vice-presidency, forcing a contingent election for vice-president in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0047-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results\nThe National Democrats did not carry any states, but they did divide the Democratic vote in some states and helped the Republicans flip Kentucky; Gold Democrats made much of the fact that Palmer's small vote in Kentucky was higher than McKinley's very narrow margin in that state. This was the first time a Republican presidential candidate had ever carried Kentucky, but they did not do so again until Calvin Coolidge in 1924. From this, they concluded that Palmer had siphoned off needed Democratic votes and hence thrown the state to McKinley. However, McKinley would have won the overall election even if he had lost Kentucky to Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0048-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results\nMayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, summed up the campaign as the \"first great protest of the American people against monopoly \u2013 the first great struggle of the masses in our country against the privileged classes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0049-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results\nAccording to a 2017 National Bureau of Economic Research paper, \"Bryan did well where mortgage interest rates were high, railroad penetration was low, and crop prices had declined by most over the previous decade. Using our estimates, we show that further declines in crop prices or increases in interest rates would have been enough to tip the Electoral College in Bryan's favor. But to change the outcome, the additional fall in crop prices would have had to be large.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0050-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, General results\nMcKinley received a little more than seven million votes, Bryan a little less than six and a half million, about 800,000 in excess of the Democratic vote in 1892. It was larger than the Democratic Party was to poll in 1900, 1904, or 1912. It was somewhat less, however, than the combined vote for the Democratic and Populist nominees had been in 1892. In contrast, McKinley received nearly 2,000,000 more votes than had been cast for Benjamin Harrison, the Republican nominee, in 1892. The Republican vote was to be but slightly increased during the next decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0051-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Geography of results\nOne-half of the total vote of the nation was polled in eight states carried by McKinley (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin). In these states, Bryan not only ran far behind the Republican candidate, but also polled considerably less than half of his total vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0052-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Geography of results\nIn only one other section, in the six states of New England, was the Republican lead great; the Republican vote (614,972) was more than twice the Democratic vote (242,938), and every county was carried by the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0053-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Geography of results\nThe West North Central section gave a slight lead to McKinley, as did the Pacific section. Nevertheless, within these sections, the states of Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Washington were carried by Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0054-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Geography of results\nIn the South Atlantic section and in the East South Central section, the Democratic lead was pronounced, and in the West South Central section and in the Mountain section, the vote for Bryan was overwhelming. In these four sections, comprising 21 states, McKinley carried only 322 counties and four states \u2013 Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0055-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Geography of results\nA striking feature of this examination of the state returns is found in the overwhelming lead for one or the other party in 22 of the 45 states. It was true of the McKinley vote in every New England state and in New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. It was also true of the Bryan vote in eight states of the lower South and five states of the Mountain West. Sectionalism was thus marked in this first election of the Fourth Party System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0056-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Geography of results\nThis was the last election in which the Democrats won South Dakota until 1932, the last in which the Democrats won Utah and Washington until 1916, and the last in which the Democrats won Kansas and Wyoming until 1912. It was also the last time that South Dakota and Washington voted against the Republicans until they voted for the Progressive Party in 1912. This also constitutes the only election since their statehoods when a Republican won the presidency without winning Kansas, South Dakota, Utah, or Wyoming. Today these are solidly Republican states and have not backed a Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide over Barry Goldwater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0057-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Southern votes\nIn the South, there were numerous Republican counties, notably in Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, northern Alabama and Virginia, representing a mix of white Southern Unionist counties along with majority black counties in areas where black disenfranchisement was not yet complete (such as North Carolina, where a Republican-Populist fusion ticket had captured the General Assembly in 1894). Even in Georgia, a state in the Deep South, there were counties returning Republican majorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0058-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Southern votes\n(a) Includes 222,583 votes as the People's nominee(b) Sewall was Bryan's Democratic running mate. (c) Watson was Bryan's People's running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0059-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Geography of results\nResults by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0060-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Close states\nMargin of victory less than 1% (26 electoral votes; 20 won by Republicans; 6 by Democrats):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0061-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Close states\nMargin of victory less than 5% (55 electoral votes; 42 won by Republicans; 13 by Democrats):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030943-0062-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election, Results, Close states\nMargin of victory between 5% and 10% (66 electoral votes; 6 won by Republicans; 60 by Democrats):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030944-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Alabama\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030944-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Alabama\nAlabama was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Despite losing by more than a two-to-one margin, this would prove the last time a Republican won Colbert County until Richard Nixon in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030945-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Arkansas voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030945-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nThis election marks the establishment of one-party hegemony in every county in Arkansas except Unionist Ozark Newton and Searcy where Republicans would control local government permanently. The new secret ballot and an onerous poll tax had already severely reduced black and poor white voting at the time of this election, in the process largely eliminating opposition party challenges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030945-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nArkansas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Three electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030946-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in California\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in California took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030946-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in California\nCalifornia narrowly voted for the Republican nominee, Ohio Governor William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former Nebraska representative William Jennings Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030946-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in California\nEight of the state's electoral votes were awarded to McKinley, while one was awarded to Bryan. This was the third occasion in which California's electoral vote was split, rather than being awarded to a single candidate. The previous two occasions were in 1880 and 1892. Such a split would only subsequently occur in California one more time (in 1912).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030947-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Colorado\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Colorado voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030947-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nIn its early days as a state, Colorado had like the Plains States to its east been solidly Republican. However, with crises emerging in its agricultural sector from low wheat prices and a severe drought in 1888 and 1889, and the state\u2019s underdevelopment leading to resentment of the Northeast, the new Populist Party was able to largely take over the state\u2019s politics in the early 1890s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030947-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nAided by fusion with the minority Democratic Party and strong support for free silver in this state which produced over half of all American silver, the Populist Party under James B. Weaver in 1892 carried the state\u2019s presidential electoral votes and won both its congressional seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030947-0001-0002", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nAfter the Republicans gained a 130-seat majority in the House of Representatives following the 1894 elections, five dissident Republicans from the Mountain States who supported free silver jointed together as the \u201cSilver Republicans\u201d They supported nominating Centennial State Senator Teller at first, but ultimately this was viewed as impractical and the Silver Republicans fused with Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030947-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nBryan\u2019s support for free silver against the existing gold standard supported by Republican nominee William McKinley ensured he had virtually unanimous support from Colorado\u2019s silver-dependent business elite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030947-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Colorado, Vote\nOnce a fusion between Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans was fully finalised, there was no campaigning in Colorado as all polls showed Bryan would carry the state very easily. Bryan in the end carried Colorado by more than seventy percentage points, by over twenty percent the best performance by any presidential candidate in the history of the state. Bryan carried all but two of Colorado\u2019s counties, and won nineteen with over ninety percent of the vote, with McKinley retaining significant support only on the eastern High Plains, where the power of the silver magnates was much less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030947-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Colorado, Vote\nBryan would win Colorado against William McKinley again in 1900 and would later also win the state against William Howard Taft in 1908, making the state one of just two western states Bryan would carry in all three of his runs (the other being Nevada).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030948-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030948-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nConnecticut voted for the Republican nominee, former Governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won the state by a margin of 30.7%. This was the first time a Republican carried Connecticut in a presidential election since James A. Garfield did so 16 years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030948-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nWilliam Bryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but held little appeal in the Northeastern states like Connecticut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030949-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Delaware\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030949-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Delaware\nDelaware was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030950-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Florida\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030950-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Florida\nFlorida was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030951-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Georgia\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the wider United States Presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030951-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nFollowing Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and many poor whites, doing so in the early 1870s. This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment \u2013 chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns \u2013 and in presidential elections to a small number of counties elsewhere where blacks were not yet fully disenfranchised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030951-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nThe Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. This restriction was done by local county laws, but combined with the highly efficacious cumulative poll tax introduced in 1877 meant that turnout declined steadily throughout the 1880s, unlike any other former Confederate state except South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030951-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nHowever, politics after the first demobilization was always chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly the Populist Party, gained support amongst the remaining poor white and black voters in opposition to the planter elite. Whereas the Republican Party had not contested a statewide election seriously since 1876, the Populists made significant runs for governor in 1892, 1894 and 1896, which would have been stronger but for large scale Black Belt electoral fraud. In the presidential race the state was hit by a dispute between state Populist leader Thomas E. Watson and Maine shipbuilder Arthur Sewall over the vice-presidential nomination, which led to Watson\u2019s frustration and fury increasing and failed to gain either candidate local support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030951-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Georgia, Vote\nThe Populist political manoeuvering, combined with past alliances of Republicans with the Populist movement, had the effect of increasing Georgia\u2019s Republican vote to the highest level seen in any presidential election since 1872 at the height of Reconstruction. Nonetheless, McKinley never campaigned in Georgia, and Bryan still carried the state by over twenty-one points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 57], "content_span": [58, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030952-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Idaho\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030952-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Idaho, Background\nIdaho, upon its organization as a territory was overwhelmingly Democratic, but had been increasingly dominated by the Republican Party in the years leading up to statehood, as ex-Southern and Mormon mining settlers were increasingly outweighed by those from the Midwest. The state Democratic Party would regroup and its pro-silver, anti-Mormon faction under Marshal Fred T. Dubois would bring the state into the Union in the late 1880s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030952-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Idaho, Background\nUpon statehood, Idaho was shaken by a wave of strikes in the silver-mining regions and even deeper conflict whereby an idled ore concentrator was destroyed in Gem. This, alongside opposition to Republican Governor Norman Bushnell Willey\u2019s declaration of martial law upon the miners, and against the absentee ownership of Idaho's land and water, would turn the state's electorate strongly towards the Populist leader James B. Weaver, who carried the state in 1892 in an election where Gold Democrat and former President Grover Cleveland was not even on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030952-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Idaho, Background\nAs the 1896 election approached, it was clear that silver politics would be the determining factor in Idaho's vote, and that the state would not vote for any candidate opposing free silver. Senator Fred T. Dubois, who had been a critical player in giving Idaho statehood, confirmed this in June. When William Jennings Bryan gained the Democratic nomination on a platform favouring the coinage of silver at 16:1 relative to gold, the Populist Party supported him throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030952-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Idaho, Vote\nIdaho was won by the Democratic/Populist nominees, William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Bryan won every county, and only in three of twenty-one did McKinley crack a quarter of the vote. Despite half a century of overwhelming Republican dominance, no presidential nominee has equalled Bryan's performance in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 55], "content_span": [56, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030952-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Idaho, Vote\nBryan would later defeat McKinley again in Idaho four year later but would later lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030953-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Illinois\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose 24 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030953-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Illinois\nIllinois was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030954-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Indiana\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose fifteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030954-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Indiana\nIndiana was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030955-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Iowa\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030955-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Iowa\nIowa was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030956-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kansas\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Kansas voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030956-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kansas\nKansas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030956-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kansas\nWith his win in the state, Bryan became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Kansas. Bryan would later lose Kansas to Republican William McKinley four years later during their rematch and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908. This is also the only election since Kansas statehood in which the Republican candidate won the presidency without Kansas. Until 2020, this is the last election in which the majority of Johnson County voted Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030957-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kentucky\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030957-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kentucky\nWilliam McKinley won the state very narrowly, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to ever win Kentucky and the only to carry the state until Calvin Coolidge in 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030957-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nEver since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones, although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP would never carry the state during the Third Party System. However, the Democratic Party in the state was heavily divided over free silver and the role of corporations in the middle 1890s, and it lost the governorship for the first time in forty years in 1895 due to Populist defections. For the 1896 election, the Democratic Party would aim to fuse with the Populists, and adopted the Populist free silver platform under former Nebraska Representative William Jennings Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030957-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nIn contrast to the majority of antebellum slave states, Kentucky was sufficiently close to the industrial Northeast that it had a significant urban working class in its Ohio River cities that opposed free silver because it would cause inflation. Similar views were held by workers in Kentucky\u2019s developing coal mining industry. Polls late in October nonetheless showed Bryan carrying the state by a margin only slightly reduced from what discredited incumbent President Grover Cleveland had achieved in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030957-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nA week later, however, polls had Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey carrying Kentucky by seventeen thousand votes. As it turned out, the state was exceedingly close, with McKinley becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to carry Kentucky, by a mere 277 votes, or 0.06352%. Owing to the direct election of presidential electors and the extreme closeness of the result, one Bryan elector and twelve McKinley electors were chosen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030957-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nMcKinley\u2019s victory is, by percentage margin, the seventh-closest popular results for presidential electors on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030958-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030958-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nLouisiana was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Four electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030959-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Maine\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030959-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Maine\nMaine voted for the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won the state by a margin of 38.69%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030959-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Maine\nBryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers, but had little appeal in the Northeastern states such as Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030959-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Maine\nWith 67.90% of the popular vote, Maine would be McKinley's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, Massachusetts, neighboring New Hampshire and Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030960-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Maryland\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. States voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030960-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Maryland\nMaryland was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030960-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Maryland\nThis was the first time that a Republican presidential cadidate won Maryland since Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and the Democrats would not win the state's popular vote until 1912.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030961-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030961-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMassachusetts overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Massachusetts by a margin of 43.15%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030961-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMcKinley was able to win every county in the state of Massachusetts, including a rare Republican victory in Suffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Boston. Bryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had little appeal in the Northeastern states such as Massachusetts. Bryan would win Suffolk County during his rematch with McKinley in 1900 but would lose it again to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030961-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nWith 69.47% of the popular vote, Massachusetts would be McKinley's second strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after neighboring Vermont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030962-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Michigan\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030962-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nEver since the formation of the Republican party, Michigan had been a Republican-leaning state due to the Lower Peninsula\u2019s strong history of settlement by anti-slavery Yankees, who after the end of Reconstruction continued to see the need for solid Republican voting to oppose the solidly Democratic Confederate and Border States. During the Third Party System, heavily Catholic and immigrant-settled Southeast Michigan would lean towards the Democratic Party, which was opposed to the moralistic pietism of Yankee Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030962-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nIn the 1892 election, aided by favorable demographic changes and a legislative change allocating electors by congressional district, the Democratic Party managed to carry five of Michigan\u2019s fourteen electoral votes, and also elect a Governor and a majority to the state legislature. However, the Panic of 1893 turned expectations or hopes of Michigan becoming a swing state rudely on its head, especially when incumbent President Cleveland stood firm, sending in troops to break the Pullman Strike. In the 1894 elections, only one Democrat maintained a seat in the state legislature, a loss of seventy seats compared to the 1890 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030962-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nIn the wake of this decline, Cleveland decided not to run for a third term, and endorsed the National Democratic Party ticket of John M. Palmer. The Populist Party seized control of the Democratic Party and nominated former Nebraska Representative William Jennings Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030962-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nDuring his campaign, Bryan travelled through Michigan in the latter stages of his October Midwestern tour. Polls late in that month, covering all but three of Michigan\u2019s counties, showed Republican candidate William McKinley ahead of Bryan by almost three-to-one, which was an increase upon his margin in earlier polls. Another poll a little later was also certain Michigan would vote for McKinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030962-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nMichigan ultimately voted for McKinley by a margin of 10.29 points, a much smaller margin that earlier polls, although a reduction was expected as some unpolled rural areas of the state had been believed to favour Bryan\u2019s free silver policy. His margin was an increase of five points upon what Benjamin Harrison had achieved over the state as a whole in 1892, though there were large variations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030962-0005-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nIn the traditionally Democratic German Catholic areas, there was a large shift to McKinley due to Archbishop Ireland\u2019s opposition to free silver, In the heavily Methodist cabinet counties of Michiana, by contrast, Bryan gained subtantially and was the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Branch County, Calhoun County, Eaton County and Isabella County since Franklin Pierce in 1852.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030963-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Minnesota voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030963-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nMinnesota was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030964-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030964-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nMississippi was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. With black disfranchisement virtually complete due to onerous poll taxes and literacy tests, Mississippi would begin seven decades as a one-party Democratic state, as the state completely lacked areas of upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030964-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nNo Republican would serve in the state legislature between 1902 and the 1960s, and only once until 1950 \u2013 when Herbert Hoover won riding on anti-Catholic and Prohibitionist sentiment the Pine Belt counties of Pearl River, Stone and George in 1928 \u2013 would the state Democratic nominee lose a Mississippi county in any Presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030965-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Missouri\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030965-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Missouri\nMissouri was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Four electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson. Unlike in the more easterly border states, Bryan\u2019s \u201cfree silver\u201d platform had very substantial appeal in the Unionist but highly populist Ozark \u201cBible Belt\u201d. This was seen in that Missouri had in Richard P. Bland that earliest advocate of that monetary policy in Congress, and that only one vote had been cast in 1893 in Missouri against free silver, and that in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030965-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Missouri\nAlthough all but one of Missouri\u2019s pro-silver members had reversed course by the time of the presidential election, the state was still hit much more that the Old Northwest and upper Mississippi Valley by farmers\u2019 debts from falling prices and crop failures since 1887. Despite opposition by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to Bryan\u2019s free silver policies, Bryan gained strongly via capture of James B. Weaver\u2019s support base from the 1892 and 1880 elections in the strongly Baptist southwest, which was enough to counter Catholic defections from Grover Cleveland in St. Louis and surrounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030965-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Missouri\nThis is the only election where Douglas County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Bryan was also the first Democrat since James Buchanan in 1856 to carry Dade, Dallas, Jasper, Lawrence, Polk and Wright Counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030966-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Montana\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030966-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Montana\nMontana overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan over the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 60.22 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030966-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Montana\nBryan's support for many Populist goals resulted in him being nominated by both the Democratic Party and the People's Party (Populists), though with different running mates. One electoral vote from Montana was cast for the Populist Bryan-Watson ticket with Thomas E. Watson as Vice-President and two votes were cast for the Bryan-Sewall ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030966-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Montana\nBryan would later beat McKinley in the state again four years later but would lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030967-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030967-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nNebraska was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative and Nebraska native William Jennings Bryan and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Four electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030967-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nAs a result of his win, Bryan became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Nebraska. Bryan would later lose the state to William McKinley in 1900 but would later win it again against William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030968-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Nevada\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030968-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Nevada\nNevada was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030968-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Nevada\nBryan would later defeat Republican William McKinley in the state four years later and would also later defeat William Howard Taft in the state in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030969-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030969-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nNew Hampshire overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won the state by a margin of 42.78%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030969-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nWith 68.66% of the popular vote, New Hampshire would be McKinley's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after neighboring Vermont and Massachusetts. The state was also the best performance for National Democratic Party candidate John M. Palmer, who won 4.21% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030969-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nBryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but held little-to-no appeal in the Northeastern states like New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030970-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 3, 1896. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030970-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nNew Jersey voted for the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won the state by a margin of 23.66%, making him the first Republican presidential candidate since Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 to carry the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030970-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nBryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had little appeal in Northeastern states like New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030970-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nThis was a realigning election for New Jersey, as it was for the nation. From 1852 to 1892, the Democrats had carried the state all but once\u2013 in Ulysses Grant's 1872 landslide\u2013 and only in 1860 had any other candidates won any electoral votes at all. New Jersey, as an industrial mid-atlantic state, was strongly in favor of the gold standard. Up until 1896, the Democrats had nominated candidates favorable to that notion, and to the state at large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030970-0003-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nIn the 11 elections between 1852 and 1892, the Democrats nominated a New Yorker in 6 of them (Horatio Seymour in 1868, Horace Greeley in 1872, Samuel Tilden in 1876, and Grover Cleveland in 1884, 1888, and 1892). In another three, a candidate from another mid-atlantic state was nominated by the Democrats: James Buchanan and Winfield Hancock of Pennsylvania in 1856 and 1880, and New Jersey's own George McClellan in 1864. Thus, in 9 of 11 elections, a mid-atlantic democrat acceptable to New Jersey was nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030970-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nBeginning in 1896, the Democratic party dramatically shifted away from supporting business interests to supporting the interests of farmers and miners of the south and west. As the issue of bimetallism\u2013 whether to allow silver to be used as currency in addition to gold\u2013 split the country along regional boundaries, New Jersey went with the pro-gold standard and pro-business Republicans. In the ensuing \"system of '96\" that lasted until the Great Depression realignment of 1932, Republicans won the state in all but one election: when New Jersey's own governor, Woodrow Wilson, was the Democratic nominee in 1912. Even then, Wilson was barely able to overcome New Jersey's republican lean, winning with a tiny plurality of 41.20% of the vote due to the Republican split between Progressive Teddy Roosevelt and Conservative William Howard Taft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 899]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030970-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nBeyond even the 4th party system, New Jersey retained the Republican bent it acquired in 1896 for the next century: in the 20th century, Democrats only won New Jersey nine times, while Republicans won it 16. On all but three of these occasions (the Democratic landslides of 1936, 1964, and 1996) the margin of victory was less than 10 points. Even Franklin Roosevelt only barely won the state in 1932, 1940, and 1944. Beginning with Bill Clinton's massive victory in 1996, the state would return to the Democratic fold with the rest of the northeast in modern elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030971-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New York\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030971-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New York\nNew York was won by the Republican nominees, former Governor William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate corporate lawyer Garret Hobart of New Jersey. McKinley and Hobart defeated the Democratic nominees, former Congressman William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate industrialist Arthur Sewall of Maine. Bryan also ran and received votes on the Populist Party line, with running mate Congressman Thomas E. Watson of Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030971-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New York\nAlso in the running was the National Democratic Party (Gold Democrat) candidate, John M. Palmer of Illinois, who ran with former Governor of Kentucky Simon Bolivar Buckner on a platform advocating for the gold standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030971-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New York\nMcKinley carried New York State with 57.58% of the vote to Bryan\u2019s 38.72%, a victory margin of 18.85%. Palmer came in a distant third, with 1.33%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030971-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New York\nNew York weighed in for this election as about fourteen percent more Republican than the national average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030971-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New York\nBryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had little appeal in Northeastern states like New York. Consequently, he performed especially weakly for a Democrat in New York, losing every county in the state except for Schoharie County upstate. This included New York City, where McKinley outpolled Bryan by about 60,000 votes. McKinley would lose New York City to Bryan in their 1900 rematch four years later and Bryan would later win the city again against William Howard Taft in 1908. New York City would not vote Republican again until Warren Harding won it in 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030971-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in New York\nThis election would begin the Fourth Party System, which would last from 1896 to 1928 and where New York would become a reliably Republican state in nearly all of the presidential elections during that era barring 1912.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030972-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030972-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nNorth Carolina was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. 5 electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson, who was nominated as Bryan's running mate under the Populist Party banner in a form of fusion, at the same time as the Populists were engaging in fusion with the North Carolina Republicans at the state level (both fusion efforts being orchestrated by Marion Butler.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030972-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nAs of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion Northampton County has voted for a Republican presidential candidate, which stands as the second-longest Democratic streak in the nation. While Northampton County had been majority Black and a Republican bastion since the Civil War, the 1899 disenfranchisement of Black voters by North Carolina Democrats following their White Supremacy campaign of 1898 prevented Republicans from winning the county until long after political realignment had occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030973-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030973-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nAlthough the state had been carried by a fusion ticket under the \u201cPopulist\u201d label in 1892, unlike the other Mountain and Plains states, North Dakota was largely Catholic or Lutheran and opposed Populist and Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan\u2019s evangelistic Protestantism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030973-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nIn spite of the fact that this predominantly wheat-growing state was severely hit by drought, high interest rates and problems of poor transportation, hostility to Bryan\u2019s fundamentalism amongst the Russian-Germans of the southern part of the state was intense, while the Catholic Church under the influence of John Ireland also condemned Bryan\u2019s free silver policy at the same time as Bryan toured North Dakota in October. There was also fear that if Bryan were elected the nation would split as severely as it had in 1861 after the election of Abraham Lincoln, and Archbishop Ireland pointed out that Bryan\u2019s election might create class war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030973-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nFor these reasons, Bryan was able to carry only the rural Scandinavian-American counties in the Red River Valley and the north of the state adjacent to Minnesota and Canada. In the predominantly German remainder of the state, Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey established a Republican dominance of the state\u2019s presidential politics that would prove permanent except during the Prohibition and New Deal era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030973-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nMcKinley won North Dakota by a margin of 11.92 percentage points, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the state. He repeated this much more decisively four years later, and Bryan would prove the only Democrat to carry any of North Dakota\u2019s counties until Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and the only one to obtain a majority in a North Dakota county until Wilson in 1916. This is the only election ever where North Dakota and Kansas didn't choose the same candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030974-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Ohio\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030974-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Ohio\nSince the Civil War, Ohio politics had been controlled by a conflict between the anti-Civil War Appalachian southeast and German-American counties of the northwest, opposed both to the heavily Yankee and New Englander northeast and to the Ohio Company counties of the southeast. There was also an area of the Virginia Military District in the southwest that was historically the state\u2019s Whig stronghold and later voted Republican. The GOP had consistently controlled the state during this era, if largely due to the prevalence of Ohio natives on the ticket, losing only one electoral vote to Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030974-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Ohio\nIn 1896, the Democratic Party moved away from its urban northeastern Irish-American base to attempt to forge an alliance of the developing Jim Crow \u201cSolid South\u201d with the Populist West. The Midwest had seen the nation\u2018s worst labor strife in the years between the 1892 and 1896 elections, and the Republican Party saw Bryan as attempting to ferment class war. Although Ohio had been affected severely by the farm crisis of the early 1890s, its strong coverage by rail transport made this much less of a problem than it was in the more remote Plains States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030974-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Ohio\nConsequently, Ohio was narrowly won by the Republican Party candidate and native son, William McKinley, with 51.86% of the popular vote. The Democratic Party candidate, William Jennings Bryan, garnered 47.08% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030975-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Oregon\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030975-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Oregon\nOregon was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030976-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose 32 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030976-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nPennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, former Governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 24.71%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030977-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030977-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nRhode Island voted for the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won the state by a wide margin of 41.94%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030977-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nBryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had little appeal in Northeastern states like Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030977-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nWith 68.33% of the popular vote, Rhode Island would be McKinley's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, neighboring Massachusetts and New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030978-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 3, 1896. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030978-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nSouth Carolina overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan, over the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 71.79%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030979-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030979-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nSouth Dakota was won by the Populist nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Two electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030979-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nBryan won the state by a very narrow margin of 0.22 percentage points, becoming the first national Democratic presidential candidate to win the state. Bryan would later lose the state to Republican incumbent president William McKinley four years later and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908. As of the 2020 United States presidential election, this is the only time that a Republican candidate has won the presidency without carrying South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030980-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030980-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nFor over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee\u2019s white citizenry was divided according to partisan loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and Wayne voted Republican \u2013 generally by landslide margins \u2013 as they saw the Democratic Party as the \u201cwar party\u201d who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030980-0001-0001", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nContrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state\u2019s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction. After the state\u2019s white landowning class re-established its rule in the early 1870s, black and Unionist white combined to forge adequate support for the GOP to produce a competitive political system for two decades, although during this era the Republicans could only capture statewide offices when the Democratic Party was divided on this issue of payment of state debt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030980-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nWhite Democrats in West Tennessee were always aiming to eliminate black political influence, which they first attempted to do by election fraud in the middle 1880s and did so much more successfully at the end of that decade by instituting in counties with significant black populations a secret ballot that prevented illiterates voting, and a poll tax throughout the state, which cut turnout by at least a third in the 1890s. This poll tax was supposedly relaxed or paid by party officials in Unionist Republican areas, where whites were much poorer than in secessionist areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030980-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nThe mid-1890s Populist movement did not affect Tennessee so much as other southern states, with the party never cracking 12 percent in any biennial gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030980-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Vote\nAlthough the state\u2019s poll tax had already reduced the Republican black and poor white electorate, Democratic managers were unsure about carrying Tennessee in late October, because it was felt that urban businessmen would desert the party in sufficient numbers for McKinley to come close to carrying the state. Polls the day before the election suggested Tennessee would be exceedingly close, but as it turned out Bryan would carry the state relatively easily by around six points, which was still a decline upon recent Democratic performances despite a quantitatively reduced Republican electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030981-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Texas\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose 15 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030981-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Texas\nTexas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Four electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030981-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Texas\nBryan would later win Texas again in both 1900 and 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030982-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Utah\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030982-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Utah\nThis was the first time Utah participated in a presidential election, having been admitted as the 45th state on January 4 of that year. It is also the only time a Republican candidate has won the presidency without carrying Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030982-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nUtah had been established as a territory within five years of the earliest settlement by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but opposition by the Republican Party \u2013 dominant from 1860 \u2013 to Mormon polygamy meant that Utah was consistently refused statehood. Consequently, Utah territorial politics until 1891 was dominated by the Mormon-hierarchy-controlled \"People's Party\" and the anti-Mormon \"Liberal Party\". Those Mormons who did affiliate with national parties generally were Democrats, who lacked moral qualms associated with polygamy and slavery \u2013 although the Liberal Party did have allies within the GOP. In order to achieve statehood, however, the LDS Church disbanded the \"People's Party\" in 1891 and most LDS members moved towards the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030982-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nThe 1896 election in Utah was dominated by the influence of silver mine owners, who overwhelmingly supported Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan because he advocated coinage of free silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030982-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nAs a consequence, Utah voted overwhelmingly for Bryan, who won the state by 65.43 percentage points. Even with overwhelming Republican dominance of Utah since the late 1960s, this margin has not been approached by any party or candidate since. Apart from Kane County in the far south \u2013 and even here Bryan's performance remains the second-best ever by a Democrat behind Woodrow Wilson's narrow 1916 victory \u2013 Bryan exceeded sixty-five percent of the vote in every county, and exceeded seventy percent in all but two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030982-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Utah, Electoral vote\nBryan's support for many Populist goals resulted in him being nominated by both the Democratic Party and the People's Party (Populists), though with different running mates. One electoral vote from Utah was cast for the Populist Bryan-Watson ticket with Thomas E. Watson as Vice-President and two votes were cast for the Bryan-Sewall ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 64], "content_span": [65, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030983-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Vermont\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030983-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Vermont\nVermont overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, former Governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. With 80.08% of the popular vote, Vermont would be McKinley's strongest victory in the 1896 presidential election in terms of percentage in the popular vote as well as the best performance of any presidential candidate in the Green Mountain State to date. McKinley won Vermont by a landslide margin of 63.42%, which is the second-best performance by the Republican Party in any presidential election behind only Barry Goldwater in Mississippi in 1964 \u2013 ironically the first election when the Green Mountain State deserted the GOP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030983-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Vermont\nBryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had practically no appeal in the Northeastern state of Vermont. In fact, with only 16.66% of the popular vote Bryan's performance in Vermont was the second weakest of any Democratic presidential candidate to date only after John W. Davis' 15.67% in 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030984-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Virginia\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030984-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Virginia\nVirginia voted for the Democratic and Populist candidate, former U.S. Representative William J. Bryan over the Republican candidate, Ohio Governor William McKinley. Bryan won the state by a margin of 6.56%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030985-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030985-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nWashington was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Two electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030985-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nAs a result of his win in the state, Bryan would become the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Washington state. He would later lose the state against McKinley in 1900 and then against William Howard Taft in 1908. Bryan would also be the only one to do so until Woodrow Wilson won it in 1916.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030985-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nThis is the last time the loser won a majority of Clallam County votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030986-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose six electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030986-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nWest Virginia was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030987-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030987-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background\nWisconsin during the Third Party System was a Republican-leaning but competitive state whereby historically anti-Civil War German Catholic counties stood opposed to highly pro-war and firmly Republican Yankee areas. The German Catholics\u2019 Democratic loyalties were related to their opposition to Republican pietism and to the fact that during the Civil War they had been extremely hostile to Abraham Lincoln\u2019s wartime draft policies which often singled them out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030987-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background\nFour year prior had seen, aided by favorable demographic shifts, opposition to the notorious \u201cBennett Law\u201d requiring attendance at public schools, and a shift of some GOP voters to Prohibition Party nominee John Bidwell, Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland carry the state for the first time since before the Republican Party was formed. However, expectations that demographic shifts would favour the Democrats were rudely crushed in 1894, when the Republicans took every Congressional seat in the state. President Cleveland became extremely unpopular and the Democratic Party turned towards the Populist movement active in the West in order to revive its fortunes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030987-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background\nWhilst the Populist movement would gain almost universal acceptance in the silver mining West, its inflationary monetary policies were opposed by almost all urban classes and viewed as dangerously radical by rural German Catholics, with free silver being condemned by the Church hierarchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030987-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote\nEarly polls always had Wisconsin strong for Republican nominee William McKinley, with his supporters saying it would be one of the most Republican states despite voting Democratic in 1892. During his fall tour of the Midwest, Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan made fifteen speeches, but was disturbed by a member of McKinley\u2019s club, who attempted to mob Bryan in Janesville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030987-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote\nAs it turned out, McKinley would carry Wisconsin handsomely by over one hundred thousand votes and almost twenty-three percentage points. Wisconsin would be McKinley\u2019s strongest state outside the Northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030988-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nThe 1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030988-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nWyoming was won by representative William Jennings Bryan (D\u2013Nebraska), running with shipbuilder, railroad president and director, bank president Arthur Sewall, with 51.49 percent of the popular vote, against the 39th Governor of Ohio William McKinley (R\u2013Ohio), running with New Jersey State Senator, Garret Hobart, with 47.75 percent of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030988-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nAs of the 2020 United States presidential election, this is the first, last, and only presidential election where Wyoming voted for a losing Democratic presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030988-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Electoral vote\nBryan's support for many Populist goals resulted in him being nominated by both the Democratic Party and the People's Party (Populists), though with different running mates. One electoral vote from Wyoming was cast for the Populist Bryan-Watson ticket with Thomas E. Watson as vice president and two votes were cast for the Bryan-Sewall ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030988-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Electoral vote\nBryan would later lose Wyoming to William McKinley four year later and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908. This is also the only election where the Republican candidate won the election without Wyoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030989-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 University of Utah football team\nThe 1896 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1896 college football season as an independent. Head coach C. B. Ferris led the team to a 3\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030990-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1896 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1896 college football season. In their second season of intercollegiate football (following a hiatus during the 1893, 1894, and 1895 seasons), the Aggies compiled a 0\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030990-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nOn Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1896, the Aggies played the team from Brigham Young College in the second intercollegiate game in Utah Agricultural history. Brigham Young won by a 6-0 score. The Aggies' lineup against Brigham Young was as follows: Evans at left end; Preston Peterson at left tackle; Nelson at left guard; Webster at center; Martineau at right guard; Bunot at right tackle; Sutton at right end; Walter McLaughlin at quarterback; Willard Langton at left halfback; Ralph at right halfback; and John Bankhead at fullback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season\nThe 1896 Victorian Football Association season was the 20th season of the Australian rules football competition. It was the final season in which the Association was the highest level of senior football competition in Victoria, with eight of its strongest members leaving the league and establishing the rival Victorian Football League from 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season\nThe season was opened on 2 May, and concluded on 3 October with a playoff match for the premiership between the top two teams, in which Collingwood defeated South Melbourne by one goal. It was Collingwood's first VFA premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Premiership season\nIn 1896, the VFA competition consisted of thirteen teams of 20 on-the-field players each. Because there was an odd number of teams, at least one team had a bye each week; the idle club often travelled to Ballarat to play one of the local senior clubs in a non-premiership match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Premiership season\nWhen reporting match scores in 1896, the number of goals and behinds scored by each team is given; however, only the number of goals scored is considered when determining the result of a match. This was the final VFA season before the introduction of the modern system of scoring, in which six points is awarded for a goal and one point is awarded for a behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Ladder\nThe Association had no formal tie-breakers in cases where clubs were equal on premiership points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nCollingwood and South Melbourne finished level on 58 premiership points at the conclusion of the premiership matches, meaning a playoff match for the premiership was required between them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nIt is often said that this playoff match was required because, in addition to having equal win-loss records, Collingwood and South Melbourne had finished with an equal record of goals scored and goals conceded and therefore could not be split on a tie-breaker; while this version of events is given in several modern references, contemporary sources reveal this to be a myth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0006-0001", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nAssociation Rule 19, which specifically covered the event of a playoff, did not consider goals scored or conceded as a means of tie-breaker for the premiership, and newspaper match previews leading into Round 19 made clear that win-loss record was the only consideration for determining whether or not there would be a playoff. Additionally, the clubs' for-and-against records were not quite identical: Collingwood had scored one goal more than South Melbourne for the season, but the fact that the tallies were so close helped to perpetuate the myth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nIt was the second time in VFA history that a playoff match was staged for the premiership, the first having occurred in 1878, but it was the first time that a playoff had been required since the formal introduction of the premiership ladder in 1888: the 1878 playoff was required to resolve a dispute between Melbourne and Geelong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nThe fact that a playoff would be required between Collingwood and South Melbourne was known after Round 19: both Collingwood and South Melbourne had a bye in Round 20 with third-placed Essendon six premiership points adrift, leaving them with no chance of tying for or finishing first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nAs a result, the two clubs organised to stage their playoff match on Saturday 26 September, the same day as the other Round 20 matches, at the neutral East Melbourne Cricket Ground; arrangements were made and advertisements were published. However, on the Tuesday, delegates from all Association clubs voted 11\u20138 in favour of postponing the playoff match to Saturday 3 October, the following weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nArguments in favour of postponing the match centred mostly around the fact that a playoff match would detract from interest, attendances and gate takings at the rostered Round 20 matches, while arguments in favour of staging the playoff during Round 20 were to remove the need for the clubs to train for an extra week, and that public desire for the match to be held on 26 September was strong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nA second meeting was held on the Wednesday night after Collingwood and South Melbourne objected to the postponement, but the Association delegates again voted in favour of postponing the match, albeit by a reduced majority of 10\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nWhile Collingwood and South Melbourne initially discussed playing the match on 26 September anyway, in spite of the Association's decision, this proved to be unworkable as the Association declined to provide an umpire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nSubsequently, Collingwood arranged to play Bendigo Football League premiers Eaglehawk at Victoria Park during Round 20, winning 6.7 \u2013 3.6, while South Melbourne used the week as a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Playoff match\nThe playoff match itself was played at a high standard in front of 12,000 spectators at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground. Two late goals in the first quarter allowed Collingwood to open up a 4\u20132 lead at quarter time, but Collingwood went goalless through the second and third quarters as South Melbourne dominated the game and regained the lead at 5\u20134. Collingwood tied the game early in the final quarter, then kicked the winning goal inside the final ten minutes to win 6\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Charity Cup\nOn the Saturday between Rounds 5 and 6, a Charity Cup event was held, the gate takings from which were donated to charity. The event consisted of four clubs \u2013 Collingwood, Essendon, Port Melbourne and South Melbourne \u2013 contesting a knock-out tournament of shortened matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on a single afternoon, a format which has since become known as a lightning premiership. Each match was played over two periods of twenty minutes each. The competition was won by Essendon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Charity Cup\nThe Charity Cup was used to trial two new rules in the VFA:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030991-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 VFA season, Charity Cup\nBoth of these rule changes were soon adopted into all levels of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030992-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1896 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their sixth season of organized football. The Keydets had a 3\u20134 record, marking the first losing season in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030993-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 VPI football team\nThe 1896 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1896 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Arlie C. Jones and finished with a record of four wins, three losses, and one tie (5\u20132\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030993-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 VPI football team, Season summary, St. Albans game cancelled\nA game against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School was scheduled to be played on October 17, 1896 in Radford, Virginia. However, the game was not played after a dispute between both teams regarding the amateur eligibility of players on both sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030993-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1896 football team according to the roster published in the 1897 and 1903 editions of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030994-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1896 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was R. G. Acton, who was in his first year at Vanderbilt and went on to coach two more. This was the first meeting of Vanderbilt and Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030995-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 1, 1896. Incumbent Republican Urban A. Woodbury, per the \"Mountain Rule\", did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate Josiah Grout defeated Democratic candidate J. Henry Jackson to succeed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030996-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1896 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University during the 1896 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was James McDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030997-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1896 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1896 college football season. Led by first-year coach Martin V. Bergen, the team went 7\u20132\u20132 and claims a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030997-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Princeton\nThe Princeton Tigers defeated Virginia 48 to 0, \"the game was too one-sided to be interesting.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030998-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington & Jefferson football team\nThe 1896 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Clinton Woods, the team compiled a record of 8\u20130\u20131 and did not allow their opponents to score all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00030999-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1896 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1896 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach David A. Brodie and compiled a record of 2\u20130\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031000-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington Senators season\nThe 1896 Washington Senators baseball team finished the season with a 58\u201373 record, ninth place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031000-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031000-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031000-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031000-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031000-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031001-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington football team\nThe 1896 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1896 college football season. In its second season under coach Ralph Nichols, the team compiled a 2\u20133 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 40 to 20. Jack Lindsay was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031002-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031002-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Washington gubernatorial election\nPopulist nominee John Rankin Rogers defeated Republican nominee Charley Sullivan, with 55.55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031003-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Waverley colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Waverley on 20 February 1896 because of the death of Angus Cameron (Free Trade). This was the final election contested by Sir Henry Parkes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031004-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1896 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031004-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nIn 1896 incumbent Mayor George Fisher was defeated by former Mayor Francis Bell. Bell had served as Mayor from 1891 to 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031005-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Welsh Cup Final\nThe 1896 Welsh Cup Final, the 19th in the competition, was contested by Bangor and Wrexham at the Council Field, Llandudno. Bangor won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031005-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Welsh Cup Final, Route to the final, Bangor\nBangor's route to the final took seven games, with their first against Llandudno Swifts being forced into extra time. Bangor travelled to the venue of that year's final to face the 'Swifts', where drawing the game 2\u20132 after 90 minutes, Bangor won 3\u20132 in extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031005-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Welsh Cup Final, Route to the final, Bangor\nIn the second round, Bangor received a bye into the third, due to no teams being close enough to travel to, and there they welcomed Westminster Rovers to their Maes y Dre field. Another draw, 1\u20131, after 90 minutes the game was replayed at Westminster, where Bangor won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031005-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Welsh Cup Final, Route to the final, Bangor\nIn the Fourth Round, Bangor once again draw 1\u20131, this time against Wellington St George. The game was replayed, once again at Maes y Dre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031005-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Welsh Cup Final, Route to the final, Bangor\nNow only one game from the Bangor's second final, they faced last years winners Newtown. Taking the game to another 1\u20131 draw, Bangor went on to win 3\u20130 in the replay. Both games were played at the home of the final opponents, the Racecourse Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031005-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Welsh Cup Final, Route to the final, Wrexham\nAs runners-up in the previous years Welsh Cup, Wrexham joined the 1896 competition in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031006-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1896 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University during the 1896 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Thomas Trenchard, the team compiled a 3\u20137\u20132 record and was outscored by a combined total of 101 to 14. Three of the team's losses were to the Lafayette team that has been recognized as the co-national champion for 1896. George Krebs was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031007-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 West Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1896, to elect the governor of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season\nThe 1896 Western Conference football season was the first season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season\nIn September 1896, the members of the Western Conference, seven of the most prominent teams in the Midwest, arranged their schedules so as to \"compete for the championship of the West.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season\nThe 1896 Wisconsin Badgers football team, under head coach Philip King, won the first Western Conference championship with a 7\u20131\u20131 record (2\u20130\u20131 against conference opponents). Wisconsin's sole loss was to the Carlisle Indians in a night game played indoors and under the lights at the Chicago Coliseum before a crowd of 16,000 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season\nMichigan, led by head coach William Ward, compiled a 9\u20131 record and led the conference in both scoring offense (26.2 points per game) and scoring defense (1.1 points per game). Michigan started the season with nine consecutive wins in which the Wolverines outscored their opponents by a combined score of 256 to 4. In the final game of the season, Michigan lost to Chicago by a score of 7\u20136. The 1896 Chicago\u2013Michigan football rivalry game was the first college football game played indoors, and the last portion of the game was also played under electric lights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season\nNorthwestern finished in third place with a 6\u20131\u20132 record, its only loss coming against Chicago by an 18\u20136 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season\nIn their fifth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Chicago Maroons compiled a 15\u20132\u20131 record, finished in fourth place in the conference with a 3\u20132 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 368 to 82.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nOnly 12 conference games were played during the 1896 Western Conference season. The results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nNotable non-conference games during the 1896 season included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nIn the Chicago Inter Ocean, a sports writer known as \"The Man Up a Tree\" published the following selections for an All-Western football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031008-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nNo Western Conference players were selected for the 1896 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nOn June 15, 1896 the Western University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees elected George W. Hoskins to the chair of physical culture. Hoskins was previously the head coach at Pennsylvania State College from 1892 to 1895 and compiled a 17-4-4 record. His unique style of coaching introduced after practice critiquing sessions with blackboard chalk talks and giving quizzes about the new rule changes for the upcoming season. There were a host of applicants for team positions, and practice was mandatory unless the coach received a legitimate excuse. In its first and only season under head coach George W. Hoskins, the team compiled a 2-7 record and was outscored by a total of 69 to 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Pittsburgh Athletic Club\nThe George Hoskins led WUP opened the season on Saturday, September 26 against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club (PAC) on the East End Grounds. The first half was scoreless with both teams struggling to sustain their offense. Coach Hoskins played center and did a lot of punting. Weakley, Donaldson and Shaler did the bulk of the ball carrying for the WUP. At the end of the half Atherton of PAC tried a 40 yard field goal but it sailed wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 98], "content_span": [99, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Pittsburgh Athletic Club\nFive minutes into the second half the PAC offense methodically advanced the ball down the field and Bushman carried it over the goal line for the first touchdown of the game. Atherton kicked the goal after and PAC led 6-0. The WUP offense then moved down the field to the PAC five yard line and Hoskins tried an onside kick but Aull of PAC recovered. The WUP defense held PAC from scoring again and finally got the ball back with a minute left. The WUPs were able to move the ball to the 25 yard line and Hoskins tried another onside kick from there. Weakley of WUP recovered it in the end zone for the touchdown. Kirkpatrick missed the goal after and the final score was 6-4 in favor of PAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 98], "content_span": [99, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Pittsburgh Athletic Club\nThe WUP starting lineup for the P.A.C. game was Al Marshall (left end), Williams (left tackle), Charles Burheim (left guard), George Hoskins (center), Smith (right guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (left halfback), Weakley (right halfback) and Kirkpatrick (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 98], "content_span": [99, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nOn October 3 the WUP eleven made their second trip to Beaver Stadium to take on State College. The WUP defense played an excellent game but J. A. Dunsmore of State College was able to scamper twenty yards around the end for a touchdown near the end of the first half. Clarence Thompson, State's kicker, missed the goal after and the score stood 4-0 at halftime. The second half was shortened to fifteen minutes. State received the ball first and the WUP defense held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0004-0001", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nState College punted and the WUP defense blocked the kick and left end Al Marshall recovered the ball in the end zone for a WUP touchdown. Quarterback William Shaler missed the goal after. The Staties then sustained a fifty yard drive culminating with another touchdown by Dunsmore. Ensminger's try for goal after was successful. The WUP offense proceeded to move the ball into State territory and tried an unsuccessful late field goal. The final score was 10-4 in favor of State College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nThe WUP starting lineup for the Penn State game was Al Marshall (left end), Williams (left tackle), Charles Burheim (left guard), George Hoskins (center), Smith (right guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (left halfback), Weakley (right halfback) and Kirkpatrick (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Latrobe Athletic Association\nThe next game on the schedule was against the Latrobe Athletic Association in Latrobe, Pa. on October 10. Early in the first half the referee called a play by Latrobe illegal and a squabble ensued for close to an hour. Finally, the WUP team decided to play ball and the first half ended scoreless. After halftime Latrobe's offense controlled the game, but the stingy WUP defense held them to one touchdown. The WUP offense was unable to generate much rushing yardage and they lost the game 4-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Latrobe Athletic Association\nThe WUP starting lineup for the Latrobe game was Al Marshall (right end), Williams (right tackle), Charles Burheim (right guard), George Hoskins (center), Smith (left guard), Edgar Guilford (left tackle), Jay Henry (left end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (right halfback), Weakley (left halfback) and Kirkpatrick (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Washington & Jefferson (cancelled)\nOn October 16 Chancellor William Jacob Holland wrote a letter to coach Hoskins with his concern about the number of injured WUP players. He prohibited the team from competing until they were fully healed. Coach Hoskins had to cancel the Washington & Jefferson game scheduled for the 17th, but he felt that the team would be ready for the D.C. & A.C. game on the 24th. The letter from the Chancellor stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Washington & Jefferson (cancelled)\n\"I am informed that a large number of the gentlemen composing the football team of the university have recently in games in which they have played sustained serious injury, which incapacitate them from playing. I have had no opportunity to consult you, but my information is such as to convince me that it would be very prejudicial to the health and perhaps perilous to some of these young men in their present condition to undertake to play a match game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0009-0001", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Washington & Jefferson (cancelled)\nMy jurisdiction authorizes me, as the custodian of the physical as well as the intellectual interests of the young men in the institution, therefore, to decide that it is improper that these men should enter for the present into any contest which is likely to result in further and possibly permanent injury. Acting, therefore, with the advice and consent of my colleagues of the faculty, I desire to notify you that the football team will notbe allowed to play any game until the gentlemen who compose that team are restored to health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0009-0002", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Washington & Jefferson (cancelled)\nI further desire to notify you that it is the sense of the faculty of this institution that the so-called \"scrub\" teams of this university shall be pitted only against \"scrub\" teams of other institutions. We do not think it is just to our young men that beginners should be brought into competition with veterans in this sort of sport. The percentage of injuries which is likely to result from such an unequal mating of the contending forces on the football team is sufficient , in my judgement, to warrant our faculty in prohibiting contests of this sort.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nOn October 24 at Exposition Park the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (D.C. & A.C.) football team easily defeated the eleven from the Western University 26-0 in front of one thousand spectators. The WUP starting lineup had three new members \u2013 Burtt, McConkey and Riley. Halfback Ed Brown of the D.C. & A.C. notched an eight yard touchdown run on the A.C.'s first offensive possession. Young kicked the goal after and the score was 6-0 after three minutes. The WUP offense failed to move the ball. D.C. & A.C. halfback Ed Brown raced thirty-five yards for his second score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0010-0001", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nLater in the half Young of the D.C. & A.C. plunged into the end zone from the six inch line and the score at halftime read 14-0 in favor of D.C. & A.C. The second half started like the first as right tackle Johnson of D.C. & A.C. raced forty-five yards for a touchdown on their opening possession. On their next possession halfback Lowrey sped sixty yards for the final score of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nThe revised WUP starting lineup for the D.C. & A.C. game was Walter Burtt (left end), Williams (left tackle), Charles Burheim (right guard), George Hoskins (center), McConkey (left guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (left halfback), Weakley (fullback) and Riley (right halfback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 108], "content_span": [109, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Western Theological Seminary\nThe October 30th game with the Western Theological Seminary (also known as Allegheny Athletic Club) was summed up best by the reporter for The Pittsburgh Press:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0013-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Western Theological Seminary\n\"The W.U.P. - Allegheny Athletic club football game at Exposition park yesterday afternoon ended by W.U.P. leaving the field after a heated wrangle over the ruling of the officials, who by the way did not agree, but both claimed the authority to rule on the play. The trouble arose in the first half, 22 minutes after play had begun. W.U.P. had worked the ball to within seven yards of the Theologians goal. Here a quarterback kick was worked. The ball bounded over the goal line and WUP end Henry dropped on it for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0013-0001", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Western Theological Seminary\nReferee O. D. Thompson promptly ruled Henry guilty of being off-side on the play and refused to allow the touchdown. Umpire S. M. Kintner decided that Henry was not guilty, and the wrangle began. Mr. Thompson firmly refused to allow the touchdown. Coach Hoskins called the players together and they left the field, forfeiting the game to the Theological students \u2013 6-0.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0014-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Western Theological Seminary\nThe Pitt media guide lists this game as a 4-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0015-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Western Theological Seminary\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game with Allegheny A.C. was Walter Burtt (left end), Williams (left tackle), Charles Burheim (right guard), George Hoskins (center), McConkey (left guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (left halfback), Weakley (right halfback) and Kier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0016-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nOn November 14 the W.U.P. eleven's propensity to stir up trouble resumed at Beaver Falls against Geneva College. The Pittsburg Press on November 6 reported that coach Hoskins would be the new coach of the Pittsburgh Athletic Club team. Then on November 11 coach Hoskins played for the P.A.C. against the Allegheny Athletic Association. So, when the WUP team took the field in Geneva and coach Hoskins was in his usual position at center the Genevans refused to play. They felt he was now a professional and no longer eligible to compete on the intercollegiate level. The referee ordered the teams to line up and play. Geneva did not touch the pigskin. The allotted time ran out and WUP was named the winner by forfeit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0017-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe WUP lineup for the game with Geneva was Al Marshall (left end), Williams (left tackle), Charles Burheim (left guard), George Hoskins (center), McConkey (right guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (left halfback), Weakley (fullback) and Johnston (right halfback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0018-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Sewickley Athletic Association\nOn November 21 the game with the Sewickley Athletic Association was free from controversy. However, the eleven from Sewickley, Pennsylvania played a better game than the spectators anticipated. The WUP team outweighed Sewickley by 25 pounds per man and subsequently proved to be the better team. Weakley, Donaldson, Burheim and Marshall all scored touchdowns for the WUP and Guilford was good on one goal after to make the final score 18-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 104], "content_span": [105, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0019-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Sewickley Athletic Association\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Sewickley A. C. was Al Marshall (left end), Williams (left tackle), Jesse Kaufman (left guard), Charles Burheim (center), McConkey (right guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (left halfback), Weakley (right halfback) and Kirkpatrick (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 104], "content_span": [105, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0020-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nControversy reappeared for the November 26th Thanksgiving day tussle between the Western University and the Wheeling Tigers in Wheeling, West Virginia on the Island baseball fields. The Pittsburgh Daily Post summarized the argument - \u201cThe game of football between the Western University of Pennsylvania and the Wheeling Tigers, which was witnessed by 1,500 people, was one continuous wrangle, and the game was not finished until after dark. Both sides claim the victory. Touchdown and goal of the Tigers in the second half are in dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0020-0001", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nThe trouble was due to a misunderstanding between the umpire and the referee regarding their respective privileges and duties, and their evident desire to favor their own teams. W.U.P. quit once, but this action brought forth general hissing and expressions of indignation and they finished the game.\u201d The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer gave a detailed account of the proceedings. In the first half both teams played well on defense and ball possession changed back and forth. The Tigers recovered an onside kick and their offense moved the ball close to the WUP goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0020-0002", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nThe WUP defense stiffened and Tiger captain Robert Edwards drop-kicked a goal and the Tigers led 5-0. A punting duel ensued. WUP halfback Donaldson was injured and time was called. Then the Tiger offense started to advance the pigskin and Robert Edwards scampered around the end but fumbled into the hands of WUP end Marshall, who raced down the sideline seventy yards for the touchdown. Guilford's goal after was successful and the score read 6-5 in favor of the Western University. The Tigers were able to again move the ball near the WUP goal before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0020-0003", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nThe second half started with the usual back and forth possessions until Guilford of WUP was penalized for a tackle below the knee. The WUP team was not happy with the umpire, Mr. Charles Williams, and words were exchanged. When play resumed Robert Edwards was literally pushed over the goal with a mighty effort that left him injured. Sweeney kicked the goal after and the final score was 11-6 in favor of the Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0021-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Wheeling Tigers\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game against Wheeling was Al Marshall (left end), Williams (left tackle), Gruff (left guard), Jesse Kaufman (center), Charles Burheim (right guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), Donaldson (left halfback), Weakley (right halfback) and Kirkpatrick (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0022-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Grove City\nOn a muddy November 28, two days after the tough loss to Wheeling, the WUP eleven closed their season at Grove City, Pa with a game against Grove City College. Six minutes into the first half fullback Craig of Grove City scored a touchdown. Shannon kicked the goal after and the score remained 6-0 in favor of Grove City for the rest of the half. In the second stanza halfback Brandon was able to break loose on a thirty yard touchdown jaunt for Grove City. Shannon again was successful with the goal kick after. The WUP offense could not sustain a drive and time expired with Grove City again deep in WUP territory. The final score read 12-0 in favor of Grove City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0023-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Grove City\nThe WUP lineup for the final game of the season was Al Marshall (left end), Williams (left tackle), Charles Burheim (left guard), Jesse Kaufman (center), McConkey (right guard), Edgar Guilford (right tackle), Jay Henry (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), John Kennihan (left halfback), Judd Bruff (right halfback) and Weakley (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031009-0024-0000", "contents": "1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1896 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031010-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1896 William & Mary Orange and White football team represented the College of William & Mary during the 1896 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031011-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1896 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 13 July until 21 July. It was the 20th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1896. The number of entries for the men's singles competition was 31, the highest since 1881. Harold Mahony and Charlotte Cooper won the singles titles. The All England Plate was introduced for players who had lost in the first or second round of the singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031011-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Gentlemen's Singles\nHarold Mahony defeated Wilfred Baddeley, 6\u20132, 6\u20138, 5\u20137, 8\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031011-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Gentlemen's Doubles\nHerbert Baddeley / Wilfred Baddeley defeated Reginald Doherty / Harold Nisbet, 1\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031012-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Doubles\nReginald Doherty and Harold Nisbet defeated Charles Allen and Roy Allen 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 6\u20131 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Herbert Baddeley and Wilfred Baddeley defeated Doherty and Nisbet 1\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1896 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031013-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nHarold Mahony defeated Wilberforce Eaves 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 11\u20139 in the All Comers Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Wilfred Baddeley 6\u20132, 6\u20138, 5\u20137, 8\u20136, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1896 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031014-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Singles\nAlice Pickering defeated Edith Austin 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Charlotte Cooper defeated Simpson Pickering 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1896 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031015-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1896 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1896 Western Conference football season. In their first season under head coach Philip King, the Badgers compiled a 7\u20131\u20131 record (2\u20130\u20131 against Western Conference opponents), shut out six of nine opponents, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 206 to 30, and won the first Western Conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031015-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nWisconsin played three conference games: a victory over Chicago (24\u20130) on November 7; a victory over Minnesota (6\u20130) on November 21; and a tie with Northwestern (6\u20136) on November 26. Wisconsin's sole loss was to the Carlisle Indians (18\u20138) in a night game played indoors and under the lights at the Chicago Coliseum before a crowd of 16,000 persons. Wisconsin did not play another night game until 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031015-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nFour Wisconsin players were selected to the 1896 All-Western football team published in the Chicago Inter Ocean: end Chester Brown, tackle J. F. A. \"Sunny\" Pyre, guard John E. Ryan, and halfback John \"Ikey\" Karel. J. R. Richards was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031016-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 1896 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031016-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee Edward Scofield defeated Democratic nominee Willis C. Silverthorn with 59.67% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031016-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Wisconsin elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031017-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1896 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 7 and 8 February 1896 at the ice rink Joesoepovski Park in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Jaap Eden was the defending champion, he extended his title by winning all four distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031017-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nFour distances had to be skated: 500, 1500, 5000 and 10,000 m. One could earn the world title only by winning at least three of the four distances, otherwise the title would become vacant. Silver and bronze medals were not awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031018-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. The first competition took place on February 9, 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031018-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 World Figure Skating Championships\nIn 1895, the International Skating Union organized the first World Figure Skating Championships committee, which consisted of 5 people. This committee was entrusted with preparation and presentation of the figure skating rules. ISU also confirmed that World Figure Skating Championships will be held and that in the meantime men skaters should comply with the rules not yet published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031019-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1896 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1896 college football season. In its third season under head coach Justus F. Soule, a professor of Latin and Greek, the team compiled a perfect 2\u20130 record, consisting of victories over Colorado State Normal and Denver's Manual High School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031019-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nFor the third consecutive year, Herbert J. Brees was the team captain. Brees was a native of Laramie who went on to a career in the United States Army. He retired from the Army in 1941 with the rank of lieutenant general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031019-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nIn the program's first three years under coach Soule and captain Brees (1894-1896), the football team compiled a 6-0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 128 to 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031020-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13\u20131 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24\u20136 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031020-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 Yale Bulldogs football team\nTwo Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team. Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections\nThe United States Senate elections of 1896 and 1897 were elections in which the Democratic Party lost seven seats in the United States Senate, mostly to smaller third parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections\nAs these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, senators were chosen by state legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 54th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were seated during 1896 or in 1897 before March 4; ordered by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections leading to the 55th Congress\nIn these regular elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1897; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 100], "content_span": [101, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 55th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were elected in 1897 after March 4; ordered by date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe election in New York was held on January 19, 1897, by the New York State Legislature. Democrat David B. Hill had been elected to this seat in 1891, and his term would expire on March 3, 1897. At the State election in November 1895, 36 Republicans and 14 Democrats were elected for a three-year term (1896\u20131898) in the state senate. At the State election in November 1896, 114 Republicans and 36 Democrats were elected for the session of 1897 to the Assembly. The 120th New York State Legislature met from January 6 to April 24, 1897, at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe Republican caucus met on January 14. 149 State legislators attended, and State Senator Cornelius R. Parsons (43rd D.), Ex-Mayor of Rochester, presided. The caucus nominated the Republican boss Thomas C. Platt, who had been briefly a U.S. Senator in 1881, on the first ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0007-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe Democratic caucus met on January 18. 46 State legislators attended, but 5 walked out before the roll was called, after making speeches against Hill. The incumbent U.S. Senator David B. Hill was re-nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0008-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, New York\nThomas C. Platt was the choice of both the Assembly and the state senate, and was declared elected. Four anti-Hill Democrats voted for Labor leader Henry George, who later the same year ran for Mayor of New York as a \"Jefferson Democrat\" but died a few days before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0009-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, New York\nNote: The votes were cast on January 19, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 20 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0010-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nThe election in Pennsylvania was held January 19, 1897. Boies Penrose was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Incumbent Republican J. Donald Cameron, who was elected in an 1877 special election and subsequently re-elected in 1879, 1885, and 1891, was not a candidate for re-election. The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 19, 1897, to elect a new senator to fill the term beginning on March 4, 1897. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0011-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, South Carolina\nThe election in South Carolina was a unanimous election of the Democratic nominee on January 26, 1897. The Democratic primary election was held on August 26, 1896, and September 9. The Democratic Party of South Carolina organized primary elections for the U.S. Senate beginning in 1896 and the General Assembly would confirm the choice of the Democratic voters. Conservative Democratic Joseph H. Earle won the Democratic primary and was elected by the General Assembly for a six-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0012-0000", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, South Carolina\nIn 1896, Governor of South Carolina John Gary Evans entered the first ever election in the state of South Carolina for the U.S. Senate. He had the backing of Senator Ben Tillman and much of the farming interests in the state. However, the farmers' movement had largely run its course and the Tillmanite reform movement had angered a considerable number of voters in the state. Conservative Joseph H. Earle and Newberry native John T. Duncan announced their candidacy's in opposition to Governor Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031021-0012-0001", "contents": "1896 and 1897 United States Senate elections, South Carolina\nIn the primary on August 26 Evans emerged as the frontrunner, but did not garner over 50% of the vote and was forced to face Earle in a runoff election. Those who had voted for Duncan threw their support to Earle and it provided him with the margin he needed for victory over Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031022-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 college football season\nThe 1896 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Lafayette and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Lafayette finished with an 11\u20130\u20131 record while Princeton had a 10\u20130\u20131 record. In the second game of the season for both teams, Lafayette and Princeton played to a scoreless tie. Both teams had signature wins: Lafayette defeated Penn 6\u20134, giving the Quakers their only loss of the season, while Princeton defeated previously unbeaten Yale, 24\u20136, on Thanksgiving Day in the last game of the season. Princeton was retroactively named the 1896 national champions by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and Lafayette and Princeton were named national co-champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031023-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Afghanistan\nRelated to 1896 in Afghanistan:Negotiations are going on between the Indian government and the amir tending to the appointment of a joint commission for determining the last 100 miles (160\u00a0km) of Indo-Afghan frontier yet unsettled, from Landi Kotal in the Khyber to Nawar Kotal on the Kunar River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031023-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in Afghanistan\nNasrullah Khan is received in a most cordial manner on his return from his visit to England. There are great rejoicings for two or three weeks, but then he gradually drops out of notice. His brother, Habibullah Khan, on the other hand, is immensely popular with everybody, and is in high favour with the amir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031023-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 in Afghanistan, Early 1896\nConclusion of the Kafiristan campaign. The Afghans have captured twenty-five forts at an admitted loss of 1,500 killed and wounded. In some of the valleys, however, the Kafirs still hold out, although many of the chiefs submit to the amir at the beginning of February. Soon after hostilities are resumed on the southern and eastern sides of Kafiristan, and nearly all the fertile portions are taken by the Afghan forces. In May the troops are ordered into the more inaccessible northwestern part, so as to complete the subjugation of the country. The amir treats the conquered people with leniency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031023-0002-0001", "contents": "1896 in Afghanistan, Early 1896\nOrders are issued forbidding slave traffic in Kafirs, for it was alleged that after the victories in the Bashgal Valley at the beginning of the year certain captives were reduced to an atrocious form of slavery. The amir also gives orders to the Afghan officers to treat the Kafirs kindly, and not seek to convert them by force to Islam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031023-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 in Afghanistan, Summer 1896\nThe amir sends a force of militia to occupy the Mittai Valley in Bajaur, where the clans previously received a demand for taxes. The Khan of Nawagai, who rendered excellent service in the Chitral expedition, is alarmed and complains to the government of India. The amir, after some hesitation, acknowledges his obligations under the Durand Line Agreement, but at the end of the year the Afghan outpost still remains at Mittai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031023-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 in Afghanistan, October 1896\nOn the Pamir Mountains frontier the transfer of the Darwaz district of Bukhara to the Afghans up to the Amu Darya, as agreed upon between Russia and Britain, is completed. It is stated that Russia is making movements in the direction of Herat, and intends not only to extend the railway from Merv into the Kushk Valley, but also to build a line from Charjui along the Oxus to Karki, close to the Afghan frontier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031023-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 in Afghanistan, December 1896\nA slight collision takes place between the forces of the Khan of Nawagai, whose territory was threatened by the Afghans at Mittai, and the Khan of Pashat, and the Afghan force moves down the Kunar River about fifteen miles (24\u00a0km) from Asmar to protect their communications with Jalalabad, but nothing more serious happens, and the final solution of the frontier question is in a fair way of settlement. The arrangements for the demarcation of the boundary between British Baluchistan and Persia from Koh-i-Malik Siah on the north, to a point near Jalk, are concluded, and pillars are to be set up in the desert marking the frontier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031024-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Argentine football\n1896 in Argentine football saw Lomas's attempt to win its 4th successive Primera Divisi\u00f3n championship, but the title was finally won by Lomas Academy, the other team from the club, which played its last tournament so it would be dissolved. Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway merged with Belgrano Athletic Club, which debuted that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031024-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in Argentine football, Primera divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship took the format of a league of 5 teams, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031025-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1896 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031026-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031026-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1896 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031026-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1896 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031027-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Australian soccer\nThe 1896 season was the 13th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031027-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031033-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1896\nIn the MRFU, the fall session saw the Winnipeg Football Club (Winnipegs) and the St.John's Rugby Football Club (St.John's) compete. In the spring session of the season, the Royal Canadian Dragoons were added to the competition. The Winnipegs and the St.John's played a final league game to determine the regular season champion. The St.John's received a bye to the MRFU playoff finals while the Winnipegs played the Dragoons in the MRFU playoff semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031033-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1896, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 89], "content_span": [90, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031034-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1896 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031041-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Iran\nThe following lists events that have happened in 1896 in the Qajar dynasty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031043-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Italy, Events\nIn 1896, the Banco Ambrosiano was founded in Milan by Giuseppe Tovini, a Catholic advocate, and was named after Saint Ambrose, the 4th century archbishop of the city. Tovini's purpose was to create a Catholic bank as a counterbalance to Italy's \"lay\" banks, and its goals were \"serving moral organisations, pious works, and religious bodies set up for charitable aims.\" The bank came to be known as the \"priests' bank.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031045-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1896 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031045-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government and law\nThe Liberal Party is re-elected and begins the 13th New Zealand Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031047-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1896 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031049-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Russia\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Rcb1 (talk | contribs) at 10:32, 13 April 2020 (\u2192\u200eDeaths: Batalin). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031051-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1896 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031053-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Swedish football\nThe 1896 season in Swedish football, starting January 1896 and ending December 1896:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031054-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1896 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031058-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1896 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031059-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1896 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031060-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 1896 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031061-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in film\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1896 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031062-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031063-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1896 in motorsport, including the major racing events, racing festivals, circuits that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031063-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in motorsport, Events\nIt was the first year with motorsport competition with 1896 Paris\u2013Marseille\u2013Paris as the first race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031065-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031066-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in poetry\nIf you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 64]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031066-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in poetry\nOr walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much:If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds\u2019 worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that\u2019s in it,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031066-0002-0000", "contents": "1896 in poetry\n\u2014 closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If\u2014, first published this year", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031066-0003-0000", "contents": "1896 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031066-0004-0000", "contents": "1896 in poetry, Works published in English, United Kingdom\nSmart lad, to slip betimes awayFrom fields where glory does not stayAnd early though the laurel growsIt withers quicker than the rose. Eyes the shady night has shutCannot see the record cut,And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears:-- Lines 9-16", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 58], "content_span": [59, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031066-0005-0000", "contents": "1896 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031066-0006-0000", "contents": "1896 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031067-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031068-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in science\nThe year 1896 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031069-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in sports\n1896 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031070-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1896 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031070-0001-0000", "contents": "1896 in the Congo Free State, Sources\nThis article\u00a0incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031071-0000-0000", "contents": "1896 in the Philippines\n1896 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion\nThe 1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion (Greek: \u039c\u03b1\u03ba\u03b5\u03b4\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03b5\u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 1896\u20131897) was a Greek rebellion, launched in 1896, and a guerrilla movement that took place in Macedonia in order to preserve the conscience and ready-mindedness of the Macedonian Greek populations, to create a rivalous awe against the Bulgarians the demarcation of the Greek territorial claims in the Ottoman area and the creation of a distraction for the events of Crete. The movement was of Macedonian character, as the regiments invading Macedonia from Thessaly consisted primarily of Macedonian chieftains and fighters, most of whom were from Northwestern Macedonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0000-0001", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion\nThe initial impetus was given by the Ethniki Etaireia (Greek National Company), but then several Macedonian chieftains spontaneously and without coordination were involved in the events, while in some regions of Macedonia the events took the form of massive uprisings. The main rebels of the Macedonian Revolution of 1896 were the areas of Sanjak of Monastir (Florina, Bitola, Prespes), Sanjak of Korytsa (Kastoria), Sanjak of Servia (Grevena, Kozani), Sanjak of Salonica (Thessaloniki, Pieria, Imathia, Pella, Tikve\u0161) and Sanjak of Serres (Serres, Upper Nevrokopi, Lower Nevrokopi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nAlready in the Macedonian revolution of 1878 around 1,000 Revolutionary veterans were in Thessaly, while other 2,000 to 2,500 thousand Macedonians who had been expelled because of the degraded situation in their homelands were counted. On top of that, many leaders of the Macedonian Revolution of 1878 had remained in Macedonia and continued the guerrilla action. They used to let go in the winter and from the spring they were destroying mainly Ottoman targets. The Ethniki Etaireia (Greek National Company) invited the chieftains who were in the free Greece to organize and coordinate their action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0001-0001", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nThe chiefs who participated were Zermas, Makris, Alamanos, Naoum Konstantinidis, Vlachavas, Athanasios Broufas, Takis Natsios (Periphanos) from Megarovo, Pelagonia, Panagiotis Ververas and Christos Ververas. At the same time, without agreement, Nikolaos Tsapanos from Pelagonia, who lived in Thessaly, bought 500 weapons for the rebels. Chief of the revolutionary forces was proclaimed Athanasios Broufas. A total of 400 rebels came from Thessaly to Macedonia, whose vast majority were from Northwestern Macedonia. Also participated, Epirotes, heard the Thessalians and the Stereohelladites and, to a lesser extent, the Cretans, the Greeks of Russia and the Eastern Rumelians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nThe first infantry under Athanasios Broufas, 90 men, with Macedonians Demetrios Kannavos, Takis Natsios (Periphanos), Ioannis Georgantas, Ioannis Tsamis from Pisoderi, Vassilios Economou and Lazaros Varzis disembarked in early July 1896 in Skala Eleftherohoriou and afterwards victorious battles with the Ottomans in Vermio Mountains split into two groups. The one with Takis Natsios (Periphanos), Ioannis Tsamis and Lazaros Varzis was headed to Florina, while the second with Athanasios Broufas, Ioannis Georgantas and Vassilios Economou was headed to Veria, Naousa, Ostrovo, Morichovo and Kafantari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0002-0001", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nThe Broufas' infantry split into smaller and moved to Eordaia and Kozani where he gave several battles with Ottoman military regiments. Also, great battles were given in Vladovo and Pozar, Pella. At the end of July 1896, Athanasios Broufas and his men gave a long battle against the Ottomans at the Axios Gates at Tikves. There, Demetrios Kannavos lost his life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0002-0002", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nThe Natsios (Periphanos)' infantry from Peristeri where he was headed was headed on 15 August at the Monastery of Panagia Slimnitsa, in Louboino of Pelagonia, where he met with the chieftains Lazaros Varzis (Zarkadas), Makris, Ioannis Tsamis, Katarachias, Mitsos and Davelis. There they co-authored a revolutionary declaration to the people of Macedonia, the Ottoman authorities and the European consuls explaining the causes of the revolution and its purposes. They were then separated and acted separately in Kastoria, Nestorio, Florina and Eordaia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nThe declaration was mentioning among others: \"We, being Greek, want Macedonia Greek, and for this we fight\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nInitially, the military commander of Manastir Vilayet underestimated the revolution and assured the Vali (governor) Abdul Kerim that he was in control of the situation and that he would fight the rebels. However, the acceptance of the movement by the local Greek population was great; many Greeks from Ohrid and Morichovo were trying to join the guerrillas. Twenty-one fighters were recruited in Boufi. This situation alienated Avdul Kerim Pasha and took action himself. Ottoman reprisals took place in Trebeno, Eordaia, where a furious mob murdered Emmanuel Tsiotsias and Nikolaos Georgiou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0004-0001", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Background\nIn Kozani, the mob caused great disasters in Greek properties and threatened with a general massacre of the Greeks. In the Sarakinoi of Pella, the Ottomans burned many homes, tortured the inhabitants, raped the women, and hung the priest of the village. Finally, it was decided to create a special troop of 800 men who would chase the rebels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Evolution of the revolution until 1897\nThen other infantries entered Macedonia and acted in Morichovo, Almopia and Nevrokopi (Upper and Lower). The revolution lasted until the autumn of 1896 in the areas of Grevena and Kozani, when it was decided to withdraw for the winter due to the lack of munitions and the fear of the Ottoman reprisals in the villages that participated. In the spring of 1897, some chieftains who remained in Macedonia continued their action but the unfortunate outcome for the Greek side, of the Greco-Turkish War finally ended the revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Consequences\nSong for chieftain Athanasios BroufasCuckoos in mountains and partridges in slopes are saying it,rock thrush also says it in guerrilla hideouts. Guerrillas scattered, they made battalionsBroufas in Mariovo, Zarkadas in Kailariaand Takis Periphanos high in Peristeri. And once again they were gathered in Panagia Limnitsa and from there, they send commands and they frighten the Turkish:\"Turkish, stay quiet! We burn your villages. It's not last year, Bulgarian bastardsBut, it's Greek lads, who live in the ravinesand they fight the Turkish, day and night.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Consequences\nThe outburst of the 1896 Revolution in Macedonia was great and had been remembered by the Macedonians for several years, although it was short and without practical results. However, the presence and claims of the Hellenism of the region that remained alive was what really gained from this revolutionary movement and created a revolutionary tradition with a host of chieftains and rebels who could rebel at any time. It was the yeast that gave the numerous guerrillas during the period of the Macedonian Struggle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031074-0007-0001", "contents": "1896\u20131897 Macedonian rebellion, Consequences\nThe European diplomatic representatives in the region as well as the Ottoman authorities were impressed by the ethos of the Greek revolutionaries, as they never turned against civilians, did not commit looting and thefts. The 1896 revolution was engraved in the memory of the Greeks of Macedonia and a number of folk songs survived in the oral tradition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031075-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1896-97 English football season was Aston Villa's ninth season in the Football League since being one of its 12 founding members in 1888.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031075-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe season got off to a slow start, with Villa recording only two wins in the first six games. An unbeaten run of 12 games took them to the top, where they finished with a lead of 11 points. The title was won when Derby County F.C. failed to win on 10 April; Villa had three games left to play, all of which were won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031075-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Aston Villa F.C. season\nFor good measure, the FA Cup was also won, to make Villa the second team to complete \"The Double\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031075-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThis was the season during which Villa moved from Wellington Road to their current home at Villa Park, although it was still referred to as 'Aston Lower Grounds' for some time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031075-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Aston Villa F.C. season\nJohn Campbell was not quite as productive as in the previous season, and the leading scorer honours went to Fred Wheldon. Fred had been signed in 1896 for \u00a3350 from local rivals Small Heath, who had been relegated the previous season. He was a good dribbler with the ball and won four caps for England. He played first class cricket for Worcestershire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031075-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Aston Villa F.C. season, Results, Football League\nA total of 16 teams competed in the First Division in the 1896\u201397 season. Each team would play every other team twice, once at their stadium, and once at the opposition's. Two points were awarded to teams for each win, one point per draw, and none for defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031076-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 6 teams, and Racing Club de Bruxelles won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was Blackpool F.C. 's debut season in the Football League. They competed in the sixteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season\nJack Parkinson was the club's top scorer, with fifteen goals to his name. Tommy Bowman, William Douglas and Bob Norris were ever-present during the club's 30 league games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's first game in the Football League took place on 5 September 1896, at Lincoln City's Sincil Bank. The visitors' starting eleven that day was: William Douglas, Henry Parr (captain), Tommy Bowman, Alex Stuart, Harry Stirzaker, Bob Norris, John Clarkin, Sam Donnelly, Jack Parkinson, Bob Parkinson and Charlie Mount. Mount scored Blackpool's first League goal, but they slipped to a 3\u20131 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA week later, Blackpool travelled to Darwen and chalked up their first victory, 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 19 September, Burton Wanderers were the first visitors to Raikes Hall for a Football League game, and they returned whence they came with a 5\u20130 defeat behind them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nFor the final game of September, the Seasiders hosted Manchester City. The match finished 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAnother road trip ensued, on 3 October, to Leicester Fosse. The Midlanders took both points with a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter a fortnight's break, Blackpool welcomed North-West neighbours Newton Heath to Raikes Hall. The home side ran out 4\u20132 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0008-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nNovember began with a trip to Manchester City. The host won 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0009-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nLincoln City travelled to the Lancashire coast on 14 November, and Blackpool recorded their first win for a month. Bob Birkett, on his debut and in his only appearance of the season, scored Blackpool's first goal in a 3\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0010-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo weeks later, Notts County were the visitors, and Blackpool were the victors for the second consecutive game, this time with a 3\u20132 result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0011-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool didn't play again until a 19 December visit to Woolwich Arsenal. They lost 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0012-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn Boxing Day, Blackpool travelled to Newton Heath and lost 2\u20130 in what appears to be, at around 10,000, the largest crowd of the season in a game involving Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0013-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\n1897 began with a New Year's Day victory at home to Grimsby Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0014-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 4 January, Woolwich Arsenal made the trip up from London. They returned to the capital with a point after a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0015-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwelve days later, Blackpool travelled north-east to Newcastle United. The Magpies won 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0016-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 23 January, Small Heath were the visitors to Raikes Hall. They won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0017-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA third consecutive defeat occurred at Loughborough at the end of the month. The match ended 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0018-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter another break, Blackpool hosted Walsall on 13 February and chalked up their first win in four games with a 3\u20132 result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0019-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nGrimsby was the destination the following weekend. The match ended in a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0020-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool took on Leicester Fosse on 27 February, and ran out 3\u20130 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0021-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nInto March, and an away game against Small Heath. Blackpool won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0022-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA third consecutive victory followed on 13 March \u2014 4\u20131 at home to Newcastle United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0023-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe Seasiders' good form ended in the following game, a 3\u20131 defeat at Notts County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0024-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 27 March, Blackpool returned to winning ways when Loughborough travelled to Raikes Hall. The hosts won 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0025-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo days later, Blackpool travelled to Burton Wanderers and lost 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0026-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo more defeats ensued: 2\u20130 at Gainsborough Trinity, and the same scoreline at Walsall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0027-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSeven months after they met in East Lancashire, on 16 April Darwen travelled west to the coast. Jack Parkinson's strike gave Blackpool both points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0028-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA 3\u20130 home victory over Burton Swifts ensued, before the final game of the season saw Gainsborough Trinity visit the seaside for a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031077-0029-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThree players appeared in each of Blackpool's 30 matches: Douglas, Bowman and Norris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031078-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1896\u201397 English football season, Brentford competed in the London League Second Division. The club finished as runners-up to gain promotion to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031078-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDuring the 1896 off-season, Brentford was elected into the Second Division of the newly-formed London League. 1896\u201397 marked the club's first full season of competitive league play since 1892\u201393, when it finished as champions of the West London Alliance. Long-serving half back Jimmy Ray and outside left Tommy Stevenson were released and transferred in were forwards Oakey Field, Harold Hudson, J. Wade and left half Billy Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031078-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite a failure to win either the London Senior Cup, Middlesex Senior Cup or the West Middlesex Cup, Brentford took the London League Second Division by storm, losing just one match all season to finish as runners-up to champions Bromley and gain promotion to the First Division. Attendances at Shotter's Field were rarely below 1,500 and forward Oakey Field and captain Arthur Charlton scored many of the team's goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031078-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031079-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 British Home Championship\nThe 1896\u201397 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations. It was won by Scotland after a late goal at The Crystal Palace which beat England to the trophy despite England's dominance of the competition up to that point. Ireland came third despite conceding 14 goals and Wales finished last having picked up only one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031079-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 British Home Championship\nEngland began the tournament the strongest, scoring six without reply against the Irish in Belfast with Fred Wheldon claiming a hat-trick. Ireland recovered in the second match however, a high-scoring affair against Wales in which the Irish just claimed a 4\u20133 victory. Wales too improved in their second match, forcing a draw from Scotland in Wrexham, before Scotland too improved, beating Ireland 5\u20131 at home to temporarily take the top of the table. England surpassed them in the penultimate match, winning 4\u20130 over Wales and needing only a draw in the final game at home against Scotland to win the tournament. Scotland however were more than a match for the English and scored late to claim their 2\u20131 victory and win the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031080-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1896\u201397 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1896\u201397 college men's basketball season. The team had finished with an overall record of 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was Burslem Port Vale's first season of football (third overall) back in the Midland League following a four season stay in the Football League. The first half of the season saw low crowds and poor results, the consequence of which led to discussions about dissolving the club. However the club returned from the brink, as a new committee was formed, with Edward Oliver installed as chairman and Sam Gleaves appointed club secretary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0000-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nGood results and large crowds followed in the second half of the campaign, and the club finished in seventh-place and narrowly missed out on re-election to the Football League. Vale were beaten by Football League opposition in the fifth qualification round in the FA Cup, whilst exiting the Birmingham Senior Cup, Staffordshire Senior Cup and Wellingborough Cup in the early stages, though they did beat Football League side Walsall in the latter competition. They won the Staffordshire Senior Charity Cup after beating Dresden United 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nHaving failed a vote to stay in the Football League, Burslem Port Vale successfully re-applied for membership of the Midland League. They started positively with a 4\u20131 home win over Wellingborough Town, though only 200 spectators turned up to the Athletic Ground. Bad news followed as centre-half Ralph Barlow suffered a breakdown and was sent to a convalescent home. The team then lost home and away to Glossop North End, with Danny Simpson being sent off in the home fixture for making an \"objectionable remark\" to the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0001-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nA 1\u20130 defeat at Worksop was followed by a 5\u20132 win over a strong Doncaster Rovers side. Wellingborough Town then took their revenge with a 3\u20132 win in Wellingborough. Feeling the need to raise funds, Vale sold goalkeeper Tom Baddeley to Wolverhampton Wanderers for \u00a350. The financial boost was needed as a 3\u20131 home win over Barnsley St Peter's on 7 November saw just 100 spectators, raising gross takings of \u00a35 for a match-day loss of around \u00a38. In Baddeley's absence Vale conceded six in a home defeat to Rushden and \"the disgust of the spectators was general\". A public meeting was held on 14 December to debate the club's future, if any; the outlook seemed extremely bleak as a poorly attended meeting heard that the club had a debt of \u00a3110 and the current committee were unwilling to continue funding the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nHeanor Town lent Vale the necessary \u00a35 expenses for the trip to Heanor and the home side subsequently romped to a 7\u20131 victory. Just as the club seemed to be heading for oblivion, a new committee of \"all the football worthies in the town\" was formed to take the club forward in a meeting at Burslem town hall that was \"packed to suffocation\"; Edward Oliver was voted as the new chairman, with Sam Gleaves as the new secretary. In January, a public company was floated with \u00a32,000 capital in \u00a31 shares.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0002-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nOn 2 January, Vale recorded their first away win of the campaign, beaten second-bottom Grantham Rovers 1\u20130. The turn around in form was confirmed with a 2\u20131 win over champions Kettering. Now in a position to strengthen the team, Vale signed left-sided attacker James Peake from Crewe Alexandra. A 7\u20132 defeat at Barnsley St Peter's proved to be the one blip in a run of nine unbeaten in the league, with the team grumbling about foul play from the hosts and \"incompetence\" from the referee. On 20 February, Vale managed to humiliate Grantham Rovers 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nSupporters returned to the Athletic Ground and a crowd of 1,500 witnessed a 3\u20131 victory over Long Eaton Rangers on 6 March. Two away victories saw the club rise to fourth in the league, including a 1\u20130 win at Rushden in which Fred Belfield was \"advised to leave the field\" by the referee as the home crowd were threatening to rush the pitch in response to Belfield's repeated kicking of defender Minney. More crowd trouble also occurred in the 1\u20130 win at Doncaster Rovers, as Dick Evans was grabbed by the throat and Teddy Morse was \"hurled under the waggonette\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0003-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nMorse was sent off in the following game, a 1\u20130 home defeat by Ilkeston Town, after Willett claimed he had bitten his nose. Vale went on to win their final two home fixtures, ending the campaign in seventh-place with 31 points from 28 matches, just one point away from third-place. Dick Evans finished as the club's top-scorer, claiming 12 league goals \u2013 though some of these might actually have been scored by namesake Ted Evans. The team's form in 1897 saw the club given a vote on whether they should be readmitted into the Football League at the league's annual meeting; however their 11 votes were two fewer than successful applicants Luton Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nVale claimed a walkover victory over Hereford in the third qualification round of the FA Cup after they could not guarantee the visitor's expenses. They then beat Birmingham League side Stourbridge in the next round, but failed to overcome Football League Second Division side Burton Swifts in the fifth qualification round in what was described as \"the best game seen at Cobridge for two years\". They exited the Birmingham Senior Cup at the first round, losing 2\u20131 to Brierley Hill Alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031081-0004-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nThey failed to make it past the preliminary round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup, falling to a 4\u20132 defeat at Dresden United in a replayed fixture after the initial match was tied 1\u20131. In the Wellingborough Cup, Vale beat Football League Second Division side Walsall 3\u20132 at Fellows Park, but then lost 3\u20131 at Wellingborough Town in the semi-finals. On 28 April, Vale claimed the Staffordshire Senior Charity Cup after beating Dresden United 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031082-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Butler Christians men's basketball team\nThe 1896\u201397 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1896\u201397 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031083-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1896\u201397 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031084-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1896\u201397 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program. Columbia University became just the third American university to support an ice hockey team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031084-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nA year after Yale played the first intercollegiate game against Johns Hopkins, Columbia organized their own team and found that it had sufficient interest to support two full teams. The team played two practice games in December in order to get their feet wet and help the novice players learn the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031084-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031085-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1896\u201397 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1896\u201397 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the 24th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nThe first league game of the new season was played at home to Partick Thistle on 15 August, and after an evenly contested match the spoils were shared in a 2-2 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nThe following Saturday Dumbarton visited Port Glasgow with a team that showed 3 changes, Juniors Rodger and Watson being given trials together with the addition of returnee Hugh Craig. Dumbarton led through a Malloy goal at half time, and while Port Glasgow equalised, the Sons regained the lead only for the home team to score twice in the last five minutes for a 3-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nOn 29 August Dumbarton were at home to play their league fixture against Greenock Morton. The team had a forced change with the departure of McIlhany, his place being taken by Reid. With a gale blowing down the field Dumbarton conceded a goal against the wind before half time. Morton scored another two in the second half, but Dumbarton put up a sterling struggle considering that most of the second 45 minutes were played with only 8 men as both Thomsons and Reid were all lost to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nOn 5 September Dumbarton travelled to Rugby Park to play Kilmarnock. With the previous week\u2019s injuries, a reshuffle was required with Morrice and Weir returning together with Skinner stepping up from the reserves. Unfortunately in a poor performance the home team cruised to victory by 5-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nIt was another away tie the following week but the journey was short as the opponents were local rivals Renton. William Thomson returned to the side but it made little difference as the Sons fell to a disappointing 4-0 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nAfter a weather disrupted weekend Dumbarton resumed league business at Boghead on 26 September against Leith Athletic. The match was a close affair but in the end Dumbarton succumbed to yet another defeat by 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nThe first ever league fixture against Airdrie was played at Broomfield Park on 3 October. More departures in the form of Craig, McIlhany and Weir meant further team changes including new boys McGregor and Adamson. The game however finished with the same story of a Dumbarton defeat \u2013 this time by 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0008-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nFor many seasons the relationship between Dumbarton and Queen\u2019s Park had been cold but on 10 October the teams met in a friendly at Hampden Park. Certainly this match \u2013 over two 35 minute halves - was between amateur sides but the Queen\u2019s Park had for many years attracted the cream of the crop and it showed in the 6-1 beating that was handed out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0009-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nThe following Saturday it was a trip to Cappielow Park to play Morton in the return league fixture. There was another new face \u2013 Fraser - playing at inside left but while Dumbarton\u2019s play was much improved on previous outings it was yet another defeat \u2013 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0010-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nYet another away fixture \u2013 the sixth in nine league matches \u2013 was set for 24 October. The venue was Beechwood Park to play Leith Athletic and the team showed three more changes with the introduction of Bowman in goals, McBirnie at left back and Hodge at inside left. The result was a disastrous 7-1 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0011-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nThere was a free week on 31 October but with nine matches down and nine to go, Dumbarton had a solitary point to show for their efforts and were marooned at the foot of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0012-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe first game of November saw neighbours Renton visit Boghead on league duty. Docherty was back in goals but despite holding out 1-1 at half time it was Renton who took the points by scoring two more in the second half for a 3-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0013-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe only point gathered so far in the league was against Partick Thistle back in August and it was hoped that fortunes might pick up for the return fixture in Glasgow on 14 November. The first half was evenly contested with the Jags leading by the only goal but in the second half Dumbarton fell away and lost by 6-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0014-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe following weekend a friendly was arranged with the recently revived Vale of Leven at Millburn Park. In a dull game a 1-1 draw was achieved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0015-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nOn 28 November Dumbarton visited Govan to play Linthouse in their first league fixture of the season. Dumbarton trialled Mitchell at left back and at half time the team had played well to lead 2-1. Linthouse levelled the scores in the second half but Dumbarton had at last secured their second point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0016-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nOn 5 December Dumbarton welcomed Airdrie to Boghead for their return league fixture. Helping out the team was Dumbarton old boy Hugh Mair at inside left. In October the Sons had only lost out to the odd goal in five but on this occasion the visitors had the game tied up by half time \u2013 leading 3-0. Dumbarton got one back through Hendry but it was too little too late.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0017-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nThe weather put paid to any further play by Dumbarton during December and so 1896 found them still propping up the Second Division and still awaiting their first victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0018-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThe first game of 1897 on 9 January pitted Dumbarton against Raith Rovers at Boghead in the First Round of the Scottish Cup. While the match was a closely contested affair, the Rovers reached the interval a goal ahead. However Dumbarton came back in the second half and two Mair goals sealed the tie and the Sons first victory of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0019-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThe Second Round of the Cup draw Dumbarton against Leith Athletic and while the tie was to have been played on 16 January, due to the weather it was not until 6 February that the game went ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0020-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nThe team to play Leith showed a number of changes including the return of William Thomson at inside left and new boy Lewis Mackie just arrived from Artizan Thistle. In addition old boy Leitch Keir made a guest appearance for the club. At the interval all looked bleak as Leith had built up a 4-1 lead, but the new spirit of the Dumbarton side came through as they scored three times in the second half to earn a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0021-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nOn 13 February the replay was held at Beechwood with the Dumbarton team strengthened further with the return of Alex Miller who took Keir\u2019s place and the introduction of Willie Speedie from Artizan Thistle at inside right. A Hendry hat trick had Dumbarton in \u2018easy street\u2019 but Leith reduced the leeway before the interval. The Second Division leaders showed their character and scored twice in the second half to take the tie to a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0022-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nThe following Saturday both teams went to Fir Park, Motherwell to finally decide this tie. Dumbarton fielded an unchanged side and with new boys Mackie and Speedie playing exceptionally, for the second week running Dumbarton built up a 3-0 lead. Again Leith fought back with two goals but were unable to find an equaliser \u2013 and so the Sons advanced. Alex Miller's appearance in this tie was his 112th competitive match for the club - overtaking Tom McMillan's record set in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0023-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nDumbarton\u2019s toughest match to date came on 27 February with a quarter final tie against First Division St Bernards. The Edinburgh side were installed as one of the favourites for the Cup, but an unchanged Dumbarton side were not about to stand aside. A penalty was saved by Docherty ensuring that half time was reached goalless. However William Thomson made no mistake with his penalty in the second half, and this followed up with a Dan Thomson strike meant that Dumbarton had reached the semi final stage of the national cup for the first time since 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0024-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nOn 6 March Dumbarton returned to league duty at Boghead against Linthouse. The Sons had earned one of their two points at Govan in August and hopes were high that an unchanged side could achieve their first league victory. As it was the match, while full of goals was sloppy, and whether or not Dumbarton had their minds on the cup, the game finished in a 5-4 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0025-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nAnd so the following Saturday Kilmarnock who were having some success in the Second Division arrived at Boghead to decide who would head to Hampden in the final of the Scottish Cup. For the fifth match in succession Dumbarton\u2019s team was unchanged and in the first half matters were equal as Dan Thomson\u2019s penalty was cancelled out by Kilmarnock before half time. In the second period Dumbarton raced to a 4-1 lead, but Killie pegged this back to 4-3 before the final whistle sounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0026-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nSo Hampden Park it was \u2013 on 20 March \u2013 1,000 Dumbarton supporters joined 12.000 others to witness the Sons first final since 1891 to face the mighty Glasgow Rangers. Things did not look good as Rangers raced to a two goal lead but a goal by William Thomson restored confidence. Immediately thereafter the Rangers goalkeeper had a lucky save followed by a Dumbarton goal that was chalked off for offside. Somehow that deflated Dumbarton\u2019s spirit and Rangers went on to score another three goals for a flattering 5-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0027-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nDumbarton\u2019s next game was a county cup semi final tie against Newtown Thistle on 3 April. In a close game Dumbarton eventually ran out winners by 4-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0028-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThe following Saturday Dumbarton played their return league fixture against Kilmarnock at Boghead. Kilmarnock had only one of their away fixtures and the Sons were anxious to show the home crowd their cup spirit. In an even first half Killie were ahead by a goal, but they more than gained revenge for their Scottish Cup semi final exit by easily brushing Dumbarton aside 6-0. The match would be Alex Miller's final game for the club. During his nine seasons he set a new record of 117 appearances in all national competitive matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0029-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nOn 17 April, Scottish Cup finalists Dumbarton travelled to Fir Park to play Qualifying Cup finalists Motherwell. It was decided long before that Dumbarton would finish bottom of the division but two points against the team immediately above them would be a success of sorts. Despite missing Saunderson and Miller the game started well as Fraser put Dumbarton into an early lead but from then on it was all Motherwell who won at a stroll by 5-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0030-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nA week later Dumbarton and Vale of Leven met at Tontine Park to decide the fate of the Dumbartonshire Cup. Scott took Docherty\u2019s place in goal but it was expected that the \u2018league\u2019 side would come out on top. Up until 15 minutes from time Dumbarton had the best of the game and led 2-1 but the Vale found an extra gear and scored twice to secure the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0031-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nTwo days later on 26 April a Dumbartonshire Select XI played against Rangers for the benefit of Renton. Docherty, Mauchan, Hendry and Fraser all played in the county team which lost 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0032-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nOn 1 May Dumbarton played Vale of Leven again in a friendly at Boghead. This time the Sons made up for the disappointment of the previous week and gave their neighbours a lesson in goal scoring with a 5-1 drubbing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0033-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nThe following Saturday Dumbarton played their penultimate league tie at Boghead against Port Glasgow \u2013 and after 16 failed attempts the Sons finally broke their \u2018duck\u2019 to win their first league fixture with a comfortable 4-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0034-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nThen on 15 May Dumbarton finished off their season with a further success \u2013 a home league victory over Motherwell. Thus amassing 6 points from their 18 games but still stuck at the bottom of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0035-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, June\nBy finishing bottom, Dumbarton required to go through the election process for continued membership of the Scottish League. Despite the poor league performance it was hoped that the later cup successes would be a positive factor. Nonetheless on 1 June it was Ayr from the Ayrshire Combination League that would step up, and just five years after retaining the league championship Dumbarton found themselves out in the wilderness. Full results of election as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0036-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nThe drop to the Second Division had a limited effect on Dumbarton\u2019s strongest XI, although they did lose the services of Billy Nash to Clyde and Samuel Woods to Stoke. In addition a number of first XI players decided to leave during the season with John Gillan heading to Everton, Robert Hendry to Rangers and Albert Saunderson also leaving for pastures new. A good many more would follow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0037-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nHowever the side was strengthened by the return of former internationalist William Thomson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031086-0038-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the second round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031087-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the fourth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, finishing in 5th place for the 2nd consecutive season. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup. Dundee would switch their main kit colours from sky blue and white stripes to a white shirt and black shorts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031088-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Everton F.C. season\nThe 1896/97 Football League season was the ninth in Football League history with Everton having been an ever present in the top division. The club played thirty-five games in England's two major competitions, winning eighteen, drawing three and losing fourteen. The club finished the season in seventh place, eight points clear of the test match relegation place, and reached their second F A Cup final but again lost, this time 2-3 against Aston Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031088-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nIn each of the previous two seasons Everton had started the calendar year on top of the League, only to falter in the second half of the season. In their bid to strengthen the forward line they brought in Jack Taylor from his hometown club St Mirren, slotting into the role vacated by Tom McInnes who had departed during the summer for Luton Town to join the forward line of Bell, Chadwick, Milward and Hartley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031088-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nElsewhere the familiar half back line of Boyle, Holt & Stewart would line up in front of full back, Smart Arridge, who would be partnered in defence this year by David Storrier after James Adams had returned to his former club Hearts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031088-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nOn paper this side looked as good as any in the First Division but there was uncertainty over the ability of the inexperienced goalkeeper, Harry Briggs, who had stepped in to make just one appearance the previous season after the departure of Jack Hillman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031088-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nWith the exception of the inclusion of John Cameron in place of Hartley, this was the team that won their opening game against The Wednesday, while Barker made his debut at the back, in place of Arridge in their second game, another victory over Wolves that took the Toffeemen joint top of the table with Bolton, albeit already having a game in hand on the Trotters. The Merseysiders went on to win four of their opening five games before embarking on a dreadful slump that provided just a solitary victory in their next nine games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031088-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nThe change initially looked to have been a wise one as, shortly after Menham's arrival, Everton embarked on a run of seven consecutive League and Cup victories to put themselves right back into the title race, four points behind leaders, Aston Villa with ten games remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031088-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Everton F.C. season, Season review\nThe last of those victories was Everton's first round cup tie with Burton Wanderers and it seemed that the cup run once again affected their League form as they now went on a run of six consecutive League defeats which killed any lingering title ambitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup\nThe 1896\u20131897 FA Cup was the 26th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The cup was won by Aston Villa, who defeated Everton 3\u20132 in the final of the competition, played at Crystal Palace in London. In doing so, Aston Villa became only the second team to have won the Double, as they won the league on the same day as their cup victory (and the only team to do this).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final. Each of the Rounds Proper were played on a set date, whereas the Preliminary and Qualifying Round matches were played on several dates over a given period of time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained 16 ties between 32 teams. The 16 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Notts County, Small Heath, Burton Wanderers, Grimsby Town, Newcastle United and Manchester City from the Second Division. The other Second Division sides were entered into the Third Qualifying Round. Of those sides, only Newton Heath and Burton Swifts qualified to the FA Cup Proper. Eight non-league sides also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 30 January 1897. One match was drawn, with the replay taking place in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 13 February 1897. There was one replay, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 27 February 1897. There were two replays, played in the following midweek fixture, of which the Preston North End \u2013 Aston Villa match went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were both played on Saturday, 20 March 1897. Aston Villa and Everton went on to meet in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031089-0008-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FA Cup, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 10 April 1897 at Crystal Palace. Just under 66,000 supporters attended the match. John Campbell opened the scoring for Villa after 18 minutes. Villa's lead was maintained for only five minutes before Everton equalised, through a goal from Jack Bell. Everton then went in front after Dickie Boyle scored five minutes later, but that lead only lasted seven minutes, when Fred Wheldon got an equaliser. Jimmy Crabtree put Villa back in front just before half-time, and Villa managed to come through the second half without conceding, meaning they had become only the second team ever to win the Double in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031090-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1896\u201397 season was their fourth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. Emanuel Schiess was the club's chairman, but he stood down at the club's AGM and Charlie Volderauer was elected as new chairman. He was the club's third chairman in their history, following Roland Geldner (1893\u20131896) and Schiess. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein neighborhood of Kleinbasel (lesser Basel). The Swiss national championships had not yet been called to into life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031090-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe idea of a Swiss national championship came to review with the Swiss Football Association, that had been founded the previous year and of which Basel and local rivals Old Boys were a member. But such a championship had not yet been called to into life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031090-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe club chairman Charlie Volderauer was the team captain this season. For this season club organised seven friendly matches for their first team. Four of these matches were held in Basel, one in the Landhof, two on the Sch\u00fctzenmatte and from the fourth the place of playing field is uncertain. Basel played two games in Mulhouse. The first against Strassburger FV was lost 3\u20134 and the second against FC Mulhouse was lost 2\u20133. Five games were played in November/December and the other two in March and June. Of the seven games, two were won, two were draw and the team suffered three defeats. The team scored 16 and conceded nine goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031090-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031090-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 FC Basel season, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the ninth season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at the website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League, Test Matches\nThe Football League test matches were a set of play-offs, in which the bottom First Division teams faced the top Second Division teams. Each First Division team plays both Second Division teams in a mini league format, the top two finishers would then be considered for election for First Division membership whilst the bottom two finishers would be invited to play in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League, Test Matches\nThe First Division teams, if finishing in the top two, would retain their places in the division. If a Second Division team does so, it would be considered for First Division membership through an election process. Bottom-two Second Division teams would stay in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League, Test Matches, Test match summary\nReference works, such Encyclopedia of British Football and Association Football, present the following table with the heading given above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031091-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football League, Test Matches, Test match consequences\nIt is likely that the league decided on re-election to the First Division and on promotion and relegation on the basis of the summary table above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031092-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Kj\u00f8benhavns Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031093-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1896\u201397 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Stade Fran\u00e7ais.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031093-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe title was assigned after a round-robin tournament played by six clubs (all from Paris)\u00a0: le Stade Fran\u00e7ais, l'Union Athl\u00e9tique du Premier, le Racing club de France, le Cosmopolitan Club, l'Union Sportive de l'Est et l'Olympique.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031093-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 French Rugby Union Championship, Classement final\nCosmopolitan declared forfeit for the matches against Stade Fran\u00e7ais et le Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031094-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1896\u201397 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031095-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1896\u201397 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished second out of 10 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031096-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Hongkong Challenge Shield\n1896\u201397 Hong Kong Challenge Shield is the inaugural season of Hong Kong Challenge Shield, the now existing oldest football tournament in Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031096-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Hongkong Challenge Shield, Fixtures and results, First round\nThe draw of first round was made on 4 December 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031096-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Hongkong Challenge Shield, Fixtures and results, Second round\nThe draw of second round was made on 11 January 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031096-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Hongkong Challenge Shield, Fixtures and results, Semi-finals\nThe draw of semi-finals was made on 1 March 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031096-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Hongkong Challenge Shield, Fixtures and results, Final\nThe match was scheduled playing on 20 March 1897, but later was postponed to 23 March 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031097-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1896\u201397 comprised 6 teams, and Glentoran won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031098-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the fifth season in Liverpool F.C. 's existence, and was their fourth year in The Football League, in which they competed in the first division. The season covers the period from 1 July 1896 to 30 June 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031098-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Liverpool F.C. season\nLiverpool played their first ever game in red shirts and white shorts in a 2-1 away win against The Wednesday on 1 September 1896, this was also new manager Tom Watson's first game in charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031098-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Liverpool F.C. season\nLiverpool won the Bass Charity Vase after a 1-0 win against Burton Wanderers on 21 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031099-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was Manchester City F.C. 's sixth season of league football and fifth season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031100-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 National Association Foot Ball League season\nStatistics of National Association Foot Ball League in season 1896\u201397.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031101-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1896\u201397 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1896\u201397 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Frank Lehmer, coaching the huskers in his first season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031102-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1896\u20131897 was contested by seven teams from the cities Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem and Rotterdam. The teams participated in the competition that would later be called Eerste Klasse West. But since the western football district of the Netherlands was the only one to have a competition at the time, it could be regarded as a national championship. It was the last year that this was the case: next season would mark the first season of the Eerste Klasse East which meant that the national champion would be determined by play-off matches between the division winners. RAP won this year's championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031103-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was Newcastle United's fourth season in the Football League Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031104-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was Newton Heath's fifth season in the Football League and their third in the Second Division. They finished second in the league, which earned them a chance for promotion back to the First Division. United played two Test matches against each of the bottom two teams from the First Division, but although they beat Burnley at Bank Street, they were unable to overcome Sunderland and remained in the Second Division. In the FA Cup, the Heathens managed to reach the Third Round, before losing 2\u20130 to Derby County for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031104-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1896\u201397. They were knocked out of the Lancashire Cup in the second round, losing 2\u20131 away to Burnley. In the Manchester Cup, they received a bye to the third round, where they beat Manchester City, before losing 2\u20130 to Bury in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031105-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Football League\nThe 1896\u201397 Northern Football League season was the eighth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031105-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 7 clubs which competed in the last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the second ever season of rugby league football. Following the success of the Northern Union's first season, several more clubs from the established Rugby Football Union joined the rebel competition. This resulted in the decision that for the 1896\u201397 season the competition should be split into two separate county championships: Lancashire and Yorkshire. This season also saw the introduction of the Challenge Cup, with Batley defeating St Helens in the inaugural final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nEight new teams joined the twenty-two teams already in the breakaway Northern Union, and so it was split into two county leagues for the 1896\u201397 season. The new teams were Bramley, Castleford, Heckmondwike, Holbeck, Leeds Parish Church, Morecambe, Swinton and Salford. Salford's first game was a 10-0 defeat away to Widnes on 5 September 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nMr J.E. Warren of the Warrington club was elected as the new President of the Northern Union. Warren, previously Warrington's secretary, had played a key role in Warrington's involvement in the foundation of the Northern Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe leading try scorer overall this season was Hannah of Hunslet, who crossed the line 19 times. The leading goal kickers were Albert Goldthorpe of Hunslet and Sharpe of Liversedge who both successful 26 times. The leading points scorer was Archie Rigg of Halifax with 112 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\nAfter finishing second from the bottom of the competition in the previous season, Broughton Rangers made a remarkable turnaround to finish the 1896\u201397 competition at the top of the Lancashire division, just one competition point ahead of Oldham, who had won more matches and had a better points differential. Although participating in the Lancashire Senior Competition, Runcorn and Stockport were from Cheshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\nSource: . League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Yorkshire Senior Competition\nThe previous season's champions, Manningham continued their good form in the Northern Union's second season, finishing in second place. However Brighouse took the Yorkshire championship with one win more than Manningham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031106-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Yorkshire Senior Competition\nSource: . League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031107-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1896\u201397 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 12th season of play. Ottawa placed second in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031107-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nFred Chittick was the league's leading goaltender, only allowing 2.3 goals per game. Former captains Chauncy Kirby and Herbert Russell retired from the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031107-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nThe Ottawa club moved to the new Dey's Skating Rink. In the first game in the new rink, it was inaugurated with the Governor General, the Earl of Aberdeen and his wife, the Countess of Aberdeen in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031107-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Protested by Ottawa who scored the tying goal in last few seconds but the goal was disallowed by the referee. The protest was upheld and the game replayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031108-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Penn Quakers men's basketball team\nThe 1896\u201397 Penn Quakers men's basketball team represented University of Pennsylvania during the 1896\u201397 collegiate men's basketball season. The Quakers finished the season with an overall record of 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031109-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1896\u201397 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031109-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter seeing Yale and Johns Hopkins play the first intercollegiate game the year before, George Orton a graduate student from Canada, organized the first ice hockey team for Pennsylvania University. The Quakers won their first game against Columbia with William Agnew recording the first hat-trick in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031109-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nPennsylvania's season was hampered by a lack of local facilities, something that Orton would fix the following year when he helped build the first indoor rink in the Philadelphia area, the West Park Ice Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031110-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1896\u20131897 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1896\u201397 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031111-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season is the 23rd season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031111-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 22 competitive matches during the 1896\u201397 season. They finished third in the Scottish League Division One with a record of 11 wins from 18 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031111-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe club won the Scottish Cup that season. A 5\u20131 victory of Dumbarton on 20 March 1897 saw them win the trophy for only the second time in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031112-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1896\u201397 Rugby Union County Championship was the ninth edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031112-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Rugby Union County Championship\nKent won the competition for the first time defeating Cumberland in the final. The Championship was subject to criticism regarding the lack of interest shown by some counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031113-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Scottish Cup\nThe 1896\u201397 Scottish Cup was the 24th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers when they beat Dumbarton 5-1 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031114-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1896\u201397 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031115-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Scottish Division One\nThe 1896\u201397 Scottish Division One season was won by Heart of Midlothian, two points ahead of nearest rival Hibernian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031116-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1896\u201397 Scottish Second Division was won by Partick Thistle with Dumbarton finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031117-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Scottish Football League, Overview\nPartick Thistle won the Scottish Division Two. Both Linthouse and Port Glasgow Athletic had four points deducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031118-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1896\u201397 Sheffield Shield season was the fifth season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the 16th season of competitive association football and 5th season in the Football League played by Small Heath F.C., an English football club based in Birmingham. In 1895\u201396, Small Heath finished in 15th position in the 16-team First Division and were relegated via the test match system. In 1896\u201397, they finished 4th in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season\nSmall Heath entered the 1896\u201397 FA Cup at the first round (round of 32) and lost in that round for the fifth consecutive year, this time to Notts County. In local competitions, they were eliminated in the semi-final of the Birmingham Senior Cup and the first round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup, on each occasion beaten by Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-three different players represented the club in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and there were 12 different goalscorers. Alex Leake appeared in every match, and the top scorer was Jimmy Inglis with 16 goals. The highest attendance was around 7,500, significantly down on the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThe Nottinghamshire Guardian suggested Small Heath would \"have to greatly improve their present team if they are to make a very prominent display even in [the second] division next season.\" Billy Ollis, last season's captain, moved on to Hereford Thistle of the Birmingham & District League, Jack Oliver returned to non-League football in his native north-east, Harry Haynes joined Southern League club Southampton St Mary's, Ted Devey left for Burton Wanderers, and Adam Fraser returned to Scotland, but the major loss was that of Fred Wheldon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0003-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nWheldon scored 116 goals from 175 matches in league and FA Cup for Small Heath, and the only match he missed in six seasons was when his sister died on the morning of the game. He joined League champions Aston Villa for a fee which, after much speculation, was confirmed at Small Heath's Annual General Meeting as \u00a3350 guaranteed, plus the proceeds of a match to be played between the two clubs. The \u00a3350 fee was reported to be a transfer record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nSmall Heath prepared for the new season with a friendly match at Aston Villa in connection with Fred Wheldon's transfer. Wheldon scored twice as Villa won 3\u20131, Small Heath's goal coming from Walter Abbott. Because the kickoff was delayed until six o'clock, the match ended in near darkness. The League season began with a spirited performance at home to Newcastle United on a rain-soaked pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0004-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nFirst-half goals from Alex Leake, Jimmy Inglis with a header from Tom Farnall's free kick, and Jack Jones gave Small Heath a 3\u20131 victory, prompting the press to predict a finish in the test match positions. In the return fixture, Newcastle led 3\u20132 at half time\u00a0\u2013 three goals for Richard Smellie against Jones's two\u00a0\u2013 but were reduced to ten men, William Graham having broken his arm. Inglis tied the scores in the second half but the home team scored a late winner. Two days later, Small Heath enjoyed a comfortable home win against Darwen in an early-evening match. Inglis opened the scoring with a header, then in the second half, a disputed goal was allowed, and a fine shot from Billy Walton and two goals from William Robertson made the final score 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nIn a poor game, Small Heath suffered an unexpected defeat at home to Lincoln City. The Leicester Chronicle suggested that \"if the Heathens have any pretentions towards regaining their position in the First Division, as we believe is their ambition, they will have to show form vastly different from last Saturday.\" An Inglis header gave his team a first-half lead on a slippery surface at Burton Swifts, and both sides wasted chances before Swifts equalised with ten minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nA 2\u20131 defeat at home to Burton Swifts preceded a visit to league leaders Newton Heath and reunion with former captain Caesar Jenkyns. The home side had the better of the first half, in torrential rain following a thunderstorm just before kickoff, but the closest they came to scoring was when Smith hit the bar. In the second half, Newton Heath scored from a scrimmage, but Jones equalised for Small Heath after the forwards rushed downfield. Playing with the benefit of the slope, Walsall took the lead twice in the Staffordshire Cup, but on change of ends, Small Heath equalised, and scored twice more in extra time to progress to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nIn mid-October, former England international forward Dennis Hodgetts joined from Aston Villa. The Dundee Courier & Argus assessed the player thus:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0008-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nAston Villa have so many clever forwards that they afford to dispense with a man like Hodgetts, who is now naturally slow, and disinclined to work. But his judgment and coaching powers should render him a useful recruit for the other Birmingham club\u00a0... Hodgetts is the one historic forward England has produced. As an inside left it is doubtful if he ever had an equal; certainly he never had a superior. He was one of the most artistic dribblers and dodgers ever seen, and his unselfishness was proverbial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0009-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nHe made his debut on a dull, damp day at home to Gainsborough Trinity. Small Heath took a two-goal lead through Inglis and Leake, the visitors brought the scores level before half time, and with 15 minutes left, Trinity's John Scott was sent off for striking Jack Jones. When the matter came before the County Association, the player received a suspension of one week\u00a0\u2013 the minimum punishment permissible\u00a0\u2013 because of his 17 years unblemished conduct and having acted under \"great provocation, Jones having kicked him off his legs and he 'only cleaned one hand on him'.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0009-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nSmall Heath were overwhelmed by four goals to nil by Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Staffordshire Cup. Perhaps fortunate to find Walsall without their first-choice goalkeeper and three forwards, Small Heath won 6\u20131 away from home, with two goals from Inglis and Walton and one apiece from Jones and Charles Izon. Despite the convincing nature of their victory, the Leicester Chronicle thought it was probably too late for the team to reach the test match positions. John Logan, late of Partick Thistle, made his debut in a 1\u20130 defeat at home to Grimsby Town which proved his only appearance in the English leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0010-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nHaving no competitive fixture scheduled during the early part of November, Small Heath played Wolverhampton Wanderers in a friendly as part of a day of musical and sporting entertainments at the Crystal Palace grounds. On a raw day, only 500 spectators watched Small Heath's 2\u20130 victory which failed to entertain the Penny Illustrated Paper:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0011-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThat the paid player is wanting in keenness when the match is \"friendly\", i.e. not associated with League or Cup competition, has very nearly, if not quite, become proverbial. Small Heath and Wolverhampton Wanderers gave an exhibition at the Crystal Palace which could not be calculated to impress visitors favourably.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0012-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nBack in the League, Woolwich Arsenal took an early lead at Coventry Road but were 4\u20131 down by half time, Hodgetts scoring twice and Walton and Robertson once each. In the second half James Brock pulled one back for the visitors, but Charlie Hare, on his debut after joining from the Arsenal a few days before, made the final score 5\u20132. The visit to Darwen produced a 2\u20130 defeat which could have been heavier had the home club not had two second-half goals disallowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0012-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nAccording to the Leicester Chronicle, \"the match between Newton Heath and Small Heath, as usual, when these teams meet, was not a very scientific one, the players on both sides being too prone to play the man instead of the ball.\" Jimmy Inglis had to leave the field \"badly winded\", and Hare had several shots from distance, but the only goal was scored by Jones after five minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0013-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nA friendly arranged at short notice at Millwall Athletic attracted few spectators, \"the poor form displayed recently by Small Heath causing the fixture to possess but little interest\"; Millwall won 9\u20131. Back in the league, a fine attacking display gave Grimsby Town a 2\u20130 half-time lead; on change of ends, playing against the wind, Small Heath's performance improved, and Hare scored on the break ten minutes from time, but they were unable to equalise. In the first round of the Birmingham Cup, an own goal earned Small Heath a draw at Burton Swifts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0013-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe losing run in the League continued with a \"sorry show\" at Loughborough. The home side's long-ball style effectively disrupted Small Heath's preference for close passing, and the game finished 2\u20130. At home to Walsall, whom they had beaten 6\u20131 in the previous meeting, Small Heath had much the better of the first half, with goals from Charlie Izon and Denny Hodgetts, but the visitors equalised after a goalkeeping error, and the final score was 3\u20133, Walsall being \"unlucky in not winning\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0014-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nDecember ended with two friendly matches. On Boxing Day, the visitors, Scottish League leaders Hibernians, began the match \"in brilliant style\", and although the heavy pitch initially inhibited their shooting, they came out winners by five goals to two. A crowd of 4,000 attended a benefit match for Aston Villa full-back Jim Elliott, who had been \"incapacitated by illness\". Elliott died less than three years later, at the age of 29. After a series of poor results, attendances had dwindled. The Owl's correspondent approved of the selection of Hare at centre-forward, but suggested that until the club signed \"two or three good men\" to play in defensive positions, the team's decline would continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0015-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nSmall Heath suffered a predictable defeat at Hyde Road against Manchester City on New Year's Day. Poor goalkeeping by Ernest Pointer allowed James Sharples to open the scoring, though both goalkeepers made good saves to restrict the first-half score to that one goal. After the interval, City increased their lead first from a scrimmage, and again from a free kick. After the recent defeats, the committee made several changes for the following day's visit to Gainsborough Trinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0015-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nJimmy Inglis, reported to have been \"content to take matters too easily of late\", was omitted, Billy Walton moved from the half-back line to his former position of inside right, and Tom Farnall returned at half-back. Gainsborough fielded former Small Heath players Bernard Pumfrey and Tom Bayley. Although the visitors fell behind early in the game, goals from Walton and Denny Hodgetts gave the visitors a half-time lead, which was extended to 3\u20131 by the close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0016-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nA friendly visit to New Brompton in Kent produced a 4\u20131 defeat, followed on the Monday by Billy Walton's benefit match against Aston Villa. Unfortunately for the beneficiary, who had served the club for eight years and was \"generally admitted to be the most consistent player the club possesses\", fears that the attendance would be a low one were realised. The Dart's \"What We Hear\" column suggested that the match raised only \u00a330, \"that he deserved far more, and it is a pity that the committee do not see their way to make it up to a respectable sum\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0016-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nWithout a fixture for the following Saturday, Small Heath attempted to arrange another friendly in the south of England, but after their previous performances in such matches, no potential opponent were prepared to offer a sufficient financial guarantee for them to agree to travel. Perhaps the free weekend motivated the players, for in wintry weather they won the replayed Birmingham Cup-tie against Burton Swifts by seven goals to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0017-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nA gale damaged the roof of the grandstand at the Coventry Road ground; fortunately, the next day's match was away, at Blackpool, and the damage was repaired before Small Heath played at home again. Blackpool took the lead after only five minutes, but their cause was hindered soon afterwards when they lost Harry Stirzaker to a head injury early in the game, and Tom Oakes scored twice as Small Heath exploited their numerical advantage to win 3\u20131. January ended with the first-round FA Cup tie played in heavy sleet at home to against Second Division leaders Notts County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0017-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nIn the first half, Notts were largely on the defensive, but early in the second, they twice forced the ball home. Small Heath pressed again, and Walton scored, but they were unable to equalise. The Owl reported they suffered \"cruel luck\", that Notts' victory owed much to George Toone's goalkeeping, and that \"the attack was better than we have seen it this season.\" The Dart offered particular praise to Denny Hodgetts, \"by far the cleverest player on the field\", and not at all the has-been he was thought to be when he signed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0018-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nSmall Heath put out a strong side against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the second round of the Birmingham Cup, but lost Oakes to injury in the first half, and suffered defeat by eight goals to two. Again, the Owl bemoaned the lack of \"vigorous and resourceful backs\". They returned to League action with a 6\u20132 win at Burton Wanderers, including two goals on debut for reserve forward Walter Gadsby; a five-goal lead soon after half time led to \"the visitors' backs taking things rather too easy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0018-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nA comfortable 5\u20131 win against a weakened Liverpool team, in which Charlie Hare, \"shooting in a very dangerous manner, and making the best use of openings given him\", scored a hat-trick, preceded the return fixture against Burton Wanderers, who featured former Small Heath regulars Will and Ted Devey. An exciting game saw Small Heath fight back to win 3\u20132 to secure their fourth consecutive victory, marred by a first-half injury to Billy Walton that proved to be a broken shoulderblade that kept him out for the remainder of the season. The Leicester Chronicle wondered what they might give now \"for some of the points they let slip in the beginning of the season\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0019-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nIn front of 6,000 spectators at Coventry Road, Blackpool took the lead after half an hour, and doubled it early in the second half. After many fruitless attempts, Small Heath eventually scored from a scrimmage, but Jimmy Martin extended Blackpool's lead again. Despite reaching the interval a goal in arrears to Lincoln City, Small Heath's winning run resumed as they overran the division's bottom club with second-half goals from Inglis, Oakes and Jack Jones, and Loughborough found the home side's forwards in top form as they lost 3\u20130 at Coventry Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0019-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nDenny Hodgetts scored the only goal of Small Heath's visit to Leicester Fosse. Despite the strong cross-field wind, the game was an excellent one: writing for a local readership, the Leicester Chronicle thought that \"no one can begrudge Small Heath their victory, though at the same time a draw would more adequately have represented the play\", and that \"had Fosse won, the game would undoubtedly have been voted one of best seen on the ground; as it was, the only drawback to a splendid exhibition was their regrettable failure in front of goal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0019-0002", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe strong wind at Plumstead blew along the pitch, and had a significant effect on the game. Playing with both wind and sun at their backs, Woolwich Arsenal took a 2\u20131 lead in the first half, but on change of ends, former Arsenal player Charlie Hare scored twice to give Small Heath a fourth consecutive win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0020-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nA \"great surprise\" was the London Standard's assessment of the victory at division leaders Notts County by two Walter Abbott goals to one from Tom Boucher. The win completed a \"remarkable\" series of performances for Small Heath, \"who in the short space of eight days capture[d] the full share of points away from home from such clubs as Fosse, Woolwich Arsenal, and Notts County\", an effort that came too late to oust Newton Heath from second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0020-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nIn the return fixture with Notts, who were by then certain of the divisional championship, Small Heath took a 3\u20130 half time lead, after which they \"did not exert themselves to any great extent\", and won the game 3\u20131. Playing with the wind in their favour at Coventry Road, Leicester Fosse had a one-goal lead at the interval, but on change of ends Inglis equalised, and the game finished two goals apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0020-0002", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nIn the last game of the season, at home to Manchester City, Billy Meredith opened the scoring after Robert Hill had a goal disallowed for offside, but Small Heath added three goals in the second half, a header and a penalty from Leake and the third from Hare, to earn a decisive victory, their seventh in the last eight matches of the season, earning them a finishing position of fourth, only two points outside the test match places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0021-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nWhen the Football Association announced the list of clubs exempt from the qualifying competition for the 1897\u201398 FA Cup, Small Heath were not on it, although their less successful local rivals Walsall were. The Sports Argus suggested that this was the club's own doing: \"a well-known League club's secretary told me that Small Heath only had themselves to blame for their non-inclusion among the exempted clubs, and that whereas they had not a single 'friend at Court', the Walsall people had had most assiduously campaigned for support\". After the League season finished, Small Heath played a friendly against Grimsby Town in Hull, a city with a strong rugby league tradition, in order \"to encourage the game [of association football] in the town\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0022-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nThe Sports Argus' post-season editorial expressed disappointment with the team's performance and dissatisfaction with the running of the club. At the start of the season, they \"confidently looked forward\" to Small Heath reaching the test match positions, even if they proved unsuccessful therein. But the team's fine finish to the season on top of such a poor start made it \"terribly aggravating to think that the least bit of extra effort earlier on in the season would in all probability have seen them a good second to the County.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0022-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nThe club's failure to gain exemption from the qualifying competition of the FA Cup \"only serves to strengthen my belief that the club wants a thorough wakening-up\". The club made a loss of \u00a3369 on the year, which the Dart suggested was due less to the effects of bad weather, as claimed in the annual report, than to a \"penny wise and pound foolish\" approach to the signing of players which they hoped would not be repeated in the season to come.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0023-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nThere was little turnover of players during the close season. The ambitious and well-funded Bristol City, newly elected to the Southern League for the 1897\u201398 season, signed both Jones and Farnall on attractive terms, reported as \u00a35 to sign, then 50s. during the playing season and 30s. in the summer. \"Abbott would also have gone but that Mr. Hart, the President, took action just in the nick of time. As to Farnall, it is doubtful whether he would have been re-engaged, but Jones's loss is regretted, as he was developing into a very smart forward.\" Charlie Izon left for Walsall, and Denny Hodgetts, who had been reinstated as an amateur, offered his services, but \"as he could not promise to play for them regularly\", his offer was declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0024-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nThe Dart's initial opinion was that the standard of replacement for Hodgetts, who had been reinstated as an amateur, Jones and Farnall\u00a0\u2013 \"two or three players who have done well with local clubs have been signed up, and a smart left-wing forward in Kirton, of Lincoln City, has also been secured\"\u00a0\u2013 but as the directors preferred to spend their money on ground improvements, in the shape of the purchase of Aston Villa's old stands from the Perry Barr ground, rather than on \"stars\", these would be inadequate to return the club to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0024-0001", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nHaving seen the new additions, they changed their mind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0024-0002", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\n\"The Small Heath ground presents quite an imposing appearance now that it is adorned with the old Perry Barr grand stand, and as there is now plenty of covered accommodation for spectators the \"gates\" should materially increase\", and though Hodgetts would be missed, Jack Kirton \"appears to be a smart player, while the other new men secured are far from being 'duffers'\", and apart from Jones and Farnall, \"the whole of the other first team players from last season have signed again, and there is no reason why the Heathens should not render a good account of themselves\" next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031119-0025-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Small Heath F.C. season, Squad statistics\nThis table includes appearances and goals in nationally organised competitions\u00a0\u2013 the Football League and FA Cup\u00a0\u2013 only. For a description of the playing positions, see Formation (association football)#2\u20133\u20135 (Pyramid).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the twelfth since the foundation of Southampton St. Mary's F.C. and their third in league football, as members of the Southern League. The season was the most successful yet, with St. Mary's claiming the Southern League title for the first time and reaching the Second Round Proper of the FA Cup. It was the start of the most successful period in the club's history \u2014 in a period of eight years, they were Southern League champions six times and reached the final of the FA Cup twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Pre-season\nFollowing the closure of the Antelope Ground in April 1896, St. Mary's were forced to look for a new home. Thanks to the connections of their president Dr. H. W. R. Bencraft, who was also Hon. Secretary to Hampshire County Cricket Club, the club secured the use of The County Ground, at an annual rental of \u00a3200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Pre-season\nAs St. Mary's were unrestricted by the maximum wages rule of the Football League they were able to \"poach\" players from League clubs by offering them higher pay. During the close-season, the Saints' committee signed several players who were keen to earn more money in the Southern League. Amongst the recruits were Robert Buchanan from Woolwich Arsenal and Harry Haynes from Small Heath, but the most significant signing was goalkeeper George Clawley who was signed from Stoke and began a long and illustrious career with the Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Pre-season\nCharles Robson resigned as secretary and was replaced by Alfred McMinn with Bill Dawson continuing as trainer and Ernest Arnfield becoming Assistant Secretary. The team kit was changed from red and white halves to red and white striped shirts with blue shorts; this basic design was to remain unchanged until the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the Saints' third in the Southern League, having finished in third place in each of the previous two seasons. The team started the league season with a run of nine consecutive victories, including defeating Sheppey United 6\u20131, New Brompton 8\u20133 and Reading 6\u20130 (all at home). From the New Year onwards, results were less predictable with the season often interrupted by the weather and the demands of the FA Cup, but the team remained undefeated throughout the league season finishing as champions, four points ahead of the defending champions, Millwall Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nThe championship was secured only in the penultimate match of the season on 14 April, a 2\u20131 victory over bottom club, Wolverton, with the two points earned putting St. Mary's out of the reach of their nearest rivals, Millwall. When the team returned by train to Southampton, they were greeted by a crowd, estimated at up to 15,000, at the Docks station accompanied by the police band.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nThe train was late and the crowd increased. When the team stepped on the platform the \"Southampton whisper\" (a shout, with great vigour, of \"Yi! Yi! Yi!\") gained such volume that it almost raised the station roof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nThe team were then put into wagons and, with the band playing, were led by the crowd through the town to Kingsland Square where, after the band played the National Anthem, the crowd eventually dispersed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0008-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nThe final match of the season was at the County Ground, against Millwall Athletic; Saints were anxious to maintain their unbeaten record and Millwall, who had gone through the 1894-95 season unbeaten, were equally keen to prevent the Saints from emulating that achievement. Millwall scored first early in the match, but Southampton fought back to equalise with a \"brilliant shot\" from Joe Turner following one of his \"mesmerising dashes down the wing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0009-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, League season\nAs team captain, Farrell received the Championship shield from Dr. Russell Bencraft, who was both president of the League and of the club, at a ceremony in the Artillery Drill Hall in Southampton. Each player received a gold medal, with mementoes also being presented to trainer Dawson and his assistant, Joyce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0010-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nAs the Saints had reached the First Round Proper in each of the previous two seasons, the FA exempted them from the first of the four qualifying rounds of the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0011-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the Second Qualifying Round, St. Mary's were drawn away to their local rivals, Cowes. Several thousand travelled to the Isle of Wight to see the \"Saints\" comprehensively outplay Cowes, with Robert Buchanan, Jack Farrell and Joe Turner each scoring twice in a 6\u20130 victory. St. Mary's had to travel again in the next round, to visit Elm Park; on arriving at the stadium, the team found the pitch waterlogged. McMinn lodged a protest with the referee, who declared the pitch playable so the match went ahead with the Saints winning 4\u20131. As had happened several times before with matches between the two clubs, Reading protested to the FA who declared that the result should stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0012-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe next round brought a home tie against Swindon Town; despite Swindon scoring first, the Saints then ran riot with eight goals, with Farrell scoring a hat-trick. This put Southampton through to the First Round Proper for the third consecutive season, where they met Derbyshire club, Heanor Town. After a draw at the County Ground, the teams met in a replay on the following Wednesday. Heanor lost their winger, Hardy, with a broken leg and the Saints went through with a single goal from Farrell. Following the match, The Southern Daily Echo set up a fund for Hardy which raised \u00a340.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0013-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the Second Round, the Saints met Football League opposition with a tie against Newton Heath. A crowd of 8,000 saw St. Mary's hold their opponents to a 1\u20131 draw at the County Ground. Willie Naughton was injured for the replay and was replaced by James Spellacy, who was making his only first-team appearance; Naughton was badly missed and the Saints went out of the cup to goals from Bryant and Cassidy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0014-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Friendly matches\nWith only ten home league matches in the season and the poor weather since Christmas, the Saints' committee organised several friendly matches in order to boost the club's finances. Over the whole season, the team played in excess of thirty friendly matches with a heavy programme of fixtures over Easter and up to the end of April, including several matches against opposition from the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0015-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Friendly matches\nOn 22 March, they entertained a team for Sheffield Wednesday, who had defeated them in the previous season's FA Cup. This time, the Saints were victorious, by four goals to one. There were also victories over Darwen (2\u20130), Blackburn Rovers (4\u20131) and Derby County (7\u20133) with only Woolwich Arsenal winning, with a 5\u20131 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0016-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Merger proposals\nAt this time, the only other local professional football club was Freemantle, who had ended the 1896\u201397 season in a crisis, having been denied promotion to the Southern League First Division after they had used a player whose transfer had not been registered. As a result, the club was thrown into turmoil with both the treasurer and secretary resigning. At Freemantle's 1897 A.G.M. it was revealed that the club was in debt by over \u00a3200, and plans to incorporate the club into a limited company were abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0017-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Merger proposals\nAt St. Mary's meanwhile, a sub-committee had been established to look into playing arrangements for the 1897\u201398 season, as the cost of hiring the County Ground from the Cricket club was prohibitive. The sub-committee's main brief was to negotiate terms for a further season at the County Ground, but it was also proposed that \"enquiries be made as to the Freemantle ground\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0018-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Merger proposals\nAt the Freemantle AGM on 21 May, the chairman produced a pamphlet proposing a merger with St. Mary's; although some club members objected to the proposal being discussed in the absence of the club president, Tankerville Chamberlayne (Member of Parliament for Southampton), it was agreed to meet with St. Mary's to discuss the proposals. The idea of a merger between the two clubs had attractions, especially as the rent on Freemantle's ground at Shirley was only \u00a324 p.a. compared to \u00a3200 at the County Ground. Although delegations from both sides met to discuss the proposals, there was strong opposition and after much deliberation the St Mary's committee decided not to proceed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0019-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Merger proposals\nOn 11 June, the A.G.M. of St. Mary's agreed to reconstitute the club as a limited liability company. The members were also informed that \"the committee had a ground in view\". The ground, it emerged, was an abandoned, partly excavated, railway cutting known as \"the dell\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0020-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Limited company\nOn 8 July 1897, a meeting was held at the Bedford Hotel to agree the structure of the new company, Southampton Football & Athletic Company Limited. The first chairman of the new company was Dr. Ernest Stancomb (medical practitioner), with G.A.E. Hussey (brewer), H.M. Ashton (engineer), George Thomas (fish merchant) and George Payne (butcher) being elected as the first directors. Alfred McMinn was appointed as Hon. Secretary with Ernest Arnfield becoming \"financial secretary or treasurer\". Dr. Stancomb was charged with making the arrangements for the transfer from \"St. Mary's F.C.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0021-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Limited company\nAt a further meeting at the offices of the club's lawyers on 16 July, arrangements were made for the issue of shares, with Tankerville Chamberlayne being invited on to the board. By the time of the issue of the Memorandum of Association, R.B. Horne (dairyman), W. Newnham (law clerk), Edward Brown (butcher) and Charles Robson (mineral water merchant and wicket-keeper for Hampshire, who had been the St. Mary's club secretary in 1895\u201396) had been added to the list of directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031120-0022-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southampton St. Mary's F.C. season, Limited company\nOne result of the change to limited company status was that, subject to approval from the Football Association, the club would in future be known as Southampton Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031121-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southern Football League\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the third in the history of the Southern League. Southampton St.Mary's won the Division One championship. Millwall Athletic applied for election to Football League. However, they were not elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031121-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southern Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured seven teams from previous season and five new clubs: two promoted from Division Two and three newly elected members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031121-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southern Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured five teams from previous season and eight new clubs, all of which were newly elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031121-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, test matches were held between the bottom three clubs in Division One and the top three clubs in Division Two. Third-placed Freemantle were the only Division Two club to win, but withdrew from the league at the end of season, meaning their defeated opponents Northfleet remained in Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031121-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nOnly one Southern League club, Millwall Athletic, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. However, they received only one vote and were not elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031122-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1896-97 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's second in the Northern Rugby Football Union. In a divided county championship league, the club finished 9th out of 14. The Challenge Cup was also established that year, and it was St Helens, with Batley who contested the first final; St Helens losing 10-3 with Derek Traynor scoring Saints' only points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031122-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 St Helens RLFC season, Lancashire Senior Championship\nSource: . League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031123-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was Stoke's eighth season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031123-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Stoke F.C. season\nAfter last season's success of finishing in 6th position there was high hopes that it would signal a change in the club's fortunes. Alas it was a disappointing season for Stoke as little progress was made and they finished the season in 13th position with 25 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031123-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nAs the 1896\u201397 season beckoned there was a lot of talk of Stoke purchasing the football pitch at the cricket ground in the town, with a considerable amount of financial backing promised. However this never materialised much to the disappointment of chairman Mr S. Barker. During the campaign itself a total of 16 players made their senior debuts for the club including Zeke Johnston, Stoke's first Irishman signed from Burnley. There was little progress in the league with a 13th-place finish. The best result of the season saw Stoke beat Liverpool 6\u20131 in February 1897. Long serving forward Billy Dickson retired as did half-back Davy Brodie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031123-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nAfter beating Glossop 5\u20132 in the first round Stoke lost 2\u20131 in the next to Preston North End.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was Thames Ironworks' second season after the club's formation in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\n\"With reference to the forthcoming season, it has been decided to enter for the English Cup, London Senior Cup, West Ham Charity Cup, South Essex League senior and junior and if possible, one or two others. There will be very few dates left open for \"friendly\" matches, so it ought to be a good thing for the club financially.\" \u2013 Thames Iron Works Gazette", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nHowever, the most significant competition that Thames Ironworks would enter that season would be the London League, even though the West Ham area was still officially part of Essex at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nIt was a seamless transition for the club to make as Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd owner Arnold Hills was also president of the London League, and along with Thames Ironworks F.C. committee chairman Francis Payne, helped to draft the competition's rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nNew signings for the season included Reading players Edward Hatton, Peter Davie and Frank Dandridge. H. Rossiter and Holmes, would also join from the Berkshire club, as well as many more Thames Iron Works employees that still provided the core of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nIn their first ever competitive league fixture in the London League, staged at the Hermit Road ground, on 19 September 1896 Thames Ironworks beat the Vampires 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0006-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe following month, \"The Irons\" went out in the FA Cup first qualifying round for the second year running, losing 0\u20138 away to Kent Southern League team Sheppey United on 10 October 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0007-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nShortly after their exit from the FA Cup they were handed an eviction notice from the Hermit Road ground. The club had violated their tenancy agreement by charging admission fees and building a perimeter fence and pavilion. Thames Ironworks had to play their next four fixtures at the grounds of their opponents, until a new home could be found. The first of these games was against eventual champions 3rd Grenadier Guards F.C. on 22 October 1896, which The Irons lost 1\u20134. The gloom continued on 5 December 1896, when Thames Ironworks lost in the first round of the Essex Senior Cup 2\u20133, in a narrowly fought game away to Leyton F.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0008-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nAt the turn of 1897 Arnold Hills had managed to lease a temporary piece of land for the team, located in Browning Road, East Ham. However, the new situation was not ideal, as explained by future Ironworks player and West Ham United F.C. manager Syd King in his 1906 book:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0009-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\n'\"For some reason, not altogether explained, the local public at this place did not take kindly to them and the records show that Browning Road was a wilderness both in the manner of luck and support.\" \u2013 Syd King, 'Book Of Football' (1906)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0010-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nArnold Hills had already earmarked a large piece of land in Canning Town and would eventually spend \u00a320,000 on the construction of an athletic ground with facilities for cycling and tennis as well as football but the ground would not be ready until the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0011-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nTravelling across the river to Kent again provided cup disappointment for \"The Irons\" on 13 February 1897, when they lost their second replay in the 5th round of London Senior Cup against Bromley 0\u20132. They managed to fare better locally, making the final of the West Ham Charity Cup for the second year running. On 20 March 1897 they narrowly lost the final 0\u20131 to West Ham Garfield. It was also around that time that Thames Ironworks' inspirational captain Robert Stevenson left to return to his native Scotland to play for Arthurlie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0012-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThames Ironworks' biggest defeat of the season came soon after, on 1 April 1897, when they lost for the second time to the champions-elect 3rd Grenadier Guards F.C. 0\u20135 at Browning Road. Yet it was only two days later, when in another home game, that \"The Irons\" recorded their biggest win of the season when they beat Crouch End 4\u20131. Another 5 days later would see the last game of the season, this time at home to Barking Woodville. The game ended 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0013-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nIn total Thames Ironworks won 11 of their 22 league and cup games in the 1896\u20131897 season, drawing on 4 occasions and losing 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031124-0014-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nTheir first appearance in the London League had seen them finish 4th, but only temporarily. The 1st Scots Guards had withdrawn from the league during the season, and their record was deleted, and the London Welsh team had been suspended towards the end of the season. \"The Irons\" had not yet played London Welsh and as a result, and probably thanks also to Arnold Hills' presidency of the league and Francis Payne's drafting of the rules, Thames Ironworks F.C. were awarded two wins by default and finished the revised league as runners up. H. Butterworth ended the season as the club's top scorer in the league, with four goals from his six appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031125-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1896\u201397 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031125-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nColumbia University and Pennsylvania University fielded teams for the first time but with only four programs in existence most games were played against non-college opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031126-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 WPHL season\nThe 1896\u201397 WPHL season was the first season of championship hockey of Pittsburgh's Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. The season opened on November 17, 1896, and was well underway when brought to an end by the destruction of fire of the league's facility, the Schenley Park Casino ice rink on December 17, 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031126-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 WPHL season, League business\nThe Casino had installed an artificial ice-making plant in 1895 and the 1895-96 winter season saw the first introduction of hockey at the rink. Challenge exhibition matches of ice polo between the Canadian Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario, and Western University of Pennsylvania were held at the rink, and Queen's demonstrated the game of ice hockey. Between then and November 1896, the Casino management decided to organize two leagues at the rink; an inter-scholastic league for high schools, and a senior league. Both leagues were amateur. The senior league was named the Western Pennsylvania League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031126-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 WPHL season, League business\nThe first league members were Pittsburgh Athletic Club, Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, Western University and a team to represent the Casino, or the \"Pittsburgh\" team. The league played twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday nights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031126-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 WPHL season, League business, Rules\nThe rules of the league were published in the Pittsburg Press on December 20, 1896:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031126-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 WPHL season, Season\nPlay continued until December 16, when the Casino rink was destroyed by fire. The Pittsburghs, PAC and Western University teams, and all of the inter-scholastic teams lost their hockey equipment in the fire. The Pittsburghs loss was estimated at $300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031126-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 WPHL season, Season, Regular season results\nPlay was suspended after fire destroyed the Casino rink. No championship was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031127-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1896\u201397 Welsh Amateur Cup was the seventh season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Coppenhall who defeated Rhos Eagle Wanderers 3-2 in the final, at Buckley, and became the first English club to win the Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031128-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Western Football League\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the fifth in the history of the Western Football League, which had been known as the Bristol & District league until 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031128-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Western Football League\nWarmley were the Division One champions for the fourth time in five years, and also began competing in the Southern League during this season. Eastville Wanderers won Division Two in only their second season in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031128-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Western Football League\nAt the end of this season the league was restructured, with a new Professional Section being formed, taking five clubs from Division One and three new clubs joining. Division One and Division Two remained as the Amateur Section, with four clubs being promoted from Division Two to Division One, and several new clubs joining both divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031128-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nOne new club joined Division One for this season, though the number of clubs was reduced from 12 to nine after Gloucester and Swindon Wanderers left, Cardiff were expelled and Mangotsfield were relegated to Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031128-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nOne new team joined Division Two this season, though the number of clubs was reduced from 11 to seven after Cumberland, Clifton Reserves, St George Reserves and Warmley Reserves left the league and Frenchay resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031129-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1896\u201397 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1896\u201397 season. The team finished the season with an 11\u20135 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031130-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1896\u201397 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031130-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThough the team had lost its founder and driving force to graduation (Malcolm Greene Chace), Yale continued to support it's men's hockey team. The second season saw a series of firsts for the program, including its first home game, its first game against an eventual Ivy League member and its first losing season. The team did not have a coach, however, John Hall served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031130-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nMost of Yale's games were played against amateur athletic clubs but all games were counted for the Bulldogs' record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031131-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in Belgian football\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the second competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031131-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official league existed at the time. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and was disputed between 6 teams since only one new team was admitted whereas the last two of the previous championship were withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031132-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in English football\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the 26th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031132-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in English football, Overview\nAston Villa became the second team (after Preston North End) to complete \"the Double\" of winning the Football League Championship and the FA Cup. No other team would complete the double for 64 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031132-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in English football, Overview\nThe Cup Final was played on 10 April 1897 between Aston Villa and Everton. At the start of the day, the top of the league table looked thus:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031132-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in English football, Overview\nConsequently, with a total of 30 league games to play in the season, only Derby County had any \"mathematical\" possibility of overtaking Aston Villa to take the title. To do so, they would have needed to take at least seven points from their remaining four games, with Aston Villa losing their remaining three games. In the event, Derby lost 1\u20130 at Bury and Aston Villa were thus confirmed as League Champions on the same day that they went on to win the Cup. As a result, Villa became the first, and so far, only team to date to achieve the league and cup \"double\" on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031132-0004-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031132-0005-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in English football, Football League, Second Division\nNotts County won the Second Division and were elected to the First Division after winning a Test Match against Burnley. Following the failure of Rotherham Town, Burslem Port Vale and Crewe Alexandra to be re-elected into the Football League, Blackpool and Gainsborough Trinity joined the Second Division. Walsall (formerly Walsall Town Swifts) also returned after a season away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031133-0000-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in Scottish football\nThe 1896\u201397 season of Scottish football was the 24th season of competitive football in Scotland and the seventh season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031133-0001-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in Scottish football, Scottish Division Two\nPartick Thistle won the Scottish Division Two. Both Linthouse and Port Glasgow Athletic had four points deducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031133-0002-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nRangers won the Scottish Cup after a 5\u20131 win over Dumbarton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031133-0003-0000", "contents": "1896\u201397 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nStrathclyde Juniors won the Junior Cup after a 2\u20130 win over Dunfermline Juniors in a replayed match, after the first was protested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031134-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\n1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1897th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 897th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 97th year of the 19th\u00a0century, and the 8th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1897, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season\nThe 1897 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season was the eleventh season of play of the ice hockey league. Each team played 8 games, and Montreal Victorias were again first with a 7\u20131 record, retaining the Stanley Cup. The club won the Stanley Cup back from the Winnipeg Victorias prior to the season. This was their third-straight league championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, League business, Executive\nAt the annual meeting on December 12, 1896, the secretary reported that the association had lost all of its records in a fire, except for its minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Season\nClare McKerrow of Montreal HC set a new record with six goals in the opening game against Quebec on January 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenge\nPrior to the season, Victorias would defeat the Winnipeg Victorias of the (Manitoba Hockey Association) 6\u20135, on December 30, 1896, to reclaim the Cup they had lost in the previous season to Winnipeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Winnipeg\nThe Montreal Victorias submitted their challenge on November 11, 1896, and they arrived in Winnipeg on December 27 for the one-game playoff on December 30. The challenge, the first outside of Montreal attracted national interest. Excitement for the game in Winnipeg sent the price of $1 tickets to $5, with reports of tickets being sold for over $10. The Montreal Vics' practice in the McIntyre Rink itself drew a crowd of 700. The game was reported back to Montreal by telegraph, with the score available at train stations or telegraph offices throughout Canada. Hundreds of standing-room tickets were sold on the night of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 75], "content_span": [76, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Winnipeg\nThe game itself was very exciting. Ernie McLea scored a hat-trick, including the game and Stanley Cup winning goal. The game started at 8:22 pm local time. Dan Bain scored at 6:30 to put Winnipeg ahead. Winnipeg opened up a 3\u20130 lead before Montreal scored twice (McLea and Shirley Davidson) to close the gap while Toat Campbell served a penalty. Attie Howard scored just before the half to put Winnipeg ahead 4\u20132 at the half. In the second half, Montreal's Davidson scored his second goal, then McLea tied the score at four with his second goal of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 75], "content_span": [76, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0005-0001", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Winnipeg\nRobert MacDougall, on an end-to-end rush, put Montreal ahead, but Bain tied it at five with four minutes to play. With two minutes to play, Graham Drinkwater passed to McLea, who beat George Merritt on a breakaway to put Montreal ahead 6\u20135 and win the game. The goal is considered one of the greatest ice hockey goals of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 75], "content_span": [76, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenge, Victorias vs. Winnipeg at Winnipeg\nReferee \u2013 Weldy Young, OttawaUmpires \u2013 A. Shearer, Montreal; D. Clark, Winnipeg, Shaw, Ottawa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 75], "content_span": [76, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Exhibitions\nMontreal played the Halifax Wanderers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on February 25, 1897. The Wanderers defeated Montreal 4\u20133 on a second-half goal after the teams were tied 3\u20133 at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Protested by Ottawa who scored the tying goal in last few seconds but the goal was disallowed by the referee. The protest was upheld and the game replayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031135-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 AHAC season, Stanley Cup engravings, Stanley Cup engraving\nIt is unknown what Feb 20th stood for. Winnipeg Victorias or the Montreal Victorias never played a Stanley Cup challenge game that day in any season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031136-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Add-Ran Christian football team\nThe 1897 Add-Ran Christian football team represented Add-Ran Christian University\u2014now known as Texas Christian University (TCU)\u2014as an independent during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031137-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1897 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach Allen McCants, in his first season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In what was the sixth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of one win and zero losses (1\u20130, 0\u20130 SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031137-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Alabama Crimson White football team\nIn the spring of 1895, the University Board of Trustees passed a rule that prohibited athletic teams from competing off-campus for athletic events, and as such only one game was scheduled for the season. In their only game, the Crimson White shutout the Tuscaloosa Athletic Club on The Quad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031137-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tuscaloosa Athletic Club\nIn what was the only game played as part of the 1897 season due to prohibition against playing away games, Alabama defeated the Tuscaloosa Athletic Club 6\u20130 at The Quad in Tuscaloosa. Immediately after their victory, Alabama disbanded their team for the remainder of the season due to an inability to secure any additional home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031138-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 11th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031139-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the tenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031139-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nWilliam Guiry scored both of Dublin's goals, as they won 2-6 to 0-2, having led 1-2 to 0-1 at half time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031139-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nAt this time, club teams represented their counties with the CJ Kickhams club, captained by PJ Walsh, representing Dublin and Cork represented by the Dohenys club from Dunmanway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031139-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was the fourth of six All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1890s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031140-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1897 was the 11th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Limerick won the championship, beating Kilkenny 3-4 to 2-4 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031140-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (1 match) This is a lone game which sees the winners of the Leinster championship play Galway who receive a bye to this stage. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031140-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the lone semi-final play the winners of the Munster championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031141-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 10th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at the Tipperary GAA Field, on 20 November 1898 between Kilkenny, represented by club side Tullaroan, and Limerick, represented by club side Kilfinane. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 3-4 to 2-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031142-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1897 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 6th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The championship was won by Lomas that achieved its 4th Argentine league title in 5 seasons. Lomas won the title after beating Lan\u00fas A.C. by 1-0 in 3rd. playoff match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031142-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe players of Lomas Academy (dissolved one year before) returned to its parent club, Lomas Athletic, while Lan\u00fas A.C., Banfield and Palermo A.C. made their debuts and Belgrano A.C. registered a \"B\" team to play the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031142-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Championship Final\nAfter both teams, Lomas and Lan\u00fas finished in the first position, they had to play a final to decide a champion. It finished 11 after extra time so a playoff was held four days later. As that match ended 0\u20130 with no modifications on the score during extra time, a second game was scheduled for September 19. The result was also a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031142-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Championship Final\nFinally, Lomas defeated Lan\u00fas 1\u20130 in the third match, becoming Primera Divisi\u00f3n champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031143-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Arizona Normal Normals football team\nThe 1897 Arizona Normal Normals football team was an American football team that represented the Arizona Normal School (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its first season of varsity football, the Tempe Normal team compiled a 0\u20131 record, losing to the Phoenix Indian School by a 38 to 20 score. The team captain was Walter Shute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031143-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Arizona Normal Normals football team\nThe Arizona Normal football program was organized by Frederick M. Irish who came to Arizona Normal School in 1896 as a science teacher after graduating from the University of Iowa. He remained the football coach at Arizona Normal for the program's first seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031144-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team\nThe 1897 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1897 college football season. Arkansas opened its 1897 season with its sixth game in four years against the team from Fort Smith High School. The Cardinals next competed in their third intercollegiate game, playing Drury College to a 6\u20136 tie. On November 20, 1897, Arkansas won its first ever intercollegiate football game against Ouachita College, a liberal arts college in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031144-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team\nThe captains of the 1897 team were H. Y. Fishback and E. G. Martin. John C. Futrall was the manager, and B. N. Wilson was the coach. Coach Wilson received a bachelor of science degree from Georgia School of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1896 and joined the faculty at Arkansas Industrial as an instructor of mechanical engineering. He served as the football team's trainer in the fall of 1896 and took over as the coach in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031145-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1897 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Herman Koehler, the Cadets compiled a 6\u20131\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 194 to 41. The Cadets suffered their only loss against Harvard by a 10 to 0 score and played Yale to a 6\u20136 tie. The Army\u2013Navy Game was not played in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031145-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Army Cadets football team\nThree Army Cadets were honored on the 1897 College Football All-America Team. Halfback William Nesbitt received second-team honors from Walter Camp. Quarterback Leon Kromer received second-team honors from the New York Sun. Tackle Wallace Scales received second-team honors from Walter Camp and The New York Sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031146-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Assam earthquake\nThe Assam earthquake of 1897 occurred on 12 June 1897, in Assam, India at 17:15 IST, and had an estimated moment magnitude of 8.0. It resulted in approximate 1,542 human casualties and caused catastrophic damage to infrastructure. Damage from the earthquake extended into Calcutta, where dozens of buildings were severely damaged, with some buildings partially collapsing. Trembles were felt across India, reaching as far as Ahmedabad and Peshawar. Seiches were also observed in Burma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031146-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Assam earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred on the SSW-dipping reverse Oldham fault that forms the northern edge of the Shillong Plateau within the Indian Plate. There was a minimum displacement on the main fault of 11\u00a0m, although some calculations have placed this figure at as high as 16\u00a0m, one of the greatest for any measured earthquake. The calculated area of slip extended 180\u00a0km along strike and from 9\u201345\u00a0km below the surface, indicating that the entire thickness of the crust was involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031146-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Assam earthquake, Damage\nThought to have happened 32\u00a0km underground, the earthquake left masonry buildings in ruins over 400,000\u00a0km2 area and was felt over 650,000\u00a0km2 from Burma to Delhi. Numerous buildings in the neighboring country of Bhutan were heavily damaged. Dozens of aftershocks were felt in and around the region with the last event being felt on 9 October 1897 at 01:40 UT in Calcutta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031146-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Assam earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake resulted in Shillong Plateau being thrust violently upwards by about 11\u00a0 meters. The fault was about 110\u00a0 km in length while the fault slip was about 18\u00a0m (accuracy more or less by 7 m). At the epicenter, vertical acceleration is thought to have been above 1g force and surface velocity 3\u00a0m/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031146-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Assam earthquake, Damage\nIn Shillong, the earthquake damaged every stone house and half the houses built of wood. The shock leveled the ground and resulted in 13 deaths. The fissure was also reported in the area. In Sohra Cherrapunji, it resulted in a landslide, which led to 600 deaths. In Goalpara, it resulted in waves from the river Brahmaputra, on which bank the town is situated, destroying the market. In Nalbari, there were reported sightings of earth-waves and water waves. In Guwahati, the earthquake lasted for 3 minutes. the Brahmaputra river rose by 7.6\u00a0 ft. Damage was caused to Umananda Island temple and railway lines. 5 people died. In Nagaon, every brick house was damaged, while traditional houses made of wood, with grass roofs, were bent. There were many small fissures/volcanos and the road was impassable for vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031146-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Assam earthquake, Damage\nIn the Sylhet region, shocks took place at 16:30, according to villagers living at the foot of the hills north of Sunamganj. There were 545 casualties. 55 in Sylhet town, 178 in North Sylhet, 287 in Sunamganj, 7 in Habiganj, 8 in South Sylhet and 10 in Karimganj. Many buildings collapsed and fissures and drowning furthered the number of deaths. A woman in Sunamganj is said to have fell through a fissure whilst on a river with her husband. The husband tried to hold onto her hair but lost hold of her. The woman's body was not recovered from the crevasse. The Assam Bengal Railway was severely damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031146-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Assam earthquake, Damage\nRichard Dixon Oldham, the Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, analysed seismic records of the earthquake, mainly from stations in Italy, and reported the first clear evidence of different type of seismic waves, travelling through the earth on different paths and at different speeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1897 Atlantic hurricane season was an inactive season, featuring only six known tropical cyclones, four of which made landfall. There were three hurricanes, none of which strengthened into major hurricanes, which are Category\u00a03 or higher on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. The first system was initially observed south of Cape Verde on August\u00a031, an unusually late date. The storm was the strongest of the season, peaking as a Category\u00a02 hurricane with winds of 100\u00a0mph (155\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0000-0001", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season\nWhile located well north of the Azores, rough seas by the storm sunk a ship, killing all 45\u00a0crewmen. A second storm was first spotted in the Straits of Florida on September\u00a010. It strengthened into a hurricane and tracked northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico, striking Louisiana shortly before dissipating on September\u00a013. This storm caused 29\u00a0deaths and $150,000 (1897\u00a0USD) in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe third storm developed in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on September\u00a020. It tracked along the East Coast of the United States, causing widespread damage, particularly in Florida. A fourth storm was first observed in the northwestern Caribbean Sea on September\u00a025. This storm moved in a semicircular path around Cuba and was last noted offshore Florida four days later. Minor wind and flood damage was reported in Cuba. On October\u00a09, the fifth hurricane of the season was located near the Windward Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0001-0001", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season\nMoving westward, the storm eventually curved northeastward while crossing the Caribbean Sea, causing it to strike Cuba. Minor damage was reported on the island, though a ship sank with 230\u00a0people aboard; 42\u00a0of them were rescued, while the remaining 188\u00a0were presumed dead. The final observed system developed in the vicinity of the Bahamas on October\u00a023. It later struck the Outer Banks of North Carolina; the storm caused severe flooding in southeastern Virginia, with six deaths reported. It was last noted on October\u00a029.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nThe first hurricane of the season was observed near Cape Verde, beginning at 0600\u00a0UTC on August\u00a031. Initially a tropical storm, it slowly strengthened while heading west-northwestward, reaching hurricane status on September\u00a01. Curving northwestward, the storm intensified further into a Category\u00a02 hurricane on September\u00a03. It continued heading northwestward until curving to the northeast late on September\u00a06. Around 1130\u00a0UTC on the following day, the storm attained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 100\u00a0mph (155\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 972\u00a0mbar (28.7\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0002-0001", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nEarly on September\u00a09, the system weakened to a Category\u00a01, before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone well north of the Azores later that day. The extratropical remnants continued weaken, before dissipating west of Ireland on September\u00a010. The crew of the barkentine St. Peter reported that another ship capsized with 45\u00a0men aboard; all of them drowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nA second hurricane was spotted in the Straits of Florida at tropical storm intensity on September\u00a010. Several hours later, the system made landfall in Marquesas Keys, Florida. Early on September\u00a011, it strengthened into a hurricane. Intensifying slightly further, the storm peaked with maximum sustained winds of 85\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h) shortly thereafter. The hurricane maintained this intensity while moving west-northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico and struck extreme southwestern Cameron Parish, Louisiana early on September\u00a013. Shortly thereafter, it weakened to a tropical storm over Texas, before dissipating several hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nNo impact was reported in the Florida Keys. Strong winds in southwestern Louisiana damaged crops and toppled windmills. Offshore, boats and schooners suffered severe damage from wind-driven waves. Severe damage occurred in eastern Texas, with strong winds and storm surge damaging or destroying numerous buildings, houses, and crops in several cities, including Beaumont, New Sabine Pass, Orange, Sabine Pass, and Port Arthur. The storm was considered the worst in Orange since 1875. Overall, the storm caused at least 29\u00a0fatalities in Texas, with six died at Port Arthur, three offshore, four in Sabine Pass, and sixteen others at Beaumont. Damage in the state reached approximately $150,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nThe third storm of the season was first observed in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on September\u00a020. Strengthening while heading northeastward, the system made landfall near Boca Grande, Florida with winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) early on the following day. Heavy rainfall in Tampa caused the streets and sideways to become inundated, leaving portions of the city impassable, especially areas adjacent to the DeSoto Hotel. Two fire stations were severely damaged. On the east coast of Florida, the worst impact occurred in Cocoa, where some buildings were destroyed and others were deroofed. Further north in Fernandina Beach, ships in the harbor broke loose and tossed about, leaving considerable damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nAlthough the storm weakened while crossing Florida, it later re-strengthened after emerging into the Atlantic Ocean later on September\u00a021. The system moved northeastward and made landfall near Hatteras, North Carolina at 1000\u00a0UTC on September\u00a023, with winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h). In eastern North Carolina, strong winds and high tides were observed in New Bern. Shortly thereafter, it re-emerged into the Atlantic Ocean. The system began weakening, while making two landfalls on September\u00a024, the first on Long Island, New York, and the second near New London, Connecticut. Thereafter, the storm accelerated to the northeast and weakened to a tropical depression over New Brunswick early on September\u00a025. Several hours later, the system dissipated offshore southeastern Labrador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four\nEarly on September\u00a025, a tropical storm was spotted about 100 miles (160\u00a0km) west of Grand Cayman. It moved slowly northwestward and passed near Cape San Antonio, Cuba early on September\u00a027. The storm then entered the Gulf of Mexico and began strengthening while curving northward. On September\u00a028, the system attained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,010\u00a0mbar (30\u00a0inHg). Early on September\u00a029, the storm curved eastward and dissipated several hours later offshore Florida. In Cuba, the storm brought strong winds and heavy rainfall as far east as Havana, causing flooding, \"but no great damage\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe fifth tropical cyclone of the season was first observed near the Windward Islands on October\u00a09. It moved west-northwestward across the Caribbean Sea and remained at that intensity for several days. The storm curved in a northwesterly direction by October\u00a014 while located over the northwestern Caribbean Sea, and then northeastward on the following day. Eventually, it began to strengthen and reached hurricane intensity early on October\u00a018. Several hours later, the hurricane made landfall in modern-day Sancti Sp\u00edritus Province, Cuba with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). Minimal damage was reported in Cuba. However, the ship Triton sank offshore Pinar del R\u00edo Province with 230\u00a0men aboard. Forty-two people were rescued by passing ships, while the remaining 188\u00a0died, including the captain, who committed suicide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe system weakened while crossing Cuba and fell to tropical storm intensity early on October\u00a019. Around that time, the storm emerged into the Atlantic Ocean near the central Bahamas. Crossing through the islands, the system curved north-northeastward and began to accelerate. It did not re-strengthen and made landfall near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina with winds of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h). Strong winds and rainfall totals ranging from 1 to 7 inches (25 to 178\u00a0mm) were observed along the coast of North Carolina. Strong winds were reported in portions of the Northeastern United States, with highest wind speed being 56\u00a0mph (90\u00a0km/h), observed in Block Island, Rhode Island. Reemerging into the Atlantic Ocean, this system continued rapidly northeastward, before becoming extratropical offshore New England on October\u00a021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nThe final tropical cyclone was located over the Bahamas on October\u00a023. It moved north-northeastward and remained at the same intensity. By October\u00a025, the storm began executing a cyclonic loop while offshore the East Coast of the United States. Around that time, the system attained its peak intensity with winds of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h). Moving southwestward, the storm made landfall near Duck, North Carolina at 2300\u00a0UTC on October\u00a025, at the same intensity. Early on October\u00a026, the system curved southeastward and quickly moved offshore. It then moved eastward and later to the northeast, before becoming extratropical on October\u00a029.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031147-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nAlong much of the East Coast of the United States, the Weather Bureau warned about gales and rough seas. From Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to Maine, storm surge and tides resulted in considerable damage to boardwalks and beach cottages. In Virginia, storm surge caused a number of small crafts and a few ships to be washed ashore or destroyed. The James River rose to 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) above high tide. A few cities experienced coastal flooding, including Chincoteague and Norfolk. The Willoughby Spit was split by the tides, washing away the Old Point Comfort railroad tracks. Cedar Island was \"leveled to a mere flat breath of sand\". Six fatalities were reported in Virginia, four of them from drowning in Newport News, while the other two were caused by electrocution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031148-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1897 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers' sixth season. The team was led by head coach John Heisman, in his third year, and finished with a record of two wins, zero losses and one tie (2\u20130\u20131 overall, 2\u20130\u20131 in the SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031148-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Mercer\nThe season opened with a 26\u20130 defeat of Mercer. Fearing Georgia scouts watching for signals, Auburn did not use any throughout the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031148-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Nashville\nAuburn beat Nashville 14\u20134 in a duel between fullbacks Jim Penton and Bradley Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031148-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Auburn Tigers football team, Postseason\nThe team finished $700 in debt, and Heisman was the actor, director, and producer of David Garrick to raise the money. As such, he is founder of Auburn's first theatrical group: The A.P.I. Dramatic Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031149-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Awarua by-election\nA by-election was held for the Awarua electorate on 5 August 1897, for the seat vacated by Joseph Ward, which he had held since 1887. Despite having had to resign due to bankruptcy, he exploited a legal loophole and was re-elected to the 13th New Zealand Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031149-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Awarua by-election, Background and election\nJoseph Ward first won election to the Awarua electorate in the 1897 election. He held many portfolios in the Seddon Ministry, including that of Treasurer (i.e. Minister of Finance), when Justice Williams declared him \"hopelessly insolvent\" in 1896. He was forced to resign his portfolios in Cabinet on 16 June. In 1897, he had to file for bankruptcy, and was adjudicated bankrupt on 8 July 1897. He was then legally obliged to resign his seat in Parliament, which he did on 14 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031149-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Awarua by-election, Background and election\nA loophole, however, meant that there was nothing to stop him simply contesting it again. He did so, and was re-elected with an increased majority. His opponent, both in the previous general election in 1896 and in the by-election was Cuthbert Cowan, who had previously represented the Wallace (1869) and Hokonui (1884\u20131890) electorates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031149-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Awarua by-election, Background and election\nParliament passed a special Act on 13 October, the Awarua Seat Enquiry Act 1897, which required the Court of Appeal to urgently decide whether he could be re-elected to Parliament, and the court decided in his favour. The court judgement was published as AJHR H32 of 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031149-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Awarua by-election, Background and election\nWard actually gained considerable popularity as a result of his financial troubles; Ward was widely seen as a great benefactor of the Southland region, and public perceptions were that he was being persecuted by his enemies over an honest mistake. Gradually, Ward rebuilt his businesses, and paid off his debtors. Richard Seddon, still Prime Minister, quickly reappointed Ward to Cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031150-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1897 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. After three straight first-place finishes, the Orioles slipped to second place with a record of 90\u201340, 2 games behind the National League-leading Boston Beaneaters. After the season, the two teams met in what would be the final Temple Cup competition, with the Orioles winning 4 games to 1. In all, Baltimore played in all four Temple Cups, losing the first two and winning the last two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031150-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031150-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031150-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031150-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031150-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election\nThe Barnsley by-election, 1897, was a by-election held on 28 October 1897 for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. It was notable for its role in the development of the Independent Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Background\nThe constituency of Barnsley had been created in 1885, and was a safe seat for the Liberal Party. Since a by-election in 1889, it had been held by the Earl Compton. On 11 September 1897, Compton's father died, and he succeeded as the Marquess of Northampton, thereby forfeiting his seat in the House of Commons and necessitating a by-election. There were eleven candidates for the Liberal nomination, including William Pollard Byles, William Sproston Caine, A. E. Fletcher, George William Erskine Russell and Charles Trevelyan. Ultimately, the party nominated Joseph Walton, a County Durham-based owner of collieries and coal and coke merchants. He had stood in Doncaster in 1895, but had narrowly lost the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Background\nAt each election since its creation, the seat had been contested by both the Liberal Party and an opponent from the Conservative Party (or, on one occasion, from the Liberal Unionist Party). The Conservative's best result had come at the 1895 general election, where Ronald Greville had taken 40.6% of the vote. The following year, he had been elected for Bradford East, so he was not available to contest the by-election. After a struggle to find a candidate, the party selected James Blyth, a London-based captain in the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and a friend of Wakefield MP Lord Milton. He had no political experience, and it was widely suspected that the party held no hope of capturing the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Background\nThe Independent Labour Party (ILP) had been founded in 1893 as a socialist party, committed to securing MPs who were independent of the Liberal Party. The party stood 28 candidates at the 1895 general election, but did not win a single seat, and various by-election candidates had also performed poorly. They decided to stand Pete Curran, the national organiser of the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers. He was a member of the Fabian Society and of the Social Democratic Federation, and had stood in Barrow in 1895, coming bottom of the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Campaign\nBy far the largest employer in the area was the coal industry, and Barnsley was a stronghold of the Yorkshire Miners Association (YMA). Although he was not part of the Lib-Lab movement, Walton courted the support of local miners, and the YMA quickly gave him its backing. Ben Pickard, General Secretary of the YMA, was a particularly strong supporter, and he claimed that Curran was in league with the Conservatives. John Potts, checkweighman at Hemsworth Colliery, also supported Walton, although with some reservations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0004-0001", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Campaign\nHe said in the presence of Walton that he would favour a labour party at a time when state payment of MPs, and of election expenses would enable working men to be maintained in Parliament. But for now, \"the Liberal party was the working man\u2019s only hope\". Walton campaigned on much of the YMA's agenda, including an eight-hour working day for miners, the introduction of old age pensions and voting reform, although he opposed their campaign for nationalisation of the mines. He also admitted to sending coal to Yorkshire during the YMA strike of 1893, excusing this on the grounds that Yorkshire coal had been sent to County Durham during a strike up there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Campaign\nBlyth opposed an eight-hour day, stating that it should not be a matter for parliamentary legislation. He hoped that the passage of the Workmen's Compensation Act under the Conservative government would garner him support, but it led many colliery owners, otherwise strong Conservatives, to refuse to campaign for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Campaign\nBarnsley and District Trades and Labour Council, which did not include any miners' representatives, backed Curran. The ILP held a large number of meetings, bringing prominent speakers from around the country. They attracted large audiences, although they were strongly heckled and possibly attacked in Wombwell. Their campaign focussed on attacking Walton's role as an employer, claiming he had victimised miners. However, the Liberals countered, claiming that Curran had deserted his wife and was either an Orangeman or a Roman Catholic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Result\nWalton held the seat comfortably, receiving a slight increase in his share of the vote. Their triumph was largely put down to the work of Pickard, and some liberal newspapers used the share as evidence that the ILP vote was coming from former Conservative supporters, not from Liberals. The ILP was disappointed by their weak showing, taking only 9.7% of the vote. The organisation was put in debt by paying its share of the election expenses, and as a result was not able to contest any further by-elections until 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0007-0001", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Result\nHowever, it did manage to recruit some more members in the district. Ultimately, the defeat led to a re-evaluation of its approach, and to adopt instead a short-term policy of uniting all trade unions, socialist or not, into one political party. This vision led to the formation of the Labour Representation Committee and, ultimately, the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031151-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Barnsley by-election, Result\nWalton held the seat until he stood down in 1922. Blyth did not contest any further elections, but Curran was eventually elected at the 1907 Jarrow by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031152-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Belfast Corporation election\nAn election to Belfast Corporation took place on Thursday 25 November 1897 as part of that year's local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031152-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Belfast Corporation election\nThis was the first election for Belfast Corporation since 1887. Since that election the Belfast Corporation Act 1896 had increased the borough from 6,800 to 16,500 acres, and the electorate from 39,603 to 47,294. The need to delineate new ward boundaries meant that elections could not be completed in 1896, resulting in them being delayed until 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1897 Boston Beaneaters season was the 27th season of the franchise. The Beaneaters won the National League pennant, their fourth of the decade and their seventh overall. After the season, the Beaneaters played in the Temple Cup for the first time. They lost the series to the second-place Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season, Regular season\nThis team has been cited (along with the 1880s St. Louis Browns and the 1890s Baltimore Orioles) as one of the greatest of the 19th century. It featured five Hall of Famers: manager Frank Selee, pitcher Kid Nichols, third baseman Jimmy Collins, and outfielders Billy Hamilton and Hugh Duffy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season, Regular season\nIn just 132 games, the Beaneaters scored 1025 runs to lead the league (Hamilton had 152 of them to win individual honors). They also allowed the fewest, on the way to a .705 winning percentage. Nichols was one of the premier pitchers in the league, leading the NL with 31 wins. His 2.64 ERA ranked second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031153-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031154-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston College football team\nThe 1897 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031155-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1897 occurred on Tuesday, December 21, 1897. In a rematch of the previous election, Democratic candidate and incumbent Mayor of Boston Josiah Quincy defeated Republican candidate and former mayor Edwin Upton Curtis, and two other contenders, to win re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031156-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held under the 1891 constitution, which provided for a 16-member Court of Policy, half of which was elected. The Court included the Governor, seven government officials (the Attorney General, the Government Secretary, the Immigration Agent General and the Receiver General, together with three other appointees). The eight elected members were elected from seven constituencies; Demerara East, Demerara West, Essequebo North Western, Essequebo South Eastern, Berbice, City of Georgetown (2 members) and New Amsterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031156-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nIn addition, six \"Financial Representatives\" were also elected in six single member constituencies; Demerara, Essequebo North Western, Essequebo South Eastern, Berbice, Georgetown and New Amsterdam. Together with the Court of Policy, the two groups formed the Combined Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031156-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nThe franchise was restricted on the basis of a minimum income level, and women could not vote. The 1897 elections saw the introduction of the secret ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031156-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 British Guiana general election, Campaign\nThe elections saw a strong campaign to get non-white representation in the Court of Policy. The Progressive Association supported several candidates, including Andrew Benjamin Brown after he was attacked by the white-owned The Echo newspaper. Brown and Patrick Dargan were both supported by Alfred A. Thorne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031156-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 British Guiana general election, Results\nAlmost all the candidates supported by the Progressive Association were elected, including Dargan and Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031157-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season\nThe 1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms finished the season in seventh place under new manager Billy Barnie. Also the team's ownership underwent a change as Charles Byrne and Ferdinand Abell buy the shares previously owned by George Chauncey and Charles Ebbets becomes a part owner of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031157-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031157-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031157-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031157-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031158-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1897 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1897 college football season. The team's captain was Dave Fultz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031159-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Buffalo football team\nThe 1897 Buffalo football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 1897 college football season. Under head coach C. W. Dibble, the team was a perfect 7-0 against collegiate foes and 9-1 overall for the year. The team beat the Syracuse Orangemen twice during the season. The Buffalo offense scored 144 points while the defense allowed 12 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031160-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1897 Calgary municipal election was scheduled for December 13, 1897 to elect a Mayor and nine Councillors to sit on the fourteenth Calgary City Council from January 3, 1898 to January 3, 1899. Arthur Leslie Cameron was acclaimed as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031161-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1897 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1897 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Charles P. Nott and compiled a record of 0\u20133\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031162-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1897 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1897 college football season. The Indians were led by William T. Bull in his first year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 6\u20134 and outscored opponents 232 to 98.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031162-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Carlisle Indians football team\nFrank Hudson was the quarterback. On the line were the brothers Bemus Pierce and Hawley Pierce. The two Pierce brothers, each weighing over 200 pounds, were both among the best players of their day. In 1906, The Washington Post declared them the greatest pair of linesman brothers in the history of the sport:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031162-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Carlisle Indians football team\n\"But the greatest pair of brother linesmen were the Indians, Pierce. Bemus Pierce and Hawley Pierce were right guard and left tackle in the Carlisle line in the old days when the redskin booters of the prolate had everything in the country scared. Two hundred pounds apiece they weighed, and they won games for their team in 97. Tackle back and guard back for a solid half was the Indian play and it was 400 pounds of Pierce into the opponents' line pretty steady. Bemus was captain of the team and one of the best men on the kick-off football has seen. He could measure and place his kicks accurately and every red knew where the ball was going before it soared.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031162-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Carlisle Indians football team\nHudson gained acclaim for drop-kicking field goals against two of the top teams in the country\u2014Yale and Penn. Hudson accounted for all of Carlisle's points in a 20-10 loss to Penn at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The New York Times wrote that \"little Hudson showed his ability as a kicker by dropping the ball squarely between the posts.\" The game against Yale was played at the Polo Grounds in New York, and The New York Times described udson's field goal as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031162-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Carlisle Indians football team\n\"[S]teadying himself for an instant the ball was dropped and with a delicate touch from his foot was sent sailing straight as a die toward the Yale goal. The spectators held their breath and watched the ball as it sailed on just over the heads of the Yale players and finally dropped over the bar. Then they cheered and young Hudson was the hero of the day. The goal was one of the prettiest ever seen ...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031162-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe success of the Carlisle football team was a source of great pride for Native Americans. In 1897, the Indian Helper (the Carlisle school newspaper) described a celebration that greeted the football team on its return from a game played in New York City against Yale University:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031162-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Carlisle Indians football team\n\"On Monday morning after breakfast, the football team, who returned the evening before from the Yale game which was played at New York last Saturday, was treated to a free ride across the parade, in the large four horse herdic, drawn by the entire battalion. Capt. Pierce, Frank Cayou, Frank Hudson, and Martin Wheelock occupied the small phaeton drawn by boys, and went in advance of the others. The band played lively marches, as handkerchiefs waved and mouths shouted. The demonstration was a great surprise to all making a unique scene for such an early morning hour. The school is proud of the record made for clean playing, and were gratified that the boys scored.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031163-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Central Colonels football team\nThe 1897 Central Colonels football team represented Central University in Richmond, Kentucky during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031164-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1897 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Under head coach Carl Pray, the Normalites compiled a 2\u20131 record, and were outscored 16 to 18 by their opponents. The most important benchmark during the 1898 season was the program's first game against a collegiate opponent, a 18\u20130 loss to Alma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup\nThe 1897 Challenge Cup was the inaugural staging of the Northern Rugby Football Union's Challenge Cup and involved 52 clubs from across England from the 1896\u201397 Northern Rugby Football Union season. The tournament was played over six rounds in March and April 1897, culminating in the final which was won by Batley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Background\nThe Northern Union decided to hold a cup competition called the Northern Rugby Football Union Challenge Cup in July 1896. The cup was commissioned from Bradford silversmiths and jewellers, Fattorini and Sons. Fattorini's designed the trophy themselves and it cost the Northern Union \u00a360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Draw\nThe draw for the competition was made on 3 September 1896 although the matches were not due to be played until March and April 1897 over six consecutive weekends commencing 20 March 1897. All rounds were drawn at the same time with matches in the second and subsequent rounds given an identification letter such that ties for later rounds were expressed as, for example, \"Q. Winner of Round C. v. winner of Round N.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Draw\nThe team drawn first had the option to play at home or could agree to play at the opponent's ground. The semi-finals and final were to be played at neutral venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, First round\nThe first round involved 20 matches and 40 clubs. 12 clubs (Batley, Bradford Church Hill, Brighouse Rangers, Crompton, Heckmondwike, Liversedge, St Helens Recs, Stockport, Swinton Church, Thornton Rangers, Tyldesley and Werneth) were given a bye to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, First round, First round replays\nThe three games requiring replays were all played on Wednesday 24 March", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Second round\nThe second round of 16 ties was played on Saturday 27 March 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Second round, Second round replay\nStockport and Eastmoor replayed the tie on Wednesday 31 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Third round\nThe third round of eight games was played on Saturday 3 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Third round, Third round replay\nSwinton and Rochdale replayed the drawn game on Wednesday 7 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Fourth round\nThe quarter finals were played on Saturday 10 April 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were scheduled for Saturday 17 April. However, due to a waterlogged pitch, the tie between St. Helens and Swinton, due to be played at Broughton Rangers ground - Wheater's Field - was postponed until Monday 19 April. The game between Batley and Warrington, played at Fartown, Huddersfield did go ahead on a very soft pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Semi-finals\nAfter the game Warrington lodged a protest over the result, claiming that the game should have been postponed due to the state of the pitch and that the game having gone ahead, the referee allowed the game to end six minutes short. Both grounds of protest were dismissed by the Northern Union Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Semi-finals\nThe rearranged game between St Helens and Swinton was played on Easter Monday, 19 April, watched by a crowd of 20,000 taking advantage of the bank holiday to attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0014-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final took place on 24 April 1897 at Headingley, Leeds. The official attendance was 13,492, with gate receipts of \u00a3624.17s.7d. Batley wore white shirts and black shorts and socks in place of their normal cerise and fawn colours. St Helens wore blue and white hooped shirts, white shorts and black socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0015-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Final\nSt Helens won the toss and elected to have Batley kick off. Despite playing into the wind in the first half, Batley took the lead after five minutes when stand-off Joe Oakland, kicked a drop goal to give Batley a 4\u20130 advantage. Batley extended their lead to 7\u20130 when centre John Goodall scored the first try of the game. These were the only scores of the first half. Early in the second half St Helens scored a try when centre David Traynor took the ball on the halfway line and beat four Batley players before touching down. The St Helens fightback did not last long as Batley flanker John T. 'Paudy' Munns scored Batley's second try to make the score 10\u20133 which remained the score at the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031165-0016-0000", "contents": "1897 Challenge Cup, Final\nAfter the game the cup was presented by Mrs Louisa Waller, the wife of the president of the Northern Union, Henry Hirst Waller. Mrs Waller presented the Batley players with commemorative gold medals and the St Helens players with silver medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031166-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Chertsey by-election\nThe Chertsey by-election, 1897 was a parliamentary by-election held on 19 February 1897 for the British House of Commons constituency of Chertsey. It was caused by the resignation of the constituency's sitting Conservative Member of Parliament Charles Harvey Combe, because of his ill-health. Combe had held the seat since the 1892 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031166-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Chertsey by-election, Result\nThe seat was held for the Conservatives by Henry Currie Leigh-Bennett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031167-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago Colts season\nThe 1897 Chicago Colts season was the 26th season of the Chicago Colts franchise, the 22nd in the National League and the 5th at West Side Park. The Colts finished ninth in the National League with a record of 59\u201373.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031167-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago Colts season\nWhile on the surface the season seemed to be uneventful, on June 29, the Colts beat the Louisville Colonels 36\u20137, the most runs ever scored by a team in a single game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031167-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031167-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031167-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031168-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago Dental Infirmary football team\nThe 1897 Chicago dental Infirmary football team was an American football team that represented the Chicago Dental Infirmary in the 1897 college football season. The Dents, as they were occasionally known, compiled a 2\u20132\u20131, and were outscored by their opponents 97 to 48, with a majority of the lost points coming at the hands of Notre Dame, who shut them out 62\u20130. In a game for the unofficial title of \"Western Dental college champion\", Chicago Dental lost 0\u201314 to Northwestern University Dental department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031169-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1897 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1897 Western Conference football season. In their sixth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled an 11\u20131 record, finished in second place in the Western Conference with a 3\u20131 record against conference opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 331 to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1897, Democratic nominee Carter Harrison Jr. was elected, winning a majority of the vote and defeating independent Republican John Maynard Harlan, Republican nominee Nathaniel C. Sears, independent Democrat Washington Hesing, as well as several minor candidates. Harrison carried a 26.7 point lead over second-place finisher Harlan, a margin greater than Harlan's vote share itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election\nIncumbent Republican mayor George Bell Swift declined to seek reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations\nThe election had held the record for being the Chicago mayoral election to have the most candidates running on the ballot for 122 years, until the 2019 Chicago mayoral election surpassed it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nHarrison was the son of late mayor Carter Harrison Sr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nConsidered to be young and charismatic, and the namesake of his popular father, in 1896 a number of political actors began to court Harrison as a potential mayoral candidate for 1897. In 1896 the Harrison Club, which had been founded by his father at the start of the decade in the hopes of forming the base of a political machine, but which had gone defunct following his fathers' assassination, was revived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nDuring his pursuit of the nomination, Harrison aligned himself with William Jennings Bryan, 1896 Democratic presidential nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nHarrison's potential candidacy began to accrue the backing of political players of the Chicago Democratic Party scene. Chief among these was Robert Emmett \"Bobby\" Burke, who abandoned his initial support for the candidacy of Superior Court of Cook County judge John Barton Payne in order to back Harrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nJohn Barton Payne was broadly-liked, but did not arouse strong enthusiasm, and was criticized by some Democrats for his tepid support of William Jennings Bryan's presidential candidacy. Payne ultimately abandoned his plans to run after being discouraged by the greatly enthusiastic response which Harrison received for his opening speech at the January 8, 1897 Jackson Day Celebration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nAnother challenger to Harrison was A.S. Trude. Trude, whose long political service had been admired by John Peter Altgeld, unsuccessfully sought Atgeld's endorsement. He ultimately withdrew as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nAt the city's Democratic Party nominating convention, Harrison faced no open opposition. Harrison's former challenger Trude introduced Harrison's name for nomination by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nThe Republican Party nominated Nathaniel C. Sears, a judge on the Superior Court of Cook County. Sears was the first resident of Edgewater to run for mayor. Sears was selected as a compromise candidate in an attempt to avoid a potentially divisive fight between the leading candidates that had sought the nomination (which included William Lorimer).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Socialist Labor\nThe Socialist Labor Party nominated John Glambeck. Glambeck was a clerk and the editor of the Arbejderen paper, a mouthpiece of the party.. Glambeck had been involved in the party, including having previously served as a delegate to the party's 1893 national convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Independent candidates\nIncumbent alderman John Maynard Harlan ran for mayor as an independent Republican. Harlan was the son of then-sitting Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall Harlan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Independent candidates\nWashington Hesing resigned his position as Chicago's postmaster to run for mayor as an independent Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0014-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Independent candidates\nLess notable candidates also running as independents were Frank Howard Collier and J. Irving Pearce, Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0015-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe election was contentious, with four major candidates and numerous minor candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0016-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe Chicago Traction Wars were a prominent concern in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0017-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThroughout the election, Harrison was the apparent frontrunner. As a result, he received the most attacks from opponents. Opponents sought to paint him as a machine politician (which was true), as in the pocket of streetcar company (which was untrue), as a opponent of civil service reform (which was partially true), and as a \"puppet\" of Robert Burke and other career politicians (which a fair criticism at the time). Reformists voiced alarm that the Democratic slate included William Loeffler as its City Clerk nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0018-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nHarrison's campaign was well organized, and benefited from the disunity of Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0019-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nAppealing to citizen's concerns regarding the developments of the Chicago Traction Wars (particularly the Humphrey bills, bills backed by Charles Yerkes and introduced to the Illinois Senate by John Humphrey), John Maynard Harlan advocated for regulation of the city's streetcar systems. He supported municipal ownership of streetcars. Harlan received what effectively amounted to an unofficial endorsement from the Muninicipal Voters' League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0020-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nHesing had begun preparing for his campaign in the autumn of 1896. He ran on a markedly liberal platform which proposed a mayoral administration modeled after that of Detroit mayor Hazen Pingree. Hesing advocated for civil service reform, an end to machine politics, traction law revision, and the use of vacant lots by the poor for the purposes of growing beans and vegetables. Despite his reformist platform, Hesing did not receive sizable backing from the city's reformers, who instead flocked to the candidacy of Harlan. However, very late in the campaign, Hesing did receive a lukewarm statement of support signed by a number of prominent gold standard-supporting Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0021-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nBy the end of the race, it had become apparent that Harrison and Harlan were the frontrunners to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031170-0022-0000", "contents": "1897 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe second-place finish by Municipal Voters League reformer John Maynard Halran evidenced the strength of the independent pro-reform vote in Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1897 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in fourth place in the National League with a record of 76\u201356, 17 games behind the Boston Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Offseason\nThe Cincinnati Reds were coming off a fairly successful season in 1896. They had been in first place late in the year, but the team struggled badly over the last part of the season. to finish in third place in the National League with a 77\u201350 record. This marked the second consecutive season that the Reds collapsed at the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Offseason\nPlayer-manager Buck Ewing returned to the club, but would retire from playing and focus on just being the manager. The Reds made a deal in the off-season, as Cincinnati traded away Germany Smith, Chauncey Fisher and $1,000 to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms for Tommy Corcoran. Corcoran was coming off a season in which he hit .289 with three home runs and 73 RBI with the Bridegrooms in 1896. The team also purchased pitcher Ted Breitenstein from the St. Louis Browns for $10,000. Breitenstein was 18\u201326 with the Browns with a 4.48 ERA in 43 starts in 1896. His best season had been in 1894 when he was 27\u201323 with a 4.79 ERA, while leading the National League with 50 starts, 46 complete games and 447.1 innings pitched. Breitenstein also led the NL with a 3.18 ERA in 1893 while in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Reds started the season off hot, winning their first six games, and would remain hot, as they were 19\u20137 in their first twenty-six games, only half a game behind the first place Baltimore Orioles. At that time, the New York Giants released Jake Beckley, and the Reds immediately signed him to take over first base. Despite their new addition, Cincinnati fell into a slump, winning only eight of eighteen games to fall into third place, 6.5 games behind the first place Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0003-0001", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Reds then snapped out of their losing ways, as they won twelve of their next thirteen games to move back into second. However, they still remained 4.5 games out of first with a 39\u201318 record. Cincinnati remained in the pennant race until late August, when they went on a ten-game losing streak to fall into fourth place, eleven games out of first. They remained in fourth place for the rest of the season, finishing with a 76\u201356 record, 17 games behind the Boston Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Notable performances\nBeckley, who the Reds acquired during the season, led the team offensively, batting .345 with seven home runs and 76 RBI, all team highs. Dusty Miller had another solid year, batting .316 with four homers and 70 RBI, while Tommy Corcoran batted .288 with three home runs and 57 RBI in his first year as a Red.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Notable performances\nOn the mound, Ted Breitenstein led the way, leading the team with a 23\u201312 record with a 3.62 ERA in 40 games, completing 32 of them. Billy Rhines was solid also, posting a record of 21\u201315 with a 4.08 ERA, while Frank Dwyer was 18\u201313 with an ERA of 3.78.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031171-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031172-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1897 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Tom Fennell, the Bearcats compiled a 9\u20131\u20131 record. William Bass was the team captain. The team played its home games at Union Ball Park in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031172-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati football team\nFollowing their regular season schedule, which they completed with a record of 7\u20131\u20131, losing only to the Carlisle Indians, Cincinnati played two post-season games in New Orleans. The Bearcats were invited to New Orleans by the Southern Athletic Club to play a football game on New Year's Day. Cincinnati easily defeated the Athletic Club team, and at the victory party following the win, students from nearby Louisiana State University (LSU) invited the Cincinnati players to come to their school to play another game. The Cincinnati\u2013LSU game, which took place a few days later and pre-dated the first Rose Bowl Game by five years, resulted in a 28\u20130 (exact score varies by source) Cincinnati win. This game could be considered, the school's athletic department contemplates, as the first bowl game in Cincinnati football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031172-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Cincinnati football team, Further reading\nThis College football 1890s season article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031173-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Cisleithanian legislative election\nLegislative elections to elect the members of the ninth Imperial Council were held in March 1897 in Cisleithania, the northern and western (\"Austrian\") crown lands of Austria-Hungary. These elections were first in Cisleithania held under the curial system with universal, but still not equal, suffrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031173-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Cisleithanian legislative election, Badeni electoral reform\nCount Kasimir Felix Badeni had led the Cisleithanian government since 1895. In February 1896, the government submitted a proposal for fundamental reform of the electoral system. The so-called Badeni electoral reform kept the curial electoral system, but in addition to four existing curiae (landowners, trade and industry chambers, large and medium farmers, and male city residents who were annually paying at least 10 guilders of taxes), the fifth, general curiae, was added. While voting rights were limited in the four original curiae (fiscally defined, therefore, allowing voting to only those who have paid taxes on prescribed minimum amount), the fifth curia included all men older than 24. In May 1896, Badeni electoral reform was approved by the Imperial Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031173-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results\nVoting took place in several stages during March 1897, with the last elections being held in the fifth curiae on March 12, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031173-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results\nThe elections significantly changed relations in the Imperial Council, with a strong trend in the degradation of the original dominant German Progressive Party being set. This trend went in favor of the newly founded German People's Party and the Christian Social Party. The elections also brought a further fragmentation of the political scene; the three strongest parliamentary clubs (Young Czechs, Polish Club, and German Progressive Party) had only 168 seats, and the new Imperial Council had 17 parliamentary clubs. Meanwhile, the Social Democrats were still weakening, winning only 15 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031173-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results, Seats\nIn May 1897, the Imperial Council had 16 political groups and individual parties:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031173-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Cisleithanian legislative election, Aftermath\nAfter the elections, Badeni tried to negotiate with the aim of creating a stable pro-government parliamentary majority. However, he did not consider the German Progressive Party or the radical nationalist Pan-German League, but preferred to try to gain support among conservative German-Austrian politicians, including the liberal German Constitutional Party. After the German Constitutional Party refused to give support to the minority government, Badeni announced on April 2, 1897 that his government would resign, but did not go through with the resignation. Meanwhile, negotiations on forming a government continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031173-0005-0001", "contents": "1897 Cisleithanian legislative election, Aftermath\nOn April 4, a framework agreement was set, effectively restoring the conservative so-called Iron Circle from the 1880s, which consisted of the German Catholic People's Party, the Young Czech Party, the Polish club and the Czech Party of Conservative Landowners. Badeni remained Prime Minister. However, the government did not last long as Badeni resigned on November 28, 1897 under the pressure from the German nationalists over the language regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031174-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 City of Dunedin by-election\nThe City of Dunedin by-election 1897 was a by-election held in the multi-member City of Dunedin electorate during the 13th New Zealand Parliament, on 13 October 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031174-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 City of Dunedin by-election, Background\nThe by-election was caused by the death of incumbent MP Henry Fish and was won by Alexander Sligo. On nomination day (5 October) Alexander Sligo, Hugh Gourley and William Hutchison were the nominated candidates. Sligo contested the election as the Conservative candidate whilst Gourley and Hutchinson both stood in Liberal interests. Alexander Sligo was subsequently elected the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031175-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1897 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson Agricultural College in the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tigers completed their season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association with a record of 2\u20132, with wins over South Carolina and a Charlotte YMCA team, and losses to Georgia and North Carolina. All games were played in the opposing school's home city. William M. Williams served as the team's coach for his first season while W. T. Brock was the captain. The team was state champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031176-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Cleveland Spiders season\nThe 1897 Cleveland Spiders finished with a 69\u201362 record and a fifth-place finish in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031176-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031176-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031176-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031176-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031177-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Colgate football team\nThe 1897 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1897 college football season. The team captain for the 1897 season was Walter Cramp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031178-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1897 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1897 college football season, as selected by Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly. Caspar Whitney had selected the Harper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891 to 1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031179-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Colonial Conference\nThe 1897 Colonial Conference was a conference between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the 11 self-governing colonies of the British Empire. The conference was convened in London by Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain in 1897 on the occasion of Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Chamberlain's intention was to draw the self-governing colonies into closer co-operation with the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031179-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Colonial Conference\nDelegates were sent to the conference by Canada, Newfoundland Colony, New Zealand the Australian self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, and the South African colonies of Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031179-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Colonial Conference\nChamberlain proposed the creation of a permanent Imperial Council made up of delegates from the colonies to act as an Empire-wide parliament with the power to bind the colonies on imperial matters but this was rejected by the colonies due to fears of loss of autonomy. Chamberlain also propose that colonies increase their contributions to the Royal Navy but only some colonies agreed to increase their contributions and no permanent arrangement was agreed to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031179-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Colonial Conference\nChamberlain also proposed a customs union between the colonies and Britain while Canada proposed preferential trade but no decision was made by the delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031179-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Colonial Conference, Participants\nThe conference was hosted by Queen Victoria, with her Colonial Secretary and the premiers of various colonies:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031180-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1897 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1897 college football season. Head coach Fred Folsom led the program to its fourth consecutive conference championship. The team recorded a mark of 5\u20130 in the CFA and 7\u20131 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031181-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Columbian Orange and Blue football team\nThe 1897 Columbian Orange and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Columbian University (now known as George Washington University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In their second season under head coach Graham Nichols, the team compiled a 4\u20135\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031182-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1897 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 11th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031182-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Cork Senior Football Championship\nDohenys won the championship following a 0-05 to 0-04 defeat of Kanturk in a replay of the final at Cork Park. It remains their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031183-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1897 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 11th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031183-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nBallyhea were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Blackrock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031183-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 19 September 1897, Blackrock won the championship following a 5-8 to 0-0 defeat of Aghada in the final. This was their seventh championship title overall and their first in two championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031184-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1897 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 133 to 42. Three Cornell players received honors on the 1897 College Football All-America Team: quarterback George Young, Cornell (Walter Camp-2, Outing-1); end William McKeever (Camp-2); and end Lyndon S. Tracy, Cornell (Camp-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031185-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 County Championship\nThe 1897 County Championship was the eighth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 3 May to 30 August 1897. Lancashire County Cricket Club won the championship for the first time, narrowly beating Surrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031186-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Croatian parliamentary election\nCroatian parliamentary elections were held from 19 to 22 May 1897. The People's Party emerged as the victor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031186-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Croatian parliamentary election, Background\nThe 1897 elections were held during the autocratic rule of Croatian ban K\u00e1roly Khuen-H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry. His primary task as the ban of Croatia was to preserve the Croatian-Hungarian union. H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry had maintained good relations with the Hungarian Liberal Party, while he relied on the National Party in Croatia to maintain the status quo. H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry's supporters had won the parliament majority in each of the three previous elections held during his reign, in 1884, 1887 and 1892. At the time of the election, the National Party held the parliamentary majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031186-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Croatian parliamentary election, Background\nDue to the makeup of the electoral law, only 2% of the nation's citizens could vote, i.e. men over thirty years old, who could pay 30 forints in tax. Furthermore, H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry had reorganized the districts in such a way, that certain districts were majority Serbian, and he had relied on their mutual antagonization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031186-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Croatian parliamentary election, Background\nBan Khuen-H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry was unpopular for large groups of Croatian citizens for several reasons: he had suppressed Croatian nationalism, aimed at magyarization of the railways and administration, imposing the Hungarian language at schools, settling Hungarian people in areas of Croatia, as well as lessening of local autonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031186-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Croatian parliamentary election, The election\nThe National Party presented itself as allies of H\u00e9derv\u00e1ry and the Croatian-Hungarian union. The opposition to the National Party was at the time fragmented, as the Croatian Party of Rights had split into three groups: the Croatian Party of Rights, the Independent Croatian Party of Rights and the Pure Croatian Party of Rights. In August of 1986, the matica of Croatian Party of Rights and Independent National Party formed a coalition. Another opposition party was the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia, however, due to their small size they weren't a major player in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031187-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Currie Cup\nThe 1897 Currie Cup was the fourth edition of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031187-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Western Province for the fourth time, who won all four of their matches in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031188-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1897 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031188-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Dartmouth football team\nDartmouth played only seven games during the 1897 season, the fewest of any year under head coach William Wurtenburg. The squad completed the year with a mediocre 4\u20133 record. Despite going 2\u20130 in conference games, the team lost three consecutive games in major shutouts. The season began with a shutout of Phillips Exeter Academy, but quickly turned for the worse. Harvard returned to Dartmouth's schedule and defeated them 13\u20130. The loss was followed by blowout defeats by Penn and Princeton, with Dartmouth losing by combined score of 64\u20130. The squad took a week-long break, which allowed them to recover and defeat conference opponents Amherst and Williams by more than fifty points in each game to win a fifth consecutive championship. As with the previous year, the season concluded with a defeat of the Newton Athletic Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031188-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Dartmouth football team\nSeveral members of the team would later become college football coaches, including John B. Eckstorm, Joseph Wentworth, Frank Cavanaugh, David Carr MacAndrew, Joseph H. Edwards, Fred Crolius, and Charles J. Boyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031189-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Darwin cyclone\nThe 1897 cyclone was a tropical cyclone that destroyed the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is considered the worst cyclone to strike the Northern Territory of Australia prior to Cyclone Tracy in 1974. Prior to contemporary naming conventions, the storm became known as the \"Great Hurricane\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031189-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Darwin cyclone, Damage\nThe cyclone hit Darwin in the evening of the 6 January 1897, peaking between 3.30am and 4.30am on 7 January. It dumped 292mm of rain on Darwin, then known as Palmerston. It uplifted roofs, uprooted trees and telegraph poles destroying almost all of the buildings. The only remaining structures include the historic Victoria Hotel, doctors residence, BAT House, the Commercial and E. S. & A. Banks and the Court House. These remaining structures housed scores of homeless residents after the cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031189-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Darwin cyclone, Damage\nThere were 28 fatalities, mostly Chinese and Aboriginal people. One family was reported to have run from three different houses as they were destroyed around them, surviving without injury. Illness spread throughout the predominately homeless population after the cyclone. While little is known about the Aboriginal loss of life, the deaths of a couple of women who sought refuge in the Roman Catholic Church before its collapse were documented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031189-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Darwin cyclone, Damage\nThe other major loss of life occurred on Darwin Harbour, with the deaths of many \"coloured persons\" working in the pearling industry. Of 29 vessels in the harbour at the time, 18 were wrecked, mostly pearling luggers such as the Flowerdale, Maggie, Roebuck, Cleopatra, Olive, Florence, Revenge, Jack, Black Jack, Brisbane and Galatea. The government steam launch and three sampans were also damaged. Many crews donated to the rebuilding efforts. The pearling fleet was quickly restored and expanded and by 1898, 55 vessels were operational.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031189-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Darwin cyclone, Damage\nThe damage is estimated to have cost over \u00a3150,000 in 1897 values.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031190-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 DePauw football team\nThe 1897 DePauw football team was an American football team that represented DePauw University in the 1897 college football season. In its second season with Arthur Hamrick as coach, the team compiled a 2\u20136 record, and were outscored by their opponents 70 to 23. DePauw was shut out six times and did not score a single point against a collegiate football team in six contests. In a games against Plainfield Central Academy, a disagreement over a touchdown in the first half led to a forfeit win for DePauw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031191-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1897 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its second season under head coach William S. Robinson, the team compiled a 1\u20132 record and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 36 to 28. The team played one game against the Michigan Military Academy (a 26\u201324 loss) and two games against Detroit High School (one win and one loss). The result of the loss was disputed due to the fact that the high school game had two players who were not students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031192-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours\nThe Diamond Jubilee Honours for the British Empire were announced on 22 June 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria on 20 June 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031192-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031192-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours, Honours for cities and boroughs\nThe Queen has also been pleased to direct that the Chief Magistrates of the cities of Leeds and Sheffield shall in future bear the title of Lord Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031192-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours, Honours for cities and boroughs\nHer Majesty has also been pleased to direct that the following boroughs shall be raised to the rank of cities\u00a0:\u2014", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031193-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Dickinson football team\nThe 1897 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1897 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20133\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 146 to 69. Nathan Stauffer was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031194-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1897 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its first season under head coach A. B. Potter, the team compiled a 2\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 66 to 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031195-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1897 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031196-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Dutch general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Netherlands on 15 June 1897. The Liberal Union remained the largest party, winning 48 of the 100 seats in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031197-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Edinburgh Corporation election\nAn Election to the Edinburgh Corporation was held on 2 November 1897, alongside municipal elections across Scotland, and the wider British local elections. Contests took place in 5 of the cities\u2019 13 wards, with candidates in the remaining 8 being returned unopposed. Three Portobello wards also held elections. The election was relatively quiet, with no particularly important issues being raised. As a result, the main focus of the election was on the Lord Provost and the personalities of the individual candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031197-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Edinburgh Corporation election\nThe Liberal Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet took over as Provost following the election, replacing the Unionist Sir Andrew McDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031198-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1897 municipal election was held December 13, 1897. This was the last election to elect a full town council for a one-year term, as the 1898 election was conducted under a staggered system. The election was to elect the town council (consisting of a mayor and six aldermen, each elected for a one-year term), five trustees for the public school division and four trustees for the separate school division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031198-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nVoter turnout figures for the 1897 municipal election are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031198-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nThomas Bellamy, R J W Mathers, A G Randall, James Ross, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031198-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nN D Beck, Sandy Larue, Antonio Prince, and Georges Roy were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031199-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 English cricket season\n1897 was the eighth season of County Championship cricket in England. Lancashire won the championship for the first time, thanks mainly to only three losses in twenty-six matches. Surrey won more games, and beat Lancashire twice, but one more loss than Lancashire meant that they would have to be content with second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031199-0000-0001", "contents": "1897 English cricket season\nThey could have taken the championship if they had beaten Sussex in the last game at Hove but, after gaining a five-run lead on first innings, Surrey let Billy Murdoch, C. B. Fry and George Bean make half-centuries, and rain spoiled their chances of winning on the final day. At the bottom of the table, Derbyshire suffered a run of 16 matches without victory to finish last in the table and, with the end of the 1896 season having yielded three matches without a win, Derbyshire's streak ran to 19 matches without a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031200-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1897 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Maggiore in the Italian commune of Pallanza on 8 September. The competition was for men only, four nations competed (Belgium, France, Italy, and Switzerland), and the regatta had four boat classes (M1x, M2+, M4+, M8+). At the FISA Congress held on the same day as these championships, it was decided that the double scull boat class would be introduced in the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031200-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 European Rowing Championships, Event schedule\nFour races took place on 8 September 1897. As only four nations competed, no heats had to be rowed. The regatta used a 2000\u00a0m course:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031201-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 FA Cup Final\nThe 1897 FA Cup Final was contested by Aston Villa and Everton at Crystal Palace. Aston Villa won 3\u20132, with goals by John Campbell, Fred Wheldon and Jimmy Crabtree. Everton's goals came from Jack Bell and Dickie Boyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031201-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 FA Cup Final\nWith results elsewhere going their way, Villa confirmed their status as League champions on this day. This makes them the only team to date to achieve the league and cup \"double\" on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031202-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nThe 1897 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team was an American football team that represented Fairmount College (now known as Wichita State University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. They played in one game, a 12 to 4 win over Wichita High School. Their coach was T. H. Morrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031202-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nThey played their one game at Wichita High School, on Garfield Gridiron. It was played in front of \"over 1,000\". The first half was 35 minutes long and the second was 25 minutes. Their team captain was Dowd and their quarterback was Frank Hunter. The opening kickoff was sent to the Fairmount 35 and was returned 10 yards by Gohegan. The high school later forced a fumble which was followed by \"a beautiful run\" by Sheldon which gained 60 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031202-0001-0001", "contents": "1897 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nThe high school was unable to score on their drive as they were continually forced backwards and eventually committed a safety. That made the score 2 to 0 Fairmount. About 13 minutes later Fairmount scored their first touchdown, which was worth 4 points with the conversion. The teams would then exchange possessions until the half ended. The second half started at 4:01 p.m. and started with a Fairmount kickoff. On the drive Wichita was able to score their first and only touchdown. With a few minutes remaining, Fairmount scored another touchdown to end the game, 12 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031203-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Gallaudet Bison football team\nThe 1897 Gallaudet Bison football team represented the Gallaudet Bison of Gallaudet University, a college for deaf-mutes, in the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 1897 VFL Season was the Geelong Football Club's first season in the Victorian Football League and its first with Jack Conway as captain. Geelong finished the home and away season with 11 wins and 3 losses, finishing in first position and winning the minor premiership. In the final series, Geelong finished with 2 wins and 1 loss, finishing in second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season\nThe club best and fairest was won by Joe McShane and the leading goalkicker was Eddy James with 27 goals. Eddy James also won the season's leading goalkicker medal equaling Jack Leith of Melbourne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Playing List\nThis was the first ever Geelong Football Club squad in the Victorian Football League, as such, these players all made their debuts in the league. Six players played a total of seventeen games, and Eddy James kicked the most goals with 27. A total of 34 players played for Geelong at least once this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, May\nGeelong began their campaign against Essendon at the Corio Oval. The Geelong team, composed largely of new players, were unable to score in the first half. Behind by three goals, Geelong were unable to make a comeback despite an improvement. Geelong lost by 23 points. In Round 2, Geelong travelled to the Melbourne Cricket Ground to play Melbourne. Geelong had no chance all day as Melbourne defeated Geelong by 45 points. Geelong were much better in the last quarter, though it did not change the outcome of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0003-0001", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, May\nIn Round 3, Geelong again travelled to Melbourne, this time to Victoria Park to play Collingwood. It was a shock to many to see Geelong be competitive as the unbeaten Collingwood were given \"such a scare as they have not had for a long time past.\" A gallant Geelong were losers by four points. After three rounds, zero wins, three loses. In Round 4, Geelong recorded its first win against Carlton at the Corio Oval. It was a very fast match, with great kicking and marking skills. A great second quarter was enough for Geelong to win by 22 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, June\nWhen an in-form South Melbourne visited Geelong in Round 5, the wisest did not expect such a demolition. Geelong put the first 23 points on the board and led at half time by 34 points. South Melbourne were in a hopeless position, and though they improved, Geelong were winners by 48 points. Fitzroy were next to visit Geelong, though with some difficulty as the train to Geelong was delayed for 45 minutes. And so by the fourth quarter, the match was being played in complete darkness. Alas, though with poor goal kicking, Geelong were again victors by seventeen points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0004-0001", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, June\nGeelong travelled to Melbourne to play St Kilda at the Junction Oval. It could be said that Geelong were heavily favored coming into the match against the winless Saints. It was a complete domination by the better twenty, Geelong by 83 points. Geelong scored the highest score in the season with 114 and which remained the league record until 13 May 1899 when Essendon scored a total of 116 against Melbourne. Thus concluded the first round-robin, Geelong had four wins and three losses and were sitting in fourth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0004-0002", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, June\nWhen Geelong met Essendon at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in Round 8, there was much anticipation about the quality of the match, with two top teams to do battle. It was a terrific hard-fought match for the first three quarters, with Geelong leading by two points at the final change. In the last quarter, all the play was at the Essendon goal, Geelong winners by 25 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, July\nAfter a crushing defeat to Melbourne earlier in the season, Geelong made amends in a low-scoring affair at the Corio Oval. Only one goal was kicked in the entire match by Geelong's Eddy James. Geelong winners by five points. In Round 10, Geelong hosted Collingwood at the Corio Oval. Geelong's performance was declared by many old footballers as the \"finest exhibition... from Geelong they had seen in years past.\" Despite Tom Maguire's injury, and thus playing with 19 men, Geelong held Collingwood to one goal all day to win by 42 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0005-0001", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, July\nWhen Geelong travelled to Princes Park to play Carlton, few gave Carlton any chance of winning. Though it was a crowded and disorganised game, Geelong won by 50 points. In Round 11, Geelong travelled to Melbourne to play South Melbourne at the Lake Oval. In front of a large crowd, the game was close for the first three quarters. However, it was Geelong who lasted longer and were winners by twelve points. For the third week in a row, Geelong travelled to Melbourne, this time to the Brunswick Street Oval to play Fitzroy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0005-0002", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, July\nFitzroy had only won 4 games from 12, and when Fitzroy were only one point behind at three-quarter time, the in-form visitors experienced an \"uncomfortable shake-up\". Geelong scored twelve points to one in the final quarter to win a close match by twelve points. With two matches left and being ten premiership points ahead of fifth place South Melbourne, Geelong qualified for the round-robin finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, August\nIn the last match of the home-and-away season, Geelong hosted St Kilda at the Corio Oval. The winless St Kilda had one last chance to \"break their duck\", and they had no chance of qualifying for the finals. As Geelong had qualified for the finals in the week prior, the match was a dead rubber. St Kilda never had a chance, scoring only a goal \"bare\" in each of the first three quarters. Geelong winners by 78 points. Thus, concluded the home-and-away season, with Geelong finishing on top of the ladder by percentage with 11 wins and 3 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0006-0001", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, August\nThere was a great deal of controversy surrounding which ground the finals should be played on. Originally, it was decided that the ground would be determined by lots. However, league representatives from the metropolitan clubs had a meeting and decided none of the finals matches shall be played in Geelong. Geelong was therefore scheduled to play Essendon at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the 14 August. The first round of the round-robin finals were postponed after torrential rain. It was then decided to redraw the first round of finals matches with the match containing Geelong to be played at the Corio Oval. The result of the draw was as follows: Melbourne vs. Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; Geelong vs. Essendon at the Corio Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, August\nGeelong's finals campaign began as its home-and-away season began, meeting Essendon at the Corio Oval. A strong southerly wind meant that most of the scoring would be done at the north end of the ground. Geelong started strong, but was wasteful, as inaccurate kicking saw the first term end with Geelong leading 11\u20132. With the wind against Geelong in the second quarter, a great defensive display allowed the hosts to maintain a lead at half-time 12\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0007-0001", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, August\nAs happened in the first quarter, Geelong was wasteful in front of goal in the third quarter, being twelve points ahead at the final change. With twelve minutes to play, Geelong was still twelve points ahead, but it was Essendon kicking four goals in the last quarter who were victors by six points, ending Geelong's eleven game run. With a loss in the first match, Geelong needed two wins to have any chance of winning the premiership. Geelong met the loser of the other first-round final, Melbourne on Fitzroy's ground, the Brunswick Street Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0007-0002", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, August\nMelbourne had a westerly wind towards their goals in the first quarter, and made full advantage of it, leading 20\u20133 at the first break. Geelong chipped away at Melbourne's lead in the second term but was still behind by eight points at the main break. Geelong was again better in the third quarter though did not have much to show for it, being behind by three points at the final break. A few behinds later at the scores were level midway through the last quarter. Moments later, Eddy James scored the final goal of the match with Geelong holding on to win by nine points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, September\nPer the finals system, for Geelong to be premiers, they are required to beat Collingwood, for Essendon to lose to Melbourne, and to beat Essendon in a play-off the following week. Geelong met Collingwood at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in the final match of the round-robin series. Geelong started very well, with a strong northerly wind blowing, Geelong took full advantage of it scoring five goals, two behinds to nil. Though Collingwood had the wind in the second quarter, they failed to take advantage, and the half time score was 44\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031204-0008-0001", "contents": "1897 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary, September\nThe two clubs, who prior, were on friendly terms, showed an unsportsmanlike display for most of the third quarter. The main culprits, one from each team, were Harry Dowdall of Collingwood, and Jim McShane of Geelong. Alas, the quarter was fairly even, eight points to seven. With Geelong ahead by 27 points at the final change, many thought there was no chance for Collingwood to come back. However, with the wind in the fourth quarter, Collingwood held Geelong scoreless but was unable to score enough points to claim victory. Geelong winners by four points. Though Geelong won the match, they did not win the premiership, because at the same time Essendon had beaten Melbourne to claim the premiership as they were undefeated in the finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031205-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1897 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Ross Fiscus, Geneva compiled a record of 3\u20134\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031206-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Gentofte train crash\nIn the Gentofte train crash at Gentofte station, Denmark, on the island of Zealand, on 11 July 1897 an express train passed a signal cautioning danger and collided with a stationary passenger train waiting at the station. There were 40 deaths and more than 100 people were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031207-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1897 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and completed the season with a 2\u20131 record. In the 1897 season, Georgia beat Georgia Tech for the first time and met both Clemson and Virginia for the first time. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' first season under the guidance of head coach Charles McCarthy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031207-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nIt was in the Virginia game of 1897 that tragedy struck the Georgia Bulldogs. In the second half of that game, a Georgia fullback named Richard Vonalbade (\"Von\") Gammon, was fatally injured in a play. In reaction to his death, the Georgia, Georgia Tech and Mercer football teams disbanded, the Atlanta Journal ran a headline proclaiming, the \"Death Knell of Football\" and the Georgia legislature passed a bill to outlaw football in the state of Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031207-0001-0001", "contents": "1897 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nAs the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed. In her letter, she pleaded with the legislators not to pass the bill because her son so loved football. As a result, reading her letter, Governor Atkinson vetoed the bill to ban football in Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031208-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1897 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031209-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Grand National\nThe 1897 Grand National was the 59th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 26 March 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031210-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Greensburg Athletic Association season\nThe 1897 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their eighth season in existence. The team finished 10\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031211-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Guilford Quakers football team\nThe 1897 Guilford Quakers football team represented Guilford College during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031212-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1897 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1897 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 10\u20131\u20131 record and shut out 10 of 12 opponents under first-year head coach William Cameron Forbes, who later served as Governor-General of the Philippines (1908\u201313) and Ambassador of the United States to Japan (1930\u201332). The 1897 team won its first ten games by a combined 227-5 score. It then closed the season playing to a scoreless tie with Yale and losing by a 15-6 score against Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031212-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Harvard Crimson football team\nTwo Harvard players received consensus honors on the 1897 College Football All-America Team: center Allan Doucette and halfback Benjamin Dibblee. Other notable players on Harvard's 1897 team included end Norman Cabot and tackle Malcolm Donald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031213-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1897 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. The team compiled a 1\u20134 record and failed to register any points in its four losses. The team's sole victory was over Midland College of Atchison, Kansas. The 1895 season was the school's third competing in football. No record has been found identifying a coach for the team, though Frank Sweet was identified as the manager. The team played no home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031214-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Haverford football team\nThe 1897 Haverford football team was an American football team that represented Haverford College as an independent during the 1897 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 153 to 22. Thomas Branson was the coach, and Varney was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031215-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Hind\n1897 Hind, provisional designation 1971 UE1, is a Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 26 October 1971, by Czech astronomer Lubo\u0161 Kohoutek at Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg, Germany. The asteroid was named after English astronomer John Russell Hind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031215-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Hind, Orbit and classification\nHind is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0\u20132.6\u00a0AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,260 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 4\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031215-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Hind, Orbit and classification\nA first precovery was taken at Palomar Observatory in 1956, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 15 years prior to its discovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031215-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Hind, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nAccording to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Hind measures 5.0 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.307, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo of 0.24 \u2013 derived from 8\u00a0Flora, the family's largest member and namesake \u2013 and calculates a diameter of 5.7 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 56], "content_span": [57, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031215-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Hind, Physical characteristics, Rotation period\nIn July 2005, Hind had originally been identified as a relatively fast rotator, as photometric observations by astronomers Reiner Stoss, Jaime Nomen, Salvador Sanchez and Raoul Behrend gave a rotation period of 0.82\u00b10.01 hours, or less than 50 minutes (U=1). However, the lightcurve was only fragmentary. In August 2012, it was superseded with more accurate observation at the Australian Riverland Dingo Observatory that gave a slower period of 2.6336\u00b10.0001 hours with a brightness variation of 0.09 in magnitude (U=2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 52], "content_span": [53, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031215-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Hind, Naming\nThis minor planet was named after English astronomer John Russell Hind (1823\u20131895), discoverer of ten minor planets including 7\u00a0Iris and 8\u00a0Flora, the namesake of the family the asteroid belongs to. Hind worked for many years at George Bishop's Observatory near London where he made his discoveries. He was also superintendent of the British Nautical Almanac Office in the second half of the 19th century. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 (M.P.C. 3827).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 17], "content_span": [18, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031216-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1897 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031216-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Holy Cross football team\nIn its second and final year under head coach Alfred C. N. Peterson, the team compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record. E.F. Shanahan was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031216-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Oval and the Worcester College Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1897 Home Nations Championship was the fifteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Four matches were played between 9 January and 13 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Wales only completed one match during this championship as the Welsh Rugby Union withdrew from the International Rugby Board in February 1897 due to the Gould Affair, and was therefore ineligible to play any further international matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship\nThe rules at the time stated the final table would be decided on match points and then points scored. As all teams finished with two match points, the championship was theoretically drawn, but England claimed the title through their greater score, even though they lost their first two games and conceded more tries and points than any of the other three countries. Most sources list the results of the 1897 championship as \"not completed\" due to the tied results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal and a goal from mark were both worth four points. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea), Cliff Bowen (Llanelli), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), Arthur Gould (Newport) capt., Tom Pearson (Newport), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Daniel Jones (Aberavon), Jack Evans (Llanelli), Arthur Boucher (Newport), Jack Rhapps (Penygraig), Bill Morris (Llanelli), Harry Packer (Newport), Dick Hellings (Llwynypia), Fred Cornish (Cardiff), Dai Evans (Penygraig)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley), FA Byrne (Moseley), Ernest Fookes (Sowerby Bridge), EM Baker (Oxford Uni), T Fletcher (Seaton), Cyril Wells (Harlequins), EW Taylor (Rockcliff) capt., F Jacob (Cambridge Uni), JH Baron (Bingley), PJ Ebdon (Wellington), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), WB Stoddart (Liverpool), Frank Stout (Gloucester), W Ashford (Richmond), RH Mangles (Richmond)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nIreland J Fulton (NIFC), W Gardiner (NIFC), S Lee (NIFC), Lawrence Bulger (Dublin Uni. ), TH Stevenson (Queen's Uni, Belfast), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), GG Allen (Derry), JE McIlwaine (NIFC), JH Lytle (Lansdowne), WG Byron (NIFC), M Ryan (Rockwell College), J Ryan (Rockwell College), EG Forrest (Wanderers) capt., Andrew Clinch (Wanderers), CV Rooke (Monkstown)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley), G.C. Robinson (Percy Park), Ernest Fookes (Sowerby Bridge), JT Taylor (Castleford), WL Bunting (Richmond), S Northmore (Millom), EW Taylor (Rockcliff) capt., F Jacob (Cambridge Uni), JH Baron (Bingley), PJ Ebdon (Wellington), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), WB Stoddart (Liverpool), Frank Stout (Gloucester), W Ashford (Richmond), RH Mangles (Richmond)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nScotland: AR Smith (Oxford Uni), W Neilson (London Scottish), GT Campbell (London Scottish), CJN Fleming (Edinburgh Wanderers), T Scott (Hawick), RC Greig (Glasgow Acads), M Elliot (Hawick), Robert MacMillan (London Scottish) capt., JH Dods (London Scottish), MC Morrison (Royal HSFP), WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads), TM Scott (Hawick), RC Stevenson (London Scottish), GO Turnbull (West of Scotland), Alex Laidlaw (Hawick)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nIreland Pierce O'Brien-Butler (Monkstown), W Gardiner (NIFC), Lucius Gwynn (Dublin Uni. ), Lawrence Bulger (Dublin Uni. ), TH Stevenson (Belfast Albion), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), GG Allen (Derry), JE McIlwaine (NIFC), JH Lytle (Lansdowne), WG Byron (NIFC), M Ryan (Rockwell College), Jim Sealy (Dublin Uni. ), EG Forrest (Wanderers) capt., Andrew Clinch (Wanderers), CV Rooke (Monkstown)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley), G.C. Robinson (Percy Park), Ernest Fookes (Sowerby Bridge), Osbert Mackie (Cambridge Uni), WL Bunting (Richmond), Cyril Wells (Harlequins), EW Taylor (Rockcliff) capt., F Jacob (Cambridge Uni), J Pinch (Lancaster), E Knowles (Millom), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), WB Stoddart (Liverpool), HW Dudgeon (Richmond), LF Giblin (Cambridge Uni), JAS Davidson (Aspatria)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031217-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nScotland: AR Smith (Oxford Uni), W Neilson (London Scottish), Alf Bucher (Edinburgh Acads), AW Robertson (Edinburgh Acads), T Scott (Hawick), JW Simpson (Royal HSFP), M Elliot (Hawick), Robert MacMillan (London Scottish) capt., JH Dods (London Scottish), MC Morrison (Royal HSFP), WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads), TM Scott (Hawick), RC Stevenson (London Scottish), GO Turnbull (West of Scotland), Andrew Balfour (Cambridge Uni)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031218-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 ICA Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1897 ICA Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Glasgow, United Kingdom from 30 July - 2 August 1897. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031219-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1897 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1897 Western Conference football season. In their third season under head coach George Huff, the Illini compiled a 6\u20132 record and finished in fourth place in the Western Conference. Tackle Don Sweney was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031220-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1897 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University during the 1897 college football season. In their second season under head coach Madison G. Gonterman, the Hoosiers compiled a 6\u20131\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 150 to 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031221-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThe 1897 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University in the 1897 college football season. This was the second team for the university and played a schedule of six games; however, no records remain to record the scores or even the results. The coach was R. Clark; also described as the team manager, the roster consisted of at least 11 lettermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031221-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThis season marked the Sycamores first games vs. other colleges; though all game results are unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031222-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team\nThe 1897 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Under head coaches Pop Warner and Bert German, the Cyclones compiled a 3\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 40 to 22. There was no team captain for the 1897 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031222-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031223-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1897 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa during the 1897 college football season. The team was coached by Otto Wagonhurst, the last coach in Iowa Hawkeyes football history to coach for only one season. The next year, Iowa hired Alden Knipe as the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031224-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Senate election\nIn the 1897 Iowa State Senate elections Iowa voters elected state senators to serve in the twenty-seventh Iowa General Assembly. Elections were held in 21 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031224-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Senate election\nA statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1897 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031224-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1897 elections occurred before primary elections were established in Iowa by the Primary Election Law in 1907. The general election took place on November 2, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031224-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 43 seats to Democrats' 7 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031224-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 19 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031224-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1897 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 39 seats and Democrats having 11 seats (a net gain of 4 seats for Democrats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031225-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1897 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1897. Republican nominee L. M. Shaw defeated Democratic nominee Frederick Edward White with 51.27% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031226-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Italian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Italy on 21 March 1897, with a second round of voting on 28 March. The \"Ministerial\" left-wing bloc, led by Giovanni Giolitti remained the largest in Parliament, winning 327 of the 508 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031226-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Italian general election, Historical background\nThe humiliating defeat of the Italian army at Adwa in March 1896 in Ethiopia during First Italo-Ethiopian War, brought about Francesco Crispi's resignation after riots broke out in several Italian towns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031226-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Italian general election, Historical background\nThe ensuing Antonio di Rudini cabinet lent itself to Cavallotti\u2019s campaign, and at the end of 1897 the judicial authorities applied to the Chamber of Deputies for permission to prosecute Crispi for embezzlement. A parliamentary commission of inquiry discovered only that Crispi, on assuming office in 1893, had found the secret service coffers empty, and had borrowed money from a state bank to fund it, repaying it with the monthly installments granted in regular course by the treasury. The commission, considering this proceeding irregular, proposed, and the Chamber adopted, a vote of censure, but refused to authorize a prosecution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031226-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Italian general election, Historical background\nThe crisis consequent upon the disaster of Adowa enabled Rudin\u00ec to return to power as premier and minister of the interior in a cabinet formed by the veteran Conservative, General Ricotti. He signed the Treaty of Addis Ababa that formally ended the First Italo\u2013Ethiopian War recognizing Ethiopia as an independent country. He endangered relations with Great Britain by the unauthorized publication of confidential diplomatic correspondence in a Green-book on Abyssinian affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031226-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Italian general election, Historical background\nDi Rudin\u00ec recognized the excessive brutality of the repression of the Fasci Siciliani under his predecessor Crispi. Many Fasci members were pardoned and released from jail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031226-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Italian general election, Historical background\nA new party participated to the election, the Italian Republican Party (PRI), led by Carlo Sforza. The PRI traces its origins from the time of Italian unification and, more specifically, to the democratic-republican wing represented by figures such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo and Carlo Pisacane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation\nThe Kamudi Temple entry agitation was an agitation by the Nadar community to enter the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple in Kamudi or Kamuthi on 1897. On the night of May 14, 1897 the Nadars forecfully entered the temple and inside the Sanctum Sanctorum and made rituals. The Nadars were opposed as they were not considered as a high caste to enter the temple. Criminal cases were filed against the Nadars and they made to compensate for the purification rituals after their entry. The attempt to enter the temple represents an important step in the history of Kamudi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation\nEarlier In 1895, when Nadars struggled for their right to access the temples of Kamuthi, there were riots in Kalugumalai called Kalugumalai riots of 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Background\nEarlier In 1895, when Nadars struggled for their right to access the temples of Kamuthi, there were riots in Kazhugumalai called Kazhugumalai riots. The Kamudi taluk villages are governed by the people of the Marava community. But the Nadar community is dominant in Kamudi town. Each community has a completely separate temple in Kamudi for worship. Founded by Sundara Pandya, a Pandya king, the Kamudi Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple was ruled by the Raja of Ramanathapuram. The Nadars of Ramnad District made another attempt to secure their rights to enter and worship. Their rights were asserted on the grounds that they were Kshatriyas. But the assertion was opposed by Baskara Sethupathy, the Raja of Ramnad and the traditional trustee of the Temple and the Maravars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Background\nIn November 1895, the Nadars of kamuthi petitioned to the Meenakshi Sundaraswara temple, which was under Ramnad M. Baskara Sethupathi's trusteeship of the Raj, for permission to hold a ritual feast. Their petition was accepted, but it should be performed without the entry of Nadars into the temple. An anti-Nadar coalition was created by Vellasami Thevar, the inherited ruler of a vast land under the Raja of Ramnad and the grandfather of the late Muthuramalinga Thevar. He made a confederacy of castes form the surrounding villages to not buy things for the Nadars. He prohibited the Nadars from asserting their freedom. He ordered the allegiance of the society of Maravar and insisted a distinction between all castes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Temple entry\nOn the night of May 14, 1897, despite the forceful opposition by the temple servants, a party of fifteen Nadars from the Irulappa Nadar family forcefully managed to enter the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple at Kumudi with Kavadi, torches and drums. They went to the Sanctum Sanctorum and approached the principal deity re-lighted the extinguished torches and presented coconuts, swung before it, lighted camphor, and offered poojas to the main deity. Finally, the holy image was touched by them. But the Maravars and the Ramnad Zamindar opposed it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Cases\nA criminal case was filed against fifteen Nadars for the disgracing of the temple and ordered the compensation of Rs. 2500 for purification rituals backed by 75 witness accounts of all castes and a collection of evidence from the caste history of Nadars as the Nadars tried to establish their privileges as a high caste to access the temple and also to partake in the pooja and worship conducted in the very same way and except the Brahmin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Court judgments\nOn 20 July 1899, a permanent order was issued by the sub-judge of Madurai East to prohibit the Nadars from entering the temple indefinitely in the future. An extra police force was deployed at Kamudi at the expense of the residents for a period of 5 years from November 5, 1900, in order to prevent any conflict between the Nadars and the Marvars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Court judgments\nDissatisfied with the district court's decision in Madurai, the Nadars made an appeal to the Madras High Court. Under the guidance of Rathnaswami Nadar, a prominent Abkari contractor of Tanjore, the Nadars, in the meantime, tried to find an agreement with the Raja of Ramnad. As per the agreement, the Nadars agreed to pay nearly 7000/- rupees to allow the Nadars to access and worship at the temple of Kamudi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0007-0001", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Court judgments\nBut the British who wanted to maintain a status quo, did not like these developments and communicated with the Raja and caused the Nadars to withdraw the agreement because the British wanted to secure their status, and they didn't want to engage in the Hindu temples' caste-based worship system. The Raja himself recognized the severe nature of the issue and accepted that the agreement be removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Court judgments\nBut the Madras High Court upheld the lower court's decision. When the Madras high court decision went against the Nadars, the Nadars collected an amount of Rs 42,000 and brought their case to the Privy Council London, which was the largest appeal body in the British Empire. In 1908, the Privy Council upheld the judgment of the High Court. The Privy Council argued that the status of the Nadars seemed to be only above the Pallars and Pariahs, who were barred from Hindu temples to pray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031227-0008-0001", "contents": "1897 Kamudi Temple entry agitation, Court judgments\nAround the same time, the Privy Council acknowledged the right to pray in the Hindu temples of the Vellalars and other growing castes generally classified as Sudras. The Nadars expected a favorable decision, but in vain, from the European officials. The relationship between the Nadars and the Maravars deteriorated with the Kamudi temple entry and the judgment by the Privy Council of London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031228-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1897 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Western Interstate University Football Association during the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Wylie G. Woodruff, the Jayhawks compiled an 8\u20132 record (2\u20131 against conference opponents), finished second in the conference, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 253 to 16. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. A. R. Kennedy was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031229-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1897 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031230-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1897 Kentucky Derby was the 23rd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 12, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031231-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1897 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031232-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1897 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the ninth staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031232-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 10 July 1898, Tullaroan won the championship after a 3-11 to 2-01 defeat of Mooncoin in the final. This was their fourth championship title over all and their first in two championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031233-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1897 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Coach Allen Jeardeau returned for his second but final year at LSU in 1897 for two games in Baton Rouge. A yellow fever outbreak throughout the South caused the postponement of LSU's classes starting, and the football season being cut back to only two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031233-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 LSU Tigers football team, Schedule\nThe 0\u201326 loss to the Bearcats is disputed. Some sources list the final score as Cincinnati 28, LSU 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031234-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Lafayette football team\nThe 1897 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1897 college football season. Lafayetted shut out eight opponents and finished with a 9\u20132\u20131 record in their first year under head coach Parke H. Davis. Significant games included victories over Penn State (24\u20130) and Lehigh (34\u20130 and 22\u20130), a 4\u20134 tie with Cornell, and losses to Princeton (0\u201357) and Penn (0\u201346). The 1895 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 256 to 113.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031234-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Lafayette football team\nThree Lafayette players received recognition on the 1897 College Football All-America Team. They are: guard Charles Rinehart (Walter Camp, 2nd team, Outing magazine, 1st team); halfback George B. Walbridge (Camp, 3rd team); and fullback Edward G. Bray (Outing, 2nd team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031235-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Lagos strike\nThe Lagos strike of 1897 was a labour strike in Lagos Colony (modern-day Lagos in Nigeria) which has been described as the first \"major labour protest of the colonial period\" in African history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031235-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Lagos strike\nLagos was one of the major ports in West Africa and was a busy entrepot through which trade between the coast and the interior was processed. The city's economy expanded widely during the 19th century. At the time of the strike, Lagos was a colony under the governorship of Henry McCallum. McCallum, who had held a number of important colonial posts in Asia, decided to launch a major reform of the administration and economy of Lagos. Among these reforms was the driving down of wages paid to indigenous workers to increase the supply of labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031235-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Lagos strike\nThe reforms led to unrest among workers in the Public Works Department (PWD). The final trigger for the strike was a decision to alter the working hours of employees of the PWD. The strike broke out on 9 August 1897 and involved nearly 3,000 workers. The colony's police, the Public Force, experienced a minor mutiny on 10 August, meaning that McCallum was unable to repress the workers by force. The strikers' demands were opposed by the indigenous, Europeanised middle-class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031235-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Lagos strike\nDuring negotiations with the strikers, McCallum made notable concessions. The planned pay reductions were abandoned, while the working hours reforms were tempered by the introduction of a lunch break. The strikers returned to work and the strike is considered successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031236-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1897 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their third season in existence. The team finished 10\u20132\u20131. This season, Latrobe became the first team to be made entirely of professional players and play an entire season together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031237-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Lehigh football team\nThe 1897 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Samuel M. Hammond, the team compiled a 3\u20137 record and was outscored by a total of 261 to 84.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031238-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia in 1897. In the presidential election, incumbent William D. Coleman of the True Whig Party (the sole legal party) was elected. The former Vice-President had originally taken office following the death of President Joseph James Cheeseman in November 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031239-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1897 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the ninth staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031239-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nKilfinane won the championship after a 4-09 to 4-08 defeat of Cappamore in the final. It was their first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1897. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1895 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.25, Brunswick\nCaused by the death of Councillor Charles Arden (Conservative, Brunswick, elected 1 November 1896) on 29 November 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.3, South Walton, 25 January 1898\nCaused by the death of Councillor Dr. Henry Richard Powell (Conservative, South Walton, elected 1 November 1896).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.12, Edge Hill, 26 April 1898\nCaused by the death of Councillor Jonathan Parry (Conservative, Edge Hill, elected 1 November 1895) on 5 March 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 3 South Walton, 20 July 1898\nThe Right Honourable Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, Bart. MP was elected as an Alderman by the Council on 1 June 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 3 South Walton, 20 July 1898\nThe Right Honourable Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, Bart.MP resigned as an Alderman on 1 June 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 3 South Walton, 20 July 1898\nCouncillor John Ellison (Conservative, South Walton, elected 1 November 1895) was elected as an Alderman by the city Council", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031240-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.24, Sefton Park, 18 October 1898\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Augustus Frederick Warr MP (Conservative, Sefton Park, elected 1 November 1895 which was reported to the Council on 5 October 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election\nThe Liverpool Exchange by-election, 1897 was a by-election held in England on 10 November 1897 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Exchange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election\nThe Liberal unionist candidate, Charles McArthur held the seat with a very small majority over his Liberal opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Vacancy\nThe seat had become vacant in October 1897 when the Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament (MP), John Bigham, had been appointed as a judge of the Queen's Bench division of the High Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Vacancy\nHe had held the seat since the 1895 general election, having contested it unsuccessfully in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Candidates\nImmediately after Bigham's appointment was announced, The Times newspaper reported on Saturday 16 October that the Liberal Unionist candidate was likely to be Charles McArthur, an average adjuster from Liverpool and former chairman of the city's chamber of commerce. Business people in Liverpool welcomed the prospect of McArthur's candidacy, but while the Liberals met that weekend to consider their options, they postponed a decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Candidates\nOn Monday 18th, the McArthur accepted a formal invitation to be the Unionist candidate, and he accepted the nomination. Some local Unionists felt that this constituency should be represented by a ship-owner, but others noted McArthur was as much involved in shipping as the owners. He told the selection meeting that his main priority would be to protect the commercial and shipping interests of Liverpool, and that he objected to the River Mersey being \"made a cesspool for Manchester\" through the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals interviewed H. Wade Deacon, who had been the Liberal candidate in Widnes at the previous general election,but he refused for personal reasons. They were still without a candidate by the evening of Tuesday 19th, when local ship-owners met to discuss the election. The businessmen were aggrieved at the Unionist government's treatment of shipping and at the unsympathetic reception received by a recent delegation to the President of the Board of Trade, Charles Ritchie. They agreed that it was important to have an MP who supported the ship-owners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Candidates\nThe Times leader-writers observed on 20 October that if the Liberals fielded a prominent ship-owner, McArthur would have a hard fight on his hands. The following day the Liberals selected Russell Rea, the managing director of ship-owning company R. & J. H. Rea. However, in the early 1880s Liverpool-born Rea had relocated his head office to Leadenhall Street in London, and lived in Hackney. His main line of business was in shipping coal for the South Wales coalfields, and despite his shipping interests, The Times reported a claim that Rea was not a member of the Liverpool Steamship-Owners Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Candidates\nOn the 19th, the local branch of the Irish National League pledged itself to support \"any candidate who is thoroughy sound on the Home Rule question\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Candidates\nOn the 24th, the Speaker of the House of Commons William Gully gave notice in the London Gazette that by accepting appointment as a judge, Bigham had vacated his seat. The Speaker therefore intended to issue the writ of election in 6 days time. The writ was received on 2 November, and nominations were set for 5 November, with polling on the 10th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, The constituency\nThe Exchange division included the central business district of Liverpool, which had long been Conservative-leaning, but the constituency had been held by the Liberals for most of existence. Since 1885, it had always been a marginal seat, in which the largest majority had been the 4.4% lead won by Bigham in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, The constituency\nSt Anne's and Vauxhall wards contained some of the worst slums in Liverpool, with about 2,000 Irishmen who were all expected to vote Liberal because of that party's support for Irish Home Rule. However, their numbers had been reduced since the general election by the demolition of many condemned buildings, which had removed over 150 Liberal-supporting voters from the electoral register.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, The constituency\nBoth sides took care to try to trace voters who had moved home since the register was compiled. This was easier for the Unionists, whose merchant supporters were easily identified. However, the working-class Liberal-supporters moved more often, sometimes trying to evade location by creditors or school inspectors. The Liberals found an effective solution by distributing printed lists of untraced voters, asking for information on their current addresses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Campaign\nRea made support for Irish Home Rule the first item in his election address, and his meeting in Picton Hall on 5 November was addressed by T. P. O'Connor, the Nationalist MP for Liverpool Scotland. George Baden-Powell, the Conservative MP for Liverpool Kirkdale, denounced Rea's stance in a letter to McArthur. He claimed that Rea \"surrenders himself as the 'white slave' of their masters, the Nationalists, whose one avowed aim is the disintegration of the United Kingdom, the certain forerunner of the breakup of our great and valiant empire\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0014-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Campaign\nShipping interests dominated much of the campaign, and some Unionist-supporting shipowners were ready to use the election to force the government's hand on the abolition of light dues. On the 25th, McArthur told workers that his opponents were \"exploiting\" the light dues issue, but that he was equally committed to their abolition, preferring that navigational aids should be funded by central government. Rea held a meeting at Liverpool Town Hall, where Northwich MP Sir John Brunner accused McArthur of bluffing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0015-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Campaign\nHowever, Rea's opposition to the Workmen's Compensation Act damaged his standing with labourers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0016-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Result\nPolling took place on Wednesday 10 November and both parties worked hard to get out their voters, with each using teams of cyclists to get out the vote. Rumours circulated of votes being cast on behalf of dead people, and two people were charged with that sort of personation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0017-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Result\nEarly polling was high in nationalist areas, giving the Liberals confidence of victory, but a steady flow of voters in other areas shifted the balance. In Irish areas such as St Anne's Street and Great Crosshall street, bottles were thrown at the carriages of Conservative supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0018-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Result\nThe votes were counted that evening in Liverpool Town Hall, and as the tallies were completed it was reported that Rea had won the seat with a majority of 47 votes. Local newspapers reported a Liberal victory, but a recount found a bundle of misplaced ballot papers, and shortly after 10pm the result was declared by the Lord Mayor John Houlding as a 54-vote majority for McArthur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0019-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Aftermath\nMcArthur was re-elected in 1900, but was defeated at the next election, in 1906. He was returned as the MP for Liverpool Kirkdale at a by-election in 1907, and held the seat until his death in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031241-0020-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool Exchange by-election, Aftermath\nRea was elected in 1900 as the MP for Gloucester, and held the seat until his defeat in January 1910. Later that year he won a by-election for South Shields, and held that seat until his death in 1916, having served briefly as a Junior Lord of the Treasury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031242-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool School Board election\nElections to the Liverpool School Board were held in November 1897. These were held every three years, when all fifteen Board Members were elected. In 1897 there were twenty candidates for the fifteen Board member positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031242-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Liverpool School Board election\nAfter the election, the composition of the School Board was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031243-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Louisville Colonels season\nThe 1897 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 52\u201387 record and eleventh place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031243-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031243-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031243-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031243-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031243-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031244-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1897 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 1897 college football season. The team did not have a coach, and were outscored by their opponents 6\u201332 in three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031245-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1897 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1897 college football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Grenville Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031246-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1897 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1897 college football season. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 2\u20135\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031247-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1897 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031248-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 118th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1897 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George P. Lawrence served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031248-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 1897 legislature is the high-water mark for the Massachusetts Republican Party, which held 35 seats in the Senate and 202 in the House. Republicans have not surpassed either number since, though they would match their high of 35 Senate seats again in 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031249-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Mercer Baptists football team\nThe 1897 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University in the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They finished with a record of 0\u20131\u20131 and were outscored by their opponents 0\u201326.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season\nThe 1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 24th season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. Six clubs competed from May till September 1897. The season culminated in the premiership, which was won by Randwick who were undefeated during the season. Randwick were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table. This was the first premiership run under the new Metropolitan Rugby Football Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nSix clubs signed up with the Metropolitan Rugby Football Union to play the Senior Premiership. Each of the teams had participated in the premiership previously. The Paddington club had been disqualified from the competition at the end of the previous season due to unpaid Union fees. As a result, the club was newly formed at the beginning of the season. Paddington kept the identity and the history of the former club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nEarly in the 1897, at the annual meeting for the New South Wales Rugby Football Union, a motion was passed to form a branch union to take over the running of club football. This new union was named the Metropolitan Rugby Football Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThere was some discussion about the quality of play that football was producing in 1897. Some quarters declared that the standard had deteriorated over the past few seasons. However, it was suggested by others in the media that football was moving from individual heroics to team brilliance. The addition of talented players from the Junior ranks was welcomed with many of these players selected for representative honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe 1897 Sydney Rugby Premiership saw Randwick Football Club present its best performance to take all before it. The club were undefeated in all games during the season and won all three main awards, the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy, Agricultural Society Trophy and the Premiership. Unfortunately, the Agricultural Society Trophy was stripped from the club and awarded to their opponents due to a technicality. Before playing the Semi final, Randwick requested to allow the New Zealander, Tom Pauling, to play for the team. The Union allowed him to play but, due to a protest by the Pirates after the completion of the final, the decision was revised. With the new decision, the Pirates were awarded the Agricultural Society Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAfter the introduction of new Juniors to the team, the Pirates Football Club transformed their season. During the previous season, the team failed to win a single game and began the new year with a pair of losses. With the arrival of Conlon, Boyd, Evers, McMahon, Ellis, Warman and Baird the team displayed improved form only slightly below that of the Premiers. The team were present in both trophy finals and finished the season runners-up. After the protest against Randwick was upheld, the Pirates were awarded with the Agricultural Society Trophy. Hopes were high for the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe two older clubs, Sydney University and Wallaroo, experienced less than their usual success during the season. Both teams were in the middle of a rebuilding phase, with older and more experienced players retiring from the game. New young blood was filtering into the ranks with hope that the clubs would soon be back to their high-class best. The 'Varsity displayed an upturn in their performance from previous seasons, giving the club promise for the future. Victory over the Pirates and an excellent game against the Premiers were the highlights of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0006-0001", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nWallaroo experienced their worst season for a decade. This could be attributed to the injuries to key players, Row and Kelly. The team won only two games during the season and were unable to recruit Juniors of merit. With an infusion of new blood mixing with the sound, experienced players, it is believed that Wallaroo could achieve success once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 1, 19 June & 17 July, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nThe top four teams on the ladder qualified to compete for the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy. Games were decided by draw with Wentworth and the Pirates facing off for the second successive week. This game ended with a 3 all draw and was replayed on 17 July. In the replay, the Pirates won easily 17 points to 6. In the second semi, Randwick had the better team resulting in a loss for Wallaroo 17 to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 115], "content_span": [116, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 1, 19 June & 17 July, Agricultural Society Trophy\nAfter missing out on playing for the SCG Trophy, the Sydney University Football Club still qualified for the Agricultural Society Trophy. As no other teams were still in existence to contend for the trophy, University proceeded directly to the next week of finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 114], "content_span": [115, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 24 July & 7 August, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nThere was much anticipation for the final, as many believed that the Pirates were the only club to end Randwick's unbeaten run. With the game played on a wet and muddy day, the result was almost what the crowd wanted. The ground was in such poor condition that the referee took a turn in the mud and humorously wore a muddy stain to show for it. The Pirates played a stronger wet-weather game and were able to hold Randwick to a nil all draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 116], "content_span": [117, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 24 July & 7 August, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nThe replay final saw similar cold and squally weather. Despite the conditions, the game was commended for its fine display with both teams playing well. The score was 3 all at half time with Randwick eventually coming away as winners. The fact that Randwick did not score more points was due to the excellent defence of their opponents. Overall, the victors were the better team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 116], "content_span": [117, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 24 July & 7 August, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe Wentworth club continued their slow decline from the highs of the previous season. After losing three out of their last four games, several fresh players were brought in to compete against the 'Varsity. For the first 15 to 20 minutes of the game, the two teams were equal. After that, University played with greater 'life' to win the game and progress. Wallaroo were awarded a bye and progressed into the semi finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 115], "content_span": [116, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 3, 28 August, Agricultural Society Trophy\nMuch of the brightness had disappeared by the time of the semi finals. Representative duties robbed the games of the finest players, with the two semi finals being played at the inconveniently distant Kensington Racecourse. Even with a weak team, Randwick were able to defeat a lacklustre University 24 to 3. The second semi saw a more even contest between the Pirates and Wallaroo. The game was closely fought until the eventual victors were able to take the lead near the end of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 106], "content_span": [107, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 4, 28 August, Agricultural Society Trophy\nPrior to the final being played, the Metropolitan Rugby Union reversed their decision to allow the New Zealander, Tom Pauling, to play for Randwick. However, the eventual Premiers were determined to include him in their squad. As a result, there was much ill feeling from the Pirates towards Randwick. This manifested itself in the game with players being called to explain their actions at a later hearing. Both teams were missing players due to representative duties which gave the crowd much hope for a Pirates victory. Eventually, Randwick were victorious, being more able to penetrate the defence of the opposition and make every play count. After the game, the Union made the decision to strip Randwick of the trophy and award it to the Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 106], "content_span": [107, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0014-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades\nThe MRFU also conducted three junior competitions: First Juniors, Second Juniors, Third Juniors and Fourth Juniors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0015-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, First Juniors\nTen clubs signed up for First Juniors. The teams that played were: Newtown, Petersham, Summer Hill Oaklands, Marrickville, University II, North Sydney, Mercantile, Homebush, Strathfield and Buccaneer. At the end of the regular rounds, the Buccaneer club were sitting at the top of the ladder. In the semi finals, Buccaneer won against Summer Hill Oaklands and Homebush defeated Mercantile. In the final, Homebush defeated Buccaneer 9 points to 4 to win the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0016-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Second Juniors\nThirteen clubs submitted a team for Second Juniors. Teams were: Redfern Waratah, Richmond, University III, Parramatta Ormonde, Glebe, Manly Federal, Stanmore Institute, Adelphi, Rockdale, Pirates II, Waverley, Kogarah and Lyric. When the regular games were completed, Redfern Waratah, Glebe, Manly Federal and Rockdale qualified for the semi finals. The final saw Manly Federal defeated Redfern Waratah 9 points to nil. Manly Federal were declared premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0017-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Third Juniors\nEighteen clubs initially signed up to play Third Juniors. However, seventeen teams played in the competition. These teams were: Adelphi II, Bay View, Summer Hill Oaklands II, Granville Royal, East Sydney, Newtown Cambridge, Woollahra Junior, Chelsea, Avoca, Adler, Richmond II, Leichhardt Gladstone, Gladesville, Grosvenor, Endeavour, Iona and Homebush II. At the conclusion of the regular rounds, the final four teams playing in the semi finals were Newtown Cambridge, Endeavour, Leichhardt Gladstone and Bayview. The final saw Endeavour play Bayview for the premiership. Endeavour won the match 3 points to nil to remain undefeated for the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031250-0018-0000", "contents": "1897 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Fourth Juniors\nSixteen clubs submitted a team to play Fourth Juniors. Teams in the competition were: Newtown Orlando, Newtown Avenue, Alexandria Premier, Balmain Waratah, Buccaneer II, Manly Federal II, Victoria, Chelsea II, St Mary's Union, Redfern Waratah II, Forest Lodge Cambridge, Carolina, Endeavour II, Pirates III, Redfern Cambridge and Willoughby Federal. The semi finals saw Victoria win against Balmain Waratah and Forest Lodge Cambridge defeat Alexandria Premiers. The final saw Forest Lodge Cambridge win against Victoria 6 points to 3 to be declared premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031251-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1897 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1897 college football season. Under new head coach Herbert J. McIntire, Miami compiled a 2\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031252-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1897 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC), now known as Michigan State University, during the 1897 college football season. The Aggies compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 146 to 106.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031252-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1897 season was the first in which the MAC football team had a coach. Henry Keep, an engineering student who had transferred from the University of Michigan, was the first coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031252-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1897 season also featured the first installment of the Michigan State\u2013Notre Dame football rivalry. Notre Dame won the game at South Bend, Indiana, by 34 to 6 score. Fullback Wells scored a touchdown for the Aggies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031252-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nDuring the 1897 season, MAC also played two games each against nearby Olivet College and Alma College. The Aggies defeated Alma in both games and secured one win and one tie against Olivet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031252-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nA game against Michigan State Normal School (later Eastern Michigan University) was cancelled, because MAC accused the Normal School of fielding a team that was \"not made up entirely of college men.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031253-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1897 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal School (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1897 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Andrew Bird Glaspie, the Normalites compiled a record of 2\u20133 and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 62 to 36. George L. Wilson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1897 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1897 Western Conference football season. In its first season under head coach Gustave Ferbert, the team compiled a 6\u20131\u20131 record (2\u20131 against conference opponents), finished third in the Western Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 166 to 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe team suffered its first setback with a scoreless tie against Ohio Wesleyan in the second game of the season. The season also featured the first game between Michigan and Ohio State, with Michigan winning the game by a score of 34 to 0. Michigan won its first two Western Conference games against Purdue (34\u20134) and Minnesota (14\u20130), but lost the final game of the season to Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons by a score of 21 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe team captain was halfback James R. Hogg. Hogg also led the team in scoring with 56 points on six touchdowns (four points each) and 16 goals from touchdown (two points each).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nAfter losing the final game of the 1896 season due to the kicking of the University of Chicago's Clarence Herschberger, the Michigan football team began practice early in 1897, gathering in late August. The team announced that, as a direct result of the 1896 loss to Chicago, a \"radical change\" was being made in the method of play. Michigan promised to produce an improved kicking game, with more hard work being dedicated to kicking than any other part the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nThe expectations for the 1897 team were low. Michigan had lost most of the players from the 1895 championship team. One eastern newspaper described the talent level in Ann Arbor as follows: \"The University of Michigan football team of '97, as compared with Michigan teams of tho past few years, is decidedly weak and uncertain. It is not as good by any means as the eleven of last fall. It is not in the same class with the champion eleven of '95. What it lacks is first, weight, second, experience, and third, 'ginger.' There are other lacks as well, but those three are most noticeable.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nAdding to the difficulties, Michigan's team captain, J.B. Wombacher, contracted typhoid fever and was unable to report to the university in September. Wombacher had played every game at center for Michigan in 1896. Shortly before his illness, The World of New York had published a football preview feature in which Wombacher had been touted as the key to Michigan's success: \"The man who will captain the Unlversity of Michigan eleven is a big, strapping fellow, who was forced into the game by his classmates because of his size and ability to get over the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0005-0001", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nHis name is John B. Wombacher, and he hails from Peoria, Ill. He plays centre rush and is something terrific.\" Wombacher was unable to play in 1897, remaining at his parents' home in Peoria to recuperate from the illness. Halfback, James R. Hogg, was elected to replace Wombacher as the 1897 team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nAnother key Michigan player was injured before the season began. In late September 1897, Michigan end, Clayton Teetzel, fell during a practice session and \"bit off half of his tongue,\" and was compelled \"to live on milk for a week.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 1: Michigan State Normal\nOn October 2, 1897, Michigan defeated Michigan State Normal (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) by a 24\u20130 score before 1,200 spectators at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored four touchdowns (five points each) and four goals from touchdown (one point each). Left tackle Charles Juttner scored the first touchdown on a five-yard run after five minutes of play in the first half, and right halfback James Hogg kicked the goal for a 6\u20130 lead at halftime. Three touchdowns followed in the second half, two by Hogg and one by left halfback James R. Henry. Hogg kicked all four goals from touchdown. The game was played in 15-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: Ohio Wesleyan\nOn October 9, 1897, Michigan and Ohio Wesleyan played to a scoreless tie at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan played many substitutes in the game. Ohio Wesleyan was led by head coach Fielding H. Yost, who also started the game at right tackle and later moved to left halfback. The U. of M. Daily accused Yost of employing \"several 'ringers'\" on his squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0008-0001", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: Ohio Wesleyan\nThe newspaper also criticized the rough tactics, including \"hair pulling, choking and bruising,\" of Yost's squad and noted: \"The visitors made good an assertion made the night before to the effect that they would do anything to win, and continually played off-side, slugged and made foul tackles, while incompetent officials stood around in the role of spectators.\" Yost led his 1897 team to a 7\u20131\u20131 record, including a victory over Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: Ohio State\nOn October 16, 1897, Michigan defeated Ohio State by a 34\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The game was the first between the schools and marked the beginning of the Michigan\u2013Ohio State football rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: Ohio State\nMichigan scored six touchdowns, all in the first half, including three by G. D. Stuart (including a 26-yard run) and one each by Frederic Hannan (10-yard run), James Hogg, and Hazen Pingree Jr. Hogg kicked five goals from touchdown. Left guard William Caley with opening \"holes of the biggest kind\" and with making blocks to enable the backs to make long runs. In the second half, Michigan played \"for the most part a kicking game,\" forcing Ohio State to move the length of the field to score. According to one account, the play in the second half \"assumed the form of a practice game,\" as players were substituted and kicking and defense were the feature for the rest of the game. The game was played in halves of 20 and 15 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: Ohio State\nMichigan's starting lineup for the first game against Ohio State was Clayton Teetzel (left end), Herbert Lehr (left tackle), Muir Snow (left guard), Fred Savage (center), William Caley (right guard), Charles Juttner (right tackle), John W. F. Bennett (right end), William Wilson Talcott (quarterback), G. D. Stuart (left halfback), James Hogg (right halfback), and Frederic Hannan (fullback). Michigan substitutes appearing in the game were Norwood Ayers (left end), William Baker (right tackle), Hazen Pingree Jr. (left halfback), and John McLean (left halfback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: Oberlin\nOn October 23, 1897, Michigan won by a 16\u20136 score over the football team from Oberlin College. The game was played in halves of 25 and 20 minutes at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Oberlin scored first off a blocked punt. Less than a minute into the game, a poor snap from Cunningham to Hannan was fumbled, and by the time Hannan recovered, his punt went into the line and was blocked. The ball bounced into the hands of Beatty of Oberlin who ran to a touchdown through a clear field. The first half ended with Oberlin leading, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: Oberlin\nLeft guard William Caley starred in the second half for Michigan, scoring three touchdowns, and Hogg kicked two goals from touchdown. The last touchdown was scored in darkness. The U. of M. Daily described Caley's effort: \"Caley outdid all his best prior efforts. He was a tower of strength. Not only did he completely out-play his opponent, but he permitted no gains to be made through him, and on the guard back plays made openings of all sizes and bucked for sure gains.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0014-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: Oberlin\nOberlin had been favored, and when the game ended in a Michigan victory, a great celebration ensued. \"The demonstration at the end of the game is without parallel on Regents' Field. The yelling was deafening, and hats went up in the air by the hundreds. Every Michigan player was raised into the air upon the shoulders of howling students and cheered till exhaustion called a halt. A procession was quickly formed and headed by the band, the team was carried to the campus.\" Michigan was the only team to defeat the 1897 Oberlin team, which shut out both Purdue (22\u20130) and Ohio State (44\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0015-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: Oberlin\nOne newspaper account credited the win to the famous \"Michigan brace\": \"[T]he famous 'Michigan brace' took place a series of brilliant runs being made in the last fifteen minutes of play netting 16 points.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0016-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: Michigan alumni\nOn October 30, 1897, Michigan lost by a 15\u20130 score to a Michigan alumni team at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Thad Farnham and William C. Malley scored touchdowns for the alumni, and John A. Bloomingston kicked a field goal from the 40-yard line and a goal for touchdown. The game was played in 15-minute halves. John Duffy was the referee, and Horace Prettyman was the umpire. Approximately 400 alumni attended the game, marching from the old chapel to Regents Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0017-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: Michigan alumni\nThe alumni team was made up of Farnham (left end), Malley (left tackle), Archie Stevenson (left guard), Edwin Denby (center), Frederick W. Henninger (right guard), Allen Steckle (right tackle), Loomis Hutchinson and George Greenleaf (right end), James Baird (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert and George Jewett (left halfback), Horace Dyer and Raynor Freund (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0018-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: Purdue\nOn November 6, 1897, Michigan defeated Purdue by a 34\u20134 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Right halfback James Hogg scored Michigan's first touchdown and also kicked the goal from touchdown; Michigan led, 6\u20130, at the 14:23 mark. Purdue scored next on a run by A. F. Alward, and Michigan's lead was cut to 6\u20134. A short time later, Frederic Hannan was pushed over the goal line for a touchdown, and Hogg again kicked the goal to extend Michigan's lead to 12\u20134 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0018-0001", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: Purdue\nIn the second half, Hogg ran for his second touchdown after four minutes and 10 seconds had been played. The goal was kicked, and Michigan led, 18\u20134. Hannan scored next, and with the kick for goal, Michigan's lead was extended to 24\u20134. Pingree scored Michigan's fifth touchdown, and Hogg kicked the goal, extending the lead further to 30\u20134. Felver scored Michigan's sixth and final touchdown, but the goal was not made. With one minute remaining in the game, the game was called due to darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0019-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: Purdue\nAfter the game, Professor Thomas Trueblood conducted a well-attended and enjoyable performance of various character roles from Julius Caesar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0020-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: Minnesota\nOn November 13, 1897, Michigan defeated Minnesota by a 14\u20130 score. The game was played in 35-minute halves before almost 4,000 spectators at the Detroit Athletic Club's field in Detroit. The crowd included 1,200 Michigan students who arrived on special trains from Ann Arbor. It was Michigan's third consecutive victory over Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0021-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: Minnesota\nThe game began at 2:42\u00a0p.m. and lasted for two hours and 18 minutes. It remained scoreless for the first 27 minutes. At that point, Michigan's left guard William Caley ran one yard for a touchdown, but James Hogg missed the kick for goal; Michigan led, 4\u20130. Hogg scored Michigan's second touchdown on a two-yard run but again missed the kick for goal; Michigan led, 8\u20130, at halftime. In the second half, neither team scored for 33 minutes, though Clayton Teetzel had a 65-yard touchdown run that was negated by holding penalty against Minnesota. Then, with approximately two minutes remaining, Leo J. Keena scored a touchdown on a four-yard run, and Hogg kicked the goal to extend Michigan's lead to 14\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0022-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: Minnesota\nMinnesota's fullback and punter, Loomis, suffered a broken ankle early in the first half. The game was largely a kicking contest, with each team punting the ball back and forth. One newspaper account reported that, due to the frequency of the punts, the ball was \"in the air nearly half the time.\" After the game, the Minnesota players opined that Michigan was \"not in the same class\" with Wisconsin, which had defeated Minnesota the previous week by a score of 39\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0023-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: Minnesota\nAfter the game, there was a parade down Woodward Avenue to the Russell House. The Detroit Free Press described the celebration: \"Canes were flourished; hats were thrown in air ...; pretty girls waved ribbons and flags of dual color, yellow and blue; trumpets sounded, bugles blew; horns screeched; horses neighed and pawed the ground, wondering, no doubt, what all this bother was about. Beneath the shouts and cries, like a deep bass accompaniment to the wonderful composition of sounds ran the low muttering of the multitude and the tramping of many feet. Michigan had won the contest and the jubilant feelings of her followers were but finding an outlet in the rhythmical yells, the lightsome sounding of tins and brasses, the short, hoarse cheers from the tired and husky throats that had already shouted all too long.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0024-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: Wittenberg\nOn November 20, 1897, Michigan played the team from Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio, prevailing by a 32\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. None of Michigan's regular players appeared in the game, as the coaches did not want to risk injuries before the Chicago game set to be played five days later. The reserves scored four touchdowns in the first half, but made no kicks for goal, and led 16\u20130 at halftime. In the second half, they scored on two field goals, one touchdown, and a goal from touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0024-0001", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: Wittenberg\nThomas Marks scored two of the touchdowns, and Joseph Thomas, Charles Juttner, Don Pagelson, and Carl Kennedy scored one each. Burt Hodgman kicked the field goals. The game was played in 15-minute halves. Former Michigan star Frederick W. Henninger attended the game and planned to stay the week to assist in coaching for the Chicago game. The game attracted the smallest crowd of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0025-0000", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: Chicago\nMichigan closed the 1897 season with its traditional Thanksgiving Day game in Chicago against the Chicago Maroons. The game was played in front of a crowd of 12,000 spectators at the Chicago Coliseum. Chicago scored first on a 35-yard run by Gardner. Chicago's fullback, Clarence Herschberger, kicked the goal after touchdown to give the Maroons a 6 to 0 lead. Herschberger next added a drop kick field goal from the 17-yard line to increase Chicago's lead to 11 to 0 at the end of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031254-0025-0001", "contents": "1897 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: Chicago\nIn the second half, Clayton Teetzel, playing at left end, scored a touchdown for Michigan on a 15-yard run through Chicago's left tackle and end. Teetzel added the goal after touchdown to make the score 11 to 6. Herschberger added two more field goals to increase Chicago's lead to 21 to 6. Michigan's scored a second touchdown when Michigan's fullback, Frederick Hannan, kicked the ball for Michigan from its own 25-yard line. The ball touched a Chicago player, and Michigan tackle, William F. Baker, grabbed the ball and ran 55 yards for a touchdown. Teetzel kicked the goal from touchdown resulting in a final score of 21 to 12. Although Michigan scored two touchdowns to Chicago's one touchdown, field goals were worth five points in 1897, and Herschberger's three field goals were worth 15 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031255-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Middleton by-election\nThe 1897 Middleton by-election was held on 4 November 1897 after the incumbent Conservative MP Thomas Fielden died. The seat was narrowly gained by the Liberal candidate James Duckworth, who would lose the seat at the next general election in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031256-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Mindanao earthquakes\nThe 1897 Mindanao earthquakes occurred on September 20, 1897 at 19:06 UTC and September 21, 1897 at 05:12 UTC. The estimated epicentres of the two earthquakes are identical, lying just off the southwestern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines, south of Basilan island. The earthquakes were originally given estimated magnitudes of 8.6 and 8.7 on the surface wave magnitude scale by Charles Richter, but these were revised downwards by Katsuyuki Abe to 7.4 and 7.5 Ms, respectively. Contemporary reports noted that with few exceptions, all the masonry buildings in Zamboanga and Basilan were left in ruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031256-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Mindanao earthquakes\nBoth earthquakes triggered tsunamis, with the second being quite destructive, with a maximum run-up of 7.0 m. The tsunami was noted all along the southwest coast of Negros, the west coast of Panay, the south coast of Palawan, the west coast of Mindanao, and the east coast of Borneo. At least 13 died as a result of the second tsunami, with a hundred or more casualties also being reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031257-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1897 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1897 Western Conference football season. The 1897 season was the second and final season under head coach Alexander Jerrems. The season started out well, but the team lost its last four games including all three of its conference games. The Ariel reported that there was a general opinion that the team's difficulties were the result of poor management. Coach Jerrems was not asked to return and changes were made to the rules governing athletics at the university - managers would no longer be chosen by the students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031258-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Minor Counties Championship\nThe 1897 Minor Counties Championship was the third running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 7 June to 28 August 1897. Having been unbeaten for the entire season, Worcestershire won their second consecutive outright title, having also shared the title in 1895. Staffordshire were level in the table with Worcestershire, but played an insufficient number of matches to be considered co-champions. Sixteen teams competed in the championship, with Cornwall, Dorset and Monmouthshire all competing for the first time, though none of them played the minimum of eight matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031258-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Minor Counties Championship\nThe leading run-scorer, Arthur Croome of Berkshire, also had the highest individual score of the season, 158 against Hertfordshire. The leading wicket-taker for the second consecutive season, Buckinghamshire's George Nash, took three ten wicket match hauls, including 16/74 against Oxfordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031259-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1897 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Young, the team compiled an 5\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031260-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Montana Agricultural football team\nThe 1897 Montana Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1897 college football season. They had a 1\u20133 record in their first season. They played in 2 separate games on November 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031261-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Montana football team\nThe 1897 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1897 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Fred D. Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031262-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1897 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. For the season, the Violets compiled a 3\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031263-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1897 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Armstrong, the Midshipmen compiled an 8\u20131 record, shut out seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 111 to 34. The Army\u2013Navy Game was canceled due to Presidential cabinet order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nThe 1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1897 college football season. The team was coached by second-year head coach Eddie N. Robinson and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Western Interstate University Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nNU went unbeaten in WIUFA play to claim its first outright conference title. Following the season, Robinson accepted the head coaching position at Brown, his alma mater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Roster\nBenedict, Raymond ECowgill, Howard QBHalstead, M.L. GHansen, Albert LGHayward, William LTHerbert CHisey, Albert GMelford, William CMontgomery, Robert RTOury, W. Harry CPearse, Arthur RTSchwartz, Maynard HBShedd, George FBStringer, Lewis LTSwartz, Maynard HBTukey, Harry QBTurner, Edmund RGWestover, John CWiggins, Frank EWilliams, Charles Erwin HB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Iowa Agricultural\nNebraska was unable to keep pace with the Cyclones in the second-ever meeting between the schools. NU was not helped by strong winds that died down in the second half when it would have benefited the Bugeaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 75], "content_span": [76, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Tarkio\nThis was the first meeting between Nebraska and Tarkio, and also the first game ever played on campus at the University of Nebraska. On this day, the new field (later known as Antelope Field) was extremely muddy, and conditions were only marginally improved by pre-game efforts to make it playable. Nebraska dominated the game anyway, not allowing Tarkio to move the ball inside NU's 30-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Nebraska Wesleyan\nWhen Nebraska Wesleyan arrived, it was unclear if the game would be played, as they did not have enough players to field a full team. A bid to have Wesleyan's head coach play, a solution often used in past years, was denied as against league rules. Wesleyan eventually resolved the problem by adding a local high school player to their roster for the day, and Nebraska agreed to shorten the game to two 15-minute halves. Wesleyan kept Nebraska off the scoreboard in the first half, but the undermatched visitors could not keep up in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nNebraska scored four times in the first half in the WIUFA conference opener to put the game out of reach early on. The Bugeaters kept scoring in the second half to set new program records for points in a game and margin of victory in a 41\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nPrior to kickoff, disagreement began over officiating representative selected by Kansas. The Bugeaters repeatedly protested calls, and a Kansas field kick that many spectators claimed missed the mark was ruled good; at this point Nebraska chose to play under protest. The continual disruptions delayed the game's progress, and it was eventually called on account of darkness following a lengthy Kansas argument about a late Nebraska touchdown. Nebraska won 10\u20135, and Kansas demanded a rematch, but it was never scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nUniversity of Kansas records suggest the final score of this game was a 6\u20135 Nebraska victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at KC Medics\nThe death of a Commandant Jackson resulted in this game being canceled, though it is not clear which team or school he was associated with. The game was initially rescheduled for December 5 but was never played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031264-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nSome sources indicate Iowa failed to follow league requirements prior to the start of the season, which disqualified them as participants; however, league standings from the time list Iowa as a full WIUFA participant in 1897. Nebraska managed a single touchdown against the Hawkeyes, which was enough to win the game 6\u20130. NU swept its conference opponents and claimed the first outright league title in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031265-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1897 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. The Sagebrushers were led by William H. Harrelson in his first and only year as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031265-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team, Previous season\nThe Sagebrushers finished the 1896 season 1\u20132. Head coach Frank Taylor was replaced by William H. Harrelson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031266-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1897 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1897 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team played a seven-game schedule and finished with a record of 2\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031266-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded four points for a touchdown, two points for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031266-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe team's original schedule included games against Holy Cross, Maine, and Boston College. New Hampshire would not play these teams until 1909, 1903, and 1899, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031266-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe October 2 game in Amherst was the first meeting in the New Hampshire\u2013Massachusetts football rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031266-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe final game of the season was awarded to Dover by a score of 6\u20130, as the New Hampshire team left the field due to rough play. The score on the field had been 6\u20130 in favor of New Hampshire at the time the game was abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031267-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1897 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031267-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031268-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Council President election\nAn election was held in New York City to election the President of its Council on November 2, 1897. The charter of the new City of Greater New York had created a bicameral Municipal Assembly, comprising an upper Council and a lower Board of Aldermen. The Council president was elected citywide while the Board of Aldermen elected its own president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031268-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Council President election\nDemocrat Randolph Guggenheimer defeated Republican candidate Appleton, N. D. and C. U candidate Schmann, and O'Neill, who ran under the label \"Democrat of Thomas Jefferson\", to win the Council Presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031268-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Council President election\nThe bicameral Municipal Assembly would prove to be short-lived, and it was replaced with a unicameral Board of Aldermen in 1901, whose President was elected citywide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031269-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Municipal Assembly election\nAn election was held to fill the Municipal Assembly of the newly-created City of Greater New York on November 2, 1897. The charter of the new city had created a bicameral Municipal Assembly, consisting of an upper Council and a lower Board of Aldermen. Each chamber was elected from specially-made districts. In addition, the president of the Council was elected in a separate election on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031269-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Municipal Assembly election\nDemocrats won majorities in both chambers of the Assembly, winning 26 of the Council's 28 seats and 47 of the 60 aldermanic seats. Affiliates of Tammany Hall filled all of Manhattan's seats in the Council. In addition, Democrat Randolph Guggenheimer won the Council Presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031269-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Municipal Assembly election\nBicameralism would prove to be short-lived, as the Municipal Assembly was replaced with a unicameral Board of Aldermen in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031269-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Municipal Assembly election, Council election\nThe Council was divided into ten districts, eight of which elected three members each. The remaining two\u2014one covering Queens and the other Staten Island\u2014elected two members each. One of the members from Queens was elected from Long Island City and Newtown and the other from the remainder of the borough. The entirety of the Bronx was located in the fifth district alongside upper Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031269-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City Municipal Assembly election, Aldermanic election\nEach assembly district in the city was entitled to elect one member to the Board of Aldermen, except for Queens, which elected two overall (one from Long Island City and Newtown and the other from the remainder) and the Bronx, from which one member was elected from Westchester County's first and second assembly districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031270-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City borough president elections\nElections for New York City's borough presidents were held on November 2, 1897. The City of Greater New York, as the newly-enlarged New York City was colloquially known, had been created from what had been New York City, Richmond County, Kings County (then coterminous with the City of Brooklyn), and the western part of Queens County. The city was then divided into five boroughs, which each elected a borough president every four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031270-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New York City borough president elections\nDemocrats won the presidencies of all five boroughs, as well as the mayoralty, Comptroller, and Council President of the new city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031271-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New York Giants season\nThe 1897 New York Giants season was the franchise's 15th season. The team finished in third place in the National League with an 83-48 record, 9.5 games behind the Boston Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031271-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031271-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031271-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031271-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New York state election\nThe 1897 New York state election was held on November 2, 1897, to elect the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and one member of the New York State Senate. At the same time, the first Mayor of the consolidated City of New York was elected to take office on January 1, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New York state election, History\nIn 1897, there was only one officer to be elected statewide: the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, to succeed Charles Andrews whose term would expire at the end of the year because he had reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 New York state election, History\nThe Socialist Labor state convention met on August 14 at 64, East Fourth Street in New York City, and nominated Theodore F. Cuno for Chief Judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic State Committee met on September 15 at the Hoffman House in New York City. Alton B. Parker was nominated for Chief Judge on the first ballot(vote: Parker 27, Charles F. Tabor 10, Charles J. Patterson 8, D. Cady Herrick 3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 New York state election, History\nThe Republican State Committee met on September 18 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. Charles W. Hackett presided. Federal Judge William J. Wallace was nominated unanimously for Chief Judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 New York state election, History\nThe nomination of Charles Frederick Adams for Chief Judge on the \"United Democracy\" ticket was filed shortly before midnight on October 7 at the Secretary of State's office in Albany by two Republicans. Adams declined to run, and Lawrence J. McParlin was substituted on the ticket. Elliott Danforth, the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, contested the legality of the petition to file a ticket by the United Democracy, and the objections were heard by Secretary of State John Palmer, a Republican, on October 14. At noon on October 18, Palmer ruled that the petition complied with the Election Law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0005-0001", "contents": "1897 New York state election, History\nAn hour later, Justice D. Cady Herrick, a Democrat, of the New York Supreme Court, issued an injunction to restrain Palmer from certifying to the county clerks that a candidate of the United Democracy had been nominated, pending a decision of the courts, and scheduling a hearing for 3 o'clock p.m. Before the hearing began, McParlin withdrew his candidature, but legal experts held that, if the United Democracy's petition was upheld, his name would appear on the ballot despite his withdrawal. Under the circumstances, Justice Herrick heard the arguments, and decided at 10.30 p.m. to reverse Palmer's decision, and the ticket did not appear on the ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031272-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 New York state election, Result\nThe Democratic candidate Alton B. Parker was elected, the only Democrat elected to a statewide elective state office from New York state election, 1893 to New York state election, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031273-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia\nThe 1897 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia was the third tour by the New Zealand national team to Australia. Ten matches were played against regional and district sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031273-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia, Match summary\nComplete list of matches played by New Zealand in Australia:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031274-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Newfoundland general election\nThe 1897 Newfoundland general election was held on 28 October 1897 to elect members of the 18th General Assembly of Newfoundland in Newfoundland Colony. The Tory Party led by James Spearman Winter formed the government. On February 15, 1900, the government was defeated following a vote on a motion of no confidence which was supported by the Liberals and several Tories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031275-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1897 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031276-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1897 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1897 college football season. They played ten games with a final record of 7\u20133. The team captain for the 1897 season was Arthur Belden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031277-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1897 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. They had a 0\u20133 record. They did not score any points in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031278-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1897 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1897 Western Conference football season. In their first and only year under head coach Jesse Van Doozer, the Purple compiled a 5\u20133 record (0\u20132 against Western Conference opponents) and finished in sixth place in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031279-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Norwegian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1897. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 79 of the 114 seats in the Storting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031280-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1897 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1897 college football season. In its second season with Frank E. Hering as coach, the team compiled a 4\u20131\u20131 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 165 to 40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031281-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Nova Scotia general election\nThe 1897 Nova Scotia general election was held from 13 April to 20 April 1897 to elect members of the 32nd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031282-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1897 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its fourth season of intercollegiate football, Ohio compiled a 7\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 26. Warwick Ford was the team's head coach; it was Ford's first and only season in the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031283-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1897 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031284-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team\nThe 1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team represented Ohio Wesleyan University in the 1897 college football season. The team compiled a record of 7\u20131\u20131, played Michigan to a scoreless tie, defeated Ohio State by a 6\u20130 score, shut out six of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 144 to 32. Fielding H. Yost was the team's football coach and also played for the team at the tackle position. The 1897 season was Yost's first as an intercollegiate football coach. Yost remained at Ohio Wesleyan only one year and later served as the football coach at Nebraska (1898), Kansas (1899), and Stanford (1900), before beginning a lengthy career as the head football coach at Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031284-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team, Season summary, Michigan\nOn October 9, 1897, Ohio Wesleyan played Michigan to a scoreless tie in a game played in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The game was played in 15-minute halves. In addition to serving as coach, 26-year-old Fielding H. Yost was also the starting left tackle for Ohio Wesleyan. After the game, Michigan protested Ohio Wesleyan's decision to allow Yost, a paid coach and a non-student, to play in the game. Michigan asserted that Ohio Wesleyan had provided assurance that Yost would not play and introduced another individual as Yost. Michigan also charged that the Ohio Wesleyan team had engaged in \"slugging and foul playing.\" One week after the game, Michigan announced that it would no longer schedule games against Ohio Wesleyan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031284-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team, Season summary, Oberlin\nOn October 16, 1897, Ohio Wesleyan sustained its only defeat of the season, losing to the team from Oberlin College in a game played in Oberlin, Ohio. Oberlin's coach was Samuel Huston Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031284-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team, Season summary, Western Reserve\nOn October 30, 1897, Ohio Wesleyan defeated the team from Western Reserve University by a 10 to 6 score in a game played at Cleveland, Ohio. The key plays for Ohio Wesleyan were a blocked kick and two fumbles by Western Reserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031284-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nOn November 25, 1897, Ohio Wesleyan defeated the Ohio State football team by a 6-0 score in Columbus, Ohio. Breyfogle scored a touchdown for Ohio Wesleyan on a 70-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031285-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 1897 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1897. Incumbent Republican Asa S. Bushnell defeated Democratic nominee Horace L. Chapman with 50.28% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031286-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1897 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1897 college football season. In their third year of football and first year under head coach Vernon Louis Parrington, the Sooners compiled a 2\u20130 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 33 to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031287-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Open Championship\nThe 1897 Open Championship was the 37th Open Championship, held 19\u201320 May at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England. Harold Hilton, an amateur, won the Championship for the second time, a stroke ahead of James Braid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031287-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Open Championship\nThis was the second Open to be played in England after the 1894 event staged at Royal St George's. It was also the last Open Championship with no qualifying and no cut. 88 players entered including 20 amateurs. Royal Liverpool was the home club of many of the leading amateurs of the day including John Ball, Jr. and Hilton, both of whom had already won the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031287-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Open Championship\nAfter the first round Ball and Sandy Herd led with scores of 78, with David Brown and Freddie Tait on 79. There were two outstanding rounds in the afternoon. Braid scored 74 gave him the lead on 154 while Hilton's 75 put him second on 155. Tait was third on 158. J.H. Taylor and Harry Vardon were a disappointing 8 and 10 strokes behind the leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031287-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Open Championship\nDespite a few withdrawals, 39 pairs started on the final day. Under the new proposed cut rule, to be introduced in 1898, the field would have been reduced to a more comfortable 41. The leaders had poor third rounds which meant for a close position after the morning's play. Braid led by two from Herd, George Pulford and Tait with Hilton a further stroke behind and Brown and Tom Vardon five behind the leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031287-0003-0001", "contents": "1897 Open Championship\nTait was the early leader after a 79 gave him a score of 317 but this was bettered by a round of 75 by Hilton to give him the lead on 314. Hilton had scored just 18 on the opening five holes. Disappointing front nines from Herd and Pulford put them out of contention, leaving only Braid with a chance to match Hilton. After a three at the 15th, Baird reached the 16th tee needing 14 to tie with Hilton. However, with his third shot at the long 16th, he chipped over the green and he took six. He had a long putt at the last to tie but missed and finished a shot behind Hilton. With more withdrawals on the final day only 52 players completed the 72 holes, two players finishing 53 strokes behind the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031287-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Open Championship, Final leaderboard\nAs an amateur Hinton received \"\u00a330 in plate\" in addition to the \"Championship Cup\" and \"Gold Medal\". The prize-money for the professionals was reduced accordingly to \u00a360. This arrangement had been introduced after the 1892 Open Championship which was also won by Hilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031288-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1897 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In their second, non-consecutive year under head coach Will Bloss, the Aggies compiled a perfect 5\u20130 record, shut out four of five opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 164 to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031288-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe Aggies defeated Oregon (26\u20138) and Washington (16\u20130). Daniel Bodine was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031289-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1897 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1897 college football season. It was the Webfoots' fourth season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Joe Smith. They finished the season with a record of one win and one loss (1\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031290-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1897 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the second\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 18 April 1897 and stretched 280\u00a0km (174\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Maurice Garin, an Italian who lived in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031291-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1897 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 15\u20130 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. They outscored their opponents 463 to 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031291-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Penn Quakers football team, Legacy\nHead coach George Washington Woodruff and players Truxtun Hare, John Minds, and John H. Outland are all inductees of the College Football Hall of Fame. Outland is the namesake of the Outland Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football interior lineman. The Quakers' 15 wins in a single season would not be equalled until the 2018 Clemson Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031292-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Penn State football team\nThe 1897 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1897 college football season. The team was coached by Samuel B. Newton and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031293-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Petersfield by-election\nThe 1897 Petersfield by-election was held on 8 June 1897 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP William Wickham. The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate William Graham Nicholson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031294-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031294-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031294-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031294-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031295-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Philippine Supreme Council elections\nOn November 1, 1897, the Republic of Biak-na-Bato was established in the cave of Biak-na-Bato, San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan. A special election was called for the new Supreme Council to oversee the newly established government on November 2, 1897 in the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031295-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Philippine Supreme Council elections, Pact of Biak-na-Bato\nOn December 14, 1897, the Pact of Biak-na-Bato was signed. Under the pact, Aguinaldo agreed to end hostilities and to exile himself and the revolutionary leadership, in exchange for amnesty and cash 'indemnities' in the amount of 800,000 pesos. Aguinaldo took the money offered and, along with 34 other leaders of the rebellion, exiled himself in Hong Kong. The following were the officers of the Supreme Council that oversaw the pact. Emilio Aguinaldo was President and Mariano Trias, the Vice President. Other officials included Antonio Montenegro for Foreign Affairs, Isabelo Artacho for the Interior, Baldomero Aguinaldo for the Treasury, and Emiliano Riego de Dios for War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 63], "content_span": [64, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031296-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1897 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1897 college football season. J. P. Wolfe served in his first and only season as the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031297-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1897 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 16th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; their 11th in the National League. The Pirates finished eighth in the league standings with a record of 60\u201371.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031297-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031297-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031297-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031297-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031297-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Uniforms\nThe team wore white and brown uniforms at home and gray and brown on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031298-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 2 May 1897. Boycotted by the Portuguese Republican Party, they resulted in a victory for the Progressive Party, which won 88 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031299-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe 1897 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island on 28 July 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031300-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1897 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 10\u20131 record. The Tigers won their first ten games by a combined score of 339 to 0, but then lost the last game of the season by a 6\u20130 score against Yale. Two Princeton players, halfback Addison Kelly and end Garrett Cochran, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1897 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031301-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1897 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1897 Western Conference football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record but were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 108 to 106 in their first season under head coach William W. Church. W. S. Moore was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031302-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Quebec general election\nThe 1897 Quebec general election was held on May 11, 1897, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Quebec Liberal Party, led by F\u00e9lix-Gabriel Marchand, defeated the incumbent Quebec Conservative Party, led by Edmund James Flynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031302-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Quebec general election\nThis marked the start of over 39 consecutive years in power for the Liberals. The Conservative Party never held power again in Quebec, and ceased to exist in 1936 when it merged with the Action lib\u00e9rale nationale to form the Union Nationale, which formed a government later that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031302-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Quebec general election\nMarchand died in office in 1900, and was succeeded by Simon-Napol\u00e9on Parent as Liberal leader and premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031303-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Red River flood\nThe 1897 Red River flood took place in April 1897, along the Red River resulting in significant damage to the city of Fargo, North Dakota. The conditions which led to the flood of 1897 were similar to the conditions behind the 2009 flood, however the 1897 flood was different in terms of the human response to it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031303-0000-0001", "contents": "1897 Red River flood\nAlthough the river gauge was not installed on the Red River until 1901, other sources indicate that the crest of the 1897 flood at a site 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) downstream from the present Fargo gauge would have been 40.10\u00a0ft (with a discharge rate of 25,000 ft3/s) according to the present datum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031303-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Red River flood\nUntil the 2009 flood, the 1897 flood was the highest water recorded in the Fargo-Moorhead area and has since served as the benchmark for which many other floods of the Red River were measured against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031303-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Red River flood, Causes\nIn the spring of 1897 R.M. Probesfield took a measurement of 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) of snow on the ground in an area which was free from drifting; a value 2 feet (0.61\u00a0m) higher than one taken prior to the 1861 flood. Due to the level of measured snowfall a flood in the spring was expected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031304-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1897 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 1897 college football season. It was the third season in school history. Rhode Island finished the season with a record of 1\u20132. Their second game against Connecticut was the first game in the Rhode Island\u2013UConn football rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031305-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1897 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 7, 1897. Republican nominee Elisha Dyer Jr. defeated Democratic nominee Daniel T. Church with 58.11% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031306-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1897 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Led by Bill Wertenbaker in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 3\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031307-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Romford by-election\nThe 1897 Romford by-election was held on 1 February 1897 after the retirement of the incumbent Conservative MP Alfred Money Wigram. The seat was retained by the Conservative Party candidate Louis Sinclair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031308-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Rush Medical football team\nThe 1897 Rush Medical football team was an American football team that represented Rush Medical College in the 1897 college football season. The medics compiled a 1\u20134\u20132 record, and were outscored by their opponents 62 to 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031309-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1897 Rutgers Queensmen football team was an American football team that represented Rutgers University during the 1897 college football season. The 1897 Rutgers team compiled a 2\u20137 record and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 128 to 38. John C. B. Pendleton was the team's coach, and F. K. W. Drury was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031310-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 SAFA season\nThe 1897 South Australian Football Association season was the 21st edition of the top level of Australian rules football to be played in South Australia. Port Adelaide won its 3rd premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031310-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 SAFA season\nThis was the first season of football in South Australia where behinds contributed to the total score, not just goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031310-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 SAFA season\nIn winning the 1897 SAFA premiership, Port Adelaide achieved the rare feat of going from last the previous year to first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031310-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 SAFA season\nPort Natives informed the SAFA at a meeting on Monday 26 Oct 1896 that they were changing their name to West Torrens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031310-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 SAFA season\nWest Adelaide Football Club joined the SAFA after their application was approved by 6 votes to 4 against at a meeting held on 5 April 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031310-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 SAFA season, Ladder\n1 The Round 19 match between West Torrens and West Adelaide at Kensington Oval was abandoned as a draw at quarter time after torrential rain flooded the ground (scores at the time were West Torrens 1 goal 1 behind to West Adelaide 1 goal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031311-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 San Diego mayoral election\nThe 1897 San Diego mayoral election was held on April 6, 1897 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Daniel C. Reed was elected Mayor with a plurality of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031311-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIncumbent Mayor William H. Carlson stood for re-election to a third two-year term as an independent. His re-election was contested by Daniel C. Reed, a Republican, C.F. Holland, a Democrat, and A.C. Mouser, a Populist. In addition to the partisan candidates, three others contested the election as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031311-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nOn April 6, 1897, Reed was elected mayor with a plurality of 39.2 percent of the vote. Holland came in second with 26.2 percent of the vote, followed by the incumbent Carlson with 17.5 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031312-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1897 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031313-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Sheffield Brightside by-election\nThe 1897 Sheffield Brightside by-election was held on 6 August 1897 due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP Anthony John Mundella. It was won by the Liberal-Labour candidate Frederick Maddison,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031314-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1897 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1897 college football season. After this season, South Carolina did not have another winless season until 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031315-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team\nThe 1897 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team was an American football team that represented South Dakota State University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In their first season since 1889, they played in one game, a 0\u201322 loss against Sioux Falls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031316-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the members schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1897 college football season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031316-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe season began on October 2. Conference play began on October 9 with Georgia shutting out Clemson 24\u20130 in Athens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031316-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nAfter the Sewanee game, Coach R. G. Acton's Vanderbilt Commodores claimed the program's first ever conference title. This was followed by a challenge met by the other southern team to claim a championship, South Atlantic school Virginia; which claims seven prior championships of the South. The game ended a 0\u20130 tie. Said Coach Acton, \"It was the best game ever played in the South.\" Vanderbilt held all opponents scoreless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031316-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe Texas Longhorns averaged the most points per game in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031316-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1897 season was one in which a member school, Tulane University, was barred from intercollegiate football participation by SIAA President, Dr. Dudley. This was part of a sanction handed down in response to the LSU game the previous season in which Tulane was forced to forfeit for having fielded an ineligible player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031316-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe season was also notable for the game Virginia played against Georgia, featuring the death of Richard Von Albade Gammon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031316-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031317-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1897 St. Louis Browns season was the team's 16th season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 6th season in the National League. The Browns went 29\u2013102 during the season and finished 12th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031317-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031317-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031317-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031317-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031317-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031318-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Viateur football team\nThe 1897 St. Viateur football team was an American football team that represented St. Viateur College in the 1897 college football season. The team compiled a 3\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 68 to 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031318-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 St. Viateur football team, Game summary\nA game summary in the Daily Inter Ocean stated the contest was dull, uninteresting, and featureless. The article exclaimed, \"at no stage of the game was Notre Dame's goal line in danger.\" One positive point mentioned by the newspaper was for St. Viateur's exemplary tackling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031319-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Stanford football team\nThe 1897 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1897 college football season and was coached by George H. Brooke in his only year coaching the team. The team played the Reliance Athletic Club team four times and ended the season with its annual Thanksgiving Day game against California, winning 28\u20130, the biggest margin of victory yet in the seven-year Big Game series. At this point in the series, Stanford had won 4 and tied 3 with no losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031320-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 State of the Union Address\nThe 1897 State of the Union Address was written on Monday, December 6, 1897, by President William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States. It was his first State of the Union Address, and was read to both houses of the 55th United States Congress. He began with, \"A matter of genuine satisfaction is the growing feeling of fraternal regard and unification of all sections of our country, the incompleteness of which has too long delayed realization of the highest blessings of the Union. The spirit of patriotism is universal and is ever increasing in fervor.\" It took time for the Southern states to feel united with the Northern states, and for the Western states to feel united with the eastern states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031321-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Storrs Aggies football team\nThe 1897 Storrs Aggies football team represented Storrs Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1897 college football season. This was the second year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies completed the season with a record of 5\u20132, playing for the first time as a member of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges, which served to facilitate scheduling between Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Rhode Island. The 1897 season marked the first contests against these two rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031322-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1897 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the second season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte IS won the tournament by defeating its reserve team \u00d6rgryte IS II in the final with a 1\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031323-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1897 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1897 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20133\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 114 to 60. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031324-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Swiss referendums\nThree referendums were held in Switzerland during 1897. The first was held on 28 February on a federal law establishing a Central Bank, and was rejected by a majority of voters. The second and third were held on 11 July concerning an amendment to article 24 of the constitution and on legislation on potentially harmful foodstuffs and stimulants. Both were approved by a majority of voters and cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031324-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Swiss referendums, Background\nThe referendums on the constitutional amendment and the foodstuffs legislation were mandatory referendums, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The Central Bank referendum was an optional referendum, which required only a majority of the public vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031325-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1897 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1897 college football season. The head coach was Frank E. Wade, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031326-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1897 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The 1897 Volunteers were the fifth official Tennessee team to take the field. This was also their second season in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). They played five games and won four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031327-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1897 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031328-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1897 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the Texas Longhorns baseball program for the University of Texas in the 1897 college baseball season. F. Weikart coached the team in his 1st season at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031329-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1897 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031330-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1897 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031330-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nSuir View won the championship after a receiving a walkover from Horse & Jockey in the final replay. It remains their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031331-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Trinity Bantams football team\nThe 1897 Trinity Bantams football team represented the Trinity College during the 1897 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Everett J. Lake. A. S. Woodle was captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031332-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1897 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 16 August to 23 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 15 June to 19 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 18th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031332-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles\nRobert Wrenn defeated Wilberforce Eaves 4\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031332-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Singles\nJuliette Atkinson defeated Elisabeth Moore 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031332-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nLeo Ware / George Sheldon defeated Harold Mahony / Harold Nisbet 11\u201313, 6\u20132, 9\u20137, 1\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031332-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nJuliette Atkinson / Kathleen Atkinson defeated Mrs. Edwards / Elizabeth Rastall 6\u20132, 6\u20131, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031332-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nLaura Henson / D.L. Magruder defeated Maud Banks / B.L.C. Griffith 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031333-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRobert Wrenn defeated Wilberforce Eaves in the challenge round final 4\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 6\u20132 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1897 U.S. National Championships. A delegation of British players including reigning Wimbledon champion Eaves competed at this year's U.S. championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031334-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nJuliette Atkinson won the singles tennis title by defeating reigning champion Elisabeth Moore 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round of the 1897 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship, reversing the result of the previous Championships. Atkinson had won the right to challenge Moore by defeating Edith Kenderdine 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20130 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 15 through June 19, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031335-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1897 U.S. Open was the third U.S. Open, held September 17 at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago. Joe Lloyd won his only major title by one stroke over runner-up Willie Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031335-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. Open (golf)\nFollowing the first round on Friday morning, Anderson began the final round in the afternoon four clear of Lloyd, who shot a 79 over the last 18 holes to Anderson's 84 to finish a stroke ahead. Lloyd's win was capped by a three at the 461-yard (422\u00a0m) finishing hole. Anderson needed a four at the last to tie Lloyd; he reached the green in three, but his putt came up 6 feet (1.8\u00a0m) short. Anderson waited four more years for first of his record four U.S. Open titles in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031335-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. Open (golf)\nThis was the last year that the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur championships were played simultaneously on the same course. It was the last time the U.S. Open was only 36 holes total, doubling to 72 holes in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031335-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nAmateurs: Whigham (173), Macdonald (174), Tyng (177), Douglas (180),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stewart (181), Emmet (188), Smith (189), Keene (192),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Reid (194), Sweny (194), Bowers (199).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031336-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1897 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1897 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Lewis R. Freeman, compiling a 5\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031337-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1897 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031338-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were eight special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1897 during the 55th United States Congress, which began on March 4, 1897. None of the special elections in 1897 were during the 54th United States Congress, which ended March 3, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York\nThe 1897 United States Senate election in New York was held on January 19, 1897, by the New York State Legislature to elect a U.S. Senator (Class 3) to represent the State of New York in the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nDemocrat David B. Hill had been elected to this seat in 1891 and his term was set expire on March 3, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York, Background, Composition of the legislature\nAt the State election in November 1895, 36 Republicans and 14 Democrats were elected for a three-year term (1896\u20131898) in the state senate. At the State election in November 1896, 114 Republicans and 36 Democrats were elected for the session of 1897 to the Assembly. The 120th New York State Legislature met from January 6 to April 24, 1897, at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Republican caucus\nThe Republican caucus met on January 14. 149 State legislators attended, and State Senator Cornelius R. Parsons (43rd D.), Ex-Mayor of Rochester, presided. The caucus nominated the Republican boss Thomas C. Platt, who had been briefly a U.S. Senator in 1881, on the first ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Democratic caucus\nThe Democratic caucus met on January 18. 46 State legislators attended, but 5 walked out before the roll was called, after making speeches against Hill. The incumbent U.S. Senator David B. Hill was re-nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nThomas C. Platt was the choice of both the Assembly and the state senate, and was declared elected. Four anti-Hill Democrats voted for Labor leader Henry George who later the same year ran for Mayor of New York as a \"Jefferson Democrat\" but died a few days before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nNote: The votes were cast on January 19, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 20 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031339-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in New York, Aftermath\nPlatt was re-elected in 1903, and served two terms, remaining in the U.S. Senate until March 3, 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031340-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1897 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on January 19, 1897. Boies Penrose was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031340-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Results\nIncumbent Republican J. Donald Cameron, who was elected in an 1877 special election and subsequently re-elected in 1879, 1885 and 1891, was not a candidate for re-election to another term. The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 19, 1897, to elect a new Senator to fill the term beginning on March 4, 1897. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031341-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in South Carolina\nThe 1897 South Carolina United States Senate election was a unanimous election of the Democratic nominee on January 26, 1897 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. The Democratic primary election was held on August 26, 1896 and September 9. Prior to the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislature and not through the direct election by the people of the state. However, the Democratic Party of South Carolina organized primary elections for the U.S. Senate beginning in 1896 and the General Assembly would confirm the choice of the Democratic voters. Conservative Democratic Joseph H. Earle won the Democratic primary and was elected by the General Assembly for a six-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031341-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Democratic primary\nIn 1896, Governor of South Carolina John Gary Evans entered the first ever election in the state of South Carolina for the U.S. Senate. He had the backing of Senator Ben Tillman and much of the farming interests in the state. However, the farmers' movement had largely run its course and the Tillmanite reform movement had angered a considerable number of voters in the state. Conservative Joseph H. Earle and Newberry native John T. Duncan announced their candidacy's in opposition to Governor Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031341-0001-0001", "contents": "1897 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Democratic primary\nIn the primary on August 26 Evans emerged as the frontrunner, but did not garner over 50% of the vote and was forced to face Earle in a runoff election. Those who had voted for Duncan threw their support to Earle and it provided him with the margin he needed for victory over Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031342-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1897, in five states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031342-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 United States gubernatorial elections\nVirginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year. Massachusetts and Rhode Island at this time held gubernatorial elections every year, which they would abandon in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031343-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 University of Utah football team\nThe 1897 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1897 college football season as an independent. Head coach Byron Cummings led the team to a 1\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 VFA season\nThe 1897 Victorian Football Association season was the 21st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, the first premiership in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 VFA season\nThe 1897 season the VFA's first season as the second-tier senior football competition in Victoria. From 1877 until 1896, the VFA had been the top senior competition in the colony, but at the end of 1896, eight of the association's strongest clubs broke away, establishing the rival Victorian Football League, which immediately assumed the position as the highest level of competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 VFA season, Association membership\nDuring the 1890s, there was an off-field power struggle within the VFA between the stronger and weaker clubs, as the stronger clubs sought greater administrative control commensurate with their relative financial contribution to the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0002-0001", "contents": "1897 VFA season, Association membership\nThis came to a head during 1896 when it was proposed that gate profits, which were always lower in matches against the weaker clubs, be shared equally amongst the Association clubs; in response to the threat that this could be endorsed on the votes of the weaker clubs, six of the strongest clubs \u2013 Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne and South Melbourne \u2013 seceded from the VFA, inviting Carlton and St Kilda to join them, to form a rival senior competition, the Victorian Football League. The League became recognised as the highest level of senior competition in the colony of Victoria, and the Association became the second-tier senior competition, a position it has maintained since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 VFA season, Association membership\nThe establishment of the League left only five of the Association's existing senior competing clubs: Footscray, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond and Williamstown. The VFL gave those five clubs the opportunity to compete as a junior competition under and without representation on the VFL's administration, but they rejected the offer and continued as an independent body. One junior club, Brunswick, was elevated to senior status to bring the numbers to six. The Argus reported in March that two other junior clubs would be elevated to bring numbers to eight, with Essendon District, Brighton, Hawksburn, Hawthorn or Geelong all cited as potential candidates, but this did not eventuate and the association size remained at six teams until 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 VFA season, Association membership\nThe three Ballarat-based clubs \u2013 Ballarat, Ballarat Imperial and South Ballarat \u2013 had been members of the Association with representation on the Board of Management, but had not actively competed for the Association premiership. As there was no longer a strong administrative benefit to belonging to the weakened Association, those clubs also ended their affiliations prior to 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 VFA season, Association membership\nA committee set up in 1896 prior to the secession, featuring delegates both from teams which did secede and teams which did not, developed a series of rule changes which were implemented in 1897: however, since the rules were not adopted until after the secession, the two bodies elected to adopt some slightly different rule changes. Key changes were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031344-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 VFA season, Notable events, Representative games\nThe Association played one representative match during 1897, against the Ballarat Football Association at the Eastern Oval on 31 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series\nThe Victorian Football League's 1897 finals series determined the top four final positions of the 1897 VFL season. It began on the weekend of August 21, 1897, and ended on the weekend of September 3, 1897. Essendon was crowned the 1897 VFL premiers, finishing the finals series on top of the mini-ladder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, Abandoned systems\nWhen the VFL was initially established at the end of 1896, it immediately announced that a finals series would be played. However, there were two other announcements of different finals formats, before the system used was ultimately decided upon late in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, Abandoned systems\nThe format that was originally announced in October 1896 was that after fourteen weeks of home-and-away matches, a finals series would be played as a simple four-team knock out tournament amongst the top four clubs, and the gate takings from the semi-finals would be donated to charity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, Abandoned systems\nBy February 1897, the knock-out tournament had been abandoned in favour of a system that bore some similarities to the Page\u2013McIntyre system which would ultimately come into use in 1931. In it, matches were to be played as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, Abandoned systems\nDrawn matches would be decided by twenty minutes of extra time, or if still drawn after extra time, by a replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, Abandoned systems\nIt was realized during the season that this finals system was not entirely fair, particularly since the results of the first week of finals were somewhat meaningless; nevertheless, the league was prepared to proceed with the system right up to its scheduled commencement on 14 August. However, when inclement weather on that weekend forced the postponement of the charity round, the league used this opportunity to abandon this finals system and develop a new one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, 1897 finals system\nOn 17 August 1897, a new system was decided upon. The new system comprised a round-robin amongst the top four, with the provision for a play-off match for the premiership depending on the results of that round-robin. The finals system was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, 1897 finals system\nAs originally planned, the takings for the first week of the finals were donated to charity; the remaining takings were divided amongst the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, 1897 finals system, Venue controversy\nA point of contention was the venue for the finals matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 76], "content_span": [77, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, 1897 finals system, Venue controversy\nThe venues were originally to be drawn by lot, but in early August, the league decided to fix the venues in advance, and in doing so did not schedule a final at Geelong's home ground of Corio Oval, which offered much lower gate takings than the four venues in Melbourne where the matches were originally scheduled (the MCG, the Brunswick Street Oval, the Lake Oval and the East Melbourne Cricket Ground).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 76], "content_span": [77, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, 1897 finals system, Venue controversy\nThis decision was later reversed after Geelong, who had won the minor premiership, lodged an official complaint with the league stating that this arrangement would be unfair to the club and its supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 76], "content_span": [77, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Finals system, 1897 finals system, Venue controversy\nThe league agreed with this assessment, and when the finals system was determined on August 17, Geelong was scheduled to host its match in the first week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 76], "content_span": [77, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one, First round final (Geelong vs. Essendon)\nEssendon staged a tremendous last quarter fightback to beat Geelong by a goal. Geelong were unable to stop an Essendon comeback in which Tod Collins and Arthur Cleghorn reduced the deficit to a goal, before an error by Geelong player Henry Young let Colin Campbell in for the equalising goal. Essendon player Harry Wright scored a goal soon after and the game was sealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 83], "content_span": [84, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one, First round final (Melbourne vs. Collingwood)\nCollingwood narrowly defeated Melbourne in probably the finest game of the season. Collingwood's form had vastly improved, although the Melbourne side was sadly depleted through injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 88], "content_span": [89, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0014-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Matches, Week two, Second round final (Essendon vs Collingwood)\nEssendon played brilliantly to account for Collingwood, kicking five goals five to three points in the final term. Essendon became the only unbeaten team after round two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 87], "content_span": [88, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0015-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Matches, Week two, Second round final (Geelong vs Melbourne)\nGeelong finished the stronger to down Melbourne, with a goal by Eddy James near the end winning the game for them. The loss eliminated Melbourne from premiership contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0016-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three, Third round final (Essendon vs Melbourne)\nEntering this game, Essendon could clinch the premiership with a victory, while Melbourne was already eliminated from premiership contention. In the low-scoring encounter, Melbourne hit the post three times and a goal by Essendon player Waugh was disallowed after the bell. Edgar Croft scored the only goal of the match after marking a skewed kick in the forward pocket. The match set, and still holds, the record as the lowest-scoring in the history of the VFL/AFL, with only 22 points scored between the two teams; and, Essendon's 1.8 (14) also remains the lowest winning score in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 86], "content_span": [87, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0017-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three, Third round final (Geelong vs Collingwood)\nEntering this game, it was known that if Essendon lost to Melbourne in the other match (played at the same time), then the winner of this match would face Essendon in a playoff the following week to decide the premiership. Geelong's brilliant first-quarter burst meant Collingwood's chances of making it back into the match were near impossible. However, in a thrilling match, Geelong ran out winners by less than a goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 87], "content_span": [88, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0018-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Premiership finals teams\nThese are the finals teams for the top two teams in the round-robin series; and, rather than being \"Grand Finalists\" (because there was no Grand Final match in 1897), they played to decide the premiership. The players that are listed are players used in any one of the three round-robin finals played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0019-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Premiership finals teams, Essendon\nThe players listed below are in no particular order, however the captain and vice-captain appear first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031345-0020-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL finals series, Premiership finals teams, Geelong\nThe players listed below are in no particular order, however the captain appears first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031346-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL season\nThe 1897 Victorian Football League season was the inaugural season of the Victorian Football League and saw eight teams play in the first season. After fourteen rounds was played in the regular seasons, the top four teams played in a three-week final series, with Essendon claiming the premiership after they won all three of their games, finishing ahead of minor premiers Geelong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031346-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1897, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 20 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\" (although any of the 20 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031346-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031346-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1897 VFL Premiers were determined according to the conditions dictated by the specific format and conventions of the 1897 Finals System, which was used in this season only. A round-robin finals series would not be used again until 1924, and has not been used since then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031346-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL season, Win/Loss table\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031346-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL season, Grand final\nEssendon won the premiership for finishing on top of the round-robin finals ladder; no Grand Final was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031346-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 VFL season, Grand final\nSee List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031347-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1897 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their seventh season of organized football. The Keydets went 3\u20132 under first-year head coach R. N. Groner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031348-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 VPI football team\nThe 1897 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1897 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Charles Firth and finished with a record of five wins and two losses (5\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031348-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1897 football team according to the roster published in the 1898 and 1903 editions of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represent Vanderbilt University during the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Vanderbilt was in its eighth season of playing football; coached by R. G. Acton. The Commodores finished the season without being scored on. Vanderbilt played in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and won the SIAA Championship, the first claimed in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Kentucky U\nThe season opened with a 22\u20130 defeat of Kentucky University", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Central\nOn October 16, Vanderbilt had a hard time defeating Central of Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Kentucky State\nVanderbilt rolled up a 50\u20130 score over Kentucky State. The starting lineup was Boogher (left end), McAlister (left tackle), Whitemore (left guard), Brown (center), Hassett (right guard), Langhorst (right tackle), Stringfield (right end), Cox (quarterback), Connell (left halfback), Dye (right halfback), Farrell (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Kentucky State\nIn the second half of the Georgia\u2013Virginia game in Atlanta, a Georgia fullback named Richard Von Albade (\"Von\") Gammon was fatally injured on a play. The Georgia, Georgia Tech and Mercer football teams soon disbanded. The Atlanta Journal ran a headline; \"Death Knell of Football\" and the Georgia legislature passed a bill to outlaw football in the state of Georgia. Practically ever other Southern team followed in discontinuing its football program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nOn November 6, the Commodores beat the Tar Heels 31\u20130 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nA shocking event occurred in 1897 at the Thanksgiving Day match with Sewanee on the original Dudley Field. The word \"hell\" had been used in the line of a popular cheer on campus by Vanderbilt students and spread into events as football. This caused uproar with the university administration and the city of Nashville. Both teams commenced to pass the ball around for the purpose of limbering up. Throughout this preliminary the students of both colleges gave their respective yells and sung their several songs written for the occasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0006-0001", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThere was one yell given with great frequency by the Vanderbilt students which was very offensive to decent people. It starts off \"Hippity Huz, Hippity Huz; What in the hell is the matter with us.\" It had become so popular at Vanderbilt that it was in the minds and causes them to be oblivious to the fact that it was not exactly proper to shock refined ladies by such utterances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nPhil Connell and captain Howard Boogher dove to recover the ball after the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Virginia\nAfter the Sewanee game, all talk in Nashville was about Vanderbilt being the champions of the South. The other southern university with an outstanding season was the University of Virginia. The Cavaliers were 6\u20132 with losses to Navy and Pennsylvania. Virginia agreed to come to Nashville for a game on December 7 with a guarantee of $600, plus half of the net receipts. Virginia used only 15 players and traveled 26 hours on the train that brought them to Nashville. A crowd of 2,400 watched the game end, 0-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Virginia\nThe Nashville American reported, \"Unquestionably it was the greatest game ever played in the South. The assaults on the line were terrific, the tackling was brutal, the entire play fierce. Only once was the 20-yard line of either team invaded. Almost immediately after McAlester kicked off, the terrors of the tandem play were displayed. This play meant to bend one side of the line so that the end, the tackle and the guard reinforced the four backs in their charges at the line. Whether the force was directed was not known.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Virginia\nSaid Coach Acton, \"It was the best game ever played in the South. Virginia was heavier and made most of her weight, using mass plays almost entirely. Our men played a more scientific game. My team can beat any team in America of the same weight.\" Vanderbilt's average weight was 165 pounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Virginia\nThe starting lineup was Boogher (left end), McAlister (left tackle), Whitemore (left guard), Brown (center), Hassett (right guard), Langhorst (right tackle), Stringfield (right end), Goodson (quarterback), Connell (left halfback), Dye (right halfback), Farrell (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031349-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Post season\nVanderbilt and Virginia would share the southern title. The American also reported that, \"The Vanderbilt players were in a jolly humor yesterday with their miniature football pinned upon the labels of their coats. Joe Goodson, quarterback, was apparently out of training from a large ten-cent cigar he smoked, a gift of Benjamin Childers of Pulaski. ` Tab' Farrell had his hair cut and other members were more or less changed in appearance.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031350-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1897 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In their first year under head coach William Farrar, the team compiled a 3\u20130\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031351-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1897 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031352-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1897 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1897 college football season. Led by second-year coach Martin Bergen, the team went 6\u20132\u20131 and claims a Southern co-championship. The Cavaliers tied Vanderbilt in the southern championship game. The Georgia game saw the death of Richard Von Albade Gammon. The team's captain was James Morrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031353-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 1897 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1897 to elect the governor of Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031354-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 WAFA season\nThe 1897 WAFA season was the 13th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia. West Perth won the premiership, their first, after remaining undefeated throughout the season. The Rovers team finished last and failed to field a team for the final rounds of the season, forfeiting several matches to their opponents. 1897 was also the final season that Imperials competed, when at the end of the season it was discovered that \u201cmany of the bills were unpaid and that creditors were clamorous\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031354-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 WAFA season, Home-and-away season\nIn 1897, the WAFA competition consisted of four teams of 20 on-the-field players each with only two venues, the WACA Ground and Fremantle Oval being used to host matches. This season also saw the introduction of the rule stipulating that a mark could only be made at the distance of ten yards or more, leading to a more open game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031354-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 WAFA season, Home-and-away season\nWhen reporting match scores in 1897, the number of goals and behinds scored by each team is given; however, only the number of goals scored is considered when determining the result of a match. This was the final WAFA season before the introduction of the modern system of scoring, in which six points is awarded for a goal and one point is awarded for a behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election\nThe Walthamstow by-election, 1897 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 3 February 1897 for the House of Commons constituency of Walthamstow. The area was then a division of Essex, and is now part of Greater London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election\nThe election was won by the Liberal-Labour candidate, after the seat had been held by the Conservative Party for 11 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Vacancy\nThe seat became vacant when Walthamstow's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Edmund Byrne QC was appointed as a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. This appointment disqualified him from sitting in parliament, triggering a by-election in Walthamstow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Electoral history\nThe first Walthamstow constituency election in 1885 was won by the Liberals. In 1886 the seat was gained by the Conservatives and remained in their hands to 1897. Byrne had held the seat since the 1892 general election. The result at the previous general election was a comfortable victory for the Conservatives;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Candidates\nByrne's appointment was reported in The Times newspaper on 15 January, and on the same day the paper reported that the Scotch whisky magnate Thomas Dewar had \"kept himself in touch with the constituency\" and might put his name forward as a possible Conservative candidate. The Walthamstow Central Liberal and Radical Association were initially undecided as to whether to contest the election, but were reported to be considering Arthur Pollen, who had been their candidate at the last general election, in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Candidates\nOn Monday 18 January, each of the parties held a meeting to consider their approach to the election. As expected, the Conservatives selected the 33-year-old Dewar, who had built his family business John Dewar & Sons into a global brand. The Liberals had not chosen a candidate, but it was reported to be almost certain that they would contest the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Candidates\nWith the writ not expected until 22 January, the Liberals were holding nightly consultations on a choice of candidate and Dewar said that he wanted a contested election. Rumours circulated that the Liberals would ask the conservationist Edward Buxton, who had held the seat from 1885 to 1886, to stand again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Candidates\nMeanwhile, Arnold Hills, chairman of the Thames Ironworks shipbuilding company at Leamouth, announced that he would stand as a Unionist and temperance candidate in opposition to Dewar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Candidates\nHills was a sportsman, philanthropist, and promoter of vegetarianism as well as a successful businessman. On 22 January he said that would definitely stand unless the Liberals fielded a candidate, in which case he would withdraw to avoid splitting the Conservative vote and risk handing the seat to the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Candidates\nThe High Sheriff of Essex announced on the 22nd that nominations would be taken on Thursday 28 January, and that polling would take place on 3 February. The next day, 23 January, the Executive of the Liberal Three Hundred met and selected Sam Woods as their candidate. Woods was a coal miner from St Helens in Lancashire, and a prominent trade unionist who had been President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain since its foundation in 1891. He had been elected in 1892 as the MP for the Ince division of Lancashire, but lost his seat in 1895. The Times newspaper reported that Woods was the best possible candidate for the Liberals, because he would have the support of the labour as well as all factions of the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Candidates\nHills then stopped his election agent from setting up committee rooms for the campaign, which was taken as a sign that he would indeed stand aside. The selection of Woods was confirmed at a general meeting of the Liberal Three Hundred on 25 January,and Hill's withdrawal was formally announced the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Campaign\nWoods said he was an \"ardent radical\", but not a socialist, and that he supported extending the general principles of Sir William Harcourt's 1894 budget. Woods wanted no direct or indirect tax for anyone earning under \u00a3100 per year, and graduated taxes on higher incomes. He also supported the payment of a salary to MPs,who received no payment until 1911. His taxation proposals were scorned by The Times, whose editorial on 26 January said that his proposal \"should be worth a good many votes to his opponent\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Campaign\nIn a speech at Leyton Town Hall on the 26th, Dewar spoke in favour of trade with the colonies, and excluding alien paupers. He returned to the latter theme on the Friday 29th, when he told a meeting at the Barclay Hall in Leytonstone that \"Europe should be told that the East End of London was not the place for the refuse of the continent\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Campaign\nThe two parties chose different approaches to electioneering. The Conservatives decided to concentrate on canvassing rather than public meetings, but the Liberals planned 28 meetings. Dewar set out canvassing in his coach and speaking in committee rooms, while the Liberals mounted a higher profile campaign. On Saturday 30th Woods took part in a joint meeting at Stratford Railway Works with Herbert Raphael, the Liberal candidate in the Romford by-election which was being held at the same time. Large numbers of workers from both constituencies were employed at Stratford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0014-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Campaign\nWoods had been chosen as a strong candidate. Several thousand Labour supporters in the constituency were believed never to have voted, a point which the Liberals had used to encourage him to stand. Sensing the opportunity, many prominent trade union and labour leaders came to Walthamstow to support Woods, including Joseph Havelock Wilson of the National Sailors' & Firemen's Union, as well as leaders of the General Labouers, the Carpenters and Joiner, the Gas Workers, Barge Builders and Marine Engineers unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0015-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Campaign\nWoods opposed what he called the \"Government's reactionary legislation\", such as the Agricultural Rating Act, its proposals for education, and asking India to contribute to cost of Kitchener's expedition to the Sudan. He supported a range of what were then radical ideas; the abolition of the House of Lords power to veto legislation, one man, one vote in elections, the Irish people to control their own domestic affairs, site value taxation, radical reform of land laws, reform of secondary education, and improved housing. On the temperance issue, which divided Liberals, Woods supported local control over licensing, but objected to tied houses. Fearing constraints on their business, the Essex Licence Holders association decided to support Dewar, and to send a representative into the area to try to organise the licensed trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0016-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Campaign\nNo big controversy developed between the candidates. Irish Home Rule, which had split the Liberals in the 1880s, was only a secondary issue in the election addresses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0017-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Result\nArrangements had been made to count the votes on polling night,rather than wait until the next day. The counting took place in Walthamstow Town Hall, where the results announced shortly after midnight: Woods won,with a majority of 279 votes. His victory came as a surprise, because the Liberals had never expected to win the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0018-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Aftermath\nWoods held the seat until the next general election, in October 1900, when he was defeated by the Conservative David Morgan. His health failed in 1904, and he died in 1915.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031355-0019-0000", "contents": "1897 Walthamstow by-election, Aftermath\nDewar was elected in 1900 as the MP for St George, Tower Hamlets, and knighted in 1902. He stood down at the 1906 election. He expanded his business to form the Distillers Company, was ennobled in 1919 as Baron Dewar, and died in 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031356-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington & Jefferson football team\nThe 1897 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Led by Clinton Woods in his second and final year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 10\u20131, shutting out their opponents in all ten victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031357-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1897 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1897 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Robert Gailey and compiled a record of 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031358-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington Senators season\nThe 1897 Washington Senators baseball team finished the season with a 61\u201371 record, tied for sixth place in the National League. The Senators (also known as the Nationals) finished in the first division in the only time in the franchise's nine-year run in the National League. After getting off to a dismal 31\u201355 start, Washington won 30 of its last 46 games. Their overall winning percentage (.462) would be the high-water mark for this franchise before it folded in contraction at the conclusion of the 1899 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031358-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031358-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031358-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031358-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031358-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031359-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington and Lee Generals football team\nThe 1897 Washington and Lee Generals football team was an American football team that represented the Washington and Lee University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Led by captain D. M. Barclay, who played at right tackle, Washington and Lee compiled a record of 3\u20131. Smith Alford played at right halfback. The team had no head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031360-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Washington football team\nThe 1897 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1897 college football season. In its first season under coach Carl L. Clemans, the team compiled a 1\u20132 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 26 to 16. For the consecutive year, Jack Lindsay was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031361-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1897 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the inaugural staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031362-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1897 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031362-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nIn 1897 incumbent Mayor Francis Bell retired leading to the chairman of the Wellington Education Board John Rutherford Blair being elected to office as the new Mayor of Wellington, beating challenges from MP George Fisher (a former mayor).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031363-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wellington Suburbs by-election\nThe Wellington Suburbs by-election of 1897 was a by-election held on 23 April 1897 during the 13th New Zealand Parliament in the urban lower North Island electorate of Wellington Suburbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031363-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Wellington Suburbs by-election, Background\nThomas Wilford won the Wellington Suburbs seat in the 1896 election for the Liberal Party. However, he was subsequently declared guilty of corrupt electoral practices after an electoral petition was lodged after it was revealed he exceeded the \u00a3200 campaign spending limit which had been introduced for the election. As a result, the election was declared void.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031363-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Wellington Suburbs by-election, Background\nThe subsequent by-election for Wilford's seat was a two-way contest. Academic Charles Wilson contested the seat in the interests of the Liberal Government and Arthur Atkinson stood on behalf of the opposition. Wilson was successful in retaining the electorate for the Liberals, with a slightly reduced majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031363-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Wellington Suburbs by-election, Results\nWilson retired in 1899 when the next general election was held, and Wilford won the seat back on behalf of the Liberal Party. Two years later, Wilson was appointed as the first chief librarian of the Parliamentary library. Some saw this as controversial and merely a reward by the Liberal Government for his prior services to the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031364-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1897 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach George Krebs, the team compiled a 5\u20134\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 92 to 45. Henry M. White was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031365-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Australian colonial election\nElections were held in the state of Western Australia between 27 April and 26 May 1897 to elect 44 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The Ministerialist group led by John Forrest won a third term in office as a result of the elections. The poll took place based on boundaries established in the Constitution Act Amendment Act 1896, which increased the number of members from 33 mainly by adding new seats in the Goldfields region, and had been called a year earlier than was necessary. In 18 of the 44 seats, only one candidate nominated and polls were not held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031365-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Australian colonial election\nAs payment of members was not introduced until 1900, the Political Labour Party, formed in 1896, had found it difficult to attract candidates who could afford to enter Parliament, but three of its candidates ran for election, and Charles Oldham, a former president of the Trades and Labor Council, became the first Labour member of Parliament in Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season\nThe 1897 Western Conference football season was the second season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season\nWisconsin, coached by Philip King, won its second consecutive conference championship with a record of 9\u20131 (3\u20130 against conference opponents). The Badgers' sole loss was against a team of Wisconsin alumni. The Badgers shut out eight opponents and outscored all opponents, 210 to 14. On defense, the team led the conference, allowing an average of 1.4 points per game. Pat O'Dea, an Australian who played fullback and excelled as a kicker, starred for the Badgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season\nChicago, coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, finished in second place with an 11\u20131 record. On offense, Chicago led the conference with an average of 26.9 points per game. The most important game of the Western Conference season was played between Chicago and Wisconsin on November 13, 1897, at Marshall Field in Chicago. Wisconsin won the game, 23-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season\nThree Western Conference players from the 1897 season were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: O'Dea of Wisconsin; fullback Clarence Herschberger of Chicago; and end Neil Snow of Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nOnly 10 conference games were played during the 1897 season as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nNotable non-conference games during the 1897 season included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nAn All-Western team was selected by The Northwestern, consisting of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031366-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nNo Western Conference players were selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nOn December 8, 1896, Thomas \"Doggie\" Trenchard was engaged to train the Western University of Pennsylvania (WUP) athletes commencing on January 1. His appointment rekindled hope that WUP would regain some measure of respect in athletic competitions. Trenchard was an 1895 graduate of Princeton University, where he played baseball and football all four years and captained the undefeated 1893 Princeton Tigers football team that won the national championship. Upon graduation, he coached at the University of North Carolina for the 1895 season and then at West Virginia University for the 1896 season prior to taking the position with WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0001-0001", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nAccording to the Western University Courant, the reason for the ineptitude of the athletic programs was twofold. First, the transfer students who were athletes preferred to play for the local club teams. Second, the remaining student body was too apathetic to be bothered with the rigors of training for a spot on the team. The Pittsburg Press analyzed the season best -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\n\"This institution (W.U.P.) had the advantage of a first class coach. There are few better players than Coach Trenchard, but somehow W.U.P. could not get together a team worthy to play under the colors. There was a lack of interest among the men and the faculty. Trenchard worked hard. There were players in the college, but sometimes they would put in an appearance for practice and sometimes they would not. The latter was most frequently the case, and so the hands of the coach were practically tied. It is understood that the university will make greater efforts to get together a winning team next year. Already preparations are under way and if present plans pan out well W.U.P. will be in a position to cope with any eleven this end of the state.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nIn its first and only season under head coach Thomas Trenchard, the team compiled a 1\u20133 record and was outscored by a total of 91 to 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh High School\nOn October 8, 1897, the WUP eleven played a practice game against the Pittsburgh High School team. The game consisted of 15-minute halves. The WUP eleven played a sloppy game and were unable to score until coach Trenchard inserted himself into the lineup and carried the ball over the goal line in the final two minutes. The final score was 4\u20130 in favor of WUP. Coach Trenchard's early season frustrations were summarized best in the October 22nd issue of The Pittsburg Press:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh High School\n\"W.U.P. is making great efforts to get together a football team. At least Coach Trenchard is trying to. If Trenchard had more hearty co-operation of the students and faculty the prospects for a champion team would certainly be brighter.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh High School\nThe starting lineup for the game with Pittsburgh High was Al Marshall (left end), Mitchell (left tackle), McDonald (left guard), Reidle (center), Watt (right guard), Kauffman (right tackle), Riley (right end), Kintner (quarterback), Morrow (left halfback), Sample (right halfback) and Kier (fullback). Coach Trenchard replaced Kier at fullback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0007-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Latrobe Athletic Association\nThe Latrobe Athletic Association was their next opponent. In 1897, the Latrobe eleven was made up of all professional players. The game at Latrobe, Pa. started on a positive note for The Western U., as the offense with coach Trenchard at halfback, moved the ball to the 10-yard line. The Latrobe defense stiffened and the WUP offense did not come close to scoring again, even though Coach Trenchard had Robinson and Sterrett of the Greensburg A. A. and Rosenbloomm of the P. A. C. in the lineup. Latrobe Halfback Saxman scored two touchdowns in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0007-0001", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Latrobe Athletic Association\nEd Abbaticchio kicked the goals after to make the halftime score 12\u20130 in favor of Latrobe. The second half featured multiple touchdowns by Latrobe. Walter Howard, Campbell and Ed Abbaticchio each crossed the goal for Latrobe and Abbaticchio converted the kicks after making the final score 30\u20130. Coach Trenchard signed a contract with the Latrobe team after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0008-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Latrobe Athletic Association\nThe WUP lineup for the game with Latrobe was Al Marshall (left end), B. L. Rosenbloom (left tackle), McConkey (left guard), John Blackadore (center), Herman Watt (right guard), Donaldson (right tackle), Albert Riley (right end), S. M. Kier (quarterback), Thomas Trenchard (right halfback), Fred Robinson (left halfback) and William Sterrett (fullback). Victor King replaced Al Marshall at end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0009-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Greensburg Athletic Association\nWith Coach Trenchard out of the lineup due to injuries sustained while playing for Latrobe, the WUP eleven traveled to Greensburg, Pa. to take on the other local \"professional\" Club team, the Greensburg Athletic Association. Coach Trenchard refereed the game consisting of two twenty minute halves. The men of Greensburg were much too strong for the University eleven and won the game handily by a score of 47\u20130. The Greensburg team of 1897 had 27 players and was able to use many scrubs in this game. The Greensburg Athletic Association and Washington & Jefferson Presidents ended the season with the best football records in Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0010-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Greensburg Athletic Association\nThe WUP lineup for the Greensburg game was Collins (left end), B. L. Rosenbloom (left tackle), Kauffman (left guard), Graw (center), Herman Watt (right guard), Harry Donaldson (right tackle), Albert Riley (right end), William Shaler (quarterback), John Morrow (left halfback), Rex (right halfback) and S. M. Kier (fullback). Sterrett and Robinson, who played for WUP versus Latrobe, were in the starting lineup for Greensburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0011-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Waynesburg\nCoach Trenchard returned to his fullback position for the Western University's final game of 1897 with Waynesburg College at Waynesburg, Pa.. Waynesburg scored on their opening drive and Ullom kicked the goal after to make the score 6\u20130. Later in the first half, halfback Sadler of Waynesburg scored a touchdown to make the score 10\u20130 at the break. Early in the second stanza, Waynesburg scored another touchdown but failed on the kick to bring the score to 14\u20130. Late in the game the WUP offense advanced the ball down the field to the five-yard line and Trenchard kicked a field goal. WUP avoided another shutout but lost 14\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0012-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Waynesburg\nThe WUP lineup for the Waynesburg game was Collins (left end), Blackadore (left tackle), Kauffman (left guard), Graw (center), King (right end), B. L. Rosenbloom (right tackle), Herman Watt (right guard), Shaler (quarterback), Robert Sample (left halfback), Albert Riley (right halfback) and Thomas Trenchard (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031367-0013-0000", "contents": "1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1897 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031368-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1897 William & Mary Orange and White football team represented the College of William & Mary during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031369-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1897 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 21 June until 1 July. It was the 21st staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1897. No matches were played on the first Tuesday to mark Queen Victoria's jubilee. Reginald Doherty defeated Harold Mahony in the Challenge Round, and successfully defended his title for the next three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031369-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Gentlemen's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Herbert Baddeley / Wilfred Baddeley, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031370-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Clement Cazalet and Sydney Smith 6\u20132 7\u20135 2\u20136 6\u20132 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champions Herbert Baddeley and Wilfred Baddeley 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20134 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031371-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nReginald Doherty defeated Wilberforce Eaves 6\u20133, 7\u20135, 2\u20130 (retired) in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Harold Mahony 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031372-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Singles\nBlanche Hillyard defeated Alice Pickering 6\u20132, 7\u20135 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Charlotte Cooper 5\u20137, 7\u20135, 6\u20132 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031373-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1897 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1897 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031374-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place on 5, 6 and 9 February 1897 at the ice rink Crystal Stadium in Montr\u00e9al, Canada. It was the first World championship outside of Europe. Canada had the honour of organizing this World championship because it was the first non-European member of the International Skating Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031374-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nJaap Eden was the defending champion, but he stopped with ice skating after the 1896 season and did not defend his title. He started a career as cyclist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031374-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe Norwegian Alfred N\u00e6ss won the first distance (500 meters) and the Canadian Jack McCulloch the second distance (5000 meters). At the third distance (1500 meters), N\u00e6ss and McCulloch dead-heated for the fastest time, meaning a skate-off was needed to decide who was the winner and still able to win three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031374-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nAfter McCulloch won the skate-off, he won the 10000 meters, with only three others starting, and became World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031374-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nTwo days later, officials discovered an error in measuring the 5000 meter course, meaning the competitors had skated 4200 meters: two laps too few.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031374-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe results were annulled, and the next morning (9 February), the 5000 meters was re-skated, though some skaters had already left Canada, meaning only four skaters took part. McCulloch won again, and was confirmed as World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031374-0006-0000", "contents": "1897 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031375-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031375-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place from February 13th to 14th in Stockholm, Sweden. All judges came from the same country \u2013 Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031375-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 World Figure Skating Championships\nGustav H\u00fcgel won the competition despite a tendon strain. He got this injury when he was training in Hamburg, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031376-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1897 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1897 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Justus F. Soule, a professor of Latin and Greek, the team compiled a perfect 2\u20130 record, consisting of victories over a team made up of the school's alumni and the Cheyenne High School team. Harry Houston was the team captain. In the program's first four years under coach Soule (1894-1897), the football team compiled an 8-0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 148 to 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031377-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1897 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 9\u20130\u20132 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031378-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 Yellow River flood\nThe 1897 Yellow River flood was a major natural disaster during the late Qing dynasty in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031378-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 Yellow River flood\nAfter millennia of meandering north and south of the Shandong peninsula, the 1897 flood resulted in the course of the Yellow River generally followed to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031379-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 college baseball season\nThe 1897 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1897. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031379-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 college baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1897 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031380-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 college football season\nThe 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031381-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1897 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031381-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in Afghanistan\nThe amir's realm is quiet during the year. Suspicions that Abdur Rahman Khan is acting unfaithfully towards the British are dispelled by his loyal attitude in refusing to aid the rebel tribesmen engaged in the frontier war, or even to sympathize with them. Across the Indian border the First Mohmand Campaign in the North-West Frontier Province starts in August 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031381-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 in Afghanistan, January 1897\nThe Kamdesh Kafirs are being rapidly disarmed. The headmen of the villages in the Bashgal Valley send a deputation to the sipah salar (commander-in-chief) requesting him to keep back the force that is to be sent to collect arms in every village, promising themselves to collect the knives, guns, and other weapons, and to hand them over to the Afghans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031381-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 in Afghanistan, May 1897\nThe amir withdraws the officials and irregular soldiers who occupied for a year the Mittai Valley in contravention of the Durand Line Agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031381-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 in Afghanistan, September 6 and 7, 1897\nNearly 150 shops in the Kabul city bazaar are destroyed by fire, and several lives are lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031382-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Argentine football\n1897 in Argentine football saw Lomas win its 4th Primera Divisi\u00f3n championship within 5 seasons played. Lomas won the title after winning the 2nd replay of the playoff against Lan\u00fas Athletic. The players of Lomas Academy (dissolved last year) returned to the main team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031382-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in Argentine football\nLan\u00fas A.C., Banfield and Palermo A.C. debuted while Belgrano A.C. registered a \"B\" team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031383-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1897 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031384-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031384-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1897 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031384-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1897 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031385-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Australian soccer\nThe 1897 season was the 14th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031385-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031389-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canada, Historical Documents\nCree leader Almighty Voice pursued and killed by North-West Mounted Police in Saskatchewan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031389-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canada, Historical Documents\nAnnual report of Indian agent for Kootenay Agency in British Columbia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031389-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canada, Historical Documents\nAnglican missionary conducts church services on his dogsled trip around northwest Alberta", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031389-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canada, Historical Documents\nKipling's poem \"Our Lady of the Snows\" acknowledges Canada's solidarity but independence in its relations with Britain (Note: \"white man\" used)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031389-0004-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canada, Historical Documents\nLack of food and other boomtown problems discourage some Dawson City residents", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031389-0005-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canada, Historical Documents\nBritish railway labourers in western Canada treated as slaves before escaping", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031390-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1897\nThe Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union was formed after the conclusion of the 1897 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031390-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1897\nIn the Manitoba Rugby Football Union, the Royal Canadian Dragoons dropped out of competition in the spring of 1898. The three remaining teams finished the schedule in a three-way tie for first place. Tie-breaker games could not be scheduled as the college teams were involved in final exams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031390-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1897, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 89], "content_span": [90, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031390-0003-0000", "contents": "1897 in Canadian football, Dominion Championship\n1897 Dominion Championship Game: Montreal AAA Grounds - Montreal, Quebec", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031391-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1897 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031396-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in India\nEvents in the year 1897 in India.many great leaders were killed and the revolt of 1897 was suppressed. This was called the biggest the revolt of Indian independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031398-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Italy, Events\nIn 1897 the wheat harvest in Italy was substantially lower than the years before; it fell from on average 3.5 million tons in 1891\u201395 to 2.4 million tons that year. Increasing wheat prices caused social unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031400-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1897 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031400-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government and law\nThe 13th New Zealand Parliament continues with the Liberal Party in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031400-0002-0000", "contents": "1897 in New Zealand, Sport, Athletics\nArthur Holder is the first athlete to win four titles at a single championships (he is also second in the 100 yards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031402-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1897 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031407-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1897 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031407-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in South Africa, Railways, Locomotives\nTwo new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Cape Government Railways (CGR):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031410-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Swedish football\nThe 1897 season in Swedish football, starting January 1897 and ending December 1897:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031411-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Uruguay, Deaths\nThis article article about the history of Uruguay is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031413-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1897 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031417-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in association football\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by BHGbot (talk | contribs) at 22:12, 18 June 2020 (WP:BHGbot 6 (List 5): eponymous category first, per MOS:CATORDER; WP:GENFIXES). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031417-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1897 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031418-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1897 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031419-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 1897 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031420-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in film\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1897 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031421-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031423-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031423-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in paleontology, Dinosaurs\nIf properly described, it would have become a junior objective synonym of Polacanthus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031424-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031424-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031425-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031425-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 in rail transport, Events, June events\nJune 11 \u2013 The Welshampton rail crash in England kills 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031426-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in science\nThe year 1897 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031427-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in sports\n1897 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031428-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1897 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031429-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in the Philippines\nThis is a list of notable events that happened in the Philippines in the year 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031430-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 in the United Kingdom\nEvents from the year 1897 in the United Kingdom. This year was the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031432-0000-0000", "contents": "1897 \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts vs. Acad\u00e9mie Julian football game\nThe 1897 \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts vs. Acad\u00e9mie Julian football game was a college football game between American students of the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and the Acad\u00e9mie Julian, played on Thanksgiving Day November 25, 1897 at 2:30 pm in Levallois near Paris, France. Considered the first American football game ever played in Europe. The game was promoted by Robert D. Farquhar and was played on the grounds owned by the Racing Club de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031432-0001-0000", "contents": "1897 \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts vs. Acad\u00e9mie Julian football game, The Teams\nThe teams were to consist of American students, mostly architects, lived in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031433-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u20131898 Costa Rican general election\nThe 1897\u20131898 Costa Rican general election was held on 12 December of that year under very questionable conditions. Consecutive re-election was forbidden by the Constitution however incumbent president Rafael Yglesias Castro forced a constitutional amendment allowing it to let himself became candidate. He was also the only candidate on that election. Yglesia's main opposition the Republican Party called for abstention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031434-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 Football League season was Aston Villa's 10th season in the Football League First Division, the top flight of English football. George Ramsay would continue in charge of Aston Villa while the Management Committee continued to pick the team. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031434-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Aston Villa F.C. season\nFirst-class cricketer and England football international, Jack Devey was Captain. Jimmy Crabtree also captained the team. \"Diamond\" Freddie Wheldon was League top scorer with 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031434-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Aston Villa F.C. season\nBilly Garraty great-great grandfather of Jack Grealish, made his league debut for Aston Villa during the season but made just one other appearance that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031435-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Belgian First Division\nThe 1897\u201398 Belgian First Division was a season of the Belgian First Division, the top-level association football league in Belgium. In its third year of operation, the league was contested by five teams. F.C. Li\u00e9geois won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was Blackpool F.C. 's second consecutive season in the Football League. They competed in the sixteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing eleventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season\nNew signings for the season included Jack Cox from South Shore, Jack Leadbetter, Frank Wilson, and McHardie. Out had gone Fred Thompson (after making only six appearances the previous season), Tom Bradshaw, and John Clarke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season\nCox was the club's top scorer, with twelve goals in seventeen appearances. Goalkeeper William Douglas was ever-present throughout the club's 30 league games for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe season commenced with a trip to local rivals Burnley. The hosts won 5\u20131, and even Blackpool's goal was scored by a Clarets player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSeven days later, the fixture was reversed. Jimmy Martin, Blackpool's second-top scorer the previous season, scored the home side's goal in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThree consecutive defeats followed: 2\u20130 at home to Manchester City, 1\u20130 at Newton Heath, and 4\u20131 at Gainsborough Trinity. Laurence Halsall scored Blackpool's goal in the latter game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 9 October, Blackpool recorded their first win of the season, 2\u20131 at home to Burton Swifts. Jack Cox, in only his second start for the club since his arrival from South Shore, scored both Blackpool goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nCox scored another brace in the following game, a 4\u20131 victory over Small Heath at Stanley Park's Athletic Grounds. John Clarkin and Bob Birkett netted the other goals for the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0008-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 23 October, Blackpool travelled to Newcastle United and returned empty-handed after a 2\u20130 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0009-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nNovember proved to be a fruitless month, with defeats at Leicester Fosse (4\u20131), Darwen (3\u20131), Woolwich Arsenal (2\u20131) and Luton Town (3\u20131). Martin scored Blackpool's goals in the first three losses, and Clarkin in the final one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0010-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter a three-week break, Blackpool beat Gainsborough Trinity 5\u20130 at the Athletic Grounds. Cox, Harry Stirzaker and Jack Parkinson scored, alongside two own-goals by the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0011-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nCox scored two more in the following game a week later, a 3\u20132 home defeat by Newcastle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0012-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\n1897 was closed out with a 6\u20130 defeat at Walsall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0013-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool began the New Year with a 3\u20133 draw at home to Woolwich Arsenal. Cox netted twice, with Birkett also scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0014-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 8 January, Parkinson and Martin combined to lift Blackpool to a 2\u20131 victory over Leicester Fosse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0015-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nContinuing their inconsistent season, the Seasiders lost the following game, their third consecutive home match, 4\u20130 to Newton Heath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0016-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAt the end of the month, Blackpool travelled to Small Heath and recorded a 3\u20132 victory. Parkinson, Martin and Cox were the scorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0017-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nFebruary began with a defeat, 3\u20132 at Lincoln City; however, Blackpool exacted revenge six days later in the return match: two goals apiece from Birkett and Cox, plus one more from Parkinson, gave them a 5\u20130 victory. This was Cox's final appearance for Blackpool before he was sold to Liverpool, but his twelve goals remained unbeaten in the remaining nine games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0018-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBirkett scored in the following game, at Burton Swifts on 26 February, but he could not carry them to victory, Swifts winning 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0019-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool didn't play again until 19 March, when they travelled to Grimsby Town. The home side won 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0020-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSeven days later, Blackpool hosted Loughborough. Goals from Birkett and Jack Leadbetter, his first of the season, gave Blackpool a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0021-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nMarch ended with a 3\u20133 draw at Manchester City, featuring two goals from Parkinson and one from Clarkin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0022-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAnother draw followed, this time 1\u20131 with Walsall, in the first of five consecutive home games for Blackpool. Martin scored his seventh of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0023-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 8 April, Clarkin scored the only goal of the game as Blackpool beat Darwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0024-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nEight days later, Leadbetter scored his second goal of the season in a 1\u20131 draw with Grimsby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0025-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nLeadbetter was also one of the scorers as Blackpool completed a double over Loughborough. Parkinson (two) and Birkett scored the other goals of the 4\u20130 victory. Blackpool started the match a man short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0026-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe season ended with a single-goal victory over Luton, Clarkin scoring his fifth of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031436-0027-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031437-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1897\u201398 English football season, Brentford competed in the London League First Division. A hugely successful season saw the Bees win the London Senior Cup, the Middlesex Senior Cup and finish as runners-up in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031437-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter winning promotion from the London League Second Division at the first attempt, the Brentford committee bolstered the team's firepower for its first season in the First Division by signing forwards Thomas Knapman, John Richardson and Ernest Booth. Goalkeeper Jack Foster, then one of the club's highest appearance-makers, elected to retire from football and Arthur Charlton, one of the club's first great players, moved to Nottingham and was succeeded as captain by Herbert Edney \u2013 though Charlton would return to play for Brentford sporadically through the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031437-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford obliterated all opposition throughout the season, with the goals of forward Oakey Field providing the firepower to help the club win the London Senior Cup and the Middlesex Senior Cup. The pileup of London League fixtures meant that the Bees had to close the season with seven matches in just over three weeks, which included two matches in one day on 16 April. Brentford went into the final day of the season knowing that a victory over strugglers Barking Woodville would seal the league title, but the best the jaded team could manage was a 0\u20130 draw, which allowed Thames Ironworks, who won their final match, to finish the season as champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031437-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031438-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 British Home Championship\nThe 1897\u201398 British Home Championship was the fifteenth edition of the annual football tournament played between the British Home Nations. England won the title after whitewashing all three opponents and taking the maximum six points. Scotland came second after winning two of their games whilst Ireland came third following a close victory over Wales in Llandudno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031438-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 British Home Championship\nIreland's win over Wales was the first match of the tournament and gave Ireland a short lived advantage in the competition. England ended this advantage in the second game with a close 3\u20132 win over the Irish in Belfast and Scotland joined the other two on two points with a 5\u20132 thrashing of the Welsh. Scotland then briefly took the lead with a win over Ireland in Belfast before England joined them by beating Wales by the same scoreline in Wrexham. In the final and deciding match, played at Celtic Park in Glasgow, the Scots were defeated by a fast and powerful England side who ran out 3\u20131 winners and took the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031439-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1897\u201398 Brown men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031439-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor Brown's first ice hockey season all games were played on the road. The travel schedule was rather light, however, as the furthest they has to travel was New York City. The Bears finished with a very good record of 4\u20131\u20131 and, with their only loss coming against a non-collegiate opponent, the Bears could lay claim to the Intercollegiate championship (though there were few active college programs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031439-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season, First game\nOften cited as the \"first game of intercollegiate ice hockey played in the United States\" is the contest against Harvard on January 19, 1898 at Franklin Park, Boston. Students from Brown took the train to Boston, where they met with some students from Harvard. They commandeered a patch of a frozen pond in Franklin Park, asked pleasure skaters to move aside, set up some poles to mark the goals, and played the game of ice hockey they had learned in Canada. The details and outcome of the game were recorded in the following day's Boston Herald: Brown 6, Harvard 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031439-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season, Mascot\nNote: Brown University did not formally adopt the Bear as its mascot until the fall of 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031440-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1897\u201398 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1897\u201398 college men's basketball season. The team had finished with an overall record of 4\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was Burslem Port Vale's second season of football (fourth overall) in the Midland League. Their league form proved streaky, as they lost seven of their opening nine fixtures but recovered to post nine wins in 12 games from November to March, ending the campaign in fifth-place. However they proved their worth in the cup competitions, particularly so in the FA Cup, beating Small Heath and eventual Football League First Division champions Sheffield United en route to the second round. In the Birmingham Senior Cup they took First Division side West Bromwich Albion to a second replay, whilst they beat Stoke in the semi-finals of the Staffordshire Senior Cup, losing out to West Bromwich Albion in the final. Their success earned them re-election back into the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nBurslem Port Vale retained the entire first team of the 1896\u201397 campaign and strengthened the squad by signing four Stoke players: former England international right-back Tommy Clare, right-half Lucien Boullemier, left-winger Billy Heames and left-half Ted McDonald. They unveiled a new kit of red and white striped tops with blue kickers. The season opened with an \"exciting\" 2\u20132 draw with Burton Wanderers; the attendance at the Athletic Ground was a healthy 2,000, though Clare had trouble with his boots and played most of the match wearing just one of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0001-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nTwo away defeats followed, and young reserve Frank Mitchell was then installed at centre-forward and proved an instant success, scoring a hat-trick in a 4\u20130 home win over Kettering. However four league defeats later the players and directors met to discuss what was going wrong; the 1\u20130 defeat by Barnsley St Peter's was a particular calamity as goalkeeper Tom Poole punched the ball into his own net from an indirect free-kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Midland League\nFour league defeats were followed by four straight league wins, including a double over third-placed Rushden. They then slipped to a 4\u20131 boxing day defeat at Kettering, but recovered to beat Doncaster Rovers 4\u20130 to head into second-place on 3 January. This started a run of five wins and two draws from seven games, with Clare being credited for inspiring the players \"with a confidence never before approached\". However they finished the campaign with two away defeats, ending up in fifth-place with 23 points from 22 games. Danny Simpson finished with a tally of nine league goals, indicating that the club could benefit from a consistent goalscorer at centre-forward. Nevertheless, the club's exploits in the FA Cup saw them achieve 18 votes in their successful application to rejoin the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nVale found great success in the FA Cup, beating Football League Second Division side Small Heath 2\u20131 in the third qualification round thanks to a brace from Clare; Small Heath had originally proposed to switch the venue to Muntz Street for a \u00a3100 payment, but were refused. After a walkover victory against Kidderminster, they were fired by a \"special inducement\" and played \"with dash and skill\" to eliminate Burton Wanderers 2\u20131 to reach the first round proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0003-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nEventual Football League First Division champions Sheffield United were expecting to romp to victory at Bramall Lane, but the Vale team were in confident mood and held out for a 1\u20131 draw, the home side only staying in the tie due to a dubious penalty. Vale rejected an offer of \u00a3250 to play the replay at Bramall Lane, and went on to win the tie 2\u20131; Dick Evans gave Vale a two minute lead before United equalised with a rush goal eight minutes from time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0003-0002", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn extra-time, United goalkeeper William Foulke \"acted in an idiotic manner\" and was caught out of position as Vale's Billy Heames broke away, running half the length of the pitch before pulling the ball back for Lucien Boullemier to score the winning goal. Vale claimed earnings of \u00a3350 for the fixture as a crowd of 15,000 witnessed the giantkilling; the Burslem school board gave schoolchildren a special holiday so they could attend the game. Second Division leaders Burnley awaited in the second round, but Vale were below par as they slipped to a 3\u20130 defeat at Turf Moor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031441-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nVale were pitted against high-flying First Division club West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup and after two 0\u20130 draws were finally beaten 2\u20131 in the second replay. Vale confidently dispatched Burton Wanderers 5\u20130 in the first round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup. A 3\u20131 win over Potteries derby rivals Stoke in front of a home crowd of 7,000 took them into the final for the first time, where they again faced West Bromwich Albion, this time at the neutral venue of the Victoria Ground. A 8,500 crowd turned up, but West Brom denied Vale any silverware as they claimed a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031442-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Butler Christians men's basketball team\nThe 1897\u201398 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1897\u201398 college men's basketball season. The head coach was James Zink, coaching in his first season with the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031443-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1897\u201398 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in Scottish Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031444-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1897\u201398 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031444-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the 25th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level entering the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Cup\nDumbarton were knocked out in the first round by St Bernards, after a 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Dumbartonshire Cup\nDumbarton won the Dumbartonshire Cup for the ninth time, beating Vale of Leven in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nIn the absence of any league commitments, the Dumbarton committee had to work hard to bring together a fixture list which would meet the club's financial needs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nDuring the season, 23 'friendly' matches were arranged, where there was much to be pleased about. There was an impressive unbeaten run of 9 games at the beginning of the season, several wins against league opposition and a successful 'mini' tour of the highlands during the New Year holidays. In all 13 were won, 4 drawn and 6 lost, scoring 69 goals and conceding 49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nAmongst those players leaving the club was internationalist Leitch Keir. A servant to the club since its cup winning season of 1882-83, Keir decided to move on to Motherwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nOnly includes appearances and goals in competitive Scottish Cup matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, International caps\nWilliam Thomson earned his third and fourth caps against Wales and Ireland respectively in the 1898 British Home Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0008-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Representative match\nA Dumbartonshire XI played against a Lanarkshire XI on 29 January 1898 in which Docherty, Daniel Thomson, William Thomson, Lewis Mackie and Speedie were all selected to play - Willie Speedie scored the Dumbarton county goal in the 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031445-0009-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the first round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Queen's Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031446-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the fifth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One and finishing in 7th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would reach the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031446-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Dundee F.C. season, Scottish Division One\nHaving finished level on points with Partick Thistle, Dundee played them in a play-off match to determine ranking positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup\nThe 1897\u20131898 FA Cup was the 27th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The cup was won by Nottingham Forest, who defeated Derby County 3\u20131 in the final of the competition, played at Crystal Palace in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. The 16 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Newton Heath, Burnley, Leicester Fosse, Grimsby Town, Walsall and Manchester City from the Second Division. The other Second Division sides were entered into the Third Qualifying Round. Of those sides, only Newcastle United, Woolwich Arsenal, Luton Town and Gainsborough Trinity qualified to the FA Cup Proper. Six non-league sides also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 29 January 1898. One match was drawn, with the replay taking place in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 12 February 1898. There were two replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 26 February 1898. There were two replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were both played on Saturday, 19 March 1898. The Nottingham Forest\u2013Southampton match went to a replay, played the following Wednesday, when Nottingham Forest managed a 2\u20130 win. They went on to meet Derby County in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031447-0008-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FA Cup, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 16 April 1898 at Crystal Palace. Just over 62,000 supporters attended the match. Arthur Capes opened the scoring for Nottingham Forest after 19 minutes. Forest's lead was maintained for only twelve minutes before Derby County equalised, through a goal from Steve Bloomer. Capes hit his second just before half-time, and Forest preserved the lead until the 86th minute, when McPherson scored a third Forest goal, to hand them their first ever FA Cup Victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031448-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1897\u201398 season was their fifth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Charlie Volderauer and he was chairman between 1896 and 1900. He was the third chairman in the club's history, following Roland Geldner (1893\u20131896) and Emanuel Schiess (1896). FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein neighborhood of Kleinbasel (lesser Basel). The official Swiss championship had not yet been called to into life. Although this season a first, unofficial, competition was played, Basel did not compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031448-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FC Basel season, Overview\nAlthough the first national championship in Switzerland took place in 1897\u201398 it is considered as unofficial because it was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; founded in 1895). FC Basel did not participate in this first championship, neither did local rivals Old Boys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031448-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FC Basel season, Overview\nFrom a local point of view, there were also following clubs from Basel who played football. FC Play Fellows were founded in 1895, FC Excelsior founded 1896 and FC Kleinbasel founded at the beginning of 1898. The football team Buckjumpers-Club, founded 1894, dispanded themselves during 1897 and most players moved to FC Basel who then fielded a reserve team. FC Gymnasia, who were founded 1884 by Gymniasasten and real high school students was also dissolved. The RTV/Realsch\u00fcler-Turnverein (real school student gymnastics club) had a football team from 1893 to 1898 from which the FC Old Boys emerged in 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031448-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FC Basel season, Overview\nFor this season FC Basel organised 10 friendly matches for their first team. Five were played at home in the Landhof and all five were won. Two friendlies were played in Z\u00fcrich and both ended in high scoring defeats, 3\u20137 against Z\u00fcrich and 0\u20137 against Grasshopper Club. The return game against local club Old Boys was drawn and the return game against Biel-Bienne was won 5\u20132. The friendly match against FC Bern was played on neutral ground in Aarau and Basel won this game 4\u20131. Of their 10 games Basel won seven, drew once and were defeated twice. The team scored 29 and conceded 20 goals. Much documentation for this season's matches are incomplete, therefore most goal scorers remain unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031448-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031448-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 FC Basel season, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the tenth season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at the website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League, Test matches\nThe Football League test matches were a set of play-offs, in which the bottom First Division teams faced the top Second Division teams. Each First Division team plays both Second Division teams in a mini league format, the top two finishers would then be considered for election for First Division membership whilst the bottom two finishers would be invited to play in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League, Test matches\nThe First Division teams, if finishing in the top two, would retain their places in the division. If a Second Division team does so, it would be considered for First Division membership through an election process. Bottom-two Second Division teams would stay in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League, Test matches, Summary\nReference works, such Encyclopedia of British Football, and Association Football present the following table with the heading given above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031449-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football League, Test matches, Consequences\nBurnley and Stoke City entered the last match needing a draw for promotion (or in Stoke's case to retain their First Division place). A 0\u20130 draw ensued, reportedly 'The Match without a shot at goal' and the League immediately withdrew the Test Match system in favour of automatic promotion and relegation. Ironically, the League also decided to expand the top division to 18 teams after the Test Match series of 1897\u201398 and the other two teams, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United also went into the top division for the following season, negating the effect of Burnley and Stoke's reputed collusion. In the end, the test matches and their results seem to have served no particular purpose. After this season the test matches were scrapped in favour of direct promotion and relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031450-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 6 teams, and Kj\u00f8benhavns Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031451-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1897\u201398 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Stade Fran\u00e7ais.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031451-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 French Rugby Union Championship\nAs in the previous season, the title is assigned with a round robin tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031452-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1897\u201398 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031452-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nOver the previous few years Harvard had played 'ice polo' with Frederick Goodridge captaining the team. For the 1897-98 season the players switched to ice hockey and the team played its first game January 19, losing 0\u20136 against Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031452-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Harvard University did not formally adopt Crimson as its moniker until 1910 but the student body had uniformly been associated with the color since 1875.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031453-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1897\u201398 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031454-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1897\u201398 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished third out of 10 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031455-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1897\u201398 comprised 6 teams, and Linfield won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031456-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Johns Hopkins men's ice hockey season\nThe 1897\u201398 Johns Hopkins men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031456-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Johns Hopkins men's ice hockey season, Season\nJohns Hopkins played a rather large number of games, especially for their time. All 17 games were played at the North Avenue Ice Palace, however, because most of their opponents also called the building home, JHU only played two home games. The team played in the Baltimore Hockey League and played an unbalanced schedule against their four league opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031456-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Johns Hopkins men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe following November machinery that was used for the ice surface was removed from the arena. This left JHU without a home and with interest in the team having dropped precipitously over the previous few years the program was shuttered. Johns Hopkins would not play another organized game of ice hockey for about 90 years and, as of 2020, it has yet to field another varsity team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031456-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Johns Hopkins men's ice hockey season, Season\nJohns Hopkins athletic teams did not receive a moniker until 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031457-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe 1896\u201397 season was the sixth season of competitive football played by Liverpool and was their fifth year in The Football League, in which they competed in the first division. The season covers the period from 1 July 1897 to 30 June 1898. After finishing in fifth place the previous season, Liverpool fell four spots to finish in ninth place at the end of the season with 28 points, 14 points behind the champions in Sheffield United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031458-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was Manchester City F.C. 's seventh season of league football and sixth season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031459-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nIn 1897 men's basketball is introduced at Michigan State Normal School. The inaugural team went 1\u20131 in games against Detroit. Both games ended in shutouts. 1897\u201398 was the first season of basketball at the school, which would become Eastern Michigan University Eagles men's basketball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031460-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 National Association Foot Ball League season\nThe fourth season of the National Association Foot Ball League began on Saturday, October 30, 1897 after eight major teams New York City and in New Jersey had \"sunk all their differences\" and agreed to put the NAFBL on a firm financial basis. Among the new features was that the matches would be scheduled \"so that teams which cannot play on Saturdays will be allowed to play on Sundays, and vice-versa.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031460-0000-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 National Association Foot Ball League season\nThe original lineup featured the New Jersey teams of Americus A.A. (West Hoboken); Centreville A.C. (Bayonne); the Scottish-Americans of Newark; the Kearny Scots of the Newark suburb of Kearny, New Jersey; the True Blues and the Crescents (both of Paterson); and Arlington A.A., with the Brooklyn Wanderers as the New York team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031460-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 National Association Foot Ball League season\nA schedule was released on October 23, with the first weeks games featuring the Paterson Crescents visiting the Kearny Scots and Arlington at the Paterson True Blues on Saturday. Americus visited Centreville at Bayonne and Brooklyn visited the Scottish Americans at Newark on Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031461-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1897\u201398 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1897\u201398 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Frank Lehmer, coaching the huskers in his second season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031462-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1897\u20131898 was contested by ten teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off match featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. RAP won this year's championship by beating Vitesse Arnhem 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031463-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was Newcastle United's fifth season in the Football League Second Division. Newcastle finished the season in second place and were promoted to the First Division when the division was expanded from 16 to 18 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031464-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was Newton Heath's sixth season in the Football League and their fourth in the Second Division. They finished fourth in the league, which was not enough to earn them a chance for promotion back to the First Division. In the FA Cup, the Heathens were knocked out by Liverpool in the Second Round, after beating Walsall in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031464-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1897\u201398. They reached the semi-finals of the Manchester Senior Cup before being beaten 2\u20131 by Manchester City in a replay, but they went two better in the Lancashire Senior Cup, beating Blackburn Rovers 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031465-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Football League\nThe 1897\u201398 Northern Football League season was the ninth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England. This was the first season in which the Northern League was split into two divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031465-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Football League, Division One\nThe division featured 9 clubs which competed in the last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the third season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Summary\nThe leading try scorer this season was Hoskins of Salford, who crossed the line 30 times. The leading goal scorer was Albert Goldthorpe of Hunslet who was successful 66 times. The leading points scorer was also Goldthorpe who scored 135 points in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Summary\nOldham won the Lancashire Senior Competition and Hunslet won in Yorkshire, but only after winning a play-off with Bradford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\nOldham won the Lancashire competition outright. Although participating in the Lancashire Senior Competition, Runcorn and Stockport were from Cheshire. Warrington, and Widnes were in Lancashire until the 1974 boundary changes and now lie within the northern boundary of Cheshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\nSource: . League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0Salford had 2 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player^\u00a0b:\u00a0Leigh had 2 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Yorkshire Senior Competition\nHunslet and Bradford ended the league season with 48 points. In a championship play-off Hunslet beat Bradford 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031466-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Yorkshire Senior Competition\nSource: . League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031467-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1897\u201398 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 13th season of play. Ottawa placed fifth in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031467-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Team business\nAfter not coming to satisfactory terms with the Dey brothers over the Dey Rink, the Ottawas returned to their first home, the Rideau Skating Rink for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031467-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season\nOttawa lost several players from the previous season to the rival intermediate Ottawa Capitals, including Alf Smith. The Capitals would win the AHAC championship with the Ottawa players and apply to join AHAC seniors in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031467-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nThe game of February 12, 1898, between Ottawa and the Victorias was notable because Fred Chittick, the regular goalkeeper of Ottawa staged a one-man strike because he had not received his share of complimentary tickets. Ottawa played A. Cope instead and lost 9\u20135. The fans in attendance heckled the defence pair of Harvey Pulford and Weldy Young, and in response Mr. Young went into the crowd to attack a spectator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031468-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1897\u201398 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031468-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWith the West Park Ice Palace being built, the Quakers had a facility with stable ice to rely upon for the season. They were able to play an expanded schedule against mostly local teams and even compete in a local hockey league. The team ended up in a tie for second place with the since-closed Pennsylvania Dental College at a 3\u20132 record. Penn tied PDC twice during the season but as many leagues didn't count ties so those games were left off of the final standings. Because Wayne Country Club was part of the league it cannot be counted as a college conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031468-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nStandings for the Philadelphia Hockey Clubs are included for reference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031468-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but Arthur Stackhouse served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031468-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Schedule and Results\n\u2020 The Maryland Athletic Club refused to play in the 10-minute overtime session and were charged with a forfeit by the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031469-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1897\u20131898 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1897\u201398 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031470-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season is the 24th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031470-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 25 competitive matches during the 1897\u201398 season. They finished third in the Scottish League Division One with a record of 13 wins from 18 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031470-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe club won the Scottish Cup that season. A 2\u20130 victory of Kilmarnock on 26 March 1898 saw them win the trophy for the second time in two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031471-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1897\u201398 Rugby Union County Championship was the tenth edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031471-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Rugby Union County Championship\nNorthumberland won the competition for the first time defeating Midland Counties in the final. The Midlands team was weakened by the refusal of Leicester to release their players for the county team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031472-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Scottish Cup\nThe 1897\u201398 Scottish Cup was the 25th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers when they beat Kilmarnock 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031473-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1897\u201398 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031473-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Scottish Districts season, History\nSouth of Scotland District beat North of Scotland District by 8 goals and 2 tries to nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031473-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Scottish Districts season, History\nAn Anglo-Scots versus South of Scotland District match was supposed to be played on 25 December 1897. The teams were announced but the match was called off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031474-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Scottish Division One\nThe 1897\u201398 Scottish Division One season was won by Celtic by four points over nearest rival Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031475-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1897\u201398 Scottish Second Division was won by Kilmarnock with Motherwell finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031476-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Scottish Football League, Overview\nKilmarnock won the Scottish Division Two but were not promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031477-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1897\u201398 Sheffield Shield season was the sixth season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Victoria won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 Football League season was the 17th season of competitive association football and 6th season in the Football League played by Small Heath Football Club, an English football club based in Birmingham. They finished in sixth place in the 16-team division. Having failed to gain exemption from the qualifying rounds of the 1897\u201398 FA Cup, they entered the competition in the third qualifying round and lost that opening match to Burslem Port Vale. In local cup competitions, they lost to Walsall in the second round of the Birmingham Cup, were eliminated by West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup, and reached the semi-final of the Staffordshire Senior Cup where they again lost to West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season\nNineteen different players represented the club in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and there were thirteen different goalscorers. Walter Abbott was the top scorer with 19 goals, and he and wing half Thomas Dunlop played in every match. The match against Burnley attracted a crowd of 12,000, an improvement on the highest attendance in the previous two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nLooking back at the 1896\u201397 season, the Sports Argus' editorial expressed disappointment with the team's performance and dissatisfaction with the running of the club. At the start of the season, they had \"confidently looked forward\" to Small Heath reaching the test match positions, even if they proved unsuccessful therein. But the team's fine finish to the season on top of such a poor start made it \"terribly aggravating to think that the least bit of extra effort earlier on in the season would in all probability have seen them a good second to [Notts] County.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0002-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThe club's failure to gain exemption from the qualifying competition of the FA Cup strengthened the writer's belief that \"the club wants a thorough wakening-up\". The club made a loss of \u00a3369 on the year, which the Dart suggested was due less to the effects of bad weather, as claimed in the annual report, than to a \"penny wise and pound foolish\" approach to the signing of players which they hoped would not be repeated in the season to come.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nFew players left during the close season. The ambitious and well-funded Bristol City, newly elected to the Southern League, signed both Tom Farnall and the promising Jack Jones on attractive terms, reported as \u00a35 to sign, then 50s. during the playing season and 30s. in the summer. Had swift action not been taken by club officials, Walter Abbott would have made the same move. Charlie Izon left for Walsall, and Denny Hodgetts, who had been reinstated as an amateur, offered his services, but \"as he could not promise to play for them regularly\", his offer was declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThe Dart's initial opinion was that the standard of replacement for Hodgetts, Jones and Farnall\u00a0\u2013 \"two or three players who have done well with local clubs have been signed up, and a smart left-wing forward in Kirton, of Lincoln City, has also been secured\"\u00a0\u2013 but as the directors preferred to spend their money on ground improvements, in the shape of the purchase of Aston Villa's old stands from the Perry Barr ground, rather than on \"stars\", these would be inadequate to return the club to the First Division. Having seen the new additions, they changed their mind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0004-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nAlthough Hodgetts would be missed, Jack Kirton \"appears to be a smart player, while the other new men secured are far from being 'duffers'\", Billy Walton had recovered from the broken shoulderblade sustained the previous March, and apart from Jones and Farnall, \"the whole of the other first team players from last season have signed again, and there is no reason why the Heathens should not render a good account of themselves\" this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0004-0002", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nFurthermore, \"the Small Heath ground presents quite an imposing appearance now that it is adorned with the old Perry Barr grand stand, and as there is now plenty of covered accommodation for spectators the 'gates' should materially increase\", and, as was pointed out later in the season, facilities for representatives of the press had also been improved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThere were no changes to the team's kit of light blue shirts with navy collar trim, cuffs and pocket, white knickerbockers and navy socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nSmall Heath prepared for the new season with a friendly match at Coventry Road against a Burton Wanderers team made up largely of local youngsters. In front of only a couple of hundred spectators in \"pelting\" rain, Walter Abbott, Charlie Hare, and Wilson Lewis scored in a 3\u20131 win. The first League game took place a few days later at Wanderers' neighbours Burton Swifts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0006-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nFielding three debutants, Small Heath took a one-goal lead in the first half, then took advantage of the wind at their backs after the interval to extend their lead to three goals before Swifts scored a late consolation. The Standard thought the team \"unfortunate in scoring only two goals\" in the first half, and two from Abbott in the second gave them a 4\u20130 victory in a friendly against Lincoln City At home to Leicester Fosse, in \"delightful\" weather in front of an 8,000 crowd, Hare scored the second-half winner after Fosse's Harry Smith had a goal disallowed for offside. The Leicester Chronicle felt that the Heathens' first goal \"ought never to have been allowed in consequence of unfair charging\", that there was nothing wrong with Smith's disallowed header, and that \"Small Heath got the better of each decision\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe visit to West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup gave the 2,000 spectators more goals than they might have expected. Small Heath led 3\u20131 at the interval, but the home side brought the scores level after 90 minutes, and scored three times more during extra time to win the tie 7\u20134. Back in the League, Small Heath secured a \"deserved\" victory at Loughborough by two Billy Walton goals to nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0007-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe highlight of the first ten minutes was the goalkeeping of Loughborough's Godfrey Beardsley, who \"repulsed shot after shot\", yet Walton's two scoring shots were \"weak, and the second was disputed\". The home side lost Arthur Shaw through injury after only a few minutes. The win completed a sequence of nine away wins in the league, begun in January, which (as of May\u00a02015) remains a club record. Small Heath finished September with a fourth consecutive League win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0007-0002", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nHare scored twice in the first half, either side of Tom Leigh's goal for Burton Swifts, but despite \"press[ing] incessantly\" in the second half, were unable to increase their lead. The Owl commented favourably on a positive start to the season, the form of Charlie Hare and the ability of full-back Arthur Archer, but warned they needed to beat the likes of Manchester City and Burnley before starting to think about promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0008-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nWalton's second-half equaliser from a corner earned Small Heath a draw at Darwen, where the Owl suggested they needed \"a little more dash and go in front of goal\". At home to Gainsborough Trinity on the Tuesday, they led 4\u20133 at the interval, despite losing Jimmy Inglis to injury, and that was the final score. The Dart reported that \"the attendances at Coventry Road this season have been most satisfactory, and the directors of the club are on the very best of terms with themselves as a consequence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0008-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe visit to Blackpool, who before the game had won only once this season, produced a first defeat, and an unexpectedly heavy one, for Small Heath, who showed \"neither dash nor combination\" as Hare scored their only goal in reply to the home side's four. Without both Hare and Inglis for the opening round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup, Small Heath nevertheless beat a full Wolverhampton Wanderers first team by three goals to two, Wilson Lewis scoring twice. The Owl's 'Captain Forward' reiterated his praise of Archer, as \"one of the best defenders the Club has ever had, [who] on this occasion was on splendid form.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0009-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nDespite still being unable to field a full-strength team, and with players in unaccustomed positions, Small Heath's winning ways continued at home to Newton Heath. A crowd of 6,000 saw Lewis open the scoring with a tap-in after an earlier goal had been disallowed for offside, then William Bryant tied the scores just before half-time. Soon after the interval, Lewis \"whizzed\" a second goal into the net, and Abbott hit the post, before Bob Donaldson's apparent equaliser was disallowed, again for offside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0009-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe Small Heath club had complained bitterly about their failure to be awarded exemption from the qualification process for the 1897\u201398 FA Cup, particularly as their less successful neighbours Walsall were exempted. Drawn to visit Burslem Port Vale in the third qualifying round, the club's directors made a \"tempting\" but unsuccessful offer to the host club to switch the venue to Coventry Road. In a result that \"could scarcely be credited in Birmingham until the evening papers confirmed it\", Port Vale won by two goals to one. Off the field, the club announced that the local schools league were to be allowed to play matches at the Coventry Road ground before their own fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0010-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nAs expected, Small Heath beat Loughborough, but \"a much more decisive defeat was anticipated\" by the Leicester Chronicle than Abbott's single first-half goal. Loughborough's goalkeeper, Albert Mumford, produced a \"grand exhibition\", In the second half, Small Heath \"did the bulk of the pressing\", but their shooting was \"of indifferent character\". Away to Grimsby Town, Small Heath's passing style was hindered by the greasy surface, and the home team took a three-goal lead before losing a player to injury. Wallace scored a late consolation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0011-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nOn the day scheduled for the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup, Small Heath beat Notts County 3\u20132 in a friendly. They finished November with a visit to Newcastle United watched by around 14,000 spectators. After a fast-paced first half, Newcastle led 4\u20130. The pace slowed in the second half, but there was no more scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0012-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nHome and away meetings with Walsall followed. On an unpleasantly cold dull day, the game at Coventry Road was one-sided. Despite the presence of former Small Heath captain Caesar Jenkyns in the visitors' defence, Walsall conceded three in each half. The reverse fixture was a much closer affair. Lewis scored twice for Small Heath in the first half, and Johnson replied with a header. After the interval, Walsall pressed persistently, but \"the fine display of [Henry] Clutterbuck was the saving of the visitors\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0012-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nA 6\u20131 friendly defeat of Wellingborough preceded a Christmas Day defeat of Darwen by five goals to one on an icy pitch, Walter Abbott contributing a hat-trick. The victory took Small Heath into fourth place in the table, just one point behind their opponents in the last match of the year, second-placed Manchester City. The Manchester Guardian suggested that in the second half of a game \"brimful of excitement\", Small Heath \"played in a manner richly deserving success\", but lost by a single goal. The Dart described the encounter as \"one of the best seen on the ground for many seasons\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0013-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nA friendly away at Aston Villa on New Year's Day was abandoned because of fog, with Villa 4\u20130 ahead. The Dart was unimpressed with the play, which \"served to prove\u00a0... that Small Heath are a long way off First Division form\". The first visitors of the new year were division leaders Burnley, who attracted an attendance of some 12,000, a figure reportedly boosted by the railway companies' failure to put on a special train for Aston Villa's top-of-the-table visit to Sheffield United in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0013-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAlthough Small Heath led twice, first through Alec Leake and early in the second half via a Walter Abbott goal, the Owl thought them fortunate to secure a draw against a \"smart, but rather rough\" Burnley side \"altogether superior in both attack and defence\" who \"fairly revelled in the mud\". Away to Lincoln City, Abbott gave Small Heath a two-goal lead in the first half. The home team pulled a goal back, but the Heathens held on for their expected victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0014-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAfter only two appearances, Alec Wallace was transferred to Birmingham & District League club Hereford Town. The Dart thought Small Heath were unlucky to lose to West Bromwich Albion in the semi-final of the Staffordshire Cup, as \"they had much more of the actual play than their opponents\", and that if they played as well at home to Blackpool, they could expect to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0014-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAt half time, this expectation looked justified, as they led 2\u20131 with goals from Lewis and Bill Robertson, but in the second half Blackpool pulled themselves together and scored twice without reply (as well as having three more \"goals\" disallowed for offside) to secure their first away victory of the season. The game was attended by Jesse Collings, the local Member of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0015-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAbbott scored Small Heath's only goal as they were knocked out of the Birmingham Cup in the second round by cup-holders Walsall. At Burnley, the home team had much the better of the first half, taking a three-goal lead. The second half was even, and the game finished 4\u20131. At home to Luton Town, Small Heath took the lead three times in the first half, through Tom Oakes and two goals from Abbott, the second of which was a penalty kick; in the second half, James McEwen scored an own goal to make the final score 4\u20132. In \"boisterous\" weather at Gainsborough Trinity, Small Heath could only manage a goalless draw, and they finished the month with a 2\u20132 draw in a friendly at Southern League club West Herts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0016-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nCharlie Hare opened the scoring after six minutes at Woolwich Arsenal, but the home side had the better of the first half, and changed ends 3\u20131 ahead. Jack Kirton pulled one back halfway through the second period, but Hare went off injured with ten minutes left, and the final score was 4\u20132. A large crowd \"seemed well pleased with the display, which at times was spirited almost to roughness.\" For the home fixture with Grimsby Town, the directors' decision to replace Alec Leake with Billy Walton met with support from the Dart, but in a poor game, Grimsby won 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0016-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\n\"Not much interest was manifest\" in a 3\u20130 friendly defeat at home to Aston Villa, and the Owl suggested that both clubs having nothing left to play for, their respective committees \"would, doubtless, be glad to put the shutters up at once, for\u00a0... their supporters are more likely to seek excitement at a fishing match than on the football field.\" League competition continued with a poorly attended two-goal defeat in windy conditions away at Leicester Fosse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0017-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nOn a fine April day, Ike Webb made his debut in goal away to Luton Town, where Jimmy Inglis scored the decisive goal for Small Heath in the second half. Visiting Newton Heath, Small Heath won the toss, and elected to play with the benefit of the wind behind them. They soon opened the scoring, James Higgins reacting to a shot parried by the goalkeeper, but by half time the home team had regained the lead. On change of ends, Newton Heath had much of the play, and eventually increased their lead through a Matthew Gillespie tap-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0017-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe Manchester club's goalkeeper had no shot to save in the second half. On a wet pitch at Manchester City's Hyde Road ground, the scoring alternated. Clutterbuck, back in goal after two games out, got a hand to Billy Meredith's shot but failed to stop it, Abbott equalised, then Stockport Smith converted a penalty awarded for handball. Leake scored from distance, then Clutterbuck parried a Meredith shot to Smith's feet. In the second half, the surface became increasingly slippery, the play correspondingly scrappy, and Michael Good tied the scores from a free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0017-0002", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nHiggins' goal settled the meeting at home to Newcastle United, who had already made sure of their position in the promotion test matches. In \"weather of almost summer warmth and brightness\" at home to Lincoln City, four different scorers gave the Heathens a 4\u20130 win. The competitive season ended with a home win, Abbott scoring twice to Woolwich Arsenal's single reply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0018-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nSmall Heath finished in sixth position in the 16-team league, nine points behind the promotion test match positions. Nineteen different players represented the club in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and there were thirteen different goalscorers. Walter Abbott was the top scorer with 19 goals, and he and wing half Thomas Dunlop played in every match. The match against Burnley attracted a crowd of 12,000, an improvement on the highest attendance in the previous two seasons. The win at Loughborough completed a sequence of nine away league wins which remains, as of May\u00a02015, a club record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0019-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAfter the promotion test match series left two teams needing to play out a goalless draw in their final match for both to be promoted, which unsurprisingly is what happened, the Football League's Annual General Meeting agreed that the First Division be extended from 16 to 18 clubs and that the top two teams in the Second Division at the end of each season should automatically replace the bottom two teams in the First.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0019-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nA vote was taken on the teams to take the two additional places in the First Division; Small Heath came fourth in the vote, so remained in the Second Division for the 1898\u201399 season. They were again awarded exemption only for the first two rounds of the qualifying competition for the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0020-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nA Football League committee ruled on irregularities in the transfer of Jimmy Inglis to Southern League club Swindon Town. The transfer took place on a Sunday, contrary to league rules, and the forms were falsified. The player was suspended for the first month of the coming season, two Swindon Town directors were suspended for three months, each club was fined \u00a310, and each secretary was warned as to his future conduct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0020-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nApart from Jack Kirton, who also joined Swindon, and Charlie Hare, who left the club for Watford of the Southern League, having \"secured a business engagement\" in that town, the remaining players signed on again for the new season. Great things were expected of Bob McRoberts, the pacy and skilful Gainsborough Trinity centre forward for whom Small Heath paid a \u00a3150 transfer fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031478-0021-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Small Heath F.C. season, Squad statistics\nThis table includes appearances and goals in nationally organised competitions\u00a0\u2013 the Football League and FA Cup\u00a0\u2013 only. For a description of the playing positions, see Formation (association football)#2\u20133\u20135 (Pyramid).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the 13th since the foundation of Southampton F.C. and their fourth in league football, as members of the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season\nThe club improved on their performance in the previous successful season, retaining the Southern League title and reaching the Semi-final of the FA Cup for the first time, where they went out in controversial circumstances. They started the season as tenants of Hampshire County Cricket Club, but by the end of the season, the club had found a new permanent home, where they were to remain for over 100 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season\nBy the end of a \"phenomenally successful\", Southampton were lifted out of relative obscurity into national prominence. In their report to the shareholders for the Annual General Meeting held on 30 June 1898, the directors commented: \"The team's performance in the English Cup and their retention of the Southern League Championship entitled the club to rank among the best in the country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, Pre-season\nFollowing the incorporation of the limited company in July 1897, the club had dropped \"St. Mary's\" from their name and henceforth would be known simply as \"Southampton Football Club\". One local reporter lamented:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, Pre-season\nNo longer will football enthusiasts be able to call out \"Buck up Saints!\" No longer will reporters with a flowery style be able to write of the \"Saintly ones\". For the Football Association has acceded to the request of the powers, and the club will in future be known as Southampton Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, Pre-season\nDespite this, the press and club supporters continued to refer to the club as \"the Saints\", as they have done ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, Pre-season\nOnce again, the board recruited several players from Football League clubs, most prominent of whom was Arthur Chadwick who was to remain with the club as a player for three years, returning in 1925 as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the Saints' fourth in the Southern League, having finished as champions in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0008-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe season started badly, with a defeat at Tottenham Hotspur, but Southampton won the next three matches, all away from home. The first home match of the season came on 23 October, when Southampton gained their revenge against the Spurs, with a 4\u20131 victory. The next five matches were also victories before a poor defeat at Bristol City on 22 January. After a draw at Chatham, a run of eight victories gave the Saints the title, despite a home defeat to Chatham Town on the last day of the season; this was Southampton's first home league defeat for three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0009-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nIn the draw at Chatham on 5 February, a small piece of history was made as the former Ireland and England international, Jack Reynolds made his first appearance for Southampton, thus becoming the first international player to appear for the side. He only made one further appearance before dropping down to lower league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0010-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nDespite the success on the pitch, there was considerable disharmony in the dressing room, especially regarding the behaviour of Jack Farrell; he had been ordered out of a board meeting and suspended for two matches early in the season having used \"abusive language\" during a discussion of his grievances. Other players in trouble included new signings Tom Nicol, who was obliged to apologise to the board for his behaviour, and Bob Petrie, who was reprimanded over his drinking. In November, Watty Keay asked to be relieved of the captaincy, which was being rotated among the players on a monthly basis; he advised the board that he \"was not comfortable in that position, there being so much dissension amongst the players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0011-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nSouthampton entered the 1897\u201398 FA Cup tournament at the Third Qualifying Round, where they met their Southern League rivals, Bristol City. Robert Buchanan scored after only ten seconds from when the Saints were in complete control with Yates adding a second goal to complete a 2\u20130 victory. The next match, at Swindon, was won by half-time while Eastville Rovers were comprehensively defeated 8\u20131 in the final qualifying round, with Yates, Buchanan, Keay and Turner each scoring twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0012-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the First Round proper, Southampton entertained Leicester Fosse, then lying seventh in the Football League Second Division. In preparation for the match, the entire team were sent to Shawford for a week for additional training under the supervision of Bill Dawson. Saints achieved a \"fine win\" with Meston and Buchanan scoring in a 2\u20131 victory; this was the first time that a Southern League club had ever defeated opposition from the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0013-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe reward was another home tie against another team from the Second Division, Newcastle United. As a result of a dispute with the landlady of the Shawford lodgings, the directors decided to take the players out each evening to sample the entertainments on offer in Southampton, which included an evening at the Philharmonic Hall and visits to the Empire Music Hall and the Prince of Wales theatre. These evenings helped maintain the team's morale resulting in a 1\u20130 victory over their league opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0014-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nBy this time, the local press were speculating that Southampton could reach at least the semi-final stage of the competition, with one commentator expressing the opinion: \"if the present rate of progress is maintained we shall yet see our champions in the final at the Palace.\" The draw for Round Three was against Bolton Wanderers of the Football League First Division, away. The national press predicted an easy home victory, with Bolton expected to put paid to \"the parrot cries concerning the great improvement in the game south of the Thames.\" In preparation for the match, the board sent the players together with Dawson to Matlock Bath to stay at the Chesterfield House Hydro for a week of special training. Each player was on an \u00a38 bonus for a win and \u00a35 for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0015-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nAt Burnden Park, they were greeted by at least 300 Southampton supporters who had arrived in a special train run by the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway Company. The journey took eight hours each way, with the round trip lasting 28 hours, at a cost of 10s. The supporters were rewarded with a goalless draw, described by The Daily Telegraph as \"the biggest surprise of the day\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0016-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe replay took place at the County Ground on the following Wednesday afternoon in front of a crowd estimated at between 12,000 and 15,000, netting gate receipts of \u00a3532. To the surprise of the national press, Southampton put on \"an outstanding display\" to win 4\u20130. At one stage in the match, the hugely partisan crowd spilled onto the pitch, with the match having to be halted temporarily. The Daily Mail was duly impressed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0017-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nSouthampton's success against Bolton Wanderers marks the dawning of a new era for professional football in the South, and it is now becoming more and more evident that absolutely first-class football is not to be for ever monopolised by the Northern organisations. While lamenting methods by which this condition of things has been brought about \u2013 that is to say, the hiring of aliens \u2013 one cannot escape a feeling of gratification that the South is at last holding its own once more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0018-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThis victory set up a semi-final tie with another First Division club, Nottingham Forest, which would turn out to be one of the most controversial in the history of the FA Cup to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0019-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, The semi-final\nWhen the draw for the semi-finals was made, The Football Association decided that the Derby County vs. Everton tie should be at Villa Park while Southampton and Forest would go to Sheffield United's Bramall Lane. This prompted the Southampton board to formally request that the FA switch the venues, to reduce the travelling for supporters of all four clubs. The FA's response was minuted in the Southampton board meeting held on 11 March: \"Letter from F.J. Wall (secretary of the FA) saying Association could not see their way to change the grounds in the English Cup semi-finals\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0020-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, The semi-final\nOnce again, the players were sent to Matlock Bath for a week of special training. In the match at Bramall Lane, Forest took the lead after only five minutes with a goal from Len Benbow. Following a collision with the Forest goalkeeper, Southampton's centre-forward Jack Farrell was reduced to a passenger for the remainder of the match; despite this, Southampton equalised through Harry Haynes to earn a replay at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0021-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, The semi-final\nThe replay on 23 March was played in a blizzard. After a scoreless first half (in which Joe Turner missed a penalty for Southampton), in the second half Saints were on top when, with ten minutes left to play, referee John Lewis stopped the match for a time and the players left the pitch. When the match restarted, according to one report: \"hardly had the players taken up their positions again when the snow recommenced with redoubled fury, and the Forest, assisted by the blizzard, put on a couple of goals in the last minutes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0021-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, The semi-final\nAnother account claimed that the Saints' goalkeeper, George Clawley had his eyes \"choked with snow\" when he conceded the two goals. All reports of the match confirm that the storm was worse when the two goals were scored than when the players were taken from the pitch. Forest's goals came from Tom McInnes and Charlie Richards, as Forest went on to defeat Derby County in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0022-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, The semi-final\nThe Southampton board immediately lodged a protest with the Football Association, and there were numerous letters of complaint to both the national and local press. Despite the protests, the F.A. decided that the result should stand \u2013 this was perhaps not surprising as Lewis was an eminent member of the F.A. board. Some spectators objected to Southampton's protests, including one who wrote to the Morning Leader\u00a0:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0023-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, The semi-final\nThe demoralising effect of an imported team of mercenaries was evident in the behaviour of the southern partisans at the Crystal Place on Thursday. Anything more unsportsmanlike it would be difficult to conceive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0024-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium\nSince 1896, Southampton had been tenants of Hampshire County Cricket Club at the County Ground, having vacated the Antelope Ground in the summer of 1896. The rent payable to the cricket club (\u00a3200 p.a.) was putting a strain on the football club's finances and, in an attempt to reduce this burden, the club had considered a merger with the Freemantle club and a move to their ground in Shirley. The merger proposals had fallen down, but at the Extraordinary general meeting in June 1897, the members were informed that \"the committee had a ground in view\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0025-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium\nAt a shareholders' meeting on 11 November 1897, the chairman stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0026-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium\n. . . that all being well, by next season the company would be in possession of its own ground which was at the present time in the hands of George Thomas Esq. who was devoting his time to its early completion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0027-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium\nAlthough the minutes do not record the location of the new ground, it was common knowledge within the town that the new ground was situated", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0028-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium\n. . . in the dell that is not far from the County Ground, and nearer West Station and the town, and at the present time it is a narrow valley with a stone culvert running along the bottom. It will not be a large ground, but the natural banks on all sides will be a great help in arranging for the convenience of the spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0029-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium\nThe site on which the ground was built was described in Philip Brannon's Picture of Southampton, published in 1850, as \"a lovely dell with a gurgling stream and lofty aspens\"; the stream is the Rollsbrook which flows out of Southampton Common, running parallel to Hill Lane before now disappearing under Commercial Road and the Central Station, from where it is conduited under Southampton Docks into Southampton Water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0029-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium\nThe land had been purchased in the 1880s by the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway to enable them to continue the line from Shawford via Otterbourne and Bassett into Shirley (it is often incorrectly supposed that a station was to be situated in what is now St. James' Park, opposite St. James' Church). From here the line would have travelled south across Hill Lane to run through the dell and then on an embankment and viaduct over Commercial Road and the London and South Western line before terminating on the Western Esplanade at the foot of Arundel Tower. The dell was stripped of vegetation and the stream channelled into a conduit with work started on the embankment and viaduct, before the project was abandoned and the D.N.S.R. obtained running rights over the L.S.W.R. from Winchester into Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0030-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium, Construction\nGeorge Thomas, a fish merchant who had been appointed as a director of the limited company when it was formed in the summer of 1896, who lived in Shirley, saw the potential of the cleared site and purchased the land from the D.N.S.R. By the beginning of the 1898\u201399 season, Thomas had incurred expenditure of between \u00a37,500 and \u00a39,000 on acquiring and clearing the site, and erecting the new stands and had agreed an initial three-year lease to the football club at a rental of \u00a3250 p.a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0030-0001", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium, Construction\nThe dell had been drained with 13,000\u00a0ft of pipe being laid, all draining into the central culvert formed from the Rollsbrook stream. The playing field had to be levelled and the ground made up and turfed ready for the opening of the new season. On completion, the stadium was described in the Southampton Observer:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0031-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium, Construction\n. . . the rising staging on the north side of the ground will hold 5,500 spectators, who have of course to stand up; the covered east and west stands will seat 4,000 spectators comfortably, and the staging and sloping bank on the south side will hold 15,000 spectators. This totals up to 24,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031479-0032-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southampton F.C. season, New stadium, Construction\nAt this stage, the new ground did not have an official name, with various names suggested including \"the Fitzhugh Dell\", \"The Archer's Ground\" and \"Milton Park\" but gradually the ground became known by default as \"The Dell\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031480-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southern Football League\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the fourth in the history of the Southern League. Southampton won the Division One championship for the second successive season. Bristol City applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. However, they were not elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031480-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 12 teams contest the division, including eleven sides from previous season and one new team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031480-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of 12 teams contest the division, including ten sides from previous season and two new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031480-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nUnlike previous seasons in which individual test matches had been played between clubs, this season saw the bottom two clubs in Division One and the top two clubs in Division two play in a four-club round robin, with the top two retaining or earning a place in Division One. Both Division Two clubs were promoted after the matches, with Northfleet leaving the league after the season ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031480-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nOnly one Southern League club, Bristol City, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. However, they were not elected. Although Darwen were initially voted out of the league, a decision was made to expand the League by four clubs, and they were readmitted, along with New Brighton Tower, Glossop North End and Barnsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031481-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1897-98 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's third in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 24th in their history. The club finished 8th out of 14 in an improved performance from the previous year in the Lancashire League. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were knocked out in the first round by last years final opponents Batley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031481-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 St Helens RLFC season, Lancashire Senior Championship\nSource: . League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Match points scored; PA = Match points conceded; PD = Points difference; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031481-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 St Helens RLFC season, Lancashire Senior Championship\n^\u00a0a:\u00a0Salford had 2 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player^\u00a0b:\u00a0Leigh had 2 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031482-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was Stoke's ninth season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031482-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Stoke F.C. season\nIt was another season of struggle for Stoke who finished bottom of the First Division on goal average level on points with five teams. They entered the test matches for the second time against Newcastle United and Burnley and again came out victorious. However it was in controversial circumstances as in the final test match against Burnley, both sides needed a draw to be in the First Division for next season and for 90 minutes the Stoke and Burnley players did not attempt to win and the match finished in a 0\u20130 draw. After this obvious exploitation of the rules the league scrapped the test match system in favour of automatic promotion and relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031482-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, League\nIn September 1897 Horace Austerberry was appointed secretary-manager of Stoke in succession of Bill Rowley who became general secretary. Also Mr J. T. Fenton assumed the role of chairman taking over from Mr. S. Barker. The Stoke directors continued to search in Scotland for quality players following the success of William Maxwell and they did find one in the form of Alex Raisbeck who went on to gain international caps for his country unfortunately he only played eight matches for Stoke before deciding to join Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031482-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, League\nThe bottom five teams in the First Division finished with 24 points but Stoke had the poorest goal average of them all and took bottom spot. They had to play the top two sides from the Second Division, Burnley and Newcastle United. Stoke came through successfully, beating each side once and drawing with Burnley to stay up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031482-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, League\nIn the final test match Stoke and Burnley needed a draw to be in the First Division next season. It finished 0\u20130 after a farcical 90 minutes during which neither side put in a challenge or had a shot at goal and at one point a few fans in the crowd held on to the ball and refused to return it to the players. After this obvious exploit of the rules the league scrapped the test match system in favour of automatic promotion and relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031482-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Stoke F.C. season, Season Review, FA Cup\nStoke beat Bury 2\u20131 in the first round but crashed out 5\u20131 to Everton in the second round replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031483-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Swiss Serie A\nThe first Swiss football championship was held 1897\u201398. The championship was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; founded in 1895) and is therefore considered as unofficial. The tournament was organized by the Geneva newspaper La Suisse Sportive and its editors Fran\u00e7ois-Jean D\u00e9g\u00e9rine and Dr. Aim\u00e9 Schwob. The championship trophy was donated by the company Ruinart. Only four of the clubs competing were members of the SFA; FC Ch\u00e2teau de Lancy, Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich, Neuch\u00e2tel FC and La Villa Ouchy). The series A was divided into three regional groups, group A in the north, group B the district around Lausanne and group C district of Gen\u00e8ve). The winner of each group qualified for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031483-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Swiss Serie A\nThe following are the statistics to the first Swiss national football (soccer) competition (later Swiss Super League).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe 1897\u201398 season was Thames Ironworks' third season after the club's formation in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThames Ironworks' new venue, the Memorial Grounds, was opened on Jubilee Day, 1897, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria on the throne. Thames' new home had cost \u00a320,000 of Arnold Hills' money to build. It was situated close to where West Ham station now stands. Aside from a football pitch, the stadium contained a cycle track, a cinder running track and one of the largest outdoor swimming pools in England. It was said at the time that the grounds were \"good enough to stage an English Cup Final.\" To coincide with this raised standard, for the first time ever the club committee had introduced players' insurance. This meant the players would be covered against loss of wages caused by injuries sustained from playing football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nOn 11 September 1897, in their first game of the new season of the London League and also at their new ground, Thames beat Brentford 1\u20130. This was closely followed by the first two qualifying rounds of the FA Cup. On 18 September Thames overcame Redhill thanks to an own goal and a brace from Scottish defender Simon Chisholm. This was followed by a game against the Royal Engineers Training Battalion which Thames won 2\u20131 with goals from another of The Irons' Scotsmen Jimmy Reid and former Reading centre forward Edward Hatton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nTheir cup form was matched by great league form as \"The Irons\" went on to win their first six London League games, the second of which was a 4\u20130 victory over Leyton F.C.. A contemporary reporter wrote this at the time:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThere was a two-week break from fixture commitments before Thames Ironworks briefly resumed their FA Cup involvement in the third qualifying round. On 16 October 1897, they faced St Albans and lost the game 0\u20132. Disappointment soon faded, and it was perhaps in the third London League game away to champions 3rd Grenadier Guards, that \"The Irons\" found real belief in their ability to challenge for the London League. The managed to win 1\u20130 against a team who had beaten them 4\u20131 and 5\u20130 during the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nOn 27 November they faced Novacastrians F.C. in the first round of the London Senior Cup, which they won 1\u20130. The second round tie against 2nd Grenadier Guards was postponed after the Guards withdrew, and The Irons were granted a walkover. 1897 ended with \"The Irons\" top of the table and unbeaten in the London League, having only conceded five goals, three of them coming in a 3\u20133 thriller against local rivals Ilford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0006-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nIt was another game against Ilford F.C. that kicked off the new year on 1 January 1898. This time, in front of their home crowd, \"The Irons\" won 4\u20130. January continued in a similar vein with a 4\u20132 win against Stanley F.C. being quickly followed by their highest scoring game of the season on 15 January, when a 'ten goal thriller' against Bromley F.C. went The Ironworks' way 7\u20133. On 22 January there was yet another game against rivals Ilford F.C., this time in the third round of the London Senior Cup. Revenge for their New Years Day's defeat was had, and Ilford triumphed over \"The Irons\" 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0007-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nAfter two draws in late February and early March, their impressive league run continued with a 5\u20131 against Bromley on 19 March, and a 3\u20131 home win against 3rd Grenadier Guards F.C. on 2 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0008-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe penultimate fixture of the London League season was against second placed Brentford who were only one point behind \"The Irons\". The game caused much local interest, including a newspaper feature in the East Ham Echo prior to the game, containing an article on Thames Ironworks' rising star Charlie Dove. At Shooters Field on 23 April 1898, Thames lost the tie 0\u20131, and Brentford leap-frogged \"The Irons\" and were now one point ahead with one game left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0009-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nA final day victory away to 2nd Grenadier Guards on 30 April ensured that Thames Ironworks won the London League title by a single point, as fellow challengers Brentford F.C. had lost to Barking Woodville. Thames had finished the season with a 100% home record. In total they had won twelve and drawn three of their sixteen London League games, only losing in the game away to Brentford. On the way to the title they had scored 47 goals and conceded 15, the best offensive and defensive record in the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031484-0010-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThames Ironworks F.C. were also successful in their application to the Southern League and would begin the following season in Southern League Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031485-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1897\u201398 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031485-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nWith the addition of Brown University and Harvard University to the ice hockey ranks, the first ice hockey conference was formed and named the first unofficial collegiate champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031485-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nAfter the school year ended, Johns Hopkins University became the first college to dissolve its ice hockey program, citing travel costs, disagreements between the rink managers, and lack of support from the student body. Johns Hopkins would not field another ice hockey team for 90 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031486-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1897\u201398 Welsh Amateur Cup was the eighth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Rhos Eagle Wanderers who defeated Shrewsbury based team Singleton & Coles 6-1 in the final, at Chirk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031486-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Welsh Amateur Cup, First Round\nHanwood Rovers reported as being against Aberystwyth, with Congregational United having a Bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031487-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Western Football League\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the sixth in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031487-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Western Football League\nFor this season the league was restructured, with a new Professional Section being formed, taking five clubs from Division One and three new clubs joining. Division One and Division Two remained as the Amateur Section, with four clubs being promoted from Division Two to Division One, and several new clubs joining both divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031487-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Western Football League\nBristol City were the champions of the new Professional Section, and also competed in the Southern League during this season, along with Swindon Town, Reading and Warmley. Division One of the Amateur Section was won by Bedminster, and the Division Two champions were newcomers Hanham. Many clubs left the Amateur Section at the end of the season, necessitating a merger of the two amateur divisions for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031487-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Western Football League, Final tables, Professional section\nThe three new clubs admitted to the league to play in this eight-club section were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031487-0004-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Western Football League, Final tables, Amateur Division One\nThis ten-club division was a continuation of the old Division One, with six new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031487-0005-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Western Football League, Final tables, Amateur Division Two\nThis eight-club division was a continuation of the old Division Two, with seven new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031488-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1897\u201398 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University in college basketball during the 1897\u201398 season. The team finished the season with a 12\u20139 record. They were disqualified for playing a game against 4th Sep. Company in Yonkers but were later reinstated. Yale's coach was Henry S. Anderson and their team captain was William H. Peck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031489-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1897\u201398 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031489-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the first time the Elis played a majority of their games against fellow college programs as well as play most of their games at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031489-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, M. Mullally served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031490-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in Belgian football\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the third competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031490-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official league existed at the time. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and was disputed between 5 teams as no new team was admitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031490-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in Belgian football, Overview\nNo team was relegated this season since the FA decided to split the division into two leagues. Four new teams were thus admitted at the end of the season and they formed one of the two leagues: F.C. Brugeois (that had already played in the first competitive season), C.S. Brugeois, R.C. Gantois and F.C. Courtraisien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031491-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in English football\nThe 1897\u201398 season was the 27th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031491-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031491-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in English football, Football League, First Division\nSheffield United won the First Division to become champions of English football for the only time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031491-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in English football, Football League, Second Division\nThis was the final season of using 'Test Matches' to decide relegation and promotion between the divisions. The Second Division was won by Burnley; both they and runners-up Newcastle United were promoted to the expanded First Division, rendering the results of the end of season Test Matches meaningless. From the 1898\u201399 season onwards, automatic relegation and promotion of the bottom two/top two sides from each division was introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031492-0000-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in Scottish football\nThe season of 1897\u201398 in Scottish football was the 25th season of competitive football in Scotland and the eighth season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031492-0001-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in Scottish football, Scottish Division Two\nKilmarnock won the Scottish Division Two but were not promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031492-0002-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nRangers were winners of the Scottish cup after a 2\u20130 win over Kilmarnock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031492-0003-0000", "contents": "1897\u201398 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nDalziel Rovers were winners of the Junior Cup after a 2\u20131 win over Parkhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031493-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\n1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1898th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 898th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 98th year of the 19th\u00a0century, and the 9th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1898, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season\nThe 1898 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season was the twelfth and final season of the league. Each team played 8 games, and Montreal Victorias were again first with an 8\u20130 record, to retain the Stanley Cup. This was their fourth-straight league championship. The league would dissolve prior to the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, League business, Executive\nThe Ottawa Capitals applied to join the league, but were turned down because they had not won an intermediate-level championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, Season, Highlights\nThe game of February 12, 1898, between Ottawa and the Victorias was notable because Fred Chittick, the regular goalkeeper of Ottawa staged a one-man strike because he had not received his share of complimentary tickets. Ottawa played A. Cope instead and lost 9\u20135. The fans in attendance heckled the defence pair of Harvey Pulford and Weldy Young, and in response Mr. Young went into the crowd to attack a spectator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, Exhibition tours, Shamrocks tour New York\nFrom February 14 through 19th, the Shamrocks toured New York city, playing teams of the Amateur Hockey League. They played the New York Hockey Club twice and the Brooklyn Skating Club once. The Shamrocks split the two with New York 2\u20131 and 0\u20131 at the Lexington Avenue Ice Palace. The series was considered close however in the second game play turned rough and several Montreal players were ejected; Desse Brown (Montreal) and Billy Russell (New York). Benny Phillips of New York would score the only goal and assists were rewarded to DeCasanova and Russell. The Shamrocks also defeated Brooklyn 4\u20133 at the Clermont Avenue Rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, Exhibition tours, Victorias tour New York\nThe first game was dubbed by the American media as establishing the amateur international championship, between the top American team, The New York Athletic Club and the top Canadian team the Montreal Victorias. After the season, the Victorias visited New York, first playing the New York Athletic Club at the St. Nicholas Rink, winning 6\u20131 on March 4. The game was in attendance of 3000 people. The game was noted as the Victorias were able to 'disarm' their opponents illustrating stealing the puck from the opposing players through stick-handling. Montreal scorers were (2 goals each) Macdougall, Davidson, Drinkwater to Fenwicks single goal", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, Exhibition tours, Victorias tour New York\nOn March 5, the Victorias defeated the St. Nicholas Skating Club 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, Playoffs\nThere were no playoffs as the Victorias won first place exclusively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenges, Victorias vs. Ottawa\nPrior to the season, Victorias would play Ottawa Capitals of the CCHA in a single-elimination game on December 27, 1897, winning 15\u20132. It was originally scheduled as the first best-of-three challenge, but the series ended after the first game because the Victorias clearly was the superior team with a 15\u20132 victory and the Ottawa team withdrew its challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031494-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenges, Victorias vs. Ottawa\nReferee \u2013 J. A. FindlayUmpires \u2013 M. J. Polan, A. McKerrow", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031495-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Add-Ran Christian football team\nThe 1898 Add-Ran Christian football team represented Add-Ran Christian University\u2014now known as Texas Christian University (TCU)\u2014as an independent during the 1898 college football season. They played their home games in Waco, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031496-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Alabama gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on August 1, 1898, in order to elect the Governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Joseph F. Johnston ran for a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031497-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Albion football team\nThe 1898 Albion football team was an American football team that represented Albion College in the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031498-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 12th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031499-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the eleventh All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031499-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nDublin, who led 1-6 to 0-3 at the interval, were the winners, with Joe Ledwidge scoring both goals. The captain of the winning team was Matt Rea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031499-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nAt this time, club teams represented their counties with the Geraldines club representing Dublin and Waterford represented by the Erin's Hope club of Dungarvan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031499-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was the fifth of six All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1890s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031500-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1898 was the 12th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Kilkenny 7-13 to 3-10 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031500-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (1 match) This is a lone game which sees the winners of the Munster championship play Galway who receive a bye to this stage. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031500-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the lone semi-final play the winners of the Munster championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031501-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1898 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 11th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1898 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 25 March 1900 between Kilkenny, represented by club side Three Castles, and Tipperary, represented by club side Tubberadora. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 7-13 to 3-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031502-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 All-Western college football team\nThe 1898 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031503-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1898 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 7th season of top division football in Argentina. It was won by Lomas, achieving its 5th Argentine championship in 6 seasons. The runner-up was Lobos. Flores AC and Belgrano AC \"B\" left the championship, being replaced by Lobos -which returned to the Association- and new team United Banks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031503-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Primera divisi\u00f3n, Championship playoff\nLomas and Lobos finished first with 20 points each so they had to play a match to define a champion. After the first game was declared null by the Association attending to a request by Lobos, a second match was played, with Lomas winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031504-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Argentine presidential election\nThe Argentine presidential election of 1898 was held on 10 April to choose the president of Argentina. Julio Argentino Roca was elected president for a second period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031504-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Argentine presidential election, Background\nHaving obtained the aging Luis S\u00e1enz Pe\u00f1a's resignation in favor of Vice President Jos\u00e9 Evaristo Uriburu (who was good stead with both Roca and Mitre), Roca once again carried the PAN standard in 1898. The UCR, which had lost its founder, Leandro Alem, to suicide in 1896, was divided between those who backed Senator Bernardo de Irigoyen's drive to form coalitions with more conservative parties, and those who supported the party's new leader, Hip\u00f3lito Yrigoyen (who boycotted this and future \"election songs\" - establishing what later became known as the UCR's \"break before bending\" policy). Public debate was heated on the eve of the January 30 elections to a constitutional assembly entrusted to increase the number of congressmen and cabinet members, as well before the April 10, 1898, general election. The electoral college yielded no surprises, though, and Roca was returned to the presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 952]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031505-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team\nThe 1898 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1898 college football season The team played two intercollegiate football games, both against Drury. Arkansas won both games, the first by a 17\u20130 score and the second by a 12\u20136 score. The Cardinals concluded their season with a 36\u20138 loss against Fort Scott High School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031506-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 5, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031506-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Daniel W. Jones defeated Republican nominee Henry F. Auten and Populist nominee W. Scott Morgan with 67.35% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031507-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1898 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1898 college football season. In their second season under head coach Herman Koehler, the Cadets compiled a 3\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 90 to 51. The Cadets' two losses came against undefeated co-national champion Harvard and Yale. The Army\u2013Navy Game was not played in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031507-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Army Cadets football team\nFour Army Cadets were honored on the 1898 College Football All-America Team. Fullback Charles Romeyn was a consensus first-team All-American, receiving first-team honors from Caspar Whitney and the New York Sun. Quarterback Leon Kromer, tackle Robert Foy, and end Walter Smith were recognized as third-team All-Americans by Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1898 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1898. The season was a fairly active one, with 11 storms forming, 5 of which became hurricanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nA \"feeble\" tropical disturbance developed into a tropical storm near West End, Grand Bahama, early on August\u00a02. Three hours later, the storm made landfall in Hobe Sound, Florida, with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h). The system briefly weakened to a tropical depression on August\u00a02, before re-strengthening into a tropical storm and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico near Tarpon Springs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0001-0001", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nLater that day, the cyclone intensified quickly, becoming a Category\u00a01 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale at 23:00\u00a0UTC. Simultaneously, the hurricane made landfall on St. George Island with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). After moving inland, it rapidly weakened and dissipated over southwestern Alabama late on August\u00a03.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nAbout 24\u00a0hours of heavy rainfall was observed in the Tampa area, with \"great damage done in many places.\" In the Florida Panhandle, considerable impact was inflicted to crops, turpentine farms, and property. Offshore, three barges, four tugboats, and many sailing crafts were sunk. Among the capsized vessels was the tugboat Nimrod, with 12\u00a0people aboard, all of whom drowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThe next storm formed off the northern coast of Florida on August 30 causing significant damage to coastland communities when it made landfall. It hit around the border usually between South Carolina and Georgia with 85\u00a0mph (137\u00a0km/h) winds, and dissipated on September 1, causing $400,000 in damage (1898\u00a0dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nAt Port Royal, South Carolina, this storm caused 10.82\u00a0in (275\u00a0mm) of rain over the course of a day, breaking the previous one-day record by 5.89\u00a0in (150\u00a0mm)., with a storm total of 12.4 inches (310\u00a0mm).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nA hurricane was first observed on September 3 over the northeastern Atlantic, likely having existed for several days prior. It headed northeastward, and became extratropical on September 5 north of the Azores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe next storm formed on September 5 off the coast of Africa. It moved westward and hit the Lesser Antilles with 110\u00a0mph (180\u00a0km/h) winds, where it caused heavy damage across the islands. The hurricane turned to the north, remaining a hurricane until becoming extratropical on September 19 near Newfoundland. The hurricane caused $2.5\u00a0million in damage and 383 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nThe fifth storm formed over the western Caribbean Sea on September 12. It tracked northwestward, and hit the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula with 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) winds. Later, the storm traveled north. It hit Louisiana on September 20 with 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) winds and dissipated over Illinois on September 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nThe sixth storm formed over the western Caribbean Sea on September 20. It followed a path similar to the fifth storm, tracking northwestward and hitting the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula with 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) winds. Later, it traveled north. The system hit the United States near the Texas/Louisiana border on September 28, and dissipated shortly thereafter. Heavy rainfall fell across the central Gulf coast and up the Mississippi Valley, with the highest totals recorded at Pensacola, Florida with 12.61 inches (320\u00a0mm) and Sikeston, Missouri where 11.67 inches (296\u00a0mm) fell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven\nThe seventh storm formed to the east of the Lesser Antilles on September 25 and traveled northwest, reaching 110\u00a0mph (177\u00a0km/h) winds but sparing the islands. On the 2nd, it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane in Cumberland Island, Georgia and northeast Florida with 130\u00a0mph (217\u00a0km/h) winds, causing heavy damage amounting to around $2.5\u00a0million, and 179 casualties. It dissipated after winding its way through Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, southern Canada, part of Maine, and Newfoundland on October 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eight\nThe eighth storm formed in the Western Caribbean, crossing to the northeast across Cuba, and dissipated over the Bahamas. It formed on September 25 and dissipated on September 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nine\nA tropical wave forms into a tropical depression on October 2 with winds of 45 MPH. The storm moved across Cuba causing minor flooding and crop damage killing 2, then nearly struck Florida. It then moved to the North Eastern sea and dissipated October 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nine\nThis caused flooding and extensive damage on Sapelo Island, Georgia, including destroying a church at the community of Hanging Bull and washing away an entire cemetery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ten\nThe 10th storm of the season followed a path similar to the 8th storm, forming in the West Caribbean, crossing Cuba, and dissipating over the Bahamas. This storm lasted from October 21 to October 23", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031508-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eleven\nThe final storm of the season formed over the Northern Lesser Antilles on October 27 and took a nearly straight-lined path to the west, hitting the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula with 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) winds, and dissapted soon after on November 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031509-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1898 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers' seventh season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach John Heisman, in his fourth year, and finished with a record of two wins and one loss (2\u20131 overall, 2\u20131 in the SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031510-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Baloch uprising\nThe 1898 Baloch uprising was a revolt against the British that occurred in Balochistan, under Mir Baloch Khan Nousherwani and Sardar Mehrab Khan Gichki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031510-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Baloch uprising, History\nSardar Mehrab Khan Gichki, who was the prime mover in the revolt. made an attack on the Nazim, Diwan Udho Dass, on the morning of the 6th of January and took him prisoner, at the same time taking possession of the Turbat fort. The Nazim was eventually released and sought refuge at Kalatuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031510-0001-0001", "contents": "1898 Baloch uprising, History\nMehrab Khan next communicated with his brother, Mir Rustam Khan, who was in charge of the escort with a survey party working in the Kolwa hills under Captain Burn, and Rustam Khan with Mir Baloch Khan, Nausherwani, made an attack on the camp which resulted in some men of the party being killed and a large quantity of Government property being lost. Small parties of rebels moved in the direction of the sea coast, looted Pasni, and destroyed much of the telegraph line between Pasni and Gwadar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031510-0001-0002", "contents": "1898 Baloch uprising, History\nA column was promptly despatched from Karachi under Colonel Mayne consisting or 400 Infantry and two guns, and the rebels were defeated with heavy loss in an action at the defile of Gokprosh, south of Turbat. Baloch Khan was killed along with about 150 others. The forts of Shahrak, Nag, Hor and Sehr were subsequently demolished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031510-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Baloch uprising, Motives\nThere appeared to have been five causes of the outbreak. In the first place Mir Baloch Khan, Nausherwani, who already held the surrounding country, had been granted the Bit fort in Buleda by the Khan of Kalat. It was occupied, however, by Mir Azum Khan, Buledi, who held a sanad for its possession from the Khan and consequently refused to give it up, and the question was referred to the Agent to the Governor-General who decided it in favour of Mir Azum Khan, thus incensing Mir Baloch Khan against the nazim who was considered responsible for the decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031510-0002-0001", "contents": "1898 Baloch uprising, Motives\nSecondly, Mehrab Khan, Gichki, had long cherished resentment at Sir Robert Sandeman's action in nominating to the chieftainship of the Kech Gichkis, his elder brother, Sheh Umar, a man of much inferior capacity to himself. Innovations introduced by the nazim into the system of levying revenue, his personal unpopularity among a Muslim people, and the general unrest which had extended all down the North-Western frontier during the previous year, were other factors in the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031510-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Baloch uprising, Outcome\nThe rising led to arrangements for the introduction of a new form of administration, and at the end of the year Mir Mehrulla Khan, Raisani, was sent to Makran as nazim, where he has since continued to direct affairs (1905).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031511-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1898 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. Although there was no Temple Cup after the season, the Orioles still finished second in the National League for the second straight year with a record of 96\u201353, 6 games behind the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles set a Major League record which still stands, for the most batters hit by a pitch in a season, with 148.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031511-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031511-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031511-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031511-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031512-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Bal\u0131kesir earthquake\nThe 1898 Bal\u0131kesir earthquake occurred around 11:30 local time (8:30 UTC) on 29 January 1898 in Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey. It was the deadliest earthquake in history of Bal\u0131kesir. Around 500 people died as a result of the earthquake. Only 51 of the 11,000 buildings in city remained unaffected. Around 53,000 people from the city and around the city were affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031513-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Belgian general election\nPartial legislative elections were held in Belgium on 22 May 1898, with run-off elections held on 29 May. Under the alternating system, elections for the Chamber of Representatives were held in only four out of the nine provinces: Hainaut, Limburg, Li\u00e8ge and East Flanders. Thus, only 75 seats out of the 152 seats in the Chamber of Representatives were up for election. The Catholic Party retained their absolute majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031513-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Belgian general election\nNotably, Adolf Daens, who was elected in 1894 for Aalst and served one term, was convinced not to run for re-election. His fight for a social Christian Democratic party was opposed by conservative Catholics, especially fellow Aalst MP Charles Woeste. None of the other \"Daensists\" (Christene Volkspartij) who ran were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031513-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Belgian general election\nA special election in Bastogne was held on 24 July 1898. Henry Delvaux de Fenffe was elected to replace Emile Van Hoorde, who became provincial senator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031513-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Belgian general election\nThey were the last regular legislative elections under a majority system; the next elections in 1900 saw the introduction of a proportional system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031513-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Belgian general election\nThe newly elected legislature met in regular session on 8 November 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031513-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Belgian general election, Constituencies\nLiberals gained two seats from Catholics in Ath, socialists gained a seat from Catholics and a seat from liberals in Thuin, socialists gained a seat from liberals in Huy and Catholics gained four seats from socialists in Verviers, resulting in a total of one seat changing from socialists to Catholics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031514-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Birthday Honours\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours 1898 were announced on 21 May 1898 in celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031514-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Birthday Honours\nThe list was published in The Times on 21 May 1898 and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 21 June 1898, and on 3 June 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031514-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc.) then divisions (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031514-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Birthday Honours, Promotions\nThe Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the grant to His Highness Sir Hira Singh Malwandar Bahadur, Raja of Nabha, GCSI, as a personal distinction, of an increase of two guns to his salute of 13 guns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031515-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1898 Boston Beaneaters season was the 28th season of the franchise. The Beaneaters won their second straight National League pennant and their eighth overall. It was also their fifth, and last, of the decade. This team has been cited (along with the 1880s St. Louis Browns and the 1890s Baltimore Orioles) as one of the greatest of the 19th century. This was the end of a tremendous run of success for the team, which won four straight National Association titles (1872\u20131875) and eight National League pennants (1877-78, 1883, 1891-93, 1897-98).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031515-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe starting line-up featured three Hall of Famers: third baseman Jimmy Collins and outfielders Billy Hamilton and Hugh Duffy. Collins led the league with 15 home runs, and Hamilton hit .369 with 54 stolen bases. The pitching staff was led by Hall of Famers Kid Nichols and Vic Willis. Nichols led the NL with 31 wins and had an ERA of 2.13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031515-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031515-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031515-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031515-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031516-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Boston College football team\nThe 1898 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College during the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031517-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Brazilian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Brazil on 1 March 1898. The result was a victory for Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales of the Republican Party of S\u00e3o Paulo, who received 90.9% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031518-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 British Columbia general election\nThe 1898 British Columbia general election was held in 1898. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031518-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 British Columbia general election, Party politics\nThere were no political parties in this election \u2014 until the 1903 election, British Columbia politics were officially non-partisan and political parties were not part of the process. This trend began to change in the 1898 and 1900 elections with the appearance of party-designated candidates and some party-declared members; for example, Ralph Smith in South Nanaimo. The political alignments designated at the time of the dropping of the writ did not necessarily have anything to do with the jockeying for power and support once the election returns were in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031518-0001-0001", "contents": "1898 British Columbia general election, Party politics\nTherefore, members shown as \"Government\" or \"Opposition\" only ran under that slate and had no necessary allegiances or party loyalties to follow. If a new government formed from the \"Opposition\" slate, as here with Charles Augustus Semlin, there was nothing to say that someone who'd run under the \"Government\" banner might not cross the floor either to join the governing caucus, or actually be invited over to take a cabinet position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031518-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 British Columbia general election, Party politics\nIn the table below, the seating is only as it was when the House convened. The failure of Semlin's government fell on the shoulders of an over-ambitious Joseph Martin by early 1900. He held on to power despite a petition from Members of the House to the Lieutenant-Governor, but the Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas Robert McInnes, continued to support Martin so long as there was no sitting of the House, such that a situation of non-confidence could be proven, even though Martin had only himself and one other member in his caucus. Martin held out for six months, but the inevitable sitting of the House and immediate vote of non-confidence and subsequent election removed him from power and brought in James Dunsmuir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031518-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 British Columbia general election, Party politics\nIt was because of this debacle, born in this election and the ones that preceded it, that party politics was finally introduced to British Columbia for the 1903 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031519-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season\nThe 1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms suffered a huge loss on January 4 when team founder Charles Byrne died. Charles Ebbets became the new president of the team and moved them into the new Washington Park. The team struggled all season, finishing in a distant tenth place in the National League race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031519-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Regular season\nBilly Barnie was fired as manager in June with the team's record at 15\u201320 and the team mired in ninth place. Ebbets took over himself for a while before they handed the team over to Mike Griffin to finish the season. The results weren't much better, as the team immediately lost five out of their next six, with an overall 39\u201371 record after Barnie's departure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031519-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031519-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031519-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031519-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031519-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031520-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1898 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their first year under head coach Eddie N. Robinson, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 135 to 96. Fred W. Murphy was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031521-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Buffalo football team\nThe 1898 Buffalo football team represented the University at Buffalo as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 214 to 42. The team had no coach and played its home games at Olympic Park in Buffalo, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031522-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1898 Calgary municipal election was held on December 12, 1898 to elect a Mayor and nine Councilors to sit on the fifteenth Calgary City Council from January 3, 1899 to January 2, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031522-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Calgary municipal election, Background\nVoting rights were provided to any male, single woman, or widowed British subject over twenty-one years of age who are assessed on the last revised assessment roll with a minimum property value of $200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031522-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors with a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031522-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Calgary municipal election, By-elections\nCouncilor George Albert Allen submitted his resignation to City Council effective April 20, 1899. William Henry Cushing won a by-election held on May 8, 1899 defeating Crispin E. Smith 52-22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031523-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1898 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1898 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Garrett Cochran and compiled a record of 8\u20130\u20132. The season's victory in that year's Big Game was its first win against Stanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031524-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 California gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 California gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898, to elect the governor of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031525-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Canadian prohibition plebiscite\nA plebiscite on prohibition was held in Canada on 29 September 1898, the first national referendum in the country's history. The Liberal government had made an election promise in 1896 to provide an opportunity for Canadians to register their opinions about the sale of alcohol. The non-binding plebiscite saw 51.3% in favour of introducing prohibition, although turnout was only 44%. A majority voted for its introduction in all provinces except Quebec, where 81.2% opposed it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031525-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Canadian prohibition plebiscite\nDespite the majority in favour, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's government chose not to introduce a federal bill on prohibition. As a result, Canadian prohibition was instead enacted through laws passed by the provinces during the first twenty years of the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031525-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Canadian prohibition plebiscite\nA 2012 study found that religion was by far the most important factor in determining how Canadians voted, with Evangelicals favoring prohibition, whereas Catholics and Anglicans opposed it. More urbanized districts were less likely to favor prohibition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031526-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cape Colony parliamentary election\nElections to the Parliament of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope were held in 1898. The Legislative Council was elected on 16 March and the House of Assembly between 9 August and 5 September. These were the first elections contested on a more-or-less two-party basis after the emergence of responsible government in 1872. Party divisions were still hazy at the time of the elections, but the result was a narrow victory for opponents of the Progressive Party of Cecil Rhodes, despite the Progressives winning the popular vote. Incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Sprigg had become aligned with the nascent Progressive party, and was succeeded by William Philip Schreiner, an Independent supported by the Afrikaner Bond, upon the inauguration of the new House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031526-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Cape Colony parliamentary election, Electoral System\nTwenty-three members of the Legislative Council were elected from nine constituencies termed \"provinces,\" seven of which elected three members each by cumulative voting, and the remaining two provinces one member each. The House of Assembly was composed of 79 members elected from 39 electoral divisions which elected between one and four members each, in which each voter had as many votes as there were candidates to be elected, but was not permitted to cast them cumulatively, as for the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031526-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Cape Colony parliamentary election, Results, House of Assembly\nThe fact that voters in different constituencies could cast varying numbers of votes, and that votes were not counted where any candidates ran unopposed, means that raw popular vote totals are a poor estimate of party support. Alan John Charrington Smith's analysis of voting patterns estimated that support was approximately 43,243 voters (57.35%) for the Progressive party and 32,165 (42.65%) for its opponents. The table below lists raw vote totals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031526-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Cape Colony parliamentary election, Results, Legislative Council\nThe Progressive candidate in Griqualand West was elected unopposed. All other provinces had more candidates than seats to fill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election\nThe fourth elections for Cardiganshire County Council took place in March 1898. They were preceded by the 1895 election and followed by the 1901 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Overview of the Result\nAt the fourth elections held for the County Council, the Liberals retained their large majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Boundary Changes\nThere were boundary changes in the Aberaeron area, arising from the formation of the Aberaeron Urban District Council in 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Unopposed Returns\nThere were a number of unopposed returns. The Conservatives held seats they won in 1895 including Borth and Cardigan South while Independent Conservative Henry Bonsall was returned unopposed for Bow Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections\nThe Liberals won Aberystwyth No.1, lost in 1895, after the Unionists failed to field a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nEight aldermen retired. Of these only Peter Jones (Trefeurig) and Jenkin Jenkins (Felinfach) sought re-election, although two others (John Powell and Evan Richards) would be re-elected without facing the electorate. Jenkins was defeated at Felinfach by Walter T. Davies. Davies, however was among those who were chosen as new aldermen enabling Jenkins to contest the by-election (see below). Four aldermen retired namely W.O. Brigstocke, Dr Jenkin Lewis, David Lloyd and D.W. E. Rowland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, The New Council\nJ.C. Harford of Falcondale was elected as the first Conservaticve chairman on a motion moved by Peter Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberbanc\nDavid Lloyd, an alderman from 1889 to 1895 was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberystwyth Division 3\nA repeat of the contest in 1895. Ellis increased his majority from 7 to 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberystwyth Division 4\nJames had been elected at the 1895 by-election following C.M. Williams's re-appointment as alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Cwmrheidol\nThe seat changed hands for the third time, with Nicholas Bray, the victor in 1889 and 1895 being defeated as he was in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Felinfach\nThe sitting councillor defeated Alderman Jenkin Jenkins, who had defeated him by a small majority in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nIn addition to the 48 councillors the council consisted of 16 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the elections, the following Alderman were appointed by the newly elected council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nWith the exception of Sir Marteine Lloyd, of the eight elected aldermen were Liberals. This broke the pattern established in 1889 whereby there were three Conservatives on the aldermanic bench. Of those elected, four were elected members of the Council and four were not. Two retiring aldermen (John Powell and Evan Richards) did not seek re-election although Peter Jones did so. Sir Marteine Lloyd and Rev T. Mason Jones were members of the previous council who did not seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Aeron by-election\nFollowing the election of J.M. Howell as alderman, a disagreement among local Liberals led to the unopposed return of a prominent Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Cardigan North by-election\nFollowing the election of the Rev John Williams as alderman, O. Beynon Evans was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 84], "content_span": [85, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031527-0016-0000", "contents": "1898 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Felinfach by-election\nHaving lost the election, as retiring alderman, to the retiring councillor, Jenkin Jenkins of Blaenplwyf was returned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031528-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1898 Carlisle Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its first season under head coach John A. Hall, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 203 to 99.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031528-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Carlisle Indians football team\nKey players included Frank Cayou, Frank Hudson, Bemus Pierce, Hawley Pierce, and Eddie Rogers. Hudson was selected by Outing magazine as the first-team quarterback on its 1898 All-America college football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031529-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthen Rural District Council election\nThe second election to the Carmarthen Rural District Council was held in April 1898. It was preceded by the 1894 election and followed by the 1901 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Carmarthen Board of Guardians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031529-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthen Rural District Council election\nThere were unopposed returns in most wards at this election with some candidates withdrawing soon after nomination day to remove the need for a contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031529-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Carmarthen Board of Guardians\nAll members of the District Council also served as members of Carmarthen Board of Guardians. In addition six members were elected to represent the borough of Carmarthen. In 1898 all the sitting members were returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031530-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthenshire County Council election\nThe third election to the Carmarthenshire County Council was held in March 1898. It was preceded by the 1895 election and followed by the 1901 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031530-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Contested elections\nThere were a large number of contested elections and the majorities were small in most instances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031530-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results\nThis section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. This was the inaugural county election and therefore no comparison can be made with the previous elections. In some cases there is an ambiguity in the sources over the party affiliations and this is explained below where relevant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031530-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results\nThis table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 51 councillors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031530-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nIn addition to the 51 councillors the council consisted of 17 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the elections, the following aldermen were appointed by the newly elected council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031531-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Central Colonels football team\nThe 1898 Central Colonels football team represented Central University in Richmond, Kentucky during the 1898 college football season. The team defeated Vanderbilt and Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031532-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1898 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1898 college football season. Under head coach Carl Pray, the Normalites compiled a 1\u20132 record, but outscored their opponents by a total of 37 to 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031533-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Centre football team\nThe 1898 Centre football team represented Centre College in the 1898 college football season. The head coach was Dick Van Winkle, coaching his first season with the Praying Colonels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031534-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Challenge Cup\nThe 1898 Challenge Cup was the 2nd staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031534-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Batley and Bradford at Headingley Stadium in Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031534-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Challenge Cup\nThe final was played on Saturday 23 April 1898, where Batley beat Bradford 7-0 at Headingley in front of a crowd of 27,941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031535-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1898 Chicago Maroons football team represented the University of Chicago during the 1898 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031536-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Chicago Orphans season\nThe 1898 Chicago Orphans season was the 27th season of the Chicago Orphans franchise, the 23rd in the National League and the 6th at West Side Park. The Orphans, formerly known as the Colts, finished in fourth place in the National League with a record of 85\u201365, 17.5 games behind the Boston Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031536-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Chicago Orphans season\n1898 was the first season since 1876 that the team was without manager and first baseman Cap Anson, who had been fired during the offseason. Cap, who was also often called \"Pop\", was replaced as manager by Tom Burns, who had played for the team from 1880 until 1891, and had managed the Springfield Ponies in 1897. The media, picking up on Anson's absence, began referring to the team as the \"Orphans\", as they had lost their \"Pop\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031536-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031536-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031536-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031536-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1898 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in third place in the National League with a record of 92\u201360, 11.5 games behind the Boston Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Cincinnati Reds came into the 1898 season with high hopes, and hoping not to have a late season collapse, which had happened the previous three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe club retained manager Buck Ewing for a fourth season, and made a few player changes in the off-season. Cincinnati was involved in a seven player trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the Reds sent Bill Gray, Jack McCarthy, Billy Rhines, Pop Schriver and Ace Stewart to the Pirates for Pink Hawley, Mike Smith and $1,500. Hawley had a record of 18\u201318 with Pittsburgh in 1897, posting an ERA of 4.80. His best season was in 1895 with the Pirates, as he was 31\u201322 with a 3.18 ERA in a National League high 56 games pitched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0002-0001", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nSmith batted .310 with six home runs and 54 RBI with the Pirates in 1897. He also previously played for the Reds when they were members of the American Association, as he saw limited playing time in Cincinnati from 1886\u20131889. The Reds also acquired Algie McBride, who spent the 1897 season with the St. Paul Saints of the Western League, hitting .381 there. McBride had previous major league experience, appearing in nine games with the Chicago Colts in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nJake Beckley led the offense, as he hit a solid .294 with a team high four home runs, while earning 72 RBI. Tommy Corcoran led the club with 87 RBI, while Mike Smith hit a team best .342, as well as hitting one home run and driving in 66 runners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Hawley was very solid, going 27\u201311 with a 3.37 ERA in 43 games pitched. Ted Breitenstein cracked the 20 win plateau, as he was 20\u201314 with a 3.42 ERA. Frank Dwyer and Bill Dammann each went 16\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Reds got off to a great start, as they posted a record of 18\u20134 in their first twenty-two games, three games ahead of the second place Cleveland Spiders. Cincinnati remained hot, as their record improved to 27\u20137, and took a four-game lead over the Spiders, however, a 7\u201312 slump in their next nineteen games saw their lead dwindle down to one game over the second place Boston Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Reds held on to first place, as they got hot once again, and took a five-game lead over the Beaneaters with a 65\u201332 record during the first week of August. The team then fell into a 2\u20138 slump over their next ten games and found themselves in second place, 3.5 games behind Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0006-0001", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nCincinnati regained first place, and hung on to it going into the start of September, with a 78\u201344 record, but a 2\u20139 mark during their next eleven games saw the Reds fall out of first place for good, as they fell into third, 6.5 games behind the Beaneaters. Cincinnati finished out the season in third place with a 92\u201360 record, 11.5 games behind Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031537-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031538-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1898 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their first season under head coach Frank Cavanaugh, the Bearcats compiled a 5\u20131\u20133 record. Albert Morrill was the team captain. The team played its home games at Union Ball Park in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031539-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 City of Wellington by-election\nThe City of Wellington by-election 1898 was held on 9 March 1898 to decide the next member of parliament for the City of Wellington electorate. The contest was caused by resignation of Robert Stout and was won by former mayor of Wellington John Duthie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031539-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 City of Wellington by-election, Results, 1896 election\n1 Majority is difference between lowest winning poll (Fisher: 5,858) and highest losing poll (Atkinson: 5,830)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031539-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 City of Wellington by-election, Results, 1896 election\n2 Turnout is total number of voters - as voters had three votes each total votes cast was higher (37,618))", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031540-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1898 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson Agricultural College in the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tigers completed their third season as an independent with a record of 3\u20131, with wins over Bingham Military School, South Carolina, and Georgia Tech, and a loss to Georgia. For the first time, Clemson played a game at home, on October 20 against Bingham Military School, and a neutral site game at Augusta, Georgia against Georgia Tech. John Penton served as the team's coach for his first season while Shack Shealy was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031541-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cleveland Spiders season\nThe 1898 Cleveland Spiders finished with an 81\u201368 record, good for fifth place in the National League. After the season, the team's owners, Frank and Stanley Robison, additionally purchased the St. Louis Browns from Chris von der Ahe. Claiming disappointment in attendance in Cleveland, they transferred many of the Spiders' better players to the St. Louis team, which they renamed the Perfectos. The Spiders would fold after the 1899 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031541-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031541-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031541-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031541-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031542-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Colgate football team\nThe 1898 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1898 college football season. Colgate reports the record for the season as 2\u20135, however, a reporting error in early record keeping failed to account for a 6\u20136 tie with Hamilton on October 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031543-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1898 College Football All-America team is composed of American football players who were selected as the best players at their positions by various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp and the Syracuse Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031543-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1898 season marked the first time players from the west were named to the All-American teams. Michigan center William Cunningham and Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger were the first two western players to receive the recognition. Prior to 1898, all of the prior All-America football teams had been selected from among five Ivy League teams \u2013 Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Cornell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031544-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1898 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1898. North Carolina won the SIAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031544-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 College Football All-Southern Team, All-Southerns of 1898\nWAL = selected by W. A. Lambeth in Outing. The Vanderbilt Hustler reported his selection of Fitzgerald must have been a mistake, for he was only a sub and in 1896 and 1897, while in 1898 he was no longer on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031545-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Colombian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Colombia on 1 February 1898. The result was a victory for Manuel Antonio Sanclemente of the National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031545-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Colombian presidential election, Electoral system\nThe 1886 constitution changed the presidential electoral system from one where a candidate had to win a majority of states to be elected (or be elected by Congress if no candidate won a majority of states), to a two-stage system. Voters meeting literacy and property requirements (which were not required for local and regional elections) elected members of an electoral college, who in turn elected the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031546-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1898 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Colorado Football Association during the 1898 college football season. Head coach Fred Folsom led the team to a mark of 4\u20134 overall and 0\u20132 in the CFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031547-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Colorado gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Democratic nominee Charles S. Thomas defeated Republican nominee Henry R. Wolcott with 62.89% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031548-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Columbian Orange and Blue football team\nThe 1898 Columbian Orange and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Columbian University (now known as George Washington University) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their third season under head coach Graham Nichols, the team compiled a 3\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031549-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Connecticut gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Republican nominee George E. Lounsbury defeated Democratic nominee Daniel N. Morgan with 54.17% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031550-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1898 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 12th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031550-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Cork Senior Football Championship\nFermoy won the championship after a successful appeal against Dohenys who defeated them by 0-01 to 0-02 in the final at Cork Park. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031551-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1898 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 12th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031551-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 11 September 1898, Blackrock won the championship following a 2-9 to 0-2 defeat of Carrigtwohill in the final. This was their eighth championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031552-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1898 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1898 college football season. In their second season under head coach Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled a 10\u20132 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 296 to 29. Three Cornell players received honors on the 1898 College Football All-America Team: tackle Edwin Sweetland (Walter Camp-3); guard Daniel A. Reed, Cornell (Camp-3, Leslie's Weekly-2); and halfback Allen E. Whiting, Cornell (Outing-2, Leslie's-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031553-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 County Championship\nThe 1898 County Championship was the ninth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 9 May to 3 September 1898. Yorkshire County Cricket Club won their third championship title, with Middlesex finishing as runners-up for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031553-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 County Championship\nIn April, John Tunnicliffe and Jack Brown of Yorkshire, set a then-record partnership for any wicket of 554, against Derbyshire at Queen's Park, Chesterfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031554-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Currie Cup\nThe 1898 Currie Cup was the fifth edition of the Currie Cup, the premier annual domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031554-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Western Province for the fifth time, who won all five of their matches in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031555-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Danish Folketing election\nFolketing elections were held in Denmark on 5 April 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031556-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Danish Landsting election\nLandsting elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031556-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Danish Landsting election\nOf the twelve constituencies the seats representing constituencies number\u00a01 (the city of Copenhagen), number\u00a02 (Copenhagen County, Frederiksborg County and Holb\u00e6k County), number\u00a04 (Bornholm County), number\u00a07 (Hj\u00f8rring County and Aalborg County) and number\u00a09 (Aarhus County, Randers County and parts of Viborg County) were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031557-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1898 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031557-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Dartmouth football team\nDespite finishing with a losing record, the 1898 Dartmouth team was regarded by some eastern sportswriters, most notably Outing, to be the best fielded by head coach William Wurtenburg. Against an expanded schedule, the squad went only 5\u20136, but managed to outscore their opponents by a total of 205\u2013137. The year began with a defeat of regular opponent Phillips Exeter Academy, and was followed by a shutout loss to Harvard. After two consecutive wins over nearby schools, Dartmouth lost to former Triangular Football League opponentWesleyan, 23\u20135. The following two contests were against Triangular Football League opponents Amherst and Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031557-0001-0001", "contents": "1898 Dartmouth football team\nThe latter game was regarded as Dartmouth's most significant game of the season by eastern sportswriters, since Williams had hired two new coaches and expanded practices in order to win the conference in 1898. Dartmouth outdid Williams, however, and defeated them 10\u20136 to claim a sixth straight conference championship. The season ended on a sour note with four straight losses on the road, two of them coming against Midwestern teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031558-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 DePauw football team\nThe 1898 DePauw football team was an American football team that represented DePauw University in the 1898 college football season. The team compiled a 3\u20134\u20132 record, and shut out three opponents. However, they were outscored 97 to 91, and suffered four shutouts against them by college opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031559-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Denver Pioneers football team\nThe 1898 Denver Pioneers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Denver during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 121 to 78. The team's Thanksgiving Day victory over Wyoming was the program's first game against an opponent from outside the State of Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031560-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1898 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its third season under head coach William S. Robinson, the team compiled a 5\u20130 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 91 to 12. The team played games against Detroit School for Boys, Irvings, Detroit Alumni, Michigan Military Academy and Mount Clemens High School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031561-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Dickinson football team\nThe 1898 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 211 to 86. Nathan Stauffer was the team's head coach, and A. M. Devall was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031561-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Dickinson football team\nAndrew Kerr, later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, was a student at Dickinson at the time but did not play for the varsity football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031562-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1898 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its second season under head coach A. B. Potter, the team compiled a 4\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 102 to 55. It was Drake's first winning season. In the final game of the season, the team defeated Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031563-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1898 Drexel Dragons football team was head coached by D. Leroy Reeves. The team went undefeated, and allowed 0 points against the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031564-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Duquesne Country and Athletic Club season\nThe 1898 Duquesne Country and Athletic Club football season was their fourth season in existence. The team finished with a record of 9-0-1. The team was named the top team in western Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031565-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1898 municipal election was held December 12, 1898. In previous elections, an entire town council had been elected at once for a one-year term; 1898 marked the beginning of staggered aldermanic terms, such that half of the six aldermen would be elected each year to two-year terms. The mayor continued to be elected annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031565-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Edmonton municipal election\nBecause in the previous election all six aldermen had been elected to a one-year term, it was still necessary to elect six aldermen. However, in order to set up the staggered terms, three were to be elected to one-year terms and three to two-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031565-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Edmonton municipal election\nIn addition to the city council, five public school trustees and four private school trustees were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031565-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nVoter turnout figures for the 1898 municipal election are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031565-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nThomas Bellamy, James Ross, Colin Strang, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031565-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nN D Beck, Sandy Larue, Antonio Prince, and Georges Roy were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031566-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 English cricket season\n1898 was the ninth season of County Championship cricket in England. Yorkshire won the championship for the second time in three years. It was an emphatic victory with a record of sixteen wins and seven draws in 26 games. Middlesex finished second after two wins over Kent in late August to improve five places on their 1897 finish. Derbyshire broke their streak of 22 Championship matches without victory by beating Hampshire in late May. As for individual performances, Surrey batsman Bobby Abel made 1800 runs for the second season in succession, one run shy of his own championship record in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031567-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1898 European Figure Skating Championships were held on February 26 in Trondheim, Norway. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031568-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1898 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the river Po in the Italian city of Turin on a day in mid-August. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+); it was the first year that the double scull event formed part of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final\nThe 1898 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Derby County and Nottingham Forest on Saturday, 16 April 1898 at the Crystal Palace stadium in south London. It was the final match of the 1897\u201398 FA Cup, the 27th edition of the world's oldest football knockout competition, and England's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final\nDerby County and Nottingham Forest were both appearing in their first final. As members of the Football League First Division, they were exempt from the competition's qualifying phase and each joined the competition in the first round proper, progressing through four rounds to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final\nThe final was watched by a crowd of 62,017 and Forest, leading 2\u20131 at half-time, won the match 3\u20131 with goals by Arthur Capes (2) and John McPherson. Steve Bloomer scored for Derby. Forest won the cup again in 1959. Derby reached the final again in 1899 but were defeated by Sheffield United; they won the cup in 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Background\nThe FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football. The competition was first proposed on 20 July 1871 by C. W. Alcock at a meeting of The Football Association committee. The tournament was first played in the 1871\u201372 season and is the world's oldest association football competition. The 1898 match between Derby County and Nottingham Forest at Crystal Palace was the 27th final. Both teams were appearing in the final for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Background\nDerby County and Nottingham Forest were both members of the Football League First Division. In the 1897\u201398 league championship, Forest amassed 31 points to finish in eighth place, eleven points behind champions Sheffield United. Derby finished in tenth place, three points behind Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Background\nBoth teams were selected by a committee with the club secretary in charge on match days. Derby's secretary was Harry Newbould who, in 1900, became their first formally appointed team manager. Nottingham Forest retained the policy of selection by committee until 1936. In 1898, their secretary was Harry Hallam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County\nDerby County entered the competition in the first round proper and played five matches, including one replay, en route to the final. All four of their opponents were other teams in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Early rounds\nIn the first round on Saturday, 29 January, Derby were at home to Aston Villa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 19 March. Derby faced Liverpool's Merseyside neighbours Everton at Molineux, where Derby had won their second round tie in February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 63], "content_span": [64, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Nottingham Forest\nNottingham Forest entered the competition in the first round proper and played five matches, including one replay, en route to the final. One of their opponents was in the First Division, two were in the Second Division and one was in the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Nottingham Forest, Early rounds\nIn the first round on Saturday, 29 January, Forest were at home to Second Division Grimsby Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 70], "content_span": [71, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Nottingham Forest, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 19 March, and Forest were drawn to play Southern League champions Southampton at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 68], "content_span": [69, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nForest took the lead with a goal by Capes which Bloomer equalised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031569-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nAfter 42 minutes, Richards tried to lob from a McInnes cross. Fryer was reached it first but he dropped the ball at the feet of Capes, who turned it into the empty net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031570-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nThe 1898 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team was an American football team that represented Fairmount College (now known as Wichita State University) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. They played in one game, a 5\u20130 loss against Friends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031571-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Fort Smith, Arkansas, tornado\nThe 1898 Fort Smith tornado was a tornado which struck the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, during the night of Tuesday, January 11, 1898. It touched down about 100 miles to the southwest, and struck the city around midnight, killing 55 people and injuring 113. The twister nearly destroyed the newly constructed Fort Smith High School that had opened in fall 1897. Another tornado was also reported that night in Alma, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031571-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Fort Smith, Arkansas, tornado\nThe Fort Smith tornado is tied with one that struck Warren in 1949 for the deadliest tornado to strike Arkansas. Both tornadoes were estimated to be rated F4 on the Fujita scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031572-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 French legislative election\nThe 1898 general election was held on 8 and 22 May 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031572-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 French legislative election\nThe government of Jules M\u00e9line, who had been premier since April 1896, had relied on the support of Conservatives, contrary to the convention of republican concentration, according to which no government should rely on the support of monarchists and Bonapartists in the Chamber of Deputies if it could not rely on a republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031572-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 French legislative election\nThe election was dominated by the Dreyfus Affair, and saw several notable supporters of Dreyfus (Joseph Reinach, Jean Jaur\u00e8s, Jules Guesde) lose their seats. Twenty-two professed anti-Semites were also elected, including \u00c9douard Drumont. Overall, however, the election saw the defeat of M\u00e9line and his supporters: the Radicals were victorious, allowing Henri Brisson to form a republican government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031573-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 1898 VFL Season was the Geelong Football Club's second season in the Victorian Football League and its second with Jack Conway as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031573-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Geelong Football Club season\nGeelong finished the home and away with 9 wins and 5 losses, finishing in fourth position. In the final series, Geelong finished with 2 wins and 1 loss, finishing in second position on the Section B Ladder. Geelong failed to qualify for the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031573-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Geelong Football Club season, Playing List\nTwelve Geelong players made their VFL debuts and a total of 34 players were used during the season. Six players played 17 games for Geelong this season, and, Eddy James again was the club's leading goalkicker with 26 this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031573-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nIn a quite competitive season, Geelong's 9-5 record meant that Geelong finished in fourth position on the ladder and, therefore, qualified for the Section B finals group. In Section B, Geelong had a 2-1 record which meant the finished in second position and did not qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031574-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1898 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1898 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Ross Fiscus, Geneva compiled a record of 0\u20136\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031575-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1899 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1898 college football season. Led by William Fitz Donovan, in his first and only year as head coach, the Blue and Gray had a record of 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031576-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1898 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and compiled a 4\u20132 record. The team got off to 4\u20130 start that included a second straight victory over Georgia Tech, but finished with losses to Auburn and North Carolina. 1898 also marked the first time the Bulldogs beat Vanderbilt in three tries. This was the team's second and final season under the guidance of head coach Charles McCarthy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031576-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe backfield was led by quarterbacks \"Kid\" Huff and F. K. McCutcheon, and fullback A. Clarence Jones, one of the south's best punters. Jones was selected All-Southern by W. A. Lambeth of Virginia. Quarterback Huff saved a touchdown in the Vanderbilt game when he tackled the large Wallace Crutchfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031577-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1898 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane\nThe 1898 Georgia hurricane was a major hurricane that hit the U.S. state of Georgia, as well as the strongest on record in the state. It was first observed on September\u00a029, although modern researchers estimated that it developed four days earlier to the east of the Lesser Antilles. The hurricane maintained a general northwest track throughout its duration, and it reached peak winds of 135\u00a0mph (215\u00a0km/h) on October\u00a02. That day, it made landfall on Cumberland Island in Camden County, Georgia, causing record storm surge flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0000-0001", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane\nThe hurricane caused heavy damage throughout the region, and killed at least 179\u00a0people. Impact was most severe in Brunswick, where a 16\u00a0ft (4.9\u00a0m) storm surge was recorded. Overall damage was estimated at $1.5\u00a0million (1898\u00a0USD), most of which occurred in Georgia. In extreme northeastern Florida, strong winds nearly destroyed the city of Fernandina, while light crop damage was reported in southern South Carolina. After moving ashore, the hurricane quickly weakened and traversed much of North America; it continued northwestward until reaching the Ohio Valley and turning northeastward, and it was last observed on October\u00a06 near Newfoundland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Meteorological history\nOn September\u00a028, 1898, island stations in the Lesser Antilles indicated the presence of a tropical cyclone, which was confirmed by the next day. Modern researchers determined that the system developed on September\u00a025 about 220\u00a0miles (350\u00a0km) east of Guadeloupe. For most of its duration, the system maintained a northwest track, reaching hurricane status on September\u00a027. Later that day, a barometric pressure of 977\u00a0mbar, suggesting winds of 90\u00a0mph (150\u00a0km/h). Its intensification rate slowed on September\u00a028, before strengthening continued on October\u00a01. The winds reached 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h), which is the equivalent of a major hurricane, or Category\u00a03 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Around that time, the hurricane turned toward more to the west-northwest, due to a large ridge across the western Atlantic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Meteorological history\nOn October\u00a02, the hurricane continued toward the west-northwest, approaching the southeastern United States. That day, it made landfall on Cumberland Island in Camden County, Georgia, and initially was thought to have done so as a Category\u00a02 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. A storm surge of 16\u00a0ft (4.9\u00a0m) was observed in Brunswick, Georgia, suggesting a central pressure of 938\u00a0mbar based on the SLOSH model. Such intensity ranked the hurricane tied for the 16th strongest United States landfall, as well as the strongest in the state of Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0002-0001", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Meteorological history\nIt is also the most recent major hurricane to hit the state. Additionally, its radius of maximum wind was estimated at 20\u00a0miles (33\u00a0km). Almost a century after the hurricane, researchers estimated the hurricane made landfall with winds of 135\u00a0mph (215\u00a0km/h), a Category\u00a04 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. After making landfall, the hurricane quickly weakened, deteriorating to tropical storm status within 12\u00a0hours. After moving across Georgia, the storm weakened further to tropical depression status over northeastern Alabama on October\u00a03. It continued northwestward through the Ohio Valley before recurving northeastward, accelerating through southeastern Canada and later dissipating over Newfoundland on October\u00a06.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Impact\nOn October\u00a01, a day before the hurricane moved ashore, the U.S. Weather Bureau issued northeast storm signals from Key West, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia. Similar warnings were issued in the hours preceding the hurricane moving ashore. The advisories were credited with saving dozens of lives and millions of dollars in shipping cargo, due to advance warning for boats to remain ashore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Impact\nBefore the hurricane made landfall in Georgia, it produced strong winds in northeastern Florida, reaching Category\u00a02 strength on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The worst effects from the storm were confined to a very small portion of extreme northeastern Florida. At Fernandina Beach, the storm surge was estimated at 12\u00a0ft (3.7\u00a0m), causing extensive flooding in the city. The October 1898 Monthly Weather Review described Fernandina as \"nearly destroyed\", and most anchored boats were sunk or washed inland into the marshes. Damage along the coastline reached as far south as Mayport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0004-0001", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Impact\nThe hurricane was small, and despite passing 50\u00a0miles (80\u00a0km) northeast of Jacksonville, produced only 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) winds in the city. However, for the first time in the history of the city, all communications were cut between Jacksonville and cities further north, such as New York. Damage throughout the state was estimated at $500,000 (1898\u00a0USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Impact\nThe hurricane made landfall on Cumberland Island with winds estimated at 135\u00a0mph (215\u00a0km/h). It produced record storm surges across the coastline, including a 16\u00a0ft (4.9\u00a0m) report in Brunswick. There, damage was heaviest, and most buildings were flooded. Similar impact was reported in Darien, where 32\u00a0people were killed. One coastal location reported the hurricane as causing the worst flooding since 1812. Further north, all of Hutchinson Island in the Savannah River was covered with up to 8\u00a0ft (2.4\u00a0m) of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0005-0001", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Impact\nThe storm surge flooding entered warehouses and storage areas all along the coast, leaving many small ships wrecked or sunk. Heavy damage also occurred to coastal wharves and houses. According to the Savannah Weather Bureau office, about 5,000\u00a0barrels of rosin were dispersed, and 60,000\u00a0bushels of rice were wrecked. Winds in the city reached 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h), and the flooding severely damaged the railway to nearby Tybee Island. Along the Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge, the hurricane destroyed a hospital that helped people afflicted with yellow fever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031578-0005-0002", "contents": "1898 Georgia hurricane, Impact\nA total of 179\u00a0people were killed along the Georgia coast, and damage totaled around $1\u00a0million (1898\u00a0USD). In South Carolina, the hurricane produced gusty winds and storm surge flooding. Some slight damage occurred at Port Royal, and in the southern portion of the state, the high tides left damage to rice and cotton crops. The Charleston Weather Bureau reported that \"a number of persons were drowned along the South Carolina coast\". Heavy rainfall was reported across northeast Florida, Georgia, and the western Carolinas. The highest amount recorded was 12.5 inches (320\u00a0mm) at Highlands, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031579-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 German federal election\nFederal elections were held in Germany on 16 June 1898. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving the most votes, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 102 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won just 56. Voter turnout was 68.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election\nThe Glamorgan County Council election, 1898 was the fourth contest for seats on this authority. It was preceded by the 1895 election and followed by the 1901 election. Glamorgan was by far the largest county in Wales in terms of population. Glamorgan County Council had been established by the 1888 Local Government Act, and the first elections held in early 1889. The county of Glamorgan was at this time becoming heavily industrialised, although some areas such as the Vale of Glamorgan remained essentially rural.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0000-0001", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election\nThe rise of nonconformist liberalism, especially since the 1860s, throughout Wales, had challenged the prevailing influence of the landed gentry. However, even in 1889, the traditional forces remained influential and no working men were elected to the Council. This changed in 1892 with the unopposed return of David Morgan in Aberdare and the success of Isaac Evans in Resolven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the result\nAs in most parts of Wales, the Liberal Party was once again triumphant and won a majority of the seats. In 1895 there were more unopposed results than in previous elections and the Conservatives made some headway, reflecting the position in the United Kingdom as a whole where the party took power that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the result\nResults are drawn from a number of sources. The include an account of unopposed returns in the Evening Express, and results from the same newspaper as well as the Cambrian and Pontypridd Chronicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Retiring aldermen\nAll eleven retiring aldermen were Liberals. Gwilym Jones, W.H. Mathias, J.C. Meggitt, Herbert Evans and the Rev Aaron Davies all sought re-election. Jones and Mathias were returned unopposed while Meggitt's only opponent withdrew before polling day. Herbert Evans was opposed by the sitting Liberal councillor whom he eventually narrowly defeated (see Cwmavon, below). Aaron Davies was defeated at Pontlottyn. At Aberdare, David Price Davies was also nominated but withdrew rather than face a contest with the sitting councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberdare Town\nPrior to the election it became apparent that Evans, the sitting councillor and the retiring alderman, David Price Davies, both coveted the seats. Davies however withdrew before the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Barry\nThe sitting councillor, John Cory, had withdrawn in favour of retiring alderman John Claxton Meggitt. The defeated candidate withdrew before polling day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Briton Ferry\nJenkin Hill recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cilfynydd\nW.R. Davies took the place of Henry Lewis, who did not seek re-election after one term. Davies was chosen as a candidate after a public meeting of local Liberals where both candidates agreed to abide by the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cwmavon\nTwo Liberals, a sitting alderman and sitting councillor, opposed each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cyfarthfa\nThomas Thomas recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ferndale\nDavid Thomas JP, who had ousted fellow Liberal Morgan Williams in 1895, did not seek re-election due to ill-health leading to a contrast between the Rev Silas Charles, Congregational Minister and Thomas Samuel, grocer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Maesteg\nThe same two candidates had faced each other in 1895. On that occasion, Barrow had won and was elected as alderman for a three-year period. Jenkin Jones was then returned at a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Neath (South)\nAt the previous election, Trick had stood as a Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pentre\nMorris appears to have defected to the Unionists, leading to his defeat. This was considered to be the most significant contest in the valley but, owing to the support of colliery officials and leading tradesmen for the winning candidate, Elias Henry Davies, it was clear that Morris and been defeated before the close of the poll. Davies was an active Congregationalist, freemason and president of the Rhondda Cymmrodorion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pontlottyn\nAlthough a Liberal gain, the shock was the defeat of Alderman Aaron Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Sketty\nA repeat of the contest in 1895, with the same result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0016-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treforest\nJames Roberts had won the seat at a by-election following the death of the previous member, David Leyshon. His defeat was greeted with surprise by a crowd said to number 4,000 who had gathered to hear the result. Roberts said h was glad to think that he had been the means of overthrowing a member of a 'Pontypridd clique'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0017-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nIn addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1898 election, there were twelve Aldermanic vacancies. These comprised the eleven vacancies due to retiring alderman with the twelfth being vacant following the death of Isaac Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0018-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nThe following aldermen were appointed by the newly elected council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0019-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nAll eleven aldermen were Liberals, as were the retiring aldermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0020-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Aberdare Town by-election\nFollowing the return of J.W. Evans, David Price Davies and Thomas Thomas (councillor for the ward from 1892 until 1895) were nominated. However, Thomas withdrew allowing Davies to be returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0021-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Barry by-election\nJohn Cory had been a member of the county council since its formation, and served as alderman from 1889 until 1892. Captain Murrell, in returning thanks for his election, said he came forward as an independent candidate as a protest against the introduction of the foreign element into the representation of the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0022-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections, Penrhiwceiber by-election\nFollowing the election of Dr R.W. Jones as an alderman, Thomas Morris, who had represented Mountain Ash on the previous council, was elected. Morris was opposed by another Liberal candidate, clerk to the Llanwonno School Board, who stood in opposition to Morris's links to the beer trade. John Williams, checkweigher at a local colliery and a future Labour MP was a possible candidate but withdrew at an early stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031580-0023-0000", "contents": "1898 Glamorgan County Council election, By-elections 1898-1901, Dowlais by-election\nA by-election was held in Dowlais ward in October 1899 following the elevation of Thomas Jenkins to the aldermanic bench. John Davies, the local miners' agent defeated an Independent candidate, a local chemist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031581-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Glebe colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Glebe on 10 September 1898 because James Hogue had been appointed Public Instruction and Minister for Labour and Industry in the Reid ministry. Until 1904, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. Of the three ministers appointed with the second arrangement of the Reid ministry, Glebe was the only electorate in which the by-election was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031582-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Grand National\nThe 1898 Grand National was the 60th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 25 March 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031583-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Greensburg Athletic Association season\nThe 1898 Greensburg Athletic Association season was their ninth season in existence. The team finished 6\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031584-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Guatemalan presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Guatemala during seven days in September 1898. Prior to the elections Manuel Estrada Cabrera had established the first real political party in the country's history by admitting people from outside the influential liberals to the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031584-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Guatemalan presidential election\nThe elections were regarded as fraudulent; constitutional guarantees had been suspended for a month and opposition candidate Jos\u00e9 Le\u00f3n Castillo had been unable to campaign. Estrada was declared the winner with 99.8% of the vote, although the number of votes cast is estimated to have been at least three times the number of people eligible to vote at the time. Legislative Assembly Decree 413 of 26 September declared that Estrada's term of office would begin on 15 March 1899, but he assumed the presidency on 2 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031585-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Guilford Quakers football team\nThe 1898 Guilford Quakers football team represented Guilford College during the 1897 college football season. They played in three games and went winless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031586-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1898 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1898 college football season. The team finished with an 11\u20130 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. Princeton, which finished the 1898 season 11\u20130\u20131, was named champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis. The Harvard team outscored their opponents 257 to 19 during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031587-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1898 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled a 2\u20137 record and failed to score a point in six of its nine games. Sal Walker was the coach. The team played no home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031588-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Hastings and Macleay colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Hastings and Macleay on 23 September 1898 because Francis Clarke (National Federal) resigned to allow Edmund Barton to re-enter parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031588-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Hastings and Macleay colonial by-election, Aftermath\nThe election campaign of Sydney Smith was assisted by James Young, who was the Free Trade member for the neighbouring district of The Manning and Secretary for Public Works. Justice William Owen was subsequently appointed to conduct a Royal Commission into allegations concerning Young's conduct during the by-election, The major allegation was that the effect of Young's statements was that as Secretary for Public Works he would favour Smith more than Barton in dealing with the requirements of the electorate. Justice Owen found Young had not abused the powers of his office, however rebuked him for a \"grave indiscretion\" in the way he spoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031589-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1898 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031589-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Holy Cross football team\nIn its first year under head coach Maurice Connor, the team compiled a 5\u20134\u20131 record. M.J. McDonough was the team captain. John Corbett served as interim head coach for the season's first game, a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031589-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Oval and the Worcester College Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1898 Home Nations Championship was the sixteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Five matches were played between 5 February and 2 April. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship\nFor the second year running, England claimed the title solely on the fact that the other Home Nation Unions were still in bitter dispute. The Scottish Rugby Union was still aggrieved at the situation caused by the Gould Affair and decided not to participate in a match against Wales. This decision meant England led the scoring table as the winner of a Scotland vs. Wales encounter would have taken the Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship\nDue to the dispute, most sources list the result of the 1898 championship as \"not completed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal and a goal from mark were both worth four points. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley) capt., G.C. Robinson (Percy Park), Ernest Fookes (Sowerby Bridge), Osbert Mackie (Cambridge Uni), WL Bunting (Richmond), H Myers (Keighley), PG Jacob (Blackheath), F Jacob (Richmond), R Pierce (Liverpool), F Shaw (Cleckheaton), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), Frank Stout (Gloucester), HW Dudgeon (Richmond), JH Blacklock (Aspatria), Charles Edward Wilson (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nIreland Pierce O'Brien-Butler (Monkstown), S Lee (NIFC) capt., Lucius Gwynn (Monkstown), Lawrence Bulger (Lansdowne), FC Purser (Dublin Uni. ), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), GG Allen (Derry), JE McIlwaine (NIFC), JH Lytle (Lansdowne), WG Byron (NIFC), M Ryan (Rockwell College), J Ryan (Rockwell College), H Lindsay (Armagh), JG Franks (Dublin Uni. ), J. L. Davis (Monkstown)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nIreland Pierce O'Brien-Butler (Monkstown), Frederick Smithwick (Monkstown), Lucius Gwynn (Monkstown), Lawrence Bulger (Lansdowne), FC Purser (Dublin Uni. ), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), GG Allen (Derry) capt., JE McIlwaine (NIFC), JH Lytle (Lansdowne), WG Byron (NIFC), M Ryan (Rockwell College), J Ryan (Rockwell College), H Lindsay (Armagh), JG Franks (Dublin Uni. ), J. L. Davis (Monkstown)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nScotland: JM Reid (Edinburgh Acads), RT Neilson (West of Scotland), Edward Spencer (Clydesdale), AR Smith (Oxford Uni) capt., T Scott (Hawick), JT Mabon (Jed-Forest), M Elliot (Hawick), GC Kerr(Durham), A MacKinnon (London Scottish), MC Morrison (Royal HSFP), WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads), TM Scott (Hawick), R Scott (Hawick), John Dykes (Clydesdale), HO Smith (Watsonians)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nScotland: JM Reid (Edinburgh Acads), RT Neilson (West of Scotland), TA Neslon (Oxford Uni), AR Smith (Oxford Uni) capt., T Scott (Hawick), JT Mabon (Jed-Forest), M Elliot (Hawick), GC Kerr(Durham), A MacKinnon (London Scottish), MC Morrison (Royal HSFP), WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads), TM Scott (Hawick), R Scott (Hawick), John Dykes (Clydesdale), HO Smith (Watsonians)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley) capt., PW Stout (Gloucester), WN Pilkington (Cambridge Uni), PMR Royds (Blackheath), WL Bunting (Richmond), GT Unwin (Blackheath), Arthur Rotherham (Richmond), F Jacob (Richmond), JF Shaw (RNEC Keyham), HE Ramsden (Bingley), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), Frank Stout (Gloucester), HW Dudgeon (Richmond), JAS Davidson (Aspatria), W Ashford (Richmond)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nIreland J Fulton (NIFC), Frederick Smithwick (Monkstown), W Gardiner (NIFC) capt., Lawrence Bulger (Lansdowne), FC Purser (Dublin Uni. ), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), A Barr (Methodist C. Belfast), JE McIlwaine (NIFC), WG Byron (NIFC), M Ryan (Rockwell College), J Ryan (Rockwell College), H Lindsay (Armagh), TJ Little (Bective Rangers), JG Franks (Dublin Uni. ), T McCarthy (Cork)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Viv Huzzey (Cardiff), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), Pussy Jones (Cardiff), Tom Pearson (Newport), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Jack Elliott (Cardiff), Hopkin Davies (Swansea), Tom Dobson (Cardiff), David Daniel (Llanelli), William Alexander (Llwynypia), George Boots (Newport), Dick Hellings (Llwynypia), Fred Cornish (Cardiff), Joseph Booth (Pontymister)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nEngland J. F. Byrne (Moseley) capt., PW Stout (Gloucester), Ernest Fookes (Sowerby Bridge), PMR Royds (Blackheath), WL Bunting (Richmond), R O'H Livesay (Blackheath), Arthur Rotherham (Richmond), F Jacob (Richmond), JF Shaw (RNEC Keyham), HE Ramsden (Bingley), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), Frank Stout (Gloucester), HW Dudgeon (Richmond), JAS Davidson (Aspatria), W Ashford (Richmond)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031590-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Viv Huzzey (Cardiff), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), Pussy Jones (Cardiff), Tom Pearson (Newport), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Jack Elliott (Cardiff), Hopkin Davies (Swansea), Tom Dobson (Cardiff), David Daniel (Llanelli), William Alexander (Llwynypia), George Boots (Newport), Dick Hellings (Llwynypia), Fred Cornish (Cardiff), Dai Evans (Penygraig)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031591-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Honduran general election\nGeneral elections were held in Honduras between 30 October and 1 November 1898. Terencio Sierra was elected president with 83% of the vote, marking the first peaceful transfer of power for several decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031591-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Honduran general election, Background\nIn January 1898 president Policarpo Bonilla convened a group that met at the Palace of Tegucigalpa to select candidates to contest the forthcoming elections. Terencio Sierra was chosen as the presidential candidate and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Reina as the vice presidential candidate. They were the only candidates to contest the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031592-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 ICA Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1898 ICA Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Vienna, Austria from 8 to 12 September 1898. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031593-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Incumbent Democrat Frank Steunenberg defeated Republican nominee Albert B. Moss with 48.83% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031594-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1898 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1898 Western Conference football season. In their fourth season under head coach George Huff, the Illini compiled a 4\u20135 record and finished in fourth place in the Western Conference. Fullback Arthur R. Johnston was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031595-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1898 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1898 college football season. In their first season under head coach James H. Horne, the Hoosiers compiled a 4\u20131\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 90 to 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031596-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThe 1898 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University in the 1898 college football season. This was the third team for the university and played a schedule of only three games. The head coach was Fred DuBridge and the roster consisted of at least 18 lettermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031596-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nDuBridge, the director of the local YMCA, spend most of his career managing YMCA facilities; his son Lee achieved fame as one of the most preeminent scientists of the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031597-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 International Cross Country Championships\nThe unofficial 1898 International Cross Country Championships was held in Ville-d'Avray, France, on March 20, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031597-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 International Cross Country Championships\nComplete results, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031597-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 16 athletes from 2 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031598-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1898 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 1 December 1898 as part of that years local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031598-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Invercargill mayoral election\nIncumbent mayor Hugh Mair was defeated by councillor John Stead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031599-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1898 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1898 college football season. This was Alden Knipe's first as head coach of the Hawkeyes and Iowa's first year as an independent after the dissolution of the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA). Iowa joined the Western Conference in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031600-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1898 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Pop Warner, the Cyclones compiled a 3\u20132 record and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 50 to 49. Simon Tarr was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031600-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031601-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Iowa State Normals football team\nThe 1898 Iowa State Normals football team represented Iowa State Normal School (later renamed University of Northern Iowa) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Kalita E. Leighton, the team compiled a 4\u20130\u20131 record, including an 11\u20135 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes, and outscored all opponents by a total of 92 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031602-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Italian Football Championship\nThe 1898 Italian Football Championship was a major event in the footballing history of Italy. It was the first FIGC-endorsed league competition which is considered an official predecessor of Serie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031602-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Italian Football Championship\nIt was a knock-out tournament involving three clubs from Turin and one from Genoa. All three matches were played at the Velodromo Umberto I in Turin on 8 May, over the course of the one day. The winner of this first-ever season was Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031603-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1898 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Wylie G. Woodruff, the Jayhawks compiled a 7\u20131 record, shut out six of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 129 to 24. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Arthur Mosse was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031604-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031605-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Republican nominee William Eugene Stanley defeated People's Party incumbent John W. Leedy with 51.81% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031606-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1898 Kentucky Derby was the 24th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 4, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031607-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1898 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team, known as \"the Immortals,\" was undefeated, untied, and unscored upon, posted a 7\u20130 record and outscored its opponents 181 to 0. The Centre game was stopped by rain after fifteen minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031608-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Kesteven County Council election\nThe third set of elections to Kesteven County Council were held in March 1898. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo. The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council; elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031608-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Kesteven County Council election\nForty-eight electoral divisions of the new Council were outlined in December 1888. Nearly every candidate was returned unopposed, with contests in only three divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031609-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1898 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 10th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031609-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThreecastles won the championship after a 4-01 to 2-03 defeat of Confederation in the final. This was their first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031610-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1898 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tigers, with new coach Edmond Chavanne, played only one game for the 1898 season. It was their third undefeated season. Another outbreak of yellow fever similar to the one in 1897 caused LSU to play only one game. By the time LSU was able to play its only game of the season, Allen Jeardeau had departed from the school as head football coach, and no provision had been made to replace him. The job of coach then fell to the team's captain, Edmond Chavanne, the only player-coach in LSU football history. 1898 marked the final year of play for William S. Slaughter. He was LSU's first five time football letterman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031611-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Lafayette football team\nThe 1898 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its first season under head coach Samuel B. Newton, the team compiled a 3\u20138 record. Charles Best was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031612-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1898 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their fourth season in existence. The team finished 7-3. This season, the team's colors changed from orange and maroon to red and blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031613-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Launceston by-election\nThe 1898 Launceston by-election was held on 3 August 1898. It was held due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP Thomas Owen. It was retained by the Liberal candidate Sir John Fletcher Moulton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031614-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Lehigh football team\nThe 1898 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its first season under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the team compiled a 3\u20136\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 106 to 49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031615-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Liechtenstein general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liechtenstein in April and May 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031615-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Liechtenstein general election, Electors\nElectors were selected through elections that were held between 28 April and 3 May. Each municipality had two electors for every 100 inhabitants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031615-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nThe election of Oberland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 11 May in Vaduz. Of Oberland's 118 electors, 117 were present. Oberland elected seven Landtag members and four substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031615-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nThe election of Unterland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 12 May in Mauren. All of Unterland's 74 electors were present. Unterland elected five Landtag members and one substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031615-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nXaver Bargetze did not accept his election as one of Oberland's Landtag members and was replaced by Meinrad Ospelt. Franz Josef Biedermann did not accept his election as one of Oberland's substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031616-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1898 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 10th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031616-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nShamrocks won the championship after a 1-06 to 1-02 defeat of Caherline in the final. It was their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1898. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, Election result\nBecause of the large number of uncontested wards, these statistics should be taken in that context.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1895 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nAt the meeting of the Council on 9 November 1898, the terms of office of fourteen alderman expired. The following fourteen were elected as Aldermen by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) on 9 November 1898 for a term of six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, Aldermanic By Election, 9 November 1898\nFollowing the death of Alderman Arthur Bower Forwood Bart. MP, former councillor Herbert Campbell JP (Conservative, North Toxteth elected 1886, 1889 and 1892) was elected as an alderman by the council on 9 November 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 20, Great George, 25 November 1898\nCaused by the election of Councillor Edward Paul (Liberal, Great George, elected 1 November 1898) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 90], "content_span": [91, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 13, North Scotland, 29 November 1898\nCaused by the election of Councillor Edward Purcell (Irish Nationalist, North Scotland, elected 1 November 1896) as an alderman by the council (councillors and aldermen) on 9 November 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 92], "content_span": [93, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 14, South Scotland, 29 November 1898\nCaused by the death of Councillor Owen O'Hara (Irish Nationalist, South Scotland, elected 1 November 1896) on 11 November 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 92], "content_span": [93, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 20, Great George, 10 February 1899\nCaused by the death of Councillor Thomas Donnelly (Liberal, Great George, elected 1 November 1897) on 18 January 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 90], "content_span": [91, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.1, Sandhills, 17 March 1899\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor William Nelson (Liberal, Sandhills, elected 1 November 1897) which was reported to the Council on 1 March 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 14, South Scotland, 28 April 1899\nThe election of George Jeremy Lynskey (Irish Nationalist, South Scotland, elected unopposed 1 November 1898) was declared void by the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice 15 April 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 89], "content_span": [90, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 15, Vauxhall, 19 May 1899\nCaused by the death of Councillor Thomas Flynn (Irish Nationalist, Vauxhall, elected 1 November 1897) on 3 May 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 14, South Scotland,\nCaused by the death of Councillor Robert Thompson (Irish Nationalist, South Scotland, elected 1 November 1896) on 21 July 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 26, Dingle, 10 October 1899\nCaused by the resignation of Alderman Joseph Bond Morgan (Conservative, elected by the council as an alderman on 9 November 1895)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 26, Dingle, 10 October 1899\nCouncillor Thomas Evans (Conservative, Dingle, elected 1 November 1897) was elected by the Council (Councillors and Aldermen) as an Alderman on 6 September 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031617-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 19, St. Peter's, October 1899\nThe resignation of Alderman Jeremiah Miles (Liberal, elected 9 November 1898) was reported to the Council on 4 October 1899. Councillor William Henry Watts (Liberal St. Peter's, elected 1 November 1897) was elected as an alderman by the council on 4 October 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election\nThe Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, 1898 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 9 December 1898 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Kirkdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Vacancy\nThe seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir George Baden-Powell had died on 20 November 1898, aged 50. He had held the seat since its creation for the 1885 general election, and had been re-elected with comfortable majorities at each of the three subsequent general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Candidates\nSeveral names were floated as possible Conservative candidates for the seat. On 26 November, The Times newspaper reported that those being considered included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal Party had already adopted as their candidate for the next election William Nelson, a ship-owner and Liverpool City Councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Candidates\nBy the time Kirkdale Conservative Association met on 29 November, the local executive committee had already sent a telegram to 40-year-old Austin Taylor, inviting to be their candidate. Taylor, who was president of the Laymen's League and son of the Archdeacon of Liverpool, had deferred his answer until the day of the meeting. At the meeting, the divisional council refused to be bound by the decision of their executive, and the names of David MacIver and John Houlding were also formally proposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Candidates\nAfter a discussion described by The Times as \"long and animated\", a substantial majority voted to select MacIver, a ship-owner whose father Charles had been manager of the Cunard Line from 1865 to 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals met on 1 December, and lamented their lack of preparedness. Local ship-owner Sir Christopher Furness had been invited to stand, but declined. Another ship-owner, H. Bell, had also turned down a request, and the meeting rejected a proposal to adopt Thomas Snape, the former MP for Heywood. The meeting decided to ask the Liberal whips in Westminster to suggest potential candidates, as a result of which an approach was made to Sir Spencer Walpole, who rejected the invitation. The Times reported that several other unsuccessful approaches had been made. Kirkdale had a large Irish Nationalist population, so any candidate needed the support of both Liberals and Nationalists, but local councillor Thomas J. Flynn also refused to accept nomination despite an offer to meet all his election expenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Result\nBy the time nominations closed on 9 December, the Liberals had still not chosen a candidate. MacIver was the only candidate nominated, so the poll had been scheduled for 15 December, but never took place. MacIver was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031618-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Aftermath\nMacIver was re-elected at the general elections in 1900 and 1906, and held the seat until his death in September 1907 caused another by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031619-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 1898 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 5, 1898. Incumbent Meredith P. Snyder was defeated by Frederick Eaton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031620-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Louisville Colonels season\nThe 1898 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 70\u201381 record and ninth place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031620-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031620-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031620-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031620-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031621-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Maltese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Malta on 28 and 29 September 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031621-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Maltese general election, Background\nThe elections were held under the Knutsford Constitution. Ten members were elected from single-member constituencies, whilst a further four members were elected to represent nobility and landowners, graduates, clerics and the Chamber of Commerce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031621-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Maltese general election, Results\nA total of 9,863 people were registered to vote, of which 3,128 cast votes, giving a turnout of 32%. Paolo Sammut was elected to both the nobility and landowners' seat and the seat of constituency II, whilst no candidates stood for the seats for clerics and the Chamber of Commerce. Sammut chose to retain the seat for constituency II, and by-elections were held for the three vacant seats on 2 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake\nThe 1898 Mare Island earthquake occurred in Northern California on March 30 at 23:43 local time with a moment magnitude of 5.8\u20136.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII\u2013IX (Severe\u2013Violent). Its area of perceptibility included much of northern and central California and western Nevada. Damage amounted to $350,000 (about $10,700,000 inflation adjusted to 2018) and was most pronounced on Mare Island, a peninsula in northern San Francisco Bay. While relatively strong effects there were attributed to vulnerable buildings, moderate effects elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area consisted of damaged or partially collapsed structures, and there were media reports of a small tsunami and mostly mild aftershocks that followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake\nThe mechanism of the shock is unknown, but several independent investigations focused on different aspects to gain a better understanding of the intensity, magnitude, source fault, and epicenter of this pre-instrumental event. Most investigators placed it under or to the north of San Pablo Bay, though two earthquake catalogs gave specific coordinates that place it within the confines of the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0001-0001", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake\nOne of the numerous strike-slip faults of the San Andreas Fault System in the North Bay are most often named as the source fault, but one seismologist's paper detailed how an unnamed dip-slip fault may have been responsible. Several more recent studies gave alternate perspectives that named specific faults as the origin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe San Andreas Fault system (SAF) is a network of right-lateral strike-slip faults that form a portion of a complex and diffuse plate boundary. The faults span on and off shore along the California portion of the Pacific Rim, and in the area near San Francisco Bay, the extent of the various fault strands are limited to about 80 kilometers (50\u00a0mi) wide from east to west. This system of faults terminates in the north at the Mendocino Triple Junction where the north-northwest trending SAF meets the east trending Mendocino Fracture Zone. It terminates in the south in a more gradual fashion at the Salton Sea where displacement transitions to a series of transform faults and spreading centers along the Gulf of California Rift Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake\nThe shock was felt over an area of 120,000\u00a0km2, from Chico in the north to Monterey in the south, and to Carson City in western Nevada. Toppozada et al. 1992 compared the isoseismal map from the event to those of earthquakes that occurred during the instrumental period to resolve the magnitude. The intensity VI isoseismals for the 1969 Santa Rosa and 1984 Morgan Hill earthquakes were markedly smaller; only the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake covered a larger area than that of the 1898 event. The isoseismals for intensity V, VII, and VIII were also compared for additional calibration, and 6.7 was presented as the magnitude of the event, which was presumed to have occurred on the southern Rodgers Creek Fault. This estimate was later reduced to M6.4 in Toppozada & Branum 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake\nBakun 1999 also analyzed intensity details to resolve for magnitude and location, resulting in M6.3 and a location at the northeast end of San Pablo Bay. A technique called Bayesian inference used by Wesson, Bakun, & Perkins 2003 showed that the northern Hayward Fault was the most likely source, with the Rodgers Creek, southern Green Valley, Concord, and northern Green Valley faults as the next most likely. Media reports of a small non-destructive tsunami led Parsons et al. 2003 to conclude that a normal fault (rather than a strike-slip fault) may have been responsible for the shock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0004-0001", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake\nAnother viewpoint from Hecker et al. 2005 was that the Rodgers Creek Fault was not likely the source because their trench investigation showed that its most recent event had a maximum slip of 2\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in) and that the 1898 event was too small to result in that much displacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake\nAnother seismologist re-examined the event following the 2014 South Napa earthquake and found that the heavy effects on Mare Island were the result of weak or deficient buildings. Comparing the intensity distribution of the two shocks revealed that it was indeed severe on Mare Island as it was likely close to the rupture, which may have involved both strands of the Franklin Fault (between the West Napa and Rodgers Creek Faults). Although surface rupturing events have been documented on the Hayward\u2013Rodgers Creek Fault System just to the west, no surface rupture was associated with this earthquake. A magnitude range of 5.8\u20136.4 Mw was given, with the lower bound representing an average stress drop event and the higher bound for a lower stress drop event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake, Intensity\nThe isoseismal map from Toppozada & Real 1981 places the epicenter to the north of San Pablo Bay and shows elongated rings aligned NNW\u2013SSE. The innermost intensity VIII (Severe) ring encompasses Vallejo, Mare Island, and much of San Pablo Bay, and also includes three instances of intensity IX (Violent), but the locations cannot be determined with accuracy due to a lack of map resolution. While San Francisco is within the intensity VII (Very strong) ring, Santa Cruz and San Jose are labeled intensity VI (Strong) exceptions within the intensity V (Moderate) ring. Ukiah, Stockton, Sacramento, and Gilroy also lay in the intensity V ring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake, Intensity\nToppozada et al. 1992 presents an updated isoseimal map that focuses on the near field rather than an extended perspective, with slightly more conservative maximum intensities, and locations that are clearly labeled with specific intensities. The innermost isoseismal shows only one location that is an exception to intensity VIII. Tubbs Island, to the northwest of Mare Island, lists VIII\u2013IX. Schellville, Lakeville, and Mare Island all show intensity VIII. A large number of locations are marked VI\u2013VII, including Santa Rosa, San Rafael, Oakland, and San Francisco. As opposed to showing a specific epicenter, the newer, enhanced map shows that it may have been anywhere within a broad swath centered on the southern Rodgers Creek Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake, Damage\nWhile the National Geophysical Data Center categorizes the overall effects of the event as moderate, significant damage occurred at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, where several buildings suffered partial or total collapse and some equipment was damaged. Other strong effects occurred at Vallejo and to the southeast in Benicia, where a cannery was damaged and in Martinez where the courthouse was damaged. Other locations in Sonoma County that were severely affected included Schellville, Greenwood Estate, and near Petaluma Creek. The effects were less severe in San Francisco, but one building partially collapsed, a girls high school suffered damage valued at several thousand dollars, and soil conditions contributed to damage at the Whittier School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks\nBay Area newspapers reported on aftershocks that were felt in a number of locations. These shocks were only reported at locations that were within the intensity VII or higher isoseismals. The Sonoma Index-Tribune reported that at Sonoma there were four strong aftershocks and more than twenty lighter shocks (that at most just rattled windows) later that night. The San Francisco Call stated that while the aftershocks were heaviest near Tubbs Island, they were more frequent near Lakeville at the Petaluma marshes, and this was interpreted as the alluvium under the island suppressing the lighter shocks. Analysis of the severity, location, and frequency of the aftershocks bolstered Toppozada et al. 1992's stance that the origin of the mainshock was the southern Rodgers Creek Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031622-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Mare Island earthquake, Tsunami\nNumerous bay area newspapers reported on various disturbances that were experienced by mariners. In the Pacific Ocean, vessels southeast of Point Reyes and near the Farallon Islands reported feeling the shock, and a sharp rise in sea level was reported in the San Francisco Bay and on the Napa River. Upon examination of the event, tsunami experts declared that while the Rodgers Creek Fault is primarily strike-slip, some vertical movement is possible, which is associated with tsunami generation. A five-point scale (0\u20134) was used to certify whether a tsunami event was legitimate. With 0 intended for \"not a valid tsunami report\" and 4 being \"certainly a valid report\", a score of 2 was assigned to the event, meaning that it was \"possibly a valid report\" based on insufficient information, nonexpert observations, and unclear descriptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031623-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1898 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 1898 college football season. The team did not have a coach, and outscored their opponents 40\u201311 in four games (with one forfeit win) en route to the school's first winning season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031623-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1898 season contained two major firsts in Marshall football history: the first win (on Oct. 22 against Kingsbury High School) and the first away game (on Nov. 9 in Catlettsburg, Kentucky).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031624-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1898 college football season. The team was led by player-coach Frank Kenly and finished with a 2\u20136\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031625-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1898 college football season. The team was coached by David \"Doc\" Weeks and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Weeks became the first official head coach of the Aggies this campaign. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 1\u20134\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031626-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Incumbent Republican Governor Roger Wolcott was re-elected to a third term in office, defeating Democratic former Mayor of Lawrence Alexander B. Bruce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031627-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 119th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1898 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031628-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Mataura by-election\nThe Mataura by-election, 1898 was a by-election held on 26 May 1898 during the 13th New Zealand Parliament in the rural lower South Island electorate of Mataura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031628-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Mataura by-election, Background\nThe by-election was triggered after sitting Member George Richardson was declared bankrupt. Robert McNab stated that had Richardson contested the election, he would not have accepted a nomination and allowed him to return unopposed. McNab had previously represented the Mataura electorate from 1893 to 1896 when he was defeated by Richardson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031628-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Mataura by-election, Results\nAfter winning the contest, McNab held the seat uninterrupted until 1908 when he was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season\nThe 1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 25th season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. Seven clubs competed from May till August 1898. The season culminated in the premiership, which was won by the Pirates. The Pirates were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Teams\nSeven clubs signed up with the Metropolitan Rugby Football Union to play the Senior Premiership. Lost from last season was the Wentworth club. Added to the premiership were two new Senior teams from Burwood and Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Season Summary\nThe early rounds of the 1898 Sydney Rugby Premiership underwent much upheaval. The first round of games began with 7 teams competing. However, by the second round, Burwood had struck trouble forfeiting their first game of the season (in round one they had the bye). Before round three could get underway, the Burwood club had withdrawn from the Premiership and disbanded. Burwood had not played a single game. This caused the Metropolitan Rugby Football Union to reorganise the draw for the season and readjust the points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0002-0001", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Season Summary\nByes accumulated to that point were removed and the forfeit against Sydney University scratched from the ladder. Within two weeks, Paddington had also struck trouble and withdrew from the Premiership. The club disbanded soon after. The two remaining games they were scheduled to play resulted in forfeits being handed to the opposing teams. When the finals began for the two trophies, only five teams were still playing. As a result, Sydney received a bye during the first week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Season Summary\nThe Pirates Football Club had been in existence since 1889 and had not much success in finals football. Climbing through the junior grades, they consistently missed out on winning the final prize. When they moved into senior football in 1893, they consistently showed moments of brilliance but lacked the consistency of a season. During the last season, they proved themselves second to Randwick and won the Agricultural Society Trophy only after protesting against winners, Randwick, on the grounds of player eligibility. In 1898, the Pirates steadily improved throughout the season. They lost the SCG Trophy semi final, but won their way through magnificently to the Agricultural Society Trophy final. They were worthy winners of the Premiership with all round skill shown across the paddock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Season Summary\nThe Sydney Football Club had a tremendously successful first season in senior football. They began the year winning only one out of their first four games. Despite losing their captain to injury, the team won tough matches against strong teams to make their way into the Agricultural Society final. Unfortunately, they came up against a classy Pirates team and went down 9 points to 3. Runners-up in their first season boded well for the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Season Summary\nAfter spending the last four seasons as premiers, the Randwick Football Club found themselves on the wrong end of crowd favour. They began the season with such great potential but with spasmodic training and injuries to key players, the team lacked the success of previous seasons. Their defence was beside none, with the team allowing only seven tries against them all season. Randwick won the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy to salvage a tough year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 1, 2 July, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nThe top four teams on the ladder qualified to compete for the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy. Heavy rain caused the semi finals to be played under difficult conditions. In the first game, Randwick played what was regarded as their best performance so far in the season. As a result, they beat the more fancied Wallaroo team 3 points to nil. The University-Pirates game was an example of good wet weather football. University scored 10 points to nil in the second half of the game to win the contest 13 points to 3. Both winning teams progressed to the final for the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 104], "content_span": [105, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 1, 2 July, Agricultural Society Trophy\nAfter missing out on playing for the SCG Trophy, the Sydney Football Club still qualified for the Agricultural Society Trophy. As no other teams were still in existence to contend for the trophy, Sydney was given a bye and moved on to the next week of finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 103], "content_span": [104, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 9th, 14 July, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nThe largest crowd in club football was in attendance for the final for the trophy on Saturday, 9th. The two teams, University and Randwick, were evenly matched and played an exciting game. The match resulted in a scoreless draw. As a result, the game was replayed on the following Thursday, 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 110], "content_span": [111, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 9th, 14 July, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nA perfect, warm afternoon saw approximately 3000 attend the replay final. The game was an easy win for Randwick winning 15 to 3. University failed, unlike previous games against Randwick, to win the ball in the scrum. This resulted in the winning team having plenty of time to create scoring opportunities. The win gave Randwick their fourth SCG Trophy, the third in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 110], "content_span": [111, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 9th, 14 July, Agricultural Society Trophy\nWith the Pirates receiving a bye, only one game was played towards the Agricultural Society Trophy on Saturday, 9th. Wallaroo met the young Sydney club at the Agricultural Society Ground. The Sydney forwards controlled the ball in the scrum using dribbling rushes. This resulted in a win to the team 15 points to 5. Some rough play occurred near the end of the game which later saw Wallaroo protest the result on the grounds of incompetence on the part of the referee. The Union dismissed the protest and Wallaroo were eliminated from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 109], "content_span": [110, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 3, 6 August, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe premiership was interrupted for a few weeks to play the Intercolonial matches, NSW v. Queensland. As a result, the semi finals for the Agricultural Society Trophy were not played until Saturday, 6 August. The first semi saw the Premiers, Randwick, defeated by the Pirates 6 points to 3. Overall, the game disappointed with only one try each. A penalty goal gave the Pirates the win with them progressing to the final. The second semi resulted in an astonishing win for Sydney, 19 to nil. The University team played without their entire regular three-quarter line due to a measles epidemic. Sydney were the stronger team, progressing to meet the Pirates in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 105], "content_span": [106, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 4, 13 August, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe final was played in wonderful warm weather and attracted a sizeable crowd of 6000. Both teams, the Pirates and Sydney, played strong games. There was little to differ between the two forward packs. The Pirates had the stronger backs, which assisted in giving them the win, 9 to 3. Once again, both teams scored a try, with the Pirates winning the match with two penalty goals. With this victory, the Pirates won the trophy for the second year. They were also awarded their first Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 106], "content_span": [107, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades\nThe MRFU also conducted three junior competitions: First Juniors, Second Juniors and Third Juniors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, First Juniors\nNine clubs initially signed up for the First Junior Premiership. These were: Bulwara, Marrickville, Buccaneer, Manly Federal, Adelphi, Rockdale, North Sydney, Newtown and South Sydney. By the time of the first round, Wallaroo II had joined the competition making 10 teams. During the season, both North Sydney and Bulwara withdrew from the competition leaving only 8 teams competing for a spot in the finals. At the conclusion of the regular games, South Sydney, Rockdale, Newtown and Marrickville qualified for the semi finals. The season ended with Marrickville winning the final against South Sydney 5 points to nil and being declared Premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, Second Juniors\nIn 1898, the Second Junior Premiership saw 9 teams sign up. These were: Endeavour, Newtown Orlando, Redfern Waratah, Forest Lodge Cambridge, Waverley, Homebush, University II, Glebe and Gladesville. By the end of the regular games, Forest Lodge Cambridge had withdrawn from the competition leaving 8 teams. Redfern Waratah and Glebe were tied at the top of the ladder with 6 wins and a draw each. The two teams faced Waverley and Newtown Orlando in the semi finals. The final saw Glebe beat Waverley 13 to 5 at the Burwood Cricket Ground. Glebe were declared Premiers with an unbeaten record winning 8 of their matches and drawing 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031629-0016-0000", "contents": "1898 Metropolitan Rugby Union Season, Lower Grades, Third Juniors\nThe 14 teams that signed up for the Third Junior Premiership were: Arncliffe, Botany, Endeavour II, East Sydney, Marrickville B, Summer Hill Oaklands, Victoria, Granville Royal, Willoughby Federals, Newtown Avenue, Buccaneer II, Forest Lodge Cambridge II, South Sydney B, Alexandria Premier. At the conclusion of the regular games, Botany, Granville Royal, Willoughby Federals and Forest Lodge Cambridge II qualified for the semi finals. The final was played between Botany and Willoughby Federals which resulted in a scoreless draw. The game was replayed with Botany winning the game and the Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031630-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1898 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031631-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1898 college football season. In their second year under coach Henry Keep, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20133 record and outscored their opponents 142 to 127. Coach Keep was an engineering student who had transferred from the University of Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031631-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1898 season also featured the first installment of the Michigan\u2013Michigan State football rivalry; Michigan won the game on a Wednesday at Ann Arbor, Michigan, by 39 to 0 score. Three days after losing to Michigan, the Aggies also lost the second installment of the Michigan State\u2013Notre Dame football rivalry; Notre Dame won the game at South Bend, Indiana, by 53 to 0 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031631-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe 1898 season marked the first game played in the intrastate rivalry between Michigan and Michigan State. The teams met in Ann Arbor on October 12, 1898, and Michigan won, 39 to 0. The Detroit Free Press wrote that the game was \"essentially a practice game,\" as Michigan played 25 different players during the game. Charles Widman scored two touchdowns and was \"the strongest ground-gainer\" for Michigan. In the second half, Keena also kicked a field goal from a place-kick, \"the first time a Michigan eleven has ever scored in that fashion.\" The game was played in 20-minute halves. The referee was J. C. Knight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031631-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nAfter the 1898 shutout, Michigan sent its freshman team against Michigan Agricultural for the next three years. The two rivals have played each other more than 100 times since the inaugural meeting in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031632-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1898 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal School (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1898 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Enoch Thorne, the Normalites compiled a record of 1\u20135\u20132, failed to score in five of eight games played, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 100 to 19. Fred Q. Gorton was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031632-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nEnrollment at Michigan State Normal reached 915 students in October 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1898 Western Conference football season. With Gustave Ferbert in his second year as head coach, the team compiled an undefeated 10\u20130 record, outscored its opponents 205\u201326, and won the Western Conference (now known as the Big Ten Conference) championship for the first time in the school's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1898 season included the first meeting in the Michigan - Michigan State football rivalry with Michigan winning the inaugural game by a score of 39\u20130. The 1898 Wolverines shut out a total of six opponents, including Notre Dame (23\u20130). The team concluded its season by playing Amos Alonzo Stagg's University of Chicago team for the Western Conference championship. The Wolverines beat the favored Chicago Maroons by a 12\u201311 score in a game that inspired Louis Elbel to write Michigan's fight song \"The Victors.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team\nSeveral Michigan players received post-season honors. Halfback Charles Widman was the team's scoring leader with 12 touchdowns, including a 65-yard touchdown run against Chicago. Center William Cunningham was selected as a first-team All-American by Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly \u2013 the first Michigan football player to receive first-team All-American honors. Walter Camp selected two Michigan players, Cunningham and tackle Allen Steckle, as second-team All-Americans. Five Wolverines were chosen as first-team players on Caspar Whitney's All-Western team: William Caley at halfback, Cunningham at center, Steckle at tackle, and Neil Snow and John W. F. Bennett at the ends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nBy 1897, the finances of the Michigan Athletic Association under constantly changing student control were \"at a low ebb.\" In 1898, the Association asked Charles A. Baird, formerly a student manager of the football team, to return to Ann Arbor as the \"graduate manager\" or \"superintendent\" of athletics. Baird was given \"complete control of all branches of athletics at Michigan\" in order to induce him to return to the school. One of Baird's first moves was to persuade trainer Keene Fitzpatrick to rejoin him at the school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0003-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nFitzpatrick had been the trainer of the 1894 and 1895 teams, but spent the 1896 and 1897 seasons as the trainer for Yale's football team. Baird and Fitzpatrick have been credited with much of the success of the 1898 football team. Gustave Ferbert, who had played on the 1893\u20131895 teams managed by Baird, stayed on as coach in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nThe 1897 team had finished with a record of 6\u20131\u20131, losing the Western Conference championship on the last day of the season to the University of Chicago. Several key linemen from the 1897 team returned in 1898, including ends John W. F. Bennett and Clayton Teetzel, tackle Allen Steckle, guard William Caley, and center William Cunningham. However, the starters from the 1897 backfield were lost to graduation and had to be replaced largely with untested players, including quarterbacks Charles E. Street and William Wilson Talcott, fullback Alanson Weeks, and freshman halfback Charles Widman. Fullback Leo J. Keena returned from the 1897 team, but he had contracted malaria while serving during the summer of 1898 in the Spanish\u2013American War and was unable to play beyond the fourth game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State Normal\nMichigan opened its 1898 season with a 21\u20130 win over Michigan State Normal School (now known as Eastern Michigan University). The game was considered to be \"essentially a practice game\" in which the coaches played 24 men at different times to assess their abilities. Michigan's first touchdown came after three minutes of play on a drive that started on Normal's 40-yard line. Waldo Avery ran around end for 22 yards and subsequently ran across the goal line from the 10-yard line. Leo J. Keena kicked the goal from touchdown. George Whitcomb scored the second touchdown on a 15-yard run, and Neil Snow scored the third touchdown of the half after recovering a fumbled punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State Normal\nThe second half was reported to be a \"very poor exhibition of football\" with substitutes playing at most positions. Michigan's sole points of the second half came on a fumble recovery by William Louis Day. Michigan missed the extra point kicks on its final three touchdowns. (Touchdowns were worth five points and goals from touchdown (or extra points) worth one point under 1898 rules.) Guy Blencoe also missed a field goal from placement from the 40-yard line in the second half. In assessing the team's performance, the Detroit Free Press opined that the team was green, ragged, and slow, and concluded that \"the coaches certainly have their work cut out for them if they are going to make a winning team out of the raw material at hand.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State Normal\nMichigan's starting lineup against Normal was Snow (left end), Wood (left tackle), France (left guard), Carr (center), Kramer (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Bennett (right end), Talcott (quarterback), Avery (left halfback), Van Cleve (right halfback), and Keena (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were White (left tackle), Brown (center), Smith (center), Allen (right guard), Dyer (right guard), Day (right tackle), Mohr (left halfback), Whitcomb (right halfback), Blencoe (right halfback), Malone (right halfback), Weeks (fullback), and Hoover (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Kenyon\nOn October 8, 1898, Michigan defeated the team from Kenyon College, 29\u20130. In the first half, the Kenyon eleven \"played a snappy game\" and drove the ball to Michigan's two-yard line before the Michigan line held. Michigan led 6\u20130 at halftime. In the second half, Michigan added 23 points. Waldo Avery, Charles Widman, Leo J. Keena, Guy Blencoe, and Neil Snow scored touchdowns for Michigan. Keena kicked four goals from touchdown. In its account of the game, the Chicago Daily Tribune wrote that Whitcomb, Widman, and Talcott \"put up the best game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Kenyon\nThe game was played in 20-minute halves. Michigan's starting lineup against Kenyon was Teetzel (left end), Wood (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Brown (center), France (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Barabee (quarterback), Avery (left halfback), Whitcomb (right halfback), and Keena (fullback). Players appearing as substitutes for Michigan were Hicks (left end), Dye (center), Allen (right guard), McDonald (right tackle), Talcott (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), and Blencoe (right halfback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan Agricultural\nThe 1898 season marked the first game played in the intrastate rivalry between Michigan and Michigan State (then known as Michigan Agricultural College). The teams met in Ann Arbor on October 12, 1898, and Michigan won 39\u20130. The Detroit Free Press wrote that the game was \"essentially a practice game,\" as Michigan played 25 different players during the game. Charles Widman scored two touchdowns and was \"the strongest ground-gainer\" for Michigan. Additional Michigan touchdowns were scored by Clayton Teetzel, Clifford Barabee, Allen Steckle, and Fred William Hartsburg. Teetzel and Leo J. Keena kicked two extra points each. In the second half, Keena also kicked a field goal from a place-kick, \"the first time a Michigan eleven has ever scored in that fashion.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan Agricultural\nThe game was played in 20-minute halves. Michigan's starting lineup against Michigan Agricultural was Teetzel (left end), Day (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Smith (center), France (right guard), McDonald (right tackle), Snow (right end), Talcott (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), Whitcomb (right halfback), and Barabee (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Hicks (left end), Wood (left tackle), Kramer (left guard), Brown (center), Dye (center), Bennett (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Richardson (right end), Hartsburg (quarterback), Weeks (quarterback and right halfback), Baldwin (left halfback), Keena (fullback). The referee was J. C. Knight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan Agricultural\nAfter the 1898 shutout, Michigan sent its freshman team against Michigan Agricultural for the next three years. The two rivals have played each other more than 100 times since the inaugural meeting in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Western Reserve\nOn October 15, 1898, Michigan defeated the team from Adelbert College, a branch of Western Reserve University, 18\u20130. George Whitcomb scored two touchdowns for Michigan, and Charles Widman scored one. Whitcomb made \"the star run of the game\" on a 55-yard touchdown run in the second half. Charles Street kicked two extra points, and Leo J. Keena kicked one. The game was played in halves of 25 and 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0013-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Western Reserve\nMichigan's starting lineup against Western Reserve was Teetzel (left end), Wood (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Dye (center), France (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Talcott (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), Barabee (right halfback), and Hannan (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were White (left tackle), Brown (center), McDonald (right tackle), Blencoe (left halfback), Whitcomb (right halfback), Keena (fullback), and Street (fullback). The referee was R. M. Simmons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nOn Wednesday, October 19, 1898, Michigan played a mid-week game against the team from the Case Scientific School from Cleveland. Michigan won the game, 23\u20135. On Michigan's opening drive, William Caley missed on a place kick for a field goal from the 20-yard line. Clifford Barabee scored Michigan's first touchdown ten minutes into the first half. Neil Snow kicked the goal after touchdown. Charles Widman scored Michigan's second touchdown with three minutes left in the first half, and Snow again kicked the goal after touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0014-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nAccording to The Michigan Alumnus, \"Widman was the star ground gainer for Michigan and his two long runs of 45 and 33 yards were clever exhibitions.\" On the kickoff that followed Michigan's second touchdown, the Wolverines were called for holding, and Case took over at Michigan's 25-yard line. Case took advantage of its field position with a drop kick for a field goal (good for five points) from the 35-yard line. Widman scored another touchdown just before the close of the first half, and Snow successfully kicked his third goal from touchdown. In the second half, play was impaired by the onset of darkness. Allen Steckle scored the only points of the second half on a 12-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nThe game was played in halves of 20 and 15 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup against Case was Teetzel (left end), White (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Brown (center), France (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Talcott (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), Barabee (right halfback), and Weeks (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Smith (center) and Street (fullback). The referee was Clarke from Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0016-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame\nOn October 22, 1898, Michigan played Notre Dame for the first time since 1888. Michigan won the game, 23\u20130, in Ann Arbor. William Caley scored three touchdowns in the game, and Clifford Barabee scored Michigan's other touchdown, while Neil Snow was successful on three of four attempts at goals from touchdown. Charles Widman set up the first touchdown with a 45-yard run around Notre Dame's left end before he was tackled at the three-yard line. Caley carried the ball across the goal line, but Snow's kick for goal failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0016-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame\nMichigan's second touchdown came late in the first half after Fleming fumbled a punt, and Barabee recovered the ball at the Notre Dame 45-yard line. Widman ran for 26 yards, and Barabee then gained another 10 yards. Caley ran the ball across the goal line from the three-yard line, and Snow kicked the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0017-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame\nOn the opening play of the second half, Caley kicked off to Notre Dame. The kick was fumbled by Notre Dame, and Caley recovered the ball at Notre Dame's 48-yard line. Michigan drove the ball to the three-yard line, and Barabee scored the touchdown. Michigan's fourth touchdown was set up by a 25-yard punt return by William Wilson Talcott. Caley scored from the four-yard line, and Snow kicked the extra point. At the end of the game, the biggest crowd of the season \"rushed the players off the field in honor.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0018-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame\nNotre Dame's highly touted 6-foot, 4-inch, 256-pound center, John Eggeman, was held in check by Michigan's backup center Harry Brown. The Chicago Daily Tribune reported: \"Eggeman, the big center rush of the visitors, did not prove nearly so hard a proposition for Brown as was anticipated, and taken altogether the visitors' strength was considerably overestimated, if they played their game today.\" The Irish managed only one first down and lost five fumbles. Notre Dame halfback George Lins punched a Michigan player in frustration, claiming he had been held throughout the game by Michigan's quarterback. Notre Dame suspended Lins from the following week's game. The field in Ann Arbor was reported to be a \"mudbath,\" which favored the Wolverines who played the game in long cleats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0019-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Notre Dame\nMichigan' starting lineup against Notre Dame was Bennett (left end), White (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Brown (center), France (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Talcott (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), Barabee (right halfback), and Weeks (fullback). Players appearing as substitutes for Michigan were Teetzel (left end), McDonald (left tackle), Blencoe (right halfback), and Street (fullback). The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0020-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Alumni game\nOn October 31, 1898, the Michigan football team played the school's alumni as part of the school's homecoming celebration. The Michigan band met a train carrying 300 alumni from Detroit and led the alumni to Regents Field. The Michigan varsity defeated the alumni by a score of 11\u20132. Allen Steckle scored the game's first touchdown after seven minutes of play, and Neil Snow kicked the extra point. In the second half, Charles Widman scored a second touchdown giving the varsity an 11-0 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0020-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Alumni game\nThe alumni's two points were scored when Edwin Denby forced Charles Street to make a safety on a punt. The game was considered an exhibition and did not count toward Michigan's season record. The university's Student Athletic Association began sponsoring alumni games in 1897. The university band, glee and banjo clubs, and fraternities, participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0020-0002", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Alumni game\nAthletic director Charles A. Baird noted that the alumni games were organized to gain alumni support for the school's athletic teams, to allow the current athletes to benefit from the experience and knowledge of the alumni players, and to bring the alumni together \"so that they may renew old acquaintances and promote good fellowship, college spirit and interest in their alma mater.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0021-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Alumni game\nThe alumni game was played in 25- and 20-minute halves. The starting lineup for the varsity was Bennett (left end), Avery (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Cunningham (center), France (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Street (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), Whitcomb (right halfback), and Weeks (fullback). Varsity substitutes were Teetzel (left end), White (left tackle), Dye (left guard), Talcott (quarterback), Baldwin (right halfback), McDonald (fullback), and Hannan (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0021-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Alumni game\nThe starting lineup for the alumni team was Loomis Hutchinson (left end), Giovanni R. \"Count\" Villa (left tackle), \"Pa\" Henninger (left guard), Edwin Denby (center), Forrest M. Hall (right guard), William C. Malley (right tackle), Gilmore D. Price (right end), Howard Felver (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert (left halfback), Horace L. Dyer (right halfback), and Ignatius M. Duffy (fullback). Alumni substitutes were M. Snow (right guard), Roger Sherman (right end), and Le Roy (right halfback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0022-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nOn November 5, 1898, Michigan opened its Western Conference schedule by playing Northwestern. The game was played in front of a small crowd at Evanston, Illinois, with Michigan fans seated in newly built stands on the east side of the field. The Northwestern fans were seated on the west side of the field and were led by two bands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0023-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nMichigan won a close game by a score of 6 to 5. On Northwestern's second drive, Bothne carried the ball 40 yards to Michigan's ten-yard line. Bothne eventually carried the ball across the goal line to give Northwestern a 5\u20130 lead. Northwestern's extra point kick attempt was made into a strong wind and sailed one foot wide of the crossbar. Coach Bannard of Northwestern argued that Northwestern should have been granted another attempt at the extra point and blamed the referee for the defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0023-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nThe Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: \"Referee Brown refused to permit a second try, although Michigan was off side.\" The Tribune blamed the officials for regularly allowing Michigan to line up off side: \"Brown, the pudgy Michigan center, was over the line half of the time before Little could get the ball started, and through that hole, during the second half, a man named Weeks plunged with disastrous regularity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0024-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nOn offense, Michigan drove 60 yards for a touchdown on its next drive after Northwestern scored. Charles Widman began the drive with a 30-yard gain. When the ball was pushed close to Northwestern's goal line, William Caley carried the ball and was \"dragged over the line.\" Neil Snow kicked the extra point that proved to be Michigan's margin of victory. Alanson Weeks was credited with \"brilliant\" work and big gains, while Allen Steckle was described as the star of the game with his \"smashing plunges.\" Michigan reportedly made frequent use of \"a mass play on tackle.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0025-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nThe Wolverines drove the ball to Northwestern's five-yard-line on four drives but failed to score a touchdown, having one drive halted by a holding penalty and three others stopped on downs. The Chicago Daily Tribune described Northwestern's goal-line stands as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0026-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\n\"Many times the Michiganders raised the song of victory as the ball was forced under the shadows of the Northwestern posts, but before the chorus had died away the grim men in purple, fighting frantically to defend the goal, drove back the invaders and punted out of danger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0026-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nThen the fierce battering would begin again, Michigan would hurl its weight of muscle and sinew against the crumbling line of purple, and inch by inch the ball would travel back toward the final line; again the chant of victory would rise from the Wolverines only to die away in disappointment, while wild yells poured down under the fluttering ribbons of the Evanston supporters.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0027-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nAs time ran out, Michigan fielded a Northwestern kick. In what the Tribune called an \"exciting mixup,\" players and trainers from each team then rushed for the ball. \"The gang mixed up in lively style, and for a minute fists smashed all through the crowd. The police rushed in and the disturbance was instantly quelled, but eventually Michigan secured the ball and carried it off as a prize to its trophy-room.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0028-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, At Northwestern\nThe game was played in 35-minute halves. Michigan's starting lineup against Northwestern was Bennett (left end), White (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Cunningham (center),France (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Street (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), Barabee (right halfback), and McDonald (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Avery (left tackle) and Weeks (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0029-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Illinois\nMichigan's second conference game was a 12 to 5 win over Illinois at Detroit. The game was played after heavy rains had turned the field at the Detroit Athletic Club into \"a veritable sea of mud.\" Michigan won the game in front of a crowd of 3,500 spectators. After five minutes of play, \"the men were plastered with mud,\" and the wet field contributed to poor footing and difficulties handling the ball. The Wolverines won despite what one writer described as \"ragged play\" that included a number of penalties for offsides and \"keeping of hands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0029-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Illinois\nClifford Barabee scored Michigan's first touchdown as he was shoved into the endzone by his teammates. Illinois' only score came in the first half after Michigan's fullback, Alanson Weeks, fumbled, and Illinois player picked it up and ran 50 yards for a touchdown. Michigan completed the scoring in the second half with a touchdown drive that included runs of 10 and 15 yards by John McLean and additional gains by Neil Snow, Charles Widman and Allen Steckle. Widman scored the touchdown on an end run. Right end John Bennett successfully completed both of his point after touchdown kicks for the Wolverines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0030-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Illinois\nThe game was played in 35-minute halves. Michigan's starting lineup against Illinois was Bennett (left end), White (left tackle), Caley (left guard), Cunningham (center), Baker (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Talcott (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), Barabee (right halfback), and Weeks (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Avery (left tackle), Whitcomb (fullback), Allen (left guard), Kramer (right guard), Teetzel (left halfback), and Hicks (right end).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0031-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Beloit\nOn November 19, 1898, Michigan defeated the team from Beloit College, 22\u20130. Michigan's 22 points exceeded the totals compiled against Beloit by both Chicago (21 points) and Wisconsin (17 points). McLean returned the opening kickoff 55 yards, but the first half turned into a punting duel. William Caley moved from his position on the line at guard to the backfield as fullback. Because of Caley's strong punting (40 to 55 yards per attempt), Michigan gained 15 to 20 yards on the exchange of punts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0031-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Beloit\nThe Chicago Daily Tribune wrote that Caley's \"punting was faultless, and his line bucking set the crowd wild.\" Michigan scored three touchdowns in the first half and one in the second half. Michigan's touchdowns were scored by Charles Widman (2), Allen Steckle, and Caley. Neil Snow kicked two extra points. Widman scored the first touchdown after nine minutes of play, and Snow kicked the extra point. The second touchdown was set up by a 50-yard run by Snow, followed by a touchdown run by Widman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0032-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Beloit\nOn defense, Michigan held Beloit scoreless, and Caley was credited with his work in backing up the line. The Chicago Daily Tribune wrote that the Wolverines \"played by far the swiftest and best game of the year.\" With one of Chicago's coaches (Gale) and its captain (Kennedy) in attendance at the game, the Wolverines played \"straight football\" with the exception of \"a delayed pass and ordinary criss-cross.\" Fred Hayner, who served as the referee, opined, \"Michigan plays three times as fast a game as she did against Northwestern. She also played a cleaner game as far as holding and getting offside too.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0033-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Beloit\nThe game was played in 20-minute halves. Michigan's starting lineup against Beloit was Bennett (left end), White (left tackle), Baker (left guard), Cunningham (center), France (right guard), Steckle (right tackle), Snow (right end), Street (quarterback), Widman (left halfback), McLean (right halfback), and Caley (fullback). Players appearing in the game as substitutes for Michigan were Avery (left tackle), Brown (center), Talcott (quarterback), and Whitcomb (right halfback). The referee was Fred Hayner from Lake Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0034-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nMichigan concluded its undefeated season on Thanksgiving Day with a 12\u201311 victory over the Chicago Maroons at Marshall Field. The game was played for the championship of the Western Conference. In order to accommodate the crowd of Michigan fans traveling to Chicago for the game, the Michigan Central Railroad arranged for two special trains to run from Ann Arbor to Chicago at a round trip price of five dollars. The special excursion tickets allowed fans to spend the weekend in Chicago and return on Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0035-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nA crowd of 12,000 spectators attended the game. The New York Times wrote: \"The day and the grounds were ideal for football. The thermometer was lingering around the freezing mark, but the sky was cloudless, and the northwest wind was too light to interfere with the placing of punts.\" The Chicago team was favored and was reported to be \"the heaviest that ever represented a college, the average weight of the men being over 190 pounds.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0036-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nMichigan's first score came after 25 minutes of play on a run by Charles Widman from the five-yard line. Widman was shoved over the goal line for a touchdown, and Neil Snow kicked the extra point to give Michigan a 6 to 0 lead. Later in the half, Chicago drove the ball to Michigan's 30-yard-line, and the Maroons' All-American Clarence Herschberger kicked a field goal from placement to cut Michigan's lead to 6 to 5. (Field goals were counted as five points.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0037-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nEarly in the second half, Michigan scored its second touchdown and converted the extra point to take a 12\u20135 lead. Widman ran 65 yards for the touchdown on a \"delayed pass\" on the most exciting play of the game. The Chicago Daily Tribune described Widman's run:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0038-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\n\"Widman scurried out of the back of the mass of players with the ball under his arm and down the field with nothing in sight ahead of him except the goal posts. All the fast men of the Chicago team went in fast pursuit. It was a beautiful race down the field. Three Chicago men were close behind. But the blue-legged runner gained almost imperceptibly at times, and then barely held his own. He could run as fast as his pursuers, and with his start was safe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0038-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nIf one or two of those Chicago players had made a dive for him perhaps he might have been stopped. One of them did try up near the goal, but missed him, tripping him slightly, but he rolled over the line. Michigan had another touchdown and the game, and the Western championship in its pocket.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0039-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\n\"The play was a revolving wedge on Chicago's left tackle. Their end and tackle had been drawn in by our men, and when the ball was given to me on a delayed pass I had a clear field, except for Chicago's backs. I ran as fast as I could diagonally across the field, realizing that I was hotly pursued. At last I was tackled on what I afterwards learned was about the six-yard line. I was slightly dazed by the fall, but saw a goal post ahead of me and managed to crawl over the line. I did not know I had made a touchdown, however, until Captain Bennett told me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0040-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nSnow added his second extra point kick to give Michigan a 12\u20135 lead. Chicago responded with a touchdown run by its left guard, Burnett, and the extra point reduced Michigan's lead to a single point. Michigan forced Chicago to punt on its final possession, and the Wolverines became champions of the Western Conference for the first time in the school's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0041-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nOne newspaper noted: \"Michigan, with the exception of one or two double passes, relied almost altogether on straight football, line bucking and runs around the end. Chicago, on the contrary, used trick plays throughout but the team work was of a high order, as shown by both teams.\" After the game, Michigan's team captain, J.W.F. Bennett, told reporters: \"Widman's sensational run was the feature of the game, but every player deserves the victory. We must thank Keene Fitzpatrick for our splendid condition.\" Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg said: \"It was perhaps the finest game of football ever played in the West. It certainly was spectacular and full of features.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0042-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Chicago\nThe game was played in 35-minute halves. Michigan's starting lineup against Chicago was Snow (right end), Steckle (right tackle), Baker (right guard), Cunningham (center), France (left guard), White (left tackle), Bennett (left end), Street (quarterback), McLean (right halfback), Widman (left halfback), and Caley (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0043-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Championship celebration\nDuring the Chicago game, 1,000 students gathered at the Athens Theater in Ann Arbor where they listened to a play-by-play account of the game as it was transmitted by telegraph from Chicago. Michigan gains were met with cheering. When Widman's touchdown run was announced, \"It seemed as if the whole assembly was thrown into the air by a volcanic eruption. Men threw their hats and coats at one another and hugged and danced in the aisles for fully ten minutes.\" After the game, the crowd marched through the streets to President James B. Angell's home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0043-0001", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Championship celebration\nPresident Angell greeted the crowd with a broad smile and said, \"I congratulate you on the success of the Michigan team in Chicago this afternoon. It is a great victory, and we owe much to the men who have won the laurels of our victory from the brow of our sister institution of learning. It has been said that I am opposed to the game, but I wish to say that I, too, used to play in college. In those days, however, we played the Herschberger game, and used to kick the ball instead of the man. It is a great termination of the fall campaign, and we are greatly indebted to those who have so actively participated in it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0044-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Championship celebration\nIn Chicago, more than 1,000 Michigan fans paraded in a line through the University of Chicago campus behind the Michigan band singing Michigan songs and cheers. The parade ended at the Hotel Del Prado, where several Michigan players and alumni delivered speeches. On the Monday evening following the victory in Chicago, the team was welcomed back to Ann Arbor with a \"rousing celebration.\" More than 2,000 students gathered around a huge bonfire, singing and cheering \"until nearly midnight.\" It was reported that the Michigan students turned out with more enthusiasm than had been shown in Ann Arbor since the 1895 football team returned from a game against Harvard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0045-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season honors\nMichigan's first Western Conference championship attracted the attention of the eastern football experts who selected the All-American teams. Based on the performance of Michigan's center, William Cunningham, in the Chicago game, Amos Alonzo Stagg recommended Cunningham as an All-American. In Harper's Weekly, Caspar Whitney, who originated the practice of selecting All-American teams in 1889, chose Cunningham for his first-team All-American eleven. Cunningham was the first Michigan football player to be so honored. His selection also \"broke the unwritten tradition that All-Americans had to come from Yale, Harvard, Princeton or a few other Eastern schools.\" Whitney also named Charles Widman and John McLean as substitutes on his All-American team. Cunningham and Allen Steckle also received second-team All-American honors from Walter Camp in Collier's Weekly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 943]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0046-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season honors\nWhitney also named five Michigan players to his All-Western team: Caley at halfback, Cunningham at center, Steckle at tackle, and Snow and Bennett at the ends. He named Widman and McLean as substitutes on his All-Western team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0047-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Inspiration for \"The Victors\"\nAfter watching Michigan's 12\u201311 victory over Chicago in 1898, Louis Elbel, who was at the time a student in the University of Michigan School of Music, was inspired to write \"The Victors,\" which was later adopted as Michigan's fight song. He reportedly began composing the song at his sister's house in the Englewood section of Chicago and continued the effort on the return train ride from Chicago to Ann Arbor. Elbel's lyric, \"Champions of the West,\" refers to Michigan's having won the Western Conference championship for the first time in the school's history. Elbel later recalled:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0048-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Inspiration for \"The Victors\"\n\"We were crazed with joy. We paraded in the dark. We yelled and followed our U-M Band, singing to the tune of 'Hot Time in the Old Town.' It struck me quite suddenly that such an epic should be dignified by something more elevating, for this was not ordinary victory. My spirits were so uplifted that I was clear off the earth, and that is when 'The Victors' was inspired. I put in a lot of 'hails' and I knew the fellows would get them in with the proper emphasis. Through them, the title suggested itself, and I dedicated it to the Michigan team of 1898.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0049-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 17 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1898 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031633-0050-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Scoring leaders\nThe following scoring totals include the 11 points scored in the homecoming game against the alumni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031634-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 1, 1898. Incumbent Republican Hazen S. Pingree defeated Fusion candidate of the Democratic, People's, and Union Silver parties, Justin R. Whiting, with 57.75% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031635-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1898 Western Conference football season. In their first and only season under head coach Jack Minds, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4\u20135 record (1\u20132 against Western Conference opponents), finished in fifth place in the conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 92 to 73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031635-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1898 season for Minnesota was one of adversity, including bad weather and a mid-season injury to the team's captain. Coach Jack Minds was a fullback and kicker at the University of Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031635-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nOn Thanksgiving Day 1898, Minnesota and Illinois played a football game for the first time in the two programs' history. A big storm had come through the previous day, but John Pillsbury (the student manager) put together a crew and worked overnight using horse-drawn plows to clear the field. The game itself was delayed several times when the ball was lost in snow drifts on the side of the field and the temperature fell to about 10 below zero when the game was called at noon. Illinois won the game 11\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031636-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Senate election\nThe 1898 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 8, 1898, to elect members to the Senate of the 31st and 32nd Minnesota Legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031636-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Senate election\nOn the coattails of Democrat John Lind's gubernatorial campaign, the Minnesota Democratic Party saw a minor resurgence in the Senate. The Party consolidated much of the third party support that had become a large factor in the elections of 1890 and 1894. The People's Party endorsed a handful of Democratic candidates that ended up winning and caucusing as Democrats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031636-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Senate election\nThe Minnesota Republican Party won a large majority of seats followed by the Minnesota Democratic Party. The new Legislature convened on January 3, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031636-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Senate election\nTwo independent candidates won election to the Senate, one of whom caucused with Democrats upon being seated. In the 48th District, two Republicans ran against one another, and the winner was the one who had not been endorsed by the Party. Both candidates are listed as Republicans in the vote aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031636-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota Senate election, Results\n*These totals count candidates endorsed by the Democratic and People's Parties in the totals for the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031637-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1898. Democratic Party of Minnesota candidate John Lind defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger William Henry Eustis. This is the second of three successive elections in which John Lind ran as a candidate for a coalition formed from the Democrats and the People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031638-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1898 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled a 1\u20134\u20131 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 98 to 33. Dave Fultz was the head coach for the first of two seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031639-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Montana Agricultural football team\nThe 1898 Montana Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1898 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach George Ahern, the team compiled a 0\u20132 record and did not score a point, losing the second and third games of the Montana\u2013Montana State football rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031640-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Montana football team\nThe 1898 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1898 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Benjamin F. Searight, and finished the season with a record of three wins and two losses (3\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031641-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1898 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their only year under head coach Frank H. Cann, the team compiled a 1\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031642-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Narrabri colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Narrabri on 3 June 1898 because of the death of Charles Collins (Free Trade).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031643-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1898 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1898 college football season. In their second season under head coach Bill Armstrong, the Midshipmen compiled a 7\u20131 record, shut out three opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 130 to 56. The Army\u2013Navy Game was canceled due to Presidential cabinet order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nThe 1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1898 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Fielding H. Yost and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. After six seasons in the Western Interstate University Football Association, Nebraska began competing as an independent in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nAfter the departure of Eddie N. Robinson following the 1897 season, Nebraska hired another future College Football Hall of Fame coach in Yost. Yost stayed at NU for just one year before moving on to Kansas, Stanford, and Michigan, where he won six national championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nNebraska played 11 games in 1898, the most in the program's nine-year history, including three instances with only one day off in between games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Roster\nBenedict, Raymond HBBrew, Fred ECowgill, Howard QBDasenbrock, John GDrain, Ralph QBElliott, Ray QBErwin, C.W. FBFollmer, Harry EGarrett, Harry FBGilbert, Marvin LTHansen, Albert LGKingsbury, Raymond RTLiebman, Morris HBMelford, William CMontgomery, R D Pillsbury, Melville LTReasoner, Ira TStringer, Lewis ETurner, Edmund RGWilliams, Charles Erwin HB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Hastings\nNebraska hosted nearby Hastings College to open the season. The Bugeaters dominated the undermatched Broncos, setting new program records for points scored and margin of victory in a 76\u20130 shutout win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nNebraska jumped out to a halftime lead and held on in the second half to extend its winning streak to seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Tarkio\nNebraska jumped out to a quick 12\u20130 lead and shut down Tarkio's offense to win 24\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, William Jewell\nNebraska overpowered William Jewell in Kansas City en route to a 38\u20130 shutout victory, NU's seventh shutout in its previous nine games. This was the only game ever played between Nebraska and William Jewell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Missouri\nJust two days after defeating William Jewell, Nebraska faced Missouri in Columbia. The Tigers jumped out to a 6\u20130 lead, but Nebraska answered with 47 unanswered points to earn a dominant win over Missouri for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Grinnell\nGrinnell forced the game's cancellation, claiming Nebraska did not follow requirements in selecting game officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Kansas\nKansas lost a key (though unnamed) player to injury early in the game, and was unable to keep up with Nebraska. This was Nebraska's 11th consecutive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at KC Medics\nNebraska faced Kansas City Medical School just two days after defeating Kansas. KC ended NU's winning streak with a resounding 24\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Drake\nSeveral key Nebraska players reportedly sat out with injuries following a dense stretch of games in the weeks prior. Drake took advantage of the undermanned Bugeaters, winning 6\u20135 in the first-ever meeting of these teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nNebraska made its first trip to Boulder in 1898, the first game in what would later become an annual rivalry. The Silver and Gold, as Colorado was known at the time, could not keep pace with the Bugeaters in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Denver AC\nA newspaper account of the time stated this game was \"the most even and hardy contested fight that has been waged on the Denver gridiron\". Nebraska again played with only one day off since its previous game. The Bugeaters took advantage of Denver kicking woes, staving off a late Denver drive into NU territory to win by a single point. This was the final meeting between Denver AC and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031644-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Iowa\nNebraska jumped out front with an early touchdown, and led 5\u20130 at halftime. A late Iowa touchdown and successful point after gave the Hawkeyes a 6\u20135 lead, at which point the game was called on account of darkness; frequent disputes had lengthened the game and prevented its completion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031645-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031645-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Populist Governor Silas A. Holcomb did not stand for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031645-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nPopulist and Democratic fusion nominee William A. Poynter defeated Republican nominee Monroe Hayward with 50.19% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031646-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1898 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach F. F. Ellis, the team compiled a 4\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031646-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team, Previous season\nThe Sagebrushers finished the 1897 season 0\u20131. Head coach William H. Harrelson was replaced by F. F. Ellis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031647-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Nevada gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Nevada gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031647-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Nevada gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Silver Party Governor Reinhold Sadler defeated Republican nominee William McMillan, Democratic nominee George Russell, and Populist nominee J. B. McCullough with 35.67% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031648-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1898 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1898 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 3\u20135 or 4\u20134, per 1898 sources or modern sources, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031648-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031648-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe 81 points scored by New Hampshire on October 15 surpass program records of most points scored (70) and greatest margin of victory (66) as listed in the New Hampshire media guide; however, this game was played against a high school team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031648-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe November 2 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and MIT varsity football programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031648-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe New Hampshire team left the field early in the second half of the November 12 game, due to rough play. The contemporary game recap published in The Portsmouth Herald notes that the referee \"awarded it to Portsmouth six to nothing.\" The score on the field had been 11\u20130 in favor of New Hampshire at the time the game was abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031649-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Republican nominee Frank W. Rollins defeated Democratic nominee Charles F. Stone with 54.24% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031650-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Republican nominee Foster McGowan Voorhees defeated Democratic nominee Elvin W. Crane with 48.91% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031651-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 New South Wales colonial election\nThe 1898 New South Wales colonial election was held on 27 July 1898 for all of the 125 seats in the 18th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. Section 23 (1) of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act of 1893 conferred a right to vote on 'every male person, being a natural born [British] subject, who shall have resided or had his principal place of abode in New South Wales for a continuous period of one year'. The 18th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 8 July 1898 by the Governor, Lord Hampden, on the advice of the Premier, George Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031651-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 New South Wales colonial election\nThe Protectionist Party, the main Opposition, contested this election under the name \"National Federal Party\", reflecting the party's focus on Federation as an issue at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031651-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 New South Wales colonial election, Results\nNew South Wales colonial election, 27 July 1898\u200aLegislative Assembly << 1895\u20131901 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031652-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1898 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031652-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031653-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 New York Giants season\nThe 1898 New York Giants season was the franchise's 16th season. The team finished in seventh place in the National League with a 77-73 record, 25.5 games behind the Boston Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031653-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031653-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031653-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031653-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election\nThe 1898 New York state election was held on November 8, 1898, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state engineer, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nThe Prohibition state convention met on June 30 at Syracuse, New York, and nominated Prof John Kline, of Penn Yan, for governor, Rev. John A. Sayles, of East Aurora, for lieutenant governor; Henry Wilbur, editor of True Reform, of New York City, for secretary of state; Charles Mills, of Sodus, for comptroller; De Witt Hooker, of Syracuse, for treasurer; Francis Stephen M. Wing, of Canastota, for attorney general; and Albert W. Pierson, of Niagara Falls, for state engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nThe Socialist Labor state convention met on August 27 at Rochester, New York, and nominated Benjamin Hanford for governor; Leander A. Armstrong, of Buffalo, for lieutenant governor; Philip Jackson, of Rochester, for secretary of state; Charles H. Corregan, for attorney general; Max Forker, of New York City, for comptroller; Joseph Smith, of Yonkers, for treasurer; and John H. Morris of Yonkers, for state engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nThe Republican bosses Thomas C. Platt and Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., were still busy to compose a ticket on September 25, but had already agreed upon Theodore Roosevelt to head it, against the wish of Governor Frank S. Black to be re-nominated. The state convention met on September 27 at Saratoga, New York. Sereno E. Payne was Temporary Chairman until the choice of Horace White as Permanent Chairman. Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for governor on the first ballot (vote: Roosevelt 753, Black 218). The other candidates were nominated by acclamation with exception of John C. Davies for Attorney General who was nominated on the first ballot (vote: Davies 741, John M. Kellogg 229).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic state convention met on September 28 and 29 at Syracuse, New York. Frederick C. Schraub, the 1896 Lt. Gov. nominee, was Permanent Chairman. Augustus Van Wyck, the brother of the incumbent first Mayor of the consolidated City of New York, was nominated for governor on the first ballot (vote: Van Wyck 351, John B. Stanchfield 41, Robert C. Titus 39, James K. McGuire 19). The other candidates were nominated by acclamation. The ticket was a compromise between the three biggest Democratic bosses: David B. Hill from upstate, Richard Croker of Tammany, and Hugh McLaughlin of Brooklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nThe National Democratic State Committee met on September 30 at 52, William Street, in New York City. Chairman Robert A. Weidenmann - the only man to speak out loud against Judge Isaac H. Maynard's nomination in 1893 - presided. They decided not to call a convention, and not to endorse any candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nReturning from Cuba as a war hero, Theodore Roosevelt used the Citizens Union in an astute scheme to get the Republican nomination, in spite of not being a machine Republican and having in mind to uproot the Republican \"spoilsmen\". He approached the Citizens Union and suggested the nomination of a state ticket what was endorsed by the Citizens' Union Executive Committee with only three dissenting votes. An \"Independent Citizens Committee\" was formed, and 6,000 signatures for a petition to file a ticket were gathered, the signers believing that Roosevelt headed the ticket and that the Citizens Union backed it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0006-0001", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nTo avoid being ousted from power in an uncertain three-cornered election, the Republican bosses offered Roosevelt the nomination, and suddenly on September 24, he declined to allow his name to be used on the independent ticket. On September 30, a majority of the Citizens Union Executive Committee, led by Chairman R. Fulton Cutting, rejected the idea of a state ticket as \"not only inconsistent with, but actually opposed to the fundamental principles and objects of the Citizens' Union,\" The Independent Citizens Committee answered next day and declared that nominations will be made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0006-0002", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nThe petition to file the independent ticket was taken to the Secretary of State's office on October 12 purporting to represent nominations by the Citizens Union. The Secretary of State reserved his decision if the ticket would be filed or not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0006-0003", "contents": "1898 New York state election, History\nOn this ticket were Theodore Roosevelt - already nominated by the Republicans state convention in September - for governor; Thomas M. Osborne for lieutenant governor; Oren E. Wilson, Mayor of Albany 1894-1895, for secretary of state; Thomas E. Kinney, Mayor of Utica, for comptroller; Edmund H. Titchener, of Binghamton, for treasurer; Frederick W. Hinrichs, the Gold Democrats nominee for lieutenant governor in 1896, for attorney general; and George E. Waring, Jr., of New York City, for state engineer. Roosevelt immediately sent a letter of declination to the Secretary of State. Besides, Republican party officials protested against the petition. The Independent Citizens' Committee on Vacancies substituted Theodore Bacon, a lawyer of Rochester, on the ticket, and Citizens Union Chairman R. Fulton Cutting, despite his earlier rejection of the state ticket idea per se, campaigned for the ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 941]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, Result\nThe whole Republican ticket was elected in a tight race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031654-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 New York state election, Result\nThe Republican, Democratic, Prohibition and Socialist Labor parties maintained automatic ballot status (necessary 10,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031655-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1898 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1898 college football season. They played a single game, against North Carolina, losing 34\u20130. This team was led by first-year head coach W. C. Riddick, for whom Riddick Stadium, opened in 1907, was named.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1898 college football season. They played nine games with a final record of 9\u20130. The team captain for the 1898 season was Frank O. Rogers. The team claims a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Guilford\nThe season opened with an 18\u20130 defeat of the Guilford Quakers. Charles Baskerville was umpire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Guilford\nThe starting lineup was Tate (left end), Shull (left tackle), Miller (left guard), Cunningham (center), Cromartie (right guard), Bennett (Right tackle), Klotz (right end), Rogers (quarterback), Howell (left halfback), Gregory (right halfback), Graves (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, North Carolina A&M\nIn the second week of play, the Tar Heels defeated the in-state rival North Carolina A&M 34\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, V. P. I.\nTouchdowns were made by Bennett, Gregory, Copeland, Shull, and Howell in a 28\u20136 win over V. P. I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia\nIn Macon, the Tar Heels blew out the Georgia Bulldogs 53\u20130. Tick Tichenor wrote \"Such a crush defeat as Georgia sustained at the hands of North Carolina today is almost unparalleled in football\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia\nThe starting lineup was Klotz (left end), Shull (left tackle), Cromartie (left guard), Cunningham (center), Phifer (right guard), Bennett (Right tackle), Gregoy (right end), Rodgers (quarterback), Austin (left halfback), McRae (right halfback), Graves (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Auburn\nThe Tar Heels won over John Heisman's Auburn Tigers 29\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031656-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Virginia\nUNC beat rival Virginia 6\u20132, its first win since the first year of the South's Oldest Rivalry. The safety was made just as time called, and Howell scored for UNC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031657-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1898 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. They had a 1\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031658-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 North Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Republican nominee Frederick B. Fancher defeated Democratic nominee David M. Holmes with 59.22% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031659-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 North Down by-election\nThe North Down by-election of 1898 was held on 7 September 1898. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Unionist Alliance MP, Thomas Waring. It was won by the Irish Unionist Alliance candidate John Blakiston-Houston, who unusually, beat another Irish Unionist Alliance candidate, Thomas Corbett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031660-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 North-West Territories general election\nThe 1898 North-West Territories general election took place on 4 November 1898. This was the fourth general election in the History of the North-West Territories, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031660-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 North-West Territories general election\nFrederick W. A. G. Haultain was still the first premier of the North-West Territories (NWT). That title was given by legislation passed in 1897. He was the last premier of the Northwest Territories until 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031660-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 North-West Territories general election\nThere were three big issues in this election, provincial rights and how to divide the provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031660-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 North-West Territories general election\nThe second issue was the transfer of education, from the federal to the territorial level, this was Haultain's personal project, unfortunately for the NWT, that power would not be turned over until 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031660-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 North-West Territories general election\nThe third issue, was the territories deficit budget, the territory was facing huge pressures from a rapidly increasing population in all parts of the territory. Earlier in 1898 the territorial government tried to exert control over liquor revenue in the Klondike, since it was footing the bill for increased services and policing. The federal government however interfered and delt a huge blow, when it carved the Yukon Territory out of the North-West Territories and appointed a council loyal to the federal government to gain control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031660-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 North-West Territories general election\nThis was the first general election in which the election was contested along party lines in the Northwest Territories. Frederick W. A. G. Haultain would sustain the governing North-West Territories Liberal-Conservative Party in coalition with James Hamilton Ross who was a member of the Hautain cabinet but a Liberal member. Robert Brett remained leader of the official opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031660-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 North-West Territories general election\nPolitical parties were still controversial in this election as noted in the Calgary Herald editorial from 17 November 1898 Weekly edition, that debated the pros and cons of the bringing the \"Dominion party lines\" to the territorial legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031661-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1898 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1898 Western Conference football season. In their first and only year under head coach W. H. Bannard, the Purple compiled a 9\u20134\u20131 record (0\u20134 against Western Conference opponents) and finished in last place in the Western Conference. The team lost all four of its games against Western Conference opponents (Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin) by a combined total of 104 to 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031662-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1898 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1898 college football season. In its third season with Frank E. Hering as coach, the team compiled a 4\u20132 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 155 to 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031663-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1898 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. They played 4 games and had a 1\u20132\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031664-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1898 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031665-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1898 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1898 college football season. In their fourth year of football, and second year under head coach Vernon Louis Parrington, the Sooners compiled a 2\u20130 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 29 to 0. This was the first season in which the team competed outside Oklahoma Territory, playing a road game against an Arkansas City, Kansas town team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031666-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1898 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The season was the team's first in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031667-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Ontario general election\nThe 1898 Ontario general election was the ninth general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on March 1, 1898, to elect the 94 Members of the 9th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (\"MLAs\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031667-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Ontario general election\nThe Ontario Liberal Party, led by Arthur S. Hardy, won an eighth term in office with a clear majority \u2013 the Patrons of Industry and the Protestant Protective Association held no sway in this legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031667-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Ontario general election\nThe Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney, formed the official opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031668-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Open Championship\nThe 1898 Open Championship was the 38th Open Championship, held 8\u20139 June at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Harry Vardon won the Championship for the second time, a stroke ahead of Willie Park Jr., the 1887 and 1889 winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031668-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Open Championship\nWith the increasing number of \"hopeless competitors\" and \"second-class golfers\" entering the Open, a cut was introduced for the first time to reduce the number of players on the final day. All entries played 36 holes on the first day with all those within 19 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals. There was a change to the prize money distribution. The total remained unchanged at \u00a390 but was only given to the first 6 and not the first 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031668-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Open Championship\nDefending champion Harold Hilton and Willie Park Jr. led after the first round on 76. Park was even better in the afternoon and led after the first day on 151. Vardon also scored 75 and was second on 154 with Thomas Renouf and J.H. Taylor on 156. Hilton led the amateurs on 157. 43 players made the cut, including five amateurs. Willie Auchterlonie, who had won the previous Open Championship at Prestwick in 1893, was amongst those who failed to make the cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031668-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Open Championship\nVardon scored a useful 77 in the third round despite a seven at the 15th. Park scored 78 to maintain the lead. Freddie Tait had the best round of 75 and shared third place with Taylor four shots behind Park. In the final round Vardon reached the turn in 38 and finished with a 76 after an excellent three at the last. Park reached the turn in 39 after sixes at the 1st and 3rd holes. Taking six at the 10th dropped him behind and he reached the last needing a three to tie Vardon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031668-0003-0001", "contents": "1898 Open Championship\nOn the edge of the green after his tee shot, he putted to four feet but missed to finish one behind. Hilton reached the turn in 35 to be level with Vardon but came back in 40 and finished two strokes behind. Tait took eight at the 3rd to drop out of contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031669-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. Playing without a coach, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20132\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 78 to 36. The Aggies lost to Oregon (0-38). No record is available as to the identity of the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031670-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1898 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1898 college football season. It was the Webfoots' fifth season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Frank W. Simpson. They finished the season with a record of three wins and one loss (3\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031671-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Oregon gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on June 6, 1898 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. The election matched Republican Theodore Thurston Geer against Democratic State Senator W. R. King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031671-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Oregon gubernatorial election\nGeer was the tenth governor since statehood, but the first native Oregonian to hold that position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031672-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Ormskirk by-election\nThe 1898 Ormskirk by-election was held on 20 October 1898 after the death of the incumbent Conservative Party MP Sir Arthur Forwood. It was retained by the unopposed Conservative Candidate Arthur Stanley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031673-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe 1898 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific during the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031674-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Paris\u2013Amsterdam\u2013Paris\nThe 1898 Paris\u2013Amsterdam\u2013Paris Race was a competitive 'city to city' motor race which ran over 7 days from 7\u201313 July 1898 and covered 1,431\u00a0km. It was won by Fernand Charron driving a Panhard et Levassor for 33 hours at an average speed of 43\u00a0km/h over unsurfaced roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031674-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Paris\u2013Amsterdam\u2013Paris\nThe event was organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF) and was sometimes retrospectively known as the III Grand Prix de l'A.C.F.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031674-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Paris\u2013Amsterdam\u2013Paris, Results\nParis-Amsterdam-Paris Race - 7\u201313 July 1898 - 1,431\u00a0kmThe Categorie Vitesse (Speed category) was sub-divided into classes 'A' - vehicles with 2-3 seats; 'B' - (vehicles with 4 seats and 'C' - General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031674-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Paris\u2013Amsterdam\u2013Paris, Results, Overall\nThe overall results for class A in the 'Categorie Vitesse' were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031675-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1898 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the third\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 10 April 1898 and stretched 268\u00a0km (167\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Maurice Garin, an Italian living in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031676-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Parramatta colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Parramatta on 26 October 1898 as the election of William Ferris, with a margin of 4 votes, was overturned by the Election and Qualifications Committee due to \"many gross irregularities\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031677-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Pembrokeshire County Council election\nThe fourth election to Pembrokeshire County Council was held in March 1898. It was preceded by the 1895 election and followed by the 1901 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031677-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Overview of the result\nIn 1898 there were a number of uncontested but most seats were contested as the Conservatives sought to hold on to gains made in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031677-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Llangwm\nCarrow was elected as a Liberal in 1892 and a Conservative in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031677-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Milford\nDr Griffith had stood as a Liberal in 1892 and a Liberal Unionist in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031677-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Election of aldermen\nAldermen were elected at the first meeting of the new council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031678-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1898 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031679-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Penn State football team\nThe 1898 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team was coached by Samuel B. Newton and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031680-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 1. It featured a three-way campaign between major party candidates William Stone and George Jenks, as well as a strong showing by prohibitionist Silas Swallow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031680-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, Campaign\nEntering the election, the Republican machine was strong but its leadership was divided. Although previous governor Daniel Hastings had tried to toe the line between the conservative and progressive wings of the party, he failed to impress either side. Party bosses Matthew Quay, a conservative, and John Wanamaker, a progressive, nominated candidates with the same last name but who were of no relation. In a close race, the conservatives prevailed, but the party had difficulty reuniting after William Stone defeated retired U.S. Army Colonel Charles W. Stone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031680-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, Campaign\nJenks' campaign had difficulty gaining traction from the start, and Stone was able to undercut some of Swallow's support by identifying with the temperance movement. Stone also did well by emphasizing his commitment to law and order, after labor strife had rocked the state during the previous governor's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031681-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe following lists the events of the 1898 Philadelphia Phillies season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031681-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031681-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031681-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031681-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031681-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election\nThe Elections for the Malolos Congress, also known as the Revolutionary Congress were held in the Philippines from June 23 to September 10, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election\nThese were the first elections for a national legislature in the Philippines. The Spanish colonial government held elections in 1895 across the Philippines but for local municipal officers only. In this election, many parts of the Visayas and Mindanao did not elect representatives and their representatives had to be appointed. The first fully elected national legislative body would be the Philippine Assembly elected in 1907 as the only elected house of the bicameral Philippine Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election, Background\nFollowing the defeat of the Spanish at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish\u2013American War on May 1, 1898, by the American Navy, Philippine revolutionary forces under Emilio Aquinaldo declared the Philippines to be an independent nation on June 12, 1898. The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines held these elections following that declaration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election, Background\nAfter the Spanish sold the Philippines to the Americans in the Treaty of Paris of 1898, signed on December 10, 1898, the First Philippine Republic, which includes the Mololos Congress, fought the Philippine\u2013American War against the American colonial forces, eventually losing the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election, Background\nThere would not be another attempt at national legislative election until the 1907 elections which established the Philippine Assembly. The Assembly, unlike the Malolos Congress, was fully elected but it was only one house of a bicameral legislature, the Philippine Legislature, the other house being the unelected Philippine Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election, Election\nThe manner of election of delegates was via a series of indirect elections. In districts where the delegates were not appointed by the government, the manner of election was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election, Results, National\nPaterno defeated General Antonio Luna with 24-23 votes; Legarda against Aguedo Velarde with 21-9; and Araneta and Ocampo won with 31 and 27 votes respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031682-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Philippine legislative election, Results, Local\nList of congress members by province as of July 7, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031683-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1898 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1898 college football season. James Van Cleve served in his first and only season as the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031684-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 17th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; their 12th in the National League. The Pirates finished eighth in the National League with a record of 72\u201376.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031684-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031684-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031684-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031684-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031684-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031685-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1898 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1898 college football season. The team finished with an 11\u20130\u20131 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis, a Princeton alumnus. Harvard finished with an 11\u20130 record and was named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. They outscored their opponents 266 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031686-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1898 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1898 Western Conference football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 3\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 37 to 33 in their first season under head coach Alpha Jamison. R. L. Spears was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031687-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1898 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 1898 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Marshall Tyler, they finished the season with a record of 5\u20130. It remains the only undefeated season in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031688-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 6, 1898. Incumbent Republican Elisha Dyer Jr. defeated Democratic nominee Daniel T. Church with 57.74% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031689-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1898 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as an independent during the 1898 college football season. Led by Oscar Lee Owens in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 3\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031690-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1898 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1898 college football season. In their first season under head coach William V. B. Van Dyck, the Queensmen compiled a 1\u20136\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents, 114 to 16. The team captain was William F. McMahon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031691-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1898 SAFA Grand Final was the concluding championship match of the 1898 SAFA season. The game resulted in a victory for South Adelaide who beat Port Adelaide by 24 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031692-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 SAFA season\nThe 1898 SAFA season was the 22nd edition of the top level of Australian Rules football to be played in South Australia. South Adelaide went on to record its 7th premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031693-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1898 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1898 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach Thad McKay, the Spartans compiled their first undefeated record at 5\u20130\u20131, and outscored their opponents by a total of 80 to 17. Many other milestones characterized the 1898 season, including the program's first shutout, and intercollegiate win (18 to 0 against College of the Pacific, also their first win overall), and their first season in which they participated in multiple games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1898 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was coached by John Gere Jayne in his second year as head coach, compiling a record of 4\u20130 (3\u20130 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 56 to 4 to win a share of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Before the season\nSewanee was coming off the worst season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Nashville\nThe season opened with a 10\u20130 victory to avenge last year's loss to the Nashville Garnet and Blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Nashville\nThe starting lineup was Waites (left end), Jones (left tackle), Bolling (left guard), Risley (center), Claiborne (right guard), Smith (right tackle), Crandle (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Gray (right halfback), Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Texas\nThe starting lineup was Waites (left end), Jones (left tackle), Risby (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Smith (right tackle), Crandle (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Gray (right halfback), Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Southern A. C.\nSewanee defeated the Southern Athletic Club of New Orleans 21\u20130. A 12-yard run by Jones made the first touchdown. Davis made the next touchdown. He also scored the third, in the second half. Ormond Simkins made the last touchdown, racing for the goal after William H. Poole blocked a kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Southern A. C.\nThe starting lineup was Waites (left end), Jones (left tackle), Risby (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Smith (right tackle), Crandell (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Davis (right halfback), Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nThe Tigers beat rival Vanderbilt 19\u20134. Sewell made the first touchdown on a 7-yard run. Vanderbilt's score came on a 40-yard run around left end by Walter H. Simmons. Simkins scored next on a 2-yard run. After the half, Kilpatrick scored on a 2-yard run. The last touchdown was a 35-yard run from Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031694-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was Waites (left end), Jones (left tackle), Risley (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Smith (right tackle), Davis (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Siebels (right halfback), Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031695-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield\nThe 1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield was the first edition of the Sheriff of London Charity Shield. The match and subsequent replay were both drawn and hence the honour was shared between Corinthian and Sheffield United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031695-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match, Background\nThe contest was proposed by Sir Thomas Dewar who was a Sheriff of London in 1897 and part of the organising committee. Sheffield United F.C. were league champions for the first time in their history in the 1897\u201398 Football League and Corinthian were the premier amateur side of the time providing many of the England national football team players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031695-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match, First-half\nThe first half was a very defensive encounter, partly due to the wet pitch. The referee Mr E.E. Stuart pulled up players from both sides for a large number of fouls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031695-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match, Second-half\nThe second half saw more attacking play with strong showings from Corinthian's Smith and Burnup, however, the Sheffield backs Thickett and Cain were their match defensively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031695-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Replay, Background\nThe sides were largely unchanged with two changes for each to the initial lineups. Topham and W. L. Foster came in for Corinthian replacing Stanborough and Ingram. For Sheffield United, forwards Almond and Hedley replaced McKay and Gaudie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031695-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Replay, First-half\nSheffield United scored first with a goal from their forward Almond following a pass from Cunningham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031695-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Replay, Second-half\nFifteen minutes into the second half Corinthian's Topham was fouled near the goal mouth and a free kick resulted in a goal scored by W. L. Foster after a retake for encroachment. The game was again a strong defensive showing from both sides and at the end of 90 minutes Sheffield United refused to play extra time resulting in the honour being shared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031696-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1898 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031697-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Governor William Haselden Ellerbe won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to win a second term as governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031697-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 30 and incumbent Governor Ellerbe was the frontrunner. Claudius Cyprian Featherstone won second place in the primary to advance to the runoff on September 8, but came up short against Ellerbe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031697-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election was held on November 8, 1898 and William Haselden Ellerbe was reelected as the governor of South Carolina without opposition. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was approximately half of that for the previous gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031698-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Incumbent Governor Andrew E. Lee, elected in 1896 as a Populist, he ran for re-election as a Fusion candidate. He was challenged by Republican nominee Kirk G. Phillips, the State Treasurer. Lee narrowly defeated Phillips to win his second term as Governor, but most of his Fusion allies lost their elections, leaving him as the lone statewide officeholder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031698-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Fusion conventions\nPrior to the separate conventions of the Democrats, Populists, and Free Silver Republicans, U.S. Senator Richard F. Pettigrew worked behind the scenes to continue the coalition's success. To ensure that anti-silver Democrats didn't bolt from the coalition, he convinced the three parties that the Democrats should be granted four positions on the statewide ticket, which the parties embraced. In the end, the nominations were divvied up among the three parties as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031698-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nState Treasurer Kirk G. Phillips entered the Republican convention, held on August 24, 1896, in Mitchell, as the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination. He ended up winning the nomination in a landslide, winning 449 votes to O. S. Gifford's 449 and H. M. Finnerud's 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031699-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 South East Durham by-election\nThe 1898 South East Durham by-election was held on 3 February 1898 after the death of the incumbent Liberal Unionist MP, Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan. The seat was gained by the Liberal candidate, Joseph Richardson, although the unsuccessful Liberal Unionist candidate Frederick William Lambton would regain the seat for the Liberal Unionists in the 1900 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031700-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 South Norfolk by-election\nThe South Norfolk by-election, 1898 was a by-election held on 12 May 1898 for the British House of Commons constituency of South Norfolk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031700-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 South Norfolk by-election\nThe election was triggered by the resignation on grounds of ill-health of the sitting Liberal Unionist Party former Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), Francis Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031700-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 South Norfolk by-election\nThe result of the election was a clear win for Arthur Wellesley Soames the Liberal candidate over his Unionist opponent. Soames was a Liberal in the Radical tradition and he was described as a Radical during the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031701-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the members schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1898 college football season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031701-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe season began on October 1. As both Virginia and Vanderbilt had claims to Southern titles the previous year, their game in Louisville was most anticipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031701-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election\nThe 1898 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 27 March and on Sunday, 10 April 1898, to elect the 8th Restoration Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 401 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Background\nThe Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a constitutional monarchy, awarding the King power to name senators and to revoke laws, as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the army. The King would also play a key role in the system of El Turno Pac\u00edfico (the Peaceful Turn) by appointing and toppling governments and allowing the opposition to take power. Under this system, the Conservative and Liberal parties alternated in power by means of election rigging, which they achieved through the encasillado, using the links between the Ministry of Governance, the provincial civil governors, and the local bosses (caciques) to ensure victory and exclude minor parties from the power sharing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Spanish Cortes were envisaged as \"co-legislative bodies\", based on a nearly perfect bicameralism. Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, where the Congress had preeminence. Voting for the Cortes was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Congress of Deputies, 88 seats were elected using a partial block voting in 26 multi-member constituencies, with the remaining 313 being elected under a one-round first-past-the-post system in single-member districts. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0003-0001", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nIn constituencies electing eight seats or more, electors could vote for no more than three candidates less than the number of seats to be allocated; in those with more than four seats and up to eight, for no more than two less; in those with more than one seat and up to four, for no more than one less; and for one candidate in single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0003-0002", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Congress was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants, with each multi-member constituency being allocated a fixed number of seats: 8 for Madrid, 5 for Barcelona and Palma, 4 for Seville and 3 for Alicante, Almer\u00eda, Badajoz, Burgos, C\u00e1diz, Cartagena, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, Ja\u00e9n, Jerez de la Frontera, La Coru\u00f1a, Lugo, M\u00e1laga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza. The law also provided for by-elections to fill seats vacated throughout the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Senate, 180 seats were indirectly elected, with electors voting for delegates instead of senators. Elected delegates\u2014equivalent in number to one-sixth of the councillors in each municipal corporation\u2014would then vote for senators using a write-in, two-round majority voting system. The provinces of \u00c1lava, Albacete, \u00c1vila, Biscay, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Guip\u00fazcoa, Huelva, Logro\u00f1o, Matanzas, Palencia, Pinar del R\u00edo, Puerto Pr\u00edncipe, Santa Clara, Santander, Santiago de Cuba, Segovia, Soria, Teruel, Valladolid and Zamora were allocated two seats each, whereas each of the remaining provinces was allocated three seats, for a total of 147.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0004-0001", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe remaining 33 were allocated to a number of institutions, electing one seat each\u2014the Archdioceses of Burgos, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Cuba, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; the Royal Spanish Academy; the Royal Academies of History, Fine Arts, Sciences, Moral and Political Sciences and Medicine; the Universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Havana, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; and the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country from Madrid, Barcelona, Cuba\u2013Puerto Rico, Le\u00f3n, Seville and Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0004-0002", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nAn additional 180 seats comprised senators in their own right\u2014the Monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age; Grandees of Spain of the first class; Captain Generals of the Army and the Navy Admiral; the Patriarch of the Indies and archbishops; as well as other high-ranking state figures\u2014and senators for life (who were appointed by the Monarch).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031702-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of each House of the Cortes\u2014the Congress and one-half of the elective part of the Senate\u2014expired five years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The Monarch had the prerogative to dissolve both Houses at any given time\u2014either jointly or separately\u2014and call a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident\nThe St Johns train crash happened at 9\u00a0am on 21\u00a0March 1898 when, in thick fog, a passenger train waiting to enter St Johns Station on the South Eastern Railway, UK was run into by another passenger train. Three people were killed and about 20 injured in the accident, which was caused by a signalman's error.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Background to the accident\nSt Johns railway station is on the South Eastern Railway main line as it approaches London, with the tracks running roughly east\u2013west (London). At St Johns the main line was four tracks and the station had three platforms with St Johns signal cabin at the west end of the station. The adjacent signal cabins were Parks Bridge Junction, 1,140 yards (1,040 metres) to the east, and New Cross No. 2, 930 yards (850 metres) to the west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Background to the accident\nThe line was equipped with Sykes \"lock and block\" interlocking, which prevented signalmen allowing a second train onto a section before the previous train had left. The interlocking was normally released by trains passing over track treadles as they entered the next section. To allow for mechanical breakdowns, the signalman had a special key to override the interlocking and as some of the treadles in the St Johns area were not completely reliable it had become necessary to occasionally use this facility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Background to the accident\nAt the time of the accident, the signalman at St Johns was William Honey. He was assisted by a signal lad, Stephen Clews, whose job it was to record both the actions of the signalman and the passing trains in the register book.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Description of the accident\nThe morning of Monday 21 March 1898 was very foggy. Parks Bridge had passed to St Johns the 07:45 train from Tonbridge to London and it was being held at the up home signal just outside St Johns. This train consisted of an engine and tender and ten vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Description of the accident\nThe signal cabin was generally very busy and especially so dealing with the morning trains and the fog. Honey lost track of passing trains and formed the belief that he had released the train from Tonbridge and it had passed the cabin and was therefore out of the section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0005-0001", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Description of the accident\nWhen Parks Bridge offered him the next London-bound train, the 07:00 from Hastings, consisting of an engine and tender and six carriages, Honey went to accept it and, seeing the interlocking was still locked, assumed the treadles had malfunctioned and therefore used his special key to override the interlocking, allowing the Hastings train into the section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Description of the accident\nThe Tonbridge train had not passed and was still at the up home signal. The Hastings train ran into the back of the Tonbridge train. The Hastings driver thought the impact speed was about 8\u00a0mph (13\u00a0km/h). The Tonbridge train was pushed forward approximately 30 yards (25 metres) and the rear two vehicles, a third-class carriage and a brake van, were telescoped. Three people were killed and about 20 injured, with a much larger number complaining of being shaken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Board of Trade enquiry\nA Board of Trade enquiry was convened to investigate the crash. The Enquiry heard detailed evidence from all of the railway staff involved, including the guard, Walter Stevens, who was traveling in the brake van at the rear of the Tonbridge train:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Board of Trade enquiry\n\"... I was looking out of my window \u2026 when I thought I heard a train approaching \u2026 when it was about a coach and a half from my van I saw the engine. I had my hand on the handle of the door and I sprang out at once, the collision happening as I did so.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Board of Trade enquiry\nIt became clear at the enquiry that Honey was challenged twice about the locations of the trains. Clews saw Honey accepting the Hastings train and, as he had not seen the Tonbridge train pass, asked Honey if it had passed. Honey said it had. The Station Master at St Johns had been awaiting the arrival of the Tonbridge train and although he could not see because of the fog, he could hear the safety valves of a steam engine blowing off. He went to the signal cabin and asked Honey whether he knew there was a train waiting. It was clear from Honey's answer that Honey believed that waiting train was the Hastings train, not the Tonbridge train.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Board of Trade enquiry\nThe station master said that he had then walked down the platform to the stopped train to get it to pull into the platform, but as he reached the engine, he met Stevens, who told him that there had been a serious accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Board of Trade enquiry\n\"There is no dispute whatsoever as to the circumstances under which this sad accident occurred, signalman Honey candidly admitting his grave blunder in accepting the Hastings train in the belief that the proceeding train (from Tonbridge) had passed St John's, while, as a matter of fact, it was standing outside the station ... In conclusion I am obliged to say there is but little, if any, excuse for signalman Honey\u2019s most serious blunder \u2026 and I can further testify to Honey\u2019s readiness to give the fullest explanation in his power of all the facts of the case \u2026\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031703-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 St Johns rail accident, Similar accidents\nSimilar accidents occurred at Battersea Park in 1937, South Croydon in 1947, Barnes in 1955 and Crayford in 1959.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031704-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1898 St. Louis Browns season was the team's 17th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 7th season in the National League. The Browns went 39\u2013111 during the season and finished 12th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031704-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 St. Louis Browns season\nChris von der Ahe, who had owned the team since its inception in 1882, was forced into court due to his mounting debts related to owning the Browns. Von der Ahe lost the team in the trial and it was bought by brothers Stanley and Frank Robison after the 1898 season. The Robisons, who were also owners of the Cleveland Spiders, first renamed the team the \"Perfectos\" in 1899, and transferred all of the Spiders' best players to the team. Eventually, the team's colors were changed to red, and nickname to the Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031704-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031704-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031704-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031704-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031704-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031705-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Stanford football team\nThe 1898 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1898 college football season and was coached by Harry P. Cross in the second of his two nonconsecutive seasons with the team. He also coached the 1896 team. Stanford suffered its first Big Game loss to California, a 22\u20130 shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031706-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Storrs Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Storrs Aggies football team represented Storrs Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1898 college football season. This was the third year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies played their first season with a head coach, E. S. Mansfield, and completed the season with a record of 0\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031707-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1898 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the third season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte won the tournament by defeating AIK in the final with a 3\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031708-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1898 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled a 9\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 152 to 64. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031709-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Swiss referendums\nThree referendums were held in Switzerland during 1898. The first was held on 20 February on a federal law that would nationalise the railways, and was approved by a majority of voters, leading to the establishment of Swiss Federal Railways in 1902. The second and third referendums were held on 13 November on revising article 64 and adding article 64bis to the constitution, both of which were approved by a majority of voters and cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031709-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Swiss referendums, Background\nThe referendums on the constitutional amendments were mandatory referendums, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The railways referendum was an optional referendum, which required only a majority of the public vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031710-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Sydney-Fitzroy colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Sydney-Fitzroy on 3 June 1898 because of the death of John McElhone (Ind. Free Trade).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031711-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1898 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1898 college football season. The head coach was Frank E. Wade, coaching his second season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031712-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Democratic nominee Benton McMillin defeated Republican nominee James Alexander Fowler with 57.92% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031713-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031714-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1898 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the Texas Longhorns baseball program for the University of Texas in the 1898 college baseball season. A. C. Ellis coached the team in his 1st season at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031715-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1898 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031716-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1898 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the ninth staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031716-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nTubberadora won the championship after a 3\u201307 to 1\u201304 defeat of Horse & Jockey in the final. It was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031717-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1898 Toronto Argonauts season was the club's first season as a member club of the Ontario Rugby Football Union. The team finished in fourth place in the Senior Championship of the ORFU with six losses, and failed to qualify for the Dominion playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031718-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Transvaal presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in the South African Republic (ZAR) between 3 January and 4 February 1898. The result was a victory for incumbent Paul Kruger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031718-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Transvaal presidential election, Background\nThe incumbent president Paul Kruger was involved in a constitutional battle with Chief Justice John Gilbert Kotz\u00e9. After trying to unsuccessfully remove Kotz\u00e9 though legislation, he waited until after the election to dismiss him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031718-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Transvaal presidential election, Candidates\nA distinguished member of the Volksraad and commandant of the Lydenburg Commando, Schalk Willem Burger was popular with the British and the capitalists of Johannesburg. This was due to the South African Industrial Report of 1897, produced by a committee under his leadership, which called for the lowering of tariffs, among other suggestions. Despite the conclusions of the report, Burger was an ardent patriot; however, the conclusions of the report and support from anti-ZAR newspapers led some voters to distrust him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031718-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Transvaal presidential election, Candidates\nVice-President and Commandant-General Piet Joubert had previously run against Kruger three times without success. He had narrowly lost against him in 1893, losing by around 900 votes, with allegations of electoral manipulation in favour of Kruger and reports of voter turnout being greater than 100%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031718-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Transvaal presidential election, Candidates\nClaims were made that former Cape Colony Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes colluded against Kruger during the election campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031719-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Tuapeka by-election\nThe 1898 Tuapeka by-election was a by-election held on 2 November 1898 during the 13th New Zealand Parliament in the rural lower South Island electorate of Tuapeka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031719-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Tuapeka by-election\nThe by-election was held to replace William Larnach after his death by suicide in Parliament during the 13th Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031719-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Tuapeka by-election\nThe winner was Charles Rawlins, described as opposed to the Liberal Government and with only Henry Symes as a government candidate or supporter with \"ministerial inclinations\" and Charles Rawlings as \"opposition\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031719-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Tuapeka by-election\nJames Sim a farmer of Tapanui had been prepared to stand in the Liberal interest until his health broke down (or from lack of impression that he made and support? ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031720-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1898 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031721-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1898 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 15 August to 22 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 14 June to 18 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 18th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031721-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles\nMalcolm Whitman defeated Dwight F. Davis 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031721-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Singles\nJuliette Atkinson defeated Marion Jones 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 2\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031721-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nLeo Ware / George Sheldon defeated Holcombe Ward / Dwight Davis 1\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031721-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nJuliette Atkinson / Kathleen Atkinson defeated Marie Wimer / Carrie Neely 6\u20131, 2\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031721-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nCarrie Neely / Edwin P. Fischer defeated Helen Chapman / J.A. Hill 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 8\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031722-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nMalcolm Whitman defeated Dwight F. Davis in the All Comers final 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6\u20131, to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1898 U.S. National Championships. Last year's champion Robert Wrenn did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031723-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nJuliette Atkinson won the singles tennis title of the 1898 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating challenger Marion Jones 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 2\u20136, 7\u20135 in the Challenge Round, surviving five matchpoints in the final set. It was Atkinon's third singles title, after 1895 and 1897, which gave her permanent ownership of the Wissahickon Inn Challenge Cup. Jones had won the right to challenge Atkinson by defeating Helen Crump 6\u20134, 7\u20135, 6\u20134 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 14 through June 18, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031724-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1898 U.S. Open was the fourth U.S. Open, held June 17\u201318 at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, northeast of Boston. Fred Herd captured his only major title, seven strokes ahead of runner-up Alex Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031724-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. Open (golf)\nFor the first time, the U.S. Open was expanded to 72 holes, meaning the players had to complete eight loops around Myopia's 9-hole course. Herd trailed leader Willie Anderson by six shots after 36 holes on Friday, but his 75 in the third round on Saturday morning was the low round of the championship and gave him a six-shot advantage after 54 holes. Despite an 84 in the afternoon for 328, Herd prevailed over Alex Smith by seven, with Anderson finishing in third. Only Herd and Smith managed to break 80 in any round of the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031724-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. Open (golf)\nHerd's fondness for liquor was well-known; after his win, tournament officials required him to leave a deposit to prevent him from selling the trophy for drinking money. His brother Sandy won The Open Championship in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031724-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nAmateurs: Leeds (347), Curtis (356), Tyng (361), Shaw (364), Sweny (384), Rutherford (388).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031725-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1898 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1898 college football season. The team competed as an independent without a head coach, compiling a 5\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031726-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1898 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031727-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nThe Wyoming United States House election for 1898 was held on November 8, 1898. Former Republican representative Frank Wheeler Mondell defeated Democratic Constantine P. Arnold with 54.71% of the vote, making Mondell the first former representative to regain his seat in Wyoming and the first to hold the office for two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031728-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections\nElections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1898 for members of the 56th Congress, and took place in the middle of President William McKinley's first term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031728-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections\nAs in many midterm elections, the President's Republican Party lost seats, but was able to hold a majority over the Democratic Party. The Populist Party also lost many seats, as their movement began to decline. This was likely because many Populists rallied behind William Jennings Bryan's increasingly powerful branch of the Democratic Party, which built the rural economic issues advocated by Populists into their platform. As a result, the Democrats won a number of Western seats as well many in the Mid-Atlantic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031728-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections, Election summaries\nThe previous elections of 1896 saw the election of 24 Populists, 2 Silver Republicans, and a Silver Party member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 73], "content_span": [74, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031728-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections, Election dates\nAll the states held their elections November 8, 1898, except for 3 states, with 8 seats among them:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031729-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1898 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 8, 1898. Republicans took an open Democratic seat and defeated the two Populist incumbents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031730-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nElections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for two seats in the 56th Congress were held November 8, 1898", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031730-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Background\nThe previous election year had seen a total of five parties contesting Florida's two seats, including the Republican Party, which had been absent in 1892 and 1894. Both seats were won by the Democratic incumbents by a large majority. The previous three elections had seen Populist candidates as well, but, mirroring the national decline of that party, there were no Populist candidates in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 8, 1898 to select seven Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. Six Democratic incumbents were re-elected and the open seat was retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation after the election was solely Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman William Elliott of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1897, defeated Republican challenger George W. Murray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman W. Jasper Talbert of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1893, defeated Republican challenger B.P. Chatfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Asbury Latimer of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1893, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican challenger John R. Tolbert in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Stanyarne Wilson of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1895, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican challenger P.S. Suber in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Thomas J. Strait of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1893, lost the Democratic primary. David E. Finley defeated William A. Barber in the runoff and then Finley defeated Republican John F. Jones in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman James Norton of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1897, defeated J. Edwin Ellerbe in the Democratic primary and Republican J.H. Evans in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031731-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman J. William Stokes of the 7th congressional district, in office since 1896, defeated Thomas F. Brantley in the Democratic primary and Republican James Weston in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio\nOn January\u00a012, 1898, the Ohio General Assembly met in joint convention to elect a United States Senator. The incumbent, Mark Hanna, had been appointed by Governor Asa Bushnell on March\u00a05, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman to become Secretary of State to President (and former Ohio governor) William McKinley. Hanna's appointment was only good until the legislature met and made its own choice. The legislature elected Hanna over his fellow Republican, Cleveland Mayor Robert McKisson, both for the remainder of Sherman's original term (expiring in 1899) and for a full six-year term to conclude in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio\nHanna, a wealthy industrialist, had successfully managed McKinley's 1896 presidential campaign. The Ohio Republican Party was bitterly divided between the faction led by McKinley, Hanna and Sherman, and one led by Ohio's other senator, Joseph B. Foraker. Bushnell was a Foraker ally, and it was only under pressure from McKinley and others that he agreed to appoint Hanna to fill Sherman's Senate seat. After Hanna gained the appointment, Republican legislators kept their majority in the November 1897 election, apparently ensuring Hanna's election once the new body met in January 1898. However, before the legislative session, the Democrats allied with a number of Republicans, mostly from the Foraker faction, hoping to take control of the legislature and defeat Hanna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio\nThe coalition was successful in taking control of both houses of the legislature; with the Senate election to be held just over a week later, intense politicking took place. Some lawmakers went into hiding for fear they would be pressured by the other side. The coalition decided on McKisson as their candidate the day before the balloting began. Three Republican state representatives who had voted with the Democrats to organize the legislature switched sides and voted for Hanna, who triumphed with a bare majority in both the short and long term elections. Bribery was alleged; legislative leaders complained to the United States Senate, which took no action against Hanna. McKisson lost a re-election bid as mayor in 1899; Hanna remained a powerful figure in the Senate until his death in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nThe members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, in drafting the Constitution, empowered state legislatures, not the people, to choose United States Senators. Federal law prescribed that the senatorial election was to take place beginning on the second Tuesday after the legislature which would be in place when the senatorial term expired first met and chose officers. On the designated day, balloting for senator would take place in each of the two chambers of the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0003-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nIf a majority of each house voted for the same candidate, then at the joint convention held the following day at noon, the candidate would be declared elected. Otherwise, there would be a roll-call vote of all legislators, with a majority of those present needed to elect. If a vacancy occurred when the legislature was not in session, the governor could make a temporary appointment to serve until lawmakers convened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nBeginning in about 1888, there were rival factions seeking control of the Republican Party of Ohio. In 1896, one faction was led by Senator John Sherman, former governor William McKinley, and McKinley's political manager, Cleveland industrialist Mark Hanna. The other grouping was led by former governor Joseph Foraker, who had the support of Ohio's current governor, Asa S. Bushnell. A truce was reached for the 1896 election campaign whereby McKinley's supporters would vote for Foraker in the Ohio Legislature's January 1896 senatorial election, while Foraker would support McKinley's presidential ambitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0004-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nForaker was elected and in June, the senator-elect placed McKinley's name in nomination at the 1896 Republican National Convention. In the November election, McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan to win the presidency; Hanna served as his campaign manager and chief fundraiser. The industrialist raised millions for McKinley's campaign but was bitterly attacked by Democratic newspapers for allegedly trying to buy the presidency, with McKinley as his easily dominated agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0004-0002", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nIn the 1896 election, the issue of the nation's monetary standard was a major issue, with McKinley advocating the gold standard, while Bryan favored \"free silver\", that is, to inflate the money supply by accepting all silver presented to the government and returning the bullion to the depositor in the form of coin, even though the silver in a dollar coin was worth only about half that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nAfter the election, McKinley offered Hanna the post of Postmaster General, which he turned down, hoping to become a senator if Sherman (whose term was to expire in 1899) was appointed to the Cabinet. McKinley did not believe the rumors, which proved accurate, that the 73-year-old Sherman's mental faculties were failing, and offered him the position of Secretary of State on January\u00a04, 1897. Sherman's acceptance meant that, once he resigned, one of Ohio's Senate seats would be in the gift of Bushnell, with the appointee to serve until the legislature reconvened in January 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nForaker was astonished when he learned that Hanna was seeking the Senate seat, not knowing that the industrialist had political ambitions. He felt that Hanna's campaign activities did not qualify him for legislative service. Hanna and his allies applied considerable pressure on the governor, though initially McKinley did not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nBushnell did not want to appoint Hanna, and offered the seat to Congressman Theodore Burton, a member of neither faction, who turned it down. Historian Wilbur Jones speculates that the seat was refused because of Burton's unwillingness to alienate Hanna's supporters, an action which might sacrifice a career in the House of Representatives for the sake of a few months in the Senate. The governor considered other options, such as arranging to get the position himself or calling a special session of the legislature and have them elect a new senator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0007-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nHowever, Bushnell eventually decided that appointing someone else was not worth risking the wrath of the new presidential administration, and of Hanna (who was chairman of the Republican National Committee). In late February 1897, McKinley sent a personal emissary, his old friend Judge William R. Day, to Bushnell, and the governor yielded. Hanna was given his commission by Governor Bushnell in the lobby of Washington's Arlington Hotel on the morning of March\u00a05, 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nHanna's associates alleged that Bushnell had delayed the appointment of Hanna so that Foraker could be Ohio's senior senator. Herbert Croly, in his biography of Hanna, agreed, and McKinley biographer H.\u00a0Wayne Morgan also states that Bushnell delayed Hanna's commission for this reason. Hanna biographer William Horner considers this motive possible. In his memoirs, Foraker denied this, stating that Sherman had not resigned from the Senate until the afternoon of March\u00a04, 1897 (the date on which the president and Congress were sworn in) so that Sherman could formally introduce Foraker to the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0008-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Background and appointment of Hanna\nSherman, according to Foraker, was also unwilling to resign until he had been confirmed as Secretary of State, which took place on the afternoon of March\u00a04. Foraker noted that he had been senator-elect since his selection by the legislature in January 1896 \"and there was no vacancy for which Mr. Hanna could be qualified, except only that to be created by the retirement of Mr. Sherman, and Mr. Sherman refused to retire until I was sworn and in my seat\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 80], "content_span": [81, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1897 state legislative campaign\nHanna obtained endorsement for election as senator by the 1897 Republican state convention during June in Toledo, and by local conventions in 84 of Ohio's 88\u00a0counties. Republicans expressed little opposition to Hanna's candidacy for senator prior to the November state elections, at which Ohioans elected a governor, other statewide officials, and a legislature. There was much national interest in the legislative campaign, which was seen as a rematch of 1896 and a forerunner of the 1900 presidential campaign, and as a referendum on Mark Hanna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0009-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1897 state legislative campaign\nPresident McKinley both campaigned on Hanna's behalf in Ohio and recruited speakers for him; for the Democrats, Bryan was the leading orator. Democrats hoped that by gaining a majority in the legislature and frustrating Hanna's election bid, they could claim a reversal of the voters' verdict in the 1896 presidential race, and exact revenge on the man who had helped orchestrate their defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0009-0002", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1897 state legislative campaign\nWhile the question of whether Hanna should continue in the Senate was central to the campaign, also discussed was whether McKinley's policies, including the Dingley Tariff, had brought prosperity, as well as the issue of free silver versus the gold standard. The Democrats, as was their custom, did not endorse a specific candidate for Senate, but Cincinnati publisher John R.\u00a0McLean was widely spoken of as the party's rival for Hanna's seat until strategists decided that his wealth and business background did not provide adequate contrast to Hanna, and McLean was forced into the background.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1897 state legislative campaign\nDuring the campaign, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal renewed the savage attacks on Hanna which had marked the 1896 presidential campaign; Hanna was depicted as a bloated plutocrat, frequently trampling a skull marked \"Labor\" and dominating a shrunken, childlike McKinley. Foraker was not prominent in support of Hanna; he did endorse his junior colleague in mid-September, and made several speeches soon after the announcement, but thereafter maintained a public silence which would continue until after the vote for senator by the newly elected legislature in January 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1897 state legislative campaign\nHanna made speeches across the state, much to the curiosity of Ohioans, who had heard a great deal about him for his activities on behalf of McKinley, but who did not know him well. He had rarely been called upon to make public addresses. McKinley recommended his personal technique of thoroughly laying out a speech in advance, but Hanna found it did not work well for him. Instead, he preferred to compose a brief introduction and then speak extemporaneously, not always even being certain of what topics he would address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0011-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1897 state legislative campaign\nAccording to his biographer, Herbert Croly, the informality of Hanna's speeches won over many in his audience, and he became known as a very effective public speaker. According to Philip Warken in his thesis on the 1898 Senate election, \"The campaign probably worked to Hanna's advantage. The shadowy figure in the background took on shape and form, the candidate's public appearances tending to break down [Davenport's] popular but distorted image of him.\" When Democrats attacked Hanna, who had considerable financial interests in industry, as a \"labor crusher\", he gave speeches inviting listeners to ask his workers whether they were well treated. Subsequently, several union leaders and workmen's committees confirmed that they had no complaint against Hanna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, 1897 state legislative campaign\nIn the November election, 62\u00a0Republicans and 47\u00a0Democrats were elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, while in the Ohio Senate there were 18\u00a0Democrats, 17\u00a0Republicans, and 1\u00a0Independent Republican elected. This meant a majority of 15 for the Republicans on joint ballot, ample, it was thought, to secure Hanna's election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nThe first public inkling that there might still be a serious contest for Hanna's Senate seat came the day after the November vote, when Governor Bushnell declared that the party's majority in the legislature was sufficient to elect a Republican as senator, but refrained from mentioning Hanna by name. Newspapers took note of the fact that while Bushnell had won a second term by 28,000\u00a0votes in the election, the balloting for the legislature had gone Republican by only 9,000. Soon after the election, a number of Republicans announced that they intended to ally with the Democrats and defeat Hanna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nCroly lists Bushnell, Cleveland Mayor Robert McKisson, and former Republican state chairman Charles L. Kurtz as among those involved in what he called a conspiracy against Hanna. Kurtz had been defeated in his re-election bid to the chairmanship by Hanna forces at the 1897 Republican state convention, while McKisson had unsuccessfully sought Hanna's support in his first election run in 1895, and according to Hanna biographer William T. Horner, held a grudge as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0014-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nHanna had also opposed his re-election in the municipal elections held in early 1897, speaking highly of McKisson's opponent to a reporter, and asking the reporter whether it was true that McKisson had secured renomination as mayor through fraud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0014-0002", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nDespite poor treatment by the Hanna campaign\u2014McKisson had been relegated to obscure rallies, except when called upon to introduce the candidate at a huge Cleveland event, and the Hanna supporters had sought to remove McKisson men from election positions\u2014McKisson had publicly supported Hanna for senator, making several speeches on the night before election day urging Republicans to vote the straight party ticket. Nevertheless, sample ballots were sent to Cleveland voters, telling them how best to cast their ballots so as to minimize Hanna's chances, and Warken speculated that these had to come from McKisson, as the only person with motive and opportunity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nCharles Dick, then Hanna's aide and later his successor as senator, recounted, \"The opposition developed immediately after the election. I might say the plotting, so far as the bolters were concerned, began before the election\u00a0... The fifteen majority melted away.\" According to Horner, \"as men elected to the Ohio legislature who were pledged to support Hanna continued to turn up opposing him\u00a0... the chances of Hanna retaining his seat began to look rather grim\". Kurtz disavowed the Toledo convention's endorsement of Hanna, describing the gathering as controlled by the senator's paid agents. He stated his case against Hanna: \"The returns of the recent election show that he is not wanted by the party. The days of Mr. Hanna's bossism are over. The people here are against him, and that settles it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0016-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nSeveral of the men who opposed Hanna came from Cleveland and elsewhere in Cuyahoga County, where Mayor McKisson was influential. The situation in Cincinnati's Hamilton County (home to Foraker) was complicated by the fact that the Republican legislators from there had run on a fusion ticket with the Democrats in order to defeat the local Republican bosses. These men were \"Silver Republicans\", as was the Independent Republican elected from Cincinnati, supporting \"free silver\" in opposition to McKinley, and had not pledged during the campaign to vote for Hanna if elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0017-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nForaker was not actively involved in the controversy, and in the sole interview he gave, said he was doing his best to keep out of it. Nevertheless, most of Hanna's Republican opponents were from Foraker's wing of the party. Ohio's senior senator did, however, state his belief that Hanna would have a difficult time being elected. When asked by Hanna supporters to intercede with the insurgents, Foraker responded, \"I will not antagonize lifetime friends for Hanna,\" and that Hanna was \"not honorable enough\" to go to Bushnell and Kurtz and work out a solution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0018-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Political turmoil\nThe new legislature convened in Columbus on Monday, January\u00a03, 1898. In the state House of Representatives, nine anti-Hanna Republicans aligned with the Democrats, electing one of the nine as Speaker. In the state Senate, an anti-Hanna Republican did not initially attend, allowing the Democrats to organize the chamber and elect one of their own as president of the body. The various legislative offices were divided between the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans. Democratic forces in the Ohio Senate were boosted when the absent Republican appeared and voted with them. A margin of three in the House and two in the Senate translated into a likely margin of five against Hanna on the senatorial vote, meaning that three legislators would have to switch sides for him to retain his position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0019-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nAfter the combine's success in the legislature, the Hanna-controlled Republican state committee called on local activists to come to Columbus. A rally took place on the day of Governor Bushnell's second inauguration, and many in the streets booed him. Much of the indignation focused on Bushnell as the only statewide official linked with the insurgents. Meetings were held across the state and petitions circulated, for the most part supporting Hanna and denouncing Bushnell, Kurtz, and McKisson. Croly described the scene in the days leading up to the vote for senator:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0020-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nColumbus came to resemble a mediaeval city given over to an angry feud between armed partisans. Everybody was worked up to a high pitch of excitement and resentment. Blows were exchanged in the hotels and on the streets. There were threats of assassination. Timid men feared to go out after dark. Certain members of the Legislature were supplied with body-guards. Many of them never left their rooms. Detectives and spies, who were trying to track down various stories of bribery and corruption, were scattered everywhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0021-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nHanna's forces went to great lengths to pick up the votes he needed for his election. According to Croly, they received word that state Representative John Griffith of Union County was under constant guard at the Great Southern Hotel, but was considering switching to Hanna's side. Hanna operatives aided his escape, and he was kept with his wife at Hanna headquarters at the Neil House until the vote. However, Warken related that Griffith \"seemed to align himself with the group that talked to him last\", repeatedly changing his position and eventually supporting Hanna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0021-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nHanna supporters sought to persuade other coalition Republicans to return to the fold\u2014by one account, a Cleveland Republican tearfully refused, stating that if he voted for Hanna, McKisson would cut him off as a supplier of brick pavers to the city. President McKinley did his best to help Hanna, sending a letter to one Republican whose vote was doubtful, delivered by a soldier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0022-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nOn January\u00a09, newspapers printed allegations that Hanna had arranged to bribe John Otis, one of the Silver Republicans from Cincinnati. Otis alleged that he was offered $10,000 and was actually paid $1,750. The individual said to have offered the money, a New Yorker named Henry H.\u00a0Boyce, had met with Hanna adviser Estes Rathbone at least twice. Boyce denied trying to bribe Otis, though he did admit to giving a retainer payment to Otis's lawyer, and fled the state when the matter became public. Hanna denied any involvement. His opponents hoped that the incident would preface his defeat, while his supporters feared the story would prompt a public outcry. Croly and Horner agree that the allegations had little impact on public opinion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0023-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nThe legislative leaders had not settled on a candidate to stand against Hanna, and discussions continued until January\u00a010, a day before the houses would vote. Democrats had tentatively agreed to vote for a Republican for senator, but were unwilling to consider a supporter of the gold standard. They considered giving a \"complimentary\" vote (that is, to honor the recipient) to Cincinnati publisher John R. McLean, a Democrat, before switching to a Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0023-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nThere being no requirement that the same person be elected for both the short and long Senate terms, Democrats also tried to negotiate for one of their party to be elected at least for the short term expiring in 1899. Under the latter scenario, Governor Bushnell was proposed in the long term election, but Bushnell was unwilling to support silver. At last, McKisson was decided on by the insurgents for both the short and long terms. The plan was announced on January\u00a010, together with a statement from McKisson, which he soon disavowed: that though he would if elected remain in name a Republican, he would support the 1896 pro-silver \"Chicago Platform\" of Bryan and his Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0024-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nUltimately, the contest came down to the votes of two Cincinnati Silver Republicans. The Hanna campaign at last secured the votes of both men; Croly related that one of them, Charles F.\u00a0Droste, had initially sought to advance the candidacy of a free silver Republican, Col. Jeptha Garrard of Cincinnati, and when it was clear that no one else supported Garrard, agreed to give Hanna his vote. Warken deemed the combine's failure to support Garrard \"the greatest blunder of the anti-Hanna coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0024-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nIf they had pushed the Colonel's candidacy they might have secured the support of the free silver men among the Cincinnati fusionists\". After the vote, McKisson rejected such criticisms: the combine would never have held together to vote for a silver-supporting candidate. A contemporary account calls the men's decision to support Hanna \"unexplained\", and that \"each of these Cincinnati members had been offered the Senatorship if he would withdraw from Mr. Hanna. Whether this offer could have been made good or not is doubtful\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0025-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nThe balloting in the separate chambers of the legislature took place on January\u00a011, 1898. In the Ohio House, Hanna received 56\u00a0votes to 49 for McKisson, with Columbus Congressman John J.\u00a0Lentz, state Representative Aquila Wiley and former congressman Adoniram J.\u00a0Warner receiving one each. The vote was the same for the short and the long term. Hanna's 56\u00a0votes were all from Republicans; McKisson received the ballots of 43\u00a0Democrats and six Republicans. The other three votes were cast by Democrats unwilling to support a Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0025-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nOne Democratic representative was absent due to illness on both days of the voting. In the Senate, there were identical votes for short and long term. McKisson received the votes of 18\u00a0Democrats and one Republican, while Hanna won the vote of 16\u00a0Republicans and the one Independent Republican. The split between the two houses meant that there would be a roll-call vote of the two houses in joint convention the following day. Nevertheless, if Hanna held all 73 votes cast for him, he would be elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0026-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nAccording to Alfred Henry Lewis of Hearst's Journal, writing on January\u00a012, \"The opposition to Hanna was utterly disorganized by the history of yesterday, and practically speaking, went into joint session today somewhat like a routed army might take up some battle it could not avoid.\" The 73\u00a0men pledged to Hanna went to the State House together under the protection of Hanna adherents. Croly related: \"Armed guards were stationed at every important point. The State House was filled with desperate and determined men.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0026-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Senate election, Contest in Columbus\nIn the joint convention, held in the House Chamber, the journals of the two houses were read, detailing the tallies from the previous day. The clerks of the two houses then called the rolls. The only votes to change were those which had gone to Warner and Wiley; both were switched to McKisson. Representative Aquila Wiley was the last person to vote; with Hanna having already received the 73\u00a0ballots he needed for election, Wiley maintained his vote for Lentz. The final tally, both for the short and long term was Hanna\u00a073, McKisson\u00a070, and Lentz\u00a01. Before the joint convention adjourned, Hanna appeared before it, thanking the legislators for his election. He stated, \"I doubly thank you because under the circumstances it comes to me as an assurance of your confidence\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 81], "content_span": [82, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0027-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nNewspaper reaction to the result was generally along partisan lines. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, a Republican paper, stated of Hanna, \"And this is the man against whom has been waged a war than which political history furnishes none more venomous, vicious, and relentlessly vituperative. It is a disgraceful story, known of all men.\" The Blade, another Republican paper, agreed, writing, \"The fight against Mr. Hanna was the most malignantly traitorous contest ever waged in the political annals of Ohio.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0027-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nThe Cincinnati Enquirer, a Silver Democratic paper, argued, \"The Republican contingent which stuck to the last against Hanna has made a record which the victorious faction might well envy\u00a0... Their fight was\u00a0... against the chairman of the national committee and all its forces and resources; against the president of the United States, with his tremendous party influence and more influential patronage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0027-0002", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nAgainst all this they have cut down the man who a year ago was, next to the president, the leading Republican of the United States, to a pitiful majority of one in his ambition to be elected to the Senate, and that obtained under circumstances not creditable to him. They chased him so hard that he dare not stop to have the gravest charges investigated.\" Hearst's New York Journal noted, \"And so it is to be 'Senator Hanna' for seven years. Well, the senatorship can add nothing to its holder's power for evil. As long as Hanna has his money he can control senatorships, whether he occupies them or not. Perhaps it is best to have him in the open.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0028-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nMcKisson \"had recognized that to lose the fight meant political death\". In June 1898, McKisson and his Cuyahoga County delegation were excluded from the Republican state convention in favor of a Hanna-backed delegation. Hanna forces had lost at the county level, but, alleging irregularities, had met and sent a rival delegation. McKisson ran for a third term as mayor in 1899. He survived a bitter battle in the Republican primary, but was defeated in the general election, leading to a decade of dominance by the Democrats in Cleveland. McKisson returned to his career as an attorney, continuing to practice law in Cleveland until his death in 1915 at age 52.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0029-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nBoth houses of the legislature voted to form committees to investigate alleged bribery in the result, though most Republicans abstained from voting on the resolutions. The House committee investigation ended inconclusively. The Ohio Senate committee declined to allow Hanna's attorney to participate in the proceedings. Relying on legal advice, Hanna refused to testify and asked supporters not to cooperate. The state Senate committee reported that an attempt to bribe Otis had been made by an unknown agent of Hanna; three Hanna aides, including Charles Dick, were implicated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0029-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nThe report was sent to the US Senate in May 1898, which referred it to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The Republican majority of the committee reported in February 1899 that while it accepted that an attempt had been made to bribe Otis, the matter had been known before the vote, Otis had voted for McKisson anyway, and that there was no evidence linking Hanna to the attempt. The report did mildly admonish Hanna and his associates for not cooperating with the Ohio Senate committee. Democrats on the Privileges and Elections Committee urged further investigation, but the US Senate ordered the committee's report to be printed, and took no further action. Hanna remained a power in the Senate until his death in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0030-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nThe extent to which money or patronage affected the outcome of the election is unclear. Congressman Burton stated, \"I never saw any evidence of the use of money in Columbus and don't believe that any money was used corruptly.\" In an interview after Hanna's death, James Rudolph Garfield, son of the late president and floor leader of the Hanna forces in the Ohio Senate, recalled that the senator \"had been asked to shut his eyes to some things. But he declined to do it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0030-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nHowever, Garfield also noted, \"I have never been sure as to what some of the men who called themselves Senator Hanna's friends really did do.\" Croly believed that Hanna did not personally authorize bribes of legislators, but concedes that Hanna's supporters \"may have been willing to spend money in Mr. Hanna's interest and without his knowledge.\" The biographer suggested, \"If Mr. Hanna had himself planned to purchase the vote of John C. Otis, it is reasonable to believe that the business would have been better managed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031732-0030-0002", "contents": "1898 United States Senate elections in Ohio, Aftermath\nHorner believes it impossible to ascertain if corruption took place, but if Hanna bribed legislators, it was because it was a common practice on both sides. He notes of Hanna, \"his career as a senator continued, but accusations of wrongdoing remain a part of his legacy well over a century later.\" Public dismay at what was seen as a corrupt means of choosing federal lawmakers was a major factor in the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, which took the privilege of electing senators out of state legislators' hands and gave it to the people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031733-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate special election in South Carolina\nThe 1898 South Carolina United States Senate special election was January 26, 1898 election to pick the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. The Democratic Party primary election was held on August 31, 1897. Prior to the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislature and not through the direct election by the people of the state. However, the Democratic Party of South Carolina organized primary elections for the U.S. Senate beginning in 1896 and the General Assembly would confirm the choice of the Democratic voters. Tillmanite Democrat John L. McLaurin won the Democratic primary and was elected by the General Assembly to serve the remainder of the six-year term expiring in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031733-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate special election in South Carolina, Democratic primary\nAfter Joseph H. Earle's victory in the 1896 Democratic primary election for Senate, the Conservatives believed that they had scored a decisive victory over the Tillmanite faction. Earle's sudden death in 1897 caught the Conservatives by surprise and they were unprepared to enter a candidate in the Democratic primary election on August 31 to replace Earle in the U.S. Senate. Thus all the candidates who entered the race were Tillmanites and were proponents of Free Silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031733-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 United States Senate special election in South Carolina, Democratic primary\nOf the four serious candidates in the race, John L. McLaurin was the most acceptable to the Conservatives and was the only one strongly in favor of the tariffs promoted by the Republicans. When the campaigning began on July 5 in Chester, McLaurin was repeatedly attacked by former Senator John L. M. Irby and former Governor John Gary Evans over his support of the tariff. McLaurin was accused of organizing the Populist Party in South Carolina, a charge he vehemently denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031733-0002-0001", "contents": "1898 United States Senate special election in South Carolina, Democratic primary\nS.G. Mayfield withdrew from the race on August 12 at Yorkville when McLaurin provided evidence that he had worked to prevent the Populist Party from organizing in South Carolina. John T. Duncan and G. Walton Whitman were the two minor candidates in the contest, although Duncan withdrew from the race in the closing days of the campaign and Whitman was never officially recognized by the state Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 80], "content_span": [81, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031734-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States elections\nThe 1898 United States elections occurred in the middle of Republican President William McKinley's first term, during the Fourth Party System. The elections took place shortly after the end of the Spanish\u2013American War. Members of the 56th United States Congress were chosen in this election. Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031734-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 United States elections\nDemocrats picked up several seats in the House at the expense of Republicans and the Populist Party. However, Republicans continued to control the chamber with a slightly diminished majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031734-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 United States elections\nIn the Senate, Republicans picked up several seats at the expense of the Democrats, growing the Republican majority. Several Senators continued to affiliate with third parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031734-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 United States elections\nThe elections helped Democrats further incorporate the remaining elements of the Populist Party, many of whom had been attracted to the Democratic Party after the 1896 candidacy of William Jennings Bryan. Republican Senate gains helped ensure ratification of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish\u2013American War and left the US in control of Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031735-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1898, in 28 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 8, 1898 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031736-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 University of Utah football team\nThe 1898 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1898 college football season as an independent. Head coach Benjamin Wilson led the team to a 2\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031737-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Ursinus football team\nThe 1898 Ursinus football team was an American football team that represented Ursinus College during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 214 to 46. Harry Off was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031738-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1898 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1898 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Samuel Dunning, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031738-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe players on the 1898 team included Orval Adams, Irwin Allred, and J.L. Kearns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031739-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 VFA season\nThe 1898 Victorian Football Association season was the 22nd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club; it was the first premiership in the club's history, and the first in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031739-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 VFA season, Ladder\nThe result of this was that while Richmond had qualified for the \"finals\" stage, it had no chance of winning the premiership as it began this stage too far behind Footscray to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031739-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 VFA season, Ladder, Port Melbourne protest\nFollowing the initial round of fifteen matches, Port Melbourne lodged a protest, seeking to overturn the results of two of its losses against North Melbourne during the season, on the grounds that North Melbourne had fielded former Fitzroy player Kelly without the proper clearance; and that Dick Houston, North Melbourne's captain and caretaker of the North Melbourne ground, had played without a caretaker's permit \u2013 a special requirement which ground caretakers were required to obtain in order to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031739-0002-0001", "contents": "1898 VFA season, Ladder, Port Melbourne protest\nThe Argus reported that during its initial discussion, the Association appeared likely to uphold Port Melbourne's protests, which would have ultimately drawn Port Melbourne level with Footscray for first place and therefore forced a playoff match for the premiership. Then, however, North Melbourne was able to successfully argue that Port Melbourne's protests were informal due to a procedural irregularity: namely that Port Melbourne had not deposited three guineas to the Association for each point of protest. As such, Port Melbourne's protests were dismissed on 23 September by a majority of 6\u20134 and Footscray was confirmed to be premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1898 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held in Melbourne on 24 September 1898. The match was played to determine the premiers for the 1898 VFL season. Fitzroy won the match by 15 points. The game was played under atrocious ground conditions, in front of 16,538 people, at the Junction Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final\nThe match is recognised as the first VFL grand final, although the term \"grand final\" was not in wide use until 1931. It was the first time that Victorian Football League premiership was decided in a final match, after the 1897 premiership was won under a different finals system by Essendon when they finished above three other clubs on the finals series ladder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final\nBoth the Fitzroy back-pocket Stan Reid and the Essendon full-forward Charlie Moore would later die in South Africa in active service during the Anglo-Boer War; Moore on 5 May 1901 and Reid on 23 June 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Season\nDuring the 1898 home-and-away season all teams played each other twice. The final end-of season ladder was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nAccording to the 1898 premiership system the eight teams in the VFL competition were divided into two sections based on their positions on the ladder: the first group were the teams that finished first, third, fifth and seventh and the second group were the teams that finished second, fourth, sixth and eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nThe teams in the two sections played three rounds of four round-robin matches on three consecutive Saturdays:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nThe winners of the two sections were Fitzroy and Collingwood respectively (for results of all of the round-robin matches and, a week later (17 September 1898), the two teams played each other at the Brunswick Street Oval, with Fitzroy winning the match 2.10 (22) to 1.5 (11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, \"Grand final\"\nThe 1898 rules stipulated that, if the team at the top of the ladder at the end of the home-and-away season (the \"minor premiers\") had not won the \"sectional final\" match between the two sectional winners, the \"minor premier\" had the right to \"challenge\" the winner and, having done so, the winner of that grand finale match was declared the season's premiership team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nThe VFL had not anticipated a challenge final in the match fixtures before the home-and-away season began, nor had it made any sort of a tentative venue booking to provide for such a possible eventuality, a significant omission given that each of the grounds were to be top-dressed and otherwise \"cultivated\" in preparation for the oncoming cricket season immediately after the scheduled football season was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nAlthough Essendon and Fitzroy could not agree on the choice of a single venue, they suggested three mutually acceptable venues for the match:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nAfter the VFL referred the decision to the VFL's Match Arrangement Committee, they, upon the express instructions of that committee, rejected the suggestions of the two teams outright and the match was controversially scheduled to be played at the Junction Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nThe Junction Oval was in an appalling condition as the ground had not been used since the second Saturday of the sectional round-robin match three weeks earlier (3 September) and, since then, it had been thoroughly topdressed and \"cultivated\" in anticipation of the coming cricket season. Also, the cricket ground's asphalt cycling track that lay between the boundary line and the fence presented a considerable danger to the footballers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nDespite being the \"challenger\", the Essendon flatly refused to play in the scheduled match, declaring that it would rather forfeit the match and the premiership than play on such a dangerous surface; this view was also strongly supported by Fitzroy, whose captain had taken the step of signing a statutory declaration to the effect that, in his opinion, the ground was entirely unfit to play on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nEssendon lodged an appeal with the VFL against the match arrangement committee's decision, partly on the basis of the condition of the ground and partly because the committee, asked to decide on one of three mutually acceptable venues, had chosen a fourth that was acceptable to neither participant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nThe VFL, perhaps somewhat driven by the fact that the attraction of a finals system was one of the major reasons that the eight teams left the VFA and formed the VFL in the first place, had a special meeting to hear Essendon's appeal. While it chose to endorse the committee's decision, it also did everything it could to convince Essendon to play the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nEssendon did not actually agree to play the match until the night before the game; and, ultimately, this \"in doubt until the last minute match\" was still attended by 16,538 paying spectators (it certainly would have been a much larger crowd otherwise).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0016-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nThe ground had been in such a dreadful condition that in the week prior to the match over 40 dray-loads of rubbish, soil and street-sweepings had been taken from the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0017-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nAll of this last minute work greatly improved the playing surface at the ground, sportswriters noting that the ground was imperfect but nevertheless fit for use. Dry, windy weather and patches of ground where the topsoil had not bound meant that players often fell on the grass-less slippery ground for want of some sort of grip, and play was often impeded by clouds of dust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0018-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Venue selection\nTo prevent any repeat of the events leading up to the 1898 challenge final, the VFL agreed that from 1899 they would schedule for a possible challenge final in advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0019-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nIn 1898, all VFL teams had 20 on-the-field players and no \"reserves\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0020-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nHowever, although there were no reserves, any player who had left the playing field for any reason at all could resume his place on the field at any time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0021-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nFitzroy selected two sets of brothers in its team, Bill and Jack Dalton and Jim and Mick Grace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0022-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Match\nEssendon had beaten Fitzroy in their round 1 and round 8 matches by 53 and 43 points respectively. Fitzroy had beaten Essendon by 29 points in the third match of their round-robin Sectional matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0023-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Match\nBoth teams had great difficulty playing football in the appalling ground conditions \u2013 as can be seen by the low scores \u2013 and the tough, bustling Fitzroy team handled the conditions far better than the Essendon team that had hoped to spread the game out as far as possible. Fitzroy took the lead in the first few minutes of the match, and Essendon were never able to catch up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0024-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Match\nEssendon were further demoralized when Fitzroy champion forward and follower Mick Grace, renowned for his marking skill and kicking prowess, flew high over a pack to take a spectacular high mark and kicked a long range goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031740-0025-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL Grand Final, Match\nIn a very tight, defensive second half, as the playing conditions deteriorated even further, only one goal was scored. Fitzroy went on to beat Essendon 5.8 (38) to 3.5 (23).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series\nThe Victorian Football League's 1898 finals series determined the premiers of the 1898 VFL season. Played under a new playoff system, the finals featured all eight teams, beginning on 27 August and concluding with the 1898 VFL Grand Final on 24 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series\nThe premiership was won by Fitzroy, who defeated Essendon by 15 points in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system\nThe VFL introduced a new system of finals for the 1898 season. Under the new arrangement the season was to take place as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system\nThe finals then took place over one or two weeks as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system\nThe essence of this format is that all teams had the chance to contest the major premiership, but the minor premier \u2013 as reward for its performances during the home-and-away season \u2013 had the right to challenge for the major premiership if it was either eliminated in the sectional rounds, or lost the first final. A stipulation was included to remove the minor premier's right to challenge if it performed poorly in the sectional rounds in order to prevent the team from resting its players or failing to take the sectional rounds seriously. The minor premier's right to challenge was not included in the original release of the fixture, but was added shortly before the start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system\nThe finals system was also used in an adapted form by the South Australian Football Association for three seasons from 1899 until 1901. The SAFA amended the system for its six team competition by having two sections of three teams instead of two sections of four teams; and in 1901 amended it for its seven-team competition by staging an entire seven-team round-robin without a final instead of splitting the teams into two sections. Under the SAFA's 1901 variation, the minor premier was entitled to two challenge matches instead of one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system, Problems with the finals system\nThe finals system introduced this year was used for three seasons until 1900, and it had two drawbacks:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system, Problems with the finals system\n\"The peculiar arrangement by which the premiership [in the 1898 season] was determined has given rise to some discussion as to which club is entitled to second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system, Problems with the finals system\nIn the competition for the major premiership both Geelong and Collingwood have better records of wins as against defeats than Essendon, and I have therefore heard it argued that Collingwood must be considered the runners up, with Geelong third and Essendon fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0008-0001", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system, Problems with the finals system\nIn winning the minor premiership however, Essendon secured a record which gave them the right to play off with the best performing team in the series of matches played for the major premiership (viz., Fitzroy), and as, moreover, the runners up are by custom recognised in the losers of the final encounter, I do not see how any team but Essendon can be entitled to the honor. At the same time the situation is not wholly satisfactory, and without wishing to cavil at the existing system I still favor the old custom of recognising only one premiership, to be won by the club holding the best record for one whole season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system, Problems with the finals system\nThe premiers for the season which closed on Saturday [Essendon] happen to hold that distinction, but it might not have been so.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Finals system, Problems with the finals system\nConsequently, from the 1901 season, this scheme was replaced with the Argus system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Matches, Section allocations\nThe clubs were divided into two groups for the sectional rounds as follows. The minor premiership was won by Essendon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Matches, Bracket\nThe two sectional round winners met in the semi-final. Having won the minor premiership, and scoring eight premiership points in the sectional round, Essendon had the right to challenge the semi-final winner in the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Matches, Semi-final\nThe semi-final saw Fitzroy host Collingwood at the Brunswick Street Oval. The two teams had never met in a finals match before. In a low scoring contest, Fitzroy won with a goal from Potter at the end of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031741-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL finals series, Matches, Grand Final\nThe grand Final saw Fitzroy meet Essendon on a neutral ground. This was the first meeting between the two sides in finals. After much disagreement about which ground should host the grand final, the two teams decided to meet on the Junction Oval. Fitzroy's fast start helped it to win the match by fifteen points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031742-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL season\nThe 1898 Victorian Football League season was the second season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031742-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1898, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 20 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\" (although any of the 20 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031742-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031742-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1898 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031742-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 VFL season, Win/Loss table\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031743-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1898 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their eighth season of organized football. Under first-year head coach Sam Boyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031744-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 VPI football team\nThe 1898 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1898 college football season. The team was led by their head coach J. Lewis Ingles and finished with a record of three wins and two losses (3\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031744-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1898 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Vanderbilt was in its ninth season of playing football, coached by R. G. Acton in his third and last year at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt's 1898 record was 1\u20135. This was Vanderbilt's first losing season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\nGeorgia beat Vanderbilt 4\u20130. Quarterback Kid Huff saved a touchdown in the Vanderbilt game when he tackled the large Wallace Crutchfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\nThe October 30, 1898, edition of the Nashville American gave a report on the debate to abolish the game. The headline for the story stated, \"How Many Lives Are To Be Sacrificed During This Season?\" More notices to the story read, \"HUMAN BLOOD STAINS GRIDIRON\" and \"Horrors of the Foot Ball Field Have Given Rise to an Agitation in Favor of Abolishing the Game\" and \"BEEN FORBIDDON IN SOME COLLEGES.\" This is a portion of the story: \"Is football becoming so brutally dangerous as to call for legislate restriction or abolishment?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0002-0001", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\nJust as the desire for the superseding, of war by arbitration to straightening out international complications had its birth in the grief and tears of the widow and the fatherless, so does the above question owe its origin to those who have been seen promising young men cut off in the prime or their youth, or maimed for life by the disparate struggle for football honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0002-0002", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\nYear after year the list of victims grow, until the matter has at last attracted national attention and in the absence of laws, declaring that young men may not risk life and limb in the gridiron contests some college authorities are forbidding the students to play football, and thus it comes about that institutions that have been prominent in this branch of sport will not be heard of during the present season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\n\"A study of the casualties of the football fields proves that those who oppose the game on account of its brutality and danger are justified in their views. Here are a few of the causes of death on the football field or injuries received that resulted in death later:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\n\"Two opposing players running. A careless tackle by one caused the heads of the two to come violently together. Result one man serious hurt that concussion of the brain, ensued ending in death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\n\"A scrimmage man holding ball went down with as many men atop of him as could get near enough to add their weight to the heap. Lower man did not rise when the mass disentangled itself. Examination showed that his neck had been broken, killing him instantly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\n\"Four players fell in a heap. In the struggle one lashed out with his foot, catching another on the head with the heel of his heavy shoe. Kicked man died three days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\n\"The list could have been extended halfway down the column, and a perusal of the news pages of the daily journals will show that deaths or injuries, broken bones, dislocated shoulders, smashed noses and sprained ankles are of daily occurrence among football players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\n\"Were it not for the fact that football men of the colleges are young giants who have hardened their muscles and rendered themselves proof against lighter injuries by reason of the fact that they are trained athletes, and have practiced falling and tackling so as to reduce the possibility of accident to a minimum, the list would be much larger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0008-0001", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\nNevertheless, pertinently query the opponents of football, what youth, however well trained, can be a football accident immune, which at stages of the game he is pretty sure to be the pivotal point of a squirming human pyramid weighing 2,000 pounds? If the game cannot be played without such dangerous features as this, they say, and then better strike it from the list of sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia \u2013 Human Blood Stains Gridiron\nVanderbilt's starting lineup was Powell (left end), Longhorse (left tackle), Sewell (left guard), Brown (center), Crutchfield (right guard), Martin (right tackle), Simmons (right end), Goodson (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Edgerton (right halfback), Burke (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Nashville\nThe season's lone win came over the University of Nashville (Peabody), 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Virginia\nThe most anticipated game in the South was the matchup between last season's two southern champions, Virginia and Vanderbilt, in Louisville. Virginia won 18\u20130. The game was played at Fontaine Ferry Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Central\nVanderbilt was beaten 10\u20130 by one of the best Central teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe Sewanee Tigers beat the rival Commodores 19\u20134. Sewell made the first touchdown on a 7-yard run. Vanderbilt's score came on a 40-yard run around left end by Walter H. Simmons. Ormond Simkins scored next on a 2-yard run. After the half, Kilpatrick scored on a 2-yard run. The last touchdown was a 35-yard run from Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was Powers (left end), Martin (left tackle), Crutchfield (left guard), Brown (center), Sewell (right guard), Langhorst (right tackle), Simmons (right end), O'Connor (quarterback), Dye (left halfback), Edgerton (right halfback), Burke (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031745-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Postseason\nDuring the Theodore Roosevelt administration (1905) a meeting was held at the White House with various college athletic officials in attendance to discuss the violence in football. representatives of the premier collegiate powers\u2014Harvard, Yale and Princeton\u2014to the White House on October 9, 1905. Roosevelt urged them to curb excessive violence and set an example of fair play for the rest of the country. The schools released a statement condemning brutality and pledging to keep the game clean. President Roosevelt was also concerned about the deaths and serious injuries football was recording. Over the decades injuries have been reduced with rule changes, better equipment and advancement in training habits. But it is a contact sport with serious injuries and occasional deaths still occurring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031746-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1898 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their first year under head coach D. M. McLaughlin, the team compiled a 3\u20132\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031747-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 6, 1898. Incumbent Republican Josiah Grout, per the \"Mountain Rule\", did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate Edward C. Smith defeated Democratic candidate Thomas W. Moloney to succeed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031748-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1898 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1898 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was John F. Bagley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031749-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1898 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1898 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Joseph Massie, the team went 6\u20135. The Cavaliers defeated Vanderbilt at Louisville in the South's most anticipated game. The team's captain was Harris T. Collier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031750-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 WAFA season\nThe 1898 WAFA season was the 14th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031751-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington & Jefferson football team\nThe 1898 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1898 college football season. Led by William D. Inglis in his first and only year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 9\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031752-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1898 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1898 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Frank Shively and compiled a record of 0\u20130\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031753-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington Senators season\nThe 1898 Washington Senators season was a season in American baseball. The team finished the season with a 51\u2013101 record, eleventh place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031753-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031753-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031753-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031753-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031754-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Washington football team\nThe 1898 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1898 college football season. In its third, non-consecutive season under coach Ralph Nichols, the team compiled a 1\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 24 to 18. Clarence Larson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031755-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1898 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Harry Anderson, the Mountaineers compiled a 6\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 64 to 23. The team's only loss was to the Pittsburgh Athletic Club by an 18\u20130 score. Lewis Yeager was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031756-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Conference football season\nThe 1898 Western Conference football season was the third season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031756-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Conference football season\nThe 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team, under head coach Gustave Ferbert, won the conference championship with a 10\u20130 record, shut out six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 205 to 26. The team concluded its season by playing Amos Alonzo Stagg's 1898 Chicago Maroons football team for the conference championship. The Wolverines beat Chicago by a 12\u201311 score in a game that inspired Louis Elbel to write Michigan's fight song \"The Victors.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031756-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Conference football season\nWisconsin, under head coach Philip King, compiled a 9\u20131 record, lost to Chicago, and finished in third place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031756-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031756-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nOnly 10 conference games were played during the 1898 season as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031756-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nNotable non-conference games during the 1898 season included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team\nThe 1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team was a collection of early football players, from several teams in the area, to form an all-star team. The team was formed by Dave Berry, the manager of the Latrobe Athletic Association, for the purpose of playing the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, which fielded a team composed of many of the game's stars from the era. The game between the two clubs ended in a 16-0 Duquesne victory and is considered to be the first all-star game for professional football. Contrary to popular belief, while the game was held at Exposition Park, which would be currently located inside of the city limits of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the 1898 location of the game was Allegheny, Pennsylvania which was not incorporated into the city of Pittsburgh until 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, History, Origin\nAt the end of the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club's 1897 season, the club signed a number of talented players to contracts for the upcoming 1898 season. However, in April 1898, the Spanish\u2013American War began. As a result, many of the team's recently signed players ended up in the United States Army. Looking for a solution to the problem, Duquesne manager William Chase Temple went out and signed up replacement players. Temple succeeded, and he received excellent results, when it was noticed that some of the replacements actually ended up being even more talented than the original contracted stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, History, Origin\nHowever that August, the war ended, with an American victory, and the soldiers quickly returned home. As a result, the Duquesnes suddenly found themselves with a surplus of pro football stars under contract. The team had so much depth, that it's benchwarmers would have starred for lesser teams. The amount of talent on the field was also reflected on the team's ledgers. Due to the high payroll, Temple eventually took over the payments to the athletes, thus becoming the first individual professional football team owner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, History, Origin\nAfter a 7\u20130\u20131 season, the Duquesnes' team was being compared favorably with the 1896 team put together for a two-game stand by the Allegheny Athletic Association, featuring Pudge Heffelfinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, History, Fielding an all-star team\nHowever Latrobe manager Dave Berry knew the all-star depth of the Duquesne team. He then conceived the idea of opposing the Duquesnes with an all-star team that drawn from the best players from all the other area teams. A game between the two teams was then arranged for Saturday, December 3, at Exposition Park. Berry began signing up stars, however he did not sign up everyone that he wanted. The leaders of the Greensburg Athletic Association opposed the game and did their best to discourage their players from taking part in it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 84], "content_span": [85, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0004-0001", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, History, Fielding an all-star team\nThe Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team also followed by disallowing their players from taking part in the game. Sam Boyle, an end from Penn State, was asked by Berry to be the team's captain, however he declined. No members from the Pittsburgh Athletic Club appeared on the team either. Berry was forced to rely heavily on his own Latrobe team, which fielded Eddie Wood, Doggie Trenchard, Harry Ryan, George Krebs, Bill Hammer, Jack Gass and Grennie Lewis. However George Barclay and Babe Rinehart, both from the Greensburg Athletic Association, decided to play on Berry's team despite the warnings given to them by Greensburg officials not to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 84], "content_span": [85, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, The game\nThe All-Stars were outplayed by their Duquesne opponents. While both teams consisted of top tier players, the All-Stars consisted of much individual talent but no teamwork. Meanwhile, Duquesne played the entire 1898 season together and formed the bonds of teamwork during that time. A little into the second quarter, Duquesne scored with a Roy Jackson touchdown. However, they could not convert the extra point, and the score stood 5-0 at halftime (touchdowns were only 5 points at the time). In the third quarter, Duquesne's J.A. Gammons ran 60 yards for a touchdown on a punt return. Roy Jackson scored Duquesne's third touchdown late in the game, after the team put together a scoring drive of 80 yards on just four plays. The extra point attempt failed, however the game ended in a 16-0 Duquesne win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, The game\nHours before the start of his all-star game, Dave Berry was \"arrested\" by one of his Latrobe players for a debt he claimed Berry owed him. Berry paid the $33 owed and then had the player arrested on false arrest charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031757-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team, The game, Attendance\nAttendance for the game was only 1,500 people. Part of the blame was due to many Pittsburghers considering the football season over with the Thanksgiving Day games. Uncertain weather was also blamed for the poor attendance. However most of the blame went to the leaders of the Greensburg Athletic Association, who were accused of spreading rumors that various star players would not appear in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1898 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe 1898 football team at the Western University of Pennsylvania (WUP) was led by Dr. Fred Robinson. Dr. Robinson was a graduate of State College and former player who lettered on their 1894 team. He also played for the Greensburg Athletic Association. He was registered in the Dental School so he was basically a graduate school player/coach. The manager, Edwin L. Thomas, had some scheduling problems due to the late formation of the team and unexpected cancellations, but managed to put together a reasonable slate of games with both college and club teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0001-0001", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nCoach Robinson also formed a sophomore team that played a six-game schedule. In its first season under head coach Frederick A. Robinson, the team compiled a 3\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 68 to 34. Ultimately, Dr. Robinson led the WUP varsity eleven to back-to-back winning seasons while pursuing his Dental degree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh Academy\nCoach Robinson scheduled a practice game with the Pittsburgh Academy to choose his varsity starting line-up. On October 12 at Recreation Park, the WUP varsity defeated the Pittsburgh Academy by a score of 24-5. On the Western U. 's first possession, halfback Robinson quickly penetrated the Academy's defense and scored a touchdown. WUP fullback B. L. Rosenbloom converted the goal kick after. After the ensuing kickoff, tackle William Mitchell and B. L. Rosenbloom carried the ball down the field for the second touchdown. Rosenbloom again converted the goal kick after. The Academy boys then put together an offensive drive and got within five yards of the goal but lost the ball on downs. Robinson then raced the ball to the Academy five and the WUP offense proceeded to score again right before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 898]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh Academy\nIn the second half Coach Robinson substituted freely and gave everyone a chance to earn a spot on the roster. Late in the game the Academy eleven were able to work the ball deep into Western U. territory and score a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh Academy\nThe WUP starting lineup for the Pittsburgh Academy game was Victor King (left end), Allen (left tackle), John Munden (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Weber (right guard), William Mitchell (right tackle), Clarence Burleigh (right end), Clyde Sample (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback), Charles Blair (quarterback) and B. L. Rosenbloom (fullback). The substitutes that saw action were Chester Fisher, George Dale, Herman Watt, William Hanson, Glendenning and Price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 89], "content_span": [90, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nOn October 19, Westminster College was the opponent at Recreation Park for the Western University\"s first game. Coach Robinson scampered 45 yards for a touchdown early in the first half, but Al Marshall could not convert the goal after. The score stood at 5-0. Coach Robinson allowed everyone to carry the ball but there were no more scores in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nIn the second half, the ball stayed mainly on Westminster's side of the field but again neither team was able to score and the final tally remained 5-0 in favor of the home team. The sportswriters were impressed with the play of Robinson, Hanson, Hagerty, King, Mitchell, and Windeknecht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nThe WUP lineup for the Westminster game was Al Marshall (left end), Hagerty (left tackle), Allen (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Windeknecht (right guard), William Mitchell (right tackle), Victor King (right end), Charles Blair (quarterback), William Hanson (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback) and Glendenning (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nThe D.C. & A.C. was also impressed with the play of the WUP eleven and rearranged their schedule to play the Westerns on the following Wednesday (October 26 ). The game was ultimately cancelled because someone referred to the game as a practice game for the D.C.& A.C. and the University lads became miffed with that appraisal and refused to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nOn November 4, the Western University contingent traveled to Fairmont, West Virginia to take on the Mountaineers of West Virginia University in the first game of what was supposed to be a two game road trip. The game was played on a rough field with tall grass so it turned into a defensive struggle with many fumbles. Late in the second half Mountaineer fullback Yeager was able to score a touchdown and West Virginia won the game 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe same teams were to play again on November 5th in Morgantown but the game was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Greensburg Athletic Association\nThe November 8th game scheduled with the Greensburg Athletic Association was cancelled. Greensburg had played Latrobe Athletic Association on Saturday the 5th and were too banged up to field a healthy opponent for the Western University eleven. This was the third cancellation in a two week period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nOn November 15, Grove City College battled the Western University eleven at Recreation Park. Grove City did not fear the 1898 edition of WUP football and started some substitutes and moved some players into different positions in the line-up. Early in the first half the WUP offense, behind the running of Coach Fred Robinson and Rosenbloom, advanced the ball steadily down the field and Robinson finally scored a touchdown from the three yard line. The goal kick after by Rosenbloom failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0012-0001", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nGrove City kicked off and Robinson caught the ball on the thirteen and raced 87 yards for his second touchdown of the afternoon. Rosenbloom's second attempt at the goal kick after also failed. Late in the first half Grove City was able to move the ball on offense. They managed to penetrate the WUP defense to the three yard line but the Western U. defense stiffened and held Grove City scoreless in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nAt halftime Grove City adjusted their line-up and played their first string. Grove City received the kickoff and moved the ball into WUP territory. Halfback Shannon raced the last twenty-five yards for the Grove City touchdown. Shannon also converted the goal kick after. The Western U. again kicked off and their defense was able to get the ball back but the offense could not penetrate the Grove City defense. Both ends for the WUP eleven were injured and replaced with Malcolm McConnell and Chester Fisher. With Grove City back on offense, Fiscus of Grove City got loose on a twenty-seven yard run around left end to score their second touchdown. Shannon again converted the goal kick after and the WUP was defeated 12-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0014-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe WUP lineup for the Grove City game was Al Marshall (left end), Allen (left tackle), Weber (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Windeknecht (right guard), Glendenning (right tackle), Victor King (right end), Henry Seitz (quarterback), William Mitchell (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback) and B. L. Rosenbloom (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0015-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Natrona Athletic Club\nOn November 19, the Natrona Athletic Club hosted the WUP eleven for a rainy, muddy game of football. The Western U. kicked off and their defense forced Natrona to give up the ball. WUP backs Mitchell, Rosenbloom and Coach Fred Robinson alternately carried the ball downfield with Robinson finally scoring a touchdown four minutes into the game. Robinson's goal kick after was unsuccessful. Later in the half Rosenbloom carried the ball into the end zone for a second WUP touchdown. His goal after kick was good and WUP led 11-0 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0016-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Natrona Athletic Club\nThe Westerns scored on their first possession of the second half with Robinson advancing the ball the last thirty yards for the final touchdown of the day. Rosenbloom missed the goal kick after. The crowd then became rowdy and tried to interfere with play. Natrona kicked off and Robinson dashed down the sideline and ran into a spectator. He fumbled and Natrona recovered. Natrona was able to move the ball but time expired before they could score. The final score was 16-0 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0017-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Natrona Athletic Club\nThe WUP lineup for the game with Natona A. C. was Al Marshall (left end), Malcolm McConnell (left tackle), Allen (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Windeknecht (right guard), Glendenning (right tackle), Chester Fisher (right end), Henry Seitz (quarterback), Fred Robinson (left halfback), William Mitchell (right halfback) and B. L. Rosenbloom (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0018-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe November 19, 1898 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported \u201cThe game scheduled between the State college and W.U.P. teams for Monday has been declared off, as the State college faculty was opposed to a game just before Thanksgiving Day.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0019-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at New Castle Terrors\nOn Thanksgiving Day in New Castle, Pennsylvania, approximately 1,000 fans were entertained by the New Castle Terrors and Western University football game. The opposing elevens fiercely contested every play and there were numerous players temporarily knocked out. Eight minutes into the game McClintock scored a touchdown for New Castle and the goal kick after was successful. The WUP defense managed to secure the ball on the New Castle forty-five yard line. The WUP offense advanced the ball deep into New Castle territory. After a loss of yards and penalty, the offense was able to score the touchdown. The goal kick after was good and the score was tied 6-6 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 92], "content_span": [93, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0020-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at New Castle Terrors\nThe second half was a defensive struggle with the ball remaining on the WUP side of the field for most of the half. Both defenses played well and neither team was able to score. The final result was a 6-6 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 92], "content_span": [93, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0021-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at New Castle Terrors\nAfter arriving back in Pittsburgh, the players complained about the rowdy fans and unfair officiating at New Castle. The WUP football team never played the Terrors again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 92], "content_span": [93, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0022-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at New Castle Terrors\nThe WUP lineup for the game against New Castle was Al Marshall (left end), Allen (left tackle), Weber (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Windeknecht (right guard), Glendenning (right tackle), Victor King (right end), Henry Seitz (quarterback), William Mitchell (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback) and B. L. Rosenbloom (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 92], "content_span": [93, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031758-0023-0000", "contents": "1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1898 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031759-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1898 William & Mary Orange and White football team represented the College of William & Mary during the 1898 college football season. The season marked the first meeting between William & Mary and the University of Richmond, which later became known as the I-64 Bowl\u2014so named for the highway between the two nearby schools\u2014and eventually as the Capital Cup. Richmond won the inaugural contest 15\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031760-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1898 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 20 June until 28 June. It was the 22nd staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031760-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Gentlemen's Singles\nReginald Doherty defeated Laurence Doherty, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031760-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Gentlemen's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Clarence Hobart / Harold Nisbet, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031761-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Doubles\nClarence Hobart and Harold Nisbet defeated George Hillyard and Sydney Smith 2\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Hobart and Nisbet 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1898 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031762-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nLaurence Doherty defeated Harold Mahony 6\u20131, 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 2\u20136, 14\u201312 in the All Comers Final, but the reigning champion Reginald Doherty defeated Laurence Doherty 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20131 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1898 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031763-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Singles\nCharlotte Cooper defeated Louisa Martin 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the All Comers' Final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1898 Wimbledon Championships. The reigning champion Blanche Hillyard did not defend her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031764-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Windward Islands hurricane\nThe Windward Islands Hurricane was a strong, destructive hurricane that raged through the eastern Caribbean islands in the early part of September during the 1898 Atlantic hurricane season. An estimated 383 people died as a result of the storm. Damage on Barbados and St. Vincent was catastrophic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031764-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Windward Islands hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe storm developed in the south central Atlantic from an easterly wave out of Africa. The storm steadily strengthened and reached the Windward Islands as a Category\u00a02 hurricane on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale. The hurricane roared directly over Barbados with sustained winds in excess of 100\u00a0mph. The effect was devastating. The hurricane maintained intensity and actually strengthened to near-major hurricane force. It turned slowly north, passing close to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and Martinique. Exiting the islands, still a Category\u00a02 storm, it continued north and then curved northeast near Bermuda. The storm finally became extratropical before crossing Newfoundland, having maintained hurricane strength for 13 consecutive days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031764-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Windward Islands hurricane, Impact\nThe storm caused devastating damage throughout the eastern Caribbean islands. Barbados and St. Vincent sustained the most damage. The estimated number of fatalities is 383. No damage figures exist but the destruction was very heavy and widespread in many places. Estimates run in the millions of dollars, uninflated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031764-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Windward Islands hurricane, Impact\nIn Barbados, 83\u00a0deaths and 150\u00a0injuries were reported. About 5,062\u00a0houses were completely destroyed, while 2,359\u00a0others suffered damage. Between 40,000 and 45,000\u00a0people were left homeless. Many streets were left impassable for several days, especially to vehicles. Phone service was completely disrupted as nearly all the power poles on the island were downed. The sugarcane plantations on the island also suffered crippling damage. The hurricane was compared to the \u201cGreat Hurricane\u201d of August 1831, in which roughly 1,500\u00a0people died and the island of Barbados was practically flattened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031764-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Windward Islands hurricane, Impact\nImpact was also severe on Saint Vincent. The villages of Richmond and Wallibou were a \"complete wreck\", with no houses remaining. In Chateaubelair, many houses were demolished, while a few were still standing after the storm, albeit with severe damage. Forty-five deaths occurred in the village. Similar impact was reported in Cumberland, with one death. Only one house was not destroyed at Barrouallie. Thirty fatalities were reported, eleven of which occurred after a church which people sought refuge in was wrecked. In Layou, only the police barracks remained standing. Throughout Saint Vincent, many people suffered injuries. Numerous large trees were uprooted and weather instruments were destroyed on the island. Nearly a foot of rain fell in just 24 hours. Dozens of boats were lost in the harbors and out at sea. The confirmed death toll for Saint Vincent was about 300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 919]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031764-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Windward Islands hurricane, Impact\nThere was minimal damage in Grenadines, except for Bequia, which was severely affected. At Guadeloupe, the sloop Marie Stella capsized offshore Goyave, drowning nine people. An additional nine deaths occurred after a landslide in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res buried two homes. On St. Lucia, impact was mostly limited to rain and landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031765-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1898 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1898 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031766-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031766-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Edward Scofield defeated Democratic nominee Hiram Wilson Sawyer with 52.55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031766-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Wisconsin elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031767-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wokingham by-election\nThe 1898 Wokingham by-election was held on 30 March 1898 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir George Russell. It was retained by the Conservative candidate Oliver Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031768-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1898 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 6 and 7 February 1898 at the ice rink Eisstadion in Davos, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031768-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nJack McCulloch was the defending champion but did not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031768-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe Norwegian Peder \u00d8stlund won three distances but did not finish the 500 meter. According to the rules he became World champion. The German Julius Seyler who finished all the distances had the best score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031768-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031769-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031769-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 World Figure Skating Championships\nIn 1898, the competition took place on February 15 in London, United Kingdom. It was won by Henning Grenander of Sweden. However, the second- and third-place contestants, Gustav H\u00fcgel and Gilbert Fuchs, who had won the championship in 1897 and 1896 respectively, filed a protest alleging biased refereeing: In their opinion, Judges Adams, Jenkin, and von Rosen strongly overestimated the Swede, and H\u00fcgel and Fuchs demanded that he should be deprived of his title. The organizers considered the protest, but rejected it as not substantiated. After this scandal, Grenander left figure skating and no longer performed at official competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031770-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wrawby Junction rail crash\nOn 17 October 1898 at Wrawby Junction, on what was the Great Central Railway near Brigg in Lincolnshire, England, a passenger train collided with a derailed goods train; killing 8 people and injuring 26 more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031770-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Wrawby Junction rail crash\nThe passenger train was the 16:45 from Cleethorpes to Manchester consisting of a brake van, three passenger carriages and a rear guard's van. The goods train which had left Grimsby earlier in the day for Doncaster consisted of 44 waggons loaded with larch tree trunks, three trunks to a load secured with chains. The length of the trunks (up to 42\u00a0ft) necessitated the close coupling of the waggons. The goods train was being shunted on a curve at low speed adjacent to the main line when five trucks derailed just as the passenger train approached. One truck toppled over; its load of timber projecting over the main line. The brake van 'was carried away with the exception of the offside and roof'. The next two carriages were 'clean swept away' above the floor level; the first compartment of the third passenger carriage was also destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031770-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Wrawby Junction rail crash\nThe investigation admitted that it was not possible to stop shunting operations from occurring on lines parallel and close to passenger running lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031771-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1898 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1898 college football season. In its third non-consecutive season under head coach Fred Hess, the team compiled a 0\u20134 record and was outscored by a total of 95 to 8. The season included the first scheduled games with teams from the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Denver. Harry Houston was the team captain for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031772-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming gubernatorial election\nThe 1898 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Incumbent Republican Governor William A. Richards was a candidate for re-election, but he was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention, which instead nominated DeForest Richards. The Democratic Party joined forces with the Free Silver Republicans to jointly nominate former State Representative Horace C. Alger for Governor. The Populist Party, though reduced in influence from earlier elections, nominated E. B. Viall as its candidate. Though the election was closer than 1894, owing in large part to a dramatic reduction in the share of vote received by the Populist nominee, Roberts defeated Alger by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031772-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming gubernatorial election, Party conventions\nGovernor Richards announced that he would seek re-election, and prior to the Republican convention, he was seen as one of three frontrunners, along with banker DeForest Richards and State Senator John McGill of Albany County. However, Governor Richards was ultimately not re-nominated by the Republican Party; instead, DeForest Richards was nominated by acclamation. The Republican platform repudiated its 1894 support for free silver, instead adopting the national Republican platform from the 1896 Republican National Convention in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031772-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming gubernatorial election, Party conventions\nThe Democratic convention occurred as a joint affair with Free Silver Republicans, and the coalition split up the statewide candidates among the two members of the coalition; the Democrats nominated candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, and Treasurer, and Free Silver Republicans chose candidates for State Auditor and Superintendent of Public Instruction. Former State Representative Horace C. Alger was nominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031773-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming state elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 8, 1898. All of the state's executive officers\u2014the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction\u2014were up for election. The Republican Party retained all of the offices up for election, though by reduced margins from 1894 as the Populist Party's performance decreased considerably.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031773-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor William A. Richards ran for re-election to a second term, but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by DeForest Richards. In the general election, Richards faced former State Representative Horace C. Alger, whom he defeated, but by a narrower margin than Governor Richards won by in 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031773-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Charles W. Burdick did not seek re-election to a second term. At the Republican convention, Fenimore Chatterton, a former State Senator, was nominated. He faced Rock Springs businessman David Miller, a former Cheyenne City Councilman and former territorial legislator, in the general election. Chatterton ultimately defeated Miller by a decisive margin, but reduced from four years prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031773-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming state elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor William O. Owen declined to run for re-election. The Republican convention nominated LeRoy Grant, the deputy state revenue collector and a former State Representative from Albany County, as Owen's successor. In the general election, Grant was opposed by Charles H. Priest, a state water commissioner and former Uinta County Treasurer. Priest was a Free Silver Republican, who was nominated for State Auditor as part of a fusion deal with the state Democratic Party. However, despite Priest's bipartisan appeal, Owen defeated him in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031773-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican Treasurer Henry G. Hay was barred from seeking a second consecutive term as a Treasurer. State Senate President George E. Abbott was nominated as Hay's successor at the Republican state convention, and former Territorial Treasurer Luke Voorhees, a former Republican, was nominated as his replacement at the Democratic convention, beating out Colin Hunter. In the general election, Abbott defeated Voorhees by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031773-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nIncumbent Republican Superintendent Estelle Reed resigned from office on January 27, 1898, and Carroll H. Parmelee was appointed by Governor Richards as Reed's replacement. Parmelee declined to seek re-election to a full term, and Thomas T. Tynan, the Clerk of the Fourth Judicial District Court, was nominated at the Republican convention for Superintendent. At the Democratic convention, Jerome F. Brown, a State Representative from Sheridan County, was nominated. Brown was a Free Silver Republican and was nominated by the Democratic convention as part of a fusion with Silver Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031774-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9\u20132 record under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6\u20130) and Harvard (17\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031774-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThree Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections\nThe United States Senate elections of 1898 and 1899 were landslide elections which had the Republican Party gain six seats in the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections\nAs these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 55th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were seated during 1898 or in 1899 before March 4; ordered by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Races leading to the 56th Congress\nIn these regular elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1899; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 56th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were elected in 1899 after March 4, and seated in the 56th Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0005-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 56th Congress\nIn this election, the winner was seated in the 57th Congress, starting March 4, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0006-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe election in New York was held January 17, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0007-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, New York\nDemocrat Edward Murphy Jr. had been elected to this seat in 1893, and his term would expire on March 3, 1899. At the State election in November 1898, 27 Republicans and 23 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1899\u20131900) in the State Senate; and 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats were elected for the session of 1899 to the Assembly. The 122nd New York State Legislature met from January 4 to April 28, 1899, at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0008-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe Republican caucus met on January 12. State Senator Hobart Krum presided. They nominated Chauncey M. Depew unanimously. Depew had been Secretary of State of New York from 1864 to 1865, and was the frontrunning candidate to succeed Thomas C. Platt at the U.S. Senate special election in 1881 when he withdrew after the 41st ballot. Parallel to his political career, he moved up the ladder in the Vanderbilt Railroad System, being President of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from 1885 to 1898, and holding positions in dozens of other railroad companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0009-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe Democratic caucus met also on January 12. State Senator George W. Plunkitt presided. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Edward Murphy Jr. unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0010-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, New York\nChauncey M. Depew was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0011-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, New York\nNote: The votes were cast on January 17, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 18 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0012-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Utah\nIn mid-August 1898, Alfred W. McCune decided to seek office as a Democrat for the United States Senate. State legislators had already indicated they would not support the incumbent, Frank J. Cannon for reelection. Cannon, a Republican, had voted against the Dingley Act, which would have raised tariffs on sugar and helped the Utah sugar industry. The Dingley bill was strongly supported by the LDS Church hierarchy, who now opposed his reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0012-0001", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Utah\nOther factors were his support for Free Silver; rumors about immoral acts he may have committed while living in Washington, D.C.; and that the Utah legislature was controlled by Democrats. The McCunes were close friends with Heber J. Grant, seventh LDS Church president and an ordained LDS apostle. Although the LDS church had (just weeks before) made a decision to stay out of state politics, McCune asked Grant for the church's assistance in winning office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0012-0002", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Utah\nGrant consulted with Joseph F. Smith (Apostle and sixth LDS president) and John Henry Smith (a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency of the LDS Church), both of whom supported McCune's senatorial bid. But McCune was not alone in seeking the office. Former Representative William H. King was also running (and backed by two Apostles), as was James Moyle (a prominent attorney and founder of the Utah Democratic Party who was backed by state legislators) and George Q. Cannon (an Apostle and member of the First Presidency).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0013-0000", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Utah\nAt the time, members of the Senate were still elected by their respective state legislatures. The Utah state legislature convened in January 1899. There were 13 Republicans and 50 Democrats in the state legislature. From the beginning, McCune was considered the leading candidate. But the legislature quickly deadlocked over the election. One-hundred and twenty-one ballots were cast, and no winner emerged. McCune was one or two votes shy of winning on several ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031775-0013-0001", "contents": "1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections, Utah\non February 18, before the 122nd ballot, state representative Albert A. Law (a Republican from Cache County and a Cannon supporter) claimed McCune offered him $1,500 for his vote. McCune strenuously denied the charge, and a seven-member legislative established to investigate the allegation. The committee voted 7-to-2 to absolve McCune of the charge, and this outcome was announced to the legislature on March 6. Balloting resumed, and on March 8, on the 149th ballot, McCune still lacked enough votes to win office (he had only 25 votes). The legislature adjourned without having chosen a senator, and McCune traveled in Europe for several weeks to regain his health (returning in June 1899).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031776-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 college football season\nThe 1898 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031777-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1898 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031777-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in Afghanistan\nThe state of Afghanistan is peaceful and quiet throughout the year, with few exceptions. The amir suffers much inconvenience and loss through the frontier disturbances, and to steer a middle course between the fanatical forces about him and his foreign obligations is difficult. He is accused of harbouring Afridi refugees, but since they are fugitive Muslims, the amir by his religion is bound not to repel them when seeking refuge without prearrangement. The amir is not implicated in supplying arms and ammunition to the tribesmen. Across the Indian border, the First Mohmand Campaign in the North-West Frontier Province finishes in January 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031777-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 in Afghanistan, April 1898\nThe amir appoints Mir Atta Khan of Herat to succeed the late Sipah Salar Gholam Haidar Khan Orakzai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031777-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 in Afghanistan, May 1898\nIt is announced that the Afridis are again sending jirgas to interview Abdor Rahman at Kabul. These deputations, which are composed of Zakka khels, are turned back by the governor of Jalalabad, no doubt by orders from the amir. Sir James Westland, when speaking at Simla in June, warmly eulogizes the conduct of the amir, and says that the tribesmen should now see that although the Indian government made an agreement with the amir, that agreement was not intended to interfere in any way with their independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031777-0004-0000", "contents": "1898 in Afghanistan, December 1898\nA message from the amir is received by the Indian government in which he says, speaking of the raid by Waziris into Afghan territory, that he expects the British will check such raids, just as the Indian government expects the Afghan officials to prevent attacks similar to that made in August on a party of coolies in the Tochi Valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031778-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Argentine football\n1898 in Argentine football saw Lomas win its 5th Primera Divisi\u00f3n championship within 6 seasons. The runner-up was Lobos. Flores and Belgrano A.C. \"B\" left the championship, being replaced by Lobos which returned to the Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031778-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in Argentine football, Primera divisi\u00f3n, Championship playoff\nLomas and Lobos finished first with 20 points each so they had to play a match to define a champion. After the first game was declared null by the Association attending to a request by Lobos, a second match was played, winning Lomas the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031779-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1898 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031779-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in Australia, Science and technology\nNothing much that is important happened to do with science and technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031780-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031780-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1898 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031780-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1898 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031781-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Australian soccer\nThe 1898 season was the 15th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031781-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031785-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Canada, Historical Documents\nFederal plebiscite on prohibition finds apathetic electorate (compared to general election turnout) delivers small majority in favour", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031785-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in Canada, Historical Documents\nTouring U.S. farmers find paradise of meadows, prairies and woodlands in Saskatchewan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031785-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 in Canada, Historical Documents\nQuestionable building standards lead to fatal collapse of city hall floor in London, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031786-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031786-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in Canadian football, Dominion Championship\n1898 Dominion Championship Game: Ottawa College Grounds - Ottawa, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031787-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1898 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031792-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Iran\nThe following lists events that have happened in 1898 in the Qajar dynasty, Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031794-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Italy, Events\nThe year is marked by widespread bread riots all over Italy. The tariff on the duty on imported wheat is lowered from 75 lire a tonne to 50 lire. In 1897 the wheat harvest in Italy was substantially lower than the years before; it fell from on average 3.5 million tons in 1891\u201395 to 2.4 million tons that year. Moreover, import of American grain was more expensive due to the Spanish\u2013American War in 1898. Wheat prices in Milan increased from 225 lire a tonne to 330 lire a tonne in April 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031794-0000-0001", "contents": "1898 in Italy, Events\nIn order to try to diminish the rising prices the government of Antonio Di Rudin\u00ec was urged to abolish the duty on imported wheat. The lowering of the tariff is generally considered to be too little and too late. Street demonstrations demanding \"bread and work\" began in the South of Italy, which already had seen widespread revolts by the Fasci Siciliani in 1893\u201394. In towns like Bari and Naples rioting could be suppressed, while Florence was controlled by demonstrators for a whole day. The situation escalated when demonstrators were shot by nervous policemen, and rioting increased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031794-0000-0002", "contents": "1898 in Italy, Events\nThe Finance Minister in the administration of Prime Minister Antonio di Rudin\u00ec, Luigi Luzzatti, passed two measures of social legislation in 1898. The industrial workmen\u2019s compensation scheme from 1883 was made obligatory with the employer bearing all costs; and a voluntary fund for contributory disability and old age pensions was created. 'O sole mio the globally known Neapolitan song is composed. Its lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031796-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1898 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031796-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government and law\nThe 13th New Zealand Parliament continues with the Liberal Party in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031798-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1898 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031802-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1898 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031805-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Swedish football\nThe 1898 season in Swedish football, starting January 1898 and ending December 1898:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031807-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1898 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031809-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in architecture\nThe year 1898 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031811-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1898 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031812-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1898 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031813-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 1898 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031814-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in film\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1898 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. The Spanish\u2013American War was a popular subject. Several films made by Col. William N. Selig dealt with the subject of war preparations at Camp Tanner in Springfield, Illinois, including Soldiers at Play, Wash Day in Camp and First Regiment Marching.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031815-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031816-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1898 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031818-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031818-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in paleontology, Dinosaurs\nMisidentified non-dinosaurian archosaur preoccupied by Walcott, 1889. Later renamed Avalonianus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031818-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 in paleontology, Dinosaurs\nMisidentified genus of dubious non-dinosaurian archosaur. May be a synonym of Avalonianus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031819-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031819-0001-0000", "contents": "1898 in poetry, Events, The \"Generation of '98\" in Spain\nThe \"Generation of '98\" (also called \"Generation of 1898\", in Spanish, Generaci\u00f3n del 98 or Generaci\u00f3n de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish\u2013American War. Jose Mart\u00ednez Ruiz, commonly known as Azor\u00edn, comes up with the name in 1913 to allude to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 56], "content_span": [57, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031819-0002-0000", "contents": "1898 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031819-0003-0000", "contents": "1898 in poetry, Deaths\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031820-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031821-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in science\nThe year 1898 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031822-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in sports\n1898 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031823-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1898 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031824-0000-0000", "contents": "1898 in the Philippines\n1898 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0000-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines\n1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines (Spanish: 1898, Los \u00faltimos de Filipinas) is a 2016 Spanish war drama film directed by Salvador Calvo. The film depicts the Siege of Baler from 1898 to 1899, where 54 Spanish soldiers defended themselves in the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa church against Philippine revolutionaries. It was shortlisted as one of the three films to be selected as the potential Spanish submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. However, it was not selected, with Summer 1993 being selected as the Spanish entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0001-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nDuring the Philippine Revolution in October 1897, Tagalog rebels allied with the Katipunan attack a Spanish garrison in Baler, Aurora, killing 37 out of 50 soldiers stationed there. Three months later, the 2nd Expeditionary Battalion led by Captain Enrique de las Morenas y Foss\u00ed and Lieutenant Mart\u00edn Cerezo is sent from Manila to retake the village. Despite being informed by Brother Carmelo of the San Lu\u00eds Obispo de Tolosa church that the rebels have left, Cerezo takes no chances and orders his men to proceed with caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0001-0001", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nUpon their arrival, they meet Sergeant Jimeno Costa, a survivor of the massacre, and Teresa, a villager who claims to have no qualms with the Spanish Empire. As the battalion consists of new recruits, they are warned by de las Morenas that the humidity, diseases, typhoons, and wildlife are the rebels' closest allies. Among the cadets is Carlos, an artist from Fuenlabrada de los Montes hoping to study at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando after the war. He confides with Brother Carmelo, who shares opium with him to relieve their pain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0002-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nSome time later, a wounded messenger delivers news that the United States has declared war on Spain and have subsequently destroyed the Spanish fleet in Cavite. As Manila is under siege, supplies to the battalion have been cut off. Morenas orders his men to fortify the church against a possible attack. On 30 June 1898, Tagalog rebels attack the battalion, forcing them to retreat into the church. The next morning, Calixto Villacorta, speaking for Commander Teodoro Novicio Luna of the Filipino forces, offers a one-day truce for each side to bury their own. As both sides gather their dead, Spanish cadet Juan defects to the rebels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0003-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nBy 10 October, several cadets fall victim to beriberi due to contamination in the food rations from Manila. As Juan attempts to convince the battalion that they are fighting for a lost cause, Morenas succumbs to beriberi that night, leaving Cerezo in charge of the men. Teresa and the village women bring oranges and the latest newspapers to the church as a peace offering, leading to an argument between Cerezo and Costa over the fate of the battalion. On 31 December, Brother Carmelo dies of beriberi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0003-0001", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nDays later, upon hearing Teresa singing in the village, Cerezo shoots her, prompting the Tagalog forces to shell the church with artillery in retaliation. Cerezo leads Costa and some cadets to sabotage the rebels' cannon, but an erratic Carlos goes further by stealing the village's food and burning the surrounding houses before retreating back to the church. The next day, Carlos is locked in the basement after Brother Carmelo's opium pipe is found and he is experiencing withdrawal symptoms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0004-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nOn 18 May 1899, after Carlos emerges from his rehabilitation, Lieutenant Colonel Crist\u00f3bal Aguilar y Casta\u00f1eda, on behalf of Governor-General Diego de los R\u00edos, arrives at the church to deliver newspapers and orders for the battalion to lay down their arms. Cerezo, however, is still not convinced that Spain has lost its colonies to the U.S., believing that the documents he received are false.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0004-0001", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nCarlos offers to travel back to Manila to verify the news they were receiving, but he is captured by Tagalog forces and brought to Luna, who tells him that Spain had sold the Philippines to the Americans for $20 million, leading to the Philippine\u2013American War. He returns to the church to tell Cerezo what he has learned, but Cerezo still refuses to stand down. That night, Carlos, Jos\u00e9, and Carvajal attempt to flee the church, but are caught by Costa, who chops off Carlos' right arm while Cerezo has the other two cadets executed. As his men lay wounded from another gun battle, Cerezo realizes the truth when he reads a personnel transfer article on a newspaper indicating that his friend Francisco D\u00edaz was posted to M\u00e1laga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0005-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nOn 2 June, Cerezo has Carlos wave the white flag at the church tower, marking the end of the siege. He then hands over his formal surrender to Luna, who agrees not to take the battalion prisoner and to leave their fate to the American forces. He gives them a guard of honor, and they part with the words it has been four centuries, lieutenant.\" Carlos is given a letter of exemplary conduct by Cerezo, but he threatens to tell the Spanish authorities what his superior did to his battalion. Disillusioned by the ordeal he faced, he throws away his art book before he and the surviving members of the battalion leave the church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0006-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Plot\nThe Siege lasted for 337 days, with 17 Spanish casualties and more than 700 Filipino deaths. It also marked the end of the Spanish Empire. Of the survivors of the 2nd Expeditionary Battalion, Cerezo received the Laureate Cross and in the historical events the enlisted men received the Cross of Military Merit and a pension for life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0007-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Production\n1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines was shot in the Canary Islands and Equatorial Guinea as stand-ins for the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031827-0008-0000", "contents": "1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines, Reception, Critical response\nJonathan Holland of The Hollywood Reporter called the film \"Spectacular and striking, but none too subtle.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031828-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u20131900 Australian constitutional referendums\nA series of referendums on the proposed constitution of Australia were held between 2 June 1898 and 31 July 1900 in the six colonies that were to become the states of the Commonwealth of Australia. The first four referendums were held in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria in June 1898. Although all four saw a majority vote in favour, the majority in New South Wales was insufficient. Knowledge of the result in New South Wales led to low voter turnout in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031828-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u20131900 Australian constitutional referendums\nFollowing a series of amendments made to the proposed constitution at the Secret Premiers meeting on 31 January and 1 February 1899, a second referendum was required in the four states, whilst on 2 September, Queensland held a referendum on the constitution for the first time. All five states saw a majority vote in favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031828-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u20131900 Australian constitutional referendums\nThree weeks after the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act became law in 1900, Western Australia held a referendum on the constitution, which was also approved. The constitution came into force on 1 January 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031828-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u20131900 Australian constitutional referendums, Background, South Australia\nResidents of South Australia were staunchly opposed to federation in the mid-19th century due to the dominance of the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales in issues such as trade and tariffs, as well as a desire to keep unique elements of South Australia intact. The mood had shifted by the 1890s, with what was seen as the looming inevitability of federation a motivator to negotiating a good deal for the less populous colonies, with the argument by the Yes campaign that they may never have such favourable terms again. The No campaign however focused on the potential for increased costs for South Australians, as well as decreased land values.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031829-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 Football League season was Aston Villa's 11th season in the Football League First Division, the top flight of English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031829-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season highlights\nThree of Villa\u2019s 1897 double-winning team joined Celtic in the summer of 1897, so 1897/98 proved to be a rebuilding period for the club. By the mid-point of 1898/99, Villa had a narrow lead over Everton and Burnley but a late season run by Liverpool dropped them to second place. It came down to \u2018last-game decider\u2019, with Villa at home to Liverpool. 41,000spectators shoe-horned themselves into Villa Park to see an emphatic win by the home team, 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031829-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season highlights\nThe season was notable for one of those one-off, never repeated events that enliven League history. The referee was late arriving for the match at Sheffield Wednesday. After some deliberation, it was decided to start without him. Though he took over at half-time, the delay meant that darkness fell with 10 minutes left to play. Wednesday were the better team on the day and led 3\u20131 at the time. The League consulted the rule-book and decided that the last 10 minutes would have to be played at a later date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031829-0002-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season highlights\nThe first suggestion was that perhaps the 10 minutes could be played before the return game at Villa Park. In the end, Villa agreed to play Wednesday in a benefit match for one of their players, and the missing minutes were duly played out before the friendly game. Villa made one change for the second game, Garraty replacing Bedingfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031829-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Aston Villa F.C. season, Season highlights\nVilla competed in the 1899 Sheriff of London Charity Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031830-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Belgian First Division, Overview\nThis season saw a number of new clubs enter the Championship. along with a new format. It was contested by 9 teams, and F.C. Li\u00e9geois won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Blackpool F.C. 's third consecutive season in the Football League. They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing sixteenth. As a result, they lost their League status, failed to gain re-election for the following season, and instead competed again in the Lancashire League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season\nNew signings for the season included goalkeeper Fletcher, defender Jack Scott, Richard Howson, and Gamble. Out had gone, amongst others, goalkeeper William Douglas, Jimmy Martin, John Clarkin, Bob Norris (to Nottingham Forest), Tommy Bowman (to Aston Villa), and Jack Cox (to Liverpool).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season\nBob Birkett was the club's top scorer, with fifteen goals. Jack Parkinson and Jack Scott were ever-present in the club's 34 league games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season\nTowards the end of the season, Blackpool F.C. amalgamated with South Shore F.C., which largely accounts for the fact that the club used thirty players during the course of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool travelled to Glossop North End on the opening day of the season, 3 September, but returned to Lancashire pointless after a 4\u20131 defeat. The visitors' goal was an own-goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA week later, Blackpool welcomed Walsall to Stanley Park's Athletic Grounds. The Saddlers won 2\u20131, with Jack Leadbetter netting the hosts' goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBurton Swifts were Blackpool's next opponents. The Seasiders returned from Peel Croft with another defeat behind them, this time 3\u20131. Jack Parkinson scored his first goal of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0007-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA fourth-consecutive defeat followed on 24 September at home to Burslem Port Vale. 4\u20130 was the scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0008-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOctober's first outing provided Blackpool with their first win, 2\u20131 at home to Loughborough. Bob Birkett opened his scoring account for the season with both Blackpool strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0009-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter a fortnight's break, Blackpool travelled to Grimsby Town. Birkett scored again, but the home side won 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0010-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nInto November, Blackpool made the short trip to New Brighton Tower, where they lost 4\u20130, their sixth defeat in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0011-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 12 November, Lincoln City were the visitors to the Athletic Grounds. Blackpool won 3\u20130, with Harry Stirzaker and Birkett (two) getting the goals. Fletcher, Blackpool's goalkeeper, kept his first clean sheet of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0012-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo weeks later, Luton Town travelled to the seaside, and their 3\u20132 victory (Cartmell and Leadbetter getting the goals) sparked a run of eight consecutive defeats for Blackpool. The other seven were: 4\u20130 at Leicester Fosse, 3\u20131 at Newton Heath (Birkett), 7\u20130 at Gainsborough Trinity, 4\u20132 at home to Manchester City (Andrew Hateley and Thomas Hoyle), 5\u20130 at Small Heath, 2\u20131 at home to Glossop (Parkinson), and 6\u20130 at Walsall. This set a new club record for Blackpool, and one that lasted for 67 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0013-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAt the start of 1899 the club returned to Raikes Hall, and the winless run was ended on 14 January with a 3\u20130 win at home to Burton Swifts, a double from Parkinson and a penalty from Jack Scott did the damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0014-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAnother heavy defeat followed, Blackpool's fifteenth loss in eighteen games, 6\u20131 at Burslem Port Vale on 21 January. Blackpool played the entire game with only ten players. Parkinson scored the visitors' goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0015-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool completed a double over Loughborough on 4 February with a 3\u20131 away victory. Scott and Birkett (two) were the Seasiders scorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0016-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nIt was back to losing ways, however, the following week. Blackpool travelled to Barnsley and returned empty-handed after a 2\u20131 reversal. Alex Stuart got the Blackpool goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0017-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo more defeats followed \u2014 6\u20133 at home to Grimsby Town on 18 February (a Birkett double and Parkinson finding the net for the hosts), and 2\u20131 at home to New Brighton Tower on 4 March. Parkinson was again Blackpool's scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0018-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nFour days later, Blackpool faced Small Heath in a third-consecutive home match. 23 games into the season, Blackpool obtained their first draw, 1\u20131, with Scott scoring for the Lancastrians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0019-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA second draw ensued, at Lincoln City on 11 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0020-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool made it three games without a defeat, which remained their longest unbeaten run of the season, with a victory at home to Barnsley on 15 March. Parkinson and two goals from Gamble gave both points to the hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0021-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo games against Woolwich Arsenal followed. On 18 March, the Londoners won 6\u20130 on their own turf; four days later, in the reverse fixture in Lancashire, honours were shared courtesy of a 1\u20131 draw. Gamble scored his third goal in as many games for the northerners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0022-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's fourth game in ten days occurred on 25 March, and it ended in defeat at Luton Town. Leadbetter and Birkett got Blackpool's goals in a 2\u20133 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0023-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nIn the final game of March, Blackpool achieved their largest win of the season, 6\u20130 at home to Lancashire neighbours Darwen. Parkinson, Henry Parr, Jack Morris (two, on his debut), Birkett and Williams scored the goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0024-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA 2\u20132 draw followed, at home to Leicester Fosse on 1 April, with Scott and Morris getting the home side's strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0025-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo days later, at Newton Heath, Blackpool lost by a single goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0026-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe season ended for Blackpool with two victories and a defeat in their final three games: 2\u20130 at Darwen (Leadbetter and Morris), 4\u20130 at home to Gainsborough Trinity (Leadbetter and Birkett netting two apiece), and 1\u20134 at Manchester City (Birkett). The victories came too late to save the club from relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031831-0027-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031832-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1898\u201399 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League Second Division London. Though the season was largely viewed as a disappointment, the Bees finished in 4th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031832-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford enjoyed a meteoric rise in London amateur football during a three-year period, going from playing only friendly and cup matches in 1895\u201396, to being promoted through the London League and elected into the Southern League for 1898\u201399 season. The club paid for its success and a number of its better players were lured away during the off-season, with forwards Oakey Field and David Lloyd turning professional and signing for Sheffield United and Thames Ironworks respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031832-0001-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nOn the financial front, attendances had consistently improved year-on-year for the previous three seasons, but the leaseholder of the club's Shotter's Lane ground took the opportunity to increase the rent to an unacceptable amount. The club, which had made a loss on the previous season, were forced to move out of Brentford to Cross Roads, an unsatisfactory patch of ground located near South Ealing tube station. To compound the financial problems, while the club remained officially amateur, it was illegally forced to pay some of its new signings more than their travelling expenses to entice them to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031832-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite the goals of Oakey Field's replacement C. Ward, Brentford had a modest start to life in the London section of the Southern League Second Division, but after the departure of Ward in early November 1898, wins over Southall and St Albans put the club top of the division late in the month. The Bees subsequently fell away badly, taking just one point from a possible 10 over the next five matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031832-0002-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter winning two cups during the previous season, the club experienced little joy in 1898\u201399, suffering early exits in the FA Cup, London Senior Cup, Middlesex Senior Cup and suffering a semi-final defeat to Harrow Athletic in the West Middlesex Cup. The club entered the FA Amateur Cup for the only time, but withdrew after progressing to the second round. Though the season was largely a disappointment, Brentford finished in a credible 4th place in the London section of the Southern League Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031832-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031832-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031833-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 British Home Championship\nThe 1898\u201399 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations. A very high scoring affair, the competition featured the highest scoreline ever achieved in the Home Championships when England defeated Ireland 13\u20132 in Sunderland, including a hat-trick in four minutes from Gilbert Smith. It was the first of two particularly heavy defeats for the Irish side, who nevertheless still managed to finish third, courtesy of a victory over Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031833-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 British Home Championship\nEngland's win over the Ireland was the start of the tournament and placed them immediately on top of the table, a position Ireland joined them in with their 1\u20130 victory over Wales in the second game. Scotland began their bid for the title in the third match with a strong 6\u20130 win over Wales in Wrexham. Wales' poor competition was finished in their next game when England again took top position by beating them 4\u20130. In the penultimate game, Scotland joined England at the top of the table with a 9\u20131 demolition of Ireland, who had conceded 21 goals in two games but still finished third. In the deciding match, England and Scotland both played a strong game but England eventually proved stronger, winning 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031834-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1898\u201399 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031834-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nWhile Brown continued to play most of their games on the road, the men's team did play their first game at home, hosting Harvard on the first of February. This was the last time Brown finished with a winning record until 1929.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031834-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Brown University did not formally adopt the Bear as its mascot until the fall of 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031835-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1898\u201399 college men's basketball season. The team finished with an overall record of 3\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031836-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Burnley F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 Burnley F.C. season was the 17th season in the history of Burnley Football Club and their 11th in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031837-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Burslem Port Vale's fifth season of football in the English Football League; it followed a two-season absence, which the club spent in the Midland Football League. A solid return to the Football League, they finished in mid-table. They had the strongest defence in the division as they conceded less goals than any other team in the division. It was instead a lack of firepower in front of goal that prevented a push for promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031837-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nWinning their opening six league games, just two points gained from their final five games ensured a top two position was out of their reach. Safety from the lottery of re-election was never in doubt though, as they finished nineteen points above the re-election places. Over the next eight seasons they never bettered their league finish of 1898\u201399, though they twice equalled it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031837-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nTheir FA Cup win over First Division champions Sheffield United in 1897\u201398 won Vale the respect (and votes) they needed to win re-election to the Football League for 1898\u201399. To ensure a competitive campaign they signed striker Howard Harvey from Aston Villa for \u00a350. Winning their opening six league games, the semi-professional side conceded just one goal in this run. However Tommy Clare broke a leg at their final win of the streak of six, and their run ended at Newton Heath the following week \u2013 the team badly missed Clare. Their fading hopes of promotion were bolstered by four wins in January, including a 6\u20131 win over Blackpool aided by a four-goal haul from James Peake. Yet they finished the season with two points from five games, dropping into ninth place \u2013 their lowest position all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031837-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nOf the two clubs that failed to gain re-election, Darwen, who picked up a League record eighteen consecutive defeats, played regional football for the rest of their existence; whereas Blackpool gained re-election at the end of the following season, and never lost their League status again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031837-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nRight-half Lucien Boullemier was an ever-present throughout the campaign, with goalkeeper Herbert Birchenough missing just one game. Winger Billy Heames and forward Howard Harvey rarely missed a game between them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031837-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nDefending champions of the Staffordshire Senior Cup, Vale reached the semi-final, where they lost 4\u20130 to Walsall in a replay. In the Birmingham Senior Cup, they defeated Walsall in the semi-final, in a replay, going on to lose 4\u20130 to Aston Villa in the final. In the FA Cup they were turned over 7\u20130 at Small Heath in the qualification rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031838-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1898\u201399 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031839-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1898\u201399 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031839-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031840-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented Cornell University during the 1898\u201399 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the 26th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level entering the Scottish Cup and the Scottish Qualifying Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Qualifying Cup\nSince 1895, the smaller clubs required to enter the Scottish Qualifying Cup in order to gain access to the Scottish Cup proper. This season, for the first time, Dumbarton were required to pre-qualify for the Scottish Cup and did so by reaching the fourth round of the Qualifying Cup before losing out to Renton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Cup\nDumbarton's appearance in the Scottish Cup itself was short-lived being knocked out in the first round by East Stirlingshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season, Dumbartonshire Cup\nDumbarton continued to dominate the local scene by retaining the Dumbartonshire Cup, beating Vale of Leven in a two-legged semi final then Renton in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nFor a second season Dumbarton were without league fixtures, and the task of building a fixture list with attractive opponents was becoming more difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nDuring the season, 15 'friendly' matches were played, including close defeats home and away against Celtic, and fixtures against Ayrshire Cup holders, Kilmarnock, Lanarkshire Cup holders, Airdrie and Perthshire Cup holders, Fair City Athletic, in the latter case to open Fair City's new ground. In all, 6 were won and 9 lost, scoring 45 goals and conceding 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nThe lack of league participation continued to take a toll on the players willing to serve the club and, amongst others, John Docherty, James Richmond and internationalist William Thomson left the club to join Celtic, Partick Thistle and Clyde respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031841-0007-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the second round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031842-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the sixth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One and finishing bottom in 10th place, but were not relegated due to re-election to Division One. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup\nThe 1898\u20131899 FA Cup was the 28th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The cup was won by Sheffield United, who defeated Derby County 4\u20131 in the final of the competition, played at Crystal Palace in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. The 18 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Newton Heath, Woolwich Arsenal and Manchester City from the Second Division, and non-league Southampton. Most of the other Second Division sides were entered into the Third Qualifying Round, with the exceptions of Barnsley, who started in the Second Qualifying Round, and Burton Swifts, Blackpool and Loughborough who were placed in the First Qualifying Round. Of those sides, only Grimsby Town, Small Heath and Glossop North End qualified to the FA Cup Proper. Seven non-league sides also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 28 January 1899. Four matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 11 February 1899, although only three games were played on this date. The other five games were played the following Saturday. There were three replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 25 February 1899. There were no replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0007-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were both played on Saturday, 18 March 1899. The Sheffield United\u2013Liverpool match went to a replay, played the following Thursday. The match was again replayed a week later, when Sheffield managed a 1\u20130 win. They went on to meet Derby County in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031843-0008-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FA Cup, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 15 April 1899 at Crystal Palace. Just under 74,000 supporters attended the match, a record attendance at the time. John Boag opened the scoring for Derby County after 12 minutes. Derby's lead was maintained until midway through the second half, until Sheffield struck back with three goals in ten minutes from Walter Bennett, Billy Beer and John Almond. Fred Priest scored the fourth and final goal in the eighty-ninth minute, to cap a good victory for the Yorkshire side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1898\u201399 season was their sixth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. This was the first season in which they competed for the Swiss championship. The club's chairman was Charlie Volderauer, who was chairman between 1896 and 1900. He was the third chairman in the club's history, following Roland Geldner (1893\u20131896) and Emanuel Schiess (1896). FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Quarter Kleinbasel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Overview\nIn the early years of the Basel first team the club did not have a trainer or coach. The work of leading the team trainings and the responsibility of choosing the player line-ups was done by the team captain. Hermann Schneider was appointed as team captain for this season by the club's board of directors under club chairman Charlie Volderauer. The team played four friendly matches in the first half of the season and three after the new year. Three of the games were played at home and four were played away. Four of the friendlies ended with a victory and three ended with a defeat. The team scored 11 goals in these friendlies, but conceded 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Overview\nAlthough the first national championship in Switzerland took place in 1897\u201398 it is considered as unofficial because it was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; founded in 1895). FC Basel did not participate in the first unofficial championship, but did in the first official edition during this season 1898\u201399. The club did not compete in the following season either, but have participated in every season since 1900\u201301.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe 1898\u201399 championship was played as a knock out competition, divided into three regional groups, an east (region Z\u00fcrich), a central (regional north-west Switzerland) and west group (Romandy). The winners of each group played the finals in a round-robin tournament. Basel played in the central group against Old Boys. Because the game was drawn, one goal each, it required a replay. This was also drawn, despite an agreed two times 20 minutes extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0003-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Overview\nBecause the Old Boys then complained that the first FCB goal had been scored by hand they protested and the SFA had to deal with the matter. Subsequently, the protest was approved and awarded - and the disputed goal was simply deducted from the score to give the final result. Thus the Old Boys became the first forfait winners in Swiss football history. The Old Boys advanced to the finals, but the Anglo-American Club Z\u00fcrich became Swiss champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Overview\nA curiosity in this season was the game in Z\u00fcrich on 5 March 1899. The majority of them English students, had formed a club and the members of the Anglo-American Club even attended the founder meeting of the Swiss Football Association (ASF-SFV) in April 1895. They had found a place to play their games, although the Zurich commons was by no means ideal. It was often that the players found the grounds very sludgy or with freshly raised molehills. But at least, it was a homestead that was soon called \"Anglo-Platz\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0004-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Overview\nSuddenly the announcement: \"By decree of the military directorate of the canton of Zurich it is forbidden until further notice to play on the military training area Allmend\". In the age of mobile communications, a short-term postponement may not attract much attention. But at the end of the 19th century constant accessibility wasn't even wishful thinking. The following could be read about the game against FC Basel which was brought forward from the afternoon to the morning: \u201cAs a result, the Anglos, who were only partially able to notify their people, started the game with only seven men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0004-0002", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Overview\nOnly during the course of the game was the team completed to the full eleven. There were also replacements in Basel's team, because some players did not arrive until a later train. The appointed referee was not there because he been scheduled for the afternoon. The crowd consisted of approximately 10 to 20 spectators. Under such circumstances, such an important match should not have been played.\" Despite all the obstacles: The game became a demonstration of the superiority of the British players from Zurich. The Anglo American Football Club won the match 10\u20130, with their center forward Robert Collinson alone scoring 8 goals. By then, at the latest, it was clear that the Anglos would be unstoppable on their way to the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Results, Serie A, Central group\nNB: Old Boys win 2\u20131 after protesting to the SFA. The first goal FCB goal was struck out of the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031844-0007-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 FC Basel season, Notes, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031845-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Football League\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the 11th season of The Football League. Two teams were able to win the First Division title going into the final day of the season: Aston Villa and Liverpool; second-placed Liverpool travelled to Villa Park for the final match, needing a win to overtake Villa and win the title, but Villa won 5\u20130 to win their fourth First Division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031845-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Football League\nDefending champions Sheffield United had the first poor title defence in English top flight history, finishing 16th out of 18, barely avoiding the two relegation places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031845-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031845-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031845-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031846-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 6 teams, and Akademisk Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031847-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1898\u201399 French Rugby Union Championship was won by SBUC that defeated Stade Fran\u00e7ais in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031847-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe final was played between the team winner of the \"provincial tournament\" and the best of club from Paris, Stade Bordelais that defeated S.O.E. Toulousain (3\u20130) and le FC Lyon par forfait, and the Stade Fran\u00e7ais from Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031847-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 French Rugby Union Championship, Preliminary round\nLe Stade Fran\u00e7ais won the first division championship of Paris on Racing Club de France thanks to a 5\u20133 victory. Follow l'Olympique, the Cosmopolitan Club, the Ligue Athl\u00e9tique and l'Union Athl\u00e9tique du Primer Arrondissement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031847-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 French Rugby Union Championship, Preliminary round\nThe ranking of second division was\u00a0: 1. Association V\u00e9locip\u00e9dique d'Amateurs (6pts)\u00a0; 2. Sporting Club Amateurs (3pts), Association Sportive Internationale (3pts)\u00a0; 4. Athl\u00e9tique (0pt).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031847-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 French Rugby Union Championship, Preliminary round\nThe FC Lyon finish first in city of Lyon tournament beating Lyc\u00e9e Amp\u00e8re.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031848-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Fulham F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Fulham's first season as a professional club. They competed in the London section of the Southern League Division Two, where they finished 10th out of 12 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031849-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1898\u201399 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031849-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nDespite scheduling several games, Harvard was only able to play one official match. They also played a few exhibition games against class club teams. This was the only losing season for Harvard until 1923\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031850-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1898\u201399 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031851-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1898\u201399 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished fourth out of 10 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031852-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1898\u201399 comprised 6 teams, and Distillery won the championship after a play-off with Linfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031853-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its first season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served his 1st year. The Jayhawks, who were not a member of a conference, finished the season 7\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031854-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe 1898-99 season was the seventh season in Liverpool F.C. 's existence, and was their sixth year in The Football League, in which they competed in the first division. The season covers the period from 1 July 1898 to 30 June 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031855-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Manchester City F.C. 's eighth season of league football and seventh season in the Football League. The season saw their first title as they won the Football League Second Division, earning promotion to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031856-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\n1898\u201399 was the second year of basketball at Michigan State Normal School. Both games were played at home against Albion College in Ypsilanti,Michigan. Michigan State Normal School ended up splitting the games and finished 1\u20131. The team captain was H.W. Conklin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031857-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University (known as State Agricultural College at the time) during the 1898\u201399 college men's basketball season. The season marked the school's first season. There was no official coach for the team, and the team finished the season with an overall record of 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031858-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1898\u201399 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Frank Lehmer, coaching the huskers in his third season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031859-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1898\u20131899 was contested by twelve teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off match featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. RAP won this year's championship by beating PW Enschede 3-2 and 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031860-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Newcastle United's first season in the Football League First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. Newcastle finished the season in 13th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031861-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Newton Heath's seventh season in the Football League and their fifth in the Second Division. They finished fourth in the league, which was not enough to earn promotion back to the First Division. In the FA Cup, the Heathens managed to take Tottenham Hotspur to a replay back at Bank Street after a 1\u20131 draw at Northumberland Park, before losing 5\u20133 in the replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031861-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1898\u201399, but little progress was made in either competition. The club received a bye to the third round of the Manchester Senior Cup, but lost 4\u20131 to Bury. It was a similar story in the Lancashire Cup, as they beat Darwen 5\u20130 in the first round before losing 6\u20131 to Blackburn Rovers in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031862-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Northern Football League\nThe 1898\u201399 Northern Football League season was the tenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031862-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Northern Football League, Division One\nThe division featured 9 clubs which competed in the last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031862-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Northern Football League, Division Two\nThe division featured 4 clubs which competed in the last season, along with six new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031863-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1897\u201398 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the fourth season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031863-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe Lancashire Senior Competition was won by Broughton Rangers and the Yorkshire Senior Competition by Batley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031863-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\nAlthough participating in the Lancashire Senior Competition, Runcorn and Stockport were from Cheshire. Champions Broughton Rangers beat a team representing the rest of the Lancashire competition 5\u20133 in an end of season finale on 22 April 1899. Morecambe finished bottom of the competition and lost the promotion/relegation test match to Millom - winners of the Lancashire second competition - by 11 points to 3. Millom were admitted to the Senior Competition and Morecambe were admitted to the second competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031863-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Yorkshire Senior Competition\nChampions Batley played a team representing the rest of the Yorkshire competition at Mount Pleasant on 22 April 1899 with Batley winning 3\u20130. The promotion/relegation test match was contested by Heckmondwike who finished bottom of the competition and Hull Kingston Rovers, winners of the no.2 competition. Hull Kingston Rovers won the match 21\u20133 to take Heckmondwike's place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031864-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represented the Ohio State University in its first season of collegiate basketball. Their coach was Unknown. They finished with a 12-4 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031865-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1898\u201399 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 14th season of play. Ottawa placed third in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031865-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Team business\nThe rival Ottawa Capitals applied to join the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC). When the AHAC league accepted the Capitals, Ottawa, along with Montreal, Quebec and Victorias left the AHAC. The clubs would form the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) along with the Montreal Shamrocks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031865-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season\nThe future Hall of Fame brothers Hod and Bruce Stuart made their debuts for Ottawa this season. Harvey Pulford did not play this season, recovering from a collarbone injury sustained in the Canadian football championship game. Chauncy Kirby would return to captain the team in his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031865-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nA controversy erupted between goaltender Fred Chittick and the Ottawa club, prompting accusations that Chittick was a \"shamateur\" receiving payment to play. Bouse Hutton would replace Chittick in net, starting on February 18, after Chittick gave up 16 goals in a game on February 11. Chittick attempted to score by himself, rushing the length of the ice from his net, without success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031866-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1898\u201399 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031866-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nPenn was to open its season in mid-December against the Quaker City Hockey Club, an organization captained by program founder George Orton, but the school's athletic department refused to allow the team to play. shortly afterwards the university opted to officially recognize the team for the first time. With this official approval also came the insistence that Penn join the Intercollegiate Hockey Association and play against the likes of Yale and Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031866-0001-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWhile those plans were being ironed out the Philadelphia Hockey League, of which Penn was still a member, replaced Haverford College with Central High School and arranged inter-squad games between each of the four clubs. In late December a team composed of current and former Quaker members played Yale, losing 3\u20134. The game had been arranged earlier but as many Quaker players had returned home for the holidays the team needed to use graduates as replacements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031866-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWhen the team finally played its first official game on January 10 they opened with a bang, defeating Central High School 12\u20130. The Quakers played well through several games but after the managers of the West Park Ice Palace failed to carry through on an agreement for a benefit night the school refused to use the rink for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031866-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but Benjamin Parish served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031866-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nIn December of the following year the Athletic department released the figures for all of the athletic programs the university supported. They did this due to the $12,000 deficit the school had incurred from all programs over the previous fiscal year. The ice hockey team cost the school $210 to support, seventh out of ten programs, but the team had brought in just $38 in gate receipts. With the debt from the school's athletic department mounting, combined with the closing of the West Park Ice Palace, the ice hockey team was suspended as a luxury that it could not afford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031867-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1898\u20131899 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1898\u201399 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031868-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the 25th season of competitive football played by Rangers F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031868-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 39 competitive matches during the 1898\u201399 season. They finished top of Scottish League Division One with a one hundred percent record of 18 wins from 18 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031868-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe club ended the season without any other trophies: in the Scottish Cup, despite beating Hearts and St Mirren en route to the final, they lost to Celtic 2\u20130. Earlier in the season they had also lost in the final of the less important Glasgow Cup 1\u20130 to Queen's Park, and at its end they lost in the minor Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup final, another 2\u20130 loss to Celtic, also finishing as runners-up to the same opponents in the supplementary Glasgow Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031868-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRegardless of these setbacks, the perfect league campaign of 1898\u201399 remains a unique achievement in the annals of British football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031869-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1898\u201399 Rugby Union County Championship was the 11th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031869-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Rugby Union County Championship\nDevon won the competition for the first time defeating Northumberland in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031870-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Cup\nThe 1898\u201399 Scottish Cup was the 26th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic when they beat Rangers 2-0 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031871-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1898\u201399 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031871-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Districts season, History\nStevenson for the Anglo-Scots scored the first try on the SRU's new pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031871-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Districts season, Results, Inter-City\nGlasgow District: J. G. Couper (West of Scotland), Robert Neilson (West of Scotland), George A.W. Lamond (Kelvinside Academicals), John Tulloch (Kelvinside Academicals), Charles France (Kelvinside Academicals), Bill Donaldson (West of Scotland), John Knox (Kelvinside Academicals), James Couper (West of Scotland), William Thomson (West of Scotland), Gordon Neilson (West of Scotland), John Dykes (Glasgow HSFP), G. Wingate (Kelvinside Academicals), Lawrence Harvey (Greenock Wanderers), J. M. Bell (Clydesdale), Harvey Anderson (Glasgow Academicals)Edinburgh District: J. Graham (Watsonians), Alf Bucher (Edinburgh Academicals), William Morrison (Edinburgh Academicals), J. D. Little (Watsonians), H. M. Simson (Watsonians), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Academicals), M. W. Robertson (Watsonians), Bill McEwan (Edinburgh Academicals), W. Dors (Edinburgh Academicals), G. Moncreiff (Edinburgh Academicals), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP), Harry Smith (Watsonians), Andrew Balfour (Watsonians), A. Forbes (Watsonians), J. Greig (Edinburgh Wanderers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 1103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031871-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nMidlands: J. Shepherd (Newport), W. Burrows (Panmure), C. A. Air (Panmure), J. Lockhart (Kirkcaldy), P. Watson (Newport), E. A. Shepherd (Panmure) and T. Longmuir (St Andrews University), T. D. Murray (Panmure), G. F. Whyte (Panmure), D. Meldrum (Dundee HSFP), P. A. Anderson (Dundee HSFP), J. Fullerton (Dundee HSFP), H. E. White (Kirkcaldy), D. L. Barrie (Newport), and T. Gillespie (St Andrews University).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031871-0003-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nNorth of Scotland: A. J. Milne (Aberdeen GSFP), J. A. Butchart (Aberdeen GSFP), G. O. Gauld (Aberdeen GSFP), J. Oglivie (Aberdeen GSFP), J. W. Milne (Aberdeen University) W. B. Butchart (Aberdeen GSFP), W. Y. Hay (Aberdeenshire), W. Pope (Aberdeen GSFP), A. B. Butchart (Aberdeen GSFP), W. Irons (Aberdeenshire) and A. S. Pirie (Aberdeenshire), P. Croll (Aberdeen University), A. M. Cran (Aberdeen University), and W. Alexander (University), H. Barker (Nomads).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031871-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nAnglo-Scots: W. Wilson (London Scottish), George Campbell (London Scottish), Douglas Monypenny (London Scottish), John Crabbie (Oxford University), William Morrison (Edinburgh Academicals), M. A. Black (Cambridge University), Frank Fasson (Cambridge University), Andrew MacKinnon (London Scottish), F. A. Davidson (London Scottish), T. Gowans (London Scottish), Graham Kerr (Old Dunelmians, Durham), R. C. Stevenson (Northumberland), A. Davidson (Lancashire), A. S. Pringle (Cambridge University), James Greenlees (Cambridge University)South of Scotland: J. Hogg (Hawick), Dodds (JedForest), J. Scott (Langholm), Oliver (JedForest), Bunyan (Melrose), Joe Mabon (Jedburgh), Brownlie (Jedburgh), B. L. Greig (Jedburgh), J. Stillie (Langholm), D. Elliot (Langholm), Tom Scott (Hawick), J. N. Corrie (Langholm), Mitchell (Selkirk), Carter (Gala), Jeffrey (Jedburgh)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 928]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031872-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Division One\nThe 1898\u201399 Scottish Division One season was won by Rangers by ten points over nearest rival Heart of Midlothian. Rangers won all 18 of their league matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031873-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1898\u201399 Scottish Second Division was won by Kilmarnock with Abercorn finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031874-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Scottish Football League, Overview\nKilmarnock won the Scottish Division Two for the second season in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031875-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1898\u201399 Sheffield Shield season was the seventh season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Victoria won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 Football League season was Small Heath's seventh in the Football League and their fifth in the Second Division. With four games of the seasons remaining, they were in fourth place, two points below the promotion positions, but a draw and three defeats in those last four games left them with an eight-place finish in the 18-team league. They also took part in the 1898\u201399 FA Cup, entering at the third qualifying round and progressing to the second round proper (round of 16), at which stage they were eliminated by Stoke after a replay. In local cup competitions, Small Heath reached the second round of the Birmingham Cup and Staffordshire Cup, and lost to West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-three players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were thirteen different goalscorers. Walter Abbott scored 42 goals, of which 34 were scored in the league, a season's best for the Second Division. Both totals remain as of 2012 club records. Abbott, half back Alex Leake and forward Sid Wharton each played in all 40 league and FA Cup matches over the season, and three other players missed only one such game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nIn the 1897\u201398 season, Small Heath finished sixth in the 16-team Second Division, nine points behind the promotion test match positions. After the test match series left two teams needing to play out a goalless draw in their final match for both to be promoted, which unsurprisingly is what happened, the Football League's Annual General Meeting agreed that the First Division be extended from 16 to 18 clubs and that the top two teams in the Second Division at the end of each season should automatically replace the bottom two teams in the First.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0002-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nA vote was taken on the teams to take the two additional places in the First Division; Small Heath came fourth in the vote, so remained in the Second Division for the 1898\u201399 season. They were again awarded exemption only for the first two rounds of the qualifying competition for the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nA Football League committee ruled on irregularities in the transfer of Jimmy Inglis to Southern League club Swindon Town. The transfer took place on a Sunday, contrary to league rules, and the forms were falsified. The player was suspended for the first month of the coming season, two Swindon Town directors were suspended for three months, each club was fined \u00a310, and each secretary was warned as to his future conduct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0003-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nApart from Jack Kirton, who also joined Swindon, and Charlie Hare, who left the club for Watford of the Southern League, having \"secured a business engagement\" in that town, the remaining players signed on again for the new season. Great things were expected of Bob McRoberts, the pacy and skilful Gainsborough Trinity centre forward for whom Small Heath paid a \u00a3150 transfer fee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThere were no changes to the team's kit of light blue shirts with navy collar trim, cuffs and pocket, white knickerbockers and navy socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nBurton Swifts led Small Heath at half time in the first game of the league season. Early in the second half, debutant Bob McRoberts tapped in to equalise after Sid Wharton's fierce shot could only be parried, then Swifts regained the lead via a twice-taken penalty, but the game was one-sided thereafter, and the final score was 6\u20132 to the visitors. The Nottinghamshire Guardian's correspondent thought Small Heath \"appeared a well-balanced team all round.\" A comfortable victory followed at home to Lincoln City on the Tuesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0005-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nBilly Bennett opened the scoring, Alex Leake contributed a penalty, and Walter Abbott took his tally to four from two games. In front of a large crowd at Coventry Road, Burslem Port Vale continued their winning opening to the season. The Dart was unimpressed by the home team's shooting\u00a0\u2013 \"fully half-a-dozen excellent chances were missed right in front of goal\", including a Leake penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nSmall Heath took a three-goal lead in the first round of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup, but visitors West Bromwich Albion scored four times in the second half to progress to the semi-final. In the absence of Henry Clutterbuck, Ike Webb made his Football League debut in goal in a comfortable 3\u20131 win at home to Barnsley, newly elected to the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0006-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe Dart enthused about McRoberts, who \"again gave a creditable display and scored one magnificent goal, after as pretty a run as I have witnessed in many a day\", but was concerned about the quality of his teammates. September ended with a trip to Loughborough which \"on paper\u00a0... appeared a certainty for the Heathens, but in actual play Loughborough were the masters, and richly deserved two points instead of one.\" This was the first match of the season in which Abbott failed to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0007-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nGrimsby Town achieved their first win of the season, by two goals to nil at home to Small Heath, despite the visitors' insistence that the second should not have counted as the ball had entered the goal through the side netting. In the second half, McRoberts hit the post and Grimsby had a third \"goal\" disallowed for offside. The first-round Staffordshire Cup-tie at Wolverhampton Wanderers was drawn, the home goalkeeper saving a penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0007-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nPlaying with a vocal crowd of 5,000 spectators and a strong wind behind them, Small Heath's first two goals against Newton Heath were disallowed, both for offside, before they conceded against the run of play, but they then took advantage of the conditions to score three times before half-time, through Abbott, Walton and Robertson. Against the wind, they changed their style of play: \"they no longer indulged in short passing, but in long kicking and rushing\", the defence, particularly Billy Pratt stood firm, and Inglis made the final score 4\u20131. The Dart picked out McRoberts, who \"played a clever game in the centre\", and Walton and Inglis as \"a decided improvement\" on Bennett and Good on the right wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0008-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nAway from home, results were different. New Brighton Tower had no difficulty in remaining unbeaten, overcoming Small Heath by four goals, all scored in the first half. Back at Coventry Road, Small Heath knocked Wolverhampton Wanderers out of the Staffordshire Cup by six goals to four, and enjoyed a comfortable win in the third qualifying round of the FA Cup, defeating Chirk 8\u20130 with three goals from Walton, two each by Abbott and Inglis, and one from Leake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0009-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nIn front of 7,000 spectators, Woolwich Arsenal outclassed Small Heath in a match where Clutterbuck played well to keep their score down to two. According to the Penny Illustrated Paper, \"the game was of lively character, but by no means high class from the football point of view. However, the Arsenal won, and the crowd were satisfied, their feeling of exultation being heightened by the fact that the visitors inclined to unfair tactics in the effort to alter the score.\" In a match \"hardly up to cup tie standard\", Walsall eliminated Small Heath from the Staffordshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0010-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nNew signing Arthur Gardner scored twice and William Robertson three times as Small Heath began a run of high-scoring games with a 9\u20130 win at home to Luton Town. They went one better at home to Druids in the FA Cup, McRoberts contributing a hat-trick, and in front of the lowest league crowd of the season, around 2,000, \"completely outplayed\" Darwen, Walter Abbott scoring five of his team's eight goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0011-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nSmall Heath failed to continue their winning ways at Gainsborough Trinity, the home side equalising with a last-minute penalty. The Dart predicted Burslem Port Vale might prove stiffer opposition in the FA Cup than did Chirk and Druids in the previous rounds, but in a game \"too one-sided to be really interesting\", Small Heath progressed into the competition proper by seven goals to nil. In a game \"contested in spiritless fashion\", Small Heath knocked Burton Wanderers out of the Birmingham Cup, the 4\u20130 score completing a sequence of six home games in which they scored no fewer than 49 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0011-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe Owl acknowledged that if their away form were in any way comparable, promotion would be \"a foregone conclusion\", but \"they have fared very badly away from home, and there will have to be a vast improvement in their form in \"out\" matches if they are to overtake Newton Heath and Manchester City\" at the top of the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0012-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nSid Wharton starred in an expected win at Glossop North End, preceding a close game at home to Walsall in which \"feeling ran high, and the whistle was going frequently for free kicks\", settled by a McRoberts goal after an hour. In pouring rain on Boxing Day, Small Heath beat Blackpool 5\u20130, and the next day, in similar weather, a large crowd turned up to see Manchester City team lose 4\u20131. The Manchester Guardian gave credit where due: \"The visitors, however, did not come quite up to expectation, though no liberties could be taken with them. The home side played exceedingly well\". The year finished with a fourth consecutive win, this time at home to Burton Swifts, who \"made a better show than Manchester did on Tuesday\" but still lost 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0013-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nGoing into the new year in fourth position in the table, three points behind the leaders with a game in hand, the club committee were reported to have offered the players \"special inducements\" to achieve promotion. They began the year with a defeat; on a pitch in \"wretched\" condition, Burslem Port Vale scored the only goal three minutes from the end of an even game. At Barnsley, the home side were three goals to the good after only 15 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0013-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAfter the interval, McRoberts and Barnsley's John McCartney were spoken to by the referee for \"getting keen\", the visitors rallied, then scored from a scramble after the ball hit the crossbar. With 20 minutes remaining, Barnsley scored a fourth, and the visitors were beaten. Although Wharton scored a second near the end, the final score was 7\u20132. In the second round of the Birmingham Cup, played \"in terrible weather, and with the pitch in fearful condition\", former Small Heath hero Fred Wheldon scored twice to secure a draw for Aston Villa. Conditions had not improved by the next league game. \"Scientific football was quite out of the question\" as Small Heath, playing with \"tremendous dash\", beat Loughborough 6\u20131, with three goals for Abbott, two for Wharton, and a first goal for Harry Wilcox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0014-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nThe players underwent \"special preparation\" for the first-round FA Cup-tie at home to Manchester City. According to the Sheffield Independent, \"probably the visitors, Manchester City, are the more skilful team, but Small Heath are gluttons for goals at Coventry road, and there is likely to be a very lively hour and half's play\". A crowd estimated at between 15,000 and 18,000 attended to witness that prediction prove accurate. Early goals from Abbott and City's George Dougal preceded Small Heath taking a half-time lead via \"a very clever piece of work\" by McRoberts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0014-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nCity were \"showing perhaps the greater skill, but Small Heath working most pluckily\". After an equaliser from Billie Gillespie, Small Heath \"had more than one easy chance of scoring, the men missing opportunities which should have been utilised\", until five minutes from time, McRoberts gave them the victory. Cab-drivers who regularly transported football followers from Aston Villa's ground back to the city centre were hopeful of taking advantage of the large attendance to do the same from Small Heath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0014-0002", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nHowever, they had few takers, \"quite half the brakes returned to the centre of the city empty\", and the Owl wondered if one might infer that \"those who go to Aston can afford to ride, whereas those who patronise Small Heath find it cheaper to walk\". Without Pratt, Leake and Inglis, Small Heath lost the Birmingham Cup replay 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0015-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nOn a slippery surface, Abbott opened the scoring at home to Grimsby Town straight from the kick-off, James Cockshutt equalised from a penalty, and Robertson scored the winner near the end, to put his team fifth in the table, two points behind the promotion places with a game in hand. Drawn at First Division Stoke in the second round of the FA Cup, Small Heath were a goal behind at the interval and had lost McRoberts to a broken collarbone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0015-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nDespite the numerical disadvantage, they had the wind in their favour, and took the lead ten minutes into the second half through Abbott and wharton. The lead did not last long, and despite a frantic finish, the match was drawn. Wilcox took McRoberts' place for the replay four days later. In a game \"contested in a most lively fashion\" despite the heavy pitch, Stoke took a two-goal lead, Inglis pulled one back for Small Heath, but the home side were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0016-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nMissing Gardner and Robertson through suspension, and also without full-back Archer, Small Heath nevertheless beat New Brighton Tower 3\u20132 in a \"wonderfully fine game\", Wilcox supplying the late winner. A \"disappointing\" Small Heath team \"fought bravely\" but lost 2\u20130 at Newton Heath to go into March in sixth place, still with games on hand on those above them. The club confirmed that McRoberts had returned home to Scotland to recover from the injury that was expected to keep him out for the rest of the season, and that he had agreed to renew his contract for the following season despite interest from First Division clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0017-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nHaving failed to sign Walsall's Scottish centre-forward Tommy Vail on loan, Wilcox again filled in for McRoberts at home to Woolwich Arsenal. On a rain-soaked pitch and during a first-half hailstorm, Small Heath completed a comfortable victory. Will Devey returned from non-League football to open the scoring away at Blackpool, but the home team equalised soon after the interval, and were judged unfortunate not to take both points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0018-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nUsing as an illustration the \u00a310 apiece \"besides special prizes from the committee and tradespeople\" to be received by Small Heath's players should they achieve promotion, the Manchester Times reported with disapproval on the concept of success-related bonus payments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0018-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nWhere \"one would naturally and fairly conclude that like honest men [players] have done the best they can for their employers\", said employers offer additional rewards \"which it is expected will stimulate the players to renewed exertions\", \"the whole proceeding being a stigma on sport, stamping it with a ring of low commercialism that is very obnoxious to the old lover of amateur football.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0019-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nLuton Town's poor run continued with a 3\u20132 defeat at home to Small Heath, coming back from two goals down but then conceding a second-half penalty. A three-nil home defeat left Small Heath in fifth place in the table, three points behind the day's opponents, Leicester Fosse, in third and four behind the promotion places. The visit to Darwen saw the unexpected return from injury of Bob McRoberts, who scored an equalising goal, but the draw, against a team with only six points at this late stage of the season, dropped Small Heath to sixth place in the table. Their poor results continued at Lincoln City, where they needed an apparently offside goal from Billy Bennett to come back from a two-goal deficit to earn a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0020-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nDespite losing full-back Billy Pratt to a dislocated collarbone in the first half, Small Heath beat Gainsborough Trinity 6\u20131 to raise their goals tally to more than that of any team either division. Walter Wigmore, who joined Small Heath from Gainsborough in March for a \u00a3150 fee to resume his forward partnership with McRoberts, scored twice against his former club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0020-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nA one-nil friendly win against West Bromwich Albion preceded the return fixture with Gainsborough, won by Small Heath by a single goal in a match where the visitors \"rarely crossed the centre line\" in the second half and the home side missed numerous chances. The win took Small Heath up to fourth place, two points behind the second promotion position with four matches remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0021-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe visit to league leaders Manchester City produced a two-goal defeat. Playing into the sun and wind, Small Heath were mostly on the defensive, and Clutterbuck played well to keep City at bay. On change of ends, the visitors improved, but City full backs Di Jones and Dick Ray were on top form. In the last twenty minutes, City were on top, and Fred Williams scored twice, the second coming from a penalty after Billy Meredith was fouled. Off the field, the West Midlands clubs submitted a complaint to the football authorities about attempts by the southern clubs to poach their players, which led to the suspension of \"an agent of a well-known Southern club\" and the temporary closure of Thames Ironworks' ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0022-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nIn a game \"contested with warmth\" in which \"the referee's whistle was often heard\", McRoberts gave the home team a short-lived lead against second-placed Glossop North End, but the match was drawn, leaving it extremely unlikely, albeit still mathematically possible, for Small Heath to be promoted. After Abbott missed an early penalty at Walsall, Small Heath put up a poor performance to lose 2\u20130, and the league programme ended at Leicester Fosse. Neither club fielded a full-strength team, and an \"interesting\" game finished goalless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0023-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAfter being close to the second promotion place throughout the season, Small Heath eventually finished eighth, five points behind second-placed Glossop North End and a further six behind champions Manchester City. They scored more goals than any other team in the division except Manchester City, and scored more at home than any other, but their away record was poor. The Dart suggested that \"the backs are all right, the defect that needs remedying is the half-back line, which is hardly up to the necessary standard.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0023-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nOf the 47 players registered for the club during the season, 23 made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were thirteen different goalscorers. Walter Abbott scored 42 goals, of which 34 were scored in the league, a season's best for the Second Division. Both totals remain (as of 2012) club records. Abbott, half back Alex Leake and forward Sid Wharton each played in all 40 league and FA Cup matches over the season, and goalkeeper Henry Clutterbuck and full backs Arthur Archer and Billy Pratt missed only one such game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0024-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nOff the field, the club made a profit of \u00a3755, which was the second highest in the Second Division, albeit way behind Woolwich Arsenal's \u00a33,643, despite Small Heath's gate receipts exceeding those of Arsenal by \u00a3360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0025-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAbbott left for First Division club Everton for a fee of \u00a3250 plus the proceeds of a midweek friendly match, William Robertson signed for Bristol Rovers, and Clutterbuck joined Southern League club Queens Park Rangers. Walter Main, a forward from Scottish club Airdrieonians, was \"expected to be a worthy successor to Abbott\", and half-back Tom Farnall returned from Bristol Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031876-0026-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Small Heath F.C. season, Squad statistics\nThis table includes appearances and goals in nationally organised competitions\u00a0\u2013 the Football League and FA Cup\u00a0\u2013 only. For a description of the playing positions, see Formation (association football)#2\u20133\u20135 (Pyramid).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the 14th since the foundation of Southampton F.C. and their fifth in league football, as members of the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season\nThey ended the season as champions of the Southern League for the third consecutive season and reached the Third Round of the FA Cup where they were eliminated by Derby County of the Football League First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, Pre-season\nHaving spent two seasons as temporary residents of Hampshire County Cricket Club, the \"Saints\" became resident at a new stadium about 200 yards down Northlands Road, nicknamed \"The Dell\", which had been built by George Thomas, a fish merchant who was a director of the football club. At the time of its opening, The Dell was considered to be the most compact ground in the country \u2014 the players got their first taste of their new home when they participated in a sports meeting there on 27 August 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, Pre-season\nDetermined to build on their success of the previous season, the club signed several new players during the summer of 1898, including five present or former internationals \u2014 Scotsmen Geordie Dewar, Peter Meechan and John Robertson and Englishmen Jack Robinson and Harry Wood. Robinson, the current England goalkeeper, and Robertson had played against each other in the Scotland vs. England international at Celtic Park on 2 April 1898, in which England were 3\u20131 victors, thus claiming the 1898 British Home Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe first league season in the new ground started on 3 September 1898, with a match against Brighton United, who were playing their first-ever league match. On a hot Saturday afternoon, in front of a crowd of 6,524, the Mayor of Southampton (Alderman G.J. Tilling) kicked off \"like an international\". The Saints soon took the lead when with \"a little finessing\", Tom Smith passed the ball through to Watty Keay who scored The Dell's first goal. Jim McKenzie missed some good chances and, with Southampton attacking in numbers, Bullimer in the Brighton goal was kept busy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0004-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nTowards the end of the first-half, Arthur Chadwick accidentally caught Brighton's centre-forward Willie McArthur on the chin with a high kick. Bleeding profusely, McArthur left the pitch and Brighton had to continue with only ten men. Shortly before the interval, Abe Hartley scored the second goal, after a smart run up the left by McKenzie. In the second half, McKenzie added a third before Roddy McLeod reduced the deficit. With over a quarter of an hour to play, Smith completed the scoring, with a goal described as \"just such a goal as there is no doubt about \u2013 a shot which beats the goalkeeper almost before it is made\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nDespite having signed five present or former international players during the summer, Southampton were unable to dominate the league as they had done in the previous year, losing their second match to New Brompton and drawing four matches before the New Year. In November, the referee, Mr. T.W.H. Saywell, mistakenly ended the match at Millwall ten minutes early with Southampton leading 4\u20131. He soon realised his error and tried to bring the teams back to complete the match, but the crowd had invaded the pitch and refused to leave. The match was completed five months later on 12 April 1899 before a Western League match at The Dell, with no further score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nOn 3 December, the Saints defeated Warmley 6\u20130 at The Dell, but this result was expunged when Warmley withdrew from the league before the end of the season. Reserve goalkeeper, John Joyce made his \"debut\" in this match, but with the result being expunged, had to wait until 21 October 1899 before his official debut. The New Year started with two away defeats; in the match at Sheppey United on 7 January, Arthur Chadwick was dismissed, becoming the first Southampton player to be sent off in a league match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0007-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe Saints won five of the next seven games and entered the last day of the season level on points with Bristol City, their final-day opponents. Bristol City were playing their second season in the Southern League having finished as runners-up in 1897\u201398, and were undefeated at their St John's Lane ground. Southampton had the superior goal average, so a draw would give them the title for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0008-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nA crowd of 13,000 attended the match, including 400 Saints' supporters. Early in the game, England international goalkeeper Jack Robinson damaged his right hand, attempting to prevent a goal from Billy Langham, City's outside-right. Whilst Robinson was receiving medical attention, Harry Haynes took over in goal, preventing further goals until Robinson's return. Robinson played on in considerable pain but was unable to prevent the ball entering the goal off the cross bar from a Langham free-kick; thus the first half ended with Bristol City having a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0009-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nFor the second half, Southampton made a tactical change, switching Roddy McLeod to centre-forward with Duncan McLean moving to inside-right and within 12 minutes of the restart the scores were level, after long shots from Arthur Chadwick and Jock Robertson, the latter going in after a \"gentle hint\" from Harry Wood turned the ball past goalkeeper, Hugh Monteith who had come too far out of his goal. The Southampton fullbacks continued to protect Robinson in goal and the Saints gradually began to have the better of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0009-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nA move involving Robertson and Wood ended with McLean giving Southampton the lead before Wood scored the fourth goal, with a simple header from a corner. Although Caie pulled one back for the home side, Southampton were able to hang on to their lead to win 4\u20133 and take the Championship for the third consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0010-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe news of the result had reached Southampton by telegraph and when the team's special train arrived at the Docks station at 10.30pm, it was greeted by huge crowds of enthusiastic supporters who cheered the team on their victory parade through the streets of the town, accompanied by the Town Band.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0011-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nSouthampton were excused the qualifying competition of the FA Cup, having reached the semi-finals in the previous year. In Round One, they met fellow Southern League side, New Brompton, with Abe Hartley scoring the winner 20 minutes from time. In the Second Round, Hartley was again the goalscorer, \"dribbling through a bewildered Notts County defence before scoring with a glorious shot\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0012-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThis set up the first FA Cup match to be played at The Dell, against Derby County of the Football League First Division, who were the beaten finalists from the previous year. Although Tom Nicol scored the first-ever FA Cup goal at The Dell, goals from Steve Bloomer and Billy McDonald eased Derby through, on their way to another final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0013-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, Friendly matches\nTowards the end of the season, Southampton played a series of friendly matches against the Corinthians \u2014 the first two (both played away) were drawn, but the third the famous amateur side visited The Dell on 1 April 1899. Amongst the Corinthian XI was C.B. Fry, who charged Robinson in the Saints' goal late in the first half, fracturing his own cheekbone. Although he received treatment from the Southampton club president, Dr. Bencraft, Fry was unable to continue and had to be helped from the pitch. Despite playing on with only ten men, the Corinthians still managed to win 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031877-0014-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southampton F.C. season, Friendly matches\nTwo days later, Southampton entertained Rangers, the newly crowned Scottish Football League champions, with the Saints going down by the single goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031878-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southern Football League\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the fifth in the history of the Southern League. This season saw the expansion of Division One up to 14 teams and creation of Division Two South-West, though it was disbanded at the end of the season after all its clubs left. No Southern League clubs applied for promotion to the Football League. Southampton were Division One champions for the third season in a row. Overall Division Two champions being decided in a playoff in which Thames Ironworks defeated Cowes 3-1 at The Den.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031878-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 14 teams contest the division, including ten sides from previous season and four new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031878-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southern Football League, Division Two London\nDivision Two London was formed on basis of previous season Division Two. A total of 12 teams contest the division, including eight sides from previous season and four new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031878-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southern Football League, Division Two South-West\nDivision Two South-West was newly formed and short-lived formation. At the end of the season division was liquidated and the League returned to 2-division structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031878-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, test matches were held between the bottom two clubs in Division One and the top club in both Division Twos. Royal Artillery Portsmouth lost 4-1 to Cowes and were relegated to Division Two, whilst Cowes were promoted. Royal Artillery Portsmouth then disbanded. Sheppey United and Thames Ironworks drew 1-1, leading to Sheppey remaining in Division One and Thames Ironworks joining them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031879-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1898-99 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's fourth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 25th in their history. The club finished 8th out of 14 in the Lancashire League. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the third round by Salford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031880-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Stoke's tenth season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031880-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Stoke F.C. season\nWith automatic promotion and relegation now introduced thanks to Stoke and Burnley's antics last season, Stoke improved marginally as they took 12th place with 33 points. Stoke form was erratic throughout the season and with neither any hopes of mounting a title challenge or any relegation fears Stoke went on to enjoy their best performance so far in the FA Cup. They reached the semi-final of the competition for the first time losing 3\u20131 to eventual runners-up Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031880-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nThe 1898\u201399 season saw the introduction of automatic promotion and relegation between the First and Second Divisions of the Football League, and Stoke's fortunes improved marginally as they finished in 12th position. The season hardly started well when three players were suspended for a breach of club rules during pre-season training for drinking champagne. In August 1898 club secretary, former manager and goalkeeper Bill Rowley transferred himself to Leicester Fosse and even agreed his own signing on fee. This transaction caused uproar by the FA who suspended Rowley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031880-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nStoke's form-rate in 1898\u201399 was erratic with only three wins coming in their opening 12 matches, five in the middle 12 and five in the last 10. The highlight was undoubtedly a convincing 3\u20130 victory over champions-to-be Aston Villa on New Year's Eve, while Burnley and Sheffield United were both beaten 4\u20131. At the end of the season club legend Joe Schofield decided to retire from playing after spending eight years with Stoke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031880-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke reached the semi-finals of the competition for the first time after seeing off Sheffield Wednesday, Small Heath and Tottenham Hotspur. They succumbed to a 3\u20131 defeat to Derby County at neutral Molineux with Steve Bloomer scoring a fine hat-trick for the \"Rams\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031880-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nThe Evening Sentinel commented: \"Derby had their halves to thank for victory, Stoke were decidedly the better side in the first half and it was Derby's luck to get on level terms by means of a scrimmage which was produced by full-back Tom Robertson's miss kick. Stoke did most of the attacking again in the second half until Derby got the lead in an unexpected manner. Of course this put new life into Derby and very little seemed to go wrong with them afterwards although Stoke played up strongly. The weakness in their attack was the centre-forward Fred Molyneux. The Derby players were very vigorous and did not spare the Stoke team in bumping them about. Derby scored a third goal to put the contest beyond the brave Stoke players much to the disappointment of the Stoke spectators.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031880-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nThe Stoke players received a \u00a35 bonus for their cup exploits and it would be another 72 years before the club reached the semi-final stage again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031881-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Swiss Serie A\nThe 1898\u201399 Swiss Serie A season was the 1898\u201399 season of the Swiss national football league championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031881-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Swiss Serie A, Overview\nThe Swiss championship was played as a knock out competition. It was divided into three regional groups, East (region Z\u00fcrich) Central (regional north-west Switzerland) and West (Romandy). The winners of each group played the finals in a round-robin tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031881-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Swiss Serie A, Overview\nIn group East the Anglo-American Club Z\u00fcrich were matched against Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich. The game was drawn and thus a replay was required, which was won by the Anglo-American Club. In the next round they played against FC Z\u00fcrich and won 5-0. They therefore qualified for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031881-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Swiss Serie A, Overview\nIn the central group FC Basel played against Old Boys ending in a draw and so it required a replay as well, which was played a month later and also drawn. Because the Old Boys complained that one of the two FCB goals, in this replay match, had been scored by the players hand they protested. The Swiss Football Association had to deal with the matter and subsequently the protest was approved. The disputed goal simply deducted from the result and thus the Old Boys proceeded to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031881-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Swiss Serie A, Overview\nIn the final play-off group the majority of the English players from Lausanne Football and Cricket Club refused to play the match against the Old Boys because it was scheduled for a Sunday thus forfeiting victory for the Old Boys. This was the first forfeit in Swiss football history. Finally the Anglo-American Club won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031881-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Swiss Serie A, Finals\nNB: The British players of Lausanne refused to play on Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe 1898\u201399 season was Thames Ironworks' fourth season after the club's formation in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nDuring the summer of 1898, Thames Ironworks became a professional outfit for the first time, to match their new status as new members of the Southern League. It was a decision reluctantly taken by Ironworks chairman Arnold Hills, who had always believed in the classical ideal of competitive sport being for its own sake. But with the success the club had been enjoying, together with the increased crowds at their Memorial Grounds venue, he relented, and was quoted as saying \"It may be necessary to introduce a little ferment of professional experience to leaven the heavy lump.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nNew signings came thick and fast and included the controversial capture of goalkeeper Tommy Moore from arch-rivals Millwall. This meant that there would be no place for keeper David Furnell in the squad, and he was allowed to transfer to Hammersmith Athletic. The team further strengthened defensively with the signing of George Neil from West Norwood, full-backs Tommy Dunn and Arthur Marjeram from Chatham and Swanscombe respectively and Scottish left-half Roddy McEachrane, who had played for Inverness Thistle alongside Irons wing-half Simon Chisholm, and had also worked at the actual Thames Iron Works.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0002-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThames Ironworks raided Warmley of three of the players, with centre half Peter McManus, along with forwards George Reid and Henderson all making the journey east. The team's attacking options were further increased with the signings of wingers J. Reynolds from Gravesend and Patrick Leonard from Manchester City, along with the snaring of centre forward David Lloyd from former rivals 3rd Grenadier Guards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThey kicked off the season on 10 September 1898 away to Shepherd's Bush, and were in fine form, beating the West London outfit 3\u20130, with two goals from Atkinson and one from Adams. The form continued with a 3\u20131 home win over Brentford a fortnight later, and a 2\u20130 FA Cup 1st qualifying round win soon followed when \"The Irons\" were again pitted against Royal Engineers Training Battalion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nOctober proved to be Thames Ironworks' difficult month during the season, when they failed to record a single win. They first lost away to Uxbridge 1\u20132, before facing Brighton United in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup. The Irons drew 0\u20130 away to the south coast, before losing the replay four days later 1\u20134, with the only goal being scored by Henry Hird. The month ended farcically when in a Southern League game on 29 October, they faced a Wycombe side who had lost their previous five matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0004-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe Irons missed their train and arrives at the Buckinghamshire's Loakes Park ground an hour late. The obviously unsettled side eventually played the game in torrential rain and were two goals down after 15 minutes from goals scored by Jim Aldridge. Aldridge had completed his hat-trick by half time. Wycombe were 4\u20130 ahead before irons inside-forward Jimmy Reid pulled one back in the 88th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0005-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThis was to be Thames Ironworks' last defeat of the season, and they could go on to win an impressive 17 of their last 18 games, only drawing away at Watford 0\u20130. The year ended with The Irons biggest win of the season so far, in an away game against Maidenhead on 31 December 1898, which Thames Ironworks won 4\u20130. It was in this game that Charlie Dove completed the distinction of playing in every position for the club when he deputised for goalkeeper Tommy Moore, and it is perhaps even more impressive that he managed to keep a clean sheet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0006-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThames Ironworks played their first game of the new year at the Memorial Grounds on 14 January 1899, when they entertained Wycombe. This time, the Wycombe goalkeeper Ernie Wheeler missed the train, and the team began the game with only ten players on the pitch. Their full-back Henry Turner began in goal, and had soon conceded an own goal from one of his defenders. A Wycombe fan, who often filled in for them when they were unexpectedly short, took over as goalkeeper, but he was also soon beaten by a low shot from Irons centre-half McEwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0006-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nIrons centre forward David Lloyd then missed two chances, before grabbing a brace to put The Irons 4\u20130 up by half-time. The second half saw two penalties, one missed by Lloyd and one scored by Wycombe player Fred Keen, to make the final score 4\u20131 and a complete reverse of the scoreline in their previous encounter. Their great form would continue for the rest of the season, including a thrilling 4\u20133 win away to Wolverton London & North Western Railway, which also saw their lowest attendance of only 200, and an 8\u20131 home win over Chesham Town", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0007-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nAlready confirmed as Southern League Division Two champions, having won the previous 14 games, Thames Ironworks showed little restraint for the final game of the season against Maidenhead on 15 April 1898. With their largest home crowd of the season, 3000 spectators saw The Irons demolish the bottom club of the division 10\u20130. The goals included four from Patrick Leonard, a hat-trick from David Lloyd and a brace from Jimmy Reid. The other goal was scored by Henderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0008-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nAlthough they won the Southern League Second Division by 9 points, Thames Ironworks were required to play Test Matches to decide their promotion to Division One. The first came against Cowes from the Isle of Wight on 22 April. They had qualified for the Test Match by winning the South West section of the league structure, and the game was played at the supposedly neutral East Ferry Road ground of Irons' rivals Millwall. A 10,000 strong crowd saw Thames Ironworks win the game 3\u20131, with goals coming from David Lloyd, Patrick Leonard and Henderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0008-0001", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe Ironworks then had to face Sheppey United, who had finished 12th in the 13 team Southern League Division One, and had beaten The Irons two and a half years previously 8\u20130 in an FA Cup game. The game took place at Chatham's ground on 29 April and finished 1\u20131, with David Lloyd once again the goalscorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0009-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nBefore a replay could be staged, it was decided to enlarge the top division of the Southern League to 19 teams, thus enabling Thames Ironworks F.C., as well as Sheppey United, Bristol Rovers and Q.P.R. to join the higher tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0010-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nRoddy McEachrane was the only ever-present in the team during the season, making 27 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031882-0011-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe top goalscorer was David Lloyd with 14 goals. 12 of these were scored in the Southern League, with the other two coming in the Test Matches against Cowes and Sheppey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031883-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1898\u201399 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031883-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nCollege hockey lost several teams prior to the 1898\u201399 season, including the first school to field a team (Johns Hopkins University).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031884-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 WPHL season\nThe 1898\u201399 WPHL season was the second season of operation for the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. Four Pittsburgh-area teams competed in the season, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens. The league reconstituted in the newly finished hockey rink at the Duquesne Gardens, after the Schenley Park Casino was destroyed in an 1896 fire that cut short the previous WPHL season. The old venue's in-house, Pittsburgh Casino team, was not reformed and only three teams played in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031884-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 WPHL season\nThe Pittsburgh Athletic Club won 9 of 12 games to win their first WPHL championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031885-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represents the University of Washington during the 1898\u201399 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031886-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1898\u201399 Welsh Amateur Cup was the ninth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Oswestry United Reserves who defeated Shrewsbury based team Singleton & Coles 1-0 in the final, at Welshpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031887-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Western Football League\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the seventh in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031887-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Western Football League\nFor this season the league was restructured again after many clubs left the league. The Professional Section of last season was renamed Division One, and the two-division Amateur Section became one single division, Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031887-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Western Football League\nSwindon Town were the champions of Division One, and also competed in the Southern League during this season, along with Southampton and Bedminster. Trowbridge Town and multiple champions Warmley also competed in both leagues, but both clubs disbanded during the season. The Division Two champions for the first time were Staple Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031887-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nTwo new clubs joined Division One, which was reduced to seven clubs from eight after Bristol City, Reading and Eastleigh left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031887-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two (Amateur)\nThis eight-club division was a merger of the old Amateur Section Divisions One and Two, containing the surviving clubs from both divisions, plus two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031888-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u20131899 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. Wisconsin Badger basketball began in December 1898 with the formation of its first team coached by Dr. James C. Elsom. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031889-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1898\u201399 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1898\u201399 season. The team finished the season with a 9\u20132 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031890-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1898\u201399 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031890-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nYale finished the season undefeated, with a 6\u20130\u20130 record. They were declared as Champions of the Intercollegiate Hockey League, a loose association of existing college programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031890-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, G.S. Mittendorf served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031891-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in Belgian football\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the fourth competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031891-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official division existed at the time, split into two leagues. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and its winner was decided after a two-legged final match between the winners of each league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031891-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in Belgian football, Overview\nNo team was relegated this season and only one new club was admitted for the next season (Skill F.C. de Bruxelles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031892-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in English football\nThe 1898\u201399 season was the 28th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031892-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in English football, Events\nThis was the first season in which automatic promotion/relegation was introduced between the First and Second divisions. Both Divisions were expanded to 18 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031892-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in English football, Events\nThe new teams to join the Second Division were: Barnsley, Glossop North End and New Brighton Tower. Burslem Port Vale also returned to the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031892-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in English football, Events\nOn 26 November 1898, the First Division match between The Wednesday and Aston Villa was abandoned after 79 minutes due to bad light. Rather than let the score stand or replay the whole match, The Football Association ordered that the remaining 11 minutes should be played at Hillsborough on 13 March 1899. The Wednesday, who were leading 3\u20131 when the game was abandoned, scored one more goal to win 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031892-0004-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031893-0000-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in Scottish football\n1898\u201399 in Scottish football was the 26th season of competitive football in Scotland and the ninth season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031893-0001-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in Scottish football, Scottish Division Two\nKilmarnock won the Scottish Division Two for the second season in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031893-0002-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nThe Scottish Cup was won by Celtic after they beat rivals Rangers 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031893-0003-0000", "contents": "1898\u201399 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nParkhead won the Junior Cup after they beat Westmarch XI 4\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031894-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\n1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 99th year of the 19th\u00a0century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1899, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031895-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 (TV series)\n1899 is an upcoming German multilingual epic period mystery-horror television series created by Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar set to premiere on Netflix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031895-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 (TV series), Premise\nA group of European migrants leave London on a steamship to start new lives in New York City. But when they encounter another migrant ship adrift on the open sea, their journey begins to turn into a nightmare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031895-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 (TV series), Production, Development\nOn November 13, 2018, it was announced that Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar were developing the project for Netflix under their overall deal at the streaming service. The series was confirmed to be moving forward two weeks later during a Netflix press conference showcasing European original programming. By July 2020, bo Odar revealed via Instagram that Friese had completed writing the script for the pilot episode. During an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Friese explained how the European migrant crisis and Brexit were influential to the series, saying:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031895-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 (TV series), Production, Development\nThe whole European angle was very important for us, not only story wise but also the way we were going to produce it. It really had to be a European collaboration, not just cast but also crew. We felt that with the past years of Europe being on the decline, we wanted to give a counterpoint to Brexit, and to nationalism rising in different countries, to go back to that idea of Europe and Europeans working and creating together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031895-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 (TV series), Production, Development\nBeing true to the cultures and the languages was really important, we never wanted to have characters from different countries but everyone speaks English. We wanted to explore this heart of Europe, where everyone comes from somewhere else and speaks a different language, and language defines so much of your culture and your behaviour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031895-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 (TV series), Production, Casting\nOn December 16, 2020, it was announced that Emily Beecham was cast in the lead role. On May 2, 2021, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau, Maciej Musia\u0142, Anton Lesser, Lucas Lynggaard T\u00f8nnesen, Rosalie Craig, Clara Rosager, Maria Erwolter, Yann Gael, Mathilde Ollivier, Jos\u00e9 Piment\u00e3o, Isabella Wei, Gabby Wong, Jonas Bloquet, Fflyn Edwards, and Alexandre Willaume were added to the cast, with each character speaking in the actors' native languages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031895-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 (TV series), Production, Filming\nPre -production for the series officially commenced on November 24, 2020, with a week-long lens test shoot taking place. The series was initially scheduled to begin principal photography on February 1, 2021, but was later pushed back by 3 months. Filming officially began on May 3, 2021, outside Berlin, Germany. The series will shoot in Studio Babelsberg and a new virtual production studio Volume, which is operated by bo Odar and Friese's sister company Dark Bay. Filming will also take place in London, United Kingdom. Creative studio Framestore will provide visual effects for the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031896-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031896-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). At this time, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031896-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1899. It was preceded by the 1898 election and followed by the 1900 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1896 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031897-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Add-Ran Christian football team\nThe 1899 Add-Ran Christian football team represented Add-Ran Christian University\u2014now known as Texas Christian University (TCU)\u2014as an independent during the 1899 college football season. They played only one game, against Baylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031898-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1899 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach W. A. Martin, in his first season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In what was the seventh season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of three wins and one loss (3\u20131, 1\u20130 SIAA). In the spring of 1895, the University Board of Trustees passed a rule that prohibited athletic teams from competing off-campus for athletic events. As such the 1898 season was canceled; however the board subsequently rescinded this rule and the squad returned to the field for the 1899 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031898-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tuscaloosa Athletic Club\nIn what was the first game played since the 1897 season, Alabama defeated the Tuscaloosa Athletic Club 16\u20135. With a halftime score of 5\u20135, Alabama took the lead in the second half and won 16\u20135. Former Alabama player and head coach Eli Abbott played for the Tuscaloosa squad in this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031898-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Montgomery Athletic Club\nShirley Miller had a 75-yard touchdown run for Alabama in this 16\u20130 shutout victory over the Montgomery Athletic Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031898-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nIn what was the first road game for Alabama since the 1895 season, the Crimsons traveled to Jackson, Mississippi and defeated Ole Miss, 7\u20135, at Driving Park before 600 spectators. After Alabama took a 2\u20130 lead following a blocked punt for a safety, Mississippi scored their only points of the game on a short touchdown run for the 5\u20132 lead. In the second half, Alabama scored the game-winning touchdown on an A. M. Donahoo run for the 7\u20135 victory. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi to 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031898-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, New Orleans Athletic Club\nThe day after their victory over Ole Miss, Alabama traveled to New Orleans and lost, 21\u20130, to the New Orleans Athletic Club in the final game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031899-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1899 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held in the Scottish Drill Hall at the London Scottish Rifles Headquarters in Buckingham Gate, Westminster, London, England on 4 April 1899. There were no singles events staged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031899-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 All England Badminton Championships, Origins\nFollowing the first known open badminton tournament at the Guildford Drill Hall during 1898 the Badminton Association (BA) decided to stage the first All England Championships on 4 April 1899. The one day tournament was at the Drill Hall at the London Scottish Rifles Headquarters in Buckingham Gate and consisted of four courts with the two end courts having balconies over hanging them. The courts were basic very with nets only 16 feet wide, posts with extended canes and chalked lines. The principal event organisers were Mr Richard Fleming St Andrew St John (Honorary Secretary of the BA) and Mr Percy Buckley (Secretary of the Guildford Badminton Association and President of the BA). The winners received two guineas and runner up received one guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031899-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 All England Badminton Championships, Men's Doubles\nFourteen pairs entered. There were two byes and two walk overs in the first round, the latter two because Buckell & Hillier and Mellersh & Collier scratched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031899-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 All England Badminton Championships, Women's Doubles\nThirteen pairs entered. There were three byes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031900-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 13th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners, completing the first three-in-a-row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031900-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Munster\nThe match finished at half time, as the Cork ball had burst, and Tipperary did not have a ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031900-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Munster\nTipperary refused to take the field for the second half. They asked that their score in the first match be added to their first half score in this match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031901-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the twelfth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031901-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nDublin, represented by the Geraldines clus, were the winners. Cork were represented by the Nils club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031901-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was the sixth of six All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1890s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031902-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1899 was the 13th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Wexford 3-12 to 1\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031902-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The Munster and Leinster champions play in this game to determine the All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031903-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1899 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 12th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1899 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 24 March 1901 between Wexford, represented by club side Blackwater, and Tipperary, represented by club side Moycarkey. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 3-12 to 1-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031904-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 All-Western college football team\nThe 1899 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031905-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 America's Cup\nThe 1899 America's Cup was the 10th challenge for the Cup. It took place in the New York City harbor and consisted of a best of five series of races between the defender, Columbia, entered by the New York Yacht Club, and Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock, representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. Columbia won all three races against Shamrock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031906-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Amherst football team\nThe 1889 Amherst football team was an American football team that represented the Amherst College during the 1889 college football season. Lead by first-year head coach Harry A. Smith, the team compiled an overall record of 4\u20137\u20131, placing third in the Triangular Football League (TFL) with a mark of 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031907-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Antrim County Council election\nThe first election to Antrim County Council took place in April 1899 as part of that year's Irish local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031908-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1899 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 8th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 14 and ended on September 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031908-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe league was reduced to only 4 teams due to Palermo A.C., United Banks and Banfield left the Association. Banfield registered to recently created Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. Belgrano A.C. won its first Primera Divisi\u00f3n title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031908-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nLan\u00fas A.C. only completed 2 games, with the other 4 fixtures being awarded to their opponents. The game between Lomas and Lobos was awarded to Lobos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031909-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Arizona football team\nThe 1899 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its first season of football, the team compiled a 1\u20131\u20131 record and outscored all opponents, 24 to 16. The team was organized in January 1899 by Professor R. H. Forbes, but no games were played until the fall when a student committee raised $70 from merchants in the Old Pueblo to purchase uniforms. Stuart Forbes was the team's coach, George M. Parker was the manager and team captain. The team's colors during the 1899 season were sage green and silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031909-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Arizona football team, Game summaries\nOn November 20, 1899, the University of Arizona football team played its first official football game, after an earlier practice game against a Tucson, Arizona, town team. The November 20 game, also played against a Tucson town team, ended in a scoreless tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031909-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Arizona football team, Game summaries\nOn November 30, 1899, the team played its first intercollegiate football game against the Normal School of Arizona (later renamed Arizona State University). The inaugural meeting in the Arizona\u2013Arizona State football rivalry ended in an 11\u20132 score in favor of the Tempe team. The game was played in front of an estimated 300 spectators at the Carillo Gardens amusement center near the Santa Cruz River in Tucson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031909-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Arizona football team, Game summaries\nThe team's third game was played on January 13, 1900, against the football team from the Tucson Indian School. The University team won that game by a 22 to 0 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031909-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Arizona football team, Players\nThe team's roster included the following players: Willard Morse Brown, Duncan Hugh Campbell, Rudolph Castaneda, Courtland F. Day, Frank Wakefield Fish, John Garnett Holmes, Thomas K. Marshall, William Thomas Olney, Charles P. Richmond, James Newton Robinson, Guy Lionel Rockwell, Ross M. Russell, Edward S. Stafford, and Benito G. Suarez. Another account lists players with the surnames French and Parker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031910-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1899 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1899 college football season. The Cardinals played four intercollegiate football games and one game against a high school team from Joplin, Missouri. They compiled a 3\u20131\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 37 to 21. The team's one loss came against Oklahoma by an 11\u20135 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031910-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nColbert Searles was the team's football coach in 1899 and 1900. He was a graduate of Wesleyan University and a professor of romance languages. In the summer of 1901, he left the University of Arkansas to accept a position as a professor at Stanford University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031910-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe team's roster in 1899 included the following players: Oscar Briggs; Wm. A. Freeman; H. H. Ham; Charles D. Harrison; DeMatt Henderson; Wilburn D. Hobbs; Frank D. James; J. K. McCall; Percy B. Meyer; Chester C. Sloan; Carl C. Smith; James Vanderventer; and Ashton Vincenheller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031911-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1899 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1899 college football season. In their third season under head coach Herman Koehler, the Cadets compiled a 4\u20135 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 100 to 57. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Navy by a 17 to 5 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031912-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Ashfield colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Ashfield on 26 September 1899 because Bernhard Wise (Protectionist) had been appointed Attorney General. Until 1904, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. Of the nine ministers appointed with the formation of Lyne ministry, Ashfield and Hume (William Lyne) were the only electorates in which the by-election was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1899 Atlantic hurricane season featured the longest-lasting tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin on record. There were nine tropical storms, of which five became hurricanes. Two of those strengthened into major hurricanes, which are Category\u00a03 or higher on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. The first system was initially observed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on June\u00a026. The tenth and final system dissipated near Bermuda on November\u00a010. These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic. In post-season analysis, two tropical cyclones that existed in October were added to HURDAT \u2013 the official Atlantic hurricane database. At one point during the season, September\u00a03 through the following day, a set of three tropical cyclones existed simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe most significant storm of the season was Hurricane Three, nicknamed the San Ciriaco hurricane. A post-season analysis of this storm indicated that it was the longest-lasting Atlantic tropical cyclone on record. The path impacted the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and the Azores. The San Ciriaco hurricane alone caused about $20\u00a0million (1899\u00a0USD) in damage and at least 3,855\u00a0deaths. Another notable tropical cyclone, the Carrabelle hurricane, brought extensive damage to Dominican Republic and Florida Panhandle. Losses in Florida reached about $1\u00a0million. At least 9\u00a0deaths were associated with the storm. Hurricane Nine in October brought flooding to Cuba and Jamaica, as well as minor damage to South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nWeather maps first indicated a tropical storm in the extreme northwestern Gulf of Mexico on June\u00a026. With initial sustained winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h), the storm did not differ in intensity as it headed northwestward. At 0900\u00a0UTC on June\u00a027, the system made landfall near the southwestern end of Galveston Island, Texas at the same intensity. Three hours later, it weakened to a tropical depression and later dissipated over Southeast Texas at 1800\u00a0UTC. Heavy rainfall produced by the storm from Granbury to Waco and toward the coast contributed to an ongoing flood event in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nAccording to Texas State Senator Asbury Bascom Davidson, the Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe, Navasota, and San Saba Rivers overflowed. An estimated 12,000 square miles (31,000\u00a0km2) of land were inundated. In Hearne, water rose above every rain gauge. Thousands of people were left homeless. The flood caused $9\u00a0million in damage and 284\u00a0deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nA hurricane was first observed south of Dominican Republic on July\u00a028. Shortly thereafter, it made landfall in Azua Province with an intensity equivalent to a Category\u00a01 hurricane. Early on July\u00a029, the system weakened to a tropical storm, shortly before emerging into the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. It then moved west-northwestward and remained at relatively the same intensity over the next 24\u00a0hours. The storm made landfall near Islamorada, Florida on July\u00a030. Crossing the Florida Keys, it soon emerged into the Gulf of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThe storm began to re-intensify on July\u00a031 and became a hurricane later that day. Early on August\u00a01, it peaked with winds of 100\u00a0mph (155\u00a0km/h), several hours before making landfall near Apalachicola, Florida at the same intensity. The storm quickly weakened inland and dissipated over southern Alabama on August\u00a02.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nIn Dominican Republic, three large schooners were wrecked at Santo Domingo; only one crew member on the three vessels survived. \"Great\" damage was reported along coastal sections of the country, while a loss of telegraph service impacted most of interior areas. In Florida, damage in the city of Carrabelle was extensive, with no more than a score of \"unimportant\" houses remained. Losses in the city reached approximately $100,000. At least 57\u00a0shipping vessels were destroyed; damage from these ships collectively totaled about $375,000. Additionally, 13\u00a0lumber vessels were beached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0004-0001", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nMany boats at the harbor and the wharfs in Lanark were wrecked. Large portions of stores and pavilions in the city were damaged. The towns of Curtis Mill and McIntyre were completely destroyed, while the resort city of St. Teresa suffered significant damage. Seven deaths were confirmed in Florida. Overall, losses reached at least $1\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nHurricane San Ciriaco of 1899 or The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1899", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nThe next storm was first observed as a tropical storm to the southwest of Cape Verde on August\u00a03. It slowly strengthened while heading steadily west-northwestward across the Atlantic Ocean. By late on August\u00a05, the storm strengthened into a hurricane. During the following 48\u00a0hours, it deepened further, reaching Category\u00a04 hurricane status before crossing the Leeward Islands on August\u00a07. Later that day, the storm attained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 150\u00a0mph (240\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 930\u00a0mbar (27\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0006-0001", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nThe storm weakened slightly before making landfall in Guayama, Puerto Rico, with sustained winds of 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h) on August\u00a08. Several hours later, it emerged into the southwestern Atlantic as a Category\u00a03 hurricane; it would remain at that intensity for over 9\u00a0days. The system paralleled the north coast of Dominican Republic and then crossed the Bahamas, striking several islands, including Andros and Grand Bahama. After clearing the Bahamas, it began heading northward on August\u00a014, while centered east of Florida. Early on the following day, the storm re-curved northeastward and appeared to be heading out to sea. However, by August\u00a017, it turned back to the northwest. At 0100\u00a0UTC on August\u00a018, the storm made landfall near Hatteras, North Carolina, with 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h) winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nThe storm weakened after moving inland and fell to Category\u00a01 intensity by 1200\u00a0UTC on August\u00a018. Later that day, the storm re-emerged into the Atlantic Ocean. Now heading northeastward, it continued weakening, but maintained Category\u00a01 intensity. By late on August\u00a020, the storm curved eastward over the northwestern Atlantic. It also began losing tropical characteristics and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone at 0000\u00a0UTC on August\u00a022, while located about 325 miles (525\u00a0km) south of Sable Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0007-0001", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nHowever, after four days, the system regenerated into a tropical storm while located about 695 miles (1,120\u00a0km) west-southwest of Flores Island in the Azores on August\u00a026. It moved slowly north-northwestward, until curving to the east on August\u00a029. Between August\u00a026 and September\u00a01, the storm did not differentiate in intensity, but began re-strengthening while turning southeastward on September\u00a02. Early on the following day, the storm again reached hurricane intensity. It curved northeastward and passed through the Azores on September\u00a03, shortly before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone. The storm had the longest duration of an Atlantic hurricane on record, lasting for 31\u00a0days, 28 of which it was tropical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nIn Guadeloupe, the storm unroofed and flooded many houses. Communications were significantly disrupted in the interior portions of the island. Impact was severe in Montserrat, with nearly every building destroyed and 100\u00a0deaths reported. About 200\u00a0small houses were destroyed on Saint Kitts, with estates suffering considerable damage, while nearly all estates were destroyed on Saint Croix. Eleven deaths were reported on the island. In Puerto Rico, the system brought strong winds and heavy rainfall, which caused extensive flooding. Approximately 250,000\u00a0people were left without food and shelter. Additionally, telephone, telegraph, and electrical services were completely lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0008-0001", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nOverall, damage totaled approximately $20\u00a0million, with over half were losses inflicted on crops, particularly coffee. At the time, it was the costliest and worst tropical cyclone in Puerto Rico. It was officially estimated that the storm caused 3,369\u00a0fatalities in Puerto Rico. In the Bahamas, strong winds and waves sank 50\u00a0small crafts, most of them at Andros. Severe damage was reported in the capital city of Nassau, with over 100\u00a0buildings destroyed and many damaged, including the Government House. A few houses were also destroyed in Bimini. The death toll in the Bahamas was at least 125.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0008-0002", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nIn North Carolina, storm surge and rough sea destroyed fishing piers and bridges, as well as sink about 10\u00a0vessels. Because Hatteras Island was almost entirely inundated with 4 to 10 feet (1.2 to 3.0\u00a0m) of water, a great proportion of homes on the island were damaged, with much destruction at Diamond City. There were at least 20\u00a0deaths in the state of North Carolina. In the Azores, the storm also caused one fatality and significant damage on some islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nWeather maps indicated a tropical storm just east of the Lesser Antilles beginning on August\u00a029. The storm moved westward and strengthened into a hurricane early on August\u00a030. Several hours later, it entered the Caribbean Sea after passing near Antigua and Montserrat. Impact was generally light in the Lesser Antilles. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, sustained winds reached 48\u00a0mph (77\u00a0km/h). The storm maintained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) as it continued westward across the Caribbean Sea. Vessels sailing from ports in Cuba and Hispaniola were advised to \"take every precaution\". After the storm curved northward late on September\u00a01, vessels from Hispaniola only were advised to take caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nLate on September\u00a01, the hurricane made landfall east of Jacmel, Haiti with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). By 1800\u00a0UTC, it weakened to a tropical storm. The storm emerged into the Atlantic Ocean early on September\u00a02, after weakening further. While passing just east of the Turks and Caicos Islands early on September\u00a03, the storm re-strengthened and attained hurricane status again. Several hours later, it strengthened into a Category\u00a02 hurricane and peaked with winds of 105\u00a0mph (165\u00a0km/h). After weakening to a Category\u00a01 hurricane late on September\u00a04, the storm passed northwest of Bermuda. Hurricane-force winds caused considerable damage on the island. At 1200\u00a0UTC on September\u00a05, the hurricane became extratropical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nHURDAT initially indicates a tropical storm about 920 miles (1,480\u00a0km) west-southwest of Brava, Cape Verde on September\u00a03. The storm moved west-northwestward and slowly intensified, reaching hurricane status late on September\u00a05. It continued to slowly strengthen, becoming a Category\u00a02 hurricane on September\u00a06. About 24\u00a0hours later, the cyclone deepened into a Category\u00a03 hurricane while located near the Lesser Antilles. On Saint Kitts, sustained winds reached 62\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h), while up to 3.13 inches (80\u00a0mm) of rainfall was reported. Many houses were destroyed on Anguilla and Barbuda. In the former, an estimated 200\u00a0homes were demolished, leaving 800\u00a0people homeless. Early on September\u00a09, the storm reached maximum sustained winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h). The storm maintained intensity as a Category\u00a03 hurricane and re-curved northward by September\u00a011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe hurricane turned northeastward on September\u00a012 and began to accelerate. Early on September\u00a013, it passed very close to Bermuda, with a minimum barometric pressure of 939\u00a0mbar (27.7\u00a0inHg) observed on the island. Cedar trees were uprooted, while fruit and ornamental trees were swept out to sea. Some houses were destroyed, while others were deroofed. Severe damage was also reported at the naval yard and colonial government buildings. At Her Majesty's Dockyard alone, damage was \"at least five figures\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0012-0001", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nEarly on September\u00a014, the storm weakened to a Category\u00a02 hurricane, then to a Category\u00a01 several hours later. Shortly after 0000\u00a0UTC on September\u00a015, the hurricane struck the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland with winds of 85\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h). It soon became extratropical. In Newfoundland, severe damage was reported at fishing premises. The schooners Angler, Daisy, and Lily May either capsized or were driven ashore, resulting in 16\u00a0deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nA ship in the western Caribbean Sea reported a tropical storm on October\u00a02. The storm moved north-northwestward and entered the Gulf of Mexico early on the following day. Late on October\u00a03, it peaked with maximum sustained winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). The storm re-curved eastward while situated over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. At 0000\u00a0UTC on October\u00a05, this system made landfall in modern-day Largo, Florida at the same intensity. Thereafter, the storm headed northeastward, until becoming extratropical early on October\u00a06, while located offshore Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nImpact from this system was generally minor. Prior to landfall in Florida, the storm produced winds up to 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) in Port Eads, Louisiana. The highest wind speed in Florida was 37\u00a0mph (60\u00a0km/h) in Jupiter. There, the storm also dropped 4.94 inches (125\u00a0mm) of rain. The Jupiter area also reported rough seas, with the highest tides in 7\u00a0years. The storm wrecked two schooners \u2013 the John R. Anidia at Fernandina Beach and the John H. Tingue at Cumberland Island, Georgia. After becoming extratropical, the remnants of the storm brought wind gusts up to 56\u00a0mph (90\u00a0km/h) to Cape Henry, Virginia and Block Island, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven\nReports from a ship on October\u00a010 indicated a tropical storm with sustained winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,008\u00a0mbar (29.8\u00a0inHg). Located well southwest of Cape Verde, the storm moved northwestward without differentiating in intensity. It was lasted noted on October\u00a014, while situated at 21.5\u00b0N, 43.5\u00b0W.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eight\nA tropical depression developed in the central Bahamas on October\u00a015. The depression moved east-northeastward strengthened into a tropical storm by the following day. Later on October\u00a016, the storm peaked with winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h). It re-curved northwestward and slowly began to weaken. Early on October\u00a018, the system fell to tropical depression intensity. Several hours later, the cyclone dissipated while located about 195\u00a0miles (315\u00a0km) east-southeast of Virginia Beach, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Nine\nAn area of disturbed weather developed into a tropical storm while located south-southwest of Jamaica on October\u00a026. The system moved slowly north-northwestward and gradually strengthened, reaching hurricane status on October\u00a028. By early on the following day, it made landfall on the southern coast of Sancti Sp\u00edritus Province, Cuba. Briefly weakening to a tropical storm, the system re-intensified into a hurricane after reaching the Atlantic Ocean late on October\u00a029. Moving toward the Bahamas, the storm became a Category\u00a02 hurricane on October\u00a030. Around that time, it struck Grand Bahama island. After peaking with winds of 110\u00a0mph (175\u00a0km/h), the system accelerated north-northwestward and made landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on October\u00a031. It quickly weakened and became extratropical over Virginia later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Nine\nIn the city of Black River, Jamaica, rough seas caused significant damage to the marine industry and washed out crops. There were \"many dead\" in Jamaica, though the actual number of fatalities is unknown. Damage from the storm in Cuba was reported in the Sancti Sp\u00edritus and Santa Clara Provinces. Due to the threat of the Zaza River overflowing, residents were forced to evacuate. Strong winds and flooding destroyed several houses and severely damaged a number of others. At Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, tides were reported as 8 feet (2.4\u00a0m) above normal. Water came over the wharves in Wilmington and inundated some streets; there was also flooding in New Bern, Morehead City, and Beaufort. One steamer was wrecked on the coast and 10\u00a0smaller vessels were driven ashore. One fatality was reported and damage was estimated at roughly $200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 908]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ten\nA ship observed a tropical storm north of Panama on November\u00a07. The storm strengthened and headed northeastward across the central Caribbean Sea. It curved northward on November\u00a08, around the time of peaking with winds of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h). Later that day, the storm made landfall in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica at the same intensity. Thereafter, the system weakened and struck extreme western Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba with winds of 50\u00a0mph (85\u00a0km/h) on November\u00a09. It continued to weaken while crossing the island and emerged into the southwestern Atlantic Ocean later that day. The storm curved northeastward and passed through the Bahamas on November\u00a010. It then weakened to a tropical depression, several hours before dissipating about 385 miles (620\u00a0km) southeast of Bermuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031913-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ten\nThe storm brought strong winds and heavy rainfall to Jamaica and Cuba. Significant damage was reported at Port Antonio, Jamaica, especially the property and agriculture of the United Fruit Company. Several districts of Saint Thomas Parish became isolated and the town of Morant Bay was \"shattered\". In Cuba, rainfall peaked at 5.7 inches (140\u00a0mm) in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Damage to buildings and crops were reported in the region. Four fatalities occurred when a tree fell on their farmhouse in Manzanillo, Granma Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031914-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1899 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tigers went 3\u20131\u20131, outscoring their opponents 148\u201311 and holding four opponents scoreless. This team was noteworthy as the last to be coached by Tigers head coach John Heisman. It is also one of the first teams to employ a Hurry-up offense. As Heisman recalled:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031914-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe team of '99\u2014my last at Auburn\u2014was a great one. It only weighed about 160 (pounds per player), but its speed and team work were something truly wonderful. I do not think I have ever seen so fast a team as that was. It would line up and get the ball in play at times before the opposing players were up off the ground. You see it was a 'stunt' of ours to catch them off side and get the benefit of the penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031914-0001-0001", "contents": "1899 Auburn Tigers football team\nNowadays no team is taken by surprise by such lightning lining up; but that Auburn team of '99 was the first to show what could be done with speedy play, and then it wasn't long before all other teams were laboring with might and main to inject speed into their work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031914-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Auburn Tigers football team\nIn Heisman's opinion this was his best team while at Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031914-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe squad is also remembered as the only team to score on the legendary 1899 Sewanee team that went undefeated and beat Texas, Texas A&M, Tulane, LSU and Ole Miss over a 6-day span. Auburn lost their matchup to the \"Iron Men\" by a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031915-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Aylesbury by-election\nThe Aylesbury by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire on 6 January 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031915-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Aylesbury by-election, Vacancy\nThe vacancy was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal Unionist MP, Baron Fredinand von Rothschild at the family home which he had built, Waddesdon Manor, on 17 December 1898. Rothschild had held the Aylesbury seat since 1885, first as a Liberal but he later joined the Liberal Unionist exodus over Irish Home Rule and had sat as Liberal Unionist since 1886.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031915-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Aylesbury by-election, Candidates, Liberal Unionists\nAt first it appeared that the by-election arising from Rothschild\u2019s death would be contested, although neither the Unionists nor the Liberals had a candidate in the field. The Liberal Unionists were reported as considering asking the Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, the son of the late Lord Rothschild, to be their candidate. This proposal met with Rothschild\u2019s approval and the Liberal Unionists held a meeting at Aylesbury Town Hall on the evening of Tuesday 3 January 1899 to formally decide the issue of their candidate. The meeting was chaired by Leopold de Rothschild, the cousin and brother-in-law of the late MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031915-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Aylesbury by-election, Candidates, Liberal Unionists\nThe meeting was said to be large and was attended, amongst others, by Sir Fortescue Flannery MP and Coningsby Disraeli MP. The meeting agreed to endorse Walter Rothschild as their candidate. Rothschild accepted, announcing he was opposed to Home Rule and to the proposal of the Gladstonians to abolish the House of Lords. He also said he supported the many reforms of a social character put forward by Joseph Chamberlain before his break with the Liberal Party, which now formed an integral part of the Unionist programme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031915-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Aylesbury by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe local Liberals were initially said to be in favour of approaching George Russell who had formerly been MP for the Aylesbury constituency. Other Carpetbaggers were looking for a seat. The Aylesbury Liberal Association received an unsolicited telegram from a Mr. Mackay Green of George Street, Edinburgh saying he thought the seat could be won in the Radical interest and offering himself as candidate, so long as all expenses were paid. The Liberals had failed to contest the seat at the previous general election in 1895 and in the end they chose not to oppose Rothschild at the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031915-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Aylesbury by-election, The result\nThere being no other nominations therefore, Rothschild was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031916-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1899 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It was the Orioles' 18th season in the major leagues, their 8th in the National League, and their last overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031916-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore Orioles season\nAfter the 1898 season, Orioles owner Harry Von der Horst acquired a controlling interest in the Brooklyn Bridegrooms ballclub and moved most of his star players and manager Ned Hanlon over to the Brooklyn team. The remaining team played the season under first year manager John McGraw and still won 86 games and finish in fourth place. After the season, the National League contracted and the Baltimore franchise was folded. The remaining players either were absorbed into Brooklyn or released to sign with another club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031916-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031916-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031916-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031916-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031916-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031917-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore mayoral election\nThe 1903 Baltimore mayoral election saw Thomas Gordon Hayes defeat incumbent mayor William T. Malster by a 8,748 vote margin-of-victory. This was the first election under a new charter that extended mayoral terms from two years to four years and moved mayoral elections to May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031917-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Baltimore mayoral election\nBy campaigning on a \"good government\" platform, Democrats managed to defeat Malster, who in his previous election had defeated Democrat Henry Williams by a 6,000 vote margin-of-victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031918-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Baylor football team\nThe 1899 Baylor Bears football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. This was the first football season for Baylor. Under head coach R. H. Hamilton, the team played all four games at home in Waco, Texas, compiling a 2\u20131\u20131 record. Initially, Baylor played its home games on an undetermined field near the university. Baylor played its first game against Texas A&M, which would become a rivalry, the Battle of the Brazos, with over 100 games played in the series by 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031919-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Belmont Stakes\nThe 1899 Belmont Stakes was the 33rd running of the Belmont Stakes. It was the 10th Belmont Stakes held at Morris Park Racecourse in Morris Park, New York, and was run on May 25, 1899. The race drew four starters and was won by favored Jean Bereaud whose winning time of 2:23 flat set a new Morris Park track record for 1 \u200b3\u20448 miles on dirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031919-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Belmont Stakes\nFor future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Sam Hildreth, it was the first of his seven wins in the Belmont Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031919-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Belmont Stakes\nFor jockey Richard Clawson, the win aboard Jean Bereaud was his first of two in the 1899 Classics as he went on to win in the Preakness aboard Half Time, the colt ridden by Skeets Martin who finished second in the Belmont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031919-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Belmont Stakes\nThe 1899 Kentucky Derby was run on May 4 and the 1899 Preakness Stakes on May 30, five days after the Belmont. The 1919 Belmont Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the third leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election\nThe Birmingham North by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Birmingham North on 14 February 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election, Vacancy\nThe vacancy was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal Unionist MP, the Rt Hon Alderman William Kenrick. Kenrick had held the seat since its creation in 1885, first as a Liberal and then as a Liberal Unionist. At the 1895 general election, Kenrick had defended the seat against Liberal opposition, holding it with nearly 80% of the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election, Candidates\nWilliam Kenrick was married to Mary Chamberlain, the elder sister of Joseph Chamberlain and the Liberal Unionists first offered the candidacy to another close associate of the Chamberlain family, Edward Nettlefold (1854-1909), a local manufacturer of screws and other goods, in partnership with Joseph Chamberlain, but he turned down the approach. They next turned to John Throgmorton Middlemore, a 54-year-old former member of Birmingham City Council. Middlemore had trained as a solicitor but had never practised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election, Candidates\nHe received income from a leather business and was the founder and chief benefactor of Middlemore Emigration Homes, an organisation which trained destitute children and settled them in Canada. On 25 January, the Liberal Unionists\u2019 local Conservative allies passed a resolution congratulating Kenrick on being made a Privy Counsellor and voted to support Middlemore as the representative of Unionism in the forthcoming by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election, Candidates\nThe writ ordering the by-election was moved in Parliament on 8 February 1899 by Sir William Walrond, the government Chief Whip and was received by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham a day later. The 14 February was set for receipt of nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election, Candidates\nThe North Birmingham Liberals had done poorly against Kenrick in the two previous general elections in 1892 and 1895 and on 25 January they considered their position at a meeting of their Parliamentary Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0004-0001", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election, Candidates\nThey resolved that \u201c...this committee, while asserting its loyalty to Liberal principles, is of the opinion, in view of the contest in 1895, and the acceptability, from a non-political standpoint, of the candidate chosen by the Liberal Unionists and Tories, and in view of the approaching general election, that the present time is not a suitable opportunity ...to contest the strength of political parties in North Birmingham.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031920-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Birmingham North by-election, Candidates\nThere being no other nominations therefore, Middlemore was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031921-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Birthday Honours\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours 1899 were announced on 3 June 1899 in celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031921-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Birthday Honours\nThe list was published in The Times on 3 June 1899 and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 3 June 1899, and on 13 June 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031921-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031921-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Birthday Honours\nIt was announced in the list that The Queen had been pleased to confer the title of Lord Mayor upon the Mayor of the City of Bristol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031922-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Boorowa colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Boorowa on 30 September 1899 because Kenneth Mackay (Protectionist) resigned to accept an appointment to the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031923-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1899 Boston Beaneaters season was the 29th season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031923-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031923-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031923-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031923-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031923-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031924-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston College football team\nThe 1899 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031925-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1899 occurred on Tuesday, December 12, 1899. Republican candidate and former Mayor of Boston Thomas N. Hart defeated Democratic candidate Patrick Collins, and two other contenders, to become mayor for the second time. Incumbent mayor Josiah Quincy had announced in July 1899 that he would not seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031925-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston mayoral election\nHart benefitted from strife within the Democratic party, where John R. Murphy had lost the nomination to Collins. Murphy subsequently announced his intent to cross party lines and vote for Hart. The votes of Murphy and his followers in support of the Republican candidate contributed to Collins' defeat, and was referred to as a \"knifing\" in contemporary news reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031925-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston mayoral election, Party Conventions, Democratic\nThe Democratic convention was held on November 20, 1899 at Bumstead Hall. Incumbent mayor Patrick Collins defeated former state senator and state representative John R. Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031925-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Boston mayoral election, Party Conventions, Republican\nThe Republican convention was held on November 21, 1899 at Association Hall. Former Mayor Thomas N. Hart defeated former common councilor, alderman, and state representative Alpheus Sanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia\nThe 1899 British Isles tour to Australia was the fourth rugby union tour by a British Isles team and the second to Australia; though the first tour in 1888 was a private venture, making the 1899 tour the first official undertaking of Australia. It is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia\nNegotiations had also taken place for the tour to incorporate matches against New Zealand, either through a visit to New Zealand, or a New Zealand team to play in Australia. No agreeable terms could be found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia\nThis tour was the first to truly represent the British Isles, with players from all four Home Nations. Despite this fact, many Australian newspapers, and some British dailies, referred to the tourists as \"the English football team\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan to tour in 1898\nAfter the tour of South Africa in 1896, players in Britain expressed wishes to make a similar tour to Australia. In August 1897, the New South Wales Rugby Football Union (NSWRFU), received a letter from Reverend Matthew Mullineux asking whether a tour beginning in June 1898 would be possible and welcomed by the Union. This request was discussed in depth by the NSWRFU at their 30 September meeting, and it was decided to extend an invitation with the following stipulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan to tour in 1898\nThe tour was to be under the auspices of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), with the touring team paying for passage to and from Sydney. The NSWRFU would pay for their internal expenses once in Australia. The British team was to receive a percentage of the profits earned by the attendance at each match, but only up to the cost of their travel. Some debate centred about what level of reimbursement would be allowed, they settled on fifty percent after the initial proposal of twenty percent was deemed too low. They specified that a playing squad be made up of twenty-one players inclusive of the tour manager. They would play two games a week while on tour, in New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand. There was also the possibility that the tour would take in Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan to tour in 1898\nThe proposal was sanctioned by the RFU, with the strict stipulation that the tour would take place on a purely amateur basis. It was the plan of Mullineux to fill the team with players from the Universities, but the timing of the tour meant that players would need to leave Britain in early May, when vacation had not yet begun. Due to a lack of time to make the necessary arrangements, the tour for 1898 was subsequently cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan to tour in 1899\nA new invitation was sent from the NSWRFU, for a tour to take place in 1899. The RFU at about the same time, received an invitation from the South African Rugby Football Union, to send a team to tour South Africa in 1899. The RFU wanted confirmation from Mullineux, that a team to tour Australia was for certain able to be formed if the invitation from South Africa was to be turned down. After numerous meetings between the RFU and Mullineux a decision was made in February 1899, to turn down the tour to South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0005-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan to tour in 1899\nA cable message was received in February 1899 by the NSWRFU, that was erroneously construed to mean that the Australian tour had been the tour abandoned, with players preferring to make the tour of South Africa. The NSWRFU having completed all the arrangements for the tour to take place and having rearranged club schedules to accommodate the tour, made enquiries as no official confirmation of the cancellation was received. The misunderstanding was cleared up on 22 February by a message that indicated the tour to Australia was going to proceed. Mullineux stated, there was never any suggestion of abandoning the Australian tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Touring squad selection\nThe makeup of the touring squad was described in the earliest communication of 1897 from Mullineux, as a team made of University students from his school Cambridge, as well as Oxford University, and also of international representatives. Two problems faced Mullineux, the first was that the timing of the tour meant that players would need to leave Britain in early May, when the university vacations had not yet begun. The second was that a long tour would preclude many of the best players from participating due to other commitments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0006-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Touring squad selection\nConsequently, early lists of probable touring players had few players listed that finally made the tour. In the pool of potential players the following were noted: James Byrne, Cecil Boyd, Viv Huzzey, Zimans, Ernest Fookes, Lindsay Watson, M Elliott, Herbert Dudgeon, James Gowans, James Franks, J H Kipling, R Forest, Lawrence Bulger, Timoins, R O Swartz, C B Marston, W Neeks (or Needs), Dr Rowland, J W Gorman, and James Couper. Among these names were several high-profile players that recruitment attempts failed to secure. Byrne declined due to pressure of business, while Ernest Fookes was awaiting a serious medical operation. The final member to join the team was Scottish international Alf Bucher, after failed approaches were made to recruit fellow Scot James Couper and Welsh wing Viv Huzzey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Touring squad selection, Touring party\nThe team consisted of 21 players, nine had international experience, five had played for England, three for Ireland, and one for Scotland and Wales. Commentators thought that the selected team did not fully represent the strength of British rugby, particularly with the absence of James Byrne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Touring squad selection, Touring party\nThe team played in a kit consisting of a jersey with thick blue bands and thinner red and white bands, representing the colours of the Union Jack; with dark blue shorts and blue stockings finished with red and white tops. The team caps were maroon in colour and bore the motif of a kangaroo. Formal dress comprised a navy blazer, with a breast badge that read \"The Anglo-Australian Rugby Football Team\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan for tour to New Zealand\nThe plan to include New Zealand in the British tour was made in the initial correspondence from the NSWRFU to Mullineux in 1897. Since the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) was not in direct negotiations with Mullinuex, they had to work with the NSWRFU to try to negotiate the New Zealand leg of the proposed tour. The NZRU requested from the NSWRFU that they be able to have direct dealings with Mullineux, however this did not eventuate. An extension of the tour to New Zealand, threatened attempts at fielding a strong British representative team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0009-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan for tour to New Zealand\nConsequently, the New Zealand leg of the tour became less likely as the tour for 1899 was negotiated. The NSWRFU limited the length of the tour to eight weeks from June to August, giving the British an option to add two weeks to their playing schedules if they wished to add New Zealand to their tour program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan for tour to New Zealand\nIn addition to the lack of time, Mullineux had expressed to the NSWRFU that he had been led to believe that a tour of New Zealand would not be profitable. The NSWRFU reinforced his beliefs by indicating that the New Zealand union had been unwilling to pay for the travel to and from England, but only the travel to and from Auckland. There was some sentiment expressed that, because the team was not an English, but a British team, the expense to have the touring team visit was not warranted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0010-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan for tour to New Zealand\nThe cost of bringing the British team to New Zealand to play in Otago, Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury was estimated at \u00a3400. In November 1898, it was proposed at a meeting of the NZRU, that the NZRU would pay for the full cost of England's travel to and from New Zealand, and within New Zealand. The sub-unions provided guarantees of a percentage of their gate profits to the NZRU. These terms were subsequently agreed to by the NSWRFU. In April, the lengthening of the tour was refused by the British team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan for tour to New Zealand\nSome hope has still held out for a New Zealand leg of the tour, provided that the NSWRFU cut short the Australian leg of the tour by a week, reducing the number of test matches to three, and cutting country matches, thereby providing time for a short trip to Auckland and Wellington. The NZRU offered only \u00a3250 for the two matches, and not the \u00a3400 plus all expenses that was requested for the two games. Billy Warbrick in a letter to the Referee highlighted the generosity of the NSWRFU offer, as it stood to lose an estimated \u00a31200 from the loss of two major matches in Australia. The British team decided in mid-July to not make the tour of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan for tour to New Zealand\nAs an alternative to touring New Zealand, expectations formed that a match would be played against an Australasian team, consisting of Australian and New Zealand players. There was also the proposal that a match against a New Zealand team would be played in Australia if the British decided not to travel on to New Zealand. Subsequently, the NZRU forbade their players from playing in the matches in Australia. The NSWRFU proposed a date for New Zealand to play in Australia, on 5 August, with a combined Australasian match played a week later on 12 August. This plan was declined by the NZRU, citing the resolutions of the local unions to not send players to Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Plan for tour to New Zealand\nDuring the British tour, proposals were made by players in New Zealand to make a tour of Britain in 1900. This tour did not happen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Voyage and travel\nThe tour party left Charing Cross Station on 9 May 1899; coincidentally the day the Australian cricket team began their 1899 tour of England. There they travelled to France, where they boarded the P&O liner RMS Oceana at the port of Marseilles. The ocean trip to Australia took five weeks travelling via the Red Sea of which the travelling party complained of the heat. The team briefly stopped at Albany, Western Australia in good health, and were met by delegates of the Perth Rugby Union, and the Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0014-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Voyage and travel\nFrom there they completed their voyage, docking at Adelaide on 11 June, where they were met by delegates of the South Australian Football Association, principally J. R. Anderson, and D. T. Lawes, as well as W. A. Rand, the secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union. Rand acted as host and financier accompanying the British team for the duration of the tour. They travelled overland by the express train to Melbourne on 12 June. From Melbourne they continued their journey to Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Voyage and travel\nFor this tour, the Lions wore brought back the white and blue, the blue used in thick hoops and the red and white in thin bands. A modern version of this jersey would be later worn by England in their one-off Test against Australia in Sydney in 1999, played to commemorate the centenary of the Wallabies' first Test, against those early British tourists. For their part, Australia wore a light blue uniform (similar to worn by the Wallabies in that first 1899 Test).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match summary\nThe Australian tour took in 21 matches; four were Test matches against the Australian national team, while the remainder were against regional and invitational teams. The British Isles lost the first Test, but won the last three Tests to take the series 3\u20131. After the first loss to the Australians, team captain Mullineux dropped himself from the team for the rest of the tour, with Frank Stout taking the captain's role for the remaining Tests. The decision by Mullineux to replace his position with Charles Adamson is seen as the tour's turning point, which saw the British team begin to win matches by more convincing margins and eventually control the Tests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match summary\nThe complete list of matches played by the British Isles in Australia is the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Central Southern\nCentral Southern: W Rogan, Chard, McGee (captain), W Hayes, Seaborn, Gillespie, D Ryan, James Pryke, John Pryke, Hampel, Hughes, Rawcliffe, Williams, Muirhead, Kimpton; Replacement: E MillsBritish Isles: Esmond Martelli, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, Frank Stout, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson, Charles Thompson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, New South Wales, 1st Match\nNew South Wales: Frank Row (captain), Lonnie Spragg, Bill Shortland, Charlie White, Iggy O'Donnell, Peter Ward, Arch Boyd, George Wheeler, Norm Street, Alex Kelly, Hyram Marks, Albert Gardiner, Walter Davis, Charlie Ellis, Bill WebbBritish Isles: Esmond Martelli, Alf Bucher, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux (captain), George Cookson, Frank Stout, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Metropolitan, 1st Match\nMetropolitan: James McMahon, Charlie White, Frank Row, Syd Miller, Peter Ward, Iggy O'Donnell, Arch Boyd, James Carson, Bill Webb, Charlie Ellis, Hyram Marks, Walter Davis, Alex Kelly, C Purdue, QuinseyBritish Isles: Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Matthew Mullineux (captain), George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\n1 The try recorded as scored by Colton is often credited to Kelly, as both players, along with Evans jumped on a loose ball over the try line; there is no definitive record if Colton or Kelly were awarded the try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nAustralia: Bob McCowan, Charlie White, Frank Row captain, Lonnie Spragg, William Evans, Peter Ward, Austin Gralton, James Carson, Dooee Tanner, Patrick Carew, Walter Davis, Charlie Ellis, Hyram Marks, Ginger Colton, Alex KellyBritish Isles: Esmond Martelli, Alf Bucher, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Franscombe, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson Touch umpires: Blair Swannell and Billy Warbrick", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0023-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nThe first Test played by Australia was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground under excellent weather conditions. The temperature on the day of the game reached 60\u00a0\u00b0F (16\u00a0\u00b0C), and there was almost no breeze. There was a great deal of interest in the match, with the Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Courier both reporting 30,000 in attendance, and the United Press Association reporting 27,000 in attendance. The attendance was officially recorded as 28,000. Tickets for the game were one shilling for general admission, and two shillings for grand stand seats, while children were admitted at half price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0023-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nIn all the game grossed \u00a31200. A full program of events had been scheduled with a preliminary rugby match played by local teams, Wallaroo, and Randwick at 1:45pm, as well as heats of a one-mile bicycle race by the League of Wheelmen. The final of the bicycle race was scheduled during the half-time break. Special trams had been arranged for the event, with the Tramway Service reporting that every available tram had been used for the extra traffic on the day; fully 131 carloads were conveyed to the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0024-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nIt had been noted in the lead up to the Test that the British team was out of condition. The writer Player in the Brisbane Courier, believed that the first Test was Australia's only chance to beat the British team, as he felt that with the British team's condition improving during the tour, they would be impossible to beat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0024-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nThe British team had been dealing with some illness and injury, necessitating the fielding of a team in the Test that was not their first choice, but in the end identical to the team that played New South Wales the previous weekend. Elliot Nicholson, Alec Timms, and Charles Thompson were all listed as playing, but last minute changes were made. While at a swimming bath, Nicholson injured his foot on a protruding nail, and was unable to play. Bucher played in his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0024-0002", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nTimms did not recover from an injury received in the match at Goulburn in time to make the field. Adamson, was moved from the halves to the three-quarters to fill his place, and in turn Cookson filled the opening in the halves left by Adamson. Martelli, who had injured his thumb in the match against Goulburn, and had taken the field against New South Wales, but had to retire due to injury, recovered in time to play in place of Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0024-0003", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nIt had been feared on the evening before the match, that Gwyn Nicholls had caught influenza and would be incapacitated, but instead was a severe cold. Rev. Mullineux also took to the field with a cold. The British played field of four players, at three-quarters, and two half-backs, that contrasted with the Australian field of only one half-back, two at five-eighth, and three at three-quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0025-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nThe Australian team on the other hand had no such changes, although the inclusion of M'Cowan had been in doubt only a week before the game, due to a strain. The team consisted of six Queensland players, with the balance made up by New South Wales representatives. Selectors chose to keep the New South Wales three-quarter combination of Spragg, Row and White intact. The only noted absences from the team were Tom Pauling and A. J. Lewis, who suffered injuries in the inter-colonial match the week before the Test. Training of the team was supervised by Billy Warbrick. The Australian team wore the blue colours of NSW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0026-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nIn the week preceding the match, Mullineux had requested that a conference be held to review some differences in the interpretation of the rules of the game from how the game was played in Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0027-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nWhile the two teams played an evenly matched game until the British performance, particularly in defence, dropped off towards the later stages. The poor condition of the British team was noticeable, and was attributed as the reason the British lost the game. The writer for the United Press Association was of the opinion that the British performance was somewhat poorer than in the game played against New South Wales the previous weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0027-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test\nThe British did show some deft ball handling skills in the game: The beautiful series of passes which gained the try for the Englishmen was considered as being an excellent object lesson in backing up. Some of the players, without looking where they were throwing the ball, passed simply because they knew their comrades would be in position to receive it. The British were criticised for the slow rate in which they got the ball from the scrum, an area of play, in which Australia excelled. The writer for the Queanbeyan Age, noted that the Australians forwards played too fast for the British. The United Press Association named White and Ward as the outstanding players for Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0028-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, First half\nMullineux having won the coin toss elected to defend the northern end of the field. Gralton opened play with the kick off. Mullineux made a mark in the first minutes of the game, but he kicked poorly. Soon after, a free kick was awarded to the British. The Nicholls kick for touch remained within the field of play and came within five yards of the Australian try line. Doran received and carried the ball in to touch. Another free kick to the British resulted from the line-out. The goal attempt by Martelli was unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0029-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, First half\nPlay continued with both teams attacking the other strongly. Gralton, Ward and Evans for Australia, made good passing combinations on a number of occasions. Cookson and Stout making notable plays for Britain, with Stout showing in one run: a remarkable feint, having to stop almost dead and then wheel round to hoax his opponent. Britain pressured the Australian line, with play coming to within five yards from the try line. Pressure was applied through passing the ball starting from Mullineux, and on to Cookson, Bucher, Nicholls, and Doran who was tackled well by Spragg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0029-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, First half\nA scrum that was formed close to the Australian try line, was won by Australia, and Gralton cleared the ball to mid-field with a kick. Subsequent play shifted the attack to the British half. Here the Gralton, Ward, Evans combination brought Evans close to the British try line. A subsequent scrum yielded the ball to Gralton who forced his way forward, but he lost the ball. and the British cleared the ball to the western sideline. The relief was short lived, as the attack was once again brought against the British in the center of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0029-0002", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, First half\nEvans receiving the ball, made an unsuccessful drop goal attempt sending the ball high and wide of the goal. The ball dropped in front of the British fullback Martelli who overran the ball, having let the ball bounce. Australian players came rushing through and jumped upon the loose ball. The referee awarded the try, against the protests of the British who claimed that Kelly had illegally interfered with Martelli getting to the ball, as well as an off-side by the Australians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0029-0003", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, First half\nThe reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that, From the press table, in the balcony of the members' pavilion, the interference appeared to be simply a jostle but it seemed hard to come to any other conclusion than that Kelly and Colton were off-side. The try scorer is officially recorded as Colton, however Kelly is in other places recorded as the try scorer. The conversion attempt by Spragg was unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0030-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, First half\nThe restart of play was the scene of some amusement to the spectators, with the Australians returning the British drop-out, with a kick for touch. The touch umpire raised his flag, to signal touch had been found near the British 25. However, play continued, and the ball was kicked downfield into the Australians half. Some of the British players expecting play to be halted for a line-out, stood near the touch umpire who continued to hold his flag aloft. Play continued, with the Australians eventually returning play back upfield, and eventually finding touch a few yards from where the touch umpire was still standing with flag raised. The umpire alerted the referee to the earlier touch, but he was over-ruled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0031-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, First half\nIn the following passage of play, the British having been awarded a penalty, kicked for touch, bringing it down into Australians half. Carson who had been performing strongly in the line-outs, won the ball from the British throw-in, allowing Australia to return the ball back to half-way. The British showed some of their strong ball handling skills in the following phases. Ensuing play resulted in a penalty against Australia, which was unsuccessfully kicked for a goal attempt by Martelli. The Australians brought the ball upfield in a strong attack that resulted in the British forcing the ball in goal. The end of the half was called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0032-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, Second half\nStout kicked off for England in the second half and the ball was subsequently returned into touch, near the half way. The first fifteen minutes of the half were characterised as evenly matched, White had a one run, where he successfully fended a couple of tackle attempts and followed on with a kick for touch to bring the ball into the British half. After a number of phases Evans secured the ball, and kicked downfield to Martelli. However, a penalty against Australia allowed the British to relieve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0033-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, Second half\nPlay progressed in neutral territory for a few phases until Mullineux began a series of passes that were praised for the high level of skill shown. The passes went from Mullineux to Cookson, then Francomb, then Doran and on to Nicholls, who was about to cross the touch line only a couple of yards from the try line. In time he blindly passed back, and Adamson, who was in support, received the ball passed on to Nicholls who making it through numerous Australian defenders crossed the line for the try. Martelli missed the conversion attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0034-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, Second half\nThe British in the next passage of play were successful in bringing the ball back into the Australians 25, and were soon awarded a free kick. The attempt at goal was poor, and the Australians cleared the ball far down field. The British punt attempt to return the ball back to the Australians end was poor and was charged down, and with the Carew and Cookson pressing their attack by kicking the ball along the ground found their way to the British 25, where the ball was put into touch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0034-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, Second half\nThe Australians lost the ball in one of the following phases, by way of a Bucher intercept, and had to return to their 25 to defend. A penalty was awarded to the English for off-side play but Martelli's kick for goal was again unsuccessful. Francomb followed the goal kick attempt through, and was narrowly beaten to the ball by Row, who forced it in goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0035-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, Second half\nIn the resumption of play, the ball was returned to the British try line by way of a deep kick by Evans. Martelli carried the ball into touch only a couple of yards from the British try line. Play continued in the British half, with a temporary relief kick being made by Britain. The match was now within the last seven minutes. After a series of scrums, Australia secured possession, and Spragg almost scored in the corner, but it was ruled that he stepped into touch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0035-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, Second half\nIn the following passage of play, Spragg received the ball by way of a scrum win and quick passes, and made a dodgy run to break through the British line and score a try about halfway between the corner and the goal posts. In turn he kicked for the conversion and was successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0036-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, First Test, Second half\nThe Australians received the kick restart, and Carew kicked the ball back into British territory. The Australians forwards coming downfield, overwhelmed Martelli and secured the resulting loose ball. The ball went from Ward, to Evans and on to Spragg, who being blocked by the British Defense, passed the ball back to Evans who crossed the line, running around to score the try under the goal posts. The conversion kick by Spragg, was once again successful. Full -time was called, after the kick was made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0037-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Toowoomba\nToowoomba: Filshie (captain), Phil Thomas, Doyle, Jarro, Redwood, Broadfoot, Allman, Young, Tolmie. Other names not listed. British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Alf Bucher, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, George Cookson, Frank Stout (captain), William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0038-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Queensland\nQueensland: Tanner, Graham, Carew, Austin, Boland, A J Colton, Corfe, T Colton, Gralton, Currie, Kent, Dixon, Evans, Ward, McCowan (captain)British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux (captain), Frank Stout, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0039-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Bundaberg\nBundaberg:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0040-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Rockhampton\nRockhampton:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0041-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Mount Morgan\nBritish Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0042-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Central Queensland\nCentral Queensland:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0043-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Maryborough\nMaryborough:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0044-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Second Test\nAustralia: Bob McCowan captain, Thomas Ward, Albert Henry, SA Spragg, WT Evans, Peter Ward, Ernest Currie, WH Tanner, Charles Graham, PJ Carew, Hyram Marks Charlie Ellis, Arthur Corfe, Robert Challoner, Norm StreetBritish Isles: Charles Thompson, H.G.S. Gray, Alec Timms, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Charlie Adamson, George Cookson, Frank Stout captain, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, Guy Evers, Blair Swanell, William Judkins, Alan Ayre-Smith, George GibsonTouch umpires: John Francomb and E J Beard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0045-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Second Test\nThe second Test was played at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground, in front of 15,000 spectators: a record Queensland crowd for attendance at a rugby match. In addition to the spectators inside the ground, a crowd estimated at approximately 3,000 assembled on the hill overlooking the exhibition grounds on the Fortitude Valley side of Bowen Terrace. Special trains with reduced fairs, and returning in the evening, had been arranged by the Railway Commissioner Gray for the day operating from Maryborough, and Warwick. These trains as well as the regular service trains were filled to capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0045-0001", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Second Test\nPeople came hundreds of miles to see the game: from Longreach, Charleville, Gladstone, and Rockhampton. In attendance was Governor Lamington and Lady Lamington, George Le Hunte the Governor of New Guinea, among other socialites of the day. Tickets to the game were one shilling. Additional entertainment was provided by the Headquarters Band, who were criticised by the writer in the Brisbane Courier for playing their usual playlist, which included La mascotte and Dorothy, and not a fresh repertoire of music. The weather was fine, with a strong, north-east breeze blowing across the field. The temperature on the day rose to 66.6\u00a0\u00b0F (19.2\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0046-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Second Test\nThe Australian team wore the maroon red of Queensland, with a badge of the Australian Coat of Arms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0047-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, New England\nNew England:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0048-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Northern\nNorthern:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0049-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, New South Wales, 2nd Match\nNew South Wales: Frank Row captainBritish Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson|}", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0050-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Metropolitan, 2nd Match\nMetropolitan: Frank Row captainBritish Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0051-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Third Test\nAustralia: Wally Cobb, Syd Miller, Frank Row captain, SA Spragg, PM Ward, Iggy O'Donnell, Arch Boyd, Bill Webb, George Bouffler, PJ Carew, W Davis, CS Ellis, Roger Barton, AJ Colton, Sine BolandBritish Isles: Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Gwyn Nicholls, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, George Cookson, Frank Stout captain, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, Guy Evers, Blair Swanell, William Judkins, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0052-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Western Districts\nWestern Districts:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0053-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Fourth Test\nAustralia: Wally Cobb, Bob McCowan, Frank Row captain, Lonnie Spragg, PM Ward, Iggy O'Donnell, Austin Gralton, W Webb, Jack O'Donnell, Patrick Carew, W Davis, Charlie Ellis, Bill Hardcastle, Jum Sampson, Sine BolandBritish Isles: Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Gwyn Nicholls, Elliot Nicholson, Charles Adamson, George Cookson, Frank Stout captain, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, Guy Evers, Blair Swanell, William Judkins, Ayer Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0054-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Combined Great Public Schools\nCombined Great Public Schools:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031926-0055-0000", "contents": "1899 British Lions tour to Australia, Match details, Victoria\nVictoria:British Isles: Esmond Martelli, Charles Thompson, Alf Bucher, Alec Timms, Elliot Nicholson, Charlie Adamson, Gwyn Nicholls, Gerry Doran, Matthew Mullineux captain, George Cookson, Frank Stout, William Judkins, Guy Evers, Wallace Jarman, Tom McGown, John Francomb, Blair Swannell, H.G.S. Gray, Frederick Belson, Alan Ayre-Smith, George Gibson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1899 Brooklyn Superbas season was the 16th season of the current-day Dodgers franchise and the 9th season in the National League. The team won the National League pennant with a record of 101\u201347, 8 games ahead of the Boston Beaneaters, after finishing tenth in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season, Offseason\nThe 1899 season began with the Brooklyn team and the Baltimore Orioles merging their ownership groups. Baltimore owner Harry Von der Horst and Ned Hanlon became part owners of Brooklyn. Von der Horst insisted that Hanlon become the team's new manager, a position that had been promised to outfielder Mike Griffin, who had been interim manager the previous year. Griffin quit and wound up suing the team for lost wages. His contract was sold to the Cleveland Spiders, but Griffin never played or managed in the majors again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season, Offseason\nRenamed the Superbas as part of the deal, the team also siphoned off several of the Orioles' best players. On March 11, the team brought Bill Dahlen, Mike Heydon, Jay Hughes, Hughie Jennings, Willie Keeler, Joe Kelley, Al Maul, Dan McGann and Doc McJames onto their roster from Baltimore, while assigning Harry Howell, Candy LaChance, Kit McKenna, Ralph Miller, Jack Ryan, Jimmy Sheckard and Aleck Smith to the Orioles. This influx of talent was a good part of the reason why the Superbas won the National League pennant with 101 wins after winning just 54 games in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031927-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031928-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1899 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031929-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Buchtel football team\nThe 1899 Buchtel football team represented Buchtel College in the 1899 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Archie Eves, in his only season. Buchtel outscored their opponents by a total of 26\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031930-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Buffalo football team\nThe 1899 Buffalo football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 1899 college football season. Under head coach Bemus Pierce, the team finished the season a perfect 6\u20130 against collegiate foes and 7\u20131 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031930-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Buffalo football team\nNo collegiate team was able to score on them the entire year. The Buffalo offense scored 177 points while the defense allowed 52 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031931-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Bulgarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 25 April 1899. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 89 of the 169 seats. Voter turnout was 49.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season\nThe 1899 CAHL season was the inaugural season of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League. Teams played an eight-game schedule. The Montreal Shamrocks were the league champion with a record of seven wins and one loss. Both the Shamrocks and the Montreal Victorias won Stanley Cup challenges to retain the Stanley Cup for the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe January 26 game between Montreal and Quebec was protested because it was alleged that the referee, Fred Chittick, Ottawa's goalkeeper, was drunk. The game was rescheduled for February 14, to be played in Ottawa, but in the end, Quebec declined to play the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nOn February 4, when Shamrocks defeated Quebec at Montreal by a score of 13\u20134, Harry Trihey scored 10 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe Victorias defeated Ottawa at Montreal on February 11, by a score of 16\u20130. Fred Chittick attempted to score by himself, rushing the length of the ice from his net, without success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe race for the championship was decided on March 1 when Shamrocks defeated the Victorias 1\u20130. Eight thousand people are recorded as being in attendance, thousands of dollars was wagered and Harry Trihey of Shamrocks scored the deciding goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nAfter losing their first six matches, Quebec withdrew from the rest of the schedule, forfeiting their last two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Season, Exhibitions\nDuring the season, the Shamrocks travelled to New York City to play two games against the New York Hockey Club. After the season, the Shamrocks travelled to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to play exhibitions. On March 7, the Shamrocks played the Halifax Crescents to a 1\u20131 draw, and on March 9, defeated the Crescents 4\u20132. On March 10, the Shamrocks played the Saint John Mohawks in Saint John, New Brunswick, defeating the Mohawks by a 5\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Season, Exhibitions\nThe Victorias travelled to New York City to play the Brooklyn Skating Club. The Victorias defeated Brooklyn 5\u20132 on March 10 at St. Nicholas Rink. The Shamrocks, after the Cup challenge of Queen's, travelled to New York. On March 16, the Shamrocks defeated the All-New-York team 5\u20132. The Shamrocks then played Brooklyn on March 18, winning over Brooklyn 9\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Victorias vs. Winnipeg\nMontreal received another challenge from the MHA's Winnipeg Victorias. This time, it was decided that they would play a two-game total goals series in February 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Victorias vs. Winnipeg\nThe first game was won by Montreal 2\u20131. Winnipeg's captain Dan Bain injured his eye and did not play in the second game due to hemorrhaging behind the eye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Victorias vs. Winnipeg\nThe second game ended in controversy. With Montreal leading the game 3\u20132 with about 12 minutes left in the game, Montreal's Bob MacDougall violently slashed Winnipeg's Tony Gingras. As Gingras was carried off the ice, referee Bill Findlay only called Macdougall for a two-minute minor. Angry that he should have been accessed a larger penalty, Winnipeg went into their dressing room in protest. Insulted, Findlay abruptly went home, but returned after officials followed him on a sleigh and persuaded him to return. Once back at the rink, the referee gave Winnipeg 15 minutes to return to the ice themselves. They refused and thus Findlay disqualified the team and declared Montreal the winners. 4,000 were attending the Winnipeg Auditorium rink to hear returns of the game by telegraph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Victorias vs. Winnipeg\nThe Stanley Cup passed from the Montreal Victorias to the Montreal Shamrocks as champions of the league March 4, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Shamrocks vs. Queens\nThe Shamrocks defended the trophy against Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario. The game was played half under Ontario rules and half under CAHL rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Montreal refused to continue with 12 minutes to play. Game was to be replayed on February 14, but Quebec declined and the game was defaulted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engravings, Players\n^ Unknown who played Center, Rover, Right Wing and Left Wing, so the players are listed as forwards", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engravings, Players\n^ Unknown who played Center, Right Wing and Left Wing, so the players are listed as forwards", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031932-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engravings, Players\n\u2020 only the trainers were included on the team picture, these are the other official non-players with Montreal Shamrocks in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031933-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1899 Calgary municipal election took place on December 11, 1899 to elect a Mayor to sit on the sixteenth Calgary City Council from January 2, 1900 to January 7, 1901. All Aldermen candidates for council were acclaimed, and there was only a contest for the position of Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031934-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1899 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1899 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Garrett Cochran and compiled a record of 7\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031934-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 California Golden Bears football team\nFor just the second time in history, an eastern team traveled to the Pacific coast. Carlisle defeated California by a score of 2\u20130. The news reported the contest as the first matchup of East and West, but was pre-dated by the 1894 Chicago vs. Stanford football game. Like the Chicago vs. Stanford game before it, the Carlisle vs. California game foreshadows the first bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1899 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1899 college football season. The Indians were coached by Pop Warner in his 1st year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 9\u20132 and outscored opponents 383 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\nFrank Hudson was the quarterback and drop-kicker for the 1899 Carlisle Indian team. In a 22\u201310 loss to Harvard, Hudson's kicking was again a featured attraction. The New York Times reported: \"And now came the feature of the game, for which everybody had been waiting. The Indians advanced the ball to Harvard's thirty-five-yard line, when Hudson dropped back for a goal from the field. A second later and the pigskin went straight through the goal posts, and everybody was digging his neighbors' ribs and saying, 'I told you so.'\" For the first time, Carlisle defeated one of the \"Big Four\" of college football, defeating Penn by a score of 16 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1899 Carlisle team drew further acclaim after defeating Columbia, 45\u20130, in a Thanksgiving Day game played at Manhattan Field near the Polo Grounds in New York. Hudson drop-kicked four goals from touchdown and one field goal in the victory over Columbia. The New York Times cited Hudson's use of the drop kick technique as one of the features of the game:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\n\"The other novelty was the way in which Hudson kicked goals. Instead of making a kick from a placed ball held by one of his eleven he chose to make all his tries for a goal by a drop kick, and he succeeded in most of his efforts. It was a new feature for a match game, though frequently tried in practice.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\nWith 10,000 fans in attendance, Isaac Seneca was the star of the game, having two runs of 30 yards and another of 40 yards. A press account of the game said: \"The Indians were in prime physical condition and bore through the Columbia line and skirted the ends at will. At least eight times the Carlisle backs got around the ends for runs of thirty to sixty yards. Most of these runs were made by Seneca and Miller.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\nFor just the second time in history, an eastern team traveled to the Pacific coast. Carlisle defeated the California on December 25 in San Francisco by a score of 2\u20130. The news reported the contest as the first matchup of East and West, but was pre-dated by the 1894 Chicago vs. Stanford football game. Like the Chicago vs. Stanford game before it, the Carlisle vs. California game foreshadows the first bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\nAt the end of the 1899 season, Seneca was elected as captain of the 1900 team, though he opted to play professional football rather than return in 1900. Seneca was also honored by being named a first team All-American\u2014the first Carlisle player and the first American Indian to be so honored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031935-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Carlisle Indians football team\nWith its only two losses having come to Harvard and Princeton (ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the country), the 1899 Carlisle team was ranked No. 4 in the country by Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane\nThe 1899 Carrabelle hurricane caused significant damage in the Dominican Republic and the Florida Panhandle. The second tropical cyclone and second hurricane of the 1899 Atlantic hurricane season, the storm was first observed south of the Dominican Republic on July\u00a028, 1899. Shortly thereafter, it made landfall in Azua Province, Dominican Republic with an intensity equivalent to a Category\u00a01 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. Early on July\u00a029, the system weakened to a tropical storm, shortly before emerging into the Atlantic Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0000-0001", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane\nIt then moved west-northwestward and remained at the same intensity for the next 24\u00a0hours. The storm made landfall near Islamorada, Florida on July\u00a030. It then brushed Southwest Florida before emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. The storm began to re-intensify on July\u00a031 and became a hurricane later that day. Early on August\u00a01, it peaked with winds of 100\u00a0mph (155\u00a0km/h), several hours before making landfall near Apalachicola, Florida at the same intensity. The storm quickly weakened inland and dissipated over Alabama on August\u00a02.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane\nIn the Dominican Republic, three large schooners were wrecked at Santo Domingo; only one crew member on the three vessels survived. \"Great\" damage was reported along coastal sections of the country while a loss of telegraph service impacted most of interior areas. In Florida, damage in the city of Carrabelle was extensive, where only nine houses remained. Losses in the city reached approximately $100,000 (1899\u00a0USD). At least 57\u00a0shipping vessels were destroyed; damage from these ships collectively totaled about $375,000. Additionally, 13\u00a0lumber vessels were beached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0001-0001", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane\nMany boats at the harbor and the wharfs in Lanark were wrecked; large portions of stores and pavilions in the city were damaged. The towns of Curtis Mill and McIntyre were completely destroyed, while the resort city of St. Teresa suffered significant damage. Overall, seven deaths were confirmed in Florida and losses in the state reached at least $1\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Meteorological history\nA \"violent hurricane\" was first observed near the south coast of Hispaniola at 1200\u00a0UTC on July\u00a027. Within the next six hours, the storm made landfall in Azua Province, Dominican Republic with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) \u2013 equivalent to a Category\u00a01 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. Early on July\u00a028, it weakened to tropical storm while moving northwestward across northern Haiti. A few hours later, the storm emerged into the Atlantic near Port-de-Paix. The system maintained intensity for over 24\u00a0hours as it moved northwestward and parallel to the north coast of Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Meteorological history\nAt 1000\u00a0UTC on July\u00a030, the storm made landfall in Islamorada, Florida on Upper Matecumbe Key with winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h). It weakened slightly and then moved just offshore or struck the mainland portion of Monroe County, Florida. Early on July\u00a031, the storm began to re-strengthen while entering the eastern Gulf of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Meteorological history\nHURDAT \u2013 the North Atlantic hurricane database \u2013 indicated that the system re-intensified into a hurricane at 1200\u00a0UTC on July\u00a031. Further deepening occurred, with the storm becoming a Category\u00a02 hurricane early on August\u00a01. Later that day, the hurricane made landfall between Carrabelle and Eastpoint, Florida with winds of 100\u00a0mph (155\u00a0km/h). Reports at landfall indicate that the storm was small, spanning a diameter of only 40 miles (64\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Meteorological history\nAt 1800\u00a0UTC on August\u00a01 \u2013 about an hour after it moved inland \u2013 a weather station measured the storm's minimum barometric pressure of 979\u00a0mbar (28.9\u00a0inHg). Early on August\u00a02, it weakened to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression several hours later. Shortly thereafter, it dissipating over southern Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Impact\nNews reports indicate that a \"violent\" hurricane struck the Dominican Republic on July\u00a028. Three large schooners were wrecked at Santo Domingo; only one crew member on the three vessels survived. \"Great\" damage was reported along coastal sections of the country, while a loss of telegraph service impacted most of interior areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Impact\nDue to \"somewhat threatening\" weather conditions on July\u00a030 and July\u00a031, advisories were issued to stations across Florida, warning of the potential for strong winds. As a result, 40\u00a0vessels, coasting schooners, and spongers remained at port in Cedar Key. According to the displayman at Cedar Key, \"they [the ships and sailors] would have sailed and some would have been lost\" had they not received warnings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Impact\nAt the time of the storm, it was described as \"the most disastrous cyclone that ever visited this section of Florida\". Losses from the storm in Florida reached at least $1\u00a0million. The city of Carrabelle was devastated as only nine houses in the city remained. According to the mayor, about 200\u00a0families were left homeless. The New York Times stated that, \"Carrabelle is literally wiped from the map.\" Losses in the city reached approximately $100,000. One fatality occurred in Carrabelle when a house collapsed on a woman; numerous other people in the area sustained injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0006-0001", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Impact\nAt least 57\u00a0shipping vessels were destroyed, including 14\u00a0barques, 40\u00a0small boats, and 3\u00a0pilot boats. Losses for these ships collectively totaled about $375,000. At the Chattahoochee, then known as River Junction, a mass meeting of citizens was held on August\u00a04 to collect money for the victims of the storm in Carrabelle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031936-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Carrabelle hurricane, Impact\nAdditionally, 13\u00a0lumber vessels were beached. A 30-mile (48\u00a0km) portion of the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad was washed away. A passenger train was blown over 100\u00a0yards from the track, injuring many passengers. Many boats at the harbor and the wharfs in Lanark were wrecked. The local summer resort of Lanark Inn was blown into the Gulf of Mexico. Large portions of stores and pavilions in the city were damaged. At McIntyre, virtually the entire town was destroyed, except for only two mill boilers. The city of Curtis Mill was completely destroyed. Additionally, the resort city of St. Teresa suffered significant damage. A total of fifteen ships either destroyed or beached at Dog Island, including the Benjamin C. Cromwell and James A. Garfield. At least 15\u00a0people were reported missing. Six drowning deaths were confirmed in association with this storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 907]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031937-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1899 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1899 college football season. Under head coach Carl Pray, the Normalites compiled a 3\u20132 record, and outscored their opponents by a total of 35 to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake\nOn 30 September 1899 the island of Ceram, Dutch Indies, was struck by an Ms = 7.8 earthquake, which was accompanied by a 10-metre tsunami. According to the Batavian Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, the shock occurred at 01:42.2 hours, Amahei local time. Dr. R. D. M. Verbeek's study about the quake and its effects was published in his Short Report about the earth- and sea-quake in Ceram, the 30th September 1899, and is the only extensive source on the Ceram earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Earthquake and tsunamis\nThe Ceram earthquake is ranked among the tectonic quakes. The epicenter of the quake is shown in Figure 1. From there the quake spread in all directions. The most forceful spread went west and east, presumably through an old crack or tear in the Earth's crust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Earthquake and tsunamis\nThe 1899 Ceram earthquake had nothing to do with the 1898 Ambon earthquake. The first-mentioned took place along one of the many concentric cracks, the latter one took place along a radial crack. The earthquake was especially heavy in the Elpaputih-bay. Presumably because, as calculations suggest, the epicenter of the shock was located in the mountains west of the bay. These calculations were confirmed by visual inspection of the mountain rocks, which showed signs of fracture and breaking due to the quake. The earthquake itself would not have been responsible for a lot of damage, were it not that the several parts of the shore broke off due to the quake and fell into the sea, creating a severe tsunami that flooded the shores and the nearby located villages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Effects\nThe devastating tsunami took 3,864 lives and swept away several villages completely. The areas that were struck hardest were all located on, or near, the Ceram fracture line and included Hatusua (Piru-bay area), Paulohy-Samasuru and Makariki (Elpaputih-bay area), Tehoru, Wolu and Laimu (Taluti-bay area).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Effects, Piru-bay area\nOnly the east side suffered damage from a single-wave tsunami which destroyed the entire Hatusua village. A 2.4-meter wave, that went landinward 203 meters, swept away the village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Effects, Elpaputih-bay area\nLike at Piru-bay, the most severe damage was suffered on the east-side of the bay (Paulohy-Samasuru and Mani were the only west-side villages that were struck). Here, the shore broke off, creating a 9-meter wave flooding land inward for 170 m. 2400 people's lives were taken by the tsunami in this area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Effects, Taluti-bay area\nHere, the west side of the bay suffered the greatest impact. At the Tehoru shore, a 'land-sliding' occurred, which created a flood that flooded the entire Tehoru village as well as parts of the nearby Wolu and Laimu villages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Dr. R. D. M. Verbeek's study\nRogier Verbeek was a Dutch geologist and natural scientist, located in the Dutch Indies due to his work for the Royal Dutch Geography Society. Therefore, his work is part of a broader scholarly effort to get a better understanding of the geography of the Dutch colonies. In that time, the focus was mainly on the micro-geography of certain Dutch areas. This case study tries to give an overview of the cause and impact of the 1899 earthquake and tsunami, indexing the specifics of the natural disaster for the entire Ceram area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031938-0007-0001", "contents": "1899 Ceram earthquake, Dr. R. D. M. Verbeek's study\nHowever, Verbeek's presence in the Dutch Indies was not merely scholarly in nature. There was also an imperialistic incentive to have Dutch scholars located in Dutch colonies. As the first president of the Royal Dutch Geography Society, P.J. Veth, stated, it was also a matter of pursuing and maintaining the Dutch glory, in a cultural-nationalistic sense. Dutch scholarly presence in the Indies was therefore not merely scientific, but also part of a colonial effort based on the idea of a 'Greater Holland'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031939-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Challenge Cup\nThe 1899 Challenge Cup was the 3rd staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031939-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Oldham and Hunslet at Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031939-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Challenge Cup\nThe final was played on Saturday 29 April 1899, where Oldham beat Hunslet 19-9 at Fallowfield Stadium in front of a crowd of 15,763. The cup was presented by Mrs Burnley, wife of the President of the Northern Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1899 Chicago Maroons football team represented the University of Chicago during the 1899 college football season and won the Western Conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team\nIn their eighth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 16\u20130\u20132 overall record, which included four practice games against high school football teams. In intercollegiate games, the Maroons compiled a 12\u20130\u20132 record and a 4\u20130 record against Western Conference opponents. The only two blemishes were tie games with Iowa and Penn. The Maroons shut out 13 opponents, scored 505 points (28.1 points per game), and allowed only 28 points on defense (1.6 points per game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe Maroons played their first 17 games at home on Marshall Field in Chicago. The final game of the season was a post-season match against Wisconsin at Randall Field in Madison, Wisconsin. Chicago defeated Wisconsin by a 17\u20130 score to claim the undisputed championship of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Games 1-4: Practice games against high schools\nChicago opened its 1899 season with four practice matches against high school teams, all played at Chicago's Marshall Field. The Maroons won all four games by a combined score of 98 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 98], "content_span": [99, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 5: Knox\nOn September 23, 1899, Chicago opened its intercollegiate football season with a 40\u20130 victory over the team from Knox College. The game began at 3:45\u00a0p.m. and was played at Marshall Field in halves of 25 and 20 minutes. Henry scored three touchdowns, and Slaker, Hamill, Wellington, and Feil scored one touchdown each. Kennedy kicked five goals from touchdown. Hamill's touchdown was scored on a run of 102 yards, the longest run in Marshall Field history to that point. Chicago's lineup against Knox was Rich (left end), Wellington and Sheldon (left tackle), Feil (left guard), C. Webb (center), Cooke (right guard), J. Webb (right tackle), Cassels (right end), Kennedy (quarterback), Hamill and Horton (left halfback), Henry (right halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 6: Physicians & Surgeons\nOn September 30, 1899, Chicago defeated the team from the College of Physicians & Surgeons by a 12\u20130 score. The game was played in 25-minute halves at Marshall Field. Slaker and Hamill each scored a touchdown, and Kennedy kicked two goals from touchdown. Henry and two Physicians & Surgeons players were ejected from the game for unnecessary roughness. Chicago's lineup against the Physicians & Surgeons was Cassels (left end), Webb (left tackle), Ervin and Ahlswede (left guard), Speed (center), Cooke and Feil (right guard), Wellington (right tackle), Kennedy (quarterback), Hamill (right halfback), Henry (left halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 7: Notre Dame\nOn October 4, 1899, Chicago played a midweek game against Notre Dame. The Maroons won by a 23\u20136 score at Marshall Field. Slaker and Hamill scored two touchdowns each for Chicago, and Kennedy kicked three goals from touchdown. Hamill's play was reported to be \"the feature of the game\" as he twice had runs of over 100 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0006-0001", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 7: Notre Dame\nChicago's starting lineup against Notre Dame was Sheldon, Rich and Place (left end), Wellington (left tackle), Ahlswede and Cook (left guard), Speed and C. Webb (center), Feil and Erwin (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassels (right end), Kennedy and Henry (quarterback), Hamill (right halfback), Henry and Horton (left halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 8: Iowa\nOn October 7, 1899, Chicago played to a 5\u20135 tie against Iowa that finished the season undefeated with an 8\u20130\u20131 record. The Chicago Sunday Tribune called it \"one of the finest exhibitions of defensive football seen in a long time,\" as the Maroons twice held the Hawkeyes on drives that penetrated inside the Chicago five-yard line. Chicago, playing without its captain Kennedy, was unable to score a touchdown and tallied its five points on a field goal by Henry. Chicago's lineup against Iowa was Sheldon (left end), Wellington (left tackle), Flannagan and Feil (left guard), Speed (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassells (right end), Holste (quarterback), Hamill (right halfback), Henry (left halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 9: Dixon\nOn October 11, 1889, Chicago played a midweek game against the team from Dixon College and Normal School in Dixon, Illinois. The Maroons won the game, played in 25-minute halves, by a 29\u20130 score at Marshall Field. Chicago played mostly substitutes in the game. Ervin at fullback scored two touchdowns, while Ahlswede and Rich each scored once. Henry kicked four goals from touchdown and one field goal. Chicago's lineup against Dixon was Sheldon and Holste (left end), Feil (left tackle), Flannagan (left guard), Speed and C. Webb (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Cook (right tackle), Rich (right end), Henry (quarterback), Place (right halfback), Horton and Lewis (left halfback), Ervin (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 10: Cornell\nOn October 14, 1899, Chicago defeated Cornell by a 17\u20136 score. The game was played at Marshall Field to a crowd of 6,000 persons. One Chicago newspaper account called the game \"a triumph of the West over the East; a demonstration of the effectiveness of the style of football played in this section of the country.\" Slaker scored two touchdowns for Chicago, and Wellington scored another. Henry kicked two goals from touchdown. Raymond Starbuck scored a touchdown for Cornell. Chicago's lineup against Cornell was Sheldon (left end), Webb (left tackle), Flannagan (left guard), Speed (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Feil (right tackle), Cassels (right end), Henry (quarterback), Wellington (left halfback), Hamill (right halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin\nOn October 21, 1899, Chicago defeated Oberlin by a 58\u20130 score. The game was played at Marshall Field to a crowd of 2,500 persons. Of the 58 points scored, 53 were scored in the first half. In the second half, the Maroons made liberal use of substitutes and scored only five points. Chicago touchdowns were scored by Slaker (1), Hamill (3), Henry (2), Wellington (1), Sheldon (1), and Ahlswede (1). Henry kicked eight goals from touchdown and one field goal. Chicago's lineup against Oberlin was Sheldon (left end), Feil (left tackle), Flannagan (left guard), Speed (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassels and Rich (right end), Henry and Holste (quarterback), Hamill (right halfback), Wellington and Snyder (left halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 12: Penn\nOn October 28, 1899, Chicago played Penn to a 5\u20135 tie before a crowd of 8,000 persons at Marshall Field. The Penn team that traveled to Chicago was one of the Big Four teams from the East with a lineup that included four first-team All-Americans: quarterback John H. Outland [namesake of the Outland Trophy], center Pete Overfield, halfback Josiah McCracken, and guard Truxtun Hare. Each team scored a touchdown, Davidson for Penn and Wellington scoring late in the second half for Chicago. Henry missed a kick for goal from touchdown that would have given Chicago a victory. Chicago gained twice as many yards as Penn and twice had drives stopped inside Penn's three-yard line. Kennedy missed two attempts at field goals from placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 12: Penn\nThe game was reportedly marred only by \"incessant coaching\" from the Penn sideline; the conduct was met with \"hissing\" from the crowd. On one occasion the umpire had to chase an old Penn player off the field, and on another occasion, one of the Quakers was taken from the field by a police officer. After the game, the umpire declared the actions of the Penn coaches to be \"ungentlemanly.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 12: Penn\nDespite the controversy over coaching, press accounts referenced the game as a spectacle. The Times of Philadelphia proclaimed: \"Never has Marshall Field been the scene of a more bitter struggle; never have two athletic forces contended with more heroic courage in the Western metropolis, and never a greater foot-ball battle witnessed in the West than today's Pennsylvania-Chicago game.\" The Sunday Inter Ocean reported: \"Never before has such an exciting game of football been played in Chicago. Never before has a crowd of spectators on Marshall field been wrought up to such a pitch of mad enthusiasm.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 12: Penn\nChicago's lineup against Penn was Henry (left end), Feil (left tackle), Flannagan (left guard), Speed (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassels (right end), Kennedy (quarterback), Wellington (left halfback), Hamill (right halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 13: Purdue\nOn November 4, 1899, Chicago defeated Purdue by a 44\u20130 score. The game was played at Marshall Field before a crowd of 2,500 persons. The Chicago Sunday Tribune described right halfback Ralph Hamill as the star of the game, reporting that he scored four touchdowns (the Sunday Inter Ocean reported he scored five) and \"raced up and down the field for touchdowns and long gains continually\", including a run of 65 yards. Feil also scored two touchdowns, and Henry scored one. Kennedy converted on four of seven goals after touchdown. Chicago's lineup against Purdue was Henry and Sheldon (left end), Feil (left tackle), Flannagan and Ervin (left guard), Speed and Webb (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassells and Rich (right end), Kennedy (quarterback), Eldredge and Henry (left halfback), Hamill (right halfback), and Snyder (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 927]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 14: Northwestern\nOn November 11, 1899, Chicago defeated Northwestern by a 76\u20130 score. The game was played before a crowd of almost 3,000 persons at Marshall Field. Slaker scored six touchdowns for Chicago, while Webb and Henry scored two each, and Feil, Hamill, and Ahlswede each scored once. Kennedy converted 11 goals from touchdown. The lineup for Chicago was Eldredge, Schmahl and Sheldon (left end), Feil (left tackle), Ervin (left guard), Speed (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassels (right end), Kennedy (quarterback), Hamill (right halfback), Henry (left halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 15: Beloit\nOn November 18, 1899, Chicago defeated the team from Beloit College by a 35\u20130 score. The game was played in halves of 20 and 25 minutes before a crowd of 2,000 persons at Marshall Field. Right halfback Hamill scored three touchdowns, fullback Frank Slaker scored two touchdowns, and quarterback Kennedy scored five goals from touchdown. Chicago's lineup against Beloit was Sheldon (left end), Feil and McNab (left tackle), Flanagan (left guard), Ahlswede (center), Ervin (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassells (right end), Kennedy (quarterback), Eldredge and Place (left halfback), Hamill (right halfback), and Slaker and Snyder (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 16: Minnesota\nOn November 25, 1899, Chicago played Minnesota at Marshall Field in Chicago before a crowd of 8,000 persons. The game was played in 35-minute halves. Chicago won by a 29-0 score. Chicago's touchdowns (four points each) were scored by Slaker, Cassells, Feil, Place and Hamill. Goals after touchdown were completed by Kennedy (1) and Henry (3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 17: Brown\nOn Thanksgiving Day, November 30, 1899, Chicago concluded its regular season schedule with a victory over Brown by a 17\u20136 score in front of a crowd of 10,000 persons at Marshall Field in Chicago. The game began shortly after 2:30\u00a0p.m. and was played in halves of 35 and 30 minutes, the second half having been shortened due to darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0019-0001", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 17: Brown\nThe Daily Inter Ocean described the game as the \"leading social function of the day\" with the field a \"bedlam of noise\" and Chicago co-eds \"out in force with large bows of maroon ribbon dangling from their umbrellas and barrytone tin horns.\" University of Chicago President William Rainey Harper was seated in a central box in the front row and \"showed an intense interest in the game.\" Chicago scored all 17 of its points in the first half, while Brown did not score until late in the second half as darkness began to fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0019-0002", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 17: Brown\nFrank Slaker scored two touchdowns for eight Chicago points, and James Henry kicked a field goal and two goals after touchdown for nine Chicago points. Right halfback Richardson scored all six of Brown's points on a touchdown and goal from touchdown. Guard Frederick Feil was called the \"particular star\" for Chicago, as he broke out of the pile for long gains on multiple occasions. Chicago's lineup against Brown was Sheldon (left end), Feil (left tackle), Ervin and Flannagan (left guard), Speed (center), Ahlswede (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Cassels (right end), Holste and Henry (quarterback) Henry and Eldredge (left halfback), Eldredge and Place (right halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Season summary, Game 18: at Wisconsin\nOn December 9, 1899, Chicago traveled to Madison, Wisconsin, to play a post-season game against the Wisconsin Badgers for the championship of the Western Conference. The Wisconsin team featured Eddie Cochems at left end, Pat O'Dea at fullback, and Arthur Hale Curtis at right tackle. The game was played in halves of 35 minutes at Randall Field before 8,000 Wisconsin students and locals with 1,000 Chicago supporters in the east bleachers. Chicago won the game by a 17\u20130 score. Slaker scored two touchdowns for Chicago, Feil scored one. Henry kicked two goals from touchdown. Chicago's lineup against Wisconsin was Sheldon (left end), Lerum and Feil (left tackle), Ahlswede (left guard), Speed (center), Flannagan (right guard), Webb (right tackle), Eldredge (right end), Kennedy (quarterback), Henry (left halfback), Hamill (right halfback), and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 73], "content_span": [74, 940]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031940-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Maroons football team, Players, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 17 players won varsity letters for their participation on the 1899 Chicago football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031941-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Orphans season\nThe 1899 Chicago Orphans season was the 28th season of the Chicago Orphans franchise, the 24th in the National League and the 7th at West Side Park. The Orphans finished eighth in the National League with a record of 75\u201373.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031941-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031941-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031941-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031942-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1899 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team was an American football team that represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago in the 1899 college football season. The Surgeons compiled a 4\u20131 record, and outscored their opponents 112 to 12. This would be the last winning season in the college's history, as they would amass an abysmal 1\u201324 record over the next eight seasons until their disbandment in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1899, Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was reelected, winning a plurality of the vote and defeating Republican candidate Zina R. Carter, former Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld, as well as several minor candidates by a double-digit margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Carter Harrison and John Peter Altgeld\nCarter Harrison had been elected mayor in 1897. Harrison immediately became a major player in state and local politics, particularly within the Democratic Party. Like his father had attempted to before him, Harrison sought to create his own united party organization. He used patronage to his advantage. Many of his political allies were notorious and seedy figures such as \"Bathhouse\" John Coughlin and Michael \"Hinky Dink\" Kenna, both members of the so-called Gray Wolves. Harrison quickly had attracted the scorn of the city's proclaimed reformers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Carter Harrison and John Peter Altgeld\nHarrison's aspirations of power in the Democratic Party came in to conflict with former Governor John Peter Altgeld. Despite having lost his bid for reelection as governor in November 1896, Altgeld was a prominent national political figure, and had, since early 1896, held fragile control over Illinois' Democratic Party. Altgeld had been the most prominent Democrat in the state, and had strong advocacy of free silver and a obtained a pro-labor record as during his governorship. Altgeld held control over the state's Democratic Central Committee, and the committee's chair James Orr was largely a puppet of his.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Carter Harrison and John Peter Altgeld\nAltgeld also was supported by reformist Chicagoans, such as Clarence S. Darrow, Murray F. Tuley, and Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne. Altgeld also had loyal support from many labor leaders and Chicago politicians. As leader of the Illinois Democratic Party he had selected Harrison in 1897 to be the party-backed candidate for mayor. However, a divide between them arose shortly afterwards. Like Harrison, Altgeld also aspired to create a unified Democratic organization of his own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0002-0002", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Carter Harrison and John Peter Altgeld\nThus, the two politicians became the heads of rival factions, not initially centered around ideology (each were pro-silver and had supported William Jennings Bryan), but rather centered around each of them as political personalities, and their quest for political power. The personal divide between the two was exacerbated by disagreements about the traction debate and whether or not municipal ownership was the solution to it. However, for a while both were able to keep their feelings about each other private.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0002-0003", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Carter Harrison and John Peter Altgeld\nHarrison further upset Altgeld by, at the request of Tammany Hall, campaigning for the Democratic mayoral nominee in the 1898 New York City mayoral election, who was running against Altgeld's longtime friend Henry George. Their discontent with each other became public during an early 1898 dispute over when to schedule the state Democratic convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Carter Harrison and John Peter Altgeld\nIn March 1898, Harrison's allies, through ward-level victories in Chicago, gained control of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee. Harrison also, soon after, announced that he had negotiated a formal alliance with Tammany Hall leader Richard Corker, much to the preterition of Altgeld's wing of the party. In response, Altgeld would imply that Harrison was abandoning the cause of free silver (Tammany Hall had notably opposed it during the 1896 election cycle).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Carter Harrison and John Peter Altgeld\nAnother dispute that would arise between the two was over the election of the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party. Harrison backed incumbent Thomas Gahan, while Altgeld, seeing an opportunity to undermine Harrison, backed Timothy Ryan's candidacy. Gahan would ultimately win a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 81], "content_span": [82, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Background, Preceding 1898 elections\nIn 1898, Republicans swept both the Illinois state and Cook County elections. Republicans had been riding high off of the popularity that Republican President William McKinley, who was the beneficiary of public support following the nation's victory in the Spanish\u2013American War. The only redeeming sign for Democrats was that, despite Republicans retaining control of the Illinois General Assembly, the Democrats had slightly increased their seat share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nA primary was held in March to elect delegates to the city's Democratic convention. Harrison was renominated by acclamation at the convention held March 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nCarter had previously served as an alderman in 1895 and 1896, resigning before the end of his term in order to take office as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago, on which he was still serving in 1899. He had also served as president of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nAt the city's Republican convention, Carter received 810 votes on the first ballot, against the 198 votes that Graeme Stewart received. After the first ballot, a motioned was carried to make Carter's nomination unanimous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nThe Republican Party was seen to be divided, weakening its chances of winning the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Municipal Ownership\nIn December 1898, after consideration, Altgeld made a widely-anticipated announcement that he would challenge Harrison for the mayoralty. Realizing that he could not win the Democratic nomination, as Harrison had coalesced control of the city party, Altgeld opted to challenge him as a third-party candidate in the general election, backed by the Municipal Ownership League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Municipal Ownership\nIn announcing his candidacy, Altgeld justified his challenge to Harrison by laying blame for Democrats failure in the 1898 elections at the feet of Harrison, claiming that the results were in reaction to Harrison's failures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nSince Harrison was unopposed for the Democratic nomination and Altgeld was launching his own third-party label, the general election campaign technically took off before the Democratic convention had even taken place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nAt the start of his campaign, there was little belief that Altgeld would actually win the mayoralty. His campaign advisor William A. Prentiss even stated in January that the actual goal of the campaign was to sabotage Harrison's chances, throwing the election to the Republicans. With Harrison removed from office, they believed that Altgeld would again be the undisputed leader of the state and local Democratic parties. By the end of the election, however, Altgeld was convinced that he would win the mayoralty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nIn early January, with his campaign appearing to falter, Harrison was concerned by the threat of Altgeld potentially acting as a spoiler, and tried to appeal to Altgeld to withdraw by pledging to, in turn, take steps that would promote free silver in the state's politics. Altgeld immediately rejected Harrisons attempts at appeasing him. Harrison began to, out of what appeared to be desperation, solicit the endorsement and support of individuals such as Timothy Ryan, whose candidacy he had earlier opposed for Cook County Democratic Party Chairman. However, within weeks, the state of Harrison's campaign would appear to change, and his prospects would brighten up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nAltgeld accused Harrison of turning a blind eye to corruption and abandoning the reformist platforms he had campaigned on in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe traction issue took a prominent role in the campaign. Harrison accused Altgeld of being hypocritical on the issue, having ignored it while governor. Harrison also touted his success in defeating unpopular traction legislation. Altgeld accused Harrison of being a puppet of streetcar magnate Charles Yerkes. Algeld pledged to lower streetcar fares from five cents to four cents, and also pledged to push for immediate municipal ownership of street car lines. Harrison decried this as impractical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nHarrison eschewed discussing the national hot-button debate surrounding the gold standard. However, Altgeld took advantage of this issue, criticizing Harrison for his friendliness with several Gold Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nHarrison highlighted his successes in expanding street lighting in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nStarting in February, Altgeld began delivering public speeches to increasingly large and excited crowds. He also had a number of other orators campaign on his behalf across the city. However, among the orators that spoke on his behalf, there were only two major Democratic Party figures, William A. Prentiss and Clarence Darrow, with the rest of the orators dispersed across the city being lesser-known individuals. To keep up with Altgeld and his surrogates, Harrison and his allies also took a heavy schedule of stump-speeches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nAltgeld received backing from Georgist clubs and a number of labor organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nRepublican nominee Zina B. Carter sought to run a positive campaign focused on returning business values to city government, and largely avoided attacking either Harrison or Altgeld. He was widely ignored in the press. He was also largely ignored by both Harrison and Altgeld. Carter aroused very little enthusiasm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nHarrison received 68.75% of the Polish-American vote, while Carter received 23.54% and Altgeld received 6.13%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031943-0023-0000", "contents": "1899 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Allegations of electoral fraud\nAt least three of the city's newspapers published allegations of fraud in voting places across the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1899 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in sixth place in the National League with a record of 83\u201367, 16 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Reds were coming off a successful season in 1898, earning a third-place finish with a 92\u201360 record. However, they once again faded down the stretch, as the team was in first place in the first week of September before slumping for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nBuck Ewing returned to manage Cincinnati for a fifth season. The Reds also purchased Kip Selbach from the Washington Senators during the off-season for $5,000. Selbach batted .303 with three home runs and 60 RBI with the Senators in 1898. The club also acquired Bill Phillips, who spent the 1898 season with the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the Western League, where he had a 29\u20138 record. Phillips last played in the National League in 1895 with the Reds, going 6\u20137 with a 6.03 ERA. Twenty-year-old Noodles Hahn was also signed by Cincinnati, as he split the 1898 season with the Detroit Tigers and St. Paul Saints, going 12\u201320 between those two clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOnce again, Jake Beckley had a very solid offensive season, batting .333 with three home runs and 99 RBI, all team highs. Kip Selbach was also very solid, batting .297 with three home runs and 87 RBI, as well as scoring a team high 105 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Hahn was the ace, earning a 23\u20138 record with a 2.68 ERA in his rookie season. Hahn pitched a team high 309 innings, and struck out 145 batters. Phillips was also very solid, going 17\u20139 with a 3.32 ERA in 33 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nCincinnati started the season off on the right foot, going 14\u20137 in their opening twenty-one games, only 1.5 games out of first. However, a 7\u201315 mark over their next twenty-two games saw the team fall under the .500 level with a 24\u201325 record, sitting in seventh place, 14.5 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas. The team would remain around the .500 mark, as they were 40\u201341, before going on a franchise record fourteen-game winning streak. Cincinnati's record improved to 54\u201341, however, they still remained in fifth place, eight games behind Brooklyn. The Reds then lost six of their next seven games to fall into sixth place, 12.5 games out. At the end of the season, Cincinnati was a sixth place team with an 83\u201367 record, 19 games behind Brooklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031944-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031945-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1899 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In their first season under head coach Daniel A. Reed, the Bearcats compiled a 5\u20132 record. Howard Nieman was the team captain. The team played its home games at Union Ball Park in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031946-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 City of Wellington by-election\nThe 25 July 1899 City of Wellington by-election was caused by the resignation of incumbent MP John Hutcheson over the Marine Scandal. Hutcheson, along with MP Frederick Pirani had accused Premier Richard Seddon and Minister of Marine William Hall-Jones amongst others, of using influence to obtain Mariners certificates for unqualified candidates in contravention of the recent Shipping and Seamen's Act. When the Marine Commission report declared that the charges were unfounded Hutcheson resigned in order to exonerate himself by means of a by-election win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031946-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 City of Wellington by-election, 1896 election result\n1 Majority is difference between lowest winning poll (Fisher, 5859) and highest losing poll (Atkinson, 5831)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031946-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 City of Wellington by-election, 1896 election result\n2 Turnout is total number of voters - as voters had three votes each total votes cast was higher (37,624)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031947-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire by-election\nThe Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire on 20 December 1899. The seat had become vacant when the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament John Balfour resigned having been appointed a judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031947-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire by-election\nThe Liberal candidate, Eugene Wason, the former MP for South Ayrshire won the seat in a straight fight with his Conservative opponent George Younger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031948-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1899 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson Agricultural College in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tigers completed their fourth season with a record of 4\u20132, with wins over Davidson, South Carolina, North Carolina A&M, and Georgia Tech and losses to Georgia and Auburn. Clemson did not host any games, but played a mix of away and neutral site games. Walter Riggs served again as coach, having also led the team in its inaugural 1896 season, while J. N. Walker was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season\nThe 1899 Cleveland Spiders season was the team's 13th and final season in Major League Baseball, and their 11th season in the National League (NL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season\nThe Spiders' team owners also owned the St. Louis Perfectos. To strengthen the Perfectos, they transferred the Spiders' best players to St. Louis before the season. This left Cleveland with a bad team. As the Spiders played poorly and continued to lose that season, people did not attend their home games, and they soon agreed to play most of their games on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season\nThe Spiders finished in 12th place, last in the NL, with a record of 20\u2013134. This remains the worst single-season record for an MLB team in terms of winning percentage (.130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Offseason\nIn early 1899, the owners of the Spiders, the Robison brothers, Frank and Stanley, bought the St. Louis Browns baseball club from Chris von der Ahe, renaming it the Perfectos. However, they continued to retain ownership of the Cleveland club, a conflict of interest that was later prohibited by Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Offseason\nThe Robisons decided that a good team in St. Louis would draw more fans, so they transferred most of the Cleveland stars, including future Hall of Famers Cy Young, Jesse Burkett and Bobby Wallace, as well as manager Patsy Tebeau, to St. Louis. Most of the players Cleveland received were non-entities. Jack Clements (known to history as one of MLB's few left-handed throwing catchers) and Joe Quinn were at the end of successful careers, and player-manager Lave Cross was traded back to St. Louis after the Spiders got off to an 8\u201330 start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Offseason\nAccording to various individual pages at Baseball-Reference.com, most of this activity took place on March 29, 1899, just 17 days before the beginning of the new season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Offseason\nThey also transferred numerous home games to the road\u2014including the original Opening Day game to St. Louis. As a result, the Spiders did not play their first home game until May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Offseason\nIn early April, the Spiders started training in Terre Haute, Indiana. Because of the cold weather, the team had to practice inside a gymnasium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nWith a decimated roster, it was apparent almost from the start that the Spiders would make a wretched showing. After their first game, in which they were beaten by the Perfectos 10\u20131, the headline of the April 16 edition of The Plain Dealer proved to be prescient: \"THE FARCE HAS BEGUN.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nAfter a poor start on the road, the Spiders played a home-opening doubleheader on May 1 in front of 100 fans. They split the two games, moving up to 11th place. However, they were back in last before long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nOn June 2, the Spiders led the Brooklyn Superbas 10-0 in the sixth inning, but they blew the lead and ended up losing 11-10. On June 11, the Spiders lost to the Cincinnati Reds, 10-1, behind Frank Bates' poor pitching. It was the Spiders' 11th straight loss on that road trip. The following day, the Spiders returned home and lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in front of 58 fans. The team kept losing games, and losses came more and more frequently as the season went on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nOn August 16, with Bates pitching, the Spiders lost to the Superbas, 13-2. This led to criticism from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. On August 18, the first-place Superbas completed their sweep of the Spiders, outscoring them 43-8 in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nThe Spiders notched their 100th loss of the season on August 31, falling to the Superbas, 9-3. Two days later, the Spiders played a local amateur team in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and lost, 7-5. On September 12, the Spiders lost both games of a doubleheader to the Philadelphia Phillies. At that point, they were 19\u2013114 and had broken the MLB single-season record for losses, which had been 113.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nOn October 15, the Spiders ended their season by losing both games of a doubleheader to the Cincinnati Reds, by scores of 16-1 and 19-3. The Spiders finished in 12th place, last in the NL. After losing 40 of their last 41 games, they had a record of 20\u2013134 (.130). Their record is still the worst in Major League Baseball history. They trailed the pennant-winning Brooklyn Superbas by 84 games, and finished 35 games behind the 11th place Washington Senators. For comparison, this would project to 21\u2013141 under the current schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule would translate to a record of 25\u2013137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nThe 1899 Spiders were 9\u201333 (.214) at home and 11\u2013101 (.098) on the road. The team's longest winning streak of the season was two games, which they accomplished once: on May 20 against the Phillies and May 21 against the Colonels. They also accumulated the second-longest losing streak in league history, at 24 games from August 26 to September 16, trailing only the 26-game losing streak set by the 1889 Louisville Colonels. The Spiders were winless against two teams: Brooklyn and Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nSpiders opponents scored ten or more runs 49 times in 154 games. Pitchers Jim Hughey (4\u201330) and Charlie Knepper (4\u201322) tied for the team lead in wins. The pitching staff allowed a record 1,252 runs in 154 games. The Spiders batters combined to hit 12 home runs, matching former Spiders star Bobby Wallace, who hit 12 home runs for St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nThe 1899 Spiders did lead the league in one statistic - games played. Cleveland was the only team in the league to finish all of its games in the then-154 game schedule of the 1899 season, a rather unusual occurrence in that era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season\nIn terms of absolute numbers, the record for futility of 20 wins in any official MLB season stood until the COVID-19 pandemic shortened the 2020 season to only 60 games - even then, 29 of the then-30 teams managed to win more than 20 games with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished 19-41, winning one less game than the 1899 Spiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season, Attendance\nIn early 1899, team owner Stanley Robison publicly announced his intention to run the Spiders \"as a sideshow\", and fans took him at his word: after the first 16 home games, Cleveland's total attendance was 3,179, for a trifling average of 199 people per game. Other NL teams responded by refusing to travel to Cleveland's League Park, since their cut of the ticket revenue would not come close to covering their travel and hotel expenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season, Attendance\nAs a result, the Spiders only played 26 more home games for the rest of the season, including only eight after July 1. In so doing, they set a number of negative records, including one, 101 road losses, that is unbreakable under MLB's current scheduling practices where a team plays 81 road games. Sportswriters of the day began referring to the team as the \"Exiles\" and \"Wanderers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season, Attendance\nA mere 6,088 fans paid for Spiders home games in 1899, or an incredibly low average of 145 people per game. By comparison, St. Louis drew 373,909 fans for their home season, including 15,000 for one game (their home opener against the Spiders).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season, Aftermath\nThe dismal 1899 season was the end for the Spiders, and for National League baseball in Cleveland. The Spiders were disbanded, along with the original Baltimore Orioles, the Louisville Colonels (Louisville has not had a major league team since), and the original Washington Senators, as the National League contracted from 12 teams to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season, Aftermath\nThe departure of baseball from Cleveland left an opening for the upstart American League, which opened for business in 1901 as a second major league and included among its charter members a new team, the Cleveland Blues. The Blues still exist today as the Cleveland Indians. Currently, the 1962 New York Mets (120 losses) and 2003 Detroit Tigers (119) have the post-1900 NL and AL records for most losses in a season, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0022-0001", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Regular season, Aftermath\nAfter the Spiders folded, a National League team would not play in Cleveland again until the Indians played the Brooklyn Dodgers (then known as the Robins) in the 1920 World Series, which they won in 7 games. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, the Perfectos were renamed the St. Louis Cardinals in 1900, which they are still called today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031949-0023-0000", "contents": "1899 Cleveland Spiders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation\nThe Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, labor riot of 1899 was the second of two major labor-management confrontations in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of northern Idaho in the 1890s. Like the first incident seven years earlier, the 1899 confrontation was an attempt by union miners, led by the Western Federation of Miners to unionize non-union mines, and have them pay the higher union wage scale. As with the 1892 strike, the 1899 incident culminated in a dynamite attack that destroyed a non-union mining facility, the burning of multiple homes and outbuildings and two murders, followed by military occupation of the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation\nThe riot of 1899 resulted from the miners' frustrations with mine operators that paid lower wages, hired Pinkerton or Thiel operatives to infiltrate the union, and the refusal of non-union miners to join or strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, Miners strike of 1892\nAngered by wage cuts, Coeur d'Alene area miners conducted a strike in 1892. The strike erupted in violence when union miners discovered they had been infiltrated by a Pinkerton agent who had routinely provided union information to the mine owners. After several deaths, the U.S. army occupied the area and forced an end to the strike. The response to that violence, disastrous for the local miners' union, became the primary motivation for the formation of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, The second military occupation, 1894\nPro -union sentiment remained strong in the area, and by 1894, most of the mines were unionized, represented by the Knights of Labor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, The second military occupation, 1894\nViolence erupted in the Coeur d'Alene district during the national Pullman railroad strike of 1894. Union members attacked non-union mines and workers. Forty masked men shot to death John Kneebone, who had testified against union miners in 1892. Others kidnapped a mine superintendent, and tried to blow up the powder house at the Bunker Hill mine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, The second military occupation, 1894\nUrged by the mine owners, the Idaho governor requested federal troops, supposedly to prevent interruptions in railroad service along the Northern Pacific route through the Coeur d'Alene area. President Grover Cleveland sent about 700 troops in July 1894. Major General John Schofield, determined to avoid embroiling his troops in a local labor dispute as they were in 1892, directed that the Army confine its mission to keeping the railroads running, and not take orders from state or local officials. The Army patrolled the railroad lines, and reported no disturbances or local opposition. The union members, wanting to avoid another military occupation, stopped the attacks on non-union targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, The second military occupation, 1894\nThe Army repeatedly reported that there were no disturbances of rail transport, and requested permission to withdraw the troops. The mine owners pressured the Cleveland administration to keep the troops in place. The mine owners eventually realized that the Army would not expand its mission beyond protecting the railroad, and dropped their opposition to withdrawal of the troops. The Army units left the Coeur d'Alene in September 1894.p. 163-165", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, The second military occupation, 1894\nIn December 1894, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine shut down rather than agree to the union demand of a uniform wage of $3.50 per day. The mine reopened in June 1895, with nonunion labor paying $3.00 per day to miners and $2.50 to surface employees and unskilled underground labor. The company said that whenever the combined prices of lead and silver rose again to a certain point, they would restore the old wage rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 88], "content_span": [89, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, Leading up to the 1899 clash\nThe Bunker Hill Mining Company at Wardner was profitable, having paid more than $600,000 in dividends. Miners working in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines were receiving fifty cents to a dollar less per day than other miners, which at that time represented a significant percentage of the paycheck. The properties were the only mines in the district that were not entirely unionized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Background, Leading up to the 1899 clash\nIn April 1899, as the union was launching an organizing drive of the few locations not yet unionized, superintendent Albert Burch declared that the company would rather \"shut down and remain closed twenty years\" than to recognize the union. He then fired seventeen workers that he believed to be union members and demanded that all other union men collect their back pay and quit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Dynamite Express\nThe strike by the union local at Wardner was not succeeding, and the nearby WFM locals, at Gem, Burke, and Mullan, feared that the other mine owners would cut wages to match those paid at the Bunker Hill mine. During the trial, these proved to be only rumors. The other WFM locals agreed to support the strike at Wardner. The officers of the WFM locals met and planned a massive show of force for April 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Dynamite Express\nOn April 29, 250 union members seized a train in Burke, northeast of Wallace; the engineer, Levi \"Al\" Hutton, later claimed at gunpoint. At each stop through Burke Canyon, more miners climbed aboard. In Mace, a hundred men climbed aboard. At Frisco, the train stopped to load eighty wooden boxes, each containing fifty pounds (23\u00a0kg) of dynamite. At Gem, 150 to 200 more miners climbed onto three freight cars which had been added to the train. In Wallace, 200 miners were waiting, having walked seven miles (11\u00a0km) from Mullan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0011-0001", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Dynamite Express\nAbout a thousand men rode the train to Wardner, the site of a $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill mine. Witnesses later testified that the majority of those on the train knew nothing of any planned violence when they started out; they thought that it would be just a massive demonstration to intimidate the mine owners into recognizing the union. However, the union had distributed masks and firearms to between 100 and 200 of the men, who acted as if under military discipline. The pro-union Idaho State Tribune in Wallace wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Dynamite Express\nCounty sheriff James D. Young, who had been elected with union support, had ridden to Wardner on the train with the union miners. At Wardner, Young climbed atop a rail car, and ordered the group to disperse. His order was ignored, and he later said that any further attempt to restrain the miners would have been suicidal. State prosecutors claimed that Young had been paid off by the WFM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Dynamite Express\nWord had reached Wardner by telephone that the union miners were on their way, and most of the mine and mill workers had fled. The crowd ordered the remaining workers out of the Bunker Hill mine and mill. Once out, they were ordered to run, and some shots fired at them as they ran. James Cheyne was shot in the hip, then union miners shot more bullets into him as he lay on the ground; he died shortly after. One union man, John Smith, also called Schmidt, was mistakenly shot to death by other union men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Dynamite Express\nAfter carrying three thousand pounds (1,400\u00a0kg) of dynamite into the mill, the blast completely destroyed the mill. The crowd also burned down the company office, the boarding house, and the home of the mine manager. The miners re-boarded the \"Dynamite Express\" and returned the way they came. Working men gathered along the track, and according to the pro-union Idaho State Tribune, \"cheered the [union] men lustily as they passed.\".\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nAt the Idaho governor's request, President William McKinley sent in the Army. The majority of army troops sent to the Coeur d'Alene were African American soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment, stationed in Spokane, Salt Lake City, and other western posts. The 24th had distinguished itself in combat during the Spanish\u2013American War, and was seen as one of the most disciplined Army units not then serving overseas. Bill Haywood criticized the U.S. government's attempts to turn whites against blacks. Haywood wrote: \"it was a deliberate attempt to add race prejudice ... race prejudice had been unknown among the miners.\" Nevertheless, he wrote that the government's efforts weren't all that successful, as the miners' turn against the army outweighed any racial dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nState authorities used the troops to round up 1,000 men and put them into \"the bullpen.\" The arrests were indiscriminate; Governor Steunenberg's representative, state auditor Bartlett Sinclair believed that all the people of Canyon Creek had a \"criminal history,\" and \"the entire community, or the male portion of it, ought to be arrested.\" The soldiers searched every house, breaking down the door if no one answered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nMass arrests began on May 4, when 128 were arrested. More than two hundred were arrested the following day, and the arrests continued until about a thousand men had been arrested.p. 31", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nAs Sinclair had ordered, they arrested every male: miners, bartenders, a doctor, a preacher, even the postmaster and school superintendent. \u2026 Cooks and waiters [were] arrested in kitchens, diners at their supper tables. \u2026 For desperate criminals, the men of Burke went quietly, the only gunshot was aimed at a \"vicious watch dog.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nWhat was called \"the bullpen\" was actually a number of structures. The first 150 prisoners were kept in an old barn, a two-story frame structure 120 by 40 feet (37 by 12\u00a0m) and filled with hay. It was \"still very cold in those altitudes\" and the men, having been arrested with no opportunity to bring along blankets, \"suffered some from the weather.\" As the barn became overcrowded, new prisoners were put in railroad boxcars. When both these became overcrowded, the prisoners were then forced to build a pine board prison for themselves, and it was surrounded by a six-foot barbed wire fence patrolled by armed soldiers. Conditions remained primitive, and three prisoners died.p. 171", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nThe U.S. Army followed escaping miners into Montana and arrested them, returning them to Idaho, and failed to comply with jurisdictional or extradition laws. One man arrested and transported was a Montana citizen who had no connection to the Wardner events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nTwo of the three county commissioners had been caught in the roundup, as had the local sheriff. These, too, were held prisoner. Later, a district court removed all of the county commissioners and the sheriff from office, charging that they'd neglected their official duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Arrests\nMost of those arrested were freed within two weeks. By May 12, 450 prisoners remained; by May 30, the number was 194. Releases slowed, and 65 remained incarcerated on October 10;p.\u00a0 148-149p. 37,40,73 the last prisoners in the bullpen were released in early December 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0023-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nArrangements with replacement officials installed by Sinclair demonstrated \"a pattern.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0024-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nThe new regime's principal [sic] patronage\u2014the fat contract for supplying food and drink to the bullpen's prisoners\u2014had gone to Tony Tubbs, the former manager of Bunker Hill's boardinghouse, destroyed on April 29. Likewise, most of the thirty men Sinclair hired as special \"state deputies\" were either employees and former employees of the Bunker Hill Company or contractors for it. Among the most prominent was a saloonkeeper named W.C. \"Convict\" Murphy, who'd served time for horse stealing and cattle rustling. When Convict Murphy broke down people's doors, he was sometimes asked for a search warrant or other authority, at which he would draw a pair of six-shooters and say, \"These are my warrants.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0025-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nEmma F. Langdon, a union sympathizer, charged in a 1908 book that Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg, who had been \"considered a poor man,\" deposited $35,000 into his bank account within a week after troops arrived in the Coeur d'Alene district, implying that there may have been a bribe from the mine operators. Subsequent research appears to have uncovered the apparent source of this assertion. J. Anthony Lukas recorded in his book Big Trouble,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0026-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nIn 1899, when the state needed money for the Coeur d'Alene prosecutions, the Mine Owners' Association had come up with $32,000\u2014about a third of it from Bunker Hill and Sullivan\u2014handing $25,000 over to Governor Steunenberg for use at his discretion in the prosecution. Some of this money went to pay [attorneys].", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0027-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nSteunenberg was later assassinated by Harry Orchard who claimed to have been hired by the WFM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0028-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nIn his autobiography, WFM Secretary-Treasurer Bill Haywood described Idaho miners held for \"months of imprisonment in the 'bull-pen'\u2014a structure unfit to house cattle\u2014enclosed in a high barbed-wire fence.\" Haywood concluded that the companies and their supporters in government\u2014intent upon forcing wage cuts and employers' freedom to fire union miners\u2014were conducting class warfare against the working class. Peter Carlson wrote in his book Roughneck,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0029-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nHaywood traveled to the town of Mullan, where he met a man who had escaped from the 'bullpen'. The makeshift prison was an old grain warehouse that reeked of excrement and crawled with vermin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0030-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nThirty-four-year-old Paul Corcoran was the financial secretary of the Burke Miners Union and a member of the Central Mining Union. The State pursued charges against him. While he had not been at the scene of the riot, Corcoran had been seen on the roof of a boxcar on the Dynamite Express, and at multiple union halls along the route, rallying men on to Wardner. He additionally told the Burke mine manager Mr. Culbertson that his employees had left for the day and were on their way to Wardner, but would return in time for the night shift.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0030-0001", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nThe prosecution, whose salaries were paid by a $32,000 grant from the mine owners, argued that Corcoran should take part of the blame for planning the attack on the Bunker Hill mill and Sullivan mine. Corcoran was sentenced to seventeen years at hard labor. Eight more miners and union leaders accused of leading the attack were scheduled for trial on charges of murder and/or arson, but bribed an army sergeant to allow them to escape. Hundreds more remained in the makeshift prison without charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0031-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nMeanwhile, Sinclair developed a permit system which would prevent mines from hiring any miner who belonged to a union. The plan was designed to destroy the unions in the Coeur d'Alene district after the violence and lawlessness of the last 7 years. General Henry C. Merriam of the U.S. Army endorsed the permit system verbally and in writing, resulting in considerable consternation at the McKinley White House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0032-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nThe editor of one local newspaper, Wilbur H. Stewart of the Mullan Mirror, dared to criticize the bullpen and its keepers. Sinclair appeared at his door alongside a major and several soldiers with unsheathed bayonets. Sinclair declared,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0033-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nI find that you have been publishing a seditious newspaper, inciting riot and insurrection, and we have concluded that publication of your paper must cease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0034-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nStewart was taken to the bullpen, where he was assigned to garbage and latrine duty. However, the paper did not stop publication; Stewart's young wife, Maggie, continued to publish the weekly. Sinclair impounded her type, and she contracted with another sympathetic publisher to continue the news. Eventually Stewart was released under instructions to end the criticism. He sold the newspaper instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0035-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nMany populist elected officials in Shoshone County were rounded up for their support of the miners. The town sheriff of Mullan, Idaho was arrested and sent to the bullpen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0036-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nMay Arkwright Hutton, whose husband was the engineer on the dynamite express, wrote a book, The coeur d' alenes: or, A Tale of the Modern Inquisition in Idaho, about the treatment of the miners, and her husband, at the hands of the mine owners and the sheriff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031950-0037-0000", "contents": "1899 Coeur d'Alene labor confrontation, Aftermath\nBoth Huttons and Ed Boyce, head of the Western Federation of Miners, had invested in the Hercules silver mine before the 1899 war. After they had become wealthy mine owners, May Hutton sought to buy back all copies of her book. Ed Boyce quit the miners union to manage a hotel in Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031951-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Colgate football team\nThe 1899 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1899 college football season. Colgate reports the record for the season as 3\u20135, however, a reporting error in early record keeping failed to account for an 11\u20130 victory over Colgate Academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031952-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1899 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1899 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly and Caspar Whitney for Outing Magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031952-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 College Football All-America Team\nOf the 13 players recognized as consensus All-Americans for the 1899 season, 12 played for the four Ivy League teams that were known as the \"Big Four\" of college football\u2014Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Penn. The sole exception was Isaac Seneca, a Native American who played at the fullback position for the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Seneca won acclaim after leading Carlisle to a 42\u20130 victory over Columbia in a Thanksgiving Day game in Manhattan and a 2\u20130 victory over the University of California on Christmas Day in San Francisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031952-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 College Football All-America Team\nThe following players were selected as first-team All-Americans by at least four of the seven selectors: end Dave Campbell of Harvard (6), guard Truxtun Hare of Penn (6), end Art Poe of Princeton (5), tackle Art Hillebrand of Princeton (5), guard Gordon Brown of Yale (5), center Pete Overfield of Penn (4), and quarterback Charles Dudley Daly of Harvard (4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031953-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1899 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1899. The \"Iron Men\" of Sewanee won the SIAA championship. The Vanderbilt Hustler remarked on Suter's selection of 9 of his own players, \"Only nine! He surely must have been thinking of a baseball team.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031953-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nHMS = selected by H. M. Suter, head coach at Sewanee: The University of the South. It had substitutes, denoted by a small S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031954-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1899 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach W. J. Forbes, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20132\u20131 record and were outscored by a total of 117 to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031954-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nW. J. Forbes was the program's first football coach. He was paid $25 for his services during the 1899 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031955-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1899 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1899 college football season. Head coach Fred Folsom led the team to a mark of 2\u20131 in the CFA and 7\u20132 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031956-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe 1899 Columbia Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its first season under head coach George Sanford, the team compiled a 9\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 224 to 91, including eight shutouts. The 1899 season marked Columbia's return to the sport after not participating in intercollegiate football from 1892 to 1898. Robert R. Wilson was the 1899 team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031956-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Columbia Blue and White football team\nOn October 28, 1899, Columbia defeated Yale, 5\u20130. The result was described by The New York Times as \"one of the most disastrous defeats Yale has ever experienced in her athletic history.\" Columbia's freshman back Harold Weekes scored the game's only points on a long touchdown run in the middle of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031956-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThree Columbia received honors on the 1899 All-America team: center Jack Wright (Walter Camp second team; New York Sun first team); Weekes (Walter Camp second team); and back Bill Morley (Outing Magazine second team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031956-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Columbia Blue and White football team\nColumbia's sports teams were commonly called the \"Blue and White\" in this era, but had no official nickname. The name \"Lions\" would not be adopted until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031956-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe team played its home games at Manhattan Field, also known as Polo Grounds II, in Upper Manhattan in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031957-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Columbus, Ohio mayoral election\nThe Columbus mayoral election of 1899 was the 52nd mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio. It was held on Monday, April 3, 1899. Democratic party incumbent mayor Samuel L. Black was defeated by Republican party nominee Samuel J. Swartz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031958-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1899 college football season. This was the fourth year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by first year head coach T. D. Knowles, and completed the season with a record of 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031959-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1899 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 13th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031959-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Cork Senior Football Championship\nFermoy won the championship following a defeat of Nils in the final at Cork Park. This was their third championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031960-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1899 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 13th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031960-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nBlackrock were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Ballyhea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031960-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 6 August 1899, St. Finbarr\u2019s won the championship following an 0-8 to 0-7 defeat of Redmonds in the final. This was their first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031961-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1899 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1899 college football season. In their first season under head coach Percy Haughton, the Big Red compiled a 7\u20133 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 134 to 52. Three Cornell players received honors on the 1899 College Football All-America Team: quarterback George H. Young (Outing-2, New York Tribune-2); halfback George B. Walbridge (Outing-2); and tackle Edward R. Alexander (Camp-3, New York Tribune-2; Leslie's Weekly-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031962-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 County Championship\nThe 1899 County Championship was the tenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 1 May to 6 September 1899. Surrey County Cricket Club won their sixth championship title, with Middlesex finishing as runners-up for the second season in a row. Worcestershire were admitted to the Championship, increasing the number of counties with first-class status to 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031963-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Currie Cup\nThe 1899 Currie Cup was the sixth edition of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031963-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Griqualand West for the first time, who won three of their matches in the competition and drew the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031963-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Currie Cup\nHowever, the winner of the first five tournaments, Western Province, did not participate in the 1899 event due to the impending Anglo-Boer War, nor did Transvaal. Only Border, Eastern Province, Griqualand West and Rhodesia took part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031964-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1899 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1899 college football season. This season was the least successful under head coach William Wurtenburg. Of the nine games played during the year, only two were won. The team finished with the worst win percentage (.286) since the 1883 squad went winless, albeit against one team. The season began with easy defeats of Phillips Exeter Academy and Bowdoine. That luck quickly changed and the team dropped seven straight games. After being shut out by Yale, they lost in a close match to Williams. Following another close loss, Army, Dartmouth was defeated by Wesleyan. The following game was the low point of the season, a 21\u20130 loss to Harvard. It was the worst defeat by the Crimson in nearly a decade. The year concluded with lopsided defeats by Columbia and Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031965-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1899 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach William S. Robinson, the team compiled a 5\u20131\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 101 to 15. The team's sole loss came against the Detroit Athletic Club reserves. Its victories were against Detroit School for Boys, Detroit Central High School, Detroit Monroe High School, Gutchess Business College and the Detroit Alumni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031966-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Dickinson football team\nThe 1899 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20136\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 184 to 108. Nathan Stauffer was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031966-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Dickinson football team\nAndrew Kerr, later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, was a student at Dickinson at the time but did not play for the varsity football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031967-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Donegal County Council election\nThe first election to Donegal County Council took place in April 1899 as part of that year's Irish local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031968-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1899 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach A. B. Potter, the team compiled a 5\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 112 to 57.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031969-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1899 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election\nAn election to Dublin Corporation took place in March 1899 as part of that year's Irish local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election, Background\nThe election, being the first following the 1898 changes to Irish local government, saw substantive changes to the franchise. Prior to these changes the franchise had been restricted to males over the age of 21 who had maintained a continual residence within the borough for the preceding 2 years and 8 months, thereby preventing Dublin's large lodger and floating tenement population from voting. As a result of the changes the franchise increased from 7,964 in the previous elections to 38,719. Among these voters were 6,500 women who could vote for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election, Contest\nThe 60 seats for election were contested by 120 candidates; 18 Unionists, 10 Labourites, 88 Nationalists, and 1 representative of the Irish Socialist Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election, Contest\nThis was the first time representatives of organised Labour participated in their own right, fighting under the banner of the Labour Electoral Association. Previously the Labour interest had been represented by Nationalist \"Labour\" spokespersons. That being said, the party only contested 10 of Dublins 60 seats, meaning the party did not even put forward 1 candidate per ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election, Results\nThe election saw the Redmonites, who had previously dominated the council, substantially reduced. The Redmonites had previously held 44 of the 60 seats in the old council. Following the election the Redmonites held only 18. United Irish League representation increased substantially to 27. Labour representation increased from 3 to 8, whilst Unionist representation declined to 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election, Post-election boundary extensions\nAt the time of the election Dublin council at the time was composed of 60 members, and was still restricted in area to its historic boundaries, contained to the south by the Grand Canal. This was despite the fact that proposals for extending the municipal borough had existed since the 1880s, in part to deal with the issue whereby residents of the Dublin suburbs had access to and benefited from city services, but were not subject to Dublin municipal taxation. By 1899 Dublin was the only major city in the United Kingdom which had not seen an expansion of its municipal boundaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election, Post-election boundary extensions\nA private members bill was raised in parliament, proposing to extend Dublins municipal boundaries to include several neighboring townships, and was fiercely opposed by Irish Unionists, although the incumbent Conservative government took a neutral position. The majority of councillors for the townships, who were also Unionists, opposed the plan, and several petitions opposed to the plan were submitted to parliament. Ultimately a deal was made whereby New Kilmainham, Drumcondra, Clonliffe, Glasnevin, and some county land was added to the borough, although the more populous southern townships of Pembroke and Rathmines were not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031970-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin Corporation election, Post-election boundary extensions\nThis resulted in the creation of some 5 extra wards, and the total number of councillors was increased to 80. Twenty new members were thus elected in January 1901, of whom 9 were Unionists, thereby bringing Unionist representation up to 16. This meant that by January 1901 Unionists were returned to the 20% representation they enjoyed prior to 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031971-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Dublin County Council election\nThe 1899 Dublin County Council election was held on 6 April 1899. The election was peaceful, however rain prevented many voters from travelling to polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031972-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh East by-election\nThe Edinburgh East by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Edinburgh East in Edinburgh, Scotland held on 23 June 1899. It was triggered by the death of Liberal MP Robert Wallace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election\nThe Edinburgh South by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Edinburgh South in Scotland on 19 June 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal Unionist MP, Robert Cox on 2 June 1899. Cox had held the seat since the 1895 general election when he had narrowly defeated the sitting Liberal MP Herbert Paul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, Candidates, Unionists\nThe Unionist Association of South Edinburgh held an executive meeting on 7 June to consider their choice of candidate. They provisionally decided to recommend the adoption of Major General Andrew Wauchope but they agreed not to take any formal steps in the selection until after the funeral of Mr Cox. At the time of the by-election Wauchope was aged 52 and had been an officer in the Black Watch since 1865, having been promoted to major general in November 1898 . Politically a staunch Tory, he had previously contested the Midlothian or Edinburghshire constituency at the 1892 general election coming within 690 votes of unseating Mr Gladstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe Liberals chose 39-year-old Arthur Dewar, a barrister and member of the Scotch whisky family John Dewar & Sons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The Campaign\nIt was clearly the intention of the government to get this by-election over and done with quickly as the writ for the election was issued in Parliament on 9 June, just one week after Cox's death and election day was set for 19 June, giving the candidates less than two weeks campaigning time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The Campaign\nDewar had opened the new premises of the South Morningside Liberal Club on 10 June and had taken the opportunity to make a short address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0005-0001", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The Campaign\nHe appears to have accused Wauchope of being a Tory, presumably a reference to the fact that the Unionist mantle had passed from the Liberal Unionists to the Conservatives in Edinburgh South, perhaps judging that this would drive some former Liberal Unionist voters back to the Liberal fold, perhaps also appealing for working-class votes in recalling Wauchope's stance in 1892 when he refused to support the Eight Hours Bill proposing the restriction of the working day for miners. Wauchope spoke on the same day, in the evening, at the Edinburgh Literary Institute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0005-0002", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The Campaign\nHe responded by saying there was no disgrace in being a Tory. On social issues, he added that much had been done for the working man by the Tories and if returned as MP he would work as hard for the working man as anyone calling himself a Liberal. Dewar renewed this attack on the state of the Unionist coalition later in the campaign, again alluding publicly to Wauchope's devout Toryism, and arguing that Liberal Unionism was now dead in the constituency. Nonetheless, Wauchope did receive a letter of recommendation from Joseph Chamberlain, the leading Liberal Unionist and at that time Colonial Secretary urging all Liberal Unionists in the constituency to vote for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The Campaign\nDewar, it was reported, devoted most of his limited campaigning time to meeting workmen. Apart from social questions he also spoke in favour of the taxation of ground values and for the idea of Home Rule All Round, moves towards devolution or elements of self-governance to all parts of the United Kingdom, although he was known to support Gladstone on his policy on all out Irish Home Rule. Dewar also spoke in favour of the disestablishment of the Anglican Church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The Campaign\nWauchope was now focusing on foreign policy and the efforts of the government to promote peace. He also received the support of various Protestant church groups who were concerned about the religious implications of Home Rule in Ireland and aspects of Britain's relationship with the Vatican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The result\nDewar gained the seat for the Liberals with a majority of 831 votes. A separate by-election in the neighbouring seat of Edinburgh East which took place a few days later also resulted in a lower share of the vote for the Liberal Unionists. Despite this apparent trend however Dewar lost the seat to a Liberal Unionist rival, albeit narrowly, at the general election of 1900 when there was also a modest revival in the Liberal Unionist vote in Edinburgh East. He then won it back in 1906, holding it in January 1910 before resigning from Parliament later that year upon appointment as a judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The result\nThe result of the by-election was not therefore a reliable pointer to the outcome of the next general election, as no doubt Edinburgh Liberals hoped \u2013 although the political situation would be transformed by the time of the 1900 Khaki election as a result of the country's involvement in the Boer War and the depiction of many Liberal candidates as pro-Boer and unpatriotic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031973-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Edinburgh South by-election, The result\nAs to Major-general Wauchope, he did not get the chance to stand for Parliament again as he was killed in action on 11 December 1899 during an engagement at Magersfontein in the Boer War and was buried at Modder River in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031974-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1899 municipal election was held December 11, 1899. It was the first municipal election in which only a portion of the aldermen were to be elected; in 1898, three of the six aldermen elected were elected to two-year terms in preparation for a system in which only half of the aldermen would be up for election each year. Kenneth McLeod, Alfred Jackson, and Kenneth W. MacKenzie were all only halfway through their two-year terms at the time of the election. However, MacKenzie resigned in order to become mayor, leaving council with four vacancies. Only three were filled by the election; council appointed Henry Goodridge to fill the fourth seat until the 1900 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031974-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\n221 ballots were cast out of 613 eligible voters, for a turnout of 36.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031974-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Aldermen\nInformation about defeated candidates for this election is no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031974-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nMatthew McCauley, William Short, Colin Strang, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031974-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nNicolas Dubois Dominic Beck, Joseph Henri Picard, Antonio Prince, and Georges Roy were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031975-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Elland by-election\nA by-election was held for the British House of Commons in the constituency of Elland on 8 March 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031975-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Elland by-election, Vacancy\nThe seat became vacant following the retirement on grounds of ill-health of the sitting Member of Parliament, Thomas Wayman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031975-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Elland by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal candidate was Charles Philips Trevelyan, opposed by the Unionist Philip Foster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031975-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Elland by-election, Campaign\nImportant issues in the campaign included the Liberal demands for disestablishment of the Church of England, school building, and payment for Members of Parliament. According to The Times, \"One of the Unionist placards told the electorate if they wanted their rates and taxes raised, if they wished to pay members of Parliament, and to build Board schools where they were not required, they must vote for Mr Trevelyan; but if they wanted peace, good trade, and their rates and taxes raised, then they ought to vote for Mr Foster\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031975-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Elland by-election, Result\nWhen the count, which took just two hours and seven minutes, was completed, the result was as expected: a hold for the Liberal Party, with a majority of around three times what it had been in the last election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031975-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Elland by-election, Result\nSince the Conservative vote was only slightly less than the last time despite an increase of about 4-500 in the electorate, the Liberals claimed this as a sign that \"radicalism was growing right through the West Riding\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031975-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Elland by-election, Aftermath\nTrevelyan would go on to hold the seat until the general election of 1900;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031976-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 English cricket season\n1899 was the tenth season of County Championship cricket in England. Surrey won the championship for the first time in four years, but this title was their last until 1914. Surrey's season was dominated by draws, with fourteen out of 26 games drawn, just like the season in general \u2013 especially the Australian team's tour. Four of the five Test matches were drawn during the 19th series between the sides, but Australia won the second Test at Lord's and the series 1\u20130. This was their first Ashes series win in England since the original match in 1882.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031976-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 English cricket season\nAlso, Worcestershire became the fifteenth county in the County Championship, debuting with an 11-run loss to Yorkshire despite earning a 78-run lead on first innings. George Wilson took eight for 70 in the first innings, which was a Worcestershire Championship record until Wilson beat it against Somerset in 1905. The debutants finished twelfth, though they only earned two wins in 12 games. Finally, Sussex' Ranjitsinhji became the first batsman to hit 2000 runs in a Championship season with 102 against Lancashire in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031976-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 English cricket season\nThe season was a notable one for WG Grace. The First Test marked his final appearance for England (and the Test debut of Wilfred Rhodes). Also Grace played his last Championship game for Gloucestershire, having fallen out with them over his involvement with London County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031977-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1899 European Figure Skating Championships were held from January 14th to 15th in Davos, Switzerland. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031978-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1899 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Bruges\u2013Ostend Canal in the Belgian city of Ostend on a day in mid-August. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final\nThe 1899 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Derby County and Sheffield United on Saturday, 15 April 1899 at the Crystal Palace stadium in south London. It was the final match of the 1898\u201399 FA Cup, the 28th edition of the world's oldest football knockout competition, and England's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final\nSheffield United were appearing in their first final and Derby County, who had been the 1898 runners-up, in their second. As members of the Football League First Division, they were both exempt from the competition's qualifying phase and joined it in the first round proper, progressing through four rounds to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final\nThe final was watched by a crowd of 73,833 and Sheffield United, after being 0\u20131 down at half-time, dominated the second half of the match to win 4\u20131 with goals by Walter Bennett, Billy Beer, Jack Almond and Fred Priest after John Boag had scored a first-half opener for Derby. Sheffield United have won the cup four times in all, their next victory being in 1902. Derby County have won it once, in 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Background\nThe FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football. The competition was first proposed on 20 July 1871 by C. W. Alcock at a meeting of The Football Association committee. The tournament was first played in the 1871\u201372 season and is the world's oldest association football competition. The 1899 match between Derby County and Sheffield United at Crystal Palace was the 28th final and the penultimate one of the 19th century. Derby County had been runners-up in the previous season's competition while Sheffield United were appearing in the final for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Background\nDerby County and Sheffield United were both members of the Football League First Division. In the 1898\u201399 league championship, Derby amassed 35 points to finish in ninth place, ten points behind champions Aston Villa. Sheffield United had won the league title in 1897\u201398 but had struggled in 1898\u201399 and finished in 16th place with 29 points, just above the relegation placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Background\nBoth teams were selected by a committee with the club secretary in charge on match days. Derby's secretary was Harry Newbould who, in 1900, became their first formally appointed team manager. Sheffield United retained the policy of selection by committee until 1932. In 1899, their secretary was John Nicholson, who was newly appointed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County\nDerby County entered the competition in the first round proper and played four matches en route to the final. Two of their opponents were in the First Division, one was in the Second Division and one was in the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Early rounds\nIn the first round on Saturday, 28 January, Derby were away to Second Division Woolwich Arsenal at the Manor Ground in Plumstead. They won 6\u20130 with goals by Steve Bloomer (2), John Boag (2), Billy MacDonald and Harry Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Early rounds\nDerby were at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the second round. This match was played on Saturday, 11 February, at the Baseball Ground and ended in a 2\u20131 win for Derby with a goal apiece by Allen and MacDonald. The Wolverhampton scorer was Billy Beats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Early rounds\nIn the third round, Derby faced the Southern League champions Southampton at The Dell. The match was played on Saturday, 25 February, and Derby won 2\u20131 with goals by Bloomer and MacDonald. Southampton's goal was scored by Tom Nicol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 18 March, and Derby were drawn to play First Division Stoke FC at Molineux in Wolverhampton. Steve Bloomer scored all three goals in a 3\u20131 win which took Derby through to a second successive cup final. The Stoke goal was scored by William Maxwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 63], "content_span": [64, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United\nSheffield United entered the competition in the first round proper and played nine matches, including five replays, en route to the final. Their four opponents were all other teams in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nIn the first round on Saturday, 28 January, Sheffield were away to Burnley at Turf Moor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 18 March, and Sheffield were drawn against Liverpool at Burnden Park in Bolton. This ended in a 2\u20132 draw and three replays were needed to settle the tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nThe second replay was at the former Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester. This match had to be abandoned at half-time because of a crush in the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031979-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nThe crowd of 73,883 was a world record, though it would be beaten only two years later. Derby had lost the final two years in succession and talk began of a gypsy curse on the club, said to have originated after gypsies were forced to leave the land that became the Baseball Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031980-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Fermanagh County Council election\nThe first election to Fermanagh County Council took place in April 1899 as part of that year's Irish local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031980-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Fermanagh County Council election\nThe election saw the council split evenly between Unionists and Nationalists. Concurrent district council elections saw Nationalists and Unionists both win 33 seats for Enniskillen Rural Council. Nationalists won a large majority on Enniskillen Board of Guardians, as 8 Cavan Divisions (which all returned Nationalists) were joined to the union. Nationalists won a majority on Lisnaskea Guardians and District Council, while Unionists won control of Irvinestown Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031981-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Gallaudet Bison football team\nThe 1899 Gallaudet Bison football team represented the Gallaudet Bison of Gallaudet University, a college for deaf-mutes, in the 1899 college football season. The team was considered one of the best outside of the \"big four\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031982-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 1899 VFL Season was the Geelong Football Club's third season in the Victorian Football League and its third with Jack Conway as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031982-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Geelong Football Club season\nGeelong finished the home and away with 10 wins and 4 losses, finishing in second position. In the final series, Geelong finished with 2 wins and 1 loss, finishing in second position on the Section B Ladder. Geelong failed to qualify for the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031982-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Geelong Football Club season\nThe leading goalkicker was Eddy James with 31 goals, who also won the league's leading goalkicker medal for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031982-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Geelong Football Club season, Playing List\n26 players were used this season with a total of six playing all 17 matches for Geelong this season. Six players made their debut in the VFL this season, and Eddy James, for a third year in a row, led the goalkicking tally with 31 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031982-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nGeelong were competitive this season finishing the home and away season with a 10-4 record, finishing in second position, and qualifying for the Section B finals. Due to the loss against 6th placed South Melbourne, and despite the \"slaughter of innocents\" against St Kilda, Geelong were eliminated due to South Melbourne's victory over Essendon. Geelong again broke the record for highest score when they met St Kilda in Sectional Round 3. Geelong's score totaled 162 and was the record for twelve years. The record was beaten by Essendon in the 1911 VFL season, when they totaled one more than Geelong, scoring 163.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031983-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1899 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. Led by Ross Fiscus in his third and final year as head coach, Geneva compiled a record of 0\u20133. The team's captain was William Lewis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031984-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1899 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031985-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1899 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and completed the season with a disappointing 2\u20133\u20131 record. However, a season highlight was the third-straight victory over Georgia Tech. 1899 also saw the first meeting between the Georgia Bulldogs and Tennessee (a loss for Georgia). This was the team's first and only season under the guidance of head coach Gordon Saussy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031985-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1890s saw the football program at Georgia get a good start. Through the eight seasons that the Bulldogs played in the 1890s, Georgia had a cumulative record of 23\u201314\u20132, a winning percentage of .615.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031986-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1899 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031987-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Grand National\nThe 1899 Grand National was the 61st renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 24 March 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031988-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Greek legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Greece on 7 February 1899. Although Charilaos Trikoupis died in 1896, his supporters emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, with 110 of the 235 seats, Georgios Theotokis, his successor as a leader of the New Party became Prime Minister after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031989-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Guilford Quakers football team\nThe 1899 Guilford Quakers football team represented Guilford College during the 1897 college football season. They were coached by Herbert C. Petty and had a 2\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031990-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1899 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1899 college football season. The team finished with a 10\u20130\u20131 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. Princeton compiled a 12\u20131 record and was named the national champion by two other selectors. They outscored their opponents 210 to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031991-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1899 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1899 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20135 record. Shorty Hamill and Wylie G. Woodruff coached the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031992-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1899 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031992-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Holy Cross football team\nIn their second year under head coach Maurice Connor, the team compiled a 5\u20135 record. John Kenney was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031992-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Oval and the Worcester College Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1899 Home Nations Championship was the seventeenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 5 January and 18 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1899 Championship was won by Ireland who also took the Triple Crown. This was the fourth time Ireland had won the tournament and the second occasion they had achieved the Triple Crown, but would be Ireland's last success for some time; they would not win the title outright again until 1935 and their next Triple Crown came in 1948. The Irish success was down to an extremely strong defence with the Irish team conceding just a single penalty in the match against Scotland. The penalty itself was unprecedented as it was awarded for a tackle on a player who did not have the ball, the first time such a penalty had been given in an international game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1899 championship was notable for the beginning of a period of underperformance for the English team; winning just seven of the next thirty three championship matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal and a goal from mark were both worth four points. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Viv Huzzey (Cardiff), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), Reg Skrimshire (Newport), Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Evan James (Swansea), David James (Swansea), Jere Blake (Cardiff), Tom Dobson (Cardiff), William Alexander (Llwynypia), Fred Scrine (Swansea), David Daniel (Llanelli), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Parker (Swansea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nEngland: Gamlin (Devonport Albion), GC Robinson (Percy Park), PW Stout (Gloucester), PMR Royds (Blackheath) R Forrest (Wellington), R Livesay (Blackheath), Arthur Rotherham (Richmond) capt., F Jacob (Richmond), George Ralph Gibson (Northern), John Daniell (Cambridge U), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), HW Dudgeon (Richmond), W Mortimer (Marlborough Nomads), Charles Harper (Oxford U), J Davidson (Aspatria)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), IG Davidson (NIFC), JB Allison (Campbell C, Belfast), George Harman (Dublin U), WH Brown (Dublin U), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., GG Allen (Derry), Mike Ryan (Rockwell College), Jack Ryan (Rockwell College), WG Byron (NIFC), J McIlwaine (NIFC), Tom McGown (NIFC), Tom Ahearne (Queens College Cork), Jim Sealy (Dublin U), H McCoull (Belfast Albion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nEngland: JF Byrne (Moseley), Ernest Fookes (Sowerby Bridge), PW Stout (Gloucester), JT Taylor (Castleford), SW Anderson (Rockcliff), EW Taylor (Rockcliff), Arthur Rotherham (Richmond) capt., F Jacob (Richmond), C Thomas (Barnstable), Arthur Darby (Cambridge U), JH Blacklock (Aspatria) HW Dudgeon (Richmond), JH Shooter (Morley), Frank Stout (Gloucester), J Davidson (Aspatria)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nScotland: JM Reid (Edinburgh Acads), GT Campbell (London Scottish), DB Monypenny (London Scottish), RT Neilson (W. of Scotland), T Scott (Langholm), WP Donaldson (W. of Scotland) capt., JT Mabon (Jedforest), JH Couper (W. of Scotland), L Harvey (Greenock Wands), GC Kerr (Durham), WM McEwan (Edinburgh Acads) A MacKinnon (London Scottish), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP), HO Smith (Watsonians), RC Stevenson (Northumberland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nIreland: PE O'Brien-Butler (Monkstown), Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Campbell C, Belfast), C Reid (NIFC), Edward Fitzhardinge Campbell (Monkstown), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., A Barr (Methodist C. Belfast), Tom McGown (NIFC), Mike Ryan (Rockwell College), WG Byron (NIFC), JH Lytle (NIFC), Jack Ryan (Rockwell College), Arthur Meares (Dublin University), Jim Sealy (Dublin U), TJ Little (Bective Rangers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nMatch summaryThe Irish trip to Scotland was a game of firsts; not only was the first supposed penalty awarded for an off-ball tackle, but this was the first match at Scotland's new home ground, Inverleith and it was the first time Ireland had managed to beat Scotland at a Scottish ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nScotland: H Rottenburg (London Scottish), HT Gedge (London Scottish), DB Monypenny (London Scottish), GAW Lamond (Kelvinshire Acads), T Scott (Langholm), RT Neilson (W. of Scotland), JW Simpson (Royal HSFP), John Dykes (London Scottish), GC Kerr (Edinburgh Wands), WM McEwan (Edinburgh Acads) A MacKinnon (London Scottish), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., HO Smith (Watsonians), RC Stevenson (Northumberland), WJ Thompson (W. of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Viv Huzzey (Cardiff), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), Reg Skrimshire (Newport), Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Jere Blake (Cardiff), Tom Dobson (Cardiff), William Alexander (Llwynypia), Fred Scrine (Swansea), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Parker (Swansea), Dick Hellings (Llwynypia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nAlmost two months after the tournament began, Wales took their first trip to Inverleith after bad weather postponed the match on four occasions. This was the highest scoring game of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nDouglas Monypenny, who scored a try in the match was to become the only Scottish cap to be killed in the Boer War, dying the following year at Paardeberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nEngland: Gamlin (Devonport Albion), Ernest Fookes (Sowerby Bridge), PW Stout (Gloucester), WL Bunting (Richmond), JC Matters (RNEC Keyham), Reggie Schwarz (Richmond), Arthur Rotherham (Richmond) capt., HW Dudgeon (Richmond), RF Oakes (Hartlepool Rovers), Jas Davidson (Aspatria), Jos Davidson (Aspatria), Frank Stout (Gloucester), R.F.A. Hobbs (Blackheath), JH Shooter (Morley), AO Dowson (Moseley)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nScotland: H Rottenburg (London Scottish), HT Gedge (London Scottish), DB Monypenny (London Scottish), GAW Lamond (Kelvinshire Acads), T Scott (Langholm), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), JW Simpson (Royal HSFP), John Dykes (London Scottish), GC Kerr (Edinburgh Wands), WM McEwan (Edinburgh Acads) A MacKinnon (London Scottish), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., HO Smith (Watsonians), RC Stevenson (Northumberland), WJ Thompson (W. of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nIn a game that saw the only international partnership between English brothers, James and Joseph Davidson; England's loss gave the team the Wooden Spoon for the first time in the Home Nations tournament. This game saw the end of eleven international careers, seven from England and four from Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Viv Huzzey (Cardiff), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), Reg Skrimshire (Newport), Willie Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), William Alexander (Llwynypia), Jere Blake (Cardiff), Fred Cornish (Cardiff), David Daniel (Llanelli), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Boots (Newport), Dick Hellings (Llwynypia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nIreland: PE O'Brien-Butler (Monkstown), Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), C Reid (NIFC), George Harman (Dublin U), Edward Fitzhardinge Campbell (Monkstown), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., GG Allen (Derry), Cecil Moriarty (Monkstown), Mike Ryan (Rockwell College), WG Byron (NIFC), J McIlwaine (NIFC), Jack Ryan (Rockwell College), Arthur Meares (Dublin University), Jim Sealy (Dublin U), TJ Little (Bective Rangers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031993-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nOver 40,000 people turned out at the Cardiff Arms Park to see Ireland win the Triple Crown, a record for a Home Nations match. The only score was a try from Gerry Doran and the crowd at stages was uncontrollable with delight. The normal five minutes for half time stretched to fifteen minutes as officials tried to push the invading crowd from the pitch. The second half also suffered similar disruption as the crowd, which packed the touch-lines spilled onto the pitch during play. The match is also remembered as being the game that Welsh captain Billy Bancroft failed to complete after he was thrown into the crowd by Irish brothers Mick and Jack Ryan. Bancroft fell awkwardly, fracturing several ribs and was forced to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031994-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team\nThe 1899 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team played professional football in 1899. The team was affiliated with the Homestead Library & Athletic Club in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031994-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Organization\nIn 1898, William Chase Temple took over the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, becoming the first individual team owner in professional football. In 1900, most of the Duquesne players were hired by the Homestead Library & Athletic Club, by offering them higher salaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031994-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Organization\nBemus Pierce was hired by Homestead in mid-October 1899. He played and got hurt in the November game versus Duquesne C. & A.C. He returned to Homestead L.A.C. in 1900 and 1901, helping lead the teams to an undefeated 21\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031995-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nThe 1899 Sanitary Board Election was supposed to be held on 18 December 1899 for the 2 unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. Only persons on the jury lists of the year were eligible to vote. There were only two candidates therefore only 19 votes were cast as a formality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031995-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nPrior to the election, the issue of reconstitution of the Sanitary Board was intensively debated. A plebiscite of the British community based on the jury lists was held in June 1896, as to whether Sanitary Board should contain an official or unofficial majority. The Government refused to make any further constitutional changes however the election for unofficial members was not held until 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031995-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nDr William Hartigan and James McKie were elected. They both resigned in April 1901 to protest that the Board was given too few powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031996-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Hume colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of The Hume on 10 September 1899 because William Lyne had been appointed Premier and Colonial Treasurer, forming the Lyne ministry. Until 1904, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. Of the nine ministers appointed in the Lyne ministry, The Hume and Ashfield (Bernhard Wise) were the only electorates in which the by-election was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031997-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 ICA Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1899 ICA Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 9 to 11 August 1899. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031998-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1899 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1899 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach George Huff, the Illini compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record and finished in a tie for last place in the Western Conference. Center E. C. McLane was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00031999-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1899 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1899 college football season. In their second season under head coach James H. Horne, the Hoosiers compiled a 6\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 133 to 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032000-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1899 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 29 November 1899 as part of that years local elections. Voting booths were provided in each ward for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032000-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Invercargill mayoral election\nIncumbent mayor John Stead was defeated by councillor James Smith Goldie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032001-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1899 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032002-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa Senate election\nIn the 1899 Iowa State Senate elections Iowa voters elected state senators in 31 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032002-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa Senate election\nA statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1899 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032002-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1899 elections occurred before primary elections were established in Iowa by the Primary Election Law in 1907. The general election took place on November 7, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032002-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 39 seats to Democrats' 11 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032002-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 15 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032002-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1899 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 35 seats and Democrats having 15 seats (a net gain of 4 seats for Democrats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032003-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1899 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1899 college football season. Under head coaches Pop Warner and Joe Meyers, the Cyclones compiled a 5\u20134\u20131 record, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 118 to 38. The team won the first four games by a combined score of 107 to 0, then failed to score a point in the final five games. C. J. Griffith was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032003-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032004-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1899 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1899. Incumbent Republican L. M. Shaw defeated Democratic nominee Frederick Edward White with 55.26% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032005-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Ireland rugby union tour of Canada\n1899 Ireland rugby union tour of Canada. Twenty four years after their first international, the Ireland national rugby union team embarked on their first ever international tour in October 1899. Seventeen players were selected to make the journey to Canada but no caps were awarded. Three clubs \u2013 Dublin University, Lansdowne and North of Ireland FC \u2013 provided fifteen of these players. Ireland often had to field just fourteen players due to injuries. Among those to be injured was James Myles who broke his leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032005-0000-0001", "contents": "1899 Ireland rugby union tour of Canada\nMyles, who was later elected as an independent TD, had to remain in Canada until December. The rest of the touring party had returned home in November. Ireland won 10 of the 11 matches they played. Their only defeat came against a Halifax XV on the third game of the tour. They scored 150 points and conceded 51. The trip was financed by Duke Collins, an Irish Canadian who originally came from County Dublin but had settled in Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032006-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Irish local elections\nThe 1899 Irish local elections were the first local elections following the reorganisation of Irish local government caused by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. The 1898 Act had changed the nature of Irish local governance, replacing the unrepresentative grand jury system, and making local government more democratic and representative. As a result, the 1899 election saw the traditional Unionist Landowning class, which had previously dominated much of Irish local politics, being replaced by a newer nationalist representation. Ulster's local government, however, remained Unionist in political outlook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032006-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Irish local elections\nThe elections also saw the expansion of Labour representation. In the 1898 elections, only Ulster had Unionist and unaligned Labourite Councillors. Following the election however the overall Labour representation increased to 303. Of these 303, 218 were nationalists (affiliated to an IPP faction), whilst 56 were extremist (with links to the IRB). There were 14 Unionist Labourites in Ulster, 4 in Munster, 2 in Leinster, 1 in Connaught, but none in Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032007-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Italian Football Championship\nThe 1899 Italian Football Championship season was won by Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032007-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Italian Football Championship, Qualifications, Liguria\nGenoa waited for their opponents, a team from near Sampierdarena, on March 27, but this team retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032007-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Italian Football Championship, References and sources\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032008-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football team\nThe 1899 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football team represented Johns Hopkins University during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the 1899 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the Jayhawks compiled an undefeated 10\u20130 record, shut out six of their ten opponents, scored 280 points (28.0 points per games) and allowed only 37 points (3.7 points per game). The season included victories over Haskell Institute (12\u20130 and 18\u20130), Drake (29\u20135), Nebraska (36\u201320), and Missouri (34\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nBennie Owen, who later coached at Oklahoma for 22 years, was the team's quarterback, and Hubert Avery was the team captain. Owen and coach Yost were both subsequently inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nOn February 17, 1899, Hubert C. Avery, captain of the 1899 Kansas football team, was married to Nellie Criss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nIn June 1899, the University of Kansas Athletic Association offered Nebraska football coach Fielding H. Yost $350 and an additional $150 conditionally to coach the school's football team. He accepted the offer on June 7, 1899. After spending the summer in Colorado, Yost arrived in Lawrence, Kansas, on September 4, 1899, and football practice began the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nOn September 19, 1899, the Lawrence Daily Journal reported on a practice football game in which 37-year-old Dr. James Naismith (the coach of the Kansas basketball team and inventor of the sport) played against the 13-man varsity squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0004-0001", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nThe Journal reported that the varsity squad played with \"snap and vigor\" and credited Yost's coaching: \"Coach Yost is giving his men instructions as to how to play to prevent gains when the other side has the ball, and though the Kansas line this year will be a light one, compared with what it has been in previous years, the boys are being coached so that they will be able to hold a much heavier lot of men.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nOn September 21, 1899, the Journal reported in further detail on Yost's training sessions, noting that the afternoon's practice began with a focus on punting and catching the ball. The Journal also reported on the arrival of Moore, a newly enrolled and \"remarkably quick and steady\" halfback and noted that the team as a whole was \"developing into a remarkably fast lot of players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nOne of the changes instituted by Yost was described in a press account as follows: \"The Kansas boys have lived separate from the rest of the students and ate specially selected and prepared food for the last two months [October and November], with Coach Yost as their only mentor.\" Yost also reportedly developed 25 \"trick plays\" that he practiced with his Kansas players, \"but never had occasion to use one of them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 1: Haskell\nOn September 30, Kansas opened its season with a 12\u20130 victory over the Haskell Indians before a crowd of 500 spectators at McCook Field in Lawrence. All 12 points were scored in the second half, and the Lawrence Daily Journal reported that the score was the result of \"the wonderful hard work of Moore.\" The playing field was \"hard, rough and dusty\", and the Journal called it one of the \"roughest games ever played at Lawrence,\" noting that a number of Haskell players were \"seriously hurt\" and that two \"were in violent convulsions for a short time after their injuries.\" Questions were raised after the Haskell game as to the amateur status of all of the Kansas players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 2: Washburn\nOn October 7, 1899, Kansas defeated the team from Washburn University by a 35\u20130 score in Lawrence. Tucker ran for two touchdowns for Kansas. The Lawrence Daily Journal reported that the Washburn team was \"as weak as ever\" and credited the performance of Tucker, Avery, Wilcox, Nofsinger, and Moore. The Journal also noted that, during the game, \"dust arose in clouds as the players moved back and forth across the field, and it was impossible to tell who had carried the ball until after the dust had been blown aside.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 3: Ottawa\nOn October 14, 1899, Kansas played the team from Ottawa University, a team that was \"regarded as one of the strongest in the state.\" Kansas won the game by a 29\u20136 score in Lawrence. According to a press account, the \"feature of the game was Captain Avery's long run for a touchdown in the second half.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0009-0001", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 3: Ottawa\nThe Lawrence Daily Journal reported that the game was \"almost too one-sided to be interesting\" and noted that Ottawa's only points were scored near the end of the game after a controversial call in which the officials ruled that Moore had fumbled, despite the fact that \"the Kansas men had called down.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 4: Drake\nOn October 21, 1899, Kansas faced Drake, a team which had been undefeated since the 1897 season. The game was expected to be Kansas' toughest contest with the possible exception of Missouri, and the Kansas players were reportedly training under coach Yost with a focus on \"perfecting signal week this week, team plays, and new strategems with all of which they expect to surprise their most ardent champions.\" Kansas won the game by a 29\u20135 score before a crowd of 800 spectators in Lawrence. The Kansas City Journal reported that Tucker was the star player and that Kansas \"never played better ball than she did to-day.\" The Lawrence Daily Journal reported that the game was played \"under a broiling sun\" and \"on a dusty field\" and that Tucker was \"easily the star\" for Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 5: Haskell\nOn October 28, 1899, Kansas defeated Haskell for the second time during the 1899 season, this time by an 18\u20130 score in Lawrence. In the second half, a Haskell player was ejected from the game for slugging Moore of Kansas. Haskell disputed the ejection and when the umpire refused to reconsider, the entire Haskell team followed the ejected player off the field, and the umpire declared the game forfeited. Several long runs by Moulton were highlights of the game, including a 30-yard touchdown run on \"a 'fake' play.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 6: Ottawa\nOn November 4, 1899, Kansas won its second game of the season against Ottawa, this one by a 29\u20130 score in Ottawa, Kansas. The Lawrence Daily Journal reported: \"There was not much interest in the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 7: Emporia\nOn November 11, 1899, Kansas defeated the team from Emporia Normal School by a 35\u20130 score at Emporia, Kansas. Kansas touchdowns were scored by Garvin, Moore, and Tucker. The Emporia team was \"completely outclassed, as they have no coach and little practice.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 8: Nebraska\nOn November 18, 1899, Kansas faced Nebraska, the team that Fielding Yost had coached in 1898. Kansas won the game by a 36\u201320 score in Lincoln, Nebraska. Kansas scored six touchdowns, and Nebraska was held to four field goals (all by Benedict) and a safety. The Lawrence Daily Journal wrote that Kansas won the game \"with ease\", led by an \"impregnable line\" and with Moore, Tucker and Avery advancing the ball \"with unfailing regularity and certain precision.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 8: Nebraska\nAfter the game, approximately 100 Kansas supporters marched through the streets back in Lawrence, a parade that included a duel between the University band and the Salvation Army band, with both units performing renditions of \"A Hot Time\". The Kansas supporters later \"built a little bon fire out by the park.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 9: Washburn\nOn November 25, 1899, Kansas defeated Washburn for the second time of the season, this time by a 23\u20130 score in Lawrence. Kansas used substitutes in place of some of its starters to avoid incurring injuries prior to the Thanksgiving Day game against Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 10: Missouri\nOn Thanksgiving Day, November 30, 1899, Kansas concluded its season with a 34\u20136 victory over Missouri. The game drew a crowd of 8,000 spectators to Exposition Park in Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 10: Missouri\nThe game was placed in jeopardy earlier in the month due to a dispute as to where the game would be played. Kansas signed a contract with the newly opened Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri (where William Jennings Bryan would accept his parties Presidential nomination the following June), for the game to be played there. In order to play the game indoors at Convention Hall, the playing field would have to have been reduced by approximately 50%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0018-0001", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Game 10: Missouri\nMissouri's coach White objected to playing the game indoors, noting that the low ceiling would not allow \"good kicking\", the sidelines would be formed by the building's walls and create a hazard to the players, and the crowd noise \"would prevent signals being heard.\" For these reasons, Missouri insisted that the game be played outdoors on \"regulation grounds\" under the rules of the Western Intercollegiate Football Association, \"or not at all.\" Ultimately, Kansas was released from its contract with the Convention Hall, and the game was played outdoors at the professional baseball park in Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Post-season\nOn December 1, 1899, the Lawrence Daily World opined that coach Yost should be retained for another year and noted: \"Trainer Yost has won golden opinions on every side and he deserves them all. He has a happy faculty of getting along with the players in such a way that they like him and he gets the best out of them. . . . Such good men are not loose long.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Post-season\nOn December 4, 1899, coach Yost published an All-Western football team and selected seven of his own Kansas players for the unit: Smith at guard; Wilcox and Tucker at tackle; Algie at end; Owen at quarterback; Moore at halfback; and Avery at fullback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Season summary, Post-season\nIn May 1900, Yost was hired by Stanford University in 1900, and the fortunes of the Kansas football team declined. The 1900 Kansas team compiled a 2\u20135\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032009-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas Jayhawks football team, Players\nThe following players were the starters for Kansas through the fifth game of the season and in the Nebraska and Missouri games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032010-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032011-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1899 Kentucky Derby was the 25th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 4, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032012-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1899 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nThe 1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1899, to choose the 33rd governor of Kentucky. The incumbent, Republican William O'Connell Bradley, was term-limited and unable to seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nAfter a contentious and chaotic nominating convention at the Music Hall in Louisville, the Democratic Party chose state Senator William Goebel as its nominee. A dissident faction of the party, styling themselves the \"Honest Election Democrats\", were angered by Goebel's political tactics at the Music Hall convention and later held their own nominating convention. They chose former governor John Y. Brown as their nominee. Republicans nominated state Attorney General William S. Taylor, although Governor Bradley favored another candidate and lent Taylor little support in the ensuing campaign. In the general election, Taylor won by a vote of 193,714 to 191,331. Brown garnered 12,040 votes, more than the difference between Taylor and Goebel. The election results were challenged on grounds of voter fraud, but surprisingly, the state Board of Elections, created by a law Goebel had sponsored and stocked with pro-Goebel commissioners, certified Taylor's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 1003]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nAn incensed Democratic majority in the Kentucky General Assembly created a committee to investigate the charges of voter fraud, even as armed citizens from heavily Republican eastern Kentucky poured into the state capital under auspices of keeping Democrats from stealing the election. Before the investigative committee could report, Goebel was shot by an unknown assassin while entering the state capitol on January 30, 1900. As Goebel lay in a nearby hotel being treated for his wounds, the committee issued its report recommending that the General Assembly invalidate enough votes to give the election to Goebel. The report was accepted, Taylor was deposed, and Goebel was sworn into office on January 31. He died three days later on February 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nLieutenant Governor J. C. W. Beckham ascended to the office of governor, and he and Taylor waged a protracted court battle over the governorship. Beckham won the case on appeal, and Taylor fled to Indiana to escape prosecution as an accomplice in Goebel's murder. A total of sixteen people were charged in connection with the assassination. Five went to trial; two of those were acquitted. Each of the remaining three were convicted in trials fraught with irregularities and were eventually pardoned by subsequent governors. The identity of Goebel's assassin remains a mystery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Background\nIn the 1895 gubernatorial election, Kentucky elected its first-ever Republican governor, William O. Bradley. Bradley was able to capitalize both on divisions within the Democratic Party over the issue of Free Silver and on the presence of a strong third-party candidate, Populist Thomas S. Pettit, to secure victory in the general election by just under 9,000 votes. This election marked the beginning of nearly thirty years of true, two-party competition in Kentucky politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Background\nA powerful Democratic foe of Bradley had begun his rise to power in the Kentucky Senate. Kenton County's William Goebel became the leader of a new group of young Democrats who were seen as enemies of large corporations, particularly the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and friends of the working man. Goebel was known as aloof and calculating. Unmarried and with few close friends of either gender, he was singularly driven by political power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Background\nGoebel was chosen president pro tem of the Senate for the 1898 legislative session. On February 1, 1898, he sponsored a measure later called the Goebel Election Law. The law created a Board of Election Commissioners, appointed by the General Assembly, who were responsible for choosing election commissioners in all of Kentucky's counties and were empowered to decide disputed elections. Because the General Assembly was heavily Democratic, the law was attacked as blatantly partisan and self-serving to Goebel; it was opposed even by some Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0006-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Background\nNevertheless, Goebel was able to hold enough members of his party together to override Governor Bradley's veto, making the bill law. As leader of the party, Goebel essentially hand-picked the members of the Election Commission. He chose three staunch Democrats\u2014W. S. Pryor, former chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals; W. T. Ellis, former U. S. Representative from Daviess County; and C. B. Poyntz, former head of the state railroad commission. Republicans organized a test case against the law, but the Court of Appeals found it constitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nThree Democratic candidates had announced intentions to run for governor in 1899\u2014Goebel, former Kentucky Attorney General P. Wat Hardin, and former congressman William J. Stone. Hardin, a native of Mercer County, had the backing of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Lyon County's Stone had the backing of the state's agricultural interests. Goebel generally had the backing of urban voters. Going into the party's nominating convention, Hardin was the favorite to win the nomination. Knowing that combining forces was the only way to prevent Hardin's nomination, representatives of Goebel and Stone met on June 19, 1899, to work out a deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0007-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nAccording to Urey Woodson, a Goebel representative at the meeting, the two sides signed an agreement whereby half of the Louisville delegation, which was committed to Goebel, would vote for Stone. Both men agreed that, should one of them be defeated or withdraw from the race, they would encourage their delegates to vote for the other rather than support Hardin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nThe Democratic nominating convention began on June 20, at the Music Hall on Market Street in Louisville. The first order of business was to nominate a convention chairman. Ollie M. James, a supporter of Stone, nominated Judge David Redwine. When Woodson seconded the nomination, the deal between Stone and Goebel became apparent to all. Hardin supporters nominated William H. Sweeney, but the Stone-Goebel alliance elected Redwine. The membership of several county delegations was challenged; these cases would be decided by the credentials committee. This committee was also stacked against Hardin; his supporters made up just four of the thirteen members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0008-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nProlonged deliberations by the credentials committee caused the delegates to become restless, and hundreds of people\u2014both delegates and non-delegates\u2014entered the Music Hall attempting to disrupt the convention. When Redwine summoned Louisville city police to the hall to maintain order, Hardin supporters accused him of using intimidation tactics. The credentials committee finally issued its report on June 23. Of the twenty-eight cases where delegates were contested, twenty-six of them were decided in favor of Goebel or Stone supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nFormal nominations began the following day. Hardin felt as though he had been cheated and withdrew his candidacy, although some loyal delegates continued to vote for him. Delegate John Stockdale Rhea nominated Stone. Stone believed his agreement with Goebel meant, with Hardin's withdrawal, Goebel would instruct his delegates to vote for Stone, maintaining a unified party. That understanding vanished when another delegate nominated Goebel. Stone was further incensed when all of the Louisville delegation voted for Goebel instead of being split between Stone and Goebel, as the two men had previously agreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0009-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nIn retaliation, some Stone supporters began to back Hardin. Seeing the breakdown of the Stone-Goebel alliance, Hardin reversed his withdrawal. After numerous ballots, the convention was deadlocked on the night of June 24 with each candidate receiving about one-third of the votes. No deliberations were held on Sunday, June 25, and when the delegates reconvened on Monday, June 26, the hall was filled with police per Redwine's request. Rhea requested that the police be removed to prevent intimidation, but Redwine ruled the motion out of order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0009-0002", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nAnother delegate appealed Redwine's decision, and, in violation of parliamentary rule, Redwine ruled the appeal out of order. Angered by Redwine's obviously biased rulings, delegates for Stone and Hardin then began trying to disrupt the convention by blowing horns, singing, yelling, and standing on chairs. Although voting was attempted, many delegates abstained because they were unable to hear and understand what was going on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0009-0003", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nWhen the voting\u2014such as it was\u2014ended, the chair announced that Goebel had a majority of the votes cast, but Goebel sent word to Redwine that he would accept the nomination only if he received an absolute majority of the delegates. Further attempts to vote were likewise disrupted, and the meeting adjourned for the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nOn the morning of June 27, the hall was orderly. Stone and Hardin both called for the convention to adjourn sine die. Again, Redwine ruled this motion and the subsequent appeal of his decision out of order. Leaders for Stone and Hardin announced they would not disrupt the proceedings as they had the previous day and that they would abide by the convention's decision. As voting proceeded, Stone and Hardin unsuccessfully tried to form an alliance against Goebel, and the balloting was deadlocked for twenty-four consecutive ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0010-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nThe delegates agreed to drop the third-place candidate on the next ballot; that turned out to be Stone. The votes of the urban centers, previously divided between Stone and Goebel, now went entirely to Goebel, while the rural western counties that had supported Stone went to Hardin. The vote remained close, but as the alphabetical roll call proceeded, Goebel secured the votes of Stone's Union County delegation, giving him the nomination. Following the vote, Hardin and Stone leaders pledged their support to Goebel, though some did so in qualified terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0010-0002", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Democratic nominating convention\nFor lieutenant governor, the Democrats nominated J. C. W. Beckham who, at age 29, was not yet legally old enough to assume the governorship if called on to do so. Goebel questioned the selection of Beckham because Beckham's native Nelson County had voted for Hardin and was largely controlled by political boss Ben Johnson, but Goebel's allies convinced him that Beckham would be loyal to his program. Among the other nominees was ex-Confederate soldier Robert J. Breckinridge, Jr., for attorney general. This nomination helped placate the numerous ex-Confederates in the party, since Goebel's father had fought for the Union. It was not enough, however, to persuade Breckinridge's brother, former congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge, to support the ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Republican nominating convention\nPotential Republican gubernatorial candidates were initially few. Some were not interested in being on the defense against the inevitable Democratic attacks on the Bradley administration. Still others were intimidated by the prospect of being defeated by the machinery of the Goebel Election Law. Party leaders were encouraged, however, by the deep Democratic divisions at the Music Hall Convention. Sitting attorney general William S. Taylor was the first to announce his candidacy and soon secured the support of Republican senator William Deboe. Later candidates included Hopkins County judge Clifton J. Pratt and sitting state Auditor Sam H. Stone. The former was the choice of Governor Bradley, while the latter was supported by Lexington Herald editor Sam J. Roberts. Taylor, like Goebel, was a skilled political organizer. He was able to create a strong political machine amongst the county delegations and seemed the favorite to win the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 1027]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Republican nominating convention\nThe Republican nominating convention convened on July 12 in Lexington, Kentucky. Angry that his party had not more seriously considered his candidate, Governor Bradley did not attend. Black leaders in the party threatened to follow Bradley and organize their own nominating convention, as they believed Taylor represented the \"lily-white\" branch of the party. Taylor attempted to hold the party together by making one of the black leaders permanent secretary of the convention and promising to appoint other black leaders to his cabinet if elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0012-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Republican nominating convention\nHe also tried to bring Bradley back to the convention by promising to nominate Bradley's nephew, Edwin P. Morrow, for secretary of state. Bradley refused the offer. In the face of Taylor's superior organization, Auditor Stone announced that he desired to see a united party and moved that Taylor be nominated unanimously; Judge Pratt seconded the motion. Other notable nominations were John Marshall for lieutenant governor, Caleb Powers for secretary of state, and Judge Pratt for attorney general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, \"Honest Election Democrats\"\nSome Democrats remained unsatisfied with the outcome of the Music Hall Convention. After a period of silence, candidate William Stone publicly detailed the arrangement he believed he had with Goebel and how Goebel had broken it. Although Goebel's allies attempted to defend him against the charges, Stone's story was soon corroborated by former congressman W. C. Owens. Owens called on Democrats to vote for the Republican candidate, and to do so in such large numbers that no amount of political wrangling by Goebel could give him the governorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, \"Honest Election Democrats\"\nA group of Louisville Democrats, supporters of U. S. Senator Jo Blackburn, made the first formal calls for a new convention. A short time after, a large meeting at Mount Sterling gave the movement a definite form. They called for a meeting in Lexington on August 2 to organize the details of a new convention. At subsequent mass meetings, it was announced that former governor John Y. Brown would accept the nomination of a second convention, should one be held. As Brown had been thought to be a supporter of Goebel, this announcement caused no small stir among Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0014-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, \"Honest Election Democrats\"\nRepresentatives of sixty counties attended the August 2 meeting in Lexington. Resolutions endorsing the Democratic platform from the 1896 Democratic National Convention and the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan in 1900 were adopted. Then, ex-governor Brown addressed the crowd. Finally, the representatives agreed to a nominating convention to be held on August 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, \"Honest Election Democrats\"\nRepresentatives from 108 of Kentucky's 120 counties attended the convention. Among the attendees were the editors of the Lexington Herald, Louisville Evening Post, and Louisville Dispatch, former congressman Owens, former Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives Harvey Myers, Jr., and political bosses William Mackoy, John Whallen, and Theodore Hallam. The convention nominated an entire slate of candidates for state office, with former governor Brown at the head. They also put forward a platform condemning the Music Hall Convention, the Goebel Election Law, and the presidential administration of William McKinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nGoebel's campaign staff included Senator Jo Blackburn, former governor James B. McCreary, and political boss Percy Haly. Goebel opened his campaign on August 12 in Mayfield, a city in the heavily Democratic Jackson Purchase region of the state. He attacked the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and charged that wealthy corporate interests from outside the state were attempting to influence the choice of Kentucky's governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nTaylor opened his campaign on August 22 in London, a Republican stronghold in eastern Kentucky. Among his supporters were Senator Deboe, Congressman Samuel Pugh, Caleb Powers, and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Thomas Z. Morrow (who was also the brother-in-law of Governor Bradley). Taylor stressed the economic prosperity brought about during the McKinley administration. He reminded the crowd that the Republicans had not supported the enslavement of blacks and stated they would not now support what he called the \"political enslavement\" that would result from electing Goebel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nBrown opened his campaign in Bowling Green on August 26. Because of his age and ill health, he made no more than one speech per week. Nevertheless, he toured the Commonwealth, questioning the sincerity of Goebel's Free Silver views. He continued to attack the Music Hall Convention, asking whether past great Democrats such as John C. Breckinridge and Lazarus W. Powell would have supported the events that took place there. He also derided the Goebel Election Law as creating an oligarchy. Brown's limited appearances were supplemented by speeches from his supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nAlthough ex-Confederates were generally a safe voting bloc for Democrats, Goebel could not heavily rely on them because of his father's ties to the Union. Also, in 1895, Goebel had killed John Sanford, an ex-Confederate, in a duel stemming from a personal dispute between the two men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0019-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nThis made him particularly odious to Brown supporter Theodore Hallum, a friend of Sanford's, who said of Goebel at a campaign rally in Bowling Green \"[W]hen the Democratic Party of Kentucky, in convention assembled, sees fit in its wisdom to nominate a yellow dog for the governorship of this great state, I will support him\u2014but lower than that you shall not drag me.\" Goebel tried to mitigate his lukewarm support from ex-Confederates by courting the black vote, long given to the Republicans, though he had to do so carefully to avoid further alienating his own party base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0019-0002", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nUnlike other Democrats, Goebel had not voted on the Separate Coach Bill, a law that required blacks and whites to use segregated railroad facilities. Most blacks opposed the bill, and Goebel tried to remain silent on the issue, but when pressed, he admitted in a campaign event in Cloverport that he supported the bill and would oppose its repeal. Likewise, Taylor had tried to dodge the issue of the Separate Coach Bill to avoid upsetting the \"lily white\" branch of his party, but a week after Goebel took a position in favor of the bill, Taylor came out against it. This marked a turning point in the campaign, as blacks, at first cool toward Taylor, now actively supported him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nThe dying Populist Party had also nominated a full slate of candidates for state offices, eroding some of Goebel's populist base. Although the Populist Party platform was similar to Goebel's, it also explicitly condemned the Goebel Election Law. Thomas Pettit, the Populist candidate from the 1895 gubernatorial election, campaigned for Goebel, but many of the other leaders in the party did not. With his support slipping on every side, Goebel appealed to William Jennings Bryan to come to the state and campaign for him. Known as \"the Great Commoner\", Bryan was immensely popular with Kentuckians, particularly Democrats and Populists. After refusing initial requests, Bryan finally came to the state and, in three days, crisscrossed the state with Goebel to stir up support. Bryan's visit helped solidify Democrats behind Goebel and took significant support from the Brown ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 930]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nNo sooner had Bryan left the state than Governor Bradley reversed course and began stumping for Taylor. Though he insisted he only wanted to defend his administration from Democratic attacks, Louisville Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson suggested that Bradley was seeking to enlist Taylor's support for his anticipated senatorial bid. Bradley kicked off his tour of the state in Louisville, charging that Democrats had to import an orator for their candidate because all the state's best men had deserted him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0021-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nAs evidence, he cited Goebel's lack of support from Democrat John G. Carlisle, his former ally, as well as Senator William Lindsay, W. C. P. Breckinridge, John Y. Brown, Theodore Hallum, W. C. Owens, Wat Hardin, and William Stone. He also encouraged blacks not to desert the Republican Party. He contrasted his appointments of blacks to his cabinet with the Democrats' support of the Separate Coach Bill. Bradley and Republican leader (and later governor) Augustus E. Willson toured the state on behalf of the Republican ticket, often drawing crowds larger than those assembled for Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nIn the final two weeks of the campaign, Brown was injured in an accident and became a wheelchair user. This was a severe blow to an already faltering campaign, and it became clear the race would primarily be between Goebel and Taylor. Both men spent the last days of the campaign in Louisville, knowing that, with its sizable population, it would be key to the election. Goebel continued his attack on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, supporting striking laborers from the railroad and charging that the Republican party was controlled by trusts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0022-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Campaign\nBoth Republicans and Democrats warned of the possibility that election fraud and violence would be perpetrated by the other side. Louisville mayor Charles P. Weaver, a Goebel Democrat, added 500 recruits to the city's police force just before the election, leading to charges that voter intimidation would occur in that city. Governor Bradley countered by ordering the state militia to be ready to quell any disturbances across the state. On election day, the headline of the Courier-Journal proclaimed \"BAYONET Rule\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0023-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nFor all the claims about the potential for violence, election day, November 7, remained mostly calm across the state. Fewer than a dozen people were arrested statewide. Voting returns were slow, and on election night, the race was still too close to call. When the official tally was announced, Taylor had won by a vote of 193,714 to 191,331. Brown had garnered 12,040 votes, and Populist candidate Blair had captured 2,936. Had Goebel been able to win the votes that went to either of the third party candidates, he could have saved the election for the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0023-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nCharges of fraud began even before the official returns were announced. In Nelson County, 1,200 ballots listed the Republican candidate as \"W. P. Taylor\" instead of \"W. S. Taylor\"; Democrats claimed these votes should be invalidated. In Knox and Johnson counties, voters complained of \"thin tissue ballots\" that allowed the voter's choices to be seen through them. One Democratic political boss even called for the entire Louisville vote to be invalidated because the state militia had intimidated voters there. (Taylor had won by about 3,000 votes in Louisville.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0024-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nRepublicans gained an early victory when the Court of Appeals ruled that the Nelson County vote should stand. The final result of the election, however, would be decided by the Board of Elections, created by the Goebel Election Law. Newspapers across the state, both Democratic and Republican, called for the board's decision to be accepted as final. Tensions grew as the date for the board's hearings drew near, and small bands of armed men from heavily Republican eastern Kentucky began to arrive in Frankfort, the state capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0024-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nJust before the board's decision was announced, the number of armed mountain men was estimated at 500. Although the board was thought to be controlled by Goebel, it rendered a surprise 2\u20131 decision to let the announced vote tally stand. The board's majority opinion claimed they did not have any judicial power and were thus unable to hear proof or swear witnesses. Taylor was inaugurated on December 12, 1899. Democrats were outraged; party leaders met on December 14 and called on Goebel and Beckham to contest the election. Goebel had been inclined to let the result stand and seek a seat in the U. S. Senate in 1901, but he heeded the wishes of his party's leaders and contested the board's decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0025-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nAllie Young, chairman of the state Democratic Party, called a caucus of the Democratic members of the General Assembly to be held on January 1, 1900. As a result of the caucus, J. C. S. Blackburn was nominated for a seat in the U. S. Senate, Goebel was nominated as president pro tem of the Kentucky Senate, and South Trimble was nominated as speaker of the House. When the General Assembly convened, each Democratic nominee was elected, the party possessing heavy majorities in both houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0025-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nLieutenant Governor Marshall presented a list of committees to the Senate, but that body voted 19\u201317 to set aside this list and approve a list provided by Goebel instead. Similarly, in the House, the list of committees presented by Speaker Trimble and approved by that body enumerated forty committees, none of them with a Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0026-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nGoebel's and Beckham's challenges to the election results were received by the General Assembly on January 2. The following day, the Assembly appointed a contest committee to investigate the allegations contained in the challenges, voter fraud and illegal military intimidation of voters among them. The members of the committee were drawn at random, although the drawing was likely rigged\u2014only one Republican joined ten Democrats on the committee. (Chance dictated that the committee should have contained four or five Republicans.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0026-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath\nThe joint committee on the rules recommended that the contest committee report at the pleasure of the General Assembly, that debate was limited once the findings were presented, and that the report be voted on in a joint session of the Assembly. The rules further provided that the speaker of the House would preside over this joint session instead of the lieutenant governor, as was customary. The Republican minority fought these provisions, but the Democratic majority passed them over their opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0027-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nRepublicans around the state expected the committee to recommend disqualification of enough ballots to make Goebel governor. Additional armed men from eastern Kentucky filled the capital. Taylor, recognizing that the slightest incident could lead to violence, ordered the men home, and many of them complied. Still, two or three hundred remained, awaiting the election committee's findings. Others remained as witnesses set to testify before the contest committee. Some of these Republican witnesses were arrested by local police, who were mostly Goebel partisans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0027-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nGovernor Taylor issued pardons for some of them, citing their claims the police had robbed them upon their arrest. To avoid arrest for carrying a concealed weapon, many of the Republican partisans began wearing their guns openly, adding to the tensions in the city, but effectively reducing the number of arrests by local police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0028-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nOn the morning of January 30, as Goebel and two friends walked toward the capitol building, a shot rang out, and Goebel fell wounded. He was taken to a nearby hotel to be treated for his wounds. Soldiers filled the streets and blocked entrance to the capitol. Defiantly, the contest committee met in Frankfort's city hall. By a strictly party-line vote, they adopted a majority report that claimed Goebel and Beckham had received the most legitimate votes and should be installed in their respective offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0029-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nA little over an hour after the committee's meeting, Governor Taylor declared a state of insurrection and called out the state militia. He called the legislature into special session, not in Frankfort, but in heavily Republican London, which he insisted was a safer location. Defiant Democratic legislators refused to heed the call to London, but when they attempted to convene first in the state capitol and later in other public locations in Frankfort, they found the doors barred by armed citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0029-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nOn January 31, 1900, they convened secretly in a Frankfort hotel, with no Republicans present, and voted to certify the findings of the contest committee, invalidating enough votes to make Goebel governor. Goebel was sworn in, and immediately ordered the state militia to stand down. He also ordered the General Assembly to reconvene in Frankfort. The Republican militia refused to disband, and a rival Democratic militia formed across the lawn of the state capitol. Civil war seemed possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0030-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nTaylor apprised President McKinley of the situation in Kentucky. He stopped short of asking for intervention by federal troops, and McKinley assured a delegation of Kentucky's federal legislators that such intervention would occur only as a last resort. Republican legislators made preparations to heed Taylor's call to convene in London on February 5. Meanwhile, in order to resolve any doubts about the legitimacy of their earlier meeting, Democratic legislators met at the state house\u2014no longer being denied entrance by the state militia\u2014and again voted to adopt the majority report declaring Goebel and Beckham the winners of the election. Both men again took the oath of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0031-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nAs a test to see if his gubernatorial authority was still recognized, Taylor issued a pardon for a man convicted of manslaughter in Knott County. The pardon was signed by the proper county officials, but officers at the penitentiary refused to release the man. It was feared Taylor would dispatch the state militia to remove the prisoner, but no further attempts were made to secure his release. Continuing to live under heavy guard in his executive office, Taylor was criticized for not having offered a reward for the capture of Goebel's unknown assailant. Responding that he was not authorized to make an offer in the absence of a request to do so by the officials in Franklin County, he offered a $500 reward from his own money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0032-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Goebel's assassination\nGoebel died of his wounds on February 3. He remains the only American governor ever assassinated while in office. With Goebel, the most controversial figure in the election, dead, tensions began to ease somewhat. Leaders from both sides drafted an agreement whereby Taylor and Lieutenant Governor Marshall would step down from their respective offices; in exchange, they would receive immunity from prosecution in any actions they may have taken with regard to Goebel's assassination. The state militia would withdraw from Frankfort, and the Goebel Election Law would be repealed and replaced with a fairer law. Despite the agreement of his allies, Taylor refused to sign the agreement. He did, however, lift the ban on the General Assembly meeting in Frankfort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0033-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Legal challenges\nWhen the legislature convened on February 19, two sets of officers attempted to preside. Marshall and Goebel's lieutenant governor, J. C. W. Beckham, both claimed the right to preside over the state senate. Taylor sued to prevent Beckham from exercising any authority in the senate; Beckham counter-sued for possession of the capitol and executive building. The cases were consolidated, and both Republicans and Democrats agreed to let the courts decide the election. On March 10, a circuit court found in favor of Beckham and the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0033-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Legal challenges\nBy a 6\u20131 vote, the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the state's court of last resort at the time, upheld the circuit court's decision on April 6, legally unseating Taylor and Marshall. The case of Taylor v. Beckham was eventually appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, but the court refused to intervene in the case because it found there were no federal questions involved. The lone justice dissenting from that opinion was Kentuckian John Marshall Harlan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0034-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Legal challenges\nSixteen indictments were returned in connection with Goebel's assassination, including one against deposed governor Taylor. In May 1900, Taylor fled to Indianapolis, Indiana, and the governor, James A. Mount refused to extradite him for trial. Three others charged in the assassination turned state's evidence. Only five of the sixteen went to trial; two of those were acquitted. Three men were eventually convicted for playing roles in Goebel's assassination. Kentucky's Secretary of State, Caleb Powers, was accused of being the mastermind behind the assassination. Henry Youtsey, the State Auditor of Kentucky, was said to have aided the assassin. James B. Howard, a participant in a bloody feud in Clay County was charged with being the actual assassin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0035-0000", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Legal challenges\nAccording to the prosecution's theory, the assassin shot Goebel from the secretary of state's office on the first floor of a building next to the state capitol. However, much of the testimony against the accused men was conflicting, and some of it was later proven to be perjured. Most of the state's judges were Democratic supporters of Goebel and juries were packed with partisan Democrats. The appellate courts, however, were largely Republican, and the convictions returned by the lower courts were often overturned, with the cases being remanded for new trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032013-0035-0001", "contents": "1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Election and aftermath, Legal challenges\nHoward was tried and convicted in September 1900, January 1902, and April 1903; his final appeal failed, and he was sentenced to life in prison. Powers was also convicted three times\u2014in July 1900, October 1901, and August 1903; a fourth trial in November 1907 ended in a hung jury. In 1908, Powers and Howard were pardoned by Republican governor Augustus E. Willson. Months later, Willson also issued pardons for former governor Taylor and several others still under indictment. Despite the pardon, Taylor seldom returned to Kentucky; he became an insurance executive in Indiana and died there in 1928. Youtsey, the only defendant not to appeal his sentence, was paroled in 1916 and pardoned in 1919 by Democratic governor James D. Black.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032014-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kildare County Council election\nAn election for Kildare County Council was held in 1899 as part of the wider 1899 Irish local elections. It was the first election following the reorganization of Irish local government caused by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, and saw a considerable change of power from the largely Protestant traditional landowning class to the largely Catholic tenants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032014-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Kildare County Council election\nThe council was composed of 30 members, of whom 21 were elected representatives, whilst the remaining nine were Ex officio members; 5 were members by virtue of being Chairmen of Rural district councils, whilst 3 were nominees of the grand jury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032014-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Kildare County Council election\nIn contrast to County Mayo, the United Irish League played no role in the election, and didn't have any Kildare branches until December 1899. Whilst many candidates proclaimed themselves as nationalists, they were moderates, with no candidates advocating Irish republican sentiments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032015-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1899 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 11th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032015-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nTullaroan won the championship after a 3-06 to 1-05 defeat of Young Irelands in the final. This was their fifth championship title overall and their first in two championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032016-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Kingstown Urban District Council election\nElections to the Kingstown Urban District Council took place on Monday 16 January 1899 as part of local elections that year. Following the election, T. W. Robinson was elected council Chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032017-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1899 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. New coach John P. Gregg led the Tigers to a 1\u20134 season. The only wins were in an exhibition game against a high school team (which LSU does not officially record as a win) and against rival, Tulane. It was the first year of play for LSU's second five-year letterman, John J. Coleman (1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032018-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Lafayette football team\nThe 1899 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1899 college football season. Lafayette shut out 10 opponents and finished with a 12\u20131 record in their first year under head coach Samuel B. Newton. Significant games included victories over Penn (6\u20130), Lehigh (17\u20130 and 35\u20130), and Cornell (6\u20135), and its sole loss coming against co-national champion Princeton (0\u201312). The 1899 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 253 to 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032018-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Lafayette football team\nTwo Lafayette players received recognition on the 1899 College Football All-America Team. They are: fullback Edward G. Bray (Outing magazine, 2nd team; Charles E. Patterson, 1st team); and guard H. E. Trout (Walter Camp, 3rd team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032018-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Lafayette football team, Players\nThe following players were regulars on the 1899 Lafayette football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032019-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Lake Forest Foresters football team\nThe 1899 Lake Forest football team was an American football team that represented the Lake Forest University in the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032020-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1899 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their fifth season in existence. The team played only four games this season and finished 4-0. This season, the team's colors changed from orange and maroon to red and blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032021-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Lehigh football team\nThe 1899 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the team compiled a 2\u20139 record and was outscored by a total of 144 to 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032022-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia in 1899. In the presidential election, incumbent William D. Coleman of the True Whig Party was re-elected for a second full term (his first, partial term was spent completing the term of President Joseph James Cheeseman who had died in office).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032023-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Limerick Municipal Council election\nAn election for Limerick Municipal Council was held in 1899 as part of the wider 1899 Irish local elections. Following the reforms of the 1898 Act Limerick's franchise had increased from 709 to 5,521.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032023-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Limerick Municipal Council election\nA total of 79 candidates contested the 40 seats; with 27 of the outgoing councillors putting themselves forward for re-election, 34 Laborites putting themselves forward, 18 Merchants and large rate-payers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032023-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Limerick Municipal Council election\nThe election saw Labour winning control of the council, with 24 of the councils 40 seats. Hand in hand with Labor's victory, went the victory of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Of the 40 councillors, 21 were members of the IRB. Of these 21 IRB members, 18 were Laborites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032023-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Limerick Municipal Council election, Aggregate results\nThe result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032024-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1899 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 11th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032024-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nKilfinane won the championship after a 2-09 to 0-00 defeat of Lough Gur in the final. It was their second championship title overall and their first title in two year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1899. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election\nEleven of the thirty-one seats (29 wards, with a new ward of Sefton Park East electing three new councillors) were uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1896 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 24 Sefton Park West, November 1899\nThe resignation of Councillor Francis Henderson (Conservative, Sefton Park West, elected 1 November 1898) was reported to the Council on 9 November 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 90], "content_span": [91, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 17, St. Anne's, November 1899\nThe resignation of Councillor Jacob Reuben Grant (Liberal, St. Anne's, elected 1 November 1897) was reported to the Council on 9 November 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.19, St. Peter's, November 1899\nThe resignation of Alderman Henry Hugh Hornby(Liberal Unionist, elected by the council 9 November 1898) was reported to the Council on 9 November 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.19, St. Peter's, November 1899\nCouncillor William Henry Watts (Liberal, St. Peter's, elected 1897) was elected as an alderman by the council on 9 November 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.23 Prince's Park, November 1899\nOn the addition of No. 24a Sefton Park East ward,Councillor William James Burgess (Conservative, Prince's Park, elected 1 November 1897) was elected as an alderman by the council on 9 November 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032025-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 4, Fairfield ward, 15 May 1900\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Frank John Leslie (Conservative, Fairfield, elected 1 November 1899).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032026-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Louisville Colonels season\nThe 1899 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 75\u201377 record and ninth place in the National League. Following the season, owner Barney Dreyfuss bought the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and folded his Louisville team. Manager Fred Clarke and most of the players moved over to the Pirates where they enjoyed much more success in the coming years. The Colonels, a perennial also-ran through their National League run from 1892 to 1899, appeared to be on the cusp of becoming a strong team when the National League contracted from 12 teams to 8 after the end of the 1899 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032026-0000-0001", "contents": "1899 Louisville Colonels season\nLouisville started the season with a 15\u201337 record after 52 games, but then went 60\u201340 in their last 100 in the first glimpse of what was to become a strong Pirates team in the years to come. Many star players, including several Hall of Famers, of the first decade of the 20th Century came from the 1899 Louisville squad including Clarke, Honus Wagner, Rube Waddell, Deacon Phillippe, Tommy Leach and Claude Ritchey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032026-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032026-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032026-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032026-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032026-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032027-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Maltese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Malta on 7 March 1899. All seats had only a single candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032027-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Maltese general election, Background\nThe elections were held under the Knutsford Constitution. Ten members were elected from single-member constituencies, whilst a further three members were elected to represent nobility and landowners, graduates and the Chamber of Commerce. The seat previously reserved for clerics was abolished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032027-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Maltese general election, Results\nA total of 9,581 people were registered to vote, although no votes were cast due to all candidates being unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032028-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Manitoba general election\nThe 1899 Manitoba general election was held on December 7, 1899. The Conservative Party, led by Sir Hugh John Macdonald defeated the incumbent Liberal government, led by Premier Thomas Greenway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032028-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Manitoba general election\nThis Manitoba-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032029-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1899 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 1899 college football season. The team did not have a coach, and tied their lone game 0\u20130, marking the only time in school history that no points have been scored by Marshall or their opponents in an entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032029-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1899 season marked the first undefeated season in Marshall school history, despite also being a winless season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032029-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Game summaries, at Catlettsburg\nAs it was the only game of the season, the Catlettsburg game was denoted as Marshall's homecoming despite being an away game. Due to the Spanish\u2013American War, it is reported that the Marshall team may have been made up of both current and former Marshall players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 76], "content_span": [77, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032030-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1899 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach S. S. Cooke (sometimes referenced as S. M. Cooke), the Aggies compiled a 1\u20134 record and were outscored by their opponents, 157 to 26. The team was shut out in all four of its intercollegiate football games; its only victory was by a 26\u20130 score over Eastern High School from Washington, D. C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032031-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Maryland gubernatorial election\nThe 1899 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032031-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Maryland gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Governor Republican Lloyd Lowndes Jr. was defeated by Democratic candidate John Walter Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032032-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1899 college football season. The team was coached by Fred W. Murphy and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1899 season was Brown's first as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032033-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1899 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1899. Incumbent Republican Governor Roger Wolcott did not run for re-election to a fourth one-year term. Lt . Governor W. Murray Crane was elected to succeed him, defeating Democrat Robert Treat Paine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032034-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 120th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1899 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032035-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Merionethshire by-election\nThe Merionethshire by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Merionethshire on 2 May 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032035-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Merionethshire by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal MP, Thomas Edward Ellis on 5 April 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032035-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Merionethshire by-election, Candidates\nMerionethshire Liberal Association considered a number of possible candidates but the favourite from an early stage was Owen Morgan Edwards, an academic at Lincoln College, Oxford, a native of Merionethshire who was described as an ardent Welsh Nationalist. Edwards was hardly enthusiastic to take up the offer of being the Liberal candidate. He wrote to Dr Edward Jones, chairman of the county Liberals, that he had many days of anxiety and sleepless nights since learning he was the front-runner. He said that he would be relieved if not called upon to stand and would rather not take the position unless absolutely needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032035-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Merionethshire by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives had fought Merionethshire at the 1895 general election and at its meeting in Dolgellau on 14 April 1899 resolved that the seat should be contested at the by-election. No candidate was selected at that time however and the matter was postponed. Once Edwards was adopted by the Liberals, the Conservatives met again at Barmouth and this time decided not to oppose him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032035-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Merionethshire by-election, The result\nThere being no other candidates putting themselves forward, Edwards was returned unopposed. He did not enjoy parliamentary life however and did not seek re-election at the general election of 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season\nThe 1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 26th season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. It was the last season run for independent clubs who took their players from across the city. Eight clubs competed from May till September 1899. The season culminated in the premiership, which was won by Wallaroo. Wallaroo were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nSeven clubs contested the season. Paddington and Burwood were missing from the Senior grade having been disbanded during the previous season. Parramatta returned to the Premiership for the first time since 1894. Marrickville and Buccaneer both stepped up from the First Junior to the Senior grade. Marrickville were the current First Junior Premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe 1899 Sydney Rugby Premiership saw the Wallaroo Football Club win the premiership by four points. The season finished much later than usual due to representative games and poor weather. As a result, the final round of the regular season was canceled in order to play out the finals for the two trophies. This did not effect the results of the premiership as Wallaroo were already too far ahead to be beaten and the finals were not included in the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAccording to the club captain, Paddy Lane, Wallaroo fielded their best all-round team. Much of the scoring came from the back row with Alfonso Spragg, Charlie White, Iggy O'Donnell, John Futter and Frank Row scoring 32 of the teams tries. The team experienced good fortune to not have any major injuries during the season despite many of the team playing representatives games in addition to club games. Wallaroo won two out of the three awards for the season, with the team winning the Premiership and the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy. They surprisingly lost the Agricultural Society Trophy final, only their second loss of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nRandwick began the season with an impressive record. They were unbeaten until the eleventh round. This included inflicting the only loss for Wallaroo during the regular season, beating them by one point. The result was reversed when Wallaroo ended Randwick's unbeaten run, winning 11 points to nil. From there, Randwick won only one game in their last four, including fielding only 13 players in the Sydney Cricket Ground Semi Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAs in previous seasons, the Pirates Football Club came along with great dash and strength towards the end of the season. During the regular season games, the team had only won five games. This resulted in them not making the semi finals for the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy. However, they made their presence felt during the Agricultural Society Trophy games, winning all of the matches to the final and winning the final brilliantly. This was the third year in a row that the team had won the Agricultural Society Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals\nEven though the premiership was decided at the end of the regular games, a finals series was organised. The games were not included in the premiership results. Two trophies were played for at the end of the season: the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy and the Agricultural Society Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 1, 16 September, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nAt the end of the regular season, the top four teams qualified for the Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy. The first week of finals saw these teams play in the Semi Finals for the SCG Trophy. As was expected, Wallaroo easily won their match against Marrickville to proceed to the Final. The form of the victorious team was that which would have rivalled an Intercolonial match. In their Semi Final, Randwick were only able to field 13 players with many unfamiliar faces. Despite this, the team held their own with the Wallaroo players barracking from the sidelines. Sydney won the game with a try in the dying moments to proceed to the Final to play against Wallaroo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 110], "content_span": [111, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 1, 16 September, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe remaining four teams played the first games towards the Agricultural Society Trophy. In the first game, the Pirates easily won against the Buccaneers. The winners, like Randwick, also had trouble fielding a team to play with the team fielding many unfamiliar faces. The Buccaneer were eliminated from the final series after their loss to the Pirates. The second qualifying game did not happen as Parramatta forfeited the game and thus the final series. As a result, Sydney University received a forfeit to pass through the first Qualifying Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 109], "content_span": [110, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 23 September, Sydney Cricket Ground Trophy\nThe Final for the trophy was closer than had been expected, despite the final scoreline. At the end of the first half, Wallaroo led Sydney by the slim margin of 1 point. And early in the second half, Sydney scored to take the lead 8 to 6. From there, Sydney failed to capitalise on their momentum and, through some mistakes, Wallaroo were able to score twice to win the match and the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 110], "content_span": [111, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 2, 23 September, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe two second round qualifying games for the Agricultural Society Trophy were almost forgotten. Even the clubs struggled to field their best teams. Marrickville had only 11 players in their game against Sydney University. They were no match for the Varsity and lost the game by a large margin. The Pirates-Randwick game saw many unfamiliar faces participating. The Randwick team were almost entirely made up of reserves and, as a result, lost the match 6 to 0. The two victorious teams, the Pirates and Sydney University were to progress to the Semi Finals for the Trophy against the two finalists for the SCG Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 109], "content_span": [110, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 3, 27 September, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe Semi Finals for the Agricultural Society Trophy were played midweek on Wednesday. Much of the interest in the games had been lost as the football season had drawn on longer than was necessary. There had been calls for the Union to cancel the Semi's and the Final. However, the Union ignored these requests and proceeded with the matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 109], "content_span": [110, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 3, 27 September, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe weather on the Wednesday the matches were held turned out to be wet and windy. The first Semi Final between Wallaroo and University was entirely one-sided with Wallaroo dominating the scoring. The second Semi Final ended in a fiasco. Ten minutes into the game, a Sydney player was ordered off the field for striking an opponent. The player refused to go with the game suspended for approximately ten more minutes. After some discussion, the referee decided to end the match. The entire situation was presented that evening to the Union, who awarded the match to the Pirates. What play was seen during the match indicated that the Pirates were the better team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 109], "content_span": [110, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Trophy Finals, Finals Week 4, 30 September, Agricultural Society Trophy\nThe Final for the Agricultural Society Trophy was played between the Premiers, Wallaroo, and the Pirates. The Pirates put a fantastic team in the field, all in sound condition. They had the measure of Wallaroo, demonstrating excellent defence. The team had an answer for each of the plays that Wallaroo had. During the game, Wallaroo had one moment where they were looking like scoring. However, a pass was fumbled, resulting in a lost opportunity. As in previous years, the Pirates had come good at the right time of the year. This was the third consecutive year that the Pirates had won the Agricultural Society Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 109], "content_span": [110, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades\nThe MRFU also conducted Second Grade and Third Grade competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Second Grade\nThe following teams were involved in the Second Grade competition in 1899: Adelphi, Arncliffe, Endeavour, Glebe, Manly Federal, Mosman, Newtown, North Sydney, Permanent Artillery, Redfern Waratah, South Sydney, Sydney University B, Wallaroo II, Waverley. At the conclusion of the season, Glebe and South Sydney faced each other in the Final. The game was drawn with a replay organised for a later date. Glebe won the replay 14 to 3 and were declared premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032036-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Third Grade\nThe following teams were involved in the Third Grade competition in 1899: Balmain Carlingford, Bondi, Botany, Burwood, East Sydney, Forest Lodge Cambridge, Hurstville, Manly Wentworth, Newtown II, Pioneer, Strathfield, Sydney University III, Warrigal, Waverley Oaks, Permanent Artillery, South Sydney II, Redfern Waratah II. At the conclusion of the season, Forest Lodge Cambridge beat Waverley Oaks in the Final 10 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032037-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1899 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1899 college football season. Under new head coach George Greenleaf, Miami compiled a 1\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032038-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1899 college football season. In their first year under head coach Charles Bemies, the Aggies compiled a 2\u20134\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 142 to 127. Bemies was the first professional coach to lead the MAC football team. In the third game in the Michigan State\u2013Notre Dame football rivalry, Notre Dame won the game at South Bend, Indiana, by 40 to 0 score as Notre Dame's captain McDonald scored five touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032039-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1899 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1899 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Dwight Watson, the Normalites compiled a record of 1\u20131\u20131 and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 29 to 23. George L. Wood was the team captain. They played the University of Michigan freshman team to 5-5 tie, lost to Michigan Agricultural College by an 18-0 score, and defeated the Toledo YMCA team, 24-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032040-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines baseball team\nThe 1899 Michigan Wolverines baseball team represented the University of Michigan in the 1899 college baseball season. The Wolverines were led by head coach Henry Clarke. They won the Western Conference for the first time with a record of 5\u20132, 14\u20135 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1899 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1899 Western Conference football season. In their third and final season under head coach Gustave Ferbert, the team compiled an 8\u20132 record (1\u20131 against conference opponents), tied for third in the Western Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 176 to 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe team opened the season with seven consecutive shutouts, outscoring opponents in those contests by a total of 109 to 0. However, Michigan finished the season by going 2\u20132 in its final four games, losing to Penn and Wisconsin. After the 1899 season, Ferbert resigned as Michigan's head coach to travel to Alaska to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team\nAllen Steckle was the team captain. Leo J. Keena was the team's leading scorer with 32 points on five touchdowns (five points each) and seven goals from touchdown (one point each). Three Michigan players were named to the 1899 College Football All-America Team, as selected by The Philadelphia Inquirer: end Neil Snow, halfback John McLean, and tackle Richard France. Snow, McLean, and France were also named to the 1899 All-Western college football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 1: Hillsdale\nOn September 30, 1899, Michigan defeated Hillsdale by an 11\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Fullback Leo J. Keena scored Michigan's first touchdown less than two minutes into the game, and the kick for goal was unsuccessful. J. Elliott McAfee scored Michigan's second touchdown, still in the first half, and Keena kicked the goal from touchdown. Neither team scored in the second half The game was played halves of 20 and 15 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: Albion\nOn October 7, 1899, Michigan defeated Albion by a 26\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored three touchdowns in the first half on runs of 18 yards by Clayton Teetzel and 22 yards by Everett Sweeley, and an 85-yard punt return by Arthur Fitzgerald. Michigan missed on all three kicks for goal in the first half and led, 15\u20130, at halftime. Michigan scored two more touchdowns in the second half, the first on a short run by Eben Wilson with Neil Snow kicking the goal. Michigan's final touchdown was scored by Albert E. Herrnstein on a 45-yard run. The kick for goal was unsuccessful. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: Western Reserve\nOn October 14, 1899, Michigan defeated Western Reserve by a 17\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. After 15 minutes of play in the first half, right tackle Allen Steckle scored a touchdown on a short run, and Neil Snow kicked the goal. In the second half, Charles Frank Juttner, a substitute right tackle, scored on a \"revolving play\" from the one-yard line, and Snow again kicked the goal. Michigan scored a third touchdown when fullback Everett Sweeley recovered a fumble and returned it 20 yards for a touchdown. Snow's kick for goal was unsuccessful. The game was played in halves of 25 and 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: Notre Dame\nOn October 18, 1899, Michigan defeated Notre Dame by a 12\u20130 score before a crowd of 2,000 spectators at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The field was soft and slippery from heavy rain that fell the day before the game. Both teams played \"plain football with a little punting\". Michigan scored its first touchdown when Albert E. Herrnstein blocked a Notre Dame punt, Charles Frank Juttner fell on the ball, and Leo J. Keena then scored on a short run. John McLean scored Michigan's other touchdown in the second half. Neil Snow kicked both goals from touchdown. Clayton Teetzel also had runs of 45 and 40 yards in the second half. The game was played in halves of 25 and 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: Michigan alumni\nOn October 21, 1899, Michigan played its annual exhibition game with an alumni team made up of Michigan players from prior years. A large crowd that included university president James Burrill Angell attended the game at Regents Field. The game, played in 20-minute halves, ended in a scoreless tie. The alumni team included H. G. Hadden (left end), Frederick W. Henninger (left tackle), Richard France (left guard), Edwin Denby (center), Horace Greely Prettyman (right guard), John W. F. Bennett (right end), William Wilson Talcott (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert (left halfback), Charles Widman (right halfback), and John A. Bloomingston (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: at Illinois\nOn October 28, 1899, Michigan defeated Illinois by a 5\u20130 score before a crowd of 1,000 spectators at Illinois Field in Champaign, Illinois. After a scoreless first half, right tackle Charles McDonald scored a touchdown on a short run to cap a 50-yard drive. Charles E. Street returned a punt 75 yards. Leo J. Keena had two punts blocked, but kicked another one 50 yards. Michigan's defensive play was outstanding. After Illinois blocked a punt, it gained possession at Michigan's five-yard line, and a holding penalty moved the ball half the distance further toward the goal line. Michigan stopped the Illini on four consecutive downs. The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: vs. Virginia\nOn November 4, 1899, Michigan defeated Virginia by a 38\u20130 score at Bennett Park in Detroit. Two special trains from Ann Arbor delivered the football team, band, and students to Detroit's Michigan Central Station on the morning of the game. The Michigan fans, described the Detroit Free Press as a \"megaphone brigade\", paraded loudly through the streets of Detroit before the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: vs. Virginia\nThe playing field at Bennett Park was in good condition despite snow and rain that fell the prior day. The game began at 3:45\u00a0p.m. Michigan tallied three touchdowns in the first half and four in the second half. Michigan's touchdowns were scored by Richard France, Hugh White (two), Clark Leiblee, Allen Steckle (two), and Charles McDonald. Neil Snow kicked three goals from touchdown. The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: at Penn\nMichigan traveled to Philadelphia to play the University of Pennsylvania Quakers on November 11, 1899. At the time, Penn was one of the three top football teams in the country. Michigan scored first on a 22-yard touchdown run by John McLean around Penn's left end. Neil Snow missed the kick for the goal after touchdown, and Michigan led 5 to 0 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0011-0001", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: at Penn\nPenn's All-American Truxtun Hare scored a touchdown in the second half (also missing its goal after touchdown attempt) to tie the score at 5 to 5. Michigan re-took the lead when McLean and Allen Steckle carried the ball to Pennsylvania's ten-yard line, and Michigan tackle, Charles McDonald, then carried the ball over the goal line for Michigan's second touchdown. Michigan's Everett Sweeley missed the goal after touchdown, and Michigan led 10 to 5. With less than seven minutes left in the game, Hare scored his second touchdown of the game, and Pete Overfield kicked the goal after touchdown to give the Quakers the win with a final score of 11 to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: at Penn\nAlthough Michigan lost by a final score of 12 to 11 on Penn's Franklin Field, the Wolverines gained national respect with a good showing against the Quakers. The New York Times reported on the results of the game as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: at Penn\n\"The game was a royal battle from start to finish, and was marked by both brilliant and poor playing by both teams. Pennsylvania earned her victory because she had to play harder for her two touch-downs than did Michigan. The latter team, although beaten, was not disgraced, for the Western boys made their Eastern rivals work hard for every inch of ground they gained. ... The game was a beautiful one for the spectators to look at. Both teams were about as evenly matched as they could be.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0013-0001", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: at Penn\nThe Quakers excelled in line bucking and in kicking, while Michigan far outplayed Pennsylvania when it came to skirting the ends. McLean, Michigan's left half back, was almost invariably used for end running, and his brilliant sprinting around Pennsylvania's ends often brought applause from the followers of the Quakers. The interference accorded him was almost perfect, and this, in a great measure, helped him in gaining ground.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: at Penn\nThe game also featured a duel between two of the best centers in the country, Penn's Pete Overfield and Michigan's William Cunningham. Cunningham was Michigan's first ever All-American in 1898, when he was selected as a first-team All-American by Caspar Whitney, and Overfield was picked by Walter Camp as the first-team All-American of 1898. The New York Times reported on the match-up of Cunningham and Overfield as follows: \"The duel between Cunningnam and Overfield, the centre rushes, was interesting. Both are high-class players, and they played with a dash that was inspiring. Cunningham had much the better of it during the first half, but in the second period Overfield, through better staying qualities, made big holes through Michigan's bulky centre.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: Case\nOn November 18, 1899, Michigan defeated Case Scientific School by a 28\u20136 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan played several substitutes in the first half, and Case took a 6\u20130 lead on a 40-yard touchdown run by Sullivan. Later in the first half, Leo J. Keena ran 20 yards for a touchdown, and Case led, 6\u20135, at halftime. Michigan's starters, including John McLean and Charles Street, were put into the game in the second half, and the Wolverines scored 23 unanswered points during that period. McLean started the second-half scoring with a 28-yard touchdown run. Additional touchdowns were scored by Charles McDonald, Allen Steckle, and Charles Juttner. Keena kicked three goals from touchdown for Michigan. The game was played in 25-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: Kalamazoo\nOn November 25, 1899, Michigan defeated Kalamazoo by a 24\u20130 score before 400 spectators at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Leo J. Keena scored a touchdown for Michigan in the first half, and Michigan led, 6\u20130, at halftime. Keena scored another touchdown in the second half, and additional touchdowns were scored by Milo White and Everett Sweeley. Keena kicked three goals from touchdown, and Sweeley kicked one. The game was played in halves of 30 and 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: vs. Wisconsin\nOn Thanksgiving Day, November 30, 1899, Michigan lost to Wisconsin by a 17\u20135 score before 22,000 spectators at West Side Park in Chicago. Excursion trains brought fans from Wisconsin and Michigan, and the brass bands from both schools also attended. Wisconsin won in large part due to the kicking of Pat O'Dea. O'Dea accounted for five points with a field goal from the 35-yard line and kicked a long punt to McLean which was fumbled behind the goal line where it was recovered by Wisconsin for a touchdown. O'Dea was later ejected from the game for slugging. Wisconsin's weak spot in the game was at left end, where Eddie Cochems gave up many long runs by Michigan, including the Wolverines' lone touchdown on a 45-yard run by McLean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: vs. Wisconsin\nThere were reports that Michigan's strategy was to put O'Dea out of the game, and he was subjected to a number of rough hits by Richard France and William Cunningham. On one play, France \"came into him like a battering ram after he had punted the ball.\" O'Dea warned France that if he did it again \"there would be trouble.\" After another punt, France came for O'Dea again, and O'Dea slugged France in the face.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0018-0001", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: vs. Wisconsin\nA Wisconsin newspaper account described the incident as follows: \"Meantime O'Dea had been laying out France, hitting him with such force that the big guard was stretched out and but for the time gained through the wrangle at the end of the goal line and the speedy ending of the half, would hardly have been able to continue playing. O'Dea claimed that the knockout blow was accidental.\" The game's referee saw the blow, and O'Dea was ejected from the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nPrior to 1898, no player from a \"Western\" school had been selected as a college football All-American. William Cunningham became Michigan's first All-American in 1898. The 1899 College Football All-America Team, as selected by the Philadelphia Inquirer, included three Michigan players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nAfter the 1899 season, Ferbert resigned as Michigan's head coach to travel to Alaska to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush. He returned from Alaska several years later as a millionaire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032041-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 13 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1899 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032042-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1899 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1899 college football season. The Golden Gophers compiled a 6\u20133\u20132 record (0\u20133 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 149 to 79.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032042-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nJack Harrison and William C. Leary and were head coaches for the 1899 season. They coached the team as a part of a new alumni coaching program. Although most around the program considered the experiment a success, the program was discontinued with the hiring of the University's first full-time salaried coach, Henry L. Williams. The 1899 season was the only season under head coaches Leary and Harrison. This season's 0\u20133 record left Minnesota in a last place tie with Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032042-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nNorthrop Field was first used as the home field of the University of Minnesota this year with most of the credit for securing it going to former coach Frederick S. Jones and former Governor John S. Pillsbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032043-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Mississippi gubernatorial election\nThe 1899 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1899, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat Anselm J. McLaurin was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032043-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Mississippi gubernatorial election, General election\nIn the general election, Democratic candidate Andrew H. Longino, a former state senator, easily defeated Populist candidate R. K. Prewitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032044-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1899 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1899 college football season. The team compiled a 9-2 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 242 to 56. Dave Fultz was the head coach for the second of two seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032045-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Monaghan County Council election\nThe first election to Monaghan County Council took place in April 1899 as part of that year's Irish local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032045-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Monaghan County Council election, Campaign\nUnder the Chairmanship of Col. John Leslie, the county Unionist Association met in early January to decide how to proceed, as there was an expectation that the party would be largely frozen out of the election, winning no more than five or six seats. As a result, the association attempted to build stronger links with Independent candidates, whilst also committing itself to contesting every possible seat. To achieve this, the association set up a Voters' Association, under the Honorary Presidency of W. Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032046-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Montana Agricultural football team\nThe 1899 Montana Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1899 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach W. J. Adams, the team compiled a 3\u20130 record and did not allow opponents to score a point, scoring 54 points to 0 for the opposition. After three prior losses to the University of Montana, the 1899 team won the program's first victories in the Montana\u2013Montana State football rivalry that has since been played more than 100 times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032047-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Montana football team\nThe 1899 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1899 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Guy Cleveland, and finished the season with a record of one win and two losses (1\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032048-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1899 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In their only year under head coach James Ogilvie, the team compiled a 2\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032049-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1899 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1899 college football season. In their third season under head coach Bill Armstrong, the Midshipmen compiled a 5\u20133 record, shut out five opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 94 to 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nThe 1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1899 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Alonzo Edwin Branch and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nFollowing the departure of Fielding H. Yost following the 1898 season, Nebraska hired Branch, a recent graduate of Williams College with little football coaching experience. In his only season as head coach, Branch led Nebraska to its first losing season, and only sub-.500 record in its first 38 years of football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team\nThis was NU's final season as the \"Bugeaters\", as the university officially changed its nickname to \"Cornhuskers\" in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Roster\nBell, Johnny HBBenedict, Raymond HBBrew, Fred TCarver, Fred FBCortelyou, Spencer ECrandall, Harry QBDasenbrock, John GDrain, Ralph QBGordon, Anthony FBHunter, Fred HBKingsbury, Raymond FBKoehler, John CPearse, Arthur RTPloughead RGReasoner, Ira TRinger, John LGTukey, Harry QBTyson CWallace LTWestover, John LTWilliams, Charles Erwin HB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Lincoln High\nNebraska met the Lincoln High School football team in a pre-season exhibition game for the second time. It is unclear whether the score was the result of a tightly contested game, or an act of sportsmanship by the university team against high schoolers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Iowa State\nNebraska suffered its worst-ever defeat to open the 1899 season, trailing 28\u20130 at halftime and losing 33\u20130. Iowa State had begun preparation for the football season prior to that start of the school year, a practice not commonplace at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, KC Medics\nAfter allowing 33 points to Iowa State the week prior, Nebraska's defense held KC off the scoreboard in a scoreless first half. A second-half touchdown from each team culminated in a 6\u20136 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nDespite a valiant defensive performance, Nebraska's offensive woes continued in an 11\u20130 loss, the second of five times NU was shut out in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at KC Medics\nAfter playing to a 6\u20136 tie weeks earlier, Nebraska could not keep pace with the KC Medics in their second meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nNebraska was shut out for the third consecutive week by Iowa in Omaha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Drake\nNebraska defeated Drake 12\u20136 in what would be the first and only college football head coaching win for Branch (after a brief stint at Miami (OH), he ended his career with a record of 1\u201311\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nDespite a strong second-half performance against Kansas in Lincoln, Nebraska was unable to overcome a 24\u20135 deficit. The team's performance was so poor that rumors began to spread suggesting team captain and starting halfback Charles Williams may quit the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at South Dakota\nNebraska led 5\u20130 in its first-ever game against South Dakota, but were unable to capitalize on scoring opportunities in the first half. A second-half touchdown gave South Dakota a 6\u20135 victory. Team captain Charles Williams left the NU program following the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032050-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Grinnell\nGrinnell became the fifth team to shut out Nebraska in 1899, defeating the Bugeaters 12\u20130 on a muddy, wet afternoon in Omaha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032051-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1899 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach A. King Dickson, the team compiled a 3\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032051-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team, Previous season\nThe Sagebrushers finished the 1898 season 4\u20131. Head coach F. F. Ellis was replaced by A. King Dickson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032052-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 New Brunswick general election\nThe 1899 New Brunswick general election was held on 18 February 1899, to elect 46 members to the 30th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The election was held before the adoption of party labels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032052-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 New Brunswick general election\nOf forty-six MLAs, forty supported the government, four formed the opposition, and the other two were neutral. The government of Henry Emmerson was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032053-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1899 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1899 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 3\u20133\u20131 or 4\u20132, per 1899 sources or modern sources, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032053-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032053-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nA December editorial in The New Hampshire College Monthly stated that the team's record was 3\u20133\u20131, whereas College Football Data Warehouse and the University's media guide list a record of 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032053-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nContemporary sources are clear that the Vermont game was played in Vermont; modern sources list the site as Durham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032053-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe October 21 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Boston College football programs. The November 4 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Vermont football programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado\nThe 1899 New Richmond Tornado was an estimated F5 tornado which formed on the early evening of Monday, June 12, 1899 and tore a 45-mile long path of destruction through St. Croix, Polk and Barron counties in west-central Wisconsin, leaving 117 people dead, twice as many injured and hundreds homeless. The worst devastation wrought by the tornado was at the city of New Richmond, Wisconsin, which took a direct hit from the storm. Over half the town was left in ruins by the tornado, which also caused lesser damage to several other communities in the area. More than $300,000 (USD) ($9,332,000 in today's dollars) in damage was reported. Today, it ranks as the ninth deadliest tornado in United States history, as well as the deadliest ever recorded in Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nJune 12, 1899, was the day of the Gollmar Brothers Circus, which drew hundreds of visitors in addition to the town's 1,800 inhabitants. Around 3:00\u00a0p.m., clouds began to build, and the sky became quite dark. As the circus ended for the day around 4:30 PM, a heavy rain, with some hail, began to fall. The rain let up around 5:00 PM, and people began to head home for the day. By 6:00 PM, the streets of New Richmond were full of tourists, travelers and residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nMeanwhile, the impending disaster which was to befall the region was just beginning to unfold. The tornado was reported to have first touched down around 5:30 PM about five miles south of Hudson, on the eastern bank of Lake St. Croix. The tornado was described as a \"boiling cloud\", which seemed to skirt the hills to the east of Lake St. Croix, and then began moving off to the northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nPassing clear of Hudson and following both the Willow River and the Omaha Railroad, the tornado swept away several farms near the rural communities of Burkhardt and Boardman as it traveled northeast. Four fatalities were reported at Boardman. 55-year-old Kate Heffron was the first reported fatality, as she was killed when the tornado demolished her home and farm. The home and farm of 70-year-old Louisa Hurd also sustained a direct hit, as Ms. Hurd and 13-year-old Gertie Wears were both killed when her home was swept away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0002-0002", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nWears had stopped in along with her father and brother to visit, both of whom managed to reach the cellar before the storm hit. John Neitge, a young farmer from Deer Park who had been driving through with his intended bride had also stopped at the Hurd farm to seek shelter from the storm. He was struck and killed by flying debris, she was uninjured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nThere was little warning in New Richmond. The tornado was completely illuminated by lightning, but it was visible for only a few minutes before it reached the town, as the view was largely obstructed by buildings and large trees. Initially, several of the town's residents recalled hearing a faint rumble in the distance which many mistook for the sound of a passing train. Before long the tornado became more visible, and those who did come to realize the danger approaching began to alert those around them, and panic ensued in the streets as people scrambled to take shelter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nDespite the best efforts of the storm's early spotters, a great many of the town's residents were not fully aware of the oncoming storm until it was almost upon them. Shortly after 6 PM, the tornado tore into the southwest corner of the city. This neighborhood was where many of the town's wealthiest and most influential residents lived, many of them having first come to the area as pioneers from New England in the 1850s. They included the owners of some of New Richmond's most prominent businesses, residing in stately homes built in styles derived from those seen back east. Within a few moments, as many as fifty homes were leveled in this area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nThe greatest destruction caused to the city by the tornado was to the town's business district, a three-block stretch of Main Street between First and Fourth Street lined with stores, offices and tenements built of brick and stone. Because of the direction the storm had approached the city from and the angle at which it entered the city, the tornado virtually swallowed the entire business district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0004-0001", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nIt was here that a large majority of the fatalities occurred, as many of those who thought they would be safe within the confines of the reinforced structures were killed by cascades of falling debris as the buildings on Main Street were swept away. A 1.5-ton safe from the city bank was thrown a full block away. Probably one of the greatest demonstrations of the tornado's strength was seen at the Nicollet Hotel, a newly constructed three-story brick building located adjacent to the Willow River. The tornado swept the building clean down to the foundation, killing at least five people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0004-0002", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nAlmost simultaneously, the town's Methodist Church was completely obliterated, the only remnant being the 1.1-ton cast iron bell, which was found nearly 200 feet from the church foundation. As the tornado cleared Main Street, it tore the iron-frame bridge spanning the Willow River from its fitting and onto the adjacent riverbank in a twisted heap. The City Hall was completely flattened, the adjacent water tower sent toppling to the northeast and dumping its contents into First Street and transforming it into a muddy deluge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0004-0003", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nThe tornado then moved into the east side of New Richmond, where many of the city's working class residents lived. As many as forty homes in this neighborhood were completely obliterated, leaving the neighborhood virtually unrecognizable. Within a period of roughly seven to ten minutes, over half of New Richmond was laid to ruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nAfter departing New Richmond, the tornado moved on toward the northeast, continuing along a course almost parallel to the Omaha Railroad line, with most of its destruction after that point confined to rural areas, with only two fatalities occurring north of town. The tornado struck several farms in the Stanton area, passing barely a mile north of the village of Deer Park before crossing into Polk County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0005-0001", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nThe storm came within two miles of the village of Clear Lake, proving to be a great scare for its residents as it reminded many of a similar tornado which struck Clear Lake in September 1884. A large number of farms in the area suffered considerable damage, and many families were left homeless. One farmer, Sam Olson was killed instantly when the tornado flattened his farmstead, leaving his wife and son gravely injured. Northeast of Clear Lake, the tornado tore through the logging community of Pineville, where another farmer, Michael Kennetz, was killed when his home was swept away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0005-0002", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, New Richmond, Wisconsin Tornado\nSeveral homes and farms in the vicinity of the hamlet of Richardson and the village of Clayton were blown away, leaving several families destitute. The storm continued east into Barron County, where the farming community of Arland sustained a direct hit, with virtually the entire settlement being demolished, but no fatalities or serious injuries being reported. The tornado dissipated a few miles southwest of the city of Barron, although the storm was still strong enough to cause a considerable amount of damage to the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Aftermath\nBecause the storm had blown down telegraph lines in the area, two riders immediately set off for Roberts, ten miles to the south, and sent messages into St. Paul with news of the tornado. Altogether, the tornado and the subsequent fires that raged throughout the following night destroyed the entire business district along with more than half the residences in town, which combined added up to more than 300 buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0006-0001", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Aftermath\nThe only significant surviving structures were the Lumber and Roller Mills located on the banks of the Willow River, the latter of which was narrowly missed by the tornado, the town's public school and the Catholic Church, which acted as either makeshift shelters or morgues. Only the extreme northwestern and southeastern portions of the city were spared. The town's electrical plant and water facilities were destroyed, so fires ran rampant through the scattered debris. Many bodies found in the aftermath were burnt beyond recognition\u2014 it was impossible to tell if they died from the tornado or from being trapped and burned alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Aftermath\nIn the days after the tornado, the list of those killed in the tornado gradually grew, as several who had been injured later died in various St. Paul hospitals. On June 22, 57-year-old Ward Gould died from complications caused by internal injuries sustained in the storm, officially bringing the death toll to 117; four at Boardman, two in Polk County, and the remainder in the vicinity of New Richmond, including five victims who were never identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0007-0001", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Aftermath\n66 were residents of New Richmond, another 31 had resided in the adjacent townships of Richmond, Stanton and Erin Prairie, and the remainder were mostly from other communities nearby, such as Hudson, Stillwater, Star Prairie, Baldwin and Glenwood City. Among the dead were 26 children under the age of 16, including a 10-year-old boy whose body was never found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Aftermath\nThe town was so completely damaged that it had to be essentially rebuilt. Damage claims exceeded $300,000 ($7\u00a0million in 2006 dollars), however, damages may have been as high as $600,000 ($14\u00a0million in 2006 dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Historical significance\nThe tornado that struck New Richmond is estimated to be an F5 on the original Fujita scale, and would today be categorized an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour, making it the third of only six F5 tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin. Surveys of the damage caused at New Richmond and elsewhere determined the tornado had a damage path of roughly 400-500 yards, or slightly over a quarter-mile in width.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Historical significance\nIn Terms of fatalities, the New Richmond Tornado presently ranks as the ninth deadliest tornado in United States history. At the time of its occurrence, it ranked as the third deadliest tornado in American history, outflanked only by the 1840 Great Natchez Tornado and the 1896 St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado. Since 1899, the record has only been surpassed six times, those being the Amite-Purvis Tornado in 1908, the Tri-State Tornado in 1925, the Tupelo and Gainesville tornadoes in 1936, the 1947 Woodward Tornado and most recently the 2011 Joplin Tornado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032054-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 New Richmond tornado, Historical significance\nAccording to the research compiled by meteorologist and tornado expert Thomas P. Grazulis, the New Richmond Tornado was the first determined F/EF5 in American history to cause a death toll exceeding 100, as the rating for the Natchez tornado has never been officially determined and the St. Louis-East St. Louis tornado ranked as only an F4. In addition, the Amite-Purvis (1908 Dixie tornado outbreak), and Gainesville (1936 Tupelo\u2013Gainesville tornado outbreak), tornadoes have also both been classified as only F4 tornadoes, making the New Richmond Tornado the fifth deadliest F/EF5 in American history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032055-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1899 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032055-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 New Year Honours\nThey were published in The Times on 2 January 1899, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 2 January 1899, 10 January 1899, and on 13 January 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032055-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc.) then divisions (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032056-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 New York Giants season\nThe 1899 New York Giants season was the franchise's 17th season. The team finished in tenth place in the National League with a 60\u201390 record, 42 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032056-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032056-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032056-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032056-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032056-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032057-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 New Zealand general election\nThe New Zealand general election of 1899 was held on 6 and 19 December in the European and M\u0101ori electorates, respectively, to elect 74 MPs to the 14th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The election was again won by the Liberal Party, and Richard Seddon remained Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032057-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 New Zealand general election, 1896 electoral redistribution\nThe last electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1896 for the 1896 election, and the same electorates were used again. 34 seats were located in the North Island, 36 were in the South Island, and the remaining four were M\u0101ori electorates. Since the 1890 electoral redistribution, the four main centres had electorates with three seats each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032057-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 New Zealand general election, The election\nThe 1899 election was held on Wednesday, 6 December in the general electorates, and on Tuesday, 19 December in the M\u0101ori electorates to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 14th Parliament. A total number of 373,744 (77.6%) voters turned out to vote. In three electorates there was only one candidate, and they were thus returned unopposed. Two of those were Liberal candidates: Richard Seddon in the Westland electorate, and John McKenzie in the Waihemo electorate. The third was an opposition representative, William Russell, who stood in the Hawke's Bay electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032057-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 New Zealand general election, The election\nTwo candidates died during the election campaign. A third, Henry Augustus Field, died two days after having been re-elected in the Otaki electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032057-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 New Zealand general election, Results, Party totals\nThe following table gives party strengths and vote distribution according to Wilson (1985), who records Maori representatives as Independents prior to the 1905 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032057-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 New Zealand general election, Results, Electorate results\nSeventy-four MPs were elected across sixty-two single-member, and four three-member electorates. The table below show the results of the 1899 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032058-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Normal School of Arizona Normals football team\nThe 1899 Normal School of Arizona Normals football team was an American football team that represented the Normal School of Arizona (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its second season of varsity football (an 1897 team played one game), the Normals compiled a 3\u20130 record. The team captain was Walter Shute. The team was known by the nickname \"Normals\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032058-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Normal School of Arizona Normals football team\nThe season began with the first two victories in program history, one over the Phoenix Indian School, and the other over Phoenix High School. On November 30, 1899, the team played and won its first intercollegiate football game, an 11\u20132 victory over the University of Arizona. The game was the inaugural meeting in the Arizona\u2013Arizona State football rivalry and was played in front of an estimated 300 spectators at the Carillo Gardens amusement center near the Santa Cruz River in Tucson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032059-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 North Antrim by-election\nThe North Antrim by-election of February 1899 was held on 25 February 1899. The by-election was held following the resignation of the previous member Hugh McCalmont who was a member of the Irish Unionist Party. It was won unopposed by the Irish Unionist Party candidate William Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032060-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1899 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1899 college football season. In W. C. Riddick's second season at head coach the Aggies compiling a record of 1\u20132\u20132, scored 29 points on their opponents and allowing 69.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032061-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They played eleven games with a final record of 7\u20133\u20131. The team captain for the 1899 season was Samuel Shull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032062-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1899 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1899 college football season. They only played one game, and lost, to North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032063-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 North Dakota Flickertails football team\nThe 1899 North Dakota Flickertails football team was an American football team that represented University of North Dakota during the 1899 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 179 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032063-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 North Dakota Flickertails football team\nThe team was led by first-year head coach Harry C. \"Babe\" Loomis. Loomis was the school's first paid football coach, receiving $200 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032063-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 North Dakota Flickertails football team\nThe team captain was Lynn Frazier who later served as Governor of North Dakota from 1817 to 1921. Another player William Nuessle became chief justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. A third, William Lemke, served as Attorney General of North Dakota from 1921 to 1922.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032064-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1899 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1899 college football season. 1899 was the first year that the school fielded a football team. They were led by head coach John A. H. Keith. The team finished the season with a 1\u20130\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032065-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Northumberland colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Northumberland on 20 June 1899 because of the death of Richard Stevenson (Protectionist).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032066-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1899 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1899 college football season. In their first year under head coach Charles M. Hollister, the Purple compiled a 7\u20136 record (2\u20132 against Western Conference opponents) and finished in third place in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032067-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1899 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1899 college football season. In their first season with James McWeeney as coach, the team compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record, shut out five opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 169 to 55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032068-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1899 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. They played 4 games and had a 2\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032069-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1899 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1899 college football season. They played all their home games at Ohio Field and were coached by John B. Eckstorm. They were the first Buckeyes football team to go undefeated, finishing 9\u20130\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032070-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 1899 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1899. Republican nominee George K. Nash defeated Democratic nominee John R. McLean with 45.94% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032071-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1899 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1899 college football season. In their fifth year of football, and third year under head coach Vernon Louis Parrington, the Sooners compiled a 2\u20131 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 61 to 28. This season was the first in which the team played a current NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision opponent, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election\nThe Oldham by-election of 1899 occurred in the summer of that year, and involved a by-election to fill both seats in the two-member Oldham Parliamentary borough. The block voting method allowed each elector to vote for two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election\nThe election resulted in the Liberal Party winning both seats from the Conservatives who had previously held them, but the election is notable mainly for being the first to be fought by future Conservative Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Background\nAt the beginning of 1899, the two members of parliament for Oldham were Robert Ascroft and James Oswald. However, Oswald had been chronically ill for many months and had been absent from his Parliamentary duties and his constituency. He had indicated that he would not seek re-election and left a resignation note with the Conservative Party and instructed them to use it if they thought it to be expedient. Ascroft was an active in Parliament but was struck down with pneumonia at his home in Croydon on 12 June, becoming partially unconscious. Over the next few days, his condition did not improve, and by 18 June there was said to be \"very little hope\". He died on the afternoon of 19 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Background\nAscroft's sudden death created an opportunity for the Conservative Party to use Oswald's resignation note and hold a double by-election, but the party delayed the decision until Ascroft's funeral, on 23 June. It was later observed that Ascroft had been very popular in the town but failed to maintain a group of election campaign workers, presumably in the hope that his personal support would be enough. The forcing of a by-election therefore surprised Oldham Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Background\nNevertheless, on 26 June, Oswald's resignation note was sent in and so he was appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead as a way of resigning his seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Candidates\nBefore his illness, Ascroft had already met with Churchill at the House of Commons to ask him to replace Oswald and run as the second candidate at the next election. The date of a joint follow-up meeting in Oldham had been fixed for some time when Churchill noticed in the newspapers that Ascroft had died. The Conservative Party officers met in Oldham on the evening of 23 June as arranged to hear from Churchill and unanimously adopted him as the party's candidate for the single by-election to replace Ascroft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0005-0001", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Candidates\nThe meeting then decided to leave the question of a second candidate to another meeting on the following night. Churchill was known principally as the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a senior Conservative politician who had died four years earlier. Although only 24, the young Churchill had begun a journalistic career as a war correspondent with the Morning Post. According to one observer, society then knew Churchill as \"a brilliant and irrepressible talker\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Candidates\nThe second Conservative candidate turned out to be James Mawdsley, who was secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, an unusual case of a Conservative who was an active trade unionist. The choice of Mawdsley as Conservative candidate had been kept secret and surprised several Conservatives, who were not in the very small meeting at which the candidates were adopted. There was some discussion of which of the two very different Conservative candidates, the aristocrat or the labour representative, would be more popular in Oldham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Candidates\nOnly one name was initially put forward for the Liberal Party selection, that of Alfred Emmott; however, by the time the selection meeting took place on the evening of Monday 26 June it was clear that there would be a double vacancy and so he was adopted together with Walter Runciman. Emmott had been a member of Oldham Corporation for nearly 20 years and was the town's nayor in 1891 to 1892. He had been invited but declined the offer of the Liberal candidacy in 1886. Runciman was the 28-year-old son of Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman, a shipping magnate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Campaign\nThe writ for a new election for both seats was moved in the House of Commons by the Conservative chief whip William Walrond on Tuesday 27 June. Polling day was set for Thursday 6 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Campaign\nAs the previous election had been close, the by-election campaign was an intense one in which the candidates addressed meetings \"at breakfast time, during the dinner hour, and in the evening\". One of the main campaign issues was the Clerical Tithes Bill, which the Conservative-dominated government was promoting, which would give additional help to Church of England clergy and to Church schools. Oldham included many Nonconformists who were opposed to the Bill. When the issue of the Bill was raised, the Liberal candidates opposed it, arguing that Parliament was not the place to discuss matters of faith. Churchill initially supported it on the basis that legislation was needed to maintain law and order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Campaign\nA Protestant delegation representing several organisations was pleased with the pledge to support the Bill and strongly endorsed Churchill and Mawdsley. However, when Churchill, who later admitted that he knew nothing of the issue, found out how unpopular the Bill was, he declared in a speech three days before polling day that he would have voted against it, in accordance with the wishes of his constituents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Campaign\nChurchill made a campaigning visit to Hollinwood, then known as a strongly anti-Conservative area, as his father had done in previous elections. His appearance prompted a heckler to declare, \"Eh, lad, thou art a chip of t'owd block\". On 3 July, the two Conservative candidates received a delegation on women's suffrage, to which Churchill declared himself opposed, as it would lessen the respect for women \"which all men very rightly have\". Mawdsley, however, declared his support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Campaign\nThe presence of trade unionist Mawdsley as a Conservative candidate caused some degree of protest. The Royton branch of his union passed, 107 to 54, a motion protesting at his candidature, and Mawdsley was asked why he had not come forward as a Labour candidate when he was invited to in 1895. Mawdsley replied that there had been a decision to run two candidates: one being Liberal-Labour and the other (himself) a Conservative-Labour candidate. He further said that he would support a Liberal-Labour candidate. The Independent Labour Party, despite not standing a candidate, held a meeting, calling on working men to free themselves from both established parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Campaign\nIt was reported that the Conservatives accepted Mawdsley as a candidate on the assumption that if elected, he would be allowed to express his own views on trade union issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Results\nOn polling day, the Conservatives were said to have been outnumbered by Liberals in the number of carriages conveying voters to the polls, by 130 to 90. Lady Randolph Churchill turned up in a striking blue dress and sunshade. Churchill himself tried to obtain a motor car from Coventry to bring voters to the polls, but it broke down at Stafford and never arrived. Polling closed at 8\u00a0pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Results\nShortly after 11\u00a0pm the result was announced from the town hall:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Aftermath\nThe loss of both seats caused some recriminations in Conservative circles. Henry Howorth, in a letter to The Times, took it as an object lesson that \"playing at pitch and toss\" with Conservative principles would not lead to a victory and that it was better that the party went into opposition than \"surrender to every Socialistic demand\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032072-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Oldham by-election, Aftermath\nChurchill had impressed as an election candidate, being described as \"working like a Trojan\". However, the correspondent for The Times felt that his speeches concentrated more on good phrases than on good arguments and that his popularity was superficial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032073-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1899 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The season closed with a defeat of Tulane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032074-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Open Championship\nThe 1899 Open Championship was the 39th Open Championship, held 7\u20138 June at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. Defending champion Harry Vardon won the Championship for the 3rd time, by five strokes from runner-up Jack White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032074-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Open Championship\nA meeting was held immediately before the tournament is response to a request from a majority of the professionals asking for an increase in prize money from \u00a390 to \u00a3200, since the professionals felt \"that the money offered as prizes was scarcely in keeping with the importance of the event\". In response a small increase in prize money to \u00a3115 was announced to start in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032074-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Open Championship\nAll entries played 36 holes on the first day with all those within 19 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032074-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Open Championship\nThere was some good scoring in the first round with a number of low scores. James Kinnell, Vardon and Tom Williamson led on 76 with a further nine players under 80. A stronger wind in the afternoon led to some higher scores but Vardon and J.H. Taylor both returned a score of 76 while James Braid scored 78. Vardon reached the turn in 33 and had a three at the 10th but then took 28 to cover the next five holes. He eventually came home in 43. Taylor was out in 36 and back in 40. After the first day, Vardon led on 152 with Taylor on 153 and Braid and Willie Park Jr. on 156. Many of the other players found conditions difficult and the cut was extended to 175 to include the requisite number of professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032074-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Open Championship\nScoring was higher on the second morning with only the amateur Freddie Tait and Albert Tingey breaking 80. Vardon's 81 was good enough to extend his lead to three shots from Taylor and seven strokes from the rest of the field. In the afternoon, Vardon reached the turn in 34 and, with Taylor reaching the turn in 42, he had built up a large lead. Despite playing badly and taking 35 for the last seven holes, he won comfortably. White had the best round of the tournament with a final round 75 after matching Vardon's first nine of 34. Park faded with a final round of 89. Tait was the leading amateur in his last Open Championship before his death in February 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032075-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Hiland Orlando Stickney, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 76 to 60. The Aggies lost to Oregon (0-38). Fred Walters was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032075-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Further reading\nThis College football 1890s season article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032075-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Further reading\nThis article about a sports team in Oregon is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032076-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1899 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1899 college football season. It was the Webfoots' sixth season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Frank W. Simpson in his second year. They finished the season with a record of three wins, two losses and one tie (3\u20132\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election\nThe Osgoldcross by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Osgoldcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire held on 5 July 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal MP, Sir John Austin. Austin had been MP for Osgoldcross since 1886 but he found himself in dispute with his constituency Liberal Association when he voted against certain measures in Parliament which were supported by the Liberal Party nationally. Some of these issues were on religious questions and Sir John Austin was a Roman Catholic. In some quarters the dispute with Sir John Austin was seen as an attack on him because of his religion, although he had a record of getting on well with his traditionally nonconformist constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0001-0001", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election, Vacancy\nHowever one of the issues that Austin championed was opposing the power of local authorities to impose a veto on liquor sales and this brought him into conflict with many of his pro-temperance chapel Liberals. A meeting of the Osgoldcoss Liberal Association was held at Pontefract on 15 June 1899 and a vote of no confidence in Austin was passed. A further motion of regret at his actions was also passed but, no doubt in an effort to heal the breach between MP and local party, it was declared that Austin had broken no pledges made in his election addresses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election, Candidates, Austin\nFollowing the vote of censure against him Sir John Austin decided to resign his seat and appeal directly to his constituents on the points at issue. He chose to contest the election as a Liberal and was sometimes also referred to in the press as a Radical. However, in view of his breach with the official party Austin is referred to here as an Independent Liberal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe local Liberal Association were divided in loyalty, with some believing Austin\u2019s record required their support. A meeting at Castleford on 23 June 1899, chaired by Mr Arthur Hartley the chairman of Osgoldcross Liberals, at which Austin declared himself to be a loyal supporter of Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, selected Austin as Liberal candidate to fight the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nHowever another meeting of Liberals at Pontefract the same day adopted Charles Henry Roberts, the son-in-law of Lady Carlisle, as an Independent Liberal or Radical to contest the seat and this decision was endorsed by a further mass meeting at the Market Hall at Goole later that night, chaired by the president of the Osgoldcross Liberals, Frederick Andrews. Roberts declared that he supported the entire Liberal programme as formulated by William Ewart Gladstone and the meeting endorsed his candidacy saying they wanted a man who was a Liberal \u201call along the line\u201d. He also described himself as the Local Veto (i.e. pro-temperance) candidate. For this reason, Roberts is described here as the official Liberal candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election, Candidates, Others\nThere had been a history of contested elections in Osgoldcross in recent years. In 1885 there had been a Conservative candidate. In 1886 Austin had taken the seat off the sitting Liberal Unionist MP, and in 1895 another Conservative had tried his luck. However this time, perhaps preferring not to intrude on the private grief of the Liberal Party, no other party put forward a candidate to take advantage of the Liberal split.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032077-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Osgoldcross by-election, The result\nSir John Austin retained his seat by a clear and comfortable majority, increasing his majority from 1,065 to 2,925, having obtained well over 50% of the poll. It seems likely that Sir John received many votes from Conservative supporters who had no candidate of their own to vote for and who wanted to discomfort the Liberal Party nationally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032078-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe 1899 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032079-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1899 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the fourth\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 2 April 1899 and stretched 268\u00a0km (167\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Albert Champion from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032080-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Pembroke Urban District Council election\nElections to the Pembroke Urban District Council took place on Monday 16 January 1899 as part of that year's Irish local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032080-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Pembroke Urban District Council election\nUnlike some of the elections elsewhere in Ireland, the election was not explicitly contested on Nationalist/Unionist grounds. Instead, the election largely saw a new group of 'Ratepayers' candidates, together with several Independents, challenge the incumbent Town Commissioners on their historic administration of the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032080-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Pembroke Urban District Council election\nThe result saw Nationalists elected to the council for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032080-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Pembroke Urban District Council election\nFollowing the election Sir Robert Jackson was elected Chairman, replacing Col. Davoren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032081-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1899 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032082-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Penn State football team\nThe 1899 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1899 college football season. The team was coached by Sam Boyle and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032083-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Peruvian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Peru in 1899. Eduardo L\u00f3pez de Roma\u00f1a of the Civilista Party was elected with 97% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032084-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe following lists the events of the 1899 Philadelphia Phillies season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032084-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032084-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032084-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032084-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032085-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Philadelphia mayoral election\nThe Philadelphia mayoral election of 1899 saw the election Samuel Howell Ashbridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032086-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Philippine local elections\nLocal elections were held for provincial and municipal posts throughout the Philippine archipelago starting May 7, 1899. The first local elections under the American occupation were held in Baliuag, Bulacan, supervised by US General Henry W. Lawton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032087-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1899 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1897 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032088-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1899 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 18th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise and their 13th in the National League. The Pirates finished seventh in the National League with a record of 76\u201373.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032088-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032088-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032088-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032088-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032088-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032089-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Porto plague outbreak\nThe 1899 Porto plague outbreak was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered in the city of Porto, in the north of Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032089-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Porto plague outbreak\nThe arrival of plague in the Portuguese city of Porto signalled the first outbreak of the third plague pandemic in Europe, attracting international attention, due to fears of a return of the Black Death in the continent. It also pitched local and national authorities as well as medical experts in heated arguments about the nature of the disease and the way to contain it, namely, the controversial decision to surround the city by a military-enforced cordon sanitaire for four months, imposed by the government of Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luciano de Castro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032089-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Porto plague outbreak\nThe city's Medical Health Officer, Ricardo Jorge, head of the city's Municipal Services of Health and Hygiene and of the Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory, led the efforts to contain the disease and personally gathered laboratory proof to correctly identify the responsible infectious agent: this earned him a great reputation as a modern sanitarian and bacteriologist and launched his highly successful national and international career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032089-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Porto plague outbreak\nThere were 132 deaths attributed to the plague outbreak, out of 320 total cases. Eminent bacteriologist Lu\u00eds da C\u00e2mara Pestana contracted the disease after receiving a small scratch while examining a plague corpse during the outbreak, and died shortly afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032089-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Porto plague outbreak\nThe plague outbreak had considerable political, social, and economic repercussions: it exacerbated class divisions and tensions between republicans in Porto and the royalist government in Lisbon (the centuries-old Portuguese Monarchy and would be replaced by the Portuguese First Republic in a revolution just 10 years later). Portugal's public health legislation was modernised in the years following the crisis; the Directorate-General of Health was established in response to the outbreak; it remains the country's leading agency for public health and disease prevention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032090-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 26 November 1899. The result was a victory for the Progressive Party, which won 91 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032091-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1899 Preakness Stakes was the 24th running of the $1,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run on May 30, 1899 at the Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York. The mile and a sixteenth race was won by Half Time over runner-up Filigrane. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:47 flat that equaled the Gravesend track record for the distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032091-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1899 Kentucky Derby was run on May 4 and the 1899 Belmont Stakes on May 25, five days before the Preakness. For jockey Richard Clawson, the win aboard Half Time was his second in the 1899 Classics having won the Belmont aboard Jean Bereaud in which he had defeated Half Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032091-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1919 Preakness Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the second leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032092-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1899 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1899 college football season. The team finished with a 12\u20131 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and Parke H. Davis. Harvard compiled a 10\u20130\u20131 record and was selected as the national champion by three other selectors. They outscored their opponents 185 to 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032093-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Puerto Rico census\nThe 1899 Puerto Rico census (or Porto Rico as it was then commonly called), was the first national population census held in Porto Rico under U.S. control by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. War Department. It is also the tenth-census combined with the previous censuses taken by Spain. The day used for the census was Friday November 10, 1899. The total population of the island of Puerto Rico was counted as 953,243 - an increase of 154,678 or 16% over the previous 1887 Census taken by the Spanish government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032093-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Puerto Rico census, Population schedule\nThe population schedule used in the census, translated into English and reduced in size is as follows:Situation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032093-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Puerto Rico census, Method of tabulation\nIt was taken that to save time, the tabulation should be done by machine and not by the old hand-tally system. As the machines invented by Mr Herman Hollerith were successfully used in the earlier eleventh and were to be used for the twelfth U.S. census, it was adopted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032093-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Puerto Rico census, Population and dwellings, Birthplace\nThe number of foreign-born returned by the census is 13,872 or about 1.5% of the total population. There were few regions in the western hemisphere in which the proportion of natives is so high and that of the foreign-born so low. Of the total number of foreigners 5,935 or 43 per cent were found in the three cities of San Juan, Ponce and Mayag\u00fcez. Of the total foreign-born 7,690 or 55 per cent were born in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032093-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Puerto Rico census, Population and dwellings, Race\nWith reference to race, the population of Porto Rico is divided by the census into two main classes - those who are and those who are not White. The number belonging to each of these classes is as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032093-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Puerto Rico census, Population and dwellings, Race\nThe colored in the table includes very few (75) Chinese and many persons of mixed white and Black African blood as well as pure Black. Somewhat more than three-fifths of the population of Porto Rico are white and nearly two-fifths are partly or entirely negro or Black. By the 1899 census five-sixths (83.6 per cent) of the total colored were returned as of mixed blood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032094-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1899 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1899 college football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 122 to 100 in their second season under head coach Alpha Jamison. Edward C. Robertson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032095-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Queen's County Council election\nQueen's County Council (now Laois County Council) was created in 1899 under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 and the first local elections for the county council, and the councils of the five rural districts within Queen's County, were held on 6 April 1899, simultaneous with elections in the other administrative counties. The first Queen's County Council comprised 32 councillors serving a three-year term:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032096-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Queensland colonial election\nElections were held in the Australian state of Queensland between 1 March 1899 and 25 March 1899 to elect the members of the state's Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032096-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Queensland colonial election, Key dates\nDue to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032096-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Queensland colonial election, Results\nQueensland colonial election, 11 March 1899Legislative Assembly << 1896\u20131902 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032097-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1899 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 5, 1899. Incumbent Republican Elisha Dyer Jr. defeated Democratic nominee George W. Greene with 56.36% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032098-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1899 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as an independent during the 1899 college football season. Led by Julien Hill in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship was the inaugural season of the first rugby union club championship held in Argentina, organised by the \"River Plate Rugby Union\" (current Argentine Rugby Union). It was contested by the five founding members of the RPRU: Belgrano, Rosario, Lomas, Buenos Aires, and Flores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship\nUruguayan club Montevideo C.C. was invited to take part of the competition but they declined to participate due to the long travel time to Argentina by ship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship\nIn the inaugural game, Lomas defeated Buenos Aires by 11-4. Lomas would be the first Argentine champion, winning the title at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship, Results\nList of matches played in the season. Some results are missed (w=indicates win, l=indicates lost). Rosario A.C. entered directly in the semifinals. Buenos Aires FC played its home matches at Lomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship, Results, Semifinals\nThe forwards of Buenos Aires were treated with little respect by their opponents, who, in the scrums and in the open game, were much superior. No game ever started in this sensational way, since 20 seconds into the kick-off, Rosario registered a try between the clubs, a feast that gave the visitors a great shock, of which, we are inclined to think that they never recovered. As usual, the visitors were entertained in the most hospitable way, and in spite of having been defeated, they enjoyed the trip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0004-0001", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship, Results, Semifinals\nAfter the game, the two teams and some of their friends met the President Mr. Diego Le Bas, for the usual toasts. The best of the teams was the winner and the BAFC Captain, hit the nail on the head, when he proposed a toast in honor of the health of the Plaza captain saying: If Buenos Aires could not win, there was no other Club for which they preferred to be knocked out than Rosario's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship, Results, Final\nThe final was played at Flores Old Ground in Caballito, Buenos Aires. All proceeds were donated to the British Hospital of Buenos Aires. In a match where both teams showed to be equalled in strength of play, Lomas won the game when they were awarded a free-kick that captain F.H. Jacobs scored for a 3\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship, Aftermath\nIt was the first and only championship contested by Flores A.C. A pioneer in several sports disciplines in Argentina, Flores A.C. had played its first match on 19 July 1896, against Buenos Aires F.C.. In 1907 Flores Athletic sold some of its facilities to neighbor Club Ferro Carril Oeste, for m$n 700. It is believed that the club was dissolved after this transaction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032099-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 River Plate Rugby Union Championship, Aftermath\nBefore disspearing, Flores had also took part in the first Primera Divisi\u00f3n championship in 1891. The polo team of the institution also won the fourth edition of Abierto de Polo in 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032100-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Rosenska Pokalen\nRosenska Pokalen 1899, part of the 1899 Swedish football season, was the first Rosenska Pokalen tournament played. Three teams participated and two matches were played, both on 24 September 1899. Gefle IF won the tournament ahead of runners-up AIK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032101-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Rotherham by-election\nThe Rotherham by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held on 23 February 1899 for the House of Commons constituency of Rotherham in the West Riding of Yorkshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032101-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Rotherham by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal MP, the Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, fearful of a breakdown in his health and following the death of his father in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032101-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Rotherham by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nAcland\u2019s possible resignation had been spoken of publicly since the summer of 1898 and the local Liberal Association had met in July of that year to discuss the implications. They were reluctant to lose Acland as their MP in view of his standing and record in politics and government but a formal request to him to reconsider his decision to stand down made by Rotherham Liberals fell on deaf ears. However, Acland was willing to delay his resignation to enable the local party to find a suitable replacement and the search began at the end of July. Their choice was William Henry Holland, a 49-year-old textile manufacturer, originally from Manchester where he had had a successful career in local government having been an Alderman on Manchester City Council. He was also formerly MP for Salford North.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032101-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Rotherham by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nRotherham was considered a safe Liberal seat. It had been represented by Acland for the Liberals since its creation for the 1885 general election and Acland had always enjoyed comfortable majorities. In fact at the two elections preceding the by-election, a by-election in 1892 when he had to resign on appointment as Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education, and the 1895 general election, Acland had been returned unopposed. This time however, with the prospect of facing a new candidate, the Conservatives chose to fight. They selected a barrister from York, R H Vernon Wragge, to be their man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032101-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Rotherham by-election, The campaign\nHolland relied heavily on the personal support of the former MP. Acland, although too unwell to campaign on the ground, sent letters of support praising Holland as worthy of the confidence of Liberals and Radicals in Rotherham. Holland also obtained the backing of the local Irish community in view of his support for the question of Irish Home Rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032101-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Rotherham by-election, The campaign\nWragge leant on the record of the Unionist government and the support by telegram of the prime minister. He also enlisted a number of local MPs and peers to support him at his meetings in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032101-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Rotherham by-election, The result\nHolland held the seat for the Liberal Party with nearly 60% of the poll but with a reduced majority on the last contested election, the 1892 general election. However, the Liberals had been victorious in the country in 1892 and the same tide could not be said to be running through the nation in 1899. In addition Holland was previously unknown in the constituency and was replacing a popular local MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032102-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Rush Medical football team\nThe 1899 Rush Medical football team was an American football team that represented Rush Medical College in the 1899 college football season. The Medics compiled a 3\u20133\u20131 record, against a plethora of major college football opponents, including Northwestern, Notre Dame, a 9\u20132 Wisconsin team, and an 8\u20130\u20131 Iowa eleven, all on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike\nThe 1899 Russian student strike was a student movement with the aim of establishing a constitutional, liberal, or progressive government in Russia. Russia's first ever student strike started at St Petersburg University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Background\nRussia had no university until Moscow University was founded in 1755. Uniquely, it was shunned by the clergy (it was a secular institution) and the nobility (it didn't count towards finishing their service duty). There were no more before the nineteenth century. By 1914 there were ten universities, half in Russia proper (Moscow, St Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan and Tomsk) and the other half in minority regions (Warsaw, Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov and Tartu).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Background\nUntil Alexander II became tsar in 1855, Russian students tended to be politically apathetic. In 1850 Nicholas I, fearful of the 1848 revolutions spreading, limited the student population. Inspectors punished students for not wearing uniforms or having long hair or not attending military drills. These restrictions went with Alexander II's accession. From 1855-1858 the population of St. Petersburg University increased from 476 to 1,026. Its students set up a journal in 1856, then its editorial board created a friendly society (kassa) and a student body (skhodka) to discuss students' concerns, complete with an elected president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Background\nThese institutions were illegal under the 1863 statute. Student radicalism was partly created by this and the even more repressive statute on August 23, 1884. The latter meant it was the minister of education, not the faculty council, who appointed the Rector and Curator. The Curator was the only one who could convene faculty council meetings and appoint department deacons. The council could communicate with the ministry only through him. The Curator appointed an inspector to discipline the students and decide who would get scholarships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nSt. Petersburg put up with student partying in Nevsky Prospekt every February 8. This was the anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg University. Students would march through the city drinking, singing, and dancing. These marches became increasingly violent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nFebruary 8, 1895: Students and janitors brawl in front of Palkin restaurant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nDecember 20, 1897: 500 students attend a protest and demand a meeting with the university rector, but only the Kiev Gendarme Chief, Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky, is able to forcibly make the rector meet with them. The meeting provides no substantial results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nFebruary 8, 1898: The students try the same thing, this time fighting the police who disperse them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nThe Ministry of Education decided to ban the street parties in 1899. The rector V I Sergeevich warned that partying students would be arrested for hooliganism. The students were appalled as they had already decided to be more restrained that year. They felt humiliated because the notice was published in the papers too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nFebruary 8, 1899: The students are blocked by the police at the Dvortsovyi bridge (connecting the university's Vasilevskii Island to the city centre), then turn towards Rumiantsev square where mounted police ambush them. They respond to the students' snowballs with whips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nFebruary 9: 3,000 students attend a skhodka. They call a student strike and elect an 11 strong Organization Committee. At this stage, few students wanted a political protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nFebruary 15: The strike spreads to Moscow University and Technological Institute. By now, 68 students had been arrested in St Petersburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nFebruary 16: The faculty council calls for the release of the arrested students, withdrawal of police from university grounds and for a temporary closure of the university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nFebruary 20: Nicholas II called an investigatory commission on Witte's advice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nMarch 1: The Organization Committee calls a skhodka to decide if the strike should continue. It votes to halt the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nMarch 5: Moscow University also votes to end the strike after their rector Tikhomirov promises to petition the police to release arrested students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nMarch 8: Moscow's rector angers the students by banning student meetings without his permission. They vote 2-1 to resume the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nMarch 16\u201317: The St Petersburg skhodka meets twice, voting 825-601 in favour of a new strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nMarch 18: The university is closed and all students suspended. They have five days to petition for reentry on condition that they stay out of the skhodka and other student groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nMarch 20\u201321: The Okhrana expel all Organization Committee members from St. Petersburg. Students are forced to take their oral exams at the end of March to disrupt the strike. Students make it impossible for the exams to happen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nJune: The Ministry of Education announces more dormitories and professors; also students have to enrol at the university nearest their secondary school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032103-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Russian student strike, Strike\nJuly 29: 'Temporary Rules' allow for disruptive students to be conscripted as punishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032104-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1899 Rutgers Queensmen football team was an American football team that represented Rutgers University during the 1899 college football season. The 1899 Rutgers team compiled a 2\u20139 record and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 245 to 114. William V. B. Van Dyck was the team's coach, and William E. McMahon was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032105-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1899 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. South Adelaide beat Norwood 42 to 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032106-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 SAFA season\nThe 1899 SAFA season was the 23rd edition of the top level of Australian Rules football to be played in South Australia. South Adelaide went on to record its 8th premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032106-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 SAFA season, Electorate football\nThe 1899 season saw the introduction of compulsory electorate football in Adelaide, forcing players to play for the club in the district in which they resided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032106-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 SAFA season, Electorate football\nIn the last decade, football in Adelaide had been suffering from reduced public interest, and the three weaker teams (West Adelaide, North Adelaide and West Torrens) always operated at a financial loss, exacerbated by their poor records on field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032106-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 SAFA season, Electorate football\nIt was thought that by introducing electorate football, the talent would be spread more evenly across the six teams, making for more entertaining matches and higher attendances across all teams. The proposed changes were fought by South Adelaide and Port Adelaide, who threatened to leave the SAFA and form their own league if they were brought in. As a compromise, the scheme was brought in on a one-year trial basis, before ultimately being accepted permanently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032106-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 SAFA season, Minor rounds\nThe minor rounds comprised twelve matches. South Adelaide finished as the minor premiers, one point ahead of Norwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032106-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 SAFA season, Major rounds\nThe major premiership was contested under the same system which had been adopted by the Victorian Football League in 1898 (except adapted for six teams instead of eight). The six teams were broken into two sections: section A comprised South Adelaide (1st), Port Adelaide (3rd) and West Adelaide (5th); section B comprised Norwood (2nd), West Adelaide (4th) and North Adelaide (6th). Each section played an individual round-robin; then, the section winners played off in a final. The minor premiers, South Adelaide, would then have the right to challenge the winner of the final to a Grand Final for the major premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032107-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Salvadoran presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in El Salvador in January 1899. Provisional president General Tom\u00e1s Regalado was the only candidate. No results were posted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nThe 1899 San Cir\u00edaco hurricane, also known as the 1899 Puerto Rico Hurricane or The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1899, was the longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, and the second-longest-lived tropical cyclone globally on record (in terms of tropical duration) after 1994's Hurricane John in the Pacific. It was also one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, with an estimated 3,800 fatalities. The third tropical cyclone and first major hurricane of the season, this storm was first observed southwest of Cape Verde on August\u00a03.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0000-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nIt slowly strengthened while heading steadily west-northwestward across the Atlantic Ocean and reached hurricane status by late on August\u00a05. During the following 48\u00a0hours, it deepened further, reaching Category\u00a04 on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) before crossing the Leeward Islands on August\u00a07. Later that day, the storm peaked with winds of 150\u00a0mph (240\u00a0km/h). The storm weakened slightly before making landfall in Guayama, Puerto Rico with winds of 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h) on August\u00a08. Several hours later, it emerged into the southwestern Atlantic as a Category\u00a03 hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0000-0002", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nThe system paralleled the north coast of Dominican Republic and then crossed the Bahamas, striking several islands. Thereafter, it began heading northward on August\u00a014, while centered east of Florida. Early on the following day, the storm re-curved northeastward and appeared to be heading out to sea. However, by August\u00a017, it turned back to the northwest and made landfall near Hatteras, North Carolina early on the following day. No stronger hurricane has made landfall on the Outer Banks since the San Ciriaco hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nThe storm weakened after moving inland and fell to Category\u00a01 intensity by 1200\u00a0UTC on August\u00a018. Later that day, the storm re-emerged into the Atlantic. Now heading northeastward, it continued weakening, but maintained Category\u00a01 intensity. By late on August\u00a020, the storm curved eastward over the northwestern Atlantic. It also began losing tropical characteristics and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone at 0000\u00a0UTC on August\u00a022, while located about 325 miles (525\u00a0km) south of Sable Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0001-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nHowever, after four days, the system regenerated into a tropical storm while located about 695 miles (1,120\u00a0km) west-southwest of Flores Island in the Azores on August\u00a026. It moved slowly north-northwestward, until curving to the east on August\u00a029. Between August\u00a026 and September\u00a01, the storm did not differentiate in intensity, but began re-strengthening while turning southeastward on September\u00a02. Early on the following day, the storm again reached hurricane intensity. It curved northeastward and passed through the Azores on September\u00a03, shortly before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nIn Guadeloupe, the storm unroofed and flooded many houses. Communications were significantly disrupted in the interior portions of the island. Impact was severe in Montserrat, with nearly every building destroyed and 100\u00a0deaths reported. About 200\u00a0small houses were destroyed on Saint Kitts, with estates suffering considerable damage, while nearly all estates were destroyed on Saint Croix. Eleven deaths were reported on the island. In Puerto Rico, the system brought strong winds and heavy rainfall, which caused extensive flooding. Approximately 250,000\u00a0people were left without food and shelter. Additionally, telephone, telegraph, and electrical services were completely lost. Overall, damage totaled approximately $20\u00a0million, with over half were losses inflicted on crops, particularly coffee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nAt the time, it was the costliest and worst tropical cyclone in Puerto Rico. It was estimated that the storm caused 3,369\u00a0fatalities on the island territory. In the Bahamas, strong winds and waves sank 50\u00a0small crafts, most of them at Andros. Severe damage was reported in Nassau, with over 100\u00a0buildings destroyed and many damaged, including the Government House. A few houses were also destroyed on Bimini. The death toll in the Bahamas was at least 125. In North Carolina, storm surge and rough sea destroyed fishing piers and bridges, as well as sank about 10\u00a0vessels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane\nHatteras Island was almost entirely inundated with 4 to 10 feet (1.2 to 3.0\u00a0m) of water, and many homes were damaged. There was also much destruction at Diamond City, on the Shackleford Banks near Cape Lookout. There were at least 20\u00a0deaths in the state of North Carolina. In the Azores, the storm also caused one fatality and significant damage on some islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nA tropical storm of unknown origins developed about 480 miles (770\u00a0km) southwest of the southwesternmost islands of Cape Verde at 00:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a03. According to an article by the United States Hydrographic Office, the British steamship Grangense encountered the system later that day, while located about 1,800 miles (2,900\u00a0km) east-southeast of Guadeloupe. According to the ship's log, there was a \"sudden change in the weather\", falling barometric pressures, and increasingly rough seas. Further, the storm \"showed all the symptoms of a genuine West Indian hurricane underdeveloped.\" The captain, who followed a route from Europe to Brazil for many years, noted that he never experienced \"any weather of cyclonic character so far to the eastward before\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nThereafter, the storm strengthened and reached winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) early on August\u00a04. Intensification halted until late on the following day, at which time the storm reached hurricane status. Around 18:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a06, it became a Category\u00a02 hurricane. Early the next day, the system deepened to a Category\u00a03. While approaching the Lesser Antilles, it continued to strengthen, reaching Category\u00a04 status around midday on August\u00a07. Shortly thereafter, the hurricane passed through the Lesser Antilles and made landfall on Guadeloupe. At 18:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a07, the system attained its peak intensity with a maximum sustained wind speed of 150\u00a0mph (240\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 930\u00a0mbar (27\u00a0inHg), observed by a weather station on Montserrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe hurricane weakened slightly while moving west-northward across the Caribbean Sea and made landfall in Guayama, Puerto Rico late on August\u00a08 with winds of 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h). August 8 was the namesday of Saint Cyriacus, hence the hurricane's nickname. Several weather stations across the island reported low barometric pressures, with a reading as low as 939\u00a0mbar (27.7\u00a0inHg) in Guayama. Wind shifts were also experienced across the island, primarily in the south and the west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0006-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe storm crossed Puerto Rico in approximately six hours and emerged into the Atlantic Ocean late on August\u00a08, while weakening to a Category\u00a03 hurricane, with winds decreasing to 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h). The hurricane would maintain this intensity for more than nine days. Continuing west-northward, the hurricane brushed the north coast of Dominican Republic on August\u00a09. Thereafter, the system moved slowly northwestward through the Bahamas, striking Inagua on August\u00a010 and Andros Island on August\u00a012. According to telephone and telegraph reports from the Weather Bureau, the storm was predicted to make landfall in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nHowever, the storm instead curved north-northwestward and struck Grand Bahama on August\u00a013. The next day, officials at the Weather Bureau predicted that the hurricane would strike Charleston, South Carolina, at which time it would have weakened \"into an ordinary blow\". The storm instead eventually turned northeastward and moved parallel to the coast of the Southeastern United States for a few days. By early on August\u00a017, however, the hurricane re-curved northwestward. At 01:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a018, it made landfall near Hatteras, North Carolina, with winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0007-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nFive hours later, the storm weakened to a Category\u00a02 hurricane. Around midday on August\u00a018, it fell to Category\u00a01 hurricane intensity while re-emerging into the Atlantic Ocean. Thereafter, the storm drifted slowly east-northeastward before accelerating to the northeast after 12:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a019. It moved parallel to Long Island and New England, until curving just north of due east late on the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe system began losing tropical characteristics after interacting with a weather front and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone early on August\u00a022, while situated about 325\u00a0miles (525\u00a0km) south of Sable Island, Nova Scotia. The extratropical system moved east-southeastward and then southeastward, while continuing to weaken. By August\u00a024, it curved eastward and then northeastward the next day. Operationally, it was believed that the system remained extratropical. However, Partagas indicated that it regenerated into a tropical storm at 00:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a026, while located about 695\u00a0miles (1,120\u00a0km) southwest of Flores Island, Azores. Initially, the rejuvenated system drifted slowly north-northwestward, before turning northward on August\u00a027. No change in intensity occurred for nearly a week. On August\u00a028, it curved northeastward and then eastward, while continuing to drift.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 942]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nBy September\u00a01, the storm began to accelerate and moved east-southeastward. It resumed intensification the next day after curving southeast, and was upgraded to a hurricane early on September\u00a03, based on barometric pressure data. A few hours later, the hurricane attained a secondary peak intensity with a maximum sustained wind speed of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). Late on September\u00a03, the storm passed through the Azores, shortly before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone. After becoming extratropical, the remnants moved rapidly northeastward and continued to weaken, before dissipating southwest of Ireland late on September\u00a04. However, the Weather Bureau noted that gales prevailed offshore France until September\u00a012, when the system merged with a low pressure area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Meteorological history\nWith just under 28\u00a0days as a tropical cyclone, this system became the longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Preparations\nOn August\u00a07, after stations in the Lesser Antilles reported a change in wind from the northeast to the northwest, the United States Weather Bureau ordered hurricane signals at Roseau, Dominica, Basseterre, Saint Kitts, and San Juan, Puerto Rico; later, a hurricane signal was raised at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Advisory messages were sent to other locations throughout the Caribbean, including Santo Domingo, Kingston, Jamaica, and Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Information was also telegraphed to major seaports along the Gulf and East coasts of the United States. On August\u00a09, hurricane signals were posted at Santiago de Cuba, while all vessels bound northward and eastward from Cuba were advised to remain in port.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Lesser Antilles\nWhile passing through the Leeward Islands, strong winds were reported on several islands. In Guadeloupe, the storm unroofed and flooded many houses and buildings, including the American Consulate in Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre. Communications were significantly disrupted in the interior portions of the island. Two schooners sunk and at least 23\u00a0flat boats were pushed ashore in the \u00celes des Saintes archipelago of Guadeloupe. Impact was severe in Montserrat, with nearly every building destroyed. The Courthouse and a school, both of which remained standing, became crowded with homeless women and children. One-hundred deaths and fourteen-hundred injuries were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Lesser Antilles\nIn Saint Kitts, 5-minute sustained winds were 72\u00a0mph (116\u00a0km/h), while 1-minute sustained winds were as high as 120\u00a0mph (190\u00a0km/h). About 200\u00a0small houses were destroyed on Saint Kitts, with estates suffering considerable damage. Despite the impact, no deaths occurred, which was attributed to ample warnings. On Nevis, the hurricane left \"general destruction\" and at least 21\u00a0fatalities. Nearly all estates were demolished on Saint Croix, while almost every large building was deroofed. Eleven deaths were reported on the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico\nTaking place a mere 12 months after the American invasion of the Island, U.S. Army Major Albert L. Myer described it as \"more disruptive to Puerto Rican society than was the American invasion.\" The San Ciriaco hurricane was described as the first major storm in Puerto Rico since the 1876 San Felipe hurricane. Approximately 250,000\u00a0people were left without food and shelter. Overall, damage totaled approximately $35.8\u00a0million, with over half were losses inflicted on crops, particularly coffee. At the time, it was the costliest and worst tropical cyclone in Puerto Rico. The number of fatalities ranged from 3,100 to 3,400, with the official estimate being 3,369. The San Ciriaco hurricane is the deadliest tropical cyclone in the history of Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico\nStrong winds were reported throughout the island, reaching 85\u00a0mph (137\u00a0km/h) at many locations and over 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h) in Humacao, Mayag\u00fcez, and Ponce. Within the municipality of Ponce, 500\u00a0people died, mostly from drowning. Streets were flooded, waterfront businesses were destroyed, and several government buildings were damaged. Telephone, telegraph, and electrical services were completely lost. Ponce was described as an image of \"horrible desolation\" by its municipal council. Impact was worst in Utuado, with damage exceeding $2.5\u00a0million. In Humacao, 23 inches (580\u00a0mm) of rain fell in only 24\u00a0hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Greater Antilles and Bahamas\nIn Dominican Republic, heavy rainfall caused the Ozama River to overflow its banks, sweeping away an iron bridge. A freshet was also reported along the Haina River in San Crist\u00f3bal Province, washing away many houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Greater Antilles and Bahamas\nThe storm brought catastrophic impact to the Bahamas and at least 334\u00a0deaths. Losses to boating vessels reached $50,000. On Inagua, three vessels were lost and a schooner was left stranded at Lantern Head, while other boats that were hauled up on the bay suffered severe damage. The public school house was demolished on Ragged Island, though dwellings escaped serious impact. Plantain and banana plantations were completely flattened at Deadman's Cay on Long Island. Three vessels were beached on Rum Cay, but only one was considerably damaged. About 10\u00a0bushels of salt were lost. Two churches and a number of private homes were damaged on San Salvador Island. A few ships and vessels were destroyed, damaged, or lost on Eleuthera, leaving a few people missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Greater Antilles and Bahamas\nOn San Salvador Island, two churches and many dwellings were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Greater Antilles and Bahamas\nExuma was devastated by the storm. All boats and other forms of transportation on the island were destroyed, with several crews either completely lost or missing some few members. Several bodies washed ashore and were immediately buried. A total of 46\u00a0deaths were reported at sea, with some victims as young as 8-years old. At Gray's Settlement, several houses, outbuildings, and a church were destroyed. Of the buildings that remained standing, many lost their roof. At Barritarri and Rolleville, churches were deroofed and several small buildings suffered complete destruction. Throughout the island, 97\u00a0dwellings were destroyed and 131\u00a0others were damaged, which did not include the number of kitchens, barns, and homes demolished at Alexandria and Stuart's Manor. Overall, the storm left at least 64\u00a0fatalities on Exuma alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Greater Antilles and Bahamas\nWithin the capital city of Nassau, fences and boundary walls separating businesses and properties were felled. A fruit factory, a sponge warehouse, a dancing pavilion, and about 100\u00a0smaller buildings were destroyed. A few public buildings were damaged, including the prison and the Government House. Damage to homes in Nassau was light in comparison to the dwellings in the suburbs, where lower-class homes suffered extensive impact or were completely destroyed. A total of 44\u00a0multi-family residences were demolished. Many adobes in Adelaide were flattened, forcing 12\u00a0families to live in a church. Three people suffered serious injuries after a home near Gambier was destroyed. The entire community of Gambier was reportedly wiped out. Local agriculture also experienced significant impact, with two orchards alone losing many trees and thousands of fruits. All sisal plantations on the island were demolished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 976]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, Greater Antilles and Bahamas\nOf the 50\u00a0small crafts capsized by strong winds and waves in the Bahamas, a majority of these were located at Andros Island. Several settlements along the northern portions of the island were devastated, with numerous homes flattened and all crops were destroyed, including coconuts, corn, grapefruit, oranges, peas, and potatoes. At Red Bays, two churches were destroyed and many houses were washed away. Several sponging vessels were beached, resulting in an \"astronomical\" number of casualties. Only seven homes remained standing at Nicholls Town. A church was demolished along the Staniard Creek. At Coakley Town, several houses were blown down, while a number of vessels sunk. Overall, at least 114\u00a0deaths occurred on land alone. Several schooners were lost near Andros Island, while at least 30\u00a0other schooners were driven ashore and severely damaged or demolished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 936]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nOffshore the United States between Florida and North Carolina, the Norwegian bark Drot encountered the hurricane. A large wave swept the captain and seven crew members overboard. The remaining men built a makeshift raft out of the ship's plank in order to survive. However, the raft split into two, with two men on one portion and six on the other. On the former raft, a person committed suicide by jumping into the raging sea, but the remaining man was eventually rescued by the German steamship Titania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0022-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nOf the six men on the other raft, three of them intentionally jumped into the ocean and drowned. Because the remaining three men realized that they were facing starvation or death by dehydration, they drew locks to determine who would be cannibalized by the other two. The man who lost was killed and the two surviving people drank blood from his veins. One of the persons remaining then went insane and bit large chunks of flesh from the other man's face and chest. On August 31, two weeks after the ship sunk, the two survivors were finally rescued by the British steamer Woodruff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0023-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nThe Weather Bureau office in Jupiter, Florida, recorded sustained winds of 52\u00a0mph (84\u00a0km/h) and a gusts up to 63\u00a0mph (101\u00a0km/h). Winds downed all telegraph lines in the area, which disrupted telegraphic communications for about 48\u00a0hours. Brief periods of heavy rainfall were also reported. At The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, storm surge ripped off the upper portion of the ocean deck, which consisted of railings, a canopy, and a flagpole. Between Titusville and Miami, losses reached $5,000. Tides along the coast of South Carolina peaked at 2.8\u00a0ft (0.85\u00a0m), resulting in no coastal flooding. Well executed warnings were attributed to no fatalities in South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0024-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nStrong winds were observed in coastal North Carolina, with sustained winds up to 93\u00a0mph (150\u00a0km/h) and gusts as high as 140\u00a0mph (230\u00a0km/h). However, the anemometer then blew away. According to the Weather Bureau, \"the entire island\" of Hatteras was submerged in 4 to 10\u00a0ft (1.2 to 3.0\u00a0m) of water due to storm surge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0024-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nA personal account by Weather Bureau observer S. L. Dosher noted that it was typical for 40\u00a0to 50\u00a0individuals in Hatteras to seek shelter in a home because of coastal flooding, only to be forced to venture to another dwelling due to rising water. In only four houses, less than 1\u00a0ft (0.30\u00a0m) of water was recorded. All fishing piers and equipment were destroyed, while every bridge was swept away. About 10\u00a0vessels, including a large steamship, were wrecked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0025-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nDosher, sent a report to Washington, D.C. on Aug. 21, four days after the storm hit the Outer Banks. In his report Dosher wrote:\"The howling wind, the rushing and roaring tide and the awful sea which swept over the beach and thundered like a thousand pieces of artillery made a picture which was at once appalling and terrible and the like of which Dante's Inferno could scarcely equal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0025-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nHe stated, \"At about 8 p.m. on the 17th when the wind lulled and shifted to the east and the tide began to run off with great swiftness, causing a fall of several feet in less than a half hour, a prayer of thankfulness went up from every soul on the island, and strong men, who had held up a brave heart against the terrible strain of the past 12 hours, broke down and wept like children...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0026-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nSevere damage also occurred at Diamond City and Shackleford Banks, where nearly every house was swept away. A number of farm animals drowned. The tides unearthed caskets, damaging them and leaving bones scattered throughout the towns. After the storm, residents began abandoning the area and re-settled in other cities, most of them located elsewhere in the Outer Banks. On Ocracoke Island, the island was covered with 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres) of water. A total of 33\u00a0homes were destroyed and nearly every other suffered damage. Additionally, two churches were demolished. Several cows, horses, and sheep drowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0026-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nAmong the ships that wrecked was the barkentine Priscilla. Rasmus Midgett, a United States Life-Saving Service member, single-handedly rescued 10\u00a0people from the Priscilla. On October\u00a018, Midgett was awarded the Lifesaving Medal by Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage. Heavy rains and strong winds as far inland as Raleigh resulted in \"great damage\" to crops. There were at least 20\u00a0fatalities in North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0027-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nStrong winds were also reported in Virginia. At Cape Henry, winds peaked at 68\u00a0mph (109\u00a0km/h) for five minutes. In Norfolk, five-minute sustained winds reached 42 miles per hour (68\u00a0km/h). The storm was quite severe along the James River, with low-lying areas of Norfolk inundated by wind-driven tides, while livestock drowned in the flood waters at Suffolk. A \"heavy northeastern storm\" began in Petersburg the night of August\u00a017. In Southside Virginia Corn and tobacco suffered considerable damage as crops were leveled by strong winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0028-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Impact, United States and elsewhere\nIn the Azores, \"several lives were lost\" on S\u00e3o Miguel Island. Strong winds and heavy rainfall damaged many houses, inundated several roads, and toppled a number of telegraph poles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0029-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nSome wealthy citizens and local governments in Puerto Rico provided food and shelter in the immediate aftermath of the storm, but their resources were too limited to effectively handle the disaster. Following Military Governor George Whitefield Davis's initial assessment of damage, he requested that the federal government appeal to citizens for aid. In San Juan, Major John Van Hoff established a Board of Charities, which was staffed by military doctors and clergy. Davis requested that similar committees be developed and headed by three \"people of respectability\" in each town. At the time, the island was divided into 12\u00a0military districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0029-0001", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nDavis ordered that commanding officers assess damage in each district and report the number of citizens without food and shelter. Hundreds submitted petitions for tax relief, including 369 in Lares alone. The destruction of infrastructure made it difficult to deliver aid, especially because of a 11\u00a0mi (18\u00a0km) section of railroad destroyed between A\u00f1asco and Mayag\u00fcez. Many roads and bridges were rebuilt in the following months. However, because the railroads were privately owned, the government hesitated to begin repairs. Various municipal governments proposed 25 million to 30 million pesos in bonds to fund restoration efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0030-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nOn August\u00a024, the USAT McClellan departed the United States Quartermaster's dock in Brooklyn after being filled with supplies by the Puerto Rican Relief Committee of the Merchant's Association including 12,600\u00a0vests for women, 4,800\u00a0women's wrappers, 4,200\u00a0undershirts for men, 600\u00a0pairs of trousers, and 215\u00a0children's garments. H. C. F. Koch & Co. also sent 265\u00a0articles of women and children's clothing. Additionally, the Windsor Company donated one case of calico, the Renfrew Machinery Company contributed one case of gingham, the Hines Underwear Company gave away knit underwear, and the National Biscuit Company (now known as Nabisco) sent 30\u00a0barrels of bread.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0031-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nIn the Bahamas, the House of Assembly held a special session to vote for a measure that authorized expenditure for relief throughout the country. Additionally, Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain called on several vessels to distribute and render assistance to the Out Islands. The British Government enacted the Hurricane Warning Act, which ordered that hurricane signal flags be hoisted at Fort Charlotte and Fort Fincastle in the event of a hurricane. The new regulation also required these flags to be raised when the barometric pressure fell to a certain point. Additionally, the Imperial Lighthouse Service issued a set of signal flags to all lighthouses in the Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0032-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nThere was so much Destruction in Diamond City, North Carolina that the approximately 500 residents of the settlement and island decided to move inland. The last of the residents had left by 1902, and even relocated houses to nearby places such as Harkers Island, Salter Path and Morehead City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0033-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nHurricane San Ciriaco set many records on its path. Resulting in at least 3,369\u00a0deaths in Puerto Rico, the storm was the deadliest hurricane to hit the island and the strongest at the time, until the Hurricane San Felipe Segundo made landfall in 1928 as a Category\u00a05 hurricane. It was also among the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0034-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nAlso, with an Accumulated cyclone energy of 73.57, it has the highest ACE of any Atlantic hurricane in history. In 2004, Hurricane Ivan became the second Atlantic hurricane to surpass an ACE value of 70, but did not surpass the San Ciriaco hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0035-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records\nThe San Ciriaco hurricane is also the longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, lasting for 27.75\u00a0days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0036-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records, Migration to Hawaii\nThe hurricane was one of the reasons why some 5,000 Puerto Ricans migrated to Hawaii. Two historians, living in Hawaii, documented the history of Puerto Rican migration to Hawaii and stated the San Ciriaco hurricane was one of the main reasons why Puerto Ricans went to Hawaii. \"Nicolas G. Vegas wrote in his Narraci\u00f3n Patri\u00f3tica (Patriotic Narration):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0037-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Aftermath and records, Migration to Hawaii\nDe aquel pa\u00eds borincanoTierras de tan lindas floresDe all\u00ed salimos, se\u00f1ores. A este suelo hawaiiano. . . . Nadie pensaba olvidarAquel amable rinc\u00f3nY por causa del cicl\u00f3nNos tuvimos que embarcarY empezamos a navegarPara distantes regionesAfligidos corazonesDejamos a nuestra espaldaY de aquella tierra sanaDe all\u00ed salimos, se\u00f1ores. From that Borinquen landLands with such beautiful flowersFrom there we left, sirs,For this Hawaiian land. . . . Nobody thought he would forgetThat friendly part of the worldAnd because of the cycloneWe had to set sailAnd we began to navigateFor distant regionsAfflicted heartsWe left behind usAnd from that healthy landFrom there we left, sirs.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 70], "content_span": [71, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032108-0038-0000", "contents": "1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, Name\nThe hurricane earned its name by striking Puerto Rico on August 8, the Roman Catholic feast day devoted to Saint Cyriacus (San Ciriaco in Spanish). This was a common practice prior to the introduction of standardized hurricane names \u2013 for example, the 1867 San Narciso hurricane, the 1928 San Felipe hurricane, and the 1932 San Ciprian hurricane were also named after the feast day on which they occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 32], "content_span": [33, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032109-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 San Diego mayoral election\nThe 1899 San Diego mayoral election was held on April 4, 1899 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Edwin M. Capps was elected Mayor with a majority of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032109-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIncumbent Mayor Daniel C. Reed stood for re-election to a second two-year term as a Republican. His re-election was contested by Edwin M. Capps, a Democrat, and John Helphingstine of the Socialist Labor party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032109-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nOne of the biggest issues during the campaign was municipal ownership of the water system. Capps, the city engineer, was seen as friendly to the San Diego Flume Company, while Reed was supported by the Southern California Mountain Water Company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032109-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nOn April 4, 1899, Capps was elected mayor with a majority of 52.3 percent of the vote. Reed came in second with 45.6 percent of the vote. Helphingstine came in third with only 2.1 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032110-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1899 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1899 college football season. In their only season under head coach Jess Woods, the Spartans compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record, their first ten-game schedule. The season was highlighted by a record number of wins (six) and losses (three). They outscored their opponents by a total of 120 to 69, although they were outscored 56 to 11 by collegiate teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032111-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers baseball team\nThe 1899 Sewanee Tigers baseball team represented the Sewanee Tigers baseball team of the University of the South in the 1899 college baseball season. The Tigers were led by coach Henry Ashford and finished in first place in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association with a record of 4\u20130, 7\u20130 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South and the 1899 team was one of its best. The 1899 Tigers won 12 games and loss none, outscored opponents 322\u201310, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team\nWith just 13 players, the team known as the \"Iron Men\" had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M, Texas, Tulane, LSU, and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group \"the most durable football team I ever saw.\" The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion \"...and on the seventh day they rested.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe team was led by head coach Herman \"Billy\" Suter and future College Football Hall of Famer and captain Henry \"Diddy\" Seibels. The team also featured Ormond Simkins, and the team's manager was future US Senator and newspaper publisher Luke Lea. The 11 extra points against Cumberland by Bart Sims is still a school record. John Heisman's Auburn team was the only one even to score on Sewanee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Before the season\nDespite being from a small Episcopal university in the mountains of Tennessee, the Sewanee team came to dominate football in the region during the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Like several other football powers of yore such as the University of Chicago, Sewanee today emphasizes scholarship over athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Before the season\nSewanee had seven starters return from the undefeated 1898 team. Before play started, the Sewanee men trained hard for several weeks under coach Suter. With experience and weight, the team was hopeful for an undisputed southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia\nFullback Ormond Simkins was the star of the 12\u20130 opening win over the Georgia Bulldogs, netting the first touchdown with a fine line buck of 12 yards through center \"amidst thunderous applause\". Halfback Rex Kilpatrick scored a second touchdown on a 4-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\nSewanee followed the defeat of Georgia with a 32\u20130 victory over Georgia Tech on the following Monday. Sewanee won easily, the first score coming soon after the kickoff on a blocked kick recovered by halfback Quintard Gray. Gray scored the next touchdown on a 25-yard end run. Just fifteen minutes had passed when halfback and captain Diddy Seibels scored the third touchdown. The next three touchdowns were also scored by Seibels, including pretty runs of 35 and 40 yards. The team played its substitutes in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Gray (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nIn a driving rain at McGee Field, \"where each 5-yard line was a miniature stream\", Sewanee beat the Tennessee Volunteers 46\u20130. Diddy Seibels led the scoring with three touchdowns. \"Touchdown followed touchdown, until Sewanee finally stopped scoring from sheer exhaustion\" to quote The Sewanee Purple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), K. Smith (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Southwestern Presbyterian\nSewanee next defeated Southwestern Presbyterian 54\u20130. The Sewanee Purple wrote: \"Never before in the history of football at Sewanee have we piled up such a score against an opponent.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Southwestern Presbyterian\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Gray (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days\nThe 1899 Iron Men team's most notable accomplishment was a six-day period from November 9 to 14 which is arguably the greatest road trip in college football history. After a disagreement with traditional rival Vanderbilt University over gate receipts resulting in the 1899 game being canceled, manager Luke Lea sought a way to make up for the lost revenue. To accomplish this heput together an improbable schedule of playing five big name opponents in six days. Playing so many games in a short period minimized costs while maximizing revenue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0013-0001", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days\nDuring this road trip, Sewanee outscored its opponents for a combined 91\u20130, including Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, and Ole Miss. Sewanee obliterated each one, traveling by train for some 2,500 miles. This feat, barring fundamental changes in modern-day football, can never be equaled. Contemporary sources called the road trip the most remarkable ever made by an American college team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Texas\nThe train carrying the players pulled into Austin on the night of the 8th to face the undefeated Texas Longhorns the following afternoon. Sewanee won 12\u20130. They scored five minutes into the first quarter, and a minute before the end of the game, \"and the intervening time was devoted to the liveliest battle ever witnessed here\". Diddy Seibels played throughout the game, scoring both touchdowns, despite his head having split open just above his left eye, bleeding profusely. By the end of the game his head was coated with blood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Texas\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Texas A&M\nNot 20 hours had passed since the Texas game before the Tigers faced the Texas A&M Aggies. The Tigers won 10\u20130. Guard Wild Bill Claiborne was blind in one eye, and used his discolored eye for purposes of intimidation saying: \"See this? I lost it yesterday in Austin. This afternoon I'm getting a new one!\" Ormond Simkins first ran in a touchdown from the 1-yard-line near the end of the first half. Quarterback Warbler Wilson got the second touchdown with five seconds left in the game. Texas A&M's campus paper, the Battalion, reported\u00a0:...\"(the Sewanee Tigers) are unmistakably the champions of the South this year...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 97], "content_span": [98, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Texas A&M\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Gray (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 97], "content_span": [98, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0018-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Tulane\nAfter another 350-mile overnight train leg, the Tigers beat Tulane in New Orleans 23\u20130. Rex Kilpatrick scored first. Quintard Gray scored twice more. The lone score of the second half was another, 5-yard run by Kilpatrick. The game was called early due to darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0019-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Tulane\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0020-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, LSU\nBefore the trip to Baton Rouge, the team saw a play, and then toured a sugar plantation owned by John Dalton Shaffer, rather than enjoy the nightlife of New Orleans. One source reported center William H. Poole \"drank heavily\" on the one day off. Sewanee then defeated LSU 34\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0021-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, LSU\nDiddy Seibels scored first. Sewanee's next run from scrimmage was another Seibels touchdown. Rex Kilpatrick had one score, and Sewanee managed three further touchdowns. One account reads: \"In spite of their long, tiresome trip, the Sewanee men were lively as school boys out for a day off.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0022-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, LSU\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Gray (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0023-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Ole Miss\nThe Tigers arrived in Memphis to play Ole Miss on their third pre-game overnight train ride in five days. Ole Miss kept the game close. Diddy Seibels scored the first touchdown with fifteen seconds left in the first half, and Kilpatrick scored the second with thirteen to go before the final whistle. The game was attended by \"several hundred spectators\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0024-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, The Road trip: 5 shutouts in 6 days, Ole Miss\nThe local Commercial Appeal praised the Tigers: \"Yesterday's score against (Mississippi) marked the two hundred and fortieth point for which the Tennesseans have scored to nothing for their opponents, during the present season. The trip of the Sewanee eleven, along with record, will probably remain unequaled for generations.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 96], "content_span": [97, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0025-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nSeemingly unfazed by the travel, the following week the Tigers crushed the Cumberland Bulldogs, 71\u20130. One account reads: \"For five minutes after the beginning of the game Cumberland made some good gains, but the Sewanee defense suddenly grew strong, the ball was secured on downs, and Seibels crossed the line for touchdown seven minutes after play began.\" Bart Sims had a school record 11 extra points, and Ormond Simkins rested instead of playing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0026-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nThe starting lineup was: Sims (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Pearce (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Brooks (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0027-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nFor the championship of the South, Sewanee faced John Heisman's Auburn team winning the contest by a narrow margin of 11\u201310. Auburn was the only team to score on Sewanee all year, when they ran an early version of the hurry-up offense, and played exceptionally well on defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0028-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nAfter being held on downs at the 10-yard line, Auburn again drove down the field and scored first when Bivins ran in a touchdown. Ed Huguley followed this up with another 50-yard touchdown run, but the referee disallowed it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0029-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nSewanee responded once as Rex Kilpatrick ran outside the tackle for a 10-yard touchdown. Auburn back Arthur Feagin, with Huguley's interference, scored to make it 10 to 5 in favor of Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0030-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nA controversial fumble recovery by Sewanee may have saved the game. Auburn quarterback Reynolds Tichenor said it was a gift; the referee awarded Sewanee the ball, but he insisted Auburn recovered it. A double pass play to Warbler Wilson got the ensuing Sewanee touchdown. Bart Sims made the extra point to edge Auburn. Neither team managed to score in the second half. The delay from the crowd gathering on the field ran the game into darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0031-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nUnder Heisman's tutelage, Auburn played with a marvelous speed and dash that couldn't be gainsaid and which fairly swept Sewanee off its feet. Only the remarkable punting of Simkins kept the game from being a debacle. I recall vividly one incident of the game, which demonstrates clearly just how surprising was Sewanee's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0032-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nThe Purple was taking time out... A Sewanee player was down, his head being bathed...Suter, the Sewanee coach, and Heisman, the Auburn mentory, were walking up and down the field together. They approached this boy...Suter, evidently as mad as fire, asked the down and out player 'Are you fellows going to be run over like this all afternoon?'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0033-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\n'Coach,' said the boy, lifting his tired head from the ground, 'we just can't stand this stuff. We've never seen anything like it.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0034-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nSuter and Heisman turned away. ' Can you beat that?' Suter asked the Auburn coach. Heisman didn't say anything, I guess he thought a great deal. He told me afterwards that he had never felt so sorry for a man on a football field as he had for Suter at that moment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0035-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn: The only points scored\nThe starting lineup was: Pierce (left end), Jones (left tackle), Claiborne (left guard), Poole (center), Keyes (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Sims (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Simkins (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0036-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nThe season closed with a 5 to 0 victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels and the championship of the south. Sewanee's defense was strong, including a goal line stand, and Seibels' punting gained 10 yards on each exchange of punts. A single free kick from placement by Simkins proved the difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0037-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nSimkins had signaled for a fair catch, but North Carolina's Frank M. Osborne collided with him. Sewanee was awarded fifteen yards and the free kick. The star for the Tar Heels that day was Herman Koehler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0038-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nThe starting lineup was: Simkins (left end), Jones (left tackle), Keyes (left guard), Poole (center), Claiborne (right guard), Bolling (right tackle), Black (right end), Wilson (quarterback), Kilpatrick (left halfback), Seibels (right halfback), and Hull (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0039-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Postseason, Awards and honors\nW. A. Lambeth of Virginia in the journal Outing and Coach Suter both posted All-Southern teams. Included on Suter's All-Southern were: Richard Bolling, Wild Bill Claiborne, Deacon Jones, Rex Kilpatrick, William H. Poole, Diddy Seibels, Ormond Simkins, and Warbler Wilson. Wilson was also selected All-Southern by Lambeth. Bart Sims made Lambeth's team and was a substitute for Suter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0040-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Postseason, Legacy\nBy the end of the season, eleven of Sewanee's victories were against SIAA conference rivals, setting the record for the most conference games won in a single season by any team before or since. On College Gameday, November 13, 1999, ESPN featured the University of the South with a four-minute segment on the 1899 football team, and CSX Railroad provided a short train ride in Cowan, which was a re-enactment of an early leg of the Sewanee to Texas train ride.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0041-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Postseason, Legacy\nSeveral writers and sports personalities consider this Sewanee team one of the greatest football teams ever to play. Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno once said: \"While there are some who would swear to the contrary, I did not see the 1899 Sewanee football team play in person. Winning five road games in six days, all by shutout scores, has to be one of the most staggering achievements in the history of the sport. If the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) had been in effect in 1899, there seems little doubt Sewanee would have played in the title game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0041-0001", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Postseason, Legacy\nAnd they wouldn\u2019t have been done in by any computer ratings.\" Tony Barnhart in Southern Fried Football: The History, Passion and Glory of the Great Southern Game listed Sewanee as his number 1 Southern football team of all-time. A 16-team playoff to determine the best team in college football history with winners decided by fan votes was run by the College Football Hall of Fame, called the March of the Gridiron Champions. Sewanee, starting at the lowest seed, won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032112-0042-0000", "contents": "1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, Personnel, Scoring leaders\nThe following is an incomplete list of statistics and scores, largely dependent on newspaper summaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032113-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Sheriff of London Charity Shield\nThe 1899 Sheriff of London Charity Shield was the second edition of the Sheriff of London Charity Shield. The match between Queen's Park and league champions Aston Villa was a goalless draw, even following thirty minutes of added time. No replay was agreed between the sides so the honour was shared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032113-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match, Background\nAston Villa were the 1898\u201399 Football League champions for the fourth time in their history and Queen's Park of Glasgow were selected by the trophy committee as the best amateur side of the year, having defeated Corinthian twice that year (2\u20133 away and 4\u20131 at home). This was to be the only time that an amateur side other than Corinthian would contest the trophy, as well as the only game featuring a non-English side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032113-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match, Background\nThere was initially some difficulties in arranging the match for 11 March and in February, the match was rearranged to 1 April. Aston Villa had a prior engagement on that date and had they not been able to reschedule, it was believed that Liverpool would have been a candidate to take their place in the charity shield. Several days before the game was originally due to be played, reports suggested that the teams had overcome their difficulties and the original match date of 11 March was back on. Queens Park stipulated that in the event of a draw after 30 minutes extra-time, they would not want a replay but instead to share the shield as making a second trip from Scotland to London was seen as an unnecessary inconvenience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032113-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match, Build-up\nQueens Park had performed admirably against Scottish professional clubs during the season and the Glasgow Herald suggested that \"there is no reason why they should not distinguish themselves equally against the Birmingham cracks\", suggesting Queens Park had an excellent chance when drawing conclusions to Aston Villa's recent visit to the Ibrox stadium, where Rangers comfortably beat the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032114-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 South Australian colonial election\nElections were held in the colony of South Australia on 29 April 1899, except for Albert, where the incumbent members were elected unopposed on 12 April, and Northern Territory, which voted on 6 May. All 54 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent liberal government led by Premier of South Australia Charles Kingston in an informal coalition United Labor Party (ULP) led by Lee Batchelor defeated the conservative opposition led by Leader of the Opposition John Downer. Each district elected multiple members, with voters casting multiple votes. Although the conservatives won more seats, the liberal government retained power until later that year, when new conservative leader Vaiben Louis Solomon forced the government to resign, but only held office for one week. The liberals held government until the next election through leaders Frederick Holder and John Jenkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 955]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032114-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 South Australian colonial election, Background\nThe 1899 election was a contest between three increasingly dominating groups \u2013 the ULP, the conservative National Defence League (NDL) which renamed to the Australasian National League (ANL), and the Kingston liberals. It was also dominated by one issue \u2013 the restrictive franchise for the Legislative Council. The Kingston government, which had secured a majority with the strong support of the ULP, had attempted to broaden the franchise in 1898, but the ANL and conservative majority of the Council had rejected the Bill. Kingston took the Assembly into the 1899 election with this issue dominant. The seat contest was particularly intense between the conservatives and the Kingston liberals. There was no \"Liberal\" or \"Kingston\" party, but there was a relatively cohesive Kingston group among both independent members and candidates. The Liberal and Democratic Union would not be formed until the 1906 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 967]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032115-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1899 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032116-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032116-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe season began on October 6, 1899 with Vanderbilt visiting Cumberland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032116-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nSewanee won the conference with 11 conference victories. With just 13 players, the team known as the \"Iron Men\" had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group \"the most durable football team I ever saw.\" The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion \"...and on the seventh day they rested.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032116-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election\nThe Southern Rhodesia Legislative Council election of April 17, 1899 were the first elections to take place in the Colony of Southern Rhodesia. They followed the Southern Rhodesia Order in Council of 1898 which granted to the Colony a Legislative Council consisting of at least ten voting members: the Administrator of Southern Rhodesia ex officio, five members nominated by the British South Africa Company, and four members elected by registered voters. The Resident Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Marshal James Clarke, also sat on the Legislative Council ex officio but without the right to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Franchise\nThe Order in Council did not set any of the regulations governing the election, which were left to the (acting) High Commissioner for Southern Africa to set the qualifications for voters and delimit the electoral districts, which happened in Proclamation no. 17 of 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 63], "content_span": [64, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0001-0001", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Franchise\nThe acting High Commissioner required voters to be British subjects, male, 21 years of age and older, able to write their address and occupation, and then to fulfil the following financial requirements: (a) ownership of a registered mining claim in Southern Rhodesia, or (b) occupying immovable property worth \u00a375, or (c) receiving wages or salary of \u00a350 per annum in Southern Rhodesia. Six months' continuous residence was also required for qualifications b and c. All voters were entered onto a common roll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 63], "content_span": [64, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Election arrangements\nWith only four members to be elected, the Acting High Commissioner decided to have two districts, Mashonaland and Matabeleland, each returning two members. The election was conducted under rules first set down for Cape Colony in 1892 with a secret ballot. No political parties were in existence at the time of the election so each candidate stood on their own record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Byelection\nWilliam Fairbridge, defeated in Mashonaland, lodged an election petition after the declaration of the result, alleging that Raleigh Grey's election agents were involved in misconduct during the election. Before the hearing commenced, Grey resigned from the Council feeling that his presence was corrupted. The election court found that Grey's agents had indulged in bribery and 'treating' (providing free food and drink for voters) at a smoking concert, and invalidated his earlier election, but as Grey was no longer a member, this had no effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Byelection\nIn the meantime, nominations for the byelection closed on August 21, 1899 and Grey was again nominated. With no other candidate in the field he was therefore returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Nominated members\nThe members nominated by the British South Africa Company were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032117-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Nominated members\nSir Thomas Scanlen stood down and was replaced by John Gilbert Kotz\u00e9, Attorney General, on August 9, 1900. Mr Justice Vintcent stood down and was replaced by Clarkson Henry Tredgold on June 28, 1901. Townshend Griffin was absent for a time and was replaced by James Hutchinson Kennedy on June 28, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election\nThe 1899 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 16 April and on Sunday, 30 April 1899, to elect the 9th Restoration Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 402 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Background\nThe Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a constitutional monarchy, awarding the King power to name senators and to revoke laws, as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the army. The King would also play a key role in the system of El Turno Pac\u00edfico (the Peaceful Turn) by appointing and toppling governments and allowing the opposition to take power. Under this system, the Conservative and Liberal parties alternated in power by means of election rigging, which they achieved through the encasillado, using the links between the Ministry of Governance, the provincial civil governors, and the local bosses (caciques) to ensure victory and exclude minor parties from the power sharing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Spanish Cortes were envisaged as \"co-legislative bodies\", based on a nearly perfect bicameralism. Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, where the Congress had preeminence. Voting for the Cortes was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Congress of Deputies, 91 seats were elected using a partial block voting in 26 multi-member constituencies, with the remaining 311 being elected under a one-round first-past-the-post system in single-member districts. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nIn constituencies electing eight seats or more, electors could vote for no more than three candidates less than the number of seats to be allocated; in those with more than four seats and up to eight, for no more than two less; in those with more than one seat and up to four, for no more than one less; and for one candidate in single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0003-0002", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Congress was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants, with each multi-member constituency being allocated a fixed number of seats: 8 for Madrid, 7 for Barcelona, 5 for Palma and Seville and 3 for Alicante, Almer\u00eda, Badajoz, Burgos, C\u00e1diz, Cartagena, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, Ja\u00e9n, Jerez de la Frontera, La Coru\u00f1a, Lugo, M\u00e1laga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza. The law also provided for by-elections to fill seats vacated throughout the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Senate, 180 seats were indirectly elected, with electors voting for delegates instead of senators. Elected delegates\u2014equivalent in number to one-sixth of the councillors in each municipal corporation\u2014would then vote for senators using a write-in, two-round majority voting system. The provinces of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia were allocated four seats each, whereas each of the remaining provinces was allocated three seats, for a total of 150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0004-0001", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe remaining 30 were allocated to a number of institutions, electing one seat each\u2014the Archdioceses of Burgos, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; the Royal Spanish Academy; the Royal Academies of History, Fine Arts, Sciences, Moral and Political Sciences and Medicine; the Universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; and the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country from Madrid, Barcelona, Le\u00f3n, Seville and Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0004-0002", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nAn additional 180 seats comprised senators in their own right\u2014the Monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age; Grandees of Spain of the first class; Captain Generals of the Army and the Navy Admiral; the Patriarch of the Indies and archbishops; as well as other high-ranking state figures\u2014and senators for life (who were appointed by the Monarch).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032118-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of each House of the Cortes\u2014the Congress and one-half of the elective part of the Senate\u2014expired five years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The Monarch had the prerogative to dissolve both Houses at any given time\u2014either jointly or separately\u2014and call a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season\nThe 1899 St. Louis Perfectos season was the team's 18th season in St. Louis, Missouri and their 8th season in the National League. The Perfectos went 84\u201367 during the season and finished 5th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season\nThis was the team's only season in which they were named the Perfectos. The Robison brothers, who had just bought the team from original owner Chris von der Ahe, changed the colors to red, the name of the team to Perfectos, and the name of the ballpark to League Park. The red color proved so popular that fans and sportswriters began referring to the team by the shade of red, cardinal. The next season, the team officially became the Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season\nThe team benefited from many players who were transferred to the team from the Cleveland Spiders, which were also owned by the Robison brothers. This led to the Spiders compiling the worst season in MLB history, losing 134 games. However, the Perfectos wound up finishing only fifth. The pennant-winning Brooklyn Superbas, who finished 18\u00bd games ahead of St. Louis, benefited from a similar arrangement, as Brooklyn's owners also owned the Baltimore Orioles, allowing them to also transfer their better players to one team. After the 1899 season, such arrangements were outlawed in the National League, and both the Spiders and Orioles were among four teams eliminated from the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032119-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 St. Louis Perfectos season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032120-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Stanford football team\nThe 1899 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1899 college football season. With a 2\u20135\u20132 record in head coach Burr Chamberlain's only season at the school, the Stanford football team lost as many games in 1899 as they had in the previous four seasons combined and produced the first losing season in school history. The team played its home games at Stanford, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032121-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1899 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the 4th season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte IS won the tournament by defeating G\u00f6teborgs FF in the final with a 4\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032122-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1899 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20131\u20132 record. George H. Brooke was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032123-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Swedish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sweden on 22 September 1899. The Lantmanna Party received a majority of the vote. Erik Gustaf Bostr\u00f6m remained Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032123-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Swedish general election, Campaign\nThe Liberals and the Swedish Social Democratic Party ran joint lists in some constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032123-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Swedish general election, Results\nOnly 25.4% of the male population aged over 21 was eligible to vote. Voter turnout was 40.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032124-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Swiss federal election\nFederal elections were held in Switzerland on 26 October 1899. The Free Democratic Party retained its majority in the National Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032124-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Swiss federal election, Electoral system\nThe 147 members of the National Council were elected in 52 single- and multi-member constituencies using a three-round system. Candidates had to receive a majority in the first or second round to be elected; if it went to a third round, only a plurality was required. Voters could cast as many votes as there were seats in their constituency. There was one seat for every 20,000 citizens, with seats allocated to cantons in proportion to their population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032124-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Swiss federal election, Results, Summary\nVoter turnout was highest in Schaffhausen (where voting was compulsory) at 86.4% and lowest in Obwalden at 21.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032125-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1899 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1899 college football season. The head coach was Frank E. Wade, coaching his third season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032126-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1899 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They were the first UT team to have a head coach. J. A. Pierce helmed the team in 1899 and 1900. The 1899 Tennessee Volunteers won six games and lost two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032127-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032128-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1899 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the Texas Longhorns baseball team of the University of Texas in the 1899 college baseball season. A. C. Ellis led his second and final season as coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032129-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1899 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032130-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1899 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 10th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032130-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nHorse & Jockey won the championship after a 3\u201308 to 2\u201304 defeat of Tow-Mile Borris in the final replay. It was the club's only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032131-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1899 Toronto Argonauts season was the club's second season as a member club of the Ontario Rugby Football Union. The team finished in third place in the Senior Championship of the ORFU with two wins and four losses, and failed to qualify for the Dominion playoffs. However the Argos' 9-0 victory over the University of Toronto on October 21 won them the City Championship, for which they received the Wilson Trophy, the first trophy to be won by the Argos in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032131-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe Argos played two non-league games during the 1899 season, defeating the University of Toronto 9-0 at Varsity Athletic Field on October 21 to claim the city championship, and losing 23-19 at Rosedale Field on November 4 to an Ireland touring side, a match played half under Canadian rules and half under rugby rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032132-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Toronto municipal election\nMunicipal elections were held in Toronto, Canada, on January 2, 1899. Mayor John Shaw was elected for his third consecutive term in office defeating opponent Ernest A. Macdonald and Third Ward Alderman George McMurrich. It was Macdonald's third unsuccessful attempt to be elected mayor. He would succeed in his fourth attempt, at the 1900 Toronto municipal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032132-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Toronto municipal election, Board of Control\nThe Toronto Board of Control was elected by Toronto City Council from among its members, and presided over by the mayor. At the first council meeting following the general election, council chose Aldermen Burns, Lynd, and Woods to sit on the body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032132-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Toronto municipal election, Plebiscites\nThree by-laws authorizing expenditures were approved by plebiscite: $62,500 for the erection of the Queen Street Viaduct spanning the Don River; $150,00 for the remodelling of St. Lawrence Market, and $40,000 for waterfront improvements at the foot of Bay Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032132-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Toronto municipal election, Aldermen elected to City Council\nFour alderman were elected to sit on Toronto City Council in each of six wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032132-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Toronto municipal election, Aldermen elected to City Council\nOnly two aldermen seeking re-election were defeated, both in the First Ward: John Leslie, who had also sat on the city's powerful Toronto Board of Control (which at this time was still chosen by city council rather than elected), and Alderman Richardson who were replaced by former alderman Stewart and John Russell. In the Second Ward, former alderman Spence filled the vacancy left by the retirement of Alderman Bryce. In the Third Ward, former alderman N.L. Steiner filled the vacancy left by Alderman McMurrich's mayoral candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032133-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1899 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team failed to score a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032134-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1899 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 14 August to 21 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 21 June to 24 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 19th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032134-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles\nMalcolm Whitman defeated J. Parmly Paret 6\u20131, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032134-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nHolcombe Ward / Dwight Davis defeated Leo Ware / George Sheldon 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032134-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nJane Craven / Myrtle McAteer defeated Maud Banks / Elizabeth Rastall 6\u20131, 6\u20131, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032134-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nElizabeth Rastall / Albert Hoskins defeated Jane Craven / James Gardner 6\u20134, 6\u20130, ret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032135-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nMalcolm Whitman defended his title by beating Jahial Parmly Paret in the challenge round 6\u20131, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 7\u20135, to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1899 U.S. National Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032136-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMarion Jones won the singles tennis title of the 1899 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating Maud Banks 6\u20131, 6\u20131, 7\u20135 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The reigning champion Juliette Atkinson did not defend her title and therefore no challenge round was held. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 21 through June 24, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032137-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1899 U.S. Open was the fifth U.S. Open, held September 14\u201315 at Baltimore Country Club in Baltimore, Maryland. Willie Smith won his only major title, a record eleven strokes ahead of three runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032137-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. Open (golf)\nOn Thursday, Smith and future four-time champion Willie Anderson co-led with 77 in the morning and Anderson took the lead in the afternoon at 158, with Smith a stroke back. In the third round on Friday morning, Anderson's 85 allowed Smith to take a four-stroke lead over Alex Campbell, and his 77 in the afternoon distanced him from the field; Campbell ballooned to 94 and fell to twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032137-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. Open (golf)\nPlaying out of Midlothian Country Club in Chicago, Smith was the only player to record three sub-80 rounds, and did not score higher than a seven on any hole in the championship. Val Fitzjohn, George Low, and Bert Way tied for second, eleven strokes behind. Smith's margin of victory was the largest in the U.S. Open for 101 years, until Tiger Woods won by fifteen shots in 2000. Smith's brother Alex, a future two-time champion, finished seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032137-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 U.S. Open (golf)\nSmith won a gold medal and was given custody of the Championship Cup for a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032138-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1899 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1899 college football season. The team competed as an independent without a head coach, compiling a 2\u20133\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032139-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1899 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032139-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 USFSA Football Championship, Tournament, Final\nClub fran\u00e7ais refused to play in the final, so the USFSA awarded Le Havre AC the French championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032140-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were nine special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1899 during the 56th United States Congress, which began on March 4, 1899. None of the special elections in 1899 were during the 55th United States Congress, which ended March 3, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032141-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThe 1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held during January 1899. Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge won election to a second term easily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032141-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nAt the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a majority vote of the combined houses of the Massachusetts General Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032141-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Background\nAlthough Democrats made gains in the 1898 state election, the General Court remained overwhelmingly Republican, assuring Lodge's re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032141-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Nominating caucuses\nThe Republican legislative caucus unanimously re-nominated Senator Lodge by acclamation on January 10, although his chief critic within the party, State Senator Herbert Parsons of Greenfield, did not attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032141-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Nominating caucuses\nThe Democrats nominated Alexander B. Bruce, the former mayor of Lawrence and candidate for Governor in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032141-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Results\nThe vote in the House was 159 for Lodge, 65 for Bruce, and 2 for Social Democrat Winfield P. Porter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032141-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Results\nThe vote in the Senate was 31 for Lodge and 7 for Bruce. Senator Herbert Parsons refused to vote for Lodge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York\nThe 1899 United States Senate election in New York was held on January 17, 1899. Incumbent Democratic Senator Edward Murphy Jr. stood for re-election to a second term but was defeated by Republican Chauncey Depew. Republicans had maintained control of both houses of the legislature in the 1898 New York state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nDemocrat Edward Murphy, Jr. had been elected to this seat in 1893, and his term would expire on March 3, 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nAt the State election in November 1898, 27 Republicans and 23 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1899-1900) in the State Senate; and 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats were elected for the session of 1899 to the Assembly. The 122nd New York State Legislature met from January 4 to April 28, 1899, at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Republican caucus\nThe Republican caucus met on January 12. State Senator Hobart Krum presided. They nominated Chauncey M. Depew unanimously. Depew had been Secretary of State of New York from 1864 to 1865, and was the frontrunning candidate to succeed Thomas C. Platt at the U.S. Senate special election in 1881 when he withdrew after the 41st ballot. Parallel to his political career, he moved up the ladder in the Vanderbilt Railroad System, being President of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from 1885 to 1898, and holding positions in dozens of other railroad companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Democratic caucus\nThe Democratic caucus met also on January 12. State Senator George W. Plunkitt presided. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Edward Murphy, Jr. unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nChauncey M. Depew was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nNote: The votes were cast on January 17, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 18 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032142-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 United States Senate election in New York, Aftermath\nDepew was re-elected in 1905, and served two terms, most of the time alongside his adversary of 1881, Thomas C. Platt. Depew remained in the U.S. Senate until March 3, 1911. In 1911, Depew was defeated for re-election by Democrat James A. O'Gorman after a deadlock of two months and a half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032143-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1899, in seven states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032143-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 United States gubernatorial elections\nKentucky, Maryland and Mississippi held their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both elected its governors to a single-year term, which they would abandon in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032144-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 University of Utah football team\nThe 1889 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1899 college football season as an independent. Head coach Charles Gatehouse led the team to a 2\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032145-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1899 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1899 college football season. In their first season under head coach Willard Langton, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032145-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nOn November 4, 1899, the team defeated Brigham Young College by an 11\u20135 score before a crowd of 500 spectators at Logan, Utah. The game was played in 20-minute halves. Bowen scored a touchdown for the Aggies after four minutes had been played, and the attempt at kick for goal was unsuccessful. William Nelson scored the Aggies' second touchdown in the second half, and Laughney kicked the goal from touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032146-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 VFA season\nThe 1899 Victorian Football Association season was the 23rd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club; it was the second premiership in the club's history, and the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032146-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 VFA season, Association membership\nThe size of the association increased from six teams to eight in 1899, with two senior clubs joining the association: Prahran and West Melbourne. West Melbourne was invited to join the association as a senior club after having previously competed in the Victorian Junior Football Association; it accepted the invitation, but with no ground of suitable standard available in its district, West Melbourne shared tenancy of the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve as a venue for home matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032146-0001-0001", "contents": "1899 VFA season, Association membership\nPrahran was newly formed as a senior club in 1899; it was the second time that Prahran had been represented by a senior club in the VFA, after a previous unrelated Prahran club had competed from 1886 to 1887 before merging with neighbouring St Kilda. The new club played its matches at the Hawksburn Cricket Ground (Toorak Park) in Armadale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032146-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 VFA season, Ladder\nThe premiership was decided on the basis of the best record across twenty-one rostered matches, with each club playing the others three times. For the first time, each team had a calculated 'average' (known today as 'percentage'), calculated as the ratio of points scored to points conceded; this was used to break ties in the final placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1899 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the St Kilda Cricket Ground in Melbourne, on 16 September 1899, to determine the premiership team for the 1899 VFL season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final\nIt was the second annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League. The match, attended by 4,823 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 1 point, becoming the first club to claim back-to-back VFL premierships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nFitzroy had won the minor premiership in the 1899 season, while South Melbourne had finished sixth after the home-and-away season. In the sectional rounds, Fitzroy and South Melbourne each finished with records of 3\u20130 to qualify for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nHad South Melbourne won the match, it would not have immediately won the premiership; Fitzroy, as the minor premiers, would have had the right to challenge South to a rematch for the premiership on the following Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Summary\nDespite finishing the home and away season in sixth position, the VFL's new, expanded finals system allowed South Melbourne to make the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Summary\nThe strong wind from the southern end of the ground favoured South Melbourne in the opening quarter. Harry Lampe kicked the first two goals of the match, and Fitzroy's only score, a behind, came when a kick from Mick Grace hit the post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Summary\nFitzroy then had the advantage of the wind in the second quarter. Goals to Mick Grace and Fred Fontaine had them ahead at half time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Summary\nCharlie Colgan gave South Melbourne the lead with the only goal of the third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Summary\nFitzroy finished strongly. Bill McSpeerin's goal 15 minutes into the final quarter gave Fitzroy the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032147-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nFitzroy's Bert Sharpe, the team's centre half-forward in its 1898 premiership side, he was a late withdrawal from the side due to the death of his father the day before the Grand Final; his teammates wore black armbands for that match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032148-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL finals series\nThe 1899 Victorian Football League finals series was the 3rd annual edition of the VFL final series, the Australian rules football tournament staged to determine the winner of the 1899 VFL season. The series ran over four weekends in August and September 1899, culminating with the 1899 VFL Grand Final at the Junction Oval on 16 September 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032148-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL finals series\nAll eight teams from the 1899 VFL season qualified for the finals series. The system used was the same as the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032148-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL finals series, Matches\nThe clubs were divided into two groups for the sectional rounds as follows. The minor premiership was won by Fitzroy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032149-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL season\nThe 1899 Victorian Football League season was the third season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032149-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1899, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\" (although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032149-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032149-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1899 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032149-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 VFL season, Win/Loss table\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032150-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1899 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their ninth season of organized football. Sam Boyle coached his second season for the Keydets, which featured only one game\u2014a 39\u20130 win over Washington and Lee. Although the team only played one game in mid-October, the squad was assembled for practice in early September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032150-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1899 football season at VMI was cut short by an outbreak of typhoid fever on the campus. As reported by one account: \"VMI had time to crush only Washington and Lee 39\u20130 before the 1899 season was abruptly ended by an outbreak of typhoid fever which closed the Institute for six weeks.\" On October 16, 1899, all 250 cadets were sent to their homes on account of the outbreak. At least one cadet died in the outbreak, and the school was not re-opened until November 28, 1899\u2014after the football season had ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032150-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 VMI Keydets football team\nVMI's sole opponent for the year, Washington and Lee, finished the season with a record of 0\u20134\u20131. The \"Keydets\" of VMI handed their one opponent the biggest defeat (by score) of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032150-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 VMI Keydets football team\nIn the lone game of the season, W. B. \"Bruce\" Montgomery Jr., the captain and quarterback for VMI, scored a touchdown on an 80-yard carry. Montgomery would go on to the next season to be team captain and assist with coaching duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032150-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 VMI Keydets football team\nOne of the individuals who played for the VMI football team in 1899 and 1900 was George C. Marshall, who went on to be Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032151-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 VPI football team\nThe 1899 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1899 college football season. The team was led by their head coach James Morrison and finished with a record of four wins and one loss (4\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032151-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 VPI football team, Season summary, Second game against St. Albans\nA second game against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School was scheduled to be played on November 4, 1899 in Radford, Virginia, but it was cancelled due to \"an injury to a St. Albans man.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032151-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1899 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032152-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Commodores were coached by James L. Crane, in his first year as head coach. Quarterback Frank Godchaux, the father of Frank Godchaux, Jr., from Abbeville, Louisiana, who transferred from LSU to Vanderbilt in 1897, lettered this year in football. After football, he became a self-made business magnate of a successful rice milling company. Grantland Rice lettered at end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032153-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1899 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In their second year under head coach D. M. McLaughlin, the team compiled a 5\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032154-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1899 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1899 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was Dick Nallin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032155-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1899 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032156-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 WAFA season\nThe 1899 WAFA season was the 15th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032157-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington & Jefferson football team\nThe 1899 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. Led by S. W. Black in his first and only year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 9\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032158-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1899 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1899 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Frank Shively and compiled a record of 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032158-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Agricultural football team, Further reading\nThis College football 1890s season article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season\nThe 1899 Washington Senators baseball team finished the season with a 54\u201398 record, eleventh place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season\nThe 25 home runs that right fielder Buck Freeman recorded were truly remarkable by the standards of the time; his tally was not surpassed until Babe Ruth hit 29 home runs with the 1919 Boston Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season\nWhen the NL contracted after the season, the Senators were disbanded. Owner J. Earl Wagner received $39,000 for his interest in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032159-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032160-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Washington football team\nThe 1899 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1899 college football season. In its first season under coach A. S. Jeffs, the team compiled a 4\u20131\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 71 to 21. Sterling Hill was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032161-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1899 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the second staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032161-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nBallydurn won the championship after a defeat of Blackwater Ramblers in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032162-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1899 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032162-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nIn 1899 incumbent Mayor John Rutherford Blair retired leading to local businessman John Aitken being elected to office as Mayor of Wellington, beating challenges from both Kennedy Macdonald (a former councillor) and James Joseph Devine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032163-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1899 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its first season under head coach Lewis Yeager, the team compiled a 2\u20133 record and was outscored by a total of 78 to 28. A. C. Chapman was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032164-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Western Conference football season\nThe 1899 Western Conference football season was the fourth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032164-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Western Conference football season\nThe 1899 Chicago Maroons football team, under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, won the conference championship with a 16\u20130\u20132 overall record (4\u20130 against conference opponents), led the conference in both scoring offense (28.1 points per game) and scoring defense (1.6 points per game), shut out 13 of 18 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 505 to 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032164-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032164-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nOnly 12 conference games were played during the 1899 Western Conference season. The results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032164-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nNotable non-conference games during the 1899 season included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032164-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nThe Northwestern named a 1899 All-Western college football team that consisted of the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032164-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nNo Western Conference players were selected as first-team players on the 1899 College Football All-America Teams selected by Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney. However, the Philadelphhia Inquirer picked an All-American that named four Western Conference players to the first team: end Neil Snow of Michigan; tackle Richard France of Michigan; quarterback Walter S. Kennedy of Chicago; and halfback John McLean of Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nAfter the successful 1898 season, the Western University of Pennsylvania (WUP) retained Frederick A. Robinson as coach/captain for the 1899 season. The Western University Courant gave the best summation of the 1899 season and state of football at the University:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\n\"The position in the football world taken by our team this fall is one of which we may well be proud. Among Western Pennsylvania college teams, our colors are at the front. Not every college team was met, but a sufficient number of games were played to clearly define the position of W. U. P. Westminster, who were falling so easily before the onslaughts of the Old Gold and Blue when they struck their colors and crawled into their bus, holds the championship of the inter-collegiate league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nBethany, from the South, returned home without either her \"ringers\" or a victory; and Bethany stands high in the Southern part of the State in West Virginia. The fact that the team was purely a college team demonstrates that which has been claimed for some time; namely, that a purely college team can place the University at the top among similar amateur teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0002-0002", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe first attempt in this direction was not altogether a success, the second was an improvement over the first, and the third has placed W. U. P. in the position that the famous team of '92 held, in the days when \"ringers\" were not required nor desired. The difficulties against which the team was obliged to strive are well known. The opening of the University so late in the Fall made it impossible to get started until the season was more than well opened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0002-0003", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThus W. U. P. had to develop her team after the others had begun to play their games. Then the inconveniences connected with the grounds and practice were many. The grounds are a mile from the nearest department and three or four miles from the farthest. Thus much valuable time was wasted in going to and from practice. And, of course, schedules interfered. Then, too, the dressing-room was inadequate. It is a wonder the men turned out at all, having no better accommodations at the grounds than they did.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0002-0004", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nBut in spite of all obstacles they worked faithfully and brought out what was unquestionably the best team that has represented W. U. P. for several years. he spirit displayed by the students who attended the games was very creditable; but the size of the attendance was much otherwise. The voluntary contributions of the students do not amount to such a large sum that the gate receipts are not needed by the management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0002-0005", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nIt is a fact that the manager is personally out of pocket., on account of nothing else than a lack of attendance at the games by the students. Any student who is not ashamed of this fact is unworthy to wear a W. U. P. pennant. There has been a great deal of complaint about the unsatisfactory condition of athletics in the University. Now we have had two successful football seasons, and the second has been unsuccessful financially on account of lack of interest by the students. It seems as though the time has arrived for these unsatisfied mourners to do what is considered a privilege - to attend the contests, and display a little, even a very little enthusiasm, unless they desire to have the privilege withdrawn.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nIn its second and final season under head coach Frederick A. Robinson, the team compiled a 3\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 43 to 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nOn October 25 the Westminster College eleven rolled into town to take on the WUP at Recreation Park. The WUP kicked off and Westminster's halfback Cummings scored five minutes into the first half. Kuhn kicked the goal after and Westminster was ahead 6-0. The WUP defense played better after the next kickoff. Westminster fumbled on one possession and lost the ball on downs on another. However, the WUP offense could not move the ball on either series and Westminster regained possession. Westminster's offense worked the ball downfield and their halfback Edmondson was able to skirt around the end for 15 yards and another touchdown for the lads from New Wilmington. The goal kick after failed and the halftime score read 11-0 in favor of Westminster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nCoach Robinson gave a great halftime pep talk. The Western U. received the kickoff and Cullers returned the ball to near midfield. On the first scrimmage play, Robinson carried the pigskin 45 yards into the end zone. Sterrett missed the goal kick after. Westminster kicked off again and Jones returned the ball to the 40-yard line. WUP fullback Sterrett broke through the defense and raced seventy yards for the second touchdown. Sterrett was successful on the goal kick after and the score was tied, 11-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0005-0001", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nThe WUP offense was advancing the ball into Westminster territory again when John Cameron, the Westminster appointed official, called a penalty on the WUP. Coach Robinson was upset because the referee made a call that was the responsibility of the umpire. Westminster refused to appoint a different official or change the call. Coach Robinson and the Western U. team went home and the game was a 6-0 forfeit to Westminster. The Pitt record book lists the score 11-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Westminster was Chester Fisher (left end), Newell (left tackle), William Mitchell (left guard), James Chessrown (center), King (right guard), George Dale (right tackle), Victor King (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), Wesley Jones (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback),and William Sterrett (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nOn a rainy November 3, the Grove City College eleven came to Recreation Park and took on the WUP. The field was covered in mud and some two-inch deep puddles of water. Grove City kicked off and on the first play from scrimmage Robinson scampered 75 yards for a touchdown. Sterrett was successful on the goal kick after. Grove City kicked off again and the WUP offense steadily advanced the ball down the field and Weber ultimately took it into the end zone from one yard out. Sterrett's kick after failed. Grove City recovered a WUP fumble but could not move the ball offensively and punted the ball back to the WUP offense. The first half then came to an end with the score 11-0 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0008-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe rain intensified in the second half and made play even more difficult. The Grove City eleven was unable to generate any offense, but the WUP offense managed to score one more touchdown late in the half on a Robinson two-yard plunge to make the final score 16-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0009-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Grove City was Chester Fisher (left end), William Mitchell (left tackle), Walter Stifel (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Weber (right guard), Malcolm McConnell (right tackle), Victor King (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), John Crooks (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback), and William Sterrett (fullback). Substitutions for the second half were\u00a0: John Martin for William Mitchell at left tackle, William Mitchell for Malcolm McConnell at right tackle and Emmett Bates for Victor King at right end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0010-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Swissvale Athletic Club\nManager Edward A. Grau was able to get the Recreation Park field in playable condition for the November 10 match-up with the Swissvale Athletic Club eleven. Swissvale took the opening kick and marched steadily to the WUP 22-yard line. The WUP defense stiffened and took over on downs. Robinson, Crooks and Mitchell of the Western eleven were able to advance the ball to the 15-yard line of Swissvale. Robinson fumbled on the next play and Swissvale recovered. Swissvale punted and the WUP offense again advanced the ball steadily but time ran out in the first half with the ball at midfield and the score 0-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0011-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Swissvale Athletic Club\nThe WUP offense received the second-half kickoff and proceeded to move the ball into Swissvale territory. From the 12-yard line Robinson tried an end run but was pushed out of bounds at the nine. Two plays later Weber was shoved over for the touchdown. Sterrett was successful on the goal kick after and the score was 6-0 in favor of Western U. Swissvale again kicked off and the WUP offense began another steady march down the field. When the WUP offense reached Swissvale's four-yard line, a slugfest broke out between WUPs' Bates and McKeever of Swissvale. Bates was ejected and play resumed. Sterrett promptly scored from the four and then missed the goal after. Both defenses played better for the next few possessions until darkness caused the game to be suspended a few minutes early. The final score read WUP 11 \u2013 Swissvale 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 930]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0012-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Swissvale Athletic Club\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Swissvale A. C. was Chester Fisher (left end), William Mitchell (left tackle), Walter Stifel (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), Weber (right guard), John Martin (right tackle), Victor King (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), John Crooks (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback), and William Sterrett (fullback). Emmett Bates replaced Chester Fisher at left end for the second half and was disqualified for slugging. He was replaced by Wesley Jones. James Chessrown replaced Parke Bachman at center and Malcolm McConnell replaced John Crooks at left halfback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0013-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany (WV)\nWhen the Bethany College eleven came to Pittsburgh on November 15, they were greeted to a muddy Recreation Park field for their match with the WUP. The Pittsburgh Daily Post noted that the visitors had some \"ringers\" in their line-up: \"Bethany came here loaded, having Sweeney, McCutcheon, Core, and Duffy in their line-up\". Close to a thousand spectators were present for the game and they were treated to a fierce struggle. The first half was a scoreless defensive battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0013-0001", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany (WV)\nThe WUP offense twice was able to advance the ball near the goal line, but the visiting defense then held on downs. The Bethany offense was unable to advance the ball and punted it back to midfield. Near the end of the first half, Sweeney of Bethany slugged the WUP quarterback Cullers and was ejected from the game. The second half produced more drama. After the WUP offense again drove the ball down the field near the Bethany goal line, McConnell, WUP halfback, scored a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0013-0002", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany (WV)\nAs he crossed the line, he either dropped the ball or it was knocked from his grasp. Bethany disputed the touchdown call, claiming it was a fumble. The referee did not change his mind and Bethany headed for the train back to West Virginia. Coach Robinson told the referee to change the call and the game continued. The ball was put in play at the 25-yard line and the Bethany offense was ineffective so they punted. The WUP offense methodically marched down the field and McConnell carried the ball into the end zone for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0013-0003", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany (WV)\nSterrett missed the goal kick after making the score WUP 5 \u2013 Bethany 0. Bethany kicked to the Universities and again the offensive play of the WUP eleven kept the Bethany defense on its heels. As time ran out, the WUP had the ball on the Bethany two-yard line. The WUP lineup for the game against Bethany was Emmett Bates (left end), William Mitchell (left tackle), Walter Stifel (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Weber (right guard), John Martin (right tackle), Victor King (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), Malcolm McConnell (left halfback), Fred Robinson (right halfback), and William Sterrett (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0014-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at J. F. Lalus\nThree days later the WUP eleven squared off against the undefeated and unscores upon J. F. Lalus Athletic Club team on the muddy Pittsburgh Athletic Club grounds. Fifteen hundred fans braved the November weather and enjoyed an entertaining game. The WUP received the opening kick and their offense behind the running of Robinson and Weber advanced the ball into Lalus territory. The Lalus defense stiffened and took over on downs. Lalus backs McChesney, Nagle and Willis worked the ball to the WUP 15-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0014-0001", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at J. F. Lalus\nOn third down, Horne scored a touchdown and McChesney kicked the goal after for a 6-0 lead for Lalus. WUP kicked off and Nagle gained 30 yards. On first down Horne gained 40 yards and fumbled but Lalus recovered. Lalus was offside on the next play and the WUP offense took over. They were able to move the ball to the Lalus 10-yard line, but WUP quarterback McConnell fumbled and E. Willis of Lalus recovered. The first half ended with Lalus at midfield. Lalas received the second half kickoff and proceeded to march down the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0014-0002", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at J. F. Lalus\nThe WUP defense could not stop the running of Horne, Loeffler, E. Wilson, Nagle and J. Willis. Horne finally scored from the two-yard line and McChesney was again successful on the goal after to make the score 12-0 in favor of Lalus. After the kickoff the WUP defense dug in and stopped the Lalus offense on downs. The WUP offense advanced the ball but then turned the ball over on downs. The Lalus offense was unable to generate a drive and the WUP offense regained possession. The WUP backs carried the ball to the Lalus 10-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0014-0003", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at J. F. Lalus\nOn the next play, Robinson fumbled and McChesney fell on the ball for Lalus. On first down J. Willis raced 40 yards to get Lalus near midfield and time ran out a few plays later with Lalus on the WUP 11-yard line. The WUP lineup for the game against J. F. Lalus was Chester Fisher (left end), William Mitchell (left tackle), Walter Stifel (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), Weber (right guard), John Martin (right tackle), Victor King (right end), Malcolm McConnell (quarterback), Fred Robinson (left halfback), John Crooks (right halfback), and William Sterrett (fullback). James Chessrown replaced Parke Bachman at center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0015-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Waynesburg\nThe next game was scheduled four days later against the Waynesburg College eleven on November 22. The WUP claimed that four of their best players were injured and they would have to cancel the trip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0016-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Acme\nThe final game was scheduled for Thanksgiving Day against the Acmes of Steubenville, Ohio. But manager Grau had to cancel again due to lack of interest by the players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032165-0017-0000", "contents": "1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1899 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032166-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1899 William & Mary Orange and White football team was an American football team that represented the College of William & Mary as an independent during the 1899 college football season. Led by William H. Burke in his first and only season as head coach, the Orange and White compiled a record of 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032167-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1899 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 19 June until 27 June. It was the 23rd staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032167-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Men's Singles\nReginald Doherty defeated Arthur Gore, 1\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032167-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Men's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Clarence Hobart / Harold Nisbet, 7\u20135, 6\u20130, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032168-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nArthur Gore defeated Sydney Smith 3\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Reginald Doherty defeated Gore 1\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1899 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032169-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nClarence Hobart and Harold Nisbet defeated Herbert Roper Barrett and Arthur Gore 6\u20134, 6\u20131, 8\u20136 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Hobart and Nisbet 7\u20135, 6\u20130, 6\u20132 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1899 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032170-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nBlanche Hillyard defeated Ruth Durlacher 7\u20135, 6\u20138, 6\u20131 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Charlotte Cooper 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1899 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032171-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1899 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1899 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032172-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1899 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 4 and 5 February 1899 at the ice rinks Friedenauer Sportplatz & Westeisbahn in Berlin, Germany. The first day was skated at the ice rink Friedenauer Sportplatz (a 400 m ice rink). Due to the bad ice conditions the second day the distances were skated at the ice rink Westeisbahn (a 335 m ice rink).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032172-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nPeder \u00d8stlund was the defending champion and succeeded in defending his championship. He won three distances and became World champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032172-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032173-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032173-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place on February 12 in Davos, Switzerland. All judges came from Switzerland; however, there were no distortions in the judging, because there was no Swiss competitor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032174-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1899 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1899 college football season. In its fifth non-consecutive season under head coach Justus F. Soule, a professor of Latin and Greek, the team compiled a 0\u20131\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 17 to 5. The season included the first scheduled game with Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University), a series that became Wyoming's oldest rivalry, now known as the Border War. Fred Brees was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes\nDuring September 1899 there was a series of severe earthquakes in the region around Yakutat Bay in Alaska. The most powerful of these occurred on September 10 at about noon, local time. The area was sparsely populated and no fatalities were recorded, but the earthquakes were notable for the degree of elevation recorded, up to 47 feet, and for the effects on the glaciers in the region. Fieldwork on the effects of the earthquake was carried out between 1905 and 1910, and a summary report was published in 1912", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Eyewitness accounts\nThe most dramatic accounts came from a group of prospectors whose camp was close to a glacial stream about a mile SE of the ice cliff of Hubbard Glacier. After the initial shock on the morning of September 10, they rigged up a seismograph using dangling knives, and counted 52 shocks before the most powerful shock occurred at noon. This was strong enough that the men could not stand, and some of them avoided being thrown about by holding on to the tent pole. The shock lasted several minutes, with the ground shaking like the swell of the sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0001-0001", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Eyewitness accounts\nThere was a lake above the camp, which burst its bank due to the shock, and deluged the site of the camp with water and debris. Shortly after this a wave of water 20 feet high came in from the sea. One can imagine the men running for their lives while not knowing which way to turn, but all escaped to the higher ground, though losing most of their provisions. After things had calmed down they returned to the campsite to find that one of their boats had survived intact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0001-0002", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Eyewitness accounts\nThe next morning they found an empty damaged native canoe that they were able to repair, and with the two boats were able to make their way to the small settlement of Yakutat. This took several days, as they had to make their way through a mass of floating ice. When they reached Yakutat they found the place empty, and the whole village camped out on the hill behind the village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Uplift\nField investigations by members of the US Geological Survey in subsequent years found evidence of substantial changes in ground level in the affected areas, mostly uplift.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0002-0001", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Uplift\nThe evidence was of several types: physiographic, such as elevated sea-cliffs, sea-caves, and beaches as well as new reefs and islands; biologic, most conspicuously barnacles, whose shells were often found still attached to the rocks well above the highest tidal level, and the killing of trees by saltwater where depression had occurred; and human testimony, both comparison with reports of previous expeditions and the evidence of native american inhabitants who knew the coast well from their hunting activities. Taken together they found evidence for uplift of up to 47 feet (about 14 metres). This is more than had ever been reported up to that date", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Effects on glaciers\nThe immediate effect of the earthquake on the glaciers of the Yukutat Bay region was shattering of the ice at the margins of the glaciers. This led to a release of many icebergs (which caused difficulties to the prospectors on their way to safety, and to ships arriving in the region in the days after the earthquake) and to the formation of deep crevasses, which made traverse of the ice impossible in areas that had been previously passable. Longer-term effects noted in the fieldwork were substantial advances in many of the icebergs close to the earthquake zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0003-0001", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Effects on glaciers\nTarr and Martin attribute this to earthquake-induced avalanches in the mountainous areas above the glaciers leading to an increase in the snow and ice deposited on the upper parts of the glacier. This additional load would work is way down the track of the glacier over a period of years. By contrast, Muir Glacier, about 100 miles SE of Yakutat Bay, receded substantially in the years after the earthquake. The reasons for this are less clear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032175-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes, Further afield\nThe earthquake was clearly felt up to 250 miles from the centre of activity, and there were reports from up to 700 miles away that may have been of the same earthquake or of associated shocks. Seismographs throughout the world recorded the earthquake of September 10, as well as the earlier and later shocks during September. Records show that the time of the heaviest shock on September 10 was 12:22 pm local solar time, equivalent to 21:40:13 UTC. The magnitude of the earthquake has been estimated at 8.0, and the approximate location of the epicentre was 60 deg north, 140 deg west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032176-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1899 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1899 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record, recorded eight shutouts, and outscored all opponents by a total of 191 to 16. The team defeated Wisconsin (6\u20130), Army (24\u20130), and Penn State (42\u20130), played a scoreless tie against Harvard, and lost to Columbia (0\u20135) and Princeton (10\u201311).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032176-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe loss to Columbia at Manhattan Field was described by The New York Times as \"one of the most disastrous defeats Yale has ever experienced in her athletic history.\" Columbia's freshman back Harold Weekes scored the game's only points on a 50-yard touchdown run in the middle of the second half. A relative unknown in 1899, Weekes was selected as a consensus All-American in 1901 and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032176-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 Yale Bulldogs football team\nHarvard and Princeton are recognized as the national champions for the 1899 season. Yale played the former to a scoreless tie and lost by one point to the latter. The loss to Princeton was decided with one minute left in the game by a dropkicked field goal (then worth five points) from the 35-yard line by Princeton's All-American Art Poe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032176-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 Yale Bulldogs football team\nFour Yale players (halfback Albert Sharpe, fullback Malcolm McBride, tackle George S. Stillman and guard Gordon Brown) were consensus picks for the 1899 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032176-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe team's head coach was James O. Rodgers who had played for Yale from 1894 to 1897. He was announced as the head coach on September 28, 1899, just two days before the season opened. Rodgers was at the time a student at Harvard Law School and was unable to devote his full time to coaching the team. Rodgers was assisted as the team's coach by Walter Camp and Fred Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032177-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 college baseball season\nThe 1899 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1899. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032177-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 college baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1899 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032178-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 college football season\nThe 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032178-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 college football season\nChicago and Sewanee went undefeated. With just 13 players, the Sewanee team, known as the \"Iron Men\", had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group \"the most durable football team I ever saw.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032179-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1899 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032179-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in Afghanistan\nNot for many years has Afghanistan been less disturbed than this year. Few tribal risings occur and the amir Abdor Rahman continues to express friendly relations with Britain. Yet there is a disquieting rumour that Russia is preparing to advance on Herat in certain eventualities, and that an experimental mobilization of Russian troops from Tiflis to Kushk (some sixty miles from Herat) was made at the close of the year. The amir keeps up a friendly correspondence with the viceroy, Lord Curzon, during the year, and the relations between Afghanistan and the Indian government were never more cordial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032179-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 in Afghanistan, February 1899\nSeveral small disturbances are created along the frontier by marauding bands of Waziris and Mahsuds, which are easily suppressed by the local militia without aid from regular troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032179-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 in Afghanistan, March 1, 1899\nCapt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle. These raids, though tiresome, are, however, of no political importance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032179-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 in Afghanistan, May 1899\nIn consequence of repeated outrages committed by the Waziris, and especially because of the murder of Col. E.H. le Marchant of the Hampshire Regiment, the Indian government orders the partial disarmament of the Peshawar division, and of all trans-border Pashtuns at the frontier, and the disarmament of all persons without licenses in all municipalities and cantonments within the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032179-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 in Afghanistan, July 1899\nIn spite of punitive measures, the Waziri robbers continue their lawless attacks, chiefly with a view to cattle raiding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032179-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 in Afghanistan, December 1899\nIn accordance with the frontier policy of the viceroy, all regular troops are withdrawn from the Khyber Pass to Peshawar, leaving the forts and posts in the pass to be guarded by the Khyber Rifles. Complete tranquillity prevails in consequence, and the Afridis and other local tribes are thereby convinced that the government has no idea of annexing their territory or of placing British garrisons over the border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032180-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Argentine football\n1899 in Argentine football saw the Argentine league reduced to 4 teams to accommodate the creation of a Second Division. Palermo A.C. and United Banks left the Association while Banfield registered to the recently created Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032180-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in Argentine football\nBanfield would win the title, becoming the first second division champion ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032180-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 in Argentine football, Primera divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship Primera divisi\u00f3n took the format of a league of 4 teams, with each team playing the other twice. Lan\u00fas Athletic only completed 2 games, with the other 4 fixtures being awarded to their opponents. The game between Lomas and Lobos was awarded to Lobos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032181-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1899 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032182-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032182-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1899 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032182-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1899 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032183-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Australian soccer\nThe 1899 season was the 16th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032183-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nMissionary persuades Cree leader Yellow Bear to burn his \"heathen idols\" at Shoal Lake in Saskatchewan (Note: \"bad spirit\" and other stereotypes)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nSouthern Tutchone man describes transfer of reindeer to Yukon from Alaska", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nOfficial describes Indigenous and Metis people at Treaty 8 signing (Note: \"wild men\" and other stereotypes)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nOld woman in Fort Erie, Ontario tells of escaping slavery in Virginia with her parents and six siblings", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0004-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nMackenzie King realizes his parliamentary vocation at Westminster in London", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0005-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nOozing tar and leaking gas on Athabasca River near Fort McMurray", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0006-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nNurse treats feisty patients under horrible conditions in Dawson City's hospital", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032187-0007-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canada, Historical Documents\nMurals provided to new Toronto City Hall to encourage development of wall decoration", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032188-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032189-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1899 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032194-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in India, Events\nSwami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission at Calcutta on 1st May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032194-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in India, Notable Works\nThis year in India article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 28], "content_span": [29, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032196-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Italy, Events\nThe year is marked by the fight over a new coercive Public Safety bill introduced by Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux after the Bava Beccaris massacre in May 1898 in Milan. The Radicals and Socialist start an obstructionist campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032197-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Japan\nEvents in the year 1899 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 32 (\u660e\u6cbb32\u5e74) in the Japanese calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032198-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1899 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032198-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government and law\nThe Liberal Party is re-elected and forms the 14th New Zealand Parliament. The number of MPs is increased to 80.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032198-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 in New Zealand, Sport, Chess\nNational Champion: No tournament held in calendar year (see 1898)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032200-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1899 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032204-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1899 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032206-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Swedish football\nThe 1899 season in Swedish football, starting January 1899 and ending December 1899:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032208-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1899 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 68]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032209-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1899 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032213-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1899 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032214-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1899 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032215-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in film\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1899 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032216-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032217-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1899 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032219-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032219-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named dinosaurs\nReaasigned to Rhabdodon in 1915, then to Zalmoxes in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032220-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in poetry\n\u2014 Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this year", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032220-0001-0000", "contents": "1899 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032220-0002-0000", "contents": "1899 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032220-0003-0000", "contents": "1899 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032221-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032222-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in science\nThe year 1899 in science involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032223-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in sports\n1899 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032224-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1899 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032225-0000-0000", "contents": "1899 in the Philippines\nThe following lists events that happened during 1899 in the Philippine Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032228-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Football League season was Aston Villa's 12th season in the Football League First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. Villa finished the season as Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032228-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Aston Villa F.C. season\nSheffield United set the pace this season and built up a six-point lead by the end of December. Villa grew stronger towards the end of the season, losing just one game in their last 13, to leave United in second place by two points. Villafinished their programme first, leaving a mathematical chance for the Blades if they scored plenty of goals in the last two games. Their last game at Burnley was lost, leaving Villa champions by two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032228-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Aston Villa F.C. season\nBilly Garraty, great-great grandfather of footballer Jack Grealish, was League top scorer this season. Garraty was a local man, signed from Aston Shakespeare, and just 21 years of age this season. He was an industrious player able to play in almost any position \u2013 one of the first great \"utility\" players. He was capped once by England. He scored 96 goals in 224 League games during his career at Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032229-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 10 teams, and Racing Club de Bruxelles won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032230-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1899\u20131900 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League Second Division. A Middlesex FA investigation into the club's financial affairs necessitated a change to professional status mid-season, but a forgettable campaign ended with the Bees finishing third-from-bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032230-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter a difficult first season in the Southern League Second Division, Brentford's AGM in May 1899 revealed that the club had lost \u00a3100 on the previous season, taking the overall debt to \u00a3180 (equivalent to \u00a320,400 in 2021). After a series of meetings, a new committee was elected in July after it was decided that the club would continue to operate on an amateur basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032230-0001-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nOn the playing side, only six members of the team that finished the previous season remained at the club \u2013 goalkeeper Ben Brown, full back George Turner, half backs 'Nick' Mattocks, Billy Smith and forwards Richard Dailley, Thomas Knapman and Charlie Evans. Incoming transfers included full back Bert Lane, half back G. Pearce and forwards E. Andrews and John Bayne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032230-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford won and drew each of the opening two Second Division fixtures, with new forward John Bayne scoring in each, before he and George Turner, both soldiers, departed for service in the Second Boer War with their regiments. Things went from bad to worse in October when the Middlesex FA opened an enquiry into Brentford's \"shamateurism\", the results of which saw the club fined \u00a310 and suspended from football for a month beginning 20 November. Additionally, a number of members of the club's committee were suspended sine die or until 30 April 1900. A new committee took charge of the club and elected to turn professional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032230-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nFollowing the resumption of competitive play on 23 December, Brentford showed appalling form, failing to win until late March 1900. A 13-match winless streak, which stretched back to 23 September, culminated in a 7\u20130 thrashing at the hands of Grays United on 24 March. Additionally, a meeting had been called in January to discuss if the club could even continue, but donations of \u00a360 (equivalent to \u00a36,800 in 2021) helped to ensure that the Bees would survive for the immediate future. Late in the season, professional half backs Frederick Broughton and Ralph McElhaney joined the club and immediately fortunes turned around on the pitch, with Brentford winning four and drawing one of the final six matches of the season to finish in 9th position, two places off the bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032230-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032230-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032231-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 British Home Championship\nThe 1899\u20131900 British Home Championship was an edition of the annual football tournament played between the British Home Nations. Conducted in the second half of the 1899\u20131900 season, it was dominated by Scotland who achieved a whitewash of their opponents by winning all three games. Wales and England shared second place, with Ireland bringing up the rear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032231-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 British Home Championship\nWales and Ireland began the competition in Llandudno, the Welsh side winning 2\u20130 to take immediate advantage. Ireland then returned to Belfast to play Scotland, where they again lost, conceding three without reply. In Cardiff, Wales and England played out a draw giving both a chance of success in the tournament before Wales' hopes were ended by a heavy 5\u20132 defeat by Scotland in Aberdeen. England however remained strong, beating the Irish and needing a draw to share the trophy with Scotland and a win to take it undisputed. Scotland however were much too strong, dominating the match and winning 4\u20131 to complete three victories and win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032232-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032232-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter beginning their program with two winning seasons, the men's hockey team had a dreadful third year, losing 5 of their seven games and being hopelessly outmatched in those games. The only contests they didn't were the two against teams playing in their first year. Unfortunately, this began a trend of losing for Brown that would not be corrected for almost 30 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032232-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nCharles Cooke was captain of the team despite not playing in any games and having graduated in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032232-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Brown University did not formally adopt the Bear as its mascot until the fall of 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032233-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1899\u20131900 college men's basketball season. The team had finished with an overall record of 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032234-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Burnley F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Burnley F.C. season was the 18th season in the history of Burnley Football Club and their 12th in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032235-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was Burslem Port Vale's second consecutive season (sixth overall) of football in the English Football League. Another season of charging to the summit of the Second Division table, only to fall into mid-table obscurity, this time the club suffered from low support and subsequently poor finances. Once again the team maintained a decent defensive record, only to fail miserably in front of goal \u2013 the second lowest total in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032235-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nDuring the pre-season, the Athletic Ground had its capacity increased to 25,000. Last season's top scorers Dick Evans and James Peake departed for Reading and Millwall Athletic respectively; also star player Tommy Clare retired. Four new forwards were signed, namely Scots Billy Grassam (Maryhill) and James Reid (Hibernian), and local lads Charles Walters (Gainsborough Trinity) and Billy Leech (Tottenham Hotspur).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032235-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe season started with four defeats in the first six games in a dismal September. They turned their form around with a six game win streak that gave them a 100% win record in October and November. However one win in the next thirteen games followed, as the club slipped back down the league. Their decline was helped by the regular selling of key players in order to balance the books.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032235-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nAttendance figures made grim reading, and left-half Ted McDonald had to be sold to Notts County in November in order to raise cash. Goalkeeper Herbert Birchenough was sold to Glossop in January, with top scorer Howard Harvey also sold to Manchester City that same month. Their second to last match saw a mere 300 supporters turn up to watch. At the end of the season there were drastic budget cuts, even so much as to stop paying players wages over the summer period \u2013 the only club in the league to do so. Cheaper, local talent was recruited to fill the void left by departing stars. The club lost \u00a373 over the course of the campaign, despite having trimmed ten times that figure from the playing budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032235-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, the club vanquished nearby Nantwich and Crewe Alexandra, but failed to make it to the First Round Proper. They reached the final of the Staffordshire Senior Cup and the Birmingham Senior Cup, losing to West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers respectively. West Brom defeated Vale 5\u20130 in the final at Villa Park, taking revenge for the \"Valeites\" dumping West Brom out of the Birmingham Cup by the same scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032236-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1899\u20131900 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032237-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032237-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032238-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented Cornell University during the 1899\u20131900 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032239-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the 27th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level entering the Scottish Qualifying Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032239-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Qualifying Cup\nIn their only 'national' competition, Dumbarton were knocked out in the second round of the Scottish Qualifying Cup by Vale of Leven and thus failed to qualify to play in the Scottish Cup for the first time since its inception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032239-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Dumbarton F.C. season, Dumbartonshire Cup\nLocally, the Dumbartonshire Cup was played on a league basis for the first time with the top two meeting in the final. All competing teams finished on 6 points but Dumbarton ended up in third position on goal difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032239-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nFor the third season running there were no league fixtures, and attractive 'friendlies' were becoming more difficult to arrange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032239-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nA dwindling fixture list saw only 11 'friendly' matches played during the season, although this included a creditable draw against Celtic and a match against Aberdeen which celebrated the opening of Pittodrie Park. In all 4 were won, 1 drawn and 6 lost, scoring 23 goals and conceding 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032239-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the first round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Queen's Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032240-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the seventh season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One and finishing in 6th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup. This was the first season Dundee played at their current home of Dens Park, after moving from Carolina Port.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup\nThe 1899\u20131900 FA Cup was the 29th staging of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup), and the last to be held fully in the 19th Century. The cup was won by Bury, who defeated Southampton 4\u20130 in the final of the competition, played at Crystal Palace in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. 17 of the 18 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were The Wednesday and Bolton Wanderers from the Second Division, and non-league Southampton, Bristol City and Tottenham Hotspur. Glossop, along with all the other Second Division sides, were entered into the Third Qualifying Round. Of those sides, only Grimsby Town, Walsall and Leicester Fosse qualified to the FA Cup Proper. Seven non-league sides also qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 27 January 1900. Six matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture. One match went to a second replay, played the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, Second round proper\nThe eight second-round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 10 February 1900, although only three games were played on this date. The other five games were played the following Saturday. There were three replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0006-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, Second round proper\nThe Southampton v. Newcastle United match was originally played on 10 February but was abandoned after 55 minutes due to a heavy snowstorm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0007-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four quarter final matches were scheduled for Saturday, 24 February 1900. Three of the four matches were replayed in the following midweek fixture, with the Millwall Athletic \u2013 Aston Villa match going to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0008-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, Semi finals\nThe semi-final matches were both played on Saturday, 24 April 1900. Both matches went to replays, played the following Wednesday or Thursday. Bury and Southampton came through the semi-finals to meet in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032241-0009-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FA Cup, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 21 April 1900 at Crystal Palace. Just under 69,000 supporters attended the match. Jasper McLuckie opened the scoring for Bury after about 9 minutes. Willie Wood doubled the advantage seven minutes later, before McLuckie added a third seven minutes after that. Jack Plant scored the fourth and final goal in the eightieth minute, to cap a good victory for the northern side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032242-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1899-1900 season was the first season for FC Barcelona. The club played some friendly matches against local clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032242-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Barcelona season, Events\nOn October 22, 1899, a sports weekly printed in Barcelona, Los Deportes, published an advert in which Hans Gamper, a 21-year-old German-speaking Swiss, called for soccer fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032242-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Barcelona season, Events\nFootball Club Barcelona was created on November 29 the same year, after a meeting held at Gimnasio Sol\u00e9, a gym located at number 5 Montju\u00efc del Carme Street, in Barcelona's El Raval. Walter Wild, Llu\u00eds d'Oss\u00f3 i Serra, Bartomeu Terrades i Brutau, Otto K\u00fcnzli, Otto Maier Zeuner, Enric Ducay Aguilera, Pere Cabot Rold\u00f3s, Carles Puyol, Josep Llobet, John Parsons, William Parsons, and Hans Gamper signed the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032242-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Barcelona season, Events\nOn December 8, Barcelona played their first match, at the former Vel\u00f2drom de la Bonanova, against some Englishmen who had settled in the city. Both teams played with 10-men squads. The English Colony won 0-1 and a report was published on the local newspaper La Vanguardia the day after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032242-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Barcelona season, Events\nThe first board of directors was established on December 14. Walter Wild was elected chairman since he was the oldest of the members. Dark blue and garnet were the chosen colors for the uniform, the same colors of Gamper's former Swiss team, FC Basel. The badge was to be the same as the coat of arms of the city. The membership fee was set at two pesetas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032243-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1899\u20131900 season was their seventh season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. In this season they did not compete for the Swiss championship. The club's chairman was Charlie Volderauer, who was chairman between 1896 and 1900. He stood down at the AGM and Ernst-Alfred Thalmann was elected as the new club chairman. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Quarter Kleinbasel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032243-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe first national championship in Switzerland took place in 1897\u201398. This championship is considered as unofficial because it was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; founded in 1895). FC Basel did not participate in this first championship. But they did in the second edition during the last season. Basel did not compete in the championship this season either. But they have participated in every season since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032243-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Basel season, Overview\nGeorges F\u00fcrstenberger was appointed as team captain by the club\u2019s board of directors under chairman Charlie Volderauer. As captain F\u00fcrstenberger led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. Basel played 16 friendly games in the season, six were won, two drawn and eight ended with a defeat. The team scored 31 goals, but only seven goal scorers are documented, and they conceded 37 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032243-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Basel season, Overview\nEleven of these friendly games were played at home in the Landhof, five were played away. As in the previous season, all the friendly games were played against Swiss teams. Among the opponents were reigning Swiss champions Anglo-American Club Z\u00fcrich and Basel won both the home game and the return match. They also played twice against Z\u00fcrich, but both games ended with a defeat. Further there were two games against local rivals Old Boys and these were both lost as well. The two games against FC Concordia Z\u00fcrich ended with a win at home but a defeat away. The two games against Biel-Bienne ended with a home defeat, but an away win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032243-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032243-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032243-0006-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 FC Basel season, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Much documentation for this season is missing, most goal scorers remain unknown.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032244-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Football League\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the 12th season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032244-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032244-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032244-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032245-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Boldklubben af 1893 won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032246-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1899\u20131900 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Racing club de France that defeated SBUC in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032246-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe winner of the tournament of province was SBUC that won the championship of Garonne, after the F.C. Lyon refused to participate at the final stage. Stade Bordelais beat S.O.E. Toulouse that leave the field contesting the hard play of their opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032247-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032247-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the first time Harvard was able to play a more rounded schedule. The Crimson won most of their games and were in contention for the Intercollegiate championship until losing their final game of the season to Yale. The contest against the Bulldogs was the first in what would become college ice hockey's oldest rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032248-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1899\u20131900 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032249-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1899\u20131900 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished third out of 10 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032250-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1899\u20131900 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his first season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032251-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1899\u20131900 comprised 6 teams, and Belfast Celtic won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032252-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its second season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served his second year. The Jayhawks finished the season 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032253-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1899\u20131900 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032253-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nStudents at MIT formed the ice hockey club in November 1899 in order to introduce the game to the entire student body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032253-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but Roger Burr served as team manager and president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032253-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032254-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was Manchester City F.C. 's ninth season of league football and first season in the First Division of the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032255-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\n1899\u20131900 was the third year of basketball at Michigan State Normal School. Both games were played against Michigan State University. Michigan State Normal School ended up splitting the games and finished 1\u20131. It was the only year for coach Leslie A. Butler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032255-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team, Schedule\nEastern Michigan Media Guide and school yearbook list two games played while Michigan State Media Guide only list one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 74], "content_span": [75, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032256-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by PrimeBOT (talk | contribs) at 22:00, 20 June 2020 (\u2192\u200eSchedule: Task 30 - remove deprecated parameter in Template:CBB schedule entry). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032256-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u201300 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University for the 1899\u201300 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Charles Bemies coaching the team is first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032257-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1899\u20131900 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was T.P. Hewitt, coaching the huskers in his first season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032258-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1899\u20131900 was contested by thirteen teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating Victoria Wageningen 1\u20130 in a decision match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032259-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Newcastle United F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was Newcastle United's second season in the Football League First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. Newcastle finished the season in 5th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032260-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was Newton Heath's eighth season in the Football League and their sixth in the Second Division. They finished fourth in the league, which was not enough to earn promotion back to the First Division. In the FA Cup, the Heathens were knocked out in the First Round Qualifying by South Shore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032260-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1899\u20131900, but little progress was made in either competition. The club received a bye to the third round of the Manchester Senior Cup, but lost 5\u20130 to Bury. It was a similar story in the Lancashire Cup, as they beat Bolton Wanderers 3\u20132 in the first round before losing 1\u20130 to Southport Central in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032261-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Football League\nThe 1899\u20131900 Northern Football League season was the eleventh in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032261-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Football League, Division One\nThe division featured 7 clubs which competed in the last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from last seasons's Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032261-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Football League, Division Two\nThe division featured 7 clubs which competed in the last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032262-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the fifth season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032262-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe Lancashire Senior Competition was won by Runcorn (from Cheshire) and the Yorkshire Senior Competition by Bradford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032262-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nHull Kingston Rovers played their first season in the Northern Rugby Union this season. Their first match away at Bradford on 2 September ended in a 3-0 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032262-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\nMillom replaced Morecambe. Although participating in the Lancashire Senior Competition, Runcorn and Stockport were from Cheshire, and Millom were from Cumberland. Runcorn won the competition and Tyldesley were relegated after finishing bottom of the league and losing the promotion/relegation match 22\u20138 to Barrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032262-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Yorkshire Senior Competition\nBradford won the competition. There was no promotion or relegation as Liversedge won the promotion/relegation test match against Heckmondwike 11\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032262-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nSwinton beat Salford 16-8 in the Challenge Cup Final at Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester played before a crowd of 17,864.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032263-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represented the Ohio State University in its second season of collegiate basketball. Their coach was unknown. They finished with an 8-4 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032264-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 15th season of play. Ottawa placed third in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032264-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Team business\nHod Stuart was named captain for the season. Harvey Pulford returned to the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032265-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1899\u201300 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032266-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032266-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nPrinceton joined the Intercollegiate Hockey Association, replacing the spot previously held by Pennsylvania. While the Tigers did not win any games they were competitive in several and the team got progressively better as the year went along.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032267-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season is the 26th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032267-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 23 competitive matches during the 1899\u20131900 season. They finished top of the Scottish Division One with 15 wins from 18 matches, losing only once to Old Firm rivals Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032267-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe club again ended the season without the Scottish Cup after losing a semi-final replay to Celtic by 4\u20130, the original match was drawn 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032268-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1898\u201399 Rugby Union County Championship was the 12th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032268-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Rugby Union County Championship\nDurham won the competition for the first time defeating Devon in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032269-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Scottish Cup\nThe 1899\u20131900 Scottish Cup was the 27th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic when they beat Queen's Park 4-3 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032270-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032270-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Scottish Districts season, History\nEdinburgh District beat Glasgow District for the first time in 10 years, in the Inter-City match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032271-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Scottish Division One\nThe 1899\u20131900 Scottish Division One season was won by Rangers by seven points over nearest rival Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032272-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1899\u20131900 Scottish Division Two was won by Partick Thistle with Linthouse finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032274-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Sheffield Shield season was the eighth season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Football League season was Small Heath Football Club's eighth in the Football League and their sixth in the Second Division. They spent most of the season in the top four in the 18-team division, but rarely in the top two, eventually finishing in third place, six points behind the promotion positions. They also took part in the 1899\u20131900 FA Cup, entering at the third qualifying round and losing to Walsall after a replay in the fifth qualifying round. In local cup competitions, they were beaten by Wolverhampton Wanderers in the first round of both the Birmingham and Staffordshire Cups, and by Walsall in the semi-final of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-one players represented the club in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were fifteen different goalscorers. Bob McRoberts was the top scorer with 24 goals, of which 19 came in league matches. No other player reached double figures. McRoberts, goalkeeper Nat Robinson and full-back Arthur Archer played in every match. Off the field, the club made a significant financial loss over the season. The directors made it clear they could not continue funding a loss-making enterprise, and suggested that a reduction in players' wages was the only course of action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nAfter being close to the second promotion place throughout the 1898\u201399 season, Small Heath eventually finished eighth, five points behind second-placed Glossop North End and a further six behind champions Manchester City. They scored more goals than any other team in the division except Manchester City, and scored more at home than any other, but their away record was poor. The Dart suggested that \"the backs are all right, the defect that needs remedying is the half-back line, which is hardly up to the necessary standard.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0002-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nWalter Abbott, who had scored 42 goals (34 in the league), both totals remaining (as of 2020) club records, signed for Everton for a fee of \u00a3250 plus the proceeds of a midweek friendly match. William Robertson left for Bristol Rovers, and Clutterbuck joined Southern League club Queens Park Rangers. Walter Main, a forward signed from Airdrieonians, was \"expected to be a worthy successor to Abbott\", and half-back Tom Farnall returned from Bristol Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Background\nThere were no major changes off the field. Walter Hart remained as chairman and Alf Jones as secretary. Alec Leake retained the captaincy, and there were no changes to the kit of light blue shirts with navy collar trim, cuffs and pocket, white knickerbockers and navy socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nA good crowd was expected to see Walsall, employers of Small Heath's former captain Caesar Jenkyns, open the season at Coventry Road. Playing with the wind, Small Heath took an early lead, Wigmore hooking the ball into the net, and the same player scored the third goal off the crossbar in the second half as his side won 3\u20132. The team travelled as far as York on the Friday for the following day's match against Middlesbrough, newly admitted to the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0004-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nThe local newspapers had little confidence in their respective teams: the Dart predicted that \"Small Heath will have to struggle hard to gain a point\", while the Yorkshire Herald feared that \"victory can hardly be hoped for over the clever combination Small Heath\". Small Heath's forward play, relying on passing between all five forwards, an approach \"only possible with a forward line, the members of which have been long acquainted with each other's play\", was more effective than Middlesbrough's preference for attacking down either wing and then putting in a cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0004-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nIn addition, the visiting backs were not adverse to the professional foul, \"gaining time from the penalty against them\", and the forwards \"were not particular either about using hands if dispossessed of the ball\". In front of a crowd of 10,000 spectators, McRoberts scored all three goals as Small Heath won 3\u20131. In the first round of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup, Small Heath put five second-half goals past a weak Wolverhampton Wanderers eleven, but lost the semi-final to Walsall by three goals to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nAt home to another new team, Chesterfield Town, Walter Wigmore dropped back to centre-half in place of Alex Leake, who had been injured in the Charity Cup-tie. Billy Bennett replaced Wigmore in the forward line. Playing against a strong wind, McRoberts opened the scoring when he was first to the rebound after his shot was fumbled, and Bennett converted a cross from Sid Wharton not long before the interval. Persistent attacking led to further goals, from Harry Wilcox and Walter Main, before the visitors' Herbert Munday scored when the ball rebounded off the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0005-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nMain scored his second, and the home team's fifth, from a sweeping passing move, then Chesterfield made the final score 5\u20133. On a pitch made slippery by a thunderstorm before kickoff, the visitors had Nat Robinson to thank for keeping Gainsborough Trinity at bay; the home side protested that one shot \"scooped out\" by Robinson had in fact crossed the line. Then McRoberts scored a solo goal, Trinity's goalkeeper allowed Wharton's shot from distance to slip through his hands into the net, and Wharton made the half-time score 3\u20130 after a move between McRoberts and Wigmore left him a tap-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0005-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nFreddie Fenton pulled one back with a header after Robinson missed his punch, and Bennett made the final score 4\u20131 after the goalkeeper failed to hold a low shot. It was confirmed that Leake had gone to Manchester for specialist treatment on damaged ankle ligaments. At home to Bolton Wanderers, relegated from the First Division in 1899, the defence was worked hard from the outset, but Small Heath \"began to wake up\", and the attack went to the other end, John Willie Sutcliffe playing \"grandly\", particularly when the visitors temporarily went down to ten men. In heavy rain in the second half, the defences had the upper hand, and the game finished goalless. With four wins and a draw, Small Heath went into October in third place in the league, two points behind Leicester Fosse having played one game fewer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0006-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nMcRoberts and Wigmore scored in the first half, against the wind, and the same players contributed three goals in the second to give Small Heath an easy victory at home to Lincoln City. A weakened eleven still managed a 2\u20131 win at Loughborough, which preceded the visit of Newton Heath to Coventry Road. On a fine day on a pitch in good condition, Small Heath fielded a stronger eleven than had recently been the case, Alex Leake resuming at centre-half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0006-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nGoalless at the interval after a \"stubbornly contested\" first half, the home side had much the better of the second, and Main's 55th-minute goal from McRoberts' \"excellent\" pass was enough to secure the win. In the first round of the Staffordshire Cup, Small Heath drew 2\u20132 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers, but lost the replay by eight goals to nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0007-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nA crowd of more than 13,000 spectators attended league leaders Small Heath's visit to Sheffield Wednesday, where the kickoff was delayed for ten minutes because the referee had not arrived. One of the linesmen took his place, and the two teams tossed a coin to decide which would provide a replacement linesman; Small Heath won the toss. By the time the referee arrived some 15 minutes into the game, Wednesday were a goal ahead, and with two neutral officials running the line, they scored three more in the next 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0007-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nIn the second half, the visitors had more of the play: their \"defence was excellent, and they fully held their own\", but they could not score, Wednesday's Tommy Crawshaw regularly \"checking determined rushes by the visitors' front rank\" to disrupt their attacking play. Robinson was singled out for praise, despite conceding four goals. In a friendly arranged as part of Walter Abbott's transfer, Small Heath beat an Everton XI by six goals to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0007-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, September\u2013October\nOswestry United agreed to switch the venue of the third qualifying round of the FA Cup to Coventry Road, took an unexpected but, on the balance of play, deserved 2\u20131 lead in the first half, and then conceded nine without reply. Small Heath went into November in second place in the division, level on points with Sheffield Wednesday having played one match fewer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0008-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nSmall Heath strengthened their squad with two signings. The first, Bristol Rovers' 21-year-old forward Jack Leonard, who had several previous clubs despite his youth, joined for \"a large sum\" and a benefit match. The second was the 33-year-old full-back Bob Cain, who played for many years for Sheffield United without missing a league match, and left Tottenham Hotspur for Albion Rovers the previous season because \"the hard work was too much for him. The Hotspur that year took part in no fewer than eighty-eight fixtures, and Cain played in eighty-four of them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0009-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThey began November with a visit to Burton Swifts. With the game still goalless, Swifts missed a penalty; immediately thereafter, Arthur Archer converted a penalty against them to take the lead, and the visitors won by three goals. For the visit to New Brighton Tower, in \"boisterous\" weather, Small Heath were without full back Billy Pratt. Scriven opened the scoring for the visitors with a header just after Main had a goal disallowed for offside, and Leake doubled the lead just before half time with a shot that gave the goalkeeper no chance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0009-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe home side had much the better of the second half, coming close to scoring several times before Sam Raybould eventually converted a free kick, the same player equalised with an angled shot four minutes from time, and the home team came close to winning the game before time was called. The Dart thought they had thrown a point away. In the friendly agreed with Bristol Rovers as part of the Leonard transfer, Small Heath fielded several reserve players and lost 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0010-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nFog prevented Small Heath playing Wrexham in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup. Although Wrexham would have preferred to rearrange the game for the following Saturday, Small Heath had a league fixture against Woolwich Arsenal scheduled for that day, so guaranteed Wrexham \u00a350 from the gate money if they agreed to play in mid-week. Small Heath were too casual in the first half; after McRoberts opened the scoring with a header, they made little positive effort and were surprised by a long shot that tied the scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0010-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nIn the second half, they resumed \"in a more business like style\", and scored five times. The Birmingham Daily Post remarked on Billy Bennett's accurate placement of corner kicks. As the attendance was expected to be augmented by Aston Villa supporters unable to go to Liverpool to watch their own team, Small Heath arranged for half-time and full-time scores from Anfield to be displayed at their ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0010-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nAt Woolwich Arsenal, \"only the fine defence of Robinson and Pratt prevented a very heavy score\"; Robinson's \"splendid saves\" kept the Arsenal out in the first half, but in the second, they had much the better of matters, and won 3\u20130. Small Heath went into December in third place in the division, level on points with leaders Sheffield Wednesday and second-placed Leicester Fosse, having played two games more than the Wednesday and one more than the Fosse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0011-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe visit of Barnsley began in an open but scrappy fashion. Small Heath had numerous attempts at goal: Wharton \"shot ridiculously high over, Leonard did the same\", Leake's wild shot elicited laughter from the crowd, the same player inadvertently blocked a shot on target, before a passing move involving Main and Wharton led to McRoberts \"cleverly touch[ing] the ball past Greaves\". Wigmore added a second shortly before the interval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0011-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nIn the second half, the Heathens added three more goals and had another three disallowed, all for offside; the referee \"was very strong on the off-side rule, and some of his decisions, which affected both sides, greatly displeased the spectators\". Walsall's goalkeeper Billy Tennant kept his side in the fifth qualifying round FA Cup-tie at Coventry Road. The match finished goalless, and was replayed later in the week, forcing the postponement of the first round Birmingham Cup-tie against Wolverhampton Wanderers. On a snow-covered pitch, Walsall scored twice in the first half, Small Heath missed a penalty and failed to progress to the rounds proper of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0012-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nAfter frozen snow was removed from the playing surface, Small Heath enjoyed a deserved 3\u20130 victory against Luton Town with two goals from Bennett and a late third from Scriven. A week later, in fine weather, they lost by the same score at Burslem Port Vale. The Boxing Day friendly at Aston Villa attracted a large attendance, who saw the home side win by five goals to two. The next day's match at home to Grimsby Town started on a frosty pitch in misty conditions. Visibility worsened and the players left the field after 25 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0012-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nPlay resumed and Leonard scored for Small Heath, but the match was abandoned at half time because of the fog. In the two clubs' fifth meeting of the season, \"for a long time Small Heath scarcely crossed the half-way line, and it was fortunate for them that the defence was so reliable\", but Walsall gradually took control of play and retained that control throughout the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0012-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, November\u2013December\nThe Birmingham Post attributed Walsall's dominance to centre-half Caesar Jenkyns\u00a0\u2013 Small Heath's former captain\u00a0\u2013 \"who again played a wonderfully-fine game\u2014not only checking the opposing vanguard but feeding his own forwards with excellent judgment.\" Small Heath went into the new year in fourth place in the division, four points behind leaders Leicester Fosse having played one game fewer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0013-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nThe \"miserable weather\" left the pitch in a \"sloppy\" condition and deterred the paying public from witnessing Small Heath's 5\u20130 defeat of Middlesbrough with goals from five different scorers: Pratt, Bayley and Bennett in the first half, Scrivens and McRoberts in the second. In the postponed Birmingham Cup-tie, Wolverhampton Wanderers missed a second-half penalty awarded when Lester, selected at full back in place of Archer, caught the ball in the mistaken belief that it had gone out of play, but scored the only goal of the game five minutes later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0013-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nOn an uneven surface, Small Heath played out a goalless draw at Chesterfield Town. The defence and half-backs, particularly Leake at centre half, \"times out of number breaking up the attack of his opponents by his dogged determination\", were singled out for praise, but the forwards were \"ragged and unsatisfactory\", not helped by Scrivens' shoulder injury. The Sheffield Independent suggested that \"each team appeared to hold the other in deepest respect\", and neither side seemed disappointed with the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0014-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAfter Gainsborough Trinity took the lead at Coventry Road, Small Heath lost a forward when Jack Aston, newly arrived from Woolwich Arsenal, suffered a coughing fit and was withdrawn on doctor's orders. The home side equalised before half time, Layton scored after the interval, and when he added a third goal, the visitors fell apart and conceded a further five goals in the last fifteen minutes. Aston recovered in time to start the next game, at home to Burslem Port Vale, and opened the scoring from a free kick after ten minutes, but the visitors soon tied the scores. In the second half, Small Heath raised their game, \"at times more force than necessary was used\", and Leake headed the winner. They went into February still in fourth place in the division, three points behind leaders Bolton Wanderers having played one game fewer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0015-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nThe club lost a forward on a permanent basis when the directors dismissed Jack Leonard for misconduct. Having been fined 20s plus costs on 18 January for being drunk and disorderly, Leonard committed a similar offence that same night and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0016-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nA draw at league leaders Bolton Wanderers, combined with Sheffield Wednesday's defeat at Newton Heath, improved Small Heath's chances of promotion. McRoberts scored in the first half, but Bolton equalised ten minutes from time, having earlier missed a penalty. The Birmingham Daily Post suggested that \"a few more games like this away from Coventry Road will go a long way towards securing them admission to the First League\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0016-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nOn hard ground, with snow carried on the \"biting cold wind\", Alec Leake, playing at inside-left instead of his customary half-back position, was involved in most of the six goals Small Heath put past Loughborough to move up to second place in the division. Against Grimsby Town in the match originally postponed because of fog, the home side's \"failure to score was simply unaccountable\", while Pratt's attempted clearance produced an own goal to give the visitors an unexpected victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0016-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nAt Newton Heath, faced with such a \"muddy swamp\" that \"sometimes [the ball] would hit a dry patch and skim along for some distance, at other times, a hard shot would simply send it a yard or two through the mud\", Small Heath protested that the ground was unfit for play, but the referee disagreed. Nevertheless, the visitors took a 2\u20131 half-time lead through Aston and Wharton, but the home players forced a 3\u20132 win. The Post thought the winning goal should have been disallowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0017-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, January\u2013February\nMessrs Thos. Cook & Son put on a cheap rail excursion in connection with the visit of Sheffield Wednesday. Wednesday were without several players through injury, and old Small Heath favourite Billy Walton played his first game of the season in place of Jack Aston. Heavy rain had left the pitch muddy with pools of standing water, but the referee made little allowance for the conditions, stopping the game frequently, \"often for trivial breaches of the law\". Layton and Wharton gave Small Heath a 2\u20131 lead by half time, and Bennett and Leake took the final score to 4\u20131. The Sheffield Independent thought that \"the losers had quite as much of the game as the winners\" and that \"all the luck in the game went one way, and that in the way of the 'Heathens'.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0018-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nMarch began with a 1\u20130 friendly defeat at Southern League club Reading; the home team missed \"chances galore\". As part of Birmingham Athletic Club's annual gymnastics display, in aid of the Birmingham Daily Mail's Reservists' Fund, a selection of Small Heath footballers took on (and beat) their Aston Villa counterparts at tug-of-war. Other attractions included exhibition drills by local regiments, a demonstration of quarterstaff fighting, weightlifting, and \"a coloured boxer, Joe Elms, from America\". The club sponsored a charity concert at the Prince of Wales Theatre, in aid of the Reservists' Fund and local hospitals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0019-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe league programme resumed with Small Heath in third place in the division, one point behind leaders Sheffield Wednesday and level with second-placed Bolton Wanderers, having played two games more than the Wednesday and one more than Bolton. They recorded a 2\u20130 home win against Burton Swifts, though the performance was unimpressive. The forward play was disorganised, attributed by the Post to McRoberts' late withdrawal through injury. Walton, the regular twelfth man, was absent, so reserve team player Sam Cole was called out of the crowd to take McRoberts' place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0019-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe spectators did him no favours: \"inasmuch as he did not commence well, a section of the crowd began to jeer at him, and naturally he performed more indifferently than before\". It proved his only Football League appearance. Lester and Cain were also injured; it was suspected that Cain's twisted knee would keep him out for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0020-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe scoreline was repeated the next week at home to New Brighton Tower. Tom Scrivens scored both goals, and according to the Post, \"was always in the thick of the fights around goal, and with more experience should make a very capable player in the centre-forward position.\" The team travelled to Grimsby Town the day before the match, breaking their journey at Lincoln. Still without McRoberts, the team's weakness was in attack\u00a0\u2013 Billy Walton was the fifth different centre-forward in five games, and less effective than Scrivens\u00a0\u2013 and at left-half, where Layton was frequently beaten, and Grimsby won by two goals to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0021-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nSmall Heath had to manage without Walter Wigmore for the home game against Woolwich Arsenal because he was engaged for the Football League representative eleven to play the Scottish League XI. The Glasgow Herald thought the English half backs, \"while all working hard, showed no special aptitude such as is necessary for great matches\", and the Birmingham Daily Post believed that having to desert his \"dashing, bustling\" style for a more \"quiet, scientific\" method of play affected him adversely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0021-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nMcRoberts' return to fitness \"had a very beneficial effect\" on Small Heath, who beat the Arsenal 3\u20131 with goals from Leake, McRoberts himself, and Aston. The crowd picked out Arsenal full-back Jimmy Jackson as that day's target for abuse, to the extent that he \"lost his temper\u00a0... and subsequently became erratic.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0022-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nThe Dundee Courier and Argus reported that Small Heath were suffering financial difficulties stemming from falling attendances. On the field, they could only draw at Barnsley. Leake scored the equalising goal, but was kicked on the knee during the second half and could contribute little thereafter. Another draw followed, this time goalless in \"a perfect hurricane\" at Lincoln City, who had the better of a rough game. Small Heath enjoyed an unexpectedly comfortable victory at home to Leicester Fosse, by four goals to one, but in the reverse fixture two days later, the Fosse won 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0022-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nBetween these two matches, Tom Scrivens and Walter Main were part of the Birmingham & District League team that opposed the Lancashire Combination at Coventry Road. Scrivens created the only goal of the game, scored by Leigh of Aston Villa. The league season finished with Small Heath's first away victory of 1900. They defeated Luton Town by two goals to one, both goals scored in the first half by McRoberts and the on-form Main. The result confirmed their third-place finish, six points adrift of the promotion positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0023-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Review, March\u2013April\nSmall Heath's reserves reached the semi-final of the Walsall Cup, but were beaten 4\u20131 in a replay by an Aston Villa reserve team \"showing superior form in all departments of the game\". In a post-season friendly, Jack Aston's goal earned a draw with West Bromwich Albion, and in the last match of the season at Coventry Road, the reserves played a Birmingham Police team to benefit the Association for Providing Boots and Clothing for Destitute Children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0024-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAfter the first game of the season, Small Heath were never out of the top four in the division, but were rarely in the top two. Opinions varied as to the quality of their achievement. The Liverpool Mercury thought that \"Small Heath deserve some commiseration, for they rank a good third, but next season the probability is that they will not have such strong rivals to battle against as the Wanderers and the Blades\". The Sheffield Independent concurred, but the Dart was less supportive: \"The Heathens were confidently expected to gain second place, but they gave one or two woeful exhibitions at home, and threw good chances away.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0025-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nTwenty-one different players represented the club in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and there were fifteen different goalscorers. Bob McRoberts was the top scorer with 24 goals, but no other player reached double figures. Goalkeeper Nat Robinson, full-back Arthur Archer and McRoberts played in every match. The match against Bolton Wanderers attracted a crowd of 12,000, but only around 1,000 were present for the visit of Middlesbrough in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0026-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nChairman W.W. Hart, who was re-elected to the management committee of the Football League at its annual meeting in May, reported that the club had made a significant financial loss over the season. The \u00a3250 deficit of the previous season had risen to more than \u00a31,100. He made it clear that the directors could not continue funding a loss-making enterprise, and the only viable solution was to reduce the wage bill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0026-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAlthough most league clubs were in a comparable position because of unusual circumstances, namely the pressure placed on them to increase wages in order to retain players sought after by the wealthy southern clubs, it was \"monstrous\" that from an income of \u00a33,400, \u00a32,800 should be paid out in players' wages. However, ths southern clubs now being less well-off would make no short-term improvement in the club's finances, because contracts for the coming season had already been agreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0026-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nAccording to the Birmingham Argus, \"had they known that the Southern clubs would not be scrambling for their players, they might have saved \u00a3350 in wages during the next football season.\" The chairman did not think the ongoing Boer War had an adverse effect on attendances. Some \u00a3140 was raised by holding sports meetings at Coventry Road. As well as the usual athletics and cycling, the club hosted a horse show with \"nearly 200 entries\u00a0... from all parts of England\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0027-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Summary and aftermath\nBy mid-May, all the first-team players apart from Sid Wharton and Billy Bennett had signed on for the coming season,; and those two later did so. Tom Farnall, who had had little first-team football, moved on to Watford, and Bob Cain, whose season had been ruined by injury, returned home to Sheffield. James Tebbs, an outside left, signed from Loughborough, and a number of young players joined the squad. The Dart took a positive view: \"The Heathens mean making a great attempt to gain admission into the 'charmed circle' this season, and if they will only perform a little more consistently away from home I think they will just about accomplish the feat.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032275-0028-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Small Heath F.C. season, Squad statistics\nThis table includes appearances and goals in nationally organised competitions\u00a0\u2013 the Football League and FA Cup\u00a0\u2013 only. For a description of the playing positions, see Formation (association football)#2\u20133\u20135 (Pyramid).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the 15th since the foundation of Southampton F.C. and their sixth in league football, as members of the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season\nThey ended the season third in the Southern League, but reached the final of the FA Cup, thus becoming the first southern professional side to do so, and the first side from south of the midlands since 1883. In the final, they played badly as a result of divisions amongst the players and lost 4\u20130 to Bury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Start of the season\nHaving won the Southern League title in each of the three previous seasons, Southampton were now considered to be the best football team in England outside The Football League. The club had considered applying to join the league but decided that, because of their location on the south coast, the cost of travelling would be prohibitive. The popular boys' newspaper, Chums featured the club in their October 1899 edition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Start of the season\nThe Southampton club is the surprise packet of the football world. No team can boast of having fought their way to the front with such lightning-like rapidity as the champions of the South and, if the opinion of experienced judges are worth anything, the Southampton men have absolutely no superiors. It is true that they do not engage in first League duels, but the reason they do not do so is not that they consider they stand no chance of achieving premier honours, but that the departure would not pay them. There are no League clubs in the South, the consequence being that if Southampton were to enter for the competition, about half their time would be spent in travelling to the North and back \u2014 a proceeding that would soon land them high and dry in Bankruptcy Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Start of the season\nWith the club \u00a31,000 in debt and in an attempt to ensure success on the pitch, the directors had recruited several top-class players on substantial wages. In order to meet these, the cost of entry to home matches was doubled from sixpence to a shilling. The opening Southern League match was attended by a meeting of \"anti-bobs\" in Milton Road; \"after [their] grievances had been aired, the participants therein wended their way to other haunts than the football field\". As a result, the attendance for the match against New Brompton was \"disappointingly small\" with \"barely two thousand people present\". Explaining the decision to double the price of admission, the secretary Mr. Arnfield told the Football Echo", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Start of the season\nCandidly, I don't like it personally, but if we don't get enough 'tanners' we must have the 'bobs'. There is [an] alternative ... to an occasional shilling gate, and that is to reduce the wages of players, which means inferior men. After all the brilliant players we have had, Southampton people won't put up with a mediocre team. Why, our people would throw bricks at us. The Board are particularly anxious to retain a good team, but you must remember we have a big deficit and our summer wage bill is within \u00a312 of our winter one, whilst for over four months we have not taken a penny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0006-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nDuring the summer of 1899, several players left the club including forward Abe Hartley, who joined Woolwich Arsenal, and Jacky Robertson, who joined Rangers, shortly after becoming the first Southampton player to play for Scotland in April 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0007-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nThree forwards joined the club in the pre-season: Jack Farrell returned from Stoke, where he had spent the 1898\u201399 season having played for Southampton from 1895 to 1898, and Archie Turner was recruited from East & West Surrey League club St. Michael's, Camberley, but the major signing was former England international Alf Milward from Football League Second Division side New Brighton Tower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0008-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nThe team mow consisted mainly of experienced former Football League players. Ten players appeared in all six F.A. Cup matches and twenty or more Southern League matches, with Alf Milward being ever-present and becoming the team's top goal-scorer. The team had three past or present England internationals (goalkeeper Jack Robinson and forwards Alf Milward and Harry Wood), while full-back Peter Meechan had previously played for Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0008-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nArchie Turner was the only regular player to have been born in Hampshire and was also the only player not to have previously played in The Football League, but he ended the season by achieving the then unique distinction of being called up for England in his first season in first-class football, and also becoming the first Hampshire-born player to represent England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0009-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nGoalkeeper Jack Robinson had previously played for Derby County and was the current England international 'keeper. The full-backs were Peter Durber and Peter Meechan who had previously played for Stoke and Everton respectively. Centre-half Arthur Chadwick had previously played for Burton Swifts and would end the season with two England caps. Either side of him were Scotsmen, Samuel Meston (another former Stoke player) and Bob Petrie, formerly with Sheffield Wednesday. The centre-forward position was contested by Jack Farrell and former West Bromwich Albion and Leicester Fosse player Roddy McLeod. Alongside Archie Turner on the right was Jimmy Yates, previously with Sheffield United and Ardwick, with the two former England internationals, Alf Milward and Harry Wood on the left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0010-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nSeveral of the players were on high wages with Wood on \u00a35 a week and Robinson earning \u00a35 10s with the total wages bill exceeding \u00a360 per week, which with bonuses put the annual total to in excess of \u00a34,000, a total believed to be exceeded by only five or six Football League clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0011-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nIn an interview with the boys' paper Chums, the club's \"popular secretary and manager, Mr. Arnfield\" said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0012-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Players\nIn the main, [the cause of our success is] our bold forward policy of engaging only tip-top players. No man is good enough for us who isn't good enough to take his place in any team in England. We shouldn't dream of engaging a player who wasn't worthy of inclusion in the Aston Villa eleven, for instance. This is our Standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0013-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nFor the 1899\u20131900 season, the Southern League had been expanded from the 13 clubs, which had ended the 1898\u201399 season to 17 by the admission of Bristol Rovers and Queens Park Rangers and the promotion of Cowes and Thames Ironworks. The newly formed Portsmouth club inherited the place vacated by the Royal Artillery. Of the 17 clubs, Cowes and Brighton United failed to complete the season, with their records being expunged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0014-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe season started with a comfortable home 6\u20132 win over New Brompton but this was followed by a draw at Gravesend United and defeat at home to Swindon Town. After the 3\u20131 victory at Bristol City on 23 September, Roddy McLeod was dropped to be replaced by Archie Turner on the right-wing. This was the start of a run of twelve games with only one defeat and by mid-January, the Saints were at the top of the table. Amongst the victories were defeats of Chatham 9\u20130 on 20 December (with four goals from Turner) and of Gravesend 8\u20130 on 6 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0015-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe season was then interrupted by bad weather and by the time the league restarted in early March, Saints were without Jack Farrell who had been seriously injured in the F.A. Cup match against Newcastle United. He was replaced by Roddy McLeod but the FA Cup run distracted the team from the league, which resulted in a run of poor performances. The 2\u20130 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur on Good Friday 13 April finally extinguished any chance of retaining the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0016-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThere then followed consecutive matches against newcomers, Portsmouth to decide who would come second to Tottenham. The match at The Dell on Saturday 14 April was attended by \"barely 3,000\" supporters with the home fans being more interested in the Cup Final the following Saturday. Despite the Saints' best efforts, they were thwarted by \"Gunner\" Matt Reilly in the Portsmouth goal, and Saints went down to goals from Sandy Brown and Dan Cunliffe. The return match at Fratton Park two days later, was attended by an Easter Monday crowd of 10,000 supporters who witnessed a \"complete triumph\" for Portsmouth with the two goals coming from Sandy Brown and Billy Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0017-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nSaints' performance against Portsmouth was described as \"poor in the extreme\" and \"there was really no comparison between the two teams\". The Portsmouth manager, Frank Brettell described Southampton as \"stale\" and predicted a \"comfortable\" victory for Bury in the FA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0018-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nAfter the humiliating 4\u20130 defeat in the final, Saints played out the remaining three \"dead\" matches including victories at home to Bristol City and Millwall, in both of which McLeod (who had not been selected for the Cup Final) scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0019-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe league season ended with Southampton third in the table, nine points behind champions, Tottenham Hotspur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0020-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the FA Cup, Saints were no longer required to qualify and entered at the First Round proper, where they met Everton, who had finished in fourth place in the First Division in 1899. Everton were easily beaten in a \"stunning\" 3\u20130 victory with former Everton player Alf Milward scoring twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0021-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe next visitors to The Dell were Newcastle United who Southampton had defeated at the same stage two years earlier. The match was played on 10 February 1900 in wintery conditions. With the match goalless, Jack Farrell was forced to leave the pitch with a dislocated left collar-bone. Southampton played on with ten men until the 50th minute, when referee Arthur Kingscott abandoned the match because of a heavy snowstorm. The sides met again the following Saturday, with Roddy McLeod replacing the injured Farrell. McLeod \"seized the opportunity\" and scored twice in an easy 4\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0022-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe Third Round match was played a week later against another First Division side, West Bromwich Albion against whom McLeod scored again in a 2\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0023-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nWith fellow Southern League team Millwall Athletic having defeated Football League champions Aston Villa in their Round 3 match, after the third of three \"epic confrontations\", the four semi-finalists were Millwall and Southampton from the Southern League and Bury and Nottingham Forest of the Football League First Division. The draw for the semi-final paired the Southern League and Football League sides, thus guaranteeing that a side from the Southern League would reach the FA Cup Final for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0024-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nTo prepare for the semi-final, the Southampton players were sent to Buxton for a week's special training starting with morning walks \"certainly the fat ones\" followed by a bath. The team's secretary, Mr. Arnfield explained the training routine to Chums magazine:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0025-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\n... in the afternoon, sprinting and ball-kicking are the order. Baths are capital for removing stiffness from the joints. And ... everyone in training should go to bed early. Our fellows usually retire at ten, but the night before a big match they are all in bed by nine, They enjoy a long sleep, and don't appear for breakfast before nine. Our diet is an extremely plain one. The customary fare consists of fish, chops and steaks. Vegetables and sweets are banned when a match is about to be played and so are spirits. Half a pint of beer per meal, however, is allowed, and directly the match is over, the players can eat whatever they please. As regards smoking, we only prohibit it on the morning preceding a big match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0026-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe semi-final was played at Crystal Palace on 24 March, with a 30,000 crowd seeing a \"disappointing\" goalless draw. The replay was the following Wednesday at Reading's Elm Park when a crowd of only 10,000 saw Alf Milward at his \"electrifying best\", scoring two goals in a straightforward 3\u20130 victory, to put the Saints through to their first appearance in the final less than 15 years after the club was founded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0027-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final\nThe final was played on 21 April 1900 at Crystal Palace in front of a crowd of 68,945, many of whom were \"rooting\" for the southerners; the referee was Arthur Kingscott from Derby, who had refereed the Second Round match against Newcastle United. The weather was unusually sunny for April and Bury, who won the toss, decided to kick off with the sun behind them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0028-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final\nFrom the start, the Bury forwards directed several high crosses into the goalmouth to test the Saints' goalkeeper, Jack Robinson. The first goal came after nine minutes when Jack Plant's cross from the right was converted by centre-forward Jasper McLuckie. Bury were two goals up six minutes later when Willie Wood slotted home a loose clearance. Despite Robinson making \"a couple of excellent saves\", the match was over as a contest when McLuckie scored his second goal after 23 minutes, following a \"fine pass\" from Wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0029-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final\nIn the second half, the Saints came back into the game with Alf Milward and Harry Wood having several attempts on goal, to no avail. With ten minutes to play, Robinson made another fine save from Jack Pray, which resulted in a corner. The corner was quickly taken by Billy Richards to Plant, who shot \"low and hard\" past Robinson to complete a \"football lesson\" for the Southampton players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0030-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, Aftermath\nReporting on the match, the Southampton correspondent for Athletic News described the team's performance as \"A weak, wavering, pitiable and lamentable show\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0031-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, Aftermath\nI can sadly say, and without doing any injustice to Bury, that from goalkeeper to centre-forward not a man in the Southampton side played up to his reputation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0032-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, Aftermath\nAll commentators agree that, while a defeat to a Football League side containing two current England players (Sagar and Plant) was excusable, the margin of defeat and the poor standard of performance were not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0033-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, Aftermath\nTwelve years after the match, \"Recorder\" writing in the Southampton Pictorial attempted to uncover the reasons for Southampton's failure, for which there had \"never been what one could call an official explanation\". He claimed that there was a division between the English and Scottish players about who should play as centre-forward. The Scottish players wanted Roddy McLeod whereas the English majority wanted Jack Farrell. Farrell had returned in March from the injury sustained in the Second Round match to replace McLeod for the semi-final. Farrell was a temperamental player who had once threatened a local reporter for criticizing his performance, whereas McLeod was a calmer, more selfless player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0034-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, Aftermath\nThis jealousy, while it disturbed the harmony that was so essential to success, did not develop into disloyalty ... but matters went badly for the team from the start, and some players, instead of making special efforts to save the game, attributed their non-success to the deliberate flouting of their wishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0035-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, Aftermath\nOne unnamed player is reported to have said: \"I could see that some of the others were not trying, and said to myself Why should I run myself to a standstill?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0036-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, Aftermath\nAlthough Farrell and McLeod played out the last three league matches of the season, both players left the club in the summer as did defenders, Meechan, Durber and Petrie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0037-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Friendly matches\nDespite the expanded league season and the long FA Cup run, Southampton continued to play regular friendly matches against other league clubs and amateur touring sides. Of the seventeen matches played, eight were wins, two drawn and seven defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0038-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Friendly matches\nThe first friendly match of the season was on 6 September 1899 at the opening of Portsmouth's Fratton Park stadium. Portsmouth played in pink shirts with maroon trimmings, earning them the nickname \"the Shrimps\", with Southampton in red and white stripes. The match was kicked off by the mayor of Portsmouth, with Portsmouth defending the Milton end of the ground. In an \"entertaining spectacle\", Portsmouth won 2\u20130 with goals from Dan Cunliffe (formerly with Liverpool) and Harold Clarke (formerly with Everton).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032276-0039-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southampton F.C. season, Friendly matches\nSaints entertained two teams from the Football League First Division, with Wolverhampton Wanderers winning 5\u20132 on 23 October and champions Aston Villa winning 4\u20132 on 3 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032277-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southern Football League\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the sixth in the history of the Southern League. This season saw the expansion of Division One up to 17 teams, though two of them resigned from league before the end of the season. Tottenham Hotspur were Division One champions for the first time, but no Southern League clubs applied for election to the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032277-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 17 teams contested the division, including 13 sides from previous season and four new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032277-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of 11 teams contested the division, including nine sides from previous season and two new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032277-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, test matches were held between the bottom two clubs in Division One and the top two clubs in Division Two. Thames Ironworks retained their place in Division One after beating Fulham 5\u20131, whilst Watford were promoted after beating Sheppey United 2\u20131, a result which saw the latter relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032278-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1899-1900 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's fifth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 26th in their history. In their highest ever finish in a rugby league competition, and their most successful season, the club finished fourth in the Lancashire Senior Championship. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the first round by rivals Warrington. However, they did manage some silverware in the season, by beating league winners Runcorn 6-0 in the South Lancashire Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032279-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Staffordshire Senior Cup\nThe twenty-third running of the Staffordshire Senior Cup consisted of nine clubs. It opened at the Aston Lower Grounds on 18 September 1899 and closed at the same venue on 26 April 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032279-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Staffordshire Senior Cup\nThe biggest wins in the competition 8\u20130, came at Walsall and Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032279-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Staffordshire Senior Cup\nThe Final at the Victoria Ground, Stoke, a tight affair, saw Grassam score for Burslem Port Vale only to be equalised by a scrimmage for West Bromwich Albion. The attendance was just 500. In the replay at Aston Lower Grounds the First Division club West Bromwich Albion beat the Second Division side easily with goals from Simmons, Walker (2), Roberts (2) in front of 1000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032280-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was Stoke's 11th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032280-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Stoke F.C. season\nAs the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, it became common knowledge that Stoke were still under a heavy financial cloud. There had been more public appeals for funds - and a certain amount of money had been raised. The directors had continued to go to Scotland for players but, they were not all that successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032280-0001-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Stoke F.C. season\nThe team itself had flirted with relegation for a number of seasons now and there had been only one respectable cup run, Stoke often looked capable of beating the best teams in the country but they were far too inconsistent and always seemed to be at least a couple of quality players short of what was required to challenge for honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032280-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Stoke F.C. season\nStoke's final season of the nineteenth century saw them finish in a mid table position of 9th, Stoke struggled for goals during the season scoring 37 only the bottom two relegated clubs scoring less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032280-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nStoke began the 1899\u20131900 campaign well, beating Liverpool and Preston North End at home and drawing away at Burnley in their first three matches. Tom Wilkes had replaced the outgoing George Clawley in goal and there was a change in attack as local player Sam Higginson was introduced in the place of Fred Molyneux who joined Bristol City while Jack Farrell joined Southampton. Tom Holford also came through the ranks at the Victoria Ground and he went on to become a club legend making over 260 appearances. There was also change in the boardroom as Mr W Cowlishaw replaced Mr J Fenton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032280-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nOn 13 November 1899 league leaders Aston Villa visited Stoke which attracted a crowd of 15,000 to the Victoria Ground. Gate receipts amounted to \u00a3379 a record at the time. Villa won 2\u20130 and were on their way to a third straight title. Stoke took ninth place in the First Division just two points away from fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032280-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nAfter last seasons run to the semi-final Stoke exited the FA Cup this season in the first round losing 1\u20130 in a replay to Liverpool after a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the last for Thames Ironworks before the club folded to be reformed as West Ham United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Kit\nThey adopted claret and blue 'uniforms' for the first time. Charlie Dove had got the kits for the club at a very cheap price of \u00a33.10s. They had come from William Belton, who was a professional sprinter, as well as being one of the coaches at Thames Ironworks. During the summer of 1899, Belton had been at a fair in Birmingham, close to Villa Park, the home ground of Aston Villa. Belton had been challenged to a race against four Villa players, who wagered money that one of them would win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 43], "content_span": [44, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0001-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Kit\nHe defeated them, and when they were unable to pay the bet, one of the Villa players who was responsible for washing the team's kit offered a complete side's 'uniforms' to Belton in payment of the bet. The Aston Villa player subsequently reported to his club that the kit was 'missing'. Thames Ironworks, and West Ham United would continue to use their previous favoured colours of white, sky blue or navy for their away kit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 43], "content_span": [44, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nTo bolster the squad for their first season in Southern League Division One, Arnold Hills supplied a transfer fund of \u00a31,000 to club secretary Francis Payne, who chose to build the team by buying players already familiar with each other. From New Brompton he brought in right-half Alec Gentle and left-back Syd King who would go on to become West Ham United's first manager in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0002-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nPayne also raided Tottenham for three forward players, bringing in inside-right Kenny McKay, centre-forward Bill Joyce, who was described as having a \"few fancy thrills\" andleft-winger Tom Bradshaw, who was appointed captain of the team. Bradshaw was a former England international, who holds the distinction of being Liverpool's first ever player to achieve international recognition. Players to leave in the club in the summer included the man Bradshaw had replaced in the team, Patrick Leonard, who returned to Manchester City. Walter Tranter was also sold to Chatham but he would return as a West Ham United player just a year later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nWhilst in pursuit of a Birmingham player, Francis Payne was accused by the Midlands club of illegally using an agent to tap up their player, and was charged with poaching by The Football Association. At the tribunal, The Football Association suspended the agent for two years, and Thames Ironworks for two weeks. The club also received a \u00a325 fine. Payne, who was absent from the proceedings, was suspended, and soon resigned his post as club secretary. He was replaced in the position by Irons defender George Neil, thus beginning a history of the team appointing from within.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nThames Ironworks lost their first fixture in the Southern League Division One 1\u20130 away at Reading on 16 September 1899, but managed their biggest league win of the season only two days later with 4\u20130 home win against Chatham. The game included two goals apiece for inside-forwards Albert Carnelly and new signing Kenny McKay. The Irons kept up their form for the FA Cup beating the amateur side, Royal Engineers at home 6\u20130 on 23 September, with a hat-trick from Bill Joyce, and a goal each from McKay, Roddy McEachrane and Jimmy Reid. A week later, Thames Ironworks featured in the next qualifying round of the FA Cup, this time beating Grays United 4\u20130 away, with goals from Joyce, McKay, Carnelly and centre-half Peter McManus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nDuring the third league match of season on 7 October, Tom Bradshaw sustained an injury in The Irons 1\u20130 home win over Bedminster that would begin a series of events that would see the condition of his health spiral downwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0006-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nThames Ironworks would see their good form continue in the third qualifying round of the FA Cup on 14 October, finally claiming the scalp of Sheppey United with a 4\u20132 home win that included two goals from Carnelly and two from Joyce. The fourth qualifying round followed two weeks later and The Irons recorded their biggest win of the season, trouncing Dartford away 7\u20130. There were braces for Carnelly and McKay, as well as a goal each for Joyce, McEachrane and Bradshaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0007-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nHowever, The Irons good form soon ended on 4 November when in a league game they lost 7\u20130 at White Hart Lane to Tottenham. The indignation was increased by the fact that it was also their highest away attendance that season with 7,000 people at the game. Thames Ironworks managed to steady the ship with a 0\u20130 home draw against New Brompton on 11 November, in what would be Tom Bradshaw's last league game ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0008-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nOnly a week later, The Irons then had to play New Brompton again, this time away and in the next qualifying round of the FA Cup. The teams again served up a 0\u20130 draw and a replay was scheduled for the following week. On 23 November Thames Ironworks managed to break New Brompton's resolve, winning 2\u20130 with goals from Carnelly and McKay, setting up a next round tie against arch rivals Millwall Athletic. The clearly ailing Tom Bradshaw was rested for the next two games, in preparation for the tie against Millwall which was to follow 16 days later. The Irons league form continued to be erratic in those next two games with a 1\u20130 home win over Swindon being closely followed by 0\u20132 loss away at Bristol City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0009-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nThe Irons' 9 December FA Cup game at home to Millwall attracted their biggest attendance of the season with 13,000 spectators making the fifth qualifying round tie. Captain Tom Bradshaw, after being absent for the previous two games got the only goal in a 1\u20132 defeat. This would be his last game for the club. Thames Ironworks lost again at home to Millwall on 23 December, this time in the Southern League and by two goals to nil. Again, another above average crowd of 12/000 were attracted to a game between these two London rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0009-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nThis loss was followed two days later by a Christmas Day 0\u20132 defeat against Queens Park Rangers. Also on 25 December, after lengthy illness, club captain Tom Bradshaw died. His cause of death was recorded as consumption. His passing was remembered by future West Ham manager Syd King, in his brief history of the club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0010-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nThe disillusioned Thames Ironworks team would record seven successive defeats until 15 January 1900, when they drew away at Bristol Rovers 1\u20131, with Kenny McKay getting the all important goal. The Irons managed to follow this up with a 3\u20130 win over Sheppey on 20 January, with goals coming from McKay, Carnelly and Joyce. A further four wins and three draws were just enough for Thames ironworks to avoid bottom place, and much of the credit for that should go to their forwards McKay, Carnelly and Joyce, who between them scored 90% of The Irons' goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0011-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nThe Irons won the last three games of the season. The first of these was on 9 April against the previous season's Southern League Division One champions Southampton, who had just reached the FA Cup Final and were sitting in third place in the division. Against the odds, Thames Ironworks recorded a 4\u20131 win with Bill Joyce's second hat-trick of the season and a goal from right-winger Bob Allan. On 17 April The Irons completed the double over bottom club SheppeyUnited by a 4\u20132 margin. This time the goals came from McKay, Joyce, Taylor and an own goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0011-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nThe last game of the season arrived on 28 April when, at the third time of asking that season, The Irons beat Millwall away 1\u20130 with a goal from Ken McKay. Thames Ironworks finished 14 out of 15 in the Southern League Division One and would be required to play a Test Match to preserve their divisional status. Only two days later at a game held at Tottenham's White Hart Lane Ground, The Irons faced a Fulham team featuring former centre-forward David Lloyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0011-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nAlthough only 600 fans turned up, Thames Ironworks won 5\u20131, with Bill Joyce claiming his third hat-trick of the season at his former stomping ground. The other goals came from centre-half Willie Stewart and an own goal. Thames Ironworks had survived their first season in the top division of the Southern League and their reserve team had also begun to gain ground, finishing fourth of ten in the London League Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0012-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Overview\nBill Joyce and Roddy McEachrane were ever-presents during the 1899\u20131900 season with 36 appearances each. Bill Joyce, Kenny McKay and Albert Carnelly all scored 8 goals in the Southern League Division One, with Joyce getting a further 10 in FA Cup and Test Match games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0013-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Resignation from the league\nIn June 1900, club chairman Arnold Hill's Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company acquired another engineering firm in financial takeover and became a limited company for the first time. 4,000 ten shilling shares (50p) were sold to Iron Works staff and the general public, with Hills generous enough to match sales of any shares one-to-one. At the end of June, Thames Ironworks F.C. resigned from the Southern League and were officially wound up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0013-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Resignation from the league\nOn 5 July 1900 they reformed under the new name of West Ham United F.C. and accepted an offer of the Southern League place left vacant by Thames Ironworks. Lew Bowen, a Welsh clerk at the Iron Works Company was appointed as the first West Ham United club secretary. Bowen had previously written Thames Ironworks match reports for the Thames Iron Works Gazette, also known as TIWG. He would retain twelve Thames Ironworks players for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032282-0013-0002", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season, Resignation from the league\nThese included goalkeeper Tommy Moore, full-backs Syd King and Charlie Craig, wing-halves Charlie Dove, Roddy McEachrane and James Bigden, left-wingers Frank Taylor and Len Walker and right-wingers Bob Allan and Fred Corbett. Former club secretary and Ironworks defender George Neil was also retained for the new season ahead. Tom Bradshaw's close friends Bill Joyce and Kenny McKay left for Portsmouth and Fulham respectively, while Albert Carnelly joined arch-rivals Millwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032283-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1899\u20131900 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032283-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nPrinceton University played several games during the season, however, Princeton's records for its ice hockey team begin with the 1900\u201301 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032284-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 WPHL season\nThe 1899\u20131900 WPHL season was the third season of operation for the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. Four Pittsburgh-area teams competed in the season, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens. While the Pittsburgh Bankers were added to the league and began play, the season marked the final year that an amateur team representing Western University, played in the league. The Pittsburgh Athletic Club repeated as the league champions, for their second league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032285-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1899\u20131900 Welsh Amateur Cup was the tenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Wellington St. Georges United who defeated Llanrwst Town 2-0 in the final, at Flint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032286-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Western Football League\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the eighth in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032286-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Western Football League\nBristol Rovers were the champions of Division One, and also competed in the Southern League during this season, along with all the other members of Division One. The Division Two champions were debutants Bristol East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032286-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nOne new club joined Division One, which was reduced to just four clubs from seven after Trowbridge Town and Warmley resigned during the previous season, and Bristol St George and Southampton left at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032286-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nTwo new clubs joined Division Two, which was reduced to five clubs after Barton Hill, Bristol Amateurs, Hanham, Midsomer Norton and Mount Hill all left at the end of the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032287-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Dr. James C. Elsom, coaching his second season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032288-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1899\u20131900 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1899\u20131900 season. The team finished the season with a 9\u20136 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032289-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1899\u20131900 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032289-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the second consecutive season, Yale was declared Intercollegiate Hockey League champions, finishing undefeated against all conference opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032289-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, E.A. Strong served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032289-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nYale played their first game against Harvard, the program that would eventually become their most enduring rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032290-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in Belgian football\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the fifth competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032290-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official division existed at the time, split into two leagues. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and its winner was decided after a two-legged final match between the winners of each league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032290-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in Belgian football, Overview\nAt the end of the season it was decided to merge the two league in one. Antwerp F.C. withdrew from the league after nearly every player left the club for the new Beerschot and F.C. Courtraisien was relegated. The clubs that replaced those two were Beerschot and Verviers F.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football\nThe 1899\u20131900 season was the 29th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, Events\nChesterfield and Middlesbrough replaced Blackpool and Darwen in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, Events\nGlossop debuted in the First Division, becoming the smallest town ever to compete in the highest English football division. The team finished in bottom place and was relegated, becoming the first of six clubs that so far have only completed one season in the top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0004-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team\nFor the last round of international matches in the Victorian era, the England national football team played all three matches in the 1900 British Home Championship away from home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0005-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team, Ireland\nFor the match against Ireland, played at Lansdowne Road, Dublin on 17 March 1900, the England team were confidently expecting an easy win after five successive victories, including winning 13\u20132 the previous year. The England selectors chose five debutantes, including four of the five forwards. Dan Cunliffe of Southern League Portsmouth, made his solitary England appearance at inside right, with his Portsmouth teammate Matt Reilly in goal for the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0005-0001", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team, Ireland\nAnother Southern League player, Archie Turner of Southampton played the first of his two internationals at outside right, while on the left were Charlie Sagar of Bury and Fred Priest of Sheffield United, with the experienced Gilbert Smith in the centre. Priest's Sheffield United colleague, Harry Johnson played the first of his six internationals at Right-half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0006-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team, Ireland\nIn the event, the game was far more difficult than expected, with England only managing a 2\u20130 victory, with goals from debutantes Johnson and Sagar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0007-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team, Wales\nNine days later, the England team travelled to Cardiff to compete against Wales with four new players. Arthur Chadwick of Southampton represented the Southern League, playing the first of his two internationals at centre half. The other three debutantes were up front, with Corinthians Geoffrey Plumpton Wilson and Tip Foster, lining up alongside their club captain, G. O. Smith, and Alf Spouncer of Nottingham Forest making his only England appearance on the left wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0008-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team, Wales\nWhile the visitors were expected to win with ease, the Welsh \"fought magnificently\" to hold the English to a draw with Billy Meredith's 55th-minute strike cancelling out Wilson's third-minute goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0009-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team, Scotland\nAs Scotland had defeated both the Welsh and Irish by large scores, England needed a victory at Celtic Park if they were to retain the British Home Championship. They made only three changes from the side that had defeated the Welsh, bringing in Jack Plant of Bury to replace Alf Spouncer on the left, and recalling Ernest Needham (replacing Howard Spencer in defence) and Steve Bloomer in place of Tip Foster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032291-0010-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in English football, National team, Scotland\nScotland were \"determined to succeed against the visitors\" following defeats in the two previous meetings. In front of a world record crowd of 63,000, the Scots did not disappoint their supporters with Robert McCollscoring a hat trick (his third for Scotland), with Bloomer scoring England's consolation. Scotland thus defeated all three of their competitors, enabling them to take the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032292-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in Scottish football\nThe season of 1899\u20131900 in Scottish football was the 27th season of competitive football in Scotland and the tenth season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032292-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nCeltic were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 4\u20133 win over Queen's Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032292-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nMaryhill were winners of the Junior Cup after a 3\u20132 win over Rugby XI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032292-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131900 in Scottish football, Scotland national team\nScotland were winners of the 1900 British Home Championship, having won all three of their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032293-0000-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131923 cholera pandemic\nThe sixth cholera pandemic (1899\u20131923) was a major outbreak of cholera beginning in India, where it killed more than 800,000 people, and spreading to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032293-0001-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131923 cholera pandemic, History\nAccording to Leonard Rogers, following an outbreak of cholera at the Haridwar Kumbh Mela, the epidemic spread to Europe via Punjab, Afghanistan, Persia, and southern Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032293-0002-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131923 cholera pandemic, History\nThe last cholera outbreak in the United States was in 1910\u20131911 when the steamship Moltke brought infected people to New York City from Naples. Vigilant health authorities isolated the infected on Swinburne Island, built in the nineteenth century as a quarantine facility. Eleven people died, including a health care worker at the island hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032293-0003-0000", "contents": "1899\u20131923 cholera pandemic, History\nIn 1913, the Romanian Army, while invading Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War, suffered a cholera outbreak that provoked 1,600 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032294-0000-0000", "contents": "189th (2nd York and Durham) Brigade\nThe 189th (2nd York and Durham) Brigade was a formation of the British Army during the First World War. It was raised as a second line brigade, part of the 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division, from those men in the Territorial Force who had not agreed to serve overseas. The second line infantry battalions had a minimum strength of 600 men. The brigade was disbanded in November 1916.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032295-0000-0000", "contents": "189th (Canadien-Fran\u00e7ais) Battalion, CEF\nThe 189th Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Fraserville, Quebec, it began recruiting during the winter of 1915/16 in eastern Quebec. After sailing to England in September 1916, the battalion was absorbed into the 69th Overseas Battalion, CEF on October 6, 1916. The 189th Battalion, CEF had one Officer Commanding: Lieut-Col. P. A. Piuze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032296-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Squadron\nThe 189th Airlift Squadron (189 AS) is an inactive unit of the Idaho Air National Guard. It was last assigned to the 124th Wing located at Gowen Field Air National Guard Base, Boise, Idaho. Following the BRAC 2005 the unit was inactivated on 18 October 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032296-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Squadron, History\nThe 189th AS was activated on 1 September 1996 at Gowen Field ANGB as part of the 124th Wing. It was a tactical airlift squadron, equipped with Lockheed C-130E Hercules transports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032296-0002-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Squadron, History\nPrior to its activation as a squadron in 1995, the unit was initially formed on 1 April 1984 as the 189th Tactical Reconnaissance Training Flight. Its mission was a Formal Training Unit (FTU) for aircrews being assigned to the 124th Tactical Reconnaissance (later Fighter) group flying RF-4C Phantom II reconnaissance and later F-4G Phantom II electronic warfare aircraft. On 16 March 1992 it was re-designated as the 189th Fighter Flight. The flight used 190th TFS/FS aircraft for its training mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032296-0003-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Squadron, History\nWith the retirement of the F-4Gs in 1995, the status of the unit was changed from a flight to a squadron, and it received C-130E aircraft for operational missions. The 189th supported countless deployments all over the world in support of the U.S. Southern Command, Operation Allied Force, Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. They also responded to winter weather disasters New Mexico and provided humanitarian support for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032296-0004-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Squadron, History\nThe Airlift Squadron's awards include the Governor's Outstanding Unit Citation 1997, 1999, and 2005 as well as the Adjutant General Award 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032296-0005-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Squadron, History\nThe 189th Airlift Squadron was inactivated as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act on 18 October 2009. Many of the members who were part of the squadron were absorbed within the wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing\nThe 189th Airlift Wing (189 AW) is a unit of the Arkansas Air National Guard, stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. If activated to federal service, it is gained by the United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing\nThe 154th Training Squadron, assigned to the Wings 189th Operations Group, is a descendant organization of the World War I 154th Aero Squadron, established on 8 December 1917. It was reformed on 24 October 1925, as the 154th Observation Squadron, and is one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0002-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, Mission\n\"Mission of the 189th Airlift Wing:189th Airlift Wing: We are mission ready citizen airmen, providing premier training to the C-130 and cyber enterprises, capitalizing on partnerships to support the State and defend the Nation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0003-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, Mission\nThe 189th Airlift Wing is the provides world class training in various mission sets for USAF, USSF, and International Military Partners. The 189th AW provides aircrew training for the C-130 for all branches of the military. The unit operates the C-130 Tactical Airlift Instructor School, where aircrew instructors are trained to they can return to their units and keep members combat ready. The wing also operates the Air National Guard Enlisted Aircrew Academic School, which provides entry-level training for C-130 loadmasters before they are sent to the 314th Airlift Wing for mission qualification training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0003-0001", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, Mission\nThe school also provides entry-level flight engineer training. In recent years the 189th Operations Group's 223rd Cyberspace Operations Squadron has been designated as the USAF Mission Defense Team Formal Training Unit qualifying Cyberspace Defenders on Defensive Cyberspace Operations Weapon system and tactics, as well as providing Specialized Cyberwarfare courses such as the Intelligence Support to Mission Defense Teams Course, Advanced Host Analysis, Advanced Network Analysis, Tactical Cyber Mission Planning, and ICS/SCADA Analysis training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0004-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, History\nEstablished in 1962 when the Arkansas ANG 154th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron was expanded to a Group when elements of the 123d Air Base Group were added.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0005-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, History\nIn June 1965, the group became the first Air National Guard organization to be equipped with RF-101 aircraft. As a result of the Pueblo Crises, the 189th was recalled to active duty in January 1968. In July of that year, the 154th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (augmented) deployed from Little Rock AFB to Itazuke, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0006-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, History, Air Refueling\nOn 1 January 1976, the unit was designated as the 189th Air Refueling Group, Arkansas Air National Guard, and converted to a KC-135 air-to-air refueling mission, and became one of the first Air National Guard units to be assigned to the Strategic Air Command as a gaining command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0007-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, History, Air Refueling\nAs an integral part of SAC under \"Total Force,\" the 189th ARG maintained an around-the-clock ALPHA Alert, participated in European, Alaskan and Pacific Tanker Task Forces, and supported worldwide temporary tanker task forces performing in-flight refueling of all types of aircraft as assigned by the Strategic Air Command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0008-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, History, Tactical Airlift\nOn 1 October 1986, the unit was redesignated as the 189th Tactical Airlift Group and converted to the C-130 aircraft. The mission squadron was redesignated as the 154th Tactical Airlift Training Squadron and assumed a proportionate share of initial aircrew qualification training, from the 314th Tactical Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB. Student training began on 25 September 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0009-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, History, Tactical Airlift\nDuring Desert Shield/Desert Storm, 135 members were activated and served in both CONUS and OCONUS locations. Aircrews from the 189th flew 123 mission sorties in support of Desert Shield/Desert Storm without affecting the unit's day-to-day aircrew training mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032297-0010-0000", "contents": "189th Airlift Wing, History, Tactical Airlift\nOn 16 April 1992, the 189th Tactical Airlift Group was officially redesignated as the 189th Airlift Group, and the 154th Tactical Airlift Training Squadron was redesignated as the 154th Training Squadron, Arkansas Air National Guard. On 1 October 1995, the 189th Airlift Group was designated as the 189th Airlift Wing. The 189th AW was the first Air National Guard unit in the country to be located on an active duty Air Force base flying the same type aircraft as its active duty counterpart, and performing the same day-to-day mission. The 189th Airlift Wing transitioned from the C-130E to the C-130H aircraft during 2010. That same year the 189th Airlift Wing was selected as the lead unit for the C-130 AMP (Avionics Modernization Program) transition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032298-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Aviation Regiment (United States)\nThe 189th Aviation Regiment is an aviation regiment of the U.S. Army. It was probably formed in the late 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032298-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Aviation Regiment (United States)\nThe 1st Battalion is part of the 34th Infantry Division, and administratively supervised while under state control by the 95th Troop Command of the Montana Army National Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032299-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Division (2nd Formation)(People's Republic of China)\nIn October 1969 186th Army Division(Chinese: \u9646\u519b\u7b2c186\u5e08) was formed from 2nd Engineer District, Engineer Corps of Beijing Military Region. The division was a part of 63rd Army Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032299-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Division (2nd Formation)(People's Republic of China)\nIn December 1969 the division was renamed as 189th Army Division(Chinese: \u9646\u519b\u7b2c189\u5e08), and all its regiments were re-designated as:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States)\nThe 189th Infantry Brigade is an Infantry brigade of the United States Army based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. It is a training brigade subordinate to First Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States)\nOriginally organized as a part of the 95th Infantry Division for World War I, the brigade never saw combat in that conflict. Kept active and in the reserve through much of the 20th century, the brigade in name was reorganized into a different unit for fighting during World War II. Seeing numerous moves, activations and deactivations, the brigade has been used principally as a training unit for most of its existence. Reactivated again in 2006, the brigade is now primarily responsible for training provincial reconstruction teams and their supporting elements for deployment to the War in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0002-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, Origins\nThe 189th Infantry Brigade was first constituted and activated on 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves, and assigned to the 95th Division. The brigade was organized in 1922 at Muskogee, Oklahoma. However, it would never be mobilized for World War I, and thus never received participation credit for the action. It would stay active as a reserve brigade for the interwar period, but it would never be used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0003-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, Origins\nOn 23 March 1925 the formation was reorganized as the 189th Brigade. On 24 August 1936 the formation was reorganized again as the 189th Infantry Brigade. In 1940, the brigade's headquarters was changed to McAlester, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0004-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, World War II\nThe formation saw great changes in preparation for mobilization to fight during World War II. On 13 February 1942 the brigade structure was downsized greatly and converted into a reconnaissance element. It was combined with assets from the 190th Infantry Brigade to form the 95th Reconnaissance Troop which was subsequently assigned to the 95th Division once again. The troop was ordered into active military service on 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Swift, Texas, as the 95th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 95th Division. The division itself was also in the process of being reorganized into the 95th Infantry Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0005-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, World War II\nOn 1 August 1943, the group was reorganized, given vehicles, and redesignated as the 95th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized. It was then deployed with the 95th Infantry Division to England on 17 August 1944 was subsequently deployed to northern France. The troop fought with the Division through northern France, and eventually northern Germany capturing town after town until the end of the war. Retrieved 5 December 2008. The formation received four campaign streamers for its participation, the only four it was to earn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0006-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, World War II\nAfter the end of World War II, the troop returned home and began the process of demobilization. It inactivated on 8 October 1945 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0007-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, World War II\nOn 26 December 1947, the inactive formation was redesignated as the 95th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop. It was then activated on 9 January 1948 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. On 17 December 1948, the brigade headquarters was moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma. On 30 June 1949, the troop was again reorganized as the 95th Reconnaissance Company. This allowed it to take on a larger structure and control more personnel. The formation was inactivated on 15 September 1951 at Stillwater, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0008-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, World War II\nIt was again activated 1 March 1952 at Jonesboro, Arkansas. The company had its location changed to Wewoka, Oklahoma on 1 June 1955. The Company would be inactivated for their last time four years later on 1 April 1959 when it was disbanded in Wewoka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0009-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, World War II\nThe 95th Reconnaissance Company would never see action again. Its elements would return to their designations before World War II. On 21 January 1963, the main elements of the company were reconstituted as the 189th Infantry Brigade. It was then allotted to the Active duty force. Though inactive, if the brigade was ever activated again it would be formed as a part of the active duty force as a separate brigade. The 190th Infantry Brigade would not be reactivated, either. Its assets would be designated as 3rd Brigade, 24th Infantry Division, having never been reorganized after its redesignation in 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0010-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, World War II\nOn 24 October 1997, the brigade was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina as a training brigade. With a population of nearly 50,000 soldiers and numerous other tenant units, the fort had a large contingent of soldiers necessitating multiple brigades for training. However, after two years of service on the Fort, it was inactivated on 16 October 1999 at the base. The elements of the brigade were subsequently merged with the 4th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support), another training brigade on base responsible for exercises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0011-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, Reactivation\nThe 189th Infantry Brigade was activated once again on 1 December 2006 at Fort Bragg. This was done by reflagging the 4th Brigade, 78th Division back to the 189th Infantry Brigade. The reflagging was just one part of the overall streamlining of the First Army from five training support Divisions commanding 16 divisional brigades to two larger regions commanding 16 separate brigades. The process was also designed to make identification of the brigades easier. It was assigned to Division East of the First Army. Division East contains eight training brigades with responsibilities for the entire region east of the Mississippi River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0012-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, Reactivation\nThe brigade was organized as a training brigade preparing Army Reserve and Army National Guard units for deployment. The brigade prepares other units for mobilization and provides training, assistance, and support to them during pre-deployment exercises, and evaluates performance and progress of these units as they are deploying. Since its reactivation, the brigade has specialized in training provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) deploying to Afghanistan. In early 2007, the 189th Infantry Brigade, along with the 158th Infantry Brigade, cooperated to train the first 12 PRTs at once at Fort Bragg for three-month training exercises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0012-0001", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, Reactivation\nPRT personnel were trained in a wide range of scenarios, ranging from hospital repairs to childbirth scenarios and language labs. Afterwards, they conducted a conference on the training, in which it was decided that cultural awareness and language training needed to be stressed for future PRTs. It was during this training that the brigade finally received its distinctive unit insignia and shoulder sleeve insignia on 25 May 2008. In early 2008, the Brigade began training another group of 12 PRTs. Several months later, the Brigades began training the next 12 PRTs for a 270-day deployment to Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0013-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, Reactivation\nIn 2011, the 189th Infantry Brigade transferred from the authority of Division East, First Army, to Division West, First Army, and uncased its colors at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on 7 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0014-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), History, Reactivation\nThe brigade has worked closely with the Civilian Response Corps to standardize and institutionalize the training for the PRTs. All members of the PRTs are required to assemble for the training, which lasts approximately six weeks. These PRTs include members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and civilian military contractors, as well as members of the UN Assistance Mission Agency (sic: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan? ), and numerous other groups. It has also been responsible for training security forces that guard the PRTs, including elements of the 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Soldiers of the brigade have also trained on Avid Technology, part of a modernization of Army public affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0015-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), Organization\nThe brigade contains five subordinate active duty battalions, a Headquarters and Headquarters Company, and five reserve battalions. The brigade is, in turn, subordinate to Division West of First Army. Like all of the formations in First Army, the brigade is not a combat unit, but instead trains other units preparing for deployment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032300-0016-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Brigade (United States), Organization\nThe Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the brigade is located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and acts as the command element for the formation, overseeing all subordinate battalions which are also located at JBLM. These battalions include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032301-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)\nThe 189th Infantry Division was a reserve division of the German Army in World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nThe 189th Division (Chinese: \u7b2c189\u5e08) was created in January 1949 under the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army, issued by Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948, basing on the 9th Brigade, 3rd Column of the Jinchaji Military Region. Its history can be traced to the 5th Military Sub-district of Jinchaji Military Region, formed in March 1940.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nThe division was part of the 63rd Corps. Under the flag of the 189th division, it took part in several major battles in the Chinese Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0002-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn February 1951 the division entered Korea with the Corps HQ as a part of People's Volunteer Army. During its deployment in Korea, it took part in the Fifth Phase Offensive and the Battle of Cheorwon, during which the division suffered heavy casualties but halted the UN offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0003-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn January 1953 394th Tank Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment was formed and attached to the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0004-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn October 1953 the division returned from Korea and stationed at Huolu, Hebei, becoming the 189th Infantry Division (Chinese: \u6b65\u5175\u7b2c189\u5e08) of the National Defense Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0005-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn 1960 the division was renamed as the 189th Army Division (Chinese: \u9646\u519b\u7b2c189\u5e08). By then the division was composed of:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0006-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn 1962 the division was designated as a \"Northern\" unit, Catalogue A in War-time Structure, making it a \"big\" division of 12457 personnel. the division was shortly moved to Fujian province for an emergency alert deployment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0007-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn May 1966 the division moved to Fengtai, Beijing and joined Beijing Capital District while detaching from the 63rd Army Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0008-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn December 1969 the division was renamed as the 4th Guards Division (Chinese: \u8b66\u536b\u7b2c4\u5e08). All its regiments were re-designated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0009-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn October 1976 the division was re-organized as a Motorized Army Division, and an Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment was formed and attached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0010-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn January 1979, the 10th, 11th, and 12th Guard Regiments were renamed as the 14th, 15th, and 16th Guard Regiments, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0011-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn September 1985 the division was detached from the guard district and re-attached to the now 63rd Army. At the same time, it renamed as the 189th Infantry Division (Chinese: \u6b65\u5175\u7b2c189\u5e08), and all its regiments were re-designated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0012-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nFrom 1985 to 1998 the division was a Northern Motorized Infantry Division, Catalogue B, meaning all its infantry and tank regiments were composed of 2 instead of 3 maneuver battalions in peacetime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0013-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nFrom 1989 its 565th and 567th regiments became motorized infantry regiments, category B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0014-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn 1998 the division was reduced and renamed as the 189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (Chinese: \u6469\u6258\u5316\u6b65\u5175\u7b2c189\u65c5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0015-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nIn 2003 the brigade was disbanded along with the Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032302-0016-0000", "contents": "189th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)\nThis unit is not relevant to the 189th Medium Combined Arms Brigade, which was activated in April 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032303-0000-0000", "contents": "189th New York Infantry Regiment\nThe 189th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032303-0001-0000", "contents": "189th New York Infantry Regiment, Service\nIn September 1864, the regiment's first two commanders received authority to recruit, and organized at Elmira, including four companies originally recruited for the 175th New York. It was mustered in the service of the United States for one year in August and September, 1864. One company was transferred to the 15th Engineers, but was replaced by a new company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032303-0002-0000", "contents": "189th New York Infantry Regiment, Service\nFour companies left the State September 18; the remaining companies October 23. The regiment served in the 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corps; and was honorably discharged and mustered out May 30 and June 1, 1865, near Washington, D. C. On January 11, 1865, Companies H and K went down the Jerusalem Plank Road (now a portion of U.S. Highway 301 near Petersburg known as the Crater Road) on a foraging expedition, where Confederate guerillas ambushed them and wounded Captain Burrage Rice, who was apparently executed by the guerillas after sending the train and men back to Union lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032303-0003-0000", "contents": "189th New York Infantry Regiment, Total strength and casualties\nDuring its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 1 officer, 5 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 3 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 1 officer, 70 enlisted men; total, 2 officers, 78 enlisted men; aggregate, 80.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0000-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature\nThe 189th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 9, 1991, to December 31, 1992, during the ninth and tenth years of Mario Cuomo's governorship, in Albany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0001-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Background\nUnder the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1938 and the U.S. Supreme Court decision to follow the One man, one vote rule, re-apportioned in 1982 by the Legislature, 61 Senators and 150 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts for two-year terms. Senate and Assembly districts consisted of approximately the same number of inhabitants, the area being apportioned contiguously without restrictions regarding county boundaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0002-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Background\nAt this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Conservative Party, the Right to Life Party, the Liberal Party, the New Alliance Party, the Libertarian Party, and the Socialist Workers Party also nominated tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0003-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Elections\nThe New York state election, 1990, was held on November 6. Governor Mario Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine were re-elected, both Democrats. The elections to the other two statewide elective offices resulted in the re-election of the two incumbent officeholders: a Republican Comptroller, and a Democratic Attorney General. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democrats 2,086,000; Republicans 866,000; Conservatives 828,000; Right to Life 138,000; Liberals 71,000; New Alliance 31,000; Libertarians 25,000; and Socialist Workers 13,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0004-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Elections\n22 of the sitting 23 women members of the legislature\u2014State Senators Mary B. Goodhue (Rep.), a lawyer of Mount Kisco; Nancy Larraine Hoffmann (Dem. ), of Syracuse; Olga A. M\u00e9ndez (Dem. ), of East Harlem; Velmanette Montgomery (Dem. ), of Brooklyn; Suzi Oppenheimer (Dem. ), of Mamaroneck; and Ada L. Smith (Dem. ), of Queens; and Assemblywomen Barbara M. Clark (Dem. ), of Queens; Elizabeth Connelly (Dem. ), of Staten Island; Geraldine L. Daniels (Dem. ), of the Bronx; Gloria Davis (Dem. ), of the Bronx; Eileen C. Dugan (Dem. ), of Brooklyn; Aurelia Greene (Dem. ), of the Bronx; Earlene Hill Hooper (Dem. ), of Hempstead; Rhoda S. Jacobs (Dem. ), of Brooklyn; Cynthia Jenkins (Dem. ), a librarian of Queens; Helen M. Marshall (Dem. ), a teacher and librarian of Queens; Nettie Mayersohn (Dem. ), of Queens; Patricia McGee (Rep.), of Franklinville; Catherine Nolan (Dem. ), of Queens; Audrey Pheffer (Dem. ), of Queens; Cecile D. Singer (Rep.), of Yonkers; and Helene Weinstein (Dem. ), a lawyer of Brooklyn\u2014were re-elected. Nancy Calhoun (Rep.), of Blooming Grove; Joan Christensen (Dem. ), of Syracuse; Vivian E. Cook (Dem.) of Queens; Deborah J. Glick (Dem. ), of Manhattan; Susan V. John (Dem. ), of Rochester; and Frances T. Sullivan (Rep.), of Fulton; were also elected to the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 1339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0005-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Elections\nThe New York state election, 1991, was held on November 5. Three vacancies in the Assembly were filled. Assemblywoman Helen M. Marshall was elected to the New York City Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0006-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Elections\nOn January 28, 1992, Joni A. Yoswein (Dem. ), of Brooklyn, was elected to fill a vacancy in the Assembly. Thus the 189th Legislature began and ended with 28 women members, setting a new record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0007-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nThe Legislature met for the first regular session (the 214th) at the State Capitol in Albany on January 9, 1991; and recessed indefinitely in the early morning of July 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0008-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nRalph J. Marino (Rep.) was re-elected Temporary President of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0009-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nOn December 13, 1991, Speaker Mel Miller was convicted of a felony, and thus vacated his seat in the Assembly. On December 16, 1991, Saul Weprin (Dem.) was elected Speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0010-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nThe Legislature met for the second regular session (the 215th) at the State Capitol in Albany on January 8, 1992; and recessed indefinitely on July 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0011-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nIn June, the Legislature re-apportioned the legislative districts. On June 24, 1992, the U.S. Department of Justice approved the redrawn districts with one exception. On June 30, 1992, the New York Court of Appeals also validated the new apportionment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0012-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nThe Legislature met again from July 28 to 30, 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0013-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, State Senate, Senators\nThe asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Joseph R. Holland, William J. Larkin Jr., Stephen M. Saland and William R. Sears changed from the Assembly to the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0014-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, State Senate, Senators\nNote: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words \"...the Committee on (the)...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0015-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Assembly members\nThe asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032304-0016-0000", "contents": "189th New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Assembly members\nNote: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words \"...the Committee on (the)...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032305-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Ohio Infantry Regiment\nThe 189th Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 189th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 189th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032305-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 189th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio, and mustered in for one year service on March 4, 1865, under the command of Colonel Henry Denison Kingsbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032305-0002-0000", "contents": "189th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe regiment left Ohio for Huntsville, Alabama, March 7. It was attached to District of North Alabama, Department of the Tennessee, to September 1865. Arrived at Huntsville, March 17, 1865. Assigned to duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad guarding bridges and building stockades until June. The regiment concentrated June 20 and was assigned to post duty at Huntsville until September 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032305-0003-0000", "contents": "189th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 189th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service September 28, 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032305-0004-0000", "contents": "189th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nThe regiment lost a total of 49 enlisted men during service; 1 man killed, 48 due to disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0000-0000", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States)\nThe 189th Regiment (Regional Training Institute) is a training regiment of the Oklahoma Army National Guard. The Regiment only retains its affiliation with the Field Artillery branch for purposes of history and lineage and is the core cadre and leadership of the Oklahoma Regional Training Institute (OKRTI). Its parent unit is the Joint Force Headquarters of the Oklahoma Army National Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0001-0000", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States)\nIt today consists of 1st Battalion, 189th Field Artillery Regiment, and 2nd Battalion (General Services) Field Artillery Regiment which are headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was a part of the 45th Infantry Division. The 189th FA saw action during World War II and the Korean War as part of the 45th infantry Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0002-0000", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States), History and lineage\nThe 189th Field Artillery Regiment was constituted in the National Guard in 1921, assigned to the 85th Field Artillery Brigade (VIII Corps), and allotted to the state of Oklahoma. It was organized and federally recognized on 14 October 1921 by the redesignation of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment of the Oklahoma National Guard. It was reassigned to the 187th Field Artillery Brigade (VIII Corps) on 2 July 1923. In March 1930, the regiment was relieved from the 187th Field Artillery Brigade and assigned to the 45th Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0002-0001", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States), History and lineage\nThe 189th Field Artillery Regiment, consisting of two battalions of 155mm howitzers, truck drawn, was inducted into Federal service on 16 September 1940 and stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The 189th Field Artillery Regiment moved to Camp Barkeley, Texas on 6 March 1941. On 11 February 1942, the regiment split into two separate battalions, the 1st Battalion, 189th FA Regiment retained the number and remained with the 45th Division. The 2nd Battalion, 189th FA Regiment was redesignated as 202nd Field Artillery Regiment and was assigned to General Headquarters Reserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0002-0002", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States), History and lineage\nThe 202nd Field Artillery Regiment was further reorganized on 1 March 1943 when the 1st Battalion was redesignated as the independent 202nd Field Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Battalion became the 961st Field Artillery Battalion. The 189th fought in Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany during World War II, receiving the Presidential Unit Citation for action on the Salerno Beachhead. The battalion was recalled to active duty in 1950 with the 45th Infantry Division and fought in Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0003-0000", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States), History and lineage\nThe OKRTI today provides instruction in many areas, including, All Field Artillery courses, such as Field Artillery Military Occupational Specialty Qualification, Advanced Leaders Course, and Senior Leaders Course, Army Basic Instructor Course (ABIC), Combatives Training, Health Care Specialist (Combat Medic), Officer Candidate School (OCS), Small Group Instructor Training Course (SGITC), Platoon Trainer Qualification Course (PTQC), Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Training and a number of online distance learning offerings as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0004-0000", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States), Distinctive unit insignia\nDescription A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 5/32\u00a0inches (2.94\u00a0cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, a bend Azure fimbriated Argent, in sinister chief an octagon of the like. Attached below the shield a Silver scroll inscribed \"HONORIS CUSTOS\" in Red letters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0005-0000", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States), Distinctive unit insignia\nSymbolismThe service of the former organization, the 189th Field Artillery, is indicated by the red shield. The bend represents Federal recognition, the silver fimbriation to separate the two colors, and the octagon suggests the Eighth Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032306-0006-0000", "contents": "189th Regiment (United States), Distinctive unit insignia\nBackgroundThe distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 189th Field Artillery, Oklahoma National Guard on 22 December 1925. It was redesignated for the 189th Field Artillery Battalion, Oklahoma National Guard on 7 October 1942. It was redesignated for the 189th Artillery, Oklahoma National Guard on 1 November 1960. It was amended to change the description on 27 November 1964. The insignia was redesignated for the 189th Field Artillery on 19 July 1972. The insignia was redesignated for the 189th Regiment, Oklahoma Army National Guard, with description and symbolism revised on 29 April 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032307-0000-0000", "contents": "18:15 ab Ostkreuz\n18:15 ab Ostkreuz is a German film. The film showed at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032308-0000-0000", "contents": "18A\nThe 18A was an Argentine cacerolazo that took place on April 18, 2013. Attended by nearly two million people, it was the largest demonstration against the president Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [3, 3], "content_span": [4, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032308-0001-0000", "contents": "18A, Antecedents\nThe 18A (a term that stands for the date \"April 18\") was initially called by groups in social networks as Facebook. Those groups had organized previous cacerolazos, the 8N and the 13S, and sought to repeat their success. The Argentine branch of the Anonymous group was among the organizers as well. Opposition parties in Argentina had not been formally involved in the previous demonstrations, which had no political leaning; in this case the organizers asked for political support from them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 16], "content_span": [17, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032308-0002-0000", "contents": "18A, Antecedents\nThe government proposed a number of bills to amend the judiciary. Three bills were controversial: the first proposes to limit the injunctions against the state, the second to include people selected in national elections at the body that appoints or accuses judges, and the third to create a new court that would limit the number of cases treated by the Supreme Court. The opposition considered that those bills attempt to control the judiciary. As the bills were going to be discussed on April 18, the Radical Civic Union, the Republican Proposal and the internal factions of Peronism that oppose Kirchner formally supported the demonstration. Still, the government announced that they would not decline the bills, even if the demonstration was massive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 16], "content_span": [17, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032308-0003-0000", "contents": "18A, The demonstration\nMany groups met at 19:00 at several points of Buenos Aires, marching to the Obelisk and Plaza de Mayo at 20:00. The demonstration included no speeches or orators, and the political parties that joined it did not use political flags or banners. The people marched then to the Argentine National Congress, which was still discussing the bill. A group of people managed to trespass the crowd control barriers and get to the entry of the Congress, by the time the bill was being approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 22], "content_span": [23, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032308-0004-0000", "contents": "18A, The demonstration\nThe demonstration took place at other cities of Argentina as well. The people in C\u00f3rdoba filled all the space at the intersection of the avenues V\u00e9lez Sarsfield and Hip\u00f3lito Irigoyen. There were demonstrations at many other cities of the C\u00f3rdoba Province, such as Villa Carlos Paz, R\u00edo Cuarto, Villa Mar\u00eda, Villa Dolores and Alta Gracia; governor Jos\u00e9 Manuel de la Sota gave his support. The demonstration in Rosario met at the National Flag Memorial, which was attended by Miguel del Sel of the PRO party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 22], "content_span": [23, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032308-0004-0001", "contents": "18A, The demonstration\nLa Plata, which was highly damaged by the 2013 Argentina floods, had a demonstration at Plaza Moreno, with people opposing the mayor Pablo Bruera and the perceived corruption in the national government. There were demonstrations at Mar del Plata, Salta, Bariloche, San Juan, Santiago del Estero, Bah\u00eda Blanca and Misones, among other cities. There were small protests at the Argentine embassies in 15 foreign cities, such as Sydney, Tokio, Washington, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 22], "content_span": [23, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032308-0005-0000", "contents": "18A, The demonstration\nPresident Cristina Kirchner ignored the protest, and wrote several messages in Twitter during it, none of them related to the demonstration. She was not at the country at the moment, as she was visiting Venezuela for the inauguration of president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Still, there was a demonstration outside the Quinta de Olivos, the official presidential residence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 22], "content_span": [23, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032309-0000-0000", "contents": "18D/Perrine\u2013Mrkos\n18D/Perrine\u2013Mrkos is a periodic comet in the Solar System, originally discovered by the American-Argentine astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine (Lick Observatory, California, United States) on December 9, 1896. For some time it was thought to be a fragment of Biela's Comet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032309-0001-0000", "contents": "18D/Perrine\u2013Mrkos\nIt was considered lost after the 1909 appearance, but was rediscovered by the Czech astronomer Anton\u00edn Mrkos (Skalnate Pleso Observatory, Slovakia) on October 19, 1955, using ordinary binoculars, it was later confirmed as 18D by Leland E. Cunningham (Leuschner Observatory, University of California, Berkeley).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032309-0002-0000", "contents": "18D/Perrine\u2013Mrkos\nThe comet was last observed during the 1968 perihelion passage when it passed 0.3144\u00a0AU (47,030,000\u00a0km; 29,230,000\u00a0mi) from the Earth. The comet has not been observed during the following perihelion passages:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032309-0003-0000", "contents": "18D/Perrine\u2013Mrkos\nThe next predicted perihelion passage would be on 2025-Jan-01 but the comet is currently considered lost as it has not been seen since Jan 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032310-0000-0000", "contents": "18Doors\n18Doors is a national non-profit organization that provides assistance to interfaith families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032310-0001-0000", "contents": "18Doors\nThe predecessor to 18Doors was an online magazine founded in 1998 with a focus on helping Jewish interfaith families. In 2001, it was renamed InterfaithFamily and expanded its content to news and resources relevant to the interfaith community. In February 2020, it was renamed 18Doors. In addition to their online magazine, their activities have expanded to provide training and clergy to assist interfaith families in reconnecting with being Jewish and Judaism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0000-0000", "contents": "18F\n18F is a digital services agency within the United States Government. Their purpose is to deliver digital services and technology products.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [3, 3], "content_span": [4, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0001-0000", "contents": "18F, Overview\n18F is an office of federal employees within the General Services Administration (GSA) that collaborates with other agencies to improve the user experience of government services by helping them build and buy technology. The group works with government organizations to define a strategy and work towards a solution for their modernization efforts. 18F uses agile and lean methodologies, open source code, and user centered design approaches. 18F was co-founded on March 19, 2014 by former Presidential Innovation Fellows Greg Godbout, Aaron Snow, and Hillary Hartley. Its name refers to its office location in northwest Washington, D.C., on 18th and F Streets. 18F is within Technology Transformation Services, part of the Federal Acquisition Service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 13], "content_span": [14, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0002-0000", "contents": "18F, Overview\nIn addition to its Washington, D.C office, the agency has offices in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 13], "content_span": [14, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0003-0000", "contents": "18F, History\nIn March 2014, a group of Presidential Innovation Fellows started 18F to extend their efforts to improve and modernize government technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 12], "content_span": [13, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0004-0000", "contents": "18F, History\nThe United Kingdom created a similar agency in April 2011, Government Digital Service, following their own healthcare IT issues, which saves an estimated $20 million a year over previous methods. 18F runs on a cost recovery model where client agencies reimburse the digital agency for its work. Their operation is closer to a traditional business than government organizations like the DSI Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 12], "content_span": [13, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0005-0000", "contents": "18F, History\n18F's creation was announced by GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini on March 19, 2014 with a mission to simplify the government's digital services, but no project-specific directive. The agency started with 15 employees, including 11 former Presidential Innovation Fellows from both the private and public sectors. The staff previously worked in front and backend development, design and usability, and product management. The Verge's Adrienne Jeffries reported that the agency released a GSA website code update in a half hour, which would normally take weeks or longer. She added that the team did not appear equipped to handle a rollout similar to that of HealthCare.gov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 12], "content_span": [13, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0006-0000", "contents": "18F, History\nUpon its opening, 18F began to host the Presidential Innovation Fellows program that started in May 2012 in the Digital Government Strategy. An initial list of projects will be drafted in the months following the agency's creation. A possible program called FBOpen, an open source small business and federal contractor interface for bidding on government contracts, was discussed at a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs hearing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 12], "content_span": [13, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0007-0000", "contents": "18F, History\nOn March 19, 2015, 18F and collaborators launched analytics.usa.gov. On September 12, 2015, the group launched the College Scorecard. Other projects of 18F have included myRA for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Every Kid in a Park for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and MyUSA for the General Services Administration, in addition to redesigned websites for the PeaceCorps and Federal Election Commission. All of its projects are open source, meaning anyone can review and suggest updates to the code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 12], "content_span": [13, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0008-0000", "contents": "18F, History\nThe existence of the agency in general and such projects in particular has led to resistance from established government IT firms. In addition, the agency faces the additional challenge of staying fiscally solvent. According to a recent GAO report, 18F is currently spending on average more than $1 million per month more than it recovers. In 2016 alone, the group will receive approximately $33 million for its services, but will spend almost $48 million. 18F is not expected to break even.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 12], "content_span": [13, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032311-0009-0000", "contents": "18F, History\nThe following is an update to cost recovery based on FY19 data and was taken from Congressional testimony:\u201cFrom a FY19 financial standpoint, 18F\u2019s net operating loss was approximately $600k, which translated into an improvement of over $5m from FY18. The loss in FY19 was primarily attributable to the loss of approximately $1.3m in revenue during the government shutdown and limited opportunity to offset costs during this period. Billable utilization rates for 18F increased by 6.6% in FY19 from FY18 and was a primary factor in improved profitability.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [5, 12], "content_span": [13, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032312-0000-0000", "contents": "18F (demonstration)\nThe 18F was a demonstration that took place in Argentina on February 18, 2015, one month after the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman. Nisman was investigating the 1994 AMIA bombing, a terrorist attack, and accused the president Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner of covering up Iranian suspects. He was found dead at his home the day before he could address the Congress, and his death was still an unsolved case at the time of the demonstration. It was attended in Buenos Aires by 400,000 people, during a torrential storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032312-0001-0000", "contents": "18F (demonstration), Context\nAlberto Nisman was a prosecutor working on the AMIA bombing case. It was a terrorist attack against a Jewish community center that took place in 1994, and which is still unsolved. Nisman prepared a criminal complaint against president Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner, accusing her of covering up the involvement of Iranian suspects. He was found dead at his house on January 18, one day before he would report his progress to the Congress. As of February 18, the date of the demonstration, the investigation of his death had not settled if it was a suicide or a murder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032312-0002-0000", "contents": "18F (demonstration), Context\nThe demonstration was organized by a group of prosecutors, and attended by Nisman's relatives, including his former wife, judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032312-0003-0000", "contents": "18F (demonstration), The event\nThe protest in Buenos Aires took place under a torrential storm. It was attended by thousands of people anyway, and the street was filled with umbrellas and Argentine flags. It started at 19:00 at the Congressional Plaza, continued through Avenida de Mayo with a stop at Nisman's working place, and ended at Plaza de Mayo. It was organized as a silent demonstration, only as an homage to Alberto Nisman, and devoid of political flags or banners. The rule was followed, with occasional exceptions for waves of spontaneous clapping or people singing the Argentine national anthem. The city police estimated that the demonstration was attended by 400,000 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032312-0004-0000", "contents": "18F (demonstration), The event\nThere were similar demonstrations at other populated places of Argentina, such as Mar del Plata, C\u00f3rdoba and Rosario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032312-0005-0000", "contents": "18F (demonstration), Reactions\nPresident Kirchner led the opening of the Atucha II Nuclear Power Plant on the same day, with a speech delivered though the emergency population warning. Contrary to expectations, she did not mention the demonstration at all. She stayed at her private home in El Calafate during the demonstration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032312-0006-0000", "contents": "18F (demonstration), Reactions\nCabinet chief Jorge Capitanich considered that the demonstration was a coup d'\u00e9tat attempt by the judiciary. He said that the government respected popular demonstrations, and then said that the people who called it were both supporters of baby theft during the National Reorganization Process and lawyers of drug dealers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032313-0000-0000", "contents": "18F-EF5\nEF5 is a nitroimidazole derivative used in oncology research. Due to its similarity in chemical structure to etanidazole, EF5 binds in cells displaying hypoxia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032313-0001-0000", "contents": "18F-EF5\nNon -labeled EF5 has been extensively used in immunohistochemical studies for several years and its hypoxia specificity has been comprehensively evaluated The 18F-radiolabeled derivative of EF5 is being studied for its possibility to be used in positron emission tomography (PET) to detect low levels of oxygen in brain tumors and several other malignant tumors. This can help show how a tumor will respond to treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032313-0002-0000", "contents": "18F-EF5\nTargeting tumor hypoxia in cancer treatment aims to overcome radiotherapy resistance of hypoxic tumors. Thus, a major clinical implication for 18F-EF5-PET imaging is expected to be guiding of radiotherapy dose modulation. Clinical studies on 18F-EF5-PET/CT imaging have indicated clinically acceptable biodistribution and dosimetric profile, and in head and neck cancer also favorable imaging characteristics, prognostic value and repeatability. However, 18F-EF5-PET/CT is not feasible in imaging of ovarian cancer due to physiological intra-abdominal 18F-EF5-accumulation. Further studies evaluating the clinical use of 18F-EF5 PET imaging in head and neck cancer are ongoing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032314-0000-0000", "contents": "18S rRNA (adenine1779-N6/adenine1780-N6)-dimethyltransferase\n18S rRNA (adenine1779-N6/adenine1780-N6)-dimethyltransferase (EC , 18S rRNA dimethylase Dim1p, Dim1p, ScDim1, m2(6)A dimethylase, KIDIM1) is an enzyme with systematic name S-adenosyl-L-methionine:18S rRNA (adenine1779-N6/adenine1780-N6)-dimethyltransferase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032315-0000-0000", "contents": "18S ribosomal RNA\n18S ribosomal RNA (abbreviated 18S rRNA) is a part of the ribosomal RNA. The S in 18S represents Svedberg units. 18S rRNA is an SSU rRNA, a component of the eukaryotic ribosomal small subunit (40S). 18S rRNA is the structural RNA for the small component of eukaryotic cytoplasmic ribosomes, and thus one of the basic components of all eukaryotic cells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032315-0001-0000", "contents": "18S ribosomal RNA\n18S rRNA is the eukaryotic cytosolic homologue of 16S ribosomal RNA in prokaryotes and mitochondria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032315-0002-0000", "contents": "18S ribosomal RNA\nThe genes coding for 18S rRNA are referred to as 18S rRNA genes. Sequence data from these genes is widely used in molecular analysis to reconstruct the evolutionary history of organisms, especially in vertebrates, as its slow evolutionary rate makes it suitable to reconstruct ancient divergences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032315-0003-0000", "contents": "18S ribosomal RNA, Uses in phylogeny\nThe small subunit (SSU) 18S rRNA gene is one of the most frequently used genes in phylogenetic studies and an important marker for random target polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in environmental biodiversity screening. In general, rRNA gene sequences are easy to access due to highly conserved flanking regions allowing for the use of universal primers. Their repetitive arrangement within the genome provides excessive amounts of template DNA for PCR, even in the smallest organisms. The 18S gene is part of the ribosomal functional core and is exposed to similar selective forces in all living beings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032315-0003-0001", "contents": "18S ribosomal RNA, Uses in phylogeny\nThus, when the first large-scale phylogenetic studies based on 18S sequences were published (e.g. by Field et al., 1988), the gene was celebrated as the prime candidate for reconstructing the metazoan tree of life. 18S sequences later provided evidence for the splitting of Ecdysozoa and Lophotrochozoa clades (monophyletic group of organisms composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants), thus contributing to the most recent revolutionary change in our understanding of metazoan relationships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032315-0004-0000", "contents": "18S ribosomal RNA, Uses in phylogeny\nDuring the latter part of the 2000s, and with increased numbers of taxa included into molecular phylogenies, however, two problems became apparent. First, there are prevailing sequencing impediments in representatives of certain taxa, such as the mollusk classes Solenogastres and Tryblidia, selected bivalve taxa, and the enigmatic crustacean class Remipedia. Failure to obtain 18S sequences of single taxa is considered a common phenomenon but is rarely ever reported. Secondly, in contrast to initially high hopes, 18S cannot resolve nodes at all taxonomic levels and its efficacy varies considerably among clades. This has been discussed as an effect of rapid ancient radiation within short periods. Multigene analyses are currently thought to give more reliable results for tracing deep branching events in Metazoa but 18S still is extensively used in phylogenetic analyses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0000-0000", "contents": "18XX\n18XX is the generic term for a series of board games that, with a few exceptions, recreate the building of railroad corporations during the 19th century; individual games within the series use particular years in the 19th century as their title (usually the date of the start of railway development in the area of the world they cover), or \"18\" plus a two or more letter geographical designator (such as 18EU for a game set in Europe). The games 2038, set in the future, and Poseidon and Ur, 1830 BC, both set in ancient history, are also regarded as 18XX titles as their game mechanics and titling nomenclature are similar despite variance from the common railroad/stock-market theme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0001-0000", "contents": "18XX\nThe 18XX series has its origins in the game 1829, first produced by Francis Tresham in the mid-1970s. 1829 was chosen as it was the year of the Rainhill Trials. 1830 was produced by Avalon Hill in 1986, and was the first game of the series widely available in the United States; it is seen as the basic 18XX game by the U.S. audience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0002-0000", "contents": "18XX\nIn addition to traditionally published games, the 18XX series has spawned self-published variants and games published by low-volume game companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0003-0000", "contents": "18XX\nWith few exceptions (such as 2038), 18XX titles are multiplayer board games without random variables in their game mechanics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0004-0000", "contents": "18XX, Gameplay, Differences\nWhile adhering to common similarities (see preceding section), each 18XX game differs from the others in subtle or significant ways in rule set as well as game map. As with games in general, each individual mechanic has probably been used before, but a new game can put together a set of mechanics which provide a new and interesting challenge. Some typical areas of difference are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 27], "content_span": [28, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0005-0000", "contents": "18XX, Conventions and tournaments\nA number of conventions have at least some emphasis on 18XX games, including the Chattanooga Rail Gaming Challenge, held in January or February in Chattanooga, Tennessee and run by Mark Derrick. 18XX games also figure prominently in various \"RailCon\" and \"Puffing Billy\" tournaments at many conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 33], "content_span": [34, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0006-0000", "contents": "18XX, Play by email and Online\n18xx games are often played remotely using various tools that support play by email games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 30], "content_span": [31, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0007-0000", "contents": "18XX, Play by email and Online\nMany games in the genre are implemented on , which is and supports both multiplayer and local play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032316-0008-0000", "contents": "18XX, Play by email and Online\nAnother open source project which supports a large number of 18xx titles is . BOARD18 was designed for use in play by email games and is not recommended for live play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032317-0000-0000", "contents": "18b The Las Vegas Arts District\nThe Las Vegas Arts District, or the 18b in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada was created in 1998 as an 18 block zone set aside to encourage art and artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032317-0001-0000", "contents": "18b The Las Vegas Arts District\nThe district won Las Vegas Review-Journal's Best of Las Vegas award in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032317-0002-0000", "contents": "18b The Las Vegas Arts District\nKnown as the 18b, the Las Vegas Arts District contains a mix of independent businesses including vintage clothing boutiques, antique stores, art galleries, hair salons, restaurants, The 18b is located halfway between the Fremont East Entertainment district and the Stratosphere Resort, clustered around Main and Charleston, bounded loosely by Commerce Street to the West, Hoover Avenue to the North, Fourth Street to the East and Wyoming Avenue at the south. It is an easy bike ride, walk or bus ride from Fremont Street. The name, \"18b,\" represents the original Arts District area, which consisted of 18 blocks. Today, the Arts District area has grown beyond those original 18 blocks and is a classic urban mix of residential, commercial and cultural uses that will continue to grow as the hub of the arts scene in Las Vegas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032317-0003-0000", "contents": "18b The Las Vegas Arts District, Events\nThe district hosts a First Friday art walk on the first Friday of every month. First Friday offers an eclectic group of artists as well as \"entertainers of all types, including local bands, fire breathers, acrobats, break dancers, fortune tellers and performance artists.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032317-0004-0000", "contents": "18b The Las Vegas Arts District, Boundaries\nThe district is loosely bounded by Hoover Avenue, Wyoming Avenue, Las Vegas Boulevard, and Commerce Street. The official bounds are visible on the City of Las Vegas website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0000-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff\nThe 18\u00a0ft Skiff is considered the fastest class of sailing skiffs. The class has a long history beginning with races on Sydney Harbour, Australia in 1892 and later in New Zealand. The boat has changed significantly since the early days, bringing in new technology as it became available. Because of the need of strength, agility and skill, the class is considered to be the top level of small boat sailing. In Australia this boat is called the \"Aussie 18\" due to its inherent connections to Australia. It is the fastest conventional non-foiling monohull on the yardstick rating, with a score of 675, coming only third after the Tornado and Inter 20 (Both multihulls).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0001-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, History\nThe 18\u00a0ft Skiff has come a long way in more than 100 years of continuous development. From heavy boats carrying a crew of ten or more, to today's high-tech, light-weight, high performance design. Parts of the history of the early days of skiff sailing, between 1892 and 1945, is found on the .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 19], "content_span": [20, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0002-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nToday there are two modern hull designs racing. The \"International 18\" is based on a design by Iain Murray, while the B18 was designed by Julian Bethwaite. The Australian 18 Footer League allows only the International 18, with the annual JJ Giltinan International Trophy contended with the one design Murray hull. The European Class Association allows both designs to compete against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0003-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nAlthough there are differences in the sailing aspects of the two designs, their measurements are very close, with a waterline length of 18\u00a0ft (5.49 m) and an average beam of 6 to 8 feet (1.83 to 2.44 m), not including the wings. With wings the maximum beam is 14 feet for the \"International 18\" and 18 feet for Open 18's sailed at Sydney Flying Squadron and Skiffs Australia. When the boat is dry it should weigh not less than 375\u00a0lb (170\u00a0kg) including wings, foils (centreboard and rudder) and the number one rig of sails, spars and ropes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0004-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nIn the 1980s and '90s wings were widened to the extreme \u2013 some boats having maximum beam of 29 feet. Such wings proved unmanageable, with the crews too much on the brink of disaster for consistent success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0005-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nWhile true 18' skiffs have no sail area or mast height limitations, the limit that the 18 footer League has specified for their one-design sub class is a maximum mast height of 33\u00a0ft (10 m), truly powerful on an 18' hull. The entire rig, which supports sails with unlimited area, is currently controlled by three trapezing crew members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0006-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nThe boat will plane upwind starting at a true windspeed of about 8 knots, depending on sea conditions and off the wind can reach speeds that doubles the true windspeed. This is possible through the very high sail-carrying power to total weight ratio, which is above 30% with the no. 1 rig and approaches 40% with the no. 3 rig (for reference, a 30% ratio is needed to plane upwind and a 10% ratio is needed to plane at all. Most cruising boats have a ratio under 5%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0007-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nIn Australia, there is a fleet of approximately 20\u201325 18 Foot Skiffs at the \"League\" club in Sydney. Sydney's other traditional 18 Foot Skiff club, the Sydney Flying Squadron, has a small fleet and there are several boats in the state of Queensland. In New Zealand the class following is smaller but reached its zenith in the 1970s when most designs were by Bruce Farr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0008-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nThe 18\u00a0ft skiff is not without its dangers. The high speed makes it hard to handle and requires extremely fast reflexes and a broad awareness of your surroundings in order to anticipate changes. Major accidents can occur with inexperienced and experienced sailors alike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0009-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nThe 18\u00a0ft skiff is currently one of the fastest monohulls on the water. With its massive sail-plan of over 100 square metres on the no. 1 rig and three crew members on trapeze it can outperform nearly every monohull on the water. It combines extreme speeds with an element of danger and is thought by many to be one of the biggest spectacles in sailing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0010-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, The modern 18 ft Skiff\nEach year the JJ Giltinan International Trophy is contested on Sydney Harbour to decide the de facto world champion of the class. Typically the event was dominated by Australia and occasionally won by New Zealand, but in recent years entrants such as the USA's Howie Hamlin have taken out the title, displaying the classes growing international appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 34], "content_span": [35, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0011-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nThe first flying 18 footers were either carvel or clinker built with multiple steam bent frames. Cotton sails were used and spars were solid wood. The crew number varied according to the wind strength, often with a boy carried to bail out water. Initial designs were conventional displacement shapes with emphasis on narrow waterlines. In the early 1950s The Sydney boats put emphasis on carrying large extra sails down wind called ringtails. These were set outside the main with light spars top and bottom. They were carried in addition to spinnakers. In very light conditions watersails were carried under the main boom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0012-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nThe most revolutionary boat of this period was the lightweight boat Result, from New Zealand, which was cold moulded with 2 skins of Kahikatea glued together and nailed to lightweight Mangeao bent steamed frames every 21 1/2 inches. At 6\u00a0ft 3inches Result was narrower than the conventional boats but still had the same full bow sections typical of the displacement style boats. Result had spaceframes of wood to support the mast and centreboard. In any breeze over 10 knots it was faster than any previous 18s because of its planing ability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0013-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nFrom this period increased knowledge and understanding of hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, coupled to the availability of plywood and reliable waterproof glues saw dramatic changes. Clinker and carvel construction was dropped and glued up hollow pear shaped masts became standard. By the late 1960s a greater understanding of the science behind planning saw hulls made with increasingly less rocker, very fine forward with very flat aft sections. Once trapezes were introduced the number of crew dropped to 4 by the early 70s and then to 3. Designs became wider, especially aft. As speeds increased so did capsizes, so an effort was made to install built in buoyancy and some self draining capabilities with transom flaps, venturi floor drains built in tanks, especially forward and false floors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0014-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nFoils became more hydrodynamic, especially after the availability of tank test models. Wood was dropped as a foil material in the 1980s and replaced by stiffer synthetic materials such as fibreglass then kevlar and carbon fibre. By 1970 hollow wooden spars were replaced by tapered aluminium of much smaller section and lighter weight. These in turn were replaced by much stiffer and lighter carbon fibre masts in the 1990s. Sail area got progressively larger especially when wings were added. This enabled small crews to sail with extremely large sails in stronger wind strengths. As most boats were sponsored they could have multiple rigs to match the wind strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0015-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nOther modern features are carbon fibre prods (bowsprits) supported by bob stays, dolphin strikers and bow struts. This enabled quicker setting and dropping of the large downwind sails. Huge spinnakers could be set quickly by having halyards geared by mini blocks running internally in the mast. Dacron sails were replaced by much lighter stiffer less porous material such as mylar plastic. Weights of the bare hulls dropped quickly when New Zealand designer Bruce Farr, using his experience in Moth and Cherub designs used thin 3mm ply supported by multiple lightweight stringers and stiffened with tissue fibreglass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0015-0001", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nThese were quickly followed by foam and fibreglass hulls first designed by Russell Bowler. Bare hulls weigh 120\u00a0lbs but are very strong with the use of carbon and kevlar to locally reinforce mast steps, centreboard cases, chain plates and wing attachment points. Rudders were placed 500mm aft of the hull to give more control in extreme planing conditions when only the last few feet of the hull was in contact with the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0015-0002", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nWith very wide tube and net decks up to 29 feet wide modern boats can carry very large powerful square-headed mainsails that have the controls to twist the head of the main in gusts to de-power. Flying 18 footers can now regularly exceed the actual wind speed when planing on all points of sailing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0016-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Design history\nThese innovations have made the skiffs very fast but very expensive to build. In New Zealand this has seen the class decline dramatically as top sailors were attracted into the more conventional one design Olympic classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0017-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Revival of early designs\nIn Sydney and Brisbane Australia there has been a revival of the early days of 18\u2019 skiff sailing. Replicas of famous 18\u2019 skiffs from the period of 1930 through to 1950 have been built using original techniques, including wooden hulls and spars, gaff rigs, several-piece spinnaker poles and unrestricted sail area. These boats race under the rules of the Australian Historical Skiff Association, which bans wings, trapezes, cleats for controlling ropes for the mainsail, jib and spinnaker, and most of the other modern equipment which makes sailing easier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 36], "content_span": [37, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0018-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Revival of early designs\nThe class has proved very popular with former sailors of modern 18\u2019 skiffs who, to quote a class champion John Winning, are looking for a challenge because \u201cthe modern boats have become too easy to sail\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 36], "content_span": [37, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0019-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Revival of early designs\nThe historical 18\u2019 skiffs have a crew of between 6 and 9, which often leaves an opportunity for visiting sailors to have a ride. The AHSSA website listed below has more details.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 36], "content_span": [37, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032318-0020-0000", "contents": "18ft Skiff, Revival of early designs\nAt present the class is raced out of the Sydney Flying Squadron in Sydney and the Brisbane 18 Footers Sailing Club Inc. There are also bi-annual challenges against the New Zealand 18\u2019 Kauri-Clinker M Class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032319-0000-0000", "contents": "18if\n18if is a Japanese anime television series produced by Gonzo. It aired from July 7 to September 29, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032319-0001-0000", "contents": "18if\nIt is part of the media franchise The Art of 18, which also includes a smartphone game by Mobcast titled 18: Kimi to Tsunagaru Puzzle (\u301018\u3011\u30ad\u30df\u30c8 \u30c4\u30ca\u30ac\u30eb \u30d1\u30ba\u30eb, 18: Kimi to Tsunagaru Pazuru) for Android and iOS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032319-0002-0000", "contents": "18if, Summary\nHaruto Tsukishiro wakes up in a dream world dominated by strange and powerful entities called \"Witches\". To survive, he gets the assistance of research professor Katsumi Kanzaki and a mysterious white-haired girl called \"Lily\". With their help, Haruto must outsmart the witches and find a way to return to the real world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 13], "content_span": [14, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032319-0003-0000", "contents": "18if, Anime\n18if is a Japanese anime television series produced by Gonzo. It aired from July 7 to September 29, 2017. K\u014dji Morimoto served as chief supervisor. Each episode featured a different director. Atsuhiro Tomioka handled the series composition, Hiroko Kazui served as design director, and Tadashi Oppata designed the characters. Ry\u016bdai Abe composed the music. The opening theme is \"Red Doors feat. Yoshikazu Mera\" by TeddyLoid. The series is licensed by Funimation in North America. Crunchyroll streamed the anime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 11], "content_span": [12, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0000-0000", "contents": "18p-\n18p- is a genetic condition caused by a deletion of all or part of the short arm (the p arm) of chromosome 18. It occurs in about 1 of every 50,000 births.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0001-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms\n18p- causes a wide range of medical and developmental concerns. There is significant variation in severity. This variation is due to the variability of the deletion size and breakpoints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0002-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Congenital anomalies\nApproximately 10% of people with 18p- have a congenital heart anomaly. There does not appear to be a specific type of heart defect associated with a deletion of the short arm of chromosome 18. Septal defects, tetralogy of Fallot, dextrocardia, and coarctation of the aorta have all been reported in infants with 18p-.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 46], "content_span": [47, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0003-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Neurologic\nHypotonia is frequently seen in the 18p- population. Seizures, though uncommon, have been reported in people with 18p-. Dystonia has also been diagnosed in a small minority of young adults with 18p-. Also, tethered cord has been reported in a few people with 18p-.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 36], "content_span": [37, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0004-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Vision\nPtosis is quite common among people with 18p-. In many cases, surgical correction is required. Refractive errors, such as myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism, are also prevalent. Strabismus has been reported in infants and children with 18p-. Nystagmus is also present in a minority of individuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 32], "content_span": [33, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0005-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Ear and Sinus Infections\nChildren with 18p- have an increased incidence of ear infections, often requiring the placement of PE tubes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 50], "content_span": [51, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0006-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Gastrointestinal\nChronic constipation is a frequent complaint in the 18p- population. Other abdominal abnormalities that have been reported include inguinal hernias; malrotation of the gut; and abnormalities of the spleen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 42], "content_span": [43, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0007-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Genitourinary\nGenitourinary abnormalities are not common in 18p-. There have been a few cases of small penis and cryptorchidism in males and uterine abnormalities in females.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 39], "content_span": [40, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0008-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Orthopedics\nThere have been several orthopedic concerns identified in individuals with 18p-. These include pes planus, clubfoot, scoliosis and/or kyphosis, pectus abnormalities, cubitus valgus, congenital hip dysplasia, spina bifida occulta, and genu valgum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 37], "content_span": [38, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0009-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Endocrinology\nGrowth hormone deficiency has been reported in several individuals with 18p-, though not at the same frequency as in the distal 18q- population. Panhypopituitarism and hypothyroidism have each been diagnosed in a handful of individuals. Also, ketotic hypoglycemia has been reported in several individuals and usually presents itself around the age of three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 39], "content_span": [40, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0010-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Psychiatry\nThere is an increased incidence of psychiatric conditions within the distal 18p- population. In one study, 2 of 3 people with 18p- had an anxiety disorder, 1 of 3 had a communication disorder, and 1 of 3 had a motor skills disorders, and 1 of 3 had a stereotypic movement disorder. Additional research with a larger number of subjects is necessary to confirm these findings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 36], "content_span": [37, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0011-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Cognition and adaptive skills\nCognitive ability in individuals with 18p- varies widely, with most falling in the mild to moderate range of impairment, though there have been some reports of people with impairment in the severe to profound range. These individuals may have had holoprosencephaly, which is frequently associated with severe impairment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 55], "content_span": [56, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0012-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Cognition and adaptive skills\nSpeech deficits are quite common within this population. Frequently, expressive speech lags behind other developmental parameters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0013-0000", "contents": "18p-, Signs and symptoms, Dysmorphology\nCommon facial features include a flat and broad nasal bridge; epicanthic folds; wide mouth; short philtrum; everted lower lip; small and slightly receding chin during childhood. The ears may be low-set and posteriorly rotated. The posterior hairline may be low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 39], "content_span": [40, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0014-0000", "contents": "18p-, Genetics\n18p- describes a deletion of the short arm of chromosome 18. About half of the people with deletions have a breakpoint at the centromere. Those with it are said to have centromeric 18p-, and those without are said to have non-centromeric 18p-.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 14], "content_span": [15, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0015-0000", "contents": "18p-, Diagnosis\nSuspicion of a chromosome abnormality is typically raised due to the presence of developmental delays or birth defects. Diagnosis of 18p- is usually made via a blood sample. A routine chromosome analysis, or karyotype, is usually used to make the initial diagnosis, although it may also be made by microarray analysis. Increasingly, microarray analysis is also being used to clarify breakpoints. Prenatal diagnosis is possible via amniocentesis of chorionic villus sampling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 15], "content_span": [16, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0016-0000", "contents": "18p-, Diagnosis, MRI\nIn some children without \"classic\" holoprosencephaly, microforms of holoprosencephaly may be noted on MRI, including missing olfactory tracts and bulbs and absent or hypoplastic corpus callosum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 20], "content_span": [21, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0017-0000", "contents": "18p-, Treatment\nAt present, treatment for 18p- is symptomatic, meaning that the focus is on treating the signs and symptoms of the conditions as they arise. To ensure early diagnosis and treatment, it is suggested that people with 18p- undergo routine screenings for hearing and vision problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 15], "content_span": [16, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0018-0000", "contents": "18p-, Names\nThe preferred terminology for this condition is 18p-. In the past, it has been referred to as partial monosomy 18p and, rarely, as \"de Grouchy syndrome, type 1\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 11], "content_span": [12, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0019-0000", "contents": "18p-, Research\nCurrently, research is focusing on identifying the role of the genes on 18p in causing the signs and symptoms associated with deletions of 18p. This will ultimately enable predictive genotyping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 14], "content_span": [15, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032320-0020-0000", "contents": "18p-, Research\nTGIF-Mutations and deletions of this gene have been associated with holoprosencephaly. Penetrance is incomplete, meaning that a deletion of one copy of this gene is not in and of itself sufficient to cause holoprosencephaly. Ten to fifteen percent of people with 18p- have holoprosencephaly, suggesting that other genetic and environmental facts play a role in the etiology of holoprosencephaly in these individuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 14], "content_span": [15, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0000-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison\n18th & Addison is an American Punk Rock duo from Toms River, New Jersey, formed in 2013. The band consists of vocalists and guitarists Tom Kunzman and Kait DiBenedetto. The group released their Little Parasites EP in 2015 its debut studio album Makeshift Monster in 2016, an EP titled Vultures in 2018, and their Old Blues/Modern Love EP in 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0001-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2013\u201314: Formation\n18th & Addison formed in November 2013 as an acoustic duo by Tom Kunzman and Kait DiBenedetto. Kunzman was formerly in the punk band A Criminal Risk and DiBenedetto was one of MTV's first recording artists with her then solo project. She is also the guitarist in the band What's Eating Gilbert, the side project of Chad Gilbert of seminal pop/punk band New Found Glory. The duo met through playing local shows at a youth center. Realizing over time how much they have in common, they started hanging out more and writing songs during their downtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0001-0001", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2013\u201314: Formation\nAfter the dissolution of their respective bands, the transition was seamless and inevitable. When the band transitioned from acoustic to live, first they would cover songs and then started writing their own songs acoustically. According to DiBenedetto, \"What was so cool about the recording process was being able to plug in electric guitars, drums, and figure out bass lines. Bringing it to life for us was a little bit different than other bands where they do write all the songs electric maybe at a band practice or something and then bring them to life. For us, it was a totally different way of bringing the songs to life because we were writing them on acoustic guitars, so then it made the songs sound bigger and better than we thought they would. It's been awesome to see how energetic the songs are live.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0002-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2013\u201314: Formation\nThe band name came to the duo \"one day hanging out at Kait's house. 'Addison' references where Kait grew up, then adding 18, Tom's house number. \"We didn't want the name to just be one word, so we thought if we added my house number, it would fill it out nicely and it stuck. 18th & Addison sounds more like a destination or something to me. Plus, that name really represents us as a duo which was and is a big deal to us,\" said Kunzman. The meaning behind the name is the band's homes, families, and \"where we were when this all started for us meaning our relationship as well as our music.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0003-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2013\u201314: Formation\nThe first song the band wrote together was \"Running\" which was later used on their debut extended play. DiBenedetto said the song was, \"So old that it was a song before we even thought to take this band serious.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0004-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2015\u20132017: Debut EP and Makeshift Monster\n18th & Addison's debut was their EP, Little Parasites, which was released on January 20, 2015 and contained 7 tracks. \"The both of us feel really, really good about this being our first release together\" says Kunzman. \"'Little Parasites' is pretty much a culmination of everything we've learned in our past with our old bands, and a lot of self-realization outside of music. It's probably really corny to call it \"honest\" but that's exactly what it is.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0004-0001", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2015\u20132017: Debut EP and Makeshift Monster\nWe're always learning about ourselves, the world we live in, and life in general and this EP captures where we are, and who we are as people at this time and it's exactly how we want it. I definitely speak for the both of us when I say we haven't been more excited or proud of anything in our entire lives.\" The EP's lead single was, \"Jealousy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0005-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2015\u20132017: Debut EP and Makeshift Monster\nAfter promoting their EP through shows around the U.S., in June 2016, 18th & Addison announced they were releasing their first studio album in July through their own label. Makeshift Monster was released on July 15, 2016 and included 11 tracks; the record's lead single was, \"War.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0006-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2015\u20132017: Debut EP and Makeshift Monster\nIn June 2017, it was announced that 18th & Addison made it as finalists on Ernie Ball: PLAY Warped Tour 2017 and were to play in Camden, New Jersey on July 7. Near the end of their set, Kunzman proposed to DiBenedetto on stage and they became engaged at their first appearance at Warped Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0007-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2015\u20132017: Debut EP and Makeshift Monster\nOn September 13, 18th & Addison shared that they wrote a song titled, \"Crumble and Crawl\" for the short film \"Cold & Calculated\" which Kunzman would have a role in. Six days later, the band premiered the music video for \"Moving Mountains\" through New Noise Magazine. They released their cover of \"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch\" on the day of Thanksgiving as a free download exclusively on their website up until the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0008-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2018: VULTURES\nOn February 13, 2018, 18th & Addison announced that they would be opening for New Found Glory on the Sick Tour XL in May. They announced on March 3 that their second EP titled, \"VULTURES,\" was to be released on June 1, 2018. The lead single from the album, \"Time Bomb,\" was released on April 13 and its music video premiered on the 20th through mxdwn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0009-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, Ace Frehley \"Spaceman\"\nOn October 19, 2018 it was announced that DiBenedetto and Kunzman were featured co-writers on the song \"Mission To Mars\", track seven on Ace Frehley's (former guitarist of KISS) brand new album \"Spaceman\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0010-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2019 and \"Old Blues / Modern Love\"\nOn May 28 the band announced they would be releasing a new single titled \"Leeches\". This would be the first mention of new music since releasing their EP 'Vultures' in June 2018. Although no mention of a release date just yet, the band posted a Spotify presave link on our social media platforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 59], "content_span": [60, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0011-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2019 and \"Old Blues / Modern Love\"\nOn July 11, 2019, just two months after announcing the single, Wiretap Records announced that they had signed the band and that a new EP would be due out in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 59], "content_span": [60, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0012-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2019 and \"Old Blues / Modern Love\"\nOn September, 6th, 2019, the band released their 4-song EP, \"Old Blues / Modern Love\". The band has described this release as their favorite thus far and it features their single \"Leeches\". The band released a music video for \"Leeches\" and represents letting go of the negativity around you and moving on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 59], "content_span": [60, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0013-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, 2019 and \"Old Blues / Modern Love\"\nOn October 25th, 2019, Kait and Tom married after almost 9 years of dating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0014-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, History, \u201cBroke Down in Babylon\u201d\nIn 2021, 18th & Addison released their single \u201cBroke Down in Babylon\u201d featuring Fred Mascherino of Taking Back Sunday. Amidst the crippling conditions of Covid 19, the band decided to self release, direct and film the music video for Broke Down in Babylon themselves from their home using only an iPhone, an old lighting rig, and white table cloths as a backdrop. This video also features Fred Mascherino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0015-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, Musical style and influences\n18th & Addison's music style has generally been regarded as alternative rock and pop punk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0016-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, Musical style and influences\n18th & Addison has expressed appreciation for Chuck Ragan The Clash, Elvis Presley, Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory and Panic! At The Disco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032321-0017-0000", "contents": "18th & Addison, Musical style and influences\nKunzman cited Hot Water Music as a, \"huge inspiration,\" to the band and Dibenedetto cited Mest as what brought her and Kunzman together. DiBenedetto's personal influences are Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Green Day, New Found Glory, and Good Charlotte. Kunzman's are Green Day, The Clash, Rancid, Alkaline Trio, Social Distortion and Blink-182.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032322-0000-0000", "contents": "18th & California and 18th & Stout stations\n18th & California station and 18th & Stout station are a pair of RTD light rail stations in Downtown Denver, Colorado, United States. Operating as part of the D, F, H, and L lines, the stations were opened on October 8, 1994, and are operated by the Regional Transportation District. These stations have one track each, and are one city block apart. 18th & California is served only by northbound trains and 18th & Stout is served only by southbound trains. This is a transfer point for any passenger traveling to stops north of this station along Welton Street towards the 30th & Downing station. The L Line serves these stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032323-0000-0000", "contents": "18th & Crystal station\n18th & Crystal is a northbound-only bus rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, located near the intersection of 18th Street South and Crystal Drive. The stop is on a mixed-traffic segment of the Metroway that is restricted to buses during certain hours. It provides service along the route to northern Crystal City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032323-0001-0000", "contents": "18th & Crystal station, History\n18th & Crystal opened to the public as one of the original Metroway stations; the station opened for service on August 24, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032323-0002-0000", "contents": "18th & Crystal station, History\nInitially, the station was a sidewalk-level bus stop. It was upgraded on April 17, 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032324-0000-0000", "contents": "18th & E. Broad Historic District\nThe 18th & E. Broad Historic District is a historic district on Broad Street in the Near East Side of Columbus, Ohio. The district was added to the Columbus Register of Historic Properties in 1988. Its properties were added to the E. Broad St. Multiple Resources Area on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032325-0000-0000", "contents": "18th (Croatian) Eastern Bosnian Brigade\nThe 18th (Croatian) Eastern Bosnian Brigade was a World War II military unit of the Yugoslav Partisans. It was formed in October 1943 in the Husino village (in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina) after the capitulation of Italy forced the Germans to move a large part of their forces to the Adriatic coast (in order to disarm the Italian army before the Partisans did). The formation of the unit allowed the Partisans to liberate the lightly guarded city of Tuzla and hold it for 40 days, before the Germans retook it in Operation Ferkel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032325-0001-0000", "contents": "18th (Croatian) Eastern Bosnian Brigade\nDuring these forty days, the Partisans mobilised over 5,000 citizens of Tuzla and neighboring villages from which a total of three brigades would be formed and become the 27th Eastern Bosnian Division. The 18th Brigade was composed of: coal miners from Kreka, Bukinja, and Moluh; villagers from Spre\u010da river valley and Majevica, mostly Croats; around 80 former Croatian Home Guard officers, NCO's, soldiers and Gendarmes (who joined the brigade and defected to Partisan side during the capture of Tuzla). This totalled 600 men in three battalions\u2014many of whom were unarmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032325-0002-0000", "contents": "18th (Croatian) Eastern Bosnian Brigade\nThe Brigade's first casualty was not suffered in combat, Stjepan Prese\u010den from the 2nd Battalion died from a heart attack during the march to Bresko. The Brigade spent the next few weeks training and gathering weapons with occasional skirmishes with Chetnik forces. Some twenty men deserted brigade during the first week of its existence, forcing the staff to work on discipline and moral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032326-0000-0000", "contents": "18th (Eastern) Division\nThe 18th (Eastern) Division was an infantry division of the British Army formed in September 1914 during the First World War as part of the K2 Army Group, part of Lord Kitchener's New Armies. From its creation the division trained in England until 25 May 1915 when it landed in France and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front, becoming one of the elite divisions of the British Army. During the Battle of the Somme in the latter half of 1916, the 18th Division was commanded by Major General Ivor Maxse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032326-0001-0000", "contents": "18th (Eastern) Division, Formation history\nThe division was formed in September 1914 during the First World War as part of the K2 Army Group, part of Lord Kitchener's New Armies. It was formed in the Colchester area but re-located to Salisbury Plain in May 1915. Major-General Ivor Maxse took command in October 1914.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032327-0000-0000", "contents": "18th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards\nThe 18th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, presented by AARP the Magazine, honored films and television shows released in 2018 and were announced on February 4, 2019. The awards recognized films created by and about people over the age of 50. The ceremony was hosted by actor and comedian Martin Short, and was broadcast on PBS on February 15, 2019 as part of its Great Performances series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032327-0001-0000", "contents": "18th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, Awards, Winners and Nominees\nWinners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0000-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards\nThe 18th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), took place January 8, 2001 at the Venetian Hotel Grand Ballroom, at Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 77 categories honoring the best pornographic films released between Oct. 1, 1999 and Sept. 30, 2000. The ceremony was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Adult film star Jenna Jameson hosted the show for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0001-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards\nThe year's biggest winner was Dark Angels with six awards, including best Video Feature and Best Director\u2014Video for Nic Andrews, however, Watchers won for Best Film while capturing three additional trophies. Other multiple winners included: Les Vampyres with five awards, Dream Quest with four and Raw and West Side each with three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0002-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Winners and nominees\nThe nominees for the 19th AVN Awards were announced in November 2000. Dream Quest led the way with 20, followed by Watchers with 18, Les Vampyres with 17, West Side with 16, Raw with 15, Dark Angels with 14, Jekyll and Hyde with 12 and A Midsummer Night's Cream, Artemesia and In the Days of Whore with 10 apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0003-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Winners and nominees\nThe winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 8, 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0004-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Winners and nominees, Major awards\nWinners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0005-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Winners and nominees, Honorary AVN Awards, Hall of Fame\nAVN Hall of Fame inductees for 2001 were: Kaitlyn Ashley, John T. Bone, Asia Carrera, Bud Lee, Shayla La Veaux, Clive McLean, Earl Miller, Tiffany Mynx, Reb Sawitz, Sunset Thomas, Bob Vosse, Honey Wilder, Sam Xavier", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 72], "content_span": [73, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0006-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Presenters and performers\nThe following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers or comedy. The show's trophy girls were Haven and Lacey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0007-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Ceremony information\nThe awards show marked the premiere of its new trophy design, which Adult Video News called \"an original 3-D Lucite monolith that hailed the long awaited Demise of the Golden Bitch.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0008-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Ceremony information\nThe year's show featured a \"Pussy Cam\", a floor-level camera near the stage's podium, which offered attendees an infrequent glimpse of female stars lingerie or lack thereof. In his moment at the podium, actor Mark Davis offered female attendees equal time by dropping his trousers for the audience's supposed benefit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0009-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Ceremony information\nThe show was recorded and a DVD of the show was published and distributed by VCA Interactive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0010-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Ceremony information, Performance of year's movies\nDream Quest was announced as the adult movie industry's top selling movie and was also the top renting movie of the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 67], "content_span": [68, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0011-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Ceremony information, Critical reviews\nThe show received a negative reception from Adult DVD Talk. An article by Groundskeeper Willie was titled, \"The Adult Video Snooze Awars\" and besides having found the show slow and monotonous with occasional gaffes, he also took organizers to task for not using film or video clips during the show, even in the major categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032328-0012-0000", "contents": "18th AVN Awards, Ceremony information, Critical reviews\nHustler magazine agreed that \"the ceremony dragged on for what seemed like an eternity but still managed to entertain, despite the shaky hositn gskills of cock-shy Jenna Jameson\" and also decried the $195 fee for admission tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032329-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Abduction\n18th Abduction is the nineteenth novel in the Women's Murder Club novel series by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032329-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Abduction, Plot\nSan Francisco Police Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is the main character of this book. It has two plots. The main plot involves three schoolteachers, who suddenly vanish after a night out after school. One turns up murdered with no clues as to who killed her or why or where the other two teachers are. The second plot involves Lindsay's husband, Joe Molinari. A woman who survived a deadly attack on her village in another country many years before comes to Joe with a story that she has seen a war criminal who was involved in this attack in San Francisco. Both Lindsay and Joe look very hard for any clues they can find in both these cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 20], "content_span": [21, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032329-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Abduction, Reviews\nA positive review came from the Times of India. The review said, \"With two intriguing storylines running side by side, the book is hard to put down and will be over faster than the reader anticipated.\" Book Reporter also liked this book, saying, \"Longtime readers of the Women\u2019s Murder Club know what to expect with each installment, and this latest entry more than delivers on all counts.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032329-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Abduction, Reviews\nThis book was number one on The New York Times list of best sellers for Combined Print & E-Book Fiction for the week of May 19, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032330-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Academy Awards\nThe 18th Academy Awards was the first such ceremony after World War II. As a result, the ceremony featured more glamour than had been present during the war. Plaster statuettes that had been given out during the war years were replaced with bronze statuettes with gold plating. Despite this, director Billy Wilder's grim and socially significant drama The Lost Weekend took the top honors. It became the first film to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d'Or. Joan Crawford was absent, claiming she had pneumonia (although it was said it was because she was sure she would not win the Oscar for Best Actress for Mildred Pierce). As it turned out, she did win, and the award was delivered to her while in bed that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032330-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Academy Awards\nThis was the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture won at least one Oscar, and also the first time that a sequel (The Bells of St. Mary's) had been nominated for Best Picture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032330-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Academy Awards, Awards\nNominations announced on January 27, 1946. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron\nThe 18th Aggressor Squadron is a subordinate unit of the 354th Fighter Wing based at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, and flies the Block 30 General Dynamics F-16C/D aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, Mission\nThe 18th Aggressor Squadron prepares combat Air Force, joint and allied aircrews through challenging, realistic threat replication, training, test support, academics and feedback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History\nActivated in 1940 as a Southwest Air District pursuit squadron, equipped with a variety of 1930s-era pursuit aircraft. Re -equipped with P-38 Lightning fighters and deployed to Alaska, engaged in combat during the Aleutian Campaign, 1942\u20131943. Remained in Alaska as part of the air defense forces until inactivated in August 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Air Defense Command\nReactivated in 1952 as part of Air Defense Command as an air defense squadron, initially equipped with F-86A Sabre day fighters, initially being assigned to Minneapolis Airport, Minnesota with a mission for the air defense of the Upper Great Lakes region. Re -equipped in 1954 with F-89D Scorpions and moved to Ladd AFB, Alaska for interceptor duty in the Fairbanks area as part of Alaskan Air Command. Returned to the CONUS in 1957 and upgraded to F-102 Delta Dagger interceptors at the new Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Air Defense Command\nReassigned to Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota in 1960 and received the new McDonnell F-101B Voodoo supersonic interceptor, and the F-101F operational and conversion trainer. The two-seat trainer version was equipped with dual controls, but carried the same armament as the F-101B and were fully combat-capable. Inactivated in April 1971 as part of the drawdown of ADC interceptor bases, the aircraft being passed along to the Air National Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Modern era\nIn 1997, elements of the 18th FS deployed to Singapore and Malaysia to take part in dissimilar air combat tactic training as part of Exercises Commando Sling and Cope Taufan, respectively. The Cope Taufan deployment marked the first time Pacific Air Forces' F-16s had flown against MiG-29s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Modern era\nThe unit deployed to Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, October\u2013December 1998 to support Operation Southern Watch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Modern era\nLater, the squadron deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, September\u2013December 2000, in support of Operation Northern Watch. For this deployment, the squadron employed 5 F-16 aircraft and 110 personnel, conducting the first ever Combat Search and Rescue support tasking for an F-16 squadron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Modern era\nAfter the 11 September 2001 attacks, the 18th FS was called to provide eight aircraft for Alaska NORAD air defense during Operation NOBLE EAGLE, though the aircraft were not launched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Modern era\nThe squadron's next deployment was to Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base from December 2001 to March 2002 to support simultaneous combat operations for Operations Southern Watch and Operation Enduring Freedom. They flew more than 3,200 hours in only 3 months, an amazing feat for the 142 Blue Foxes who deployed with only 10 aircraft. During that time, the 18th FS flew missions in support of Operation Anaconda, including one in the Shah-i-Kot Valley on 2 March when U.S. forces, engaged in a firefight with Taliban and Al Qaeda forces, called for aerial assistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0009-0001", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Modern era\nA number of Blue Foxes responded, dropping bombs with pinpoint accuracy on the opposing forces. Lt . Col . Burt Bartley, the 18 FS commander at the time, received the Silver Star for strafing and dropping 500\u00a0lbs Laser-guided bombs on what would later be known as \"The Battle for Roberts Ridge\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Modern era\nThe squadron deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam in support of Operation Noble Eagle during March 2003. The unit also participated in Exercise Commando Sling in October 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Red Flag \u2013 Alaska\nAs part of the change from COPE THUNDER to Red Flag-Alaska, the 18th FS converted to the 18th Aggressor Squadron. This squadron trains in the same manner as the aggressors at Nellis Air Force Base, learning the flying styles and abilities of foreign air forces in order to train USAF pilots against realistic opposition. Aircraft changes entail sending all 18 of its Block 40 F-16 Fighting Falcons to Kunsan Air Base, Korea, and receiving 18 Block 30 F-16s from Kunsan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Red Flag \u2013 Alaska\nIn 2013, the Air Force, responding to the Department of Defense strategy guidance of December 2012, proposed consolidating all fighter units in Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. This would involve the move of the 18th from Eielson Air Force Base to Elmendorf. While the move was pending, in response to the sequestration of defense funds, the squadron's aircraft were grounded in the middle of April for a period of three months. The squadron move was strongly opposed by civic leaders from both Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0012-0001", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, History, Red Flag \u2013 Alaska\nThe civic leaders were joined by the Alaska congressional delegation, who wrote language barring the use of funds in the Defense Appropriations Bill to move the squadron, and delayed the promotion of a lieutenant general until the Air Force addressed their questions concerning the move. The widespread opposition in Alaska to the squadron's move caused the Department of Defense to withdraw its recommendation and leave the squadron at Eielson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032331-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Aggressor Squadron, References, Bibliography\nThis article incorporates\u00a0public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032332-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Agon Cup\nThe 18th Agon Cup began on 21 April 2011 \u2013 1 October 2011. Two Korean amateur players were invited to the preliminaries, with both qualifying. Ha Sungbong defeated professionals Yanigasawa Satoshi and Furuya Yutaka. Kim Sungjin defeated 25th Honinbo and Japan's top title holder Cho Chikun. He also defeated Kato Atsushi. In the main tournament, he was knocked out by Iyama Yuta Meijin in the first round. Iyama Yuta came out as the winner. He beat Yamashita Keigo at the final. The winner's prize was \u00a510,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032333-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Air Refueling Squadron\nThe 18th Air Refueling Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve squadron, assigned to the 931st Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. It operates the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft conducting air refueling missions. If mobilized the squadron would be gained by Air Mobility Command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032333-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Air Refueling Squadron\nThe squadron was first activated during World War II as the 18th Transport Squadron. After training in the United States, the squadron deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, where, as the 18th Troop Carrier Squadron, it participated in all major airborne assault operations and earned a Distinguished Unit Citation. From April until June of 1944, it deployed to the China Burma India Theater to augment forces in Burma. Following V-E Day, the squadron served under Air Transport Command in the Caribbean returning American soldiers to the United States. The squadron was again briefly active in the Caribbean area during the later 1940s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032333-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Air Refueling Squadron\nThe squadron was active again from 1952, when it absorbed the resources of a reserve unit that had been mobilized for the Korean War. It was again active from 1961 until 1972, when it participated in military exercises, provided airlift, and trained aircrew for deployment to Southeast Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032333-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Air Refueling Squadron, Mission\nThe squadron operates the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft, conducting aerial refueling missions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032333-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Air Refueling Squadron, History\n\"During World War II the 18th flew airborne assaults on Sicily, Myitkyina, Burma, and Southern France in addition to supporting partisans in Northern Italy from January to May 1945 and conducting aerial transportation in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) and briefly in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI). It flew strategic and tactical airlift missions from 1948 to 1954 and 1962 to 1967. The squadron provided tactical airlift training for US and subsequently South Vietnamese pilots and crews from 1969 to 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032333-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Air Refueling Squadron, History\nThis unit has flown worldwide air refueling missions since 1995.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032333-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Air Refueling Squadron, References, Bibliography\nThis article incorporates\u00a0public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032334-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Air Support Operations Group\nThe 18th Air Support Operations Group is a combat support group of the United States Air Force. It is located at Pope Field, North Carolina. The group was originally the 18th Air Support Communications Squadron and served in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of Operations during World War II as an air communications squadron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032334-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Air Support Operations Group\nThe 18th ASOG provides tactical command and control of air power assets for the U.S. Army's XVIII Airborne Corps. In this role its subordinate squadrons provide tactical combat command and control to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and Joint Forces Land Component Commander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032334-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Air Support Operations Group, History\nThe organization was originally activated in April 1943 as the 18th Air Support Communication Squadron. The squadron trained in the southeastern United States under Third Air Force until February 1944, when it deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and was assigned to XII Air Support Command. The unit was redesignated the 18th Tactical Air Communications Squadron and moved to Italy in April. It was disbanded in Italy in June 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032334-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Air Support Operations Group, History\nThe squadron was reconstituted and activated in Germany on 15 April 1945, where it became part of Ninth Air Force. It returned to the United States in July and was inactivated in the summer of 1946. The squadron was disbanded while inactive in October 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032334-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Air Support Operations Group, History\nIn June 1992, the unit was reconstituted and redesignated as the 18th Air Support Group. It assumed much of the responsibilities of the inactivating 507th Air Control Wing. It was redesignated 18th Air Support Operations Group on 1 July 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032334-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Air Support Operations Group, Organization\nIn addition to group headquarters, the 18th ASOG includes a number of subordinate squadrons. These units are located at Pope Field except as indicated and include the following.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron\nThe 18th Airlift Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 305th Operations Group, Air Mobility Command, stationed at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The early years\nFrom activation in April until July 1942 the 18th ferried aircraft from the United States to the South Pacific and Southwest Pacific theaters of operations. Most flights originated from McClellan Field and proceeded via the Hawaiian Islands, Christmas Island, Canton Island, Fiji Islands, and New Caledonia, to Australia. From July 1942 until disbandment in October 1943, the 18th serviced outbound aircraft, briefed crews of these aircraft and controlled flights until they reached Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The early years\nReactivated on 18 July 1954, at McGuire AFB, New Jersey, the squadron came under the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). It became operational in September, transporting passengers, cargo and mail in C-118s to South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, as well as within the US. It participated in operations, exercises, and maneuvers of the US armed services and transported important US and foreign officials. It also provided airlift support for the United Nations (UN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The early years\nIn December 1956 and January 1957 the unit airlifted over 9,700 Hungarian refugees from Rhein Main AB, West Germany to the United States. In 1961 the 18th began flying C-135s. The first major deployment with these new aircraft was to the Arctic with 2,300 Army personnel for cold weather training. In 1963, it participated in the airlift of UN forces and cargo to the Congo and airlifted personnel and cargo to New Zealand in support of Antarctic operations. It changed in 1965 from mostly European flights to airlift support of forces in South Vietnam. It then participated in an airlift to the Dominican Republic in March 1965 with US forces to preserve order. On 1 February 1966, shortly after being designated the 18th Military Airlift Squadron (MAS), all personnel were reassigned, and on 15 June 1966 the squadron inactivated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The modern era\nThe squadron became a C-141 unit when activated in July and organized in August 1968. On 15 August, it flew its first mission to Southeast Asia (SEA). Most regular scheduled flights until 1969 were to SEA in support of the Vietnam War. Typically, the trip from McGuire AFB and back took from five to seven days. Between March and June 1972, flights to SEA took a major share of C-141 missions. With the exception of these missions, the 18th MAS usually flew over the Atlantic to Greenland, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Each year from activation in 1968 to 1974, the squadron resupplied scientific stations in the Antarctic involved in Operation Deep Freeze. For three or four months each year, between October and February, it flew to New Zealand from McGuire, and then shuttled from New Zealand to the Antarctic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The modern era\nThe 18th was frequently involved in the airlift for the US Army's airborne exercises and supported other US services and NATO forces. It provided airlift support for Presidential and Vice-Presidential trips within the US and overseas. It supported NASA's Apollo program until 1971. The squadron frequently flew humanitarian missions for the relief of victims of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and snowstorms; this included flights to Pakistan in 1970 and 1971; Managua, Nicaragua, in 1972 and 1973; Guatemala, Italy and Turkey in 1976; the Dominican Republic in 1978; and the Yemen Arab Republic in December 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0005-0001", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The modern era\nIt provided, on occasion, airlift for the US State Department and in April 1972 transported two musk oxen to China in exchange for two giant pandas. On 13 and 14 April of that year it airlifted supplies to Israel in support of that country's defense against its Arab neighbors. It also provided the airlift of UN Peace-Keeping forces to the Middle East after the ceasefire, between 19 November and 16 December 1973. The squadron participated, between April and June 1975, in the airlift of Vietnamese refugees from SEA to the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0005-0002", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The modern era\nIt airlifted French and Belgian troops to Zaire in May and June 1978 to protect and evacuate Europeans threatened by civil war. In Ju1y-October 1980, it helped airlift an F-4 wing to Egypt in support of first the joint USAF/Egyptian Air Force exercise. On 9\u201312 May 1983, the first all-woman C-141 crew, members of the 18th MAS, flew from McGuire AFB to Rhein Main AB, Germany on an aeromedical evacuation mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032335-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Airlift Squadron, History, The modern era\nInactivated in July 1995 as part of the retirement of the C-141 Starlifter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032336-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Alabama Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032336-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment was mustered in at Auburn, Alabama, on September 4, 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032336-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe regiment surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi, on May 4, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032337-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Alberta Legislature\nThe 18th Alberta Legislative Assembly was in session from May 15, 1975, to February 14, 1979, with the membership of the assembly determined by the results of the 1975 Alberta general election held on March 26, 1975. The Legislature officially resumed on May 15, 1975, and continued until the fourth session was prorogued on November 3, 1978 and dissolved on February 14, 1979, prior to the 1979 Alberta general election on March 14, 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032337-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Alberta Legislature\nAlberta's eighteenth government was controlled by the majority Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta for the second time, led by Premier Peter Lougheed. The Official Opposition was led by Robert Curtis Clark of the Social Credit Party. The Speaker was Gerard Amerongen who would serve in the role until he was defeated in the 1986 Alberta general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032337-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Alberta Legislature, Second session\nDuring the second session the government introduced The Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund Act (Bill 35) creating a sovereign wealth fund to invest oil and gas revenue to ensure the exploitation of non-renewable resources would be of long-term benefit for Alberta. The Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund had been announced by Premier Peter Lougheed a year earlier with the intent of diverting funds from the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission on the sale of crude oil from April 1, 1974 to diversify and strengthen the economy, improve the life of Albertans, stimulate the economy, and continue to grow with interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032338-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Ale Kino! Festival\nThe 18th annual Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival was held from 15 to 20 May 2000. A number of 54 movies took part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032338-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Ale Kino! Festival\nThe movies were presented in four cinemas in Pozna\u0144: Apollo, Olimpia, Rialto and Muza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032338-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Ale Kino! Festival\nThe movies were judged by professional and children jury, as well as by International Centre of Films for Children and Young People (CIFEJ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032339-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Alpini Regiment\nThe 18th Alpini Regiment (Italian: 18\u00b0 Reggimento Alpini) is an inactive regiment of the Italian Army's mountain infantry speciality, the Alpini, which distinguished itself in combat during World War I and World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032339-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Alpini Regiment, History\nThe regiment was formed on 13 September 1991 by elevating the existing \"Edolo\" Battalion to regiment. Between 1 November 1886 and 1 October 1975 the battalion was one of the battalions of the 5th Alpini Regiment. After the 5th Alpini Regiment was disbanded during the 1975 Italian Army reform the battalion, based in Meran, became one the battalions of the Alpine Brigade \"Tridentina\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032339-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Alpini Regiment, History\nAs the traditions and war flag of the 5th Alpini Regiment were assigned to the \"Morbegno\" battalion, the Edolo battalion was granted a new war flag on 12 November 1976 by decree 846 of the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032339-0001-0002", "contents": "18th Alpini Regiment, History\nThe two Gold Medals of Military Valour and the Messina earthquake Medal of Merit awarded to the 5th Alpini Regiment, were duplicated for the new flag of the Edolo battalion, and the Silver Medal of Military Valour awarded to the Edolo battalion for its conduct at Derna on 29 May 1913 during the Italian conquest of Libya was transferred from the flag of the 5th Alpini to the Edolo's flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032339-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Alpini Regiment, History\nThe main task of the regiment was the training of the recruits for the Alpini regiments based in the Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol region of northern Italy. On 1 March 1998 the regiment was assigned to the Alpine Corps Command, but with the suspension of compulsory military service the regiment was dissolved on 30 September 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032339-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Alpini Regiment, Structure\nWhen the regiment was disbanded it had the following structure:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032340-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia\nThe 18th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia was held on September 22, 2015, at the Ecovention in Pademangan, North Jakarta. The show was broadcast live on RCTI and was hosted by Arie Untung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032340-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia\nThe show was a collaboration between Anugerah Musik Indonesia Foundation and RCTI. The theme of the show was Stop Pembajakan! (stop piracy). Musicians, singers, and composers were nominated for 53 different awards. The event was divided into three segments: AMI Awards Gala Night, Lifetime Achievement Awards, and The Winner's Concert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032340-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia\nTulus led the nominations with nine, and also became the biggest winner of the night with six wins, including Best of the Best Album for Gajah, Best of the Best Production Work for \"Jangan Cintai Aku Apa Adanya\", and Best Pop Male Solo Artist. Other winners included Cita Citata and Trio Lestari, who won three awards. Sheila On 7, Isyana Sarasvati, Andien, Kotak, etc. took home two trophies each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032340-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia\nBob Tutupoli received the \"AMI Legend Award\" for his body of work through his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032340-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia, Nominees and winners\nThe nominees were announced on September 11, 2015. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032341-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Grammy Awards\nThe 18th Annual Grammy Awards were held February 28, 1976, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards\nThe 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on November 16, 2017, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It was broadcast on Univision at 8PM ET\\PT. This marked the tenth year Las Vegas hosts the Latin Grammy Awards and also marked the telecasts return to the MGM Grand Garden Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Postponement of Nominations Announcement\nNominations were to be announced on September 20, 2017. However, due to the earthquake in Mexico which occurred a previous day, as well as other natural disasters that affected Spanish-speaking communities, the Latin Recording Academy did not announce the nominations until Tuesday, September 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Postponement of Nominations Announcement\nThis marked the second time when the Latin Recording Academy had to delay or cancel one of their signature events. In 2001, the Latin Recording Academy was forced to cancel the 2nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards due to the September 11 attacks. Instead, the winners of those awards were announced at a press conference the following month. The 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were still held on time, on November 16, 2017, despite the delay of the announcement of the nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 73], "content_span": [74, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, General\nRub\u00e9n Blades with Roberto Delgado & Orquesta \u2014 Salsa Big Band", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, General\nDaddy Yankee, Erika Ender and Luis Fonsi \u2014 \"Despacito\" (Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Urban\nLuis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber \u2014 \"Despacito\" (Remix)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Urban\nRafael Arcaute, Igor Koshkendey and Residente \u2014 \"Somos Anormales\" (Residente)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Rock\nDiamante El\u00e9ctrico \u2014 \"D\u00e9jala Rodar\" (tie)Andr\u00e9s Calamaro \u2014 \"La Noche\" (tie)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Tropical\nRub\u00e9n Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta \u2014 Salsa Big Band", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Tropical\nJorge Celed\u00f3n and Sergio Luis Rodr\u00edguez \u2014 Ni Un Paso Atr\u00e1s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Tropical\nJon Secada featuring The Charlie Sep\u00falveda Big Band \u2014 To Beny Mor\u00e9 with Love", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Regional Mexican\nBanda El Recodo de Cruz Liz\u00e1rraga \u2014 Ayer y Hoy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Regional Mexican\nJuan Trevi\u00f1o \u2014 \"Siempre Es As\u00ed\" (Juan Trevi\u00f1o featuring AJ Castillo)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Portuguese language\nTiago Iorc \u2014 Troco Likes Ao Vivo: Um Filme de Tiago Iorc", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Portuguese language\nAna Caetano and Tiago Iorc, songwriters \u2014 \"Trevo (Tu)\" (Anavit\u00f3ria featuring Tiago Iorc)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Classical\nEddie Mora directing The Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica Nacional de Costa Rica \u2014 M\u00fasica De Compositores Costarricenses Vol. 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032342-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Nominees and winners, Production\nJosh Gudwin and Tom Coyne \u2014 Mis Planes Son Amarte (Juanes)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032343-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Arabian Gulf Cup\nThe 18th Arabian Gulf Cup (Arabic: was the \u0643\u0623\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0644\u064a\u062c \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u200e) 18th edition of the Arabian Gulf Cup. It took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 17 to 30 January 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032343-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Arabian Gulf Cup\nThe tournament was won by hosts UAE, who beat neighbors Oman 1\u20130 in the final, courtesy of a goal by Ismail Matar who finished the tournament as top scorer with five goals in all. The UAE became the fifth country to lift the title after Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032343-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Arabian Gulf Cup\nIn the competition there was also some very serious disciplinary problems with a total of 38 yellow cards and 7 red cards awarded in only 12 matches. As in previous Gulf Cups there have also been bad refereeing calls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032344-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Ariel Awards\nThe 18th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) took place on April 22, 1976, in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC presented the Ariel Award in 13 categories honoring films released in 1975. Actas de Marusia was the most nominated film with twelve nominations that resulted in nine wins, including Best Picture and Best Director. Actas de Marusia was selected to represent Mexico at the 48th Academy Awards and received a nomination, which it lost to Dersu Uzala from the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032345-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona State Legislature\nThe 18th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted in Phoenix from January 1, 1947 to December 31, 1948, during the fourth of Sidney Preston Osborn's four consecutive terms as Governor of Arizona. The number of senators and house members remained constant at 19 and 58, respectively. The Democrats controlled one hundred percent of the senate. while the Republicans gained four house seats, to a total of five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032345-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona State Legislature, Sessions\nThe Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Phoenix on January 13, 1947; and adjourned on March 20. There were seven special sessions, the first of which was held from June 9 through June 23, 1947, the second was held from June 18 \u2013 July 1, 1947, the third was held between January 5 \u2013 21, 1948, the fourth from January 22- February 17, 1948, the fifth spanned February 18 \u2013 March 12, 1948, The sixth was from March 12\u201325, 1948, and the seventh from September 13 \u2013 October 14, 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032345-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona State Legislature, State Senate, Members\nThe asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032345-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona State Legislature, House of Representatives, Members\nThe asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature\nThe 18th Arizona Territorial Legislative Assembly was a session of the Arizona Territorial Legislature which met in Phoenix, Arizona. The session ran from January 21 to March 21, 1895. Due to the abrupt manner in which the session ended, none of the usual appropriations bills were passed by the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Background\nGovernor L. C. Hughes had taken office shortly before the close of the previous session. The governor's time in office since then had been tumultuous with many influential territorial members of his own political party calling for his removal from office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Background\nA separate issue dealt with the location of the territorial prison. While sentiment at the time called for the prison to be moved from Yuma to Prescott, House Speaker J. H. Carpenter, representing Yuma County, Arizona, wanted the prison to remain in his district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session\nThe session began on January 21, 1895, and ran for sixty days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address\nGovernor L. C. Hughes gave his address to a joint meeting of both houses of the legislature on January 22, 1895. His primary areas of concern were education, economic development, taxation, and improving the territory's moral climate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address\nIn the area of education, the governor announced the territory had over 11,000 students enrolled in public schools being taught by 288 teachers. The University of Arizona in turn had expanded its educational services while simultaneously reducing its operating expenses by US$6,500. Hughes wished to reduce the territory's high property tax rates, but to do so required the long-standing issue of undervalued appraisals to be addressed. Toward this end he recommended all property be listed at its full value on the tax rolls and that all tax exemptions be removed. To aid economic development, the governor asked for creation of several new positions. The included territorial architect, commissioner of agriculture, territorial irrigation engineer, and quarantine and health officers along with a board of immigration to encourage new settlers to move to the territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 949]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address\nHughes wished to reduce governmental operating costs and asked for all extraneous government positions to be terminated. To this end he recommended combining control of the territorial insane asylum, prison, and other related institutions into a single oversight board instead of maintaining separate board of directors for each institution. Explicitly exempted from this recommendation were the boards of regents for the University of Arizona and territorial normal schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address\nDealing with moral concerns, Hughes asked for the sale of lottery tickets to be prohibited and provisions be made for the care of the blind, deaf, and mentally impaired individuals. He also sought to compel territorial officers to enforce territorial laws dealing the sale of alcohol to minors, notorious cohabitation, and houses of prostitution. This was on top of concerns about Sabbath laws, promoting rest on Sundays and passed by the 16th Arizona Territorial Legislature, being openly ignored by most territorial residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address\nFinally Hughes was troubled with the \"purity of elections\", saying \"In this connection I call attention to the pernicious practice which requires candidates for office to treat and drink with voters, and deposit money in saloons for 'free drinks' which is no less a bribe to the saloon keepers and the electors for political support. The custom is demoralizing and debauching to all concerned, and prevents many good citizens from becoming candidates for important elective offices.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Legislation\nThe legislature acted upon a number of the Governor's requests. A new election law banned any candidate for office from asking another person to consume beer or other spirituous liquors. Counties were instructed to provide food, lodging, and medical assistance to indigent persons. The most influential act came when the legislature combined the functions of oversight boards for territorial prison, reform school and insane asylum into a Board of Territorial Control. A county level office of commissioner of agriculture was also created.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Legislation\nIn other actions, the Governor was authorized to grant paroles. All school districts with at least 2,000 residents were authorized to create a high school. As a defense preparedness action, the legislature authorized creation of a military styled \"American Guard\" to be composed of students in territorial public schools. The guard was open to any boy age eleven or older. The session also authorized a US$5,000 reward to Governor Lewis Wolfley for his previous work to restructure the territorial debt in a manner that generated a US$59,006.40/year reduction in interest payments. The measure was passed over a veto by Governor Hughes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Legislation\nThe final act of the session was creation of Navajo County from western Apache County. Holbrook was selected as the county seat. While there was no serious opposition to creation of the new county the prolonged discussion over the new county had the effect of blocking a motion to move the territorial prison from Yuma to Prescott from being debated in the House of Representatives. Shortly after bill to create Navajo County was passed, as the clock struck midnight on the sixtieth day of the session, Speaker J. H. Carpenter declared the House adjourned sine die.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0010-0001", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Legislation\nThis was done even though prior sessions, when faced with a similar situation, had established the practice of either stopping the clock or turning the hands back to give the legislators extra time to finish their business. This prevented discussion on moving the territorial prison from occurring but, as a consequence of this action, the normal appropriation bills were not passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Aftermath\nThe law creating a commissioner of agriculture in each county specified that the officer holder was to be nominated by the Territorial Governor but the position's $50/month salary was to be paid from county funds. Many county Board of Supervisors refused to pay this sum, especially after Governor Hughes chose newspapermen who were useful political allies for the governor but lacked much knowledge of agriculture. A lawsuit over the issue eventually determined the new office was legally created but did little good for Hughes as the ruling came shortly before he was removed from office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032346-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Aftermath\nThe abrupt adjournment of the House of Representatives resulted in the session passing no appropriation bills. For the next two years territorial auditors paid accounts without explicit legal authority. Despite the probable illegality of these actions, no serious questions were made into the payments and the auditors were not disciplined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's)\nThe 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment or Carroll's Arkansas Infantry Regiment was an infantry formation in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was raised in April 1862 under the command of Col. D Carroll. It served east of the Mississippi in several actions before being surrendered at Port Hudson in July 1863. Re -organized, the regiment was finally merged with several other Arkansas units to form the 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment. There was another regiment designated as the 18th Arkansas. When Lieutenant-Colonel John Sappington Marmaduke's 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion was increased to a regiment, it was briefly designated as the 18th (Marmaduke's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment. Marmaduke's regiment was subsequently redesignated as the 3rd Confederate Infantry Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Organization\nThe regiment was organized at DeValls Bluff, Arkansas, on April 2, 1862, composed of ten volunteer companies from central Arkansas:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Organization\nDavid W. Carroll, captain of Company A, was appointed colonel; John N. Daly, a private in Company I, was appointed lieutenant-colonel; and Robert Hamilton Crockett, a private in Company E, was appointed major.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 57], "content_span": [58, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Fort Pillow\nSoon after being organized, the regiment was ordered to Mississippi, along with the rest of General Earl Van Dorn's Army of the West. The unit boarded a steamer at Des Arc and moved down White River, out at its mouth, then up the Mississippi River and landed at Memphis, Tennessee. The Confederate commander at Memphis reported on April 7 that Colonel Carroll's command with 817 soldiers was present and armed with endfield rifles. The unit was assigned to the Brigade of Brigadier General Albert Rust. The regiment was immediately ordered with the remainder of Rust's Brigade to Fort Pillow, approximately 50 miles (80\u00a0km) north of Memphis. The unit moved via steamer to Fort Pillow. At Fort Pillow the regiment saw their first enemy fire, during the bombardment of Fort Pillow by Union gunboats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Fort Pillow\nThe new regiment got off to an inauspicious, indeed, a tragic start. Measles broke out among the men almost immediately, and by the time the regiment arrived at its assigned station at Fort Pillow, near Fulton, Tennessee, it had become a full-fledged epidemic. It is possible to track the movements of the regiment in April 1862 by following the bodies. The unfortunate soldiers of the 18th Arkansas were dying in great numbers, and every camp between DeValls Bluff and Fort Pillow contained the graves of those who had died during the night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Fort Pillow\nAt Fort Pillow, the regiment was literally decimated by the epidemic. The extremely muddy conditions and very poor quality of the water supply at Fort Pillow undoubtedly contributed to these losses. By the time the epidemic had run its course, over a fourth of the men were dead, discharged or simply stricken from the rolls. The unit remained at Fort Pillow for about two weeks. The unit left Fort Pillow on April 26, moved back to Memphis and then on to Corinth, Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Fort Pillow\nIn early May 1862 the Confederate Army underwent an army-wide reorganization due to the passage of the Conscription Act by the Confederate Congress in April 1862. All twelve-month regiments had to re-muster and enlist for two additional years or the duration of the war; a new election of officers was ordered; and men who were exempted from service by age or other reasons under the Conscription Act were allowed to take a discharge and go home. Officers who did not choose to stand for re-election were also offered a discharge. The reorganization was accomplished among all the Arkansas regiments in and around Corinth, Mississippi, following the Battle of Shiloh. Colonel Carroll was forced to resign due to illness, and was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel Daly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Iuka-Corinth Campaign\nDuring the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, the 18th Arkansas was assigned along with the 19th, 20th and 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Craven's), and the 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion to Brigadier General William L. Cabell's brigade of Brigadier General Dabney H. Maury's Division of Major General Sterling Price's Corps the Confederate (Army of the West).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Iuka-Corinth Campaign\nThe 18th Arkansas fought at the Battle of Iuka, Mississippi, September 16, 1862, and then ensured its place in history at the Second Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, October 4, 1862. From all contemporary accounts, the 18th Arkansas performed with magnificent courage at Corinth. Mustering a little over 300 men on the morning of the battle, only 43 answered the roll at the end of the day. Forming in a line of battle, the 18th Arkansas made a breath-taking charge under an enfilading fire from the entrenched Federal troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Iuka-Corinth Campaign\nClimbing through and over fallen timber, the 18th Arkansas relentlessly advanced right up to the enemy's breastworks, where the withering fire melted the regiment away. Colonel Daly, leading the charge, sword in hand, was mortally wounded. Captain Parish, of Company H, immediately assumed command and rallied the regiment to continue the charge. Although he, too, was shot down, he survived the battle and received a meritorious promotion to lieutenant-colonel for his gallant conduct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Port Hudson\nColonel Daly died of his wounds on October 5, 1862, and was succeeded by Col. Robert Hamilton Crockett, of Arkansas County. Following the battle of Corinth, the 18th Arkansas and its sister regiments of the 2nd Brigade were ordered to Port Hudson, Louisiana. Sorely depleted after the events of April to October 1862, the 18th Arkansas underwent several field consolidations with other units while assigned to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Field consolidations were considered to be temporary, and the component regiments continued to maintain separate muster rolls. On January 7, 1863 Major General Franklin Gardner issued General Order No. 5 which consolidated several under strength Arkansas units:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Port Hudson\nThe troops of this post will be organized into brigades, arranged at the breastworks as follows ...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Port Hudson\nThe order was modified in February 1863 and the 18th Arkansas was placed in a consolidated regiment with the 14th and 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiments. Logan's consolidated regiment consisted of the 11th and the Griffith's 17th Arkansas. The Johnson's 15th Arkansas was assigned to Crockett's consolidated regiment instead of the 17th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Port Hudson\nThe regiment endured forty-eight day siege, and was surrendered to General Nathaniel P. Banks on July 9, 1863. Following the surrender the officers were sent as prisoners to Johnson's Island Military Prison. Two audacious lieutenants of Company K, however, James W. Hellums and George P. Atkins, escaped from their captors by jumping from the Union transport into the muddy water of the Mississippi River between Napoleon and Helena, swam ashore, and eventually reached the Confederate lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Camden Expedition, Red River Campaign\nAfter the fall of Port Hudson, the enlisted personnel of the 18th Arkansas returned to Arkansas and served as mounted infantry as a part of Colonel Thomas Pleasant Dockery Brigade during the Camden Expedition in the Spring of 1864. As part of Dockery's Brigade, remnants of the regiment saw action at the Battles of Prairie D'Ane, Marks' Mills, and Jenkins Ferry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Final year of the war\nThere are few records of the 18th Arkansas after the fall of Port Hudson. They spent the remainder of the war in the Trans-Mississippi Army. The remnants of the regiment reorganized in southwest Arkansas, but were eventually consolidated with the remnants of the 23rd Arkansas and other Port Hudson units to form the 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment. The consolidated regiment was assigned along with the 1st and 3rd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiments to the 2nd (McNair's) Arkansas Brigade, 1st (Churchill's) Arkansas Division, 2nd Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department, from September 1864 to May 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Service, Final year of the war\nOn 22 January 1865, Major General Churchill was ordered to move his division to Minden, Louisiana, and occupy winter quarters. Union commanders in the Department of the Gulf reported on March 20, 1865 that General McNair's brigade was located at Minden, Louisiana, with the rest of Churchill's Division. In early April 1865, the division concentrated near Shreaveport Louisiana, and then moved to Marshall Texas by mid April 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Final Consolidation and Surrender\nThe 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry was surrendered with the Department of the Trans-Mississippi, General Kirby Smith commanding, May 26, 1865. When the Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered, all of the Arkansas infantry regiments were encamped in and around Marshall, Texas (war-ravaged Arkansas no longer able to subsist the army). The regiments were ordered to report to Shreveport, Louisiana, to be paroled. Virtually none of them did so. Some soldiers went to Shreveport on their own to be paroled, but the regiments simply disbanded without formally surrendering. For the most part, the men simply went home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032347-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Carroll's), Notes\nThis article incorporates\u00a0public domain material from the United States Government document: \", National Park Service\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's)\nThe 18th Arkansas Infantry (Marmaduke's) (1861\u20131865) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War. The unit was also briefly identified as the 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion. The unit was most often referred to as the 3rd Confederate Infantry Regiment. The designation \"Confederate Infantry Regiment\" was intended to convey the difference between Provisional Confederate Army units and Regular Confederate Army Units, with Provisional units being those regiments who received a state designation such as \"XX Arkansas Infantry Regiment\". In practice, the designation was most often utilized when Regiments were assembled utilizing companies from more than one Confederate state. The \"3rd Confederate Infantry Regiment\" is occasionally misidentified as the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Van H. Manning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Organization\nThe 18th Arkansas Infantry started out as 7 of 22 companies which comprised the so-called \"Hindman Legion.\" Col. Thomas C. Hindman had recruited ten companies at his own expense for the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment, and then an additional seven companies at his own expense which, along with four cavalry companies and an artillery battery, became known as the Hindman Legion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Organization\nThe \"Legion\" was not approved as an organization, and, after being mustered into the Confederate service on July 27, 1861, reverted to a regiment (the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment), an infantry battalion (the 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion) and a cavalry battalion (the 6th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion). Capt . John S. Marmaduke was assigned as commander of the 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion and promoted to lieutenant-colonel on August 1, 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0001-0002", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Organization\nA company from the 15th Tennessee Infantry was transferred to the 1st Arkansas Battalion, and two additional companies were added on December 18, 1861, which brought the battalion up to ten companies. On January 1, 1862, the unit was formally designated as a regiment, the 18th Arkansas Infantry, and Marmaduke was promoted to colonel. On January 31, 1862, the regiment was redesignated as the 3rd Confederate Infantry because it contained units from multiple states. Capt . John S. Marmaduke was assigned as commander of the 1st Arkansas Battalion and promoted to lieutenant-colonel on August 1, 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0001-0003", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Organization\nA company from the 15th Tennessee Infantry was transferred to the 1st Arkansas Battalion, and two additional companies were added on December 18, 1861, which brought the battalion up to ten companies. On January 1, 1862, the unit was formally designated as a regiment\u2014the 18th Arkansas Infantry\u2014and Marmaduke was promoted to colonel. On January 31, 1862, the regiment was redesignated as the 3rd Confederate Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Organization\nThe 3rd Confederate Infantry was composed of the following companies:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Organization\nNote: Companies I and K were composed primarily of suspected members of the so-called Arkansas Peace Society, who were arrested and sent to Little Rock by members of the 45th Arkansas Militia Regiment, where they were given the choice of Confederate service or imprisonment. Most of the men were from Searcy County. The officers were non-Peace Society men appointed by the Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nAssigned to Hindman's Brigade, Hardee's Division in the Army of Central Kentucky from December 1861 through January 1862. The unit was involved in an engagement at Rowlett's Station, Kentucky, on December 17, 1861. Assigned to Hindman's (later Liddell's) brigade, Army of Mississippi in March, 1862 where it participated in the Battle of Shiloh on April 6\u20137, 1862 and in the Corinth Campaign from April through June of that year. At the battle of Shiloh the 3rd Confederate bore the guiding colors of Hindman's Brigade and captured the first prisoners of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nColonel Marmaduke was mentioned with praise in the official reports. In the second day's battle he was wounded and disabled, and while in hospital was recommended for promotion to the rank of brigadier-general. Colonel Marmaduke commanded his brigade of Arkansans during the Siege of Corinth, and later was ordered to the Department of the Trans-Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nIn early May 1862 the Confederate forces underwent an army-wide reorganization due to the passage of the Conscription Act by the Confederate Congress in April 1862. All twelve-month regiments had to re-muster and enlist for two additional years or the duration of the war; a new election of officers was ordered; and men who were exempted from service by age or other reasons under the Conscription Act were allowed to take a discharge and go home. Officers who did not choose to stand for re-election were also offered a discharge. The reorganization was accomplished among all the Arkansas regiments in and around Corinth, Mississippi, following the Battle of Shiloh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nIn the reorganization of Confederate forces before the start of the Kentucky Campaign, the 3rd Confederate, now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Virtner Keep was assigned to Brigadier General Sterling A. M. Wood's 4th Brigade of Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner's 3rd Division of Major General William Joseph Hardee's Corps of the Army of Mississippi. The regiment participated in Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, in October 1862.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nIn November 1862, following the Kentucky Campaign, General Bragg united his Army of Mississippi and the General Kirby Smith's Army of Kentucky to create the Army of Tennessee. In the reorganization, Wood's Brigade, including the 3rd Confederate now under the command of Major John F. Cameron, was assigned to Cleburne's Division and fought in the Battle of Stones River. Major J. F. Cameron filed the after action report of the 3rd Confederate Infantry following the battle of Stone's River (Murfreesboro):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nSIR: I have the honor to make the following report of killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners belonging to the Third Confederate Regiment, together with the part taken by my command, in action at Murfreesborough December 31, 1862:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nMy command took position on the left of the brigade on Tuesday, [December] 30, and remained on the field until the army fell back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nDuring the engagement of Wednesday fought in line of battle, but finding my command more efficient when deployed, I moved in front of the brigade about 12 o'clock Wednesday. The brigade was ordered to charge the enemy, strongly posted in a skirt of timber some 500 yards distant, a corn-field intervening. Having no support, it was repulsed. I withdrew my command under cover of a captured hospital, when I reorganized my regiment and rejoined my brigade. During the afternoon the brigade was ordered to the support of Gen. Johnson, being too much to the left of that command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0010-0001", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nThe enemy immediately appeared in our front. I deployed my regiment on the right of the fourth company and opened fire. The enemy's line was posted behind a fence. With the aid of 50 straggles, I charged the fence, driving the enemy, capturing their colors and about 30 prisoners. The brigade then opened up upon the retreating Abolitionists, killing great numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nMy command being much reduced, Gen. Wood honored me with a position on his staff during the fight of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nThe conduct of both officers and men of my command, without exception, was worthy of all praise. I would call the attention of the general to the conduct of Lieut. Frank Foster, jr., of the Forty-fifth Mississippi Regt. Ever by my side, he displayed great gallantry and coolness. Seizing the standard, he rallied hundreds of panic-stricken men, thereby reforming our then thin ranks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nLieut. [ H. H.] Davis, Company E, was badly wounded and left at hospital at Murfreesborough. All the remainder of my wounded arewithin our lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nBy the time of the Battle of Chickamauga, the 3rd Confederate had been field consolidated with the 5th Confederate Infantry due to battle losses and placed under the command of Colonel James A. Smith. The consolidated 3rd/5th Confederate Infantry was assigned to the brigade of Brigadier General Lucius E. Polk in Cleburn's Division of the Army of Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nHDQRS. THIRD AND FIFTH CONFEDERATE REGTS.,Near Chattanooga, October 5, 1863.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nSIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment in the battle of September 19 and 20, on Chickamauga Creek:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nThe regiment entered the action first on the 19th with the brigade about sundown, passing over the Sixth and Seventh Arkansas Regt. 's, of Liddell's brigade, which were lying down. We had proceeded but a short distance to the front when the enemy opened fire on our sharpshooters. They were immediately withdrawn. The enemy's artillery opened destructive fire on our advancing lines, which together with fire from infantry behind temporary works, stopped us for a short time. The right of the brigade, however, meeting with less resistance, pushed on, and getting on his flank he soon retired in confusion, leaving a 12-pounder James gun and a caisson, having set another on fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nI was here directed by Lieut.-Gen. Hill to halt my regiment, as it had, by directing itself on Wood's brigade, become somewhat detached from the remainder of the brigade. This ended the contest for to night, most of the fighting having been done since dark. My loss in this affair was about 25 men, most of them [receiving] slight wounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nWe remained in line during the night of the 19th, replenished our supply of ammunition, and were ready to move again at daylight. We were not, however, engaged until about 10 o'clock on the 20th, having received our rations from the rear in the meantime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nWhen the attack was renewed we met the enemy at his works, which were located on the crest of a rise that commanded the space in front of it. The strife at this point was fearful. Such showers of grape, canister, and small-arms I have never before witnessed. We remained here until our supply of ammunition was exhausted without losing or gaining ground. Through the misapprehension of an order, or from some other cause unknown to me, the right of my regiment gave way, and it was with some difficulty that order was restored and the line re-established. Failing as we did to drive the enemy from his position, and our ammunition being exhausted, we were ordered by Brig.-Gen. Polk to fall back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nOur loss in this engagement was very heavy. Among the fallen was Capt. W. J. Morris, a brave and worthy officer. He died of his wounds a few days after. We next attacked our stubborn foe about 4 o'clock in the evening, and some 400 or 500 yards to the right of our position in the morning. His resistance here was, for long, as obstinate as in the morning; but we finally proved too much for him, and he took refuge behind his second line of works, about 200 yards to the rear of his first. He made but a short stand here and then fled in confusion across the open field in rear, leaving many prisoners in our hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nIn this last engagement the loss of the regiment was heavier than in either of those that preceded it. It was here that Capt. George Moore, of Company H, was instantly killed by a cannon ball. Capt . James [H.] Beard, the best and bravest soldier I ever saw, was mortally wounded. Many other true and gallant men likewise fell here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nAmong the survivors conspicuous for their gallantry and good conduct I would mention Maj. R. J. Person, Capt. M. H. Dixon, Adjt. M. M. Smith, and Liuet. O. H. Smith. A list of the killed, wounded, and missing has already been furnished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nReport of Capt. M. H. Dixon, Third Confederate Infantry, commanding Third and Fifth Confederate Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nSIR: From a position behind what I learned to be Taylor's Ridge, covering the road and railroad bridge, the regiment advanced in line of battle some 300 or 400 yards to the summit of the hill. Our sharpshooters encountered the enemy's, and immediately after he appeared in line of battle, making his way up the opposite steep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0025-0001", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nThe firing was opened on both sides, and continued for about three-quarters of an hour, the enemy pressing with great obstinacy and perseverance in the face of the continuous fire until he was within 30 or 40 yards of our line, the more adventurous and daring leading to within that number of feet. These were mostly killed or wounded and captured. After sustaining, as he must have done, a heavy loss the enemy broke and fled down the hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nOur loss, 2 killed and 17 wounded. Among the latter, Lieut. Col. J. C. Cole, who was shot-and believed mortally-while directing and encouraging his men. Upon the fall of Lieut.-Col. Cole, the command devolved upon Capt. W. A. Brown, senior officer present, until my arrival with a detachment of the regiment ordered to guard Shallow Ford Bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nThe officers distinguished for gallant bearing are Capt. Brown, Lieut. 's R. H. Hayes, E. H. Fite, and Sergt. Maj. W. B. Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nI have the honor, to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nWhen General Joseph E. Johnston assumed command of the Army of Tennessee to oppose General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, the 3rd Confederate was assigned to Govan's Brigade. The 3rd Confederate participated in the battles of Dalton, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and the Siege of Atlanta. During the Battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, the 3rd Confederate had only 62 effectives and reported 9 casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0030-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nThe regiment and it colors were captured, along with much of Govan's Brigade at the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, on Sept. 1, 1864. Due to a special cartel between Union General Sherman and Confederate General John B. Hood, the unit was quickly paroled and exchanged for Union prisoner held at Andersonville Prison. The regiment re-entered service approximately a month later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0031-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Service record\nThe 3rd Arkansas and the rest of Govan's Brigade were released and exchanged just in time to participate in General John B. Hood's disastrous Franklin-Nashville Campaign. Brigade effective strength was approximately 550, plus or minus a dozen or so, so each battalion fielded around 100-110 rifles. The 3rd Confederate had 47 men left on the march into Franklin and so the 3rd found itself once again consolidated with the 5th Confederate Infantry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel E.A. Howell. The remnants of Govan's Brigade that survived the Tennessee Campaign remained with the Army of Tennessee through its final engagements in the 1865 Carolinas Campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0032-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Consolidation and Surrender\nThe remnants of ten depleted Arkansas regiments, along with one mostly Arkansas regiment, in the Army of Tennessee were consolidated into a single regiment at Smithfield, North Carolina, on April 9, 1865. The 1st Arkansas, was lumped together with the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 15th, 19th and 24th Arkansas Infantry Regiments and the 3rd Confederate Infantry Regiment as the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry on April 9, 1865. On April 26, 1865, the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment was present with the Army of Tennessee when it surrendered in Greensboro, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 74], "content_span": [75, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0033-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Flag\nThis flag was issued in the spring of 1864 and bears characteristics similar to the other Hardee pattern flags issued to the division of Major General Patrick Cleburne, Army of Tennessee. It was captured on September 1, 1864, by the 113th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia. In his report dated September 10, 1864 Captain Toland Jones noted that \"we captured the battle-flag of the Third Confederate Infantry Regiment inscribed with the names of seven different battles.\" The flag was eventually forwarded to the U.S. War Department where it was assigned Capture Number 227. The flag was mistakenly identified as belonging to an Alabama unit and when the Confederate battleflags were returned to the states in 1905, the flag was mistakenly returned to Alabama. In 2001, the flag was transferred to the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 51], "content_span": [52, 927]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032348-0034-0000", "contents": "18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Marmaduke's), Battle participation\nThe 3rd Confederate Infantry took part in the following battles:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria)\nThe 18th Armoured Division (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0631\u0642\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062f\u0631\u0639\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062b\u0627\u0645\u0646\u0629 \u0639\u0634\u0631 or \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0631\u0642\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062f\u0631\u0639\u0629 18\u200e) is one of two autonomous reserve divisions of the Syrian Arab Army, the other being the 17th Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria), Structure\nThis is the smallest conventional division in the Syrian Arab Army with only about 7,000 men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria), Syrian Civil War\nThe division was in a reserve role leading up to the summer of 2013. Since then it has been heavily engaged in the Syrian Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria), Syrian Civil War\nThe European Council named Major General Wajih Mahmud as commander of the 18th Armored Division in the Official Journal of the European Union on 15 November 2011, sanctioning him for violence committed in Homs. Henry Boyd of the IISS noted that \"... in Homs, the 18th Armored Division was reinforced by Special Forces units and\u00a0... by elements of the 4th Division under Maher\u2019s de facto command.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria), Syrian Civil War\nOn 13 August, clashes took place in Deir ez-Zor city in the Rashdin suburb, as army attempted to liberate it from the militants. Rebels earlier attacked the cardiac hospital in the city, no reports of losses. 4 rebels killed by clashes in al-Jbeila, Hawiqa and Sina'a neighborhoods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria), Syrian Civil War\nAs of 20 August, the western Hawiqa neighborhood, including the local Baath Party headquarters, had fallen to the rebels. The opposition claimed that 160 government soldiers and dozens of rebels had died in the fight for Hawiqa. Government forces retaliated by bombarding the rebels from their positions in the Joura and Ghazi Ayyash districts. The Free Syrian Army-affiliated Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade, recently supplied by Qatar with anti-aircraft missiles, played an important role in taking Hawiqa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria), Syrian Civil War\nOn the same day, the Army hit rebel forces in Hawiqa district with tanks and multiple rocket launchers, and also battled them in territory separating Hawiqa from the district of Joura, opposition sources in the city said. The government was trying to regain Hawiqa because it could not afford the rebels to be so close to its most important stronghold of Joura and the Army camp there. Air force intelligence and military intelligence, two important security compounds in the city, were also located in the nearby Ghazi Ayyash district, and came within the range of rebel rocket-propelled grenades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032349-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Armoured Division (Syria), Syrian Civil War\nResearchers estimated in late 2019 that the 167th Brigade was the last remaining operational brigade of the division. In addition, \".. As of November 2018, the division consisted of only 4,000 men \u2014 including reservists and civilian employees \u2014 largely concentrated within the 167th Brigade.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032350-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Army (German Empire)\nThe 18th Army (German: 18. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 18 / A.O.K. 18) was an army level command of the German Army in World War I. It was formed against France on 27 December 1917 from the former Heeresgruppe Woyrsch command. It served exclusively on the Western Front and was dissolved on 2 January 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032350-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Army (German Empire), History\n18th Army was one of three armies (along with 17th Army and 19th Army) formed in late 1917 / early 1918 with forces withdrawn from the Eastern Front. They were in place to take part in Ludendorff's German spring offensive. The Germans had realised that their only remaining chance of victory was to defeat the Allies before the overwhelming human and mat\u00e9riel resources of the United States could be deployed. They also had the temporary advantage in numbers afforded by nearly 50 divisions freed by the Russian withdrawal from the war (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032350-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Army (German Empire), History\nAt the end of the war it was serving as part of Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032350-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Army (German Empire), History, Order of Battle, 30 October 1918\nBy the end of the war, the 18th Army was organised as:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032350-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Army (German Empire), Commanders\n18th Army was commanded throughout its existence by General der Infanterie Oskar von Hutier (previously commander of 8th Army).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032351-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Soviet Union)\nThe 18th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was formed on 21 June 1941 on the basis of HQ Kharkov Military District and armies of the Kiev Special Military District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032351-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Soviet Union)\nThe Army's commander in 1941 was General-Lieutenant Andrew Kirilovych Smirnov. The Army composition on the beginning of the war was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032351-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Soviet Union)\nIt was caught soon after the start of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 in a huge encirclement south of Kiev along with the 6th Army and 12th Armies. This encirclement was part of the Battle of Uman. A further formation was shattered during the Battle of the Sea of Azov in September\u2013October 1941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032351-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Soviet Union)\nOn 1 October 1943 the army consisted of 20th Rifle Corps (8th Guards Rifle Brigade, 81st and 83rd Naval Rifle Brigades), 55th Guards Rifle Division, 89th Rifle Division, 176th, 318th, 414th Rifle Divisions, 107th Rifle Brigade, 255th Naval Infantry Brigade, 10th Guards Separate Antitank Battalion, artillery, armoured forces, and engineers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032351-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Soviet Union)\nAs part of Southern, North-Caucasian, Transcaucasian Front, and the 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts the 18th Army conducted defensive operations in right-bank Ukraine, participated in Donbass, the Rostov defensive and offensive operations, and in the fight for Caucasus. Based on the experience of the Kerch - Eltigen landing operation, the Army was uniquely identified as 18th Desant Army (Russian: 18-\u044f \u0434\u0435\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0442\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0430\u0440\u043c\u0438\u044f) for amphibious operations, between 15 February and 5 April 1944 around Malaya Zemlya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032351-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Soviet Union)\nThe Army reverted to its previous designation for the clearing of right-bank Ukraine, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. For much of this period the 24th Rifle Division served with 18th Army, and the Division was still serving with the Army in May 1945, along with the 17th Rifle Corps (8th and 138th Rifle Divisions) and a Fortified Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032351-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Soviet Union)\nAfter World War II, the 18th Army was transformed into a Mountain Army in the territory of the Carpathian Military District and Northern Bukovina. This army was disbanded in May 1946. Some of its elements, along with parts of the 52nd Army were used to form the 8th Mechanised Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032352-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Wehrmacht)\nThe 18th Army (German: 18. Armee) was a World War II field army in the German Wehrmacht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032352-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Wehrmacht)\nFormed in November 1939 in Military Region (Wehrkreis) VI, the 18th Army was part of the offensive into the Netherlands (Battle of the Netherlands) and Belgium (Battle of Belgium) during Fall Gelb and later moved into France in 1940. The 18th Army was then moved East and participated in Operation Barbarossa in 1941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032352-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Army (Wehrmacht)\nThe Army was a part of the Army Group North until early 1945, when it was subordinated to Army Group Kurland. In October 1944, the army was encircled by the Red Army offensives and spent the remainder of the war in the Courland Pocket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032353-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Army Corps (France)\nThe French 18th Army Corps was a French military unit created on November 1870 by the vice admiral Fourichon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032354-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Army Corps (Russian Empire)\nThe 18th Army Corps was an Army corps in the Imperial Russian Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Army Group\nThe 18th Army Group was an Allied formation in the Second World War. It was formed on 20 February 1943 when British Eighth Army advancing from the east and British First Army advancing into Tunisia from the west came close enough to require coordinated command during the Tunisia Campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Army Group, History\nThe 18th Army Group was commanded by General Sir Harold Alexander and came under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Army Group, History\nIts principal formations were the British Eighth Army, under Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery and the British First Army under Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson. Eighth Army had three British Army corps under its command which contained a variety of forces from the British Empire. They were British X Corps, British XIII Corps and British XXX Corps. They had fought across virtually the whole North African shore to the east of Tunisia after winning a victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein in November 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Army Group, History\nFirst Army had four corps under its command, but the corps themselves were far more varied in national origin. Two were of British origin; V Corps and IX Corps. The other corps were U.S. II Corps and French XIX Corps. First Army controlled the forces that had landed in Morocco and Algeria in November 1942 in the first of the great Allied amphibious assaults of the war, Operation Torch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Army Group, History\n18th Army Group was faced by two German Armies, Panzer Army Afrika under Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel and 5th Panzer Army under Generaloberst Hans-J\u00fcrgen von Arnim. The two German commanders disliked each other, and so often strategy was not coordinated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Army Group, History\nBoth the First Army and Eighth Army had enjoyed very quick initial success in their campaigns after November 1942. Once they reached Tunisia two things halted them. One was overextension of lines of communication and the other was the greater concentration of German troops that the smaller defended area produced. First Army in particular received stinging blows from Rommel at the Battle of Kasserine Pass. Rommel's veteran formations slammed into II Corps and the green American troops did not perform well. It was only after reinforcements of more experienced troops and quantities of artillery had been rushed in that the situation was stabilised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Army Group, History\nFollowing the Kasserine Pass engagement and an Allied consolidation, a fresh attack was launched. First Army led the main attack, with Eighth Army providing support along the eastern coast of Tunisia. That attack lead eventually in May 1943 to the surrender of Axis forces in Africa. 250,000 men were taken prisoner, a number equal to that at Stalingrad on the Eastern Front earlier in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032355-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Army Group, History\nGeneral Alexander sent the message, \"We are masters of the North African shore.\" 18th Army Group was disbanded in Tunisia on 15 May 1943.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032356-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Artillery Division (Wehrmacht)\nThe 18th Artillery Division (German: 18. Artillerie-Division) was a German artillery division formed during World War II in 1943. Being the first independent mobile artillery force it never raised to its planned strength. The division fought at the Eastern Front, suffered heavy losses and was disbanded in 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032356-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Artillery Division (Wehrmacht), Operational history\nThe 18th Artillery Division was formed by combining the staff and some of the remaining corps troops from the 18th Panzer Division, being disbanded on October 1, with other stray units. This division was the first unit planned as an independent and mobile artillery force; and the planned strength for the division was never achieved. A special element of this division was that it had its own (heavy) infantry element, the Sch\u00fctzen-Abteilung 88 (tmot) (also known as Art.-Kampf-Btln. 88 and Art.-Alarm-Abteilung 18). Having the mission of defending the artillery in all dangerous situations this battalion, thoroughly trained in rear guard actions, saved the division from total destruction no less than three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032356-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Artillery Division (Wehrmacht), Operational history\nThe division was part of the XXXVIII Army Corps in the 1st Panzer Army. It was in action until late March 1944, when it was encircled in the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket. With the defeat of the Army Group North Ukraine in April 1944, the division\u2019s combat path came to an end. Though it managed to break through it was depleted and lost all of its heavy equipment. It was listed as an integral unit for the last time in April 1944 as Kampfgruppe 18. Art.Div . ; and was disbanded in practice in April 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032356-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Artillery Division (Wehrmacht), Operational history\nUntil November 4, 1944, it was engaged in mostly infantry battles; and due to heavy casualties the division nearly ceased to exist. It was formally disbanded on July 27, 1944. The remaining officers and men from staff and corps troops were used to form the Panzerkorps Gro\u00dfdeutschland and the artillery regiments were reformed into several independent artillery brigades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron\nThe 18th Attack Squadron is a squadron of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 432d Operations Group, and has been stationed at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada since 2009. The squadron conducts strike, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, operating the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron\nThe squadron was first activated as a fighter unit, the 381st Fighter Squadron, in 1943. After deploying to the European Theater of Operations and engaging in combat for six months, the squadron was converted, along with the other squadrons of the 363d Fighter Group, to an reconnaissance unit as the 161st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. It continued in combat until V-E Day, earning a Belgian Fourrag\u00e8re after being twice cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army. The squadron returned to the United States in the fall of 1945 and was inactivated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron\nThe squadron was reactivated in 1946 and performed both reconnaissance and training, primarily from Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina until 1959. It was redesignated the 18th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron in 1950 because its number, 161, fell in a block reserved for Air National Guard units. It moved to Europe, where it performed reconnaissance for United States Air Forces Europe until 1970, when it returned to Shaw. The squadron was inactivated there in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron, History, World War II\nActivated as part of IV Fighter Command in early 1943 with Bell P-39 Airacobras, the squadron was an air defense unit for the San Francisco area as well as a Replacement Training Unit until the end of 1943. It then retrained on North American P-51 Mustangs and deployed to the European Theater of Operations, where it was assigned to IX Fighter Command in the United Kingdom. It operated both as a tactical fighter squadron, providing air support to Allied ground forces in France as well as an air defense squadron, attacking enemy aircraft over Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron, History, World War II\nIn August 1944, the squadron was redesignated the 161st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron carrying out photo-reconnaissance missions. The unit was inactivated in November 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron, History, Cold War tactical reconnaissance\nReactivated in 1945 at Brooks Field, Texas under the 363d Reconnaissance Group, it trained with the Lockheed RF-80A Shooting Star. The 18th moved to Langley Field in 1947 when Brooks was transferred to Strategic Air Command. The squadron was reassigned directly to the Fourteenth Air Force in 1949 when the 363d was inactivated and moved to Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron, History, Cold War tactical reconnaissance\nThe unit was reassigned to the 363d when the group was reactivated at Shaw on 2 April 1951. It became a training squadron with a mission to provide photographic intelligence training to support both air and ground operations by American or Allied ground forces. Upgraded to the Republic RF-84F Thunderflash in 1954, it continued training operations until 1957 when it re-equipped with the McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron, History, Cold War tactical reconnaissance\nThe squadron was reassigned to the 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing and deployed to NATO in 1959. It operated from France until 1966, moving to RAF Upper Heyford, England. It remained in the UK until 1970, when it returned to Shaw AFB and was assigned to the 363d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. It was re-equipped with the McDonnell RF-4C Phantom II at Shaw and performed training for new photo-reconnaissance pilots until 1979 when it was inactivated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron, History, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle reconnaissance\nThe squadron was reactivated at Beale Air Force Base, California as the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron, a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk strategic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle squadron between 2006 and 2007. It was reactivated at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada in 2009 as a General Atomics MQ-1 Predator squadron. In May 2016, the squadron was renamed the 18th Attack Squadron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032357-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Attack Squadron, References, Bibliography\nThis article incorporates\u00a0public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032358-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue Library\nThe 18th Avenue Library (formerly the Science and Engineering Library) is a library on the Ohio State University campus, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032359-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT Sea Beach Line)\n18th Avenue is a local station on the BMT Sea Beach Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 18th Avenue and 64th Street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. It is served by the N train at all times. During rush hours, several W and northbound Q trains also serve the station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032359-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT Sea Beach Line), Station layout\nThis open-cut station opened on June 22, 1915. It has four tracks and two side platforms, but the two center express tracks are not normally used. The Coney Island-bound express track has been disconnected from the line and the Manhattan-bound express track is signaled for trains in both directions. Both platforms are made of concrete and have beige (previously blue-green) rectangular columns running along them at regular intervals, alternating ones having the standard black name plate with white lettering. The platform walls are also beige.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032359-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT Sea Beach Line), Station layout\nThis station was renovated between 2016 and 2019. From January 18, 2016 to May 22, 2017, the Manhattan-bound platform at this station was closed for renovations. The Coney Island-bound platform was closed for a much longer period of time, from July 31, 2017 to July 1, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032359-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT Sea Beach Line), Station layout\nThe 2019 artwork here is called Fluxus/Rythmus by Emilio Perez. It features 22 glass mosaic panels, with forms inspired by movement and the energy of the neighborhood of the station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032359-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT Sea Beach Line), Station layout, Exits\nThis station has two fare control areas, one at each end of the platforms. The full-time side is at the east (railroad south) end. A single staircase from each platform goes up to a metal crossover, where a short staircase goes up to a set of doors that lead to the station house's waiting area. A turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and doors leading to the west side of 18th Avenue between 63rd and 64th Streets. The station house is shared with several businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032359-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT Sea Beach Line), Station layout, Exits\nOn the west (railroad north) end of the station, one staircase from each platform goes up to a metal crossover, where a set of doors lead to an un-staffed station house with one exit only turnstile and one High Entry/Exit Turnstile providing access to and from the station. The doors lead to the west side of 17th Avenue between 63rd and 64th Streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line)\n18th Avenue is a local station on BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. It is served by the D train at all times. The station opened in 1916 as part of the BMT West End Line, which was upgraded into an elevated line as part of the Dual Contracts. Its platforms were extended to accommodate ten-car trains in the 1960s, and the station was renovated in 2012. The station is scheduled to become compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 through the installation of elevators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), History, Construction and opening\nThe 18th Avenue station opened on June 24, 1916, as the terminal of the first portion of the BMT West End Line, which extended from 36th Street on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. The line was originally a surface excursion railway to Coney Island, called the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad, which was established in 1862, but did not reach Coney Island until 1864. Under the Dual Contracts of 1913, an elevated line was built over New Utrecht Avenue, 86th Street and Stillwell Avenue. The section of the West End Line between 62nd Street and this station originally opened with only one track in service. The second track between 62nd Street and 18th Avenue opened on July 8, 1916.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), History, Renovations\nThe platforms were extended in the 1960s to accommodate the current standard B Division train length of 615 feet (187\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), History, Renovations\nIn 2012, the station was rehabilitated with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), History, Renovations\nIn 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that this station would become compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 through the installation of elevators as part of the agency's 2020\u20132024 Capital Program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), Station layout\nThis elevated station has three tracks and two side platforms. The center express track is not normally used. The station is situated in between two curves and the platforms have been extended to the north on both sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), Station layout\nThe 2012 artwork here is called Bensonhurst Gardens by Francesco Simeti. It features laminated glass windows on the platform windscreens, depicting imaginary flowery landscapes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), Station layout, Exits\nThere is a single mezzanine with three stairs to the street (two to the northeast corner of 18th Avenue and 85th Street, and one to the southeast corner) as well as two to each platform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032360-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (BMT West End Line), In popular culture\nSome exterior scenes of the 1991 Steven Seagal film Out for Justice were shot outside this station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line)\n18th Avenue is an express station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 18th Avenue and McDonald Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. It is served by the F train at all times and the train during rush hours in the peak direction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), History\nThis station opened at 3:00\u00a0a.m. on March 16, 1919, as part of the opening of the first section of the BMT Culver Line. The initial section began at the Ninth Avenue station and ended at the Kings Highway station. The line was operated as a branch of the Fifth Avenue Elevated line, with a free transfer at Ninth Avenue to the West End Line into the Fourth Avenue Subway. The opening of the line resulted in reduced travel times between Manhattan and Kings Highway. Construction on the line began in 1915, and cost a total of $3.3 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), History\nTrains from this station began using the Fourth Avenue Subway to the Nassau Street Loop in Lower Manhattan when that line opened on May 30, 1931. The Fifth Avenue Elevated was closed on May 31, 1940, and elevated service ceased stopping here. On October 30, 1954, the connection between the IND South Brooklyn Line at Church Avenue and the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue opened. With the connection completed, all service at the stations on the former BMT Culver Line south of Ditmas Avenue, including this one, were from then on served by IND trains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), History\nFrom June 1968 to 1987, express service on the elevated portion of the line from Church Avenue to Kings Highway operated in the peak direction (to Manhattan AM; to Brooklyn PM), with some F trains running local and some running express. During this time period, this station was used as an express station. Express service ended in 1987, largely due to budget constraints and complaints from passengers at local stations. Express service on the elevated Culver Line was ended due to necessary structural work, but never restored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), History\nFrom June 7, 2016, to May 1, 2017, the southbound platform at this station was closed for renovations, with southbound trains stopping on the center track using the Manhattan-bound platform. The Manhattan-bound platform was closed for a longer period of time, from May 22, 2017 until July 30, 2018, and Manhattan-bound trains stopped on the center track using the Coney Island-bound platform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), Station layout\nThis elevated station has two island platforms and three tracks, with the center track not normally used. Except for small sections at either ends, both platforms have brown canopies with green frames and support columns for the entire length. The un-canopied areas have black station sign structures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), Station layout\nThe 2018 artwork here is called We are each others by Julien Gardair. It features steel figural sculptures on the platforms that are integrated with seating elements, inspired by historical figures and present residents of the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), Station layout, Exits\nThis station has two entrances/exits, both of which are elevated station houses beneath the tracks. The full-time exit is at the north end. A single staircase from each platform goes down to a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions and contains public restrooms. Outside of the turnstile bank, there is a token booth and two street stairs going down to either southern corners of 18th and McDonald Avenues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), Station layout, Exits\nThe station's other entrance/exit at the south end also has a staircase from each platform, waiting area, and two street stairs going down to either side of McDonald Avenue between Lawrence and Parkville Avenues. However, the station house is unstaffed, containing just High Entry/Exit Turnstiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), Track layout\nNorth of the station there is a double crossover between the southbound local track and the center express track. Also north of this station, there is a switch from the center express track to the northbound local track. There was formerly a switch to the south, and the girder that formerly supported such a switch indicates that it was a track diverging from the northbound local track to the middle track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032361-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Avenue station (IND Culver Line), In popular culture\nThis station is featured in Kevin Smith's film Cop Out as well as in Allen Coulter's film Remember Me, both released in 2010.. A chase scene from Joker (2019), starring Joaquin Phoenix, was also filmed here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States)\nThe 18th Aviation Brigade (\"Black Barons\") is an inactive aviation brigade of the United States Army. Its initial formation in 1987 drew upon the resources of the 269th Aviation Battalion, originally formed in 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States), History\nThe 269th Aviation Battalion served with the 12th Aviation Group in South Vietnam from 28 January 1967 to 15 April 1971, being located at C\u1ee7 Chi Base Camp. It primarily supported the 25th Infantry Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States), History, Gulf War\nOn 17 August 1987, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 18th Aviation Brigade, was activated. On 1 September 1987, the 269th Aviation Battalion was reorganized and redesignated as the 18th Aviation Brigade (Corps)(Airborne). The brigade has since participated in Operation Prime Chance in the Persian Gulf, Operation Just Cause in Panama, and \"Desert Shield and Storm\" in Southwest Asia, and Hurricane Andrew Relief in Southern Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States), History, Gulf War\nOn the first day of the Gulf War 24 February 1991, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) began its attack with its Boeing AH-64 Apaches, Bell AH-1 Cobras, 60 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks and 40 Boeing CH-47 Chinooks augmented by the XVIII Airborne Corps' 18th Aviation Brigade and began lifting the 1st Brigade into what became Forward Operating Base Cobra (FOB), 93 miles (150\u00a0km) into Iraq and halfway to the Euphrates River. Over three hundred helicopter sorties ferried the troops and equipment into the objective area in the largest heliborne operation in military history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States), History, Gulf War\nFour of the CH-47D Chinooks from A Co 2/159th were temporarily assigned to the 82nd airborne for the war but were released after the first day of the ground war and after objectives on MSR Texas were completed and their assistance's along with the rest of the Battalion was needed elsewhere in theatre supporting the 101st, 24ID and 82nd when called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States), History, Gulf War\nThe other operation the brigade administered in the Gulf was the activities of Task Force 118, the former Operation Prime Chance force. TF 118, or 4th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, as it became on 15 January 1991, operated armed Bell OH-58D Kiowas off U.S. Navy warships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States), History, 2000s\nAn undated listing on Globalsecurity.org, seemingly for the early 2000s, said the brigade's units included two active, and eight National Guard battalions. The active units were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032362-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Aviation Brigade (United States), History, 2000s\nThe 18th Aviation Brigade was also deployed to Iraq from October 2004 to October 2005. This was the last time the brigade was deployed as a unit. The unit supplied aviation assets all across Iraq, ranging from combat missions to service and support missions. As part of an Army-wide restructuring, the brigade was deactivated shortly after its return from Iraq in March 2006. Although designated as an airborne unit, parachute qualification was not a prerequisite for assignment to the brigade and many, if not most, in the brigade were not jump-qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032363-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Bangladesh National Film Awards\nThe 18th Bangladesh National Film Awards, presented by Ministry of Information, Bangladesh to felicitate the best of Bangladeshi Cinema released in the year 1993. The ceremony took place in Dhaka and awards were given by then President of Bangladesh. The National Film Awards are the only film awards given by the government itself. Every year, a national panel appointed by the government selects the winning entry, and the award ceremony is held in Dhaka. 1993 was the 18th ceremony of National Film Awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032363-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Bangladesh National Film Awards, List of winners\nThis year artists received awards in 19 categories. Awards for Best Short Film and Best Actor in a Supporting Role were not given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia)\nThe 18th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. During World War I, the battalion was raised in 1915 as part of the Australian Imperial Force, attached to the 5th Brigade, of the 2nd Division. It was sent initially to Gallipoli, where it suffered many casualties before it was withdrawn from the line and sent to France and Belgium, where it served at the Western Front as part of the Australian Corps and took part in most of the major battles between 1916 and 1918. The battalion's last engagement of the war was at Montbrehain in October 1918 and it was disbanded in April 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia)\nAfter the war, the battalion was re-raised as a part-time force in the Sydney area. It was briefly amalgamated with the 51st Battalion in 1935\u20131936, but the two units were later unlinked and re-raised as separate units. During World War II, the battalion served in a garrison role in Australia and was disbanded in 1944 without having seen active service overseas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nRaised as an Australian Imperial Force (AIF) battalion in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Division, the 18th Battalion was formed at Liverpool, New South Wales. Following training, the battalion was sent to Egypt, and from there to Gallipoli in August 1915 as part of a wave of reinforcements that arrived after the initial landing. There it participated in the costly August Offensive, during which it was sent to Damakjelik Bair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nFrom there, they played a mainly defensive role in the campaign, apart from playing a minor role in the attack on Hill 60, Beginning the battle with about 1,000 men, by the end the battalion could muster only 386. Following that, the battalion was placed in reserve behind the 5th Brigade's positions between Walker's Ridge and Quinn's Post, until they were withdrawn in December 1915. Their main area of responsibility during this time was Courtney's Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nAfter returning to Egypt, the AIF underwent a period of reorganisation as it was expanded from two infantry battalions to five prior to their transfer to Europe. As the battalion was rebuilt, further training was undertaken before it was sent to France, arriving there in late March 1916. For the next two-and-a-half years they participated in most of the main battles fought by the Australians on the Western Front. Their first major action came at Pozi\u00e8res in mid-1916 as part of the wider Battle of the Somme, being committed twice in July and August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nIn late August, the 18th was withdrawn to Belgium to recover, before returning to the Somme in October. For the rest of 1916, the battalion undertook defensive duties along the front, although they were not involved in any major attacks. The following year, the Germans shortened their lines and withdrew to the Hindenburg Line, after which the 18th Battalion took part in the fighting around Warlencourt in February 1917 as the Allies sought to follow up the German withdrawal. A brief advance followed before they came up against the forward positions of the Hindenburg Line. In May, the 18th Battalion was committed to the Second Battle of Bullecourt before moving again to Belgium where they saw further action around the Ypres Salient at Menin Road in September and Poelcappelle in October before settling down for the winter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nIn early 1918, following the collapse of the Russian resistance on the Eastern Front, the Germans had been able to transfer many troops to the Western Front. As a result, in March, they launched their German spring offensive. With the Germans making rapid gains, Australian units, including the 18th Battalion, were moved south from Belgium where they had spent the winter and they were thrown into the line to help blunt the attack around Villers-Bretonneux, which lay before the strategically important rail hub at Amiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nAfter this, in August the Allies were able to launch their own offensive, which subsequently became known as the Hundred Days Offensive and ultimately brought about the Armistice. During this offensive, the battalion fought at Amiens and Mont St Quentin before assaulting \"Beaurevoir Line\", which was the third (and final) fortified line of the Hindenburg Line. There, at Montbrehain, on 3 October 1918, Lieutenant Joseph Maxwell earned the battalion's first and only Victoria Cross in what was ultimately to prove their last engagement of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0004-0002", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nAfter this the units of the Australian Corps, severely depleted due to heavy casualties and limited reinforcements, were withdrawn from the line upon the insistence of the Australian prime minister, Billy Hughes, for rest and re-organisation and did not return to the front before the Armistice was declared on 11 November 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, World War I\nFollowing the end of hostilities, the demobilisation process began and as personnel were repatriated back to Australia, the battalion's numbers dwindled until the battalion was finally disbanded on 11 April 1919, while it was still in Belgium. Throughout the course of the war, the battalion suffered 3,513 casualties, of which 1,060 were killed. Members of the battalion received the following decorations: one Victoria Cross, one Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, five Distinguished Service Orders, 35 Distinguished Conduct Medals, 44 Military Crosses, 158 Military Medals, seven Meritorious Service Medals and 39 Mentions in Despatches. The 18th Battalion received 20 battle honours for its war service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, Subsequent service\nAustralia's part-time military force was re-organised in 1921 to perpetuate the numerical designations, battle honours and formations of the AIF. The 18th Battalion was re-raised in the Kuring-Gai region of Sydney, as part of the Citizens Forces, at this time drawing personnel from 17th and 18th Infantry Regiments. In 1927, when territorial designations were adopted, it assumed the title of the \"Kuring-Gai Regiment\". On 1 July 1935, the 18th Battalion was amalgamated with the 51st Battalion to form the 18th/51st Battalion. This lasted until 1 October 1936, when the two battalions were unlinked and re-formed as separate units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, Subsequent service\nAt the outbreak of World War II, the battalion was based at Willoughby, New South Wales, where it formed part of the 8th Brigade, attached to the 1st Division within the 2nd Military District. By April 1941, the battalion formed part of the 9th Brigade. In November 1942, the battalion's machine gun company was detached and in conjunction with several other Militia machine gun companies, it was used to form the 6th Machine Gun Battalion. Throughout the war, the battalion remained in Australia, where it conducted garrison duties before being disbanded on 20 October 1944. Over the course of the war, it was assigned variously to the 8th, 9th, 28th and 1st Brigades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), History, Subsequent service\nFollowing the conclusion of the demobilisation process, Australia's part-time military force was re-raised under the guise of the Citizens Military Force in 1948. At this time, the 18th Battalion was re-raised, albeit as an amalgamated unit with the 17th Battalion to form the 17th/18th Battalion (The North Shore Regiment). In 1960, the Australian Army was reorganised along Pentropic lines, and the 17th/18th Battalion became 'B' Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment (2 RNSWR). When the Pentropic divisional structure was abandoned in 1965, however, the 17th Battalion was reformed in its own right as the 17th Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, but the 18th Battalion was not re-raised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), Commanding officers\nDuring World War I, the following officers served as commanding officer of the 18th Battalion:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032364-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Australia), Commanding officers\nDuring World War II, the following officers commanded the 18th Battalion:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand)\nThe 18th Battalion was a formation of the New Zealand Military Forces which served, initially as an infantry battalion and then as an armoured regiment, during the Second World War as part of the 2nd New Zealand Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand)\nThe 18th Battalion was formed in New Zealand in September 1939. After a period of training, in 1940 it embarked for the Middle East as part of the 2nd New Zealand Division and then, in 1941, on to Greece. It participated in the Battle of Greece and later in the fighting on Crete. Evacuated from Crete, it then fought in the North African Campaign and suffered heavy losses during Operation Crusader. Brought back up to strength, in June 1942 the battalion participated in the breakout of the 2nd New Zealand Division from Minqar Qaim where it had been encircled by the German 21st Panzer Division. The following month, the battalion fought in the First Battle of El Alamein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand)\nIn October 1943, the battalion was converted to armour and re-designated the 18th Armoured Regiment. To replace men lost at El Alamein, personnel were drawn from a tank brigade being formed in New Zealand. The regiment spent a year in Egypt training with Sherman tanks, before embarking for Italy in October 1943 to join up with the rest of the 2nd New Zealand Division. It participated in the Italian Campaign, fighting in actions at Orsogna and later at Cassino. The regiment finished the war in Trieste and remained there for several weeks until the large numbers of Yugoslav partisans also present in the city withdrew. Not required for service in the Pacific theatre of operations, the regiment was disbanded in late 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Formation and training\nFollowing the outbreak of the Second World War, the New Zealand government authorised the formation of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), for service at home and abroad. After consulting with the British government, it was decided that the main New Zealand contribution to the war effort would be in the form of an infantry division, the 2nd New Zealand Division, under the command of Major General Bernard Freyberg. The new division would require nine battalions of infantry and consequently, several infantry battalions were formed from 1939 to 1940 with New Zealand volunteers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Formation and training\nThe 18th Battalion was formed in September 1939 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Gray. It was the first of three infantry battalions designated to make up the first echelon of the 2nd New Zealand Division, destined for overseas service. Its personnel, all volunteers, were drawn from the Northern Military District, which took in the upper half of the North Island of New Zealand. They were formed into four rifle companies, designated A to D and corresponding to the Auckland, Hauraki/Bay of Plenty/Rotorua, Northland and Waikato districts. A headquarters company included the specialist support troops; signallers, anti-aircraft and mortar platoons, pioneers and transport as well as administrative personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Formation and training\nA period of rudimentary training followed, firstly at Hopuhopu Military Camp and then at Papakura, before it was confirmed that the battalion was on active service. It departed New Zealand on the Orient liner RMS Orion for the Middle East on 5 January 1940 as part of the 4th Infantry Brigade, 2nd New Zealand Division. Before it left, it paraded before the public at the Auckland Domain and was addressed by the commander of the Northern Military District, Lieutenant Colonel Norman Weir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Formation and training\nThe Orion journeyed to its destination as part of a convoy of liners by way of Fremantle, Colombo, and Aden before it arrived at Tewfik, Egypt, where the battalion disembarked on 13 February 1940. After a train ride to Cairo, the battalion arrived at what would the main base in the Middle East for the 2NZEF, Maadi Camp, in mid-February. At Maadi, the battalion undertook further training. Following Italy's entry into the war in June, it moved to a newly established defensive position, the Baggush Box, to perform garrison duty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0006-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Formation and training\nIt remained there for the next several months, conducting regular patrols and working on the improvement of the defensive positions. During this time, the battalion suffered its first casualties of the war, although non-fatal, as a result of Italian air raids. By January 1941, the defensive work was completed and the battalion moved to Helwan Camp, near Cairo, for re-equipping and more intensive and large scale training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Greece\nIn early 1941, the British Government anticipated an invasion of Greece by the Germans and decided to send troops to support the Greeks, who were already engaged against the Italians in Albania. The 2nd New Zealand Division was one of a number of Allied units dispatched to Greece in early March. The 18th Battalion was the first New Zealand unit to depart Egypt, and sailed for Greece on 7 March aboard the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Orion and Ajax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Greece\nThe 2nd New Zealand Division was tasked with the defence of the Aliakmon Line in northern Greece and was positioned on the northern side of Mount Olympus; the 4th Brigade manned the left side of the New Zealand section of the line while the 6th Brigade took the right. The 18th Battalion was the first complete unit in the line; one company was positioned in Olympus Pass itself while the remainder started digging in the sector allocated to 4th Brigade. By 5 April, the battalion's defensive work was completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Greece\nOn 6 April, the Germans invaded Greece and advanced so rapidly that their forces quickly threatened to outflank the New Zealand positions. On 9 April the 4th Infantry Brigade was withdrawn and began moving south to the Servia Pass. Here, the 18th Battalion was positioned in the hills above the town of Servia and to the right of 19th Battalion, which was defending the pass itself. From 11 April, Stukas mounted air raids on the New Zealand positions before the Germans brought artillery to bear two days later as their ground forces approached. It was during an artillery barrage on 15 April that the battalion suffered its first fatality of the war. The same day, the 18th Battalion fended off initial probing attacks by elements of the 9th Panzer Division but were unable to prevent the Germans from occupying Servia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Greece\nDespite this, the battalions of 4th Brigade remained in good defensive positions. However, they were withdrawn two days later to the Thermopylae Line, a new defensive position 140 kilometres (87\u00a0mi) to the south, due to pressure on their flanks. The withdrawal did not go smoothly for the New Zealanders who had to walk out on foot under the cover of darkness amidst harassing artillery fire. Having the furthest to travel, at one stage two companies of 18th Battalion got lost before making their way to the safety of the rear of Servia Pass and their transport. Once clear of the pass, the battalion's transport was subjected to several air raids before they finally made it to the Thermopylae Line, the next defensive position for the New Zealanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Greece\nThe Thermopylae Line was defended by the 2nd New Zealand Division and 6th Australian Division, with the 4th Brigade held in reserve while the 5th and 6th manned the front lines. However, on 22 April, the Allies decided to abandon Greece and the battalion moved out the same day with the rest of the 4th Brigade as part of an intended rearguard. Originally the battalion was to hold a gorge through which other units would pass for 24 hours but it ended up remaining there for three days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0010-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Greece\nDuring the intervening period, the intended embarkation route for the battalion's departure from Greece was cut off by the Germans and so the entire brigade made its way to Porto Rafti, east of Athens, where the battalion was one of the first units of the 2nd New Zealand Division to be shipped to the island of Crete. Total casualties during the campaign in Greece were 23 killed in action and 42 wounded. In addition, 117 men, mostly personnel recuperating in hospitals in Athens and unable to evade the Germans, were captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Crete\nSituated along vital air and sea lanes of communication in the middle of the Mediterranean, Crete was of considerable strategic importance to both sides and, after the conclusion of the campaign in Greece, the Allies fully expected that the Germans would attempt an invasion. The 4th Brigade was stationed as a reserve force in the area around Galatas with the 18th Battalion near the newly established general hospital. When the airborne invasion began on 20 May, the battalion quickly dealt with a company of Fallschirmj\u00e4ger (paratroopers) that landed near them. It carried out mopping up operations and patrolled the area for the next two days before assisting the 19th Battalion in an attack on Fallschirmj\u00e4ger that had established a strong defensive position nearby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Crete\nDespite heavy casualties during the initial attack, the Germans were able to land reinforcements and the situation on the island quickly deteriorated for the Allies. The brigade had abandoned its initial positions and moved to a new location to the west of Galatas to eliminate the threat that it would become separated from the 5th Infantry Brigade. On 25 May, the 18th Battalion had to deal with a full-scale attack by Fallschirmj\u00e4ger. This caused heavy casualties and a large portion of one of the battalion's companies was captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0012-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Crete\nDespite reinforcements arriving from the 20th Battalion and the best efforts of Gray in rounding up stragglers, the Galatas position was breached and the township captured. Some battalion personnel, led by Gray, along with the bulk of the 23rd Battalion, participated in an attack that briefly re-took the township but it later had to be abandoned again after further fighting. The battalion was then withdrawn to the east as the order to evacuate Crete was received, making its way towards Suda Bay, where Allied ships were taking troops off the beaches. Along the way, they were subjected to heavy air raids, one of which killed a company commander, Captain Jack Lyon, the Member of Parliament for the Waitemata electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Crete\nDuring the evacuation of the 4th Brigade, which took place from Sfakia on 30\u201331 May, the 18th Battalion formed a rearguard helping police and maintain order; it was the last battalion of the brigade taken off. Casualties during the fighting on Crete were heavy for the 18th Battalion, with 105 men killed or missing and 110 more taken prisoner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa\nBack in its former base in Egypt and with its ranks restored with 400 reinforcements that arrived in June, the battalion began intensive weapons training. In September it moved to Baggush where on occasion it worked alongside tanks in training exercises. The 2nd New Zealand Division was now preparing for a role in the upcoming Libyan offensive, and several divisional and brigade level exercises were carried out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa, Operation Crusader\nIn November 1941, the battalion, now commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Peart as Gray had been hospitalised, participated in Operation Crusader as part of the British Eighth Army and was engaged in offensive operations towards the Sidi Azeiz area. On the night of 25 November, along with the 20th Battalion, it was tasked with the capture of Belhamed, a hill adjacent to Sidi Rezegh. With two companies leading the battalion's portion of the advance, the objective was captured with a bayonet charge. Peart was wounded during the attack but remained in command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0015-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa, Operation Crusader\nThe battalion held the hill for three days and then swapped its positions with the 20th Battalion before, on 30 November, the 15th Panzer Division surrounded and attacked Belhamed. While the 20th Battalion was effectively destroyed, the 18th Battalion, with Peart maintaining tight control of some personnel who were close to panicking, managed to evacuate in time and reached the British 70th Division in Tobruk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa, Rebuilding\nAt Tobruk and with Gray back in command, the battalion manned the frontlines, fending off German attacks, until 11 December when it was withdrawn to Baggush. Meeting up with the rest of the division, it was brought back up to strength and manned defences to protect the lines of communication to the front. In February 1942, after spending a period of time engaged in training for an amphibious landing behind German lines which never eventuated, the 2nd New Zealand Division was dispatched to Syria to defend against a possible attack through Turkey on the Middle East oilfields by the Germans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0016-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa, Rebuilding\nAlong with the rest of the 4th Brigade the 18th Battalion worked on defences to the north of Damascus before the whole division was recalled to Libya on 17 June following the attack on the Eighth Army's Gazala Line by Panzer Army Africa. It was initially based at Mersa Matruh, but after the fall of Tobruk to Rommel's forces, the division was ordered on 25 June to establish defensive positions at Minqar Qaim. The 18th Battalion was temporarily detached from the rest of the 4th Brigade to act as the main infantry component of the divisional reserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa, Rebuilding\nOn 27 June, the division's defensive positions at Minqar Qaim were encircled by the 21st Panzer Division. The battalion was the lead unit of one of the columns, numbering 900 vehicles and guns, of the division, in the subsequent breakout that night. In the course of this movement, Gray's column ran into an encampment of tanks of the 21st Panzer Division. However, the Germans failed to capitalise on the opportunity and the train of vehicles, with Gray at its head to ensure it did not come to a stop, was able to skirt the tanks with relatively few losses and reach the Alamein lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa, El Alamein\nThe battalion was withdrawn from the frontlines after a brief period of recovery at the Kaponga Box. Now commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Ray Lynch due to Gray being promoted to brigadier and given command of the 4th Brigade, it served as security for the divisional headquarters from late June to early July as the entire division relocated several times during this period. On the evening of 14 July, the battalion, now back with its parent brigade, was part of the attack on Ruweisat Ridge, held by the enemy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0018-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), North Africa, El Alamein\nAlthough an Italian strongpoint caused the battalion to scatter in piecemeal fashion, it advanced to the western end of the ridge taking several prisoners on the way. A German counterattack in the afternoon of 15 July which overwhelmed the 19th and 20th Battalions also caused heavy losses amongst the 18th Battalion, including Lynch, but many men were able to return to the Allied lines. Following the effective destruction of the 19th and 20th Battalions, the 18th Battalion remained in the field attached to the 5th Brigade. It then supported an attack by the 6th Brigade on El Mreir. Inadequately supported by armour, the attack proved a failure although the battalion escaped with relatively few casualties. It remained in the line throughout August and into September at which time, having been reduced to just 350 personnel, it was withdrawn to Maadi to rejoin the reconstituted 4th Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Conversion to armour\nAs the war progressed, the New Zealand government decided to form an armoured brigade to provide tank support to the 2nd New Zealand Division. As a result, the 1st New Zealand Army Tank Brigade was formed in New Zealand. This brigade was still undergoing training in September when it was decided to convert the 4th Brigade to armour instead, thus creating the 4th Armoured Brigade. Personnel were transferred from the tank brigade in New Zealand to bring the 4th Brigade back up to strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0019-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Conversion to armour\nAs one of the constituent units of the brigade, the 18th Battalion was officially re-designated the 18th Armoured Regiment, with three squadrons of tanks, on 5 October 1942. One squadron was to be equipped with Crusaders while the other two squadrons would operate Shermans. The regiment spent much of the next year in training under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Clive Pleasants, who had taken over command after the death of Lynch. By May 1943, many of the regiment's personnel had been on active duty for well over three years, and the majority of these men were returned to New Zealand on furlough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Conversion to armour\nWith the close of the North African campaign in May 1943, attention then turned to the European theatre of operations. Despite a preference amongst some sections of the New Zealand government for the 2nd New Zealand Division to be redeployed to the Pacific theatre of operations to fight against the Japanese, it was decided that the division would remain in Europe and continue its service with the Eighth Army. Accordingly, in October, the division was transferred to Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy\nThe 18th Armoured Regiment disembarked at Taranto on 22 October 1943 and gradually travelled north towards the Sangro River, which it duly crossed on 3 December. The advance had been slow due to mine fields and delaying ambushes by the Germans. Pleasants, the regiment's commanding officer, was slightly wounded by artillery fire and Major Hugh Green briefly took over. He was mortally wounded by artillery fire on 3 December at the village of Melone, to the north of the Sangro River. Two days later the regiment, with Pleasants back in command, mounted an attack on the German positions at Melone but this failed and seven tanks became stuck. The crews remained with the tanks until they were recovered at the beginning of 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Orsogna\nIn the following weeks, the regiment supported first the 6th, and then the 5th Brigades in their attacks on Orsogna, as part of the Moro River Campaign. The tanks struggled to break into Orsogna and although the infantry made some gains, the German defences were too strong and the attack soon faded into a stalemate, with a number of back and forth actions as winter set in. These movements saw many of the regiment's tanks become stuck in the sodden ground. Offensive operations around Orsogna ceased in late December and the New Zealanders withdrew from the area on 13 January 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Orsogna\nFollowing its withdrawal from the area around Orsogna, the 2nd New Zealand Division was one of a number of divisions that were transferred from the Eighth Army to the Fifth Army, then engaged on the western side of the Apennines. This was part of an overall strategy to breach the Gustav Line and break an otherwise deadlocked Italian front. Together with the 4th Indian Division and supporting British and American artillery, the division formed the New Zealand Corps with Freyberg, now a lieutenant general, in command. The corps moved to Cassino, the defenders of which had resisted Allied forces for several weeks, on 12 February 1944 to replace the American II Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nAs at Orsogna, the 18th Armoured Regiment was to play a supporting role in the forthcoming attack on Cassino, with the infantry of the 5th and 6th Brigades bearing the brunt of the battle. When the attack began on 15 March, the regiment was initially held as a reserve, ready to exploit any breakthrough by the infantry but this did not eventuate. The infantry struggled to make progress in the face of determined resistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0024-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nThe regiment's tanks were first used at Cassino as artillery support for two weeks, each squadron being rotated in three-day stints to a position overlooking the town. Then in mid-April, one squadron was detached to remain on the Cassino front while the other two squadrons were withdrawn for training. The regiment remained fragmented into May, for once training was completed, another squadron was detached and sent into Cassino itself to man tanks which had been effectively set up as pillboxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nBy the end of May, the regiment was reunited and at full strength. It was briefly detached from the 2nd New Zealand Division and, placed under the direction of the 8th Indian Division, participated in operations north of the Liri Valley. Returning to the control of the 2nd New Zealand Division, it supported the infantry brigades as the New Zealanders advanced to Florence, duly entering the city in August. After this, the division was transferred to the I Canadian Corps, then on the Adriatic Coast, and advanced up to Rimini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0025-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nOn 19 and 20 October, the 4th Armoured Brigade was involved in its first and only action as a brigade in an attack towards the Savio River, with the 18th Armoured Regiment on the right flank. This was primarily a tank action, in contrast to previous battles in which the armour supported the infantry. The attack was a success and pushed the Germans across the Savio, although their progress had been slower than expected because of poor weather and muddy conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nAfter the crossing of the Savio, the 2nd New Zealand Division was withdrawn from the front for rest and refit. During this period, the regiment received upgunned Shermans; these new tanks were known as the Firefly. After a month, the New Zealanders returned to the front at Romagna and they advanced to the Lamone River in anticipation of a crossing but instead supported the British 46th Division in its attack across the river on 3 December. During this operation, the tanks of the 18th Regiment fired 6,200 shells in a single day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0026-0001", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nIt then attacked towards the Senio River, supporting infantry from the 5th Brigade. The division was positioned along the Senio River for three months, over the worst of the winter period. The regiment spent most of this time behind the lines at Forl\u00ec and Faenza, or on short spells on the Senio frontlines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nRelieved by a Polish unit in March 1945, the regiment returned to the front lines in early April after a period of rest. It made a series of advances against the retreating German rearguard and on 2 May, the 2nd New Zealand Division entered Trieste. While most of the German garrison quickly surrendered, it was necessary to deal with some diehard elements who refused to surrender to either the New Zealanders or the Yugoslav partisans also present in the city. The partisans were reluctant to allow Germans to surrender to the New Zealanders, and the regiment remained in Trieste for several weeks until the large numbers of Yugoslav partisans withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Italy, Cassino\nNot required for service in the Pacific theatre of operations, the regiment was disbanded in December 1945. During the war, the 18th Battalion and its successor, the 18th Armoured Regiment, lost nearly 320 officers and men either killed in action or who later died of their wounds. Of the exactly 350 personnel made prisoners of war, a further 21 men died while in captivity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Honours\nSeven members of the battalion, including three of its commanders, were awarded the Distinguished Service Order while another member was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and a second was made a member of the same order. Nine officers were awarded the Military Cross while two others received the Greek Military Cross. Three soldiers received the Distinguished Conduct Medal and 26 others the Military Medal. Twenty-one soldiers received awards of the Greek Silver and Bronze medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0030-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Honours\nThe 18th Battalion and its successor, the 18th Armoured Regiment, was awarded the following battle honours:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0031-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Honours\nMount Olympus, Servia Pass, Platamon Tunnel, Tempe Gorge, Elasson, Molos, Greece 1941, Crete, Maleme, Galatas, Canea, 42nd Street, Withdrawal to Sphakia, Middle East 1941\u201344, Tobruk 1941, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Omars, Belhamed, Mersa Matruh, Minqar Qaim, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat Ridge, El Mreir, Alam el Halfa, North Africa 1940\u201342, The Sangro, Castel Frentano, Orsogna, Advance to Florence, San Michele, Paula Line, Celle, Pisciatello, The Senio, Santerno Crossing, Bologna, Idice Bridgehead, Italy 1943\u201345.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032365-0032-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (New Zealand), Commanding officers\nThe following officers served as commanding officer of the 18th Battalion:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032366-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF\nThe 18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War. The battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 18 April 1915. It disembarked in France on 15 September 1915, where it fought as part of the 4th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion was disbanded on 15 September 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032366-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF\nThe 18th Battalion recruited and was mobilized in London, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032366-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF\nOne member of the 18th Battalion, Lance-Sergeant Ellis Wellwood Sifton was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 9 April 1917 during the assault on Vimy Ridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032366-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF\nThe 18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF, is perpetuated by The Essex and Kent Scottish .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032366-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF, Sources\nCanadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 by Col. G.W.L. Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032367-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Berlin International Film Festival\nThe 18th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1968. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Swedish film Ole dole doff directed by Jan Troell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032367-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Berlin International Film Festival, Jury\nThe following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032367-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Berlin International Film Festival, Films in competition\nThe following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment\nThe 18th Bersaglieri Regiment (Italian: 18\u00b0 Reggimento Bersaglieri) is an inactive unit of the Italian Army last based in Cosenza in Calabria. The regiment is part of the army's infantry corps' Bersaglieri speciality and was last operationally assigned to the Bersaglieri Brigade \"Garibaldi\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, World War I\nThe 18th Bersaglieri Regiment was raised on 31 January 1917 by the depot of the 12th Bersaglieri Regiment in Milan. It received the newly raised battalions LXIX (raised by the 10th Bersaglieri Regiment), LXVII (raised by the 11th Bersaglieri Regiment), and LXVIII (raised by the 12th Bersaglieri Regiment).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, World War I\nThe regiment immediately entered the front along the Isonzo and distinguished itself rapidly, earning a Gold Medal of Military Valour on 16-17 November 1917 in Fagar\u00e8 on the shores of the Piave river, where the Royal Italian Army tried to establish the new front after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Caporetto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, World War I\nAfter the war the 18th Bersaglieri Regiment was disbanded on 31 December 1919. The regiment was raised again on 1 April 1935 in preparation for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, but it was disbanded without having left Italy on 31 December 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, World War II\nOn 1 February 1942 the depot of the 5th Bersaglieri Regiment in Siena raised the 18th Bersaglieri Regiment again. The regiment was structured as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, World War II\nAfter a few days the two tank companies were used to raise the LXVII Armored Bersaglieri Battalion, which was sent to the Eastern Front in Ukraine and Russia to join the 3rd Fast Division \"Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta\". Meanwhile the 18th Bersaglieri Regiment was sent to Provence in France on garrison duty. Recalled to Italy in early September 1943 the regiment was disbanded on 8 September 1943 after the Germans occupied Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, Cold War, 67th Bersaglieri Battalion \"Fagar\u00e8\"\nDuring the 1975 Italian Army reform the IV Bersaglieri Battalion of the 3rd Armored Infantry Regiment in Persano was renamed 67th Bersaglieri Battalion \"Fagar\u00e8\". The \"Fagar\u00e8\" battalion received the war flag and traditions of the 18th Bersaglieri Regiment and joined the Mechanized Brigade \"Pinerolo\". Bersaglieri battalions created during the reform were named, with two exceptions, for battles in which Bersaglieri units had distinguished themselves: the 67th Bersaglieri Battalion was named for its conduct at Fagar\u00e8 on 16-17 November 1917, which had earned the regiment a Gold Medal of Military Valour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 81], "content_span": [82, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, Recent times\nAs part of its reorganization after the Cold War the Italian Army moved the Bersaglieri Brigade \"Garibaldi\" from Pordenone in Northern Italy to Caserta in Southern Italy. On 1 July 1991 67th Bersaglieri Battalion \"Fagar\u00e8\" joined the \"Garibaldi\" brigade. On 20 September 1993 the \"Fagar\u00e8\" battalion was renamed 18th Bersaglieri Regiment without changing size or composition and moved from Persano to Cosenza in Calabria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, Recent times\nA company of the 18th Bersaglieri Regiment was the first Italian unit to deploy to North Macedonia for a possible NATO-led ground invasion of Kosovo during the Kosovo War. The full regiment arrived soon after and together with the other units of the Bersaglieri Brigade \"Garibaldi\" prepared for a planned ground invasion. After the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement between Yugoslavia and Kosovo Force the regiment was one of the first NATO units to enter Kosovo, where it advanced to the city of Pe\u0107, where it took up garrison and peacekeeping duties until 7 September 1999. For its conduct in Kosovo the regiment was awarded a Gold Medal of Army Valour, which was affixed to the regiment's war flag and added to the regiment's coat of arms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, Recent times\nAfter the regiment's return from Kosovo it was re-equipped with Dardo infantry fighting vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, Recent times\nThe regiment deployed to Iraq after the end of the Iraq War, arriving in Nasiriyah on 22 June 2003. Taking up garrison and peacekeeping duties in the city the regiment found itself soon embroiled in the Iraqi insurgency. On 7 October 2003 the regiment left Iraq and returned to Italy. For its conduct in Iraq the regiment was awarded a Gold Medal of Army Valour, which was affixed to the regiment's war flag and added to the regiment's coat of arms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032368-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Bersaglieri Regiment, History, Recent times\nOn 1 January 2005 the regiment was renamed 1st Bersaglieri Regiment and the war flag of the 18th was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia)\nThe 18th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Australian Army. The brigade briefly existed as a Militia formation prior to the First World War, but this was short lived. During the Second World War, the brigade was raised on 13 October 1939 and was one of the first three infantry brigades of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) to be formed. Initially commanded by Brigadier Leslie Morshead, it served in the United Kingdom in 1940\u20131941, where it helped bolster the British garrison in anticipation of a possible German invasion following the Fall of France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0000-0001", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia)\nIn early 1941, the brigade was transferred to the Middle East where it later took part in fighting against the Italians in Libya and then helped to defend the besieged port of Tobruk before fighting against the Vichy French in the Syria\u2013Lebanon campaign. The 18th Brigade was withdrawn to Australia in early 1942, and it later took part in the fighting against the Japanese in Pacific fighting several campaigns in New Guinea between late 1942 and early 1944. Its final involvement of the war came in mid-1945 when it took part in re-taking Balikpapan. Following the end of hostilities, the 18th Brigade was disbanded on 3 January 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Formation\nThe 18th Brigade briefly existed as Militia brigade that was partially formed in 1912, following the introduction of the compulsory training scheme. At this time, it was assigned to the 3rd Military District. The brigade's constituent units were spread across various locations in Victoria including Williamstown, Geelong, Ballarat, Warrnambool, Harsham and Stawell. The formation was short lived, and was not raised as part of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War. It remained on the order of battle as a Militia formation during the war, but was not re-raised in the interwar years when the Militia was reorganised to replicate the numerical designations of the AIF in 1921.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Formation\nDuring the Second World War, the 18th Brigade was formed on 13 October 1939 as part of the 6th Division. The brigade's headquarters was opened at Victoria Barracks at Paddington, New South Wales. Upon formation the brigade consisted of the following infantry battalions: the 2/9th, the 2/10th, the 2/11th and the 2/12th Battalions, which were raised from Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. Rudimentary training was conducted in home locations, before the brigade came together at Rutherford, New South Wales, in December 1939. This was followed by a further move to Ingleburn, New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Formation\nFollowing training, the brigade was dispatched to the Middle East, departing from Melbourne in May 1940. However, while they were at sea they were diverted to the United Kingdom in order to help defend the island against a possible invasion by German forces following the Fall of France. After landing at Gourock, Scotland, the brigade moved south to Salisbury Plain where they undertook training and defensive duties. In the United Kingdom, the 18th Brigade provided a cadre to the newly formed 25th Brigade and became part of the 9th Division when it was raised in October 1940.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Middle East\nLater, when the threat of invasion of the United Kingdom decreased, the decision was made to transfer the Australian forces there to the Middle East. The 18th Brigade arrived there in early January 1941. Around this time, the 2nd AIF was reorganised and each brigade was reduced from four battalions to three. As a result, the 2/11th Battalion was transferred to the 19th Brigade. At the same time also, the 18th Brigade was transferred to the 7th Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Middle East\nFollowing this, on 21 March 1941, the brigade took part in an attack on an Italian stronghold at Giarabub, 230 kilometres (140\u00a0mi) south of Bardia. Although the fortress was held by about 1,500 Italians supported by artillery, the Australian force dispatched only consisted of a reinforced battalion due to supply difficulties. Setting out on 10 March from Siwa, the assault began early on the morning of 21 March from the south over marshy ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0004-0002", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Middle East\nLed by the 2/9th Battalion with machine-gun and mortar support from the 2/12th and 2/10th Battalions, the attack was put in from the south while the 6th Division Cavalry Regiment feigned an attack from the north at the strongest point of the fortress. A heavy sandstorm obscured visibility, which hindered the supporting artillery and resulted in a number of casualties when one company moved beyond the barrage. Nevertheless, heavy fighting followed and resistance continued until 2:00\u00a0pm when the Italians surrendered. About 250 Italians were killed and 1,300 captured for the loss of 17 Australians killed and 77 wounded. Following the attack, the 18th Brigade returned to Ikingi Maryut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Middle East\nPlans were made for the 18th Brigade to deploy to Greece, but a German offensive in Libya resulted in the 7th Division being retained in North Africa. In April, the brigade was sent to Tobruk where they took part in the defence of the port between May and August 1941, alongside elements of the 9th Division. In May, the Germans managed to break into the Allied perimeter, penetrating towards an area dubbed \"The Salient\". The 18th Brigade subsequently led the Australian counterattack in conjunction with the 26th Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0005-0001", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Middle East\nOnce the perimeter was restored, the brigade rotated through the various defensive sectors around the perimeter until they were relieved by a Polish brigade in August, and withdrawn to Palestine. In September 1941, the brigade rejoined the rest of the 7th Division, which had been taking part in the fighting against Vichy French forces in the Syria\u2013Lebanon campaign. Following the armistice the division was allocated the task of undertaking garrison duties and the 18th Brigade was subsequently stationed at Aleppo, near the Turkish border to guard against a potential German attack through Turkey. Elements of the brigade were also deployed to Idlib, and patrols were mounted along the border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, New Guinea\nThe 18th Brigade returned to Australia in early 1942 following the outbreak of the Pacific War. Following defensive duties and training in Queensland, the 18th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier George Wootten, took part in the Battle of Milne Bay. Deployed with a battery from the 2/5th Field Regiment attached at brigade level, the 18th Brigade arrived at Milne Bay between 12 and 21 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0006-0001", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, New Guinea\nBetween 27 August and 7 September the brigade played an important role in the fighting which resulted in the first major defeat of the Japanese on land since the war had begun in December 1941. One of the brigade's soldiers, Corporal John French, of the 2/9th Battalion, was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions during the fighting on 4 September 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, New Guinea\nLater, as the 7th Division was assigned to the advance on the Japanese bases on the Papuan coast around Buna and Gona, the brigade, although understrength, was transferred to Buna in mid-December 1942 with the 2/9th Battalion landing at Oro Bay on 15 December. On 21 January 1943, the brigade captured Sanananda alongside the US 163rd Infantry Regiment. They were finally withdrawn back to Australia on 10 March 1943. During the fighting around Buna, the 18th Brigade suffered 425 men killed and more than 800 wounded. This represented 96 per cent of the brigade's strength at the start of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, New Guinea\nBy the time that the brigade returned to Australia, it was down to only 44 per cent of its authorised strength. In early July, the brigade was brought back up to strength with an intake of 1,300 men from the 1st Motor Brigade, which was subsequently disbanded. In August 1943, after training and re-organisation around Ravenshoe, Queensland, the 18th Brigade was deployed to Port Moresby in preparation for further operations, arriving there on 12 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0008-0001", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, New Guinea\nDuring the early phases of the Finisterre Range campaign the brigade remained in reserve around Port Moresby, while the other two brigades of the 7th Division, the 21st and 25th Brigades, were deployed to defend the approaches to Lae. They remained there until 4 January 1944 when the brigade was transported by air to Dumpu to relieve the 21st Brigade around Shaggy Ridge, subsequently taking part in the fighting around the Kankiryo Saddle, Prothero I and II and Crater Hill. Following the conclusion of the fighting around Shaggy Ridge in February, the brigade remained in New Guinea until May 1944 when they were withdrawn back to Australia for re-organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Borneo\nFollowing the brigade's return to Australia, it was reconstituted at Strathpine, Queensland, before later moving to Kairi. A long period of reorganisation and training followed, before the brigade moved to Morotai, in the Dutch East Indies, May 1945. The brigade's final involvement in the war came when they landed at Balikpapan in Borneo on 1 July 1945, as part of efforts to secure the port facilities and oilfields located there. Coming ashore in the first wave, the 18th Brigade was allocated to the landings around Klandasan, on the Allied left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0009-0001", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), History, Borneo\nFollowing the initial landing, the 18th Brigade, supported by 'D' Company, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, secured the high ground around Klandasan. On 3 July they captured the town of Balikpapan and secured its port before being relieved by the 25th Brigade. The 2/9th Battalion was detached, along with the 2/1st Pioneer Battalion, to clear the western side of the bay around Panadjam, while the rest of the brigade undertook further patrols around Balikpapan. By the end of the month, the Australians began mopping up operations, and these continued until the Japanese surrendered. Following the completion of hostilities in August, the brigade remained on Borneo as the demobilisation process began. The 18th Brigade was disbanded on 3 January 1946 at Balikpapan after its component battalions were disbanded throughout December 1945 and January 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 894]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032369-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Brigade (Australia), Commanders\nThe following officers served as commanding officer of the 18th Brigade:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032370-0000-0000", "contents": "18th British Academy Film Awards\nThe 18th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1965, honoured the best films of 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032370-0001-0000", "contents": "18th British Academy Film Awards, Winners and nominees\nMarcello Mastroianni \u2013 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow as Carmine Sbaratti/Renzo/Augusto Rusconti", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032370-0002-0000", "contents": "18th British Academy Film Awards, Winners and nominees\nRichard Attenborough \u2013 Guns at Batasi as Regimental Sergeant Major LauderdaleRichard Attenborough \u2013 S\u00e9ance on a Wet Afternoon as Billy Savage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032371-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Busan International Film Festival\nThe 18th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 3 to October 12, 2013 and was hosted by Aaron Kwok and Kang Soo-yeon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032371-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Busan International Film Festival\nThe 10-day festival attracted 217,865 people despite the organizers having been forced to reschedule some events due to a typhoon. Upcoming filmmakers from South Korea and Mongolia won $30,000 for the New Currents Awards. Over 299 films from 70 countries were screened, with 94 world premieres and 40 international premieres. The event opened with Bhutanese film Vara: A Blessing and closed with the South Korean film The Dinner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032372-0000-0000", "contents": "18th CableACE Awards\nThe 18th Annual CableACE Awards were held on November 16, 1996. Below are the nominees and the winners from that ceremony in the major categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032373-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Comedy Awards\nThe 18th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, film, and Internet comedy from 1 July 2016 to 31 December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032373-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Comedy Awards\nCanadian Comedy Awards, also known as Beavers, were awarded in 22 categories determined by votes from the public and industry members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032373-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Comedy Awards\nTV series Kim's Convenience led with a record thirteen nominations followed by the feature Another WolfCop with five. Web series You Got Trumped was the big winner, receiving three Beavers from its four nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032373-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Comedy Awards, Reorganization and awards\nThe Canadian Comedy Awards (CCA) award excellence in Canadian comedy at home and abroad. Due to a delay in the previous awards season, these awards also covered an 18-month period, from 1 July 2016 to 31 December 2017, in order to return to annual eligibility. This edition of the awards consolidated the number of categories to 22, largely by combining separate male and female performance categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032373-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Comedy Awards, Reorganization and awards\nIndustry members chose the nominees in each category. Each industry member could declare one category as their field of \"expertise\", giving their nomination and vote in that single category three times the normal weight. After nominations closed, voting was opened for the top five nominees in each category. 13 categories were open to public voting and 9 were exclusively decided by industry members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032374-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Film Awards\nThe 18th Canadian Film Awards were held on May 6, 1966 to honour achievements in Canadian film. The ceremony was hosted by Rich Little.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032375-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Ministry\nThe Eighteenth Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. It governed Canada from 21 June 1957 to 22 April 1963, including all of the 23rd, 24th, and 25th Canadian Parliaments. The government was formed by the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032376-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Parliament\nThe 18th Canadian Parliament was in session from February 6, 1936, until January 25, 1940. The membership was set by the 1935 federal election on October 14, 1935, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1940 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032376-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Parliament\nIt was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the 16th Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party, led first by Richard Bedford Bennett, and later by Robert Manion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032376-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Parliament\nThe Speaker was Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Casgrain. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1933-1947 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032376-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Parliament\nThe Social Credit Party led by J. H. Blackmore made their first federal appearance in this parliament. It would be an important third party until 1980. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by J.S. Woodsworth also made their first appearance. It, and its successor party, the New Democratic Party, would become a major source of policies that would change the fabric of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032376-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Parliament\nThere were six sessions of the 18th Parliament, though the last two were extremely short:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032376-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Parliament, List of members\nFollowing is a full list of members of the eighteenth Parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032376-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Canadian Parliament, List of members\nElectoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032377-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)\nThe 18th Mountain Cavalry Division was formed in 1936 by renaming the 7th Tadzhik Mountain Cavalry Division in the Central Asia Military District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032377-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), Wartime Service, 1941\nAt the beginning of war the division was one of the three Mountain Cavalry Divisions assigned to the 4th Cavalry Corps in Central Asia. The division remained there until November when it was shipped forward to the STAVKA reserves. The division was briefly in the reserves before being sent to the Kalinin Front's 30th Army. Along with the other two cavalry divisions in the army they formed the 11th Cavalry Corps in January 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032377-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), Wartime Service, 1941\nDespite being at 1/3 its prewar strength the division jumped off against the German flank north of Moscow. From February until July 1942 the 11th Cavalry Corps along with the 39th Army defended a nearly encircled salient in the vicinity of Bely and Vyazma-Smolensk. The Germans launched Operation Seydlitz on 2 July 1942 and eliminated the salient by the end of the month. The division was officially disbanded on 22 July 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment\nThe 18th Cavalry Regiment is a parent cavalry regiment of the United States Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment\nThe 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment, is the reconnaissance element of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the California Army National Guard. Prior to the most recent reorganization of the United States Army National Guard the unit was an aviation unit. It was equipped with AH-1F Cobras, and formed part of the 40th Infantry Division's Aviation Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nThe 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment, was originally constituted on 22 July 1885 in the California National Guard as the 7th Infantry Battalion and organized from existing companies in southern California. It expanded, reorganized, and was redesignated on 5 May 1888 as the 7th Infantry Regiment. On 7 December 1895, it was consolidated with the 9th Infantry Regiment, which had been organized on 8 February 1890, retaining the 7th Infantry Regiment designation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nDuring the Spanish\u2013American War, the regiment was mustered into Federal service on 9 May 1898 at the Presidio of San Francisco as the 7th California Volunteer Infantry. It did not see overseas service before being mustered out at Los Angeles on 2 December after the end of the war. It mustered into federal service on 29 June 1916 at Sacramento; and mustered out of federal service on 11 November 1916 at Los Angeles. It was drafted into federal service on 5 August 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nBetween 25 September and 1 November, the regiment consolidated with the California National Guard 2nd Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion, Companies L and M, and Sanitary Detachment as the 160th Infantry. The 160th was assigned to the 40th Infantry Division, and was demobilized at Camp Kearny in San Diego on 7 May 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nFormer southern California elements reorganized on 23 August-6 October 1921 in the California National Guard as the 160th Infantry and was assigned to the 40th Division; Headquarters was federally recognized on 31 January 1922 at Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nThe 2nd Battalion 160th Infantry, reorganized and was redesignated on 1 April 1929 as the 2nd Battalion, 185th Infantry, an element of the 40th Division (160th Infantry\u00a0\u2014 hereafter separate lineage). It expanded, reorganized, and was redesignated in March\u2013April 1930 as the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 185th Infantry, elements of the 40th Division (later designated as the 40th Infantry Division). It was inducted into federal service on 3 March 1941 at home stations. It inactivated on 7 April 1946 at Camp Stoneman, CA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nThe 2nd Battalion, 185th Infantry, was redesignated on 5 August 1946 as the 2nd Battalion, 223rd Infantry and remained assigned to the 40th Infantry Division. At the same time, the 3rd Battalion, 185th Infantry, was redesignated as the 224th Infantry. The 2nd Battalion of the 223rd was organized and Federally recognized on 23 June 1947 with headquarters at Burbank. On 1 September 1950, during the Korean War, the battalion was ordered into active Federal service at Burbank. The 2nd Battalion fought in the Korean War from the winter of 1951\u20131952 to the end of the war in July 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nOn 2 September 1952, a 2nd Battalion, 223rd Infantry was organized and Federally recognized in the National Guard of the United States (NGUS) to replace the deployed battalion at Burbank. The battalion was released from active service on 30 June 1954 after returning to California and reverted to state control as Federal recognition was withdrawn from the NGUS unit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nThe 2nd Battalion, 223rd Infantry, consolidated with the 3rd Battalion, 111th Armored Cavalry as the 139th Tank Battalion (90mm gun) on 1 July. The armored cavalry battalion was organized and federally recognized on 26 January 1951 with headquarters at Van Nuys and moved to Burbank on 1 November of that year. The new unit was assigned to the 40th Armored Division. On 1 July 1959, the battalion was reorganized and redesignated as the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion of the 185th Armor, still part of the 40th Armored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nThe unit reorganized and was redesignated on 1 March 1963 as the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 18th Armored Cavalry, and relieved from assignment to the 40th Armored Division. It was reorganized and redesignated on 1 November 1965 as the 1st Squadron, 18th Armored Cavalry; and ordered into active federal service on 13 May 1968 at home stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0009-0001", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nThe 1st Squadron was scheduled for deployment to South Vietnam in November 1968 but due to pressure from the relatives of unit members, only the squadron's heavy equipment was shipped to South Vietnam and the unit was assigned to the Strategic Army Forces in the United States. On 12 December 1969 it was released from active federal service and reverting to state control. On 13 December, its headquarters was moved to Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nIt was reorganized and redesignated on 13 January 1974 as the 18th Cavalry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st Squadron, an element of the 40th Infantry Division. It was withdrawn on 19 January 1988 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History\nThe 1st Squadron [less Troops C and D] was ordered into active federal service on 1 May 1992 at home station and deployed to the LA Riots. 1st/18th was first unit on the ground to secure the LA Coliseum, (on the ground for two weeks) released on 9 May 1992 and reverted to state control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History, 21st century activations and deployments\nIn the 2003-2004 time period Alpha, Bravo and Charlie Troops were activated in support of Operation Noble Eagle. In 2005-2006, the Squadron (less Delta, Echo and Foxtrot Troops) were mobilized to provide a security force for Camp Delta which fell under the GWOT Campaign. A few of the troopers were assigned to the 184th Infantry during their 2004 deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom, with some dying in combat. During the October 2007 California wildfires, approximately 400 soldiers were activated by the Governor of California to assist local authorities in various functions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0012-0001", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History, 21st century activations and deployments\n1-18th Cavalry was called to active federal service along with the 79th IBCT in October 2008 in support of NATO peacekeeping efforts in Kosovo. 1-18th Cavalry subsequently returned to the U.S. in November 2009. During the 2015 California wildfires, Soldiers with 18th Cavalry were called up to participate in firefighting operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, History, 21st century activations and deployments\nIn 2018, elements of the regiment deployed to Jordan, as part of Task Force Spartan, relieving elements of the 184th Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Distinctive unit insignia\nA Gold color metal and enamel device 1+1\u20448 inches (2.9\u00a0cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Or, a tilting spear in bend Vert, between a horse\u2019s head couped and a gauntlet of the like, all within a bordure of the second. Attached below the shield is a Gold scroll inscribed \"VELOX ET MORTIFER\" in Black letters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Distinctive unit insignia\nThe shield of the coat of arms for the 111th Armored Cavalry Regiment, differenced by a green border, indicates descent of the 139th Tank Battalion from the 3d Battalion of that organization. The colors yellow and green are used for Armor. The horse\u2019s head and lance symbolize Cavalry and medieval armor, respectively. The gauntlet represents the shock action of armor and the ability to deliver a decisive blow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Distinctive unit insignia\nThe distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 139th Tank Battalion on 28 February 1956. It was redesignated for the 18th Armored Cavalry Regiment on 24 April 1968. The insignia was redesignated for the 18th Cavalry Regiment on 13 May 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Coat of arms, Blazon\nOr, a tilting spear in bend Vert, between a horse\u2019s head couped and a gauntlet of the like, all within a bordure of the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Coat of arms, Blazon\nThat for the regiments and separate battalions of the California Army National Guard: On a wreath of the colors Or and Vert, the setting sun behind a grizzly bear passant on a grassy field all Proper. Motto VELOX ET MORTIFER (Swift and Deadly).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Coat of arms, Symbolism\nThe shield of the coat of arms for the 111th Armored Cavalry Regiment, differenced by a green border, indicates descent of the 139th Tank Battalion from the 3d Battalion of that organization. The colors yellow and green are used for Armor. The horse\u2019s head and lance symbolize Cavalry and medieval armor, respectively. The gauntlet represents the shock action of armor and the ability to deliver a decisive blow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Coat of arms, Symbolism\nThe crest is that of the California Army National Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032378-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Cavalry Regiment, Coat of arms, Background\nThe coat of arms was originally approved for the 139th Tank Battalion on 28 February 1956. It was redesignated for the 18th Armored Cavalry Regiment on 24 April 1968. The insignia was redesignated for the 18th Cavalry Regiment on 13 May 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032379-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection\nThe 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) was elected at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on 14 November 2012. Its 1st Plenary Session elected the Secretary, deputy secretaries and the 18th Standing Committee of the CCDI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032380-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 18th National Congress on 15 November 2012, and sat in plenary sessions until the communing of the 19th National Congress in 2017. It was formally proceeded by the 17th Central Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032380-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe Committee is composed of full members and alternate members. A member has voting rights, while an alternate does not. If a full member is removed from the CC the vacancy is then filled by an alternate member at the next committee plenum \u2014 the alternate member who received the most confirmation votes in favour is highest on the order of precedence. To be elected to the Central Committee, a candidate must be a party member for at least five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032380-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe first plenary session in 2012 was responsible for electing the bodies in which the authority of the Central Committee was invested when it was not in session: the Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee. It was also responsible for approving the members of the Secretariat, Central Commission of Discipline Inspection and its Standing Committee. The second plenary session in March 2013 was responsible for nominating candidates for state positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032380-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe remaining plenary sessions of the 18th Central Committee were known for announcing a wide range of reform programs on a scale unprecedented since the Deng era, including \"comprehensively deepening reforms\", \"ruling the country according to law\", and complete the construction of a \"moderately prosperous society\". The 18th CC also saw the highest number of members expelled from the body due to corruption in the party's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032380-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe 18th CC was elected using the method \"more candidates than seats\". At the 18th National Congress, delegates could vote for 224 possible candidates for 205 seats for full membership, and 190 candidates for the 171 alternate members. 8.5 percent of the member candidates and 10 percent of the alternate candidates failed to be elected. Of the 373 full and alternate members, 184 of them (i.e., 48.9 percent) were elected to the Central Committee for the first time. Five of the nine members born in the 1960s were associated with the Communist Youth League (designated as Tuanpai by foreign commentators).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032380-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party\nFew offspring of previously high-standing officials (known as \"princelings\") managed to obtain full membership on the 18th CC, though a few were named alternate members. The number of members who worked in central-controlled state-owned enterprises increased from one in the 17th CC to six, while Zhang Ruimin (head of Haier) was re-elected. The number of members from the military remained constant from the previous committee at around 20 percent, continuing a longstanding tradition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032380-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, References, Sources\nPlenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity, the Central Committee member- and alternate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership, Central Military Commission members, Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection membership, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, offices an individual held, retirement, if the individual in question is military personnel, female, has been expelled, is currently under investigation or has retired:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032381-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Chess Olympiad\nThe 18th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open team tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 17 and November 7, 1968, in Lugano, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032381-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Chess Olympiad\nThe Soviet team with six GMs, led by world champion Petrosian, lived up to expectations and won their ninth consecutive gold medals, with Yugoslavia and Bulgaria taking the silver and bronze, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032381-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Chess Olympiad, Results, Preliminaries\nA total of 53 teams entered the competition and were divided into seven preliminary groups of seven or eight teams each. The top two from each group advanced to Final A, the teams placed third-fourth to Final B, no. 5-6 to Final C, and the rest to Final D. Preliminary head-to-head results were carried over to the finals, so no teams met more than once. All preliminary groups and finals were played as round-robin tournaments. The results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032382-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Coast Artillery (United States)\nThe 18th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army. It was the Regular Army component of the Harbor Defenses of the Columbia, replacing the 3rd Coast Artillery there. Other elements of the regiment were also part of the Harbor Defenses of San Francisco. The regiment was active from 1940 until withdrawn in April 1944 and inactivated the following month as part of an Army-wide reorganization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032382-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Coast Artillery (United States), Lineage 1\nConstituted as the 18th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) (C.A.C.) and organized October 1918 at Fort Winfield Scott, California, but demobilized in December 1918. This was one of a number of Coast Artillery regiments mobilized to operate heavy and railway artillery on the Western Front in World War I, but the Armistice resulted in the dissolution of the 18th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032382-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Coast Artillery (United States), Lineage 2\nConstituted in the Regular Army 19 January 1940 as 18th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) (HD), and organized 1 February 1940 at Fort Stevens. Regimental HHB, 1st Battalion HHB, and Batteries A and B were organized 1 February 1940 by redesignating HHD, Btrys E and F, and Panama Detachment, 3rd Coast Artillery (HD) Regiment, Fort Stevens. The 18th CA (HD) relieved the 3rd CA (HD) in the Harbor Defenses of the Columbia. The 249th Coast Artillery was the Oregon National Guard component of those defenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032383-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)\nThe 18th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 10\u201321 March 1939 in Moscow. It elected the 18th Central Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032383-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)\nThis is the first Congress to be dominated by the \"purified\" leadership of the Soviet Union after the Great Purge. This would be the last one held for over a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032383-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)\nIn the report on the work of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party Stalin outlined important aspects of the foreign policy of the USSR, particularly its disappointment with the western democracies and their failure to adopt the policy of collective security advocated by Soviet foreign minister Maxim Litvinov. Shortly after this, Stalin dismissed Litvinov and appointed Vyacheslav Molotov, a move that led to the Molotov\u2013Ribbentrop Pact and a temporary understanding with Nazi Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032383-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Decisions of the Congress\nThe report of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) consisted of an analysis of the internal and international situation of the country, as well as its future development perspectives. The Congress took note of the now prevailing socialist mode of production and considered socialism in the USSR to be largely built, while in its view the country was already sailing towards a new step of development, i.e. the completion of the socialist society. A new goal was set: to catch and get ahead of the most developed capitalistic States. The report also tackled theoretical questions regarding the stages of development and functions of the socialist State, and viewed as erroneous the idea that the State would be soon extinct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 86], "content_span": [87, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032383-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Decisions of the Congress\nThe Congress sanctioned the new Party's statute which was supposed to reflect changes in the class structure of the Soviet society. A unified set of conditions for entry in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was implemented, as well as a one-year probation period. An exception was made for former members of other parties, to which these conditions would not apply. The division into separate categories depending on each individual's social class origin was abolished. Articles defining new rights for the Party's members were also added.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 86], "content_span": [87, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032383-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Decisions of the Congress\nThe Congress also confirmed the third five-years plan for the development of the Soviet economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 86], "content_span": [87, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines\nThe Eighteenth Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: Ikalabingwalong Kongreso ng Pilipinas) is the current meeting of the national legislature of the Republic of the Philippines, composed of the Senate and House of Representatives. The convention of the 18th Congress was followed by the 2019 Senate election, which replaced half of the Senate membership, and the 2019 House of Representatives elections which elected the entire membership of the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines\nThe House of Representatives meets in Batasang Pambansa Complex and the Senate meets in the GSIS Building from July 22, 2019 to a certain date in 2022, from the fourth to sixth year of the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte; this will be the end of tenure for senators elected in 2016. The 18th Congress was officially opened by President Duterte together with the joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Composition\nBoth chambers of Congress are divided into parties and blocs. While members are elected via parties, blocs are the basis for committee memberships. Only members of the majority and minority blocs are accorded committee memberships. This is how blocs are determined:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Members\nTerms of members of Congress started on June 30, 2019, took office on July 22, 2019, and will end on June 30, 2022, unless stated otherwise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Agenda, Death penalty\nAs of July 2019, bills seeking to reinstate capital punishment in the Philippines have been revived in the Senate ahead of the opening of the 18th Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Agenda, COVID-19 pandemic\nThe 18th Congress enacted the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act and Bayanihan to Recover as One Act as response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Agenda, ABS-CBN franchise renewal\nIn May 2020, the House of Representatives acted on the pending franchise renewal bills of ABS-CBN that has been pending since July 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Agenda, House Speakership crisis\nIn 2020, the position of Speaker was disputed, which in the latter part of the year threatened the passage of a bill legislating the national government's budget for 2021. The dispute involved then-speaker and Pateros\u2013Taguig representative Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque representative Lord Allan Velasco. This started in July 2019, when the two had a \"term-sharing agreement\" which was brokered by President Rodrigo Duterte. Under that deal, Cayetano would serve as House Speaker for the first 15 months of the 18th Congress, or until October 2020. Cayetano was to step down from his position as speaker in order to give way for the election of Velasco as speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Agenda, House Speakership crisis\nCayetano, in March 2020, accused Velasco and his camp of a conspiracy to remove him from his position as House Speaker. Velasco denied Cayetano's allegation of supposed ouster plot, stating it \"baseless.\" Cayetano initially oversaw deliberations on the 2021 national budget but tensions in the lower house of the Congress grew by September 2020. His camp abruptly ended sessions in which some legislators criticizing the move which prevented them from scrutinizing proposals on the 2021 budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Agenda, House Speakership crisis\nCayetano offered to resign but his camp claim that majority of the House of Representatives declined his resignation. On October 12, 2020, Lord Allan Velasco and some legislators convened at the Celebrity Sports Complex in Quezon City and conducted a house session where positions including the speakership was declared vacant and appointed Velasco as house speaker. Velasco's camp claimed that 186 lawmakers voted for his appointment as house speaker. Cayetano's camp declared the session a \"travesty\" and questioned the legality of the session itself. Cayetano maintained that he remains as house speaker. On the other hand, Cayetano called the appointment of Velasco as a speaker a \"fake session\" as he added that there was no prior plenary resolution authorizing the holding of a session outside the Batasang Pambansa and insists that the House of Representative mace used in the meeting is illegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 970]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Agenda, House Speakership crisis\nOn October 13, 2020, during the start of the special session of the House, Velasco's election as House Speaker last October 12, 2020 was formally ratified by 186 representatives assembled in the Batasang Pambansa. At the same time, Cayetano tendered his \"irrevocable\" resignation as House Speaker on his Facebook Live paving the way for Velasco to assume his position undisputed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032384-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Congress of the Philippines, Legislation, Republic Acts\nThe 18th Congress has passed 33 laws, or Republic Acts 11462 to 11494:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032385-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032385-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at Norwich, Connecticut, on August 22, 1862.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032385-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe regiment was attached to Defenses of Baltimore, Maryland, VIII Corps, Middle Department, to January 1863. 2nd Separate Brigade, VIII Corps, to February 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, VIII Corps, to June 1863. Unattached, Scammon's Division, Department of West Virginia, to December 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Department of West Virginia, to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Department of West Virginia, to July 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Department of West Virginia, to October 1864. New Haven, Connecticut, to November 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Department of West Virginia, to April 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Department of West Virginia, to June 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032385-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service June 27, 1865, at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032385-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nThe regiment left Connecticut for Baltimore, Maryland, August 22. Duty at Forts McHenry and Marshall, Defenses of Baltimore, May 1863. Moved to Winchester, Virginia, and joined Robert H. Milroy's command May 22. Battle of Winchester June 13\u201315, where the regiment was mostly captured June 15. Paroled July 2 and exchanged October 1, 1863. Moved to Martinsburg, Virginia, to join those not captured. Provost duty at Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, and at Martinsburg March 1864. At Bolivar Heights March 7\u201328. Reconnaissance toward Snicker's Gap March 16\u201318. On furlough March 28 \u2013 April 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032385-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nSigel's Expedition from Martinsburg to New Market April 29-May 17. Battle of New Market May 15. Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg May 26-July 1. Advance on Staunton May 26-June 5. Action at Piedmont, Mount Crawford, June 5. Occupation of Staunton June 6. Lynchburg June 17\u201318. Moved to Camp Piatt, then to Parkersburg, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Snicker's Ford July 1\u201318. Snicker's Ferry July 18. Battle of Kernstown, Winchester, July 24. Martinsburg July 25. At Charlestown, West Virginia, October, and at Martinsburg October 1\u201329. Moved to New Haven, Conn., and duty at Conscript Camp November 11. Moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia, November 11\u201313, then to Halltown November 23, and duty there March 1865 and at Martinsburg June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032385-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nThe regiment lost a total of 152 men during service; 4 officers and 67 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 80 enlisted men died of disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032386-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Corps (People's Republic of China)\nThe 18th Corps (Chinese: \u7b2c18\u519b) was a military formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army which existed from 1949 to 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032386-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Corps (People's Republic of China)\nThe 18th Corps was activated in February 1949, and initially comprised the 52nd, 53rd and 54th Divisions. It was established at Henan Luyi County Wutai Temple on 18 February 1949.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032386-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Corps (People's Republic of China)\nOn January 6, 1950, the 18th CPC Central Committee and the Southwest Military Region ordered the 18th Army to enter Tibet, under the cooperation of the 14th Army and the Northwest Military Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032386-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Corps (People's Republic of China)\nIn December 1951, the CPC Central Committee and Central Military Commission decided to establish the Tibet Military Region. The district was established in Lhasa on February 10, 1952, and on 17 March 1952 the 18th Corps was disbanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032387-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Critics' Choice Awards\nThe 18th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 10, 2013 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of 2012 filmmaking. The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and hosted by Sam Rubin. The nominees were announced on December 11, 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032387-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Critics' Choice Awards, Winners and nominees\nQuvenzhane Wallis \u2013 Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032387-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Critics' Choice Awards, Winners and nominees\nBradley Cooper \u2013 Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio Solitano Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032387-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Critics' Choice Awards, Winners and nominees\nAnna Karenina \u2013 Sarah Greenwood (Production Design)/Katie Spencer (Set Decoration)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032388-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Cruiser Division (Imperial Japanese Navy)\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) at 20:26, 19 November 2019 (Date formats). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032388-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Cruiser Division (Imperial Japanese Navy)\nThe 18th Cruiser Division (CruDiv 18, \u7b2c\u5341\u516b\u6226\u968a, Dai-J\u016bhachi Sentai) was a cruiser unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The division was part of the 4th Fleet and consisted of the light cruisers Tenry\u016b and Tatsuta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032389-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Cruiser Squadron\nThe 18th Cruiser Squadron was a formation of cruisers of the Royal Navy from 1939 to 1942. The squadron was formed in September 1939 and was assigned to the Home Fleet until it was disbanded in October 1942. It included HMS\u00a0Norfolk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032390-0000-0000", "contents": "18th C\u00e9sar Awards\nThe 18th C\u00e9sar Awards ceremony, presented by the Acad\u00e9mie des Arts et Techniques du Cin\u00e9ma, honoured the best French films of 1992 and took place on 8 March 1993 at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Marcello Mastroianni and hosted by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mitterrand. Savage Nights won the award for Best Film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032391-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Daytime Emmy Awards\nThe 18th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, June 27, 1991, on CBS, to commemorate excellence in American daytime programming from the previous year (1990). The awards were hosted by The Price Is Right host Bob Barker. For the first time, they aired in the evening, from 9 to 11 p.m. EST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032392-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Delaware General Assembly\nThe 18th Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday of October and terms began on the first Tuesday in January. It met in Dover, Delaware, convening January 7, 1794, two weeks before the beginning of the second year of the administration of Governor Joshua Clayton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032392-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Delaware General Assembly\nThe apportionment of seats was permanently assigned to three senators and seven representatives for each of the three counties. Population of the county did not effect the number of delegates. Both chambers had a Federalist majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032392-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Delaware General Assembly, Members, Senate\nSenators were elected by the public for a three-year term, one third posted each year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032392-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Delaware General Assembly, Members, House of Representative\nRepresentatives were elected by the public for a one-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032393-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Directors Guild of America Awards\nThe 18th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1965, were presented in 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032394-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Division (German Empire)\nThe 18th Division (18. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed on October 11, 1866, and was headquartered in Flensburg. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the IX Army Corps (IX. Armeekorps). The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited primarily in Schleswig-Holstein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032394-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Division (German Empire), Combat chronicle\nIn the Franco-Prussian War of 1870\u201371, the 18th Infantry Division saw action in the battles of Colombey and Gravelotte and in the Siege of Metz. After the Battle of Noiseville, the division entered the Loire campaign, fighting in the battles of 2nd Orl\u00e9ans, Beaugency-Cravant, and Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032394-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Division (German Empire), Combat chronicle\nDuring the opening phases of World War I, the 18th Infantry Division participated in the Battle of Li\u00e8ge, the Allied Great Retreat, the First Battle of the Marne, and the First Battle of the Aisne. In 1916, it saw action in the Somme, and in 1917 it was involved in the Battles of Arras and Passchendaele. In 1918, it participated in the German spring offensive and the subsequent Allied counteroffensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive. Allied intelligence rated it a first class division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032394-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Division (German Empire), Order of battle in the Franco-Prussian War\nDuring wartime, the 18th Division, like other regular German divisions, was redesignated an infantry division. The organization of the 18th Infantry Division in 1870 at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032394-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Division (German Empire), Pre-World War I organization\nGerman divisions underwent various organizational changes after the Franco-Prussian War. The organization of the 18th Division in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I, was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032394-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Division (German Empire), Order of battle on mobilization\nOn mobilization in August 1914 at the beginning of World War I, most divisional cavalry, including brigade headquarters, was withdrawn to form cavalry divisions or split up among divisions as reconnaissance units. Divisions received engineer companies and other support units from their higher headquarters. The 18th Division was again renamed the 18th Infantry Division. The 18th Infantry Division's initial wartime organization was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032394-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Division (German Empire), Late World War I organization\nDivisions underwent many changes during the war, with regiments moving from division to division, and some being destroyed and rebuilt. During the war, most divisions became triangular - one infantry brigade with three infantry regiments rather than two infantry brigades of two regiments (a \"square division\"). An artillery commander replaced the artillery brigade headquarters, the cavalry was further reduced, the engineer contingent was increased, and a divisional signals command was created. The 18th Infantry Division's order of battle on March 8, 1918, was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)\nThe 18th Division (\u7b2c18\u5e2b\u56e3, Dai-j\u016bhachi Shidan) was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its ts\u016bsh\u014dg\u014d code name was the Chrysanthemum Division (\u83ca\u5175\u5718, Kiku heidan). The 18th Division was one of two infantry divisions newly raised by the Imperial Japanese Army immediately after the Russo-Japanese War (1904\u20131905) as part of the post war expansion of the standing Japanese military. The division received its colors on 13 November 1907. Its original headquarters was in a suburb of the city of Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nIn World War I the division was strengthened by an additional infantry brigade (the IJA 29th Brigade) and, led by Lieutenant General Kamio Mitsuomi, was given an independent command in the Siege of Tsingtao of the German colony of Tsingtao in the Shandong peninsula, China in October 1914, forcing a surrender of German forces after a week-long assault. Notably, an aircraft from divisional air force has become the first airplane ever downed in the air-to-air combat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nHowever, on 1 May 1925, the division was dissolved by Minister of War Ugaki Kazushige as part of a cost-saving measure during the Kato Takaaki administration, together with the 13th, 15th and 17th divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nThe 18th Division was resurrected in September 1937 as a square division as a part of general military build-up following the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. As part of the IJA 10th Army under the overall command of the Japanese Central China Area Army it was deployed to the Chinese mainland, as an emergency reinforcement force to supplement the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army in China after the Second Shanghai Incident. The Japanese 18th division subsequently participated in the Battle of Nanjing and the subsequent atrocities known as the Nanking Massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nFrom September 1938, the division came under the control of the IJA 21st Army, and participated in the Canton Operation and the invasion and occupation of Guangdong Province under the command of Lieutenant General Seiichi Kuno. The division remained in China through the 1939\u201340 Winter Offensive under the command of Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nFrom 6 November 1941 the division came under the command of Lieutenant-General Renya Mutaguchi and was reassigned to the IJA 25th Army (which was under the command of General Yamashita Tomoyuki). It participated in the invasion of Malaya and Singapore. The 124th Infantry Regiment and some other units of the 18th Division took part in the Battle of Borneo from 16 December 1941 on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nFollowing the conquest of Singapore, the division was transferred to the IJA 15th Army for the invasion of Burma, where it suffered over 3000 casualties, primarily from malnutrition and malaria in securing control of the Ledo Road. The supply situation was so bad that some elements of the division stole rations and weapons from the stores of 53rd division, in Tanai Township earning for themselves the nickname of \"thief troopers\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nIn 1942, the division's Kawaguchi Detachment (the 35th Infantry Brigade and 124th Infantry Regiment) was detached and sent to Sarawak, the Philippines and finally to Guadalcanal. There, it took heavy losses in the battles of Edson's Ridge and Henderson Field. After the detachment, the main body of the division was converted to the triangular division format in 1943, while the detachment became the 31st division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nLate in 1943, Mutaguchi was promoted and replaced as commander of the division by Lieutenant-General Shinichi Tanaka. Transferred to the IJA 33rd Army, and operations in northern Burma, the 18th Division fought against the American-led Chinese divisions advancing on Mogaung and Myitkyina, and against the British Chindits operating behind their lines. Although suffering heavy losses, the division nevertheless inflicted many casualties and imposed severe delays on the Allies. Especially hit was the 114th infantry regiment which suffered about 2000 combat casualties while holding an important rail and road hub of Myitkyina in 1944 while under command of the 56th division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Imphal in March\u2013July 1944, Lieutenant-General Shinichi Tanaka exchanged divisional appointment with Lieutenant-General Eitaro Naka, formerly Chief of Staff of the Burma Area Army. In the 1945 campaigning season, the division once again lost many thousands of men in the Battle of Central Burma, particularly at Meiktila, south of Mandalay. During the battle, the division was reinforced by 119th infantry regiment from the 53rd division in attempts to recapture Meiktila from the Allies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032395-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army), Action\nThe 18th division ended the war in southern Burma. Of the 31,444 men of the division sent to Burma, more than 20,000 did not make it home to Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 46], "content_span": [47, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032396-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Division (North Korea)\nThe 18th Division was a military formation of the Korean People's Army during the 20th Century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032396-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Division (North Korea)\nFought in the First Battle of Seoul. After the U.S. Marines ground down the hill defenses on Seoul's west side and entered Seoul proper on 25 September, the NKPA's 18th Division commander had decided that the battle was lost and began withdrawing his unit, which had been fighting in the Yongdungp'o area south of the Han River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam)\nThe 18th Division was an infantry division in the III Corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). The U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam considered the 18th as undisciplined and it was well known throughout the ARVN for its \"cowboy\" reputation. In 1975 the 18th was made famous for its tenacious defense of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, the last major battle before the Fall of Saigon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nThe Division was initially activated as the 10th Infantry Division in May 1965 under the command of General L\u1eef M\u1ed9ng Lan. By the end of 1965 the US advisers to the Division regarded General Lan as \"moody and vacillatory\" and \"a marginal commander who would have to be worked with.\" They gave Lan high marks for his \"perceptiveness and dexterity in civil affairs and troop morale\" but saw his interest in local politics as too distracting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nAlthough they found his three regimental commanders \"capable and willing people,\" they felt that it was too early to judge if the Division was going to jell into a fighting unit. COMUSMACV General William Westmoreland predicted that combined operations with the US 1st Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade would inspire the Division to higher standards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nIn early May 1966 General Westmoreland suggested a \"buddy\" effort, matching the US 173d Airborne Brigade and the 1st Australian Task Force with the Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nIn 1967 MACV assessed that the three ARVN divisions surrounding Saigon, the Division, 5th and the 25th Division had shown no improvement, and US advisers considered their commanders, Generals Do Ke Giai, Pham Quoc Thuan (5th Division) and Phan Trong Chinh (25th Division), flatly incompetent. The senior Junta generals had repeatedly agreed on the need to replace them, but, for political reasons, had taken no action. Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) leader Robert Komer accused several battalion commanders in the Division of using the new pacification mission as an excuse to withdraw from all meaningful operations, except to provide for their own self-protection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nOn 27/8 June 1967 units of the Division engaged forces from the Viet Cong (VC) 5th Division near Tuc Trung and had to be assisted by the US 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment which was conducting Operation Akron. ARVN losses were 51 killed, but they killed 167 VC while US forces claimed a further 49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nFrom 3 November 1967 to 5 January 1968 the Division participated in Operation Santa Fe, a security operation with the US 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Division and the 1st Australian Task Force against the VC 5th Division's base in the May Tao Secret Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nFrom 8 April to 31 May 1968 the Division participated in Operation Toan Thang I to continue pressure on PAVN/VC forces in III Corps after the successful Operation Quyet Thang. The operation involved nearly every combat unit in III Corps. The operation was a success with allied forces claiming 7645 VC/PAVN killed, however the operation did not prevent the PAVN/VC from launching their May Offensive attacks against Saigon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nIn September 1968 MACV rated General Giai as inept and Division advisers noted that the Division was even a \"laughing stock\" to the Vietnamese. II Field Force, Vietnam commander Lt. Gen. Walter T. Kerwin Jr. appealed to COMUSMACV General Creighton Abrams for help, and the MACV commander reportedly \"raised hell\" with President Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u over the matter, but Thi\u1ec7u, perhaps feeling safer with old friends like Giai around the capital to keep a watch on his rivals, did nothing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nOn 15 January 1969 the Headquarters and 3rd Battalion 52nd Regiment and the 5th Marine Battalion joined Operation Goodwood with the 1st Australian Task Force replacing the 1st Marine Battalion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nIn June 1969 the new II Field Force commander Lt. Gen. Julian Ewell initiated the Dong Tien (or \"Progress Together\") Program with III Corps commander, General \u0110\u1ed7 Cao Tr\u00ed, to \"buddy up US and ARVN units to conduct combined operations [that would]... maximize the effectiveness of both forces [and] achieve in 2, 3, or 4 months a quantum jump in ARVN and RF/PF performance.\" The US 199th Light Infantry Brigade moved to Xuan Loc, headquarters of the Division, and began a series of combined operations with what was still considered one of the worst units in the ARVN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nIn July 1969, Maj. Gen. Roderick Wetherill, the IV Corps senior adviser, suggested deploying elements of the Division out of the placid Saigon area and into the delta border regions where they might pick up some useful combat experience, however Lt. Gen. Ewell treated the proposal as a joke saying \"the 18th couldn't hit the ground with their hat in Delta terrain against the VC\" and insisted they stay at home, out of harm's way. General Abrams apparently agreed and let the matter drop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nIn August 1969 Giai was finally replaced as Division commander by General Lam Quang Tho, however US officials had major reservations about this replacement, not regarding Tho as a dynamic leader. One MACV evaluation later described Tho as a \"highly respected and admired general,\" while another judged him to be a \"coward and military incompetent.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1965-1971\nOn 20 September 1971 the Division base camp located 2\u00a0km west of T\u00e2y Ninh received 50 82mm mortar rounds followed by a sapper attack by an estimated PAVN battalion. The PAVN lost 52 killed and 9 captured and 17 individual and two crew-served weapons, while the Division lost 21 killed. On 22 September elements of the 1st Battalion, 43rd Infantry Regiment operating 12\u00a0km north of T\u00e2y Ninh engaged a PAVN force, supported by ARVN and U.S. artillery and U.S. helicopter gunships killing 20 PAVN and capturing 3 individual and four crew-served weapons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, Easter Offensive\nDuring the Easter Offensive in late March 1972 the Division's 2nd Battalion, 52nd Infantry Regiment and 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry Regiment were both transferred to the 5th Division to serve as a border screen. During the Battle of Loc Ninh, on 6 April 5 Division commander Brigadier General L\u00ea V\u0103n H\u01b0ng organised the 2 Battalions as Task Force 52 and ordered them to move north to relieve the 9th Infantry Regiment under siege in L\u1ed9c Ninh. As the 2nd Battalion to advance towards L\u1ed9c Ninh it was ambushed at the junction of National Highway 13 and Route 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0013-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, Easter Offensive\nUnable to withstand the VC's superior firepower, it was forced to withdraw. To prevent Task Force 52 from evacuating to either L\u1ed9c Ninh or An L\u1ed9c, the VC pursued Task Force 52 and bombarded their bases with heavy artillery throughout the day. As L\u1ed9c Ninh fell on the morning of 7 April at 09:00 General H\u01b0ng ordered Task Force 52 to abandon its bases, destroy all heavy weapons and vehicles, and withdraw to An L\u1ed9c, following their failed attempt at reinforcing L\u1ed9c Ninh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0013-0002", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, Easter Offensive\nAs Task Force 52 tried to break through National Highway 13, they ran into another large VC ambush. It would take the soldiers of Task Force 52 about a week to reach An L\u1ed9c, infiltrating through PAVN/VC positions along the main road. The next step in the offensive was the Battle of An L\u1ed9c.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, Easter Offensive\nOn 13/4 June a regiment of the Division was landed in An L\u1ed9c to reinforce the exhausted 5th Division. On 11 July the entire Division arrived at An L\u1ed9c to replace the 5th Division. The Division would spread out from An L\u1ed9c and push the PAVN back, increasing control in the area. On 8 August the Division launched an assault to retake Qu\u1ea7n L\u1ee3i Base Camp but were stopped by the PAVN in the base's reinforced concrete bunkers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0014-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, Easter Offensive\nA further attack was launched on 9 August with limited gains and attacks on the base continued for the next 2 weeks eventually gaining one third of the base. The ARVN finally attacked the PAVN occupied bunkers with TOW missiles and M-202 rockets and this broke the PAVN defense forcing the remaining defenders to flee the base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, Easter Offensive\nFollowing the battle Col. L\u00ea Minh \u0110\u1ea3o was appointed to replace General Tho in command of the Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, Easter Offensive\nIn late November the Division was replaced at An L\u1ed9c by the 3rd, 5th and 6th Ranger Groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1973\u201374\nIn April 1974 during the Battle of Svay Rieng a battalion from the Division formed part of the reserves for the battle and another battalion formed part of a task force that swept PAVN base areas in the Angel's Wing () area of Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1973\u201374\nFrom 16 May to 2 July 1974 the Division fought the PAVN 7th and 9th Divisions in the Battle of the Iron Triangle, until relieved by the 5th Division. In mid-November the 48th and 52nd Regiments rejoined the battle in its final phases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1973\u201374\nOn 9 December in response to the PAVN 812th Regiment attack on T\u00e1nh Linh District III Corps ordered the Division, with the 7th Ranger Group attached, from Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c to reinforce the territorials in B\u00ecnh Tuy Province. When the 32d Ranger Battalion fell into a well-laid ambush along Route 333 and sustained heavy casualties, it became clear that the PAVN 33rd Regiment was not going to permit the reinforcement of B\u00ecnh Tuy to proceed without a fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0019-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1973\u201374\nLater the 1st and 2d Battalions of the 48th Regiment joined the attack along Route 333 and were soon in heavy combat north of Gia Ray. In the days that followed, the 85th Ranger Battalion made it a four-battalion task force pushing up Route 333, but the lead elements never made it past Gia Huynh, still 16\u00a0km south of Hoai Duc. The PAVN 33rd Regiment was dug in along the road, well supported by mortars and artillery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0019-0002", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1973\u201374\nOn 17 December Duy Can Village, between Vo Xu and Tanh Linh, was overrun by the PAVN 812th Regiment, and the few survivors of the 700th RF Company struggled into T\u00e1nh Linh. Although outposts still in ARVN hands, as well as Hoai Duc and T\u00e1nh Linh were receiving heavy indirect fire, General D\u01b0 Qu\u1ed1c \u0110\u1ed1ng, commanding III Corps ordered the Division not try to press forward past Gia Huynh on Route 333. With his Corps under attack from Tay Ninh to Phuoc Long, he was unwilling to risk having four of his battalions cut off and decimated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0019-0003", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1973\u201374\nMeanwhile, the PAVN blew a bridge south of Hoai Duc, occupied Vo Xu, and increased the intensity of its attack on T\u00e1nh Linh. Following a 3000 round bombardment on 23 and 24 December, the PAVN launched five successive assaults, finally overrunning the last defenses in T\u00e1nh Linh on Christmas. Hoai Duc, meanwhile, was under attack by the PAVN 274th Infantry, 6th Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0019-0004", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1973\u201374\nAfter the PAVN 274th Regiment had penetrated the local defenses of Hoai Duc and had gained a foothold in the northeastern and southwestern edges of the town, the Division moved the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 43rd Regiment by helicopter west and north of the town respectively, and beganpushing the PAVN out. While two battalions of the 48th Regiment held their positions on Route 333 north of Gia Ray, the tired and depleted 7th Ranger Group was withdrawn to Binh Duong Province to rest and refit. Since all available battalions of the Division had been committed, the JGS moved the 4th Ranger Group from Kontum to Long Binh where it was rested and re-equipped and made available to General Dong as a reserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe Division's counterattack to drive the PAVN out of Hoai Duc District progressed slowly but steadily, amply supported by RVNAF air strikes, and the PAVN 274th Regiment was forced to give ground as casualtiesmounted. Meanwhile, leaving a small occupying force in T\u00e1nh Linh, the PAVN 812th Regiment, battered by air strikes, pulled back into the safety of the deep jungle between T\u00e1nh Linh and Hoai Duc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0020-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe PAVN 33rd Regiment, its ranks also depleted during an intense, month-long campaign, still held roadblocks along Route 333 in mid-January but was feeling the pressure of the Division battalions pushing in both directions along the road. During the last week of January 1975, the ARVN had the road cleared from Gia Ray to Hoai Duc and by February had reoccupied the village of Vo Xu. The B\u00ecnh Tuy campaign was over, losses had beenhigh for both sides and the remote eastern sector of the province remained in PAVN control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0020-0002", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe ARVN still controlled the most populous area of the province and had prevented the PAVN 6th Division from permanently closing the province's two major highways, 20 and 1, which passed B\u00ecnh Tuy Province on the north and south. To forestall any PAVN attempt to reassert control in the recovered areas, the new III Corps commander, Lt. Gen. Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n To\u00e0n, ordered the Division to maintain a sizable force in B\u00ecnh Tuy , but to prepare for employment elsewhere as the Corps' reserve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0020-0003", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nAs of mid-February, the 43rd Regiment was along Route 333 between Hoai Duc and Gia Huynh; the 52nd Regiment headquarters with its 2nd Battalion was at the division base at Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c while its 1st and 3rd Battalions operated in \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n District and Gia Ray, respectively; and the 48th Regiment was in Corps' reserve at Long Binh Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nOn 14 March General To\u00e0n ordered the 48th Regiment, reinforced with armored personnel carriers from Corps' reserve in Long Binh to reinforce Khiem Hanh and Go Dau Ha. While a battalion of the 48th Regimentattacked west out of Go Dau Ha to clear Route 1 to the Cambodian frontier, the 46th Regiment attacked north along Route 22 to help territorials clear the road to Tay Ninh against heavy resistance and intense artillery fire, however Route 22 between Go Dau Ha and Tay Ninh remained closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0021-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe rest of the Division was spread out, with the 1st Battalion, 43rd Regiment securing Route 20 north of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, the 2nd Battalion was south of \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n and the 3rd Battalion was in Hoai Duc District Town in B\u00ecnh Tuy Province. The 52nd Regiment, minus its 3rd Battalion on Route 1 between Bien Hoa and Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, was in Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c with elements operating northwest of the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe PAVN began their Long Kh\u00e1nh-B\u00ecnh Tuy campaign with strong attacks against ARVN positions on the two principal lines of communication in the region, Highways 1 and 20 striking outposts, towns, bridges and culverts north and east of Xuan Loc. On 17 March, the PAVN 209th Infantry Regiment and the 210th Artillery Regiment, 7th Division, opened what was to become the Battle of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c. The 209th struck first at \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n, north of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, and at the La Nga bridge, west of \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0022-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nEight tanks supported the initial assault on \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n, and PAVN artillery fire destroyed four 155mm. howitzers supporting the territorials. Anticipating the attack, General L\u00ea Minh \u0110\u1ea3o, commanding the Division, had reinforced the La Nga bridge the day before, but the intense fire forced a withdrawal from the bridge. After repeated assaults, the 209th Infantry penetrated \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n and the 2nd Battalion, 43rd Infantry, as well as the RF battalion were forced to withdraw with heavy losses on 18 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nAlso on 17 March, the 3rd Battalion, 43rd Regiment killed 10 PAVN in heavy fighting northwest of Hoai Duc. At the same time another outpost of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c District, Ong Don, defended by an RF company and an artillery platoon, came under artillery and infantry attack. The PAVN assault was repulsed with heavy losses on both sides, and another RF company, sent to reinforce, ran into strong resistance on Highway 1 west of Ong Don. North of Ong Don, Gia Ray on Route 333 was under attack by the PAVN 274th Infantry Regiment, 6th Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0023-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe Division headquarters therefore realized that two PAVN divisions, the 6th and the 7th,were committed in Long Kh\u00e1nh. While the battle raged at Gia Ray, another post on Highway 1 west of Ong Don came under attack. Meanwhile, a bridge and a culvert on Highway 1 on each side of the Route 332 junction were blown up by PAVN sappers. Thus, all ARVN forces east of Route 332 were isolated from Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c by formidable obstacles and PAVN roadblocks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0023-0002", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nNorth from Xuan Loc, on Route 20, hamlets along the road were occupied in varying degrees by PAVN soldiers, and the territorial outpost far to the northeast near the Lam Dong boundary was overrun. General \u0110\u1ea3o decided to counterattack up Route 20 with his 52nd Regiment, minus one battalion but reinforced with the 5th Armored Cavalry Squadron from Tay Ninh Province. The regiment was ordered to clear the road as far as \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n, but the attack quickly stalled as it met heavy resistance well short of its objective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nEvidence of increasing heavy PAVN commitments in Long Kh\u00e1nh flowed into III Corps headquarters in Bien Hoa. The PAVN 141st Regiment, 7th Division, had apparently participated in the attack on \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n. Hoai Duc was overrun by the PAVN 812th Regiment, 6th Division, while that division's other two regiments, the 33rd and 274th, seized Gia Ray. The ARVN outpost on the conical peak of Chua Chan, standing 2,200 feet (670\u00a0m) above Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c and providing excellent observation, also fell to PAVN 6th Division forces and Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c itself began to receive artillery fire, including 105mm. General To\u00e0n responded to the burgeoning threat on his eastern flank first by sending the 5th Armored Cavalry Squadron and then one battalion of the 48th Regiment from Tay Ninh to Long Kh\u00e1nh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe rest of the 48th Regiment was still heavily engaged near Go Dau Ha. The 3rd Battalion made contact with a PAVN company west of the V\u00e0m C\u1ecf \u0110\u00f4ng River on 17 March, killed 36, and captured a number of weapons. On 26 March General To\u00e0n sent the headquarters and two battalions of the 48th Regiment to reinforce Khiem Hanh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nOn 1 April, General To\u00e0n returned the headquarters and two battalions of the 48th Regiment to the Division. The regiment moved to the Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c area but sent its 2nd Battalion down to H\u00e0m T\u00e2n District on the coast of B\u00ecnh Tuy Province to secure the city and port while large numbers of refugees poured into the province from the north. About 500 troops, survivors of the 2nd Division, were among those arriving from I Corps. When reorganized and reequipped, they would take over the security mission in H\u00e0m T\u00e2n. The 52nd Regiment meanwhile was pressing forward on Route 20 south of \u0110\u1ecbnh Qu\u00e1n and in sharp fighting on 1 April killed over 50 PAVN troops. The 43rd Regiment was fighting east along Route 1, near Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c and in contact with a major PAVN force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nAfter the first PAVN attempt to seize Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c had been soundly repulsed, the PAVN 341st Division on 9 April began a second assault on the town. Infantry and tanks were preceded by an artillery bombardment of about 4,000 rounds, one of the heaviest in the war. With tanks firing down the streets, hand-to-hand fighting developed in a fierce battle that lasted until dusk. By that time the 43rd Regiment had driven most of the shattered PAVN force from the town, and the 52nd Regiment base on Route 20 was still in ARVN hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe PAVN resumed the attack the next day, this time committing the 165th Regiment of the 7th Division along with regiments of the 6th and 34lst Divisions; again the attack failed. West of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, between Tr\u1ea3ng Bom and the intersection of Highways 1 and 20, the ARVN 322nd Task Force and 1st Airborne Brigade (two battalions) were trying to force their way east against stiff resistance. The PAVN attacked the rear base of the 52nd Regiment on Route 20, the 43rd Infantry in Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c and the 82nd Ranger Battalion on 11 April, the third day of the battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0002", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nAt that time the battalion of the 48th Regiment securing H\u00e0m T\u00e2n went back to Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c and the 1st Airborne Brigade moved in closer to the town. Task Force 322 was making very slow progress opening the road from Tr\u1ea3ng Bom to Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, and General To\u00e0n ordered Task Force 315 from Cu Chi to reinforce. On the 12th battalions of the 52nd Regiment were still in heavy fighting north of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, but the town, although demolished, was still held by the 43rd Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0003", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nPAVN losses to that point were probably in excess of 800 killed, 5 captured, 300 weapons captured, and 11 T-54 tanks destroyed. ARVN casualties had been moderate. Most of the 43rd Regiment was holding east of the town; the 48th was southwest; the 1st Airborne Brigade was south but moving north toward the 82d RangerBattalion; and the 322 Task Force was on Route 1 west of the Route 20 junction attacking toward Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0004", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nTwo resupply missions were flown into the besieged town; on 12 April CH-47 helicopters brought in 93 tons of artillery ammunition and followed with 100 tons the next day. Meanwhile, the RVNAF airplanes flying against intense antiaircraft fire, took a heavy toll of the PAVN divisions around Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c. At 2\u00a0pm on 12 April RVNAF C-130 Hercules dropped two CBU-55 Fuel Air Explosive bombs on PAVN positions in the town of Xuan Vinh, close to Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, killing about 200 PAVN soldiers. The PAVN assault resumed on 13 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0005", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nBy this time, seven of the nine regiments of the 6th, 7th and 34lst Divisions had been committed to the battle. The attack began at 04:50 against the headquarters and 1st Battalion, 43rd Regiment, and lasted until 09:30. When the PAVN withdrew, they left 235 dead and about 30 weapons on the field. The attack picked up again at noon and lasted until 15:00, but the 43rd, with heavy RVNAF support held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0006", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nMeanwhile the 1st Airborne Brigade continued to attack north toward Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c and Task Force 322, now reinforced by the 315th and 316th Task Forces, struck from the west. RVNAF observers had discovered two batteries of l30mm guns northeast of Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c and took them under attack. The PAVN continued sending additional forces into III Corps with the 320B and 325th Divisions moving to Long Kh\u00e1nh where they entered the battle on 15 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0027-0007", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nAn artillery bombardment of 1,000 rounds fell on the headquarters and 3rd Battalion, 52nd Regiment, an artillery battalion, and elements of the 5th Armored Cavalry Squadron, four 155mm. and eight 105mm. howitzers were destroyed, and the PAVN infantry and tank attack forced the battered ARVN force back along Route 1. The armored task forces on Route 1 had to pull back also; half of their equipment had been destroyed. The 1st Airborne Brigade, frustrated in its attack toward Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, withdrew through the plantations and jungles toward B\u00e0 R\u1ecba in Ph\u01b0\u1edbc Tuy Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nOn 19 April as the JGS ordered a general withdrawal from Xu\u00e2n L\u1ed9c, a new defensive line was formed east of Bien Hoa at the town of Tr\u1ea3ng Bom which was defended by the remnants of the Division, the 468th Marine Brigade and the reconstituted 258th Marine Brigade. At 04:00 on 27 April the PAVN 341st Division attacked Trang Bom, the initial attack was repulsed but by 08:00 attacks on the flanks broke through and the town was captured with the Division suffering heavy casualties in their retreat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0028-0001", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe PAVN then advanced to the town of H\u1ed1 Nai (now T\u00e2n H\u00f2a), which was held by the Marines. H\u1ed1 Nai was defended by the 6th Marine Battalion, an M48 tank from the 3rd Armored and Popular Forces. Following an artillery barrage the PAVN attacked H\u1ed1 Nai, but were met by ARVN artillery losing 30 dead and one T-54 tank destroyed before they pulled back. On 28 April the 341st renewed their attack using 5 T-54s supported by an infantry regiment, but were repulsed in 3 separate attacks losing 3 T-54s and many soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0028-0002", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nOn 29 April the entire 341st Division attacked H\u1ed1 Nai and were again repulsed in 2 hours of fighting. At midday the Marines were ordered to withdraw to defend Bien Hoa and Long Binh. Brigadier General Tr\u1ea7n Quang Kh\u00f4i, commander of the 3rd Armored was given responsibility for defending Bien Hoa, although PAVN shelling had rendered the base unusable. Seeing the regular forces leaving H\u1ed1 Nai the PAVN renewed their assault at midnight on 30 April, but the town's Popular Forces fought back and were not subdued until dawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0028-0003", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe PAVN then advanced to Bien Hoa where they were met by the 3rd Armored, at this point the PAVN 4th Corps changed the axis of their advance to the south. On the morning of 30 April the Division and Marines were ordered to retreat from Long Binh to the west bank of the \u0110\u1ed3ng Nai river, while the 81st Rangers held Bien Hoa Air Base and the 3rd Armored held Bien Hoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032397-0028-0004", "contents": "18th Division (South Vietnam), History, 1975\nThe 3rd Armored was moving from Bien Hoa to attack PAVN forces when they heard the surrender broadcast of President D\u01b0\u01a1ng V\u0103n Minh and BG Kh\u00f4i halted his advance and disbanded the unit. The 81st Rangers had abandoned the base and had moved west of the \u0110\u1ed3ng Nai river when they heard the surrender broadcast and then marched towards Saigon to surrender to the PAVN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032398-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Division (United States)\nThere have been a number of 18th Divisions in the history of the United States Army:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032398-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Division (United States), World War I, Order of battle\nDivision commander: Colonel James H. Frier (interim), August 21, 1918-September 15, 1918; Brigadier General George H. Estes, September 16, 1918-October 14, 1918; Colonel James H. Frier (interim), October 14, 1918-October 23, 1918; Brigadier General Frederick B. Shaw, October 24, 1919-October 26, 1918; Brigadier General George H. Estes, October 27, 1919-February 14, 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032398-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Division (United States), World War I, Order of battle\nCommander, 35th Infantry Brigade: Colonel Robert C. Williams (interim), August 25, 1918-September 16, 1918; Brigadier General George H. Estes, September 16, 1918-October 13, 1918; Colonel Josephus S. Cecil, October 14, 1918-October 26, 1918; Brigadier General George H. Estes, October 27, 1918-February 14, 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032398-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Division (United States), World War I, Order of battle\nCommander, 36th Infantry Brigade: Colonel James H. Frier (interim), August 21, 1918-October 23, 1918; Brigadier General Frederick B. Shaw (October 24, 1918-February 6, 1919; Colonel James H. Frier, February 7, 1919-February 14, 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032399-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Division (Yugoslav Partisans)\nThe 18th Slovenia Division (Slovene: Osemnajsta slovenska divizija, Serbo-Croatian: Osamnaesta slovena\u010dka divizija / \u041e\u0441\u0430\u043c\u043d\u0430\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0430 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043d\u0430\u0447\u043a\u0430 \u0434\u0438\u0432\u0438\u0437\u0438\u0458\u0430) was a Yugoslav Partisan division formed in Zdenska Vas on September 14th, 1943. Upon formation it consisted of around 3,350 soldiers in three brigades, those being: the 8th, 9th and 10th Slovenia Brigades. The division was commanded by Rado Peha\u010dek and its political commissar was Janez Hribar - Tone. On October 3rd, 1943, it became a part of the 7th Corps. The division operated in Slovenia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032400-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Dye\n18th Dye was a Berlin-based German/Danish noise rock band formed in 1992 by German Sebastian B\u00fcttrich (vocals, guitar), Danish-German Heike R\u00e4deker (vocals, bass) and Dane Piet Breinholm-Bendtsen (drums). They broke up in 1999 after 2 albums and an EP, but reformed in 2005. A third album \"Amorine Queen\" was released in 2008 but they split up again in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032400-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Dye, Biography\nDrone-heavy, fuzzed out debut LP Done, produced by Iain Burgess (Naked Raygun, Ministry, Big Black), was released in Germany in 1992 before the band gained a recording and distribution deal with US Independent label Matador Records in 1994, having been championed by Yo La Tengo. The self-produced six song EP Crayon followed in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 19], "content_span": [20, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032400-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Dye, Biography\nIn 1995, 18th Dye moved to Danish label Cloudland Records and recorded their second album, Tribute to a Bus, recorded by Steve Albini at Black Box Recording Studio in Noyant-La-Gravoy\u00e8re, France. More dynamic and diverse than previous recordings, its blend of noise and melody suggest influences such as Sonic Youth, The Wedding Present and Wire. It is characterised by oblique English-as-second-language, maths based lyrics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 19], "content_span": [20, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032400-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Dye, Biography\nThe band recorded three Peel sessions: in July 1994, March 1995 and February 1999. They broke up in 1999 with B\u00fcttrich and Breinholm-Bendtsen going on to form Kikkert and later Test, while R\u00e4deker has played with the bands Evonike and Wuhling. They reformed in the summer of 2005 and have begun to debut new songs at recent shows around Europe. In November 2007, 18th Dye signed a new recording contract with Danish-based record label Crunchy Frog Records (The Raveonettes, Junior Senior, Heavy Trash, PowerSolo, The Naked, epo-555).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 19], "content_span": [20, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032400-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Dye, Biography\nIn 2008, a third album Amorine Queen was released and the band toured the USA before breaking up again in 2009. A press statement said of the split \"It is not possible for us to compose, create and act as a band any more. We have decided to stop the band at this point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 19], "content_span": [20, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032400-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Dye, Biography\nAfter the split Breinholm-Bendtsen established a company in Copenhagen where he designs leather bags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 19], "content_span": [20, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032401-0000-0000", "contents": "18th EAC Ordinary summit\nThe 18th EAC Ordinary summit was held on 20 May 2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The focus of the summit was the European Union and East African Community Economic Partnership agreement. Also on the agenda of the meeting was the status of the EAC political federation and the speedy integration of South Sudan. The leadership of the community was also transferred from John Magufuli of Tanzania to Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. The Burundian crisis was significantly neglected during the summit, however, Yoweri Museveni the new chairman of the member bloc vowed to quickly find a solution to the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032401-0001-0000", "contents": "18th EAC Ordinary summit, Agenda, Economic Partnership Agreement\nThe key agenda of the meeting was the EU-EAC Economic partnership agreement. Museveni reiterated that countries such as Kenya and Rwanda that have signed the agreement should not be penalized by the European Union and the countries that have not signed the agreement can not sign the agreement pending various clarifications from the EU. Museveni agreed to lead a delegation of the bloc economic members to Europe to solve various disagreements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032401-0002-0000", "contents": "18th EAC Ordinary summit, Agenda, Burundi\nThe Burundian unrest was discussed as one of the problems during the tenure of John Magufuli and that not much progress has been made to resolve the issue. The summit was not attended by Pierre Nkurunziza, president of Burundi. The delay in the resolution was attributed to the lack of motivation between the disputed parties to negotiate a settlement. Furthermore, the leaders iterated the EU to lift sanctions on Burundi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032401-0003-0000", "contents": "18th EAC Ordinary summit, Agenda, Somalia\nThe leaders read the report on the admission criteria of Somalia into the East African community. Various local leaders warned against the admission of the war torn country until the country can fix its security issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032402-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Empire Awards\nThe 18th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Jameson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine Empire, honored the best films of 2012 and took place on 24 March 2013 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England. During the ceremony, Empire presented Empire Awards in 13 categories as well as four honorary awards. The honorary Outstanding Contribution to British Film Award was renamed Outstanding Contribution. The Art of 3D Award as well as the honorary Empire Legend Award and Outstanding Contribution Award were presented for the last time. The ceremony was televised in the United Kingdom by Sky Movies on March 30. Irish comedian Ed Byrne hosted the show for the first time. The awards were sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey for the fifth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032402-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Empire Awards\nIn related events, Empire and Jameson Irish Whiskey held the 4th Done In 60 Seconds Competition Global Final on March 22, 2013 at the Google Campus, London, England. The team of judges consisted of Empire editor-in-chief Mark Dinning, Bauer Media CEO Paul Keenan, Sky Movies Premiere, English presenter Alex Zane, Scottish radio DJ Edith Bowman and English actors Joanne Froggatt and Tom Hiddleston, which selected from a shortlist of 23 nominees the five Done In 60 Seconds Award finalists that were invited to the Empire Awards where the winner was announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032402-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Empire Awards\nSkyfall won two awards including Best Film and Best Director for Sam Mendes. Other winners included The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey also with two awards and Dredd, Headhunters, Les Mis\u00e9rables, Sightseers, Ted, The Hunger Games, The Impossible and The Woman in Black with one. Daniel Radcliffe received the Empire Hero Award, Sam Mendes received the Empire Inspiration Award, Helen Mirren received the Empire Legend Award and Danny Boyle received the Outstanding Contribution Award. Philip Askins from the United Kingdom won the Done In 60 Seconds Award for his 60-second film version of Blade Runner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States)\nThe 18th Engineer Brigade (Theater Army) is an engineer brigade of the United States Army. It is currently a subordinate unit of 21st Sustainment Command (Theater) and is headquartered at Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt, Germany. Soldiers of the 18th Engineer Brigade provide various supportive duties to other Army units, including construction, engineering, and mechanical work on other Army projects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States)\nThe brigade served in Europe during World War II, a fact which was included on its Distinctive Unit Insignia when the 20th Engineer Brigade received one on 10 February 1966. The four corners of the crenelated square allude to their four campaigns in World War II, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland and Central Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States)\nThe 18th Engineer Brigade later deployed to Vietnam, during the Vietnam War, where its battalions saw six years of combat service and supported fourteen campaigns, building infrastructure for both military and civilian projects. The brigade participated in a massive number of road construction projects and airfield constructions, supporting numerous infantry units and operating all over Vietnam. After serving in Vietnam, the brigade became attached to Seventh United States Army. It has since undertaken and completed numerous projects in support of US Army, Europe, and participated in Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), Organization\nThe US Army's 18th Engineer Brigade is a subordinate unit of 21st Sustainment Command (Theater). The brigade has been assigned to Europe since February 2007. The brigade is headquartered at Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt, Germany. The brigade's current commander is Colonel Scott A. Petersen, while its Command Sergeant Major is Lauro F. Obeada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), Organization\nIn addition to the brigade's Headquarters and Headquarters Company and the 243rd Engineer Detachment (Construction Management), which is located in Grafenwhoer, Germany, two subordinate engineer battalions are permanently attached: the 15th Engineer Battalion headquartered at Grafenw\u00f6hr, Germany, and the 54th Engineer Battalion headquartered at Bamberg, Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, World Wars\nThe lineage of the 18th Engineer Brigade can be traced to 29 July 1921, when its predecessor, the 347th Engineers (General Service), was constituted as an Organized Reserves unit. The 347th Engineers would not be activated for almost twenty years, until the military buildup after the United States entered World War II. The unit was ordered into active military service on 6 May 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, World Wars\nOn 1 August 1942, the unit was reorganized and re-designated as the 347th Engineer General Services Regiment. The Regiment deployed to England in February 1944. It entered combat in France on 29 June 1944 and participated in the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns of World War II, earning its first Meritorious Unit Commendation. After V-E Day, the regiment remained on occupation duty in Germany until its inactivation on 1 June 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, World Wars\nOn 15 June 1947, the regiment was reactivated in the organized reserves headquartered in Salt Lake, Utah, and remained there until it was again inactivated on 16 March 1949. On 25 October 1954, the 347th Engineer General Services Regiment was re-designated the 18th Engineer Brigade for the first time and activated as a Regular Army unit at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where it remained until inactivation on 26 March 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nThe 18th Engineer Brigade was reactivated on 16 July 1965 at Fort Bragg, N.C. and prepared for deployment to Vietnam. The 18th Engineer Brigade entered Vietnam in September 1965 with the responsibility for overseeing all Army Engineering operations in Vietnam until the establishment of the U.S. Army Engineer Command, Vietnam, in late 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nUnder the command of Colonel C. Craig Cannon, the Brigade prepared for deployment to Vietnam. The Advance Party of the 18th Engineer Brigade arrived at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Air Base on 3 September 1965. Three days later, Brigadier General Robert R. Ploger assumed command of the Brigade. Within two weeks, the Brigade Headquarters at Tan Son Nhut was fully operational. It had been preceded by the 35th Engineer Group, which built Cam Ranh Bay on a peninsula of sand and in a hostile environment. The brigade assumed responsibility for I Corps and II Corps in the northern part of South Vietnam. The 937th Engineer Group (Combat) at Qui Nh\u01a1n was assigned to the Brigade in June 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nIts initial activities centered around rapid development of the port facilities, ammunition dumps, base camps and airfields necessary to support the build-up of US combat forces deploying to Vietnam. During the initial construction phases its combat engineer battalions also provided support for search and destroy missions and defensive operations with the 101st Airborne Division near Ninh Hoa and the 4th Infantry Division at Pleiku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nOn 18 January 1969, an ammunition storage area was completed at Cam Ranh Bay. It had taken two years to build this complex, which covered over 191,700 square feet (17,810\u00a0m2). English Airfield was completed on 21 March 1969 near Qui Nh\u01a1n. The runway was 3,600 feet (1,100\u00a0m) long, 60 feet (18\u00a0m) wide, and included a 150\u2014foot by 150\u2014foot turn around area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nOn 3 May 1969, Brigadier General John W. Morris assumed command of the Brigade. Soon afterwards, Brigade engineers finished construction of a cold storage warehouse at the Qui Nh\u01a1n Support Command, the first of its kind in Vietnam. Construction of the Tandem Switch Building at Vung Chau Mountain was also completed about this time. This 4,000-square-foot (370\u00a0m2) building housed almost US$1\u00a0million of communications equipment. During the summer months of 1969, Brigade engineers completed the 200,000-barrel (32,000\u00a0m3) capacity Air Force tank farm at Cam Ranh Bay, after laying over 12,000 feet (3,700\u00a0m) of pipe to complete the project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nThe beginning of 1970 saw the initiation of the 18th Engineers Brigade's Operation Last Chance, a program of command emphasis and organization for motivation and success of that year's engineer operations. The goals of the program were to maintain primary missions of the combat support as well as insure the completion of the many projects planned for the 1970 construction operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nFebruary 1970 saw the completion of a project begun in the summer of the previous year at Qui Nh\u01a1n that replaced a temporary floating steel dock with a more permanent structure which could accommodate six ammo barges at once. The port of Qui Nh\u01a1n became one of the few supply points where ammunition for the First and Second Military Regions could be handled in bulk quantities simultaneously. Prior to the completion of this new facility, the handling of ammunition there had to take place in other areas, near public housing and fuel storage depots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nOn 3 May 1970, Brigadier General Henry C. Schrader assumed command of the 18th Engineer Brigade. Shortly after this, the most difficult stretch of the roadway that the Brigade had ever undertaken\u2014the 27-kilometer stretch of National Highway QL-11 South in the central highlands region known as T\u00e2y Nguy\u00ean, commonly referred to as the \"Good View Pass\", was completed. This road had been carved out from a dangerous mountain pass to a national road in less than one year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nThe Lines of Communication Program, which represents the most significant contribution that the 18th Engineer Brigade had made to the economic growth of Vietnam, consisted of about 1,500 kilometers of road upgrade from 1967 to 1972. After a slow start in the beginning of this work, the Brigade finished some 560 kilometers of highway reconstruction, and improvement in 1970 and another 450 kilometers were scheduled for completion in 1971 by Brigade units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nIn conjunction with the Brigade efforts on the Lines of Communication Program, 18th Brigade engineers was involved in a program of affiliation with ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) engineers. In addition to continuous training programs which the Brigade established to train ARVN equipment operators, the engineers of the 18th provided technical assistance and logistical support to several projects undertaken by the Vietnamese Army, most notably in the construction of the 3,600-foot (1,100\u00a0m) bridge at Tuy H\u00f2a. Upon its completion and opening on 13 February 1971, this bridge became the longest overpass of its type ever constructed in the Republic of Vietnam. It would be one of 77 such bridges that the Brigade would construct in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nIn support of the XXIV Corps, the 18th Brigade mounted what was described as the \"most ambitious engineering effort in Vietnam\" at the end of January 1971. The Brigade engineers pushed a roadway across the rugged terrain of the northern Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province to the Laotian border and constructed a 3,200-foot (980\u00a0m) by 60-foot (18\u00a0m) airfield in little more than a month at Khe Sanh. This construction effort was part of Operation Dewey Canyon II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nOn 20 September 1971 the Brigade was inactivated. Over the six years that it served in Vietnam, the 18th Engineer Brigade was involved in 14 of 17 campaigns, earning four Meritorious Unit Commendations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Post Vietnam\nOn 21 October 1977 the 18th Engineer Brigade was reactivated at Karlsruhe, Germany. For 15 years, the Brigade served as the principal construction brigade for the United States Army, Europe and 7th Army. During this period, the Brigade performed numerous construction, rehabilitation and renovation missions in military communities and training areas of the 7th Army. These included an extensive range upgrade of the Grafenwohr Major Training Area in the early 1980s and the construction of the Range 23 complex at the Wildflecken Major Training Area in 1989 and 1990. Additionally, the Brigade was responsible for providing topographic support to the European Theater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Post Vietnam\nIn 1990 and 1991, during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, the 18th Engineer Brigade provided rail and sea deployment support to the VII Corps and, in addition, deployed a Combat Heavy Battalion and Topographic Company to support VII Corps operations in Southwest Asia. In April 1991, the Brigade Headquarters, along with elements of the 94th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Heavy), deployed to Zakho, Iraq in support of Operation Provide Comfort. While there, the Brigade coordinated all engineer efforts of a Joint and Combined engineer force providing construction and relief support to the Kurdish refugees. The 18th Engineer Brigade was awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award for its action during Operation Provide Comfort. As part of the reduction of forces in Europe, the Brigade was inactivated on 15 October 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day\nOn 18 October 2002 the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army approved the USAREUR and 7th Army Concept Plan to activate the Theater Army Engineer Brigade (TAEB). Today, the 18th Engineer Brigade (Theater Army) marks the return to service of the only active duty TAEB. The unit was officially reactivated on 6 June 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day, Operation Enduring Freedom\nThe 18th Engineer Brigade was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in April 2005. Its primary areas of operation were in and around Bagram, Kandahar, and Sharana, among other locations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day, Operation Enduring Freedom\nIn 2007, the 18th Engineer Brigade was reassigned to V Corps, taking the place of the 130th Engineer Brigade, which returned to the United States. Some of the 130th's units either merged or were reassigned to the 18th Brigade. During this time, the unit participated in road work, construction of Forward Operating Bases, and other activities that enhanced training readiness in and around Campbell Barracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day, Operation Iraqi Freedom 08\u201310\nIn 2008, the unit was notified of another upcoming deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. It commands three to five engineer battalions in Multinational Division \u2013 North. The battalions support individual Brigade Combat Teams of other units in \"Task Force Iron\", a combat group led by the 1st Armored Division. They are working to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure, with the cooperation of Iraqi engineers, including construction of roads, airfields, and land moving. The unit cased its colors on 29 April 2008, formally signifying the beginning of its deployment to Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 90], "content_span": [91, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day, Operation Iraqi Freedom 08\u201310\nThe Brigade spent the first six months of its deployment to Tikrit in central Iraq, working on projects there for Multinational Division-Center under the 10th Mountain Division. On 6 November, the brigade relocated to Kirkuk, unfurling its colors at Forward Operating Base Warrior. The brigade conducted route clearance and construction projects in northern Iraq, while partnered with Iraqi engineers. It replaced the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division in Kirkuk and will was under the area of responsibility of Multinational Division-North led by the 1st Armored Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 90], "content_span": [91, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0026-0001", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day, Operation Iraqi Freedom 08\u201310\nIn February 2009, the brigade again moved, this time to Nineveh Governorate to focus on construction projects in areas in and around Mosul. It was relieved by 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. On 17 July 2009, the brigade handed over responsibility of Mosul to the 130th Engineer Brigade. The brigade subsequently returned to Schwetzingen, Germany after its 15-month deployment was finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 90], "content_span": [91, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day, Operation Enduring Freedom\nThe Brigade deployed to Afghanistan for its second deployment to the country since 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), History, Present day, Operation Enduring Freedom\nOn 16 May 2014, the 18th Engineer Brigade was inactivated in Schweinfurt Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 87], "content_span": [88, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032403-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Engineer Brigade (United States), Notable soldiers\nThree soldiers from the 18th Engineer Brigade have gone on to serve as Chief of Engineers, the head of the US Army's Corps of Engineers. This is the highest number to come from a single engineer brigade. These three are Lieutenant Generals Joe N. Ballard, John W. Morris, and Walter K. Wilson Jr.. In addition to commanding the brigade from 1987 to 1990, while it was stationed outside of Karlsruhe in Germany, LTG Ballard had also commanded a company in one of the brigade's subordinate battalions, the 864th Engineer Battalion, during its earlier years in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032404-0000-0000", "contents": "18th European Film Awards\nThe 18th European Film Awards were presented on December 3, 2005 in Berlin, Germany. The winners were selected by the members of the European Film Academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032405-0000-0000", "contents": "18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship\n18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship took place between July 13 - July 19, 2008 in Ried im Innkreis in Austria, altogether with the 16th FAI World Rally Flying Championship (July 20-26).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032405-0001-0000", "contents": "18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship\nThere were 62 competitors from 13 countries: Czech Republic (10), Poland (9), Austria (9), France (6), United Kingdom (6), Russia (4), South Africa (4), New Zealand (3), Germany (3), Switzerland (3), Denmark (2), Sweden (2), Slovenia (1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032405-0002-0000", "contents": "18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship\nMost numerous airplane was Cessna 152 (31 pilots), then Cessna 150 (16) and Cessna 172 (6). There were also two Glastars and Zlin Z-43's, single Zlin Z-42, 3Xtrim, Piper PA-18, HB-23 and Van's RV-7A (the numbers of aircraft participating was lower, for some pilots flew the same aircraft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032405-0003-0000", "contents": "18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship, Results, Team\nNumber of penal points and place of three best competitors:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade\nThe 18th Field Artillery Brigade is the XVIII Airborne Corps field artillery brigade, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Role and structure\nThe 18th Field Artillery Brigade is America's Contingency Field Artillery Brigade. The Brigade plans, synchronizes and employs long range precision strike fires and counterfires in support of the XVIII Airborne Corps, its subordinate divisions, and to Special Operations forces as required. When the call comes, the Brigade is ready to deploy, fight and win. This brigade consists of the following units", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Operational history\nThe 18th Field Artillery Brigade has served in multiple capacities over the past decade in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as the primary 155mm howitzer and HIMARS identity in the war in Afghanistan. The brigade was the only airborne field artillery brigade in the United States Army with 1st Battalion (Airborne), 321st Field Artillery Regiment providing the majority of the support for the 18th Fires Brigade's airborne mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Operational history\nDuring the 1990s the Brigade had a single M198, 155mm battery (initially Battery C, 5th Battalion, 8th Field Artillery; later Battery C, 1st Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment) assigned to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in support of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). This made for a healthy rivalry with the other two batteries of the Battalion that were assigned in support of the 82nd Airborne Division. It allowed for the entire Battalion to train together at both Fort Campbell and Fort Bragg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Operational history\n1st Battalion (Airborne), 321st Field Artillery Regiment maintained a full capacity to provide 155mm howitzer fires anywhere in the world within 18 hours in support of the 82d Airborne Division and while supporting other global responsibilities. The unit had the unique ability to employ 155mm howitzer platforms through a \"Howitzer Heavy Drop Package\" capability which essentially allowed for the weapon system to be dropped from an aircraft while its paratroopers would then place the weapon into action. 1st Battalion (Airborne), 321st Field Artillery Regiment served as the United States Army's primary 155mm howitzer response in the Global War on Terrorism. In October 2013, the battalion's three firing batteries were reflagged to create 155mm composite battalions in the three brigade combat teams of the 82nd Airborne, and the battalion was officially inactivated at Fort Bragg on 14 March 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Operational history\nDuring 2008 while serving as the General Support Artillery unit in Operation Enduring Freedom 8\u20139, 3d Section, Battery C, 3d Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment became the first United States Army unit to fire the GPS Guided XM982 Excalibur Munition in support of combat operations while serving in the volatile Kunar Province while supporting the 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry Regiment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Operational history\n3d Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment (HIMARS) has served in the capacity to support various United States Army and other agencies with accurate and effective field artillery rocket fires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Operational history\nFrom August 2009 through October 2014, the 18th Fires Brigade wore the \"All American\" patch of the 82nd Airborne Division. The 18th Fires Brigade became a general support field artillery brigade in July 2008 and was under the Training Readiness Oversight of the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Operational history\nThe 18th Fires Brigade held a ceremony on 16 October 2014, removing the patch of the 82nd Airborne Division and donning the 18th Field Artillery Brigade patch, to signify its increased responsibility to provide long range field artillery support to the four Divisions in the XVIII Airborne Corps, and officially change its name to the 18th Field Artillery Brigade, a name held by the Brigade since its inception in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032406-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Brigade, Future\nAn article in the Fayetteville Observer dated 23 March 2014 covered the inactivation of the brigade's 1st Battalion (Airborne), 321st FA Regiment and noted the coming inactivation the 2d Battalion in the 4th BCT, 82d Airborne Division. The article added that the brigade's 3d Battalion \"will undergo a different transformation as that unit shifts from howitzers to the HIMARS weapons system.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment\nThe 18th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1916.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, History\nThe '18th Field Artillery was organized 1 June 1917 in the Regular Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Distinctive unit insignia\nA gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/16 inches (2.70\u00a0cm) in height consisting of a shield blazoned: Azure, three bendlets sinister Argent, a bend double-cottized potente counter-potente Or; on a canton Gules a mullet within a fish-hook fesswise, ring to dexter and barb to base, of the second (for the 5th Field Artillery).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Distinctive unit insignia\nThe shield is the shoulder patch of the 3rd Division, the bend and bendlets are from the arms of Champagne. The canton indicates the parentage of the regiment. The fishhook and Star are from the coat of arms of the 5th Field Artillery; the union battle line of Gettysburg was in the shape of a fishhook and the corps badge of Slocum's 12th Corps was a star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Distinctive unit insignia\nThe distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 18th Field Artillery Regiment on 2 October 1923. It was amended to correct the method of wear on 25 May 1925. It was amended to correct the blazon on 12 July 1928. It was redesignated for the 18th Field Artillery Battalion on 4 September 1943. The insignia was redesignated for the 18th Artillery Regiment on 18 November 1958. It was again redesignated for the 18th Field Artillery Regiment effective 1 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Coat of arms\nAzure, three bendlets sinister Argent, a bend double-cottized potente counter-potente Or; on a canton Gules a mullet within a fish-hook fesswise, ring to dexter and barb to base, of the second (for the 5th Field Artillery).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Coat of arms\nOn a wreath of the colors Argent and Azure an eagle's head erased Or gorged with a collar Sable charged with a Lorraine cross of the first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Coat of arms\nThe shield is the shoulder patch of the 3rd Division, the bend and bendlets are from the arms of Champagne. The canton indicates the parentage of the regiment. The fishhook and Star are from the coat of arms of the 5th Field Artillery; the union battle line of Gettysburg was in the shape of a fishhook and the corps badge of Slocum's 12th Corps was a star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Coat of arms\nThe crest is from the coat of arms of St. Mihiel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Coat of arms\nThe motto is an extract from the citation received by the 18th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032407-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Field Artillery Regiment, Coat of arms\nThe coat of arms was originally approved for the 18th Field Artillery Regiment on 18 May 1923. It was amended to correct the blazon on 12 July 1928. It was redesignated for the 18th Field Artillery Battalion on 4 September 1943. The insignia was redesignated for the 18th Artillery Regiment on 18 November 1958. It was again redesignated for the 18th Field Artillery Regiment effective 1 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032408-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Filmfare Awards\nThe 18th Filmfare Awards were held on April 18, 1971, honouring the best in Hindi Cinema in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032408-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Filmfare Awards\nPehchan led the ceremony with 9 nominations, followed by Do Raaste with 7 nominations and Khilona with 6 nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032408-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Filmfare Awards\nPehchan won 4 awards, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032409-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Filmfare Awards South\nThe 18th Filmfare Awards South Ceremony honoring the winners of the best of South Indian cinema in 1970 was an event held in Shanmukhananda Hall Bombay on 18 April 1971 along with Hindi Awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032409-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Filmfare Awards South\nThe president of this year's function was the Governor of Maharashtra Ali Yavar Jung. The chief guest of the evening was Vietnamese film star Kieu Chinh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron\nThe 18th Flight Test Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida performs field tests of aircraft for Air Force Special Operations Command The squadron evaluates aircraft, equipment and tactics in realistic battlespace environments to provide decision makers accurate, timely and complete assessments of mission capability. From concept development to system fielding, the unit's mission improves the survivability and combat capability of special operations forces worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron\nThe first predecessor of the squadron is the 18th Bombardment Squadron, which was activated in January 1941 as the United States expanded its military in preparation for World War II. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the squadron moved to the Pacific Northwest, conducting antisubmarine warfare patrols. In the summer of 1942, it became a Replacement Training Unit for heavy bomber crews. In late 1943, it began training for overseas deployment and entered combat in the European Theater of Operations in 1944, participating in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. Following V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States and was inactivated in August 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron\nThe second predecessor of the squadron was activated in 1969 as the 18th Special Operations Squadron. After training in the United States with Fairchild AC-119K Stingers, it deployed to South Vietnam and then to Thailand as a gunship unit. It earned a Presidential Unit Citation and four Air Force Outstanding Unit Awardz\\s with Combat \"V\" Device before inactivating in 1972. The two squadrons were consolidated into a single unit in 1985. The squadron was activated as the 18th Test Squadron in 1991, and has served in the test role ever since, except for a brief inactive period in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, Mission\nThe 18th Flight Test Squadron is the \"independent field test agency\" of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). It has one detachment at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The squadron evaluates aircraft, equipment and tactics in realistic battlespace environments to provide decision makers accurate, timely and complete assessments of mission capability. From concept development to system fielding, the unit's mission improves the survivability and combat capability of special operations forces worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, Units\nThe 18th Squadron is composed of approximately 96 people. The squadron consists of seven flights: fixed wing, vertical lift, operations analysis, combat applications, special missions, instrumentation and mission support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, Units\nThe detachment at Edwards Air Force Base is responsible for operational test and evaluation and tactics development and evaluation of the MV/CV-22 Osprey and supports Headquarters Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center in conducting joint tests with the Navy and Marine Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, Units\nSMOTEC filled a unique role by exploring new frontiers in special operations capabilities and developed better equipment and tactics to support Air Force special operations forces located throughout the world. It provided AFSOC with the centralized expertise needed for development and operational testing of new systems and tactics, proposed changes in doctrine, and recommended new requirements. The unit's colocation with the 1st Special Operations Wing made it ideally suited to perform the mission of improving the worldwide Air Force aim of special operations forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, Units\nSMOTEC remained a direct reporting unit to Headquarters AFSOC until 31 March 1994. On 1 April 1994, Air Force organizational changes dictated the unit's inactivation and realignment under the 18th Flight Test Squadron, also a direct reporting unit to AFSOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nThe squadron was activated at Langley Field, Virginia in January 1941 as the 18th Bombardment Squadron, one of the original squadrons of the 34th Bombardment Group, and equipped with a mixture of B-17C and B-17D Flying Fortresses and Douglas B-18 Bolos. Along with the 34th Group, the squadron moved to Westover Field, Massachusetts four months after they were activated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nAfter the Pearl Harbor attack the squadron began antisubmarine patrols off the Northeast coast of the United States, but soon became part of Western Defense Command and moved to Pendleton Field, Oregon. By the summer of 1942, Second Air Force had become primarily a heavy bomber training force and the squadron became a B-17 Replacement Training Unit (RTU) at Geiger Field. RTUs were oversized units which trained aircrews prior to their deployment to combat theaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nOn 15 December 1942 the squadron moved to Blythe Army Air Base, California a base of the Desert Training Center. The unit provided cadres for a number of heavy bomber units that served with Eighth Air Force during this period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nThe 18th began training with Consolidated B-24 Liberators for overseas combat operations on 5 January 1944. Its ground echelon moved to the port of embarkation on 1 April 1944, while the air echelon began its overseas movement on 31 May 1944, taking the southern ferry route, from Florida to Trinidad, Brazil, West Africa and Marrakesh arriving at RAF Valley, Wales. The squadron arrived at its permanent station, RAF Mendlesham, England, in April 1944 and entered combat on 23 May 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nThe squadron helped to prepare for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, by bombing airfields in France and Germany, and supported the June landings by attacking coastal defenses and communications. It supported ground forces at Saint-L\u00f4 in late July and struck V-1 flying bomb launch sites, gun emplacements, and supply lines throughout the summer of 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nThe mixture of B-24s and B-17s in the 3d Bombardment Division presented a number of operational problems, and in early 1944 plans had begun at VIII Bomber Command headquarters to standardize the division with the Flying Fortress. The 34th Group flew its last B-24 mission on 24 August 1944. It transferred its Liberators for overhaul and eventual transfer to units of the 2d Bombardment Division, and began converting to B-17s. It flew its first mission with the new planes on 17 September 1944. The squadron engaged primarily in bombardment of strategic objectives from October 1944 to February 1945. Targets included marshaling yards in Ludwigshafen, Hamm, Osnabr\u00fcck, and Darmstadt; oil centers in Bielefeld, Merseburg, Hamburg, and Misburg; factories in Berlin, Dalteln, and Hanover; and airfields in M\u00fcnster, Neum\u00fcnster, and Frankfurt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nDuring this period the squadron also supported ground forces during the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945. In March 1945, with few enemy industrial targets remaining and with Allied armies advancing across Germany, the 18th turned almost solely to interdicting enemy communications and supporting Allied ground forces. The 18th flew its last combat mission on 20 April 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, World War II\nAfter V-E Day the squadron flew missions carrying food to flooded areas of the Netherlands and transported prisoners of war from German camps to Allied centers. The squadron redeployed to the United States in June and July 1945. The first elements of the air echelon departed 19 June 1945. The ground echelon sailed aboard the RMS\u00a0Queen Elizabeth from Southampton on 6 August 1945. Upon arrival in the states, unit personnel were given 30 days leave. The squadron reassembled at Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, where it was inactivated on 28 August 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, Vietnam War\nThe second predecessor of the squadron was activated as the 18th Special Operations Squadron on 25 January 1969 at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, and deployed to Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam, the 18th SOS flew the Fairchild AC-119K Stinger gunship. The squadron's primary mission was the interdiction of enemy supply lines, close air support, and air base defense. Following the transfer of the aircraft to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, the 18th was inactivated 31 December 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, History, Test and evaluation, Background\nOn 1 October 1983, the Special Missions Operations Test and Evaluation Center (SMOTEC) was activated at Hurlburt Field by order of the Secretary of the Air Force as a direct reporting unit of Headquarters Military Airlift Command at Scott Air Force Base. SMOTEC was formed through the consolidation of the test and evaluation function previously assigned to the 1550th Aircrew Training and Test Wing, located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, which was responsible for combat rescue and related test. It was also responsible for the informal test and evaluation staffs of the 2d Air Division and the 1st Special Operations Wing, at Hurlburt Field. Though testing was reassigned to SMOTEC in October 1983, most of the testing continued at Kirtland for the remainder of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 67], "content_span": [68, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032410-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Flight Test Squadron, References, Bibliography\nThis article incorporates\u00a0public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032411-0000-0000", "contents": "18th G7 summit\nThe 18th G7 Summit was held in Munich, Germany between July 6 to 8, 1992. The venue for the summit meetings was at the Residenz palace in central Munich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032411-0001-0000", "contents": "18th G7 summit\nThe Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada (since 1976) and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032411-0001-0001", "contents": "18th G7 summit\nThe summits were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a mild rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France's President Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six (G6) summit in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032411-0002-0000", "contents": "18th G7 summit, Leaders at the summit\nThe G7 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032411-0003-0000", "contents": "18th G7 summit, Leaders at the summit\nThe 18th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. It was also the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and U.S. President George H.W. Bush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032411-0004-0000", "contents": "18th G7 summit, Leaders at the summit, Participants\nThese summit participants are the current \"core members\" of the international forum:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032411-0005-0000", "contents": "18th G7 summit, Issues\nThe summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions. Issues which were discussed at this summit included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032412-0000-0000", "contents": "18th GLAAD Media Awards\n18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (2007) were presented at four separate ceremonies: March 26 in New York City; April 14 in Los Angeles; April 28 in San Francisco; and May 10 in Miami. The awards were presented to honor \"fair, accurate and inclusive\" representations of gay individuals in the media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032413-0000-0000", "contents": "18th GMA Dove Awards\nThe 18th Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on 1987 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 1986. The show was held in Nashville, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032414-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Gemini Awards\nThe 18th Gemini Awards were held on October 20, 2003 to honour achievements in Canadian television. It was hosted by Se\u00e1n Cullen, and was broadcast on CBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032414-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Gemini Awards, Awards, Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series\nHelene Joy, Rick Roberts, Stewart Francis, Timm Zemanek, Robin Br\u00fble, Sugith Varughese, Mathew Ferguson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 83], "content_span": [84, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032414-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Gemini Awards, Awards, Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series\nDan Lett, Jackie Torrens, Peter Keleghan, Rick Mercer, Leah Pinsent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 83], "content_span": [84, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032414-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Gemini Awards, Awards, Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series\nSarah Dunsworth, Robb Wells, Mike Smith, John Dunsworth, Pat Roach, Lucy Decoutere, Cory Bowles, Michael Jackson, Barrie Dunn, Shelley Thompson, Sam Tarasco, John Paul Tremblay, Jonathan Torrens, Jeanna Harrison-Steinhart", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 83], "content_span": [84, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032415-0000-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Newfoundland\nThe members of the 18th General Assembly of Newfoundland were elected in the Newfoundland general election held in October 1897. The general assembly sat from 1898 to 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032415-0001-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Newfoundland\nThe Tory Party led by James Spearman Winter formed the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032415-0002-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Newfoundland\nSir Henry Edward McCallum served as colonial governor of Newfoundland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032415-0003-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Newfoundland, Members of the Assembly\nThe following members were elected to the assembly in 1897:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032416-0000-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Nova Scotia\nThe 18th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between the 1847 and 1851, its membership being set in the August 5th, 1847 Nova Scotia general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032416-0001-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Nova Scotia\nThe Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, Sir John Harvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032416-0002-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Nova Scotia\nThis Assembly is noteworthy for many reasons. It was the first Assembly elected after the adoption of the Simultaneous Polling Bill, which resulted in an election in days, rather than three to four weeks. It was the first election after the establishment of responsible government. The government of James W. Johnstone was the first to be defeated in the polls in Nova Scotia, resulting in a want of confidence resolution passing in the House, and the first resignation of a government in the province. Finally, the Governor asked James B. Uniacke to submit an outline of a new administration, and form the first elected, responsible government in the Province of Nova Scotia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032417-0000-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island\nThe 18th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between March 5, 1850, and 1854.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032417-0001-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island\nThe Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Prince Edward Island, Donald Campbell. Alexander Rae was elected speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032417-0002-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island\nResponsible government was granted to the island in 1851 and George Coles became the first Premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032417-0003-0000", "contents": "18th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Members\nThe members of the Prince Edward Island Legislature after the general election of 1850 were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032418-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Genie Awards\nThe 18th Genie Awards were held on 14 December 1997, to honour the best Canadian films of 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032418-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Genie Awards, Nominees and winners\nThe Genie Award winner in each category is shown in bold text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Georgia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Originally brigaded with the three Texas regiments of John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade, it was transferred to Thomas R.R. Cobb's Georgia Brigade after the Battle of Antietam in late 1862. After General Cobb was mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the original colonel of the 18th Georgia, William T. Wofford, became Brigadier General of the Georgia Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Organization\nThe regiment was organized at Camp Brown (located near Smyrna), Cobb County, Georgia, on April 22, 1861, under a special act of the Georgia legislature. (See also Philips' Legion Background and Formation). It was originally designated First Regiment, Fourth Brigade, State Troops under the following officers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Organization\nThe volunteers trained at Camp Brown until transferring to Camp MacDonald at Big Shanty in present day (Kennesaw); the new, 60-acre facility opened on June 11, 1861. Phillips, founder of the famed Phillips Legion, named the camp in honor of his former law mentor and governor of Georgia Charles J. McDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Organization\nThe regiment drilled for two more months after which the \"Fourth Brigade\" was broken up and sent north on August 2, 1861. At that time, the 18th Georgia Volunteer Regiment was composed of ten companies of roughly 750 soldiers, mostly from central counties in Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nThe 18th Georgia briefly guarded prisoners in Richmond captured at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) and served garrison duty for two weeks in Goldsboro, North Carolina. In November they were sent north to the area of Dumfries, Virginia, along the Potomac River where they were attached to the 1st, 4th and 5th Texas infantry regiments to form a \"full\" Texas Brigade. For the next year they would be an integral member of the Texas Brigade as it fought from the Peninsula Campaign (May - July 1862) to Antietam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nThe regiment was first engaged at the Battle of Eltham's Landing and the Battle of Seven Pines. It served conspicuously during the Seven Days Battle where, along with their Texas compatriots, they broke the line at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, effectively ending Union General McClellan's campaign, and resulting in regimental casualties of 37 killed and 106 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nTwo months later, the regiment distinguished itself again at the Second Battle of Bull Run (aka. Battle of Second Manassas) where members captured two stands of colors (those of the 24th and 10th New York Infantry regiments), and where, along with the Texas Brigade, they spearheaded General Longstreet's assault on Union General John Pope's left, nearly wiping out the 5th New York Zouaves and captured a battery of four guns. Regimental casualties were 37 dead and 87 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nThree weeks later, September 1862, the 18th GA fought at the Battle of Antietam losing 14 killed and 30 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nUnder orders of the Confederate States War Department, the 18th Georgia Infantry was transferred from the Texas Brigade to Cobb's Georgia Brigade, McLaws' Division, remaining in Longstreet's Corps. Cobb's Brigade was now composed of the 16th, 24th, and 18th Georgia Regiments, Cobb's Legion, and Phillips' Legion. (The 18th GA remained assigned to Longstreet's Corps until the end of the war.) Now consisting of 160 barefoot men the 18th GA went into camp at Fredericksburg, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0008-0001", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nIn the ensuing Battle of Fredericksburg, the regiment fought behind the stone wall on Marye's Heights sustaining losses of 14 killed and 30 wounded while inflicting heavy casualties upon the enemy. General Cobb bled to death from wounds sustained during the battle. May 1, Col. Wofford assumed command of the Texas Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nJackson's Corps, with McLaws' Division on the left flank, remained on the Fredericksburg front until the night of May 1. On that night, Jackson's force (containing the 18th GA) left Fredericksburg to outflank the outflanking Federal army. Thus began the Battle of Chancellorsville. After days of fighting, the 18th GA's casualties totaled 86; 14 killed and 72 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nIn June, 1863, Gen. Lee launched his second invasion of the north. Around Gettysburg, on the second day of battle after taking the city, Lee ordered Longstreet's Corps to attack diagonally from Little Round Top northward. The Confederate attack, coming late in the afternoon, saw Longstreet capture the positions west of Little Round Top known as Peach Orchard, Wheat Field, and Devil's Den on the Federal left. But, he failed to seize the vital Little Round Top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nAfter Gettysburg, the 18th GA retreated to an area near Manassas Gap, in Virginia. They fought a skirmish at Snickers Gap, Virginia on July 23, 1863, and did not see action again until October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nIn September 1863, Longstreet's Corps left the Army of Northern Virginia by rail to join the Battle of Chickamauga in northwest Georgia, near Dalton. The corps bolstered the forces of General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee. But, the 18th Georgia did not participate since they arrived on the field the day after the battle. October 28 and 29, 1863 found the 18th Georgia engaged in battles around Wauhatchie, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nBragg sent Longstreet's Corps off, with the 18th GA, in a futile attempt to capture Knoxville on November 5. The 18th Georgia Regiment found itself in a small skirmish on November 15 at Little River, Tennessee. On the 29th, Longstreet attacked Fort Sanders, but his troops were slaughtered in the ditches around the fort. He withdrew, and on December 3 started northward. By December 12, 1863, his forces arrived at Rogersville, and on the 15th he attempted to capture three brigades of Federal cavalry at the Battle of Bean's Station. The attempt failed although it was a Confederate victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nJanuary 16 and 17, 1864, the 18th Georgia was engaged in operations around Dandridge, Tennessee, east of Knoxville. April 11, Longstreet received orders to return to the Army of Northern Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nBy May 5, Longstreet was back in the lines with General Lee. On May 5, 1864, Gen. Longstreet's Corps was hit by the Federals on Old Turnpike and Orange Plank Road in the Battle of the Wilderness. By May 7, the Union had lost and General Grant was looking to maneuver around Lee's forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nBut, on May 8, Grant met heavy resistance at the famous Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. By May 12, savage hand-to-hand fighting at Bloody Angle with Longstreet's men in the left flank. May 19, the battle finally ended with Grant being thrown back. The same forces met again, at North Anna River, May 22 \u2013 May 26, the Pamunky River, May 26\u201328, and at the Totopotomy Creek, May 28\u201331.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nThen, at the Battle of Cold Harbor (May 31 - June 12), northeast of Richmond, Grant launched several very heavy attacks against Lee's army, including the 18th Georgia Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nThe 18th Georgia Regiment is listed as being engaged in the Assault on Petersburg, June 18, 1864. The siege of Petersburg lasted from June 16, 1864 until April 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nAugust 7, 1864, the unit was reassigned to operations against Sheridan's Campaign in the Shenandoah Valley where the 18th Georgia saw many small battles. August 16, they were engaged at Cedarville, and Guard Hill (Front Royal), Virginia. They next saw action at Bunker Hill, West Virginia September 2 and 3rd. On September 19, they saw action in the Battle of Opequan in Winchester, Virginia. Three days later, on the 22nd, the regiment saw action at the Battle of Fisher's Hill near Strasburg, Virginia. And lastly, on October 19, 1864, the unit saw action in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Middletown, and Belle Grove, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nNovember 30, 1864, the 18th GA was reassigned to the Army of Northern Virginia and moved back to Richmond. The siege on Petersburg and Richmond continued until Lee was forced to evacuate both cities April 2 and 3, 1865. An 88 mile (142\u00a0km) chase ensued down the Appomattox River to the southwest. Confederate forces were detained at Amelia Courthouse April 4 and 5, waiting for supplies that never arrived. The Confederates, including the 18th Georgia, were badly cut up on April 6 at the Battle of Sailor's Creek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032419-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Initial Deployment and Service\nFinally, on April 8, 1865 the 18th Georgia Regiment, assigned to Gen. Kershaw's Division, Gen. Longstreet's First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia was represented at the surrender of Confederate Forces at Appomattox Court House by less than 60 members, the highest ranking of which was one Lieutenant Gideon J. Lasseter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032420-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Globe Awards\nThe 18th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960 films, were held on March 16, 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032420-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Globe Awards, Winners and nominees, Film, Samuel Goldwyn Award\nThe Trials of Oscar Wilde (English-Language Foreign Film)La V\u00e9rit\u00e9 (France) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)The Virgin Spring (Sweden) (Foreign-Language Foreign Film)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 74], "content_span": [75, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032421-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Horse Awards\nThe 18th Golden Horse Awards (Mandarin:\u7b2c18\u5c46\u91d1\u99ac\u734e) took place on October 30, 1981 at Kaohsiung Cultural Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032422-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Melody Awards\nThe 18th Golden Melody Awards (Chinese: \u7b2c18\u5c46\u91d1\u66f2\u734e) ceremony for popular music category was held on June 16, 2007. The Azio TV broadcast the show live from the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. The ceremony recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year, which runs from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032423-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Raspberry Awards\nThe 18th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 22, 1998, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1997. This year, the film with the most nominations was Batman & Robin with 11, followed by Speed 2: Cruise Control with eight nominations, Anaconda with six nominations, The Postman with five nominations and Fire Down Below with four nominations. The film winning the most awards was The Postman, with all five categories for which it was nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032423-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Raspberry Awards\nBrian Helgeland, co-screenwriter of the Razzie-winning The Postman, also received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. Confidential in 1998. Helgeland became the second person, after composer Alan Menken in 1993, to receive a Razzie and Oscar in the same year, a feat not repeated until actress Sandra Bullock in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032423-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Raspberry Awards, Awards and nominations\nKevin Costner, Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Actor winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032423-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Golden Raspberry Awards, Awards and nominations\nDennis Rodman, Worst Supporting Actor and Worst New Star winner, Worst Screen Couple co-winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032424-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Goya Awards\nThe 18th Goya Awards took place at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos in Madrid, Spain on 31 January 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032424-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Goya Awards\nTake My Eyes (Te doy mis ojos) won 7 awards, including those for Best Film, Director, Actor (Tosar), Actress (Marull) and Supporting Actress (Pe\u00f1a).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032425-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Grey Cup\nThe 18th Grey Cup was played on December 6, 1930, before 3,914 fans at the Varsity Stadium at Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032425-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Grey Cup\nThe Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers defeated the Regina Roughriders 11 to 6. Regina scored the first touchdown for a western club in a Grey Cup game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032426-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Guam Legislature\nThe 18th Guam Legislature was a meeting of the Guam Legislature. It convened in Hagatna, Guam on January 7, 1985 and ended on January 5, 1987, during the 3rd and 4th years of Ricardo J. Bordallo's 2nd Gubernatorial Term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032426-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Guam Legislature\nIn the 1984 Guamanian general election, the Democratic Party of Guam won an eleven-to-ten (11-10) majority of seats in the Guam Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032427-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment\nThe 18th Guards Assault Aviation Vitebsk twice Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov and the French Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor Regiment \"Normandie-Niemen\" (18-\u0439 \u0433\u0432\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0448\u0442\u0443\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439 \u0430\u0432\u0438\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043a; 18th Guards ShAP) was a military unit of the Soviet Air Forces. It is now part of the Russian Air Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032427-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment\nIt was originally organised from the 6th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 28 February and 15 May 1942 as in the Siberian Military District. It was given the status of a Guards unit in accordance with a Prikaz of the NKO, No. 70 \u043ef 07.03.1942. It fought in the Great Patriotic War, winning fame in France as it incorporated the Normandie-Niemen Free French flyers, and in the Korean War, later entering the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. From March 1952 it was based at Galenki, Primorskiy Krai [44 05 49N, 131 48 12E] in the Russian Far East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032427-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment\nIts most recent form dates from March 1993 when it was reorganised as a \u0448\u0442\u0443\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439 (roughly, \"Assault\") a ground attack unit, Military Unit Number 21806, being previously equipped with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27 \"Flogger.\" During the 1990s and 2000s it was part of the 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032427-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment\nIt was amalgamated with the 187th Assault Aviation Regiment into the 6983rd Guards Aviation Base in December 2009, but then reformed at Chernigovka, Primorsky Krai, still in the Far East, in 2013. In 2019 it was reported as including two squadrons of Sukhoi Su-25 \"Frogfoot.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032428-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade\nThe 18th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Military Unit Number 27777) was a formation of the Russian Ground Forces. The brigade was formed in late 2008 from the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division and stationed in two bases near Grozny. The brigade was involved in the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and was combined with two other brigades to reform the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division in late 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032428-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, History\nThe brigade was formed in late 2008 from the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division as part of the Russian military reform and was relocated to Khankala, near Grozny in Chechnya. In 2013, several units of the brigade were relocated to Kalinovskaya. It inherited the honorifics \"Yevpatoria Red Banner\" from the division. The brigade was part of the 58th Army in the Southern Military District and included the 1st Mechanized Battalion \"Vostok\". Sergey Kuzovlev previously commanded the brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032428-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, History\nA battalion tactical group of the brigade was part of the troops in Crimea for the Russian military intervention in Ukraine during April 2014. The brigade's reconnaissance battalion contributed a reconnaissance team to the Russian military intervention in the War in Donbas from 14 July 2014. The brigade contributed a battalion tactical group from 11 August 2014. In February 2015 it was located in the Northern Operational Area. Between 1 and 2 February, a combined formation of the brigade and other Russian units were involved in combat near Debaltseve. After 13 February, the 20th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade's tactical group was reformed into a combined unit with the brigade. In late 2016, the brigade was merged with the 8th Guards Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade and 17th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade to reform the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 892]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032429-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Motor Rifle Division\nThe 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as 133rd Rifle Division at Novosibirsk or Biysk in 1939. The division was part of 1st Shock Army on 1 December 1941 during the Battle of Moscow. It was redesignated as the 18th Guards Rifle Division in March 1942 with the 51, 53, 58 Guards Rifle Regiments and 52 Guards Artillery Regiment. The division fought in the East Prussian Offensive. The unit became 30th Guards Mechanised Division in 1945 as part of the 11th Guards Army. In 1965 it was renumbered as 18th Guards MRD. It seems to have been stationed in the Kaliningrad enclave with 11th Guards Army before entering Czechoslovakia in 1968, joining the Central Group of Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032429-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Guards Motor Rifle Division\nIn 1991 the division was withdrawn back to Gusev in the Kaliningrad Oblast. The division was reorganised as a cadre strength formation, as part of the third-line reserves of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2002, it became the 79th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Russian: 79-\u044f \u043e\u0442\u0434\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0433\u0432\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043c\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0431\u0440\u0438\u0433\u0430\u0434\u0430). The division itself was reformed in Kaliningrad in December 2020 as part of the 11th Army Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032430-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Guldbagge Awards\nThe 18th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 1981 and 1982, and took place on 10 October 1982. The Simple-Minded Murderer directed by Hans Alfredson was presented with the award for Best Film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032431-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Helpmann Awards\nThe 18th Annual Helpmann Awards for live performance in Australia was held across two nights; the Curtain Raiser Ceremony on 15 July 2018 at the Sydney Town Hall and the Awards Ceremony on 16 July 2018 at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney. Nominations were announced on 18 June 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032431-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Helpmann Awards\nMajor recipients included dance work Bennelong (six awards including Best New Australian Work and Best Dance Production), musicals Beautiful (five awards including Best Musical) and Muriel's Wedding (five awards including Best Original Score), opera Hamlet (four awards including Best Opera), and play The Children (three awards including Best Play).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032432-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Hollywood Film Awards\nThe 18th Hollywood Film Awards were held on November 14, 2014, and aired on CBS. The ceremony took place at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032433-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Hong Kong Film Awards\nThe 18th Hong Kong Awards ceremony, honored the best films of 1998 and took place on 25 April 1999 at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The ceremony was hosted by Carol Cheng, Cheung Tat Ming, Vincent Kok, Chin Ka Lok and Jerry Lamb, during the ceremony awards are presented in 17 categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032433-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Hong Kong Film Awards, Awards\nWinners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032434-0000-0000", "contents": "18th IIFA Awards\nThe 2017 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 18th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honouring the best Hindi films of 2016, occurred in MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on 14\u201315 July 2017. It is first time that the awards held there and also IIFA returned to United States after 2014 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Service\nOrganized at Aurora, Ill., and mustered into State service May 19, and into U. S. service May 28, 1861. Moved to Bird's Point, Mo., June 24, and duty there till August 26. Moved to Mound City August 26, and duty there till October 5. Moved to Cairo, Ill., October 5, and duty there till February, 1862. Attached to District of Cairo, to October, 1861. 1st Brigade, District of Cairo, to February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of West Tenn., March, 1862.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Service\n1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st District, West Tenn., and Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, District of Jackson, Tenn., to September, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Jackson, to November, 1862. District of Jackson, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, District of Jackson, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1868. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to May, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Kimball's Provisional Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Kimball's Provisional Division, District of Eastern Ark., to August, 1863.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0001-0002", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Service\n1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Arkansas Expedition, to November, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Arkansas Expedition, to January, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to April, 1864. Post Pine Bluff, Ark., 7th Army Corps, to May, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, to January, 1865. Pontoneers, 7th Army Corps, to May, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to August, 1865. Dept . of Arkansas, to December, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nThis regiment originally rendezvoused at Anna, Union County, May 16, 1861, for the 9th Congressional District, under the \"Ten Regiment Bill.\" On May 19 it was mustered into the state service for 30 days, by Ulysses S. Grant, then state mustering officer, and was on the 28th of the same month mustered into the U. S. service for three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nOn June 24 it was moved to Bird's Point, Mo., where it remained, drilling, doing guard duty, working on fortifications, removing railroad buildings and track to keep the same from falling into the river, making new roads, etc., until Aug. 5, when it was moved into the swamp 8 miles west on the line of the Chicago & Fulton Railroad to guard it and protect workmen making repairs. On Nov. 3 it formed part of a force which was sent to Bloomfield, Mo., to rout Jeff. Thompson and his band, which was accomplished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0002", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nOn Feb. 6, 1862, it was in the advance in Gen. Oglesby's brigade at the capture of Fort Henry and was one of the first to enter the fort, but too late to meet the Confederates, who had flown. At Fort Donelson it occupied the right of Oglesby's brigade, on the right of the line of battle, and during the second day's fight lost 200 men in killed and wounded. 50 dying upon the field and 10 soon afterward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0003", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nThe regiment during the battle bravely and persistently maintained the position to which it was assigned in the early morning, and not until its ammunition was spent was the order to retire given. Its place that eventful morning was one commanding the road from the fort by which the Confederates essayed to escape, which daring attempt, however, was most signally frustrated by Oglesby's dauntless brigade. The regiment became early engaged in the battle of Shiloh, where the fight was fast became early engaged in the battle of Shiloh, where the fight was fast and furious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0004", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nAt the commencement of the battle the regiment had for duty 435 officers and men. The loss on the 6th was 10 killed, 63 wounded and 2 missing, but none were injured on the second day. The 3 color bearers who carried the flag in the first day's conflict were all killed while supporting the banner. The regiment was with the Army of the Tennessee during the advance upon Corinth, serving in a brigade commanded by Col. Lawler, in McClernand's division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0005", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nOn Nov. 28, 1862, one-half the period for which the regiment was mustered into service having expired, a statement was made showing that the original strength of officers and men, with the addition of new recruits, aggregated 1,166, and the regiment had lost through all causes 456, leaving a total aggregate on the rolls of 710.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0006", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nOn Dec. 20 the regiment, with other forces, was marched out towards Lexington and Trenton to intercept the Confederates in a raid then being made against Union troops guarding the railroads, etc., and on Dec. 31 Cos. E and H were engaged in a fight with the Confederates under Forrest near Lexington, driving the enemy with considerable loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0007", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nOn April 1, 1863, the regiment (250 mounted men) was moved toward Bolivar, Whiteville and beyond on the hunt of guerrillas and other Confederates said to be infesting the neighborhood, and a brush was had with a party posted in the road, the enemy being driven towards Danceyville, the regiment capturing some prisoners and horses. On April 11 it was ordered to Summerville, Tenn., where it investigated the place and surrounding country, routing guerrillas and securing a few prisoners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0008", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nOn June 4 the aggregate of the regiment, rank and file, was 369 on hand for duty, not including the teamsters, men in hospital and those absent on other service, but on July 27 the aggregate strength of those present and absent was 553, many of them being sick in hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0002-0009", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed History\nOn Aug. 31 the regiment was mustered and found to be so much reduced by sickness that less than 200 remained for duty, but on Sept. 11 those who were able advanced with the forces toward Little Rock, Ark., driving the enemy on both sides of the river and taking possession of the intrenchments and the city the same day. Soon after May 28, 1864, when the term of service of those originally mustered in expired, they were mustered out and the veterans and recruits were retained in the service until Dec. 16, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032435-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Total strength and casualties\nThe regiment suffered 6 officers and 99 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 7 officers and 282 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 394 fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032436-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery\nThe 18th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery, also known as Lilly's Hoosier Battery and Lilly's Battery, was a civil war regiment formed in Indiana during the American Civil War. The regiment was formed at the end of 1860 by 22-year-old Eli Lilly, an Indianapolis pharmacist. He had recruitment posters placed around the city and recruited primarily among his friends and classmates. The unit contained six ten-pound Parrott rifled guns, and was manned by 150 men. The unit mustered in Indianapolis where it was drilled during 1861. Lilly was elected captain of the unit in August 1862 when the unit was deployed to join the Lightning Brigade commanded by Col. John T. Wilder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032436-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery\nThe unit first saw action in the Battle of Hoover's Gap, and was later in the Second Battle of Chattanooga and the Battle of Chickamauga. The unit was enlisted for three years, and most members left the unit in the end of 1863. Several members, including Lilly reenlisted when their term expired, but were assigned to new units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032437-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Independent Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army)\nThe Imperial Japanese Army 18th Independent Mixed Brigade was an Independent Mixed Brigade formed November 7, 1939, in occupied China. It was assigned to the 11th Army. The unit was engaged in the Central Hupei Operation during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The brigade was re-organized as the 58th Division on 2 February 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032437-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Independent Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army), Organization\nThe 18th Independent Mixed Brigade consisted of the following units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 69], "content_span": [70, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032438-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Independent Spirit Awards\nThe 18th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2002, were announced on March 22, 2003. It was hosted by John Waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032438-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Independent Spirit Awards, Nominees and winners, Producers Award\nEffie Brown \u2013 Real Women Have Curves and Stranger Inside", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032439-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Indian Division\nThe 18th Indian Division was an infantry division of the British Indian Army that saw active service in the First World War. It took part in the Mesopotamian campaign and formed part of the occupation force for Iraq post-war. The division was not reformed for the Second World War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032439-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Indian Division, History\nThe 18th Indian Division was formed in Mesopotamia on 24 December 1917, although the last of its brigades (55th) was not formed until January 1918. Many of the division's units transferred directly from India so time was needed for them to become acclimatized. It remained in Mesopotamia for the rest of the First World War, taking part in the action at Fat-ha Gorge on the Little Zab (23\u201326 October 1918) and the Battle of Sharqat (28\u201330 October 1918) under the command of I Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032439-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Indian Division, History\nAt the end of the war, the 18th Division was chosen to form part of the occupation force for Iraq. It took part in the Iraq Rebellion in 1920 and was broken up in the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032439-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Indian Division, Order of battle\nThe division commanded the following units, although not all of them served at the same time:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032439-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Indian Division, Commanders\nThe division was commanded from 7 January 1918 by Major-General H.D. Fanshawe and from 12 March 1919 by Major-General Theodore Fraser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032440-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Indian Infantry Brigade\nThe 18th Indian Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in October, 1940 at Meerut in India and assigned to the 8th Indian Infantry Division. It was then detached for independent duties in Abadan in Persia. In June 1942 the 18th Brigade, having been rushed over to North Africa from Mosul, and was attached to the 10th Indian Infantry Division, had only two days to prepare defensive positions, was overrun by Erwin Rommel's tanks at Deir el Shein in front of the Ruweisat Ridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032440-0000-0001", "contents": "18th Indian Infantry Brigade\nIn the process, however, they gained valuable time for the rest of the British Eighth Army to organise the defences for what was to be known as the First Battle of El Alamein, halting Rommel's advance towards Egypt. The remnants of the Brigade were then sent to the 5th Indian Infantry Division and the 18th Brigade was officially disbanded in August 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032441-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Indiana Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032441-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Total strength and casualties\nThe regiment lost 5 officers and 68 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 1 officers and 130 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 204 fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032442-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry (British Indian Army)\nThe 18th Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1795, when they were called the Calcutta Native Militia. Over the years they were known by a number of different name The Alipore Regiment in 1859, the 18th Bengal Native Infantry in 1861, the 18th (Alipore) Bengal Native Infantry in 1864, the 18th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry in 1885, the 18th Musulman Rajput Infantry in 1902. Finally following the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army the 18th Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032442-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry (British Indian Army)\nThey took part in the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885 and World War I. During World War I they were part of the Derajat Brigade and took part in operations on the North West Frontier. After World War I the Indian government reformed the army again moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments. The 18th Infantry now became the 4th Battalion 9th Jat Regiment. In the reorganisation of 1922, this unit became the Regimental Centre located at Bareilly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032442-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry (British Indian Army)\nThe other active battalions of the Jat Regiment formed were from the erstwhile Bengal (Ist and 3rd battalions) and Bombay (2nd (Mooltan) battalion) armies. The Jat Regimental Centre, to-day, has an unbroken history since raised as the Calcutta Native Militia, to protect East India Company's assets, in 1795. After independence this was one of the regiments allocated to the new Indian Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032443-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)\nThe 18th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service during the First and the Second World Wars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032443-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), History, First World War\nThe 18th Brigade was formed from a mixture of regular and New Army battalions, and was part of the 6th Division. It saw action on the Western Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032443-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), History, Second World War\nThe brigade was originally designated as Cairo Area and 18th Infantry Brigade but ceased to exist when in May 1940 it was absorbed by HQ Cairo Sub-Area. On 20 July 1943 the 18th Brigade was reformed again from the redesignation of the 7th Motor Brigade as the 18th Lorried Infantry Brigade. It was part of the 1st Armoured Division and fought in the Italian Campaign with many other different formations, such as the 1st Infantry Division, who they served with in the Battle of Anzio. It was disbanded in Italy on 1 January 1945 due to an acute manpower shortage throughout the British Army at the time with all available replacements being sent to the 21st Army Group in the North West Europe Campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032443-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), History, Second World War, Order of battle\nFrom 20 July 1943 the 18th Lorried Infantry Brigade was constituted as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032443-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), Bibliography\nThis article about a specific British military unit is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\"\nThe 18th Infantry Division \"Messina\" (Italian: 18\u00aa Divisione fanteria \"Messina\") was an infantry division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The Messina was formed on 24 May 1939 in Fano and named for the city of Messina. After the Armistice of Cassibile the division was dissolved by the German forces on 13 September 1943 in Croatia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\", Action, From formation to occupation of Montenegro\nThe division Messina did not participated in the Italian invasion to France, quartering in Ancona coast besides the Fabriano and Fossombrone valleys nearby until the end of 1940. 3 April 1941, it was ordered to Albania, on the positions north of Shkod\u00ebr. It was expected to occupy Ulcinj Castle to shell the Yugoslavian positions. 12\u201313 April 1941, it resisted Yugoslavian attacks at Mount Korab. The Messina Division took part in the invasion of Yugoslavia as part of the Italian XVII (Armoured) Corps. The first crossing of Yugoslavian border occurred 15 April 1941, between Bar, Montenegro and Lake Skadar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\", Action, From formation to occupation of Montenegro\n16 April 1941, after piercing through the Yugoslavian defences, it advanced to Bar. 17 April 1941, it surprised and captured both Cetinje and Kotor and much of the Royal Yugoslav Navy. The Messina division has reached Podgorica city 25 April 1941 and received the orders to stay as occupation force. Its area of responsibility was stretched over 100\u00a0km around Cetinje, Danilovgrad, Podgorica, Berane and Kotor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\", Action, Anti partisan operations\nFighting with the Partisans started almost immediately. During 1941, an intermittent fighting was erupting in Virpazar, Rijeka, Cekanje pass near Cetinje, \u0160avnik and Kotor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\", Action, Anti partisan operations, Operation Alba\nThe Messina division was transferred to the Croatian city of Metkovi\u0107 in early August, 1942. It took part in Operation Alba which was an anti Partisan operation in Croatia carried out from 12 August to 2 September 1942, to destroy partisan groups in the Biokovo area 40 to 50 kilometres east of Split. Italian forces burned down 10 villages and killed and arrested several hundred people. Orders to move to the Neretva Delta were issued 8 September 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\", Action, Anti partisan operations, Operation Alfa\nThe Messina also took part in Operation Alfa between 5 and 10 October 1942. The objective was to retake the town of Prozor which had been overrun by a strong Partisan force. The operation was under the command of the Italian VI Corps, which achieved all its objectives in 6 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\", Action, The Armistice\nAfter the Italian Armistice of 8 September 1943, the Messina division received orders to disarm by German, Yugoslavian, and Croatian forces. In the resulting confusion, elements of the division (93rd Messina Infantry Regiment and 108th CCNN Legion (Blackshirts)) were able to board ships and arrived on the Apulia coast of Italia. Nonetheless, the division was officially dissolved 13 September 1943.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032444-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division \"Messina\", C.R.O.W.C.A.S.S.\nThe names of 8 men attached to the Messina Division can be found in the CROWCASS List established by the Anglo-American Allies of the individuals wanted by Yugoslavia for war crimes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium)\nThe 18th Infantry Division (18de Infanterie Divisie) was an infantry division of the Belgian Army that fought in the Battle of Belgium against the Wehrmacht during the Second World War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nLike the 15th Division, part of the same IV Corps, the 18th was composed entirely of regiments of the older reserve. As such, it mostly lacked heavy weaponry such as AA guns and anti-tank artillery. Its infantry units were equipped with antiquated weapons of World War One vintage. Therefore the 18th was, at the start of the campaign, deployed alongside the canal of Schoten-Dessel as a covering force for the Albert Canal line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nEven in this role, the entire division was deemed to strong, so that one infantry regiment (the 3rd Grenadiers) was transferred to the coast and another was used as reserve for the IV Corps. Some mobile units from other formations were attached to make it fit for a more mobile role.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nAt the start of hostilities, the 18th was supposed to blow the bridges of the Schoten-Dessel Canal to slow down the German advance. But when the war started on may 10th, General Six got word that the French 7th Army would pass through its sector to assist the Dutch. Still, the bridges east of Turnhout were destroyed, much to the dismay of the French, who would arrive by the evening at the canal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nDue to the arrival of the French, the 18th Division was ordered to stay longer at the canal than planned. As the 7th Army deployed, General Six was to co-ordinate his efforts with those of the French. At the same time, the first German scouts crossed the Dutch border into Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nFirst contact was made by the 3rd Carabiniers near Arendonk on the 12th. Meanwhile, General Six found out the bridges over the Albert Canal were blown up, effectively cutting his prepared lines of retreat. By the 13th the 3rd Carabiniers and supporting French units were engaged in a pitched battle at the Schoten-Dessel Canal. By nightfall, the order for a general retreat to the Antwerp position was given. One battalion of the 3rd did not receive the orders in time and was largely captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nAfter breakthrough at Sedan, orders came for a second retreat towards Ghent. There, it was to take position between Oostakker and Destelbergen, effectively covering the eastern approaches to the city. By that time, there were signs discipline was starting to fray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nAt the 21st, the 39th was engaged for the first time against German scouts. But the following day, as the Germans reached the English Channel, orders came for yet another retreat towards the Lys River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nAgain the weaker 18th was to play a covering role, taking position in Ghent itself. While the 3rd Carabiniers and the 39th took op position, the Germans send several negotiators under the cover of a white flag to demand the surrender of the city. Some even succeeded in planting a swastika flag on the Belfort. Egged on by unwilling city-dwellers and local police officers, several units of these regiments surrendered en masse, defying the orders of their superior officers. Only one battalion of each regiment conducted a retreat to the Lys river.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nStill, due to the breakthrough of the Germans at the Lys near Kortrijk, the weakened 18th was ordered into action at the former sector of the 9th Division near Ursel. Parts of that Division were withdrawn in an attempt to contain that breakthrough. As the 18th took up position next to the 7th Chasseurs, it quickly came under sustained artillery fire suggesting the Germans would soon attack their sector in force, too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nOn the 26th of may, that attack came indeed. By noon, the Germans gained a foothold on the Belgian side of the Lys canal and pressed on towards Maldegem. An attempt at counterattack by the remaining 39th was easily stopped in its tracks by the quick German advance. By the end of the day what was left of the Division pulled back to Maldegem where a last ditch defence of the town followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), World War Two\nBy the Belgian surrender on the 28th of May, at least 108 officers, NCO and enlisted were killed in action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032445-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Belgium), Structure 1940\nStructure of the division at the eve of the Battle of Belgium:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032446-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (France)\nThe 18th Infantry Division (French: 18e Division d'Infanterie, 18e DI) was a French Army formation during World War I and World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032446-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (France), World War 1\nIt commanded the 32nd, 66th and 77th Infantry Regiments for the entirety of the war, as well as the 135th Infantry regiment (until early 1917) and the 71st Territorial Infantry Regiment (from late 1918).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032446-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (France), World War 1\nIt was part of the French 9th Corps, during which it participated in the First Battle of the Marne, the First Battle of the Aisne, the First Battle of Ypres, the Second Battle of Artois and Third Battle of Artois, the Battle of Verdun, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of the Lys, the Battle of Matz, the Fourth Battle of Champagne, the Second Battle of the Marne and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032446-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (France), World War 1\nAt various times, it was part of the French First Army, French Second Army, French Third Army, French Fourth Army, French Fifth Army, French Sixth Army, French Eighth Army, French Ninth Army and French Tenth Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032446-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (France), Battle Of France\nDuring the Battle of France in May 1940 the division was made up of the following units:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032446-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (France), Battle Of France\nIt was a Series A reserve division which contained younger reservists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032447-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Greece)\nThe 18th Infantry Division (Greek: XVII \u039c\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03af\u03b1 \u03a0\u03b5\u03b6\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd, XVIII \u039c\u03a0; XVIII Merarchia Pezikou, XVIII MP) was an infantry division of the Hellenic Army that fought in the Battle of the Metaxas Line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032447-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Greece)\nThe division was formed in December 1940, under Major General Leonidas Stergiopoulos. It was subordinated to the Eastern Macedonia Army Section (TSAM) and faced the German attack on 6 April 1941 in the area of Mount Beles. The division was unable to halt the German attack, which outflanked TSAM and led to its surrender on 9 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland)\nThe 18th Infantry Division (18. Dywizja Piechoty) was a division of the Polish Armed Forces. The division was originally part of Polish Army during the interbellum period, which took part in the Polish September Campaign. Stationed in \u0141om\u017ca and commanded in 1939 by Colonel Stefan Kossecki, it was part of the Narew Independent Operational Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland)\nThe division was re-established in its modern form in September 2018 and renamed to the 18th Mechanized Division as part of an expansion of the Polish Army, partially as a result of heightened security threats to Poland. The division will have achieved initial operating capacity by the end of 2019, with further strengthening of the formation to be completed by the mid-2020s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland), History\nIt was formed in 1919 from the units of the Blue Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland), History, Interwar\nBetween 1919 and 1939, \u0141om\u017ca and neighboring towns were located very close to the border of Poland and German province of East Prussia. Defense of this area was regarded as crucial in any future conflict, so 18th Division was regarded as an elite unit. More than 50% of its soldiers were local conscripts from northern Mazovia and Podlasie, whose patriotism was highly appreciated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland), History, Invasion of Poland\nThe Division assembled on August 30, 1939, and the next day it occupied defense positions along the Narew river. Until September 3, it had a limited contact with the Wehrmacht. It was then ordered to take positions previously held by the Polish 41st Infantry Division. On September 7, it left Ostro\u0142\u0119ka and was ordered to halt the advance of German 21st Infantry Division near Nowogrod. The efforts of Polish soldiers were mixed, but on the night of Sept 9-10, it attacked a German armored column, destroying several vehicles and tanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland), History, Invasion of Poland\nDuring the next days the Division was engaged in heavy fights with units of General Heinz Guderian's XIX Army Corps. After several bloody skirmishes, the Germans severely wounded Colonel Kossecki. Twenty volunteers, who wanted to take his body from the battleground, were killed by a German machine gun. Kossecki himself survived, but was captured by the Soviets and probably killed by them in the Katyn massacre. The division effectively ceased to exist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland), History, Invasion of Poland\nIn the night of September 13\u201314 the Germans massacred 200 Polish POWs, gathered in the courtyard in the barracks in Zambr\u00f3w (the Zambr\u00f3w massacre).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland), 21st century\nThe reactivation of the Division was announced by the Polish Ministry of Defence in September 2018 as part of the effort to expand and modernize the Polish Army amidst heightened tension with Russia. Initially, the division will be two brigades strong, with the already formed 1st Warsaw Armoured Brigade and the 21st Podhale Rifles (Mountain) Brigade making up its strength. The division will be further strengthened by the creation of a new brigade, the 19th Mechanized Brigade, which is in the process of being formed as of 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032448-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Poland), 21st century, Structure of the 18th Mechanized Division\nThe 18th Mechanised Division (nicknamed The Iron Division) is headquartered in Siedlce and is organised as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 88], "content_span": [89, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032449-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)\nThe 18th Infantry Division (Russian: 18-\u044f \u043f\u0435\u0445\u043e\u0442\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0434\u0438\u0432\u0438\u0437\u0438\u044f, 18-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya) was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I and the Russian Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032449-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)\nIt was formed in 1806 as the 10th Infantry Division. It was renumbered in several subsequent reorganizations, becoming the 15th in 1820, the 12th in 1833, and the 18th in 1835.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032449-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)\nBy 1914 it was part of the 14th Army Corps at Lublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)\nThe 18th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army which fought briefly in the Malayan Campaign of the Second World War. In March 1939, after the re-emergence of Germany as a European power and its occupation of Czechoslovakia, the British Army increased the number of divisions in the Territorial Army (TA) by duplicating existing units. The 18th Infantry Division was formed in September 1939 as a second-line duplicate of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division, with men from Essex and the East Anglian counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)\nThe division was based in Britain from 1939 to 1941, undergoing training and being moved around the country. This included an anti-invasion role in East Anglia, training in Scotland, and redeployment to the North West where the division also helped unload merchant ships during the Liverpool Blitz. Towards the end of 1941, the British government sought to reinforce the British Army in North Africa to demonstrate to the Dominions that the United Kingdom was doing its fair share of fighting in the Middle East and to prepare for Operation Crusader. The division left Britain during October bound for Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)\nBy December, the convoy had reached South Africa and was preparing for the final stretch of its journey when news of the Japanese entry into the war was received. This resulted in most of the 18th Infantry Division being diverted to India to reinforce British forces facing the Japanese. The 53rd Brigade was sent to Singapore, from where it was deployed north to Johore and became embroiled in the Battle of Muar. After several short engagements with Japanese forces, the brigade was withdrawn to Singapore Island. Between 29 January and 5 February, the rest of the division arrived in Singapore having sailed from India. Shortly afterwards, the entire division participated in the Battle of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)\nInitially deployed to northeastern Singapore Island, the division remained largely inactive while the Japanese attacked the north-west sector. Following the establishment of a Japanese beachhead, the division was broken up and deployed piecemeal in the battle. One battalion was assigned to a different formation and several units formed two battlegroups. After the initial engagements, the division was regrouped for a final stand in the city of Singapore and repulsed several Japanese attacks. The division, with the rest of the garrison, surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February 1942. It was not reconstituted. Over one-third of the division's personnel died in captivity, including divisional commander Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Background\nDuring the 1930s, tensions increased between Germany and the United Kingdom and its allies. In late 1937 and throughout 1938, German demands for the annexation of Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia led to an international crisis. To avoid war, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in September and brokered the Munich Agreement. The agreement averted a war and allowed Germany to annexe the Sudetenland. Although Chamberlain had intended the agreement to lead to further peaceful resolution of issues, relations between both countries soon deteriorated. On 15 March 1939, Germany breached the terms of the agreement by invading and occupying the remaining Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Background\nOn 29 March, British Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha announced plans to increase the Territorial Army (TA), a reserve of the regular army made up of part-time volunteers, from 130,000 to 340,000 men and double the number of TA divisions. The plan was for existing units to recruit over their establishments, aided by an increase in pay for Territorials, the removal of restrictions on promotion which had hindered recruiting, the construction of better-quality barracks, and an increase in supper rations. The units would then form second-line divisions from cadres which could be increased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0005-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Background\nThe 18th Infantry Division was a second-line unit, a duplicate of the first-line 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division. In April, limited conscription was introduced. This resulted in 34,500 twenty-year-old militiamen being conscripted into the regular army, initially to be trained for six months before deployment to the forming second-line units. Despite the intention for the army to grow, the programme was complicated by a lack of central guidance on the expansion and duplication processes and a lack of facilities, equipment and instructors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nIt was envisioned that the duplicating and recruiting processes would take no more than six months. Although some TA divisions had made little progress by the time the Second World War began, others completed this work within weeks. The 18th Infantry Division became active on 30 September 1939; prior to this its units had formed, and were administered by the parent 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division. The 18th Division was composed of the 53rd, 54th and 55th Infantry Brigades, and divisional support troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0006-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nThe division was formed with men from the county of Essex and the East Anglian counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. According to the Imperial War Museums, its insignia (windmill sails) denotes \"the association of the Division with East Anglia\". The 53rd Brigade consisted of the 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment (5RNR), 6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment (6RNR), and the 2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (2CR). The 54th Brigade controlled the 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment (4RNR), 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (4SR), and the 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (5SR). The 55th Brigade was made up of the 5th Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (5BHR), 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (1CR), and the 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (1/5SF). The division's first general officer commanding (GOC) was Major-General Thomas Dalby, who had been brought out of retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 992]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nMajor-General Bernard Paget assumed command on 30 November 1939, replacing the again-retiring Dalby. The division was initially assigned to Eastern Command, and was based in Norfolk by early 1940. The opening months of the war allowed little time to train, and the division guarded airfields and other key points. By summer, it was under the command of II Corps and was spread throughout Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. On 20 April, Paget left the division temporarily and was replaced by Brigadier Edward Backhouse (commander of 54th Brigade).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nPaget was deployed to Norway, where he commanded Sickleforce (the 15th and 148th Infantry Brigades) after their landing at \u00c5ndalsnes during the Norwegian Campaign. When the campaign failed, Paget returned briefly to the division on 14 May 1940; thirteen days later, he became Chief of Staff, Home Forces and was temporarily replaced by Brigadier Geoffrey Franklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nThe TA's war deployment envisioned its piecemeal use, as equipment became available, to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) already dispatched to Europe. The TA divisions would the join regular army divisions as the divisions completed their training and received their equipment, with the final divisions deployed a year after the war began. The division did not leave Britain at that time, since the BEF was withdrawn from France during the May\u2013June 1940 Dunkirk evacuation. The evacuation had resulted in the abandonment of much of the BEF's equipment, leaving troops in Britain sparsely equipped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0008-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nPriority for new equipment was given to a handful of formations that would respond to any German landings, leaving the 18th Division with little of what was required. An infantry division should have been equipped with seventy-two 25-pounder field guns; on 31 May 1940, the 18th Division was equipped with four First World War-vintage 18-pounder field guns and eight 4.5-inch howitzers of similar age. The division had no anti-tank guns (compared with the usual 48), and only 47 of the required 307 Boys anti-tank rifles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nDuring the summer of 1940, the 18th Infantry Division had several changes of command. Major-General Thomas Eastwood took command on 1 June before leaving to become chief of staff of the Second BEF under the command of Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke. Major-General Lionel Finch, previously Director of Recruiting and Organization and Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces, took command on 9 June before his replacement by Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith (who had commanded the 1st Guards Brigade during the Battle of France) on 14 July. He remained with the division for the remainder of its existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nAlthough the division was then assigned to an anti-invasion role in East Anglia, a number of training exercises were held in other parts of England as well as in Scotland, and Wales. In the autumn of 1940, it moved permanently to Scotland. Divisional headquarters was established at Melrose, with the troops spread across the Scottish Borders from Dumfries to Duns. Further divisional exercises were conducted, facing contingents of exiled Belgians, Czechs, Norwegians, and Poles. Unfounded rumours began to circulate that the division would soon be deployed overseas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Formation and home defence\nIt was assigned to Western Command and moved to North West England and the West Midlands in April 1941, replacing the 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division. The division was spread out between Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, with divisional headquarters at Ribbesford House near Bewdley. During the Liverpool Blitz, several hundred men were deployed to the city for several weeks to help unload cargo ships. This deployment saw the division's first casualties of the war, due to German bombing. On 18 July, Brooke (now Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces) inspected elements of the division which were based in Crewe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, Transfer to Middle East\nWinston Churchill, who has succeeded Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, had grown concerned in 1940 about the expansion of British supply services in Egypt under Middle East Command compared to the number of fighting men, and pushed for the dispatch of additional fighting formations. This had been a source of friction with General Archibald Wavell and his replacement, General Claude Auchinleck, who wanted rear-area personnel and replacements for fighting formations rather than new divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 82], "content_span": [83, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0012-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, Transfer to Middle East\nChurchill was adamant that additional complete British fighting formations be dispatched, not replacements or logistical troops, \"to give the Dominions no cause to feel that the bulk of the fighting was done by their troops\". On 1 September 1941, Churchill contacted neutral U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and requested shipping for two infantry divisions from Britain to the Middle East. Roosevelt responded that shipping could be provided for only one division, sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The 18th Infantry Division left Liverpool aboard the heavily escorted convoy CT.5 on 28 October, bound for Nova Scotia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 82], "content_span": [83, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0012-0002", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, Transfer to Middle East\nThree days later, an American-escorted convoy left Halifax with six cargo ships provided to the British as part of the Lend-Lease programme. The convoys met in mid-ocean on 2 November, and exchanged escort groups; the British ships and Lend-Lease cargo ships headed for the United Kingdom, and the (now American-escorted) convoy CT.5 continued to Nova Scotia. The division arrived in Halifax on 7 November, and transferred to the waiting American ships of convoy WS.12X over the next few days. The British ships returned home, and convoy WS.12X departed Halifax on 10 November for the Middle East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 82], "content_span": [83, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, Diversion to Far East\nDuring the night of 7/8\u00a0December 1941, one hour before its attack on Pearl Harbor, the Empire of Japan began the invasion of Malaya. Four hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Hong Kong began. Although the immediate British response was to order a number of units to be diverted to the Far East, none based in the Middle East were withdrawn for the moment. Since the convoy containing the 18th Infantry Division had only reached the Cape of Good Hope when Japan entered the war, it was diverted to the Far East on 9 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0013-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, Diversion to Far East\nInstead of reinforcing Operation Crusader as planned, the division was sent to India. Lionel Wigmore, the Australian historian of the Malayan campaign, wrote that the diversion indicated that \"... the security of Singapore and maintenance of Indian Ocean communications were second in importance only to the security of the United Kingdom\u00a0...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, Diversion to Far East\nMost of the division arrived in Bombay on 27 December. The 53rd Infantry Brigade stopped for a week at Mombasa, Kenya and was diverted on 23 December to Malaya. The brigade, travelling on the USS Mount Vernon with the 135th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery and the 287th Field Company, Royal Engineers, arrived at Singapore on 13 January 1941 without its artillery or transport. Although the rest of the division was under War Office control, the 53rd Brigade was temporarily detached and assigned to Malaya Command. Their equipment, scheduled to arrive on a later convoy, was made up from local sources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0014-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, Diversion to Far East\nIt was hoped that the brigade could be put into the line immediately (relieving the 22nd Australian Brigade) but its men were considered unfit for immediate action after eleven weeks at sea. By the time the brigade arrived, the Japanese had forced Allied forces to retreat south. On 11 January, Kuala Lumpur, the capital of British Malaya, fell; Japanese forces reached Johor, the southernmost state of Malaya, soon afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nOn 17 January, despite reservations about the state of the brigade's fitness, a brigade group based on the 53rd Brigade (under the command of Brigadier Cecil Duke) had arrived in the Ayer Hitam area of Johor and elements were attached to the 11th Indian Infantry Division in III Indian Corps to reinforce the defences from Batu Pahat to Yong Peng. 6RNR was deployed around 10 miles (16\u00a0km) to the west to defend a tactically important defile and causeway between Bukit Pelandok (south of the pass) and Bukit Belah (to the north).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0015-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\n2CR relieved the garrison at Batu Pahat, around 15 miles (24\u00a0km) southwest of Ayer Hitam. Both battalions were also assigned to patrolling the roads against Japanese infiltration. Japanese patrols were soon encountered by 2CR southwest of Batu Pahat, and 6RNR (near Bukit Pelandok) was attacked from the air. 5RNR was allocated to Westforce (an ad hoc multi-national force assembled under the command of Australian Major-General Gordon Bennett) to relieve the 2/19th Australian Battalion at Jemaluang. Several Australian officers were to remain behind and aid 5RNR in taking over their positions and one said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nThey were a fine body of men but almost dazed by the position in which they found themselves. Their training had been for open warfare and not the very close warfare of the Malayan countryside. They demonstrated the unreality of their approach to the situation by lighting up all the buildings in the area, [and] stringing their transport along highly vulnerable and prominent crossroads....", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nThe battalion had not completed its move, when on 19 January the troops were ordered to Ayer Hitam. The defile had become a crucial position in the British attempt to delay the Japanese advance and prevent them from cutting off the 45th Indian Infantry Brigade. 6RNR was to be reinforced by the depleted 3rd Battalion, 16th Punjab Regiment (3/16PR) and the untried 2nd Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (2LR) from the 9th Indian Division as the 45th Indian Infantry Brigade retired through the 53rd Infantry Brigade positions to an area west of Yong Peng and Westforce withdrew to Labis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0017-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nAt 13:30 on 19 January, elements of the Japanese I Battalion, 5th Guards Infantry Regiment, Imperial Guards Division surprised a 6RNR company in Bukit Pelandok and occupied the lower slopes of Bukit Belah, commanding the Bakri road. Another 6RNR company managed to hold on at the northern slope of Bukit Belah and later took over the peak, unknown to battalion headquarters. At 05:00 on 20 January, 3/16PR was to counter-attack and recapture Bukit Belah and the northern ridge by dawn on 20 January and then 6RNR was to attack the Japanese in Bukit Pelandok covered by fire from Bukit Belah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0017-0002", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nThe Punjabi attack began at 04:00, but they were mistaken for a Japanese unit by 6RNR company on the summit of Bukit Belah, who opened fire. The Indians managed to reach the peak, but before it could be consolidated, a Japanese attack forced the British and Indian troops off the ridge with many losses, including the Punjabis' commander. The attack on Bukit Pelandok was repulsed and the British and Indian troops were moved to between the defile and causeway with the left flank covered by 2LR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nThe delayed brigade counter-attack was ordered for dawn on 21 January, spearheaded by 2LR, but 6RNR and 3/16PR were incapable of attacking so soon and 2LR had only just arrived; the attack was postponed again, but with orders to begin as soon as possible. At 20:00, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, GOC Malaya Command, decided that the Japanese capture of the Pelandok defile seriously endangered Westforce's line of communications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0018-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nHe ordered Bennett to continue to withdraw south of Labis to a line from Paloh to the Sungei Gerchang bridge on the road to Labis, and to detach a brigade as soon as possible to dig in at the Yong Peng road junction. As the 27th Australian Brigade covered Yong Peng, Percival put all troops on the Muar\u2013Yong Peng road back under the command of Westforce at 12:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0018-0002", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nThe counter-attack by the 53rd Brigade never occurred; at 10:30 on 21 January, Major-General Billy Key (GOC 11th Indian Division) visited the brigade and learned that half his orders had not been transmitted, that the brigade had not planned an attack, and that 2LR had been sent to dig in at the east end of the causeway. An attack could be arranged for 14:00, but more confusion occurred, and the start time was moved to 15:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0018-0003", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nThe Japanese positions gave a view of the ground east of the ridge, making surprise impossible to achieve, and more time was needed to arrange artillery support and concentrate 2LR. The attack was postponed again to 18:00 and then to the morning of 22 January. The artillery took so long to register that there was another postponement to 09:00, but 2LR, who had assembled under cover of night, were spotted by Japanese reconnaissance aircraft and bombed and strafed. With no prospect of surprise, and doubtful that the attack could succeed, Duke cancelled the operation and redeployed the three battalions to guard the causeway and the ground from there to the defile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nAt 06:30 on 22 January, 5RNR and a battalion from Batu Pahat reopened the Batu Pahat\u2013Ayer Hitam road at Milestone 72 and a supply convoy got through to the brigade. Later, the Japanese again blocked the road. Key ordered 5RNR to reopen the road along with an attack by the 15th Indian Infantry Brigade on 23 January, but this attack failed and 5RNR was recalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0019-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nAt a conference at Yong Peng, also on 23 January, Percival announced a new plan to defend a line from Jemalaung Kluang to Ayer Hitam and Batu Pahat, the 53rd Brigade reverting to the command of the 11th Division. The brigade was to retire on 23 January through the positions of the 27th Australian Brigade at Yong Peng to Ayer Hitam, when the transfer of command would occur. 5RNR was driven by bus to Pontian Kechil, ready to travel with an ammunition convoy to Batu Pahat, next morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0019-0002", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nThe brigade began to retire from Bukit Pelandok at noon, but the Japanese attacked with tank support and the causeway bridges were blown too soon for all the British to cross. In the chaos the brigade managed to disengage, but with many casualties. With the other battalions assigned to specific duties, the 53rd Brigade was reduced to the 6RNR and 3/16PR and moved south to Benut via Skudai. The brigade was engaged in a series of isolated fights with the Japanese along the road from Benut to Senggarang as they tried to move north to reinforce Batu Pahat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0019-0003", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Overseas service, 53rd Brigade: Malaya\nOnly isolated elements were able to reach Senggarang, to which the 15th Indian Infantry Brigade, including 2CR and 5RNR, had retired. During the evening, the 15th Indian Brigade was ordered to break out, across country as the roads had been blocked by strong Japanese positions, and retreat south. During the night of 29/30 January, the 53rd Brigade was ordered to withdraw to Singapore Island; the brigade had suffered about 500 casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\n\"The battle of Malaya has come to an end and the battle of Singapore has started.... Our task is to hold this fortress until help can come\u2014as assuredly it will come. This we are determined to do. In carrying out this task we want the help of every man and woman in the fortress. There is work for all to do. Any enemy who sets foot in our fortress must be dealt with immediately. The enemy within our gates must be ruthlessly weeded out. There must be no more loose talk and rumour mongering. Our duty is clear. With firm resolve and fixed determination we shall win through.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nOn 20 January, Wavell visited Singapore to discuss the defence of the island with Percival. During this conference, it was decided that once the 18th Infantry Division had arrived in full force, it would be allocated to the sector on the island believed to be where the Japanese would land, as it would be the strongest formation available with fresh troops. Percival believed that this would be the northeast part of the island; Wavell disagreed stating it would be the northwest section of the island (where the Australians were to be deployed). However, he did not force the issue and allowed Percival to deploy his forces as he wished. Wigmore commented that Wavell conceded the point \"on the ground that [Percival] was the commander responsible for results and had long studied the problem.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 868]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nThe majority of the 18th Infantry Division arrived in Singapore on 29 January, followed by the final elements (the machine-gun and reconnaissance battalions) on 5 February. Once the main body had landed, the 53rd Brigade returned to the division. The 18th was assigned to III Indian Corps and deployed in strength along the northeast section of the coastline. Their objective, as with all other frontline forces, was to prevent the Japanese from landing or if a landing did occur, to stop the Japanese on the beaches and launch counter-attacks to destroy their beachheads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nOn 5 February, Japanese forces made obvious movements on the mainland opposite the 18th Division and bombarded the 18th Division positions for several days. The same day, aircraft bombed the Empress of Asia; one of the four vessels that was bringing the remainder of the division to Singapore. Following the attack, Percival and Bennett reviewed Allied dispositions and expressed concern that they would not be able to defend the island without reinforcements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nThree days later, at 22:30 on 8 February, the Japanese began their assault on Singapore Island, landing on the northwest coast against Australian opposition. The 18th Division was ordered to remain where it had been posted in case of a second landing, and took no part in the initial fighting. After two days of fighting, Churchill cabled Wavell, \"The 18th Division has a chance to make its name in history. Commanders and senior officers should die with their troops. The honour of the British Empire and of the British Army is at stake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0024-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nI rely on you to show no mercy to weakness in any form.\" The character of Churchill's message was then relayed via Wavell to the troops. During the day, by which time Percival had drawn up a provisional plan to withdraw to a smaller perimeter around the city of Singapore, the division was committed piecemeal in the effort to stem the Japanese advance. The 5BHR was taken from the division and assigned to the 1st Malaya Infantry Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0024-0002", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nTwo ad hoc formations: Tomforce, from the divisional reconnaissance battalion, 4RNR, 1/5SF and a battery of the 85th Anti-Tank Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lechmere Thomas; and Massy Force from 1CR, 4SR, the Indian 5th Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment (5/11SR), and various other units including artillery and 18 light tanks, under the command of Brigadier Tim Massy-Beresford (commander of the 55th Brigade). The rest of the division remained in its sector.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\n\"It is certain that our troops on Singapore Island heavily outnumber any Japanese, who have crossed the straits. We must destroy them. Our whole fighting reputation is at stake and the honour of the British Empire. The Americans have held out in the Bataan Peninsula against far heavier odds. The Russians are turning back the picked strength of the Germans. The Chinese with an almost complete lack of modern equipment have held the Japanese for four and a half years. It will be disgraceful if we yield our boasted fortress of Singapore to inferior enemy forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nThere must be no thought of sparing the troops or civil population and no mercy must be shown to weakness in any shape or form. Commanders and senior officers must lead their troops and if necessary die with them. There must be no question or thought of surrender. Every unit must fight it out to the end and in close contact with the enemy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nPlease see that the above is brought to the notice of all senior officers and by them to the troops. I look to you and your men to fight to the end to prove that the fighting spirit that won our Empire still exists to enable us to defend it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\n\u2013 Special Order of the Day, 10 Feb 1942, by Archibald Wavell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nOn 11 February, Tomforce, having moved to reinforce the Australians, launched a counter-attack on the captured village of Bukit Timah. The reconnaissance battalion was ordered to advance up the main road to the village, with 4RNR to their right and the 1/5SF (reinforced with elements of the 2/29th Australian Battalion, who had been temporarily attached to Tomforce) to their left. The reconnaissance battalion encountered strong Japanese resistance as they tried to enter the village near the railway station and could proceed no further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0029-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nOn their flank, the 1/5SF and the Australians advanced to within 400 yards (370\u00a0m) of the village, before being forced back. 4RNR took control of an area of high ground overlooking the village, but could advance no further due to a strong Japanese presence in the area. Meanwhile, Massy Force had assembled on the eastern side of MacRitchie Reservoir and was ordered to defend Bukit Tinggi, west of the reservoir, but Japanese forces arrived first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0029-0002", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nDuring the afternoon, Massy Force moved to the northern end of Bukit Timah Race Course and linked up with Tomforce who had pulled back following their failed attack on Bukit Timah. Late in the day, Massy Force absorbed Tomforce and the latter ceased to exist. It was later established that the Japanese 5th and 18th Divisions had occupied the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0030-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nThe following day, with half the island under Japanese control, fighting intensified. The Japanese 5th Infantry Division, supported by tanks, attacked along the entire front, including the position held by Massy Force. Elements of Massy Force were pushed back and a Japanese tank attack penetrated deep into the British positions, before they were repulsed. Following the attack, Massy Force was withdrawn 3,000 yards (1.7\u00a0mi; 2.7\u00a0km) to a position along the Adam and Farrer roads. During the day, the rest of the 18th Infantry Division was ordered to move from their coastal positions. The 53rd Brigade and the 2/30th Australian Battalion covered the withdrawal of the 8th and 28th Indian Infantry Brigades, while the remnants of the division (along with the 11th Indian Division) were ordered to take up positions covering the Peirce and MacRitchie reservoirs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0031-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nOn 13 February, the division had moved into the final defensive perimeter established around Singapore. This position lacked any fortifications and it was clear all hope of victory had gone. The division was deployed with Brigadier Backhouse's 54th Brigade on the left astride the road to Bukit Timah (north-west of the city), to their right was the 53rd Brigade positioned north of the Chinese cemetery and Massy-Beresford's 55th Brigade (on the right flank) was north of the city from Thomson Road to the Adam Park Estate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0031-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Battle of Singapore\nThe Japanese attacked at numerous points along the final defensive perimeter, including several assaults on the Adam Park Estate. The 1CR fought off several attacks, including bayonet charges, inflicting over 600 casualties for the loss of 165 men. On 14 February, further attacks penetrated between the 53rd and 55th Brigades. Reinforcements from the 11th Indian Division were dispatched, repelled the Japanese attack and sealed the gap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0032-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Surrender, captivity and assessment\nDespite the Japanese attacks, the defensive line held; with food, water and ammunition running out, Percival decided on 15 February that counter-attacks would be fruitless. To spare the civilian population of the city further hardship, the decision was made to surrender the Allied garrison. The order to surrender surprised the men; some fled, fearing that the Japanese would not take prisoners and others had to be pressured into laying down their arms. Some, such as Harold Atcherley (an intelligence officer with the division) were ordered off the island, but Atcherley failed to escape. On 15 February, the division ceased to exist and its men entered Japanese captivity. The division was never reconstituted in the United Kingdom. During the next three years, over one-third of the men died in Japanese captivity; Beckwith-Smith succumbed to diphtheria on 11 November 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 967]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0033-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Surrender, captivity and assessment\nIn the aftermath, the division was a political bargaining chip in a series of telegrams between Churchill and Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin which discussed the possibility of diverting Australian troops to Burma rather than returning home. On 20 February, Churchill sent a telegram,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0034-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Surrender, captivity and assessment\n... your message of January 23, in which you said that the evacuation of Singapore would be \"an inexcusable betrayal\". Agreeably with your point of view, we therefore put the 18th Division ... into Singapore instead of diverting them to Burma, and ordered them to fight it out to the end. They were lost at Singapore and did not save it, whereas they could almost certainly have saved Rangoon. I take full responsibility with my colleagues on the Defence Committee for this decision; but you also bear a heavy share on account of your telegram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0035-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Surrender, captivity and assessment\nTwo days later, Curtin retorted: \"In regard to your statement that the 18th Division was diverted from Burma to Singapore because of our message, it is pointed out that the date of the latter was January 23, whereas in your telegram of January 14 you informed me that one brigade of this division was due on January 13 and the remainder on January 27\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0036-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Surrender, captivity and assessment\nAccording to historian Brian Padair Farrell, Wavell's decision to allow the 18th Infantry Division to be deployed to Singapore was \"the least blameworthy of the decisions that he made which had negative consequences\u2014especially for the men of the 18th Division who suffered the terrible years of captivity under barbaric Japanese control\". Farrell noted that \"Wavell's job was to hold Singapore\" and \"no other commander in his place would have chosen differently\". Gerhard Weinberg wrote that \"the constant splitting of divisions ... and the piecemeal tossing of reinforcements into battle all contributed to defeat\". This was echoed by Captain Henry Phillips, a former member of the division, who wrote that the division \"had been prodigally thrown to the winds\", was ill-trained for the situation, and received no intelligence about how the Japanese were armed, dressed, or equipped;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 972]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0037-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Singapore, Surrender, captivity and assessment\n... [ T]he division was not permitted to fight as a division ... battalions were divorced from brigades and companies from battalions. Unnecessary difficulties of administration were created and the chain of command disrupted.\" Phillips called the battle an \"unredeemed disaster\", and asked for the \"misapplication of the 18th Division\" to be scrutinised by a public inquiry \"to throw more light on the current of events contingent upon so important and so tragic an event in our military history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032450-0038-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), Order of battle\n53rd Infantry Brigade (30 September 1939 to 23 November 1941, then 30 January 1942 up to divisional surrender)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032451-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)\nThe German 18th Infantry Division was formed on 1 October 1934 as Infanterief\u00fchrer III in Liegnitz and renamed 18. Infanterie-Division on 15 October 1935. Mobilized in August 1939 it participated in the Invasion of Poland and in 1940 in the Battle of France. After the French campaign the division was motorized and redesignated 18th Motorized Infantry Division on 1 November 1940 serving on the Eastern Front for the remainder of the war. In June 1943 the division was redesignated 18th Panzergrenadier Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)\nThe IJA Eighteenth Infantry Regiment (\u7b2c18\u9023\u968a, \u6b69\u5175\u7b2c\u5341\u516b\u806f\u968a) Hohei Dai-Ju-hachi Rentai was an infantry regiment in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). Its call sign and unit code was Thunder-3219 (\u96f73219, Kaminari-San-Ni-Ichi-Kyu). The unit was formed in 1884 and based in the city of Toyohashi as a branch of the Nagoya Garrison. Throughout its history, the majority of its soldiers came from the Mikawa region, or eastern Aichi prefecture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)\nThe regiment first deployed for the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894. In 1904, it deployed again for the Russo-Japanese War where it fought in several major battles. Between 1928 and 1936, the regiment was deployed to China where it engaged in two military operations in China, though it spent most of the time on garrison and occupation duty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)\nWith the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the summer of 1937, the regiment participated in the Battle of Shanghai and then participated in the major campaigns of central China. In 1944, the 18th Regiment was sent to the Pacific theater as part of the 29th Division. On the way to Saipan, the transport ship that was carrying the regiment, the Sakito Maru, was torpedoed and sunk. Over half the regiment drowned, but survivors were rescued and delivered to Saipan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)\nSome stragglers had to be left behind, but the majority of the regiment was sent to Guam and prepared to repel the American invasion. Members of the 18th Regiment participated in both the Battle of Saipan and the Battle of Guam. In both battles, nearly all soldiers of the 18th Regiment were killed in action. A few soldiers survived the massed banzai charges and attempted to evade capture by hiding in the jungles, but as an organization the regiment became defunct and the ranks were not replenished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)\nAfter the battle on Saipan, one officer of the regiment, Captain Sakae \u014cba, distinguished himself when he took command of some soldiers and assumed responsibility for the civilians who had survived the battle. \u014cba and his men surrendered in December 1945, three months after the official end of World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Early history\nThe three battalions of the 18th Infantry Regiment were established in Nagoya, Japan, and granted their colors on 15 August 1884. By 1886 the regiment had transferred its headquarters to Toyohashi city, and thereafter the majority of its recruits came from that city and the surrounding Mikawa region of eastern Aichi Prefecture. In May 1888, the IJA 3rd Division was organized and the 18th Infantry Regiment was placed in its command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Early history\nThe regiment deployed for the first time in 1894 to participate in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894\u20131895). In 1904, the regiment deployed again for the Russo-Japanese War. The regiment saw combat at the Battles of Nanshan, Te-Li-Ssu, Tashihchiao, Shaho, Panlongshan, and other places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Early history\nIn 1907 the regiment was transferred from the 3rd Division to the IJA 15th Division. In 1925, the 15th Division was disbanded by order of War Minister Ugaki Kazushige, and the regiment was returned to the 3rd Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Early history\nIn May 1928, the regiment deployed for the Jinan Incident, and afterward served as the garrison for Tianjin, China. In February 1933 the regiment participated in Operation Nekka. As a result of this early clash between Chinese and Japanese forces, Inner Mongolia was placed in the Japanese controlled state of Manchukuo. In 1934, the regiment was on garrison duty in Manchukuo. The regiment returned to Toyohashi, Japan in 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Second Sino-Japanese War\nWith the outbreak of war following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the 18th Regiment was ordered to mobilize in August 1937. The regiment landed and participated in the Battle of Shanghai, then continued on to assist with the Battle of Nanjing. In early December, the regiment crossed the Yangtze at a point about halfway between Shanghai and Nanjing, launching an attack from Jiangyin on the south bank to Jingjiang on the opposite bank. The regiment occupied the two towns until 9 March 1938.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Second Sino-Japanese War\nIn May 1938, the regiment participated in the Battle of Xuzhou. Later that year, the regiment participated in the Hankou Operation as part of the larger Battle of Wuhan. In 1939, it fought the Battle of the Xiang River, the First Battle of Changsha, as well as smaller actions in the area. In 1940, the 18th Regiment participated in the Ichang Operation and the Han River Operation, both in Hubei Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Second Sino-Japanese War\nIn July 1942, command of the 18th Regiment was transferred from the 3rd Division to the IJA 29th Division. The regiment was then ordered to serve as the garrison force at Haicheng, at the time in Mukden Province, now part of Liaoning Province. By early 1944, much of northern China was nominally secure, and many units were being transferred to various islands in the Pacific in order to support the strained and hyperextended line of defensive positions. By February 1944, the 29th Division, which consisted of the 18th, the 38th, and the 50th Infantry Regiments, was ordered to mobilize and prepare for operations in the Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater\nFrom Manchuria, the 18th Infantry Regiment and its sister regiments travelled to Korea, where they embarked on four transport vessels at Pusan. The convoy was escorted by three Yugumo-class destroyers of Destroyer Division 31: Asashimo, Kishinami, and Okinami, and were first sent to the Japanese-held island of Saipan. On 29 February 1944 the transport ship carrying the regiment, the Sakito Maru, was hit by a torpedo fired from the USS\u00a0Trout\u00a0(SS-202), an American submarine, just northeast of Saipan. The transport sunk, taking with it 2,200 of the 3,500 men on board, which included the regimental commander, Colonel Monma Kentaro. Also lost on the transport were several tanks and most of the regiment's equipment. The convoy's three escort destroyers dropped depth charges, sank the Trout, and then rescued the survivors of the sunken transport. About 1,800 troops of the regiment were delivered to Saipan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 979]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Saipan\nAfter re-organization, two battalions of the under-equipped 18th Regiment were transported to Guam in May 1944; however, about 600 troops of the 1st Battalion had to be left behind on Saipan. These troops, under Captain Masao Kubo, joined the island's garrison, though nearly all would be killed during the Battle of Saipan in June and July 1944. In the aftermath of the battle, Capt. Sakae \u014cba distinguished himself by taking command of a number of soldiers and sailors who had survived the battle, as well as Japanese civilians who looked to him for guidance and protection. The group numbered about 300, and took shelter in caves or small villages in the jungle. They evaded capture by the U.S. Marines that were hunting for them, conducted harassment raids, and survived until they finally agreed to surrender on 1 December 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 906]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam\nIn March 1944, the 29th Division commander, Lieutenant General Takeshi Takashina, landed on Guam and assumed overall command of all military units for the island's defense. In preparation for the imminent invasion of Guam by Allied forces, the main body of the 18th Regiment was situated on a mountain, with each company deployed to cover possible landing points in support of the island's defensive strategy. On 21 July 1944 the American landing operation commenced. Despite fierce resistance, United States Army and Marine forces gained two beachheads by nightfall, straddling the Orote Peninsula on the west coast of the island, while the defenders either counterattacked or continued to fire on American positions with machine guns, artillery, and mortars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam\nOn 24 July, the command headquarters of the Japanese forces on Guam received word from Tokyo to \"Defend Guam at all costs\". General Takashina devised a plan of attack to dislodge the 3rd Marine Division, which occupied the high ground at Asan, north of the Orote Peninsula. Takashina's attack would be coordinated with a breakout attempt of Japanese forces trapped on the peninsula. The 18th Regiment, which had been reorganized into three battalions, was to be one of the main units to assault the American position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0014-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam\nTwo battalions would attack the 21st Marine Regiment and the other battalion was to attack the flank of the 9th Marines. The objective was to exploit an 800-yard gap between the two regiments, break through the American lines, and attain the high ground. Other units would attack the Marines or head to the beaches with demolition charges to destroy any ammunition or supply caches left by American forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam\nOn the night of 25 July, the colors of the 18th Infantry Regiment were ritually burned, by authorization of the division commander, in anticipation of the regiment's complete destruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam, First Battalion\nJust after midnight, the 1st Battalion, 18th Regiment, attacked the center of the 22nd Marines. Veterans of the battle later reported that while many of the Japanese soldiers carried rifles and their officers led with swords, some of the Japanese carried knives, pitchforks, or their bayonets mounted to long sticks and used as spears. Charging across open ground, they were hit by American artillery, mortars, and machine gun fire until they retreated into a mangrove swamp. Artillery continued to bombard the swamps, discouraging further attack from that approach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam, Second Battalion\nThe Japanese main attack was launched at about 0300, 26 July. The assault of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Regiment, under Major Maruyama Chusa, struck the center of the 21st Marines, and was the scene of some of the most desperate hand-to-hand combat of the entire night. The battalion charged through machine gun and artillery fire in an effort to reach the Marines. In an effort to break through the lines, Maruyama's men fought their way into a draw that led down to the beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 88], "content_span": [89, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0017-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam, Second Battalion\nThe Marines had prepared for that possibility, and once in the draw the Japanese faced several Sherman tanks. Lacking any sort of anti-tank weaponry, the Japanese troops were unable to damage a single tank, and flowing over and past them, continued on down the draw. Those troops who were unable to reach the draw regrouped and charged another point in the Marine line and fought hand-to-hand until their numbers became depleted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 88], "content_span": [89, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam, Third Battalion\nThe 3rd Battalion of the 18th Regiment, led by Major Yukioka Setsuo, was able to exploit a gap between the lines of the 9th and the 21st Marines, and drove hard toward the Marines' regimental Command Post (CP) near the beach. The Japanese came close to overrunning the CP, but Yukioka's attack was blunted by desperate fighting during the Marines' counterattack supported by artillery and mortars. One element of the 3rd Battalion encountered and attacked the 3rd Marine Division Headquarters area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0018-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam, Third Battalion\nThe Japanese were prevented from overrunning the position only when every available Marine, including cooks, clerks, doctors, and some of the wounded, joined the fighting, before two companies of combat engineers arrived to support the defenders. The engineers counterattacked, and by dawn the Japanese troops were dead or scattered; many fled up the Nidual River valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0018-0002", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam, Third Battalion\nThe Engineers pursued, and over the course of the day reported witnessing many of the Japanese committing suicide by an unprecedented method: when a Japanese soldier had given up on escape, and capture seemed imminent, he pulled the pin of his grenade, placed it on top of his head, then held his helmet down over the grenade and waited for the inevitable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Pacific Theater, Guam, Third Battalion\nBy the morning of 26 July, it was apparent that the attack to dislodge the American position had failed, as had the breakout attempt at Orote Peninsula. It was also apparent to General Takashina that victory at Guam would be impossible, due to enormous losses in personnel, leadership, weapons, and morale. Takashina decided that all remaining troops should escape to the interior of the island, in order to regroup, and carry on a guerrilla campaign to inflict as much damage as possible on the American forces. During the previous night's fighting, most of the men of the 18th Regiment had been killed in action, along with their commanding officer, Colonel Hikoshiro Ohashi. By the end of 26 July 1944, the 18th Infantry Regiment had ceased to be a functioning unit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 87], "content_span": [88, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032452-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army), Memorialization\nThe main memorial for the 18th Infantry Regiment is located in Toyohashi City Park. There are also monuments on the islands of Saipan and Guam, paid for by the regimental veterans' association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032453-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Poland)\n18th Infantry Regiment (Polish language: 18 Pulk Piechoty, 18 pp) was an infantry regiment of the Polish Army. It existed from late 1918 until September 1939. Garrisoned in Skierniewice, the unit belonged to the 26th Infantry Division from Skierniewice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032453-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Poland)\nDuring the Polish-Soviet War, the regiment was stationed in \u0141om\u017ca. In the summer of 1921, it was transferred to Konin, and then to Skierniewice, remaining there until 1939. Its first commandant was Colonel Marian Herbert, the last one was Colonel Wiktor Adam Majewski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032453-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (Poland)\nRegimental flag, funded by the residents of the counties of Ko\u0142o, Konin and Slupca, was handed by Jozef Pilsudski, on July 10, 1921. The badge was approved in 1926.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States)\nThe 18th Infantry Regiment (\"Vanguards\") is an Army Infantry regiment. The 18th Infantry Regiment currently exists with one active battalion under the U.S. Army Regimental System and has no regimental headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), History, Civil War\nPerryville, KY; Stones River, TN; Chickamauga, GA; Chattanooga, TN; Campaign for Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), History, Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm\nDecember 1990, Elements of 3\u201318, and 4\u201318 Brigade deployed from NATO in Europe to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Operations Desert Shield, engaging into Iraq and Kuwait for Desert Storm and Provide Comfort. Units were inactivated shortly after Jun 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 95], "content_span": [96, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), History, Global War on Terror\nLieutenant-Colonel, commander of the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment in Tikrit, paid $US500 to a driver to get his car repaired; paid \"benevolent\" money to the family of a victim of violence; paid people to clean streets; bought soccer kits for a team and repaired a swimming pool. Other officers have given money to ice-cream vendors, chicken farmers and hardware suppliers to get their businesses going. \"I'm trying to give them something to do rather than take shots at someone,\" said Colonel Sinclair, who said he gets $US50,000 every three or four weeks to distribute. \"It's not bribery. It's priming the pump. And it works well.\" The cash incentive scheme comes as some top officers are questioning whether the practice of keeping their troops highly visible in Iraq is doing more harm than good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), History, Victory Day\nOn 9 May 2010, a detachment led by Captain Matthew Strand from the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment represented the United States in Russia's Victory Day parade across Red Square and the request of Russian Minister of Defence Anatoly Serdyukov in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. They were joined by British, French, and Polish troops as well as detachments from the CIS member states. Labeled by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as the \"Anti- Hitler Coalition,\" it marked the first time in history that American and NATO troops joined the Russian Military in the 9 May parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), History, Victory Day\nA member of the contingent from Kemah, Texas, Russian-born 1st Lieutenant Ilya Ivanov, is a descendant of Major Alexander Peteryaev, a platoon leader in the Soviet Red Army. The Head of the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Colonel General Valery Marchenkov later awarded to soldiers for their participation in the parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), Lineage, ANNEX\nAssigned to the 1st Division XIV Army Corps under Major General George H. Thomas, Participated at the Battle of Chickamauga, GA as part of the Third (Regular) Brigade and was instrumental in preventing the destruction of the Union Army under Major General William Rosecrans at Chickamauga, GA Sep 1863. Participated in the operations at Chattanooga, GA and the following Atlanta Campaign assigned to the Third Brigade. Served under Brig. General John H. King and Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird's First Division and MG John M Palmer until the Attack at Utoy Creek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0005-0001", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), Lineage, ANNEX\nThe 18th US Infantry distinguished itself in its performance, along with the 15th US Infantry, in a combat water crossing at North Utoy Creek, securing the position for the 1st Division under Brigadier General Johnston 3 Aug 1864 and participated in the preliminary and main attacks on 6 August 1864. Involved in cutting the rail lines south of Atlanta at Rough and Ready Station (Forest Park GA 30 Aug 1864). After the Capture of Atlanta, the regiment and the rest of the Army of the Cumberland moved back in pursuit of Hood's Confederate Army into Tennessee. Involved in the Battle of Nashville and the destruction of the Confederate Army of Tennessee on 15\u201316 December 1864. The unit crest shows the symbol of the XIV Corps, the Acorn, adopted by Gen. George H. Thomas, \"The Rock of Chickamauga.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), Lineage, ANNEX\nOn 17 March 2008, 1\u201318 Infantry was inactivated in Schweinfurt, Germany, to be relocated to Fort Riley, Kansas. On 28 March, the 18th Infantry Regimental colors were un-cased at Fort Riley, and the unit that was the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment re-flagged to 1\u201318 Infantry (Combined Arms Battalion). The 28 March re-flagging at Fort Riley was part of the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division's re-flagging to the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, bringing all 1st Infantry Division brigades but 3rd BCT, 1 ID to Fort Riley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), Lineage, ANNEX\nOn 15 July 2009, 2\u201318 Infantry stood up in Baumholder, Germany as part of the 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. The unit was stood up to replace 1\u20136 Infantry (Regulars), part 2nd Brigade of the 1st Armored Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), Commanders\nSource of commanders: 18th Infantry Regiment AssociationNames marked by an @ indicate actual commanders in the absence of the colonel; an asterisk (*) = Commanders of the 18th Battle Group; 1\u201318 = 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry; 2\u201318 = 2d Battalion, 18th Infantry; and so forth. (1) following a name indicates future commander of 1st Infantry Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032454-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Infantry Regiment (United States), Commanders\n[ Need list of 3rd Battalion commanders][Need list of 4th Battalion commanders in Germany]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron\nThe 18th Intelligence Squadron was a space intelligence organization of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron\nThe squadron inactivated during September 2020 and then reactivated as the US Space Force's 73rd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron which is assigned to Space Delta 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, World War II\nThe squadron was originally activated as the 5th Photographic Laboratory Section on 20 October 1943 at Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma. While training at Esler Field, Louisiana, it was redesignated as the 5th Photographic Technical Unit on 30 November 1944 and as the 18th Photographic Technical Unit on 29 January 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, World War II\nThe 18th moved overseas in the spring of 1945, arriving in Nancy/Azelot Airfield, France, little more than a month before V-E Day, on 22 March 1945. It was inactivated on 27 December 1945 at Bad Kissingen Airfield, Germany. In these early years, the unit served in the United States, France, and Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, Strategic Air Command\nThe 68th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron was activated on 10 October 1951 at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio as an original element of the 68th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, which was located at Lake Charles Air Force Base, Louisiana, and began to equip with Boeing B-29 Superfortresses borrowed from other units. However, before the end of the year, Strategic Air Command decided to change the 68th Wing mission to bombardment and the squadron was inactivated on 10 December 1951.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, Redesignation and intelligence operations\nOn 16 October 1984, the 18th Photographic Technical Unit and the 68th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron were consolidated as the 18th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron, but the consolidated unit remained inactive. It was redesignated the 18th Intelligence Squadron on 3 September 1993 and activated on 7 September 1993 at Falcon Air Force Base, Colorado, drawing its personnel and equipment from a detachment of a United States Air Force Security Service unit, which was discontinued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, Redesignation and intelligence operations\nThe squadron's Detachment 1 was organized at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico in June 1995, and moved to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio during the summer of 2000. Detachment 1 was the Air Intelligence Agency's only transportable system conducting radio frequency phenomenology studies. Detachment 1 was discontinued on 8 June 2010 and merged with the 18th Intelligence Squadron, which moved from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California to Wright-Patterson. Assigned personnel provide data in support of Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and United States Strategic Command missions as well as information critical to the National Security Agency and other national-level organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, Redesignation and intelligence operations\nThe squadron provided intelligence for the planning, development, and execution of space control operations. The squadron consisted of a headquarters element at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and two geographically separated detachments: Detachment 2, Osan Air Base, Korea; and Detachment 4, RAF Feltwell, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, Redesignation and intelligence operations\nThe 18th was assigned to the 544th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, of Twenty-Fifth Air Force of Air Combat Command. Through fixed and mobile sites, it provided scientific and technical collection to National Security Agency, Air Force Materiel Command, and the 21st Space Wing, Passive Space Surveillance mission. Where available, it also provided limited analysis to the entities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, History, Redesignation and intelligence operations\nThe squadron INactivated during September 2020 and then reactivated as the US Space Force's 73rd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron which assigned to Space Delta 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 78], "content_span": [79, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, Lineage, Component elements\nWright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, (31 Aug 2000 \u2013 8 June 2010)Griffiss Air Force Base, New York, 7 September 1993 \u2013 31 August 2000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032455-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Intelligence Squadron, References, Bibliography\nThis article incorporates\u00a0public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0000-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival\nThe 18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival (Turkish: 18. Uluslararas\u0131 Adana Alt\u0131n Koza Film Festivali) was a film festival held in Adana, Turkey from September 17 to 25, 2011. Cash prizes totalling 936,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0000-0001", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival\nTurkish Liras, the highest amount given by a film festival in Turkey, were awarded for all categories, for the first time in Turkey, in three competitive sections, nearly 220 films were shown both in and out of competition in a selection described by critic Ali Koca as \"one of the event\u2019s strongest in recent years,\" following disappointment with the previous year's hastily rescheduled event, and there were also a range of lectures, workshops and other events, including the 1st International Golden Boll Film Congress, said to be the first to be organised during a film festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0001-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival\nThis edition of the International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, which was founded in 1969 and is organised by the Adana Metropolitan City Municipality and accredited by FIPRESCI, was the first to accept digital submissions from filmmakers for its national feature competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0001-0001", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival\nIt began with an opening gala at the Merkez Park open-air theater on September 17 at which speeches were made by Adana Metropolitan City Municipality Deputy Head Zihni Ald\u0131rmaz and Development Minister Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz, Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Turkish actors Kadir \u0130nan\u0131r and Nebahat \u00c7ehre, and Turkish filmmaker Ali \u00d6zgent\u00fcrk, and a concert was given by the trio of Mazhar-Fuat-\u00d6zkan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0001-0002", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival\nTurkish actors and actresses Nuri Al\u00e7o, Yavuz Karaka\u015f, Y\u0131lmaz K\u00f6ksal and Yusuf Sezgin were among those who toured the city in old style roadsters as part of the annual \"Love Cortege\" while the annual Solidarity Night for Cinema took place at Mimar Sinan Amphitheatre. The festival closed with an awards ceremony hosted by academic \u00d6zlem G\u00fcrses and actor Murat Ba\u015fo\u011flu at the Adana Merkez Park Amphitheater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0002-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival\nThe festival also played host to the 1st International Golden Boll Film Congress, coordinated by Dokuz Eyl\u00fcl University Faculty of Fine Arts Film Design Department and headed by Honorary Presidents \u00d6. L\u00fctfi Akad, at the Adana Seyhan Hotel from September 21 to 24 on the theme of Turkish Cinema: Views from Turkey and the World, and the Adana Cinema Museum, also run by the Adana Metropolitan City Municipality, was officially opened in a restored historic mansion on \u015eeyhan Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0003-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Awards, Awards\nThe festival's Best Actor award was dedicated in honour of Adana-born actor Cem Erman who died shortly before the start of the festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0004-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Awards, Honorary Awards\nThree Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented at the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0005-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Awards, Honorary Awards\nThe festival also curated retrospectives of the recipients films and commissioned books from film critic Bur\u00e7ak Evren about their respective careers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0006-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Competition Sections, National Feature Film Competition\nFourteen Turkish films made in the preceding year were selected by the Pre-Evaluation Board to compete in the festival\u2019s National Feature Film Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 107], "content_span": [108, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0007-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Competition Sections, National Student Films Competition\nSeven documentary films, seven animation films, ten experimental films, ten fictional films by undergraduate students studying at cinema and television departments of Turkey\u2019s communications and fine arts faculties were selected from the 180 films that were submitted to compete in the festival\u2019s National Student Films Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 108], "content_span": [109, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0008-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Competition Sections, Mediterranean Short Film Competition\nTwelve documentary films, eighteen animation films, fourteen experimental films and forty-two fictional films were selected from the 526 films from 25 countries that were submitted to compete in the festival\u2019s Mediterranean Short Film Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 110], "content_span": [111, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0009-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Screening Sections, Retrospective: Dervi\u015f Zaim\nTurkish Cypriot director Dervi\u015f Zaim, who headed the National Feature Film Competition Jury, received a retrospective of six of his works.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 98], "content_span": [99, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0010-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Screening Sections, Turkish Premiere: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia\nThe director was in attendance for the Turkish premiere of his 2011 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix-winning film, as well as an exhibition of his photographic works.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 118], "content_span": [119, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0011-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Screening Sections, World Cinema\nA selection of nine internationally acclaimed films, including the latest from American director Woody Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 84], "content_span": [85, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0012-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Screening Sections, The Desert of the Real\nA selection of critically acclaimed documentaries were screened under the title \"The Desert of the Real\" (Turkish: Ger\u00e7e\u011fin \u00c7\u00f6l\u00fc).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 94], "content_span": [95, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032456-0013-0000", "contents": "18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Screening Sections, I am Asian, I am African\nTunisian film critic Hassouna Mansouri and Lebanese director Bahij Hojeij were among the panel for the related discussion at the Metropolitan Municipality Theater Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 96], "content_span": [97, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032457-0000-0000", "contents": "18th International Emmy Awards\nThe 18th International Emmy Awards took place on November 24, 1990, at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032457-0001-0000", "contents": "18th International Emmy Awards, Ceremony\nThe International Emmy Awards are given by International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In addition, special awards were given to Henrikas Yushkiavitshus who received the International Council's Directorate Award, and Joan Ganz Cooney, who was given the Founder's Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032458-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Iowa Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032458-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Iowa Infantry was organized at Clinton, Iowa, and mustered in for three years of Federal service on August 6, 1862.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032458-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Total strength and casualties\nThe 18th Iowa mustered 1127 men at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 2 officers and 33 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 131 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 167 fatalities. 79 were wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032459-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Japan Film Professional Awards\nThe 18th Japan Film Professional Awards (\u7b2c18\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u6620\u753b\u30d7\u30ed\u30d5\u30a7\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30ca\u30eb\u5927\u8cde) is the 18th edition of the Japan Film Professional Awards. It awarded the best of 2008 in film. The ceremony did not take place in this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032460-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Japan Record Awards\nThe 18th Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the Imperial Garden Theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, on December 31, 1976, starting at 7:00PM JST. The primary ceremonies were televised in Japan on TBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032461-0000-0000", "contents": "18th June Road\n18th June Road is one of the busiest streets in Panaji, Goa, India. It is located in the heart of the city, and is a major shopping destination for the tourist folks. Major businesses and restaurants line the street. The street is named after the day in 1946 on which Ram Manohar Lohia had called a meeting to put an end to the Portuguese rule in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032462-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Kansas Militia Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032462-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Kansas Militia Infantry was called into service on October 9, 1864. It was disbanded on October 29, 1864.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032462-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Kansas Militia Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nThe unit was called into service to defend Kansas against Price's Raid. The regiment saw action at Little Blue, October 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at large and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on February 8, 1862, under the command of Colonel William A. Warner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe regiment served unattached, Army of the Ohio, to August 1862. Cruft's Brigade, Nelson's Division, Richmond, Kentucky, Army of Kentucky, to September 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to October 1862. Unattached, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to December 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, to February 1863. Crook's Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Cumberland, to June 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps to June 1865. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XIV Corps, to July 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 18, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nDuty guarding Covington & Lexington Railroad. Headquarters at Falmouth, Ky., until April 16, 1862, and at Lexington, Ky., until August 20, 1862. Affairs in Owen County June 20 and 23. Operations in Kentucky against Morgan July 4\u201328. Action at Cynthiana July 17. Paris July 19. Mr. Sterling, Ky., July 29. Moved to Richmond, Ky., August 20. Battle of Richmond, Ky., August 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nRegiment mostly captured; those not captured retreat to Louisville, Ky.; thence moved to Covington, Ky., September 28; thence to Paris, Ky., and duty there until December 5. Moved to Lexington, Ky., December 5; thence to Louisville, Ky., January 27, 1863, and to Nashville, Tenn., February 2. Moved to Carthage and duty there until June 2, Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 2\u20137. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Hoover's Gap June 24\u201326. Occupation of Tullahoma July 1. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0004-0002", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nCatlett's Gap, Pigeon Mountain, September 15\u201318. Battle of Chickamauga September 19\u201321. Rossville Gap September 21, Siege of Chattanooga, September 22-November 23. Reopening Tennessee River October 26\u201329. Brown's Ferry October 27, Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23\u201327. Orchard Knob November 23\u201324. Missionary Ridge November 25. Duty at Chattanooga until January 1864. Regiment veteranized January 5, and veterans on leave until March. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., March 12; thence march to Ringgold, Ga., March 22-May 7. Atlanta Campaign May to September. Assigned May 10 to post duty at Ringgold, Ga. Relieved September 25 and moved to Atlanta, Ga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0004-0003", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nOperations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama October 3\u201326. March to the sea November 10. Siege of Savannah December 10\u201321. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April 1865. Fayetteville, N.C., March 11. Battle of Bentonville, N.C., March 19\u201321. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Non -veterans mustered out April 4, 1865. Advance on Raleigh, N.C., April 10\u201314. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 30. Grand Review of the Armies May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032463-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nThe regiment lost a total of 243 men during service; 5 officers and 85 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 152 enlisted men died of disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0000-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry\nThe 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry was a regular cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. Following the independence of India, the regiment was allotted to the Indian Army and redesignated as the 18th Cavalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0001-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Formation\nTracing its origins from 1842, the regiment was formed in 1921 by the amalgamation of the 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry and the 7th Hariana Lancers. These two regiments too had undergone many changes \u2013", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0002-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Formation\nThe composition of the regiment at the time of amalgamation was Kaimkhanis, Rajputana Rajputs and Jats. The present class composition is of Jats from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan; Rajputs from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and Hindustani Mussalmans from all over India, but mainly from Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0003-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations during the British Raj, Second World War\nIn December 1940, during the Second World War, the regiment was mechanized. It formed part of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, which was initially part of the 1st Indian Armoured Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0004-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations during the British Raj, Second World War\nThe brigade was detached from the division, and dispatched to Egypt along with its units including the 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry. The regiment then served in the Western Desert campaign. The regiment, and the brigade, were attached to a number of different formations that included the 2nd Armoured Division, the 7th Armoured Division, and the 9th Australian Division who they were with during the Siege of Tobruk. The regiment also supplied men for the Indian Long Range Squadron. The brigade was later overrun by the Italians during the Battle of Gazala, and took some days to reform. After the brigade reformed, the regiment was equipped as follows: Cavalry Carrier - 2 x Reconnaissance Squadron, 1 x AT Squadron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0005-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations during the British Raj, Second World War\nOn 30 June, the brigade was ordered to hand over 50 per cent of its vehicles to the Eighth Army, and was dispersed and the regiment was allotted to the defence of the Nile Delta and guard duties. In August, the brigade reformed and was allocated the regiment. It travelled overland to Sahneh, in Persia via Baghdad, and was placed under the command of the 31st Indian Armoured Division (formally the 1st Indian Armoured Division). In late November it then moved to Shaibah, 7 miles (11\u00a0km) from Basra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0005-0001", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations during the British Raj, Second World War\nFrom here the regiment returned to India in January 1943, and the brigade was reconstituted as the 43rd Indian Infantry Brigade (Lorried) at Shaibah at the end of January 1943. In the middle of the year, it moved to Rawalpindi and commenced conversion to a light cruiser regiment. By the end of the year, the regiment successfully converted into a light cruiser tank regiment. The regiment was split up after that, serving in different parts of India when the Japanese surrender came in August 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0006-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations during the British Raj, Second World War\n18th King Edward's Own Cavalry won the following gallantry awards during the Second World War -", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 83], "content_span": [84, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0007-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations in independent India, Indo-Pakistani War of 1965\nDuring the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, the regiment fought a series of isolated armour battles as part of the 1st Armoured Division in the approaches to Sialkot. They left behind 29 destroyed enemy tanks and Naib Risaldar Mohd. Ayub Khan was awarded the Vir Chakra. 7 were mentioned in despatches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0008-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations in independent India, Indo-Pakistani War of 1971\nDuring the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the regiment saw action in the Fazilka sector. Naib Risaldar Noor Mohammed Khan was awarded the Vir Charkra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0009-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Operations in independent India, Other operations\nThe regiment has participated in Operation Vijay, Operation Parakram and undertaken counter insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir, where it was awarded the GOC-in-C (Northern Command) Unit Citation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 81], "content_span": [82, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0010-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Battle honours\nAwarded in 1926 for services of predecessor regimentsSomme 1916, Morval, Cambrai 1917, France and Flanders 1914\u201318, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Shaiba, Kut-al-Amara 1915, Ctesiphon, Tigris 1916, Mesopotamia 1915\u201316", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0011-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Battle honours\nEl Mechili, Defence of Tobruk, The Kennels, North Africa 1940\u201343", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0012-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, President\u2019s Standards\nThe President of India, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy presented a guidon to the regiment at Amritsar on 26 March 1980. The Regiment was presented the \u2018President\u2019s Standards\u2019 at Amritsar in 7 March 2016 by General Dalbir Singh, Chief of the Army Staff, on behalf of the President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0013-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Equipment\nThe regiment shed its horses and was converted to a motorised cavalry regiment equipped with anti-tank guns in 1940. This gave way to tanks in 1943 with the introduction of the Stuart tanks. They were succeeded by the Sherman tanks in 1946, the T-54s in 1966 and finally the T-72s in 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032464-0014-0000", "contents": "18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, Regimental Insiginia\nThe Regimental insignia consists of crossed lances with pennons. Each of the pennons have scrolls with the words \u0938\u0924\u094d\u092f\u092e\u0947\u0935 (Satyameva) and \u091c\u092f\u0924\u0947 (Jayate). Satyameva Jayate translates to \u2018Truth alone triumphs\u2019. Th crossed lances are overlaid with the numeral \"18\" mounted by the Ashoka Lion Capital and a scroll at the base with the words \u2018Cavalry\u2019. The motto of the regiment is \u0938\u093e\u0939\u0938 \u0914\u0930 \u0938\u092e\u094d\u092e\u093e\u0928 (Saahas Aur Samman), which translates to \u2018Courage and honour\u2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032465-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Kolkata International Film Festival\nThe 18th Annual Kolkata Film Festival was held 10 to 17 November 2012. The Kolkata Film Festival (KFF) is an annual film festival held in Kolkata, India. Founded in 1995, it is the second oldest international film festival in India. The festival is organized by the West Bengal Film Centre under the West Bengal Government. Actors and filmmakers including Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Dev Adhikari, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Chief Minister Smt. and Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the festival at Netaji Indoor Stadium on 10 November 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032466-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Lambda Literary Awards\nThe 18th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2006, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032467-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Landwehr Division (German Empire)\nThe 18th Landwehr Division (18. Landwehr-Division) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032468-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Light Horse Regiment\nThe 18th Light Horse Regiment (Adelaide Lancers) was a Citizens Military Force unit of the Australian Light Horse, formed during the post-World War I reorganisation of the Australian Army. The regiment traces its origins back to the militia cavalry regiments raised in the colony of South Australia, such as the Adelaide Cavalry Squadron, the Adelaide Mounted Rifles and the South Australian Mounted Rifles. This is a different unit to the pre-World War I, 18th Australian Light Horse (Western Australian Mounted Infantry).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032468-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Light Horse Regiment, History, Formation\nThe 18th Light Horse Regiment was formed on 31 March 1921, drawing upon elements of the existing Light Horse regiments in South Australia for personnel. It was headquartered at Unley, in Adelaide. The initial role of the 18th was as divisional cavalry for the 2nd Cavalry Division, although it routinely trained with the South Australian-based 6th Cavalry Brigade, which included the 3rd Light Horse, 9th Light Horse, 23rd Light Horse and supporting units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032468-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Light Horse Regiment, History, Interwar period\nDuring the 1920s the Australian Light Horse converted from their pre-war mounted rifles role to that of cavalry modelled along British Army lines. However, by the end of the 1920s the stringent financial situation across the Army, and the suspension of the compulsory training scheme, led to the amalgamation of a number of light horse units. This led to the linking of the 18th with the 23rd Light Horse Regiment to form the 18th/23rd Light Horse Regiment in 1929. The 23rd Light Horse was not maintained during the period in which they were linked with the new unit remaining in the former 18th Light Horse locations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032468-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Light Horse Regiment, History, Interwar period\nIn October 1936, the units were unlinked and the 18th was raised as the 18th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment (Adelaide Lancers). Around this time, the regiment was awarded four battle honours for the service of predecessor units that had fought during World War I. As a machine gun regiment they provided fire support to the 2nd Cavalry Division, based in Victoria and South Australia. They were equipped with Vickers Medium Machine Guns which were transported via civilian trucks which were hired from members of the unit given the very limited motorisation which the Army had undergone by this time. By 1938, the 18th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment was part of the 6th Cavalry Brigade along with the 3rd and 9th/23rd Light Horse Regiments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 51], "content_span": [52, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032468-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Light Horse Regiment, History, World War II\nIn the late 1930s, the regiment came under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Blackburn, VC. As the prospect of war loomed again in 1939, the unit prepared for service overseas. However, when the Second World War broke out and this did not eventuate, Blackburn and many of the officers and men of the unit joined the 2nd Australian Imperial Force's 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, which fought in Syria and later formed part of the ill-fated Black Force in Java. The unit was converted to the 18th Motor Regiment in March 1942. However, this proved to be a short-lived step as on 8 May 1942 the unit was ordered to convert to an armoured regiment and was renamed the 12th Armoured Regiment. At this time the unit was transferred to the Australian Armoured Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032468-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Light Horse Regiment, History, Perpetuation\nFollowing the Second World War, the South Australian light horse units were perpetuated through the 3rd/9th South Australian Mounted Rifles, which was raised as part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032469-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Logistics Battalion (Belgium)\nThe 18th Logistics Battalion (Dutch: 18 Bataljon Logistiek) is a logistics battalion in the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032470-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Luftwaffe Field Division\nThe 18th Luftwaffe Field Division (German: 18. Luftwaffen-Feld-Division) was an infantry division of the Luftwaffe branch of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was set up on 1 December 1942 from surplus Luftwaffe personnel and was deployed in France from February 1943 to September 1943. On September 20, 1943, the division was transferred to the army and renamed Field Division 18 (L).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032471-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Lumi\u00e8res Awards\nThe 18th Lumi\u00e8res Awards ceremony, presented by the Acad\u00e9mie des Lumi\u00e8res, was held on 18 January 2013, at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Ga\u00eet\u00e9 in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Victoria Abril. Amour won three awards including Best Film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032471-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Lumi\u00e8res Awards, Winners and nominees\nJulia Faure, Judith Chemla & India Hair \u2014 Camille Rewinds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032471-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Lumi\u00e8res Awards, Winners and nominees\nAntoine Heberl\u00e9 \u2014 Inheritance & A Few Hours of Spring", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032472-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Lux Style Awards\nThe 18th Lux Style Awards presented by Lux to honor the best in fashion, music, films and Pakistani television of 2018, took place on 7 July 2019 at Expo Center, Karachi, Sindh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032472-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Lux Style Awards, Film\nNominees for 18th Lux Style Awards were announced on 4 March 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 27], "content_span": [28, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032473-0000-0000", "contents": "18th MMC \u2013 Razgrad\nThe 18th Multi-member Constituency \u2013 Razgrad is a constituency whose borders are the same as Razgrad Province in Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032473-0001-0000", "contents": "18th MMC \u2013 Razgrad, Background\nIn the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 18th Multi-member Constituency \u2013 Razgrad elected 5 members to the Bulgarian National Assembly: 4 of which were by proportionality vote and 1 was by first-past-the-post voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division\nThe 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division is a division of the Russian Ground Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, First formation\nIt was first formed as the 184th Red Banner Rifle Division (Russian: 184-\u044f \u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0437\u043d\u0430\u043c\u00eb\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0434\u0438\u0432\u0438\u0437\u0438\u044f, abbreviated: 184-\u044f \u0441\u0434) which was a Soviet Red Army division during World War II (1920s till 1940 \u2013 2nd Division of Lithuania). It was with 29th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941, as part of the Baltic Military District. Most of the soldiers rebelled and joined the cause of the Lithuanian Activist Front. Some of its remnants went to make up the Second Formation of the 16th Rifle Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Second formation\nIts Second Formation was activated in October 1941, a redesignation of the 4th NKVD Rifle Division, which had been active in the Crimea since September 1941. The Division fought as part of the 62nd Army during the Battle of Stalingrad under Colonel Koida from July 17 to September 15, 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Second formation\nAmong the most notable division members was Roza Shanina. On July 12, 1944, the division occupied Trakai jointly with the 45th Rifle Corps. During the East Prussian Offensive, the division hoisted the flag of the Soviet Union on the Soviet state border. It was then transferred to the Far East and fought as part of 45th Rifle Corps, 5th Army, during the invasion of Manchuria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Second formation\nDuring the war the division was part of the 2nd Guards Corps (39th Army), 3rd Tank Army, 5th Army, 62nd Army. It disbanded in 1945-46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Second formation\nSome 12 men of the 184th Division were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, among them Vasily Zaitsev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Second formation\n109th Fortified Region had been serving in the Far East. Circa 1946 it became the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Second formation\nOn June 8, 1946, on the basis of the 184th Rifle Division and the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Brigade, the 18th Machine-Gun Artillery Division was created in Primorski Krai, comprising the:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Third formation\nThe division was reformed in mid-May 1978 in Knyaze-Volkonskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, without inheriting the lineage of the previous formation. It was transferred to the Kuril Islands during the summer of 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Third formation, Defence of the Kuril Islands\nThe main responsibility for the defence of the Kuril Islands falls to the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division of the Eastern Military District. The headquarters of the Division are located in Goryachiye Klyuchi on the Iturup Island. It also has garrisons on Kunashir Island and Shikotan Island. The 18th Artillery Division was previously the only division-strength military formation remaining in the Armed Forces of Russia, along with the 201st Military Base in Tajikistan. The division's aging infrastructure is in need of overhaul. There are also Border Guard Service troops stationed on the islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Third formation, Defence of the Kuril Islands\nAccording to RIA Novosti military analyst Ilya Kramnik, the 18th Artillery Division is unlikely to be able to defend the Islands by itself from an attack. In case of attack by Japan, the Russian forces on the Kuril Islands are expected to hold out for only one to four days unless they receive support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032474-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, Third formation, Defence of the Kuril Islands\nRussia is planning to start construction of two new military posts in 2013. By late 2011 the islands airfields were being refurbished. Also in 2011, it was reported that the K-300P Bastion-P system was being deployed in the islands. The division became part of the 68th Army Corps in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 82], "content_span": [83, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032475-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Manitoba Legislature\nThe members of the 18th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in June 1927. The legislature sat from December 1, 1927, to May 7, 1932.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032475-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Manitoba Legislature\nThe Progressive Party of Manitoba led by John Bracken formed the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032475-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Manitoba Legislature\nFawcett Taylor of the Conservatives was Leader of the Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032475-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Manitoba Legislature\nThe Minimum Wage Act, which previously only applied to female workers, was amended to include male workers under the age of 18. The minimum wage was $0.25 per hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032475-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Manitoba Legislature\nTheodore Arthur Burrows was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba until January 18, 1929, when James Duncan McGregor became lieutenant governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032475-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Manitoba Legislature, Members of the Assembly\nThe following members were elected to the assembly in 1927:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032476-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Marine Regiment (United States)\nThe 18th Marine Regiment was a composite engineer regiment of the United States Marine Corps subordinate to the 2nd Marine Division. It was disbanded during the war, with the 1st and 2nd battalions remaining in the Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032476-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Marine Regiment (United States), Subordinate units\nThe regiment was a composite of three different types of battalions and a headquarters and service company:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032476-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Marine Regiment (United States), History, World War II\n18th Marines was activated on 8 September 1942 and participated in actions at Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian. It was inactivated on 16 August 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032476-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Marine Regiment (United States), History, World War II\nOn Tinian there were two small beaches on the North end where an assault landing could be made with low coral ledges. The rest of the island had coral cliffs up to 15 feet in height at the waters edge negating any assault plans. However, the Marine Corps asked the Seabees if they could come up with an idea to get over the coral. Commodore Paul J. Halloran (CEC) CB theater commander provided drawings of a conceptual landing ramp for the 18th and 121st CBs to fabricate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032476-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Marine Regiment (United States), History, World War II\nThey mounted steel beams salvaged from Saipan's abandoned sugar mill on LVT-2s to create a portable assault ramps. If they worked they would allow the Marines to outflank Tinian's prepared defenses. The Marine Generals was skeptical and ordered that the ramps be put through a 100 vehicle use tests. The Seabee creation was named a Doodlebug. It worked exactly as the Marines had hoped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032476-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Marine Regiment (United States), Unit awards\nPresidential Unit Citation with blue enamel star\u00a0: \u2013 Tarawa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a Union regiment that fought in the American Civil War. It was formed, primarily, with men of the Bristol, Norfolk and Plymouth counties of Massachusetts with a 3-year enlistment period. The regiment originally consisted of 10 companies, band and regimental staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment\nThe regiment was established in August 1861 and fought as part of the Army of the Potomac, taking part in most of the major battles of the Peninsula - until it disbanded in September 1864. Men, who reenlisted or still had time left on their enlistment, were transferred to the 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1861\nThe 18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was mustered into active service on 24 August 1861. Two days later, under instruction from then Governor John A. Andrew, the Regiment was ordered to the Seat of War at Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1861\nGoing by way of New York, Harrisburg, and Baltimore, the Eighteenth reached Washington 30 August, and next day reported to Colonel E.D. Baker, going into camp about a mile to the west of the Capitol, the location being called Camp Massachusetts. The regiment was ordered on the 3d of September to cross the river and report to General Fitz John Porter, commanding a division, by whom it was assigned to General Martindale's Brigade, its fellow regiments being the Second Maine, Thirteenth and Forty-first New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1861\nThe regimental camp was located near Fort Corcoran, on ground recently occupied by the Sixty-ninth New York, and the Eighteenth began to see actual service in fatigue duty and on picket. The division was moved to the front on the 26th and went into camp near Hall's Hill, then the outpost of the Union army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0003-0002", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1861\nThis position was occupied during the winter, the regiment giving much attention to drill and discipline, so that at a review held at Bailey's Cross Roads it was especially complimented for excellence by the commander in chief, and as a mark of appreciation received new uniform and camp equipage imported from France and modeled on that of the French chasseurs a pied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0003-0003", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1861\nBefore the opening of the spring campaign some changes were made in Martindale's Brigade, the Forty-first New York giving place to the Twenty-second Massachusetts and Twenty-fifth New York Regiments, while the Second Company of Massachusetts Sharpshooters was attached to the brigade, which was known as the First Brigade, Porter's Division, Third (Heintelman's) Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThe winter camp was vacated 10 March 1862, and the regiment marched to Fairfax, stopping there till the 16th, when it was ordered to Alexandria to embark for the Peninsula. Transports were taken on the 21st, and two days later the command debarked at Old Point Comfort, encamping at Hampton for two days and then at Newmarket Bridge, where it remained till the Federal army was ready for the forward movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThis began on 4 April, and early on the afternoon of the following day the defenses of Yorktown were reached, before which the Army of the Potomac came to a halt and remained for a month. The Eighteenth took active part in the earlier operations by which the enemy's line was located, and three of its companies were at once placed on the skirmish line, while the remainder of the regiment formed a portion of the main line of battle, but no casualties were suffered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0004-0002", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nLater the command went into camp near by and daily furnished heavy details for outpost and fatigue duty till the evacuation of Yorktown. Immediately on that event Porter's Division took transports and landed on 8 May at West Point, near the junction of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers. Up the south side of the latter the division marched, setting out on the 13th, going first to Cumberland, thence to White House, moving on the 19th toward Richmond as far as Tunstall's Station, and on the 26th to Gaines Mills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nDuring this time the Fifth (Provisional) Army Corps had been formed, of which General Porter was given command. It was composed of his own division, the command of which was taken by General Morrell, and another under General Sykes. The brigade to which the Eighteenth belonged was strengthened by the addition of the First Michigan Regiment, and was known as the First Brigade, First Division. About the same time the regiment exchanged the smooth-bore muskets with which it had thus far been armed for the Springfield rifled pattern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0005-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nEarly in the morning of the 27th the division set out for Hanover Court House, but as the Eighteenth had been on picket during a heavy storm it was not in condition to march at once; and though it followed a few hours later it was not in time to take part in the brilliant action by which General Porter defeated the Confederate force under General Branch. It assisted in burying the dead left upon the field by the enemy and on the 29th returned to its camp at Gaines Mills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0005-0002", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThere it remained till 26 June, when with the Seventeenth New York of Butterfield's Brigade it was detached from the division to accompany a force of cavalry and artillery under General Stoneman for the protection of the army supplies at White House. The operations which followed were arduous, and demanded many of the best qualities of soldiership, but all were performed in a manner to win praise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0005-0003", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThe stores there having been destroyed in conformity with McClellan's purpose to change base to the James river, the regiment embarked on transports, dropped down the river and finally by way of Fortress Monroe arrived at Harrison's Landing, where it debarked for one day before the arrival of the rest of the brigade, which meantime had been fighting its way across the Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nWith the rest of the army, the Eighteenth encamped at Harrison's Landing till 15 August, the only movement of note during that time so far as they were concerned being a reconnaissance to the Chickahominy the last of July, returning to camp the same day. Before the transfer to the vicinity of Washington, however, various changes occurred among the officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0006-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nColonel Barnes took command of the brigade, succeeding General Martindale, who was made military governor of Washington; Lieutenant Colonel Ingraham had been made colonel of a new Massachusetts regiment, then being recruited; Major Hayes having been prostrated by sickness was necessarily away from the regiment, and the command devolved upon Captain Thomas, under whom the march was made on the 15th to the Chickahominy, thence by way of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Hampton to Newport News, where on the 20th transports were taken for Acquia Creek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0006-0002", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nGoing from there by rail to Falmouth, the regiment marched to Rappahannock Station, where it arrived on the 23d. The next few days were devoted to maneuvering and marchings to and fro, falling back on the 27th to Warrenton, next day to Catlett's, and on the 29th to Manassas Gap. From this point it marched to the battle of Manassas, or the Second Bull Run, in which it was destined to take an important part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nAs the brigade, temporarily under the command of Colonel Charles W. Roberts of the Second Maine, came upon the field during the forenoon of the 30th it was formed in double line of battle with supports in echelon, the Eighteenth forming the first line in rear of the skirmishers, two of its companies being deployed to extend the skirmish line so as to form connection on the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nAn attempt was then made to advance across a field and through a piece of woods, by which it was hoped to flank a Confederate battery; but the failure of troops to the right and left to advance rendered the attempt futile; the brigade was soon obliged to half and answer the fire which was poured in from front and both flanks, and after half an hour of this unequal contest the decimated regiments fell back to a less exposed position, Syke's Division (Second) of the same corps covering their withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0007-0002", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThat night the regiment, which had won high praise for its gallantry during the day, retired with its corps to Centerville. It had lost in the engagement 40 killed, 101 wounded and 28 missing [1], - more than half the number taken into action. Of the dead were Captain Charles W. Carroll, First Lieutenant Warren D. Russell and Second Lieutenant Pardon Almy Jr. Previous to this two officers of the regiment had died from disease \u2013 First Lieutenant George F. Hodges on 31 January and Second Lieutenant John D. Isbell on 16 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nMajor Hayes returned to the command of the Eighteenth on 1 September. He was soon promoted to the vacant lieutenant colonelcy, Captain Thomas being made major; the commissions dated from 25 August, but it was some time later that the recipients were mustered to the new rank. During the night of the 1st and the following day the regiment marched to Chain Bridge, going on the 3d to Hall's Hill, where it rested till evening of the 6th. It then moved by night to Alexandria and staid till the 9th, thence to Fort Corcoran, opposite Georgetown, making another three-day's halt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0008-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThen began the march to the Antietam, where the Fifth Corps arrived on the 16th, but beyond supporting batteries on the east side of the creek the Eighteenth took no active part in the engagement. After the fighting was over the regiment was detailed for picket near the Burnside bridge, at the left, where it passed the 18th and the succeeding night, advancing the next day to the Potomac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0008-0002", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nIt crossed that river on the 20th, leading its brigade, and opened the action of Shepherdstown, in which the two brigades commanded by Barnes and Sykes encountered four times their number of Confederates, and being unsupported were obliged to fall back. The Eighteenth retired in good order, having lost three killed, 11 wounded and one missing. Following this unsatisfactory experience, the regiment remained in camp near Sharpsburg for about six weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThe movement southward began on 30 October, when the column marched toward Harper's Ferry, crossed the Potomac there the following day and advanced by easy stages to Warrenton, where it went into camp on the 9th. During this time the brigade, still commanded by Colonel Barnes, had been enlarged by the addition of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania Regiment; the division was at that time under General Charles Griffin and the corps was commanded by General Butterfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0009-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nCamp was broken on the 17th, the regiment moving by way of Elktown to Hartwood Church, encamping there from the 19th to the 23d and then advancing to a position on the railroad near the village of Falmouth. It remained there, with the exception of a reconnaissance back to Hartwood Church on 1 December, till the 11th of that month, when it took position further down the river, opposite Fredericksburg, and remained in waiting there till the afternoon of the 13th before it was called on to join in that battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThe call to action came at 1 o\u2019clock, when the regiment led its division across the river, being the first of the Fifth Corps to cross. The brigade at once went to the front and relieved a brigade of the Ninth Corps which had suffered severely in an attempt to reach the enemy's line of works. A charge was made soon after by the Eighteenth, but it was not successful and cost the command heavily in killed and wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0010-0001", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nAfter falling back it was reformed and again took its place in the front of the Union line where it remained during the rest of the afternoon and in that vicinity till the evening of the next day, when it retired to the town and early the next morning as part of the rear guard covered the withdrawal of the troops from that side of the river.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0010-0002", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, 1862\nThe loss of the regiment in this battle was 13 killed and 121 wounded [2]; among the former being Captain George C. Ruby and Second Lieutenant James B. Hancock of Cambridge, and of the nine officers wounded Captain Joseph W. Collingwood would die on the 24th. Every member of the color guard was wounded, so severe was the fire upon the colors; but it is worthy of note that not a member of the regiment was missing from his place save the killed and wounded when the ordeal was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, After the war\nAn association of the 18th Massachusetts Veterans was formed and met on an annual basis from 1866, with the last known reunion occurring at Hyde Park, MA in 1924. Through the efforts of Lieutenant Amasa Guild, the group was able to retrieve the State Colors in 1905 from the Museum of the Confederacy. The Colors had been lost in the Second Battle of Bull Run in 1862 and captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, After the war\nThe association attempted to put together an official history of the regiment but was never able to agree on it and abandoned the project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032477-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, History, Preserving History\nA page devoted to preserving the history of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry is maintained on Facebook (). The page includes features such as \u201cOn This Day\u201d, which provides an update on what the regiment was doing on a particular day 158 years earlier based on entries contained in diaries, letters, and newspapers, as well as biographies of men who served with the regiment. Another feature, titled \u201cDescendant\u2019s Corner,\u201d is open to submissions from descendants of 18th Massachusetts veterans in which those descendants write about their ancestors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032478-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Michigan Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032478-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Hillsdale, Michigan, on August 26, 1862.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032478-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe regiment was mustered out of service on June 26, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032478-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Total strength and casualties\nThe regiment suffered 18 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 293 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 311 fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 62], "content_span": [63, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States)\nThe 18th Military Police Brigade is a military police brigade of the United States Army based in Grafenwoehr, Germany, with subordinate battalions and companies stationed throughout Germany. It provides law enforcement and force protection duties to United States Army Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States)\nActivated during the Vietnam War, the Brigade oversaw all Military Police operations in the country for a large portion of the conflict, undertaking a wide variety of missions throughout the country and providing command and control for other military police groups in the region. After Vietnam, the Brigade deployed units to several other operations, namely Operation Desert Storm and Operation Provide Comfort. The brigade itself also deployed to Kosovo, supporting many of the units operating there attempting to settle unrest in the area due to the 1999 Bosnian War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States)\nThe brigade has also seen multiple deployments in the Global War on Terrorism to the Iraq War. Its primary responsibilities have been to train and equip the national Iraqi Police forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), Organization\nThe 18th Military Police Brigade is a subordinate unit of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command and United States Army Europe. The brigade is headquartered in Vilseck, Germany. The brigade has these subordinate units:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), Organization\nThe Brigade is modular in nature, allowing it to take on additional units when deployed. Normally the Brigade only deploys with its Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC); organic battalions and companies normally don't deploy with the HHC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nMembers of the Headquarters and Headquarters detachment deployed to V\u0169ng T\u00e0u, South Vietnam on 7 September 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nOn 26 September 1966, the Brigade assumed operational control over all non-divisional military police units in South Vietnam. The Brigade was composed of three major subordinate elements; the 16th Military Police Group at Nha Trang, and the 89th Military Police Group and 8th Military Police Group (Criminal Investigation) at Long Binh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nThe 16th and 89th Military Police Groups were composed of seven military police battalions, containing a mixture of military police and infantry companies. The units were stationed throughout every corps tactical zone, ranging from Da Nang in the north to Soc Trang in the south. The total strength of the Brigade numbered more than 5,000 personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, Vietnam War\nMembers of the Brigade performed a wide variety of missions including evacuation of prisoners of war, security of vessels and ports, convoy escort, security of vital installations and VIPs, maintenance of discipline, law and order and direct support to combat operations. During the Tet Offensive, the 716th Military Police Battalion fought off a resolute Viet Cong unit determined to take over the US Embassy, while other 18th Brigade units performed similar duties in the Mekong Delta, Bien Hoa and the Central Highlands. The Brigade completed its service in Vietnam and was deactivated on 20 March 1973 in Oakland, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, Cold War era\nThe Brigade was redesignated on 16 August 1985 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 18th Military Police Brigade and activated in Frankfurt, West Germany. During 1990\u20131991, battalions from the Brigade deployed to support VII Corps in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, and V Corps in Operation Provide Comfort. Elements of the Brigade have also deployed to support Operation Provide Promise and Operation Joint Endeavor in the former Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, Cold War era\nDemonstrating its rapid deployability and ability to support V Corps and United States Army Europe contingency operations, every unit within the 18th Military Police Brigade deployed to the Balkans in 1999. The 92nd Military Police Company, followed by the 527th Military Police Company deployed to Sarajevo, Bosnia to provide security in support of SFOR. The 615th Military Police Company deployed to Albania in April in support of Task Force Hawk. The Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 793rd Military Police Battalion and 127th and 630th Military Police Companies deployed in July to Kosovo in support of Task Force Falcon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0010-0001", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, Cold War era\nThe Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 18th Military Police Brigade deployed in July to Sarajevo in support of Task Force Summit. The HHD, 709th Military Police Battalion and 92nd and 212th Military Police Company deployed in November to Kosovo in support of Task Force Falcon. While in Kosovo, the battalions were the first ever Military Police battalions to conduct joint peacekeeping operations in general support of Russian, Greek, Jordanian, and Polish maneuver battalions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, War on Terrorism\nIn support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I, the 18th Military Police Brigade crossed into Iraq on 22 March 2003. During its year of deployment, the brigade established Prisoner of War holding areas for over 3,600 Iraqi prisoners and conducted main supply route patrolling over 2,500 kilometers in southern Iraq. The Brigade entered Baghdad in April 2003 and began establishing the new Iraqi Police Service and rebuilding Iraqi police stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0011-0001", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, War on Terrorism\nFrom the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom until February 2004 the Brigade provided command and control for seven Military Police battalions, one Mechanized Infantry battalion, 30 Military Police companies, and two Law and Order detachments. The Brigade's MPs conducted over 24,000 combat patrols, apprehended over 2,400 criminals, confiscated 7,500 illegal weapons, and trained over 10,000 Iraqi police officers. During their deployment, the Brigade recovered several precious artifacts, such as the Mask of Warka, which was recovered on 23 September 2003. The brigade returned to Sandhofen in 2004 only to return to Iraq in 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, War on Terrorism\nThe 127th and 630th Military Police Companies began serving in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II in mid-2007. The 127th Company served in Iskandariyah, on patrol operations with local police. In November 2007 the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the brigade and the 793rd Military Police Battalion deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III. The brigade replaced the 89th Military Police Brigade which was assigned there previously. The transition ceremony for this command was held on 30 October as 100 soldiers from the brigade's headquarters took charge of the 89th's area of responsibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0012-0001", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, War on Terrorism\nThey deployed to the Baghdad area, and took responsibility for the training of the Iraqi Police. The brigade is supporting Iraqi police logistics, personnel management, maintenance, budget, operations, training, leadership and judicial integration. Other training for Police units included proper search of vehicles, providing medical assistance to Iraqi civilians, as well as expanding the number of Iraqi police and improving their training overall. In theater, the brigade commanded over 5,000 soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0012-0002", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, War on Terrorism\nUnits that the Brigade assumed control of included the 153rd Military Police Company of the Delaware Army National Guard and the 223rd Military Police Company of the Kentucky Army National Guard. The brigade worked with the 35th Engineer Brigade to finish construction on the Furat Training Facility, the primary training facility for thousands of Iraqi police. The project was completed in February 2008. In August 2008, the brigade began facilitating the transition for the 8th Military Police Brigade, which was set to replace the 18th MP Brigade when its 15-month tour of duty ended. The brigade cased its colors on 2 December 2008 and began redeploying back to its home bases. The 18th MP brigade trained 20,000 Iraqi police during its deployment, and lost 15 soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032479-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Military Police Brigade (United States), History, War on Terrorism\nIn addition to the brigade's support to the War on Terrorism, many soldiers of the brigade continually conduct law enforcement and force protection duties in communities located throughout the central region of Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032480-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Missouri Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Missouri Infantry Regiment was a Union Army unit organized during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032480-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Missouri Infantry Regiment, History\nOrganized at Laclede, Missouri, July to November, 1861. Attached to:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032480-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Missouri Infantry Regiment, Detailed Service\nIn his report for 1863 the adjutant-general of Missouri says: \"This regiment was formed in Aug., 1861, and has taken part in many of the most important engagements of the war in the West. The want of regimental reports prevents this office from giving that complete statement of its doings that is desired. It has lost largely in officers and men, especially at the Battle of Shiloh, but has been steadily recruited, and now has a good aggregate for a regiment that has been so depleted.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032480-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Missouri Infantry Regiment, Detailed Service\nDuring the first two months of 1864 it was mounted and employed in scouting the country about Florence, Ala. It then joined the army of Gen. Sherman, where it was assigned to the 17th Corps, and began the advance upon Atlanta, taking part in the engagements at Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Kingston, Dallas, Big Shanty, Kennesaw Mountain, along the Chattahoochee River in front of Atlanta and at Jonesboro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032480-0002-0002", "contents": "18th Missouri Infantry Regiment, Detailed Service\nWhen Gen. Hood evacuated Atlanta and started north this regiment was one of those in pursuit, drove the rear-guard of the enemy through Snake Creek Gap and skirmished with him at various other points. It then rejoined the main body of the army and was in the famous March to the Sea, participating in all the engagements in which the 17th Corps was brought into action. In the early part of 1865 the regiment marched with Sherman across the Carolinas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032480-0002-0003", "contents": "18th Missouri Infantry Regiment, Detailed Service\nIt was the 18th Mo. that forced the crossing of Whippy's Swamp and the Pedee River at Cheraw; was present at the Capture of Columbia and Fayetteville, N. C.; fought with its customary valor in the battle of Bentonville, N. C., and was present when Gen. Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Goldsboro. It then moved to Washington, D. C. where it took part in the Grand Review in May, after which it went by rail and river via Louisville, Ky., to St. Louis, where it was mustered out on July 18, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032480-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Missouri Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nRegiment lost during service 6 Officers and 75 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 164 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032481-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Moscow International Film Festival\nThe 18th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 1 to 12 July 1993. The Golden St. George was awarded to the French-Belarusian film Me Ivan, You Abraham directed by Yolande Zauberman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032482-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Mounted Brigade\nThe 18th Mounted Brigade, previously known as the 2/1st Yorkshire Mounted Brigade, was a 2nd Line yeomanry brigade of the British Army during the First World War. In July 1916 it was converted to a cyclist formation as 11th Cyclist Brigade and in November 1916 was redesignated as 7th Cyclist Brigade. It was still in existence, in Ireland, at the end of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032482-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Mounted Brigade, Mounted Brigade\nIn accordance with the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw.7, c.9) which brought the Territorial Force into being, the TF was intended to be a home defence force for service during wartime and members could not be compelled to serve outside the country. However, on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, many members volunteered for Imperial Service. Therefore, TF units were split in August and September 1914 into 1st Line (liable for overseas service) and 2nd Line (home service for those unable or unwilling to serve overseas) units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032482-0001-0001", "contents": "18th Mounted Brigade, Mounted Brigade\nLater, a 3rd Line was formed to act as a reserve, providing trained replacements for the 1st and 2nd Line regiments. Similarly, by 1915 most 2nd Line yeomanry regiments were formed into 2nd Line mounted brigades with the same title and composition as the pre-war 1st Line formations. Two other 2nd Line brigades (2/1st Southern Mounted Brigade and 2/1st Western Mounted Brigade) without 1st Line antecedents were also formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032482-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Mounted Brigade, Mounted Brigade\n2/1st Yorkshire Mounted Brigade was a mirror formation of the 1st Line Yorkshire Mounted Brigade. It was raised in Yorkshire and had under command the 2/1st Yorkshire Hussars, the 2/1st Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons, and the 2/1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry. By March 1916, the brigade was in the Beverley area. On 31 March 1916, the remaining Mounted Brigades were ordered to be numbered in a single sequence and the brigade became 18th Mounted Brigade, still in Yorkshire under Northern Command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032482-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Mounted Brigade, Cyclist Brigade\nIn July 1916 there was a major reorganization of 2nd Line yeomanry units in the United Kingdom. All but 12 regiments were converted to cyclists and as a consequence the brigade was converted to 11th Cyclist Brigade. Further reorganization in October and November 1916 saw the brigade redesignated as 7th Cyclist Brigade in November, now in the Bridlington area. In March 1917, the Yorkshire Hussars moved to Driffield and the Yorkshire Dragoons to Barmston; in July, the Yorkshire Dragoons moved to Burton Agnes and were replaced at Barmston by the Yorkshire Hussars; both regiments returned to Bridlington in January 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032482-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Mounted Brigade, Cyclist Brigade\nAbout May 1918 the Brigade moved to Ireland. 2/1st Yorkshire Hussars was stationed at Fermoy, County Cork and Fethard, County Tipperary the 2/1st Yorkshire Dragoons at Fermoy, and the 2/1st East Riding at Bandon, County Cork and Fermoy. There were no further changes before the end of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0000-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party began on November 8, 2012 at the Great Hall of the People. It was preceded by the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Due to term and age limits restrictions, seven of the nine members of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) retired during the Congress, including Hu Jintao, who was replaced by Xi Jinping as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. The Congress elected the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and saw the number of Politburo Standing Committee seats reduced from nine to seven. It was succeeded by the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0001-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe seven PSC members elected during the Congress were Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli. Five of these were identified as associates or having benefited from the patronage of former Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, who reportedly exerted considerable influence in shaping the composition of the new Standing Committee. Only Li Keqiang and Liu Yunshan are considered to be members of the tuanpai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0002-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Delegates\nSome 2,270 delegates selected from 40 constituencies attended the Congress. This represented an increase of 57 delegates and two constituencies from the 17th Congress. 31 of these constituencies represent China's province-level jurisdictions. Six other delegations represented Taiwan, the People's Liberation Army, Central Party organizations, Central Government Ministries and Commissions, State Owned Enterprises, and Central Banks and Financial Institutions. The remaining three delegations are the subject of conflicting accounts. Hong Kong and Macau may represent two delegations or one delegation or they may be treated as part of the Guangdong delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0002-0001", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Delegates\nOther delegations that have been identified by various sources include the Peoples Armed Police, units involved in \u201csocial management\u201d, the public service sector, workers in private enterprises, and workers in foreign and joint enterprises. No more than 68% of the delegates may hold leadership positions within the party. The remaining 32% will be \"grassroots\" party members who hold jobs outside of the party apparatus. The number of females increased from the previous congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0002-0002", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Delegates\nEach delegation will be selected (by the province level congresses) in an election in which there are at least 15% more candidates than there are delegates to be selected. The candidates in these elections are heavily vetted by multiple party organs. In addition to these 2,270 delegates, an uncertain number of additional delegates, primarily retired veteran Communist leaders, will be selected. At the 17th National Congress there were 57 such delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0003-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Revisions to the Party Constitution\nThe Congress ratified changes to the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party. The Scientific Outlook on Development of the Hu Jintao era was listed next to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and Three Represents as a \"guiding ideology\" of the party, 'upgraded' from simply an ideology to merely \"follow and implement\" when it was initially written into the constitution in 2007. The Scientific Outlook on Development was said to be the \"latest product Marxism being adopted in the Chinese context,\" and the result of the \"collective wisdom of the party membership.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0004-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Revisions to the Party Constitution\nThe affirmation of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics as a \"system\" (zhidu) was written into the party constitution for the first time. The \"construction of ecological civilization\" (shengtai wenming) as a major goal of the party was also written into the party constitution, an extension from the previous version of the constitution which included economic, political, cultural, and social realms; this ostensibly increased the attention the party intended to focus on the environment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0005-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nIt was widely speculated that Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang would succeed Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as top Politburo Standing Committee members by November 2012, and take over the Presidency and Premiership in March 2013 at the National People's Congress. Since 2002, all Standing Committee members had retired if they were 68 or older at the time of a party congress. As a result of this largely unspoken convention, it was expected that all other members of the outgoing standing committee would have to retire at the 18th Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0005-0001", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nAbout 70% of the members of the Central Military Commission and the executive committee of the State Council would also turn over in 2012; in addition, every member of the 17th Central Committee born before 1945 relinquished their Central Committee membership at the Congress. The Congress marked the most significant leadership transition in decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0006-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nChinese politics prior to the 18th National Congress trended towards \"collective leadership\", where the paramount leader had to share power with his circle of senior leaders in the Politburo Standing Committee, particularly the Premier. Thus ultimately the paramount leader was not expected to have the same amount of power accorded to it during the era of Mao and Deng. The practice of governing through consensus within the Politburo Standing Committee became the norm following the 16th Party Congress in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0006-0001", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nDuring that Congress, the size of the Standing Committee was increased from seven members to nine, with Luo Gan and Li Changchun being added to handle the law enforcement and propaganda portfolios, respectively. However, these two factors led to inefficiencies in the decision-making process. In order to improve the efficacy of the Standing Committee, the 18th Party Congress was expected to end in a return to a smaller, seven-member committee. The propaganda and public security portfolios were expected to be downgraded to the level of the Politburo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0007-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nApart from the largely pre-ordained selection of Xi and Li for its top two positions, intense speculation mounted over who else might join the standing committee. Two unexpected events upset the carefully balanced political equilibrium in the lead up to the Congress. The Wang Lijun incident in early 2012 no longer made former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai a viable candidate for the PSC, and \"Ferrari crash\" of the son of Ling Jihua, a top aide of Hu Jintao, was said to have reduced Hu's bargaining power in the leadership selection process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0007-0001", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nInitial speculation placed Yu Zhengsheng, Zhang Dejiang, Li Yuanchao, Wang Qishan, and Wang Yang on the new standing committee. However, Li Yuanchao and Wang Yang, largely seen as belonging to the 'liberal' wing of the party, were ultimately not selected. Instead, Liu Yunshan and Zhang Gaoli joined the standing committee. Liu, a former propaganda department head, took over as both the head of the party's Central Secretariat and the top official in charge of propaganda, and was seen as the most strongly conservative member in the new PSC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0007-0002", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nZhang, a bookish party bureaucrat known for presiding over economic growth in numerous regions, was ostensibly selected for his technocratic competence. Apart from Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, all the other members of the new standing committee were born in the late 1940s and therefore would need to retire at the 19th Party Congress if the informally mandated retirement rules still holds in 2017. Li Yuanchao (born 1950) and Wang Yang (born 1955) ostensibly could still join the 19th standing committee at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0008-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nThe new standing committee was noted for the diverse regional experience of its members. Apart from Liu Yunshan, every member of the new PSC had some experience serving in provincial-level positions prior to ascending to the apex of political power; all of them at one point had been a provincial party chief. Xi served in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Li Keqiang served in Henan and Liaoning, Zhang Dejiang served in Jilin, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Chongqing, Yu Zhengsheng served in Hubei and Shanghai, Wang Qishan served in Guangdong, Hainan, and Beijing, and Zhang Gaoli served in Guangdong, Shandong and Tianjin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0009-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo Standing Committee\nThe 18th Politburo Standing Committee was formed on 15 November 2012, the newly formed Politburo Standing Committee consisted of (in order ranking) Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, from the 17th Central Committee, in addition to newcomers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0010-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo\nThe 18th Politburo was also named at the Congress. Within the 17th Politburo, eleven members were born after 1945. Of these, seven were named to the Standing Committee (see above); and the remaining three, Liu Yandong, Li Yuanchao, and Wang Yang, retained their Politburo seats. Bo Xilai was suspended from the Politburo prior to the Congress. All 14 members of the 17th Politburo born prior to 1945 relinquished their Politburo membership due to having reached the mandatory retirement age of 68 at the time of the Congress. Conversely, this also meant that all members of the 17th Politburo born after 1945 (except Bo Xilai) maintained their Politburo membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0011-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo\nSince the majority of members of the 17th Politburo retired at the Congress, some fifteen seats on the 18th Politburo were to be filled by newcomers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0011-0001", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo\nNotable additions to the Politburo included Wang Huning, who became the first head of the party's Central Policy Research Office to hold a seat on the Politburo; Li Zhanshu, former Guizhou party chief who took over as head of the party's General Office; Meng Jianzhu, former Minister of Public Security who took on the portfolio of the Central Legal and Political Affairs Commission; and Hu Chunhua and Sun Zhengcai, two officials born after 1960 who took on major regional party leadership posts in Guangdong and Chongqing, respectively, following the Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0012-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Politburo\nBy convention, the members are listed in stroke order of surnames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0013-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Secretariat\nThe Secretariat, mainly overseeing party affairs and acting as the day-to-day executive arm of the Central Committee, was led by PSC member Liu Yunshan, who also held the post of President of the Central Party School. Liu Qibao, Zhao Leji, and Li Zhanshu earned seats on the Secretariat, as was anticipated for the heads of the Propaganda, Organization, and General Office. Zhao Hongzhu succeeded He Yong's place on the secretariat as the top-ranked Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032483-0013-0001", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Leadership changes, The Secretariat\nDeparting from the previous composition of the body, Du Qinglin, outgoing United Front Department chief, who held no other post at the time (he was later elected a ceremonial Vice-Chair of the CPPCC in March 2013), was elevated to the Secretariat. Similarly, Yang Jing, ethnic Mongol and former Chairman of Inner Mongolia, who would go on to be named Secretary-General of the State Council, 'broke convention' and earned a seat on the Secretariat, signalling that the top government organ, the State Council, will work in closer coordination with the Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032484-0000-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Kuomintang\nThe 18th National Congress of the Kuomintang (Chinese: \u4e2d\u570b\u570b\u6c11\u9ee8\u7b2c\u5341\u516b\u6b21\u5168\u570b\u4ee3\u8868\u5927\u4f1a) was the eighteenth national congress of the Kuomintang political party, held on 17 October 2009 at Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032484-0001-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Kuomintang, History\nThe 18th congress was originally planned to be held earlier on 12 September 2013 but was postponed to address the relief efforts of Typhoon Morakot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032484-0002-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Kuomintang, Results\nThe 18th congress saw the inauguration of Ma Ying-jeou to become Chairman of the Kuomintang for the second time after winning the chairmanship election held on 29 July 2009, succeeding the incumbent KMT Chairman Wu Po-hsiung who was retiring. Former Chairman Wu and Lien Chan were appointed as Honorary Chairmen to assist Chairman Ma in Taiwan's external affairs and cross-strait relations, respectively. Chan Chun-po, the Secretary-General to the President was inaugurated as the Secretary-General of the Kuomintang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032484-0003-0000", "contents": "18th National Congress of the Kuomintang, Reactions outside Taiwan\nMainland China - CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao sent a congratulatory message to Chairman Ma. In response, Ma also gave a warm reply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032485-0000-0000", "contents": "18th National Film Awards\nThe 18th National Film Awards were held in Chennai, India in November 1971 by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for Indian films released in 1970. The awards were presented by then President of India, V. V. Giri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032485-0001-0000", "contents": "18th National Film Awards, Juries\nThe award winners were chosen by four juries, one each for the Bombay, Calcutta and Madras regions and a central jury for all India. For the 18th National Film Awards the central jury was headed by Justice G. D. Khosla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032485-0002-0000", "contents": "18th National Film Awards, Awards\nThe top national award in each category was the President's Gold Medal and, at the regional level, the President's Silver Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032485-0003-0000", "contents": "18th National Film Awards, Awards, Feature films\nThe Kannada film Samskara won the President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film. Three award each went to the Hindi films, Dastak and Mera Naam Joker, and to the Bengali film Pratidwandi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032485-0004-0000", "contents": "18th National Film Awards, Awards, Feature films, Regional Award\nThe awards were given to the best films made in the regional languages of India. For feature films in Assamese, English, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Oriya and Punjabi language, the resident's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film was not given. The producer and director of the film were awarded with \u20b95,000 and a Silver medal, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032486-0000-0000", "contents": "18th National Geographic Bee\nThe 18th National Geographic Bee was held in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 2006, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The final competition was moderated by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. The winner was Bonny Jain of Moline, Illinois, who won a $25,000 college scholarship and lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. The 2nd-place winner, Neeraj Sirdeshmukh of Nashua, New Hampshire, won a $15,000 scholarship. The 3rd-place winner, Yeshwanth Kandimalla of Marietta, Georgia, won a $10,000 scholarship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032487-0000-0000", "contents": "18th National Hockey League All-Star Game\nThe 18th National Hockey League All-Star Game took place at Maple Leaf Gardens on October 10, 1964. The NHL All-Stars defeated the hometown Toronto Maple Leafs 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032487-0001-0000", "contents": "18th National Hockey League All-Star Game, All-Star uniforms\nThe unusual shoulder loops introduced to the All-Star jerseys in 1960 gave way to more traditional striping. The shoulder yoke featured a thin orange-black-orange stripe on the front and back, and the sleeves and waist featured a pair of orange-black-orange stripes. The ends of the sleeves and waistline were black. The orange tie-up collar from the previous set remained, and the two large orange stars outlined in black on the front of the jersey were matched with another pair of stars on the back. The player numbers on the front and back of the jersey were displayed in plain black block numbers. The jerseys would continue to be used through the 1970 game - the league would actually continue to reuse the actual game jerseys year after year until they needed to be replaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032487-0002-0000", "contents": "18th National Hockey League All-Star Game, The game\nBoth Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the All-Stars' Glenn Hall of the Chicago Black Hawks were unbeatable through the first half of the game. However, in the second half, the All-Stars managed to put three pucks behind Terry Sawchuk while the Leafs could only score twice on Charlie Hodge of the Montreal Canadiens. Montreal's Jean B\u00e9liveau scored the go-ahead goal, on assists from Chicago's Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings, late in the second period. Murray Oliver of the Boston Bruins and Jim Pappin of the Leafs traded goals in the third. Hodge became the first goaltender to be penalized in the eighteen-year history of the All-Star game when he was whistled down in the second period for holding the puck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032488-0000-0000", "contents": "18th National Television Awards\nThe 18th National Television Awards was held at The O2 Arena on 23 January 2013. The event was presented by Dermot O'Leary; who himself was nominated for an award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032489-0000-0000", "contents": "18th New Brunswick Legislature\nThe 18th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between June 24, 1857, and May 14, 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032489-0001-0000", "contents": "18th New Brunswick Legislature\nThe assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032489-0002-0000", "contents": "18th New Brunswick Legislature\nJames A. Harding was chosen as speaker for the house. In 1859, John M. Johnson was chosen as speaker after Harding resigned his seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032491-0000-0000", "contents": "18th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032491-0001-0000", "contents": "18th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th New Hampshire Infantry was organized in Concord, New Hampshire, under the command of Colonel Thomas Leonard Livermore. Six companies were recruited beginning July 19, 1864, and mustered in September 13, 1864. Four additional companies were recruited beginning December 21, 1864. Companies G, H, and I joined the regiment in February, March, and April 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032491-0002-0000", "contents": "18th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Service\nSix companies were ordered to City Point, Virginia, September 1864 and attached to Benham's Engineer Brigade to December 1864. Clough's Provisional Brigade, Ferrero's Division, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, to March 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1865. Garrison duty at Washington, D.C., until July 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032491-0003-0000", "contents": "18th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Service\nDuty in the fortifications at City Point, Virginia, until December 10, 1864. At front near Petersburg December 10-13. Reported to Gen. Ferrero, and duty in the defenses of Bermuda Hundred December 18-30. Duty at City Point until March 19, 1865. Reported to Gen. Parke, Commanding IX Corps, before Petersburg, March 19. Repulse of attack on Fort Stedman March 25. Duty at Fort Stedman until April 2. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2. Occupation of Petersburg April 3. Moved to South Side Railroad and duty at Ford's Station until April 20. Moved to Washington, D.C., April 20-26. Camp at Alexandria and provost duty at Georgetown until July. Guard duty in Washington during trial of President Lincoln's assassins. Six original companies muster out June 10, 1865. Balance of Regiment muster out July 29, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032491-0004-0000", "contents": "18th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Service\nCompany K served its entire term of service at Galloupe's Island in Boston Harbor and mustered out May 6, 1865. The six original companies of the 18th New Hampshire Infantry mustered out of service June 10, 1865. Other companies mustered out July 29, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032491-0005-0000", "contents": "18th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nThe regiment lost a total of 41 men during service; 1 officer and 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 36 enlisted men died of disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032492-0000-0000", "contents": "18th New York Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th New York Infantry Regiment (a.k.a. \"New York State Rifles\") was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032492-0001-0000", "contents": "18th New York Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th New York Infantry was organized May 13, 1861 at Albany, New York and mustered in on May 17, 1861 for two years' service under the command of Colonel William A. Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032492-0002-0000", "contents": "18th New York Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe regiment was attached to Davies' Brigade, Miles' Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia, June to August 1861. Franklin's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October 1861. Newton's Brigade, Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, I Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, VI Corps, to May 1863.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032492-0003-0000", "contents": "18th New York Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th New York Infantry mustered out of the service on May 28, 1863. Men who enlisted for three years' service were transferred to the 121st New York Volunteer Infantry on May 11, 1863.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032492-0004-0000", "contents": "18th New York Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nLeft New York for Washington, D.C., June 19. Reconnaissance on Fairfax Road, July 14, 1861. Advance on Manassas, Virginia, July 16\u201321. Fairfax Court House, July 17. First Battle of Bull Run, July 21. Duty in the defenses of Washington, D.C., until March 1862. Skirmish at Springfield Station, October 3, 1861. Advance on Manassas, Virginia, March 10\u201315, 1862. McDowell's advance on Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 4\u201312. Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula, April 22. Siege of Yorktown, April 24\u00a0\u2013 May 4 (on transports). West Point, May 7\u20138. Seven Days Battles before Richmond, June 25\u00a0\u2013 July 1. Gaines's Mill, June 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032492-0004-0001", "contents": "18th New York Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nWhite Oak Swamp and Glendale, June 30. Malvern Hill, July 1. At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Movement to Fort Monroe, then to Centreville, August 16\u201328. In works at Centreville, August 29\u201331. Cover Pope's retreat to Fairfax Court House, September 1. Maryland Campaign, September 6\u201322. Crampton's Pass, South Mountain, September 14. Battle of Antietam, September 16\u201317. Duty in Maryland until October 30. Movement to Falmouth, Virginia, October 30\u00a0\u2013 November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg, December 12\u201315. \"Mud March\", January 20\u201324, 1863. At Falmouth until April. Chancellorsville Campaign, April 27\u00a0\u2013 May 6. Operations at Franklin's Crossing, April 29\u00a0\u2013 May 2. Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3. Salem Heights, May 3\u20134. Banks' Ford, May 4. Regiment moved to New York May 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032492-0005-0000", "contents": "18th New York Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nThe regiment lost a total of 71 men during service; four officers and 34 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, one officer and 32 enlisted men died of disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0000-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature\nThe 18th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to April 9, 1795, during the eighteenth year of George Clinton's governorship, first in Poughkeepsie, then in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0001-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Background\nUnder the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1777, the State Senators were elected on general tickets in the senatorial districts, and were then divided into four classes. Six senators each drew lots for a term of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years and, beginning at the election in April 1778, every year six Senate seats came up for election to a four-year term. Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a one-year term, the whole assembly being renewed annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0002-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Background\nIn March 1786, the Legislature enacted that future Legislatures meet on the first Tuesday of January of each year unless called earlier by the governor. No general meeting place was determined, leaving it to each Legislature to name the place where to reconvene, and if no place could be agreed upon, the Legislature should meet again where it adjourned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0003-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Background\nOn February 7, 1791, the Legislature re-apportioned the Senate and Assembly districts, according to the figures of the 1790 United States Census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0004-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Background\nAt this time the politicians were divided into two opposing political parties: the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0005-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Elections\nThe State election was held from April 29 to May 1, 1794. Senators Matthew Clarkson (Southern D.), John Williams (Eastern D.), John Frey and Stephen Van Rensselaer (both Western D.) were re-elected. Assemblymen Richard Hatfield (Southern D.) and John D. Coe (Middle D.) were also elected to the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0006-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nThe Legislature met first in Poughkeepsie on January 6; and adjourned on January 14, 1795. The Legislature met again at Federal Hall in New York City on January 20; and adjourned on April 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0007-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nWilliam North was elected Speaker with 33 votes to 28 for James Watson, the Speaker of the previous Assembly, both were Federalists. The average vote for the members of the Council of Appointment was 36 to 29, showing a Federalist majority of 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0008-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, Sessions\nOn January 27, the Legislature re-elected Federalist Rufus King to the U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0009-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, State Senate, Districts\nNote: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0010-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, State Senate, Members\nThe asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Richard Hatfield and John D. Coe changed from the Assembly to the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0011-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Districts\nNote: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032493-0012-0000", "contents": "18th New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Assemblymen\nThe asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature. David Pye changed from the Senate to the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032494-0000-0000", "contents": "18th New Zealand Parliament\nThe 18th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1911 general election in December of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032494-0001-0000", "contents": "18th New Zealand Parliament, 1911 general election\nThe Second Ballot Act 1908 was used for the 1911 general election. The first ballot was held on Thursday, 7 December in the general electorates. The second ballots were held one week later on 14 December. The Second Ballot Act did not apply to the four M\u0101ori electorates and the election was held on Tuesday, 19 December. A total of 80 MPs were elected; 42 represented North Island electorates, 34 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented M\u0101ori electorates. 590,042 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 83.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032494-0002-0000", "contents": "18th New Zealand Parliament, Sessions\nThe 18th Parliament sat for four sessions (there were two sessions in 1912), and was prorogued on 20 November 1914.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032494-0003-0000", "contents": "18th New Zealand Parliament, Ministries\nThe Liberal Government of New Zealand had taken office on 24 January 1891. Joseph Ward formed the Ward Ministry on 6 August 1906. The Ward Ministry remained in power until Ward's resignation as Prime Minister in March 1912. The Liberal Party remained in power only on the casting vote of the Speaker, Arthur Guinness, selected Thomas Mackenzie as Prime Minister and he formed the Mackenzie Ministry on 28 March 1912. In July 1912, Mackenzie lost a vote of no confidence, resigned as Prime Minister and handed over to William Massey of the Reform Party, bringing to an end the long reign of the Liberal Party. The Massey Ministry lasted for the remainder of the parliamentary term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032494-0004-0000", "contents": "18th New Zealand Parliament, Initial composition of the 18th Parliament\nThe following are the results of the 1911 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 71], "content_span": [72, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032494-0005-0000", "contents": "18th New Zealand Parliament, By-elections during 18th Parliament\nThere were a number of changes during the term of the 18th Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032495-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Newtownabbey Old Boys F.C.\n18th Newtownabbey Old Boys' Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in Division 1C of the Northern Amateur Football League. The club is based in Newtownabbey. The club plays in the Irish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032496-0000-0000", "contents": "18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in North Carolina for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032496-0001-0000", "contents": "18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 8th Volunteers, was organized at Camp Wyatt, near Carolina Beach, North Carolina, in July, 1861. Its members were from Wilmington and the counties of Robeson, New Hanover, Bladen, Columbus, and Richmond. It moved to South Carolina, returned to North Carolina, then in the spring of 1862 proceeded to Virginia. The 18th served in General Branch's and Lane's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. After fighting at Hanover Court House, it participated in various conflicts of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032496-0001-0001", "contents": "18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment\nIt continued the fight in the trenches of Petersburg south of the James River and ended the war at Appomattox. This unit was organized with 1,100 men, lost fifty-seven percent of the 396 engaged during the Seven Days' Battles, and reported 14 casualties at Cedar Mountain and 12 at Second Manassas. There were 13 killed and 77 wounded at Fredericksburg and 30 killed and 96 wounded at Chancellorsville. Of the 346 in action at Gettysburg, about twenty-five percent were disabled. It surrendered 11 officers and 73 men at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, including Major Thomas J. Wooten and captains Benjamin F. Rinaldi and John J. Poisson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032496-0002-0000", "contents": "18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment\nThe field officers were Colonels John D. Barry, Robert H. Cowan, Thomas J. Purdie, and James D. Radcliffe; Lieutenant Colonels Forney George, John W. McGill, and Oliver P. Meares; and Majors George Tait and Thomas J. Wooten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032496-0003-0000", "contents": "18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th North Carolina was also responsible for the accidental shooting of Stonewall Jackson during the battle of Chancellorsville. The next day, May 3rd, 1863, their battle flag would be captured. Just over a year later, on May 12, 1864, they lost another battle flag to Alexander H. Mitchell of the 105th Pennsylvania Infantry. Mitchell would later be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032496-0004-0000", "contents": "18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Sources\nThis article about a specific military unit of the American Civil War is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032497-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly\nThe 18th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in Canada was established by the results of the 2015 Northwest Territories general election on November 23, 2015. It is the 26th sitting of the Assembly in the territory's history. The territory has fixed election date legislation that ensures elections are held every four years on the first Monday in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032497-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, Executive Council of the Northwest Territories\nThe Executive Council has six Ministers and a Premier that were elected by the normal members of the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 95], "content_span": [96, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032499-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery\n18th Ohio Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032499-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery, Service\nThe 18th Ohio Battery was organized in Portsmouth, Ohio, and mustered in September 13, 1862, for a three-year enlistment under Captain Charles C. Aleshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032499-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery, Service\nThe battery was attached to 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to February 1863. 2nd Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Cumberland, to June 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. 1st Division, Artillery Reserve, Department of the Cumberland, to March 1864. 2nd Division, Artillery Reserve, Department of the Cumberland, to December 1864. Unassigned, District of the Etowah, Department of the Cumberland, to January 1865. Post of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to June 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032499-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery, Service\nThe 18th Ohio Battery mustered out of service on June 29, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032499-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery, Detailed service\nLeft Ohio for Covington, Ky., October 9, 1862. March to Lexington, Ky., October 23\u201329, 1862, and duty there until December 26. Moved to Louisville, Ky., December 26; then to Nashville, Tenn., arriving there February 7, 1863. Moved to Brentwood, Tenn., February 21. Expedition to Franklin and Spring Hill March 2\u20135. Action at Franklin March 4. Thompson's Station, Spring Hill, March 4\u20135. Duty at Franklin until June. Repulse of Van Dorn's attack on Franklin April 10. Moved to Triune June 2. Action at Triune June 11. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Action at Fosterville, Guy's Gap and Shelbyville June 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032499-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery, Detailed service\nMoved to Wartrace July 3, and duty there until August 12. Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Reconnaissance from Rossville September 17. Ringgold, Ga., September 17. Spring Creek September 18. Battle of Chickamauga September 19\u201320. Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23. Battles of Chattanooga November 23\u201325; Lookout Mountain November 23\u201324; Missionary Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26\u201328. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., December 1, and garrison duty there until October 1864. March to Chattanooga October 6\u201321. Moved to Nashville November 27. Battles of Nashville December 15\u201316. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17\u201328. Duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., until May 1, 1865, and at Resaca, Ga., until June 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032499-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery, Casualties\nThe battery lost a total of 23 enlisted men during service; 2 killed and 22 died due to disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service, Three-months regiment\nCompanies A, C, and E enrolled at Ironton, Ohio, on April 22, 1861. Company B enrolled at Marietta, Ohio, on April 27, 1861. Company D enrolled at McArthur, Ohio, on April 18, 1861. Company F enrolled at Gallipolis, Ohio, on April 22, 1861. Company I enrolled at Jackson, Ohio, on April 24. And Company K enrolled at Beverly, Ohio, on April 23, 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service, Three-months regiment\nThe 18th Ohio Infantry Regiment organized at Parkersburg, Virginia, and mustered in May 29, 1861, under Colonel Timothy Robbins Stanley in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. Companies were sent to different points on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to guard the railroad and trains between Parkersburg and Clarksburg, West Virginia (then Virginia), until August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service, Three-months regiment\nThe regiment mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, on August 28, 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service, Three-years regiment\nThe 18th Ohio Infantry was reorganized in Athens, Ohio, August 16-September 28, 1861. The regiment moved to Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio, and mustered in for three years service on November 4, 1861, under the command of Colonel Timothy R. Stanley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service, Three-years regiment\nThe regiment was attached to 8th Brigade, Army of the Ohio to December 1861. 8th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, to July 1862. Unattached, Railroad Guard, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 29th Brigade, 8th Division, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, to November 1863. Engineer Brigade, Department of the Cumberland, to November 1864.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service, Three-years regiment\nThe 18th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Augusta, Georgia, on October 22, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nMoved to Louisville, Ky., November 6, thence to Elizabethtown, Ky., November 15. Duty at Elizabethtown and Bacon Creek, Ky., November 1861 to February 1862. Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., February 10\u201315, and on Nashville, Tenn., February 18\u201325. Occupation of Nashville, Tenn., February 25-March 18. Reconnaissance to Shelbyville, Tullahoma and McMinnville March 25\u201328. To Fayetteville April 7. Expedition to Huntsville, Ala., April 10\u201311. Capture of Huntsville April 11. Advance on and capture of Decatur April 11\u201314. Operations near Athens, Limestone Bridge, Mooresville and Elk River May 1\u20132. Near Pulaski and near Bridgeport May 1. Moved to Fayetteville May 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nNegley's Expedition to Chattanooga June 1\u201315. At Battle Creek until July 11. Guard duty along Tennessee & Alabama Railroad from Tullahoma to McMinnville until September. Short Mountain Road and McMinnville August 29 (Companies A and I). Retreat to Nashville, Tenn. Siege of Nashville September 12-November 7. Near Lavergne October 7. Duty at Nashville until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26\u201330. Battle of Stones River December 30\u201331, 1862 and January 1\u20133, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0007-0002", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Detailed service\nPassage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap September 11. Battle of Chickamauga September 19 21. Rossville Gap September 21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Reopening Tennessee River October 26\u201329. Brown's Ferry October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23\u201327. Orchard Knob November 23\u201324. Missionary Ridge November 25. Engaged in engineer duty at Chattanooga until October 20, 1864.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032500-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nThe regiment lost a total of 184 men during service; 4 officers and 72 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 107 enlisted men died of disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032501-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Oklahoma Legislature\nThe Eighteenth Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The state legislature met in regular session at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City from January 7 to May 23, 1941, during the term of Governor Leon C. Phillips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032501-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Oklahoma Legislature\nAs Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, James E. Berry served as the President of the Senate. H. M. Curnutt served as the President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate. E. Blumhagen served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032501-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Oklahoma Legislature, Leadership, Senate\nAs Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, James E. Berry served as the President of the Senate, giving him a tie-breaking vote and the authority to serve as the presiding officer. H. M. Curnutt of Barnsdall, Oklahoma, was elected by state senators to serve as the President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate, which gave him the authority to organize the Oklahoma Senate and to serve as the presiding officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032501-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Oklahoma Legislature, Leadership, House of Representatives\nThe Democratic caucus held the majority of seats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1941, allowing them to elect E. Blumhagen of Watonga, Oklahoma, as the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and A. E. Montgomery of Tulsa as Speaker Pro Tempore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group\nThe 18th Operations Group is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force 18th Wing, stationed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group\nThe 18th OG is the largest combat operations group in the Air Force with eight squadrons, one flight, 842 active-duty members and approximately 80 aircraft, including the F-15 Eagle, E-3 Sentry, KC-135 Stratotanker and the HH-60 Pave Hawk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group\nThe group is one of the oldest in the United States Air Force, being a successor organization of the 18th Pursuit Group, one of the 15 original combat air groups formed by the Army before World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, Units\nThe group's nine squadrons (Tail Code: ZZ) and flight include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Heraldry\nThe fighting cock emblem, approved in 1931, symbolizes the courage and aggressiveness of a combat organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Origins\nThe 18th Wing has the unique distinction of being the only wing never stationed in the Continental United States. 18th Wing heritage began on 21 January 1927, when the War Department activated a provisional pursuit group at Wheeler Field, Hawaii. Shortly thereafter the group was re-designated the 18th Pursuit Group with the following squadrons:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Origins\nThe \"fighting cock\" Group insignia with \"Unguibus et Rostro\", \"With Talon and Beak\" was chosen by 18th Pursuit Group CO Maj. Carlyle H. Walsh in February 1931, and officially approved in 1932. Major Kenneth M. Walker (for whom Walker AFB, New Mexico was later named) assumed command in March 1940, having on his staff Captain Roger W. Ramey (for whom Ramey AFB Puerto Rico was named), and Lieutenants Bruce K. Holloway, K. P. Bocquist, John G. Simpson, and William F. Savidge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Origins\nThe Group was flying Boeing P-26 Peashooters, then upgraded into the radial-engined Curtiss P-36 Hawks before being re-equipped with Curtiss P-40s a few months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese naval aircraft which immediately drew the United States into World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Origins\nIn the immediate months before the Pearl Harbor attack, the group was expanded as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nThe Imperial Japanese attack on 7 December 1941, severely hurt the group \u2013 its only two P-40C Warhawks of the 44th Pursuit Squadron to get airborne were immediately shot down, and the rest of the group's aircraft were heavily damaged. Over 60 P-40Cs were destroyed on the ground at Wheeler. The group, assigned to Seventh Air Force in February 1942, had to be re-equipped before it could resume training and begin patrol missions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nDuring March 1943, the group moved to the South Pacific Theater and rejoined the war effort as part of Thirteenth Air Force and began operations from Guadalcanal. Flew protective patrols over US bases in the Solomons; later, escorted bombers to the Bismarcks, supported ground forces on Bougainville, and attacked enemy airfields and installations in the northern Solomons and New Britain. Used Lockheed P-38 Lightnings; Bell P-39 Airacobra; Northrop P-61 Black Widows, and Douglas P-70 Havoc aircraft. The following operational squadrons were assigned to the 18th Fighter Group:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nThe 18th FG moved to New Guinea in August 1944 equipped with P-38s. Escorted bombers to targets in the southern Philippines and Borneo, and attacked enemy airfields and installations in the Netherlands Indies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0011-0001", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nReceived a Distinguished Unit Citation for actions at Ormoc Bay: on 10 November 1944 the group withstood intense flak and vigorous opposition from enemy interceptors to attack a Japanese convoy that was attempting to bring in additional troops for use against American forces that had landed on Leyte; on the following day a few of the group's planes returned to the same area, engaged a large force of enemy fighters, and destroyed a number of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nMoved to the Philippines in January 1945. Supported ground forces on Luzon and Borneo, attacked shipping in the central Philippines, covered landings on Palawan, attacked airfields and railways on Formosa, and escorted bombers to such widely scattered targets as Borneo, French Indochina, and Formosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nAt the end of the war, the group moved to Clark Field on Luzon and became part of Far East Air Forces after the war. Flew patrols and trained with Lockheed F-80 Shooting Stars, with the distinction of being the first overseas fighter unit to be jet-equipped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nThe group lost all personnel in March 1947 but was re-manned in September 1947. Equipped first with Republic F-47 Thunderbolts, later with North American F-51 Mustangs, and still later (1949) with F-80s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, World War II\nIn August 1948, it became a subordinate unit to the newly activated 18th Fighter Wing. On 20 January 1950, the wing was re-designated the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nThe 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing was reassigned to Korea in July 1950 and entered combat. Its organization was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nAt the outbreak of the Korean War, the 18th FBG's 12th FBS provided personnel to form the \"Dallas\" fighter squadron, which rushed into battle. In late July, the group headquarters with two of its squadrons (12th and 67th FBSs) deployed with F-80s from the Philippines to Taegu AB (K-2), South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nFrom 28 July to 3 August, the 18th Group operated directly under Fifth Air Force then passed to the control of the 6002nd Fighter (later, Tactical Support) Wing. Pilots exchanged their F-80s for F-51 Mustangs. Combat targets included tanks and armored vehicles, locomotives and trucks, artillery and antiaircraft guns, fuel and ammunition dumps, warehouses and factories, and troop concentrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nIn August, advancing enemy forces and insufficient aircraft parking at Taegu forced the group to move to Japan, but it returned to South Korea the following month to support UN forces in a counteroffensive. Because the front advanced so rapidly, operations from Pusan (K-9) soon became impractical, and the group moved in November to Pyongyang East (K-24), North Korea. The 2nd SAAF Squadron joined the 18th in mid-November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nMaj Louis Sebille was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his action on 5 August 1950: although his plane was badly damaged by flak while attacking a concentration of enemy trucks, Maj Sebille continued his strafing passes until he crashed into an armored vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nThe Chinese Communist (CCF intervention) caused the group to move twice in as many weeks, first to Suwon AB (K-13), South Korea, then to Chinhae (K-10). From there the 18th FBG continued to support ground forces and carry out armed reconnaissance and interdiction missions. From November 1950 through January 1951, it earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for destroying roughly 2,400 enemy vehicles and severely damaging almost 500 more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nFrom early 1951 until January 1953, the group and its tactical squadrons, moving from base to base in South Korea, operated separately from the rest of the 18th FBW. The group earned its second Distinguished Unit Citation from 22 April to 8 July 1951, when it flew 6,500 combat sorties while operating from sod, dirt filled, and damaged runways to counter the enemy's 1951 spring offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nWhen in January 1953 the group rejoined the wing at Osan-ni AB (K-55), its squadrons transitioned to F-86 Sabrejets without halting the fight against the enemy. It flew its first F-86 counter air mission on 26 February 1953. In the final days of the war, the 18th FBG attacked dispersed enemy aircraft at Sinuiju and Uiju Airfields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Korean War\nThe group remained in Korea for some time after the armistice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Cold War\nIn 1955, deployed to Formosa to support Nationalist Chinese evacuation of Tachen Islands. During subsequent active periods from 1978 to 1981 trained for air operations in western Pacific region", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Modern era\nThe designation of the wing changed on 1 October 1991 to the 18th Wing with the implementation of the Objective Wing concept. With the objective wing, the mission of the 18th expanded to the Composite Air Wing concept of multiple different wing missions with different aircraft. The operational squadrons of the wing were assigned to the 18th Operations Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Modern era\nThe mission of the 18th OG was expanded to include aerial refueling with Boeing KC-135R/T Stratotanker tanker aircraft (909th ARS); and surveillance, warning, command and control Boeing E-3B/C Sentry (961st AACS), and communications. Added airlift mission in June 1992 with the Beech C-12 Huron, transporting mission critical personnel, high-priority cargo and distinguished visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Modern era\nIn February 1993, the 18th gained responsibility for coordinating rescue operations in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean with the addition of the 33d Rescue Squadron (33d RQS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032502-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Operations Group, History, Operations, Modern era\nIn November 1999, the 18th underwent another change as one of its three F-15 units, the 12th Fighter Squadron, was reassigned to the 3d Wing at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032503-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Orgburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)\nThe 18th Orgburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was elected by the 1st Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, in the immediate aftermath of the 18th Congress. It was the last Orgburo, as its functions were transferred to an enlarged Secretariat at the 19th Congress before the Orgburo itself was abolished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032504-0000-0000", "contents": "18th PMPC Star Awards for Television\nThe 18th PMPC Star Awards for Television took place at the Aliw Theater, Pasay, Philippines on October 23, 2004 and was broadcast on RPN Channel 9 on Saturday Night Playhouse. The awards night was hosted by Lorna Tolentino, Boy Abunda and Piolo Pascual.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032504-0001-0000", "contents": "18th PMPC Star Awards for Television, Nominees\nThese are the nominations for the 18th Star Awards for Television. The winners are in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032505-0000-0000", "contents": "18th PP National Congress\nThe 2017 PP congress\u2014officially the 18th PP National Congress\u2014was held between 10 and 12 February 2017. The congress slogan was \"Spain, forward\" (Spanish: Espa\u00f1a, adelante). Mariano Rajoy was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term in office with 95.7% of the delegate vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032506-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)\nThe 18th Panzer Division (German: 18. Panzer-Division) was a German World War II armoured division that fought on the Eastern Front from 1941 until its disbandment in 1943.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032506-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), Formation\nThe 18th Panzer Division was formed on 26 October 1940 at Chemnitz from parts of the 4th Infantry Division, 14th Infantry Division, and four battalions of submersible tanks. They had originally been intended for Operation Sea Lion (Seel\u00f6we), the planned German invasion of United Kingdom. Of these four tank battalions, two formed the 18th Panzer Regiment and the other two the 28th Panzer Regiment of the 18th Panzer Division. In March 1941 the 18th Panzer Division was reorganized, the 28th Panzer Regiment was disbanded, one of its battalions became the third battalion of the 18th Panzer Regiment, the other battalion was transferred to the 3rd Panzer Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032506-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), Service\nThe 18th Panzer Division first saw action during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June 1941. The 18th Panzer Division fought as part of XLVII Panzer Corps, and over the next six months was involved in seizing Smolensk, Bryansk and the assault on Tula. The division suffered heavy losses in the first month of the war, losing half its tanks and a third of its manpower in June and July. With the start of the Soviet counter offensive in December 1941 the 18th Panzer Division was driven back to Oryol with heavy losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032506-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), Service\nIn the summer of 1942, the 18th Panzer Division took part in the initial drive on Stalingrad, but was soon transferred to the central section of the front. The 18th Panzer Division took part in security warfare in the spring of 1943. In the summer of 1943, the division fought in the Battle of Kursk, and suffered heavy losses. After Kursk the 18th Panzer-Division suffered from poor morale and frequent desertions and was disbanded, with the division's personnel being used to build the 18th Artillery Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032506-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), War crimes\nAccording to Omer Bartov, the 18th Panzer Division was heavily engaged in the looting of food from Soviet civilians to the point that the latter starved to death. At the beginning of the invasion orders were given to execute wounded Soviet soldiers as these were seen as an unnecessary burden. In \"bandit-fighting\" operations, the division command gave out orders to shoot anybody suspected of supporting alleged partisans. Within the division, harsh measures were employed against any soldier found guilty of dissent or reluctant to fight, leading to a number of executions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032507-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Parliament of British Columbia\nThe 18th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1934 to 1937. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in November 1933. The Liberal Party, led by Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, formed the government. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) formed the official opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032507-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Parliament of British Columbia\nHenry George Thomas Perry served as speaker for the assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032507-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Parliament of British Columbia, Members of the 18th General Assembly\nThe following members were elected to the assembly in 1933.:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032508-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Parliament of Ontario\nThe 18th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from October 30, 1929, until May 16, 1934, just prior to the 1934 general election. The majority party was the Ontario Conservative Party led by George Howard Ferguson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032508-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Parliament of Ontario\nGeorge Stewart Henry replaced Ferguson as party leader and Premier in December 1930 after Ferguson was named Canadian High Commissioner in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032509-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Parliament of Turkey\nThe 18th term of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey lasted from 29 November 1987 to 20 October 1991. There were 450 MPs in the parliament. Motherland Party (ANAP) held the majority. Social Democrat Populist Party (SHP) and True Path Party (DYP) were the other parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032509-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Parliament of Turkey, Main parliamentary milestones\nSome of the important events in the history of the parliament are the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment\nThe 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment (also known as the 163rd Pennsylvania Volunteers) was a cavalry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was present for 50 battles, beginning with the Battle of Hanover in Pennsylvania on June 30, 1863, and ending with a skirmish at Rude's Hill in Virginia during March 1865. A majority of its fighting was in Virginia, although its first major battle was in Pennsylvania's Gettysburg campaign. It was consolidated with the 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment on June 24, 1865, to form the 3rd Provisional Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment\nThe regiment was organized at Pittsburgh and Harrisburg between October and December 1862. Green County was the source of recruits for three companies, while additional recruits came from elsewhere in the state. Companies L and M were late additions to the regiment, and were originally meant to be part of a 19th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment. Recruits for these two companies were mostly from the Philadelphia area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment\nThe regiment served in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Shenandoah. Among major battles where it saw action were the Battle of the Wilderness, the Third Battle of Winchester, and the Battle of Cedar Creek. It had five officers and 55 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded. Disease killed two more officers and 232 enlisted men. Captured members of the regiment were kept in Libby Prison in Richmond and Andersonville Prison in Georgia, among others. The regiment was commanded by two colonels: Timothy M. Bryan and Theophilus F. Rodenbough; Lieutenant Colonel William P. Brinton and Major John W. Phillips also commanded the regiment in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Formation and organization\nBetween December 20, 1860, and February 1, 1861, seven southern states seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. Fighting began on April 12, 1861, when local militia attacked United States troops at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. This is considered the beginning of the American Civil War. Four additional states seceded during the next three months. Ending the rebellion took longer than government leaders expected, and President Abraham Lincoln called for more troops on July 2, 1862.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Formation and organization\nIn response to Lincoln's call for volunteer troops, Companies\u00a0A through K (there was no J) were mustered into the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment from August through November. The regiment was also known as \"One Hundred and Sixty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers\". Four of the companies were first organized in Pittsburgh, while six of the companies were organized at Camp Simmons near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Companies\u00a0A, C, and G were recruited from Greene County, and Companies\u00a0B and D were recruited from Crawford County. Major sources for additional recruits were Allegheny, Cambria, Dauphin, Lycoming, and Washington counties. Captain James E. Gowen of Company\u00a0E was promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 25, 1862, and was the regiment's highest-ranking officer over the next few months. The other original leaders were Majors Joseph Gilmore, William B. Darlington, and Henry B. Van Voorhis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 967]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Formation and organization\nIn early December 1862 the regiment moved by rail to the Bladensburg, Maryland area, close to Washington, D.C. They received training at this location, and were armed with a saber and Merrill carbine. Cavalry soldiers considered this carbine inferior and \"comparatively worthless\". Timothy M. Bryan Jr. was appointed colonel and commander of the regiment effective December 24, but did not assume command until May 1863. A West Point graduate, he had been an officer in the regular U.S. Army, and had previously been a lieutenant colonel with the 12th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0004-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Formation and organization\nWithout Bryan, the regiment had its first mounted drill on December 25. Beginning January 1863, the regiment was attached to Colonel Percy Wyndham's Cavalry Brigade for the defense of Washington. The 5th New York Cavalry and 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiments were also part of Wyndam's brigade. Camp for the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry was moved to Virginia on January 1, 1863, and settled a week later on the Little River Turnpike about 2 miles (3.2\u00a0km) from Fairfax Courthouse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Early action\nHistorian Robert W. Black observes \"the 18th Pennsylvania would become a fine regiment\", but \"in January 1863, it was a collection of civilians in uniform, poorly equipped and armed.\" Their first scouting task was on January 11, when a portion of the regiment went on a late-night patrol with the 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, which was loyal to the Union. January and February were spent on picket duty, scouting missions, and drilling. A major foe in this area of Virginia was Major John Mosby and his partisan Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0005-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Early action\nSoldiers of the brigade considered Mosby's force \"very formidable\", and pickets were always under the threat of a surprise attack. On January 18, Mosby captured 11 pickets from the regiment. A few days letter, he sent a few of the captured men back to the regiment with a message that said the regiment needs to be better equipped and armed because it did not currently pay to capture them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Early action\nThe regiment was finally completed on February 1 when Companies\u00a0L and\u00a0M were added. The recruits for those companies were from the Philadelphia area. They were originally intended to be part of a 19th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, but that initial organization failed and they were added to the 18th. When the two companies were added, the regiment became part of Colonel Richard Butler Price's Independent Cavalry Brigade, XXII Army Corps, Department of Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0006-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Early action\nOn March 1, Gowen was discharged, and the regiment's new lieutenant colonel was William Penn Brinton, who was promoted from captain in the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment. The regiment continued to show its inexperience on March 1 when Major Joseph Gilmore led 200 men on a westward reconnaissance toward Aldie, Virginia. Gilmore did not follow all of his orders, and mistook some men from the 1st Vermont Cavalry for enemy soldiers. He turned his command and fled at full speed from the Vermont cavalry\u2014which caused him to be court-martialed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Early action\nIn April, the regiment became part of the Third Brigade, Brigadier General Julius Stahel's Cavalry Division, XXII Army Corps. Improvements were made to the regiment over the next 3 months. On April 1, revolvers, new sabers, and belts were issued. Bryan joined the regiment on May 3\u2014bringing experience and training from West Point and the regular army. Burnside carbines were issued on June 21\u2014an inferior weapon but an improvement over the Merrill carbines originally issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign\nThe Army of the Potomac, including its two cavalry divisions, moved northward from Fredericksburg, Virginia, toward Frederick, Maryland, crossing the Potomac River on June 25 and 26, 1863. Stahal's cavalry division (including the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry) was detached from defending Washington so that it could join the Army of the Potomac and help defend Pennsylvania from an invasion by General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment began moving north on June 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign\nThe entire Union army force was reorganized on June 28 at Frederick, and the regiment became part of the 3rd Division of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick was the division's commander. The division's First Brigade consisted of the 1st Vermont, 1st West Virginia (formerly the loyal 1st Virginia), 5th New York, and 18th Pennsylvania cavalry regiments. The first three regiments were veteran units, but the 18th Pennsylvania had not yet seen a major fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0009-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign\nBrigadier General Elon J. Farnsworth commanded the First Brigade, and Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer commanded the Second Brigade\u2014which consisted of regiments from Michigan. Major General Joseph Hooker was relieved of command, at his request, of the Army of the Potomac, and he was replaced by Major General George Meade. The cavalry corps commander was Major General Alfred Pleasonton. Brinton commanded the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Hanover\nKilpatrick's division was detached eastward as the army moved from Frederick, Maryland, to Pennsylvania. Its mission was to prevent Confederate cavalry under the command of Major General James Ewell Brown \"Jeb\" Stuart from joining the rest of Lee's army. On June 30 the division proceeded to the small town of Hanover, Pennsylvania. Kilpatrick, his staff, and his bodyguards (one company from the 1st Ohio Cavalry Regiment) led the division. They were followed by Custer's Second Brigade, the artillery, and then the First Brigade. Farnsworth rode at the front of the First Brigade with the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0010-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Hanover\nThe 1st West Virginia and 5th New York Cavalry Regiments followed them. The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment had rear guard duty. The extreme rear guard consisted of 40 men from Company\u00a0L and Company\u00a0M led by Lieutenant Henry C. Potter, and they were about 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) behind the main portion of the regiment. A small group of \"less than a dozen\" men, led by Captain Thadeus Freeland of Company\u00a0E, protected the right flank as it moved a few miles east of the road to Hanover. Not far from Gitt's Mill, Freeland's men and an enemy scouting party from the 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment spotted each other, and a long-range shot killed one of the Confederates\u2014the first casualty of the Battle of Hanover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Hanover\nFreeland and his men rode toward the regiment to warn of the danger, but instead found more men from the 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, which quickly surrounded the Pennsylvanians and captured them without firing a shot. When Potter and his men were about 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) from Hanover, they found their path to town blocked by the same group of about 60 Confederates who demanded their surrender. Potter's men responded by firing at the enemy soldiers and charging through them toward town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0011-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Hanover\nThey were followed by the enemy force and came upon the rest of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry\u2014dismounted and mingling with the locals. Lieutenant Samuel H. Tresonthick was the only officer in the rear. Most of the division had already passed through the town, but ahead of the 18th Pennsylvania was the 5th New York Cavalry, which was also enjoying refreshments and greetings provided by the locals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0011-0002", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Hanover\nSoon the Confederates fired an artillery shot into town, and Union soldiers faced attacks from the 13th Virginia Cavalry, a battalion from the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, and finally the 9th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. Most of the Union fighters in the streets were from the 18th Pennsylvania and 5th New York Cavalry Regiments. After close-quarter fighting, the Confederates withdrew to the cover of their artillery in the hills. The streets were full of dead and wounded men and horses. Kilpatrick directed a counterattack by portions of Farnsworth's First Brigade and Custer's Second Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0011-0003", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Hanover\nThe counterattack silenced the Confederate big guns, and Stuart's men were driven away in this inconclusive battle. Casualties for all participants on both sides totaled to 228. Casualties for the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment were four killed, 30 wounded, and 52 missing. Some of the men received saber wounds, including Lieutenant John Britton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Gettysburg\nOn July 1, Farnsworth's Brigade was in the Abbottstown-Berlin area of Pennsylvania. They chased rebel cavalry and captured several prisoners. On July 2, the division moved closer to Gettysburg, and was on the right side of the entire Union army\u2014close to New Oxford and Hunterstown. On July 3, the First Brigade moved to the left wing of the army, about 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) from Gettysburg near two hills known as Little Round Top and Big Round Top. For most of the day, the 18th Pennsylvania was at the rear of the brigade, and conducted only a few scouting tasks with small groups of soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Gettysburg\nLate in the afternoon, the brigade was ordered to make mounted charges through rocky and wooded terrain. The cavalry regiments were positioned with the 18th Pennsylvania on the left, the 1st West Virginia in the middle, and the 1st Vermont on the right. The 1st West Virginia Cavalry made the first charge. They became nearly surrounded by enemy soldiers from the 1st Texas Infantry Regiment and had to retreat to safety using sabers. The 18th Pennsylvania went next. They charged across a field through woods interspersed with boulders where they confronted the same Texas infantry, who were protected by a stone fence. The Confederates fired too high, which kept the regiment from suffering serious losses\u2014but the charge was repulsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Gettysburg\nThe 1st Vermont Cavalry charged next, although Farnsworth thought the charge was unwise. The First and Second Battalions of the 1st Vermont Cavalry made the mounted change, while the Third Battalion was placed behind a stone wall as a reserve if the charge was repulsed. Farnsworth rode with the Second Battalion. Although this charge by the 1st Vermont Cavalry is often described as a single charge, it was really a series of charges that were able to cross the rebel skirmish line before being repulsed. A total of 67 of the estimated 300 Vermont men in the charge were killed, wounded, or missing. Farnsworth was killed, and at least one cavalry leader was critical of Kilpatrick's decision to order a mounted charge in terrain that was not ideal for cavalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Gettysburg\nAfter the charges, the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry returned to the open field and formed a dismounted skirmish line. The fighting ended that evening in a drenching rain. About 166,000 soldiers fought in \"the bloodiest single battle of the entire war\"\u2014with casualties in this Union victory estimated to be 23,000 for the Union force and 28,000 for the Confederates. Casualties for the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry were one killed, five wounded, and eight missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Williamsport\nAfter the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee's army retreated toward Williamsport, Maryland, where it planned to cross the Potomac River to the relative safety of Virginia. In this retreat, Lee sent a wagon train of wounded men on a longer and more northerly route to Virginia. The healthy part of Lee's army used a southwestern route to Williamsport that went through mountainous terrain. Kilpatrick's division, after receiving reinforcements at Emmitsburg, Maryland, was part of the Union pursuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0016-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Williamsport\nAs Meade's army pursued Lee, several battles and skirmishes occurred\u2014including a fight by Kilpatrick's division in the mountains at Monterey Pass where a Confederate wagon train was captured. Both portions of Lee's army, the wagon train of wounded men and the healthy soldiers, needed to pass through Hagerstown, Maryland, on their separate routes to Williamsport. The Battle of Williamsport, also known as Battle of Hagerstown, was part of Meade's attempt to prevent Lee's escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Williamsport\nMost of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry's fighting took place in Hagerstown, which is located on the National Road six miles (9.7\u00a0km) from the Potomac River. On the morning of July 6, Kilpatrick attacked rebel-occupied Hagerstown. Four companies from the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry made charges into town. Captain William C. Lindsay led Companies\u00a0A and B with Captain Ulric Dahlgren, who was not part of the regiment but was an Acting Volunteer Aid to the division's commanding general. Lindsay, Sergeant Joseph Brown (Company\u00a0B), and others were killed in close fighting in the streets of the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0017-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Williamsport\nDahlgren took command and was wounded in the leg, which eventually required an amputation. Companies\u00a0L and M, led by Captain Enos J. Pennypacker, also made charges into town. Pennypacker's horse was killed and he was severely wounded, and Lieutenants William L. Laws and Henry C. Potter were among the men captured. Laws later died at Libby Prison. Losses for the regiment were eight killed, 19 wounded, and 71 missing. Captain Charles J. Snyder of the 1st Michigan Cavalry Regiment, who was temporarily leading a group from the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was also killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0017-0002", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Gettysburg Campaign, Battle of Williamsport\nOver the next few days, the regiment skirmished at Boonesboro, Funkstown, and Hagerstown (again)\u2014and suffered no casualties. At Falling Waters on July 14, they were not engaged. Lee's army crossed the Potomac at Williamsport and Falling Waters on July 14. The Army of the Potomac eventually crossed back to Virginia, and the headquarters of the 3rd Division was established near Warrenton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns\nFor the rest of the summer of 1863, the regiment spent its time in Virginia and was involved in picket duty, scouting, and a few skirmishes. The regiment's horses were gradually replenished. In August, the 2nd New York Cavalry Regiment was added to the First Brigade while the 1st Vermont Cavalry moved to Custer's Second Brigade, and Brigadier General Henry E. Davies Jr. became commander of the First Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns\nThe Army of the Potomac's Bristoe campaign began October 9 and was fought against the Army of Northern Virginia. Several of the battles in this campaign were near railroad stations belonging to the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, including the Battle of Bristoe Station and the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station. Major Van Voorhis commanded the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry at the start of the Bristoe Campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns\nThe most difficult fighting for the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Bristoe campaign happened near Brandy Station on October 11. After the division became surrounded, the 18th Pennsylvania was among the regiments that charged through the enemy. Van Voorhis was seriously wounded, ultimately losing an arm, and was captured along with three other officers and 32 enlisted men. Casualties for the regiment were one killed, three wounded, and 53 missing for a total of 57 of the brigade's 119 casualties listed by the brigade commander. Despite the casualties, Davies said the charge by the brigade was \"most successful\" and \"repulsed the rebels\". He also praised Van Voorhis for \"gallantly charging at the head of his regiment at Brandy Station.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns\nOn November 18 most of the regiment went on a scouting mission towards the Rapidan River. While the regiment was away, their camp was attacked. Pickets, a small camp guard, and sick men were the only defenders. A regimental flag, 49 men, the assistant surgeon, horses, wagons, and all of the camp equipment were captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns\nThe Army of the Potomac's Mine Run campaign began November 26 and continued fighting against the Army of Northern Virginia. General Pleasonton continued to command the cavalry corps, but there were a few changes that affected the 18th Pennsylvania. While Davies still commanded the First Brigade, Custer now commanded the 3rd Division, and Bryan took over field command of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. On November 26, the regiment fought dismounted near Raccoon Ford on the Rapidan River. Fighting continued in early December, including artillery duels. On December 11, the regiment went to winter quarters at Stevensburg, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign\nDuring March 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant became commander of all Union armed forces. Although Grant did not replace Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac, he kept his headquarters with Meade's and provided direction. Major General Philip Sheridan was appointed commander of Meade's cavalry corps. Kilpatrick was assigned to another command, and Major General James H. Wilson replaced him as commander of Sheridan's 3rd Division. Colonel John B. McIntosh replaced Davies as commander of the cavalry division's First Brigade\u2014which consisted of the 18th Pennsylvania, 1st Connecticut, 2nd New York, and 5th New York Cavalry Regiments. In April, Majors Darlington and Van Voorhis rejoined the regiment, missing a leg and an arm respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Battle of the Wilderness\nThe 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry fought on the first day of the Battle of the Wilderness with Brinton commanding the regiment. On May 3, the Army of the Potomac received orders to be ready to move at midnight. Wilson's 3rd Division led the way, with the First Brigade on the army's right and the Second Brigade on the left. Bryan (18th Pennsylvania Cavalry) commanded the First Brigade (including the 18th Pennsylvania) while Colonel George H. Chapman commanded the Second. After crossing the Rapidan River at Germanna Ford, the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry led the advance all the way to Wilderness Tavern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Battle of the Wilderness\nAt 5:00\u00a0am on May 5, the brigade began moving south toward Catharpin Road, leaving the 5th New York Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Hammond and armed with repeating rifles, to guard a western approach on Orange Plank Road. Hammond soon discovered that he was facing an entire infantry corps under the command of Lieutenant General A. P. Hill. Hammond was gradually pushed back beyond Parker's Store, causing Wilson to be cut off from the rest of the Union army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Battle of the Wilderness\nWilson continued south and then moved west on the Catharpin Road with Chapman's brigade leading and Bryan's brigade, without the 5th New York Cavalry, bringing up the rear. Just beyond Craig's Meeting House, Chapman encountered about 1,000 men under the command of Confederate Brigadier General Thomas L. Rosser. Chapman's brigade, led by the 1st Vermont Cavalry, was able to push Rosser back about 2 miles (3.2\u00a0km) until Rosser outflanked him and caused a retreat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0026-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Battle of the Wilderness\nWith Hill's infantry on the Orange Plank Road on Wilson's north side and Rosser's cavalry occupying the Catharpin Road on his south side, Wilson was in danger of having his entire division captured. He discovered a wagon track north of a road called Roberson's Run that led east and began a retreat with Chapman leading and Bryan in the rear. The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, commanded by Brinton, again protected the rear and was ordered to hold for one half hour before attempting to rejoin Wilson. After crossing the Po River, the wagon track led to Catharpin Road and Wilson was barely able to get his command on the road to the safety of Todd's Tavern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Battle of the Wilderness\nWhen Brinton and the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry arrived at the same intersection, they found it occupied by dismounted Confederate cavalry. Darlington and the First Battalion charged but were driven back by crossfire. The Second Battalion, commanded by Major John W. Phillips, also charged and was driven back. Both Phillips and Darlington were wounded, and Darlington's wound was severe enough that he had to be left with the enemy. The regiment nearly became surrounded by cavalry, infantry, and an artillery battery, and escaped through a pine thicket and across a swamp. It rejoined Wilson's division that evening, surprising those who believed the entire regiment had been captured. In addition to the two wounded majors, Captain Frederick Zarracher was captured, and 39 men were killed, wounded, or captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 87], "content_span": [88, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Sheridan's raid\nFor the next two weeks, the fighting shifted southeast to Spotsylvania Court House. The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry left Fredericksburg at dawn on May 8. Wilson's division, including the 18th Pennsylvania, charged into Spotsylvania Courthouse, driving the enemy from town. Continuing the fight dismounted against enemy infantry, they held the town for about one hour before they were driven back and eventually replaced by infantry. Brinton had his horse shot but escaped injury despite having a bullet pierce his clothing. Casualties were estimated by one captain to be \"about ten men and horses killed and wounded\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Sheridan's raid\nOn May 9, Sheridan detached the cavalry from the Army of the Potomac and began a movement toward Richmond. On the morning of the May 10, the division was awakened by enemy artillery, and pickets led by Captain Marshall S. Kingsland of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry intercepted enemy attackers. Kingsland was reinforced with the entire regiment, which held off the enemy while Sheridan's entire force crossed the North Anna River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0029-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Sheridan's raid\nCuster's First Brigade of Merritt's 1st Division burned the Beaverdam railroad station and rescued 350 Union prisoners on their way to Richmond while the 18th Pennsylvania protected the First Brigade's right. After crossing the South Anna River on May 10, Sheridan's force encountered a Confederate force led by Stuart on May 11 in a cavalry and artillery fight at Yellow Tavern on the main road to Richmond's north side. Stuart was mortally wounded in fighting against Custer's Brigade. McIntosh's report said his brigade (including the 18th Pennsylvania but without the 5th New York) at Yellow Tavern was only \"slightly engaged\". The 18th Pennsylvania had one enlisted man wounded in action on May 9 and 10, and no casualties on May 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0030-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Sheridan's raid\nIn the pre-dawn of May 12, Sheridan's advance was caught in a fight with the Richmond fortification and Stuart's cavalry, and Wilson's First Brigade became separated from the Second Brigade that it was following in \"pelting rain and howling thunder.\" A portion of the 18th Pennsylvania found enemy infantry on two sides, and a general fight began at the bridge on Meadow Bridge Road. A major from the 18th Pennsylvania described the day as \"the greatest anxiety I ever experienced\". Despite the anxiety, the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry had only three men wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0030-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Sheridan's raid\nMerritt's 1st Division captured the bridge and drove the enemy back. Fighting renewed at Mechanicsville for a few hours, but the Confederates were driven away and Sheridan's force camped near New Bridge that evening. Over the next few days, Sheridan moved by White Oak Swamp to Malvern Hills where they were accidentally shelled for a brief time by Union gunboats on the James River. On May 15 and 16 they camped at Haxall's Landing on the James River. On May 17, they moved north toward the Pamunkey River. The regiment was not involved in fighting for the next 10 days as they moved north. Sheridan reported on May 20 that he found \"little subsistence and forage\" at White House landing (on the river) and wanted \"ammunition first and supplies of all kinds\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0031-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Sheridan's raid\nBy May 27, the brigade had already returned to Grant; camped at Butler's Bridge on the North Anna River, and was rejoined by the 5th New York Cavalry. During May, Wilson relieved Bryan from command of the 18th Pennsylvania because he \"failed to act swiftly enough\" in a small fight with Major General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, and Brinton became commander. Casualties for the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry for the period of May 22 through June 1 were two enlisted men killed, two officers and three enlisted men wounded, and three enlisted men captured or missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 78], "content_span": [79, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0032-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Battle of Cold Harbor\nThe regiment fought in the Battle of Cold Harbor, which began May 31 and lasted through June 12. In this Confederate victory, the Union Army had about 12,000 casualties while the Confederates had about 4,000. Much of this difference in casualties was caused by Union infantry assaults on well-entrenched enemy troops, especially on June 3. On the morning of May 31, McIntosh's brigade crossed the Pamunkey River at Hanovertown and drove the enemy back toward the town. Around sundown, the 18th Pennsylvania led a dismounted advance that pushed the enemy out of the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 84], "content_span": [85, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0032-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Battle of Cold Harbor\nBrinton and Phillips were slightly wounded, and two captains were severely wounded. Brinton led the regiment and the 2nd Ohio Cavalry on a June 10 scout of Shady Grove Road, while the other half of the brigade probed Richmond Road. On June 10, the 18th Pennsylvania had just established a picket line when the 9th Virginia Cavalry attacked one side. That portion of the regiment retreated in confusion, but entrenched United States Colored Troops who had been sent to support McIntosh stopped the enemy. Losses for the 18th Pennsylvania were described as \"considerable\". The brigade covered the rear of the army on June 12 and June 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 84], "content_span": [85, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0033-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Post Cold Harbor\nThe regiment, under Brinton's command, advanced in a move toward White Oak Swamp on June 15, and had had to fight infantry in a wooded area while unassisted. Lieutenant Samuel McCormick was killed and now-Captain Tresonthick was mortally wounded on that day at St. Mary's Church in an engagement that lasted nearly five hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0033-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Post Cold Harbor\nMost of the June 15 fighting was dismounted, and the regiment later learned that their action was \"part of the attempt to deceive the enemy, to make him believe and think that the whole army was on the north side of the James River, and would attempt to reach Richmond from that direction.\" Casualties for the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry for the period of June 2 through June 15 were one officer and two enlisted men killed, one officer and 33 enlisted men wounded, and 28 enlisted men captured or missing, with most of the regiment's casualties for this period coming on June 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0034-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Post Cold Harbor\nThe regiment moved to the rear of Major General Horatio Wright's VI Corps on June 22. On the next day, Wilson's division departed on what would become known as the Wilson\u2013Kautz Raid, but the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 3rd New Jersey Cavalry remained behind and reported to Wright. An official report lists Phillips as commander of the regiment on June 30. During July, the regiment spent most of its time on picket duty. On August 5, the regiment moved to City Point and boarded a steamship destined for Alexandria, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0034-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Grant's Overland Campaign, Post Cold Harbor\nA few days later, after their arrival in Alexandria, the regiment became armed with Spencer repeating rifles. They departed for the Shenandoah Valley on August 11. The rest of Wilson's division was also ordered to move to the Shenandoah Valley, and the division became part of Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0035-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley\nOn July 31, 1864, Grant decided to have Sheridan be his field commander to fight Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley. On August 1, Sheridan was relieved of command from the Army of the Potomac, \"but not from command of the cavalry as a corps organization.\" To satisfy the Lincoln administration's concern about Sheridan's young age, Grant intended to have Major General David Hunter be the head of an army that was the consolidation of four military districts, but have Sheridan be the leader in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0035-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley\nOn August 5, Grant ordered Hunter to \"Concentrate all your available force without delay in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry....\", and sent him more cavalrymen. Hunter asked to be relieved entirely, and his request was granted\u2014putting Sheridan in command of the new army. The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry arrived at Harper's Ferry on August 12. The regiment patrolled and skirmished on both sides of the Potomac River\u2014including Charlestown, Bolivar Heights, and Shepherdstown in West Virginia; Berryville in Virginia; and Boonsboro and Sharpsburg in Maryland. Sheridan's army began with Wright's VI Corps and three cavalry divisions. The 18th Pennsylvania remained in the same chain of command, as part of McIntosh's First Brigade in Wilson's 3rd Division, and remained under Brinton's command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0036-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Third Battle of Winchester\nThe Third Battle of Winchester, also known as the Battle of Opequon, is considered by some historians to be the most important American Civil War battle in the Shenandoah Valley. A total of 54,000 men from both sides participated in this Union victory on September 19. Against Early's Army of the Valley, Sheridan had two divisions of cavalry, two infantry corps under Wright and Brigadier General William H. Emory (XIX Corps), and the Army of West Virginia, consisting of both infantry and cavalry, led by Brigadier General George Crook. Casualties for both sides totaled to over 8,600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0037-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Third Battle of Winchester\nMcIntosh's brigade left camp near Berryville around 2:00\u00a0am on September\u00a019 and moved on the Berryville Pike toward Winchester. Two regiments from McIntosh's brigade, the 2nd New York and 5th New York, led the initial advance across the creek. The 18th Pennsylvania and 2nd Ohio Cavalries led the rest of the brigade across and joined the two New York regiments. Enemy pickets fled through a second group of pickets that belonged to the 23rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0037-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Third Battle of Winchester\nThree more North Carolina Confederate infantry regiments, the 5th, 20th, and 12th, held off the New Yorkers and caused them to retreat. McIntosh responded with artillery and an attack by the 18th Pennsylvania. The 18th Pennsylvania made mounted attacks on infantry breastworks. The regiment's Third Battalion, led by now-Captain Britton, led the first charge followed by the Second and First Battalions. It took three charges before the 5th and 20th North Carolina Infantry Regiments were driven back to a secondary position. Brinton's horse was wounded before the final charge, and he was wounded and captured in the final charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0037-0002", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Third Battle of Winchester\nIn describing the charges, one battalion commander said, \"we lost heavily\". With Brinton gone, Phillips, commander of the Second Battalion, became the regiment's commander. Later in the day, McIntosh was seriously wounded leading a dismounted charge. His wound required amputation of his leg below the knee, and Lieutenant Colonel George A. Purington replaced him. Casualties for the regiment were seven men killed and 12 wounded, plus one officer captured. Brinton escaped in the night and returned to the regiment on the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0038-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Tom's Brook\nOn October 3, Custer took command of the 3rd Cavalry Division. The division continued destroying crops, barns, and mills in the valley as it moved north, which depleted the food and infrastructure used to supply the Confederate Army. During this time, the division was followed and harassed by Confederate cavalry. On October 9, the First Brigade (now led by Colonel Alexander Pennington) took the advance in an attack against enemy cavalry. At first met with \"stubborn resistance\", Custer sent the 18th Pennsylvania supported by two other regiments to turn the enemy's flank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0038-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Tom's Brook\nOn Custer's command, all regiments charged\u2014resulting in the capture of all enemy artillery, wagons, and ambulances while the enemy fled. One soldier wrote \"I never saw such a complete rout in my life.\" Custer reported \"Never since the opening of this war had there been witnessed such a complete and decisive overthrow of the enemy's cavalry\" and that a pursuit was made \"vigorously for nearly twenty miles.\" The battle became jokingly referred to as the Woodstock Races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0039-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Battle of Cedar Creek\nThe Battle of Cedar Creek was fought on October 19, 1864. In this Union victory, Early's Confederate force surprised the Union Army at Cedar Creek, Virginia, and appeared to be destined for a victory until Sheridan arrived and rallied his troops. The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry was assigned the task of supporting a battery that was exchanging fire with enemy artillery, and suffered some casualties when a shell burst directly over the regiment. Casualties for the regiment were one killed and six wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0040-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Battle of Cedar Creek\nOn November 12, the regiment was involved in a skirmish at Cedar Creek. Enemy cavalry drove in Union pickets early in the morning and attacked near the Union camp. Pennington's First Brigade was sent to fight the attackers. Although the enemy soldiers were driven off, the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry became cut off from the brigade. Philips was commanding the regiment at the time, and Confederate cavalry under the command of Rosser captured him and 164 others. Phillips and Lieutenant Henry J. Blough were sent to Libby Prison in Richmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0040-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Battle of Cedar Creek\nPrivate Nathan Monz (Company\u00a0D) and Private John L. Stall (Company\u00a0E) were killed\u2014the last two soldiers in the regiment to be killed in action. Pennington censured the regiment for its conduct in this action. The regiment was censured again and described as setting \"a very bad example to the brigade\" for its action near Mount Jackson on November 22, when it left rear guard duty and \"was not to be found until after the brigade was relieved from duty\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 76], "content_span": [77, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0041-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Winter camp\nFor the next few weeks, the regiment camped near Winchester and performed picket duty and scouting tasks. A portion of the regiment went to Cedar Creek Valley to hunt bushwhackers. The regiment also went on a scouting mission near Moorefield, West Virginia. In December the regiment went to Camp Remount in Pleasant Valley, Maryland. There they went into winter camp and turned in their worn-out horses. The Third Battalion received new horses while the other two battalions remained dismounted through the winter. Darlington and Van Voorhis had now mustered out, and Phillips was in a Confederate prison. Captain William H. Page of Company\u00a0L was promoted to major with an effective date of December 1, and twice-wounded Britton of Company\u00a0F was promoted to major effective December 3. Brinton mustered out January 13, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 891]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0042-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Battle of Waynesboro\nWhile the regiment's two dismounted battalions remained in camp, the mounted Third Battalion departed from camp on February 25, 1865, and reached Winchester on the next day. Sheridan had two divisions of cavalry and planned to join Grant near Richmond. The plan changed on March 2 when Sheridan's army approached Waynesboro, Virginia and found Early's Army of the Shenandoah. Custer's division did the fighting, and most of Early's army was killed or captured. All of Early's headquarters equipment and artillery were captured although Early himself evaded capture. The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry's Third Battalion, commanded by Captain George W. Nieman, and the 5th New York Cavalry, were held in reserve in this battle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0043-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Shenandoah Valley, Battle of Waynesboro\nAfter the battle, the battalion was part of a force that escorted about 1,600 prisoners north to Winchester. On March 7 during the trip north, Rosser's cavalry attacked the Union force at Rude's Hill near Mount Jackson. A counterattack led by the 5th New York drove off the Confederates in hand-to-hand fighting. The Union force and all prisoners arrived at Winchester on March 7. Here, they were under the command of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, who had temporary command of Union forces around Winchester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0044-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Conclusion\nFor the next few weeks of 1865, the battalion camped at Kernstown near Winchester. On April 9, the surrender of Lee's army was announced. The battalion went on scouting missions, guarded wagon trains, and had picket duty over the next two weeks. On April 26, the rest of the regiment returned from Camp Remount and joined the battalion. The regiment camped in Staunton, Harrisonburg, Mt. Jackson, and Cedar Creek over the next few weeks. On May 5 they were joined by some of their officers who returned from Confederate prisons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0044-0001", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Conclusion\nColonel Theophilus F. Rodenbough joined the regiment on May 12 and took command. On the same day, Private John Kies died from wounds suffered earlier\u2014the last soldier in the regiment to die from action. For the rest of the month, the regiment moved toward Cumberland and camped nearby. Portions of the regiment mustered out in early June. Company\u00a0E mustered out on July 1\u2014the same day part of Company\u00a0C was put under arrest for insubordination. On July 20, the 18th and 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiments were combined and became the 3rd Provisional Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment\u2014with an effective date retroactive to June 24. The new regiment served in West Virginia until it was mustered out of service on October 31, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032510-0045-0000", "contents": "18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Conclusion\nDuring the war, the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry had five officers and 55 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded. An additional two officers and 232 enlisted men died from disease. Over half of the men that died from disease died in Confederate prisons, and almost two thirds of those that died in prisons died at Andersonville Prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032511-0000-0000", "contents": "18th People's Choice Awards\nThe 18th People's Choice Awards, honoring the best in popular culture for 1991, were held on March 17, 1992, at Universal Studios Hollywood, in Universal City, California. They were hosted by Kenny Rogers, and broadcast on CBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032511-0001-0000", "contents": "18th People's Choice Awards\nAaron Spelling received a special tribute to celebrate his long career in television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032512-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)\nThe 18th Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was elected by the 18th Central Committee in the aftermath of the 18th Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party\nThe 18th Central Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese: \u4e2d\u56fd\u5171\u4ea7\u515a\u7b2c\u5341\u516b\u5c4a\u4e2d\u592e\u653f\u6cbb\u5c40) was elected by the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 15 November 2012, which was formally elected by the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. It was nominally preceded by the 17th Politburo. It was succeeded by the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition\nAt the beginning of its term, the 25 Politburo members held the following portfolios: seven members of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, six regional party leaders, two military figures, five leaders of central party organs and commissions, three Vice Premiers, the Vice President, and the head of the national trade union federation. The internal composition was largely similar to the previous Politburo, with only a few portfolio changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition\nThe number of Standing Committee members decreased from nine to seven. The party leaders of the direct-controlled municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing, the province of Guangdong, and the far western region of Xinjiang were represented on the Politburo; this arrangement was unchanged from the previous Politburo. The two vice-chairmen of the Central Military Commission, the national trade union head, the head of the party's Organization and Propaganda departments, and all Vice-Premiers were represented on the Politburo; again this arrangement was totally consistent with the composition of the previous Politburo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition\nThe long-term head of the Policy Research Office, Wang Huning, gained a seat on the Politburo. This was the first time the head of this office was represented at the Politburo level. Prior to the start of his Politburo term, Wang sat on the Central Secretariat. Similarly, Li Zhanshu, who was appointed director of the party's General Office, was also given a seat on the Politburo, while his predecessors generally did not enjoy this 'privilege'. The Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Meng Jianzhu, did not earn a seat on the Standing Committee, unlike his predecessor Zhou Yongkang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition\nMoreover, no Politburo member directly took on the role that Li Changchun played as \"propaganda chief\" in the previous Politburo; instead, Standing Committee member Liu Yunshan was named both executive Secretary of the Secretariat in charge of party affairs, he was also seen as having 'taken over' Li Changchun's post as informal \"propaganda chief\". Liu Yandong, who continued her term from the 17th Politburo, was promoted from State Councilor to Vice-Premier; therefore no State Councilors sat on the 18th Politburo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition\nApart from the seven Standing Committee members, only three others maintained their membership from the previous Politburo: Liu Yandong, Li Yuanchao, and Wang Yang, meaning that 15 out of the 25 members were newcomers. Li held the office of Vice-President, which was previously held by Xi Jinping, and Wang was transferred from his post as Guangdong party secretary to become Vice Premier. Li and Wang theoretically meet the age requirements to advance one level higher to the Standing Committee at the 19th Party Congress, the only two-term Politburo members apart from Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang who met this requirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition\nTwo women, Sun Chunlan and Liu Yandong, sat on the Politburo, the first time this has happened since 1973 (when Ye Qun and Jiang Qing were part of the Politburo). No ethnic minorities earned a seat on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition, Changes during term\nWhen Ling Jihua was removed from office as the head of the United Front Work Department due to a corruption investigation in December 2014, Sun Chunlan left her post as party secretary of Tianjin to take lead of the United Front Department. This meant that Tianjin temporarily lost its representation on the Politburo. Conversely, it also made Sun the first United Front Department head to sit on the Politburo in decades. In September 2016, Zhang Chunxian was transferred out of Xinjiang to become the deputy leader of the Leading Group for Party Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 94], "content_span": [95, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032513-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Explanation on composition, Changes during term\nGuo Jinlong retired from his post as party secretary of Beijing in May 2017 to become Vice Chairman of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization. Sun Zhengcai was placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in July 2017 and therefore was removed from office as party secretary of Chongqing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 94], "content_span": [95, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment\n18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment (Polish language: 18 Pulk Ulan\u00f3w Pomorskich, 18 p.ul.) was a cavalry unit of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic. Formed in April 1919 in Poznan, it fought in the Polish-Soviet War and the Invasion of Poland. In the interbellum period, the regiment was garrisoned in Grudziadz (since September 1923). Pomeranian uhlans became famous for the legendary Charge at Krojanty, after which the unit ceased to exist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, Beginnings\nIn April 1919, following the order of commandant of Greater Poland Front, General Jozef Dowbor-Musnicki, a cavalry unit was formed in Poznan. In July 1919, the unit was named 4th Greater Poland Uhlan Regiment, with Colonel August Brochwitz-Donimirski (former officer of the Imperial German Army) as its commandant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, Beginnings\nBy late October 1919, First Squadron of the regiment was fully equipped and trained. The unit was tasked with seizing parts of formerly German province of West Prussia, which were attached to Poland (see Polish Corridor). On January 18, 1920, it entered Torun, to be later moved to Grudziadz after the Germans had abandoned this city. In February 1920, its name was officially changed into the 18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, and in late May 1920, the regiment was sent to the Soviet front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, Beginnings\nIn early summer 1920, Pomeranian uhlans fought in northeastern corner of the Second Polish Republic, along the Daugava (river), where it engaged Soviet cavalry under Hayk Bzhishkyan. On July 5, 1920, it was encircled by the enemy near Druja. To escape Soviet captivity, the uhlans decided to swim across the Daugava, and enter the territory of neutral Latvia. Polish soldiers reached Daugavpils, and on July 22 were transported by rail to Riga. Six days later, 60 Polish soldiers were loaded on the Pomeranian, but the bulk of the regiment remained in Riga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, Beginnings\nOn August 11, Latvia signed a peace treaty with Soviet Russia. Fearing disarmament by the Latvian authorities, the Poles marched towards the port of Memel, which at that time was a free city, occupied by French troops. The regiment reached Palanga, where it was disarmed. After several days, the uhlans in mufti, were loaded on boats, and on August 18 arrived at Danzig. Unable to anchor at this port, the regiment finally left the boats at nearby Gdynia. On August 22, the unit returned to Torun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, Beginnings\nThe Pomeranian uhlans remained in Torun until mid-September 1920, when they were transported by rail to Hajnowka. At that time, the regiment had 32 officers, 630 soldiers and 610 horses. On September 19, the unit was attached to Operational Group of General Wladyslaw Jung, and was sent to the frontline near Wolkowysk, to fight in the Battle of the Niemen River. Pomeranian uhlans remained in eastern Poland until May 5, 1921, when they returned to Grudziadz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, 1939 Invasion of Poland\nOn August 26, 1939, the regiment, commanded by Colonel Kazimierz Masztalerz, became part of Chojnice Group of Polish Army. The unit was tasked with protecting the area of Chojnice and nearby Rytel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, 1939 Invasion of Poland\nThe Germans attacked Polish positions on September 1, 1939, at 5 a.m. After initial clashes, the uhlans were forced to withdraw. In the evening of the first day of the war, the Charge at Krojanty took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, 1939 Invasion of Poland\nFollowing the charge, and subsequent Luftwaffe attack near Drzycim, the regiment ceased to exist as a cohesive unit (September 4). Among those KIA at Krojanty, was Colonel Mastalerz himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, Symbols\nThe regimental flag was funded by residents of Pomerelia, and handed to the unit in Torun, on May 29, 1923. In recognition of extraordinary service of Pomeranian uhlans during the Polish-Soviet War, the flag was awarded Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032514-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment, Symbols\nThe badge of the regiment, approved in April 1925, featured the Pomeranian Griffin. The regiment had its own zurawiejka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032515-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Primetime Emmy Awards\nThe 18th Emmy Awards, later known as the 18th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 22, 1966, at the Hollywood Palladium. The ceremony was hosted by Danny Kaye and Bill Cosby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032515-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Primetime Emmy Awards\nThe top show of the night was The Dick Van Dyke Show, which won its fourth consecutive top series award, and tied the record (since broken) of five major wins. The ceremony returned to a more traditional format, after experimenting the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032515-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Primetime Emmy Awards, Winners and nominees\nWinners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032516-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Producers Guild of America Awards\nThe 18th Producers Guild of America Awards (also known as 2007 Producers Guild Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2006, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on January 20, 2007. The nominations were announced on December 4, 2006, and January 3, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032516-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Producers Guild of America Awards, Winners and nominees, Stanley Kramer Award\nAwarded to the motion picture that best illuminates social issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032516-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Producers Guild of America Awards, Winners and nominees, Vanguard Award\nAwarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in new media and technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032517-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Quebec Cinema Awards\nThe 18th Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony (French: Gala du cin\u00e9ma qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois 2016) were held on March 20, 2016 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032517-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Quebec Cinema Awards\nThe ceremony was the first to be held since Qu\u00e9bec Cin\u00e9ma dropped the \"Jutra Awards\" name from its awards program, following the publication in February 2016 of allegations that namesake director Claude Jutra had been a pedophile. The organization established a committee to determine a new permanent name for the awards, which announced the new Prix Iris name in October 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032517-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Quebec Cinema Awards\nWinners at the 2016 ceremony received a new wooden statue, replacing the previous trophy created by Charles Daudelin. The new trophy was created by Montreal's Nouveau Studio; it is made of solid maple, painted white, with gold and acrylic leaves. With only three weeks to design and produce the new statue following the renaming of the award, it would not have been possible to cast the trophies out of bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032517-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Quebec Cinema Awards\nThe Passion of Augustine won in six categories including Best Picture and Best Director (L\u00e9a Pool). Other multiple winners were My Internship in Canada with three, and Felix and Meira, Snowtime!, and Brooklyn, with two each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032518-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Quebec Legislature\nThe 18th Quebec Legislature is the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from August 24, 1931, to October 30, 1935. The Liberal Party led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau had a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and remained in power in the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032518-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Quebec Legislature, Member list\nThis was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1931 election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032519-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Reconnaissance Regiment\n18th Reconnaissance Regiment (Polish: 18 Pu\u0142k Rozpoznawczy) is a unit of the Polish Land Forces and is based in Bia\u0142ystok. It was formed from the former 18th Territorial Defense Battalion, which in turn was the former 18th Mechanized Brigade. It is the most recently formed unit of the Polish army, and one of three reconnaissance regiments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032519-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Reconnaissance Regiment, History\nOn 23 April 2009 the Polish Minister of National Defense, Bogdan Klich, announced that the 18th Territorial Defense Battalion would be reorganized to create a reconnaissance regiment. The 18th Reconnaissance Regiment was formed on 1\u00a0July 2009. On 15\u00a0October 2009 the 18th Reconnaissance Regiment was authorised to use the standard of the 18th Territorial Defense Battalion until 15\u00a0August 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032519-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Reconnaissance Regiment, History\nOn 11 November 2010, representatives of the 18th Reconnaissance Regiment, on behalf of the Minister of National Defense Bogdan Klich, paid tribute at the grave of the late ordinary orthodox archbishop of the Polish Army, Miron Chodakowski. The delegation was composed of the regimental commander Lieutenant Colonel Chris Lenkiewicz, Major Slawomir Raty\u0144ski and Captain Jan Bus\u0142owicz. The ceremony took place in the crypt church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary located in Supra\u015bl, near Bialystok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032519-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Reconnaissance Regiment, History\nOn 30 June 2011, the regiment received its regimental standard from Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski at a ceremony in Kosciuszko Square, Bia\u0142ystok before the monument to Marshal J\u00f3zef Pi\u0142sudski. In late 2012 the regiment was posted to Afghanistan as part of the 12th rotation of the Polish Military Contingent there. It was proposed in 2014 that the model used to form the 18th Reconnuassance Regiment be used to establish further units and form a new reconnaissance brigade to be stationed in North-West Poland. The regiment took part in the Lynx 15 military exercises in December 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032519-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Reconnaissance Regiment, Regimental standard\nThe new standard bears the national colors and emblem, and also expresses symbolic elements associated with the Bialystok coat of arms and contains commemorative badges of merit from the military units formerly stationed there:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032520-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry\nThe 18th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry was a unit of the Bengal Native Infantry that was formed in 1776, then mutinied in 1857 and was disbanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032520-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, Chronology\nIn 1861, after the mutiny, the title was given to the Alipore Regiment which later became the 18th Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention\nThe 18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention (Turkish: 18. CHP Ola\u011fan\u00fcst\u00fc Kurultay\u0131) took place on 5 and 6 September 2014 in order to elect a leader of the Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - CHP), a Turkish centre-left political party. Initially, an ordinary convention was due to be held in 2014, two years after the previous one in 2012. However, the party's incumbent leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu accepted calls for an extraordinary convention to be held following the loss of the CHP's presidential candidate Ekmeleddin \u0130hsano\u011flu in the presidential election held in August. The ordinary convention will thus be held in 2015 instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention\nThe result was a victory for incumbent leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who was re-elected with 64.1% of the delegates' votes. He had initially been nominated for the leadership with the signatures of 944 delegates (84.2%). His rival Muharrem \u0130nce congratulated K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu and conceded defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention, Background\nCHP leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu announced that his party would support Ekmeleddin \u0130hsano\u011flu's candidacy for the presidency, claiming further that he himself had thought of \u0130hsano\u011flu as an adequate candidate. Besides the controversy over \u0130hsano\u011flu's alleged lack of secular credentials, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu drew criticism for not consulting MPs on his choice of candidate. When \u0130hsano\u011flu came a distant second with 38.44% of the vote in the presidential election, several MPs within the CHP voiced opposition to K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu's choice of candidate and called for an extraordinary convention to be held before the June 2015 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention, Background\nSuch MPs included Emine \u00dclker Tarhan, Muharrem \u0130nce and S\u00fcheyl Batum, with \u0130nce claiming that former CHP leader Deniz Baykal also supported his opposition to K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu. Initially, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu expressed regret for bringing the rebellious MPs into the party, accusing them of not helping in the presidential campaign and thus contributing to rival candidate Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan's victory in the first round. Regardless, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu and the CHP Youth Wing both accepted the notion to hold an extraordinary convention with a leadership election in September 2014, nullifying the need to obtain signatures before any convention can be proposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention, Background\nThe convention is expected to take 3 days, either between 9\u201311 September or 14\u201317 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention, Background\n78 of 81 province heads of CHP except Yalova, D\u00fczce and Isparta expressed their support to K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 67], "content_span": [68, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention, Candidates, Declined candidates\nMetin Feyzio\u011flu, who currently serves as the President of the Turkish Bars Association, stated that he would not be a candidate for the CHP leadership on 16 August. Feyizo\u011flu had become famous for his opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan when the two publicly quarrelled at the State Council's 146th anniversary ceremony. In late August 2014, Feyizo\u011flu stated that he did not regard the convention as democratic due to being held at such short notice and claimed that he would have been a candidate had the convention met \"democratic standards\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 88], "content_span": [89, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032521-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Republican People's Party Extraordinary Convention, Opinion polls\nAlthough normal CHP members or supporters could not vote, opinion polls were conducted to gauge voter's preferences before the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032522-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Reserve Division (German Empire)\nThe 18th Reserve Division (18. Reserve-Division) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I. The division was formed on mobilization of the German Army in August 1914. The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. At the beginning of the war, it formed the IX Reserve Corps with the 17th Reserve Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032522-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Reserve Division (German Empire), Recruitment\nThe division was composed primarily of troops from Schleswig-Holstein, the Hanseatic Cities, and the Mecklenburg grand duchies. The 31st Reserve Infantry Regiment was a Hanseatic regiment, primarily recruited in Hamburg and Bremen. The 84th and 86th Reserve Infantry Regiments were raised in Schleswig, with one battalion of the 84th Reserve Infantry Regiment raised in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The 90th Reserve Infantry Regiment was raised in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The 9th Reserve J\u00e4ger Battalion was raised in Lauenburg, a former duchy on the Baltic coast which had passed from Denmark to Prussia in 1864.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032522-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Reserve Division (German Empire), Combat chronicle\nThe 18th Reserve Division fought on the Western Front alongside its sister division, the 17th Reserve Division. It fought across Belgium in August 1914 and then occupied the line on the Aisne until September 1915. It then went to Flanders and the Artois, where it remained engaged in positional warfare until June 1916. From mid-July to late October 1916, it fought in the Battle of the Somme with only one interlude away from the front. The division then remained in the trenchlines along the Yser until May 1917. In May it fought in the Battle of Arras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032522-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Reserve Division (German Empire), Combat chronicle\nIt remained in the Flanders region for the rest of the year and into 1918 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1918, it occupied various parts of the line and fought against several Allied offensives, including in the second Battle of Cambrai. In 1918, Allied intelligence rated the division as second class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032522-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Reserve Division (German Empire), Order of battle on mobilization\nThe order of battle of the 18th Reserve Division on mobilization was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032522-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Reserve Division (German Empire), Order of battle on March 8, 1918\nThe 18th Reserve Division was triangularized in March 1915. Over the course of the war, other changes took place, including the formation of artillery and signals commands and a pioneer battalion. The order of battle on March 8, 1918, was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)\nThe 18th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Russian Civil War, Polish\u2013Soviet War, Winter War and World War II. The division was formed a total of five times during this period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), First Formation\nThe 18th Rifle Division was formed on 26 November 1918 at Arkhangelsk from troops from Archangel, Belsky and Kotlassky areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), First Formation\nDuring the period from November 1918 to May 1921 the division was part of the 6th Army, 7th Army, 15th Army, 4th Army, Reserve Group of the Western Front, 3rd Army, 15th Army, 9th Army, and 11th Armies. It participated in the liberation of Archangel and Onega. In the spring of 1920 the division was part of the Western Front and took part in the invasion of Poland. After being defeated at the Battle of Warsaw the division retreated to East Prussia where it was briefly interned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), First Formation\nIn November 1920 the division was assigned to the Caucasus Front where it participated in the battles with the white-green in the Kuban region and participated in the Erivan operation. In 1921 the division was located in Yaroslavl, Moscow Military District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), First Formation\nIt was a territorial division after the end of the Russian Civil War until the late 1930s, when it was upgraded to cadre status and dispatched to Petrozavodsk, Leningrad Military District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), First Formation\nFrom 20 November 1939 to March 1940 the division was assigned to the 56th Rifle Corps, 8th Army (Soviet Union) during the Winter War, the division led the attack on Uomaa-Kitil\u00e4-Impilahti-Sortavala. The division was encircled near Lemetti and defeated. In early 1940 due to the loss of its banner and heavy losses the division was disbanded. The remains of the division were reassigned to the 71st Rifle Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), First Formation\nCurrently, the division banner as a trophy stored in museum collections in Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), First Formation, Subordinate Units\nArmies of the Bear list the following subordinate units: This is likely the OB prior to the expansion of the Soviet Army and the reorganization of the regiments in early 1939", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Second Formation\nIt was established at Kazan on 15 August 1939 from the Ulyanovsk-based 86th Rifle Division as the 111th Rifle Division, and on 2 February 1940 (Russian Wiki), or April 1940 (Avanzini and Crofoot) was renamed as the 18th Rifle Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Second Formation\nUntil June 1941 was stationed in Kazan, from the middle of June 1941 to the beginning of the transfer of the western frontier. On 22 June 1941 the 208th Infantry Regiment and the majority of other regiments had arrived in the west. Still located in Kazan was the commander of the division, and all the rear units. The division was assigned to 61st Rifle Corps, 20th Army (Soviet Union). The division initially took up positions west of Orsha, but on 5 July was moved to south of Orsha taking up positions on the left bank of the Dnieper River covering the area from Orsha to near Shklow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Second Formation\nThe corps ordered the division to push two battalions supported by antitank weapons to the Drut River 40\u201345\u00a0km from the main line of defense. These units were quickly cut off from the rest of the division by advancing German forces. The division fully entered battle on 9 July and by 11 July German forces had crossed the Dnieper River north of Shklow and quickly surrounded the division. The division received its order to withdraw on 18 July and on 19 July was in an encircled defensive position near Pishchikov. east of the Dnieper River. A small part of the division was able to break out of the ring on 23 July and joined the group led by General Boldin, which broke out of the encirclement on 15 August 1941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Second Formation\nFor its actions defending the Dnieper River the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. The division was officially disbanded on 19 September 1941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Third Formation\nIt was reestablished in September 1941 from the 18th Division of the Moscow People's Militia. It then fought at the Battle of Moscow. Became 11th Guards Rifle Division in January 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Fourth Formation\nRecreated in February 1942 at Ryazan in the Moscow Military District from a cadre of the 16th Sapper Brigade. Spent four months in the District and assigned to the 1st Reserve Army in STAVKA Reserves. The division was located under the Staling Front Reserves by 10 July and reassigned to the 4th Tank Army. The division participated in unsuccessful counterattack on 22 July 1942. From 3\u201312 August the division was involved in intense fighting in a small bend of the Don River north-west of Stalingrad. Sustaining heavy casualties on 15\u201316 August and making another unsuccessful counterattack on 17 August. Due to its significant losses the division was put in reserve on 23 September 1942.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Fourth Formation\nAfter spending three months in the Moscow Military District rebuilding near Tambov the division was sent to the Volkhov Front before the end of the year and assigned to the 2nd Shock Army. In mid-January 1943 the division broke through the German encirclement, breaking the Siege of Leningrad and joining the forces of the Leningrad Front. The 18th Rifle Division is credited with capturing the first Tiger Tank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Fourth Formation\nThe division would participate in the Svir-Petrozavodsk Offensive. In late September 1944 the division was assigned to the Soviet-Finish border southwest of Sortavala. The division was placed in the STAVKA reserves in mid-November 1944 assigned to the 19th Army's 132nd Rifle Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Fourth Formation\nReassigned to the 2nd Belorussian Front along with its higher headquarters the division participated in the East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive Operation and fought at Danzig, Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Fourth Formation\nMajor General Alexander Yakushov commanded the division from July 1945 to its disbandment. It was stationed on Bornholm after the end of the war with the corps, part of the 43rd Army in the Northern Group of Forces from June 1945, and was disbanded in June 1946 after the corps was withdrawn to Poland on 4 May 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032523-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 5th formation\nIn 1955, it was reformed from the 194th Rifle Division at Kirov in the Ural Military District with the 10th Rifle Corps. On 5 June 1956 it became the 43rd Mechanized Division. It was relocated to Chkalov (Orenburg). On 4 June 1957, the 43rd Mechanized Division became the 130th Motor Rifle Division at Chkalov. The division disbanded on 1 July 1959.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032524-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Robert Awards\nThe 18th Robert Awards ceremony was held on 4 February 2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Organized by the Danish Film Academy, the awards honoured the best in Danish and foreign film of 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032525-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Garhwal Rifles\nThe 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, after the Indian government decided to reform the army, moving away from single-battalion regiments to multi-battalion regiments. They were the only Indian Infantry regiment to remain intact without being amalgamated. They were renumbered 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles with three active battalions and the 4th battalion becoming the 10th training battalion. After the partition of India in 1947, it was allocated to the new Indian Army and renamed The Garhwal Rifles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032525-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, World War II (1939\u201345)\nDuring World War II, five more battalions of the Garhwal Rifles were raised. These were: the 4th (re-raised having been converted into a training battalion and designated 10th Battalion earlier), the 5th, 6th, 7th and 25th (Garrison) battalion. The Regiment saw active service in almost all of the theatres of the war, including: Burma, Malaya, Egypt, Iraq, Eritrea, Abyssinia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032525-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, World War II (1939\u201345)\nThe 2nd and 5th Battalions were captured in the fall of Singapore and remained in captivity until the end of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032525-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, World War II (1939\u201345)\nThe Regiment's casualties during the war were high, with some 350 killed and approximately 1,400 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032525-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, World War II (1939\u201345)\nFollowing the war the 1st and 3rd Battalions served briefly in a garrison role in Sumatra and Italy before returning to India. The 4th Battalion was used to reconstitute the 2nd Battalion in May 1946. The 5th Battalion was not raised again and the 6th Battalion was disbanded at war's end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars\nThe 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first formed in 1759. It saw service for two centuries, including the First World War before being amalgamated with the 13th Hussars to form the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in 1922.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Early history\nThe regiment was first raised by Charles, Marquess of Drogheda as the 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1759; it was also known as Drogheda's Light Horse. It was renumbered the 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1763, and briefly the 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons in 1766 before reverting to the 18th in 1769. Arthur Wellesley was briefly a junior officer in the regiment between October 1792 and April 1793. The regiment undertook a one-year tour in Saint-Domingue between February 1796 and February 1797. It was in action at the Battle of Bergen in September 1799 during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Early history\nIn 1805 it took the title of the 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, named for George III, and redesignated as hussars in 1807, becoming the 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars). The regiment landed at Lisbon in July 1808 for service in the Peninsular War. It fought at the Battle of Benavente in December 1808 and at the Battle of Cacabelos in January 1809 before taking part in the Battle of Corunna and the subsequent return to England later that month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Early history\nThe regiment was ordered to support Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army on the Iberian Peninsula and landed at Lisbon in February 1813. It saw action at the Battle of Morales in June 1813, and the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813. It went on to fight at the Battle of Sorauren in July 1813 and, having advanced into France, at the Battle of the Nive in December 1813, at the Battle of Orthez in February 1814 and at the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814. It returned home in July 1814.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Early history\nThe regiment took part in the Hundred Days landing at Ostend in April 1815. It charged the centre of the French position at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. It then remained in France as part of the Army of Occupation brigaded with the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons under the overall command of Major-General Sir Hussey Vivian. It was disbanded in Ireland in 1821.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Re-formed\nThe regiment was reformed in Leeds in 1858, as the 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons from a nucleus taken from the 15th Hussars, and was renamed the 18th Hussars in 1861.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Re-formed\nThe regiment was deployed to South Africa in 1899 for service in the Second Boer War. At the outbreak of hostilities on 11 October 1899 it was one of only two regular cavalry regiments in South Africa. In the Battle of Talana Hill, on 20 October, part of the regiment was cut off by Boer forces and about 249 officers and men, including Lieutenant Colonel Benhardt Moller, were taken prisoner. The reorganised regiment subsequently saw action during the Siege of Ladysmith. They stayed in South Africa throughout the war, which ended June 1902 with the Peace of Vereeniging. Four months later, 590 officers and men left Cape Town on the SS Englishman in late September 1902, and arrived at Southampton in late October, when they were posted to Aldershot Garrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Re-formed\nIn 1903 it was named the 18th (Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars, for Princess Mary, being retitled the 18th (Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales's Own) Hussars in 1905 and the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars in 1910 to mark her coronation as Queen Consort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, History, Re-formed\nThe regiment, having been based at Tidworth Camp at the start of the First World War, landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Cavalry Division in August 1914 for service on the Western Front. The regiment was retitled as the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Royal Hussars in 1919 and then as the 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) in 1921. It amalgamated with the 13th Hussars to form the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in 1922. On amalgamation, the 18th formed A Squadron of the 13/18, leading to A Sqn being known as \"The 18th Hussar Squadron\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032526-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Royal Hussars, Regimental museum\nThe regimental collection is held by the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0000-0000", "contents": "18th SAARC summit\nThe eighteenth summit of 'South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation' (SAARC) was held in Kathmandu, the capital of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal during 26\u201327 November 2014. The theme of the summit was Deeper Integration for Peace and Prosperity, focused on enhancing connectivity between the member states for easier transit-transport across the region. Sushil Koirala, the then Nepalese Prime Minister, was the main host of the event which took place in Rastriya Sabha Griha The summit took place after an interval of three years as the previous summit was held in 2011 in Maldives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0001-0000", "contents": "18th SAARC summit, Background\nOn 26 May 2014, head of state/head of government of all SAARC nations attended the Swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi in New Delhi and the following day they have held high level discussion with the newly appointed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi which was dubbed as the mini SAARC summit in the media. There it was agreed to revitalize the SAARC initiative and a summit was agreed upon in Nepal at the earliest. Started on November 26, the two-day SAARC Summit was the 18th session of the multilateral organisation. times of India", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0002-0000", "contents": "18th SAARC summit, Participants\nThe following heads of state/heads of government of the eight member countries participated in the summit in Kathmandu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0003-0000", "contents": "18th SAARC summit, Agenda\nForeign Ministers of the eight member states signed an agreement on energy cooperation namely 'SAARC Framework Agreement for Energy Cooperation (Electricity)' in the presence of their heads of state and government during the concluding ceremony of the 18th SAARC Summit on 27 November. Although Pakistan stalled, citing insufficient internal preparations, signing of two other agreements on Vehicular Traffic and Railways respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0003-0001", "contents": "18th SAARC summit, Agenda\nAlthough Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, current SAARC Chair, expressed his hope that the 'Regulation of Passenger and Cargo Vehicular Traffic amongst SAARC Member States', and 'SAARC Regional Agreement on Railways' would be signed later after the Transport Ministers of these countries reviewed them. It was also decided that Pakistan will host the next summit in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0004-0000", "contents": "18th SAARC summit, Agenda\nThe India-Pakistan stand-off on the first day threatened to jeopardize the entire summit process as Pakistan seemed to be in the mood to block every Indian led proposal. But the next day things have changed when the two Prime Ministers met privately at the retreat session which led to Pakistan agreeing one out of three proposed agreements and they also met and shook hands publicly during the closing ceremony and this 'transient peace' in the relation was believed to brokered by the Nepalese side as a face-saving measure for the Kathmandu summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0005-0000", "contents": "18th SAARC summit, Agenda\nChina, which holds an observer status in the group, was represented by Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin seen actively promoting a more active role for itself in the region including infrastructure funding through its proposed 'Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank' (AIIB) and extending its ambitious Maritime Silk Road project to South Asian nations. Pakistan, China's all weather friend, also vouched for a more participatory role for the observer nations in the summit process, indirectly advocating for a more Chinese involvement. Although no such proposal was accepted because of India's reservation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032527-0006-0000", "contents": "18th SAARC summit, Aftermath\nWith the ongoing cold relationships between India and Pakistan, the formal handshake between the Prime Ministers from both the countries caught a lot of attention and was applauded by everyone in the Summit Hall. In this way the 18th SAARC summit was over", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032528-0000-0000", "contents": "18th SS Mountain Police Regiment\nThe 18th SS Mountain Police Regiment (German: SS-Polizei-Gebirgsj\u00e4ger-Regiment 18) was initially named the 18th Mountain Police Regiment (Polizei-Gebirgsj\u00e4ger-Regiment 18) when it was formed in 1942 from existing Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) units for security duties in Occupied Europe. It was redesignated as an SS unit in early 1943.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032528-0001-0000", "contents": "18th SS Mountain Police Regiment, Formation and organization\nThe regiment was ordered formed in July 1942 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Mountain Police Battalion 302 (Polizei-Gebirgsj\u00e4ger-Batallion 302), Mountain Police Battalion 312 and Mountain Police Battalion 325 were redesignated as the regiment's first through third battalions, respectively. The regiment was transferred to Slovenia shortly after formation. Colonel (SS-Standartenf\u00fchrer) Hermann Franz became the first regimental commander and remained in command until August 1943 when he was relieved by Lieutenant Colonel (Oberstleutenant der Polizei) H\u00f6sl. He was killed by a German landmine in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 19 October 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032528-0002-0000", "contents": "18th SS Mountain Police Regiment, Formation and organization\nAll of the police regiments were redesignated as SS police units on 24 February 1943, but this was strictly honorary. It was in Northern Finland by March 1943 and Greece by October before it retreated north through the Balkans in late 1944\u201345. While it was stationed in Greece, an artillery battalion was assigned to the regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032529-0000-0000", "contents": "18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel\nThe 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division \"Horst Wessel\" (German: 18. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division \"Horst Wessel\") was formed in 1944 around a cadre from the 1st SS Infantry Brigade and included mainly ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) from Hungary. The 1st battalion of about 1000 men was attached to SS Division Horst Wessel and sent to Galicia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032529-0001-0000", "contents": "18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel\nIt was used for \"rear-security\" duties until it was sent to the Eastern front, with the exception of one regiment that fought the Slovak National Uprising in August 1944. It later fought as a single unit in Hungary and in Czechoslovakia where it was destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032529-0002-0000", "contents": "18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel\nThe Division was named after SA member Horst Wessel, known for being the author of the lyrics to the Nazi Party anthem, the Horst-Wessel-Lied, and glorified by the Nazi regime as a martyr of the party's early years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032530-0000-0000", "contents": "18th SS-Standarte\nThe 18th SS-Standarte was a regimental formation of the Allgemeine-SS located in the city of K\u00f6ningsberg. The Standarte was one of the earlier General-SS formations and had been founded in 1932, a year before Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032530-0001-0000", "contents": "18th SS-Standarte\nThroughout the 1930s, the 18th Standarte performed mustering drills of General-SS members and also participated in Nazi functions and parades in and around K\u00f6ningsberg. During this time period, the Standarte was given the honorary regimental title of \"Ostpreu\u00dfen\". Hans-Adolf Pr\u00fctzmann, who later became involved in the Holocaust while serving as an SS and Police Leader in Latvia, was an early commander of the Standarate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032530-0002-0000", "contents": "18th SS-Standarte\nIn 1939, with the outbreak of World War II, the 18th Standarte began losing most of its membership to either the general draft or to transfer into the Waffen-SS. By 1943, the regiment had ceased to exist except on paper, yet had a posted commander until the collapse of Nazi Germany in May 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032531-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Sarasaviya Awards\nThe 18th Sarasaviya Awards festival (Sinhala: 18\u0dc0\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dd2 \u0dc3\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dc3\u0db8\u0dca\u0db8\u0dcf\u0db1 \u0d8b\u0dbd\u0dd9\u0dc5), presented by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited, was held to honor the best films of 1988 Sinhala cinema on August 25, 1989, at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka. His Excellency The President Ranasinghe Premadasa was the chief guest at the awards night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032531-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Sarasaviya Awards\nThe film Siri Medura won the most awards with eight including Best Film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032532-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly\nThe 18th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly is the current term of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly, the legislative branch of the Government of Sarawak in Sarawak, Malaysia. The 18th Assembly consisted of 82 members that were elected in the 2016 state election and served from 7 June 2016 until its dissolution in 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032532-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly\nThe legislature would, in normal circumstances, have dissolved automatically at the expiration of the five-year term on 6 June 2021 per the Sarawak constitution, but it was overridden by an ongoing emergency declaration at the federal level arising from the 2020\u201321 Malaysian political crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. The subsequent state election has also been delayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032532-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly, Background\nFollowing the state election that was held on 7 May 2016, Barisan Nasional was able to form the next state government with a majority of 72 seats out of 82. There were several candidates from breakaway parties such as TERAS and UPP that had their members contest seats under the Barisan banner as direct election candidates under a deal by Adenan Satem after their parties were prevented from joining Barisan after opposition from parties such as PDP and SUPP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032532-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly, Background\nOn 12 June 2018, all Sarawak-based BN parties including Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) and Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) officially left Barisan Nasional forming a new coalition Sarawak Parties Alliance due to Barisan Nasional's defeat in general elections on 9 May 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032532-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly, Committees\nThe fifth session of the 18th Assembly consists of 6 select committees:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032533-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Saskatchewan Legislature\nThe 18th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the Saskatchewan general election held in June 1975. The assembly sat from November 12, 1975, to September 19, 1978. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Allan Blakeney formed the government. The Liberal Party led by David Steuart formed the official opposition. Edward Malone replaced Steuart as party leader in 1976. After the Progressive Conservative Party won two by-elections and convinced two Liberal members to defect in 1977, the Progressive Conservative Party led by Richard Lee Collver shared the role of official opposition with the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032533-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Saskatchewan Legislature, Members of the Assembly\nThe following members were elected to the assembly in 1975:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards\nThe 18th Satellite Awards ceremony, honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, television shows, home videos and interactive media, was presented by the International Press Academy at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City, Los Angeles, as part of the 2013\u201314 film awards season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards\nThe nominations were announced on December 2, 2013. The winners were announced on February 23, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Special achievement awards\nAuteur Award (for singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production) \u2013 Guillermo del Toro", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Special achievement awards\nMary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry) \u2013 Mike Medavoy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Special achievement awards\nNikola Tesla Award (for visionary achievement in filmmaking technology) \u2013 Garrett Brown", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Special achievement awards\nNewcomer Award \u2013 Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station) and Sophie N\u00e9lisse (The Book Thief)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Motion picture winners and nominees\nAmerican Hustle \u2013 Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Television winners and nominees\nJohn Goodman \u2013 Alpha House as Senator Gil John Biggs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Television winners and nominees\nTaylor Schilling \u2013 Orange Is the New Black as Piper Chapman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Television winners and nominees\nElisabeth Moss \u2013 Top of the Lake as Det. Robin Griffin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, Television winners and nominees\nLaura Prepon \u2013 Orange Is the New Black as Alex Vause", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, New Media winners and nominees\nRise of the Guardians (Paramount Home Entertainment / DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032534-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Satellite Awards, New Media winners and nominees\nNi no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Level-5 / Studio Ghibli)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032535-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Saturn Awards\nThe 18th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1991, were held on March 13, 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032535-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Saturn Awards, Winners and nominees\nBelow is a complete list of nominees and winners. Winners are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032536-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Screen Actors Guild Awards\nThe 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2011, were presented on January 29, 2012 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the sixteenth consecutive year. It was broadcast simultaneously by TNT and TBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032536-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Screen Actors Guild Awards\nThe nominees were announced on December 14, 2011 by actresses Regina King and Judy Greer at Los Angeles' Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032536-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Winners and nominees, Film\nThe Help \u2013 Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer, Mary Steenburgen, Emma Stone, Cicely Tyson, and Mike Vogel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032536-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Screen Actors Guild Awards, In Memoriam\nMeryl Streep introduced the 'In Memoriam' segment to pay tribute to the actors who have died in 2011:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032537-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Scripps National Spelling Bee\nThe 18th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia on May 26, 1942, by the E.W. Scripps Company. There was no National Spelling Bee after this competition until 1946 due to World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032537-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Scripps National Spelling Bee\nThe winner was 11-year-old Richard Earnhart of El Paso, Texas, correctly spelling the word sacrilegious. Second place went to 15-year-old Margaret Montgomery of Iowa, followed by Hazel M. LaPrade of Massachusetts, who misspelled \"paucity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032537-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Scripps National Spelling Bee\nEarnhart was the first 11-year-old to win the bee since Frank Neuhauser won the 1st bee in 1925.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032538-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Secretariat of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)\nThe 18th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was elected by the 18th Central Committee in the aftermath of the 18th Congress, held in 1939.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032538-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Secretariat of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), List of members\nThis Russian elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 79], "content_span": [80, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032539-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Separate Company Armory\n18th Separate Company Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It is a brick and stone castle-like structure built in 1895, designed to be reminiscent of medieval military structures in Europe. It was designed by State Architect Isaac G. Perry. It is a monumental rectangular brick and stone structure covered by hipped slate roofs. It has a large drill hall. The building features a crenelated tower and narrow recessed windows with stone lintels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032539-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Separate Company Armory\nIt was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032540-0000-0000", "contents": "18th South African Parliament\nThis is a list of the members of the 18th South African Parliament, who served in the House of Assembly. They were elected in the South African general election, 1981 on 29 April 1981. This was the eighteenth general election since the unification of the country in 1910 and the sixth since a republican constitution was adopted in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032540-0001-0000", "contents": "18th South African Parliament, Summary by Province\nThe table below gives the number of registered voters (all of whom were classified as white under the apartheid legislation) and parliamentary seats, on the day of the election, broken down by Province. The provinces are those which existed prior to 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032540-0002-0000", "contents": "18th South African Parliament, Members of Parliament\nThe first column is the name of the Electoral Division. The second is the province (abbreviated to CP, Nat, OFS and Tvl respectively). The third is the name of the MP. The fourth column is the MPs party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032541-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Space Control Squadron\nThe 18th Space Control Squadron (18 SPCS) is a United States Space Force space control unit located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Reactivated in 2016, the 18th SPCS is tasked with providing 24/7 support to the space surveillance network (SSN), maintaining the space catalog and managing United States Space Command\u2019s space situational awareness (SSA) sharing program to United States, foreign government, and commercial entities. The squadron also conducts advanced analysis, sensor optimization, conjunction assessment, human spaceflight support, reentry/break-up assessment, and launch analysis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032541-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Space Control Squadron, Mission\nThe mission of the 18th SPCS is to deliver foundational Space Situational Awareness to assure global freedom of action in space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032541-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Space Control Squadron, History\nThe 18th Space Surveillance Squadron (SPSS) was the optical portion of the United States Space Force's Space Surveillance Network. They were responsible for operating four worldwide GEODSS sites, in addition to the Transportable Optical System (TOS), and the Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC). The focal point for all optical command and control was centralized at the Optical Command, Control and Communications Facility (OC3F). The 18 SPSS became part of the 1st Space Wing, Air Force Space Command, on 1 February 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032541-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Space Control Squadron, History\nThe unit was reassigned from the 1st Space Wing to the 73d Space Group on 15 May 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032541-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Space Control Squadron, History\nThe 18th SPSS relocated to Edwards Air Force Base, California in July 1995. The 73rd Space Group was inactivated in May 1995 and all units were then assigned to the 21st Space Wing. With a force-wide renaming of space units, the 18th SPSS became the 18th Space Control Squadron (18 SPCS) in February 2003. This renaming did not last long, however, since the unit was inactivated in June 2004, with all detachments falling under the 21st Operations Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032541-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Space Control Squadron, History\nOn 22 July 2016, the 18th Space Control Squadron was reinstated at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The squadron has a mission focused on space situational awareness in support of launches, object and debris tracking, and human spaceflight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032542-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Squadron (Belgium)\nThe 18th Squadron (French: 18e escadrille, Dutch: 18ste Smaldeel) is a helicopter squadron in the Air Component of the Belgian Armed Forces which operates the NHIndustries NH90 TTH.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032543-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection\nThe 18th Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) was elected at the 1st Plenary Session of the 18th CCDI on 15 November 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032544-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Strategic Aerospace Division\nThe 18th Strategic Aerospace Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the Fifteenth Air Force at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, where it was inactivated on 2 July 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032544-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Strategic Aerospace Division, History\nThe 18th Composite Wing served as part of the defense force for the Hawaiian Islands from 1 May 1931 \u2013 29 January 1942. It inactivated after suffering disastrous losses in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032544-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Strategic Aerospace Division, History\nFrom June 1942 until 1944, it operated as the 18th Replacement Wing, processing personnel entering Second Air Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032544-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Strategic Aerospace Division, History\nRedesignated as the 18th Air Division on 1 July 1959, it assured that assigned wings were organized, manned, trained, and equipped to conduct long-range bombardment operations using either nuclear or conventional weapons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032544-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Strategic Aerospace Division, History\nThe division was redesignated as 18 Strategic Aerospace Division on 15 February 1962, and also developed and maintained a strategic missile operational capability. Between 1965 and 1968, subordinate units of the 18th loaned aircraft and aircrews to SAC organizations for combat during the Vietnam War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032544-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Strategic Aerospace Division, History\nThe division was inactivated on 2 July 1968 due to budget constraints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032544-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Strategic Aerospace Division, References, Bibliography\nThis article incorporates\u00a0public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032545-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street Arts Center\n18th Street Arts Center is a nonprofit arts center in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1988 and is the longest running artist residency center in Southern California. The mission of 18th Street Arts Center is to \"provoke public dialogue through contemporary art making\" and its core values are centered on its belief that art making is an essential component of a just, vibrant and healthy society. 18th Street Arts Center\u2019s residency program hosts 50 or more American and international artists and curators a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032545-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street Arts Center, History\n18th Street Arts Center was founded by writer Linda Frye Burnham and Susanna Bixby Dakin, a visual artist and publisher of High Performance Magazine. In 1988, Dakin purchased the former production studio of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and four other adjacent buildings in Santa Monica and launched the nonprofit. In 1998 Dakin sold the buildings to the nonprofit 18th Street Arts Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Fredddie (talk | contribs) at 05:23, 16 November 2019 (\u2192\u200etop: infobox street). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway\nThe 18th Street Expressway (often shortened to 18th Street in everyday speech) is a freeway in Kansas City, Kansas that runs from Interstate 35 north to Interstate 70/U.S. Route 24/U.S. Route 40. It carries the U.S. Route 69 designation its entire length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway, Route description\nExit 232B from Interstate 35 is a diamond interchange with traffic lights north of the Johnson County line, just inside Kansas City. This diamond interchange serves as the northern terminus of Roe Boulevard from Roeland Park, as well as the southern terminus of the 18th Street Expressway. US-69 northbound leaves I-35 northbound at this interchange, turning north to travel along the expressway. The expressway bridges the BNSF rail line as well as Merriam Lane, and has a partial diamond interchange with the latter (the ramps from Merriam to southbound 18th Street and from northbound 18th Street to Merriam are omitted due to the proximity of the I-35 interchange).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway, Route description\n18th Street continues northward through Kansas City, with exits at Steele Road and Ruby Avenue, a residential street (this second interchange, a parclo interchange, also serves Metropolitan Avenue, a more major arterial.) The freeway then crosses the Kansas River and the east end of the BNSF rail yard on the 18th Street Expressway Bridge. After coming off the bridge, the freeway meets the eastern terminus of K-32, which runs along Kansas Avenue. K-32 is the only other numbered route that 18th Street Expressway intersects aside from those at its termini. The K-32/Kansas Avenue interchange is also of the parclo design.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway, Route description\nNorth of the K-32 interchange, 18th Street passes over another rail yard, this one belonging to Union Pacific. On the northern edge of this rail yard lies I-70. 18th Street provides access to this highway via a traditional cloverleaf interchange. This interchange, Exits 420A\u2013B from I-70, also serves as the official eastern terminus of the Kansas Turnpike, though the actual tolled section ends 10 miles (16\u00a0km) further west. The expressway ends at I-70, with northbound US-69 joining I-70 eastbound in a concurrency. North of this interchange, the mainline drops the word \"Expressway\" from its title to become 18th Street. It continues north as a typical urban arterial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway, History\nThe 18th Street Expressway was the result of one of four feasibility studies conducted by the Kansas Turnpike Authority to extend the turnpike by providing easy access to northeast Johnson County. It was the only one of the four studies to be followed upon, with completion of the 18th Street Expressway Bridge over the Kansas River completed in 1959. It replaced the Argentine Boulevard bridge over the river behind the modern-day BNSF railroad yard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway, History\nOriginally, the highway was part of the original K-58. Upon completion of the bridge, US-69 was rerouted onto the expressway from Southwest Boulevard (the section of which has since been renamed to Merriam Drive). In 1979, the K-58 designation was removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway, History\nThe section of 18th Street between I-70 and the south end of the Kansas River bridge was tolled at least as late as 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032546-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway, Exit list\nThe entire route is in Kansas City, Wyandotte County. All exits are unnumbered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032547-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway Bridge\nThe 18th Street Expressway Bridge is a one level deck truss, four lane crossing of the Kansas River in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 1959, to replace the Argentine Bridge to the west. It also rises above the BNSF railroad tracks. It was damaged in 2000, after a BNSF train derailed and destroyed one of the piers, which caused the south approach span to buckle, and disabled it for several months while it was being repaired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032547-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street Expressway Bridge\nThe bridge has no significant shoulder (breakdown lane) and no pedestrian walkway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032548-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street NW\n18th Street Northwest is a prominent north\u2013south street thoroughfare in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032548-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street NW, History\nThe \"18th Street\" roadway was part of the 1791 L'Enfant Plan for Washington by Pierre Charles L'Enfant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032548-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Street NW, History\nIn the present day 18th Street also travels through downtown Washington and the Dupont Circle and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods. It is also one of the main streets in the Adams Morgan neighborhood; the other is Columbia Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032548-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Street NW, History\nIt passes through the Strivers' Section Historic District in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. Many bars, nightclubs, and restaurants are located on 18th Street in Adams Morgan, and on weekends it is frequently congested with cars and pedestrians, especially at last call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang\n18th Street, also known as Calle 18, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply La\u00a018 in Central America, is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest transnational criminal gangs in Los Angeles, with 30,000 to 50,000 members between the United States, Mexico, and Central America and is also allied with the Mexican Mafia, another US-based crime organization. A United States Department of Justice report featured the following statement regarding 18th Street and rival gang MS-13, \"These two gangs have turned the Central American northern triangle into the area with the highest homicide rate in the world.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, History\n18th Street gang started near 18th Street and Union Avenue in the Rampart District of Los Angeles. There is conflicting information as to the exact area, but this is a generally accepted area by most academic sources. They were originally part of Clanton 14 but wanted to make a separate \"clique\" called Clanton 18th Street and allow immigrants the opportunity to join. This proposal was rejected by the Clanton 14, which led to the formation of the 18th Street gang. The two gangs have been bitter rivals ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, History\nThe 18th Street gang grew by expanding its membership to other nationalities and races, and it was among the first multiracial, multi-ethnic gangs in Los Angeles. In the beginning, they were made up largely of second-generation Hispanics. As the 18th Street gang began to battle with more established Hispanic gangs, they began to recruit outside the Hispanic community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Street gang, History\nThere are approximately 200 separate individual autonomous gangs operating under the same name within separate barrios in the San Fernando Valley specifically in North Hollywood, the San Gabriel Valley, South Bay, Riverside, East Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles, Northeast Los Angeles, Pico Union, Westlake, Inglewood, South Gate, Huntington Park, Maywood, Long Beach, Orange County, San Bernardino County and Los Angeles' Westside or West LA, according to the latest figures from the NDIC. In the early 2000s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation initiated wide-scale raids against known and suspected gang members, netting hundreds of arrests across the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, History, Central America\nEighteen Street started as a Mexican-American gang, but 18th Street also became Central American as it started to recruit more members of other ethnic groups. When Central American gang members were arrested in the United States, they were then deported back to Central America where the gang rose out-of-control on different levels of violence not just in El Salvador, but in Honduras and Guatemala as well, becoming one of the most violent gangs in Central America. 18th Street later became a bitter rival of MS-13 as both gangs wanted the top spot in Central America. Members of 18th street are mainly Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Honduran, but the gang does have members from other parts of Central America. 18th Street influences have recently been spotted in Belize as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, History, Central America\nIn El Salvador a faction called the \"Revolucionarios\" (\"Revolutionaries\") split off 18th Street in 2005, becoming rivals with the other members, who came to be known as the \"Sure\u00f1os\" (\"Southerners.\")", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, Location\nThe majority of 18th Street cliques operate throughout Southern California, but are active in other states and internationally as well. Los Angeles members began migrating to other areas outside America and started to establish their own cliques. 18th Street cliques have been identified in 120 cities in 37 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, as well internationally in Spain, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Lebanon, Peru, Philippines, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, Culture\n18th Street gang members are required to abide by a strict set of rules. Failure to obey the word of a gang leader, or to show proper respect to a fellow gang member, may result in an 18-second beating, or even execution for more serious offenses. According to the FBI, some factions of the 18th Street gang have developed a high level of sophistication and organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0006-0001", "contents": "18th Street gang, Culture\n18th Street gang members often identify themselves with the number 18 on their clothing and sporting clothing from sports teams such as the Duke Blue Devils, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers and Las Vegas Raiders. 18th Street will use the symbols XV3, XVIII, X8, 666, 99 (9+9=18), and 3-dots in their graffiti and tattoos. 18th Street colors are blue and black; blue is to represent and to pay tribute to The Mexican Mafia, and black is to represent the original color for the gang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0006-0002", "contents": "18th Street gang, Culture\nThe 18th Street gang is occasionally referred to as the \"Children's Army\" because of its recruitment of elementary and middle-school aged youth. They also allow other ethnicities to join their ranks making the gang multi-ethnic. In El Salvador it is common for members of the gang to be tattooed on the face with a large \"18\". In many cases the tattoo covers the entire face.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, Criminal activity\n\"We recognize them as one of the most violent street gangs and one of the most prolific in the United States,\" says Special agent George Rodriguez, who until his retirement oversaw investigations for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Cars are stolen and homes are burglarized by the gang routinely. On average, someone in Los Angeles County is assaulted or robbed by 18th Streeters every day. The gang has left a bloody trail at a pace three times that of many of the city's most active gangs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0007-0001", "contents": "18th Street gang, Criminal activity\n18th Street is a well established gang that is involved in all areas of street-crime. Several 18th Street gang members have reached a higher level of sophistication and organization in their illicit activities than other gangs. While their main source of income is street-level distribution of drugs, they also have been linked to murders, assaults, arson, copyright infringement, extortion, human trafficking, illegal immigration, kidnapping, prostitution, robbery, and weapons trafficking, as well as other crimes. 18th Street Gang has also been implicated in the high-profile kidnapping and murder of the 16-year-old brother of internationally renowned Honduran football player Wilson Palacios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, Criminal activity\nIn 1998, Catarino Gonzalez was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted Gonzalez of first-degree murder for fatally shooting Officer Filbert Cuesta in the back of the head, while the officer was sitting in a patrol car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, Criminal activity\nKingston, New York police arrested and jailed several young men on the charge that they abducted a victim, took him to nearby woods, and murdered him. They were held on federal murder and racketeering charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, Criminal activity\nIn 2019, an 18th Street gangster was fatally shot by a member of rival gang MS-13 in a Queens subway station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032549-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Street gang, Criminal activity\nIn Guatemala city, many bus drivers have been killed by 18th Street gang members that drove through the alleged territory of the gang. Bus drivers were often victims of robberies and extortion. In one particular case the bus owners refused to pay the gang; a few moments later, a young man, the son of one of Libertad's bus owners was driving his bus along Route 4, which ran from the terminal down to the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in the southern part of the city. As he passed through Zone 6, two men flagged down the bus. They boarded it without paying and shot the driver in the head killing him instantly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032550-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (CTA South Side Elevated)\n18th Street was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's South Side main line, which is now part of the Green Line. The station was located at 18th Street and Wabash Avenue in the Near South Side neighborhood of Chicago. 18th was situated south of Roosevelt/Wabash and north of Cermak. 18th opened on June 6, 1892, and closed on August 1, 1949.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line)\n18th Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 18th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times and by the 2 train during late nights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line)\nThe station was built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the Dual Contracts with New York City, and opened on July 1, 1918. The station had its platforms extended in the 1960s, and was renovated in 1991-1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), History, Construction and opening\nThe Dual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913, were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. The contracts were \"dual\" in that they were signed between the City and two separate private companies (the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company), all working together to make the construction of the Dual Contracts possible. The Dual Contracts promised the construction of several lines in Brooklyn. As part of Contract 4, the IRT agreed to build a branch of the original subway line south down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, and West Broadway to serve the West Side of Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 89], "content_span": [90, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), History, Construction and opening\nThe construction of this line, in conjunction with the construction of the Lexington Avenue Line, would change the operations of the IRT system. Instead of having trains go via Broadway, turning onto 42nd Street, before finally turning onto Park Avenue, there would be two trunk lines connected by the 42nd Street Shuttle. The system would be changed from looking like a \"Z\" system on a map to an \"H\" system. One trunk would run via the new Lexington Avenue Line down Park Avenue, and the other trunk would run via the new Seventh Avenue Line up Broadway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 89], "content_span": [90, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), History, Construction and opening\nIn order for the line to continue down Varick Street and West Broadway, these streets needed to be widened, and two new streets were built, the Seventh Avenue Extension and the Varick Street Extension. It was predicted that the subway extension would lead to the growth of the Lower West Side, and to neighborhoods such as Chelsea and Greenwich Village.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 89], "content_span": [90, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), History, Construction and opening\n18th Street opened as the line was extended south to South Ferry from 34th Street\u2013Penn Station on July 1, 1918, and was served by a shuttle. The new \"H\" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square. An immediate result of the switch was the need to transfer using the 42nd Street Shuttle in order to retrace the original layout. The completion of the \"H\" system doubled the capacity of the IRT system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 89], "content_span": [90, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), History, Station renovations\nOn August 9, 1964, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced the letting of a $7.6 million contract to lengthen platforms at stations on the Broadway\u2014Seventh Avenue Line from Rector Street to 34th Street\u2013Penn Station, including 18th Street, and stations from Central Park North\u2013110th Street to 145th Street on the Lenox Avenue Line to allow express trains to be lengthened from nine-car trains to ten-car trains, and to lengthen locals from eight-car trains to ten-car trains. With the completion of this project, the NYCTA project to lengthen IRT stations to accommodate ten-car trains would be complete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 84], "content_span": [85, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), Station layout\nThis underground station has two side platforms and four tracks. The two express tracks are used by the 2 and 3 trains during daytime hours. The original trim line and name tablet mosaics have been retained. Beige I-beam columns run along the entire length of both platforms with every other one having the standard black station name plate with white lettering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), Station layout, Exits\nEach platform has a same-level fare control area that is staffed full-time and contains a turnstile bank, token booth, and two street stairs. The southbound side leads to both western corners of Seventh Avenue and 18th Street while the northbound side leads to the eastern corners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 77], "content_span": [78, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032551-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line), Station layout, Exits\nEach platform has an exit-only at the north end containing a platform level turnstile and emergency gate and single street staircase leading to 19th Street and Seventh Avenue (the southwest corner for the southbound side and southeast corner for the northbound one).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 77], "content_span": [78, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)\n18th Street was a local station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It was located at the intersection of Park Avenue South and 18th Street in Gramercy, Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)\nThe 18th Street station was constructed for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the city's first subway line, which was approved in 1900. Construction of the line segment that includes the 18th Street station started on September 12 of the same year. The station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway. The station was closed on November 8, 1948, as a result of a platform lengthening project at 23rd Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)\nThe 18th Street station contains two abandoned side platforms and four tracks. The station was built with tile and mosaic decorations. Many of these decorations have been covered with graffiti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), History, Construction and opening\nPlanning for a subway line in New York City dates to 1864. However, development of what would become the city's first subway line did not start until 1894, when the New York State Legislature authorized the Rapid Transit Act. The subway plans were drawn up by a team of engineers led by William Barclay Parsons, chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission. It called for a subway line from New York City Hall in lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side, where two branches would lead north into the Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0003-0001", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), History, Construction and opening\nA plan was formally adopted in 1897, and all legal conflicts concerning the route alignment were resolved near the end of 1899. The Rapid Transit Construction Company, organized by John B. McDonald and funded by August Belmont Jr., signed the initial Contract 1 with the Rapid Transit Commission in February 1900, in which it would construct the subway and maintain a 50-year operating lease from the opening of the line. In 1901, the firm of Heins & LaFarge was hired to design the underground stations. Belmont incorporated the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) in April 1902 to operate the subway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), History, Construction and opening\nThe 18th Street station was constructed as part of the route segment from Great Jones Street to 41st Street. Construction on this section of the line began on September 12, 1900. The section from Great Jones Street to a point 100 feet (30 m) north of 33rd Street was awarded to Holbrook, Cabot & Daly Contracting Company, while the remaining section to 41st Street was done by Ira A. Shaker. The 18th Street station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway from City Hall to 145th Street on the Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), History, Service changes and closure\nAfter the first subway line was completed in 1908, the station was served by local trains along both the West Side (now the Broadway\u2013Seventh Avenue Line to Van Cortlandt Park\u2013242nd Street) and East Side (now the Lenox Avenue Line). West Side local trains had their southern terminus at City Hall during rush hours and South Ferry at other times, and had their northern terminus at 242nd Street. East Side local trains ran from City Hall to Lenox Avenue (145th Street). In 1918, the Lexington Avenue Line opened north of Grand Central\u201342nd Street, thereby dividing the original line into an \"H\"-shaped system. All local trains were sent via the Lexington Avenue Line, running along the Pelham Line in the Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), History, Service changes and closure\nTo address overcrowding, in 1909, the New York Public Service Commission proposed lengthening platforms at stations along the original IRT subway. As part of a modification to the IRT's construction contracts, made on January 18, 1910, the company was to lengthen station platforms to accommodate ten-car express and six-car local trains. In addition to $1.5 million (equivalent to $41.7 million in 2020) spent on platform lengthening, $500,000 (equivalent to $13,888,000 in 2020) was spent on building additional entrances and exits. It was anticipated that these improvements would increase capacity by 25 percent. Platforms at local stations, such as the 18th Street station, were lengthened by between 20 to 30 feet (6.1 to 9.1\u00a0m). Both platforms were extended to the north and south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), History, Service changes and closure\nThe closing of this station was proposed as early as 1928. The station closed on November 8, 1948. The platforms at 23rd Street had been lengthened, with entrances at 22nd Street, and the 18th Street station was close to the 14th Street\u2013Union Square station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), Station layout\nLike other local stations, 18th Street has four tracks and two abandoned side platforms. The two local tracks, which formerly served the station, are used by the 6 train at all times, <6> trains during weekdays in the peak direction, and the 4 train during late nights. The two express tracks are used by the 4 and 5 trains during daytime hours. The platforms were 200 feet (61\u00a0m) long, as at other local stations on the original IRT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), Station layout\nAs with other stations built as part of the original IRT, the station was constructed using a cut-and-cover method. The tunnel is covered by a \"U\"-shaped trough that contains utility pipes and wires. The bottom of this trough contains a foundation of concrete no less than 4 inches (100\u00a0mm) thick. Each former platform consists of 3-inch-thick (7.6\u00a0cm) concrete slabs, beneath which are drainage basins. The former platforms contain circular, cast-iron Doric-style columns spaced every 15 feet (4.6\u00a0m). Additional columns between the tracks, spaced every 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m), support the jack-arched concrete station roofs. There is a 1-inch (25\u00a0mm) gap between the trough wall and the platform walls, which are made of 4-inch (100\u00a0mm)-thick brick covered over by a tiled finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032552-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), Station layout\nThe decorative scheme consisted of blue/green tile tablets, buff and violet tile bands, a violet faience cornice, and green faience plaques. The mosaic tiles at all original IRT stations were manufactured by the American Encaustic Tile Company, which subcontracted the installations at each station. The decorative work was performed by tile contractor Manhattan Glass Tile Company and faience contractor Grueby Faience Company. The 18th Street station is fairly well preserved, with the exception of some litter and graffiti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032553-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Sixth Avenue Line)\n18th Street was a station on the demolished IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had two tracks and two side platforms. It was served by trains from the IRT Sixth Avenue Line and opened in 1892. It closed on December 4, 1938, and was not replaced with a subway station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line. However, one block north of the station there was a 19th Street station on the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad that operated between 1908 and 1954. The next southbound stop was 14th Street. The next northbound stop was 23rd Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032554-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (IRT Third Avenue Line)\n18th Street was a local station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. The center track was built as part of the Dual Contracts and bypassed the station and served express trains. This station closed on May 12, 1955, with the ending of all service on the Third Avenue El south of 149th Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032555-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (Illinois)\n18th Street station is a commuter rail station on the Near South Side of Chicago, at 18th Street near Calumet Avenue. It serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island, and South Chicago. For many Metra Electric trains, this is a flag stop, and the train will only stop there if specifically requested by a passenger. As of 2018, 18th Street is the 226th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 23 weekday boardings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032555-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (Illinois)\nThe station is also occasionally served by trains of the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana, on an exceptional basis for Chicago Bears home games during football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032555-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Street station (Illinois)\nThe station was originally built by the Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR). The railroad was first built in 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement\nThe 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held October 25\u201326, 2019 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The summit was attended by the delegation from more than 120 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement\nThe summit's framework was the \"Final Document\" adopted during the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau which was held in Caracas, Venezuela, from 18 to 21 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement\nThe head of the foreign policy department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan also said that the agenda would primarily consist of issues on international peace and security.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement\nThe summit consisted of two preceding events: a \"Senior Officials Meeting\" on 21 and 22 October 2019, and a \"Ministerial Meeting\" on 23 and 24 October 2019. The leaders\u2019 summit took place on 25 and 26 October. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro officially handed the presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, during the inaugural ceremony of Leaders' Meeting. Azerbaijan will hold the NAM presidency for 3 years until the 19th summit in 2022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Overview\nThe Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum that is not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Overview\nDrawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference in 1955, the NAM was established in 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia through the initiative of President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser, Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, President of Indonesia Sukarno, and President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Overview\nAfter the breakup of Yugoslavia, a founding member, its membership was suspended in 1992 at the regular ministerial meeting held in New York during the regular annual session of the United Nations General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Overview\nAs of October 2019, the organization consists of 120 member states, including the non-UN member state of Palestine, as well as 17 other observer countries and 10 observer organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Overview\nApproximately, two-thirds of the United Nations' members are represented at the Non-Aligned Movement, and they comprise 55% of the world's population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Arrangement\nThe 18th Summit was decided to be conducted in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku at the 17th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit held in Venezuela. The summit was scheduled to be held on October 25\u201326.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Arrangement\nOrganizing Committee for hosting the 18th Summit of the heads of states and governments of the member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement was established according to the Decree of the President Ilham Aliyev on February 11, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Arrangement\nThe \"Senior Officials Meeting\" and \"Ministerial Meeting\" convened at the Boulevard Hotel Baku. The summit was held at the Baku Convention Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Participants\nDuring his welcoming speech, President Ilham Aliyev stated that heads of state and governments of nearly 60 countries, and overall representatives of around 160 countries and international organizations being attended at the Summit. Among the heads of states and governments followings took part in the Summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Participants\nPresident of UN General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer also attended the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Participants\nOverall 164 delegations with more than 2700 delegates attended at the Summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Pre-summit responses\nAccording to Deputy Foreign Minister Ramiz Hasanov, the participation of heads of 60 states and governments in the Baku Summit of NAM was confirmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Pre-summit responses\nThe Vice President of India commented on the significance of the summit being held in Azerbaijan under the motto \u201cUpholding Bandung principles to ensure a concerted and adequate response to the challenges of the contemporary world\u201d as it pertains to the approaching 65th anniversary of Bandung Principles in 2020 and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Movement in 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda\nThe summit's framework was the \"Final Document\" adopted during the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau which was held in Caracas, Venezuela, from 18 to 21 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda\nThe head of the foreign policy department of the Presidential Administration also said that the agenda would primarily consist of issues on international peace and security.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda\nForeign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov opened the second meeting and highlighted youth empowerment to be one of the priority areas during Azerbaijan's chairmanship, as well as first-ever NAM Youth Summit to be held in Baku on October 24, 2019. He also mentioned \u201cincreasing youth participation in public administration, addressing their social, education and employment problems, as well as more active engagement of youth in achieving the goals and targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda\u201d focused on the Final documents of the NAM Summit and Ministerial meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Senior Officials Meeting\nThe Senior Officials Meeting was held on 21 and 22 October 2019. The officials discussed the final document of the Summit, as well as a joint statement of NAM leaders and two documents to be presented for foreign ministers\u2019 meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Ministerial Meeting\nThe Ministerial Meeting with the presence of foreign ministers of NAM countries was held on 23 and 24 October 2019. Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Alberto Arreaza Montserrat, handed the presidency of the ministerial meeting for three years at the opening ceremony of the meeting. After opening remark of Elmar Mammadyarov and listening to the report of Senior Officials Meeting which was delivered by George Arreaza, the ministers starts to review the documents (Final Document, Baku Declaration, Declaration on Palestine and the General Report).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nOn 25 October, the summit was inaugurated by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Then the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, as the chair of the 17th summit declared the opening of the 18th summit and presented the report of NAM's chairmanship during the past three years. Maduro officially handed the presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement to the Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev. After Maduro, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of the 74th session of the General Assembly of United Nations Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, Chair of the Group of 77 Riyad Mansour, and Azerbaijan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov delivered their opening speeches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nInaugurating the summit, Azerbaijani President Aliyev condemned changing borders by force, violating the territorial integrity of countries by force, and interfering in internal affairs as \u201cunacceptable\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nFollowing Aliyev's remarks, the United Nations General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande appreciated the contribution of NAM to the achievements of the United Nations for strengthening \u201cthe principles of the Charter of the United Nations \u2013 through opposition against colonialism, racism, hegemony, aggression, as well as foreign intervention and/or occupation\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nIn her speech, Rosemary DiCarlo welcomed NAM's focus on the challenge of disarmament and non-proliferation, also highlighted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goals \u201cin reducing inequality, in addressing the climate crisis, in tackling global hunger, in achieving gender equality and in expanding opportunity for young people\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nIranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized United States\u2019 efforts \u201cto impose on the world a unipolar and hegemonic order under the slogan of the new global system with reliance on its military, economic and media power\u201d, as well as its monetary policy \u201cto put political pressure on independent states\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nIndia's Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu called for fighting against all forms of terrorism and spread of violent extremism. He expressed the deep concern over Pakistan's behavior in terms of Jammu and Kashmir issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nCuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated Cuba's solidarity with the peoples \u201cwho fight for rejection of America's unilateral decisions in support of Israel and against Iran; and the call to end the war against the Syrian people and find a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nWithin the framework of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit, four documents were signed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0030-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nThe summit's final document ratified on October 26 by the 120 members of NAM, emphasizes strengthen NAM solidarity in combating terrorism while highlighting that terrorism should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group. It declared the central importance of the development dimensions in trade negotiations and maintain that a successful conclusion of the Doha Development Round. Besides, it condemns promulgation and application of unilateral coercive measures against Member States of the Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0030-0001", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Agenda, Leaders\u2019 Summit\nMember states called serious, collective efforts to bring a complete end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, in accordance with and in full respect of international law. In addition, Member States expressed their regret in regard with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh remains unresolved and continues to threaten international and regional peace and security despite of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032556-0031-0000", "contents": "18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Other events, Youth Summit\nThe Youth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was organized for the first time in NAM's history in Baku on October 24 on the initiative of Azerbaijan. Youth from 40 countries participated at the Summit. Recommendations to the Summit of Heads of State and Government were presented as a result of the Youth Summit. In addition, establishing NAM Youth Network was initiated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032557-0000-0000", "contents": "18th TCA Awards\nThe 18th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association. Bob Newhart hosted the ceremony on July 20, 2002, at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032558-0000-0000", "contents": "18th TVyNovelas Awards\nThe 18th TVyNovelas Awards, is an Academy of special awards to the best of soap operas and TV shows. The awards ceremony took place on May 30, 2000 in the M\u00e9xico D.F.. The ceremony was televised in the Mexico by Canal de las estrellas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032558-0001-0000", "contents": "18th TVyNovelas Awards\nMarco Antonio Regil and Adela Micha hosted the show. Laberintos de pasi\u00f3n won 8 awards including Best Telenovela of the Year, the most for the evening. Other winners Mujeres enga\u00f1adas won 5 awards, Tres mujeres won 2 awards and -Sue\u00f1os de juventud, Amor gitano, La vida en el espejo, Infierno en el para\u00edso and Seraf\u00edn won one each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032559-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Tony Awards\nThe 18th Annual Tony Awards took place on May 24, 1964, in the New York Hilton in New York City. The ceremony was broadcast on local television station WWOR-TV (Channel 9) in New York City. The host was Sidney Blackmer and the Masters of Ceremonies were Steve Lawrence and Robert Preston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032559-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Tony Awards, The ceremony\nPresenters: George Abbott, Lauren Bacall, Anne Bancroft, Harry Belafonte, Constance Bennett, Georgia Brown, David Burns, Richard Burton, Mindy Carson, Peggy Cass, Barbara Cook, Sammy Davis Jr., Paul Ford, Robert Goulet, Arthur Hill, Robert Horton, Shirley Knight, Carol Lawrence, Hal March, Mercedes McCambridge, Roddy McDowall, Molly Picon, Lee Remick, Cyril Ritchard, Paul Scofield, Martha Scott, Zachary Scott, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032560-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Tournoi International\n18th Tournoi International was a gymnastics competition held in Combs la Ville, France on November 8\u20139, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032561-0000-0000", "contents": "18th U-boat Flotilla\nThe 18th U-boat Flotilla (German 18. Unterseebootsflottille) was a short-lived unit of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032561-0001-0000", "contents": "18th U-boat Flotilla\nThe flotilla was formed in Hel, Poland, in January 1945 under the command of Korvettenkapit\u00e4n Rudolf Franzius. Officially a training flotilla (Ger. Ausbildungsflottille), the four U-boats were in combat in the Baltic Sea. It was disbanded in March 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032561-0002-0000", "contents": "18th U-boat Flotilla, Assigned U-boats\nFour U-boats were assigned to this flotilla during its service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032562-0000-0000", "contents": "18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was an African-American infantry regiment, raised in the state of Missouri, which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032562-0001-0000", "contents": "18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Service\nOrganized in Missouri at large February 1 to September 28, 1864. Unlike other African-American regiments from the State of Missouri, the regiment was mustered directly into U.S., rather than state service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032562-0002-0000", "contents": "18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Service\nAttached to District of St. Louis, Mo., Department of Missouri, to December 1864. Unassigned, District of the Etowah, Department of the Cumberland, December 1864. 1st Colored Brigade, District of the Etowa, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January 1865. Unassigned, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, March 1865. 1st Colored Brigade, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee and Department of the Tennessee, to February 1866.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032562-0003-0000", "contents": "18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Detailed Service\nDuty in District of St. Louis, Mo., and at St. Louis until November 1864. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., November 7. Moved to Paducah, Kentucky, November 7\u201311, thence to Nashville, Tenn. Occupation of Nashville during Hood's investment December 1\u201315. Battles of Nashville December 15\u201316. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17\u201328. At Bridgeport, Alabama, guarding railroad until February 1865. Action at Elrod's Tan Yard January 27. At Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in District of East Tennessee until February 1866. Mustered out February 21, 1866.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032562-0004-0000", "contents": "18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Notes\nThe 62nd, not 63rd, was the first black regiment raised in Missouri. The 62nd, 65th, 67th and 68th were initially mustered in as Missouri Volunteers of African Descent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0000-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress\nThe 18th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1823, to March 4, 1825, during the seventh and eighth years of James Monroe's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fourth Census of the United States in 1820. Both chambers had a Democratic-Republican majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0001-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Party summary\nThe count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the \"Changes in membership\" section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0002-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Members\nThis list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0003-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Members, Senate\nSenators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1826; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1828; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1824.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0004-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives\nThe names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0005-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives, Maryland\nThe 5th district was a plural district with two representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0006-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives, New York\nThere were three plural districts: the 20th & 26th had two representatives each, the 3rd had three representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0007-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives, Pennsylvania\nThere were six plural districts: the 7th, 8th, 11th, and 16th had two representatives each, the 4th and 9th had three representatives each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032563-0008-0000", "contents": "18th United States Congress, Changes in membership\nThe count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032564-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Vanier Cup\nThe 18th Vanier Cup was played on November 20, 1982, at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, and decided the CIAU football champion for the 1982 season. The UBC Thunderbirds won their first ever championship by defeating the Western Mustangs by a score of 39-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032565-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Venice Biennale\nThe 18th Venice Biennale, held in 1932, was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 13 participating nations. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032565-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Venice Biennale\nThe 1932 Biennale was historically the most important in Venice, due to the presence of a historical and no longer living painter like Antonio Rotta and the presence for the first time of a non-European country, the United States with its own building as a seat, further requests from governments were not lacking but the state of the gardens at the time did not allow further construction. The Italian Pavilion was built by Duilio Torres. The \"Venice pavilion\" was created by Brenno Del Giudice destined in its central body to the decorative arts section and in the wings to welcome foreign countries without their own headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032565-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Venice Biennale, Jury and prizes\nThe jury composed by Italico Ottone, Elio Zorzi and Domenico Varagnolo, awarded the Special Mention Prize of the Venice Biennale to Antonio Rotta, not only for the very high quality of his works, for the best historical representation of the themes of the Venetian society of his time, in the concept of the movement of Genre painting, of which Antonio Rotta was the most represented painter in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032565-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Venice Biennale, Jury and prizes\nAntonio Rotta was exhibited at the XVIII International Art Exhibition by the will of the City of Venice, the City Council and the Mayor of Venice, as a symbolic artist, and icon of the painters of Venice, to celebrate the expeditious anniversary of the thirty years of the Venice Biennale Exhibition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032565-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Venice Biennale, Exhibited artists\nIn addition to a main area, commissioned by the City Council of Venice, dedicated exclusively to the exhibition of the art works of the italian painter Antonio Rotta, an event that took place only once in the history of the Venice Biennale, were exhibits artists like Amedeo Modigliani, Filippo de Pisis, etc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032566-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Venice International Film Festival\nThe 18th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 25 August to 8 September 1957.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032567-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Vermont Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Vermont Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment from Vermont that failed to complete its organization to serve in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival\nThe 18th Vietnam Film Festival was held from October 14 to October 16, 2013 in H\u1ea1 Long City, Qu\u1ea3ng Ninh Province, Vietnam, with the slogan \"Vietnamese Cinema - Ethnicity, Humanity, Creativity, Integration\" (Vietnamese: \"\u0110i\u1ec7n \u1ea3nh Vi\u1ec7t Nam - D\u00e2n t\u1ed9c, Nh\u00e2n v\u0103n, S\u00e1ng t\u1ea1o, H\u1ed9i nh\u1eadp\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event\nThe Film Festival was held in the year that celebrates 60 Years since Uncle H\u1ed3 signed the Decree of Establishing the Vietnam Revolutionary Film Industry. It had an outstanding number of entries compared to other film festivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event\nAt the end of the film festival, the Golden Lotus Award was given to all categories: \"B\u00f2 v\u00e0ng\" (Animated Film), \"B\u00ed m\u1eadt t\u1eeb nh\u1eefng pho t\u01b0\u1ee3ng Ph\u1eadt\" (Science Film), \"C\u00f3 m\u1ed9t c\u01a1 h\u1ed9i b\u1ecb b\u1ecf l\u1ee1\" (Documentary film), \"Ng\u01b0\u1eddi c\u1ed9ng s\u1ef1\" (Direct-to-video Feature film), \"Nh\u1eefng ng\u01b0\u1eddi vi\u1ebft huy\u1ec1n tho\u1ea1i\" and \"Scandal: B\u00ed m\u1eadt th\u1ea3m \u0111\u1ecf\" (Feature film).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Participation\nThe 18th Vietnam Film Festival has the participation of 44 cinema establishments across the country with 139 films. In which, there are 23 feature films, 6 direct-to-video feature films, 10 documentary feature films, 62 direct-to-video documentary, 12 science films, and 26 animated films.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Participation\nFilms released after the 17th Vietnam Film Festival until the submission deadline of September 5, 2013 are eligible to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Jury\nThe 18th Vietnam Film Festival has 3 jury panels for feature films; documentary - science films and animated films. Each panel will vote by secret ballot to propose the award decision for each type of film according to regulations. Members of the Jury voted for all the awards as prescribed in the 18th Vietnam Film Festival's Charter and scored as follows: Golden Lotus - score 9.1 to 10; Silver Lotus - score 8.1 to 9.0; Jury Prize - score 7.1 to 8.0; Movie not voted - score below 7.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Jury\nIn the feature film category, there are 9 members of the jury chaired by director \u0110\u00e0o B\u00e1 S\u01a1n. Other members are: writer Chu Lai, screenwriter \u0110inh Thi\u00ean Ph\u00fac, director H\u1ed3 Quang Minh, cinematographer Ph\u1ea1m Thanh H\u00e0, painter Nguy\u1ec5n Trung Phan, composer \u0110\u1ed7 H\u1ed3ng Qu\u00e2n, actress Nguy\u1ec5n Lan H\u01b0\u01a1ng, director Ho\u00e0ng Anh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Jury\nIn the documentary and science category, there are 7 members of the jury chaired by director \u0110\u1eb7ng Xu\u00e2n H\u1ea3i. Other members are: screenwriter \u0110o\u00e0n Minh Tu\u1ea5n, director V\u0169 Th\u1ecb L\u1ec7 M\u1ef9, director L\u00ea H\u1ed3ng Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng, director B\u00f9i \u0110\u1eafc Ng\u00f4n, director Tr\u1ea7n Tu\u1ea5n Hi\u1ec7p, journalist T\u00f4 Ho\u00e0ng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Jury\nIn the animated film category, there are 5 members of the jury chaired by director/animator Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb Ph\u01b0\u01a1ng Hoa. Other members are: writer Tr\u1ea7n Ninh H\u1ed3, director \u0110\u00e0o Minh Uy\u1ec3n, musician Do\u00e3n Nguy\u00ean, journalist Chu Thu H\u1eb1ng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Activities\nTo prepare for the 18th Vietnam Film Festival, the Organizing Committee organized \"Welcome Film Week of the XVIII Vietnam Film Festival\" taking place from September 23, 2013 to September 29, 2013 in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City (Hanoi: at the National Cinema Center, 87 L\u00e1ng H\u1ea1; \u0110\u00e0 N\u1eb5ng: at L\u00ea \u0110\u1ed9 Theater, 46 Tr\u1ea7n Ph\u00fa; H\u1ed3 Ch\u00ed Minh City: at Galaxy Cinema Kinh D\u01b0\u01a1ng V\u01b0\u01a1ng, 718bis Kinh D\u01b0\u01a1ng V\u01b0\u01a1ng, District 6). This is also the time when the \"unknowns\" are released and answered before the audience before the 18th Vietnam Film Festival takes place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Activities\nDuring the three days of the festival, besides the opening, closing and awarding ceremonies, film artists will participate in the following activities:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Activities\nThe film festival organizers also cooperated with Qu\u1ea3ng Ninh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to open the exhibition \"Cinema with Qu\u1ea3ng Ninh\" displaying images from typical films about the land and people of Qu\u1ea3ng Ninh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Activities\nThe Opening Ceremony was broadcast live on VTV1 channel at 20:00 on October 12 and the Closing/Awarding Ceremony was broadcast live on VTV2 channel at 20:00 on October 15. The general director of both ceremonies is director Le Qu\u00fd D\u01b0\u01a1ng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Inadequacy\nFrom a professional perspective and event organization, the 18th Vietnam Film Festival is considered to be quite pale and inadequate. The place where the opening and closing night took place, although in an international amusement park, was narrow, with few spectators, most of which were officials and artists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032568-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Vietnam Film Festival, Event, Inadequacy\nSide activities have not yet made a strong impression on people who are interested in cinema with seminars that lack novelty on \"coordination of film production and distribution\", \"promotion of tourism through cinema\". The cinemas are small (both H\u1ea1 Long theater and Ph\u01b0\u01a1ng Nam theater have about 200 seats each), the sound system is not really perfect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032569-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment\nThe 18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia, in southwest Virginia, and in the Shenandoah Valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032569-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment\n18th Cavalry Regiment was organized on December 15, 1862. Most of its members had served in the 1st Regiment Virginia Partisan Rangers (subsequently the 62nd Virginia Infantry Regiment). It was primarily recruited from the counties of Randolph, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Hardy, Hampshire, Lewis, now in West Virginia, and the counties of Warren, Shenandoah, Frederick, Bath, and Highland in Virginia. Recruits also came from an additional twelve counties in Virginia and West Virginia. Approximately 1,344 men served in the regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032569-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment\nOne of the famed elements of the 18th Virginia Cavalry was \"McNeill's Rangers,\" led by Captain John Hanson McNeill. McNeill's Ranger formed Company E of the 18th Virginia Cavalry and included the First Virginia Partisan Rangers (62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry). After the repeal of the Act on February 17, 1864, McNeill's Rangers was one of two partisan forces allowed to continue operation, the other being 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry (Mosby's Rangers). McNeill's Rangers operated in the western counties of Virginia and West Virginia and were among the best known and feared Confederate raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032569-0002-0001", "contents": "18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment\nMcNeill's frequent raids on Piedmont, a town in Hampshire (now Mineral) County, West Virginia \u2014 and on Cumberland, Maryland\u2014were aimed at disrupting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (a.k.a. B&O Railroad) service. It is estimated that over 25,000 troops were diverted by Federal commanders to guard the B&O against McNeill's force. McNeill's Rangers were known to exercise military discipline when conducting raids. However, many Union generals considered them to be \"bushwhackers,\" not entitled to protection when captured, as was the case with other prisoners of war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032569-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment\nThe unit was assigned to John D. Imboden's and William L. Jackson's Brigade and after the participating in the Gettysburg Campaign, skirmished the Federals in western Virginia. Later it served in the Shenandoah Valley, participating in the Battle of New Market in 1864, and disbanded during April, 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032569-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Cavalry Regiment\nThe field officers were Colonel George W. Imboden (brother of John D.), Lieutenant Colonel David E. Beall, and Major Alexander W. Monroe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Virginia completed its organization in May, 1861. Its members were recruited at Danville and Farmville, and in the counties of Nottoway, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Appomattox, Pittsylvania, and Charlotte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany A (Danville Blues) - many men from Danville Virginia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany B (Danville Grays) - many men from Danville, Virginia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany C (Nottoway Rifle Guards) - many men from Nottoway County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany D (Prospect Rifle Grays) - many men from Prince Edward County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany E (Black Eagle Rifles) - many men from Cumberland County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany F (Farmville Guard) - many men from Farmville, Virginia (Prince Edward and Cumberland Counties)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany G (Nottoway Grays) - many men from Nottoway County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany H (Appomattox Grays) - many men from Appomattox County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany I (Spring Garden Blues) - many men from Pittsylvania County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nCompany K (Charlotte Rifles) - many men from Charlotte County, mustered in February 1861. Reorganized April 1862 with Captains Thomas J. Spencer, Mathew Lyle, Robert Morton Shepperson, Martin Luther Covington, William Henry Smith. The unit fought at First Manassas under General Cocke, then was assigned to General Pickett's, Garnett's, and Hunton's Brigade. It participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it was detached to Suffolk with Longstreet. Later it served in North Carolina, returned to Virginia, and took an active part in the battles of Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. The 18th endured the hardships of the Petersburg trenches north of the James River and saw action around Appomattox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nIt lost 6 killed and 13 wounded at First Manassas and in April, 1862, had 700 men fit for duty. The unit reported 206 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, and of the 120 engaged in the Maryland Campaign, thirty-six percent of the 312 in action were killed, wounded, or missing. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek and only 2 officers and 32 men surrendered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nThe field officers were Colonels Henry A. Carrington and Robert E. Withers, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Cabell, and Major Edwin G. Wall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nRobert Lewis Dabney briefly served as chaplain for the regiment, before becoming chief of staff for Stonewall Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment battle flag at the Appomattox museum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nTwo Officers of Company \"G\" 18th Va Infantry; the officer at bottom Captain Arch. Campbell was killed in April 1865 at the Battle of Sayler's Creek -ironically next to Nottoway County in Prince Edward County", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032570-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Virginia Infantry Regiment\nPrivate John G. Lee of Company H, 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards\nOutstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode:The Mandalorian \u2013 The Child", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards\nThe 18th Visual Effects Society Awards was an awards ceremony held by the Visual Effects Society. Nominations were announced on January 7, 2020, and the ceremony took place on January 29, 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nThe Lion King \u2013 Robert Legato, Tom Peitzman, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nThe Irishman \u2013 Pablo Helman, Mitchell Ferm, Jill Brooks, Leandro Estebecorena, Jeff Brink", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nMissing Link \u2013 Brad Schiff, Travis Knight, Steve Emerson, Benoit Dubuc", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nAlita: Battle Angel \u2013 Alita \u2013 Michael Cozens, Mark Haenga, Olivier Lesaint, Dejan Momcliovic", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nMissing Link \u2013 Susan \u2013 Rachelle Lambden, Brenda Baumgarten, Morgan Hay, Benoit Dubuc", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nThe Lion King \u2013 The Pridelands \u2013 Marco Rolandi, Luca Bonatti, Jules Bodenstein, Filippo Preto", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nToy Story 4 \u2013 Antiques Mall \u2013 Hosuk Chang, Andrew Finley, Alison Leaf, Philip Shoebottom for Antique Mall", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nThe Lion King \u2013Robert Legato, Caleb Deschanel, Ben Grossman, AJ Sciutto", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nThe Mandalorian \u2013 The Sin; The Razorcrest \u2013 Doug Chiang, Jay Machado, John Goodson, Landis Fields IV", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker \u2013 Don Wong, Thibault Gauriau, Goncalo Cabaca, Francois-Maxence Desplanques", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nFrozen II \u2013 Erin V. Ramos, Scott Townsend, Thomas Wickes, Rattanin Sirinaruemarn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nThe Irishman \u2013 Nelson Sepulveda, Vince Papaix, Benjamin O'Brien, Christopher Doerhoff", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Film\nThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance \u2013 She Knows All the Secrets \u2013 Sean Mathiesen, Jon Savage, Toby Froud, Phil Harvey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nThe Mandalorian \u2013 The Child \u2013 Richard Bluff, Abbigail Keller, Jason Porter, Hayden Jones, Roy Cancinon (for \"The Child\")", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nChernobyl \u2013 1:23:45 \u2013 Max Dennison, Lindsay McFarlane, Clare Cheetham, Paul Jones, Claudius Christian Rauch", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nHennessy \u2013 The Seven Worlds \u2013 Carsten Keller, Selcuk Ergen, Kiril Mirkov, William Laban", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nStranger Things \u2013 Tom/Bruce Monster \u2013 Joseph Dub\u00e9-Arsenault, Antoine Barthod, Frederick Gagnon, Xavier Lafarge", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nCyberpunk 2077 \u2013 Dex \u2013 Jonas Ekman, Jonas Skoog, Marek Madej, Grzegorz Chonjnacki", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nGame of Thrones \u2013 The Iron Throne; Red Keep Plaza \u2013 Carlos Patrick DeLeon, Alonso Bocanegra Martinez, Marcela Silva, Benjamin Ross", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nGame of Thrones \u2013 The Bells \u2013 Marcel Kern, Paul Fuller, Ryo Sakaguchi, Thomas Hartmann", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nGame of Thrones \u2013 The Long Night; Dragon Ground Battle \u2013 Mark Richardson, Darren Christie, Nathan Abbott, Owen Longstaff", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Television\nHennessy \u2013 The Seven Worlds \u2013 Rod Norman, Guillaume Weiss, Alexander Kulikov, Alessandro Granella", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 56], "content_span": [57, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Other categories\nControl \u2013 Janne Pulkkinen, Elmeri Raitanen, Matti H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen, James Tottman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Other categories\nStar Wars: Rise of the Resistance \u2013 Jason Bayever, Patrick Kearney, Carol Norton, Bill George", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032571-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Visual Effects Society Awards, Nominees, Other categories\nThe Beauty \u2013 Marc Angele, Aleksandra Todorovic, Pascal Schelbli, Noel Winzen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032572-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Volksgrenadier Division (Wehrmacht)\nThe 18th Volksgrenadier Division (18. Volksgrenadier-Division; 18. VGD) was a volksgrenadier division of the German Army (Heer) during the Second World War, active from 1944 to 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032572-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Volksgrenadier Division (Wehrmacht)\nThe division was formed in Denmark, in September 1944, by redesignating 571. Volksgrenadier-Division. Under the command of G\u00fcnther Hoffmann-Sch\u00f6nborn, the new division absorbed elements of the 18th Luftwaffe Field Division. It contained the 293., 294. and 295. grenadier regiments, Panzerj\u00e4ger-Bataillon 1818, Pionier-Bataillon 1818, F\u00fcsilier-Bataillon 1818 and Artillerie-Regiment 1818.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032572-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Volksgrenadier Division (Wehrmacht)\nThe division fought in the Ardennes, inflicting on the 106th US Infantry Division the worst defeat suffered by U.S. forces in the ETO, when over 8,000 US soldiers surrendered to the volksgrenadiers. On December 21, 18. VGD captured St. Vith, winning a great victory. As the offensive steam came to an end in the Ardennes, the division went on the defensive, and there they would stay. Eventually retreating through Germany until the end of the war, when it surrendered. On February 5, 1945 General Walter Botsch took over command of the division. On March 6, 1945, when Botsch was ordered to take command of the LIIIrd Army Corps, the 18. VGD division was absorbed into the 26. VGD led by Heinz Kokott, Heinrich Himmler's brother-in-law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Wing\nThe United States Air Force's 18th Wing is the host wing for Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan and is the Air Force's largest combat wing. It is the largest and principal organization in the Pacific Air Forces Fifth Air Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Wing\nThe Wing's 18th Operations Group is a successor organization of the 18th Pursuit Group, one of the 15 original combat air groups formed by the Army before World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, Mission\nThe 18th Wing's mission is to defend U.S. and Japanese' mutual interests by providing a responsive staging and operational airbase with integrated, deployable, forward-based airpower. The focus of the unit's operations is directed to accomplishing this mission. Strategy used to employ this mission centers around a composite force of combat-ready fighter, air refueling, airborne warning and control and rescue aircraft as well as medical aircrews tasked with transporting patients by air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 18], "content_span": [19, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, Units\nThe 18th Wing is composed of five groups each with specific functions. The Operations Group controls all flying and airfield operations. The Maintenance Group performs Aircraft and Aircraft support equipment maintenance. The Mission Support Group has a wide range of responsibilities but a few of its functions are Security, Communications, Personnel Management, Logistics, Services and Contracting support. The Civil Engineer Group provides facilities management, while the Medical Group provides medical and dental care.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 16], "content_span": [17, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, Units\nTeam Kadena includes associate units from five other Air Force major commands, the Navy, and numerous other Department of Defense agencies and direct reporting units. In addition to the aircraft of the 18th Wing, associate units operate more than 20 permanently assigned, forward-based or deployed aircraft from the base on a daily basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 16], "content_span": [17, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0005-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, Heraldry\nThe fighting cock emblem, approved in 1931, symbolizes the courage and aggressiveness of a combat organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 19], "content_span": [20, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0006-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History\nThe 18th Fighter Wing was established on 10 August 1948, and activated four days later at Clark Air Force Base. On 20 January 1950, the wing was re-designated the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 18], "content_span": [19, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0007-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nThe 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing was reassigned to Korea in July 1950 and entered combat. Its organization was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0008-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nAt the outbreak of the Korean War, the 18th FBG's 12th FBS provided personnel to form the \"Dallas\" fighter squadron, which rushed into battle. In late July, the group headquarters with two of its squadrons (12th and 67th FBSs) deployed with F-80s from the Philippines to Taegu AB (K-37), South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0009-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nFrom 28 July to 3 August, the 18th Group operated directly under Fifth Air Force then passed to the control of the 6002nd Fighter (later, Tactical Support) Wing. Pilots exchanged their F-80s for F-51 Mustangs. Combat targets included tanks and armored vehicles, locomotives and trucks, artillery and antiaircraft guns, fuel and ammunition dumps, warehouses and factories, and troop concentrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0010-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nIn August, advancing enemy forces and insufficient aircraft parking at Taegu forced the group to move to Japan, but it returned to South Korea the following month to support UN forces in a counteroffensive. Because the front advanced so rapidly, operations from Pusan East (K-9) Air Base soon became impractical, and the group moved in November to Pyongyang East Air Base (K-24), North Korea. The 2nd SAAF Squadron joined the 18th in mid-November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0011-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nMaj Louis J. Sebille was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his action on 5 August 1950: although his plane was badly damaged by flak while attacking a concentration of enemy trucks, Maj Sebille continued his strafing passes until he crashed into an armored vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0012-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nThe Chinese Communist (CCF intervention) caused the group to move twice in as many weeks, first to Suwon AB (K-13), South Korea, then to Chinhae (K-10). From there the 18th FBG continued to support ground forces and carry out armed reconnaissance and interdiction missions. From November 1950 through January 1951, it earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for destroying roughly 2,400 enemy vehicles and severely damaging almost 500 more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0013-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nFrom early 1951 until January 1953, the group and its tactical squadrons, moving from base to base in South Korea, operated separately from the rest of the 18th FBW. The group earned its second Distinguished Unit Citation from 22 April to 8 July 1951, when it flew 6,500 combat sorties while operating from sod, dirt filled, and damaged runways to counter the enemy's 1951 spring offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0014-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nWhen in January 1953 the group rejoined the wing at Osan-ni AB (K-55), its squadrons transitioned to F-86 Sabrejets without halting the fight against the enemy. It flew its first F-86 counter air mission on 26 February 1953. In the final days of the war, the 18th FBG attacked dispersed enemy aircraft at Sinuiju and Uiju Airfields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0015-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Korean War\nThe group remained in Korea for some time after the armistice. The wing was reassigned to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa in November 1954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0016-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nSince November 1954, the 18th Wing under various designations has been the main United States Air Force operational unit at Kadena Air Base. Over the past 50 years, the 18th has maintained assigned aircraft, crews, and supporting personnel in a high state of readiness for tactical air requirements of Fifth Air Force and the Pacific Air Forces. Known Cold War-Era operational squadrons were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0017-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nFlying the North American F-86 Sabres, the wing supported tactical fighter operations in Okinawa, as well as in South Korea, Japan, Formosa (later Taiwan), and the Philippines with frequent deployments. In 1957, the wing upgraded to the North American F-100 Super Sabre and the designation was changed to the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing. In 1960, a tactical reconnaissance mission was added to the wing with the arrival of the McDonnell RF-101 Voodoo and the 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (Tail Code: ZZ) The McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II replaced the RF-101 in the reconnaissance role in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0018-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nFrom 14 \u2013 28 March 1961, the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing deployed the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron to Kung Kuan Air Base, Taiwan equipped with McDonnell RF-101 Voodoo. Beginning in 1961, the 18th was sending its tactical squadrons frequently to South Vietnam and Thailand, initially with its RF-101 reconnaissance forces, and beginning in 1964 with its tactical fighter forces supporting USAF combat missions in the Vietnam War. In 1963, the Republic F-105 Thunderchief replaced the Super Sabres. Known Vietnam-era squadrons of the wing were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0019-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nThe deployments to Southeast Asia continued until the end of United States involvement in the conflict. An electronic warfare capability was added to the wing in late 1968 with the reassignment of the 19th Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron from Shaw AFB, South Carolina flying the Douglas EB-66E Destroyer (Tail Code: ZT). The B-66s remained until 1970, flying daily over the skies of Southeast Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0020-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nDuring the 1968 Pueblo crisis, the 18th deployed between January and June to Osan Air Base, South Korea following the North Korean seizure of the vessel. Frequent deployments to South Korea have been performed ever since to maintain the air defense alert mission there. The McDonnell Douglas F-4C/D Phantom II replaced the F-105s in 1971, and a further upgrade to the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle was made in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0021-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nOn 6 November 1972, the 18th Wing dispatched the McDonnell Douglas F-4C/D Phantom II fighters of 44th Tactical Fighter Squadron and 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron to the Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan until 31 May 1975, to assist Taiwan \u2019s air defense, defend against aerial threats from China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0022-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nThe following are the units that the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing once stationed at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan\uff1a", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0023-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Cold War\nIn May 1971, the 556th RS was also transferred from Yokota to Kadena with Martin EB-57E Canberra aircraft (Tail Code: GT) to the wing. It inactivated in 1973. In 1972, the 1st Special Operations Squadron was assigned, bringing their specialized C-130E-I. (Combat Talon) The RF-4C reconnaissance mission ended in 1989 with the transfer of the RF-4Cs to the 460th TRG at Taegu AB in Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 28], "content_span": [29, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0024-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Modern era\nThe designation of the wing changed on 1 October 1991, to the 18th Wing with the implementation of the Objective Wing concept. The original designation, as determined by the then Wing Commander, Brigadier General Joseph Hurd, was 18 Wing; meant to mirror the numbering convention of the Royal Air Force. This was quickly changed however when it was disapproved by PACAF but there are coins, etc. from this time period that depict the wing's designation as 18 Wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0025-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Modern era\nWith the objective wing, the mission of the 18th expanded to the Composite Air Wing concept of multiple different wing missions with different aircraft. The mission of the 18th was expanded to include aerial refueling with Boeing KC-135R/T Stratotanker tanker aircraft (909th ARS); and surveillance, warning, command and control Boeing E-3B/C Sentry (961st AACS), and communications. Added airlift mission in June 1992 with the Beech C-12 Huron, transporting mission critical personnel, high-priority cargo and distinguished visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0026-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Modern era\nIn February 1993, the 18th Wing gained responsibility for coordinating rescue operations in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean with the addition of the 33d Rescue Squadron (33d RQS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0027-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Modern era\nIn November 1999, the 18th Wing underwent another change as one of its three F-15 units, the 12th Fighter Squadron, was reassigned to the 3d Wing at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0028-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Modern era\nIn 2003 the 374th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan was moved to Kadena and redesignated the 18th AES giving the 18th Wing an added mission of patient transport. 18 AES crews utilize the KC-135s of the 909th ARS as well as other opportune aircraft including the C-17 and C-130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0029-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Modern era\nBetween 24\u201331 March 2006, during Foal Eagle 2006 exercises, aircraft from the 18th Wing teamed with the U.S. Navy's Strike Fighter Squadron 151 (VFA-151) from Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) to provide combat air patrols and coordinated bombing runs via the exercise's Combined Air Operations Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032573-0030-0000", "contents": "18th Wing, History, Modern era\nThe 18th Wing has earned many honors over the years, including 17 Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032574-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment\nThe 18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032574-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe 18th Wisconsin was organized at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service March 15, 1862.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032574-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Service\nThe regiment was mustered out on July 18, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032574-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Casualties\nThe 18th Wisconsin suffered 4 officers and 52 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 2 officers and 167 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 225 fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032575-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Wisconsin Legislature\nThe Eighteenth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 11, 1865, to April 10, 1865, in regular session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032575-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Wisconsin Legislature\nSenators representing even-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first year of a two-year term. Assembly members were elected to a one-year term. Assembly members and even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 8, 1864. Senators representing odd-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 3, 1863.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032575-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Wisconsin Legislature, Members, Members of the Senate\nMembers of the Wisconsin Senate for the Eighteenth Wisconsin Legislature:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032576-0000-0000", "contents": "18th World Science Fiction Convention\nThe 18th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as Pittcon, was held September 3\u20135, 1960, at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032576-0001-0000", "contents": "18th World Science Fiction Convention\nThe chairman was Dirce Archer. The guest of honor was James Blish. The toastmaster was Isaac Asimov. Total attendance was 568.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032576-0002-0000", "contents": "18th World Science Fiction Convention, Awards\nThe Hugo Awards, named after Hugo Gernsback, are presented every year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The results are based on the ballots submitted by members of the World Science Fiction Society. Other awards, including the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (since 1973; named \"John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\" until 2019), are also presented at each year's Worldcon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032577-0000-0000", "contents": "18th World Scout Jamboree\nThe 18th World Scout Jamboree (Dutch: 18e Wereldjamboree) was held August 1 to 11, 1995 and was hosted by the Netherlands on a polder near Biddinghuizen, Dronten community, Flevoland. 28,960 Scouts and staff members from 166 countries and territories participated in the event, the largest representation of countries to date, including 34 countries where Scouting was being born or reborn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032577-0001-0000", "contents": "18th World Scout Jamboree, Opening and royal attendees\nThe event was officially opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and her husband Prince Claus. The theme was Future is Now and the Jamboree was also visited by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan and Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who inaugurated the second Global Development Village, a major attraction, with Scouts from all over the world sharing experiences and learning more about other ways of life. Various activities and stalls at the Plaza, in the middle of the Jamboree site, provided lighter entertainment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032577-0002-0000", "contents": "18th World Scout Jamboree, Activities\nSome of the range of activities were the Jamboree Friendship Award, the interreligious ceremony on violence and peace, a Scout Forum and connection via satellite with Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, with the participation of Scout associations, non-governmental organizations and specialized agencies of the United Nations, in particular UNHCR and the United Nations Children's Fund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032577-0003-0000", "contents": "18th World Scout Jamboree, First steps in forming the Community of Lusophone Scouting\nThe Comunidade do Escutismo Lus\u00f3fono is based on the Carta do Escutismo Lus\u00f3fono (Charter of Lusophone Scouting), formulated during the Jamboree on August 6, 1995. The original signatory organizations were the Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escutismo Cat\u00f3lico Portugu\u00eas, the Uni\u00e3o dos Escoteiros do Brasil, the Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guin\u00e9-Bissau and the Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Escuteiros de S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 e Pr\u00edncipe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032577-0004-0000", "contents": "18th World Scout Jamboree, Subcamps\nThe adult-only Hub for IST (International Service Team) members and other adults was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032578-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Writers Guild of America Awards\nThe 18th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1965. Winners were announced in 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032579-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Yokohama Film Festival\nThe 18th Yokohama Film Festival (\u7b2c18\u56de\u30e8\u30b3\u30cf\u30de\u6620\u753b\u796d) was held on 2 February 1997 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032580-0000-0000", "contents": "18th Youth in Film Awards\nThe 18th Youth in Film Awards ceremony (now known as the Young Artist Awards), presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, music and radio for the 1995-1996 season, and took place in 1997 in Hollywood, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032580-0001-0000", "contents": "18th Youth in Film Awards\nEstablished in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Youth in Film Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, theatre and music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032580-0002-0000", "contents": "18th Youth in Film Awards, Best Young Performer in a Feature Film, Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actress\n\u2605 (tie) Vanessa Lee Chester - Harriet the Spy\u2605 (tie) Claire Danes - To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 127], "content_span": [128, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032580-0003-0000", "contents": "18th Youth in Film Awards, Best Young Performer in a Television Series, Best Performance in a TV Comedy: Guest Starring Young Performer\n\u2605 (tie) Seth Adkins - Sabrina the Teenage Witch\u2605 tie) Courtney Peldon - Home Improvement", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 135], "content_span": [136, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032580-0004-0000", "contents": "18th Youth in Film Awards, Youth In Film's Special Awards, The Jackie Coogan Award, Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Motion Pictures\n\u2605 The Reppies - For Best Musical and Inspirational Show for Children", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 141], "content_span": [142, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0000-0000", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City\n18th and Vine is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It is internationally recognized as a historical point of origin of jazz music and a historic hub of African-American businesses. Along with Basin Street in New Orleans, Beale Street in Memphis, 52nd Street in New York City, and Central Avenue in Los Angeles, the 18th and Vine area fostered a new style of jazz. Kansas City jazz is a riff-based and blues-influenced sound developed in jam sessions in the district's crowded clubs. Many notable jazz musicians of the 1930s and 1940s lived or got started here, including Charlie Parker. Due to this legacy, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver said 18th and Vine is America's third most recognized street after Broadway and Hollywood Boulevard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0001-0000", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City\nIn 1991, the national historic district encompassing 35 contributing buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2007 the city workhouse castle was added to the Kansas City historical register, having been a correctional facility from 1897 to 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0002-0000", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City, History\nLocated just east of Downtown Kansas City, the neighborhood is the metropolitan area's historic center of African American culture. In 1991, the national historic district encompassing 35 contributing buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0003-0000", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City, History\nIn the 1990s, parts of the film Kansas City were filmed there, and fa\u00e7ades left from the movie remained on most of the dilapidated buildings until the end of the decade. Today, the 18th and Vine district includes the Mutual Musicians Foundation, the Gem Theater, the long-time offices of African-American newspaper The Call, the Blue Room jazz club, the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Smaxx Restaurant, a restaurant inside the Juke House and Blues Club, and several apartments and condos. The Historic Lincoln Building serves as a hub of professional and business activity in the Black community, restored in the early 1980s by the Black Economic Union of Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0004-0000", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City, History\nSix blocks to the north, the former intersection of 12th Street and Vine is the subject of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's song \"Kansas City\" in 1952, adapted by Little Willie Littlefield as \"Kansas City Lovin'\" and adapted by Little Richard, Wilbert Harrison, and the Beatles. 12th Street and Vine Street no longer intersects with 12th Street, as a housing project now stands at the site. The city has since erected a street sign in a park near the housing project to mark the spot where 12th Street once crossed Vine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0005-0000", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City, History\nThe District has long suffered epidemic blight, with huge portions being juggled for decades between unproductive owners and their countless colossal visions and broken promises of rehabilitation. It has been the focus of more than $30 million of civic investment since the late 1980s, but the district's redevelopment has struggled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0005-0001", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City, History\nIn 2001, the Kansas City area manager of Bank of America proposed a $46 million redevelopment of 96 acres of blight across the District but canceled in 2005 ahead of the global crash of 2008, selling much of it to KC native millionaire Ephren W. Taylor II who likened his invisible investments to the comic book antihero The Phantom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032581-0005-0002", "contents": "18th and Vine \u2013 Downtown East, Kansas City, History\nActually a con artist, Taylor promised in 2006 to develop his large Jazz District property into 42 homes plus a community center of museum in the castle, but was instead convicted of a Ponzi scheme defrauding Black churchgoers of millions of dollars and federally imprisoned. The city workhouse castle entered the Kansas City Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2007. From 2016 to 2020, the city government, community, and corporate investors have conducted many proposals for rehabilitation of the historic blight, including a massive $150 million project pending a federal investigation into corruption.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0000-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris\nThe 18th arrondissement of Paris (XVIIIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as dix-huiti\u00e8me.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0001-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris\nThe arrondissement, known as Butte-Montmartre, is located on the right bank of the River Seine. It is mostly known for hosting the district of Montmartre which contains a hill known for its artistic history, the Bateau-Lavoir where Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Amedeo Modigliani lived and worked in early 20th century, the house of music diva Dalida, the Moulin Rouge cabaret, other historic features, and the prominent Sacr\u00e9 C\u0153ur basilica which sits atop the hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0002-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris\nThe 18th arrondissement also contains the North African and African district of Goutte d'Or which is famous for its market, the march\u00e9 Barb\u00e8s, where one can find various products from the African continent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0003-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris, Geography\nThe land area of this arrondissement is exactly 6.005\u00a0km2 (2.319 sq. miles, or 1,484 acres).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0004-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris, Demographics\nThe population of Paris's 18th arrondissement peaked in 1931 with 288,810 inhabitants. Today, the arrondissement remains very dense in population and business activity with 200,631 inhabitants as of the most recent census (2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0005-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris, Demographics, Immigration\nIn 2012, John Henley of The Guardian said the 18th arrondissement was \"an area comparable in many ways to London's Tower Hamlets.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0006-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris, Demographics, Immigration\n2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0007-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris, Cityscape, Places of interest\nThe Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western Europe has its headquarters in the arrondissement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032582-0008-0000", "contents": "18th arrondissement of Paris, Economy\nDailymotion formerly had its headquarters in the arrondissement. In addition, Dargaud also has its headquarters there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0000-0000", "contents": "18th century\nThe 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 (MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded on a global scale. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported the slave trade. The British Industrial Revolution began, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0001-0000", "contents": "18th century\nThe period is also known as the \"century of lights\" or the \"century of reason\". In continental Europe, philosophers dreamed of a brighter age. For some, this dream turned into a reality with the French Revolution of 1789, though this was later compromised by the excesses of the Reign of Terror. At first, many monarchies of Europe embraced Enlightenment ideals, but in the wake of the French Revolution they feared loss of power and formed broad coalitions for counter-revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0002-0000", "contents": "18th century\n18th century music includes works characteristic of the Late Baroque period (including Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel) and the classical period (including Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0003-0000", "contents": "18th century\nThe Ottoman Empire experienced an unprecedented period of peace and economic expansion, taking part in no European wars from 1740 to 1768. As a consequence, the empire was not exposed to Europe's military improvements of the Seven Years' War (1756\u20131763). The Ottoman Empire military may have fallen behind and suffered defeats against Russia in the second half of the century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0004-0000", "contents": "18th century\nThe 18th century also marked the end of the Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth as an independent state. The formerly powerful and vast kingdom, which had once conquered Moscow and defeated great Ottoman armies, collapsed under numerous invasions. Its semi-democratic government system was not robust enough to rival the neighboring monarchies of the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire which divided the Commonwealth territories between themselves, changing the landscape of Central Europe and politics for the next hundred years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0005-0000", "contents": "18th century\nEuropean colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as the Age of Sail continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0006-0000", "contents": "18th century\nGreat Britain became a major power worldwide with the French and Indian War in the 1760s and the conquest of large parts of India, especially Bengal. However, Britain lost many of its North American colonies after the American Revolution and Indian wars. In North America, the defeat of the British resulted in the formation of an independent United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0007-0000", "contents": "18th century\nIn Central Asia, Nader Shah led successful military campaigns and major invasions, which led to the founding of the Durrani Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0008-0000", "contents": "18th century\nIn the Indian subcontinent, the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb marked the end of medieval India. It marked the beginning of modern India and the era of extensive European intervention in the subcontinent. The victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and their French allies in the Battle of Plassey caused the deindustrialization of Bengal. The British invasion expanded to cover much of South Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0009-0000", "contents": "18th century\nFrench emperor Napoleon Bonaparte formed one of the Franco-Indian alliances with the major economic power Kingdom of Mysore, governed by Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, who pioneered the use of Rocket artillery and the world's first iron-cased rockets, the Mysorean rockets, through the compilation of the Fathul Mujahidin. The Anglo-Mysore Wars were fought and the Treaty of Mangalore was initiated in 1784.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032583-0010-0000", "contents": "18th century\nWestern historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the \"short\" 18th century may be defined as 1715\u20131789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who expand the century to include larger historical movements, the \"long\" 18th century may run from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 or even later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032584-0000-0000", "contents": "18th century BC\nThe 18th century BC was the century which lasted from 1800 BC to 1701 BC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032584-0001-0000", "contents": "18th century BC, Deaths\n1883 BC Amum Her Khepesh Ef The son of King Senusret III", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032584-0002-0000", "contents": "18th century BC, Deaths\n1764 BC Yarim Lim 1 The Great King of Yamhad", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 68]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032585-0000-0000", "contents": "18th century BC in architecture, Buildings and structures, Buildings\nThis article about history of architecture is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032586-0000-0000", "contents": "18th century in games\nsee also: 17th century in games, 19th century in games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0000-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature\nLiterature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the 18th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0001-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, European literature in the 18th century\nEuropean literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known. Subgenres of the novel during the 18th century were the epistolary novel, the sentimental novel, histories, the gothic novel and the libertine novel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0002-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, European literature in the 18th century\n18th Century Europe started in the Age of Enlightenment and gradually moved towards Romanticism. In the visual arts, it was the period of Neoclassicism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0003-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, European literature in the 18th century, The Enlightenment\nThe 18th century in Europe was The Age of Enlightenment and literature explored themes of social upheaval, reversals of personal status, political satire, geographical exploration and the comparison between the supposed natural state of man and the supposed civilized state of man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0003-0001", "contents": "18th century in literature, European literature in the 18th century, The Enlightenment\nEdmund Burke, in his A Vindication of Natural Society (2000), says: \"The Fabrick of Superstition has in this our Age and Nation received much ruder Shocks than it had ever felt before; and through the Chinks and Breaches of our Prison, we see such Glimmerings of Light, and feel such refreshing Airs of Liberty, as daily raise our Ardor for more. \"research by Shema Leon Patrick", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0004-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\n1700: William Congreve's play The Way of the World premiered. Although unsuccessful at the time, The Way of the World is a good example of the sophistication of theatrical thinking during this period, with complex subplots and characters intended as ironic parodies of common stereotypes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0005-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\n1703: Nicholas Rowe's domestic drama The Fair Penitent, an adaptation of Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry, appeared; it would later be pronounced by Dr Johnson to be one of the most pleasing tragedies in the language. Also in 1703 Sir Richard Steele's comedy The Tender Husband achieved some success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0006-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\n1704: Jonathan Swift (Irish satirist) published A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books and John Dennis published his Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. The Battle of the Books begins with a reference to the use of a glass (which, in those days, would mean either a mirror or a magnifying glass) as a comparison to the use of satire. Swift is, in this, very much the child of his age, thinking in terms of science and satire at one and the same time. Swift often patterned his satire after Juvenal, the classical satirist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0006-0001", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\nHe was one of the first English novelists and also a political campaigner. His satirical writing springs from a body of liberal thought which produced not only books but also political pamphlets for public distribution. Swift's writing represents the new, the different and the modern attempting to change the world by parodying the ancient and incumbent. The Battle of the Books is a short writing which demonstrates his position very neatly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0007-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\n1708: Simon Ockley published an English translation of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, a 12th-century philosophical novel, as The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan. This was the first English translation directly from the Arabic original.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0008-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\n1711: Alexander Pope began a career in literature with the publishing of his An Essay on Criticism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0009-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\n1712: French philosophical writer Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on 28 June and his countryman Denis Diderot was born the following year 1713 on 5 October. Also in 1712 Pope published The Rape of the Lock and in 1713 Windsor Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0010-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1700\u20131709\n1709: Samuel Johnson was born on 18 September in Lichfield, Staffordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0011-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1710\u20131719\nDaniel Defoe was another political pamphleteer turned novelist like Jonathan Swift and was publishing in the early 18th century. In 1719, he published Robinson Crusoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0012-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1710\u20131719\n1719: Eliza Haywood published Love in Excess, an unusually sympathetic portrayal of a fallen woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0013-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1710\u20131719\nAlso in 1719: Alexander Smith was a biographer who published A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen. The book includes heavily fictionalised accounts of English criminals from the medieval period to the eighteenth century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0014-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1720\u20131729\n1726: Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels, one of the first novels in the genre of satire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0015-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1720\u20131729\n1728: John Gay wrote The Beggar's Opera which has increased in fame ever since. The Beggar's Opera began a new style in Opera, the \"ballad opera\" which brings the operatic form down to a more popular level and precedes the genre of comic operettas. Also in 1728 came the publication of Cyclopaedia, or, A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (folio, 2 vols. ), an encyclopedia by Ephraim Chambers. The Cyclopaedia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English and was the main model for Diderot's Encyclop\u00e9die (published in France between 1751 and 1766).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0016-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1720\u20131729\n1729: Jonathan Swift published A Modest Proposal, a satirical suggestion that Irish families should sell their children as food. Swift was, at this time, fully involved in political campaigning for the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0017-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1730\u20131739\n1731: George Lillo's play The London Merchant was a success at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. It was a new kind of play, a domestic tragedy, which approximates to what later came to be called a melodrama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0018-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1730\u20131739\n1738: Samuel Johnson published London, a poem in imitation of Juvenal\u2019s Third Satire. Like so many poets of the 18th century Johnson sought to breathe new life into his favorite classical author Juvenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0019-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1740\u20131749\n1740: Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded was published and the Marquis de Sade was born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0020-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1740\u20131749\n1744: Alexander Pope died, and in 1745 Jonathan Swift died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0021-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1740\u20131749\n1746: Tobias Smollett's first poem \"The Tears of Scotland\", about the Battle of Culloden, was published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0022-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1740\u20131749\n1748: John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill), arguably the first work of pornographic prose, was published. Also in 1748, Tobias Smollett's first picaresque quasi-autobiographical novel The Adventures of Roderick Random was published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0023-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1740\u20131749\n1749: Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was published. His sister Sarah Fielding also published The Governess, the first full-length novel written for children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0024-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1750\u20131759\n1751: Thomas Gray wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0025-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1750\u20131759\nAlso in 1751, Denis Diderot began the Encyclop\u00e9die, ou dictionnaire raisonn\u00e9 des sciences, des arts et des m\u00e9tiers. Over the next three decades Encyclop\u00e9die attracted, alongside of those from Diderot, notable contributions from other notable intellectuals of the 18th century including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Louis de Jaucourt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0026-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1750\u20131759\n1755: Samuel Johnson completed his influential Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary and at the time, a huge improvement on previously-available dictionaries. It was a daunting task which took nine years in all, two years of preparation and seven years of research and writing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0027-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1760\u20131769\n1764: Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto (initially under a pseudonym and claiming it to be a translation of an Italian work from 1529); the first gothic novel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0028-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1770\u20131779\n1771: Tobias Smollett published his epistolatory novel, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker just three months before his death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0029-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1770\u20131779\n1773: Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer, a farce, was performed in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0030-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1770\u20131779\n1776: The United States Declaration of Independence was created and ratified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0031-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1770\u20131779\n1777: The play The School for Scandal, a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was first performed in Drury Lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0032-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1770\u20131779\n1779\u20131781: Samuel Johnson wrote and published Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. This compilation contains short biographies of 52 influential poets (most of whom lived in the 18th century) along with critical appraisals of their works. Most notable are Alexander Pope, John Dryden, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Joseph Addison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0033-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1780\u20131789\n1785: William Cowper published The Task, a volume of poetry in blank verse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0034-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1780\u20131789\n1786: Robert Burns published Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. The mood of literature was swinging toward more interest in diverse ethnicity. Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro (La Folle journ\u00e9e ou Le Mariage de Figaro) was adapted into a comic opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0035-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1780\u20131789\n1789: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, one of the first slave narratives to have been widely read in historical times, was published. Also in 1789, James Fenimore Cooper was born on 15 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0036-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1790\u20131799\n1794: Ann Radcliffe published her most famous Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0037-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1790\u20131799\n1795: Samuel Taylor Coleridge met William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. The two men published a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads (1798), which became a central text of Romantic poetry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0038-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, English literature in the 18th century by year, 1790\u20131799\n1796: Matthew Lewis published his controversial, anti-catholic gothic novel The Monk and Charlotte Smith published her novel Marchmont. Also in 1796, Mary Hays published her outspoken novel Memoirs of Emma Courtney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0039-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1700-1739\nFrom 1704 to 1717, Antoine Galland published the first European translation of the One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights in English). His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes and exerted a huge influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. Galland's translation of the Nights was immensely popular throughout Europe, and later versions of the Nights were written by Galland's publisher using Galland's name without his consent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0040-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1700-1739\nIn 1731, Manon Lescaut, a French novel by the Abb\u00e9 Pr\u00e9vost that narrates the love affairs of an unmarried couple and inaugurates one of the most common themes of the literature of the time: the sentimental story, taking into account for the first time the female point of view and not only the courtship and the conquest or the failure of man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0041-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1740\u20131769\n1752, Microm\u00e9gas, a satirical short story by Voltaire, features space travellers visiting earth. It is one of the first stories to feature several elements of what will later become known as science fiction. Its publication at this time is also indicative of the trend toward scientific thinking that characterizes the Enlightenment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0042-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1740\u20131769\n1759 Voltaire's Candide/Optimism was published. On November 10, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller is born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0043-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1740\u20131769\n1761 Jean Jacques Rousseau's Julie, ou la nouvelle H\u00e9lo\u00efse was published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0044-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1770\u20131800\n1772 March 10: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel was born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0045-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1770\u20131800\n1774 Goethe wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther, a novel which approximately marks the beginning of the Romanticism movement in the arts and philosophy. A transition thus began, from the critical, science inspired, enlightenment writing to the romantic yearning for forces beyond the mundane and for foreign times and places to inspire the soul with passion and mystery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0046-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1770\u20131800\nAlso in 1774 Alberto Fortis published his travel book Viaggio in Dalmazia (\"Journey to Dalmatia\") and started Morlachism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0047-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1770\u20131800\n1776 Ignacy Krasicki published the first novel in Polish, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0048-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1770\u20131800\n1778 Death of Voltaire. Death of Jean Jacques Rousseau 2 July. Two major contributors to Diderot's Encyclop\u00e9die died in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0049-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1770\u20131800\n1784 Denis Diderot died 31 July. Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot have all died within a period of a few years and French philosophy had thus lost three of its greatest enlightened free thinkers. Rousseau's thinking on the nobility of life in the wilds, facing nature as a naked savage still had great force to influence the next generation as the romantic movement gained momentum. Beaumarchais wrote The Marriage of Figaro. Maria and Harriet Falconar publish Poems on Slavery. The anti-slavery movement was growing in power and many poems and pamphlets were published on the subject.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032587-0050-0000", "contents": "18th century in literature, Other Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Year, 1770\u20131800\n1791 Dream of the Red Chamber was published for the first time in movable type format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032588-0000-0000", "contents": "18th century in philosophy\nThis is a timeline of the 18th century in philosophy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032589-0000-0000", "contents": "18th century in the United States\nThe 18th century in the United States refers to the period in the United States from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar. For articles on this period, see:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032590-0000-0000", "contents": "18th government of Turkey\nThe 18th government of Turkey (16 January 1949 \u2013 22 May 1950) was a government in the history of Turkey. It is also called the G\u00fcnaltay government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032590-0001-0000", "contents": "18th government of Turkey, Background\nHasan Saka of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who was the previous prime minister, resigned on 14 September 1949. President \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc, upon the suggestion of Hilmi Uran, the secretary general of his party, assigned \u015eemsettin G\u00fcnaltay as the new prime minister. G\u00fcnaltay was a scholar of religion, philosophy and history. A scholar of religion as the prime minister of a party which was known to be the champion of secularism was quite unexpected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032590-0002-0000", "contents": "18th government of Turkey, The government\nIn the list below, the cabinet members who served only a part of the cabinet's lifespan are shown in the column \"Notes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032590-0003-0000", "contents": "18th government of Turkey, Aftermath\nG\u00fcnaltay resigned after his party lost the general elections held on 14 May 1950. The next government was founded by Adnan Menderes of the Democrat Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032591-0000-0000", "contents": "18th meridian east\nThe meridian 18\u00b0 east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032591-0001-0000", "contents": "18th meridian east\nThe 18th meridian east forms a great circle with the 162nd meridian west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032591-0002-0000", "contents": "18th meridian east, From Pole to Pole\nStarting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 18th meridian east passes through:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032592-0000-0000", "contents": "18th meridian west\nThe meridian 18\u00b0 west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Canary Islands, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032592-0001-0000", "contents": "18th meridian west\nThe 18th meridian west forms a great circle with the 162nd meridian east.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032592-0002-0000", "contents": "18th meridian west, From Pole to Pole\nStarting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 18th meridian west passes through:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032593-0000-0000", "contents": "18th parallel north\nThe 18th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 18 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032593-0001-0000", "contents": "18th parallel north\nAt this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 13 minutes during the summer solstice and 11 hours, 3 minutes during the winter solstice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032593-0002-0000", "contents": "18th parallel north, Around the world\nStarting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 18\u00b0 north passes through:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032594-0000-0000", "contents": "18th parallel south\nThe 18th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 18 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032594-0001-0000", "contents": "18th parallel south, Around the world\nStarting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 18\u00b0 south passes through:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032595-0000-0000", "contents": "18th station\n18th is an 'L' station on the CTA's Pink Line. It is located at 1710 West 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station is decorated with colorful murals painted by local artists from Pilsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032595-0001-0000", "contents": "18th station, History\n18th station opened on April 28, 1896, as part of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad's Douglas Park branch. From May 1991 until March 1993, the original station was demolished and rebuilt. On June 25, 2006, the 18th station, along with all other stations on the 54th/Cermak branch of the Blue Line, became part of the Pink Line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032595-0001-0001", "contents": "18th station, History\nRather than continuing east on the Blue Line through the Dearborn subway to O'Hare north of the Polk station, trains run north over a section of track on Paulina Avenue and then run on the same tracks as the Green Line west of the Ashland station before circling clockwise around the Loop and returning to 54th/Cermak via the same route.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032595-0002-0000", "contents": "18th station, History\nIn 2016, the Chicago Central Area Commission's proposed the construction of the Connector Transitway which would terminate at 18th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032595-0003-0000", "contents": "18th station, History\nIn 2020, parts of the 1998 murals created by local artists were removed after they had been vandalised, after which the CTA has worked with the local community to restore the murals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0000-0000", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature\n18th-century American piracy of British literature refers to the practice of reprinting British books in the United States without the permission of the original author or publisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0001-0000", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature\nPlagiarism is traditionally defined as \u201cthe process of copying another person's idea or written work and claiming it as original\u201d This definition applies to many aspects of written work in today\u2019s world and has serious consequences if found guilty of committing it, but this idea has not always been in place. During the 18th century, it was extremely common for British Literature to be reprinted across the Atlantic Ocean in America without any acknowledgment or payment given to the original author.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0001-0001", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature\nThis form of plagiarism, referred to as literary piracy, was not an easy action to control because of the immense distance between the two countries, and the lack of any real international law which would work to protect the original authors in England. It was not until 1988 that these international laws were truly set in place and able to be enforced with any form of consistency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0002-0000", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, Early piracy\nAlthough it is now believed to be a crime, plagiarism has not always been considered a negative action. Thoughts, ideas, and writing were considered public property, not something an individual was able to claim as their own The \u201dborrowing\u201d from others was thought of as a form of learning and was encouraged as an opportunity to enhance one's work. It was used as a stepping stone during the creative process. In order to create new stories, plots, and characters for a narrative, it was only natural for authors to look at what others before them had done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0002-0001", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, Early piracy\nThe difference between this recycling of ideas and copying is that an author will add original material to the inspiration, not simply recopy what came prior. Borrowing was deemed acceptable if it is only part of the final result and has a distinct twist from the original piece. A prime example of accepted plagiarism can be found in Shakespeare, who \u201cborrowed\u201d from other authors and playwrights of his day in order to create almost all of his now famous plays. The term plagiarism originally comes from the Latin word for thief, in this case, a literary thief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0003-0000", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, Establishment of copyright laws\nLondon was the first city where authors were able to rightly protect themselves and their ideas after the first copyright law, known as the Statute of Anne, passed in 1710. The specific purpose of this statute was \u201cthe encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books\u201d. This act not only protected authors in Britain, it also worked to protect the authors who had works being brought across the Atlantic to be reprinted without receiving any compensation for their literature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0003-0001", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, Establishment of copyright laws\nIn 1880 the first international copyright laws were proposed by Mr. Edward Thorton in order to prevent this piracy from occurring and establishing consequences if it did (5). This treaty gave British authors protection in America and vice versa, allowing for consequences to follow the rules for the country of original publication. Pirated copies of novels and musical pieces were prohibited. It took over 100 years after these laws were proposed for the United States to fully cooperate with them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0004-0000", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, International piracy\nDuring the 18th century, the plagiarists and literary thieves (pirates) would bring British novels back to America, reprint them (with the original author\u2019s name in order to escape incrimination, but still using another author's work for their own personal gain), and yet never give the original author any compensation for their work. This system fell into place largely because the nation did not have any real individual literary identity at that point in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0004-0001", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, International piracy\nDuring that period, the United States was still in the early stages of its independent development as a nation and most of what the new American public was comfortable with involved British culture and ideas. These pirated novels had already established a reputation and success in England and were therefore not a risk to publishers in the States, who already knew that there would likely be a success in the New World. In some cases, these pirated novels were more accessible in America than they were to the British where they were originally printed. Although novels were a large portion of the pirated works from England, magazines, and newspapers were included in the stolen works as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0005-0000", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, International piracy\nOne primary example can be seen in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a magazine that was aimed at women and attempted to create a patriotic attitude in the developing nation. Harper\u2019s ideas and strategies involved exposing these women to the British form of \"elevated\" culture in an effort to increase the standard and quality of the new American literature, which would result from the British inspiration they provided in their magazine. It was formerly believed that because of America's lack of a social class system, there would be no real need for a strong literary tradition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0005-0001", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, International piracy\nHarper's tried to expose the British tradition in order to facilitate growth for the American tradition. They sold for a low cost because there was no compensation being paid to the original authors back in England for the sole purpose of exposing every educated person in the new American public to \"the unbounded treasures of the periodical literature of the present day\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032596-0006-0000", "contents": "18th-century American piracy of British literature, International piracy\nThe important thing was not the actual content of the magazines or their national origin but more about how much circulation and exposure these pieces received. This feeling of inspiration eventually backfired when the American authors were intimidated by the intense connection and dependence on British authors and did not produce many. Eventually, the resentment for the lack of Americanism led to a change in Harper's to include more national, not international, authors. This change never really paid off and the magazine did not see the same amount of success and profit that it received from the British pirated material.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 72], "content_span": [73, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0000-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art\n18th-century French art was dominated by the Baroque, Rocaille and neoclassical movements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0001-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nIn France, the death of Louis XIV in September 1715 led to a period of licentious freedom commonly called the R\u00e9gence. The heir to Louis XIV, his great grandson Louis XV of France, was only 5 years old; for the next seven years France was ruled by the regent Philippe II of Orl\u00e9ans. Versailles was abandoned from 1715 to 1722. Painting turned toward \"f\u00eates galantes\", theater settings and the female nude. Painters from this period include Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret and Fran\u00e7ois Boucher. One of the best places in the UK to see examples of French visual and decorative arts of the Rococo and neoclassical periods is in the Wallace Collection, a free national gallery in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0002-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nThe Louis XV style of decoration (although already apparent at the end of the last reign) was lighter: pastels and wood panels, smaller rooms, less gilding and fewer brocades; shells and garlands and occasional Chinese subjects predominated. Rooms were more intimate. After the return to Versailles, many of the baroque rooms of Louis XIV were redesigned. The official etiquette was also simplified and the notion of privacy was expanded: the king himself retreated from the official bed at night and conversed in private with his mistress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0003-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nThe latter half of the 18th century continued to see French preeminence in Europe, particularly through the arts and sciences, and the French language was the lingua franca of the European courts. The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste-Sim\u00e9on Chardin, explored new and increasingly impressionist styles of painting with thick brushwork. Although the hierarchy of genres continued to be respected officially, genre painting, landscape, portrait and still life were extremely fashionable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0004-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nThe writer Denis Diderot wrote a number of times on the annual Salons of the Acad\u00e9mie of painting and sculpture and his comments and criticisms are a vital document on the arts of this period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0005-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nOne of Diderot's favorite painters was Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Although often considered kitsch by today's standards, his paintings of domestic scenes reveal the importance of Sentimentalism in the European arts of the period (as also seen in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Samuel Richardson.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0006-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nOne also finds in this period a kind of Pre-romanticism. Hubert Robert's images of ruins, inspired by Italian capriccio paintings, are typical in this respect. So too the change from the rational and geometrical French garden (of Andr\u00e9 Le N\u00f4tre) to the English garden, which emphasized (artificially) wild and irrational nature. One also finds in some of these gardens curious ruins of temples called follies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0007-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nThe middle of the 18th century saw a turn to Neoclassicism in France, that is to say a conscious use of Greek and Roman forms and iconography. In painting, the greatest representative of this style is Jacques-Louis David who, mirroring the profiles of Greek vases, emphasized the use of the profile; his subject matter often involved classical history (the death of Socrates, Brutus). The dignity and subject matter of his paintings were greatly inspired by Nicolas Poussin in the 17th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0008-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nThe Louis XVI style of furniture (once again already present in the previous reign) tended toward circles and ovals in chair backs; chair legs were grooved; Greek inspired iconography was used as decoration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0009-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nFrench neoclassicism would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French revolution, as typified in the structures La Madeleine church (begun in 1763 and finished in 1840) which is in the form of a Greek temple and the mammoth Panth\u00e9on (1764\u20131812) which today houses the tombs of great Frenchmen. The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen \u2014 in the Age of Enlightenment \u2014 as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0010-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nThe Greek and Roman subject matters were also often chosen to promote the values of republicanism. One also finds paintings glorifying the heroes and martyrs of the French revolution, such as David's painting of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032597-0011-0000", "contents": "18th-century French art, History\nJean Auguste Dominique Ingres, a student of David's who was also influenced by Raphael and John Flaxman, would maintain the precision of David's style, while also exploring other mythological (Oedipus and the sphinx, Jupiter and Thetis) and oriental (the Odalesques) subjects in the spirit of Romanticism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0000-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature\nMedieval16th century \u2022 17th century18th century \u2022 19th century20th century \u2022 Contemporary", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0001-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature\n18th-century French literature is French literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798, the year of the coup d'\u00c9tat of Bonaparte which brought the Consulate to power, concluded the French Revolution, and began the modern era of French history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0001-0001", "contents": "18th-century French literature\nThis century of enormous economic, social, intellectual and political transformation produced two important literary and philosophical movements: during what became known as the Age of Enlightenment, the Philosophes questioned all existing institutions, including the church and state, and applied rationalism and scientific analysis to society; and a very different movement, which emerged in reaction to the first movement; the beginnings of Romanticism, which exalted the role of emotion in art and life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0002-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature\nIn common with a similar movement in England at the same time, the writers of 18th century France were critical, skeptical and innovative. Their lasting contributions were the ideas of liberty, toleration, humanitarianism, equality, and progress, which became the ideals of modern western democracy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0003-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nThe 18th century saw the gradual weakening of the absolute monarchy constructed by Louis XIV. Its power slipped away during the Regency of Philippe d'Orl\u00e9ans, (1715\u20131723) and the long regime of King Louis XV, when France lost the Seven Years' War with England, and lost much of its empire in Canada and India. France was forced to recognize the growing power of England and Prussia. The Monarchy finally ended with King Louis XVI, who was unable to understand or control the forces of the French Revolution. The end of the century saw the birth of the United States, with the help of French ideas and military forces; the declaration of the French Republic in 1792, and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, setting the stage for the history of modern France", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0004-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nThe 18th century also brought enormous social changes to France; an enormous growth in population; and, even more important, the growth of the wealthy class, thanks to new technologies (the steam engine, metallurgy), and trade with France's colonies in the New World and India. French society was hierarchal with the Clergy (First Estate) and Nobility (Second Estate) at the top and The Third Estate who included everyone else.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0004-0001", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nMembers of the Third Estate, especially the more wealthy and influential, began to challenge the cultural and social monopoly of the aristocracy; French cities began to have their own theaters, coffee houses and salons, independent of the aristocracy. The Rise of the Third Estate was influential in the overthrow of the monarchy in the French Revolution in 1789.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0005-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nFrench thinking also evolved greatly, thanks to major discoveries in science by Newton, Watt, Volta, Leibniz, Buffon, Lavoisier, and Monge, among others, and their rapid diffusion throughout Europe through newspapers, journals, scientific societies, and theaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0006-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nFaith in science and progress was the driving force behind the first French Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The authority of the Catholic Church was weakened, partly by the conflicts between high and low clergy, partly by the conflict between the State and Jesuits, who were finally expelled from the Kingdom in 1764. The Protestants achieved legal status in France in 1787. The church hierarchy was in continual battle with the Lumieres, having many of their works banned, and causing French courts to sentence a Protestant, Jean Calas, to death in 1762 for blasphemy, an act which was strongly condemned by Voltaire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0007-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nThe explorations of the New World and the first encounters with American Indians also brought a new theme into French and European Literature; exoticism, and the idea of the Noble Savage, which inspired such works as Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. The exchange of ideas with other countries also increased. British ideas were particularly important, particularly such ideas as constitutional monarchy and romanticism, which greatly influenced French writers, particularly in the following century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0008-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nThe visual arts of the 18th century were highly decorative and oriented toward giving pleasure, as exemplified by the Regency Style and Louis XV Style, and the paintings of Fran\u00e7ois Boucher, Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard, Watteau and Chardin, and portrait painters Quentin de La Tour, Nattier and Van Loo. Toward the end of the century, a more sober style appeared, aimed at illustrating scenery, work, and moral values exemplified by Greuze, Hubert Robert and Claude Joseph Vernet. The leading figures in French music were Fran\u00e7ois Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau, but they were overshadowed by other European composers of the century, notably Vivaldi, Mozart Haendel, Bach, and Haydn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0009-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Context\nFor art and architecture in the 18th century, see French Rococo and Neoclassicism", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0010-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The Philosophes and the literature of ideas\nContinuing the work of the so-called \"Libertines\" of the 17th century, and the critical spirit of such writers as Bayle and Fontenelle, (1657\u20131757), the writers who were called the lumi\u00e8res denounced, in the name of reason and moral values, the social and political oppressions of their time. They challenged the idea of absolute monarchy and demanded a social contract as the new basis of political authority, and demanded a more democratic organization of central power in a constitutional monarchy, with a separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government (Montesquieu, Diderot, and Rousseau.) Voltaire fought against the abuses of power by the government, such as censorship and letters of cachet, which allowed imprisonment without trial, against the collusion of the church and monarchy, and for an \"enlightened despotism\" where kings would be advised by philosophers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 991]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0011-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The Philosophes and the literature of ideas\nThese writers, and others such as the Abb\u00e9 Siey\u00e8s, one of the main authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, became known as the philosophes. They came from the wealthy upper class or Third Estate, sought a society founded upon talent and merit, rather than a society based on heredity or caste. Their ideas were strongly influenced by those of John Locke in England. They introduced the values of liberty and equality which became the ideals of the French Republic founded at the end of the century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0011-0001", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The Philosophes and the literature of ideas\nThey defended the freedom of conscience and challenged the role of religious institutions in society. For them, tolerance was a fundamental value of society. When the Convention placed the ashes of Voltaire in the Pantheon in Paris, they honored him as the man who \"taught us to live as free men.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0012-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The Philosophes and the literature of ideas\nWhile the philosophes had widely different approaches, they all had as a common objective, both for humanity and for individuals, the ideal of happiness (bonheur). Some, like Rousseau, dreamed of the happiness of the noble savage, rapidly disappearing; others, like Voltaire, sought happiness in a life of the worldly pursuit of refinement. The philosophes were optimists, and they saw their mission clearly; they did not simply observe, but agitated ceaselessly for the achievement of their goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0013-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The Philosophes and the literature of ideas\nThe important works of the philosophes belonged to a variety of different genres, such as the tale illustrating a particular philosophical point;(Zadig (1747) or Candide (1759), both by Voltaire in 1759); or satire on French life disguised as letters from an exotic country (Lettres persanes by Montesquieu in 1721); or essays (The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu in 1748, An Essay on Tolerance by Voltaire in 1763; The Social Contract by Rousseau in 1762; The Supplement to a voyage of Bougainville by Diderot, or The History of the Two Indias by the Abb\u00e9 Guillaume-Thomas Raynal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0014-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The Philosophes and the literature of ideas\nThe comedies of Marivaux and of Beaumarchais also played a part in this debate about and diffusion of great ideas. The monumental work of the philosophes was the Encyclop\u00e9die ou Dictionnaire raisonn\u00e9 des sciences, des arts et des m\u00e9tiers, the famous encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, published in thirty-five volumes, with texts and illustration, from 1750 until 1772, accompanied by a large variety of essays, speeches, dialogues and interviews on all aspects of knowledge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0015-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French theater in the 18th century\nThe great French playwrights of the 17th century, Moli\u00e8re, Racine and Corneille, continued to exert a great influence on the Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise, but new life was brought into French theater by the tragedies of Voltaire, which introduced modern themes while keeping the classical forms of the alexandrine, as in the play Za\u00efre in 1732, and The Fanaticism of Mohamet in 1741, both of which enjoyed great success. Nonetheless, royal censorship was still active in the theater under King Louis XV and Louis XVI, and, despite his popularity, Beaumarchais had great difficulty getting his play The Marriage of Figaro staged in Paris, because of its political message.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0016-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French theater in the 18th century\nThe relaxing of morals under the French Regency brought the return in 1716 of the Com\u00e9die-Italienne, which had been driven out of Paris under Louis XIV. It also saw a period of great theatrical spectacles; crowds went to the theater to see famous actors and to laugh at the characters introduced by the Italian commedia dell'arte, such as Harlequin, Columbine and Pantalone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0016-0001", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French theater in the 18th century\nThis was the genre used by Marivaux (1688\u20131763), with comedies which combined a perceptive analysis of the sentiments of love, subtle verbal play, and an analysis of the problems of society, all done through a clever use of the relationship between the master and his valet. His major works include Les Fausses Confidences (1737), le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1730), and l'\u00cele des esclaves (1725).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0017-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French theater in the 18th century\nJean-Fran\u00e7ois Regnard and Alain-Ren\u00e9 Lesage (1668\u20131747) also had great success with comedies of manners, such as Regnard's Le L\u00e9gataire universel, and Lesage's Turcaret in 1709. But the greatest author of French comedies in the 18th century was Beaumarchais (1732\u20131799), who displayed a mastery of dialogue and intrigue combined with social and political satire through the character of Figaro, a valet who challenges the power of his master, who is featured in two major works; le Barbier de S\u00e9ville (1775) and le Mariage de Figaro (1784).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0018-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French theater in the 18th century\nThe theater of the 18th century also introduced two new genres, now considered minor, which both strongly influenced the French theater in the following century; the \"Comedy of Tears\" (com\u00e9die larmoyante) and the bourgeois drama (drame bourgeois) which told stories full of pathos in a realistic setting, and which concerned the lives of bourgeois families, rather than aristocrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0018-0001", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French theater in the 18th century\nSome popular examples of these genres were the Le Fils naturel (The Natural Son) by Diderot in 1757; Le P\u00e8re de famille (The Father of the Family) by Diderot in 1758; Le Philosophe sans le savoir (The Philosopher who did not know he was a Philosopher) by Michel-Jean Sedaine, (1765); La Brouette du vinaigrier (The Vinegar Cart) by Louis-S\u00e9bastien Mercier (1775); and La M\u00e8re Coupable (The Guilty Mother) by Beaumarchais, (1792).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0019-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French theater in the 18th century\nThe 18th century also saw the development of new forms of musical theater, such as the vaudeville theater, and the op\u00e9ra comique, as well as a new genre of literary writing about theater, such as Diderot's Paradoxe sur le com\u00e9dien; the writings of Voltaire defending theater actors against the condemnation of the church; and Rousseau's condemnation of immorality in the theater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0020-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century\nThe novel in the 18th century saw innovations in form and content which opened the way for the modern novel, a work of fiction in prose recounting the adventures or the evolution of one or several characters. In the 18th century the genre of the novel enjoyed a great increase in readership, and was marked by the effort to convey feelings realistically, through such literary devices as first-person narration, exchanges of letters, and dialogues, all trying to show, in the spirit of the lumieres, a society which was evolving. The French novel was strongly influenced by the English novel, through the translation of the works of Samuel Richardson, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0021-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century\nThe novel of the 18th century explored all the potential devices of a novel - different points of view, surprise twists of the plot, engaging the reader, careful psychological analysis, realistic descriptions of the setting, imagination, and attention to form. The texts of the period are difficult to neatly divide into categories, but they can loosely be divided into several subgenres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0022-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century, The philosophical tale\nThis category includes the contes philosophiques of Voltaire, Zadig (1747) and Candide (1759), and also the later novella, l'Ing\u00e9nu, (1768) in which Voltaire moved away from fantasy and introduced a large part of social and psychological realism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 92], "content_span": [93, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0023-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century, The realistic novel\nThis subgenre combined social realism with stories about men and women looking for love. Examples include la Vie de Marianne (1741), and Le Paysan parvenu (1735) by Marivaux; Manon Lescaut (1731) by the abb\u00e9 Antoine Fran\u00e7ois Pr\u00e9vost (1731) and Le Paysan perverti (The Perverse Peasant) (1775), a novel in the form of letters by Nicolas-Edme R\u00e9tif (1734\u20131806). Within this subgenre is a sub-subgenre of realistic novels about love influenced by Spanish literature; novels full of satire, a variety of different social milieux, and young men learning their way in the new world. The classic example is Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain-Ren\u00e9 Lesage (1715).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 89], "content_span": [90, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0024-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century, The novel of the imagination\nThe novel of the imagination pictured life centuries in the future; L'An 2440, r\u00eave s'il en fut jamais (The year 2440 - dream of all dreams) by Mercier (1771); or stories of fantasy le Diable amoureux (The Devil in Love) of Jacques Cazotte (1772).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 98], "content_span": [99, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0025-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century, The libertine, or erotic novel\nThe libertine, or erotic novel, featured eroticism, seduction, manipulation, and social intrigue. Classic examples are Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782); Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu (Justine or the misfortunes of virtue) by Donatien Alphonse Fran\u00e7ois de Sade (the Marquis de Sade) (1797); Le Sopha- conte moral (The Sopha - a moral tale) by Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr\u00e9billon (1745), and les Bijoux indiscrets (The indiscreet jewels) (1748) and La Religieuse (The Nun) by Diderot (1760).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 100], "content_span": [101, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0026-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century, The novel of feelings\nThe novel of feelings appeared in the second half of the 18th century, with the publication of Julie ou la Nouvelle H\u00e9lo\u00efse (Julie, or the New Heloise), in a novel in the form of letters, written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1761). It was modelled after the English novel Pamela by Samuel Richardson, which was the best-selling novel of the century, drawing readers by its pre-romantic depiction of nature and romantic love. Another popular example was Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1787).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0027-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The French novel in the 18th century, The novel broken apart\nThe romans \u00e9clat\u00e9s, roughly translated \"Novels broken apart\", such as Jacques le fataliste et son ma\u00eetre (Eng: Jacques the Fatalist and His Master) (1773) and le Neveu de Rameau (Eng: The Nephew of Rameau) (1762) by Diderot are almost impossible to classify, but resemble the modernist novels that would come a century or more later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 92], "content_span": [93, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0028-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, The birth of the autobiography in the 18th century\nLiterary stories of people's lives were popular throughout the 18th century, with such popular books as la Vie de mon p\u00e8re (Eng: The Life of My Father) (1779) and Monsieur Nicolas (1794) by Nicolas-Edme R\u00e9tif, but the success of the century was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who founded the genre of the modern autobiography with les R\u00eaveries du promeneur solitaire (The dreams of a solitary walker) in 1776, and Les Confessions in 1782, which became the models for all novels of self-discovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 82], "content_span": [83, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0029-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French poetry of the 18th century\nVoltaire used verse with great skill in his Po\u00e8me sur le d\u00e9sastre de Lisbonne (Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) and in le Mondain (The Man About Town), but his poetry was in the classical school of the 17th century. Only a few French poets of the 18th century have an enduring reputation; they include Jacques Delille (1738\u20131813), for les Jardins (The Gardens), in 1782; and \u00c9variste de Parny (1753\u20131814) for \u00c9l\u00e9gies in 1784, who both contributed to the birth of romanticism and to the poetry of nature and nostalgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0030-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French poetry of the 18th century\nThe poet of the 18th century best-known today is Andr\u00e9 Ch\u00e9nier (1762\u20131794), who created an expressive style in his famous la Jeune Tarentine (The Young Tarentine) and la Jeune Captive (The Young Captive), both published only in 1819, long after his death during the Terror of the French Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0031-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, French poetry of the 18th century\nFabre d'\u00c9glantine was known both for his songs, such as Il pleut, il pleut, berg\u00e8re) (It's raining, shepherdess) and for his participation in the writing of the new French Republican Calendar created during the French Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032598-0032-0000", "contents": "18th-century French literature, Conclusions\nFrench literature in the 18th century offered a rich collection of works in all genres, and brought together, rather than opposed, the philosophical and analytical views of the Philosophes and Lumieres with the more subjective and personal views of the emerging romantic movement. Many of the works of the 18th century are forgotten, but the century also produced a number of writers who were great both for the originality and importance of their ideas and for their literary talent; writers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Diderot and Beaumarchais, whose ideas are still quoted today. They used their novels and plays as weapons which profoundly changed their society, while expressing their own personalities and feelings. Thanks largely to these writers, in the 18th century French became the language of culture, political and social reform all across Europe, and as far away as America and Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 956]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0000-0000", "contents": "18th-century London\nThe 18th century was a period of rapid growth for London, reflecting an increasing national population, the early stirrings of the Industrial Revolution, and London's role at the centre of the evolving British Empire. By the end of the century nearly one million people lived in London, about one tenth of the population of Great Britain. By 1715, London's population reached an estimated 630,000 people, roughly equaling that of Europe's largest city until that time, Paris. Within a few years London itself was the largest city in Europe, reaching 750,000 people by 1760 and 1 million by the end of the century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0001-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Extent & population\nLondon's growth in the 18th century was marked above all by the westward shift of the population away from the City of London. Westminster was intensively developed, with new districts like Mayfair housing Britain's wealthiest aristocratic families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0001-0001", "contents": "18th-century London, Extent & population\nTo the north of Oxford Street, the building of Cavendish Square in 1717 on the estate of Lord Harley inaugurated the development of the eastern half of Marylebone, while the Portman Estate, which occupies the western half of Marylebone, began its own building program in the 1750s with the granting of commercial leases, followed by the commencement of building on Portman Square in 1764. The most exclusive area, Mayfair, was intensively built up with luxury townhouses on an area occupied by seven different estates: the Grosvenor, Burlington, Berkeley, Curzon, Milfield, Conduit Mead, and Albemarle Ground estates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0001-0002", "contents": "18th-century London, Extent & population\nThe Grosvenor estate, in the northwest corner between Oxford Street and Park Lane, was the most substantial private plot of land, featuring an orderly grid network of streets constructed around Grosvenor Square in the early 1720s. By 1738 \"nearly the whole space between Piccadilly and Oxford Street was covered with buildings as far as Tyburn Lane [Park Lane], except in the south-western corner about Berkeley Square and Mayfair\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0002-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Extent & population\nRural villages surrounding Westminster and the City also grew in population and were gradually incorporated into the metropolis: areas like Bethnal Green and Shadwell to the east, or Paddington and St Pancras to the northwest. In 1750 the London topographer John Noorthouck reckoned that London proper consisted of 46 former villages, two cities (Westminster and the City of London proper), and one borough (Southwark). Westminster had a population of 162,077, the City 116,755, and Southwark 61,169.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0003-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Urban fabric\nTo accommodate the rapid growth of population, Parliament enacted building legislation and initiated important infrastructure projects. The New Road running between Paddington and Islington was constructed beginning in 1756. Intended as a drover's road upon which livestock could be driven to Smithfield Market without encountering the congested road network of the city further south, the 60\u00a0ft. wide New Road was London's first bypass and served as the informal northern boundary for London for years to come. With the completion of Westminster Bridge in 1750, London gained a much needed second overland crossing into the South Bank. In 1761 the seven ancient gates enclosing the City of London were removed to improve the circulation of traffic, as was the dense warren of housing on London Bridge which was a perennial fire hazard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0004-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Urban fabric\nLandmark legislation included the Westminster Paving Act of 1765, which required streets be equipped with pavements, drainage, and lighting. The success of the legislation inspired the London Paving and Lighting Act of 1766, which extended the same provisions across the whole city and required that houses be numbered and streets and pavements be cleansed and swept regularly. Street lighting was more extensive than in any other city in Europe, something which amazed foreign visitors to the capital in the late 18th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0004-0001", "contents": "18th-century London, Urban fabric\nThe single most impactful piece of legislation for the aesthetic appearance of the capital was the Building Act of 1777, which set building requirements for new housing and sought to eliminate rampant jerry-building and shoddy construction work. Housing was divided into four \"rates\" based on ground rents, with each of the rates accorded their own strict building codes. The Building Act accounts for the remarkable uniformity of Georgian terraced housing and squares in London built in subsequent decades, which critics like John Summerson criticized for their \"inexpressible monotony\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0005-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Urban fabric\nIn 1708 Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral was completed on his birthday. The first service had been held on 2 December 1697, more than 10 years earlier. This cathedral replaced the original St. Paul's, which had been completely destroyed in the Great Fire of London. This building is considered one of the finest in Britain and a fine example of Baroque architecture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0006-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Urban fabric\nA phenomenon of 18th-century London was the coffee house, which became a popular place to debate ideas. Growing literacy and the development of the printing press meant that news became widely available. Fleet Street became the centre of the embryonic British press during the century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0007-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Urban fabric\nThe Bow Street Runners were established in 1749 as a professional police force, whilst from 1798 a Marine Police Force tackled crime in the docks and Pool of London. Penalties for crime were harsh, with the death penalty being applied for fairly minor crimes. Public hangings were common in London, and were popular public events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032599-0008-0000", "contents": "18th-century London, Urban fabric\nIn 1780, London was rocked by the Gordon Riots, an uprising by Protestants against Roman Catholic emancipation led by Lord George Gordon. Severe damage was caused to Catholic churches and homes, and 285 rioters were killed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0000-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany\nFrom the 1680s to 1789, Germany comprised many small territories which were parts of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Prussia finally emerged as dominant. Meanwhile, the states developed a classical culture that found its greatest expression in the Enlightenment, with world class leaders such as philosophers Leibniz and Kant, writers such as Goethe and Schiller, and musicians Bach and Beethoven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0001-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nGermany, or more exactly the old Holy Roman Empire, in the 18th century entered a period of decline that would finally lead to the dissolution of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. Since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Empire had been fragmented into numerous independent states (Kleinstaaterei). In 1701, Elector Frederick of Brandenburg was crowned \"King in Prussia\". From 1713 to 1740, King Frederick William I, also known as the \"Soldier King\", established a highly centralized state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0002-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nThe term German dualism describes the long conflict between the two largest German states Austria and Prussia from 1740 to 1866 when Prussia finally forced Austria out of the German Confederation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0003-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nThe Kingdom of Prussia emerged as the leading state of the Empire. Frederick III (1688\u20131701) became King Frederick I of Prussia in 1701. Since there was only one King of the Germans within the Empire, Frederick gained the assent of Emperor Leopold I (in return for alliance against France in the War of the Spanish Succession) to his adoption (January 1701) of the title of \"King in Prussia\" based on his non-imperial territories. The title came into general acceptance with the Treaty of Utrecht (1713).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0004-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nSweden's defeat by Russia, Saxony, Poland, Denmark\u2013Norway, Hanover, and Prussia in the Great Northern War (1700\u201321) marked the end of significant Swedish power on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea. In the Prusso\u2013Swedish Treaty of Stockholm (January 1720), Prussia regained Stettin (Szczecin) and other parts of Sweden's holding in Pomerania. The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg had held the reversion to the Duchy of Pomerania since 1472. During this time, the trends set in motion by the Great Elector reached their culmination, as the Junkers, the landed aristocracy, were welded to the Prussian Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0005-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nIn 1740, King Frederick II (Frederick the Great) came to the throne. Using the pretext of a 1537 treaty (vetoed by Emperor Ferdinand I), by which parts of Silesia were to pass to Brandenburg after the extinction of its ruling Piast dynasty, Frederick invaded Silesia, thereby beginning the War of the Austrian Succession (1740\u201348). In 1744, Frederick invaded again to forestall reprisals and to claim, this time, the province of Bohemia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0005-0001", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nHe failed, but French pressure on Austria's ally Great Britain led to a series of treaties and compromises, culminating in the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle that restored peace and left Prussia in possession of most of Silesia. When Frederick preemptively invaded Saxony and Bohemia over the course of a few months in 1756\u201357, he initiated the Seven Years' War. This war was a desperate struggle for the Prussian Army, and the fact that it managed to fight much of Europe to a draw bears witness to Frederick's military skills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0005-0002", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nThe situation became progressively grimmer until the death of Empress Elizabeth of Russia (the miracle of the House of Brandenburg). The accession of the Prussophile Peter III relieved the pressure on the eastern front. Defeating the Austrian army at the Battle of Burkersdorf and relying on continuing British success against France in the war's colonial theatres, Prussia was finally able to force a status quo ante bellum on the continent. This result confirmed Prussia's major role within the German states and established the country as a European great power. This gave the start to the rivalry between Prussia and Austria for the leadership of Germany, referred to as German dualism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0006-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nFrom 1763, against resistance from the nobility and citizenry, an \"enlightened absolutism\" was established in Prussia and Austria, according to which the ruler was to be \"the first servant of the state\". The economy developed and legal reforms were undertaken, including the abolition of torture and the improvement in the status of Jews; the emancipation of the peasants began. Education was promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0007-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nIn 1772\u201395, Prussia took part in the partitions of Poland, occupying western territories of the Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to centuries of Polish resistance against German rule and persecution. To the east and south of Prussia, the Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth had gradually weakened during the 18th century. Frederick took part in the first of the partitions of Poland, between Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1772. The Kingdom of Prussia annexed most of the Polish province of Royal Prussia, including Warmia; the annexed land was organized the following year into the Province of West Prussia. The new territory connected East Prussia (the territory previously known as the Duchy of Prussia) with Pomerania, uniting the kingdom's eastern territories. After Frederick died in 1786, his nephew Fredrick William II continued the partitions, gaining a large part of western Poland in 1793.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 970]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0008-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nIn 1795, the Kingdom of Poland ceased to exist and a large area (including Warsaw) to the south of East Prussia became part of Prussia. These new territories were organized into the Provinces of New Silesia, South Prussia, and New East Prussia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0009-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nThe French Revolution sparked a new war between France and several of its Eastern neighbors, including Prussia and Austria. Following the Peace of Basel in 1795 with Prussia, the west bank of the Rhine was ceded to France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0010-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nNapoleon I of France relaunched the war against the Empire. In 1803, under the \"Reichsdeputationshauptschluss\" (a resolution of a committee of the Eternal Imperial Diet meeting in Regensburg), he abolished almost all the ecclesiastical and the smaller secular states and most of the imperial free cities. New medium-sized states were established in south-western Germany. In turn, Prussia gained territory in north-western Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0011-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Military and diplomatic history\nThe Holy Roman Empire was formally dissolved on 6 August 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) resigned. Francis II's family continued to be called Austrian emperors until 1918. In 1806, the Confederation of the Rhine was established under Napoleon's protection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0012-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Politics\nFrom 1640, Brandenburg-Prussia had started to rise under the Great Elector, Frederick William. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 strengthened it even further, through the acquisition of East Pomerania. From 1713 to 1740, King Frederick William I, also known as the \"Soldier King\", established a highly centralized, militarized state with a heavily rural population of about three million (compared to the nine million in Austria).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0013-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Politics\nIn terms of the boundaries of 1914, Germany in 1700 had a population of 16 million, increasing slightly to 17 million by 1750, and growing more rapidly to 24 million by 1800. Wars continued, but they were no longer so devastating to the civilian population; famines and major epidemics did not occur, but increased agricultural productivity led to a higher birth rate, and a lower death rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0014-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Politics\nIn the War of the Austrian Succession (1740\u201348) Maria Theresa fought successfully for recognition of her succession to the throne. But in the Silesian Wars and in the Seven Years' War she had to cede 95 percent of Silesia to Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia. After the Peace of Hubertsburg in 1763 between Austria, Prussia and Saxony, Prussia became a European great power. This gave the start to the rivalry between Prussia and Austria for the leadership of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0015-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Politics\nFrom 1763, against resistance from the nobility and citizenry, an \"enlightened absolutism\" was established in Prussia and Austria, according to which the ruler governed according to the best precepts of the philosophers. The economies developed and legal reforms were undertaken, including the abolition of torture and the improvement in the status of Jews. Emancipation of the peasants slowly began. Compulsory education was instituted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0016-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Politics\nIn 1772\u20131795 Prussia and Austria took part in the partitions of Poland. Prussia occupied the western territories of the former Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth that surrounded existing Prussian holdings, while Austria took the territory of Galicia further south. This occupation led to centuries of Polish resistance against Germanization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0017-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Smaller states\nTo the west of Austria and Prussia stood the remaining, major, part of Germany. The existence of the two big powers precluded a serious reform of the confederate structure of Germany; but reform of the individual state governments and administrations was not excluded. The general picture was as varied as the political map of the Holy Roman Empire, and it is difficult to generalise. But the impression prevails that, overall, after 1750 and especially after 1770, the general situation of the middle classes improved slightly, both economically and politically. Reforms were carried in a number of large and small states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0017-0001", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Smaller states\nThere were some profligate, vicious and dull-witted rulers, but there were also some outstanding personalities. The bureaucrats, if often corrupt, were more competent and better educated than before. Saxony remained in the vanguard of German cultural activities, and its commercial and industrial activities remained considerable; but politically, it was outclassed by its neighbor Brandenburg-Prussia. Bavaria was especially unfortunate; it was a rural land with very heavy debts and few growth centers. In W\u00fcrttemberg the duke lavished funds on palaces, mistresses, great celebrations, and hunting expeditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0017-0002", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Smaller states\nAmong the smaller princes, many offensive characters could be found, but also many of outstanding figures, such as Duke William Ferdinand of Brunswick and Margrave Karl Friedrich of Baden. Under the rule of Karl Friedrich, an enthusiast for The Enlightenment, Baden enjoyed some of the best governments of the smaller states. Serfdom was abolished in 1783, although this was done primarily to avert peasant unrest and the flight of unfree Baden peasants to neighboring Breisgau after Joseph II abolished serfdom in that Austrian province in 1781.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0018-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Smaller states\nA large part of Germany still lived under the rule of bishops. Conditions in these ecclesiastical principalities were no less variegated than those of the secular states. All the bishops were scions of the ruling dynasties or the high aristocracy and they considered themselves political rulers who lived and acted in the style of the contemporary secular court society. Their sense of responsibility and their capacity for the administration of their territories also varied greatly. However, even at their best, they could not achieve the continuity of government that some dynastic states began to acquire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0019-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Smaller states\nIn Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II ruled from 1760\u20131785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by hiring soldiers (called \"Hessians\") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War. He combined Enlightenment ideas with Christian values, cameralist plans for central control of the economy, and a militaristic approach to diplomacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0020-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Smaller states\nHanover did not have to support a lavish court: its rulers were also kings of England and resided in London. George III, elector (ruler) from 1760 to 1820, never once visited Hanover. The local nobility who ran the country opened the University of G\u00f6ttingen in 1737; it soon became a world-class intellectual center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0021-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Nobility\nIn a heavily agrarian society, land ownership played a central role. Germany's nobles, especially those in the East \u2013 called Junkers \u2013dominated not only the localities, but also the Prussian court, and especially the Prussian army. Increasingly after 1815, a centralized Prussian government based in Berlin took over the powers of the nobles, which in terms of control over the peasantry had been almost absolute. To help the nobility avoid indebtedness, Berlin set up a credit institution to provide capital loans in 1809, and extended the loan network to peasants in 1849. When the German Empire was established in 1871, the Junker nobility controlled the army and the Navy, the bureaucracy, and the royal court; they generally set governmental policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0022-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Peasants and rural life\nPeasants continued to center their lives on the village, where they were members of a corporate body and helped manage the community resources and monitor the community life. In the East, they were serfs who were bound permanently to parcels of land. In most of Germany, farming was undertaken by tenant farmers who paid rents and carried out obligatory services to the landlord, who was typically a nobleman. Peasant leaders supervised the fields and ditches and grazing rights, maintained public order and morals, and supported a village court which handled minor offenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0022-0001", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Peasants and rural life\nWithin the family the patriarch made all the decisions, and tried to arrange advantageous marriages for his children. Much of the villages' communal life centered around church services and holy days. In Prussia, the peasants drew lots to choose conscripts required by the army. The noblemen handled external relationships and politics for the villages under their control, and were not typically involved in daily activities or decisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0023-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Peasants and rural life\nIn German history the emancipation of the serfs came between 1770\u20131830, with the nobility in Schleswig being the first to agree to do so in 1797, followed by the signing of the royal and political leaders of Denmark and Germany in 1804. The peasants, no longer serfs, could own their land, buy and sell it, and move about freely. The nobles approved; for now they could buy land owned by the peasants. The chief reformer was Baron vom Stein(1757\u20131831), who was influenced by The Enlightenment, especially the free market ideas of Adam Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0023-0001", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Peasants and rural life\nThe end of serfdom raised the personal legal status of the peasantry. A bank was set up so that landowner could borrow government money to buy land from peasants (the peasants were not allowed to use it to borrow money to buy land until 1850). The result was that the large landowners obtained larger estates, and many peasants became landless tenants, or moved to the cities or to America. The other German states imitated Prussia after 1815. In sharp contrast to the violent events of the French Revolution, Germany handled land reform peacefully.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0023-0002", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Peasants and rural life\nIn Schleswig the peasants, who had been influenced by the Enlightenment, played an active role; elsewhere they were largely passive. Indeed, for most peasants, customs and traditions continued largely unchanged, including the old habits of deference to the nobles whose legal authority over the villagers remained quite strong. Although the peasants were no longer tied to the land, the old paternalistic relationship in East Prussia lasted into the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0024-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Peasants and rural life\nThe agrarian reforms in northwestern Germany in 1770\u20131870 were driven by progressive governments and local elites. They abolished feudal obligations and divided collectively owned common land into private parcels; and thus created a more efficient market-oriented rural economy; resulting in higher productivity and population growth. It strengthened the traditional social order because wealthy peasants obtained most of the former common land, while the rural proletariat was left without land; many left for the cities or America. Meanwhile, the division of the common land served as a buffer preserving social peace between nobles and peasants. In the east the serfs were emancipated but the Junker class maintained its large estates and monopolized political power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0025-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Society, Peasants and rural life\nAround 1800 the Catholic monasteries, which had large land holdings, were nationalized and sold off by the government. In Bavaria they had controlled 56% of the land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0026-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Enlightenment\nBefore 1750, the German upper classes often looked to France (or, previously, Italy) for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership; French was the language of high society. By the mid-18th century the \"Aufkl\u00e4rung\" (The Enlightenment) had transformed German high culture in music, philosophy, science and literature. Christian Wolff (1679\u20131754) was the pioneer as a writer who expounded the Enlightenment to German readers; he legitimized German as a philosophic language.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0027-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Enlightenment\nJohann Gottfried Herder (1744\u20131803) broke new ground in philosophy and poetry, as a leader of the Sturm und Drang movement of proto-Romanticism. Weimar Classicism (\"Weimarer Klassik\") was a cultural and literary movement based in Weimar that sought to establish a new humanism by synthesizing Romantic, classical, and Enlightenment ideas. The movement, from 1772 until 1805, involved Herder as well as polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749\u20131832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759\u20131805), a poet and historian. Herder argued that every folk had its own particular identity, which was expressed in its language and culture. This legitimized the promotion of German language and culture and helped shape the development of German nationalism. Schiller's plays expressed the restless spirit of his generation, depicting the hero's struggle against social pressures and the force of destiny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 931]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0028-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Enlightenment\nGerman music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685\u20131750), Joseph Haydn (1732\u20131809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756\u20131791), and Ludwig van Beethoven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0029-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Enlightenment\nIn remote K\u00f6nigsberg philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724\u20131804) tried to reconcile rationalism and religious belief, individual freedom, and political authority. Kant's work contained basic tensions that would continue to shape German thought \u2013 and indeed all of European philosophy \u2013 well into the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0030-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, Enlightenment\nThe German Enlightenment won the support of princes, aristocrats, and the middle classes, and it permanently reshaped the culture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0031-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nGerman reaction to the French Revolution was mixed at first. German intellectuals celebrated the outbreak, hoping to see the triumph of Reason and The Enlightenment. The royal courts in Vienna and Berlin denounced the overthrow of the king and the threatened spread of notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity. By 1793, the execution of the French king and the onset of the Terror disillusioned the Bildungsb\u00fcrgertum (educated middle classes). Reformers said the solution was to have faith in the ability of Germans to reform their laws and institutions in peaceful fashion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0032-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nEurope was racked by two decades of war revolving around France's efforts to spread its revolutionary ideals, as well as to annex Belgium and the Rhine's Left Bank to France and establish puppet regimes in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. The French revolutionaries' open and strident republicanism led to the conclusion of a defensive alliance between Austria and Prussia on 7 February 1792. The alliance also declared that any violation of the borders of the Empire by France would be a cause for war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0032-0001", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nThe extremists among the French revolutionaries saw war as a chance to defeat their domestic opponents and embarrass the king, whose Austrian wife, Marie-Antoinette, was Emperor Leopold II's sister. They demanded that Austria not only disarm but abandon all alliances directed against France. Upon Leopold II's refusal, France declared war on Austria and Prussia on 20 April. Austria and Prussia then invaded France, but were defeated at the Battle of Valmy (1792).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0032-0002", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nThe German lands saw armies marching back and forth, bringing devastation (albeit on a far lower scale than the Thirty Years' War, almost two centuries before), but also bringing new ideas of liberty and civil rights for the people. Prussia and Austria ended their failed wars with France but (with Russia) partitioned Poland among themselves in 1793 and 1795. The French took control of the Rhineland, imposed French-style reforms, abolished feudalism, established constitutions, promoted freedom of religion, emancipated Jews, opened the bureaucracy to ordinary citizens of talent, and forced the nobility to share power with the rising middle class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0032-0003", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nNapoleon created the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807\u20131813) as a model state. These reforms proved largely permanent and modernized the western parts of Germany. When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity. A Second Coalition of Britain, Russia, and Austria then attacked France but failed. Napoleon established direct or indirect control over most of western Europe, including the German states apart from Prussia and Austria. The old Holy Roman Empire was little more than a farce; Napoleon simply abolished it in 1806 while forming new countries under his control. In Germany Napoleon set up the \"Confederation of the Rhine,\" comprising most of the German states except Prussia and Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0033-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nPrussia tried to remain neutral while imposing tight controls on dissent, but with German nationalism sharply on the rise, the small nation blundered by going to war with Napoleon in 1806. Its economy was weak, its leadership poor, and the once mighty Prussian army was a hollow shell. Napoleon easily crushed it at the Battle of Jena (1806). Napoleon occupied Berlin, and Prussia paid dearly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0033-0001", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nPrussia lost its recently acquired territories in western Germany, its army was reduced to 42,000 men, no trade with Britain was allowed, and Berlin had to pay Paris heavy reparations and fund the French army of occupation. Saxony changed sides to support Napoleon and join his Confederation of the Rhine; its elector was rewarded with the title of king and given a slice of Poland taken from Prussia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032600-0034-0000", "contents": "18th-century history of Germany, French Revolution 1789\u20131815\nAfter Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia in 1812, including the deaths of many Germans in his invasion army, Prussia joined with Russia. Major battles followed in quick order, and when Austria switched sides to oppose Napoleon his situation grew tenuous. He was defeated at the Battle of Leipzig in late 1813, and his empire quickly unraveled. One after another the German states switched to oppose Napoleon, but he rejected peace terms. Allied armies invaded France in early 1814, Paris fell, and in April Napoleon surrendered. He returned for 100 days in 1815, but was finally defeated by the British and German armies at Waterloo. Prussia was the big winner at the Vienna peace conference, gaining extensive territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0000-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales\nIn the period following Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750, apart from the publication of The Art of Fugue in the early 1750s, the only further publications prior to the 1790s were the settings of Bach's four-part chorales. In 1758 Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg was the first to start preparing a published edition of Bach's four-part chorales, but in 1763 was prevented by royal duties. C.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach, who owned the original manuscripts, then set about the same task, producing two volumes in 1765 and 1769.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0000-0001", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales\nDissatisfied with his publisher Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel, he surrendered the manuscript rights in 1771 to Johann Kirnberger and his patron Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia. From 1777 onwards, Kirnberger unsuccessfully made requests to Birnstiel and a new publisher, Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, to publish the chorales. Following Kirnberger's death in 1783, C.P.E. Bach approached Breitkopf, who published them in four volumes between 1784 and 1787.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0001-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales\nAbout half of the chorale harmonisations in this collection have their origin in other extant works by Bach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0002-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, History\nBach's posthumous publications in the second half of the eighteenth century, like those printed during his life, gave the impression of a readership aimed at connoisseurs with a \"learned\" expertise in keyboard music. Thus only The Art of the Fugue and the four-part chorales were available in print prior to 1800. The demand in that period was partly affected by publishers' printing expenses and partly by changing tastes. Amongst amateurs, there was a market for more popular, tuneful and approachable repertoire: amongst professional musicians, however, manuscripts continued to be circulated through hand copies. In the nineteenth century fashions changed again: the Well-Tempered Clavier\u2014a foundation-stone for musicians\u2014was printed for the first time in 1801, followed by publications of complete editions of Bach's works throughout the century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0003-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, History\nThe task of engraving \"The Art of the Fugue\" was interrupted by Bach's death in 1750. Assisted by the family and former assistants, C.P.E. Bach and J.F. Agricola published an edition through subscription in 1751: few subscribers took up the offer. In 1752 a second edition was printed with a new foreword by F.W. Marpurg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0003-0001", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, History\nHere he wrote that his aim was to instil \"the dignity of Harmony\" into the fugue and explained its importance both for \"the music mechanic\" knowing only \"the fugue by name\", as well as \"the contemporary composer, who considers the fugue the child of ancient aberration, [in] the manly element which should prevail in music,\" as opposed to \"the spreading rubbish of womanly song.\" The attempt at recruiting subscribers, musically well-versed in counterpoint, was again unsuccessful, with hardly thirty copies sold. Disappointed for the second time by the response, C.P.E. Bach sold the plates in 1756.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0004-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, History\nThe initiative for publishing the four-part chorales of Bach was different. Possibly didactic in purpose, the four-part chorales were \"miniature masterpieces of harmony and voice leading\" with \"searching harmonies and busy inner parts\". The chorales were extracted from Bach's church music by the Berlin circle around C.P.E. Bach. Already in 1709, as a youth in the Arnstadt Consistory, Bach had been scolded for having \"made many curious variatones in the chorale, and mingled many strange notes in it, and for the fact that the congregation has been confused by it\". It is possible that Bach's reluctance to publish any four-part chorales was a consequence of such criticisms. At any rate, even fifteen years after Bach's death, the first editions of the four-part chorales also proved to be controversial and were not well-received, even amongst Bach devotees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 921]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0005-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, History\nAfter 1750, Marpurg was the first to embark on preparing a published edition of Bach's four-part chorales during the Seven Years' War. Marpurg employed the Berlin publisher Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel, using manuscript copies dating from 1758. The project was aborted in 1763, because Marpurg was no longer available, having assumed responsibility for the Royal Prussian Lottery. The first part of the Birnstiel edition was later published in 1765, with C.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach in the title page and preface. C.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach was, however, dissatisfied with the second part of Birnstiel's 1769 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0005-0001", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, History\nHe broke off negotiations and surrendered the manuscript rights to Kirnberger in 1771. Despite Kirnberger's promises to publish Breitkopf's edition during the intervening period (1771\u20131777), no manuscripts materialised. Following a respectful pause to mark Kirnberger's death in 1783, C.P.E. Bach resumed discussion on the chorales with Breitkopf, with a positive outcome for the first instalment in July 1784. With no further reasons to delay printing, the first instalment began at the end of the year, followed by further annual instalments until the whole collection was completed in 1787. After two false starts in 1765 and 1769, a new chapter thus commenced in the history of Bach's impact, as his choral repertory became more extensively available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0006-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, History\nEngraving of F.W. Marpurg by Berol after a drawing by Kauke, 1758", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0007-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Chorales published by Birnstiel\nIn 1765 F.\u00a0W. Birnstiel published 100 chorales in Berlin. The edition had been initiated by F.\u00a0W. Marpurg and completed, edited and supplemented with a preface and a list of errata by C.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach. A second volume of 100 was issued by the same publisher in 1769, edited by J.\u00a0F. Agricola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0008-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Chorales published by Birnstiel\nBirnstiel's first volume (1765): first half of C.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach's Preface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0009-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Chorales published by Birnstiel\nBirnstiel's first volume (1765): second half of C.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach's Preface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0010-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Chorales published by Birnstiel, First volume (1765)\nDaniel Vetter had published the second volume of his Musicalische Kirch- und Hau\u00df-Erg\u00f6tzlichkeit in 1713. A handful of its four-part chorale settings ended up in the first volume of Birnstiel's first volume of chorale settings by Bach. The sixth and last movement of Bach's chorale cantata Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben? BWV 8 is a slightly reworked version of Vetter's four-part setting of the hymn with the same name, close enough to Vetter's original to be marked as spurious in the 1998 edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 102], "content_span": [103, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0011-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Chorales published by Birnstiel, Second volume (1769)\nC.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach criticised Birnstiel's second volume as being full of mistakes in an article which was published in Hamburg in the Staats- und Gelehrte Zeitung des Hamburgischen unpartheyeschen Correspondenten on 30\u00a0May 1769, in which he also claimed that some of the chorale harmonisations included in the volume had not been composed by his father.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 103], "content_span": [104, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0012-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Chorales published by Breitkopf\nAfter Kirnberger died in 1783, C.\u00a0P.\u00a0E. Bach became Breitkopf's editor for the chorales, which he then published in four parts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0013-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Chorales published by Breitkopf\nSince the number 283 was used twice (last number of Vol. III and first number of Vol. IV), the collection actually contained 371 items. The collection also contained several doubles (e.g. No. 156 is identical to No. 307): it totalled 348 independent harmonisations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 81], "content_span": [82, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0014-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nThe Breitkopf collection went through four more editions and countless reprintings until 1897:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0015-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nThe new 1831 score was revised directly by Breitkopf, only afterwards approaching an expert to supply the preface and title. The choice of the Leipzig music collector Carl Ferdinand Becker followed a traditional route: a former chorister from the Thomanerschule, who was later appointed organist at the Alte Peterskirche in Leipzig. Becker subsequently seems to have regretted his decision. At that stage organist at the Leipzig Nikolaikirche, Becker's critical commentary was the first to discuss the manuscript sources prepared by Kirnberger and C. P. E. Bach, even if only in a general way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0016-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nBecker subsequently seems to have regretted his decision. A new edition for the four-part choral harmonisations was published in Leipzig by Robert Freise in three instalments, 1841\u20131843, without omitting Becker's own participation in the 1831 edition. At that stage organist at the Leipzig Nikolaikirche, Becker's critical commentary was the first to discuss the manuscript sources prepared by Kirnberger and C. P. E. Bach, even if only in a general way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0017-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nThe task of preparing a detailed critical edition was first undertaken by Ludwig Erk, in his painstaking two-volume Peters edition of 1850 and 1865. His comparison of the original manuscripts and reliable copies with the 1831 Breitkopf edition was devastating, with many examples of errors. Franz W\u00fcllner, however, the editor of the Bach-Gesellschaft responsible for the chorales, judged that Erk had gone too far in his criticism and had himself made mistakes. No serious faults were found in the 1784\u20131787 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0018-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nErk's Peters edition was still available with a revised version in 1932 by Friedrich Smend, with which he was not entirely happy. It still competed for quality with the complete and practical Breitkopf edition with 389 pieces (Bernhard Friedrich Richter). Nevertheless, at that stage the most exact and scientifically useful edition was that of Charles Sanford Terry, Clarendon Press, in 1929.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0019-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nBased on decades of familiarity with the sources of the four-part chorales, Friedrich Smend, in his 1966 Bach-Jahrbuch, significantly advanced the scientific investigation of sources, which previously had been left in a precarious state following Philip Spitta's reported loss of manuscripts. Above all, in 1964 Peter Krause unearthed manuscript R 18 in the Musikbibliothek des Stadt Leipzig, the missing source for volumes III\u2013IV of the 1784\u20131787 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0020-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nDespite the merits of Smend's commentary, however, it has been criticised because it does not quite tally with known evidence. The assumptions of Smend are evaluated in the technical editorial report [not discussed here]. Staying within the limited scope of this account, the complicated picture underlying Bach's Chorales can be outlined in a few strokes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0021-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nAccording to recent findings, neither Marpurg, C. P. E. Bach Emanuel or Kirnberger had priority to the principal collector of Bach's four-part chorales. Instead the honour fell to an alumnus of the Thomasschule zu Leipzig, unknown until the early 1960s, one of the choristers aimed at Bach's famous 1730 \"Draft for a Well-Appointed Church Music\" (\"Entwurf einer wohlbestallten Kirchenmusik\"). It was already known from Alfred D\u00fcrr to have been \"Hauptkopist F\", Bach's principal copyist in the first half of the 1730s, who for example performed in the Christmas Oratorio. In 1981 Andreas Gl\u00f6ckner identified the copyist as Johann Ludwig Dietel (1713-1777), who attended the Thomasschule from 1727\u20131735, matriculated at the University of Leipzig in 1736 and later became cantor in his home town of Falkenhain, north east of Leipzig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032601-0022-0000", "contents": "18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales, Reception: the Dietel manuscript\nThe fact that manuscript \"R 18\" originated in this way is entirely conclusive: the special musical notation, the watermarks, the repertoire from the Christmas Oratorio and the exact dating of one of the last chorales to be copied\u2014the final movement of cantata \"Was Gott micht mit die Zeit\" (BWV 14), composed for 30 January, 1735, that appeared as entry CXXIX in the manuscript.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 82], "content_span": [83, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0000-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous\n19 & Dangerous is the debut studio album by Nigerian singer-songwriter Ayra Starr. It was released on 6 August 2021, through Mavin Records and Platoon, less than seven months after the singer's self-titled debut EP. 19 & Dangerous was a concept album following a Gen Z girl transitioning from adolescence into early adulthood with growing confidence, artistic zeal, sentimentality and empathy. Ayra Starr worked with producers London, Andre Vibez, Louddaaa and Don Jazzy, the latter two of whom also contributed production to her previous record. In addition to reuniting with her preexisting musical\u00a0partners, she also collaborated with several new writers and artists including Foushe\u00e9 and CKay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0001-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous\n19 & Dangerous\u00a0is primarily an Afropop, R&B, trap and alt\u00e9\u00a0album that incorporates influences from genres like\u00a0neo-soul, jazz, and EDM. Lyrically, it revolves around topics associated with love, such as unrequited love, romantic breakup distress, betrayal and heartbreak as well as more personal\u00a0themes such as self-determination and self-esteem. The album\u00a0received generally favorable response from both fans and music critics. Its lead single, \"Bloody Samaritan\", peaked atop Nigeria's TurnTable Top 50, making Ayra Starr the first female artist in the history of the chart to reach number-one with a solo song.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0002-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Background\nIn 2020, Ayra Starr signed a record deal with\u00a0Mavin Records,\u00a0and began recording material for her debut project. The following year, she released her eponymous debut EP which became a commercial success and would pave the way for her next project. In an interview with Niji Magazine about\u00a0what\u00a0the\u00a0future\u00a0holds, Ayra Starr said, \"Honestly, I just want my music to resonate with as many people as possible. I want people to feel heard through my music.\" She further revealed to 1883 Magazine that \"[she] want[s] to make more music and see what happens by God\u2019s grace.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0003-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Background\nDuring the week of 11 July 2021, she announced plans to release her debut studio album. On 19 July, she posted the\u00a0teaser trailer\u00a0for the new album on social media, revealing the title as\u00a019 & Dangerous\u00a0and its\u00a0release\u00a0date to be 6 August. Ayra Starr explained how the album got its title in an interview with NotJustOk, she said: \"I didn't want it to be 20 & Dangerous, I wanted 19 & Dangerous and always knew for the past two years. I knew even before Mavin that for my first album, I wanted to release it at 19 and have it titled 19 & Dangerous.\" She also stated that she chose the word \"Dangerous\" to express how career-ready and goal-oriented she is.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0004-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Background\nThe lead single from 19 & Dangerous, \"Bloody Samaritan\", was officially released on 30 July 2021, two days after its premiere on BBC Radio 1Xtra. On 4 August 2021, Ayra Starr unveiled the album's cover art and tracklist alongside its\u00a0pre-order. On 6 August, shortly after the album's release, the title of the sixth track was changed from \"Underwater\" to \"In Between\" on\u00a0physical\u00a0and\u00a0digital\u00a0stores worldwide. Ayra Starr told Vincent Desmond of OkayAfrica that the album is a \"message\", adding \"I want people to know that I am not scared, I'm prepared, I'm ready for this. I've been preparing for this my whole life. The\u00a0Ayra Starr\u00a0EP, my first project, was more like an introduction to Ayra, it was a prologue. This album is chapter one.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0005-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Composition\nIn its introduction \"Cast (Gen Z Anthem)\", an anthem of defiance. \u2018If I cast, make I cast\u2019 she sings in Nigerian pidgin. Oris Aigbokhaevbolo of Music In Africa said the song could be read as a warning of an intro track: If the album cast, make e cast, I have done my bit. Luckily, the album no cast. In \"Fashion killer\", she flaunts feminine poise and black girl magic, says Israel Olorunnisola of Pulse Nigeria. In \"Lonely\", we see that Ayra Star is very human. After succumbing to the tricky nature of infatuations, the burning emotions young love comes with, the vulnerability and innocence that it explores along the slippery slope of heartbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0006-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Composition\nIn \"Toxic\", the experimentation with drugs to navigate depression, anxiety, peer pressure, heartbreak, and many emotions teenagers are dealing with is narrated in a thought-provoking tone. Quoting J. Cole from FRIENDS \u2018Meditate don\u2019t Medicate\u2019. The Alt\u00e9 track \"Beggie Beggie\" features vocals from CKay, with his sonorous delivery on the 90s themed tune. As they both go on and off over the thrill of young love in today's modern world, In \"Bridgertn\", Ayra flaunts some class. and ends the 33 minutes LP record with best wishes upon herself and listeners in album outro \"Amin\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0007-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Singles and other releases\n\"Bloody Samaritan\" was released as the album's lead single on July 30, 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0008-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Critical reception\n19 & Dangerous received generally favorable reviews from music critics. In a review for New Musical Express, Sophie Williams characterized the album as \"a collection of uber-confident, and sensational afropop gems\". A writer for Pulse Nigeria, described the album \"In a way, \u201819 and Dangerous\u2019 is like the love-child of Adele\u2019s \u201819\u2019 and Rihanna\u2019s Good Girl Gone Bad, underpinned by the fiery, alluringly vain, carefree, consequences-be-damned Gen Z tendencies of \u2018Cast,\u2019 the album opener - or manifesto. Interestingly, Rihanna was 19 when that album was released and Ayra Starr is a card-carrying member of Rihanna\u2019s navy\". Rating the album 7.9/10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032602-0009-0000", "contents": "19 & Dangerous, Critical reception\nReviewing for Music in Africa, music journalist Oris Aigbokhaevbolo praised Ayra in her word \"19 & Dangerous is an impressive collection of songs\", and despite it comparison with her breakthrough single Away, Oris say's \"At 33 minutes and 11 songs, 19 & Dangerous is a different beast from the 4-song EP. It is more expansive and provides Ayra Starr with an opportunity to do more\". This Day's Iyke Bede\u00a0commended the album's production, composition and subject\u00a0matter, calling it an \"impressive debut\". He further described the album as a \"well-told story\" that \"the average Gen Z (or anyone at that) would describe using the words, \"issa bop for me\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album)\n19 is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Adele released on 28 January 2008, by XL Recordings. Following Adele's graduation from the BRIT School in April 2006, she began publishing songs and recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend, who posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to interest from the record label. This led to Adele signing a recording contract at age 17 with the label and providing vocals for Jack Pe\u00f1ate, during this session for Pe\u00f1ate's song she met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce the majority of her debut album.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0001-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album)\nNamed after the age of the singer during its release and production, Adele wrote most of the album's material solely, but did work with a select few writers and producers including Jim Abbiss, Eg White and Sacha Skarbek. Their collaborations created a blue-eyed soul album with lyrics describing heartbreak, nostalgia and relationships. Upon release, 19 received positive reviews from critics, who praised Adele's vocal prowess and songwriting talent at such a young age and noted her as having the \"potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation.\" 19 also won numerous accolades including the Mercury Prize and the European Border Breakers Award. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, Adele won Best New Artist alongside Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for \"Chasing Pavements\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0002-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album)\nFour singles were released from the album, with \"Chasing Pavements\" and \"Make You Feel My Love\" reaching the top ten on the UK Singles Chart, while the former became Adele's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also contains her first song, \"Hometown Glory\", written when she was 16, which is based on her home suburb of West Norwood in London. 19 became a global success, reaching number one in Netherlands, Scotland and England, while top 10 in fifteen countries including Australia, Brazil and the United States. The album is certified 8x platinum by the BPI with sales of over 2.4 million, while 3x platinum in the US by RIAA, having sold over 3 million copies. The album has sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0003-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Background and recording\nAdele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into A&R and hoped to launch other people's careers. Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com. She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and given it to a friend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0003-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Background and recording\nThe friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0004-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Background and recording\nNick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2006, Dickins became her official representative. September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2006. Adele provided vocals for Jack Pe\u00f1ate's song, \"My Yvonne\", for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, 19, and tracks on 21. Adele recorded a cover of Bob Dylan's \"Make You Feel My Love\" on the recommendation of her manager Jonathan Dickins, who loved the song.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0005-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Background and recording\nThe first single released from 19 was \"Chasing Pavements\", which Adele wrote in collaboration with Eg White. \"Chasing Pavements\" was inspired by an incident Adele had with a former boyfriend of six months. After learning he had cheated on her, she went to the bar he was at and punched him in the face. After being thrown out, Adele walked down the street alone and thought to herself, \"What is it you're chasing? You're chasing an empty pavement.\" She sang and recorded it on her mobile phone and arranged the chords when she got home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0005-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Background and recording\nAdele and White co-wrote two other songs for the album: \"Melt My Heart to Stone\" and \"Tired\". She also collaborated with Sacha Skarbek on the single \"Cold Shoulder\". However, most of the songs were written solely by Adele, including \"Best for Last\", \"Crazy for You\", \"First Love\", and \"My Same\", as well as her debut single, \"Hometown Glory\". \"Hometown Glory\", was written by Adele in 10\u00a0minutes after her mother tried to persuade her to leave her home town of West Norwood in London for university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0006-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Release and promotion\nIn July 2008, Adele informed noted UK soul writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul that the reason for naming her debut album '19' was to reflect her age while she was writing it: \"I just kinda remember becoming a bit of a woman during that time. And I think that is definitely documented in the songs.\" The Taiwanese edition was released on 5 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0006-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Release and promotion\nAs well as the standard track list, the album features three bonus tracks: \"That's It I Quit I'm Movin' On\" (\"Chasing Pavements\" B-side), \"Now and Then\" (\"Cold Shoulder\" B-side) and \"Painting Pictures\" (\"Make You Feel My Love\" B-side). The Indonesian special edition was released on 3 March. As well as the standard track list, the album features a bonus video for \"Chasing Pavements\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0007-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Release and promotion\nBy 2008, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damien Rice. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month, and 19 was released in the US in June. Billboard magazine stated of it: \"Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation.\" The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2008 and ended in June 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0008-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Release and promotion\nShe later cancelled the 2008 US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend. She said in Nylon magazine in June 2009, \"I'm like, 'I can't believe I did that.' It seems so ungrateful.... I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, 'Well, OK, I'll just cancel my stuff then.'\" By the middle of October 2008, Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0008-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Release and promotion\nBut then she was booked as the musical guest on the 18 October 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 14 years with 17\u00a0million viewers. Adele performed \"Chasing Pavements\" and \"Cold Shoulder\", and the following day, 19 topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon.com while \"Chasing Pavements\" rose into the top 25. The album reached number 11 on the Billboard 200 as a result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0009-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Critical reception\n19 received generally positive reviews from critics. The album holds a 68 out of 100 rating, based on 19 critical reviews, at Metacritic. The Observer's Caspar Llewellyn Smith wrote in his review, \"The way [Adele] stretched the vowels, her wonderful soulful phrasing, the sheer unadulterated pleasure of her voice, stood out all the more; little doubt that she's a rare singer, which another track first available on her MySpace site, 'Daydreamer', confirmed\" they gave the album a five-star response.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0009-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Critical reception\n\"Pitching up somewhere between blues, folk and jazz, she's included something for everyone without ever pandering to a particular trend\", wrote Chris Long from BBC Music. \"Her melodies exude warmth, her singing is occasionally stunning and, in the dramatic Hometown Glory, the spiky cool of Cold Shoulder (which is unexpectedly reminiscent of Shara Nelson-era Massive Attack) and the piano epic Make You Feel My Love, she has tracks that make Lily Allen and Kate Nash sound every bit as ordinary as they are.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0009-0002", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Critical reception\nChuck Taylor said in Billboard that \"Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation.\" Mikael Wood was less impressed in Entertainment Weekly, writing that \"Adele's songs aren't as sharp as Duffy's...Still, her singing throughout is a thing to behold.\" Uncut was more critical, believing that \"Adele can certainly sing, but '19' reeks of some A&R trendhound making it his/her biz to sign The New Amy and not resting till s/he's found the right chick from South London to fit the bill\". According to NME, \"as '19' reveals itself, it's clear that the Amy associations are little more than empty mediaspeak without any real weight. Despite the early indicators, there's precious little on the album that prevents it from collapsing under the weight of its own expectation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0010-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Critical reception\nAdele became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. The Times Encyclopedia of Modern Music named 19 an \"essential\" blue-eyed soul recording. The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize in the category of Best Album. She also won an Urban Music Award for \"Best Jazz Act\". She also received a Q Awards nomination in the category of Breakthrough Act and a Music of Black Origin nomination in the category of Best UK Female.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0010-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Critical reception\nOn 3 December 2008, the album spawned four Grammy Award nominations: Best New Artist for Adele, and Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for \"Chasing Pavements\". The following year, she received a second consecutive nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, for \"Hometown Glory\", but lost to \"Halo\" by Beyonc\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0011-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Critical reception\nHer success occurred simultaneously with several other British female soul singers, with the British press dubbing her a new Amy Winehouse. This was described as a third British Musical Invasion of the US. However, Adele called the comparisons between her and other female soul singers lazy, noting \"we're a gender, not a genre\". AllMusic wrote that \"Adele is simply too magical to compare her to anyone.\" Following the release of her debut album 19, Kanye West and Beyonc\u00e9 were among the artists vocal in their praise of her music. Beyonc\u00e9 cited Adele as one of the influences for her fourth album, 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0012-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Commercial performance\nIn the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number one. In the same week as 21 was released, 19 re-entered the UK Albums Chart at number four, with sales of 25,419 copies. On 6 February 2011, the album remained on the chart at number four, with strengthening sales of 27,660 copies. It was the second best selling album of 2011 in the United Kingdom, behind 21, as it tripled its 2008 seven non-consecutive week-long top 10-visit with 21 straight weeks. As of March 2016, 19 has sold over 2,309,000 copies in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0012-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Commercial performance\nIn Ireland, due to the success of 21, the album returned to its peak position of number 3 on the week ending 18 March 2011, three years after it originally peaked, just to set a new high at number two on the following week and to stay there for six non-consecutive weeks, behind 21. The album debuted at number 16 on the New Zealand Albums Chart, due to the success of 21 and has peaked at number three. In March 2017, 19 returned to No. five in its 58th charting week with her other two albums in the top five as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0013-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Commercial performance\nIn the United States, 19 debuted at number 61 and remained in the lower ends of the Billboard 200 for many proceeding weeks. After a performance on the US show Saturday Night Live, it rose to number 46 and a week later to number 11 with 25,000+ copies sold. In 2009, after winning two Grammy Awards, the album rose to number 10 on the US Billboard 200 and total sales reached 843,880.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0013-0001", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Commercial performance\nIn February 2012, 19 reached a new peak of number 4 on the Billboard 200, and the album is now a certified double platinum by the certified (RIAA) in the United States. As of the week ending 24 April 2011, 19 was a number one on the Top Pop Catalog Albums for nine weeks, making it only the third album by a female artist to top that chart at least that long in the past 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0013-0002", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Commercial performance\nOn the following week, it stayed at number one on the chart, making it the first studio album doing so since Michael Jackson's Thriller 25 was at number one for 11 weeks in 2008. Months later, it had moved up from number 27 to number 16 on the Billboard 200, topping the Top Pop Catalog Albums for the sixteenth week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0014-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Commercial performance\nIn Australia, the album returned to the top 10, at No. 9, in its 74th charting week in March 2017 with her other studio albums 25 and 21 placed at No. 2 and 4 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032603-0015-0000", "contents": "19 (Adele album), Certifications\n* Sales figures based on certification alone.^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032604-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (Alsou album)\n19 is Alsou's fourth studio album, was released in Russia on 23 January 2003. This album includes songs in Russian and Tatar languages. Alsou wrote one of the songs. The album was very successful in Russia, with the sales of over 800,000 copies (by December 2003). To support this album, Alsou gave live performances during 2003 and 2004 in Russia, Tatarstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Israel and in many other countries. The tour was very successful as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032605-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (Evan Yo album)\n19 (Chinese: \u9996\u5f35\u5275\u4f5c\u5c08\u8f2f19) is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Evan Yo's (Chinese: \u8521\u65fb\u4f51) debut Mandarin solo studio album. It was released by Sony Music Taiwan on 6 October 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032605-0001-0000", "contents": "19 (Evan Yo album)\nThe album is named 19 because Yo was nineteen when the album was released and all the tracks are composed by him. A second edition was released on 12 December 2006, 19+1 Celebration Edition (\u9996\u5f35\u5275\u4f5c\u5c08\u8f2f19+1 \u9650\u91cf\u7d00\u5ff5\u76e4). It included a bonus DVD with three music videos and behind-the-scenes footage, as listed in the Music video section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032606-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (Solo) Compositions, 1988\n19 [Solo] Compositions, 1988 is a live album by composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton featuring solo performances recorded in 1988 and released on the New Albion label.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032606-0001-0000", "contents": "19 (Solo) Compositions, 1988, Reception\nThese live concerts feature Anthony Braxton on 19 selections, each of which explore a different idea or mood. ... Although free in spots, Braxton's performances also have their own logic and are quite concise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032607-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (band)\n19 was a Japanese pop/folk duo. Its members wereKenji Okahira and Keigo Iwase. The group broke up in March 2002. Kenji is now a member of the band 3B LAB.\u2606.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032608-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (film)\n19 is a 2001 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kazushi Watanabe. It was released on 14 July 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032608-0001-0000", "contents": "19 (film), Reception\nTom Mes of Midnight Eye wrote that the film \"has less to do with social comment than with delivering an exercise in consistency.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 20], "content_span": [21, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032609-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (number)\n19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032609-0001-0000", "contents": "19 (number), Mathematics\n19 is the 8th prime number, the seventh Mersenne prime exponent, and the second base-10 repunit prime exponent. 19 is the maximum number of fourth powers needed to sum up to any natural number, and in the context of Waring's problem, 19 is the fourth value of g(k). In addition, 19 is a Heegner number and a centered hexagonal number. 19 is also a centered triangular number, being the smallest such number that is also prime. 19 is also the second Keith number and also the first Keith prime. Moreover, there exists only one nontrivial normal magic hexagon: the one composed of 19 cells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 24], "content_span": [25, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032609-0002-0000", "contents": "19 (number), Religion, Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed faith\nIn the B\u00e1b\u00ed and Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed Faiths, a group of 19 is called a V\u00e1hid, a Unity (Arabic: \u0648\u0627\u062d\u062f w\u0101hid, \"one\"). The numerical value of this word in the Abjad numeral system is 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0000-0000", "contents": "19 (song)\n\"19\" is a song by British musician Paul Hardcastle released as the first single from his self-titled fourth studio album Paul Hardcastle (1985).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0001-0000", "contents": "19 (song)\nThe song has a strong anti-war message, focusing on the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War and the effect it had on the soldiers who served. The track was notable for early use of sampled and processed speech, in particular a synthesized stutter effect used on the words 'nineteen' and 'destruction'. It also includes various non-speech, re-dubbed sampling, such as crowd noise and a military bugle call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0002-0000", "contents": "19 (song)\n\"19\" features sampled narration (voiced by Peter Thomas), out-of-context interview dialogue (\"I wasn't really sure what was going on\") and news reports from Vietnam Requiem the ABC television documentary about the post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by Vietnam veterans. In 2009, the song placed at 73 on VH1's 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0003-0000", "contents": "19 (song)\n\"19\" had huge international success in the charts; it went to No. 1 in the UK for five weeks, as well as a number of other countries worldwide. \"19\" became the top-selling single in 13 countries for 1985. This was helped by international versions of the song spoken by well-known local news anchors in French, Spanish, German and Japanese. The song received the Ivor Novello award for Best-selling single of 1985. The song's English-language release came in three different 12\" versions: \"Extended Version\", \"Destruction Mix\" and \"The Final Story\", all with an alternative cover design.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0004-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Background and content\nHardcastle was inspired to create the song after watching Vietnam Requiem, and comparing his own life at 19 to those of the soldiers featured: \"...what struck me was how young the soldiers were: the documentary said their average age was 19. I was out having fun in pubs and clubs when I was 19, not being shoved into jungles and shot at.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 33], "content_span": [34, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0005-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Background and content\nThe title \"19\" comes from the documentary's narrative that the average age of an American combat soldier in the war was 19, as compared to World War II's 26. This claim has since been disputed. Undisputed statistics do not exist, although Southeast Asia Combat Area Casualties Current File (CACCF), the source for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, shows a large number of deaths (38%) were ages 19 or 20. According to the same source, 23 is the average age at time of death (or time of declaration of death). The song also comments that while the tour of duty was longer during World War II, soldiers in Vietnam were subjected to hostile fire more frequently: almost every day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 33], "content_span": [34, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0006-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Background and content\nMusically, the song was inspired by electro, particularly Afrika Bambaataa, although Hardcastle also \"added a bit of jazz and a nice melody\", and beyond the sampling of the documentary narration, the song incorporated pieces of interviews with soldiers. The song's pivotal hook, the repetitive \"N-n-n-n-nineteen\", was chosen due to the limitations of the early sampling technology used. The E-mu Emulator could only sample for two seconds, so the hook was based around \"the only bit of the narrative that made sense in two seconds\". Hardcastle wasn't optimistic about the song's chances in the charts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 33], "content_span": [34, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0006-0001", "contents": "19 (song), Background and content\nHis previous two singles for independent labels had failed to make it into the UK's top 40 and the musical policy at Radio 1 was felt to be unsupportive of dance music. News interest in the song helped, with the tenth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War seeing Hardcastle interviewed by Alastair Stewart of ITN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 33], "content_span": [34, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0007-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Background and content\nTony Blackburn, then breakfast DJ for Radio London was an early supporter of the song and it quickly reached number 1 in the UK and most of the world. Hardcastle produced different mixes of the song to help maintain interest in it. Although the song did not climb as high in the United States chart, Hardcastle claims \"it outsold everybody else for three weeks solid, it only reached number 15, because back then the chart was based on airplay as well as sales\". The song was held back in the US by some radio stations refusing to play it, feeling that the song took an anti-American stance, something Hardcastle denies, noting he \"had tons of letters from Vietnam vets thanking me for doing something for them\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 33], "content_span": [34, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0008-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Background and content\nThe song's reliance on sampling also caused problems with legal clearance. Ken Grunbaum recalled in 2012 that \"there were no precedents for something like this. We ended up having to pay royalties to the narrator, Peter Thomas.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0009-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Background and content, 19 PTSD\nIn 2015, Hardcastle released a charity version of the song for the Talking2Minds organisation, who raise money for troops suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This PTSD remix was also found on 19: The 30th Anniversary Collection, a compilation album which included 14 versions of the song such as the Cryogenic Freeze Remix and a version which included samples of Marvin Gaye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0010-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Music video\nAfter the song's unexpected, rapid climb to the top of the UK Singles Chart, Chrysalis asked Vietnam Requiem directors Jonas McCord and Bill Couturi\u00e9 to rush a video into production. Due to the lack of a band able to perform the song, the video was primarily composed of clips from the Vietnam Requiem documentary, edited together by Ken Grunbaum. The first version of the video included footage from the television networks NBC and ABC, including a newscast by ABC anchorman Frank Reynolds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 22], "content_span": [23, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0010-0001", "contents": "19 (song), Music video\nAfter it was aired on MTV in the US, NBC and ABC objected to the \"bad taste\" of using the serious clips in a \"trivial\" form of \"propaganda\". McCord and Couterie were forced to produce a new cut incorporating public domain footage, but ABC permitted Reynolds' audio to remain. Couterie asserted at the time that the television networks opposed the video because it involved rock music:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 22], "content_span": [23, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0011-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Music video\nWhat is the difference between the words in our song and the 7 o'clock news? The only difference is rock'n'roll. And why did they love the documentary and hate the video so much? Every word in the song is from the film, and there was never any argument with the facts. The only difference is the music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 22], "content_span": [23, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0012-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Parody\nIn the same year of release, comedian Rory Bremner, using the band name The Commentators, released a parodied version of the song as \"N-N-Nineteen Not Out\", about the England cricket team's poor performance in test matches, with references to the team's disastrous 1984 home series against the West Indies in which captain David Gower had averaged 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 17], "content_span": [18, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032610-0013-0000", "contents": "19 (song), Other uses in popular culture\nManchester United used the \"19\" soundtrack to celebrate their 19th Premier League title in May 2011, and the song made a reappearance in the UK Top 40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 40], "content_span": [41, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032611-0000-0000", "contents": "19 April 2010 Peshawar bombing\nThe 19 April 2010 Peshawar bombing was a suicide bombing that occurred in a marketplace in Peshawar, Pakistan. At least 25 people died and around 27 individuals were injured. The explosion was the second to have occurred in the city that day, the first of which killed several children near a city school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032611-0001-0000", "contents": "19 April 2010 Peshawar bombing\nThe blast, which happened in Qissa Khawani market, an area in the old city that is also referred to as the Storytellers' Bazaar, killed Dost Muhammad, the local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, who was leading a protest against load shedding. The attack happened at about 6:30\u00a0pm local time. Witnesses saw the suicide bomber arrive on foot and proceed to detonate his explosives, near the demonstration of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a group that is reportedly sympathetic to the Taliban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032611-0002-0000", "contents": "19 April 2010 Peshawar bombing\nThe attack also appeared to target senior police officer Gulfat Hussein, a Shia Muslim. According to a statement released by the provincial information minister Iftikhar Hussain, the suicide bomber blew himself up near the policemen sitting in their vehicles after the rally. some of the wounded included members of the police. The government declared three days of mourning after the bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032612-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Aquarii\n19 Aquarii is a star in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius. With an apparent magnitude of about 5.7, the star is barely visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star (see Bortle scale). Parallax estimates put it at a distance of about 260\u00a0light years away from the Sun. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of \u221221\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032612-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Aquarii\nThis object is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A8V. It is around 788\u00a0million years old with a fairly fast rotation rate, as its projected rotational velocity is about 155\u00a0km/s, so it must be rotating at least that fast. It has 1.86 times the mass of the Sun and 2.76 times the Sun's radius. 19 Aquarii is radiating 26 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,078\u00a0K. Eggen has this star flagged as a blue straggler and a member of the HR1614 supercluster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032613-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Aquilae\n19 Aquilae is a single star located 142 light-years (44 parsecs) away from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Aquila. 19 Aquilae is the Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, yellow-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.23. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of \u221246.7\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032613-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Aquilae\nThis object has a stellar classification of F0\u00a0III-IV, with the luminosity class matching an evolving star transitioning from the subgiant to a giant stage. Poretti et al. (2003) list it as a suspected Gamma Doradus variable, and it is located near the cooler end of the instability strip on the Hertzsprung\u2013Russell diagram. These spatial coordinates are a source of X-ray emission, which is most likely coming from the star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032613-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Aquilae\n19 Aquilae is an estimated 2.25\u00a0billion years old with a moderately high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 57.0\u00a0km/s. It has 1.54 times the mass of the Sun and 2.50 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 12.8 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,784\u00a0K.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032614-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Arietis\n19 Arietis (abbreviated 19 Ari) is a star in the northern constellation of Aries. 19 Arietis is the Flamsteed designation. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.70, which means it is faintly visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 6.81\u00a0mas, it is approximately 480 light-years (150 parsecs) away from Earth. At that distance, the brightness of the star is diminished by 0.21 in magnitude from extinction caused by interstellar gas and dust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032614-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Arietis\nThis is a red giant star with a stellar classification of M0\u00a0III. It is a semi-regular variable with periods of 32 and 275 days; the brightness of the star changes by an amplitude of 0.14 in magnitude during those intervals. The measured angular diameter of this star, after correction for limb darkening, is 2.44 \u00b1 0.03 mas. At the estimated distance of Delta Ophiuchi, this yields a physical size of about 39 times the radius of the Sun. The effective temperature of the outer envelope is 3,690\u00a0K, giving it the cool reddish glow of an M-type star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032615-0000-0000", "contents": "19 August 2018 Lombok earthquake\nOn 19 August 2018 a major earthquake struck with high intensity on the northeast corner of Lombok (Sambelia and Labuhan Lombok settlements) and northwest Sumbawa (Poto Tano settlement) at 22:56 local time, a few km to the east of the series of quakes that had been rocking the area for the past 3 weeks. It was measured at Mw\u202f 6.9 (USGS), at a depth of 25.6 km. The Indonesian BMKG announced that it was a new major earthquake and it was not an aftershock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032615-0000-0001", "contents": "19 August 2018 Lombok earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred on the same overall structure, the Flores Back Arc Thrust Belt, however according to scientists it happened on a different thrust fault as there are many individual structures within the belt. There were 14 deaths and 1800 homes have been damaged, half severely, due to this event, including deaths on Sumbawa, following 2 deaths from the previous Lombok quake roughly 24 hours earlier. Heavy tiles fell from the local mosque, and 143 patients were being treated outdoors in makeshift tents for injuries on Sumbawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032616-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Aurigae\n19 Aurigae is a single star located approximately 3,600\u00a0light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.05. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 4.3\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032616-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Aurigae\nThis is an evolved A-type bright giant star with a stellar classification of A5\u00a0II+. It is a variable star of unknown type that ranges in magnitude from 5.03 down to 5.09. This star is an estimated 36\u00a0million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 8\u00a0km/s. It has 8 times the mass of the Sun and about 15 times the Sun's radius. 19 Aurigae is radiating 7,057 times the total luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,300\u00a0K.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032617-0000-0000", "contents": "19 BC\n19 Before Christ was a Year either a common year starting on Thursday, Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Thursday or Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Saturninus and Vespillo (or, less frequently, year 735 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 19 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the main method in Europe for naming years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment\n19th Battalion The Baloch Regiment is one of the oldest Light Anti-Tank Regiment of Pakistan Army. Initially raised as the Machine Gun Battalion of 10th Baluch Regiment in 1942, it was first designated as 53rd Regiment, Indian Armoured Corps and then re-designated as 17/10th Baluch. This unit has the unique honour of being the parent unit of Pakistan Army's special forces known as Special Service Group. Prominent officers including General Mirza Aslam Beg, General Pervez Musharraf have served in the unit and Maj Gen Abrar Hussain and Maj Gen Aboobaker Osman Mitha also known as AO Mitha have commanded this unit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 17/10th Baluch\n19 Baloch originally formed part of old 10th Baluch Regiment Group, which was raised in 1820. To cater for the ever-growing demand of troops, the group was expanded during World War II and a number of battalions were added, including 17/10th Baluch, which was raised on 15 April 1942 at Karachi by Lt Col C J D Tomkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 17/10th Baluch, World War II\nAfter its raising, the battalion was involved in famine relief duties in Bengal. From there, it moved to Persia as part of Iraq (PAI) Force to Bisitun in Persia. In Persia the battalion performed protection duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 17/10th Baluch, Post World War II Moves\nFrom Persia, 17 Baluch (in 1945, '10' was dropped from the designation of Baluch Regiment) was dispatched to Dodecanese Islands (Greece) on 21 Dec 1945 and deployed at Rhodes as the garrison battalion. From there it was sent to Benghazi, Tobruk and finally Cyrenaica in August 1946. It left Cyrenaica in January 1947, via Suez for India, arriving at Bombay on 16 February 1947. The battalion was stationed at Poona up to Aug 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 68], "content_span": [69, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 17/10th Baluch, First Kashmir War\nThe battalion took part in Kashmir Operation in Bagh Sector under 102 Brigade. On 20 Jul 1948, C Company of along with D Company of 11 Baloch captured Point 9178, during the operation which culminated in the capture of Pandu. The battalion guarded a frontage of 60\u00a0km from Chattar to Dara Haji Pir. Lance Havildar Lal Khan of this unit was awarded Tamgha-e-Jurat for gallantry in the capture of Point 9178.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Special Service Group)\nThe battalion was earmarked for conversion into Special Service Group in 1956. 17th Battalion The Baluch Regiment and 312 Garrison Company (SSG) were amalgamated and the battalion was renamed as 19th Battalion The Baluch Regiment (SSG). A selection test was held for all officers and men of the old 17 Baluch desirous of remaining with 19 Baluch (SSG). Majority of men were weeded out in the tough physical tests. Remaining members along with volunteers raised Quaid Company of SSG, which later became part of 1 Commando Battalion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 62], "content_span": [63, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, Suspended Animation\nIt remained SSG Battalion for 13 years, till August 1965, when the scope of Special Service Group was expanded from battalion size to that of an operational group and 19 Baluch went into suspended animation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support)\nAs part of the expansions carried out in the late 1960s, 19 Baluch was re-raised as a Reconnaissance & Support (R&S) Battalion on 14 Mar 1969 at Baluch Regimental Centre (BRC) Abbotabad. Lt Col Muhammad Ilyas was posted as its commanding officer with a major portion of other officers coming from 5 Baluch. Captain Shahbaz (later colonel) was the first officer to report at BRC and was appointed as Signal Officer of the battalion. Capt Amman Ullah Cheema also joined from 5 Baluch and was later to become Adjutant of the battalion during 1971 war and a hero of attack on Thako Chak in the Battle of Chhamb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0008-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support), 1971 War - Battle of Chhamb\nDuring 1971 war, all the R&S Companies took part in the war under their respective brigades in the Battle of Chhamb. Jalil Force named after the then Commanding Officer Lt Col Abdul Jalil took up defense in Nadala enclave near Surkhpur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0009-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support), 1971 War - Battle of Chhamb\nUsing elements of battalion headquarters, the adjutant, Captain Amman Ullah Cheema raided the Indian post at Thako Chak which was being manned by 16 (Patiala) Punjab of Indian Army. The post was taken with minimum casualties and was held till the end of the war despite a strong enemy counter-attack on 15 December. The post was so fiercely defended that Indians assumed tanks to be present there. Needless to say, Indian 16 Punjab's attack was repulsed while inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0009-0001", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support), 1971 War - Battle of Chhamb\nIn the aftermath of Simla Agreement when both the army chiefs met at Lahore to demarcate the border, a breakdown in talks occurred on the Thako Chak issue. 19 Baluch (R&S) captured this salient in the Jammu Sector; a part lay across the international border and another across the ceasefire line. The Simla Agreement required this minor salient to be divided between India and Pakistan. Although this seemed pointless to India, it became a matter of principle for Pakistan. Talks dragged on endlessly. Ultimately, India resolved this problem by compensating Pakistan elsewhere along the Line of Control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0010-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support), 1971 War - Battle of Chhamb\nAt the outbreak of hostilities, this company was part of Minto Force (named after Lt Col Minto, CO 26 Cavalry) and was placed under the command of 4 Azad Kashmir Brigade. This force consisted of 12 Independent Squadron, Squadron ex 26 Cavalry, Company R&S ex 19 Baluch and Rear HQ of 26 Cavalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0011-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support), 1971 War - Battle of Chhamb\nThe company went under comd 20 Brigade. The company along with 23 Baluch played an important role in the capture of Chhamb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0012-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support), 1971 War - Battle of Chhamb\nThe company was under the command of 111 Brigade. The important actions undertaken by the company are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0013-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Reconnaissance & Support), 1971 War - Battle of Chhamb\nThe company underwent frequent changes of brigades. The main action in which it took part under 4 AK Brigade, was the action of Mandiala Ridges. In this action, the company advanced from a bridgehead across River Tawi followed by a squadron of tanks ex 11 Cavalry on the morning of 5 December 1971. The force got ambushed and was completely pinned down having suffered the loss of seven Recoilless Rifles and two Machine Guns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0014-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baluch (Standard Infantry Battalion)\nIn 1972, a dearth of standard infantry battalions (SIB) had developed and not enough troops were available to hold forward defended localities (FDLs). As a consequence, 19 Baluch (R&S) was converted into foot infantry in 1972 and underwent conversion training in its area of responsibility. The unit occupied Mandiala Ridges along Line of Control in its new role. In 1973, the battalion was re-converted into R&S Battalion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 68], "content_span": [69, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0015-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, 19 Baloch (Light Anti Tank)\nThe battalion was re-designated and reorganized as a Light Anti Tank (LAT) Battalion in May 1991. This reorganization was part of Pakistan Army's overall reforms introduced in that year. Apart from reorganization in the company strengths, newer weapon systems such as Baktar Shikan were also introduced. In 1991, the spelling of 'Baluch' was changed to 'Baloch.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 56], "content_span": [57, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0016-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, History, Affiliation with SSG\nDue to old affiliation with SSG, the battalion was affiliated with 1 Commando Battalion and redesignated as 19 Baloch (SSG) in April 1998. This was largely due to the efforts of Lt Col Wasif Sajjad, the commanding officer, who had himself served in SSG.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0017-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, Raising Day\nRaising day is celebrated on 11 April, commemorating the re-raising of the battalion at Abbottabad in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0018-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, Colonels of the Battalion\nAfter the unit was reorganized in 1969 and redesignated as 19 Baluch, Colonel Abdul Rauf, TBt, was appointed the first Colonel of the Battalion. He remained on this prestigious appointment for two terms. He was succeeded by Major General Muhammad Azam, who also served for two terms. On completion of his tenure, Brigadier Salim Ashraf, SI (M), took over as the new Colonel of the Battalion in August 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0019-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, Martyrs\nDuring the war of 1965 officers and men who laid down their lives in the line of duty while serving in SSG are included in unit's list of martyrs. Apart from the War of 1971, unit also lost men to the floods of 1973, who despite rising waters did not vacate their posts on Mandiala Ridges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0020-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, Martyrs, War of 1971\nThe following brave men of 19 Baluch (R&S) laid down their lives in the line of duty while fighting in the Battle of Chhamb", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0021-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, Martyrs, 1973 Floods\nDuring the floods of 1973, 19 Baluch was occupying posts on Mandiala Ridges. After the initial flood outbreak, more than 100 troops were reported missing. However, after the initial chaos had abated and communications re-established, losses were calculated to be much less. The casualties of the 1973 flood were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032618-0022-0000", "contents": "19 Baloch Regiment, Motto\nThe battalion adopted the motto of \"Alquadri\" in 1991. Since Qadir is name of Allah, so Alquadri means Allah's or \"Allah Wali\" in Urdu. Literally it means those who prevail on strength of their power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032619-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Canum Venaticorum\n19 Canum Venaticorum is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici, located approximately 238 light years from Sun based on its parallax. It is dimly visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.77. The pair orbit each other with a period of 219.2\u00a0years and an eccentricity of 0.686. The system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of \u221221\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032619-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Canum Venaticorum\nThe magnitude +5.87 primary, component A, is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A7\u00a0V. It is 366\u00a0million years old with twice the mass of the Sun and 2.5 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 25.5 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,048\u00a0K. It has a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 110\u00a0km/s. As of 2012, its companion, designated component B, is a magnitude 9.48 star located 0.60\u00a0arcseconds from the primary along a position angle of 58\u00b0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032620-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Cephei\n19 Cephei is a supergiant star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cepheus. It has a spectral class of O9 and is a member of Cep OB2, an OB association of massive stars located about 615 parsecs (2,010\u00a0ly) from the Sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032620-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Cephei\nThe spectrum of 19 Cephei shows line profile variability on an hourly and daily timescale. This is thought to be due to the changes in the stellar wind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032620-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Cephei\nDouble star catalogues list several companions for 19 Cephei. The Washington Double Star Catalog describes four companions: 11th magnitude stars 20\" and 56\" away, and two 15th magnitude stars 4-5\" away. The Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars gives only the two 11th magnitude stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032620-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Cephei\nA scattered cluster of faint stars has been detected associated with 19 Cephei. The brightest likely members apart from 19 Cep itself are 10th magnitude stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street\n19 Court Street is an historic building in Dedham, Massachusetts that was originally built in 1801 as a two-story, Federal-style single-family home. It was soon thereafter converted into a tavern, and hosted John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and the Marquis de Lafayette. In the 2010s it was converted into apartments. It has more than 15,000 square feet of living space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Norfolk House\nDuring the first few years of the 19th century, several turnpikes, including those linking Boston and Providence and Dedham and Hartford, were laid through Dedham. Inns and taverns sprung up along the new roads as more than 600 coaches would pass through Dedham each day on their way to Boston or Providence. As many as 40 coaches passed through town every day, and Dedham was the first stop on the way to Providence, or the last stop on the way to Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Norfolk House\nIn 1802, Martin Marsh, a local mason, built his brick home at what is today 19 Court Street and was then right on one of the new turnpikes. He saw the traffic flowing daily past his house and quickly turned his home into the Norfolk House. His establishment, like the other inns and taverns in Dedham at that time, were bustling with the arrival of both the turnpikes and the courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Norfolk House\nThe original portico of the house was the site of the first recorded traffic accident in Dedham. A runaway carriage crashed into the corner post and broke it. The Norfolk House was also the site where \"on June 4, 1810, in an expression of public outrage, a number of Dedham citizens assembled\" and founded the Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves. Today the \"Society is the oldest continually existing horse thief apprehending organization in the United States, and one of Dedham's most venerable social organizations.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Norfolk House\nMarsh maintained the tavern until 1818, and then sold it to Moses Gray and Francis Alden. It was this partnership that hosted President Andrew Jackson for lunch as he and his entourage passed through town in 1832. A young Congressman named Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at the Norfolk House on September 20, 1848 while in Massachusetts to campaign for Zachary Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Norfolk House\nIn 1840, Martin Bates purchased the property. He sometimes kept a moose behind the property, and charged admission to see it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, St. Mary's School and Asylum\nBates tried to sell the building to the Town of Dedham, but the Town was not interested. In a fit of spite, Bates then sold it to the Sisters of Charity to open St. Mary's School and Asylum, an orphanage and school for girls. The school closed in the late 1870s, and then became a flop house, warehouse, and \"third rate office building\" which, at one point, housed the offices of an \"independent clairvoyant and medical reformer.\" During this time the building fell into disrepair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Recent history\nIn 1902, Walter Austin, a wealthy pineapple merchant, purchased the home and restored it as a private residence with Frank Chouteau Brown as his architect. It was he who tore down the low portico with a dozen columns under the second story windows and added the larger one in the southern style. Austin also added an additional bay to the house with a covered porch, and an arcade was added to the ell in the rear of the house. Austin would go on to write a book about the history of the house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0008-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Recent history\nIt remained a single family home until early the 21st century, but it was only sporadically occupied. From 2000 on, the house sat vacant, for sale but in need of significant repairs. Town Meeting created a new class of zoning, and voted to place the Norfolk House into that zone, allowing for the property to be redeveloped with six apartments that will eventually be sold as condominiums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0009-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Recent history\nIn 2017, the Massachusetts Historical Commission awarded the house Historic Preservation Award. The rehabilitation project by Oxbow Partners used", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0010-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Recent history\nstate and federal tax credits focused on retaining important and distinctive historic features while transforming the single-family house into six apartments, meeting the needs of the current neighborhood. The exterior entryways and windows underwent extensive rehabilitation. Work included repairing the two east entry doors, installing a patio in the footprint of a non-extant front porch, and rehabilitating the south entryway into the main entrance. The historic wood windows were repaired and reinstalled, as were historic paneled and louvered shutters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0010-0001", "contents": "19 Court Street, Recent history\nIn order to meet code requirements, a new egress was tucked into the northern elbow between the main block and the ell, and a clapboard vestibule was added to allow for rear egress from the main house and basement. When the project began, the interior retained much of the ornamental detail from the 1905 rehabilitation; the features restored in the new apartment units included historic wood trim, surrounds, fireplaces, doors, door hardware, and a domed ceiling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032621-0011-0000", "contents": "19 Court Street, Recent history\nDuring the construction, a fire broke out in the attic but was quickly brought under control and put out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032622-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Days in New York\n19 Days in New York is a studio album recorded by ARIA award winning artist, Kate Ceberano. It was released in September 2004 and consisted entirely of cover versions of previously released material.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032622-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Days in New York, Background\nOn 6 January 2004, Ceberano gave birth to her first child, a daughter named \"Gypsy\" before travelling to New York City to record 19 Days in New York. She says; \u201cNew York is a strong part of my musical dreaming. When I was a kid I always had ambitions to go to New York to either live, play music and be part of the musical scene. If I have lived in a past life, I am sure I would have lived there because I have such a fondness for the atmosphere. I love the fact they celebrate their artists, they embrace eccentricities, they have more patience and tolerance for not so ordinary artists. It made me feel completely relaxed and in my element.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032622-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Days in New York, Singles\nAlthough no official singles were released from the album, promotional videos for \"Higher and Higher\" and \"At Last\" were released late in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032623-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Draconis\n19 Draconis, also known as h Draconis, is a star system in the constellation Draco. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.89. Based on its parallax, the system is located about 49.8 light-years (15.26 parsecs) away. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of \u221221\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032623-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Draconis\nThis is a binary star system with an orbital period of 52.1\u00a0days and an eccentricity of 0.22. Only the primary star can be directly detected, via Doppler shifts or perturbations around the system's barycenter. Using spectroscopy and astrometry, the nature of the secondary star can be inferred. The primary star is an F-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F8V, 4% more massive than the Sun. Its surface temperature is about 6,298 K, and it emits just over twice the amount of energy that the Sun does. The secondary is only 37% as massive as the Sun, and its luminosity is only 2% that of the Sun. The system is about 4.7 billion years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032624-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Dutch\n19 Dutch is a residential building in the Financial District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The building was developed by Carmel Partners and was designed by GK+V, with SLCE Architects as the architect of record. GK+V also designed the nearby 5 Beekman. The building contains 482 units and retail space on the first several floors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0000-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street\n19 East 54th Street, originally the Minnie E. Young House, is a commercial building in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is along 54th Street's northern sidewalk between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue. The building was designed by Philip Hiss and H. Hobart Weekes of the firm Hiss and Weekes. It was constructed between 1899 and 1900 as a private residence for Minnie Edith Arents Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0001-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street\nThe house was designed as a palazzo in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The 54th Street facade was designed as a four-story structure with a rusticated first story and decorated windows on the upper stories. Because 19 East 54th Street was wider than other houses in the area, the architectural details were designed to be more imposing. The penthouse at the fifth and sixth stories is recessed from the street. The interior was ornately outfitted with a coffered ceiling, a stained-glass conservatory, and staircases with oak paneling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0002-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street\nYoung commissioned the house after her uncle Lewis Ginter, the founder of the American Tobacco Company, died in 1897 and left her a large bequest. Young leased the home to \"Lucille\" Lady Duff Gordon in 1920. The house was subsequently occupied by antiques trader Arthur S. Vernay from 1925 to 1943, then by the English-Speaking Union until 1956. Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth operated a salon in the building from 1963 until 1990, when the house's interior was severely damaged by fire. The building was then renovated and has served as Bank Audi's U.S. headquarters since 1993. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 19 East 54th Street as an official landmark in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0003-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Site\nThe Minnie E. Young House is at 19 East 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is on the north side of 54th Street between Madison Avenue to the east and Fifth Avenue to the west. The land lot covers 4,201 square feet (390.3\u00a0m2) with a frontage of 41.67 feet (12.70\u00a0m) on 54th Street and a depth of 100.42 feet (30.61\u00a0m). Nearby sites include the William H. Moore House at 4 East 54th Street and the Aeolian Building to the west; the St. Regis New York hotel to the northwest; 550 Madison Avenue one block north; the DuMont Building to the southeast; and Paley Park one block south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0004-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Site\nFifth Avenue between 42nd Street and Central Park South (59th Street) was relatively undeveloped through the late 19th century. The surrounding area was once part of the common lands of the city of New York. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 established Manhattan's street grid with lots measuring 100 feet (30\u00a0m) deep and 25 feet (7.6\u00a0m) wide. Upscale residences were constructed around Fifth Avenue following the American Civil War. The block of East 54th Street from Fifth to Madison Avenues was only sporadically developed until the late 1870s, and it had brownstone residences by 1886.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0004-0001", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Site\nResidents of the block included developer William Earl Dodge Stokes at 4 East 54th and merchant John R. Platt at 7 East 54th. On the next block west were the residences of John D. Rockefeller at 4 West 54th, John D. Rockefeller Jr. at 10 West 54th, and Philip Lehman at 7 West 54th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 25], "content_span": [26, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0005-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Design\n19 East 54th Street is designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Philip Hiss and H. Hobart Weekes of the firm Hiss and Weekes. It is six stories tall, although only four stories are directly visible on the street. With a width of 40 feet (12\u00a0m), the house is wider than other townhouses in the area, which typically measured 25 by 100 feet (7.6 by 30.5\u00a0m). Russell Sturgis, writing for Architectural Record in 1900, described 19 East 54th Street as being well proportioned because its increased width allowed more imposing design features. According to Sturgis, \"if one were to wish for a fairly good idea embodied in solid construction of those villini which the Florentines have been building diligently during the last twenty years, he would find it in this front.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0006-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Design, Facade\nThe main facade on 54th Street is four stories tall with three bays of vertical openings. Below the ground story is a granite water table with bead molding. The first story is faced with rusticated stone blocks, and it contains bronze-framed display windows on the left and right bays. The main entrance is through a portico in the center bay, with engaged columns flanking a slightly recessed doorway. The doorway itself is set within a carved-stone frame and is topped by a cartouche. A balustrade runs across the bottom of the second story.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0006-0001", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Design, Facade\nThe windows on that story are topped by pediments that are supported by scrolled brackets. The second-story and third-story windows are flanked by rusticated piers that support a cornice above the third story. The fourth story has recessed panels between the windows and is topped by a large stone cornice with brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0007-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Design, Facade\nThe fifth and sixth stories, added in 1960 and 1993 respectively, are hidden behind the fourth-floor cornice. These stories form a penthouse that is clad with parged brick and concrete. The house's west and east facades are not visible from the street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0008-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Design, Interior\nAccording to the New York City Department of City Planning, the house has a gross floor area of 25,971 square feet (2,412.8\u00a0m2). It is one of several \"American basement plan\" residences on 54th Street, where the entrance is placed at ground level, rather than on a stoop slightly above ground as in other rowhouses. This type of design enabled the ground-floor reception area to have a central staircase, rather than on one side. Inside the house, a broad staircase connects the first and second stories. The interior was originally designed like Renaissance Revival palazzos. Inside the second floor was a parlor that was a common space for guests. The third and fourth floors served as the private rooms. The interior was ornately decorated with a coffered ceiling, a stained-glass conservatory, and rooms with oak paneling. The rooms also had modillioned cornices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 905]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0009-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, Design, Interior\nWhen the house was turned into the salon of hairdresser Mr. Kenneth, the interior was richly decorated throughout with flowered carpet and red-and-yellow paisley pattern fabrics. The original salon interior was a rare commercial project undertaken by the interior decorator Billy Baldwin. Mr. Kenneth's salon was redesigned in 1985 with red walls, painted clouds on the ceiling, Parts of the original interior design persisted through at least 1990, when the salon was severely damaged by fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0010-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History\nThe residence was commissioned for Minnie Edith Young (n\u00e9e Arents), born in 1855 and married to stockbroker Albert Young. The Youngs had three children: Albert, Lewis, and Edna. Minnie Young was a scion of the prominent Arents family in Richmond, Virginia; her uncle Lewis Ginter was the founder of the American Tobacco Company, while her sister Grace Arents was a Richmond philanthropist. Minnie was widowed when Albert died in 1895. When Minnie's uncle Lewis died two years later, he left her a substantial bequest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0011-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Residence\nIn 1899, John and Elizabeth Kearny sold two lots at 17 and 19 East 54th Street to Minnie Young. That March, Young commissioned Hiss and Weekes to design an upscale residence. The architects selected the Italian Renaissance Revival style for its classical design attributes. The house was officially completed in the next year, but it went relatively unnoticed afterward. According to a 1990 article in The New York Times, the building was last mentioned in a print publication in 1900, when the American Architect and Building News ran a picture with a caption that denoted its client as a \"Mr. Young\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0012-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Residence\nMinnie Young initially lived in the house with her son Lewis and sister Johanna Arents, as well as a variety of servants. Minnie and Johanna's brother George Arents also lived in the house for a short time. The New York Times wrote that the servants included a \"butler, cook, laundress, kitchen maid, [and] parlor maid\", as well as Pleasant Read, a \"hallman\". The house hosted events such as the wedding of Edna Young to Alfred E. Dieterich in April 1900, as well as a fundraiser of the Junior Auxiliary to the New York Diet Kitchen Association in 1913. The surrounding neighborhood rapidly became a commercial zone after World War I, and Minnie Young moved to 420 Park Avenue in 1920, though she retained ownership of the house until her death in 1933.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0013-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Mid-20th century\nIn November 1920, Young leased the house to Lucille Ltd. for twenty-one years. The firm, headed by dressmaker Lady Duff Gordon, catered to upper-class clients. The next month, Mott B. Schmidt filed plans to remove partitions, add rooms, and rearrange spaces in the building for $20,000. Schmidt turned the house into a showroom. By March 1921, the renovations were complete and Lucille was paying $50,000 annually in rent. A little more than one year after the lease was signed, in March 1922, Lucille's creditors forced the company into receivership. Lucille's attorney characterized the \"embarrassment of the company\" (as it was described in The New York Times) as being partially caused by the relocation to 19 East 54th Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0014-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Mid-20th century\nStarting in 1925, the house was leased for a long term to a client represented by Augustus H. Skillin. The client in question was English antiques collector Arthur S. Vernay, whose company sold antiques and decorative artworks. Vernay bought the house outright from the estate of Minnie Young in 1933; at the time, the building was valued at about $450,000 for taxation purposes. The purchase reportedly was made for $312,500, but this value was not confirmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0014-0001", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Mid-20th century\nDuring the 1930s, the Vernay gallery was used for multiple events, such as a show of English antique furniture, a needle-art show with work by artists such as former U.S. first lady Edith Roosevelt, a Tibetan-artifact exhibition to benefit a children's school, and an exhibition of English clockmakers' art. The house was sold in September 1937 to Frederick Brown, who resold it to Charles S. Noyes. Though Vernay retired in 1941, the business continued to operate at 19 East 54th Street. The house was acquired by the Bank for Savings in May 1941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0015-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Mid-20th century\nThe building was sold in 1943 to the English-Speaking Union (ESU) for use as that organization's United States headquarters. The purchase, conducted entirely in cash, was funded partly by a gift of $60,000 toward the organization. The purchase was intended to provide adequate space for the ESU, whose American operation was then headquartered at nearby 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The Lawyers Title Corporation of New York insured the property title in the purchase. The ESU's new headquarters opened in May 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0015-0001", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Mid-20th century\nThe building had enough space for the ESU's offices, including those of the United Nations Officers Club, Committee for Overseas Children, and War Relief Workroom. In addition, the building was used for events, such as exhibits of British veterans' products, early-20th century English art, and a needlework tapestry in memory of the Battle of Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0016-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Mid-20th century\nThe ESU ultimately sold the building in 1956 to Henry Payson and relocated the next year to a new home on 69th Street. The sale was not finalized until 1958 because of a lawsuit over delays in the sale. Payson had initially refused to take the title because of these delays, saying that the building's entrance portico and underground vaults projected slightly into the street. The New York Supreme Court ruled that the ESU was entitled to demand specific performance; namely, Payson was obligated to take the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0017-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Late 20th century to present\nMr. Kenneth signed a 50-year lease in the building in 1962, backed by salon-and-beauty-supply firm Glemby Company. After Billy Baldwin renovated the interior, the salon officially opened on March 4, 1963. It had a wig boutique and special cold storage for fur coats on the first floor; drying rooms on the second floor; washing and styling rooms on the third floor; and massage rooms, steam baths, waxing chambers, whirlpool spas, and a Pilates studio on the fourth floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0017-0001", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Late 20th century to present\nClients could have manicures and pedicures while being served lunch or tea, and a Mercedes car was on call to bring clients to the salon or take them home afterward. Some women would drop in simply for lunch, or to sit and leaf through magazines while enjoying the relaxed, club-like atmosphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0018-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Late 20th century to present\nBy 1985, the salon was starting to become aged. That year, it was closed for one month and the house was renovated for $1.3 million. The main room's furniture was redesigned and a pedicure room was added. Part of the main floor was subdivided for a men's division, with specially designed chairs. A New York Times article describing the 1985 renovation referred to Mr. Kenneth as an \"institution\". The salon burned down on May 16, 1989, when a fire arose on the third floor and ultimately destroyed the rear of the second and third floors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0018-0001", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Late 20th century to present\nThe fire was extinguished after four hours with the help of 125 firefighters. The damage was extensive enough to uncover large portions of the original decoration work. As a result of the fire, Kenneth Salon relocated to the Palace Hotel. Kenneth said later, \"There had never been anything like [the 54th Street salon] before, and nothing like it will ever exist again.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0019-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Late 20th century to present\nFor over a year, the house sat empty and no restoration work was performed. The owner of 19 East 54th Street, Donald J. Gordon, was planning to rebuild the house, and Kenneth Salon's lease was effectively terminated. While Kenneth Salon's lease ran until 2010, a \"fire or earthquake\" clause allowed the owner of a severely damaged building to end a lease if they wished to demolish or rebuild it. Gordon spent $1.2 million to refurbish the interior, adding an elevator and mechanical areas to designs by Emery Roth & Sons. The existing stories were extended to the rear and a sixth story was added. Gordon then sought a tenant who could sign a net lease, thereby assuming the maintenance and upkeep costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0020-0000", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Late 20th century to present\nBank Audi leased the house by 1993; it had initially wanted to buy the house, but the owner did not want to sell it. The wide facade enabled Bank Audi to add offices and a conference room lit by large windows. In addition, the bank installed its name over the entrance portico. The bank became the InterAudi Bank in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032625-0020-0001", "contents": "19 East 54th Street, History, Late 20th century to present\nWhen the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) started considering buildings in Midtown for city landmark status in 2013, including the Minnie Young House, a group of development organizations wrote a report advising against a landmark designation for the house, saying it was \"now isolated and lacks the context that would enhance its value\". In mid-2016, the LPC proposed protecting twelve buildings in East Midtown, including 19 East 54th Street, in advance of proposed changes to the area's zoning. On November 22, 2016, the LPC designated 19 East 54th Street and ten other nearby buildings as city landmarks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032626-0000-0000", "contents": "19 East 64th Street\nThe Wildenstein & Company Building is an edifice that stands at 19 East 64th Street, near Madison Avenue on Manhattan, New York City's Upper East Side. It is five stories tall and was completed in early 1932. The building was designed in French 18th-century style by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, architect Horace Trumbauer. Its facade is made of limestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032626-0001-0000", "contents": "19 East 64th Street\nThe Wildenstein art firm was located in the former Vanderbilt house at 647 Fifth Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets, for several years prior to the structure's completion. The Charles F. Noyes Company arranged a five-year extension of a $545,000 mortgage at 5% in June 1932.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032626-0002-0000", "contents": "19 East 64th Street\nIn October 1993, Wildenstein & Company purchased 49% of the Pace Gallery. The deal combined a 118-year-old gallery which specialized in Old Master and Impressionist paintings with a 32-year-old gallery which was renowned for its contemporary art and modern art. The Wildenstein gallery remained at the Wildenstein Building. Pace's SoHo branch at 142 Greene Street also became part of the combined business. In April 2010, the combined gallery announced it was splitting, and Pace bought out Wildenstein's 49%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032626-0003-0000", "contents": "19 East 64th Street\nIn 1997 the house had up to 11 members of the Wildenstein family living in it at any one time, leading art dealer Harry Brooks to humorously call the house the \"most expensive tenement in Manhattan\". The Government of Qatar planned to buy the house for $90 million in 2014 and operate it as a consulate. The Russian businessman Len Blavatnik sued David Wildenstein, believing that the Wildenstein family had reneged on a promise to sell Blavatnik the property for $79 million. A judge rejected the suit in court in March 2017 stating that the verbal agreement was not legally binding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032626-0004-0000", "contents": "19 East 64th Street\nIn April 2017 it became the most expensive townhouse ever sold in Manhattan when it sold for $79.5 million. The building sold again in February 2018, for $90 million. As of April 2019, it is now the home of Skarstedt Gallery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032627-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Entertainment\n19 Entertainment is a producer of entertainment properties for television with a focus on music. Based in Los Angeles, their contributions to the music industry include American Idol in the United States, Pop Idol in the United Kingdom and versions of the Idol series in more than seventy countries around the world. 19 Entertainment is also responsible for the production of So You Think You Can Dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032627-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Entertainment, Background and history\nFounded in London, England in 1985, 19 Entertainment moved their headquarters to Los Angeles, United States, in 2010. The company was named after the Paul Hardcastle song which was one of Simon Fuller's first notable successes while working as an A&R man for Chrysalis Records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032627-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Entertainment, Background and history\nIn 2009 the company announced the purchase of London based Storm Model Management, one of the world's top modelling agencies. This business was sold back to Storm's management in 2013, ending the firm's activities in fashion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032627-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Entertainment, Background and history\nIn March 2005, 19 Entertainment founder Simon Fuller sold the company to Robert Sillerman's CKX, Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth $210 million. Subsequent to the deal Fuller remained in his role as CEO of 19 Entertainment and added the new role of director of CKX.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032627-0003-0001", "contents": "19 Entertainment, Background and history\nIn his dual role Fuller was able to effectively co-ordinate all creative aspects of the CKX business until January 2010 when, as he approached the end of his employment contract with CKX, Inc., he decided to start up a new business, XIX Entertainment, while still acting as a consultant to CKX / 19 and as an Executive Producer of 19's shows. Following this, CKX announced its intention to shift 19 to becoming a US business focusing solely on American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance brands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032627-0003-0002", "contents": "19 Entertainment, Background and history\n19's old Headquarters in Battersea, London became the headquarters for Simon Fuller's new business, XIX, while the base for 19 Entertainment was transferred to Los Angeles. In September 2010 much of 19's non- American Idol business was sold to Simon Fuller's new business XIX Entertainment. This included 19's non-Idol management clients such as David and Victoria Beckham, Andy Murray, Annie Lennox, The Spice Girls, Lewis Hamilton, S Club 7, Carrie Underwood, David Cook, and others. Also transferred to XIX Entertainment were Roland Mouret and Victoria Beckham's fashion businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032627-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Entertainment, Background and history\nSillerman and partners accepted an offer from Apollo Global Management on July 21, 2011 to purchase the entire stock of CKX, Inc, and the business was re-branded as CORE Media group in 2012 with 19 Entertainment becoming the group's primary west coast division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032628-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Eyl\u00fcl Stadium\nThe 19 Eyl\u00fcl Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Ordu, Turkey. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of 52 Orduspor and Orduspor. The stadium holds 11,024 people and was built in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032629-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Fortuna\nFortuna (minor planet designation: 19 Fortuna) is one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It has a composition similar to 1 Ceres: a darkly colored surface that is heavily space-weathered with the composition of primitive organic compounds, including tholins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032629-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Fortuna\nFortuna is 225\u00a0km in diameter and has one of the darkest known geometric albedos for an asteroid over 150\u00a0km in diameter. Its albedo has been measured at 0.028 and 0.037. The spectra of the asteroid displays evidence of aqueous alteration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032629-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Fortuna\nThe Hubble Space Telescope observed Fortuna in 1993. It was resolved with an apparent diameter of 0.20 arcseconds (4.5 pixels in the Planetary Camera) and its shape was found to be nearly spherical. Satellites were searched for but none were detected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032629-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Fortuna\nStellar occultations by Fortuna have been observed several times. Fortuna has been studied by radar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032629-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Fortuna\nIt was discovered by J. R. Hind on August 22, 1852, and named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032629-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Fortuna\nFortuna has been perturbed by the 80\u00a0km 135 Hertha and was initially estimated by Baer to have a mass of 1.08\u00d71019 kg. A more recent estimate by Baer suggests it has a mass of 1.27\u00d71019 kg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032629-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Fortuna\nOn December 21, 2012 Fortuna (~200\u00a0km) harmlessly passed within 6.5Gm of asteroid 687 Tinette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032630-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Gramercy Park South\n19 Gramercy Park South, also known as 86 Irving Place or the Stuyvesant Fish House, is a four-story row house located at the corner of Gramercy Park South (East 20th Street) and Irving Place in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032630-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Gramercy Park South, History\nThe house was built in 1845 by William Samuel Johnson, a Whig politician, and then had the address 86 Irving Place. Johnson sold the property to Horace Brooks, who added a fifth story and constructed a stable on the unused southern part of the property. The census of 1880 shows a number of different people living at the address, suggesting that it had been converted into apartments by that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032630-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Gramercy Park South, History\nIn 1887, this modest property was expanded and altered by noted architect Stanford White at the cost of $130,000 into a mansion with an interior marble staircase and a ballroom on the top floor where Mamie Fish gave elaborate parties for New York society. The building was also re-numbered 19 Gramercy Park, an address which had not existed prior to that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032630-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Gramercy Park South, History\nThe Fish family left for their new 78th Street home in 1898, and the building was broken up into small apartments; actor John Barrymore was a resident while he was in New York working on Broadway. Occupants at other times included playwright Edward Sheldon and William C. Bullitt, the diplomat, journalist and novelist. In 1909, a six-story apartment building was constructed on the southern part of the lot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032630-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Gramercy Park South, History\nThe building was rescued from decay in 1931 by noted publicist Benjamin Sonnenberg when he and his wife rented the first two floors, gradually expanding and taking over other apartments. In 1945, Sonnenberg bought the entire building from Fish's son, Stuyvesant Fish Jr., for $85,000, and combined it with the apartment building to the south to create a massive residence which noted architecture critic Brendan Gill called \"the greatest private house remaining in private hands in New York.\" The mansion was extensively furnished with Sonnenberg's collection of English and Irish furniture, drawings by Old Masters and sculptures. Like the Fishes, Sonnenberg gave notable parties which brought old-money New York together with show business luminaries. The building was listed as a contributing property to the Gramercy Park Historic District in 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 884]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032630-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Gramercy Park South, History\nSonnenberg died in 1978, and the house was auctioned to Baron Walter Langer von Langendorff, the owner of Evyan Perfumes, although Dr. Henry Jarecki also bid on it. Von Langendorff sold it to fashion designer Richard Tyler and his wife, Lisa Trafficante, in 1995 for $3.5 million. After sprucing up the property, it was put on the market in January 2000 and sold to Jarecki in December 2000 for $16.5 million. Jarecki, a psychologist and entrepreneur was reported to plan to use the mansion as both a home and the headquarters for his family foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032630-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Gramercy Park South, Rooms\nThe mansion in its current incarnation has 37 rooms, 18,000 square feet (1,700\u00a0m2) of space, a separate caretaker's apartment, numerous bedrooms, bathrooms, guest suites, and sitting rooms, a drawing room, a library, two kitchens, a wine cellar and the ballroom on the top floor, which had been renovated by Tyler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032631-0000-0000", "contents": "19 January 2005 Baghdad bombings\nDuring the morning of 19 January 2005, four car bombings occurred in Baghdad, Iraq. The attacks killed at least 26 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032631-0001-0000", "contents": "19 January 2005 Baghdad bombings\nThe first bomb detonated happened at around 7 am near the Australian embassy in Jadiriyah, central Baghdad and killed two Iraqis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032631-0002-0000", "contents": "19 January 2005 Baghdad bombings\nThe second bomb exploded at around 7:30 am at a police station in Elwiya, eastern Baghdad. It killed 18 people, including five Iraqi Police officer and injured 36 other people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032631-0003-0000", "contents": "19 January 2005 Baghdad bombings\nThe third bomb exploded near Baghdad International Airport, killing two Iraqi security guards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032631-0004-0000", "contents": "19 January 2005 Baghdad bombings\nThe fourth bomb exploded at a military complex, killing two civilians and two Iraqi soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032632-0000-0000", "contents": "19 January 2006 Osama bin Laden tape\nOn Thursday, 19 January 2006, an audio tape was released, presumably of Osama bin Laden, warning that al-Qaeda was planning more attacks against the United States. The release of the tape came shortly after the United States' Central Intelligence Agency's Damadola airstrike in Pakistan, an attack that reportedly led to the deaths of Midhat Mursi, a veteran bomb and chemical expert and the head of an al-Qaeda training camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Khalid Habib, the al-Qaeda operations chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Abdul Rehman al Magrabi, a senior al-Qaeda operations commander, and 15 other people. Civilians were among the others killed, according to the Pakistani provincial government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032632-0001-0000", "contents": "19 January 2006 Osama bin Laden tape\nOn the tape (which may have been recorded a month earlier), bin Laden boasted that \"our situation is getting better, while your situation is getting worse.\" It also threatened future attacks on the United States, and simultaneously offered a \"long truce\", while not saying what the truce would involve. The White House immediately rejected the truce offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0000-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests\nOn 19 January 2015, protests led by students at the University of Kinshasa broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The protests began following the announcement of a proposed law that would allow the country's 43-year-old president, Joseph Kabila, to remain in power until a national census could be conducted. Elections had been planned for 2016 and a census would be a massive undertaking that would likely take several years for the developing country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0001-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests\nBy 21 January, clashes between police and protesters had claimed at least 42 lives (although the government claimed only 15 people had been killed, most by security guards while looting; the government later adjusted that figure to 27 killed). As a result of the protests the government closed certain radio stations, and cut all internet, SMS and 3G communication in the country on 20 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0002-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests\nFollowing a series of meetings between foreign diplomats and Congolese government officials, the Congolese Senate passed the law, omitting the controversial census clause, and the opposition called off further protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0003-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Events\nOn 17 January 2015, the Congolese National Assembly (the country's lower house) voted to revise the electoral law in the country's constitution. The new law would require that a national census be conducted prior to any upcoming elections, which, according to the Guardian newspaper, \"could delay the general election, due to take place [in] 2016.\" On 19 January, following a call from opposition parties, protesters gathered in front of the Palais du Peuple and were subsequently attacked with tear gas and live ammunition by government security forces. Protests also took place in the capitals of the country's historically unstable eastern provinces of North and South Kivu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0004-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Events\nOn 20 January, Internet, SMS and 3G communications in the country were cut-off. On 21 January, the Congolese Catholic Church's Archbishop, Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo stated \"We denounce these actions which have caused death and we are launching this plea: stop killing your people,... [and call on the people to use] all legal and peaceful [means to oppose the law change].\" The Roman Catholic Church counts around half of the country's population amongst its congregants. The same day, American, British, French and Belgian diplomats met with the Congolese Senate President, L\u00e9on Kengo, and urged him either to suspend debate and voting on the modifying law or to remove the controversial provisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0005-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Events\nOn 24 January, diplomats from Belgium, the European Union, France, the United Kingdom, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, and the United States met privately with President Kabila at his home in Kinshasa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0006-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Events\nOn 25 January, the Congolese Senate removed the controversial provision from the proposed law and passed it, leading the opposition to call off plans for protests on the next day. President Kabila has until 24 February to sign the bill into law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0007-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Attacks on Chinese businesses\nAround 50 Chinese national-run businesses in the Kinshasa neighborhoods of Ngaba and Kalamu were targeted by looters. An Agence France-Presse article reported that the attacks were motivated by local businesses' resentment of the low prices of Chinese run stores and the rioters' association of Chinese-run stores with the government's Chinese investment deals which have become a centerpiece of the country's economic policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0008-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Reactions\nOn 19 January, Martin Kobler, the head of MONUSCO, criticized the deaths and injuries during protests as \"a result of violent demonstrations and the ensuing use of lethal force by the security force.\" He further said, \"The use of force by law enforcement officers must always be necessary, proportionate, and a measure of last resort.\" On 20 January, the American government expressed concern about the situation in the country, the loss of life and the ongoing violence. The U.S. called for \"timely elections [...] in accordance with the Constitution.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0009-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Subsequent arrest of activists\nOn March 15 at least 26 activists, journalists, diplomats and civilians were arrested in Kinshasa while attending a workshop on freedom of expression. Those arrested included journalists from the BBC, AFP, RTBF, and the Senegalese youth-group Y'en a Marre. They were beaten by Congolese security forces, arrested and taken to be interrogated by members of Congo's National Intelligence Agency", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032633-0010-0000", "contents": "19 January 2015 DRC protests, Subsequent arrest of activists\nOn March 17 at least 10 people were arrested and beaten in Goma for protesting the earlier arrests in Kinshasa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032634-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Jinchaidai Alley\n19 Jinchaidai Alley (simplified Chinese: \u91d1\u9497\u888b\u5df719\u53f7; traditional Chinese: \u91d1\u91f5\u888b\u5df719\u865f; pinyin: j\u012bnch\u0101id\u00e0i xi\u00e0ng 19-h\u00e0o), in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, is a former residence constructed during the Qing dynasty, which was used during the Xinhai Revolution that led to the dynasty's collapse. Despite concerns over its historical significance, the building began to be demolished in 2010 despite its addition to the fifth batch of protected historical buildings in Hangzhou earlier that year, although its demolition was stopped by the city government's intervention. The building has now been renovated, and serves as part of the campus of the Jianlan Middle School's Lanxin Academy of Classical Learning, a private school in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032634-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Jinchaidai Alley, Historical significance\n19 Jinchaidai Alley served as the home of the Zhu family, one of whom was a government official, after its construction during the late-Qing dynasty. During the final years of the Qing dynasty, the building was involved in events relating to the Xinhai Revolution, being described as the last Xinhai Revolutionary site in the city by a local historian. Following the fall of the Qing and the creation of the Republic of China, the home was sold to various other families until its attempted demolition in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032634-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Jinchaidai Alley, Attempted demolition\nIn November 2008, plans for the reconstruction and expansion of a private school in Hangzhou were announced, which involved the demolition of buildings considered \"dilapidated\" to make way for an expansion to the school's campus, as well as for the construction of a larger parking area. Successive legislation was passed between 2008 and 2010 by the Hangzhou municipal government which supporting these changes, despite concerns by historians over the historical significance of some of the buildings that were planned to be destroyed. Even though 19 Jinchaidai Alley was documented to have been used during the Qing dynasty, it was listed in city government-approved assessment reports for the school's expansion as being \"built in 1985\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032634-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Jinchaidai Alley, Attempted demolition\nIn April 2010, 19 Jinchaidai Alley and forty-two other buildings were added to the list of historically protected buildings in Hangzhou by means of an extension of its fifth batch, acknowledging the buildings' importance historically in the city. In a notice released by the Hangzhou municipal government, it was stated that the Municipal Office for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Districts and Historical Buildings would be responsible \"for the protection and management of historical buildings\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032634-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Jinchaidai Alley, Attempted demolition\nDespite 19 Jinchaidai being a historically protected building, its demolition began on in early-September 2010, which attracted crowds of people, and caused anger among historians. A joint letter to the Hangzhou city government was sent by a professor of the Urban Planning Department of Zhejiang University, Zhou Fuduo, and a local historian, Chen Hun, which explained how the school's project would involve the destruction of historically protected buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032634-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Jinchaidai Alley, Attempted demolition\nDuring the demolition, a report on the building's destruction while being historically protected was made by CCTV. This report caused the city government to immediately halt the building's demolition due to public outcry and press coverage of the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032634-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Jinchaidai Alley, Attempted demolition\nOn November 21, the Hangzhou municipal government announced that it would disallow any further demolitions of historically protected sites, and that it would increase government subsidies for the repair of historically protected buildings in the future. 19 Jinchaidai Alley was repaired, and now serves as part of the campus of the private school it was originally intended to be demolished for, although it is now protected in its original form.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032635-0000-0000", "contents": "19 June 1857 law\nThe 19 June 1857 law, also called loi relative \u00e0 l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne (Law related to sanitation and culture of the Landes de Gascogne), is a turning point in the Landes history: it is the end of traditional pastoralism, the disappearance of the Landes shepherd, and the beginning of the extension of the Landes forest on the major part of the territory, leading to the generalization of resin extraction in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Keys\n19 Keys was a British game show that aired on Five. It aired five nights a week from 10 November to 5 December 2003. It was hosted by Richard Bacon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Format\nFour contestants stood within a large, transparent plastic cube, one at each corner. They faced the host, who stood next to a safe and a tray of 19 numbered keys in the center. Only one key would open the safe. Before each contestant was a panel displaying the key numbers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Format\nA cash jackpot was at stake, starting at zero and increasing at a continuous rate of \u00a3500 per minute for 15 minutes. If the jackpot reached its maximum of \u00a37,500, it then began to decrease at a rate of \u00a32,500 per minute for the next 3 minutes until it reached zero again. A game could thus last no more than 18 minutes. Once the timer and money counter began to run, they did not stop except during commercial breaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Format\nThroughout the game, a contestant could eliminate wrong keys from their own panel by answering questions correctly, while a miss would relight them. The specific keys to be eliminated/relit were revealed only after an answer had been given. Once a contestant had eliminated a total of seven keys (called 'Lucky Sevens'), they could relight either two keys on one opponent's panel, or one key each for two opponents. Each contestant knew only how many keys their opponents had eliminated, but not specifically which ones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Format\nRound 1 consisted of quick-fire questions on the buzzer, open to all contestants. In Round 2, the questions came in pairs; the first was open to all, and the contestant who answered it correctly could either attempt the second one or pass it to an opponent. One key was at stake for each question in these two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Format\nIn Round 3, each contestant had 30 seconds to answer as many quick-fire questions as possible. On each question, they could choose to play for one (easy), two (medium), or three keys (difficult). Round 4 used pairs of questions as in Round 2. Now, though, the contestant who answered the first one correctly (for one key) could set the difficulty level for the second, which was again open for anyone to answer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Format\nAt any time, a contestant could press a red button on their podium. They then had 10 seconds to select a key and try to open the safe with it, with the timer and money counter still running. If successful, they won the entire jackpot; if not, they were eliminated from the game. If the jackpot decreased all the way to zero before the safe was opened, all four contestants left with nothing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Format\nA special episode with game show hosts featured Jeremy Beadle, Henry Kelly, Nick Weir and Nicholas Parsons. All four hosts played for charity. Beadle won \u00a36,633 after eliminating 18 of the 19 keys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032636-0008-0000", "contents": "19 Keys, Trivia\n\"THERE comes a time in every celebrated artist's life, dear readers, when they make something absolutely no one likes. And I speak from experience - did you ever see Five's quiz show 19 Keys? Course you didn't, no one did. It was a game show that was almost impossible to follow, let alone enjoy. Buzzers, sirens, a prize fund that would go up or down for no apparent reason - imagine being in a pile-up on the M25 with me in the car screaming general knowledge questions at you. That was 19 Keys.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 15], "content_span": [16, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting\n19 Kids and Counting (formerly 17 Kids and Counting and 18 Kids and Counting) is an American reality television series that aired on the cable channel TLC for seven years until its cancellation in 2015. The show features the Duggar family: parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their 19 children \u2013 nine daughters and ten sons \u2013 all of whose names begin with the letter \"J\". During the duration of the show, two children were born, three children were married and four grandchildren were born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting\nThe show focuses on the life of the Duggar family, who are devout Baptists, and frequently discusses values of purity, modesty and faith in God. The Duggars avoid birth control, saying they have decided to allow God to determine the number of children they have. All of the children are homeschooled and access to entertainment such as movies and television is limited. The Duggar family has also used \"blanket time,\" a controversial practice, with their children. They practice chaperoned courtship, in which a couple becomes acquainted only in a group setting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0001-0001", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting\nThe values presented on the show have been associated with the Quiverfull movement, which has been described as promoting strict family conformity, male hierarchies and subservient roles for women. The Duggars have stated that they are not associated with the Quiverfull movement. However, in an article formerly published on their website titled \"Why Have Such a Large Family? \", the Duggars reference Psalms 127:3-5, from which the Quiverfull movement name comes. Moreover, in 2001, Jim Bob and Michelle were interviewed for an article published on a Quiverfull affiliated website. The Duggar family has also been connected with the Institute in Basic Life Principles and the Advanced Training Institute, both of which were founded by Bill Gothard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting\nThe series began on September 29, 2008 and concluded on May 19, 2015. The show was TLC's most popular, averaging 2.3 million viewers per new episode in Season 10 and scoring in the Nielsen \"Cable Top 25\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting\nOn May 22, 2015, TLC suspended the series when the Duggars' eldest son Josh publicly apologized for having \"acted inexcusably\" following reports that he molested five girls, including some of his sisters, by fondling them. These events occurred in 2002 and 2003, when Josh was 14 to 15 years old and prior to the beginning of the show. On July 16, 2015, TLC announced that the show was officially canceled and would not resume production. A spin off show, Counting On, aired in December 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Background\nThe Duggars live in Tontitown, Arkansas, near Springdale and originally appeared in several TLC and Discovery Health one-hour specials, mostly focused on four of Michelle's last five deliveries. Jim Bob Duggar has an older sister, Deanna, who occasionally appears on the show. Michelle Duggar (n\u00e9e Ruark) has six older siblings (Pamela Ethel, Kathie Ann, Evelyn Alice, Carolyn Jeannite, Freda Louise, and Garrett Floyd Jr.). The couple met in the early 1980s when Duggar and a fellow church member were sent for a follow-up visit after Michelle experienced a religious conversion. The Duggars were married on July 21, 1984, just after Michelle's high-school graduation. When they married, she was 17 and he was 19; neither attended college. Together they first launched a used car business, then towing and real estate businesses, both are licensed real estate agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Background\nThe Duggars initially chose to wait before having children and used birth control pills in the early years of their marriage. Their eldest child, Joshua, was born in 1988. They resumed using oral contraceptives after his birth but conceived again despite this precaution; however, Michelle miscarried early on in her pregnancy. She has mentioned that they named this child Caleb, despite not knowing the baby's sex. After consulting a doctor, the Duggars were told that birth control can in some cases allow conception but cause miscarriage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0005-0001", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Background\nAs a result, they decided to stop using birth control and allow God to determine the number of children they would have. Michelle soon became pregnant again, this time with her first set of twins, Jana and John-David. Michelle gave birth 17 times, over a period of 21+1\u20442 years, approximately one birth every 15 months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Background\nThe Duggars are devout independent Baptists. They only watch programs they consider to be wholesome family television and various historical events. Their Internet service is filtered. They adhere to certain standards of modesty in clothing, in accordance with their religious beliefs. Shorts and tank tops are prohibited, and the women do not wear skirts that go above the knee. According to Michelle Duggar, such standards are mandated by scripture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0006-0001", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Background\nThey believe that baring one's thigh is \"nakedness and shame\" and runs the risk of \"defrauding\" others \u2013 or stirring up and arousing \"desires in someone else that cannot be righteously fulfilled\". They avoid beaches and public swimming areas \"because it's just too hard for the guys to try to keep their eyes averted in those situations\". Female family members keep their hair long, and males are clean-shaven and short-haired. They practice chaperoned courtship, where the couple get to know one another in a group setting. The Duggars describe this as \"dating with a purpose\". The Duggar children cannot begin a courtship without parental permission. Before a courtship officially begins, an interested man must speak to the woman's father.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Background\nJim Bob Duggar served as a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. He was defeated for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate by incumbent Tim Hutchinson in 2002 by a vote of 71,576 to 20,546. He later became a real estate agent and investor. The Duggars' income is derived from rental proceeds of commercial properties they own. Prior to the scandal surrounding son Josh, they lived debt-free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0008-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Background\nConstruction of their 7000 square foot house began in 2000 when they bought the lot and ordered two steel frames. One of the frames was not drilled correctly, so the Duggars received a third frame which was used to build the girls' room and the industrial kitchen. Discovery Networks completed the build, finding local Arkansas construction workers to donate their skills and time. The home was completed on January 20, 2006. Some of the painting, decorating, furnishings, appliances and other finishing touches, such as a stocked pantry, were provided by Discovery Networks and corporate sponsors as part of the one-hour television special entitled 16 Children and Moving In.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0009-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nMichelle Duggar gave birth via emergency C-section to the couple's 19th child, Josie Brooklyn Duggar, on December 10, 2009, six months into her pregnancy. When she was rushed to the hospital for gallstones, doctors discovered that she was pre-eclamptic and performed an emergency delivery. Josie was premature at only 1 lb, 6 oz at birth. Nearly four months later on April 6, 2010, the Duggars were able to take the baby to their temporary rental home in Little Rock while they awaited medical approval to take her home to Tontitown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0010-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nThe Duggars took Josie home to Tontitown for good on June 23, 2010. By that December she weighed 15 lbs 12 oz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0011-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nOn December 2, 2008, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's book The Duggars: 20 and Counting! was released. Their second book, A Love That Multiplies, was released on June 7, 2011. The eldest four girls \u2013 Jana, Jill, Jessa and Jinger \u2013 authored Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships, which was released on March 4, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0012-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nOn November 8, 2011, Michelle Duggar and the family appeared on NBC's Today Show to announce she was expecting their 20th child. On December 8, 2011, the Duggars announced that Michelle had miscarried 20 weeks into her pregnancy. Six days later, they held a memorial service for the stillborn baby girl that they named Jubilee Shalom (meaning celebration and peace).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0013-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nA few months after the birth of their daughter Mackynzie, Josh and Anna Duggar learned that she was pregnant with their second child, but the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. On their daughter's first birthday, Josh and Anna Duggar announced they were expecting again. The couple welcomed their second child, Michael James, on June 15, 2011. They learned that they were expecting again in September 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0014-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nJosh Duggar was offered a job at the Family Research Council during his wife's pregnancy with their third child. Marcus Anthony was delivered by a midwife on June 2, 2013. Duggar announced that he was hired to be the executive director of the Family Research Council's political action committee, FRC Action, on June 18, 2013 and that the family would move to Washington, D.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0015-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nOn December 2, 2014, Josh and Anna Duggar announced they were expecting their fourth child. The couple welcomed their fourth child, Meredith Grace, on July 16, 2015. They announced her birth on July 19, 2015 on the Duggar family website. Their fifth child, Mason Garrett, was born on September 12, 2017. Their sixth child, Maryella Hope, was born on November 27, 2019. In April 2021, they announced that they were expecting their seventh child together, a girl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0016-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nThe Duggars issued an announcement that Jessa Duggar was in a courtship with Ben Seewald on September 18, 2013. The couple met through their church. On August 15, 2014, after eleven months of courtship, the couple announced their engagement and were married on November 1, 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0017-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nJill Duggar's courtship with Derick Dillard was announced on March 31, 2014. They were introduced by Jim Bob Duggar and became further acquainted via supervised Skype and text conversations while Dillard was serving as a missionary in Nepal. Jill Duggar and her father traveled to Nepal to meet Dillard in person and began a formal courtship in November 2013. The couple announced their engagement on 9 April 2014, and were married on 21 June 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0018-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nThe Dillards announced their first pregnancy on August 20, 2014. Their son, Israel David Dillard, was born on April 6, 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0019-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nThe Seewalds announced their first pregnancy on April 21, 2015, having waited until the second trimester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0020-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Events during the series\nOn July 16, 2015, TLC announced that the series was officially canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0021-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception\nArnold Hamilton of The Dallas Morning News described 19 Kids and Counting as \"part Little House on the Prairie, part Yours, Mine & Ours\u2013except the only blending in this real-life family occurs with restaurant like precision at mealtimes\". He described the Duggars as acting \"against the trend\", considering the 2002 US Census found that only 0.3 percent of women aged 15 to 44 have given birth to seven or more children and that this number has declined steadily since 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0022-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception\nIn an op-ed for The New York Observer, Nina Burleigh described the Duggars as \"good TV. Good, sugarcoated rat poison, politically speaking\", referring to the Duggars' political activity such as their opposition to abortion and their lobbying efforts against legislation that would allow transgender people to use public restrooms matching their gender identity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0023-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception\nIn an article published in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Christy Mesaros-Winckles described the Duggars as \"unofficial spokespeople for the Quiverfull movement\". Referring to the first season of the show, Mesaros-Winckles said that the Duggars introduced themselves and their religious beliefs with the \"subtle and disturbing\" message of conformity and \"rigid male hierarchy\" associated with the Quiverfull movement. Mesaros-Winckles asserted that the show provides a platform for the legitimization of this movement, while downplaying \"patriarchal gender roles and strict family conformity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0023-0001", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception\nMesaros-Winckles also said that the Duggars \"try to convince the audience that their way of life is best for raising healthy, godly children\" and that a large family is a \"biblical mandate\". She concluded that, despite the small size of the Quiverfull movement, with perhaps only several thousand followers, the show 19 Kids and Counting has brought the movement to the forefront of American culture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0024-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception\nFeminist Amanda Marcotte referred to the Duggars as part of the \"Christian patriarchy movement\", which she described as interchangeable with the Quiverfull movement, saying that the Duggars promote sexist values which run counter to mainstream American culture. The Duggars have said they are not part of the Quiverfull movement, stating: \"We are simply Bible-believing Christians who desire to follow God's Word and apply it to our lives.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0025-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception, Criticism\nThe Duggar family has received criticism due to their stance on LGBT issues. In August 2014, Michelle Duggar recorded a political robocall regarding legislation affecting transgender individuals, which The Huffington Post described as \"transphobic\" and The Washington Post described as \"anti-anti-discrimination\". The robocall includes Michelle saying: \"The Fayetteville City Council is voting on an ordinance this Tuesday night that would allow men \u2013 yes, I said men \u2013 to use women's and girls' restrooms, locker rooms, showers, sleeping areas and other areas that are designated for females only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0025-0001", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception, Criticism\nI don't believe the citizens of Fayetteville would want males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls.\" In response to this robocall, a petition was started on Change.org calling for TLC to cancel the show 19 Kids and Counting, which received over 100,000 signatures. In response to the first petition, a second petition was started asking TLC to keep the show on the air, which also received over 100,000 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0026-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Reception, Criticism\nIn November 2014, the Duggars asked married couples to take a picture while kissing and share it on their Facebook page. Several users noted that pictures of same-sex couples were deleted from the Duggars' Facebook page. While working for the Family Research Council, the Duggars' eldest son Josh Duggar said, \"I truly believe every child deserves a mother and a father\"; the Family Research Council has been labeled as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, with SPLC saying they were designated as such due to their publication of \"anti-gay propaganda\". Josh Duggar has been described as an \"anti-gay activist\" by GLAAD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0027-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Josh Duggar molestation controversy\nOn May 21, 2015, a police report from 2006 was revealed to the public by In Touch Weekly magazine, stating sexual molestation allegations against the Duggars' eldest son, Josh Duggar. The report states that, in 2002\u20132003, Josh \u2013 then 14 to 15 years old \u2013 fondled five girls, including four of his sisters, by touching their breasts and genital regions on multiple occasions while they were asleep and on a few occasions while they were awake. These events occurred prior to the beginning of the TLC series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0027-0001", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Josh Duggar molestation controversy\nThe case was never fully investigated, and the statute of limitations has now expired. On May 22, 2015, TLC removed all reruns of the show that were previously set to air from its current airing schedule, with the statement: \"We are deeply saddened and troubled by this heartbreaking situation and our thoughts and prayers are with the family and victims at this difficult time.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0028-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Josh Duggar molestation controversy\nIn the wake of the controversy, more than twenty advertisers, including General Mills, Walgreens, Payless ShoeSource, Choice Hotels, Pizza Hut, Sweet Leaf Tea and Crayola, announced that they were pulling their ads from the show;Hulu also removed the show's entire back catalog of episodes from its streaming service. Public reaction to the revelation led to several petitions calling for TLC to cancel the series on Change.org, citing conflict between the reported events and the show's promotion of family values.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0029-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Josh Duggar molestation controversy\nJosh, along with his wife and his parents, responded to the revelations. Josh apologized, stating he had \"acted inexcusably\" and resigned from his position at the Family Research Council. Anna stated that she knew about Josh's actions two years before she married him and believed that the counseling he received after the incidents \"changed his life\". The Duggars described this time as a dark period in their lives and said it caused their family \"to seek God like never before\". They were featured in an interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News Channel's The Kelly File on June 3, 2015, where they answered questions regarding the scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0030-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Josh Duggar molestation controversy\nOn April 29, 2021, six years after the show's cancellation, Josh was arrested for possession of child pornography.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0031-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Cancellation\nOn July 16, 2015, Discovery Communications, parent company of TLC, confirmed to CNN that the show was officially canceled and that all further production would be ceased. In the wake of the allegations, the network announced that it would produce a one-hour, commercial-free documentary special on child abuse, which would include Jill and Jessa Duggar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0032-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Cancellation\nTLC paid the Duggar family an estimate of $25,000 to $45,000 per episode. Due to the show's cancellation, the loss of endorsements, speaking engagements and book deals based on the show would result in a loss of an estimated $25 million a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0033-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Cancellation\nA three-part spin-off series, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, focusing on newlyweds Jill and Derick Dillard, Jessa and Ben Seewald, Anna Duggar and several of the other adult Duggar children (sans Josh) aired in December 2015. Its first episode attracted more than 2.2 million viewers, according to a report by The Nielsen Company. The third episode garnered the highest ratings and viewership, at 2.5 million viewers, and ranked in the Top 5 cable shows for the night. In March 2016, it was announced that Counting On had been picked up for a full season, which premiered on March 15, 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032637-0034-0000", "contents": "19 Kids and Counting, Duggar family\nThe cast includes parents James Robert \"Jim Bob\" Duggar, Michelle Annette Duggar (n\u00e9e Ruark), and their children: Joshua, Jana, John-David \"John\", Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph \"Joe\", Josiah, Joy-Anna \"Joy\", Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn-Grace \"Jordyn\", and Josie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev\nThe 19 Kislev (Hebrew: \u05d9\"\u05d8 \u05db\u05e1\u05dc\u05d5\u200e) refers to the 19th day of the Jewish month of Kislev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Festival of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, History\nThe date is significant within the Chabad Hasidic movement. Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Hebrew: \u05e9\u05e0\u05d9\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d6\u05dc\u05de\u05df \u05de\u05dc\u05d9\u05d0\u05d3\u05d9\u200e), the first Rebbe of Chabad (also known as the \"Alter Rebbe\" in Yiddish) was informed upon by a misnaged named Avigdor and arrested on charges of supporting the Ottoman Empire by urging his followers to send money to the Land of Israel as \"evidence\" of his alleged insurrectionist aspirations (in fact, the money was sent to support poor Jews). At the time, the Land of Israel was a part of the Ottoman Empire, which was at war with Russia. Shneur Zalman was charged with treason, and released in the secular year 1798 on the Jewish date of Tuesday, 19 Kislev. The fifty-three days of Rabbi Shneur Zalman's imprisonment are said to correspond to the fifty-three chapters of the first section of the Tanya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 69], "content_span": [70, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Festival of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Commemoration\nThis day is regarded in the Chabad movement as a divine vindication, and is celebrated by Chabad Chasidim with farbrengens. It is regarded as \"the New Year of Chassidus (Hasidism),\" when each Chassid wishes the other, \"may you be signed and sealed for a good year in the study and ways of Chassidus.\" Tachanun is not recited. The last verses of Psalm 55, \"He has redeemed my soul in peace,\" are traditionally sung on this day. These verses are a reference to the experienced by the Alter Rebbe on this day. Rabbi Shneur Zalman said: \"Whoever participates in my celebration will merit to see nachas from his descendants.\" The day is also marked by many other non-Chabad Chassidic groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 75], "content_span": [76, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Festival of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Commemoration, 20 Kislev\nWhen the Alter Rebbe left prison he was mistakenly brought to the home of a misnaged (one opposed to Chassidus), who caused him to suffer with his questions. Afterwards, the Alter Rebbe said that the three hours he spent at the misnaged's home were more difficult than all the time he had spent in prison. In commemoration of the fact that the Alter Rebbe's liberation was not complete until he left the misnaged's house, Chassidim mark 20 Kislev as a day of liberation as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 86], "content_span": [87, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Festival of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Incidents during imprisonment\nDuring Rabbi Shneur Zalman's imprisonment he was questioned by an erudite government minister, who posed the following question:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 91], "content_span": [92, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Festival of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Incidents during imprisonment\n\"The verse states that G-d called to man and said to him, 'Where are you?' Didn't G-d know where Adam was?\" Rabbi Shneur Zalman answered him in accordance with Rashi's explanation that God asked Adam the question \"Where are you?\" in order to gently begin conversing with Adam, so that Adam would not become startled and disconcerted by God's sudden appearance. The minister indicated that he was aware of that answer, but he wanted to hear Rabbi Shneur Zalman's explanation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 91], "content_span": [92, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Festival of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Incidents during imprisonment\nAfter ascertaining that the minister believed in the eternality of the Torah and its directives, Rabbi Shneur Zalman replied: \"When a person is, for example, so and so many years old (mentioning the exact age of his questioner), G-d asks him: Where are you? Are you aware of why you were created on this earth? Are you aware of what you are expected to do and how much you actually have done?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 91], "content_span": [92, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Festival of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Incidents during imprisonment\nChasidic lore tells that the spirits of the Maggid of Mezeritch and the Baal Shem Tov came to visit Rabbi Shneur Zalman in prison. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn is reputed to have once visited the cell (when he was in Saint Petersburg in the summer of 1911), and when he returned, his father, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Chabad Rebbe, asked him if the cell had enough room for three people, which implies that Rabbi Sholom Dovber believed that they had appeared as souls in bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 91], "content_span": [92, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0008-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\nRabbi Yaakov of Marvege (Korebil), a twelfth-century Tosafist and Kabbalist, wrote a book called \"Responsa from Heaven,\" in which he recorded halachic responsa he had heard from Heaven. After discussing the concept that one should only study Torah after immersion in a mikveh, he describes 19 Kislev as \"a day that will herald good tidings.\" On this Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson commented:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0009-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\nThroughout the generations, that addition puzzled scholars. What were the \"good tidings\" received on Yud-Tes Kislev? Scholars of the later generations concluded that the phrase must refer to the Alter Rebbe's liberation. No other event occurred on 19 Kislev that would cause the day to be labeled a day which \"will herald good tidings.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0010-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\n19 Kislev, 1744 - considered to mark the day upon which Rabbi Shneur Zalman was conceived, for he was born exactly nine months later, on 18 Elul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0011-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\n19 Kislev, 1772 - the date of the Yom Hillula (passing) of the Maggid of Mezritch, the successor of the Baal Shem Tov (the founder of Hasidism).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0012-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\n19 Kislev, 1809 - the birth date of the Alter Rebbe of Chasidei Zychlin, HaRebi Shmuel Abba (ZT\"L). It was celebrated as the birth date of the Zychlin (Hasidic dynasty)Zychlin Chasidut until 95% of the followers were murdered in the Holocaust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0013-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\n19 Kislev, 2003 - the day that Saddam Hussein was captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0014-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\n19 Kislev, 2011 - the day that the Iraq War came to an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032638-0015-0000", "contents": "19 Kislev, Other significant events\n19th of Kislev, 2017 - (at 8:07 P.M. Israel Standard Time) - U.S.A. President, Donald Trump, publicly and formally announces that Jerusalem is the Capital of the Nation-State of Israel, and declares that the US Embassy shall be relocated to the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032639-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Love Ballads\n19 Love Ballads is a compilation album by Danish soft rock group Michael Learns to Rock. It was released in summer 2001 by EMI in Asia, and in 2002 in Europe under the title 19 Love Songs. The album contains songs from Michael Learns to Rock's first five studio albums, including the new song \"The Ghost of You\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032640-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Lyncis\n19 Lyncis is a triple star system in the northern constellation of Lynx. A telescope reveals it consists of two blue-white hued stars of magnitudes 5.80 and 6.86 that are 14.750\u00a0arcseconds apart, with a visual companion of magnitude 7.6 that is 3.5 arcminutes distant. The first two are located around 680\u2013690\u00a0light years away from the Sun, based on parallax measurements. Their radial velocity measurements are poorly constrained, but suggest the system is trending away from the Earth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032640-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Lyncis\nThe primary, designated component A, is itself a double-lined spectroscopic binary system with an orbital period of 2.26\u00a0days and an eccentricity of 0.08. The more prominent member of this pair, component Aa, is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B8\u00a0V. It has 3.33 times the mass of the Sun and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 70\u00a0km/s. Component B has a class of B9\u00a0V, an estimated 3.03 times the mass of the Sun, and is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 275\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032641-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Lyrae\n19 Lyrae is a single variable star located approximately 940\u00a0light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the variable star designation V471 Lyr, while 19 Lyrae is the Flamsteed designation. This object is just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, appearing as a dim, blue-white star with a baseline apparent visual magnitude of 5.93. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of \u221230\u00a0km/s, and may come as close as 167 light-years around 8.5\u00a0million years from now.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032641-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Lyrae\nThis is a magnetic chemically-peculiar star with a stellar classification of B8 IIIp Si Sr, showing abundance anomalies in silicon and strontium. The light variations of this star were discovered by J. E. Winzer in 1974. It is an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum-type variable with a period of 1.160898\u00a0days, ranging in magnitude from a high of 5.91 down to 5.98. The surface magnetic field has a strength of (111.3\u00b156.9)\u00d710\u22124\u00a0T", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032641-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Lyrae\n19 Lyrae has a moderate rotation rate, showing a projected rotational velocity of 35\u00a0km/s. Stellar models give it an estimated 3.8 times the mass of the Sun and its girth is measured at 6.4 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 397 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of around 11,194\u00a0K. The star has an absolute magnitude of \u22121.24, which shows how bright the star would appear if it were located at a distance of 10 parsecs (33\u00a0ly) from the Sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032642-0000-0000", "contents": "19 March 2013 Iraq attacks\nThe 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks were a series of coordinated bombings and shootings across the capital Baghdad and several major cities in the north and central parts of the country. At least 98 people were killed and more than 240 others injured in the wave of violence, which took place on the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032642-0001-0000", "contents": "19 March 2013 Iraq attacks, Background\nThe attacks occurred on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, and about sixteen months following the withdrawal of the United States military forces from the area, leaving the security of the country in the hands of the Iraqi security forces. Violence slightly rose during 2012, with militant groups averaging about one major attack every month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032642-0002-0000", "contents": "19 March 2013 Iraq attacks, Background\nIn addition, the country was in the midst of major protests by the Sunni population that began in December 2012. On 25 January 2013, the demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki turned deadly in Fallujah, as soldiers opened fire on a crowd of rock-throwing demonstrators, killing 7 and injuring more than 70 others. Three soldiers were later shot to death in retaliation for the incident, and clashes erupted in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032642-0003-0000", "contents": "19 March 2013 Iraq attacks, Background\nOn 14 February Human Rights Watch called on Iraqi authorities to complete and announce the results of the ongoing parliamentary committee and the Defense Ministry investigations into the Fallujah shootings. On 8 March Iraqi Police forces shot at protesters in Mosul, killing three and injuring nine others. In response to this, Agriculture Minister Izz al-Din al-Dawla announced his resignation, while Parliament Speaker Usama al-Nujayfi called on other Sunni officials to follow suit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032642-0004-0000", "contents": "19 March 2013 Iraq attacks, Attacks\nNumerous attacks were conducted within hours of each other on 19 March 2013 across Baghdad, Mosul and several smaller cities in Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032642-0005-0000", "contents": "19 March 2013 Iraq attacks, Perpetrators\nOn 20 March, the Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks in a statement published on a militant website. The group said the violence was in response to \"the executions and massacres of convicted Sunni inmates\" held in Iraqi prisons and warned the government to stop with the practice or \"expect more bad events ... and seas of blood\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032643-0000-0000", "contents": "19 May Stadium\nMay 19th 1956 Stadium (Arabic: \u0645\u0644\u0639\u0628 19 \u0645\u0627\u064a 1956\u200e), or simply May 19th Stadium is a football stadium located in Annaba, Algeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032643-0001-0000", "contents": "19 May Stadium\nThe stadium has a capacity of 70,000 and is all-seated. It is currently used on a regular basis by football club USM Annaba who play in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2. It is also occasionally used by the Algeria national football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032643-0002-0000", "contents": "19 May Stadium, History\nOn June 10, 1987, the stadium was inaugurated with a match between the Algerian national football team and Sudan. Sudanese international Kamel Mohammed was the first person to score in the stadium, scoring in the 15th minute of the game. The first Algerian to score in the stadium was Djamel Menad, who scored in the 85th minute of the same game. Algeria won the game 3\u20131. The stadium hosted several matches during the 1990 African Cup of Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032643-0003-0000", "contents": "19 May Stadium, History\nThe most recent game played there was Algeria's 1\u20130 win over Morocco during the 2012 African Cup of Nations Qualification, with the only goal being scored by Hassan Yebda from the penalty spot. It was the only victory during Benchika's reign as the Algerian manager, and it was done before a sell-out crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032643-0004-0000", "contents": "19 May Stadium, History\nOn March 5, 2012, Mohamed Raouraoua, the president of the FAF in Algeria, stated that the stadium might become the official stadium for the CAF U-20 tournament which will be played in Algeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032644-0000-0000", "contents": "19 May\u0131s Tunnel\n19 May\u0131s Tunnel (Turkish: 19 May\u0131s T\u00fcneli), is a highway tunnel constructed on the Samsun-\u00c7orum highway D.795 E 95 in Samsun Province, northern Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032644-0001-0000", "contents": "19 May\u0131s Tunnel\nIt is situated near Pa\u015fap\u0131nar\u0131 village of Havza, Samsun. The 280 and 260\u00a0m (920 and 850\u00a0ft)-long twin-tube tunnel carrying two lanes of traffic in each direction is flanked by 845\u2013923\u00a0m (2,772\u20133,028\u00a0ft)-long Havza Tunnel in the north and 392\u2013392\u00a0m (1,286\u20131,286\u00a0 ft)-long \u015eehzadeler Tunnel in the south on the same highway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032644-0002-0000", "contents": "19 May\u0131s Tunnel\nThe tunnel was opened to traffic on February 15, 2009 by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032645-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Monocerotis\n19 Monocerotis is a single, variable star in the equatorial constellation of Monoceros, located approximately 1,220\u00a0light years away from the Sun based on parallax. It has the variable star designation V637 Monocerotis, while 19 Monocerotis is the Flamsteed designation. This object is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with a baseline apparent visual magnitude of 5.00. It is receding from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +25\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032645-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Monocerotis\nThis massive, B-type main-sequence star has a stellar classification of B1\u00a0V. It is a Beta Cephei variable, ranging from 5.01 to 4.96 magnitude with a period of 0.19 days. Closer examination shows there are three frequencies present, consisting of 5.22994, 0.17017, and 4.88956 cycles per day. At one point it was thought to be a marginal Be star, but this was not confirmed. The star is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 274\u00a0km/s. It has 12.3 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 4,817 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 25,400\u00a0K.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032646-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Naughty III\n19 Naughty III is the third album from Naughty by Nature, released on February 23, 1993, through Tommy Boy Records. Three singles were released from the album, the group's second top 10 hit, \"Hip Hop Hooray,\" as well as the minor hits \"It's On\" and \"Written on Ya Kitten.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032646-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Naughty III, Reception\nThe album did well commercially and critically, with 4-star ratings from AllMusic and Rolling Stone and platinum certification from the RIAA. AllMusic stated in its review that the album ranked \"as Naughty by Nature's second straight triumph.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032647-0000-0000", "contents": "19 October 1314 Imperial election\nThe imperial election of October 19, 1314 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It took place in Sachsenhausen, near Frankfurt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032647-0001-0000", "contents": "19 October 1314 Imperial election\nThe election was called by Heinrich II, Count of Virneburg, at the time Archbishop of Cologne and former member of the pro-Luxembourg party, to decide the successor of Emperor Henry VII, died while in Italy on 24 August 1313. Henry's son John, King of Bohemia since 1310, was considered by many prince-electors to be too young, and by others to be already too powerful. Many nobles preferred instead Frederick the Fair, Duke of Austria and Styria and son of Henry VII's predecessor Albert I. Of seven electors, only four attended the meeting, one of whom was disputed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032647-0002-0000", "contents": "19 October 1314 Imperial election\nAs a result of the election, Frederick the Fair was elected Holy Roman Emperor. However, due to the unrecognized claim of Henry of Carinthia, the election was considered invalid by the other electors, that the day after elected Louis IV, Duke of Bavaria as Holy Roman Emperor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp\n19 Part One: Boot Camp is a multi-part action video game released by Cascade Games in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The inspiration for the game came from two sources: the arcade game Combat School and the Paul Hardcastle song 19, which was itself about the Vietnam War. The player controls a soldier through several training events, including an obstacle course, shooting practice and jeep driving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp, Gameplay\nStage One is an assault course. The player must gain speed by pressing the right directional key (or holding the joystick to the right), then hold down the fire key/button to build up power then release it at the correct spot in front of the obstacle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp, Gameplay\nStage Two is a shooting range. Targets appear which the player must shoot targets depicting enemy soldiers, while avoiding those that depict women and children. For every soldier hit the player earns up to 50 points, but for hitting a woman the player loses 1000 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp, Gameplay\nStage Three is a driving game. The player's point of view is behind and just above a jeep which must be driven along a course. Obstacles must be avoided, but a variety of other objects, such as ammo boxes, jerry cans and, boots can be collected for bonus points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp, Gameplay\nStage Four is a beat 'em up which involves the player attempting to defeat the Master Sergeant (spelled \"Sargeant\" in the game) within a set time limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp, Reception\nCRASH awarded the game a CRASH Smash at 91%, Sinclair User gave it 8/10 and Your Sinclair awarded 7/10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp, Reception\nSinclair User's Chris Jenkins said of the game: \"If you don't mind the inevitable wait for the multi-load, it's a corker.\" CRASH's Nick Roberts declared that \"Each training event could be released separately as an individual game and it would still be worth the money! \", while Your Sinclair's Marcus Berkmann decided that \"it's only the Shooting Range that's really special.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032648-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Part One: Boot Camp, Legacy\nThere was a sequel planned, 19 Part 2: Combat Zone, that would have taken the action to the warzone itself. Players would train in Part One and then save their character/score to be loaded into the second part. However, Cascade disappeared from the scene and eventually folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032649-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Puppis\n19 Puppis is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Puppis, near the northern border with Hydra and Monoceros. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.72. The system is located approximately 177\u00a0light years away from the system based on parallax. It is receding from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +36\u00a0km/s, having come to within 31 light-years some 1.4\u00a0million years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032649-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Puppis\nThe primary, component A, is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of G9III-IIIb. It is a red clump giant, which indicates it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through helium fusion at its core. The star is about one billion years old with 1.05 times the mass of the Sun and 8.9 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 43 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,750\u00a0K.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032649-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Puppis\nThe secondary member, component B, is a magnitude 11.2 star at an angular separation of 2.1\u2033 from the primary. Four visual companions have been reported. These are component C, at magnitude 13.2 and separation 30.7\", D, at magnitude 8.9 and separation 57.8\", E, at magnitude 9.37 and separation 70.1\", and F, at magnitude 10.74 and separation 114.1\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings\n19 Recordings Inc. (registered in the United Kingdom as 19 Recordings Ltd.) is a New York-based record label owned by 19 Entertainment. Founded in London by British entrepreneur Simon Fuller in 1999 as the music division of 19 Entertainment, the label is one of the top record imprints as compiled by Billboard in 2012. 19 Recordings has the exclusive rights to sign contestants of the television series Idols. Since 2005, it shifted its main operations to the United States following CKX, Inc.'s (Industrial Media) acquisition of 19 Entertainment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings\nFrom 1999 to 2000, EMI has distributed its recordings. From 2001 to 2004, releases by most of the artists signed to 19 Recordings were distributed by Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG). Following BMG's merger with Sony Music Entertainment to form Sony BMG, RCA Music Group has distributed releases by 19 Recordings from 2005 to 2010. From 2011 to 2016, 19 Recordings partnered with Universal Music Group for distribution through Interscope Geffen A&M (2011\u20132014) and Big Machine Records (2015\u20132016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings\nFrom 2018 to 2020, Disney Music Group distributed releases by 19 Recordings through Hollywood Records (2017\u20132020). As of 2021, 19 Recordings partnered with BMG Rights Management (not to be confused with the merged Sony BMG) for distribution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings, History\nFuller, who had previously managed the careers of musicians Annie Lennox, Cathy Dennis, and Spice Girls in the 1990s, founded 19 Recordings as the music division of 19 Entertainment. The first artist Fuller signed to 19 Recordings was the English indie band 21st Century Girls in 1999, who released its only single \"21st Century Girls\", which only peaked at the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart. The English pop group S Club 7, the second act to be signed to 19 Recordings and Polydor Records, achieved better success. S Club 7 went on to sell over 14 million albums worldwide until their disbandment in 2003. After disbanding in 1990, the British duo Eurythmics reunited in 1999 and was signed to RCA Records and 19 Recordings, and released their final studio album Peace (1999) to commercial success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings, History\nIn 2001, Fuller created the singing competition series Pop Idol, which became an instant success in British television and has had international versions in over 48 countries. Pop Idol's first winner, Will Young was signed to 19 Recordings and RCA Records in 2002, became one of the most successful British recording artists of the 2000s. Young's debut single, \"\"Anything Is Possible\"/\"Evergreen\" (2002), became the best-selling single of the 2000s, won a BRIT Award and an Ivor Novello Award. Other Pop Idol contestants signed with 19 Recordings include Gareth Gates, Sam & Mark, Michelle McManus, and Sarah Whatmore, had moderate success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0004-0001", "contents": "19 Recordings, History\n19 Recordings has since retained the exclusive rights to sign contestants of all versions of Idols around the world and has released compilation albums related to Idols ever since. In 2003, two members of the Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton, were signed to 19 Recordings and Polydor Records. Beckham released her final single \"This Groove\"/Let Your Head Go\" (2003) and Bunton released her second album, Free Me (2003), to commercial success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings, History\nIn 2002, American Idol, whose format was based on Pop Idol, became one of the most successful programs in the history of American television. Its first winner, Kelly Clarkson, was immediately signed to RCA Records and 19 Recordings in 2002 and became 19 Recordings' most successful artist with over 20 million albums sold worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0005-0001", "contents": "19 Recordings, History\nClarkson's second studio album, Breakaway (2004), also became 19 Recordings' best-selling release with worldwide sales of over 12 million copies and has won two Grammy Awards in 2006; Breakaway, along with Young's second studio album, Friday's Child (2003), both became 19 Recordings' best-selling album in the United Kingdom with sales of over 1.5 million each. Clarkson's single \"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)\" (2012), also became 19 Recordings' best-selling single after selling over 5 million copies worldwide and has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 2013. Other contestants from American Idol, such as Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, and Jordin Sparks, also followed suit with commercial success. Underwood's debut album Some Hearts (2005), became 19 Recordings's best-selling release in the United States with sales of 7 million copies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 966]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings, History\nBeginning in 2006, 19 Recordings also began to sign artists who were unrelated to Idols, such as Annie Lennox, Amy Studt, Orianthi, and Sons of Sylvia. 19 Recordings co-released The Annie Lennox Collection (2008) with RCA Records to commercial success. Albums by Studt, Orianthi, and Sons of Sylvia were released to minimal success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032650-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Recordings, History\nIn February 2014, 19 Recordings sued Sony Music Entertainment for $10 million in damages, claiming that Sony is robbing them in royalties from digital revenue from streaming platforms such as Spotify, Google, and Apple. As of January 2018, a settlement in principle was reached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032651-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Red Roses\n19 Red Roses (Danish: Nitten r\u00f8de roser) is a 1974 Danish crime film directed by Esben H\u00f8ilund Carlsen and starring Henning Jensen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032651-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Red Roses, Plot\nThe film follows Detective Ancher (Poul Reichhardt) and his team as they investigate a series of murders that happened over a period of days. Seemingly unrelated at first, the investigators soon deduce that the killings are connected and stem from an incident that associates of the victims were all involved in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032651-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Red Roses, Sequel\nThe film was followed with a sequel, Terror, in 1977. All of the major characters returned for this followasup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 20], "content_span": [21, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032652-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Rocket Regiment\n19 Rocket Regiment was a rocket artillery regiment of the South African Artillery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032652-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Rocket Regiment, History, Origin\nThis Citizen Force Regiment was formed as 19 Missile Regiment on 1 January 1979 in Potchefstroom. Captured Soviet rocket artillery weapons allowed South Africa to develop its own rocket artillery systems. The introduction of rocket artillery such as the Valkiri launcher system activated the requirement for units such as this to train and then integrate into battlegroups. The Valkiri launcher first saw service in 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032652-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Rocket Regiment, History, Command\nThe regiment resorted originally under the Artillery School for administrative purposes. By 1963 the regiment was transferred to Eastern Transvaal Command, and again for administrative purposes it was then added to 26 Field Artillery Regiment. From 1986, the regiment finally operated independently. For conventional purposes the regiment was affiliated to 7 Infantry Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032652-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Rocket Regiment, History, Weapons\n19 Rocket Regiment comprised 191 Battery, utilizing the Valkiri in six launcher batteries. On 24 October 1984, Lance Bombardier Evans and Gunner English successfully fired the first rockets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032652-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Rocket Regiment, Associated Units relationships\nBatteries of this regiment were allocated to full-time regiments such as 32 Battalion and Transvaal State Artillery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032653-0000-0000", "contents": "19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings\nThe 19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings were a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraq that killed at least 31 people, in two neighbourhoods of the capital. Over a hundred more were wounded. On 24 September the Islamic state of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032653-0001-0000", "contents": "19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings, Background\nIraqis blamed the political deadlock in their country for the attacks as Iraqi authorities are struggling to form a unity government since March 2010 elections which rendered no single bloc to form a majority win and hence depending upon each other for forming a coalition government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032653-0002-0000", "contents": "19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings, Background\nFurther the attacks in recent days also coincided with the USA's decision to downsize its troops in Iraq and handing over the security to Iraqi forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032653-0003-0000", "contents": "19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings, Attacks\nOn 19 September 2010 two car bombs exploded in the Iraqi capital almost simultaneously at around 10:10\u00a0am. The first (and most powerful) car bomb exploded in the residential Mansour district killing 10 people. The attack was in front of the local sales office of Asiacell (an Iraqi mobile phone company), although it is not clear if this was the specific target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032653-0004-0000", "contents": "19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings, Attacks\nMinutes later, a second attack occurred, in the predominantly Shia neighborhood of Al Kadhimiyah. Apparently aimed at an office of the Iraqi Federal Police and the National Security Ministry in Adan Square, it killed approximately 21 people and injured 71. A witness described the attack; \"It was a minibus \u2013 the driver stopped and told people nearby that he was going to go see a doctor, a few minutes later, it exploded.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032653-0005-0000", "contents": "19 September 2010 Baghdad bombings, Perpetrators and aftermath\nOn 24 September Al-Qaida's the Islamic state of Iraq front group in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032654-0000-0000", "contents": "19 September Network against Coup d'Etat\nThe 19 September Network against Coup d'\u00c9tat is a Thai activist group organized to protest the 2006 Thailand coup d'\u00e9tat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032654-0001-0000", "contents": "19 September Network against Coup d'Etat\nAccording to Sombat Ngamboon-anong, who registered the 19sep.org domain, The Network's website, 19sept.org was shut down by the hosting service on orders of the Thai Information and Communications Technology Ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032654-0002-0000", "contents": "19 September Network against Coup d'Etat\nThe group organized a petition signing at the Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok at 18.00 Friday 22 September 2006. The Student Activity Information Resource, led by Chotisak On-soong took part in the petition signing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032654-0003-0000", "contents": "19 September Network against Coup d'Etat\nThe group planned to hold a public hearing in protest against martial law on 18 November 2006 at Thammasat University. After the public hearing, the group planned to parade from the university to the Democracy Monument, and then proceed to Army Headquarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032655-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Somethin'\n\"19 Somethin'\" is a song written by David Lee and Chris DuBois and recorded by American country music singer Mark Wills. It was released in September 2002 as the first single from his Greatest Hits compilation album and spent six weeks at #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart in early 2003. It reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the longest-lasting of Wills's Number One hits. It would go on to become the #2 country song of the decade on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032655-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Somethin', Content\nThe song begins with singer's reminiscence of his formative years, the 1970s and 1980s. In the first verse and chorus, various 1970s-related bits of pop culture are referenced, such as Farrah Fawcett, eight tracks, and Stretch Armstrong; the first verse also mentions the videogame Pac-Man (\"I had the Pac-Man pattern memorized.\") The first chorus begins with the line \"It was 1970-somethin' / In the world that I grew up in.\" Verse two, similarly, references 1980s pop culture, such as the Rubik's Cube, black Pontiac Trans Ams, and MTV. The second chorus likewise begins with \"It was 1980-somethin'.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032655-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Somethin', Content\nIn the song's bridge, the singer then expresses his desire to escape to his childhood years: \"Now I've got a mortgage and an SUV / All this responsibility makes me wish sometimes / That it was 1980-somethin\u2019.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032655-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Somethin', Reception, Critical\nAn uncredited article in The Charlotte Observer said that the success of \"19 Somethin'\" was \"doubly great\" because it was a #1 single and because it was up-tempo, in comparison to Wills's earlier ballads, such as \"Don't Laugh at Me\" and \"Wish You Were Here\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 33], "content_span": [34, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032655-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Somethin', Reception, Awards\n\"19 Somethin'\" was nominated for Single of the Year at the 38th annual Academy of Country Music awards in May 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 31], "content_span": [32, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032655-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Somethin', Chart positions\n\"19 Somethin'\" debuted at #56 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 5, 2002. It was his second Number One, the first being \"Wish You Were Here\" in May 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032656-0000-0000", "contents": "19 South LaSalle Street\n19 South LaSalle Street, formerly known as the Central YMCA Association Building, is a building in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed in 1893 and designed by the architecture firm Jenney & Mundie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032656-0001-0000", "contents": "19 South LaSalle Street, History\n19 South LaSalle Street was constructed as the Central YMCA Association Building in 1893, and completed shortly before the Panic of 1893. The structure, designed by William LeBaron Jenney and William Bryce Mundie as Jenney & Mundie, was eventually renamed for its address, 19 South LaSalle Street. Modern-day 19 South LaSalle Street is owned by Cloverfield, Inc. and operated by Colonnade Management, Inc. as a mixed-use retail and office building. Law offices and companies such as Vivid Ascent, an integrated marketing firm, and Sprint, which has a retail location in the building, operate out of 19 South LaSalle Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032656-0002-0000", "contents": "19 South LaSalle Street, Architecture\n19 South LaSalle Street has been described as one of Jenney's most \"uncompromising\" facades due to its rectangularity which is only interrupted by horizontal banding at the 11th and 12th stories. Although, the horizontal courses and the building's shifting design are typical of Jenney's work around this time period. 19 South LaSalle is designed in an \"L\" shape with its more narrow 54 foot facade facing toward LaSalle Street while a longer, more elaborate 187 foot facade faces a small alley known as Arcade Place. The building stands 16 stories and was originally topped with a peaked roof which was replaced by an additional three stories. 19 South LaSalle Street was mentioned in the 2004 American Institute of Architects Guide to Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032657-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Squadron SAAF\n19 Squadron SAAF is a current squadron of the South African Air Force operating as a transport/utility helicopter squadron. It was formed in 1939 as part of the Air Force airways Wing, flying transport aircraft but was disbanded after a few months. It was re-formed from No. 227 Squadron RAF in 1944 and disbanded again after the end of World War II. It was again re-established in 1970 as a helicopter squadron \u2013 a role which it still performs today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032657-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Squadron SAAF, History\n19 Squadron was formed on 1 September 1939 together with 17 Squadron. It formed part of the Airways Wing at Swartkop Air Station flying ex-South African Airways Junkers Ju 52/3m's but was disbanded on 1 December the same year. The squadron did not participate in the Second World War until 12 August 1944 when 227 Squadron RAF was renumbered as 19 Squadron SAAF at Biferno in Italy. The squadron was deployed flying Beaufighters and was involved in operations in Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia until it was disbanded on 10 July 1945 after the end of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032657-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Squadron SAAF, History\nOn 1 March 1970 a Flight of 17 Squadron was transformed into 19 Squadron and equipped with SA330 Pumas at AFB Swartkop with A Flight flying from Swartkop and B Flight operating from AFB Durban for a period of time. \"A\" Flight was moved to AFB Louis Trichardt on 1 January 1991, with the rest of the squadron moving on 1 January 1992 flying A\u00e9rospatiale Alouette III's. The squadron moved to AFB Hoedspruit on 1 January 2004 where it is currently based. 19 Squadron became the first squadron to be equipped with the Oryx helicopter in early 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032658-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Standards (Quartet) 2003\n19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 is a live album 4CD box set by American composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton recorded in Europe in 2003 and released on the Leo label in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032658-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Standards (Quartet) 2003, Reception\nThe AllMusic review by arwulf arwulf states, \"This was the third four-CD set drawing upon recordings from the group's European tours during that busy and productive year. The creative small group dynamic developed by Braxton over several decades is very much in evidence as he interacts with bassist Andy Eulau, percussionist Kevin Norton, and guitarist Kevin O'Neil. Braxton's choices are astute and varied enough to make this an exceptionally satisfying effort\". All About Jazz reviewer Glenn Astarita noted \"they inject a modernist edge into the roads previously traveled. With sterling musicianship, the quartet expressively melds sheer firepower with elegance, and a persuasive mode of execution, which seeds a refreshing ambiance into these time-honored standards\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri\n19 Tauri is a double star in the constellation of Taurus and a member of the Pleiades open star cluster (M45).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri\nIt consists of a binary pair designated 19 Tauri A together with a single star visual companion, 19 Tauri B. 'A's' two components are themselves designated 19 Tauri Aa (officially named Taygeta /te\u026a\u02c8\u026ad\u0292\u026at\u0259/, the traditional name for the entire system) and Ab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri\nBased on parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, 19 Tauri A is approximately 440 light-years from the Sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri, Nomenclature\n19 Tauri is the system's Flamsteed designation. It also bears the little-used Bayer designation q Tauri. The designations of the two constituents as 19 Tauri A and B, and those of A's components - 19 Tauri Aa and Ab - derive from the convention used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple star systems, and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 22], "content_span": [23, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri, Nomenclature\nThe system bore the traditional name Taygeta (or Taygete). Taygete was one of the Pleiades sisters in Greek mythology. In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalogue and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the name Taygeta for the component 19 Tauri Aa on 21 August 2016 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 22], "content_span": [23, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri, Properties\n19 Tauri A presents as a blue-white B-type subgiant with an apparent magnitude of +4.30. It is a spectroscopic binary, whose component stars have magnitudes of +4.6 and +6.1. They are separated by 0.012 arcseconds and complete one orbit every 1313 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 20], "content_span": [21, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0006-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri, Properties\nThe 8th magnitude visual companion, 19 Tauri B, is 69 arcseconds away. It is thought to be a yellow star somewhat more massive and larger than the Sun, and further away than the Pleiades cluster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 20], "content_span": [21, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032659-0007-0000", "contents": "19 Tauri, Properties\n19 Tauri was once reported to be variable, but has since been measured to be one of the least variable of stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 20], "content_span": [21, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032660-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Varieties of Gazelle\n19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East is a poetry book, by Naomi Shihab Nye. It was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award, Young People's Literature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032660-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Varieties of Gazelle\nThe poems explore the lives of people in the Middle East, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032660-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Varieties of Gazelle\nPublishers Weekly said the book was \"an excellent way to invite exploration and discussion of events far away and their impact here at home.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032661-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Vulpeculae\n19 Vulpeculae is star located approximately 1,690\u00a0light years from Earth in the northern constellation of Vulpecula. It is a probable member of the open cluster NGC 6882. This object is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.40. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of \u221219\u00a0km/s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032661-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Vulpeculae\nThis is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K2\u00a0IIIa, having already consumed the hydrogen at its core and evolved away from the main sequence. It has nearly five times the mass of the Sun but has expanded to around 100 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 2,889 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,200\u00a0K.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032662-0000-0000", "contents": "19 Wheels\n19 Wheels was an American alternative rock band from East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded by Chris Johnston (vocals, guitar), Scott Owens (guitar), Tim Marzorati (bass); drummer Rob Dickey joined in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032662-0001-0000", "contents": "19 Wheels, History\nThe group was initially known as Hannibals before changing their name to Nineteen Wheels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 18], "content_span": [19, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032662-0002-0000", "contents": "19 Wheels, History\nThe group first attracted attention with their 1996 EP, The Tempermill Recordings, which led to a spot touring on the ESPN Extreme Games Tour in 1996. They later signed to Aware Records for their 1997 release, Six Ways from Sunday. After Aware entered into a joint venture with Columbia, Six Ways from Sunday was reissued in an \"amended version\" in October of 1997. In a review of the album, Allmusic noted, \"The band maintains a muscular, tight sound throughout, thanks in large part to superb bass and drum work.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 18], "content_span": [19, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032662-0003-0000", "contents": "19 Wheels, History\n19 Wheels' album, Sugareen, was self-released, and was produced by another Michigan local, Donny Brown of the band Verve Pipe. It sold over 14,000 copies. They followed this up with the EP Jawbreaker in 2004, produced by Bob Ezrin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 18], "content_span": [19, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032662-0004-0000", "contents": "19 Wheels, History\nWhile working with Ezrin, the group members questioned whether they would continue working together. By this time, several had wives and families, had taken steady jobs, and had moved to different parts of the state of Michigan; Owens and Marzorati were still living near Lansing, while Johnston had moved to Ferndale and Dickey to Grand Rapids. Late in 2005, they decided to break up, releasing one final EP and playing their final show on November 25, 2005 at The Intersection in Grand Rapids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 18], "content_span": [19, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032662-0005-0000", "contents": "19 Wheels, History\n19 Wheels' track \"Reactor\" was featured on Ford's website for the new 2010 Ford Fusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 18], "content_span": [19, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032663-0000-0000", "contents": "19 You + Me\n\"19 You + Me\" is the debut single by American country music duo Dan + Shay. It was released in October 2013 as the first single from their debut album for Warner Bros. Nashville. The album, Where It All Began, was released on April 1, 2014. The song was written by Dan + Shay and Danny Orton. It received 59 adds in its first week at country radio, becoming the most added debut single of 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032663-0001-0000", "contents": "19 You + Me\n\"19 You + Me\" peaked at numbers 7 and 11 on both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts respectively. It also reached outside the top 40 of the Hot 100 at number 42. The song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has sold 720,000 units in the United States as of October 2014. It received similar chart success in Canada, reaching number 23 on the Country chart and number 47 on the Canadian Hot 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032663-0002-0000", "contents": "19 You + Me, Critical reception\nThe song received a positive review from Taste of Country which praised the \"warm details\" and \"emotion.\" It said that \"young artists aren\u2019t often able to tell stories as effectively as those with a little more age, but Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney can count on vivid lyrics to help them through.\" It went on to say that \"the instrumentation is country with pop leanings\" and \"they add some missing sensitivity to the current landscape.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032663-0003-0000", "contents": "19 You + Me, Music video\nThe music video was directed by Brian Lazzaro and shot in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in which they mention Myrtle Beach in the song. Some of the locations they shot at were the Fun Plaza arcade on Ocean Blvd and the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 24], "content_span": [25, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032663-0004-0000", "contents": "19 You + Me, Commercial performance\n\"19 You + Me\" debuted at number 55 on the US Billboard Country Airplay chart for the week of October 26, 2013. It also debuted at number 49 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of November 9, 2013. The song debuted at number 96 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of January 18, 2014. As of October 2014 the song has sold 720,000 copies in the United States. On December 17, 2015, the song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over a million digital copies in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032663-0005-0000", "contents": "19 You + Me, Commercial performance\n\"19 You + Me\" was certified Gold by Music Canada in December 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032664-0000-0000", "contents": "19 and Crazy\n\"19 and Crazy\" is a song recorded by American country music duo Bomshel. It was released in September 2009 as the third single from their debut album Fight Like a Girl. Kelley Shepard and Kristy Osmunson, who comprise Bomshel, co-wrote the song with Mark Irwin and Josh Kear. Osmunson, Kear, and Irwin also produced the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032664-0001-0000", "contents": "19 and Crazy, Content\n\"19 and Crazy\" is an up-tempo country song that centralizes on its female narrator, who states a desire to retain the lifestyles of her late teenage years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032664-0002-0000", "contents": "19 and Crazy, Critical reception\nKevin J. Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a B rating. He stated that \"the song has an incessant driving beat that straddles the fence between urgency and just plain annoyingly fast.\" Bobby Peacock of Roughstock gave a positive review, saying that it was similar in theme to Mark Wills' \"19 Somethin'\" but adding, \"it's tempered by a sense of maturity by the opening stanza, where she realizes she[\u2026 ]might tell her children not to do all of the crazy things that she did.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 32], "content_span": [33, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032664-0003-0000", "contents": "19 and Crazy, Music video\nThe video was directed by Eric Welch, and features the duo on their touring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 25], "content_span": [26, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032664-0004-0000", "contents": "19 and Crazy, Chart performance\n\"19 and Crazy\" debuted at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated October 3, 2009. On the chart dated November 7, 2009, it became Bomshel's second consecutive Top 40 country hit. It peaked at number 33 in December 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 31], "content_span": [32, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032665-0000-0000", "contents": "19 de Abril\n19 de Abril is a town in Rocha Department in Uruguay. 19 de Abril had 205 inhabitants in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032666-0000-0000", "contents": "19 de Noviembre\n\"19 de Noviembre\" (\"November 19th\") is a song performed by Colombian singer-songwriter Olvidemonos for his seventh studio album El Amor de Mi Tierra (1999). It was written by the singer Juan Gabriel and Angie Chirino. EMI Latin released the song as the third single from the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032667-0000-0000", "contents": "19 d\u00edas y 500 noches\n19 d\u00edas y 500 noches (\"19 days and 500 nights\") is an album by Spanish singer-songwriter Joaqu\u00edn Sabina. It was released in 1999 on the BMG and Ariola labels. In 2015, it was selected by Billboard magazine as one of the \"50 Essential Latin Albums of the Last 50 Years\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0000-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament\nIn music, 19\u00a0equal temperament, called 19\u00a0TET, 19\u00a0EDO (\"Equal Division of the Octave\"), or 19\u00a0ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 19\u00a0equal steps (equal frequency ratios). Each step represents a frequency ratio of 19\u221a2, or 63.16\u00a0cents (Play\u00a0(help\u00b7info)).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0001-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament\nThe fact that traditional western music maps unambiguously onto this scale (unless it presupposes 12-EDO enharmonic equivalences) makes it easier to perform such music in this tuning than in many other tunings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0002-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament\n19\u00a0EDO is the tuning of the syntonic temperament in which the tempered perfect fifth is equal to 694.737\u00a0cents, as shown in Figure\u00a01 (look for the label \"19\u00a0TET\"). On an isomorphic keyboard, the fingering of music composed in 19\u00a0EDO is precisely the same as it is in any other syntonic tuning (such as 12\u00a0EDO), so long as the notes are \"spelled properly\" \u2014 that is, with no assumption that the sharp below matches the flat immediately above it (enharmonicity).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0003-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, History and use\nDivision of the octave into 19\u00a0equal-width steps arose naturally out of Renaissance music theory. The ratio of four minor thirds to an octave (648:625 or 62.565\u00a0cents \u2013 the \"greater diesis\") was almost exactly a nineteenth of an octave. Interest in such a tuning system goes back to the 16th\u00a0century, when composer Guillaume Costeley used it in his chanson Seigneur Dieu ta piti\u00e9 of 1558. Costeley understood and desired the circulating aspect of this tuning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0004-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, History and use\nIn 1577, music theorist Francisco de Salinas in effect proposed it. Salinas discussed 1\u20443\u00a0comma meantone, in which the fifth is of size 694.786\u00a0cents. The fifth of 19\u00a0EDO is 694.737\u00a0cents, which is less than a twentieth of a cent narrower: imperceptible and less than tuning error. Salinas suggested tuning nineteen tones to the octave to this tuning, which fails to close by less than a cent, so that his suggestion is effectively 19\u00a0EDO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0005-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, History and use\nIn the 19th\u00a0century, mathematician and music theorist Wesley Woolhouse proposed it as a more practical alternative to meantone temperaments he regarded as better, such as 50\u00a0EDO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0006-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, History and use\nThe composer Joel Mandelbaum wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the properties of the 19\u00a0EDO tuning, and advocated for its use. In his thesis, he argued that it is the only viable system with a number of divisions between 12 and 22, and furthermore that the next smallest number of divisions resulting in a significant improvement in approximating just intervals is the 31\u00a0tone equal temperament. Mandelbaum and Joseph Yasser have written music with 19\u00a0EDO. Easley Blackwood has stated that 19\u00a0EDO makes possible \"a substantial enrichment of the tonal repertoire\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0007-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, Notation\n19-EDO can be represented with the traditional letter names and system of sharps and flats by treating flats and sharps as distinct notes; in 19-EDO only B\u266f is enharmonic with C\u266d, and E\u266f with F\u266d. This article will use that notation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0008-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, Interval size\nHere are the sizes of some common intervals and comparison with the ratios arising in the harmonic series; the difference column measures in cents the distance from an exact fit to these ratios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0009-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, Interval size\nFor reference, the difference from the perfect fifth in the widely used 12\u00a0TET is 1.955\u00a0cents flat, the difference from the major third is 13.686\u00a0cents sharp, the minor third is 15.643\u00a0cents flat, and the (lost) harmonic minor seventh is 31.174\u00a0cents sharp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032668-0010-0000", "contents": "19 equal temperament, Scale diagram\nBecause 19 is a prime number, repeating any fixed interval in this tuning system cycles through all possible notes; just as one may cycle through 12\u00a0EDO on the circle of fifths, since a fifth is 7\u00a0semitones, and number 7 does not divide 12 evenly (7 is coprime to 12).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032669-0000-0000", "contents": "19 in 99\n\"19 In 99\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Nick Carter. It was the second official single from his third solo album All American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032669-0001-0000", "contents": "19 in 99, Music video\nThe music video of \"19 in 99\" was released on February 5, 2016, on Vevo and YouTube. The video was directed by Kevin Estrada and produced by Paul Bock and the Production company being Two Bridges Film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 21], "content_span": [22, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032669-0002-0000", "contents": "19 in 99, Music video\nIn the video, Nick Carter, now a settled dad uses the opportunity of his wife and children going to the beach and he staying home, and reminisces his younger days while he was \"19 in 99\" (meaning he was 19 in 1999). He remembers Santa Monica and surfing, listens to 2Pac music on a boombox that he carries on his shoulder whereas and his girlfriend listens to Nirvana. It makes him go back in time and playing video games and running on skateboards, and remembers the days when he and his bandmates led a non-stop party life and spent all their money, just to \"live like kings underneath the Hollywood sign\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 21], "content_span": [22, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032669-0003-0000", "contents": "19 in 99, Music video\nA.J. McLean, a bandmate makes a cameo appearance as a pizza deliver in the music video, watching through a window in astonishment and bemusement as Carter through the window with Carter performing a re-enactment of a scene from the Backstreet Boys' song \"I Want It That Way\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 21], "content_span": [22, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032669-0004-0000", "contents": "19 in 99, Music video\nHe tries to tidy the wrecked place before the family returns home but to no avail as he greets them with a practical joke as they come in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 21], "content_span": [22, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032670-0000-0000", "contents": "19 par Patricia Kaas\n19 par Patricia Kaas is the 2009 compilation album by French singer Patricia Kaas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032671-0000-0000", "contents": "19 posyolok\n19 posyolok (Russian: 19 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0451\u043b\u043e\u043a) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Shatura Urban Settlement of Shatursky District, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032671-0001-0000", "contents": "19 posyolok, Geography\n19 posyolok is located 269 km northwest of Shatura (the district's administrative centre) by road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 22], "content_span": [23, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032672-0000-0000", "contents": "19 to 20\n19 to 20 is the debut extended play by South Korean singer Jimin Park, released on August 23, 2016 by JYP Entertainment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032672-0001-0000", "contents": "19 to 20, Background and release\nOn August 10, JYP Entertainment confirmed that Park Jimin currently prepared her comeback in mid-August. On August 16, Jimin dropped teaser image for her comeback with title track \u2033Try\u2033, which set to be released on August 23. On August 19, the music video teaser for title track was released and confirmed to released album titled \u203319 to 20\u2033 on August 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 32], "content_span": [33, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032673-0000-0000", "contents": "19(1)(a)\n19(1)(a) is an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language film written and directed by debutant Indhu V.S. The film stars Vijay Sethupathi, Nithya Menen, Indrans and Indrajith Sukumaran. The film marks Sethupathi's debut in a lead role in Malayalam and his second Malayalam film after Marconi Mathai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [8, 8], "content_span": [9, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032673-0001-0000", "contents": "19(1)(a), Production\n19(1)(a) is produced by Anto Joseph Film Company and it marks the directorial debut of Indhu V.S. It also marks the debut of Vijay Sethupathi in Malayalam in a character role. In the movie Maarconi Mathai, he appeared as himself. The film's shooting was completed in January 2021. On April 2021, director Indhu V.S announced that the movie will not be having theatrical release due to Covid Pandemic and is looking for an OTT release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 8], "section_span": [10, 20], "content_span": [21, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032674-0000-0000", "contents": "19+\n19+ is a Polish paradocumentary series airing on TVN. It premiered on 7 November 2016. The series focused on a group of students that has just graduated from secondary school and are embarking on their adult lives. The main character, Mela, has started up a videoblog about her life and those of her friends, and the series shows her and others recording videos, as well as scenes from their unrecorded lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [3, 3], "content_span": [4, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032675-0000-0000", "contents": "19,20-Dihydroervahanine A\n19,20-Dihydroervahanine A is an alkaloid, a natural product which is found in the root of the South-East Asian plant Tabernaemontana divaricata. It inhbits acetylcholinestearease more potently than galantamine in vitro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0000-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series)\n19-2 is a French-Canadian police drama television series. Set in Montreal, the show centres on the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from Poste 19 of the Service Police Metropolitan, a fictitious version of the Service de police de la Ville de Montr\u00e9al. The series name comes from the callsign of the patrol car of the main characters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0001-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series)\nIt aired on public broadcaster Radio-Canada starting in 2011 and concluded in 2015. An English-language adaptation premiered on Bravo on January 29, 2014 and concluded production in 2017. The fourth and final season of the English version premiered on CTV in Canada on July 31, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0002-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Synopsis\nNicolai \"Nick\" Berrof and his partner Jean-Pierre Harvey are shot responding to a burglary. While Berrof is spared by his body armour, Harvey is shot in the head and left hospitalized for life. Replacing Harvey is Beno\u00eet Chartier, a veteran constable from the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, who transferred to Montreal to escape troubles in his hometown. As officers from Poste 19 deal with the challenges of police work, they struggle with their own personal challenges as well. Chartier is estranged from his family after he personally arrests his own father for drunk driving. Berrof struggles with his divorce with his colleague and wife Detective Isabelle Latendresse. Tyler Joseph struggles with alcoholism. Jean-Marc Brouillard abuses his wife. Commander Marcel Gendron struggles to protect the station's image in the face of pressure from the public and his superiors alike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0003-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Synopsis\nBy the end of the first season, Chartier's former employer, the SQ, assigns him to find a mole within the station. The second season centres around his hunt for the mole with Berrof being the prime suspect. After being gravely wounded in a shooting, Tyler attempts to defeat his alcoholism. Brouillard and Pouliot build a relationship after having been partnered together. And Gendron's daughter disappears amidst the discovery of a child pornography ring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0004-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Synopsis\nThe third season begins in the aftermath of the mole's suicide. Having taken the hunt for the mole to the extreme, Berrof must deal with the consequences of his actions. Chartier, betrothed to Berrof's sister, unwittingly becomes the target of Berrof's powerful enemies. Berrof becomes implicated deeper and deeper into Montreal's underworld as his crime-troubled past and law enforcement present collide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0005-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Episodes\nThe original French version started filming in 2010 and premiered on 2 February 2011 and ended on 6 April 2011. 39% of Quebeckers were watching the pilot when it aired. On 15 June 2011, the chain renewed the contract for another season, which was filmed in 2012 and premiered on 28 January 2013. It ended on 1 April 2013. By the end of 2013, Radio-Canada ordered a third season to be produced, which was filmed in 2014 and premiered on 28 January 2015. The series finale aired on 1 April 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0006-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Reception\nReviews have been positive overall. Police officers in Quebec have liked the series, seeing a way to make viewers more aware of their daily lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0007-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Reception\nDuring the first season, the show attracted about 1.3 million viewers per week, which made it the most popular series in Quebec of the winter. It peaked at 1,447,000 viewers on 23 February 2011, and the season finale got 1,302,000 viewers, the top in its time slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0008-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Reception\nIn its second season, critics unanimously praised the first episode, which was based on the 2006 Dawson College shooting. It was watched by 1,554,000 viewers, about 39 percent of the viewers that evening in Quebec. (A shot-for-shot remake of this episode, filmed at the same school and also directed by Daniel Grou (Podz), was broadcast as the second-season premiere of the English version of the series.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032676-0009-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2011 TV series), Reception\nThe series has been nominated for several awards, including the Prix Artis and the Zapettes d'Or. The series, with 18 nominations at the G\u00e9meaux 2011, and won 12 at the gala that took place on 18 September 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0000-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series)\n19-2 is a Canadian police procedural crime drama television series developed by Bruce M. Smith, based on the Canadian French-language series of the same name created by R\u00e9al Boss\u00e9 and Claude Legault. It was produced by Sphere Media Plus and Echo Media, in association with Bell Media; Smith served as showrunner. The series premiered on Bravo in Canada on January\u00a029, 2014, and aired for three seasons, before it moved to CTV for its fourth and final season. It finished its four-year run on September\u00a018, 2017, with 38\u00a0episodes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0001-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series)\nSet in Montr\u00e9al, 19-2 follows the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from the Montr\u00e9al Police Service's Station\u00a019, which covers an inner-city area of the City. The series' name comes from the callsign of the patrol car of the two main characters. Adrian Holmes and Jared Keeso star as Nick Barron and Ben Chartier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0001-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series)\nThe two are joined by principal cast members Benz Antoine, Myl\u00e8ne Dinh-Robic, Laurence Leboeuf, Dan Petronijevic, Conrad Pla, Bruce Ramsay, Sarah Allen, Victor Cornfoot, Tyler Hynes and Maxim Roy, with Richard Chevolleau, Lisa Berry, Tattiawna Jones, Alexander De Jordy, Krista Bridges, Joe Pingue, and Darcy Laurie joining them in later seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0002-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series)\n19-2 has received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for its characterization, pacing, writing, and acting. The series has been nominated for 37 Canadian Screen Awards, winning 5, including Best Dramatic Series and Best Performance by an Actor for both Holmes and Keeso, and was also nominated for Best Drama Series at the 44th International Emmy Awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0003-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Series overview\nNick Barron and his partner Jean-Pierre Harvey are shot responding to a burglary. While Barron is spared by his body armour, Harvey is shot in the head and left hospitalized for life. Replacing Harvey is Ben Chartier, a veteran constable from the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (SQ), who transferred to Montreal to escape troubles in his hometown. As officers from Station\u00a019 deal with the challenges of police work, they struggle with their own personal challenges as well. Chartier is estranged from his family after he personally arrests his own father for drunk driving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0003-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Series overview\nBarron struggles with his continuing feelings for his estranged wife, colleague Detective Isabelle Latendresse. Tyler Joseph struggles with alcoholism. Jean-Marc Brouillard abuses his wife. Commander Marcel Gendron struggles to protect the station's image in the face of pressure from the public and his superiors alike. By the end of the first season, Chartier's former employer, the SQ, assigns him to find a mole within the station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0004-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Series overview\nThe second season begins with Barron and Chartier responding to reports of a snake at a daycare centre. Chartier encounters an armed civilian: Barron's cousin Cassius Clemont. Barron's unsavoury relationship with Clemont makes Barron the prime suspect of the SQ's investigation into the mole in 19. When Chartier brings Barron into the investigation, Barron and Clemont burgle a suspect's house and make a rash decision that endangers both of them. The third season starts in the aftermath of the mole's suicide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0004-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Series overview\nThe reputation of Station\u00a019 has been destroyed by the revelation of the mole, along with other incidents such as the arrest of Brouillard for domestic violence. Cassie Clemont is discovered dead, having been brutally tortured for days. Barron and Chartier must deal with the fallout of Barron's actions, as the station is scrutinized by an inspector from Internal Affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0005-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Series overview\nThe series features a fourth season that was not based on the 2011 French version and is completely original, containing 8 additional episodes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0006-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Production, Development\nIn July 2012, CBC Television ordered a pilot for an English-language adaptation of the popular French-language television series 19-2 created by and starring R\u00e9al Boss\u00e9 and Claude Legault, to be adapted by Bruce M. Smith and directed by Louis Choquette. CBC Television did not pick up the series for its 2013 season; instead, the adapted series was picked up by Bravo for a season of ten episodes in June 2013 at the Banff World Media Festival, with Smith serving as showrunner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0006-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Production, Development\nThe series was renewed for a second season in April 2014, a third in April 2015, and a fourth in May 2016. On September\u00a023, 2016, Bell Media announced that the fourth season would be the show's final season. The series had a $500,000 per episode budget bump over the original series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0007-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Production, Casting\nIn August 2012, Adrian Holmes and Jared Keeso were cast as Nick Barron and Ben Chartier, respectively. In September 2013, Bravo announced that Benz Antoine would reprise his role as Tyler Joseph from the original series, with Maxim Roy, Laurence Leboeuf, Dan Petronijevic, Myl\u00e8ne Dinh-Robic, Conrad Pla, and Bruce Ramsay cast as Detective Isabelle Latendresse, Audrey Pouliot, J.M. Brouillard, Beatrice Hamelin, Sergeant Julien Houle, and District Commander Marcel Gendron, respectively. Additional cast include Sarah Allen as Catherine Lariviere, Victor Cornfoot as Jean-Pierre Harvey, and Tyler Hynes as Vince Legare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0007-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Production, Casting\nIn July 2014, Richard Chevolleau and Lisa Berry joined the cast for the second season as Cassius \"Kaz\" Clemont and Rita George, respectively. Tattiawna Jones, who recurred as Amelie de Grace, throughout the first season, was subsequently promoted to the principal cast in the second season. In August 2015, Alexander De Jordy was announced to be cast as Richard Dulac, while Krista Bridges was announced as Inspector Elise Roberge, and Joe Pingue as Charlie Figo. Darcy Laurie joined the cast for the fourth season as Sergeant Roy Suarez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0008-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Production, Filming\nFilming for the series took place in Montreal, primarily at a decommissioned police station. On the show filming in Montreal, executive producer Jocelyn Desch\u00eanes stated, \"CBC said\u00a0\u2013 'We want to see Montreal'. They asked for it. Montreal hasn't been shown that much on English-Canadian TV and it's a very cinematic city. They really want us to show Montreal from angles that we've never seen.\" Production on the pilot took place at the end of September 2012, for ten days, while production on the remaining episodes began in September 2013, and concluded in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0009-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Production, Filming\nProduction on the second season began in July 2014 until October. The season two premiere, \"School\", features an uninterrupted, 13-minute single-camera tracking shot of a school shooting, based on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal. Podz, director of the French-Canadian version of the show who had helmed the school-shooting episode in that series, was brought back to helm the episode of the English-Canadian adaptation. The scene, which was shot in the same school as the original, involved intense research and rehearsal, at least a half-dozen rooms, a two-storey building, roughly a hundred extras, and required thirteen takes. Production on the third season began in August 2015, while filming for the fourth and final season began in September 2016. Filming for the series ended in December 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 856]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0010-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Release, Broadcast\n19-2 aired on Bravo in Canada, for its first three seasons, each consisting of 10 episodes, before it moved to CTV for its fourth and final season, consisting of eight episodes. The first season originally aired from January\u00a029 to April\u00a02, 2014, while the second season aired from January\u00a019 to March\u00a023, 2015. A third season premiered on June\u00a020, 2016, concluding on August\u00a022, and the fourth season premiered on July\u00a031, 2017, and concluded on September\u00a018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0010-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Release, Broadcast\nIn the United States, the series airs on the streaming service Acorn TV, with the first season premiering on January\u00a018, 2016, the second on May\u00a016, the third on October\u00a024, and the fourth on September\u00a022, 2017. Spike UK aired the series in the United Kingdom for the first two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0011-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Release, Home media\nThe complete first season was first released on DVD in Region 1 on April\u00a026, 2016, with the complete second season released on August\u00a030, 2016, the complete third season released on December\u00a013, 2016, and the complete fourth season is scheduled to be released on November\u00a07, 2017. CraveTV has exclusive Canadian streaming rights to the series, with all episodes available on the video on demand service and new episodes of the fourth season available one day earlier, 10\u00a0p.m. on Sunday, than their original broadcast on CTV, beginning on July\u00a030, 2017. Episodes of the first three seasons were available on Bravo.ca, and the Bravo GO app after their broadcast premiere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0012-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Audience viewership\nThe premiere episode of 19-2 was watched by 140,000 viewers, making it Bravo's most-watched premiere of an original Canadian series since The Borgias in 2011. Its conventional television debut aired on CTV the following day on January\u00a030, 2014, and was watched by 872,000 viewers. The second episode was watched by a mere 76,000 viewers, which was attributed to many viewers who watched the premiere on CTV assuming the main network was its home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0012-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Audience viewership\nDue to this, Bell Media decided to air a second \"special primetime\" broadcast of the second episode on February\u00a09, which led to a series-high for the show's third airing on Bravo, with 178,000 viewers tuning in. Regarding Bell Media's cross-platform promotion, Scott Henderson concluded, \"It shows that the sampling works. It may have taken a few weeks to find the home, but now the series is doing well.\" After factoring DVR recordings, the second episode on Bravo was watched by a total of 150,000 viewers, up 96 percent from the preliminary data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0013-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Audience viewership\nThe first season finished as Bravo's number one new series of the 2014\u201315 television season, drawing an average of nearly 200,000 viewers per episode, and reaching a total of 3\u00a0million unique viewers. The second season grew its timeslot audience, 10\u00a0p.m. on Monday, by 54\u00a0percent compared to the same weeks in the previous year and over the course of the season reached a total of 2.5\u00a0million viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0014-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Critical response\nIn a review for HuffPost Canada Denette Wilford wrote: \"19-2 is not just your average procedural. It's a character-driven drama that follows two not-so-different men from very different worlds as they learn to work with one another. The acting is solid and organic, the pace is perfect, the writing is real and natural and believable, and the stories hit home.\" A.R. Wilson of Digital Journal also reviewed it positively saying, \"Instead of depending on constant action sequences and endless doses of adrenaline, it spaces its major crimes out, patiently mining the aftermaths of these events for compelling storylines... It's realistically written, beautifully acted, and gorgeously shot in and around Montreal. Most of all, it's a keenly observed character drama that manages to make the cop show genre feel fresh by placing people over procedural.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 903]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0015-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Critical response\nPhil Harrison and Gwilym Mumford for The Guardian said \"This Canadian series, set in Montr\u00e9al's Precinct 19, boasts all the tropes of post-Shield police dramas: antiheroes, mavericks, shaky verit\u00e9 camerawork. Yet what 19-2 lacks in originality it makes up for in action from the off\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0015-0001", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Critical response\nThe New York Times's Neil Genzlinger described the series as \"a slow burn\" and stated, \"There are tropes in 19-2\u00a0\u2013 the police genre is too crowded for there not to be\u00a0\u2013 but the writing is sublime, turning each episode into a sort of tone poem, a slice of urban and police life carefully observed. The series is in the tradition of shows like The Wire, portraying law enforcement less flashily and less noisily than others, and thus more accurately.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0015-0002", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Critical response\nBill Brownstein of the Montreal Gazette said, \"19-2 works so effectively because it grasps the reality of both conflicted cops and citizens in this city. Nothing is black and white here. Characters come in a variety of shades. All of which makes the chemistry between partners Barron and Chartier so credible and so captivating.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0015-0003", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Critical response\nConversely, The Globe and Mail's John Doyle was more critical of the series, feeling \"the set-up is as plain as a poke in your eye\", noting \"The series flirts with grimness but points to the timidity of Canadian drama at the moment\u00a0\u2013 its limitations and inability to challenge and horrify as well as entertain. Both Adrian Holmes and Jared Keeso are fine, it's the material that is less soulful and nuanced than it seems.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032677-0016-0000", "contents": "19-2 (2014 TV series), Reception, Critical response\nNancy deWolf Smith of The Wall Street Journal praised the season two premiere, \"School\", calling it \"the most agonizingly realistic sequence imaginable of a mass shooting and the close-action chase after an active shooter.\" She added, \"Something about the setting, and the differences\u00a0\u2013 even subtle ones\u00a0\u2013 in the way Canadians approach issues such as race, sex, gender and justice, also makes 19-2 exciting in a wholly new way.\" Wilford also applauded the season two opener and wrote, \"Look, every hour of 19-2 is quality television and, at times, it can be a little too sombre. The premiere is like nothing you've ever seen, from the way it was shot, to every actor involved, to the subject matter... It's a powerful, compelling, exhausting hour\u00a0\u2013 one that definitely should not be missed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032678-0000-0000", "contents": "19-2000\n\"19-2000\", sometimes written \"19/2000\", is a song from the British virtual band Gorillaz' self-titled debut album Gorillaz. It was the second single from the album, released on 25 June 2001 in the United Kingdom. \"19-2000\" reached number six on the UK Singles Chart and number 34 on the US Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart. It was particularly successful in New Zealand, where it reached number one for a week in September 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [7, 7], "content_span": [8, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032678-0001-0000", "contents": "19-2000, Background\n\"19-2000\" released was accompanied by a completely new version of the song, called the \"Soulchild Remix\", which was produced by music producers Damien Mendis and Stuart Bradbury. Mendis was asked to remix a track off the album in the hope that it would give it crossover potential, in the same way as the Ed Case remix of \"Clint Eastwood\" had. Mendis was given a copy of all their demos and finished tracks for the album, being told to \"pick [a song] that you can produce, remix or whatever into a hit single\". Mendis was unsure which track to choose, and only when he was told that Jamie Hewlett was already working on the video for \"19-2000\", did he make his decision. Tina Weymouth and Miho Hatori contributed backing vocals to \"19\u20132000\", whilst Damon Albarn performed the vocals on the verses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 19], "content_span": [20, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032678-0002-0000", "contents": "19-2000, Music video\nThe video, directed by Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland, is animated, both in 2-D and 3-D. It features Gorillaz riding in their Geep (as mentioned in the 2005 MTV Cribs episode, featuring the Gorillaz) along a twisted highway, encountering roller coaster style loops, a killer UFO, and \u2013 when Murdoc decides not to take an exit leading toward a church \u2013 a giant moose. Murdoc tries to blow up the moose with a pair of missiles, but the moose sneezes right before impact, sending them back to the car, which explodes and skids along the highway on fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 20], "content_span": [21, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032678-0002-0001", "contents": "19-2000, Music video\nThe members of Gorillaz appear to have black ash all over them from the blast. In between these various encounters the Gorillaz pass and perform things in time with the rhythm\u2014such as a field of nodding donkeys, or the light posts passing them at the beginning, and a couple of sections where the buggy does several versions of the wheelie (including side wheelies, otherwise known as Skiing) and even appears to break the sound barrier. There are two versions of this video, one to fit the original mix and one to fit the Soulchild remix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 20], "content_span": [21, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032678-0002-0002", "contents": "19-2000, Music video\nThe videos are almost identical, except for a few minor changes in order for the two songs to sync up with the video. On the motorway, there are signs to Amity, a reference to Jaws, the Overlook Hotel, a reference to The Shining, and Camp Crystal, a reference to Friday the 13th. It was shown in the MTV Cribs tour of Kong Studios that the buggy actually survived the blast, and now sits in the Kong Studio's parking lot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 20], "content_span": [21, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032678-0003-0000", "contents": "19-2000, Personnel\nCredits are lifted from the UK enhanced CD single liner notes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 7], "section_span": [9, 18], "content_span": [19, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032679-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Epivoacristine\n19-Epivoacristine is an indole alkaloid found in different species of Tabernaemontana, such as Tabernaemontana dichotoma, as well as in Peschiera affinis. It is also known as 20-epivoacangarine and 19-epi-voacangarine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032679-0001-0000", "contents": "19-Epivoacristine, Potential pharmacology\n19-Epivoacristine may be a selective acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor in vitro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032679-0002-0000", "contents": "19-Epivoacristine, Chemistry\n19-Epivoacristine can be prepared by potassium borohydride reduction of voacryptine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032680-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Nineteen\n19-Nineteen (Korean:\u00a0\ub098\uc758 19\uc138; lit. \"I'm 19 years old\") is a 2009 South Korean-Japanese film starring T.O.P, Seungri and Huh E-jae. Three nineteen-year-olds, two boys and a girl, are accused of murder and forced to run away. Everyone, including their parents, believes they are guilty, but the experience strengthens their bond as they attempt to find the real killer and prove their innocence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032680-0001-0000", "contents": "19-Nineteen\nIt was part of the \"Telecinema7\" project, seven feature-length mini-dramas which were collaborations between South Korean TV directors and Japanese TV screenwriters; the seven Korea-Japan joint productions both received a limited theater release and were broadcast on television. 19-Nineteen was first released in Korea in CGV theaters on November 12, 2009, and later aired on SBS (South Korea) and TV Asahi (Japan) in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032680-0002-0000", "contents": "19-Nineteen, Plot\nAfter graduating from high school Min-seo (Seungri) fails to get into college. He spends the next year cramming for his entrance exam once again. Jung-hoon (T.O.P) is a university student fresh out of high school. Late one evening, a high school girl dies. Earlier that evening, Min-seo filmed the girl in an internet cafe without her knowing. Min-seo, Jung-hoon, and another girl named Eun-young (Huh E-jae) \u2013 who went to the same high school as the dead girl \u2013 all become murder suspects in the death of that girl. All three of these young suspects are 19 years old. They don't know each other, but quickly become fugitives from the law. To clear their names they work to uncover the truth behind the girl's death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032681-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Nor-5-androstenediol\n19-Nor-5-androstenediol, also known as estr-5-ene-3\u03b2,17\u03b2-diol, is a synthetic, orally active anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) and a derivative of 19-nortestosterone (nandrolone) that was never introduced for medical use. It is an androgen prohormone of nandrolone and of other 19-norandrostanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032681-0001-0000", "contents": "19-Nor-5-androstenediol\n19-Nor-5-androstenediol, 19-nor-5-androstenedione, and other 19-norandrostane prohormones were considered to be nutritional supplements and were sold over-the-counter in the United States as a result of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). However, they were banned from sports in 1999 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are currently on the World Anti- Doping Agency (WADA) list of prohibited substances. In 2004, they became controlled substances in the U.S. as a result of the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032682-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Nor-5-androstenedione\n19-Nor-5-androstenedione, also known as estr-5-ene-3,17-dione, is a synthetic, orally active anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) and a derivative of 19-nortestosterone (nandrolone) that was never introduced for medical use. It is an androgen prohormone of nandrolone and of other 19-norandrostanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032682-0001-0000", "contents": "19-Nor-5-androstenedione\n19-Nor-5-androstenedione, 19-nor-5-androstenediol, and other 19-norandrostane prohormones were considered to be nutritional supplements and were sold over-the-counter in the United States as a result of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). However, they were banned from sports in 1999 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are currently on the World Anti- Doping Agency (WADA) list of prohibited substances. In 2004, they became controlled substances in the U.S. as a result of the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032683-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Norandrosterone\n19-Norandrosterone, also known as 5\u03b1-estran-3\u03b1-ol-17-one, is a metabolite of nandrolone (19-nortestosterone) and bolandione (19-norandrostenedione) that is formed by 5\u03b1-reductase. It is on the list of substances prohibited by the World Anti- Doping Agency since it is a detectable metabolite of nandrolone, an anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS). Consumption of androstendione products contaminated with traces of bolandione may also result in testing positive for nandrolone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032683-0001-0000", "contents": "19-Norandrosterone\nTraces of 19-norandrosterone may be naturally present in human urine. An experiment conducted on athletes showed that after a prolonged intense effort, the 19-norandrosterone concentration can be increased by a factor varying between 2 and 4, but another study failed to replicate the result. Concentration also increases in the urine of female athletes during menstruation. The consumption of edible parts of a non-castrated pig, containing 19-nortestosterone, has been shown to result in the excretion of 19-norandrosterone in the following hours, so athletes should prudently avoid meals composed of pig offal in the hours preceding doping tests. Consumption of boar meat, liver, kidneys and heart also increased 19-norandrosterone output.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032685-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Nordehydroepiandrosterone\n19-Nordehydroepiandrosterone (19-nor-DHEA), or 19-nor-5-dehydroepiandrosterone (19-nor-5-DHEA), is an estrane (19-norandrostane) steroid which was never marketed. It is the combined derivative of the androgen/anabolic steroid nandrolone (19-nortestosterone) and the androgen prohormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA, or more specifically 5-DHEA). Related compounds include 19-nor-5-androstenediol, bolandiol (19-nor-4-androstenediol), and bolandione (nor-4-androstenedione), which are all known orally active prohormones of nandrolone. 19-Nor-DHEA may occur as a metabolite of bolandione and related steroids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032686-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Noretiocholanolone\n19-Noretiocholanolone, also known as 5\u03b2-estran-3\u03b1-ol-17-one, is a metabolite of nandrolone (19-nortestosterone) and bolandione (19-norandrostenedione) that is formed by 5\u03b1-reductase. It is on the list of substances prohibited by the World Anti- Doping Agency since it is a detectable metabolite of nandrolone, an anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032686-0001-0000", "contents": "19-Noretiocholanolone\nTraces of 19-noretiocholanolone may be naturally present in human urine. Consumption of boar meat, liver, kidneys and heart have been found to increase urinary 19-noretiocholanolone output.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032687-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Norpregnane\n19-Norpregnane, also known as 13\u03b2-methyl-17\u03b2-ethylgonane, is a norsteroid and the 19-demethyl analogue of pregnane. It is the parent compound of 19-norprogesterone (19-norpregn-4-ene-3,20-dione) and derivatives of it such as the progestins demegestone, gestonorone caproate (gestronol hexanoate), nomegestrol acetate, norgestomet, promegestone, segesterone acetate (nestorone), and trimegestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032688-0000-0000", "contents": "19-Norprogesterone\n19-Norprogesterone, also known as 19-norpregn-4-ene-3,20-dione, is a steroidal progestin and close analogue of the sex hormone progesterone, lacking only the C19 methyl group of that molecule. It was first synthesized in 1944 in the form of a mixture that also included unnatural stereoisomers (probably C14 (\u03b2) and C17 (\u03b1)) of progesterone, and this mixture was found to be at least equivalent to progesterone in terms of progestogenic activity. Subsequent investigations revealed that 17-isoprogesterone and 14-iso-17-isoprogesterone are devoid of progestogenic activity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032688-0000-0001", "contents": "19-Norprogesterone\n19-Norprogesterone was resynthesized in 1951 with an improved method, and was confirmed to be the component of the mixture synthesized in 1944 that was responsible for its progestogenic activity. In 1953, a paper was published showing that 19-norprogesterone possessed 4- to 8-fold the activity of progesterone in the Clauberg assay in rabbits, and at the time of this discovery, 19-norprogesterone was the most potent progestogen known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032688-0001-0000", "contents": "19-Norprogesterone\nSimilarly to progesterone, 19-norprogesterone is a potent progestogen and possesses high affinity for the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR). However, unlike progesterone, which is an antagonist of the MR, 19-norprogesterone acts as a partial agonist of the MR and produces mineralocorticoid effects such as sodium retention, polydipsia, and hypertension in animals. Like progesterone, 19-norprogesterone is very active as a progestogen parenterally but is only minimally active orally. A SAR study found that 19-norprogesterone had 47% of the affinity of aldosterone for the rat MR and that 17\u03b1-hydroxylation (17\u03b1-hydroxy-19-norprogesterone, or gestronol) decreased it to 13%. The addition of 6-methylation with formation of a double bond at this position (nomegestrol) further decreased the MR affinity to 1.2% of that of aldosterone, and subsequent acetylation of the 17\u03b1-hydroxy group (nomegestrol acetate) nearly abolished it (0.23%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 955]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032688-0002-0000", "contents": "19-Norprogesterone\nThe discovery of the retained and potentiated progestogenic activity of 19-norsteroids like 19-norprogesterone resulted in the synthesis of norethisterone, and in turn, the introduction of the first hormonal contraceptives. It was reasoned that since ethisterone (17\u03b1-ethinyltestosterone) is orally active, and since 19-norprogesterone is a very potent progestin parenterally, that 17\u03b1-ethynyl-19-nortestosterone (known now as norethisterone or norethindrone) might be a potent, orally active progestin, and indeed, this was found to be the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032688-0003-0000", "contents": "19-Norprogesterone, Chemistry, Derivatives\n19-Norprogesterone is the parent compound of a group of medically used progestins, which includes the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032688-0004-0000", "contents": "19-Norprogesterone, Chemistry, Derivatives\nIn addition, the testosterone analogue of 19-norprogesterone, 19-nortestosterone (also known as nandrolone), is an anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) and progestogen, and is the parent compound of a large group of AAS and progestins that includes norethisterone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0000-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack\nA 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is 19 inches (482.6\u00a0mm) wide. The 19\u00a0inch dimension includes the edges or \"ears\" that protrude from each side of the equipment, allowing the module to be fastened to the rack frame with screws. Common uses include computer servers, telecommunications equipment and networking hardware, audiovisual production gear, and scientific equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0001-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nEquipment designed to be placed in a rack is typically described as rack-mount, rack-mount instrument, a rack-mounted system, a rack-mount chassis, subrack, rack cabinet, rack-mountable, or occasionally simply shelf. The height of the electronic modules is also standardized as multiples of 1.75 inches (44.45\u00a0mm) or one rack unit or U (less commonly RU). The industry-standard rack cabinet is 42U tall; however, 45U racks are also common.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0002-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nThe term relay rack appeared first in the world of telephony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0003-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nBy 1911, the term was also being used in railroad signaling. There is little evidence that the dimensions of these early racks were standardized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0004-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nThe 19-inch rack format with rack-units of 1.75 inches (44.45\u00a0mm) was established as a standard by AT&T around 1922 in order to reduce the space required for repeater and termination equipment in a telephone company central office. The earliest repeaters from 1914 were installed in ad hoc fashion on shelves, in wooden boxes and cabinets. Once serial production started, they were built into custom-made racks, one per repeater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0004-0001", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nBut in light of the rapid growth of the toll network, the engineering department of AT&T undertook a systematic redesign, resulting in a family of modular factory-assembled panels all \"designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 191\u20442 inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary,\u00a0... but\u00a0... in all cases to be a whole multiple of 13\u20444 inches\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0005-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nBy 1934, it was an established standard with holes tapped for 12-24 screws with alternating spacings of 1.25 inches (31.75\u00a0mm) and 0.5 inches (12.70\u00a0mm) The EIA standard was revised again in 1992 to comply with the 1988 public law 100-418, setting the standard U as 15.875\u00a0mm (0.625\u00a0in) + 15.875\u00a0mm (0.625\u00a0in) + 12.7\u00a0mm (0.500\u00a0in), making each \"U\" 44.45 millimetres (1.75\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0006-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nThe 19-inch rack format has remained constant while the technology that is mounted within it has changed considerably and the set of fields to which racks are applied has greatly expanded. The 19-inch (482.6\u00a0mm) standard rack arrangement is widely used throughout the telecommunication, computing, audio, video, entertainment and other industries, though the Western Electric 23-inch standard, with holes on 1-inch (25.4\u00a0mm) centers, is still used in legacy ILEC/CLEC facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0007-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nNineteen-inch racks in two-post or four-post form hold most equipment in modern data centers, ISP facilities, and professionally designed corporate server rooms. They allow for dense hardware configurations without occupying excessive floorspace or requiring shelving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0008-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nNineteen-inch racks are also often used to house professional audio and video equipment, including amplifiers, effects units, interfaces, headphone amplifiers, and even small scale audio mixers. A third common use for rack-mounted equipment is industrial power, control, and automation hardware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0009-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Overview and history\nTypically, a piece of equipment being installed has a front panel height 1\u204432 inch (0.03125 inches or 0.794 millimetres) less than the allotted number of Us. Thus, a 1U rackmount computer is not 1.75 inches (44.45\u00a0mm) tall but is 1.71875 inches (43.66\u00a0mm) tall. If n is number of rack units, the ideal formula for panel height is h = (1.75n \u2212 0.031) for calculating in inches, and h = (44.45n \u2212 0.794) for calculating in millimetres. This gap allows a bit of room above and below an installed piece of equipment so it may be removed without binding on the adjacent equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 34], "content_span": [35, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0010-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Fastening\nOriginally, the mounting holes were tapped with a particular screw thread. When rack rails are too thin to tap, rivnuts or other threaded inserts can be used, and when the particular class of equipment to be mounted is known in advance, some of the holes can be omitted from the mounting rails.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0011-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Fastening\nThreaded mounting holes in racks where the equipment is frequently changed are problematic because the threads can be damaged or the mounting screws can break off; both problems render the mounting hole unusable. Tapping large numbers of holes that may never be used is expensive; nonetheless tapped-hole racks are still in use, generally for hardware that rarely changes. Examples include telephone exchanges, network cabling panels, broadcast studios and some government and military applications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0012-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Fastening\nThe tapped-hole rack was first replaced by clearance-hole (Round Hole, Round Unthreaded Holes, and Versa Rail) racks. The holes are large enough to permit a bolt to be freely inserted through without binding, and bolts are fastened in place using cage nuts. In the event of a nut being stripped out or a bolt breaking, the nut can be easily removed and replaced with a new one. Production of clearance-hole racks is less expensive because tapping the holes is eliminated and replaced with fewer, less expensive, cage nuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0013-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Fastening\nThe next innovation in rack design has been the square-hole rack. Square-hole racks allow boltless mounting, such that the rack-mount equipment only needs to insert through and hook down into the lip of the square hole. Installation and removal of hardware in a square hole rack is very easy and boltless, where the weight of the equipment and small retention clips are all that is necessary to hold the equipment in place. Older equipment meant for round-hole or tapped-hole racks can still be used, with the use of cage nuts made for square-hole racks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0014-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Structural support\nRack-mountable equipment is traditionally mounted by bolting or clipping its front panel to the rack. Within the IT industry, it is common for network/communications equipment to have multiple mounting positions, including table-top and wall mounting, so rack-mountable equipment will often feature L-brackets that must be screwed or bolted to the equipment prior to mounting in a 19-inch rack. With the prevalence of 23-inch racks in the Telecoms industry, the same practice is also common, but with equipment having 19-inch and 23-inch brackets available, enabling them to be mounted in existing racks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0015-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Structural support\nA key structural weakness of front-mounted support is the bending stress placed on the mounting brackets of the equipment, and the rack itself. As a result, 4-post racks have become common, featuring a mirrored pair of rear mounting posts. Since the spacing between the front and rear mounting posts may differ between rack vendors and/or the configuration of the rack (some racks may incorporate front and rear rails that may be moved forwards and backwards, e.g. APC SX-range racks), it is common for equipment that features 4-post mounting brackets to have an adjustable rear bracket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0016-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Structural support\nServers and deep pieces of equipment are often mounted using rails that are bolted to the front and rear posts (as above, it is common for such rails to have an adjustable depth), allowing the equipment to be supported by four posts, while also enabling it to be easily installed and removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0017-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Structural support\nAlthough there is no standard for the depth of equipment, nor specifying the outer width and depth of the rack enclosure itself (incorporating the structure, doors and panels that contain the mounting rails), there is a tendency for 4-post racks to be 600\u00a0mm (23.62\u00a0in) or 800\u00a0mm (31.50\u00a0in) wide, and for them to be 600\u00a0mm (23.62\u00a0in), 800\u00a0mm (31.50\u00a0in) or 1,010\u00a0mm (39.76\u00a0in) deep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0017-0001", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Structural support\nThis of course varies by manufacturer, the design of the rack and its purpose, but through common constraining factors (such as raised floor tile dimensions), these dimensions have become quite common. The extra width and depth enables cabling to be routed with ease (also helping to maintain bend-radius for fibre and copper cables) and deeper equipment to be utilised. A common feature in IT racks are mounting positions for \"Zero-U\" accessories, such as PDUs (power distribution units) and vertical cable managers/ducts, that utilise the space between the rear rails and the side of the rack enclosure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0018-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Structural support\nThe strength required of the mounting posts means they are invariably not merely flat strips but actually a wider folded strip arranged around the corner of the rack. The posts are usually made of steel of around 2\u00a0mm thickness (the official standard recommends a minimum of 1.9\u00a0mm), or of slightly thicker aluminum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0019-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Structural support\nRacks, especially two-post racks, are often secured to the floor or adjacent building structure so as not to fall over. This is usually required by local building codes in seismic zones. According to Telcordia Technologies Generic Requirements document GR-63-CORE, during an earthquake, telecommunications equipment is subjected to motions that can over-stress equipment framework, circuit boards, and connectors. The amount of motion and resulting stress depends on the structural characteristics of the building and framework in which the equipment is contained, and the severity of the earthquake. Seismic racks rated according to , NEBS Requirements: Physical Protection, are available, with Zone 4 representing the most demanding environment. , Generic Requirements for Network Equipment in the Outside Plant (OSP), specifies the usable opening of seismic-compliant 19-inch racks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 52], "content_span": [53, 939]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0020-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rails (slides)\nHeavy equipment or equipment which is commonly accessed for servicing, for which attaching or detaching at all four corners simultaneously would pose a problem, is often not mounted directly onto the rack but instead is mounted via rails (or slides). A pair of rails is mounted directly onto the rack, and the equipment then slides into the rack along the rails, which support it. When in place, the equipment may also then be bolted to the rack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0020-0001", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rails (slides)\nThe rails may also be able to fully support the equipment in a position where it has been slid clear of the rack; this is useful for inspection or maintenance of equipment which will then be slid back into the rack. Some rack slides even include a tilt mechanism allowing easy access to the top or bottom of rack-mounted equipment when it is fully extended from the rack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 48], "content_span": [49, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0021-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rails (slides)\nSlides or rails for computers and other data processing equipment such as disk arrays or routers often need to be purchased directly from the equipment manufacturer, as there is no standardization on such equipment's thickness (measurement from the side of the rack to the equipment) or means for mounting to the rail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 48], "content_span": [49, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0022-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rails (slides)\nA rails kit may include a cable management arm (or CMA), which folds the cables attached to the server and allows them to expand neatly when the server is slid out, without being disconnected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 48], "content_span": [49, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0023-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Computer mounting\nComputer servers designed for rack-mounting can include a number of extra features to make the server easy to use in the rack:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 51], "content_span": [52, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0024-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Computer mounting\nWhen there is a large number of computers in a single rack, it is impractical for each one to have its own separate keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Instead, a KVM switch or LOM software is used to share a single keyboard/video/mouse set amongst many different computers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 51], "content_span": [52, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0025-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Computer mounting\nSince the mounting hole arrangement is vertically symmetric, it is possible to mount rack-mountable equipment upside-down. However, not all equipment is suitable for this type of mounting. For instance, most optical disc players will not work upside-down because the driving motor mechanism does not grip the disc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 51], "content_span": [52, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0026-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types\n19-inch server racks can vary in qualities. A standard 19-inch server rack cabinet is typically 42u in height, 600 millimetres (24\u00a0in) wide, and 36 inches (914.40\u00a0mm) deep. Newer server rack cabinets come with adjustable mounting rails allowing the user to place the rails at a shorter depth if needed. There are a multitude of specialty server racks including soundproof server racks, air conditioned server racks, NEMA rated, seismic rated, open frame, narrow, and even miniature 19-inch racks for smaller applications. Cabinets are generally sized to be no wider than the standard 24-inch-wide (610\u00a0mm) floor tiles used in most data centers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 44], "content_span": [45, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0027-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types\nRacks carrying telecom equipment like routers and switches often have extra width to accommodate the many cables on the sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 44], "content_span": [45, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0028-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types, Four-post cabinet racks\nFour-post racks allow for mounting rails to support the equipment at the front and rear. These racks may be open in construction without sides or doors, or may be enclosed by front and/or rear doors, side panels, and tops. Most data centers use four-post racks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 69], "content_span": [70, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0029-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types, Two-post relay racks\nTwo-post racks provide two vertical posts. These posts are typically heavy gauge metal or extruded aluminum. A top bar and wide foot connect the posts and allow the rack to be securely attached to the floor and/or roof for seismic safety. Equipment can be mounted either close to its center of gravity (to minimize load on its front panel), or via the equipment's front panel holes. The Relay Racks name comes from early two-post racks which housed telephone relay and switching equipment. Two-post racks are most often used for telecommunication installations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 66], "content_span": [67, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0030-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types, ATA road case racks\n19-inch equipment that needs to be moved often or protected from harsh treatment can be housed in an Air Transport Association of America (ATA) approved road case sometimes also referred to as flight case. Road cases typically have plywood sides laminated with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), extruded aluminum edges, steel corners, handles, and latches. Larger cases typically have wheels for easy transport. Road case racks come in different heights based on the 1U standard and different depths. Non -isolated cases simply mount 19-inch mounting posts inside the case. To protect equipment from shock and vibration road rack cases use an inner and outer case. These cases can be isolated by thick layers of foam or may use spring-loaded shock mounting. Touring musicians, theatrical productions and sound and light companies use road case racks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 65], "content_span": [66, 908]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0031-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types, Fiberglass reinforced plastic case racks\nIn 1965, a durable fiber reinforced plastic 19-inch rackmount case was patented by ECS Composites and became widely used in military and commercial applications for electronic deployment and operation. State-of-the-art rackmount cases are now also constructed of thermo stamped composite, carbon fiber, and DuPont's Kevlar for demanding military and commercial uses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 86], "content_span": [87, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0032-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types, Polyethylene molded case racks\nPortable rack cases using a rotary-molded polyethylene outer shell are a lower-cost alternative to the more durable ATA-approved case. These cases are marketed to musicians and entertainers for equipment not subject to frequent transportation and rough handling. The polyethylene shell is not fiberglass reinforced and is not rigid. The shape of small cases is maintained by the rack rails and the cover seal extrusions alone. Larger cases are further reinforced with additional plywood or sheet metal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 76], "content_span": [77, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0032-0001", "contents": "19-inch rack, Equipment mounting, Rack types, Polyethylene molded case racks\nThe outer shell is frequently embossed in a self-mating pattern to combat the tendency for stacked cases to deform slightly creating a slope that encourages the upper case to slide off. The cases typically use extruded aluminum bands at the ends of the body with tongue-and-groove mating to like bands for the covers. End covers are typically secured with either a simple draw latch or a rotary cam \"butterfly\" latch, named for the shape of the twist handle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 76], "content_span": [77, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0033-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Cooling\nThere is no standard for airflow and cooling of rack-mounted equipment. A variety of airflow patterns can be found, including front intakes and rear exhausts, as well as side intakes and exhausts. Low-wattage devices may not employ active cooling, but use only passive thermal radiation and convection to dissipate heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0034-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Cooling\nFor rack-mounted computer servers, devices generally intake air on the front and exhaust on the rear. This prevents circular airflows where hot exhaust air is recirculated through an adjacent device and causes overheating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0035-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Cooling\nAlthough open-frame racks are the least expensive, they also expose air-cooled equipment to dust, lint, and other environmental contamination. An enclosed sealed cabinet with forced air fans permits air filtration to protect equipment from dust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0036-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Cooling\nLarge server rooms will often group rack cabinets together so that racks on both sides of an aisle are either front-facing or rear-facing, which simplifies cooling by supplying cool air to the front of the racks and collecting hot air from the rear of the racks. These aisles may themselves be enclosed into a cold air containment tunnel so that cooling air does not travel to other parts of the building where it is not needed or mixes with hot air, making it less efficient. Raised or false floor cooling in server rooms can serve a similar purpose; they permit cooling airflow to equipment through the underfloor space to the underside of enclosed rack cabinets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0037-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Cooling\nA difficulty with forced air fan cooling in rack equipment is that fans can fail due to age or dust. The fans themselves can be difficult to replace. In the case of network equipment, it may be necessary to unplug 50 or more cables from the device, remove the device from the rack, and then disassemble the device chassis to replace the fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0038-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Cooling\nHowever, some rack equipment has been designed to make fan replacement easy, using quick-change fan trays that can be accessed without removing the cabling or the device from the rack, and in some cases without turning off the device so that operation is uninterrupted during replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 21], "content_span": [22, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0039-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Specifications\nThe formal standards for a 19-inch (482.6\u00a0mm) rack are available from the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0040-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Specifications\nA rack's mounting fixture consists of two parallel metal strips (also referred to as \"posts\" or \"panel mounts\") standing vertically. The posts are each 0.625 inches (15.88\u00a0mm) wide, and are separated by a gap of 17.75 inches (450.85\u00a0mm), giving an overall rack width of 19 inches (482.60\u00a0mm). The posts have holes in them at regular intervals, with both posts matching, so that each hole is part of a horizontal pair with a center-to-center distance of 18.312 inches (465.12\u00a0mm).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0041-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Specifications\nThe holes in the posts are arranged vertically in repeating sets of three, with center-to-center separations of 0.5 inches (12.70\u00a0mm), 0.625 inches (15.88\u00a0mm), 0.625 inches (15.88\u00a0mm). The hole pattern thus repeats every 1.75 inches (44.45\u00a0mm).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0042-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Specifications\nHoles so arranged can either be tapped (usually 10-32 UNF thread, or, less often, 6mm metric) or have square holes for cage nuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 28], "content_span": [29, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0043-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Specifications, Rack unit\nRacks are vertically divided into regions, 44.45 millimetres (1.75\u00a0in) in height. Each region has three complete hole pairs on each side. The holes are centered at 6.35 millimetres (0.25\u00a0in), 22.25 millimetres (0.88\u00a0in), and 38.15 millimetres (1.50\u00a0in) from the top or bottom of the region. Such a region is commonly known as a U, for unit, RU for rack unit or, in German, HE, for H\u00f6heneinheit. Heights within racks are measured by this unit. Rack-mountable equipment is usually designed to occupy some integer number of U. For example, an oscilloscope might be 4U high. Rack-mountable computers and servers are mostly between 1U and 4U high. A blade server enclosure might require 10U.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0044-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Specifications, Rack unit\nOccasionally, one may see fractional U devices such as a 1.5U server or devices that are just 22.5 or 15\u00a0cm in width, allowing for 2 or 3 such devices to be installed side by side, but these are much less common.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0045-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Specifications, Rack unit\nThe height of a rack can vary from a few inches, such as in a broadcast console, to a floor mounted rack whose interior is 45 rack units (200.2 centimetres or 78.82 inches) high. 42U is a common configuration. Many wall-mounted enclosures for industrial equipment use 19-inch racks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0046-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Related standards, 10-inch rack\nSome telco/networking equipment is available in a narrower 10\" format with the same unit-height as a standard 19\"-rack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 45], "content_span": [46, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0047-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Related standards, 11-foot frame\nFrames for holding rotary-dial telephone equipment were generally 11\u00a0feet 6\u00a0inches (3.51\u00a0m) high. A series of studies led to the adoption of frames 7 feet (2.1\u00a0m) high, with modular widths in multiples of 1\u00a0foot 1\u00a0inch (0.33\u00a0m)\u2014most often 2\u00a0feet 2\u00a0inches (0.66\u00a0m) wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 46], "content_span": [47, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0048-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Related standards, ETSI rack\nThe ETSI rack is defined by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETS 300 119). The distance of the right edge of the right mounting rail to the left edge of the left mounting rail is 535 millimetres (21.1\u00a0in). As 535\u00a0mm is very close to 21 inches, these racks are sometimes called 21-inch racks. The gap between the posts is 500 millimetres (19.69\u00a0in). As 19-inch equipment has a maximum width of 17+1\u20444 inches (438.15\u00a0mm), they can easily be mounted in an ETSI rack by means of an ETSI bracket or adapter plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 42], "content_span": [43, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0049-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Related standards, ETSI rack\nIn contrast to the \"19-inch world\", ETSI also defined the size of the rack enclosure: the four allowed widths are 150,\u00a0300,\u00a0600,\u00a0900 millimetres (5.9,\u00a011.8,\u00a023.6,\u00a035.4\u00a0in) and two allowed depths are 300 and 600 millimetres (12 and 24\u00a0in). Hole spacing is 25 millimetres (0.98\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0050-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Related standards, 23-inch rack\nA 23-inch (580\u00a0mm) rack is used for housing telephone (primarily), computer, audio, and other equipment though is less common than the 19-inch rack. The size denotes the width of the faceplate for the installed equipment. The rack unit is a measure of vertical spacing and is common to both the 19 and 23 inch racks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 45], "content_span": [46, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0051-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Related standards, 23-inch rack\nHole spacing is either on 1-inch (25\u00a0mm) centers (Western Electric standard), or the same as for 19-inch (482.6\u00a0mm) racks (0.625\u00a0in or 15.9\u00a0mm spacing).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 45], "content_span": [46, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032689-0052-0000", "contents": "19-inch rack, Related standards, Open Rack\nOpen Rack is a mounting system designed by Facebook's Open Compute Project that has the same outside dimensions as typical 19-inch racks (e.g. 600\u00a0mm width), but supports wider equipment modules of 547 millimetres (21.5\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 42], "content_span": [43, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0000-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta\n\"19-sai no Uta\" (19\u6b73\u306e\u5504, J\u016bky\u016b-sai no Uta, \"Song at 19\") is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Mao Abe, released on November 3, 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0001-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Composition and inspiration\nThe song is an upbeat rock song, arranged by music producer Takamune Negishi. This was Abe's first time to work with Negishi. Abe chose this song to become a single because of its stronger rock sound compared to her previous works (especially in comparison to songs such as \"Free,\" which were much more pop-rock).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0002-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Composition and inspiration\nThe song was written by Abe in 2009, when she was 19, however was recorded and released when she was 20. During this time, Abe was dealing with the stresses of being a musician, such and was performing on her tour Mao Abe Live No. 1 and in recording sessions for her album Pop. During this time, Abe found she could not write songs she considered good since her debut, as opposed to those written in high school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0003-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Composition and inspiration\nThe lyrics of the song are autobiographical, about Abe's state of mind at 19. The song deals with her feelings of insecurity, impatience and conflict of not being considered a child or an adult. Abe considers the song a condensation of the resentment and chaos she felt while under stress as a musician.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0004-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Composition and inspiration\nThe single also features the B-sides \"Ai ni Iku\" and \"Morning,\" though initially four songs were planned for the single. Abe described \"Ai ni Iku\" as a \"painful pop tune\" and a \"straightforward love song.\" It was based on real experiences, where Abe was trying to keep up a long-distance relationship while having no money. During the writing process, Abe wrote the music and lyrics entirely separately. The self-guitar backed track \"Morning\" was described by Abe as being about a man's other connections outside of love, such as work and friends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0004-0001", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Composition and inspiration\nAbe started the song from the lyric \"Ashita wa dare no moto e yuku no?\" (\u660e\u65e5\u306f\u8ab0\u306e\u5143\u3078 \u884c\u304f\u306e?, \"Who will you go to tomorrow?\") which she wrote down while visiting a friend's house. At the end of 2008 she wrote the song properly, finishing writing the lyrics spontaneously, something she had never done before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0005-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Promotion\nFor promotion of the single a special cellphone-only site abema-rally.jp was set up. The site was a social networking game, in which people received points for sending messages to their friends. The top 50 posters were invited to a special exclusive live event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0006-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Promotion\nAbe was featured in many music and fashion magazines to promote the single. These included publications such as CD&DL Data, Hanachu, Junon, Musica, Ori Star, Papyrus, R25, Rockin' On Japan, What's In? and Zipper. She also went on the Tokyo FM radio show School of Lock! on November 1 to promote the single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0007-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Promotion\nAbe's fourth tour, the 16 date Mao Abe Live No. 2, began on the same day as the physical release of the single. On the first date at \u014cita, she performed the song live for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032690-0008-0000", "contents": "19-sai no Uta, Music video\nThe music video was directed by Choku, and shot on October 6, 2010. It features Abe performing the song with a band in a darkened, smoky room. As they perform, different types of lights such as strobe lights and klieg lights light the band as they perform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032691-0000-0000", "contents": "190\nYear 190 (CXC) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Sura (or, less frequently, year 943 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 190 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 3], "section_span": [3, 3], "content_span": [4, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032692-0000-0000", "contents": "190 (number)\n190 (one hundred [and] ninety) is the natural number following 189 and preceding 191.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032693-0000-0000", "contents": "190 BC\nYear 190 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asiaticus and Laelius (or, less frequently, year 564 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 190 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 6], "section_span": [6, 6], "content_span": [7, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032694-0000-0000", "contents": "190 Coltrin Road\n190 Coltrin Road is the residence of the High Commissioner of Pakistan in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the enclave of Rockcliffe Park amongst other prestigious ambassadorial residences. It was constructed in 1929 and is considered an important historical site, according to the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee of Rockcliffe Park, under the Ontario Heritage Act (1974).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032694-0001-0000", "contents": "190 Coltrin Road, History\n190 Coltrin Road was designed by Clarence Burritt in 1929 for the son and daughter of G. H. Millen, former president of the E. B. Eddy Company. The house was briefly owned by W. Garfield Weston of the Weston Bakeries empire. It was bought by Pakistan in 1949 as a residence for their high commissioner. Since then, it has served for more than five decades as the residence of the High Commissioner of Pakistan to Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032694-0002-0000", "contents": "190 Coltrin Road, Architecture\n190 Coltrin Road was made with the intention of incorporating several architectural styles, including:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032694-0003-0000", "contents": "190 Coltrin Road, Ambassadorial Residence\nThis residence has historically seated almost all Pakistani High Commissioners:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032694-0004-0000", "contents": "190 Coltrin Road, Trivia\nA small seed that Liaqat Ali Khan planted on this residence on June 1, 1951, now stands as one of the tallest trees in Rockcliffe Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032695-0000-0000", "contents": "190 Ismene\nIsmene (minor planet designation: 190 Ismene) is a very large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on September 22, 1878, in Clinton, New York, and named after Ismene, the sister of Antigone in Greek mythology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032695-0001-0000", "contents": "190 Ismene\nBeing a P-type asteroid, it has a very dark surface. Ismene orbits near the outer edge of the asteroid belt. It is one of the largest members of the Hilda asteroid family, which are locked in 3:2 resonance with the planet Jupiter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032696-0000-0000", "contents": "190 New King's Road\n190 New King's Road, also known as Jasmine House, is a Grade II listed house on New King's Road, Fulham, London, built in the late 18th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032696-0001-0000", "contents": "190 New King's Road\nIt is mentioned by Pevsner as a \"late Georgian detached villa, with pretty enriched cornice and doorcase.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032697-0000-0000", "contents": "190 Proof\n190 Proof is a studio album by American country rap group The Lacs. It was released on April 3, 2012 via Average Joes Entertainment. Recording session took place at Phive Starr Stuidios in Atlanta. Production was handled by Shannon Houchins and Phivestarr Productions. It features guest appearances from Bubba Sparxxx and Crucifix. The album peaked at number 68 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032698-0000-0000", "contents": "190 Squadron (Israel)\nThe 190 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force, also known as the Magic Touch Squadron, is an AH-64A Apache helicopter squadron based at Ramon Airbase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032699-0000-0000", "contents": "190 Strand\n190 Strand is a mixed-use building development by St Edward Homes, part of Berkeley Group Holdings, on the south side of Strand in the City of Westminster, London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [10, 10], "content_span": [11, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032699-0001-0000", "contents": "190 Strand, The site\nThe development comprises six main buildings. The works are a mixture of structural and non-structural alterations to buildings prominent already by their height and modernity in this part of Westminster and complete demolition of certain existing edifices their redesign and replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 20], "content_span": [21, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032699-0002-0000", "contents": "190 Strand, The site\nThe site measures approximately 0.5\u00a0hectares on the south side of Strand, facing St Clement Danes church, between Arundel Street and Milford Lane. Upon completion, the modern Maltravers Street, an east\u2013west alley between Arundel Street and Milford Lane, ceased to exist as part of the approved plans, but Tweezer's Alley on the southern side has been enhanced. Immediately to the south of the site is Globe House, the headquarters of British American Tobacco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 20], "content_span": [21, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032699-0003-0000", "contents": "190 Strand, The site\nPlanning permission for the buildings was granted in 2011 to a design by GRID Architects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 20], "content_span": [21, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032699-0004-0000", "contents": "190 Strand, Building names\nThe principal buildings of the development have been named after local people and places. Clement House after nearby St Clement Danes church, Wren House after Sir Christopher Wren's rebuilding of St Clement Danes, Gladstone House after the statue of prime minister William Gladstone nearby on Strand, Milford House after Milford Lane, Savoy House after the Savoy Hotel, and Temple House after the Temple legal district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 10], "section_span": [12, 26], "content_span": [27, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032700-0000-0000", "contents": "190-192 Sloane Street\n190-192 Sloane Street, also known as the Sekers Building, is a grade II listed building on Sloane Street, London at the junction with Harriet Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032700-0001-0000", "contents": "190-192 Sloane Street, Design\nThe building was designed by the architects Brett and Pollen, primarily partner Harry Teggin, for the Cadogan Estate, and completed in 1965. The interiors were designed by Dennis Lennon, with fittings by the sculptor Robert Adams, but do not survive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032700-0002-0000", "contents": "190-192 Sloane Street, Sekers era\nThe ground floor showrooms were originally occupied by Sekers Fabrics, the British fabric manufacturer founded by Nicholas Sekers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032700-0003-0000", "contents": "190-192 Sloane Street, Sekers era\nThe company, based in Whitehaven, Cumbria, was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh prize for elegant design in 1962, 1965 and 1973, and a Royal warrant was awarded as suppliers of furnishing fabric to Her Majesty the Queen. In 1964, they established their London showroom at 190-192 Sloane Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032701-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\n1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th\u00a0century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1900, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032701-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\nAs of March 1 (O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (O.S. February 15), 2100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 (film)\n1900 (Italian: Novecento, \"Twentieth Century\") is a 1976 epic historical drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and featuring an international ensemble cast including Robert De Niro, G\u00e9rard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Laura Betti, Stefania Casini, Ellen Schwiers, Sterling Hayden, Alida Valli, Romolo Valli, Stefania Sandrelli, Donald Sutherland, and Burt Lancaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0000-0001", "contents": "1900 (film)\nSet in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives and friendship of two men \u2013 the landowning Alfredo Berlinghieri (De Niro) and the peasant Olmo Dalc\u00f2 (Depardieu) \u2013 as they witness and participate in the political conflicts between fascism and communism that took place in Italy in the first half of the 20th century. The film premiered out of competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 (film)\nWith a runtime of 317 minutes in its original version, 1900 is known for being one of the longest commercially released films ever made. Its great length led to its being presented in two parts when originally released in many countries, including Italy, East and West Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Colombia, Pakistan and Japan. In other countries, such as the United States, a single edited-down version of the film was released. 1900 has become widely regarded as a cult classic, and has received several special edition home video releases from a variety of distributors. A restoration of the film premiered out of competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nThe film opens on 25 April 1945, the day Italy is liberated from the fascists. The peasants on an estate in Emilia-Romagna are shown attempting to join the partisans and place the owner of the estate, Alfredo Berlinghieri, under arrest. A middle-aged man named Attila and woman named Regina are seen attempting to flee the farm but are attacked by women labourers wielding pitchforks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nThe narrative moves back to the start of the century. Both born on the day of the death of composer Giuseppe Verdi \u2013 27 January 1901 \u2013 Alfredo Berlinghieri and Olmo Dalc\u00f2 come from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Alfredo is from a family of wealthy landowners led by his popular grandfather (also called Alfredo or Alfredo the Elder) and grows up with his cousin Regina. Olmo is an illegitimate peasant born to an unmarried young woman who already has had several children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0003-0001", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nHis grandfather, Leo, is the foreman and peasants' spokesman who carries out a duel of wits with the elder Alfredo which masks a deep-seated mutual respect. As Alfredo is somewhat rebellious and despises the falseness of his family, in particular his weak but abusive and cynical father Giovanni, he befriends Olmo, who has been raised as a socialist. During this time, Leo leads strikes against the unfair conditions on the farm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nThe two are friends throughout their childhood, despite the social differences of their families, and spend much time in one another's company. Olmo enlists with the Italian army in 1917 during World War I and goes off to fight while Alfredo learns how to run his family's large plantation under the guidance of his father. Olmo returns from the war over a year later and his friendship with Alfredo continues. However, Giovanni, the padrone since the elder Alfredo's suicide, has hired Attila Mellanchini as his foreman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nTaken with fascism in a similar way that Giovanni has been, Attila eventually incorporates his new belief system in his dealings with the Berlinghieri workers; he treats them cruelly, and wins Regina and Giovanni over to his side. In the 1920s, Olmo enters into a relationship with Anita, a down-to-earth woman who shares his enthusiasm for the cause of workers' rights. Together, Olmo and Anita lead several fervent protests against the landowners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nFollowing the death of Giovanni, Alfredo becomes the new padrone and marries Ada, a gorgeous, demure Frenchwoman. During the 1930s, he proves to be a weak padrone, repeatedly bending to the whim of the fascists. Ada sinks into alcoholism when confronted with the reality of the emptiness of her marriage to Alfredo; she sympathises to some extent with the workers and despises Alfredo for his failure to stand up to Attila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nMeanwhile, Olmo's wife Anita dies in childbirth, but manages to bring another member into the community; a daughter whom Olmo names after his late wife. Olmo's daughter, Anita the Younger, grows into a young and resourceful teenager who is supportive of her father's socialist beliefs. As Olmo takes on his fateful role of leader among the poor farmers and their families, he clashes several times with Attila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nThe latter, whose psychopathic tendencies have been revealed via the murders of a cat and a small boy (the latter at Alfredo and Ada's wedding and for which Olmo was initially blamed), commits further atrocities such as killing the elderly Mrs. Pioppi in order to steal her land and home. However, he becomes a fresh target of ridicule at the hands of the peasants; led by Olmo, they take turns throwing manure at him after Attila tries to sell Olmo like a slave. Olmo flees to keep from being killed by the fascists, and Attila reacts to the humiliation by tearing up Olmo's house with his blackshirts before caging the peasants on the Berlinghieri compound and indiscriminately shooting them. Alfredo fires Attila, but discovers that Ada has already left him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nThe story comes full circle when the power shifts after World War II in 1945, and the ruling class is at the mercy of the jovial yet bitter farm labourers. Attila and Regina, having been apprehended, are imprisoned in the Berlinghieri pigsty, and the women peasants cut off Regina's hair. Attila confesses to the murders he has committed over the years, and is put to death. Olmo returns to the farm in time to see Alfredo being brought before a workers' tribunal to stand trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0007-0001", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nMany workers come forth and accuse Alfredo of letting them suffer in squalor while he profited from their labours, although he did not support fascism. Alfredo is sentenced to death, but his execution is prevented after Olmo explains that the padrone is dead, so Alfredo Berlinghieri is alive, suggesting that the social system has been overthrown with the end of the war. As soon as the verdict is reached, however, representatives and soldiers of the new government, which includes the Communist Party, arrive and call on the peasants to turn in their arms. Olmo convinces the peasants to do so, overcoming their scepticism. Alone with Olmo, Alfredo declares \"The padrone is alive\", indicating the struggle between the working and ruling classes is destined to continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Plot\nThe film ends with Alfredo and Olmo playfully tackling each other as they did in their childhood, then the scene suddenly jumps forward several years to the present day with the elderly Alfredo and Olmo walking along a railway track. Alfredo lies down in the center of the tracks as his younger self would do as a game while a train would run over the tracks, but Alfredo would emerge unharmed as he would lie perfectly still. Alfredo appears to lay himself across the tracks as a train approaches in a clear attempt at suicide as if he has chosen to end his life at that time. The final shot shows the train traveling over the younger Alfredo lying perfectly still in the center of the tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Release\nThe original director's cut of the film runs 317 minutes (5 hours, 17 minutes) and was released in two parts in Italy. Alberto Grimaldi, the film's producer, was contractually obligated to deliver a 195-minute (3 hour, 15 minute) version to Paramount Pictures for release in the United States and Canada. Bertolucci originally wanted to release the film in two parts, but, on Grimaldi's refusal, 20th Century Fox picked up distribution in the United States, dropping out only when Bertolucci declined to shorten the film by 80 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 20], "content_span": [21, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Release\nGrimaldi then locked Bertolucci out of the editing room and assembled a 180-minute cut. Bertolucci, horrified at Grimaldi's cut, decided to compromise. His 247-minute (4 hour, 7 minute) version was the one initially released in the United States. In 1987, the Bravo channel broadcast the uncut version with English-dubbed dialogue. Later in 1991, the film was restored to its original length and shown in a limited release. The film has been shown uncut on Sky Movies and Film 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 20], "content_span": [21, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Release\nWhen Bertolucci released his 317-minute version to theaters, the Motion Picture Association of America re-classified the film with an NC-17 rating; the 245-minute American cut, the other version officially available on video in the United States, still retained its R rating. In 2006, Paramount surrendered the NC-17 rating of the uncut version, then released it as unrated on DVD on 5 December 2006. This same uncut version was released on Blu-ray Disc in the U.S. by Olive Films on 15 May 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 20], "content_span": [21, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Reception\n1900 won the 1977 Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film and received 2nd place in the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 22], "content_span": [23, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Reception\nParamount released the shorter version in America theatrically, and the version has received mixed reviews from American critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 55% rating based on 20 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.1/10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 22], "content_span": [23, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032702-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 (film), Soundtrack\nThe music for the movie was composed by Ennio Morricone, who included several melodies from Verdi operas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032703-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 (magazine)\n1900 is a Dutch bi-monthly sports magazine published in Amsterdam, focusing on the association football club AFC Ajax. It was founded in 2012 with its first edition appearing on 20 December 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032703-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 (magazine), History\n1900 magazine was created in 2012 by AFC Ajax N.V. and Blue Flower Media to provide a bi-monthly journal surrounding the Dutch association football club AFC Ajax from Amsterdam. The name of the magazine is derived from the founding year of the club, which was first officially registered on 18 March 1900. The first issue appeared on 20 December 2012 and had former Ajax player and head coach at the time Frank de Boer on the cover. The Chief-Editor of the magazine is Joost De Jong, who had previously been an editor for AD Sportwereld, and the editor in chief for NLCOACH.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032704-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032704-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). At this time, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032704-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1900. It was preceded by the 1899 election and followed by the 1901 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1897 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032704-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Aberdare Urban District Council election, Results, Llwydcoed Ward (two seats)\nTwo members were elected owing to the vacant seat following the death of Rees Hopkin Rhys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032704-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Aberdare Urban District Council election, Results, Town Ward\nHodges died in 1902 before the completion of his term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1900 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach Malcolm Griffin, in his first season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa and one game at North Birmingham Park in Birmingham, Alabama. In what was the eighth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of two wins and three losses (2\u20133, 1\u20133 SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe Crimson White opened the season with three consecutive games at The Quad. After a shutout victory over the Taylor School, Alabama opened SIAA play with a 12\u20135 victory over Ole Miss. However, the Crimson White did proceed to lose their final three games en route to a 2\u20133 record. After a 6\u20130 loss to Tulane, Alabama traveled to Montgomery where they were defeated 53\u20135 by Auburn and closed the season with a 35\u20130 loss to Clemson at Birmingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Taylor School\nAlabama opened the season against the Taylor School, a preparatory school in Birmingham and defeated them 23\u20130. In the victory, A. M. Donahoo scored two and both James Forman and Arthur Walter Stewart each scored one touchdown in this shutout victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nAlabama opened SIAA play with a 12\u20135 victory over the University of Mississippi. Alabama scored first on a short Earl Drennen touchdown run, and with the successful PAT took a 6\u20130 lead. Mississippi responded with their only touchdown of the game shortly before the half on a short run to make the score 6\u20135 after a failed PAT. Arthur Walter Stewart then scored the final points of the game late in the second half on a short run to make the final score 12\u20135. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi to 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nAgainst the Greenies of Tulane University, Alabama lost 6\u20130 with the only points of the game coming on a one-yard Ellis Stearns touchdown run. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Tulane to 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nIn what was their first meeting since the 1895 season, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now known as Auburn University) defeated Alabama 53\u20135 at Montgomery's Riverside Park. Auburn took a 24\u20130 lead in the first half on touchdown runs of six-yards from Thomas, 75-yards from F. R. Yarbrough and seven and eight-yards from W. L. Noll. Alabama then scored their only points of the game on a two-yard C. M. Plowman run to make the score 24\u20135 at the half. Auburn then scored five second half touchdown on runs of seven and eight-yards from Yarbrough, 55-yards from Noll, three-yards from Blevens and on a 25-yard Sloan punt return. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nIn the first all-time game against Clemson University, Alabama lost 35\u20130 on Thanksgiving Day at Birmingham's North Birmingham Park. After the Tigers forced an Alabama punt to open the game, Claude Douthit scored three consecutive touchdowns for Clemson en route to an 18\u20130 lead. Douthit scored first on a five-yard run, next on a short reception and finally on a second short touchdown run. N. M. Hunter then scored for Clemson on a ling run just before the break and made the halftime score 23\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032705-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nIn the second half, the Tigers extended their lead to 35\u20130 behind a long Jim Lynah touchdown run and Douthit's fourth score of the day on a short run. With approximately 4:00 left in the game, captains from both Alabama and Clemson agreed to end the game early due to an unruly crowd and impending darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032706-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Alabama gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1900, in order to elect the Governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Joseph F. Johnston decided not to run for a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032707-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Albion football team\nThe 1900 Albion football team, sometimes known as the Albion Methodists, was an American football team that represented Albion College in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) during the 1900 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20131\u20132 record and won the MIAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032707-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Albion football team\nThe team also swept a two-game series with Michigan Agricultural (later renamed Michigan State University), defeating the Aggies by scores of 23\u20130 and 29\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032707-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Albion football team\nAlbion was led in 1900 by second-year head coach Chester Brewer who went on to be the head coach at Michigan State for 10 years and the athletic director at the University of Missouri for 13 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032707-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Albion football team\nJoe Maddock played principally at right halfback and was the star of the 1900 Albion team. Maddock later became a star for Fielding H. Yost's undefeated national championship teams at Michigan in 1902 and 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032708-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1900 All England Championships was the second annual badminton tournament held at the Scottish Drill Hall, the headquarters of the London Scottish Rifles at Buckingham Gate, Westminster, London, England from 18-19 April 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032709-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 14th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Tipperary were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032709-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format\n1900 saw the introduction of a new All-Ireland format. The four provincial championships would be played as usual. The four champions play in the \"Home\" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032709-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Connacht Senior Football Championship\nGalway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the Home semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032709-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Ulster Senior Football Championship\nAntrim were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the Home semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032710-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the thirteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032710-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nTipperary were the winners in a very one-sided final in which they beat London by 3-7 to 0-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032710-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was Tipperary's third All-Ireland football title following success in 1889 and 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032711-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 14th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The championship began on 12 May 1901 and ended on 26 October 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032711-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nTipperary were the defending champions, and retained their title following a 2-5 to 0-6 defeat of London in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032711-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the home final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032711-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nHome final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032711-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the home final and London, who receive a bye to this stage of the championship, contest this game. The winners are declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032712-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 13th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1900 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 26 October 1902 between London, represented by club side Desmonds, and Tipperary, represented by club side from Two-Mile-Borris. The London champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 2-5 to 0-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032713-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 All-Western college football team\nThe 1900 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1900 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032714-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Amur anti-Chinese pogroms\nThe 1900 Amur anti-Chinese Pogroms were a series of killings and reprisals of Chinese residents of Blagoveshchensk and in the Sixty-Four Villages East of the River in the Amur region during the same time as the spread of the Boxer Rebellion throughout China by Russian authorities, ultimately resulting in thousands of deaths, the loss of residency for Chinese living in the Sixty-Four Villages East of the River, and increased Russian control over the region. The Russian justification for the pogroms were attacks made on Russian infrastructure outside Blagoveshchensk by Chinese Boxers, which was then responded to by Russian force. The pogroms themselves occurred between 4\u20138 July (Old Style, O.S. ; 17\u201321, New Style or N.S. ), 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032714-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Amur anti-Chinese pogroms, Name\nThe name for the killings and reprisals that occurred in Amur is not standardized, and has been referred to by different names over time. The most common Chinese name for the pogroms is the Gengzi Russian Disaster (simplified Chinese: \u5e9a\u5b50\u4fc4\u96be; traditional Chinese: \u5e9a\u5b50\u4fc4\u96e3; pinyin: G\u0113ngz\u01d0 \u00e9 n\u00e1n), but the two most major events in Blagoveshchensk and the Sixty-Four Villages East of the River are referred to as the Blagoveshchensk Massacre (simplified Chinese: \u6d77\u5170\u6ce1\u60e8\u6848; traditional Chinese: \u6d77\u862d\u6ce1\u6158\u6848; pinyin: H\u01ceil\u00e1np\u00e0o c\u01cen'\u00e0n) and the Sixty-Four Villages East of the River Massacre (simplified Chinese: \u6c5f\u4e1c\u516d\u5341\u56db\u5c6f\u60e8\u6848; traditional Chinese: \u6c5f\u6771\u516d\u5341\u56db\u5c6f\u6158\u6848; pinyin: Ji\u0101ngd\u014dng li\u00f9sh\u00eds\u00ec t\u00fan c\u01cen'\u00e0n) respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 36], "content_span": [37, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032714-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Amur anti-Chinese pogroms, Name\nThe Russian name of the pogroms in Blagoveshchensk is referred to as the Chinese Pogrom in Blagoveshchensk (Russian: \u041a\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u0433\u0440\u043e\u043c \u0432 \u0411\u043b\u0430\u0433\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0435), while the killings and reprisals that took place in the Sixty-Four Villages East of the River are referred to as the Battle on the Amur (Russian: \u0411\u043e\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0410\u043c\u0443\u0440\u0435).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032714-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Amur anti-Chinese pogroms, Background\nBlagoveshchensk was founded on the territory ceded to Russia by Treaty of Aigun in 1858.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032714-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Amur anti-Chinese pogroms, Process, Sixty-Four Villages East of the River\nLieutenant-General Konstantin Nikolaevich Gribskiy ordered the expulsion of all Qing subjects who remained north of the river. This included the residents of the villages, and Chinese traders and workers who lived in Blagoveshchensk proper, where they numbered anywhere between one-sixth and one-half of the local population of 30,000. They were taken by the local police and driven into the river to be drowned. Those who could swim were shot by the Russian forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 78], "content_span": [79, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032714-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Amur anti-Chinese pogroms, Legacy\nAndrew Higgins of The New York Times wrote that Chinese and Russian officials tended to not bring up the incidents during periods of good China-Russia relations or China-Soviet Union relations, while the incident was brought up after the Sino-Soviet split with people still alive who had been in the programs being interviewed by Chinese officials. Higgins stated that in 2020 Chinese and Russian officials purposefully avoided dealing with the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032715-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1900 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 9th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 20 and ended on September 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032715-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe title was won by the English High School A.C., after their members joined again to the team to request their affiliation to the Association. Quilmes Rovers also returned under its new name \"Quilmes Atl\u00e9tico Club\". Both teams replaced Lobos and Lan\u00fas Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032715-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship continued with the 4 team league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032716-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Arizona football team\nThe 1900 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team did not play any intercollegiate games, compiled a 3\u20131 record, shut out three of four opponents, and outscored all opponents, 131 to 6. The team's victories came in games against the Tucson Indian School (two games) and a Tucson town team. The loss came against the Phoenix Indian School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032716-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Arizona football team, Personnel\nOgro Kenneth Dunham, a student in the school's Class of 1903, was the team's instructor when it reported for practice. However, he resigned as instructor to become a player. He was replaced by Professor William W. Skinner who became the coach. The team captain was Courtland F. Day, and Quin Anderson was the manager. Prior to the 1900 season, the team's colors were changed from sage green and silver to blue and cardinal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032716-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Arizona football team, Personnel\nThe following players won varsity letters for their participation on the University of Arizona's 1900 football team: Courtland F. Day, Quin Anderson, Ross M. Russell, Edward Stafford, Duncan Hugh Campbell, Bertram Louis Smith, Kirke Tonner Moore, Thomas K. Marshall, J. N. Parker, Benito G. Suarez, George M. Parker, William T. Olney, William Reynolds, Fred Christy, William Marlar, and Leslie Gillett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032717-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1900 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1900 college football season. The Razorbacks played two intercollegiate football games and two games against high school teams. They compiled a 2\u20131\u20131 record (1\u20131 excluding high school games) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 36 to 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032717-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nColbert Searles was the team's football coach in 1899 and 1900. He was a graduate of Wesleyan University and a professor of romance languages. In the summer of 1901, he left the University of Arkansas to accept a position as a professor at Stanford University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032718-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 3, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032718-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Daniel W. Jones did not stand for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032718-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nDemocratic nominee Jeff Davis defeated Republican nominee Harmon L. Remmel and Populist nominee Abner W. Files with 66.65% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032719-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1900 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1900 college football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Herman Koehler, the Cadets compiled a 7\u20133\u20131 record, shut out seven opponents (including a scoreless tie with Penn State), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 109 to 68. The team's three losses came in games against Harvard (29\u20130), national champion Yale (18\u20130), and Navy (11\u20137).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032719-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Army Cadets football team\nArmy end Walter Smith is recognized by the NCAA as a consensus first-team player on the 1900 College Football All-America Team, having received first-team honors from Caspar Whitney and third-team honors from Walter Camp. Tackle Edward Farnsworth also received third-team honors from Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032720-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Ashfield colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Ashfield on 10 November 1900 because Bernhard Wise (Protectionist) had been appointed to the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1900 Atlantic hurricane season featured the Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. A total of 10\u00a0tropical cyclones formed, 7\u00a0of which intensified into a tropical storm. Three of those made landfall in the United States. The first system was initially observed over the central Atlantic Ocean on January\u00a017, while the final storm transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on October\u00a028. These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic. Every storm of the season except the seventh system existed simultaneously with another tropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season\nOf the season's seven tropical storms, three reached hurricane status. Furthermore, two of those three strengthened into major hurricanes, which are Category\u00a03 or higher on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. The strongest cyclone of the season, the first hurricane, peaked at Category\u00a04 strength with maximum sustained winds of 145\u00a0mph (233\u00a0km/h). Upon striking Texas shortly after peak intensity, it produced a devastating storm surge in the Galveston area, with devastated city and caused at least 8,000\u00a0fatalities. Nicknamed the \"1900 Galveston hurricane\", it remains the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. The hurricane also caused about $35.4\u00a0million (1900\u00a0USD) in damage. Impact from other tropical cyclones was generally minor, though the remnants of Tropical Storm Five resulted in one death and at least $100,000 in damage in Atlantic Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 928]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nTropical cyclogenesis with the development of a tropical depression over the central Atlantic on January\u00a017. After the depression transitioned into an extratropical cyclone of the following day, the next system did not develop until June\u00a09, while just north of the Lesser Antilles. This coincided with the formation of a third tropical depression over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on the same day. The former moved generally north-northwestward for several days until becoming extratropical northeast of the Bahamas on June\u00a017, while the latter made landfall in southeastern Louisiana on June\u00a012, two days before dissipating over Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nHowever, the season's first such of at least tropical storm intensity did not develop until August\u00a027 while well west Cape Verde. This was abnormally late, as the average date of development of the first tropical storm between 1944 and 1996 was July\u00a011. In comparison, the latest date of the first tropical storm during the satellite era was Hurricane Anita on August\u00a029, 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0002-0002", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nHowever, this storm, the \"Galveston hurricane\", was the most intense tropical cyclone of the season, peaking as a Category\u00a04 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 145\u00a0mph (233\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 936\u00a0mbar (27.6\u00a0inHg). During the month of September, which is the climatological peak of hurricane season, three additional tropical cyclones formed, two of which were hurricanes. After the third hurricane dissipated on September\u00a023, activity went dormant for nearly two weeks, until the fifth tropical storm formed near the Lesser Antilles on October 4. As it was becoming extratropical, a sixth tropical cyclone developed in the Bay of Campeche on October\u00a010. The final system formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea, crossed Hispaniola, and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone between Bermuda and the East Coast of the United States on October\u00a028.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 923]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nBy far, the storm that caused the most devastation was Hurricane One, nicknamed the \"Galveston hurricane\". Its storm surge submerged much of Galveston Island in Texas, killing between 6,000 and 12,000\u00a0people. Official estimates put the death toll at approximately 8,000. As a result, it is currently the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. At the time, it was also the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin, behind only the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed at least 22,000\u00a0people in the Lesser Antilles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0003-0001", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nHowever, the Galveston hurricane was surpassed in 1998 by Hurricane Mitch, which caused more than 11,000\u00a0fatalities in Central America. The storm was also among the deadliest in Canada, where at least 102\u00a0people were killed. Few other tropical cyclones during the 1900\u00a0Atlantic hurricane season caused any damage or fatalities. However, the extratropical remnants of Tropical Storm Five brought moderate damage to Canada. The storm caused 1\u00a0fatality and about $100,000 in losses, mainly to railroads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 81. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nEarly on August\u00a027, a ship encountered the first tropical storm of the season, while located about 1,160\u00a0mi (1,865\u00a0km) east of the southernmost islands of Cape Verde. It slowly strengthened while moving steadily west-northwestward and entered the northeastern Caribbean on August\u00a030. The storm moved south of Puerto Rico and made landfall in Dominican Republic as a weak tropical storm on September\u00a02. It weakened slightly while crossing Hispaniola, before re-emerging into the Caribbean Sea later that day. On September\u00a03, the cyclone struck modern day Santiago de Cuba Province and then slowly drifted along the southern coast of Cuba. Upon reaching the Gulf of Mexico on September\u00a06, the storm strengthened into a hurricane, while situated near Dry Tortugas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nSignificant intensification followed and the system peaked as a Category\u00a04 hurricane with winds of 145\u00a0mph (233\u00a0km/h) on September\u00a08. Early on the next day, it made landfall near modern-day Jamaica Beach, Texas, with winds of 140\u00a0mph (225\u00a0km/h). Around that time, its minimum barometric pressure of 936\u00a0mbar (27.6\u00a0inHg) was observed. It weakened quickly after moving inland and fell to tropical storm intensity late on September\u00a09. The storm turned east-northeastward and became extratropical over Iowa on September\u00a011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nThe extratropical system strengthened while accelerating across the Midwestern United States, Ontario, Quebec, northern New England, and then New Brunswick before reaching the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on September\u00a013. Later that day, the extratropical remnants struck Newfoundland. It then reached the far North Atlantic Ocean and began to weaken, finally dissipating near Iceland on September\u00a015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nThe storm brought heavy rainfall to Cuba, with up to 12.58\u00a0in (320\u00a0mm) in a 24\u2011hour period in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Much of Florida experienced tropical storm force winds, though no damage occurred. Hurricane-force winds and storm surge inundated portions of southern Louisiana, though no significant damage or fatalities were reported. In Texas, strong winds were reported in the Galveston area, reaching 120\u00a0mph (190\u00a0km/h). Storm surge cresting between 8 and 15\u00a0ft (2.4 and 4.6\u00a0m) inundated the entirety of Galveston Island. Every house sustained damage, with at least 3,636\u00a0destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0007-0001", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nIn Galveston alone, approximately 10,000\u00a0were left homeless, out of a total population of 37,000. The actual death toll is unknown, though it is thought to be at least 8,000. Thus, the 1900\u00a0Galveston hurricane was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. Property damage from the storm in Galveston alone was estimated at $30\u00a0million. Farther north, the storm and its remnants continued to produce heavy rains and gusty winds across the Midwestern United States, Mid-Atlantic, and New England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0007-0002", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nThe storm downed telegraph wires, signs, and trees in several states and caused 15\u00a0deaths in Ohio; 6 in Wisconsin; 2 each in Illinois and New York; and 1 each in Massachusetts and Missouri. The remnants brought severe impact to Canada. In the province of Ontario, damage reached about $1.35\u00a0million, with about $1\u00a0million incurred to crops. There were at least 107\u00a0deaths in Canada, mostly due to sunken vessels near Newfoundland and the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nA ship reported strong gales in the vicinity of Cape Verde on September\u00a07. Thus, HURDAT indicates that the second tropical storm of the season formed early on September\u00a07, while located about 220\u00a0mi (355\u00a0km) west of the southernmost islands of Cape Verde. It quickly strengthened to a strong tropical storm on September\u00a08, but then maintained that intensity for nearly five days. The system was not tracked until being encountered by the steamship Hungaria on September\u00a013, at which time it was already a hurricane. Originally, the system was listed as Hurricane Four, it was operationally believed to have developed after the next two tropical cyclones. Later on September\u00a014, it strengthened further into a Category\u00a02 hurricane while moving northwestward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nRe -curving northward, the system intensified into a Category\u00a03 hurricane on September\u00a016. At 1800\u00a0UTC, the hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h). However, it weakened to a Category\u00a02 hurricane later on September\u00a017. Shortly thereafter, the storm bypassed southeast of Bermuda, bring gusty winds but little impact. It then re-curved northeastward. The system weakened back to a Category\u00a01 hurricane on September\u00a018. Later that day, it weakened to a tropical storm and then to a tropical depression early on September\u00a019. The storm persisted for several more hours, until dissipated about 390\u00a0mi (630\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nShip reports indicates that a tropical storm developed on September\u00a08 at 1200\u00a0UTC, while located about 175\u00a0mi (282\u00a0km) east of the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau. The storm gradually strengthened as it was heading west-northward. By late on September\u00a09, the system strengthened into a hurricane. It passed southwest of Cape Verde on the following day. The storm then intensified slowly, becoming a Category\u00a02 hurricane early on September\u00a012. Around that time, the hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). Later on September\u00a012, it re-curved north-northwestward. After turning north-northeast, the storm began executing a small cyclonic loop on September\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nA weakening trend soon occurred, with it weakening to a Category\u00a01 hurricane early on September\u00a015. About four days later, the hurricane completed its cyclonic loop and then headed west-northwestward. The system weakened to a tropical storm early on September\u00a020. During the next few days, the storm decelerated and turned westward. Late on September\u00a022, it weakened to a tropical depression. The depression continued westward, until dissipating at 1800\u00a0UTC on September\u00a023, while located about 745\u00a0mi (1,200\u00a0km) east-southeast of Bermuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four\nWeather maps first indicated a tropical storm over the northwestern Caribbean Sea on September\u00a011. Heading northwestward, the system brushed the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula as weak tropical storm. Late on September\u00a011, it peaked with maximum sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,005\u00a0mbar (29.7\u00a0inHg), while located in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Early on September\u00a013, the storm re-curved northeastward and began weakening. At 0600\u00a0UTC on September\u00a013, it made landfall near Venice, Louisiana, at the same intensity. The storm weakened slightly and briefly moved offshore, before making another landfall near Ocean Springs, Mississippi, with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four\nEarly on September\u00a014, the storm weakened to a tropical depression. It weakened slowly while moving northeastward across the Deep South, before dissipating near Athens, Georgia, on September\u00a015. Operationally, it was considered the third tropical cyclone of the season. A telegraph from the Weather Bureau headquarters in Washington, D.C. warned vessels to remain in port for portions of the Gulf Coast of the United States. Strong gales were experienced along the coast from eastern Louisiana to western Florida and severely disrupted telegraph services in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0013-0001", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four\nThe winds and tidal inundation exacerbated crop damage caused by an earlier storm along the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana. Growing rice was damaged in Cameron Parish but left unaffected in other parts of the state. The remnants brought heavy rains from Virginia to New England. Rough seas along the coast of New Jersey washed the schooner Willie ashore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nObservations from a ship indicate that the fifth tropical depression of the season developed at 0600\u00a0UTC on October\u00a04, while located about 230\u00a0mi (370\u00a0km) northeast of Anguilla. Initially, the system remained weak and failed to strengthen into a tropical storm until October\u00a07. It began to execute a cyclonic loop by early on the following day. Further intensification occurred and the storm peaked with winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) early on October\u00a09. Eventually, it accelerated north-northeastward and became extratropical early on October\u00a010. The remnants moved northward and eventually curved northeastward. Late on October\u00a011, the extratropical remnants struck Nova Scotia. It continued rapidly across Atlantic Canada and re-emerged into the Atlantic. By October\u00a014, the remnants dissipated near the southern tip of Greenland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nThe remnants of Tropical Storm Five brought severe impact to Canada. In Nova Scotia, 13\u00a0schooners were grounded, while 2\u00a0were destroyed. Strong winds downed telegraph wires in the eastern end of the province, while barns were de-roofed and trees were felled in Bayfield. High tides in New Brunswick inundated portions of Saint John, with some houses having up to 18\u00a0in (460\u00a0mm) of water. Other low-lying areas were flooded. Washouts disrupted the Canadian Pacific Railway service and swept away portions of the tracks. The cost to repairs the tracks was estimated at $100,000. There was also damage to highways and bridges. A child drowned after attempting to cross a swollen creek. On Prince Edward Island, winds damaged small buildings and knocked chimneys of some houses. Electrical wires were reported down in Charlottetown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nThe sixth tropical storm of the season developed in the Bay of Campeche on October\u00a010. Operationally, it was believed that the storm originated over eastern Cuba. Moving rapidly north-northeastward across the Gulf of Mexico, the storm peaked with maximum sustained winds of 45\u00a0mph (72\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,008\u00a0mbar (29.8\u00a0inHg) early on October\u00a011. The storm re-curved east-northeastward and made landfall near modern-day Horseshoe Beach, Florida, at the same intensity early the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nIt emerged into the Atlantic Ocean late on October\u00a012, shortly before becoming extratropical while located about 35\u00a0mi (55\u00a0km) east of Jekyll Island, Georgia. The remnants moved along the East Coast of the United States, striking the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Long Island in New York, and New England. It continued inland over Canada, until dissipating over Labrador on October\u00a015. Impact from the storm was generally minor. Rainfall and gusty winds were reported between Florida and the Carolinas. Further north, it brought brisk to strong winds to New Jersey and southern New England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven\nTelegraph reports indicate that a tropical depression developed in the eastern Caribbean Sea on October\u00a024. The depression moved northwestward without differentiating in intensity before making landfall near San Crist\u00f3bal, Dominican Republic, with winds of 35\u00a0mph (55\u00a0km/h). It did not weaken while crossing Hispaniola and instead strengthened into a tropical storm shortly after emerging into the Atlantic Ocean near the northwestern tip of Haiti. Late on October\u00a027, the storm re-curved north-northeastward and pass through the eastern Bahamas. Around that time, it peaked with maximum sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven\nEarly on October\u00a028, the storm accelerated and re-curved slightly to the northeast. At 0000\u00a0UTC on October\u00a029, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while located about 310\u00a0mi (500\u00a0km) northwest of Bermuda. The extratropical remnants persisted until dissipating later on October\u00a029. No impact was reported in either Dominican Republic or Haiti. Much of eastern Cuba reported light rains, particularly in the provinces of Camag\u00fcey and Santiago de Cuba. Strong winds were reported throughout the Bahamas, though no damage occurred. As far west as Jupiter, Florida, wind gusts reached 32\u00a0mph (51\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nA trough over the central Atlantic developed into a tropical depression on January\u00a017. The depression moved northeastward and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on January\u00a019 while being absorbed by a frontal system. Historical weather maps indicate that the next tropical depression formed over the Atlantic just north of the Lesser Antilles on June\u00a09. The depression may have intensified into a tropical storm on the following day, based on observations from a nearby ship. Continuing generally north-northwestward, the depression became extratropical after June\u00a017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032721-0020-0001", "contents": "1900 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nA third tropical depression also formed on June\u00a09 over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. The depression initially drifted northeastward and then doubled-back to the southwest. On June\u00a011, the system turned northwestward and made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, early the next day. The depression dissipated over Mississippi by June\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032722-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1900 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers' 9th overall season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach Walter H. Watkins, in his first year, and finished with a record of four wins and zero losses (4\u20130 overall, 4\u20130 in the SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032722-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Nashville\nAuburn opened the season against the University of Nashville, On a wet and heavy field, Auburn won 28\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032722-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nAuburn easily defeated the Alabama team 53\u20135. Auburn's Yarborough scored 3 touchdowns, once on a run of 75 yards. Noll scored twice, once on a run of 55 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032723-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Avenue of the Stars\n1900 Avenue of the Stars is a high-rise office building located in Century City, Los Angeles, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032723-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Avenue of the Stars, Location\nThe building is located at 1900 on the Avenue of the Stars in Century City in West Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032723-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Avenue of the Stars, History\nIt was designed by renowned architect Albert C. Martin, Jr. (1913\u20132006). Construction began in 1969 and was completed a year later, in 1970. It is 121.31 metres high, with twenty-seven floors. It is made of aluminum and tinted glass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032724-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Bathurst colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Bathurst on 25 June 1900 when Protectionist party member Francis Suttor was appointed to the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032724-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Bathurst colonial by-election, Results\nWilliam Young, while a member of the Protectionist party was also endorsed by the Labour party. Alfred Thompson, whilst a Free Trader, was nominated by the Ministerialist faction of Sir William Lyne's protectionist government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032725-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Baylor football team\nThe 1900 Baylor football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. This was the second football season for Baylor. Under head coach R. H. Hamilton, the team played all of its games at home in Waco, Texas, and finished the season undefeated at 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032726-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Belgian general election\nFull general elections were held in Belgium on 27 May 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032726-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Belgian general election\nThey were the first elections under a proportional system (using the D'Hondt method) instead of a majority system. This was an innovation in Europe, as Belgium became the first country to adopt proportional representation as basis of its electoral system. To make the system possible, smaller electoral districts (arrondissements) were grouped into a single electoral district (a group of arrondissements). The introduction of proportional representation was beneficial to the Liberal Party, which significantly increased its number of seats. The Liberal Party previously suffered losses after the introduction of universal suffrage in 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032726-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Belgian general election\nThe Catholic Party thus lost seats but retained its absolute majority, with 86 of the 152 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 44 of the 76 seats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032726-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Belgian general election, Constituencies\nThe distribution of seats among the electoral districts was as follows for the Chamber of Representatives. As the electoral system changed to a proportional one, the electoral arrondissements with only one or two representatives were grouped together to form larger ones. Each electoral district now had at least 3 representatives, with the exception of Neufch\u00e2teau-Virton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032727-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Beloit football team\nThe 1900 Beloit football team was an American football team that represented Beloit College in the 1900 college football season. In John W. Hollister's 5th year as head coach, Beloit compiled a 7\u20131\u20132 record, and outscored their opponents 253 to 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032728-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Birthday Honours\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours 1900 were announced on 23 May 1900 in celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032728-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Birthday Honours\nThe list was published in The Times on 23 May 1900 and on 24 May 1900 (Irish honours), and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 23 May 1900, on 1 June 1900 and on 8 June 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032728-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032728-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Birthday Honours, Peerages, Baron\nHer Majesty has also approved the grant to Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal of a new Patent, with remainder to his daughter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032729-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Blackpool by-election\nThe 1900 Blackpool by-election was held on 21 December 1900 after the incumbent Conservative MP Sir Matthew Ridley...... The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate Henry Worsley-Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032730-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1900 Boston Beaneaters season was the 30th season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032730-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032730-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032730-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032730-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032730-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032731-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Bourke colonial by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Bourke in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 6 September 1900 because of the resignation of William Davis (Protectionist), having been made bankrupt the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032732-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 British Columbia general election\nThe 1900 British Columbia general election was held in 1900. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 24, 1900, and held on June 9, 1900. The new legislature met for the first time on July 19, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032732-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 British Columbia general election\nThis was the last election in which political parties were not part of the official process in British Columbia, although because of the political chaos in this year resulting from the joint misrule of Premier Joseph Martin and the Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas Robert McInnes, many individual candidates declared their party affiliations in many ridings as a protest against the non-party system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032732-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 British Columbia general election\nFor more on the political circumstances of this election, please see 1898 British Columbia general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032733-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1900 Brooklyn Superbas captured their second consecutive National League championship by four and a half games. The Baltimore Orioles, which had been owned by the same group, folded after the 1899 season when such arrangements were outlawed, and a number of the Orioles' players, including star pitcher Joe McGinnity, were reassigned to the Superbas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032733-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032733-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032733-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032733-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032733-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Brooklyn Superbas season, Postseason, Chronicle-Telegraph Cup\nThe Chronicle-Telegraph Cup was held just once, in 1900, and was sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, a newspaper in the hometown of the National League's second-place finisher, the Pittsburgh Pirates. It pitted the Pirates against the Superbas in a best-of-five postseason series, with all the games taking place in Pittsburgh. The Superbas won the series, 3 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032734-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1900 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032735-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Buchtel football team\nThe 1900 Buchtel football team represented Buchtel College in the 1900 college football season. The team did not have a coach; their captains were Edson Robinson and Hugh Price. Buchtel was outscored by their opponents by a total of 55\u201366.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032736-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Building\nThe 1900 Building is a historic U.S. building located at 1900 South Harbor City Boulevard, Melbourne, Florida. This three story building was constructed in 1924 and originally opened as the Melbourne Hotel. The building housed several businesses through the years, including a bank, specialty stores and professional offices. The building has seen significant architectural changes over the years, with the reconstruction of the corner tower, elimination of the original windows, reconstruction of the covered walkways, and elimination of the dome atop the tower. The building received its current name from its address -- \"1900\" South Harbour City Boulevard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season\nThe 1900 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the second season of the league. Teams played an eight-game schedule. Again, the Montreal Shamrocks were the league champion with a record of seven wins and one loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nMcGill University applied to join the league but was turned down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nThe use of netting for the goal was demonstrated with a model produced by Frank Stocking, goaltender of the Quebec club at the annual meeting. After an exhibition game between the Shamrocks and Victorias, the use of goal nets was approved for league play, and used for the season. The netting connected the two upright posts, but there was no crossbar across the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nThe use of hockey gloves was quite common and shin guards were now mostly in use inside the stockings though some players still used the old style outside the stockings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, Season\nStar rover Graham Drinkwater retired from the Victorias before the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe Shamrocks won the championship losing only one game, and that, after the league championship was decided. This was the second year in a row for the Shamrocks, who were a mediocre team before this stretch of success and would return to it the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Shamrocks vs. Winnipeg\nThe MHA's Winnipeg Victorias issued another challenge for the Cup. This time, a best-of-three series was played against the defending champion Montreal Shamrocks. Winnipeg won the first game, 4\u20133, but Montreal prevailed in the next two games, 3\u20132 and 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Shamrocks vs. Halifax\nIn March, the Shamrocks then received another challenge for the Cup. However, the Halifax Crescents of the Halifax City Hockey League did not pose much of a threat as Montreal crushed them, 10\u20132 and 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032737-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 CAHL season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032738-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 CCNY Lavender football team\nThe 1900 CCNY Lavender football team represented the City College of New York during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032739-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1900 Calgary municipal election took place on December 10, 1900 to elect a Mayor and nine Aldermen to sit on the seventeenth Calgary City Council from January 7, 1901 to January 6, 1902. The election for Mayor was very close, with the Calgary Herald reporting James Stuart Mackie defeating his opponent Silas Alexander Ramsay by a single vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032740-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1900 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1900 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Addison Kelly and compiled a record of 4\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032741-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Canadian federal election\nThe 1900 Canadian federal election was held on November 7, 1900 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 9th Parliament of Canada. As a result of the election, the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, was re-elected to a second majority government, defeating the Conservative Party and Liberal-Conservatives led by Charles Tupper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032741-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Canadian federal election, National results\n* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032741-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Canadian federal election, National results\nx - indicates less than 0.005% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032741-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Canadian federal election, National results\n1 Ralph Smith is reported to have run as an Independent Labour candidate in Vancouver. He was elected defeating both a Liberal and Conservative, but immediately joined the Liberal Party caucus when he took his seat in the House of Commons. Some records suggest that he ran as a Liberal in 1900. He was subsequently re-elected as a \"Liberal\" in 1904 and 1908, and was defeated in 1911. He is listed in these tables as having been elected as a Liberal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032741-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Canadian federal election, National results\n2 Arthur Puttee of Winnipeg was elected as a Labour candidate in a 1900 by-election, and was re-elected as an Independent Labour MP in the subsequent 1900 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032741-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Canadian federal election, Results by province\nxx - indicates less than 0.05% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032742-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1900 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1900 college football season. The Indians were coached by Pop Warner in his second year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 6\u20134\u20131 and outscored opponents 207 to 92.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032742-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Carlisle Indians football team\nCarlisle defeated Southern champion Virginia. In that game Virginia's Bradley Walker once grabbed Hawley Pierce, Carlisle's biggest player, and carried him ten yards with him dangling over his shoulder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032743-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1900 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1900 college football season. They only played one game, a 20\u20135 win against Cadillac High School. Their head coach was unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032744-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Centre football team\nThe 1900 Centre football team represented Centre College in the 1900 college football season. Centre finished its season with a record of 4\u20131\u20131 and outscored their opponents 54\u201317. Their first game, scheduled against Cincinnati, was cancelled after fifteen minutes of play due to lightning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup\nThe 1900 Challenge Cup was the 4th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Swinton and Salford at Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester on Saturday 28 April 1900. Swinton won 16\u20138 in front of a crowd of 17,864. The cup was presented by Mrs Smith, wife of the President of the Northern Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup, First round\nThe 30 ties of the first round were all played on Saturday 17 March 1900. 64 teams had been in the draw but Holbeck and Bramley received byes as their opponents, Whitehaven Town and Rothwell respectively withdrew from the competition before the games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup, First round\nThe two drawn matches were replayed on Tuesday 20 March; Batley beat Castleford 5\u20130 and Oldham beat Manningham 18\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup, Second round\nThe second-round games were played on Saturday 24 March 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup, Third round\nThe third round matches were played on Saturday 31 March 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup, Third round\nThe Widnes v Bramley tie was replayed on Tuesday 3 April with Widnes winning 8\u20130. Runcorn and Bradford replayed their game the following evening and drew again, this time 3\u20133. With the quarter-finals to be played on the following Saturday, the two clubs had to play a second replay on the following, Thursday, evening. In this third meeting Runcorn came out on top 6\u20132 in a match played on neutral ground at Broughton Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup, Quarter-finals\nSaturday 7 April 1900 saw the four quarter final games played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032745-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Challenge Cup, Quarter-finals\nLeeds parish Church and Runcorn replayed the match on 11 April and Leeds Parish Church won 8\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032746-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1900 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1900 Western Conference football season. In their ninth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 9\u20135\u20131 record, finished in sixth place in the Western Conference with a 2\u20133\u20131 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 204 to 135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032747-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Chicago Orphans season\nThe 1900 Chicago Orphans season was the 29th season of the Chicago Orphans franchise, the 25th in the National League and the 8th at West Side Park. The Orphans tied with the St. Louis Cardinals for fifth in the National League with a record of 65\u201375.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032747-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032747-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032747-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032747-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032748-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1900 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team was an American football team that represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago in the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1900 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished seventh in the National League with a record of 62\u201377, 21.5 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nAfter a disappointing sixth-place finish in 1899, the Reds began to rebuild for the future in 1900. Manager Buck Ewing was replaced after leading the Reds for five seasons, in which the team had a 394\u2013297 record. However, they never finished above third place in the National League during Ewing's tenure. The team named Bob Allen as manager. Allen was a player-manager for the Philadelphia Phillies for their last thirty-five games in 1890, in which the team went 25\u201310. He last played in the National League in 1897 with the Boston Beaneaters, and played for the Phillies between 1890\u20131894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nDuring the off-season, the Reds' longtime second baseman, Bid McPhee, retired from playing. McPhee played with the Reds since their inception in 1882, and in his hall of fame career, he batted .272 with 53 home runs and 1072 RBI while scoring 1684 runs with 2258 hits. McPhee led the American Association in home runs in 1886 with eight, and in triples in 1887 with nineteen. To replace McPhee, the Reds moved third baseman Harry Steinfeldt over to second before they acquired Joe Quinn in the early part of the 1900 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe team acquired pitchers Ed Scott and Doc Newton from the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the Western League. Neither the 29-year-old Scott nor the 22-year-old Newton had any major league experience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOffensively, Jake Beckley once again proved to be the leader, as he hit a team high .341 with two home runs and 94 RBI. Jimmy Barrett had a breakout season, batting .316 with five home runs and 42 RBI, while having the team lead in runs with 114 and stolen bases with 44. Sam Crawford, in his first season as a regular, hit .260 with a team high seven home runs and drove in 59 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nScott led the pitching staff with 17 wins, 31 complete games and 315 innings pitched in 42 games. Noodles Hahn finished just behind Scott in wins with 16, while he had a team best 3.20 ERA in 39 games. Hahn led the league with four shutouts, and 132 strikeouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Reds started off the year on a good note, going 6\u20133 in their first nine games to sit in a first place tie with the Philadelphia Phillies. That would be the high point of the season, as Cincinnati would eventually going into a 3\u201318 slump to completely fall out of the pennant race and well below the .500 level. Wins would be scarce for the Reds, as they finished the year with a 62\u201377 record, which placed them in seventh place in the eight team National League, 21.5 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nOn July 5\u20136, 1900, the Reds only had one hit each in consecutive games at League Park against the Superbas. Jerry Nops threw the one-hitter on July 5, while Frank Kitson tossed the second one-hitter the next day. The Reds would not endure such a feat until April 25\u201326, 2013 against the Washington Nationals. On July 12, Hahn threw a no-hitter against the Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032749-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032750-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1900 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In their second season under head coach Daniel A. Reed, the Bearcats compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record. Burt Charles was the team captain. The team played its home games at Union Ball Park in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032751-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 City of Auckland by-election\nThe City of Auckland by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of City of Auckland, an urban seat in the Auckland region, in the upper North Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032751-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 City of Auckland by-election, Summary\nThe by-election was held on 27 April 1900, and was precipitated by the death of sitting MP William Crowther. The seat was won by Liberal candidate Joseph Witheford who defeated four other candidates including Prime Minister Richard Seddon's personally endorsed candidate, the former Mayor of Auckland James Job Holland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1900 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College in the sport of American football during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Under first year head coach John Heisman, the team posted a 6\u20130 record and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe Tigers outscored their opponents 222\u201310; the 64\u20130 win over Davidson on opening day was then the largest score ever made in the South and the season's only home game. The only close game was with the South Atlantic school VPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Before the season\nWalter Riggs led the effort to raise the $415.11 to hire Auburn's football coach John Heisman, the first Clemson coach who had experience coaching at another school. As Riggs recalled, \"By 1899 the Clemson football team had risen steadily until its material was equal to that of any southern college, and the time had come to put on the long-planned finishing touch.\" Heisman once described his style of play at Clemson as \"radically different from anything on earth\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Before the season\nThe team took the field in jerseys and stockings bearing distinctive orange and purple stripes. Norman Walker was team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Davidson\nClemson opened the season at home in Calhoun on October 19, winning over Davidson 64\u20130, then the largest score ever made in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Wofford\nThe Tigers beat Wofford 21\u20130 on October 22. Clemson agreed that every point scored after the first four touchdowns would not count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, South Carolina\nGoing into the South Carolina game, Clemson had been strong on offense, but weak on defense. Kinsler and Douthit were both injured. The Tigers rolled up a 51\u20130 score on South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia\nBefore the game with Georgia, students in the dorms barraged Clemson players with bits of coal. Clemson went on to beat the Bulldogs for the first time, pulling away in the second half to overwhelm the Bulldogs 39\u20135, and achieve the season's first great victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia\nThe starting lineup was Bellows (left end), Dickerson (left tackle), George (left guard) Kinsley (center), Woodward (right guard), Walker (right tackle), Lynah (right end), Lewis (quarterback), Forsyth (left halfback), Hunt (right halfback), Douthit (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, V. P. I.\nIn Charlotte, Clemson beat VPI 12\u20135 in the first-ever meeting between the two schools. The game was shortened due to darkness. Hunter Carpenter starred for VPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nThe season closed on Thanksgiving against the Alabama Crimson White, Clemson's first meeting with Alabama, at Birmingham's North Birmingham Park. The Tigers won 35\u20130. Clemson back Claude Douthit scored four touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nAfter the Tigers forced an Alabama punt to open the game, Douthit scored three consecutive touchdowns for Clemson en route to an 18\u20130 lead. Douthit scored first on a 5-yard run, next on a short reception and finally on a second short touchdown run. M. N. Hunter then scored for Clemson on a long run just before the break and made the halftime score 23\u20130. In the second half, the Tigers extended their lead to 35\u20130 behind a long Jim Lynah touchdown run and Douthit's fourth score of the day on a short run. With approximately four minutes left in the game, both team captains agreed to end the game early due to an unruly crowd and impending darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason\nThe Tigers ended the season with the outright SIAA title. It was both Clemson and Heisman's first conference championship and undefeated, untied season. The season saw \"the rise of Clemson from a little school whose football teams had never been heard of before, to become a football machine of the very first power.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032752-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Clemson Tigers football team, Players, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Clemson's lineup during the 1900 season. The chart mimics the offense in a T formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032753-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Colgate football team\nThe 1900 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1900 college football season. Colgate reports the record for the season as 3\u20137, however, a reporting error in early record keeping mistakenly tracked a loss to Colgate Academy as a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032754-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1900 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various individuals who chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1900 college football season. The only two individuals who have been recognized as \"official\" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1900 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team eleven years earlier in 1889. Camp's 1900 All-America Team was published in Collier's Weekly, and Whitney's selections were published in Outing magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032754-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans\nIn its official listing of \"Consensus All-America Selections,\" the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as \"consensus\" All-Americans. Using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 15 players as \"consensus\" All-American for the 1900 football season. The consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below (\"All-American selections for 1900\") and include the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032754-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-America Team, Concerns of Eastern bias\nThe All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East and the Ivy League in particular. In 1900, all 15 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, and 13 of 15 played in the Ivy League. The Yale Bulldogs (Camp's alma mater) had seven players who were designated as consensus All-Americans. The only two consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were Walter Smith of Army and Walter E. Bachman of Lafayette College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032754-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-America Team, Concerns of Eastern bias\nThe dominance of Eastern players led to criticism over the years that the All-America selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Notre Dame. No players from western schools received first-team or second-team All-American honors in 1900. Two western players were selected by Camp for his third team: Page, a fullback for Minnesota; and Clyde Williams, a quarterback for Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032754-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-America Team, Unofficial selectors\nIn addition to Camp and Whitney, other sports writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1900, though such lists have not been recognized as \"official\" All-America selections by the NCAA. The list below includes the All-America selections made by Charles Sargent for Leslie's Weekly and George W. Orton for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Only four players were unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, Sargent, and Orton. They were James Bloomer, Gordon Brown, Truxton Hare, and end John Hallowell of Harvard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032755-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1900 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1900. Clemson won the SIAA championship. Most said Virginia ranked best in the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032755-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-Southern Team\nCaspar Whitney, the originator of the concept of the All-America team, selected an All-Southern eleven for Outing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032755-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nO = selected by Caspar Whitney in Outing. Whitney ruled Walker, Nalle, and Devlin ineligible", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032755-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWH = selected by W. H. Hoge. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S. He picked \"Walker\" of Sewanee as a sub back, but must have meant Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032756-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1900 college football season. In their first season under head coach George Toomey, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20133 record and were outscored by a total of 109 to 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032757-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1900 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1900 college football season. Head coach Theron W. Mortimer replaced Fred Folsom, who returned the following season. The team posted a mark of 6\u20134 overall overall and 1\u20132 in the CFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032758-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Colorado gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Democratic nominee James Bradley Orman defeated Republican nominee Frank C. Goudy with 53.78% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032759-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe 1900 Columbia Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its second season under head coach George Sanford, the team compiled a 7\u20133\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 124 to 77, including six shutouts. Bill Morley was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032759-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Columbia Blue and White football team\nColumbia's sports teams were commonly called the \"Blue and White\" in this era, but had no official nickname. The name \"Lions\" would not be adopted until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032759-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe team played its home games at Columbia Field in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032760-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1900 college football season. This was the fifth year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by second year head coach T. D. Knowles, and completed the season with a record of 4\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032761-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Connecticut gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Republican nominee George P. McLean defeated Democratic nominee S. L. Bronson with 53.02% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032762-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1900 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 14th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032762-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 20 January 1901, Fermoy won the championship following a 1-09 to 1-06 defeat of Kinsale in the final at Turners Cross. This was their fourth championship title overall while they also became the first team to win three successive titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032763-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1900 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 14th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 20 May 1900. The championship began on 1 July 1900 and ended on 24 March 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032763-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nSt. Finbarr\u2019s were the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Dungourney in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032763-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 24 March 1901, Redmonds won the championship following a 1-09 to 2-03 defeat of Dungourney in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first in eight championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032764-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1900 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1900 college football season. In their second season under head coach Percy Haughton, the Big Red compiled a 10\u20132 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 167 to 55. Two Cornell players received honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team: fullback Raymond Starbuck (Caspar Whitney-1); and tackle Edward R. Alexander (Walter Camp-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032765-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 County Championship\nThe 1900 County Championship was the eleventh officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 7 May to 1 September 1900. Yorkshire County Cricket Club won their fourth championship title, remaining unbeaten throughout the season. Lancashire finished as runners-up, their best position since winning the Championship in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032766-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban Constitutional Assembly election\nConstitutional Assembly elections were held in Cuba on 15 September 1900. The result was a victory for the Republican\u2013Democratic Coalition (an alliance of the Republican Party and Democratic Union Party), which won 18 of the 31 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections\nMunicipal elections were held in Cuba on June 16, 1900. The elections were held under the auspices of the U.S. Military Government with a system of restricted suffrage. 7% of the Cuban population took part in the polls, which saw some important victories for pro-independence sectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Military Order No. 164\nThe elections for posts for municipal mayors, treasurers and judges were convened by the U.S. Military Government in Cuba, through the Military Order No. 164, issued on April 18, 1900. According to the Military Order, elections were to be held on June 16, 1900 and the elected officials would take office on July 1, 1900. The elected officials would hold office for one year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Military Order No. 164\nCandidates for mayoral seats had to present themselves to the de facto mayors named by the Military Government, and provide a register of signatures of between 250-500 voters (depending on the size of the municipality) from the town in support of the candidature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Military Order No. 164\nThe Military Order also specified that Scrutinizing Centres (Juntas Escrutinadoras) would be formed across the island, with the task of appointing voters eligible to take part in the elections as well as to supervising the counting of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Electorate\nOut of a population of 1,572,797, a total of 150,648 were given voting rights. 110,816 of those eligible took part in the elections. Voting was completely restricted to males. Furthermore, the voter had to be Cuban-born, the son of Cuban-born whilst their parents were temporarily abroad, or a former Spaniard who had renounced his citizenship. The minimum age for eligible voters was 20. They had to be resident in the municipality where they intended to vote for at least thirty days ahead of registration on the electoral roll, as well as being free of felony convictions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Electorate\nMoreover, they had to be literate and own property worth at least US$250. However, the U.S. military governor, Leonard Wood, was wary of the risk of dissent from Cuban ex-army men, and the literacy requirement was waived for soldiers and ex-soldiers. The property prerequisite was also waived for soldiers of the Liberation Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Electorate\nBy not adopting universal suffrage, the U.S. administration hoped to secure a victory for pro-American conservative forces. The decision to implement limited suffrage had been taken in Washington months before the polls. In the American political debate, it was often argued that the Cuban masses were illiterate and unsuited to have a say in politics. General James H. Wilson rebuffed Cuban demands for universal suffrage as 'rot'. Furthermore, he stated that \"[s]uffrage, like any other privilege of citizenship, should be based upon qualifications and its exercise not permitted merely because one happens to belong to the male species.\" The U.S. Secretary of War Elihu Root thought that limited suffrage would be useful to ensure that Cuba would not fall into \"perpetual revolutions\" and instead would provide a stable conservative leadership for \"control of Cubans by Cubans\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Campaigning\nThe electoral process was marred by irregularities. In the province of Las Villas, there was a campaign of violent intimidation carried out by the party of the provincial governor Jos\u00e9 Miguel G\u00f3mez, the Federal Republican Party of Las Villas. The campaign successfully forced all potential competitors away from the polls, and the party won the election in the province by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Campaigning\nDuring the entire first half of 1900, Military Governor Wood himself worked behind the scenes for the sake of supporting pro-American conservative sectors, trying to cobble together viable conservative electoral coalitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Results\nIn many parts of the islands the elections were a success for the independentista Cuban National Party, much to the dismay of the U.S. administration. In Havana, the Cuban National Party candidate Alejandro Rodr\u00edguez won with 12,027 votes. The electoral victories of the independentista sector emboldened pro-independence Cubans to exert more pressure on the Americans, for example through raising demands for speedy implementation of the Joint Resolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Results\nIn Santiago de Cuba, the Republican candidate T\u00f3mas Padr\u00f3 Gri\u00f1\u00e1n was elected. In Matanzas, the elections were won by Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Results\nThe manning of polling stations and counting of votes were done by Cubans, and U.S. soldiers were not present at the polling stations. However, after the elections the elected mayor had to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Military Government before taking office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Aftermath\nAfter the holding of the municipal polls, the military government issued another military order on July 25, 1900, convening elections to a Constituent Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032767-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Cuban local elections, Aftermath\nLess than a year later, on June 1, 1901, fresh local elections were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032768-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Danish local elections\nThe Danish regional elections of 1900 were held in December of that year. A total of 435 municipal council members were elected. In addition, 1,817 members of various parish (Danish, sogn) councils (Danish, sogner\u00e5d) were selected by the middle class, and 2,535 parish council members by the upper class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032769-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1900 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Frederick E. Jennings, the team compiled a 2\u20134\u20132 record and was outscored by a total of 68 to 38. Frank Lowe was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032770-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Delaware gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Though Governor Ebe W. Tunnell was eligible for re-election under the newly adopted 1897 constitution, the state convention ended up nominating Peter J. Ford, a prominent businessman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032770-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Delaware gubernatorial election\nOn the Republican side, the split from four years earlier threatened to divide the party once again. The Addicks and anti-Addicks Republicans nominated separate candidates for Governor. The anti-Addicks (or \"Regular Republicans\") nominated attorney Martin B. Burris, while the Addicks (or \"Union Republicans\") nominated Dr. George W. Marshall. Both factions, however, nominated John Hunn for Lieutenant Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032770-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Delaware gubernatorial election\nThough initial negotiations between the factions failed to produce a reconciliation, a tentative agreement developed to form a joint ticket, adopting Hunn as a compromise for Governor splitting nominations for statewide offices among the two factions. Ultimately, the parties came to an agreement, and a joint ticket was nominated for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032770-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Delaware gubernatorial election\nIn the general election, Hunn ended up defeating Ford by a decisive margin, reclaiming the governorship for the Republican Party. Republicans would end up holding onto the office until 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention\nThe 1900 Democratic National Convention was a United States presidential nominating convention that took place the week of July 4, 1900, at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention\nThe convention nominated William Jennings Bryan for president and former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for vice president. The ticket was to lose the general election to the Republican ticket of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention, Presidential nomination, Declined\nBryan had little opposition for the nomination after Spanish\u2013American War hero Admiral George Dewey dropped out in May after being quoted in newspapers that he thought the President's job would be easy, because the president merely followed the orders of Congress to enforce laws. Bryan's strongest opposition at the convention came from Richard Croker of New York's Tammany Hall. Bryan was also nominated by a branch of the Populist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention, Presidential nomination, Declined\nThe 1900 Democratic National Convention was the first time a woman served as a delegate to a major party convention. Elizabeth M. Cohen of Salt Lake City, Utah, became a delegate when one of the Utah delegates could not serve, and she seconded the nomination of William Jennings Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention, Presidential nomination, Declined\nThe convention marked the first time that a member of royalty attended a U.S. national nominating convention as a delegate. David Kawananakoa, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii, represented the newest United States territory. Prince David was to break a tie about inserting a free silver plank into the convention platform. The Democrats included planks in the platform denouncing Republican imperialism and expansion, as had been demonstrated in the Spanish\u2013American War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention, Presidential nomination, Declined\nKansas City had the convention thanks to its new Convention Hall, which opened on February 22, 1899. The hall was destroyed in a fire on April 4, 1900, but was rebuilt in 90 days in time for the convention. Harry S. Truman served as a page at the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential candidates\nAt the start of the convention, former Representative Charles A. Towne of Minnesota was considered the favorite for the vice presidential nomination, as both the Populists and the Silver Republican Party backed Towne. Other names mentioned as possible candidates included former New York Senator David B. Hill, former New York Senator Edward Murphy Jr. and John W. Keller, New York City's Commissioner of Public Charities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032771-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential candidates\nSeven names were placed in nomination: Adlai Stevenson, David B. Hill, Charles A. Towne, Abraham W. Patrick, Julian S. Carr, John W. Smith, and J. Hamilton Lewis. Former Representative Lewis thanked the convention for its generosity but did not wish to be considered for the vice presidency. Governor Smith declined to allow the use of his name, and it was withdrawn before the result was announced. Former Senator Hill was opposed to including a pro-silver plank in the party platform, so he spoke against his own nomination and declared that he would not take it if offered. Former Vice President Stevenson won the nomination with the help of Bryanites who wanted to keep Hill off of the ticket. The choice of Stevenson alienated the Populists and Silver Republicans, who had planned to nominate the Democratic ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032772-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1900 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its first season under head coach John C. Mackey, the team compiled a 3\u20132 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 71 to 23. Five of the team's opponents were high schools. The only intercollegiate game was an 11-0 victory over Loyola University Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032773-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 1900 Detroit Tigers season was the Tigers' first in the American League, which received recognition as a major league one year later in 1901. The Tigers finished in fourth place out of eight teams with a record of 71\u201367, 12-1/2 games behind Charles Comiskey's Chicago White Stockings. Detroit's home games were played at Bennett Park. George Stallings was the manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032773-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Detroit Tigers season\nOutfielder Dick Harley led the team with a .325 batting average, 77 runs scored, and 47 stolen bases. Sport McAllister led in slugging percentage (.383), and Frank Dillon led in extra-base hits (30).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032773-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Detroit Tigers season\nRoscoe Miller led the team with a 19-9 win-loss record for a .679 win percentage. Jack Cronin led in innings pitched (372) and strikeouts (121).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032773-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Detroit Tigers season\nAfter the 1900 season, the Detroit Free Press wrote that not since the 1887 Detroit Wolverines won the National League championship had baseball been as \"liberally supported\" in Detroit, and the club's gate receipts had been \"a source of envy to other magnates in the league.\" The paper noted that owners James D. Burns and George Stallings had spent large sums of money for \"releases of star players\" and had paid \"major league salaries\" to the majority of the players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032773-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Detroit Tigers season, Players, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; R = Runs scored; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032773-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Detroit Tigers season, Players, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032774-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Dickinson football team\nThe 1900 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team compiled a 5\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 119 to 83. Sam Boyle was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032775-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1900 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Best, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 129 to 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032776-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1900 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute\u2014now known as Drexel University\u2013as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election\nThe Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election of 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held in Scotland in May 1900 for the House of Commons constituency of Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election\nAs a university constituency, the constituency had no geographical basis. Instead, its electorate consisted of the graduates of Edinburgh University and St Andrews University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was held to fill the vacancy caused by the death on 11 April 1900 of 70-year-old Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir William Overend Priestley. An eminent obstetrician, Priestley had held the seat since a by-election in May 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative Party selected as its candidate the 65-year-old Sir John Batty Tuke. He was a Yorkshire-born, Edinburgh-educated, pioneering psychiatrist based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, who had been knighted in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election, Candidates\nNomination day was set as Thursday 3 May, but the seat had last been contested at the 1885 general election. The Conservatives did not expect a contest in the by-election, and speculation that the novelist J. M. Barrie would stand as a Liberal Party candidate ended on 30 April when Barrie sent a telegram declining nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election, Result\nThe nomination process was held in the Senate Hall of the University of Edinburgh on 3 May 1900, where the Principal Sir William Muir presided over a gathering of only about 20 people. Tuke was nominated by Professor Thomas Annandale of Edinburgh, and seconded by Professor Scott Lang of the University of St Andrews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election, Result\nNo other candidate was nominated, so Tuke was declared elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 62], "content_span": [63, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032777-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities by-election, Aftermath\nTuke was re-elected unopposed at general election in September/October 1900. At the 1906 general election, he was re-elected in a two-way contest with John Strachey (journalist), a Free Trader. He stood down at the January 1910 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 65], "content_span": [66, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032778-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1900 municipal election was held December 10, 1900 for the purpose of electing a mayor and three aldermen to sit on the Edmonton Town Council, as well as five public school trustees and four separate school trustees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032778-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Edmonton municipal election\nThere were six aldermanic positions on the council at the time, but three of them were already filled. Robert Lee and Alfred Brown had both been elected for a two-year term in 1899, and were still in office. Colin Strang had also been elected for a two-year term, but had resigned; James Blowey had been appointed by council to fill his seat, and he was still in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032778-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\n212 voters voted out of 400 eligible voters, for a turnout of 53.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032778-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Aldermen\nVote totals defeated candidates for this election are no longer available. (Vote count exceeded number of voters who voted because each voter could cast up to three votes under the Block Voting system.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032778-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nThomas Bellamy, Matthew McCauley, William Short, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032778-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nNicolas Dubois Dominic Beck, Joseph Henri Picard, Antonio Prince, and Georges Roy were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning\nIn 1900, more than 6,000 people in England were poisoned by arsenic-tainted beer, with more than 70 of the afflicted dying as a result. The food safety crisis was caused by arsenic entering the supply chain through impure sugar which had been made with contaminated sulphuric acid. The illness was prevalent across the Midlands and North West England, with Manchester being the most heavily affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning\nOriginally misdiagnosed as alcoholic neuropathy, the main epidemic was only recognised after several months. Additionally, investigation into the outbreak found other sources of arsenic in beer, which had been unknowingly poisoning thousands in decades preceding the outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Misdiagnosis and investigation\nThis mass poisoning is unusual in that it was not noticed for four months. The doctors, seeing patients who were usually heavy drinkers and who showed muscle weakness and numbness of the hands or feet, initially thought that the patients were suffering from \"alcoholic neuritis\". Nevertheless, a marked increase in the number of cases was noted, with 41 people succumbing to peripheral neuritis, multiple neuritis or alcoholic neuritis and 66 people perishing from alcoholism in the four months of the outbreak, while the previous seven months revealed only 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Misdiagnosis and investigation\nThese cases of neuritis were eventually connected to cases of skin discolouration previously thought to be unrelated. Ernest Reynolds, the doctor responsible for making the connection, also noted that only one substance would cause these symptoms: arsenic. He also noted that heavy drinkers who drank mainly spirits seemed less affected than beer drinkers. He gathered samples for analysis from the taverns frequented by his patients, which confirmed the presence of arsenic in the beer they consumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Source of the poisoning\nOnce the breweries affected were identified, investigation as to where the arsenic came from were instituted. It was found that the arsenic was present in invert sugar provided to the breweries by Bostock & Co. of Garston. To lower costs in the tight-margin English beer market, some breweries substituted high-quality barley malt with low-quality barley malt supplemented with sugar. This practice was somewhat controversial; as part of the Pure Beer movement, an inquiry on the use of brewing substitutes had been called. This inquiry, starting in 1896 and ending in 1899, had concluded that brewing substitutes were not \"deleterious materials\" under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act 1875 and that further legislation was not required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Source of the poisoning\nThis sugar was made by acid hydrolysis of starch, where starch is heated in the presence of an acid to form glucose. Such a method was not new, and had been employed commercially since at least 1814. Bostock & Co. used sulphuric acid to perform the acid hydrolysis. This acid, purchased from Nicholson & Sons, was made from pyrites which contained arsenic, which remained in the final product.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Source of the poisoning\nJohn Nicholson & Sons, of Leeds, had provided sulphuric acid to Bostock & Co. since 1888. For most of the length of the business relationship, the acid provided was free from arsenic. However, in March 1900, Nicholson started supplying unpurified sulphuric acid containing arsenic. This practice continued until November 1900, when the acid was found to be the cause of the outbreak. Nicholson claimed that they did not know the nature of Bostock's use of the acid, and that they could have provided arsenic-free acid if requested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Source of the poisoning, Alternate sources of arsenic in beer\nOnce the main source of the outbreak had been identified as arsenic poisoning, further investigation into arsenic contamination of beer was undertaken. Eventually, it was found that arsenic was also introduced into beer by the malted barley. In the kilning stage of malting, the barley humidity content is reduced by drying the grain with the hot vapours of a fire, usually fuelled by coke or coal. It was found that when arsenic is present in the fuel, it could then be deposited upon the barley before steeping, and therefore would be present in the final product. Investigation into the outbreak uncovered that most cases of alcoholic neuropathy endemic to Manchester were, in fact, misdiagnosed arsenic poisoning, with this alternate route being responsible for the poisoning of thousands in the years preceding the outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 90], "content_span": [91, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Source of the poisoning, Alternate sources of arsenic in beer, Halifax 1902 beer poisoning\nSuch contamination was tied to an outbreak in the borough of Halifax in January and February 1902 where 13 to 14 cases of arsenic poisoning were noted, three deadly. The moment of the beer's contamination was the malt was dried over a non-sequestered gas coke fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 119], "content_span": [120, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Reaction\nAfter the cause of the poisoning was reported by the media, a considerable reduction in beer consumption was noted in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Reaction\nThe response from the brewing industry was mixed. There was a strong, immediate reaction from some breweries, led by the large Manchester brewery Groves and Whitnall, who went as far as sending out telegrams to all the taverns and inns that had purchased their beer. Breweries disposed of thousands of barrels of beer by dumping them in the city's sewers. Other breweries were slower to respond, with fines being handed out to breweries whose beer samples could still be purchased by investigators. Additionally, one pub was fined for selling contaminated beer after they were notified of the presence of arsenic by the manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Reaction\nIn Lancashire, 23 taverns and pubs were prosecuted for violations under section 6 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act 1875.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Reaction\nBostock & Co. went into liquidation, and sued Nicholson & Sons for damages, for breach of an implied condition under the Sale of Goods Act 1893. The case was heard by Mr Justice Bruce in the High Court: the judge awarded Bostock the price of the contaminated acid and the value of their spoiled products, but no special damages for the loss of goodwill or for the damages claimed by the brewers, incurred by using the contaminated product in their sugar's manufacture. Nicholson & Sons survived, and was later acquired by B. Laporte, now Laporte plc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Reaction\nThe poisoning resulted in the appointment of a Royal Commission led by Lord Kelvin, which submitted a preliminary report in 1901 and a final report in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Long-term effects\nThe effects on the beer market were short-lived, and consumption of beer resumed over the course of the year. Attempts to revive the pure beer movement were nullified by the Commission's report, and by the fact that arsenic was present in malted barley as well as sugar. There seemed to be no direct effects on legislation resulting from the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032779-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 English beer poisoning, Long-term effects\nIn 1901, a considerable decline in the birth rate was noted in Manchester, Salford and Liverpool. This decline was greater in areas most affected, leading the Royal Commission to conclude that the epidemic was the cause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032780-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 English cricket season\n1900 was the eleventh season of County Championship cricket in England. Yorkshire finished the season unbeaten to take the championship title and were the first unbeaten champions since the official competition began in 1890. Defending champions Surrey finished seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032780-0000-0001", "contents": "1900 English cricket season\nLancashire were second, and the matches between the two top teams both ended in draws; Yorkshire made 230 in the first innings of the first game, compared to Lancashire's 96, but still could not force a victory, and in the second, with a crowd of over 44,000 present over three days at Old Trafford, Yorkshire took a lead of seven runs on first innings, but as only two and a half hours of play had been possible on the second day, the game was drawn. Sussex, who finished third with 18 of 24 matches drawn, enjoyed 2,000 runs from Ranjitsinhji for the second season running, as he bettered the record for most runs in a Championship season to 2,563. There were no international matches during this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032780-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 English cricket season, County Championship, Final table\nThe final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032781-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1900 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 21 in Berlin, German Empire. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032782-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1900 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held in Paris on the Seine in early September. The 1900 regatta was held between the Courbevoie Bridge and the Asni\u00e8res Bridge, the same venue that had been used for the 1900 Summer Olympics a week earlier. The length of the regatta course was 1,750 metres (5,740\u00a0ft). The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final\nThe 1900 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Bury and Southampton on Saturday, 21 April 1900 at the Crystal Palace stadium in south London. It was the final match of the 1899\u20131900 FA Cup, the 29th edition of the world's oldest football knockout competition, and England's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final\nBury and Southampton were both appearing in their first finals. Both teams joined the competition in the first round proper and progressed through four rounds to the final. As a member of the Football League First Division, Bury were exempt from the competition's qualifying phase. Southampton, as a member of the Southern League would normally have been required to pre-qualify but, as champions of the Southern League for three seasons in succession from 1896\u201397 to 1898\u201399, they were given byes through the qualifying phase to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final\nThe final was played in a heat wave and watched by a crowd of 68,945. Bury, leading 3\u20130 at half-time, dominated the match to win 4\u20130 with goals by Jasper McLuckie (2), Willie Wood and Jack Plant. When the game ended, the FA Cup trophy was presented to Bury's captain Jack Pray by Lord James of Hereford. Winning the cup proved to be profitable for Bury as the club's debts of \u00a31,230 were converted into a credit balance of \u00a31,329. Bury won the cup again in 1903 but that was their last appearance in the match. Southampton reached the 1902 final but were defeated by Sheffield United; they eventually won the cup in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Background\nThe FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football. The competition was first proposed on 20 July 1871 by C. W. Alcock at a meeting of The Football Association committee. The tournament was first played in the 1871\u201372 season and is the world's oldest association football competition. The 1900 match between Bury and Southampton at Crystal Palace was the 29th final and the last of the 19th century. Both teams were appearing in the final for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Background\nBury were members of the Football League First Division and, in the 1899\u20131900 league championship, amassed 32 points to finish in 12th position, only five points clear of the relegation placings. Southampton were members of the Southern League and had been its champions in each of the three previous seasons. In the 1899\u20131900 Southern League championship, they had slipped to third place below new champions Tottenham Hotspur. Southern League teams normally had to qualify for the first round proper of the FA Cup but, as reigning champions of their league, Southampton were exempted from pre-qualification and were given byes to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Background\nBury's team between 1895 and 1907 was selected by a three-man committee but with club secretary Harry Spencer Hamer in charge of the team on match days. Southampton's club secretary Ernest Arnfield took charge of their team on match days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury\nBury entered the competition in the first round proper and played seven matches, including three replays, en route to the final. All four of their opponents were other teams in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Early rounds\nIn the first round on Saturday, 27 January, Bury were drawn away to Burnley, who were relegated at the end of the 1899\u20131900 league season. Bury won the tie 1\u20130 with a goal by Charlie Sagar before a crowd of 6,020 at Turf Moor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Early rounds\nIn the second round on Saturday, 10 February, Bury drew 0\u20130 away to Notts County at Trent Bridge. Four days later, on the 14th, the replay at Gigg Lane was watched by a crowd estimated as over 4,400. Goals by Sagar and Willie Wood ensured a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Early rounds\nBury were drawn away again in the third round to the FA Cup holders Sheffield United at Bramall Lane. On Saturday, 24 February, Bury held United to a 2\u20132 draw in front of 22,766 people, their goals scored by Jasper McLuckie and Wood. Sheffield's goalscorers were Fred Priest and Ernest Needham with a penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Early rounds\nThe replay took place the following Thursday, 1 March, and local interest soared. A new attendance record was set at Gigg Lane with 20,139 cramming into the ground. It is believed that many more people broke in without paying or managed to watch by climbing the overlooking trees outside. Bury won the match 2\u20130 with goals by Jack Plant and Billy Richards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 24 March, and Bury were drawn to play Nottingham Forest, the only other First Division team left in the competition, at the Victoria Ground in Stoke-on-Trent. The Times report criticised both teams for a poor match in which \"hard kicking and rushing marked the play throughout\" and said that the 20,000 spectators gained no satisfaction from a game in which there was \"no short passing\". Team captain Jack Pray scored a fifteenth-minute penalty but the match ended in a 1\u20131 draw after a second penalty was missed and Arthur Capes scored for Forest. For the third time in this cup run, a replay was required, this time at Bramall Lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Semi-final\nThe crowd in Sheffield on 29 March was 11,200 but it was estimated that only 400 or so Bury supporters were able to make the trip as it was a Thursday evening. They were rewarded by seeing their team recover from a 2\u20130 deficit to win the match 3\u20132 after extra time. The Times reported that conditions were poor because of \"bad light and slippery turf\" but the match was nevertheless \"a singularly interesting contest\". Bury arrived late and had to rush onto the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0012-0001", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Semi-final\nThis had an unsettling effect and Forest scored twice through Capes and John Calvey in the first two minutes. It seemed as if Forest's success was assured but Bury worked hard to prevent any more Forest goals before half-time. Forest continued to be the better team in the early part of the second half but the Bury forwards, led by Sagar, began to cause problems and Sagar himself pulled a goal back midway through the half. With less than five minutes remaining, McLuckie scored the equaliser and it was 2\u20132 at the end of normal time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0012-0002", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Semi-final\nThe rule in this match, being a replay, was that extra time must be played but the Forest players, perhaps not knowing this, made a protest. With less than ten minutes of extra time remaining, Sagar scored his second goal to secure a 3\u20132 win and take Bury to their first FA Cup final. The Times praised Bury for \"their pluck in an uphill game\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton\nSouthampton entered the competition in the first round proper and played six matches, including two replays, en route to the final. Three of their opponents were in the First Division and one was in the Southern League. Whereas Bury were drawn away in each of the first three rounds, Southampton were always drawn at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nIn their first round match at The Dell on 27 January, they faced First Division Everton and won 3\u20130 before a 10,000 crowd. Two of their goals were scored by former Everton player Alf Milward, the other by Archie Turner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nIn the second round, Southampton hosted First Division Newcastle United whom they had defeated at the same stage two years earlier. This match was played on Saturday, 10 February, in wintry conditions. With the match goalless, Jack Farrell was forced to leave the pitch with a dislocated left collar-bone. Southampton played on with ten men until the 50th minute when referee Arthur Kingscott abandoned the match because of a heavy snowstorm. The sides met again the following Saturday before an 8,000 crowd. Roddy McLeod replaced the injured Farrell and scored twice in a convincing 4\u20131 victory. The other two goals were scored by Jimmy Yates and Archie Turner. The Newcastle goal was scored by Jack Peddie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nThe third round match was played only a week later, 24 February, against West Bromwich Albion, another First Division side. Turner and McLeod scored in a 2\u20131 victory. The Albion goalscorer was Chippy Simmons. The crowd was 9,000. The Times briefly reported that Southampton played \"very good football\" and the result was not unexpected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals involved two teams in the First Division and two in the Southern League. The draw kept the leagues apart and guaranteed that a side from the Southern League would reach an FA Cup final for the first time. Southampton's opponents were Millwall Athletic, who had just defeated Football League champions Aston Villa in the second replay of their third round tie which Dave Juson and David Bull have described as \"three epic confrontations\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Semi-final\nTo prepare for the semi-final, the Southampton players were sent to Buxton, a spa town, for a week's special training which began with a morning walk followed by a bath. The club secretary, Ernest Arnfield, explained the training routine to Chums magazine:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Semi-final\n... in the afternoon, sprinting and ball-kicking are the order. Baths are capital for removing stiffness from the joints. And ... everyone in training should go to bed early. Our fellows usually retire at ten, but the night before a big match they are all in bed by nine. They enjoy a long sleep, and don't appear for breakfast before nine. Our diet is an extremely plain one. The customary fare consists of fish, chops and steaks. Vegetables and sweets are banned when a match is about to be played and so are spirits. Half a pint of beer per meal, however, is allowed, and directly the match is over, the players can eat whatever they please. As regards smoking, we only prohibit it on the morning preceding a big match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Semi-final\nThe semi-final was played on Saturday, 24 March at the Crystal Palace stadium, which was also the venue for the final, and a crowd of 34,760 watched a goalless draw. The Times noted that the success thus far of two southern teams had aroused additional interest as the crowd was much larger than expected, but they were disappointed by seeing \"cup-tie football of the worst description\". There were few scoring chances and too many fouls. The newspaper hoped to see much better football in the replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0021-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Semi-final\nThe replay was the following Wednesday, 28 March, at Reading's Elm Park when a crowd of only 10,000 saw Alf Milward score two goals and Jimmy Yates one in a 3\u20130 victory which put Southampton through to their first appearance in the final. The Times reporter had his wish granted because it was a much better and more sporting game than the first match and Southampton won on \"absolute merit\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0022-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nThe Bury team and officials travelled to London on Thursday, 19 April, two days before the match. They stayed at the Tavistock Hotel in Covent Garden until the Monday following. Southampton, however, did not travel until the Saturday morning. There had been unusually sunny weather that April and The Guardian predicted that it would continue through Saturday with the high temperature \"sure to have a prejudicial effect on the game\". Their forecast was correct as there was a heatwave in London on matchday and conditions were uncomfortable for both the players and the crowd of 68,945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0023-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nThe Guardian had predicted a large crowd in view of the \"keen interest\" taken in a match between teams representing northern and southern football. According to one report, most of the crowd were \"rooting\" for Southampton, who were the first southern team to reach the final since the Old Etonians in 1883. The referee, Arthur Kingscott from Derbyshire, had officiated Southampton's game against Newcastle in the second round. Bury won the toss and decided to kick off with the sun behind them. The two teams were unchanged from those listed in The Guardian's pre-match report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0024-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nIn its match report next day, The Observer says Bury began attacking immediately and The Times ascribes their eventual success to the method of the half-backs (Pray, Joe Leeming and George Ross) in feeding their own forwards and killing the Southampton game. From the start, the Bury forwards directed high crosses into the goalmouth to test the Southampton goalkeeper, Jack Robinson. Although Southampton kept things even at first, their first mistake was by Peter Durber who allowed Richards to force a corner. This was taken by Plant whose cross was converted by McLuckie into the first goal, scored after nine minutes of play. The Observer says that, although Southampton tried hard to make amends, they failed against \"a clever and determined defence\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0025-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nBury had most of the play and Robinson was kept busy in the Southampton goal. After 16 minutes, he saved a shot from Plant but deflected the ball to Willie Wood who scored the second goal. The Observer says that Southampton were then a beaten team whose players were holding the ball too long with no certainty in their movement. The Bury backs and halves always broke up the Southampton attacks and the Bury forwards were always dangerous. Robinson made two saves but the match was over as a contest when McLuckie scored his second goal after 23 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0025-0001", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nThis goal was described by The Observer as \"a piece of brilliant play\". Receiving a pass from Ross, McLuckie steadied himself and aimed a long, low shot into the corner of the net which beat Robinson and his two full backs. Southampton had a fair amount of possession to half-time but The Observer says they never looked like scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0026-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nIn the second half, Southampton tried to recover and played better with the sun and breeze behind them but Bury had eased off and the pace of the game slackened. The Times report says there was, at times, some evenness in the play though Bury with a clear lead \"played with a certain amount of leisure\". Milward and Harry Wood both had attempts on goal for Southampton, but to no avail. Even so, Bury's forwards still seemed the more likely to score and McLuckie was especially prominent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0026-0001", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nThe Observer praised Robinson's performance as he displayed coolness and resource to prevent any more goals until ten minutes from full-time. Bury then scored the fourth and final goal after Robinson had parried a shot from Pray over the crossbar for another corner. This was taken quickly by Richards to Plant, who hit a hard shot along the ground which Robinson could not stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0027-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nThere was a misunderstanding near the end when many in the crowd thought the referee had blown his whistle for full-time. They ran onto the pitch and play was delayed for a few minutes while order was restored. According to Philip Gibbons, Bury's 4\u20130 win was a \"football lesson\" for the Southampton players. Even so, The Guardian said in its report on Monday morning that Robinson was \"undoubtedly the hero of the match\". The report says he made several outstanding saves and, without him, Southampton would have suffered a massive defeat. On the Bury side, the Guardian reporter praised McLuckie for putting in \"some fine play\", especially when he scored his second goal. The report says that Sagar and Plant were always dangerous in attack and Tommy Davidson was the best of the Bury defenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0028-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nBury's former club president, Lord James of Hereford, presented the trophy to captain Jack Pray at the end of the game. James made a speech recorded in both The Observer and The Times and began by saying it was a great honour to present the cup to the Bury team. Pray responded by asking his players to \"give three hearty cheers for (Southampton)\". Also present as a guest of honour was Lord Rosebery, the former prime minister, who made a speech in which he commiserated with Southampton goalkeeper Jack Robinson for \"a gallant uphill fight against overwhelming odds\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0029-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nBury later reported that their cup final earnings amounted to \u00a3938 16s 6d with a further \u00a3350 1s 6d from their two semi-final games. The club had been struggling financially for the last two years so this was much-needed revenue. As the season ended, the club's debts of \u00a31,230 had become a credit balance of \u00a31,329. Bury's success did not entirely impress the town's local newspaper, the Bury Times, which only mentioned their cup final victory on an inside page. The reporter complained: \"Bury's Cup win was only some consolation for their poor League performance this season\". Bury had finished twelfth in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0030-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nIn its report, The Times praised Bury for playing \"splendid football\" but expressed disappointment with Southampton who were \"outclassed\". The reporter twice made the error of referring to a Southampton victory over Aston Villa in the third round but it was Millwall who defeated Villa; Southampton then defeated Millwall in the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0031-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nReporting on the match, the Southampton correspondent for Athletic News described the team's performance as \"a weak, wavering, pitiable and lamentable show\" in which not one member of the team \"played up to his reputation\". The post-match reports agreed that defeat by a Football League side including two current England internationals (Sagar and Plant) was excusable, but the margin of defeat and Southampton's poor standard of performance were not. The Times said that Bury played splendid football to outclass their opponents, but Southampton's \"show was the worst seen for many years\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0032-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nTwelve years later, the correspondent \"Recorder\" of the Southampton Pictorial claimed that there was an argument before the match between the English and Scottish players at Southampton about who should play as centre-forward. The Scottish players wanted Roddy McLeod but the English, who were a majority, wanted Jack Farrell. The Scottish players had doubts about Farrell's temperament and saw McLeod as a more selfless player. \"Recorder\" said that the dispute created disharmony in the team and one unnamed player allegedly said later that he gave up on the match because he could see that others were not trying. After the league season ended in May, both players left the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032783-0033-0000", "contents": "1900 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nBury made one more appearance in an FA Cup final when they defeated Derby County 6\u20130 in 1903. Southampton have played in four finals altogether: they lost to Sheffield United in 1902 and to Arsenal in 2003, but they won the cup in 1976 when they defeated Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032784-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Florida gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Democratic nominee William Sherman Jennings defeated Republican nominee Matthew B. MacFarlane with 80.98% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032785-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Furman Purple Hurricane football team\nThe 1900 Furman Purple Hurricane football team represented the Furman Purple Hurricane of Furman University during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane\nThe Great Galveston hurricane, known regionally as the 1900 Storm, was the deadliest natural disaster in United States history and the fifth-deadliest Atlantic hurricane overall. The hurricane left between 6,000 and 12,000\u00a0fatalities in the United States; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000. Most of these deaths occurred in and near Galveston, Texas, after the storm surge inundated the coastline with 8 to 12\u00a0ft (2.4 to 3.7\u00a0m) of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0000-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane\nIn addition to the number killed, the storm destroyed about 7,000\u00a0buildings of all uses in Galveston, which included 3,636\u00a0demolished homes; every dwelling in the city suffered some degree of damage. The hurricane left approximately 10,000\u00a0people in the city homeless, out of a total population of fewer than 38,000. The disaster ended the Golden Era of Galveston, as the hurricane alarmed potential investors, who turned to Houston instead. In response to the storm, three engineers designed and oversaw plans to raise the Gulf of Mexico shoreline of Galveston island by 17\u00a0ft (5.2\u00a0m) and erect a 10\u00a0mi (16\u00a0km) seawall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane\nOn August\u00a027, 1900, a ship east of the Windward Islands detected a tropical cyclone, the first observed during the annual season. Initially at tropical storm status, it remained mostly stagnant in intensity while moving steadily west-northwestward and entered the northeastern Caribbean on August\u00a030. The storm made landfall in the Dominican Republic as a weak tropical storm on September\u00a02. It weakened slightly while crossing Hispaniola, before re-emerging into the Caribbean Sea later that day. On September\u00a03, the cyclone struck modern day Santiago de Cuba Province and then slowly drifted along the southern coast of Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane\nUpon reaching the Gulf of Mexico on September\u00a06, the storm strengthened into a hurricane. Significant intensification followed and the system peaked as a Category\u00a04 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 145\u00a0mph (235\u00a0km/h) on September\u00a08. Early on the next day, it made landfall to the south of Houston, Texas. The cyclone weakened quickly after moving inland and fell to tropical storm intensity late on September\u00a09. The storm turned east-northeastward and became extratropical over Iowa on September\u00a011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0001-0002", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane\nThe extratropical system strengthened while accelerating across the Midwestern United States, New England, and Eastern Canada before reaching the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on September\u00a013. After striking Newfoundland later that day, the extratropical storm entered the far North Atlantic Ocean and weakened, with the remnants last observed near Iceland on September\u00a015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane\nThe great storm brought flooding and severe thunderstorms to portions of the Caribbean, especially Cuba and Jamaica. It is likely that much of South Florida experienced tropical storm-force winds, though mostly minor damage occurred. Hurricane-force winds and storm surge inundated portions of southern Louisiana, though the cyclone left no significant structural damage or fatalities in the state. The hurricane brought strong winds and storm surge to a large portion of east Texas, with Galveston suffering the brunt of the impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane\nFarther north, the storm and its remnants continued to produce heavy rains and gusty winds, which downed telegraph wires, signs, and trees in several states. Fatalities occurred in other states, including fifteen in Ohio, six in Wisconsin, two in Illinois, two in New York, one in Massachusetts, and one in Missouri. Damage from the storm throughout the United States exceeded $34\u00a0million. The remnants also brought severe impact to Canada. In Ontario, damage reached about $1.35\u00a0million, with $1\u00a0million to crops. The remnants of the hurricane caused at least 52\u00a0deaths\u00a0\u2013 and possibly as many as 232\u00a0deaths\u00a0\u2013 in Canada, mostly due to sunken vessels near Newfoundland and the French territory of Saint-Pierre. Throughout its path, the storm caused more than $35.4\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe storm is believed to have originated from a tropical wave which moved off the west coast of Africa and emerged into the Atlantic Ocean. However, this is not completely certain because of the limited observational methods available to contemporary meteorologists, with ship reports being the only reliable tool for observing hurricanes. The first formal sighting of the tropical storm occurred on August\u00a027, about 1,000\u00a0mi (1,600\u00a0km) east of the Windward Islands, when a ship encountered an area of unsettled weather. Over the next couple of days, the system moved west-northwestwards and is thought to have maintained its intensity as a weak tropical storm, before it passed through the Leeward Islands and entered the Caribbean Sea on August\u00a031.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Meteorological history\nOn September\u00a01, Father Lorenzo Gangoite, the director of the Belen College Observatory in Havana, Cuba, noted that the storm was in its formative stages, with only vague indications of a small tropical cyclone to the southwest of Saint Croix. During that day, the system passed to the south of Puerto Rico before it made landfall near Ban\u00ed, Dominican Republic, early on September\u00a02. Moving west-northwestward, the storm crossed the island of Hispaniola and entered into the Windward Passage near Saint-Marc, Haiti, several hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe system made landfall on Cuba near Santiago de Cuba during September\u00a03, before it moved slowly west-northwestward across the island and emerged into Straits of Florida as a tropical storm on September\u00a05. As the system emerged into the Straits of Florida, Gangoite observed a large, persistent halo around the moon, while the sky turned deep red and cirrus clouds moved northwards. This indicated to him that the tropical storm had intensified and that the prevailing winds were moving the system towards the coast of Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0004-0002", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Meteorological history\nHowever, the United States Weather Bureau disagreed with this forecast, as they expected the system to recurve and make landfall in Florida before impacting the American East Coast. An area of high pressure over the Florida Keys ultimately moved the system northwestward into the Gulf of Mexico, where favorable conditions such as warm sea surface temperatures allowed the storm to intensify into a hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Meteorological history\nIn the eastern Gulf of Mexico on September\u00a06, the ship Louisiana encountered the hurricane, whose captain, T. P. Halsey, estimated that the system had wind speeds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). The hurricane continued to strengthen significantly while heading west-northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico. On September\u00a07, the system reached its peak intensity with estimated sustained wind speeds of 145\u00a0mph (235\u00a0km/h), which made it equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0005-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Meteorological history\nThat day, the Weather Bureau realized that the storm was continuing west-northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico, rather than turning northward over Florida and the East Coast of the United States. However, Weather Bureau director Willis Moore insisted that the cyclone was not of hurricane intensity. The hurricane weakened slightly on September\u00a08 and recurved to the northwest as it approached the coast of Texas, while the Weather Bureau office in Galveston began observing hurricane-force winds by 22:00\u00a0UTC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe cyclone made landfall around 8:00\u00a0p.m CST on September\u00a08 (02:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a09) to the south of Houston as a Category\u00a04 hurricane. While crossing Galveston Island and West Bay, the eye passed southwest of the city of Galveston. The hurricane quickly weakened after moving inland, falling to tropical storm intensity late on September\u00a09. The storm lost tropical characteristics and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over Iowa by 12:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a011. Moving rapidly east-northeastward, the extratropical system re-intensified, becoming the equivalent of a Category\u00a01 hurricane over Ontario on September\u00a012. The extratropical remnants reached the Gulf of Saint Lawrence early the following day. After crossing Newfoundland and entering the far northern Atlantic hours later, the remnants of the hurricane weakened and were last noted near Iceland on September\u00a015 where the storm finally dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 967]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Background\nThe city of Galveston, formally founded in 1839, had weathered numerous storms, all of which the city survived with ease. In the late 19th century, Galveston was a booming town, with the population increasing from 29,084\u00a0people in 1890 to 37,788\u00a0people in 1900. The city was the fourth largest municipality in terms of population in the state of Texas in 1900, and had among the highest per capita income rates in the United States. Galveston had many ornate business buildings in a downtown section called The Strand, which was considered the \"Wall Street of the Southwest\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0007-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Background\nThe city's position on the natural harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade in Texas, and one of the busiest ports in the nation. With this prosperity came a sense of complacency, as residents believed any future storms would be no worse than previous events. In fact, Galveston Weather Bureau section director Isaac Cline wrote an 1891 article in the Galveston Daily News that it would be impossible for a hurricane of significant strength to strike the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Background\nA quarter of a century earlier, the nearby town of Indianola on Matagorda Bay was undergoing its own boom. Then in 1875, a powerful hurricane blew through, nearly destroying the town. Indianola was rebuilt, though a second hurricane in 1886 caused most of the town's residents to move elsewhere. Many Galveston residents took the destruction of Indianola as an object lesson on the threat posed by hurricanes. Galveston is built on a low, flat island, little more than a large sandbar along the Gulf Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0008-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Background\nThese residents proposed a seawall be constructed to protect the city, but the majority of the population and the city's government dismissed their concerns. Cline further argued in his 1891 article in the Galveston Daily News that a seawall was not needed due to his belief that a strong hurricane would not strike the island. As a result, the seawall was not built, and development activities on the island actively increased its vulnerability to storms. Sand dunes along the shore were cut down to fill low areas in the city, removing what little barrier there was to the Gulf of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Preparations\nOn September\u00a04, the Galveston office of the Weather Bureau (as it was then called) began receiving warnings from the Bureau's central office in Washington, D.C., that a tropical disturbance had moved northward over Cuba. At the time, they discouraged the use of terms such as \"tornado\" or \"hurricane\" to avoid panicking residents in the path of any storm event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0009-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Preparations\nThe Weather Bureau forecasters had no way of knowing the storm's trajectory, as Weather Bureau director Willis Moore implemented a policy to block telegraph reports from Cuban meteorologists at the Belen Observatory in Havana\u00a0\u2013 considered one of the most advanced meteorological institutions in the world at the time\u00a0\u2013 due to tensions in the aftermath of the Spanish\u2013American War. Moore also changed protocol to force local Weather Bureau offices to seek authorization from the central office before issuing storm warnings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Preparations\nWeather Bureau forecasters believed that the storm had begun a northward curve into Florida and that it would eventually turn northeastward and emerge over the Atlantic. As a result, the central office of the Weather Bureau issued a storm warning in Florida from Cedar Key to Miami on September\u00a05. By the following day, a hurricane warning was in effect along the coast from Cedar Key to Savannah, Georgia, while storm warnings were displayed from Charleston, South Carolina, to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as well as from Pensacola, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana. Cuban forecasters adamantly disagreed with the Weather Bureau, saying the hurricane would continue west. One Cuban forecaster predicted the hurricane would continue into central Texas near San Antonio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Preparations\nIn Galveston on the morning of September\u00a08, the swells persisted despite only partly cloudy skies. Largely because of the unremarkable weather, few residents saw cause for concern. Few people evacuated across Galveston's bridges to the mainland, and the majority of the population was unconcerned by the rain clouds that began rolling in by midmorning. According to his memoirs, Galveston Weather Bureau director Isaac Cline personally traveled by horse along the beach and other low-lying areas to warn people of the storm's approach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0011-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Preparations\nHowever, these accounts by Cline and his brother, Galveston meteorologist Joseph L. Cline, have been in dispute since. Although Isaac Cline is credited with issuing a hurricane warning without permission from the Bureau's central office, author Erik Larson points to Isaac Cline's earlier insistence that a seawall was unnecessary and his notion that an intense hurricane could not strike the island, with Cline even considering it \"simply an absurd delusion\" to believe otherwise. Further, no other survivors corroborated these accounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, Caribbean\nAntigua reported a severe thunderstorm passing over on August\u00a030, with lower barometric pressures and 2.6\u00a0in (66.0\u00a0mm) of rain on the island. In Puerto Rico, the storm produced winds up to 43\u00a0mph (69\u00a0km/h) at San Juan. In Jamaica, heavy rainfall from the storm caused all rivers to swell. Floodwaters severely damaged banana plantations and washed away miles of railroads. Damage estimates ranged in the thousands of British pounds. Heavy rains fell in Cuba in association with the cyclone, including a peak 24-hour total of 12.58\u00a0in (319.5\u00a0mm) in the city of Santiago de Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0012-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, Caribbean\nThe city experienced its worst weather since 1877. The southern end of the city was submerged with about 5\u00a0ft (1.5\u00a0m) of water. Firefighters and police rescued and aided stranded residents. St. George, a German steamer, ran aground at Daiquir\u00ed. A telegraph from the mayor of Trinidad, who was asking for assistance from the United States Military Government in Cuba, indicated that the storm destroyed all crops and left many people destitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States\nThe Great Galveston hurricane made landfall on September\u00a08, 1900, near Galveston, Texas. It had estimated winds of 140\u00a0mph (225\u00a0km/h) at landfall, making the cyclone a Category 4 storm on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson scale. The hurricane caused great loss of life, with a death toll of between 6,000 and 12,000\u00a0people; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths of all Atlantic hurricanes, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster to strike the United States. This loss of life can be attributed to the fact that officials for the Weather Bureau in Galveston brushed off the reports and they did not realize the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States\nMore than $34\u00a0million in damage occurred throughout the United States, with about $30\u00a0million in Galveston County, Texas, alone. If a similar storm struck in 2010, damage would total approximately $104.33\u00a0billion (2010\u00a0USD), based on normalization, a calculation that takes into account changes in inflation, wealth, and population. In comparison, the costliest United States hurricanes \u2013 Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017 \u2013 both caused about $125\u00a0billion in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States\nThe hurricane occurred before the practice of assigning official code names to tropical storms was instituted, and thus it is commonly referred to under a variety of descriptive names. Typical names for the storm include the Galveston hurricane of 1900, the Great Galveston hurricane, and, especially in older documents and publications, the Galveston Flood. It is often referred to by Galveston locals as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Florida to Louisiana\nPortions of southern Florida experienced tropical storm-force winds, with a sustained wind speed of 48\u00a0mph (77\u00a0km/h) in Jupiter and 40\u00a0mph (64\u00a0km/h) in Key West. The hurricane left \"considerable damage\" in the Palm Beach area, according to The New York Times. Many small boats were torn from their moorings and capsized. The bulkhead of the pier was washed away, while docks and several seawalls were damaged. Rainfall in the state peaked at 5.7\u00a0in (140\u00a0mm) in Hypoluxo. High winds in North Florida downed telegraph lines between Jacksonville and Pensacola. In Mississippi, the city of Pass Christian recorded winds of 58\u00a0mph (93\u00a0km/h). Tides produced by the storm inundated about 200\u00a0ft (61\u00a0m) of railroad tracks in Pascagoula (then known as Scranton), while a quarantine station on Ship Island was swept away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Florida to Louisiana\nIn Louisiana, the storm produced gale-force winds as far inland as DeRidder and as far east as New Orleans, with hurricane-force winds observed in Cameron Parish. Along the coast, storm surge inundated Johnson Bayou, while tides at some locations reached their highest level since the 1875 Indianola hurricane. Winds and storm surge caused severe damage to rice crops, with at least 25% destroyed throughout the state. The community of Pointe \u00e0 la Hache experienced a near-total loss of rice crops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0017-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Florida to Louisiana\nFarther east, roads were flooded by storm surge in the communities of Gretna and Harvey near New Orleans, leaving the streets impassable via horses. Winds downed telegraph lines in the southeastern Louisiana in the vicinity of Port Eads. Two men were initially presumed to have drowned after sailing away from Fort St. Philip and not returning in a timely manner, but they were both later found alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nNearly all of the damage in the United States occurred in Texas, with much of the damage in Galveston. However, many communities outside of Galveston also suffered serious damage, with several cities reporting a near or complete loss of all buildings or homes, including Alta Loma, Alvin, Angleton, Brazoria, Brookshire, Chenango, El Campo, Pearland, and Richmond. Throughout Texas \u2013 in areas other than Galveston \u2013 at least $3\u00a0million in damage occurred to cotton crops, $75,000 to telegraph and telephone poles, and $60,000 to railroads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nAt Alvin, 8.05\u00a0in (204\u00a0mm) of rain fell on September\u00a08, the highest 24-hour total for that city in the month of September. The city suffered nine fatalities and about $50,000 in damage. In West Columbia, the storm destroyed the old capitol building of the former Republic of Texas. Eight deaths occurred in the city. In Quintana, the city experienced extensive damage during this storm and a flood in 1899, causing portions of the community to be abandoned. Throughout Brazoria County alone, the hurricane caused nearly $200,000 in damage and 47\u00a0deaths. Houston also experienced significant damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0019-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nThe hurricane wrought damage to many buildings, including a Masonic temple, a railroad powerhouse, an opera house, a courthouse, and many businesses, churches, homes, hotels, and school buildings. Streets were littered with branches from shade trees and downed electrical wires, leaving several roads completely impassable to cars. The city of Houston suffered about $250,000 in damage and two deaths, one of which occurred when a man was struck by falling timber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nA train heading for Galveston left Houston on the morning of September\u00a08 at 9:45\u00a0a.m. CST (15:45\u00a0UTC). It found the tracks washed out, and passengers were forced to transfer to a relief train on parallel tracks to complete their journey. Even then, debris on the track slowed the train's progress to a crawl. The 95\u00a0travelers on the train from Beaumont found themselves at the Bolivar Peninsula waiting for the ferry that would carry them to the island. When it arrived, the high seas forced the ferry captain to give up on his attempt to dock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0020-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nThe train crew attempted to return the way they had come, but rising water blocked the train's path. Ten refugees from the Beaumont train sought shelter at the Point Bolivar lighthouse with 190\u00a0residents of Port Bolivar who were already there. The 85 who stayed with the train died when the storm surge overran the tops of the cars, while every person inside the lighthouse survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0021-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nFirst news from Galveston just received by train that could get no closer to the bay shore than 6\u00a0mi\u00a0[9.7\u00a0km] where the prairie was strewn with debris and dead bodies. About 200\u00a0corpses counted from the train. Large steamship stranded 2\u00a0mi\u00a0[3.2\u00a0km] inland. Nothing could be seen of Galveston. Loss of life and property undoubtedly most appalling. Weather clear and bright here with gentle southeast wind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0022-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nAt the time of the 1900 hurricane, the highest point in the city of Galveston was only 8.7\u00a0ft (2.7\u00a0m) above sea level. The hurricane brought with it a storm surge of over 15\u00a0ft (4.6\u00a0m) that washed over the entire island. Storm surge and tides began flooding the city by the early morning hours of September\u00a08. Water rose steadily from 3:00\u00a0p.m. (21:00\u00a0UTC) until approximately 7:30\u00a0p.m. (01:30\u00a0UTC September\u00a09), when eyewitness accounts indicated that water rose about 4\u00a0ft (1.2\u00a0m) in just four seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0022-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nAn additional 5\u00a0ft (1.5\u00a0m) of water had flowed into portions of the city by 8:30\u00a0p.m. (02:30\u00a0UTC September\u00a09). The cyclone dropped 9\u00a0in (230\u00a0mm) of precipitation in Galveston on September\u00a08, setting a record for the most rainfall for any 24-hour period in the month of September in the city's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0023-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nThe highest measured wind speed was 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h) just after 6:15\u00a0p.m. on September\u00a08 (00:15\u00a0UTC September\u00a09), but the Weather Bureau's anemometer was blown off the building shortly after that measurement was recorded. Contemporaneous estimates placed the maximum sustained wind speed at 120\u00a0mph (190\u00a0km/h). However, survivors reported observing bricks, slate, timbers, and other heavy objects becoming airborne, indicating that winds were likely stronger. Later estimates placed the hurricane at the higher Category\u00a04 classification on the Saffir\u2013Simpson scale. The lowest recorded barometric pressure was 964.4\u00a0mbar (28.48\u00a0inHg), but this was subsequently adjusted to the storm's official lowest measured central pressure of about 936\u00a0mbar (27.6\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0024-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nFew streets in the city escaped wind damage and all streets suffered water damage, with much of the destruction caused by storm surge. All bridges connecting the island to the mainland were washed away, while approximately 15\u00a0mi (24\u00a0km) of railroad track was destroyed. Winds and storm surge also downed electrical, telegraph, and telephone wires. The surge swept buildings off their foundations and dismantled them. Many buildings and homes destroyed other structures after being pushed into them by the waves, which even demolished structures built to withstand hurricanes. Every home in Galveston suffered damage, with 3,636\u00a0homes destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0024-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nApproximately 10,000\u00a0people in the city were left homeless, out of a total population of nearly 38,000. The Tremont Hotel, where hundreds of people sought refuge during the storm, was severely damaged. All public buildings also suffered damage, including city hall \u2013 which was completely deroofed \u2013 a hospital, a city gas works, a city water works, and the custom house. The Grand Opera House also sustained extensive damage, but was quickly rebuilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0025-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nThree schools and St. Mary's University were nearly destroyed. Many places of worship in the city also received severe damage or were completely demolished. Of the 39\u00a0churches in Galveston, 25\u00a0experienced complete destruction, while the others received some degree of damage. During the storm, the St. Mary's Orphans Asylum, owned by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, was occupied by 93\u00a0children and 10\u00a0sisters. As tides began approaching the property, the sisters moved the children into the girl's dorm, as it was newer and sturdier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0025-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nRealizing they were under threat, the sisters had the children repeatedly sing Queen of the Waves to calm them. As the collapse of the building appeared imminent, the sisters used a clothesline to tie themselves to six to eight children. The building eventually collapsed. Only three of the children and none of the sisters survived. The few buildings that survived, mostly solidly built mansions and houses along the Strand District, are today maintained as tourist attractions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0026-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nEarly property damage estimates were placed at $25\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0026-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nHowever, itemized estimates from 1901 based on assessments conducted by the Galveston News, the Galveston chamber of commerce, a relief committee, and multiple insurance companies indicated that the storm caused just over $17\u00a0million in damage throughout Galveston, including about $8.44\u00a0million to residential properties, $500,000 to churches, $656,000 to wharves and shipping properties, $580,000 to manufacturing plants, $397,000 to mercantile buildings, $1.4\u00a0million to store merchandise, $670,000 to railroads and telegraph and telephone services, $416,000 to products in shipment, $336,000 to municipality properties, $243,000 to county properties, and $3.16\u00a0million to United States government properties. The total also included $115,000 in damage to schools and approximately $100,000 in damage to roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 868]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0027-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nThe area of destruction \u2013 an area in which nothing remained standing after the storm \u2013 consisted of approximately 1,900 acres (768.9\u00a0ha) of land and was arc-shaped, with complete demolition of structures in the west, south, and eastern portions of the city, while the north-central section of the city suffered the least amount of damage. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, a 3\u00a0mi (4.8\u00a0km) long, 30\u00a0ft (9.1\u00a0m) wall of debris was situated in the middle of the island. As severe as the damage to the city's buildings was, the death toll was even greater. Because of the destruction of the bridges to the mainland and the telegraph lines, no word of the city's destruction was able to reach the mainland at first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0028-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nOn the morning of September\u00a09, one of the few ships at the Galveston wharfs to survive the storm, the Pherabe, set sail and arrived in Texas City on the western side of Galveston Bay with a group of messengers from the city. When they reached the telegraph office in Houston early on September\u00a010, a short message was sent to Texas Governor Joseph D. Sayers and U.S. President William McKinley: \"I have been deputized by the mayor and Citizen's Committee of Galveston to inform you that the city of Galveston is in ruins.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0028-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nThe messengers reported an estimated five hundred dead; this was initially considered to be an exaggeration. The citizens of Houston knew a powerful storm had blown through and had prepared to provide assistance. Workers set out by rail and ship for the island almost immediately. Rescuers arrived to find the city completely destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0029-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nA survey conducted by the Morrison and Fourmy Company in early 1901 indicated a population loss of 8,124, though the company believed that about 2,000\u00a0people left the city after the storm and never returned. On this basis, the death toll is no less than 6,000, while estimates range up to 12,000. It is believed 8,000\u00a0people\u201420% of the island's population\u2014had lost their lives. Most had drowned or been crushed as the waves pounded the debris that had been their homes hours earlier. A number of fatalities also occurred after strong winds turned debris into projectiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0029-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Texas\nMany survived the storm itself but died after several days being trapped under the wreckage of the city, with rescuers unable to reach them. The rescuers could hear the screams of the survivors as they walked on the debris trying to rescue those they could. More people were killed in this single storm than the total of those killed in at least the next two deadliest tropical cyclones that have struck the United States since. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0030-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Midwest\nAfter moving northward from Texas into Oklahoma, the storm produced winds of near 30\u00a0mph (48\u00a0km/h) at Oklahoma City. The extratropical remnants of the cyclone then re-intensified to the equivalence of a tropical storm and continued to strengthen, bringing strong winds to the Midwestern United States. High winds in Missouri toppled a brick wall under construction in St. Joseph, killing a man and severely injuring another. In Illinois, particularly hard hit was the city of Chicago, which experienced wind gusts up to 84\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h). Thousands of dollars in damage occurred to roofs, trees, signs, and windows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0030-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Midwest\nSeveral people were injured and two deaths occurred in the city, one from a live wire and the other was a drowning after a boat capsized in Lake Michigan. In Wisconsin, a bateau with 18\u00a0people on board sank in the Eau Claire River, drowning 6\u00a0men and nearly taking the lives of the others. Heavy rains fell in parts of Minnesota. The Minneapolis\u2013Saint Paul area recorded 4.23\u00a0in (107\u00a0mm) of precipitation over a period of 16\u00a0hours. Farther north, several washouts occurred, especially in the northern areas of the state. A bridge, along with a few train cars, were swept away during a washout in Cold Spring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0031-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Midwest\nIn Michigan, the storm produced winds around 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) at Muskegon. Tides from Lake Michigan were the highest in several months. According to The Times Herald, the city of Marshall experienced \"the severest windstorm of the season\", which uprooted trees and damaged several buildings. Throughout the state, winds left at least $12,000 in losses to peach orchards, with many peach trees uprooted. Significant losses to apples and pears also occurred. Rough seas in Lake Erie resulted in several maritime incidents offshore Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0031-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Midwest\nThe John B. Lyon, a 255\u00a0ft (77.7\u00a0m) steamer, capsized about 5\u00a0mi (8.0\u00a0km) north of Conneaut. Fourteen out of sixteen crew members drowned. A survivor suggested that the ship being overloaded may have been a factor in its sinking. About 10\u00a0mi (16\u00a0km) farther north, the schooner Dundee sank, causing at least one death. In another incident nearby, the steamer City of Erie, with about 300\u00a0passengers aboard, was hit by a wave that swept over the bulwarks. The engine slowed and the steamers later reached safety in Canada with no loss of lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0031-0002", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, Midwest\nIn Toledo, strong winds disrupted telegraph services. Winds also blew water out of parts of the Maumee River and Maumee Bay to such an extent that they were impassable by vessels due to low water levels. A number of vessels were buried in mud several feet deep, while about 20\u00a0others were beached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0032-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New York\nOf the many cities in New York affected by the remnants of the hurricane, Buffalo was among the hardest hit. There, winds peaked at 78\u00a0mph (126\u00a0km/h), downing hundreds of electrical, telegraph, and telephone wires, while numerous trees toppled and some branches fell onto roadways. An oil derrick blew away and landed on the roof of a house, crushing the roof and nearly killing the occupants. A newly built iron works building was virtually destroyed, causing a loss of about $10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0032-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New York\nAt the Pan-American Exposition, the storm damaged several structures, including part of the government building, while two towers were destroyed. Losses at the exposition alone were conservatively estimated at $75,000. One death occurred in Buffalo after a woman inadvertently touched a downed electrical wire obscured by debris. Several nearby resorts received extensive damage. At Woodlawn Beach, several dozens of small boats and a pier were destroyed. Nearly all vessels owned by the Buffalo Canoe Club suffered severe damage or destruction at Crystal Beach. A toboggan slide and a restaurant were also destroyed. Losses in Crystal Beach reached about $5,000. Heavy crop losses occurred over western New York, with fallen apples and peaches completely covering the ground at thousands of acres of orchards. Losses reportedly ranged in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0033-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New York\nThe rapidly moving storm was still exhibiting winds of 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) while passing well north of New York City on September\u00a012. The New York Times reported that pedestrian-walking became difficult and attributed one death to the storm. A sign pole, snapped by the wind, landed on a 23-year-old man, crushing his skull and killing him instantly, while two others were knocked unconscious. Awnings and signs on many buildings broke and the canvas roofing at the Fire Department headquarters was blown off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0033-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New York\nCloser to the waterfront, along the Battery seawall, waves and tides were reported to be some of the highest in recent memory of the fishermen and sailors. Spray and debris were thrown over the wall, making walking along the waterfront dangerous. Small craft in New York Harbor were thrown off course and tides and currents in the Hudson River made navigation difficult. In Brooklyn, The New York Times reported that trees were uprooted, signs and similar structures were blown down, and yachts were torn from moorings with some suffering severe damage. Because of the direction of the wind, Coney Island escaped the fury of the storm, though a bathing pavilion at Bath Beach suffered damage from wind and waves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0034-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New England\nIn Connecticut, winds gusted up to about 40\u00a0mph (64\u00a0km/h). The apple crops, already endangered by drought conditions, suffered severe damage, with The Boston Globe noting that there was, \"hardly an apple left on a tree in the entire state\". In the town of Orange, twelve large tents at a fair were ripped. At another fair in New Milford, fifteen tents collapsed, forcing closure of the fair. Along the coast, the storm produced abnormally high tides, with tides reaching their highest heights in six years at Westbrook. Water reached the bulkheads and remained there for several hours. In Rhode Island, the storm left damage in the vicinity of Providence. Telegraph and telephone services were interrupted, but not to such a large extent. Some small crafts in Narragansett Bay received damage, while apple orchards experienced slight losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0035-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New England\nLightning produced by the storm ignited several brush fires in Massachusetts, particularly in the southeastern portions of the state, with winds spreading the flames. In Plymouth and other nearby towns, some residents evacuated from the fires by boat. Most cottages around the Big Long, Gallows, Halfway, and Little Long ponds were reduced to burning coals. In Everett, orchards in the Woodlawn section suffered complete losses of fruit. Two wooden frame building were demolished, while winds also toppled fences throughout the city. Winds damaged many telephone and electric wires in Cambridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0035-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New England\nA lineman sent to fix the electrical wires nearly died when a pole snapped during a fierce wind gust. Orchards in the city suffered near complete loss and many shade trees were also damaged. At least a few chimneys toppled and several others were left leaning. A bathhouse at Harvard University lost a portion of its tin roof and its copper cornices. At Cape Cod, a wind speed of 45\u00a0mph (72\u00a0km/h) was observed at Highland Light in North Truro. Waves breached the sand dunes at multiple locations along the cape, with water sweeping across a county road at Beach Point in North Truro. A number of fishing boats sank and several fish houses received severe damage. One man drowned in a lake near Andover while canoeing during the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0036-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New England\nStrong winds in Vermont generated rough seas in Lake Champlain. Early reports indicated that a schooner sunk near Adams Ferry with no survivors, but the vessel was later found safely anchored at Westport, New York. According to a man near the lake, all water from the New York portion of the lake was blown to the Vermont side, crashing ashore in waves as high as 15 to 20\u00a0ft (4.6 to 6.1\u00a0m). In the state capital of Montpelier, several large trees at the state house were uprooted. Within Montpelier and vicinity, farmers suffered some losses to apples and corn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0036-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New England\nTelephone and telegraph services were almost completely cut off. In Vergennes, a number of telephone wires snapped, while many apples, pears, and plums were blown off the trees. Additional damage to fruit and shade trees occurred in Middlebury and Winooski. The city of Burlington experienced its worst storm in many years. Winds downed all telephone and telegraph wires, whereas many trees had severe damage. Some homes were deroofed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0037-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, United States, New England\nIn New Hampshire, the storm left wind damage in the city of Nashua. Winds tore roofs off a number of buildings, with several roofs landing on the streets or telephone wires. Chimneys in each section of the city collapsed; many people narrowly escaped injury or death. In Nashua and the nearby cities of Brookline and Hollis, thousands of dollars in losses occurred to apple crops, described as \"practically ruined\". The city of Manchester was affected by \"one of the most furious windstorms which visited this city in years\". Telephone and telegraph communications were nearly completely out for several hours, while windows shattered and trees snapped. Street railway traffic experienced delays. In Maine, the storm downed trees and chimney and caused property damage in the vicinity of Biddeford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0038-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, Canada\nFrom September\u00a012\u2013September\u00a014, the extratropical remnants of the Galveston hurricane affected six Canadian provinces, resulting in severe damage and extensive loss of life. In Ontario, storm surge in Lake Ontario ranged from 8 to 10\u00a0ft (2.4 to 3.0\u00a0m), wreaking havoc on vessels, beaching several boats, destroying a number of boats, and setting some others adrift. Many other vessels canceled or postponed their departures. Winds reached as high as 77\u00a0mph (124\u00a0km/h) in Toronto, breaking windows throughout the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0038-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, Canada\nA fire broke out at a flour mill in Paris, and the flames were fanned by the storm, resulting in $350,000 in damage to the mill and 50\u00a0other stores and offices. High winds downed electrical, telegraph, and telephone lines in many areas. Total crop damage in Ontario alone amounted to $1\u00a0million. Impact to crops was particularly severe at St. Catharines, where many apple, peach, pear, and plum orchards were extensively damaged, with a loss of thousands of dollars. One person died in Niagara Falls, when a man attempted to remove debris from a pump station, but he was swept away into the river instead. Maximum rainfall in Canada reached 3.9\u00a0in (100\u00a0mm) in Perc\u00e9, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0039-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, Canada\nIn Nova Scotia, damage was reported in the Halifax area. A plethora of fences and trees fell over, while windows shattered and a house under construction collapsed. Two schooners were driven ashore at Sydney and a brigantine was also beached at Cape Breton Island. Another schooner, known as Greta, capsized offshore Cape Breton Island near Low Point, with the fate of the crew being unknown. On Prince Edward Island, a few barns, a windmill, and a lobster factory were destroyed. Falling trees downed about 40\u00a0electrical wires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0039-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Impact, Canada\nA house suffered damage after its own chimney fell and collapsed through the roof. Strong winds also tossed a boxcar from its track. A bridge and wharf at St. Peters Bay were damaged. Fruit crops were almost entirely ruined throughout Prince Edward Island. The majority of loss of life in Canada occurred due to numerous shipwrecks off the coasts of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. The overall death toll in Canadian waters is estimated to be between 52 and 232, making this at least the eighth deadliest hurricane to affect Canada. The large discrepancy between the fatality figures is due to the fact that many people were reported missing. Thus, the exact number of deaths is unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0040-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath\nThe city of Galveston was effectively obliterated. With the city in ruins and railroads to the mainland destroyed, the survivors had little to live on until relief arrived. On September\u00a09, Galveston city officials established the Central Relief Committee for Galveston Storm Sufferers (CRC), chaired by Mayor Walter C. Jones. The CRC was composed of subcommittees for specifics aspects of relief efforts, including burial of the deceased, correspondence, distribution of food and water, finances, hospitalization and rehabilitation for the injured, and public safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0041-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath\nThe dead bodies were so numerous that burying all of them was impossible. Initially, bodies were collected by \"dead gangs\" and then given to 50\u00a0African American men \u2013 who were forcibly recruited at gunpoint \u2013 to load them onto a barge. About 700\u00a0bodies were taken out to sea to be dumped. However, after gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed. Funeral pyres were set up on the beaches, or wherever dead bodies were found, and burned day and night for several weeks after the storm. The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0042-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath\nWith thousands dead and roughly 2,000\u00a0survivors leaving the city and never returning according to a Morrison and Fourmy Company survey, Galveston initially experienced a significant population decline. Between 1907 and 1914, Congregation B'nai Israel rabbi Henry Cohen and philanthropist Jacob Schiff spearheaded the Galveston Movement. Cohen, Schiff, and others created the movement to draw Jewish immigrants away from the crowded area along the East Coast and toward cities farther west, such as Galveston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0042-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath\nAlthough approximately 10,000\u00a0Jewish immigrants arrived in Galveston during this period, few settled in the city or the island, but about one-fourth of them remained in Texas. The 1910 Census reported a population of 36,891\u00a0people in Galveston. Although a decline from the 1900\u00a0Census, the population loss of thousands of people was nearly reversed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0043-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath\nIn the months prior to the hurricane, valet Charles F. Jones and lawyer Albert T. Patrick began conspiring to murder wealthy businessman William Marsh Rice in order to obtain his wealth. Patrick fabricated Rice's legal will with the assistance of Jones. Rice's properties in Galveston suffered extensive damage during the storm. After being informed of the damage, Rice decided to spend $250,000, the entire balance of his checking account, on repairing his properties. With the duo realizing that they would fail to obtain Rice's wealth, Patrick convinced Jones to kill Rice with chloroform as he slept.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0043-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath\nImmediately after murdering Rice, Jones forged a large check to Patrick in Rice's name. However, Jones misspelled Patrick's name on the check, arousing suspicion and eventually resulting in their arrests and convictions. Rice's estate was used to open an institute for higher learning in Houston in 1912, which was named Rice University in his honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0044-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nSurvivors set up temporary shelters in surplus United States Army tents along the shore. They were so numerous that observers began referring to Galveston as the \"White City on the Beach\". In the first two weeks following the storm, approximately 17,000\u00a0people resided in these tents, vacant storerooms, or public buildings. Others constructed so-called \"storm lumber\" homes, using salvageable material from the debris to build shelter. The building committee, with a budget of $450,000, opened applications for money to rebuild and repair homes. Accepted applicants were given enough money to build a cottage with three 12 by 12\u00a0ft (3.7 by 3.7\u00a0m) rooms. By March 1901, 1,073\u00a0cottages were built and 1,109\u00a0homes had been repaired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0045-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nWinifred Bonfils, a young journalist working for William Randolph Hearst, was the first reporter on the line at the hurricane's ground zero in Galveston. She delivered an exclusive set of reports and Hearst sent relief supplies by train. By September\u00a012, Galveston received its first post-storm mail. The next day, basic water service was restored, and Western Union began providing minimal telegraph service. Within three weeks of the storm, cotton was again being shipped out of the port.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0046-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nA number of cities, businesses, organizations, and individuals made monetary donations toward rebuilding Galveston. By September\u00a015, less than one week after the storm struck Galveston, contributions totaled about $1.5\u00a0million. More than $134,000 in donations poured in from New York City alone. Five other major cities \u2013 St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia \u2013 had also donated at least $15,000 by September\u00a015. By state, the largest donations included $228,000 from New York, $67,000 from Texas, $56,000 from Illinois, $53,000 from Massachusetts, and $52,000 from Missouri. Contributions also came from abroad, such as from Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, England, and South Africa, including $10,000\u00a0each from Liverpool and Paris. Andrew Carnegie made the largest personal contribution, $10,000, while an additional $10,000 was donated by his steel company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 928]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0047-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nIt was one of those monstrosities of nature which defied exaggeration and fiendishly laughed at all tame attempts of words to picture the scene it had prepared. The churches, the great business houses, the elegant residences of the cultured and opulent, the modest little homes of laborers of a city of nearly forty thousand people; the center of foreign shipping and railroad traffic lay in splinters and debris piled twenty feet above the surface, and the crushed bodies, dead and dying, of nearly ten thousand of its citizens lay under them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0048-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nClara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, after viewing the destruction in Galveston", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0049-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nClara Barton, the founder and president of the American Red Cross and famous for her responses to crises in the latter half of the 19th century, responded to the disaster and visited Galveston with a team of eight Red Cross workers. This would be the last disaster that Barton responded to, as she was 78-years old at the time and would retire in 1904. After Barton and the team observed the catastrophe, the Red Cross set-up a temporary headquarters at a four-story warehouse in the commercial district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0049-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nHer presence in Galveston and appeals for contributions resulted in a substantial amount of donations. Overall, 258\u00a0barrels, 1,552\u00a0pillow cases, and 13\u00a0casks of bedding, clothing, crockery, disinfectants, groceries, hardware, medical supplies, and shoes were received at the warehouse, while $17,341 in cash was donated to the Red Cross. Contributions, both monetary gifts and supplies, were estimated to have reached about $120,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0050-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nBefore the hurricane of 1900, Galveston was considered to be a beautiful and prestigious city and was known as the \"Ellis Island of the West\" and the \"Wall Street of the Southwest\". However, after the storm, development shifted north to Houston, which reaped the benefits of the oil boom, particularly after the discovery of oil at Spindletop on January\u00a010, 1901. The dredging of the Houston Ship Channel began by 1909, which opened in 1914, ending Galveston's hopes of regaining its former status as a major commercial center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0051-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Rebuilding\nThe Galveston city government was reorganized into a commission government in 1901, a newly devised structure wherein the government is made of a small group of commissioners, each responsible for one aspect of governance. This was prompted by fears that the existing city council would be unable to handle the problem of rebuilding the city. The apparent success of the new form of government inspired about 500\u00a0cities across the United States to adopt a commission government by 1920. However, the commission government fell out of favor after World War I, with Galveston itself switching to council\u2013manager government in 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0052-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Protection\nTo prevent future storms from causing destruction like that of the 1900 hurricane, many improvements to the island were made. The city of Galveston hired a team of three engineers to design structures for protection from future storms \u2013 Alfred Noble, Henry Martyn Robert, and H. C. Ripley. The three engineers recommended and designed a seawall. In November\u00a01902, residents of Galveston overwhelmingly approved a bond referendum to fund building a seawall, passing the measure by a vote of 3,085\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0052-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Protection\nThe first 3\u00a0mi (4.8\u00a0km) of the Galveston Seawall, 17\u00a0ft (5.2\u00a0m) high, were built beginning in 1902 under the direction of Robert. In July 1904, the first segment was completed, though construction of the seawall continued for several decades, with the final segment finished in 1963. Upon completion, the seawall in its entirety stretched for more than 10\u00a0mi (16\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0053-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Protection\nAnother dramatic effort to protect Galveston was its raising, also recommended by Noble, Robert, and Ripley. Approximately 15,000,000\u00a0cu\u00a0yd (11,000,000\u00a0m3) of sand was dredged from the Galveston shipping channel to raise the city, some sections by as much as 17\u00a0ft (5.2\u00a0m). Over 2,100\u00a0buildings were raised in the process of pumping sand underneath, including the 3,000-st (2,700-t) St. Patrick's Church. According to historian David G. McComb, the grade of about 500\u00a0blocks had been raised by 1911. The seawall was listed among the National Register of Historic Places on August\u00a018, 1977, while the seawall and raising of the island were jointly named a National Historical Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers on October 11, 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0054-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Protection\nIn 1915, a storm similar in strength and track to the 1900 hurricane struck Galveston. The 1915 storm brought storm surge up to 12\u00a0ft (3.7\u00a0m), testing the integrity of the new seawall. Although 53\u00a0people on Galveston Island lost their lives in the 1915 storm, this was a great reduction from the thousands who died in 1900. Other powerful tropical cyclones would test the effectiveness of the seawall, including Hurricane Carla in 1961, Hurricane Alicia in 1983, and Hurricane Ike in 2008. Carla primarily caused severe coastal flood-related damage to structures unprotected by the seawall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0054-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Protection\nFollowing Hurricane Alicia, the Corps of Engineers estimated that the seawall prevented about $100\u00a0million in damage. Despite the seawall, Ike left extensive destruction in Galveston due to storm surge, with preliminary estimates indicating that up to $2\u00a0billion in damage occurred to beaches, dwellings, hospitals, infrastructure, and ports. Damage in Galveston and surrounding areas prompted proposals for improvements to the seawall, including the addition of floodgates and more seawalls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0055-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Open Era and beyond\nIn historiography, the hurricane and the rebuilding afterward divide what is known as the Golden Era (1875\u20131900) from the Open Era (1920\u20131957) of Galveston. The most important long-term impact of the hurricane was to confirm fears that Galveston was a dangerous place to make major investments in shipping and manufacturing operations; the economy of the Golden Era was no longer possible as investors fled. However, the city experienced a significant economic rebound beginning in the 1920s, when Prohibition and lax law enforcement opened up new opportunities for criminal enterprises related to gambling and bootlegging in the city. Galveston rapidly became a prime resort destination enabled by the open vice businesses on the island. This new entertainment-based economy brought decades-long prosperity to the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0056-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Open Era and beyond\nTo commemorate the hurricane's 100th anniversary in 2000, the 1900 Storm Committee was established and began meeting in January 1998. The committee and then-Mayor of Galveston, Roger Quiroga, planned several public events in remembrance of the storm, including theatrical plays, an educational fundraising luncheon, a candlelight memorial service, a 5K run, the rededication of a commemorative Clara Barton plaque, and the dedication of the Place of Remembrance Monument.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0056-0001", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Open Era and beyond\nAt the dedication of the Place of Remembrance Monument, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word sang Queen of the Waves and placed 10\u00a0roses and 90\u00a0other flowers around the monument to commemorate the 10\u00a0nuns and 90\u00a0children who perished after the hurricane destroyed the St. Mary's Orphans Asylum. Speakers at the candlelight memorial service included U. S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who was born in Galveston; Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration D. James Baker; and CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, who gained fame for his coverage during Hurricane Carla in 1961. The Daily News published a special 100th anniversary commemorative edition newspaper on September\u00a03, 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0057-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Open Era and beyond\nThe last reported survivor of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, Maude Conic of Wharton, Texas, died November\u00a014, 2004, at the claimed age of 116, although the 1900 census and other records indicate she was about 10\u00a0years younger than that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032786-0058-0000", "contents": "1900 Galveston hurricane, Aftermath, Open Era and beyond\nThe Galveston Historical Foundation maintains the Texas Seaport Museum at Pier 21 in the port of Galveston. Included in the museum is a documentary titled The Great Storm, that gives a recounting of the 1900 hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032787-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 1900 VFL season was the Geelong Football Club's fourth season in the Victorian Football League and its second with Peter Burns as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032787-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Geelong Football Club season\nGeelong finished the home and away with 9 wins and 5 losses, finishing in second position. In the final series, Geelong finished with 2 wins and 1 loss, finishing in second position on the Section B Ladder. Geelong failed to qualify for the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032787-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Geelong Football Club season, Playing List\nOnly three players played in all 17 matches this season, with a total of 31 players being used. Teddy Lockwood was the leading goalkicker with 24 this season. A total of 12 players made their debuts in the VFL, and Mick Donaghy, made his debut for Geelong, having departed from Carlton. Five players reached the 50 game milestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032787-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Geelong Football Club season, Season Summary\nGeelong were again competitive this season finishing with a 9-5 record in the home-and-away season. In the sectional rounds, Geelong's loss to Melbourne, and lack of a large victory against Collingwood and St Kilda, led to Geelong finishing in third position and being eliminated from the major premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032788-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Geneva Covenanters football team\nhe 1900 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1900 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Samuel G. Craig, the team compiled a record of 5\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032789-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1900 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032790-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1900 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and completed the season with a 2\u20134 record; no improvement at all over the previous year's mark under coach Gordon Saussy (2\u20133\u20131). Although the season started well with back-to-back victories, including Georgia's fourth straight victory over Georgia Tech, it ended with four consecutive losses. In fact, Georgia was outscored 99\u20130 in the last two games of the season at the hands of North Carolina and Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032790-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nMatters were not helped by the fact that Georgia only had three starting players return to the team from the 1899 team. One of the star players on the 1900 team was a young man who weighed only 110 pounds, but made up for his lack of size with skill, speed, agility and leadership skills. A notable player from the 1900 season was center Harold Hirsch. Hirsch played for Georgia during the 1900 and 1901 seasons and later became an influential attorney. In 1932, the University of Georgia School of Law moved into a building called the Harold Hirsch Law Building, named for Hirsch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032790-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Georgia Bulldogs football team, References, Additional sources\nThis College football 1900 season article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 67], "content_span": [68, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032791-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1900 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Georgia Tech Athletic Association was started after the winless season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe 1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally titled the I Coupe Internationale, was a motor race held on 14 June 1900, on public roads between Paris and Lyon in France. It was staged to decide the inaugural holder of the Gordon Bennett Cup, which was the first prize to be awarded for motorsport on an international level. The 568.66\u00a0km (353.35\u00a0mi) route started at Paris and headed south-west as far as Ch\u00e2teaudun. The route then took the competitors south-easterly, passing through Orl\u00e9ans, Nevers, and Roanne before reaching the finish at Lyon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe race was won by Fernand Charron, who represented France and drove a car manufactured by Panhard. L\u00e9once Girardot, also representing France on a Panhard, was the only other driver to finish. Five drivers had entered the race; three representing France, the maximum number any one country were permitted, one from Belgium, and one from the United States of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nPrior to 1900, automobile racing consisted of city-to-city races, organised by various national automobile clubs. The Gordon Bennett Cup was established by American millionaire James Gordon Bennett, Jr. with the intention of encouraging automobile industries internationally through sport. Bennett had moved to Paris in 1887 and came up with the idea of an international competition between representatives of national motoring clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nAmong the principles of the competition were that each country was limited to three entries, that the race to determine the winner of the cup would be between 550 and 650 kilometres and that the race would be held annually between 15 May and 15 August. Bennett commissioned a trophy, which he offered to the custody of the Automobile Club de France (ACF) who he also entrusted to draft the technical rules for the competition, and to arrange the inaugural event. The latter responsibility would then be bestowed on the motoring club who's representative won the previous year's race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nIn April 1900, a race for motor-tricycles was held from Paris-Roubaix. It was marred by many incidents, including a collision between two competitors which left two spectators injured, one of whom was the wife of the Deputy for the Department of the Seine. Soon after, motor racing was banned within the Department of the Seine, which was then extended by the Ministry of the Interior to all of France. Any exception to the law was required to be made through the central government, who had the choice of whether to grant a permit to allow a race to go ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nDespite rumours of building a purpose-built race track or moving the race to Italy, the race was eventually given permission to take place on public roads over the route between Paris and Lyons. However the final decision on whether the race should take place was not made until the afternoon of 12 June, less than two days before it was due to start, as the ACF had to persuade local authorities to allow the race to travel through their area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Route\nThe Autocar magazine had suggested that the route should take the competitors in a straight-line, so as to minimize the chance of foreign entrants getting lost. The initial route proposed by the ACF in January 1900 would take the competitors from Paris to Lyon by the most direct route, heading south through \u00c9tampes, Pithiviers, and Montargis before reaching Nevers and going on to Lyon. However, this proved too short a distance to be permitted under the regulations, and a diversion was added that saw the cars initially head south-west from Paris towards Chartres and to Ch\u00e2teaudun. From there, they'd turn to head south-easterly towards Orl\u00e9ans, passing through Gien and Briare before rejoining the originally planned route at Nevers. They would then proceed towards Moulins, Roanne, and l'Arbresle before reaching the finish at Lyons. The total distance to be covered was 353.35 miles (568.66\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Route\nThe late confirmation of the race taking place meant that route was, in places at least, lacking in terms of both signposting and crowd control. In addition, complaints were made that no map detailing the exact route was supplied to the competitors. Livestock and animals encroaching onto the road would prove to be a considerable hazard during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nEach country was limited to a maximum of three entries for the race. The cars were required to be manufactured in their entirety in the country they represented, including the tyres. The ACF racing regulations imposed a minimum weight limit\u2014excluding fuel, tools, upholstery, wings, lights and light fittings\u2014of 400 kilograms (882\u00a0lb) upon each car. Each car also had to be occupied by two people at all times: a driver and a riding mechanic. In the event the combined weight of the two occupants was less than 120 kilograms (265\u00a0lb), ballast was to be added to the car to make up the difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nThe ACF decided to choose its three drivers by balloting their representatives, the result of which was that Rene de Knyff, Fernand Charron, and L\u00e9once Girardot were chosen as the three French entries for the event. Accusations of bias were made, due to de Knyff being a director of Panhard, and Charron and Giradot both being in the business of selling Panhard cars. Nevertheless, the result of the ballot stood and the three would drive a Panhard, powered by a 5.3-litre (325 cu in) four-cylinder engine producing 24\u00a0brake horsepower (18\u00a0kW).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0008-0001", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nThe Belgian automobile club originally indicated they would also enter the maximum complement of three cars, however in the end only Camille Jenatzy was entered for the race. His car was listed as a Snoeck-Bolide, and was effectively a French-designed Lefebvre-Bolide car built under licence in Belgium by Etablissements Mathias Snoeck, in order to meet the requirement that all parts of the car be produced in the country that it represents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nGermany were also due to compete in the race; Eugen Benz was entered in a car manufactured by his father Karl Benz. It was powered by a two-cylinder engine which produced 15\u00a0bhp (11\u00a0kW). However, the entry was withdrawn shortly before the start, Eugen Benz citing the short notice given of the race taking place as his reason, although he had already travelled to Paris. The final entries came from the USA, Alexander Winton and Anthony L. Riker who were to drive cars bearing Winton's name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0009-0001", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nAlthough both arrived in Paris, only one car was designed as a racer, and Riker did not start the race. Winton's car was underpowered compared to its competitors, with a one-cylinder 3.7-litre (226 cu in) engine producing 16\u00a0bhp (12\u00a0kW). Uniquely amongst the cars, the Winton featured tiller steering rather than a steering wheel. The four nations were each allocated a colour, which their representatives' cars would be painted. These were blue for France, yellow for Belgium, white for Germany, and red for the USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nCompetitors gathered at the start line in Ville-d'Avray on the outskirts of Paris in the early hours of the morning of 14 June 1900. The race began at 3.14 am, at the drop of the starter's flag, with all five cars setting off together. Over the first five miles (8\u00a0km) of the race, to Versailles, there was one minute between the leader Giradot and fifth-place Winton. Giradot continued to extend his lead, and by the time the competitors reached Limours, approximately 30\u00a0km into the race, Giradot had extended his lead to three minutes over Charron in second place, de Knyff was in third, Belgium's Jenatzy in fourth, and Winton, the American, was fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nThe next part of the race took the competitors from Chartres, through Bonneval to Ch\u00e2teaudun, a 44\u00a0km stretch of road that was largely straight. Unofficial timings yielded average speeds over this section, with the leader Giradot averaging 35.3\u00a0mph. Charron was the fastest, averaging 41.1\u00a0mph and Jenatzy averaged 36.7\u00a0mph. Top gear had failed on de Knyff's Panhard, and this slowed his speed down to an average of around 30\u00a0mph. However, Winton was by far the slowest of the five cars over this section, with an average speed of just 20\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nFrom Ch\u00e2teaudun, the route headed south-easterly towards Orl\u00e9ans. Along this section, at Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, Charron hit a gutter that ran across the road whilst travelling at speeds in excess of 50\u00a0mph, bending the back axle of his Panhard. Spectators warned the cars that followed of the hazard, by holding a green flag 30 yards in advance to give the cars time to slow down before reaching the danger. Winton became the first driver to retire from the race, stopping at Orleans with a buckled wheel. The race order at Orl\u00e9ans, 173\u00a0km from the start, was Giradot leading by 17 minutes from Charron, with de Knyff third and a further 39 minutes behind, and Jenatzy fourth and three minutes further back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nAs Giradot was leaving Orl\u00e9ans, he swerved to avoid a horse that was in the road, and in doing so collided with a kerb stone, which damaged his Panhard's steering and broke one of the back wheels. The repairs to his back wheel took around 80 minutes, which meant that Charron assumed the race lead. de Knyff retired from the race at Glen, leaving two French cars and one Belgian car in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nCharron and Giradot ran at a similar pace as they covered the 93\u00a0km distance between Gien and Nevers, the difference between the two over the section being just two minutes in Charron's favour. Charron gained slightly more of an advantage between Nevers and Moulins, completing the section in a time approximately four minutes faster than Giradot. At Moulins, with 376 of the 569\u00a0km of the race completed, Jenatzy retired from the race, his car suffered from issues with its gears and ignition, and sustained damage after colliding with five or six dogs along the route.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nThe gap between Charron and Giradot, now the only two drivers left in the race, stayed around an hour-and-a-half for most of the remainder of the race. 12\u00a0km from the finish in Lyons, a St. Bernard dog ran into the road in front of Charron's Panhard, which was travelling at nearly 100\u00a0km/h and the two collided. The body of the dog wedged itself between the steering gear and the springs of the Panhard, causing Charron to lose control and the car to veer off to the left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0015-0001", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nIt passed through two trees at the side of the road, fell into a ditch and then went through a field before rejoining the road, again narrowly avoiding more trees. Despite the excursion, the only major damage to the Panhard was that a water pump had fallen loose. Charron therefore continued with his riding mechanic, Fournier, holding the pump in place for the remaining 12\u00a0km to the finish in Lyons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nCharron arrived at the finish control point, where a small crowd waited, at 12:23 pm, completing the race in nine hours and nine minutes, meaning he had averaged a speed of 38.6\u00a0mph. Giradot was the only other car to reach the finish, arriving at 2:00 pm having taken one hour, thirty-six minutes and twenty-three seconds longer than Charron to complete the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Post-race\nCharron's victory representing the ACF meant that France were the winners of the inaugural Gordon Bennett cup race, and the country would again host the contest the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Post-race\nThe race was not viewed as a successful event. The large gap between the only two cars to reach the end had made the finish an anticlimax. The limited number of entrants, that only two of them were from outside France and that the only two cars to finish were French also led to the race failing to make much of an impression internationally. American periodical The Horseless Age wrote at the time \"it is the impression (in the USA) that the race was very badly organized, that insufficient preparations had been made for it and that it must be looked upon as a failure\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032792-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 Gordon Bennett Cup, Post-race\nIn a bid to address these concerns, the next two Gordon Bennett Cup races would be run in conjunction with another city-to-city event, which allowed the Gordon Bennett race to share resources with another race which didn't have limits on entry and hence had a much larger field of cars. The cup wouldn't be competed for in a standalone race again until the 1903 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032793-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Grand National\nThe 1900 Grand National was the 62nd renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 30 March 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032794-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Greensburg Athletic Association season\nThe 1900 Greensburg Athletic Association season was Greensburg Athletic's 10th and last season season. The American football team finished with a record of 3\u20136\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032795-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1900 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1900 college football season. In its second season under head coach Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard compiled a 10\u20131 record, shut out seven of 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 205 to 44. The 1900 team won its first 10 games, but closed the season with a 28\u20130 loss against rival Yale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032795-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Harvard Crimson football team\nWalter Camp selected three Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1900 College Football All-America Team. They were ends John Hallowell and Dave Campbell and quarterback Charles Dudley Daly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032796-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1900 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its first season under head coach Alfred G. Ellick, Haskell compiled a 9\u20131 record and shut out six of ten opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032797-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Hastings and Macleay colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Hastings and Macleay on 1 March 1900 because Edmund Barton (Protectionist) resigned to travel to London with Alfred Deakin and Charles Kingston to explain the federation bill to the British Government. Francis Clarke was the former member who had resigned in 1898 to allow Barton to re-enter parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire\nThe 1900 Hoboken Docks fire occurred on June 30, 1900, and killed at least 326 persons in and around the Hoboken, New Jersey piers of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) shipping company. The piers were located in New York Harbor, at the foot of 3rd and 4th Streets in Hoboken, across the North River (Hudson River) from Manhattan in New York City. The area, a few blocks north of Hoboken Terminal, is now mostly part of the Hudson River, without docks; a waterfront bicycle path lines it. There is, however, a \"Pier C Park\" on the northern side of the disaster area, which juts out into the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire\nThe fire began when cotton bales stored on NDL's southernmost wharf caught fire, and winds carried the flames to nearby barrels of volatile liquids, such as turpentine and oil, which exploded in rapid succession. It burned NDL's Hoboken piers to the waterline, consumed or gutted nearby warehouses, gutted three of NDL's major transatlantic liners, and damaged or destroyed nearly two dozen smaller craft. Most of the victims were seamen and other workers, but included women visiting one of the ships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Ocean liner losses\nMany of the deaths occurred as the flames reached several of NDL's transatlantic steamships docked at the piers, including the Saale, Main, and Bremen. These ocean liners, which caught fire while their coal-fired steam engines were cold, became deathtraps for dozens of seamen and visitors who were unable to reach safety on deck, squeeze through portholes, or otherwise escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Ocean liner losses\nSaale was gutted, with the highest death toll. After she became engulfed in flames, her mooring lines were cut, leaving her to drift as fire reached those further below deck. Finally towed after she drifted toward New York piers, she settled in the Jersey flats near Liberty Island. Her death toll included her captain (August Johann Mirow), and members (primarily women) of a group known as Christian Endeavor, who were visiting the ship before the fire started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Ocean liner losses\nMain was furthest from the fire's starting point, but was soon engulfed with fire. She was unable to get loose from her moorings for more than seven hours, until the fire was nearly over. Damaged nearly beyond repair, Main was ultimately towed to Weehawken, New Jersey, where she was beached. Amazingly, 16 coal trimmers who had survived the fire hiding in a coal bunker then crawled out of the hulk. Two days after the fire began, the red-hot ship continued to smolder and smoke, which further delayed rescue and recovery efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Ocean liner losses\nBremen also burned intensely. After her crew threw off her mooring lines, she drifted until she was towed to mid-stream by tugs. She eventually ran aground upriver near Weehawken. More than 200 people were on board when the fire began, including visitors. Initial reports indicated that all managed to leave the ship, but many jumped and may not have reached shore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Ocean liner losses\nMany who died in the fires were interred at the Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Ocean liner losses\nThe holder of the Blue Riband at the time of the fire. NDL's Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was also docked in the company's Hoboken piers, but fared better than its sister ships. She was the first of the steamers that tugs tried to pull away from the pier (15 minutes after the fire began). Although she was afire at several places, fireboats soon put out those fires, and in the end she suffered little serious damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Ocean liner losses\nThe fire erupted on a Saturday that was considered a \u201chalf-holiday\u201d when no departures were scheduled. Had any of the ships been ready to sail, the loss of life and property would have been much greater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Other losses\nThe fire also destroyed several Campbell Stores warehouses, built by the Hoboken Land & Improvement Company, the nearby piers of the Scandinavian America Line and a railroad shed. According to The New York Times, the railroad shed belonged to West Shore Railroad, although it was more likely a shed of Hoboken Shore Railroad (which connected the West Shore Railroad's lines at the Weehawken Terminal to the Hoboken docks). A shed of Hamburg America Line was partly chopped down during the fire by the fire service to avoid spreading of the fire to the Hamburg America Line piers. The total value of property losses due to the fire was estimated (the morning after the fire) at $6.175 million, and (the following year) at $5.35 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Aftermath\nThe NDL replaced its Hoboken piers with larger, stronger and more fireproof structures. The new steel piers were known as Hoboken Pier Nos. 1, 2, and 3. All of the damaged ocean liners returned to maritime service, Saale under a different name (the SS J. L. Luckenbach).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Aftermath\nOn the first anniversary of the fire, a large granite monument was dedicated in Flower Hill Cemetery in North Bergen, New Jersey above a mass grave containing unidentifiable bodies of the victims, listing the names of the dead and missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Aftermath\nNews stories of the fire had described below-deck crew \u201ctrying in vain to force their way through the small portholes, while the flames pressed relentlessly upon them.\u201d The fire prompted arguments that portholes on all ships should be at least 11\u00a0in \u00d7\u00a013\u00a0in (28\u00a0cm \u00d7\u00a033\u00a0cm) in size, to make it easier for them to serve as a means of escape. Others responded that making portholes larger would be cost-prohibitive, or come at the expense of structural strength. In the end, regulations required portholes to be big enough for a person of reasonable size to escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Aftermath\nFive years later, a fire consumed the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Hoboken ferry piers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032798-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Aftermath\nThe piers immediately south of the NDL piers, owned before World War I by Hamburg America Line, were later also destroyed by fire. In 1921, two of the three piers (Hoboken Pier Nos. 5 and 6) were consumed in a fire that also scorched the SS\u00a0Leviathan. In August 1944, Pier No. 4 burned, killing three and briefly setting afire the SS Nathaniel Alexander, a Liberty ship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032799-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1900 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032799-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Holy Cross football team\nIn their third year under head coach Maurice Connor, the team compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record. W.C.T. O'Sullivan was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032799-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Holy Cross football team\nThe Holy Cross Football Fact Book shows a 5\u20133\u20131 record for 1900, but the results table does not match contemporary press reports, with the Andover, Colby and Wesleyan games given the wrong dates, and a win over Worcester Academy shown instead of the loss to Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032799-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Oval and the Worcester College Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1900 Home Nations Championship was the eighteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 6 January and 17 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal and a goal from mark were both worth four points. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nEngland: Gamlin (Devonport Albion), SF Coopper (Blackheath), GW Gordon-Smith (Blackheath), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), Elliot Nicholson (Birkenhead Park), RHB Cattell (Moseley) capt., GH Marsden (Morley), James Baxter (Birkenhead Park), A Cockerham (Bradford Olicana), Wallace Jarman (Bristol), CT Scott (Cambridge Uni), FJ Bell (Northern), Robert William Bell (Cambridge Uni), S Reynolds (Richmond), W Cobby (Hull)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Dan Rees (Swansea), George Davies (Swansea), Billy Trew (Swansea), Lou Phillips (Newport), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Bob Thomas (Swansea), Jere Blake (Cardiff), William Williams (Pontymister), Fred Miller (Mountain Ash), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Boots (Newport), Dick Hellings (Llwynypia)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Scotland\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), George Davies (Swansea), Billy Trew (Swansea), Lou Phillips (Newport), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Bob Thomas (Swansea), Jere Blake (Cardiff), William Williams (Pontymister), Fred Miller (Mountain Ash), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Boots (Newport), George Dobson (Cardiff)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Scotland\nScotland: H Rottenburg (London Scottish), JE Crabbie (Edinburgh Acads), WH Morrison (Edinburgh Acads), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh Uni), T Scott (Langholm), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), FH Fasson (London Scottish), John Dykes (London Scottish), GC Kerr (Edingburugh Wands), WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads) TM Scott (Hawick), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., FW Henderson (London Scottish), WJ Thomson (West of Scotland), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nEngland: Gamlin (Devonport Albion), GC Robinson (Percy Park), GW Gordon-Smith (Blackheath), JT Taylor (Castleford), Elliot Nicholson (Birkenhead Park), JC Marquis (Birkenhead Park), GH Marsden (Morley), James Baxter(Birkenhead Park), JH Shooter (Morley), John Daniell (Cambridge Uni) capt., CT Scott (Cambridge Uni), H Alexander (Birkenhead Park), Robert William Bell (Cambridge Uni), S Reynolds (Richmond), Alexander Todd (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nIreland: PE O'Brien-Butler (Monkstown), Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), C Reid (NIFC), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), Edward Fitzhardinge Campbell (Monkstown), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., JH Ferris (Queen's Uni, Belfast), F Gardiner (NIFC), M Ryan (Rockwell College), Samuel Irwin (Queen's Uni, Belfast), CE Allen (Derry), PC Nicholson (Dublin U), Arthur Meares (Dublin U), Jim Sealy (Dublin U), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nIreland: Cecil Boyd (Dublin U), Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., JH Ferris (Queen's Uni, Belfast), F Gardiner (NIFC), M Ryan (Rockwell College), HAS Irvine (? ), CE Allen (Derry), PC Nicholson (Dublin U), TJ Little (Bective Rangers), Jim Sealy (Dublin U), J Ryan (Rockwell College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nScotland: H Rottenburg (London Scottish), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), AR Smith (London Scottish), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh Uni), T Scott (Langholm), RT Nielson (West of Scotland), JT Mabon (Jed-Forest), John Dykes (London Scottish), GC Kerr (Edingburugh Wands), James Greenlees (Cambridge Uni), TM Scott (Hawick) capt., JA Campbell (Cambridge Uni), FW Henderson (London Scottish), WP Scott (West of Scotland), R Scott (Hawick)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nScotland: H Rottenburg (London Scottish), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), AR Smith (London Scottish), GT Campbell (London Scottish), T Scott (Langholm), RT Nielson (West of Scotland), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), LHI Bell (Edinburgh Acads), GC Kerr (Edinburgh Wands), WMC McEwan (Edinburgh Acads), A MacKinnon (London Scottish), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., HO Smith (Watsonians), WP Scott (West of Scotland), R Scott (Hawick)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Devonport Albion), GC Robinson (Percy Park), GW Gordon-Smith (Blackheath), WL Bunting (Moseley), R Forrest (Wellington), JC Marquis (Birkenhead Park), GH Marsden (Morley), James Baxter (Birkenhead Park), JH Shooter (Morley), John Daniell (Cambridge Uni) capt., AFC Luxmoore (Richmond), H Alexander (Birkenhead Park), Robert William Bell (Cambridge Uni), S Reynolds (Richmond), Alexander Todd (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), EF Campbell (Monkstown), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., JH Ferris (Queen's Uni, Belfast), Arthur Meares (Wanderers), M Ryan (Rockwell College), Samuel Irwin (Queen's Uni, Belfast), CE Allen (Derry), PC Nicholson (Dublin U), TJ Little (Bective Rangers), Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin U), J Ryan (Rockwell College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032800-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), George Davies (Swansea), Billy Trew (Swansea), Lou Phillips (Newport), Selwyn Biggs (Cardiff), Bob Thomas (Swansea), Jere Blake (Cardiff), William Williams (Pontymister), Fred Miller (Mountain Ash), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Boots (Newport), Dick Hellings (Penygraig)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032801-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football season\nThe 1900 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team won the professional football championship of 1900. The team was affiliated with the Homestead Library & Athletic Club in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. The team featured a lineup of former college All-Americans paid by Pittsburgh Pirates' minority-owner William Chase Temple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032801-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football season, Organization\nIn 1898, William Chase Temple took over the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, becoming the first individual team owner in professional football. In 1900, most of the Duquesne players were hired by the Homestead Library & Athletic Club, by offering them higher salaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 68], "content_span": [69, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032801-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football season, Organization\nOver the next two season (1900 and 1901), Homestead fielded the best professional football team in the country and did not lose a game. The 1900 team reportedly paid its player \"from $50 to $100 a game plus 'expenses.'\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 68], "content_span": [69, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032801-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football season, Organization\nAfter two years as captain of the Duquesne team, Dave Fultz from Brown University was hired by Homestead and served as the team's captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 68], "content_span": [69, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032801-0003-0001", "contents": "1900 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football season, Organization\nOther players for the 1900 Homestead team included Pete Overfield (center from Penn), Bemus Pierce, Art Poe (end from Princeton), Otto Wagenhurst (from Penn), Charlie Gelbert (end from Penn), Church (tackle from Princeton), John Hall (end from Yale), George Young (from Cornell), J. A. Gammons (from Brown University), Willis Richardson (from Brown), Artie Miller (from the Carlisle Indian School), Lewis (from Georgetown), Winstein (guard from Brown), Edward (guard from Princeton), Young (quarterback from Cornell), and Kennedy (quarterback from the University of Chicago).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 68], "content_span": [69, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032801-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football season, Season summary\nBefore the season, the schedule was announced as: October 6 vs. Pittsburgh College, October 13 vs. Altoona, October 20 @ Greensburg, October 27 vs. Detroit A.C., November 3 @ Latrobe, November 6 vs. Duquesne C. & A.C., November 10 vs. Greensburg, November 17 vs Lehigh, November 24 vs. Latrobe, November 29 vs. Bucknell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032802-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Hull\u2013Ottawa fire\nThe Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900 was a devastating fire in 1900 that destroyed much of Hull, Quebec, and large portions of Ottawa, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032802-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Hull\u2013Ottawa fire, Incident\nAround 10 AM on April 26 a defective chimney on a house in Hull caught fire, which quickly spread between the wooden houses due to windy conditions. Within two hours the blaze had destroyed several surrounding blocks. At that point it began to spread along the river, where there were large lumber companies on the banks and islands, and huge amounts of stacked lumber that quickly ignited. By 1 PM the fire jumped the river on embers and set the Ottawa side ablaze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032802-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Hull\u2013Ottawa fire, Incident\nTwo thirds of Hull was destroyed, including 40 per cent of its residential buildings and most of its largest employers along the waterfront. The fire also spread across the Ottawa River, carried by wind borne embers and destroyed a large swath of western Ottawa from the Lebreton Flats south to Dow's Lake. About one fifth of Ottawa was destroyed with almost everything in the band between Booth Street and the rail line leveled. Much of the city's industry was destroyed, including two major ironworks, two flourmills, and both the Ottawa Electric Railway and Electric Lighting Company. Parliament was adjourned following the loss of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032802-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Hull\u2013Ottawa fire, Incident\nPrevailing wind patterns and the higher elevation of central Ottawa prevented the fire from spreading east. The fire break created by the rail line also preserved the Hintonburg area. The fire engines 'The Conqueror' and 'La France' had to be abandoned to the flames, and the call went out to five communities for assistance in fighting the blaze, including Montreal and Toronto. Montreal was able to send a fire engine by rail, which arrived in less than two hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032802-0003-0001", "contents": "1900 Hull\u2013Ottawa fire, Incident\nDynamiting houses to block the fire's spread was considered, but this plan was rejected in view of the danger that falling debris from the blast would only spread the conflagration further. The fire was largely contained by midnight thanks to a shift in winds and the efforts of firefighters as well as the Ottawa Militia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032802-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Hull\u2013Ottawa fire, Incident\nSeven people were killed in the blaze, and fifteen thousand were made homeless, including 14% of the population of Ottawa and 42% of Hull's population. Property losses amounted to $6,200,000 in Ottawa and $3,300,000 in Hull, with insurance covering 50% of the damage in Ottawa but only 23% of the damage in Hull. More were killed by disease in the densely packed tent cities where the people were forced to live afterwards. Worldwide response to the disaster generated $957,000 in aid, including $4.86 from distant Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032802-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Hull\u2013Ottawa fire, Legacy\nA Souvenir photo views of the big fire, Ottawa & Hull, April 26, 1900, was produced. A postcard was produced showing the aftereffects of the Ottawa Hull Fire of April 26, 1900, with a view of The Hotel Cecil on the south side of Wellington Street in Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032803-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Democratic nominee Frank W. Hunt defeated Republican nominee D. W. Standrod with 50.87% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032804-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1900 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1900 Western Conference football season. In their first season under head coach Fred Smith, the Illini compiled a 7\u20133\u20132 record and finished in eighth place in the Western Conference. End/halfback Arthur R. Hall was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032805-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Illinois gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032805-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Illinois gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor John Riley Tanner retired in order to unsuccessfully run for U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032805-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Illinois gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee Richard Yates Jr. defeated Democratic nominee Samuel Alschuler with 51.49% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032805-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Results\nThe Democratic state convention was held on June 26 and 27, 1900 at the State Capitol in Springfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032805-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results\nThe Republican state convention was held from May 8, 1900 at Peoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032806-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. It saw the reelection of incumbent Republican William Northcott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032807-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1900 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1900 Western Conference football season. In their third season under head coach James H. Horne, the Hoosiers compiled a 4\u20132\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 110 to 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032808-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Indiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900 in all 92 counties in the state of Indiana. Winfield T. Durbin was elected governor over his Democratic opponent, John W. Kern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032808-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Indiana gubernatorial election, Nominations\nDurbin was nominated to run for governor in 1900, and easily won the convention vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032808-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Indiana gubernatorial election, Nominations\nOpinion was strongly against Democrats, and the leading members of the party refused to run for governor that year. The party fielded John Kern, a former state senator, to oppose Durbin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032808-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Indiana gubernatorial election, General election\nDurbin became the first governor to win by majority in twenty-five years. Durbin's primary goal as governor was to bring efficiency to the state, and reform the government to function more economically, and to enact progressive legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032809-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge\nThe 1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the first edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032809-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, History\nThe tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team who came up with the idea of challenging the British to a tennis competition. Once the idea received the go-ahead from the United States Lawn Tennis Association and the British Lawn Tennis Association, Dwight F. Davis, one of the four Harvard players, designed a tournament format and spent money from his own pocket to purchase an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve, Crump & Low. The first match between the United States and the British Isles was held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900. The American team, of which Davis was a part, won the first three matches and the Challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032810-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1900 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1900 Western Conference football season. This was the first season the Hawkeyes played in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032811-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1900 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach C. E. Woodruff, the Cyclones compiled a 2\u20135\u20131 record and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 100 to 38. L. M. Chambers was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032811-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032812-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Isle of Wight by-election\nThe 1900 Isle of Wight by-election was held on 23 May 1900 after the resignation of the incumbent Conservative Sir Richard Webster to become Master of the Rolls which meant accepting a peerage. The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate John Seely. The Liberal candidate, Godfrey Baring was the chairman of the Isle of Wight County Council and would become the Liberal MP in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032813-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Italian Football Championship\nThe 1900 Italian Football Championship season was won by Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032813-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Italian Football Championship, Qualifications, Lombardy\nMilan was the only registered team. The team was admitted directly to Round 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032813-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Italian Football Championship, References and sources\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032814-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Italian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Italy on 3 June 1900, with a second round of voting on 10 June. The \"ministerial\" left-wing bloc remained the largest in Parliament, winning 296 of the 508 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032814-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Italian general election, Electoral system\nThe election was held using 508 single-member constituencies. However, prior to the election the electoral law was amended so that candidates needed only an absolute majority of votes to win their constituency, abolishing the second requirement of receiving the votes of at least one-sixth of registered voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032814-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Italian general election, Historical background\nUpon the fall of Antonio Starabba di Rudin\u00ec in June 1898, General Luigi Pelloux was entrusted by King Umberto with the formation of a cabinet, and took for himself the post of minister of the interior. He resigned office in May 1899 over his Chinese policy, but was again entrusted with the formation of a government. His new cabinet was essentially military and conservative, the most decisively conservative since 1876.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032814-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Italian general election, Historical background\nHe took stern measures against the revolutionary elements in southern Italy. The Public Safety Bill for the reform of the police laws, taken over by him from the Rudin\u00ec cabinet, and eventually promulgated by royal decree. The law made strikes by state employees illegal; gave the executive wider powers to ban public meetings and dissolve subversive organisations; revived the penalties of banishment and preventive arrest for political offences; and tightened control of the press by making authors responsible for their articles and declaring incitement to violence a crime. The new coercive law was fiercely obstructed by the Socialist Party of Italy (PSI), which, with the Left and Extreme Left, succeeded in forcing General Pelloux to dissolve the Chamber in May 1900, and to resign office after the general election in June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032815-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 K Street\n1900 K Street is a high-rise building located in Washington, D.C., United States. The building broke ground in 1995, with its construction being completed in 1996. The building rises to 52 metres (171\u00a0ft), containing 13 floors and a total floor area of 102,851 m2. The architect of the building was Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, who designed the postmodern architectural style of the building, which is built with glass and steel material. The building serves for office use. The building is managed by Hines, Inc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032816-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1900 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In August 1900, Lawrence W. Boynton, a recent graduate of Cornell, accepted an offer to serve as the Kansas football coach. In their only season under Boynton, the Jayhawks compiled a 2\u20135\u20132 record and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 118 to 75. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Charles Wilcox was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032817-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032818-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Incumbent Republican William Eugene Stanley defeated People's Party nominee John W. Breidenthal with 52.25% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032819-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Katyusha\n1900 Katyusha (prov. designation: 1971 YB) is a stony background asteroid from the inner asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 December 1971, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula and named in honor of Yekaterina Zelenko, the only woman to credited with conducting an aerial ramming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032819-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Katyusha, Orbit and classification\nKatyusha is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the inner main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9\u20132.5\u00a0AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,200 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 7\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032819-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Katyusha, Naming\nThis minor planet was named in honor of Ukrainian Yekaterina Zelenko (1916\u20131941), a war pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union, known for being the only woman who had ever executed an aerial ramming. The asteroid's name \"Katyusha\" is a petname for Ekaterina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032819-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Katyusha, Physical characteristics\nIt rotates around its axis with a period of 9.4999 hours and with a brightness variation of 0.72 magnitude, indicating a non-spheroidal shape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032819-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Katyusha, Physical characteristics\nAccording to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Katyusha measures between 8.820 and 9 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.29 and 0.299. Katyusha has been characterized as a S-type asteroid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032820-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Kendall Orange and Black football team\nThe 1900 Kendall Orange and Black football team represented Henry Kendall College (later renamed the University of Tulsa) during the 1900 college football season. The team compiled a 2\u20131 record. In its only intercollegiate game, the team defeated Bacone College by a 33\u20130 score. The team also defeated Krebs High School (11\u20135) and lost to the Cherokee Male Seminary (0\u201318).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032821-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1900 Kentucky Derby was the 26th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 3, 1900. The winning time of 2:06.25 set a new Derby record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032822-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1900 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032823-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1900 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 12th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032823-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nMooncoin won the championship after a 5-09 to 1-15 defeat of Freshford in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first in 12 championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032824-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1900 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. After a year with coach John P. Gregg, the Tigers rehired Edmond Chavanne for the head coaching position at LSU football. The 1900 season featured two games against Millsaps, one at Tulane, and one against Louisiana State University alumni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032825-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Lafayette football team\nThe 1900 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1900 college football season. Lafayette shut out seven opponents and finished with a 9\u20132 record in their second year under head coach Samuel B. Newton. Significant games included victories over Lehigh (34\u20130 and 18\u20130), and Cornell (17\u20130), and losses to Princeton (0\u20135) and Penn (5\u201312). The 1900 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 214 to 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032825-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Lafayette football team\nThree Lafayette players received recognition on the 1900 College Football All-America Team. They are: center Walter E. Bachman (Caspar Whitney, 1st team); guard Trout (Whitney, 2nd team); and fullback David Dudley Cure (Walter Camp, 2nd team; deemed \"ineligible\" by Whitney).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032826-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1900 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their sixth season in existence. The team finished 5-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032827-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Lehigh football team\nThe 1900 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Walter R. Okeson, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 172 to 79.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032828-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1900 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 12th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032828-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nSallymount won the championship after a 7-01 to 2-04 defeat of Rathkeale in the final. It remains their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Thursday 1 November 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election\nThere were a total of 30 wards, each with one seat up for election, with the exception of Walton, which was a new ward with 3 councillors elected at this election. There were 5 new seats at this election\u00a0: Anfield (1 seat); Walton (3 seats) and Wavertree (1 seat). Of the 32 seats up for election 17 seats were contested and 15 uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1897 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic election\nOn 9 November 1900, Councillor William Roberts (Conservative, Dingle, elected 1 November 1899) was elected by the Council (Councillors and Aldermen) as an Alderman and assigned to the newly created ward of Walton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 21 Abercromby, 29 January 1901\nThe resignation of Alderman Alexander Garnett (Conservative, elected as an alderman in 1883 1889 and 1895) was reported to the council on 5 December 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 21 Abercromby, 29 January 1901\nCouncillor Maxwell Hyslop Maxwell the younger (Conservative, Abercromby, elected 1 November 1898) was elected by the council as an alderman on 2 January 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 26 Dingle, 27 November 1900\nCaused by the election of Councillor William Roberts (Conservative, Dingle, elected 1 November 1899) was elected by the Council (Councillors and Aldermen) as an Alderman and assigned to the newly created ward of Walton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 11 Kensington, 28 February 1901\nThe resignation of Alderman Sir Thomas Hughes (Conservative, elected as an alderman on 19 March 1891 and 9 November 1895) was reported to the council on 2 January 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 11 Kensington, 28 February 1901\nCouncillor Dr. Thomas Clarke (Conservative, Kensington, elected 2 November 1898) was elected as an alderman by the council on 6 February 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 10 Low Hill, 28 February 1901\nThe resignation of Councillor Charles Stewart Dean (Conservative, Low Hill, elected 1 November 1899) was reported to the Council on 6 February 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 20 Great George\nThe resignation of Councillor John Henderson (Great George, elected 25 November 1898) was reported to the council on 6 March 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032829-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 3 Anfield, 10 May 1901\nCaused by the death of Councillor Robert Atwood Beaver (Conservative, Anfield, elected 1 November 1900) on 12 April 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032830-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool School Board election\nElections to the Liverpool School Board were held on Friday 16 November 1900. These were held every three years, when all fifteen board members were elected. There were nineteen candidates for the fifteen board member positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032830-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Liverpool School Board election\nAfter the elections, the composition of the school board was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032831-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 London University by-election\nThe London University by-election of 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of London University on 6\u201310 February 1900. It was won by the Liberal Unionist party candidate Sir Michael Foster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032831-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 London University by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting Liberal Unionist Party MP Sir John Lubbock. Lubbock had held the seat since 1880, having previously been one of the MPs for the multi-member seat of Maidstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032831-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 London University by-election, Result\nSir Michael Foster won the election with a majority of 15 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032831-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 London University by-election, Result\nThe election result was formally announced in the theatre of the university on 12 February 1900, following which Foster gave a short speech. He stated that the graduates of the university had for the first time returned a fellow graduate as their member, and told them he would be independent in his opinions even if he supported the present Unionist government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032832-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 1900 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 3, 1900. Meredith P. Snyder was elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032833-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Louisiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on April 17, 1900. This was the first state election after the adoption of Louisiana's 1898 constitution, which disenfranchised nearly all of the state's Black voters, who had been the core supporters of the Republican Party. The constitution had been prompted by the unusually strong voter support for Republicans and Populists in the 1896 Louisiana gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032833-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Louisiana gubernatorial election\nWith most of its voters disenfranchised, Louisiana's Republican Party had virtually no electoral support, as in most Southern states between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. In addition, a factional split among the few white Republicans who remained meant two different tickets in the governor's race, one (the \"Lily-Whites\") led by Donelson Caffery, Jr., son of Louisiana Senator Donelson Caffery, who was a Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032833-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Louisiana gubernatorial election\nAs Louisiana had not yet adopted party primaries, this meant that the Democratic Party convention nomination vote was the real contest over who would be governor. The election resulted in the election of Democrat William Wright Heard as governor of Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032834-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 10, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032834-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Maine gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Governor Llewellyn Powers did not seek re-election. Republican candidate John Fremont Hill defeated Democratic candidate Samuel L. Lord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032835-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Maltese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Malta on 16 and 17 September 1900, the third in three years. Only one of the thirteen elected seats was contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032835-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Maltese general election, Background\nThe elections were held under the Knutsford Constitution. Ten members were elected from single-member constituencies, whilst a further three members were elected to represent nobility and landowners, graduates and the Chamber of Commerce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032835-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Maltese general election, Results\nA total of 9,301 people were registered to vote, although votes were only cast in one constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032836-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1900 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 1900 college football season. The team did not have a coach, and outscored their opponents 20\u20130 in three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032836-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1900 season marked the second undefeated season in a row for Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032837-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1900 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach F. H. Peters, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record and outscored their opponents, 68 to 67. The team did not play any intercollegiate football games in 1900, with all eight games being played against local high schools, preparatory schools, an athletic club, and a military academy (Charlotte Hall Military Academy).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032838-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1900 college football season. The team was coached by Fred W. Murphy and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1900 season was Brown's last as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 5\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032839-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1900. Incumbent Republican Governor W. Murray Crane was re-elected to a second term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032840-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 121st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1900 during the governorship of Winthrop M. Crane. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and James J. Myers served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season\nThe 1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 27th season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. It was the first season run for clubs that represented a district. Eight clubs (seven representing a district, the remaining club representing Sydney University) competed from May till August 1900. The season culminated in the first district premiership, which was won by Glebe. Glebe were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Background\nAs early as 1893 it had been suggested to change the current structure of the premiership to a district-based formula. The idea was that district teams would distribute the top players amongst more teams creating a more equal competition. This would encourage crowds at matches to grow in size. However, members of the union were reluctant and voted against the proposal. This was based upon the grounds that the current clubs had a strong supporter base that may be lost if their club was barred from the competition. As well, it was believed that crowd sizes were adequate and not in fear of falling. The idea of district competition continued to be discussed over the following seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Background\nAt a NSWRFU meeting in early August, 1896, a motion was proposed and carried concerning district football. The proposal recommended that the County of Cumberland (Sydney and surrounding suburbs) be separated into eight districts and that the Senior and First Junior matches be played between these clubs. The eight districts proposed were North Sydney, Redfern, Glebe, St. George, Balmain, Paddington, Western Suburbs and East Sydney. The proposal included the University club who would only include players who were undergraduates. Districts were arranged upon electorate lines. The NSWRFU rejected the proposal in a heated and passionate meeting with the votes 44 to 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Background\nOn 26 September 1898, at a meeting of the Metropolitan Rugby Football Union, the following recommendation was proposed, \"That the football competition next season shall be competed for by clubs whose members are residents of such districts as may be allowed to each club.\" A ballot was taken and the recommendation won 22 to 12. A committee was set up to draw up a scheme to divide the Sydney region into eight districts, including Sydney University. However, the change was postponed to start in 1900 due to the eminent arrival of the English team and being able to adequately form a competitive team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Background\nIn 1900 a meeting of the Metropolitan Rugby Football Union was held and a recommendation to establish district football in the coming season was made. The motion was carried with a majority in favour. In response, existing clubs indicated their support for the new competition by either disbanding the current club or removing themselves from the senior competition. Meetings were held across the city over the coming months to form the various district clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nEight clubs contested the season; seven clubs representing a district and one club representing Sydney University. The 'Varsity were allowed to continue in the Premiership with the restriction that all players were required to be either current or former students. Each of the district clubs were newly formed with the foundations in former clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 22 March 1900Ground: Rushcutters Bay OvalCaptain: Percy Macnamara", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 23 March 1900Ground: North Sydney OvalCaptain: Paddy Lane", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 19 August 1865Ground: University OvalCaptain: Harry Wood & Horace Jones", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season summary\nThe 1900 Sydney Rugby Premiership and the move to a district-based structure was deemed a success. Greater public interest in football was seen with crowd attendances at games a positive. At the final round of the season, the top-of-the-table clash between Glebe and Sydney University at University Oval saw approximately 7,000 in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season summary\nThe winning club, Glebe, demonstrated more consistency during the season than the other clubs. After starting the season with four wins in the first seven rounds, they consistently developed their team until they were regarded as the finest team over the remaining seven rounds. They also benefitted from a very low injury toll to their players. Glebe won the two lower grade competitions to add to their first grade triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season summary\nSydney University performed very well to become runners-up considering they had a terrible injury toll. This included their captain HD Wood whose career was ended due to his injuries. Their success was mostly due to players such as Harry Blaney and Frank Futter who scored nearly half of their tries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season summary\nFor a greater part of the season, North Sydney were favourites for the premiership having only lost one game in the first ten rounds. However, when the club met Glebe in round eleven, they lost the game and three of their players were injured. The next round saw another injury to a player. North Sydney lost the last four remaining games (rounds 11 to 14) and with that the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower grades\nThe MRFU also conducted Second Grade and Third Grade competitions for teams representing the district clubs. Glebe were victorious in both lower grade competitions and were thus declared club champions across all three grades. Overall, the club had only lost two games across all three grades, being undefeated in both lower grade competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower grades, Second grade\nAll of the clubs competing in the First Grade competition entered a team in Second Grade. Teams were: North Sydney, South Sydney, Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs, Newtown, Glebe, Balmain and Sydney university. At the conclusion of the season, Glebe finished the season undefeated at the top of the table and were declared Premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032841-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower grades, Third grade\nThe same clubs competed in the Third Grade competition. Teams were: North Sydney, South Sydney, Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs, Newtown, Glebe, Balmain and Sydney University. At the conclusion of the season, Glebe again finished the season undefeated at the top of the table and were declared Premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032842-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Mexican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Mexico in 1900. Incumbent Porfirio D\u00edaz was the only candidate for the presidency, and was re-elected with 100% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032843-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1900 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1900 college football season. Under new head coach Alonzo Edwin Branch, Miami compiled a 0\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032844-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1900 college football season. In their second year under head coach Charles Bemies, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20133 record and were outscored by their opponents 67 to 51.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032845-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1900 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1900 college football season. The team compiled a record of 0\u20134, failed to score a point, and was outscored by a combined total of 81 to 0. Austin F. Jones was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032845-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nIn early September 1900, Clayton Teetzel was hired as Michigan State Normal's director of athletics and football coach. Teetzel was 24 years old at the time of his hiring; he had played football for the University of Michigan from 1897 to 1899 before graduating with a law degree in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032845-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nBy October 2, 1900, the enrollment at Michigan State Normal had reached 750 students. Another 200 or 300 students were expected by the end of the week. The school's prominence in the ranks of teaching school's was advanced by the Journal of Pedagogy's 1900 move of its headquarters from Syracuse, New York, to Ypsilanti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1900 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1900 Western Conference football season. In their first and only season under head coach Langdon Lea, the team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record (3\u20132 against conference opponents), finished fourth in the Western Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 117 to 55. Michigan opened the season with six wins, but went 1\u20132\u20131 in the final four games, including losses to Iowa and Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team\nRight end Neil Snow was the captain of the 1900 team. Right halfback Daniel Woodard was the team's leading scorer with 25 points on five touchdowns (five points each). Fullback Everett Sweeley added 22 points on two touchdowns (both long kickoff returns), seven kicks for goal after touchdown (one point each), and a field goal (five points). Tackle Hugh White also had 20 points on four touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team\nAfter the 1900 season, Langdon Lea left Michigan to become the head coach at his alma mater, Princeton. Michigan hired Fielding H. Yost as its head football coach for the 1901 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nIn 1900, Michigan hired Langdon Lea, who had played for Princeton from 1892 to 1895, as its head football coach. A newspaper reported on expectations raised by his hiring: \"Coach Langdon Lea, the famous Princetonian, is expected to revolutionize affairs among the Wolverines and to raise the team to its old standing. The great trouble in the past few years has been the lack of efficient coaching, and it is hoped that Lea will supply that necessary.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0003-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nAnother newspaper reported on the hiring of Lea away from Princeton this way: \"Langdon Lea, better known as 'Biffy,' is to coach the Michigan university team. This practice of putting well known eastern football players in charge of the teams of western universities has certainly improved the standard of play, and in many instances has often wrought havoc with the alma maters of the coaches. Some years ago the big eastern colleges tried to prevent their graduates from accepting positions as coaches on other teams, but the fat salaries offered were inducements too great to be cast aside.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nLea brought with him Martin V. Bergen, another Princeton alumnus, as his assistant coach in charge of the backs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nTraining camp got underway on approximately September 25 with coaches Lea and Bergen. Lea expressed concern with the team's lack of depth at the tackle, guard, and center positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Hillsdale\nOn September 29, 1900, Michigan opened its season with a 29\u20130 victory over Hillsdale in front of a crowd of approximately 300 members of the Athletic Association at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The game was played in two halves of 10 minutes. The whole game lasted approximately 30 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Hillsdale\nMichigan scored five touchdowns (worth five points each) and kicked four goals from touchdown (worth one point each). The touchdowns were scored by the left halfback Edward Everett Webber, right halfback Daniel Woodard (two), left end Charles Woodhams, and fullback Everett Sweeley. The goals were kicked by Webber (three) and Sweeley. Woodhams blocked a Hillsdale punt and recovered it over the goal line for his touchdown. Sweeley's touchdown was scored on a 100-yard kickoff return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Hillsdale\nAfter the game, Michigan coach Langdon Lea conducted a football tutorial for both the Michigan and Hillsdale players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Kalamazoo\nOn October 6, 1900, Michigan defeated Kalamazoo by an 11\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. On the opening kickoff, Everett Sweeley took the ball at the five-yard line and ran 105 yards (the field was 110 yards in 1900) for a touchdown behind excellent interference from his Michigan teammates, including Neil Snow. Edward Everett Webber kicked the goal from touchdown to give Michigan a 6\u20130 lead. In the second half, Hugh White scored Michigan's second touchdown on a two-yard run, and Snow missed the kick for goal from touchdown. Ned Begle had a 60-yard punt for Michigan. The game was played in 15-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Case\nOn October 13, 1900, Michigan defeated Case Scientific School by a 24\u20136 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored on touchdowns by Edward Everett Webber, Tom Marks, Frank Boggs, and Ned Begle. Michigan converted all four goals from touchdown (two by Webber and one each by Neil Snow and Albert E. Herrnstein). Michigan's defense held Case to only two first downs in the game. Case scored when a Michigan punt from inside the five-yard line was blocked and recovered by left end Peterka across Michigan's goal line. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0010-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Case\nAfter the game, coach Lea said: \"I have only to say that the team played altogether too slow. They were slow in lining up and slow in calling signals. . . . About Case scoring, the fault lies with the line for not holding and with Begle for being too slow punting.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Purdue\nOn October 20, 1900, Michigan opened its Western Conference schedule with an 11\u20136 win over Purdue before a homecoming crowd of 2,500 at Regents Field. The game was played in 25-minute halves. Michigan gained 301 yards in the game, and the line limited Purdue to only one first down. Sweeley also received praise for his punting, including one instance where he recovered his own punt. Purdue's touchdown came when Sweeley lost a punt in the sun, fumbled it at Michigan's 39-yard line, and a Purdue player (Miller) returned it for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0011-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Purdue\nRight halfback Daniel Woodard scored Michigan's first touchdown, and Sweeley missed the kick for goal. Left tackle Hugh White scored Michigan's second touchdown, and Sweeley kicked the goal. White's touchdown came on a play in which Neil Snow blocked a Purdue punt, and White recovered the loose ball over the goal line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: vs. Illinois\nOn October 27, 1900, Michigan defeated Illinois by a 12\u20130 score before a crowd estimated at between 8,000 and 10,000 persons at Marshall Field in Chicago. Michigan fans occupied the east bleachers, and Illinois fans with their band the west bleachers. An additional 2,000 students listened to the returns at the campus gymnasium in Ann Arbor. The game began at 2:43\u00a0p.m. Left halfback Daniel Woodard scored Michigan's first touchdown on a two-yard run in the first half, and Everett Sweeley kicked for goal. Later in the first half, right tackle Hugh White ran one yard for a touchdown, and Sweeley again kicked for goal. Neither team scored in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Indiana\nOn November 3, 1900, Michigan defeated Indiana by a 12\u20130 score before a crowd of 2,000 persons at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The game was played in halves of 25 and 20 minutes. Indiana's players outweighed the Michigan players and utilized \"Pennsylvania's guards back formation\" to capitalize on their superior weight. However, Michigan's defense held and did not allow the Hoosiers to score. The game was marked by \"rough play\", including an Indiana player slugging Curtis Redden in the face, though unseen by the umpire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0013-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Indiana\nRight halfback Daniel Woodard scored Michigan's first touchdown on a short run in the first half, and Everett Sweeley kicked for goal. In the second half, Indiana attempted to punt from behind the goal line, and the ball hit the cross bar of the goal. The ball bounced backward, and Redden fell on it for Michigan's second touchdown. Sweeley again kicked for goal. After the game, Michigan trainer Keene Fitzpatrick noted: \"Indiana has a heavy team; I believe it is the heaviest I ever saw Michigan play against here in the west.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: vs. Iowa\nOn November 10, 1900, Michigan lost to Iowa by a 28\u20135 score at Bennett Park in Detroit. The game drew 5,000 persons, the largest crowd to watch a football game in Detroit to that time. In the hours before the game began, large numbers of Michigan fans arrived in Detroit and paraded through the city streets behind their band, wearing ribbons, blowing horns, and singing songs. However, the large and boisterous Michigan crowd had no impact on Iowa. Michigan's student newspaper described the Iowa attack as follows: \"Iowa has developed team work that is little short of wonderful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0014-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: vs. Iowa\nTheir tandem plays and shell-like formations sent the man with the ball for an almost sure gain in every scrimmage.\" Everett Sweeley accounted for Michigan's only points on a field goal from place kick (field goals were worth five points under 1900 rules) from the thirty-five yard line just before the end of the second half. The game was played in 35-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Notre Dame\nOn November 17, 1900, Michigan defeated Pat O'Dea's Notre Dame team by a 7\u20130 score at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Early in the game, Notre Dame fumbled a punt, and Michigan recovered the ball at Notre Dame's 10-yard line. Left halfback Arthur Redner then \"took a cross buck\" and ran through Notre Dame's left tackle for a touchdown. A short time later, Notre Dame fullback Louis J. Salmon attempted to punt from deep in Notre Dame territory. The snap went wide, and the ball rolled over the goal line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0015-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Notre Dame\nSalmon picked up the ball, but he was tackled by Redner for a safety. Both Michigan scores came in the first ten minutes of the game, and Notre Dame dominated the line of scrimmage for the remainder of the game. Salmon starred for Notre Dame and was praised for his punting and ball carrying. Michigan's Neil Snow did not play due to injury. The game was played in halves of 25 and 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State\nOn November 24, 1900, Michigan and Ohio State played to a scoreless tie before a crowd of 3,000 spectators at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Three trains from Ohio, two from Columbus and one from Toledo, poured into Ann Arbor on the morning of the game, bringing 1,200 Ohio State fans \"[b]edecked in cardinal and gray ribbons and flourishing gaudy Ohio banners\". The U. of M. Daily noted that the Ohio fans \"took the town by storm\" and that 200 Ohio State co-eds \"set a worthy example for the girls at Michigan.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State\nAs the game commenced at 2:30\u00a0p.m., snow and sleet began falling. The field became muddy and slippery, making it difficult for either team's ball carriers to gain traction or speed in advancing the ball. Ohio utilized \"straight football\" while on offense with McClaren and Westwater as the main ball carriers. During the second half, Michigan employed a \"tandem formation\" in an effort to aggregate sufficient weight to gain ground on the slippery field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0017-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State\nMichigan advanced to Ohio State's 13-yard line in the second half, but came up a half inch short of the five yards required for first down and lost the ball on downs. Everett Sweeley and Neil Snow were the stars of the game for Michigan. In the second half, with the wind in Michigan's favor, \"Sweeley's kicking gave Michigan an advantage, and the play was entirely in Ohio's territory.\" Despite the Wolverines' inability to score, The U. of M. Daily wrote that the team \"put up the best game it has shown this season with the possible exception of the Illinois game.\" The game was played in 25-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Ohio State\nAfter the game, coach Lea said: \"The team played good but not fast enough. . . . The tandem play seemed in a measure to help on the slippery field, but it is a poor play and only good for short gains, while it tired out the whole team. We shall cut it out in future.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: at Chicago\nOn Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1900, Michigan lost to Chicago by a 15\u20136 score at Marshall Field in Chicago. The game, which started at 2:00\u00a0p.m., drew a crowd of 10,000, including 3,000 Michigan rooters in the west bleachers and 4,000 Chicago rooters in the east bleachers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: at Chicago\nThe Chicago team came into the game as an underdog, having lost five games in a row for the longest losing streak in program history. However, the Maroons had rested for 12 days before the game, while Michigan had played Ohio State only five days earlier. After recovering a fumble deep in Chicago territory, Michigan took a 6-0 lead early in the game on a touchdown by left tackle Hugh White. Everett Sweeley kicked the goal after touchdown. Michigan used the \"old Princeton tandem formation\" to carry the ball straight down field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0020-0001", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: at Chicago\nAfter Michigan took its lead, Chicago fullback E. E. Perkins scored three touchdowns, one in the first half and two in the second half. The Chicago Tribune touted Perkins, a backup who appeared in the game wearing a nose protector, as the hero of Chicago. The great Yale football player, Pudge Heffelfinger, served as referee at the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0021-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nAfter the season, Michigan released its football receipts and expenses, showing a small profit as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0022-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nRECEIPTSIllinois (net) . . . $1,648Iowa (net) . . . 2,084Chicago (net) . . . 4,498Seven other games (gross) . . . 2,099Class game . . . 141Athletic Association dance . . . 117Mass meeting subscriptions . . . 1,946Total . . . $12,533EXPENSESDeficit on September 1 . . . $1,500Guarantees (five games) . . . 990Interscholastic loss . . . 100Coach Lea . . . 3,500Scrub Coach Talcott . . . 200Trainer Fitzpatrick . . . 500Assistant Coach Bergen . . . 170Football supplies . . . 595Grand stands . . . 1,629Sinking fund . . . 2,000Miscellaneous 1,029Total . . . $12,213Balance on hand . . . 320", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0023-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nIn February 1901, Langdon Lea was hired as Princeton's head football coach, foregoing a contract renewal at Michigan reported to be worth $4,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032846-0024-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 12 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1900 football team: Players who started at least half of Michigan's games are displayed in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032847-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Republican nominee Aaron T. Bliss defeated Democratic candidate William C. Maybury with 55.75% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032848-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1900 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1900 Western Conference football season. In their first year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 10\u20130\u20132 record (3\u20130\u20131 against Western Conference opponents), finished in a tie for first place in the conference, shut out nine of their twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 299 to 23. The hiring of Dr. Henry L. Williams for the 1900 season marked the first time the program was led by a full-time, salaried coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032849-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1900. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Samuel Rinnah Van Sant narrowly defeated incumbent Democratic Party of Minnesota Governor John Lind. This was the third of three successive elections in which Lind headed a coalition of the Democrats with the People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032850-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1900 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team compiled a 4-4-1 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 80 to 71. Dave Fultz was the head coach in the first game of the season, and Fred W. Murphy was the head coach in games two through nine. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032851-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Missouri gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900 and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee, former Congressman Alexander Monroe Dockery, over the Republican candidate Joseph Flory and several other candidates representing minor parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032852-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Montana football team\nThe 1900 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1900 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Frank Bean, and finished the season with a record of zero wins and one loss (0\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032853-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Montana gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Montana gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032853-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Montana gubernatorial election\nDemocratic nominee Joseph Toole defeated Republican nominee David S. Folsom and Independent Democrat nominee Thomas S. Hogan with 49.24% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032853-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Montana gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Montana elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032854-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1900 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In their only year under head coach Nelson B. Hatch, the team compiled a 3\u20136\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032855-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team\nThe 1900 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team represented the University of Nashville during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Charley Moran. Nashville lost to Auburn on a wet and heavy field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032856-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1900 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1900 college football season. Under first-year head coach Garrett Cochran, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record, outscored its opponents 106 to 51, and shut out five of its nine opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1900 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Walter C. Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nBooth replaced the departed Alonzo Edwin Branch to become Nebraska's ninth coach in 11 seasons of football. This was the first season the team was officially known as the \"Cornhuskers\", adopting the term after it was coined by Cy Sherman of the Nebraska State Journal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBender, Johnny QBBrew, Fred LTCook, Hugh FBCortelyou, Spencer ECrandall, Harry HBDasenbrock, John GDrain, Ralph QBEmmons TJohnson, William EKoehler, John CMcKillop TMontgomery, Robert HBNielsen HBPillsbury, Melville TRaymond, Isaac FBRinger, John LGRyan EVoss TWestover, John RTWood FBWorel, L. T", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Lincoln High\nNebraska again participated in a pre-season scrimmage against Lincoln High School, a 22\u20130 shutout victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Alumni game\nFor the first time, Nebraska football alumni faced its current roster in an exhibition game. The game ended in a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nBooth's first game at Nebraska was a resounding 30\u20130 shutout of Iowa State in Lincoln.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Drake\nA late touchdown and safety by Nebraska were the only points from either team on a windy afternoon in Lincoln.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at KC Medics\nThe final meeting between the KC Medics and Nebraska ended in a 0\u20130 draw, Nebraska's third consecutive shutout to begin the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Tarkio\nJust two days after playing in Kansas City, the Cornhuskers made their first trip to Tarkio. Nebraska scored an early touchdown that, despite protests from Tarkio and its supporters, remained the only score of the game. The final outcome was disputed strongly enough in Tarkio that the home town newspaper reported the score as a 0\u20130 draw. This was the final meeting between Tarkio and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Missouri\nNebraska defeated Missouri 12\u20130 in Columbia, extending NU's shutout streak to five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Grinnell\nNebraska dominated Grinnell, whose only chance to score came late in the game and resulted in a missed field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Kansas\nNebraska closed out its seventh consecutive shutout with a 12\u20130 victory over Kansas in Lawrence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032857-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nNebraska's unbeaten run came to an end as the Cornhuskers hosted Minnesota in the first game of what would later become a frequent rivalry. The Gophers were a national powerhouse at the time, and the 12 points scored by Nebraska were more than all other Golden Gophers opponents in 1900 combined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032858-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032858-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Populist and Democratic fusion Governor William A. Poynter was defeated for re-election by Republican nominee Charles Henry Dietrich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032859-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1900 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach James Hopper, the team compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032859-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team, Previous season\nThe Sagebrushers finished the 1899 season 3\u20132. Head coach A. King Dickson was replaced by James Hopper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032860-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1900 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1900 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 1\u20136\u20131 or 1\u20135\u20131, per 1900 sources or modern sources, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032860-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032860-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe November 21 loss to the Unity Athletic Club was reported in The Portsmouth Herald, but is absent from other sources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032860-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nContemporary sources are clear that the Andover game was played in Massachusetts; modern sources list the site as Durham. Team captain Lewis suffered a broken leg in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032860-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe original schedule for the team, as published in October 1900, included two games against the University of Maine; however, the first Maine\u2013New Hampshire game would not occur until 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032860-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe New Hampshire second team (reserves) defeated Dover High School, 11\u20136, in a game played in Durham on November 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032861-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Republican nominee Chester B. Jordan defeated Democratic nominee Frederick E. Potter with 59.36% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032862-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1900 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1900 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach William A. Sutherland, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20133\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 49 to 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032863-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1900 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032863-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 New Year Honours\nThe list was published in The Times on 1 January 1900, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 2 January 1900 and 16 January 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032863-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc.) then divisions (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032863-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 New Year Honours, The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)\nCaptain William de Wiveleslie Abney, CB, FRS, Director of the Science and Art Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 109], "content_span": [110, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032864-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 New York Giants season\nThe 1900 New York Giants season was the franchise's 18th season. The team finished in eighth place, last, in the National League with a 60\u201378 record, 23 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032864-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032864-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032864-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032864-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032864-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election\nThe 1900 New York state election was held on November 6, 1900, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state engineer, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election, History\nThe Socialist Labor state convention met on June 8, 1900, at 6, Reade Street in Manhattan. Hugo Voght, of New York City, was chairman. They nominated Charles H. Corregan for governor; Leander A. Armstrong, of Buffalo, for lieutenant governor; Joseph H. Sweeney, of Westchester County, for Secretary of State; J. E. Alexander, of Albany, for treasurer; Eustis Ebert, of New York City, for attorney general; A. S. Brown, of New York City, for comptroller; and John E. Wallace, of Troy, for state engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election, History\nDelegates of the Socialist Democratic Party f New York and the seceding faction of the Socialist Labor Party met in state convention on June 16 at the Labor Lyceum in Brooklyn, and merged to form the Social Democratic Party of New York. V. S. Wirth, of Patchogue, was Temporary Chairman until the election of Morris Hillquit as Permanent Chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 New York state election, History\nThey nominated Benjamin Hanford for governor; William Butscher for lieutenant governor; Philip Jackson for Secretary of State; Eugene V. Brewster, of New York City, for attorney general; Frank Sieverman, of Rochester, for comptroller; Leonard D. Abbott, of New York City, for treasurer; and Henry Stahl, of New york City, for state engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election, History\nThe Prohibition state convention met on July 24 at the near Utica, New York. Henry W. Wilbur, the 1898 nominee for Secretary of State, was Temporary Chairman. They nominated William T. Wardwell, of New York City for governor; Albert J. Rumsey, of Batavia, for lieutenant governor; Joseph V. Baker, of Gouverneur, for Secretary of State; Mason N. Weed, of Montour Falls, for comptroller; Fred W. Hewitt, of Granville, for treasurer; Dexter D. Dorn, of Jamestown, for attorney general; and Emmett F. Smith, of Patchogue, for state engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election, History\nThe Republican state convention met on September 4 and 5 at Saratoga, New York. Nevada Stranahan was permanent chairman. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., the Chairman of the Republican State Committee and chief lieutenant of boss Thomas C. Platt, was nominated for governor after his name was proposed by Ex-Governor Frank S. Black and a roll call in which all 971 votes were cast for the only candidate. Odell was chosen to succeed the incumbent Theodore Roosevelt who had been nominated earlier that year for U.S. Vice President. All other incumbent state officers were re-nominated by acclamation. Comptroller Morgan died on the day the nominations were made. On September 13, the Republican State Committee met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and substituted Erastus C. Knight on the ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic state convention met on September 11 and 12 at Saratoga, New York. Patrick H. McCarren was Temporary Chairman until the choice of George Raines as Permanent Chairman. John B. Stanchfield, Richard Croker's candidate, was nominated for governor on the first ballot defeating Bird Sim Coler who had been proposed by David B. Hill. (vote: Stanchfield 294, Coler 154, Mackey 1). The other candidates were nominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election, Result\nThe incumbents Woodruff, McDonough, Davies, Jaeckel and Bond were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032865-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 New York state election, Result\nAll five parties maintained automatic ballot status (necessary 10,000 votes).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032866-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Newfoundland general election\nThe 1900 Newfoundland general election was held on 8 November 1900 to elect members of the 19th General Assembly of Newfoundland in the self-governing British colony. The Liberal Party led by Robert Bond formed the government. The unpopular railway policy of the Conservatives contributed to their defeat at the polls. The Tory government of James Spearman Winter was defeated largely due to its railway policy and his conservative party fell into disarray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032867-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Normal School Owls football team\nThe 1900 Normal School Owls football team was an American football team that represented the Normal School of Arizona (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In their third season under head coach Frederick M. Irish, the team compiled a 1\u20131 record and played both of its games against Phoenix High School, losing the first game, 5\u20130, and winning the second game by the same score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032868-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1900 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1900 college football season. In John McKee's first season as head coach, the Aggies lost to four opponents for the first time in program history, and scoring only seven points all season and allowing 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032869-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1900 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They played eight games with a final record of 4\u20131\u20133 (3-0-1 in the SIAA). The team captain for the 1900 season was Frank M. Osborne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032870-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on August 2, 1900. Democratic nominee Charles Brantley Aycock defeated Republican nominee Spencer B. Adams with 59.57% of the vote. The election started a string of 18 consecutive elections in which the Democratic nominee won the Governor's office. The state would not elect another Republican as governor until James E. Holshouser, Jr. won in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032870-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe backdrop of the election campaign was the backlash among whites to the relatively large role that African Americans had played in politics during the 1890s, as the coalition (or \"Fusion\") of Republicans and Populists took power. In 1898, the state Democratic Party won back the majority of seats in the legislature on a platform emphasizing \"white supremacy.\" The resulting legislature then proposed an amendment to the North Carolina Constitution which added a literacy test and a poll tax requirement for voting, amounting to disfranchisement. The state's voters approved the constitutional amendment on the same day as the 1900 gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032870-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nAycock, who had been a prominent spokesman for Democrats in the 1898 campaign, was unopposed for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor. During the campaign, Aycock emphasized not only white supremacy but also improving the public school system. The Republicans nominated Spencer Adams, an attorney and former North Carolina Superior Court judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032870-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election campaign featured a pro-Democratic paramilitary force known as Red Shirts. The party seemed to threaten violence, including a \"willingness \u2014 in Aycock\u2019s words \u2014 to 'rule by force'; only a vote for white supremacy and Black disenfranchisement would restore peace and good order.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032870-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 North Carolina gubernatorial election, General election, Voter Fraud\nVoter fraud played a role in Aycock's win as In several counties the number of votes for Aycock exceeded the number of eligible voters by several hundred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 73], "content_span": [74, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032871-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1900 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1900 college football season. They played in 10 games and had a 8\u20131\u20131 record. It was their first season under new head coach Jack Harrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032872-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 North Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Republican nominee Frank White defeated Democratic nominee M. Wipperman with 59.20% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032873-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 North Monaghan by-election\nThe 1900 North Monaghan by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of North Monaghan on 21 December 1900. The vacancy arose because of the death of the sitting member, Daniel MacAleese of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Only one candidate was nominated, Edward Charles Thompson representing the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032874-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1900 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1900 college football season. They were led by second-year head coach John A. H. Keith. The team finished the season with a 2\u20132\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032875-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1900 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1900 Western Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Charles M. Hollister, the Purple compiled a 7\u20132\u20133 record (2\u20131\u20132 against Western Conference opponents) and finished in fifth place in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032876-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Norwegian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Norway in 1900. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which received 54% of the vote and won 79 of the 114 seats in the Storting. No party has received a majority of the vote in a Norwegian election since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032877-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1900 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1900 college football season. In its first season with Pat O'Dea as coach, the team compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record, shut out seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 261 to 73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032878-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1900 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. Under new head coach Karl Core they had a 2\u20134\u20131 record. Of their 7 games, the first 5 were shutouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032879-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1900 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032880-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1900 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1900 college football season. In their sixth year of football, and fourth year under head coach Vernon Louis Parrington, the Sooners compiled a 3\u20131\u20131 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 118 to 28. This season was the first in which the team played the Texas Longhorns and began the Red River Showdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032881-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1900 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team did not win a game and played no home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032882-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Open Championship\nThe 1900 Open Championship was the 40th Open Championship, held 6\u20137 June at the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. J.H. Taylor won the Championship for the 3rd time, by eight strokes from runner-up Harry Vardon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032882-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Open Championship\nAll entries played 36 holes on the first day with all those within 19 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals. The prize money for first place was increased from \u00a330 to \u00a350 while that for second place was increased from \u00a320 to \u00a325.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032882-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Open Championship\nA strong breeze made scoring difficult on the first morning. Taylor together with Harry and Tom Vardon led with scores of 79. In the afternoon only Taylor, with a 77, broke 80. At the end of day, Taylor led on 156 followed by Harry Vardon on 160, Jack White on 161 and the amateur Robert Maxwell on 162. 46 players made the cut of 175.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032882-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Open Championship\nPlaying steadily, Taylor had a third round 78 to open up a six shot lead over Harry Vardon. Braid and White were a further three shots behind. He was even better in the afternoon, scoring 75, to win by eight strokes over Vardon and by 13 shots from the rest of the field. Taylor was the lowest or equal lowest scorer in each of the four rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032883-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1900 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1900 college football season. It was the Webfoots' seventh season, they competed as an independent]and were led by head coach Lawrence Kaarsberg. They finished the season with a record of three wins, three losses and one tie (3\u20133\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032884-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Otaki by-election\nThe Otaki by-election of 1900 was a by-election during the 14th New Zealand Parliament. The election was held on 6 January following the death of Henry Augustus Field, and was won by his brother William Hughes Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032884-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Otaki by-election, Background\nThe Otaki electorate became vacant following the death on 8 December of Henry Augustus Field, two days after the 1899 election. Before candidates had announced themselves, it was reported that Kennedy Macdonald was considering standing for the Liberal Party. The barrister Edwin George Jellicoe was also mentioned as a possible candidate. It was reported that it was likely that the brother of the deceased, William Hughes Field, would be asked to stand for the Liberal Party. The president of the Eighty Club, T. Dwan, was mentioned as a possible candidate for the opposition. The barrister Charles Morison, who had contested the 1899 general election, was a likely candidate again. William Field consented just after his brother's funeral, and the Liberal Party confirmed that had Field not been their candidate, they would have stood W. Ross of Upper Hutt as their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032884-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Otaki by-election, Background\nThe deadline for nomination of candidates was 30 December 1899. In the end, only two candidates were nominated: William Field for the Liberal Party, and Charles Morison in the interests of the opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032884-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Otaki by-election, Background\nThe by-election was held on 6 January and was won by Field's brother William, who during the campaign showed that he was inexperienced in politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season\nIn 1900, 23\u00a0tropical cyclones were observed in the western Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. In that region of the world, cyclones that attain maximum sustained winds of at least 118\u00a0km/h (74\u00a0mph) are known as typhoons. Of the 23 storms, 13 were tracked by the Hong Kong Observatory. Activity occurred from January to December, although the bulk of the storms formed from June to November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season\nIn July, a storm moving across Taiwan (then known as Formosa) damaged over 1,000\u00a0houses and left 10\u00a0fatalities. On August\u00a019, a typhoon moving through western Japan killed 51\u00a0people when it wrecked a fishing fleet. In September, another storm in Japan killed three people in Tokyo and one person in Ono. A series of typhoons hit Vietnam (then known as Annam) from September to November, the first of which causing 1,600\u00a0deaths when it hit the region on September\u00a029.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season\nA late-season storm hit Hong Kong on November\u00a010, catching residents off guard, capsizing 270\u00a0boats, and killing over 200\u00a0people. On November\u00a013, Guam was hit by its most intense typhoon on record, recording a minimum barometric pressure of 923\u00a0mbar (27.3\u00a0inHg). The powerful winds wrecked nearly all of the island's crops and decimated several small towns, resulting in over 100\u00a0deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013August\nTwo storms were reported during January, and another developed in March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013August\nOn June 19, a storm was observed in the South China Sea and dissipated on June 23 after moving ashore southern China. The next system was observed on July 2 to the east of the Philippines, which moved northwestward and dissipated north of Taiwan on July 6 after striking the island the day prior near Taitung City. Across the island, at least 130\u00a0houses were destroyed, and another 875 were damaged, killing 10\u00a0people. The overflown Tamsui River wrecked several bridges and boats near Tamsui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013August\nFour tropical cyclones were observed in August. A tropical cyclone was observed on August 13 to the east of the Philippines, south of Okinawa. The storm moved northeastward through the Ryukyu Islands, spurring storm warnings on August 18 for the main islands of Japan. On the next day, the typhoon moved across Kyushu and Shikoku into the Sea of Japan. At Miyazaki, a pressure of 956\u00a0mbar (28.23\u00a0inHg) was recorded. The cyclone brought 53\u00a0mm (2.1\u00a0in) of rainfall to Kyushu, spreading as far east as Tokyo, which caused flooding and disrupted railway service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013August\nHigh waves affected Ujina and Hiroshima, with a 2\u00a0ft (0.61\u00a0m) storm surge at the latter location. The winds knocked down telegraph lines west of Hiroshima, and caused the price of tobacco to rise because of damage to the crop. In Ehime Prefecture, the cyclone struck a fleet of fishing boats, killing 51\u00a0people, leaving 13\u00a0missing, and with 20\u00a0others rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013August\nAlong the western coast of what is now Albay in the Philippines, a typhoon wrecked a ship on August 17. The crew assisted passengers into rescue boats, although they had to wait an additional six days until they were rescued by another ship. No one was injured in the wreckage. On August 18, a storm was observed moving northwestward toward the Ryukyu Islands, where it was last noted on August 23. Northwest of Luzon on August 19, a tropical cyclone was observed. Moving westward, the system moved across the Chinese island of Hainan on August 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0005-0001", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013August\nAll ships were evacuated in the harbor at Macau due to the storm. After crossing the Gulf of Tonkin, the cyclone dissipated upon striking Vietnam on August 23. On the same day, another storm was observed northeast of Luzon. The new cyclone tracked north-northwestward, hitting Taiwan on August 26. It continued and dissipated over the southeastern mainland of China. Another new cyclone existed from August 25\u201329, originating west of Luzon and moving northward until its dissipation over southern China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Vietnam storms\nA series of five storms affected the Philippines from September to November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Vietnam storms\nA tropical cyclone developed over the southern Philippines on September 23. It moved through the Visayas and crossed Palawan into the South China Sea on a northwest trajectory. Curving to the west, the storm dissipated after moving making landfall southeast of Danang (then known as Tourane), Vietnam, on September 29. The storm killed 1,600\u00a0people and left another 4,500\u00a0people homeless. 48\u00a0hours of strong winds destroyed rice fields and many buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Vietnam storms\nAnother tropical cyclone developed over the Philippines on September 29, moving west-northwestward across Palawan into the South China Sea. On October 4, the storm moved ashore Vietnam near Danang, dissipating shortly thereafter. On October 5, a tropical cyclone was first observed near Samar, Philippines. Moving westward through the archipelago, the storm crossed the South China Sea and dissipated over Vietnam on October 9, having struck Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i. A similar storm was first observed on October 12. The system also moved westward across the South China Sea, striking eastern Vietnam near S\u00f4ng C\u1ea7u on October 17. It dissipated the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0008-0001", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Vietnam storms\nAlong the Vietnam coast, the storm left heavy damage several miles inland, decimating coffee and tea plantations. Another storm originated on October 30 east of Samar, and like many other storms in the season, moved westward through the Philippines and across the South China Sea. It struck S\u00f4ng C\u1ea7u along eastern Vietnam on November 3, dissipating the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Hong Kong typhoon\nA tropical cyclone was first observed east of the Philippines on November 4. It moved through the Philippines and curved to the northwest and later north in the South China Sea. The typhoon had a diameter up to 1000\u00a0km (620\u00a0mi) wide, prompting the Hong Kong Observatory to issue a warning signal on November 8. Two days later, the system moved over eastern Hong Kong, producing peak winds of 113\u00a0km/h (70\u00a0mph) and a minimum pressure of 974.9\u00a0mbar (28.79\u00a0inHg); this remains the lowest pressure reading for the month of November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0009-0001", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Hong Kong typhoon\nAs the storm arrived late in the year, many residents did not heed the warnings, as the gunshot to mark the warning did not occur due to weapon malfunction. The storm was known as the Geng-Zi typhoon disaster, due to 1900 being known as the \"Geng-Zi\" year. The storm dissipated late on November 10 over southern China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Hong Kong typhoon\nA rare November typhoon, the storm produced severe waves that damaged and sank 270\u00a0boats in Hong Kong's harbor, including a British gunboat and a dredge. Portuguese ships in the region assisted crew members whose ships were damaged, and ship builders filled many orders in 1901 to compensate for the lost ships. High waves also damaged a Star Ferry pier. In Yau Ma Tei, the high winds damaged every shed built on reclaimed land, and many houses were damaged throughout Hong Kong. Along the Queen's Road, several buildings collapsed, killing eight. Many trees, lamps, and telephone posts were knocked down. The storm killed more than 200\u00a0people in Hong Kong, causing the most damage of any storm there since a typhoon in 1874. High winds were also reported in nearby Macau, although there was no serious damage there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Guam typhoon\nOn November 13, a typhoon struck Guam, accompanied by a 3.7\u00a0m (12\u00a0ft) storm surge, inundating Hag\u00e5t\u00f1a and Inarajan. A pressure of 926\u00a0mbar (27.35\u00a0inHg) was recorded on the island, the most intense Guam typhoon on record, and the severest in 40\u00a0years. Several towns were entirely destroyed, and 100\u00a0people were killed. Many government buildings, including the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a, lost their roofs and were damaged. The USS Yosemite, docked at Apra Harbor, was damaged when strong waves pushed the ship into reefs, damaging the propeller and rudder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0011-0001", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Guam typhoon\nThe crew evacuated after drifting for 36\u00a0hours, salvaging any valuables before deliberately sinking the damaged Yosemite. Five crew members died on the ship. Those left homeless by the storm resided in schools and jails in the weeks after the storm, and many people died of the flu due to residing in their damaged houses. Nearly all of the island's crops were destroyed, forcing the government to distribute food to the island's residents. It took two years for the island's coconut trees to regrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Other systems\nFour storms were observed in each month from September to November, and an additional two storms were observed in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Other systems\nA tropical cyclone developed between Guam and the western Caroline Islands on September 1. It moved west-northwestward, striking Luzon near Nueva Ecija on September 7. The storm crossed the island and emerged into the South China Sea on the next day. On September 11, the typhoon made landfall in southern China southeast of Maoming, dissipating the next day. High winds and tides damaged the Praia Grande in Macau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Other systems\nOn September 11, a tropical cyclone was observed south of Japan, moving westward. It moved westward through the Ryukyu Islands, where a pressure of 985\u00a0mbar (29.09\u00a0inHg) was recorded, and many houses were damaged. The storm later passed north of Taiwan (then known as Formosa), killing several people. The Tamsui River overflowed due to the typhoon, which flooded 922\u00a0houses around Taipei. A ship was washed ashore, and rail traffic was interrupted. The cyclone later moved ashore mainland China near Wenzhou on September 15, dissipating two days later. The remnants spread northward across the Korean peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Other systems\nOn September 24, a storm was observed southeast of Okinawa. Two days later, the storm passed between Miyakojima and Okinawa. On September 27, the typhoon passed near \u014cshima and continued quickly northward, striking mainland Japan near Shizuoka. A minimum pressure of 987\u00a0mbar (29.13\u00a0inHg) was recorded offshore southern Kyushu. After bypassing Tokyo on September 28, the storm emerged into the open ocean near Sendai. Most of Japan was affected by the strong winds disrupting communications. Near Yokohama, winds knocked down signs and power lines while also causing roof damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0015-0001", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Other systems\nIn Kobe, 68\u00a0houses were destroyed, along with several factories, were 80\u00a0boats were lost. Hundreds of trees were knocked down, one of which killed a man in Ono. At the Sadamisaki Peninsula along the western tip of Shikoku, rainfall reached 100\u00a0mm (3.9\u00a0in), and floods reached knee-deep in Tokyo. Three people died in the city; one due to a fallen tree, another due to a damaged chimney, and the other due to a wrecked roof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Other systems\nOn October 18, a storm was observed east of northern Luzon. Moving northwestward, it struck and dissipated over Taiwan on October 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032885-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Pacific typhoon season, September\u2013December, Other systems\nFrom November 15\u201316, a tropical cyclone was moving northeastward to the south of Okinawa. On December 8, a typhoon was observed east of the Visayas island group of the Philippines. It moved westward, crossing Leyte, and accelerated to the northeast. The storm was last observed on December 12. Several boats were washed ashore or wrecked during the storm. The final storm of the season persisted southeast of Guam from December 13\u201320. Possibly related to it was a typhoon that was first observed at the low latitude of 4\u00ba\u00a0N southeast of Palau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032886-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1900 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the fifth\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single-day event was held on 15 April 1900 and stretched 268\u00a0km (167\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was \u00c9mile Bouhours from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032887-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1900 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1900 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 12\u20131 record in their ninth year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Penn State (17\u20135), Chicago (41\u20130), Carlisle (16\u20136), and Navy (28\u20136), and a loss to Harvard (17\u20135). The 1900 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 335 to 45. Four Penn players received recognition on the 1900 College Football All-America Team: guard Truxtun Hare (consensus 1st-team All-American); tackle Blondy Wallace (Walter Camp, 2nd team); guard John Teas (Camp, 3rd team); and fullback Josiah McCracken (Camp, 3rd team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032888-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Penn State football team\nThe 1900 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team was coached by Pop Golden and played its home games in Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1900 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 18th season for the National League franchise. The Phillies finished the season in third place in the National League with a record of 75\u201363. Bill Shettsline managed the Phillies, who played their home games at National League Park. The Phillies' lineup featured three future Hall of Famers in Ed Delahanty, Nap Lajoie, and Elmer Flick. The team finished second in hitting (.290) and first in attendance with 4,313 fans per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, Sign Stealing and Discovery\nOn September 17, 1900, at home in game 1 of a doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds, the Phillies were discovered to have been stealing opponents' signs using hidden wires and an electronic device. Phillies\u2019 backup catcher Morgan Murphy sat in center field by the team\u2019s Baker Bowl lockers and offices. The Phillies ran wires under the field from the seat to a battery-powered device buried in the dirt beneath the third-base coach\u2019s box. Murphy spotted the opposing catcher\u2019s signals to the pitcher and signaled once for a fastball and twice for a breaking ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season, Sign Stealing and Discovery\nPhillies infielder Pearce Chiles coached third-base, received the signal beneath his feet, and then signaled to the batter. In the third inning, Cincinnati\u2019s Tommy Corcoran walked to the third-base coach\u2019s box and began digging at the dirt with his cleats. Before the Phillies' groundskeeper could stop him, Corcoran had unearthed the electronic box and showed it to umpire Tim Hurst. Hurst disciplined no one, signaled the game to continue, and is reported to have shouted, \u201cBack to the mines, men!\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032889-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032890-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1900 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1900 college football season. The team finished the season with a record of 3\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032891-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 19th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise. The Pirates finished second in the National League with a record of 79\u201360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032891-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032891-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032891-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032891-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032891-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032891-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Postseason, 1900 Chronicle Telegraph Cup\nThe Chronicle Telegraph Cup was held just once, in 1900, and was sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, a newspaper in the hometown of the National League's second-place finisher, the Pirates. It pitted the Pirates against the first-place Brooklyn Superbas in a best-of-five postseason series. The Superbas won the series, 3 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032892-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Plymouth by-election\nThe Plymouth by-election of 1900 was held on 16 February 1900. The by-election came after the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Edward Clarke. It was won unopposed by the Conservative candidate Hon. Ivor Churchill Guest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032892-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Plymouth by-election, Background\nClarke, a prominent barrister and Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886\u20131892, had held the seat since 1880. Following the outbreak of war in South Africa in late 1899, Clarke had found himself in total disagreement with his party over the government's South African policy. In early February 1900 his constituency party at Plymouth formally called upon him to resign his seat, and he resigned the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032892-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Plymouth by-election, Candidates, Unionist\nThe executive of the Conservative Association suggested Hon. Ivor Guest as the Unionist candidate on 10 February, and this was confirmed by the local association two days later. No other potential candidates were mentioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032892-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Plymouth by-election, Candidates, Unionist\nGuest was a lieutenant in the Dorset Yeomanry, and had volunteered for service during the Second Boer War. He visited the constituency during the campaign, arriving directly from Dorchester barracks where he had been in training, and left for South Africa shortly after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032892-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Plymouth by-election, Candidates, Liberal\nThe Plymouth liberals did not choose a candidate, but referred the matter to the general council of the party. One source states that many liberals were opposed to a contest, and a majority of the council decided not to contest the election. Hon. Thomas A. Brassey had previously been mentioned as a possible candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032892-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Plymouth by-election, Issues\nThe ongoing Second Boer War became the important issue, as Clarke resigned following disagreement with his own party over their policy. The local Conservative association chose an officer bound for South Africa as their candidate, and when he visited the constituency, Guest duly declared himself a strong supporter of the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032892-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Plymouth by-election, Result\nThe Hon. Ivor Churchill Guest won the election unopposed at the nomination meeting on 16 February 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032893-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Portsmouth by-election\nThe Portsmouth by-election, 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held on 3 May 1900 for one of the two seats in the British House of Commons constituency of Portsmouth in Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032893-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Portsmouth by-election, Vacancy\nThe seat had become vacant when the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Walter Clough had resigned his seat on 23 April 1900 by the technical device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional \"office of profit under The Crown\". The writ for the by-election was moved in the Commons three days later, on 26 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032893-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Portsmouth by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal Party selected Thomas Bramsdon, a 43-year-old solicitor and a native of Portsmouth. The Conservative Party selected 29-year-old James Majendie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032893-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Portsmouth by-election, Results\nHowever, he held the seat only briefly; at the general election in October 1900, he lost his seat to Majendie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032894-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 25 November 1900. The result was a victory for the Regeneration Party, which won 104 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032895-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe 1900 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on December 12, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032895-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe election was won by the governing Liberals, led by incumbent Premier Donald Farquharson. Farquharson would later give up his office in 1901 to run successfully for federal office. He was succeeded by Arthur Peters, who previously served as the province's Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032895-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe opposition Conservatives, led by Daniel Gordon, lost two seats. This was Gordon's final election before stepping down as Conservative leader in 1903 - he was succeeded by John A. Mathieson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032895-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Prince Edward Island general election, Members Elected\nThe Legislature of Prince Edward Island had two levels of membership from 1893 to 1996 - Assemblymen and Councillors. This was a holdover from when the Island had a bicameral legislature, the General Assembly and the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032895-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Prince Edward Island general election, Members Elected\nIn 1893, the Legislative Council was abolished and had its membership merged with the Assembly, though the two titles remained separate and were elected by different electoral franchises. Assembleymen were elected by all eligible voters of within a district, while Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032896-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1900 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1900 college football season. The team finished with an 8\u20133 record. The Tigers won their first eight games by a combined score of 159 to 10, but then lost the last three games of the season against Cornell, Columbia and Yale. No Princeton players received first-team honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032897-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Puerto Rican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Puerto Rico in 1900. Since they were held under the colonial rule of the United States, only municipalities were able to democratically elect their representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032898-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1900 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1900 Western Conference football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 4\u20134 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 172 to 79 in their third season under head coach Alpha Jamison. Edward C. Robertson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032899-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Quebec general election\nThe 1900 Quebec general election was held on December 7, 1900, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Simon-Napol\u00e9on Parent, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Edmund James Flynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention\nThe 1900 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held June 19 to June 21 in the Exposition Auditorium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Exposition Auditorium was located south of the University of Pennsylvania, and the later Convention Hall was constructed along the building's east wall. It was demolished in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention\nEach state was allotted two delegates per electoral vote, and territories were granted from two to six delegates. Altogether, there were 926 delegates and an equal number of alternates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention\nMark Hanna opened the convention. He proposed that Senator Edward O. Wolcott of Colorado serve as temporary chairman. The purpose of Wolcott's selection was to show that the party had overcome its divisiveness of 1896, in which the Colorado delegation had walked out of the Republican convention. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts served as the convention's permanent chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention\nPresident William McKinley was unanimously nominated for reelection: no candidate ran against him, although Admiral George Dewey considered a run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention\nGovernor Theodore Roosevelt of New York, who was himself a delegate, was nominated for vice president by a vote of 925 to zero, his vote alone abstaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, State delegates\nThe 1900 Republican National Convention included a historic first for the Republican Party: Jennie L. McCargar Jones of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Susan Henderson West of Lewiston, Idaho, served as alternate delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, Speakers\nThe 1900 convention had fewer speakers than a modern convention typically has due to lack of TV and even radio at this time. There were however the following speakers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, Speakers, June 21\nBalloting: President McKinley was nominated unanimously. This was the first time this happened since President Grant was nominated in 1872.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, Speakers, June 21\nWanting to get rid of him, Boss Platt, convinced New York governor Theodore Roosevelt, hero of the hour, to allow himself to be nominated for Vice President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, Speakers, June 21\nBalloting: Governor Roosevelt was nominated for Vice President, though he abstained from voting on his own nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination\nVice President Garret Hobart had announced in September 1899 that he would not seek re-election due to declining health. In the event, he died in office on November 21, 1899, leaving the party the task of choosing a running mate for McKinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination\nEntering the convention, many had expected that the ticket would consist of President McKinley and New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt. However, Ohio Senator Mark Hanna maneuvered to keep Roosevelt off the ballot, instead proposing Navy Secretary John D. Long of Massachusetts or Iowa Representative Jonathan P. Dolliver. Without the support of McKinley, Hanna's efforts fell short. Roosevelt himself did not particularly want to abandon his position of governor, but he desired to run for president in 1904 and when the party nominated him, he accepted the position. Roosevelt's nomination was spearheaded by bosses Matthew Quay of Pennsylvania and Thomas C. Platt of New York, the latter of whom wished to find a different job for the reformist Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032900-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Republican National Convention, Platform\nThe Republican party supported the current administration's actions in the Philippines, while the Democratic party promoted \"anti-imperialism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032901-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1900. Republican nominee William Gregory defeated Democratic nominee Nathan W. Littlefield with 54.33% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032902-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1900 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as an independent during the 1900 college football season. Led by Ed Kenna in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032903-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Rittenhouse Square Apartments\nThe 1900 Rittenhouse Square Apartments is a historic high-rise building on Rittenhouse Square in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built 1923\u20131926.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032903-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Rittenhouse Square Apartments\nThe 190 foot (58\u00a0m) tall, 19-story building has been converted to condominiums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032903-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Rittenhouse Square Apartments\n1900 Rittenhouse Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1982, and February 8, 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032904-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Rosenska Pokalen\nRosenska Pokalen 1900, part of the 1900 Swedish football season, was the second Rosenska Pokalen tournament played. Seven teams participated and six matches were played, the first 29 August 1900 and the last 2 September 1900. Gefle IF won the tournament ahead of runners-up AIK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election\nThe Rossendale by-election, 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Rossendale in Lancashire on 13 February 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal MP, John Henry Maden who had represented Rossendale since himself being returned in a by-election in 1892. Later, Maden would briefly return to Parliament as Rossendale\u2019s MP between 1917-1918 when he would win the seat at a by-election 17 years later to the day and hold it until the 1918 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Vacancy\nMaden announced late in 1899 that he wished to resign as Rossendale\u2019s Member of Parliament. The local Liberal Association met in December 1899 and passed a motion regretting Maden\u2019s resignation, asking him to stay on until the next general election and authorising the search for a new candidate. Maden was unwilling to wait for the next general election however and it was clear that political differences had developed between Maden and his local party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Vacancy\nHe put out a statement in January 1900 placing the blame for his resignation on the officers of the Rossendale Liberal Council and their demands that he devote more time and, crucially, more of his own income to the constituency and its financial support. He specifically rejected the argument that he was tired of Parliament, which was probably true since he chose to return there at the by-election in Rossendale in 1917. He also denied that he had in any way fallen out of sympathy with the principles of Liberalism. In late January he sought an appointment as Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, a traditional device for resigning MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Vacancy\nThere was clearly some bad blood between Maden and the local Liberal establishment however as when the time came Maden refused to sign the nomination paper of the Liberal candidate in the by-election and he refused to appear in support of the candidate during the election, leading to accusations of his being \u2018the spoilt baby of politics.\u2019", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe Rossendale Liberals first chose Alderman Trickett, chairman of the Rossendale Liberal Council and a prominent local slipper manufacturer, as their candidate and it was reported that he had accepted the offer. However, before long the Liberals had formally adopted another man, William Mather. Mather was the chairman of an engineering company and had previously been the Liberal MP for Salford and for Manchester Gorton. He was formally adopted at a meeting on 3 February 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Candidates, Unionists\nThe Liberals had an expectation that the by-election would be uncontested as Maden had been returned unopposed at the 1895 general election and had polled heavily in 1892. However the Conservatives decided to fight the seat and on 1 February selected as their candidate Dr. George Kingsbury, a medical doctor who was the Mayor of Blackpool. Kingsbury apparently fought a good campaign and while his chances were rated very low at the outset of the election, he gained many independent plaudits for his performance at the hustings. He also had the advantage that Mather was unable to visit the constituency during most of the contest as he was unwell in St. Moritz. After the election, he was told by his doctors that he needed at least six weeks rest before conducting any sort of business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Issues\nMather issued an election address soon after his adoption as candidate in which he highlighted what he saw as the most important political questions of the day; the need for improved methods of national education, Irish Home Rule and he cautiously raised the issue of the government\u2019s role in the outbreak and conduct of the war in South Africa. Kingsbury also focussed his attention on the war in support of the government\u2019s position, saying that the main issue before the electors of Rossendale was one of patriotism against party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, Issues\nIt was noted that the local sentiment was generally pro-war and when Kingsbury read out a telegram of support from another MP expressing the hope that Rossendale would, like other places, \u2018help our soldiers at the front\u2019 it was received with great enthusiasm. Liberals too were divided on the question of the war, although it was doubted voters would desert the party on the issue and Mather was probably more anti-war than he chose to admit in public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032905-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Rossendale by-election, The result\nAlthough snow lay on the ground on election day, placing difficulties on party workers and electors, the day was a fine one and, while the turnout was said to be down on recent elections, Mather held the seat for the Liberals with a majority broadly consistent with previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032906-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Rush Medical football team\nThe 1900 Rush Medical football team was an American football team that represented Rush Medical College in the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032907-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1900 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1900 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Michael F. Daly, the Queensmen compiled a 4\u20134 record and were outscored by their opponents, 66 to 50. The team captain was Oliver D. Mann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032908-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1900 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. North Adelaide beat South Adelaide 27 to 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032909-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 SAFA season\nThe 1900 South Australian Football Association season was the 24th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032909-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 SAFA season\nThe North Adelaide Football Club won their first premiership and Port Adelaide collected their third wooden spoon, which is the club's last as of 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032909-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 SAFA season, Minor rounds\nThe minor rounds comprised twelve matches. North Adelaide finished as the minor premiers, one win ahead of West Torrens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032909-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 SAFA season, Major rounds\nThe major premiership was contested under the same system which had been adopted by the Victorian Football League in 1898 (except adapted for six teams instead of eight). The six teams were broken into two sections: section A comprised North Adelaide (1st), South Adelaide (3rd) and West Adelaide (5th); section B comprised West Torrens (2nd), Norwood (4th) and Port Adelaide (6th). Each section played an individual round-robin; then, the section winners played off in a final. The minor premiers, North Adelaide, would then have the right to challenge the winner of the final to a Grand Final for the major premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032910-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1900 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1900 college football season. The 1900 team was co-coached by three men, James Addicott, who was the first coach for the Spartans back in 1895, coach Whitemeger, and one of the most well-known coaches of his era, Fielding Yost. This trio of leadership did not allow the Spartans to repeat their record from the year before, compiling a mild 3\u20133\u20131, although for the first time all of the Spartan's games were against collegiate opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake\nThe 1900 Venezuelan earthquake, better known as the 1900 San Narciso earthquake (Espa\u00f1ol: 1900 terremoto de San Narciso), occurred on October 28 at between 4:30 to 4:45 am local time. This earthquake had an epicenter off Miranda State or near the Venezuelan capital Caracas, in the Cariaco Basin. This earthquake had an estimated moment magnitude of 7.6 to 7.7 and a surface wave magnitude of 7.7 to 8.4. It had a maximum Mercalli intensity assigned at between VIII and X, causing landslides and liquefaction events. Many buildings were severely damaged or collapsed during the earthquake. It is thought to be the last great earthquake of the 19th century and the largest instrumentally recorded in the republic, having been felt throughout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake was associated with strike-slip faulting along either the La Tortuga or San Sebasti\u00e1n faults. These two faults are thought to be striking east\u2013west off the northern Venezuelan coast. A recent study in 2015, concluded that the San Sebasti\u00e1n Fault was the structure responsible for this earthquake. The San Sebasti\u00e1n Fault is submarine for most of its length. Its onshore trace is parallel to the southern flanks of the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Older studies including one by Lugo in 1984 assigned the San Sebasti\u00e1n Fault as the source after reassessing the earthquake intensity data.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Earthquake\nAudemard in 2002 used the idea of a seismic gap around the region where the earthquake struck. The rupture extent caused by the 1900 earthquake is located between that of the 1812 and 1853 earthquakes. Ocean-bottom surveys found young seafloor deformation and fault scarps which are evidence of the 1900 rupture. A rupture length of 220\u00a0km for an Mw\u202f 7.6 and 270\u00a0km for a Mw\u202f 7.7 with an average slip depth at 15\u00a0km has been suggested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Earthquake, Magnitude\nThis earthquake is larger than the magnitude 7.5 1812 Caracas earthquake, but was far less destructive. With a magnitude of 7.7. on both the surface wave and moment magnitude scales, it is the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in Venezuela. The NGDC lists this earthquake as having a surface wave magnitude of 8.4 while a 1983 catalog placed that figure at 7.7. Charles Francis Richter also assigned the earthquake at Ms\u202f 8.4 in his 1958 book Elementary seismology. In a 1992 catalog by Pacheco and Sykes, and a 2020 study on the coseismic effects, this event was Mw\u202f 7.6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact\nWith an epicenter in the Caribbean Sea, the earthquake badly affected the north-central Venezualan coast. In the central region, the earthquake resulted in shaking as high as IX on the Mercalli intensity scale, covering a 3,560\u00a0km2 region around the epicenter. The seaside cities of Macuto, Guarenas and Guatire were the most severely affected by the earthquake. The Los Roques archipelago in the Caribbean Sea also suffered heavy effects, reportedly bering the highest number of victims. Twenty-five people were said to have been killed in Guarenas because of the mainshock. The total death toll from the earthquake however, is estimated at over 140.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact\nLarge landslides and liquefaction took place in Anzo\u00e1tegui, Aragua, Carabobo, Distrito Capital, Miranda and Vargas. The heavily populated localities that were affected include Barcelona, Onoto and Carenero. Some slight damage was reported in San Antonio de Los Altos, Paparo, Panaquire, Guarenas, Capaya, La Tortuga Island, Los Roques archipelago, G\u00fcig\u00fce, San Diego, Clarines, Puerto Cabello and Caucagua as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact\nIglesia de San Francisco, a church in Caracas, was severely damagedby the earthquake. Another church in Naiguat\u00e1 was completely destroyed. In Macuto, landslides buried or destroyed railway lines serving the cities Caracas and La Guaira. Guatire saw 237 homes, a parish church, government house and court offices damaged or collapsed. In Guarenas, some 72 homes toppled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact\nIn all, at least 140 individuals perishes and more than 50 others were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact, Effects on landscape and hydrological features\nIn a seaside port in Barcelona named El Rinc\u00f3n, built on alluvium deposits from the Never\u00ed River, many large cracks opened in the ground. Some cracks were said to be longer than 300 meters. A 400 m2 of alluvium in the city subsided significantlly due to lateral spreadung as a result of ground failure. Field observations also noted that an opening of the Never\u00ed River was narrowed by more than two meters, while its water level rose. The water level in a number of saline wells rose substantially by several meters and began sloshing violently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact, Effects on landscape and hydrological features\nAlong the Rio Unare in Anzo\u00e1tegui, portions of its bank slumped into the water. Large and deep fissures opened, ejecting mud and water. Seiches formed along the river, causing water to breach the channel by seven meters. A man was caught in the waves when he was taking a bath but manage to escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact, Effects on landscape and hydrological features\nIn Carenero, Miranda, the ground sprouted black water that smelled of sulfur. Liquefaction caused several homes and other buildings to sink partially.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact, Effects on landscape and hydrological features\nHot springs located near San Diego, Anzo\u00e1tegui dired up some time after the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact, Effects on landscape and hydrological features\nResidents living around Lake Tacarigua also described violent seiches in the lake as well as loud noises compared to that of a sea. They added that large flames and fire shot out of the ground near the lake shores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact, Effects on landscape and hydrological features\nA 100-meter wide landslide buried and sealed off a section of the Caracas-La Guaira highway between Guaracarumbo and Ojo de Agua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 83], "content_span": [84, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Impact, Aftershocks\nMore than 250 aftershocks were recorded in the months following the main event. The aftershocks were disruptive to the local population. An aftershock is claimed to woke then President of Venezuela Cipriano Castro during the middle of the night. Frightened by the tremors, he leaped off one of the windows of the Yellow House and suffered a broken ankle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Tsunami\nA tsunami is said to have flooded the low-lying near shore zones of northern Venezuela. Waves swept into the Los Roques archipelago and north-central Venezuelan coasts. It manifasted in the form of tidal bores at the mouth of the Never\u00ed River which resulted in the rise in waer level. The tsunami is estimated to be 1-meter high. Witnesses at the coast at the mouth of the Guapo River in Puerto Tuy, Miranda reported seeing large waves up to 10 meters high although this claim is disputed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0014-0001", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Tsunami\nBecause the earthquake struck in complete darkenss, before sunrise, it is unlikely that the eyewitness could have a clear view of the wave. In addition, it is nearly impossible for the witness to survive being struck by the 10-meter tsunami. The small village of Paparo was partially sumberged by the waves. A better estimate of the maximum tsunami wave height is 5 meters at Barlovento. The tsunami is thought to be generated by a submarine landslide or some other mechanism associated with faulting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032911-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 San Narciso earthquake, Legacy\nThe earthquake of 1900 was a catalyst in expanding research in seismology in Venezuela due to its size and being one of the last great historical earthquakes at the time. The first seismic instruments were brought into the country in the aftermath of the earthquake and installed at the Cagigal Observatory in November 1900 to early 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032912-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1900 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The loss to Virginia was the first loss since 1897. The team claims an SIAA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032913-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 South Bend Howard Park Club football team\nThe 1900 South Bend Howard Park Club football team was an American football team that represented the South Bend Howard Park Club in the 1900 college football season. The team compiled a 1\u20131 record, and were outscored by their opponents 64 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032914-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1900 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032915-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Governor Miles Benjamin McSweeney won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to win a term for governor in his own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032915-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 28 and incumbent Governor McSweeney was the frontrunner. McSweeney favored the continuation of the state Dispensary which brought the backing of influential Senator and former Governor Ben Tillman. Prohibitionist James A. Hoyt won second place in the primary to advance to the runoff on September 11, but could not overcome McSweeney because the voters of the state simply did not want any alteration of an institution set up by Ben Tillman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032915-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election was held on November 6, 1900 and Miles Benjamin McSweeney was elected to a second term as governor of South Carolina without opposition. Turnout greatly increased over the previous gubernatorial election because there was also a presidential election on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032916-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Incumbent Governor Andrew E. Lee, a Populist elected under Fusion with Populists, Free Silver Republicans, and Democrats, opted to run for Congress rather than for a third term. Former Sioux Falls Mayor Burre H. Lien won the Fusion nomination and ran against former Lieutenant Governor Charles N. Herreid. However, despite the closeness of the 1896 and 1898 elections, the Fusion's luck ran out; Herreid defeated Lien in a landslide to reclaim the office for the Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032916-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nSeveral months prior to the Republican convention in Sioux Falls on May 24, 1900, former Lieutenant Governor Charles N. Herreid, who had previously sought the Republican nomination for Governor in 1896, announced that he would run for Governor. No serious challengers emerged, and he was seen as the likely frontrunner. At the convention, he was nominated unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032916-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Fusion conventions\nAt the Fusion convention in Yankton, former Sioux Falls Mayor Burre H. Lien and Railroad Commissioner W. T. LaFollette were mentioned as the leading candidates, though some delegates suspected that Governor Lee might be renominated for a third term, breaking \"the unwritten law of the political parties of South Dakota.\" LaFollette's unpopularity led to his chances shrinking at the convention, and the momentum favored Lien; Lee, meanwhile, was floated as a Fusion candidate for Congress. Ultimately, Lien was nominated for Governor and Lee for Congress, which was ratified by the Populist and Democratic conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032917-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1900 college football season. The season began on September 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032917-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe season saw the rise of Clemson's football program, the return of Alabama football, and the first season of play for Henry D. Phillips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032917-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 95], "content_span": [96, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032918-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1900 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 19th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 9th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 65\u201375 during the season and finished 5th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032918-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032918-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032918-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032918-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team\nThe 1900 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 1900 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the team compiled a 7\u20132 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, scored 154 points (17.1 points per game), and allowed 20 points (2.2 points per game) by opponents. The team registered three shutouts against the Reliance Club, two shutouts against California State Normal School, now known as San Jose State University, and single game shutouts against Oregon and California. The team's two losses came against Nevada (0\u20136) and a Stanford alumni team (0\u201314) that featured coach Yost playing at the fullback position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team\nStanford's final game of the season against California, played on Thanksgiving Day in San Francisco, drew the largest crowd to that date to watch a sporting event west of the Mississippi River. An overflow crowd watched from the roof of an adjacent factory. The weight of the spectators caused the roof to collapse, plunging a large group, primarily boys and young men, to the concrete floor and active furnaces of the factory. In all, 22 died and more than 70 were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nThe 1899 Stanford football team compiled a disappointing 2\u20135\u20132 record in their first and last year under head coach Burr Chamberlain. In December 1899, William Wesley \"Babe\" Burnett, a 26-year-old tackle and law student from Adelaide, California, was unanimously elected as the captain of the 1900 Stanford team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nOn March 1, 1900, after a bidding war with Missouri, Stanford hired Fielding H. Yost as its football coach. Yost had led the 1899 Kansas team to an undefeated 10\u20130 record. The San Francisco Call reported at the time of Yost's hiring: \"Yost seems to be a favorite wherever he goes, and his success lies in his ability to develop magnificent team work.\" However, some Stanford players, including team captain Burnett, initially objected to Yost's hiring on grounds that he came from a small college (Lafayette College) and was \"not known to the leaders of college football in the East.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nIn July 1900, Stanford football administrator J. Burt Gildersleeve traveled east to inspect the football training facilities at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Penn. While in the east, he also met with coach Yost in Pittsburgh. Upon his return, Gildersleeve expressed confidence in the choice of Yost: \"He impressed me as being a man of strong personality and wonderful magnetism, and he certainly knows the game from start to finish. . . . I am confident that he will be a success, and I think we were fortunate in securing his services against the higher bid of Missouri.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nIn early August 1900, Frank Slaker announced his intention to transfer to Stanford from the University of Chicago to study mining engineering. Slaker had been a second-team All-American and first-team All-Western player on Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nOn August 21, 1900, Yost arrived at Stanford. Upon his arrival, Yost expressed confidence that he could turn out a team that would defeat rival California. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Yost impressed those he met as a \"thorough gentleman\" who \"looks every inch an athlete.\" Upon arriving, Yost commenced supervising the development of the team's new football field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 1: Reliance\nOn September 29, 1900, Stanford opened its 1900 football season with a 6-0 victory over the Reliance Club. Stanford threatened to score reportedly but registered the game's only touchdown late in the second half. The touchdown was scored by a guard named Seeley who was pushed over the goal line by his teammates. The game included the first appearance for Stanford by fullback Frank Slaker. The San Francisco Call reported that Slaker \"showed remarkable speed in line-plunging, but was too fast for his support.\" Stanford's lineup against Reliance was as follows: Thompson and Allen (left end); Traeger (left tackle); DeForest (left guard); Lee (center); Seeley (right guard); Burnett (right tackle); Cooper (right end); Hill (left halfback); Fisher (right halfback); Raitt (quarterback); and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 2: at California State Normal\nOn October 10, 1900, Stanford defeated the team from the team from the California State Normal School by a 35-0 score. The game was played at Cycler's Park in San Jose, California. Stanford's left halfback Geissler scored two touchdowns on long end runs. Additional touchdowns were scored by quarterback Raitt and left tackle Traeger, who returned a fumble for a score. Stanford led 23-0 at halftime. Hill replaced Geissler at left halfback in the second half and scored two touchdowns. Willie Heston, who later played for Yost at Michigan, was the starting left halfback for the State Normal team. Stanford's lineup in the game was as follows: Allen and Luck (left end); Traeger (left tackle); DeForest (left guard); Lee (center); Seeley (right guard); Burnett (right tackle); Cooper and McFadden (right end); Raitt and Erb (quarterback); Geissler and Hill (left halfback); Smith (right halfback); and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 79], "content_span": [80, 1001]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 3: vs. Reliance\nOn October 13, 1900, Stanford played its second game against the Reliance Club, this time at the 16th Street Grounds in San Francisco before a crowd estimated at between 500 and 600 spectators. Stanford again won by a 6-0 score. After a scoreless first half, \"Coach Yost hurried his cardinal squad up the field and gave each player new advice on how to act in the second half.\" In all Stanford ran with the ball 81 times, gaining 320 yards. Slaker scored the only touchdown. Stanford's lineup for its second game against Reliance was as follows: Allen (left end); Traeger (left tackle); DeForest (left guard); Lee (center); Seeley (right guard); Burnett (right tackle); Cooper (right end); Raitt (quarterback); Geissler (left halfback); Fisher (right halfback); Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 4: California State Normal\nOn October 20, 1900, Stanford played its second game against the California State Normal School, this time at Stanford Field. After a scoreless first half, Stanford scored 24 points in the second half and won by a 24-0 score. Despite the score, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Stanford's \"formations were slow and ineffective and every main in the team lacked life.\" The Chronicle also praised the performance of the State Normal School's left halfback Willie Heston: \"The right side of the cardinal line was especially weak, Heston plunging through it as he pleased.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0010-0001", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 4: California State Normal\nStanford coach Yost was not present at the game, opting instead to travel to Berkeley to watch the University of California team play against the Reliance Club. Stanford's lineup against the State Normal team was as follows: Cooper (right end); Burnett (right tackle); Seeley (right guard); Lee (center); Emerson (left guard); Traeger (left tackle); McFadden (left end); Raitt (quarterback); Fisher (right halfback); Hill (left halfback); and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 5: Stanford Alumni\nOn October 26, 1900, Stanford was defeated by a team made up of Stanford alumni. The game, played at Stanford Field, ended in a 13\u20130 in favor of the alumni. Adding to the defeat, Stanford's starting right halfback, Ralph Fisher, sustained a broken collarbone in the game. Stanford's 29-year-old coach Yost played at the fullback position for the alumni team and was, with other alumni backs, reportedly \"all over and around the varsity.\" The alumni led 2-0 at halftime. Yost kicked a goal after touchdown in the second half. The lineup against the alumni was as follows: Cooper (right end); Burnett (right tackle); Seeley (right guard); Lee (center); DeForest (left guard); Traeger (left tackle); Allen (left end); Erb (quarterback); Fisher (right halfback); Geissler (left halfback); Hill and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 6: Reliance\nOn November 3, 1900, Stanford played the Reliance Club for the third time in one season. While the first two games had been close, Stanford won the third game by a 44-0 score at Stanford Field. Stanford scored on six touchdowns, four goals after touchdown, and two field goals (by Traeger). Stanford captain Burnett left the game with a leg injury. The University of California team watched the game from the bleachers. Stanford led 16-0 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0012-0001", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 6: Reliance\nStanford's lineup for its third game against Reliance was as follows: McFadden (left end); Traeger (left tackle); Bentley and Emerson (left guard); McFadden and Gregory (center); Seeley (right guard); Lee and Burnett (right tackle); Cooper and Luck (right end); Raitt (quarterback); Allen (left halfback); Smith and Erb (right halfback); and Hill (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 7: Oregon\nOn November 10, 1900, Stanford defeated Oregon by a 34-0 score at Stanford Field. The San Francisco Chronicle described Erb's 70-yard touchdown run as \"the best sprint seen on a Coast gridiron\" since 1898. The Chronicle praised the performance of the Stanford team as a whole: \"The Oregonians were completely smothered by the Cardinal interference. Stanford played throughout the game with a rare snap and dash.\" Stanford's lineup against Oregon was as follows: McFadden-Caglieri (left end); Traeger (left tackle); Emerson-DeForest (left guard); McFadden-Lee (center); Seeley (right guard); Bentley-Burnett (right tackle); Luck-Cooper (right end); Raitt (quarterback); Erb (left halfback); Allen-Erb (right halfback); and Hill (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 8: Nevada State\nOn November 17, 1900, Stanford lost to Nevada State by a 6 to 0 score at Stanford Field. The San Francisco Call compared the upset to \"a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky.\" Stanford's lineup against Nevada State was as follows: Cooper and Luck (right end); Burnett and Nutter (right tackle); Seeley (right guard); Lee, McFadden and Gregory (center); Nutter and Emerson (left guard); Traeger (left tackle); McFadden (left end); Erb and Bausback (quarterback); Geissler and Allen (right halfback); Hill and Erb (left halfback); and Slaker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 9: California\nOn Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1900, Stanford played the 10th edition of its annual rivalry game with California at the 16th Street Grounds in San Francisco. Stanford won 5\u20130 on a field goal by left tackle Traeger. Stanford's lineup against California was McFadden (left end), Traeger (left tackle), DeForest (left guard), Lee and McFadden (center), Seeley (right guard), Burnett (right tackle), Cooper (right end), Raitt and Bansbach (quarterback), Hill (left halfback), Erb and Smith (right halfback), and Slaker (fullback). Stanford quarterback Charles Raitt was severely injured when he received a blow to the head in the second half; more than 10 days after the game, he was still unable to go outside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 9: California\nThe game is most notable due to a horrific accident that occurred among the spectators. The Thanksgiving Day game had become a popular event for several years running. In 1900, the game was played at the 16th Street Grounds in the midst of an industrial area of San Francisco. 19,000 spectators filled the stands, the largest crowd to witness a sporting event west of the Mississippi River. Many spectators chose not to pay the $1 admission and instead observed the game from the roof of the San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works across the street from the stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0016-0001", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Game 9: California\nDuring the game, the weight of hundreds of spectators caused the roof to collapse, plunging a large group of primarily boys and young men to the concrete floor and active furnaces of the glass factory. In all, 22 died and more than 70 were injured, some seriously. The \"Thanksgiving Day Disaster\" remains the deadliest accident ever at a U.S. sporting event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Note regarding Multnomah\nSome sources, including the College Football Data Warehouse, erroneously list a tenth football game played by Stanford on December 25, 1900, in Portland, Oregon, against a team from the Multnomah Athletic Club. However, that game was actually played by Stanford's \"second team\" without participation by any of the players on Stanford's 1900 varsity team. Contemporaneous news sources clearly indicate the game was played by Stanford's \"second team\", not by Stanford's varsity football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0017-0001", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Note regarding Multnomah\nAlso, the Stanford yearbook does not include the Multnomah game in its record of the varsity football games for 1900, which are limited to the nine games above. The lineup for Stanford's \"second eleven\" against Multnomah was as follows: Montague (right end); Pratt (right tackle and captain); Kirkley (right guard); Harmer (center); Edmonston (left guard); Rusk (left tackle); Stansberry (left end); Kerrigan (quarterback); Hamilton (right halfback); Downs (left halfback); Davey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Post-season\nAt the end of the 1900 football season, Stanford passed a rule requiring all coaches to be alumni. The decision left coach Yost without a job. Yost was hired by Michigan, and his first recruit was Willie Heston from the California State Normal School in San Jose. Stanford freshman George W. Gregory also followed Yost to Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Season summary, Post-season\nCharles Fickert replaced Yost as Stanford's football coach and led the team to a 3\u20132\u20132 during the 1901 season. Yost led the 1901 Michigan team to an 11\u20130 record, outscoring their opponents by the unprecedented total of 550 to 0. Michigan and Stanford met in the 1901 Rose Bowl, the first post-season bowl game. Michigan won by a 49\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032919-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 Stanford football team, Players\nThe members of Stanford's 1900 varsity football team were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032920-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 State of the Union Address\nThe 1900 State of the Union Address was written by William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States. He began it with these words: \"At the outgoing of the old and the incoming of the new century you begin the last session of the Fifty-sixth Congress with evidences on every hand of individual and national prosperity and with proof of the growing strength and increasing power for good of Republican institutions.\" It was the last of the four addresses given by McKinley. It was given as a written message to the 56th United States Congress. He did not deliver it as a speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics\nThe 1900 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (French: Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900. No opening or closing ceremonies were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics\nAt the Sorbonne conference of 1894, Pierre de Coubertin proposed that the Olympic Games should take place in Paris in 1900. However, the delegates to the conference were unwilling to wait six years, and lobbied to hold the first games in 1896. A decision was made to hold the first Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens and have Paris host the second Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics\nThe Games were held as part of the 1900 World's Fair. In total, 997 competitors took part in 19 different sports. This number relies on certain assumptions about which events were and were not \"Olympic\". Many athletes, some of whom had won events, were unaware that they had competed in the Olympic Games. Women took part in the games for the first time, with sailor H\u00e9l\u00e8ne de Pourtal\u00e8s, born Helen Barbey in New York City, becoming the first female Olympic champion. The decision to hold competitions on a Sunday brought protests from many American athletes, who traveled as representatives of their colleges and were expected to withdraw rather than compete on their religious day of rest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics\nMost of the winners in 1900 did not receive medals, but were given cups or trophies. Professionals competed in fencing, as was tradition, and Albert Robert Ayat (France), who won the \u00e9p\u00e9e for amateurs and masters, was awarded a prize of 3000 francs. Some events were contested for the only time in the history of the Games, including automobile and motorcycle racing, ballooning, cricket, croquet, Basque pelota, and 200m swimming obstacle race and underwater swimming. This was also the only Olympic Games in history to use live animals (pigeons) as targets during the shooting event. The host nation of France fielded 72% of all athletes (720 of the 997) and won the most gold, silver and bronze medal placings. U.S. athletes won the second-most in each, while fielding fewer than 8% of the participants (75 of 997).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Organization\nThe 1900 Games were held as part of the 1900 Exposition Universelle. The Baron de Coubertin believed that this would help public awareness of the Olympics and submitted elaborate plans to rebuild the ancient site of Olympia, complete with statues, temples, stadia and gymnasia. The director of the Exposition Universelle, Alfred Picard, thought holding an ancient sport event at the Exposition Universelle was an \"absurd anachronism\". After thanking de Coubertin for his plans, Picard filed them away and nothing more came of it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Organization\nA committee was formed for the organization of the Games, consisting of some of the more able sports administrators of the day and a provisional program was drawn up. Sports to be included at the games were track and field athletics, swimming, wrestling, gymnastics, fencing, French and British boxing, river and ocean yacht racing, cycling, golf, lifesaving, archery, weightlifting, rowing, diving and water polo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Organization\nBritish and Irish sports associations announced a desire to compete, as did a number of powerful American universities and sports clubs. Competitors from Russia and Australia also confirmed their intentions to travel to Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Organization\nOn 9 November 1898, the Union des Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s Fran\u00e7aises de Sports Athl\u00e9tiques (\"Union of the French Societies for Athletic Sports\" or USFSA) put out an announcement that it would have sole right to any organised sport held during the World's Fair. It was an empty threat but Viscount Charles de La Rochefoucauld, the nominated head of the organizing committee, stepped down rather than be embroiled in the political battle. The Baron de Coubertin, who was also secretary-general of the USFSA, was urged to withdraw from active involvement in the running of the Games and did so, only to comment later, \"I surrendered \u2013 and was incorrect in doing so.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Organization\nThe IOC ceded control of the Games to a new committee which was to oversee every sporting activity connected to the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Alfred Picard appointed Daniel M\u00e9rillon, the head of the French Shooting Association, as president of this organization in February 1899. M\u00e9rillon proceeded to publish an entirely different schedule of events, with the result that many of those that had made plans to compete in concordance with the original program withdrew, and refused to deal with the new committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Organization\nBetween May and October 1900, the new organizing committee held an enormous number of sporting activities alongside the Paris Exposition. The sporting events rarely used the term of \"Olympic\". Indeed, the term \"Olympic Games\" was replaced by \"Concours internationaux d'exercices physiques et de sport\" (\"International physical exercises and sports\" in English) in the official report of the sporting events of the 1900 Exposition Universelle. The press reported competitions variously as \"International Championships\", \"International Games\", \"Paris Championships\", \"World Championships\" and \"Grand Prix of the Paris Exposition\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Organization\nDe Coubertin commented later to friends: \"It's a miracle that the Olympic Movement survived that celebration\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sports\nThe IOC has never decided which events were \"Olympic\" and which were not. In fact, Pierre de Coubertin had ceded that entire determination to the organizers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sports\nThe IOC website affirms a total of 95 medal events. Weightlifting and wrestling were dropped since the 1896 Summer Olympics, while 13 new sports were added. Among the sports below, only croquet was not an international competition, being contested by French players only. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Venues\n14 venues were used at the 1900 Summer Olympics to host 20 sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview\nThe standard of competition at the Games was variable. Despite a poor quality track, a strongcontingent of top-class American collegiate athletes ensured the track and field competitions were of the highest quality. The tennis gold medalists were all former Wimbledon champions, swimming and fencing events were of a good standard and even polo, a minority sport for the social elite, was well represented by some of the best players in the game. Other sports were noticeably weak in both quality and depth. Only athletics, swimming and fencing had competitors from more than ten nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Archery\nThe history of the archery competition at the 1900 Olympics is one of confusion. The IOC currently lists six events with Olympic status, but a case has been made that as many as eight other events equally deserve to be considered part of official Olympic history. About 150 archers competed in the six events that later had official status conferred. However, as many as 5,000 were involved in archery competition in conjunction with the 1900 World's Fair. Belgian Hubert Van Innis took two gold medals and one silver and would add to his tally twenty years later in Antwerp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Athletics\nThe track and field events were held at the home of the Racing Club de France at theCroix-Catelan stadium in Bois de Boulogne. No track was laid and races took place on an unevenfield of grass littered with trees. Additional events were held for professionals and a series of handicap races also took place. These are not considered official Olympic events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Athletics, The sprints\nIn the seven events contested over 400 metres or less, the United States took 13 out of a possible 21 medals. Athletes from Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania all won gold medals. Indeed, two would-be dentists from the University of Pennsylvania were among the stars of the Games. Alvin Kraenzlein won 4 individual gold medals, a feat that has never repeated, while Walter Tewksbury took five medals including two golds. The hurdles in the 400\u00a0m hurdle race were 30-foot (9.1\u00a0m)-long telegraph poles arranged on the track and the race, uniquely in Olympic competition, had a water jump on the final straight. Adolphe Klingelhoeffer, who had Brazilian citizenship in 1900, competed for France in three events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Athletics, Middle and long distance races\nUnited States dominance in sprinting was matched in the longer track races by United Kingdom. Only George Orton, who won Canada's first Olympic title in the shorter of the two steeplechases, ruined a perfect record for the British. Orton won his title less than an hour after placing third in the 400 metre hurdles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 88], "content_span": [89, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Athletics, The Marathon\nThe most contentious of all the events in these Games began and ended in the Bois de Boulogne. Intended to follow the track of the old city wall, the course was poorly marked out and runners often got lost and had to double back on themselves before continuing. On some parts of the course, runners had to contend with distractions from cars, bicycles, pedestrians and animals. Arthur Newton of the United States finished fifth but stated he had not been passed by any other runner during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0019-0001", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Athletics, The Marathon\nAnother American, Richard Grant, claimed he was run down by a cyclist as he made ground on the leaders. French honour seemed to have been satisfied when Michel Th\u00e9ato crossed the finish line and a military band struck up La Marseillaise. However, modern research has revealed that Th\u00e9ato was born in Luxembourg and maintained Luxembourgian citizenship throughout his life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Athletics, Field events\nThe Hungarian discus thrower Rudolf Bauer was the only non-American crowned as Olympic Champion. American domination was even greater in the field events than the track events, with outstanding performances coming from Ray Ewry and Irving Baxter. Ewry started his Olympic career with a sweep of the three standing jumps, while Baxter finished second to Ewry three times and won both the regular high jump and pole vault. Meyer Prinstein became the first Jewish Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0021-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Basque pelota\nThe chistera form of the game was played at this, the sport's only appearance at full Olympic level. Two pairs entered and the Spanish partnerships of Amezola and Villota became their nations' first Olympic champions. The mano form of the game and a chistera tournament for professional players were contested unofficially.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 60], "content_span": [61, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0022-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Cricket\nAfter the withdrawal of teams from the Netherlands and Belgium, only two teams played in the cricket tournament. A team made up of players from the Albion Cricket Club and the Standard Athletic Club, two Paris clubs consisting almost exclusively of British expatriates, played a touring team from the southwest of England. The Devon and Somerset Wanderers were no more than a team of competent club cricketers (made up from Blundells School old boys and members of Castle Cary Cricket Club), and only Montagu Toller and Alfred Bowerman were deemed good enough to play at county level for Somerset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0022-0001", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Cricket\nThe game was played before a small crowd at the V\u00e9lodrome de Vincennes. An emphatic second innings bowling performance from Toller captured victory for the visitors as time appeared to be running out for them. If the French had held out for five more minutes the game would have been a draw. Knowledge of the game would have been lost but for the forethought of John Symes, a member of the victorious team, who kept a scorecard in his own writing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0023-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Croquet\nThe croquet tournament was notable as it marked the first appearance of women at Olympic level. Madame Despr\u00e8s, Madame Filleul-Brohy and Mademoiselle Ohier were eliminated in the first round of competition. All players were French. A single paying spectator attended the tournament, an elderly English gentleman who travelled from Nice for the early stages. An unofficial two-ball handicap competition was also held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0024-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Cycling\nThe home nation won six of the nine medals available. A number of unofficial events were held for both amateurs and professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0025-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Equestrian\nEquestrian sport made its debut at the Olympic Games with three jumping events being held, plus two other events. The Italian rider Gian Giorgio Trissino won a gold and a silver. He narrowly missed making Olympic history by winning two medals in the same event. Competing with two different horses in the high jump, he jointly won the gold medal and finished in 4th place on his second horse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0026-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Fencing\nNineteen nations were represented in the fencing competition, which was held in a field nearthe cutlery exhibit at the 1900 World's Fair. French fencers dominated the proceedings but both Cuba and Italy also took titles. The early rounds of the foil competitions were judged on style rather than the actual result of the contest. This meant that some fencers were eliminated without losing a contest while others were defeated and still progressed to the next rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0027-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Football\nThe first football champions at the Olympics were the London amateurs of Upton Park F.C. A crowd of around 500 spectators saw them defeat their French rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0028-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Golf\nMargaret Ives Abbott, a student of art from Chicago, played in and won a nine-hole golftournament on an October Tuesday in Paris. She died in 1955 without being aware that thetournament was part of the Olympic Games and she had become America's first ever femaleOlympic champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0029-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Gymnastics\n135 gymnasts took part in a competition that involved elements from track and field andweightlifting as well as gymnastic disciplines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0030-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Polo\nEight separate tournaments were held in 1900 as part of the 1900 World's Fair. Only the Grand Prix Internationale de l'Exposition is counted as an official medal event. Entries were from clubs rather than countries, and the winning Foxhunters club comprised English, Irish and American players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0031-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Polo\nMexico won its first medal in this sport, a bronze won by Guillermo Hayden Wright, Marquez de Villavieja and three brothers: Eustaquio de Escand\u00f3n y Barron, Pablo de Escand\u00f3n y Barron and Manuel de Escand\u00f3n y Barron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0032-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Rowing\nCompetitions were held on the River Seine. The coxed fours descended into farce when officials changed the qualifying criteria for the final several times. The first final was held without any of the original qualifiers, who had withdrawn as a protest against the decision to run six boats on a course laid out for only four. The officials then decided to run another \"final\" for the boycotting crews. Both events are considered official Olympic competitions. In a number of events crews saw the advantage of having ultra-lightweight coxswain and recruited local boys for the period of the Games. Most of these remain a mystery; some could have been under ten years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0033-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Rugby union\nThree teams competed in the Rugby tournament. A French representative team defeated a team from the German city of Frankfurt and Moseley Wanderers from England. The Moseley team had played a full game of rugby in England the day before they made the journey to Paris. They arrived in the morning, played the match in the afternoon and were back in their home country by the next morning. The proposed game between the British and German sides was cancelled, and both are credited as silver medalists. The Franco-Haitian centre Constantin Henriquez become the first black gold medalist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0034-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Sailing\nThe 1900 sailing regatta differs from every other Olympic regatta in a number of ways. In most classes there were two distinct \"finals\", boats were assigned time handicaps according to their weight within each class and cash prizes were handed out to the winner of each race. The IOC initially recognized the winner of the first race in each class as Olympic champion except in the case of the 10-20 ton class, which was decided on aggregate time over three races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0034-0001", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Sailing\nHowever currently the participants of both first and second races in 3 classes (0-0.5t, 1-2t and 2-3t) are present in the as medalists, so the second races in these 3 classes were recognized by the IOC, as recommended by Olympic historian Bill Mallon. To support the IOC recognized total of 95 medal events, it appears that one more race in each of 2 other classes (0.5-1t and 3-10t) has been recognized by the IOC, per Mallon's suggestion. Thus, for five of the eight events, two gold, two silver and two bronze medals were retrospectively awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0034-0002", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Sailing\nRaces were held at both Meulan and Le Havre and medals shared among five nations. France and Great Britain were the most successful of the countries involved. A number of people named as members of medal-winning crews by the IOC have been proved not to have competed; others have their participation seriously questioned by historical research.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0035-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Shooting\nSwitzerland's Konrad St\u00e4heli was the outstanding marksman of the Games, taking a trio of titles and leading his country to the top of the shooting medal table. The medals were shared between six different nations. There is a debate as to whether the live pigeon shooting event was a full Olympic event, Belgian Leon Lunden shot twenty-one birds on his way to the championship. Up to thirty unofficial shooting events were also held, most involving professional marksmen. Research has shown that one of the medal events in the IOC database (25m rapid fire pistol, also called military pistol cat. 6) was contested by professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0036-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Swimming\nThe muddied waters of the Seine hosted the swimming events in 1900. Run with the current, the races produced very fast times by the standards of the day. John Arthur Jarvis of Great Britain, Frederick Lane of Australia and the German Ernst Hoppenberg each won two titles. Lane received a 50-pound bronze statue of a horse as a prize. A couple of unusual events were held. The obstacle race required both swimming underneath and climbing over rows of boats while Charles de Venville stayed submerged for over a minute towin the underwater swimming event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 55], "content_span": [56, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0037-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Tennis\nA high quality men's tournament saw three past or future Wimbledon champions reach the semi-finals. Laurence Doherty reached the final when older brother Reggie stepped aside and let his sibling advance to the final. The two refused to play each other in what they considered a minor tournament. On the 11th of July a landmark was reached in the history of the Olympic Games. Charlotte Cooper, already three times Wimbledon champion, took the singles championship to become the first individual female Olympic champion, also winning the mixed doubles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0038-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Tug of war\nA combined Sweden/Denmark team, made up of three competitors from each country, defeated the French team to win the title. One of the members of the French team was born in Colombia. They were left as the only participating teams; the United States had entered but were forced to scratch as three of their team were involved in the final of the hammer. Edgar Aaybe was a journalist covering the Games for the Danish newspaper Politiken and was asked to join the team when another puller was taken ill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0039-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Sport-by-sport overview, Water polo\nOsborne Swimming Club, representing Great Britain were unchallenged in the tournament,scoring 29 goals and conceding only 3 in their 3 matches. In the final, they limited the numberof shots on goal to avoid humiliating their opponents. One of its team members was from New Zealand. Thomas William Burgess of the bronzemedal-winning Libellule de Paris team, represented Great Britain in the swimming events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0040-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Olympic status of sports and events\nThe 1900 Games were not governed by a specific Olympic organizing committee, but were instead held as an appendage to the 1900 World's Fair. An enormous number of events was held, though many fall short of the standards later required for Olympic championship status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0041-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Olympic status of sports and events\nAfter the several initial editions of the Olympic Games, decisions as to which Olympic events were termed \"official\" and which had \"unofficial\" or \"demonstration\" status were usually left to the Olympic organizing committees and/or the IOC. In the early Olympic games, however, no decision as to the official status of any event was made at the time of the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0042-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Olympic status of sports and events\nWhile a document from 1912 exists, listing results from the 1900 Games, and formed the original basis of the results of the Paris games in the IOC database, the reliability and authenticity of this paper has been questioned by Olympic historians. Further complicating matters, the IOC has never determined which events were Olympic and which were not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0043-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Olympic status of sports and events\nAll events satisfying all four of the retrospective selection criteria (restricted to amateurs, international participation, open to all competitors and without handicapping) are now regarded by historians as Olympic events, except for ballooning, while croquet, motorboating and boules satisfied three of these criteria (as only French athletes competed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0044-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Olympic status of sports and events\nOf the three events that satisfied three criteria, only croquet has been accorded Olympic status. In this regard, one of the ten croquet players, Marcel Ha\u00ebntjens, had been believed to be Belgian, and the croquet events were thus considered as international. Despite the Flemish name, it was discovered in recent times that Ha\u00ebntjens was French.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0045-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Olympic status of sports and events\nLike all the Olympic events widely regarded as official, there were other events conducted during the 1900 World's Fair:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0046-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Olympic status of sports and events\nIn addition to these, 71 scholastic and 92 military events were also held across a range of sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0047-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Participating nations\nAccording to an International Olympic Committee imprint, 24 nations sent competitors to this edition. Modern research shows that athletes from the following 28 countries participated in the Games: At the time Bohemia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Australia, Canada and India were parts of the British Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0048-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Participating nations\nSome sources also list athletes from the following nations as having competed at these Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0049-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Participating nations\nOther modern nations could be considered to have competed in some form in 1900, as Algeria, Croatia, Ireland, Poland and Slovakia had athletes compete, though these nations would not gain independence until many years later (Poland in 1918, the Republic of Ireland in 1922, Algeria in 1962, and Croatia and Slovakia in 1992).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0050-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Participating nations\nAlgeria sent four gymnasts who competed for France, while all of Ireland was part of Great Britain: Irish athletes competed in athletics, polo, sailing and tennis. Further, a Polish fencer represented Russia, a Croatian fencer represented Austria, and two Slovakian athletes competed for Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0051-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Participating nations, Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees\nThe concept of \"national teams\" chosen by National Olympic Committees did not exist at this point in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 94], "content_span": [95, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0052-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Medal count\nThe 1900 Olympics is unique in being the only Olympic Games to feature rectangular medals, which were designed by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Vernon. Gilt silver medals were awarded for 1st place in shooting, lifesaving, automobile racing and gymnastics. Whilst 2nd place silver medals were awarded in shooting, rowing, yachting, tennis, gymnastics, sabre, fencing, equestrian and athletics. With 3rd place bronze medals being awarded in gymnastics, firefighting and shooting. In many sports, however, medals were not awarded. With most of the listed prizes were cups and other similar trophies. The International Olympic Committee has retrospectively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to all competitors who earned 1st, 2nd and 3rd-place finishes, respectively, in order to bring early Olympics in line with current awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0053-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Medal count\nFor Olympic Games before 1908 there is no universally accepted definition of nationality, and medal tables may vary depending on the chosen definition. For example, Australian Stanley Rowley competed as part of a team selected by the Amateur Athletic Association of England. The concept of \"national teams\" chosen by National Olympic Committees did not exist at this point in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0054-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Medal count\nThese are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1900 Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032921-0055-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics, Trivia\nThe 1900 Olympics were the first Summer Olympics to occur during a 365-day year: the other Olympics where this occurred were in 2021, which were postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032922-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe 1900 Summer Olympics were held in Paris, France, from May 14 to October 28, 1900, as part of the 1900 World's Fair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032922-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics medal table\nA total of 997\u00a0athletes representing 24\u00a0nations participated in 95\u00a0events in 19\u00a0sports at these games. Women competed in the Olympics for the first time during the 1900 games. 21\u00a0of the 24\u00a0participating nations earned medals, in addition to 19\u00a0medals won by teams made up of athletes from multiple nations. The host nation of France flooded the field, comprising over 72% of all the athletes (720 of the 997); given this, America dominated athletically, winning the second-most gold (19), silver (14), and bronze (15) medals, while fielding 75 athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032922-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics medal table\nIn the early Olympic Games, several team events were contested by athletes from multiple nations. Retroactively, the IOC created the designation Mixed team (with the country code ZZX) to refer to these groups of athletes. During the 1900 games, athletes participating in mixed teams won medals in athletics, cricket, football, polo, rowing, rugby, sailing, tennis, tug of war, and water polo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032922-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe 1900 Olympics is unique in being the only Olympic Games to feature rectangular medals, which were designed by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Vernon. Gilt silver medals were awarded for 1st place in shooting, lifesaving, automobile racing and gymnastics. Whilst 2nd place silver medals were awarded in shooting, rowing, yachting, tennis, gymnastics, sabre, fencing, equestrian and athletics. With 3rd place bronze medals being awarded in gymnastics, firefighting and shooting. In many sports, however, medals were not awarded. With most of the listed prizes were cups and other similar trophies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032922-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe International Olympic Committee has retrospectively assigned gold, silver, and bronze medals to competitors who earned first, second, and third-place finishes in order to bring early Olympics in line with current awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032922-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Summer Olympics medal table, Medal count\nThis is the full table of the medal count of the 1900 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC has never decided which events were \"Olympic\" and which were not. These rankings use Olympic medal table sorting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032923-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1900 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the fifth season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. AIK won the tournament by defeating \u00d6rgryte IS in the final with a 1\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032924-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1900 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20133\u20132 record. George H. Brooke was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032925-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Swiss referendums\nThree referendums were held in Switzerland during 1900. The first was held on 20 May on a federal law on health, accident and military insurance, and was rejected by 69.8% of voters. The second and third were held on 4 November on introducing proportional representation for National Council elections and the direct election and increase in members of the Federal Council. Both were rejected by a majority of voters and cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032925-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Swiss referendums, Background\nThe referendums on the changes to the National and Federal Councils were popular initiatives, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The insurance referendum was an optional referendum, which required only a majority of the public vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032926-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Sydney-Phillip on 9 June 1900 because of the resignation of Henry Copeland (Protectionist) who had accepted the position of Agent-General in London. Daniel O'Connor was previously a Free Trade member for West Sydney but had joined the Protectionist party for the 1898 Sydney-Pyrmont election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032927-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1900 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1900 college football season. The head coach was Edwin Sweetland, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032928-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Tasmanian colonial election\nThe 1900 Tasmanian colonial election was held on 9 March 1900 in the Australian colony of Tasmania to elect 38 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032929-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1900 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1900 season. J. A. Pierce served his second and final season as head coach. The 1900 Vols went 3\u20132\u20131, with the first tie in school history coming against Vanderbilt at Nashville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032930-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Incumbent Democrat Benton McMillin defeated Republican nominee John E. McCall with 53.86% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032931-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032932-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1900 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the Texas Longhorns baseball program for the University of Texas in the 1900 college baseball season. Maurice Gordon Clarke coached the team in his 1st season at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032933-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1900 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1900 college football season. In their first year under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the Longhorns compiled an undefeated 6\u20130 and outscored opponents by a collective total of 113 to 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032934-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Tie Cup Final\nThe 1900 Tie Cup Final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 1st. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by two Argentine sides, Belgrano A.C. and Rosario A.C., from Buenos Aires and Rosario respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032934-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Tie Cup Final\nThe match was held in the Flores Old Ground in Caballito, Buenos Aires, on 25 August 1900. Belgrano won 2\u20130 with goals by F. Wiberley and Winston Coe, achieving its first Tie Cup trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032934-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThe first edition of the Tie Cup was contested by 6 teams, 4 from Argentina and 2 from Uruguay. Playing in a single-elimination tournament, Belgrano defeated Lomas (4\u20132 in Quilmes AC), and Albion in the semifinal (1\u20130 at Paso del Molino, Montevideo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032934-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nOn the other hand, Rosario only played one match, qualifying for the final after beating English High School 3\u20131 at Plaza Jewell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032934-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThe final was played at the Flores Old Ground in Buenos Aires. In an very even game, Belgrano took advantage when Wibberley scored on 20'. After the goal, there were many attempts from Belgrano's player to score a second goal, but goalkeeper Herbert D. Dorming saved Rosario's goal in each one of them. Where there were only 2' left in the first half, Belgrano scored its second goal by forward Winston Coe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032935-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1900 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 11th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032935-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nTwo-Mile Borris won the championship after receiving a walkover from Moycarkey in the final. It was the club's first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032936-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1900 Toronto Argonauts season was the club's 15th season of organized league competition since its inception in 1873. The team finished in a first-place tie with the Ottawa Rough Riders in the senior series of the Ontario Rugby Football Union with four wins and two losses, but failed to win the league championship after losing to the Riders in the resulting tie-break game in Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032937-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1900 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented the Tulane University during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032937-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Tulane Olive and Blue football team, Season summary, Southern A. C.\nThe season began with a 23\u20130 defeat of the Southern Athletic Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032937-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Tulane Olive and Blue football team, Season summary, Alabama\nAlabama lost 6\u20130 with the only points of the game coming on a one-yard Ellis Stearns touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032937-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Tulane Olive and Blue football team, Season summary, Mississippi\nTulane beat Ole Miss, 12\u20130, having not allowed a single point all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032938-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1900 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 13 August to 21 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 19 June to 23 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 20th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032938-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nHolcombe Ward / Dwight Davis defeated Fred Alexander / Raymond Little 6\u20134, 9\u20137, 12\u201310", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032938-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nHallie Champlin / Edith Parker defeated Marie Wimer / Myrtle McAteer 9\u20137, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032938-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nMargaret Hunnewell / Alfred Codman defeated T. Shaw / George Atkinson 11\u20139, 6\u20133, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032939-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nReigning champion Malcolm Whitman defeated William Larned 6\u20134, 1\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the Challenge Round to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1900 U.S. National Championships. The event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032939-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nLarned had defeated George Wrenn in the All Comers' Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032940-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMyrtle McAteer won the singles tennis title of the 1900 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating Edith Parker 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6\u20130 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The reigning champion Marion Jones did not defend her title and therefore no challenge round was held. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 19 through June 23, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032941-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1900 U.S. Open was the sixth U.S. Open, held October 4\u20135 at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago. On a tour of the United States from Britain, Harry Vardon won his only U.S. Open title, two strokes ahead of his great rival, J.H. Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032941-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. Open (golf)\nIn the U.S. to promote the Vardon Flyer Ball, Vardon made his first appearance at the U.S. Open. Taylor was also in America on business and decided to enter, creating a highly anticipated matchup between the two great British rivals. Together they formed two-thirds of the Great Triumvirate that dominated British golf at the turn of the century (the third, James Braid, never played in the U.S. Open).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032941-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. Open (golf)\nOn Thursday morning, Taylor opened with 76 for a two-shot lead, but an 82 in the afternoon put him one back of Vardon after 36 holes. On Friday morning, Vardon's 76 opened up a four-stroke lead over Taylor, who was seven clear of the field. Despite an 80 in the afternoon for 313, Vardon prevailed by two, as Taylor shot 78 for 315. Local Chicago pro David Bell was a distant third at 322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032941-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. Open (golf)\nNeither Vardon nor Taylor won another major outside The Open Championship, which they won a combined eleven times. Vardon did not play in the U.S. Open again until 1913, when he and Ted Ray lost a playoff to amateur Francis Ouimet. He was also runner-up in his third and final Open appearance, in 1920. Taylor played the U.S. Open only once more, also in 1913, and was thirtieth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032941-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nAmateurs: Macdonald (355), Johnstone (356), Holabird (361), Stuart (362), Egan (379).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032942-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1900 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Paris, France from 12 to 18 August 1900. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs. Apart from the four events a tandem event was organized. This race has never been officially recognized. The Dutch duo Harrie Meyers-Fernando Tomaselli won ahead of the French duo Edmond Jacquelin-Lucien Louvet and the French-American duo Charles Vanoni-Robert Protin. Because the race was not official the medalists are not listed in the list of Tandem World Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032943-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1900 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1900 college football season. The team competed as an independent without a head coach, compiling a 1\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032944-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1900 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032945-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United Kingdom general election\nThe 1900 United Kingdom general election was held between 26 September and 24 October 1900, following the dissolution of Parliament on 25 September. Also referred to as the Khaki Election (the first of several elections to bear this sobriquet), it was held at a time when it was widely believed that the Second Boer War had effectively been won (though in fact it was to continue for another two years).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032945-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United Kingdom general election\nThe Conservative Party, led by Lord Salisbury with their Liberal Unionist allies, secured a large majority of 134 seats, despite securing only 5.6% more votes than Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberals. This was largely owing to the Conservatives winning 163 seats that were uncontested by others. The Labour Representation Committee, later to become the Labour Party, participated in a general election for the first time. However, it had only been in existence for a few months; as a result, Keir Hardie and Richard Bell were the only LRC Members of Parliament elected in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032945-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United Kingdom general election\nThis was the first occasion when Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons. He had stood in the same seat, Oldham, at a by-election held the previous year, but had lost. It was also the final general election of the Victorian era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032946-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United Kingdom general election in Ireland\nThe 1900 United Kingdom general election in Ireland was held in September and October 1900. Ninety-nine of the seats were in single-member districts using the first-past-the-post electoral system, and the constituencies of Cork City and Dublin University were two-member districts using block voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032946-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United Kingdom general election in Ireland\nThis election was the first fought after the separate organisations in the Irish Parliamentary Party re-merged after a split in 1891 between the Irish National Federation, which had opposed the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, and the Irish National League, which had supported his continued leadership. The IPP was now led by John Redmond of the smaller INL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032946-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United Kingdom general election in Ireland\nIn the overall election result, the coalition of the Conservative Party, which included the Irish Unionist Alliance, and the Liberal Unionist Party, was returned and the Marquess of Salisbury continued as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032947-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nThe Wyoming United States House election for 1900 was held on November 6, 1900. Former Republican representative Frank Wheeler Mondell defeated Democratic John C. Thompson with 59.21% of the vote making Mondell the first Wyoming Representative to hold two consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032948-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections\nElections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1900 for members of the 57th Congress, coinciding with the re-election of president William McKinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032948-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections\nMcKinley's Republican Party gained thirteen seats from the Democratic Party and minor parties, cementing their majority. A reassertion of Republican control in the Mid-Atlantic was key in the gain of new seats. However, with an improved economy, especially in the industrial sector, the election cycle featured no keystone issue, resulting in a general support for the status quo. The fading Populist Party held on to five House seats, while the sole member of the Silver Party changed parties to Democratic. This was the last time a third party headed into house elections with a party leader. All subsequent third parties to serve in the House would not select a party leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032948-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections, Election summaries\nThe previous election of 1898 saw the election of 6 Populists, 2 Silver Republicans, and a Silver Party member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 73], "content_span": [74, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032948-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections, Election dates\nAll the states held their elections November 6, 1900, except for 3 states, with 8 seats among them:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032948-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections, Special elections\nJ. William Stokes (Democratic) of South Carolina's 7th congressional district died in office on July 6, 1901 and was replaced in a special election by Asbury F. Lever (Democratic)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032949-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1900 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1900. California's seven-seat delegation remained all-Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032950-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nElections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for two seats in the 57th Congress were held November 6, 1900, at the same time as the election for president and the election for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032950-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Background\nTwo Democrats had been re-elected in the previous election year, continuing the long Democratic domination of Florida (and other Southern States) politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 6, 1900 to select seven Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. Five Democratic incumbents were re-elected and two incumbents were defeated in the primaries, but the seats were retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation after the election was solely Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman William Elliott of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1897, defeated Republican challenger W.W. Beckett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman W. Jasper Talbert of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1893, defeated Republican challenger J.B. Odom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Asbury Latimer of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1893, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican challenger Anson C. Merrick in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Stanyarne Wilson of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1895, was defeated in the Democratic primary by Joseph T. Johnson. He defeated Republican challenger S.T. Poinier in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman David E. Finley of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1899, defeated Thomas J. Strait in the Democratic primary and Republican John F. Jones in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman James Norton of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1897, was defeated in the Democratic primary by Robert B. Scarborough. He defeated Republican R.A. Stuart in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032951-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman J. William Stokes of the 7th congressional district, in office since 1896, defeated Republican challenger Alexander D. Dantzler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032952-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States census\nThe United States census of 1900, conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1900, determined the resident population of the United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.01% from the 62,979,766 persons enumerated during the 1890 census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032952-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States census\nThe census saw the nation's largest city, New York City, more than double in size due to the consolidation with Brooklyn, becoming in the process the First Neighborhood American city to record a population of over three million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032952-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States census, Census questions\nFull documentation for the 1900 census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032952-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States census, Data availability\nThe original census enumeration sheets were microfilmed by the Census Bureau in the 1940s; after which the original sheets were destroyed. The microfilmed census is available in rolls from the National Archives and Records Administration. Several organizations also host images of the microfilmed census online, and digital indices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032952-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States census, Data availability\nMicrodata from the 1900 census are freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032953-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States elections\nThe 1900 United States elections elected the 57th United States Congress. The election was held during the Fourth Party System. Republicans retained control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress, while third parties suffered defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032953-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States elections\nIn a re-match of the 1896 presidential election, Republican President William McKinley defeated Democratic former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. McKinley's previous running mate, Vice President Garret Hobart, had died in office, so the Republicans nominated New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt as their vice presidential candidate. McKinley again won by a comfortable margin in both the popular vote and the electoral college, and he picked up a handful of states in the West and the Midwest. McKinley's win made him the first sitting President to win re-election since Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032953-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States elections\nRepublicans won minor gains in the House, maintaining their majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032953-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States elections\nIn the Senate, the Democrats made moderate gains while the Populist Party lost three seats. Republicans continued to maintain a commanding majority in the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032953-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States elections, Further reading, Primary sources\nThis American elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032954-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1900, in 34 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1900 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032954-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Alabama, the gubernatorial election was held in August for the last time, and in Rhode Island it was held in April for the last time. In both cases the next gubernatorial election would be held on the same day as federal elections: in Alabama in 1902 and in Rhode Island in 1901. Alabama would also elect its governors to four year terms instead of two years from 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032954-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Florida, the gubernatorial election was held on the same day as federal elections, having been held in October since 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032954-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn North Carolina gubernatorial elections had been held on the same day as federal elections since 1876, but in 1900 it was moved to August. It would revert to November from 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election\nThe 1900 United States presidential election was the 29th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. In a re-match of the 1896 race, incumbent Republican President William McKinley defeated his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. McKinley's victory made him the first president to win a consecutive re-election since Ulysses S. Grant had accomplished the same feat in 1872.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election\nMcKinley and Bryan each faced little opposition within their own party. Although some Gold Democrats explored the possibility of a campaign by Admiral George Dewey, Bryan was easily re-nominated at the 1900 Democratic National Convention after Dewey withdrew from the race. McKinley was unanimously re-nominated at the 1900 Republican National Convention. As Vice President Garret Hobart had died in 1899, the Republican convention chose New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt as McKinley's running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election\nThe return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory, while Bryan's anti-imperialist stance and continued support for bimetallism attracted only limited support, losing his home state of Nebraska for the only time of his 3 campaigns. McKinley carried most states outside of the Solid South and won 51.6% of the popular vote. The election results were similar to those of 1896, though McKinley picked up several Western states and Bryan picked up Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election\nSix months into his second term, McKinley was assassinated in September 1901 and was succeeded by Vice President Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination\nThe 926 delegates to the Republican convention, which met in Philadelphia on June 19\u201321, re-nominated William McKinley by acclamation. Thomas C. Platt, the \"boss\" of the New York State Republican Party, did not like Theodore Roosevelt, New York's popular governor, even though he was a fellow Republican. Roosevelt's efforts to reform New York politics \u2013 including Republican politics \u2013 led Platt and other state Republican leaders to pressure President McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his new vice- presidential candidate, thus filling the spot left open when Vice President Garret Hobart died in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination\nBy electing Roosevelt vice president, Platt would remove Roosevelt from New York state politics. Although Roosevelt was reluctant to accept the nomination for vice president, which he regarded as a relatively trivial and powerless office, his great popularity among most Republican delegates led McKinley to pick him as his new running mate. Quite unexpectedly, Roosevelt would be elevated to the presidency in September 1901, when McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nAfter Admiral George Dewey's return from the Spanish\u2013American War, many suggested that he run for president on the Democratic ticket. Dewey, however, had already angered some Protestants by marrying the Catholic Mildred McLean Hazen (the widow of General William Babcock Hazen and daughter of Washington McLean, owner of The Washington Post) in November 1899 and giving her the house that the nation had given him following the war. His candidacy was also almost immediately plagued by a number of public relations gaffes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0005-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nNewspapers started attacking him as na\u00efve after he was quoted as saying the job of president would be easy, since the chief executive was merely following orders in executing the laws enacted by Congress, and that he would \"execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have always executed the orders of my superiors.\" Shortly thereafter, he admitted never having voted in a presidential election before, mentioning that the only man he ever would have voted for, had he voted, would have been Grover Cleveland. He drew even more criticism when he offhandedly (and prophetically) told a newspaper reporter that, \"Our next war will be with Germany.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nDewey's campaign was met with a level of pessimism by Gold Democrats on whose support his campaign depended. Some even threw their support to Bryan, since they believed him to be the stronger candidate. As early as three days into his candidacy, his campaign having been damaged by the aforementioned missteps, rumors abounded regarding Dewey's impending withdrawal which proved false. Further injuries, however, were made when it became clear that the Democratic Party leaders of Vermont were hostile to Dewey and wholly committed to Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nOhio similarly went for Bryan, though with the caveat there that some leaders suggested that all mention to silver in the party platform be dropped. By May 5, John Roll McLean, the brother-in-law of and effective campaign manager for Dewey, defected from the campaign and was widely considered to now be silently supporting Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0006-0002", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nBy May 17, Dewey recognized that there was very little chance for him to gather enough delegates among the Western and Southern states to possibly keep Bryan from attaining two-thirds of the delegates at the convention, publicly commenting that he no longer even knew why he had decided to run for president at all; He effectively withdrew around this time. After this there was a major boom for his nomination as vice president on the ticket alongside Bryan; however Dewey resolutely refused to be considered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination, Other candidates\nWilliam Jennings Bryan was faced with little real opposition after Dewey withdrew from the race. Bryan won at the 1900 Democratic National Convention held at Kansas City, Missouri, on July 4\u20136, garnering 936 delegate votes for the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, People's Party nomination\nAs the nation's third largest party, the Populists had made an organizational decision in 1896 to \"fuse\" with the Democratic Party on the national level - their identity kept separate by the nomination of two different candidates for vice-president. At the state level, local Populist parties were left at liberty to proceed as they saw fit. In the Plains states, the Populists fused with the Democrats, and in some states replaced them entirely. In the South, the Populists fused with the Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0008-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, People's Party nomination\nThe end result, though Bryan was defeated, was that the Populists greatly enlarged their representation in Congress, from 10 to 26. In several southern states, however, the legislatures were still controlled by the Democrats, and they began passing a series of laws to eliminate the franchise for black voters, with the intention of undermining a significant bloc of the Populist vote. The move had its intended consequences, as in the mid-term election of 1898, Populist representation in the House of Representatives fell to 9, its lowest since the party's founding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, People's Party nomination\nThe treatment of Populists by the Democratic Party led to a division in the party. On May 17, 1899, Populist Party leaders met in St. Louis and issued an address calling for a \"Middle of the Road\" policy, in which the party would decline future fusion efforts. The statement was primarily aimed at the party's national chairman, U.S. Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina, who had been elected to the Senate through fusion with North Carolina Republicans, and was already working for the re-nomination of William J. Bryan by the Populists in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0009-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, People's Party nomination\nThe pro-fusion leaders of the Populists fought back in early 1900. The first state party known to have split was the Nebraska party, which divided during its state convention on March 19. Both factions appointed delegates to the national convention, scheduled for Cincinnati. Ultimately, the Fusion Populists decided to hold a separate national convention when it became apparent that the Ohio Populists did not favor fusion, and were working to organize a convention which would not nominate Bryan, but an independent ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, People's Party nomination, \"Fusion\" Populist nomination\nThe \"Fusion\" Populist National Convention assembled in a large tent just west of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on May 9, and unanimously nominated Bryan for the presidency. Charles Towne, the leader of the Silver Republican Party, was near unanimously nominated as his running mate, facing only weak opposition from Representative John Lentz from Ohio. When Adlai Stevenson won the Democratic vice-presidential nomination over Towne, Towne withdrew from the race, with the Fusion Populists endorsing Stevenson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 110], "content_span": [111, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, People's Party nomination, \"Middle of the Road\" Populist nomination\nMeeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, the \"Middle of the Road\" faction adopted a platform that called for the creation of fiat money, government ownership of key industries, and the opening of conservation lands for economic development. Businessman Wharton Barker was nominated for the presidency, while Representative Ignatius Donnelly was chosen as his running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 122], "content_span": [123, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Social Democratic Party nomination\nThe election of 1900 was the first United States election to feature a socialist candidate. The Socialist Labor Party of America found itself divided over the trade union policy as adopted at the 1896 National Convention, and by the brutal manner in which the party regulars maintained their influence. Many would leave and join with the fast-growing Social Democratic Party of America. At their party convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, Eugene V. Debs was nominated unanimously as the Social Democratic candidate for the Presidency, the first of his five runs, with California lawyer Job Harriman nominated as his running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 114], "content_span": [115, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Prohibition Party nomination\nThe Prohibition Party met in Chicago, Illinois on June 28 to nominate their presidential ticket. Hale Johnson, who had been their vice-presidential nominee in 1896, withdrew his name immediately before the balloting was to begin. John G. Woolley was nominated on the first ballot, with Henry B. Metcalf of Rhode Island nominated to be his running mate in short order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 108], "content_span": [109, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Lincoln Republican nomination\nThe Lincoln Republican Party, formally the Silver Republican Party, had by 1900 come to recognize that the issue of bimetallism had been superseded by that of imperialism, and it was hoped that a broader platform in line with the perceived values of Abraham Lincoln would allow the Party to evolve beyond its singular issue of free silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 109], "content_span": [110, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Lincoln Republican nomination\nThe Lincoln Republicans assembled in Kansas City, Missouri, at the same time as the Democratic National Convention held in the same city. Committed to endorsing William Jennings Bryan for the Presidency, the primary aim of many of those attending was to promote the nomination of national chairman Charles Towne for the Vice Presidency by the Democratic Party, an effort endorsed by Fusionist Populists who had nominated Towne to the same position two months earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 109], "content_span": [110, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0015-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Lincoln Republican nomination\nUnfortunately for those who boomed Towne these efforts may have backfired, pushing away Democratic delegates who might have otherwise been favorable to Towne by presenting the ticket of Bryan and Towne as a fait accompli, with Southern Democratic delegates themselves preferring a Vice-Presidential nominee who'd appeal to voters the Democratic Party lost in the Northeast and Midwest four years prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 109], "content_span": [110, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0015-0002", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Lincoln Republican nomination\nHopes for a personal endorsement of Towne by Bryan were also dashed when Bryan, who personally preferred Towne of those candidates in running and was expected to make mention of this in an acceptance, decided against going to the Convention or involving himself in the Vice-Presidential contest. Ultimately, Towne was a distant third, with Adlai Stevenson winning the nod.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 109], "content_span": [110, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Lincoln Republican nomination\nThe nomination of Stevenson, who'd previously served as Grover Cleveland's Vice President, outraged many of the Lincoln Republicans still in attendance, and in the ensuing pandemonium attempts were made to nominate Charles Towne for the Vice Presidency. Only when Charles Towne himself addressed the convention did the anger settle. Declining the efforts to nominate him, Towne pleaded with the delegates present to accept and support the Democratic ticket as it was, noting that Bryan was at the head of it and much of the Democratic Platform was aligned with that of the Lincoln Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 109], "content_span": [110, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0016-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Lincoln Republican nomination\nOthers, such as Senator Fred Dubois, Senator Henry Teller, and John Shafroth made similar speeches calling for support for Bryan and Stevenson. It was eventually decided that the question of the Vice Presidential nomination would be handled by the National Committee. They would formalize and endorsement of Adlai Stevenson for the Vice Presidency the following day, in deference to Towne's wishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 109], "content_span": [110, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Anti-Imperialist League nomination\nThe American Anti- Imperialist League had been formed in 1898 in opposition to the acquisition of the Philippine Islands, considering its annexation violating the concept of \"consent of the governed\". While not formalized as a political party, there existed a movement within the League that sought to nominate an independent ticket to run solely on the platform of anti-imperialism or, barring that, to endorse whichever Republican or Democratic presidential nominee that was themselves anti-imperialist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 114], "content_span": [115, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0017-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Anti-Imperialist League nomination\nUpon the nominations of McKinley and Bryan however, there were immediate divisions on whether to endorse Bryan and the Democratic Platform, many sympathizing Republicans and Gold Democrats finding it anathema to their own political philosophies beyond its denouncement of imperialism; already by July some were considering supporting McKinley in November. Later that same month a call was made for a National Convention to meet in Indianapolis on August 15 with the intention of either endorsing or nominating a ticket for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 114], "content_span": [115, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0017-0002", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Anti-Imperialist League nomination\nDiscussions were held with remnants of National Democratic Party about the possibility of a fusion ticket, but this was voted down by their national committee. Then discussed names for possible Presidential candidates were former Speaker Thomas Reed, former Secretary of State Richard Olney, former Massachusetts Governor George Boutwell, and former Senator John Henderson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 114], "content_span": [115, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Anti-Imperialist League nomination\nFrom the beginning the headwinds were in Bryan's favor, with permanent President George Boutwell addressing the convention and calling for the endorsement of the Democratic ticket, this followed in speeches by former General John Beatty, Edgar Bancroft, and Gamaliel Bradford. The resolution to endorse Bryan however was subject to prolonged debate, its principal opponents being representatives of the \"third-ticket\" movement led by Thomas Osborne. Osborne and those who followed him theorized that many anti-imperialists would not be willing to vote for Bryan or in favor of the Democratic Platform, and would be better served by a candidate of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 114], "content_span": [115, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0018-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Anti-Imperialist League nomination\nCharles Codman, the author of the resolution, and Edwin Burritt Smith countered that all issues were secondary to the issue of imperialism, and that the most effective means by which to put an anti-imperialist in office should be used. In a voice vote, the Platform of the \"Liberty Congress\" as it was then known as adopted overwhelmingly, with all amendments to strike the endorsement of the Bryan/Stevenson ticket being voted down. Osborne and other \"third-ticketers\" would then bolt to the then nearby organizing National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 114], "content_span": [115, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nThe National Party was an outgrowth of the \"third-ticket\" movement that existed within the Anti- Imperialist League. The first steps towards its formation were taken after the failure of a number of anti-imperialists, among them Thomas Osborne and John Jay Chapman, to convince the National Democratic Party to either nominate or endorse a third party ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0019-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nA statement was then released by the attending League delegates from New York, denouncing both the Republican and Democratic parties, advocating for the independence of the Philippines and Porto Rico (sic), supporting gold standard and a sound banking system, calling for the abolition of special privileges, and demanding a public service based on merit exclusively. They also called for a national convention to be held from August 14 to 15, which would have placed it alongside the \"national\" League Convention that was being held from August 15 to August 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nAs the delegates arrived in Indianapolis, it was hoped that the League could be convinced to nominate a third party ticket, with the National Party then offering its endorsement. It swiftly became clear however that the majority of the delegates to the Anti- Imperialist League Convention were in sympathy with Bryan and prepared to endorse him, and attempts on the part of anti-Bryan delegates to kept the platform at least non-committal on the subject of the presidential race were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0020-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nThose League delegates that were associated with the National Party then left and proceeded to elect Thomas Osborne as Permanent Chairman, calling for a new national convention to be held on September 5. It is claimed that at the time the National Party presidential nomination was offered to Moorfield Storey, but Storey declined and ultimately opted to run as an Anti- Imperialist Independent in the 11th District of Massachusetts; William Jackson Palmer was suggested as a vice-presidential nominee to run alongside him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0021-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nMeeting in Carnegie Hall (then Chamber Music Hall) on the 5th of September, the National Party was formalized, nominating Senator Donelson Caffery of Louisiana for the Presidency, and historian Archibald Howe of Massachusetts for the Vice Presidency. Though there was some concern over whether Caffery would accept the nomination if offered, Osborne claimed that he had been communicating with Caffrey and that he was both sympathetic to the National Party and willing to be their candidate for the Presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0021-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nThe party platform was virtually identical to the one offered by the League committee back in July, though the definition of \"special privileges was defined as \"subsidies, bounties, undeserved pensions, or trust-busting tariffs.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0021-0002", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nA strategy was also adopted where, in those States where it was impractical to nominate a full slate of electors, a single elector would be nominated instead, allowing for voters to vote the Nationalist ticket as well as one other of their choice; it was hoped that this might avail concerns that the Nationalists would take votes away from either Bryan or McKinley, depending on the voters' sympathies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0022-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, National Party nomination\nUnfortunately for the Nationalist Party Senator Cafferty declined the nomination some weeks later, resulting in a scramble where Arthur Briggs Farquhar, owner of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, was considered as a possible replacement. A day later, on September 21, the Massachusetts branch of the Party voted to disband. It was then hoped that unpledged electors could be nominated, but papers were only ever taken out for one, Edward Waldo Emerson of Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 105], "content_span": [106, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0023-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Other nominations\nThe Union Reform Party nominated Seth H. Ellis of Ohio for president and Samuel T. Nicholson for vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0024-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Nominations, Minor party nominations, Other nominations\nThe United Christian Party nominated Jonah F. R. Leonard for president, and David H. Martin for vice president. Initially, the party had nominated Silas C. Swallow for president and John G. Woolley for vice president, but both men refused, choosing instead to contest the Prohibition Party nomination (of which Woolley would emerge the victor).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 97], "content_span": [98, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0025-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nThe economy was booming in 1900, so the Republican slogan of \"Four More Years of the Full Dinner Pail,\" combined with victory in the brief Spanish\u2013American War in 1898, had a powerful electoral appeal. Teddy Roosevelt had become a national hero fighting in Cuba during the war, and as such he was a popular spokesman for the Republican ticket. Roosevelt proved highly energetic, and an equal match for William Jennings Bryan's famous barnstorming style of campaigning. Roosevelt's theme was that McKinley had brought America peace and prosperity and deserved re-election. In a whirlwind campaign, Roosevelt made 480 stops in 23 states. In his speeches, he repeatedly argued that the war had been just and had liberated the Cubans and Filipinos from Spanish tyranny:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0026-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nFour years ago the nation was uneasy because at our very doors an American island was writhing in hideous agony under a worse than medieval despotism. We had our Armenia at our threshold. The situation in Cuba had become such that we could no longer stand quiet and retain one shred of self-respect.... We drew the sword and waged the most righteous and brilliantly successful foreign war that this generation has seen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0027-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nBryan's campaign was built around a reprise of his major issue from the 1896 campaign: Free Silver. It was not as successful in 1900, because prosperity had replaced severe depression and McKinley claimed credit. Advocates of enlarging the money supply to raise prices had to admit that a great deal of new gold was flowing into the world economy, and deflation (i.e. falling prices) was no longer a threat. Bryan's second major campaign theme attacked McKinley's imperialism; Bryan had supported the war, but opposed the annexation of the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0027-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nHe said McKinley had simply replaced a cruel Spanish tyranny with a cruel American one. Bryan was especially harsh in his criticisms of the American military effort to suppress a bloody rebellion by Filipino guerillas. This theme won over some previous opponents, especially \"hard money\" Germans, former Gold Democrats, and anti-imperialists such as Andrew Carnegie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0028-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nBoth candidates repeated their 1896 campaign techniques, with McKinley campaigning again from the front porch of his home in Canton, Ohio. At the peak of the campaign, he greeted sixteen delegations and 30,000 cheering supporters in one day. Meanwhile, Bryan took to the rails again, traveling 18,000 miles to hundreds of rallies across the Midwest and East. This time, he was matched by Theodore Roosevelt, who campaigned just as energetically in 24 states, covering 21,000 miles by train.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0029-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nThe triumph of the American army and navy in the war against Spain was a decisive factor in building Republican support. Democrats tried to argue that the war was not over because of the insurgency in the Philippines; this became their major issue. A perception that the Philippine\u2013American War was coming to an end would be an electoral asset for the Republicans, and the McKinley administration stated that there were reductions of troops there. Republicans pledged that the fighting in the Philippines would die down of its own accord within sixty days of McKinley's re-election. However, as one lieutenant explained in a letter to his wife, \"It looks good on paper, but there really has been no reduction of the force here. These battalions [being sent home] are made up on men...about to be discharged.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0030-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nIn addition, Secretary of War Elihu Root had a report from MacArthur of September 1900 that he did not release until after the election. General Arthur MacArthur, Jr., had been in command of the Philippines for four months, warning Washington that the war was not lessening and that the end was not even in sight. MacArthur believed that the guerrilla stage of the war was just beginning and that Filipinos were refining their techniques through experience. Furthermore, Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo's strategy had popular support. MacArthur wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0031-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nThe success of this unique system of war depends upon almost complete unity of action of the entire native population. That such unity is a fact is too obvious to admit of discussion; how it is brought about and maintained is not so plain. Intimidation has undoubtedly accomplished much to this end, but fear as the only motive is hardly sufficient to account for the united and apparently spontaneous action of several millions of people. One traitor in each town would eventually destroy such a complex organization. It is more probable that the adhesive principle comes from ethological homogeneity, which induces men to respond for a time to the appeals of consanguineous leadership even when such action is opposed to their interests and convictions of expediency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0032-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nNonetheless, the majority of soldiers in the Philippines did not support Bryan. Any mention of the election of 1900 in the soldiers' letters and diaries indicated overwhelming support for the Republican ticket of McKinley and Roosevelt. According to Sergeant Beverly Daley, even the \"howling Democrats\" favored McKinley. Private Hambleton wrote, \"Of course, there are some boys who think Bryan is the whole cheese, but they don't say too much.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0033-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nDespite Bryan's energetic efforts, the renewed prosperity under McKinley, combined with the public's approval of the Spanish\u2013American War, allowed McKinley to gain a comfortable victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0034-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nTheodore Roosevelt, the vice-presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, attracted unusual attention in the campaign, and it has been commonly asserted that he brought a considerable number of votes to the Republican ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0035-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nMcKinley polled roughly 7,200,000 votes. He carried 28 states with a combined 292 electoral votes (65.32%). He slightly increased his national percentage (51.60%) with 120,000 more votes than in 1896. This change is reflected in the gains made in number of counties carried; McKinley had 222 more counties than he had carried in 1896, thus gaining a slight majority of the total number of counties making returns in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0036-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nOf the 2,729 counties making returns, McKinley won in 1,385 (50.75%) while Bryan carried 1,340 (49.10%). Two counties (0.07%) were split evenly between McKinley and Bryan, while two counties (0.07%) in Texas recorded more votes cast for \"Other(s)\" than either of the two-party candidates. McKinley had a majority in 1,288 counties while Bryan had a majority in 1,253 counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0037-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nFurther examination reveals that changes in counties were even more impressive. Of the 2,729 counties making returns, 2,286 were identical in these two elections; 113 changed from Republican to Democratic; and 328 changed from Democratic to Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0038-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nA notable feature was the Bryan gains made in the New England and (Northeastern) Mid -Atlantic sections, with also a slight gain in the East North Central section. Bryan even managed to win New York City by almost 30,000 votes when he had lost it by more than 60,000 votes just 4 years earlier. In all other sections, Bryan's vote was less than in 1896, and in the nation his total vote was 23,000 less than in 1896. The percentage of total was 45.52, a slight loss. Kentucky, which he carried this time, showed an increase of 17,005. In 16 states, the Democratic vote increased, but in 29 states it was less than in 1896. Bryan carried only 17 states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0039-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nThis was the last election in which the Republicans won the majority of electoral votes in Maryland until 1920. It is also the last election in which a Republican won the presidency without winning Idaho and Montana. In addition, this would also be the last election in 100 years when the Republican candidate would win without earning a minimum of 300 electoral votes. That did not occur again until George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore in the 2000 United States Presidential Election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0040-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Geography of results\nResults by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0041-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, General election, Close states\nMargin of victory between 5% and 10% (150 electoral votes):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032955-0042-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election, Trivia\nThe 1800 and 1900 elections are the only two to be held during a non-leap year; the next such election will be held in 2100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032956-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Alabama\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032956-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Alabama\nAlabama was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. This would prove to be the last occasion when the Republican presidential candidate won the Lauderdale and Limestone counties until Richard Nixon in 1972, the last when the Republican nominee carried the Butler and Walker counties until Barry Goldwater in 1964, and the last when the Democratic nominee carried Winston County until Franklin D. Roosevelt won it by one vote in 1932.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032957-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032957-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nArkansas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032958-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in California\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in California took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032958-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in California\nCalifornia voted for the Republican incumbent, William McKinley, in a landslide over the Democratic challenger, former Nebraska representative and 1896 nominee William Jennings Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032959-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Colorado\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Colorado voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032959-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nIn its early days as a state, Colorado had like the Plains States to its east been solidly Republican. However, with crises emerging in its agricultural sector from low wheat prices and a severe drought in 1888 and 1889, and the state\u2019s underdevelopment leading to resentment of the Northeast, the new Populist Party was able to largely take over the state\u2019s politics in the early 1890s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032959-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nAided by fusion with the minority Democratic Party and strong support for free silver in this state which produced over half of all American silver, the Populist Party under James B. Weaver in 1892 carried the state\u2019s presidential electoral votes and won both its congressional seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032959-0001-0002", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nAfter the Republicans gained a 130-seat majority in the House of Representatives following the 1894 elections, five dissident Republicans from the Mountain States who supported free silver jointed together as the \u201cSilver Republicans\u201d They supported nominating Centennial State Senator Teller at first, but ultimately this was viewed as impractical and the Silver Republicans fused with Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan, who won Colorado by six-and-a-half-to-one over William McKinley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032959-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Colorado, Background\nFollowing the election, the Populist majority in Colorado largely faded after the ensuing return to prosperity. However, Colorado and other Mountain States became opposed to the Philippine\u2013American War, which they viewed as an imperialist land grab, which maintained substantial support for Bryan although free silver had largely disappeared as an important issue except within the silver-mining industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032959-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Colorado, Vote\nOne week before the election, the GOP had given up trying to carry Colorado, and ultimately Bryan won the state by 13.39 percentage points, which was nonetheless only two-elevenths of his 1896 margin. Bryan had previously won Colorado against William McKinley four years earlier and would later also win the state against William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032960-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032960-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nConnecticut overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Connecticut by a margin of 15.85% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032961-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Delaware\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032961-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Delaware\nDelaware was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032962-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Florida\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 6, 1900. Florida voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032962-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Florida\nThe anti-Southern animus of the Harrison presidency meant Florida\u2018s large landowners felt the disfranchisement of blacks was urgent by 1889. A poll tax was introduced in 1889 as were the so-called \u201cMyers\u201d and \u201cDortch\u201d laws which required voters in more populous settlements to register their voting precincts. This dramatically cut voter registration amongst blacks and poorer whites, and since Florida completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession, its Republican Party between 1872 and 1888 was entirely dependent upon black votes. Thus this disfranchisement of blacks and poor whites by a poll tax introduced in 1889 left Florida as devoid of Republican adherents as Louisiana, Mississippi or South Carolina. The Republican Party did not offer presidential electors in 1892, and it did not carry a single county in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032962-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Florida\nWith Bryan appealing to many pineywoods \u201ccrackers\u201d who still paid the poll tax, he was able to improve upon his 1896 landslide. The power of Baptist preachers in the settled northern part of the state, however, did produce considerable support for the Prohibition Party\u2019s John Woolley in the white counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032962-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Florida\nThe election saw William Jennings Bryan win the state and receive all four electoral votes. This stands as one of the ten occasions when third or minor parties got over 5% of the vote in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032963-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Georgia\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the wider United States Presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032963-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nFollowing Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and many poor whites, doing so in the early 1870s. This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment \u2013 chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032963-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nThe Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. This restriction was originally done by local laws and from 1898 by statewide party laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032963-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nHowever, politics after the first demobilization by a cumulative poll tax was chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly the Populist Party, gained support amongst the remaining poor white and black voters in opposition to the planter elite. The fact that Georgia had already substantially reduced its poor white and black electorate two decades ago, alongside pressure from urban elites in Atlanta, and the decline of isolationism due to the success of the Spanish\u2013American War, meant the Populist movement substantially faded in the late 1890s, especially after the dominant Democratic Party instituted a statewide requirement to use primaries rather than conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032963-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Georgia, Vote\nNeither candidate campaigned in the state, despite McKinley\u2019s efforts to establish the GOP amongst white southerners during the preceding election. Polls just before election day gave Bryan a majority of between forty thousand and sixty thousand, and this proved accurate, for Bryan won by nearly forty-seven thousand votes or by thirty-eight percent. Bryan even won fifty-nine percent of the ballots in what was typically the state\u2019s most Republican county \u2013 Fannin \u2013 possibly due to his opposition to imperialist adventures in the Pacific. He is alongside Samuel J. Tilden and Jimmy Carter one of only three post-Civil War candidates to win a majority in Fannin County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 57], "content_span": [58, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032964-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Idaho\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032964-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Idaho\nIdaho was won by the Democratic nominees, William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Bryan and Stevenson defeated the Republican nominees, William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032964-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Idaho\nBryan had previously defeated McKinley in Idaho four years earlier. He would later lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908. As of the 2020 election this is the last election in which the Republican candidate won the presidency without Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032965-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Illinois\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose 24 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032965-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Illinois\nIllinois was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. It was the tipping-point-state in the 1900 presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032966-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Indiana\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Indiana voters chose 15 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032966-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Indiana\nIndiana was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032967-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Iowa\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032967-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Iowa\nIowa was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032968-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Kansas\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Kansas voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032968-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Kansas\nKansas was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. McKinley won the state by a margin of 6.60 percentage points. McKinley had previously lost the state to Democrat William Jennings Bryan four years earlier while Bryan would later lose the state again to another Republican (William Howard Taft) in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032969-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032969-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nEver since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones, although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP would never carry the state during the Third Party System. However, the Democratic Party in the state was heavily divided over free silver and the role of corporations in the middle 1890s, and it lost the governorship for the first time in forty years in 1895 due to Populist defections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032969-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nIn 1896, the state\u2019s growing urban and coal mining areas, which unlike most parts of the South had developed economic ties with the Midwest and Northeast and thus opposed free silver, gave William McKinley sufficient support to carry Kentucky by a very narrow margin of 277 votes in what remains the seventh-closest vote for presidential electors on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032969-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nFor the rematch in 1900, an early poll had the state in doubt. By the final week of October, polls generally had returning Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan carrying the state, and this he did by a 1.71 percent margin. His win was generally attributed to the fact that urban and coal counties were more tolerant of anti-imperialism (directed against American colonialism in the Pacific islands) than free silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032970-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032970-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nLouisiana was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032971-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Maine\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032971-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Maine\nMaine overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Maine by a margin of 27.85% in this rematch of the 1896 United States presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory. Nonetheless, Bryan\u2019s narrow victory in Knox County was the only occasion between 1884 and 1908 that a Democrat carried any of Maine\u2019s counties, and one of only two such cases between 1856 and 1908 inclusive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032971-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Maine\nWith 61.89% of the popular vote, Maine would be McKinley's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont and North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032972-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Maryland\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Maryland voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032972-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Maryland\nMaryland was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032973-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032973-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMassachusetts overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Massachusetts by a margin of 19.74% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032973-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMcKinley was able to win 13 out of the 14 counties in the state of Massachusetts. The only county that went to Bryan was Suffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Boston. Bryan had previously lost the county to McKinley in 1896 and would lose it again to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nEver since the formation of the Republican Party, Michigan had been a Republican-leaning state due to the Lower Peninsula\u2019s strong history of settlement by anti-slavery Yankees, who after the end of Reconstruction continued to see the need for solid Republican voting to oppose the solidly Democratic Confederate and Border States. During the Third Party System, heavily Catholic and immigrant-settled Southeast Michigan would lean towards the Democratic Party, which was opposed to the moralistic pietism of Yankee Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nIn 1892, aided by favorable demographic changes and a legislative change allocating electors by congressional district, the Democratic Party managed to carry five of Michigan\u2019s fourteen electoral votes, and also elect a Governor and a majority to the state legislature. However, the Panic of 1893 turned expectations or hopes of Michigan becoming a swing state rudely on its head, especially when incumbent President Cleveland stood firm, sending in troops to break the Pullman Strike. In the 1894 elections, only one Democrat maintained a seat in the state legislature, a loss of seventy seats compared to the 1890 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nDuring the 1896 presidential election, the Methodist cabinet counties would turn towards evangelical free silver Democrat William Jennings Bryan, whilst the previously Democratic German Catholic counties opposed free silver and turned to Republican nominee William McKinley as the Church opposed free silver and Bryan\u2019s prohibitionist leanings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nDuring the following two election cycles, the Democrats regained only a small portion of their 1894 losses in Michigan\u2019s legislature. Both McKinley and Bryan would be re-nominated for the 1900 presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nBryan campaigned in the state in early October, relying on a theme of \u201cmisrule\u201d in the colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines which had been acquired in the Spanish\u2013American War. In a speech at Muskegeon, Bryan argued that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos were taxed without representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nAs McKinley\u2019s running mate, Theodore Roosevelt did not campaign in the state, as it was viewed as safe for the Republicans. All forecasts had the state being carried by McKinley, and in some the state was regarded as so safe as not to be discussed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032974-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nThese predictions were borne out by the election result when McKinley carried Michigan by 58.05 percent to Bryan\u2019s 38.96 percent and all but one county \u2013 St. Joseph in Michiana, which would prove the last time until Woodrow Wilson in 1916 when a Democrat won any Michigan county in a two-way race, for the state would become apart from Vermont the most solidly one-party Republican in the nation for the first third of the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032975-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Minnesota voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032975-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nMinnesota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. The ticket won the state by a margin of 24.52%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032975-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nWith 60.21% of the popular vote, Minnesota would be McKinley's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, North Dakota, Maine and Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032976-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032976-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nMississippi was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032977-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Missouri\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 6, 1900. Voters chose 17 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Republican President William McKinley against Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032977-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Missouri\nMissouri voted for Democrat William Jennings Bryan, giving him 51.48% of the vote versus Republican William McKinley's 45.94%, a victory margin of 5.53%. While losing Missouri, McKinley nevertheless won the national election by a 6.13% margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032977-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Missouri\nNotably, this was one of only two occasions in the twentieth century that Missouri voted for a losing presidential candidate, the state often considered a political bellwether in that period. Between 1904 and 2004, Missouri voted for the eventual winner in every presidential election except for 1956 (coincidentally, Missouri voted for Stevenson's grandson in that election). However that reputation began to fade after voting for losing Republican candidates for two elections in a row in 2008 and 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032978-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Montana\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032978-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Montana\nMontana overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, over the Republican nominee, President William McKinley. Bryan won Montana by a landslide margin of 18.64% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley more than double his votes from the previous election, but he still lost decisively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032978-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Montana\nBryan had previously defeated McKinley in the state four years earlier but would later lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032978-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Montana\nTo date, this is the last time that Montana backed a losing Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032979-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032979-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nNebraska was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032979-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nDemocratic Party candidate William Jennings Bryan lost his home state to McKinley by a margin of 3.24%. Bryan had previously defeated McKinley in the state four years earlier and would later win it again against William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032980-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Nevada\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032980-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Nevada\nNevada was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032980-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Nevada\nBryan had previously defeated Republican William McKinley in the state four years earlier and would later defeat William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032981-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032981-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nNew Hampshire overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won New Hampshire by a margin of 20.91% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032982-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 6, 1900. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032982-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nNew Jersey overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won New Jersey by a margin of 14.17% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032983-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New York\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032983-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New York\nNew York was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York. McKinley and Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominees, former Congressman and 1896 presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Also in the running was the Socialist Party candidate, Eugene V. Debs, who ran with Job Harriman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032983-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New York\nMcKinley carried New York State with 53.10% of the vote to Bryan\u2019s 43.83%, a victory margin of 9.27%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032983-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New York\nNew York weighed in for this election as about three percent more Republican than the national average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032983-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New York\nThe 1900 election was a direct re-match between McKinley and Bryan who had run against each other four years earlier in 1896. While New York would continue its Republican dominance of the Fourth Party System and that McKinley had slightly improved on his national margin, the Empire State swung heavily in Bryan's favor in 1900. In 1896, McKinley had defeated Bryan in the state by 18.85%, sweeping every county in the state except Schoharie County, including rare Republican victories in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032983-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in New York\nMcKinley\u2019s 1900 margin of victory in New York State was less than half of his 1896 margin, primarily due to dramatic Democratic gains in New York City. While in 1896 Bryan had lost New York City by about 60,000 votes, in 1900 Bryan won a majority of over 30,000 votes in New York City, winning Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Bryan would win New York City again against William Howard Taft in 1908. New York City would not vote Republican again until the Republican landslides of 1920 and 1924, and would subsequently become a reliably Democratic bastion in every election that followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032984-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032984-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nIn the period between this election and that of 1896, North Carolina had seen the overthrow of its Populist/Republican fusion government by white Democrats in the 1898 Wilmington coup d\u2018etat. Following this momentous event, the state would see a radical restructuring of its politics due to the disenfranchisement of its large African-American population, who had provided a substantial \u2013 but unlike many Deep South states not overwhelming \u2013 proportion of Republican Party support ever since that party first appeared in the state following Reconstruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032984-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nAt the same time, the state\u2019s Republican Party, now confined to the mountain and northwestern Piedmont areas that had resisted secession and viewed the Democratic Party as a \u201cwar party\u201d, would turn almost overnight towards a \u201clily-white\u201d strategy based on attempting to appeal to businessmen who found the Democratic Party too anti-business and too favourable to using of low-cost black labor instead of whites. The GOP had to some extent followed this strategy in the years before black disenfranchisement because it wanted to appeal to the state\u2019s budding industrialists, who were critical of Democratic policies favoring free trade over high tariffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032984-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nDespite the radical changes in the electorate over this and he following election, there was relatively little change in the overall statewide vote in a rematch between Democrat William Jennings Bryan and incumbent Republican President McKinley. Although McKinley lost almost all the GOP\u2019s black belt support as its black voters could no longer vote (such as Northampton County, a majority black county which has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the 1896 election), he did make extensive gains in majority-white and formerly Democratic regions of the Piedmont and secessionist parts of the mountains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032984-0003-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nConsequently, thirty-four of the state\u2019s ninety-seven counties switched parties despite a minimal statewide vote share change. McKinley was the first Republican to carry Alexander County, Caldwell County, Graham County, Lincoln County, Macon County, Swain County and Yancey County in historically secessionist parts of the mountains and northwestern Piedmont, and also Orange County in the eastern Piedmont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032984-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nIn addition, Republicans made strong and persistent gains in historically secessionist Sampson County, home of Populist Senator Marion Butler, a key architect of both the Populist-Republican fusion at the state level in North Carolina and the Populist-Democratic fusion at the national level in 1896 with Bryan's nomination. In 1896 Sampson County overwhelmingly voted for Bryan as the Populist fusion candidate, but with the backlash to the overthrow of the Populist-Republican fusion state government, Sampson County swung heavily to the Republican McKinley, as a 67.63%-30.82% Bryan lead over McKinley in 1896 became a 58.64%-36.82% victory for McKinley over Bryan in 1900. Sampson County would remain an isolated island of Republican support down east for decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032985-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032985-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nNorth Dakota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. McKinley won the state but a margin of 26.59%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032985-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nWith 62.12% of the popular vote, North Dakota would be McKinley's second strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont. McKinley had previously won the state four years earlier, but more than doubled his margin from 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032986-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Ohio\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032986-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Ohio\nOhio was won by the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President and Ohio native son William McKinley with 52.30% of the popular vote. The Democratic Party candidate, William Jennings Bryan, garnered 45.66% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032987-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Oregon\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Oregon voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032987-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Oregon\nA return to prosperity, continued American expansion in the Philippines, and the fading of the Populist revolt that had spread into Southern Oregon during the previous decade ensured that incumbent President William McKinley would not have any trouble carrying the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032987-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Oregon\nIndeed, the Populist voters during the 1890s from southern and Eastern Oregon \u2013 who had been historically Democratic since before statehood when they were substantially settled by southerners from the Ozarks and Appalachia \u2013 turned in substantial numbers to McKinley, so that Jackson County and also Umatilla County voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time ever and Josephine County for only the second after 1888.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032987-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Oregon\nThese results were also replicated in lower-level elections, so that at state level Oregon would remain, with a very brief New Deal interlude, a one-party state dominated by the Republican Party until the \u201cRevolution of 1954\u201d. Consequently, this would prove the last time until Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s 1932 landslide that any Democrat other than Woodrow Wilson carried any of Oregon's counties in a Presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032988-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 32 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032988-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nPennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 24.31% in this rematch of the 1896 United States presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032988-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nWith 60.74% of the popular vote, Pennsylvania would be McKinley's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, North Dakota and Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032989-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032989-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nRhode Island overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Rhode Island by a margin of 24.7% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032990-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 6, 1900. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for the President and Vice President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032990-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nSouth Carolina overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, over the Republican nominee, President William McKinley. Bryan won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 85.92% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. Despite McKinley\u2019s decisive victory nationwide as a result of the return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War, South Carolina proved to be his weakest state, due to the nearly complete disfranchisement of the black majority that was the party\u2019s sole support in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032990-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nThis would be the last election when the Republican Party won any county in South Carolina until Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and the last when any county voted against the Democrats until Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond carried every county except Anderson and Spartanburg in 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032991-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. South Dakota voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032991-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nSouth Dakota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032991-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nMcKinley won the state by a margin of 15.59 percentage points. McKinley had previously lost the state to William Jennings Bryan four years earlier, who in turn would lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032992-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Tennessee\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032992-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nFor over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee\u2019s white citizenry was divided according to partisan loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and Wayne voted Republican \u2013 generally by landslide margins \u2013 as they saw the Democratic Party as the \u201cwar party\u201d who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032992-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nContrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state\u2019s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction. After the state\u2019s white landowning class re-established its rule in the early 1870s, blacks and Unionist whites combined to give a competitive political system for two decades, although in this era the Republicans could only capture statewide offices when the Democratic Party was divided on this issue of payment of state debt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032992-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nWhite Democrats in West Tennessee were always aiming to eliminate black political influence, which they first attempted to do by election fraud in the middle 1880s and did so much more successfully at the end of that decade by instituting in counties with significant black populations a secret ballot that prevented illiterates voting, and a poll tax throughout the state, which cut turnout by at least a third in the 1890s. Although the poll tax was supposedly relaxed or paid by party officials in Unionist Republican areas, turnout would continue to decline seriously in later years, although overall presidential partisan percentages did not change substantially as the GOP attempted to attract Democrats who would benefit from tariffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032992-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background\nFor the 1900 presidential election, a rematch of the fiercely contested 1896 campaign, neither Republican William McKinley nor Democrat William Jennings Bryan campaigned in Tennessee, and by the fourth week of October the state was generally contested, as it had consistently gone since 1872, to the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032992-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Vote\nBryan ultimately carried Tennessee by a margin of 8.08 percent, an increase of 2.32 percent on his 1896 margin over McKinley, a small change but a substantial one given the extremely deep partisan loyalties of white Tennesseeans. His increased margin reflected more complete black disenfranchisement and reduced suspicion of his free-silver policies in the major urban areas, which saw him carry normally Republican Knox County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032993-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Texas\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose 15 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032993-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Texas\nTexas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032993-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Texas\nBryan had previously won the Lone Star State against William McKinley in 1896 and would later win the state again against William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032994-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Utah\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election held in each of the forty-five contemporary states. State voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032994-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nDuring its years as a territory the Republican Party's ancestral hostility to the polygamy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), whose members settled Utah and have dominated the region ever since, meant that Utah territorial politics until 1891 was dominated by the Mormon-hierarchy-controlled \"People's Party\" and the anti-Mormon \"Liberal Party\". Those Mormons who did affiliate with national parties generally were Democrats, who lacked moral qualms associated with polygamy and slavery \u2013 although the Liberal Party did have allies within the GOP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032994-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nIn order to achieve statehood, however, the LDS Church disbanded the \"People's Party\" in 1891 and most LDS members moved towards the Democratic Party. In Utah's statehood year \u2013 1896 \u2013 Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan, whose \"free silver\" platform was immensely attractive to a state with large silver reserves, won the Mormon State by a five-to-one margin. However, by Bryan's 1900 rematch with incumbent Republican President McKinley, the Republican Party's ancestral hostility to Mormonism was beginning to dissipate, and Republican National Committee Chairman \"Dollar Mark\" Hanna was able to persuade the Mormon hierarchy that Bryan's policies \u2013 financial and otherwise \u2013 were unsound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032994-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nConsequently, although the LDS Church had not established the links to the GOP that they were after the Utah legislature elected Reed Smoot, those Utah voters who had supported Bryan overwhelmingly in 1896 deserted him to a degree that narrowly proved sufficient to give the state's three electoral votes to McKinley. Apart from Washington County in the Dixie region, McKinley was competitive everywhere and in Kane County \u2013 later a famous Republican bastion \u2013 he received over seventy percent. This remains easily the closest presidential election in Utah history, and with the state voting essentially as the nation did, it was decisive in placing the Mormon State in the mainstream of US politics, where Utah remained until becoming a Republican bastion in the 1950s and 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032995-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Vermont\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032995-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Vermont\nVermont overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Vermont by a landslide margin of 52.87% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish\u2013American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032995-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Vermont\nFour years earlier, McKinley had won Vermont with 80.08% of the popular vote, making it his strongest victory in the 1896 presidential election in terms of percentage in the popular vote as well as the best performance of any presidential candidate in the Green Mountain State to date. The Green Mountain State would once again be McKinley's strongest state in popular vote percentage, though with a slightly reduced margin of 75.73%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032996-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Virginia\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032996-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Virginia\nVirginia voted for the Democratic candidate, former U.S. Representative William J. Bryan over the Republican candidate, incumbent President William McKinley. Bryan won the state by a margin of 11.47%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032997-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032997-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nWashington was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. A return to prosperity, continued American expansion in the Philippines, and the fading of the Populist revolt of the previous decade ensured that incumbent President McKinley would not have any trouble carrying the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032997-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nMcKinley had previously lost Washington to Bryan four years earlier while Bryan would later lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032998-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose six electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032998-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nWest Virginia was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032999-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032999-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background\nWisconsin during the Third Party System was a Republican-leaning but competitive state whereby historically anti-Civil War German Catholic counties stood opposed to highly pro-war and firmly Republican Yankee areas. However, following the Populist movement, whose inflationary monetary policies were opposed by almost all urban classes and viewed as dangerously radical by rural German Catholics, Wisconsin\u2019s upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled from William Jennings Bryan\u2019s agrarian and free silver sympathies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032999-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background\nAlthough in 1892 Grover Cleveland had become the first Democrat to carry the state since the formation of the Republican Party, in 1896 Wisconsin would prove Republican William McKinley\u2019s strongest state outside the Northeast, as Bryan\u2019s free silver monetary policy gained little support from dairy farmers who were less affected by drought or debt than wheat growers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032999-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background\nWisconsin would henceforth become almost a one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party. The Democratic Party became entirely uncompetitive outside the previously anti-Yankee areas adjoining Lake Michigan in the eastern part of the state. In response to Democratic strength weakening severely after 1894, however, challenges within the state Republican Party from Robert M. La Follette would emerge rapidly, with the progressive reformer being elected Governor coincident with the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00032999-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote\nDespite McKinley\u2019s large win in 1896, Wisconsin was considered doubtful at the beginning of the 1900 campaign. However, by the middle of October expert opinion suggested strongly that McKinley would carry the state, and that the state\u2019s Democrats were abandoning nominee William Jennings Bryan for the second consecutive election. This was confirmed by polls just before Election Day, and as it turned out McKinley essentially repeated his three-to-two success of 1896, winning by 24,09 points and carrying all but four counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033000-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nThe 1900 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033000-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nWyoming was won by the President William McKinley (R\u2013Ohio), running with the 33rd Governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt, with 58.66 percent of the popular vote, against representative William Jennings Bryan (D\u2013Nebraska), running with the 23rd Vice President Adlai Stevenson I, with 41.17 percent of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033000-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nMcKinley had previously lost Wyoming to Bryan four years earlier while Bryan would later go on to lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033001-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 University of Utah football team\nThe 1900 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1900 college football season as an independent. Head coach Harvey Holmes led the team to a 2\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033001-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 University of Utah football team, Schedule\nNote: lists 2\u20131 record for the above three games, but also lists HC Holmes with a 2\u20132 mark for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033002-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1900 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 1st season of top-flight football in Uruguay. It was the first official championship held by the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033002-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a round-robin championship. It took only four teams, all founding members of the Uruguayan Football Association, among which would be victorious Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033003-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1900 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1900 college football season. In their second season under head coach Willard Langton, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033003-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nOn November 17, 1900, the team lost to the University of Utah by a 21\u20130 score at Logan, Utah. The game was the second in what became the Utah\u2013Utah State football rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033004-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Utah gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900. Incumbent Republican Heber Manning Wells defeated Democratic nominee James Moyle with 51.98% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033005-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 VFA season\nThe 1900 Victorian Football Association season was the 24th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club; it was the third premiership in the club's history, and the third in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033005-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 VFA season, Association membership\nThe size of the association increased from eight teams to nine in 1899, with the Essendon Town Football Club joining the association. Essendon Town was newly established as a senior club in March 1900, and played its matches at the Essendon Cricket Ground \u2013 distinguishing it from the existing Essendon Football Club (formerly in the Association but now competing in the League), which played its home matches at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, approximately six miles away from Essendon. Like its league counterpart, Essendon Town wore black and red uniforms. Brunswick, which until this season had worn black and red uniforms, changed to black and white uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033005-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 VFA season, Ladder\nThe premiership was decided on the basis of the best record across sixteen rostered matches, with each club playing the others twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033006-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1900 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1900. It was the 3rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1900 VFL season. The match, attended by 20,181 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 4 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033006-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nAlthough Melbourne only won six of its fourteen home-and-away fixtures to finish sixth on the ladder, it won its sectional round-robin and defeated the other sectional winner, Essendon, in the semi-final for the right to face the minor premiers, Fitzroy, in the Grand Final; Fitzroy had won the previous two premierships and was aiming for a third premiership in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033006-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nArthur Sowden, and Bill Bowe were unable to play for the Melbourne team, due to injury, and Eric Gardner was unavailable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033007-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL season\nThe 1900 Victorian Football League season was the fourth season of the Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033007-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1900, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033007-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033007-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1900 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033007-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL season, Premiership season, Round 3 (rescheduled)\nThe postponed games from Round 3 were played on 18 August 1900 \u2013 results are included under Round 3 (above).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 58], "content_span": [59, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033007-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL season, Win/Loss Table\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033007-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 VFL season, Grand final\nMelbourne defeated Fitzroy 4.10 (34) to 3.12 (30). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033008-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1900 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their tenth season of organized football. The Keydets went 4\u20131\u20132 under their new head coach Sam Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033008-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 VMI Keydets football team\nThe team's All-Southern Tackle was George C. Marshall, who went on to serve as Army Chief of Staff during World War II, and Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under President Truman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033009-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 VPI football team\nThe 1900 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1900 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Eugene Davis and finished with a record of three wins, three losses, and one tie (3\u20133\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033009-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 VPI football team\nHunter Carpenter used the alias \"Walter Brown\" because his father had forbidden him to play football. It was not until his father saw him play in a game in 1900 against Virginia Military Institute in Norfolk, Virginia did he approve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033009-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1900 football team according to the roster published in the 1901 and 1903 editions of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033010-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1900 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Commodores were coached by James L. Crane, in his second year as head coach. The loss to Texas was the first intersectional contest at the State Fair of Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033011-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1900 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In their only year under head coach M. Delmar Ritchie, the team compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033012-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 4, 1900. Incumbent Republican Edward C. Smith, per the \"Mountain Rule\", did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate William W. Stickney defeated Democratic candidate John H. Senter to succeed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033013-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1900 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1900 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was John Powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1900 college football season. Led by second-year coach Archie Hoxton, the team went 7\u20132\u20131 and claims a Southern championship. The team was captained by tackle John Loyd. The Cavaliers defeated Sewanee, to give the Tigers its first loss since 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Preseason\nArchie Hoxton was in his second season as head coach. William Choice transferred from rival VPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Washington and Lee\nThe season opened with a 28\u20130 defeat of the Washington and Lee Generals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Washington and Lee\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Harris (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskell (right guard), Walker (right tackle), McCall (right end). Mallory (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Carroll (right halfback), and Coleman (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Richmond\nIn the second week of play, Virginia defeated Richmond 51\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Richmond\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Harris (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskell (right guard), Walker (right tackle), Bride (right end). Mallory (quarterback), Carroll (left halfback), Nalle (right halfback), and Coleman (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Carlisle\nOn a muddy field, the Carlisle Indians beat Virginia 2\u201316, Once during the game, Bradley Walker grabbed Hawley Pierce, Carlisle's biggest player, and carried him ten yards with him dangling over his shoulder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Carlisle\nThe starting lineup was Bride (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Harris (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskel (right guard), Walker (right tackle), Hobson (right end). Mallory (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Nalle (right halfback), and Coleman (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Johns Hopkins\nVirginia beat Johns Hopkins 40\u20130. Walker had several long runs for touchdown in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Johns Hopkins\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Choice (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskel (right guard), Walker (right tackle), Bride (right end). Tutwiler (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Nalle (right halfback), and Coleman (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, VMI\nVMI fought Virginia to a scoreless tie. The game was called the greatest ever played in Lexington. George Marshall played for VMI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, VMI\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Choice (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskell (right guard), Walker (right tackle), Bride (right end). Tutwiler (quarterback), Nalle (left halfback), Dabney (right halfback), and Coleman (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0012-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Gallaudet\nVirginia beat Gallaudet 34\u20130. A Brodie Nalle touchdown was the highlight of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0013-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Gallaudet\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Harris (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskel (right guard), Benet (right tackle), Bride (right end). Nalle (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Coleman (right halfback), and Walker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0014-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, VPI\nVirginia defeated VPI 17\u20135. Hunter Carpenter had in earlier games used the alias \"Walter Brown\" because his father had forbidden him to play football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0015-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, VPI\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Harris (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskel (right guard), Benet (right tackle), Bride (right end). Nalle (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Coleman (right halfback), and Walker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0016-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Georgetown\nTwo fumbles cost Virginia the game against Georgetown, losing 0\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0017-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Georgetown\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Waters (left tackle), Choice (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskel (right guard), Benet (right tackle), Bride (right end). Nalle (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Coleman (right halfback), and Walker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0018-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nIn the rivalry game with North Carolina in Norfolk, Virginia beat the Tar Heels 17\u20130. The Stonewall Brigade Band accompanied the Virginia team, and played in the hotel lobby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0019-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nThe starting lineup was Bride (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Choice (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskell (right guard), Benet (right tackle), Watters (right end). Nalle (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Coleman (right halfback), and Walker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0020-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nTo close the season in Richmond, the Cavaliers defeated Sewanee 17\u20135 to capture a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0021-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was Hobson (left end), Loyd (left tackle), Choice (left guard), Montgomery (center), Haskel (right guard), Benet (right tackle), Bride (right end). Nalle (quarterback), Dabney (left halfback), Coleman (right halfback), and Walker (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033014-0022-0000", "contents": "1900 Virginia Cavaliers football team, Postseason\nCaspar Whitney, the originator of the concept of the All-America team, selected an All-Southern eleven for Outing. Hobson, Loyd, Choice, and Dabney all made his team. Walker and Nalle he ruled ineligible. W. H. Hoge also selected an All-Southern team. On his team was Dabney and Walker, with Haskel, Coleman, and Nalle as substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033015-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 WAFA season\nThe 1900 WAFA season was the 16th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033016-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Waihemo by-election\nThe Waihemo by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Waihemo, a rural seat in Otago, in the South Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033016-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Waihemo by-election, Background\nThe by-election was held on 18 July 1900, and was precipitated by the resignation of sitting MP, John McKenzie. The seat was won by fellow Liberal Thomas Mackenzie. Mackenzie was an advocate of the Otago province and campaigned to stop the region's declining situation compared to the rest of New Zealand. His sole opponent was William Guffie, a local councilor from Mount Ida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033017-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Washington & Jefferson football team\nThe 1900 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1900 college football season. Led by J. R. Beardsley in his first and only year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 6\u20133\u20131. Beardsley was a graduate of Princeton University and played on the 1899 Princeton Tigers football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033018-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1900 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1900 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach William L. Allen and compiled a record of 4\u20130\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033019-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Washington football team\nThe 1900 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1900 college football season. In its first season under coach J. S. Dodge, the team compiled a 1\u20132\u20132 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 71 to 21. W. H. Corson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033020-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Washington gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033020-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Washington gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Governor John Rankin Rogers won re-election as the Democratic nominee. He defeated Republican nominee John M. Frink with 48.86% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033020-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Washington gubernatorial election\nIn 1896, Rogers was the fusion candidate of the Democratic, Populist and Silver Republican parties. In 1900, he was nominated by a unity convention which merged the three parties in the state and took the name of the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033020-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Washington gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Washington elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033021-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 West Derbyshire by-election\nThe West Derbyshire by-election, 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom constituency of West Derbyshire on 11 December 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033021-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 West Derbyshire by-election, Vacancy\nUnder the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The vacancy in West Derbyshire was caused by the appointment of the sitting Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament (MP), Victor Cavendish to become Treasurer of the Household, a formal title held one of the government\u2019s Deputy Chief Whips in the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033021-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 West Derbyshire by-election, Candidates\nVictor Cavendish had held the seat since he inherited it from his father Lord Edward Cavendish at a by-election in 1891. At the previous general elections in 1895 and in 1900 just a few weeks earlier, he had been unopposed and clearly the Liberals were unprepared with a candidate and reluctant to contest such a safe seat at a by-election so soon after a general election. Cavendish fought the seat again in the Liberal Unionist interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033021-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 West Derbyshire by-election, The result\nThe writ of election was received at Derby on 5 December and nomination day was set for 11 December. There being no other nominations Cavendish was returned unopposed. He held the post of Treasurer of the Household in the Unionist government until 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033022-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1900 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach John Ethan Hill, the team compiled a 4\u20133 record and was outscored by a total of 104 to 53. Roscoe C. Brown was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033023-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 West Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1900, to elect the governor of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033024-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Westchester County tornado\nThe 1900 Westchester County tornado was an intense, but short-lived tornado that caused significant damage near the city of New Rochelle, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033024-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Westchester County tornado, Synopsis\nDuring the afternoon of Tuesday, August\u00a07, 1900, a strong tornado estimated at 40\u00a0ft (12\u00a0m) wide, struck the city of New Rochelle, New York along a 4 miles (6.4\u00a0km) path. The thunderstorm that produced the tornado tracked slightly north of due west through the area and was followed by a second strong thunderstorm that tracked northeastward. Intense lightning was associated with the two storms, resulting in several fires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033024-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Westchester County tornado, Impact\nThroughout the city, trees were snapped and defoliated, signs were torn from the ground and tossed around and numerous buildings were damaged or destroyed. Airborne debris shattered windows in a large number of structures. In addition to the tornado, intense lightning was observed, many of which struck buildings, igniting fires. Two buildings were destroyed in the fires caused by the storm. The most significant fire took place on the Livingston Disbrow estate where the barns were struck. Nearly all of New Rochelle's firemen were dispatched to the estate located about 1.5 miles (2.4\u00a0km) from the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033024-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 Westchester County tornado, Impact\nBy the time they arrived on scene, the barn was completely ablaze and threatening to ignite the nearby carriage house where Mrs. Charles Disbrow was. While attending to the Disbrow fire, a second alarm was relayed to the firefighters about another house fire on the other side of the city. Two of the firemen who didn't attend the Disbrow fire gathered volunteers to put out the new fire. However, by the time they reached the building, it had been completely destroyed by the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033024-0002-0002", "contents": "1900 Westchester County tornado, Impact\nThe firefighters later reported that there would have been very little they could have done to save the building had they arrived before it burned to the ground as there was no nearby hydrant. Another lightning strike blew the chimney clear off one home and damaged the roof. The City Bank Building in New Rochelle was struck and caught fire; however, a janitor at the building was able to put out the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033024-0002-0003", "contents": "1900 Westchester County tornado, Impact\nThe final notable lightning strike hit a trolley car near an electrical pole, the lightning jumped from the car to the pole and killed a dog standing at the pole. At the Disbrow estate, losses were reported to be up to $15,000 (1900\u00a0USD). High winds caught people walking in the streets off-guard, knocking several down and pelting many with debris; none of the injuries were reported to be serious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033025-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Australian floods\nThe 1900 Western Australian floods were a series of flooding events from March to May 1900 that affected large areas of Western Australia, primarily in the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions, though it extended to cover most of the state except the more humid Kimberley and South West regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033025-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Australian floods\nThe flooding had its beginnings in heavy rain in March 1900 over a very broad area extending from North West Cape to the southeastern corner of the state. It was in the middle of April over the Easter long weekend, however, that flooding began in earnest, and at the end of the month the majority of the normally arid parts of the state were completely inundated: by Easter Monday, all houses in Roebourne were completely surrounded by water from the Harding River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033025-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Australian floods\nDuring April and May, the rain was associated with what was described in the press of the time as \"a gentle easterly flow\" but today is recognised to be a northwest cloudband. There were several of these cloudbands during the month, and the result was some astonishing rainfall totals, for instance Wiluna received 527.1 millimetres (20.8\u00a0in) and Cossack (near Port Hedland) as much as 636.4 millimetres (25.1\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033025-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 Western Australian floods\nThe heaviest rainfall of all occurred in the Pilbara during the middle of the month, and resulted in rivers such as the Gascoyne, Ashburton and Murchison overflowing their banks for extraordinarily sustained periods. (Unfortunately, there were no gauges at the time so we do not know what the exact heights were).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033025-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Australian floods\nSo heavy indeed was the rainfall that the normally arid \"North West\" (as the region was known at the time) was completely boggy and the primitive horse-drawn carts could not traverse the country not only in April, but well into May, especially as another major rainband affected the State early that month, with Onslow recording as much as 9.31 inches (236\u00a0mm) in a day on the third. The busy Easter mail services were most severely hit of all, with the mail vans from Perth bogged down at Peak Hill after crossing a Gascoyne River that was supposedly 3 miles (4.8\u00a0km) wide as the rain extended at the end of Easter to the Murchison River\u2019s basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033025-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Australian floods\nWash-outs on the telegraph line with which the remote regions affected by the floods communicated with Perth were indeed not repaired until well into June, a month after flooding peaked in the Pilbara and Gascoyne and had spread eastward to the goldfields of Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033025-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 Western Australian floods\nIn the interim, communication about the flooding was delayed almost uniformly by at least three or four days, aided by a severe famine and shortage of food for pack horses and salt lakes in the Goldfields such as Lake Carnegie and Lake Maitland filled for probably the only time in centuries - they were never seen with any water between the first European settlement of Western Australia and these floods were thus unprecedented for an extremely long period of time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033026-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Conference football season\nThe 1900 Western Conference football season was the fifth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1900 college football season. This was the first season the league expanded, as Indiana and Iowa began competing for the conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033026-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Conference football season\nThe 1900 Minnesota Golden Gophers and Iowa Hawkeyes football teams tied for the conference championship. Minnesota, under head coach Henry L. Williams, compiled a 10\u20130\u20132 record, shut out nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 299 to 23. Iowa, under head coach Alden Knipe, compiled a 7\u20130\u20131 record and led the conference in scoring offense with an average of 38.9 points per game. The 1900 Wisconsin Badgers, under head coach Philip King, placed third in the conference, compiled an 8\u20131 record (its only loss being to Minnesota by a 7\u20136 score), shut out seven of nine opponents, and led the conference in scoring defense with an average of 1.2 points allowed per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033026-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033026-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nThe following conference games were played during the 1900 Western Conference season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033026-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nNotable non-conference games during the 1900 season included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033026-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nIn 1900, an All-Western football team was selected by Caspar Whitney (CW) in Outing magazine as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033026-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nNo Western Conference players received first-team All-America honors in 1900. However, two players received third-team honors on Walter Camp's All-America team for 1900. They were center Page of Minnesota and quarterback Clyde Williams of Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe football coaching at the Western University of Pennsylvania continued its rather strange revolving door policy again for the 1900 football season. On July 15th The Pittsburg Post headline stated \"Jackson to Coach W.U.P. \"Three days later the Pittsburgh Press reported that Dr. Roy Jackson would coach the D.C. & A.C. team and play in all their games. The WUPs would be able to practice with the red and black and get some coaching from Dr. Jackson as time permitted. The Western University would have a strong team to scrimmage against and hopefully get some decent instruction from Coach Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe first practice took place on September 3rd and all candidates were eligible for the Varsity. There would be no sophomore unit in 1900. Also, the lettermen would be the only students to wear the \"P\", which was an added incentive to go out for the team. Game days, the Universities would be under the direction of their captain Richard Wallace. Surprisingly, this situation was very beneficial to the WUP eleven and they were very pleased to receive the expertise of Dr. Roy Jackson. Their final record was not a true measure of how much better they performed than they had in years past. In its first and only season under head coach Roy Jackson, the team compiled a 5\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 110 to 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nOn a rainy Saturday, the 29th of September, the Western University of Pennsylvania football team opened their season at the Driving Park grounds in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, against the State College eleven. In the first half (20 minutes), the WUP contingent held their own against the heavier Staties. After 15 minutes of back-and-forth possessions dominated by line plunges, fullback Cummings of State College managed to score a touchdown. Martin was successful on the goal kick after, and the score at halftime was 6-0 in favor of State College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0002-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nIn the second half (15 minutes), the WUP offense managed to advance the ball to the five-yard line of State College but could get no closer. The State defense held and punted the ball out of danger. After an exchange of possessions and WUP fumbles, the Staties offense found themselves on the WUP 10-yard line. Two plays later, State guard Scholl scored. Martin was again successful with the goal kick after and the final score was a respectable 12-0. Coach Jackson was impressed with the play of his charges. Penn State finished the season with a 4-6-1 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0002-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Penn State was John Miller (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), Emil Fryer (center), William Sterrett (right guard), John Martin (right tackle), Herman Blevins (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), William Hansen (left halfback), Earl Paul (right halfback) and Charles Cook (fullback). James Chessrown replaced Emil Fryer at center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe WUP team spent the week scrimmaging against D.C. & A.C. in preparation for their trip to Morgantown, West Virginia. Starting back Earl Paul and lineman James Chessrown were nursing injuries from the State College game and D.C. & A.C. scrimmage, but Parke Bachman and Herman Blevins were able replacements. The team boarded the steamer Edgar Cherry on 2:30 p.m. Friday afternoon and arrived in Morgantown on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. The arduous 20 plus hour trip did not leave the WUP squad adequately rested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0003-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe Mountaineers kicked off and WUP fullback Edmund Graham returned the ball to the 40-yard line and fumbled. West Virginia recovered and advanced the ball offensively. Their end McGregor ultimately scored the touchdown. The goal after was successful and the score was 6-0 in favor of West Virginia less than five minutes into the game. The WUP kicked off and their defense was able to secure the ball on downs. The WUP offense used a \"guards back\" formation and methodically penetrated the West Virginia defense. Captain Richard Wallace was able to score four minutes prior to halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0003-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nWheeler missed the goal kick after and West Virginia led 6-5 at halftime. This game also consisted of a 20-minute first half and a 15-minute second half. The second half was a defensive battle. The WUP kicked off and the Mountaineer offense was stymied. The Mountaineers punted and the WUP offense slowly advanced the ball to the West Virginia 15-yard line. Here the Mountaineer defense stiffened and the Western U. turned the ball over on downs. The game ended moments later. The Montaineers finished the season with a 4-3 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0003-0003", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe WUP lineup for the West Virginia game was Wheeler (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), William Sterrett (right guard), John Martin (right tackle), Clyde Sample (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), Herman Blevins (left halfback), William Hansen (right halfback) and Edmund Graham (fullback). Earl Paul replaced Herman Bevins at left halfback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nOn Tuesday, October 9, the WUP eleven played a game against the team (D.C. & A.C.) it had been practicing against for the past two weeks. Also, they were playing against their own coach (Dr. Roy Jackson), who played left halfback for the Duquesnes in addition to coaching them. The University eleven fooled the experts and played a strong game against the heavier more experienced \"pro\" team. The Duquesnes scored on a line plunge by their guard Smith in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0004-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nThe goal kick after was unsuccessful and the score stood 5-0 in favor of D.C. & A.C. There was no scoring in the second half as the Duquesnes were able to move the ball against the Universities but would fumble and the WUP would recover. The University eleven could not move the ball consistently on offense even though, they changed their normal signals to confuse Coach Jackson. WUP fullback Edmund Graham was kept busy punting the ball out of danger. The Western U. team gained a lot of confidence for their next game against Grove City College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0004-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Duquesne Country and Athletic Club\nThe WUP lineup for the game against the Duquesnes was Wheeler (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), James Chessrown (center), Herman Watt (right guard), Parke Bachman (right tackle), John Martin (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), Earl Paul (right halfback), William Hansen (left halfback) and Edmund Graham (fullback). William Sterrett replaced Richard Wallace at left tackle. The game consisted of one twenty minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nOn October 19, the Grove City College eleven came to Exposition Park to take on the WUP. Pregame drama arose when Western U. captain Wallace argued that Grove City coach Lowrey was a professional and should not be in the lineup. Grove City countered that since the WUP squad had played a game against the D.C.& A.C. their argument was moot. Coach Lowrey played. On the opening drive, the WUP backs were able to move the ball steadily downfield. Finally, halfback Beach scored the touchdown on a five yard dash around the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0005-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nWheeler kicked the goal after and the Western U. lads led 6-0. For the remainder of the first half, the teams alternated possessions and fumbled away opportunities. The WUP defense did not allow Grove City to penetrate their side of the field in the second half. Offensively, the WUP offense had one sustained drive that ended with Wilbur Hockensmith plunging over from the three for their second touchdown. William Sterrett kicked the goal after and the game ended 12-0 in favor of the University eleven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0005-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Grove City was Wheeler (left end), John Martin (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), James Chessrown (center), William Sterrett (right guard), Parke Bachman (right tackle), Victor King (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), Beach (left halfback), William Hansen (right halfback) and Edmund Graham (fullback). The substitutions made during the game were: G. A. Jelly replaced Victor King at right end; Earl Paul replaced William Hansen at right halfback; Jacob Benner replaced G. A. Jelly at right end; and Richard Wallace replaced Jacob Benner at right end. The game was played in 15-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at California State Normal (PA)\nOn October 24, the Western University squad traveled to California, Pennsylvania, to play the football team of the California Normal School. The WUP was in control throughout this game and leading 12-0 with 10 minutes to play in the second half when the officials mercifully ended the game. The hard physical play had injured too many of the California players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at California State Normal (PA)\nThe WUP lineup for the game against California Normal was Wheeler (left end), Emil Fryer (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), James Chessrown (center), William Sterrett (right guard), John Martin (right tackle), G. A. Jelly (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), William Hansen (left halfback), Earl Paul (right halfback) and Edmund Graham (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 102], "content_span": [103, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Buchtel\nOn October 27th the WUP team resumed its physical style of football in Akron, Ohio against Buchtel College. The 25-minute first half lasted an hour and fifteen minutes due to many injury timeouts. Consequently, the second half was reduced to 10 minutes of play. Both teams were able to move the ball. Buchtel got near the WUP goal line three times but were thwarted by the WUP defense each time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0007-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Buchtel\nIn the rugged first half, Washer attempted a field goal for the Normals but the WUP defense blocked it and end Barclay picked it up and raced 96 yards for the WUP touchdown. The WUP offense was able to methodically advance the ball and end Wheeler and fullback Graham eventually scored touchdowns. The final score was 17-0 in favor of the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0007-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Buchtel\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Buchtel was Wheeler (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), James Chessrown (center), William Sterrett (right guard), Emil Fryer (right tackle), Abram Barclay (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), William Hansen (left halfback), Beach (right halfback) and Edmund Graham (fullback). The substitutions made during the game were: John Martin replaced Wheeler at left end and Wheeler replaced Beach at right halfback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\nOn November 1, the Thiel College football team came south from Greenville, Pennsylvania, to Exposition Park to battle the WUP. There was some concern with the University lineup because the Buchtel game was so physical. Starters Barclay, Paul, Graham and captain Wallace were all injured so the lineup had to be adjusted. The concern turned out to be unfounded as the WUP contingent ran roughshod over the Thiel eleven and won the game by a 47-0 margin. Five different WUP players scored touchdowns \u2013 Hockensmith (2), Martin (2), Beach (2), Sterrett and Wheeler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0008-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\nMartin made the longest run of the game on his 43-yard touchdown jaunt. Thiel only had the ball four times on offense and was unable to sustain any offense. However, Thiel never gave up and played hard to the bitter end. The WUP offense advanced the ball easily and lost it once on downs and once on a fumble. The large crowd of noisy students and bands helped make the day a total success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0008-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Thiel was John Martin (left end), Parke Bachman (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), James Chessrown (center), William Sterrett (right guard), Emil Fryer (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), William Hansen (right halfback), Beach (left halfback) and Wheeler (fullback). The substitutions made during the game were: Herman Watt replaced Parke Bachman at left tackle; William Mitchell replaced Freyer at right tackle; and G. A. Jelly replaced Paul McClain at right end. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nWith the WUP football team sporting a three game win streak, the student body was anxiously awaiting the November 14th tussle with Westminster College at Exposition Park. Both the Dental and Medical Departments arrived with a brass band. The Collegiate Department was also well represented. Both teams agreed to pregame measures to avoid any dispute similar to the 1899 game. The WUP fans were schooled on the proper behavior to ensure a great game of football. So, with at least six hundred noise making students in attendance, there was total silence when Westminster had the ball on offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0009-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nNo fans were allowed on the field during the game. The guaranteed fifty per cent gate receipt was paid two days before the game. Surprisingly, the day before the game Westminster decided they wanted sixty percent of the receipts . Manager William Cullers reluctantly agreed so the game could be played. The WUP offense received the opening kick on their twenty-five yard line and moved it to the thirty-five before turning it over on downs to the Titans. Witherspoon and Edmundson of Westminster were able to penetrate the WUP defense for good yardage and Edmundson finally scored from the one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0009-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nThe goal kick after was unsuccessful. After alternating possessions the WUP offense moved the ball to the Westminster six yard line and lost the ball on downs. A holding penalty gave the ball back to the WUP offense but William Sterrett missed a field goal. The WUP defense regained possession and the offense advanced the ball steadily downfield. Abram Barclay raced the final twenty yards for the touchdown. Wheeler's goal kick after was unsuccessful and the score was tied 5-5 at halftime. The WUP eleven controlled the second half of play to the delight of the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0009-0003", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nOn their first possession they secured the ball in Westminster territory and drove the ball twenty yards for the go ahead touchdown. William Sterrett plunged into the end zone from the one. Wheeler was successful on the goal kick after and the WUPs led 11-5. After a change of possessions Westminster missed a field goal and the WUP offense sustained another time consuming drive that ended with William Sterrett plunging over the goal from the two yard line. Wheeler was again successful with the goal kick after and the score was 17-5 in favor of the WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0009-0004", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nCaptain Richard Wallace then gave the following substitutes game experience: Malcolm McConnell, Herman Watt, Parke Bachman, and Paul McClain. The WUP starting lineup for the game against Westminster was Wheeler (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), James Chessrown (center), William Sterrett (right guard), John Martin (right tackle), Abram Barclay (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), William Hansen (left halfback), Earl Paul (right halfback) and Wheeler (fullback). The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0010-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Shadyside Academy\nOn November 21, the four-game WUP win streak came to an abrupt end at the hands of the outweighed Shady Side Academy eleven at Exposition Park. In the first minutes, the WUP defense held the Shady Side offense and gained possession on their twenty-five yard line. The WUP offense gained five yards but on second down Hockensmith fumbled. Halfback Ahl of the Academy picked up the loose ball and raced for a touchdown. Bauersmith missed the goal kick after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0010-0001", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Shadyside Academy\nThe closest the WUP offense could get to scoring in the first half was the four yard line, but the staunch Academy defense kept them from scoring. The second half was a defensive struggle and the WUP offense could get no closer than the Academy twenty-three yard line. Shady Side drove the ball to the WUP three late in the game but were kept out of the end zone by the Western U. defense. The game ended 5-0 in favor of Shady Side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0010-0002", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Shadyside Academy\nThe starting lineup for the game against Shadyside academy was John Martin (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wilbur Hockensmith (left guard), James Chessrown (center), William Sterrett (right guard), Herman Watt (right tackle), Abram Barclay (right end), William Cullers (quarterback), Beach (left halfback), Earl Paul (right halfback) and Wheeler (fullback). The substitutions made during the game were: Malcolm McConnell for William Cullers at quarterback and Emil Fryer for Wilbur Hockensmith at left guard. The game was played in 25-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033027-0011-0000", "contents": "1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1900 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033028-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1900 William & Mary Orange and White football team represented William & Mary during the 1900 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033029-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wilton by-election\nThe Wilton by-election, 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Wilton in Wiltshire on 17 July 1900. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Viscount Folkestone had succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Radnor. He had held the seat since the 1892 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033029-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Wilton by-election\nThis was the last by-election before the general election held from September to October 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033030-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1900 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 25 June until 4 July. It was the 24th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033030-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Men's Singles\nReginald Doherty defeated Sydney Smith 6\u20138, 6\u20133, 6\u20131, 5\u20137, 11\u20139", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033030-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Men's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Herbert Roper Barrett / Harold Nisbet 9\u20137, 7\u20135, 4\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033031-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nSydney Smith defeated Arthur Gore 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20131 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Reginald Doherty defeated Smith 6\u20138, 6\u20133, 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1900 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033032-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nHerbert Roper Barrett and Harold Nisbet defeated Frank Riseley and Sydney Smith 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 6\u20138, 8\u20136, 6\u20132 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Barrett and Nisbet 9\u20137, 7\u20135, 4\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1900 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033033-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nCharlotte Cooper defeated Louisa Martin 8\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20131 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Blanche Hillyard defeated Cooper 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1900 Wimbledon Championships. Marion Jones (USA) was the first female competitor from overseas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033034-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1900 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1900 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033035-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 1900 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033035-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee Robert M. La Follette defeated Democratic nominee Louis G. Bomrich with 59.83% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033035-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Wisconsin elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033036-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1900 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 24 and 25 February 1900 at the ice rinks Frognerkilen in Kristiania (Today: Oslo), Norway. The first day was skated at the ice rink Friedenauer Sportplatz (a 400 m ice rink). Due to the bad ice conditions the second day the distances were skated at the ice rink Westeisbahn (a 335 m ice rink).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033036-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nPeder \u00d8stlund was the defending champion, after 2 distances he stopped. Edvard Engelsaas won three distances and became the new World champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033036-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033037-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033037-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place on February 10th to 11th in Davos, Switzerland. Only two competitors participated one from Austria and one from Sweden. This time there was an Austrian but no Swedish judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033038-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1900 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1900 college football season. In its first season under head coach William McMurray, the team compiled a 3\u20133 record, including a 56\u20130 victory over Colorado State Normal, and outscored opponents by a total of 105 to 59. Charles Ponting was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033039-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1900 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1900 college football season. The team finished with a 12\u20130 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033040-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Yesterday\n\"1900 Yesterday\" is a song written by John Cameron and Lee Simmons. The song was originally released by Betty Everett in 1969 on the album There'll Come a Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033040-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Yesterday, Liz Damon's Orient Express version\n\"1900 Yesterday\" was a hit single in 1970 and 1971 for the Liz Damon's Orient Express. Liz Damon's version was originally released as a single on the Hawaii based Makaha label, before White Whale acquired the worldwide distribution rights in December 1970. In 1971, the song was released on the album Liz Damon's Orient Express.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033040-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Yesterday, Liz Damon's Orient Express version\nThe song spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 33, while reaching No. 4 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart, No. 29 on the Cash Box Top 100, No. 15 on Canada's RPM 100, and No. 16 on RPM's \"MOR Playlist\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033040-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Yesterday, Liz Damon's Orient Express version\nThe song was ranked No. 21 on Billboard's year-end ranking of 1971's \"Top Easy Listening Singles\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033040-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 Yesterday, Trivia\nThe lines that precede the song's title -- \"Like smoke from a cigarette/Dreams that you soon forget\"\u2014appear in the 1966 song \"Fading Away,\" written by Smokey Robinson, Warren \"Pete\" Moore, and Bobby Rogers of the Motown act The Miracles, and first recorded by The Temptations for their 1966 album Gettin' Ready.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033040-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 Yesterday, Trivia\nThe single and the album were the last records released by White Whale Records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033041-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 Yukon general election\nThe 1900 Yukon general election was the first general election in the history of the Yukon territory held on October 18, 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033041-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 Yukon general election, Campaign\nThe six-member Yukon Territorial Council was expanded to eight by adding two elected members. This was the smallest general election in Canadian history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033041-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 Yukon general election, Campaign\nThe election was held in a territory wide block style vote with no constituencies. In total four candidates contested the election for the two seats. Two Government candidates and two Yukon Party candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033041-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 Yukon general election, Election night\nThe official returns were read by appointed councilor Joseph Clarke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections\nThe United States Senate elections of 1900 and 1901 were elections in which the Democratic Party gained two seats in the United States Senate, and which corresponded with President William McKinley's landslide re-election. By the beginning of the next Congress, however, the Republicans gained five additional seats, giving them a ten-seat majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections\nAs these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections to the 56th Congress\nIn these elections, the winner was seated in the current (56th) Congress during 1900 or in 1901 before March 4; ordered by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections to the 57th Congress\nIn these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1901; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 93], "content_span": [94, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Early election to the 58th Congress\nIn this election, the winner was seated in the 58th Congress, starting March 4, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 97], "content_span": [98, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 57th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners was elected in 1901 after March 4 and seated in the 57th Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania (Special)\nThe special election in Pennsylvania was held on January 15, 1901, after the regularly scheduled legislative election in January\u2013April 1899 failed to elect a Senator. Former Senator Matthew Quay, who had left the Senate for nearly two years because of the political stalemate, was again elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania (Special)\nRepublican Matthew Quay was re-elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, in the 1893 election. With Sen. Quay's term expiring on March 4, 1899, the General Assembly convened on January 18, 1899, to elect a Senator for the next term. Between January 18 and April 19, 1899, seventy-nine ballots were recorded in an attempt to elect a Senator. Instead, the legislature adjourned sine die without electing a Senator due to a dispute between Sen. Quay's political machine and an anti-Quay faction within the Republican Party, along with Democratic Party opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0008-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania (Special)\nSen. Quay's term expired on March 4, 1899. Since a Senator had not been elected for the successive term, the seat was vacated. At the time, Quay was under indictment for misuse of funds. He was acquitted, after which Governor William Stone appointed Quay to the vacated Senate seat (a power the Governor did not legally have until the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1913). The Senate refused to recognize Quay's appointment, and the seat remained vacant until a Senator could be officially elected (which would ultimately be Quay himself, after a nearly two-year hiatus). This incident, among others, would later be cited by supporters of the 17th Amendment, which mandated the direct election of U.S. Senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033042-0009-0000", "contents": "1900 and 1901 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania (Special)\nThe Pennsylvania General Assembly convened on January 15, 1901, for a special election to elect a Senator to serve out the remainder of the term that began on March 4, 1899. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033043-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 college football season\nThe 1900 college football season ended with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1900 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan\nRumours of contemplated aggression by Russia continue throughout the year, and are the source of much annoyance to the amir Abdur Rahman. He complains that the British government takes no interest in his distresses, and that whenever he has proposed some check upon Russian aggressions the government of India has made no response except the suggestion that Afghanistan might consent to the construction of railways and telegraphs within her territories. From the Afghan point of view he declares that such concession will be impossible and only a step to ruin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0001-0001", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan\nFor several years the amir has given much attention to increasing the efficiency of his army, and his regulars, backed by the tribes on the frontier, would be formidable against any invader of his territory. The amir has never departed from a purely defensive attitude, and under his treaty with England if an unprovoked attack was made upon him he could claim British help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan\nTrade with India is injured by the fiscal policy of the amir. Besides creating state monopolies with regard to several articles, he forbids the export of horses to India and the import of salt therefrom. Only sixty-two camel loads leave Peshawar in the year compared with 2,285 during the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan, June 1900\nA cholera epidemic breaks out at Jalalabad and at Kabul and continues to the beginning of August, causing in Kabul the death of nearly 5,000 people. After the departure of Sir Thomas Salter Pyne the government workshops go on with their regular work under Afghan management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan, September 1900\nThe Mahsud Waziris resume their petty raids on the frontier. On the night of October 23 a band of them attacks the military post of Nasran, killing two men and robbing the magazine. Lieutenant Hennessey starts in pursuit, but his force is not sufficient to capture them and they escape to the ravines. A wounded Mahsud lying prone fires at Lieutenant Hennessey at a distance of five yards with fatal effect. The raiders lose one killed and five wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan, October 1900\nA successful operation is carried out against the Madda Khels in the Tochi Pass by a small column. Four Pathan towers are blown up by the troops, who meet with no opposition. This action was due to the refusal of the Khels to surrender certain ringleaders implicated in the Maizar outrage of 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan, November 1900\nThe amir Abdor Rahman publishes his autobiography, in which he complains that English policy in Afghan affairs has been inconstant and vacillating, and he urges the importance of direct diplomatic relations with Britain. He considers that England ought to give Afghanistan more of her confidence and more of her moral and material support, allowing him to annex all the territory of the independent Pathan tribes and to form a triple alliance with the neighbouring Muslim states, Persia and Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0006-0001", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan, November 1900\nAlso that Afghanistan ought to secure an outlet to the ocean and have a port for her own steamers at which to load and unload. He thinks that the policy of Afghanistan towards her two strong neighbours - England and Russia - should be friendly towards the one least aggressive, and hostile to the power wishing to pass through her country or interfere with her independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033044-0007-0000", "contents": "1900 in Afghanistan, November 8, 1900\nThe commissioner of Derajat, W.R.H. Merk, meets some 500 Mahsud Waziris and announces to them the terms of the government. Payment of a fine of one 0.1 million is demanded, one half to be paid by November 25, otherwise the whole tribe would be blockaded from December 1. Dreading a blockade much more than a punitive expedition the Mahsuds agree to pay the fine and promise not to raid. The Mullah Powindah, their fanatical leader, is personally assisting in the collection of the fine in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033045-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Argentine football\n1900 in Argentine football saw English High School members joining again to the team to request their affiliation. Quilmes Rovers also returned under its new name \"Quilmes Atl\u00e9tico Club\". Both teams replaced Lobos and Lan\u00fas Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033045-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Argentine football\nEnglish High School won its first Argentine championship. The international Tie Cup (where teams from Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo took part) was played for the first time, being won by Belgrano AC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033045-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 in Argentine football, Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship continued with the 4 team league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033046-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1900 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033046-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Australia, Incumbents\nNote: Australia was not yet federalized in 1900, therefore no prime minister existed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033047-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033047-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1900 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033047-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1900 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033048-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Australian soccer\nThe 1900 season was the 17th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033048-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033051-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1901 in music in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033052-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canada, Historical Documents\nPolitical cartoonist shows Canadian farmer's preference for Liberal over Conservative record", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033052-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canada, Historical Documents\nAfter spreading fire destroys Ottawa power plant, House forced to adjourn as governments seek help from military and nearby cities", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033052-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canada, Historical Documents\nFire that destroyed much of Hull (Gatineau), Quebec, and part of Ottawa described", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033052-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canada, Historical Documents\nHartley Bay girl describes her time in Kitimat, B.C. boarding school", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033052-0004-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canada, Historical Documents\nCape Town thanks Imperial volunteer forces for their South African War service", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033052-0005-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canada, Historical Documents\nSaint John, New Brunswick program includes two women's military drill teams", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033052-0006-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canada, Historical Documents\nWhitefish, spuds and Klondikers: the news from Lesser Slave Lake, N.W.T.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033053-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1900\nThe ORFU prohibited the use of CIRFU players and the CRU stated that players must block with their bodies and not hold opponents with their arms or hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033053-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033054-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1900 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033054-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Chile, Notes\nIt\u2019s likely that early meteorological annuals may have underestimated totals in Valpara\u00edso as smaller falls may not have been recorded accurately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033057-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Denmark\nThe following lists events that happened during 1900 in the Kingdom of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033058-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in El Salvador\nThe following lists events that happened in 1900 in El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033063-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Italy, Events\nThe parliamentary year is dominated by an obstructionist campaign against the coercive Public Safety Bill introduced Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux the year before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033065-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1900 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033065-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in New Zealand, Sport, Badminton\nThe first club is formed, in Auckland, but soon goes into recess. (see also 1927)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033065-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 in New Zealand, Sport, Rugby union\nProvincial club rugby champions include: City (Auckland); Westport (Buller); Christchurch (Canterbury); Pirates (Hawke's Bay); Levin (Horowhenua); Awarua (Marlborough); Alhambra (Otago); Gisborne (Poverty Bay); Hawera (Taranaki); Kaierau (Wanganui); Melrose (Wellington); winners of Bush, Nelson, and Wairarapa club competitions unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033065-0003-0000", "contents": "1900 in New Zealand, Sport, Tennis\nReferences: Romanos, J. (2001) New Zealand Sporting Records and Lists. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033067-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1900 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033068-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Portugal\nThe following are the events that occurred in the year 1900 in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033071-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Siam\nThe year 1900 was the 119th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Siam (now known as Thailand). It was the 33rd year in the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), and is reckoned as years 118 (1 January \u2013 31 March) and 119 (1 April \u2013 31 December) in the Rattanakosin Era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033071-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in Siam, Births\n11 May \u2013 Pridi Banomyong was born in Ayutthaya Province", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 20], "content_span": [21, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033072-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1900 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033074-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Swedish football\nThe 1900 season in Swedish football, starting January 1900 and ending December 1900:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033075-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1900 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 68]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033076-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1900 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033078-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in art\nThe year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033079-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1900 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033080-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1900 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033082-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033083-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033084-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1900 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033085-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in music\nThis is a nearly comprehensive list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033086-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033087-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033087-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033087-0002-0000", "contents": "1900 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033088-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033089-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in science\nThe year 1900 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033090-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in science fiction\nThe year 1900 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033090-0001-0000", "contents": "1900 in science fiction, Awards\nThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033091-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in sports\n1900 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033092-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1900 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033093-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in the Irish Republican Army\nThe following notable events occurred during the year 1900 in the Irish Republican Army:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033094-0000-0000", "contents": "1900 in the Philippines\n1900 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade)\nThe 1900s (pronounced \"nineteen-hundreds\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The Edwardian era (1901\u20131910) covers a similar span of time. The term \"nineteen-hundreds\" is often also used to mean the entire century of years from 1900 to 1999 (see 1900s).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0001-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade)\nThe decade saw the widespread application of the internal combustion engine including mass production of the automobile, as well as the introduction of the typewriter. The Wright Flyer performed the first recorded controlled, powered, sustained heavier than air flight on December 17, 1903. Reginald Fessenden of East Bolton, Quebec, Canada made what appeared to be the first audio radio broadcasts of entertainment and music ever made to a general audience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0002-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade)\nFirst-wave feminism saw progress, with universities being opened for women in Japan, Bulgaria, Cuba, Russia, and Peru. In 1906, Finland granted women the right to vote, the first European country to do so. The foundation of the Women's Social and Political Union by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 led to the rise of the Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland. Cuba, Bulgaria, and Norway became independent. The First Moroccan and Bosnian crises led to worsened tensions in Europe that would ultimately lead to the First World War in the next decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0003-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade)\nWars of this decade included the Philippine\u2013American War, the Second Boer War, the Thousand Days' War, the Anglo-Somali War, the Kuwaiti\u2013Rashidi war, the Saudi\u2013Rashidi War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Honduran-Nicaraguan War. The Scramble for Africa continued, with the Orange Free State, South African Republic, Ashanti Empire, Aro Confederacy, Sokoto Caliphate and Kano Emirate being conquered by the British Empire, alongside the French Empire conquering Borno, the German Empire conquering the Adamawa Emirate, and the Portuguese Empire conquering the Ovambo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0003-0001", "contents": "1900s (decade)\nAtrocities in the Congo Free State were committed by private companies and the Force Publique, with a resultant population decline of 1 to 15 million. The Herero and Namaqua genocide saw 24,000 to 100,000 Hereros and 10,000 Namaqua killed by German colonial forces. The Adana massacre of 1909 saw up to 30,000 mainly Armenian civilians being massacred by local Ottoman Muslims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0004-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade)\nFailed uprisings and revolutions that took place included the Boxer Rebellion, the Bailundo revolt, the Ilinden\u2013Preobrazhenie Uprising, the 1904 Sasun uprising, the Uruguayan Revolution of 1904, an uprising in French Madagascar, the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Argentine Revolution of 1905, the Persian Constitutional Revolution, the Maji Maji Rebellion, and the 1907 Romanian Peasants' revolt. A more successful revolution took place in the Ottoman Empire, where the Young Turks movement restored the Ottoman constitution of 1876, establishing the Second Constitutional Era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0005-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade)\nMajor disasters in this decade included the Chinese famine of 1907, the 1908 Messina earthquake, the San Francisco earthquake and fire and the Great Baltimore Fire. The first huge success of American cinema, as well as the largest experimental achievement to this point, was the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S. Porter, while the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was released on 26 December 1906 in Melbourne, Australia. Popular books of this decade included Anne of Green Gables (1908) and The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), which sold 50 million and 45 million copies respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0006-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade), Pronunciation varieties\nThere are several main varieties of how individual years of the decade are pronounced. Using 1906 as an example, they are \"nineteen-oh-six\", \"nineteen-six\", and \"nineteen-aught-six\". Which variety is most prominent depends somewhat on global region and generation. \"Nineteen-oh-six\" is the most common; \"nineteen-six\" is less common. In American English, \"nineteen-aught-six\" is also recognized but not much used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0007-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade), Economics\nThe cost of an American postage stamp was worth 1 cent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0008-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade), Popular culture, Literature\nThe best selling books of the decade were Anne of Green Gables (1908) and The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), which sold 50 million and 45 million copies respectively. Serbian writers used the Belgrade literary style, an Ekavian writing form which set basis for the later standardization of the Serbian language. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, published The Old New Land in 1902, outlining Herzl's vision for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0009-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade), Popular culture, Literature\nBelow are the best-selling books in the United States of each year, as determined by Publishers Weekly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0010-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade), Popular culture, Sports\nThe Tour de France starts for the first time in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0011-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade), See also, Timeline\nThe following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033097-0012-0000", "contents": "1900s (decade), See also, Timeline\n1900 \u2022 1901 \u2022 1902 \u2022 1903 \u2022 1904 \u2022 1905 \u2022 1906 \u2022 1907 \u2022 1908 \u2022 1909", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons\nThe following is a list of Australian region tropical cyclones from 1900 to 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0001-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Cyclone Leonta\nCyclone Leonta was a tropical cyclone that caused severe damage in North Queensland on 9 March 1903, with approximately 14 lives lost (12 in Townsville and 2 in Charters Towers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0002-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (January 1906)\nOn 27 January 1906, a tropical cyclone crossed the coast, near Cairns. The houses were destroyed, trees were uprooted and spread across the towns, and the Rhodes Hotel and the Crown Hotel sustained damages. Some commercial buildings and a church are also damaged. In Innisfail, some structures were shattered, and some banana plantations and canefields were washed out. The cyclone was last noted, the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0003-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (March 1906)\nOn 4 March 1906, another cyclone crossed the coast, near Cairns. The town of Croydon were completely destroyed due to the storm. Two churches were wrecked and the post office sustained roof damages. The Court House were shattered and severe damages across the town were seen after the cyclone passed. The Normanton and Mackay also experienced gale-force winds. A river overflowed, and a bridge were washed out in Cattle Creek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0004-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (1907)\nA developing tropical cyclone was detected in the Coral Sea on 17 January 1907. The system made landfall to the north of Hope Vale on the next day as it accelerated to the southwest. It then turned to the north-northwest, then to the south, before emerging in the Gulf of Carpentaria on 22 January, near Kowanyama. Tracking again to the southwest, the cyclone made landfall to the north of Burketown on the next day, before dissipating on 26 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0005-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (1907)\nMany buildings were destroyed and/or sustained damages. Crops were also washed out and there were 9 fatalities reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0006-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (January 1908)\nOn 6 January 1908, a tropical cyclone formed in the Gulf of Carpentaria, east of Nhulunbuy. Moving to the west-southwest, the system made landfall near Aurukun on the same day. It soon moved offshore in the Coral Sea on the next day, before it was last noted on 10 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0007-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (March 1908)\nOn 11 March 1908, a tropical cyclone was detected in the Coral Sea. Moving to the south-southeast, the cyclone hit the coast, near the Dawson Beach on the same day. It was last noted on 13 March as it dissipated inland, to the west of Sunshine Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0008-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (March 1908)\nWidespread damaged are reported at St. Lawrence and Nebo. The fatalities from the cyclone were unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0009-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone near Ninety Mile Beach (April 1908)\nOn 27 April 1908, the pearling fleet (again) at Ninety Mile Beach experienced the full force of a storm. The loss of life exceeded 50 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 109], "content_span": [110, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0010-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Possible tropical cyclone in Western Australia (January 1909)\nA possible tropical cyclone affected Exmouth on 20 January 1909. A schooner and two more luggers were destroyed and a river overflowed. The total damages and deaths were unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0011-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (January 1909)\nOn 29 January 1909, a developing tropical cyclone was detected near Alotau. Slowly moving to the southeast, the cyclone reached its peak intensity of 990 hPa on February 2 before weakening. It was last noted, near the eastern boundary of the basin on the next day. No landmasses were affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0012-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (1909 Normanton cyclone)\nA cyclone developed in the Gulf of Carpentaria on an unknown date. On 4 March 1909, the cyclone crossed, just 4 km, near Normanton. Gale-force winds were experienced and there were trees uprooted. Many houses across the town were either sustained damages and/or damaged. A tornado may have been spawned by the cyclone. No fatalities were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 98], "content_span": [99, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0013-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (March 1909)\nA cyclone may passed over and/or near Borroloola on 12 March, which was last noted on the next day. The fatalities and damages were unknown. However, this aren't included in the records of Bureau of Meteorology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0014-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (April 1909)\nFollowing a cyclone at Onslow, Western Australia in January 1909, a second storm hit the town on 5 to 6 April 1909, causing damage to most boats and some buildings. Four luggers with all 24 of their crew were lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0015-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (1910)\nOn 24 January, a tropical cyclone with a minimum barometric pressure of 988 hPa was detected to the south-southeast of Port Moresby. At that time, the cyclone was weakening and on 27 January, it made landfall near Cape Tribulation with below gale-force winds. It moved offshore on that day, before dissipating on 30 January, just near the eastern boundary of the basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033098-0016-0000", "contents": "1900s Australian region cyclone seasons, Storms, Unnamed tropical cyclone (1910)\nRough seas and gale-force winds were experienced at Cairns. Two boats we're driven ashore and heavy rains overflowed rivers in Townsville. In Rockhampton, there were railway damages and some houses destroyed. In Mackay, the bridges were washed out and there were stock losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033099-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons\nThe following is a list of North Indian Ocean tropical cyclones from 1900 to 1909. Records from before the 1970s were extremely unreliable, and storms that stayed at sea were often only reported by ship reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons\nThe 1900s Pacific hurricane seasons all began on May 15, 1900, in the northeast Pacific Ocean and on June 1, 1900, in the central Pacific. They ended on November 30, of each year. These dates conventionally delimit the time of year when most tropical cyclones form in northeast Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0001-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons\nBefore the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes is extremely unreliable. For a few years, there are no reported cyclones, although many systems certainly formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0002-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1900\nA \"tropical hurricane\" formed south of southwestern mainland Mexico on July 19, and moved generally westward out into the tropical Pacific, last noted well west-southwest of Baja California on July 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0003-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1901\nA \"tropical hurricane\" formed south of southern Mexico on July 19, moving west-northwest through July 27, when it was last seen west of Baja California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0004-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1902\nI. Forming on July 14, a tropical cyclone made landfall on the southern portion of Baja California on July 22 as it moved northward and dissipated. The remnants produced 1 to 2\u00a0inches (25 to 50\u00a0mm) of rain over southern California on July 20 and 21. This storm occurred during the strong El Ni\u00f1o of 1901\u20131902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0005-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1902\nII. On August 29, a \"tropical hurricane\" was noted between mainland Mexico and Hawaii. The cyclone moved north of due west, last seen about 1,000 miles (1,600\u00a0km) east-southeast of Hilo on September 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0006-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1902\nIII. Between September 18 and 20, a \"tropical hurricane\" moved just offshore the west coast of Baja California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0007-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1902\nIV. A tropical depression formed on October 3. It moved north. After crossing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, it emerged into the Gulf of Mexico. It eventually became Atlantic Hurricane 4 before making landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0008-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1902\nV. On October 17, a \"tropical hurricane\" formed just east of the International Dateline, moving westward through the 20th, before looping back towards the east on October 21 and 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0009-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1902\nVI. On December 23, a storm formed 40\u00a0miles (60\u00a0km) to the southwest of Lanai, Hawaii. Possibly a Kona, or Subtropical storm, it moved northwestward and strengthened. After approaching the International Date Line, it turned to the northeast, and dissipated in the Bering Sea on January 2, 1903. It is unknown if the storm was tropical, but based on its track it had some tropical characteristics. Upon moving through the Hawaiian islands, the storm was disorganized, and caused no reported damage or unusual weather on the islands. The storm is known as the Froc Cyclone, named after Rev. Louis Froc, the Director of the Ziwakei Observatory in Shanghai who discovered the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0010-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1903\nI. A \"tropical hurricane\" formed near the 170th meridian west longitude on September 7, moving northward past Wake Island into the far north Pacific on September 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0011-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1903\nII. A \"tropical hurricane\" formed between Mexico and Hawaii on September 24, moving slightly north of due west. The system dissipated about 800 miles (1,300\u00a0km) southeast of Hilo on September 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0012-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1904\nI. A tropical storm was first observed 250\u00a0miles (400\u00a0km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, on November 26. It tracked to the northwest, then turned to the northeast. The storm weakened over the cold northern Pacific waters, and dissipated on December 4 to the south of Sitka, Alaska. The storm caused no reported damage. This storm is known as the Zikawei Cyclone, named after the Zikawei Observatory which recorded the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0013-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1904\nII. On December 23 a tropical storm formed 230 miles (370\u00a0km) south-southwest of South Point, Hawaii. It moved to the west-northwest, and after crossing the date line it turned to the northeast, dissipating on the 30th. The storm is known as the Hurd Cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0014-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1905\nA \"tropical hurricane\" formed offshore southwestern Mexico on June 29, which made a partial loop on June 30 and July 1 before turning eastward, dissipating south of Mexico on July 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0015-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1906\nI. The Gauthier Cyclone formed on 3 May well southeast of the Big Island and moved west-northwestward. It passed to the south of Hawaii, crossed the date line, and turned to the northeast. The storm dissipated in the Bering Sea on 10 May. This extremely rare May central Pacific tropical cyclone occurred during the normally storm-free month of May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0016-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1906\nII. A tropical storm formed just off Acapulco circa 11 August and moved north-northwestward through the Gulf of California. It entered southern California on 18 August, dropping 3.49 inches (89\u00a0mm) of rain at Needles, California, in 24 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0017-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1906\nIII. A \"tropical hurricane\" formed offshore southwestern Mexico on 23 September, moving north-northwestward to just offshore the southwest tip of Baja California on 28/29 September before dissipating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0018-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1906\nIV. On 2 October, a \"tropical hurricane\" formed offshore southern Mexico. The system moved initially westward and then northward towards Manzanillo on 4 October. The storm ultimately traveled just west of Baja California and reached Ensenada, Baja California, on 10 October before dissipating without significant effect in California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0019-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1906\nV. On 2 October, a tropical storm was first observed 120 miles (190\u00a0km) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. It moved to the northeast and struck the southern tip of Niihau before turning northward. After passing through the islands, it turned to the northeast, and dissipated in the Bering Sea on 9 October. The storm, the Makawao Cyclone, caused 12.7 inches (320\u00a0mm) of torrential rainfall in Makawao, Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0020-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1906\nVI. A tropical storm was first observed on 6 November 90 miles (140\u00a0km) south of Honolulu, Hawaii. It moved to the north-northwest and passed through the Kauai channel. It turned to the northeast and dissipated on the 13 November to the west of British Columbia. This extremely small, disorganized storm caused no known damage in Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0021-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1907\nI. A \"tropical hurricane\" formed between Mexico and Hawaii on 15 July. The system moved west-northwest, dissipating about 1,500 miles (2,400\u00a0km) east of Hilo on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0022-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1907\nII. A \"tropical hurricane\" formed between Mexico and Hawaii, well southeast of the previous system, on 18 July. This system moved north of due west, dissipating about 1,600 miles (2,600\u00a0km) east of Hilo on 22 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033100-0023-0000", "contents": "1900s Pacific hurricane seasons, 1908\nA vortex, possibly a tropical cyclone, was first observed on 17 October to the northwest of Hawaii. It moved quickly northeastward, and dissipated the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s in Angola\nIn the 1900s in Angola the colonial economy expanded despite domestic unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0001-0000", "contents": "1900s in Angola, Economy\nIn 1900, Ant\u00f3nio de Sousa Lara, the company \"Ferreira Marques & Fonseca\" of Jo\u00e3o Ferreira Gon\u00e7alves - a noted capitalist, and financier, Commander of the Order of Christ, owner of Horta-Seca Palace in Lisbon - and the Bensa\u00fade firm created the Commercial Company of Angola (Companhia Comercial de Angola). Lara and Ferreira Gon\u00e7alves established his first sugar mill in 1901, expanding his sugar-cane plantations in Benguela to 1,000 acres (4\u00a0km2) of land in 1915. He employed a thousand workers and produced 2,500,000 pounds of sugar annually. He used the profits from his initial investment to build a railroad to his personal port. The CCA became the largest trading company in the Angolan colony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0002-0000", "contents": "1900s in Angola, Economy\nIn 1901, the Portuguese government imposed a quota of 6,000 tons of sugar production per year on Angola and Mozambique.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0003-0000", "contents": "1900s in Angola, Slavery and conquest\nThe price of rubber declined in the 1900s, prompting a revolt in 1902. The uprising, the last attempt by the Ovimbundu peoples to resist Portuguese colonization, pitted rival traders against one another. However, while the Portuguese maintained ethnic and national solidarity, the Ovimbundu continued to engage in slave raids. The Portuguese suppressed the rebellion and annexed the Central Highlands. Degredado settlers and Boer farmers stole natives' lands, impressing and deporting workers to plantations. Portuguese authorities arrested the king of Bailundo after an Ovimbundu celebration in which natives consumed Portuguese rum, allegedly without paying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0003-0001", "contents": "1900s in Angola, Slavery and conquest\nThe king's advisor, Mutu ya Kevela, allied with Bailundo's neighboring kingdoms and launched a liberation war. He told his council, rallying them to fight, \"Before the traders came we had our own home-brewed beer, we lived long lives and were strong.\" Kevela's troops killed Portuguese colonists and burned down their trading posts. Native victories spread towards Bi\u00e9, but Portuguese troops stationed in Benguela and Mo\u00e7\u00e2medes put down the revolt. The war ended in 1903, almost two years later, with the Portuguese victorious and Kevela dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0004-0000", "contents": "1900s in Angola, Slavery and conquest\nThomas Fowell Buxton, at the time a member (and later President) of the Aborigines' Protection Society, wrote to Portugal's representatives in the United Kingdom in December 1902, inquiring about the state and extent of slavery in Angola. The Portuguese government replied to his letter in February 1903, denying the existence of slavery its colonies and deriding the \"imagination of certain philanthropists.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0005-0000", "contents": "1900s in Angola, Slavery and conquest\nIn 1904, the Kwanyama Ovambo defeated the Portuguese, eradicating the Portuguese force with assistance from German-run South-West Africa which wanted to wrest control of Angola from the Portuguese. In 1905 the population grew to just under 11,000. The population of Boer and Madeiran colonists in Lubango grew to 2,000 in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033101-0006-0000", "contents": "1900s in Angola, Slavery and conquest\nIn 1914, the Mbunda waged an armed campaign in southeastern Angola to resist Portuguese colonial occupation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 37], "content_span": [38, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion\nFashion in the period 1900\u20131909 in the Western world continued the severe, long and elegant lines of the late 1890s. Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's broad hats and full \"Gibson Girl\" hairstyles. A new, columnar silhouette introduced by the couturiers of Paris late in the decade signaled the approaching abandonment of the corset as an indispensable garment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0001-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, General overview\nWith the decline of the bustle, sleeves began to increase in size and the 1830s silhouette of an hourglass shape became popular again. The fashionable silhouette in the early 20th century was that of a confident woman, with full low chest and curvy hips. The \"health corset\" of this period removed pressure from the abdomen and created an S-curve silhouette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0002-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, General overview\nIn 1897, the silhouette slimmed and elongated by a considerable amount. Blouses and dresses were full in front and puffed into a \"pigeon breast\" shape of the early 20th century that looked over the narrow waist, which sloped from back to front and was often accented with a sash or belt. Necklines were supported by very high boned collars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0003-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, General overview\nSkirts brushed the floor, often with a train, even for day dresses, in mid-decade. The fashion houses of Paris began to show a new silhouette, with a thicker waist, flatter bust, and narrower hips. By the end of the decade the most fashionable skirts cleared the floor and approached the ankle. The overall silhouette narrowed and straightened, beginning a trend that would continue into the years leading up to the Great War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0004-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, General overview\nIn early 1910, a survey of wealthy high school senior students at a private New York City girls' school found that each spent an average of $556 ($15,443 as of 2017) annually for clothing excluding undergarments, and would have spent four times that amount with an unlimited budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0005-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Sportswear and tailored fashions\nWomen moving out of the Victorian era and into the Edwardian era were starting to dress for a more active lifestyle. The evolving times brought a new fashion trend known as the \"New Woman\". Active lives required less constricting clothing and required simpler and more streamlined clothing. The new woman was highly encouraged by women's suffrage. Women that identified with this fashion movement were the type of women that were beginning to venture out of maintaining the domestic circle and begin to pursue higher education, office jobs, and participating in active outdoor sports. The new and improved fashions allowed for women to swing a tennis racket, whack a golf ball, but the ideas of \"proper\" feminine attire reduced the progress of more practical sportswear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0006-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Sportswear and tailored fashions\nTailored suits became more popular for the women that were beginning to work in white collar jobs. Tailored suits with no frills allowed for women maintaining an office job to seem more masculine and blend into the male dominated environment. Shortly the number of women attending colleges increased, and the shirtwaist became popular among the average college girl. The outfit worn by the typical college girl was a skirt that was usually shorter than current fashion, and a shirtwaist, which is best described as the equivalent of jeans and a T-shirt today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0007-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Sportswear and tailored fashions\nUnfussy, tailored clothes were worn for outdoor activities and traveling. The shirtwaist, a costume with a bodice or waist tailored like a man's shirt with a high collar, was adopted for informal daywear and became the uniform of working women. Wool or tweed suit (clothing) called tailor-mades or (in French) tailleurs featured ankle-length skirts with matching jackets; ladies of fashion wore them with fox furs and huge hats. Two new styles of headgear which became popular at the turn of the century were the motoring veil for driving and sailor hats worn for tennis matches, bicycling and croquet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 75], "content_span": [76, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0008-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Rise of haute couture\nThis decade marked the full flowering of Parisian haute couture as the arbiter of styles and silhouettes for women of all classes. Designers sent fashion models or mannequins to the Longchamp races wearing the latest styles, and fashion photographs identified the creators of individual gowns. In 1908, a new silhouette emerged from Callot Soeurs, Vionnet at the house of Doucet, and most importantly, Paul Poiret. The styles were variously called Merveilleuse, Directoire, and Empire after the fashions of the turn of the nineteenth century, which they resembled in their narrow skirts and raised waistlines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0009-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Rise of haute couture\nThe new styles featured form-fitting gowns with high or undefined waists, or ankle-length skirts and long tunic-like jackets, and required a different \"straight line\" corset. The Paris correspondent for Vogue described this new look as \"straighter and straighter ... less bust, less hips, and more waist...how slim, how graceful, how elegant...!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0010-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Hats\nHuge, broad-brimmed hats were worn in mid-decade, trimmed with masses of feathers and occasionally complete stuffed birds (hummingbirds for those who could afford them), or decorated with ribbons and artificial flowers. Masses of wavy hair were fashionable, swept up to the top of the head (if necessary, over horsehair pads called \"rats\") and gathered into a knot. Large hats were worn with evening wear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0011-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Hats\nBy the end of the decade, hats had smaller drooping brims that shaded the face and deep crowns, and the overall top-heavy effect remained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0012-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Footwear\nShoes were narrow and often emphasized. They had a pointed toe and a medium height heel. Buttons, patent leather, and laced models of the shoe were also manufactured and readily available. Similarly, there were shoes for every occasion; oxfords for a tailored costume, slippers with straps for festive occasions or pumps with pearl buckles, and finally, boots which were often edged in fur to stave off the winter chill when riding in a carriage in the winter. At the beginning of 1900s shoes still maintained the same design of the Victorian era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0012-0001", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Women's fashion, Footwear\nShoes were commonly made with seal skin or Moroccan leather. Having boots made of seal skin was most common for people in a higher social class. Seal skin boots were known to be extremely durable and could be worn during every season. Boots made from Moroccan leather were more uncomfortable and stiff. World War I caused this opulent era to tone down due to the increased sanctions on the trade of leather and other fabrics, and shoes were starting to incorporate a fabric topping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0013-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion\nThe long, lean, and athletic silhouette of the 1890s persisted. Hair was generally worn short. Beards were less pointed than before and moustaches were often curled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0014-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Coats, waistcoats and trousers\nThe sack coat or lounge coat continued to replace the frock coat for most informal and semi-formal occasions. Three-piece suits consisting of a sack coat with matching waistcoat (U.S. vest) and trousers were worn, as were matching coat and waistcoat with contrasting trousers, or matching coat and trousers with contrasting waistcoat. Trousers were shorter than before, often had turn-ups or cuffs, and were creased front and back using the new trouser press.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0015-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Coats, waistcoats and trousers\nWaistcoats fastened high on the chest. The usual style was single-breasted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0016-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Coats, waistcoats and trousers\nThe blazer, a navy blue or brightly colored or striped flannel coat cut like a sack coat with patch pockets and brass buttons, was worn for sports, sailing, and other casual activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0017-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Coats, waistcoats and trousers\nThe Norfolk jacket remained fashionable for shooting and rugged outdoor pursuits. It was made of sturdy tweed or similar fabric and featured paired box pleats over the chest and back, with a fabric belt. Worn with matching breeches or (U.S. knickerbockers), it became the Norfolk suit, suitable for bicycling or golf with knee-length stockings and low shoes, or for hunting with sturdy boots or shoes with leather gaiters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0018-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Coats, waistcoats and trousers\nThe cutaway morning coat was still worn for formal day occasions in Europe and major cities elsewhere, with striped trousers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0019-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Coats, waistcoats and trousers\nThe most formal evening dress remained a dark tail coat and trousers with a dark or light waistcoat. Evening wear was worn with a white bow tie and a shirt with a winged collar. The less formal dinner jacket or tuxedo, which featured a shawl collar with silk or satin facings, now generally had a single button. Dinner jackets were appropriate formal wear when \"dressing for dinner\" at home or at a men's club. The dinner jacket was worn with a white shirt and a dark tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 71], "content_span": [72, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0020-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Shirts and neckties\nFormal dress shirt collars were turned over or pressed into \"wings\". Collars were overall very tall and stiffened. Dress shirts had stiff fronts, sometimes decorated with shirt studs and buttoned up the back. Striped shirts were popular for informal occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0021-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Shirts and neckties\nThe usual necktie was a narrow four-in-hand. Ascot ties were worn with formal day dress and white bow ties with evening dress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0022-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Accessories\nTop hats remained a requirement for upper class formal wear; soft felt Homburgs or stiff bowler hats were worn with lounge or sack suits, and flat straw boaters were worn for casual occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0023-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Men's fashion, Accessories\nShoes for men were mostly over the ankle. Toe cap, lace up boots in black, gray, or brown were the most common for everyday wear. Formal occasions called for formal boots with white uppers (spat style) and buttons on the side. In the Edwardian times basic lace up oxford shoes were introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0024-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Children's fashion\nGirls' fashion for this time period imitated older women of the same period. Girls wore dresses of knee length, with trimmings at the hem such as lace and embroidery similar to women's lingerie dresses. Normally, black shoes or button up / lace up boots and woolen stockings went with the dress as well as kidskin or crochet gloves. Their hair was generally worn long and curly with decorations of ribbon. For play, bloomers and woolen jerseys were acceptable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0025-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Children's fashion\nA new attempt was made to design garments that are more suitable for playing by designing girls' dresses with short sleeves. Outside, button up boots would have been worn or lace up boots also shoes with spats would have been worn in the winter spats worn over shoes created the look of wearing a long boot. Kid leather gloves would have been worn to cover the hands or lace gloves in the summer. Bonnets were being replaced by hats by the end of the Victorian era so girls would have worn a hat when out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0026-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Children's fashion\nFashionable clothing for boys included sailor suits, consisting of a shirt with a sailor collar and trousers or knickerbockers. For automobiling, boys wore a duster with knickerbockers, a flat cap, and goggles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0027-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Children's fashion\nOlga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna in Darmstadt, Hesse, 1903", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033102-0028-0000", "contents": "1900s in Western fashion, Working clothes\nWoman in a kitchen in the Rainy River District, ca. 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033103-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s in Zimbabwe\nMapondera and a force of 600 men revolted against the Colony of Southern Rhodesia near Mazowe in 1900. An indecisive battle took place near Mount Darwin between Mapondera and the Colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1901. Mashonaland and Matabeleland were united as Southern Rhodesia, administered by the British South Africa Company, on 24 January. In 1902 the government passed a law requiring all natives over the age of 14 to register and carry situpas (passes). Cecil Rhodes died at the age of 48 on 26 March. The Colony of Southern Rhodesia captured Mapondera, tried him, and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment for treason in 1903. He died in 1904 after a hunger strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033105-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s in comics\nThis is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1900s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033106-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s in film\nThe decade of the 1900s in film involved some significant films.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033107-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s in games\nThis page lists board and card games published in the 1900s (decade).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033108-0000-0000", "contents": "1900s in sociology\nThe following events related to sociology occurred in the 1900s (decade).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033109-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 Football League season was Aston Villa's 13th season in the Football League First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era. During the season Jimmy Crabtree, Jack Devey, and Howard Spencer shared the captaincy of the club. Billy Garraty, great-great grandfather of Jack Grealish, made the most appearances during the season. Goalkeeper & first-class cricketer, Billy George was next with 39 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033109-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Aston Villa F.C. season\nOn 1 December 1900, Villa recorded the biggest home win\tin the League that season, 7\u20131 against Manchester City in front of a crowd of 12,000. When Aston Villa played away at Stoke on 29 December 1900, the home club registered its biggest home attendance of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033110-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Belgian First Division, Overview\nThis season saw the two Groups of previous seasons merged back into one national Division. It was contested by 9 teams, and Racing Club de Bruxelles won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was Blackpool F.C. 's first season back in the Football League (fourth total). They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season\nArrivals, either during the season in exile or during this campaign, included Jack Parkinson (returning after a season with Liverpool), goalkeeper Joe Dorrington from Blackburn Rovers, Jack Birchall, John Burden, Edward Threlfall, Alfred Boulton, Lorenzo Evans, former schoolboy Harold Hardman, and Geordie Anderson. Out went Henry Parr (who played in the club's first game in the Football League), Jack Morris (despite scoring four goals in his five appearances the previous season), and Gamble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season\nBob Birkett top-scored with ten goals in his 32 appearances. Goalkeeper Joe Dorrington was ever-present throughout the club's 34 league games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's starting eleven for the opening game of the season featured eight new players from the squad of two seasons earlier, plus Jack Parkinson, who returned from a season with Liverpool while Blackpool were in their exile from the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nNew Brighton Tower were their first opponents, and Blackpool returned from Wallasey with a point after a goalless draw, goalkeeper Joe Dorrington keeping a clean sheet on his Football League debut for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 8 September, Gainsborough Trinity were the first visitors to Bloomfield Road for a League game. In front of a \"good\" attendance, the honours were shared with a 1\u20131 draw. Bob Birkett scored for the hosts in a game in which an 18-year-old Harold Hardman made his debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's first victory of the season followed, 2\u20131 at Walsall, with Birkett and Lorenzo Evans finding the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo more victories ensued \u2014 2\u20130 at home to Burton Swifts (Harry Stirzaker and Birkett), and 1\u20130 at Barnsley (Evans).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0008-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOctober began with two 1\u20131 home draws \u2014 firstly against Woolwich Arsenal (Hardman getting his first goal for the club), then against Chesterfield (Parkinson).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0009-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool continued their unbeaten start to the season with a single-goal victory at Stockport County on 20 October, Birkett getting the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0010-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe following week Small Heath visited the seaside and held their hosts to a goalless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0011-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter a two-week break, Blackpool hosted Lincoln City on 10 November. A double from Birkett gave the Seasiders both points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0012-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's third successive home game ended in a goalless draw against Glossop North End on 24 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0013-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter an eleven-game unbeaten run, Blackpool suffered their first defeat on 1 December, 3\u20131 at Middlesbrough. Jack Leadbetter scored his only goal of the season for Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0014-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo defeats followed \u2014 at home to local rivals Burnley by a single goal, and 4\u20130 at Burslem Port Vale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0015-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's first win five games was obtained on 22 December, by a single goal, at home to Leicester Fosse. Birkett scored the goal, his seventh of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0016-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA Boxing Day visit to Newton Heath resulted in a 4\u20130 defeat, while another road trip, to New Brighton Tower three days later, was also met with defeat. Evans scored his third of the season in the 1\u20132 result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0017-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nInto the New Year, and Blackpool strung three successive wins together for the second time in the season. Firstly, they travelled to Gainsborough Trinity and won 3\u20131, with Hardman, Jack Birchall (his first for the club), and Stirzaker finding the net. Next, they hosted Walsall and won courtesy of a solitary Evans strike. Finally, on 19 January, Blackpool beat Burton Swifts 2\u20131 at Peel Croft. Birkett and Stirzaker were the scorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0018-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTo offset their run of victories, Blackpool went on to lose their next two games \u2014 at Grimsby Town and Chesterfield, respectively \u2014 both by a 2\u20130 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0019-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool returned to winning ways on 23 February with a 3\u20130 result at home to Stockport County. Parkinson, Stirzaker (penalty), and Birchall got the goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0020-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 2 March, Blackpool suffered a record 10\u20131 defeat at Small Heath. Geordie Anderson, on his debut after joining from Blackburn Rovers, scored Blackpool's goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0021-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nGrimsby Town completed a double over Blackpool seven days later, and that was followed by a 3\u20130 defeat at Lincoln City on 16 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0022-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool stemmed the tide four days later with a 1\u20131 draw at Barnsley, Birkett scoring their goal, but another defeat followed \u2014 2\u20131 at home to Newton Heath, with Birkett netting his tenth and final goal of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0023-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 30 March, Glossop North End put six past Blackpool without reply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0024-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool were victorious for the first time in six games thanks to a 2\u20131 result against Burslem Port Vale at Bloomfield Road on 5 April. Stirzaker and Parkinson scored the hosts' goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0025-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe very next day, Middlesbrough returned to the North East pointless after Blackpool won 3\u20130, Anderson, Parkinson, and a 'Boro own goal doing the damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0026-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's travelled to London on 8 April to face Woolwich Arsenal. Stirzaker scored for Blackpool, but the visitors lost 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0027-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nFor Blackpool's fourth game in five days, they visited Leicester Fosse and lost by the same scoreline. Parkinson scored his fifth of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0028-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe season concluded with a visit to Lancashire neighbours Burnley, who ended their season on a high with a 4\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033111-0029-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left between the end of the 1898\u201399 season (two seasons earlier) and the beginning of this one:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1900\u201301 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League Second Division. An unbeaten league season led to Brentford topping the division, before failing to beat Swindon Town in a promotion-relegation test match. Promotion was finally assured when the club was elected into the Southern League First Division in July 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite the final implications of jumping the hurdle from amateur to professional status during the previous season, Brentford went into the 1900\u201301 Southern League Second Division campaign in a healthy state. The club moved from Cross Roads (near South Ealing station) back to Brentford and would play their matches at Boston Park Cricket Club's ground York Road, a move which was beneficial for both clubs. Harry Underwood, a member of the Brentford committee, also managed to persuade a number of local tradesmen, to whom the club owed over \u00a3100 (equivalent to \u00a310,900 in 2021), to write off the debt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0001-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nNow under the charge of William Lewis as a team manager of sorts, Brentford trimmed down the playing staff and signed two new professional players \u2013 left back Harry Gilmour and inside forward Joe Turner. Because of the reduction in size of the Southern League Second Division, Brentford also entered the London League to help generate revenue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford began the Southern League season in fine form, but suffered a number of defeats in the early London League matches and consequently five new players were signed \u2013 goalkeeper Dave Clear, full back Jack Graham, half back William Hainsworth, inside right Roddy McLeod and centre forward Peter Turnbull. McLeod and Turnbull proved to be master-stroke signings and along with existing forwards Ralph McElhaney, E. Andrews and Joe Turner, the quintet fired Brentford to an unbeaten Southern League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0002-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe Bees' 1st-place finish in the Second Division led to a test match at the end of the season versus Swindon Town, who had finished bottom of the First Division. With Brentford needing to win to secure promotion and with the score at 0\u20130, the match at Elm Park went into extra time and was called off after 107 minutes due to bad light.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nIn the aftermath of the abandoned test match, the Brentford committee resolved to apply for the place in the First Division left vacant by Bristol City, who had been elected into the Football League. Brentford were passed over in favour of Northampton Town at the Southern League's AGM on 1 June, but Gravesend United's departure from the First Division due to financial problems in July led to Brentford's election into the First Division for the 1901\u201302 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nA number of club records were set during the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033112-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033113-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 British Home Championship\nThe 1900\u201301 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations. England won the competition with five points after strong victories over Wales and Ireland. Scotland too performed well, coming second with a win and two draws and racking up what remains their highest ever scoreline in an 11\u20130 demolition of the Irish in Glasgow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033113-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 British Home Championship\nScotland's record win was the first match of the competition and saw hat-tricks by Sandy \"Duke\" McMahon and Robert Hamilton. In their second game however Scotland could not sustain their good form, resulting in a disappointing draw with a tough Welsh side who played well to gain their point. England entered the action next with a victory over the Irish, although the men in green limited the damage to just a three-goal deficit. England then took the lead in the competition with a heavy 6\u20130 win over Wales, Steve Bloomer scoring four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033113-0001-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 British Home Championship\nIn the final matches, Ireland and Wales played for pride, neither side being able at this stage to win the trophy. Wales eventually won the match 1\u20130. England and Scotland however fought out a furious encounter as both sides stood a good chance of winning. However, by virtue of the Scottish draw with Wales, England needed only a draw to win the competition, a result they managed despite Scotland's resilience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033114-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033114-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nBrown recovered from a dismal season the year before and entered their game against Yale on March 16 with a chance to win their second collegiate championship. Instead, Brown lost their last two games to the Elis, allowing Yale to claim their third consecutive championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033114-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nThis was the final season that Brown finished with at least a .500 record until 1926.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033115-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1900\u201301 season. The team finished the season with a 12\u20131 record and were retroactively named national champions by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033116-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was Burslem Port Vale's third consecutive season (seventh overall) of football in the English Football League. Finishing in ninth place for the second time in three years, the club would have to wait over two decades before they would better such a finish. Vale was a typical mid-table team in 1900\u201301, with their home form being slightly disappointing compared to teams around them in the table. The team was settled, however, once again poor attendances were an issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033116-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe pre-season saw the return of Stoke legend Tommy Clare, now aged 35; and inside-left James Peake, following a season with Millwall Athletic. Otherwise local lads filled the void left by the stars that were sold off in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033116-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nTrue to expectations, the \"Valeites\" suffered at the start of the season, recording three heavy defeats in their first seven games. However, things picked up when striker Adrian Capes arrived from Burton Swifts in November 1900. By March, the side broke into the top six, though were eleven points short of the two promotion places. The season ended with three wins from four games, and the Vale finished six points from the re-election zones, but fifteen points from promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033116-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nNew boy Capes finished as top scorer, with Peake, Eardley, and Price contributing seven goals each. Goalkeeper Alfred Maybury made his debut on 8 September, and never missed a match after that, though was still released at the season's end (later joining Chesterfield). Eight other players managed at least 30 appearances (out of a possible 37), with George Price an ever-present. The defence was described as \"consistent and sturdy\", and Peake, Eardley, and Capes were praised for the turnaround in results. The policy of local youth continued, having been successful throughout the campaign. James Peake and Alfred Maybury departed, and full-back Frank Stokes was sold to Reading; but otherwise the original team was retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033116-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nFinancially the club lost \u00a373, to add to their \u00a31,000 debt. Taking note from the previous campaign, the playing budget was reduced by over \u00a3750, though gate receipts dropped a further \u00a3235. Poor weather was blamed for the miserable support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033116-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, a 3\u20131 home defeat was recorded to Second Division rivals New Brighton Tower in the opening round. The result was the same as their league encounter, down to an Adrian Capes consolation. Vale also exited both county cups at the first hurdle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033117-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Butler Christians men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter Kelly, coaching in his second season with the Christians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033118-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1900\u201301 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033119-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Colgate men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his first season. The team finished with an overall record of 5\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033120-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033120-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nPrior to the Holiday break, team manager R. S. Woodward asked the university's permission for the ice hockey team to travel to Pittsburgh for a 4-game set against local athletic clubs. He did so because the ice hockey club was $75 in debt and the team was being offered $400 for the cost of expenses for the trip. Because the trip would take place during the school term, and because Columbia University policy prohibited any person or team with an outstanding debt from taking place in a public contest, permission for the trip was denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033120-0001-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nUnfortunately the team had already committed itself to participating by signing a contract. As a result, when the team attempted to back out of the trip the Pittsburgh management threatened to sue. In an attempt to satisfy all parties, the ice hockey team reorganized itself as \"The Columbia Hockey Club Team\" and not as an official representative of the University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033120-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team traveled to Pittsburgh to complete their terms of the contract before returning home. After the break school administrators ruled that the eight men who had participated had violated university instructions and would be barred from representing Columbia University or participating in any university athletic event for the remainder of the school year. The disqualified students were: R. S. Woodward, A. Lawrence, A. Wolff, D. S. Hudson, A. Coggeshall, S. Campbell, W. Duden and F. X. O'Dwyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033120-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nAs a result, the team was forced to reorganize with most of the freshman squad and play out their Intercollegiate Hockey Association schedule. It wasn't much of a surprise when the team took a step back after a solid 1900 season. After the season all members of the team were reinstated with the exception of R. S. Woodward. This was done primarily so that the other teams the players were involved with were not punished as a result of the actions of the ice hockey management. Additionally, the administration expressed its appreciation at the way that the replacement team handled itself during the intercollegiate series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033120-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033120-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Yale records the score of the game as 5\u20130.\u2021 Brown records the score of the game as 8\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033121-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1900\u201301 collegiate men's basketball season. This was the first year that the school had a basketball team. The Aggies completed the season with a 1\u20130 record against a local high school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033122-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Copa Macaya\nThe 1900\u201301 Copa Macaya was the 1st staging of the Copa Macaya. The competition began on 20 January 1901 and ended on 14 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033123-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented Cornell University during the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 2\u20134\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033124-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Cornell men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 Cornell men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033124-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nTowards the end of the school year, Cornell sent an ice hockey team, under the guidance of G. A. Smith, to Philadelphia for a set of three games over four days. Cornell won each contest to finish the season undefeated, but with the small number of games they were ineligible for the collegiate championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033124-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nG. A. Smith may be the first official head coach for any college hockey team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033124-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Cornell University did not formally adopt 'Big Red' as its moniker until after 1905. They have been, however, associated with 'Carnelian and White' since the school's Inauguration Day on October 7, 1868.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033125-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1900\u201301 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, who played without a head coach, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the 28th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level entering the Scottish Cup and the Scottish Qualifying Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Qualifying Cup\nQualification for the Scottish Cup was gained by reaching the fifth round of the Scottish Qualifying Cup before losing out to East Stirling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Cup\nDumbarton were no match for First Division opponents Hibernian in the first round of the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season, Dumbartonshire Cup\nThe Dumbartonshire Cup was again played on a league basis. Only three teams entered and after the first stage, Vale of Leven topped the league. Dumbarton beat Renton in the semi final but lost out to 'Vale' in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nAnother season without league football saw fixtures and attendances fall away badly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nA meagre 6 'friendly' matches were played during the season, with even a match against Celtic attracting fewer than 1,000 spectators. In all 2 were won and 4 lost, scoring 12 goals and conceding 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season, Friendlies\nAt the end of the season an AGM proposal to disband the club was accepted, so just 10 years after being crowned as Scottish league champions Dumbarton F.C. went out of existence, and would not re-appear again until August 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033126-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the second round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Queen's Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033127-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the eighth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One and finishing in 7th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033128-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 East Stirlingshire F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was East Stirlingshire Football Club's first season in the Scottish Football League, being admitted to the Scottish Football League Second Division. The club also competed in the Scottish Cup and the minor Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup\nThe 1900\u201301 FA Cup was the 30th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The cup was won by Tottenham Hotspur of the Southern League, who defeated Sheffield United 3\u20131 in a replay after a 2\u20132 draw in the first game. This was the only occasion since the formation of The Football League in 1888 that a club from outside the League won the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, an intermediate round, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe Intermediate Round featured ten games, played between the ten winners of the Fifth Qualifying Round, and ten teams given byes. Football League First Division Liverpool and Stoke, along with Burslem Port Vale, Glossop, Grimsby Town, Newton Heath, New Brighton Tower and Woolwich Arsenal from the Football League Second Division were entered automatically into this round, as were Southern League Division One Portsmouth and Bristol City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe other Second Division sides had to gain entry to this round through the earlier qualifying rounds. Barnsley, Blackpool, Burton Swifts, Chesterfield, Gainsborough Trinity, Lincoln City, Middlesbrough, Stockport County and Walsall were all entered in the Third Qualifying Round. Of these, only Chesterfield, Middlesbrough and Walsall reached the Intermediate Round. They were joined by seven other non-league sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe ten matches were played on 5 January 1901. One tie, which was Reading v Bristol City, went to a replay, played in the following midweek. This rematch again resulted in a draw, so a second replay was played the following week at a neutral venue (Swindon Town's County Ground).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. The remaining 16 of the 18 Football League First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Small Heath, Burnley and Leicester Fosse from the Football League Second Division, and Southern League Division One Southampton, Millwall Athletic and Tottenham Hotspur. They joined the ten teams who won in the intermediate round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday 9 February 1901. Four matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0008-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were scheduled for Saturday 23 February 1901. There was one replay, between Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest, played in the following midweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0009-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 23 March 1901. Two replays were needed, played in the following midweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0010-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were both intended to be played on Saturday 6 April 1901. Sheffield United and Aston Villa played on this date, but drew their tie and had to replay it five days later; this next match finished in a 3\u20130 win for United. The other game, Tottenham Hotspur against West Bromwich Albion, was delayed until Monday 8 April and finished in a convincing win for Spurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0011-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday 20 April 1901 at Crystal Palace. Over 110,000 supporters attended the match. Fred Priest opened the scoring for Sheffield United after about 20 minutes. Sandy Brown headed an equalising goal shortly afterwards and half time arrived with the score 1\u20131. Brown put Spurs ahead early in the second half, but, not to be denied, Sheffield United pressed strongly, and Walter Bennett headed an equaliser for the draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033129-0012-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup, Final\nIn the replay, Spurs became the first and only \"non (Football) league\" side to win the FA Cup since the creation of Football League when they beat United 3\u20131 before an attendance of 20,470 at Burnden Park, Bolton. John Cameron opened the scoring before centre forward Sandy Brown became the first player to score in every round. He netted both goals in the final as well as one in the replay for a total of 15 in the season's competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033130-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe qualifying rounds for the 1900\u201301 Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup for short), the 30th edition of the world's oldest association football competition, consisting of six rounds of matches played between September and December 1900. A total of 220 teams entered the tournament, 178 of which played in at least one qualifying stage. The 1900\u201301 FA Cup began on 22 September 1900 when 40 teams competed in the preliminary round and ended on 20 April 1901, when Southern League side Tottenham Hotspur became the only ever non-League club to win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033131-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the second season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033131-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Barcelona season, Events\nBartomeu Terrades succeeded Walter Wild as president on April 25, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033131-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Barcelona season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1900\u201301 season was their eighth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's new chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who took over the presidency from Charlie Volderauer at the AGM. He was the fourth chairman in the club's history. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe first national championship in Switzerland took place in 1897\u201398. This championship is considered as unofficial because it was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; founded in 1895). FC Basel did not participate in this first championship. But they did in the second edition during the season 1898\u201399. The club did not compete in the following season either. But they have participated in every season since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Overview\nAlphonse Schorpp was nominated as team captain by the club\u2019s board of directors under chairman Ernst-Alfred Thalmann. Schorpp led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. In the previous season the team played 16 friendly games. In this season they played eight friendlies and ten games in the league. There is no documentaion that shows that there were pre-season friendly games this season, but there were during the winter break, four at home in the Landhof and one in Neuch\u00e2tel. At the end of the season the team twice travelled to Mulhouse, played once against FC Mulhouse and once against an Alsace selection. Of the eight friendlies four were won and two were drawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe Serie A 1900\u201301 was divided into two groups, an east and a west group. Basel were with three teams from Z\u00fcrich, Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich, FC Z\u00fcrich, Fire Flies Z\u00fcrich and two other teams from Basel, Old Boys and Fortuna Basel. There were four teams in the west group. The start into the season with a home draw against Fire Flies and an away victory against local rivals can be considered as good. However, in the remaining eight games the team managed only one more draw and a forfait win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Overview\nA fact is that Basel did not win a single match in the Landhof. Following the draw with Fire Flies, the team suffered four successive home defeats. A further curiosity in this season was that captain Schorpp scored his first league goal for his club on 3 March 1901 in the away game against Grasshopper Club. In fact he scored two goals, but this could not save the team from a 3\u201313 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0004-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe reasons for this high defeat can be explained with the fact that one of the players missed the train and that the team played with a number of players from their reserve team. Apart from their surnames, Mislan, Pfl\u00fcger and Trenchard Chaffey, hardly anything else is known of these three gentlemen. Despite the fact that Trenchard Chaffey scored the third Basel goal in this game, he only played in one more league game. Pfl\u00fcger was documented as player in three friendlies, but the name Mislan can only be found on this one match sheet. Nevertheless, to date this remains the teams' highest and biggest defeat in the club\u2019s history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Overview\nAs mentioned, Basel ended the season with two victories, two draws and six defeats in fifth position in the east group. From this group the Grasshopper Club qualified themselves for the finals against FC Bern, who were the winners of the west group. The final on 31 March was replayed because a player in GC team was non-qualified and GC won the replay to become Swiss champions for the second successive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033132-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 FC Basel season, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Much documentation for this season is missing, most goal scorers remain unknown.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033133-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Football League\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the 13th season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033133-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033133-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033133-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033134-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Boldklubben af 1893 won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033135-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1900\u201301 French Rugby Union Championship of first division was won by Stade Fran\u00e7ais by defeating SBUC in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033135-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 French Rugby Union Championship\nStade Fran\u00e7ais was declared French Champion after Stade Bordelais refused to replay the final following a protest lodged by their opponent. Stade Fran\u00e7ais contested that, after the merging of Stade Bordelais and Bordeaux U.C., three player of the second of them, had not waited three months before playing for their new team. The federation (USFSA) annulled the match and decided to repeat the match in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033135-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification Round\nFrance was divided into 3 regions, the winner of the Seine region, was directly qualified to contest the final. Stade Fran\u00e7ais had won that final against Le Havre AC (21\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033135-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification Round\nStade Bordelais had defeated F.C. Lyon (11\u20134) winner of the Rhone region championship, after winning the Garonne region championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033136-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033136-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nHarvard finished the season with an undefeated record, however, they played just three games against two different opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033137-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1900\u201301 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033138-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1900\u201301 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished third out of 11 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033139-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross during the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The team finished with an overall record of 6\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University in its first season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James H. Horne, who was in his first and only year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, as an independent school. Indiana did not officially compete in basketball as a member of the Western Conference, later known as the Big Ten Conference, until the 1904\u20131905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Team formation\nDuring the 1900\u201301 school year, Indiana University officials desired to compete with rival schools in \"basket ball,\" as it was then known. So after the holiday break at the end of 1900, athletic director James H. Horne put out a call for players to try out for the new team. To prepare players participated in drills and scrimmages daily. Horne served as the team's coach and Thomas Records as the team manager. Six of the best players were selected to play varsity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 62], "content_span": [63, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Roster\nIndiana was led in scoring by sophomore captain Ernest Strange. The 1900\u20131901 season would be the only one for Strange, who died in a boiler explosion in the summer of 1901. Darby, the starting center, would return for the 1901\u20131902 season as the team's captain, coach, and leading scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Game Summaries, Butler: February 8\nIndiana's first official basketball game took place on Friday, February 8, 1901, at 3:00\u00a0p.m. when the Hoosiers took on Butler at the Indianapolis YMCA gymnasium. 100 of the team's fans joined them on a train to watch. According to Indiana Daily Student reports, \"the excitement approached that of an inter-collegiate football contest.\" However, the superior performance of Butler's star forward Carl McGaughey ultimately helped propel Butler to a 20\u201317 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 82], "content_span": [83, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Game Summaries, Butler: February 21\nIndiana and Butler scheduled a return match-up on Thursday, February 21 in Bloomington. Phelps Darby, who was 5 feet 11 inches tall, had played center in the initial game, but for the re-match he was moved to the forward position so that he could guard Butler's Carl McGaughey. McGaughey still managed to score five field goals in the first half to give Butler a 16\u20136 advantage at halftime. Indiana rallied behind the play of team captain, Ernest Strange, but still lost 24\u201320. McGaughey was scoreless in the second half but still led all players with 10 points. For Indiana, Strange and Fitzgerald each had six points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Game Summaries, Purdue: March 2\nOn Saturday, March 2 in Bloomington, Indiana played Purdue. The two schools had already developed a fierce rivalry in football. Purdue edged out the Hoosiers in the first half with a 12\u201310 lead and was able to hold on to the lead with a 20\u201315 victory. Purdue went on to have a 12\u20130 season and was considered by some to be the best team in the country; however, Yale won the Helms Foundation award that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Game Summaries, Wabash: March 8\nIndiana's fourth game of the year was against Wabash, who traveled to Bloomington on March 8. The game was close after the first half with Indiana ahead 9\u20138. But in the second half Indiana arguably played its best basketball of the season by scoring 17 points to win by a total score of 26\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033140-0008-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team, Game Summaries, Disputed Purdue game\nIndiana originally planned to play away games at Wabash and Purdue, but according to the Arbutus (the school yearbook), those games were \"declared off, and the season ended at Indiana.\" The official records of Indiana University and Purdue University indicate that Indiana lost to Purdue 23\u201319 in West Lafayette on March 15, 1901. However, the Indiana University Basketball Encyclopedia by Jason Hiner notes that an absence of newspaper reports about the game suggests that it never took place. That source lists the team's record for the inaugural season as 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033141-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1900\u201301 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his second season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033142-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1900\u201301 comprised 6 teams, and Distillery won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033143-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its third season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served his 3rd year. The Jayhawks finished the season 4\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033143-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Schedule\n\u2021 \u2013 KU walked off the court and forfeited the game following a dispute over the rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033144-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Liverpool F.C. season\n1900\u201301 Liverpool F.C. season was the 9th season in the Football League for Liverpool, since their creation in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033144-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Liverpool F.C. season\nThey finished 1st in the league and were crowned Champions in the Football League, after winning a total of 19 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033144-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Liverpool F.C. season\nIn the FA cup, they were knocked out in the first round, after the 0\u20132 loss to Notts County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033145-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MHA season\nThe 1900\u201301 MHA season of the Manitoba Hockey Association was played by two teams Winnipeg Victorias and Winnipeg HC. The Victorias, as defending champions, played and defeated the Montreal Shamrocks of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) in a Stanley Cup challenge to bring the Stanley Cup to Manitoba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033145-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MHA season, Regular season\nVictorias defeated Winnipeg 4 \u2013 3 to win the Manitoba championship. After the season, the Victorias were presented with gold watches from the club. Honorary club president Hugh John Macdonald, former Manitoba premier, and son of former Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald made a speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033145-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MHA season, Regular season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033145-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, Shamrocks vs. Winnipeg\nIn January 1901, the Winnipeg Victorias again challenged the Montreal Shamrocks for the Cup. This time, Winnipeg prevailed, sweeping the best-of-three series with scores of 4\u20133 and 2\u20131. Game two was the first overtime game in Cup history with Dan Bain scoring at the four-minute mark of the extra period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033145-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, Shamrocks vs. Winnipeg\nFor the series, the Shamrocks added Montreal Victorias captain Mike Grant, replacing Frank Tansey. Winnipeg added Burke Wood and Jack Marshall. For Marshall, it would be the first Stanley Cup win of his career, a career in which he would with the Cup six times, with four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033145-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, Game one\nWinnipeg addition Burke Wood scored twice for Winnipeg to lead the team, including the winner with two minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033145-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MHA season, Stanley Cup challenge, Game two\nDan Bain scored late in the first half to put Winnipeg ahead. Harry Trihey tied it early in the second half. The game was tied to go to overtime. Bain scored the winner in overtime, the first Stanley Cup-winning goal scored in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033146-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033146-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nMIT scheduled several games for the season, however, many were postponed or cancelled. Some of the university's records about this season are missing as the school yearbook skips from the 1900 season to the 1902 season. The record of only one game appears in the University newspaper and while it does mention a few others, there's no evidence that any more games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033146-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but Roger Burr served as team manager and president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033146-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033147-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was Manchester City F.C. 's tenth season of league football and second season in the First Division of the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033148-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 team went 0\u20132 for the first losing season in school history and the only winless team in school history. Both games were played against Michigan State University. It was the only year for coach M. Everett Dick. The team captain was F.L. Cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033149-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by PrimeBOT (talk | contribs) at 22:02, 20 June 2020 (\u2192\u200eSchedule: Task 30 - remove deprecated parameter in Template:CBB schedule entry). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033149-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University for the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The head coach was George Denman coaching the team his first season. The Spartans team captain was Charles Blanchard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033150-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u20131901 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1900\u201301 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Elmer Berry, coaching the huskers in his first season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033151-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1900\u20131901 was contested by fifteen teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off match featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating Victoria Wageningen 2\u20131 in a decision match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033152-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was Newton Heath's ninth in the Football League and their seventh in the Second Division. They finished 10th in the league, some way off the promotion places. In the FA Cup, the Heathens were knocked out by Burnley after a replay in the First Round, having beaten Portsmouth in the Intermediate Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033152-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1900\u201301. Although they were knocked out by Manchester City in the second round of the Lancashire Cup, the Heathens managed to reach the final of the Manchester Senior Cup for the first time since 1893 before being beaten by the same opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033153-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Northern Football League\nThe 1900\u201301 Northern Football League season was the twelfth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England. The league reverted to a single division after having two divisions for the previous three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033153-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 8 clubs which competed in the last season, along with three new clubs, promoted from last seasons's Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033154-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1900\u201301 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the sixth season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033154-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe Lancashire Senior Competition was won by Oldham and the Yorkshire Senior Competition by Bradford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033154-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nIn 1901 Bramley's James Lomas became rugby league's first \u00a3100 transfer, moving to Salford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033154-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Lancashire Senior Competition\nBarrow replaced Tyldesley. Although participating in the Lancashire Senior Competition, Runcorn and Stockport were from Cheshire, and Millom were from Cumberland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033154-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nThe 1901 Challenge Cup was the 5th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. The final was played between Batley and Warrington at Headingley Stadium in Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033155-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represented the Ohio State University in its third season of collegiate basketball. Their coach was Unknown. They finished with a 1-3 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033156-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1900\u201301 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the team's 16th season of play. The club won the 1901 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) championship, but did not challenge for the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033156-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season\nThe club went undefeated through the season, but because the Montreal Shamrocks lost a Stanley Cup challenge to the Winnipeg Victorias, Ottawa did not win the Cup as a result of league play. At first, Ottawa was intending to challenge Winnipeg for the Cup, but on February 27, 1901, announced that they would not do so that winter. According to Coleman(1966), Ottawa did not issue a challenge due to the \"lateness of the season.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033156-0001-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season\nThe Ottawa Journal as reported in The Globe suggested that the Ottawa club was wise in their decision, as they were in \"racked condition in which they are, as a result of the immensely hard exertions put forth by them in all their games this season\". The Ottawa Hockey Club did not challenge the following season, either.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033157-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033157-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWith the reopening of the West Park Ice Palace, the Quakers ice hockey team was able to return as well. The club rejoined the Intercollegiate Hockey Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033157-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but J. A. Standen served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033157-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter the season the West Park Ice Palace burned down, leaving the team without a home. Due to the expense of keeping up the team, and the large debt of the athletic department, the ice hockey program was mothballed for several years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033157-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Penn Quakers men's ice hockey season, Schedule and Results\nNote: Games with no score were scheduled but it's unclear whether or not they were played.\u2020 Brown records the score of the game as 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033158-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1900\u20131901 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033159-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033159-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nPrinceton played a large number of games for a team at the time, competing against fellow colleges as well as professional clubs and secondary schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033160-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team was the first season Purdue University fielded a basketball team. They played a multi-game schedule, and compiled an 11\u20130 record against Indiana colleges and high schools. The team averaged 30.7 points a game, while holding their opponents to 10 points a game. The team, citing their perfect record, claimed to be state champions. H. Wallace Reimann lead the team as captain and unofficially as coach. William C. Curd, Jr. acted as the team's business manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033161-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season is the 27th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033161-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 21 competitive matches during the 1900\u201301 season. The club finished top of the Scottish League Division One, having won 17 of their 20 league matches (including a 100% home record).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033161-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe second placed side, Celtic, who had finished a whole six points behind Rangers did knock Wilton's team out of the Scottish Cup after a 1-0 away defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033162-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1900\u201301 Rugby Union County Championship was the 13th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033162-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Rugby Union County Championship\nDevon won the competition for the second time defeating Durham in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033163-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Scottish Cup\nThe 1900\u201301 Scottish Cup was the 28th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Heart of Midlothian when they beat Celtic 4-3 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033164-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1900\u201301 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033164-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Scottish Districts season, History\nEdinburgh District beat Glasgow District in the Inter-City match. It was marked as a poor turnout; as the Edinburgh public had their fill of exciting rugby union matches recently. The poor weather didn't aid the turnout, and the North British Mail newspaper wondered how few the Inter-City turnout might have been, had not two trains full of Glasgow District fans made the journey east.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033164-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nCities: A. W. Duncan (Edinburgh University); A. N. Fell (Edinburgh University), Phipps Turnbull (Edinburgh Academicals), John Tulloch (Kelvinside Academicals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033164-0002-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nW. H. Welsh (Edinburgh University); L. Greig (Glasgow Academicals), J. I. Gillespie (Edinburgh Academieals)\u00a0; M. C. Morrison (R.H.S. ), J. M. Dykes (G.H.S. ), R. S. Stronach (Glasgow Academicals), A. Frew, A. B. Flett (Edinburgh University), J. A. Bell (Clydesdale), W. P. Scott (West of Scotland), W. P. Dods (Edinburgh Academicals)Provinces: W. Wilson (London Scottish); J. E. Crabbie (Oxford), H. A. Ross (London Scottish), J. Paterson (Hawick), G. O. Gould (Aberdeen Grammar School)\u00a0; J. Knox (Skipton), J. Middleton (London Scottish); D. R. Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge), J. Ross (London Scottish), W. Kyle (Hawick), J. G. Graham (Liverpool Old Boys), A. Mann (Stewart's College) F. C. Swanston, A. G. Cairns (Oxford), T. D. Murray (Panmure)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033165-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Scottish Division One\nThe 1900\u201301 Scottish Division One season was won by Rangers by six points over nearest rival Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033166-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1900\u201301 Scottish Division Two was won by St Bernard's with Motherwell finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033168-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1900\u201301 Sheffield Shield season was the ninth season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Victoria won the championship. In January 1901, in the match between New South Wales and South Australia, New South Wales scored 918 runs in their first innings, with five batsmen scoring centuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033169-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 Football League season was Small Heath Football Club's ninth in the Football League and their seventh in the Second Division. They finished runners-up in the 18-team league, so were promoted to the First Division for 1901\u201302. They also took part in the 1900\u201301 FA Cup, entering at the first round proper and losing in the third round to Aston Villa after a replay. In locally organised competition, they lost to West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup and to Aston Villa in the semi-final of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033169-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-three players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were thirteen different goalscorers. Full -back Arthur Archer and half-back Walter Wigmore were ever-present over the 39-match season; goalkeeper Nat Robinson and forward Sid Wharton each missed only one match. Johnny McMillan was leading scorer with 14 goals in all competitions; he and Bob McRoberts each scored 13 in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the 16th since the foundation of Southampton F.C. and their seventh in league football, as members of the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season\nThe club were unable to repeat their success in the FA Cup and were eliminated in the First Round, but compensated for this failure by claiming the Southern League title for the fourth time in five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Club finances\nThe run to the FA Cup Final in 1900 had generated a surplus of \u00a331 but the club were still \u00a31,000 in debt. In July 1900, the company made a call on its shares in an effort to raise cash. The response to the call was disappointing with many shareholders having their shares forfeited as a result of their failure to pay the balance due.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Club finances\nThe financial situation worsened in 1900\u201301, with the gates dwindling following the doubling of the entrance fees the previous year from sixpence to a shilling, and the club generated a loss of \u00a3740.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nAfter the disappointing end to the previous season and the embarrassing failure in the FA Cup Final, there was a \"drastic\" clear-out of players. Both the players at the centre of the dispute surrounding the team selection for the final, Roddy McLeod and Jack Farrell were released, as were defenders Meechan, Durber and Petrie. Another significant departure was Alfred McMinn who resigned as a director; McMinn had made a major contribution to the club's success, particularly with his ability to spot a good player, leading the \"Stoke Invasion\" in the summer of 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nThe new recruits included three players from Everton, full-backs George Molyneux and Bertram Sharp and centre-forward Wilf Toman as well as former Everton and England forward Edgar Chadwick, who would renew his partnership with Alf Milward which had been described as \"the best in the league\" during their time together at Everton. From local football, the club recruited two players who were to play a major role in the future of the club: Bert Lee would have two long periods with the club as a player before becoming a trainer from 1914 to 1935. Fred Harrison would remain at The Dell for seven years and become the club's main goalscorer, with 88 goals from 166 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nIn view of the club's financial difficulties, the board also decided to recruit top amateur players. The first to join the club was Leslie Gay, who had made three appearances as goalkeeper for England in 1893 and 1894, although Gay never played in a first-team match for Southampton. Another amateur goalkeeper, the South African Wilf Waller also joined the club on a part-time basis and played in the opening match of the season when Jack Robinson was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0006-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nIn December, C. B. Fry (described as \"arguably the greatest all-round sportsman of his generation\") did play for the club, making his debut at right-back in the Boxing Day match against Tottenham Hotspur. In January, the club made an offer to another Corinthian player, G. O. Smith, who had been the England captain and was widely considered as the world's best player of the 19th Century. The approach was unsuccessful, with Smith responding that he \"thought it impossible to assist our club in cup ties [but] wishing us every success.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe Saints started their attempt to regain the Southern League trophy with a 4\u20133 win at Luton Town followed by a defeat at West Ham United and a goalless draw at Portsmouth. Portsmouth were top of the table having won their opening three matches and the local newspaper claimed that, while Southampton were \"under a cloud\", \"the Portsmouth star is shining conspicuously in the footballing firmament\". A crowd of between 10,000 and 12,000 saw the clubs play a \"clinking ding-dong, robust game\" which Portsmouth looked most likely to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0008-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nAfter this stuttering start to the season, the Saints settled down with a run of 12 victories in the next 13 matches. The final three months of the season were more erratic with three defeats in the final two months of the season, but the Saints had done enough to hang on at the top of the table, to claim the Southern League title for the fourth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0009-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe second meeting with local rivals, Portsmouth, came on Easter Saturday, 6 April. With three matches left to play, Southampton led the table but Portsmouth had a game in hand and could still overhaul the Saints, although their away form was poor. With Portsmouth having several players out injured, Saints took the lead after ten minutes when Milward was fouled; Lee's \"beautifully placed\" free kick was \"piloted\" into the goal by Milward. Milward scored again late in the second half from Edgar Chadwick's pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0010-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThere was a marked difference between the results at The Dell and away. Of the 14 home matches, all resulted in wins other than the final home match of the season, a goalless draw with Reading. Away from home, the Saints won only five matches, with four draws and five defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0011-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe draw for the First Round of the FA Cup produced a repeat of the same stage from the previous season, a home match against Everton of the Football League First Division. The match was scheduled to be held on 26 January, but all football was postponed following the death of Queen Victoria on 22 January. The match was played a fortnight later on 9 February, by which time Harry Wood and Arthur Chadwick were both injured and unable to play. Chadwick's place was taken by Ted Killean making his debut for Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0012-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nSaints struggled to reproduce their league form, although Edgar Chadwick gave them a half-time lead. Everton overran the Saints in the second half, with goals from Jimmy Settle, Jack Taylor and Joe Turner, who had left Southampton in 1898 (but would return in 1901).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0013-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nFellow Southern League side, Tottenham Hotspur reached the Cup Final thus becoming the second Southern League side to do so, after Southampton in the previous year. Spurs were also the first London-based club to reach the final since 1880. Tottenham went one better than Southampton by defeating Sheffield United 3\u20131 in a replay at Bolton Wanderers Burnden Park ground; the attendance for the first match at Crystal Palace was officially 110,820, which was the largest FA Cup Final crowd to that date, and only exceeded by the 1913 and 1923 finals, whereas the attendance for the replay was only 20,470.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0014-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, International football at The Dell\nOn 9 March 1901, England played their Home Championship match against Ireland at The Dell. As Ireland had been beaten 11\u20130 by Scotland a fortnight earlier, the England selectors chose a mainly second-string team with five players making their full England debuts, including C. B. Fry (listed as a Corinthian player) and two other Southern League players, Millwall's Bert Banks and Billy Jones of Bristol City. The other debutantes were Liverpool's Jack Cox and George Hedley from Sheffield United \u2013 of the debutantes, only Cox would play another match for England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0014-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, International football at The Dell\nThe other Southampton players selected were Archie Turner, making his second (and final) international appearance, and Jack Robinson, who was now the established England goalkeeper. The line-up was completed by Tip Foster and William Oakley (both Corinthians), earning their 2nd and 14th caps respectively, Tommy Crawshaw (Sheffield Wednesday), earning his 8th cap, and Ernest Needham (Sheffield United), earning his 13th cap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0015-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, International football at The Dell\nThe match was played at The Dell in front of a modest crowd of 8,000 who had expected a \"landslide\" victory, especially as the Irish players had experienced bad weather on their ferry crossing. Although England scored after only nine minutes through Crawshaw, the expected landslide did not materialise and it was not until the final ten minutes that Foster added two further goals. Archie Turner left the pitch with an injury after 20 minutes and England played the remainder of the game with only ten men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0015-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, International football at The Dell\nC. B. Fry later said of the match: \"It was a very bad match. It was one of those games which, without any obvious reason, are aimless and vague and watery ... It was one of the least enjoyable games from a players' point of view that have ever fallen to my lot.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0016-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, International football at The Dell\nThis was the only full international played at The Dell. None of the Southampton players played for England again after this match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0017-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Tour of Europe\nIn April 1901, the Saints embarked on their first-ever tour of Europe visiting The Netherlands, Austria and Hungary. All seven matches were won, with a total of 50 goals scored and 3 conceded; the largest score was in the final match, against a Hungarian Combined XI, which was won 13\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033170-0018-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southampton F.C. season, Tour of Europe\nIn one of the matches in Vienna, goalkeeper Jack Robinson gave a goalkeeping exhibition in which he produced several diving saves. His saves from low shots, \"by flying through the air with great ease\", became known in Austria and Hungary as a \"Robinsonade\", a name which was used until the 1950s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033171-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southern Football League\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the seventh in the history of the Southern League. Southampton were Division One champions for the fourth time in five seasons, whilst Bristol City were the only Southern League team applied for election. Finally they were elected to the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033171-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 16 teams contest the division, including 13 sides from previous season and three new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033171-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of nine teams contest the division, including 8 sides from previous season and one new team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033171-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, test matches were held between the bottom two clubs in Division One and the top two clubs in Division Two. Both matches resulted in 0-0 draws, and both Division One teams retained their places in the top division. However, although Brentford were promoted, Grays United were not after refusing to play extra-time in their match against Watford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033171-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nOnly one Southern League club, Bristol City, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. They were successful after finishing in second place in the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033172-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1900-1901 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's sixth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 27th in their history. In their lowest ever finish in a rugby league competition, coming only a year after their most fruitful one, the club finished 13th in the Lancashire Senior Championship, having two points docked for breach of professional rules in the process. In the Challenge Cup, the club were knocked out in the third round by Batley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033173-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was Stoke's 12th season of in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033173-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Stoke F.C. season\nIt was a hard season for Stoke as they were almost relegated to the Second Division but survived after winning their final match of the season 4\u20132 away at Notts County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033173-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nBy now Stoke had lost the valuable services of Tom Robertson, Jack Kennedy and Joe Turner while dedicated full-back Jack Eccles made only two appearances and later became club trainer as the team slowly broke up. Only two points were collected from their first eight games and a disjointed Stoke side slipped to the bottom of the table. The situation improved slightly with the arrival of Welsh forward Mart Watkins from Oswestry Town but Stoke were involved in a relegation dog-fight until the final day of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033173-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nOn Good Friday (5 April 1901) Stoke went to Bury and were denied two blatant penalties and lost 3\u20132. This defeat left Stoke in 17th position, three points and one place above West Bromwich Albion who had three games in hand, while Preston and Wolves were just above them. Stoke's remaining two games were both away - to Wolves and Notts County. Preston ended their season with a home clash with West Brom who were struggling to find any form and looked doomed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033173-0003-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nRemarkably, Stoke upped their game and won both matches while Preston lost and went down with Albion leaving Stoke safe in 16th place. It had been a tense and difficult season and the club's finances were now in a very precarious state, both manager and chairman recognized this and the club would now look at the local leagues for players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033173-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nUnfortunately ace marksman William Maxwell bid farewell to Stoke at the end of the season joining Third Lanark for \u00a3250 after scoring 85 goals in 173 games for the \"Potters\" and he would be sorely missed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033173-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nThe 1900\u201301 season saw Stoke having to play in the Intermediate Round which was a consequence of their secretary failing to get their entry to the competition to the FA by the required time. Stoke beat Second Division Glossop 1\u20130. In the first round Stoke lost 2\u20131 in a replay to Small Heath after a 1\u20131 draw at the Victoria Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033174-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Swiss Serie A\nThe 1900\u201301 Swiss Serie A season was the 1900\u201301 season of the Swiss national football league championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033174-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Swiss Serie A, Overview\nThe 1900\u201301 Swiss Serie A was divided into two groups, an east and a west group. The east group had three teams from Z\u00fcrich, Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich, FC Z\u00fcrich, Fire Flies Z\u00fcrich and three teams from Basel, FC Basel, Old Boys and Fortuna Basel. There were four teams in the west group, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Servette Genf, FC Neuch\u00e2tel and FC Bern. From the east group the Grasshoppers qualified themselves for the finals against FC Bern who were the winners of the east group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033174-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Swiss Serie A, Overview\nThe final was played on 31 March 1901 in Aarau, but a player from the Grasshopper Club was not-qualified and the result was voided and replayed. The replay was on 14 April, again in Aarau, and the Grasshopper Club won 2-0 and became Swiss Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033175-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. It was their first season of varsity basketball. There was no coach; instead captain Bill Lowe headed the team's operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033176-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033177-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team was the first officially sanctioned basketball team at Vanderbilt University. The Commodores played 4 games against the local Nashville Y.M.C.A. team and the Nashville Athletic Club. Despite the older and more experienced competition, Vanderbilt finished 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033177-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, Season summary\nSince 1893, unofficial games had been played by Vanderbilt teams and intramural basketball games were popular on campus during winter. Finally, in Autumn 1900, a team was formed to accept a challenge from the Nashville Y.M.C.A. to play a 3-game series. As the Old Gym on Vanderbilt's campus was too small to host the spectacle, all three games were played at the Y.M.C.A. 's gym.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033177-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, Season summary\nWalter Simmons, Earnest Reese, Tom Motlow, Herbert Gannaway and E.L. Woolf were the starters in the first game on December 15, 1900. After trailing 16\u20134 at halftime, the Commodores outscored the Y 15\u20134 in the second half to pull within 20\u201319, before losing 22\u201319. Vanderbilt routed the Y in the second game in February, 1901 by a score of 24\u20139. They secured a win in the deciding game in March, 1901 on a late goal 14\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033177-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, Season summary\nThe Commodores played the final game of their inaugural season against the Nashville Athletic Club, whose players were older and bigger. After trailing 10\u20135 at halftime, Walter Simmons, a four-year starter on the football team, led the Commodores back, but NAC won 13\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033177-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, Head Coach & Captain\nW.D. Weatherford was head coach, and Earnest Reese was team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033178-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 WPHL season\nThe 1901 WPHL season was the fourth season of operation for the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. Four Pittsburgh-area teams competed in the season, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens. The hockey team of the Keystone Bicycle Club was admitted to the league. The team, which consisted of students from Western University (today known as the University of Pittsburgh) and Carnegie Tech, began play around 1895 as an independent team. The 1900-01 season also marked the final season that the Duquesne Country & Athletic Club's team played in the league, until the 1908-09 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033178-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 WPHL season\nThe Pittsburgh Athletic Club repeated as the league champion, to win their third and final league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033179-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1900\u201301 Welsh Amateur Cup was the eleventh season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Wrexham Victoria who defeated Singleton & Coles 1-0 in the final, at The Racecourse, Wrexham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season\nThe 1900\u201301 season was English football club West Ham United\u2019s inaugural season. The club had been founded in 1895 under the name of Thames Ironworks, before being wound up in June 1900 and resigning from the Southern League. On 5 July, West Ham United Football Club Company Limited was registered and the club took the Southern League place vacated by Thames Ironworks. They finished the season sixth in the Southern League Division One. The club also entered the FA Cup, reaching the intermediate round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nThe prospectus of the new limited liability company, to be known under the title of The West Ham United Football Club Company Limited is at hand. The primary object will be to encourage and promote the game of football in West Ham and district, and powers have also been taken by the company authorising them at any time to acquire land and other property. The company has been constituted on the ordinary lines, except that by the rules of the English Football Association no dividend beyond 5 per cent per annum can be paid. The affairs will be managed by a board of directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nShares in the club were sold to the public at 10 shillings each, with Arnold Hills promising to purchase one share for each one sold to the public. These could be purchased in four instalments of 2/6 d. Of the 4,000 shares available, 260 remained unsold in March 1901. At the first meeting of directors on 10 July 1900, Cornelius Osborn was appointed as chairman, with Lew Bowen as club secretary. Bowen was a clerk at the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company and had reported on the previous club for the Thames Ironworks Gazette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0002-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nOf the ten directors, half were appointed by Hills and half by the shareholders, including Aitken Brown, a local councillor. Also amongst the directors was former Old St Luke's player and local businessman George Fundell. All of the directors lived in Essex, most in the Canning Town and West Ham areas, and several had connections to the Ironworks or had business relationships with Hills. In spite of Hills' assistance the club struggled financially and were forced to secure a loan of \u00a3400 later in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nToday the West Ham United F.C. is in the hands of you locals. It is your club, and you, who are shareholders, have a voice in its management. Those who are not, I make a strenuous appeal for your support. It would be a standing disgrace to a district like West Ham, which is considered a hot-bed of football, if the club were allowed to go unsupported. I have the names of the players before me, and I see no reason why we should not figure highly up in the Southern League table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0003-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nIn closing, I would say, let there be unity of action. Let each supporter strive for the good of his club both on and off the field. Let each work for one end \u2013 that of making the club the best in England. Much depends on a good rousing cheer when things are going against your side. Be liberal with your praise and sparing with your criticism. Above all, be sportsmen and gentlemen. Success and failure hang in the balance. Everything depends upon you. Will you make the club a success? And as a sportsman I think \u2013 dropping the third person for a moment \u2013 the answer is 'We will'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nThe club continued to play at the Memorial Grounds, with hopes that the new train station at West Ham would enable greater access to the stadium. Ultimately, the station would not be opened until February 1901. Hills\u2019 promise to match the public shareholding, and his offer of free use of the Memorial Grounds, came with the proviso that the players would refrain from drinking alcohol. As such, the club continued to be known as the Teetotallers, in addition to the Irons and the Hammers, references to the club's shipbuilding heritage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0004-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nFines were imposed on players that did not adhere to the principle of abstinence. They would play in the Southern League First Division for the second season, after being promoted as Thames Ironworks prior to 1899\u20131900. A preview of the season in the Daily News described the league as \"now, without a doubt, second only in importance and the strength of its clubs to the Football League itself. With the exception of Woolwich Arsenal, who prefer to remain members of the Second Division of the Football League, all the best professional teams in the South are now enrolled in the ranks of the Southern League\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nMany of the playing staff continued with the new club. The likes of Bill Joyce, Kenny McKay and Albert Carnelly had departed, but Tommy Moore, Syd King, Charlie Craig, Charlie Dove, George Neil, Bob Allan, Roddy McEachrane, Fred Corbett, Frankie Taylor and Len Walker all played a part in the season. Players signed from other clubs before the start of the season included Hugh Monteith from Bristol City, Billy Grassam and Jimmy Reid from Burslem Port Vale, Luke Raisbeck from Middlesbrough, Fergus Hunt from Woolwich Arsenal, Fred Fenton from Gainsborough Trinity, and Albert Kaye from Chatham. Walter Tranter, who had played for the Ironworks before spending the previous season at Chatham, was also signed. Tom Robinson, the previous trainer, also remained, and Abe Norris was appointed. Of the former Ironworks players, only Tranter, Craig, Dove, and captain McEachrane, featured in the opening fixture against Gravesend United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 979]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nWest Ham's first match, on 1 September 1900, saw the club run out 7\u20130 winners against the Kent club, although the attendance was unexpectedly low at 2,000. Billy Grassam scored four of the goals, the first within five minutes, with Reid scoring a brace and Hunt the other. The match saw the introduction of new team colours, with a claret stripe running down the white shorts and black socks replacing the previous claret ones, although light blue shirts were still worn. The kit would be commemorated 117 years later as the basis for the club's third kit for the 2017\u201318 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nAfter a 3\u20131 away defeat to rival club Millwall Athletic, the club hosted Southampton, who had won the Southern League title in three of the previous four seasons and had reached the FA Cup Final in 1899\u20131900. 7,500 attended the match and witnessed the Irons win 2\u20130. There was some controversy, however, as the match had to be stopped for around 20 minutes after a pitch invasion and the club directorate came in for criticism due to the presence of only two police constables.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0008-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nFormer Thames Ironworks club secretary George Neil would play his only game for the new club on 13 October, replacing the injured Bob Allan against Watford. West Ham won 2\u20130, with goals from Corbett and Fenton, which saw the club placed third in the table after six games. On 3 November, West Ham played their first FA Cup game, a third qualifying round fixture against local amateur club Olympic at the Memorial Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0008-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nThe match was a one-sided affair, with the away team goalkeeper Meates performing well to keep the scoreline at 1\u20130, after Fenton had scored 10 minutes in with a ball that had appeared to be meant as a cross. After an injury to Charlie Dove, the club signed Willie Kelly from Hamilton Academical. His debut came against Bristol Rovers on 24 November. The Hammers also signed George Ratcliffe from Grimsby Town, then of the Football League Second Division. He scored on his debut against Reading on 1 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0009-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nThe largest home attendance came in an FA Cup fifth qualifying round fixture against local side Clapton on 8 December. A crowd of 10,000 attended the match, which ended 1\u20131. The Hammers went on to win the replay at the Old Spotted Dog Ground 3\u20132 after Billy Grassam scored a hat-trick. The Clapton \u2018keeper Harry Earle (whose son later played for West Ham) had been at fault for the second after running out and leaving his goal unguarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0009-0001", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nWest Ham progressed to the intermediate round of the competition, featuring teams that had overcome the qualifying rounds and those that had been given byes. On 5 January 1901, 6,000 attended the match at home to Liverpool \u2013 the first League opposition to play at the Memorial Grounds \u2013 which saw Sam Raybould\u2019s goal, contested as offside by the home team, give the visitors a 1\u20130 victory and progression in the competition. Then followed a loss to Bristol City and three victories, over Swindon Town, Watford and Luton Town, before the club\u2019s worst defeat of the season on 16 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0009-0002", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nThis came at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur, a 4\u20131 loss in which Tommy Moore, deputising in goal for Hugh Monteith who had lumbago, was at fault for three of the goals. This would prove to be his final appearance for the club and he left at the end of the season after three years of service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0010-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Overview\nThe club then embarked on an eight-match unbeaten run, which included victory over Millwall, and would take them through to the season\u2019s penultimate fixture, away to Reading. Grassam scored the last of his 12 league goals in the match, but three goals from the Royals in the second half ended the run. On 28 April, West Ham finished their first season with a 2\u20130 win over New Brompton. The match marked the final appearance of Charlie Dove \u2013 the only player to have remained at the club since its inception as Thames Ironworks six years previously \u2013 who left for Millwall. With that win, the Hammers ensured a sixth-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0011-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Personnel, Squad\na. Indicates the most common position played during this season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033180-0012-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 West Ham United F.C. season, Friendlies\nWest Ham played a number of friendlies over the course of the season, including a Christmas Day fixture against Woolwich Arsenal, local derbies against Millwall Athletic and Leytonstone, and a benefit match for Portsmouth goalkeeper Matt Reilly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033181-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Western Football League\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the ninth in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033181-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Western Football League\nPortsmouth were the new champions of Division One, and also competed in the Southern League during this season, along with all the other members of Division One. The new clubs from London dominated the season, although Bristol City were elected to the Football League, being the first Western League club to achieve this. The Division Two champions for the second season running were Bristol East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033181-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nSix new clubs joined Division One, which was increased to nine clubs from four after Bedminster merged with Bristol City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033181-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nThree new clubs joined Division Two, which was increased to eight clubs from five. It was the first season not to be fully completed, with several games remaining unplayed at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033182-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u20131901 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Dr. James C. Elsom, coaching his third season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033183-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1900\u201301 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1900\u201301 season. The team finished the season with a 10\u20136 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033184-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1900\u201301 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033184-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nYale finished second in Intercollegiate Hockey Association play but in the two-game series at the end of the year the Elis dominated Brown to claim their third consecutive championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033184-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, W.J. Hoysradt served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033185-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States\nThe 1900\u201301 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States began in December 1900, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033185-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Regular season, Conference winners\nNOTE: The Western Conference (the future Big Ten Conference) did not sponsor an official conference season or recognize a regular-season champion until the 1905\u201306 season. In 1900\u201301, Purdue (12\u20130) went undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 99], "content_span": [100, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033186-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in Belgian football\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the sixth competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033186-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official league existed at the time. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and was disputed between 9 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033186-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in Belgian football, Overview\nNo team was relegated this season since the FA decided to split the division into two leagues again. Two new teams were admitted at the end of the season: Antwerp F.C. and Union Saint-Gilloise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033187-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in English football\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the 30th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033187-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in English football, Events\nStockport County played their first season in the football league. Blackpool also returned to the league, at the expenses of Loughborough and Luton Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033187-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in English football, Events\nDespite a run of four victories at the start of the season, Aston Villa finished fourth from bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033187-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in English football, Events\nTottenham Hotspur became the first and only non-League club to date, to win the FA Cup - winning 3-1 in a replay against Sheffield United of the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033187-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033188-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in Scottish football\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by BHGbot (talk | contribs) at 22:36, 18 June 2020 (WP:BHGbot 6 (List 5): eponymous category first, per MOS:CATORDER; WP:GENFIXES). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033188-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in Scottish football\nThe 1900\u201301 season was the 28th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 11th season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033188-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nHeart of Midlothian were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 4\u20133 win over Division One runners-up Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033188-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u201301 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nBurnbank Athletic were winners of the Junior Cup after a 2\u20130 win over Maryhill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election\nLegislative elections to elect the members of the 10th Imperial Council were held in Cisleithania, the northern and western (\"Austrian\") crown lands of Austria-Hungary, from December 12, 1900 to January 18, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held according to the parameters set in 1896 Badeni electoral reform which classified voters according to their status and wealth into five curiae:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Electoral system\nThe votes for the Farming and Men over 24 curiae were also classified into 2 different categories, direct votes and electoral votes. Electoral votes carried a lot more weight than direct votes, and so the parties that won these seats generally did not get seats based on their total vote counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Electoral system\nOnly 6% of the adult population of Cisleithania had a right to vote. Voting took place in stages, with the last elections being held in 1st curiae in Lower Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results, By parliamentary grouping\nThe largest groups after the election were the Polish Club, the Young Czech Party and the German People's Party, which together had 164 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0005-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results, By parliamentary grouping\nThe elections did not significantly alter relations in the Imperial Council and maintained the highly fragmented political spectrum. The Young Czech Party saw some weakening due to the formation of independent political parties such as Czech Agrarian Party and the Czech National Social Party. Czech National Socials represented a new trend in voter preferences, strengthening the nationalist forces. Significantly, they succeed Pan-German Association. These elections led to the weakening of the social democratic parties, with the Social Democrats gaining only 10 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0006-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results, By parliamentary grouping\nCompared with previous elections, turnout fell. In the 5th curia, under 30% of eligible voters voted. Historian Otto Urban interprets this as a result of the declining influence of the Council in Austrian political life. At the same time it was a more general change of attitude towards the elected legislative bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0007-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results, By parliamentary grouping\nThe elections had no impact on the Government because the Cabinet of Ernest von Koerber had a mandate from its election in 1900 until 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033189-0008-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131901 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results, By parliamentary grouping\nIn early February 1901, the Imperial Council had 20 political groups:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033190-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131940 South Pacific cyclone seasons\nThe following is a list of all reported tropical cyclones within the South Pacific Ocean, to the east of 160\u00b0E, from 1900 to 1940.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033190-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131940 South Pacific cyclone seasons, Background\nAncient Polynesians and others who inhabited the tropical Pacific before the Europeans arrived, knew of and feared the hurricanes of the South Pacific. They were keen and accurate observers of nature and developed various myths and legends, which reflected their knowledge of these systems. For example, the people of Mangaia in the Cook Islands had over 30 different names for the wind direction including Maoaketa, which indicated that a cyclonic storm existed to the west of the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033190-0001-0001", "contents": "1900\u20131940 South Pacific cyclone seasons, Background\nDuring the 1700s, Captain James Cook conducted three voyages within the Pacific Ocean and it is thought that he didn't collect any information about or experience any tropical cyclones. Europeans that followed Cook soon realised that the South Pacific was not free of hurricanes and were the first to publish accounts about the systems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033190-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131940 South Pacific cyclone seasons, Background\nDuring 1853, Thomas Dobson became the first person to collate information about these systems, in order to attempt to understand and explain the characteristics of 24 tropical cyclones. However, these descriptions were considered to be vague and of little value, because he only had a small amount of data and no synoptic weather charts. Over the next 40 years various reports, journals and log books on the storms were published before E Knipping consolidated these reports and extended Dobson's list out to 120 tropical cyclones during 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033190-0002-0001", "contents": "1900\u20131940 South Pacific cyclone seasons, Background\nDuring the 1920s Stephen Sargent Visher did some research into tropical cyclones in the Pacific and visited several island nations; including Fiji, Japan and the Philippines to obtain information on potential systems. He also consulted various journals and reports as well as Dobson's and Knipping's work, before he authored a number of papers on tropical cyclones in the Pacific. These papers contained information about 259 tropical storms in the South Pacific between 160\u00b0E and 140\u00b0W, two of which occurred during 1789 and 1819, while the rest occurred between 1830 and 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033190-0002-0002", "contents": "1900\u20131940 South Pacific cyclone seasons, Background\nVisher also tried to estimate how many systems were occurring on an annual basis in each area, but overcompensated for his incomplete records and came up with a figure of 12 severe tropical cyclones per year. During Visher's time and until the start of World War II, there was insufficient information available to allow for an accurate deception of tropical cyclone tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033191-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131949 in LGBT rights\nThis is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the 20th century before 1949.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033192-0000-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131950 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons\nThe following is a list of South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclones between the year 1900 and 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033192-0001-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131950 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons, Storms, 1904 Comoros cyclone\nOn December\u00a014, a cyclone moved through the Comoros, causing damage to the island's vanilla and coffee plantations. Crop production declined by 9% as a result of the storm, causing food shortages after little rainfall in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 79], "content_span": [80, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033192-0002-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131950 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons, Storms, 1905 Comoros cyclone\nOn December\u00a016, 1905, another cyclone moved struck the island group just a year after previous cyclone, killing 30\u00a0people and injuring 150. Responding to the two cyclones, the French government provided Fr.360,000 to the island group toward rebuilding and assistance for residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 79], "content_span": [80, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033192-0003-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131950 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons, Storms, March 1927 cyclone\nConsidered the strongest to strike Madagascar for at least 67\u00a0years, a cyclone hit the eastern portion of the country on March\u00a03, potentially causing as many as 500\u00a0deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 77], "content_span": [78, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033192-0004-0000", "contents": "1900\u20131950 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons, Storms, Cyclone of 1948\nOn January\u00a022, a tropical disturbance formed northeast of Mauritius. Initially it moved to the southwest, but turned to the south on January\u00a026. The next day, the storm passed just west of R\u00e9union with winds estimated at around 300\u00a0km/h (187\u00a0mph), and later dissipated on January\u00a028. The storm killed about 100\u00a0people and injured hundreds. About 60% of the island's houses were damaged or destroyed, and about 70% of the crops were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 74], "content_span": [75, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033193-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\n1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1901st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 901st year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 1st year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 2nd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1901, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033193-0001-0000", "contents": "1901, Significance of 1901 for modern computers\nThe date of Friday December 13 20:45:52 1901 is significant for modern computers because it is the earliest date representable with a signed 32-bit integer on systems that reference time in seconds since the Unix epoch. This corresponds to -2147483648 seconds from Thursday January 1 00:00:00 1970. For the same reason, many computers are also unable to represent an earlier date. For related reasons, many computer systems suffer from the Year 2038 problem. This is when the positive number of seconds since 1970 exceeds 2147483647 (01111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 in binary) and wraps to -2147483648. Hence the computer system erroneously displays or operates on the time Friday December 13 20:45:52 1901. In this way, the year 1900 is to the Year 2000 problem as the year 1901 is to the Year 2038 problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 47], "content_span": [48, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel)\n1901 is an alternate history novel by Robert Conroy. It was the first novel by Conroy, a retired business and economic Michigan professor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel)\nIt was first published in hardcover by Lyford Books in June 1995; a Science Fiction Book Club edition followed in August of the same year and then a paperback edition from Presidio Press in 2004. The novel depicts a fictitious German invasion of the United States in 1901, shortly after William McKinley begins his second term as US President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel)\nThe plot is based on an actual diplomatic crisis that nearly brought the United States and the German Empire into war during the early 20th century. Conroy was inspired by the publication of the actual German invasion plans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nIn 1901, the United States is still basking in its victory in the Spanish\u2013American War only three years earlier. However, the US Army is small, and its only large forces occupying the newly-won possessions of the Philippines and Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nGerman Kaiser Wilhelm II, tries to purchase the US acquisitions to compete with the British Empire. After it is refused, Germany declares war on the US and begins to invade it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nThe Germans land troops on the southern shore of Long Island, New York. They soon take Brooklyn, and Manhattan quickly falls, which soon allows German forces to cross into Connecticut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nUS President William McKinley is overwhelmed, suffers a heart attack, and dies, which results in US Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becoming the new president. Roosevelt begins to retrieve the situation by recalling several generals and giving their command to former comrades from Cuba, including Generals Leonard Wood, John Pershing, and Frederick Funston. However, the first major battle against the Germans is lost, and the scattered US fleet is also unable to respond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nThe United Kingdom quietly furnishes the poorly-equipped Americans with modern firearms and ammunition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nThe Americans slowly recover from the initial shock. At sea, the USS Alabama encounters and sinks three German cruisers that are bombarding Jacksonville, Florida. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, an American brigade, led by Funston, ambushes a German patrol and inflicts heavy casualties. The victories lift American morale, but the war soon turns into a stalemate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nThe Germans create a defensive perimeter between the Hudson River and the Housatonic River and fortify Central New York State. General Nelson Miles attacks the German positions along the Housatonic, in the fashion of the American Civil War, but is defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nRoosevelt decides that the US must become a full-fledged military power if victory is to be achieved. He replaces Miles with the 80-year-old former Confederate General James Longstreet and calls General Arthur MacArthur, Jr., from the Philippines to take command of the US Army in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nMeanwhile, US Army Indian Scouts and other operatives disrupt German lines. At sea, the US Navy launches surprise attacks against German convoys in the English Channel and, closer to the American coast, sinks empty transports returning to Germany. The stalemate continues, but the attacks hurt German morale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nUS Navy torpedo boats and the submarine Holland then disable three enemy vessels, reduce the German fleet from sixteen to thirteen available battleships, and nearly cut the German supply line. The German high command sends a massive convoy across the Atlantic Ocean, with both reinforcements and supplies, in the hope of trapping the American fleet. The German plan fails, and the convoy is destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nThe German Army prepares for a massive ground offensive in the hope to break the American line and turn the American right flank. After a massive artillery barrage, the Germans drive the Americans back, tear a large gap through the American line, and force the US troops to fall back. Then, a force of four brigades appears, driving in the Germans' exposed flank and capturing the high command.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nNews of the naval and military defeats reaches Germany, and a revolt breaks out that overthrows Wilhelm II and places his son, Wilhelm III, on the throne, as a puppet ruler. The new German government sues for peace and ends the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033194-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 (novel), Plot\nWhile the Americans celebrate their victory over invaders, Germany's new ruling junta calls themselves the Third Reich, decides that the idea of a colonial empire was foolish, and instead plans to expand Germany's Lebensraum across Europe, with the Jews and Slavs seen as expendable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 18], "content_span": [19, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 (song)\n\"1901\" is a song by French indie pop band Phoenix. It was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009), on 23 February 2009. It peaked at number 73 in Canada and number 84 in the United States, making \"1901\" the band's first song to chart there. It also reached number one on the US Alternative Songs chart. The song has been covered by English singer Birdy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), Origin and description\nIt was released in February 2009 as the album's lead single, originally as a free download from the band's official website, but was issued as a retail single due to the song's popularity. A black-and-white music video for the song was released in May. In July, the song entered the U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs chart, where it later reached number one, becoming only the fourth independent label single to achieve the feat. The single was re-issued in the UK in February 2010. According to lead singer Thomas Mars, the song is about Belle \u00c9poque Paris. Mars said, \"Paris in 1901 was better than it is now. So the song is a fantasy about Paris.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), Origin and description\nPhoenix performed \"1901\" on television programs such as The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Late Show with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, and MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 35], "content_span": [36, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), Critical reception\nThe song has received very positive reviews from music critics, with Pitchfork Media's Jason Crock saying it is \"just as smooth and spirited and dementedly catchy as any of their best singles.\" The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll ranked \"1901\" at number two to find the best music of 2009, after Jay-Z's \"Empire State of Mind\". In October 2009, \"1901\" ranked number 228 in Pitchfork's list of \"The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s,\" the fifth-highest placement on the list amongst 2009 songs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0003-0001", "contents": "1901 (song), Critical reception\nThe NME's Gavin Haynes praised the song's \"rave-like stop-go guitars,\" while Evan Sawdey of PopMatters said it might be Phoenix's \"finest song to date.\" Philadelphia Inquirer music critic Dan DeLuca described the song as \"joyously exultant riff-happy pop.\" The song was ranked number two on Spin magazine's list of the \"20 Best Summer Songs of 2009.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), In popular culture\nThe song is featured in episodes of Friday Night Dinner, Gossip Girl, Melrose Place, The Vampire Diaries and Hellcats, the trailer for the film New York, I Love You, television advertisements for PlayStation and the 2010 Cadillac SRX, and appears on the soundtrack to the NHL 2K10 video game. An edited version is also used as the theme tune for BBC Radio 5 Live's 6-0-6 football phone-in show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), In popular culture\nSamples from the song were also used for the track \"Triple Double\" from Girl Talk's fifth studio album, All Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), In popular culture\nThe song was released for the Rock Band series on January 19, 2010 along with \"Lisztomania\". It was released as part of a Phoenix Track Pack for Guitar Hero 5 on April 8, 2010. It appears on the Test Drive Unlimited 2 soundtrack. The song is also featured as the default music for the \"Modern\" template in the iOS version of iMovie. The song is also featured on the NHL 2K10 and NBA 2K13 soundtrack. The song appears on the soundtrack of Forza Horizon, playing on the Horizon Pulse in-game radio station, and in the free-to-play MMOTPS sandbox game APB: Reloaded (All Points Bulletin: Reloaded). In 2014, the song was featured in Boyhood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 31], "content_span": [32, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), Chart performance\nFor the week ending December 19, 2009, \"1901\" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 90. It peaked at number 84 for the week ending January 23, 2010. The single also reached number 73 on the Canadian Hot 100. The single would also top the Alternative chart for two weeks, and become the second longest running song on the chart at the time at 57 weeks, trailing only \"Savior\" by Rise Against, which was also in the latter part of its record breaking 65-week run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 30], "content_span": [31, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), Birdy version\nEnglish singer Birdy released a cover version of the song on March 9, 2012 as a digital download in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 26], "content_span": [27, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033195-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 (song), Birdy version, Music video\nThe music video for \"1901\" was uploaded to YouTube on October 25, 2009. Featured artists include Helen George and Ian Roe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 39], "content_span": [40, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033196-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033196-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). At this time, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033196-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1901. It was preceded by the 1900 election and followed by the 1902 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1898 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033196-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nLabour candidates fought this election but, following the declaration of the result and the defeat of these candidates, Charles Stanton delivered a fiery speech condemning the working classes for their reluctance to support labour candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033197-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Add-Ran Christian football team\nThe 1901 Add-Ran Christian football team was an American football team that represented Add-Ran Christian University (renamed Texas Christian University (TCU) the following year) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team played its home games in Waco, Texas, and compiled a 1\u20132\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033198-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1901 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach M. S. Harvey, in his first season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa and one game each at Highland Park in Montgomery and at West End Park in Birmingham, Alabama. In what was the ninth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of two wins, one loss and two ties (2\u20131\u20132, 2\u20131\u20132 SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033198-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Mississippi\nAlabama opened the 1901 season with a 41\u20130 victory over the University of Mississippi in Tuscaloosa. Alabama scored touchdowns in the first half on a short A. M. Donahoo run, a 60-yard W. A. Weaver run, a short Frank Houston Powe run, a short A. W. Stewart run and on a 90-yard Donahoo kickoff return. In the second half, Alabama scored touchdowns on a 33-yard Weaver and a 20-yard Powe runs for the 41\u20130 win. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi to 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033198-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nIn the second all-time meeting against the University of Georgia, the game ended in a scoreless tie at Montgomery's Highland Park. In a game dominated by punts, the only score of the game was made by Earl Drennen only to be called back on a subsequent penalty. The tie brought Alabama's all-time record against Georgia to 0\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033198-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAgainst the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now known as Auburn University) Alabama was upset 17\u20130 at Tuscaloosa, in a game not officially scheduled until November 11, only four days prior to the contest. Auburn took an 11\u20130 lead in the first half on a pair of Matt Sloan touchdown runs. Auburn then scored their final points of the game on a W. H. Guinn touchdown run in the second half for the 17\u20130 victory. This was the second meeting in Tuscaloosa between Alabama and Auburn, and the next Iron Bowl in Tuscaloosa was not played until the 2000 season, 99 years later. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 1\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033198-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Mississippi A&M\nThe day after their loss against Auburn, Alabama defeated the Aggies of Mississippi A&M (now known as Mississippi State University) 45\u20130 on The Quad. Alabama scored touchdowns in the first half on runs of 35-yards by A. W. Stewart, 15-yards by James Forman, 65-yards by W. A. Weaver and 60-yards from Daniels. In the second half, touchdowns were scored on runs of 30-yards from Daniels, a short Weaver run and a short and 33-yard Weaver run. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi A&M (Mississippi State) to 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033198-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nIn what was the first game against the rival University of Tennessee, it ended early in a 6\u20136 tie, when fans rushed onto the field after a controversial offside call and the umpires were unable to clear out the crowd in the second half. In the game, J. L. Broug scored for Tennessee and A. W. Stewart scored for Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033199-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Albion football team\nThe 1901 Albion football team, sometimes known as the Albion Methodists, was an American football team that represented Albion College in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20134\u20131 record. One year earlier, the 1900 Albion team was the MIAA champion with a 6\u20131\u20132 record and six shutouts to its credit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033199-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Albion football team\nAlbion played five of its games in 1901 against opponents that later became NCAA Division I FBS football programs, compiling a 2\u20132\u20131 record in those games. Albion opened its season with a loss to national champion Michigan, a team that outscored its 1901 opponents by a total of 550 to 0. Albion also played two games against Michigan Agricultural (later renamed Michigan State University), resulting in a loss and a tie. The team also swept a two-game series with Michigan State Normal (later renamed Eastern Michigan University), defeating the Normal School by scores of 29\u20130 and 39\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033199-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Albion football team\nAlbion was led in 1901 by third-year head coach Chester Brewer who went on to be the head coach at Michigan State for 10 years and the athletic director at the University of Missouri for 13 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033199-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Albion football team\nTackle P. B. Exelby was the team captain. Joe Maddock played principally at right halfback and was the star of the 1901 Albion team. He was so effective against Michigan that coach Fielding H. Yost enticed him to transfer there. He became a star for Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams in 1902 and 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033200-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1901 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at the Scottish Drill Hall, the headquarters of the London Scottish Rifles at Buckingham Gate, Westminster, London, England from 10-11 April 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033200-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 All England Badminton Championships\nThe men's and women's singles was first to 11 points (for a game) except the final which was first to 15 points. The holder Sydney Smith was defeated in his first match against the eventual winner H. W. Davies. The 1900 runner-up D. W. Oakes missed the event because he serving with his military regiment in India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033201-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 15th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033201-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe four provincial championships are played as usual. The four champions play in the \"Home\" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033202-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the fourteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033202-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nDublin won the final easily, and were received by the Lord Mayor in the Mansion House after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033202-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was the first of five All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1900s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033203-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1901 was the 15th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. London won the championship, beating Cork 1\u20135 to 0\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033203-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Rule change\nFor the first time ever a hurling championship took place in all of the four historic provinces of Ireland - Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. For the purposes of the all GAA competitions, Britain was designated as a fifth Irish province. As a consequence, the winners of the championship in Britain would meet the winners of the championship in Ireland to decide the All-Ireland title holders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033203-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the home final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033203-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nHome final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033203-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the home final and London, who receive a bye to this stage of the championship, contest this game. The winners are declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033204-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 14th All-Ireland final and the culmination of the 1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 2 August 1903 between London, represented by a selection of clubs, and Cork, represented by Redmond's. The Munster champions lost to their London opponents on a score line of 1-5 to 0-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033205-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 All-Western college football team\nThe 1901 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1901 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033206-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 America's Cup\nThe 1901 America's Cup was the 11th challenge for the Cup. It took place in the New York City harbor and consisted of a best of five series of races between the defender Columbia, entered by the New York Yacht Club for the second time, and Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II, representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. Columbia won all three races, the last being won with handicap, defending the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033207-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Andover by-election\nThe 1901 Andover by-election was held on 26 August 1901 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP Bramston Beach. The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate Edmund Faber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033208-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1901 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the tenth season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 19 and ended on August 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033208-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe season saw English High School changing its name to \"Alumni Athletic Club\", due to a regulation from the Association stating that football teams were not allowed to name the same as the Schools they belonged to. The new denomination was inspired by the Alumni Associations of the United States, formed by ex-students who wanted to keep the ties of friendship with their old schoolmates. Under its new name Alumni retained the Argentine championship by winning all six of its games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033208-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship continued with the 4 team league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033209-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Arizona football team\nThe 1901 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach William W. Skinner, the team compiled a 4\u20131 record and outscored their opponents, 115 to 19. All five games were played against the Tucson and Phoenix Indian Schools. The team captain was Leslie Gillett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033210-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1901 Arkansas Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arkansas as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Thomas, the team compiled a 3\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 98 to 52.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033211-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1901 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1901 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Leon Kromer, the Cadets compiled a 5\u20131\u20132 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 98 to 22. The team's only loss was by a 6 to 0 score against an undefeated Harvard team that has been recognized as a co-national champion for the 1901 season. The Cadets also tied with Yale (5\u20135) and Princeton (6\u20136). In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen by an 11 to 5 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033211-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Army Cadets football team\nTwo members of the 1901 Army team have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: quarterback Charles Dudley Daly and tackle Paul Bunker. Both are also recognized by the NCAA as consensus first-team players on the 1901 College Football All-America Team. Daly received first-team honors from Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney, the New York Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Bunker received first-team honors from Camp and the New York Post and second-team honors from Whitney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033211-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Army Cadets football team\nPresident Theodore Roosevelt attended the Army\u2013Navy Game in Philadelphia on December 1. A newspaper account noted: \"For the first time in the history of foot-ball a President of the United States added dignity to a noted contest by his presence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1901 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active season without a major hurricane \u2013 tropical cyclones that reach at least Category\u00a03 on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale \u2013 until 2013. The first system was initially observed in the northeastern Caribbean on June\u00a011. The fourteenth and final system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone near Bermuda on November\u00a05. These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic. Eight of the fourteen tropical cyclones existed simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season\nOf the season's fourteen tropical cyclones, thirteen became a tropical storm, and six of those strengthened into a hurricane. With no major hurricanes occurring in the following year, 1901 and 1902 were the first time that two consecutive seasons lacked a major hurricane since 1864 and 1865. The fourth and eighth systems were the deadliest and most damaging storms of season. The fourth storm, known as the Louisiana hurricane, which left about $1\u00a0million (1901\u00a0USD) in damage and 10-15\u00a0fatalities in Louisiana. In September, the eighth cyclone impacted some islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, including Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Cuba. There were five fatalities during boating accidents in Virginia. At the French overseas territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, three people drowned after a schooner capsized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 856]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project also indicated but could not confirm the presence of an additional tropical storm in October\u00a01901, instead listing the cyclone as a tropical depression. However, the reanalysis added a previously undetected hurricane in late August to the Atlantic hurricane database\u00a0(HURDAT). The seventh tropical cyclone that year was the strongest by maximum sustained winds, peaking at 105\u00a0mph (170\u00a0km/h), equivalent to a Category\u00a02 hurricane. However, the fourth hurricane had a lower barometric pressure and was thus the most intense storm of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nTropical cyclogenesis began with the development of the first tropical storm on June\u00a011 in the northwestern Caribbean. July featured two tropical storms, one of which strengthened into a hurricane. By July\u00a05, the season had three tropical storms. In comparison, the average date of development of the first tropical storm between 1944 and 1996 was July\u00a011. August was the most active month of the season. There were four tropical storms, three of which intensified into hurricanes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0003-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe fourth system was the most intense tropical cyclone of the season, peaking as a Category\u00a01 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h) with a minimum barometric pressure of 973\u00a0mbar (28.7\u00a0inHg). Although the seventh cyclone was a Category\u00a02 hurricane with winds of 105\u00a0mph (170\u00a0km/h), a lower minimum barometric pressure was not recorded. In September, three additional system formed, one of which became a hurricane. October featured the same amount of activity, but also had a short-lived tropical depression. The season's final system developed on October\u00a030 and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on November\u00a05.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nWith a total of 13\u00a0tropical storms, this was the most active season without a major hurricane until 2013, which had 14\u00a0named storms and no systems reaching at least Category\u00a03. The seventh storm was considered a major hurricane until reanalysis by Jose Fernandez-Partagas and Henry Diaz in 1997, who revised the intensity to a Category\u00a02 hurricane because observations did not support Category\u00a03. In 2008, an additional hurricane was added to HURDAT, which existed in late August over the far eastern Atlantic Ocean. A tropical depression in early October may have become a tropical storm, but data was inconclusive. Nearly all of the season's 14\u00a0tropical cyclones impacted land. Collectively, the storms caused over $1\u00a0million in damage and at least 35-40\u00a0fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 99. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nThe first tropical depression of the season developed over the Caribbean just west of the Cayman Islands on June\u00a011. Moving northeastward, it strengthened into a tropical storm shortly before landfall in western Cuba early the next day. Locations such as Havana recorded rainfall, but no unusually strong winds. Thereafter, the storm moved generally northward across the eastern Gulf of Mexico and likely maintained the same intensity as a 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) tropical storm. On the east coast of Florida, a wind speed of 36\u00a0mph (58\u00a0km/h) was observed in Jupiter. At 21:00\u00a0UTC on June\u00a013, the cyclone made landfall near Carrabelle, Florida. Charleston, South Carolina, far from the center, observed winds of 43\u00a0mph (69\u00a0km/h). Although the system weakened to a depression by early on June\u00a014, it persisted until dissipating over Illinois late on June\u00a015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two\nThe second storm of the season was first observed on July\u00a01 about 225\u00a0miles (360\u00a0km) north of the modern day French Guiana\u2013Suriname border. The cyclone intensified slowly and moved northwestward, reaching the Windward Islands early on July\u00a03. Around that time, the cyclone passed between Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with little impact. By July\u00a05, the system peaked as a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h), while beginning to curve west-northwestward over the eastern Caribbean Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0007-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two\nIn Dominican Republic, flooding occurred in the region between Cotu\u00ed, Santo Domingo, and Vega Real, with rivers overflowing their banks. Additionally, high winds knocked out telegraphic communication with the city of Santo Domingo. Strong winds and \"severe rain\" were reported in Haiti, where several vessels along the coast were wrecked. Fourteen deaths occurred, with nine in Les Cayes and five in Jacmel. Later on July\u00a05, the storm passed to the southwest of the Tiburon Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two\nThereafter, the storm paralleled the south coast of Cuba, until making landfall in Pinar del R\u00edo Province late on July\u00a07. Abnormally high tides and strong winds caused flooding in a majority of homes along the south coast of the province. Early on July\u00a08, the system emerged into the Gulf of Mexico. The Weather Bureau office in Galveston, Texas, began warning residents of the approaching cyclone on July\u00a09. The system weakened while approaching the coast, and around 10:00\u00a0UTC on the following day, it made landfall near Matagorda with winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h). Some locations reported tropical storm force winds. Tides caused water to reach waterfront streets in Galveston. The storm quickly weakened and dissipated late on July\u00a010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nHurricane San Cirilo of 1901 A tropical depression developed about 250\u00a0mi (400\u00a0km) north of Paramaribo, Suriname, early on July\u00a04. The cyclone moved northwestward and intensified into a tropical storm about 24\u00a0hours later. Late on July\u00a05, the storm either brushed or struck Martinique. The system soon entered the Caribbean Sea and continued to strengthen. It brushed near the southwestern tip of Puerto Rico early on July\u00a07.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0009-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nSeveral hours the storm made landfall north of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with winds of 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h) and then briefly emerged into the Atlantic before striking the Saman\u00e1 Peninsula. By 18:00\u00a0UTC on July\u00a07, the system reemerged into the Atlantic. Early the following day, the cyclone brushed East Caicos as a strong tropical storm. It curved northeastward late on July\u00a09 and resumed intensification, likely due to the warm sea surface temperatures over the Gulf Stream.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nEarly on July\u00a010, the storm became a hurricane, shortly before peaking with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 983\u00a0mbar (29.0\u00a0inHg), both of which were observed by ships. The hurricane recurved to the west early on July\u00a011 and made landfall between Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head in North Carolina at the same intensity. Quickly weakening to a tropical storm after a few hours, the cyclone southwestward and reemerged into the Atlantic early on July\u00a012. Turning to the west-northwest, it made landfall near modern-day Kure Beach at 22:00\u00a0UTC with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h). Late on July\u00a013, the storm weakened to a tropical depression and dissipated over South Carolina shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\n\"Considerable damage\" was reported in Saint Kitts. The storm is known as San Cirilo in Puerto Rico, where heavy rainfall occurred, particularly in the southwestern portion of the island, with 17.22\u00a0in (437\u00a0mm) observed at Hacienda La Perla. Flooding was reported along the R\u00edo Grande de Lo\u00edza and Caugus rivers. The Weather Bureau office in San Juan observed a wind speed of 52\u00a0mph (84\u00a0km/h). In Virginia, winds averaged 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) at Cape Henry late on July\u00a010 through early on July\u00a011, downing power lines in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0011-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nA woman in Richmond was killed after being hit by a tree that was struck by lightning. A number of trees were level and lost their fruit due to heavy rainfall and strong winds in Berryville. A barn was destroyed after being struck by lightning and set ablaze. At Chesapeake Bay, artillery practice was interrupted after strong winds destroyed the floating targets. In North Carolina, winds reached 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h) at Hatteras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nA tropical depression developed about 615\u00a0mi (990\u00a0km) southwest of Flores Island in the Azores on August\u00a02. Moving southwestward and later westward, the depression remained weak for several days, until strengthening into a tropical storm while approaching the Bahamas early on August\u00a09. It then crossed through the islands and intensified only slightly. Late on August\u00a010, the storm made landfall near Deerfield Beach, Florida. After reaching the Gulf of Mexico the next day, the storm continued to intensify and reached hurricane status on August\u00a012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0012-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nEarly on August\u00a013, the hurricane peaked with winds of 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h). After weakening slightly, the cyclone struck Louisiana late on August\u00a014 and then Mississippi less than 24\u00a0hours later. The system weakened to a tropical storm early on August\u00a016 and became extratropical several hours later. Thereafter, the remnants persisted until dissipating over Indiana late on August\u00a018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nAlong portions of the east coast of Florida, \"considerable damage\" was reported due to strong winds. In Alabama, trees were uprooted, houses were de-roofed, and chimneys collapsed in Mobile. Some areas of the city were also inundated with up to 18 inches (460\u00a0mm) of water due to storm tide. Several yachts, schooners, and ships were wrecked or sunk, resulting in at least $70,000 in damage. However, due to warnings by the Weather Bureau, the Mobile Chamber of Commerce estimated that several millions of dollars in damage was evaded. All towns along the coast of Mississippi \"suffered seriously\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0013-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nIn Louisiana, severe damage was reported at some towns due to strong winds and high tides. The community of Port Eads reported that only the lighthouse was not destroyed, while other sources state that an office building also remained standing. In New Orleans, overflowing levees inundated numerous streets. Outside the city, crops suffered severely, particularly rice. Overall, the storm caused 10\u201315\u00a0deaths and $1\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nA tropical depression developed about 415\u00a0mi (670\u00a0km) south-southwest of Paramaribo, Suriname, on August\u00a018. The system moved just north of due west throughout its duration and deepened into a tropical storm about 24\u00a0hours later. On August\u00a020, the cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h). Late on August\u00a020, the storm passed through the Windward Islands just north of Grenada. According to Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands Robert Baxter Llewelyn, no damage occurred on Grenada. At Barbados, three lighters and a schooner, the Myosettis, were wrecked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0014-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nThe jetties and vessels at them were destroyed on Saint Vincent. After reaching the Caribbean, the cyclone began weakening, probably due to colder sea surface temperatures and the storm's proximity to South America. On August\u00a021, the cyclone weakened to a tropical depression. Continuing westward, it dissipated at 18:00\u00a0UTC on the following day while situated about 65\u00a0mi (105\u00a0km) west-northwest of Aruba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six\nA tropical storm was first observed just east of Boa Vista in the Cape Verde Islands on August\u00a025. The storm moved west-northwest and struck the island with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) a few hours later. After reaching the open Atlantic, the system intensified and reached hurricane status early on August\u00a027. Later that day, it peaked with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h), an observation from the Norwegian barque Professor Johnson. The hurricane began weakening early on August\u00a028 and fell to tropical storm intensity shortly thereafter. By late on August\u00a030, the storm was analysed to have dissipated about 1,145\u00a0mi (1,845\u00a0km) northwest of Santo Ant\u00e3o in the Cape Verde Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0016-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven\nHistorical weather maps indicate that a tropical depression developed about 115\u00a0mi (185\u00a0km) southeast of Praia, Cape Verde, early on August\u00a029. Six hours later, the depression intensified into a tropical storm. While passing south of Cape Verde on August\u00a029, the storm brought rough seas to the islands, sinking two vessels. Strong winds and torrential rainfall damaged coffee and sugar cane crops and houses. Livestock and people were killed. Thereafter, the storm slowly strengthened while continuing westward into the open Atlantic for a few days, until a slight curve to the west-northwest by August\u00a031. The system intensified into a Category\u00a01 hurricane around 12:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a01.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0017-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven\nContinuing to deepen, the cyclone became a Category\u00a02 hurricane on September\u00a03. By the following day, it turned northward and peaked with maximum sustained winds of 105\u00a0mph (170\u00a0km/h). The hurricane would maintain this intensity for a few days, until curving northeastward on September\u00a06, at which time it began to slowly weaken. By September\u00a08, the storm turned to the east and fell to Category\u00a01 status. Around this time, a barometric pressure of 991\u00a0mbar (29.3\u00a0inHg) was observed, the lowest recorded in relation to the cyclone. The hurricane soon recurved back to the northeast and accelerated. Late on September\u00a010, the system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while located about 430\u00a0mi (690\u00a0km) north-northeast of Corvo Island in the Azores. The remnants moved quickly northeastward and dissipated southwest of Ireland on September\u00a011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 908]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0018-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nHurricane San Vicente of 1901 A tropical storm was first observed about 700\u00a0mi (1,100\u00a0km) east of Guadeloupe early on September\u00a09. The system tracked generally westward and deepened slowly. On September\u00a011, the grazed several islands of the northern Lesser Antilles, including Barbuda, Saint Barth\u00e9lemy, and Saba. Early the following day, the cyclone struck Puerto Rico with winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h), several hours before making made landfall in Dominican Republic near Punta Cana at the same intensity. The storm weakened while crossing Hispaniola, before emerging into the Caribbean Sea early on September\u00a013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0018-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nWhile passing to the south of Cuba, the system intensified, becoming a hurricane on September\u00a014 near Cayman Brac. Early the following day, the storm peaked with sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1,001\u00a0mbar (29.6\u00a0inHg), the latter was measured by a ship while the former was estimated during reanalysis. The hurricane soon curved west-northwestward and later passed near Cape San Antonio, Cuba, on September\u00a015. Upon entering the Gulf of Mexico, the cyclone weakened to a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0018-0002", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nBy September\u00a017, it turned north-northeastward and made landfall in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, at 20:00\u00a0UTC with winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). The system then moved rapidly northeastward and became extratropical about 75\u00a0mi (120\u00a0km) east of Hatteras Island in North Carolina late on September\u00a018. The remnants dissipated offshore New England about 24\u00a0hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0019-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nIn Puerto Rico, the storm was known as San Vicente. Rainfall peaked at 10.43\u00a0in (265\u00a0mm) in San Salvador, while winds in San Juan reached 52\u00a0mph (84\u00a0km/h). Minor damage occurred to citrus and coffee crops, while bananas suffered severe losses. A telegraph report from Haiti indicated heavy rainstorms and strong winds in the vicinity of Cap-Ha\u00eftien. In Cuba, several ships were beached along the bay at Santiago de Cuba. A few streets in Bataban\u00f3 were inundated with at least 3\u00a0ft (0.91\u00a0m) of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0019-0001", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nThe system caused a significant amount of rain across Georgia and the Carolinas, with the maximum amount reported 11.4\u00a0in (290\u00a0mm) at Americus, Georgia. Offshore Virginia, rough seas resulted in the wrecking or sinking of several vessels. The schooner Idle Times collided with a Pennsylvania Railroad barge, killing the schooner's captain. Four sailors drowned offshore Ocean View. At Newport News, 3.32\u00a0in (84\u00a0mm) of rain fell in a period of 24\u00a0hours, which became the highest daily precipitation total for the month of September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0019-0002", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nSignificant damage occurred in the Maryland city of Braddock, with few homes, barns, or farm buildings not sustaining any impact. In Poplar Terrace, a water tank was swept away from a house. The hospital in Montevue was partially deroofed. Twelve barns were overturned in Liberty and corn crops were ruined. At Saint Pierre, the schooner J. W. Roberts was beached, drowning three people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0020-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nine\nShips reports and historical weather maps indicated that the storm was first observed early on September\u00a012, while located about 345\u00a0mi (555\u00a0km) southwest of Brava in the Cape Verde Islands. The system strengthened slowly while moving north-northwestward and later north-northeastward across the eastern Atlantic. Early on September\u00a014, the cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). Thereafter, it curved northwestward and began to deteriorate very slowly, weakening to a tropical depression late on September\u00a017. Soon after, the system dissipated about 505\u00a0mi (815\u00a0km) northwest of Santo Ant\u00e3o.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0021-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ten\nEarly on September\u00a021, the tenth tropical storm of the season was first observed about 125\u00a0mi (200\u00a0km) northwest of the Guajira Peninsula, according to data from ships and historical weather maps. Initially the storm moved west-northwestward, before curving to the north-northwest over the northwestern Caribbean Sea early on September\u00a025. Later that day, the cyclone began to intensify, after possibly maintaining the same intensity since September\u00a021. The storm peaked with maximum sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h), several hours before making landfall in western Pinar del R\u00edo Province in Cuba around 18:00\u00a0UTC. Some areas of Cuba experienced heavy rainfall, particularly Bataban\u00f3, where several streets were inundated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0022-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ten\nLate on September\u00a025, the storm emerged into the Gulf of Mexico. The system soon curved north-northeastward and began to accelerate and slowly weaken. At 03:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a028, it made landfall in modern-day Lanark Village, Florida, just east of Carrabelle, with winds of 45\u00a0mph (70\u00a0km/h). The cyclone rapidly lost tropical characteristics and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over Georgia around 12:00\u00a0UTC. However, the remnants lasted until October\u00a02, after crossing the Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada, and then dissipating southeast of Greenland. The storm brought fairly strong winds to Florida and the southern portions of the East Coast of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0023-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical depression\nBased on historical weather maps, a tropical depression formed offshore Guinea on October\u00a04. The depression moved west-northwestward and may have intensified into a tropical storm, but data was sparse and inconclusive. It likely dissipated by the following day, as weather maps do not indicate a closed low-pressure area thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0024-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eleven\nThis storm was first observed by ships about 500\u00a0mi (800\u00a0km) north-northeast of Paramaribo early on October\u00a05. Initially drifting northwestward, the storm gradually accelerated while deepening slowly. The cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h) on October\u00a07, based on ship observations. By the following day, the storm began to weaken and slowly lose tropical characteristics. The system curved northward on October\u00a010 and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone later that day, while situated about 255\u00a0mi (410\u00a0km) west-southwest of Bermuda. The remnants persisted for a few days while moving northeast, until dissipating well northwest of the Azores on October\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0025-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Twelve\nA tropical depression formed about 50\u00a0mi (80\u00a0km) south of Trinidad, Cuba, on October\u00a015. The depression moved northeastward without strengthening and struck Sancti Sp\u00edritus Province shortly thereafter. A few cities observed rainfall. Upon reaching the southwestern Atlantic Ocean late on October\u00a015, the depression intensified into a tropical storm. Further deepening occurred as the storm moved northeastward into the Bahamas, where it made landfall on or brushed Long Island, Rum Cay, and San Salvador Island on October\u00a016. That day around 12:00\u00a0UTC, the cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). Thereafter, the system began weakening and losing tropical characteristics, transitioning into an extratropical cyclone early on October\u00a018 while located about 330\u00a0mi (530\u00a0km) south-southwest of Bermuda. Several hours later, the remnants dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0026-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Thirteen\nThe final storm of the season developed as a tropical depression about 55\u00a0mi (90\u00a0km) north-northwest of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on October\u00a030. Moving north-northeastward, the depression became a tropical storm by early on October\u00a031. Later that day, the storm curved to the northeast. During the next few days, further intensification occurred, with the cyclone reaching hurricane status late on October\u00a028. Shortly thereafter, the storm attained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 989\u00a0mbar (29.2\u00a0inHg); the latter was observed by a ship, while the former was estimated using the subtropical wind-pressure relationship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033212-0027-0000", "contents": "1901 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Thirteen\nWhile passing southeast of Bermuda, the storm ruined crops and caused considerable damage to some buildings. The system began to deteriorate gradually after peak intensity, weakening to a tropical storm early on November\u00a04. Early the following day, the cyclone curved east-southeastward. By 00:00\u00a0UTC on November\u00a06, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while located about 575\u00a0mi (925\u00a0km) southeast of Sable Island. The remnants continued east-southeastward until dissipating late on November\u00a06.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033213-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1901 Auburn Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Auburn University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1901 SIAA season. In its second season under head coach Walter H. Watkins, the team compiled a 2\u20133\u20131 record (2\u20132\u20131 against SIAA opponents). It was the Clemson's tenth season of intercollegiate football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election\nThe 1901 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. Elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland on 24 April 1901. The previous mayor, David Goldie, was held in high regard by both the city councillors and the voters but he did not contest the poll; as a temperance advocate, he did not want to toast the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York who were to visit in June 1901 with alcohol. John Logan Campbell, who had become regarded as the Father of Auckland, was asked to represent the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0000-0001", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election\nCampbell agreed on the proviso that he would only take on representative functions, with most mayoral tasks taken on by a deputy, and resign after the royal visit. Against general expectation, the mayoralty was contested by a brewer\u2014Daniel Arkell\u2014who had never held any public roles. Campbell won the election with nearly 80% of the votes, with senior city councillor Alfred Kidd deputising for him. Upon Campbell's resignation in July 1901, Kidd was elected the next mayor by his fellow city councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nDavid Goldie had been a popular mayor since 1898, getting re-elected without opposition in 1899 and 1900. Goldie was a teetotaller and when it became known that the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York would come for a royal visit, he retired at the April 1901 election as he did not want to toast the visiting royals with alcohol. There was a strong groundswell of opinion that the city's mayoralty should be held by someone of high status for the occasion of the royal visit, and a requisition was put to John Logan Campbell on 11 March. Campbell had lived in Auckland since 1840 and was thus the longest-lived resident of the city; he had become known as the Father of Auckland. Campbell was nominated by the outgoing mayor, Goldie, and by George Fowlds, MHR for City of Auckland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nIt had been hoped that Campbell would be declared elected unopposed. Joseph Witheford, MHR for the City of Auckland electorate, received a requisition on 14 March signed by 600 citizens. He considered the situation for half a day and then announced that Campbell should be mayor during the time of the royal visit. By advertisement in The New Zealand Herald on 4 April, brewer Daniel Arkell announced himself as a mayoral candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0002-0001", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nThe New Zealand Herald was a strong supporter of Campbell and they dedicated just three lines to Arkell on 4 April, and then mentioned him next when they reported on the nominations on 12 April. The first discussion of Arknell by The Herald was in an opinion piece on 17 April, where his candidacy was described as \"something approaching an absurdity\". On the same day, the Auckland Star ran its first story on Arkell, as he had been approached by a deputation urging him to withdraw from the contest; Arkell had rebuffed the deputation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0002-0002", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nOn the same day, the Auckland Star described Arkell's candidacy as \"in questionable taste\". Campbell responded to the situation by that he was happy to contest the election, but that he would not undertake any campaigning whatsoever, and that he wished that nobody campaigned on his behalf. He declared that should he be elected, \"it will be by the spontaneous voice of the community\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Mayoral results\nThe mayoral election was held across all wards: East, North, South, Ponsonby, and Grafton. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post voting method. As expected, Campbell won by a large margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Mayoral results\nCampbell was installed by Goldie as the outgoing mayor on 8 May 1901. As Campbell had indicated that, due to his age (he was 83 at the time), he wanted to concentrate on the representative functions of the office, and only serve until the royal visit. Campbell suggested that councillor Alfred Kidd should be appointed as deputy mayor; Kidd had deputised for Goldie at times. When it came to formalise this arrangement, it was found that a deputy mayor could only deputise during the mayor's absence or illness; Kidd's role was thus described as being associated with the mayor. The royal visit happened in mid-June and Campbell resigned as mayor on 25 July. In accordance with the legislation at the time, it was up to the city councillors to elect a new mayor and on 30 July, Kidd was unanimously elected as the city's next mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Councillor results\nFor Auckland Council, elections were held in three wards: South (3 positions; 5 candidates), Ponsonby (3 positions; 4 candidates), and Grafton (3 positions; 5 candidates). In the North and East wards, there were three candidates in each ward, which matched the number of positions available, and these candidates were therefore declared elected unopposed. In total, 15 positions were available and 20 candidates stood in the various wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033214-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Auckland City mayoral election, Councillor results\nKidd's election as mayor caused a vacancy. A by-election held in the Grafton ward on 21 August 1901 returned John McLeod as the new city councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election\nThe 1901 Australian federal election for the inaugural Parliament of Australia was held in Australia on Friday 29 March and Saturday 30 March 1901. The elections followed Federation and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. All 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, six of which were uncontested, as well as all 36 seats in the Australian Senate, were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election\nAfter the initial confusion of the Hopetoun Blunder, the first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton, went into the inaugural 1901 federal election as the appointed head of a Protectionist Party caretaker government. While the Protectionists came first on votes and seats, they fell short of a majority. The incumbent government remained in office with the parliamentary support of the Labour Party, who held the balance of power, while the Free Trade Party formed the opposition. A few months prior to the 1903 election, Barton resigned to become a founding member of the High Court of Australia, and was replaced by Alfred Deakin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election\nThen Prime Minister Edmund Barton entered parliament at this election, as did six future Prime Ministers - Alfred Deakin, Chris Watson, George Reid, Joseph Cook, Andrew Fisher, and Billy Hughes - and future opposition leader Frank Tudor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Background\nThe federation of the colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia came into effect on 1 January 1901 to form the Commonwealth of Australia. An election was held on Friday 29 March in Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania, and on Saturday 30 March 1901 in South Australia and Queensland, to elect the inaugural members of federal parliament. Floods in Queensland delayed polling in parts of the state until April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Background\nThe 1901 election was the only one of two occasions in Australia's history that the entire country did not go to the polls on the same day in a general election, the second occasion being the 1993 \"supplementary election\" in the Division of Dickson. This election was also the only time that an election or any part thereof was held on a day other than a Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Background\nIn what would later be known as the Hopetoun Blunder, in December 1900 the Governor-General, the 7th Earl of Hopetoun commissioned William Lyne, the Premier of New South Wales, to form the first Commonwealth Government from 1 January 1901. The government was to conduct itself on a caretaker basis in the absence of a parliament. Lyne was unpopular and was unable to gain support, so he returned his commission. Edmund Barton was then called upon to form the interim government. Barton was sworn in as the inaugural Prime Minister, and his cabinet contested the poll as the incumbent government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Background\nSome candidates were still sitting members of a state parliament. William Lyne was a minister in Barton's interim government and a candidate for the Division of Hume while still Premier of New South Wales, and used his official premier's car during the campaign, resigning on 27 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Parties contesting the election\nThe parties contesting the election were the Protectionist Party, led by Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton, and the Free Trade Party, unofficially led by former New South Wales Premier George Reid. There would not be a federal Labour Party until two months after the election, but in five of the six states local Labour parties contested the elections - in Tasmania, where there was no Labour party, King O'Malley was elected as an independent labour candidate. There were also a number of independents of various political leanings and a New South Wales Senate ticket called the \"Socialist Six\", comprising Labour members in conflict with the official party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Parties contesting the election\nThe Protectionists advocated the protection of local industries through the imposition of tariffs on imported goods, the construction of a transcontinental railway, a uniform railway gauge, uniform suffrage, aged pensions and defending the Australian constitution from radicals. The party used the colour red throughout the campaign. In addition to Barton, Protectionist candidates included many of the leading political figures from colonial Australia, including Charles Kingston, Sir John Forrest, and future Prime Minister Alfred Deakin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Parties contesting the election\nThe Free Traders (their official title was \"Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association\") advocated the dismantling of the tariff system, a transcontinental railway, and believed that aged pensions should be left to the states. As many of the policies of the Protectionists and Free Traders were similar, the Free Traders campaigned heavily on tariffs, with Reid stating that he wanted the election to be a plebiscite on tariffs. The party used the colour blue throughout the campaign. In addition to Reid, who believed he should have been appointed Prime Minister instead of Barton as he considered himself the bigger political figure, Free Trade candidates included Reid's unofficial deputy Paddy Glynn, William Irvine, and former state Labour leader and future Commonwealth Liberal Party Prime Minister Joseph Cook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Parties contesting the election\nLabour advocated old age pensions, electoral reform, a national army, compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes and a national referendum to decide issues that would otherwise lead to a double dissolution of parliament. Senior Labour candidates included future Prime Ministers Chris Watson, Andrew Fisher and Billy Hughes. Labour candidates were elected as individual state-based candidates - they met before the first sitting of Parliament on 8 May 1901 and agreed to form a federal Labour Party. Chris Watson, a Sydney printer and former member of the New South Wales Parliament, was elected the first leader of the Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Parties contesting the election\nAll parties were in support of a White Australia as was the norm at the time, with only a single parliamentarian, Free Trader Bruce Smith, fully opposing the legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Voting and enrolment\nVoting franchise was according to each state's specific electoral laws. South Australian and Western Australian women were enfranchised, but in the other states, they could not vote. Tasmania retained a small property qualification for voting, but in the other states, all males over 21 were eligible to vote. In several states indigenous Australians were technically allowed to vote, however, they faced voter suppression. In New South Wales for instance, Aboriginal men who voted were arrested by police for \"double voting\" with very little evidence to back up the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Voting and enrolment\nVoting was voluntary throughout Australia and in most states candidates were elected by a \"first past the post\" voting system. In South Australia, voters were required to mark the box opposite their preferred candidates, while in other states voters were required to cross out the names of non-preferred candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Electorates\nAll seats were to be filled \u2212 75 in the House of Representatives and 36 in the Senate. Six House seats were uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Electorates\nThere were 75 House of Representative seats to be filled. The initial number of seats for each state were set out in the Australian Constitution. New South Wales was allocated 26, Victoria 23, Queensland 9, South Australia 7, Western Australia 5 and Tasmania 5. The South Australian and Tasmanian colonial parliaments had not legislated for single member electorates, so their House of Representative members were elected from a single statewide electorate. In South Australia, each elector cast seven votes, while in Tasmania, each elector cast one vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0016-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Electorates\nEach state elected six Senators, in accordance with the Constitution. Senators in each state were elected on a statewide electorate basis by bloc voting rather than the current proportional representation or single transferable vote system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0017-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Campaign\nThe campaign period officially commenced on 17 January 1901, although some candidates, particularly Reid, had been unofficially campaigning since December the previous year. The campaign was delayed due to the death of Queen Victoria on 22 January, but soon got into full swing again as candidates travelled widely to address lively public meetings. Reid drew the biggest crowds, including 8,000 to a rally in Newcastle and he campaigned widely, travelling to Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania, while Paddy Glynn organised the Free Trade campaign in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0018-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Campaign\nThe Protectionists were forced to modify their immigration policy following an outcry from Queensland Protectionist candidates who feared that a White Australia policy would impinge on the importation of Kanakas to work on Queensland sugar plantations. Their policy was revised to read that Kanakas would be only be sent back to their country of origin when they were no longer of any use to the sugar industry. On the whole, however, a white Australia was extremely popular with the electorate and most candidates outdid themselves to prove how much they supported it. It was left to Free Trade candidate for Parkes, Bruce Smith (a leading representative of the employers), to oppose anti-immigration measures. Andrew Fisher argued that any Kanaka who had converted to Christianity and married should be allowed to remain in Australia. Both were elected comfortably.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0019-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Campaign\nThe Free Traders also had to modify part of their election platform when they realised that to advocate for the removal of all tariffs protecting Australian industries would be political suicide. Many employees in these industries considered the removal of tariffs as likely to mean the end of their jobs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0020-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Campaign\nThe Protectionists enjoyed the support of the powerful Australian Natives' Association (ANA) throughout the campaign as well as the endorsements of The Age and The Sydney Bulletin, while Free Trade received support from business interests and the endorsements of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, The Brisbane Courier, Melbourne's The Argus and The Adelaide Register. Labour could only rely on union-owned newspapers, although some of these enjoyed a great level of influence in some electorates (the Gympie Truth for example is considered to have played an important role in the election of its part-owner, Andrew Fisher, in Wide Bay).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0021-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Campaign\nThere were only two cars used in the 1901 election campaign; William Lyne, who was a candidate for the Division of Hume while still Premier of New South Wales, used his official Premier's car to great advantage; the shipping magnate and candidate for Melbourne Sir Malcolm McEacharn, enjoyed the use of his car while travelling around his electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0022-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Election day\nComplaints were received by polling officials about the earlier than advertised closing of polling booths in some electorates, the poor quality pencils supplied to fill in ballot papers (they apparently blunted easily, leaving many votes incomprehensible to officials) and the Senate ballot paper in New South Wales which listed 50 candidates, confusing many voters and leading to a significant number of informal votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0023-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Election day\nThese complaints aside, the administering of the first federal election was seen as a great success and a credit to the polling officials who, in some cases, were responsible for electorates larger than some European countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0024-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Analysis\nThe Free Traders won most of the seats in New South Wales, apart from the border areas where the Protectionists were strong. The Protectionists won most of the seats in their stronghold, Victoria. Labour won some inner urban seats but most of their members represented pastoral and mining areas. In the smaller states many members had no fixed party loyalty and saw themselves as representing the interests of their states. Seven Prime Ministers of Australia (Barton, Deakin, Watson, Reid, Fisher, Joseph Cook and Hughes) were elected at this election, as were a number of influential former state Premiers (Sir John Forrest, Lyne, George Turner, Anderson Dawson, Philip Fysh and Charles Kingston among them).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0025-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Analysis\nWith no past to live down, Barton's Protectionist ministry had all the advantages of incumbency with none of the problems, which meant that a Protectionist victory was almost a certainty, and Barton had been confident of obtaining a comfortable majority in parliament. However, while Barton and his ministry were returned, they had to rely on Labour support to pass legislation. Although the Protectionists remained in government, however, many observers saw the result as a moral victory for Free Trade (who won more seats than the Protectionists in the three smallest states of South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0025-0001", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Analysis\nLabour also performed better than expected, particularly after the post-election recruitment of O'Malley. Labour was the smallest of the three parties in the House but held the balance of power. Chris Watson pursued the same policy as Labour had done in the colonial parliaments. He kept the Protectionist governments of Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin in office, in exchange for legislative concessions including the immensely popular White Australia policy. Such was the overwhelming support for a White Australia by the electorate and the three political parties that the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 was the seventeenth piece of legislation passed by the nascent parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0026-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Analysis\nThe average national voting turnout was 60% of enrolled voters, with the Division of Newcastle gaining the highest turnout on 97%, while the Division of Fremantle recorded the lowest turnout on 30%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0027-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Analysis\nOf the two elected independents, both were from Queensland. James Wilkinson, elected to the seat of Moreton, was a former member of the Labour Party, and rejoined the party in 1903. Alexander Paterson, representing Capricornia, had no political affiliation, and retired in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033215-0028-0000", "contents": "1901 Australian federal election, Analysis, Pendulum\nSouth Australia and Tasmania went to the election as single multi-member constituencies. South Australia elected seven members, each elector casting seven votes: four Free Traders (Paddy Glynn, 59.5%; Frederick Holder, 59.5%; Alexander Poynton, 41.1%; and Vaiben Louis Solomon, 43.0%), two Protectionists (Charles Kingston, 65.9%; Langdon Bonython, 62.7%) and one Labour member (Lee Batchelor, 50.3%). Tasmania elected five members, each elector casting one vote: three Free Traders (Edward Braddon, 26.2%; Norman Cameron, 11.6%; Frederick Piesse, 10.1%), one Protectionist (Philip Fysh, 9.9%) and one Labour member (King O'Malley, 21.9%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033216-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1901 Baltimore Orioles season finished with the Orioles in 5th in the American League with a record of 68\u201365. The team was managed by John McGraw and played at Oriole Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033216-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033216-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033216-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033216-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033217-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Barcelona City Council election\nThe 1901 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 10 November 1901, to elect half of the Barcelona City Council. 26 out of 50 seats were up for election (1 was a vacant seat).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033217-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system\nThe number of seats of each council was determined by the population count, according to the 1877 Municipal Law. As Barcelona had more than 200,000 inhabitants, the number of seats composing the city council was 50. The municipal law also established that half of the seats had to be renewed every two years. Therefore, in these elections 25 seats had to be renewed. Additionally, any vacant seat would also be renewed. The municipality was divided in 10 multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the city districts. Seats were elected using limited partial block voting. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected. In districts electing. Voting was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 927]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033217-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system\nThe Municipal Law allowed the King of Spain to elect directly the Mayor of Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033218-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Baylor football team\nThe 1901 Baylor football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach W. R. Ritchie the team compiled a 5\u20133 record and played its home games in Waco, Texas. During the 1901 season, Baylor played its first games in what became rivalries with the Texas Longhorns and TCU Horned Frogs. TCU, known as Add\u2013Ran University until 1902, was located in Waco from 1895 to 1910 and was one of Baylor's greatest football rivals until the dissolution of the Southwest Conference in 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033218-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Baylor football team, Season summary\nOn July 18, Baylor announced that it had found its next coach: W.J. Ritchie, from Athens, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033218-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Baylor football team, Season summary, Oct. 11 vs. Texas A&M\nPlaying at the State Fair of Texas, Baylor and A&M drew a crowd of 2,000 spectators. The game was delayed by an argument between the teams over the eligibility of a player. A verbal agreement had been made to allow only students who had attended classes at the respective university at least ten days prior, but Schultz, a fullback for A&M, had not attended until two to three days prior, allegedly due to ill parents. Not believing the excuse, Baylor eventually prevailed in both the argument and the game, which ended in another squabble about the timekeepers' timekeeping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033218-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Baylor football team, Season summary, Nov. 5 vs. Texas A&M\nMeeting for a second time in the season, Baylor and A&M celebrated the first annual Central Texas Fair, located in Bryan, Texas, on its College Day with a football game in which A&M handily defeated the Baylor team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033218-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Baylor football team, Season summary, Nov. 23 vs. Add-Ran\nCompeting for the local championship, Baylor clearly outclassed their opponents and led in the first half by a comfortable 23\u20130 margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033218-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Baylor football team, Season summary, Nov. 28 vs. Texas A&M\nIn what appeared to be the state's last collegiate football game day of the season, the game was called \"the most interesting ever played on a Waco gridiron, because of the sensational clean and fast plays.\" Having split the first two meetings of the season, both Baylor and the A.&M. 's were seeking the tiebreaking victory; A&M mistakenly contracted to play both the University of Texas and Baylor on the same day, and so split the team. A&M brought a large delegation of fans with its team by train but was disappointed with a 47-point shutout loss. The Baylor boys spent the evening at a reception at the Young Ladies' Boarding Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033219-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Belmont Stakes\nThe 1901 Belmont Stakes was the 35th running of the Belmont Stakes. It was the 12th Belmont Stakes held at Morris Park Racecourse in Morris Park, New York and was run on May 23, 1901. The race drew three starters and was won by the heavily favored Commando whose winning time of 2:21 flat set a new record for the Belmont Stakes at the 1+3\u20448 miles distance on dirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033219-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Belmont Stakes\nBred and raced by James R. Keene, Commando easily won the race by a half length over the 1901 Preakness Stakes winner The Parader. Third place went to All Green who was never in the race from the start and wisely was not pushed by jockey Willie Shaw, finishing a further fifty lengths back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033219-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Belmont Stakes\nFor future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer James G. Rowe Sr., it marked the third of his record eight wins in the Belmont Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033219-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Belmont Stakes\nCommando's Canadian-born jockey Henry Spencer earned his second of two career wins in the American Classics having won the 1900 Preakness Stakes aboard Hindus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033219-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Belmont Stakes\nThe 1901 Kentucky Derby was run on April 29 and the 1899 Preakness Stakes on May 28, five days after the Belmont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033219-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Belmont Stakes\nThe 1919 Belmont Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the third leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033220-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Beloit football team\nThe 1901 Beloit football team represented Beloit College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach John W. Hollister, the team compiled a 5\u20133\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033220-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Beloit football team\nUnder coach Hollister, Beloit was considered one of the major football teams in the Midwest, scheduling games against the region's premiere programs. The 1901 team played tie games with Kansas, Chicago (coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg), and Northwestern and lost by only five points to Notre Dame. In one of the worst defeats in program history, Beloit lost to national champion Michigan by an 89\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033220-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Beloit football team\nThe team played its home games at Keep Athletic Field in Beloit, Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033221-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Birthday Honours\nThe King's Birthday Honours 1901 were announced 9 November 1901, the birthday of the new monarch Edward VII. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033221-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Birthday Honours\nThe list was published in The Times 9 November 1901, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette 9 November 1901, 12 November 1901, and 15 November 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033221-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake\nThe 1901 Black Sea earthquake (also known in Bulgaria as the Balchik earthquake) was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the Black Sea. The earthquake epicenter was located in the east of Cape Kaliakra, 30 kilometres (19\u00a0mi) off northeast coast of Bulgaria. The mainshock occurred at a depth of 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) and generated a 4\u20135-metre (13\u201316\u00a0ft) high tsunami that devastated the coastal areas of Romania and Bulgaria. In Romania, the earthquake was felt not only throughout Northern Dobruja, but also in Oltenia and Muntenia, and even in southern Moldova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake\nThe earthquake was followed by a large number of aftershocks, which continued until 1905; the strongest reached magnitudes of 5.5\u20136.0 on the Richter scale and were also felt in southern Romania, including Bucharest. After 1905, Pontic seismic activity began to subside, although weak and moderate earthquakes were also reported in subsequent years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake\nSuch events are rare in the Black Sea. In the last 200 years, in the Black Sea region 24 tsunamis occurred, of which two were in the territory of Dobruja. The earliest recorded tsunami in Romania dates from 104, when the city of Callatis, current Mangalia, was badly affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake, Background\nThe off-shore region of Southern Dobruja, especially the epicentral area located in the south of Mangalia, including the Bulgarian off-shore of the Black Sea, has been emphasized over the years, by earthquakes which in certain cases have been violent, reaching magnitudes of 7\u20137.5 on Richter scale. These are also crustal earthquakes, of low depth (5\u201330 kilometres (3.1\u201318.6\u00a0mi)), with severe effects on the epicentral area. Sometimes, in case of earthquakes with underwater focus (as those located in the east of Shabla Cape), tsunami waves were generated, like in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake, Background\nResearch studies carried out by experts have shown that Pontic earthquakes with destructive behaviour, comparable to that in 1901, repeat at mean periods of 300\u2013500 years. One of the earliest occurred in the 1st century BC at Kavarna. In AD 853, a tsunami at Varna swept 6.5 kilometres (4.0\u00a0mi) inland over flat coastal plain and travelled 30 kilometres (19\u00a0mi) up a river. The Black Sea is considered one of the most violent seas due to its seismic activity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake, Impact, Felt area\nThe shock was felt throughout Bulgaria, southeast Romania, eastern Serbia and northwest Anatolia, causing great panic in Istanbul and on the Asiatic coast of the Bosphorus and the Marmara. Long period effects lasting about a minute were reported from the Danube valley, from Szeged in Hungary, and from Odessa. The shock was perceptible in Thessaloniki in Macedonia, in Dorohoi in Romania, and throughout the province of Sivas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake, Impact, Damage\nThe earthquake had devastating consequences in the coastal area of southern Mangalia, many villages being ruined (maximum intensity of X on the Mercalli intensity scale); likewise, the earthquake generated a 4\u20135 metres (13\u201316\u00a0ft) high tsunami wave and there occurred bank dislocations and other local geomorphological phenomena. Maximum damage was sustained by a small number of villages situated on the alluvial lowlands along the coast between Balchik, Kavarna, Durankulak and Limanu. Slumping of the coast destroyed many landing-places and coastal settlements including the lighthouse at Kaliakra. Largescale landslides along the coast continued to develop for almost two weeks after the earthquake, disrupting communications and causing additional damage. In Bucharest, the seismic intensity was V\u2013VI degrees on the Mercalli intensity scale, causing panic among the population and light damage to buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033222-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Black Sea earthquake, Impact, Damage\nThe Bulgarian province of Dobrich was also severely hit by tsunami. In several localities, including Balchik, homes were rushed by waters. In the village of Momchil, a large landslide buried people's homes on an area of about 30 hectares (74 acres).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033223-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Americans season\nThe 1901 Boston Americans season was the first season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox, and the first season of play for the American League (AL). It resulted in the Americans finishing second in the AL with a record of 79 wins and 57 losses, four games behind the Chicago White Stockings. The team was managed by Jimmy Collins and played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033223-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Americans season, Regular season\nPrior to the regular season, the team held spring training in Charlottesville, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033223-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Statistical leaders\nThe offense was led by Buck Freeman, who hit 12 home runs and had 114 RBIs while recording a .339 batting average. The pitching staff was led by Cy Young, who made 43 appearances (41 starts) and pitched 38 complete games with a 33\u201310 record and 1.62 ERA, while striking out 158 in 371+1\u20443 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033223-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Season standings\nThe team had two games end in a tie; August 31 at Detroit Tigers and September 12 at Washington Senators. Tied games are not counted in league standings, but player statistics during tied games are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033223-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033223-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033224-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1901 Boston Beaneaters season was the 31st season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033224-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033224-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033224-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033224-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033225-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston College football team\nThe 1901 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach John Dunlop, the team compiled a 1\u20138 record. Joe Kenney was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033226-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1901 occurred on Tuesday, December 10, 1901. Democratic candidate Patrick Collins defeated Republican candidate and incumbent Mayor of Boston Thomas N. Hart, and two other contenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033226-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston mayoral election, Party conventions\nThe Republican convention was held on November 19, 1901 at Association Hall. Incumbent Thomas N. Hart was renominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033226-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Boston mayoral election, Party conventions\nThe Democratic convention was held on November 20, 1901 at Steinert Hall. Patrick Collins unanimously won the party's nomination for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033227-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held under the 1891 constitution, which provided for a 16-member Court of Policy, half of which was elected. The Court included the Governor, seven government officials (the Attorney General, the Government Secretary, the Immigration Agent General and the Receiver General, together with three other appointees). The eight elected members were elected from seven constituencies; Demerara East, Demerara West, Essequebo North Western, Essequebo South Eastern, Berbice, City of Georgetown (2 members) and New Amsterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033227-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nIn addition, six \"Financial Representatives\" were also elected in six single member constituencies; Demerara, Essequebo North Western, Essequebo South Eastern, Berbice, Georgetown and New Amsterdam. Together with the Court of Policy, the two groups formed the Combined Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033227-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nThe franchise was restricted on the basis of a minimum income level, and women could not vote; as a result, only 0.89% of the population were entitled to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033228-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1901 Brooklyn Superbas lost several players to the newly official major league, the American League, and fell to third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033228-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033228-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033228-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033228-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033228-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033229-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1901 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Eddie N. Robinson, the team compiled a 4\u20137\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 212 to 70. W. P. Bates was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033229-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Brown Bears football team\nThe team played its home games at Andrews Field in Providence, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033230-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Bucknell football team\nThe 1901 Bucknell football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach George W. Hoskins, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 145 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033231-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Buffalo football team\nThe 1901 Buffalo football team represented the University at Buffalo as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach James B. \"Turk\" Gordon, the team compiled a 4\u20132 record. Five games were canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033232-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Bulgarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 28 January 1901. Despite receiving only the third highest number of votes, the Progressive Liberal Party emerged as the largest party in Parliament with 40 of the 164 seats. Voter turnout was 42.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season\nThe 1901 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the third season of the senior ice hockey league. Teams played an eight-game schedule. The Ottawa Hockey Club was the league champion with a record of seven wins, no losses and a draw. The Montreal Shamrocks lost a Stanley Cup challenge during the season, so Ottawa did not inherit the Stanley Cup. The Club declined to challenge Winnipeg after the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nThe league adopted travelling expenses of $85 between Ottawa-Montreal, $100 between Montreal-Quebec and $125 between Ottawa-Quebec for the visiting teams to receive from the home team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nThe league banned member teams from playing exhibition matches outside the league without league permission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, Exhibition games\nOn January 12, the Montreal Victorias played an exhibition against the New York Hockey Club, in New York, losing 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nThe Ottawa club would win the season, undefeated, with players Sixsmith, Westwick and Pulford starring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, Regular season, Final standing\nAlthough Ottawa won the league championship, the Shamrocks had lost their challenge to Winnipeg and Ottawa would not be awarded the Cup. At first, Ottawa was intending to challenge Winnipeg for the Cup, but on February 27, 1901, announced that they would not do so that winter. According to Coleman(1966), Ottawa did not issue a challenge due to the \"lateness of the season.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0005-0001", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, Regular season, Final standing\nThe Ottawa Journal as reported in The Globe suggested that the Ottawa club was wise in their decision, as they were in \"racked condition in which they are, as a result of the immensely hard exertions put forth by them in all their games this season\". The Ottawa Hockey Club did not challenge the following season, either.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 48], "content_span": [49, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Shamrocks vs. Winnipeg\nIn January 1901, the Winnipeg Victorias of the MHA again challenged the Montreal Shamrocks for the Cup. This time, Winnipeg prevailed, sweeping the best-of-three series with scores of 4\u20133 and 2\u20131. Game two was the first overtime game in Cup history with Dan Bain scoring at the four-minute mark of the extra period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 64], "content_span": [65, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033233-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 CAHL season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster\nThe Caister lifeboat disaster of 13 November 1901 occurred off the coast of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England. It took place during what became known as the \"Great Storm\", which caused havoc down the east coasts of England and Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, Disaster events\nPoor weather conditions on 13 November contributed to the disaster. A gale created lashing rain and a heavy sea. Shortly after 11:00 PM, flares were seen from a vessel on the Barber sands. The Cockle light-ship fired distress signals to indicate a vessel in trouble. The crew of the Caister lifeboat Beauchamp were alerted and an attempt was made to launch the lifeboat. The heavy seas washed the boat off her skids and she was hauled back up the beach for another attempt. The crew fought until 2:00 AM in the dark and cold with warp and tackle to get the lifeboat afloat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, Disaster events\nAfter the launch, most of the launching crew went home to change their wet clothing. James Haylett Sr, who had been the assistant coxwain for many years and was now 78 years old, remained on watch despite being wet through and having no food. He had two sons, a son-in-law, and two grandsons in the boat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, Disaster events\nThe coxwain steered towards the stricken vessel but the sea conditions forced the boat back towards the beach and she struck the beach bow first about 50 yards (46\u00a0m) from the launch point. The heavy sea struck the starboard quarter and capsized the boat, breaking off the masts and trapping the crew beneath the boat. Beauchamp was a Norfolk and Suffolk-class non-self-righting boat, 36 feet (11\u00a0m) in length, 10+1\u20442 feet (3.2\u00a0m) wide and weighing 5 long tons (5.1\u00a0t) without her gear. When fully crewed and equipped and with ballast tanks full she needed 36 men to bring her ashore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, Disaster events\nThe time was now around 3:00 AM. Frederick Henry Haylett returned to the lifeboat house after getting changed and alerted his grandfather James Haylett Sr to the cries coming from the boat. They ran to where Beauchamp lay keel up in the surf. James Haylett managed to pull his son-in-law Charles Knights from the boat. Frederick Haylett also ran into the surf and pulled John Hubbard clear. James Haylett returned to the water to pull his grandson Walter Haylett clear. These were the only survivors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, After the disaster\nEight bodies were subsequently recovered at the scene with another, that of Charles Bonney George, being washed away only to be recovered months later in April of the following year. The crewmen lost were Aaron Walter Haylett (Coxswain), James Haylett Jr (Late Cox), William Brown (Second Coxswain), Charles Brown, William Wilson, John Smith, George King, Charles George, and Harry Knights. Asked at the inquest to their deaths why the crew had persisted in the rescue, retired coxswain James Haylett said, \"They would never give up the ship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0005-0001", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, After the disaster\nIf they had to keep at it 'til now, they would have sailed about until daylight to help her. Going back is against the rules when we see distress signals like that.\" This response was translated by journalists to become the famous phrase \"Caister men never turn back\"; \"Never Turn Back\" was later to become a motto of the RNLI. Haylett was subsequently awarded the RNLI Gold Medal in recognition of his gallantry and endurance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, After the disaster\nThe victims are all buried in Caister Cemetery, where a monument financed by public donation was raised to them in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033234-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Caister lifeboat disaster, Beauchamp\nFollowing the disaster, Beauchamp never returned to service and was abandoned in a boatyard before finally being broken up. Beauchamp, the cost of which was presented to the Institution by Sir Reginald Proctor Beauchamp, Bart, was placed on her station in 1892, and up to the time of the accident she had been launched to the aid of vessels in distress on 81 occasions and saved 146 lives; while the total number of lives which the lifeboats at Caister have saved during the past forty-three years[When?] is 1,281, a 'record' as regards the lifeboat stations of the United Kingdom. The RNLI closed the lifeboat station in October 1969 after the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station received a fast 44\u00a0ft (13\u00a0m) Waveney-class lifeboat. The Caister Lifeboat station re-opened as an independently run lifeboat station, and continues to save lives today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033235-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1901 Calgary municipal election was held on December 9, 1901 to elect a mayor and nine aldermen to sit on the eighteenth Calgary City Council from January 6, 1902 to January 5, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033235-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Calgary municipal election, Background\nVoting rights were provided to any male, single woman, or widowed British subject over twenty-one years of age who are assessed on the last revised assessment roll with a minimum property value of $200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033235-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors with a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033235-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Calgary municipal election, Background\nKey issues for the election included the levying of a municipal income tax recently provided by changes to the City Charter. The Calgary Daily Herald speculated that John Emerson's loss of council seat was attributed to the public's association of his name with the income tax, when he merely read the resolution proposed by the City Clerk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033235-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Calgary municipal election, September 1902 by-election\nFollowing John Creighton's death on July 29, 1902, the City of Calgary scheduled a by-election for the vacant seat in Ward 2 for September 8, 1902, however John Hamilton Kerr would be acclaimed upon the close of nominations on September 1, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033236-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1901 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Frank W. Simpson, the team compiled a 9\u20130\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 106 to 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033237-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cardiganshire County Council election\nThe fifth elections for Cardiganshire County Council took place in March 1901. They were preceded by the 1898 election and followed by the 1904 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033237-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Cardiganshire County Council election, Overview of the Results\nThe Liberals once again won by a large majority but there were signs that elections were becoming less political, with candidates of similar political persuasions opposing each other and some candidates not openly declaring any political affiliation. Neither the Cambrian News or the Aberystwyth Observer indicated party affiliation although the Brython Cymreig did so in relation to the contested elections only. The Welsh Gazette commented that while the contests at Aberystwyth were on political lines, many of those in the rural areas were between candidates whose political views were often indistinguishable. In many ways this reflected the changes in the politics of the county, now represented at Westminster by the former Conservative, Matthew Vaughan Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033237-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections\nThe vast majority of councillors were elected unopposed. Only ten of the 48 wards were contested at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033237-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nEight aldermen retired, all of whom were Liberals. Of these only Morgan Evans in Llanarth and James Stephens in Cardigan South sought election. Neither was re-elected an alderman. Of those who stood down, J.H. Davies, Enoch Davies and Daniel Jones retired from county politics but C.M. Williams, T.H.R. Hughes and J.T. Morgan were later re-elected aldermen (the latter for the second time) without facing the electorate. This was the first occasion upon which those aldermen later re-elected had not faced the electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033237-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Cilcennin\nJenkin Lewis was described as a Liberal candidate in one newspaper but this may not have been correct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033237-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Cardiganshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nOnce again a number of aldermen who had not faced the electorate were elected. C.M. Williams and J.T. Morgan were elected aldermen for a third term (although the latter had not faced the electorate since 1889) and T.H.R. Hughes and James James for a second term. James James had been elected, from outside the Council, to an aldermanic vacancy in 1895 and so had never faced an election. David Lloyd, previously an alderman from 1889 until 1892 was elected for a second term. The other four aldermen were new appointments, including one Conservative, Colonel J.R. Howell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033237-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-Elections, Aberbanc by-election\nEvan Davies, who had previously represented the ward from 1889 until 1895, was elected unopposed following David Lloyd's election as alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033238-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1901 Carlisle Indians football team was an American football that represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach Pop Warner, Carlisle compiled a 5\u20137\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 168 to 134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033238-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Carlisle Indians football team\nTwo Carlisle players received honors from Walter Camp on the 1901 All-America team: Martin Wheelock as a second-team tackle and Jimmy Johnson as a third-team quarterback. Johnson was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033238-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Carlisle Indians football team\nCarlisle was one of three Native American schools in 1901 to field football teams that competed in college football. The other two were Haskell (6\u20132) in Kansas and Chilocco (2\u20135) in the Oklahoma Territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033238-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Carlisle Indians football team, Season summary, Week 4: vs. Dickinson\nDespite the 16 to 11 Carlisle victory, The Dickinsonian called it \"the greatest day in the football history of Dickinson.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033238-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Carlisle Indians football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Michigan\nThe national champion Michigan Wolverines defeated the Carlisle Indians, 22\u20130, in a game played at Bennett Park in Detroit on November 2. The game was watched by a crowd of 8,000 spectators that included China's Minister to the United States, Wu Ting-Fan, occupying a box with former United States Secretary of War, Russell A. Alger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033238-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Carlisle Indians football team, Season summary, Week 13: at Columbia\nThe Columbia Lions rolled up their largest score of the season, defeating the Indians 40 to 12. It was 40 to 0 until the final five minutes. Starring in the contest was Columbia's backfield of Bill Morley, Harold Weekes, Dick Smith, and Chauncey L. Berrien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033239-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthen Rural District Council election\nThe third election to the Carmarthen Rural District Council was held in March 1901. It was preceded by the 1898 election and followed by the 1904 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Carmarthen Board of Guardians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033239-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthen Rural District Council election\nThere were a number of unopposed returns in the rural parishes. All the contests were non-political.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033239-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Carmarthen Board of Guardians\nAll members of the District Council also served as members of Carmarthen Board of Guardians. In addition six members were elected to represent the borough of Carmarthen. As in 1898 all the sitting members were returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election\nThe fifth election to the Carmarthenshire County Council was held in March 1901. It was preceded by the 1898 election and followed by the 1904 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Overview of the result\nThe Liberals retained a strong majority. With a few exceptions, members were returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nNone of the retiring aldermen contested the election. There was also a vacancy following the death of W.O. Brigstocke, Blaenpant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 63], "content_span": [64, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Contested elections\nThere were only a small number of contested elections and the majorities were small in most instances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of Results\nThis section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. In some cases there is an ambiguity in the sources over the party affiliations and this is explained below where relevant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of Results\nThis table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 51 councillors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results, Llanybyther\nBoth candidates received the same number of votes so the contest was decided upon the toss of a coin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results, Pembrey South\nIt was a reflection of the largely non-political character of the 1901 county election in Carmarthenshire (with the vast majority being elected unopposed) that the political affiliation of the two candidates for this ward was not recorded in the local press.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 73], "content_span": [74, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nIn addition to the 51 councillors the council consisted of 17 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the elections the following eight aldermen were elected (with the number of votes recorded in each case).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033240-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nThe six retiring aldermen were supported by the majority of members but there was no unanimity on replacement for Henry Wilkins, who stood down, and W.O. Brigstocke, who had died in office. W.N. Jones polled 26 votes, only three fewer than the eighth candidate, Augustus Brigstocke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033241-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Case football team\nThe 1901 Case football team was an American football team that represented the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio, now a part of Case Western Reserve University. Playing as an independent during the 1902 college football season, the team compiled a 2\u20137 record and was outscored by a total of 181 to 38. John J. Dillon, formerly the quarterback for Syracuse, was hired as the team's football coach in April 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033242-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Caversham by-election\nThe 1901 Caversham by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Caversham, an urban seat in Dunedin at the south-east of the South Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033242-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Caversham by-election, Background\nThe by-election was held on 19 December 1901, and was precipitated by the death of sitting MP, Arthur Morrison. The seat was won by fellow Liberal Thomas Sidey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033242-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Caversham by-election, Background\nThere was a large crowd at the declaration of the results, the crowd was rather rowdy and many rotten eggs were thrown at runner-up William Earnshaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033243-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Challenge Cup\nThe 1901 Challenge Cup was the 5th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. Contested during the 1900\u201301 Northern Rugby Football Union season, the final was played between Batley and Warrington at Headingley Stadium in Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033243-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was played on Saturday 27 April 1901, where Batley beat Warrington 16-8 at Headingley in front of a crowd of 29,563.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033244-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cheviot earthquake\nThe 1901 Cheviot earthquake occurred at 07:47 NZT on 16 November 1901 (20:15 15 November UTC) with an estimated magnitude of 6.9, centred near the township of Cheviot in the Canterbury region of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033244-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Cheviot earthquake, Damage and casualties\nA baby was killed when a sod hut collapsed. Other casualties in the Canterbury region are not known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033244-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Cheviot earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThe ChristChurch Cathedral experienced some damage in this earthquake. The top of the spire fell again as a result of the 16 November 1901 Cheviot earthquake. This time, the stone construction was replaced with a more resilient structure of Australian hardwood sheathed with weathered copper sheeting, with an internal mass damper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033244-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Cheviot earthquake, Damage and casualties\nObservations of sand blows (sand volcano) and lateral spreading, consistent with soil liquefaction phenomena in the township of Kaiapoi were reported in local newspapers in a two to three block area at the eastern end of Charles and Sewell Streets on the north bank of the Kaiapoi River, in addition to similar effects observed on the opposing river bank, and the road to Belfast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033245-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Eclectic Medical football team\nThe 1901 Chicago Eclectic Medical football team, was an American football team that represented the Chicago Eclectic Medical College, known a year later as American Medical College of Chicago in the 1901 college football season. In their first year of play, the medics compiled a 0\u20133 record and surrendered 78 points while not scoring a single point themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033245-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Eclectic Medical football team, Roster\nThis roster was compiled from accounts of the Notre Dame and St. Charles Athletic Club football games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033246-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1901 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1901 Western Conference football season. In their 10th season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled an 8\u20136\u20132 record, finished in eighth place in the Western Conference with a 0\u20134\u20131 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 175 to 131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033247-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Orphans season\nThe 1901 Chicago Orphans season was the 30th season of the Chicago Orphans franchise, the 26th in the National League and the 9th at West Side Park. The Orphans finished sixth in the National League with a record of 53\u201386. The team was also known as the Remnants, due to many Orphans players leaving at the end of the 1900 season to join the upstart American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033247-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033247-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033247-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033247-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033248-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1901 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team was an American football team that represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago in the 1901 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season\nThe 1901 Chicago White Stockings season was their first season as a major league team, and their second season in Chicago. It was also the inaugural season of American League as a major league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season\nThe White Stockings had a very balanced lineup, which was led by outfielders Dummy Hoy and Fielder Jones, and scored the most runs in the AL. They relied primarily on speed, as Frank Isbell, Sam Mertes, and Jones finished 1\u20132\u20133 in stolen bases. The pitching staff was anchored by Clark Griffith, who went 24\u20137 with a 2.67 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season\nThe White Stockings finished 83\u201353. They won the pennant by four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033249-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1901, Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was reelected to a third term, defeating Republican candidate Elbridge Hanecy by a 9.5% margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election\nUntil 2019, no subsequent election had more candidates running on its ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nIncumbent mayor Carter Harrison Jr. was renominated by the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nHarrison's opponent for the nomination was former governor John Peter Altgeld, whose candidacy was not a serious threat to Harrison, as Altgeld had lost much of his influence over the last two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nThere had been rumors that, additionally, Roger Charles Sullivan and John Patrick Hopkins might recruit a candidate of their own to challenge Harrison, but this never materialized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nIn the March primary to elect delegates to the city nominating convention, Harrison easily won a large majority of the delegates to the convention. At the convention, Harrison was renominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nThe Republican Party nominated Cook County Circuit Court judge Elbridge Hanecy at its city convention on March 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nOther candidates who sought the nomination were John Maynard Harlan, Judge Marcus Kavanaugh, Aldermen William Mavor, Frank T. Fowler, William Boldenweck, W. J. Raymer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nThe top three contenders for the nomination were Hanecy, Harlan, and Boldenweck. Machine Republicans largely backed Hanecy. Independent Republicans largely backed Harlan. German Republicans largely backed Boldenweck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nHanecy had been a judge on the Cook County Circuit Court for a number of years. The previous year, Hanecy had sought the gubernatorial nomination, being defeated by Richard Yates Jr. at the state convention by a thin margin. Hanecy was politically allied with William Lorimer, being Lorimer's candidate both in this mayoral election and in the previous year's gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nDespite speculation, Harlan denied any intentions of running as an independent if he lost the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Single Tax\nThe Single Tax Party was a national organization. It championed Georgism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nHenacy campaigned actively, delivering many speeches. Henacy aimed to present himself as a positive alternative to Harrison. He advocated changing the fee system practiced by some city officials and also proposed stronger measures to regulate the streetcar companies. However, his attempts to adopt reformist policies were weakened in their effectiveness by his association with William Lorimer. Reform-minded Republicans were upset that the seedy Lorimer managed to get his preferred candidate nominated by the Republican Party over reformist favorite John Maynard Harlan. Some Republicans unsuccessfully sought to persuade Harlan to run as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe Republican Party's platform criticized the Harrison administration as \"inefficient\", \"notorious\", \"scandalous\", \"dishonest\", and cowardly negligent in its,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nmanner of defending correct and dishonest damage suits against the city, its prostitution of our public schools, its pernicious effect upon the realty and industrial values whereby the property of the individual has been depreciated in value while manufacturing and other industrial interests have been driven from our city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe traction issue surfaced in this election. The Democratic platform advocated for municipal ownership of street railways. The Democratic platform did not advocate for immediate public ownership, however, making provisions in its platofrm for the extension of franchises. The Democratic platform advocated for,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0016-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nTwenty years as the maximum of franchises pending the final ownership by the city with the percentage of the gross receipts as compensation, lower fares in rush hours and better facilitites, and weaver of rights claimed under the 99-year act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0017-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nNot only did Henacy propose stronger measures to regulate streetcar companies, but the Republican convention had declared that,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0018-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe franchise question must be settled fairly, honestly and promptly between all parties. Long franchises will not be granted. Full and fair compensation must be paid for special privileges in all streets, alleys, and public grounds. The extension of street railway franchises and lowering of the tunnels are questions which demand the immediate attention of the city and must be promptly and fearlessly met. These question should be settled and adjusted simultaneously with each other, and all interests should receive fair and honest treatment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0019-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe Democratic platform also advocated municipal ownership of other public utilities, including gas, electricity, and water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0020-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nHarrison took his Republican challenger serious, and campaigned vigorously against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0021-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nBy the standards of the era in Chicago politics, Harrison's margin of victory was viewed as a decisive one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0022-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nHarrison carried 26 wards while Hanecy carried the remaining nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0023-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nIn some of the most Republican parts of the city, Hanecy only managed to win a plurality of the vote, and in others he lost the vote to Harrison. However, Harrison, likewise, suffered in some of the city's Democratic strongholds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033250-0024-0000", "contents": "1901 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nHarrison received 72.96% of the Polish-American vote, while Hanecy received 23.54% and Collins received 2.74%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033251-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chilean presidential election\nThe Chilean presidential election of 1901 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election of Germ\u00e1n Riesco as President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033252-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Chilocco Indian School football team\nThe 1901 Chilocco Indian School football team was an American football team that represented the Chilocco Indian School in the north-central Oklahoma Territory during the 1901 college football season. Records have been found of seven games played by Chilocco in the fall of 1901 and the team compiled a 2\u20135 in those games. One of the team's victories in 1901 was over Oklahoma A&M, now a Division I FBS program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033252-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Chilocco Indian School football team\nChilocco was one of three Indian schools in 1901 to field football teams that competed in college football. The other two were Carlisle in Pennsylvania and Haskell in Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033252-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Chilocco Indian School football team\nWilliam Henry Dietz played football for Chilocco in the early 1900s before transferring to Friends University in the fall of 1904. Dietz was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033252-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Chilocco Indian School football team\nIn November 1901, a plan was announced to convert the school into an agricultural school and to increase its capacity from 400 students to 1,000 students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal\nThe 1901 China expedition commemorative medal (French: \"M\u00e9daille comm\u00e9morative de l'exp\u00e9dition de Chine (1901)\") was a French military campaign medal established by the law of 15 April 1902 to recognize service in China in 1900 and 1901 during the Boxer Rebellion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal\nIn May 1900, an uprising throughout Northern China threatened the interests of nations with established concessions in major cities and leased territories in the Empire of China. This hostility against these powers was mainly driven by a secret nationalist and xenophobic group called \"the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists\", hence the name \"Boxers\" given to its members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal\nIt was decided by eight major powers (Germany, Austria, United States, France, Britain, Italy, Japan and Russia) to establish an international army of 150,000 men under the supreme command of German Field Marshal Count von Waldersee to rescue their besieged compatriots in Peking and put down the rebellion in the provinces. Allied troops entered Peking on 14 August 1900 but a peace treaty with China was only signed on 7 September 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal, Award statute\nThe 1901 China expedition commemorative medal was awarded by the President of the French Republic, based on the recommendation of the minister under which the potential recipient served, to all officers, sailors and soldiers having participated in the French expedition to China during the following time periods:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal, Award statute\nIt was also awarded, on the recommendation of the Minister for External Affairs, to the French civilians who took part in the defence of the legations in Peking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal, Award statute\nThe law of 15 April 1904 added as potential recipients of the 1901 China expedition commemorative medal, the officers, sailors and soldiers, destined to take part in the expedition, who disembarked in the Tonkin between 30 June 1900 and 8 August 1901 on the condition they did not already receive the Colonial Medal for the same time period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal, Award description\nThe 1901 China expedition commemorative medal was a 30mm in diameter circular silver medal. The obverse bore the relief image of the effigy of the \"warrior republic\" in the form of the left profile of a helmeted woman's bust, the helmet being adorned by a crown of oak and laurel leaves. On either side, the relief inscription along the circumference \"R\u00c9PUBLIQUE FRAN\u00c7AISE\" (English: \"FRENCH REPUBLIC\"). The reverse bore a pagoda surrounded with military and naval articles or war. The ribbon's suspension loop was adorned with two Chinese dragons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033253-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 China expedition commemorative medal, Award description\nThe medal hung from a 36\u00a0mm wide silk moir\u00e9 yellow ribbon with four 4\u00a0mm wide equidistant green vertical stripes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1901 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in last place in the eight-team National League with a record of 52 wins and 87 losses, 38 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Cincinnati Reds continued to rebuild by adding younger players to their roster in 1901. They finished the 1900 season with a 62\u201377 record, finishing in seventh place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe team dismissed manager Bob Allen after only one season, and replaced him with Reds legend Bid McPhee. McPhee had played second base for Cincinnati from 1882\u20131899. The Reds acquired a new shortstop, as George Magoon joined the club. He last played in the majors in 1899, splitting time between the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Orphans. Dick Harley, who played in only five games with the Reds in 1900, would get a starting job in left field. Harley's last full season was in 1899 with the Cleveland Spiders, when he hit .250 with a homer and 50 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nSam Crawford was a bright spot for the team, as he batted .330 with a league high sixteen home runs, while driving in 104 runners to lead the team offensively. Jake Beckley was solid once again, hitting .307 with three home runs and 79 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Noodles Hahn had a very solid season, going 22\u201319 with a 2.71 ERA. Hahn led the league with 41 complete games, 375.1 innings pitched, and striking out 239 batters. Bill Phillips, with a 14\u201318 record and a 4.64 ERA, was the only other Cincinnati pitcher to have ten or more victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nCincinnati got the season off on a good note, as they won four of their first five games to take a very early first place lead in the National League. The Reds would continue to hold on to first place through twenty-three games in, as they had a 15\u20138 record, a one-game lead over the New York Giants. Even though Cincinnati went 5\u20136 in their next eleven games, they held on to a first place tie with the Giants before losing ten games in a row to fall to seventh place with a 20\u201324 record. Some of their losses were lopsided, as the Reds lost 25\u201313 to the Giants to begin their losing streak, and in their tenth loss, they were on the wrong side of a 21\u20133 pasting by the Brooklyn Superbas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nAfter snapping their ten-game losing streak with a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, the Reds lost four more in a row, including losses of 8\u20130 and 19\u20131 to the Phillies. Cincinnati continued to struggle for the rest of the season, falling into the cellar, and finished the year with a 52\u201387 record, 38 games behind the pennant-winning Pittsburgh Pirates. This marked the first time in team history that the Reds finished the season in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033254-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033255-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1901 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Henry S. Pratt, the team compiled a 1\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election\nThe City of Christchurch by-election of 1901 was a by-election held on 18 July 1901 during the 14th New Zealand Parliament in the urban seat of the City of Christchurch. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of conservative politician Charles Lewis and won by George John Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Background\nLewis was first elected in the 1896 City of Christchurch by-election. As a conservative, he won despite the electorate being mostly liberal supporters due to vote splitting by two candidates with liberal leanings. Lewis was confirmed by the voters in the 1896 and 1899 general elections, but he found the parliamentary work demanding to his health. At the time, sessions regularly extended into the evening or the early morning, sometimes even all night. He missed the last week of the session in 1900 due to exhaustion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0001-0001", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Background\nWhen he called a meeting in Christchurch in June 1901 that was poorly attended, he felt unsupported by the constituency and resigned later that week. Christchurch's main newspaper, The Press, argued that people were focussed on the upcoming royal visit instead. His resignation was announced in the newspapers on 12 June 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Background\nThe by-election was the first election held under the provisions of the Electoral Act Amendment Act, 1900. The parliamentary session of 1901 opened on 1 July. The prime minister, Richard Seddon, moved in the House of Representatives on 3 July that the speaker issue writs for the Christchurch and Patea by-elections. The Christchurch registrar of elections received the writ on 4 July, and that closed the electoral roll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Arthur Hughes Turnbull\nThe first person to confirm his candidacy was Arthur Hughes Turnbull. His father, Richard Turnbull, had represented the Timaru electorate from 1868 to 1890. Turnbull stood as an independent Liberal. One of the people who nominated Turnbull was Thomas Gapes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, Charles Taylor\nCharles Taylor had stood in the 1899 general election as a Liberal\u2013Labour candidate and came sixth of the eight candidates; prior to that election campaign, he had been virtually unknown. In June 1901, the Trades and Labour Council decided to ask its 5,000 members in Christchurch to choose between Charles Taylor, W. Newton, and G. Fisher by ballot. It was reported on 21 June that Taylor had \"decidedly\" won the selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, George John Smith\nTommy Taylor was regarded as almost certain to stand as a prohibitionist; he had previously represented the City of Christchurch electorate and was very popular. If Taylor decided not to stand, George John Smith would stand instead. A large meeting was held on 18 June where Smith announced that he would not stand, and Taylor was asked by unanimous resolution to become a candidate. Two days later, Taylor announced that he could not stand because of business commitments. Smith accepted to become a candidate at a meeting held on 27 June in the hall of the Trinity Church, with James Arthur Flesher as the chairman of his election committee. Smith stood as an independent Liberal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 68], "content_span": [69, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Candidates, William Hoban\nWilliam Hoban announced his candidacy on 22 June by newspaper advertisement. He had previously run for election, and represented the interests of licensed victuallers. He withdrew again to avoid \"vote splitting\" on 9 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Campaign\nThe first election meeting was held by Taylor on 3 July, who spoke at the Canterbury Hall under the chairmanship of the Mayor of Christchurch, Arthur Rhodes. Turnbull's public meetings commenced on 8 July at the Druids' Hall in Colombo Road in Sydenham. In total, Turnbull held eight public meetings. Smith also commenced his series of public meetings on Monday, 8 July. A total of 23 public meetings were held by the three candidates, as per the table below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Campaign\nThere was little political difference between Turnbull and Smith, as both were independent Liberals with fairly similar views. Their only real point of difference was that Smith was a prohibitionist (although much more moderate than Tommy Taylor), whilst Turnbull was in favour of temperance. Charles Taylor, on the other hand, was a staunch advocate for labour interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033256-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 City of Christchurch by-election, Results\nThe election was held on 18 July 1901. There were a total of fourteen polling booths throughout the electorate: nine in Christchurch, three in Sydenham, and two in St Albans. When the resignation of Lewis was received, an election official purged the electoral roll that had been compiled for the 1899 general election by several thousand names, and invited people new to the electorate to enrol. With limited time available for enrolment, the final roll had 17,268 names, 4083 fewer than the 1899 electoral roll. Smith beat Charles Taylor and Arthur Hughes Turnbull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033257-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1901 Clemson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Clemson Agricultural College as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1901 SIAA football season. In its second season under head coach John Heisman, the team posted a 3\u20131\u20131 record (2\u20130\u20131 against SIAA opponents) and finished in second place in the SIAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season\nThe 1901 Cleveland Blues season was a season in American baseball. It was the franchise's first in the majors, being one of the original franchises of the American League. Unofficially known as the Blues, the team finished seventh out of eight teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Before the 1901 season, 1899: Major League Baseball leaves Cleveland\nThe Cleveland Spiders were dissolved after winning only 20 games and losing 134 in the 1899 season along with the Louisville Colonels, Baltimore Orioles, and the Washington Senators, leaving the National League with eight teams to begin the 1900 season. As a result, 1900 marked the first year since 1886 during which the city of Cleveland did not have a team affiliated with Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 101], "content_span": [102, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Before the 1901 season, 1900: A new franchise\nBan Johnson, president of the Western League, changed the league's name to the American League in 1900, bringing aboard a new team in Cleveland, then known as the Cleveland Lake Shores, along with new Baltimore and Washington franchises, which would be created with or without the approval of the National League. During this time, Cleveland had a minor league baseball team, known as the Bluebirds or Blues due to their all-blue uniforms, which finished their season with a 63\u201373 record and finished sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 78], "content_span": [79, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Before the 1901 season, 1901: Major league once more\nThe American League became a major league before the 1901 season. As the American League made the jump to major league status, many players jumped ship, including Cy Young and Nap Lajoie, which led the National League to call them an \"outlaw league\" in November 1900. As the 1901 season came underway in April, and as the war between the two leagues erupted, the Cleveland franchise, now known as the Blues, began its first official season as a Major League Baseball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 85], "content_span": [86, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Regular season, Season summary, April\nThe Cleveland Blues played their first game of the season against the Chicago White Stockings on April 24, 1901. This was the first games in the history of the American League; three other games scheduled that day were rained out. The starting lineup consisted of: Ollie Pickering (RF), Jack McCarthy (LF), Frank Genins (CF), Candy LaChance (1B), Bill Bradley (3B), Erve Beck (2B), Bill Hallman (SS), Bob Wood (C), and Bill Hoffer (P).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0004-0001", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Regular season, Season summary, April\nHoffer allowed seven runs in the first two innings and the Blues failed to recover, as they lost the game 8\u20132, earning the first loss in American League history. In the second game of the season, Beck hit the first home run in American League history off pitcher John Skopec, but the Blues lost again, 7\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Regular season, Season summary, May\nOn May 9, 1901, Earl Moore threw the first no-hitter in the history of the franchise and the American League. The Blues lost to Chicago by a score of 4\u20132 despite allowing no hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Regular season, Season summary, May\nOn May 23, Cleveland scored nine runs with the bases empty and two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat Washington 14\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033258-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned Run Average; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033259-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cleveland mayoral election\nThe 1901 Cleveland mayoral election saw the election of Tom L. Johnson by a very large margin. Johnson ran on a pro-municipal ownership and tax reform platform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033260-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Colgate football team\nThe 1901 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach Charles B. Mason, the team compiled a 2\u20135 record. Arthur Griffen was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033261-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1901 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various individuals who chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1901 college football season. The only two individuals who have been recognized as \"official\" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1901 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team 13 years earlier in 1889. Camp's 1901 All-America Team was published in Collier's Weekly, and Whitney's selections were published in Outing magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033261-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans\nIn its official listing of \"Consensus All-America Selections,\" the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as \"consensus\" All-Americans. Using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 18 players as \"consensus\" All-American for the 1901 football season. The consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below (\"All-Americans of 1901\") and include the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033261-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-America Team, Concerns of Eastern bias\nThe All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East and the Ivy League in particular. In 1901, 17 of the 18 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, and 14 of 18 played in the Ivy League. The undefeated Harvard Crimson team had eight players who were designated as consensus All-Americans. The only four consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were Neil Snow of Michigan, Paul Bunker and Charles Dudley Daly of Army, and Walter Bachman of Lafayette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033261-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-America Team, Concerns of Eastern bias\nThe dominance of Eastern players led to criticism over the years that the All-America selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame. During the 1901 season, Fielding H. Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" team at Michigan compiled an 11\u20130 record and outscored its opponents by the unprecedented total of 550 to 0. Four Michigan players were chosen for All-Western teams: end Neil Snow, halfback Willie Heston, quarterback Boss Weeks, and tackle Bruce Shorts. Another strong team from the West was Wisconsin which compiled a 9\u20130 record and outscored opponents 316 to 0. Yet, only one player from a western school, Snow of Michigan, was recognized as a first-team All-American in 1901. Caspar Whitney named two Wisconsin players, tackle Art Curtis and halfback Al \"Norsky\" Larson, as second-team All-Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 959]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033261-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-America Team, Unofficial selectors\nIn addition to Camp and Whitney, other sports writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1901, though such lists have not been recognized as \"official\" All-America selections by the NCAA. The list below includes the All-America selections made by the New York Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Only four players were unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, the New York Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. They were Dave Campbell, Oliver Cutts, Charles Dudley Daly, and Robert Kernan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033262-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1901 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1901. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Most said Virginia ranked best in the south. Gallaudet, a school for deaf-mutes, also claimed a championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033262-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-Southern Team, Consensus selection\nThose players who made both Outing's team and received mention by the Washington Post included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033262-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nBold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033262-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWP = posted by Oscar P. Schmidt in The Washington Post, selected by M. J. Thompson, graduate manager of athletics at Georgetown University and Richard Armstrong, formerly of Yale. It had a second team referred to as substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033263-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1901 college football season. In their first season under head coach C. J. Griffith, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 56 to 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033263-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe Aggies opened their season under head coach George Toomey and played a game on October 12 against Colorado. When the Aggies placed an ineligible player into the game, Colorado's coach Fred Folsom protested and refused to proceed. However, Colorado failed to follow procedures, and the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of Colorado awarded the game to the Aggies as a forfeit. Toomey resigned following the game and was replaced as head coach by C.J. Griffith. Despite being awarded the forfeit, Colorado State does not count the game as a win in its media guide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033264-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1901 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado as a member of the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1901 college football season. Head coach Fred Folsom returned from a one-season absence to lead the team to a 5\u20131\u20131 record (2\u20130 against conference opponents) and the CFA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe 1901 Columbia Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach George Sanford, the team compiled an 8\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 158 to 91. Chauncey L. Berrien was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team\nTwo Columbia backs were selected as first-team players on the 1901 All-America team: Harold Weekes (from Walter Camp) and Bill Morley (from Caspar Whitney). Berrien and Richard Shore Smith also played in the backfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Before the season\nIn its October 1901 preview of the college football season, Harper's Weekly opined: \"In Weekes, Morley, and Berrien, Columbia has a trio that is equalled by no other college this year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Before the season\nColumbia's sports teams were commonly called the \"Blue and White\" in this era, but had no official nickname. The name \"Lions\" would not be adopted until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Before the season\nThe team played its home games at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Season summary, Preseason\nMorley resigned as captain and Chauncey L. Berrien took his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Buffalo\nOn the eve of the first game with Buffalo, the faculty announced a number of leading players were forbidden to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Season summary, Week 4: at Harvard\nIn \"the first big football battle of the season,\" Columbia lost to Harvard 18 to 0. Captain Berrien had been prevented from playing by Columbia faculty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 78], "content_span": [79, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Season summary, Week 6: at Yale\nColumbia gave Yale one of its hardest games of the season in a 10 to 5 loss, holding the Bulldogs scoreless in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Season summary, Week 8: Penn\nColumbia defeated Penn 10 to 0, its first victory over Penn since the school instituted a coaching system, and its second ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 72], "content_span": [73, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Season summary, Week 13: Carlisle\nColumbia rolled up its largest score of the season, defeating the Carlisle Indians 40 to 12. It was 40 to 0 until the final five minutes. Starring in the contest was Columbia's backfield of Bill Morley, Harold Weekes, Richard Shore Smith, and Chauncey L. Berrien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 77], "content_span": [78, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Postseason\nIn his review of the 1901 football season, Charles Edward Patterson wrote: \"Morley, stocky, muscular, not to be denied his two yards help or no help (and three times two means six, or a first down, you know!) able to repeat indefinitely, the best interferer in present day football, a forty yard punter and a drop-kicker who can actually score.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033265-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Columbia Blue and White football team, Postseason\nMorley took over as the team's head coach the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033266-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Condoublin state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Condoublin on 4 November 1901 because the 1901 election for Condoublin was overturned by the Elections and Qualifications Committee due to irregularities in the poll. Patrick Clara had defeated Andrew Stewart by 15 votes however 30 people were prevented from voting at Bulgandramine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033267-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1901 college football season. This was the sixth year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by third year head coach T. D. Knowles, and completed the season with a record of 8\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba\nThe 1901 Constitution of Cuba took effect in Cuba on 20 May 1902, and governments operated under it until it was replaced by the 1940 Constitution of Cuba. It was adopted by delegates to a Constitutional Convention in February 1901, but the United States, then exercising military authority over Cuba following the end of Cuba's war for independence from Spain, withheld its approval until the Convention amended the Constitution in June to incorporate language from a U.S. statute, the Platt Amendment, that placed limitations on Cuban sovereignty and provided a legal basis for future U.S. military interventions in Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, Constitutional Convention\nGeneral Leonard Wood, the U.S. military governor of Cuba, called for a constitutional convention to meet in September 1900. It met for the first time on 5 November 1900, in Havana. Wood opened the meeting by charging its thirty-one delegates with writing a constitution and formulating the future relationship between the U.S. and Cuba. Domingo M\u00e9ndez Capote presided and Enrique Villuendas and Alfredo Zayas served as secretaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, Constitutional Convention\nThe convention's central committee produced a first draft of the constitution in January, and it failed to mention the United States. In early February the U.S. government expressed its displeasure at the Convention's failure to address the question of Cuban-American relations and its presumption that elections would occur 90 days after the constitution is adopted without giving any consideration, in the words of The New York Times, \"as to whether the United States will be satisfied\" with the document. A spokesman for the McKinley administration said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, Constitutional Convention\n...that if Cuba manifests any unwillingness to accept the advice of the Administration, and demands a stronger expression of the will of the United States, still its military ruler, the President will ask the [U.S.] Congress to assemble for the purpose of sharing with him the task of impressing Cuba with the conviction in the United States that the right of free government is to be exercised there [in Cuba] only after this country has been assured that Cuba will be restrained by pledges that it is our duty to exact and should be the pleasure of Cuba to extend, without hesitation and in her own best interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, Constitutional Convention\nThe convention approved the text of the constitution on 21 February 1901, without adopting the language the U.S. government was insisting on. Modeled on the U.S. Constitution (1789), it divided the government into three branches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, Constitutional Convention\nThe constitution was not submitted to a popular vote. Some in the United States had objected that the document should be subject to popular ratification, both to remove any question that the United States had imposed it by manipulating the Convention delegates and also as a matter of principle: \"it is the privilege of the people to adopt or reject it; and it will not be securely ordained and established until it has been so adopted by the people\". Wood, however, had charged the Convention with writing and \"adopting\" a constitution. The Convention did that and, without holding a plebiscite, proceeded to establish procedures for elections to fill the offices established by the Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, U.S. demands\nThe Platt Amendment was a U.S. statute that authorized the U.S. president to withdraw troops from Cuba following the Spanish\u2013American War once he secured several specific promises from Cuba by treaty. Five provisions set restrictions on Cuban sovereignty and governed relations between the U.S. and Cuba. A sixth declared sovereignty over the Isle of Pines off the coast of the island of Cuba a question to be settled by a later treaty. A seventh guaranteed the U.S. the right to lease land in Cuba to establish naval bases and coaling stations. An eighth required the earlier seven provisions to be agreed to by treaty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, U.S. demands\nThe U.S. government attempted to win the adoption of the Platt Amendment's terms by the delegates of the Cuban Constitutional Convention by promising to guarantee Cuban sugar producers access to the U.S. market. The delegates repeatedly rejected the text or sought to find acceptable language to substitute. Wood negotiated with a committee tasked with crafting a text. When they adopted a constitution in February 1901 they failed to include any version of it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, U.S. demands\nThe delegates tried to meet the U.S. demand by issuing an \"opinion\" on relations with the U.S., but remained in session anticipating it would not be sufficient. As of early April, in one observer's view, the delegates were divided between \"nationalist sentiment\" and the \"sober judgment\" that advised meeting the U.S. demands, and \"they continue to beat about the bush for some deliverance from their dilemma, all the time ... drifting slowly but sensible toward an acceptance of the terms of the Platt Amendment.\" A divided committee of delegates produced two more competing drafts in May. As late as 1 June 1901, the Convention adopted language that Wood warned would not be acceptable, and U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root confirmed that rejection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, U.S. demands\nThe delegates finally yielded to American pressure and ratified the Platt Amendment's provisions, first by accepting the report of its drafting committee on a 15 to 14 vote on 28 May, and then as an amendment to the constitution by a vote of 16 to 11 on 12 June 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, U.S. demands\nThe United States transferred \"government and control\" to the government newly elected under the terms of the amended 1901 constitution on 20 May 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, U.S. demands\nCuba removed the Platt Amendment provisions from its constitution on 29 May 1934, as part of a new understanding of relations with the United States under the Good Neighbor policy of the administration of Franklin Roosevelt. At the same time, Cuba and the U.S. replaced their 1903 Treaty of Relations that had committed both countries to the Platt Amendment's requirements. Their new 1934 Treaty of Relations preserved only two elements of the earlier pact:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033268-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Constitution of Cuba, Delegates to the Constitutional Convention\nThe delegates to the Constitutional Convention that created the 1901 Constitution were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033269-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1901 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 15th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033269-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Cork Senior Football Championship\nNils won the championship following an 0-08 to 0-04 defeat of Fermoy in a replay of the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033270-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1901 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 15th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033270-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nRedmonds won the championship following a 1-11 to 2-4 defeat of St. Finbarr\u2019s in the final. This was their third championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033271-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1901 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Raymond Starbuck, the team compiled an 11\u20131 record, shut out 10 of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 333 to 14. The only loss was by an 8\u20136 score against Princeton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033271-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Cornell Big Red football team\nFive Cornell players received honors on the 1901 College Football All-America Team: guards Bill Warner (Walter Camp-1) and Sanford Hunt (Camp-2, Caspar Whitney-1); quarterback Alfred A. Brewster, Jr. (Whitney-2); halfback Henry Purcell (Camp-2); and fullback Henry Schoellkopf (Camp-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033272-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 County Championship\nThe 1901 County Championship was the twelfth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 6 May to 4 September 1901. Yorkshire County Cricket Club won their fifth championship title, their second title in successive seasons. Middlesex finished in a distant second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033273-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Croatian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia from 6 to 9 November 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033274-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cuban general election\nGeneral elections were held in Cuba on 31 December 1901. Tom\u00e1s Estrada Palma won the presidential election, whilst the National Party emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 27 of the 63 seats. Voter turnout was 63.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033275-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Cumberland Bulldogs football team\nThe 1901 Cumberland Bulldogs football team represented Cumberland University in the 1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). Nearly the whole backfield was injured against Mooney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033276-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Dalmatian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033277-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Danish Folketing election\nFolketing elections were held in Denmark on 3 April 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033277-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Danish Folketing election, Campaign\nEight of the 114 seats were uncontested, of which six were won by the Venstre Reform Party and two by the Social Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033278-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Danish local elections\nThe Danish regional elections of 1901 were held in 1901. 6 municipal council members were elected for Copenhagen's municipal council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033279-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Darling Downs by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives electorate of Darling Downs in Queensland on 14 September 1901, a Saturday. It was triggered by the death of William Henry Groom on 8 August 1901. It was the first by-election of the Australian parliament since Federation. The writ for the by-election was issued on 13 August, nominations for candidates closed on 27 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033279-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Darling Downs by-election, Aftermath\nLittleton Groom was elected in the by-election, receiving nearly 63 per cent of the vote. Groom was the third son of the deceased former member, William Groom. The other candidate in the by-election was Joshua Thomas Bell, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the electoral district of Dalby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033280-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1901 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Walter McCornack, the team compiled a 10\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 296 to 47. The team played its home games at the Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033281-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1901 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach John C. Mackey, the team compiled a 3\u20133 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 66 to 58. Four of the team's opponents were high schools, and a fifth game was played against alumni. The only intercollegiate game was an 11\u20130 victory over Detroit Business University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 1901 Detroit Tigers season was the Tigers' first in Major League Baseball. The team was a charter member of the American League, which was originally formed as the minor-league Western League, of which it had also been a charter member. The Tigers finished in third place with a record or 74\u201361, eight-and-a-half games behind the Chicago White Stockings. Most of Detroit's home games were played at Bennett Park, with Sunday games played at Burns Park due to Detroit's blue laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season\nRoscoe Miller (23\u201313) led the team in wins and was the Tigers' first 20-game winner. His performance headlined a strong pitching staff that had the third lowest ERA (3.30) in the American League. Joe Yeager had an ERA of 2.61, for the second best Adjusted ERA+ in the AL, behind Cy Young. The offense was not as strong however, scoring 741 runs \u2013 fifth among the eight teams in the league. The team's best hitters were shortstop Kid Elberfeld (.308 average) and center fielder Jimmy Barrett (.293 average; 110 runs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, Home field\nThe Tigers had played their games at Bennett Park since 1896, but the graduation to a major league meant that there would now be games scheduled on Sundays, which was forbidden by Detroit's blue laws. In order to avoid running afoul of this stricture, owner James D. Burns built a ballpark on his own property in Springwells Township, Michigan just outside the Detroit city limits. Named Burns Park, the Tigers would play their Sunday home games there for the 1901 and 1902 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, 1901 season, Pre-season\nThe following were key dates in the pre-season leading up to the Tigers' inaugural season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, 1901 season, Regular season highlights\nThe following were key dates in the regular season of the Tigers' inaugural season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, 1901 season, Attendance\nDuring the 1901 season, Detroit attracted 259,430 fans at home and 238,100 on the road, for a total of 447,428. Detroit ranked third behind Chicago and Boston in overall attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033282-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033283-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Dickinson football team\nThe 1901 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 109 to 79. Ralph Hutchinson was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033284-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1901 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach Charles Best, the team compiled a 4\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 113 to 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033285-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1901 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute\u2014now known as Drexel University\u2013as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033286-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Dutch general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Netherlands on 14 June 1901. The Liberal Union remained the largest party, winning 26 of the 100 seats in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033287-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Ecuadorian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Ecuador in 1901. The result was a victory for Le\u00f3nidas Plaza, who received 89% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033288-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1901 municipal election was held December 9, 1901 for the purpose of electing a mayor and four aldermen to sit on the Edmonton Town Council, as well as five public school trustees and five separate school trustees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033288-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Edmonton municipal election\nThere were six aldermanic positions on the council at the time, but two of them were already filled: William Thomas Henry and Joseph Morris had both been elected for a two-year term in 1900, and were still in office. Henry Goodridge had also been elected for a two-year term, but had resigned; accordingly, one of the positions up for election in 1901 - the one filled by Goodridge himself - was for only a one-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033288-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nVoter turnout figures for the 1901 municipal election are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033288-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Aldermen\nCornelius Gallagher, Henry Goodridge, Edmund Grierson, and Phillip Heiminck were elected. Information about defeated candidates for this election is no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033288-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nThomas Bellamy, Matthew McCauley, Kenneth McLeod, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033288-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nNicolas Dubois Dominic Beck, H Morel, Joseph Henri Picard, J Pomerleau, and Antonio Prince were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033289-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 English cricket season\n1901 was the twelfth season of County Championship cricket in England. Yorkshire defended their title but, unlike the previous year when they were unbeaten, they lost one game during the season to 12th-placed Somerset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033289-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 English cricket season\nMiddlesex finished second, winning six of their eight finished games, but had the highest percentage of draws of anyone save Essex. Once again, Ranjitsinhji scored more than 2,000 runs for Sussex and, with 2,000 runs from C. B. Fry as well, the team finished fourth in the table behind third-placed Lancashire, whose England Test batsman Johnny Tyldesley scored 2,605 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033289-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 English cricket season, South African tour\nSouth Africa made its second tour of England in 1901, following the inaugural tour in 1894. This time, the team played first-class cricket, mainly against county opposition, but no Test matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033289-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 English cricket season, South African tour\nSouth Africa played 15 first-class games with 5 wins, 9 defeats and 1 tied match. Their overall record was 25 matches, 13 wins, 9 defeats, 2 draws and 1 tied match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033289-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 English cricket season, County Championship, Final table\nThe final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033290-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1901 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 13th in Vienna, Austria. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033290-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe following two years the Europeans were planned to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Both these years there was no ice in Amsterdam. In 1902, the championships were cancelled. In 1903, the championship were moved to Stockholm, Sweden, but in Stockholm was on only one contestant. Therefore, also in 1903 the Europeans were cancelled. The Europeans were continued in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033291-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1901 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Zurich in the Swiss city of Z\u00fcrich on a day in mid-August. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final\nThe 1901 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Sheffield United and Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, 20 April 1901 at the Crystal Palace stadium in south London. It was the final match of the 1900\u201301 FA Cup, the 30th edition of the world's oldest football knockout competition, and England's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final\nSheffield United were appearing in their second final, having won the cup in 1899, and Tottenham Hotspur in their first. Both teams joined the competition in the first round proper and progressed through four rounds to the final. As a member of the Football League First Division, Sheffield United were exempt from the competition's qualifying phase. Tottenham Hotspur, as a member of the Southern League would normally have been required to pre-qualify but, as champions of the Southern League in 1899\u20131900, they were given byes through the qualifying phase to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final\nThe final was watched by a world record crowd of 110,820 and ended in a 2\u20132 draw. The goalscorers were Fred Priest and Walter Bennett for Sheffield United and Sandy Brown (twice) for Tottenham Hotspur. A replay was held a week later on 27 April at Burnden Park in Bolton, but before a much-reduced crowd of 20,470. Tottenham Hotspur won 3\u20131 with goals by John Cameron, Tom Smith and Brown against one by Fred Priest for Sheffield United. Brown was the first player to score a goal (fifteen in total) in every round of an FA Cup tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Background\nKnown officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, the FA Cup is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football. The competition was first proposed on 20 July 1871 by C. W. Alcock at a meeting of The Football Association committee. The tournament was first played in the 1871\u201372 season and is the world's oldest association football competition. The 1901 match between Sheffield United and Tottenham Hotspur at Crystal Palace was the 30th final and the first of the 20th century. Sheffield United were appearing in the final for the second time, having defeated Derby County 4\u20131 in 1899. Tottenham Hotspur were making their first appearance in the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Background\nSheffield United were members of the Football League First Division and, in the 1900\u201301 league championship, amassed 31 points to finish in 14th position, six points clear of the relegation placings. Tottenham Hotspur were the reigning Southern League champions, but they slipped to fifth place in the 1900\u201301 championship, five points behind new champions Southampton. Southern League teams normally had to qualify for the first round proper of the FA Cup but, as champions, Tottenham Hotspur were exempted from pre-qualification and were given byes to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Background\nSheffield United's team between 1889 and 1932 was selected by a committee but with the club secretary in charge of the team on match days. In 1901, this was John Nicholson. Tottenham Hotspur were managed by John Cameron, their inside forward, who became the first player-manager to lead his team to a cup final victory. Cameron did not lead the team on the field, however; Jack Jones was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United\nSheffield United entered the competition in the first round proper and played five matches, including one replay, en route to the final. All four of their opponents were other teams in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nIn the first round, Sheffield were drawn away to Sunderland at Roker Park. This was a difficult hurdle as Sunderland were one of the leading teams in the First Division, eventually finishing as runners-up behind champions Liverpool. The match was played on Saturday, 9 February and Sheffield United won 2\u20131 with goals by Bert Lipsham and Fred Priest. Sunderland's goal was scored by Colin McLatchie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nSheffield then faced Everton in a home tie at Bramall Lane on Saturday, 23 February and won 2\u20130. Both goals were scored by Walter Bennett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nIn the third (quarter-final) round, Sheffield United were drawn away to Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on Saturday, 23 March. This was expected to be a tough match but United won 4\u20130 and The Times said their performance was \"remarkable\". Priest scored an early goal and then, ten minutes before half-time, Sheffield scored their other three goals in as many minutes. The report says George Hedley, who scored the second goal, was \"quite brilliant\". Bennett scored the third; the fourth was an own goal by George Barker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 6 April, and Monday, 8 April. Sheffield United's opponents were Aston Villa who, like themselves, were struggling in the First Division and eventually avoided relegation by five points. The match was played on the Saturday at the City Ground in Nottingham. As in the first round, Sheffield's goalscorers were Priest and Lipsham. The Villa goals were scored by Billy Garraty and Jack Devey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nSheffield's right back Harry Thickett withdrew from the match as his wife had just died, The Times reporting this made a considerable difference to Sheffield, who were expected to win the tie. As it was, they took the lead after five minutes when good passing by Hedley and Lipsham put Priest through on goal. Garraty equalised several minutes later but, just before half time, a well-taken free kick by Ernest Needham created a chance for Lipsham, who hit a fast and low shot into the net. In the second half, Devey equalised after five minutes with a headed goal. The Sheffield defence, without Thickett, was disorganised and Devey was given a clear chance to score. Villa were the better team after this but no more goals were scored and the match ended in a 2\u20132 draw after 90 minutes with no extra time allowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nA replay was necessary and was played at the Baseball Ground in Derby five days later on Thursday, 11 April. Sheffield won 3\u20130 with two goals by Priest and one by Bennett. The Times reported that the teams were evenly matched for much of the first half until an error by one of the Villa players allowed Bennett to race clear and score the first goal with a hard shot which went in off a post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0012-0001", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nVilla tried hard for an equaliser but their forwards were not combining well and, when they did shoot at goal, they created little difficulty for Willie Foulke, the Sheffield goalkeeper. With about fifteen minutes remaining, good passing between Hedley and Bennett put Priest through on goal and he made it 2\u20130. A few minutes later, Priest scored the third goal after receiving a pass from Hedley. An estimated 25,000 people watched the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur\nTottenham Hotspur entered the competition in the first round proper and played six matches, including two replays, en route to the final. Three of their opponents were in the First Division and one was in the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur, Early rounds\nIn the first round, Tottenham were drawn at home to First Division Preston North End who had defeated them 1\u20130 at Deepdale in the first round of the previous season's competition. This season, however, Preston were struggling in the league and were relegated at the end of the season. The match was played on Saturday, 9 February and was the first-ever FA Cup tie at White Hart Lane, which Tottenham had acquired in 1899. It ended in a 1\u20131 draw, so a replay was needed. Tottenham's goal was scored by Sandy Brown. Preston's goalscorer was Johnny McMahon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 70], "content_span": [71, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur, Early rounds\nThe replay took place at Deepdale on Wednesday, 13 February, Tottenham avenging their defeat there last season with a 4\u20132 win, largely due to a hat-trick by Brown. The other goal was scored by player-manager John Cameron. Preston's goals were scored by Frank Becton and former Tottenham forward Tom Pratt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 70], "content_span": [71, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0016-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur, Early rounds\nTottenham were drawn at home in the second round to the FA Cup holders Bury, who had outplayed Tottenham's Southern League rivals Southampton in the 1900 final, winning 4\u20130. Bury were doing well in the First Division and eventually finished fifth. The match was played on Saturday, 23 February, and Tottenham won 2\u20131 with two more goals by Brown. Bury's goal was scored by Jasper McLuckie. The Times report says that Tottenham played well and merited their victory, especially as they had to recover from being a goal down, but \"they were lucky in finding the Bury eleven quite out of form\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 70], "content_span": [71, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0017-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur, Early rounds\nIn the third round, Tottenham faced Reading, who were also in the Southern League, at Elm Park. The match on Saturday, 23 March, ended 1\u20131. Tottenham's goal was scored by left winger Jack Kirwan. Reading's goalscorer was Dick Evans. In the replay at White Hart Lane on Thursday, 28 March, Tottenham won the game 3\u20130 with two goals by Brown and one by David Copeland. The crowd was 12,000. This victory took Tottenham into their first FA Cup semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 70], "content_span": [71, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0018-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur, Semi-final\nTottenham Hotspur's semi-final was played on Monday, 8 April against First Division West Bromwich Albion at Villa Park. Albion were having a poor season in the league and, along with Tottenham's first round opponents Preston, they were relegated at the end of the season. Tottenham had a convincing win by 4\u20130 with all four goals scored by Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 68], "content_span": [69, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0019-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur, Semi-final\nThe Times report commented upon the decisiveness of the Tottenham victory before a crowd of about 50,000. Pitch conditions were good but there was a strong wind with variable gusts. Both sides mounted attacks in the first half but the match was goalless at half-time. Three minutes into the second half, Kirwan ran clear on the left wing and centred the ball for Brown to head in the first goal. Having taken the lead, the Tottenham players became more relaxed and began to play an accurate, short passing game which resulted in two more goals in the next fifteen minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 68], "content_span": [69, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0019-0001", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Tottenham Hotspur, Semi-final\nBoth were scored by Brown after clever manoeuvres by his colleagues. Albion tried to assert themselves and created chances of their own but they could not beat Tottenham goalkeeper George Clawley, who had an outstanding game. Eight minutes from the end, a Tottenham breakaway resulted in a fourth goal by Brown. Although Brown scored all four goals, The Times report declared that Kirwan was \"the finest forward on the field\". At the time, it was Albion's biggest defeat in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 68], "content_span": [69, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0020-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nThe final was played at the Crystal Palace stadium on Saturday, 20 April. The weather was fine. In a brief report published the morning of the match, The Times predicted \"one of the hardest matches ever played in the competition\" and reported that the condition of the Crystal Palace pitch had been satisfactory the previous day with a \"true springy turf\". It is the earliest FA Cup final from which any newsreel footage survives. There was massive local interest in the match, given the presence of a London team in the final. Even so, as Mike Collett says, while Tottenham were a southern club, they were hardly a southern team \u2013 five Scots, two Welshmen, one Irishman and, although three players were English, \"none of them came from south of the Trent\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0021-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Final\nA world record crowd of 110,820 watched the match. Sandy Brown became the first player to score in every round of an FA Cup tournament. He scored both Tottenham goals in the final as well as one in the replay for a total of 15 in the whole competition. Fred Priest opened the scoring after ten minutes and Brown equalised after 23 minutes. The score at half-time was 1\u20131 and, five minutes after the restart, Brown scored his second to give Tottenham a 2\u20131 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0022-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Final\nLess than a minute later, Sheffield equalised with a goal that Mike Collett has described as \"one of the most controversial ever scored in a final\". It is unclear what exactly happened but, according to Collett, the most likely scenario is that Tottenham's goalkeeper George Clawley tried to catch a shot by Bert Lipsham and fumbled it. The ball dropped behind Clawley and he spun round to try and kick it away under pressure from Walter Bennett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0022-0001", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Final\nThe ball went out of play over the dead ball line and the linesman signalled a corner, as he thought Clawley had been the last player to make contact with the ball. The referee, however, overruled him and signalled a goal kick, as he thought Bennett had the last contact. Before Clawley could take the goal kick, the referee changed his mind and awarded a goal to Sheffield with Bennett named as the scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0023-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Final\nThe match ended in a 2\u20132 draw and, as extra time was not allowed, a replay was necessary. In its match report on Monday morning, The Times described the Sheffield equaliser as \"the chief incident of the match\". The report says that the referee was \"certain in his judgment\" that the ball was over the line but counters that with a comment by Clawley that \"it was impossible for him to have been behind his own line\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0024-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Replay\nThe replay took place a week later under windy conditions with showers at Burnden Park\u2014home of Bolton Wanderers\u2014with both teams unchanged. The crowd of 20,740 was the lowest at any FA Cup final in the 20th century. As in the first match, Fred Priest opened the scoring and this time Sheffield led 1\u20130 at half-time, but Tottenham dominated the second half and won 3\u20131 with goals by Cameron, Tom Smith and Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0025-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Replay\nThe Times began its report with an essay on the virtues of amateurism versus the \"new methods\" of professionalism. It regretted the decline and fall of amateurism but declared that \"it is an epoch in the history of the game to have the cup once more in the south\". Turning at length to the match, the report says that it \"did honour to both teams\" and was the best football in a final for a long time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0025-0001", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Match, Replay\nThe report praised \"the genius\" of Sheffield captain Needham, but Tottenham adopted different tactics in the second half and relied on pace and combination to attack the Sheffield goal. The teams remained level until fifteen minutes from the end when Cameron had another chance to score. His shot was partially blocked by Peter Boyle but Smith, following up, scored from the rebound. A few minutes later, Brown scored with a header from a corner to complete the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0026-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nGeneral Sir Redvers Buller, accompanied by his wife Lady Audrey, was the guest of honour at the first match and it was intended that he would present the cup and medals. As the match was drawn, he made a short speech instead and complimented both teams. He amused the crowd by drawing a parallel between football and the Army in that, as he put it, the side which usually wins is the one which is best practised at shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0027-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nBuller could not attend the replay, after which the trophy was presented to Tottenham captain Jack Jones by FA president Lord Kinnaird who was himself a famous footballer, having played in a record nine FA Cup finals from 1873 to 1883. Tottenham are the only team from outside the Football League to win the FA Cup since the foundation of the league in 1888. They were the second Southern League team in succession to reach the final, following Southampton in 1900. Southern League teams began joining the Football League in the 1900s \u2013 Tottenham's own application was accepted in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0028-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nTottenham Hotspur have gone on to play in nine finals, winning eight and losing only one. Their most recent win was in 1991 when they defeated Nottingham Forest and became the first club to win the FA Cup eight times, though that record has since been surpassed by Arsenal and Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033292-0029-0000", "contents": "1901 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nSheffield United have made four further FA Cup final appearances. They reached the final again in 1902 and defeated Southampton. They won in both 1915 against Chelsea and 1925 against Cardiff City, but lost to Arsenal in 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition\nThe 1901 Federal Flag Design Competition was an Australian government initiative announced by Prime Minister Edmund Barton to find a flag for the newly federated Commonwealth of Australia. In terms of its essential elements the winning entry is the official flag of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, Background\nAfter Federation on 1 January 1901 and following receipt of a request from the British government to design a flag to distinguish Australia, the new Commonwealth Government held an official competition for a new 'federal flag' in April. The competition attracted 32,823 entries, including those originally sent to the one held earlier by the Review of Reviews. One of these was submitted by an unnamed governor of a colony. The two contests were merged after the Review of Reviews agreed to being integrated into the government initiative. The \u00a375 prize money of each competition were combined and augmented by a further \u00a350 donated by Havelock Tobacco Company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, Conditions\nEach competitor was required to submit two coloured sketches, a red ensign for the merchant service and public use, and a blue ensign for naval and official use. The designs were judged on seven criteria: loyalty to the Empire, Federation, history, heraldry, distinctiveness, utility and cost of manufacture. The majority of designs incorporated the Union Flag and the Southern Cross, but native animals were also popular, including one that depicted a variety of indigenous animals playing cricket. The entries were put on display at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne and the judges took six days to deliberate before reaching their conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, Winners\nFive almost identical entries were chosen as the winning design, and their designers shared the \u00a3200 (2015: $29,142.12) prize money. They were Ivor Evans, a fourteen-year-old schoolboy from Melbourne; Leslie John Hawkins, a teenager apprenticed to an optician from Sydney; Egbert John Nuttall, an architect from Melbourne; Annie Dorrington, an artist from Perth; and William Stevens, a ship's officer from Auckland, New Zealand. The five winners received \u00a340 each. The differences from the present flag were the six-pointed Commonwealth Star, while the components stars in the Southern Cross had different numbers of points, with more if the real star was brighter. This led to five stars of nine, eight, seven, six and five points respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, Aftermath\nA simplified version of the competition-winning design was submitted to the British admiralty for entry into their register of flags in December 1901. Prime Minister Edmund Barton announced in the Commonwealth Gazette that Edward VII had officially recognised the design as the Flag of Australia on 11 February 1903. This version made all the stars in the Southern Cross seven-pointed apart from the smallest, and is the same as the existing flag except the six-pointed Commonwealth Star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, Misconceptions\nThere were five judges for the competition and not seven. This misunderstanding seems to have arisen from the Review of Reviews listing the seven names of the competition's \"judges and officials\" The Review of Reviews gives the names of the five judges in the 20 August 1901 edition, and subsequently confirms that number on 20 September 1901. Mr J.S. Blackham, chief of staff of the Melbourne Herald, was the competition official \"who superintended the classification and arrangement of the flags\" for \"when they were shown in Melbourne's Exhibition Building\"; Mr G. Stewart was another competition official described by Frank Cayley as \"an expert in heraldry\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, Misconceptions\nSeveral secondary sources have claimed the conditions stated the design should \"be based on the British ensigns ... signalling to the beholder that it is an Imperial union ensign of the British Empire\" and around the Southern Cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033293-0006-0001", "contents": "1901 Federal Flag Design Competition, Misconceptions\nIn fact there was no such stipulation made either by the Reviews of Reviews, which had received the majority of the entries, or the federal government (although contestants in the Review of Reviews contest were advised that \"A flag, perhaps, which omitted these symbols might have small chances of success; yet it seems unwise to fetter the competition with any such absolute limitations\"). This error stems from Gwen Swinburne's 1969 book, Unfurled: Australia's Flag, in which she incorrectly attributes the above quote as a condition for the 1901 Federal Flag Competition. She had apparently used a passage from Barlow Cumberland's 1909 book, History of the Union Jack and the Flag of the Empire, as the basis of her quote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033294-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Flinders state by-election\nThe Flinders state by-election, 1901 was a by-election held on 8 June 1901 for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Flinders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033294-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Flinders state by-election, Results\nThe by-election was triggered by the election of Flinders MHA Alexander Poynton to the inaugural Australian House of Representatives at the 1901 federal election. It was won by former Flinders MHA William Tennant Mortlock, who had been unexpectedly defeated at the 1899 general election, defeating future MHA Arthur Hugh Inkster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033295-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Florida Agricultural College football team\nThe 1901 Florida Agricultural College football team represented the Florida Agricultural College in the sport of American football during the 1901 college football season. This was not the modern Florida Gators of the University of Florida in Gainesville, which begins in 1906, but one of its four predecessor institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033295-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Florida Agricultural College football team\nThe team played the first intercollegiate football game in the state of Florida against the Stetson Hatters in Jacksonville as part of the State Fair. Stetson won 6\u20130, after a sure FAC score was obstructed by a tree stump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033295-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Florida Agricultural College football team\nThe team's first team was organized in 1899, but it found nobody to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033296-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Furman Purple Hurricane football team\nThe 1901 Furman Purple Hurricane football team was an American football team that represented Furman University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Roller, the team compiled a 1\u20132\u20131 record. The team played its home games in Greenville, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033297-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Gallaudet Bison football team\nThe 1901 Gallaudet Bison football team was an American football team that represented Gallaudet College, a school for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing located in Washington, D.C. The team competed as an independent during the 1901 college football season and compiled a 4\u20132\u20132 record, highlighted by a victory over Georgetown. The team suffered its only losses to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and southern champion Virginia. The scoreless tie with Baltimore Medical College was at the time described by the Deaf-Mutes Journal as the \"prettiest game that has been seen in Baltimore.\" Ely and Rosson were the team's coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033297-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Gallaudet Bison football team\nThe team included halfback Gilbert O. Erickson, who received first-team All-Southern honors. Other key players included halfback George Andree, fullback and team captain Horace B. Waters and quarterback Howe W. Phillips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033298-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 1901 VFL season was the Geelong Football Club's fifth season in the Victorian Football League and its first with Henry Young as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033298-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Geelong Football Club season\nGeelong finished the home and away with 14 wins and 3 losses, finishing in first position, winning the minor premiership. In the final series, Geelong lost to Collingwood in the semi-final. Due to Geelong's great record in the home and away season, Geelong were displeased that the minor premier has the same chance of winning the major premiership as the other finalists. As such, the first Argus system was revoked after only one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033298-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Geelong Football Club season, Playing List\n3 players played all 18 games this season, with a total of 33 players being used. Charlie Coles was the leading goalkicker with 24 goals. 9 players made their VFL debuts and 2 players, both from South Melbourne, Tim McKeegan and Bill Moodie. One player reached the 50 game milestone, Teddy Rankin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033299-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1901 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach Samuel G. Craig, the team compiled a 6\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033300-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1901 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team was an American football team that represented Georgetown University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach William W. Church, the team compiled a 3\u20133\u20132 record and played its home games on Georgetown Field in Washington, D.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033301-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1901 Georgia Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 1\u20135\u20132 record. Georgia's only victory in the 1901 season came in the first game of the season against South Carolina. The two ties came against Auburn and Alabama. The season also included Georgia's third consecutive loss to Sewanee. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' first season under the guidance of head coach Billy Reynolds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033301-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe end of the 1901 season marked the end of the first decade of football at the University of Georgia. In those ten years, the team had eight different coaches and a combined record of 26\u201323\u20134, a winning percentage of .528.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033302-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1901 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1901 college football season. They were blacklisted by the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association amidst charges of professionalism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election\nThe Glamorgan County Council election, 1901 was the fifth contest for seats on this authority in south Wales. It was preceded by the 1898 election and followed by the 1904 election. Glamorgan was by far the largest county in Wales in terms of population. Glamorgan County Council had been established by the Local Government Act 1888, the first elections being held in early 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the result\nAs in most parts of Wales, the Liberal Party was once again triumphant and won a majority of the seats. In 1901 the majority of the seats were uncontested, in contrast to the position at previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the result\nResults are drawn from a number of sources. The include a number of newspapers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberdare Town\nDavid Price Davies, a member of the Council since 1889 and an alderman from 1892 until 1898 was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Briton Ferry\nJenkin Hill recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cwmavon\nTwo Liberals, a sitting alderman and sitting councillor, opposed each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cyfarthfa\nThomas Thomas recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ferndale\nThree candidates were nominated to contest the vacancy left by the former member, Rev Silas Charles, who had moved to Cardiff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Llwydcoed\nRees Llewellyn, prominent industrialist and member of Aberdare Urban District Council won the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Maesteg\nThe same two candidates had faced each other in 1895. On that occasion, Barrow had won and was elected as alderman for a three-year period. Jenkin Jones was then returned at a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Margam\nThe previous councillor, Edward Knox, was said to have left the district. D.R. David was the owner of the Taibach Tinplate Works and a prominent figure in the public life of the district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Neath (South)\nAt the previous election, Trick had stood as a Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pentre\nMorris appears to have defected to the Unionists, leading to his defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pontlottyn\nAlthough a Liberal gain, the shock was the defeat of Alderman Aaron Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Sketty\nJohn Davies had been defeated in the two previous elections but was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treforest\nJames Roberts had won the seat at a by-election following the death of the previous member, David Leyshon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0016-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nIn addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1901 election, there were eleven Aldermanic vacancies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033303-0017-0000", "contents": "1901 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nThe following aldermen were appointed by the newly elected council. A notable feature was the non-election of Sir John Llewelyn, an alderman since 1889. As a result, there were no Conservative aldermen on Glamorgan County Council, the first time that this had occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe 1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally titled the II Coupe Internationale, was a motor race held on 29 May 1901, on public roads in France between Paris and Bordeaux, concurrently with an open-entry race over the same course. Initially, France were to defend the Cup against Great Britain, however prior to the start, the sole British entry was forced to fit tyres of foreign manufacture making it ineligible for the Cup. The race was therefore competed by three French entries, the maximum permitted from one country under the rules, guaranteeing that they would retain the Cup. L\u00e9once Girardot driving a Panhard won the race and was the only competitor to finish, with Fernand Charron driving a Panhard and Levegh driving a Mors retiring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nThe Gordon Bennett races had been established by American millionaire James Gordon Bennett, Jr. in 1900, with the intention of encouraging automobile industries through sport. The inaugural event had been won by a representative of the Automobile Club de France (ACF). Under the rules of the competition, the following race was required to be held in the country that currently held the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Route\nThe race organisers, the ACF, decided that the race would take place concurrently with an open-entry event held on public roads taking the competitors from Paris-Bordeaux. The route for the event covered 555km, with 527km (328 miles) competitive miles and the remainder covering neutralised towns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nEach country was limited to three entries under the race's rules. The rules also stipulated that every part of the car must be manufactured in the country of the entrant. Initially, France, Germany and Britain showed interest in entering the race. The Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD) planned to host an elimination trial on 12 May between three Mercedes cars, a Benz and a Canello-Durkopp to determine their three entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0003-0001", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nFollowing Mercedes victory in the Nice-Salon-Nice race held in March however, they were automatically awarded two places by the AvD, with Benz and Canello-Durkopp to compete in the trials for the third entry. However, neither competitor showed up at the eliminating trial, and the Mercedes were withdrawn as both cars that had been built with the required all-German parts had been sold, and the manufacturer determined there was insufficient time to build any more. As such, there was no German entry in the Gordon Bennett Cup race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nThe British were to be represented in the event by Selwyn Edge driving a Napier. On the way to Britain to France, Edge had reservations about the Dunlop tires fitted to the car and elected to replace them with tires of foreign manufacture making the car ineligible for the Gordon Bennett race. As a result, Edge transferred his entry to the open Paris-Bordeaux event leaving only the French to compete in the Gordon Bennett Cup race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nFrance entered their maximum three entries, but unlike the previous year there was no ballot for selection, instead the ACF simply announced they would be represented by L\u00e9once Girardot and Fernand Charron driving Panhards and Alfred Velghe, who raced under the pseudonym Levagh, driving a Mors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nFernand Charron was the first of the cars to depart from the start line, but almost immediately came to a halt and made some adjustments to his car before continuing. Levagh, the second car to start had already overtaken Charron by the time they reached Versailles. Charron continued to stop along the route due to valve problems with his Panhard car before eventually retiring from the race at Vendome. L\u00e9once Girardot and Levegh continued through the neutralised section at Tours. At Sainte-Maure, Levegh collided with a gutter, which damaged his car to the extent that he could not continue the race, leaving Girardot as the sole remaining Gordon Bennett competitor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033304-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nGirardot reached the finish at Bordeaux to claim the Gordon Bennett cup for France again, averaging 37 mph over the course. By contrast the winner of the open race held concurrently over the same route, Henri Fournier, had averaged 53mph in his Mors, and Girardot's time saw him placed tenth in the open race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033305-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Grand National\nThe 1901 Grand National was the 63rd renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 29 March 1901. The race was run in a howling snowstorm and was won by the 9/1 chance, Grudon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033305-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Grand National, Leading Contenders\nGrudon was among the leading contenders on the day but with the weather conditions being what they were, most of the trainers and jockeys knew that the race would be reduced to little more than a lottery. Trainer Bernard Bletsoe hit on the idea to pack Grudon's hooves with butter in the hope that this would prevent snow from clogging in them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033305-0001-0001", "contents": "1901 Grand National, Leading Contenders\nIt is not recorded if any of the other trainers followed this example but it worked as Grudon, a horse who was not rated that highly by his rider, Arthur Nightingall set off without any difficulty while most of the other competitors struggled. Legend has it that Nightingall became so confident that he hacked around most of the second circuit alongside Algy Anthony on his struggling mount Covert Hack until leaving his rival behind with the words \"Well I must be going now so ta ta\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033305-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Grand National, Media Coverage and Aftermath\nArthur Nightingall gave credit to his victory to the genius of owner-trainer Bletsoe for having the foresight to prepare the horse with butter as he was convinced the horse would have come to grief without the preparation. Of the race he said, \"My orders were to let Grudon run his own race and I found myself laid up with the leading division, never out of the first two or three. Indeed Archie [Algy] Anthony [Covert Hack] and I enjoyed a long and animated conversation for the most part of the journey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033305-0002-0001", "contents": "1901 Grand National, Media Coverage and Aftermath\nIt was with a feeling of regret that at last I was obliged to say goodbye to him about a mile from home. \"Ta ta old chap. I must push on a trifle faster or the cupboard will be bare when I get there, and wouldn't disappoint old mother Hubbard for the world.\" \"The only mistake he made came 200 yards from the winning post when he jumped a footpath across the course and gave me a bit of a shock.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033306-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1901 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Reid, the team compiled a 12\u20130 record, shut out nine of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 254 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033306-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Harvard Crimson football team\nWhen Harvard met Yale at season's end, it was considered to be for the national championship by the contemporaneous media. Harper's Weekly (photo below) and the Chicago Tribune recognized the team as national champions. In addition, the team was retrospectively named as the national champion by two selectors, the Billingsley Report and Parke H. Davis. Three other selectors, the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and the National Championship Foundation retrospectively named Michigan as the 1901 national champion. A modern authority on college football rankings said, \"Indeed, had there been an AP poll in 1901, Harvard would have been #1 by a landslide.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033306-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Harvard Crimson football team\nNine Harvard players received first-team honors from Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the 1901 All-America team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033307-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1901 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach Alfred G. Ellick, Haskell compiled a 6\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 165 to 58. The team's victories included games against Kansas and Missouri; its losses were to Minnesota and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033307-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Haskell Indians football team\nArchiquette was the team captain. At the end of the 1901 season, four Haskell players were named to the All-Kansas football team: Carl at center; Redwater at guard; Bain at tackle; and Achiquette at end. Haskell's backfield included Dugan, Fallis, and Oliver at halfback, Miguel at fullback, and Bent and Fallis at quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033307-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Haskell Indians football team\nHaskell was one of three Native American schools in 1901 to field football teams that competed in college football. The other two were Carlisle in Pennsylvania and Chilocco in the Oklahoma Territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033308-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1901 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach Maurice Connor, the team compiled a 7\u20131\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 126 to 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033308-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1901 season was the most successful in the school's history to that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1901 Home Nations Championship was the nineteenth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 5 January and 16 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship\nScotland won all their three games to take the championship for the fifth time outright (excluding two other titles shared with England) and complete the Triple Crown for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal and a goal from mark were both worth four points. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), George Davies (Swansea), Billy Trew (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Bala Jones (Aberavon), Bob Thomas (Swansea), Jere Blake (Cardiff), William Williams (Pontymister), Fred Miller (Mountain Ash), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Boots (Newport), Dick Hellings (Penygraig)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nEngland: JW Sagar (Cambridge Uni), C Smith (Gloucester), EJ Vivyan (Devonport Albion), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool) capt., Edgar Elliot (Sunderland), Reggie Schwarz (Richmond), Ernest John \"Katie\" Walton (Oxford Uni), A O'Neill (Torquay Athletic), D Graham (Aspatria), CT Scott (Blackheath), AFC Luxmoore (Richmond), H Alexander (Birkenhead Park), NC Fletcher (OMT), COP Gibson (Northern), EW Roberts (RNEC Keyham)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), AE Freear (Lansdowne), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., A Barr (Methodist C. Belfast), AG Heron (Queen's Uni, Belfast), M Ryan (Rockwell College), Samuel Irwin (Queen's Uni, Belfast), CE Allen (Derry), P Healey (Limerick), TJ Little (Bective Rangers), F Gardiner (NIFC), J Ryan (Rockwell College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nEngland: JW Sagar (Cambridge Uni), GC Robinson (Percy Park), WL Bunting (Moseley) capt., JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), Edgar Elliot (Sunderland), Reggie Schwarz (Richmond), Ernest John \"Katie\" Walton (Oxford Uni), A O'Neill (Torquay Athletic), RD Wood (Liverpool OB), CT Scott (Blackheath), C Hall (Gloucester), H Alexander (Birkenhead Park), NC Fletcher (OMT), S Reynolds (Richmond), EW Roberts (RNEC Keyham)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nScotland: AW Duncan (Edinburgh University), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), P Turnbull (Edinburgh Acads), FH Fasson (Edinburgh University), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), J Ross (London Scottish), AB Flett (Edinburgh University), Alex Frew (Edinburgh University), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., RS Stronarch (Glasgow Acads), John Dykes (Glasgow HFSP), JA Bell (Clydesdale)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), George Davies (Swansea), Billy Trew (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Lou Phillips (Newport), Hopkin Davies (Swansea), Jere Blake (Cardiff), William Alexander (Llwynypia), Fred Miller (Mountain Ash), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Boots (Newport), Dick Hellings (Penygraig)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nScotland: AW Duncan (Edinburgh University), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), P Turnbull (Edinburgh Acads), FH Fasson (Edinburgh University), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), J Ross (London Scottish), AB Flett (Edinburgh University), Alex Frew (Edinburgh University), David Bedell-Sivright (Fettesian-Lorettonian), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., FP Dods (Edinburgh Acads), John Dykes (Glasgow HSFP), JA Bell (Clydesdale)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nIreland: Cecil Boyd (Wanderers), AE Freear (Lansdowne), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., A Barr (Methodist C. Belfast), Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin University), M Ryan (Rockwell College), HAS Irvine (Belfast Collegians), CE Allen (Derry), P Healey (Limerick), TJ Little (Bective Rangers), Tom McGown (NIFC), J Ryan (Rockwell College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), GC Robinson (Percy Park), WL Bunting (Moseley) capt., NS Cox (Sunderland), Edgar Elliot (Sunderland), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers), PD Kendall (Birkenhead Park), A O'Neill (Torquay Athletic), George Ralph Gibson (Northern), HTF Weston (Northampton), C Hall (Gloucester), H Alexander (Birkenhead Park), NC Fletcher (OMT), CS Edgar (Birkenhead Park), Bernard Charles Hartley (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nScotland: AW Duncan (Edinburgh University), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), P Turnbull (Edinburgh Acads), RM Neill (Edinburgh Acads), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), J Ross (London Scottish), AB Flett (Edinburgh University), Alex Frew (Edinburgh University), David Bedell-Sivright (Fettesian-Lorettonian), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., RS Stronarch (Glasgow Acads), John Dykes (Glasgow HFSP), JA Bell (Clydesdale)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nWales: Billy Bancroft (Swansea) capt., Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), George Davies (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Dick Jones (Swansea), Hopkin Davies (Swansea), Jere Blake (Cardiff), William Alexander (Llwynypia), Fred Miller (Mountain Ash), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Bob Jones (Llwynypia), George Boots (Newport), Fred Scrine (Swansea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033309-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nIreland: Cecil Boyd (Wanderers), AE Freear (Lansdowne), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., HH Ferris (Queen's Uni, Belfast), Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin University), M Ryan (Rockwell College), Samuel Irwin (Queen's Uni, Belfast), CE Allen (Derry), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), J Ryan (Rockwell College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team\nThe 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team won the professional football championship of 1901. The team was affiliated with the Homestead Library & Athletic Club in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. The team featured a lineup of former college All-Americans paid by Pittsburgh Pirates' minority-owner William Chase Temple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Organization\nIn 1898, William Chase Temple took over the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club, becoming the first individual team owner in professional football. In 1900, most of the Duqesne players were hired by the Homestead Library & Athletic Club, by offering them higher salaries. Over the next two season (1900 and 1901), Homestead fielded the best professional football team in the country and did not lose a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Organization\nIn August 1901, former Brown University player Dave Fultz (1875\u20131959) was hired as the captain of the Homestead team. Fultz played right halfback for Homestead and also played professional baseball from 1898 to 1905. Playing for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1902, Fultz led the American League in runs scored (109) and was third in stolen bases (44).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Organization\nIn late September 1901, Fultz announced the makeup of the 1901 team. The payroll for the 1901 Homestead team was $25,000 a year, which was paid by William Chase Temple (owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates) and officers of the Carnegie Steel Company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Organization\nWhen Fultz first announced the lineup in late September, it included Pete Overfield (center from Penn), Bemus Pierce (left guard from the Carlisle Indian School), Art Poe (right end from Princeton), \"Hoppy\" Hunt (left end from Brown University), Daff Gammons (left halfback from Brown who also played baseball for the Boston Beaneater in 1901), Fred Crolius (fullback from Dartmouth who played professional baseball and ranked fifth in the National League after being hit by a pitch 10 times in 1901), Maxson from Maryland, Frank Woodley (quarterback from Penn), Arthur Mosse from the University of Kansas (later a coach at Pittsburgh), Bob Shiring from Pittsburgh, McNulty (right guard from Notre Dame), Weinstein (right tackle from Pittsburgh), Nieman from the University of Cincinnati, Shields from Pittsburgh, and Perry Hale (fullback from Yale who also coached the Exeter football team and joined Homestead in mid-November after Exeter's last game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 1022]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Organization\nOthers who played for the 1901 Homestead team include Hawley Pierce (left tackle and brother of Bemus Pierce) and Willis \"Little\" Richardson (quarterback from Brown).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 66], "content_span": [67, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nThere was no organized professional football league in 1901, and most of Homestead's games were played against college football teams. Early in the season, Homestead played games against teams from Lalus, Ohio Medical College and Baltimore Medical College. Homestead won each of those games by wide margins, including a 42 to 0 margin over Baltimore Medical College on October 26, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nOn November 2, 1901, Homestead played its first game against a significant opponent, defeating the college team from Penn State by a score of 39 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nOn November 6, 1901, Homestead defeated the Brown University football team by a score of 34 to 0. The teams met at Exposition Park in Pittsburgh. Homestead's success in securing a match against one of the major college teams, from one of the Ivy League schools, was considered \"the big card of the season\" by Homestead management. The Brown faculty consented to allow the game in October. Homestead was a heavy favorite in the game, with one newspaper noting, \"While a victory for Brown is too much to expect, the players certainly ought to have a very pleasant trip.\" The game's biggest play was a run of 110 yards by Homestead's left halfback, Gammons, who picked up the ball at the back of the goalposts after a blocked kick and \"ran the entire length of the field.\" Brown was \"outweighed and outclassed in all departments.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nOn November 16, 1901, Homestead played its second game against a major college team, defeating Lafayette 48 to 0 at Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nBy late October 1901, Homestead and Philadelphia team was recognized as the strongest professional football teams in the United States, and a Philadelphia admirer of football offered up a cup to be awarded to the winner in a match between the two teams. The championship game between Homestead and Philadelphia was the subject of \"lively\" betting, as reported in the following newspaper story:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\n\"At least $10,000 has already been bet in Pittsburg on the Philadelphia-Homestead football game \u2026 Some days ago a sport in Pittsburg from Philadelphia with $3,000 to bet even that Philadelphia team would beat Homestead. He was prepared to bet even, and his money was taken so promptly that he wired Philadelphia for another trunkful of coin. About $2,500 arrived Monday and friends of the Homestead team were ready at the station to meet it. There is yet a lot of loose money to bet that Homestead beats the Quakers and there is a good amount to bet at decent odds that Philadelphia does not score.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nOn November 23, 1901, Homestead defeated the Blondy Wallace's Philadelphia professionals for \"the athletic championship of the United States.\" The game was played at the Philadelphia park, and Homestead won by a score of 18 to 0. Newspaper accounts indicate that Philadelphia \"was completely outplayed and never menaced the Homestead goal.\" Another account reported that the Philadelphia team appeared to be in poor physical condition and was unable to gain ground consistently.\" Homestead gained most of its yardage through the Philadelphia line, directing most of its plays at tackle and center. The New York Times reported on the game as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\n\"Against the well-trained, concerted team work of Homestead they were like so many pigmies. Their line could not hold the fast onslaught of the Western contingent, and after the first ten minutes of play a lack of good physical condition began to assert itself. \u2026 The 5,000 spectators present shivered through thirty minute halves and at no time during the game was a real opportunity offered to get enthusiastic over the work of Wallace's [Philadelphia's captain] team. It was an eleven made up of stars against well-trained team work, and the latter triumphed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nWhile the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that at least one of Homestead's scores was the result of an error by the umpire, they agreed Homestead was the better team: \"The Homestead line was like a stone wall, and only occasionally was Philadelphia able to gain around the ends. Homestead played a team of giants, all in perfect condition, and with a system of team play developed to the highest possible perfection.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nOn November 28, 1901, Homestead played a Thanksgiving Day game against the college team from Washington & Jefferson. Homestead won the game 42 to 0 at Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0016-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Season summary\nOn November 30, 1901, Homestead finished the season with a rematch against Philadelphia, in a game played two days after the Washington & Jefferson game. Two of Homestead's starters, Hawley Pierce and Pete Overfield, were unable to play due to injuries, and captain Dave Fultz was knocked unconscious in the first half. Homestead gave up a touchdown in the first half, the first points scored against them in 1901. But they came back in the second half and won by a score of 6 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0017-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Public and press response\nAfter Homestead won the professional football championship, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote the following editorial expressing pride in the accomplishments of Pennsylvania's professional football teams: \"It is a curious fact, apropos of the constant charge that Pennsylvania is now a slow state, that the two greatest professional football teams in the country, Philadelphia and Homestead, should have found a spontaneous sort of existence within the Keystone limits, and without fuss or flurry of any kind, be ready to meet all comers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0018-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Public and press response\nDespite their success on the field, the 1901 Homestead team was not a financial success, as \"the winningest team in pro football was a financial loser again, dropping $8,000.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0019-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Birthplace of the NFL\nThe success of the 1901 Homestead team also spurred interest in the formation of a nationwide professional football league. One writer opined that Homestead, though an \"exceptionally strong organization\", were actually too strong a team for the best box office results, as \"its games were won too easily.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0020-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Birthplace of the NFL\nPittsburgh baseball officials Harry Pulliam and Barney Dreyfuss proposed a league with teams in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston and New York. In December 1901, Pulliam told a reporter:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0021-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Birthplace of the NFL\n\"There were 7,000 persons out to see the Homestead and Philadelphia teams play \u2026 and I believe that strong teams evenly matched in the cities named will appeal to the average football crank. Enough graduates and men who are taking post graduate courses at colleges can be found to make strong teams. They would be men who have learned the game at the colleges, but older and stronger, and would have the advantage of playing together year after year more than college players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033310-0022-0000", "contents": "1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team, Birthplace of the NFL\nIn 1902, Dreyfuss formed the first National Football League, consisting of three teams made up in large part of former Homestead players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033311-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nThe 1901 Sanitary Board Election was supposed to be held on 15 April 1901 for the vacancies of 2 unofficial seats on the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. Only ratepayers who were included in the special and common jury lists of that year, or ratepayers who were exempted from serving on juries on account of their professional vocations were entitled to vote in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033311-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nThat month, the two elected members on the Sanitary Board had resigned in protest of limitations placed on their powers. No nominations were received for the April election, the public being highly dissatisfied with the Board's conduct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033312-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Hume state by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Hume in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 17 April 1901 because of the resignation of Sir William Lyne (Protectionist) to successfully contest the federal seat of Hume.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033313-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Hungarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 2 and 9 October 1901. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 277 of the 413 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033314-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1901 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1901 Western Conference football season. In its first season under head coach Edgar Holt, the team compiled an 8\u20132 record, finished in fourth place in the Western Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 243 to 39.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033314-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nTackle Justa Lindgren was the team captain. Two Illinois players received honors on the 1901 All-Western college football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033315-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1901 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University during the 1901 Western Conference football season. In its fourth season under head coach James H. Horne, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 214 to 87.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033316-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1901 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 24 April 1901 as part of that years local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033316-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Invercargill mayoral election\nSouth Ward councillor Francis Rose intended to contest the election but dropped out in September 1900 and subsequently resigned from the council for \"private reasons\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033317-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1901 Iowa Hawkeyes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Iowa in the 1901 Western Conference football season. In its fourth season under head coach Alden Knipe, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record (0\u20133 against conference opponents) and was outscored by a total of 115 to 85. Clyde Williams was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033317-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe team's loss to Minnesota on October 26 ended a 23-game unbeaten streak dating back to November 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033318-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Senate election\nIn the 1901 Iowa State Senate elections Iowa voters elected state senators in 21 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators traditionally serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate. However, under the Biennial Elections law enacted in 1904 by the Iowa General Assembly, the senators elected in 1901 served an additional fifth year (until the 1906 elections) to accommodate the transition to holding elections on even-numbered years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033318-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Senate election\nA statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1901 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033318-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1901 elections occurred before primary elections were established in Iowa by the Primary Election Law in 1907. The general election took place on November 5, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033318-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 35 seats to Democrats' 15 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033318-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 11 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033318-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1901 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 39 seats and Democrats having 11 seats (a net gain of 4 seats for Republicans). However, during the twenty-ninth session of the Iowa General Assembly, the senators decided in March 1902 to decertify Democrat Joseph Martin Emmert of district eighteen and replace Emmert with Republican James E. Bruce, thus flipping the seat from Democratic to Republican control. Therefore, Republicans held an advantage of 40 seats to Democrats' 10 seats in 1902 following the installation of Mr. Bruce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033319-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1901 Iowa State Cyclones football team was an American football team that represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Edgar M. Clinton, the team compiled a 2\u20136\u20132 record and was outscored by a total of 133 to 56. William Scholty was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033319-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on State Field on land that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033320-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1901 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1901. Republican nominee Albert B. Cummins defeated Democratic nominee T. J. Phillips with 58.09% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033321-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Italian Football Championship\nThe 1901 Italian Football Championship season was won by Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033321-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Italian Football Championship, References and sources\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033322-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Jamaican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Jamaica in January 1901. The newly elected Legislative Council was opened on 26 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033322-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Jamaican general election, Background\nDuring 1900 there had been protests from the elected members of the Legislative Council over the addition of four extra appointed members by the Governor (at the request of the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain) on 20 February. As a result, the 14 elected members had walked out of the Assembly. The following day they returned to make a formal protest, but would continue to abstain from involvement in the work of the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033322-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Jamaican general election, Background\nGovernor Olivier attempted to mediate by suggesting that the additional four members would only vote on matters of \"paramount importance\". However, after Chamberlain refused to make a commitment to the number of appointed members, the leader of the elected members circulated a manifesto to the others promising that they would continue to abstain from the Council if re-elected. After only five of the other 13 elected members signed it, the leader subsequently resigned and announced his retirement from politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033322-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Jamaican general election, Results\nOf the 14 members elected, only one indicated that they would refuse to take their seat, whilst the majority indicated that they would work within the constitution to remove the four additional members. The election also saw the first elected black member of the Council win a seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033322-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Jamaican general election, Results\nVoter turnout was low, with only 2,300 people out of 8,000 registered voters taking part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033323-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1901 Kansas Jayhawks football team was an American football team that represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach John H. Outland (namesake of the Outland Trophy), the team compiled a 3\u20135\u20132 record and was outscored by a total of 147 to 92.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033324-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Kansas State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Kansas State Agricultural College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Wade Moore, the team compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record. The team played its home games at Athletic Park in Manhattan, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033325-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kendall Orange and Black football team\nThe 1901 Kendall Orange and Black football team represented Henry Kendall College (later renamed the University of Tulsa) during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled an 0\u20131 record, losing its only game to Arkansas by a 48\u20130 score at Fayetteville, Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033326-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1901 Kentucky Derby was the 27th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on April 29, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033327-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1901 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Kentucky State College (now known as the University of Kentucky) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach W. H. Kiler, the team compiled a 2\u20136\u20131 record (0\u20132 against SIAA opponents).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033328-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kentucky University football team\nThe 1901 Kentucky University Pioneers football team was an American football team that represented Kentucky University, now known as Transylvania University, during the 1901 college football season. Hogan Yancey was on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033329-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kesteven County Council election\nThe fifth set of elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Thursday, 7 March 1901. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo. The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council; elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033329-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Kesteven County Council election\nNearly every candidate was returned unopposed in the election, with contests in only seven of the 48 divisions. No party affiliation is recorded for any of the candidates, except those for Gonerby and Osbournby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033329-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Kesteven County Council election, Results by division, Kyme\nN.B. It is not clear from the results reports who won this division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033330-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1901 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 13th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033330-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 27 October 1901, Tullaroan won the championship after a 5-10 to 3-07 defeat of Threecastles in the final. This was their sixth championship title overall and their first in two championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033331-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1901 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Edmond Chavanne left the Tigers following the 1900 season and was replaced by W. S. Borland as head coach in 1901, leading the team to a successful 5\u20131 season. Tulane forfeited the game on November 16 due to a ruling from the SIAA. The 1901 edition of the Battle for the Flag against LSU was originally a 22-0 victory for Tulane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033331-0000-0001", "contents": "1901 LSU Tigers football team\nIt was later forfeited after a petition to the SIAA, and was recorded as a 0-11 loss for Tulane. After the game, LSU protested to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and alleged that Tulane had used a professional player during the game. Several months later, the SIAA ruled the game an 11-0 forfeit in favor of LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033332-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Lafayette football team\nThe 1901 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College in the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach Samuel B. Newton, the team compiled a 9\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 240 to 94.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033332-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Lafayette football team\nTwo of the team's three losses were suffered in games against early professional football teams (Homestead Library & Athletic Club and Philadelphia Athletic Club) made up of all-star rosters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033333-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Lake Forest Foresters football team\nThe 1901 Lake Forest football team was an American football team that represented Lake Forest University in the 1901 college football season. In one of the longest seasons of any college football team in history, Lake Forest compiled a 10\u20135 record, achieving their first and only ten win season, and outscored their opponents 160 to 89. Notable games included a 0\u201316 loss to Notre Dame, who were proclaimed champions of Indiana, and a 0\u201312 loss to an 8\u20132\u20131 Northwestern team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033334-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1900 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their seventh season in existence. It was a low profile season for Latrobe. The team played in only 3 games this season and finished 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033335-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Lehigh Brown and White football team\nThe 1901 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach J. W. H. Pollard, the team compiled a 1\u201311 record and was outscored by a total of 278 to 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033336-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia in 1901. In the presidential election, incumbent Garreston W. Gibson of the True Whig Party was elected for the first time, having originally taken office after the resignation of William D. Coleman in December 1900. He defeated Coleman, who ran on the People's Party ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Friday 1 November 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election\nThere were three new seats\u00a0: Anfield, Walton and Warbreck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1898 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections\nAt the meeting of the Council on 9 November 1901, the terms of office of fifteen alderman expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections\nThe following fifteen were elected as Aldermen by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) on 9 November 1901 for a term of six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 13 North Scotland, 28 May 1902\nFollowing the death of Alderman John Houlding (Conservative), Councillor Dr. Alexander Murray Bligh (Irish Nationalist, North Scotland ward, elected 1 November 1899) was elected by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) as an Alderman on 7 May 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 13 North Scotland, 28 May 1902\nThe term of office to expire on 1 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.16 Exchange, 17 June 1902\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Edmond Brownbill (Liberal, Exchange, elected 1 November 1899), which was reported to the Council on 4 June 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.16 Exchange, 17 June 1902\nThe term of office to expire on 1 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.25 Brunswick, 15 July 1902\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Charles Henry Beloe (Liberal, Brunswick, elected 1 November 1901), which was reported to the Council on 2 July 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 15 Vauxhall, 21 August 1902\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Thomas Burke (Irish Nationalist, elected 1 November 1900), which was reported to the Council on 6 August 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 15 Vauxhall, 21 August 1902\nThe term of office to expire on 1 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033337-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 19. St Peter's, August 1902\nCaused by the death of Councillor Samuel Hough (Liberal, St. Peter's, elected 1 November 1899) on 12 August 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033338-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Llandeilo Rural District Council election\nThe third election to the Llandeilo Rural District Council was held in March 1901. It was preceded by the 1898 election and followed by the 1904 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Llandeilo Board of Guardians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033338-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Llandeilo Rural District Council election\nThere were a number of unopposed returns in the rural parishes. In the industrial areas where the population was rapidly growing due to the anthracite coal industry most wards were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033338-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Boundary changes\nFollowing the growth of the population in the parishes of Betws and Llandybie, boundaries were re-arranged and additional seats created. A notable casualty of this change was Henry Herbert, Chair of the Llandeilo Board of Guardians, who was defeated in the Llandybie Ward by two other sitting members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033339-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 London County Council election\nAn election to the County Council of London took place in March 1901. The \"Moderates\" decided to contest the elections under the label of \"Conservative and Unionist\". Liberals and Socialists continued to contest the elections under the \"Progressive\" label.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033340-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1901 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as Louisiana Tech University) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach Edwin Barber, the team compiled a 1\u20132 record. This was the first season of what is now known as the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane\nThe 1901 Louisiana hurricane was the first hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana in the month of August or earlier since 1888. The fourth tropical cyclone and second hurricane of the season, this storm developed southwest of the Azores on August\u00a02. Moving southwestward and later westward, the depression remained weak for several days, until strengthening into a tropical storm while approaching the Bahamas early on August\u00a09. It then crossed through the islands and intensified only slightly. Late on August\u00a010, the storm made landfall near Deerfield Beach, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0000-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane\nAfter reaching the Gulf of Mexico the next day, continuous intensifying occurred and by August\u00a012, the storm reached hurricane status. Peaking with winds of 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h), it struck Louisiana late on August\u00a014 and then Mississippi less than 24\u00a0hours later. The system weakened to a tropical storm early on August\u00a016 and became extratropical several hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane\nAlong portions of the east coast of Florida, \"considerable damage\" was reported due to strong winds. In Alabama, trees were uprooted, houses were de-roofed, and chimneys collapsed in Mobile. Some areas of the city were also inundated with up to 18 inches (460\u00a0mm) of water due to storm tide. Several yachts, schooners, and ships were wrecked or sunk, resulting in at least $70,000 (1901\u00a0USD) in damage. However, due to warnings by the Weather Bureau, the Mobile Chamber of Commerce estimated that several millions of dollars in damage was evaded. All towns along the coast of Mississippi \"suffered seriously\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0001-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane\nIn Louisiana, severe damage was reported at some towns due to strong winds and high tides. The community of Port Eads reported that only the lighthouse was not destroyed, while other sources state that an office building also remained standing. In New Orleans, overflowing levees inundated numerous streets. Outside the city, crops suffered severely, particularly rice. Overall, the storm caused 10\u201315\u00a0deaths and $1\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Meteorological history\nA tropical depression developed about 615 miles (990\u00a0km) southwest of Flores Island, Azores at 0000\u00a0UTC on August\u00a02. The depression moved southwestward and remained weak for several days. On August\u00a05, it re-curved west-southwestward and then westward while passing north of the Lesser Antilles. The next day, the system curved west-northwestward and briefly to the west on August\u00a08. Finally, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm at 0000\u00a0UTC on August\u00a09, while located about 50 miles (80\u00a0km) northeast of Cat Island, Bahamas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0002-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Meteorological history\nAround that time, the Weather Bureau first observed a \"feeble disturbance in the subtropical north of Cuba.\" Between August\u00a09 and August\u00a010, the storm strengthened slightly further and moved through the Bahamas, passing over Cat Island and the Berry Islands. Around 2200\u00a0UTC on August\u00a010, the system made landfall near Deerfield Beach, Florida with winds of 45\u00a0mph (70\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Meteorological history\nEarly on August\u00a011, the storm weakened slightly while crossing Florida. It then decelerated and reached the eastern Gulf of Mexico several hours later. Thereafter, the system began to re-strengthen and became a Category\u00a01 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale at 1200\u00a0UTC on August\u00a012. Early the next day, the storm attained its maximum sustained wind speed of 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h). It weakened slightly early on August\u00a014 and curved northwestward while approaching the coast of Louisiana. At 2100\u00a0UTC, the storm made landfall near Buras with winds of 85\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0003-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Meteorological history\nCurving northeastward, the hurricane re-emerged into the Gulf of Mexico early on August\u00a015. However, around 1700\u00a0UTC, it made another landfall near Ocean Springs, Mississippi at the same intensity. Early on August\u00a016, the system weakened to a tropical storm. It then weakened much quicker and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over Mississippi at 0000\u00a0UTC on August\u00a017. The remnant extratropical cyclone persisted until late the next day, at which time it dissipated over Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nAs the storm approached the east coast of Florida on August\u00a010, a warning was sent to all Weather Bureau stations in Florida, as well as Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, regarding a \"disturbance of moderate intensity\", which posed a threat to small crafts in Florida and the western Bahamas. The next day, as the storm was moving across Florida, another message sent to Weather Bureau stations from New Orleans to Charleston warned of the potential for severe squalls along the west coast of Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0004-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nWhile approaching the Gulf Coast of the United States on August\u00a013, storm warnings were ordered for Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as for the west coast of Florida. At the National Weather Service office in New Orleans, hurricane warnings were ordered in Louisiana from mouth of the Mississippi River westward on August\u00a015 and expanded to eastern Texas later that day. In New Orleans, 500\u00a0men, who were city authorities or levee board members, worked to strengthen the levees along canals in the city. Throughout much of the Gulf Coast of the United States, vessels and ships were warned to take precautions and remain in port.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nIn Florida, \"considerable damage\" due to strong winds was reported along portions of the east coast. Wind gusts reached 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) in Pensacola. Offshore, the Portuguese bark Propheta, with a cargo of timber worth $5,000, was badly damaged. Strong winds up to 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) were observed in the Mobile area of Alabama, uprooting trees, unroofing houses, and toppling chimneys. Tides inundated the cotton exchange with up to 18 inches (460\u00a0mm) of water, while the Western Union, post office, and electrical house for railroads were also flooded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0005-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nThe pleasure yacht Ariel, which was bound for the Fish River, was smashed into pieces at a wharf along the eastern end of Mobile Bay. Between 12 and 15 schooners from the F. F. Saunders company fishing fleet were badly damaged; four of which sank, resulting in $70,000 in damage. However, due to warnings by the Weather Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce estimated that several millions of dollars in damage was evaded. All towns along the coast of Mississippi \"suffered seriously\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nHigh winds and rough seas were observed in Louisiana. In Port Eads, five-minute sustained winds reached 56\u00a0mph (90\u00a0km/h), before the anemometer blew away. At the same location, a 24-hour rainfall record was set for the month of August, with 7.64 inches (194\u00a0mm) of precipitation observed. According to a contemporaneous report, the weather instrument shelter was swept away due to storm tides and the flag staff was broken. While the office building did weather the storm intact, documents in it were soaked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0006-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nHowever, a report written in 2010 states that in Port Eads only the lighthouse remained standing in the aftermath of the devastation. Fifteen fatalities were reported after a house was swept away by storm tides. The 2010 report, however, states that a total of ten deaths were caused by the storm over its entire existence. In Pilottown, the large \"lookout\" tower was toppled and destroyed. The outhouse that displaymen used and slept in was blown over and then rapidly filled with water, due to tides rising to 4 feet (1.2\u00a0m) in only 10\u00a0minutes. Additionally, property of the Weather Bureau was also damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nBuras reported 4 feet (1.2\u00a0m) of water in town. River stages along the Mississippi River at New Orleans rose to a level of 7 feet (2.1\u00a0m) during the storm, producing much flooding. The Carondelet Canal also overflowed, inundating streets in the neighborhood of Trem\u00e9 with 1 to 3 feet (0.30 to 0.91\u00a0m) of water. Levee breaks around New Orleans flooded the city. Additionally, strong winds littered the streets with tree branches. The worst hit areas of New Orleans were the neighborhoods of Bucktown, Milneburg, West End, all of which are located on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033341-0007-0001", "contents": "1901 Louisiana hurricane, Preparations and impact\nIn the New Orleans suburb of Shell Beach, severe crop damage was reported, particularly to rice. While sailing the Mississippi River just outside New Orleans, Dr. J. N. Thomas reported that a schooner and a small boat were wrecked, resulting in 60\u00a0deaths. However, this was not confirmed. Overall, damage in Louisiana reached $1\u00a0million, which excluded losses to crops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033342-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Maidstone by-election\nThe Maidstone by-election, 1901 was a by-election held in England on 1 March 1901 for the House of Commons constituency of Maidstone in Kent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033342-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Maidstone by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the declaration that the result of the contest in Maidstone at the general election of 1900 was void. This decision was made by Mr Justice Kennedy and Mr Justice Channel sitting at the sessions house in Maidstone on hearing an election petition from the defeated Conservative candidate, Fiennes Cornwallis who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone from 1885-1895 and then again from 1898-1900. The judges held that there was evidence of bribery of electors by agents acting for Sir John Barker the Liberal candidate who had won the seat from Cornwallis by 38 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033342-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Maidstone by-election, Candidates\nOn 15 February, the Liberals selected as their candidate Sir Francis Evans. Evans had been Liberal MP for Southampton from 1888-1892 and 1896-1900. He was 60 years old and had made his career in banking before entering Parliament. He also had substantial interests in the insurance and transport industries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033342-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Maidstone by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives first hoped that Cornwallis might be persuaded to stand again but he did not wish to put his name forward and they chose instead Sir Thomas Milvain KC, the former MP for Durham and a barrister, having been called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1869.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033342-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Maidstone by-election, Result\nThe result was a win for Evans, returning him to Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033342-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Maidstone by-election, Result\nThe Liberal majority was increased from 38 votes to 193, despite the disgrace attaching to the election petition. The unseated Barker had also helped Evans in the campaign, so it was difficult to discern any political advantage accruing to the Conservative Party as a result of the court case. One local historian has described the result of the Maidstone by-election as a harbinger of change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033342-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Maidstone by-election, Aftermath\nThe Conservative Party became increasingly divided over the issue of tariff reform and the Liberals gained heart from the decline of the government over the coming years. At the 1906 general election, the Liberals gained a national landslide. Evans held the seat until 1906 when he was defeated by Lord Castlereagh. Although Maidstone reverted to its traditional Tory roots against the national trend, the Liberals gained three other Kent seats, one fell to a Lib-Lab candidate and one fell to Labour thanks to the pact it had concluded with the Liberals in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033343-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1901 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 18 through October 6, 1901. It was the inaugural season for the American League (AL), with the Chicago White Stockings finishing first in league standings. In the National League (NL), in operation since 1876, the Pittsburgh Pirates finished atop league standings. There was no postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033343-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Major League Baseball season\nEach league consisted of eight teams, with each team scheduled to play the other seven teams in the same league 20 times apiece, for a 140-game season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033344-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1901 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall University in the 1901 college football season. The team did not have a coach, and outscored their opponents 25\u20130 in three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033344-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1900 season marked the third undefeated season in a row for Marshall, as well as the third consecutive season without allowing a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033345-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Maryland Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Emmons Dunbar, the team compiled a 1\u20137 record and was outscored by at total of 129 to 49. The team's only victory came in a game against a team from a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Washington, D. C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033346-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Massachusetts Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1901 college football season. The team was coached by James Halligan and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1901 season was Halligan's first as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 9\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033347-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1901 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1901. Incumbent Republican Governor W. Murray Crane was re-elected to a third term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033347-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Massachusetts-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033348-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 122nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1901 during the governorship of Winthrop M. Crane. Rufus A. Soule served as president of the Senate and James J. Myers served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033349-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 McGee Street Automotive Service Building\nThe 1901 McGee Street Automotive Service Building, located at 1901 McGee St. in Kansas City, Missouri, was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033349-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 McGee Street Automotive Service Building\nIt is a two-story two part commercial block building, 99 by 111 feet (30\u00a0m \u00d7\u00a034\u00a0m) in plan, built with hollow tile walls by builder/architect C.C. Smith. The building \" deftly illustrates the specialized adaptation of a typical main street commercial building for automobile sales and service functions. As the popularity of automobiles soared, real estate investors constructed this building near the heart of Kansas City\u2019s nascent Automobile Row. By blending a traditional commercial fa\u00e7ade with physical elements that addressed the specific needs of automobile sales and service, the building met the needs of tenants and consumers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033349-0001-0001", "contents": "1901 McGee Street Automotive Service Building\nDistinctive features include large storefront windows on the first story, which gave passersby a clear view of the vehicles for sale inside; large expanses of over-sized windows on the second story and skylights in the roof, which provided ample light and ventilation to work areas on the second floor; and an oversized freight elevator capable of transporting vehicles, as well as auto parts, from the back alley to the first floor or the second floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033349-0001-0002", "contents": "1901 McGee Street Automotive Service Building\nMost notable, though, is the building\u2019s highly unique structural system, which supplements a typical early-twentieth century masonry and wood structure with massive steel I-beams that span the ceiling on the first floor and distinctive turnbuckle trusses that hang from the ceiling on the second floor. These structural enhancements responded to the very heavy loads the building had to support to serve its intended function. The automotive service building at 1901 McGee Street clearly embodies this type and period of commercial design and is characteristic example of the automotive service buildings that survive from the heyday of Kansas City\u2019s automobile row. The period of significance, 1912 \u2013 1941, reflects the dates of construction and a significant renovation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season\nThe 1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 28th season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. It was the second season run for clubs that represented a district. Eight clubs (seven representing a district, the remaining club representing Sydney University) competed from May till August 1901. The season culminated in the second district premiership, which was won by Glebe and Sydney University. Both teams had finished the season at the top of the premiership table and as a result were to play a final to determine the Premiership. However, both clubs decided not to play a final resulting in both being declared joint premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nEight clubs contested the season; seven clubs representing a district and one club representing Sydney University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 22 March 1900Ground: Rushcutters Bay OvalCaptain: Percy Macnamara", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 23 March 1900Ground: North Sydney OvalCaptain: Iggy O'Donnell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe 1901 Sydney Rugby Premiership was deemed the greatest season ever seen in Sydney up to that time. Public interest was never before so keen with proceeds for the matches far exceeding previous seasons. The standard of play had improved with a new group of young players joining the senior grade teams and being chosen to play in representative matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAt the end of the season, the two clubs Glebe and Sydney University finished tied at the top of the table. As per the rules of the period, the two teams were to face each other in a final to determine the premiership. To the disappointment of the public, both clubs decided not to play the final and were thus declared joint premiers. Both clubs had lost key players to the tour of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nIt was difficult to pick which of the two premiers were the better team. Both teams displayed consistency during the season. University winning 5 games in the first round and 5 in the second round. Together, three-quarters Harry Blaney, Arthur Fisher and Andrew McDowell scored the majority of the points for the \"Varsity\". Glebe were unbeaten in the second round of games and were considered to have a better forward pack. Unfortunately during the season they had the higher injury toll affecting their back line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAt the conclusion of the season, the football world was shocked by the sudden death of Western Suburbs captain, William Shortland. Shortland had only just returned from the rugby tour of New Zealand on Friday, 13 September. In the early hours of Tuesday, 17 September he succumbed to a, \"cold of the kidneys\" He was only 26 years of age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades\nThe MRFU also conducted Second Grade and Third Grade competitions this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Second Grade\nThe eight clubs that were participating in First Grade entered a team for the Second Grade competition. At the end of the regular season games, Glebe and Sydney University finished on the same points at the top of the ladder. In the final, University won 9 points to 6 and were thus declared Premiers. Newtown did not see out the season, withdrawing after two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033350-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Third Grade\nSeven of the First Grade clubs entered a team into the Third Grade competition. The only club missing was Western Suburbs. Balmain finished the season undefeated at the top of the ladder and were declared Premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033351-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1901 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1901 college football season. Under new head coach Thomas Hazzard, Miami compiled a 1\u20133\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033352-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Michigan Agricultural College (now known as Michigan State University) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first year under head coach George Denman, the team compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 120 to 94. The team played its home games at College Field in East Lansing, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033353-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1901 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team was an American football team that represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) as a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1901 college football season. In its season under head coach Clayton Teetzel, the team compiled a record of 3\u20135 and was outscored by a total of 167 to 58. Phillip E. Dennis was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the Western Conference during the 1901 Western Conference football season. In their first year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the team compiled a perfect 11\u20130 record, outscored its opponents by a combined total of 550 to 0, tied with Wisconsin for the Western Conference championship, and defeated Stanford by a 49 to 0 score in the inaugural Rose Bowl game, the first college bowl game ever played. Northwestern (8\u20132\u20131) had the best record of a Michigan opponent. The 1901 team was the first of Yost's famed \"Point-a-Minute\" teams, so named for their high scoring offense. From 1901 to 1905, Yost's Michigan teams compiled a record of 55\u20131\u20131 and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 2,821 to 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team\nAlthough no system was in place during this era to determine a national champion, the NCAA recognizes as \"major\" certain selectors who have sought to establish national championships retrospectively. Three of the five major selectors, Helms Athletic Foundation in 1941, Houlgate System after 1926, and the National Championship Foundation in 1980, recognized the 1901 Michigan team as the national champion, despite contrary contemporaneous accounts. Parke H. Davis in 1933 selected 12\u20130 Harvard as national champion. The 1901 team holds the distinction of having won the first national championship claimed by the Michigan Wolverines football program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team\nSeveral players from the team received individual honors. Fullback/end Neil Snow was selected as a first-team player on Caspar Whitney's 1901 All-America Team. Halfback Willie Heston was selected as a third-team player on Walter Camp's 1901 and 1902 All-America Teams and as a first-team player on Camp's 1903 and 1904 All-America Teams. In addition, five Michigan players received first-team honors on the 1901 All-Western college football team. They are Snow, Heston, quarterback Boss Weeks, tackle Bruce Shorts, and fullback/halfback Everett Sweeley. The team captain was tackle, Hugh White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team\nFour individuals associated with the team have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. They are Yost, Snow, Heston, and assistant coach Bennie Owen, who later went on to fame as the head coach at Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, 1900 season\nThe 1900 Michigan team compiled an overall record of 7\u20132\u20131 under first-year head coach Langdon Lea. However, the season was considered a disappointment as the Wolverines finished in fifth place in the Western Conference with a 3\u20132 record against Western Conference opponents and a loss to rival Chicago. In January 1901, coach Lea resigned as Michigan to accept a position as the head football coach at Princeton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Yost's arrival\nFielding Yost was hired as the new coach at Michigan in the spring of 1901. He traveled to Ann Arbor in early April to evaluate the talent pool with which he would be working. After sizing up the players, Yost asked for early practice in the fall. Yost left California in late August and arrived in Ann Arbor on September 4. On arriving in Ann Arbor, Yost said that he was \"here to stay until Michigan secured the western championship.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\nSeveral starters from the 1900 team returned to Michigan to participate in the 1901 team, including Boss Weeks, Everett Sweeley, Curtis Redden, Hugh White (the 1901 team captain), Ebin Wilson, Bruce Shorts, Neil Snow, Arthur Redner, and Albert Herrnstein. The strength of the returning roster led to confidence in the 1901 team's prospects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\nOn September 9, 1901, Yost and captain White gathered a small squad of men at Whitmore Lake; the squad grew over the next two weeks to nearly 20 players. Training continued for nearly two weeks, and \"cold baths in the lake soon toughened the men.\" Yost worked with the players on the rudiments of the game and later recalled that, by the time they returned to Ann Arbor, \"we had worked the men down into fairly good training for football work.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\nIn addition to training, Yost spent time at Whitmore Lake evaluating his talent to fit particular positions. He soon shifted players around. He moved the team's only All-American, Neil Snow, from end to fullback on offense, keeping him at right end on defense. Yost moved Arthur Redner from center to right guard and George W. Gregory to center. He also brought Willie Heston with him from California at the halfback position. In a 1952 letter, Heston later recalled: \"He brought to Michigan an entirely new brand of football, not known in the Big Ten nor to the Middle West. Particularly, that was true of his offense. Speed and more speed was continually emphasized. Boss Weeks was instructed to call his signal for the next play while the team was getting up from the last play.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\nTeam captain White recalled the time at Whitmore Lake as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\n\"The work at the Lake was a review in the first principles of the game, a thorough study and quiz upon the rules \u2013 something which had been sadly neglected in former years. It was also the first step in the conditioning of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\nA new freshman, David Banks, wrote a letter to his mother about his experience in trying out for the football team in the fall of 1901:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\n\"I am not sure whether I ought to play football or not. ... I put on Tom's suit one night and went down to the field to meet Yost and a few other men. They made me run around the track a couple times to try my wind. Then they rolled me around the ground and sat on me a while. I did not understand the necessity of all they did to me, but the boys say every great player must begin that way.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Whitmore Lake\nOn September 24, 1901, the Michigan Daily-News correctly predicted that \"Hurry up\" would become the future title of Michigan's new coach, Fielding Yost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Albion\nMichigan opened the 1901 season with a 50\u20130 win against Albion, a team that won the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship in 1900. The game was played in 20-minute halves at Regents Field in Ann Arbor on September 28. Michigan scored nine touchdowns (worth five points each in 1901), including three by Hugh White, two by Walter W. Shaw, and one each by Neil Snow, Willie Heston, Bruce Shorts, and Everett Sweeley. Shaw also kicked three goals from touchdown with Herb Graver and Sweeley adding one each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0014-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Albion\nHeston appeared in his first game for the Wolverines as a substitute for Shaw at left halfback. In its account of the game, The Michigan Alumnus described Heston as a \"stocky Californian\" who \"proved a whirlwind in bucking the line.\" Heston's first touchdown as a Wolverine came on a defensive take-away described as follows: \"Once when Albion had the ball on her 25-yard line, Heston broke through between guard and center, got possession of the ball before it left the quarter back's hands, and made a touchdown.\" Joe Maddock was the only Albion player to gain ground; he transferred to Michigan in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Albion\nMichigan starting lineup was Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George W. Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), James Knight (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Walter Shaw (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0016-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Case\nOn October 5, Michigan played its second game of the season against Case Scientific School from Cleveland, Ohio. In a short game of 20-minute halves, Michigan won by a score of 57\u20130. Heston scored four touchdowns, Sweeley and Snow added two each, and single touchdowns were scored by White and Woodward. Goals after touchdown were scored by Shaw (4), Graver (2) and Sweeley (1). Heston and Sweeley were singled out for praise in the account of the game published in The Michigan Alumnus:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0017-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Case\n\"Two men, Sweeley and Heston, constantly won the plaudits of the rooters by their long gains around the ends. Sweeley is fleet, and he kept his feet in a way that reminded the wise ones of McLean's remarkable performances. Heston proved himself the ground gainer that he has given evidence of being during the daily practices.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0018-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Case\nIn its coverage of the game, the Alumnus also noted that Michigan's new coach Yost \"refuses to have a man on the field who [is] 'yellow' or who is not willing to work and to take his fair share of knocks.\" The Alumnus concluded: \"If Michigan has a winning team, it will be because some of the enthusiasm of her coach has been transferred to the men.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0019-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Case\nMichigan's starting lineup was Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Daniel Woodward (right tackle), James Knight (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Everett Sweeley (left halfback), Walter Shaw (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0020-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Indiana\nOn October 12, Michigan defeated Indiana, 33\u20130, at Regents Field in a game of 25- and 20-minute halves. The game was played on a field that had undergone steady rain for 24 hours and had been reduced to \"a sea of mud.\" The field conditions kept Michigan from getting its \"fast play into correct motion\". Nevertheless, Michigan allowed Indiana a first down only once and was only once forced to punt. Aside from the field conditions, Michigan's scoring was slowed by three fumbles and eight holding and offsides penalties. The highlight of the game was a 75-yard punt return by Boss Weeks. Michigan scored six touchdowns, including two each by Bruce Shorts and Willie Heston and single touchdowns by Neil Snow and Walter W. Shaw. Shorts added three goals from touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0021-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Indiana\nFollowing the win over Indiana, the student newspaper, The Wolverine noted: \"The 'Varsity showing was most satisfactory. Against a heavier team, on a slippery field which was all in favor of the visitors and directly opposed to our style of play, the 'Varsity was not found wanting and turned victory into a fight for big scores. Even the most optimistic did not look for such a large score, with the elements against us. The smiling, yet earnest face of Coach Yost has become a favorite feature at the games. His success as a coach has already been demonstrated, and every Michigan man is proud of him as an athlete, as a coach and as a man.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0022-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Indiana\nMichigan's starting lineup was Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), Albert Herrnstein (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Willie Heston (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0023-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern\nOn October 19, Michigan defeated Northwestern by a score of 29\u20130 at Regents Field in front of a crowd of 3,000 persons. The victory was considered particularly important as Northwestern had been considered \"a strong aspirant for western championship honors\". In a game of two 25-minute halves, Heston scored three touchdowns and had runs of 55 and 45 yards. Left halfback Willie Heston scored three touchdowns, with Neil Snow and Walter Shaw scoring one each. Bruce Shorts added four goals from touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0024-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern\nNorthwestern's longest gain was six yards. The only threat to Michigan's goal came in the second half when Willie Heston fielded a kickoff and tossed to Everett Sweeley. Northwestern took over at the ten-yard line and moved it by the \"tandem play\" to the two-yard line. Yost later recalled the impressive play of his team in preventing Northwestern to score: \"The defense at this point was as good as I have ever seen. Northwestern could not advance a foot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0024-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern\nWhen the ball was held for downs and Michigan had again obtained possession, our goal line had passed its only danger of the season.\" The Pittsburgh Press described the game as follows: \"Just to show her superiority during the last few minutes of play, Michigan, put in an all substitute line. The Michigan defence was impregnable and her offensive work grand.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0025-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Northwestern\nMichigan's starters in the game were Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), Albert Herrnstein (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Willie Heston (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0026-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Buffalo\nOn October 26, Michigan defeated the University of Buffalo by a score of 128\u20130 at Ann Arbor. Michigan scored 22 touchdowns in the game, five by Albert Herrnstein, four each by Neil Snow and Arthur Redner, three each by Willie Heston and Everett Sweeley, two by Curtis Redden, and one by Bruce Shorts. Shorts also had 18 goals for touchdown. The game was scheduled to be played in 30-minute halves, but Buffalo's coach asked at halftime that the second half be reduced to 20 minutes, and so the game was limited to 50 minutes of playing time. The Detroit Free Press noted that Michigan scored more points against Buffalo than it had during the entire 1900 season, averaging more than two points per minute played and a touchdown every two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0027-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Buffalo\nA newspaper account reported that \"the most spectacular\" play of the game came on a 90-yard touchdown run by Herrnstein. The New York Times reported that the Wolverines' margin of victory was the third largest in the history of the sport:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0028-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Buffalo\n\"[T]he score of to-day's game was one of the most remarkable ever made in the history of football in the important colleges. Only two scores are recorded in American where a victory was won in more decided style. These occasions were when Stevens Institute beat the College of the City of New York by 162 to 0 at Hoboken, N.J., in 1885, and when Harvard beat Exeter by 158 to 0 at Exeter, Mass., in 1886.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0029-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Buffalo\nAfter the game, Buffalo's Coach Gordon said Michigan was \"one of the most wonderful teams he ever saw,\" and added, \"Michigan can defeat any team in the East.\" Buffalo had defeated the team from Columbia University, one of the stronger teams in the east, by a score of 5\u20130 earlier in the season. The 1901 Columbia team defeated Eastern \"Big Four\" power Penn, 11\u20130, and narrowly lost a game to Yale, 10\u20135. Several newspapers used the Buffalo game as a point of reference in assessing the strength of Michigan's 1901 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0029-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Buffalo\nThe Pittsburgh Press reported that Michigan's big victory over a \"fairly strong\" Buffalo team \"shows that Michigan has a remarkable team.\" The Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois, observed: \"Considering the fact that Buffalo trimmed Columbia rather easily, making a larger score against the college than did Harvard or Yale, there seems some justice in\" Coach Brown's comments that Michigan could defeat Harvard, Yale or Princeton. The Adrian Daily Telegram opined: \"Michigan defeated Buffalo 128 to 0, which clearly demonstrates that she can bump the big eastern four without much fear of disaster.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0030-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Buffalo\nIn 1916, Coach Yost shared his recollections of the Buffalo game with Big Bill Edwards: \"Buffalo University came to Michigan with a much-heralded team. They were coached by a Dartmouth man and had not been scored upon. Buffalo papers referred to Michigan as the Woolly Westerners, and the Buffalo enthusiasts placed bets that Michigan would not score.\" The score at the end of the first half was 65 to 0. About fifteen minutes after the second half had started, Yost discovered a Buffalo player, Simpson, \"on Michigan's side of the field, covered up in a blanket.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0030-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Buffalo\nYost was curious and asked, \"Simpson, what are you doing over here? You are on the wrong side.\" To which, Simpson replied, \"Don't say anything. I know where I am at. The coach has put me in three times already and I'm not going in there again. Enough is enough for any one. I've had mine.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0031-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Carlisle\nThe Wolverines defeated Pop Warner's Carlisle Indian team, 22\u20130, in a game played at Bennett Park in Detroit on November 2. The game drew a crowd of 8,000 spectators, \"[t]he largest crowd that ever turned out to a football game in Michigan.\" Bruce Shorts led the scoring with 12 points on a touchdown, a field goal, and two goals from touchdown. Eben Wilson and Willie Heston also scored touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0032-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Carlisle\nCarlisle in 1901 also played several of the major Eastern teams, losing a close game to Penn (14\u201316), and also losing to Cornell (0\u201317) and Harvard (0\u201329). Accordingly, the Michigan-Carlisle game triggered a debate as to whether Michigan's football team was as strong as Harvard and the other leading teams of the East. Carlisle played the Michigan game without its star tackle, Martin Wheelock, who was injured one week earlier against Harvard. Michigan, too, played without a key player, Curtis Redden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0032-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Carlisle\nAfter the game, Pop Warner, who had predicted a victory before the game, asserted that his team was depleted by injuries and opined that Michigan was not as strong as Harvard. Following Warner's claim, the Detroit Free Press published a position-by-position analysis purporting to show that Warner used his best team against Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0033-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Carlisle\nThe New York Times pointed to the Carlisle game as evidence that Michigan's remarkable season was not limited to small institutions. Coach Yost later wrote that he believed Michigan would have won by an even larger score if Redden had not been injured. Michigan's convincing win over Carlisle, and its wins over Buffalo and Chicago, led the Times to conclude that a game between Michigan and one of the \"Big Four\" teams of the East \"would be a conflict well worth seeing and productive of interesting and possibly startling results.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0034-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Carlisle\nMichigan's starters in the game were Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), Albert Herrnstein (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Willie Heston (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0035-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Ohio State\nOn November 9, 1901, undefeated Michigan faced an undefeated Ohio State team that had allowed opponents to score only five points in its five previous games. The 1901 game was the third meeting in what would become the Michigan\u2013Ohio State football rivalry, with the two teams having played to a scoreless tie in their prior match in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0036-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Ohio State\nMichigan won the 1901 game, 21\u20130, at Ohio Field in Columbus, Ohio, in front of a crowd of approximately 4,000 persons. A special train carried 375 Michigan students to the game on the Ann Arbor and Hocking Valley railroads. Ohio State held the Wolverines to their lowest point total of the 1901 season. Prior to the game, the head coaches argued over the length of the game, Yost insisting on regulation halves of 30 minute and Ohio State's John B. Eckstorm insisting that the first half be limited to 25 minutes. When the umpire threatened Ohio State with a forfeiture, coach Eckstrom agreed to play regulation halves of 30 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0037-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Ohio State\nMichigan scored three touchdowns in the first half. Left tackle Hugh White scored the first touchdown on a two-yard run with Bruce Shorts kicking the goal from touchdown to give Michigan a 6-0 lead. Michigan's second touchdown was scored by left halfback Willie Heston on a 40-yard run. Fullback Neil Snow scored the third touchdown of the first half and also scored the only touchdown of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0038-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Ohio State\nThe Detroit Free Press noted that Ohio State's players sought to slow the pace of Michigan's \"hurry up\" style of play. The paper noted: \"On almost every scrimmage some Ohio man would stretch out on the ground and take his full time. This playing for wind was so apparent that the Michigan players finally burlesqued it. The Ohio men could not stand the gaff, and their doctors and trainer ran more yards than both teams put together.\" After the game, coach Yost commented on Ohio State's tactic: \"Their laying down for time took much of the vim out of our team, and rested their tired out players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0039-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Ohio State\nMichigan's starters in the game were Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), Albert Herrnstein (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Willie Heston (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0040-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Chicago\nOn November 16, 1901, Michigan faced its traditional rival in Amos Alonzo Stagg's University of Chicago Maroons football team. Chicago had won three of the prior four matches, including a 15\u20136 victory over Michigan in 1900. Coach Yost noted, \"I knew long before I came to Michigan of the great rivalry existing between this University and the University of Chicago. It was my desire to win this game above all others.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0041-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Chicago\nThe 1901 game was played in 35-minute halves at Regents Field in front of one of the largest crowds that ever attended a game up to that time in Ann Arbor. Michigan won the game, 22\u20130. Michigan's first touchdown was scored by fullback Neil Snow with Bruce Shorts kicking for the goal after touchdown. The second touchdown was scored at the 9-minute mark in the first half by left tackle Hugh White on a \"mass play\" on Chicago's left end. Shorts missed the kick for goal from touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0041-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Chicago\nIn the second half, Shorts scored Michigan's third touchdown after 5:45 had been played in the second half but missed the kick for goal as Michigan extended its lead to 16\u20130. White scored Michigan's fourth touchdown and Shorts kicked goal at the 7:30 mark of the second half. Michigan's defense held Chicago to three first downs, never allowed the Maroons into field goal range, and forced 11 punts while the Wolverines punted only once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0042-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Chicago\nDespite the win, Coach Yost was disappointed with the low point total accumulated by his team and publicly stated that \"we would have scored many more points on Chicago if the field had been dry.\" Yost described the impact of the weather on his team as follows: \"Much to our disappointment the game was played on a muddy field in a snowstorm, and the work of our backs was seriously handicapped. The Chicago team was not to the same extent handicapped by reason of the fact that it did not rely upon speed to advance the ball. . . . End-running was impossible, and we were compelled to make our gains by line-bucking which is a slow process . . .\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0043-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Chicago\nMichigan's starters in the game were Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), Albert Herrnstein (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Willie Heston (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0044-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Beloit\nMichigan played its final home game on November 23 and won, 89\u20130, over Beloit College. The game was played in 30-minute halves at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored 15 touchdowns, six by Albert Herrnstein, three by Neil Snow, and single touchdowns by Shorts, Heston, White, Graver, Sweeley and Redner. Shorts also scored on 14 goals from touchdown, giving him 19 points. The game was played on a wet field that was \"practically a pond in the centre, filled in with sawdust before the game started.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0044-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Beloit\nBecause of the field conditions, Michigan was not able to execute its end runs and relied principally on \"line bucking.\" Right end Albert Herrnstein scored six touchdowns for 30 points, including two kickoff returns for touchdowns in the second half. Coach Yost later recalled the scene on the field after one of Herrnstein's runs: \"Once when Herrnstein made a long run for a touchdown I remember of seeing four Beloit players stretched on the ground in a line where they had made useless efforts to stop him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0044-0002", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Beloit\nRight tackle Bruce Shorts scored a touchdown and kicked 14 extra points for 19 points. Fullback Neil Snow added three touchdowns for 15 points, and single touchdowns were scored by Heston, White, Graver, Sweeley and Redden. The Beloit team managed to gain the five yards required for a first down on only one drive late in the game. Beloit's one first down came on a fake kick followed by a run of 15 yards\u2014the largest gain made by any team against Michigan in 1901. The New York Times reported: \"The strong team from Beloit was unable to do anything against the Ann Arbor men.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0045-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: Beloit\nMichigan's starters in the game were Curtis Redden (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), Albert Herrnstein (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Willie Heston (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0046-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: Iowa\nMichigan closed its regular season schedule on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, with a 50\u20130 win over the University of Iowa in front of a crowd of 10,000 spectators at West Side Park in Chicago. The New York Times reported that \"Michigan scored almost at will\" and \"outclassed\" a \"sturdy, plucky\" Iowa team. Willie Heston and Bruce Shorts scored four touchdowns each for Michigan and \"played a spectacular part for the Wolverines.\" Shorts added five successful extra point kicks giving him 25 points in the game. Neil Snow also scored a touchdown for Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0047-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: Iowa\nMichigan's starters in the game were Herb Graver (left end), Hugh White (left tackle), Dan McGugin (left guard), George Gregory (center), Ebin Wilson (right guard), Bruce Shorts (right tackle), Albert Herrnstein (right end), Boss Weeks (quarterback), Willie Heston (left halfback), Everett Sweeley (right halfback), and Neil Snow (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0048-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Rose Bowl\nAfter the conclusion of the 1901 football season, Michigan, was invited to play against Stanford in the first Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California. Michigan won the game on New Year's Day 1902 by the score of 49\u20130. Neil Snow scored five touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0049-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Rose Bowl\nThe players that traveled to California were starters, Hugh White, Curtis Redden, Dan McGugin, George Gregory, Bruce Shorts, Albert Herrnstein, Boss Weeks, Everett Sweeley, Willie Heston, and Neil Snow, and substitutes Arthur Redner (back), Benjamin Harrison Southworth (guard), James E. Forrest (tackle), and Paul J. Jones (back).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0050-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, \"Point-a-Minute\" teams\nThe 1901 Michigan team was the first of Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams, so named for their high scoring offense. From 1901 to 1905, Yost's Michigan teams compiled a record of 55\u20131\u20131 and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 2,821 to 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0051-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, \"Point-a-Minute\" teams\nAfter the first four games, a Boston newspaper noted that Michigan \"has scored an average of one point for every minute of play.\" The race to continue the point per minute scoring remained a topic of reportage for the remainder of the season. After six games, the Wolverines had scored 319 points in 280 minutes. At the end of the regular season, Michigan had fallen slightly short of the point-a-minute mark with 501 points in 540 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0052-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Accolades\nAt the conclusion of the 1901 season, team captain Hugh White gave head coach Fielding Yost and trainer Keene Fitzpatrick substantial credit for the performance of the 1901 team. He credited the coach with \"inoculating into the men some of Mr. Yost's own spirit, impulsiveness and optimism,\" and with having the \"faculty of adapting his plays to the material at hand so that he got the best there was out of every one of the eleven men.\" With respect to the trainer, White noted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0053-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Accolades\n\"An equally strong element, and one many are apt to overlook, was the work of Keene Fitzpatrick. Consider a team training nearly four months, without a man going stale, and but one injured so that he had to be taken out of the game! Then in addition a trip of nearly 3000 miles, from a climate where the thermometer registered 10 degrees below zero, into one of summer weather, and eleven men playing through an entire game and finishing it with faster and stronger play than at the beginning! Such were the results achieved by our trainer. ... Too much praise cannot be given him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0054-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Accolades\nFor its impressive average of 50 points per game on offense and eleven games of scoreless defense, the 1901 team has been recognized as one of the greatest college football teams of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0055-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Accolades\nSnow was selected as an All-American by Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine, and four Wolverines were selected for the All-Western team: Snow (fullback/end), Heston (halfback), Boss Weeks (quarterback), and Bruce Shorts (right tackle).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0056-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Accolades\nAt the end of the 1901 season, team captain Hugh White wrote: \"The fall of 1901 will go down in the history of Michigan athletics, not only as the most successful football season the University has ever had, but also as establishing the most wonderful and unique record in the history of the game.\" A summary of the accomplishments of the 1901 Michigan team written by Yost was published in the 1902 University of Michigan yearbook under the title \"Yost's Soliloquy,\" originally printed in a Detroit newspaper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0056-0001", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Accolades\nThe accomplishments of the 1901 team, wrote Yost, included \"the highest number of points ever rolled up in a season by a recognized team.\" The punting of Everett Sweeley was also an important element in Michigan's success in 1901. Sweeley was regarded by Yost as \"the best punter in the country.\" Ten men, all but the center, carried the ball in turns. Yost highlighted that Michigan ran 219 plays in the Iowa game, compared to 149 run by Harvard in the Harvard\u2013Yale game of 1901. The fast pace of Michigan's play on offense earned Yost the nickname \"Hurry Up.\" Yost described the 1901 team as a speedy group \"composed of muscular, wiry men who had no superfluous weight.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0057-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Accolades\nMichigan's line was strong on defense. The fullback was called upon to make a tackle only once in the entire season. In the final three games of the season, Michigan's defense allowed only seven first downs. Four of Michigan's opponents (Albion, Case, Beloit, and Indiana) never had possession of the ball in Michigan's territory. Only Northwestern and Buffalo moved the ball inside Michigan's 30-yard line, and those two instances came on penalties against Michigan for forward passes. Only one player was taken out of a game for injury, and he returned to practice the Monday after the Saturday game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0058-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Michigan's lineup during the 1901 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics Yost's short punt formation while on offense, with the quarterback under center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033354-0059-0000", "contents": "1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 13 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1901 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033355-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Mid Cork by-election\nThe Mid Cork by-election, 1901 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of Mid Cork on 17 May 1901. The vacancy arose because of the death of the sitting member, Dr Charles Tanner of the Irish Parliamentary Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033355-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Mid Cork by-election\nVarious candidates were mooted, including John O'Connor, former MP for South Tipperary. However, the final choice for the Irish Parliamentary Party was D. D. Sheehan, considered as representing the interests of labour. Sheehan was the only candidate nominated, and therefore elected unopposed. Sheehan sat as MP for the constituency until 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033356-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Milwaukee Brewers season\nThe 1901 Milwaukee Brewers were an American baseball team. The Brewers finished eighth in the American League with a record of 48 wins and 89 losses, 35.5 games behind the Chicago White Stockings. After the season, the club left Milwaukee for St. Louis and became the St. Louis Browns, where they would remain until the end of 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033356-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Milwaukee Brewers season, Regular season, Regular season highlights\n4/24/01. On the first game of the season in Detroit, the Brewers held a 13-4 lead going into the 9th inning. The Detroit Tigers scored 10 runs in the bottom of the inning to win, a record which still stands as the greatest 9th inning comeback in major league baseball history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033356-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033356-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033356-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033356-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033357-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1901 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Minnesota in the 1901 Western Conference football season. In its second year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the team compiled a 9\u20131\u20131 record (3\u20131 against Western Conference opponents), finished in third place in the conference, shut out 10 of their 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 183 to 18. The only loss came against Wisconsin, which was the only team to score against Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033357-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nFour Minnesota players received honors on the 1901 All-Western college football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033358-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1901 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033359-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1901 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled a 1-6-1 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 155 to 30. Fred W. Murphy was the head coach for the second and final season. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033360-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Monmouth Boroughs by-election\nThe Monmouth Boroughs by-election, 1901 was a by-election held on 7 May 1901 for the British House of Commons constituency of Monmouth Boroughs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033360-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Monmouth Boroughs by-election\nThe by-election was triggered by the unseating of the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, as a result of an election petition alleging irregularities in election spending. The Liberal candidate was Albert Spicer, who had previously been the sitting MP but had lost in the previous general election. The result was a victory for the Conservative candidate Sheriff Joseph Lawrence, who held the seat, although the party's majority was halved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033360-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Monmouth Boroughs by-election, Aftermath\nDespite the intervention of a Labour Representation Committee candidate, the Liberal Party gained the seat;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033361-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Montana Agricultural football team\nThe 1901 Montana Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach A. G. Harbaugh, the team compiled a 2\u20131 record with victories over the University of Montana and Butte Business College. The team outscored opponents by a total of 42 to 23. Right guard Ervin was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033362-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Montana football team\nThe 1901 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1901 college football season. They were led by second-year head coach Frank Bean, and finished the season with a record of two wins and three losses (2\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033362-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Montana football team, Notes\nThe final scores for the loss against Fort Shaw Indian School and their first victory over Fort Missoula are both unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033363-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1901 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In their first year under head coach W. H. Rorke, the team compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033364-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Baseball Club season\nThe 1901 Nashville Baseball Club season was the 8th season of minor league baseball in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Nashville Baseball Club's 1st season in the Southern Association. The board of directors awarded the league pennant to Nashville over Little Rock. In 1901, the Southern Association was formed to fill the void left by the folding of the original Southern League. The team was managed by Newt Fisher. The team featured Ed Abbaticchio, Snapper Kennedy, Tom Parrott and War Sanders. Abbatichio led the league in runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033364-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Baseball Club season\nThey played an exhibition game with Vanderbilt's baseball team, whose captain was shortstop Grantland Rice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team\nThe 1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team represented the University of Nashville during the 1901 college football season. The second of first two opponents is unknown. The 1901 team was likely the best football team in Nashville's history. Coached by Charley Moran, though they lost to southern power Vanderbilt, they \"mopped up with about everything else.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, at Mooney School\nTo open the season, Nashville defeated the Mooney School 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, at Mooney School\nThe starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackburn (left tackle), Majors (left guard) Hawkins (center), Peake (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Church (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Holland (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, at Texas\nNashville tied the Texas Longhorns 5\u20135, in front of what was then the largest crowd ever to see a game in Dallas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, at Texas\nThe starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackborn (left tackle), Peake (left guard) Hawkins (center), Majors (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Pollard (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Biddle (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nNashville surprised again and beat Tennessee 16\u20135. Tennessee had just come off a tie of Clemson, when Clemson had in turn come off a 122\u20130 victory on opening day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nArguably the year's biggest win, Nashville kept up its win streak and beat Sewanee 39\u20136, then the worst defeat ever suffered by Sewanee. Nashville simply outweighed the Tigers. Ormond Simkins scored first. Biddle once got a touchdown on a 35-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackburn (left tackle), Majors (left guard) Hankins (center), Peake (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Pollard (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Biddle (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, at Kentucky University\nNashville beat state champion Kentucky University in Lexington 5\u20130. Kentucky governor J. C. W. Beckham made a 15-yard kick to ceremonially start the contest. Fullback Bidwell made the touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nThree Nashville players were ruled ineligible. The Commodores practiced in secret for ten days in preparation. Vanderbilt faced Nashville on Thanksgiving Day and won 10\u20130 in front of 4 to 5,000 spectators, using \"Harvard tactics.\" After thirty minutes of gameplay, John Edgerton scored a touchdown taking the wind out of the sails of Nashville rooters. A riot broke out downtown the next day. According to the account of the event in the Nashville Banner (repudiated in the Hustler), the trouble started when a number of Vanderbilt students \"tried to paint the stone fence of the University of Nashville yellow and black.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackborn (left tackle), Majors (left guard) Hankins (center), Peake (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Pollard (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Biddle (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033365-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team, Postseason\nAmidst charges of professionalism, Nashville was blacklisted from the SIAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033366-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1901 Navy Midshipmen football team was an American football team that represented the United States Naval Academy as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In it first season under head coach Art Hillebrand, the team compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 113 to 81.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033366-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Navy Midshipmen football team\nPresident Theodore Roosevelt attended the Army\u2013Navy Game in Philadelphia on December 1. A newspaper account noted: \"For the first time in the history of foot-ball a President of the United States added dignity to a noted contest by his presence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1901 college football season. The team was coached by second-year head coach Walter C. Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nWith victories over Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas, and Haskell, Nebraska was recognized as Missouri Valley champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBell, Johnny HBBender, Johnny HBBrew, Fred RGCortelyou, Spencer ECrandall, Harry HBCuff, E.W. HBDrain, Ralph QBEager, Earl HBJohnson, William EKingsbury, Raymond FBKoehler, John CMaloney, J.R. LGPillsbury, Melville FBRinger, John LGShedd, Charlie EShedd, George FBStringer, Lewis TTobin, John GVoss TWestover, John RT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Kirksville Osteopaths\nNebraska managed only one touchdown against the medical students from Kirksville, holding on to win 5\u20130. This was the only meeting between Kirksville and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Doane\nAfter a four-year break, Doane and Nebraska resumed their series in Lincoln. Nebraska dominated the game, its third straight shutout victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nFor the second consecutive year, Minnesota ended Nebraska's unbeaten season, this time in a dominating 19\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nNebraska, shorthanded due to injuries suffered against Minnesota, shut out Iowa State for the second straight year, allowing only 75 yards and three first downs to the Cyclones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nNebraska and Wisconsin met for the first time in Milwaukee, an 18\u20130 Badgers victory. Over 100 years later, the teams would become division rivals when Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nNebraska hammered Missouri 51\u20130 in Omaha, the second-largest victory in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nAn early Nebraska fumble put Kansas on the scoreboard, but Nebraska dominated the rest of the game to even the all-time series at five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033367-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Haskell\nHaskell and Nebraska met for the first time to close the 1901 season. Haskell, despite using a team of high school players (the school would not add a college until the following year), led 10\u20130 at halftime. Nebraska, however, scored the game's final 18 points to win the game and end the season 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033368-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\nFinal standings of the 1901 Hungarian League season. This was the first ever football championship held in Hungary, and only Budapest based teams participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033369-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1901 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Allen Steckle, the team compiled a 3\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033369-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team, Previous season\nThe Sagebrushers finished the 1900 season 4\u20132\u20131. Head coach James Hopper was replaced by Allen Steckle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033370-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1901 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1901 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 0\u20136, and did not score any points during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033370-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033370-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe team's original schedule had included games against Burdett College, Tufts, and MIT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033370-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe October 2 contest was the first game of the Dartmouth\u2013New Hampshire football rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033370-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nIn addition to the varsity games listed above, New Hampshire's second team (reserves) defeated South Berwick Academy, 11\u20136, and lost to a team of Exeter Academy juniors, 23\u20130. A team of New Hampshire freshmen defeated Newmarket High School, 22\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033371-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThe 1901 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1901. Republican nominee Franklin Murphy defeated Democratic nominee James M. Seymour with 50.88% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033372-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1901 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1901 college football season. In their second, non-consecutive year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 2\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 38 to 6. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033373-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New South Wales state election\nThe 1901 New South Wales state election was held on 3 July 1901 for all of the 125 seats in the 19th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. The Parliamentary Electorates Act of 1893 had conferred the right to vote on every male British subject over 21 years of age who was resident in New South Wales for a year or more. The 19th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 11 June 1901 by the Governor, Lord Beauchamp, on the advice of the Premier, John See.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033373-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 New South Wales state election\nFederation had seen a re-evaluation of priorities among the main political parties in New South Wales, with the Protectionist Party and the Free Trade Party becoming the Progressive Party and the Liberal Reform Party respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033373-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 New South Wales state election, Results\nNew South Wales state election, 3 July 1901\u200aLegislative Assembly << 1898\u20131904 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033374-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1901 were appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033374-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 New Year Honours\nThe list was published in The Times on 1 January 1901, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 28 December 1900 and 8 January 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033374-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033375-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New York City borough president elections\nElections were held to elect the borough presidents of New York City on November 5, 1901. Fusionists and Republicans won three of the city's five boroughs while Democrats were returned in The Bronx and Queens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033376-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New York Giants season\nThe 1901 New York Giants season was the franchise's 19th season. The team finished in seventh place in the National League with a 52-85 record, 37 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033376-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033376-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033376-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033376-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033376-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033377-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours\nThe 1901 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours were appointments by Edward VII of New Zealanders to the Order of St Michael and St George, to mark the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand that year. They were announced on 19 June 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033377-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033378-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Nobel Prize in Literature\nThe 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature was the first awarded Nobel Prize in Literature. It was awarded to the French poet Sully Prudhomme \"in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033378-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Nobel Prize in Literature, Laureate\nSully Prudhomme belonged to a school of poets that wanted to write in a classic and formally elegant style. Sully Prudhomme's poetry combined formal perfection with an interest in science and philosophy. According to the Swedish Academy, his elevated poetry fit in Alfred Nobel's formulation about works \"in an ideal direction\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033378-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nominations\nSully Prudhomme was nominated for the prize by 17 members of the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise, of which Sully Prudhomme himself was a member. In total the Nobel committee received 37 nominations for 25 individuals, including Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mistral (five nominations) and Henryk Sienkiewicz (three nominations) who were subsequently both awarded the prize, and the only woman nominated, Malwida von Meysenburg. The first name on their list of candidates was \u00c9mile Zola, but the campaign from the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise proved to be successful and the Swedish Academy chose to award Sully Prudhomme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033378-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Nobel Prize in Literature, Reactions\nThe Swedish Academy's decision to award Sully Prudhomme the first Nobel Prize in Literature was heavily criticised at the time and remains one of the most criticised prize decisions in the history of the Nobel Prize in literature. The choice of Sully Prudhomme was interpreted as a politeness towards the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise, model to the Swedish Academy. Many believed that Lev Tolstoy should have been awarded the first Nobel Prize in literature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033378-0003-0001", "contents": "1901 Nobel Prize in Literature, Reactions\nThe leading representatives of the contemporary Swedish cultural elite including August Strindberg, Selma Lagerl\u00f6f, Verner von Heidenstam, Oscar Levertin, Bruno Liljefors, Anders Zorn and Albert Engstr\u00f6m protested against the Academy saying they believed that Tolstoy was the most worthy recipient of the prize. An English newspaper said that Sully Prudhomme was a second rate poet who had not achieved anything in many years. Also from France and Germany came critical reactions with opinions that Tolstoy was the superior candidate for the prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033379-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1901 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1901 college football season. In John McKee second season as head coach, the Aggies improved to a 1\u20132 record, although they lost both contests against rival, North Carolina. They scored 27 points against their opponents and allowed 75.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033380-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team\nThe 1901 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1901 college baseball season. The team was suspended from the conference the next season for paying its players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033381-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1901 North Carolina Tar Heels football team was an American football team that represented the University of North Carolina as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1901 SIAA season. In its first season under head coach Charles O. Jenkins, the team compiled a 7\u20132 record (2\u20131 against SIAA opponents). Albert M. Carr was the team captain. The team was suspended from the conference in 1902 for paying baseball players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033382-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1901 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Jack Harrison, the team compiled a 7\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 261 to 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033382-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe season was part of a three-year, 17-game winning streak that began on November 19, 1900, and ended on November 21, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033383-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 North East Lanarkshire by-election\nThese are the results of the North East Lanarkshire by-election of 1901. Liberal Unionist party candidate Sir William Henry Rattigan won the seat from the Liberal Party who had held the seat at the general election the year before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033384-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1901 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1901 college football season. They were led by third-year head coach John A. H. Keith. The team finished the season with a 6\u20131 record. Henry Hausen was the team's captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033385-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Northern Maori by-election\nThe 1901 Northern Maori by-election was a by-election for the seat of Northern Maori during the 14th New Zealand Parliament. The election was held on 9 January 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033385-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Northern Maori by-election\nThe sitting member Hone Heke Ngapua was declared bankrupt and had to resign from the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033385-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Northern Maori by-election\nHowever following the precedent of Sir Joseph Ward in 1897 (see 1897 Awarua by-election) he was eligible to stand in the resulting by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033385-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Northern Maori by-election\nEparaima Te Mutu Kapa had won the seat in the 1891 by-election, but had been defeated in the 1896 election and 1899 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033386-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1901 Northwestern Purple football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1901 Western Conference football season. In its third season under head coach Charles M. Hollister, the team compiled an 8\u20132\u20131 record, finished in fifth place in the Western Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 161 to 77. The team's sole losses were to undefeated Michigan and one-loss Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033386-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Northwestern Purple football team\nGuard Cyrus E. Dietz was the team captain. His brother, G. O. Dietz, played at the fullback position and was selected as a first-team player on the 1901 All-Western college football teams of the Chicago Daily News and Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033387-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1901 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1901 college football season. In its second season with Pat O'Dea as coach, the team compiled an 8\u20131\u20131 record, shut out six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 145 to 19. Al Fortin was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033387-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Notre Dame football team\nWith victories over Purdue and Indiana, Notre Dame was declared to be the Indiana state champion. Only four of the games played were deemed \"championship games\": Northwestern, Beloit, Indiana, and Purdue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033387-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Notre Dame football team\nFullback Louis J. Salmon starred on the 1901 team. At a post-season meeting on November 29, 1901, Salmon was unanimously elected as captain of the 1902 Notre Dame football team. At the same meeting, varsity letters were presented to 14 players for their participation on the 1901 team: Lonergan, Lins and Nyere, ends; Faragher and Fortin, tackles; Gillen, Winters, Piele, O'Malley, guards; Pick, center; Henry J. McGlew, quarterback; Doran and Kirby, halfbacks; and Salmon, fullback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033388-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Nova Scotia general election\nThe 1901 Nova Scotia general election was held on 2 October 1901 to elect members of the 33rd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033389-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1901 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Arlie C. Jones, the team compiled a 6\u20131\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 108 to 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033390-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio Medical football team\nThe 1901 Ohio Medical football team was an American football team that represented the Ohio Medical University in the 1901 college football season. Ohio Medical compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record, and outscored their opponents 85 to 57.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033391-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach John B. Eckstorm, the team compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 94 to 56. J. M. Kittle was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033391-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nDuring the 1901 season, support for the Ohio State football team grew, and for the first time, the program generated a profit for the university athletic association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033391-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nOn October 26, 1901, John Sigrist, who played center-rush, sustained a broken vertebrae in a game against Western Reserve. He died from his injuries two days later. He remains the only Ohio State player to have died from injuries sustained in a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033391-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Week 6: Michigan\nOn November 9, 1901, undefeated Ohio State, having allowed opponents to score only five points in five prior games, faced an undefeated Michigan team coached by Fielding H. Yost that had not allowed opponents to score in six previous games. The 1901 game was the third meeting in what would become the Michigan\u2013Ohio State football rivalry, with the two teams having played to a scoreless tie in their previous match in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033391-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Week 6: Michigan\nThe Buckeyes lost the 1901 game to the Wolverines by a 21\u20130 score in front of 4,000 spectators at Ohio Field. Prior to the game, the head coaches argued over the length of the game, Yost of Michigan insisting on regulation halves of 30 minute and Ohio State's Eckstorm insisting that the first half be limited to 25 minutes. When the umpire threatened Ohio State with a forfeiture, coach Eckstrom agreed to play regulation halves of 30 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033391-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Week 6: Michigan\nThe Detroit Free Press noted that Ohio State's players sought to slow the pace of the game. The paper noted: \"On almost every scrimmage some Ohio man would stretch out on the ground and take his full time. This playing for wind was so apparent that the Michigan players finally burlesqued it. The Ohio men could not stand the gaff, and their doctors and trainer ran more yards than both teams put together.\" After the game, coach Yost commented on Ohio State's tactic: \"Their laying down for time took much of the vim out of our team, and rested their tired out players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033391-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Week 6: Michigan\nOhio Governor George K. Nash attended the game and said afterward: \"Football is a great game for young men who are physically fit for such a contest, and I enjoyed the game immensely, although I regretted to see our state team lose, but Michigan is entitled to the victory, and I think she was aware she had a game on her hands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033392-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 1901 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1901. Incumbent Republican George K. Nash defeated Democratic nominee James Kilbourne with 52.70% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033393-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1901 college football season. This was the first year of football at A&M and the team didn't have a head coach. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. They finished the season 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033394-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1901 Oklahoma Sooners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Oklahoma as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first year under head coach Fred Roberts, the team compiled a 3\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 93 to 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033394-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe team played two games against the Texas Longhorns, the second and third meetings in the rivalry that later became known as the Red River Showdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033395-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1901 Ole Miss Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Mississippi as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1901 SIAA football season. In its first season under head coaches William Shibley and Daniel S. Martin, Ole Miss compiled a 2\u20134 record (0\u20134 against SIAA opponents) and was outscored by a total of 129 to 34. A seventh game with Christian Brothers was canceled. Right end F. W. Elmer was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033396-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Open Championship\nThe 1901 Open Championship was the 41st Open Championship, held 5\u20136 June at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. James Braid won the Championship, three strokes ahead of runner-up Harry Vardon. The Championship was a close contest between Braid, Vardon and J.H. Taylor with the leading amateur 11 strokes behind Braid and the next professional 16 strokes behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033396-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Open Championship\nAll entries played 36 holes on the first day with all those within 19 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033396-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Open Championship\nIn a strong wind, Vardon led after the first round with a 77 and followed this with a 78. At the end of the first day, he was joined on 155 by Braid. Taylor was next, seven shots behind with James Kinnell and Jack White a further two strokes back. Such was the dominance of Braid and Vardon that only 36 players (31 professionals and five amateurs) scored 174 or better and the cut was made at 175 to include 33 professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033396-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Open Championship\nAfter the third round, Braid was five shots clear of Vardon, with Taylor two further shots behind and the rest of the field a further eight strokes behind. With a clear lead, he played a cautious final round of 80. With Braid having finished his round, Vardon had a chance to tie if he could play the last three holes in level fours. However at the 16th he topped his second shot, put his third into a bunker and took six, ending his chances. Taylor finished third with amateur Harold Hilton a further seven strokes behind. If not for a brutal 89 in the first round, Hilton would have fared much better on the final leaderboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033397-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1901 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1901 college football season. It was the Webfoots' eighth season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Warren W. Smith. They finished the season with a record of three wins, four losses and one tie (3\u20134\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season\nIn 1901, 21\u00a0tropical cyclones were observed in the western Pacific Ocean, north of the equator. In that region of the world, cyclones that attain maximum sustained winds of at least 118\u00a0km/h (74\u00a0mph) are known as typhoons. Out of the 21\u00a0storms, the Hong Kong Observatory tracked nine of them. The strongest storm, known as the De Witte typhoon, reached a minimum barometric pressure of 920\u00a0mbar (27\u00a0inHg), before striking eastern China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season\nOn May 22, 1901, the Manila Observatory in the Philippines (then a territory of the United States) was renamed the Philippine Weather Bureau, whose successor eventually became the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013July\nThere were two storms tracked in January. On February 2, a storm was observed northwest of Borneo in the South China Sea. It moved to the west and later to the west-southwest, dissipating on February 5 between Borneo and Vietnam. There was a storm in April and another two in May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013July\nOn May 14, a tropical cyclone was observed just east of Samar, an island in the east-central Philippines. Estimated to have reached typhoon intensity, the storm moved westward through the Visayas archipelago, producing a barometric pressure of 971\u00a0mbar (28.68\u00a0inHg) aboard a ship. The storm curved northeastward in the South China Sea, striking Taiwan on May 20. The storm proceeded through the Ryukyu Islands and was last noted on May 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013July\nThere were two storms in June. The first was observed on June 1 into the following day, moving northeastward while remaining east of Taiwan. A typhoon formed east of Luzon on July 12. It moved westward, crossing Cagayan and Ilocos before entering the South China Sea. The system intensified and crossed Hainan, ultimately making landfall on northern Vietnam on July 16, where it soon dissipated. At Haiphong, winds reached 140\u00a0km/h (85\u00a0mph), and the minimum pressure fell to 967\u00a0mbar (28.56\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013July, De Witte typhoon\nOriginating near the Caroline Islands, a typhoon was observed on July 30 to the southeast of Okinawa. It moved west-northwestward, entering the East China Sea on August\u00a01. That day, the Russian steamer De Witte encountered the typhoon's rough waves and high winds, which damaged the ship's railings. On August\u00a02, while the ship was about 80\u00a0km (50\u00a0mi) north of Taiwan, a large wave washed overboard and flooded the engine room; this forced the crew to evacuate into two boats, and after two days they were rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0005-0001", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013July, De Witte typhoon\nKnown as the De Witte typhoon, the storm continued to intensify until reaching a peak late on August 2, when a minimum barometric pressure of 920\u00a0mbar (27.17\u00a0inHg) was recorded. At its peak, the typhoon had an elliptical 13\u00a0km (8\u00a0mi) eye, moving west-northwestward at 11 to 24\u00a0km/h (7 to 15\u00a0mph), with gale-force winds extending 565\u00a0km (360\u00a0mi) from the center. On August\u00a03, the storm struck eastern China, near the border of Chekiang and Hokkien provinces. It rapidly weakened and dissipated over land. The trajectory of the storm and nearby stations provided an opportunity to study the mechanics of intense tropical cyclones' movements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, January\u2013July, De Witte typhoon\nIshigaki Island, part of the Ryukyu Islands, recorded peak winds of 60\u00a0km/h (37\u00a0mph) while the storm passed to the north. In addition to wrecking the De Witte, the typhoon also damaged two other boats. Onshore mainland China, the typhoon flooded the region around Wenzhou several miles inland due to increased levels along the Ou River. On Lingkun Dao near the city, the storm destroyed an embankment, killing many people. Regional officials later provided coffins for the deceased, as well as rice and money for survivors. Heavy damage occurred around Wenzhou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, August\u2013December\nA tropical cyclone was observed in the South China Sea on August\u00a015. It moved northwestward and struck the Leizhou Peninsula in southern China on August\u00a018. The storm turned to the west and crossed the northern Gulf of Tonkin, hitting northern Vietnam and dissipating on August\u00a020. Another storm was first detected northeast of Luzon on August\u00a021. A northwest trajectory brought the system through the Ryukyu Islands, and the storm ultimately dissipated over eastern China on August\u00a024, having moved ashore near Wenzhou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, August\u2013December\nOn September\u00a08, a low pressure area formed east of the Philippines. It intensified into a tropical storm while moving to the northwest, passing near the Ryukyu Islands on September\u00a017. After bypassing Taiwan to the north, the storm approached the mouth of the Yangtze in eastern China, before recurving to the northeast. It was last noted on September\u00a021 in the Sea of Japan. On the last day of the month, a typhoon formed west of Palau. Steered to the northwest, the storm moved across northern Luzon, hitting Nueva Ecija and Pangasinan. After emerging into the South China Sea, the storm turned to the northeast, brushing the Batanes islands as well as southeastern Taiwan on October\u00a04. Crossing the Ryukyu Islands, the storm was last noted on October\u00a06 to the southwest of Kyushu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, August\u2013December\nA westward-moving tropical cyclone was noticed on October\u00a012 to the east of the Philippines. With wind speeds approaching 269\u00a0km/h (167\u00a0mph), the typhoon passed north of Polillo Island before crossing Luzon, bypassing Manila about 95\u00a0km (60\u00a0mi) to the north. Seven boats were wrecked during the height of the storm. Along the Pasig River, a lorcha (Chinese boat) was left adrift after separating from a towboat, causing it to capsize along the breakwater; one person was killed in the incident, while the others swam to safety. Three American soldiers also died in the typhoon, alongside many Filipinos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0009-0001", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, August\u2013December\nConsidered one of the most severe typhoons in 20\u00a0years by newspapers, the storm downed most telegraph lines and damaged many houses. In the capital Manila, most streets were flooded in the Paco district up to a foot deep. Rainfall during the storm reached 4.063\u00a0in (103.2\u00a0mm). After leaving the Philippines, the typhoon progressed westward into the South China Sea and was last noted on October\u00a018 south of Hainan island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, August\u2013December\nOn October\u00a018, a short-lived tropical cyclone existed east of the Ryukyu Islands. It was moving northeastward and was last noted on the next day. A tropical storm was first observed on October\u00a021 and moved westward through the Philippines over the succeeding days. It crossed the South China Sea and dissipated over east-central Vietnam on October\u00a026. Concurrently, a tropical cyclone was noted on October\u00a024 northeast of the Philippines. It curved northwestward and later turned to the northeast, and was last noted on October\u00a029 east of Okinawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033398-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Pacific typhoon season, August\u2013December\nThere was one additional storm in October, and one each in November and December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033399-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1901 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the sixth\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 7 April 1901 and stretched 280\u00a0km (174\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Lucien Lesna from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033400-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 1901 Paris\u2013Tours was the second edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycle race and was held on 30 June 1901. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Jean Fischer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033401-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Patea by-elections\nThe 1901 Patea by-elections were two by-elections in the New Zealand electorate of Patea, a rural seat in Taranaki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033401-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Patea by-elections\nIn 1901 George Hutchison the member for Patea was deemed to have resigned when the second session of the 14th Parliament opened on 1 July, although he had apparently been absent for some months in South Africa. He was opposed to the Liberal Government. A by-election was called, but a second by-election was required when the result of the first by-election was disallowed on a petition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033401-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Patea by-elections\nIn the by-election held on 18 July the Liberal candidate John Heslop was initially leading but Frederick Haselden won. A second Liberal candidate, Arthur Remington (who had lost to Hutchison twice, in 1896 and 1899) stood and split the Liberal vote. From newspaper reports Haselden had won by only one vote; although earlier reports gave Hislop a 6, 10 or 15 vote winning margin, with Haseldene getting 953 or 958 votes and Heslop 968 votes. And the election day was rainy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033401-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Patea by-elections\nThe official Liberal candidate John Heslop was a farmer from near Hawera. He was on County Councils since 1876, and was Chairman of the Hawera County Council and the Licensing Bench, and on school committees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033401-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Patea by-elections, Result of first by-election\nA petition to disallow the election was heard by the Supreme Court from 7 to 10 October. The petitioner William Henry Parker a labourer of Patea did not appear in court, and was thought to have government backing. The court required another by-election as one John Williamson who appeared in the electoral roll as John Williams was not allowed to vote; a technical informality to some. Other grounds put forward were that two votes for Heslop were disallowed, and that two polling booths were not open as required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033401-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Patea by-elections, Result of first by-election\nThe second by-election vote on 6 November between two candidates returned Haselden by a substantial majority, and with a higher turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033402-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Pembrokeshire County Council election\nThe fifth election to Pembrokeshire County Council was held in March 1901. It was preceded by the 1898 election and followed by the 1904 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033402-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Overview of the result\nOnly eleven seats were contested and, as a result, the vast majority of wards resulted in unopposed returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033402-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Camrose\nHaving been defeated in 1898, Canton regained his seat without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033402-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Haverfordwest St Martin's and St Mary's\nW.H. George was elected by the casting vote of the Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 92], "content_span": [93, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033402-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Milford\nDr Griffith had stood as a Liberal in 1892 and a Liberal Unionist in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033402-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Election of aldermen\nAldermen were elected at the first meeting of the new council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033403-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1901 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its tenth season under head coach George Washington Woodruff, the team compiled a 10\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 203 to 121. Significant games included victories over Penn State (23\u20136), Chicago (11\u20130), and Carlisle (16\u201314), and losses to Navy (6\u20135), Harvard (33\u20136), and Army (24\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033403-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Penn Quakers football team\nTwo Penn players received recognition on the 1901 College Football All-America Team: guard John Teas (Walter Camp, 3rd team); and halfback Marshall S. Reynolds (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1st team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033404-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Penn State football team\nThe 1901 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team was coached by Pop Golden and played its home games in Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033405-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletic Club season\nThe 1901 Philadelphia Athletic Club season was the American football team's first season in existence. The team finished with an overall record of 4-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season\nThe 1901 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing fourth in the American League with a record of 74 wins and 62 losses. The franchise that would become the modern Athletics originated in 1901 as a new franchise in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Before the 1901 season\nThe Western League had been renamed the American League in 1900 by league president Bancroft (Ban) Johnson, and declared itself the second major league in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Before the 1901 season\nIn 1901, Johnson created new franchises in the east and eliminated some franchises in the west. Philadelphia seems to have been a new franchise created to compete with the National League's Philadelphia Phillies. Former catcher Connie Mack was recruited to manage the club. Mack in turn persuaded Phillies minority owner Ben Shibe as well as others to invest in the team, which would be called the Philadelphia Athletics. He himself bought a 25 percent interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Regular season\nIn 1901, Nap Lajoie jumped from the Phillies to the crosstown Philadelphia Athletics, owned by Connie Mack. Lajoie's batting average that year was .426, still a league record. The same year Lajoie became the second major leaguer to be intentionally walked with the bases loaded after Abner Dalrymple in 1881.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033406-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033407-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe following lists the events of the 1901 Philadelphia Phillies season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033407-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033407-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033407-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033408-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1901 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1901 college football season. The team finished the season with a record of 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1901 Pittsburgh Pirates finished in first place in the National League, 7\u00bd games ahead of the second-place Philadelphia Phillies. It was the first year that the American League operated as a major league, but there would be no World Series between the leagues until 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe team was managed by Fred Clarke, who was also their starting left fielder. Clarke, in his fifth year as a manager at age 28, won his first pennant. The Pirates won the National League championship in the next two years as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season\nThe Pirates were led offensively by Honus Wagner, who led the league in RBI and stolen bases. Although the \"Flying Dutchman\" had never played shortstop in the majors until 1901, he appeared 61 times at shortstop that year in addition to spending time at third base and the outfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season\nIn a league that batted .267 as a whole, the Pirates outfield was notable for its hitting. Ginger Beaumont hit .332, player-manager Fred Clarke hit .324, and Lefty Davis hit .313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season\nThe pitching staff of the Pirates allowed the fewest runs in the league and was among the greatest ever. The four top starting pitchers \u2013 Deacon Phillippe, Jack Chesbro, Jesse Tannehill, and Sam Leever \u2013 were the four top pitchers in the National League in terms of winning percentage. All of them were in the top ten in the league in ERA. Future Hall of Famer Rube Waddell had pitched well in 1900 for the Pirates, but was sold in May 1901 to the Chicago Orphans. With a record of 90-49, the Pirates had the best record in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Statistics, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Statistics, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Statistics, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033409-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Statistics, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033410-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 6 October 1901, the third in three years. The result was a victory for the Regeneration Party, which won 100 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033411-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1901 Preakness Stakes was the 26th running of the $2,500 Preakness Stakes, a Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run on May 28, 1901 at the Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York. The one mile, 70 yard race was won by The Parader over runner-up Sadie S. The race was run on a track rated heavy in a final time of 1:47 1/5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033411-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1901 Kentucky Derby was run on April 29 and the 1901 Belmont Stakes on May 23. The Parader did not run in the Derby but finished second in the Belmont to future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Commando.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033411-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Preakness Stakes\nFor jockey Frank Landry it would be his first and only Preakness win. For future Hall of Fame trainer T. J. Healey, it would mark the first of five Preakness wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033411-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1919 Preakness Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the second leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033412-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1901 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1901 college football season. The team finished with a 9\u20131\u20131 record under first-year head coach Langdon Lea. The Tigers won their first nine games, including eight shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 247 to 24. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12\u20130 score against Yale. Princeton end Ralph Tipton Davis was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1901 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033413-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1901 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1901 Western Conference football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 138 to 66 in their fourth, non-consecutive season under head coach D. M. Balliet. J. F. G. Miller was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033414-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1901 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 1901 college football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Marshall Tyler, they finished the season with a record of 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033415-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1901 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1901. Incumbent Republican William Gregory defeated Democratic nominee Lucius F. C. Garvin with 53.64% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake\nThe 1901 Richfield earthquake was a magnitude Mw7.0 earthquake that occurred on 13 November 1901 at approximately 9:39 PM MDT at Richfield, Utah, United States. If estimations are accurate, it is the largest earthquake ever recorded in Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake struck at approximately 9:39 PM MDT approximately 1.2 miles (1.9\u00a0km) south of Richfield, Utah, United States. Reports of the length of the quake varied from about one minute to three minutes. There were three waves\u2014increasing in power\u2014to the initial quake, and \"roaring\" or \"low rumbling\" sounds accompanying the shock waves were reported in Fillmore, Cedar City, and Salt Lake City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Earthquake\nThe time of the quake is officially recorded by the Intermountain Seismic Belt Historical Earthquake Project (ISBHEP) as 9:39 PM MDT. The USGS report gives an official time as 9:32 PM MDT. News reports from the time give times ranging from 9:30 PM MDT to 10:45 PM MDT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Earthquake, Magnitude and intensity\nThe quake was recorded by the ISBHEP as a Mw6\u00bd and an intensity of IX (Violent). The official USGS report in their historical earthquakes list stated no magnitude and an intensity of VIII (\"Severe\"). An official report published in 1988 assigned a magnitude of Mw7 and an intensity of IX (\"Violent\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Earthquake, Magnitude and intensity\nThe quake was felt in an area of 50,000 square miles (130,000\u00a0km2), including Cedar City (intensity VI), Oasis, and Fillmore. Salt Lake City (with intensity of IV) is considered an \"outlying point well outside the boundary of the main felt area.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Destruction\nDamage to chimneys, walls, roofs, windows was reported in Richfield, Beaver, Joseph, Elsinore, and Marysvale, with minor damage reported in Parowan, Milford, Cedar City, St. George, and Kanab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Destruction\nSurface ruptures up to 300 feet (91\u00a0m) in length were reported in Richfield, with water and white sand being ejected from some of the cracks. \"Extensive rockslides\" were reported between Beaver and Marysvale, especially in the canyons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Destruction\nDamage in Beaver included Beaver Woolen Mills, with an estimated US$4,000 in severe structural damage (approximately US$121,000 in 2020). The roof of the Beaver County courthouse was crushed by chimneys collapsing onto it, and the walls of the building were cracked in over 25 places. Additional reports of lesser damage include a saloon, several merchant buildings, schools and related buildings, and a church building. Merchandise in several stores was also damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033416-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Richfield earthquake, Destruction\nMinor damage was reported as far away as Salt Lake City, where several landslides were reported in Little Cottonwood, Big Cottonwood, and Bullion Canyon. The landslides almost completely blocked the roads. Surface ruptures and increased river flow were also reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033417-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1901 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as an independent during the 1901 college football season. Led by Garnett Nelson in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 1\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033418-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Romanian general election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Number 57 (talk | contribs) at 11:53, 17 June 2020 (MOSDATE). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033418-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Romanian general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Kingdom of Romania between 9 and 15 March 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033419-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Rosenska Pokalen\nRosenska Pokalen 1901, part of the 1901 Swedish football season, was the third Rosenska Pokalen tournament played. Eight teams participated and seven matches were played, the first 11 August 1901 and the last 1 September 1901. No team was declared winners of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033420-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1901 Rutgers Queensmen football team was an American football team that represented Rutgers University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Arthur P. Robinson, the team compiled a 0\u20137 record and was outscored by their opponents, 133 to 5. William B. Wyckoff was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033421-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1901 SAFA Grand Final was the concluding championship match of the 1901 SAFA season. The game resulted in a victory for Norwood who beat Port Adelaide by four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033422-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 SAFA season\nThe 1901 South Australian Football Association season was the 25th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. Minor premier Norwood won its 12th premiership. The season marked the formation and debut of the new Sturt Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033422-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 SAFA season, Season\nThe season was played under conventions similar to, but was amended from, the previous two seasons and the system used in the VFL in 1898\u20131900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033422-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 SAFA season, Season\nIn the minor round, all seven clubs played a double round-robin of twelve matches, and in the major round, all seven clubs played a single round-robin of six matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033422-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 SAFA season, Season\nIf the minor premiers won the major round, then that team would automatically win the major premiership. If they did not, then the major round winner would be required to defeat the minor premiers in two separate challenge finals to claim the premiership, effectively giving the minor premiers a triple chance to win the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033422-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 SAFA season, Season\nThe minor premier was Norwood, which finished two games clear on top of the ladder with a 10\u20132 record; however, the club's major round performance was mediocre, finishing fourth with a record of 3\u20133. Conversely, Port Adelaide, who had finished fourth in the minor rounds with a 6\u20136 record, was the undefeated winner of the major round. If the major round had been counted as part of the minor round, then Norwood would have been minor premiers with a 13\u20135 record, while Port Adelaide would have finished second: both they and North Adelaide finished 12\u20136, but Port Adelaide had a superior percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033422-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 SAFA season, Season\nNorwood then defeated Port Adelaide by four points in the first challenge match to win the club's twelfth premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election\nThe Saffron Walden by-election, 1901 was a by-election held on 31 May 1901 for the British House of Commons constituency of Saffron Walden in Essex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the death on 1 May 1901, at the age of 40, of the sitting Liberal MP for the constituency Armine Wodehouse. Wodehouse was the son of sometime Foreign Secretary John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley and had held the Saffron Walden seat since the general election of 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nSaffron Walden Liberals selected as their candidate Jack Pease. Pease had been Liberal MP for the Tyneside Division of Northumberland from 1892-1900 when he lost his seat at that year's general election. During his time in Parliament, Pease had been private secretary to John Morley when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland. In the by-election, Pease had the support of the wine-merchant and philanthropist Sir Walter Gilbey from nearby Bishop's Stortford who promised to address a meeting of farmers on Pease's behalf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nThe Unionists chose Charles Wing Gray, an Essex farmer whose home was at Halstead. Gray had twice contested the seat before. At the 1895 election he had reduced the Liberal majority from 1,881 to 425 and in 1900 he had brought it down to just 110. He had continued working locally to try and eliminate it altogether and must have had high hopes of victory at the by-election. Saffron Walden had at this time a reputation as a town with strong Quaker influences and a prominent member of the Society of Friends, E B Gibson, was one of Gray's nominators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, Agriculture\nSaffron Walden constituency at this time was a large rural entity, stretching across north Essex from Hertfordshire to Suffolk with the town itself the only real centre of population, the rest of the division being made up of 86 scattered villages. Unsurprisingly then, agricultural questions loomed large with the electorate. The dominant message from the Unionists was the need for the election of an Essex man with a practical understanding of the needs of agriculture and farming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0004-0001", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, Agriculture\nThey also painted Pease as someone who had done damage to agriculture by voting in previous Parliaments against resolutions introduced in the agricultural interest. They quoted in particular Pease's support for an increase in death duties which had led estate owners to reduce outgoings, discharging servants and agricultural labourers. They also attacked Pease for his opposition in 1896 to the Agricultural Rating Act, designed to reduce the burden of rates on agricultural land. Pease found himself under attack from the local branch of the Rural Labourers' League which openly declared itself for Gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0004-0002", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, Agriculture\nThe League had been founded by Jesse Collings, a former Liberal MP who opposed Irish Home Rule and became a Liberal Unionist. Collings had always supported agricultural causes and land reform including the provision of allotments and the campaigns characterised by the slogan Three acres and a cow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0004-0003", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, Agriculture\nThe Rural Labourers' League brought up the failure of former Liberal governments to legislate for the provision of allotments, despite alleged promises to do so and also challenged Pease on his position on Home Rule, underscoring its Liberal Unionist heritage, even though this seemed to have little resonance as an issue among other electors. In return, Pease made play of the government's proposals for a sugar tax and the addition to labourers' household expenses this was likely to bring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, Agriculture\nSir Walter Gilbey made good his promise to speak for Pease but the start of the meeting did not go well. It had been advertised as a meeting for farmers but there were many present who were townspeople and probably some from outside the area. This led to protests and a walk-out by the farmers attending, leaving large sections of the hall empty. Holding their own meeting in Saffron Walden market place, the farmers objected that the meeting had been organised to give the impression that farmers were supporting the Radical candidate, which many clearly had no intention of doing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0005-0001", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, Agriculture\nThey pledged their support to Mr Gray and had probably determined to walk out or demonstrate for the Conservative at some point no matter what. Pease continued to campaign against the importation of foreign agricultural products and the need for government action to help make the land more productive. He accused the government of indifference to agriculture, which he claimed was more intensely felt in Essex than any other county. In his election address Pease alleged that rate relief was not applied fairly, with rich accommodation land elsewhere benefitting at the expense of arable land such as predominated in Essex. He also complained of the unequal burden of increased taxation on workers and labourers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, The war in South Africa\nThe Boer War was a divisive issue in British politics at the turn of the 20th century. The war had resulted in the victory of the Conservative Party in the 1900 general election, which was dubbed the Khaki election. But what had at first been seen as a brief Imperial engagement turned slowly into a protracted and bloody conflict. Opposition to the War was strengthened by the use of concentration camps by the British Army against the Dutch civilian population. This policy was eventually characterised by Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as 'methods of barbarism'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0006-0001", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, The war in South Africa\nGray was determined to play the khaki card again and held a meeting at Saffron Walden Town Hall on 29 May 1901 with the Marquis of Graham and D J Morgan MP in support. Graham described the war as a clash between civilization and progress (on the British side) and slavery, bribery and corruption on the Boer side. He jingoistically declared that the struggle to decide who should 'boss' South Africa, British or Dutch, would be fought to the finish regardless of cost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Issues, The war in South Africa\nIt seems likely that some traditional Liberal voters may have felt unwilling to vote against a popular, patriotic war in 1900 and consequently supported the Tory at that general election. By May 1901 however the shine was starting to come off the military brass. A Liberal supporting election leaflet, \"A Soldier\u2019s Indictment of the Present Government\" signed by \u201cTommy Atkins\u201d was circulating in the last days of the contest. The Liberal candidate, Jack Pease, was from the Imperialist part of the party which was happy to support the Boer War in principle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Result\nPease held the seat for the Liberals with an increased majority. In 1900, Armine Wodehouse's majority over Gray had been 110. Pease increased this to 792 at the by-election. While a Liberal victory in a seat which had been Liberal since its creation for the 1885 general election could have been anticipated, the size of the win was larger than forecast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Result\nOnce the result was declared, the Conservatives pleaded a lack of voter registration and organisation in the run-up to the poll but Gray had fought the seat in 1895 and 1900 and had made inroads into the Liberal majority. In addition, Gray was the local candidate compared with the carpetbagger Pease looking for a safe Parliamentary billet having been ousted by the voters of Tyneside and with no local credentials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033423-0009-0001", "contents": "1901 Saffron Walden by-election, Result\nIt seems the impact of the Boer War was wearing off as an electoral asset for the Tories and the agricultural issues seemed to work in favour of the Liberals, particularly the concerns about the impact of the sugar tax on those with low wages in the countryside. It is possible that, as is usual in politics, the electorate may have been beginning to turn against the government, which had by this time been in office for six years. However other by-election results around this time in agricultural seats were not as propitious for the Liberals and saw an increase in the Unionist vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033424-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Saint Louis Blue and White football team\nThe 1901 Saint Louis Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University during the 1901 college football season. In their third season under head coach Martin J. Delaney, the team compiled a 10\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 233 to 14. The team played its home games at Handlan's Park in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033425-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 San Diego mayoral election\nThe 1901 San Diego mayoral election was held on April 2, 1901, to elect the mayor for San Diego. Frank P. Frary was elected Mayor with a majority of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033425-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIncumbent Mayor Edwin M. Capps declined to run for re-election. Three candidates campaigned for the open seat: Frank P. Frary, a Republican, Patterson Sprigg, a Democrat, and Frank Simpson, a Socialist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033425-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nOn April 2, 1901, Frary was elected mayor with a majority of 59.1 percent of the vote. Sprigg came in second with 35.3 percent of the vote. Simpson came in third with 5.6 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033426-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Scottish Cup Final\nThe 1901 Scottish Cup Final was played on 6 April 1901 at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow and was the final of the 29th season of the Scottish Cup. Heart of Midlothian and Celtic contested the match. Hearts won the match 4\u20133, thanks to goals from Bobby Walker, Charles Thomson and a double from Mark Bell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033426-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Scottish Cup Final\nHearts went on to play in and win the 1901\u201302 World Championship, beating Tottenham Hotspur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033427-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Serbian Senate election\nSenate elections were held in Serbia on 5 August 1901. They followed the promulgation of a new, liberal constitution in May, which created a bicameral People's Representative Body consisting of an elected National Assembly and a largely appointed Senate. The National Assembly had been elected in May 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033427-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Serbian Senate election, Electoral system\nThe Senate consisted of 30 members appointed for life membership by the King and 18 members elected for six year terms. Membership was limited to people aged 40 or over and who had paid at least 200 dinars in annual taxation, although the taxation requirement was waived for a range of former public officials, including ex-ministers and diplomats. Voting rights were granted to men over the age of 21 who paid at least 45 dinars a year in direct taxation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033427-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Serbian Senate election, Results\nThe elections were marred by demonstrations in Belgrade, during which the police arrested and killed several demonstrators. Although the People's Radical Party won a majority of seats, they were only offered three ministerial positions by King Alexander, with independent Aleksa Jovanovi\u0107 becoming Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033427-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Serbian Senate election, Aftermath\nThe combined People's Representative Body met for the first time on 1 October. Rista Popovi\u0107 was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly and Dimitrije Marinkovi\u0107 as Speaker of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033428-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1901 Sewanee Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach Billy Suter, the team compiled a 4\u20132\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033428-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Sewanee Tigers football team\nSewanee was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the majority of the 1901 season. However, the association indefinitely suspended Sewanee on November 26, 1901, for allowing an ineligible player to participate in the November 16 game against Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033429-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 South Bend Athletic Association football team\nThe 1901 South Bend Athletic Association football team was an American football team that represented the South Bend Athletic Association in the 1901 football season. Under legendary player coach Pat O'Dea, who also coached the Notre Dame football team in their 1901 football season, helped the South Bend Athletic Association to a 6\u20131\u20133 record. The team outscored their opponents 139 to 24, posting five shutouts and three scoreless ties. They played Notre Dame a record four times in one season, and held a record of 1\u20131\u20132 against the neighboring South Bend Collegiate team. South Bend AA was also recognized as Athletic Club champions of the West, with wins over Titan AA, Shamrock AC of South Bend, and Detroit AC. In the post-season, they played Rensselaer Athletic Club, who had been undefeated for three consecutive years, to a 0\u20130 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 894]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033430-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1901 South Carolina Gamecocks football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Carolina as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Byron W. Dickson, the team compiled a 3\u20134 record. R. L. Freeman was the team captain. The team played its home games at the college ballpark that later became known as Davis Field in Columbia, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033431-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 South Carolina's 7th congressional district special election\nThe 1901 South Carolina 7th congressional district special election was held on November 5, 1901 to select a Representative for the 7th congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 57th Congress. The special election resulted from the death of Representative J. William Stokes on July 6, 1901. Asbury Francis Lever, a former secretary to Stokes, won the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033431-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 South Carolina's 7th congressional district special election, Democratic primary\nThe South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary in the summer of 1901. Five candidates entered the race and among those who sought the seat was future longtime U.S. Senator, Ellison D. Smith. Asbury Francis Lever emerged atop the first primary election and won the runoff election against Thomas F. Brantley, a candidate in the 1898 election. There was no opposition to the Democratic candidate in the general election so Lever was elected to serve out the remainder of the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 85], "content_span": [86, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033432-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1901 college football season. The season began on September 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033432-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nAmidst charges of professionalism, Georgia Tech and Nashville were blacklisted. The 1901 game of LSU versus Tulane eventually ended up as a forfeiture. Tulane forfeited the game the November 16 due to a ruling from the SIAA. The 1901 edition of the Battle for the Flag against LSU was originally a 22-0 victory for Tulane. It was later forfeited after a petition to the SIAA, and was recorded as a 0-11 loss for Tulane. After the game, LSU protested to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and alleged that Tulane had used a professional player during the game. Several months later, the SIAA ruled the game an 11-0 forfeit in favor of LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033432-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1901 team was likely the best football team in Nashville's history. Coached by Charley Moran, though they lost to southern power Vanderbilt, they \"mopped up with about everything else.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033432-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033433-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1901 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In their first year under head coach Ashby Woodson, the team compiled a 2\u20130 record. This is the first season of what is now Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election\nThe 1901 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 19 May and on Sunday, 2 June 1901, to elect the 10th Restoration Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 402 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Background\nThe Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a constitutional monarchy, awarding the King power to name senators and to revoke laws, as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the army. The King would also play a key role in the system of El Turno Pac\u00edfico (the Peaceful Turn) by appointing and toppling governments and allowing the opposition to take power. Under this system, the Conservative and Liberal parties alternated in power by means of election rigging, which they achieved through the encasillado, using the links between the Ministry of Governance, the provincial civil governors, and the local bosses (caciques) to ensure victory and exclude minor parties from the power sharing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Spanish Cortes were envisaged as \"co-legislative bodies\", based on a nearly perfect bicameralism. Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, where the Congress had preeminence. Voting for the Cortes was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Congress of Deputies, 92 seats were elected using a partial block voting in 26 multi-member constituencies, with the remaining 310 being elected under a one-round first-past-the-post system in single-member districts. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0003-0001", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nIn constituencies electing eight seats or more, electors could vote for no more than three candidates less than the number of seats to be allocated; in those with more than four seats and up to eight, for no more than two less; in those with more than one seat and up to four, for no more than one less; and for one candidate in single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0003-0002", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Congress was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants, with each multi-member constituency being allocated a fixed number of seats: 8 for Madrid, 7 for Barcelona, 5 for Palma and Seville, 4 for Cartagena and 3 for Alicante, Almer\u00eda, Badajoz, Burgos, C\u00e1diz, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, Ja\u00e9n, Jerez de la Frontera, La Coru\u00f1a, Lugo, M\u00e1laga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza. The law also provided for by-elections to fill seats vacated throughout the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Senate, 180 seats were indirectly elected, with electors voting for delegates instead of senators. Elected delegates\u2014equivalent in number to one-sixth of the councillors in each municipal corporation\u2014would then vote for senators using a write-in, two-round majority voting system. The provinces of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia were allocated four seats each, whereas each of the remaining provinces was allocated three seats, for a total of 150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0004-0001", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe remaining 30 were allocated to a number of institutions, electing one seat each\u2014the Archdioceses of Burgos, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; the Royal Spanish Academy; the Royal Academies of History, Fine Arts, Sciences, Moral and Political Sciences and Medicine; the Universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; and the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country from Madrid, Barcelona, Le\u00f3n, Seville and Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0004-0002", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nAn additional 180 seats comprised senators in their own right\u2014the Monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age; Grandees of Spain of the first class; Captain Generals of the Army and the Navy Admiral; the Patriarch of the Indies and archbishops; as well as other high-ranking state figures\u2014and senators for life (who were appointed by the Monarch).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033434-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of each House of the Cortes\u2014the Congress and one-half of the elective part of the Senate\u2014expired five years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The Monarch had the prerogative to dissolve both Houses at any given time\u2014either jointly or separately\u2014and call a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033435-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Spring Hill Badgers football team\nThe 1901 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an American football team that represented Spring Hill College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In their first year, the team compiled an 0\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033436-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1901 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 20th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 10th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 76\u201364 during the season and finished 4th in the National League. It was the first time the Cardinals had finished in the top half of the standings since joining the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033436-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033436-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033436-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033436-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033436-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033437-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 St. Xavier Saints football team\nThe 1901 St. Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented St. Xavier College (later renamed Xavier University) as a member of the Interscholastic League during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled a 9\u20130 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 234 to 28. The team won the Interscholastic League championship and, with it, The Enquirer Pennant. Fullback Mark Mitchell was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033438-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Stanford football team\nThe 1901 Stanford football team was an American football team that represented Stanford University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team was led by Charles Fickert, the first former Stanford player to serve as head football coach at his alma mater. The team played its home games at Stanford, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033438-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Stanford football team\nStanford compiled a 3\u20131\u20132 record in the regular season and was invited to represent the West in the Tournament East-West football game to be held in Tournament Park in Pasadena, California on New Year's Day, 1902, facing East representative Michigan, a team which had yet to yield a point all season. Stanford had no better luck, losing 49\u20130 in what would eventually be known as the Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033438-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Stanford football team, Game summaries, Michigan (Tournament East\u2013West Football Game)\nAfter the conclusion of the 1901 football season, Stanford was invited to play against Michigan in a game to be held on New Year's Day, 1902 in Tournament Park in Pasadena, California. The game was dubbed the Tournament East\u2013West Football Game and was held as part of the Tournament of Roses event to encourage tourism to the mild climate of Southern California at a time of year when most of the nation was experiencing cold winter weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 90], "content_span": [91, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033438-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Stanford football team, Game summaries, Michigan (Tournament East\u2013West Football Game)\nIn the game, Stanford was no match for Michigan, which had outscored its opponents 501\u20130 during the regular season. Led by fullback Neil Snow, who ran for five touchdowns, the Wolverines led 49\u20130 with eight minutes remaining before the teams agreed to end the game early. The outcome of the game soured the Tournament of Roses committee on football, and it was not until 1916 that football was again included as part of the festivities. The game is considered the first-ever postseason bowl game in college football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 90], "content_span": [91, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033439-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 State of the Union Address\nThe 1901 State of the Union Address was given on Tuesday, December 3, 1901, by the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. It was presented to both houses of the 57th United States Congress, but he was not present. He stated, \"The Congress assembles this year under the shadow of a great calamity. On the sixth of September, President McKinley was shot by an anarchist while attending the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and died in that city on the fourteenth of that month.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033439-0000-0001", "contents": "1901 State of the Union Address\nHe concluded it with, \"Indeed, from every quarter of the civilized world we received, at the time of the President's death, assurances of such grief and regard as to touch the hearts of our people. In the midst of our affliction we reverently thank the Almighty that we are at peace with the nations of mankind; and we firmly intend that our policy shall be such as to continue unbroken these international relations of mutual respect and good will.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033440-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe 1901 Stetson Hatters football team represented the private Stetson College in the sport of American football during the 1901 college football season. The team's captain was Thomas P. Conpropst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033440-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe team played the first intercollegiate football game in the state of Florida against the Florida Agricultural College in Jacksonville as part of the State Fair. Stetson won 6\u20130, after a sure FAC score was obstructed by a tree stump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033441-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Stratford-on-Avon by-election\nThe Stratford-on-Avon by-election was a UK parliamentary by-election for the constituency in June 1901. It was triggered by the death of the Conservative Party Member of Parliament Victor Milward on 31 May 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033441-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Stratford-on-Avon by-election, Campaign\nDespite the Liberals not fielding a candidate in 1900, they did this time with their candidate Bolton King who has been described as a 'radical idealist'. His objective was \"to carry the principles of Christianity into political and social life\". However, before his campaign could even get off the ground it ran into trouble. His adoption meeting at the Corn Exchange descended into chaos with speeches being interrupted with patriotic songs, chairs being turned over and ultimately, fighting breaking out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033441-0001-0001", "contents": "1901 Stratford-on-Avon by-election, Campaign\nBy contrast, the Conservative candidate, Philip Foster, had a much more peaceful adoption meeting the next evening in which he called for tolerance as a result of the previous night's events. Two further Liberal meetings at the Corn exchange received an equally malicious response. Learning from this, at King's eve-of-poll rally the seats were arranged in such a way that would reduce confrontation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033441-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Stratford-on-Avon by-election, Result\nStratford-on-Avon remained a Conservative seat with Philip Foster winning with a majority of 1,778.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033442-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Stretford by-election\nThe 1901 Stretford by-election was held on 26 February 1901 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir John Maclure. It was retained by the Conservative candidate Charles Cripps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033443-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1901 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the sixth season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. AIK won the tournament due to \u00d6rgryte IS II leaving a walkover in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033444-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1901 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20132\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 148 to 89. George H. Brooke was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033445-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1901 Syracuse Orangemen football team was an American football team that represented Syracuse University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach Edwin Sweetland, the team compiled a 7\u20131 record. Lynn Wycoff was the team captain. The team played its home games at Archbold Field in Syracuse, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033446-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1901 Tennessee Volunteers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Tennessee as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1901 SIAA football season. In its first and only season under head coach Gilbert Kelly (a former Princeton football player), Tennessee compiled a 3\u20133\u20132 record (1\u20131\u20132 against SIAA opponents). The team played its home games at Waite Field in Knoxville, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033447-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Texas A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Texas A&M University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach W. A. Murray, the team compiled a 1\u20134 record in three games against Baylor and two games against the Texas Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033448-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1901 Texas Longhorns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second year under head coach Samuel Huston Thompson, the team compiled an 8\u20132\u20131 record, shut out seven opponents, and outscored opponents by a collective total of 153 to 71. The team played its home games at Varsity Athletic Field on the school's campus in Austin, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033449-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Tie Cup Final\nThe 1901 Tie Cup Final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 2nd. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by two Argentine sides, Alumni and Rosario A.C., from Buenos Aires and Rosario respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033449-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Tie Cup Final\nAlumni played its first final while Rosario contested its second consecutive final. The match was held in the Lomas Athletic field in the suburb of Lomas de Zamora, on 25 August 1901. Alumni won 2\u20131 in extra time with goals by Spencer Leonard and Patricio Dillon, achieving its first Tie Cup trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033449-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThis edition was contested by 6 teams, 4 from Argentina and 2 from Uruguay. Playing in a single-elimination tournament, Belgrano defeated Lomas (4\u20130 in Quilmes AC), and Uruguayan side CURCC in the semifinal (1\u20130 at Parque Central, Montevideo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033449-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nOn the other hand, Rosario only played one match, qualifying for the final after thrashing Belgrano 6\u20132 at Plaza Jewell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033449-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThe final was played at the Lomas Athletic field in Lomas de Zamora, Greater Buenos Aires. The match lead a great expectation from supporters of both clubs, who arrived in a train run for the occasion by British railway company Ferrocarril del Sud. On 8 minutes Alumni's S. Leonard scored the first goal. After that, Rosario persistently attacked but their attempts were blocked by the Alumni backs. Nevertheless, in the second half Rosario forced a 1\u20131 draw when A. Robinson scored on 60'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033449-0004-0001", "contents": "1901 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nAs the match ended tied, an 30' extra time was played to determine a winner, but no goal was scored during that time. Therefore, a new extra time (20') was added to decide which team would be champion, with Patricio Dillon scoring the second goal that crowned Alumni as champion, after 140 minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033450-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1901 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 12th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033450-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nBallytarsna won the championship after a 7\u201311 to 0\u201301 defeat of Lahorna De Wets in the final. It was the club's only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033451-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1901 Toronto Argonauts season was the Argonaut Football Club's 4th season of organized league play since joining the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1898. The team won the first league championship in club history, finishing in first place in the senior series of the ORFU with five wins and one loss. The Argos also defeated the University of Toronto, that season's intercollegiate champions, in a two-game series for the city championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033451-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Toronto Argonauts season\nIn their first trip to the Dominion championship the Argonauts were beaten 18-3 in Montreal by Ottawa College, champions of the Quebec Rugby Football Union, seven days after the two teams had played to a 12\u201312 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033452-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1901 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The season's edition of the Battle for the Rag against LSU was originally a 22-0 victory for Tulane. The LSU Tigers protested the game to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), and alleged that Tulane had used a professional player during the game. Several months later, the SIAA ruled the game an 11\u20130 forfeit in favor of LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033453-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1901 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 19 August to 27 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 25 June to 29 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 21st U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033453-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Singles\nElisabeth Moore defeated Myrtle McAteer 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 2\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033453-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nHolcombe Ward / Dwight Davis defeated Leo Ware / Beals Wright 6\u20133, 9\u20137, 6\u201311", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033453-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nJuliette Atkinson / Myrtle McAteer defeated Marion Jones / Elisabeth Moore default", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033453-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nMarion Jones / Raymond Little defeated Myrtle McAteer / Clyde Stevens 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033454-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nWilliam Larned defeated Beals Wright 6\u20132, 6\u20138, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the All Comers' Final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1901 U.S. National Championships. Defending champion Malcolm Whitman did not defend his title. The event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033455-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nElisabeth Moore won the singles tennis title of the 1901 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating reigning champion Myrtle McAteer 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 2\u20136, 6\u20132 in the challenge round. The draw included four past or present champions. Moore had won the right to challenge McAteer by defeating Marion Jones 4\u20136, 1\u20136, 9\u20137, 9\u20137, 6\u20133 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 25 through June 29, 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033456-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1901 U.S. Open was the seventh U.S. Open, held June 14\u201317 at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, northeast of Boston. Willie Anderson won the first of his four U.S. Open titles in a playoff over Alex Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033456-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. Open (golf)\nSmith led after the first two rounds on Friday at 164, with Anderson three strokes back in third place. After the third round on Saturday morning, Stewart Gardner led at 249, with Anderson a stroke behind and Smith one back in third at 251. Garder had an 85 in the afternoon and fell to fourth. Both Anderson and Smith posted total scores of 331, the highest winning score in U.S. Open history, with Smith narrowly missing a putt at the 18th to win the championship in regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033456-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe playoff, the first in U.S. Open history, was pushed back to Monday because Sunday was reserved for member play. Smith jumped out to a three-stroke lead at the turn and led by five shots with fives holes to play. He went 5-7-5-4 over the next four holes, while Anderson recorded all fours to even up the match. At the 18th, Anderson found the green in two while Smith's approach landed in the rough. Anderson two-putted for his four, while Smith chipped to four feet (1.2\u00a0m) with a chance to tie, but his putt went astray and failed to find the cup. Anderson finished with an 85, a stroke better than Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033456-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. Open (golf)\nSmith's brother Willie, the 1899 champion, finished in third place, two shots out of the playoff. Myopia club pro John Jones was twelfth, then caddied for Anderson during the playoff. For the only time in U.S. Open history, no player managed to break 80 in any round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033456-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 U.S. Open (golf)\nAnderson would go on to win a record four U.S. Open titles in five years, including three consecutive (1903\u20131905), yet to be repeated. His four titles have been matched by three others: Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033457-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1901 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Berlin, Germany from 7 to 14 July 1901. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033458-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1901 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1901 college football season. The team competed as an independent without a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033458-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 USC Methodists football team\nThe team lost its only intercollegiate game of the year to Pomona College. The team also played a game against an All-Southern California all-star team, losing by a 45 to 0 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033459-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1901 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033460-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1901 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship was the inaugural edition of the annual Ulster Senior Hurling Championship held under the auspices of the Ulster GAA. The Championship consisted of a single match between Antrim and Derry, the only entrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033460-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nAntrim had competed in the previous year's All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship having emerged from Ulster unchallenged. As a consequence, Antrim were treated as defending Ulster Champions despite no matches taking place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033460-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nAntrim emerged victorious by 41 points to 12. The exact breakdown of the final score has been lost to history. Antrim advanced to the semifinal of the 1901 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship where they were defeated by Wexford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census\nThe United Kingdom Census 1901 was the 11th nationwide census conducted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and was done on 1 April 1901 \"relating to the persons returned as living at midnight on Sunday, March 31st\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census\nThe total population of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (including what is now the Republic of Ireland) was 41,458,721 of which 21,356,313 were female and 20,102,406 were male. The foreign-born population was recorded at 1.4%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census, Geographic scope\nIt was divided into three parts: England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The England and Wales part of the census contains records for 32 million people and 6 million houses. Certain parts of the records have suffered damage and therefore some information is missing, but it is largely complete with the exception of parts of Deal in Kent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census, Geographic scope\nThe census of England and Wales does not include the census of Scotland. The Isle of Man is included in the England and Wales returns. The data for the census of Scotland is held in a different location to that of the England and Wales census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census, Geographic scope\nPrior to the secession of the Irish Free State, the whole of Ireland engaged in the census on the same night, however none of the census returns from Ireland for the 19th century still exist, except for partial returns. The 1901 census is the first complete surviving census, and is available online.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census, Information included\nThe entries for households on the census returns for 1901 fall under the following headings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census, Information included\nThe term \"idiot\" on the 1891 census was replaced by the term \"feeble-minded\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033461-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 United Kingdom census, Online access\nThe census data was published online in 2003 on a site run by The National Archive. Since then the data has also been available on other sites on a subscription basis. The data is mainly used by genealogists, family historians, name researchers and anyone wanting to know more about their Welsh and English ancestors in 1901. It can also be used to research hamlets, villages and parishes to build a historical perspective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033462-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were elections in 1901 to the United States House of Representatives:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThe 1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held in January 1901. Incumbent Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar was re-elected to a fifth term in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nAt the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a resolution of the Massachusetts General Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Background, State legislature\nAt the time, the Massachusetts legislature was controlled by the Republican Party, as it had been since that party's founding, typically in dominant fashion. The Senate was composed of 31 Republicans and 9 Democrats, and the House had 179 Republicans, 58 Democrats, 2 Social Democrats, and one independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Election, Caucuses\nIn caucuses held on January 14, Republicans re-nominated Hoar unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Election, Caucuses\nDemocrats, as a matter of party honors, nominated former Secretary of State Richard Olney after several ballots. Many Democrats praised Hoar, and there was a movement to nominate him as their candidate as well. Some argued that nominating Olney for a hopeless campaign would actual diminish his reputation and weaken his prospects for Governor or President. Martin Lomasney, though he pledged to vote for the caucus nominee, compared Hoar to the late William Ewart Gladstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Election, Election\nBoth houses met separately on January 15 and ratified Hoar's re-election. Hoar received some Democratic votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Election, Election\nOn January 16, the houses met in joint convention and announced Hoar's re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 71], "content_span": [72, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033463-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Aftermath\nHoar died in October 1904 after over 27 years in the Senate. Winthrop Murray Crane was appointed to fill the vacant seat, and Crane won an election for the remainder of the term in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033464-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate special election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1901 United States Senate special election in Pennsylvania was held on January 15, 1901, after the regularly scheduled legislative election in January\u2014April 1899 failed to elect a Senator. Former Senator Matthew Quay, who had left the Senate for nearly two years because of the political stalemate, was again elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033464-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate special election in Pennsylvania, Background\nRepublican Matthew Quay was re-elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, in the 1893 election. With Sen. Quay's term expiring on March 4, 1899, the General Assembly convened on January 18, 1899, to elect a Senator for the next term. Between January 18 and April 19, 1899, seventy-nine ballots were recorded in an attempt to elect a Senator. Instead, the legislature adjourned sine die without electing a Senator due to a dispute between Sen. Quay's political machine and an anti-Quay faction within the Republican Party, along with Democratic Party opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 70], "content_span": [71, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033464-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate special election in Pennsylvania, Background\nSen. Quay's term expired on March 4, 1899. Since a Senator had not been elected for the successive term, the seat was vacated. At the time, Quay was under indictment for misuse of funds. He was acquitted, after which Governor William Stone appointed Quay to the vacated Senate seat (a power the Governor did not legally have until the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1913). The Senate refused to recognize Quay's appointment, and the seat remained vacant until a Senator could be officially elected (which would ultimately be Quay himself, after a nearly two-year hiatus). This incident, among others, would later be cited by supporters of the 17th Amendment, which mandated the direct election of U.S. Senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 70], "content_span": [71, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033464-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 United States Senate special election in Pennsylvania, Results\nThe Pennsylvania General Assembly convened on January 15, 1901, for a special election to elect a Senator to serve out the remainder of the term that began on March 4, 1899. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033465-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held on November 5, 1901, in six states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033465-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 United States gubernatorial elections\nVirginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year. New Jersey at this time held gubernatorial elections every 3 years, which it would abandon in 1949. Massachusetts and Rhode Island at this time held gubernatorial elections every year, which they would abandon in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033465-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Rhode Island, the gubernatorial election was held on the same day as federal elections for the first time, having previously been held in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033466-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 University of New Mexico football team\nThe 1901 University of New Mexico football team was an American football team represented the University of New Mexico as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled a 0\u20133\u20131 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 111 to 34. Joe Napier was the coach and team captain. Prane was a co-captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033467-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 University of Utah football team\nThe 1901 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach Harvey Holmes, the team compiled a 5\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 111 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033468-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1901 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the second official championship of the Uruguayan football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033468-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a round-robin championship of all against all. It involved five teams, after allowing the entry of Club Nacional de Football to the competition. The champion was Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club (CURCC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033469-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1901 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1901 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Dick Richards, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 41 to 40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033470-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 VFA season\nThe 1901 Victorian Football Association season was the 25th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club; it was the second premiership in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033470-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 VFA season, Ladder\nThe premiership was decided on the basis of the best record across sixteen rostered matches, with each club playing the others twice; in the event of a tie for first place, a playoff match would have been held to determine the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033470-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 VFA season, Ladder\nRichmond led the ladder for most of the season, but a couple of losses in the latter part of the season meant that Richmond and Port Melbourne were level with records of 12\u20133 entering the final week of matches. On the final Saturday, Port Melbourne 7.12 (54) defeated Prahran 3.5 (23), and Richmond 2.2 (14) was defeated by North Melbourne 4.8 (32), resulting in Port Melbourne winning the premiership without the need for a playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033471-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1901 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Lake Oval in Melbourne on 7 September 1901. It was the 4th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1901 VFL season. The match, attended by 30,031 spectators, was won by Essendon by a margin of 27 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033472-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 VFL season\nThe 1901 Victorian Football League season was the fifth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033472-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1901, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033472-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033472-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 17 rounds of the home-and-away season had finished, the 1901 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the original Argus system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033473-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1901 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their 11th season of organized football. The Keydets went 4\u20133 under second-year head coach Sam Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033474-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 VPI football team\nThe 1901 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1901 college football season. The team was led by their head coach A. B. Morrison Jr. and finished with a record of six wins and one loss (6\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033474-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1901 football team according to the roster published in the 1902 and 1903 editions of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Commodores were coached by Walter H. Watkins in his first year as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season\nGoing into the season, the team was built around a veteran nucleus of John Edgerton, Walter Simmons, Hughes, Booth, and Davis. The line was light, but made up for with its aggressiveness. Starting quarterback Fred Hume weighed just 122 pounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 1: Kentucky State\nOn opening day, the Commodores defeated Kentucky State 22\u20130, looking much faster than the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 1: Kentucky State\nThe starting lineup was Williamson (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Hughes (left guard) Perry (center), Crutchfield (right guard), Booth (right tackle), Simmons (right end), Hume (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Kyle (right halfback), Tigert (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 2: Centre\nIn the second week of play, Vanderbilt beat Centre 25\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia\nThe Commodores defeated coach William A. Reynolds' Georgia Bulldogs 48\u20130, avenging the loss by the same score last year to Reynolds' Tar Heels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 4: Auburn\nVanderbilt beat Auburn 41\u20130, in a game that was \"extremely disappointing and slow.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 5: Washington (MO)\nThe Washington University Bears of St. Louis gave the Commodores their only loss of the season, 12\u201311. Vanderbilt quarterback Fred Hume made a 50-yard gain, setting up John Edgerton's touchdown. Washington fought hard and responded with a touchdown drive, with Cassell making the score. Washington made the extra point, and went up 6\u20135. Bryan scored another touchdown for Vanderbilt to make the score 11\u20136 at the half. Washington's Smith scored a touchdown in the second half, and Lehman kicked goal for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 5: Washington (MO)\nThe starting lineup was McLean (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Hughes (left guard) Perry (center), Crutchfield (right guard), Booth (right tackle), Simmons (right end), Hume (quarterback), Bryan (right halfback), Edgerton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 6: Tennessee\nVanderbilt beat Tennessee 22\u20130. John Edgerton scored three touchdowns and John J. Tigert scored another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 6: Tennessee\nThe starting lineup was McLean (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Hughes (left guard) Perry (center), Crutchfield (right guard), Bryan (right tackle), Simmons (right end), Hume (quarterback), Tigert (left halfback), Kyle (right halfback), Edgerton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 7: Sewanee\nCoach Billy Suter's Sewanee Tigers fought the Commodores to a scoreless tie despite Vanderbilt gaining 367 yards. Twice the Commodores were stopped at the 1-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 8: University of Nashville\nThe 1901 team was likely the best football team in University of Nashville (Peabody) history. Coached by Charley Moran, the team defeated Sewanee 39\u20136 \"and mopped up with about everything else.\" The Commodores practiced in secret for ten days in preparation. Vanderbilt faced Nashville on Thanksgiving Day and won 10\u20130 in front of 4 to 5,000 spectators, using \"Harvard tactics.\" After thirty minutes of gameplay, John Edgerton scored a touchdown taking the wind out of the sails of Nashville rooters. A riot broke out downtown the next day. According to the account of the event in the Nashville Banner (repudiated in the Hustler), the trouble started when a number of Vanderbilt students \"tried to paint the stone fence of the University of Nashville yellow and black.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 861]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033475-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 8: University of Nashville\nThe starting lineup was McLean (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Hughes (left guard) Perry (center), Crutchfield (right guard), Booth (right tackle), Simmons (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Tigert (left halfback), Davis (right halfback), Edgerton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033476-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1901 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont during the 1901 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach P. J. McMahon the team compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 171 to 146. The team played its home games at Athletic Park in Burlington, Vermont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033477-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1901 Villanova Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented Villanova University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. The team compiled a 2\u20133 record. A September 1901 account in The Philadelphia Inquirer identified John F. Bagley as the team's coach. However, the Villanova Football Media Guide identifies John J. Egan as the coach. Egan was also a player on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033478-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1901 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1901 college football season. Led by first year coach Westley Abbott, the team went 8\u20132 and claims a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033478-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nSeveral Virginia players were selected All-Southern, including Christie Benet, later a United States Senator for South Carolina, and Bradley Walker, later a Nashville attorney and prominent referee. Other All-Southerns were captains Robert M. Coleman, Buck Harris, and Ed Tutwiler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033479-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 1901 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1901 to elect the governor of Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033480-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 WAFA season\nThe 1901 WAFA season was the 17th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033481-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Waratahs tour of New Zealand\nThe 1901 New South Wales rugby union tour of New Zealand was a series of matches played in August\u2013September 1901 in New Zealand by New South Wales rugby union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033482-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team\nThe 1901 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1911 college football season. Led by N. S. Knight in his first and only year as head coach, the team compiled a 6\u20132\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 125 to 39.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033483-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1901 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach William Namack, the team compiled a 4\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 47 to 7. The team played its home games at Soldier Field in Pullman, Washington, and was recognized as the co-champion of the northwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033484-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington Senators season\nThe 1901 Washington Senators won 61 games, lost 72, and finished in sixth place in the American League in its first year as a major league team. They were managed by Jim Manning and played home games at the American League Park I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033484-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033484-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033484-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033484-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033485-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Washington football team\nThe 1901 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under coach Jack Wright, the team compiled a 4\u20133 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 59 to 48. Dick Huntoon was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033486-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1901 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1901, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors. John Aitken, the incumbent Mayor, was re-elected to office as Mayor of Wellington, beating Thomas Wilford. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033486-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Wellington City mayoral election\nElectoral reforms were implemented in 1901, which extended the municipal term to biennial terms and saw the abolition of the ward system, implementing the process of electing councillors at large instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033487-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wesleyan Methodists football team\nThe 1901 Wesleyan Methodists football team was an American football team that represented Wesleyan University as a member of the Triangular Football League (TFL) during the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach Robert P. Wilson, the team compiled a 3\u20136\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 102 to 45. The team played its home games at Andrus Field in Middletown, Connecticut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033488-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 West Adelaide state by-election\nThe West Adelaide state by-election, 1901 was a by-election held on 1 June 1901 for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of West Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033488-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 West Adelaide state by-election, Results\nThe by-election was triggered by the election of West Adelaide MHA and former Labor leader Lee Batchelor to the inaugural Australian House of Representatives at the 1901 federal election. Although Labor candidate James Healey was favoured to succeed Batchelor, he was defeated by City of Adelaide councillor and Catholic community figure Francis Bernard Keogh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033489-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1901 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its second non-consecutive season under head coach Lewis Yeager, the team compiled a 3\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 73 to 34. Milton S. Hodges was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033490-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Australian state election\nElections were held in the state of Western Australia on 24 April 1901 to elect 50 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. It was the first election to take place since responsible government without the towering presence of Premier Sir John Forrest, who had left state politics two months earlier to enter the first Federal parliament representing the Division of Swan, and the first state parliamentary election to follow the enactment of women's suffrage in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033490-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Australian state election\nThe Ministerial group, led by Forrest's nominated successor George Throssell, ran a half-hearted campaign for government, with Throssell saying in a policy speech that while he would continue to serve as Premier if required, \"it was not the class of political life he desired, as it interfered too much with his leisure.\" Meanwhile, the Opposition had no clear leader, with the Parliamentary leader Frederick Illingworth and George Leake, who was seeking to return to Parliament in the election, both apparently contenders. The groups were neither formal nor organised, with many members and candidates professing rather confused allegiances and running their own campaigns on local issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033490-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Australian state election\nFollowing the introduction of payment of members in 1900, which effectively allowed electors without independent means to sit in Parliament, the Labour Party offered 22 candidates to the voters compared to three at the previous election, each of which was pledged to the party's platform. The Westralian Worker newspaper, launched six months earlier, was used to publicise the campaign. They ultimately won six seats, of which five were located in the Goldfields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033490-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Australian state election\nNo clear winner emerged, and considerable instability resulted as three Ministries either resigned or were defeated on a want of confidence motion. The situation was ultimately resolved when half of the Morgans Ministry were defeated in ministerial by-elections in December 1901, which gave the Opposition a narrow majority with Independent or Labour support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033490-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Australian state election\nThe election took place based on boundaries established in the Constitution Act Amendment Act 1899, which increased the number of members from 44 to 50 and reflected demographic changes\u2014the Pilbara region lost two seats as did the Murchison region, whilst five seats were created in Kalgoorlie and the Eastern Goldfields and four seats were created in the Perth metropolitan area. The election was conducted under the first past the post system, and electorates had a wide variety of numbers of enrolled voters, ranging from 108 at East Kimberley to 7,024 at Hannans\u2014nine electorates had 500 or less, whilst the same number had 3,000 or more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033491-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Conference football season\nThe 1901 Western Conference football season was the sixth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1901 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033491-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Conference football season\nIn its first year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, Michigan compiled a perfect 11\u20130 record, outscored its opponents by a combined total of 550 to 0, and defeated Stanford by a 49 to 0 score in the inaugural Rose Bowl game, the first college bowl game ever played. Three of the five official selectors, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and the National Championship Foundation, recognize the 1901 Michigan team as the national champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033491-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Conference football season\nWisconsin, under head coach Philip King, tied with Michigan for the conference championship with a 9\u20130 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents 317 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033491-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033491-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season\nDuring the 1901 season, Western Conference teams played 18 games against each other, as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033491-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nThe following Western Conference players were selected as first-team players on the 1901 All-Western college football team by at least two of the following selectors: Chicago American (CA), Chicago Daily News (CDN), Chicago Record-Herald (CRH), Chicago Tribune (CT), and Walter Camp (WC):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033491-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nOnly one Western Conference player was selected as a first-team player on the 1901 College Football All-America Team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1901 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nSince there was a lack of funds to entice an outside coach for the 1901 football season, the Western University Athletic Association convinced Wilbur D. Hockensmith to organize the team. Mr. Hockensmith had just graduated from the Western University of Pa. with a degree in mechanical engineering and had played guard on the 1900 football team. \"Coach\" Hockensmith and team captain Malcolm McConnell managed to recruit enough players and were granted the use of Schenley Oval for their home field of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0001-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThey also arranged, through the Pittsburgh Railways Company, a deal so that all fans could attend the games free of charge. Chancellor William J. Holland's master vision was to bring the University to the East End and introducing the residents and students to amateur football on the Schenley Oval was a step in the right direction. The WUP administration also demanded that their opponents sign an agreement that all athletes were in good academic standing at the school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0001-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nAfter two games, the Athletic Committee appointed Winthrop S. Worcester to assistant football manager so Richard Wallace could spend more time as an assistant coach. They also resolved that all teams representing the WUP must be amateur and they could not play against a professional team. In its first season under head coach Wilbur Hockensmith, the team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 96 to 53.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nThe first game of the 1901 season was September 28 at Bellefonte, Pa. against the strong eleven of State College. The problem for Coach Hockensmith and team captain McConnell was that the Medical School did not start until October 1. Tryouts were held and a practice game was played against the No. 13 team. This was a team of deaf mutes and they played hard against the University boys for an hour. Coach and captain chose a lineup and they felt prepared for the fourth chapter in the Penn State rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0002-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nHowever, State coach William Golden's eleven were too much of a challenge for the undermanned WUP. The Staties had played the week before and were even much better after another week of practice. Henry Scholl and Ed Whitworth each scored three touchdowns. Robert Bennett scored one and Sam Russell connected on two goal kicks to make the final score 37-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0002-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Penn State was Richard Wallace (left end), James Chessrown (left tackle), Andrew Wallgren (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), Hill (right guard), William Secrist (right tackle), Logan (right end), Hugh Morrow (quarterback), John Martin (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and Malcolm McConnell (fullback). Parke Bachman replaced Stacy Hankey at center. The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe opening of the Medical School allowed Coach Hockensmith to rearrange the WUP lineup for the October 5th encounter with West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia. John Simpson, a graduate student from Franklin & Marshall College, started at halfback along with Reed. William Secrist, a graduate student from Allegheny College, started at fullback so captain Malcolm McConnell could return to his normal guard position. Wheeler was positioned at the opposite guard position. John Martin and Paul McClain were inserted at end, and Joe McCready was the quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0003-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nRichard Wallace and Andrew Wallgren were named the tackles and Parke Bachman was the starting center. West Virginia was having lineup problems of their own. Their quarterback Wiant and fullback Smith were disqualified for grades and starting end Cole and halfback Brown were injured and did not play. The situation caused their Coach Yeager to try to get himself into the lineup but the WUP officials denied the request. After nine straight defeats to West Virginia this newly configured lineup was able to notch the Western U. 's first victory in the Backyard Brawl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0003-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe WUP offense had the ball within scoring distance twice in the first half but were unable to capitalize. Once they lost the ball on a fumble and the second time the whistle blew for halftime. West Virginia lost the ball on downs to start the second half and the WUP offense steadily moved the ball. Both John Simpson and John Martin made huge gains and fullback William Secrist plunged into the end zone for the first score. Five minutes later Secrist scored his second touchdown. McConnell was good on both goals after. The WUP offense was on the West Virginia fifteen yard line as time expired with the Western University ahead 12-0. The WUP team suffered no major injuries and they were impressed with the deportment of the West Virginia fans. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Indiana Normal\nOn Saturday, October 12th somewhere between three thousand (Pittsburgh Daily Post) and five thousand (Pittsburgh Press) frenzied fans and students gathered at Schenley Park to witness the free WUP versus Indiana Normal football game. The teams entertained the crowd with a fierce defensive battle. Several times play was stopped for injuries. The heavier Normals were able to keep the speedier Western U. from scoring. The WUP defense was also able to keep the Normal offense in check so the game ended in a scoreless tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0004-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Indiana Normal\nThe WUP contingent was disappointed and concerned about injuries to ends Paul McClain and John Martin. The WUP lineup for the game against Indiana Normal was Paul McClain (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wheeler (left guard), Thomas Crea (center), Malcolm McConnell (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), John Martin (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Simpson (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). The substitutes used in this game were: Logan, Hugh Morrow, Marion Edmundson and James Chessrown. This game consisted of one twenty minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nAfter a hard week of practice the WUP football team was prepared to take on the Methodists of Allegheny College from Meadville, Pa. at Schenley Park in the second game of the free series. There were only minor lineup changes for this game by the WUP. Hugh Morrow replaced John Martin at end and Parke Bachman was the starting center. The game started with WUP kicking to Allegheny halfback Taylor, who fumbled the ball into the end zone. He fell on it and a WUP player downed him for a safety. The referee E.W. Paul claimed it was a touchback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0005-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe WUPs protested to no avail and the game continued. The WUP offense moved the ball but Reed and Wallgren each fumbled when in scoring range to thwart the drives. The first half ended in a scoreless tie. The WUP offense received the second half kickoff and advanced the ball downfield. Reed and Simpson did most of the ball carrying with Simpson scoring the touchdown. McConnell kicked the goal after. The Western U. received the ensuing kickoff and moved the ball methodically ninety yards with Reed going in for the score from the five yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0005-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe goal kick after was unsuccessful. The game ended a short time later with the WUP ahead 11-0. Since the Alleghenies had lost their two previous games by the same 11-0 score, they insisted that the umpire should reverse his touchback call and give the Westerns two more points so the score would not be 11-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0005-0003", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe starting WUP lineup for the game against Allegheny College was Hugh Morrow (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wheeler (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), Malcolm McConnell (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Simpson (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). Kerr replaced Hugh Morrow at left end and Pete Edwards replaced John Simpson at left halfback. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburg College\nPrior to the October 26th meeting with Pittsburg College it was a nerve-wracking week for captain McConnell. Starting halfback Reed toyed with the idea of transferring to Washington & Jefferson College and halfback Simpson needed to be replaced due to his medical studies. Pete Edwards replaced Simpson in the lineup and Reed decided to stay at the WUP. With the lineup finally set, the WUP eleven was ready to entertain another large home crowd at Schenley Oval. Each team fumbled on their opening possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0006-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburg College\nThe WUP offense moved the ball to the Pittsburg ten yard line on their next drive but turned the ball over on downs. The College eleven made two first downs and then fumbled into the hands of WUP quarterback McCready. He had a convoy of blockers in front of him and scored easily. McConnell kicked the goal after. Pittsburg kicked off and the WUP offense advanced the ball into Pittsburg territory but McConnell was called for a penalty and the ball went back to the College eleven. The WUP defense held and the score was 6-0 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0006-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburg College\nThe WUP offense was able to score touchdowns on their first two possessions of the second half. Their offense easily penetrated the College defense and fullback Secrist was lifted into the end zone for the scores. McConnell was successful on both goal kicks and the game ended with the score 18-0 in favor of the Western University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0006-0003", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Pittsburg College\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game against Pittsburg College was Hugh Morrow (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wheeler (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), Malcolm McConnell (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), Pete Edwards (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). Cummings replaced Edwards at left halfback. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 88], "content_span": [89, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal (PA)\nCaptain Wallace had to tweak the WUP lineup again for the game with California Normal. Morrow, Reed and McCready needed to be replaced. Adams played end for Morrow, Simpson was back at halfback for Reed and Martin stepped in for quarterback McCready. The game started with both teams alternating possession due to fumbles. Late in the first half Western U. halfback Cummings raced fifteen yards for the first score. McConnell missed the goal after and the score was 5-0. After the ensuing kick off the WUP offense advanced the ball down the field and scored on a run by McClain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0007-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal (PA)\nThe goal kick after was again unsuccessful and the score was 10-0 at halftime. The second half began as the first with both teams playing good defense and causing fumbles. Late in the half the WUP offense managed to drive the ball within one yard of the goal but fumbled. Their defense held and got the ball back after a punt. The WUP offense kept driving through the Normal defense and McConnell scored the third touchdown of the game. The final score was 15-0 in favor of the Westerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0007-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal (PA)\nThe WUP lineup for the game against California Normal was John Simpson (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Wheeler (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), William Secrist (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), John Martin (quarterback), Paul McClain (left halfback), Cummings (right halfback) and Malcolm McConnell (fullback). Substitutions during the game included: Marion Edmundson replaced John Simpson at left end; Simpson replaced Cummings at right halfback; Cummings replaced Malcolm McConnell at fullback; and McConnell replaced William Secrist at right guard. This game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 99], "content_span": [100, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nOn November 9th the WUP eleven embarked on their second road game of the season to Beaver Falls, Pa. to play the unbeaten Geneva Covenanters. With Joe McCready back at quarterback and John Martin at end, coach McConnell was confident the WUP team could compete. This Geneva team had five players (Joseph H. Thompson, Joseph Edgar, Arthur McKean, Walter East and Albert T. Schmidt) who would later continue their studies at the WUP and compete on the WUP football team. In fact, Joe Thompson would coach the Pitt Panthers from 1909-1912.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0008-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nIn the first half the WUP offense came close to scoring twice only to be stopped by fumbles. The Geneva offense moved the ball well but the WUP defense would not allow any scoring. On Geneva's first possession of the second half their offense marched the ball down the field and Joe Thompson scored on a plunge through the middle. The kick after failed and Geneva led 5-0. The WUP offense then took over the game. They ran the ball through and around the Geneva defense and Simpson finally scored on a double pass from the fifteen yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0008-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nReed was successful with the goal kick after and the Western U. led 6-5. After a quick change of possessions the WUP offense again functioned smoothly. Simpson's thirty-five yard gain was followed by Martin's twenty yard scamper around the end. Reed followed with a fifteen yard jaunt and McClain raced around the end on a delayed pass for the second WUP touchdown. McConnell kicked the goal after and the final score was 12-5 in favor of the WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0008-0003", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Geneva was John Martin (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Cummings (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), Malcolm McConnell (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Simpson (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0009-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\nOn November 16, the Thiel College eleven from Greenville, Pennsylvania arrived at Schenley Park for the final free game of the season. Unfortunately, strong wind and snow flurries insured the smallest crowd of the five game series. Thiel wanted to play their coach in the starting lineup and the WUP contested his participation. He was replaced and the game commenced. The WUP lineup had Hankey at center for Bachman and Martin replaced Reed at halfback. WUP received the opening kick off and promptly fumbled. The Thiel offense ran thirteen plays and reached the WUP eight yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0009-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\nThe WUP defense was able to thwart the drive and take over on downs at their five. After a change of possessions the WUP offense was sparked by Simpson's thirty five yard sprint. McClain ran the final fifteen yards for the touchdown and McConnell was successful on the goal kick after. The first half ended with the score 6-0 in favor of the Westerns. The Thiel offense was stymied by the WUP defense in the second half. The WUP offense worked well and early in the second half Secrist plunged into the end zone for the second touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0009-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\nCaptain McConnell made some substitutions \u2013 Kerr replaced Cummings at guard and Cummings replaced Simpson at halfback. Cummings proceeded to gain fifty-five yards in two carries and Secrist again plunged into the end zone for the third and final WUP touchdown. McConnell was good on the goal kick after and the final score read WUP 17 - Thiel 0. The five game series ended successfully as more than 10,000 fans were able to attend and the WUP eleven were undefeated and unscored upon. Manager Wallace made a notable comment to the Pittsburg Post:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0010-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\n\"The Schenley Park games have done wonders in establishing an interest in amateur athletics, and the fight against professional teams will be continued next year. There will be no letup until professional football has been driven from Pittsburg. Caspar Whitney in an article written three years ago said 'Western Pennsylvania is the center of professional athletics in the United States and no Eastern college which values its amateur standing should play any college team from that section of the country.' Since that time all the colleges of any importance have been established on a strictly amateur basis with one exception.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0011-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Thiel\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Thiel was John Martin (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Cummings (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), Malcolm McConnell (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Simpson (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). The game was played in 25-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0012-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nOn Wednesday, November 20, with three days rest the WUP eleven took on the Westminster Titans team at Recreation Park. This game was considered the big game on the schedule and school was closed for the occasion. Parades took place in each town and students and faculty were noisily in attendance. The WUP offense was able to drive the ball on their first possession and McConnell took the ball over from the six yard line for the touchdown. He was successful on the goal kick after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0012-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nWestminster retaliated with a sustained drive of their own and were on the WUP eight as time ran out in the half with WUP ahead 6-0. The WUP offense controlled the ball at the beginning of the second half. They methodically advanced down the field with Secrist plunging into the end zone for the second touchdown. The goal kick after was unsuccessful. The WUP offense was close to scoring on two other possessions but the Westminster defense held them out of the end zone and the final score was 11-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0012-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster (PA)\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Westminster was John Martin (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Cummings (left guard), Parke Bachman (center), Malcolm McConnell (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Simpson (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). The substitutions during the game were: Kerr replaced Cummings at left guard and Cummings replaced Simpson at left halfback. The game was played in 25-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0013-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Allegheny\nFriday afternoon, November 22, the WUP eleven traveled to Meadville, Pa. for a game with the Allegheny College eleven on Saturday the 23rd. This was the third game of the week for the WUP team. Quarterback Joe McCready and center Parke Bachman were injured and did not play. Hugh Morrow stepped in at quarterback and Stacy Hankey started at center. The field was muddy and a steady drizzle fell during the game. After alternating possessions the Allegheny offense ran through the porous WUP defense and McCarthy plowed into the end zone from the one foot line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0013-0001", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Allegheny\nThe goal kick after was unsuccessful. On the ensuing kickoff the whistle had not blown and WUP had to rekick. The second attempt went out of bounds, so the ball was brought back and a third attempt was made. This time Leffingwell caught the ball on the ten yard line and raced 100 yards for another Allegheny touchdown. The goal after was again unsuccessful and the WUP was trailing 10-0. The Alleghenies moved the ball again but the WUP defense stiffened and got the ball back for the offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0013-0002", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Allegheny\nThe WUP offense was able to gain some first downs and were on the Allegheny five yard line when time expired in the first half. After the intermission Allegheny continued to advance the ball against the WUP defense and Williams scored their third touchdown. The WUP offense gained small chunks of yardage and as time ran down they attempted a field goal that was unsuccessful. The Alleghenies won the game 15-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0013-0003", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Allegheny\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Allegheny was John Martin (left end), Richard Wallace (left tackle), Cummings (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), Wheeler (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Hugh Morrow (quarterback), John Simpson (left halfback), Reed (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Malcolm McConnell replaced William Secrist at fullback; and John McClymonds replaced Wheeler at right guard. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0014-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033492-0015-0000", "contents": "1901 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Coaching staff\nWilbur Hockensmith (coach) 1901 graduate with a Mechanical Engineering degree played four seasons of football for WUP. He was affiliated with the Hockensmith Mine and Car Wheel Company and resided in the Pittsburgh area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033493-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1901 William & Mary Orange and White football team represented William & Mary during the 1901 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033494-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1901 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 24 June until 3 July. It was the 25th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1901. There was a record entry of thirty competitors in the women's singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033494-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Dwight Davis / Holcombe Ward 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133, 9\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033495-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Doubles\nDwight Davis and Holcombe Ward defeated Herbert Roper Barrett and George Simond 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Davis and Ward 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133, 9\u20137 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1901 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033496-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nArthur Gore defeated Sydney Smith 6\u20134, 6\u20130, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Reginald Doherty 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1901 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033497-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Singles\nCharlotte Sterry defeated Louisa Martin 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Blanche Hillyard 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1901 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033498-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1901 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1901 Western Conference football season. In its sixth season under head coach Philip King, the team compiled a 9\u20130 record (2\u20130 against conference opponents), tied for the Western Conference championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 317 to 5. Arthur Hale Curtis was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033498-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nCaspar Whitney of Outing magazine named two Wisconsin players, tackle Curtis and halfback Al \"Norsky\" Larson, as second-team players on his 1901 College Football All-America Team. Eddie Cochems and William Juneau also played on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033499-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wokingham by-election\nThe 1901 Wokingham by-election was held on 12 July 1901 after the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP Oliver Young. It was retained by the Conservative candidate Ernest Gardner who was unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033500-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1901 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place on 9 and 10 February 1901 at the ice rink Djurg\u00e5rdsbrunnsviken in Stockholm, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033500-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nEdvard Engelsaas was the defending champion, who was not there to defend his championship. The Fin Franz Wath\u00e9n won three distances and became the new World champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033500-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033501-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033501-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place from February 10 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden. Originally allotted to London the competition was transferred to Stockholm due to the death of Queen Victoria. There were only two contestants. Four out of six judges came from Sweden. None of the judges came from the German Empire. Still the placings were the same. Adams, Pettersson, and Westergren put Salchow in first position, the other three judges Fuchs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033502-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1901 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1901 college football season. In its second season under head coach William McMurray, the team played only one game, defeating the Laramie Athletic Club by a 38\u20130 score. There was no team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033503-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1901 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach George S. Stillman, the team compiled an 11\u20131\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 251 to 37.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033503-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 Yale Bulldogs football team\nA modern authority on college football rankings said,\"When Harvard met Yale at season's end, it was considered to be for the national championship, and if there had been an AP poll in 1901, Yale might well have finished #2. That is because they were considered to be the top program in college football.\" Years later, Harvard was retrospectively selected as the national champion by Parke H. Davis, a fact in conflict with an NCAA publication, which mentions Yale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033503-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 Yale Bulldogs football team\nCenter Henry Holt was selected by Walter Camp as the first team center on the 1901 All-America team. Other notable players on the 1901 Yale team included halfback George B. Chadwick, quarterback John de Saulles, end Joseph R. Swan, tackle James Hogan, and guard Herman Olcott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033504-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 college baseball season\nThe 1901 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1901. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033504-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 college baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1901 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033505-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 college football season\nThe 1901 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan, Yale, and Harvard as having been selected retrospectively as national champions. Harvard beat Yale 22\u20130 the last game of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033505-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 college football season, Rose Bowl\nThe very first collegiate football bowl game was played following the 1901 season. Originally titled the \"Tournament East-West football game\" what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902, in Pasadena, California. Michigan defeated Stanford 49\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave\nThe 1901 eastern United States heat wave was the most severe and deadly heat wave in the United States prior to the 1930s Dust Bowl. Although the heat wave did not set many still-standing daily temperature records, it was exceptionally prolonged \u2013 covering without interruption the second half of June and all of July \u2013 and centered upon more highly populated areas than later American heat waves. The heat wave accompanied a major drought in the Ohio Valley and Upper Midwest, with Illinois recording what remains its driest calendar year since records have been kept, and Missouri receiving only 0.21 inches (5.3\u00a0mm) above its driest calendar year of 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, June\nIn spite of frequent nor'easters leading to record heavy rainfall over East Coast states from Massachusetts to South Carolina during April and May, drought had already been developing over the interior. However, only over the sparsely populated far-northern Great Plains was the spring unusually hot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, June\nThe heat really set in during the second week of June, when Springfield, Missouri, began a sequence of fifty days with a lowest maximum of 83\u00a0\u00b0F (28\u00a0\u00b0C) and an average maximum of 93\u00a0\u00b0F (34\u00a0\u00b0C). It intensified and spread from June 25, when Philadelphia began twelve consecutive days above 90\u00a0\u00b0F (32\u00a0\u00b0C) \u2013 a record it did not surpass until 1953. Some days in Philadelphia and nearby Wilmington, Delaware, got as hot as 109\u00a0\u00b0F (43\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0002-0001", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, June\nAs the heat wave spread to New York City \u2013 in an era without sanitation or air conditioning \u2013 it had by the close of June begun to severely disrupt life. It was documented that by the end of June several deranged inhabitants committed suicide when emotionally disturbed by the hot and still weather, which had risen to a maximum of 95\u00a0\u00b0F (35\u00a0\u00b0C) and a minimum of 76\u00a0\u00b0F (24\u00a0\u00b0C) by the end of June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, July\nJuly 1901 was the hottest month over the contiguous United States until the 1930s, and is currently surpassed only by the Julys of 1931, 1934, 1936 and 2012. It remains the hottest month on record in Kentucky and West Virginia, and throughout the eastern half, heat was extremely persistent without any cool interval \u2013 although a violent tornado hit Inwood on the northern tip of Manhattan with heavy rainfall on the fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, July\nWith the persistent heat, most horses collapsed, and their carcasses became a source of germs that greatly added to the already high mortality rate in major cities. In one day alone, 250 horses died in New York City, and by the end of July's first week, public streetcars had ceased to run because horses could not be fed. Most factories were closed by the beginning of the month, and those which continued to operate had to permit their workers to wear light gymnastic costumes, as these were the only cooler alternative to the three-piece suits considered polite dress at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, July\nAs the heat failed to relent over the Ohio Valley and Middle Atlantic states, it spread to the established summer resort of Marquette, Michigan, during the middle of July. On the 14th, Marquette \u2013 after staying below 80\u00a0\u00b0F (27\u00a0\u00b0C) on all but five days of the heat wave's first month \u2013 recorded 108\u00a0\u00b0F (42\u00a0\u00b0C), which was 8\u00a0\u00b0F (4\u00a0\u00b0C) hotter than ever experienced there before and 6\u00a0\u00b0F (3\u00a0\u00b0C) hotter than any temperature recorded since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0005-0001", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, July\nThen, a week later, without a cool break, the heat intensified further between July 21 and 25, when most of the maximum temperatures of the year were recorded. On the 22nd, Louisville reached 107\u00a0\u00b0F (42\u00a0\u00b0C); Chicago, 103\u00a0\u00b0F (39\u00a0\u00b0C) with a 77\u00a0\u00b0F (25\u00a0\u00b0C) minimum; and Indianapolis, 106\u00a0\u00b0F (41\u00a0\u00b0C) with a 78\u00a0\u00b0F (26\u00a0\u00b0C) minimum. Farm work was abandoned, and the poorer sections of the population had to rely on canned vegetables for food due to the scarcity of fresh produce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, Aftermath\nThe heat wave gradually eased at the beginning of August, with temperatures in the Ohio Valley falling to more seasonal levels on August 5, for the first time in over fifty days. Although August was an extremely wet month in the Deep South and along the Atlantic Coast, it was exceptionally dry west and north of the Ohio River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033506-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 eastern United States heat wave, Aftermath\nIn the most extensive study of American heat waves, it was estimated that the 1901 Eastern heat wave claimed the lives of 9,500 people, which makes it easily the most destructive disaster of its type in US history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033507-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1901 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033508-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Argentine football\n1901 in Argentine football saw champion English High School changing its name to \"Alumni Athletic Club\", due to a regulation from the Association stating that football teams were not allowed to name the same as the Schools they belonged to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033508-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in Argentine football\nThe new denomination was inspired by the Alumni Associations of the United States, formed by ex-students who wanted to keep the ties of friendship with their old schoolmates. Under its new name Alumni retained the Argentine championship by winning all six of its games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033508-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 in Argentine football, Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship continued with the 4 team league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033508-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 in Argentine football, Argentina national team\nThe Argentina national team made its debut with a 3-2 win against Uruguay in Montevideo. This is considered the first game played ever by Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033509-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1901 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033510-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033510-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1901 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033510-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1901 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033511-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Australian soccer\nThe 1901 season was the 18th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033511-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033514-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1901 in music in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nN.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nInfluential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nMatron and helper at Indian residential school so overworked that spiritual training and teaching children \"how to work\" is ignored", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nManufacturing process described in huge chair factory in Owen Sound, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0004-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nTrail, B.C. and its gold, silver and copper smelting operations described", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0005-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nArchitect gives examples of good design to counter people's ill-informed criticism", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0006-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nVisitor laments various classes of loafer in British Columbia (Note: racial stereotypes)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0007-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nHumorous character study of people in dining and smoking cars on train crossing Prairies", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033516-0008-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canada, Historical Documents\nChicken Okra \u00e0 la Portugaise and other items on Chateau Frontenac menu", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033517-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1901\nThe ORFU stated that all players must sign amateur cards. The CRU ruled that the ball was to be placed on the ground in line with the front foot of the Scrimmage before the lines could come together. John Thrift Meldrum Burnside's revised football rules were put into play in the University of Toronto Inter-faculty games, and later in the Mulock Cup championship games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033517-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033517-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canadian football, Dominion Championship\n1901 Dominion Championship Game: Montreal AAA Grounds - Montreal, Quebec", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033517-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 in Canadian football, Dominion Championship\n1901 Dominion Championship Game: Montreal AAA Grounds - Montreal, Quebec", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033518-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1901 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033519-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in China\nThe following lists events that happened during 1901 in the Empire of the Great Qing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033522-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in El Salvador\nThe following lists events that happened in 1901 in El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033527-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Italy, Events\nThe year was characterized by a strike wave that brought down the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Saracco in February. There were over 1,671 strikes involving 420,000 workers compared to 410 strikes and 43,000 workers in 1900. There were many agricultural labour strikes in Emila and Lombardy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033528-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Japan\nEvents in the year 1901 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 34 (\u660e\u6cbb34\u5e74) in the Japanese calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033529-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 1900 United States census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 2,420,982, ranking as the ninth most populous state in the country. By 1910, Michigan's population had increased by 16.1% to 2,810,173\t.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033529-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in Michigan, Population, Cities\nThe following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 10,000 based on 1900 U.S. census data. Historic census data from 1890 and 1910 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. In recent decades, all of the state's most populous cities lie in the southern half of the lower peninsula. In 1900, owing largely to an economy based on extraction of natural resources, five of the state's largest cities were located north of 44\u00b0 latitude; in the chart below, these cities are shaded in aqua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033529-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 in Michigan, Population, Counties\nThe following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 40,000 based on 1900 U.S. census data. Historic census data from 1890 and 1910 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033530-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1901 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033530-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in New Zealand, Population\nA New Zealand census was held in March 1901. The population was given as 815,862, consisting of 43,112 M\u0101ori, 31 Moriori, and 772,719 others. \u2013 an increase in the non-M\u0101ori population of 9.86% over the previous census in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033530-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 in New Zealand, Population\nThe figures for the 1901 census revealed that the North Island's population had exceeded the South Island's for the first time since the Central Otago Gold Rush of 1861 \u2013 the two islands (plus their associated minor offshore islands) had populations of 390,579 and 382,140 respectively. Only 40% of the country's population was based in urban centres, and only two of these centres, Auckland and Dunedin, had populations of over 25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033530-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe 14th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033532-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1901 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033533-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Portugal\nEvents in the year 1901 in Portugal. There were 598,000 voters in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033536-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1901 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033539-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Swedish football\nThe 1901 season in Swedish football, starting January 1901 and ending December 1901:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033540-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1901 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033544-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1901 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033546-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1901 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033546-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in baseball, Major league baseball final standings, American League final standings\nNote: The Baltimore Orioles of 1901 became the New York Highlanders in 1903. The Milwaukee Brewers of 1901 became the St. Louis Browns in 1902. The Washington Senators of 1901 became the Minnesota Twins in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 88], "content_span": [89, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033547-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in birding and ornithology\nEvents relating to birding and ornithology that occurred in 1901 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033547-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in birding and ornithology\nThe description of the blue-wattled bulbul, Cape Verde swift, Solomons frogmouth, Colima pygmy-owl, fearful owl, green-breasted pitta and waterfall swift, Rothschild's lobe-billed bird-of-paradise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033549-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033550-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033551-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1901 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033552-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in music\nThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033553-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033553-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in paleontology, Mammals, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA member of Cetotheriidae. Type species of Titanocetus Bisconti, 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033554-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033554-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033555-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033556-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in science\nThe year 1901 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033557-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in science fiction\nThe year 1901 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033557-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 in science fiction, Awards\nThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033558-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in sports\n1901 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033559-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1901 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033560-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in the Philippines\n1901 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in 1901", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033561-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 in the United Kingdom\nEvents from the year 1901 in the United Kingdom. This year marks the transition from the Victorian to the Edwardian era, with the death of the 81-year-old Queen and the ascension of her 59-year-old son.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033563-0000-0000", "contents": "1901 massacres of Serbs\nThe 1901 Massacres of Serbs were multiple massacres of Serbs in the Kosovo Vilayet of Ottoman Empire (modern-day Serbia, Kosovo and North Macedonia), carried out by Albanians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033563-0001-0000", "contents": "1901 massacres of Serbs, Massacres\nSerbs were maltreated and accused of being Serbian agents. Panic ensued, and Serbs, primarily from the border areas fled to Serbia. Albanians who participated in the Greco-Turkish War (1897) used weapons not turned in to the authorities against the Serbs in Old Serbia. In May 1901, Albanians set Sjenica, Novi Pazar and Pristina on fire. The Albanians went on a rampage massacring Serbs in Pristina (How many?).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033563-0001-0001", "contents": "1901 massacres of Serbs, Massacres\nIbarski Kola\u0161in (now known as North Kosovo), a forested region made up of 40 villages, largely inhabited by Serbs, where Serbian teachers and priests were active, had long irritated the Albanians and Ottoman government; Serbs were continuously maltreated in the region. The Serbian government observed the developments in Kola\u0161in, and did not remain idle. The situation became serious, with Serbs being smuggled arms by Serbia to defend themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033563-0001-0002", "contents": "1901 massacres of Serbs, Massacres\nAlbanian atrocities had taken such wide proportions that the government of Vladan \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 was forced to begin a wide diplomatical action for the protection Serbs in Old Serbia; when these efforts did not take fruit, and the Albanians were empowered and intensified atrocities against the Serbs, the unprotected Kosovo Serbs began to demand arms to protect themselves. The Ottoman government was made aware of the smuggling, that most arms ended up in Kola\u0161in, by Isa Boletini in early July, Boletini having led the investigation. In the summer of 1901, after the Ottoman investigation, Albanians massacred Serbs in the Kola\u0161in area. Boletini was present while the organised atrocities on Kola\u0161in were carried out, including massacres, rape, blackmail, looting and eviction of local ethnic Serbs. The atrocities prompted the Russian government to intervene at the Porte. Violence in Kola\u0161in stopped, however, Albanian atrocities in other regions continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 991]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033563-0002-0000", "contents": "1901 massacres of Serbs, Reactions, Russia\nInitially, the Porte did not suppress the Albanian movement nor protect the Serbs. Russia demanded that the Albanians and Turkish gendarmeries be punished and the Serbs be allowed to keep the arms for protection. The Porte answered by mass arrests and criminalizing the Albanian language. The governor (vali) was dismissed, and several other anti-Serb officials, and Albanian chieftains who had been especially cruel, were removed from their posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033563-0003-0000", "contents": "1901 massacres of Serbs, Reactions, Austria-Hungary\nAustria-Hungary, supported the Albanians, and tried to downplay the massacre. The events were instrumental in the \"Kola\u0161in affair\" (Serbian Cyrillic: \u041a\u043e\u043b\u0430\u0448\u0438\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u0430\u0444\u0435\u0440\u0430), a diplomatic conflict between Austria-Hungary, which supported the Albanians, and Serbia, which was supported by Russia. With time, the diplomatic conflict grew into an open confrontation between the two sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033564-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 Football League season was Aston Villa's 14th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033564-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Aston Villa F.C. season\nDuring the season Jimmy Crabtree, and Joe Bache shared the captaincy of the club. Howard Spencer took the 1901\u201302 season off in order to rest his knee and ankle for twelve months in the hope of recovering from an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033564-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Aston Villa F.C. season\nOn Wedneday 25 December 1901, Villa won 3\u20132 away to Everton in front of a crowd of 18,000 at Goodison Park. Villa scorer, Willie Clarke became the first non-white player to score in the English First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033565-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Belgian First Division, Overview\nThis season saw another split, after just one season, into two Groups, this time with a Final Group to decide the champion. It was contested by 11 teams, and Racing Club de Bruxelles won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was Blackpool F.C. 's fifth season (second consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing thirteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season\nNew arrivals this season included Jack Foster and William Anderton. Out had gone Jack Leadbetter, after 65 appearances for Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season\nGeordie Anderson was the club's top scorer, with twelve goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season\nTwo players were ever-present during the season: Jack Scott and Jack Birchall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season\nBloomfield Road became Blackpool's permanent home for the start of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0005-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool began the season with a home game against Bristol City on 7 September. It was the visitors' first game in the Football League, and they returned south with both points after a 2\u20130 victory. Due to the club having no fit goalkeeper, Blackpool defender Harry Stirzaker played between the posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0006-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBurton Wanderers were Blackpool's next opponents, at Peel Croft, and the spoils were shared in a 1\u20131 draw. Jack Foster, in only his second game for Blackpool, got their goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0007-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAnother away game followed, at Stockport County on 21 September. Bob Birkett scored for Blackpool, but it was in vain as the Seasiders lost 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0008-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nNewton Heath visited Bloomfield Road seven days later, and they took both points after a 4\u20132 victory. Geordie Anderson opened his scoring account for the season, netting both of Blackpool's goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0009-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOctober opened with an away fixture against Glossop North End. Sammy Brookes scored for Blackpool, but Glossop were the victors, 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0010-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSix games into the season, and Blackpool finally gained their first victory. It occurred against Doncaster Rovers at Bloomfield Road. Lorenzo Evans, Harold Hardman and Anderson got the hosts' goals in the 3\u20131 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0011-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo draws followed \u2014 0\u20130 at Lincoln City and 2\u20132 at home to West Bromwich Albion, Foster and Hardman striking for the Seasiders in the latter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0012-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool travelled to Barnsley on 9 November and won 2\u20131. Stirzaker, opening his account for the season, and Birkett secured the points for the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0013-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSuccessive defeats against Lancashire rivals ensued \u2014 4\u20131 at home to Preston North End on 23 November, and 2\u20130 at Burnley a week later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0014-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA victory, against Gainsborough Trinity, was achieved on 21 December, after a three-week break. Foster, Evans and Stirzaker scored Blackpool's goals in the 3\u20130 result at Bloomfield Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0015-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nFour days later, Blackpool returned from London with a point after a goalless draw against Woolwich Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0016-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\n1901 was rounded off with a 2\u20131 defeat at Middlesbrough on 28 December, Jack Parkinson getting his first goal of the season for Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0017-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn New Year's Day, Blackpool welcomed Burslem Port Vale to Bloomfield Road. The home side won by a single goal, scored by Anderson, his fourth of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0018-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThree days later, the Seasiders returned from Bristol City pointless after a 3\u20130 reversal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0019-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's stop-start season gained some consistency for the remainder of January, with three consecutive victories single-goal victories: at home to Burton Wanderers on 11 January (Parkinson), against Stockport County on 18 January, also at home (Parkinson), and at Newton Heath on the 25th (Anderson).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0020-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nFebruary began with a 1\u20131 draw at home to Glossop North End, Edward Threlfall netting his only goal of the season for the hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0021-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 8 February, Blackpool travelled to Doncaster Rovers, who exacted revenge for their 3\u20131 defeat back in October. Anderson, Parkinson and Anderton were on target for the visitors in their 4\u20133 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0022-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nLincoln City were the visitors to Bloomfield Road the following week, and Blackpool dispatched them with a 3\u20130 victory, Anderson (two) and Anderton finding the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0023-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 22 February, Blackpool suffered their heaviest defeat of the season, at eventual champions West Bromwich Albion. The match finished 7\u20132, with a double from Anderson for the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0024-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThree more defeats followed \u2014 3\u20131 at home to Woolwich Arsenal (Parkinson), 2\u20130 at Barnsley, and 1\u20130 at Leicester Fosse. Club secretary Tom Barcroft played in goal for Blackpool in the latter game, deputising for the absent Joe Dorrington, who missed the team's train from Lancashire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0025-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool travelled to Preston North End for the second West Lancashire derby of the season on 22 March, and the honours were shared in a 1\u20131 draw. Alfred Boulton scored his first and only goal for Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0026-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA win, Blackpool's biggest of the season, followed at home to Leicester Fosse on 28 March. Anderson, Foster (two) and Parkinson were the scorers in the 4\u20130 scoreline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0027-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBurnley made the short trip to Bloomfield Road the very next day, and they returned to East Lancashire with a defeat. Anderton and Anderson netted Blackpool's goals in their 2\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0028-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool's third game in four days ended in a 3\u20131 defeat at Chesterfield. Anderton scored his fourth of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0029-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 5 April, Blackpool travelled to Burslem Port Vale and won by a single Jack Scott strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0030-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter a goalless draw at home to Chesterfield on 12 April, Blackpool finished the season with two defeats \u2014 firstly 3\u20130 at Gainsborough Trinity on 19 April, and a week later at home to Middlesbrough, 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033566-0031-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033567-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1901\u201302 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. After a torrid season, the Bees were spared relegation after Second Division club Grays United forfeited promotion at the end of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033567-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite having won election to the Southern League First Division in July 1901, the Brentford committee did not rest on its laurels and quickly realised that the team which finished top of the Second Division during the previous season needed drastic improvement if the club was to retain its First Division status. Almost a whole new XI was signed, which included goalkeeper Tommy Spicer, full back David Robson, half backs Bill Regan, Bob Stormont, Charlie McEleny and three new forwards. Half back Ralph McElhaney and forwards E. Andrews, Roddy McLeod and Peter Turnbull, all lynchpins of the promotion team, would play a part in the upcoming season. In late August, the club was registered as a limited liability company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033567-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford began the season in poor form and it took the signings of forwards Tommy Shanks, Paddy Logan and Tom Grieve to inspire the team to its first league victory of the campaign on 9 November 1901. The result inspired three wins and three draws from a seven-match spell through to January 1902, but the team soon regained the habit of losing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033567-0002-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite the loss of captain Bob Stormont due to an FA suspension and injury problems in February, Brentford struggled on until mid-April and with two matches to go, were level on points with fellow promotion-relegation test match contenders Watford, New Brompton and Wellingborough near the bottom of the First Division. The Bees closed out the season with 7\u20131 and 3\u20130 defeats to Portsmouth and Tottenham Hotspur respectively, the top two sides in the First Division. Brentford's 15th-place finish led to a promotion-relegation test match with Grays United, in which the Second Division side forfeited promotion by refusing to play extra time while the score was at 1\u20131, which preserved the Bees' First Division status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033567-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033567-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033568-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 British Home Championship\nThe 1901\u201302 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations which was meant to herald the arrival of the full professional game of football as both England and Scotland fielded fully professional teams for the first time. The championship was however dominated and overshadowed by a disaster during the final deciding match between England and Scotland at Ibrox Park, which claimed 25 lives. Six minutes into the game, a section of the wooden West Tribune Stand suddenly collapsed due to heavy rainfall the night before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033568-0000-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 British Home Championship\nOver 500 people were injured as the stadium was packed to its 68,000 capacity for the match. Although play was stopped in the immediate aftermath of the disaster as players, police and stewards rushed to aid the injured, it was later continued. The continued match finished 1\u20131 despite the players' reluctance and repeated pauses to allow police and injured spectators to cross the pitch. After the match the Scottish and English Football Associations decided to void the result, and the match was replayed at Villa Park. All proceeds from the replay were contributed to the Disaster Fund set up to aid victims of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033568-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 British Home Championship\nIreland kicked off the tournament in fine style, beating Wales 3\u20130 in Cardiff with a good performance. Their luck didn't hold out in their second game however, thumped 5\u20131 by an impressive Scottish side in Greenock. Scotland continued their run of good form against Wales, with another 5\u20131 victory, setting them up as tournament favourites going into the final games. England had played poorly in their opening matches, drawing 0\u20130 with Wales and scrambling a 1\u20130 victory over the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033568-0001-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 British Home Championship\nThe final match up was marred by tragedy and the game was eventually relocated to England due to the turmoil in the Scottish football community as a result of the disaster. The match was fiercely fought and ended with a 2\u20132 draw, sharing the points but giving the championship to the Scots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033569-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033569-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nBrown had a poor start to the season, losing its first four games, including one to a secondary school, before recovering at the end to win its final two contests. Brown didn't play a single game at home and its win over Columbia would be its last over a fellow college for 25 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033570-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season. The team finished the season with an overall record of 12\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033571-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was Burslem Port Vale's fourth consecutive season (eighth overall) of football in the English Football League. The season was an unremarkable mid-table affair, however was a positive step for the club as they managed to turn a profit without selling any major players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033571-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nAfter an indifferent start to the season, Vale fell apart at the end of 1901, going on a run of five defeats in seven games. However they turned their form around by the end of the season, going five games unbeaten in March. Vale finished in thirteenth place, but only six points separated seventh spot from the re-election zones. As it happened Chesterfield, Stockport County, and Gainsborough Trinity all won re-election. However West Bromwich Albion and Middlesbrough ran away with the league, leaving Vale 22 points off a promotion place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033571-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nA settled side saw Lucien Boullemier, Ernest Mullineux, George Price, and Adrian Capes ever-presents in the league. Capes was leading scorer with eighteen goals, with Danny Simpson's twelve goal haul a major contribution to the campaign. At the end of the season centre-half Jim Beech retired, having spent eight years with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033571-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nOn the financial front things were looking up for the club. A \u00a3368 profit was made, with most of this figure coming from the club's annual Easter bazaar at Burslem Town Hall. This upturn in finances caused the directors to loosen their unwritten rule on only recruiting local players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033571-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup the club decimated Wellington Town 6\u20130, before beating Wrexham after two replays. The first encounter with Wrexham was called off due to fog, the rearranged tie resulted in a 2\u20131 defeat, however a replay was scheduled when it was discovered that their opponents had fielded an ineligible player. Eventually vanquishing the Welsh side, the next round saw Walsall knock the Vale out before the First Round Proper. In the Birmingham Senior Cup the \"Valeites\" defeated local rivals 4\u20130 Stoke in a First Round replay, after a 2\u20132 draw at Stoke. Vale lost in the semi-final in a replay with Wolverhampton Wanderers. In the Staffordshire Senior Cup Vale brushed aside Walsall 5\u20132, before Stoke took their revenge in the semi-final, with a 2\u20131 victory over Vale in Cobridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033572-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Butler Chirstians men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter Kelly, coaching in his third season with the Christians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033573-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1901\u201302 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033574-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Henry S. Pratt, coaching his first season with the Bearcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033575-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Colgate men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his second season. The team had finished with an overall record of 7\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033576-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033576-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, William Shoemaker served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033576-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033577-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season. The Aggies completed the season with a 5\u20135 record against mostly local high schools and YMCAs. The Aggies were members of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033578-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented Cornell University during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season. The team captain William Steele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033579-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Cornell men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 Cornell men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033579-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter a successful first foray in 1901 Cornell ran into an obstacle in its second season of ice hockey. The issue was the lack of available ice, a problem they shared by most other colleges at the time. While Brown, Harvard, Princeton and Yale were able to secure ice time at the St. Nicholas Rink, one of the only consistently available rinks at the time, Cornell found themselves frozen out most of the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033579-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nAs a result Cornell would play only a single game in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033579-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Cornell University did not formally adopt 'Big Red' as its moniker until after 1905. They have been, however, associated with 'Carnelian and White' since the school's Inauguration Day on October 7, 1868.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033580-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1901\u201302 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, who played without a head coach, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033581-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the ninth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One and finishing in 9th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033582-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 East Stirlingshire F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was East Stirlingshire Football Club's second season in the Scottish Football League, being admitted to the Scottish Football League Second Division. The club also competed in the Scottish Cup and the minor Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup\nThe FA Cup 1901\u201302 was the thirty-first staging of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Sheffield United won the competition for the second time, beating Southampton 2\u20131 in the replay of the final at Crystal Palace. The first match had finished 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, an intermediate round, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Intermediate round\nThe Intermediate Round featured ten ties, played between the ten winners of the Fifth Qualifying Round, and ten teams exempt to this stage. First Division Small Heath, along with Chesterfield, Newton Heath, Woolwich Arsenal, Burnley and Leicester Fosse from the Second Division were entered automatically into this round, as were non-league Reading, New Brighton Tower, Portsmouth and Millwall Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Intermediate round\nThe other Second Division sides had to gain entry to this round through the earlier qualifying rounds. Barnsley, Blackpool, Bristol City, Burton United, Burslem Port Vale, Doncaster Rovers, Gainsborough Trinity, Glossop, Lincoln City and Stockport County, were all entered in the Third Qualifying Round. Of these, only Glossop and Lincoln City reached the Intermediate Round. They were joined by eight other non-league sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0005-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Intermediate round\nNew Brighton Tower had disbanded during the summer of 1901, so Oxford City were granted a walkover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0006-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Intermediate round\nThe ten matches were played on 14 December 1901. Two matches went to replays, played in the following midweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0007-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. 17 of the 18 First Division sides were exempt to this round, as were West Bromwich Albion, Middlesbrough and Preston North End from the Second Division, and Southern League Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur, finalists in the two previous seasons. They joined the ten teams who won in the intermediate round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0008-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday 25 January 1902. Seven matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek. Two of these then went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0009-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Second round proper\nThe eight second-round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 8 February 1902. There were no replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0010-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four quarter final matches were scheduled for Saturday 22 February 1902. There were two replays, played in the following midweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0011-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Semi finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday 15 March 1902. Sheffield United and Derby County drew their tie and had to replay it; this next match also finished in a draw, and so a second replay was played a week later. Sheffield United eventually won and went on to meet Southampton in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0012-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Final\nThe Final was contested by Sheffield United and Southampton at Crystal Palace. The match finished 1\u20131 after extra time, with the goals scored by Alf Common for Sheffield United and Harry Wood for Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033583-0013-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup, Final\nIn the replay, which also took place at Crystal Palace, Sheffield United won 2\u20131, with goals from George Hedley and Billy Barnes. Albert Brown scored Southampton's goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033584-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe qualifying campaign for the 1901\u201302 FA Cup, the thirty-first staging of the world's oldest association football competition, consisted of six rounds of matches, which began on 21 September 1901 with the preliminary round. The Cup was eventually won by Sheffield United, who beat Southampton in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033584-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033585-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the third season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033585-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Barcelona season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1901\u201302 season was the ninth season in their existence. It was the third season that they played for the Swiss championship in the Series A. The club's chairman was Emanuel Schiess. This was his second period as the club's chairman. In this season Basel played their home games in a new location, next to the Thiersteinerallee, in the Gundeldingen neighborhood in the south-eastern part of the municipality of Basel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football ground\nDuring the early years of the football sport, an adequate field that could be used as a football pitch was the biggest problem for all clubs. At the very beginning FC Basel were lucky to find the Landhof, which had just been taken over by Katharina Ehrler-Wittich from the inheritors of Andreas Merian-Iselin, a member of the Merian family. Straight after the club's foundation, she made the Landhof available, free of charge for the first few years, as a playing surface. From 1895 to 1901 the V\u00e9lodrome de B\u00e2le, a cycle track, was also located around the grounds. As the V\u00e9lodrome club dissolved a new tenant was found and at the start of the 1901\u201302 season a new football ground had to be found, because the new tenants had built a concrete bowling lane right across the middle of the football pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football ground\nThe club tried and tested the FC Excelsior grounds and the sport grounds next to St. Paul's Church, but to no avail. They eventually found a space in the Thiersteinerallee, right next to the pitch that local rivals BSC Old Boys were using. The Landhof was to the north of the river Rhine and the Thiersteinerallee about eight kilometers south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0002-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football ground\nThe move from the former field to the new field was made late in the evening, the heavy goal posts and crossbars being carried manually across the town in the dark, so that no one would notice that the club was lacking money. This new pitch was used for one and a half years until the concrete bowling alley was eventually removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nAlphonse Schorpp was the team captain for the third successive season and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. Basel played two pre-season friendlies and two during the mid-season. During the winter break and again at the end of the season the team travelled twice to France to play Mulhouse. Both games ended with a victory. Of the total 11 friendlies that the team played that season seven were won and four ended with a defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nBasel played two friendly games against FC Gymnasia 1900, a team that had been newly founded in February 1900 by young players from the upper gymnasium, who united to form a football team. The team was attempting to join the Swiss Football Association. (In January 1904 the club dissolved and merged with Old Boys).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0005-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nBy the end of the previous season 15 clubs with more than 1,000 members had joined the Swiss Football Association. Most of the clubs had two or three teams, therefore the third tier of Swiss football was introduced called Serie C. From a local point of view this meant the following: Serie A with Basel, Old Boys, Fortuna Basel and Excelsior Basel. Serie B with Old Boys II, Basel II und Excelsior Basel II. Serie C with Columbia Basel, Fortuna Basel II, Gymnasia Basel and Nordstern Basel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0006-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nThe Swiss Serie A season 1901\u201302 was divided into three regional groups. There were five teams in the east group, five in the central and four in the west group. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys Bern and the afore mentioned three other teams from Basel. Although Fortuna had been relegated the previous season, their reserve team had been Serie B champions and achieved promotion. Excelsior were disqualified from the Serie A by the Swiss Football Association (ASF-SFV) in the mid-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0006-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nThe reason was, they had illegally poached players from local rivals FC Fortuna Basel. The already achieved sporting results were retained in the league table, the missing games were not awarded. FC Basel completed the central division with seven games, five victories and two defeats with ten points, but were one point behind YB who qualified for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0007-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nFrom the west group FC Bern and from the east group FC Z\u00fcrich also qualified for the championship play-off. FCZ won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0008-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033586-0009-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 FC Basel season, Notes, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Most of the documentation for this season is missing.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033587-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Football League\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the 14th season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033587-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at the website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033587-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033587-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033588-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Boldklubben Frem won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033589-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1901\u201302 French Rugby Union Championship of first division was won by Racing club de France that beatSBUC in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033589-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 French Rugby Union Championship\nRacing was qualified for the final thanks to his victory against Stade Fran\u00e7ais and SBUC beat F.C. Lyon for 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033589-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nHaving a lot of players injured or sick, SBUC put Math\u00e9o, a former player and supporter as prop, in order to have 15 players on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033590-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033590-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nHopes were high for Harvard entering the season and the Crimson got off to a good start but were stymied by Yale in their third game. After defeating Princeton Harvard still had a chance to win the Intercollegiate Championship with two final games against the Bulldogs but the Elis proved to be better by taking both and ending Harvard's season on a sour note.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033590-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nThough the end result was disappointing the future was looking bright for Harvard; this was the last season that the Crimson would not finish with a winning intercollegiate record for 22 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033591-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Haverford Fords men's soccer team\nThe 1901\u201302 Haverford Fords men's soccer team represented Haverford College during the 1901\u201302 college soccer season. It was the Fords first season of existence. The Fords competed in ACCL and were deemed national co-champions by the American Soccer History Archives and the Intercollegiate Football Research Association. The Fords garnered a record of four wins, a loss and no draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033592-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1901\u201302 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033593-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1901\u201302 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished sixth out of 10 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033594-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Powers, coaching the crusaders in his first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033595-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Phelps Darby, who also served as the team captain was in his 1st and only year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033595-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 4\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033596-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his third season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033597-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1901\u201302 comprised 8 teams, and Linfield won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033598-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its fourth season of collegiate basketball. The Jayhawks were ked by 4th year head coach James Naismith. The Jayhawks finished the season 5\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033599-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MHA season\nThe 1902 Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) season consisted of a four game series between the Winnipeg HC and Winnipeg Victorias. As the Victorias were the defending Stanley Cup holder, they would play two challenges, against Toronto and Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033599-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MHA season, Stanley Cup Challenges\nAs Stanley Cup champion, the Victorias accepted a challenge from Toronto Wellingtons, champions of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), played during the regular season. The first game was played under Ontario rules, the second under Manitoba rules. Unusually, in the first game a goal was scored by Rod Flett of Winnipeg, however this goal was into his own net. No Toronto player is credited for the goal, Mr. Flett is. Winnipeg would win the series 5\u20133, 5\u20133 (2\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033599-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MHA season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Winnipeg vs. Montreal\nAfter the Montreal HC won the 1902 CAHL title in March, they promptly sent a challenge to the Winnipeg Victorias and a best-of-three series was arranged. The season was mild, and there was an inch of water on the slushy ice for game one. Tony Gingras scored the only goal of game one and Winnipeg shut out Montreal, 1\u20130. Ice conditions improved for game two an Montreal shut out Winnipeg 5\u20130. In game three, Montreal took an early 2\u20130 lead after eleven minutes and then held on for a 2\u20131 victory. Winnipeg attacked furiously at the end, and Montreal's effort was described as \"little men of iron\" by Montreal Star sports editor Peter Spanjaardt. With the victory, the Montreal club won the Cup for the first time since 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033599-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MHA season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Winnipeg vs. Montreal\nJack Marshall of Montreal, who had played for the Winnipeg team in the previous year, faced his old team and scored three goals, including the series clincher. Art Hooper also scored three for Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 65], "content_span": [66, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033600-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033600-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter the successful completion of their previous season, the men's team received much more interest from the student body. MIT had difficulty in playing games early in the season; twice their opponents failed to show up but they were still able to play a couple of games by early February. Even when they played games they weren't always able to finish them on the same day. At least two games that ended in a tie were later continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033600-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but Harry Stiles served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033600-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033601-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was Manchester City F.C. 's eleventh season of league football and third consecutive season in the First Division of the Football League. It was also the first year in which the club suffered relegation from a division of league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033602-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 team went 1\u20130 the first and only undefeated season in school history. It was the first year for head coach Clayton T. Teetzel. The team captain was C.H. Ireland and the team manager was W.A. Whitney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033603-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University for the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The head coach was George Denman coaching the team his first season. The Spartans team captain was James Cooper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033604-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represented the University of Minnesota in intercollegiate basketball during the 1901\u201302 season. The team finished the season with a 15\u20130 record and were retroactively named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033605-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u20131902 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Morrall, coaching the huskers in his first season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033606-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1901\u20131902 was contested by fifteen teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating Victoria Wageningen 2-2, 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033607-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was Newton Heath's tenth season in the Football League and their eighth in the Second Division. They finished 15th in the league, avoiding relegation by only five points. In the FA Cup, the Heathens were knocked out by Lincoln City, losing 2\u20131 in the Intermediate Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033607-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe club also entered teams in the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 1901\u201302. They only managed to reach the second round of the Lancashire Cup, before losing 5\u20130 to Southport Central, but the real success came in the Manchester Cup, in which they beat Bolton Wanderers after a replay in the semi-final, before beating Manchester City 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033607-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Newton Heath F.C. season\nThe season marked also the final season for the club under its original name Newton Heath. The club had been struggling financially during the season, and were taken to court by their president, William Healey, over a sum of \u00a3242 17s 10d owed to him by the club in January 1902. Unable to pay, as they were \u00a32,600 in debt, the club was declared bankrupt. Two months later, club captain Harry Stafford managed to enlist the help of Manchester brewer John Henry Davies, who, in conjunction with three other local businessmen, invested a total of \u00a32,000 in the club. Davies was installed as club president and the club was renamed \"Manchester United\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033608-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Football League\nThe 1901\u201302 Northern Football League season was the thirteenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033608-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 9 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the seventh season of rugby league football run by England's Northern Rugby Football Union. A number of off-season changes made this season different from preceding ones. In June 1901 fourteen leading clubs from both Lancashire and Yorkshire resigned from their respective senior competitions to form a new Northern Rugby Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League\nAt the end of May 12 clubs met to discuss a new Northern Union League, the 12 clubs were Broughton Rangers, Oldham, Runcorn, Salford, Swinton and Warrington from Lancashire together with Bradford, Batley, Halifax, Huddersfield, Hull and Hunslet from Yorkshire. The Northern Union committee narrowly approved the formation of the new league by 12 votes to 11 at its meeting on 4 June and invited Leigh (Lancashire) and Brighouse Rangers (Yorkshire) to join the new league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0001-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League\nThere was a lot of acrimony about the decision and some cynicism expressed that Leigh and Brighouse had only been invited to ensure that the vote to approve the new league passed. The meeting also agreed that the name of the new league would be the Northern Rugby Football League. The clubs involved justified their action on the basis that games in the senior competitions were uncompetitive and the ability gap between top and bottom was too great.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League\nThe Yorkshire clubs who were not included in the new league were unhappy with the whole issue and at a meeting of the Yorkshire Senior Competition on 20 June, the Yorkshire clubs voted to boycott the Northern Rugby League and would not play any games against League clubs. In retaliation to the Yorkshire boycott the Northern Rugby Football League by-laws regarding transfers and promotion were changed to omit any mention of Yorkshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0002-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League\nThis had the effect of a) making it permissible for Northern Rugby Football League clubs to sign players of Yorkshire clubs without the Yorkshire clubs' permission (and vice versa) and b) promotion to the Northern Rugby Football League would only be open to the club winning the Lancashire Senior Competition; previously promotion was going to be given to the winners of a match between the Yorkshire Senior Competition and Lancashire Senior Competition champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Effects on the senior competitions\nHull Kingston Rovers felt unable to comply with the Yorkshire Senior Competition boycott and at the end of July the club was expelled from the Yorkshire Senior Competition. Not having been invited to join the Northern Rugby Football League but still wishing to seek admission to the Northern Rugby Football League, Hull Kingston Rovers applied for membership of the Lancashire Senior Competition and were accepted in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 128], "content_span": [129, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Effects on the senior competitions\nThe expulsion of Hull Kingston Rovers left the Yorkshire Senior Competition with only seven clubs and this was reduced to six when Leeds Parish Church resigned from the competition after the club had to leave their Clarence Road ground. To bring the numbers in the competition back up to 14, seven clubs were promoted from the Yorkshire No.2 competition; these clubs being Dewsbury, Goole, Heckmondwike, Keighley, Normanton, Sowerby Bridge and York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 128], "content_span": [129, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0005-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Effects on the senior competitions\nThe Lancashire Senior Competition also promoted a number of teams from the second competition by adding Altrincham, Birkenhead Wanderers, Lancaster, Morecambe and Radcliffe; originally Tyldesley were offered one of the places but the offer was withdrawn and the place given to Radcliffe instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 128], "content_span": [129, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0006-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Effects on the senior competitions\nTo increase the number of games 12 of the Lancashire based clubs, including both Northern Rugby Football League & Lancashire Senior Competition teams, formed two additional leagues, the South East and South West Lancashire Leagues. Where clubs played either a Northern Rugby Football League or Lancashire Senior Competition game and the teams were in the same Lancashire League then the result of the game counted for both competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 128], "content_span": [129, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0007-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Effects on the senior competitions\nIn September 1901 the Athletic News reported on a number of players who comprised what the paper called \"the rival poaching\" i.e. players who had moved from Yorkshire Senior Competition to Northern Rugby Football League clubs and vice versa due to the lack of agreement between the two competitions. Among these was James Lomas who joined Salford from Bramley and was subsequently the subject of the first three figure transfer fee when a tribunal assessed his value at \u00a3100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 128], "content_span": [129, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0008-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nIn early December 1901 representatives of the Northern Rugby Football League and Yorkshire Senior Competition met to see if the differences between them could be reconciled. No progress could be made as the Yorkshire Senior Competition was still advocating the abolition of the Northern Rugby Football League and the only compromise the Northern Rugby Football League was prepared to make was expanding the number of clubs in the Northern Rugby Football League to 15 and for a single club to be relegated each season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0009-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nThere was no further contact until April 1902 when the Northern Rugby Football League and Yorkshire Senior Competition met again, this time the Yorkshire Senior Competition proposed to lift its boycott of the Northern Rugby Football League, that transfer agreements the same as those between the Lancashire Senior Competition and the Northern Rugby Football League be adopted and finally that the Yorkshire Senior Competition would accept promotion between the Yorkshire Senior Competition and the Northern Rugby Football League save that the club eligible for promotion could decline it if they so wished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0009-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nThe Northern Rugby Football League representatives met with the Lancashire Senior Competition a few days later. The Lancashire Senior Competition were concerned that if the Yorkshire proposals were accepted the Lancashire Senior Competition would be untenable due to a lack of clubs for a representative fixture list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0009-0002", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nThe Lancashire Senior Competition and the Northern Rugby Football League therefore came up with a counter-proposal; that a second division of the Northern Rugby Football League be created, that all eligible teams be invited to join the second division and that promotion to the Northern Rugby Football League first division would only be from the second division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0009-0003", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nA further meeting between the Northern Rugby Football League and the Yorkshire Senior Competition took place on 28 April at which the parties agreed that the Yorkshire Senior Competition boycott of the Northern Rugby Football League would be ended and an independent panel was established who would rule of transfer fees between clubs. The two sides were unable to agree on the establishment of a second division to the Northern Rugby Football League. The Northern Rugby Football League reiterated that they would establish a second division but noted the position of the Yorkshire Senior Competition that a second division was not in the best interests of the Yorkshire teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0010-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nThree weeks later, splits started to appear in the Yorkshire Senior Competition. On 20 May it was announced that Leeds had applied to join the Northern Rugby Football League having been informed that an application at this stage was likely to be accepted; and before the end of the month similar applications had been made by York and Wakefield Trinity. At the Northern Rugby Football League meeting on 17 June 1902 no fewer than 11 Yorkshire clubs applied to join the Northern Rugby Football League and all 11 applications were agreed. Ten Lancashire clubs also applied to join the Northern Rugby Football League and nine were accepted (Radcliffe's application was refused); also accepted was the first club from the north-east, South Shields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 861]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0011-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nThese additions to the Northern Rugby Football League made the number of competing clubs 36. Brighouse, who finished bottom of the Northern Rugby Football League were re-elected to the league and Wigan, winners of the Lancashire Senior Competition were elected to the league making 15 teams in the first division. It was proposed that all 36 clubs vote on which three teams to promote immediately from the second division with the remaining 18 making up the second division for the next season. The ballot was conducted on 1 July 1902 with Hull Kingston Rovers, St Helens and Widnes being elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0011-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Creation of the Northern Rugby Football League, Developments 1901\u20131902\nWith most of the senior clubs from both county competitions now being in the Northern Rugby Football League the committees in both counties took stock; on 29 July the Lancashire Senior Competition committee voted to wind up the competition with the trophy being donated to the Northern Rugby Football League as a trophy for the second division. In Yorkshire it was decided to continue the competition but as a junior league only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 116], "content_span": [117, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0012-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nBroughton Rangers were the first winners of the Northern Rugby Football League; the Lancashire Senior Competition was won by Wigan and the Yorkshire Senior Competition by Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0013-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nJames Lomas was the league's top scorer scoring 172 points (22 tries and 53 goals), a new record points total; Robert Wilson of Broughton Rangers was the leading try-scorer scoring 38 tries. W James also of Broughton Rangers set a new goal kicking record scoring 75 during the season. Salford moved to their new ground, The Willows during the season; their first game at the new venue was a 2\u20130 win against Swinton in front of a crowd of 16,981 on 21 December 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0014-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nIn all three competitions clubs suffered points deductions for various breaches of the rules, Hunslet ans Swinton each being penalised twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0015-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nRochdale Hornets fell into financial difficulties due to falling gates which the club, as members of the Lancashire Senior Competition, blamed on the formation of the NRFL. The players agreed to play some games without pay and the club members paid further subscriptions to resolve the difficulties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0016-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Standings, Lancashire Senior Competition\nAlthough participating in the Lancashire Senior Competition, Altrincham, Birkenhead Wanderers, and Stockport were from Cheshire; Hull Kingston Rovers were from Yorkshire; and Millom were from Cumberland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 86], "content_span": [87, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0017-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Standings, Yorkshire Senior Competition\nLeague points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0. Pld = Games played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; PF = Points scored; PA = Points conceded; Pts = League points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 85], "content_span": [86, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033609-0018-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nBroughton Rangers beat Salford 25-0 in the final at Rochdale before a crowd of 15,006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1901-02 Oregon Agricultural College men's basketball team was the first in the history of the school, known today as Oregon State University. The team sport was organized by W.O. \"Dad\" Trine, who was also the school's track coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team\nThe nickname of OAC teams in this era was the \"Aggies,\" with today's team name, the \"Beavers\" first adopted during the decade of the 1910s. The team was independent, scheduling games on an ad hoc basis rather than as part of a formal sports conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Background\nBasketball was invented in December 1891 by physical education teacher James Naismith and rapidly achieved popularity as an indoor sport for the winter season. The sport came to Oregon rapidly, being declared \"all the rage\" as a training sport for football participants in January 1893, with the Salem YMCA forced to add additional classes to meet surging demand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 82], "content_span": [83, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Background\nA women's basketball team was established at OAC during the academic year of 1897-98, with one game played in the spring of 1898 by the school squad in response to a challenge offered by the team of the Chemawa Indian Institute of Salem. The match, played April 29 in Salem at the Willamette University gym, was won by OAC by a score of 13 to 11. The OAC team included Inez Fuller, Fanny Getty, Dora Hodgin, Blanche Holden, Bessie Smith, and Leona \"Nonie\" Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 82], "content_span": [83, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Background\nThe OAC women's basketball team was more formally organized by the 1899-1900 academic year, with Bessie Smith elected team president as well selecting a full slate of officers, including a vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. Scheduling was handled by the team manager, Mr. J.H. Gallagher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 82], "content_span": [83, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0005-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Background\nA news item in the Corvallis Gazette of January 8, 1901 mentions the name of former OAC student Fred W. Smith as \"the father of basketball at that institution.\" It is unclear whether he was related to Bessie Smith of the OAC women's team. Smith (OAC Class of 1900) was tapped as the coach of the OAC women's team in October 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 82], "content_span": [83, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0006-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Formal organization\nWhile the 1901-02 team was OAC's first school-sanctioned men's club, the sport was played competitively on campus with an admission fee charged during previous academic years. A game between students took place in the school's armory on January 26, 1901 following a baseball game between commissioned and non-commissioned military officers. Played before a substantial audience, the exhibition basketball game was won by a team calling itself the \"White Roses\" by a score of 4 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0007-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Formal organization\nCollegiate football had come to Corvallis, Oregon in the fall of 1893, when the Oregon Agricultural College Aggies fielded their first squad. It was not until 1901-02, when track coach W.O. \"Dad\" Trine formally established the school's first men's basketball squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0008-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Formal organization\nTrine would serve as the team's coach until he was replaced in 1908 by E.D. Angell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033610-0009-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Oregon Agricultural Aggies men's basketball team, Team history, Formal organization\nThe OAC basketball team was independent during the 1901-02 academic year, scheduling its games on an ad hoc basis rather than as part of a formal sports conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033611-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1901\u201302 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the team's 17th season of play. After not challenging for the Stanley Cup after the previous season, no chance presented itself to Ottawa this season. The club finished second to Montreal in CAHL play. Montreal would play and defeat Winnipeg for the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033611-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nThe team held its annual meeting on December 5, 1901. The president was N.C. Sparks, the vice-president was L.N. Bate, and the secretary-treasurer was L.M. Butler. The team announced that it would play exhibitions in Pittsburgh and New York. The provisional roster included Bouse Hutton, Harvey Pulford, Charles Spittal, Frank McGee, Harry Westwick, Hod and Bruce Stuart, Peg Duval and Harold Henry. The trainer was Pete Green and the head coach was Alf Smith. Bruce Stuart returned for the season, after a season with Quebec, while his brother Hod returned to Quebec for the 1901\u201302 season. McGee would play for the Ottawa Aberdeens in the CAHL's intermediate division. Arthur Fraser played three games for Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033611-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Exhibitions\nThe Ottawa Hockey Club travelled to New York after the season for an exhibition series. Ottawa defeated the Hockey Club of New York 4\u20133 on March 21, 1902. Ottawa lost to the New York Athletic Club 6\u20133 on March 23. Both games were at the St. Nicholas Rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033612-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 9\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033613-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033613-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter a slow start Princeton won five consecutive games to finish with a respectable record. The team did not play any 'home' games as there was no available ice rink near its campus. Instead the Tigers played a majority of their games at the St. Nicholas Rink (a common practice for many colleges at the time).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033614-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team compiled a 10-3 record, led by returning team captain Wallace Reimann. The team averaged 39 points per game and held their opponents to 18.9 points per game. By sweeping their Indiana opponents of Butler, Indiana, and Indiana State Normal, they claimed the state championship for the second year in a row. Two particular features of this season were an extended road trip through the South, and a game against Yale. Starting forward Harry Cook died mid-season on February 27, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033615-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 RPI men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 RPI men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033615-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season\nRPI played its first intercollegiate game against Williams College at a rink just north of Troy, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033615-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Rensselaer's athletic teams were unofficially known as 'Cherry and White' until 1921 when the Engineers moniker debuted for the men's basketball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033616-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season is the 28th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033616-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 22 competitive matches during the 1901\u201302 season. The club successfully defended the league championship, finishing two points ahead of Celtic. From the eighteen league matches played the team registered thirteen wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033616-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe Scottish Cup campaign was ended in the semi-final at the hands of Hibernian after a 2\u20130 home defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033617-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1901\u201302 Rugby Union County Championship was the 14th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033617-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Rugby Union County Championship\nDurham won the competition for the second time defeating Gloucestershire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033618-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Scottish Cup\nThe 1901\u201302 Scottish Cup was the 29th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Hibernian, who defeated Celtic 1\u20130 in the Final. This gave Hibs their second Scottish Cup, a tally they would not add to until 2016. The Final was due to be played at Ibrox on 12 April, but the first Ibrox disaster happened a week earlier during the annual Scotland v England fixture. This meant that the Final was delayed by two weeks and moved to Celtic Park, even though Celtic were one of the finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033619-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1901\u201302 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033620-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Scottish Division One\nThe 1901\u201302 Scottish Division One season was won by Rangers by two points over nearest rival Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033621-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1901\u201302 Scottish Division Two was won by Port Glasgow Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033623-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1901\u201302 Sheffield Shield season was the tenth season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033624-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 Football League season was Small Heath Football Club's tenth in the Football League and their third in the First Division, having been promoted as runners-up in the Second Division in 1900\u201301. They finished in 17th place in the 18-team league, one point away from safety, so were relegated back to the Second Division. They also took part in the 1901\u201302 FA Cup, entering at the intermediate round (between qualifying rounds and rounds proper) and losing in that round to Portsmouth. In locally organised competition, they lost to Aston Villa in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033624-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-six players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were eleven different goalscorers. Goalkeeper Nat Robinson was ever-present over the 35-match season; full-back Archie Goldie and half-back Alex Leake each missed only one match. Bob McRoberts was leading scorer with 24 goals, of which 19 came in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the 17th since the foundation of Southampton F.C. and their eighth in league football, as members of the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season\nThe club repeated their performance from two seasons earlier, again reaching the FA Cup Final, where they lost to the previous season's losing finalists, Sheffield United after a replay. In the League, they finished in third place behind local rivals Portsmouth and the FA Cup holders, Tottenham Hotspur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nIn the summer of 1901, the Football Association introduced a \"maximum wage\" for footballers of \u00a34 per week; as a result, players such as Jack Robinson and Harry Wood were forced to take a pay cut. Whilst this measure was of little immediate effect on the club, it would make it harder to entice players away from the Football League. With debts of \u00a31,500, Southampton needed to trim their payroll, with Arthur Chadwick joining neighbours Portsmouth, Alf Milward joining New Brompton and Wilf Toman returning to Everton, while Jimmy Yates dropped down into non-league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nReplacements included Tommy Bowman and Albert Brown from Aston Villa, and Alex McDonald and Joe Turner from Everton. Despite scoring five goals in the first three matches, McDonald quickly dropped out of favour, and left to join West Ham United in December before finishing the season at Portsmouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nThe club still had the services of top amateur players, with C. B. Fry continuing to play when he could, especially in FA Cup ties, and his friend, Geoffrey Plumpton Wilson making three appearances at centre-forward in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0005-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, Personnel\nThe team was still under the control of secretary Ernest Arnfield, with Bill Dawson continuing as trainer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0006-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nBristol City's application to join the Football League Second Division had been accepted, while Gravesend United had dropped down to the Kent League and Chatham Town had resigned from the league after ten matches of the 1900\u201301 season. Their places in a 16-team Southern Football League First Division had been taken by Brentford (promoted from Division Two), Northampton Town and Wellingborough Town (both from the Midland League).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0007-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe season opened with a 1\u20131 draw against New Brompton followed by two victories, including a 5\u20130 win over Watford in which Alex McDonald scored four goals. The match at Portsmouth's Fratton Park on 12 October ended in a 2\u20132 draw, in which the Saints \"were fortunate in escaping defeat\" when Albert Brown scored a late penalty after Pompey's player-manager Bob Blyth had handled the ball. C. B. Fry was making his first appearance of the season and was hit in the head by goalkeeper Jack Robinson, who was trying to punch the ball away. Fry took some time to recover and mistimed a challenge, allowing Bobby Marshall through to equalise Fred Harrison's opening goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0008-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nAfter two further home victories, Southampton again met Portsmouth, this time at The Dell on 2 November. By this time, Southampton were fifth in the table, two points and two places behind their neighbours, but with two games in hand. A crowd of 12,000 (described as a \"dense mass of humanity\") descended on The Dell on a \"brilliantly fine and crisp\" afternoon. Portsmouth's long-term goalkeeper, the Ireland international, Matt Reilly was injured, with his place being taken by the inexperienced Darling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0008-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nPortsmouth raced into a two-goal lead, with goals from Frank Bedingfield and Steve Smith before the Saints started to put Darling under pressure. Saints equalised through a penalty scored by Edgar Chadwick and a goal from Joe Turner, but Portsmouth's goalkeeper demonstrated \"superb coolness\" to prevent Saints going ahead before Bedingfield added a third goal. Saints again equalised through Chadwick, who \"beat Darling all ends up\", resulting in a \"ding dong struggle\" of end to end football, before Dan Cunliffe scored the final goal for the visitors, who held firm for \"a meritorious win\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0009-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nAfter the defeat to Portsmouth, there followed a run of five victories without conceding a goal, before a draw and defeat (3\u20130 at New Brompton) in mid-December. For the fourth consecutive season, the Boxing Day match was at home to Tottenham Hotspur (won 1\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0010-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nIn the match at Luton Town on 9 November, Fry's behaviour led to serious crowd problems. After committing several fouls, he nearly conceded a penalty near the end of the game. The Luton News & Bedfordshire Chronicle reported that \"Fry ... had been for some time losing his head, and the spectators soon lost their tempers.\" \"This distinguished amateur, who has a reputation second to no man's, displayed anything but a sportsmanlike spirit.\" The Southampton-based Football Echo took the view that Fry had been repeatedly tripped by the Luton defender Robert Colvin and Fry's actions were out of frustration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0010-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nBy the end of the match, \"missiles were hurled at the famous athlete ...[ and] for a few minutes matters had an ugly appearance\". The Luton directors apologised to Fry after the match, who replied that this was unnecessary as the supporters' behaviour was outside the directors' control. \"I am quite sure they [the directors] were even more upset than anyone else at the annoyance to which I was subjected\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0011-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe final match of 1901 was the first visit of newly promoted Northampton Town to The Dell. The match, which was played on a \"slippery\" pitch, attracted a \"very small\" crowd to see the return of Jack Farrell (who had been at the centre of the dispute over the players' poor performance in the 1900 FA Cup Final). The fans who stayed away missed a match in which several records were set, which still stand over 100 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0011-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nAlbert Brown kicked off with a pass to the wings and immediately ran into the Northampton goal where he received a return pass that he shot into the net past Northampton's goalkeeper, Fred Cook. Although the goal was not timed, this is believed to be the fastest goal scored by a Southampton player from the kick-off. Within five minutes, Brown had scored a hat trick before Archie Turner added a fourth goal with an \"excellently timed\" shot from the right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0011-0002", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe Northampton defenders were floundering in the mud, with one turning a long shot from Samuel Meston into his own net before Brown ran through the defence to add a sixth goal. The seventh goal came from Fred Harrison following up after his original shot had been only partially cleared. Before half-time, efforts from Harrison and Edgar Chadwick were disallowed for offside, leaving a half-time score of 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0012-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nIn the second half, the Saints eased off slightly while Northampton's play improved. Despite this, Meston added his second goal soon after the restart when his shot went between the legs of the hapless goalkeeper. Brown's fifth goal was hit with such force that the ball became wedged between the railings behind the goal, causing a delay before the match could restart. Brown's sixth goal came soon afterwards with a \"dinking oblique kick\" to confuse Cook, bringing the total to nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0012-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nBy this time, the Saints fans were not taking the game very seriously and there was a carnival atmosphere on the terraces, helped by a cornet player in the stands. Northampton fought back with a rare shot on goal when centre-half Murrell just missed with a low shot that had got past a cold and wet Jack Robinson in the Saints' goal. Brown added two further goals in the dying minutes of the match, with his seventh and final goal one of the best after he took the ball off Murrell, before beating full-backs Edward \"Old Hookie\" Turner and Jack Bennett and blasting the ball past Cook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0013-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nThe final score was 11\u20130 to Southampton, which is the club's record result in a League match (although this was to be equalled a year later against Watford). Brown's tally of seven goals in one match is the highest scored by a Southampton player in a competitive match, although Alf Whittingham scored eight in a wartime match in 1945 against Luton Town. Speaking about this match in 1924, trainer Bill Dawson claimed that his players had \"a little secret\" that enabled them to keep their feet on the heavy ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0014-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nSouthampton began 1902 with two further victories before the start of their run in the FA Cup. Having only failed to win only five of the eighteen matches played by the end of January, the remaining twelve games produced just five more wins with four defeats and three draws, leaving the Saints in third place, five points behind local rivals, Portsmouth, who won the Southern League title for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0015-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, League season\nDespite a slow start to the season and missing several matches through injury, Albert Brown was easily the top scorer for the season with 25 goals from his 25 league appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 46], "content_span": [47, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0016-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nIn the First Round of the FA Cup, Southampton were drawn against the cup-holders, Tottenham Hotspur. The first match was played at White Hart Lane on 25 January 1902 in front of a crowd of 20,000; by half-time the teams were level through goals from David Copeland for Spurs and Tommy Bowman for the Saints. In the second half, Southampton looked more likely to score but they were unable to breach \"the home citadel\". Spurs mounted a late rally that resulted in end to end football, but the score remained 1\u20131 after 90 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0017-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe replay took place the following Wednesday at The Dell with an attendance of 10,000 including a large contingent of Spurs fans. Spurs took the lead through Ted Hughes before Edgar Chadwick equalised; another goal from Hughes was matched by one from Joe Turner and after normal time the match was level at 2\u20132. With extra time only being played by agreement between the teams, the referee Arthur Kingscott consulted the captains who agreed to play on \"in an attempt to achieve a definite result\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0017-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nDuring the extra time, no further goals were scored but several Southampton players were injured; Albert Brown required lengthy treatment after colliding with Hughes and then Bowman suffered severe cramp and as a result Joe Turner had to drop back to cover for him at centre-half. The worst injury was to Bert Lee, who was kicked on the head and was forced to miss the replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0018-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe second replay took place at Reading's Elm Park ground on Monday 3 February, in front of a crowd of only 6,000. The pitch was described as \"like a skating rink\" covered in snow, with the touchlines painted blue; the match kicked off with snow still falling. Lee's place at left-half was taken by Bert Paddington, making a rare first-team appearance. In the first half, Paddington struggled against the pace of the Spurs' forwards, including John Cameron and Sandy Brown but, with the assistance of George Molyneux, survived a goalless first-half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0018-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nAfter the interval, C. B. Fry was beaten by Patrick Gilhooley who crossed the ball to Jack Kirwan for a simple tap-in. Saints responded quickly, equalising when Archie Turner \"screwed in a tricky shot\". For the remainder of the match, Southampton were stronger, spending most of the time in the Spurs half of the pitch. The Spurs goalkeeper, Fred Griffiths, made a \"wonderful\" save from Chadwick before Sandy Tait turned the ball against his own post. In the final few minutes of the match, Saints managed to take the lead when Tait made a poor backpass, which was seized on by Albert Brown who beat Griffiths, leading to scenes of \"indescribable enthusiasm\" amongst the Southampton fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0019-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nWaiting for Southampton in the second round was a home tie against Liverpool, who had won the Football League First Division title the previous year. To prepare for the match against the champions, trainer Bill Dawson took the players to the Clump Inn at Chilworth where the players had the use of a field behind the inn. The match was played at The Dell only five days after the second replay against Spurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0019-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nWriting in 1924, Dawson said that the players ran out onto the pitch \"like a lot of kittens, full of life\" and that the match was \"the finest exhibition of football put up by the Saints\". Goals from Archie Turner (2), Joe Turner and the fit again Bert Lee saw off the League champions, who could only manage one goal in response, from George Fleming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0020-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe Third Round match was away to Bury who had comprehensively defeated the Saints in the 1900 FA Cup Final. Described as a \"real thriller\", the match was all square at 2\u20132 with goals from Harry Wood and Joe Turner matching those from George Ross and Charlie Sagar for the home side. Injuries to the two Southampton goalscorers had reduced them to nine players and the team were defending \"desperately\" to hang on for a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0020-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nAfter a spell of seven successive corners for Bury, Albert Brown broke up the pitch with most of the Bury players in the Saint's half. After sprinting the full length of the pitch, Brown unleashed a shot that hit the crossbar and rebounded over his head. Edgar Chadwick was following up and trapped the ball, feinted to go past the goalkeeper and \"coolly slotted the ball in the other corner\" to secure victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0021-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe Semi-final gave the Saints the chance to gain revenge over Nottingham Forest who had defeated Southampton in the 1898 semi-final in controversial circumstances. After 90 minutes of the match, played at White Hart Lane, the sides were level through goals from Edgar Chadwick for Saints and John Calvey for Forest. In extra time, Albert Brown put the Saints ahead from the penalty spot and completed the victory in the final minute scoring \"a wonderful goal with a screw shot from an oblique angle\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0022-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup\nSouthampton were now in the FA Cup Final for the second time in three years and for the third year in a row, a Southern League side had reached the final. Derby County and Sheffield United needed two replays to settle their semi-final and the Saints took advantage of this to send Harry Wood to the City Ground in Nottingham to \"spy\" on the two sides in the second replay, with Sheffield United winning through to their second consecutive final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0023-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final\nFor the final, the players again went to the Clump Inn for extra training but goalkeeper Jack Robinson caught a chill and was only declared fit on the morning of the final, with the final decision made less than an hour before kick off. With doubts also about C. B. Fry's fitness, Harry Moger and Bill Henderson travelled to Crystal Palace as reserves. Fry's inclusion in the final line up made him the first amateur player to appear in an FA Cup Final since 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0024-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final\nSheffield United had taken seven matches to reach the final, with a replay required to get past Newcastle United in Round 3 as well as the double replay in the semi-final. In the build up to the match, Ernie \"Nudger\" Needham, United's captain, had vowed to make amends for their defeat in the 1901 Final, declaring that his team \"had let the north down\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0025-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final, First match\nThe first match was played at Crystal Palace on 19 April 1902 in front of a crowd of 76,914, with many fans trying to get a better view of the match by use of the surrounding trees, which \"shook as though whipped by a gale, denoting the enthusiasm of adventurous individuals who were in their branches\". As both teams normally played in red and white stripes, Saints won the right to wear their normal kit, while Sheffield United wore dark shorts and white shirts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0026-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final, First match\nAfter a scoreless first half, Sheffield United opened the scoring early in the second half with a goal from Alf Common. United appeared to be on the way to victory when, with two minutes to play, Saints' captain Harry Wood equalised. Wood was in an offside position tying up his bootlaces when the ball reached him. After consultation between the referee and his linesman, the officials decided that the ball had struck a United defender thus playing Wood onside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0027-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final, First match\nAt the end of the game United's goalkeeper, William \"Fatty\" Foulke, protested to the officials that the equalising goal should not have been allowed. Foulke, who was reputed to weigh more than 20 stone, left his dressing room unclothed and angrily pursued the referee, Mr. T. Kirkham, who took refuge in a broom cupboard. Foulke had to be stopped by a group of F.A. officials from wrenching the cupboard door from its hinges to reach the hapless referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0028-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final, Replay\nThe replay took place a week later on 26 April 1902, again at Crystal Palace, in front of a crowd of 33,068, less than half the number who had watched the first match. As Southampton had worn red and white stripes in the first match, this time they swapped to white shirts with United in their normal stripes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0029-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final, Replay\nThe weather for the replay was bitterly cold, and two minutes into the game, Saints' goalkeeper Jack Robinson slipped to allow George Hedley to score. Saints pressed for an equaliser and Foulke was kept busy throughout the rest of the first half. The pressure continued after half-time and Albert Brown equalised on the 70th minute with a \"magic\" shot from distance following a pass from Joe Turner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0030-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, FA Cup, FA Cup Final, Replay\nAfter drawing level Saints continued on the attack and Foulke was required to make saves from Chadwick, Wood and Lee. It looked as though the match was going into extra-time, when, with ten minutes remaining, Robinson failed to cut out a cross and Billy Barnes only had to \"walk\" the ball in to the unguarded net to score the winner for United, although Fry blasted a chance high over the crossbar in the final minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0031-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, Friendly matches\nOnly three friendly matches are recorded for the 1901\u201302 season, with two matches against opposition from The Football League, a 1\u20130 victory at Woolwich Arsenal on 19 November and a 4\u20131 home defeat to Aston Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033625-0032-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southampton F.C. season, Friendly matches\nOn 5 October 1901, Southampton visited Queen's Club to play the Corinthian amateur side who included C. B. Fry at right-back. A mistake by Fry allowed Albert Brown to score the only goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033626-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southern Football League\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the eighth in the history of the Southern League. Portsmouth were Division One champions for the first time. No clubs applied for election to the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033626-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 16 teams contest the division, including 13 sides from previous season and three new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033626-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of nine teams contest the division, including 7 sides from previous season and two new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033626-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, test matches were held between the bottom two clubs in Division One and the top two clubs in Division Two. Swindon Town beat Fulham 3\u20130 to maintain their place in Division One. The other match between Brentford and Grays United ended in a 1\u20131 draw, but for a second successive season Grays were refused promotion after refusing to play extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033627-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1901\u20131902 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's seventh as members of the Northern Rugby Football Union, and the 28th in their history. This season, the two county leagues, Yorkshire and Lancashire, were merged to form the Northern Rugby League. As St Helens failed to make the qualification criteria due to last season's disappointing finish, they competed in the Lancashire Senior Championship, in which they finished third, and a new-found concurrent South West Lancashire mini-league, in which they finished bottom. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the first round by Hull Kingston Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033628-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1901\u201302 season was Stoke's 13th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033628-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Stoke F.C. season\nStoke failed to improve from last season's narrow escape and again required a final day survival, Stoke stayed up after a 2\u20132 draw with Manchester City one point more than Small Heath who could only draw 0\u20130 with Notts County and were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033628-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nStoke now without William Maxwell struggled again in 1901\u201302. With winger Freddie Johnson now skippering the side, Stoke again took 16th position in the First Division avoiding relegation by a single point thanks mainly to a four match unbeaten run at the end of the season. The relegation battle came to a crescendo in April with literally 14 of the 18 teams in the division in danger of the drop, with 3rd placed Newcastle United only avoiding relegation by seven points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033628-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nAt the start of April the bottom of the table was tight with Stoke having one of the poorest goal-averages, and away trips to Notts County and Manchester City were favourites to go down. But again, Stoke escaped after switching 5\u00a0ft 5 inch half-back Tom Holford to centre forward for the last four games which ended in a 1\u20131 draw at Notts County, home wins 4\u20130 and 2\u20130 over Bolton and Grimsby respectively and a last gasp 2\u20132 draw with Manchester City where Holford scored his third goal in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033628-0003-0001", "contents": "1901\u201302 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nStoke could have gone down right at the death if Small Heath had beaten Notts County in their last match but they drew 0\u20130 and both the Birmingham club and Manchester City were relegated. One of Stoke's most bizarre events in their history occurred in January 1902 when the team fell ill with food poisoning just before a league match away at Liverpool. The players had eaten fish at the Adelphi Hotel and were violently sick in the dressing room at Anfield. Soon into the match goalkeeper Leigh Richmond Roose had to leave the pitch and Stoke went on to lose 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033628-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke fared better in the FA Cup this season beating Aston Villa and Bristol Rovers before losing to Nottingham Forest in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033630-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Syracuse Orangemen men's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season. Instead of a head coach, the team's operations was headed by manager Fred Griffin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033631-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 7th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033632-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 WPHL season\nThe 1901\u201302 WPHL season was the fifth season of operation for the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. Three Pittsburgh-area teams competed in the season, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens. The season concluded with the Pittsburgh Keystones having the best record in the league and being named league champions. It would be the team's only league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033632-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 WPHL season\nIn the summer of 1902 Keystones' player Harry Peel admitted that he was paid $35 a week to play in the league. According to Peel \"[The Keystones] make no bones whatever about paying men. If they do not pay them, they give them fake positions.\" Peel was later suspended by the Ontario Hockey Association and his appeal was rejected on December 10, 1903 and again on November 30, 1904. However, by the 1902-03 season the WPHL, was known as a fully professional league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033633-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u201302 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represents the University of Washington during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033634-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1901\u201302 Welsh Amateur Cup was the twelfth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Wrexham Victoria who defeated Machynlleth Town 1-0 in the final, at Oswestry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033635-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Western Football League\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the 10th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033635-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Western Football League\nLike the previous season, Portsmouth were the champions of Division One, and along with all the other members of Division One, also competed in the Southern League during this season. Portsmouth ultimately won both leagues, achieving a double. The Division Two champions for the third season running were Bristol East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033635-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nOne new club joined Division One, which remained at nine clubs after Bristol City joined the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033635-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nFour new clubs joined Division Two, which was increased to nine clubs from eight after Bedminster St Francis and Fishponds left, and Weston (Bath) resigned during the previous season before playing a match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033636-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1901\u20131902 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was James C. Elsom, his fourth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033637-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 World Championship (football)\nThe 1901\u201302 World Championship was an exhibition football match that took place at High Road Ground (the erstwhile name of White Hart Lane) on 2 September 1901 and Tynecastle Park on 2 January 1902 between the winners of the English Football Association Challenge Cup, Tottenham Hotspur, and the Scottish Cup, Heart of Midlothian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033637-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 World Championship (football)\nThe game was not the first \"World Championship\" game between English and Scottish sides; indeed, it was the second time Hearts had played this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033637-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 World Championship (football)\nThe contest was won by Heart of Midlothian, 3\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033637-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 World Championship (football)\nThe fact that the first leg was played by all 11 of Tottenham's cup-winning team, and nine of Hearts', indicates that it was taken seriously by both clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033638-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1901\u201302 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 7th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033638-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the fourth consecutive season Yale was the Intercollegiate Hockey Association champion. They finished undefeated in league play and defeated Harvard in the championship series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033638-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, C.H. Baxter served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033639-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States\nThe 1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States began in December 1901, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033639-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Regular season, Conference winners\nNOTE: The Western Conference (the future Big Ten Conference) did not sponsor an official conference season or recognize a regular-season champion until the 1905\u201306 season. In 1901\u201302, Minnesota (15\u20130) went undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 99], "content_span": [100, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033640-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Belgian football\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the seventh competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033640-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official division existed at the time, split into two leagues. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and its winner was decided after a final round between the first two of each league, for the first time in the championship history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033640-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Belgian football, Overview\nThe season was not completed in Championship Cup A, and Skill F.C. de Bruxelles withdrew at the end of the season. No teams were admitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033641-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in English football\nThe 1901\u201302 season was the 31st season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033641-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in English football, League changes\nDoncaster Rovers and Bristol City replaced Walsall and New Brighton Tower in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033641-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in English football, League changes\nBurton United were formed by a merger of Burton Swifts with former League side Burton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033641-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in English football, League changes\nBristol City were the first non-London Southern side in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033641-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033642-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Scottish football\nThe 1901\u201302 season the 29th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 12th season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033642-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nHibernian were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 1\u20130 over Division One runners-up Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033642-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nRutherglen Glencairn were winners of the Junior Cup after a 1\u20130 win over Maryhill in a replayed final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033642-0003-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Scottish football, International Exhibition Cup\nHeld to coincide with the Glasgow International Exhibition (1901), this early season competition was won by Rangers, beating Celtic in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033642-0004-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Scottish football, British League Cup\nHeld at the end of the season to raise funds for survivors and widows of the 1902 Ibrox disaster, Rangers offered the International Exhibition Cup trophy for the winners of the competition \u2013 Celtic were the victors, overcoming Rangers in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033642-0005-0000", "contents": "1901\u201302 in Scottish football, Scotland national team\nScotland were winners of the 1902 British Home Championship, but endured the deaths of 25 supporters at the Ibrox disaster on 5 April 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033643-0000-0000", "contents": "1901\u20131902 Costa Rican general election\nThe 1901\u20131902 Costa Rican general election occurred under growing political tensions. The authoritarian government of Rafael Yglesias was in direct confrontation with the opposition and had re-elected himself as single-candidate in the previous election by a questionable constitutional reform. The liberal Republican Party represented the most staunch opposition and the country was on the edge of civil war. However, Yglesias managed to negotiate with the moderate branch of the Republicans for a peaceful power exchange.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033643-0001-0000", "contents": "1901\u20131902 Costa Rican general election\nThis new election was called with two candidates: Ascensi\u00f3n Esquivel Ibarra from the newly formed National Union Party and M\u00e1ximo Fern\u00e1ndez Alvarado under the banner of the \"Republican Club\". Both liberals. Esquivel won by a large margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033643-0002-0000", "contents": "1901\u20131902 Costa Rican general election, Results\n1 Yglesias did not run, but some electors voted for him rather than for Esquivel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033644-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\n1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1902nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 902nd year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 2nd year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 3rd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1902, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033645-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033645-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). At this time, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033645-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1902. It was preceded by the 1901 election and followed by the 1903 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1899 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1905. There were contested elections in three of the five wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1902 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1902 college football season. The team was led by head coach Eli Abbott, in his only season of his second stint (fourth season overall), and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa and at West End Park in Birmingham, Alabama. James O. Heyworth served as a co-head coach with Abbott for the season. In what was the tenth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of four wins and four losses (4\u20134, 2\u20134 SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Birmingham High School\nAlabama opened the 1902 season with a 57\u20130 victory over Birmingham High School in Tuscaloosa. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Birmingham High School to 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Marion Military Institute\nAgainst the Marion Military Institute, Alabama scored the most offensive points in the young history of the program with their 81\u20130 victory. In the game touchdowns were scored by Frederick Grist Stickney and W. H. Arrington (with three each); Frank Montague Lett, William Swift Sherrill and James Forman (with two each); and R. L. Lodge, H. M. Smith and Gessner T. McCorvery (with one each).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAgainst the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now known as Auburn University) Alabama was defeated 23\u20130 at West End Park in Birmingham. Auburn took an 11\u20130 lead in the first half on a one-yard H. A. Allison touchdown run and a ten-yard Bill Patterson touchdown run. Auburn then scored their final points of the game on a pair of Allison touchdown runs of 75 and two yards for the 23\u20130 victory. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 1\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nAgainst the University of Georgia, Alabama was shut out for the second consecutive game with their 5\u20130 loss at Birmingham. Marvin D. Dickinson scored the only touchdown of the game for Georgia in the second half. Alabama was trying to tie up the game late, but time expired as the Tide reached the Georgia twelve-yard line. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Georgia to 0\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Mississippi A&M\nAfter consecutive losses, Alabama defeated the Aggies of Mississippi A&M (now known as Mississippi State University) 27\u20130 on The Quad. Alabama scored touchdowns in the first half on runs by Frederick Grist Stickney, 45-yards by Auxford Burks and 30-yards by James Forman. In the second half, touchdowns were scored on runs of 20-yards from Burks and a Stickney run. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi A&M (Mississippi State) to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Texas\nIn the first all-time meeting against the University of Texas, Alabama lost 10\u20130 on The Quad. In a game dominated by both defenses early, Texas scored their first touchdown with only 0:13 remaining in the first half on a ten-yard John A. Jackson. He then scored the only other touchdown in the second half for the 10\u20130 Longhorn victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech\nIn the first all-time meeting against Georgia Tech, Alabama won 26\u20130 at Birmingham. Alabama took a 5\u20130 halftime lead after James Forman scored the only points of the first half on a seven-yard touchdown run. Alabama then scored four second half touchdown from Forman, Frederick Grist Stickney and two by Auxford Burks for the 26\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033646-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, LSU\nAlabama closed the 1902 season two days after their victory over Georgia Tech with an 11\u20130 loss against LSU at Tuscaloosa. Henry Landry scored both touchdowns for LSU in the victory. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against LSU to 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033647-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Alabama gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1902, in order to elect the Governor of Alabama. It was the first Alabama gubernatorial election in which the governor was elected for a four-year term; prior to 1902 the governor was elected to a two-year term. Incumbent Democrat William D. Jelks was running for election to his first full term; he had succeeded William J. Samford upon Samford's death a year prior. His Republican opponent, John A. W. Smith, was the son of former Alabama governor William Hugh Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033648-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1902 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at the Central Transept, The Crystal Palace in Sydenham, London, England, from 18-20 March 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033648-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 All England Badminton Championships\nScoring in the singles went back to the first to 15 (for a game) following the previous year when it was 11. There were five rounds in the men's singles but the other events consisted of four rounds. The 1901 edition has been such a success that the Badminton Association put on extra events of a handicap nature. There were 47 entries for men and 49 for women and it was the first time that players from Scotland and Ireland entered. John Stokes & Thomas Good became the first non-English winners of an event although it was not considered one of the five 'Championship events'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033648-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 All England Badminton Championships\nHowever there were only 9 entries for the women's doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033649-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 16th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033649-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe four provincial championships are played as usual. The four champions play in the \"Home\" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033649-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Connacht Senior Football Championship\nGalway were the only entrants, so they got a bye to the Home semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033650-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the fifteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033650-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nDublin won easily; they led 2-6 to 0-0 at half-time and relaxed in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033650-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nDublin were represented by their senior club champions of 1901, Bray Emmets (despite their being located in County Wicklow).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033650-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was the second of five All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1900s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033651-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1902 was the 16th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Cork (Dungourney) won the championship, beating London 3-13 to 0-00 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033651-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the home final\u3002", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033651-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nHome final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033651-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the home final and London, who receive a bye to this stage of the championship, contest this game. The winners are declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033652-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 15th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at the Cork Athletic Grounds, on 11 September 1904 between London, represented by club side Brian Boru, and Cork, represented by club side from Dungourney. The London champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 3-13 to 0-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033653-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 All-Western college football team\nThe 1902 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1902 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033654-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 American Medical football team\nThe 1902 American Medical football team was an American football team that represented the American Medical College of Chicago in the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033654-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 American Medical football team, Roster\nThis Roster was compiled by an account of the Notre Dame game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033655-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Andijan earthquake\nThe 1902 Andijan earthquake occurred on December 16 with a surface wave magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum perceived Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shock claimed between 700 and 4,880 casualties and more than 40,000 homes were destroyed in the Andijan Region of Uzbekistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033656-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1902 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 11th season of top-flight football in Argentina. Alumni won its 3rd consecutive league championship. Barracas A.C. (promoted in 1901) added to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033656-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe first division championship was expanded to a 5-team league format, with each team playing the other twice. The tournament started on May 11 and ended on September 21. There were not relegations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033657-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Arizona football team\nThe 1902 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Leslie Gillett, the team compiled a 5\u20130 record, did not allow a point to be scored against it, and outscored opponents by a total of 134 to 0. In the second meeting in the Arizona\u2013Arizona State football rivalry, Arizona defeated the Tempe Normal School, 12 to 0. The team captain was Bard L. Cosgrove.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033658-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1902 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1902 college football season. In their second season under head coach Charles Thomas, the Razorbacks compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 148 to 73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033659-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 1, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033659-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Jeff Davis defeated Republican nominee Harry H. Myers and Independent Republican nominee Charles D. Greaves with 64.60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033660-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1902 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1902 college football season. In their only season under head coach Dennis E. Nolan, the Cadets compiled a 6\u20131\u20131 record, shut out five of their eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 180 to 28. Army's only loss was 14\u20136 to Harvard. The Cadets also defeated Syracuse by a 46 to 0 score and tied with an undefeated Yale team that has been recognized as a national co-champion. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 22\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033660-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Army Cadets football team\nTwo members of this team were inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: quarterback Charles Dudley Daly and tackle Paul Bunker. In addition, five members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are: Bunker (WC-1, CW-1); Daly (WC-3); center Robert Boyers (WC-2, CW-1); tackle Edward Farnsworth (CW-2); and fullback Henry Torney (WC-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1902 Atlantic hurricane season featured five known tropical cyclones, three of which made landfall in the United States. The first system was initially observed in the northwestern Caribbean on June\u00a012. The last system dissipated on November\u00a06 while located well southeast of Newfoundland. These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic. None of the systems existed simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season\nOf the season's five tropical cyclones, three reached hurricane status. However, none of them strengthened into major hurricanes, which are Category\u00a03 or higher on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. Along with 1901, this was the first time that two consecutive seasons lacked a major hurricane since 1864 and 1865. Only one storm left significant impact, which was the second hurricane. It brought flooding and strong winds to Texas, resulting in severe damage in some areas. A tornado spawned by the storm also caused five fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 28, the lowest value since 1890. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nIn June, a low-pressure area was observed over the western Caribbean. At 12:00\u00a0UTC on June\u00a012, a tropical depression developed about 20\u00a0mi (30\u00a0km) north of Swan Island, Honduras. The depression moved north-northeastward and intensified into a tropical storm early the next day. Later on June\u00a013, the storm made landfall in modern-day Artemisa Province of Cuba with winds of 45\u00a0mph (70\u00a0km/h). After reaching the Gulf of Mexico late on June\u00a013, the system continued to strengthen and peaked with maximum sustained winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). Around 23:00\u00a0UTC, it made landfall near Steinhatchee, Florida, at the same intensity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nAfter moving inland, the storm moved northeastward and slowly weakened. Around midday on June\u00a016, the system became extratropical over southeastern Virginia and then accelerated northeastward, before dissipating near Anticosti Island, Quebec, late on the following day. Some locations in Florida observed tropical storm force winds. In Virginia, the steamer Falcon sank 2\u00a0mi (3.2\u00a0km) southeast of False Cape. On June\u00a016, the cities of Fredericksburg and New Canton both set 24-hour rainfall records for the month of June, with 3.45\u00a0in (88\u00a0mm) and 3.7\u00a0in (94\u00a0mm) observed, respectively. A drought in the area was ended, which particularly benefited tobacco crops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThe second observed tropical cyclone of the season developed over Chiapas at 00:00\u00a0UTC on June\u00a021. Initially a tropical depression, the system moved slowly northwestward and reached the Gulf of Mexico early the next day. Around 12:00\u00a0UTC on June\u00a023, it strengthened into a tropical storm. While curving north-northwestward, the storm intensified into a hurricane at 00:00\u00a0UTC on June\u00a026. Six hours later, the hurricane attained its maximum sustained wind speed of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). However, it then began to weaken falling to tropical storm status late on June\u00a026. At 21:00\u00a0UTC that day, the storm made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, with winds of 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h). After moving inland, the system quickly weakened and became extratropical over Oklahoma by midday on June\u00a028. The remnants moved rapidly northeastward before dissipating over Pennsylvania the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 930]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nA drought existed in Texas for the previous six weeks. Thus, rainfall produce by this storm was beneficial to cotton and rice. However, withered corn stalks were easily blown down by the wind. Further, heavy precipitation in some areas resulted in flooding. The highest 24-hour rainfall total was 14.22\u00a0in (361\u00a0mm) at Nacogdoches, setting a daily rainfall record for June. This swelled Lanana and Bonita creeks. All bridges were swept away and communication was cut off, while the south side of town was underwater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nAt Galveston, 5.54\u00a0in (141\u00a0mm) of rain fell on June\u00a027, setting a daily rainfall record. Over 6\u00a0in (150\u00a0mm) fell in La Porte, ruining more than 200,000\u00a0lb (91,000\u00a0kg) of hay west of town. Morgan's Point was 3\u00a0ft (0.91\u00a0m) under water. In Gregg and Harrison counties, heavy rains washed out the Texas and Pacific railroads. Flooding occurred across the upper Sabine basin as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nStrong winds also buffeted portions of the state, with gusts up to 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) in Galveston. A freight train was blown off the track at East Bernard in Wharton County. A tornado moved northeast through Krasna, nearWallis, killing five people. In El Campo, fruit fell off trees. Windmills and chimneys were blown down in Edna, while in Ganado and Louise, outhouses and barns were destroyed. In Houston, trees were uprooted and outhouses destroyed by the gale. Electric wires were downed. Trees were uprooted and damage to sorghum crops were reported in Lavaca County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0007-0001", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThe remnants of the storm produced heavy rainfall in Missouri and tornadoes in Indiana. The storm in Great Plains set up a cold and moist easterly wind which caused colder than normal temperatures in Nebraska and a rare late June snowstorm in Denver, Colorado; up to 8\u00a0in (200\u00a0mm) was observed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nA tropical storm was first observed at 06:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a016, while located about 640\u00a0mi (1,030\u00a0km) southwest of Cape Verde, at the most southerly latitude of any North Atlantic tropical-storm-strength cyclone on record. The storm headed west-northwestward for a few days and slowly strengthened. Late on September\u00a019, it accelerated and began curving northwestward. At 00:00\u00a0UTC the next day, the storm strengthened into a Category\u00a01 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. Later on September\u00a020, the hurricane curved northward and then to the northeast. Further deepening occurred, with the storm becoming a Category\u00a02 hurricane early the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nOn September\u00a021, the system peaked with sustained winds of 100\u00a0mph (155\u00a0km/h). A ship that encountered the storm and observed a barometric pressure of 981\u00a0mbar (29.0\u00a0inHg). The storm began weakening on September\u00a022 and fell to Category\u00a01 intensity. Several hours later, it became extratropical while located about 810\u00a0mi (1,305\u00a0km) west-southwest of Flores Island in the Azores. The remnants of this storm continued northeastward and weakened, until dissipating about 800\u00a0mi (1,285\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland, on September\u00a025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nA tropical depression developed in the Pacific Ocean while located about 105\u00a0mi (165\u00a0km) west-southwest of Tapachula, Chiapas, on October\u00a03. The depression moved slowly north-northwestward and made landfall in a rural area of southeastern Oaxaca early the next day. On October\u00a05, the system reached the Gulf of Mexico and soon intensified into a tropical storm. Thereafter, it curved east-northeastward and strengthened into a Category\u00a01 hurricane by October\u00a06. Early the next day, the storm became a Category\u00a02 hurricane and peaked with maximum sustained winds of 105\u00a0mph (165\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 970\u00a0mbar (29\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nHowever, on October\u00a09, the hurricane weakened to a Category\u00a01. Around 06:00\u00a0UTC the following day, the system weakened further to a tropical storm. Later on October\u00a010 at 21:00\u00a0UTC, it made another landfall near Pensacola, Florida, with winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). The storm rapidly weakened inland and became extratropical early on October\u00a011. The remnants accelerated while moving across the Southeastern United States and eventually emerged into the Atlantic Ocean, before dissipating south of Atlantic Canada on October\u00a013. Some damage was reported in Tabasco due to gales. Along the eastern Gulf Coast of the United States, strong winds were observed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033661-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nThe final storm developed north of Puerto Rico at 00:00\u00a0UTC on November\u00a01 as a tropical depression. Initially, it headed northwestward, but re-curved to the northeast about six hours later. By midday on November\u00a01, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm. The storm continued to intensify and peaked with sustained winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) early on November\u00a03. Around that time, a ship observed a barometric pressure of 993\u00a0mbar (29.3\u00a0inHg), possibly suggesting hurricane intensity. Later on November\u00a05, the storm began heading in a more eastward direction and weakened. At 06:00\u00a0UTC the next day, it weakened to a tropical depression and dissipated several hours later, while located about 760\u00a0mi (1,225\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033662-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1902 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1902 college football season. The team finished the season with a record of 2\u20134\u20131. The Tigers were coached by two men that year: Ralph S. Kent and M. S. Harvey. A little over halfway through the season, Kent stepped down after going 2\u20132\u20131. Harvey followed and in his only season as head coach went 0\u20132. The Tigers only played one true home game in Auburn, the November 15 game against Clemson. The Tigers played their other home games in either Birmingham or Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033663-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Balmain South state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Balmain South on 6 December 1902 because of the resignation of Sydney Law from Labour and the parliament. Following the 1901 election, the Progressive Party had formed a government with the support of Labour. In 1902 a man named Moss Friedman had been found guilty by a jury, however the judge disagreed with the guilty verdict. The Attorney General, Bernhard Wise, remitted Friedman's sentence and Joseph Carruthers, the Leader of the Opposition, moved a motion in the Legislative Assembly to censure Wise. Law voted in support of the motion despite a Labour decision to oppose it. Law chose to resign and recontest the seat as an Independent Labour candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1902 Baltimore Orioles season finished with the Orioles in 8th in the American League (AL) with a record of 50\u201388. The team was managed by John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson. The team played at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season\nDuring the season, Andrew Freedman, principal owner of the National League's (NL) New York Giants, with the financial backing of John T. Brush, principal owner of the NL's Cincinnati Reds, purchased the Orioles from John Mahon, who was deeply in debt. They raided the Orioles roster, releasing several of Baltimore's better players so that they could sign them to the Giants and Reds. AL president Ban Johnson seized control of the Orioles the next day and restocked their roster with players received on loan from other AL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe Orioles' second season in Baltimore would ultimately prove to be their last, as the team was moved to New York after the season, where they became known as the New York Highlanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Offseason\nKnowing that placing a franchise in New York City was key to the success of the American League (AL), AL president Ban Johnson secretly met with principal owner John Mahon and player-manager John McGraw, who was also a part-owner, before the season about relocating to New York. However, the transfer did not occur when they could not find a suitable venue for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Offseason\nIn March, Mike Donlin went on a drinking binge in Baltimore, during which he was arrested for urinating in public and assaulting two chorus girls. The Orioles released Donlin when he was sentenced to six months in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Offseason\nNotable players jumped to the Orioles from the rival National League (NL). In December 1901, Joe Kelley jumped from the Brooklyn Superbas. Later in the offseason, Jimmy Sheckard also jumped from Brooklyn. Kip Selbach and Jim Jackson jumped from the New York Giants, Ernie Courtney jumped from the Boston Beaneaters, Tom Hughes jumped from the Chicago Orphans, and Dan McGann jumped from the St. Louis Cardinals. The Orioles signed Bill Keister as a free agent. With these transactions, the Orioles were seen as a contender in the AL pennant going into the 1902 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Regular season\nThe Orioles drew over 10,000 fans on Opening Day. Three players returned to the NL in April 1902. Jack Dunn and Steve Brodie jumped to the Giants in April. Sheckard changed his mind about playing for the Orioles after four games, returning to Brooklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Regular season\nJohnson openly feuded with McGraw. Many Orioles found themselves suspended by Johnson by midseason, including McGraw and Kelley. In early July, McGraw resigned from the team and signed with the New York Giants of the NL. At this point, the Orioles had a 26\u201331 record. Kelley and Wilbert Robinson succeeded McGraw as player-managers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Regular season\nThe franchise began to fall into significant debt by July. Kelley, son-in-law of part-owner John Mahon, reported that the team owed as much as $12,000 ($358,938 in current dollar terms). Unable to afford that debt, Mahon purchased shares of the team from Kelley and McGraw. With this, Mahon became the majority shareholder, owning 201 of the team's 400 shares. On July 17, 1902, Mahon sold his interest in the Orioles to Andrew Freedman, principal owner of the Giants, and John T. Brush, principal owner of the Cincinnati Reds, also of the NL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Regular season\nThe transaction was reported to have been in the range of $20,000 ($598,231 in current dollar terms). That day, Freedman and Brush released Kelley, Joe McGinnity, Roger Bresnahan, Jack Cronin, Cy Seymour, and Dan McGann from their Oriole contracts. Brush then signed Kelley and Seymour to the Reds, while Freedman signed McGinnity, Bresnahan, Cronin, and McGann, joining McGraw, his new player-manager, on the Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Regular season\nThough Kip Selbach and Jimmy Williams were both pressed to agree to relocate as well, they refused to leave Baltimore, saying they would honor their two-year contracts. McGinnity allegedly attempted to contact Johnson that night, offering to stay with the Orioles if he could receive Johnson's personal assurance that he was welcome to stay. McGinnity did not hear back from Johnson, who had left his phone off the hook that night to avoid being contacted, and joined his teammates with the Giants. On that day, the Orioles were forced to forfeit their game against the St. Louis Browns, as Baltimore lacked the minimum number of players required to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Regular season\nJohnson used a league rule to join the Orioles' minority owners to seize control of the team. Now running the Orioles, Johnson sought to restock the team. He requested players from the other AL franchises to fill the Orioles' roster. Sport McAllister was loaned to the Orioles from the Detroit Tigers for three games, but the Tigers requested McAllister back, as the Orioles came to Detroit to play the Tigers. The Orioles received Pop Dillon from the Tigers, but released him after using him in two games. Snake Wiltse was sent to the Orioles from the Philadelphia Athletics on July 19, but he struggled for the Orioles. The Orioles also received Lew Drill on loan from the Washington Senators, sold Charlie Shields to the St. Louis Browns and purchased Jack Thoney from the Cleveland Bronchos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Season, Season results\nThe Orioles finished the season with a 50\u201388 record, good for last place in the AL. For their final game at Oriole Park, the team drew only 138 fans. During the owners meetings in late 1902, the franchise was transferred to New York. MLB would not return to Baltimore until the former Browns moved to Baltimore in 1954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033664-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033665-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Baylor football team\nThe 1902 Baylor football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach J. C. Ewing, the team compiled a 3\u20134\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033665-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Baylor football team\nThis was Baylor's first losing season. The Thanksgiving game was played at the Lee canal athletic grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033666-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Belfast South by-election\nThe 1902 Belfast South by-election was held on 18 August 1902 after the death of the Irish Unionist Party MP William Johnston. It was won by the Independent Unionist candidate Thomas Henry Sloan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033666-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Belfast South by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives considered several candidates, who declined to stand. These included Colonel Robert Wallace, just returned from the Second Boer War in South Africa, who declined for business reasons; and Sir James Henderson, a previous Lord Mayor of Belfast. The shipbuilder and businessman William Pirrie (who had also been a Lord Mayor of Belfast) was also informally approached. They eventually picked Charles Buller, a former High Sheriff of Down and son-in-law of a previous MP for Belfast, George Dunbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033666-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Belfast South by-election, Candidates\nThomas Sloan was a sub-contractor for the cementing of ship's floors at the shipyard of Harland and Wolff, who had during 1902 become a leading member of the working class Belfast Protestant Association, after the association's founder Arthur Trew was imprisoned for inciting an anti-Catholic riot. He declared his candidacy as an independent unionist in protest of the treatment of Trew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033666-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Belfast South by-election, Candidates\nThomas Harrison, who had unsuccessfully contested Belfast North in the 1900 general election was mentioned as a candidate for the \"labour interest\", but nothing came of this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033666-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Belfast South by-election, Issues and campaign\nThe campaign was tumultuous, and the Belfast Protestant Association dominated the campaign, protesting the imprisonment of their founder. The Times reported that a final meeting for Dunbar Buller on 15 August was broken up by supporters of Slone, with only a large force of police preventing a more serious disturbance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033666-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Belfast South by-election, Results\nThe result of the election was announced outside Belfast town hall on the eve of election day, 18 August 1902. Sloan won the election by 826 votes, and was declared the new representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033666-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Belfast South by-election, Results\nSloan later founded the Independent Orange Order and reached an agreement with the Irish Unionist Party to disassociate himself from the Belfast Protestant Association. Sloan retained the seat in the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033667-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Belgian general election\nPartial general elections were held in Belgium on 25 May 1902. The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 54 of the 85 seats up for election in the Chamber of Representatives. Voter turnout was 95.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033667-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Belgian general election\nUnder the alternating system, elections were only held in five out of the nine provinces: Antwerp, Brabant, Luxembourg, Namur and West Flanders. In addition to the regular elections for these 85 seats, elections were held for one seat (6 in total) in Ghent-Eeklo, Aalst, Soignies, Charleroi, Li\u00e8ge and Verviers because the number of representatives increased for these electoral arrondissements following the population census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033667-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Belgian general election\nA month earlier, a general strike was held, aimed at forcing electoral reform and notably the end of the system of plural voting. However, it was unsuccessful. The Catholic Party, being against reform, even strengthened their majority in the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033667-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Belgian general election, Constituencies\nThe distribution of seats among the electoral districts was as follows. Several arrondissements got one or more additional seats, following the population census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033668-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Birthday Honours\nThe 1902 Birthday Honours were announced on 10 November 1902, to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII the previous day. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033668-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Birthday Honours\nThe list was published in The Times 10 November 1902, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 9 November 1902 and on 28 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033668-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Birthday Honours\nThe list also included the first appointments to the Imperial Service Order, which the King had announced as a new order in the Coronation Honours list earlier the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033668-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc.) and then division (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033668-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Birthday Honours, Imperial Service Order\nThe King has been pleased to make the following appointments to the Imperial Service Order, which his Majesty recently instituted for Members of the Civil Service of the Empire as a recognition of long and meritorious Service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033669-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Americans season\nThe 1902 Boston Americans season was the second season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished third in the American League (AL) with a record of 77 wins and 60 losses, 6+1\u20442 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics. The team was managed by Jimmy Collins and played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033669-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Americans season, Regular season\nPrior to the regular season, the team held spring training in Augusta, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033669-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Statistical leaders\nThe offense was led by Buck Freeman, who hit 11 home runs and had 121 RBIs, and Patsy Dougherty with a .342 batting average. The pitching staff was led by Cy Young, who made 45 appearances (43 starts) and pitched 41 complete games with a 32\u201311 record and 2.15 ERA, while striking out 160 in 384+2\u20443 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033669-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Season standings\nThe team had one game end in a tie; August 18 vs. Detroit Tigers. Tie games are not counted in league standings, but player statistics during tie games are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033669-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033669-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033670-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1902 Boston Beaneaters season was the 32nd season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033670-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033670-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033671-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Boston College football team\nThe 1902 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033672-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Brazilian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Brazil on 1 March 1902. The result was a victory for Rodrigues Alves of the Paulista Republican Party, who received 91.7% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033673-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1902 Brooklyn Superbas finished in a distant second place in the National League, 27 and 1/2 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033673-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033673-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033673-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; CG = Complete games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033673-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033674-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1902 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033675-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Buchtel football team\nThe 1902 Buchtel football team represented Buchtel College in the 1902 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Forest Firestone, in his only season. Buchtel was outscored by their opponents by a total of 34\u2013163.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033676-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Bulgarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 17 February 1902. The result was a victory for the Progressive Liberal Party, which won 89 of the 189 seats. Voter turnout was 49.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election\nThe Bury by-election, 1902 was a by-election held in England on 10 May 1902 for the House of Commons constituency of Bury in Lancashire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election\nIt was the first by-election gain by the Liberal Party from the ruling Conservatives in the Parliament of 1900\u20131906 and it can arguably be said to have set in motion the swing to the Liberals from the Tories which brought twenty by-election gains in all over the following months, leading to the Liberals landslide victory in the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Vacancy\nThe election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), James Kenyon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist Party allies already had a candidate in the field, as Kenyon had made known his intention to stand down because of ill-health. They had chosen Harry Lawson, the former Liberal MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals re-selected their candidate from the 1900 general election George Toulmin, a Lancashire newspaper proprietor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Candidates\nIt was reported that at a meeting of socialists at Bury on 28 April 1902 it was agreed to support a socialist candidate at the forthcoming election, if one were nominated. There were splits in the socialist camp however. The Independent Labour Party decided to dissociate itself from the decision of the Social Democratic Federation to bring forward a candidate and chose to support Toulmin. The Labour Representation Committee in Bury held a meeting to decide their position but declined in the end to stand a candidate. The traditional Lib-Lab alignment seemed to be holding in Bury with the trade unions in the cotton industry coming out strongly for Toulmin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Issues, Irish Home Rule\nA principal issue in the election was the question of Irish Home Rule. This was the issue which had split the Liberal Party in 1886 and the constituency of Bury was typical of many at the time. The sitting Liberal MP, Sir Henry James had defected to the Liberals Unionists in opposition to Home Rule and he retained his seat unopposed at the 1886 general election. With Conservative support Bury had been held for the Unionist cause at each election since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Issues, Irish Home Rule\nWhen the by-election was called one of the first acts recorded was a public vote of support for Toulmin by the Irish Nationalist electors of the town, on the basis that they had received from him a satisfactory declaration of his sympathy with the cause of Home Rule. They urged all Irish voters in the constituency to vote for Toulmin to prevent the election of Lawson, who they described as a renegade on Home Rule and a coercionist. A meeting of Roman Catholic voters in the town was held on 4 May 1902 to discuss the election but no resolutions of support for either candidate were passed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Issues, Levy on corn\nTaxation and the policy of Free Trade once more became central election issues at Bury. The Conservative government had introduced a duty on corn as a revenue measure to help meet the cost of the Boer War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0007-0001", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Issues, Levy on corn\nThe Liberal leader, Henry Campbell-Bannerman wrote to Toulmin deploring the government's proposed introduction of a duty on corn, claiming this would lead to the poorest in the community having to pay more for their bread or suffering some deterioration in the quality of their loaf and stating that this measure was the first step in the government's plan to reverse the country's traditional Free Trade approach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0007-0002", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Issues, Levy on corn\nThe Conservatives said most of any extra burden would fall on businessmen at home or abroad and what Lawson described in a speech as the 'middlemen' adding that the British consumer would have to pay only one extra penny on every 32 loaves. The Times newspaper identified the one shilling corn duty as \"the real horse [the candidates] are riding on\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Issues, Education and the Boer War\nOther issues included the Education Bill. Toulmin apparently held strong views against the legislation although as Bury had no school board as set up by the Elementary Education Act 1870, it was not thought to have such great resonance as elsewhere. The Boer War was also the subject of debate between the candidates. Joseph Chamberlain the great Liberal Unionist Secretary of State for the Colonies urged the electors of Bury not to support a party willing to surrender to the Boers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Issues, Education and the Boer War\nThe voters of Bury were probably as patriotic as any other men but the spiralling cost of the war was a real issue for them. First the government had raised income tax and now the corn levy was thought to herald a bread tax and it was this perception which fostered support for the Liberals rather than the pro-war Unionists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Result\nThe result was a Liberal gain from the Conservatives perhaps against the odds. The Times, taking the temperature of local opinion in the constituency, had predicted a Unionist hold by a majority of around 500 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033677-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Bury by-election, Result\nThe corn tax issue seems to have been more of true vote winner for the Liberals than even political correspondents anticipated as Toulmin took the seat with a majority of 414 \u2013 a swing of 9% and he continued to hold it at the next three general elections. The corn duty continued to play well for the Liberals at forthcoming by-elections in predominantly working class constituencies. Government hopes that its unpopularity would soon fade were misplaced. The Conservative MP for Oldham, Winston Churchill conceded to Prime Minister Arthur Balfour six months after the Bury result that the corn tax remained 'very unpopular'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season\nThe 1902 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the fourth season of the league. Teams played an eight game schedule. The Montreal HC were the league champion with a record of six wins and two losses. After the season, Montreal HC challenged the Winnipeg Victorias for the Stanley Cup title and were victorious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nNew fines were added for being more than 15 minutes late for a game and forfeiting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nThe clubs demanded an increase in gate receipts share from 33% to 40% and a higher number of free tickets from the Montreal Arena owners, but settled for the increase in tickets only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, Season\nThe Shamrocks team, which had won the Stanley Cup only two seasons prior, was completely new. While Fred Scanlan went to Winnipeg, Harry Trihey, Arthur Farrell, Frank Wall, Frank Tansey, James McKenna and Jack Brannen all retired from competitive ice hockey. The team sank to the bottom of the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 24], "content_span": [25, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nMontreal would win the league led by their big line of Archie Hooper, Jack Marshall, Jimmy Gardner and Charlie Liffiton. The players would earn their nickname of the 'Little Men of Iron', winning the Stanley Cup in a challenge with Winnipeg. Hooper would score nine goals against the Shamrocks on January 5, on his way to winning the scoring title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Winnipeg vs. Montreal\nAfter the Montreal HC won the 1902 CAHL title in March, they promptly sent a challenge to the Winnipeg Victorias. In game one of the best-of-three series, Winnipeg shut out Montreal, 1\u20130. However, Montreal shut out Winnipeg in game two, 5\u20130, and then held on to a 2\u20131 victory in game three. With the victory, the Montreal club won the Cup for the first time since 1894.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Winnipeg vs. Montreal\nJack Marshall of Montreal, who had played for the Winnipeg team in the previous year, faced his old team and scored three goals, including the series clincher. Archie Hooper also scored three for Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, Exhibitions\nThe Ottawa Hockey Club travelled to New York after the season for an exhibition series. Ottawa defeated the Hockey Club of New York 4\u20133 on March 21, 1902. Ottawa lost to the New York Athletic Club 6\u20133 on March 23. Both games were at the St. Nicholas Rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033678-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 CAHL season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033679-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1902 Calgary municipal election took place on December 8, 1902 to elect a Mayor and nine Aldermen to sit on the nineteenth Calgary City Council from January 5, 1903 to January 5, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033679-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe position for Mayor was contested by incumbent one-term mayor Thomas Underwood, who also previously served seven terms as Alderman, and five-term Alderman William Mahon Parslow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033679-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors with a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033679-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Calgary municipal election, Background\nKey issues in the election were expansion of the sewer system, public health related to the spread of scarlet fever, municipally owned electric light systems, prohibition, and expanded fire protection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033679-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Calgary municipal election, Background\nRichard Addison Brocklebank became the first labour supported candidate to sit on Calgary City Council after he was acclaimed in Ward 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033679-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Calgary municipal election, September 1902 by-election\nFollowing William Carson's decision to decline the office of Alderman for Ward 2 communicated to the City Clerk on December 18, 1902, a by-election was held which was won by William Henry Cushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033680-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1902 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1902 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach James Whipple and compiled a record of 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033681-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 California gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 California gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902, to elect the governor of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033682-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1902 Campeonato Paulista, organized by the LPF (Liga Paulista de Football), was the 1st season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top association football league. S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic won the title for the 1st time. no teams were relegated and the top scorer was S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic's Charles Miller with 10 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033682-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Campeonato Paulista, System\nThe championship was disputed in a double-round robin system, with the team with the most points winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033683-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1902 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1902 college football season. The team was led by Hall of Fame head coach Pop Warner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033684-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Case football team\nThe 1902 Case football team represented the Case School of Applied Science in the American city of Cleveland, Ohio, now a part of Case Western Reserve University, during the 1902 college football season. The team's coach was Joseph Wentworth. Case won its first conference title and first Ohio Athletic Conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033684-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Case football team\nCoach Wentworth was the highest paid football coach in the US when hired in 1902 at $3,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033685-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1902 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Their head coach was Charles Tambling. This was part of a ten\u2013game win streak that started in 1902 and ended in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033686-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team\nThe 1902 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team represented Central Normal School during their inaugural season. The team played their first year without a head coach and were headquartered in Edmond, Oklahoma. The Central squad finished the season with a record of 0\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033687-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Challenge Cup\nThe 1902 Challenge Cup was the 6th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. It featured clubs from England's 1901-02 Northern Rugby Football Union season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033687-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was contested by the Broughton Rangers and Salford at the Athletic Grounds in Rochdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033687-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was played on Saturday 26 April 1902, where Broughton beat Salford 25\u20130 at Rochdale in front of a crowd of 15,006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033688-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1902 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their 11th season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 14\u20131 record, shut out 12 opponents, finished in second place in the Western Conference with a 5\u20131 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 297 to 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033689-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago Orphans season\nThe 1902 Chicago Orphans season was the 31st season of the Chicago Orphans franchise, the 27th in the National League and the 10th at West Side Park. The Orphans finished fifth in the National League with a record of 68\u201369.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033689-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033689-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033689-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago Orphans season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033690-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago White Stockings season\nThe 1902 Chicago White Stockings season was a season in American baseball. The White Sox had a record of 74\u201360, finishing in fourth place in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033690-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033690-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033690-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033690-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1902 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished with a record of 70\u201370, fourth in the National League, \u200b33\u00a01\u20442 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. In August, principal owner John T. Brush sold his interest in the Reds to a group headed by August \"Garry\" Herrmann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nAfter finishing in last place for the first time in team history with a 52\u201387 record in 1901, the Reds were hoping to return to respectability in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nDespite the last-place finish, Cincinnati brought back manager Bid McPhee to lead the club. The team was relatively quiet during the off-season, as the only major changes were that Harry Steinfeldt returned to playing third base, while Erve Beck, who spent the 1901 season with the Cleveland Blues of the American League, took over at second base. Beck had hit .289 with six homers and 79 RBI with Cleveland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nSam Crawford saw his production dip a bit after a breakout 1901 season, but he still batted .333 with three home runs and 78 RBI, while Jake Beckley continued his steady production, batting .330 with a team high five home runs and 69 RBI. Heinie Peitz had his best offensive season, hitting .315 with a homer and 60 RBI, while Cy Seymour hit .340 with two home runs and 37 RBI after his mid-season arrival from the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Noodles Hahn was the ace of the staff once again, going 23\u201312 with an ERA of 1.77 in 36 starts, completing 35 of them. Bill Phillips went 16\u201316 with a 2.51 ERA in 33 starts, while Ed Poole, acquired by the Reds from the Pittsburgh Pirates early in the season, went 12\u20134 with a 2.15 ERA in 16 starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nCincinnati got off to a rough start, going only 4\u201312 in their opening sixteen games to quickly find themselves in seventh place, 10.5 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. The losses continued to pile up, and after a 27\u201337 start to the year, the Reds fired manager Bid McPhee, and replaced him with Frank Bancroft on an interim basis. Bancroft had last managed in the major leagues with the Indianapolis Hoosiers in 1889, and he managed the Providence Grays to a World Series title in 1884.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nCincinnati also began to make numerous player changes, as John Dobbs was sent to the Chicago Orphans for cash, and Erve Beck was released by the team. The Reds signed free agent Cy Seymour, who had been released by the Orioles after hitting .268 with three home runs and 41 RBI in 72 games with them. The Reds played better under Bancroft, as they went 9\u20137 when he was the manager, before the team named Joe Kelley as player-manager for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nKelley was acquired by the Orioles during the season, where he hit .311 with a homer and 34 RBI in 60 games. With Kelley as the manager, the Reds finished the season strongly, going 34\u201326 in their last 60 games, to finish the year with a 70\u201370 record, good enough for fourth place in the National League; however, they were 33.5 games behind the first-place Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033691-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033692-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1902 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their first season under head coach Anthony Chez, the Bearcats compiled a 4\u20132\u20132 record. Harry Box was the team captain. The team played its home games at Carson Field in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033693-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Claremont state by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Claremont in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia was held on 11 June 1902. It was triggered by the resignation of William Sayer (the sitting member) on 26 May. John Foulkes, a prominent local lawyer, won the election with 40.4 percent of the vote. Of the other four candidates, three entered (or re-entered) parliament themselves at later dates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033693-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Claremont state by-election, Background\nWilliam Sayer had won Claremont at the 1901 state election, to continue serving as attorney-general in the government of George Throssell. He had been appointed to the position a month before entering parliament. However, Throssell's government was short-lived (and thus so was Sayer's time in the ministry), and he resigned from parliament on 26 May 1902 to take up the position of chief parliamentary draughtsman. The writ for the by-election was issued on 28 May, with the close of nominations on 5 June. Polling day was on 11 June, with the writ returned the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033693-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Claremont state by-election, Aftermath\nFoulkes retained Claremont until his retirement at the 1911 state election, and eventually retired to England. Of his losing opponents, Langsford, Pennefather, and Wilson all either entered or re-entered parliament within the next decade. Langsford and Pennefather won election to the Legislative Council in 1904 and 1908, respectively, while Wilson won the seat of Sussex at the 1904 state election and went on to serve as Premier of Western Australia on two occasions (from 1910 to 1911 and from 1916 to 1917).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1902 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Under third year head coach John Heisman, the Tigers posted a 6\u20131 record, including an undefeated Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association record, and thus a conference championship. The lone loss was to rival South Carolina, in a controversial game ending in riots and banning the contest until 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Before the season\nThe team's captain was Hope Sadler. This was the first season with both Sadler and Carl Sitton at ends. One writer recalls, \"Sitton and Hope Sadler were the finest ends that Clemson ever had perhaps.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 1: North Carolina A&M\nThe season opened with an 11\u20135 victory over North Carolina A&M.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 2: at Georgia Tech\nClemson defeated Georgia Tech 44\u20135. The day before the game, Clemson sent in scrubs to Atlanta, checked into a hotel, and partied until dawn. The varsity sat well rested in Lula, Georgia as Tech betters were fooled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 2: at Georgia Tech\nClemson scored first on an 80-yard end run from Carl Sitton. The starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Barnwell (left tackle), Kaigler (left guard), Green (center), Forsyth (right guard), DeCosta (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Gantt (left halfback), Lawrence (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 3: at Furman\nClemson beat Furman 28\u20130, making its first touchdown after three minutes of play. On one play, Heisman used a tree to his advantage. The starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Garrison (left tackle), Kaigler (left guard), Green (center), Forsyth (right guard), Barnwell (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Politzer (left halfback), Lawrence (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 4: at South Carolina\nClemson lost 12\u20136 to rival South Carolina in Columbia, for the first time since 1896, the first year of the rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 4: at South Carolina\n\"The Carolina fans that week were carrying around a poster with the image of a tiger with a gamecock standing on top of it, holding the tiger\u2019s tail as if he was steering the tiger by the tail,\" Jay McCormick said. \"Naturally, the Clemson guys didn\u2019t take too kindly to that, and on Wednesday and again on Thursday, there were sporadic fistfights involving brass knuckles and other objects and so forth, some of which resulted, according to the newspapers, in blood being spilled and persons having to seek medical assistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0007-0001", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 4: at South Carolina\nAfter the game on Thursday, the Clemson guys frankly told the Carolina students that if you bring this poster, which is insulting to us, to the big parade on Friday, you\u2019re going to be in trouble. And naturally, of course, the Carolina students brought the poster to the parade. If you give someone an ultimatum and they\u2019re your rival, they\u2019re going to do exactly what you told them not to do.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 4: at South Carolina\nAs expected, another brawl broke out before both sides agreed to mutually burn the poster in an effort to defuse tensions. The immediate aftermath resulted in the stoppage of the rivalry until 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 4: at South Carolina\nClemson gained only 2 and a half yards in the first half. On a triple pass around end, Sitton made a 30-yard touchdown in the second half. More than 5,000 saw the game. The starting lineup was Sitton (left end), DeCosta (left tackle), Kaigler (left guard), Green (center), Forsyth (right guard), Barnwell (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Lawrence (left halfback), Politzer (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 5: Georgia\nOn November 8, Clemson defeated the Georgia Bulldogs by a score of 36\u20130. One writer called it \"the hardest fought football game ever seen here.\" The starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Garrison (left tackle), Kaigler (left guard), Green (center), Forsyth (right guard), Barnwell (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Politzer (left halfback), Gantt (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 6: Auburn\nClemson made three touchdowns on Auburn, utilizing double passes at times. The starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Garrison (left tackle), Kaigler (left guard), Green (center), Forsyth (right guard), Barnwell (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Politzer (left halfback), Gantt (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Tennessee\nClemson closed the season against Tennessee, which had won a then-school record six games, and won 11\u20130. Tennessee's Tootsie Douglas holds the record for the longest punt in school history when he punted a ball 109 yards (the field length was 110 yards in those days) in a blizzard. Heisman described the kick:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Tennessee\n\"The day was bitterly cold and a veritable typhoon was blowing straight down the field from one end to the other. We rushed the ball with more consistency than Tennessee, but throughout the entire first half they held us because of the superb punting of \"Toots\" Douglas, especially because, in that period he had the gale squarely with him. Going against that blizzard our labors were like unto those of Tantalus. Slowly, with infinite pains and a maximum of exertion, we pushed the ball from our territory to their 10-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0013-0001", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Tennessee\nWe figured we had another down to draw on, but the referee begged to differ. He handed the ball to Tennessee and the \"tornado.\" Their general cheerfully chirped a signal \u2013 Saxe Crawford, it must have been \u2013; and \"Toots\" with sprightly step, dropped back for another of his Milky Way punts. I visualize him still, standing on his own goal line and squarely between his uprights. One quick glance he cast overhead\u2013 no doubt to make sure that howling was still the same old hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Tennessee\nI knew at once what he proposed to do. The snap was perfect. \"Toots\" caught the ball, took two smart steps and \u2013 BLAM!\u2013away shot the ball as though from the throat of Big Bertha. And, say, in his palmiest mathematical mood, I don't believe Sir Isaac Newton himself could have figured a more perfect trajectory to fit with that cyclone. Onward and upward, upward and onward, the crazy thing flew like a brainchild of Jules Verne. I thought it would clear the Blue Ridge Mountains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0014-0001", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Tennessee\nOur safety man, the great Johnny Maxwell, was positioned 50 yards behind our rush line, yet the punt sailed over his head like a phantom aeroplane. Finally, it cam down, but still uncured of its wanderlust it started in to roll\u2013toward our goal, of course, with Maxwell chasing and damning it with every step and breath. Finally it curled up and died on our one-footline, after a bowstring journey of just 109 yards.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Tennessee\nFullback Jock Hanvey starred for Clemson. The starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Garrison (left tackle), Forsythe (left guard), Green (center), Kaigler (right guard), Barnwell (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Politzer (left halfback), Gantt (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason\nThe Tigers claimed an SIAA title. Sadler, Sitton, Maxwell, and Hanvey were All-Southern selections of Walker Reynolds Tichenor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033694-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 Clemson Tigers football team, Personnel, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Clemson's lineup during the 1902 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics the offense in a T formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033695-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland Bluebirds season\nThe 1902 Cleveland Blues season was a season in American baseball. The team, unofficially known during this season as the Bronchos (or Broncos), finished in fifth place in the American League with a record of 69\u201367, 14 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033695-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Regular season\nIn 1902, the National League's Philadelphia Phillies obtained an injunction, effective only in Pennsylvania, barring Nap Lajoie from playing baseball for any team other than the Phillies. The American League responded by transferring Lajoie's contract to the Cleveland Indians, then known unofficially as the Bronchos and subsequently renamed the \"Naps\" in Lajoie's honor for several seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033695-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033695-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033695-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033695-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033695-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland Bluebirds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election\nThe Cleveland by-election, 1902 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire on 5 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation on the grounds of ill-health of the sitting Liberal MP, Alfred Pease. Pease had held the seat since winning it at a by-election in 1897. He had previously served as MP for York from 1885 until 1892. Pease had apparently indicated that he was in declining health before the general election of 1900 but was pressed by his local Liberal Association to contest that election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Vacancy\nHe did so on condition that if his condition made it impossible for him to sit for the whole Parliament he would be allowed to resign and he now felt he had to step down. Despite this plea of poor health, Pease actually lived for another 37 years and spent much of the rest of his life in British East Africa hunting game and entertaining travellers who came for the safaris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Liberal since creation in 1885. Pease held the seat at the last election, unopposed. At the previous election, he had won comfortably;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Candidates, Liberal Party\nThe Liberals had a large number of potential candidates to choose from, including officials from the local Miners\u2019 Association. The miners had always supported the Liberal candidates in the Cleveland Division and the Liberals wished to ascertain the attitude of the Miners before selecting a candidate. The local Association resolved to wait for the outcome of a conference called by the miners on 11 October before deciding on their candidate. In the event, the miners were unable to make a decision in time. The delay meant that the Liberals had to press ahead with the selection of a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0003-0001", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Candidates, Liberal Party\nAt a meeting at Guisborough on 18 October 1902, two possible candidates were put forward, the Hon. Philip Stanhope who had been Liberal MP for Wednesbury and Burnley and Herbert Samuel. Stanhope was said by his proposer, Joseph Walton MP to be acceptable to Labour leaders, including Keir Hardie. Samuel, who had been left a fortune by his father, a partner in the banking firm of Samuel and Montagu, had taken more or less full-time interest in Liberal politics since before going to Balliol College, Oxford. He had tried unsuccessfully to enter the House of Commons twice before at South Oxfordshire. Samuel was supported at the meeting by the retiring Liberal MP, Alfred Pease and emerged the victor by a majority of about three-to-one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Candidates, Independent Labour Party\nIt was reported that the ironstone miners in the Cleveland Division were minded to bring forward an Independent Labour Party candidate. A visit to the constituency by John Bruce Glasier, the chairman of the Independent Labour Party took place on 17 September 1902. Glasier said that if the miners wanted a labour candidate the ILP would assist but that if they decided to combine with the Liberals in support of a progressive representative, (as had traditionally been the case) the ILP would oppose that, raising the prospect of a split in the anti-Tory vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0004-0001", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Candidates, Independent Labour Party\nThe Cleveland Miners held a meeting at Middlesbrough on 29 September to discuss their approach. While they were not opposed in principle to supporting a Liberal if a candidate sympathetic to the cause of labour could be found, probably to stand as a Lib-Lab, the officials felt the time had come for labour to be more directly represented. On 23 September, ILP Leader Keir Hardie made a speech at Marske-by-the-Sea and urged the miners and other trade unionists to bring forward their own candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0004-0002", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Candidates, Independent Labour Party\nRather hectoringly, he said that if they failed in their obvious duty, the ILP would stand a candidate. The miners resolved to stand their own man and called on the Labour Representation Committee to hold a conference on 11 October to discuss the matter. Despite Keir Hardie\u2019s presence, and the moving of a resolution welcoming the prospect of a labour candidate, reservations were expressed about the timing and cost of standing such a candidate and the conference outcome was inconclusive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0004-0003", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Candidates, Independent Labour Party\nThere was a call for the Cleveland Miners to take their own vote and a meeting was to be held at Saltburn on 23 October. In the end however no labour candidate of any description was put forward at the by-election. The decision not to put forward a distinctively labour candidate and, in effect to maintain the traditional collaboration with the Liberals upset Keir Hardie and other ILP leaders. Philip Snowden of the Independent Labour Party is said to have dismissed Samuel as \u2018a plutocratic Jew.\u2019", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Candidates, Conservative Party\nThe Unionists held a meeting on 22 October and chose Geoffrey Drage, formerly MP for Derby from 1895 to 1900. Drage had qualified as a barrister and was a member of Lincoln\u2019s Inn and the Middle Temple but never practised. Like Herbert Samuel, he seems to have dedicated himself full-time to political and public affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Issues, Education\nSamuel raised the question of education in his election address. He called the Conservative government Education Bill reactionary and mischievous. He claimed it would make the system of education more complicated, weaken the control of the people over the Board Schools, deprive women of their right of election to the educational authorities and throw the whole of the cost of the Church and other denominational schools onto the rates and taxes while leaving the local control including the appointment of teachers in the hands of sectarian managers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Issues, Education\nDrage also referred to the Education Bill in his address. He said that its passing was vital to every branch of industry in the country. He claimed it was designed to create a ladder up which the poorest child could climb to the top of the tree. It also provided systematically for technical education, without which British workers could not hope to compete with foreign rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Issues, Social reform\nDrage took up the language of social reform in his election address. He argued for legislation for the protection of infant life and for wage-earning and vagrant children. He claimed that labour and welfare reforms were more likely under a Unionist than a Liberal government. He wanted the law on all labour questions to be codified and administered by a separate department of state. This was daring given his opponent\u2019s well known advanced position on the need for social and welfare reforms. Samuel was a prominent member of the Rainbow Circle, a grouping of Liberals, Fabians and Socialists in favour of working together for the cause of political, industrial and social reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Issues, Social reform\nSamuel took his message on social reform to the mining and industrial districts. He supported the extension of the compensation a worker could recover from an employer in case of accident and the introduction a Bill which would limit the time a miner could be forced to work to eight hours a day. Samuel made it a priority to meet the miners and their leaders to try remove their disappointment at not having a candidate of their own and persuade them that the Liberal Party remained the party of progress and labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0009-0001", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Issues, Social reform\nAt one point he announced he would stand as a \u2018Liberal and Labour\u2019 candidate but this backfired as he was attacked by Glasier of the ILP who denounced it a \u2018vulgar piece of electioneering which ought to be strongly resented by all respectable working men.\u2019 Samuel found it hard to gain endorsements from labour leaders in the country at large but local officials like Joseph Toyn worked hard to keep the Cleveland miners on the Liberal side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0009-0002", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Issues, Social reform\nIn the end even Glasier had to acknowledge that a Liberal MP, even one like Samuel of whom he disapproved, was better than another Tory. While he denounced Samuel\u2019s candidacy as \u2018discreditable\u2019 he nevertheless wanted him to win saying, \u201cI don\u2019t want to see the working class vote Tory \u2013 there is no hope in such folly.\u201d Glasier himself was obliged to vote Liberal in the High Peak by-election in 1909 to support the People\u2019s Budget and for traditional Radical causes such as Free Trade and anti-militarism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Result\nThe result was a win for Samuel; (The change in vote and swing relates to 1897)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Result\nIt was reported that the result was a surprise to both the Liberals and Conservatives. The Unionists had high and realistic hopes of gaining the seat, albeit narrowly, based on their canvass returns. The Liberals were said to have expected to hold on but by a reduced majority and Samuel himself recorded that there was considerable local nervousness about the result given that the former member had been well-established and he was an outsider. In the event, the Liberals increased their vote and the Tory vote went down. The deciding factor was thought to be the Education Bill and the opposition from nonconformist voters to the idea of Church and Roman Catholic schools financed by the rates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033696-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Cleveland by-election, Aftermath\nThe seat had become so safe now for the Liberals that in 1906, not only was there no socialist candidate, but there was no unionist candidate either and Samuel was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033697-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Clitheroe by-election\nThe 1902 Clitheroe by-election was held on 1 August 1902 after the incumbent Liberal MP Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth was elevated to the House of Lords. The Labour Representation Committee candidate David Shackleton won the by-election unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033697-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Clitheroe by-election, Background\nThe incumbent Liberal MP Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth were among the new peers in the 1902 Coronation Honours announced on 26 June 1902. He was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Shuttleworth the following month, and thus had to resign his seat in the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033697-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Clitheroe by-election, Candidates\nThe barrister Augustine Birrell was mentioned as a possible candidate for the Liberal Party, but withdrew his candidature early; as he found the constituency too far away from London to be able to give it adequate time to contest the seat. Philip Stanhope, a former Liberal MP for Wednesbury and for Burnley was adopted as a candidate in early July, and considered running, but stated in an interview that he wanted an alliance between the Liberals and Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033697-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Clitheroe by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives considered several candidates, including Colonel John William Robinson Parker, of Browsholme Hall, who had just returned from the Second Boer War in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033697-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Clitheroe by-election, Candidates\nDavid Shackleton was the General Secretary of the Textile Factory Workers Association. Although the textile workers had not yet joined the Labour Representation Committee, Shackleton was appointed as their candidate for the by-election. Philip Snowden, who had been considered by the Independent Labour Party, withdrew from the race. The Liberals and Conservatives also withdrew, sensing Shackleton's strong lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033697-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Clitheroe by-election, Results\nShackleton was the only nominated candidate, and was elected unopposed at a meeting at Clitheroe Town Hall on 1 August 1902. He became the third MP for the Labour Representation Committee (which would later become the Labour Party) and the first to win at a by-election. The textile workers' unions affiliated to the Labour Representative Committee shortly afterwards. Shackleton served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party for a period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033698-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Colgate football team\nThe 1902 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Frank \"Buck\" O'Neill, the team compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record. Carl Smith was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033699-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1902 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various individuals who chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1902 college football season. The only two individuals who have been recognized as \"official\" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1902 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team 14 years earlier in 1889. Camp's 1902 All-America Team was published in Collier's Weekly, and Whitney's selections were published in Outing magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033699-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans\nIn its official listing of \"Consensus All-America Selections,\" the NCAA identifies as \"consensus All-Americans\" those players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney. Using this criterion, the NCAA recognized 14 players as \"consensus All-American\" for the 1902 football season. They are indicated in bold in the list below (\"All-Americans of 1901\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033699-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans\nIn 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, \"Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934?\" Its selection for 1902 was Paul Bunker of Army, a player who converted from tackle to halfback and \"dominated Navy from both sides of the ball, scoring twice in a 22-8 victory.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033699-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-America Team, Concerns of Eastern bias\nThe All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East and the Ivy League in particular. In 1902, all 14 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, and 12 of 14 played in the Ivy League. The Yale Bulldogs (Camp's alma mater) had seven players who were designated as consensus All-Americans. The only two consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were tackle Paul Bunker and center Robert Boyers, both of whom played for Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033699-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-America Team, Concerns of Eastern bias\nThe dominance of Eastern players led to criticism over the years that the All-America selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame. During the 1902 season, Fielding H. Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" team at Michigan compiled an 11\u20130 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 644 to 12. Seven Michigan players were chosen for All-Western teams, including Willie Heston, Joe Maddock, Boss Weeks, Everett Sweeley, Paul J. Jones, Curtis Redden, and Dan McGugin. Yet, not one player from a western school was recognized as a first-team All-American by Camp or Whitney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033699-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-America Team, Unofficial selectors\nIn addition to Camp and Whitney, other sports writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1902, though such lists have not been recognized as \"official\" All-America selections by the NCAA. The list below includes the All-America selections made by The Newark Advocate and The Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York. Only one player, guard Edward Glass of Yale, was unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, The Newark Advocate, and The Post-Standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033700-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1902 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Clemson won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship, though Virginia was often ranked as best team in the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033700-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-Southern Team\nFuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football records the first All-Southern team as in 1902. Woodruff relates \"The first selections that had any pretense of being backed by a judicial consideration were made by W. Reynolds Tichenor, old-time Auburn quarterback, who had kept in intimate contact with football through being a sought after official.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033700-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-Southern Team, Tichenor's eleven\nReynolds Tichenor's eleven as posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football includes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033700-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor, posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033700-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nAC = selected by the Atlanta Constitution. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033700-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nJLD = selected by UVA coach John L. DeSaulles. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033700-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWAL = selected by W. A. Lambeth for Collier's Weekly. It had a first and second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033701-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Colonial Conference\nThe 1902 Colonial Conference followed the conclusion of the Boer War and was held on the occasion of the coronation of King Edward VII. As with the previous conference, it was called by Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain who opened it on 30 June 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033701-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Colonial Conference\nChamberlain used the occasion to resubmit his earlier proposals made at the 1897 Colonial Conference for an Imperial Council made up of colonial representatives which would act as a quasi-Imperial Parliament and make decisions for the colonies on imperial policy. This proposal, along with Chamberlain's idea for a unified imperial defence scheme, was rejected by most of the colonial prime ministers. While New Zealand proposed that each colony provide a special force for imperial defence in the case of war, Canada and Australia both believed this idea undermined self-government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033701-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Colonial Conference\nChamberlain also proposed an imperial economic union or customs union with free trade within the empire and tariffs against goods from outside of it. The colonies, however, passed a resolution rejecting imperial free trade. A resolution in favour of imperial preference as proposed by Canada was approved and Chamberlain agreed to bring the idea to the British government. However, this plan was not implemented until the British Empire Economic Conference in 1932.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033701-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Colonial Conference, Participants\nThe conference was hosted by King Edward VII, with his Colonial Secretary and the premiers of various colonies or their representatives and members of their cabinets:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033702-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1902 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach C. J. Griffith, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20133\u20132 record (0\u20133\u20131 against CFA opponents) and were outscored by a total of 62 to 47.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033703-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1902 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1902 college football season. Head coach Fred Folsom led the team to a mark of 4\u20130 in the CFA and 5\u20131 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033704-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Colorado gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Republican nominee James Hamilton Peabody defeated Democratic nominee E. C. Stimson with 46.92% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033705-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe 1902 Columbia Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Morley, the team compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 163 to 101, including six shutouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033705-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Columbia Blue and White football team\nHalfback Harold Weekes was the team captain. He also received second-team honors from Caspar Whitney on the 1902 All-America team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033705-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Columbia Blue and White football team\nColumbia's sports teams were commonly called the \"Blue and White\" in this era, but had no official nickname. The name \"Lions\" would not be adopted until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033705-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe team played its seven home games at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033706-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Columbian Orange and Blue football team\nThe 1902 Columbian Orange and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Columbian University (now known as George Washington University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Graham Nichols, the team compiled a 1\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033707-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1902 college football season. This was the seventh year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by first year head coach Edwin O. Smith, and completed the season with a record of 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033708-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Connecticut gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Republican nominee Abiram Chamberlain defeated Democratic nominee Melbert B. Cary with 53.44% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033709-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n\nThe 1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n was a football competition in honour of the coronation of Alfonso XIII of Spain. It was an unofficial competition, the Royal Spanish Football Federation do not recognize it as the first season of the Copa del Rey, which began the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033709-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n\nThe competition started on 13 May 1902, and concluded on 16 May 1902, with the Final, held at the Hip\u00f3dromo in Madrid, in which Bizcaya lifted the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033709-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n\nThe competition was thought up after Carlos Padr\u00f3s, later president of Madrid FC, suggested a football competition to celebrate the coronation of Alfonso XIII. Four other teams joined Madrid for the first competition: FC Barcelona, Club Espa\u00f1ol de Foot-Ball, Bizcaya (a combination of Athletic Club and Bilbao Football Club) and New Foot-Ball Club. The competition featured the first recorded game between FC Barcelona and Madrid FC, with the former emerging 3\u20131 winners. Bizcaya eventually beat FC Barcelona in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033709-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n, Consolation Trophy / Copa de la Gran Pe\u00f1a\nThus, the Gran Pe\u00f1a Cup was played as a single match between Madrid FC and Club Espa\u00f1ol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033710-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n Final\nThe 1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n Final was the final of the Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n, the Spanish football cup competition held in honour of the coronation of Alfonso XIII of Spain. The match took place on 15 May 1902 at the Hip\u00f3dromo de la Castellana in Madrid. The match was contested by Vizcaya and Barcelona, and refereed by Carlos Padr\u00f3s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033710-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n Final\nBizcaya lifted the trophy for the first time with a 2\u20131 victory over Barcelona, winning their first trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033711-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1902 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 16th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033711-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Cork Senior Football Championship\nLees won the championship following a 0-10 to 1-01 defeat of Kanturk in the final at Cork Park. This was their fourth title overall and their first title since 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033712-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1902 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 16th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033712-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nDungourney won the championship following a 3-10 to 2-5 defeat of Shanballymore in the final. This was their first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033713-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1902 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1902 college football season. In their second season under head coach Raymond Starbuck, the Big Red compiled an 8\u20133 record, shut out 7 of 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 324 to 38. Guard Bill Warner was selected by Caspar Whitney as a first-team player, and by Walter Camp as a second-team player, on the 1902 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours\nThe 1902 Coronation Honours were announced on 26 June 1902, the date originally set for the coronation of King Edward VII. The coronation was postponed because the King had been taken ill two days before, but he ordered that the honours list should be published on that day anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours\nThe list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India, and the creation of two new decorations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours\nThe first Companions of the Imperial Service Orders were not announced until the following November Birthday Honours list, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours\nThere were also some promotions and appointments in the British Army announced in the list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours\nThe honours were covered in the press at the time, including in The Times on the day, but formal announcements in the London Gazette were spread out over the following months, in gazettes dated 26 June 1902, 11 July 1902, 18 July 1902, 22 July 1902, 25 July 1902, and 2 September 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours\nA South African list, honouring people for their service during the Second Boer War, was published on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours, Order of Merit\nThe King has been pleased to institute an Order of Merit, to which His Majesty, as Sovereign of the Order, has made the following appointments:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)\nIt had been the King's intention to have conferred the Companionship of the Order of St Michael and St George on the late Honourable George Leake, KC, Premier of the State of Western Australia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 122], "content_span": [123, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033714-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Coronation Honours, Imperial Service Order\nHis Majesty has been pleased to institute a Decoration for Members of the Civil Service to be conferred after Long and Meritorious Service, and to be known as the Imperial Service Order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033715-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 County Championship\nThe 1902 County Championship was the thirteenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 1 May to 6 September 1902. Yorkshire County Cricket Club won their sixth championship title, their third title in successive seasons. Sussex finished in second place, their best placing yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033716-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Cumberland Bulldogs football team\nThe 1902 Cumberland Bulldogs football team represented Cumberland University in the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033717-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Danish Landsting election\nThe Danish Landsting election of 1902 was held on 19 September 1902, with the exception that the Faroese candidate was elected on 6 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033717-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Danish Landsting election\nOf the twelve constituencies the seats representing constituencies number\u00a03 (Sor\u00f8 County and Pr\u00e6st\u00f8 County), number\u00a05 (Maribo County), number\u00a06 (Odense County and Svendborg County), number\u00a08 (Thisted County, parts of Viborg County and parts of Ringk\u00f8bing County), number\u00a010 (Vejle County, Skanderborg County and parts of Ribe County), number\u00a011 (the remaining parts of Ribe County and parts of Ringk\u00f8bing County) and number\u00a012 (the Faroe Islands) were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033718-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Danish local elections\nThe Danish regional elections of 1902 were held in 1902. 7 municipal council members were elected for Copenhagen's municipal council. The voter turnout was 45.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033719-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1902 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Walter McCornack, the team compiled a 6\u20132\u20131 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored opponents by a total of 105 to 39. Victor M. Place was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033720-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Davidson football team\nThe 1902 Davidson football team was an American football team represented Davidson University in the 1902 college football season. The team compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 122 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033721-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 DePauw football team\nThe 1902 DePauw football team was an American football team that represented DePauw University in the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033722-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1902 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coachEdward J. Ryan , the team compiled a 3\u20133 record and were outscored its opponents by a combined total of 33 to 32. The team opened the season with an 11-0 loss to Michigan Agricultural.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033723-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Detroit Tigers season\n1902 was the second year for the Detroit Tigers in the newly formed American League. The team finished in seventh place with a record of 58\u201377 (.385), 30\u00bd games behind the Philadelphia Athletics. The 1902 Tigers were outscored by their opponents 657 runs to 566. The team's attendance at Bennett Park was 189,469, sixth out of the eight teams in the AL. Detroit's blue laws prevented the Tigers from playing baseball at Bennett Park on Sundays. As a result, the Tigers played their Sunday home games for the season at Burns Park; a stadium constructed by owner James D. Burns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033723-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033723-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033723-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033723-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election\nThe 1902 Devonport by-election was held on 22 October 1902 after the death of one of the incumbents, Liberal politician E. J. C. Morton. The contest was won by the Conservative Party candidate John Lockie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election in Devonport was caused by the death on 3 October 1902 of one of the sitting Liberal MPs, Edward John Chalmers Morton. There were two seats in the constituency, which had both been won by Liberals in the 1900 general election. Morton was a barrister who had held the seat since the 1892 general election, and had been re-elected in 1895 and in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Candidates\nJohn Lockie had contested the constituency for the Conservative party in the previous election, and had kept a residence there with a view to stand again. As he was the declared candidate for the party no other names were put forward. Leckie was a shipbuilder from Glasgow, who had previously lived in Edinburgh and Newcastle before he moved south. He was the founder of the National Industrial Association, an organization which sought to promote British trading interests by reconciling the claims of capital and labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Candidates\nSeveral names were mentioned as candidates for the Liberal Party, including Augustine Birrell and Rufus Isaacs. By 8 October Thomas Brassey was stated to be the most likely candidate, and at a meeting the following day of the council of the Liberal party, he was adopted as such. Brassey was a volunteer officer who had recently returned from South Africa following the end of the Second Boer War. He had unsuccessfully contested the Epsom division in 1892, and the Christchurch division in 1895 and 1900. His father Thomas Brassey (later 1st Earl Brassey) was briefly an MP for Devonport in 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Issues, Education\nFollowing the successful campaign in the Leeds North by-election in July 1902, the Liberal party spent much time on the government's plans for an Education Bill to replace school boards with local education authorities, which included proposals to bring church schools into the public system. Many Liberals were strongly nonconformist and the idea that Church of England and Roman Catholic schools should be funded from the rates, a form of local taxation, was anathema to them. It provided the battle slogan 'Rome on the Rates' and united the party against the government. The bill was debated in the House as the campaign in Devonport took place, and Brassey \"heartily approved of the strenuous resistance ... offered by the Liberal party\", making it one of the main issues of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Issues, Education\nLockie defended the government's position, stating that the bill promoted \"efficiency in education and the more equitable distribution of its cost\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Issues, Other issues\nLockie used the recent peace following the Second Boer War in South Africa to mobilize government supporters in a constituency heavily influenced by military industry, stating that with a continued Conservative government would the dockyard in the city receive adequate recognition. He had spent the years after his 1900-defeat showing a great deal of attention to the dockyard and the conditions of the men working there, and was known to favor dialogue between capital and labour. Brassey worked to give attention to dockyard grievances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Issues, Other issues\nBrassey raised his concern on the growth of national expenditure , attributing much of it to \"insufficient control and supervision of the public departments\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Issues, Other issues\nLockie promised to vote \u2033against any tax on corn and other commodity of every-day life\u2033.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Result\nLockie won the seat for the Conservatives by a wafer-thin majority of 28 votes (0.4%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033724-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Devonport by-election, Result\nLockie was troubled by ill-health, and resigned less than two years later, in June 1904. He died in January 1906. In the following by-election the Liberal candidate re-took the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election\nThe Dewsbury by-election, 1902 was a by-election held in England on 28 January 1902 for the House of Commons constituency of Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), Mark Oldroyd. Oldroyd, a woollen manufacturer, had first been elected for Dewsbury at a by-election in 1888. In September 1901, Oldroyd announced his intention to stand down. In his letter of resignation, Oldroyd cited ill-health as the principal cause of his decision, stating that the coming session of Parliament, in what he called the 'extraordinary and complex state of politics' would require regular attendance and many late night sittings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Vacancy\nOldroyd had not been one of the most diligent of attenders in the House of Commons having many demands on his time as the head of a great manufacturing concern. Despite his cries of ill-health however, Oldroyd continued to run his giant business, (albeit scaling down his responsibilities as the years progressed), until he retired in as Chairman in 1920. He was knighted in 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Seat\nDewsbury was a safe Liberal seat. It had been Liberal since its creation in 1868, reflecting the predominantly urban and industrial nature of the constituency. Oldroyd had held the seat with over 50% of the poll at each election since his by-election win in 1888 and his majority over the Conservatives at the previous general election in 1900 was 2,148, having taken 60.8% of the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Labour\nA candidate dedicated to the Labour interest had contested Dewsbury only once since the seat's creation in 1868. In 1895, Edward Hartley stood for the Independent Labour Party, the ILP, coming third with just 10.5% of the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Labour\nHowever, by the time Oldroyd decided to resign, the Labour Representation Committee had been formed and Labour announced their intention to bring forward a candidate. Their possible candidates included Edward Hartley, Ben Turner from Batley, J A Parr, a Justice of the Peace also from Batley and Peter Francis Curran, a Glasgow-born trade union official from London, who was later Labour MP for Jarrow. The local Labour Party and affiliated trade unions found themselves in financial difficulty however and could not afford to run a candidate of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0004-0001", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Labour\nIt was reported that a journalist from London, the editor of the publication Justice, Harry Quelch, one of Britain's first Marxists, had arranged a well-attended public meeting in Dewsbury market-place. As a result, he was said to have gained the support of the Dewsbury working-men. Quelch was duly nominated as the candidate of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Labour\nIn early October 1901, the Press Association received a communication from the Parliamentary committee of the Trade Union Congress to the effect that Sam Woods, a leading light in the Miners Federation and Lib-Lab MP for Ince (1892\u201395) and for Walthamstow (1897\u20131900), had been approached unofficially to stand as Lib-Lab candidate in Dewsbury. Woods indicated he would be willing to do so if formally invited by the Liberals and the trades council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Labour\nOther sections of organised labour nevertheless kept up their search for a candidate and election funding for a while longer. A special meeting of the Dewsbury and District Labour council was held on 22 October 1901 and four men were invited to put their names forward to a joint conference of the Trades Council, the ILP and what was described as \"other progressive bodies\" with a view to the adoption of one of them as Trade Union and Socialist candidate at the by-election. The favoured men did not include Sam Woods and the Trades Unions obviously had a preference for the candidature of Edward Hartley. They called on the Labour Representation Committee to arbitrate with the SDF to secure a candidate whose nomination was agreed by the united forces of labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Labour\nIn the end it seems that both the ILP and the Labour Party were obliged to bow to the inevitable and support Quelch to avoid splitting the labour vote. The Labour Party were indignant enough to put out a statement calling it 'sharp practice' on the part of the SDF to go forward with Quelch's nomination without the consent of all the groups representing organised labour. It was disunity of this kind which the Labour Representation Committee had been formed to eliminate. Such disputes increasingly disappeared in the years leading up to the 1906 general election, reinforcing Labour as the growing force in British politics but in 1901\u201302 in Dewsbury there was not yet any such harmony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nThe first man the Conservative Party wished to consider was George Sheard, a Batley JP and one of the town's successful \"shoddy barons\" who headed his own cloth manufacturing firm. Mr Sheard had apparently been approached to stand as a Conservative candidate a number of times but had always declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nIf he turned them down again (as indeed he chose to do on the grounds of advancing age) they were likely to turn to either, Joe Haley, a three time Mayor of Dewsbury, Alderman Edmund Kilburn, JP who had also been Mayor of Dewsbury on two occasions, or, although not a local man, to Forbes St John Morrow, a barrister, the candidate opposing Oldroyd at the 1900 general election, and later to serve as Municipal Reform member on the London County Council between 1907\u20131922. Later, a new name was also put forward, that of Frank Whiteley. Whiteley had been mayor of Mafeking in South Africa during the famous Boer War siege.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nEventually however the Dewsbury Conservatives selected Joe Haley as their man. Haley was by profession a blanket and rug manufacturer with the firm of Hepworth and Haley of Dewsbury and Mirfield, one of the oldest such businesses in the area and one which employed several hundred workers. A former Mayor of the town, he had recently stepped down from being a member of the council. He formally accepted nomination as candidate in a letter to the president of Dewsbury Conservative and Unionist Association, Major Fox, on Christmas Day 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nWith Dewsbury being a hitherto safe Liberal seat, the likelihood was that the local party would be spoiled for choice for potential candidates. It was reported that a number of local worthies were in line for consideration including Mr E Talbot, a member of the local school board, Alderman J Anty of Batley (described as an extreme teetotaler), Mr G Thorpe a director of the Cooperative Wholesale Society, Mr J Brown a chemical manufacturer from Savile Town and Mr W Wilson JP, a card manufacturer from Mirfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0010-0001", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nSo the local Association clearly felt they should take their time before coming to a decision. On meeting in early October 1901 they confined themselves to passing a resolution thanking Oldroyd for past services and regretting his decision to resign. They did not seem to have been attracted to the idea of inviting Sam Woods to stand as a Lib-Lab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe ambitions of any local Liberals were soon scuppered also, as the Dewsbury Liberal Association turned its attentions to Walter Runciman, a businessman from Newcastle upon Tyne and had soon invited him to be their candidate. Runciman was the son of another Walter Runciman, a shipping magnate who would also go on to be a Liberal MP. Runciman had gone into the family shipping business and he had married into another industrial Liberal family, that of James Cochran Stevenson. He had been Liberal MP for Oldham, winning a by-election there in 1898 but lost the seat at the general election of 1900 being beaten by Winston Churchill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Campaign\nRunciman began his campaign with a public meeting in Dewsbury. While supporting the prosecution of the Boer War, he attacked the government's handling of it, accusing them of a policy of drift which could not deliver a decisive military victory, the foundation for a lasting peace. He also attacked the government on coal tax, sugar tax and the Agricultural Rates Act. He said that as government expenditure rose there was a danger that there might be a tax on wheat in the next budget. Finally, he declared himself as still being fully in favour of Irish home rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0012-0001", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Campaign\nAccording to reports, it seemed Runciman and his messages were being well received and that he had received the support of a number of local Labour leaders. As the campaign wore on, it was reported as a given that Runciman could count on the miners' vote and that of the Irish community, which taken together was estimated to be worth about 1500 votes; the executive committee of the local Irish community having formally voted to endorse Runciman. However, it was by no means certain that the miners would endorse the Liberal candidate. The previous Liberal MP had gone against the miners by opposing the eight-hour day, nationalisation and the abolition of fines, which he thought would lessen discipline in the industry and the local trades council refused to recommend any candidate to their members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Campaign\nThe Unionists did not open their campaign proper until January 1902, with Haley addressing meetings first in Dewsbury and then in other parts of the constituency. It was reported that they had held a large number of organisational meetings over the period since the announcement of Oldroyd's resignation and that, despite the large Liberal majority last time, they had a chance of capturing the seat. Haley sought to build on his reputation as a strong local candidate, a large employer of labour in the district who therefore knew the local economic and industrial conditions well. His hand-bills described him as 'home-made' as opposed to Runciman, who was called a 'carpet-bagger' and a 'stranger' to Dewsbury. He supported the war and his views on education and temperance were said to be going down well with his audiences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Campaign\nQuelch's supporters were initially quite buoyant. Their candidate had been on the ground in the constituency for longer than Runciman or Haley and they claimed he was gaining ground. By January however it was being reported that despite the vigour of the SDF campaign, their public meetings were not being well attended but by the middle of the month Quelch's events were attracting larger numbers, although it was believed they found his socialist views too advanced or extreme. In his election address Quelch proposed the nationalisation of the land and railways as well as the mines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0014-0001", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Campaign\nHe spoke in support of the Boers, opening himself to accusations of a lack of patriotism and fell out with the local nonconformists over a book he had jointly authored which was interpreted as advocating free love. It seemed too that SDF support was not widespread enough to enable them to undertake a full canvas of the constituency, with some districts being neglected entirely due to lack of manpower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0014-0002", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Campaign\nIt was clear that the history of disunity in the labour movement was preventing Quelch from making the impact he needed, the working class Irish vote was following the lead of its political organisers and supporting Runciman not Quelch and a lack of funds was making it difficult for him to campaign as extensively as he wanted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Election formalities\nThe Writ of election writ for the by-election was not moved in Parliament until Friday 17 January 1902 and formal nominations were received and accepted on 23 January. Polling took place on Tuesday 28 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Result\nThe result was a win for Runciman. This was a reduction in the Liberal majority from the general election of 1900 and on a higher turnout but that had not been a three-cornered contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Result\nAll parties could therefore take some comfort from the result. The Liberals had held the seat with an outside candidate at a time when the country was at war and with their traditional constituencies among the working class and the Irish being targeted by labour. The Conservatives, with a strong local candidate, had reduced the Liberal majority and secured more votes than they had ever previously done in Dewsbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033725-0017-0001", "contents": "1902 Dewsbury by-election, Result\nThe SDF had improved on the only previous labour candidacy in the seat at a time when the socialist political parties were disunited in the town and in spite of their candidate's radical opinions. Over the next few years the by-election record of the Conservative government would worsen considerably but for now and until the end of the Boer War was in sight, support for the government appeared to be holding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033726-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Dickinson football team\nThe 1902 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 114 to 73. Charles P. Hutchins was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033727-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Dominion Championship\nThe 1902 Dominion Championship was a Canadian football game that was played on November 15, 1902 at the Ottawa College Grounds in Ottawa, Ontario that determined the Senior Rugby Football champion of Canada for the 1902 season. The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) champion Ottawa Rough Riders defeated the Quebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) champion, and defending national champion, Ottawa College in a 5\u20130 victory to win their third Dominion Championship. This was a re-match of the 1898 Dominion Championship game which the Rough Riders also won on the Ottawa College Grounds. The Rough Riders made their third appearance in the title game, all within five years, and it was the seventh appearance for Ottawa College with their only losses in the game coming from the Rough Riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033727-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Dominion Championship, Background\nThis was the last national championship game to be played with 15 players for each team on the field as rule changes took place after this season, reducing that number to 14 in some unions and to 12 in others. It was also the last game to be played in just two halves and not four quarters. Rule changes to the game of rugby football became inconsistent between the ORFU, QRFU, and Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU) which led to disputes that ultimately resulted in the cancellation of future championship games until one was finally played again in 1905. The Rough Riders were favoured 2 to 1 to win the game, with even bets to double Ottawa College's score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033727-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Dominion Championship, Game summary\nThe Rough Riders won the toss and chose the north goal since there was a slight wind advantage playing from that side. Hal Walters opened the scoring after receiving a throw-in which he punted to touch-in-goal where he scored one point for the Rough Riders. This was the Rough Riders' first point to be scored in a first half all year, although the club had only played two other games, both against the Toronto Argonauts, due to the withdrawal of the Hamilton Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033727-0002-0001", "contents": "1902 Dominion Championship, Game summary\nLater in the first half, following a muffed punt return by Ottawa College's O'Brien, Walters received a pass from Jim McGee and was able to run over the goal line for a touchdown, making the score 5\u20130 in favour of the Rough Riders. The convert attempt failed, so the score total remained at five. In the second half, Ottawa College had the wind advantage, but the Rough Riders focused on retaining possession of the ball and College was unable to score. It was estimated that the Rough Riders had possession of the ball 80% of the time while Hal Walters himself had the ball 60% of the time. The strategy by the Rough Riders proved successful as they maintained their lead and won their third Canadian Dominion Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033728-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1902 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach G. O. Dietz, the team compiled a 5\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 127 to 23. Left end \"Squatty\" Bates was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033729-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1902 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033730-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Dublin Corporation election\nAn election to Dublin Corporation took place in March 1902 as part of that year's Irish local elections. The election saw a small decline in Labour representation, whilst the Nationalists continued their dominance of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033730-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Dublin Corporation election\nSince the last election the rifts between the United Irish League and the Irish National League had been healed, with the two groups reuniting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033731-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Dublin County Council election\nThe 1902 Dublin County Council election was held on 26 May 1902. Only four electoral divisions saw contests. The divisions of Lucan, Pembroke West, Rathfarnham, and Rathmines East had initially been expected to also see contests, however due to candidates withdrawing these divisions went without contests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033732-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 East Florida Seminary football team\nThe 1902 East Florida Seminary football team represented the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, Florida in the sport of American football during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033732-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 East Florida Seminary football team\nThe season consisted of a two-game series with Stetson College, which had fielded one of the first intercollegiate football teams in Florida the previous year. The teams split the games, but the East Florida Seminary claimed a state championship because they scored more points in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033732-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 East Florida Seminary football team, Background\nThe school had been established in 1853 and moved to Gainesville in 1866.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033732-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 East Florida Seminary football team, Background\nFootball squads from the East Florida Seminary played a limited slate of games starting in 1902 until 1904. In 1905, the school was consolidated along with Florida Agricultural College in Ocala along with two smaller schools to form the modern University of Florida per the Buckman Act. The new institution established its own football program in 1906, and the university does not include games played by its various predecessor institutions in its athletic records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033733-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 East Worcestershire by-election\nThe East Worcestershire by-election, 1902 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of East Worcestershire on 15 August 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033733-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 East Worcestershire by-election, Vacancy\nUnder the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The by-election in East Worcestershire was caused by the appointment on 8 August 1902 of the sitting Liberal Unionist MP, Austen Chamberlain as Postmaster General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033733-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 East Worcestershire by-election, Candidates\nChamberlain, who had held the seat since being returned unopposed at a by-election on 30 March 1892 was selected to defend his seat in the Liberal Unionist interest. The Liberal Party in the constituency had not been active for some years at Parliamentary level. Chamberlain had not been opposed at the general elections of 1895 or 1900. The Liberals had no candidate in the field and it was not expected that any other hopefuls would enter the fray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033733-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 East Worcestershire by-election, The result\nThere being no other nominations, Chamberlain was therefore returned unopposed on 15 August 1902. The nomination took place at Bromsgrove Town Hall with Chamberlain present, and after the election he addressed the assembled crowd, thanking them for confidence and support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033734-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1902 municipal election was held December 8, 1902 for the purpose of electing a mayor and three aldermen to sit on the Edmonton Town Council, as well as five public school trustees and five separate school trustees. There were six aldermanic positions on the council at the time, but three of them were already filled: Cornelius Gallagher, Edmund Grierson, and Phillip Heiminck had been elected for two-year terms in 1901, and were still in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033734-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nVoter turnout figures for the 1902 municipal election are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033734-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nH A Gray, Robert Lee, Kenneth McLeod, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033734-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nNicolas Dubois Dominic Beck, H Morel, Joseph Henri Picard, J Pomerleau, and Antonio Prince were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033735-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 English cricket season\n1902 was the 13th season of County Championship cricket in England. Australia had won a classic Test series against England 2\u20131. The first two Tests were rained off but the final three were full of drama. Victor Trumper scored a century before lunch in the third Test, Australia won the fourth by just 3 runs and England won the fifth by one wicket following a century in 75 minutes by Gilbert Jessop. It was the 21st series between the two teams. Yorkshire won their third consecutive County Championship title and, as in 1901, went through the season with only one defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033735-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 English cricket season, County Championship, Final table\nThe final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033735-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 English cricket season, Ashes tour\nIn the 1967 Wisden Cricketer's Almanack, A. A. Thomson described this series as \"a rubber more exciting than any in history except the Australia v West Indies series in 1960\u201361\". This description came despite the fact that Australia had secured the series after four of five matches, leading 2\u20130 before the final Test; the first two matches had been drawn due to rain, with the second match at Lord's yielding only 38 overs in three days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033735-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 English cricket season, Ashes tour\nThe third Test, the only one ever to be played at Bramall Lane, saw Australia win by 143 runs, following a brilliant century by Victor Trumper before lunch on the first day. In the fourth Test Australia won by three runs, despite 11 wickets from recalled bowler Bill Lockwood. It came down to Fred Tate and Wilfred Rhodes needing to hit eight runs. Tate hit a four, but was bowled by Jack Saunders with the fourth ball of his over. England came back to win the final Test, conceding a first-innings deficit of 141, then going to 48 for five needing 263 to win, before Gilbert Jessop hit a hundred in 75 minutes and England won by one wicket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033735-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 English cricket season, Ashes tour\nTrumper made a great impression on those who saw him bat. Harry Altham wrote: \"From start to finish of the season, on every sort of wicket, against every sort of bowling, Trumper entranced the eye, inspired his side, demoralized his enemies, and made run-getting appear the easiest thing in the world.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033736-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1902 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Rhine on a day in the latter part of August. Generally referred to as being held in Strasbourg, the International Rowing Federation website implies that the championships were based in Kehl on the opposite side of the Rhine to Strasbourg. Either way, both towns were at the time part of the German Empire. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final\nThe 1902 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Sheffield United and Southampton on Saturday, 19 April 1902 at the Crystal Palace stadium in south London. It was the final match of the 1901\u201302 FA Cup, the 31st edition of the world's oldest football knockout competition, and England's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final\nSheffield United were appearing in their third final and Southampton in their second \u2013 Sheffield United won the cup in 1899 and were runners-up in 1901; Southampton were runners-up in 1900. Both teams joined the competition in the first round proper and progressed through four rounds to the final. As a member of the Football League First Division, Sheffield United were exempt from the competition's qualifying phase. Southampton, as a member of the Southern League would normally have been required to pre-qualify but, as champions of the Southern League in 1900\u201301, they were given byes through the qualifying phase to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final\nThe final was watched by a crowd of 74,479 and ended in a 1\u20131 draw. The goalscorers were Alf Common for Sheffield United and, in controversial circumstances, Harry Wood for Southampton. A replay was held a week later on 26 April, also at the Crystal Palace stadium, but before a much-reduced crowd of 33,068. Sheffield United won 2\u20131 with goals by George Hedley and Billy Barnes against one by Albert Brown for Southampton. Sheffield United won the cup again in 1915 and 1925. Southampton, whose appearance in the 1902 final was the last by a team from outside The Football League, won the cup in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Background\nThe FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football. The competition was first proposed on 20 July 1871 by C. W. Alcock at a meeting of The Football Association committee. The tournament was first played in the 1871\u201372 season and is the world's oldest association football competition. The 1902 match between Sheffield United and Southampton at Crystal Palace was the 31st final and the second of the 20th century. Sheffield United were appearing in the final for the third time, having defeated Derby County 4\u20131 in 1899 and lost 1\u20133 to Tottenham Hotspur in the 1901 replay. Southampton were making their second appearance after losing 0\u20134 to Bury in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Background\nSheffield United were members of the Football League First Division and, in the 1901\u201302 league championship, amassed 33 points to finish in 10th position, only three points clear of the relegation placings. Southampton were the reigning Southern League champions, but they slipped to third place in the 1901\u201302 championship, five points behind new champions Portsmouth. Southern League teams normally had to qualify for the first round proper of the FA Cup but, as champions, Southampton were exempted from pre-qualification and were given byes to the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Background\nSheffield United's team between 1889 and 1932 was selected by a committee but with the club secretary in charge of the team on match days. In 1902, this was John Nicholson. Southampton's club secretary Ernest Arnfield took charge of their team on match days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United\nSheffield United entered the competition in the first round proper and played seven matches, including three replays, en route to the final. They played against three teams from the First Division and one from the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nIn the first round, they were drawn away on Saturday, 25 January to the Southern League's Northampton Town, and won 2\u20130. The goals were scored by Walter Bennett and Alf Common.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nSheffield were drawn at home in the second round against First Division Bolton Wanderers. The match was played at Bramall Lane on Saturday, 8 February and Sheffield won 2\u20131. The Sheffield goalscorers were Bennett and Fred Priest. James McKee scored for Bolton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nSheffield faced First Division opposition again in the third round (the quarter-final stage) having been drawn away to Newcastle United. This tie went to a replay after a 1\u20131 draw at St James' Park on Saturday, 22 February. In its report of the third round matches, The Times mentioned that Newcastle had beaten the league-leaders Sunderland and so were confident of success against Sheffield. However, as the report says, Sheffield United had a \"reputation as keen fighters in cup ties\". Sheffield led 1\u20130 at half-time and The Times says \"Newcastle only managed to draw the match after a great struggle\". Sheffield's goal was scored by Priest. The Newcastle equaliser was scored by Willie Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Early rounds\nFive days later, Sheffield won 2\u20131 in the replay at Bramall Lane. Their goalscorers were Ernest Needham and Common. R. S. McColl scored for Newcastle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 69], "content_span": [70, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 15 March, and Sheffield United were drawn to play Derby County at The Hawthorns in West Bromwich. The result was a 1\u20131 draw before a crowd of 33,603. The Times report says that Derby were the better team and \"deserved to win\". After Derby took an early lead through Ben Warren, Sheffield's second-half equaliser was scored against the run of play by George Hedley after a mistake by the Derby goalkeeper, Jack Fryer, and The Times says this cost Derby a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nThe replay was arranged for Thursday, 20 March at Molineux in Wolverhampton and this also ended 1\u20131, watched by 13,284. In a brief report, The Times mentioned that the weather was \"squally\" and conditions were therefore difficult. The match went to extra time and the goalscorers were Priest for Sheffield and Dick Wombwell for Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Sheffield United, Semi-final\nA second replay was necessary and was played a week later on Thursday, 27 March, at the City Ground in Nottingham. The crowd figure was about 15,000. This time the deadlock was broken. Priest scored the only goal of the game after Derby had missed a penalty and Sheffield United won 1\u20130 to reach their third final in four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 67], "content_span": [68, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton\nLike Sheffield United, Southampton entered the competition in the first round proper and played six matches, including two replays, en route to the final. They played against three teams from the First Division and one from the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 50], "content_span": [51, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nIn the first round, Southampton were drawn away to their Southern League rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, who were the FA Cup-holders. The match was played at White Hart Lane on Saturday, 25 January before a crowd of 20,000 and ended in a 1\u20131 draw. The goals were scored by David Copeland for Tottenham and Tommy Bowman for Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nThe replay at The Dell was played on Wednesday, 29 January. The crowd was 10,000 and the match ended in another draw, this time 2\u20132. Extra time was played but without any change in the score and a second replay was necessary. The Tottenham goals were both scored by Ted Hughes and Southampton's scorers were Edgar Chadwick and Joe Turner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nThe second replay was played on a neutral venue at Elm Park, the home of Reading FC, on Monday, 3 February, in front of a crowd of only 6,000. The pitch was icy and covered in snow, so much so that the touchlines had to be painted blue, and the match kicked off with snow still falling. As in their first two meetings, the teams were very evenly matched and the tie was eventually decided by a mistake. The score at half-time was 0\u20130 but then Tottenham took the lead with a goal by Jack Kirwan. Southampton equalised very quickly with a goal by Archie Turner and then, when it looked as if the match would end in another draw, Tottenham's Sandy Tait made a poor backpass to his goalkeeper Fred Griffiths. It was intercepted by Albert Brown who rounded Griffiths to score the winning goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0018-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nIn the second round on Saturday, 8 February, Southampton were drawn at home against the reigning Football League champions Liverpool, who had dropped into a mid-table position in the First Division. According to the Southampton trainer Bill Dawson, the match was \"the finest exhibition of football put up by (Southampton)\". Southampton won 4\u20131 with goals from Archie Turner (2), Joe Turner and Bert Lee. Liverpool's goal was scored by George Fleming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0019-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nSouthampton then faced First Division Bury at Gigg Lane in the third round on Saturday, 22 February. Bury had outplayed Southampton in the 1900 FA Cup Final, winning 4\u20130, so Southampton wanted to redress the balance somewhat. In a match that Collett, Chalk and Holley have described as a \"real thriller\", Southampton took a measure of revenge by winning 3\u20132. As described in Chalk and Holley's account, the match was all square at 2\u20132 with goals by Harry Wood and Joe Turner matching those by George Ross and Charlie Sagar for the home side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0019-0001", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Early rounds\nInjuries to the two Southampton goalscorers had reduced them to nine players and the team were defending \"desperately\" to hang on for a replay. After a spell of seven successive corners for Bury, Albert Brown broke up the pitch with most of the Bury players in the Southampton half. After sprinting the full length of the pitch, Brown unleashed a shot that hit the crossbar and rebounded over his head. Edgar Chadwick was following up and trapped the ball, feinted to go past the goalkeeper and, as the match report says, \"coolly slotted the ball in the other corner\" to secure victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0020-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Semi-final\nIn the semi-final on Saturday, 15 March, Southampton returned to White Hart Lane, this time a neutral venue, to play First Division Nottingham Forest and won 3\u20131 after extra time. The score was 1\u20131 at the end of normal time after goals by Chadwick for Southampton and John Calvey for Forest. In extra time, Albert Brown scored twice, once from the penalty spot and then, in the final minute, with what the match report called \"a wonderful goal with a screw shot from an oblique angle\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0021-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Southampton, Semi-final\nSouthampton were now in the final for the second time in three years and it was the third season in succession that a Southern League team had reached the final. Meanwhile, with Sheffield United needing two replays to settle their semi-final against Derby County, Southampton sought an advantage by sending Harry Wood to the City Ground in Nottingham so that he could \"spy\" on them in their second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 62], "content_span": [63, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0022-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nIn the build up to the final, Sheffield United's captain Ernie \"Nudger\" Needham, vowed to make amends for their defeat by Tottenham in the 1901 final, declaring that his team \"had let the north down\". Needham, an England international, had written Association Football, published in 1901. It was an instruction book on football tactics which The Outlook described as \"a valuable book by a practical expert\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0023-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nFor extra preparation, Southampton's players went to nearby Chilworth and stayed at the Clump Inn which had useful training facilities. They had doubts about the fitness of both goalkeeper Jack Robinson, who had caught a chill at the training camp, and defender C. B. Fry, who had been injured, but both were declared fit to play. In the early years of the FA Cup, only amateur players could take part but professionalism now dominated to the extent that Fry, also an England international cricketer, was the first amateur to play in the final since 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0024-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, First match\nThe first match was played at Crystal Palace on Saturday, 19 April before a crowd of 74,479. The weather was cloudy but dry with a moderate wind. Many fans tried to get a better view of the match by climbing the surrounding trees which, according to David Bull and Bob Brunskell, \"shook as though whipped by a gale, denoting the enthusiasm of adventurous individuals who were in their branches\". There was clash of kit as both teams normally played in red and white stripes. It was agreed that Southampton would wear their normal kit and Sheffield United wore white shirts with dark shorts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0025-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, First match\nNo goals were scored in the first half. Sheffield United took the lead early in the second half with a goal by Alf Common. They appeared to be on their way to victory when, with two minutes to play, Southampton's captain Harry Wood equalised. Wood had been in an offside position tying up his bootlaces when the ball reached him. After consultation between the referee and his linesmen, the officials decided that the ball had struck a United defender, thus playing Wood onside. No extra time was played and the result was a 1\u20131 draw, necessitating a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0026-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, First match\nAt the end of the game United's goalkeeper, William \"Fatty\" Foulke, protested to the officials that the equalising goal should not have been allowed. Foulke, who was reputed to weigh more than 20 stone (280 pounds; or 127 kg), left his dressing room unclothed and angrily pursued the referee, Tom Kirkham, who took refuge in a broom cupboard. Foulke had to be stopped by a group of FA officials from wrenching the cupboard door off its hinges to reach the hapless referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0027-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, First match\nThe Times criticised the teams for persistent foul play and named Southampton as the worst offenders, calling them the \"chief delinquents\". The match was ruined by frequent stoppages for free kicks. The reporter said of the controversial equaliser that it was \"a doubtful goal\". The reporter praised the Sheffield defence, especially the three half-backs and Needham in particular. Sheffield were handicapped by injuries to their right-side forwards, Walter Bennett and Alf Common, but the half-backs raised their games and took on the extra work needed while, as directed by Needham, most of Sheffield's attacks were from left-side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0028-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, Replay\nThe replay took place a week later on 26 April, again at Crystal Palace. On a bitterly cold and windy day, the crowd was 33,068, less than half the number who had watched the first match. As Southampton had worn red and white stripes in the first match, this time they swapped to white shirts with Sheffield in their normal stripes. Southampton fielded an unchanged team; Sheffield had to replace Walter Bennett, who had an ankle injury, with Billy Barnes. Barnes played at inside right and Alf Common moved to Bennett's right wing position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0029-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, Replay\nTwo minutes into the game, Southampton goalkeeper Robinson stumbled when trying to intercept a cross by Bert Lipsham, allowing George Hedley to score the opening goal for Sheffield. Playing against the wind, Southampton pressed for an equaliser and Foulke was kept busy throughout the rest of the first half but Southampton wasted their chances. According to The Times, \"Boyle and Needham were very good\" for Sheffield, while Common was always a danger when running down the right wing. Sheffield maintained their lead until half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0030-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, Replay\nSouthampton hoped to do better in the second half with the wind behind them but, as before, they wasted chances and were unable to overcome the Sheffield half-backs. Eventually, however, Albert Brown equalised after 70 minutes with a shot from a pass by Chadwick. The Times says that Southampton then had the upper hand for several minutes and \"should have scored\" again. Foulke had to make saves from Chadwick, Wood and Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0030-0001", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Match, Replay\nIt looked as though the match was going into extra time, when, with ten minutes remaining, Robinson failed to cut out a cross from Common and Barnes was left with an unguarded net to score the winner for Sheffield. Southampton had a chance to equalise in the final minute, but Fry kicked the ball high over the crossbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0031-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nThe trophy was presented to Ernie Needham by Lady Beatrice Villiers, who was accompanied by her father Lord Jersey. The Times said of the replay that it had been a good, hard game and without the \"foul work\" that had ruined the original match. In the reporter's opinion, the replay was \"one of the best finals seen for some years\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0032-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nSheffield United have made three further FA Cup final appearances. They won in both 1915 against Chelsea and 1925 against Cardiff City, but lost to Arsenal in 1936. Southampton have played in two more finals. They won the cup in 1976 when they defeated Manchester United, but lost to Arsenal in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033737-0033-0000", "contents": "1902 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nSouthampton were the third Southern League team in succession to reach the FA Cup final, following themselves in 1900 and Tottenham in 1901. They remain the last team from outside the Football League to reach the final. Southern League teams began joining the Football League in the 1900s \u2013 Tottenham's application was accepted in 1908 and Southampton, along with several other clubs, joined in 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033738-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida Agricultural College football team\nThe 1902 Florida Agricultural College football team represented the Florida Agricultural College in the sport of American football during the 1902 college football season. This was not the modern Florida Gators of the University of Florida in Gainesville, which begins in 1906, but one of its four predecessor institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team\nThe 1902 Florida State College football team represented Florida State College in the sport of American football during the 1902 college football season. The team was the first intercollegiate football squad to represent Florida State University and was led by head coach W. W. Hughes. The team posted a 2\u20131 record and won the State Championship. With no formal nickname or mascot, the Florida State College football team was known simply as e. g. the \"Florida State College Eleven\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Before the season, Uniforms\nThe Florida State players wore gold uniforms with a large purple F on the front. Their pants were lightly padded, but their upper bodies were largely unprotected. Leather helmets with ear guards covered their heads, and shoehorn-shaped metal nose guards were strapped across their faces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 1: Bainbridge Giants\nThe red and white clad Bainbridge Giants arrived by train, and they reportedly hoped to \"hammer the life\" out of Florida State. The Giants were \"much heavier\" than Florida State and had four football veterans from the University of Georgia, as well as one University of Virginia alumnus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 1: Bainbridge Giants\nThe two teams trotted onto the field at 3:30\u00a0p.m. According to a reporter from the Weekly Tallahasseean, Florida State moved the ball quickly into Giant territory. After several \"buck runs\" Florida State was \"within six inches of Georgia's goal.\" The Giants held Florida State for two downs, but on the third Buchholz \"barely pushed through Georgia's right tackle for a touchdown.\" Provence attempted an extra-point kick, but it failed. After sixteen minutes of action, Florida State led 5-0. Before the ball again was \"advanced any great distance by either side,\" the first half ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 1: Bainbridge Giants\nMcCord, of Florida State, kicked off the second half sending \"the pigskin spinning to Georgia's twenty yard line.\" Bainbridge did not advance the ball, and Florida State took possession at mid-field. After several \"line bucks,\" Florida State was at the Giant's twenty-yard line. There, Florida State turned the ball over on downs, and Bainbridge started marching up the field. Jacques, the Giant's right halfback, made a twenty-yard end run, the teams \"only long gain of the game.\" With Bainbridge on Florida State's fifteen yard line, \"things began to look black for Florida State.\" But, \"the Florida State line held firm\" and the Giant's field goal attempt \"was foiled.\" Following Bainbridge's failed offensive, \"the whistle was blown\" and the game ended. Florida State had defeated the Bainbridge Giants 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 2: Florida Agricultural College\nOn December 12, Florida State met Florida Agricultural College on a rain-soaked field in Tallahassee. FAC kicked off into the \"wind and rain.\" Florida State moved forward, but the ball \"was forcibly taken from left halfback Williams arms by one of the Florida players.\" Florida quickly fumbled the ball, and \"Williams, of Florida State dropped on it.\" Florida State tried to advance, but Florida \"woke up and got into the game\" by pushing Florida State back. After several possession changes, FAC made some \"end runs\" putting them on the Florida State four-yard line. FAC then \"pushed over the goal line for a touchdown,\" but the extra-point attempt was a \"miserable failure.\" At the end of the first half, FAC led Florida State 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 94], "content_span": [95, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 2: Florida Agricultural College\nDuring the second half FAC players \"seemed to be getting tired,\" reported the Weekly Tallahasseean, while the Florida State players \"were still fresh.\" The FAC players began \"slugging\" the Florida State players. The \"dirty work\" started when Taylor, Florida's quarterback, struck Florida State's right end J.T. Howard \"in the temple and was promptly disqualified.\" FAC also suffered a five-yard penalty. Florida State pushed forward, Murray \"took twenty yards around the right end,\" and Buchholz \"went through the center for five yards.\" With the ball on FAC's sixteen-yard line, FAC was penalized for improper formation and lost five yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 94], "content_span": [95, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 2: Florida Agricultural College\nThen Clark, Florida State's quarterback, \"called his off-side trick play.\" FAC was \"caught napping\" and lost another five yards. FAC immediately protested, but the referee would not relent. In response, the FAC players \"held a caucus\" and decided \"to leave the field.\" The officials asked the Florida players to return to the field, but it \"refused to do so.\" The referee revoked FAC's touchdown and gave it to Florida State. The game was forfeited in favor of Florida State 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 94], "content_span": [95, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 3: Florida Agricultural College\nThe Florida State and Florida Agricultural teams met again at the Baseball Park in Lake City on December 20. The game started at 3:00\u00a0p.m. \"Although it was hotly contested from the first,\" the Lake City newspaper stated, \"it was plain that the local team was stronger.\" FAC's C.H. Maguire ran twenty yards for a touchdown, and the extra point conversion was successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 94], "content_span": [95, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 3: Florida Agricultural College\n\"The second half was more or less a rendition of the first,\" according to the Weekly Tallahasseean, and the game \"resulted rather disastrously\" for Florida State with a 6-0 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 94], "content_span": [95, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033739-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Florida State College football team, Roster\nThe original line-up played the entire game, both offense and defense. Substitutes replaced injured players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033740-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Franklin & Marshall football team\nThe 1902 Franklin & Marshall football team was an American football team that represented Franklin & Marshall College during the 1902 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 282 to 54. John Chalmers was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033741-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 French legislative election\nThe 1902 general election was held on 27 April and 11 May 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033741-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 French legislative election\nThese elections were a victory for the Bloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left wing of the Republicans, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, the progressistes. The Bloc des gauches had been brought together to support the \"Republican Defense Cabinet\" (gouvernement de d\u00e9fense r\u00e9publicaine) formed by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected president, \u00c9mile Loubet, on the Longchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during the Dreyfus affair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033741-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 French legislative election\nHowever, Waldeck-Rousseau's own supporters (the ARD) took few seats in the election compared to the Radicals and Socialists. After the election, President Loubet invited the Radical \u00c9mile Combes to form a government, which lasted until January 1905, when the Socialists withdrew from the Bloc des gauches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033742-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Furman Purple Hurricane football team\nThe 1902 Furman Purple Hurricane football team represented Furman University during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Atlanta Constitution rated fullback A. T. Sublett All-Southern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033743-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Geelong Football Club season\nThe 1902 VFL season was the Geelong Football Club's sixth season in the Victorian Football League and its second with Henry Young as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033743-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Geelong Football Club season\nGeelong finished the home-and-away with 7 wins and 10 losses, finishing in seventh position. Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033743-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Geelong Football Club season, Playing List\n3 players played in all 17 games, and a total of 41 players were used. 17 of those 41 players made their VFL debuts and a further 2 made their Geelong debut, Jim Beasley from Essendon and Tom McLean from Collingwood. 5 players reached the 50 game milestone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033743-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Geelong Football Club season, Season summary\nIn a generally poor season, Geelong finished the home-and-away season with 7 wins and 10 losses. After a decent start with a 4 win and 2 loss record, Geelong's lackluster form led to a poor placement of 7th position. Therefore, Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033744-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Geneva Covenanters football team\nhe 1902 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Samuel G. Craig, the team compiled a record of 7\u20130, achieving Geneva's first undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033745-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1902 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record, including victories over Auburn and Alabama and a 0\u20130 tie with Georgia Tech. The losses included Georgia's fourth consecutive loss to Sewanee. This was the team's second and final season under the guidance of head coach William A. Reynolds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Before the season\nFrank M. Ridley was captain-elect, Georgia's first two-time captain. He was moved to end from the backfield. One account of Ridley reads \"Ridley's first year on the team he played this position so well that Coach Heisman named his as the All-Southern end. He is quick and active and never hesitates to tackle a man, seldom being blocked.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Furman\nTo open the season, Georgia beat Furman 11\u20130. The game's highlight was an end run for touchdown from Harman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech\nGeorgia came in as 6\u20131 favorites to in-state rival Georgia Tech, and were held to a 0\u20130 tie. \"It's the worst game we have ever played.\" said captain Ridley. The starting lineup was Bower (left end), Willingham (left tackle), Beaver (left guard), Ketron (center), Nix (right guard), Smith (right tackle), Baxter (right end), Harman (quarterback), Dickinson (left halfback), Ridley (right halfback), Turner (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nAlabama was shutout 5\u20130 at Birmingham. Marvin D. Dickinson scored the only touchdown of the game for Georgia in the second half. Alabama was trying to tie up the game late, but time expired as the Tide reached the Georgia twelve-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nThe starting lineup was Bower (left end), McIntosh (left tackle), Beaver (left guard), Ketron (center), Willingham (right guard), Smith (right tackle), Baxter (right end), Harman (quarterback), Dickinson (left halfback), Ridley (right halfback), Turner (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nOn November 8, Georgia lost to SIAA champion Clemson by a score of 36\u20130. Despite the score, one writer called it \"the hardest fought football game ever seen here.\" Frank McIntyre, Harman, and Smith all had to be carried off the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nThe starting lineup was Baxter (left end), McIntosh (left tackle), Beaver (left guard), Ketron (center), Willingham (right guard), Smith (right tackle), Ridley (right end), Harman (quarterback), Allen (left halfback), Dickinson (right halfback), Turner (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nGeorgia upset Auburn 12\u20135. The same night, Rufus Nalley, great former Georgia star, died. Having learned of Georgia's victory; \"He died with a smile on his lips\", reported his brother.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033746-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Postseason\nRidley was selected an All-Southern along with teammates Harold Ketron and Sandy Beaver,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033747-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1902 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Jesse Thrash was the school's first All-Southern player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado\nThe 1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado was a F4 tornado that struck the town of Goliad, Texas, on Sunday, May 18, 1902. A total of 114 people died, 250 were injured, and $125,000 damage occurred. Inflation adjusted puts it at $3.4 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Storm development and track\nDuring May 17 to 19, thunderstorms occurred from the lower Missouri Valley to Texas. On the 18th at 12:15pm, the Galveston weather office issued a special warning of \"Squalls, with brisk and occasionally high winds are indicated for the west gulf this afternoon and to-night.\" That afternoon, Beeville, which is 30 miles to the southwest of Goliad, had considerable damage by high winds. The tornado is believed to have first touched down near Berclair, about 15 miles southwest of Goliad, and moved toward the northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Storm development and track\nThe tornado was on the south side of town, across the San Antonio River about 3:35\u00a0p.m. It continued traveling northeast and wrecked the steel bridge across the river at San Patricio Street. The tornado then destroyed the filled Fannin Street Methodist Church at Mt. Auburn Street, killing about 50 people. It went on to destroy the brick factory. Witness Browne reported it sounded like a \"million-ton [train] engine\". The tornado was a couple of blocks wide when it moved up the west side of town destroying more homes, businesses and churches. The tornado path was 1/8 to 1/2 mile wide and traveled for about a mile. Reports say the tornado lasted only 5 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Aftermath\nWithin a few hours, 85 people were reported dead and 29 more over the next several days. Across the city, 150 homes, 100 businesses, a Baptist church and parsonage, a black Methodist church, a white Methodist church, and the second story of the county courthouse were destroyed. At least 50\u00a0people were in the black church, none survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Aftermath\nDr. Louis Warren Chilton, a young doctor whose wife was injured and whose daughter was lifted in the tornado funnel but survived, set up a temporary hospital and morgue in the first floor of the county courthouse. The Dr. L.W. and Martha E.S. Chilton House was built starting in June and included an underground shelter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Aftermath\nAfter the tornado, several dozen were buried in a communal grave along the eastern border of Lott Cemetery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Aftermath\nAt the time, it was the fourth deadliest tornado in the United States and the worst in Texas history. The Waco tornado of May 11, 1953 tied as the deadliest in Texas history and is now eleventh overall in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Further reading\nTornado Victims of the Goliad Tornado of 1902, Victoria \u2013 Crossroads of South Texas Quarterly XXIII, no. 2 (2002) by Karen E. Fritz", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033748-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado, Further reading\nThe 1902 Goliad Tornado: A Remembrance of Horror by Kenneth Carter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally titled the III Coupe Internationale, was a motor race held on 26\u201328 June 1902, on public roads between Paris, France, and Innsbruck, Austria. The race was held over a 565\u00a0km section of the route of the Paris-Vienna race, held concurrently. France were to attempt to defend the Gordon Bennett Cup against Britain, and each country was represented by three entries, with the car that finished the race in the shortest time winning the race on behalf of his country. Selwyn Edge driving a Napier, and representing the Automobile Club of Britain and Ireland, was the only competitor to finish the race and so Britain were the winners of the Gordon Bennett Cup and would be required to defend it in Britain the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe first day of the race saw three of the six competitors retire from the race; two French drivers and one Briton. The only remaining French driver, Rene de Knyff led the race by over an hour from Edge, with the other British driver Montague Grahame-White over five hours behind. The second day took the competitors through Switzerland, where motor racing was banned, and so this was deemed a neutralised section with cars required to adhere to a speed limit of 15\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe third and final day of the race for the Gordon Bennett Cup began at Bregenz and ran to Innsbruck in Austria. The route took the competitors over the Arlberg Pass, and this section of the route caused de Knyff's differential to break and Grahame-White's crankshaft to fail, forcing them both to retire and leaving Edge as the only competitor remaining in the race. Edge reached Innsbruck to claim victory for Britain, in a time of just over 11 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nThe Gordon Bennett races had been established by American millionaire James Gordon Bennett, Jr. in 1900, with the intention of encouraging automobile industries through sport. Both the inaugural event and the previous event in 1901 had been won by representatives of the Automobile Club de France (ACF). Under the rules of the competition, the following race was required to be held in the country that currently held the cup, meaning that for the third year in succession, France would host the Gordon Bennett cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nHowever, following another race held later in 1901, the Paris-Berlin city-to-city race, in which a young boy had been killed after being struck by a competitor when he stepped into the road, the French government passed a law to ban motor racing. Some negotiations were required between representatives of the French automobile industry and the French government before the law was repealed and racing could proceed. An agreement was also required with the authorities in Switzerland, where racing was also banned. It was agreed that the section of the race through Switzerland would be neutralised, and cars would be given a minimum time to complete the journey which would be achievable without exceeding any speed limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Background\nThe various automobile clubs eligible to challenge for the Gordon Bennett Cup were required to register their intention to participate with the ACF by January 1, 1902. Only the Automobile Club of Britain and Ireland registered to compete for the cup, meaning that as in 1901, France would defend the Cup against the British.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Route\nThe race was held concurrently with the Paris-Vienna city-to-city race, a race scheduled to take place over 990\u00a0km. The Gordon-Bennett Cup rules required a distance of between 550 and 650\u00a0km, and the organisers decided to run the Cup race over 565\u00a0km of the Paris-Vienna route, starting from Paris and finishing at Innsbruck in Austria. The route to be taken also featured a 312\u00a0km neutralised section to take the competitors through Switzerland, where racing was banned, which was not counted as part of the overall race distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Route\nThe course was split into three sections, each to be run on consecutive days. The first section began in Champigny-sur-Marne, a commune in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, before proceeding south-easterly through the towns of Nangis, Troyes, Langres, and coming to an end at Belfort, a distance of 375\u00a0km. The 312\u00a0km neutralised stage through Switzerland comprised the second section, beginning at Belfort before crossing over the Swiss border and traveling east through Basel and Zurich. The route then crossed the border with Austria and continued 12 miles to the rest town of Bregenz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Route\nThe third section was 190\u00a0km long, beginning at Bregenz and initially running south along the border. It then proceeded easterly through the Arlberg mountain range, which required the competitors to negotiate the climb and descent of the Arlberg pass, a section of road that at its peak was nearly 5,000\u00a0ft above sea level. From here the route continued east through the town of Telfs before reaching the finish for the Gordon-Bennett section of the race at Innsbruck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nEach country was limited to three entries under the rules. Both France and Britain elected to enter a full complement of cars for the race, meaning there would be six entries for the Gordon Bennett Cup, amongst the 219 cars entered for the Paris-Vienna race. France elected to enter L\u00e9once Girardot, the winner of the 1901 Gordon Bennett Cup, who ran a car bearing his name, a Charron-Girardot-Voigt. Fournier ran a Mors and de Knyff a Panhard. The French had elected to make their selections on merit, rather than running any qualifying event. The three British entries were Selwyn Francis Edge driving a Napier and two Wolseley cars driven by Montague Grahame-White and Arthur Callan. Each of the drivers was accompanied by a riding mechanic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nNew regulations came into force for the race, with a maximum weight limit of 1,000 kilograms (2,205\u00a0lb) imposed on each car, plus an extra 7 kilograms (15\u00a0lb) if a magneto was fitted to the car. The three French manufacturers opted to modify an earlier version of their car in order to meet the weight limit. Napier constructed an entirely new car, designed from the outset to meet the weight limit. This different approach contributed to the Napier weighing 933 kilograms (2,057\u00a0lb), with full tanks of fuel compared to the French cars which were on the limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Entries and cars\nAs part of the negotiations between the French government and ACF with regard to lifting the ban on racing, it was agreed to promote using alcohol, of which there was an oversupply at the time, as a fuel during the Paris-Vienna race. de Knyff's Panhard was the only one of the Gordon-Bennett entries that chose to run on alcohol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nCars were dispatched at two-minute intervals, beginning at 3:30am, from the start line in Champigny-sur-Marne on the outskirts of Paris. The Gordon Bennett entrants were scheduled to start ahead of the other Paris-Vienna entries. First to start was last years winner Giradot on his CGV. He was followed by Fournier on his Mors. Edge had problems with his Napier's gearbox en route to the race, and was required to make a further repair to it just before the race, to correct a mistake made during a previous repair. Despite this, he was ready in time to take the start next.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0009-0001", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nNext away was de Knyff of Panhard, who would be the last of the Gordon Bennett racers to depart before the rest of the Paris-Vienna competitors. The crankshaft on Grahame-White's Wolseley broke on the approach to the start line, and he spent over five hours repairing it before he was able to take the start. Problems also prevented the other Wolseley driven by Callan to start at the appointed time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nGiradot was forced to stop his CGV due to a cracked fuel tank at the town of Troyes, 140\u00a0km into the race, and was unable to continue. In contrast, Fournier had made good progress to Troyes, taking 80 minutes to reach the town from the start. However, 10\u00a0km before reaching Langres, the clutch on his Mors failed, and he also retired from the race, leaving just one French competitor in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0010-0001", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nNevertheless, at the end of the first section, de Knyff led not only the remaining Gordon Bennett cars, but the overall Paris-Viena field, while his nearest competitor in the Gordon Bennett race was Edge, over an hour-and-three-quarters behind. Grahame-White did not arrive at Belfort until 3:30 on the morning of June 27. Callan had eventually started the race but he did not reach Belfort, having retired somewhere along the route.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nThe second section of the race took the competitors from Belfort near the Swiss border with France to Bregenz in Austria, a distance of 312\u00a0km. Owing to the ban on motor racing in Switzerland, racing was neutralized, and in order to obtain permission to pass through the country, organizers set competitors a minimum time that had to be taken to complete this section, to try to ensure cars kept to the 15\u00a0mph speed limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0011-0001", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nIn addition, the Swiss police used a system of telephones to communicate with each other along the route, in order to enforce the speed limit. Owing to this, the distance was not counted towards the race total. The roads in Switzerland were not as smooth as in France, and this put considerable strain on the cars despite them not travelling at racing speeds. The poor road surface had led to a crack beginning to develop on the casing of the differential on de Knyff's Panhard. However, all three of the remaining Gordon Bennett cars made it to the end of the section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nRacing resumed the next morning, with the Gordon-Bennett Cup route scheduled to end at a rest stop at Innsbruck, before the Paris-Vienna resumed on its way to Salzburg. de Knyff continued to lead Edge until 40\u00a0km before Innsbruck, when his damaged differential finally failed forcing him to retire whilst travelling over the Arlberg pass. Edge now only needed to reach the finish in order to secure the cup for the Automobile Club of Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0012-0001", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race\nHis Napier has not escaped unharmed during its passage through Arlberg, as on inspecting his car at the bottom of the pass Edge found that the back of the car had suffered some damage and their tools and spare parts had fallen out en route. Edge reached Innsbruck in a total time of 11 hours, two minutes, and 52.6 seconds, and meant that the cup would leave France for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Post-race and legacy\nEdge went on to complete the remainder of the Paris-Vienna race, finishing in 11th place overall. Marcel Renault won this race overall, in a time of 15:47:43. Following the race, a protest was made to the Gordon Bennett organising committee against Edge, claiming that he had received assistance. Accounts on where the assistance occurred, and in what form differ, but at de Knyff's insistence, the protest was dropped and the result stood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Post-race and legacy\nVictory for a car manufactured outside France for the first time in a Gordon Bennett race was seen as a source of embarrassment for the French, and they set about making a serious effort to regain the trophy. This contributed to the boosting of the event's popularity, with all future Gordon Bennett races being events in their own right, rather than a subsidiary of a larger city-to-city race. The success of an entry from outside France also saw Napier sales of their cars triple following the race, as did export figures for British manufactured cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033749-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, Post-race and legacy\nThe race brought about a change in race car design philosophy. The success of the comparatively underpowered, but lighter Napier led designers to realise that obtaining as much power as possible out of a smaller engine would result in a more reliable and competitive car than simply increasing the capacity of the engine, and reducing chassis weight to remain under the regulation weight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033750-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Grand National\nThe 1902 Grand National was the 64th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 21 March 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033751-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Greek legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Greece on 17 November 1902. Supporters of Theodoros Deligiannis emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, with 110 of the 235 seats. Deligiannis became Prime Minister for the fourth time on 6 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033752-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Guatemala earthquake\nThe 1902 Guatemala earthquake occurred on April 18 at 8:23 pm with a moment magnitude of 7.5 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The rupture initiated at a depth of 25\u00a0km (16\u00a0mi) and the duration was 1 to 2 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033752-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Guatemala earthquake\nThe foreshock and aftershock sequence of this incident were major. Before the main shock, there was an earthquake swarm which persisted for three months, and the tremors afterwards lasted for more than two weeks. With hindsight, it is clear that this swarm and the mainshock were clear indicators of the awakening of the long-dormant Vulcan Santa Maria located 97\u00a0km (60\u00a0mi) to the Northwest, which led to the historic explosive eruption of 1902 which occurred 6 months later in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033752-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Guatemala earthquake\nA majority of churches in western Guatemala and eastern Chiapas were either severely devastated or abolished. The number of people killed was between 800 and 2,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033752-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Guatemala earthquake\nA strange occurrence of heavy rains, lightning, and thunder took place shortly before the earthquake. A few weeks before the earthquake there was rain every afternoon for several days straight. Guatemala City was instantly flooded when massive gaps opened in the streets, water pipes ruptured, and huts along with cathedrals disintegrated and collapsed, which also buried hundreds. In just one hour, approximately 80,000 people were made homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033752-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Guatemala earthquake\nAs soon as the earthquake took place the sky cleared up and there was no rain for approximately three weeks. It has been said that the earthquake had something to do with an atmospheric disturbance connected with an electrical nature. The reason for this is because the early storms were electrical storms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033753-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Hampstead by-election\nThe Hampstead by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033753-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Hampstead by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since it was created in 1885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033754-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1902 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1902 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 11\u20131 record under first-year head coach John Wells Farley. The 1902 team won its first eleven games by a combined 184\u201323 score. It then closed the season with a 23\u20130 loss against rival Yale. Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1902 College Football All-America Team. They were end Edward Bowditch and fullback Thomas Graydon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033755-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1902 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Haskell compiled an 8\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 203 to 79. Its victories included shutouts against Missouri (40-0), Texas (12-0), and Washington University (18-0); its losses were to Illinois (10-24) and Nebraska (0-28).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033756-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1902 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033756-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Holy Cross football team\nIn their fifth and final year under head coach Maurice Connor, the team compiled a 6\u20132\u20131 record. William Baldwin was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033756-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Oval and the Worcester College Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1902 Home Nations Championship was the twentieth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 11 January and 15 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship\nWales won both the Championship and the Triple Crown, both for the third time in the country's history. After winning the Triple Crown the year before, Scotland disappointed by losing all three games of the 1902 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal and a goal from mark were both worth four points. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), Philip Nicholas (Exeter), John Raphael (Oxford Uni. ), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), SF Coopper (Blackheath), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers), PD Kendall (Birkenhead Park), G Fraser (Richmond), JJ Robinson (Headingley), TH Willcocks (Plymouth Albion), LR Tosswill (Exeter), H Alexander (Birkenhead Park) capt., Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni. ), J Jewitt (Hartlepool Rovers), SG Williams (Devonport Albion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nWales: John Strand-Jones (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff) capt., Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Dick Jones (Swansea), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), Nathaniel Walters (Llanelli)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Scotland\nWales: John Strand-Jones (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff) capt., Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), Harry Jones (Penygraig)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Scotland\nScotland: AW Duncan (Edinburgh University), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), P Turnbull (Edinburgh Acads), FH Fasson (Edinburgh University), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), J Ross (London Scottish), AB Flett (Edinburgh University), WE Kyle (Hawick), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., JV Beddell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), James Greenlees (Cambridge Uni), JA Bell (Clydesdale)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), R Forrest (Blackheath), John Raphael (Oxford Uni. ), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), SF Coopper (Blackheath), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers), Ernest John \"Katie\" Walton (Castleford), G Fraser (Richmond), JJ Robinson (Headingley), John Daniell (Richmond) capt., LR Tosswill (Exeter), H Alexander (Birkenhead Park), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni. ), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), SG Williams (Devonport Albion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC) capt., CC Fitzgerald (Glasgow University), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University), Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin University), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley), Samuel Irwin (Queen's Uni, Belfast), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), J Ryan (Rockwell College)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC) capt., Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University), Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin University), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley), Samuel Irwin (Queen's Uni, Belfast), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), JC Pringle (NIFC)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nScotland: AW Duncan (Edinburgh University), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), JE Crabbie (Oxford University), AS Dryborough (Edinburgh Wanderers), P Turnbull (Edinburgh Acads), RM Neill (Edinburgh Acads), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), Herbert Bullmore (Edinburgh University), AB Flett (Edinburgh University), WE Kyle (Hawick), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Cambridge Uni), JA Bell (Clydesdale)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), BRW Doran (Lansdowne), JB Allison (Queen's Uni, Belfast), IG Davidson (NIFC), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers) capt., Harry Corley (Dublin University), Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin University), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley), Samuel Irwin (Queen's Uni, Belfast), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), JC Pringle (NIFC)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nWales: John Strand-Jones (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Llwynypia), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff) capt., Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), Harry Jones (Penygraig)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nScotland: AW Duncan (Edinburgh University), WH Welsh (Edinburgh Acads), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), P Turnbull (Edinburgh Acads), FH Fasson (Edinburgh University), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), John Dykes (Glasgow HSFP), HO Smith (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Cambridge Uni), JA Bell (Clydesdale)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033757-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), R Forrest (Blackheath), John Raphael (Oxford Uni. ), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), T Simpson (Rockcliff), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers), Ernest John Walton (Castleford), G Fraser (Richmond), JJ Robinson (Headingley), John Daniell (Richmond) capt., LR Tosswill (Exeter), Bernard Charles Hartley (Blackheath), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni. ), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), SG Williams (Devonport Albion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033758-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Honduran general election\nGeneral elections were held in Honduras in October 1902. Manuel Bonilla of La Democracia won the presidential election with 48.7% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033758-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Honduran general election, Results, President\nThe official results had a total of 58,589 valid votes, 50 more than the total of votes for each candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster\nThe 1902 Ibrox disaster was the collapse of a stand at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Govan (now part of Glasgow), Scotland. The incident led to the deaths of 25 supporters and injuries to 500 more during an international association football match between Scotland and England on 5 April 1902 as part of the 1901\u201302 British Home Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster\nIbrox Park had completed construction less than three years before the incident and was hosting its first international fixture, with the crowd estimated to be over 68,000. The match was the first time that the ground had been used at more than half capacity since its opening. Scotland entered the game needing only to avoid defeat to win the British Home Championship title. During the first half of the match, a section of the newly built West Tribune Stand collapsed, dropping between 200 and 300 people to the concrete floor below. Two spectators were declared dead at the scene, and a further twenty-three died of injuries sustained in the incident soon after, the last victim dying three weeks later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster\nDespite the collapse, the match was eventually resumed after a break as officials feared emptying crowds could interfere with rescue attempts and lead to further panic. The teams resumed the match, which ended in a 1\u20131 draw, although both the Scottish Football Association and the Football Association later agreed that the result should be voided. A replay was hastily organised and played a month later at Villa Park in Birmingham with all proceeds from the match being donated to a relief fund for victims of the disaster. The disaster led to an overhaul in stadium design, with wooden terraced stands being largely replaced by earth or concrete embankments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Background\nFounded in 1872, Rangers had played at various local grounds in the Glasgow area and had eventually settled at Kinning Park. However, the ground's capacity, originally 2,000 but later expanded to 7,000, was struggling to meet demand for the club's fixtures, and the venue's landlords eventually looked to move Rangers on to develop the site. To combat this, the club built the first Ibrox Park to the south of the burgh of Govan in 1887, and the new ground remained in use for twelve years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0003-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Background\nThe construction of Celtic Park by their Old Firm rivals Celtic in 1892 led Rangers to seek an improved venue to compete for the chance to host Scottish Cup finals or Scotland international matches, which could generate considerable income for the hosts, particularly fixtures against England. Such was the fervour surrounding these international fixtures, The Times noted that the \"attendance is limited only by the size of the ground\". The original Ibrox Park had hosted an England\u2013Scotland match in 1892, but the subsequent four fixtures between 1894 and 1900 had been awarded to Celtic Park. Rangers' directors sanctioned the \u00a320,000 construction of a new Ibrox Park in an attempt to improve the facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Background\nThe new stadium was built partially overlapping the previous site and was officially opened on 30 December 1899 when Rangers defeated Heart of Midlothian 3\u20131. Soon after opening, the ground reached a capacity of 75,000. The construction was soon recognised by the Scottish Football Association (SFA) when the new stadium was selected to host the 1902 England\u2013Scotland match by a single vote. The match was the 31st meeting between the two sides and was the first to be contested by fully professional teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Background, West Tribune Stand\nThe West Tribune Stand was designed by Scottish architect Archibald Leitch, a boyhood Rangers fan who offered his services free of charge, and had a capacity of 35,913. However, Leitch himself had expressed concerns over the maximum capacity and visited the site prior to the match to inspect the stand, but a surveyor passed the ground fit for purpose. There had previously been reports of significant swaying in the structure. The stand had been built using a steel framework which featured vertical beams set in concrete at the foundations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0005-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Background, West Tribune Stand\nHorizontal beams were then interlocked with wooden decking used to form a step-like construction for spectators to stand on. There were 96 steps in total, each measuring four inches in height and around fourteen inches wide. It was estimated that at full capacity, each spectator had on average a personal space measuring sixteen inches long and fourteen inches wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Pre-match\nThe 1901\u201302 British Home Championship began in February 1902 with Ireland defeating Wales. Scotland played their first match of the competition on 1 March, defeating Ireland 5\u20131 in Belfast, while reigning holders England were held to a goalless draw in their first fixture two days later against Wales. Scotland and England both won their second matches; the Scots defeated Wales 5\u20131 while England beat Ireland 1\u20130 a week later. With only one match to be played Scotland led the group by a single point, needing only to avoid defeat against England at Ibrox to win their second title in three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Match and stand collapse\nOn 5 April 1902, the final match of the season's British Home Championship between Scotland and England kicked off at 3:30pm. There was no official count of the attendance, but estimated figures for the match state there was a crowd of more than 68,000 in attendance, half of whom were stood in the West Tribune Stand. There were around 50 stewards on duty for the match, most of whom were experienced in their role and had been provided by the SFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0007-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Match and stand collapse\nAlthough they had no way of determining when the stand was full, they had been given signs declaring the stand full that were displayed at an appropriate time. The stand had never previously held as many supporters, never being more than half full in previous uses. Early in the match, supporters briefly surged toward the front of the terracing, and the on-duty police were forced to intervene in order to regulate the crowd and disperse them from one area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Match and stand collapse\nNewspaper reports and later studies place the incident occurring around 30 minutes into the first half of the match, when the back of the newly built West Tribune Stand collapsed, sending hundreds of supporters up to 40 feet (12 metres) to the ground below. Several factors have been reasoned for the collapse, including heavy rainfall the previous night and the large crowd stamping and swaying as the match progressed. One theory in a report following the event centred around Scottish player Bobby Templeton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Match and stand collapse\nRegarded as an exciting attacking player, Templeton was making his debut for the Scottish national team and had gained possession of the ball moments prior to the collapse. The investigation stated that the crowd's desperation to see Templeton dribble with the ball caused them to surge forward, which may have contributed to the collapse. It was also noted that the bottom ten rows of the stand had been left vacant as people had filled the racing track surrounding the pitch. This blocked the view from these rows and resulted in the spectators on the lower rows to continually press upwards to avoid being pushed into the empty rows below them and lose their vantage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Match and stand collapse\nAn investigation of the scene afterwards found that seventeen joints had given way, causing a hole approximately 20 yards (18 metres) long to open up in the stand. Several witnesses in the crowd reported hearing loud cracking noises prior to the collapse, and one witness, who worked as a joiner, claimed to have seen the wooden boards split prior to the collapse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 53], "content_span": [54, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Response\nImmediately following the collapse, the crowd around the hole fled onto the playing field in an attempt to escape the stand. Scottish player Alex Raisbeck later stated that the players were unaware of the incident and initially believed that the surging crowd was a pitch invasion as supporters scrambled over the railings surrounding the field. He would later describe the scene, stating \"When we saw the ambulance men at work we knew that something serious had happened. We were told to retire to the dressing-rooms. I shall never forget the scenes inside. Dead bodies and groaning men were lying on the seats where only a short time ago the Scottish players had stripped. Even some of the players\u2019 clothing was requisitioned for bandages.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Response\nOfficials estimated that between 200 and 300 spectators fell through the hole to the ground below. The majority of fatal injuries that occurred were directly caused by people impacting with either the ground or the steel girders as they fell. The mass of people eventually became heaped on the ground, with historians from the Western Infirmary in Glasgow, where the deceased were taken, commenting \"Those who first reached the ground alive must then have been at hazard from suffocation\" due to the volume of people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0011-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Response\nThe first people to reach the incident had to rip down a galvanised iron fence around the base of the stand to gain access to the injured and The Herald wrote that rescuers first on the scene were met by \"a scene of indescribable horror and confusion ... a mass of mangled and bleeding humanity, the victims piled one above the other.\" Some spectators had become entangled in the steel beams during their fall and were suspended in the air until they could be rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0011-0002", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Response\nLocal hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties, with around 190 people estimated to have been admitted following the incident, and the cells of the nearby Govan police station were used as emergency treatment rooms, with the injured being taken by requisitioned brakes or taxis carrying up to 30 people at a time. Newspaper reporters visiting the scene in the following days remarked on the lack of debris at the site as vast amounts of the shattered metal and wood had been used to form makeshift stretchers to carry injured spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Response\nDespite the chaos, match officials feared that abandoning the match would lead to further injury if supporters began exiting the stadium en masse and could hinder the rescue attempts. Representatives of the SFA and the Football Association hastily discussed how to proceed and instead chose to resume the match after a twenty-minute delay. Although some players and officials disagreed with the decision, the match resumed, with Raisbeck, who supported the continuation, commenting \"none of the players were sorry when the final whistle went as they were all heartily sick.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0012-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Response\nSpectators and officials surrounded the field during the remainder of the match as the injured were attended to, so much so that they often interfered with the run of play as they spilled onto the pitch. The Scotsman noted how, on one occasion, mounted police officers had to be asked to move in order for a free kick to be taken. Scottish goalkeeper Ned Doig was reported to have wept consistently throughout the second half of the match. A significant number of spectators were unaware of the severity of the incident and, despite the gates being thrown open upon the incident in fear of a crush developing, few chose to leave the ground. The fixture ended in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Casualties\nIn total, 25 people died and over 500 were reported as injured, ranging between \"dangerously\" to \"slightly\". The most common cause of death was listed as a fracture at the base of the skull, with fourteen of the victims being recorded under this category. Two of the fourteen, Alexander Murray and Bruce Crawford, were listed as \"instantaneous\" and were the only two victims to be pronounced dead at Ibrox Park itself. By the end of the day, a total of eight people had been confirmed dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0013-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Casualties\nEight victims were listed with causes of death pertaining to crush injuries sustained by the large mass of bodies, such as severe internal chest injuries and broken ribs. The remaining three deaths were attributed to either shock or cardiac arrest. The final victim, Peter Patterson, died three weeks after the disaster on 15 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Events, Casualties\nTwo weeks after the disaster, The Scotsman issued a list of injuries that read \"dangerously injured 24, seriously injured 168, injured 153, slightlyinjured 171\" totalling 517 injuries in total. Other reports put the injured as high as 588. A large number of injuries were described as cuts and gashes to the heads of spectators, believed to have been caused by the jagged edging of the wooden decking left by the collapse. William Dewar from Kirkcaldy was also seriously injured in the disaster and the Dundee Evening Telegraph reported that he never recovered from his injuries before dying suddenly in July 1904. Another spectator, Donald Smith, died in July 1905 which was also attributed to injuries sustained in the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath\nThe disaster was considered the first major incident of its kind, with the Athletic News writing \"the one solacing reflection is that this is the only case of fatality of this kind in connection with (the) sport\". It remained the deadliest stadium disaster in Britain until the Burnden Park disaster in Bolton in March 1946. No charges were brought against Rangers or the SFA over the incident. A criminal investigation into the disaster did bring charges against timber merchant Alexander McDougall, who was charged with culpable homicide in June of the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0015-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath\nMcDougall had supplied the wood used in the construction of the stand and was accused of attempting to cut corners by using yellow pine instead of the higher-quality red pine. Noted civil engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir William Arrol appeared as witnesses in McDougall's defence. Both testified that they believed the selection of yellow pine had played no part in the disaster and instead blamed the accident on the construction of the stand. The design was deemed too light for the work for which it was built, having been based on out-of-date textbooks. Baker concluded that the stand's design made it safe for a load of 25\u00a0lb per square foot but estimated that on the day of the match it had experienced loads of up to 75\u00a0lb per square foot. McDougall was later unanimously acquitted of the charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath\nLeitch himself was distraught over the incident and begged Rangers for a chance to fix the mistakes made, stating \"I need hardly say what unutterable anguish the accident caused me.\" He was re-employed by the club to oversee the redevelopment of Ibrox and went on to design numerous football stadiums in Britain. Following the accident, the use of wooden frameworks on steel frames for football grounds was largely discredited, and replaced throughout the United Kingdom by terracing supported by earthworks or reinforced concrete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath\nRangers had won four consecutive Scottish league championships prior to the disaster, but the club then sold several of their best players to raise funds for a major redevelopment of Ibrox following the accident. Rangers did not win another league championship until 1911.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0018-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath, Benefit fund and matches\nOn 19 April 1902, a meeting of the FA Council declared that the match would be officially listed as \"unfinished\". During the meeting, it was also agreed for a relief fund to be created for victims and their families, with the FA donating \u00a3500 themselves, and a replay match organised, with all proceeds being donated to the fund. The SFA later agreed on all counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0018-0001", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath, Benefit fund and matches\nThe replay was held four weeks later at Villa Park in Birmingham on 3 May 1902 and ended in a 2\u20132 draw, with the majority of the players remaining unchanged from the original match, Scotland making three changes. The result secured the British Home Championship title for Scotland. A one-off club tournament, the British League Cup, was also organised to raise funds, while Rangers' Old Firm rivals Celtic organised a match against English side Blackburn Rovers to raise funds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0019-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath, Benefit fund and matches\nAn Ibrox Park disaster fund was established in aid of the victims and ran for nearly two years before being disbanded. During its operation, the fund paid out nearly \u00a318,000 to injured spectators and more than \u00a35,000 to the families of the deceased. The remaining funds, totaling around \u00a35,500, were used to pay administrative costs before being donated to the infirmaries which had treated the injured spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 56], "content_span": [57, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0020-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath, Ibrox redevelopment and later incidents\nIbrox underwent substantial redevelopments following the disaster. By the end of 1902, the West Tribune Stand had been significantly lowered in height to match the other stands. The number of beams in the stand was trebled which was designed to make it impossible for a spectator to fall through, even if the boards should give way. Matches also resumed the same year but with limited capacity in all stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033759-0021-0000", "contents": "1902 Ibrox disaster, Aftermath, Ibrox redevelopment and later incidents\nDuring 1963, concerns were raised about the safety of the stairway adjacent to passageway 13 (colloquially known as Stairway 13), the exit closest to Copland Road subway station. On 16 September 1961 two people were killed in a crush on the stairway, and there were two other incidents, in 1967 and 1969, where several people were injured. Rangers had by then spent a total of \u00a3150,000 on improvements. Despite this, another larger disaster occurred at Ibrox in 1971, when 66 people were killed in a crush as supporters tried to leave the stadium at an Old Firm match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033760-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Republican nominee John T. Morrison defeated Democratic incumbent Frank W. Hunt with 52.90% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033761-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1902 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their second season under head coach Edgar Holt, the Illini compiled a 10\u20132\u20131 record and finished in fourth place in the Western Conference. Tackle Jake Stahl was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033762-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1902 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their fifth season under head coach James H. Horne, the Hoosiers compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 207 to 94.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033763-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 International Lawn Tennis Challenge\nThe 1902 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the second edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. The tie was played at the Crescent Athletic Club in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The Crescent Athletic Club was located at Narrows Avenue and 85th Street, site at present of the Fort Hamilton HS Athletic Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033764-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Inverell state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Inverell on 31 May 1902 because of the death of William McIntyre (Progressive).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033765-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1902 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1902 Western Conference football season. This season was Alden Knipe's fifth and final as head coach of the Hawkeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033766-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1902 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their first season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record, shut out six of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 246 to 56. Fred Byl was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033766-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as \"New State Field\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033767-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Italian Football Championship\nThe 1902 Italian Football Championship season was won by Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033767-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Italian Football Championship, Footnotes\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033768-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Japanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Japan on 10 August 1902. The result was a victory for the Rikken Seiy\u016bkai party, which won 191 of the 376 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033768-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Japanese general election, Electoral system\nElectoral reforms in 1900 had abolished the 253 single and two-member constituencies. The 376 members of the House of Representatives were now elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on prefectures and cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033768-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Japanese general election, Electoral system\nVoting remained restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation, although 1900 electoral reforms had reduced the figure from 15 yen, increasing the proportion of the population able to vote from 1% to 2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033769-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1902 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Arthur Hale Curtis, the Jayhawks compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 108 to 93. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. W. D. Vincent was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033770-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Kansas State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1902 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Cyrus E. Dietz, the team compiled a 2\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 121 to 46. On October 7, 1902, the Kansas State team played University of Kansas Jayhawks at McCook Field in Lawrence, KS, in the first meeting of a series that became the Kansas\u2013Kansas State football rivalry. The team played its home games at Athletic Park in Manhattan, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033771-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Republican nominee Willis J. Bailey defeated Democratic nominee W. H. Craddock with 55.45% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033772-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kendall Orange and Black football team\nThe 1902 Kendall Orange and Black football team represented Henry Kendall College (later renamed the University of Tulsa) during the 1902 college football season. The team compiled an 0\u20131 record, losing its only game to Arkansas by a 33\u20130 score at home in Muskogee, Indian Territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033773-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1902 Kentucky Derby was the 28th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 3, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033774-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1902 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033775-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kentucky University football team\nThe 1902 Kentucky University Pioneers football team was an American football team that represented Kentucky University, now known as Transylvania University, during the 1902 college football season. Hogan Yancey was on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033776-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1902 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 14th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033776-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 17 May 1903, Tullaroan won the championship after a 3-16 to 0-01 defeat of Mooncoin in the final. This was their seventh championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033777-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 King's Birthday Honours (Australia)\nThe 1902 King's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 10 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033778-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Knox Old Siwash football team\nThe 1902 Knox Old Siwash football team was an American football team that represented Knox College in the 1902 college football season. Knox compiled an impressive 9\u20132 record, shutting out seven opponents, and outscoring them 236 to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott\nThe 1902 kosher meat boycott was a boycott of New York City kosher butchers in response to a coordinated increase in price of kosher meat from 12 to 18 cents a pound. This increase was significant enough that many Jewish families could no longer afford to buy meat. The protests, led mainly by women on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side, though controversial in their often-violent tactics, were largely successful and resulted in the lowering of the price of meat down to 14 cents a pound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Background\nThe kosher meat boycott of 1902 developed as the Gilded Age was coming to a close. The Gilded Age (1870\u20131900) in the United States saw powerful robber barons monopolizing a wide array of industries including the railroad, oil, steel and meat industries. These monopolies and trusts were able to dramatically increase prices in their respective industries, and prevented consumers from finding goods at a cheaper price. Though Congress passed a number of antitrust laws in the 1890s, such as the Sherman Antitrust Act, these laws were not usually enforced and the government often sided with the powerful robber barons. This continued until the election of President Theodore Roosevelt, who led a war on trusts and monopolies, gaining the title the \u201ctrust buster.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Background\nAt the turn of the 20th century, the meat industry was still under the control of robber barons who in 1902 decided to hike up prices. Initially, the Jewish butchers in New York City attempted to boycott the meat trust by refusing to sell meat, but the trust was too powerful and their boycott crumbled. Thus the women of the Lower East Side Jewish community were forced to take matters into their own hands, staging a large boycott and convincing many people not to buy meat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Background\nThese protests took place at a time when women were beginning to exert political influence. In addition to the rise of women's suffrage movements, the end of the 19th century saw the number of middle class American women volunteering in clubs, professional societies, and local charities increase significantly. This trend in turn, lent much more strength to women's suffrage movements and provided a model for women to exert their influence in other areas, such as in the kosher meat boycott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Kosher meat\nIn general, kosher meat tends to be pricier than non-kosher meat due to the various restrictions and requirements that come with it. Adhering to the strict dietary laws of kashrut is a significant part of Orthodox Jewish life. The laws of kashrut can be found throughout the Torah, Mishnah, Talmud and various halachic works. The main criteria for a mammal to be kosher is that the animal must have split hooves and chew its cud. Additionally, a certified butcher known as a shochet must slaughter the animal in accordance with Jewish law in a process known as shechita.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0004-0001", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Kosher meat\nAfter the shechita, the animal must be checked for any life-threatening wounds which could render the animal not kosher even after being properly slaughtered. Finally many parts of the animal have to be removed such as certain fats and all the blood. The meat is then salted in order to remove any remaining blood. This lengthy process and the many steps involved are what make kosher meat more expensive than non-kosher meat. In 1902 the kosher meat was recorded to be 5-6 cents more expensive per pound than non-kosher meat, even before the price increased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Kosher meat\nIn 1902, although many American Jews began to assimilate and drop many of their religious practices, many still kept kosher. Because of this, the increase in price for kosher meat had a relatively widespread impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Boycott\nOn May 11, 1902, around 400 kosher butchers on the East Side of New York organized a boycott of the meat trusts to put pressure on them to lower the cost of meat. However, the trusts were too powerful and the butchers ended their boycott. In response to those unsuccessful attempts, the women of the Lower East Side Jewish community, led by Fanny Levy and Sarah Edelson, held a massive protest. On May 15, 20,000 protesters, mostly women, took to the streets to attack the butcher shops. They smashed shop windows, poured gasoline on the meat, lit it on fire and threw pieces of meat at police officers. By the end of the day, 85 people had been arrested, 75% of them women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Boycott\nAfter May 15, the protests expanded into local synagogues. During Sabbath services on May 17, two days after the street riots, a group of women stormed the podium of their synagogue to direct attention towards their cause. One woman got up on the synagogue podium, disrupted the Torah reading and lectured the community about the importance of joining the boycott. She then demanded that the men in the community compel their wives to join the protestors. The strategy of promoting the boycott inside synagogues gained much attention and proved to be an effective means of gaining support within the Jewish community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Boycott\nIn the weeks following the riots, Jewish women of the Lower East Side continued to come up with creative ways to protest. They patrolled the streets of the Lower East Side in order to prevent other women from buying meat. In a controversial but effective move, the protesters went door to door checking everyone's pots and pans to ensure that no one was secretly buying meat. Anyone who was caught with meat was ridiculed and labeled a \u201cscab.\u201d These tactics proved to be very effective. Almost all purchases of kosher meats ceased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Boycott\nWhile the patrols went on, other boycott members worked around the clock to disseminate flyers and circulars in order to bolster support. One such circular read: \u201cEat no meat while the Trust is taking meat from the bones of your women and children.\u201d Women vigilantes went as far as to rob butcher shops and rid them of their meat. The women involved in the protests also started a fundraising campaign to bail out imprisoned boycotters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Boycott\nDue to the boycott's successful tactics, on May 22, the Retail Butchers Association (the kosher butchers association) realigned itself with the boycott campaign and ceased selling kosher meat in all their stores. In addition, kosher restaurants throughout NYC removed meat from their menus until the prices came back down. By May 27, major Orthodox religious leaders had publicly affirmed support for the boycott, and by June 9 the prices dropped to 14 cents a pound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Reactions to the protests\nNewspapers across NYC had many different reactions to the boycott. The Forward, a Yiddish newspaper, endorsed the boycott by praising them with a newspaper title \"Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, Jewish women!\" Many Jewish socialists were also sympathetic to the boycott. On the other hand, the New York Times portrayed the boycott and their methods in an extremely negative light, calling the women who ran the boycott a \"dangerous class.\" The Times saw the boycotts actions as too controversial and semi-militant. The Tribune also denounced the method of protesting, stating that the boycotters \"made life miserable for the policemen.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0010-0001", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Reactions to the protests\nHowever The Times did express support for the idea of challenging the trusts. Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, two muckraker journalists who spent much of their life attacking corrupt institutions and leaders, were pleased with the boycott's exposure of the robber barons and their corrupt policies. The New York Herald came out with an article portraying the event as testimony to the impressive organizational skills of the women who put together the boycott. The newspaper stressed the role of the women in the boycott reporting that \"women were the ring leaders at all hours.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Additional impact\nThe boycott became so popular that its influence eventually spread to other Jewish communities in Harlem, Brooklyn, Newark, Boston and Philadelphia, where similar protests took place. Many of the women who organized the kosher meat boycott of 1902 as well as their children played a significant role in the New York Labor movement, most notably the garment labor union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033779-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Kosher Meat Boycott, Additional impact\nIn 1907 and 1908 rent boycotts broke out on the lower east side of Manhattan to protest high rent prices. They publicly acknowledged that the inspiration for the boycott and the tactics used derived from the meat boycott of 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1902 LSU Tigers football team represented the Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. W. S. Borland returned in 1902 for his second season as LSU head coach. The seven-game 1902 season was the longest for the Tigers since their first game in 1893 and also featured the most games on the road: five games played away and only two in Baton Rouge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Texas\nIn one of the season's \"liveliest games\" in San Antonio, LSU upset Texas 4\u20130, using its speed and teamwork.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn\nLSU beat Auburn in a hard-fought game 5\u20130. Captain Henry Landry scored the game's only touchdown. \"Nearly every business house in Baton Rouge closed at noon and everybody went to the game\". The trip to Louisiana made some Auburn players sick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn\nThe starting lineup was Gueno (left end), Guldry (left tackle), Leseur (left guard), Sharp (center), Klock (right guard), Rhodes (right tackle), Martin (right end), Coleman (quarterback), Mundinger (left halfback), Kennedy (right halfback), Landry (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\n\"Vanderbilt defeated Louisiana State University, 27 to 5, yesterday. It was an ideal day and about 1,000 people witnessed the game. A place kick only saved Louisiana State University from a whitewash. The game was lacking in interest, for Vanderbilt displayed her superiority so strongly that Louisiana was outclassed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\n\"Louisiana State University kicked off and Vanderbilt advanced the ball steadily for a touch-down. This was repeated, Tigert making the two touchdowns. Louisiana State University got the ball only once in the first half and lost on downs. At the end of the half the score stood 11 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\n\"Vanderbilt kicked off and Louisiana State University lost on downs in the second half. The visitors advanced the ball for a touchdown. Davis failed, in kicking a goal. Louisiana State University seemed to be very weak. Vanderbilt made her gains every time, and only lost the ball on fumbles. Louisiana State University never advanced far before losing on downs, they were entirely outclassed in weight and skill. It is hard to say who were the star players for Vanderbilt. Every man played a good game. The playing of Edgerton, Davis, Tigert, and Lawler deserves special notice. For Louisiana State University the playing of Sales, deserves notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\n\"The Vanderbilt boys are sore over the treatment they received. The Louisiana State University team couldn't take defeat in a sportsmanlike manner. They claimed that Vanderbilt knew their signals and made uncomplimentary remarks from their sidelines, and altogether the treatment was not as good as the team expected. Vanderbilt played a harder game than at Tulane, and Louisiana State University has a much better team than Tulane. Vanderbilt played a much faster game than Louisiana State University and every trick was a success. Louisiana State University depended entirely on straight football and never succeeded in working any trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\n\"The teams were entertained with an elegant dinner after the game by Mr. W. P. Connell, and the University Athletic Association invited the two teams to a theatre party.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033780-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nLandry scored both touchdowns in an 11\u20130 defeat of Alabama to close the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033781-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Lafayette football team\nThe 1902 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season and only season under head coach Dave Fultz, the team compiled an 8\u20133 record. Harry Trout was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033782-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Lake Forest Foresters football team\nThe 1902 Lake Forest Foresters football team was an American football team that represented Lake Forest University in the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033783-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1902 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their eighth season in existence. It was a low profile season for Latrobe. The team played in only 4 games this season and finished 2-0-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election\nThe Leeds North by-election, 1902 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Leeds North in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 29 July 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting Conservative MP William Jackson. Jackson had held the seat since its creation for the general election of 1885, having previously been one of the MPs for the multi-member seat of Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Candidates\nIt was reported that both the Conservative and Liberal parties in Leeds were unprepared for a by-election, suggesting that Jackson\u2019s peerage had come as a surprise to the party organisations if not to Jackson himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nThe Conservatives considered a number of possible candidates including Colonel Thomas Walter Harding, a Liberal Unionist who had contested West Leeds against Herbert Gladstone and was a former Lord Mayor of Leeds; F. Stanley Jackson, the son of the retiring MP and a Yorkshire County cricketer; and Reginald Wigram and Sir Arthur Lawson, who were both officers of the party in Leeds. They eventually selected Lawson, a 58-year-old businessman who was President of the Leeds Conservative Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nNorth Leeds Liberal Association, who decided they wanted a strong local candidate, adopted Rowland Barran as their candidate in early July 1902. Other possible candidates mentioned in the press were G. J. Cockburn, chairman of the North Leeds Liberal Association and the Leeds School Board, and W. Beckworth, but there was no real contest. Barran was aged 44, and prominent in a firm of local clothing manufacturers and merchants. He was the son of Sir John Barran a former MP for Leeds and for the nearby seat of Otley. Rowland Barran was a member of Leeds City Council and a former member of the Leeds School Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Candidates, Labour\nThe Independent Labour Party in Leeds announced that they would definitely be standing a candidate in the by-election. They were considering Philip Snowden who later became a Labour MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer and two other local men as candidates, as well as T. B. Duncan, Secretary of the Shop Assistants Association. The party was reportedly not particularly strong in the division, with few members and in need of financial support from party headquarters. Keir Hardie visited Leeds with other top Labour and Trade union officials in early July 1902 to discuss the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0005-0001", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Candidates, Labour\nHowever, lack of resources eventually forced Labour not to bring forward a candidate. They had another by-election to fight in Clitheroe in Lancashire which was a better prospect and at a meeting of the ILP in Leeds on 4 July, Hardie told members that the fight in North Leeds would have to wait for a future election. Ironically the Labour position in the Clitheroe seat was so strong that both the Liberal and Conservatives chose not to contest it and the Labour candidate David Shackleton was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Issues, Education\nEducation dominated the campaign. A number of historians have commented that the Liberal candidate fought the by-election exclusively or predominantly on the issue. As a former member of Leeds School Board, Barran took a strong interest in education. There was a robust debate going on around the government\u2019s plans for an Education Bill to replace school boards with local education authorities and Liberals were highly exercised by the proposals to bring church schools into the public system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Issues, Education\nMany Liberals were strongly nonconformist and the idea that Church of England and Roman Catholic schools should be funded from the rates, a form of local taxation, was anathema to them. It provided the battle slogan \u2018Rome on the Rates\u2019 and united the party against the government. Barran, a Baptist by religion, spoke out strongly against these plans at his first public meeting on 8 July 1902, saying the proposed Bill was biased towards the Anglican Church and what he described as \u2018the clerical party\u2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0006-0002", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Issues, Education\nThe Bill was designed to endow the clerical party, to hand over management of schools to the churches rather than the people through elected school boards and was, he claimed, a deliberate attack on the Free Churches. Barran also held three further meetings specifically featuring the Education Bill issue. It was reported that Roman Catholics in the constituency put their support behind the Conservative candidate Sir Arthur Lawson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Issues, Other issues\nOther topical questions raised by the candidates included Irish Home Rule and Free Trade versus Tariff Reform. Temperance was also an issue supported by Barran while Lawson had the support of the electoral committee of the Amalgamated Licensing Trades. From the Liberal side there was an attack on the government for its inaction on social and economic questions, presumably against the background of the increasing importance being given to these issues by the emerging New Liberalism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Issues, Other issues\nThe Conservatives seem to have spent the election in defence of the government but clearly took the attack to the Liberals on supposed internal dissensions in the Liberal Party, around the roles of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Lord Rosebery. Rosebery the former prime minister had become increasingly out of step with the mainstream of Liberal MPs on social reform and the role of the Empire. There were rival camps inside the party with the setting up of the Liberal Imperial Council in 1901 and the Liberal League in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Issues, Other issues\nThere were fears that this would formally split the party along the lines of the defection in 1886 of the Liberal Unionists with speculation that the Liberal League was a putative breakaway movement rather than simply a faction within the party arguing for a particular approach to government. The issue was heightened because of the Boer War but the Liberal approach during the by-election was to praise the troops and the generals while attacking the government for underestimating the numbers of troops needed and for resisting necessary reforms to the Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Result\nThe result was a Liberal gain from the government, with Barran turning a Tory majority of 2,517 at the 1900 general election into a Liberal majority of 758.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Result\nThere was a great upsurge of hope among Liberals that the result would send a message to the government on their plans for education reform but these were not maintained and the Bill passed later that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033784-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Leeds North by-election, Result\nThe result also indicated a change in the demography of the North Leeds area which the education issue highlighted. Dissenting churches and opinion were gaining prominence. One historian of Leeds has written that while dissent was always strong in the city, it was becoming more confident and less deferential as the middle class element in the chapels grew with the economy. Barran went on to hold the seat until the 1918 general election when he stood down from Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033785-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Lehigh Brown and White football team\nThe 1902 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach Samuel B. Newton, the team compiled a 7\u20133\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 246 to 57.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033786-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Liechtenstein general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liechtenstein in August and September 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033786-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Liechtenstein general election, Electors\nElectors were selected through elections that were held between 25 and 28 August. Each municipality had two electors for every 100 inhabitants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033786-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nThe election of Oberland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 4 September in Vaduz. Of Oberland's 118 electors, 117 were present. Oberland elected seven Landtag members and three substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033786-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nThe election of Unterland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 3 September in Mauren. All of Unterland's 74 electors were present. Unterland elected five Landtag members and two substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033786-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nJakob Kaiser was appointed by Prince Johann II as a Landtag member on 21 September 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033787-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1902 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 13th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033787-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nYoung Irelands won the championship after a 2-09 to 0-05 defeat of Monagea in the final. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Saturday 1 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election\nA total of 38 seats were up for election. Seven new seats were up for election for the first time: the third seat for the Anfield ward, and all three seats for each of the new wards of Aigburth and Garston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, Election result\nIn view of the large number of uncontested seats, these statistics should be taken in that context.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1899 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results, Garston\nAs Edward Wrake Turner received the highest number of seats his term of office was due to expire on 1 November 1905. As Frederick James Rawlinson received the second highest number of seats his term of office was due to expire on 1 November 1904. As James Picthall received the third highest number of seats his term of office was due to expire on 1 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Election\nIt was reported to the council on 9 November 1902 that Garston Urban District Council had nominated John Ernest Tinne (Aigburth ward) and William Newall (Garston ward) to be aldermen. These two were duly elected as aldermen by the councillors and aldermen on 9 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.13, North Scotland, 17 December 1902\nCaused by the death of Councillor James Daly (Irish Nationalist, North Scotland, elected 1 November 1900) on 18 November 1902 was reported to the Council on 29 November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 91], "content_span": [92, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 12, Edge Hill, 30 January 1903\nCaused by the death of Councillor Samuel Wasse Higginbottom MP (Conservative, elected 1 November 1902) on 28 December 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 29 Aigburth, 30 April 1903\nCaused by the resignation of Alderman John Ernest Tinne (elected 9 November 1902), which was reported to the council on 4 March 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 29 Aigburth, 30 April 1903\nCouncillor William Hall Jowett (Conservative, Aigburth, elected 1 November 1902) was elected as an alderan by the council (councillors and aldermen) on 1 April 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.16, Exchange, 15 June 1903\nThe death of Alderman James Ruddin occurred on 21 April 1903 was reported to the Council on 6 May 1903. His place was taken by Councillor Edmond Brownbill (Liberal. Exchange, elected 1 November 1902) was elected as an alderman by the council (Councillors and Aldermen) on 3 June 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.3 Anfield, 26 May 1903\nThe death of Councillor John Valentine Smith (Conservative, Anfield elected 10 May 1901) on 1 May 1903 was reported to the council on 6 May 1903", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.26, Dingle, 15 June 1903\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Austin Taylor MP (Conservative, Dingle, elected 1 November 1902)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.30, Garston, 27 July 1903\nThe death of Alderman William Newall on 5 June 1903 was reported to the Council on 10 June 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.30, Garston, 27 July 1903\nIn his place, Councillor Edward Wrake Turner (Independent Conservative, Garston, elected 1 November 1902) was elected as an alderman by the council (councillors and aldermen) on 1 July 1903..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. Sandhills, 6 August 1903\nThe death of Councillor Thomas Salter (Liberal, Sandhills, elected 1 November 1901) on 5 July 1903 was reported to the council on 5 August 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033788-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.21, Abercromby,\nCaused by the death of Councillor Lorents Braun Haddock (Conservative, Abercromby, elected 1 November 1900) on 21 August 1903, which was reported to the Council on 2 September 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election\nThe 1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election was held on 6 November 1902 after the resignation of the Conservative MP Augustus Frederick Warr. The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate Austin Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election in East Toxteth was caused by the resignation on 27 October 1902 of the sitting Conservative MP, Augustus Frederick Warr. Warr was a solicitor who had held the seat since he was elected unopposed in a by-election in 1895. He was re-elected unopposed in the general election in 1900, but found that the increasing workload of Parliament was incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness. He resigned his seat on 27 October 1902 by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, triggering the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative party discussed several possible candidates, and at a meeting of the local party on 27 October selected as candidate Austin Taylor, head of the steamship company of Messrs. Hugh Evans and Co. Taylor was a prominent member of the Liverpool City Council and Chairman of the Laymen\u2032s League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Candidates\nThe selection was somewhat controversial among local members, and Peter McGuffie, another Conservative city councillor, was approached to contest the division as an Independent Conservative, but declined in a letter to newspapers printed 29 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal party candidate was Herbert Rathbone, a city councillor of Liverpool and nephew of recently deceased Liberal MP William Rathbone (1819\u20131902).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Issues\nFollowing the successful campaign in the Leeds North by-election in July 1902, the Liberal party spent much time on the government\u2019s plans for an Education Bill to replace school boards with local education authorities, which included proposals to bring church schools into the public system. Many Liberals were strongly nonconformist and the idea that Church of England and Roman Catholic schools should be funded from the rates, a form of local taxation, was anathema to them. It provided the battle slogan \u2018Rome on the Rates\u2019 and united the party against the government. The bill was debated in the House as the campaign in East Toxteth took place. Rathbone \u2033strongly denounced\u2033 the bill, whereas Taylor said he would assist in passing the amended version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Issues\nTaylor spoke out as a stanch opponent of Home Rule for Ireland, while Rathbone argued for devolution which would \u2033satisfy the reasonable aspiration of the Irish people and at the same time add to the efficiency of the Imperial Parliament\u2033.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Issues\nTaylor advanced the government\u2032s naval policy, highlighting the \u2033duty of the nation at all costs see to it that the high roads of the sea was kept open for the safe passage of our ships and the safe transport to our shores of the means of sustenance for the population.\u2033", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Result\nThe election result was announced on the evening of November 6, with the Conservative candidate Austin Taylor the winner. The fairly close race in a Conservative district was explained by local causes (the split among conservatives), and not as another Liberal win (they had won another by-election on the previous day).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033789-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, Result\nAustin was re-elected unopposed in the 1906 general election, but later the same year resigned the Conservative whip and joined the Liberal party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033790-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 1902 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 1, 1902. Incumbent Meredith P. Snyder was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033791-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1902 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as Louisiana Tech University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their first and only year under head coaches Frank Singleton and Howard F. Crandell, the team compiled a 1\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033792-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 8, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033792-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Maine gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor John Fremont Hill was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Democratic candidate Samuel Wadsworth Gould.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033793-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1902 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 17 through October 5, 190 with each team schedule to play the other seven teams in their league 20 times for a 140-game season. It was the second season for the American League (AL), with the Philadelphia Athletics finishing first in league standings. In the National League (NL), in operation since 1876, the Pittsburgh Pirates finished atop league standings for the second consecutive season. There was no postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033793-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Major League Baseball season\nPrior to the season, the Milwaukee Brewers moved and became the St. Louis Browns; the franchise would remain in St. Louis through 1953, and in 1954 moved again to become the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033794-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1902 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1902 college football season. The team did not have a coach, and outscored their opponents 65\u20132 in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033794-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1902 season marked the fourth undefeated season in a row for Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033795-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1902 college football season. In their first season under head coach D. John Markey, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20135\u20132 record and were outscored by their opponents, 90 to 28. On October 22, 1902, the team secured its first victory in four years in an intercollegiate football game, defeating Columbian University (later known as George Washington University) by an 11\u201310 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033796-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1902 college football season. The team was coached by James Halligan and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 2\u20133\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033797-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Governor W. Murray Crane did not run for re-election. Lt . Governor John L. Bates was elected to succeed him, defeating Democratic nominee William A. Gaston and Socialist John C. Chase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033797-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThis election was the first in which the newly formed Socialist Party of America fielded a candidate and Chase's 8.44% remains the largest vote any Socialist candidate for Governor has received as of 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033797-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nLieutenant Governor John L. Bates was nominated for Governor by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033797-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Massachusetts-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033798-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 123rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1902 during the governorship of Winthrop M. Crane. Rufus A. Soule served as president of the Senate and James J. Myers served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season\nThe 1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 29th season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. It was the third season run for clubs that represented a district. Eight clubs (seven representing a district, the remaining club representing Sydney University) competed from May till August 1902. The season culminated in the third district premiership, which was won by Western Suburbs. Western Suburbs were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nEight clubs contested the season; seven clubs representing a district and one club representing Sydney University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 22 March 1900Ground: Rushcutters Bay OvalCaptain: Percy Macnamara", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 23 March 1900Ground: North Sydney OvalCaptain: Jack O'Donnell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe 1902 Sydney Rugby Premiership saw a popular win for the Western Suburbs District Football Club. The club had experienced the unfortunate and sad loss of their captain, William Shortland, at the end of the previous season. During the season, the team recovered from this huge loss to display improvement in defence, with only 4 tries scored against them over the final 7 rounds. Three-Quarter, Stanley Wickham demonstrated the importance of having a great goal kicker in the team, scoring 11 field goals during the season with 5 scored in one game against South Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nGlebe opened the season in magnificent form defeating the two teams that eventually finished above them on the ladder. However, as the season progressed the team was required to shift players around due to injuries to important members of the team. As a result, over the final four rounds Glebe drew with North Sydney, drew with Western Suburbs and lost the penultimate match to University 6 to 4. This meant that they were out of contention for the premiership in the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe final round of the season had been originally scheduled for 26 July and was postponed to the end of August due to heavy and persistent rain. This meant that for the last round of games for the season, the two teams in contention for the premiership would face each other in a \"final\". In order that representatives in both teams be able to depart on time for the intercolonial matches in Queensland, the game was scheduled for Wednesday, 27 August at 2pm. Again rain interfered with the quality of the game which resulted in Western Suburbs winning against Sydney University 4 points to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAt the conclusion of the season, the rugby world lost another significant player with the death of former University captain Horace Jones. Jones had previously captained the NSW team in intercolonial matches and had retired from rugby at the end of the 1901 season due to ill health. His cause of death was sarcoma, a soft tissue cancer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades\nThe MRFU also conducted Second Grade and Boroughs competitions this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Second Grade\nThe eight First grade clubs entered a team each into the Second Grade competition. The season concluded with a final game between Glebe and Eastern Suburbs that was practically a final. The game ended in a draw. However, Glebe were declared premiers as they were one point ahead of Eastern Suburbs on the ladder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033799-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Boroughs Competition\nSixteen teams participated in the first Boroughs Competition. This was a competition for teams that did not necessarily represent a district. Non -district teams acted as a feeder club for the larger district teams. These teams were: Manly, Glebe, Gipps, Willoughby, Surry Hills, Rockdale, Balmain, Newtown, Leichhardt, Burwood, Marrickville, University, Annandale, North Sydney, Mosman and Parramatta. At the conclusion of the season, Manly sat undefeated at the top of the table and were thus declared Premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033800-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1902 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1902 college football season. Under new head coach Peter McPherson, Miami compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033801-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1902 college football season. In their second and final year under head coach George Denman, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20135 record and were outscored by their opponents 206 to 93.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033801-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOn Wednesday, October 8, 1902, the Aggies played a mid-week game against Michigan. Michigan defeated the Aggies by a score of 119 to 0. The Wolverines scored 71 points in the first half of 20 minutes and 48 in the second half of 18 minutes. The Michigan Alumnus called it \"the greatest fusillade of touchdowns ever known to the football world,\" excluding Michigan's 128\u20130 win over Buffalo in 1901. Michigan was held on downs only once in the game, and the Aggies made only three first downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033801-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nRight halfback Albert Herrnstein ran back a kickoff the length of the field and scored seven touchdowns in the game. Willie Heston and Everett Sweeley did not play in the game, and the Detroit Free Press noted: \"The opinion is quite general that if Heston and Sweeley had been in the game the Buffalo record would have been beaten, but, as it was, Michigan was simply fagged out running down the field for touchdowns.\" After the game, The Newark Advocate wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033801-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan\n\"Michigan has undoubtedly the fastest scoring team in the world, and the Ann Arbor boys play Yosts' 'hurry up' formations like clock work. It requires a fast team to take the ball, line up and score 119 points, even if they have no opponents in two 20 minute halves.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033802-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1902 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1902 college football season. The Normalites compiled a record of 1\u20135\u20131 and were outscored by a combined total of 125 to 43. Fred A. Belland was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033802-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nMichigan State Normal College had 820 students enrolled as of October 3, 1902. The college celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding on October 6, shortly before the football season began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033802-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nClayton Teetzel returned as the team's head coach for the third year. One of the team's most promising prospects, Harry Smith, left the squad before the season began as he had to work at a local drug store when school was not in session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033802-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nTeetzel left the program after the 1902-03 academic year; he went on to coach football at Utah State Agricultural College from 1909 to 1915.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, Michigan finished the season undefeated with an 11\u20130 record, outscored their opponents by a combined score of 644 to 12, and became known as the second of Yost's famed \"Point-a-Minute\" teams. With a conference record of 5\u20130, Michigan won the Big Nine Conference championship. The 1902 Michigan Wolverines have also been recognized as the national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as co-national champions by Parke H. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team\nQuarterback Boss Weeks was the team's captain and the leader of the Wolverines' offense that twice scored more than 100 points against opponents and averaged 58.5 points per game. Right halfback Albert E. Herrnstein was the team's leading scorer with 135 points on 27 touchdowns (valued at five points under 1902 rules). Fullback James E. Lawrence was the second-leading scorer with 113 points on 12 touchdowns and 53 extra point kicks (then known as \"goals from touchdown\"). Willie Heston, Joe Maddock and Paul J. Jones added 15, 12 and 11 touchdowns, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 88, Albion 0\nMichigan opened the 1902 season with an 88\u20130 victory over Albion College. Michigan completed all but one drive with touchdowns. The Wolverines starters scored eight touchdowns and 45 points in the first 20-minute half, and the substitutes added seven touchdowns and a safety in the second half. On defense, Michigan allowed only a single first down by Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 88, Albion 0\nThe game was played in halves of 20 minutes each. Rinehart of Lafayette was the umpire, and Thomas of Michigan was the referee. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Johnson (left tackle), Baker (left guard), Gregory (center), Lawrence (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Cole (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 48, Case 6\nIn its second game of the 1902, Michigan played the Case Scientific School (later Case Western Reserve University) of Cleveland. The October 4 game was the fifth meeting between the schools. Although Michigan scored eight touchdowns and easily defeated Case by a score of 48 to 6, the big story of the game was a 30-yard touchdown run by Case's left halfback, Davidson. Michigan had not allowed any points to be scored in the first 12 games under Fielding Yost. The headline in the Detroit Free Press referred not to Michigan's victory but instead read, \"MICHIGAN'S GOAL LINE CROSSED.\" The Michigan Alumnus wrote that the touchdown by Case \"caused consternation among coach, team, and students\" as \"it had been their fondest hope that the goal line should remain uncrossed another year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 48, Case 6\nThe game was played in halves of 20 minutes each. Rinehart of Lafayette was the umpire, and Gaston of Cleveland was the referee. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Lawrence (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Cole (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Kidston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 119, Michigan Agricultural 0\nMichigan played a mid-week game against Michigan Agricultural College (now known as Michigan State University) on Wednesday, October 8, 1902, four days after the win against Case. Michigan attained its highest point total of the year, defeating the Aggies by a score of 119-0. The Wolverines scored 71 points in the first half of 20 minutes and 48 in the second half of 18 minutes. The Michigan Alumnus called it \"the greatest fusillade of touchdowns ever known to the football world,\" excluding Michigan's 128\u20130 win over Buffalo in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 119, Michigan Agricultural 0\nMichigan was held on downs only once in the game, and the Aggies made only three first downs. Right halfback Albert Herrnstein ran back a kickoff the length of the field and scored seven touchdowns in the game. Willie Heston and Everett Sweeley did not play in the game, and the Detroit Free Press noted: \"The opinion is quite general that if Heston and Sweeley had been in the game the Buffalo record would have been beaten, but, as it was, Michigan was simply fagged out running down the field for touchdowns.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 119, Michigan Agricultural 0\nThe game was played in two halves of 20 minutes and 18 minutes. Demonstrating the understatement of the \"Point-a-Minute\" name given to the team, the Wolverines scored 119 points in 38 minutes of play, an average of 3.1 points per minute. After the game, The Newark Advocate wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 119, Michigan Agricultural 0\n\"Michigan has undoubtedly the fastest scoring team in the world, and the Ann Arbor boys play Yosts' 'hurry up' formations like clock work. It requires a fast team to take the ball, line up and score 119 points, even if they have no opponents in two 20 minute halves.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 119, Michigan Agricultural 0\nMichigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Lawrence (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Cole (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Kidston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback). Richardson of Michigan was the umpire, and Thomas of Michigan was the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 60, Indiana 0\nMichigan defeated Indiana 60-0 in the fourth game of the season. The Indiana team was led by College Football Hall of Famer Zora G. Clevenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 60, Indiana 0\nJames Lawrence was the star of the game for Michigan. In his first game after Fielding Yost moved him to the fullback position, Lawrence scored four touchdowns and kicked nine goals after touchdown, accounting for 29 of Michigan's 60 points. The Michigan Alumnus wrote that Lawrence \"was called upon repeatedly to take the ball and would always advance it eight or ten yards\" with big holes being opened by guards Carter and McGugin. Michigan's \"most spectacular play\" of the game was a 75-yard touchdown run by Maddock. The Alumnus gave particular praise to the defense: \"Only once was Indiana able to make an impression on her impregnable wall and that on a very short run by Clevenger.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 60, Indiana 0\nAt the invitation of Michigan's graduate manager Charles A. Baird, more than 2,000 school children accompanied by their teachers attended the game. University of Michigan president James B. Angell also attended the game for the first time of the year. Wisconsin Badgers football coach Phil King also attended the game with his fullback Earl \"Keg\" Driver to scout the Michigan team in preparation for the upcoming game between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 60, Indiana 0\nThe game was played in halves of 25 and 20 minutes. Through the first four games of the season, Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" team had scored 315 points in 163 minutes of play, an average of almost two points per minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 60, Indiana 0\nMichigan's starting lineup was Graver (left end), Baker (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Cole (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Lawrence (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Notre Dame 0\nAfter four home games to open the season, Michigan played Notre Dame at a neutral site in Toledo, Ohio on October 18, 1902. The game was played on a slippery white clay field at Armory Park following a night of rain. Michigan had been heavily favored to win, and betting on the game was 2 to 1 that Notre Dame would not score. Though favored to run up a high score, Michigan scored only one touchdown and led 5-0 at the end of the first half. The Detroit Free Press wrote that the game was \"the toughest proposition that the Wolverines have had, either this season or last year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Notre Dame 0\nMichigan tackle Joe Maddock was the leading scorer with three touchdowns. The game also marked the debut of right end Everett Sweeley, who punted several times for a distance of 60 yards. On the opening kickoff, Sweeley returned the ball with a punt to Notre Dame's 43-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Notre Dame 0\nAlthough Notre Dame did not score on Michigan, its captain, Louis J. Salmon, demonstrated why he had earned \"the reputation of being the hardest line bucker in the west.\" On one drive, Salmon took the ball to the Michigan 43-yard line in two attempts. After Notre Dame reached Michigan's 20-yard line, \"Salmon went at it in the most vicious and determined manner to score. He took the ball eight times in succession but was finally held for downs on the 5-yard line.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0018-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Notre Dame 0\nIn the second half, Michigan's running game wore down the Notre Dame defense. Michigan scored three touchdown in the second half, and Notre Dame did not move into Michigan territory. Michigan end Curtis Redden was ejected from the game after an altercation with Lonnegan of Notre Dame, though Redden claimed Lonnegan had been the instigator. After the game, Yost said, \"I am satisfied. The score is just about what I thought it would be after I had taken a look at the field.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0019-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Notre Dame 0\nThe game was played in halves of 25 minutes. Hinkey of Yale was the umpire, and Jackson of Lake Forest was the referee. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Cole (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Graver (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0020-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 86, Ohio State 0\nIn the sixth game of the season, Michigan defeated Ohio State 86\u20130 in Ann Arbor on October 25, 1902. The game was played in front of a crowd of 6,000 (including 2,000 from Columbus), \"the largest crowd ever gathered at Ferry Field.\" Michigan scored 45 points in the first half and 41 points in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0021-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 86, Ohio State 0\nOn offense, the Detroit Free Press wrote that the Wolverines \"simply ran the Ohio team off their feet.\" Willie Heston reportedly returned to \"his 1901 form,\" scoring the game's first points with a 20-yard end run after three minutes of play. Heston scored his second touchdown on a 70-yard run. Albert Herrnstein was credited by the Free Press with the most consistent play for Michigan and with \"the star play of the day by cutting inside of end and running 35 yards for a touchdown.\" The Free Press noted that, despite the coaching of former Yale fullback Perry Hale, the Ohio State players lacked \"the first rudiments of tackling\" and \"failed to hold a man when they got their arms around him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0022-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 86, Ohio State 0\nMichigan's defense was credited with playing a strong game as \"Ohio State never got near enough to Michigan's goal line to see what the cross-bars looked like.\" Ohio State's longest gain was a 15-yard run around Michigan's right end for a 15-yard gain in the second half. Everett Sweeley made the tackle to stop a touchdown. Herb Graver also blocked a punt for Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0023-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 86, Ohio State 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 and 25 minutes. Hinkey of Yale was the umpire, and Hoagland of Princeton was the referee. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Palmer (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Lawrence (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0024-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\nIn the seventh game of the season, Michigan faced its toughest opponent, the Wisconsin Badgers. The game matched the two western teams that had finished the 1901 season with undefeated records and was played at Marshall Field in Chicago in front of a crowd estimated variously at between 20,000 and 22,000, the largest number ever to watch a college football game in the west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0025-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\nMichigan scored the game's only points at the end of a 65-yard drive seven minutes into the first half. Willie Heston had the longest run (20 yards) on the drive, and Joe Maddock scored the touchdown on a run through the tackle from the two-yard line. Despite the close score, Wisconsin only once had the ball in Michigan's territory. The Michigan Alumnus wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0026-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\n\"The play was in Wisconsin's territory practically the whole time. They never got within striking distance of Michigan's goal, while Michigan was held at one time with the ball less than a yard from Wisconsin's goal line, at another time was held inside the 15-yard line, and still again lost the ball on a fumble on the 7-yard line.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0027-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\nThe Detroit Free Press opened its coverage of the game as follows: \"In what is conceded to be the greatest football game ever played on a western gridiron, Michigan decisively defeated Wisconsin on Marshall field this afternoon and undoubtedly won at the same time the championship of the west, though a later game must be won before that honor can be claimed.\" Four times Michigan moved the ball deep into Wisconsin territory, and all four times Michigan's field goal attempts by Lawrence and Sweeley were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0028-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\nIn the middle of the first half, a temporary bleacher at the northeast corner of the field collapsed, \"carrying with it a mass of struggling people.\" Several hundred people were thrown to the ground in the accident. The Detroit Free Press described the scene following the collapse: \"A shudder went through the grand stands, and the game was stopped. A score of men were injured, but no one were killed. The immense crowd about the gridiron took advantage of the confusion to break down the wire fence surrounding it, and hundreds swarmed onto the field. The few police were powerless to force them out, but the scrubs from both teams lined up against the crowd and shoved them away from the side lines so the game could be played.\" The game was resumed after a 15-minute delay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0029-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\nThe inadequate seating capacity of Marshall Field was blamed for the accident. The bleacher was designed to hold 400 but was crowded beyond its capacity. The facilities were insufficient for the crowd that showed for the game, and there were reports of spectators offering $20 for a ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0030-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\nThe game was played in equal halves of 35 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Palmer (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0031-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 0\nApproximately 2,000 students accompanied the team to Chicago, and an account from Chicago was relayed to Ann Arbor's Athens theater which was \"packed with students and citizens.\" When the final score was announced, the crowd of 1,500 voices sung, \"Oh! What have we done? Oh! What have we done? We have put Wisconsin on the bum. That's what we have done.\" When the Michigan team returned to Ann Arbor late in the evening, they were met by a big delegation that marched behind the bus singing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0032-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nThe Wolverines improved their record to 8-0 with a 107-0 win over Iowa. Michigan scored 17 touchdowns in the game, and its point total was the largest score ever registered against a Big Ten Conference team, and \"the largest number ever chalked up by one big university against another.\" Fielding Yost was absent from the game, choosing to travel to Minnesota to watch the Golden Gophers play in preparation for the upcoming game between the two schools. The Detroit Free Press wrote after the game that \"Yost's smile can be seen all the way from Minneapolis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0033-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nMichigan scored 65 points in the first half, and its offense dominated the game. The Michigan Alumnus reported:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0034-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\n\"[T]he versatility of Michigan's play so disconcerted the Iowa team within the first ten minutes that she seemed wholly bewildered. Delayed passes, fake kicks, double passes, end runs, line-bucks off tackle and into the line followed each other like kaleidoscopic transitions. Gains were made at every point and in every conceivable manner.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0035-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nThe Detroit Free Press also noted the innovative nature of Michigan's offensive game plan:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0036-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\n\"Michigan to-day mixed up her plays so completely that Iowa was completely bewildered. Delayed passes, double passes, ends skirting ends, halves dodging in between end and tackle after their opponents had been boxed out and in, tackles and full back hitting the line like trip hammers made the giant Hawkeyes look like a weak scrub team.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0037-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nEverett Sweeley was singled out as the star of the Iowa game for Michigan. He converted 10 goals from touchdown, punted for an average of 50 yards, kicked a field goal from the 35-yard line, and returned a punt 90 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0038-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nAfter the game, the umpire, Hoagland of Princeton, praised Michigan's blocking (then known as interference): \"If you can tell me how you are going to break such a perfect interference, four men running ahead of the man with the ball on end runs without allowing Michigan to make a score, I would like to know how it is done.\" Michigan's trainer, Keene Fitzpatrick, filled in for Yost as the on-field coach against Iowa. After the game, Fitzpatrick noted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0039-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\n\"I think our team-work today was fine. The men certainly have the right spirit. Coach Yost hated to go away. ... The last thing he said to me was, 'Keene, just before they go into the game, give them a good talk.' Well, I guess they did, and I am proud of them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0040-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nOne of the Iowa team members reported receiving a message from Iowa City: \"Oh, My. Isn't it awful. Box the remains and send them home.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0041-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nIn the first eight games of the season, Michigan had scored 537 points (67.1 points per game), more than the 506 points Michigan's 1901 team had scored in the entire regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0042-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 and 30 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Graver (left end), Palmer (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0043-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0\nMichigan returned to Marshall Field in Chicago to play Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons on November 15, 1902. Michigan won the game 21\u20130 in front of a crowd of 14,000. Before the game started, the Michigan fans in attendance released toy red balloons marked \"Chicago\" into the \"somewhat murky and frosty atmosphere.\" One Michigan fan, described as \"a long-haired collegian wearing a yellow and blue streamer, told a reporter, \"That is the way we will toss Chicago up in the air.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0044-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0\nEverett Sweeley gave Michigan a 5\u20130 lead with a field goal from a difficult angle at the 25-yard line. Later in the first half, Heston took the ball on a delayed pass and ran 71 yards for a touchdown. Michigan led 10\u20130 at halftime. In the second half, Sweeley extended Michigan's lead to 15-0 with a field goal from the 17-yard line. With approximately 10 minutes remaining in the game, left tackle William Palmer ran for a touchdown, and Sweeley converted the goal from touchdown to give Michigan its final total of 21 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0045-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0\nThe game was the second match between the two legendary coaches, Yost and Stagg. Michigan had defeated Chicago 22\u20130 in 1901. Despite the successive defeats, Stagg was credited with developing a \"magnificent defense to hold Yost's 'hurry up' offense to 21 points in 70 minutes of play.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0046-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 minutes. Raymond Starbuck was the umpire. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Palmer (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0047-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0\nMichigan defeated Oberlin 63\u20130 in the ninth game of the season. Michigan scored 28 points in the first half and 33 in the second. The speed of Michigan's \"hurry up\" offense was demonstrated by a three-play drive in which Herb Graver returned a kickoff 60 yards and Willie Heston ran the remaining 40 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0048-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0\nEarly in the second half, Herb Graver fumbled the ball at Michigan's 10-yard line, and the ball was recovered by Oberlin. On a fake field goal, Oberlin took the ball to the four-yard line but was unable to advance the ball further and missed a field goal attempt. Michigan's Herrnstein and Sweeley were both taken out of the game with injuries to their knees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0049-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0\nWith Minnesota's head coach Henry L. Williams and five of his players attending the game to scout the Wolverines, Michigan's quarterback Boss Weeks did not open up the great variety of Michigan's plays and \"did not pull much down out of his sleeve for their edification.\" Only once did Michigan run one of its renowned trick plays, a double pass to Everett Sweeley that was good for 15 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0050-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0\nAfter the game, the umpire, Allen of Chicago, was asked what he thought of the Michigan team and responded: \"Why, it goes without saying that Michigan is a wonder. It is the greatest team I ever saw, and I have watched a lot of them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0051-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0\nThe game was a benchmark game in which Michigan could be compared to the best teams in the east. Cornell had defeated Oberlin 57\u20130 earlier in the year, and the Detroit Free Press suggested that Michigan's victory by a greater margin \"may give the easterners an eye-opener.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0052-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0\nWith the popularity of the \"Point-a-Minute\" tradition at Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported: \"The score is one of particularly gratification to Michigan's enthusiasts as it makes Yost's whirlwinds secure a record that never was equalled before, and probably never will be again. Michigan started out the season with as tough a schedule apparently as any team in the west, and if anybody had made a break that this aggregation would be a 'point to the minute' team the man who made the assertion would have been the guy of the town. Yet now, having played 540 minutes, this scoring machine has piled up 621 points, and even if Michigan is shut out by Minnesota in seventy minutes of play the Wolverines will have obtained an average that is the greatest feat in gridiron history.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0053-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0\nThe game was played in halves of 30 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Cole (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0054-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6\nIn the final game of the 1902 season, Michigan defeated Minnesota 23\u20136 on Thanksgiving Day. The game got under way at 2:15\u00a0p.m. on a brisk afternoon in Ann Arbor. Michigan took the opening kickoff and sustained a 90-yard, seven-minute drive ending with a touchdown by Joe Maddock and a goal after touchdown by Everett Sweeley. The Detroit Free Press reported that, during the opening drive, \"the Minnesota line was hurled back, again and again, like that of a minor college eleven.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0054-0001", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6\nMichigan's second touchdown came on an end run by Heston from the 35-yard line, with Sweeley again kicking the goal to give Michigan a 12\u20130 lead at halftime. At halftime, South Bend, Indiana resident Louis Elbel conducted the Michigan band as it played a song Elbel had composed four years earlier which was then known as \"The Champions of the West\" (now known as \"The Victors\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0055-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6\nIn the second half, the Golden Gophers scored after Boss Weeks missed the catch on a punt. The ball contacted Weeks and bounded past him. Flynn of Minnesota recovered the ball and ran for a touchdown, only the second touchdown scored against Michigan since Fielding Yost took over as head coach in 1901. Michigan's leading scorer, Albert Herrnstein, was pulled from the game in the second half due to an injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0055-0001", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6\nThe Detroit Free Press described Herrnstein's removal from his final game for Michigan as follows: \"He had been laid out a number of times, but refused to quit the game until he was unable to stand. Then, crying, he was dragged off the field by trainer Keene Fitzpatrick.\" On its next drive, Michigan was stopped at Minnesota's 25-yard line, and Sweeley kicked a field goal for five points to give the Wolverines a 17\u20136 lead. Sweeley's field goal was converted from a difficult angle, and its success \"set the rooters wild.\" Later in the game, Heston scored the game's final touchdown on a run from the 35-yard line, as he hurdled over a Minnesota tackler. Sweeley added the goal after touchdown to give Michigan the win at 23\u20136. With the win, Michigan completed its second consecutive perfect season under Fielding Yost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0056-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6\nThe game was played in equal halves of 35 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Cole (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Graver (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0057-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason\nThe 1902 Michigan football team won Michigan's second consecutive western football championship. Although there was no mechanism in place at the time for the selection of a national champion, the 1902 Wolverines have been recognized as the national championship team by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. The team finished the season undefeated and untied, having prevailed in all eleven of their games by a combined score of 644 to 12. The 1902 squad was the second of five consecutive high-scoring teams that came to be known as Coach Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams. From 1901 to 1905, Yost's teams compiled a record of 55\u20131\u20131 and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 2,821 to 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0058-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason\nTeam captain and quarterback Boss Weeks wrote a review of the 1902 season for the 1903 yearbook, the Michiganensian. Weeks opened his review as follows: \"The story of the football season of 1902 is easily told. Champions of the West, with no one to dispute it.\" In the same publication, Fielding Yost published a 15-point essay entitled, \"Why Michigan Is Great.\" Some of Yost's points included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0059-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason\n\"First. Speed. Both as a team and in the individual players, Michigan was speedy. ...Second. Knowledge of the Game. All of the Michigan players were well versed in the fundamental principles of the game in every department. ... Third. Endurance. the men are of wonderful endurance. This is much due to their fine training ...Fourth. Spirit. Among the players there is the finest of fellow-feeling. The men's love of the game had helped give them the proper spirit. They have the desire to win -- the spirit of fighters.Fifth. Team Work. Michigan's team work has been wonderful. ... Seventh. Weight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0059-0001", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason\nMichigan had a well-balanced team. The average was 182 pounds very equally distributed. But one man weighed over 200 pounds (Carter) and but one less than 170 pounds (Weeks at quarterback).Eighth. Style of Attack. Michigan varied her onslaughts very much, depending largely upon the style of defense used by the team opposing it. Every man on the team was used to carry the ball, thus distributing the work.Ninth. Generalship. Captain Weeks deserves great credit for Michigan's success. As a leader of forces and strategist I believe he has no equal on the gridiron today. ...Tenth. Punting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0059-0002", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason\nIn Sweeley, Michigan has one of the greatest kickers in the country. Never has he had a kick blocked in his four years' play at Michigan. ... Twelfth. Defense. Michigan's defensive playing has been wonderful. No team was able to cross Michigan's goal on straight football in the last two years ... Fifteenth. Met All Teams. Michigan's schedule was far harder than that usually arranged for a team. She played five state universities and all the strong Western teams.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0060-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Awards and honors\nSeveral players received postseason honors:Joseph Maddock, Willie Heston, and captain Boss Weeks were selected All-America by the Newark Advocate. Weeks made Casper Whitney's second team. Maddock, Heston, Weeks, Everett Sweeley Paul J. Jones, Curtis Redden, and Dan McGugin all made All-Western.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0061-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Popularity of football on campus\nWith the success of Yost's football team, football enjoyed a surge of popularity on Michigan's campus in 1902. Even the student literary magazine, The Inlander, which usually filled its pages with poems, short stories, and essays by students, gave its entire December 1902 issue to a celebration of the football team. The special issue featured a photograph of Yost on the cover and included all manner of facts and figures on the popular team. Noting the popularity of the sport with Michigan's female students, Detroit Free Press in November 1902 wrote about the spectators in attendance at Michigan's home game against Minnesota:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0062-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Popularity of football on campus\n\"But the dominant note of the gathering was the girl. She was there in every type and style, in every section of the stands and on every row. There was the college girl and the town girl, sweater girl and gown girl. And whatever type of girl she was elsewhere, she was always the Michigan girl.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0063-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Michigan's lineup during the 1902 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics Yost's short punt formation while on offense, with the quarterback under center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0064-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 14 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1902 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0065-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, 1902 players who became coaches\nFielding Yost earned a reputation as an innovator of the sport. His \"Point-a-Minute\" teams at Michigan compiled an overall record of 43-0-1 from 1901 to 1905 and outscored their opponents 2,326 to 40. The unprecedented performance of these teams created a demand for Yost's players, known as the \"Yost-men\", to serve as head coaches at other schools. Ten of the 14 lettermen on Yost's 1902 team became college football head coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0065-0001", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, 1902 players who became coaches\nDan McGugin, who played left guard for the 1902 team, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as head coach at Vanderbilt from 1904 to 1934. And end/tackle William C. \"King\" Cole led the Nebraska Cornhuskers to two Missouri Valley Conference championships. The 1902 Michigan players who went on to head coaching positions are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033803-0066-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Scoring leaders\nThe following chart accounts for the 644 points scored by the 1902 football team and is based on the box scores published in 1902 by the Detroit Free Press\" and The Michigan Alumnus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033804-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Aaron T. Bliss defeated Democratic candidate Lorenzo T. Durand with 52.52% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033804-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination\nIncumbent Governor Aaron T. Bliss was re-nominated with the first ballot at the 1902 Republican convention on June 26 in Detroit. Bliss received 811 votes on the ballot and Justus Smith Stearns received 214. Another 62 votes were split among candidates named Horton and Patton. They receiving 40 and 22 votes respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033804-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nInitially, during the 1902 Michigan Democratic Convention on July 31 in Detroit, George H. Durand was nominated for the gubernatorial election. Former congressman Timothy E. Tarsney was the first to nominate him. The convention was divided by the issue of bimetallism, with some Democrats supporting the policy of free silver, and some supporting the use of the gold standard. Durand supported the gold standard, but was eventually agreed upon between the factions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033804-0002-0001", "contents": "1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nAfter four ballots, Durand was unanimously nominated by the convention, and the leader of the free silver faction, State Senator James W. Helme Jr. who had competed for Durand for nomination, threw his support behind Durand as well. Durand was not present at the convention, and had been removed from political life for around six years at the time of his nomination. Durand would go on to accept the nomination. The platform adopted by the convention focused on state issues, and criticized the Republican controlled state administration for perceived corruption and incompetency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033804-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nIn early September, Durand suffered a paralyzing stroke due to a cerebral embolism. Though he initially planned to continue his gubernatorial run, by September 25, Durand's health forced him to withdraw his candidacy. Bimetallism continued to be a dividing issue in seeking a new candidate for governor. The silver faction of the party wanted to reconvene the convention to decide on another nominee, but the gold faction wanted to have the Democratic state central committee vote on a replacement. On September 30, after three hours of debate, the committee voted to fill the vacancy. Lorenzo T. Durand, the brother of George and fellow advocate of the gold standard, was selected with 14 votes on the second formal ballot. Charles R. Sligh, representing the silver faction of the party, got 10 votes on that ballot. Lorenzo's nomination was made unanimous with a third ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 957]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033804-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Prohibitionist Party nomination\nOn August 8, Walter S. Westerman of Adrain was nominated by the 1902 Prohibitionist state convention in Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033804-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Socialist Party nomination\nOn March 1, the Socialist state convention in Flint had an attendance of nine delegates. William E. Walter of Detroit was nominated for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033805-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1902 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their third year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 9\u20132\u20131 record (3\u20131 against Western Conference opponents), finished in third place in the conference, shut out nine of their twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 335 to 34. The Gophers' 102 points against Grinnell on November 1, was the largest point total to that date in the program's history and the first time a Minnesota team scored 100 or more points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033806-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Minnesota Senate election\nThe 1902 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 4, 1902, to elect members to the Senate of the 33rd and 34th Minnesota Legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033806-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Minnesota Senate election\nTwo years after Democrat John Lind lost the governorship to Republican Samuel Rinnah Van Sant, the Minnesota Democratic Party was set to lose seats in the Senate. Without Lind, the Party lost the third party support that they had consolidated in 1898. The People's Party ran candidates against a handful of Democratic candidates in rural areas, hurting Democratic prospects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033806-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Minnesota Senate election\nThe Minnesota Republican Party won a large majority of seats, followed by the Minnesota Democratic Party. The new Legislature convened on January 6, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033807-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1902. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Samuel Rinnah Van Sant defeated Democratic Party of Minnesota challenger Leonard A. Rosing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033808-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1902. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Ray W. Jones of the Republican Party of Minnesota defeated Minnesota Democratic Party challenger Robert A. Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033809-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033810-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1902 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team compiled a 5-3 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 99 to 80. Pat O'Dea was the head coach for the first and only season. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033811-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Montana Agricultural football team\nThe 1902 Montana Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach J. E. Flynn, the team compiled a 4\u20130\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 94 to 22. With two victories over the Montana School of Mines and a 38\u20130 victory on Thanksgiving Day over the University of Montana, the Agricultural College was declared to be the champion of Montana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033812-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Montana football team\nThe 1902 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1902 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Dewitt Peck, and finished the season with a record of zero wins and two losses (0\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033813-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1902 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their second year under head coach W. H. Rorke, the team compiled a 5\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033814-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team\nThe 1902 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team represented the University of Nashville during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was coached by Neil Snow. Transylvania's W. Yancey ran for two 80-yard touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033814-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team\nAfter the season, Snow resigned never to coach again, accepting a construction position in New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033815-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1902 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1902 college football season. In their second season under head coach Art Hillebrand, the Midshipmen compiled a 2\u20137\u20131 record and were outscored by opponents by a combined score of 99 to 35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1902 college football season. The team was coached by third-year head coach Walter C. Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nNU compiled a 9\u20130 record and shut out every opponent by a combined score of 164\u20130. NU's hopes to be considered the Western Champion were dashed when 11\u20130 Michigan was selected instead selected following their season-ending 23\u20136 win over Minnesota (Nebraska defeated the Gophers 6\u20130). Believing Michigan's membership in the Big Nine Conference elevated its title chance, Nebraska applied to the conference following the season, but the application was denied on account of Lincoln's distance from other schools in the Big Nine. Nebraska would ultimately join the conference over 100 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBell, Johnny HBBender, Johnny HBBenedict, Maurice QBBorg, Charles CBriggs TCortelyou, Spencer ECotton, Charles RGEngelhart, William FBFollmer, Eugene EHunter, Fred RGMason, Cyrus LTMickel, Oliver FBRinger, John LGShedd, Charlie ESymondynes HBThorpe, Orley QBTobin, John GWestover, John RTWilson, Harry LT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Lincoln High\nFor the fourth consecutive season, NU opened the year with an exhibition game against Lincoln High School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Colorado\nNebraska met Colorado for the second time in Boulder. A touchdown in each half and a stiff defensive effort secured Nebraska's third straight shutout victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Grinnell\nNebraska was shorthanded due to injury, but the Cornhuskers posted another shutout victory on a rainy day in Lincoln.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nNebraska traveled to Minneapolis to face the Gophers for a third time. The game remained scoreless until the final minutes, when the Cornhuskers scored a touchdown for what would be the only points of the day. Minnesota lost only one other game the rest of the season, outscoring its opponents 335\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nMeeting Missouri on new neutral ground, in St. Joseph for the first time, the Cornhuskers ended an early scoring attempt by Missouri at the Nebraska 7-yard line, and then shut down the Tigers for the rest of the day, while making two touchdowns of their own to extend the shutout streak to 6, and the series lead to 8-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nNebraska ran its shutout streak to seven consecutive games, thanks in part to a \"trick placekick\", that was instead run for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Knox\nNebraska hosted Knox in the first game between the teams, in what would become one of only two one-score game NU played all season. Knox held Nebraska to just seven points, but the Cornhuskers made a goal-line stand in the second half to record an eighth consecutive shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033816-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern\nNebraska met Northwestern in the first matchup between teams that would become division rivals over 100 years later when NU joined the Big Ten. Northwestern players complained of rough treatment from NU throughout the penalty-ridden game. Nebraska was penalized for seven holding penalties, each of which required turning over the ball according to the rules of the time, but held Northwestern scoreless for a ninth straight shutout win to end the season with a perfect record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033817-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033817-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Ezra P. Savage did not stand for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033817-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee John H. Mickey defeated Democratic and Populist fusion nominee William Henry Thompson with 49.69% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033818-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Budapesti TC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033819-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1902 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its second season under head coach Allen Steckle, the team compiled a 1\u20132 record. W. A. \"Art\" Keddie and B.B. Smith were assistant coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033820-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Nevada gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Nevada gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. The Silver Party nominee \"Honest\" John Sparks defeated Republican nominee Abner Coburn Cleveland, with 6,540 votes to his opponents 4,778. He succeeded fellow Silver Party Governor Reinhold Sadler in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033820-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Nevada gubernatorial election, General election\nUnlike in 1898, when Silver Party Governor Reinhold Sadler faced off against Republican, Democratic, and Populist candidates, the state Democratic Party, the Populists, and the state Silver Party had essentially merged into one electoral vehicle (reflected in William Jennings Bryan's landslide victory in the state two years prior in the 1896 Presidential election, only four years after a Populist landslide). Cattleman John Sparks won and become the third of four Silver Party governor in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033820-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Nevada gubernatorial election, General election\nRepublican nominee A. C. Cleveland would die the following year, in 1903, and Sparks himself would die a year before his second term ended, in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033821-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1902 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1902 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 2\u20133\u20131, under direction of the program's first head coach, John Scannell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033821-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033821-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe New Hampshire College Monthly is clear that the Boston College game was played on Saturday, October 25, in Dover; College Football Data Warehouse and the University's media guide list the game as having been played on October 24 in Durham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033821-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nIn addition to the varsity games listed above, New Hampshire's second team (reserves) lost to the Exeter Academy second team, 5\u20130, and defeated a team of Exeter Academy seniors, 32\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033822-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Republican nominee Nahum J. Bachelder defeated Democratic nominee Henry F. Hollis with 53.19% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033823-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1902 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1902 college football season. In their third year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20131\u20132 record and were outscored by a total of 6 to 0. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033824-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 New York Giants season\nThe 1902 New York Giants season was the franchise's 20th season. The team finished with a 48\u201388 record, in eighth and last place in the National League, 53+1\u20442 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. Their .353 winning percentage remains the worst in franchise history. At the end of September, owner Andrew Freedman left baseball, with John T. Brush taking over as majority owner and team president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033824-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033824-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033824-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033824-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election\nThe 1902 New York state election was held on November 4, 1902, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer, the state engineer and a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, History\nThe \"Liberal Democratic\" state convention met at Cooper Union in Manhattan. This party was composed of Bryan Democrats, Chicago Platform Democrats and former Populists which were fiercely opposed to Democratic boss David B. Hill. Judge Samuel Seabury was Permanent Chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 New York state election, History\nThey nominated Edgar L. Ryder for Governor; J. C. Corbin, of St. Lawrence County, for Lieutenant Governor; John B. Howarth, of Buffalo, for Secretary of State; De Myre S. Fero for Comptroller; Daniel B. Casley, of Westchester County, for Treasurer; Dennis Spellissey, of New York City, for Attorney General; John E. Dugan, of Albany County, for State Engineer; and Robert Stewart, of Brooklyn, for the Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, History\nThe Social Democratic state convention met on July 4 at 64, East Fourth Street in Manhattan. They nominated Benjamin Hanford for Governor; William Thurston Brown, of Rochester, for Lieutenant Governor; Leonard D. Abbott for Secretary of State; Gen. Lawrence Mayes, of New York City, for Attorney General; Warren Atkinson, of Brooklyn, for Comptroller; Joel Moses, of Rochester, for Treasurer; Everitt Holmes, of Peekskill, for State Engineer; and John F. Clarke, of New York City, for the Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, History\nThe Socialist Labor state convention met on August 30 at Utica, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, History\nThe Prohibition state convention met on September 5 at Saratoga, New York. Alfred L. Manierre, of New York City, was Temporary Chairman until the choice of Alphonso A. Hopkins as Permanent Chairman. They nominated Manierre for Governor; Alfred A. Hartman, of Albion, for Lieutenant Governor; Alden W. Young, of Oswego, for Secretary of State; Samuel Mitchell, of Hornellsville, for Treasurer; James McNeil, of Hudson, for Comptroller; Emmett F. Smith for State Engineer; Erwin J. Baldwin, of Elmira, for the Court of Appeals; and endorsed Democrat John Cunneen for Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, History\nThe Republican state convention met on September 23 and 24 at Saratoga, New York. Timothy E. Ellsworth was Permanent Chairman. Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., was re-nominated after a roll call in which all votes were cast for him. All other state officers were nominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic state convention met on September 30 and October 1 at Saratoga, New York. Martin W. Littleton was Permanent Chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, Result\nSix Republicans and two Democrats were elected in a tight race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, Result\n28 Republicans and 22 Democrats were elected to a two-year term (1903\u201304) in the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, Result\n89 Republicans and 61 Democrats were elected for the session of 1903 to the New York State Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, Result\nThe Republican, Democratic, Social Democratic, Prohibition and Socialist Labor parties maintained automatic ballot status (necessary 10,000 votes for Governor).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033825-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 New York state election, Result\nObs. : \"Blank and scattering\" votes: 8,901 (Judge), 8,737 (Attorney), 6,632 (Governor)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033826-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 New Zealand general election\nThe New Zealand general election of 1902 was held on Tuesday, 25 November, in the general electorates, and on Monday, 22 December in the M\u0101ori electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 15th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 415,789 (76.7%) voters turned out to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033826-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 New Zealand general election\nThe Rev Frank Isitt was nominated as the Prohibitionist candidate for ten separate electorates, and came second in eight. Another candidate, David Whyte, was nominated for two. Both men stood to ensure that a local liquor licensing poll was held in each electorate for which they were nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033826-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 New Zealand general election, 1902 electoral redistribution\nThe Representation Act 1900 had increased the membership of the House of Representatives from general electorates 70 to 76, and this was implemented through the 1902 electoral redistribution. In 1902, changes to the country quota affected the three-member electorates in the four main centres. The tolerance between electorates was increased to \u00b11,250 so that the Representation Commissions (since 1896, there had been separate commissions for the North and South Islands) could take greater account of communities of interest. These changes proved very disruptive to existing boundaries. Six electorates were established for the first time: Courtenay, Newtown, Grey Lynn , Hurunui, Oroua, and Kaipara. Two electorates that previously existed were re-established: Mount Ida and Hutt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033826-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 New Zealand general election, 1902 electoral redistribution\nThis boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of three electorates:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033826-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 New Zealand general election, Results\nFrank Isitt, a Methodist minister, stood in ten seats as a Prohibition candidate, and came second in eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033826-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 New Zealand general election, Results, Party totals\nThe following table gives party strengths and vote distribution according to Wilson (1985), who records Maori representatives as Independents prior to the 1905 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033826-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 New Zealand general election, Electorate results\nThe following are the results of the 1902 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033827-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1902 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1902 college football season. In Art Devlin's first season as head coach, the Aggies improved to a 3\u20134\u20132 record, outscoring their opponents 91 to 41.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033828-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1902 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033829-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1902 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach Eddie Cochems, the team compiled a 4\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 168 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033829-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe season was part of a three-year, 17-game winning streak that began on November 19, 1900, and ended on November 21, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033830-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 North Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Frank White defeated Democratic nominee J. Cronan with 62.68% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033831-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 North Kilkenny by-election\nThe 1902 North Kilkenny by-election was held on 26 February 1902 after resignation of the incumbent MP Patrick McDermott of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The IPP's candidate Joseph Devlin was unopposed and so was returned as the MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033832-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 North-West Territories general election\nThe 1902 North-West Territories general election, occurred on 21 May 1902 and was the fifth general election in the history of the North-West Territories, Canada. It was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories. This was the last election held until 1951, and was the last in the Northwest Territories (NWT) to have political parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033832-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 North-West Territories general election\nFrederick W. A. G. Haultain and the Liberal-Conservatives continued with government. Donald H. McDonald was thrust into being the Liberal leader just days before the vote, with the surprise decision by Robert Brett to drop out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033832-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 North-West Territories general election\nIn 1905, the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of North-West Territories, and they took most of the voting population with them. The government of NWT reverted to an appointed consensus model of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033832-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 North-West Territories general election\nCandidates in this election were not nominated by the party in a contested nomination as with modern elections, but rather proclaimed their support for the governing party or opposition party, or Independent. During the election race some candidates shifted their alignment. The result was a confusing mess, and the bulk of candidates proclaimed support for the already governing Liberal-Conservative party, leaving the Liberals without candidates in many districts. Lethbridge ended up being contested by two government supporting candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033832-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 North-West Territories general election\n1902 would also see the largest number of MLAs elected to the North-West Territories Legislature in the territories' history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033832-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 North-West Territories general election, Members of the Legislative Assembly elected\nNote:* Sources are conflicted on Richard Bennett as to whether he was a Liberal or Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 89], "content_span": [90, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033833-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1902 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1902 college football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach John A. H. Keith. The team finished the season with a 5\u20131\u20131 record. Sanford Givens was the team's captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033834-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1902 Northwestern Purple football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1902 Western Conference football season. In its fourth season under head coach Charles M. Hollister, the team compiled a 6\u20136 record (0\u20134 against Western Conference opponents), won its first five-game before losing six of seven games, and finished in a tie for last place in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033835-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 1902 Norwegian Football Cup was the first season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. This was an invitation tournament organised by Kristiania IF and NFF, which was later given official status. Five teams joined this competition, and Odd reached the final without playing a match. Grane won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033836-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1902 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1902 college football season. In its first season with James Farragher as coach, the team compiled a 6\u20132\u20131 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 203 to 51. Against Indiana, Notre Dame became the first team to defeat the Hoosiers on Jordan Field, a 17-game stretch that started with the field's renaming in 1898. Indiana's full home win streak extended to 23 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033837-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ohio Medical football team\nThe 1902 Ohio Medical football team was an American football team that represented the Ohio State University College of Medicine in the 1902 college football season. The medics compiled an impressive 9\u20131 record, shutting out eight opponents, and outscoring them 252 to 11. Their sole loss was against Notre Dame, who won by a single point, 6 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033838-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1902 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University during the 1902 college football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 6\u20132\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 172 to 136 in their first season under head coach Perry Hale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033839-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1902 college football season. This was the second year of football at A&M and the team did not have a head coach. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. The Aggies only played one game in the 1902 season, a 40-0 victory over the Central State Normal School club. This was A&M's first undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033839-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team\nNOTE: The 2016 Oklahoma State Cowboys Football Guide states that the college did not field an official team in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033840-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1902 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1902 college football season. In their first year under head coach Mark McMahon, the Sooners compiled a 6\u20133 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 175 to 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033841-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1902 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033842-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario general election\nThe 1902 Ontario general election was the tenth general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on May 29, 1902, to elect the 98 Members of the 10th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (\"MLAs\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033842-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario general election\nThe Ontario Liberal Party, led by Sir George William Ross, formed the government for a ninth consecutive term, although with only a very slim, two-seat majority in the Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033842-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario general election\nThe Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney formed the official opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033842-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario general election, Notable candidates\nMargaret Haile, a Canadian Socialist League candidate in Toronto North, made history as the first woman ever to run for political office in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033842-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario general election, Further reading\nThis elections in Canada-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033843-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario prohibition referendum\nAn Ontario prohibition referendum was held on December 4, 1902, under the Liquor Act, on the legality of alcoholic beverages and the implementation of prohibition in the province. Though the referendum passed, a majority of half of the voters in the 1898 election did not support the motion and prohibition was not introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033843-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario prohibition referendum, Referendum question\nAre you in favour of bringing into force Part II of The Liquor Act, 1902?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033843-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario prohibition referendum, Referendum question\nThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had previously ruled in 1896 that provinces do not have the authority to prohibit the importation of alcohol. Part II of the Liquor Act would authorize prohibition to the extent that Ontario would be allowed to enact, specifically a ban on the sale of alcohol in bars and retail establishments and the placement of restrictions on the sale of alcohol in restaurants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033843-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Ontario prohibition referendum, Results\nPart II of the Liquor Act required (1) a majority of votes in the referendum and (2) more than half of the number of votes in the 1898 election to pass the legislation; the second requirement was not met. The turnout rate was estimated to be no more than 30 percent of the electorate, and prohibition was not adopted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033844-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Open Championship\nThe 1902 Open Championship was the 42nd Open Championship, held 4\u20135 June at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England. Sandy Herd won the Championship, a stroke ahead of runners-up James Braid and Harry Vardon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033844-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Open Championship\nAll entries played 36 holes on the first day with all those within 19 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033844-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Open Championship\nVardon sliced his first two shots out of bounds at the 1st hole and took six, there being no penalty stroke for out of bounds at that time. However, he played the rest of the round so well that his score of 72 was four shots ahead of the second place Willie Fernie, the 1883 champion. Vardon again started badly in the afternoon but his 77 still gave him a four shot lead over Herd and Ted Ray. 45 players, including nine amateurs, made the cut on 168.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033844-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Open Championship\nThe next morning, Herd shot 73, four strokes better than anyone else. This gave him a three stroke lead over Vardon who had taken 80. Braid, J.H. Taylor and Tom Vardon were in third place, eight strokes behind Herd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033844-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Open Championship\nHerd started his final round well but took six at the 8th and 9th holes and then 5 at the short 11th. Another shot was dropped at the short 13th and he eventually finished in 81. Harry Vardon took six at the 3rd and 8th but then rallied and needed a four at the last to tie with Herd. However, he three putted to finish a shot behind. Braid was the final player with a change to match Herd. Reaching the turn in 40, the same as Herd, he need to come back in 33 to tie. He had a putt at the last to tie but missed to finish in a tie for second place with Vardon. The amateur Robert Maxwell matched Braid's 74 to finish in fourth place, the only player under 80 in all four rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033845-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Fred Herbold, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20131\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 157 to 16. The Aggies defeated Willamette (two games, 67-0 and 21-0), McMinnville High School (33-0), and Pacific University (31-0), lost to Washington (5-16), and tied with Oregon (0-0). John Gault was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033846-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1902 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1902 college football season. It was the Webfoots' ninth season, and they competed as an independent. They were led by head coach Marion Dolph, and they finished the season with a record of three wins, one loss and three ties (3\u20131\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033847-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Oregon gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on June 2, 1902 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. The election matched Republican W. J. Furnish against Democrat George Earle Chamberlain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033847-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Oregon gubernatorial election\nThe Republican Party nominating convention was held on April 2, 1906. Incumbent governor Theodore Thurston Geer and C. A. Johns of Baker City had withdrawn their candidacy, and mayor of Pendleton W. J. Furnish was nominated on the first ballot against H. E. Ankeny of Jackson County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election\nOrkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. In the Scottish Parliament, Orkney and Shetland are separate constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election\nThe Orkney and Shetland by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Vacancy\nCathcart Wason had been Liberal Unionist MP for the seat of Orkney and Shetland since 1900. In July 1902, he decided to cross the floor of the House to sit with the Liberal opposition. Leaving the Liberal Unionist Party, he cited Government policy on the army, the Education Bill and the Irish land question. He faced criticism from the Unionists in his constituency and following pressure, he resigned his seat on 7 October 1902 to contest the subsequent by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Electoral history\nSince 1885, the seat had been always comfortably returned the Liberal Party candidate. Then the seat was surprisingly gained by Wason; albeit with a narrow majority of forty votes, standing as a Liberal Unionist in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Campaign\nPolling Days were fixed for the 18\u201319 November 1902, over five weeks after Wason's resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Result\nWason remarkably held his seat, with an increased majority of 411 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Result\nImmediately following his re-election, Wason re-took the Liberal Party whip in the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Aftermath\nBy the time of the 1906 general election, Wason had been fully integrated with the local Liberal Party and was re-elected as their official candidate;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033848-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Aftermath\nMcKinnon Wood was elected Liberal MP for Glasgow St Rollox at the 1906 general election. Angier was knighted in 1904 and contested unsuccessfully, Gateshead at the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033849-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1902 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the seventh\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 30 March 1902 and stretched 268\u00a0km (167\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Lucien Lesna from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033850-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1902 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1902 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9\u20134 record in their first year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included victories over Penn State (17\u20130), Columbia (17\u20130), and Cornell (12\u201311), and losses to Navy (10\u20136), Harvard (11\u20130), and Carlisle (5\u20139). The 1902 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 157 to 68. Three Penn players received recognition on the 1902 College Football All-America Team: end Sol Metzger (Walter Camp, 3rd team); tackle Robert Torrey (Caspar Whitney, 2nd team); and center James F. McCabe (Camp, 3rd team).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033851-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Penn State football team\nThe 1902 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team was coached by Pop Golden and played its home games in Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033852-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on November 4, 1902. Republican candidate Samuel W. Pennypacker defeated Democratic candidate and former Governor Robert E. Pattison to become Governor of Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033853-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Athletics (NFL) season\nThe 1902 Philadelphia Athletics football season was their first season in existence. The team played in the first National Football League and finished with an overall record of 10-2-2, including a 3-2-1 record in league play. The team claimed to have won the league championship, however the Pittsburgh Stars were given the title for having a better point ratio, scoring 39 points to their NFL opponents' 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033854-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Athletics season\nThe 1902 Philadelphia Athletics season was a season in American baseball. The team finished first in the American League with a record of 83 wins and 53 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033854-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Regular season\nIn 1902, the Philadelphia Phillies obtained an injunction, effective only in Pennsylvania, barring Athletics' second baseman Nap Lajoie from playing baseball for any team other than the Phillies. Lajoie had played for the Athletics in 1901, and appeared in just one game in 1902 before the injunction went into effect. The American League responded by transferring Lajoie's contract to the Cleveland Bronchos, who were subsequently known as the \"Naps\" in Lajoie's honor for several seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033854-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033854-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033854-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033854-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033855-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies (NFL) season\nThe 1902 Philadelphia Phillies football season was their second season in existence. This season the team, was sponsored by the Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Club and played in the first National Football League. The team finished with an overall record of 8-3, including a 2-3 record in league play to finish third in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033856-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1902 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in American baseball. The team finished seventh in the National League with a record of 56\u201381, 46 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033856-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nIn 1902, the Phillies obtained an injunction, effective only in Pennsylvania, barring Nap Lajoie from playing baseball for any team other than the Phillies. The American League responded by transferring Lajoie's contract to the Cleveland Indians, then known as the Bronchos and subsequently renamed the \"Naps\" in Lajoie's honor for several seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033856-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033856-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033856-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033856-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033856-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033857-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1902 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033858-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates won a second straight National League pennant, by an overwhelming 27.5 game margin over the Brooklyn Superbas. It was the Pirates' first ever 100-win team, and still holds the franchise record for best winning percentage at home (.789). The team finished with a league-best record of 103-36.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033858-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nGinger Beaumont won the batting title with a .357 mark, Tommy Leach led the league in home runs with 6 (a major league record for fewest HRs to lead the league), Honus Wagner led the league in RBI with 91, and Jack Chesbro led the league with 28 wins. As a team, the Pirates led the league in every significant batting category, the last time that has been done in the NL. They scored 775 runs, which was 142 more than any other team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033858-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe team allowed four home runs during their 1902 season, the fewest in MLB history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033858-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033858-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033858-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033858-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033859-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Pittsburgh Stars season\nThe 1902 Pittsburgh Stars football season was their first and only season in existence. The team played in the first National Football League and finished with an overall record of 9-2-1, including a 2-2-1 record in league play. The team was named the league's champions for having a better point ratio, scoring 39 points to their NFL opponents' 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033860-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1902 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 8\u20131 record under first-year head coach Garrett Cochran. The Tigers won their first eight games, including seven shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 164 to 17. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12\u20135 score against Yale. Princeton guard John DeWitt, who later won the silver medal in the hammer throw at the 1904 Summer Olympics, was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1902 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033861-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Puerto Rican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Puerto Rico in 1902. Since they were held under the colonial rule of the United States, only municipalities were able to democratically elect their representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033862-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1902 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their first season under head coach Charles Best, the Boilermakers compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record, finished in fifth place in the Western Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 315 to 68. Harry G. Leslie was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033863-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Queensland state election\nElections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 March 1902 to elect the members of the state's Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033863-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Queensland state election, Key dates\nThis was the first Queensland general election to be conducted on a single day. In the past, due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033863-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Queensland state election, Results\nQueensland state election, 11 March 1902Legislative Assembly << 1899\u20131904 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033864-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Democratic nominee Lucius F. C. Garvin defeated incumbent Republican Charles D. Kimball with 53.99% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033865-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1902 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Led by Graham Hobson in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 3\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl\nOriginally titled the \"Tournament East\u2013West football game,\" what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902, at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, starting the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl\nThe inaugural game featured Fielding H. Yost's dominating 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, representing the East, who crushed a 3\u20131\u20132 team from Stanford University, representing the West, by a score of 49\u20130 after Stanford captain Ralph Fisher requested to quit with eight minutes remaining. Michigan finished the season 11\u20130 and was considered a national champion. Yost had been Stanford's coach the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Organization of the game\nThe Tournament of Roses Parade began in 1890 as a New Year's Day tradition in the City of Pasadena. The city boosters were exploring a way to bring in tourism and money to the area. The Tournament of Roses Association president, James Wagner, guaranteed $3,500 to cover the expenses of bringing the football teams of the University of Michigan and Stanford University to Pasadena to play. The admission price was 50 cents to $1 to see the game. An additional $1 would be charged to admit a family's horse and buggy to the grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0002-0001", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Organization of the game\nThe game was played in Tournament Park, where temporary stands were built. The officials were David Brown, referee (a graduate of Stanford and a former football manager); W. K. Peasley, umpire (a graduate of Williams); Phil Wilson, head linesman (a graduate of Stanford and former player) and C. G. Roe, linesman; Jack Sheehan (a graduate of Stanford) and H. K. Crafts, timers. The game kicked off at 2:30 o'clock sharp at the park on the corner of California Street and Wilson Avenue in Pasadena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Tournament Park\nBefore the Rose Bowl stadium was built for the 1923 Rose Bowl, games were played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately three miles southeast of the current stadium. Tournament Park is now a private park maintained by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. It was simply known as the \"town lot\" before being renamed Tournament Park in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Teams\nStanford had played the Olympic Club and Reliance Club twice, beating and tying each. They beat Nevada, 12\u20130, then lost to Cal in the eleventh Big Game, 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Teams\nThe 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team was nicknamed the \"Point-a-Minute\" team when they came to Pasadena to play the game. The Wolverines had racked up 501 points while allowing their opponents no points at all. The 49 points they scored in the 1902 Rose Bowl game brought their season total to 550 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nThe game was so lopsided that for the next 13 years, the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races, ostrich races, and other various events instead of football. But, on New Year's Day 1916 football returned to stay as Washington State University defeated Brown University in the first annual Tournament of Roses football game. At Stanford, rugby replaced football from the 1906 season through the 1917 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nIn record keeping, Neil Snow's five touchdowns are noted along with the \"modern\" Rose Bowl record of four touchdowns held by Eric Ball, Sam Cunningham, and Ron Dayne. Snow was named the Most Valuable Player of the game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nThe initial attendance has varied according to different sources. The ESPN BCS article lists the attendance as 8,500. The Michigan football media guide and Michigan articles list the attendance as 8,000. The Official 2007 NCAA Division I football records book lists the attendance at 8,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nTournament Park would be the site for the second to eighth Rose Bowl Games from 1916 to 1922 before the Rose Bowl stadium opened for the 1923 Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nAs of 2016, Stanford has appeared in the Rose Bowl 15 times, third most, and Michigan has appeared 20 times, second most.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033866-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nStanford would make their next bowl appearance in 1925, the 1925 Rose Bowl. Michigan's next bowl game was in the 1948 Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033867-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Rosenska Pokalen\nRosenska Pokalen 1902, part of the 1902 Swedish football season, was the fourth Rosenska Pokalen tournament played. 16 teams participated and 15 matches were played, the first 14 August 1902 and the last 7 September 1902. Gefle IF won the tournament ahead of runners-up Djurg\u00e5rdens IF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033868-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1902 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1902 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Henry Van Hoevenberg, the Queensmen compiled a 3\u20137 record and were outscored by their opponents, 188 to 42. The team captain was Alfred Ellet Hitchner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033869-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1902 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. North Adelaide beat South Adelaide 68 to 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033869-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA Grand Final, Background\nDuring the 1902 season Port Adelaide finished the minor round on the top of the SAFA league ladder. Under the new Argus finals system in place, Port Adelaide would have had the right to challenge the winner of the major round to a grand final for the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033869-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA Grand Final, Background\nHowever, Port Adelaide disputed the use of umpire Mr Kneebone for its semi-final game against South Adelaide as he was not credited at the beginning of the season, not appointed according to procedure, and that the club had been dissatisfied with his performances in previous years. Subsequently, Port Adelaide abandoned the match in protest. The association subsequently disqualified Port Adelaide from the remainder of the season, stripping it of its challenge right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033869-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA Grand Final, Background\nAs such, the Grand Final was played between first semi-final winners North Adelaide, and Port Adelaide's second semi-final opponent South Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA season\nThe 1902 South Australian Football Association season was the 26th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA season\nThe 1902 premiership was won by the North Adelaide Football Club for the second time. Minor premier Port Adelaide was disqualified from the Finals and relegated to third overall after refusing to play the second semi-final against South Adelaide due to a dispute over the umpire chosen. Sturt, in its second season, received its second consecutive wooden spoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA season, Finals Series\nAfter three seasons of using major round systems involving all clubs, the SAFA adopted the Argus finals system involving only the top four teams for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final\nThe second semi-final was forfeited by Port Adelaide owing to its objection to the appointment of umpire Phil Kneebone to the match. South Adelaide played a hastily arranged exhibition match against North Adelaide to entertain the spectators who had turned up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final\nKneebone had been an SAFA umpire up to the 1901 season, but had not returned in 1902. Late in the season, in response to a shortage of umpires, the SAFA umpire committee had made a resolution to extend an invitation to Kneebone, which Kneebone had declined. Still facing a shortage available first-rate for the second semi-final, the committee appointed Kneebone, which he this time accepted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0004-0001", "contents": "1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final\nPort Adelaide objected to this on two grounds: procedural in that the committee had not passed a new resolution to invite or appoint Kneebone \u2013 the committee held that the previous resolution to invite had not lapsed, even though the invite itself had been rejected \u2013 and that the club was dissatisfied with Kneebone's performances in previous seasons. Port Adelaide advised the SAFA on the Saturday before the match of its intention to forfeit if Kneebone's appointment stood. The SAFA did not acquiesce, and on the day of the match, Port Adelaide formally forfeited in writing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final\nAt the time of its forfeiture, Port Adelaide as minor premier was entitled to a challenge match for the premiership, irrespective of other major round results. However, in a special SAFA meeting on Wednesday 3 September, the association voted to disqualify Port Adelaide from the remainder of the season, stripping it of this right. At the same meeting, the association affirmed that Kneebone's appointment was not per procedure, finding that only the full association, not the umpire's committee, had the power to appoint a non-association umpire to the association. Kneebone went on to umpire the following week's Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033870-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final\nAt a separate meeting on 8 September, the formal matter of second place was discussed, with a conflict arising between the convention that the losing grand finalist (South Adelaide) be considered runners-up, but rule 29 stating that minor placings be decided on overall premiership points (Port Adelaide). The Association ruled South Adelaide be considered runners-up, relegating Port Adelaide to third. and", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033871-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Scottish Cup Final\nThe 1902 Scottish Cup Final was played on 26 April 1902 at Celtic Park in Glasgow and was the deciding match of the 29th season of the Scottish Cup. The match had been scheduled to be played at Ibrox Park on 12 April, but the first Ibrox disaster occurred the week earlier during the annual Scotland v England game. This meant that the final was delayed by two weeks and moved to Celtic Park, although Celtic were one of the finalists. Hibernian and Celtic contested the match. Hibernian won the match 1\u20130, by the 75th-minute goal from Andy McGeachan. This was Hibernian's last Scottish Cup triumph for 114 years until they finally won it again in 2016 after beating Rangers 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election\nThe 1902 Sevenoaks by-election was held on 21 August 1902 after the appointment of the incumbent Conservative MP Henry Forster as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. The seat was retained by Forster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Vacancy\nUnder the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The by-election in Sevenoaks was caused by the appointment on 8 August 1902 of the sitting Conservative MP, Henry Forster as Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Candidates\nThe incumbent, Henry Forster was the candidate for the Conservative party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Candidates\nBeaumont Morice was adopted as the Liberal Party candidate at a meeting of the Sevenoaks liberal council on 13 August 1902. Morice was Recorder of Hythe, and lived in Kent. He had unsuccessfully contested the Wells division of Somerset in 1892 and 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Education\nFollowing the successful campaign in the Leeds North by-election in July 1902, Morice spent much of the election on the government's plans for an Education Bill to replace school boards with local education authorities, which included proposals to bring church schools into the public system. Many Liberals were strongly nonconformist and the idea that Church of England and Roman Catholic schools should be funded from the rates, a form of local taxation, was anathema to them. It provided the battle slogan 'Rome on the Rates' and united the party against the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0004-0001", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Education\nIn an address to the electorate, Morice argued that the government \"had no mandate whatever to the destroy the School Board system of the country, which has worked with such splendid results for so many years.\" Forster and the Conservative party had not intended to spend much time on the education issue, but was forced to actively defend the proposal in various speeches. He argued to \u2033entrust all matters relating to secular education to the local education authorities\u2033, stating it would be a \"great improvement upon our present system\". Two days before the election, the issue had rattled the governing Conservatives enough to provoke an open letter from the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour to Forster and his constituents, leading to a similar response from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal party leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Other issues\nMorice also raised the issue of the corn tax, stating that it was a \"heavy and unnecessary burden on the working classes\". Forster barely mentioned this issue, dismissing it as a small registration duty not worth discussing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Other issues\nForster used the recent peace following the Second Boer War in South Africa to mobilize government supporters, and argued that the work of reform and improvement should be entrusted to those who had been responsible for the Army and Navy during the last years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Other issues\nThe Sevenoaks Licensed Victuallers' Association submitted questions to both candidates, and on 15 August unanimously resolved to support Forster. In response, the Liberals claimed to have the united support of the teetotal section of the electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033872-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Result\nForster retained the seat by a 9% majority, but the Liberal party had an impressive increase of 24% from the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033873-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1902 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov\n1902 Shaposhnikov (prov. designation: 1972 HU) is a dark Hilda asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 92 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 18 April 1972, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. The asteroid was named after Soviet astronomer and WWII casualty Vladimir Shaposhnikov. It was one of the last larger asteroids discovered in the main belt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Orbit and characteristics\nShaposhnikov belongs to the dynamical Hilda group. Members of this group stay in a 3:2 orbital resonance with the gas giant Jupiter and are located in the outermost part of the asteroid belt. Shaposhnikov is, however, not a member of the collisional Hilda family (001) but a non-family asteroid of the background population when applying the Hierarchical Clustering Method to its proper orbital elements. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 3.1\u20134.8\u00a0AU once every 7 years and 11 months (2,884 days; semi-major axis of 3.97\u00a0AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.22 and an inclination of 12\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first observation as 1940 GK at Turku Observatory in April 1940, or 32 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nauchnyj.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Naming\nThis minor planet was named in honour of Vladimir Grigorevich Shaposhnikov (1905\u20131942), who worked at the Simeiz Observatory and was an expert in astrometry, before he was killed on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 (M.P.C. 3936).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics\nIn the Tholen classification, Shaposhnikov is an X-type asteroid, which encompasses the E, M and P-types. Since its albedo is known to be very low (see below), its spectral type has been refined to a primitive P-type asteroid. In addition, it has been characterized as a D-type asteroid in the Bus\u2013DeMeo taxonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Rotation period and poles\nSeveral rotational lightcurves of Shaposhnikov have been obtained from photometric observations since 1989. Lightcurve analysis gave a consolidated rotation period of 21.2 hours with a brightness amplitude between 0.29 and 0.42 magnitude (U=2/2+/3). Most asteroid have periods below 20 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 70], "content_span": [71, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Rotation period and poles\nA 2016-published study also modeled Shaposhnikov's lightcurve using photometric data from various sources. It gave a sidereal period of 20.9959 hours, as well as a spin axis in ecliptic coordinates (\u03bb,\u2009\u03b2) of (326.0\u00b0, 37.0\u00b0) and (144.0\u00b0, 79.0\u00b0).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 70], "content_span": [71, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nAccording to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Shaposhnikov measures between 83.443 and 96.86 kilometers in diameter and its surface has a low albedo between 0.0296 and 0.04.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nThe Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0385 and a diameter of 97.01 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033874-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nBased on current diameter estimates, Shaposhnikov is the most recent discovered outer main-belt asteroid that is near the 100-kilometer diameter range. The next larger asteroid, 1390\u00a0Abastumani (101\u00a0km) was already discovered in the 1930s, four decades earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033875-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 South Australian state election\nState elections were held in South Australia on 3 May 1902 following the dissolution of both houses. All 42 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election, and all 18 seats in the Legislative Council. The House had a reduction of 12 seats compared to the previous election. The Council was reduced from 6 members in each of four districts to 6 members from Central District and four from each of North-Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts. The incumbent liberal government led by Premier of South Australia John Jenkins in an informal coalition with the conservatives defeated the United Labor Party (ULP) led by Thomas Price. Each of the 13 districts elected multiple members, with voters casting multiple votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033875-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 South Australian state election, Background\nFollowing the 1899 election, Charles Kingston tried again for franchise reform. The Assembly voted against the measure and Kingston resigned his ministry. He was replaced by Vaiben Louis Solomon for a brief period of seven days, until Frederick Holder formed a government which, for the first time, included a ULP member, Lee Batchelor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033875-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 South Australian state election, Background\nThe parliament was transformed by the impact of federation. Seven leading members of the Assembly resigned and were elected to the Parliament of Australia. As a result, there were 11 by-elections in this period. The Assembly was reduced in numbers, from 54 to 42. A redistribution was carried out following these changes, to produce a chamber elected from 13 districts - one 5-member, two four-member, nine 3-member and one 2-member electorates. The election was a \"new start\" for the parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033875-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 South Australian state election, Background\nThere was no \"Liberal\" or \"Kingston\" party, but there was a relatively cohesive Kingston group among both independent members and candidates. The Liberal and Democratic Union would not be formed until the 1906 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033876-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1902 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1902 college football season. The team was then known as the South Carolina College Fighting Gamecocks. The team defeated Clemson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033876-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Roster\nThe following players were members of the 1902 football team according to the roster published in the 1902 and 1903 editions of The Garnet and Black, the South Carolina yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033877-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Duncan Clinch Heyward won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 88th governor of South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033877-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 26 and Duncan Clinch Heyward emerged as the frontrunner. His victory against W. Jasper Talbert, a congressman of the 2nd congressional district, in the runoff on September 9 came as a surprise because Heyward was relatively unknown outside of Colleton County. Heyward, an aristocratic planter, attributed his win due to running a \"clean and sincere campaign.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033877-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election was held on November 4, 1902, and Duncan Clinch Heyward was elected the next governor of South Carolina without opposition. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was much less than the previous gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033878-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 South Dakota Coyotes football team\nThe 1902 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach Arthur H. Whittemore, the team compiled a 10\u20130 record, shut out every opponent, and outscored them by a total of 238 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033879-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles N. Herreid ran for re-election to a second term. He faced former Watertown Mayor John W. Martin, the Fusion nominee who was listed as the Democratic nominee, in the general election. Herreid defeated Martin in a landslide to win his second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033879-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nAt the Republican convention in June 1902, Governor Charles N. Herreid was renominated unanimously and without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033879-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Fusion conventions\nAs was the case in 1898 and 1900, the Democratic and Populist Parties held separate conventions and then fused together with a common set of nominees. However, this time, the parties agreed that the ticket, though fused, would be listed as the Democratic Party on the ballot. At the conventions, former Watertown Mayor John W. Martin was named as the Fusion nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033880-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 South Down by-election\nThe South Down by-election of February 1902 was held on 19 February 1902. The by-election was held following the resignation of the previous member Michael McCartan who was a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. It was won unopposed by the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate Jeremiah McVeagh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033881-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 South Monaghan by-election\nThe 1902 South Monaghan by-election was held on 4 March 1902 after resignation of the incumbent MP James Daly of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The IPP's candidate John McKean was unopposed and so was returned as the MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033882-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1902 college football season. The season began on September 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033882-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nClemson claimed an SIAA title. Rufus Nalley died on November 29, 1902, with a smile on his face hearing of his alma mater's defeat of Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033882-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033883-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election\nThe Southern Rhodesia Legislative Council election of March 17, 1902 was the second election to the Legislative Council of Southern Rhodesia. No change was made in the administration of the elections compared with the first elections three years previously, so the Legislative Council continued to comprise ten voting members: the Administrator of Southern Rhodesia ex officio, five members nominated by the British South Africa Company, and four members elected by registered voters from two electoral districts. The Resident Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Marshal James Clarke, also sat on the Legislative Council ex officio but without the right to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033883-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Results\nNote: Raleigh Grey was absent through the whole of the first session of the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033883-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Additional elections\nA new Order in Council promulgated in 1903 expanded the Legislative Council to fourteen members, seven to be directly elected, seven nominated by the British South Africa Company, and the Administrator to retain his seat ex officio so as to have a casting vote. Polling day was fixed for May 22, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033883-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Additional elections\nNew electoral districts were drawn up for the expanded election. The Northern District, returning two members, and the Eastern District, returning one, were carved out of Mashonaland, with the remaining parts merging with part of Matabeleland to form the Midland District (returning one member) and the Western District (returning three). In order to provide continuity, the sitting members for Mashonaland were automatically made the members for the Northern District (as it contained Salisbury), and the sitting members for Matabeleland were made members for the Western District (as it contained Bulawayo). However, before the election, Percival Ross Frames resigned his seat on the Council (March 24, 1903) and so two members were elected for the Western District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033883-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Nominated members\nThe initial five members nominated by the British South Africa Company were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033883-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Nominated members\nDuring the absence of Townshend Griffin from November 7, 1902, Clarkson Henry Tredgold (Solicitor-General) stood in for him. When the membership was expanded in 1903, the nominated members were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033884-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1902 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their second year under head coach Ashby Woodson, the team compiled a 1\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033885-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Spring Hill Badgers football team\nThe 1902 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an American football team that represented Spring Hill College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their second year, the team compiled a 1\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1902 St. Louis Browns season was the first for the franchise in St. Louis, after moving from Milwaukee. The team finished second in the American League with a record of 78 wins and 58 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season, Regular season\nThe Milwaukee Brewers had decided to move the team to St. Louis in 1902. The ownership chose the name Browns on purpose. The Browns was the name of the St. Louis Club that won American Association titles from 1885 to 1889. That team moved to the National League in 1892, became the Perfectos in 1899 and finally the Cardinals in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season, Regular season\nThe new team quickly tried to align itself with fans by raiding the rival St. Louis Cardinals. A couple of Cardinals players were signed, including slick fielding future Hall of Fame shortstop Bobby Wallace and 1901 National League batting champion outfielder Jesse Burkett. The moves paid off for the team. While playing as the Brewers in 1901, the team had a record of 48 wins and 89 losses. In 1902, the Browns had 78 wins and finished in second place in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033886-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033887-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1902 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 21st season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 11th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 56\u201378 during the season and finished 6th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033887-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season\nDue to the loss of Bobby Wallace and Jesse Burkett to the St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals went from a team with 76 wins and 64 losses in 1901 to a team that finished 1902 with 56 wins and 78 defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033887-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033887-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033887-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033887-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033887-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033888-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Stanford football team\nThe 1902 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1902 college football season and was coached by Carl L. \"Clem\" Clemans in his only season coaching the team. Clemans played for Stanford's first football teams and was the team's first captain. He scored the first two touchdowns in the first Big Game against California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033888-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Stanford football team, Game summaries, California\nThe Big Game against rival California had been played at five different fields around San Francisco since the first game in 1892. The field used for the previous three games, at 16th and Folsom Streets, had been sold and no new field was immediately identified. A site at a former Jewish cemetery at 18th and Dolores was identified and construction of bleachers began, but at the last moment, one of the organizations that owned the land backed out of the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033888-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 Stanford football team, Game summaries, California\nJust a month before the game was to be played, another site was found in the Richmond District and a field and bleachers were hastily constructed. In the game, Stanford was shut out 16\u20130, the team's only loss of the season. The 1903 game was also played on this field, and then, beginning with the 1904 Big Game, the game was alternated between the home field of each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau\nThe United Kingdom's 1902 State Landau is a horse-drawn carriage with a flexible leather roof which drops in two exact halves, back and front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau\nA postilion landau it is drawn by six horses under the control of three postilions and has no provision for a coachman. With the top lowered and no coachman spectators have a better view of passengers than other vehicles provide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Use\nThe 1902 State Landau is owned by the United Kingdom and set aside for the monarch's use within Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Use\nThe Queen and the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall at her Diamond Jubilee celebrations 2012", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Use\nThis carriage carries the monarch in processions at times of national celebration and official reception of a visiting head of state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Use\nIn the past the monarch has provided the landau to take home the bride and groom after the marriage of the heir apparent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Use\nThe largest and most splendid horse-drawn carriage\u2014not coach\u2014used by The Queen it was built by Hooper in 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and given extra interior space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Use\nThe carriage currently in use is a replica built by Australia's W James Frecklington of Manly, NSW in the late 1970s. In 1987 James Frecklington built the Australian State Coach and in 2014 The Diamond Jubilee State Coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Inclement weather\nIf rain threatens the Irish State Coach replaces it. The Gold State Coach, sometimes referred to as the coronation coach, is the primary transport for high ceremonial events directly relating to the reigning monarch but is reputed to be uncomfortable for passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Contemporary description\nThe description published in 1903 by Walter Gilbey, founder and chairman of the London Cart Horse Parade Society and president of the Royal Agricultural Society.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Contemporary description\n... new State landau built by Messrs Hooper for King Edward VII and first used by him on the day of his coronation procession through London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Contemporary description\nThis magnificent example of the coachbuilders' art is over 18 feet long. The body is hung upon C springs by strong braces covered with ornamentally stitched morocco; each brace is joined with a massive gilt buckle with oak leaf and crown device. Between the hind springs is a rumble for two footmen; there is no driving seat as the carriage is intended to be drawn only by horses ridden postillion. The panels are painted in purple lake considerably brighter than is usual in order to secure greater effect; marking the contours of the body and the outlines of the rumble are mouldings in wood carved and gilt, the design being one of over-lapping oak leaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Contemporary description\nThe door panels, back and front panels, bear the Royal Arms with crown, supporters, mantle, motto, helmet and garter. On the lower quarter panel is the collar of the Order of the Garter, encircling its star and surmounted by the Tudor crown. Springing in a slow graceful curve from the under part of the body over the forecarriage is a \"splasher\" of crimson patent leather. Ornamental brass lamps are carried in brackets at each of the four corners of the body.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Contemporary description\nAs regards the interior of this beautiful carriage it is upholstered in crimson satin and laces which were woven in Spitalfields; the hood is lined with silk, as better adapted than satin for folding. The rumble is covered with crimson leather. It is to be observed that with the exception of the pine and mahogany used for the panels, English-grown wood and English-made materials only have been used throughout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033889-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 State Landau, Contemporary description\nWhile less ornate than the wonderful \"gold coach\" designed by Sir Wm Chambers and Cipriani in 1761, the new State landau, in its build, proportions, and adornment, is probably the most graceful and regal vehicle ever built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033890-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe 1902 Stetson Hatters football team represented the private Stetson College in the sport of American football during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033891-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1902 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the seventh season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte IS won the tournament by defeating J\u00f6nk\u00f6pings AIF in the final with an 8\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033892-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1902 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20136 record and outscored opponents by a total of 141 to 127. George H. Brooke was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033893-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Swedish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sweden in September 1902. The Free-minded National Association emerged as the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 107 of the 230 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033893-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Swedish general election, Results\nOnly 27.7% of the male population aged over 21 was eligible to vote. Voter turnout was 47.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033894-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Swiss federal election\nFederal elections were held in Switzerland on 26 October 1902. The Free Democratic Party retained its majority in the National Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033894-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Swiss federal election, Electoral system\nThe 167 members of the National Council were elected in 49 single- and multi-member constituencies using a three-round system. Candidates had to receive a majority in the first or second round to be elected; if it went to a third round, only a plurality was required. Voters could cast as many votes as there were seats in their constituency. There was one seat for every 20,000 citizens, with seats allocated to cantons in proportion to their population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033894-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Swiss federal election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held under the Federal law concerning the constituencies for the elections of National Council members passed on 4 June 1902, which reduced the number of constituencies from 52 to 49. Following the 1900 census the number of seats was increased from 147 to 167; Z\u00fcrich gained five seats, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Geneva, St. Gallen and Vaud all gained two seats, whilst Neuch\u00e2tel, Solothurn, Ticino, Thurgau and Valais all gained one. A referendum on introducing proportional representation and direct elections for the Federal Council had been held in 1900, but both proposals were rejected by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033894-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Swiss federal election, Results, Summary\nVoter turnout was highest in Schaffhausen (where voting was compulsory) at 85.8% and lowest in Obwalden at 21.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033895-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Swiss schools referendum\nA referendum on schools was held in Switzerland on 15 March 1903. Voters were asked whether they approved of a federal resolution on the federal government providing financial support for public elementary schools. It was approved by 76.3% of voters and a majority of cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033895-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Swiss schools referendum, Background\nThe referendum was an \"obligatory referendum\", which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033896-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Sydney-Pyrmont state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Sydney-Pyrmont on 24 May 1902 because of the resignation of Sam Smith (Labour) to accept an appointment to the Court of Arbitration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033897-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1902 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1902 college football season. The head coach was Edwin Sweetland, coaching his third season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033898-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 TCU football team\nThe 1902 TCU football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The school was renamed Texas Christian University in 1902 and was previously known as Add\u2013Ran University. They played their home games in Waco, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033899-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tasmania by-election\nA by-election was held for one of the seats of the Australian House of Representatives electorate of Tasmania on 26 March 1902. This was triggered by the death of Frederick William Piesse on 6 March 1902. The writ for the by-election was issued on 11 March, nominations for candidates closed on 20 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033899-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Tasmania by-election, Aftermath\nWilliam Hartnoll was elected in the by-election, receiving nearly 58 per cent of the vote. When opposition leader George Reid received a telegram from the Freetrade Association of Launceston informing him of Hartnoll's impending victory, he proclaimed \"Thanks! Hartnoll's triumph overshadows the inevitable fate of the Barton Ministry.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033899-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Tasmania by-election, Aftermath\nHartnoll's election was not without controversy. Under Tasmanian law, nominations from candidates were required to be signed by the candidate himself. Hartnoll's nomination paper was received and accepted by the Commonwealth electoral officer via telegram, and was not signed. J.C. Whitelaw, Hartnoll's Labour opponent in the by-election, challenged the election on legal grounds, and instructed his solicitors in Melbourne to lodge a petition and a deposit of \u00a3100 to the Supreme Court of Tasmania. The petition was referred by the Prime Minister Edmund Barton to the Elections and Qualifications Committee of the House of Representatives. After hearing the evidence, committee chair Sir Edward Braddon announced that the committee had found that Hartnoll had \"committed an irregularity\" by nominating via telegram, but that it was not considered a sufficient reason for disturbing the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 933]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033900-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tempe Normal Owls football team\nThe 1902 Tempe Normal Owls football team was an American football team that represented Tempe Normal School (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Frederick M. Irish, the Owls compiled a 2\u20131 record, shut out two opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 73 to 12. The team won games against the Phoenix High School (39\u20130) and the Phoenix Indians (34\u20130) and lost in the second Arizona\u2013Arizona State football rivalry game (0\u201312).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Volunteers won a school record six games in 1902 and beat rivals Sewanee and Georgia Tech. The team was guided by a new head coach, Hubert Fisher, who came from Princeton University, as did his predecessor, George Kelley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 1: King\nThe Vols opened the season against King College, winning 12 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 2: Maryville\nIn the second week of play, Tennessee beat Maryville 34 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 3: Vanderbilt\nVanderbilt won 12 to 5 despite a weak line due to its running game. John Edgerton scored both Vanderbilt touchdowns. Tennessee's score, its first ever against Vanderbilt, was provided by an A. H. Douglas run around right end, breaking two tackles and getting the touchdown. Nash Buckingham once had a 40-yard run through the line. Jones Beene was Tennessee's standout on the line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 3: Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was: J. Beene (left end), Greene (left tackle), Silcox (left guard), Simerly (center), Caldwell (right guard), Coxe (right tackle), Grimm (right end), Crawford (quarterback), P. Beene (right halfback), Douglas (left halfback), Buckingham (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 4: Sewanee\nSax Crawford did not play in the Sewanee game. Douglas scored the only touchdown in the 6 to 0 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 4: Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was: J. Beene (left end), Greene (left tackle), Silcox (left guard), Simerly (center), Caldwell (right guard), Coxe (right tackle), Grimm (right end), Gamble (quarterback), Gettys (right halfback), Douglas (left halfback), Buckingham (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Nashville\nTennessee beat coach Neil Snow's Nashville team 11 to 0. Two Nashville scores were called back due to penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Nashville\nThe starting lineup was: J. Beene (left end), Greene (left tackle), Silcox (left guard), Simerly (center), Caldwell (right guard), Coxe (right tackle), Grimm (right end), Crawford (quarterback), P. Beene (right halfback), Douglas (left halfback), Buckingham (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 6: vs Ole Miss\nTennessee edged out Ole Miss 11 to 10 on a muddy Red Elm Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 6: vs Ole Miss\nThe starting lineup was: J. Beene (left end), Greene (left tackle), Silcox (left guard), Simerly (center), Caldwell (right guard), Gudger (right tackle), Grimm (right end), Crawford (quarterback), Gettys (right halfback), Douglas (left halfback), Buckingham (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Georgia Tech\nTennessee beat rival Georgia Tech at Brisbane Park 10 to 6.. Crawford returned a kick for the first touchdown. Down 6 to 5 with five minutes left, Tennessee began a drive ending with Green carrying it over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Georgia Tech\nThe starting lineup was: Gamble (left end), Greene (left tackle), Buckingham (left guard), Simerly (center), Ward (right guard), Gudger (right tackle), Grimm (right end), Crawford (quarterback), P. Beene (right halfback), Douglas (left halfback), Gettys (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 80], "content_span": [81, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 8: Clemson\nThe team closed the season with an 11 to 0 loss to John Heisman's Clemson Tigers. A. H. Douglas holds the record for the longest punt in school history when he punted a ball 109 yards (the field length was 110 yards in those days) during the Clemson game. Heisman described the kick:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 8: Clemson\n\"The day was bitterly cold and a veritable typhoon was blowing straight down the field from one end to the other. We rushed the ball with more consistency than Tennessee, but throughout the entire first half they held us because of the superb punting of \"Toots\" Douglas, especially because, in that period he had the gale squarely with him. Going against that blizzard our labors were like unto those of Tantalus. Slowly, with infinite pains and a maximum of exertion, we pushed the ball from our territory to their 10-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0014-0001", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 8: Clemson\nWe figured we had another down to draw on, but the referee begged to differ. He handed the ball to Tennessee and the \"tornado.\" Their general cheerfully chirped a signal \u2013 Saxe Crawford, it must have been \u2013; and \"Toots\" with sprightly step, dropped back for another of his Milky Way punts. I visualize him still, standing on his own goal line and squarely between his uprights. One quick glance he cast overhead \u2013 no doubt to make sure that howling was still the same old hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 8: Clemson\nI knew at once what he proposed to do. The snap was perfect. \"Toots\" caught the ball, took two smart steps and \u2013 BLAM!\u2013away shot the ball as though from the throat of Big Bertha. And, say, in his palmiest mathematical mood, I don't believe Sir Isaac Newton himself could have figured a more perfect trajectory to fit with that cyclone. Onward and upward, upward and onward, the crazy thing flew like a brainchild of Jules Verne. I thought it would clear the Blue Ridge Mountains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0015-0001", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 8: Clemson\nOur safety man, the great Johnny Maxwell, was positioned 50 yards behind our rush line, yet the punt sailed over his head like a phantom aeroplane. Finally, it cam down, but still uncured of its wanderlust it started in to roll\u2013toward our goal, of course, with Maxwell chasing and damning it with every step and breath. Finally it curled up and died on our one-footline, after a bowstring journey of just 109 yards.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Week 8: Clemson\nThe starting lineup was: J. Beene (left end), Birmingham (left tackle), Silcox (left guard), Simerly (center), Caldwell (right guard), Green (right tackle), Grimm (right end), Crawford (quarterback), P. Beene (right halfback), Douglas (left halfback), Gettys (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033901-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Postseason\nBuckingham and Douglas were selected All-Southern by the Atlanta Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033902-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033902-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nDemocratic nominee James B. Frazier defeated Republican nominee Henry Tyler Campbell with 61.77% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033902-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic nomination\nThe Democratic convention was held on May 29 at Nashville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033902-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Tennessee gubernatorial election, Nominations, Republican nomination\nThe Republican convention was held on June 18 at Nashville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 73], "content_span": [74, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033903-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033904-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1902 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033905-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tie Cup Final\nThe 1902 Tie Cup Final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 3rd. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by the two same teams of the previous edition, Argentine sides Alumni and Rosario A.C., from Buenos Aires and Rosario respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033905-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Tie Cup Final\nThe winner was decided after a third match, where Rosario took revenge from the previous final and beat Alumni 2\u20131 in extra time after the match and the playoff ended 1\u20131 in both cases. All the matches were played at Sociedad Sportiva Argentina in Palermo, Buenos Aires. Rosario won its first Tie Cup after being finalist in the two previous editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033905-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nFor this edition, the number of participating teams increased to 11, 6 from Argentina and 5 from Uruguay. Playing in a single-elimination tournament, Rosario entered directly to the semifinal, where the squad beat Belgrano 2\u20130 at Plaza Jewell. On the other hand, Alumni defeated Barracas 2\u20130 at Quilmes A.C., Lomas (20 also in Quilmes), qualifying for the semifinal where the team beat Uruguayan CURCC at Paso del Molino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033905-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThe final was held in Sociedad Sportiva Argentina in Palermo, Buenos Aires on August 24, 1902. For the first time, tickets were charged, with all money collected went to charity. The match ended 1\u20131 and an extra time was added, with no modifications on the score. The game continued with an additional extra time of 20 minutes, but the match ended with no new goals. As a result, a playoff was scheduled for September 14 at the same venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033905-0003-0001", "contents": "1902 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nA new 1\u20131 draw (with three extra times of 30, 20 and 7 minutes) paved the road for a second playoff on September 28, also at La Sportiva. In that match, J. Moore scored but his goal was annulled. With a persistent attack by the Alumni players, Dillon scored after goalkeeper Boardman failed to stop a shot from Leonard. Nevertheless, in the play that followed the Alumni goal, Rosario A.C. forced the draw after J. Parr pushed the ball to the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033905-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nAs the third match ended tied, an extra time of 30 minutes was played with no goals scored. After that, it was decided that the match would continued until one of the teams scored, (\"golden goal\" rule). It happened when J. Parr scored after a pass by Alfredo Le Bas. That goal crowned Rosario as new champion, finally beating Alumni 2\u20131 and winning its first Tie Cup trophy. Besides, J. Parr was proclaimed as the most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033906-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1902 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 13th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033906-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nLahorna De Wets won the championship after a 7\u201310 to 1\u201302 defeat of Carrick in the final. It was the club's only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033907-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1902 Toronto Argonauts season was the club's 17th season of organized league play since its inception in 1873. The team finished in second place in the senior series of the Ontario Rugby Football Union with two wins and two losses, and failed to qualify for the Dominion playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033907-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season\nThe Hamilton Tigers withdrew from the competition after playing one game, and victory in their remaining scheduled games was defaulted to their opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033908-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1902 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake\nThe 1902 Turkestan earthquake (Chinese: \u571f\u8033\u5176\u65af\u5766\u5730\u9707; pinyin: T\u01d4'\u011brq\u00ed s\u012bt\u01cen d\u00eczh\u00e8n; Kyrgyz: \u0422\u04af\u0440\u043a\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0430\u0433\u044b \u0436\u0435\u0440 \u0442\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0440\u04e9\u04e9, romanized:\u00a0T\u00fcrkstandag\u0131 jer titir\u00f6\u00f6) , also known as the Kashgar earthquake (Chinese: \u5580\u4ec0\u5730\u9707; pinyin: K\u0101sh\u00e9n d\u00eczh\u00e8n; Kyrgyz: \u041a\u0430\u0448\u043a\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0430\u0433\u044b \u0436\u0435\u0440 \u0442\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0440\u04e9\u04e9, romanized:\u00a0Ka\u015fkardag\u0131 jer titir\u00f6\u00f6), Atushi earthquake, and Artux earthquake, was a devastating seismic event that struck the western part of Xinjiang, an autonomous territory in China, near the border with Kyrgyzstan. It occurred on August 22, 1902, at about 8:00 or 9:00 am local time. At least 5,650 to 20,000 people were killed, with many more injured. The earthquake registered 7.7 Mw\u202f on the moment magnitude scale. It is the most powerful earthquake in that region, and in Kyrgyzstan, along with the 1911 Kebin earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe geological forces at play around Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang are directly related to the ongoing collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. The topography of this region is influenced by broad crustal deformation as a result of convergence along the Main Himalayan Thrust. Before the Indian subcontinent collided with Eurasia, there were island arcs and microcontinents between the two landmasses that were also converging. These terranes were later accreted to Eurasia as northward-moving India closed collided with Eurasia, and are now in present-day Central Asia. Ancient suture zones mark the boundary between these accreted terranes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThis deformation and accretion led to the formation of the Tien Shan mountains, which are moving 7\u00b12 mm/yr towards the south along faults running along their base. The region is dominated by large, north and south-dipping thrust faults along the southern edge of the Tien Shan mountains, and the northern boundary of the Tarim basin, one of them being the Aheqi Fault Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Earthquake\nWhile scientific knowledge of the event is rather sparse due to the period in which it happened, research have given new insights into the earthquake of August 22, 1902. In a 2017 research, the earthquake was determined to have occurred at a depth of 18 km, while the epicenter coordinates at 39.87\u00b0 N 76.42\u00b0 E, a relocation from most global event catalogs which place the epicenter coordinates at 40.0\u00b0 N 77.00\u00b0 E. The earthquake magnitude was also recalculated to be 7.7, while older figures presented magnitude 8.3 (written as 8.25) or 8.6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Earthquake\nThrust faulting was the culprit of this event, involving a rupture on the Ttiotegongbaizi-Aerpaleike Fault located at the southern flanks of the Tien Shan range. This fault is 200 km long, and expresses itself at the surface like a gentle wave-shape. It dips north at varying angles of 25\u00b0 to 60\u00b0. Newer research and analysis show that the quake was consistent with a rupture involving the Tuotegongbaizi-Aerpaleike Fault, near the western segment of the much larger Kalpin fold and thrust belt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Earthquake\nIt was this fault that was responsible for the 1996 Artux earthquake, an Mwc\u202f 6.3 event that killed some 26 people in March 1996. Field observations by researchers found no trace of surface ruptures indicating the event was a blind thrust earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThe earthquake struck at 8:00 or 9:00 am on August 22, lasting for one and a half minutes, and reported to be extremely violent. Severe aftershocks were felt every day up till August 30. The mainshock was recorded on seismographs all over Europe. It had a maximum intensity of X to XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale, X on the Rossi-Forel scale and X on the MSK-64 scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Damage and casualties\nAround the meizoseismal area; an area that encompassed Kashgar and Artux, shaking was assigned X to XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The ground motion was so forceful that the tip of trees touched the ground and some were even uprooted or snapped. All wood-constructed homes collapsed and many tents became deformed. Ground slumping near a riverbank blocked roads and dammed streams. Large ground fissures ejected water, transforming the ground into mud. The largest fissure measured one kilometer in length, several meters wide, and three meters deep. Five hundred (500) people died in the area. Many domesticated animals were also killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Damage and casualties\nIn Kashgar, the mainshock collapsed sun-dried brick walls and collapsing homes. Masonry buildings however did not sustain serious damage. Numerous fissures opened in the northern entrance of the city, where the city walls also toppled. Part of the Afaq Khoja Mausoleum, a tomb in the heart of Kashgar, collapsed and fractured. At least 50 inhabitants lost their lives or were injured. The Artush district north of Kashgar suffered more devastating consequences. The earthquake collapsed almost every house in the area. Some 667 people were killed, and thousands more were injured in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThe village of Astyn saw 400 fatalities, and in Jangi, 20 fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033909-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Turkestan earthquake, Damage and casualties\nIn Yarkand, there was less serious damage to the city, but two children lost their lives due to collapsing walls. There was also damage reported in Narin and Atbashi although no residents were killed recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033910-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Tusculum Pioneers football team\nThe 1902 Tusculum Pioneers football team represented Tusculum College during the 1902 college football season. Their only game was a 0\u201318 loss against Washington College. It was the second season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033911-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nThe 1902 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) was a Grand Slam tennis tournament. The men's tournament was held from 18 August to 27 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 24 June to 27 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA, United States. It was the 22nd U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. William Larned and Marion Jones won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033911-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nReginald Doherty / Laurence Doherty defeated Holcombe Ward / Dwight F. Davis 11\u20139, 12\u201310, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033911-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nJuliette Atkinson / Marion Jones defeated Maud Banks / Winona Closterman 6\u20132, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033911-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nElisabeth Moore / Wylie Grant defeated Elizabeth Rastall / Albert Hoskins 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033912-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nWilliam Larned defended his title by defeating Reginald Doherty in the Challenge Round 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 8\u20136 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1902 U.S. National Championships. The event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA. Doherty had defeated Malcolm Whitman in the All Comers' Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033913-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMarion Jones won the singles tennis title of the 1902 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating reigning champion Elisabeth Moore 6\u20131, 1\u20130, in the challenge round. Moore was unwell during the challenge match and partially fainted at the beginning of the second set due to the onset of a high fever and subsequently had to default. Jones had won the right to challenge Moore by defeating Carrie Neely 8\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 24 through June 27, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033913-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) changed the format for the matches from best-of-five to best-of-three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033914-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1902 U.S. Open was the eighth U.S. Open, held October 10\u201311 at Garden City Golf Club in Garden City, New York, on Long Island, east of New York City. Laurie Auchterlonie established a new 72-hole U.S. Open scoring record to win his only major title, six strokes ahead of Stewart Gardner and amateur Walter Travis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033914-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. Open (golf)\nAuchterlonie posted rounds of 78-78-74-77 and became the first in U.S. Open history to card four sub-80 rounds. His 307 total was six shots better than the previous championship record, set by Harry Vardon in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033914-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. Open (golf)\nClear skies greeted the field on Friday for the first two rounds. The weather worsened on Saturday, with cloudy skies in the morning and a pouring rain in the afternoon. The adverse playing conditions didn't seen to affect the scoring; in fact many players played well in the final round in the rain. John Shippen, playing out of Marine Field Club in New York, became the first American-born player to finish in the money in a U.S. Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033914-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe improvement in scores were in large part due to the introduction of the Haskell golf ball, which soon replaced the gutta-percha ball as the prominent golf ball in use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033914-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nAmateurs: Travis (313), Murphy (341), Watson (345), Livingston (348), Seeley (353),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lockwood (356), Macdonald (357), Croker (360).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033915-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1902 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Rome, Italy for the sprint disciplines on 15 June and in Berlin, Germany for the motor paced disciplines on 22 June. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033916-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1902 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1902 college football season. The team competed as an independent without a head coach, compiling a 2\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033917-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1902 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033918-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1902 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship was the second edition of the annual Ulster Senior Hurling Championship held under the auspices of the Ulster GAA. The Championship consisted of a single match between Antrim and Derry, the only entrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033918-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship\nDerry emerged victorious by 2\u20137 to 2\u20135, to take the championship for the first time, and advanced to the semifinal of the 1902 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, where they were defeated by Dublin. One of the topscorers of the match was Steven Josefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033919-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nThe Wyoming United States House election for 1902 was held on November 4, 1902. Former Republican representative Frank Wheeler Mondell defeated Democratic Charles P. Clemmons with 64.00% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033920-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections\nElections to the United States House of Representatives held in 1902 occurred in the middle of President Theodore Roosevelt's first term, about a year after the assassination of President William McKinley in September 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033920-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections\nDue to the increased size of the House and the reapportionment that resulted from the 1900 U.S. Census, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party both gained seats simultaneously, which has not occurred in any elections since. The Democrats increased their share of the House, but not by enough to regain control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033920-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections\nWith a stable economy and no cornerstone issue, Democratic gains can mostly be linked to the effects of redistricting. Many of the new seats were in areas with high numbers of immigrants (mostly Eastern and Southern European industrial workers, and Northern European farmers), with new immigrants tending to vote Democrat. The Populist Party disappeared from the House, with its supporters almost unanimously switching to the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033920-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections\nThis election marked the third and most recent time in American history where the incumbent President's party gained House seats in a midterm election while still losing seats in the Senate, the first two being in 1814 and 1822.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033920-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections, Election summaries\n29 new seats were added in reapportionment following the 1900 Census. No states lost seats, 16 had no change in apportionment, 14 gained 1 seat, 3 gained 2 seats, and 3 gained 3 seats. Two of the states that gained representation elected the new seat at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 73], "content_span": [74, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033920-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections, Election summaries\nThe previous election had 5 Populists, but the party completely disappeared from the U.S. House in the 1902 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 73], "content_span": [74, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033920-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections, Election dates\nAll the states held their elections November 4, 1902, except for 3 states, with 8 seats among them:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033921-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1902 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 4, 1902. California gained one seat as a result of the 1900 Census, which Republicans won. However, of the existing districts, Democrats won three Republican-held districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033922-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nElections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida were held for three seats in the 58th Congress on November 4, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033922-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Background\nSince 1872, Florida had been apportioned 2 seats in the House of Representatives. After the 1900 census, Florida was apportioned a third Representative. Going into the 1902 elections, Florida was represented by two Democrats, one who'd been elected in 1894, and the second in 1896. Both incumbents ran for re-election, while the new 3rd district was an open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 4, 1902 to select seven Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. Four incumbents were re-elected and the three open seats were retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation after the election was solely Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman William Elliott of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1897, opted to run for the U.S. Senate instead of seeking re-election. George Swinton Legar\u00e9 defeated Thomas W. Bacot in the Democratic primary and Republican challenger Aaron P. Prioleau in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman W. Jasper Talbert of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1893, opted to run for Governor instead of seeking re-election. George W. Croft won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican challenger W.S. Dixon in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Asbury Latimer of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1893, opted to run for the U.S. Senate instead of seeking re-election. Wyatt Aiken won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican challenger John Scott in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Joseph T. Johnson of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1901, defeated Stanyarne Wilson in the Democratic primary and Republican L.W.C. Blalock in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman David E. Finley of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1899, defeated T. Yancey Williams in the Democratic primary and Republican C.P.T. White in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Robert B. Scarborough of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1901, was unopposed in his bid for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033923-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Asbury Francis Lever of the 7th congressional district, in office since 1901, defeated J.B. McLaughlin in the Democratic primary and Republican challenger Alexander D. Dantzler in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033924-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 United States elections\nThe 1902 United States elections elected the 58th United States Congress, and occurred in the middle of Republican President Theodore Roosevelt's first term, during the Fourth Party System. Roosevelt had become president on September 14, 1901, upon the assassination of his predecessor, William McKinley. Republicans retained a majority in both chambers of Congress, while the Populist Party and Silver Republican Party disappeared from Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033924-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 United States elections\nReapportionment added twenty nine seats to the House. Democrats picked up several seats in the newly enlarged House, while Republicans made lesser gains. Republicans continued to control the chamber with a slightly diminished majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033924-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 United States elections\nIn the Senate, Republicans and Democrats each picked up one seat, while the Populist Party lost both its seats. Republicans maintained a commanding majority in the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033925-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1902, in 27 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 4, 1902 (except in Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon and Vermont, which held early elections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033925-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Alabama, the governor was elected to a four-year term for the first time, instead of a two-year term. The election was held on the same day as federal elections for the first time, having previously been held in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033926-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 University of Utah football team\nThe 1902 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1902 college football season as an independent. Head coach Harvey Holmes led the team to a 5\u20132\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033927-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Ursinus football team\nThe 1902 Ursinus football team was an American football team that represented Ursinus College during the 1902 college football season. The team compiled a perfect 9\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 194 to 20. Edward E. Kelley was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033928-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Uruguay v Argentina football match\nThe 1902 association football match between Uruguay and Argentina was not only the first international match for both sides, but the first international held in South America. Argentina won 6\u20130, initiating a longtime rivalry between both teams, that have met more than 190 times since that first encounter, becoming the international derby with the most matches played worldwide, surpassing even the England\u2013Scotland, which, first held in 1872, is the oldest fixture in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033928-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Uruguay v Argentina football match, Overview\nOne year before, There had been a precedent when representatives from both sides met in a match also in Montevideo, although it was not organised by any association and therefore is not considered official. Moreover, the match was organised by local club Albion in its home field located in Paso del Molino, Montevideo. The Uruguayan side had nine players from that club and the remainder from Nacional. Argentina won the match by 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033928-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Uruguay v Argentina football match, Overview\nIn 1902, both associations, AUF and AFA, agreed to play a match in the same venue. President of AFA, Francis Hepburn Chevallier-Boutell and Lomas A.C. player Juan Anderson selected the players for the match. Chevallier-Boutell also chose the uniforms, so Uruguay played in a blue shirt with a white diagonal sash while Argentine wore light blue shirts. Argentina easily beat Uruguay 6\u20130, with Carlos Dickinson making history after scoring the first goal of the match. Uruguay starting line-up included eight players from Nacional and three from Albion, while Argentina team was formed by players from Alumni (5), Quilmes (2), Belgrano A.C. (2), Lomas (1), and Barracas A.C. (1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033928-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Uruguay v Argentina football match, Overview\nDuring a long lapse of time, Argentina and Uruguay played each other exclusively so no other national teams had been formed in South America. 8,000 spectators attended the match. Both sides played thirteen consecutive times between 1902 and 1909, giving birth to a strong rivalry that remained through the years. Some competitions contested by Argentina and Uruguay were soon created, such as Copa Lipton (first held in 1905), and Copa Newton (started in 1906).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033929-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1902 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 3rd. season of top-flight football in Uruguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033929-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a round-robin championship. It involved six teams, and the champion was Club Nacional de Football after winning all matches played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033930-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1902 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1902 college football season. In their first season under head coach George P. Campbell, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20134 record and were outscored by a total of 73 to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033931-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 VFA season\nThe 1902 Victorian Football Association season was the 26th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club; it was the first premiership in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033931-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 VFA season, Ladder\nThe premiership was decided on the basis of the best record across sixteen rostered matches, with each club playing the others twice; in the event of a tie for first place, a playoff match would have been held to determine the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033931-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 VFA season, Ladder\nRichmond and Port Melbourne were in a close battle for the premiership, and for the second consecutive season the clubs had equal records entering the final weekend of games, making a playoff match a likely outcome. However, in the matches on the final Saturday, Richmond 7.10 (52) defeated Prahran 3.9 (27), and Port Melbourne 3.9 (27) lost to Williamstown 7.3 (45), so the premiership was decided in Richmond's favour without a playoff match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033932-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1902 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 20 September 1902. It was the 5th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1902 VFL season. The match, attended by 35,202 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 33 points, marking that club's first premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033933-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 VFL season\nThe 1902 Victorian Football League season was the sixth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033933-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1902, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033933-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033933-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 17 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1902 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended Argus system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033933-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 VFL season, Grand final\nCollingwood defeated Essendon 9.6 (60) to 3.9 (27). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033934-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1902 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their 12th season of organized football. VMI went 3\u20133\u20131 in what would be Sam Walker last season as VMI head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033935-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 VPI football team\nThe 1902 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1902 college football season. The team was led by their head coach R. R. Brown and finished with a record of three wins, three losses, and one tie (3\u20132\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033935-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1902 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. W. H. Watkins was in his second year coaching Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was playing in its 13th season of football. The Commodores had wins over Cumberland, Ole Miss, Central of Kentucky, Tennessee, Washington University, Kentucky, Tulane and LSU. The Tulane and LSU contests were played with one day's rest between games for the Commodores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season\nIn this era of college football, touchdowns were awarded five points and field goals were worth four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nIn the first week of play, Vanderbilt defeated the Cumberland Bulldogs 45\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi\nVanderbilt beat Mississippi 29\u20130. The game was a tale of two halves. Vanderbilt scored four touchdowns in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi\nThe starting lineup was: Howell (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Morgan (left guard), Perry (center), Graham (right guard), Massy (right tackle), Bryan (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Tigert (right halfback), Edgerton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Central\nCentral gave Vanderbilt a surprise as the Commodores edged the Kentucky team 24 to 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\n1902 had one of Tennessee's strongest early elevens. Vanderbilt won 12 to 5 despite a weak line due to its running game. John Edgerton scored both Vanderbilt touchdowns. Tennessee's only score was provided by an A. H. Douglas run around right end, breaking two tackles and getting the touchdown. Nash Buckingham had a 40-yard run through the line. Jones Beene blocked and tackled well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nThe starting lineup was: Howell (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Morgan (left guard), Perry (center), Graham (right guard), Massey (right tackle), Bryan (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Tigert (right halfback), Edgerton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Washington University\nThe Commodores beat the Washington University Bears 33\u201312. Both teams showed good offense but weak defense. Dan Blake had a 65-yard run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Kentucky State\nVanderbilt beat Kentucky State 16\u20135. Vanderbilt fooled Kentucky multiple times using a fake pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Kentucky State\nThe starting lineup was: Howell (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Morgan (left guard), Perry (center), Graham (right guard), Massey (right tackle), Bryan (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Tigert (right halfback), Edgerton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tulane\n\"November 14 -- The Vanderbilt football squad left Thursday night for New Orleans. The regular varsity team except for staunch quarterback Frank Kyle boarded the train for the longest, hardest trip of the year. Kyle was left behind with a lame back. Those making the trip are: Perry, Morgan, Graham, Massey, Lawler, Bryan, Howell, Blake, Hamilton, Harris, Love, Tigert, Capt. Davis, Edgerton, Coach Watkins, Manager Buckley, Assistant Manager Creighton, Dr. W. L. Dudley, Doswell Brown, Martin, Wade, Williamson, Barr and Dunbar. The boys will play Tulane Saturday and L.S.U. Monday.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tulane\n\"About 8,000 spectators witnessed the easy victory of Vanderbilt over Tulane Saturday, the score being 23 to 5. It was the largest crowd of the season. The playing of the Vanderbilt team in the first half was fast and furious, and a score of 23 was made. Tulane was saved from a goose egg by the drop kick of Westerfield from the 35-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tulane\n\"In the second half the game was close. Blake took the place of Davis, and Wade that of Perry. The aim of the Vanderbilt boys seemed only to hold the score. The weather was very hot, and made it especially hard on the visitors. Vanderbilt outclassed Tulane in weight and skill, and did not have much trouble in making their gains. The star players for Vanderbilt were Howell, Davis, Bryan and Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tulane\n\"The feature of the game was Howell's 95-yard run. He advanced the ball from the kick off, and almost every Tulane man made a tackle at him. Davis, as usual, made his gains and two long runs. Bryan was in the game from the start, and did good work. Hamilton made two touchdowns. He bundled the Tulane line for one of them, which was a pretty piece of work. Though Westerfield is a good sprinter, Tigert's punts equaled his every time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tulane\n\"Tulane has a gritty team, and though they played against odds, they improved as the game went on, and did their best to the end. The score does not show the relative merits of the two teams, because Kyle and Edgerton being out weakened the Vanderbilt team. Tulane was amazed at the quickness of Vanderbilt and while the Vanderbilt boys regret the score, it was not one to grieve over. Tulane only tried the drop kick as a last resort when they despaired of reaching the goal otherwise.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"Vanderbilt defeated Louisiana State University, 27 to 5, yesterday. It was an ideal day and about 1,000 people witnessed the game. A place kick only saved Louisiana State University from a whitewash. The game was lacking in interest, for Vanderbilt displayed her superiority so strongly that Louisiana was outclassed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"Louisiana State University kicked off and Vanderbilt advanced the ball steadily for a touch-down. This was repeated, Tigert making the two touchdowns. Louisiana State University got the ball only once in the first half and lost on downs. At the end of the half the score stood 11 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0018-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"Vanderbilt kicked off and Louisiana State University lost on downs in the second half. The visitors advanced the ball for a touchdown. Davis failed, in kicking a goal. Louisiana State University seemed to be very weak. Vanderbilt made her gains every time, and only lost the ball on fumbles. Louisiana State University never advanced far before losing on downs, they were entirely outclassed in weight and skill. It is hard to say who were the star players for Vanderbilt. Every man played a good game. The playing of Edgerton, Davis, Tigert, and Lawler deserves special notice. For Louisiana State University the playing of Sales, deserves notice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0019-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"The Vanderbilt boys are sore over the treatment they received. The Louisiana State University team couldn't take defeat in a sportsmanlike manner. They claimed that Vanderbilt knew their signals and made uncomplimentary remarks from their sidelines, and altogether the treatment was not as good as the team expected. Vanderbilt played a harder game than at Tulane, and Louisiana State University has a much better team than Tulane. Vanderbilt played a much faster game than Louisiana State University and every trick was a success. Louisiana State University depended entirely on straight football and never succeeded in working any trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0020-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"The teams were entertained with an elegant dinner after the game by Mr. W. P. Connell, and the University Athletic Association invited the two teams to a theatre party.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0021-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"Vanderbilt University defeated Louisiana State University here yesterday by the score of 27 to 5; winning the championship of the South intercollegiate athletic association. Vanderbilt made it points on five touchdowns three by Edgerton and two by Tigert. Davis kicked goal twice. The feature of the game was the goal kicked by Landry of Louisiana from the forty-yard line. Time of halves, 25 minutes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0022-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"The rumor that Coach Watkins will discontinue his connection with the Vanderbilt Athletic Association at the close of the present season is creating such interest in football circles. It is reliably stated that Mr. Watkins will resign his position as head coach of the Vanderbilt football and baseball teams in order that he devote attention to the study of law exclusively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0023-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"Walter H. Watkins is the most successful coach who has trained a team in the South for years. He has had charge of the Vanderbilt team for two years, and both years won the championship of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The year previously he coached the Auburn team through the most successful season that the institute has experienced on the gridiron in its history. Last spring he coached the Vanderbilt baseball team and was remarkably successful with indifferent and untrained material, winning a large majority. Of the games played. He is an indefatigable worker and has the idea of amateur athletics developed to a clear-out and scientific fashion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0024-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, LSU\n\"Walter H. Watkins is a graduate of the Princeton class of '99. He was one of the stars on the baseball team, was prominent in track work and was first substitute on the football team for two years. His loss will be a hard blow to Vanderbilt, as his place will be hard to fill. It is understood that Vanderbilt will make an effort to secure the services of Coach Neil Snow, provided he is not retained by the University of Nashville.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0025-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nOverconfident, Vanderbilt was drubbed by rival Sewanee 11\u20135. Vanderbilt did not score until the second half, when John Edgerton scored the first touchdown on the Tigers since 1897. Sewanee played desperately, and Henry D. Phillips went over for the winning touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033936-0026-0000", "contents": "1902 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was: Williamson (left end), Lawler (left tackle), Morgan (left guard), Perry (center), Graham (right guard), Massey (right tackle), Bryan (right end), Howell (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Tigert (right halfback), Edgerton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033937-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1902 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their first year under head coach Harry Howard Cloudman, the team compiled a 5\u20133\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033938-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 2, 1902. Incumbent Republican William W. Stickney, per the \"Mountain Rule\", did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate John G. McCullough defeated Local Option candidate Percival W. Clement and Democratic candidate Felix W. McGettrick to succeed him. Since no candidate won a majority of the popular vote, the election was decided and McCullough was elected by the Vermont General Assembly in accordance with the state constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033939-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Victorian state election\nThe 1902 Victorian State election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on 1 October 1902 to elect 70 of the 95 members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The other 25 seats were uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033939-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Victorian state election\nThere was manhood suffrage in single and multimember districts (with multiple voting), and using first past the post (plurality) voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033939-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Victorian state election\nWilliam Irvine replaced Alexander Peacock as Victorian Premier on 10 June 1902, and contested the election as the incumbent premier and leader of the Australian Reform Party. Irving soundly defeated the Liberals and their Labor allies led by Frederick Bromley at the 1902 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033939-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Victorian state election, Results\nThe incumbent Reform League led by William Irvine won 47 seats in the Legislative Assembly and formed the 1902 Irvine Ministry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033939-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Victorian state election, Results\nVictorian state election, 1 October 1902Legislative Assembly << 1900\u20131904 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033940-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1902 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1902 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was Timothy O'Rourke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033941-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1902 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1902 college football season. Led by first year coach John de Saulles, the team went 8\u20131\u20131 and claims a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033942-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 WAFA season\nThe 1902 WAFA season was the 18th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033943-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team\nThe 1902 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Led by first-year head coach William B. Seaman, the team compiled a record of 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033944-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1902 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1902 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach William L. Allen, who returned after a one-year absence, and compiled a record of 2\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033945-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Washington Senators season\nThe 1902 Washington Senators won 61 games, lost 75, and finished in sixth place in the American League. They were managed by Tom Loftus and played home games at the American League Park I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033945-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033945-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033945-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games played; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033946-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Washington football team\nThe 1902 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under coach James Knight, the team compiled a 5\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 65 to 17. Fred McElmon was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033947-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1902 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Harold J. Davall, the team compiled a 7\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 219 to 87. Lewis O. Smith was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season\nThe 1902 Western Conference football season was the seventh season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season\nThe conference champion for 1902 was Michigan coached by Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines compiled a perfect 11\u20130 record, outscored their opponents by a combined score of 644 to 12, and became known as the second of Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams. The 1902 Michigan Wolverines have also been recognized as the national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as co-national champions by Parke H. Davis. Right halfback Albert E. Herrnstein was Michigan's leading scorer with 135 points on 27 touchdowns (valued at five points under 1902 rules).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nNo Western Conference schools participated in any bowl games during the 1902 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nTwelve players, six of them from Michigan, were chosen as first-team players on at least three of the 1902 All-Western college football teams named by the following six selectors: Chicago Tribune (CT), Chicago Daily News (CDN) selected by Fred Hayner, Chicago Record-Herald (CRH) selected by Carl M. Green, Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin (MEW), The Minneapolis Journal (MJ), and Woodruff (W). (Players unanimously chosen by all six selectors are listed in bold.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nNo Western Conference players were selected as first-team players by Walter Camp or Caspar Whitney for the 1902 College Football All-America Team. Camp and Whitney during this period generally limited their first-team selections to players from the East and the Ivy League in particular. In 1902, all 14 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, and 12 of 14 played in the Ivy League. Yale (Camp's alma mater) had seven players who were designated as consensus All-Americans. The only two consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were tackle Paul Bunker and center Robert Boyers, both of whom played for Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nThe dominance of Eastern players led to criticism over the years that the All-America selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033948-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nHowever, an All-American team selected by The Newark Advocate broke from tradition and named three Michigan players as first-team All-Americans. The three players recognized by The Newark Advocate were: tackle Joseph Maddock, quarterback Boss Weeks, halfback Willie Heston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The Pitt Football Record Book refers to a 24\u20130 victory over Bucknell. However, contemporary press coverage indicates that the game was played between Bucknell and a team known as \"the Pittsburgh stars\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nAfter the successful 1901 season, the Western University of Pennsylvania returned to the part-time borrowed coach routine of the past seasons. The Athletic Association convinced Frederick J. Crolius to coach the team. Mr. Crolius was highly qualified for the position after having played college ball at Dartmouth and spending the 1901 season as halfback on the Homestead Library and Athletic Club. The problem was that he was also the coach of the Allegheny Athletic Association team and the starting halfback on the Pittsburgh Stars pro team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nA lot of the responsibility for the coaching and running of the Western University team would fall on team captain John Martin and assistant coach Parke Bachman. Captain Martin played football two seasons at Geneva College prior to his three years of playing for the Western University. Manager Charles L. Livingston pieced together an ambitious fourteen game schedule. However, the WUPs managed to only play eleven. The eight home games were played at the Colosseum. Box seats with new chairs were installed at the Colosseum on the sidelines with an unobstructed view of the action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0001-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nAs an added incentive box seat holders had their own gate for admission. Students were able to purchase low priced season tickets for the first time. In its first season under head coach Fred Crolius, the team compiled a 4\u20136\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 129 to 104.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny Athletic Association\nOn September 20, coach Fred Crolius pitted his two teams against each other in a practice game consisting of two ten minute halves. Since the Colosseum was being renovated, the game was played on the campus grounds. The WUP lineup was weakened by injuries and men being called to military duty. Four minutes after kickoff Briney of the three A's plunged into the end zone for a touchdown. The WUP kicked off again and the A's offense continued to find holes in the WUP defense with Reynolds scoring after another four minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 101], "content_span": [102, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0002-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny Athletic Association\nThe offensive onslaught continued on the A's next possession but they fumbled on the three yard line. WUP quarterback Edward Ward recovered and raced the length of the field to score their first and only touchdown. The three A's scored once more to make the final score 15\u20135. The WUP lineup for the game against the AAA was Carpenter (left end), John Martin (left tackle), John Boyd (left guard), Miller (center), Stagg (right guard), Douglass (right tackle) Paul McClain (right end), Edward Ward (quarterback), Cosler (left halfback), John Edwards (right halfback), and William Secrist (fullback). The game consisted of one ten minute half and one five minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 101], "content_span": [102, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nThe fifth WUP versus State College game mirrored the first four. State College triumphed 27\u20130. In the first five games of this future great rivalry the Staties outscored the WUP 114\u20134. The Pittsburgh Daily Post headline was definitely upbeat - \"The WUPS do Well at State, Although Crippled They Hold Their Opponents Down Below the Score Made Last Year\". Irish Mcllveen scored twice. Carl Forkum, Brit Seeley and Andy Smith each scored once. The WUP defense was porous and the offense could not penetrate the State defense. The referee was ex-WUP coach Dr. Fred Robinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0003-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Penn State\nThis would be the last WUP versus State game played in State College, Pennsylvania until 1931. The WUP lineup for the game against Penn State was Byron Stroud (left end), Jackson (left tackle), John Boyd (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), Douglass (right guard), Sweeney (right tackle), Frank Rugh (right end), Carpenter (quarterback), John Martin (left halfback), Paul McClain (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). Thomas Hewitt replaced Frank Rugh at right end. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Pittsburgh Stars\nOn Saturday, October 4, the WUP eleven was scheduled to play the Pittsburg Stars in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The game was postponed indefinitely due to a muddy playing field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe WUP versus Grove City College football game drew at least 400 fans to the Colosseum in spite of competition from a baseball game at Exposition Park. The fans were not disappointed as the WUP offense moved the ball steadily through the Grove City defense and scored three touchdowns- one by Captain John Martin and two by William Secrist. Frank Rugh converted one goal after. The WUP defense allowed Grove City to get inside their twenty-yard line twice but kept the Crimson out of the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0005-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe Crimson coach W.H. Weakley tried to insert himself into the lineup but was quickly ushered to the sideline. The final score was WUP 16 \u2013 Grove City 0. The WUP lineup for the game against Grove City was Byron Stroud (left end), Jackson (left tackle), John Boyd (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), Douglass (right guard), Clyde McGogney (right tackle), Frank Rugh (right end), Carpenter (quarterback), John Martin (left halfback), Paul McClain (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Marion Edmundson replaced Frank Rugh at right end; Frank Rugh replaced Carpenter at quarterback; and John Kerr replaced William Secrist at fullback. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nEven with the crowd larger than the Grove City game, the usual pageantry associated with past Westminster versus WUP football tussles was missing for the October 16th match at the Colosseum. However, the antics on the field kept everyone entertained. Initially, there was a disagreement about the length of the halves. The compromise was one thirty minute half and one twenty-five minute half. After alternating possessions, the WUP offense (minus injured halfbacks John Martin and Paul McClain) moved the ball through the Titan defense but could not sustain the drive and were forced to punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0006-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nOn first down Tennent, Westminster's end, skirted around the WUP defensive left end and raced eighty-eight yards for a touchdown. Wilbur Hockensmith was the umpire. He had blown the play dead for a holding penalty on Christy of the Titans. Westminster refused to accept the penalty and threatened to leave the field. The WUPs caved in to their demands and resumed play. Mr. Hockensmith resigned as umpire and Coach Crolius replaced him. The goal kick after by Moore was successful and Westminster led 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0006-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe energized WUP offense drove the ball to the four yard line but Secrist fumbled and Westminster recovered. The WUP defense managed to get the ball back. On this possession Richard Hawkins and Frank Rugh did the bulk of the ball carrying with Rugh finally shoved over the goal line for the score. He also kicked the goal after to tie the game at 6\u20136. The second half was mainly the WUP offense versus the Titan defense, but the WUPs were unable to penetrate the goal line. The game ended in a 6\u20136 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0006-0003", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Westminster was Byron Stroud (left end), Jackson (left tackle), John Boyd (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), Douglass (right guard), John McClymonds (right tackle), Clyde McGogney (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), Frank Rugh (left halfback), Richard Hawkins (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: John Kerr replaced Douglass at right guard; John Martin replaced Frank Rugh at left halfback; Frank Rugh replaced Joe McCready at quarterback; and Carpenter replaced Frank Rugh at quarterback. The game consisted of one thirty minute half and one twenty-five minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nOn October 22, the fifth edition of the Backyard Brawl took place at the Colosseum. The Mountaineers scored on their first possession, which set the tone for the rest of the game. The Mountaineer offense drove the ball steadily through the WUP defense with halfback Paul Martin carrying the ball over the goal for the touchdown. After a change of possessions, West Virginia secured the ball at midfield and three plays later C.F. Hoy plunged over the goal for their second touchdown. The goal kick after was successful by William Washer. The Mountaineers led 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0007-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nThe WUP defense was able to make a goal line stand at the close of the first half to keep the score 11-0. In the second half the WUP defense could not stop the West Virginia offensive onslaught. C.F. Hoy and Lewis \"Bull\" Smith scored second half touchdowns for the Mountaineers. Late in the second half, the Mountaineers fumbled on their twenty-six yard line and WUP recovered. Seven plays later John Martin bulled his way into the end zone for the lone WUP touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0007-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nFrank Rugh kicked the goal after and the final score was 23\u20136 in favor of the visitors. The WUP lineup for the game against West Virginia was Byron Stroud (left end), G. Jackson (left tackle), John Boyd (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), Ray Alexander (right guard), John McClymonds (right tackle), William Jackson (right end), Carpenter (quarterback), Frank Rugh (left halfback), Joe McCready (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). During the game John Kerr replaced Byron Stroud at left end. The game consisted of thirty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Geneva\nOn October 29, coach J. B. Craig brought his undefeated Geneva Covenanters to the Colosseum to gain some revenge for the 1901 loss to the WUP. Joe Thompson (future WUP star and coach) was the captain of the Covenanters. The WUP lineup was missing starters Paul McLain and Richard Hawkins due to military obligations. The first half was a defensive standstill until the WUP offense gave up the ball on downs on their own twenty-nine yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0008-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Geneva\nWalter East, Jud Schmitt and Joe Thompson carried the ball to the four yard line with East finally plunging into the end zone for the score. The goal kick after by Schmitt was unsuccessful. The halftime score was 5\u20130 in favor of Geneva. After the second half kick-off Geneva secured possession and methodically advanced the ball through the WUP defense. Bruce Martin (brother of WUP captain John Martin) scampered the last twenty-three yards for the touchdown. The goal kick after was again unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0008-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Geneva\nAfter a change of possessions, J. Jackson, fullback for the Universities, fell on a Geneva fumble at the Geneva twenty-five. The WUP offense bucked through the Geneva defense to the thirteen yard line but turned the ball over on downs. Geneva attempted to punt but Patterson (who had replaced Stoyer at end) blocked the kick into the end zone. A mad scramble ended with Joe Thompson on the ball and everyone else on Mr. Thompson. Referee Brownlee called it a safety and the WUPs were on the scoreboard. Geneva 10-WUP 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0008-0003", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Geneva\nAfter a change of possessions Joe Thompson raced sixty-seven yards for a touchdown and Edgar kicked the goal after. Then Critchlow of the Covenanters scored on a thirty-two yard romp in the waning moments to bring the final score to 22\u20132 in favor of Geneva. The WUP lineup for the game against Geneva was Byron Stroud (left end), McChesney (left tackle), Walter Shidler (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), Douglass (right guard), Andrew Wallgren (right tackle), George Stoyer (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Martin (left halfback), R. Jackson (right halfback) and J. Jackson (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Frank Rugh replaced Byron Stroud at left end and Guy Patterson replaced George Stroyer at right end. The game consisted of twenty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Philadelphia Professionals\nThe game against the Philadelphia Professionals originally scheduled for November 5th and then changed to the 6th was officially cancelled due to a misunderstanding with the Philadelphia management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 97], "content_span": [98, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Ohio U.\nWith Paul McLain and Richard Hawkins back from military duty the WUP lineup was again at full strength for the game with the Ohio University Bobcats on November 8th at the Colosseum. The Bobcats were outweighed and simply got pushed all over the field by both the WUP offense and defense. The rejuvenated WUP offense scored five touchdowns \u2013 three by William Secrist, one by Richard Hawkins and one by Guy Jackson. The defense scored one on a blocked punt that Bloom fell on in the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0010-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Ohio U.\nFrank Rugh was good on four goal kicks to make the final score WUP 34 \u2013 Ohio U. 0. The only negative was place kicker Kerr tried two field goals with no success. The WUP lineup for the game against Ohio University was Guy Patterson (left end), John Martin (left tackle), John Boyd (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), John Kerr (right guard), McChesney (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), Richard Hawkins (left halfback), Frank Rugh (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). During the game Guy Jackson replaced William Secrist at fullback. The game consisted of twenty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe WUP Manager Charles L. Livingston had a bit of explaining to do for the hour and thirty minute delay in the starting time of the November 12th game with Allegheny College at the Colosseum. The Western University rented the Colosseum from the Pittsburg Stars for one thousand dollars. Two hundred and fifty dollars were paid at the beginning of the season. Two hundred and fifty dollars were due on November 1st. Manager Berry of the Pittsburg team said that he locked the gates because he did not receive payment on November 1st.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0011-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nManager Livingston claimed that Mr. Berry had reneged on his promise to have the Philadelphia professional team play the WUP the previous Thursday so he had written a check in the amount of sixty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents to cover the University's loss of revenue. Mr. Livingston was finally able to secure an injunction and the gates were opened at 5 p.m. The game was shortened to one fifteen minute half and one nine minute half. The first half was a defensive struggle and neither team came close to scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0011-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe WUP offense received the second half kick and on the fifth play from scrimmage they fumbled and Allegheny recovered. Taylor, Allegheny end, raced twenty-eight yards to the WUP ten. The WUP defense dug in but Allegheny fullback Williams bulled into the end zone from the two. Mr. Williams was successful on the kick after and the final score read Allegheny 6 \u2013 WUP 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0011-0003", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Allegheny was Guy Patterson (left end), John Martin (left tackle), Walter Shidler (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), John Boyd (right guard), McChesney (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), Richard Hawkins (left halfback), Frank Rugh (right halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). The game consisted of fifteen minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nOn November 15, the WUP eleven traveled to Beaver Falls, Pa. for a rematch with the undefeated Geneva Covenanters. WUP right tackle McChesney decided to play for the East End Athletic Club and did not make the trip. John Kerr replaced him in the lineup. The WUP defense could not stop the balanced Geneva attack. Geneva captain Joe Thompson scored two touchdowns, one of which was a fifty yard jaunt. Jud Schmitt, Bruce Martin and Paul Critchlow also scored touchdowns and Schmitt kicked five goals after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0012-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nAt one point late in the first half the WUP offense managed to advance the ball to the Geneva ten yard line but turned it over on downs. The Covenanters proved to be superior to the WUP again and defeated them handily. The final score was 30-0. Geneva finished the season undefeated and their defense only allowed the 2 point safety to the WUP in the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0012-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Geneva was Guy Patterson (left end), John Martin (left tackle), Walter Shidler (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), John Boyd (right guard), John Kerr (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), Richard Hawkins (right halfback), Frank Rugh (left halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). During the game Jackson replaced Richard Hawkins at right halfback. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one nineteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Waynesburg\nThe game scheduled for November 19th with Waynesburg College was cancelled. The Waynesburg team disbanded after three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny Athletic Club\nManager Charles Livingston was able to schedule a game with the Allegheny Athletic Club on short notice to replace Waynesburg. The Allegheny A.C. sent a team made up of players from various local clubs who had not played together, but proved to be a formidable opponent. Allegheny received the kick off. On the first play from scrimmage halfback Donnelly fumbled and WUP captain John Martin fell on it on the Allegheny twenty-five yard line. The WUP offense stalled and John Kerr missed a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0014-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny Athletic Club\nThe WUP defense held and the offense again had the ball in Allegheny territory on the thirty-five yard line. This time John Martin and William Secrist advanced the ball downfield with Secrist finally plunging into the end zone for the go ahead touchdown. Frank Rugh kicked the goal after. On their next possession Allegheny end Glassburner fumbled a lateral and the Westerns recovered. John Martin scampered thirty-nine yards to the Allegheny nine yard line. Rugh and Secrist each picked up three yards and Martin then took the pigskin into the end zone for the second WUP touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0014-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny Athletic Club\nRugh was successful on the goal kick after and the halftime score was 12-0. Martin continued to run roughshod through the Allegheny defense in the second half. He broke loose for gains of twenty-two, forty-eight and twenty-six yards, the latter on his second touchdown scamper. Frank Rugh scored on a twenty-one yard touchdown dash and Byron Stroud finished off the WUP scoring with a late touchdown. The final score was 29-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0014-0003", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny Athletic Club\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Allegheny A.C. was Byron Stroud (left end), G. Jackson (left tackle), Clyde McGogney (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), John Boyd (right guard), John Kerr (right tackle), Richard Hawkins (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Martin (right halfback), Frank Rugh (left halfback) and William Secrist (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Guy Patterson replaced Frank Rugh at left halfback; R. Jackson replaced William Secrist at fullback; and George Stoyer replaced John Martin at right halfback. The game consisted of one twenty minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nThree days after the romp over the Allegheny A.C. the WUPs were scheduled to play Mount Union College for their last home game of the season. The Colosseum grounds were muddy and defense played a huge factor early in the game for both teams. The WUP was able to generate offense after three changes of possession and some wrangling over rules. They secured the ball on their own 50-yard line. On first down John Martin scampered twenty-five yards to the Mount Union thirty- five yard line. From there Rugh, Bennett, Jackson, Kerr and Martin methodically advanced the ball downfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0015-0001", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nFrom the five yard line Frank Rugh carried the ball over the goal line for the game's only score. The goal kick after by Rugh was successful. WUP received the kick off and on second down Martin carried the ball and was tackled rather roughly by Grim of Mount Union. Mr. Martin proceeded to punch Mr. Grim. Teammates separated the two and order was restored. The referee, Professor Edwin Lee of Mount Union, ejected Martin from the game. Martin refused to leave on the basis that the referee could not make that decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0015-0002", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nThe umpire E.L. Maul did not see the initial altercation and refused to disqualify Mr. Martin. The Mount Union players left the field in protest. The umpire awarded the game to WUP and the referee claimed that Mount Union was the winner. The WUP lineup for the game against Mount Union was Byron Stroud (left end), G. Jackson (left tackle), Douglass (left guard), Stacy Hankey (center), John Boyd (right guard), Bennett (right tackle), Paul McClain (right end), Joe McCready (quarterback), John Martin (right halfback), Frank Rugh (left halfback) and John Kerr (fullback). The game lasted fifteen minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe WUP eleven were scheduled to play at Morgantown, West Virginia on Thanksgiving Day but the Mountaineers decided not to play the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033949-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1902 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033950-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1902 William & Mary Orange and White football team represented William & Mary during the 1902 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033951-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1902 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 23 June until 2 July. It was the 26th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1902. The Women's final (challenge round) is the only match in the history of Wimbledon that was played twice over. Charlotte Cooper Sterry played Muriel Robb in miserable weather conditions, and the match was abandoned with the score at 6\u20134, 11\u201313. The match was restarted afresh the next day, and Muriel Robb won the rematch 7\u20135, 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033951-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nFrank Riseley / Sydney Smith defeated Laurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty 4\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 11\u20139", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033952-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Doubles\nFrank Riseley and Sydney Smith defeated Clement Cazalet and George Hillyard 7\u20135, 2\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20131 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty 4\u20136, 8\u20136, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 11\u20139 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1902 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033953-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jnestorius (talk | contribs) at 11:29, 9 September 2020 (\u2192\u200eSection 2: | RD1-team08={{flagicon|GBR}} RM Sweetman). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033953-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nLaurence Doherty defeated Major Ritchie 8\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Arthur Gore 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20130 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1902 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033954-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Singles\nMuriel Robb defeated Agnes Morton 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Charlotte Sterry 7\u20135, 6\u20131 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1902 Wimbledon Championships, after their first match was abandoned at 4\u20136, 13\u201311 due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033955-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1902 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1902 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033956-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033956-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Robert M. La Follette defeated Democratic nominee David Stuart Rose with 52.89% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033956-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Wisconsin elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033957-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1902 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place between 22 and 23 February 1902 at the Pohjoissatama ice rink in Helsinki, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033957-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nFranz Wath\u00e9n was the defending champion. No one won at least three distances and so no World champion was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033957-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033958-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033958-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place on 13 February in London, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033958-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 World Figure Skating Championships\nIt was assumed that only men would compete in the event, and just four skaters participated. However, one of them was a woman, Madge Syers-Cave. After the competition, the winner, Ulrich Salchow, delighted with Syers, presented her with the gold medal he had just won. At the time, the International Skating Union rules did not specify that only men are allowed to participate. In the following year, rules were changed and separate championships for females and males were introduced. However, it was several years before the ladies' event first took place in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033958-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1902 championships were the first to hold a pairs competition alongside the singles. The title of \"world champions\" and medals were not awarded, since the only pair to enter were Madge Syers / Edgar Syers of United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033959-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1902 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1902 college football season. In its third season under head coach William McMurray, the team played only one game, defeating Cheyenne High School by an 18\u20130 score. There was no team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033960-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming gubernatorial election\nThe 1902 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Governor DeForest Richards ran for re-election. He was once again nominated by the Republican Party, and faced Cody Mayor George T. Beck, the Democratic nominee, and Socialist Party nominee Henry Breitenstein in the general election. Richards won re-election in a landslide, becoming the first Governor of Wyoming to win re-election. However, Richards did not end up serving a full second term; on April 28, 1903, he died in office, elevating Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton to the Governorship and triggering a special election in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033960-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming gubernatorial election, Party conventions\nAt the Republican convention on July 15, 1902, Richards, along with the other eligible Republican incumbents, was unanimously nominated for re-election. Similarly, George T. Beck, the newly elected Mayor of Cody, faced no opposition at the Democratic convention and was nominated unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033961-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming state elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 4, 1902. All of the state's executive officers\u2014the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction\u2014were up for election. Republicans held onto all statewide offices by landslide margins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033961-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor DeForest Richards ran for re-election to a second term, and was renominated at the Republican convention. In the general election, he faced Cody Mayor George T. Beck, whom he defeated in a landslide to win a second term. However, several months into Richards's term, he died in office, elevating Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton to the governorship and triggering a special election in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033961-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton ran for re-election to a second term. He was renominated by the Republican Party, and was opposed by the Democratic nominee, David N. Stickney, a cattleman from Laramie and the former principal of Rawlins city schools. Chatterton defeated Stickney in a landslide. Shortly into Chatterton's term, he became acting Governor upon the death of Governor DeForest Richards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033961-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming state elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor LeRoy Grant ran for re-election to a second term. He was renominated by the Republican Party and was opposed by Democratic nominee W. Dean Hayes, a cashier at the First National Bank of Meeteetse. Grant defeated Hayes in a landslide to win a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033961-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican Treasurer George E. Abbott was barred from seeking re-election. Accordingly, former State Treasurer Henry G. Hay was nominated by the Republican Party following a contentious selection at the state party convention. The Democratic convention nominated Colin Hunter, a former member of the territorial council and the former chairman of the territorial board of penitentiary commissioners. Hay ultimately defeated Hunter by a wide margin, enabling him to win his second non-consecutive term as State Treasurer. However, Hay would resign less than a year into his term, causing a special election to be held in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033961-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nIncumbent Republican Superintendent Thomas T. Tynan ran for re-election to a second term. Though he faced some opposition at the Republican convention, he was ultimately renominated. Anna Bramel DeLario, a former public school teacher in Laramie and a former instructor at the University of Wyoming, was nominated by the Democratic convention as their candidate to oppose Tynan. Tynan won re-election over DeLario by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033962-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1902 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 11\u20130\u20131 record and was retroactively named by one selector, Parke H. Davis, as a national champion, along with Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections\nThe United States Senate elections of 1902 and 1903 were elections in which the Democratic Party gained three seats in the United States Senate, but the Republicans kept their strong majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections\nThis election marked the end of the two third parties, the Populists and Silver Republicans. Republicans took both Populist seats (Idaho and Kansas) along with one Silver Republican seat in Washington. Democrats took the other Silver Republican seat in Colorado and flipped four Republican seats (Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Nevada). Republicans flipped only one Democratic seat (Utah), but also gained both vacant Delaware seats, which had been empty due to legislative deadlock in 1898 and 1900, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections\nAs these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, senators were chosen by state legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Change in composition, Before the elections\nAfter the January 29, 1902, special election in New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 89], "content_span": [90, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 57th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were elected and seated during 1902 or in 1903 before March 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Races leading to the 58th Congress\nIn these regular elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1903; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Election during the 58th Congress\nIn this election, the winner was elected in 1903 after March 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 95], "content_span": [96, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Delaware, Delaware (Special, Class 1)\nIn the 1898/1899 elections, the Delaware legislature had failed to elect a successor to Democratic senator George Gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Delaware, Delaware (Special, Class 1)\nFour years later, Republican congressman L. Heisler Ball was elected in 1903 to finish the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Delaware, Delaware (Special, Class 1)\nHe would lose re-election at the 1905 end of the term due to yet another deadlock in the state legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Delaware, Delaware (Special, Class 1)\nAfter the advent of popular elections, Ball would return in 1919 for a single full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Delaware, Delaware (Special, Class 2)\nIn the 1900/1901 elections, the Delaware legislature had failed to elect a successor to Democratic senator Richard R. Kenney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Delaware, Delaware (Special, Class 2)\nTwo years later, Republican state senator J. Frank Allee was elected in 1903 to finish the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Delaware, Delaware (Special, Class 2)\nAllee would retire at the end of the term in 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 83], "content_span": [84, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Florida\nThe Florida legislature failed to elect a senator by the March 4, 1903 beginning of the term. One-term incumbent Democrat Stephen Mallory II was therefore appointed to begin the term, pending the late election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Florida\nDemocratic incumbent Stephen Mallory II was elected late April 22, 1903 to finish the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Iowa\nThere were two elections due to the death of John H. Gear in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Iowa, Iowa (Regular)\nFive-term William B. Allison was re-elected to a sixth term January 22, 1902. He was Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, effectively the leader of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0018-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Iowa, Iowa (Special)\nFirst-term Republican John H. Gear had died July 14, 1900 and Republican Jonathan P. Dolliver had been appointed August 22, 1900 to finish the term ending in 1901 and to the term beginning thereafter, pending a special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0019-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Iowa, Iowa (Special)\nDolliver was elected January 22, 1902 to finish the term that would end in 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0020-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe election in New York was held on January 20, 1903 by the New York State Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0021-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nRepublican Thomas C. Platt had previously been re-elected to this seat in 1897, and his term would expire on March 3, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0022-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nAt the State election in November 1902, 28 Republicans and 22 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1903-1904) in the State Senate; and 89 Republicans and 61 Democrats were elected for the session of 1903 to the Assembly. State Senator Patrick F. Trainor who had been re-elected, died on December 25, 1902, and his successor Peter J. Dooling was elected only after the senatorial election, on January 27. The 126th New York State Legislature met from January 6 to April 23, 1903, at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0023-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe Republican caucus met on January 19. 25 State senators and 84 assemblymen attended, and State Senator William W. Armstrong presided. The caucus re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Thomas C. Platt almost unanimously. A single vote was cast for U.S. Secretary of War Elihu Root by Assemblyman William A. Denison, of Jefferson County. Besides Denison voting against Platt, a small number of anti-Platt men did not attend the caucus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0023-0001", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nBoss Platt had forced the nomination of Attorney General John C. Davies to the New York Supreme Court in the 5th District, against the local Republican organization's wishes who accused Davies of incompetence. Davies was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Watson M. Rogers although the 5th District was heavily Republican. Thus boss Platt's power began to wane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0024-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe Democratic caucus met also on January 19. All 62 State legislators attended, and Assemblyman Charles W. Hinson, of Erie County, presided. They nominated John B. Stanchfield unanimously. Stanchfield had been Mayor of Elmira, and was defeated when running for Governor of New York in 1900 by Republican Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0025-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nThomas C. Platt was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected. Three Republican anti-Platt men, State senators Edgar T. Brackett (28th D.), Elon R. Brown and Nathaniel A. Elsberg (15th D.), voted for Elihu Root.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0026-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, New York\nNote: The votes were cast on January 20, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 21 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0027-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nThe election in Pennsylvania was held on January 20, 1903. Boies Penrose was re-elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0028-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nThe Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 20, 1903. Incumbent Republican Boies Penrose, who was elected in 1897, was a successful candidate for re-election to another term. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0029-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, South Dakota\nTwo-term Republican James H. Kyle died July 1, 1901 and Republican Alfred Kittredge was appointed July 11, 1901 to continue the term, pending a special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0030-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, South Dakota, South Dakota (Special)\nRepublican Alfred Kittredge was elected January 20, 1903 to finish the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033963-0031-0000", "contents": "1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections, South Dakota, South Dakota (Regular)\nRepublican Alfred Kittredge was elected January 21, 1903 to the next the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033964-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 college football season\nThe 1902 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Yale as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e\nThe 1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e was a volcanic eruption on the island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc of the eastern Caribbean, which was one of the deadliest eruptions in recorded history. Eruptive activity began on 23 April as a series of phreatic explosions from the summit of Mount Pel\u00e9e. Within days, the vigor of the explosions exceeded anything witnessed since the island was settled by Europeans. The intensity then subsided for a few days until early May, when the explosions increased again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0000-0001", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e\nLightning laced the eruption clouds and trade winds dumped ash on villages to the west. Heavy ash fall at times caused total darkness. Some of the afflicted residents panicked and headed for the perceived safety of larger settlements, especially Saint-Pierre, about 10\u00a0km (6.2\u00a0mi) south of Pel\u00e9e's summit. Saint-Pierre received its first ash fall on 3 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e\nMount Pel\u00e9e remained relatively quiet until the afternoon of 5 May when a mudflow swept down a river on the southwest flank of the volcano, destroying a sugar mill. The massive flow buried about 150 people and generated a series of three tsunamis as it hit the sea. The tsunamis swept along the coast, damaging buildings and boats. The explosions resumed the night of 5 May. The following morning, parts of the eruption plume became incandescent, signifying that the character of the eruption had changed. The phreatic explosions had finally given way to magmatic explosions as magma reached the surface. The explosions continued through the next day and night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e\nA brief lull was shattered by a tremendous explosion at about 8:00 a.m. on 8 May. A ground-hugging cloud of incandescent lava particles suspended by searing turbulent gases moved at hurricane speed down the southwest flank of the volcano, reaching Saint-Pierre at 8:02 a.m. Escape from the city was virtually impossible. Almost everyone within the city proper\u2014about 28,000 people\u2014died, burned or buried by falling masonry. The hot ash ignited a firestorm, fueled by smashed buildings and countless casks of rum. Only two people survived within the city, along with a few tens of people caught within the margins of the cloud. All survivors were badly burned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e\nExplosive activity on 20 May resulted in another 2,000 deaths as rescuers, engineers and mariners brought supplies to the island. A powerful eruption on 30 August generated a pyroclastic flow that resulted in over 800 people killed. The eruption continued until October 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nBefore the 1902 eruption, as early as the mid-19th century, signs of increased fumarole activity were present in the \u00c9tang Sec (Dry Pond) crater near the summit. Relatively minor phreatic eruptions that occurred in 1792 and 1851 were evidence that the volcano was active and potentially dangerous. The indigenous Carib people knew it as \"fire mountain\" from previous eruptions in ancient times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nEruptions began on 23 April 1902. In early April, excursionists noted the appearance of sulfurous vapors emitting from fumaroles near the mountaintop. This was not regarded as important, as fumaroles had appeared and disappeared in the past. On 23 April there was a light rain of cinders on the mountain's southern and western side, together with seismic activity. On 25 April the mountain emitted a large cloud containing rocks and ashes from its top, where the \u00c9tang Sec caldera was located. The ejected material did not cause a significant amount of damage. On 26 April the surroundings were dusted by volcanic ash from an explosion; the public authorities still did not see a reason to worry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nOn 27 April several excursionists climbed the mountaintop to find \u00c9tang Sec filled with water, forming a lake 180\u00a0m (590\u00a0ft) across. There was a 15\u00a0m (50\u00a0ft) high cone of volcanic debris built up on one side, feeding the lake with a steady stream of boiling water. Sounds resembling a cauldron with boiling water were heard from deep underground. The strong smell of sulfur was all over the city, 6.4\u00a0km (4.0\u00a0mi) away from the volcano, causing discomfort to people and horses. On 30 April Rivi\u00e8re des P\u00e8res and the river Roxelane swelled, carrying boulders and trees from the mountaintop. The villages of Pr\u00eacheur and Sainte-Philom\u00e8ne received a steady stream of ash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0007-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nAt 11:30\u00a0p.m. on 2 May the mountain produced loud explosions, earthquakes and a massive pillar of dense black smoke. Ashes and fine-grained pumice covered the entire northern half of the island. The explosions continued at 5\u20136\u00a0hour intervals. This led the local newspaper Les Colonies to indefinitely postpone a proposed picnic on the mountain, originally planned for 4 May. Farm animals started dying from hunger and thirst, as their sources of water and food were contaminated with ash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0008-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nOn Saturday, 3 May the wind blew the ash cloud northwards, alleviating the situation in Saint-Pierre. The next day the ash fall intensified, and the communication between Saint-Pierre and the Pr\u00eacheur district was severed. The ash cloud was so dense that the coastal boats feared navigating through it. Many citizens decided to flee the city, filling the steamer lines to capacity. The area was covered with a layer of fine, flour-like white ash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0009-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nOn Monday, 5 May, activity appeared to decrease, but at about 1:00 p.m., the sea suddenly receded about 100 metres (330\u00a0ft) and then rushed back, flooding parts of the city, and a large cloud of smoke appeared westwards of the mountain. One wall of the \u00c9tang Sec crater collapsed and propelled a mass of boiling water and mud (a lahar) into the Blanche River, flooded the Gu\u00e9rin sugar works and buried about 150 victims under 60 metres (200\u00a0ft) to 90 metres (300\u00a0ft) of mud. Refugees from other areas rushed into Saint-Pierre. That night, the atmospheric disturbances disabled the electric grid, sank the city into darkness and added to the confusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0010-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nThe next day, at about 02:00, loud sounds were heard from within the depths of the mountain. On Wednesday, 7 May at around 04:00, activity increased; the clouds of ash caused numerous bolts of volcanic lightning around the mountaintop, and both craters glowed reddish orange into the night. Through the day, people were leaving the city, but more people from the countryside were attempting to find refuge in the city, increasing its population by several thousand. The newspapers still claimed the city was safe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0010-0001", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption\nNews of the Soufri\u00e8re volcano erupting on the nearby island of Saint Vincent reassured the people, who believed it was a sign that Mount Pel\u00e9e's internal pressure was being relieved. However, Captain Marina Leboffe, of the barque Orsolina, left the harbor with only half of his sugar cargo loaded, despite shippers' protests, clearance being refused by port authorities, and under threat of arrest. Many other civilians were refused permission to leave town. Governor Louis Mouttet and his wife stayed in the city. By the evening, Mount Pel\u00e9e's tremors seemed to calm down again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0011-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nOn Thursday morning, 8 May 1902, the night shift telegraph operator was sending the reports of the volcano's activity to the operator at Fort-de-France, claiming no significant new developments; his last transmission at 07:52 was \"Allez\", handing over the line to the remote operator. In the next second, the telegraph line went dead. A cable repair ship, CS Grappler, had the city in direct view; the upper mountainside ripped open and a dense black cloud shot out horizontally. A second black cloud rolled upwards, forming a gigantic mushroom cloud and darkening the sky in a 50-mile (80\u00a0km) radius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0011-0001", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nThe initial speed of both clouds was later calculated to be over 160 kilometres (99\u00a0mi) per hour. The horizontal pyroclastic surge hugged the ground and sped down towards the city of Saint-Pierre, appearing black and heavy, glowing hot from within. It consisted of superheated steam and volcanic gases and dust, with temperatures exceeding 1,075\u00a0\u00b0C (1,967\u00a0\u00b0F). In under a minute it reached and covered the entire city, instantly igniting everything combustible. Grappler was subsequently lost in the explosion, sunk with all hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0012-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nA rush of wind followed, this time towards the mountain. Then came a half-hour downpour of muddy rain mixed with ashes. For the next several hours, all communication with the city was severed. Nobody knew what was happening, nor who had authority over the island, as the governor was unreachable and his status unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0013-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nThere are unnamed eyewitnesses to the eruption, probably survivors on the boats at the time of the eruption. One eyewitness said \"the mountain was blown to pieces - there was no warning,\" while another said \"it was like a giant oil refinery.\" One said \"the town vanished before our eyes.\" The area devastated by the pyroclastic cloud covered about 21\u00a0km2 (8\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), with the city of Saint-Pierre taking the brunt of the damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0014-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nAt the time of the eruption, Saint-Pierre had a population of about 28,000, which had swollen with refugees from the minor explosions and mud flows first emitted by the volcano. Legend has previously reported that out of the 30,000 in the city, there were only two survivors: Louis-Auguste Cyparis, a felon held in an underground cell in the town's jail for wounding a friend with a cutlass, and L\u00e9on Comp\u00e8re-L\u00e9andre, a man who lived at the edge of the city. In reality, there were a number of survivors who made their way out of the fringes of the blast zone. Many of these survivors were badly burned, and some died later from their injuries. A number made their way to Le Carbet, just south of Saint-Pierre behind a ridge that protected that town from the worst of the pyroclastic flow; survivors were rescued on the beach there by Martinique officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 912]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0015-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nI felt a terrible wind blowing, the earth began to tremble, and the sky suddenly became dark. I turned to go into the house, with great difficulty climbed the three or four steps that separated me from my room, and felt my arms and legs burning, also my body. I dropped upon a table. At this moment four others sought refuge in my room, crying and writhing with pain, although their garments showed no sign of having been touched by flame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0015-0001", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nAt the end of 10 minutes one of these, the young Delavaud girl, aged about 10 years, fell dead; the others left. I got up and went to another room, where I found the father Delavaud, still clothed and lying on the bed, dead. He was purple and inflated, but the clothing was intact. Crazed and almost overcome, I threw myself on a bed, inert and awaiting death. My senses returned to me in perhaps an hour, when I beheld the roof burning. With sufficient strength left, my legs bleeding and covered with burns, I ran to Fonds-Saint-Denis, six kilometers from Saint-Pierre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0016-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nOne woman, a housemaid, also survived the pyroclastic flow but died soon after. She said that the only thing she remembered from the event was sudden heat. She died very shortly after being discovered. A third reported survivor was Havivra Da Ifrile, a 10-year-old girl who had rowed to shelter in a cave. Included among the victims were the passengers and crews of several ships docked at Saint-Pierre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0017-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Climactic phase\nOne passenger steamship, the Roraima, which went missing on 26 April, was believed to have been engulfed by ash from a preliminary explosion. However, it reached the port of Saint-Pierre at 06:30, shortly before the eruption, and was set aflame by the pyroclastic flow. It later sank; its wreck is still present offshore of Saint-Pierre. Twenty-eight of her crew, and all the passengers except two (a child and her creole nurse), were killed by the cloud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0018-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Relief\nAt about 12:00 the acting governor of Martinique sent the cruiser Suchet to investigate what had happened and the warship arrived off the burning town at about 12:30. The fierce heat beat back landing parties until nearly 15:00, when the captain came ashore on the Place Bertin, the tree-shaded square with caf\u00e9s near the center of town. Not a tree was standing; the denuded trunks, scorched and bare, lay prone, torn out by the roots. The ground was littered with dead. Fire and a suffocating stench prevented any deeper exploration of the burning ruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0019-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Relief\nMeanwhile, a number of survivors had been plucked from the sea by small boats; they were sailors who had been blown into the water by the impact of the blast, and who had clung to wreckage for hours. All were badly burned. In the village of Le Carbet, shielded from the fiery cloud by a high promontory at the southern end of the city, were more victims, also badly burned; few of these lived longer than a few hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0020-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Relief\nThe area of devastation covered about eight square miles. Inside this area, the annihilation of life and property was total; outside was a second, clearly defined zone where there were casualties, but the material damage was less, while beyond this lay a strip in which vegetation was scorched but life was spared. Many victims were in casual attitudes, their features calm and reposeful, indicating that the eruption blast had reached them without warning; others were contorted in anguish. The clothing had been torn from nearly all the victims struck down outdoors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0020-0001", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Relief\nSome houses were almost pulverized; it was impossible even for those familiar with the city to identify the foundations of the city landmarks. The city burned for days. Sanitation parties gradually penetrated the ruins, to dispose of the dead by burning; burial was not possible given the number of dead. Thousands of victims lay under a shroud of ashes, heaped in windrows several feet deep, caked by the rains; many of these bodies were not retrieved for weeks, and few were identifiable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0021-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Relief\nThe United States quickly offered help to Martinique's authorities. On 12 May, US president Theodore Roosevelt instructed the Secretaries of War, Navy, and Treasury to start relief measures at once. The U.S. cruiser Cincinnati, lying at Santo Domingo, and the Navy tug Potomac at San Juan, Puerto Rico, were ordered to proceed to the disaster area as soon as possible. President Roosevelt asked Congress for an immediate appropriation of $500,000 for emergency assistance to the victims of the calamity. The President said: \"One of the greatest calamities in history has befallen our neighboring island of Martinique ...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0021-0001", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Relief\nThe city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist ... The government of France ... informs us that Fort-de-France and the entire island of Martinique are still threatened. They therefore request that, for the purpose of rescuing the people who are in such deadly peril and threatened with starvation, the government of the United States may send as soon as possible the means of transporting them from the stricken island.\" The US Congress voted for $200,000 of immediate assistance and set hearings to determine what larger sum might be needed when the full nature of the disaster could be learned. In an appeal for public funds the President empowered postmasters to receive donations for relief of the victims; a national committee of prominent citizens took charge of chartering supply ships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0022-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Relief\nCanada, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Japan, Russia and the Vatican also offered help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0023-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Subsequent activity\nOn May 20, 1902, a second eruption similar to the first one in both type and force obliterated what was left of Saint-Pierre, killing 2,000 rescuers, engineers, and mariners bringing supplies to the island. During a powerful eruption on 30 August 1902, a pyroclastic flow extended further east than the flows of 8 and 20 May. Although not quite as powerful as the previous two eruptions, the 30 August pyroclastic flow struck Morne Rouge, killing at least 800, Ajoupa-Bouillon (250 fatalities), and parts of Basse-Pointe (25 fatalities) and Morne-Capot, killing 10. A tsunami caused some damage in Le Carbet. To date, this was the last fatal eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0024-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Subsequent activity\nBeginning in October 1902, a large volcanic spine grew from the crater floor in the \u00c9tang Sec crater, reaching a maximum width of about 100 to 150\u00a0m (300 to 500\u00a0ft) and a height of about 300\u00a0m (1,000\u00a0ft). Called the \"Needle of Pel\u00e9e\" or \"Pel\u00e9e's Tower\", it grew in height by up to 15\u00a0m (50\u00a0ft) a day, reaching twice the height of the Washington Monument and more or less the same volume as the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It became unstable and collapsed into a pile of rubble in March 1903, after 5\u00a0months of growth. The eruption eventually ended on 5 October 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0025-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Effects\nThe study of the causes of the disaster marked the beginning of modern volcanology with the definition and the analysis of the deadliest volcanic hazard: pyroclastic flows and surges, also known as nu\u00e9es ardentes (Fr: burning clouds). Eruptions of a similar type are now known as \"Pel\u00e9an eruptions\". Among those who studied Mount Pel\u00e9e were Antoine Lacroix and Angelo Heilprin. Lacroix was the first to describe the nu\u00e9e ardente (pyroclastic flow) phenomenon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033965-0026-0000", "contents": "1902 eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e, Eruption, Effects\nThe destruction caused by the 1902 eruption was quickly publicized by recent modern means of communication. It brought to the attention of the public and governments the hazards and dangers of an active volcano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1902 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nThe first year of Habibullah Khan's reign passes without any internal disturbance, or event of importance. Gen. Mir Attar Khan, who was imprisoned by the late amir, is released and reinstated in his old post of commander-in-chief, or rather of Naib, or deputy commander-in-chief, for this is the title by which the successors of the late Gen. Gholam Haidar Khan in the command of the Army have been designated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0001-0001", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nThe amir is said to be reluctant to confer the full appointment on anyone, and there is a belief current that he is likely to keep it for Yahya Khan, whose daughter, whom he lately married, has become his favourite wife. Yahya Khan is at present in great favour with the amir, and his position in Kabul not unnaturally excites the jealousy both of the amir's own relatives and of the leading chiefs and sardars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0001-0002", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nThere are rumours of intrigues in favour of the amir's youngest half-brother, Mohammad Omar, but they seem to die away, and towards the end of the year Mohammad Omar is reported to be in delicate health. There are also rumours that the amir's full brother, Nasrullah Khan, has fallen into disgrace, and even that he has been imprisoned. These are, as usual, followed by complete denials, and assurances that the best feeling exists between the two brothers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nThe relations of Habibullah Khan with the British government are reportedly of the most friendly nature throughout the year, and he orders his officers on the frontier to prevent all outlaws from British territory from entering Afghanistan. He is reported to have said in durbar that he found by experience that a mild rule was unsuited to the Afghans, and that he has consequently ordered the revival of his father's Secret Intelligence Department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0002-0001", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nBut although the domestic history of Afghanistan during 1902 is comparatively colourless, a very important move is made or attempted by Russia in what may be called its foreign policy. The Russian government suggests to the British government that whilst it fully recognizes the existing agreement between the two countries by which it is precluded from direct diplomatic intercourse with Afghanistan, it would be of the greatest convenience if the Russian and Afghan officials on the frontier were allowed to communicate direct with one another for commercial purposes only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0002-0002", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nTo this proposal the British foreign secretary, Lord Lansdowne, answers that before expressing any opinion on it he would like to know exactly what it means. As to what takes place since, no information is given to the public, except that correspondence is ongoing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0002-0003", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan\nBut if there is any doubt of the true meaning of the Russian proposals this is removed by the Russian press, which declares openly that the time has come that the agreement excluding Russia from Afghanistan should be set aside and that Russia should insist on as full commercial and political intercourse with that country as is enjoyed by England itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan, Early 1902\nThe Hadda mullah, Najibuddin, visits Kabul and is received by the amir with great favour and distinction. It is first reported that the amir is completely under his influence; then it is said that he is virtually a prisoner, and that the amir never visits him. Towards the end of the year he is sent back to his own country, with an allowance of Rs. 16,000 a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033966-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 in Afghanistan, October 1902\nHabibullah holds a great durbar to commemorate the anniversary of his accession, and releases 8,000 prisoners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033967-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Argentine football\n1902 in Argentine football saw Alumni win its 3rd consecutive league championship. Barracas Athletic (promoted in 1901) added to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033967-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in Argentine football\nIn international football, the Argentina national team played its first official game ever, a 6-0 win against Uruguay in Montevideo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033967-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 in Argentine football, Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe first division championship was expanded to a 5-team league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033967-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 in Argentine football, Argentina national team\nThe Argentina national team played its second match ever, a 6\u20130 win against Uruguay in front of 8,000 spectators in the Paso del Molino stadium in Montevideo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033967-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 in Argentine football, Argentina national team\nLineup: Jos\u00e9 Buruca Laforia (Barracas AC), William Leslie (Quilmes), Walter Buchanan (Alumni), Eduardo Duggan (Belgrano AC), Carlos Buchanan (Alumni), Ernesto Brown (Alumni), Edward Morgan (Quilmes), Juan Moore (captain) (Alumni), Juan Anderson (Lomas AC), Carlos Dickinson (Belgrano AC), Jorge Brown (Alumni)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033968-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1902 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033968-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in Australia\nIn 1902 women were finally allowed to vote and stand in federal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033969-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033969-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1902 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033969-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1902 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033970-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Australian soccer\nThe 1902 season was the 19th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033970-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033973-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Brazilian football\nThe 1902 season was the first season of competitive football in Brazil. This was the first season of the S\u00e3o Paulo State Championship, the first official tournament contested in Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033974-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1902 in music in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033976-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canada, Historical documents\nLaurier cabinet member praised as \"Finance Minister of surpluses, high wages and general prosperity\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033976-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canada, Historical documents\nNorth-West Territories official says rapidly developing N.W.T. could become Canada's dominant province", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033976-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canada, Historical documents\nCopper and nickel miners live in pollution-devastated landscape near Sudbury, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033976-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canada, Historical documents\nWestern farmers form grain growers association to oppose corporations and \"wheat blockade\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033976-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canada, Historical documents\nImmigrants arrive in Saskatchewan and enjoy megabushel first harvest of wheat", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033976-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canada, Historical documents\nEntomologist on pest control with crude petroleum, potash-and-fish-oil (either in solution) and hydrocyanic acid gas in fumigation tents", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033976-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canada, Historical documents\nYoung mission doctor captains medical ship through storm on Strait of Belle Isle", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033977-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1902\nThe Hamilton Tigers ceased operations after one game, citing poor player turnout and a lack of ticket revenue. Consequently, Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders were the only two teams to play in the Ontario Rugby Football Union this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033977-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033977-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 in Canadian football, Playoffs, Dominion Championship\n1902 Dominion Championship Game: Ottawa College Grounds - Ottawa, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033978-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1902 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033981-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in El Salvador\nThe following lists events that happened in 1902 in El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033986-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Italy, Events\nIn 1902 a new working law limited the working day for women to 11 hours and prohibited employment of children under the age of 12. Socialist trade unionism enjoys rapid growth in 1901\u201302. In 1902 nearly 250,000 industrial workers were organized in the Socialist national federations. The main labour organizations, the Camera del Lavoro (Labour Exchange) also expanded rapidly: from 14 in 1900 to 76 in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033988-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1902 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033988-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe Liberal Party was re-elected and formed the 15th New Zealand Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033988-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe number of members of the House of Representatives is increased from 74 to 80.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033988-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Parliamentary opposition\nLeader of the Opposition \u2013 no recognised leader in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033988-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 in New Zealand, Sport, Boxing\nThe New Zealand Boxing Association is formed to control and promote amateur boxing. The first national championships are held, in four weight divisions, in Christchurch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033990-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Norwegian football\nThe 1902 season was the 1st season of competitive football in Norway. This page lists results from Norwegian football in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033991-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1902 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033995-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1902 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00033998-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Swedish football\nThe 1902 season in Swedish football, starting January 1902 and ending December 1902:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034000-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034004-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in association football\nThe following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1902 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034006-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1902 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034007-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in chess\nBelow is a list of events in chess in the year 1902:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 66]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034009-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034010-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034011-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1902 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034012-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in music\nThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034013-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034013-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named phytosaurs\nA junior homonym of Rileya Ashmead, 1888 (hymenopteran). Renamed Rileyasuchus Kuhn, 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034013-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named dinosaurs\nA dubious name that may be a synonym of Zalmoxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034014-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034014-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034015-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034016-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in science\nThe year 1902 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034017-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in science fiction\nThe year 1902 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034017-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 in science fiction, Awards\nThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034018-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in sports\n1902 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034019-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1902 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034022-0000-0000", "contents": "1902 \u014ctani expedition\nThe 1902 \u014ctani expedition was a Japanese archaeological expedition to a series of Silk Road sites in the Taklamakan Desert, led by Count \u014ctani K\u014dzui and lasting from 1902 until 1904. The expedition aimed to study the early transmission of Buddhism through Central Asia into China, and conducted major excavations in the Kucha area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034022-0001-0000", "contents": "1902 \u014ctani expedition, Background\nBetween 1900 and 1902, \u014ctani, a Buddhist priest, lived in London studying Western theology and came into contact with a number of European explorers including Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin. Hedin had made his first expedition to Tibet in 1893, and had brought back a large number of documents from his second expedition, while Stein had recently completed his first expedition in the Taklamakan Desert. Having learned of the results of these expeditions, \u014ctani decided to return to Japan by land via Tibet, with the intent of researching the spread of Buddhism through Central Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034022-0002-0000", "contents": "1902 \u014ctani expedition, Expedition\nThe expedition consisted of \u014ctani, as the lead, and four other Japanese scholars - Honda Eryu, Inoue Koen, Hori Kenyu, and Wanatabe Tesshin. The group met in St. Petersburg in August 1902, and traveled through the Russian Empire to Kashgar in far western China. Here, the group split; \u014ctani, Inoue and Honda were to return to Japan via India, while Hori and Wanatabe would remain in Tibet to study ancient sites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034022-0003-0000", "contents": "1902 \u014ctani expedition, Expedition\nBoth groups headed along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert to Yarkand, then south-west into the mountains to Tashkurgan. Here, \u014ctani's group left to head south through the Mintaka Pass towards India, while the others returned to Yarkand and traveled south and east around the desert to Hotan, where they stopped to excavate historic sites. They crossed the desert to the north, visiting Aksu and Turfan, before turning back to Kashgar. After a short rest, they retraced their steps through Tumxuk and arrived at Kucha, where they set up a base from which to investigate local sites including the Kizil Caves, Kumtura Caves, Duldulokur, and Subashi. After four months at Kucha, they headed eastwards through China to return to Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034022-0004-0000", "contents": "1902 \u014ctani expedition, Expedition\nThe group focused their work on sites in the Kucha area, as Stein had recently completed research at Khotan, and a German group was still working at Turfan. The Kizil Caves were first discovered and explored in 1902-1904 by Tesshin Watanabe (\u6e21\u8fba\u54f2\u4fe1) and Kenyu Hori (\u5800\u8ce2\u96c4), funded by Count Otani, but the expedition left hurriedly after four months of exploration in the area of Kucha, following a local earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034022-0005-0000", "contents": "1902 \u014ctani expedition, Expedition\nKizil Caves, Small Ravine (Cave 175-190), as photographed by the Otani Expedition 1902-1904", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034022-0006-0000", "contents": "1902 \u014ctani expedition, Subsequent expeditions\nFollowing \u014ctani's return to Japan, he succeeded his father as 22nd Abbot of the Nishi Honganji sect. While this greatly limited his own ability to travel, it gave him the opportunity to fund and organize future expeditions. In 1908, \u014ctani dispatched a second expedition to the Taklamakan, followed by a third in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034023-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Army Cadets men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Army Cadets men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Joseph Stilwell, coaching his first season with the Black Cadets. The team captain was Horatio Hackett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034024-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 Football League season was Aston Villa's 15th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034024-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Aston Villa F.C. season\nDuring the season Howard Spencer and Albert Evans shared the captaincy of the club. Spencer returned, having taken the 1901\u201302 season off in order to rest his knee and ankle for twelve months in the hope of recovering from an injury. Billy Garraty, great-great grandfather of Jack Grealish, made 30 appearances during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034024-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Aston Villa F.C. season\nAlex Leake joined Aston Villa from Small Heath in July 1902, when he was 31, and stayed five years. In a 1901 profile in the Daily Express, C.B. Fry wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034024-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Aston Villa F.C. season\nLeake is one of the best half-backs of the day; he is a character, and very popular. Fast, with exceptional stamina, he is on the go all the game through; yet never tires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034025-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 10 teams, and Racing Club de Bruxelles won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was Blackpool F.C. 's sixth season (third consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fourteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season\nWalter Cookson and Geordie Anderson were the club's joint-top scorers, with eight goals apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season\nHarry Stirzaker retired at the end of the season, after nine years of service for Blackpool, his only professional club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool opened the season with a trip to Burslem Port Vale on 6 September. Fred Heywood, on his debut for the club, netted Blackpool's goal in a 1\u20131 draw. Two other Blackpool players were given debuts: Teddy Duckworth and, from Bristol City, Walter Cookson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSeven days later, the Seasiders hosted Barnsley at Bloomfield Road. Geordie Anderson scored a hat-trick in a 3\u20133 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0005-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThree more draws followed: 0\u20130 at Gainsborough Trinity, 3\u20133 at home to Burton United (Anderson, Jack Parkinson and Duckworth getting the hosts' goals) and 2\u20132 at home to Glossop North End (Parkinson and Cookson).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0006-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool obtained their first win in their six-game unbeaten start to the campaign against Stockport County on 25 October. Jack Birchall (his only goal of the season) and a Stockport own-goal were the decisive strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0007-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 8 November, Blackpool travelled to Woolwich Arsenal and suffered their first defeat of the season, 2\u20131, with Edward Threlfall getting the visitors' goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0008-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAfter a two-week break, Lincoln City hosted Blackpool. Parkinson and Anderson scored in a 2\u20130 win for the Lancastrians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0009-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA week later, Small Heath visited Bloomfield Road and won by a single goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0010-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nInto December, Blackpool travelled to Leicester Fosse on the 6th. Cookson scored, but the visitors lost 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0011-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nManchester City made it three straight defeats for the Seasiders on 13 December, winning 3\u20130 at Bloomfield Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0012-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool made the short trip to East Lancashire the following week to take on Burnley. Cookson scored his third of the season as the honours were shared in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0013-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn Christmas Day, Blackpool put four without reply past Doncaster Rovers at Bloomfield Road. Harold Hardman (two), Parkinson and William Anderton scored the goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0014-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe next day, Blackpool travelled to Manchester United for a first meeting with their north-west neighbours since they changed their name from Newton Heath. Heywood scored two goals as Blackpool held on for a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0015-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe same scoreline followed in Blackpool's third game in as many days, at home to Preston North End in the first West Lancashire derby of the season, Heywood and Cookson the scorers for 'Pool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0016-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool suffered a New Year's Day single-goal defeat at home to Bristol City to kick off 1903. It was the first of three consecutive reversals, the other two being at home against Burslem Port Vale (2\u20135; Anderson and Cookson the scorers) and away to Barnsley (0\u20136).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0017-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe ship was steadied briefly with a 4\u20130 victory over Gainsborough Trinity at Bloomfield Road on 17 January (two goals from Anderson and one each from Hardman and Anderton), but another defeat followed \u2014 0\u20132 at Burton United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0018-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA run of three consecutive wins in late January and early February boosted Blackpool's league position. Firstly, on 31 January, they defeated Bristol City on the road with a single Cookson goal. This was followed by a 2\u20130 result at home to Burnley, a Jack Scott penalty and Hardman's fourth strike of the season doing the damage. Finally, Manchester United visited Bloomfield Road on 14 February, and were dealt a 2\u20130 defeat, Cookson and Threlfall getting the goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0019-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAway defeats against Glossop North End and Stockport County (0\u20131 and 0\u20134, respectively) followed, however, then two draws (1\u20131 at Chesterfield \u2014 Anderton getting Blackpool's goal \u2014 and 0\u20130 at home to Woolwich Arsenal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0020-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThree consecutive defeats made it seven games without a win for the Seasiders. On 14 March they lost 3\u20130 at Doncaster Rovers. A week later, at home to Lincoln City, they were overturned 3\u20132 (Hardman and Parkinson netting their goals), and on 28 March they suffered a 5\u20131 defeat, with Hardman making the scoresheet. Blackpool's goalkeeper, Arthur Hull, played in midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0021-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 4 April, Blackpool returned to winning ways with a 2\u20130 result at home to Leicester Fosse. Duckworth scored both goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0022-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSix days later, Blackpool faced arch-rivals Preston North End at Deepdale and returned pointless after a 3\u20131 defeat. Scott scored the visitors' goal from the penalty spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0023-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe next day saw another defeat, this time 2\u20130 at champions-elect Manchester City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0024-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe season was rounded off with a 2\u20131 victory over Chesterfield at Bloomfield Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034026-0025-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1902\u201303 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. An appalling season led to a bottom-place finish in the First Division, but the Bees retained their First Division status with a victory over Second Division champions Fulham in a promotion-relegation test match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter a rude awakening to the Southern League First Division during the previous season and despite having become a professional club in 1900, the Brentford committee continued with an amateur attitude with regards to the running of first team affairs. Despite almost all of the First Division clubs utilising a first team manager, the committee would continue to run first team affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0001-0001", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nHad Brentford been relegated at the end of the previous season, the \u00a3557 loss on the season (equivalent to \u00a360,900 in 2021) would have spelt the end of the club, but attendances had almost doubled at York Road and gate receipts of \u00a31,244 were taken (\u00a3136,000 in 2021). Frustratingly, Brentford's promotion to the First Division had necessitated a trebling of the wage bill, which offset the increased gate receipts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0001-0002", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nTo increase revenue, the club would also enter into the London League and Western League during the season and the squad was expanded to 26 professionals, which led to a 60% expansion of the wage bill. Previous regulars Grieve, Logan, McEleny, McElhaney and captain Stormont all left the club and were replaced by full backs Gilson, Nidd, half backs Green, Newsome and forwards Maher, Pickering, Turner and Underwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford began the First Division season in even worse form than it had the last, losing the first 9 matches. Bristol City trainer Bob Crone was brought in to replace Tom King and while the team's fitness improved, its form did not. The FA Cup provided a welcome distraction and the team's form belied that of in the league, scoring 16 goals in six matches to advance from the third qualifying round to the intermediate round and a matchup with Football League First Division club Woolwich Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0002-0001", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe Bees took the Gunners to a replay at the Manor Ground, but the run ended with a 5\u20130 defeat. While the cup exploits had inspired Brentford to a first league victory of the season on 22 November 1902, it had raised the profile of forward Tommy Shanks, who had scored in 9 goals in a 10-match spell through November and December 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\n1903 began with the shock transfer of Tommy Shanks to Woolwich Arsenal, with Brentford receiving \u00a3200 and forward Joe Connor, who on 21 March 1903 would become Brentford's first international player when he played and scored for Ireland in a 2\u20130 victory over Scotland. The Bees took just 3 points from a possible 34 during the rest of the season and finished bottom of the First Division, which led to a promotion-relegation test match versus Second Division champions Fulham on 28 April. The team put in its best performance of the season to run out 7\u20132 victors, with Joe Connor scoring four goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nStatistically, 1902\u201303 was Brentford's worst Southern League season, winning just twice and drawing once. A number of club records were set or equalled during the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0005-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034027-0006-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034028-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 British Home Championship\nThe 1902\u201303 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034028-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 British Home Championship\nUnusually, the trophy was shared by three of the Home Nations all of whom scored four points. At the time, goal difference was not used to differentiate teams. In addition to the usual favourites of England and Scotland, Ireland also took their first ever share of the championship, after scoring their first ever victory over the Scots with a 2\u20130 win in Glasgow and subsequently beating Wales. The tournament was played under the shadow of the previous year's finale, when a wooden stand at Ibrox Stadium had given way under the mass of supporters and 26 people had fallen to their deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034028-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 British Home Championship\nIreland and England began the competition, with the English scoring four without reply to take an early lead. England extended their advantage in the second match with a 2\u20131 victory over Wales and seemed to be on course for the championship. Scotland began their challenge against Wales in a match they narrowly won before stumbling against Ireland in a match the Irish dominated in front of the Scottish home support. Just two years previously at the same stadium, Scotland had beaten Ireland 11\u20130 in what is still their record win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034028-0002-0001", "contents": "1902\u201303 British Home Championship\nOn the back of this result, Ireland beat Wales 2\u20130 ending a miserable tournament for the Welsh who had scored only one goal and failed to gain a single point. In the final match between England and Scotland, Scotland needed a win to draw level with Ireland and England whilst England needed only a draw to take the championship outright. In a tough match in Sheffield both sides played well, but Scotland eventually won 2\u20131 taking their share of the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034029-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034029-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nBrown followed a poor 1902 season with an even worse performance. The Brunos won a single game, against a local high school, and in their five other contests they could only muster 2 goals, finishing the season dead least in intercollegiate play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034030-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season. The team finished the season with an overall record of 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034031-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was Burslem Port Vale's fifth consecutive season (ninth overall) of football in the English Football League. Finishing in ninth place for the second time in three years, it would take just over two decades for the club to again reach the heights of a top ten second tier finish. Their success was down mainly due to their home form, and in fact a club record 29 away games without a win began on 17 January 1903. Adrian Capes would become the club's top scorer for the third successive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034031-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe pre-season saw tough-tackling left-back Arthur Hartshorne arrive from Wolverhampton Wanderers, whilst left-half W. Perkins and forward William Loverseed both arrived from Newark. In September, experienced right-half Arthur Rowley arrived from Bristol Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034031-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nVale had an awful start to the season, winning just one of their first ten games. However this run ended with five wins in their following seven games to take them back to the safety of mid-table. Their 4\u20132 win over Blackpool at Bloomfield Road on 3 January 1903 was their last away win until the 1904\u201305 season. Their finish to 1902\u201303 was strong, winning their last seven home games. However they finished with 34 points from 34 games, seventeen points from the promotion zones, and nine points clear of the re-election zones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034031-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nAdrian Capes was top scorer with eighteen goals in 37 games, missing just one league game. Goalkeeper Harry Cotton played 36 games; Billy Heames, W. Perkins, Ernest Mullineux, Arthur Hartshorne, Bert Eardley, Arthur Rowley, George Price, and William Loverseed were all constant figures in the first eleven. At the end of the campaign all the major players were kept on, with no big signings made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034031-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nA financially difficult season, in March 1903 the directors decided to sell defenders Arthur Hartshorne and Ted Holdcroft to Stoke for over \u00a3500. This gave the club a profit of \u00a3112 on the campaign. Poor attendance figures saw gate income fall by \u00a3200 from the previous season. The club's debt was totalled at \u00a3171, and subsequently the club's reserve side was moved from The Football Combination to the North Staffordshire League to save on travel costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034031-0005-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn cup competitions, Vale performed poorly, falling at the first hurdle in the Staffordshire Senior Cup, Birmingham Senior Cup, and Bass Charity Vase. Losing to rivals Stoke in the county cups: 2\u20130 at home in the Birmingham Cup, and 5\u20133 away in the Staffordshire Cup replay following a 1\u20131 draw at home. In the Charity Vase they were conquered by Second Division rivals Burton United 5\u20131 away in a replay, following a 1\u20131 draw at home. The club failed to qualify for the FA Cup, after losing 2\u20131 away at St. Helens Recreation's short, sloped, boggy pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034032-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1902\u201303 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034033-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Anthony Chez, coaching his first season with the Bearcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034034-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Colgate men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his third season. The team finished with an overall record of 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034035-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 7th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034035-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but Charles Dana served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034035-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034035-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Schedule and Results\n\u2020 Because Princeton's team was disbanded they were forced to forfeit the overtime session to be played after the 18th of February. As a result Columbia finished in a tie with Yale for 2nd place in the conference, necessitating the game on February 24th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034036-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season. The Aggies completed the season with a 5\u20132 record against mostly local high schools. The Aggies were members of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034037-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Cornell men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 Cornell men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034037-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nPlaying games continued to be a struggle for Cornell. The team was only able to play two games this season with both coming over a two-day span.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034037-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Cornell University did not formally adopt 'Big Red' as its moniker until after 1905. They have been, however, associated with 'Carnelian and White' since the school's Inauguration Day on October 7, 1868.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034038-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1902\u201303 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, who played without a head coach, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034039-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the tenth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One. In what would be their best season to date, Dundee finished in the league in 2nd place, finishing 6 points behind champions Hibernian. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would progress to the semi-finals before losing in a replay to Hearts. This would be the first season where Dundee would wear dark blue uniforms as their definitive home colours, with their kit for the season being described as \"dark blue semmets and pants, the latter being relieved with a nice red stripe down the side\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034040-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 East Stirlingshire F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was East Stirlingshire Football Club's third season in the Scottish Football League, being admitted to the Scottish Football League Second Division. The club also competed in the Scottish Cup and the minor Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup\nThe 1902\u201303 FA Cup was the 32nd season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Bury won the competition for the second and (as of 2017) final time, beating Derby County 6\u20130 in the final at Crystal Palace. This scoreline still stands as a record victory in an FA Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, an intermediate round, three proper rounds, and the semi-finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe Intermediate Round featured ten games, played between the ten winners of the Fifth Qualifying Round, and ten teams given byes. First Division Middlesbrough, along with Bristol City, Preston North End, Woolwich Arsenal, Burnley and Lincoln City from the Second Division were entered automatically into this round, as were non-league Reading, Bristol Rovers, West Ham United and Millwall Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe other Second Division sides had to gain entry to this round through the earlier qualifying rounds. Burton United, Blackpool and Stockport County were entered at the First Qualifying Round, while the others, Burslem Port Vale, Chesterfield, Doncaster Rovers, Gainsborough Trinity, Leicester Fosse and Manchester United, were entered in the Third Qualifying Round. Of these, only Manchester United, Glossop and Burton United reached the Intermediate Round. They were joined by seven other non-league sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0005-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe ten matches were played on 13 December 1902. Three matches went to replays, with one of these going to a second replay (held at Villa Park).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0006-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained 16 ties between 32 teams. 17 of the 18 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Manchester City and Small Heath from the Second Division, and Southern League teams Southampton, Portsmouth, and Tottenham Hotspur. They joined the ten teams who won in the intermediate round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0007-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 7 February 1903. Four matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek. One of these, the Notts County v Southampton match, went to a second replay, which Notts County won at Small Heath's St Andrew's ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0008-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were played on Saturday, 21 February 1903. There was one replay, between Nottingham Forest and Stoke City, played in the following midweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0009-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four Third Round matches were played on Saturday 7 March 1903. There were no replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0010-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were played at neutral venues on Saturday 21 March 1903. Bury and Derby County won and went on to meet each other in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034041-0011-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup, Final\nThe Final was contested by Bury and Derby County at Crystal Palace. Bury won 6\u20130, with goals from George Ross, Charlie Sagar, Joe Leeming (2), William Wood and Jack Plant. The scoreline remains a record for the biggest winning margin in the FA Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034042-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe qualifying campaign for the 1902\u201303 FA Cup, the thirty-second staging of the world's oldest association football competition, consisted of six rounds of matches, which began on 20 September 1902 with the preliminary round. The Cup was eventually won by Bury, who beat Derby County in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034042-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034043-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the fourth season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034043-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Barcelona season, Events\nPaul Haas replaced Bartomeu Terradas as president on 5 September 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034043-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Barcelona season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1902\u201303 season was their tenth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who had taken over the position for the second time, he stood down at the AGM and Josy Ebinger was elected. He became the fifth chairman in the club's history. FC Basel first played their home games in the Thiersteinerallee and later they returned to the Landhof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Overview, Football ground\nTo the start of the previous season the club was forced to find a new playing field, because the new co-tenants of the Landhof built a concrete bowling alley in the middle of the grounds. Thus the FC Basel first and reserve teams then had to play their games elsewhere. They eventually found a suitable field beside the Thiersteinerallee, in the south-east of the city. To the beginning of the 1902\u201303 Swiss Serie A season the teams also played their games there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0001-0001", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Overview, Football ground\nTowards the end of the year 1902 the club met an agreement with the owner of the Landhof, Mrs Katharina Ehrler-Wittich, and the club was able to return to their original domicile. At the cost of 150 Swiss Francs the club members removed the bowling alley and made the pitch playable once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nAlphonse Schorpp was the team captain for the third successive season and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. There is no documentaion that shows that there were pre-season friendly games this season, although the domestic league did not start until November. However, because the league season ended early there were friendlies added directly afterwards. A curiosity that comes to note is, that there were two games against French team Mulhouse. Directly after the league group had been completed, the first game at the Landhof was won 8\u20131 and had five different goal scorers. The return match, held just two weeks later, was lost 0\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nThe Swiss Serie A season 1902\u201303 was divided into three regional groups. There were six teams in the east group, five teams in the central and four teams in the west group. Basel were allocated to the central group together with two teams from the capital Young Boys and FC Bern and two further teams from region Basel, these being Old Boys Basel and Fortuna Basel. A curiosity during the championship was the match against Fortuna. The game was abandoned in the 70th minute, because the Fortuna players left the field in protest against a senting off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0003-0001", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nThe referee commission, which was responsible in such cases as a court of arbitration, decided let the score count as end result. Fortuna were later disqualified by the Swiss Football Association due to incidents in the match against Old Boys. The decision was that the results of the previously played matches would remain in the league table, but the remaining matches were not played and not awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Overview, Football season\nBasel completed the central division as the only team with eight games. They had three victories and five defeats with thus six points, 13 to 20 goals. Basel were in third position in the table, six points behind Young Boys who won the group one point ahead of Old Boys. Young Boys therefore qualified for the finals. Here YB won both matches and became Swiss champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0005-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034044-0006-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 FC Basel season, Notes, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Most of the documentation is incomplete.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034045-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Football League\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the 15th season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034045-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034045-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034045-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034046-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Football Tournament, Overview\nIt was contested by five teams, and Kj\u00f8benhavns Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034047-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1902\u201303 French Rugby Union Championship was won by the Stade Fran\u00e7ais, winning the final against the Stade Olympiens des \u00e9tudiants Toulousains (SOET) with a score of 16-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034047-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe final was held on April 26th, 1903 at Prairie des filtres in Toulouse and was refereed by Robert Coulon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034047-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification for the final\nThe Racing Club was initially positioned to become the champion of Paris (the team representing Paris in the Union Championship), having won against Le Havre A.C, but were disqualified because one of their players was not properly licensed. Subsequently, the Stade Fran\u00e7ais managed to qualify, by beating Le Havre 14\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034047-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification for the final\nSOET were the champions of the Garonne Region, qualifying after beating Stade Bordelais (8\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034047-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nTwo of the students from SOET, Albert Cuill\u00e9 and Augustin Pujol later played for Stade Fran\u00e7ais in the final in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034048-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034048-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter losing all three contests against Yale the year before, Harvard made no mistake in defeating the Elis thrice in 1903. The victories capped off Harvard's second undefeated season but this time, as a member of the Intercollegiate Hockey Association, the Crimson captured their first championship as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034049-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1902\u201303 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034050-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1902\u201303 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished first out of 12 clubs in the Scottish First Division and won their first league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034051-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross during the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Powers, coaching the crusaders in his second season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034052-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Willis Koval, who was in his 1st year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034052-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 8\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034053-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his fourth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034054-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1902\u201303 comprised 8 teams, and Distillery won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034055-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its fifth season of collegiate basketball. The Jayhawks were coached by 5th year head coach James Naismith, the inventor of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034056-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Kentucky State men's basketball team competed on behalf of the University of Kentucky during the 1902-1903 season. Kentucky basketball's first season was an unsuccessful one, going 1-2 after losing to in-state Georgetown College Tigers, and Kentucky University Pioneers (Now Transylvania University) and beating the local YMCA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034057-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 MHA season\nThe 1902\u201303 Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) season consisted of a six game series between the Winnipeg Rowing Club and the Winnipeg Victorias. To differentiate from the Manitoba & Northwestern Hockey Association, the league was known as the Western Canada Hockey Association. The Rowing Club won the series of the Winnipeg teams to take the championship. The Rowing Club would challenge for the Stanley Cup in the 1903\u201304 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034058-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034058-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe season began on a sour note when team member and ice hockey club president Frank Falvey died due to acute peritonitis. A game against Phillips Andover was cancelled as a result but the team did eventually return to the ice against Harvard. After the game against the Crimson, MIT cancelled the remainder of their season in honor of Falvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034058-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but P. S. Crowell served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034058-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034059-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Madrid FC season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was Madrid Football Club's 1st season in existence. The club played some friendly matches against local clubs. Madrid FC also played their first match outside of the Community of Madrid against Club Espa\u00f1ol de F\u00fatbol (now RCD Espanyol) in Barcelona. The club also participated in the inaugural editions of the Copa del Rey and the Campeonato de Madrid (Madrid Championship).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034059-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Madrid FC season, Competitions, Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n\nThe 1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n, officially Concurso Madrid de Foot-ball Association (Madrid Contest of Association Football) was an unofficial football competition in honour of the coronation of Alfonso XIII of Spain. It is not recognized by the Royal Spanish Football Federation or the Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional (LFP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 61], "content_span": [62, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034059-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Madrid FC season, Competitions, Campeonato de Madrid\nThe 1902\u201303 Campeonato de Madrid was the inaugural edition of the Campeonato Regional Centro. Despite beginning in November 1903, it corresponds to the 1902\u201303 Spanish football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034060-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was Manchester City F.C. 's twelfth season of league football and first season back in the Second Division of the Football League. Managing an immediate promotion, the club gained their second minor league trophy in their then-short history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034061-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was Manchester United's 11th season in the Football League, and their first season under their new name of \"Manchester United\", as opposed to \"Newton Heath\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034062-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 team finished with a record 1\u20135. It was the second and final year for head coach Clayton T. Teetzel. The team captain was R.C. Smith and team manager was C.B. Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034063-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represents Michigan State University for the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season. The school was known as State Agricultural College at this time. The head coach was George Denman coaching the team his second season. The team captain was Joseph Hoftencamp. The team finished the season 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034064-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team represented the University of Minnesota in intercollegiate basketball during the 1902\u201303 season. The team finished the season with a 13\u20130 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034065-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter G Hiltner, coaching the huskers in his first season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034066-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1902\u20131903 was contested by eighteen teams participating in three divisions. This season, the western division had been split in two, creating the Eerste Klasse West-A and the Eerste Klasse West-B. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the three divisions of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating Vitesse Arnhem and Volharding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034067-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Northern Football League\nThe 1902\u201303 Northern Football League season was the fourteenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034067-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 10 clubs which competed in the last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034068-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1902\u201303 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the eighth season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034068-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nHalifax beat Salford 7-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 32,507", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season was the club's 18th season of play. The club would win the CAHL championship in a playoff with the Montreal Victorias to win the Club's first Stanley Cup. For their win, the players would each be given a silver nugget. From that day forward, the club was nicknamed the Silver Seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nDefenceman and former captain Peg Duval left the team to sign with the Pittsburgh Victorias as a professional in the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nThis season was the first season for Frank McGee and Art Moore. McGee would place second in the league scoring race with 14 goals in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nThe season would be a two team race between Montreal Victorias and Ottawa, splitting their matches between each other. The season ended in a tie, which necessitated a two-game playoff, won by Ottawa to win their first Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs\nThe game was played at Dey's Arena on ice that was covered in water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0005-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa\nOttawa defeated the Rat Portage Thistles 6\u20132, 4\u20132 (10\u20134) in a two-game, total goals series in Ottawa, March 12\u201314, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0006-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa\nAs the new CAHL and Cup champions, the Ottawas accepted a challenge from the Rat Portage Thistles of the Manitoba & Northwestern Hockey Association (MNWHA). Entering the best-of-three challenge series, the Thistles were younger and quicker than Ottawa; only one player on the Thistles was over the age of 20. Any chance that those factors could have helped the team was negated by soft ice conditions. Ottawa swept the series with scores of 6\u20132 and 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0007-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa\nAll of the goals were scored in the first half. Fred Westwick did not play due to his wife's illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034069-0008-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa\nFor their win, the Ottawa players would each receive a silver nugget. From that point on the team would also be known as the Silver Seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034070-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 3\u20135\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034071-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Primera Fuerza season\nThe 1902\u201303 Primera Fuerza season was the first season of the amateur era in M\u00e9xican Football. Statistics of Primera Fuerza in season 1902\u201303. The tournament started 9 October 1902 and ended 1 February 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034071-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Primera Fuerza season, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Orizaba won the championship. Teams played each other once and the winner was determined by the points accumulated at the end of the last game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034071-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Primera Fuerza season, Matches\nOn 20 September 1902 the calendar for the tournament was presented. The tournament was supposed to begin 19 October 1902 and end 28 December 1902 in order to not interfere with the tournament of cricket. The meeting took place in the offices of British Club. The games that were going to be played in Ciudad de M\u00e9xico would be played in Campo del Reforma while Orizaba and Pachuca would play their respective games in their own cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034071-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Primera Fuerza season, Results, Top goalscorers\nPlayers sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034072-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034072-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nTowards the end of their season the Tigers played their first game outside of the United States when they traveled to play Queen's University. However, shortly after the game the Faculty Athletic Committee ordered that the team be disbanded. This caused Princeton to forfeit the tie against Columbia, which was to be played off after the game against Queens, and finish in a 3-way tie for second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034072-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Schedule and Results\n\u2020 Because Princeton's team was disbanded they were forced to forfeit the overtime session to be played after the 18th of February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 70], "content_span": [71, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034073-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 RPI men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 RPI men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034073-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Rensselaer's athletic teams were unofficially known as 'Cherry and White' until 1921 when the Engineers moniker debuted for the men's basketball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034074-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season is the 29th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034074-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 29 competitive matches during the 1902\u201303 season. The team finished third in Scottish League Division One, eight points behind champions Hibernian. The team managed twelve wins from the twenty-two league matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034074-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe Scottish Cup campaign ended in success as the team defeated Hearts 2\u20130 in the second final replay. The two previous final matches were a 1\u20131 and 0\u20130 draw and all were played at Celtic Park, Glasgow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034075-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1902\u201303 Rugby Union County Championship was the 15th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034075-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Rugby Union County Championship\nDurham won the competition for the third time defeating Kent in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034076-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Scottish Cup\nThe 1902\u201303 Scottish Cup was the 30th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers when they beat Heart of Midlothian 2-0 in the final after two replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034077-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1902\u201303 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034077-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Scottish Districts season, History\nEdinburgh District and Glasgow District drew nil-nil in the Inter-City match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034078-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Scottish Division One\nThe 1902\u201303 Scottish Division One season was won by Hibernian by six points over nearest rival Dundee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034079-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1902\u201303 Scottish Division Two was won by Airdrieonians. Both Airdrieonians and Motherwell were promoted to Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034081-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1902\u201303 Sheffield Shield season was the 11th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034082-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 Football League season was Small Heath Football Club's 11th in the Football League and their 8th in the Second Division. Having been relegated in 1901\u201302, they reached the top two positions by mid-November and remained there for the rest of the season, finishing as runners-up in the 18-team league, so were promoted back to the First Division at the first attempt. They also took part in the 1902\u201303 FA Cup, entering at the first round proper (round of 32) and losing in that round to Derby County. In locally organised competition, they lost to Aston Villa in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup after two replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034082-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-two players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were eleven different goalscorers. Archie Goldie was ever-present over the 35-match season, his full-back partner Harold Wassell missed only one match, and six other players made at least 30 appearances. Arthur Leonard was leading scorer with 16 goals, all of which came in the league. The 12\u20130 defeat of Doncaster Rovers in April equalled the club record highest win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034083-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Southampton F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the 18th since the foundation of Southampton F.C. and their ninth in league football, as members of the Southern League, of which the club won their fifth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034084-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Southern Football League\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the ninth in the history of Southern League. Southampton won Division One for the 5th time in seven seasons. Fulham finished top of Division Two. No Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034084-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Southern Football League, Division One\nThere were no new clubs in Division One this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034084-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Southern Football League, Division Two\nThere were also no new clubs in Division Two this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034084-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Southern Football League, Promotion-relegation test matches\nAt the end of the season, test matches were held between the bottom two clubs in Division One and the top two clubs in Division Two. Brentford beat Fulham 7-2 to retain their place in Division One, although Fulham were promoted anyway after Division One was expanded to 18 clubs. Brighton beat Watford 5-3 in the other match, which saw the two clubs swap divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034085-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1902-1903 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's eighth as members of the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 29th in their history. This season, the Northern Rugby Football Union split into two divisions for the first time. St Helens were placed in Division 1,but were relegated after finishing in a second-bottom 12th place. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the second round by Rochdale Hornets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034086-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1902\u201303 season was Stoke's 14th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034086-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Stoke F.C. season\nAfter two seasons of narrow escapes the 1902\u201303 season provided Stoke fans a welcome relief as they finished in sixth place and could have won the league but failed to win their last four fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034086-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nAfter a couple of desolate campaigns it did seem that the 1902\u201303 season would, bring some progress as the club attempted to build on a somewhat poor defence. A fine half-back was now taking shape with Tom Holford flanked by local players George Baddeley and James Bradley. This trio played together 74 times for Stoke at senior level and became a formidable midfield three. But perhaps the most significant signing at this time was that of 27-year-old inside-left Arthur Capes signed from Nottingham Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034086-0002-0001", "contents": "1902\u201303 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nHe became captain of the side and provided a useful number of goals for Stoke in his two seasons with the club. The directors also visited Scotland, again to sign Jack Forrest from Motherwell but after scoring twice on his debut against Wolverhampton Wanderers he was unable to settle in the Potteries and left for Bradford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034086-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nAn ultimate sixth-place finish in the table does not exaggerate the work put in by both Cowlishaw and Austerberry for this was Stoke's best season so far in League football. In fact after a hard fought 0\u20130 away at Sunderland on Good Friday, Stoke were lying fourth and had a mathematical chance of taking the title. But they only won one of their remaining four games allowing Sheffield Wednesday to win the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034086-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nIn the FA Cup Stoke accounted for Glossop and Nottingham Forest before bowing out 3\u20130 to Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034088-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Syracuse Orangemen men's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season. The team captain was Earl Twombley. Instead of a head coach, the team's operations was headed by guard and team manager Frank Bohr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034089-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034090-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 WPHL season\nThe 1902\u201303 WPHL season was the sixth season of operation for the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. This was the first season whereby the league and its teams were recognized as professional, making it the first professional ice hockey league. To fill their team the Pittsburgh Athletic Club lured players from Canada with promises of high-paid employment and small cash incentives, which was around $30 a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034090-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 WPHL season\nFour Pittsburgh-area teams competed in the season, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens. The Pittsburgh Victorias were added to the WPHL making it a four team league. The team was made up of players from Ottawa, that were enticed to come to Pittsburgh. The Victorias were able to add Stanley Cup winner Bruce Stuart to their team, giving the future Hall of Famer his start in professional hockey. That season, Stuart led the WPHL with 16 goals in his first pro season and was named to the First All-Star team. The season concluded with the Pittsburgh Bankers having the best record in the league and being named league champions. It would be the team's first league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034091-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represents the University of Washington during the 1902\u201303 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034092-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1902\u201303 Welsh Amateur Cup was the thirteenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Druids Reserves who defeated Bangor Reserves 4-0 in the final, at The Racecourse, Wrexham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034093-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Western Football League\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the 11th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034093-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Western Football League\nLike the previous two seasons, Portsmouth were the champions of Division One, and along with all the other members of Division One, also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions were Bristol Rovers Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034093-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nOne new club joined Division One, which remained at nine clubs after Swindon Town left the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034093-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nNo new clubs joined Division Two, which was reduced to eight clubs from nine after Weston-super-Mare left the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034094-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034094-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season, Season\nA team from Williams had played Rensselaer the year before but they had done so without being official representatives of the college.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034095-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u20131903 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Dr. James C. Elsom, coaching his fifth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034096-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1902\u201303 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1902\u201303 season. The team finished the season with a 15\u20131 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034097-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1902\u201303 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034097-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the first time in five seasons, Yale was not the intercollegiate champion. A majority of Yale's games were played at the St. Nicholas Rink as it was one of the few available locations where consistent ice could be secured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034097-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, Reeve Schley served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034098-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States\nThe 1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States began in December 1902, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034098-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Regular season, Conference winners\nNOTE: The Western Conference (the future Big Ten Conference) did not sponsor an official conference season or recognize a regular-season champion until the 1905\u201306 season. In 1902\u201303, Minnesota (13\u20130) and Purdue (8\u20130) both went undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 99], "content_span": [100, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034099-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Belgian football\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the eighth competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034099-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official division existed at the time, split into two leagues. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and its winner was decided after a final round between the first two of each league. The season was not completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034099-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Belgian football, Overview\nOlympia Club de Bruxelles and Daring Club de Bruxelles were admitted to the league at the end of the season while Verviers F.C. merged with Stade Wallon de Verviers to become C.S. Vervi\u00e9tois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034099-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Belgian football, League standings, Championship Cup B\n[ Note 1] Merged with Stade Wallon de Verviers to become C.S. Vervi\u00e9tois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034100-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in English football\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the 32nd season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034100-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in English football, Events\nAston Villa win 12 of their last 15 games to finish one point behind champions Sheffield Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034100-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034101-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Scottish football\nThe 1902\u201303 season was the 30th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 13th season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034101-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nRangers won the Scottish Cup after beating Hearts 2\u20130 in the second replay after the two previous games had ended in draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034101-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nParkhead were winners of the Scottish Junior Cup after a 3\u20130 win over Larkhall Thistle in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034101-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u201303 in Scottish football, Scotland national team\nIn the 1903 British Home Championship, Scotland shared the trophy with England and Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0000-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons\nThe following is a list of Pacific typhoon seasons from 1902 to 1919. Data from these years was extremely unreliable, so there were many more typhoons that did not hit land and were not detected by ships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0001-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1902\nIn 1902, there were 24\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0002-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1902\n1300 people were killed by a typhoon in Japan on September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0003-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1903\nIn 1903, there were 31\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0004-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1904\nIn 1904, there were 31\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0005-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1905\nIn 1905, there were 24\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0006-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1905\nOn April\u00a020, a typhoon struck the Marshall Islands, killing 26\u00a0people. On June\u00a030, another typhoon moved through the Marshall Islands, killing 230\u00a0people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0007-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1905\nFrom September\u00a021\u201329, a typhoon moved across the Philippines, killing more than 240\u00a0people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0008-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1906\nIn 1906, there were 24\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0009-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1906\nIn September 1906, a typhoon struck China near Hong Kong, killing around 15,000\u00a0people, and causing US$20\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0010-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1907\nIn 1907, there were 32\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0011-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1907\nFrom March\u00a026\u201327, a typhoon moved through the Caroline Islands, killing 473\u00a0people in the archipelago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0012-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1908\nIn 1908, there were 31\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0013-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1909\nIn 1909, there were 35\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0014-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1909\nThere is a typhoon with the winds of 135\u00a0mph (217\u00a0km/h). The typhoon impacted Philippines and caused an instrument to be destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0015-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1910\nIn 1910, there were 38\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0016-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1911\nIn 1911, there were 30\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0017-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1911\nA storm was first observed south of Guam on August\u00a021 and moved on a westward trajectory. On August\u00a026, the track shifted more to the west-northwest, bringing it over the Batanes islands offshore northern Luzon. That night, the storm approached southwest coast of Taiwan (then known as Formosa) with great intensity, possibly moving over the island. Kaohsiung reported a minimum pressure of 937\u00a0mbar (27.63\u00a0inHg), the lowest-ever recorded pressure on the island as of 1955, as well as maximum sustained winds of 177\u00a0km/h (110\u00a0mph) before the anemometer broke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0017-0001", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1911\nPeak winds there were estimated around 251\u00a0km/h (156\u00a0mph), based on the severity of the airborne debris. Elsewhere on the island, the highest recorded wind speed was 196\u00a0km/h (122\u00a0mph). Across Taiwan, the typhoon destroyed over 30,000\u00a0houses, injured 378, and killed 305\u00a0people. The storm made landfall in eastern China on August\u00a027 and continued northward for three more days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0018-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1912\nIn 1912, there were 27\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0019-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1912\nIn August, a typhoon struck near Wenzhou, China, killing 50,000\u00a0people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0020-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1912\nIn September, a typhoon killed 1,000 people and left US$20\u00a0million in damage when it struck Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0021-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1912\nOn November\u00a026, a typhoon struck Palau, killing two people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0022-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1913\nIn 1913, there were 23\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0023-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1913\nOn November 10, a typhoon hit Guam. The USS Ajax was wrecked during the storm. A hospital steward was reported to have been killed, though they were later found alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0024-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1914\nIn 1914, there were 25\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0025-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1915\nIn 1915, there were 23\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0026-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1916\nIn 1916, there were 23\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0027-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1917\nIn 1917, there were 16\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0028-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1917\nIn September, a typhoon struck the Japanese island of Honshu, killing 4,000\u00a0people and leaving US$50\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0029-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1918\nIn 1918, there were 16\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0030-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1918\nIn November, a typhoon killed 129\u00a0people when it struck Majuro in the Marshall Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034102-0031-0000", "contents": "1902\u20131919 Pacific typhoon seasons, 1919\nIn 1919, there were 26\u00a0tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034103-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\n1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1903rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 903rd year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 3rd year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 4th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1903, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034104-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034104-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). At this time, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034104-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1903. It was preceded by the 1902 election and followed by the 1904 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1900 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034104-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe election was notable for the breakthrough made by the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034105-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Academy of Idaho Bantams football team\nThe 1903 Academy of Idaho Bantams football team represented the Academy of Idaho\u2014now known as Idaho State University\u2013 during the 1903 college football season. They finished with a 0\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034106-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team\nThe 1903 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team represented the Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama in the 1903 college baseball season, winning the SIAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1903 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1903 college football season. The team was led by head coach W. A. Blount, in his first season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa and at West End Park in Birmingham, Alabama. In what was the eleventh season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of three wins and four losses (3\u20134, 3\u20134 SIAA). Alabama did not have another losing season until their 1951 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team\nAlabama opened the season with a pair of shutout losses on the road. After their loss at Vanderbilt, they were defeated by Mississippi A&M at Columbus in what was their first all-time win against Alabama. They then won their first game against Auburn at Montgomery. Alabama then played back-to-back Monday games and lost to Sewanee at Birmingham and defeated LSU in the first Tuscaloosa game of the season. They then closed the season with a loss to eventual SIAA co-champion Cumberland and their first all-time victory over Tennessee in their final game on Thanksgiving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAlabama opened the 1903 season with a 30\u20130 loss against Vanderbilt in the first all-time meeting between the schools at Dudley Field. Vanderbilt took an 18\u20130 halftime lead after first half touchdowns were scored twice by Ed Hamilton and followed by John J. Tigert. The Commodores then closed the game with two touchdowns in the second half scored by Dan Blake and Bob Blake for the 30\u20130 victory. Tigert converted all five PAT's in their victory. Frank Kyle starred for the Commodores in the contest with runs of 30, 35, 48 and 50-yards against the Crimson White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was: R. L. Lodge (left end), Aubrey Boyles (left tackle), W. C. Oates (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), J. C. Fortune (right guard), John Roberts Peavy (right tackle), W. S. Sherrill (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Truman Smith (right halfback), Frank B. Clark (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Mississippi A&M\nA week after their loss to Vanderbilt, Alabama was defeated the Aggies of Mississippi A&M (now known as Mississippi State University) 11\u20130 at the Columbus Fairgrounds in Columbus, Mississippi. The game was played before 5,000 fans in a light drizzle with the Aggies scoring all of their points in the second half after a scoreless first. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi A&M (Mississippi State) to 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAfter being shut out for their first two games, Alabama upset the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now known as Auburn University) 18\u20136 before 1,200 fans at Riverside Park in Montgomery. J. V. Boyles scored a touchdown for Alabama to cap a 19-play, 79-yard drive on their opening possession and with the extra point took a 6\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nIn the second half, Alabama extended their lead to 12\u20130 after Truman Smith scored on a 45-yard touchdown run. After Auburn cut the lead to 12\u20136 with a W. G. Boyd touchdown run, Alabama scored the final points of the game on a 25-yard Smith run for the 18\u20136 victory. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 2\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe starting lineup was: R. L. Lodge (left end), Aubrey Boyles (left tackle), W. C. Oates (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), J. C. Fortune (right guard), John Roberts Peavy (right tackle), W. S. Sherrill (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Truman Smith (right halfback), Frank B. Clark (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Sewanee\nPlaying Sewanee for the first time since the 1896 season, Alabama was shut out 23\u20130 at West End Park in Birmingham. John Schaffer starred for the Tigers with three separate runs of 40-yards in the victory. The game was originally scheduled to be played in Tuscaloosa, but was subsequently moved to Birmingham in an effort to increase gate receipts. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Sewanee to 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was: R. L. Lodge (left end), Aubrey Boyles (left tackle), W. C. Oates (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), Guy Redden (right guard), John C. McCorquodale (right tackle), W. S. Sherrill (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Truman Smith (right halfback), W. McMahon (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, LSU\nAlabama secured their first all-time victory over LSU with its 18\u20130 win at Tuscaloosa. Both John Roberts Peavy and W. S. Sherrill scored first half touchdowns, and Truman Smith scored on a fake punt returned 65-yards for the 18\u20130 victory. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against LSU to 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, LSU\nThe starting lineup was: R. L. Lodge (left end), Aubrey Boyles (left tackle), W. C. Oates (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), Guy Redden (right guard), John Roberts Peavy (right tackle), W. S. Sherrill (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Truman Smith (right halfback), W. McMahon (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Cumberland\nAgainst Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee, Alabama lost 44\u20130 on The Quad in Tuscaloosa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Cumberland\nThe starting lineup was: W. S. Sherrill (left end), John Roberts Peavy (left tackle), W. C. Oates (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), Guy Redden (right guard), Aubrey Boyles (right tackle), R. L. Lodge (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Truman Smith (right halfback), W. McMahon (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nA week after their 44\u20130 loss to Cumberland, Alabama defeated Tennessee 24\u20130 at Birmingham. Alabama scored touchdowns on runs of three-yards by W. McMahon, one-yard by John Roberts Peavy, one-yard by Auxford Burks and two-yards by Truman Smith. The victory brought Alabama's all-time record against Tennessee to 1\u20130\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034107-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nThe starting lineup was: R. L. Lodge (left end), Aubrey Boyles (left tackle), Guy Redden (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), W. C. Oates (right guard), John Roberts Peavy (right tackle), W. S. Sherrill (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Truman Smith (right halfback), W. McMahon (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034108-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Albany College football team\nThe 1903 Albany College football team represented Albany College during the 1903 college football season. The team beat Oregon Agricultural. The team also beat Linfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034109-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1903 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at the London Rifle Brigade Drill Hall in Islington, London, England from 26-28 March 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034109-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 All England Badminton Championships\nIn the men's singles Ralph Watling of Great Yarmouth successfully defended his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034109-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 All England Badminton Championships\nMeriel Lucas was unable to defend her singles and doubles titles due to a family illness. The women's singles and doubles consisted of only three rounds following a small number of entries. The women's singles only had five entries and this was attributed to the increase in younger players causing the older women not to enter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034110-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 17th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry won their first football All-Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034110-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe four provincial championships are played as usual. The four champions play in the \"Home\" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034110-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Leinster Senior Football Championship\nA replay was ordered due to a disputed disallowed Kilkenny point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034111-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the sixteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034111-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary\nThis was the fourth year in a row in which London were heavily beaten in the final; after this, they were no longer given a bye to the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034111-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match\nThe 1903 final marked the first time Kerry won an All-Ireland football title. They would go on to dominate the game for decades to come. Dublin were the dominant force in Gaelic football at this time with eight All-Ireland titles; within 40 years Kerry had surpassed this and have since left Dublin in the shade in terms of All-Ireland football titles secured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034112-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1903 was the 17th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Cork won the championship, beating London 3-16 to 1-1 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034112-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the home final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034112-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nHome final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034112-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the home final and London, who receive a bye to this stage of the championship, contest this game. The winners are declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034112-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Results, Leinster Senior Hurling Championship\nKilkenny made an objection against the Dublin goal, and were awarded the title without the need for a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 91], "content_span": [92, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034113-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 16th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1903 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 12 November 1905 between London, represented by club side Hibernians, and a Cork selection. The London champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 3-16 to 1-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034114-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Western college football team\nThe 1903 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1903 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034114-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Western college football team, Key\nBMA = Billy Mac, a team selected by aggregating the choices made by ten critics in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 43], "content_span": [44, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034114-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 All-Western college football team, Key\nFL = Fred Lowenthal, former star football player at University of Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034115-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 America's Cup\nThe 1903 America's Cup was the 12th challenge for the Cup. It took place in the New York City harbor and consisted of a best of five series of races between Reliance, the fourth of Nathaniel Herreshoff's defenders for the cup, entered by the New York Yacht Club; and Shamrock III, representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and also the third of Sir Thomas Lipton's Cup challengers. Reliance won the first three races, defending the cup. It was the last race for the America's Cup that would take place under the Seawanhaka rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034115-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 America's Cup, Reliance\nReliance was designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff, designer of all of the early 20th century America's Cup defenders. She was designed to take full advantage of the fact that the Seawanhaka rule did not take weight into account, leading to a very light and therefore, somewhat unstable yacht. At 144 feet (44\u00a0m) long and 199 feet (61\u00a0m) tall with 16,160 square feet (1,501\u00a0m2) of sail the yacht was the largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034115-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 America's Cup, Race\nReliance won all three races, finishing far enough ahead that Shamrock III was forced to retire before finishing the third race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034116-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 American Medical football team\nThe 1903 American Medical football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034117-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Amherst football team\nThe 1903 Amherst football team represented Amherst College during the 1903 college football season. The team defeated Harvard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034118-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1903 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 12th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on April 26 and ended on August 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034118-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nAlumni won its fourth consecutive league championship. On 26 July 1903 the squad lost its first league game in four years. Flores A.C., which had left the Association in 1898, returned to the competition under the name \"Club Atl\u00e9tico de Flores\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034118-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship was expanded to a 6 team league format in 1903, with each team playing the other twice. In February 1903 the association changed its name from \"The Argentine Association Football League\" to \"Argentine Football Association\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034119-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Argyllshire by-election\nThe Argyllshire by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034119-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Argyllshire by-election, Vacancy\nDonald Ninian Nicol had been Conservative MP for the seat of Argyllshire since the 1895 general election. He died on 27 July 1903 at the age of 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034119-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Argyllshire by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since they gained it in 1895. They easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034119-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Argyllshire by-election, Candidates\nThe local Conservative Association selected 63-year-old Charles Stewart as their candidate to defend the seat. He was a solicitor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034119-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Argyllshire by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 59-year-old John Stirling Ainsworth as their candidate to gain the seat. Ainsworth contested the Barrow-in-Furness constituency at the 1886 general election and Argyllshire in 1900. He commanded the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Border Regiment from 1898-1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034119-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Argyllshire by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 26 August 1903, just 30 days after the previous MP died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034120-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Arizona football team\nThe 1903 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach Orin A. Kates, the team played only two games, both against the Tucson Indian School. The university team won both games. The team captain was Leo Rosenberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034120-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Arizona football team\nWith key players from the 1902 team lost to graduation, injury, or illness, interest in football apparently waned at the university in the fall of 1903. On October 25, 1903, The Arizona Daily Star noted the failure of students to organize a football team up to that point and urged the students to \"ginger up\" and organize a team. A team was ultimately organized and was known as the \"preps\" or the \"University Prep. football team\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034121-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1903 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach D. A. McDaniel (an alumnus of the University of Texas), the Razorbacks compiled a 3\u20134 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 63 to 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034122-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Armidale state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Armidale on 12 December 1903 because of the resignation of Edmund Lonsdale (Liberal Reform) to successfully contest the federal seat of New England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034123-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1903 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Edward Leonard King, the Cadets compiled a 6\u20132\u20131 record, shut out five of their nine opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 164 to 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034123-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Army Cadets football team\nThe team's two losses were to Harvard (5\u20130) and Yale (17\u20135). In an intersectional game, the Cadets defeated Chicago 10\u20136. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets, behind quarterback Horatio B. Hackett, defeated the Midshipmen 40\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034123-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Army Cadets football team\nThree members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are: guard Napoleon Riley (WC-2); halfback Edward Farnsworth (CW-2); and fullback Frederick Prince (CW-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1903 Atlantic hurricane season featured seven hurricanes, the most in a season since 1893. The first tropical cyclone was initially observed in the western Atlantic Ocean near Puerto Rico on July\u00a021. The tenth and final system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone well northwest of the Azores on November\u00a025. These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic. Six of the ten tropical cyclones existed simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season\nOf the season's ten tropical storms, seven of those strengthened into a hurricane. One of the seven hurricanes deepened further into a major hurricane, which are tropical cyclones that reach at least Category\u00a03 on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. The second, third, and fourth systems left the most significant impacts during this season. The second storm, which struck Jamaica in August, devastated Martinique, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands. At least 149\u00a0deaths were attributed to this storm, while it also caused $10\u00a0million (1903\u00a0USD) in damage in Jamaica alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe third cyclone made landfall in Florida twice in mid-August, leaving 14\u00a0fatalities and about $500,000 in damage. Only a few days later, the fourth cyclone struck New Jersey. The storm impacted many areas in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and caused 57\u00a0deaths and about $8\u00a0million in damage. Additionally, the remnants of the eighth tropical cyclone caused severe flooding in the Mid-Atlantic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project also indicated but could not confirm the presence of four additional tropical depressions throughout the season. However, the reanalysis added a previously undetected tropical storm in late October to the Atlantic hurricane database\u00a0(HURDAT). Reanalysis also resulted in the eighth cyclone being downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nTropical cyclogenesis began with the development of the first system on July 21 in the western Atlantic near Puerto Rico. This was the only storm in the month of July. Likewise, August also featured one storm. The second system was the most intense tropical cyclone of the season, peaking as a Category\u00a03 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 958\u00a0mbar (28.3\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThis was also the first major hurricane in the Atlantic basin since the second storm of 1900 and the first in the Caribbean since the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane. September was the most active month of the season, with four systems developing, three of which intensified into a hurricane. In October, there were three tropical storms, with one intensifying into a hurricane. The only November tropical cyclone, as well as the final system of the season, developed on November\u00a017 and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while northwest of the Azores on November\u00a025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season had a total of 10\u00a0tropical storms, 7\u00a0of which intensified into a hurricane. This marked the most hurricanes in a season since the total of eight in 1893. There may have been an additional four tropical depressions throughout the season, but the data obtained by the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project was inconclusive. The reanalysis added a previously undetected tropical storm in late October to the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT). Reanalysis also resulted in the eighth cyclone being downgraded from a Category\u00a02 hurricane to a tropical storm. Nearly all of the season's 10\u00a0tropical cyclones impacted land. Collectively, the storms caused over $18.5\u00a0million in damage and at least 222\u00a0fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 102. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nAccording to historical weather maps, an area of disturbed weather developed a closed circulation early on July\u00a021 while located about 100\u00a0mi (160\u00a0km) northeast of the Saman\u00e1 Peninsula of Dominican Republic, becoming the first tropical cyclone of the season. The storm moved northwestward until about 12:00\u00a0UTC on July\u00a022, at which time it curved northward, before turning northeastward about 24\u00a0hours later. Early on July\u00a024, it intensified into a Category\u00a01 hurricane. The hurricane strengthened slightly further, peaking with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) six hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0006-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nThe system began weakening early on July\u00a024, falling to tropical storm intensity around 12:00\u00a0UTC. Accelerating to the east-northeast, the storm also began to lose tropical characteristics and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone at 06:00\u00a0UTC on July\u00a026, while situated about 430\u00a0mi (690\u00a0km) south-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. Shortly before, a ship recorded a barometric pressure of 999\u00a0mbar (29.5\u00a0inHg), the lowest in relation to the storm. The extratropical remnants continued east-northeastward and dissipated late on July\u00a026.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nA tropical storm was first observed about 1,160\u00a0mi (1,870\u00a0km) east-southeast of Barbados, early on August\u00a06. The system moved generally west-northwestward and strengthened into a hurricane about 24\u00a0hours later. Early on August\u00a09, it struck Martinique as either a strong Category\u00a01 or a weak Category\u00a02 hurricane. The storm entered the Caribbean shortly thereafter. Around 12:00\u00a0UTC, the cyclone intensified into a Category\u00a03 hurricane. Between 06:00\u00a0UTC and 12:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a011, it struck Jamaica near Morant Point with winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0007-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nAt 06:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a012, while brushing Grand Cayman, the hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of the same intensity and a minimum barometric pressure of 958\u00a0mbar (28.3\u00a0inHg), observed by the Governor Blake. The system weakened to a Category\u00a02 around the time of landfall near Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, early on August\u00a013, with winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). By 12:00\u00a0UTC, the storm further weakened to a Category\u00a01. After crossing the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico early on August\u00a014, the hurricane failed to re-strengthen. Around 00:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a016, it made landfall north of Tampico, Tamaulipas, with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). The hurricane soon weakened to a tropical storm and dissipated over San Luis Potos\u00ed late on August\u00a016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nIn Martinique, hundreds of homes were deroofed in Fort-de-France, while about 5,000\u00a0people were left homeless in the villages of Fond, Fourniols, La Haye, Recluce, and Tivoli, all of which were established after the eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e in 1902. The hurricane also left extensive damage to crops and eight fatalities. In Jamaica, several communities were completely or nearly destroyed, including Manchioneal, Port Antonio, and Port Maria. Thousands of homes also suffered damage in the capital city of Kingston. Banana crops were devastated so severely that many growers were forced into bankruptcy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0008-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nNumerous ships were wrecked, particularly on the north coast of the island. There were at least 65\u00a0deaths and about $10\u00a0million in damage. At the Cayman Islands, more than 200\u00a0houses and seven of eight churches on Grand Cayman were destroyed or heavily damaged. Of the 23\u00a0ships in the harbor, only the Governor Blake survived. Most of the crews on board those ships were reported killed, but loss of life on shore was minimal. The storm also caused heavy damage on the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. Many ships were wrecked and communications were cut off in several places. In the Tampico area, there was considerable damage to the port and many ships were sunk or driven ashore. Much of the land between Tampico and C\u00e1rdenas in San Luis Potos\u00ed was submerged due to flooding. In all, the storm is believed to have killed at least 149 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nReanalysis indicates that a 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) tropical storm originated near Mayaguana in the Bahamas around 06:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a09, though lack of data suggests that this system likely developed earlier. Moving northwestward, the cyclone became a Category\u00a01 hurricane around 12:00\u00a0UTC on the following day. Late on September\u00a010 and early on September\u00a011, the storm passed near Nassau. The hurricane then turned to the west-northwest on September\u00a011 and moved just north of the Bimini Islands. As it crossed the Bahamas, the system produced hurricane-force winds on some islands, with an estimated wind speed as high as 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h) in Nassau. Damage to crops and buildings occurred, but no deaths were reported over the island chain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nLate on September\u00a011, the storm made landfall near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with winds of 85\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h). The Inchulva capsized near Delray Beach, drowning nine of her crew members. The cyclone caused severe wind damage in present-day Broward and Palm Beach counties, although most of the losses were to crops such as sugarcane. The hurricane weakened to a tropical storm while crossing Florida, but re-intensified into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on September\u00a012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0010-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nPeaking with maximum sustained winds of 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h), the storm made landfall near Panama City around 23:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a013. In Northwest Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, the cyclone produced widespread rainfall, causing some crop damage. Additionally, a storm surge caused boats to be blown ashore in the Florida Panhandle. In all, the storm killed 14\u00a0people in Florida and produced $500,000 in damage. After falling to tropical storm intensity early on September 14, the storm weakened to a tropical depression on September\u00a016, several hours before dissipating over South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe New Jersey Hurricane of 1903 or The Vagabond Hurricane", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nA 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h) tropical storm was first observed about 550\u00a0mi (885\u00a0km) northeast of Antigua early on September\u00a012. The storm moved relatively quickly to the northwest. Late on September\u00a014, it strengthened into a Category\u00a01 hurricane. On the following day, the storm began curving to the north-northwest. Intensifying further, the cyclone became a Category\u00a02 hurricane late on September\u00a015, peaking with maximum sustained winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). At the time, it was situated about 110\u00a0mi (175\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0012-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe storm weakened back to a Category\u00a01 hurricane at 00:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a016. About 11\u00a0hours later, the hurricane made landfall near Avalon, New Jersey, with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). In 1992, Jerry Jarrell, later director of the National Hurricane Center, estimated a barometric pressure of 990\u00a0mbar (29\u00a0inHg) at landfall, which would be the lowest in association with the hurricane. After moving inland, the system quickly weakened to a tropical storm late on September\u00a016. The storm transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over New York near Lake Ontario at 12:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a017. The extratropical remnants soon dissipated over Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nIn North Carolina and Virginia, the storm brought nearly hurricane-force winds and rough surf. Some boats were beached along the coast of Virginia. Near Chincoteague, the schooner Beatrice capsized, drowning 28\u00a0people. Hundreds of birds were killed and fell to the ground near Old Point Comfort, many stripped of their feathers. The outer rainbands of the storm produced heavy rainfall near Washington, D.C., canceling a Major League Baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Washington Senators after the field was flooded. Along the Delaware coast, the schooner Hattie A. Marsh was smashed against the rocks, killing five people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0013-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe hurricane caused severe damage in New Jersey, epecially in Atlantic City. Throughout the coastal regions, strong winds downed all telephone and telegraph wires. Additionally, the winds destroyed the roofs of an estimated 50 to 60\u00a0cottages. Several streets were flooded, with severe transportation delays reported. One indirect death occurred in Cape May when a man, unable to see owing to the hurricane, drove into a train. Damage in New Jersey was approximately $8\u00a0million. In New York City, high winds swayed buildings, spires, and bridges, overturning wagons on the Brooklyn Bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0013-0002", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nAt least a few buildings were deroofed and many homes were flooded or damaged, especially in Brooklyn. One death occurred in the city. On Long Island, President Theodore Roosevelt directly experienced the effects of the hurricane while on a yacht. The life of the president was briefly threatened due to the rough conditions, though none on board of the yacht suffered any problems from the hurricane. Overall, the storm caused 57\u00a0fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nHistorical weather maps indicated that a tropical depression developed just south of the Turks and Caicos Islands early on September\u00a019. The depression trekked generally northward and remained weak for the next few days. By September\u00a022, the system intensified into a tropical storm. Turning east-northeastward on September\u00a024, the storm peaked with maximum sustained winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,003\u00a0mbar (29.6\u00a0inHg), which was observed by a ship. Thereafter, it accelerated and slowly weakened, falling to tropical depression intensity early on September\u00a026. The system dissipated by 18:00\u00a0UTC while situated about 450\u00a0mi (720\u00a0km) southeast of Sable Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six\nHistorical weather maps note that a tropical storm was first observed about 415\u00a0mi (670\u00a0km) northeast of Anguilla early on September\u00a026. Initially, the storm moved west-northwestward, but curved northwestward late the following day. At 00:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a028, the cyclone intensified into a Category\u00a01 hurricane and then a Category\u00a02 hurricane 12\u00a0hours later while curving to the northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0015-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six\nWhile passing near Bermuda late on September\u00a028, the storm attained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 110\u00a0mph (175\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 988\u00a0mbar (29.2\u00a0inHg), which was observed in Hamilton. The system then began to accelerate and weaken, falling to Category\u00a01 intensity at 00:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a030. Six hours later, the hurricane transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while located about 495\u00a0mi (795\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The remnants moved continued rapidly northeastward and dissipated later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six\nIn Bermuda, the strongest observed wind speed was 74\u00a0mph (119\u00a0km/h). The winds uprooted a number of cedar trees and broke off large palmettos off palm trees. Several buildings and homes were damaged. A newly constructed extension on the Princess Hotel \"collapsed like a pack of cards\". In St. George's, a wall that collapsed near the Royal Engineers quarters killed a former soldier. Heavy rainfall on the island washed out many roads. A landslide occurred, shearing off a portion of the cliff at Deep Bay. The resulting earth trembling and noise created from the slide resembled an earthquake. Along the coast, rough seas wrecked a number of boats, while several stone docks and seawalls were severely damaged or destroyed. Another death occurred after an engineer on Ireland Island was swept out to sea and drowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven\nA strong tropical storm was first observed about 300\u00a0mi (480\u00a0km) east of Barbuda early on October\u00a01, according to historical weather maps and ship data. Moving northwestward, it intensified into a Category\u00a01 hurricane about 24\u00a0hours later. The storm then curved north-northeastward late on October\u00a02. Strengthening into a Category\u00a02 hurricane around 12:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a04, the cyclone peaked with maximum sustained winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). It then briefly turned east-northeastward, before recurving east-southeastward. Late on October\u00a05, the hurricane weakened back to the Category\u00a01.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0017-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Seven\nThe storm began to decelerate and execute a cyclonic loop late on October\u00a06. After about 24\u00a0hours, it began moving east-northeastward to northeastward. Early on October\u00a09, the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm. Late that day, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while situated 680\u00a0mi (1,090\u00a0km) south-southwest of Flores Island in the Azores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eight\nA tropical storm was first observed by ships early on October\u00a05, while situated about 160\u00a0mi (260\u00a0km) northeast of San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. The storm nearly drifted northeastward while strengthening slowly over the next few days. Early on October\u00a08, the cyclone curved north-northeastward. The storm attained its peak intensity with winds of 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 997\u00a0mbar (29.4\u00a0inHg) on October\u00a09 while passing west of Bermuda; both were based observations from a ship. Reanalysis also resulted in the eighth cyclone being downgraded from a Category 2 hurricane to a tropical storm Thereafter, the system began weakening and transitioned into extratropical cyclone around 12:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a010, while located about 255\u00a0mi (410\u00a0km) north of Bermuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eight\nAlthough the remnant system became indistinguishable by late on October\u00a010, the remnants contributed to severe flooding along the East Coast of the United States. In North Carolina, poor weather conditions in Kitty Hawk prevented the Wright brothers from flying their glider or assembling the untested airplane. In Virginia, strong winds toppled trees and knocked out communications in cities such as Richmond and Norfolk, where a tree brought from Napoleon Bonaparte's grave in Paris, France, was uprooted. Wires were downed, completely disrupting communication. One death occurred inland when a man in Leesburg drowned while walking across a log on the Little River. Rough seas capsized nine vessels offshore Virginia, resulting in three deaths. Waves lashing the Back River Light caused the stones on its structure to move out of place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0020-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eight\nThe storm caused severe flooding states such as New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. In New Jersey, some areas experienced rainfall totals of about 14\u00a0in (360\u00a0mm) over the course of four days. In Paterson, seven bridges were destroyed and two others were severely damaged. Approximately 10.3\u00a0mi (16.6\u00a0km) of streets in the city were inundated. About 1,200\u00a0people fled their homes and took refuge at Paterson Armory. About 20% of land was inundated in both Passaic and Wallington. Damage in New Jersey reached about $7\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0020-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eight\nTwenty deaths occurred, with two from drowning incidents, one from a heart attack, and seventeen others from a flood-related train crash near Trenton. Along the Delaware River, nine bridges connecting New Jersey and Pennsylvania were destroyed. In Pennsylvania, houses in Easton were swept into the river and destroyed after colliding with bridges. The Lehigh River overflowed into West Easton, damaging all businesses in the city. In New York, about 10\u00a0in (250\u00a0mm) fell in New York City over a 48-hour period. A number of businesses and homes were flooded, while some areas of the city were inundated with 2\u00a0ft (0.61\u00a0m) of water. Transportation by ferry, trolley, and railroad were also disrupted. A flooded conduit damaged 70\u00a0telegraph lines. In Poughkeepsie, two deaths occurred due to a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0021-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nine\nA westward moving disturbance was first noted between Barbados and Grenada on October\u00a019 and later Hispaniola. By early October\u00a021, the system developed into a tropical depression near Turks and Caicos Islands. The depression initially moved north-northwestward across the eastern Bahamas, remaining weak during its passage. After reaching the open Atlantic, the cyclone intensified into a tropical storm by 12:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0021-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nine\nStrengthening continued, and by early on October\u00a024, the storm peaked with maximum sustained winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,008\u00a0mbar (29.8\u00a0inHg), both of which were observed by ships. However, the system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone by 18:00\u00a0UTC while situated about 190\u00a0mi (310\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Lookout in North Carolina. The remnants accelerated ahead of a cold front and later struck Newfoundland, before dissipating over the Labrador Sea on October\u00a027.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0022-0000", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ten\nHistorical weather maps indicated the final storm on the season beginning early on November\u00a017, while located about 780\u00a0mi (1,260\u00a0km) west-northwest of Santo Ant\u00e3o island in Cape Verde. The storm strengthened slowly and moved northwestward for the next few days, until curving northeastward late on November\u00a019. At 06:00\u00a0UTC on the following day, the cyclone intensified into a Category\u00a01 hurricane. Shortly thereafter, the hurricane turned eastward and then north-northeastward by November\u00a022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034124-0022-0001", "contents": "1903 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ten\nOn the following day, it peaked with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 985\u00a0mbar (29.1\u00a0inHg), which was observed by a ship. The hurricane continued moving north-northeastward for a few days, until transitioning into an extratropical cyclone while located about 480\u00a0mi (770\u00a0km) northwest of Corvo Island in the Azores late on November\u00a025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034125-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1903 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1903 college football season. The team was coached by William Penn Bates in his only season as Auburn's head coach. The next year Mike Donahue took over for the first of his two coaching stints at Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election\nThe 1903 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 16 December 1903. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Protectionist Party minority government led by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin retained the most House of Representatives seats of the three parties and retained government with the parliamentary support of the Labour Party led by Chris Watson. The Free Trade Party led by George Reid remained in opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election\nThe election outcome saw a finely balanced House of Representatives, with the three parties each holding around a third of seats \u2212 the Protectionists on 26 (\u22125), the Free Traders on 24 (\u22124) and Labour on 22 (+7).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election\nThis term of parliament saw no changes in any party leadership but did see very significant and prolonged debates on contentious issues \u2212 the Protectionist minority government fell in April 1904 to Labour, while the Labour minority government fell in August 1904 to the Free Traders, while the Free Trader minority government fell in July 1905 back to the Protectionists, which continued until the 1906 election and beyond. The Free Traders remained in opposition throughout this eventful period with the exception of Labour forming the opposition for the first time during the period of the Free Trader minority government. Additionally, the Watson government was the world's first Labour Party government at a national level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election\nDespite a break in prime ministerships in 1904-05 and 1908\u201309, this is the first of three consecutive elections in which Deakin was the sitting prime minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Issues\nThe wreck of SS\u00a0Petriana outside Port Phillip Bay in late November prompted the government's handling of the White Australia policy to become a campaign issue. Shipwrecked Asian sailors were denied entry to Australia and forced to stay on a crowded tugboat for several days, leading The Argus, Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald to accuse the government of cruelty and harming Australia's international reputation. The Age and The Bulletin sided with the government. The issue was \"constantly raised\" at election meetings, particularly in Victoria and Tasmania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Significance\nThe election saw the Labour party make significant gains outside New South Wales and Victoria. As a result of Labour's gains, the numbers of the three parties in Parliament were very close to equal, leading to unstable governments. Alfred Deakin would describe it as a parliament of \"three elevens\" (three cricket teams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0004-0001", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Significance\nAlthough the Protectionists were able to retain their minority government with the qualified support of the Labour Party, the equal numbers would see a record three changes of government over the course of the Parliamentary term, with each of the three parties holding office at least once during the term of the Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Significance\nThe three parties that contested the 1901 election also contested the 1903 election, with only the Protectionists changing leaders to Alfred Deakin as a result of Edmund Barton's appointment as an inaugural judge of the newly constituted High Court of Australia. The Free Trade Party was again led by George Reid. The only significant difference in policy between these parties was on trade issues. The Protectionists sought to protect Australian industry and agriculture by placing tariffs on imports. The Free Traders downgraded the view they had last election of having no tariffs to campaigning on minimal tariffs. The other major party contesting the election was the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Significance\nThis election also saw a minor party, the Tasmanian Revenue Tariff Party gain an MHR and one Senator. Prior to the 1901 election, the Free Trade Party had been known as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states. However, in 1903 a separate Revenue Tariff Party competed against the FTP in Tasmania. Nevertheless, both of the Revenue Tariff Party members elected joined the Free Trade Party, when the new parliament began sitting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Significance\nLike the 1901 election, voting was voluntary and candidates were elected by the first-past-the-post system. The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 gave women the vote and the right to stand for federal Parliament, leading to a significant increase in the number of votes cast in the 1903 federal election. Four women stood at the 1903 election \u2013 Selina Anderson (Dalley) in the House of Representatives and Vida Goldstein (Victoria), Nellie Martel (New South Wales), and Mary Moore-Bentley (New South Wales) in the Senate. All four stood as independents and all were unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Electorates\nCandidates were contesting all 75 House of Representatives and 19 of the 36 Senate seats, a number unchanged from the 1901 election. The House of Representative seats were determined by the population of each state, giving 26 seats to New South Wales, 23 to Victoria, nine to Queensland, seven to South Australia and five to both Western Australia and Tasmania. In 1901, the South Australian and Tasmanian colonial parliaments had not legislated for single member electorates, so their House of Representative members were elected from a single statewide electorate. This had since changed and there were now single member electorates in both states. The newly created seats were Adelaide, Angas, Barker, Boothby, Grey, Hindmarsh and Wakefield (South Australia) and Bass, Darwin, Denison, Franklin and Wilmot (Tasmania).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034126-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Australian federal election, Electorates\nEach state elected six Senators regardless of population. The Senate was elected by bloc voting rather than the current single transferable vote system. Half the Senators retired as their terms expired, and there was one casual vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034127-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Baltimore mayoral election\nThe 1903 Baltimore mayoral election saw the election of Robert McLane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034128-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Barcelona City Council election\nThe 1903 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 8 November 1903, to elect half of the Barcelona City Council. 25 out of 50 seats were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034128-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Barcelona City Council election\nHorta was annexed to Barcelona by decree on 9 July 1903, but it didn't go into effect until 1 January 1904, when the elected members of this election took power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034128-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system\nThe number of seats of each council was determined by the population count, according to the 1877 Municipal Law. As Barcelona had more than 200,000 inhabitants, the number of seats composing the city council was 50. The municipal law also established that half of the seats had to be renewed every two years. Therefore, in these elections 25 seats had to be renewed. Additionally, any vacant seat would also be renewed. The municipality was divided in 10 multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the city districts. Seats were elected using limited partial block voting. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected. In districts electing. Voting was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 927]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034128-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system\nThe Municipal Law allowed the King of Spain to elect directly the Mayor of Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election\nThe Barnard Castle by-election, 1903 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Barnard Castle, in County Durham, on 24 July 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal MP, Sir Joseph Pease on 23 June 1903 at the age of 75. Pease had been MP for Barnard Castle since the 1885 general election, and before that one of the two MPs for South Durham since 1865.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals selected Hubert Beaumont to succeed Pease. Beaumont had fought King's Lynn in 1895 and Buckingham in 1900. He would go on to become the MP for Eastbourne at the 1906 election. He was 39 years old at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election, Candidates\nWilliam Lyonel Vane was the Unionist candidate. Vane had fought the seat as the Unionist candidate in the 1895 and 1900 elections. losing on both occasions in straight fights against Pease. He was 43 years old and was a colonel in the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election, Candidates\nThe Friendly Society of Iron Founders agreed to sponsor a Labour Representation Committee candidate. Arthur Henderson was selected, receiving 5,619 votes from their membership, defeating Robert Morley, who took only 1,411. Henderson was one of the delegates to the founding conference of the LRC in 1900, and had been elected Mayor of Darlington earlier in 1903. He had previously worked as agent for Pease, and was also 39 years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election, Result\nA crowd of 3,000 gathered in the market place at Barnard Castle on Saturday 26 July to hear that Henderson had beaten Vane by 47 votes, with Beaumont in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election, Result\nHe was the first Labour candidate to win against both Liberal and Conservative opposition, becoming only the fifth Labour MP, joining Keir Hardie, Richard Bell, who had been elected at the 1900 election David Shackleton who had been elected for Clitheroe in a by-election in 1902, and Will Crooks who had been elected for Woolwich in a by-election four months earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034129-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Barnard Castle by-election, Aftermath\nHenderson would remain as MP for the division until 1918, when he instead fought, and lost, the southern division of East Ham. He would serve three times as Leader of the Labour Party, and as both Home and Foreign Secretary, as well as winning by-elections in four other constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034130-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Baylor football team\nThe 1903 Baylor football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach R. N. Watts, the team compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 69 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034130-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Baylor football team, Season summary\nIn October, coach Watts also acted as referee for the Vanderbilt at Texas game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034130-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Baylor football team, Season summary, Oct. 3 vs. TCU\nOpening the local football season, Baylor defeated TCU in front of a large crowd on the former's campus; a street railway strike forced many spectators to arrive by less conventional means, such as hay wagons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034130-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Baylor football team, Season summary, vs. Texas\nFollowing the wins against Texas Christian University and Fort Worth University, Baylor was considered a strong contender for the state championship if the team could win the game against Texas. Although Texas won, the team's captain, Rembert Watson was injured and missed Texas's next game against Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034130-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Baylor football team, Season summary, Nov. 7 vs. Texas A&M\nThe game \"was the hardest fought game ever played at Waco,\" and while A&M held the advantage, they could not score before time ended each half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034131-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Birthday Honours\nThe 1903 Birthday Honours were announced on 9 November 1903, to celebrate the birthday of King Edward VII that day. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034131-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Birthday Honours\nThe list was published in The Times 9 November 1903, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 6 November 1903 and 17 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034131-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season\nThe 1903 Boston Americans season was the third season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished first in the American League (AL) with a record of 91 wins and 47 losses, 14+1\u20442 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics. Boston went on to participate in the first World Series held between the AL and National League (NL) champions. The Americans won the 1903 World Series in eight games over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The team was managed by Jimmy Collins and played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, Regular season\nPrior to the regular season, the team held spring training in Macon, Georgia. Cy Young was a coach for the Mercer University baseball team, also based in Macon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, Regular season\nThe team's longest losing streak was three games, which occurred twice; April 20\u201323 and September 22\u201323. The team's longest game was 12 innings, which occurred three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Statistical leaders\nThe offense was led by Buck Freeman, who hit 13 home runs and had 104 RBIs, and Patsy Dougherty with a .331 batting average. It was Freeman's third consecutive season with at least 100 RBIs. The pitching staff was led by Cy Young, who made 40 appearances (35 starts) and pitched 34 complete games with a 28\u20139 record and 2.08 ERA, while striking out 176 in 341+2\u20443 innings. The team had two other 20-game winners; Bill Dinneen (21\u201313) and Tom Hughes (20\u20137).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Season standings\nThe team had three games end in a tie; July 31 at Washington, August 29 at Washington, and September 25 vs. Detroit. Tie games are not counted in league standings, but player statistics during tie games are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, World Series\nBoston had an 11-game winning streak from May 28 through June 8, to put themselves in the AL lead. While they briefly fell into second place in mid-June, behind Philadelphia, Boston then won 9-of-10 to recapture the lead, which they held through the end of the season. The Americans met the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first modern World Series, an agreement between the AL and the NL as a post-season tournament. The \"Amerks\" won the best-of-nine series in eight games; after falling behind, 3\u20131, they won four games in a row, clinching the championship at their home field, the Huntington Avenue Grounds, in Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034132-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Americans season, World Series\nThe first championship of what is now 9 for the long-running club, the series would immortalized in the 2004 remake of the team's fight song Tessie by The Dropkick Murphys, honoring the victory over the Pirates in Game 5, helped in part by that song which was adopted as an anthem by the a group of team supporters, the Royal Rooters, under saloon owner Michael T. McGreevy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034133-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1903 Boston Beaneaters season was the 33rd season of the franchise. The team finished sixth in the National League with a record of 58\u201380, 32 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034133-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034133-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034133-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034133-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034134-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1903 occurred on Tuesday, December 15, 1903. Democratic candidate and incumbent Mayor of Boston Patrick Collins defeated Republican candidate George N. Swallow, and two other contenders, to win a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034134-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Boston mayoral election\nUnder legislation adopted in June 1903, this was the first Boston municipal election with \"caucuses, henceforth to be called primaries\", which were held on Thursday, November 19, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034135-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 British Columbia general election\nThe 1903 British Columbia general election was the tenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on September 5, 1903, and held on October 3, 1903. The new legislature met for the first time on November 26, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034135-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 British Columbia general election\nThis was the first election in British Columbia that was fought by political parties. Prior to this election, British Columbia politics were non-partisan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034135-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 British Columbia general election\nThe first election was dominated by the Conservative and Liberal parties, which were affiliated with existing parties at the federal level. See Conservative Party of Canada and Liberal Party of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034135-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 British Columbia general election\nThe Conservative Party won over 46.4% of the popular vote and a slim majority of the seats in the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034135-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 British Columbia general election, Results by party\n* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034135-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 British Columbia general election, Results by party\n1 The Conservative Party and the Liberal Party each elected one candidate by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034135-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 British Columbia general election, Results by party\n2 There was no provincial \"Labour Party\" as such. Each of the three Electoral Districts with a Labour candidate (Nanaimo, Slocan, and Vancouver City) had a local, autonomous Labour Party. As well, some Liberal candidates appear to have run on a \"Liberal-Labour\" platform (Atlin, Victoria and Ymir).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa\nThe 1903 British Isles tour to South Africa was the fifth tour by a British Isles team and the third to South Africa. It is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa\nLed by Scotland's Mark Morrison and managed by Johnny Hammond the tour took in 22 matches. Of the games three were test matches, played against the South Africa national rugby union team. The British Isles drew the first two test matches and lost the final encounter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa\nHaving lost only one game out of 40 matches in the previous two tours of South Africa, the British Isles team were truly tested by the South African rugby nation on this tour. Of the 22 games played, the tourist won eleven, drew three and lost eight. Unlike past teams, the British Isles three-quarter line was not seen as the team's strongest asset and more reliance was placed in the pack. Of the backs, only Reg Skrimshire, the only Welsh player selected, was judged to have shown any true flair; while the pack failed to live up to expectations, even when led by Scottish power-house David Bedell-Sivright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa\nThe tour included Louis Leisler Greig, who later became well known as a royal equerry, friend of George VI and became a prominent member of the far right January Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches\nAfter playing the first two Tests in white shirts, South Africa wore a green jersey (supplied by Old Diocesan's Club) for the first time in their final Test at Newlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, First Test\nSouth Africa: CH Jones, DJA Morkel, WA van Renen, JD Krige, J Barry, JM Powell, FJ Dobbin, Alex Frew capt., WMC McEwan, JH Sinclair, JWE Raaff, PARO Nel, BH Heatlie, Joseph Partridge, CB BrownBritish Isles: EM Harrison, IG Davidson, RT Skrimshire, LL Greig, GF Collett, JI Gillespie, PS Hancock, FM Stout, Jos. Wallace, TA Gibson, RS Smyth, A Tedford, MC Morrison capt., WP Scott, WTC Cave", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Second Test\nSouth Africa: CH Jones, EAH Gibbs, S Ashley, SC de Melker, J Barry, JM Powell capt., FJ Dobbin, C Currie, HD Metcalf, JS Jackson, JWE Raaff, PARO Nel, GFT Crampton, WC Martheze, CB Brown", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Second Test\nBritish Isles: RM Neill, EF Walker, RT Skrimshire, LL Greig, GF Collett, JI Gillespie, PS Hancock, FM Stout, Jos. Wallace, TA Gibson, RS Smyth, A Tedford, MC Morrison capt., WP Scott, WTC Cave", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034136-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 British Lions tour to South Africa, The matches, Third Test\nSouth Africa: WA van Renen, JA Loubser, HW Carolin, JD Krige, J Barry, HH Ferris, TEC Hobson, A Reid, MWC McEwan, P Roos, JW Anderson, PARO Nel, JA Botha, BH Heatlie capt., CB BrownBritish Isles: RM Neill, EF Walker, RT Skrimshire, LL Greig, GF Collett, JI Gillespie, PS Hancock, FM Stout, Jos. Wallace, TA Gibson, RS Smyth, A Tedford, MC Morrison capt., WP Scott, WTC Cave", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034137-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1903 Brooklyn Superbas season was a season in Major League Baseball. The Superbas began their slide from contention in the National League by finishing in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034137-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034137-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034137-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034137-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034137-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034138-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1903 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1903 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Dave Fultz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034139-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Buchtel football team\nThe 1903 Buchtel football team represented Buchtel College in the 1903 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Alfred W. Place, in his only season. Buchtel was outscored by their opponents by a total of 0\u201343.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034140-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Bulgarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 19 October 1903. The result was a victory for the People's Party, which won 134 of the 169 seats. Voter turnout was 41.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season\nThe 1903 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the fifth season of the league. Teams played an eight game schedule. Ottawa and Montreal Victorias tied for the league championship with records of six wins and two losses. Ottawa defeated the Victorias in a two-game playoff to win the season and their first Stanley Cup championship, the first of \"Silver Seven\" era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nIt was decided that league champions would not play for the Stanley Cup until after the season. If a challenge was ordered by the Cup trustees, Montreal would default the Cup. A challenge was ordered by the trustees and Montreal eventually agreed to play Winnipeg in January during regular season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nThis season saw the loss of several players to hockey leagues in the U.S., including Charlie Liffiton, Hod Stuart, Bruce Stuart, Eddie Hogan and George McCarron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThis season saw several impressive rookies including Frank McGee and Art Moore for Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe season would be a two team race between Montreal Victorias and Ottawa, splitting their matches between each other. The season ended in a tie, which necessitated a playoff, won by Ottawa to win their first Stanley Cup. At the other end of the standing, Shamrocks did not win any games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Playoffs\nOttawa HC and Montreal Victorias played a two-game total-goals series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Winnipeg vs. Montreal\nAnother Montreal HC vs. Winnipeg Victorias best-of-three challenge series was held in early 1903. In game one, defending champion Montreal defeated Winnipeg, 8\u20131. game two was the first Stanley Cup challenge match to be replayed. Both teams skated to a 2\u20132 tie before the game had to be suspended at 27:00 of overtime because of a midnight curfew. It was then decided to discard the result and replay the game two days later. In the rescheduled contest, the Victorias won, 4\u20132, to even the series. However, Montreal won the decisive game three, 4\u20131, to retain the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa HC\nOttawa defeated the Rat Portage Thistles 6\u20132, 4\u20132 (10\u20134) in a two-game, total goals series in Ottawa, March 12\u201314, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 67], "content_span": [68, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa HC\nAs the new CAHL and Cup champions, the Ottawas accepted a challenge from the Rat Portage Thistles of the Manitoba & Northwestern Hockey Association (MNWHA). Entering the best-of-three challenge series, the Thistles were younger and quicker than Ottawa; only one player on the Thistles was over the age of 20. Any chance that those factors could have helped the team was negated by soft ice conditions. Ottawa swept the series with scores of 6\u20132 and 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 67], "content_span": [68, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa HC\nFor their win, the Ottawa players would each receive a silver nugget. From that point on the team would also be known as the Silver Seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 67], "content_span": [68, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034141-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 CAHL season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034142-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1903 Calgary municipal election took place on December 14, 1903 to elect a Mayor and nine Aldermen to sit on the twentieth Calgary City Council from January 5, 1904 to January 2, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034142-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors with a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034142-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Calgary municipal election, Background, 1904 Calgary Land Sales\nIn March 1903, the City of Calgary Council hastily authorized the sale of 500 lots and sold quickly with little advertisement. Many of the high quality properties were purchased by a handful of businessmen, some represented by Alderman J. A. McKenzie. Residents demanded an investigation and on March 26, 1904 Council passed a resolution for Chief Justice Sifton to hold an investigation. Sifton found council had acted with \"gross carelessness\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034142-0002-0001", "contents": "1903 Calgary municipal election, Background, 1904 Calgary Land Sales\nAldermen McKenzie and Macdonald in Ward 1 were found to have invalidated their office by entering into contracts with the city for land, while Aldermen Irwin and Hornby were able to retain their office as they never actually paid for their lots. A by-election was held on April 23, 1904 to replace the two disqualified aldermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034143-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1903 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1903 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach James Whipple and compiled a record of 6\u20131\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034144-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Camborne by-election\nThe Camborne by-election, 1903 was a by-election held on 8 April 1903 for the British House of Commons constituency of Camborne in Cornwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034144-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Camborne by-election\nThe by-election was triggered by the death of the serving Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP), William Sproston Caine. The Liberal victor, Wilfrid Lawson had previously been MP for Cockermouth and Carlisle and at 74 was the second oldest victor at a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034144-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Camborne by-election\nThe Liberal Association invited Lawson to stand for the by-election. They made the offer under peculiarly acceptable conditions, for should he secure the seat, he would be at liberty, when the next election occurred, to return, should he wish, to his old constituency at Cockermouth. Almost immediately after the Cornish electorate returned Lawson with a huge majority, the Cockermouth Liberal Associated selected him to stand as their candidate at the next election. In parliament he continued to prosecute his anti-imperialist, Free Trade and temperance views while at home he began to campaign for the oncoming election. In January 1906 he returned with to Carlisle a majority of almost 600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034144-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Camborne by-election\nThe Liberal Unionist candidate, Arthur Strauss, had been the Conservative MP for Camborne from 1895 to 1900, having previously stood in 1892 United Kingdom general election. He would later join the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034145-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1903 Campeonato Paulista, organized by the LPF (Liga Paulista de Football), was the 2nd season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top association football league. S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic won the title for the 2nd time. no teams were relegated and the top scorers were Paulistano's \u00c1lvaro Rocha and S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic's Herbert Boyes with 4 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034145-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Campeonato Paulista, System\nThe championship was disputed in a double-round robin system, with the team with the most points winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034146-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cape Colony parliamentary election\nElections for the Legislative Council were held in Cape Colony in 1903. Following Act 4 in 1904, a further three seats were added to the Council, for which elections were held in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034146-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Cape Colony parliamentary election\nThirty-two candidates contested the 26 seats, although the three seats in the North Eastern Province, as well as the single seats for Griqualand West and British Bechauanaland were uncontested as only one candidate ran for east seat. A total of 135,177 voters were registered for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034147-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1903 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1903 college football season. The Indians were coached by Pop Warner in his fifth year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 11\u20132\u20131 and outscored opponents 274 to 62.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034147-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Carlisle Indians football team\nIn 1903, an Indian team coached by Warner first employed its infamous \"hidden-ball play\" against heavily favored Harvard. Warner, as coach at Cornell, had already used it against Penn State in 1897, but it had not achieved much notice. Carlisle led Harvard at halftime, and hoping to keep the game's momentum, Warner elected to try the play on the ensuing kickoff. Harvard executed the kick, and the Indians formed a circle around the returner. With the aid of a specially altered jersey, the ball was placed up the back of the returner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034147-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe Indians broke the huddle and spread out in different directions. Each player feigned carrying the ball, except Dillon, the man with the ball up the back of his jersey. The ruse confused the Crimson players, and they scrambled to find the ball carrier. Dillon, with both his hands free, was ignored by the searching Harvard players, and he ran untouched into the end zone. With the score, Carlisle extended its lead to 11\u20130, but Harvard came back and eventually won 12\u201311. Nevertheless, the close match, and trick play, resulted in national attention. Warner had learned the trick from John Heisman while facing Auburn in 1895 during his tenure as coach of the Georgia Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034147-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Carlisle Indians football team\nQuarterback and captain Jimmy Johnson was selected All-American by Walter Camp. \"Camp based his selection on a remarkable game he witnessed when Carlisle played Harvard. Johnson was small but fiery, and was a leader.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034148-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Case football team\nThe 1903 Case football team represented the Case School of Applied Science, now a part of Case Western Reserve University, during the 1903 college football season. The team's head coach was Joseph Wentworth. Case won its second consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034149-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1903 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1903 college football season. Their head coach was Charles Tambling. This was part of a ten\u2013game win streak that started in 1902 and ended in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034150-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Challenge Cup\nThe 1903 Challenge Cup was the 7th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. It featured clubs from the 1902-03 Northern Rugby Football Union season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034150-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was contested by Halifax and Salford at Headingley Stadium in Leeds. on Saturday 25 April 1903, in front of a crowd of 32,507. Halifax were victorious, beating Salford 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034151-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1903 Chicago Cubs season was the 32nd season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 28th in the National League and the 11th at West Side Park. The Cubs finished third in the National League with a record of 82\u201356.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034151-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034151-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034151-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034151-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034152-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1903 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1903 college football season. In their 12th season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 12\u20132\u20131 record, finished in fourth place in the Western Conference with a 4\u20131\u20131 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 413 to 61.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034153-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1903 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team was an American football team that represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago in the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034154-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034154-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034154-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 78], "content_span": [79, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034154-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago White Stockings season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1903, Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was reelected to a fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Graeme Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Background\n1903 was shaping up to be a challenging reelection for incumbent Democrat Carter Harrison Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Background\nBy 1903, the municipal reform movement in Chicago, which had been on the rise since the 1890s, had become a strong force in Chicago politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Background\nBy 1903, an anti-Harrison coalition had begun to arise in Chicago, consisting of members of union ( including in the Chicago Federation of Labor), former Harrison ally Robert \"Bobby\" Burke's followers, and remnants of what had been the once-strong Altgeld wing of the Democratic party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Background\nIn 1903, the traction issue was a popular concern, particularly the issue of municipal ownership of streetcars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nIncumbent mayor Carter Harrison Jr. was renominated by the Democratic Party. Few others seemed interested in seeking the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nWhile there had been factional disputes within the party, most of the Democratic Party united behind Harrison as a nominee. A key exception to this was Harrison's once-ally Robert \"Bobby\" Burke, who remained opposed to Harrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nHarrison easily won the primaries to select delegates for the city's nominating convention, with his supporters being heavily selected as delegates. A pro-Harrison delegate nominee even beat former Cook County Democratic Party Chairman Thomas Gahan, who had been seeking to run as a delegate aligned with then-Harrison rival Robert \"Bobby\" Burke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic\nWithout an opponent, Harrison was renominated at the convention by acclamation. The convention, however, was noted as having been a rather unenthusiastic affair, appearing to signal more tepid or reluctant support of Harrison by his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nBusinessman Greame Stewart won the Republican nomination. He had previously served as a member of the Executive Committee of the 1900 Republican National Convention. From 1882 through 1890 he was a member of the Chicago Board of Education, serving as the board's president from 1889 through 1890.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nWith an exceptional reputation for honesty and public service, Stewart had long been considered a potential candidate for mayor of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican\nIn February, Stewart won the a 2-1 margin of victory in the Republican primaries over his most significant opponent, John Maynard Harlan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, United Labor\nThe United Labor Party first nominated Clarence Darrow, who declined. The party subsequently nominated Daniel L. Cruise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, United Labor\nBeginning at the start of 1903, there was a strong push among members of the Chicago Federation of Labor and others to draft Darrow as an independent candidate for mayor. After an active and organized effort to draft him, which even included a nominating convention-style pro-Darrow mass meeting held at the Auditorium Theatre on February 16, and active consideration of a prospective run on his part, it appeared in late February that Darrow might be preparing to enter the race. However, on February 24, he made the surprise announcement that he would not be running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, United Labor\nThe United Labor Party, which had been formed in hopes of nominating Darrow, and had offered him their nomination, moved on after Darrow declined and nominated Daniel L. Cruise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe major party candidates not both only resided in the city's twenty-first ward, but each also resided in the exact same voting precinct.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nThe traction issue became the primary issue of the election. Both candidates supported ultimately supported ultimately having municipal ownership for the streetcar services. Stewart advocated making immediate improvements to its conditions by accepting the best terms the streetcar companies were willing to offer. Harrison advocated holding off on an agreement until the city received the terms it desired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nHarrison worked to paint Stewart as a puppet of corporations and special interests, particularly the streetcar companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nRepublicans worked to paint Harrison as an enabler of corruption. They also worked to paint him as having made few substantive accomplishments in his tenure as mayor, and utilized the slogan \"six years, nothing doing\" against Harrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nStewart's own platform promised reform. In an attempt to make it appear that he was not a product of the political machine, Stewart attempted to convince the electorate that businessmen and not politicians had been the one's who had urged him to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0020-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nLate into the race, Clarence Darrow came forward as a campaign surrogate in support of Harrison, swaying a lot of labor voters in Harrison's favor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0021-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nWhile they lost the mayoralty, in the coinciding elections, Republicans were able to win the races for City Attorney and City Clerk (having won the latter race by a mere several hundred vote margin).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0022-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nIn the coinciding Chicago City Council election, Republicans won a weakened majority. The City Council went from having 39 Republicans, 30 Democrats, and one independent before the 1903 election, to having 35 Republicans, 33 Democrats, and one independent afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0023-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nDemocrat Ernest Hummel also won the coinciding election for City Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0024-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nStewart had overwhelmingly won the vote in first precinct of the twenty-first ward, where both he and Harrison resided. Harrison had won this precinct in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034155-0025-0000", "contents": "1903 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nHarrison received 64.38% of the Polish-American vote, while Stewart received 31.51%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034156-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Chilocco Indian Agricultural School football team\nThe 1903 Chilocco Indian School football team was an American football team that represented the Chilocco Indian School in the north-central Oklahoma Territory during the 1903 college football season. Records have been found of nine games played by Chilocco in the fall of 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034156-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Chilocco Indian Agricultural School football team\nChilocco was one of three Indian schools in the early 1900s to field football teams that competed in college football. The other two were Carlisle in Pennsylvania and Haskell in Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034156-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Chilocco Indian Agricultural School football team\nWilliam Henry Dietz played football for Chilocco in the early 1900s before transferring to Friends University in the fall of 1904. Dietz was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034156-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Chilocco Indian Agricultural School football team\nIn December 1903, the Arkansas City Daily Traveler published the Chilocco football yell as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034156-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Chilocco Indian Agricultural School football team\nChiloc Chiloc!Hicoty-hocHunkety-chokSmall pox, chicken poxChiloc, Chiloc!Add on an Indian warwhoop and you have the Chilocoo football yell.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034157-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Chorley by-election\nThe 1903 Chorley by-election was held on 4 November 1903 when the incumbent Conservative MP, David Lindsay, was made Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. It was retained by Lindsay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1903 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the National League with a record of 74\u201365, 16\u00bd games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nAfter a successful 1902 season in which the Reds finished the season at .500 after finishing in last place in 1901, Cincinnati was looking to continue their improvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nJoe Kelley, who took over as player-manager with sixty games remaining during the previous season, began his first full season with the team. During the off-season, forty-year-old outfielder Dummy Hoy retired. Hoy had played with the Reds from 1894\u20131897, before returning to the team for his final season in 1902. Twenty-five-year-old Mike Donlin took over for Hoy. Donlin had appeared in only 34 games with the Reds in 1902, but as a regular with the Baltimore Orioles of the American League in 1901, he hit .340 with five homers and 67 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nIn his first full season with the team, Donlin hit a team high .351 with seven home runs and 67 RBI, while scoring 110 runs. Cy Seymour, also in his first full season with the Reds, hit .342 with seven homers and 72 RBI. Jake Beckley had another solid year, with a .327 batting average, two home runs and 81 RBI. Harry Steinfeldt hit .312 with six home runs and a club high 83 RBI, while player-manager Kelley batted .316 with three homers and 45 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Noodles Hahn led the way, going 22\u201312 with a 2.52 ERA in 34 starts, completing all of them. Jack Sutthoff was a surprise, going 16\u20139 with a 2.80 ERA in 30 games after spending the 1902 season in the minors with the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nCincinnati got off to a very slow start, losing eight of their first nine games to quickly fall into the National League cellar, 5.5 games out of first. The Reds rebounded by winning six of their next seven, then they hovered around the .500 in fourth place for pretty much the entire season after that. With their record at 44\u201343, the team managed to go 30\u201322 over their last fifty-two games to finish the season in fourth place at 74\u201365, which was their best record since going 83\u201367 in 1899, 16.5 games behind the pennant-winning Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034158-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034159-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1903 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Anthony Chez, the Bearcats compiled a 1\u20138 record. Harry Box was the team captain. The team played its home games at Carson Field in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034160-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers baseball team\nThe 1903 Clemson Tigers baseball team represented Clemson University in the 1903 college baseball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1903 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1903 college football season. The team was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and played all its games on the road, compiling a 4\u20131\u20131 record and 2\u20130\u20131 in the SIAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team\nMost notably, the team competed in an early conference championship game, tying Cumberland 11\u201311 in the contest. This is John Heisman's last season coaching Clemson. The Tigers thrashed Georgia Tech 73\u20130, leading to Heisman's later job-offer at Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Before the season\nFor the 1903 season, point values were different from those used in contemporary games. In 1903 a touchdown was worth five points, a field goal was worth five points and a conversion (PAT) was worth one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Before the season\nThe team's captain was Hope Sadler. This was the last season with both Sadler and Carl Sitton at ends. One writer recalls, \"Sitton and Hope Sadler were the finest ends that Clemson ever had perhaps.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Georgia\nThe season opened with a defeat of the Georgia Bulldogs 29\u20130. Clemson fumbled on a number of plays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 1: at Georgia\nThe starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Forsythe (left tackle), McKeown (left guard), Garrison (center), Derrick (right guard), Cogburn (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Furtick (left halfback), Wood (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 2: at Georgia Tech\nThe Bulldogs offered Clemson a bushel of apples for every point over 29 it scored against rival Georgia Tech. Clemson would win 73 to 0 on a mud-soaked field, leading to Heisman's later job at Tech. Sitton had to sit out the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 2: at Georgia Tech\nClemson as a team rushed for 615 yards, and fullback Jock Hanvey rushed for 104 yards in the first half. The first score came on a 20-yard run by Hanvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 2: at Georgia Tech\nThe starting lineup was Ellison (left end), Cogburn (left tackle), Derrick (left guard), Garrison (center), Forsythe (right guard), McKeown (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Furtick (left halfback), Wood (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 3: North Carolina A&M\nIn the third week of play, North Carolina A&M was beaten by Clemson 24 to 0. While A&M gained much using conventional football, Clemson had to use many trick plays. Oliver Gardner played for A&M. Heisman got married soon after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 4: at North Carolina\nThe North Carolina Tar Heels handed Clemson its only loss of the season, 11\u20136. Carolina's Newton scored first, with a bloody nose. He also scored the second touchdown. Clemson had one touchdown by Johnny Maxwell called back due to an offside penalty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 4: at North Carolina\nThe starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Cogburn (left tackle), Derrick (left guard), Garrison (center), Forsythe (right guard), McKeown (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Wood (left halfback), Furtick (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Davidson\nClemson won easily over Davidson 24\u20130. One writer noted \"Clemson playing against eleven wooden men, would attract attention.\" Carl Sitton had a 60-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Davidson\nThe starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Cogburn (left tackle), Derrick (left guard), Garrison (center), Forsythe (right guard), McKeown (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Wood (left halfback), Furtick (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nClemson tied Cumberland 11\u201311 in a game billed as the \"SIAA Championship Game.\" Cumberland rushed out to an early 11\u20130 lead. Wiley Lee Umphlett in Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football writes, \"During the first half, Clemson was never really in the game due mainly to formidable line play of the Bridges brothers\u2013giants in their day at 6 feet 4 inches\u2013and a big center named \"Red\" Smith, was all over the field backing up the Cumberland line on defense. Clemson had been outweighed before, but certainly not like this.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nA contemporary account reads \"The Clemson players seemed mere dwarfs as they lined up for the kickoff. To the crowd on the sidelines it didn't seem that Heisman's charges could possibly do more than give a gallant account of themselves in a losing battle.\" A touchdown was scored by fullback E. L. Minton (touchdowns were worth 5 points). Guard M. O. Bridges kicked the extra point. Halfback J. A. Head made another touchdown, but Bridges missed the try. After halftime, Clemson quarterback John Maxwell raced 100 yards for a touchdown. Clemson missed the try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0015-0001", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nCumberland fumbled a punt and Clemson recovered. Cumberland expected a trick play when Fritz Furtick simply ran up the middle and scored. One account of the play reads \"Heisman saw his chance to exploit a weakness in the Cumberland defense: run the ball where the ubiquitous Red Smith wasn't.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0015-0002", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nSo the next time Sitton started out on one of his slashing end runs, at the last second he tossed he ball back to the fullback who charges straight over center (where Smith would have been except that he was zeroing in on the elusive Sitton) and went all the way for he tying touchdown.\" Jock Hanvey kicked the extra point and the game ended in an 11\u201311 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nThe winning team was to be awarded the ball. Captain W. W. Suddarth of Cumberland wanted captain Hope Sadler of Clemson to get the ball, and Sadler insisted Suddarth should have it. Some ten minutes of bickering was resolved when the ball was given to patrolman Patrick J. Sweeney, for warning the media and fans to stay down in front and allow spectators to see the game. The school claims a share of the title; Heisman pushed for Cumberland to be named SIAA champions at year's end. It was Heisman's last game as Clemson head coach, who was hired at Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nThe starting lineup was Sitton (left end), Cogburn (left tackle), Derrick (left guard), Garrison (center), Forsythe (right guard), McKeown (right tackle), Sadler (right end), Maxwell (quarterback), Wood (left halfback), Furtick (right halfback), Hanvey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Postseason, Florida coaches\nMarvin Bridges and Clemson players Jock Hanvey and Jack Forsythe all coached at Florida colleges the next season. Bridges coached at the University of Florida at Lake City, and Forsythe was the head coach of the Florida State College with Hanvey as his assistant. Forsythe went on in 1906 to be the first coach of the Florida Gators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034161-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 Clemson Tigers football team, Personnel, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Clemson's lineup during the 1903 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics the offense in a T formation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034162-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cleveland Naps season\nThe 1903 Cleveland Naps season was the third Major League Baseball season for the Cleveland American League team. After two seasons as the Bluebirds \u2013 unofficially known as the Blues in 1901 and the Bronchos (or Broncos) in 1902 \u2013 the team was renamed for the 1903 season in honor of star second baseman Nap Lajoie. The team finished third in the league with a record of 77\u201363, 15 games behind the Boston Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034162-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034162-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034162-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034162-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034162-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034163-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Colgate football team\nThe 1903 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Bob Hatch, the team compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record. Carl Smith was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034164-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1903 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations and individuals that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine, Charles Chadwick and Fielding H. Yost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034164-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-America Team\nOf the 15 players who have been recognized by the NCAA as \"consensus\" All-Americans for the 1903 season, 12 played for teams in the Ivy League, and nine played for the \"Big Four\" teams of the era\u2014Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Penn. The only three consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were tackle Fred Schacht of Minnesota, quarterback James Johnson of Carlisle, and halfback Willie Heston of Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034164-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-America Team\nFive players were selected as first-team All-Americans by at least four of the known selectors: guard John DeWitt of Princeton (5), center Henry Hooper of Dartmouth (5), end Charles D. Rafferty of Yale (5), halfback Willie Heston of Michigan (4), and tackle James Hogan of Yale (4). Hooper, who was a freshman in 1903, died three months after the football season ended, following an attack of appendicitis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034164-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-America Team\nIn 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, \"Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934?\" Its selection for 1903 was Willie Heston of Michigan described as \"the nation's finest back.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1903 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team\nBoth John Heisman and Reynolds Tichenor selected teams. Fuzzy Woodruff relates: \"The first selections that had any pretense of being backed by a judicial consideration were made by W.\u00a0Reynolds Tichenor, old-time Auburn quarterback, who had kept in intimate contact with football through being a sought-after official. The next selections were made by John W. Heisman, who was as good a judge of football men as the country ever produced.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team\nSo did Nash Buckingham, former captain of the Tennessee Volunteers football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team, Tichenor's eleven\nReynolds Tichenor's eleven as posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football includes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nBold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nH = selected by John Heisman, coach at Clemson University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nNB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nNY = selected by a prominent New Yorker hired for the purpose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034165-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nJLD = selected by John Longer Desaulles. It had a first and second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034166-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Matt Rothwell, the Aggies compiled a 5\u20131 record (3\u20131 against CFA opponents), finished second in the conference, and outscored all opponents by a total of 67 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034167-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1903 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1903 college football season. Dave Cropp replaced head coach Fred Folsom and led the team to a mark of 4\u20130 in the CFA and 8\u20132 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034168-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe 1903 Columbia Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its second season under head coach Bill Morley, the team compiled a 9\u20131 record, shut out its first seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 148 to 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034168-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Columbia Blue and White football team\nFullback Richard Shore Smith was the team captain. Smith and tackle Tom Thorp received first-team honors on the 1903 All-America team. W. E. Metzenthin also starred in the backfield for Columbia. The team's sole loss was to the 1903 Yale team that featured seven first-team All-Americans, including Foster Rockwell and Tom Shevlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034168-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Columbia Blue and White football team\nColumbia's sports teams were commonly called the \"Blue and White\" in this era, but had no official nickname. The name \"Lions\" would not be adopted until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034168-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe team played its home games at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034169-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Columbian Orange and Blue football team\nThe 1903 Columbian Orange and Blue football team was an American football team that represented Columbian University (now known as George Washington University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach David Houston, the team compiled a 2\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034170-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Columbus, Ohio mayoral election\nThe Columbus mayoral election of 1903 was the 54th mayoral election in Columbus. It was held on Saturday, April 4, 1903. Democratic party incumbent mayor John N. Hinkle was defeated by Republican party nominee Robert H. Jeffrey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034171-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1903 college football season. This was the eighth year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by second year head coach Edwin O. Smith, and completed the season with a record of 3\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034172-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Copa del Rey\nThe Copa del Rey 1903 was the first official staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. It followed the 1902 Copa de la Coronaci\u00f3n, held to celebrate the coronation of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, which was won by Club Vizcaya de Bilbao (a temporary combination of Bilbao Football Club and Athletic Bilbao) and given to them permanently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034172-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Copa del Rey, Details\nThe competition was played on April 6, 7 and 8, 1903. Three teams took part: Athletic Bilbao, Espanyol of Barcelona and Madrid CF. It took the form of a round-robin, but the results of the first two games meant that the third game became the final. That match, held at the Hip\u00f3dromo in Madrid, saw Athletic Bilbao take the trophy for the first time as a distinct club, beating Madrid 3\u20112 after trailing 2\u20110 at half time. As a result, the tally of Copa wins by Athletic Bilbao is disputed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034172-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Copa del Rey, Details\nThe 1902 cup, won by Club Vizcaya, is on display in the Athletic museum, and the club includes the victory in its honours list. However, neither the Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional (LFP) nor the Real Federaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de F\u00fatbol (RFEF) official statistics include this as an Athletic win: they count the 1903 cup as its first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034173-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Copa del Rey Final\nThe 1903 Copa del Rey Final was the first final of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. The match took place on 8 April 1903 at the Hip\u00f3dromo, Madrid. The match was contested by Athletic Bilbao and Madrid CF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034173-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Copa del Rey Final\nAthletic Bilbao lifted the trophy for the first time with a 3\u20132 victory over Madrid CF. Athletic Bilbao claims this trophy to be their second in a row, although the Royal Spanish Football Federation don't recognize the previous tournament as official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034173-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Copa del Rey Final\nThis match has been identified as a catalyst for the establishment a few weeks later of what would eventually become Club Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, after some Madrid-based Basque students among the spectators were inspired by the comeback victory by Athletic Bilbao and decided to form a local branch of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034174-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1903 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 17th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034174-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Cork Senior Football Championship\nLees won the championship following a 1-07 to 0-02 defeat of Dohenys in the final at Cork Park. This was their fifth title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034175-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1903 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 17th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034175-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nBlackrock won the championship following a 2-8 to 1-10 defeat of St. Finbarr\u2019s in the final. This was their ninth championship title and their first title in five championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034176-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1903 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Warner, the Big Red compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 120 to 103. While the team shut out 7 of 10 opponents, it gave up 44 and 42 points in losses to Princeton and Penn, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034177-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 County Championship\nThe 1903 County Championship was the fourteenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 4 May to 3 September 1903. Middlesex won their first championship title, ending Yorkshire's run of three successive titles. Sussex finished in second place for the second successive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team\nThe 1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team represented Cumberland University in the 1903 college football season. The team was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), compiling a 6\u20131\u20131 record. The Bulldogs notably beat Vanderbilt and tied John Heisman's Clemson at year's end in a game billed as the \"SIAA Championship Game.\" They also beat Alabama, LSU, and Tulane in five days. The school claims a share of the SIAA title. It has been called \"the best football team in the history of Cumberland.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Before the season\nFor the 1903 season, point values were different from those used in contemporary games. In 1903 a touchdown was worth five points, a field goal was worth five points and a conversion (PAT) was worth one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Schedule\nGames with Kentucky State College and Kentucky University were canceled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nCumberland upset the Vanderbilt Commodores 6\u20130. Four minutes after the game started, Waterhouse had the decisive touchdown. M. O. Bridges had his right collarbone broken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was Waterhouse (left end), M. L. Bridges (left tackle), James (left guard), Smith (center), Cragwall (right guard), Suddarth (right tackle), Spencer (right end), Smiser (quarterback), Head (left halfback), Newton (right halfback), M. O. Bridges (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nCumberland suffered the season's only loss to the Sewanee Tigers. Henry D. Phillips plowed through the line for the deciding score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was Waterhouse (left end), M. L. Bridges (left tackle), James (left guard), Smith (center), Cragwall (right guard), Suddarth (right tackle), Spencer (right end), Smiser (quarterback), Head (left halfback), Anderson (right halfback), Minton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Tennessee Medical College\nCumberland defeated Tennessee Medical College 86\u20130. Spencer scored three touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Alabama\nTo close the regular season, Cumberland beat Alabama, LSU, and Tulane all by shutout in five days. Red Smith and Head starred in the 44\u20130 defeat of Alabama. Cumberland outweighed Alabama by an average of nearly 30 pounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, Alabama\nThe starting lineup was Waterhouse (left end), M. L. Bridges (left tackle), M. O. Bridges (left guard), Smith (center), Cragwall (right guard), Suddarth (right tackle), Spencer (right end), Smiser (quarterback), Head (left halfback), Anderson (right halfback), Minton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Season summary, LSU\nJust two days later, Cumberland beat W. S. Borland's LSU Tigers 41\u20130. The starting lineup was Ashley (left end), M. O. Bridges (left tackle), Lieper (left guard), Smith (center), Cragwall (right guard), Suddarth (right tackle), Sanders (right end), Smiser (quarterback), Head (left halfback), Anderson (right halfback), Minton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nCumberland tied John Heisman's Clemson Tigers in a game billed as the SIAA championship. Cumberland rushed out to an early 11 to 0 lead. Wiley Lee Umphlett in Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football writes, \"During the first half, Clemson was never really in the game due mainly to formidable line play of the Bridges brothers\u2013giants in their day at 6 feet 4 inches\u2013and a big center named \"Red\" Smith, was all over the field backing up the Cumberland line on defense. Clemson had been outweighed before, but certainly not like this.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nA contemporary account reads \"The Clemson players seemed mere dwarfs as they lined up for the kickoff. To the crowd on the sidelines it didn't seem that Heisman's charges could possibly do more than give a gallant account of themselves in a losing battle.\" A touchdown was scored by fullback E. L. Minton (touchdowns were worth 5 points). Guard M. O. Bridges kicked the extra point. Halfback J. A. Head made another touchdown, but Bridges missed the try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nAfter halftime, Clemson quarterback John Maxwell raced 100 yards for a touchdown. Clemson missed the try. Cumberland fumbled a punt and Clemson recovered. Cumberland expected a trick play when Fritz Furtick simply ran up the middle and scored. One account of the play reads \"Heisman saw his chance to exploit a weakness in the Cumberland defense: run the ball where the ubiquitous Red Smith wasn't.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0013-0001", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nSo the next time Sitton started out on one of his slashing end runs, at the last second he tossed he ball back to the fullback who charges straight over center (where Smith would have been except that he was zeroing in on the elusive Sitton) and went all the way for he tying touchdown.\" Jock Hanvey kicked the extra point and the game ended in an 11\u201311 tie. The winning team was to be awarded the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0013-0002", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nCaptain W. W. Suddarth of Cumberland wanted captain Hope Sadler of Clemson to get the ball, and Sadler insisted Suddarth should have it. Some ten minutes of bickering was resolved when the ball was given to patrolman Patrick J. Sweeney, for warning the media and fans to stay down in front and allow spectators to see the game. Heisman pushed for Cumberland to be named SIAA champions at year's end, and the school claims a share of the title. It was Heisman's last game as Clemson head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034178-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Cumberland Bulldogs football team, Postseason, \"SIAA championship game\"\nThe starting lineup was Waterhouse (left end), M. L. Bridges (left tackle), M. O. Bridges (left guard), Smith (center), Cragwall (right guard), Suddarth (right tackle), Spencer (right end), Smiser (quarterback), Head (left halfback), Anderson (right halfback), Minton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034179-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Danish Folketing election\nFolketing elections were held in Denmark on 16 June 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034179-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Danish Folketing election, Campaign\nNine of the 114 seats were uncontested, of which seven were won by the Venstre Reform Party and two by the Social Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034180-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Danish local elections\nThe Danish regional elections of 1903 were held in January 1903. 358 municipal council members were elected among the upper class. Furthermore, the middle class elected 3757 sogne (singular sogn) council members, and the upper classes elected 4832 sogne council members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034181-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1903 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach Fred Folsom, the team compiled a 9\u20131 record, shut out eight of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 242 to 23. Myron E. Witham was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034182-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 DePauw football team\nThe 1903 DePauw football team was an American football team that represented Lake Forest College in the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034183-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1903 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach W. Alfred Debo, the team compiled a 3\u20134 record and were outscored its opponents by a combined total of 71 to 23. The team lost to the Michigan freshman team by a 45\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034184-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Detroit Tigers season\n1903 was the third year for the Detroit Tigers in the still-new American League. The team finished in fifth place with a record or 65\u201371 (.478), 25 games behind the Boston Americans. The 1903 Tigers outscored their opponents 567 to 539. The team's attendance at Bennett Park was 224,523, sixth out of the eight teams in the AL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034184-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034184-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034184-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034185-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Dickinson football team\nThe 1903 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 156 to 78. Charles P. Hutchins was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034186-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1903 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach W. J. Monilaw, the team compiled a 5\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 170 to 93.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034187-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Dulwich by-election\nThe Dulwich by-election, 1903 was a by-election held on 15 December 1903 for the British House of Commons constituency of Dulwich in South London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034187-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Dulwich by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was triggered by the death of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Sir John Blundell Maple.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034187-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Dulwich by-election, Campaign\nThe main issue in the by-election, as with the Lewisham by-election held on the same day, was tariff reform. Harris was a supporter of Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for Imperial Preference and was supported by the Tariff Reform League. Masterman was a supporter of the Liberal party policy of Free trade. Harris's involvement in the Jameson Raid affair was raised by his opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034188-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 East Florida Seminary football team\nThe 1903 East Florida Seminary football team represented the East Florida Seminary in the sport of American football during the 1903 college football season. This was not the modern Florida Gators of the University of Florida, which begins in 1906, but one of its four predecessor institutions. The team defeated Florida State College 16 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034189-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 East Paris train wreck\nThe East Paris train wreck was a head-on collision between two trains, which occurred on the Pere Marquette Railway on December 26, 1903. The crash was caused after a westbound stop signal was blown out by strong winds, causing the westbound train to fail to stop, and collide with an eastbound train.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034189-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 East Paris train wreck, The accident\nAt around 5:40 pm, westbound train No. 5 was travelling down a hill just outside East Paris, Michigan at around 60 miles per hour (97\u00a0km/h), and approached a signal. However, the signal had been extinguished by the heavy snow and winds. Meanwhile, a Detroit-bound train, train No. 6, was climbing the hill at about 40 miles per hour (64\u00a0km/h). Shortly after, the two trains collided into each other on a long, sweeping curve, causing them to overturn. The crash killed 19 people and injured around 40 more; Two more victims later died of their injuries. Immediately after the crash, local farmers who had witnessed the two engines approaching each other assisted in removing casualties from the wreck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034189-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 East Paris train wreck, Investigation\nFollowing the crash, the company investigated the events leading up to it. They found that staff at nearby McCords station had been aware there would be an accident 10 minutes in advance, after realising the signal was not showing up. However, despite alerting a local farmer, they were unable to prevent the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034190-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 East Perthshire by-election\nThe East Perthshire by-election, 1903 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of East Perthshire in the County of Perth on 26 February 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034190-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 East Perthshire by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal MP, Sir John Kinloch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034190-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 East Perthshire by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals selected Thomas Buchanan, a barrister by profession and a former MP for three different Scottish constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034190-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 East Perthshire by-election, Candidates\nA meeting of Conservatives and Liberal Unionists took place in Perth on 13 February 1903 to decide whether or not to contest the election. It was reported that the candidate they had invited to stand had declined to do so and in the end they could not find a candidate willing to fight this traditional Liberal seat, which had been held by the Liberal Party at every election since its creation in 1885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034190-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 East Perthshire by-election, The result\nThere being no other candidates putting themselves forward therefore, Buchanan was returned unopposed. He told his supporters that they had 'gained one of the greatest Liberal victories in Scotland, as complete a victory as the largest majority could have given them at the poll'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034191-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 East Sydney by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives electorate of East Sydney in New South Wales on 4 September 1903, a Friday. It was triggered by the resignation of George Reid on 18 August 1903. The writ for the by-election was issued on 20 August, nominations for candidates closed on 27 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034191-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 East Sydney by-election, Background\nAt the time of his resignation, Reid was the leader of the Free Trade Party and the first Australian Opposition Leader. He resigned in protest on the day that a bill was passed in the parliament regarding the allocation of electoral boundaries for the state of New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034191-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 East Sydney by-election, Aftermath\nReid was returned as member for East Sydney with an increased majority. He was the first member of the House of Representatives to resign, and was the only person in federal parliamentary history to win back their own seat in a by-election after resigning until John Alexander did the same at the Bennelong by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034192-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1903 municipal election was held December 14, 1903 for the purpose of electing a mayor and three aldermen to sit on the Edmonton Town Council, as well as five public school trustees and five separate school trustees. There were six aldermanic positions on the council at the time, but three of them were already filled: Arthur Cushing, Daniel Fraser, and James Ross had been elected for two-year terms in 1902, and were still in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034192-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1903 election was the last to occur while Edmonton was still a town; the following year, it was incorporated as a city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034192-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nVoter turnout figures for the 1903 municipal election are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034192-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nArthur Cushing, Robert Lee, Kenneth McLeod, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034192-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nNicolas Dubois Dominic Beck, H Morel, Joseph Henri Picard, J Pomerleau, and Antonio Prince were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034193-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 English cricket season\n1903 was the 14th season of County Championship cricket in England. Middlesex won their first title, winning eight and losing one of their 18 games. Yorkshire, the defending champions, finished third after losing five games. Yorkshire was the only team to defeat Middlesex \u2013 at Headingley in August, Yorkshire bowled Middlesex out for 79 in the first innings, and recorded a 230-run win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034193-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 English cricket season, County Championship, Final table\nThe final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034193-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 English cricket season, Philadelphians tour\nPercy Clark and Bart King headed the wickets for the Philadelphians, who played 14 first-class matches in England, in addition to an abandoned fixture with Sussex. The American tourists won as many matches as they lost, with six of each, and drew two. Clark upstaged King, passing him on the wicket-taking tally with a pair of five wicket hauls in the final 110-run win over Surrey where King got six wickets. King averaged four runs less per wicket, however, and also contributed with 614 runs, the third-most in the team. In the batting, they were headed by captain John Lester, who made 786 runs in 13 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034194-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1903 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held in Giudecca, an island in the Venetian Lagoon, on the Giudecca Canal on a day in the middle of August. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final\nThe 1903 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Bury and Derby County on Saturday, 18 April 1903 at the Crystal Palace stadium in south London. It was the final match of the 1902\u201303 FA Cup, the 32nd edition of the world's oldest football knockout competition, and England's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final\nBury were appearing in their second final and Derby County in their third \u2013 Bury won the cup in 1900 while Derby were runners-up in 1898 and 1899. As members of the Football League First Division, both teams were exempt from the competition's qualifying phase and, having entered in the first round proper, progressed through four rounds to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final\nThe final was watched by a crowd of 63,102 and Bury, leading 1\u20130 at half-time, won a one-sided match 6\u20130 with goals by Joe Leeming (2), George Ross, Charlie Sagar, Willie Wood and Jack Plant. Bury's six-goal victory remains the record winning margin in FA Cup finals, though it was equalled in the 2019 final when Manchester City defeated Watford by the same score. Bury were the second team to score six in a final, following Blackburn Rovers in the 1890 final; and also the second team to win the cup without conceding a goal in the entire competition, following Preston North End in the 1888\u201389 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, 1903 background\nThe FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football. The competition was first proposed on 20 July 1871 by C. W. Alcock at a meeting of The Football Association committee. The tournament was first played in the 1871\u201372 season and is the world's oldest association football competition. The 1903 match between Bury and Derby County at Crystal Palace was the 32nd final and the third of the 20th century. Bury were appearing in the final for the second time, having defeated Southampton 4\u20130 in 1900. Derby County were appearing in their third final, having lost the previous two by 3\u20131 to Nottingham Forest in 1898 and by 4\u20131 to Sheffield United in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, 1903 background\nBury and Derby County were both members of the Football League First Division. In the 1902\u201303 league championship, they amassed 35 points each, seven points behind champions The Wednesday. With identical win-loss records, Bury were placed eighth and Derby ninth as Bury had a slightly better goal ratio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, 1903 background\nThe Derby team was managed by Harry Newbould who in 1900 had become the first person to be formally appointed to the position, having previously had charge of the team as club secretary. Bury's team between 1895 and 1907 was selected by a three-man committee but with club secretary Harry Spencer Hamer in charge of the team on match days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury\nBury entered the competition in the first round proper and played four matches en route to the final. All four of their opponents were other teams in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Early rounds\nIn the first round, Bury were drawn at home against Wolverhampton Wanderers. With a goal after sixty minutes by Billy Richards, Bury won the tie 1\u20130 at Gigg Lane and progressed to the second round. The crowd was only 5,172.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Early rounds\nIn the second round, Bury faced a formidable hurdle after they were drawn away to the FA Cup holders and current league title contenders Sheffield United. The tie was decided by a fifth-minute goal scored by Charlie Sagar and Bury won 1\u20130 at Bramall Lane before a crowd of 24,103.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Early rounds\nThis victory generated tremendous interest in the town of Bury and, when the team faced Notts County at home in the third round, the crowd was 22,841. Bury again won 1\u20130, courtesy of a Jimmy Lindsay penalty early in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Bury, Semi-final\nThe semi-finals were staged at neutral venues on Saturday, 21 March, and Bury were drawn to play the eventual Division One runners-up Aston Villa at Goodison Park. The crowd was around 50,000 including a sizeable contingent from Bury. Villa were clear favourites to win but it was Bury who dominated the match and they won 3\u20130 with surprising ease to qualify for their second final in four seasons. The goals at Goodison were scored by Jack Plant after thirty minutes, Sagar (48) and Richards (60). After the semi-final, Bury played four league matches before the final on 18 April and managed to complete these without any of their first-team players sustaining injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County\nDerby County entered the competition in the first round proper and played four matches en route to the final. Two of their opponents were other teams in the First Division. They also played against one team in the Second Division and one in the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Early rounds\nIn the first round, Derby were drawn at home against Small Heath, who were successfully chasing promotion from the Second Division. Watched by a crowd of 15,000, Derby won 2\u20131 at the Baseball Ground with goals by John Boag and Joe Warrington. Small Heath's goal was scored by Jimmy Windridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Early rounds\nIn the second round, Derby were drawn away to relegation-threatened Blackburn Rovers and eased through with a 2\u20130 win. Their goals were scored by Steve Bloomer and Warrington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Early rounds\nThey faced First Division opposition again in the third round and defeated Stoke FC 3\u20130 at home before a crowd of 16,000. The goals were scored by George Davis, Warrington and Ben Warren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Semi-final\nIn their semi-final, Derby were drawn against Millwall Athletic, who were then in the Southern League. The match was played at neutral Villa Park and Derby won 3\u20130 with goals by Boag, Warren and George Richards. The semi-final was played on 21 March and, up to that point, Derby had been in serious contention for the league title. In their next league match on 28 March, they lost to Everton and a slide began with only one more win in their remaining league fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 63], "content_span": [64, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Route to the final, Derby County, Semi-final\nDerby were hidebound by injuries in this period. Their star forward Steve Bloomer sustained a swollen ankle that kept him out of the final and he was joined on the sidelines by regular halfback Charlie Leckie. Left winger George Davis was temporarily sidelined but was fit for the final. The most significant injury in terms of the final, however, was a groin strain suffered by goalkeeper Jack Fryer when stretching to reach a cross against Middlesbrough at Ayresome Park on Easter Monday, 13 April, just five days before the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 63], "content_span": [64, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nAs both teams normally wore white shirts and blue shorts, agreement was needed about who should change kit but both clubs claimed priority of choice. The issue was referred to the FA who refused to get involved. Unable to reach agreement, both clubs conceded the argument and neither team wore its normal kit. Bury turned out in Cambridge blue shirts and navy blue shorts, Derby in red shirts and black shorts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nOn the Friday afternoon and Saturday morning before the match, seven long special trains left the two Bury stations, Knowsley Street and Bolton Street, for the Crystal Palace. These alone accounted for around 2,000 of a large Bury contingent and thousands travelled from Derby also. An estimated 79 special trains were run to London from various points around England and all the major railway stations in the capital were well-stocked with provisions. At St Pancras, three special rooms were set aside for fans with some 40 barrels of beer, 200 cases of bottled beer, and a plentiful supply of whisky on hand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nDerby arrived at the ground with worries about the fitness of Bloomer and Fryer. Bloomer declared himself unfit but Fryer refused to stand aside for his understudy, Frank Davies, who had never played at senior level. Despite their problems, Derby began the match as favourites given their league form to the end of March, although they were now out of title contention. Bury had no team problems and could field their full first-choice eleven, including six players who had won the cup three years earlier: Joe Leeming, Plant, Richards, George Ross, Sagar and Willie Wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0020-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nThe local Bury Times newspaper carried a report which said many photographers were in evidence and a cinematograph was sited on top of one of the stands. The teams came onto the field separately, Derby first, and the Bury newspaper claimed that the roar of the Bury fans \"outclassed\" that of the Derby fans. The paper commented that, \"strangely\", the match kicked off at 3:27 pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0021-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nThe weather was dry but the pitch was described as hard and uneven. The pitch seems to have helped Bury take the lead after twenty minutes when their captain George Ross aimed a lofted shot goalwards and the ball bounced awkwardly to deceive Jack Fryer before looping over his head. If Fryer had been fully fit, he would probably have saved the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0022-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, First half\nBury led by this goal at half-time when, according to the Derby camp, things had gone \"better than they had dared hope\" \u2013 they were a goal down but didn't consider Bury's lead an insurmountable deficit. While Bury had been the better team so far and certainly deserved their lead, it had taken a desperate goal-line clearance by Ross to prevent a Derby goal after goalkeeper Hugh Monteith had been well beaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0023-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nBury began the second half in complete control and Derby's play was so poor that Bury were never fully extended. Monteith had very little to do while, at the other end, it was soon clear that Fryer should not have been playing at all. He aggravated his injury when he tried to prevent Charlie Sagar scoring the second Bury goal three minutes after the interval. The two players had collided and Fryer was forced to leave the field for treatment. With no substitutes allowed, Derby were down to ten men. Left back Charlie Morris deputised for Fryer but, after 56 minutes, Joe Leeming chipped the ball over him as he raced out of his goal and that gave Bury a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0024-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nFryer returned at this point but, only a minute later, after he had parried a shot by Frank Thorpe, Willie Wood scored the fourth Bury goal. Only two minutes later, it was 5\u20130 after Jack Plant cut inside from the left and hit a hard shot into the corner of the goal. Bury had scored four goals in an eleven-minute period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0025-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Match, Second half\nMorris soon had to take over from Fryer again, but no one would have stopped Bury's sixth goal after 75 minutes when Leeming received a pass from Thorpe and sent it crashing into the net. Bury hit the woodwork twice more, and the game descended into near farce when Jimmy Methven went in goal to give Morris a breather. He should have conceded an immediate penalty when he handled the ball before the referee had been told about the change of roles. The Derby history suggests the referee, Jack Adams of Birmingham, must have felt sorry for them because he waved play on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0026-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nAfterwards, the trophy was presented to Bury captain George Ross by Lord Kinnaird who was himself a famous footballer, having played in a record nine FA Cup finals from 1873 to 1883. Each of the players was presented with a winner's medal. The club's officials and players spent the weekend celebrating at London's Tavistock Hotel before travelling to Birmingham on the Monday for a league match at The Hawthorns against West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0027-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nBury's 6\u20130 victory created a record for the biggest winning margin in an FA Cup final, beating Blackburn's 6\u20131 win over The Wednesday in 1890. Manchester City equalled the record when they defeated Watford 6\u20130 in the 2019 final. Bury equalled Blackburn's record for the most goals scored in a final and also equalled the record first set by Preston North End in 1889 of winning the FA Cup without conceding a goal in any round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0028-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nDespite Bury's achievements, the match has been decried as one of the poorest and most one-sided cup finals ever played. The Daily Chronicle reported that the match was a \"fiasco\" and nothing like it had ever been seen before. The reporter contended that Bury could have scored twenty and did not do so because they \"exercised mercy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034195-0029-0000", "contents": "1903 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nThe 1903 match was Bury's last final appearance. Derby have reached the final once since 1903, when they defeated Charlton Athletic 4\u20131 after extra time in 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034196-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nThe 1903 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team was an American football team that represented Fairmount College (now known as Wichita State University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20132 record, shut out four of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 126 to 27. The team had no coach; Walter Stahl was the team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team\nThe 1903 Florida State College football team represented Florida State College in the sport of American football during the 1903 college football season. The team was led by head coach W.W. Hughes and posted a 3\u20132\u20131 record and won a claim to the State Championship. With no formal nickname or mascot, the Florida State College football team was known simply as the \"Florida State College Eleven\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Before the season, Uniforms\nThe Florida State players wore gold uniforms with a large purple F on the front. Their pants were lightly padded, but their upper bodies were largely unprotected. Leather helmets with ear guards covered their heads, and shoehorn-shaped metal nose guards were strapped across their faces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Before the season, Coaching staff\nThe football team chose new officers in May 1903. T.M. Shackelford was elected Manager and Ed Watson Captain; Professor W.W. Hughes remained as coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 1: Bainbridge Giants\nTo open the season, Florida State crushed the Bainbridge Giants 22\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 2: Bainbridge Giants\nThe second game against Bainbridge was controversial. Florida State rode the train to Bainbridge, but the Tallahassee sportswriter stayed home, due to the weather. Therefore, the only account of the game was provided by the Bainbridge press.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 2: Bainbridge Giants\nNeither team scored during the first half, but Florida State \"succeeded in pushing the ball over the line\" in the second half. During the second half, an \"unpleasantness\" occurred. According to the Bainbridge account, W.W. Hughes, who was officiating the game, refused to surrender the duty after the first half. Bainbridge protested several of Hughes calls and demanded that he step down. \"An unusual amount of wrangling\" resulted, and after the game Hughes did not allow his team to attend the prearranged dance.\" Florida State left Bainbridge immediately after the game. Florida State had won the game 5\u20130. Bainbridge citizens were outraged and considered Hughes conduct \"not that of a man who was trying to promote good feeling between the two towns.\" Hughes considered the Georgians too unpleasant, and Florida State never played Bainbridge again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 936]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 3: East Florida Seminary\nThe East Florida Seminary team beat FSC 16\u20130. \"The victors had the home team beat at every point. A large crowd witnessed the game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Georgia Tech\nFlorida State played Georgia Tech at Piedmont Park in Atlanta on November 7, \"a sunny and mild autumn day.\" Georgia Tech made two touchdowns in the first half after \"easy gains.\" In the second, Clarke, Georgia Tech's left tackle, \"made one of the prettiest bucks...which had been seen\" and scored a third time. By the end of the game, Georgia Tech had defeated Florida State 17\u20130. Though Florida schools had played each other since 1901, this was the first time one played a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) opponent. Fuzzy Woodruff called it the first evidence of intercollegiate football in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 5: Florida\nFlorida State College beat the University of Florida (at Lake City), 12\u20130. Florida State had planned on playing former Clemson star Jack \"Pee Wee\" Forsythe at fullback. When UF found out, they threatened to leave. Florida State's Captain, A.B. Clark, said the team wouldn't use Forsythe if Florida did not play its physical education director, J.D. Jeffery. Both Forsyth and Jeffery likely were professionals; certainly, neither was a student. Both teams agreed to the terms, and the game went on as scheduled.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 6: Stetson\nFlorida State finished the 1903 season against Stetson in the Florida Times-Union's Championship Cup. Because both Florida State and Stetson had beaten the University of Florida, the winner of the game would be crowned State Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 6: Stetson\n\"It was a clean game and well played by both. Stetson kicked off and in three plays got the ball on downs and held it for a touchdown which was made by a series of line bucks.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 6: Stetson\n\"In the second half Stetson kicked off and held Tallahassee well, with varying results, until the last ten minutes when Tallahassee, by a series of line plays, claimed by Stetson to be illegal, using four men massed back of the line, made a touchdown, but failed to kick goal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 6: Stetson\nThe game ended in a 5\u20135 tie. Neither team was awarded the Times-Union Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034197-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida State College football team, Roster\nThe original line-up played the entire game, both offense and defense. Substitutes replaced injured players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane\nThe 1903 Florida hurricane was an Atlantic hurricane that caused extensive wind and flood damage on the Florida peninsula and over the adjourning Southeastern United States in early to mid September 1903. The third tropical cyclone and third hurricane of the season, this storm was first observed near Mayaguana island in the Bahamas early on September\u00a09. Moving northwestward, it became a hurricane the next day and passed near Nassau. The cyclone then turned to the west-northwest on September 11 and passed just north of the Bimini Islands. As it crossed the Bahamas, the cyclone produced hurricane-force winds that caused damage to crops and buildings, but no deaths were reported over the island chain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane\nLate on September\u00a011, the cyclone struck near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Inchulva capsized near Delray Beach, drowning nine of her crew members. The cyclone caused severe wind damage in present-day Broward and Palm Beach counties, although most of the losses were to crops such as sugarcane. The cyclone weakened to a tropical storm while crossing Florida, but re-intensified into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on September\u00a017. Peaking at 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h), equivalent to a strong Category\u00a01 hurricane on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale, the storm made landfall near Panama City early on September\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane\nIn Northwest Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, the cyclone produced widespread rainfall, causing some crop damage. Additionally, a storm surge caused boats to be blown ashore in the Florida Panhandle. In all, the storm killed 14 people in Florida and produced $500,000 in damage. After falling to tropical storm intensity early on September\u00a014, the storm weakened to a tropical depression on September\u00a016, several hours before dissipating over South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Meteorological history\nBased upon scientific research conducted by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in 2003, the cyclone is estimated to have first begun as a 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) tropical storm south of Mayaguana in the Bahamas early on September\u00a09. However, due to scarce observations, its genesis likely occurred earlier than this time but was undetected operationally. Moving slowly northwest, the cyclone quickly strengthened into a hurricane with winds of 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h), equivalent to Category\u00a01 on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale, early the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0002-0001", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Meteorological history\nBy 00:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a011, it reached sustained winds of 85\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h) while centered about 15\u00a0miles (25\u00a0km) west of New Providence Island. Turning to the west-northwest, the cyclone maintained its intensity while passing just north of the Bimini Islands. Around 23:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a012, the cyclone struck South Florida near Fort Lauderdale with winds of 85\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h). Thereafter, the hurricane weakened upon crossing the Everglades, weakening to a tropical storm at 06:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe cyclone entered the Gulf of Mexico near Egmont Key, south of Saint Petersburg in the Tampa Bay region, with winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). At this time, the cyclone was still moving west-northwest as it had started nearly two days earlier. Although diminished in intensity after its passage over the Florida peninsula, the cyclone quickly re-organized and began to re-intensify over the Gulf of Mexico. Early on September 13, it regained hurricane intensity while centered about 100\u00a0mi (160\u00a0km) south of St. Marks in the Big Bend area of Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Meteorological history\nCurving to the northwest and increasing its forward speed, the hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of 90\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h) as it neared the Florida Panhandle. On the afternoon of September\u00a013, the hurricane passed just west of Cape San Blas, but did not strike there. As its heading backed to the north-northwest, the cyclone moved made landfall near Panama City at the same intensity around 00:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0003-0002", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Meteorological history\nIt is estimated that the storm reached peak intensity at landfall, with the peripheral pressure and storm tide observations suggesting winds of 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h), while the pressure-wind relationship indicating a minimum barometric pressure of 974\u00a0mbar (28.8\u00a0inHg). After moving inland, the cyclone rapidly diminished to a strong tropical storm and continued to weaken as it entered southern Alabama early on September\u00a014. The next day, it turned northeast and then east-northeast, and by 00:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a016, it degenerated into a tropical depression. Less than 24\u00a0hours later, the system dissipated just east of the Georgia\u2013South Carolina border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Preparations\nBetween 06:00 and 12:00 UTC on September\u00a010, the United States Weather Bureau issued storm signals, equivalent to a tropical storm warning in 2021, from Cedar Key, Florida, to Charleston, South Carolina. These were later upgraded to hurricane warnings in South Florida. Due to inclement weather conditions in West Palm Beach, which had been newly incorporated as a town just days earlier, businesses suspended their normal operations and people boarded up buildings, even as the strongest winds arrived. As the cyclone moved into the Gulf of Mexico, reports from September 12 through September 14 helped ships prepare for the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nIn the Bahamas, the cyclone produced a barometric pressure at or below 990\u00a0mbar (29.5\u00a0inHg) on Cat Cay for about 10 hours beginning at 11:00 UTC on September 11. For a period of 30 minutes after 15:00 UTC, the pressure dropped to 976\u00a0mbar (28.82\u00a0inHg), after which hurricane-force winds decreased substantially, shifting from northeast to southwest via north, before restrengthening just after 16:00 UTC. The entire storm practically ceased by 23:00 UTC late that day. Only 0.84 inches (21\u00a0mm) of rain attended the passage of the hurricane on the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0005-0001", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nOn New Providence Island, Nassau recorded a pressure of 988.8 mbar (29.2\u00a0inHg) and winds of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) at 00:00 UTC on September 11, shortly before the anemometer blew away. Afterward, the winds shifted from east to south and were estimated to be as high as 90\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h). On the island, the hurricane destroyed the fruit crop and caused considerable damage to small structures. The storm also caused heavy damage to local shipping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nIn southeast Florida, no wind or pressure observations were available within 50\u00a0mi (80\u00a0km) of the location where the eye of the cyclone struck the coast. However, the cyclone did produce a storm surge up to 8 feet (2.4\u00a0m) at Jupiter, which was near the radius of maximum wind, then estimated to be about 50\u00a0mi (80\u00a0km), and reported peak sustained winds of 84\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h). Winds of damaging force extended 30\u00a0mi (48\u00a0km) north of Jupiter, and the preponderance of the damage was limited to areas south of that settlement. Only pineapple sheds were damaged at Jupiter. About 9\u00a0mi (14\u00a0km) south, the schooner Martha T. Thomas blown ashore, without loss of crew members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nIn West Palm Beach, as northeast winds reached their peak between 21:00 UTC on September 11 and 01:00 UTC the next day, parts of buildings blew away. Many buildings were unroofed, while rainfall and winds subsequently caused further damage to the interiors, such as at The Tropical Sun office building, the Seminole Hotel, the Palms Hotel, Schmid's Commercial Hotel, and properties owned by former mayor Marion E. Gruber. Several other businesses suffered similar damage. Much debris, including roofing materials, branches, paper, and driftwood, was thrown into the streets. In the African American section of the town, several buildings were destroyed. Just one of the four churches stood after the hurricane. Damage there ran \"way up in the thousands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nHotels on the nearby island of Palm Beach survived, but many coconut palms and other vegetation were prostrated. On the west shoreline of Lake Worth Lagoon, homes were swept off their foundations and their interiors flooded. Coconut trees and shrubbery were also toppled on Munyon Island. All three of the cottages were blown into the Lake Worth Lagoon, while the hotel also suffered some damage. The Lake Worth News building in Lake Worth was severely damaged by flooding. Destruction in Boynton Beach was \"almost indescribable.\" Dozens of homes were damaged to some degree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0008-0001", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nThe ground was \"literally covered\" with fruit, including guava, lemons, and lime, while pineapple fields were flattened. Power and telegraph lines and trees, including many large pine trees, were toppled throughout the city. Offshore, a Standard Oil barge was beached against a reef; the crew of eleven men were forced to swim ashore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nThe settlements of Pompano, where the eye was believed to have come ashore, and Delray Beach were nearly destroyed, with trees defoliated and many buildings dismantled. Offshore Delray Beach, the British steamship Inchulva, wrecked near the Orange Grove House of Refuge. Nine crew members aboard the Inchulva drowned as she stranded just 200 yards (180\u00a0m) off the beach. The wreck was later salvaged and transformed into an underwater diving attraction. Damage in the Miami area was mainly confined to small buildings overturned, trees uprooted, smokestacks downed, metal awnings broken, and metal roofs scattered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0009-0001", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nOnly two or three homes were blown off their foundations in the northern part of the area. At the new building for The Miami Metropolis, the wall on the west side collapsed. Telegraph and electrical lines were downed throughout the city, leaving the streets \"a tangle of wires.\" The loss of electricity was restored by the night of September\u00a012. Damage in South Florida reached $100,000, mainly to crops such as sugarcane in the Everglades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nIn Central Florida, the cyclone only caused minor damage to structures and blew down trees, but at least two people died in Tampa. The storm also damaged businesses in the area and reportedly blew down half the local orange crop. Heavy rainfall occurred along the path, peaking at 11.40\u00a0in (289.56\u00a0mm) at Fort Meade. In the Florida Panhandle, the hurricane produced a pressure of 984.8\u00a0mbar (29.08\u00a0inHg) and winds up to 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) at St. Andrews settlement, near Panama City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034198-0010-0001", "contents": "1903 Florida hurricane, Impact\nThe peak storm surge was measured at up to 10\u00a0ft (3.0\u00a0m) in the town of Apalachicola. Up to 50% of the cotton crop was destroyed, but overall structural damage was minor, though ships were grounded near Apalachicola. As the cyclone moved inland over Alabama and Georgia on September 14 and 15, it produced widespread rains peaking at 5.42\u00a0in (140\u00a0mm) at Griffin, Georgia. Minor crop damage occurred in low-lying areas, but advance warning reduced the potential damage. In all, the hurricane killed 14 people, all in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034199-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Franklin Athletic Club season\nThe 1903 Franklin Athletic Club football season was their third and final season in existence. The team finished with a record of 12-0. The team was named the top football team in the United States. Franklin went on to win the 1903 World Series of Football, held in December, at Madison Square Garden and did not give up a score all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034200-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Geneva Covenanters football team\nhe 1903 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. Led by Samuel G. Craig in his fourth and final year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 9\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034201-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1903 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1903 college football season. Led by Philip King in his first year as head coach, the team went 7\u20133 and claims a Southern championship. National champion Princeton's two closest game were against Yale and Georgetown. Captain Hub Hart had a 99-yard run from scrimmage against Maryland; this is still a school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034202-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1903 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 3\u20134 record. Georgia lost to Clemson, but beat rivals Georgia Tech and Auburn. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' first season under the guidance of head coach Marvin M. Dickinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034202-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nJohn Heisman last year as head coach of Clemson was 1903. During his four years at Clemson, Georgia was unable to muster a single win, was shut out twice and scored only 10 points. While Heisman was head coach of Auburn, Georgia had fared a little better, managing a win and a tie and recording a 1\u20132\u20131 record. Nevertheless, during the eight meetings with Heisman-coached teams from 1895 to 1903, Georgia was 1\u20136\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034203-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1903 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Despite Tech sources not recording it, Mercer sources insist Georgia Tech defeated Mercer in 1903 by a score of 46 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034203-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Georgia Tech football team, Season summary, Week 1: Clemson\nClemson's 73\u20130 victory over Georgia Tech led Clemson to name a street on the campus for John Heisman and to Georgia Tech's hiring him the next season. The week before Clemson beat Georgia 29 to 0. Georgia offered a bushel of apples for every point Clemson could score over its rival Tech. Clemson rushed for 615 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034204-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 German federal election\nFederal elections were held in Germany on 16 June 1903. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a clear plurality of votes, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 100 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won only 81. Voter turnout was 76.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034205-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship\nThe 1903 German football championship was the first tournament sanctioned by the German Football Association (DFB) to crown a national champion. At the time, the newly founded DFB only had about 150 member clubs in 30 mostly local associations. Every champion of these associations was eligible for play in the championship. Additionally, associations from outside Germany were allowed to take part, such as the Prague association that sent her champion to Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034205-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship\nAlthough thirty teams would have been eligible, only six eventually entered the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034205-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship\nVfB Leipzig became the first club to be awarded the Viktoria, the trophy for the German champions from 1903 to 1944. The trophy later disappeared during the final stages of the Second World War, did not resurface until after the German reunification and was put on display at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt until 2015, when it was moved to the new Deutsches Fu\u00dfballmuseum in Dortmund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034205-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship, Competition, Quarter-finals\nThe German Football Association had scheduled the match to be played in Munich, but Prag lodged an official complaint as they would receive greater revenue if the match was played in Prague, while Karlsruhe protested against travelling Prague. Due to time constraints, the match was scratched and both teams entered the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034205-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship, Competition, Semi-finals\nThe match had been scheduled to be held in Leipzig, but Karlsruhe received a telegram, supposedly sent by the German Football Association, informing them that the match had been postponed. The team never went to Leipzig, and was subsequently disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034206-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship Final\nThe 1903 German football championship Final decided the winner of the 1903 German football championship, the 1st edition of the German football championship, a knockout football cup competition contested by the regional league winners to determine the national champions. The match was played on 31 May 1903 at the Exerzierweide in Altona. VfB Leipzig won the match 7\u20132 against DFC Prag to become the first national champions in German football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034206-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship Final, Route to the final\nThe German football championship was a six team single-elimination knockout cup competition, featuring the champions of regional football associations. There were a total of two rounds leading up to the final. For all matches, the winner after 90 minutes advances. If still tied, extra time was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034206-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 German football championship Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034207-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Glen Innes state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Glen Innes on 4 November 1903 because of the death of Francis Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034208-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Goldey College football team\nThe 1903 Goldey College football team represented Goldey College (now known as Goldey\u2013Beacom College) in the 1903 college football season as an independent. They compiled a record of 0\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally titled the IV Coupe Internationale, was a motor race held on 2 July 1903, on the Athy Circuit consisting of closed roads in Ireland. The race consisted of seven laps - alternating for six laps over a shorter circuit to the west of Athy and longer circuit to the East, before a final lap on the longer circuit to make the total distance 527 km (327.5 miles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0000-0001", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup\nA British entry had won the previous edition of the race, which meant that the rights to host the race fell to the Automobile Club of Britain and Ireland. Legislation was passed to allow the race to take place on roads in Ireland, then a part of the United Kingdom. Britain were to attempt to defend the Gordon Bennett Cup against France, Germany and the USA, and each country was represented by three entries, with the car that finished the race in the shortest time winning the race on behalf of his country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe race was won by Camille Jenatzy driving a Mercedes and representing Germany, in a time of six hours and 39 minutes, at an average speed of 79.2\u00a0km/h (49.2\u00a0mph). Rene de Knyff and Henry Farman, both driving Panhards and representing France finished in second and third places, taking a little over ten minutes longer to complete the course than Jenatzy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nOn Thursday, 2 July 1903 the Gordon Bennett Cup was the first international motor race to be held in Ireland, an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in the Paris-Vienna race driving a Napier. The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland wanted the race to be hosted in the British Isles, and their secretary, Claude Johnson, suggested Ireland as the venue because racing was illegal on British public roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0002-0001", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nThe editor of the Dublin Motor News, Richard J. Mecredy, suggested an area in County Kildare, and letters were sent to 102 Irish MPs, 90 Irish peers, 300 newspapers, 34 chairmen of county and local councils, 34 County secretaries, 26 mayors, 41 railway companies, 460 hoteliers, 13 PPs, plus the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Patrick Foley, who pronounced himself in favour. Local laws had to be adjusted, ergo the 'Light Locomotives (Ireland) Bill' was passed on 27 March 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0002-0002", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nKildare and other local councils drew attention to their areas, whilst Queen\u2019s County declared That every facility will be given and the roads placed at the disposal of motorists during the proposed race. Eventually Kildare was chosen, partly on the grounds that the straightness of the roads would be a safety benefit. As a compliment to Ireland the British team chose to race in Shamrock green which thus became known as British racing green, although the winning Napier of 1902 had been painted Olive green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nThere was considerable public concern about safety after the 1901 Paris-Bordeaux Rally, in which at least eight people had been killed, and severe accidents during the May 24th 1903 Paris-Madrid race where more than 200 cars competed over a distance of 800 miles (1,287\u00a0km) but which had to be halted at Bordeaux because there had been so many accidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nTo allay these fears the 1903 race was held over a closed course which had been carefully prepared for the event, and was marshalled by 7,000 police officers assisted by troops and club stewards, with strict instructions to keep spectators off the roads and away from corners. The route consisted of two loops in a figure eight, the first a 52\u00a0mi (84\u00a0km) loop including Kilcullen, The Curragh, Kildare, Monasterevin, Stradbally, Athy, followed by a 40\u00a0mi (64\u00a0km) loop through Castledermot, Carlow, and Athy again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0003-0002", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nThe race started at the Ballyshannon cross-roads () near Calverstown on the contemporary N78 heading north, then followed the N9 north; the N7 west; the N80 south; the N78 north again; the N9 south; the N80 north; the N78 north again. The official timekeeper of the race was Mr. T. H. Woolen of the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland. Ninety one Chronographs for timing the race were supplied by the Anglo-Swiss firm Stauffer Son & Co. of La Chaux-de-Fonds and London. Competitors were started at seven-minute intervals and had to follow bicycles through the 'control zones' in each town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034209-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nThe 328\u00a0mi (528\u00a0km) race was won by the famous Belgian Camille Jenatzy, driving a Mercedes in German colours. It was \"inferior in terms of horse power\", but suited to Jenazy's driving style, and he turned in a spectacular performance. His purse for the win was \u00a38000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034210-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Grand National\nThe 1903 Grand National was the 65th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 27 March 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034211-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1903 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1903 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9\u20133 record under first-year head coach John Cranston. Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1903 College Football All-America Team. They were tackle Daniel Knowlton and guard Andrew Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034211-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1903 season was also notable for the opening of Harvard Stadium, which hosted its first game on November 14 against Dartmouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034212-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1903 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach Albert E. Herrnstein, Haskell compiled a 7\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 131 to 50. Its victories included shutouts against Texas (6\u20130), Missouri (12\u20130), and Creighton (22\u20130); its losses were to Nebraska (16\u20130) and Chicago (17\u201311).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034213-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1903 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach Frank Cavanaugh, the team compiled an 8\u20132 record. Tom Stankard was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034213-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Holy Cross football team\nAfter years of playing home games at off-campus stadiums in Worcester, Massachusetts, Holy Cross opened its own football field in time for the start of the 1903 season. The new stadium, called simply Holy Cross Field by the press, was later named Fitton Field, and today serves as the college's baseball stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1903 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-first series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 10 January and 21 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nWales: John Strand-Jones (Llanelli), Fred Jowett (Swansea), Dan Rees (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Tom Pearson (Newport) capt., Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), JH Miles (Leicester), RH Spooner (Liverpool), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), T Simpson (Rockcliff), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers) capt., Frank Croft Hulme (Birkenhead Park), G Fraser (Richmond), Vincent Cartwright (Oxford Uni. ), R Bradley (West Hartlepool), J Duthie (West Hartlepool), RFA Hobbs (Blackheath), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni. ), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), RD Wood (Liverpool OB)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), JE Crabbie (Oxford Uni. ), J Knox (Kelvinside Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Edinburgh University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Kelvinside Acads. ), N Kennedy (West of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nWales: John Strand-Jones (Llanelli), William Richard Arnold (Swansea), Dan Rees (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Billy Trew (Swansea), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport) capt., Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), HJ Anderson (Old Wesley), DR Taylor (Queen's Uni, Belfast), GAD Harvey (Wanderers), CC Fitzgerald (Dungannon), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University) capt., Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin University), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley), M Ryan (Rockwell College), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), RS Smyth (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), R Forrest (Blackheath), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), T Simpson (Rockcliff), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers) capt., FC Hulme (Birkenhead Park), G Fraser (Richmond), Vincent Cartwright (Oxford Uni. ), BA Hill (Blackheath), SG Williams (Devonport Albion), WG Heppell (Devonport Albion), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni. ), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), RD Wood (Liverpool OB)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), C France (Kelvinside Acads), AS Drybrough (Edinburgh Wanderers), JE Crabbie (Oxford Uni. ), J Knox (Kelvinside Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Edinburgh University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Kelvinside Acads. ), N Kennedy (West of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), HJ Anderson (Old Wesley), JB Allison (Edinburgh University), GAD Harvey (Wanderers), CC Fitzgerald (Dungannon), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University) capt., Jos Wallace (Wanderers), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley), CE Allen (Derry), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), Samuel Irwin (NIFC), RS Smyth (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nWales: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Willie Llewellyn (London Welsh), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff) capt., Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), G Bradshaw (Belfast Collegians), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), C Reid (NIFC), Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University) capt., Jos Wallace (Wanderers), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley), CE Allen (Derry), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), TA Harvey (Monkstown)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nEngland: HT Gamlin(Blackheath), T Simpson (Rockcliff), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), EIM Barrett (Lennox), R Forrest (Blackheath) WV Butcher (Streatham & Croydon), PD Kendall (Birkenhead Park) capt., NC Fletcher (OMT), Vincent Cartwright (Oxford Uni. ), BA Hill (Blackheath), SG Williams (Devonport Albion), Frank Stout (Richmond), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni. ), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), R Pierce (Liverpool)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034214-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), JS MacDonald (Edinburgh University), J Knox (Kelvinside Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Edinburgh University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), J Ross (London Scottish), John Dallas (Watsonians), WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Kelvinside Acads.) capt., N Kennedy (West of Scotland)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034215-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nThe 1903 Sanitary Board Election was held on 25 March 1903 was the second election for the 2 unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong under the reconstituted Public Health and Building Ordinance of 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034215-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nOnly ratepayers who were included in the Special and Common Jury Lists of the years or ratepayers who are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations were entitled to vote at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034215-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Hong Kong sanitary board election, Outcome\nHenry Edward Pollock, the former Acting Attorney General and the member of the Executive and Legislative Council was elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034216-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 ISSF World Shooting Championships\nThe 7th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1903. The winners were Emil Kellenberger in the rifle competition and Benjamin Segura in the pistol competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034217-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1903 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach George Washington Woodruff, the Illini compiled an 8\u20136 record and finished in seventh place in the Western Conference. Guard/end Claude Rothgeb was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034218-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1903 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1903 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach James H. Horne, the Hoosiers compiled a 4\u20134 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 148 to 124.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034219-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1903 International Cross Country Championships was held in Hamilton, Scotland, at the Hamilton Park on 28 March 1903. A preview of the event and an appraisal of the results appeared in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034219-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 International Cross Country Championships\nComplete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034219-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 45 athletes from 4 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034220-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 International Lawn Tennis Challenge\nThe 1903 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the third edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. The British Isles team returned to the United States to contest the Cup. The tie was played at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts (the same location as the first competition in 1900). The British won 4-1, bringing the Cup to Britain for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034221-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1903 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 29 April 1903 as part of that years local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034221-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Invercargill mayoral election\nFormer mayor George Froggatt defeated the incumbent Charles Stephen Longuet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034222-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1903 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1903 college football season. This season was John Chalmers' first as head coach of the Hawkeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034223-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1903 Iowa State Senate elections were the last state legislative general elections held on an odd-numbered year. Iowa voters elected state senators in 29 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators traditionally serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate. However, under the Biennial Elections law enacted in 1904 by the Iowa General Assembly, the senators elected in 1903 served an additional fifth year (until the 1908 elections) to accommodate the transition to holding elections on even-numbered years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034223-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa Senate election\nA statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1903 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034223-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1903 elections occurred before primary elections were established in Iowa by the Primary Election Law in 1907. The general election took place on November 3, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034223-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 39 seats to Democrats' 11 seats. However, during the twenty-ninth session of the Iowa General Assembly, the senators decided in March 1902 to decertify Democrat Joseph Martin Emmert of district eighteen and replace Emmert with Republican James E. Bruce, thus flipping the seat from Democratic to Republican control. Therefore, going into Election Day in 1903, Republicans held an advantage of 40 seats to Democrats' 10 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034223-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 16 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034223-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1903 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 42 seats and Democrats having 8 seats (a net gain of 2 seats for Republicans).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034224-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1903 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their second season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled an 8\u20131 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 202 to 59. Preston Daniels was the team captain. The only loss of the year was to eventual National Champions Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034224-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as \"New State Field\". season results table", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034225-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1903 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1903. Incumbent Republican Albert B. Cummins defeated Democratic nominee J. B. Sullivan with 57.14% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots\nThe 1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots refers to a series of events that led to the massacre of Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's in the city of Isfahan in Qajar Iran. The events were centered on the Russian consulate in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nAs early as the 1840s, there had been anti-B\u00e1bi and later anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots in Iran. These sorts of persecution happened in some cities more than others due to involvement of religious leaders or the visibility of B\u00e1bi and Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed communities. In addition to the city of Yazd, Isfahan had often been plagued by such riots. In 1903, during one of these episodic attacks, Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's tried to take sanctuary in the Russian consulate in Isfahan. The attacks, which took place over an eight-month period (1902-1903), had been prompted by the visit of Qajar prince Mirza Abol-Hasan Khan Shaykh ol-Ra'is to Isfahan. In addition to being a prince of Iran's ruling dynasty, Shaykh ol-Ra'is was also a mojtahed and one of the most renowned clerics at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nWhen Shaykh ol-Ra'is approached Isfahan, two wealthy Isfahani Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's, namely Agha Mohammad Javad who was the sarraf, i.e., \"money lender\" of the treasury and Mirza Ali Khan, the treasury's accountant (mostowfi) were in his service. However, the most renowned cleric of Isfahan, Agha Najafi, and other mojtaheds ignored and disrespected him. Agha Mohammad Javad and other sarrafs were also engaged in other Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed matters; they, for example, rescued Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's from Agha Najafi and his men. To make matters more complicated, Shaykh ol-Ra'is's sermons were considered to be popular during his month of stay in Isfahan, and his presence and preaching provided the members of the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed community with confidence and renewed activism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nOn 23 May 1903, a large number of Isfahani Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's, including Agha Mohammad Javad and Mirza Ali Khan, attended the funeral service of another Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed money exchanger, known as Hajji Mohammad Esmail. When Agha Najafi heard about this, he sent a band of theology students (tollab) and vigilantes (lutis) to Agha Mohammad Javad and Mirza Ali Khan. The group of tollabs and lutis managed to catch Agha Mohammad Javad, and he was subsequently detained and tortured. Although without proof, Najafi argued that Javad was a B\u00e1bi, and that he had seen him drinking wine two years prior and therefore had to be punished with eighty lashes. Ali Khan had managed to escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nOn the night of 23 May 1903, the Isfahani Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's discussed the events and prepared an account for Baronovski, the acting Russian consul in Isfahan. The Russian consul allowed the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's to take sanctuary (bast) in the Russian consulate of Isfahan; some 200 Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's followed the call. The next day, 24 May, Baronovski told Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's from Abadeh, Najafabad and Seda to take refuge in the consulate as well, and within a short period of time, the number of Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's in the consulate had increased to 600 or 700.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0004-0001", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nFrom the consulate, petitions were telegraphed to Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar (r.\u00a01896\u20131907) in the capital Tehran as well as the prime minister and other state officials. The responses from Tehran were not satisfactory however, and thus Baronovski himself corresponded with Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, then governor of Isfahan. Zell-e Soltan managed to assure and convince Mirza Ali Khan and other Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed to move out of the consulate on the evening of 27 May 1903. Mirza Ali Khan and Agha Mohammad Javad were then under the protection of Zell-e Soltan, who helped them to escape to Tehran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nThen, rumors began to spread that Agha Najafi had ordered for the destruction of the Russian consulate and to murder the \"B\u00e1bi's\". On Friday 28 May 1903, some men surrounded the Russian consulate during the night. Mirza Ahmad Khan Fateh ol-Molk, the Iranian foreign office agent (kargozar), brought Agha Najafi to the environs of the consulate and informed the crowd to listen to what Agha Najafi ordered. The men slowly but surely withdrew from the Russian consulate with Najafi telling them gently to go about their own affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0005-0001", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nRealizing the change of events, the Russian consul Baronovski moved all the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's out of the consulate and told them that he was unable to provide them with additional help. As the excited crowd had not entirely dispersed from the consulate, when the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's moved out, they attacked them, and beat them to death. They also stole their belongings. The violence against the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's continued for several days, with continued public disorder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034226-0005-0002", "contents": "1903 Isfahan anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed riots, Context\nMany Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed's who had priorly kept a low profile, but now thought that they were in a safe situation to join the Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed refugees, were now easy targets of attack. It would take just two months after these events centered on Isfahan and the Russian consulate for another anti-Bah\u00e1\u02bc\u00ed episode to occur (this time in Yazd).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034227-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Italian Football Championship\nThe 1903 Italian Football Championship season was won by Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034227-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Italian Football Championship, References and sources\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane\nThe 1903 Jamaica hurricane devastated Martinique, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands in August\u00a01903. The second tropical cyclone of the season, the storm was first observed well east of the Windward Islands on August\u00a06. The system moved generally west-northwestward and strengthened into a hurricane on August\u00a07. It struck Martinique early on August\u00a09, shortly before reaching the Caribbean. Later that day, the storm became a major hurricane. Early on August\u00a011, it made landfall near Morant Point, Jamaica, with winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h), with would be the hurricane's maximum sustained wind speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0000-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane\nEarly on the following day, the storm brushed Grand Cayman at the same intensity. The system weakened before landfall near Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, early on August\u00a013, with winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). The system emerging into the Gulf of Mexico early on August\u00a014 after weakening while crossing the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula, but failed to re-strengthen. Around 00:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a016, the cyclone made landfall north of Tampico, Tamaulipas, with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). The hurricane soon weakened to a tropical storm and dissipated over San Luis Potos\u00ed late on August\u00a016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane\nIn Martinique, hundreds of homes were deroofed in Fort-de-France, while about 5,000\u00a0people were left homeless in the villages of Fond, Fourniols, La Haye, Recluce, and Tivoli, all of which were established after the eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e in 1902. The hurricane also left extensive damage to crops and eight fatalities. In Jamaica, several communities were completely or nearly destroyed, including Manchioneal, Port Antonio, and Port Maria. Thousands of homes also suffered damage in the capital city of Kingston. Banana crops were devastated so severely that many growers were forced into bankruptcy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane\nNumerous ships were wrecked, particularly on the north coast of the island. There were at least 65\u00a0deaths and about $10\u00a0million (1903\u00a0USD) in damage. In the Cayman Islands, more than 200\u00a0houses and seven of eight churches on Grand Cayman were destroyed or heavily damaged. Of the 23\u00a0ships in the harbor, only the Governor Blake survived. Most of the crews on board those ships were reported killed, but loss of life onshore was minimal. The storm also caused heavy damage on the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. Many ships were wrecked and communications were cut off in several places. In the Tampico area, there was considerable damage to the port and many ships were sunk or driven ashore. Much of the land between Tampico and C\u00e1rdenas in San Luis Potos\u00ed was submerged due to flooding. In all, the storm is believed to have killed at least 149 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Meteorological history\nA tropical storm was first observed by a ship about 835\u00a0mi (1,345\u00a0km) northeast of Cayenne, French Guiana, early on August\u00a06, according to historic weather maps. However, the scarcity of observations means that its genesis may have occurred earlier than this time and been undetected operationally. With initial winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h), the system moved generally west-northwestward and strengthened into Category\u00a01 hurricane on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale about 24\u00a0hours later. The first indication of the storm to the east of Barbados was on August\u00a08 via telegraph reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0002-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Meteorological history\nEarly on August\u00a09, the cyclone struck Martinique as either a strong Category\u00a01 or a weak Category\u00a02 hurricane. The storm entered the Caribbean shortly thereafter. Around 12:00\u00a0UTC, the cyclone intensified into a Category\u00a03 hurricane, becoming the first major hurricane in the Atlantic basin since the second storm of 1900 and the first in the Caribbean since the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Meteorological history\nAfter 06:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a011, the cyclone struck Jamaica near Morant Point with winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h). At 06:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a012, while brushing Grand Cayman, the hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of the same intensity and a minimum barometric pressure of 958\u00a0mbar (28.3\u00a0inHg), observed by the Governor Blake. The system weakened to a Category\u00a02 around the time of landfall near Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, early on August\u00a013, with winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Meteorological history\nBy 12:00\u00a0UTC, the storm further weakened to a Category\u00a01, based on the Empirical Inland Wind Decay Model. After crossing the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico early on August\u00a014, the hurricane failed to re-strengthen. Around 00:00\u00a0UTC on August\u00a016, it made landfall north of Tampico, Tamaulipas, with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). The hurricane soon weakened to a tropical storm and dissipated over San Luis Potos\u00ed late on August\u00a016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nTelegraph reports of \"a disturbance probably of dangerous strength\" approaching Barbados from the east were sent to stations throughout the Lesser Antilles on August\u00a08. Shipping interests in the Gulf of Mexico and in parts of the western Atlantic were alerted daily of the progress of the hurricane until August\u00a014. Additionally, hurricane warnings were issued by the Weather Bureau for Florida and the Gulf Coast of the United States as the storm approached the western Caribbean, due to the possibility of the storm curving northward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nIn the Windward Islands, Martinique suffered the worst damage. At Fort-de-France, hundreds of homes were unroofed. Streets were covered in roof tiles and impassible due to uprooted trees, which tore up the roads. Several vessels were severely damaged. Additionally, the towns of La Trinit\u00e9, Le Carbet, Le Fran\u00e7ois, Saint-Joseph, and Sainte-Marie \"suffered considerably\". About 5,000\u00a0people were left homeless in the destroyed villages of Fond, Fourniols, La Haye, Recluce, and Tivoli, all established after the eruption of Mount Pel\u00e9e in 1902. Throughout the island, there was extensive damage to crops. Eight deaths were reported, with one in Fort-de-France and seven in La Trinit\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nThe storms severely damaged crops on Dominica, particularly cocoa. After several years of increasing amounts of exported cocoa, there was a decrease of approximately 1.86% in pounds between 1902\u201303 and 1903\u201304. In Puerto Rico, there was high winds and heavy rainfall along the north coast of the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nThe northern shore of Jamaica was devastated, with many ships being washed ashore. There was a storm surge about 20\u00a0ft (6.1\u00a0m) in height at Falmouth. This implies that the storm surge along Jamaica's northern coast may have reached that height. Numerous ships were also wrecked along the coast. Only six homes remained standing at Port Antonio. The hotel, offices, plantations, and wharves owned by the United Fruit Company were nearly destroyed. Additionally, the company's five vessels were beached, including the Alfred Dumois, Brighton, and Simon Dumois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0007-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nIn Port Maria, which was almost obliterated, \"it was impossible to find where streets had been after the storm.\" Homes were destroyed in such a way that \"how anyone escaped alive is a mystery.\" At Manchioneal, all but a few dwellings suffered destruction from the wind or were swept out to sea. The Norwegian steamship Salvatore di Giorgio was swept ashore at Annotto Bay. In the eastern portions of the island, entire villages were demolished, leaving thousands of peasants without shelter or food.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nThousands of homes were damaged in Kingston, while the electrical works building was deroofed, disabling the machinery. Local railroad traffic and streets cars stopped. Waves damaged wharves and capsized several vessels in the harbor. Some areas on the south side of the island were left completely devoid of crops. Although the western areas of Jamaica were not as devastated as other portions of the island, some banana plantations there were partially destroyed and there was a loss to orange and coffee crops. Throughout Jamaica, devastation to the banana crop was \"complete\", forcing many growers into bankruptcy. It was estimated that the fruit trade would be paralyzed for as much as a year. Damage reached $10\u00a0million and there were at least 65\u00a0deaths, while other reports indicate as many as 90\u00a0fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nAt the Cayman Islands, wind gusts reached as high as 110\u2013120\u00a0mph (180\u2013190\u00a0km/h). More than 200\u00a0houses and seven of eight churches on Grand Cayman were destroyed or heavily damaged. In George Town, a number of dwellings were destroyed. Of the 23\u00a0ships in the harbor, only the Governor Blake survived. Most of the crews on board those ships were reported killed but loss of life on shore was minimal. Throughout the islands, all trees and crops were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0009-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nIn Cuba, the hurricane knocked out telegraphic communications in the eastern portions of the island, but the connection to Santiago de Cuba was quickly restored. A number of dwellings were damaged there, some were deroofed, while other homes were reduced to fragments. Pieces of sheet iron also became airborne. East of the city, all small ports received impact from the storm. Cienfuegos was \"ravaged by the storm\", while extensive damage occurred in C\u00e1rdenas and Matanzas. In the outskirts of Havana, thatch houses were blown away. Farther west in Pinar del R\u00edo Province, some crops and small buildings were demolished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nIn the Gulf of Mexico, the British steamship Rosina encountered the hurricane. The storm damaged the pipes and smokestacks, ripped out the ventilator, and washed 30,000\u00a0oranges into the sea. Additionally, a Greek sailor was swept overboard and presumably drowned. The storm sunk or drove many ships ashore along the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. Communications were disrupted in many areas after telegraph lines fell, while a number of roads were left impassible after trees toppled. In the Tampico area, there was considerable damage to the port and many ships being sunk or driven ashore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0010-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nAll of the bridges along Monterey and Mexican Gulf Railroad were destroyed. The roof at the general market was almost completely torn off. Many of the businesses suffered serious losses after rain subsequently poured in the building, with damage reaching at least $4,200 (10,000\u00a0pesos). The chamber of commerce building collapsed with people inside, though no injuries or deaths occurred. Much of the land between Tampico and C\u00e1rdenas in San Luis Potos\u00ed was submerged due to flooding. In Barra, a city in Tamaulipas, the hospital was nearly destroyed, as was the marketplace. In San Luis Potos\u00ed, the casino and restaurant in Tamasopo were demolished. Twenty bridges were destroyed in San Luis Potos\u00ed. Railroad traffic between San Luis Potos\u00ed and Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Le\u00f3n, was completely disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Impact\nOverall, the storm is believed to have killed between 149 and 188\u00a0people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Aftermath\nAfter the storm, thousands in Jamaica were left destitute, without food or shelter. Committees were formed in each parish affected to assess the damage, with Governor Augustus Hemming later visiting the areas of destruction. On September\u00a017, the Parliament of Jamaica passed the Hurricane Loans Law, which provided low interest loans to planters impacted by the storm. The Secretary of State of Jamaica authorized just over $241,000 (50,000\u00a0\u00a3) to be used for the loans. A total of 2,983\u00a0people applied for a loan, 1,477\u00a0of whom were granted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034228-0012-0001", "contents": "1903 Jamaica hurricane, Aftermath\nDuring a meeting in Port Antonio, the citizens issued an appeal to Americans for aid, after receiving approval from Governor Hemming. Relief efforts originated both locally and from other British possessions via the West India Committee. The Daily Gleaner newspaper was credited for its efforts in obtaining considerable amounts of food and building materials. Trinidad, then a colony of the United Kingdom, donated almost $5,000 (\u00a31,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034229-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Japanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Japan on 1 March 1903. The Rikken Seiy\u016bkai party remained the largest in the House of Representatives, winning 175 of the 376 seats, but lost its majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034229-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Japanese general election, Electoral system\nThe 376 members of the House of Representatives were elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on prefectures and cities. Voting was restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034230-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1903 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In January 1903, Kansas hired Boss Weeks, who was the quarterback of Fielding H. Yost's 1901 and 1902 \"Point-a-Minute\" teams at Michigan, as its new head coach. In their only season under Weeks, the Jayhawks compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 118 to 39. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Alpha Brumage was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034231-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034232-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1903 Kentucky Derby was the 29th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1903 and offered a purse of $6,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034233-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1903 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034234-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team\nThe 1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team represented Kentucky University, today known as Transylvania University, during the 1903 college football season. The team claimed a championship of the south. Nash Buckingham rated Kentucky University and Vanderbilt as best in the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034234-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team\nA game with Purdue was scheduled; derailed by the Purdue Wreck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034234-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team\nFormer Yale quarterback John de Saulles credited end Lois Thompson as playing \"a better end than any man in the South.\" Later Lexington mayor Hogan Yancey was a star fullback on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034234-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team, Season summary, Week 7: Indiana\nKentucky University defeated the Indiana Hoosiers 18 to 5. Zora Clevenger scored Indiana's lone touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034234-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team, Season summary, Week 7: Indiana\nThe starting lineup for Kentucky University against Indiana: Simpson (left end), Woodard (left tackle), Ware (left guard), Miller (center), Kelly (right guard), Wallace (right tackle), Thompson (right end), Pyle (quarterback), Cantrill (left halfback), H. Yancey (right halfback), Knight (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 80], "content_span": [81, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034234-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team, Season summary, Week 8: vs. Kentucky State\nA fear of riots plagued this contest ever since their second-team played Kentucky State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034235-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nThe 1903 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1903. Incumbent Democrat J. C. W. Beckham defeated Republican nominee Morris B. Belknap with 52.12% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034236-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1903 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 15th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034236-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 29 May 1904, Threecastles won the championship after a 2-10 to 0-05 defeat of Kilmanagh in the first final replay. This was their second championship title overall and their first title in five championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034237-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Kirksville Osteopath football team\nThe 1903 Kirksville Osteopath football team was an American football team that represented the American School of Osteopathy, now known as A.T. Still University, in the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034238-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1903 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU of Louisiana State University during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. 1903 was W. S. Borland's third and final season as LSU head coach as he finished 4\u20135 for the season (15\u20137 in all three years as head coach). The 1903 season broke the previous season's record for most games played (seven) with nine games. The Tigers played four home games; three in Baton Rouge and one in New Orleans, but were on the road the rest of the season. For the 1903 season, point values were different from those used in contemporary games. In 1903 a touchdown was worth five points, a field goal was worth five points and a conversion (PAT) was worth one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034239-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Lafayette football team\nThe 1903 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled a 7\u20133 record. John Ernst was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034240-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Lake Forest Foresters football team\nThe 1903 Lake Forest football team was an American football team that represented Lake Forest College in the 1903 college football season. In Clarence Herschberger's 2nd season as head coach, the foresers compiled a 6\u20131 record, and outscored their opponents 103 to 67. Lake Forest's only loss was against a Notre Dame team that had successfully executed an undefeated and unscored upon season, compiling an 8\u20130\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 291 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034241-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1903 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their eighth season in existence. It was a low profile season for Latrobe. The team finished 9-0. Latrobe laid claim to the western Pennsylvania championship after the undefeated season. However, the Franklin Athletic Club was generally considered the 1903 U.S. Pro Football Champions, even though they had refused to play Latrobe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034242-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Lehigh Brown and White football team\nThe 1903 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its second season under head coach Samuel B. Newton, the team compiled a 9\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 331 to 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034243-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Lewisham by-election\nThe Lewisham by-election, 1903 was a by-election held on 15 December 1903 for the British House of Commons constituency of Lewisham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034243-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Lewisham by-election\nThe by-election was triggered by the death of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), John Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034243-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Lewisham by-election\nThe Unionist candidate was Major Edward Coates. The Liberal Party candidate was James William Cleland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034243-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Lewisham by-election\nAs with the Dulwich by-election held on the same day, the main issue was tariff reform and Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for Imperial Preference. A factor which made the result of the by election difficult to predict was that the seat had not been contested since 1892 and in that time the population had doubled in size. The additional residents, according to the Times, were mainly \"City men, with comparatively small incomes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034243-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Lewisham by-election\nIn the event, the result was a comfortable win for the Unionist candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034244-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia in 1903. In the presidential election Arthur Barclay of the True Whig Party was elected. He defeated former President William D. Coleman, who ran on the People's Party ticket. Barclay took office on 4 January 1904", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Monday 2 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election\nWavertree West was a new ward with 1 seat elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election\nAll three seats in each of the Wavertree and West Derby wards were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election\nThis was the first Liverpool City Council election that the Liverpool Protestant Party took part. Protestant candidates stood in four wards, Breckfield, Garston, Kirkdale and St. Domingo. Three of these wards, Garston, Kirkdale and St. Domingo returned Protestant councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election\nOf the 38 seats up for election, 14 were not contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, Election result\nIn view of the significant number of uncontested seats (14 of 38), these statistics should be taken in that context.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1900 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nThe Council (Councillors and Aldermen) elected Councillor William Edward Willink (Conservative, Prince's Park, elected 1 November 1901) as an Alderman for the new ward of Wavertree West on 9 November 1903", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nCouncillor Jacob Reuben Grant (Conservative, Walton, elected 1 November 1901) was elected by the Council as an alderman for the new ward of Old Swan on 9 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 3A Walton, 19 November 1903\nCaused by the election by the Council of Councillor Jacob Reuben Grant (Conservative, Walton, elected 1 November 1901) as an alderman for the new ward of Old Swan on 9 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 29 Aigburth, 19 November 1903\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Arthur Twiss Kemble (Conservative, Aigburth, elected unopposed 1 November 1902) which was reported to the Council on 9 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 23 Prince's Park, 24 November 1903\nCaused by the election by the Council of Councillor William Edward Willink (Conservative, Prince's Park, elected 1 November 1901) as an Alderman on 9 November 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 90], "content_span": [91, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 11 Kensington, 16 December 1903\nCaused by the election to Alderman of Councillor Edward Burns (Conservative, Kensington, elected 2 November 1903).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 18 Castle Street, 16 December 1903\nCaused by the election as alderman of Councillor John Lawrence (Conservative, Castle Street, elected 1 November 1902)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 90], "content_span": [91, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 21 Abercomby, 19 January 1904\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Dr. Charles Alexander Hill (Conservative, Abercromby, elected 2 November 1903) was reported to the Council on 6 January 1904", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 3A Walton, 26 February 1904\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor John Brunswick (Conservative, Walton, elected 2 November 1903) which was reported to the Council on 10 February 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 29 Aigburth, 26 February 1904\nCaused by the election as an alderman of Councillor Robert Alfred Hampson (Conservative, Aigburth, elected 19 November 1903)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 17 St. Anne's, 17 May 1904\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Julius Jacobs (Conservative, St. Anne's, elected 1 November 1902).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 17 St. Anne's, 17 May 1904\nThe term of office to expire on 1 November 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 6 Breckfield, 26 May 1904\nCaused by Councillor John Duncan (Conservative, Breckfield. elected 2 November 1903) being elected as an alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0020-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 6 Breckfield, 26 May 1904\nThe term of office to expire on 1 November 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0021-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 9 Everton, 15 June 1904\nFollowing the death of Alderman John Lawrence, Councillor William Oulton (Liberal Unionist, Everton, elected 1 November 1901) was elected as an alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0022-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 16 Exchange, 6 October 1904\nCouncillor Alexander Allan Paton (Liberal, Exchange, elected 15 June 1903) died 8 September 1903", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034245-0023-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 28A Old Swan, 18 October 1904\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Thomas Utley (Liberal, West Derby, elected 1 November 1902), which was reported to the Council on 5 October 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034246-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Liverpool West Derby by-election\nThe 1903 Liverpool West Derby by-election was held on 20 January 1903 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP Samuel Wasse Higginbottom. It was retained by the Conservative candidate Watson Rutherford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034247-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Livingstone football team\nThe 1903 Livingstone football team represented Livingstone College in the 1903 college football season as an independent. Results may be incomplete, but Livingstone played in at least three games, winning each. An article by The Charlotte Observer stated that \"Livingstone has defeated all comers this year, and claims the championship of the colored colleges of the state.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season\nThe 1903 Los Angeles Angels season was part of the first season of the Pacific Coast League (PCL). The Los Angeles Angels had begun play in 1901 in the California League, joined the new league upon its inception, and won the first PCL pennant with a 133\u201378 record. Los Angeles won its first 15 games of the season and was never out of first place. They were the only team in the league to finish above .500. The team, frequently referred to as the Loo-Loos in its early years, played its home games at Chutes Park, an amusement park south of downtown Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season\nIn 2003, the 1903 Angels were selected by a panel of minor league experts as the fifth best team in the PCL's 100-year history. The team was also selected by Minor League Baseball as the 29th best team in minor league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nFrank Dillon was the team's manager and first baseman. He compiled a .364 batting average and led the PCL with 274 hits. The Angels' lead over its PCL opponents was so large that Dillon was able to leave the team late in August to be married and enjoy a honeymoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nCenter fielder Dummy Hoy, at age 41, appeared in every game for the Angels and led the PCL with 157 runs scored. He was the most accomplished deaf player in baseball history, having played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1889 to 1902. Hoy set major league records for career putouts (3,958) and total chances (4,625) by an outfielder. After the 1903 season, he retired from professional baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nRight fielder Gavvy Cravath, at age 22, led the team with seven home runs. Cravath remained with the Angels through the 1907 season, then played 11 seasons in the majors, leading the National League in home runs six times between 1913 and 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nSecond baseman George Wheeler appeared in 198 games, including 12 games a pitcher in which he compiled an 8\u20131 win\u2013loss record and team-best 1.92 earned run average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nThird baseman Jud Smith led the PCL in both assists and total chances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Pitchers\nPitcher Joe Corbett, the younger brother of world heavyweight boxing champion James J. Corbett, won 23 games and led the PCL with 150 strikeouts and eight shutouts. Corbett also appeared as an infielder and outfielder and was the team's second best hitter with a .336 batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Pitchers\nTwo pitchers won at least 30 games: Doc Newton (34\u201312) and Warren \"Rusty\" Hall (32\u201319). Newton had played in the majors from 1900 to 1902 and threw the first no-hitter in PCL history on November 8, 1903. The only two hitters to reach first base did so on fielding errors. Hall was a workhorse who appeared in 53 games and pitched 468 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; AVG = Batting average; HR = Home runs; SLG = Slugging percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034248-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Los Angeles Angels season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Winning percentage; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034249-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1903 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as Louisiana Tech University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach W. M. Robb, the team compiled a 1\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034250-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Ludlow by-election\nThe Ludlow by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034250-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Ludlow by-election, Vacancy\nRobert Jasper More had been Liberal Unionist MP for the seat of Ludlow since the 1892 General Election. He died on 25 November 1903 at the age of 67.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034250-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Ludlow by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Liberal Unionist since they gained it in 1886. They held the seat at the last election, unopposed. The last occasion a Liberal had stood was in 1892 when the Unionists won easily;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034250-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Ludlow by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 22 December, just 27 days after the previous MP died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034251-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1903 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 16 through October 13, 1903. The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Americans were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Americans then defeated the Pirates in the first modern World Series, five games to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034251-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Major League Baseball season\nThe original Baltimore Orioles relocated to New York City and became the New York Highlanders; it was the last relocation of a major league franchise until 1953. The Chicago Orphans were renamed as the Chicago Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034251-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Major League Baseball season, \"Battle of Ohio\"\nThe Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Naps played an unofficial best of 11-game exhibition series after the regular season, with Cleveland winning the series six games to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034251-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Major League Baseball season, League Leaders\nNote: AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Walks; SO = Strike outs; SB = Stolen bases; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; CG = Complete games; SH = Shutouts; IP = Innings pitched; K = Strike outs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034252-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Manitoba general election\nThe 1903 Manitoba general election was held on July 20, 1903 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034252-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Manitoba general election\nThe result was a second consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, now led by Premier Rodmond Roblin. Roblin's electoral machine won a landslide thirty-two seats, while the opposition Manitoba Liberal Party under former premier Thomas Greenway won only eight. The Winnipeg Labour Party also contested two constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034253-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Manzikert earthquake\nThe 1903 Manzikert earthquake struck Manzikert of nowadays Mu\u015f Province in eastern Turkey on 28 April. Registering a surface wave magnitude of 7.0, the earthquake originated from a highly active seismic zone. It killed 3,500 people and 20,000 animals, destroyed 12,000 homes, and is now listed among Turkey's deadliest earthquakes in recorded history. To this day, Turkey is threatened by major earthquakes \u2013 more than 100 earthquakes over 7.0 have taken place in the country's known history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034253-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Manzikert earthquake, Geology\nThe country of Turkey is situated on a highly active section of the Eurasian Plate boundary. The country is mainly mountainous, approximately 85 percent of the country is at an elevation of 450\u00a0m (1,476\u00a0ft) or more. The entire country lies within a zone of active deformation known as the Alpide belt. This zone of continental collision reaches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Himalaya Mountains and beyond; dating back to the Paleogene period. It has formed due to convergent movement between the Arabian, African, and Indian continental plates and the Eurasian plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034253-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Manzikert earthquake, Geology\nThe Anatolian Plate is currently being squeezed out to the west by the ongoing collision between the Arabian plate and the Eurasian Plate, bounded to the southeast by the East Anatolian Fault and to the north by the North Anatolian Fault. To the east of the junction of these two faults, the Arabian Plate is in direct collision with the Eurasian Plate. This area is characterised by thrust faulting and was the area in which the 1903 event occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034253-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Manzikert earthquake, Damage and casualties\nAmong the world's deadliest earthquakes, the earthquake caused 3,500 direct fatalities. 12,000 homes were devastated. 20,000 animals (other than humans) were killed in the epicentral region of Manzikert-Patnos. Damage to a lesser extent reached Erzurum and Bitlis. On August 6, additional damage took place and people were injured when an aftershock rocked the same region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034253-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Manzikert earthquake, Threat\nMajor earthquakes have taken place in the region as early as 411 B.C. In the 20th century, 58 major destructive earthquakes took place \u2013 in total, they have killed more than 100,000 people, injured 150,000, and desolated approximately 420,000 homes and buildings. More than 100 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater have taken place in the country historically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034254-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1903 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1903 college football season. Marshall posted a 3\u20131\u20131 record, outscoring its opposition 37\u201325. Home games were played on a campus field called \"Central Field\" which is presently Campus Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034255-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1903 college football season. In their second season under head coach D. John Markey, the Aggies compiled a 7\u20134 record and outscored their opponents, 104 to 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034256-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Maryland gubernatorial election\nThe 1903 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034256-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Maryland gubernatorial election\nDemocratic candidate Edwin Warfield defeated Republican candidate Stevenson A. Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034257-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1903 college football season. The team was coached by James Halligan and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1903 season was Halligan's last as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034258-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1903 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1903. Incumbent Republican Governor John L. Bates was re-elected to a second term, defeating Democratic nominee William A. Gaston and Socialist John C. Chase in a rematch of the 1902 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034258-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Massachusetts-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034259-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 124th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1903 during the governorship of John L. Bates. George R. Jones served as president of the Senate and James J. Myers served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034260-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Massillon Tigers season\nThe 1903 Massillon Tigers football season was their first season in existence. The team finished with a record of 8\u20131 and won the Ohio League championship. The Tigers began as an amateur team, however after their roster was decimated by injuries, the team paid several professional football players from western Pennsylvania to play for them against the Akron East Ends for the championship game. The Tigers would remain a professional team for the rest of their existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034261-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Memphis Egyptians season\nThe 1903 Memphis Egyptians season represented the Memphis Egyptians baseball team in the Southern Association and won their first league pennant. The team played its games at Russwood Park. The team was managed by Charlie Frank. The Egyptians were led by pitcher Harry McIntire. Perry Werden led the league in home runs with 8. The team also included pitcher Ted Breitenstein. Both Frank and Breitenstein left for New Orleans next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034261-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Memphis Egyptians season\nFrank was accused of inducing Atlanta to throw the final series with Memphis. After the season Little Rock defeated Memphis 3 games to 2 in a best of 5 series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034262-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Mercer Baptists football team\nThe 1903 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University in the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They finished with a record of 0\u20131 and were defeated 0\u201346 in their only contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034263-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Mercer Bears baseball team\nThe 1903 Mercer Bears baseball team represented the Mercer Bears in the 1903 college baseball season. The team was coached by Cy Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season\nThe 1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 30th season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. It was the fourth season run for clubs that represented a district. Eight clubs (seven representing a district, the remaining club representing Sydney University) competed from May till August 1903. The season culminated in the fourth district premiership, which was won by Eastern Suburbs. Eastern Suburbs were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nEight clubs contested the season; seven clubs representing a district and one club representing Sydney University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 23 March 1900Ground: North Sydney OvalCaptain: Jack O'Donnell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe success of Eastern Suburbs in the 1903 Sydney Rugby Premiership was popular with the football public. This was mostly due to the fact that the club were first-time winners and played the game in a sporting fashion. The team displayed excellent defence, letting in only eight tries during the season. Eastern Suburbs opened the season by defeating Glebe by 4 points to 3, and that victory proved a highly important one to both teams, as, at the close, there was one competition point between them. From start to finish of the season, Eastern Suburbs either held the leading position or shared the lead with another club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nGlebe, who finished second, were the only team who scored at least one try in every match. The club finished strongly by winning the last 6 rounds of the season. As a pack they were superior to that of any other team, excepting Eastern Suburbs. At no time did they equal the best of their form in other seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAfter a bit of a slow start to the season, Newtown began to display outstanding brilliance in attack. This led them to move quickly up the ladder and finish the season in a strong third place. Newtown were the most brilliant all-round team in the competition, yet lacked that solidity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nAt the conclusion of the season, the Rugby world saw the shock death of another of their players. Wallace Millican, three-quarter for Newtown, died of blood poisoning on 30 August after spending most of the week confined to his bed. Millican was 21 years old and hugely popular amongst the Newtown followers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades\nThe MRFU also conducted Second Grade and Boroughs competitions this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Second Grade\nTen teams participated in the Second Grade competition: the eight First Grade clubs entered a team each, in addition two Boroughs clubs, Willoughby and Manly, were permitted to each enter a team. The season concluded with Newtown undefeated at the top of the table by a margin of 8 points. They were therefore declared premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034264-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Boroughs Competition\nSeventeen teams participated in the Boroughs Competition. The teams were split into two divisions of nine teams. In Division A was North Sydney, Willoughby, Mosman, Manly, East Sydney, Surrey Hills, Redfern, Balmain and Gipps. In Division B was Newtown, University, Waterloo, Rockdale, Glebe, Annandale, Leichhardt and Ashfield. At the end of the regular games, North Sydney finished at the top of Division A and Glebe finished at the top of Division B. The final saw Gipps beat Balmain 11 points to 6 to take the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034265-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1903 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1903 college football season. Under head coach Peter McPherson, Miami compiled a 1\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034266-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1903 college football season. In their first year under head coach Chester Brewer, the Aggies compiled a 6\u20131\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 178 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034267-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1903 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Hunter Forest, the Normalites compiled a record of 4\u20134 and were outscored by a combined total of 88 to 78. Guy E. Bates was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1903 college football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines played their home games at Regents Field. The 1903 team compiled a record of 11\u20130\u20131 and outscored opponents 565 to 6. The only points allowed came on a touchdown in a 6\u20136 tie with Minnesota. All eleven wins were shutouts. The 1903 Michigan team was the third of Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams and has been recognized retrospectively as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe team captain was Curtis Redden, and the high scorer was fullback Tom Hammond who scored 163 points. Halfback Willie Heston was the only member of the team selected as a first-team All-American, receiving the honor from both Walter Camp in Collier's Weekly and Caspar Whitney in Outing magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season, Controversy\nBefore the start of the 1903 season, Michigan became involved in controversy over amateurism in college football. In April 1903, David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford University, accused Michigan coach Fielding Yost of sinning against the spirit of amateur athletics. Jordan's accusations focused on two players, George W. Gregory and Willie Heston, both of whom had come to Michigan from California with Coach Yost in 1901. The Detroit Free Press reported in early September 1903 that the two might opt not to return to the University of Michigan when classes resumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season, Controversy\nA report issued by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in April 1903 advocated stricter regulation to protect the amateur nature of the games. Although the report contained only passing references to the University of Michigan, the Chicago Record-Herald devoted much of its coverage to attacks on amateurism at the University of Michigan. The Michigan Alumnus expressed concern that football posed a danger \"to the minds and morals of the players and their fellow-students.\" It published an open letter to Coach Yost on the evils of recruiting in college football. The open letter advocated the adoption of a one-year residency rule requiring a year of satisfactory scholarship for all players on college teams. Professor Albert Pattengill, chairman of Michigan's Board of Control of Athletics, defended Yost:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season, Controversy\n\"In justice to Mr. Yost it must be said that the greatest sin we can lay at his door is that for two seasons he has led Michigan's team to victory. He is a man of good personal habits, and enthusiastic in his work. He exercises a wholesome influence over the young men under him. . . . We have made many inquiries, and have not heard from any sources anything to give cause for uneasiness. . . .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season, Training camp and pre-season expectations\nAlthough Michigan's football training camp had previously been held at Whitmore Lake, Yost moved the team's pre-season camp to the Epworth Hotel in Epworth Heights, a summer resort located three miles from Ludington, Michigan. Yost hoped that the northern location would allow the team to practice away from the September heat. Training camp opened on September 14, 1903, and was attended by 25 players, Yost, and trainer Keene Fitzpatrick. While in Ludington, the Michigan players played a baseball game against the local team and attended a dance at the Stearns Hotel in downtown Ludington. The locals were surprised when the guests of honor left the dance at 10:05\u00a0pm, under orders from Keene Fitzpatrick. The squad returned to Ann Arbor on September 26 and joined a separate body of recruits training under the direction of assistant coach Dan McGugin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 950]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season, Training camp and pre-season expectations\nAt the start of the 1903 season, there were concerns about the team's lack of experience. Most of the starters from the 1902 team had been lost, including the team's two leading scorers (Albert E. Herrnstein and James E. Lawrence), its starting quarterback (Boss Weeks), and four of the starting linemen (Everett Sweeley, Dan McGugin, \"King\" Cole, and \"Babe\" Carter). Adding to the problems, the 1902 team's starting fullback (Paul Jones) suffered a nearly deadly attack of typhoid fever in early 1903 and was unable to return to the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season, Training camp and pre-season expectations\nThe most promising new players on the 1903 squad included Joe Curtis, a 212-pounder from Pueblo, Colorado, Tom Hammond, a fullback from Hyde Park, Illinois, and John Garrels, a speedster from Detroit who went on to win the silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles at the 1908 Summer Olympics. With only eight veterans returning team captain Curtis Redden wrote that \"[n]o season in the history of Michigan football has opened with a gloomier outlook\" than that of 1903. The Michigan Alumnus opined that a repetition of the extraordinary scores of 1902 was too much to expect, but expressed hope that the 1903 team would be able to \"cope honorably\" with its \"most dreaded rivals,\" Chicago and Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 93], "content_span": [94, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 31, Case 0\nThe season opener was played on October 3, 1903, in weather that was described as \"excessively warm for football.\" The game was played in 20-minute halves and matched Michigan against Case Scientific School. Willie Heston scored three touchdowns in the game, including one on a 45-yard run. Tom Hammond also scored two touchdowns, and Hal Weeks scored after substituting for Heston at left halfback in the second half. Michigan converted only one of six point after touchdown attempts, and the team's punting and goal-kicking were described as \"sad failures.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 76, Albion 0\nThe second game of the 1903 season was played on Thursday, October 8, against Albion College. In a game that consisted of 27-1/2 minutes (first half of 20 minutes, second half of 7-1/2 minutes), Michigan scored 76 points. The Wolverines failed to score on only one drive, and were stopped inside Albion's five-yard line on that drive. Albion converted only two first downs in the game. Tom Hammond led the scoring with 35 points on five touchdowns and 10 successful point after touchdown kicks. Willie Heston added three touchdowns, and single touchdowns were added by Herb Graver, Roswell Wendell, Fred Norcross, and Rolla Bigelow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 79, Beloit 0\nTwo days after the Albion game, Michigan faced Beloit. In 45 minutes of football (first half of 25 minutes, second half of 20 minutes), Michigan scored 79 points. The Michigan Alumnus praised the team effort on offense and singled out Gooding who \"once carried Heston over the line for a touchdown.\" Curtis Redden was also praised for his blocking and for his clever play in recovering and returning a Beloit fumble in the second half. Willie Heston and Fred Norcross led the scoring with five and three touchdowns, respectively. The Michigan Alumnus noted, \"Time after time Heston and Norcross, aided by good blocking, sprinted long distances for touchdowns.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 79, Beloit 0\nThrough the first three games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 186 points in \u200b112\u00a01\u20442 minutes of play. The Detroit Free Press noted that Yost's team narrowly missed averaging two points per minute against Beloit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 65, Ohio Normal 0\nOn Wednesday, October 14, 1903, Michigan played Ohio Normal from Ada, Ohio. In 34 minutes of football (first half of 20 minutes, second half of 14 minutes), Michigan scored 65 points. Duncan Thompson, starting at the right halfback position, led the scoring with four touchdowns. The \"most stirring\" play of the game was a 75-yard touchdown run \"through the whole Ohio team\" by Fred Norcross. Ohio Normal's longest gain was a seven-yard run. The Michigan Alumnus noted that the Wolverines' play was \"at times over-zealous and severe penalties for foul interference and off-side resulted.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 65, Ohio Normal 0\nThrough the first four games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 251 points in \u200b146\u00a01\u20442 minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 51, Indiana 0\nThree days after its mid-week contest against Ohio Normal, the Wolverines played Indiana on October 17, 1901. In the season's first full-length game (two halves of 25 minutes), Michigan outscored Indiana 51 to 0. Despite the lopsided score, The Michigan Alumnus complained that certain features of the team's play were \"most unsatisfactory,\" including fumbles and a lack of versatility in the team's offensive play. Curtis Redden was credited with the \"prettiest run of the day\" for recovering a half-blocked punt and returning it 65 yards for Michigan's third touchdown. Tom Hammond scored 21 points in the game on two touchdowns, 6 point after touchdown kicks, and a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 51, Indiana 0\nThrough the first five games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 302 points in \u200b196\u00a01\u20442 minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 88, Ferris Institute 0\nIn another mid-week game, Michigan defeated the team from the Ferris Institute in Big Rapids, Michigan, by a score of 88 to 0. The Wolverines added to their \"Point-a-Minute\" margin by scoring 88 points in only 30 minutes of play (first half of 20 minutes, second half of 10 minutes). The Ferris team was held to an \"aggregate of gains\" of only eight yards. The Michigan Alumnus described the game as a mismatch: \"The visitors were hopelessly outclassed in weight and experience, but under these trying conditions did the best they could.\" Willie Heston did not play in the game, and Tom Hammond was the leading scorer for the second consecutive week with 23 points on three touchdowns and eight point after touchdown kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 87], "content_span": [88, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 88, Ferris Institute 0\nThrough the first six games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 390 points in \u200b226\u00a01\u20442 minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 87], "content_span": [88, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 47, Drake 0\nMichigan's game against Drake on October 24, 1903, was described at the time as \"the most exciting contest seen on Ferry Field this year.\" With Willie Heston was on the sidelines, the Wolverines failed to score a point-a-minute for the first time in 1903, scoring 47 points in 55 minutes of play (first half of 30 minutes, second half of 25 minutes). In the first half, Drake held Michigan to only 18 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0018-0001", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 47, Drake 0\nDrake came close to scoring the first points of the year against Michigan after its fullback, Kintz, ran for 25 yards, and an off-side penalty (resulting in a 20-yard penalty) brought the ball within reach of Michigan's goal. Drake's left guard, Stewart, attempted a field goal, but missed by \"the narrowest of margins.\" Right tackle Joe Maddock led the scoring with three touchdowns in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 47, Drake 0\nThrough the first seven games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 437 points in \u200b281\u00a01\u20442 minutes of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0020-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nThe eighth game of the season matched Michigan against Minnesota in a game played at Northrop Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The New York Times reported that the match, \"one of the most desperate football games seen in the West in years,\" was witnessed by \"fully 30,000 spectators.\" The game ended in a 6\u20136 tie, the first time in the Yost era that Michigan had not achieved a victory. During the first half, Minnesota outgained Michigan 155 yards to 60 yards. The Michigan defense held, and the first half ended in a scoreless tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0021-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nWith 15 minutes remaining in the game, Michigan sustained a 65-yard drive culminating with a touchdown by right tackle Joe Maddock. On the drive that followed, the Michigan line was \"unable to sustain Schacht's fierce line smashes,\" and Minnesota tied the game with a touchdown run by its fullback, Boeckmann, and Rogers kicked the point after touchdown. Although approximately two minutes remained in the game, Minnesota fans surged onto the field, and the game had to be ended early. The Detroit Free Press described the scene as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0022-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\n\"Time was not up by a few minutes, but the crowd surged onto the field and time was called, as it would have been impossible to have cleared the gridiron in time to resume play before daylight had faded entirely away.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0023-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nWhen the Michigan team returned to Ann Arbor on November 1, the players were greeted by a crowd of 5,000 singing and yelling at the depot. The crowd attached ropes to a bus and towed the team to campus while continuing with organized songs and yells. At a rally near the law building, Willie Heston told the crowd that the Minnesota players were \"the roughest lot of sluggers I ever went up against.\" Heston's right eye was nearly swollen shut, and his nose bore \"marks of terrific smashes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0023-0001", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nJoe Maddock added, \"I don't know how many times I was hit and kicked, but I think I got at least twenty blows on the back of my neck.\" The Michigan Alumnus complained about \"the unsportsmanlike spirit\" manifested by some Minnesota players and opined that the Minnesota fans who surged onto the field had responded to \"an impulse which does more credit to their enthusiasm than their love of fair play.\" The Detroit Free Press condemned \"the muckerish tactics of the crowd and the pugilistic efforts of the Gophers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0023-0002", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nSeveral in attendance reported that Minnesota assistant coach Pudge Heffelfinger had been heard yelling from the sidelines, \"Kill off Heston in the first ten minutes, or you'll lose.\" The crowd reportedly picked up the comment and responded with the yell, \"Kill off Heston.\" The game's umpire, Henry Clark, was selected by Minnesota, and he came under heavy criticism from Michigan loyalists for failing to call Minnesota for its rough play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0024-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nThe Minnesota game generated gross gate receipts of $30,933.50. After deducting expenses, Michigan's share was $13,000. Yost defended his team's performance upon his return to Ann Arbor. Pulling a criss-crossed chart from his pocket, Yost walked through the progress of the game with reporters. Even though Minnesota outgained Michigan in the first half, Yost said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0025-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\n\"Why, they never had the ball inside our 30-yard line but once during the first half, and it was just inside at that time. The goal was never in danger because our boys played a scientific defensive game and kept the ball in the air part of the time, where it belonged. We had good headwork as well as beef, and I do not think it is fair to Michigan to say that she was outplayed in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0025-0001", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nThe touchdown the Minnesota boys made was made after dark, when nobody could see the ball, and of course that prevented us from stopping them. Also, the field was crowned. I am confident, however, that we have the better team. That man Gooding and Heston played a wonderful game, and all the boys did, for that matter. I have no fault to find with anyone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0026-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6\nThrough the first eight games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 443 points and had played between 329 and 349 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0027-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6, Little Brown Jug\nThe 1903 game against Minnesota also gave rise to the tradition of the two teams' playing for the Little Brown Jug. When the Michigan team arrived in Minneapolis, Yost reportedly instructed student manager Thomas B. Roberts to purchase a water jug. Roberts purchased a five-gallon jug for 30\u00a2 from a local variety store. In the chaos that ensued when the Minnesota crowd rushed onto the field, the Wolverines left the jug behind. Thomas Roberts, writing in 1956, stated that the jug had served its purpose, so he intentionally left it sitting on the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 97], "content_span": [98, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0027-0001", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 6, Minnesota 6, Little Brown Jug\nThe next day, custodian Oscar Munson brought the jug to L. J. Cooke, head of the Minnesota athletics department. Cooke and Munson painted the jug brown and wrote on it, \"Michigan Jug \u2013 Captured by Oscar, October 31, 1903.\" According to legend, Yost sent a letter asking for the jug to be returned, and Cooke wrote in response: \"We have your little brown jug; if you want it, you'll have to win it.\" Yost returned with his team in 1909 to reclaim the jug, and the two teams have awarded the jug to the winner of their annual rivalry game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 97], "content_span": [98, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0028-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 36, Ohio State 0\nAfter suffering its first setback since the 1900 season, Michigan returned to Ann Arbor for a November 7 game against Ohio State. The Wolverines defeated the Buckeyes 36 to 0. On the opening drive, Herb Graver had runs of 30 and 20 yards, the latter resulting in the game's first touchdown. Within the game's first five minutes, Michigan had scored its second touchdown. Graver scored Michigan's third touchdown on a 30-yard run, but the Ohio State defense grew more stubborn. The first half ended with a score of 36 to 0. The Michigan Alumnus credited Gregory's work on the line and long runs by Herb Graver with Michigan's edge in the first half. Graver led the Michigan scoring with five first half touchdowns, good for 25 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0029-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 36, Ohio State 0\nMichigan drove to the Ohio State five-yard line on the opening drive of the second half, but lost the ball on a fumble. Later in the second half, Jones of Ohio recovered a fumble by Fred Norcross, and ran the ball over a clear field toward the Michigan goal. Curtis Redden caught up with Jones and tackled him at Michigan's 20-yard line. ' \"The Michigan Alumnus\" cited Redden as having on several occasions been \"the one saving element in Michigan's defense.\" No points were scored by either team in the second half, as \"the men from Columbus played the Varsity to a standstill.\" The game consisted of 55 minutes of playing time \u2013 a 30-minute first half and a 25-minute second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0030-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 36, Ohio State 0\nThrough the first nine games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 479 points and had played between 386 and 406 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0031-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 16, Wisconsin 0\nOn November 14, 1903, Michigan played Wisconsin in a game starting at 2:00\u00a0pm on Ferry Field. Michigan won the game, played in 35-minute halves, by a score of 16 to 0. The New York Times called it \"one of the cleanest football games every played here.\" Although Michigan outgained Wisconsin 165 yards to 55 yards and kept the ball \"almost constantly in Wisconsin's territory,\" the first half ended in a scoreless tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0032-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 16, Wisconsin 0\nMichigan continued to have difficulty reaching Wisconsin's goal in the second half and relied on Tom Hammond to kick two field goals, good for five points each under 1903 rules. Hammond's first field goal came on a place-kick from the 24-yard line. The snap to James was high, but he placed it accurately and \"Hammond made as beautiful a field goal as was ever seen on any grounds.\" Hammond's final field goal came on \"a marvelous place-kick from Wisconsin's 45-yard line.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0032-0001", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 16, Wisconsin 0\nHerb Graver accounted for Michigan's only long runs, and the sole touchdown was scored by Joe Maddock on a \"mass play\" from the five-yard line. The Michigan Alumnus noted that the game was marked by \"thorough sportsmanship\" and played in \"propitious weather\" in front of a crowd of approximately 8,0000 estimated to be the second largest ever assembled at Ferry Field. The Alumnus also offered the following comparison with Yost's 1902 team: \"It was the impression of many alumni who were for the first time viewing the men in action, that in speed and certainly the team's offensive play fell somewhat below the standard of last years' eleven.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0033-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 16, Wisconsin 0\nThrough the first ten games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 495 points and had played between 456 and 476 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0034-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 42, Oberlin 0\nMichigan played its final home game against Oberlin College. Michigan's starting backfield did not play in the game in order to avoid injuries prior to the Chicago game. In 45 minutes of playing time (first half of 25 minutes, second half of 20 minutes), Michigan scored 42 points. Wolfe, from Hyde Park, Illinois, made his first appearance for Michigan and was credited with the longest run of the game, 25 yards. Joe Curtis led the scoring with 16 points on three touchdowns and a point after touchdown kick. Tom Hammond missed three kicks for field goals. Oberlin had only two first downs in the game. University of Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg attended the game and opined afterward that he picked Michigan as a slight favorite against his own team on Thanksgiving Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0035-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 42, Oberlin 0\nThrough the first 11 games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 537 points and had played between 501 and 521 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0036-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nMichigan concluded the 1903 season with its traditional rivalry game in Chicago against Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons. The New York Times reported that the game was attended by a record-setting crowd: \"All records for attendance were broken, fully 20,000 enthusiastic spectators braving a heavy snowfall to see the game.\" Another account placed the attendance at 15,000. The Michigan Alumnus noted that Michigan men regarded Chicago as \"their dearest rival,\" and the Thanksgiving Day game at Marshall Field marked the culmination of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0037-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nA blizzard threatened cancellation of the game, but the snow stopped suddenly and the wind died down in the early afternoon. The game was commenced at 2:00\u00a0pm after seven or eight inches of snow were cleared from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0038-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nStagg's 1903 team featured three future College Football Hall of Fame inductees: Walter Eckersall at quarterback, Hugo Bezdek at right halfback, and Tiny Maxwell at right tackle. All-American Frederick A. Speik also played at left end for the 1903 Maroons. The two teams were expected to be evenly matched, but the game, played on a snowy and slippery field, proved to be one-sided. Chicago was handicapped by the illness of Coach Stagg who directed the game from a closed carriage where he lay \"bundled up in blankets.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0039-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nMichigan scored on every drive in the first half, save one, and Chicago made only one first down in the first half. Eckersall's defensive play was praised in accounts of the game, though, on one play, Willie Heston eluded Eckersall \"by a well-timed hurdle\" for a 20-yard gain. Heston scored two touchdowns, but Tom Hammond was the leading scorer with 13 points on two field goals (five points each) and three point after touchdown kicks. The game was played in halves of 35 and 20 minutes, with the second half being cut short to avoid playing after darkness had fallen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0040-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nWalter Camp attended the game, watching from the sidelines. Camp offered the following comments:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0041-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\n\"The helping of the men on the Michigan team was high-grade football. Their work at helping the man with the ball was as good as that displayed in any game I have seen this season. This is the first western game I have witnessed this year. I was particularly impressed with the work of Heston as a halfback.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0042-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nThe Chicago Daily Tribune opened its game coverage, \"The premature blizzard which descended on Chicago yesterday made it anything but an ideal football day, but that driving snow storm was gentleness itself compared to what was in store for Chicago's two football elevens.\" The Detroit Free Press called it \"the most severe drubbing ever administered to the Maroons in the history of football of that institution.\" Noted sports writer Joe S. Jackson wrote: \"Chicago was not beaten \u2013 it was run over, buffeted about, almost made the sport of its opponents at times . . .\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0043-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nThe Michigan team was the guest of the Studebaker Theatre the evening after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0044-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nAt a post-season dinner, Fielding Yost said that he regarded Michigan's play in the Chicago game to be \"the best he had ever seen by a Michigan team during his three years here.\" Michigan's captain, Curtis Redden, opined that the spectators saw \"the finest exhibition of speed and team work ever seen in the West.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0045-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Chicago 0\nThrough all 12 games of the 1903 season, the Wolverines scored 565 points and played between 556 and 576 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0046-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season\nPrior to the Chicago game, Fielding Yost announced that he had consented to coach the Michigan football team for another year in 1904. The Michigan Alumnus applauded the announcement: \"Michigan football teams, under Coach Yost's regime have never lost and have always played fair. Every loyal Michigan man will hail Mr. Yost's decision with delight, and count his stay a guarantee of a fourth season of clean and successful football.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0047-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season\nOn December 16, 1903, the team's official portrait was taken, and Willie Heston was elected captain of the 1904 team. That night, local businessmen hosted a dinner for the team. Team captain Redden summarized the 1903 season: \"With the poorest prospects and in the face of the greatest obstacles, to achieve the success she did \u2013 Michigan may well look back to the season of nineteen hundred and three as one of the most brilliant in her football history.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0048-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season\nThe 1903 season saw the final appearance of several players, including Curtis Redden, Joe Maddock, George Gregory, and Herb Graver. Nevertheless, with Willie Heston, Joe Curtis, Tom Hammond, and Fred Norcross returning, The Michigan Alumnus noted that the promise for the 1904 season was good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0049-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season\nCecil Gooding contracted typhoid fever following the Minnesota game in late November 1903. It was believed that he contracted the illness from drinking the water while in Chicago for the game. He died five weeks later. He was the first Michigan Wolverines football player to die while attending the school. Following his death, The Michigan Alumnus wrote: \"He had striven conscientiously to perfect himself in the game and earned the respect of coaches, players and spectators. He was a reliable, hard-working guard who never under any circumstances played anything but a sportsmanlike game. He was a man off the field and on.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0050-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Ralph Rose controversy\nIn the spring of 1904, a controversy arose over allegations published in the San Francisco Chronicle that Yost had promised Ralph Rose, a 6-foot, 6-inch, 250-pound athlete from California, a job in the library and membership in a fraternity if he enrolled at Michigan. Yost denied the charges, and The Michigan Alumnus wrote that student positions in the library paid no more than \u200b12\u00a01\u20442 cents per hour, and Rose had received no such job in any event. Nor had he been made a member of any fraternity. In the end, Rose never played for Michigan's football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0050-0001", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Post-season, Ralph Rose controversy\nDespite his size and strength, he lacked the speed to compete effectively in Yost's fast-paced style of football. Instead, Rose competed in the shot put for Michigan, setting a new world's record in May 1904. He went on to win the gold medal in the shot put at the 1904, 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics and died in 1913 from typhoid fever at age 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034268-0051-0000", "contents": "1903 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 12 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1903 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1903 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 14\u20130\u20131 record (3\u20130\u20131 against Western Conference opponents), shut out 13 of their 15 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 656 to 12. The team finished the season in a tie with Michigan for the Western Conference co-championship. When Minnesota and Michigan met, the teams played to a tie in a game that gave rise the Little Brown Jug trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nFour Minnesota players were recognized on the 1903 College Football All-America Team. Quarterback Sigmund Harris received first-team honors from Fielding H. Yost and third-team honors from Walter Camp. Tackle Fred Schacht received first-team honors from Caspar Whitney and second-team honors from Camp and Yost. Center Moses Strathern received second-team honors from Camp. And, end Eddie Rogers received third-team honors from Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nIn addition, nine Gophers were honored on the 1903 All-Western college football team: quarterback Sigmund Harris (BM-1, CIO-2, CRH, FL-1, MJ-2, WC); halfbacks James B. Irsfield (BMA, CIO-2, CT, FL-1, MJ-2, WC) and Otto Nelson Davies (BM-2); fullback Earl Current (BM-2); end Edward L. Rogers (BMA, BM-1, CIO-2, FL-1, MJ-1, WC); tackle Fred Schacht (BMA, BM-1, CIO-1, CRH, CT, FL-1, MJ-1, WC); guards Walton Willard Thorp (BM-1, CIO-2, CT, MJ-1) and John B. Warren (BM-2, MJ-2); and center Moses Strathern (BMA, BM-1, CIO-1, CRH, FL-1, MJ-1, WC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe eighth game of the season matched Minnesota against Michigan in a game played at Northrop Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The New York Times reported that the match, \"one of the most desperate football games seen in the West in years,\" was witnessed by \"fully 30,000 spectators.\" The game ended in a 6\u20136 tie, the first time in the Yost era that Michigan had not achieved a victory. During the first half, Minnesota outgained Michigan 155 yards to 60 yards. The Michigan defense held, and the first half ended in a scoreless tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nWith 15 minutes remaining in the game, Michigan sustained a 65-yard drive culminating with a touchdown by right tackle Joe Maddock. On the drive that followed, the Michigan line was \"unable to sustain Schacht's fierce line smashes,\" and Minnesota tied the game with a touchdown run by its fullback, Boeckmann, and Rogers kicked the point after touchdown. Although approximately two minutes remained in the game, Minnesota fans surged onto the field, and the game had to be ended early. The Detroit Free Press described the scene as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\n\"Time was not up by a few minutes, but the crowd surged onto the field and time was called, as it would have been impossible to have cleared the gridiron in time to resume play before daylight had faded entirely away.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nWhen the Michigan team returned to Ann Arbor on November 1, the players were greeted by a crowd of 5,000 singing and yelling at the depot. The crowd attached ropes to a bus and towed the team to campus while continuing with organized songs and yells. At a rally near the law building, Willie Heston told the crowd that the Minnesota players were \"the roughest lot of sluggers I ever went up against.\" Heston's right eye was nearly swollen shut, and his nose bore \"marks of terrific smashes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0006-0001", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nJoe Maddock added, \"I don't know how many times I was hit and kicked, but I think I got at least twenty blows on the back of my neck.\" The Michigan Alumnus complained about \"the unsportsmanlike spirit\" manifested by some Minnesota players and opined that the Minnesota fans who surged onto the field had responded to \"an impulse which does more credit to their enthusiasm than their love of fair play.\" The Detroit Free Press condemned \"the muckerish tactics of the crowd and the pugilistic efforts of the Gophers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0006-0002", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nSeveral in attendance reported that Minnesota assistant coach Pudge Heffelfinger had been heard yelling from the sidelines, \"Kill off Heston in the first ten minutes, or you'll lose.\" The crowd reportedly picked up the comment and responded with the yell, \"Kill off Heston.\" The game's umpire, Henry Clark, was selected by Minnesota, and he came under heavy criticism from Michigan loyalists for failing to call Minnesota for its rough play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe Minnesota game generated gross gate receipts of $30,933.50. After deducting expenses, Michigan's share was $13,000. Yost defended his team's performance upon his return to Ann Arbor. Pulling a criss-crossed chart from his pocket, Yost walked through the progress of the game with reporters. Even though Minnesota outgained Michigan in the first half, Yost said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\n\"Why, they never had the ball inside our 30-yard line but once during the first half, and it was just inside at that time. The goal was never in danger because our boys played a scientific defensive game and kept the ball in the air part of the time, where it belonged. We had good headwork as well as beef, and I do not think it is fair to Michigan to say that she was outplayed in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0008-0001", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nThe touchdown the Minnesota boys made was made after dark, when nobody could see the ball, and of course that prevented us from stopping them. Also, the field was crowned. I am confident, however, that we have the better team. That man Gooding and Heston played a wonderful game, and all the boys did, for that matter. I have no fault to find with anyone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 69], "content_span": [70, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan, Little Brown Jug\nThe 1903 game against Minnesota also gave rise to the tradition of the two teams playing for the Little Brown Jug. When the Michigan team arrived in Minneapolis, Yost reportedly instructed student manager Thomas B. Roberts to purchase a water jug. Roberts purchased a five-gallon jug for 30\u00a2 from a local variety store. In the chaos that ensued when the Minnesota crowd rushed onto the field, the Wolverines left the jug behind. Thomas Roberts, writing in 1956, stated that the jug had served its purpose, so he intentionally left it sitting on the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034269-0009-0001", "contents": "1903 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan, Little Brown Jug\nThe next day, custodian Oscar Munson brought the jug to L. J. Cooke, head of the Minnesota athletics department. Cooke and Munson painted the jug brown and wrote on it, \"Michigan Jug \u2013 Captured by Oscar, October 31, 1903.\" According to legend, Yost sent a letter asking for the jug to be returned, and Cooke wrote in response: \"We have your little brown jug; if you want it, you'll have to win it.\" Yost returned with his team in 1909 to reclaim the jug, and the two teams have awarded the jug to the winner of their annual rivalry game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 87], "content_span": [88, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034270-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034271-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Mississippi gubernatorial election\nThe 1903 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1903, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat Andrew H. Longino was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034271-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic primary election was held on August 6, 1903, with the runoff held on August 27, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034271-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Mississippi gubernatorial election, General election\nIn the general election, Democratic candidate James K. Vardaman, a former state senator, ran unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034272-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1903 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1903 college football season. The team compiled a 1\u20137\u20131 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 83 to 46. John McLean was the head coach for the first of three seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034273-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Montana football team\nThe 1903 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1903 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Hiram Conibear, and finished the season with a record of two wins and five losses (2\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034274-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Moree state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Moree on 12 December 1903 because of the resignation of William Webster (Labour) to successfully contest the federal seat of Gwydir. The Labour candidate Matthew Boland withdrew and his replacement, Leonard Court, was not nominated in time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034275-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1903 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their only year under head coach Robert P. Wilson, the team compiled a 2\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034276-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team\nThe 1903 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team represented the University of Nashville during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was disbanded, and then started back again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034277-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1903 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Burr Chamberlain, the Midshipmen compiled a 4\u20137\u20131 record, shut out four opponents (including a scoreless tie with Baltimore Medical College), and were outscored by all opponents by a combined score of 130 to 77.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1903 college football season. The team was coached by fourth-year head coach Walter C. Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nNebraska went undefeated for the second straight season, setting a new program record with 22 consecutive victories. One newspaper of the time wrote \"Nebraska occupies a unique position in western football. Too strong to find fearful competitors, the Cornhuskers can almost weep with Alexander the Great because they have no more teams to conquer.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBell, Johnny HBBender, Johnny HBBenedict, Maurice QBBorg, Charles CBriggs LTClark PLAYERCortelyou, Spencer ECotton, Charles RGEager, Earl HBEngelhart, William FBFollmer, Eugene EGraves, Elliot HBHunter, Fred RGLantz HBLesh, W.W. GMarsh, Earl HBMason, Cyrus LTMason, John FBMickel, Oliver FBPerry, F.D. TRinger, John LGRobertson, Claud RTShedd, Charlie EThorpe, Orley ETobin, John GWilson, Harry LT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Lincoln High\nIn their sixth exhibition meeting, the Lincoln high schoolers managed to put points on the board against the Cornhuskers for the first time, remarkably ending Nebraska's run of 10 straight shutout victories. Unsurprisingly, though, the University put up more, and pushed the perfect series record to 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Grand Island\nNebraska amassed nearly 800 yards of offense against Grand Island in the first meeting between the schools, the tenth straight shutout by the Cornhuskers defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, South Dakota\nNebraska faced South Dakota for the first time in four years, dominating the Coyotes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Denver\nNebraska had 685 yards of offense to Denver's 15 in the first meeting between the schools. Frequent turnovers and a muddy playing surface likely prevented the Cornhuskers from scoring more than ten points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Haskell\nNebraska dominated Haskell in the 100th game in NU history. Some historical records mention this as the first game in which a Nebraska mascot appeared, in this case a bulldog wearing a scarlet and cream blanket, though records suggest NU may have used a white bull terrier painted half red as a mascot as far back as 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nNebraska outgained Colorado 314 to 37 in the third game of the rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Iowa\nAfter three years without facing the Hawkeyes, Nebraska traveled to Iowa City for the first time. Nebraska's 14-game shutout streak ended after a fumble and penalty allowed Iowa to punch in a touchdown from NU's 2-yard line. Nebraska still won the game for its 18th straight victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nKansas presented the stiffest challenge of the season for the Cornhuskers, who did not score until minutes remained in the game. That touchdown was enough to win as NU shut out the Jayhawks 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034278-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Illinois\nNebraska managed just 58 yards in a scoreless first half, but the Cornhuskers produced 276 yards and 16 points in the second half to defeat the Fighting Illini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034279-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Overview\nIt was contested by 8 teams, and Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034280-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1903 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its third season under head coach Allen Steckle, the team compiled a 2\u20134\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034281-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New Brunswick general election\nThe 1903 New Brunswick general election was held on 3 March 1903, to elect 46 members to the 31st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The election was held before the adoption of party labels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034281-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New Brunswick general election\nOf forty-six MLAs, thirty-three supported the government, ten formed the opposition, and the other three were neutral. The government of Lemuel John Tweedie was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034281-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New Brunswick general election, Further reading\nThis New Brunswick-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034281-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New Brunswick general election, Further reading\nThis elections in Canada-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034282-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1903 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1903 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under the direction of second-year head coach John Scannell, the team finished with a record of 2\u20137\u20131 or 2\u20136\u20131, per 1903 sources or modern sources, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034282-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034282-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe scores of two late-season contests between New Hampshire and Dover A. C. were listed in Boston newspapers; one New Hampshire win (10\u20135 on November 21) and one New Hampshire loss (5\u20136 on November 26, Thanksgiving).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034282-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nIn addition to the varsity games listed above, New Hampshire's second team (reserves) defeated Dover High School, 22\u20130, and played the Exeter Academy second team to a tie, 5\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034282-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe New Hampshire College Monthly stated that the team played 14 games, having \"lost eight, won four, and tied twice\" (4\u20138\u20132). The College Monthly provided recaps of 12 games (the 10 varsity games listed in the table, plus the two games played by the second team); it did not provide recaps of the two late-season games against Dover A. C. The overall record of the 10 varsity games (2\u20137\u20131), two second-team games (1\u20130\u20131), and two late-season games (1\u20131) does tally to 4\u20138\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034282-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe team's original schedule included games against Massachusetts State College and Boston College, but there is no record of those games being played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034282-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe September 26 game was the first meeting of the New Hampshire and Maine football programs. The score is listed as 18\u20130 in the New Hampshire football media guide and in contemporary news reports of 1903; College Football Data Warehouse and the Maine football media guide list it as 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane\nThe 1903 New Jersey hurricane, also known as the Vagabond Hurricane by The Press of Atlantic City, is the first and only known North Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the state of New Jersey since records were kept starting in 1851. The fourth hurricane of the season, the cyclone was first observed on September 12 about 550\u00a0miles (885\u00a0kilometres) northeast of Antigua. It moved quickly westward, then later turned to the north-northwest, steadily strengthening to reach a peak intensity of 100\u00a0miles per hour (155\u00a0kilometres per hour), a Category\u00a02 on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson scale. The hurricane weakened slightly before striking near Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 16 with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). It weakened over Pennsylvania and became an extratropical cyclone over western New York on September 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane\nRough surf and moderate winds from the hurricane capsized several ships along the East Coast of the United States; 30\u00a0people were left missing and presumed killed from a shipwreck in Chincoteague, Virginia. Along the coast, 57\u00a0people died due to the storm. In New Jersey, the hurricane caused heavy damage, particularly near the coast and in Atlantic City. Dozens of buildings were damaged or destroyed, and damage across the state totaled $8\u00a0million (1903\u00a0USD). In New York City, high winds disrupted traffic, closed businesses, and overturned wagons, with many windows and roofs damaged. On Long Island, President Theodore Roosevelt directly experienced the effects of the hurricane while on a yacht. The life of the president was briefly threatened by the rough conditions, though none on board the yacht suffered any problems from the hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe genesis of the storm is unknown; it was first observed on September\u00a012 as a 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h) tropical storm about 550\u00a0miles (885\u00a0km) northeast of Antigua in the Lesser Antilles. On that day, the storm appeared on weather maps, and subsequently was tracked by ship reports as a small system. The storm tracked quickly northwestward, followed by a turn to the west-northwest. Around 18:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a013, the storm passed about 270\u00a0mi (435\u00a0km) south of Bermuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0002-0001", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Meteorological history\nIts exact track and intensity is unknown, though it is estimated the storm attained hurricane status late on September\u00a014 about 360\u00a0mi (580\u00a0km) west-southwest of Bermuda. The hurricane steadily intensified as it curved northward, and attained an estimated peak intensity of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h) late on September\u00a015 about 110\u00a0mi (175\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Meteorological history\nBy late on September\u00a015, the hurricane was beginning to affect the North Carolina coastline. The high winds near the center prompted the United States Weather Bureau to issue storm warnings on the morning of September\u00a016 into the next day. Turning northward, the hurricane weakened slightly and made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey, shortly before 12:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a016. The estimated barometric pressure was 990\u00a0mbar (29\u00a0inHg), suggesting hurricane-force winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) at landfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Meteorological history\nThis made it the first and only known hurricane to strike New Jersey since the Atlantic hurricane database's beginning in 1851. The storm structure broadened after landfall, and the Weather Bureau assessed one center splitting off and tracking north-northeastward into New York and Connecticut. The main center continued northwestward, weakening into a tropical storm near Trenton, New Jersey. After crossing northeastern Pennsylvania, the system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone near Syracuse, New York on September\u00a017. The extratropical remnant persisted for another six hours before losing its identity over eastern Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nOverall, the hurricane killed 57\u00a0people during its passage through the Mid-Atlantic states. Winds of over 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) affected large portions of the coastline from New Jersey to southern New England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nThe hurricane first brought rainfall to coastal parts of Georgia and South Carolina. Strong winds were reported along coastal areas of North Carolina, with sustained winds peaking at 72\u00a0mph (116\u00a0km/h) at Kitty Hawk. Winds reached 54\u00a0mph (87\u00a0km/h) at Cape Henry, Virginia, and the combination of the winds and rough surf washed some boats ashore. The schooner Beatrice was lost near Chincoteague with a crew of 30; 28\u00a0people on board were killed. A squall line destroyed the front mast of a schooner near Cape Henry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0005-0001", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nSeveral boats broke free from their moorings near Salisbury and were subsequently destroyed after passing downstream. The schooner Hattie A. Marsh encountered strong winds from the hurricane along the Delaware coast, while strong waves washed it ashore the rocky coastline. The boat was wrecked and the rooms on board were washed overboard, killing five members of the crew. Two people were rescued after conditions calmed, one of whom was injured and taken to a hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nA flock of birds encountered the hurricane over eastern Virginia; hundreds of birds were killed and fell to the ground near Old Point Comfort, many stripped of their feathers. The outer rainbands of the storm produced heavy amounts of precipitation near Washington, D.C., canceling a baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Washington Senators after the field was flooded. In Ocean City, Maryland, the hurricane was considered the worst in 40\u00a0years. The hurricane produced 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) winds and rough waves along the Delaware Capes, indicating hurricane-force winds affected the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0006-0001", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nIt was one of only two storms on record to produce such winds in the state. Three barges and a steamer capsized in the Delaware Bay, while onshore, the winds of the hurricane destroyed the roofs of four houses in Laurel. The winds downed many trees and destroyed several chimneys near Lewes. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, winds reached 45\u00a0mph (72\u00a0km/h), which damaged telegraph and phone lines, knocked down several trees, and damaged the roof of Pennsylvania Railroad's Broad Street Station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nDescribed by the Weather Bureau as \"a most unusual tempest,\" the storm was one of only four to produce hurricane-force winds in New Jersey. The storm's strong surf destroyed several boats along the coastline, including 34 in Waretown. Less than 10% of the people in Atlantic City evacuated, and after the storm, many people visited the city to observe the storm damage described in newspapers. High winds disrupted 800\u00a0telephone lines in Atlantic City, and most communications were cut from the Jersey Shore to the Philadelphia region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0007-0001", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nInitial damage reports were provided by trains, although there were severe transportation delays due to ongoing flooding. The disrupted communications sparked \"wild rumors that the great resort had been entirely washed away,\" according to The New York Times. Monetary damage in Atlantic City was estimated around $1\u00a0million (1903\u00a0USD). Atlantic City's power was deliberately shut off to prevent accidents. In the city, the roof of one hotel and the porch of another were destroyed. Trees and awnings were damaged, and thousands of windows were damaged. The winds destroyed the roofs of an estimated 50 to 60\u00a0cottages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0007-0002", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nThe surf damaged or destroyed most fishing piers and oceanfront pavilions in the Atlantic City area, with tons of debris dispersed across the beach. The strong winds, combined with heavy rainfall, resulted in one indirect fatality when a man, unable to see owing to the hurricane, drove into a train in Cape May. In Asbury Park, the storm wrecked the roofs of six hotels. High waves damaged the boardwalks at Belmar and Allenhurst. High winds heavily damaged fruit crops in Monmouth, Middlesex, and Hunterdon counties. Fruit trees were uprooted in Vineland, and in Flemington, about 75% of apples and pears were lost. Damage across the state was estimated at $8\u00a0million (1903\u00a0USD); the worst of the damage occurred in Atlantic City, though moderate damage extended from Cape May northward through Asbury Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nIn New York, the outer periphery of the storm produced 2.4\u00a0inches (61\u00a0mm) of rain in Central Park, where dozens of trees were knocked down or damaged. High tides peaked at 6.4\u00a0ft (2.0\u00a0m), which inundated Battery Park and made ferry passage difficult. Winds in New York City reached 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h), reaching 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) along the coast, with tropical storm force winds extending into Maine. The winds were the strongest in the city since August 1889, lasting about four hours at its peak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0008-0001", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nFunneled by the streets and tall buildings of New York, the high winds swayed buildings, spires, and bridges, overturning wagons on the Brooklyn Bridge. The shape of the Flatiron Building tossed horse-drawn carriages, and two people were injured when a wagon of furniture was overturned. The rains and winds knocked down signs and awnings while wrecking dozens of windows, chimneys, and roofs, causing residents to evacuate buildings and damaging several storefronts. One woman was hospitalized after being struck by an airborne sign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0008-0002", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nThe high amount of damage led to the greatest number of inspectors of the New York City Department of Buildings to determine which buildings were safe. In Brighton Beach, the roof of the Ocean Hotel was completely blown off, and a similar fate befell the top of the Steeplechase Tower in Coney Island resort area, which sustained considerable damage. In Brooklyn, church steeples were dislodged or blown off, and many homes in the borough were flooded or damaged. Construction work on the Williamsburg Bridge was halted during the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0008-0003", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nOn Staten Island, the winds blew off the roof of a school. The hurricane also left businesses and the stock market quiet for the day, owing to the threat of blowing debris. Trees and signs were blown down in the New York suburbs. One person died in New York City due to the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nThe high waves and winds caused the greatest marine damage in a decade around New York City. More than 100\u00a0boats were overturned or beached in Jamaica Bay, and another 150\u00a0boats were wrecked between Hell Gate and the west end of Coney Island. At least ten houseboats were damaged or sank, with boaters injured and requiring rescue. A man attempting to row ashore near Point O' Woods required rescue amid strong winds. Passengers swam safely ashore after their boat capsized in Hell Gate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0009-0001", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nPresident Theodore Roosevelt directly experienced the effects of the hurricane while vacationing on the naval yacht Sylph along Long Island. Also on the yacht were Roosvelt's wife, son, his secretary, several friends and members of the press association. The yacht experienced gusty winds and heavy rainfall, along with rough seas, and witnessed a boat capsizing in Hell Gate. Passengers left the deck of the yacht for safety while their belongings were secured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034283-0009-0002", "contents": "1903 New Jersey hurricane, Impact\nAfter the President was considered to be in danger, the yacht headed for land, and instead of embarking toward Ellis Island as originally planned, the yacht landed at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Farther north, high winds downed many trees along coastal Connecticut, which cut telegraph and telephone lines in Bridgeport. A boy was killed in Hartford after stepping onto a downed power line. Several boats were washed ashore along the Connecticut coast. Farther inland, winds disrupted power in Leicester and damaged crops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034284-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1903 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1903 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 2\u20130\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 34 to 0. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034285-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New South Wales referendum\nA referendum concerning the reduction of the members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was put to voters on 16 December 1904, in conjunction with the 1903 federal election. The referendum was conducted on the basis of optional preferential voting. However, preferences were not counted, as an overwhelming majority voted to reduce the number of members to 90.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034285-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New South Wales referendum, The question\nAs to what shall be the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034285-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New South Wales referendum, The question\nWhich of the following numbers do you prefer, and what is the order of your preference?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034285-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New South Wales referendum, Results\nThe referendum was overwhelmingly in favour of reducing the number of members to 90.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034285-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 New South Wales referendum, Aftermath\nThe referendum did not provide how the reduction of members was to occur. Parliament was recalled to decide how to give effect to the referendum, and passed the Electorates Redistribution Act 1904 which provided the districts were to be determined by three electoral districts commissioners. The proposed districts were published by the commissioners on 18 March 1904, and the final districts were published on 22 April 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034286-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1903, announced at the time as the Durbar Honours, were appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India. The list was announced on the day of the 1903 Delhi Durbar held to celebrate the succession of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India. The membership of the two Indian Orders were expanded to allow for all the new appointments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034286-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New Year Honours\nThe list was published in The Times on 1 January 1903, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 1 January 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034286-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New Year Honours\nA list of appointments to the Royal Victorian Order was announced in the London Gazette on 30 December 1902. These were not included in the Durbar Honours list, as the individuals had already received their decorations in late 1902. They have been added to the end of this page to show the most complete picture of orders awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034286-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034286-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 New Year Honours, Order of the Star of India, Companions of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)\nIt had been the King\u2032s intention to appoint His Highness Raja Bije Sen Bahadur of Mandi to be a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India, had he not died in December 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 101], "content_span": [102, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034286-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 New Year Honours, Order of the Indian Empire, Knights Commander of the Order of the indian Empire (KCIE)\nIt had been the King\u2032s intention to appoint Sir John Woodburn, KCSI to be a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire, had he not died in November 1902. It had been the King\u2032s intention to confer a Companionship of the Order of the Indian Empire on Mr. Harry Charles Hill, for his service in the Forest department in India, had he also not died in November 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 109], "content_span": [110, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034287-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Giants season\nThe 1903 New York Giants season was the franchise's 21st season. The team finished in second place in the National League with an 84\u201355 record, 6.5 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates\u2014 a dramatic improvement from their abysmal 48\u201388 record the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034287-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034287-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034287-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034287-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034287-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season\nThe New York Highlanders' 1903 season finished with the team in 4th place in the American League with a record of 72\u201362. The team was managed by Clark Griffith and played its home games at Hilltop Park (formally \"American League Park\"). The season began with the Baltimore Orioles relocating to New York in what would be a first of many seasons in the city. The club was at first officially the \"Greater New York\" baseball club, in deference to the established New York Giants, which were based in the Polo Grounds. This was the first winning season for the franchise that would be later known as the now-storied New York Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, New Name\nThe media dubbed the team as \"Highlanders\", due in part to playing at one of the highest points on Manhattan (\"The Hilltop\"), which was somewhat higher in altitude than the bulk of Manhattan and was considerably \"uphill\" from the Polo Grounds, the Giants' established home, which sat in the bottomland in Coogan's Hollow, a few blocks east and south of the Hilltop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, New Name\n\"Highlanders\" was also originally short for \"Gordon's Highlanders\", a play on the name of the team President during 1903\u20131906, Joseph Gordon, along with the noted British military unit called The Gordon Highlanders. The club was also derisively called \"Invaders\" in 1903, presumably by writers favorable to the Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, New Name\nThe New York press was creative with analogous nicknames for teams. In addition to \"Highlanders\", the team would soon acquire the alternate nickname \"Yankees\", the name that would soon become official and more famous among baseball fans in the coming decades. That word is a synonym for \"American\" in general, and short for American Leaguers or \"Americans\" in this case. Given the media's penchant for citing popular culture, that nickname was also possibly influenced by the then-current and hugely popular America-centric George M. Cohan Broadway play, \"Little Johnny Jones\", and its centerpiece song, \"Yankee Doodle Dandy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, New Name\nNew York writers had similarly coined both the established nickname Brooklyn \"[Trolley] Dodgers\" and the nickname \"Superbas\" that the denizens of Flatbush carried for a while. As with the Highlanders, the latter was based on something unrelated, namely a circus act called \"Hanlon's Superbas\"; the Dodgers were managed by Ned Hanlon at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034288-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034289-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New York state election\nThe 1903 New York state election was held on November 3, 1903, to elect a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and one member of the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034289-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New York state election, Background\nDenis O'Brien had been elected to the Court of Appeals in 1889, and his term would expire at the end of 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034289-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New York state election, Background\nState Senator Charles P. McClelland was appointed U.S. General Appraiser by President Theodore Roosevelt and thus vacated his seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034289-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 New York state election, Candidates\nThe Democratic State Committee met on September 5 in Albany, New York. Frank Campbell was Chairman. The incumbent judge Denis O'Brien was re-nominated unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034289-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 New York state election, Candidates\nThe Republican State Committee met on September 8 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. George W. Dunn was Chairman. They endorsed the Democratic incumbent Denis O'Brien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034289-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 New York state election, Result\n96 Republicans, 53 Democrats and 1 Independent were elected for the session of 1904 to the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034289-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 New York state election, Result\nRepublican Francis M. Carpenter was elected to succeed Democrat McClelland in the State Senate, giving the Republicans a majority of 29 to 21 in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034290-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia\nThe 1903 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia was the fourth tour by the New Zealand national team to Australia. Nine matches were played against regional and district sides along with one test match between the two national sides, the first played by New Zealand in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034290-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia\nOn 11 July, New Zealand played a preliminary match v. the Wellington Rugby Football Union at Athletic Park, won by the local team by 14\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034290-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia, Match summary\nComplete list of matches played by New Zealand in Australia:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election\nThe Newmarket by-election, 1903 was a parliamentary by-election held on 2 January 1903 to fill a vacancy in the United Kingdom House of Commons for the Eastern or Newmarket Division of Cambridgeshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election, Vacancy\nThe vacancy occurred with the sudden death of the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament, Colonel Harry McCalmont on 8 December 1902. McCalmont had been MP for Newmarket since 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election, Electoral history\nAt the previous election, in 1900, he had been returned with a majority of 1,077 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election, The candidates and campaign\nNominations for the election were made on 26 December 1902. There were two candidates: Leonard Brassey for the Conservatives, and Charles Rose for the Liberals. Rose had also contested the seat in 1900. Both candidates were involved in the horse racing industry, the major employer in and around the town of Newmarket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election, The candidates and campaign\nAn important factor in the election was the religious beliefs of the candidates. The Church Association, an evangelical Protestant organisation, interrogated both of the men. Rose stated that he strenuously supported Protestant principles and opposed any legislation that would undermine the ascendency of Protestantism. This satisfied the Association, and was probably responsible for a large number of Evangelical Christian voters switching allegiance from the Conservatives to the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election, Polling and result\nThe election took place on Friday 2 January 1903. The poll was heavy and motor cars were widely used to bring voters to the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election, Polling and result\nThe result of the election was announced on Saturday 3 January at Cambridge Shire Hall. Rose won the seat for the Liberals by a majority of 507 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034291-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Newmarket by-election, Aftermath\nRose held the seat at the ensuing election in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034292-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 News of the World Match Play\nThe 1903 News of the World Match Play was the first News of the World Match Play tournament. It was played from Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 October at Sunningdale Golf Club. 32 players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 18 holes, except for the final which was over 36 holes. The winner received \u00a3100 out of a total prize fund of \u00a3200. James Braid defeated Ted Ray 4 & 3 in the final to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034292-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 News of the World Match Play, Qualification\nEntry was restricted to members of the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA). Qualification was by a series of 36-hole stroke-play competitions; one for each of the five PGA sections. The number of qualifiers from each section was based on the membership of that section. The Southern section had 16 qualifiers, the Midland and Northern sections had 5 each, the Scottish section 4 and the Irish section 2. In the event of a tie for places there was a playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034292-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 News of the World Match Play, Qualification\nThe Northern section held their qualification at Huddersfield on 22 September with Ted Ray winning with a score of 148. The Scottish section qualification was the following day at Earlsferry with Robert Thomson winning with a score of 153. Arnaud Massy failed to qualify, The Irish section played on 24 September at Lahinch with George Coburn winning with a score of 157. The Southern section played on 29 September at Acton with J.H. Taylor winning with a score of 140. There was a tie for the final two places and there was a 36-hole play-off the following day. The Midland section played on 7 October at Hollinwell with Tom Williamson winning with a score of 151. Harry Vardon was ill and did not enter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034292-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 News of the World Match Play, Format\nThe matches were over 18 holes except for the final which was over 36 holes. Extra holes were played in the event of a tied match. Two rounds were played on the first day, two more on the second day with the final on the third day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034292-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 News of the World Match Play, Prize money\nThe winner received \u00a3100 and a gold medal, the runner-up \u00a330 and a silver medal, the losing semi-finalists \u00a315 and a bronze medal, while the third round losers received \u00a310, making a total prize fund of \u00a3200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034293-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1903 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1903 college football season. In Art Devlin's second season as head coach, the Aggies achieved a 4\u20134 record, tallying the most single-season wins in school history and tying the record of most losses The final two wins came on the same day, with a close, 6\u20135 decision against the South Carolina and a blowout of Richmond, 53\u20130. The Aggies outscored their opponents 152 to 74 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034294-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1903 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1903 college football season. The team captain for the 1903 season was G. Lyle Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034295-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1903 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Eddie Cochems, the team compiled a 5\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 331 to 49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034295-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe season was part of a three-year, 17-game winning streak that began on November 19, 1900, and ended on November 21, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034296-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 North Dakota Flickertails football team\nThe 1903 North Dakota Flickertails football team was an American football team that represented the University of North Dakota during the 1903 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 274 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034296-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 North Dakota Flickertails football team\nThe team was led by first-year head coach Rex B. Kennedy. Victor Wardrope was the team captain for the second of three consecutive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034297-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1903 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1903 college football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach John A. H. Keith and played their home games at Glidden Field, located on the east end of campus. The team finished the season with a 4\u20132 record. Floyd Ritzman and Donald Kays were the team's co-captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034298-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1903 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1903 college football season. The Wildcats compiled a 10\u20131\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 229 to 67.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034299-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 1903 Norwegian Football Cup was the second season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. This was an invitation tournament organised by defending cup winner, Grane, which was later given official status. Four teams joined this competition. Odd won their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034300-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Norwegian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Norway between 6 August and 16 September 1903. The result was a victory for the Conservative Party-Moderate Liberal Party-Coalition Party alliance, which won 62 of the 117 seats in the Storting. It was the first time that the Labour Party gained seats. It was also the last election in Norway when Norway was in the union with Sweden that existed between 1814 and 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034301-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1903 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1903 college football season. In its second season with James Farragher as coach, the team compiled an 8\u20130\u20131 record, shut out every opponent, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 291 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034302-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Ohio Medical football team\nThe 1903 Ohio Medical football team was an American football team that represented the Ohio State University College of Medicine in the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034303-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1903 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University during the 1903 college football season. The Buckeyes compiled an 8\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 265 to 87 in their second season under head coach Perry Hale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034304-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 1903 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1903. Republican nominee Myron T. Herrick defeated Democratic nominee Tom L. Johnson with 54.89% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034305-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1903 college football season. This was the third year of football at A&M and the team did not have a head coach. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. They finished the season 0\u20130\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034306-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1903 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1903 college football season. In their second year under head coach Mark McMahon, the Sooners compiled a 5\u20134\u20133 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 93 to 35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034307-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1903 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The season's only loss was to Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034308-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Open Championship\nThe 1903 Open Championship was the 43rd Open Championship, held 10\u201311 June at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Harry Vardon won the Championship for the fourth time, six strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Vardon, his younger brother.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034308-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Open Championship\nAll entries played 36 holes on the first day with all those within 19 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034308-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Open Championship\nAfter the opening round on Wednesday morning, Harry Vardon and defending champion Sandy Herd co-led at 73, three strokes ahead of the rest of the field. In the afternoon, Herd had a poor 83 and Harry Vardon's 77 gave him a four shot lead on 150 ahead of Andrew Scott, despite a seven at the 17th hole. The cut was at 169 and 59 advanced to the final two rounds. Rowland Jones was initially disqualified but later reinstated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034308-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Open Championship\nIn the third round on Thursday morning, Harry Vardon scored 72, having reached the turn in 34. This gave him a seven-stroke lead over Jack White, with Herd and Tom Vardon ten shots behind. In the afternoon, White took a seven at the third hole which effectively gave Harry Vardon the title. Playing cautiously, he eventually finished with a 78. Tom Vardon had the best final round score of 74 and moved into second place ahead of White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034309-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Thomas L. McFadden, the Aggies compiled a 2\u20134\u20131 record and were outscored their opponents by a combined total of 32 to 21. The Aggies defeated Washington State (6-0), and Nevada (15-0), tied with Pacific University (0-0), and lost to Washington (0-5), Multnomah Athletic Club (0-16), Albany College (0-6), and Oregon (0-5). John Gault was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034310-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1903 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1903 college football season. It was the Webfoots' tenth season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Warren W. Smith. They finished the season with a record of four wins, two losses and one tie (4\u20132\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034311-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1903 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the eighth\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 11 April 1903 and stretched 268\u00a0km (167\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Hippolyte Aucouturier from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034312-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1903 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1903 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9\u20133 record in their second year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included victories over Penn State (39\u20130), Brown (30\u20130), and Cornell (42\u20130), and losses to Columbia (18\u20136), Harvard (17\u201310), and Carlisle (16\u20136). The 1903 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 370 to 57. Guard Frank Piekarski was the only Penn player to receive recognition on the 1903 College Football All-America Team; Piekarski received third-team honors from Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034313-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Penn State football team\nThe 1903 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1903 college football season. The team was coached by Daniel A. Reed and played its home games on Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034314-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Peruvian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Peru in 1903. Manuel Candamo of the Civilista Party was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar\n1903 Petrol Electric Autocar. In 1903 the North Eastern Railway built two experimental railcars at their carriage works in York. These were powered by petrol engines which generated electricity for two traction motors which were mounted on the bogie underneath. This means of powering a railway vehicle was pioneering and would eventually be developed into the diesel-electric technology that powered and powers many locomotives worldwide. The railcars were numbered 3170 and 3171 and were 53.5 feet (16.3\u00a0m) long and weighed around 35 long tons (36\u00a0t) . The engine was mounted in an engine compartment 13.25 feet (4.04\u00a0m) long. The rest of the vehicles' length was taken up by a vestibule, driving compartment and a 52-seat passenger compartment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Powertrain\nVarious petrol engines were used, an 85\u00a0hp Napier engine was the first to be installed, but these were found to be unsatisfactory, so were replaced in 1904 by Wolseley engines. These flat-four engines produced 92\u00a0bhp at their normal rated speed of 400rpm, and well over 100\u00a0bhp when run at 480rpm. The cylinders were 8.5 inch diameter with 10 inch stroke. The engine had a 3-foot diameter flywheel, and was coupled directly to a Westinghouse multi-polar dynamo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Powertrain\nA small dynamo driven by belt from the flywheel provided charge for the accumulators which enabled electric starting of the engine, lighting for the carriage, and the 'exciting current' for the field coils in the main dynamo, controlled by rheostats at either end of the railcar. The engine speed could likewise be controlled via a throttle from either end of the railcar. The output from the main dynamo was sent to two electric motors, both mounted on the bogie underneath the engine room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Powertrain\nIn 1923, No. 3170 was re-engined with a more powerful 225HP engine, allowing it to haul an unpowered coach, an early version of the multiple units used today. Maximum speed was only 36\u00a0mph but acceleration and braking to and from this was reported to be brisk, taking around 30 seconds. In 1908, a pair of seats were removed to enlarge the vestibules, reducing the seating accommodation to 48. In appearance, the railcars were similar to single-deck trams. The NER called them autocars, as they could be driven from either end, as with modern passenger trains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Service\nThe railcars worked briefly on Teesside, then in Yorkshire for the rest of their working lives, on lines round Scarborough, Harrogate and Selby. No . 3171 was withdrawn on 31 May 1930 and no. 3170 on 4 April 1931.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Preservation\nThe body of no. 3170 was used as a holiday home near Kirbymoorside in North Yorkshire for 70 years and was bought by a railway enthusiast in 2003. A trust was formed to restore the vehicle and a trailer coach to form an Edwardian multiple unit that will be twice as old as most of the (ex-BR) DMUs on other heritage railways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Preservation\nThere are several changes to the autocar, to reflect changes in railway technology and regulation. The power unit is based around a new diesel engine from Cummins and the chassis is a strengthened conversion of one from a GNR milk and brake van. The work done to the chassis has been meant substantial delay and expense, but is a vital part of the project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Preservation\nTo achieve its aim of restoring the autocar back to working order and restore the trailer coach to go with it, the NER 1903 Electric Autocar Trust has been awarded several grants. The largest grant was awarded in March 2011 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a total of \u00a3465,800. PRISM (the fund for the PReservation of Industrial and Scientific Material) also awarded the project \u00a320,000 for the restoration of the bodywork of the two vehicles, and the Ken Hoole Trust awarded the project \u00a35000, which has gone towards the restoration of the woodwork. In December 2014, the Transport Trust granted the Trust a loan facility of up to \u00a346,000 to cover any shortfall in the Trust finances, caused by the extra expense on the chassis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Preservation\nRestoration work started in early 2011. The Trust's web-site has details of the latest developments and news is also posted on the LNER Encyclopedia's Forum page and on RMWeb. Videos of the testing of the new powerunit and chassis on the Great Central Railway (preserved) are posted on YouTube - the 'official' one is at . There is another shot by our test-driver at which includes rail-level footage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Preservation\nIn addition to the autocar, the Trust has restored an NER 'autocoach', which was kindly donated to the Trust by the NER coach group at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. This was stabled at Levisham for many years, but is now (September 2018) substantially restored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Preservation\nBrake tests on the autocar were carried out on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway during September and October 2018. The autocar officially re-entered service on Friday 19 October 2018. Both vehicles are expected to operate regular public service in early 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Preservation\nThe Trust is always looking for volunteers or members to support the project either by working on restoration/maintenance, as 'hosts'/'explainers' to passengers, on 'back room' tasks or via a financial donation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Modelling the autocar\nFollowing the renewed interest in the petrol-electric autocars after the founding of the Trust, two manufacturers make model kits of the autocars. In 2\u00a0mm and 4\u00a0mm (OO Gauge) scales, Worsley Works makes an etched brass kit of the body. 3\u00a0mm scale etches have also been produced to order. In 7\u00a0mm (O Gauge), NER Days makes a kit in nickel-silver. A series of articles was written about the construction of one of these by a Trust member in the quarterly newsletter (issues 7 - 16) back copies of which can be downloaded from the membership page.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034315-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Petrol Electric Autocar, Modelling the autocar\nRails of Sheffield in partnership with Heljan are producing an rtr Model of the NER Autocars in 00 Gauge. Covering Their NER and LNER conditions. Three are to be produced covering: 3170 in NER Red/Cream (1904-1923), 3171 in NER Red/Cream (1904-1930), 3170 in LNER Brown (1923-1931)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034316-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Athletics (NFL) season\nThe 1903 Philadelphia Athletics football season was their second, and last, season in existence. The team played independently of any league since the first National Football League ceased operations in 1902. The Athletics only played two recorded games in 1903, posting a 1-0-1 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034317-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Athletics season\nThe 1903 Philadelphia Athletics season was a season in American baseball. The team finished second in the American League with a record of 75 wins and 60 losses, 14\u00bd games behind the Boston Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034317-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034317-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034317-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034317-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034317-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034318-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1903 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in American baseball. The team finished seventh in the National League with a record of 49\u201386, \u200b39\u00a01\u20442 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034318-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nOn August 8, 1903, a balcony collapsed at Baker Bowl during a game against Boston. The New York Times reported the following day that four were killed and 125 injured. The Phillies temporarily called Columbia Park home while Baker Bowl was repaired. They played sixteen games at Columbia Park in August and September 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034318-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034318-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034318-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034318-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034319-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Philadelphia mayoral election\nThe Philadelphia mayoral election of 1903 saw the election John Weaver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034320-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh College football team\nThe 1903 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost\u2014now known as Duquesne University\u2014during the 1903 college football season. T. A. Giblin served in his first and only season as the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 22nd year the Pittsburgh Pirates played in Major League Baseball. The club finished their season as National League champions, beating the second-place New York Giants by 6+1\u20442 games. They went on to participate in the 1903 World Series, the first to be played between the champions of the National League and American League. The Pirates started off well, winning 3 of the first four games, but the Boston Americans won the last four straight to win the series five games to three. The Pirates set a record of 56 consecutive innings without allowing the opposing team to score a run, a record that still stands today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 1\nOctober 1, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 1\nThe Pirates started Game 1 strong, scoring six runs in the first four innings. They extended their lead to 7\u20130 on a solo home run by Jimmy Sebring in the 7th, the first home run in World Series history. Boston tried to mount a comeback in the last three innings, but it was too little, too late, as they ended up losing by a score of 7\u20133 in the first ever World Series game. Both starting pitchers, Deacon Phillippe of the Pirates and Cy Young of Boston, threw complete games, with Phillippe striking out 10 and Young fanning 5, but Young also gave up twice as many hits and allowed 3 earned runs to Phillippe's 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 2\nOctober 2, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 2\nAfter starting out strong in Game 1, the Pirates simply shut down offensively, managing to get a meager 3 hits, all of which were singles. Pirates starter Sam Leever went only one inning and gave up 3 hits and 2 runs before being replaced by Bucky Veil in the second inning due to injury, who finished the game for Pittsburgh. Bill Dinneen struck out 11 and pitched a complete game for the Americans, while Patsy Dougherty hit home runs in the first and sixth innings to produce 2 of the Boston's 3 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 3\nOctober 3, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 3\nDeacon Phillippe, pitching on only one day rest, started Game 3 for the Pirates, and did not let them down as he pitched his second complete-game victory of the series to put the Pirates up two games to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 4\nAfter two days of rest, Deacon Phillippe was ready to pitch his second straight game. He threw his third complete-game victory of the series against Bill Dinneen, who was pitching in his second start of the series. However, Phillippe's second straight victory was almost not to be, as the Americans, down 5\u20131 in the top of the ninth, staged a rally to bring the game within one. The comeback attempt failed, though, as Phillippe managed to put an end to it and give the Pirates a commanding 3\u20131 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 5\nGame 5 was a pitcher's duel for the first five innings, with Boston's Cy Young and Pittsburgh's Brickyard Kennedy giving up no runs. That changed at the top of the sixth, however, when the Americans scored a then-record 6 runs that inning. Young, on the other hand, managed to keep his shutout intact before finally giving up a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth. He went the distance and struck out four for his first World Series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 6\nGame 6 featured a rematch between the starters of Game 2, Bill Dinneen (Boston) and Sam Leever (Pittsburgh). This time, Leever would pitch the entire game, but despite throwing a complete game he was outmatched by Dinneen, who ended up with his second complete-game victory of the series. After losing three of the first four games of the World Series, the underdog Boston Americans had tied the series at three games apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 7\nThe fourth and final game in Allegheny City saw Deacon Phillippe start his fourth game of the series for Pittsburgh. This time, however, he wouldn't fare as well as he did in his first three starts. Cy Young, pitching in his third start of the series, would face a much more favorable fate, holding the Pirates to only three runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 8\nOctober 13, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 8\nThe final game of the inaugural World Series started out as an intense pitcher's duel, with no runs being scored until the fourth inning \u2013 when a Hobe Ferris single scored two runners. Deacon Phillippe started his fifth and final game of the series, while Bill Dinneen started his fourth game of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034321-0017-0001", "contents": "1903 Pittsburgh Pirates season, 1903 World Series, Game 8\nAs he did in Game 2, Dinneen threw a complete game shutout while striking out seven, leading the Boston Americans to victory, while Phillippe, who also threw a respectable game, just couldn't pitch at Dinneen's level due to wearing out his arm in the series (as a result of playing so many games in such a short time span) and gave up three runs in the defeat. Honus Wagner struck out to end the Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034322-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1903 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1903 college football season. The team finished with an 11\u20130 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation. They outscored their opponents 259 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034323-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1903 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach Oliver Cutts, the Boilermakers compiled a 4\u20132 record before 14 players were killed in a train accident on the way to a game in Indianapolis. Purdue officials canceled the game and the remainder of Purdue's schedule, leading the Boilermakers to finish in last place in the Western Conference with an 0\u20132 record against conference opponents, outscoring their opponents by a combined total of 87 to 48. I. S. Osborn was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034324-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1903 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1903. Incumbent Democrat Lucius F. C. Garvin defeated Republican nominee Samuel Pomeroy Colt with 49.29% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034325-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1903 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1903 college football season. Led by Fred Vail in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 6\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election\nThe Rochester by-election, 1903 was a parliamentary by-election held in England in September 1903 for the House of Commons constituency of Rochester in Kent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Vacancy\nThe vacancy was caused when the borough's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) James Gascoyne-Cecil, known by his courtesy title as Viscount Cranborne, succeeded to the peerage on 22 August 1903. He had been MP for Darwen from 1885 to 1892, and then for Rochester since winning the seat at a by-election in 1893.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Electoral history\nCranborne had been returned unopposed at the 1900 general election, so the borough had not seen a contested parliamentary election since 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Candidates\nThe two major parties chose their candidates on 2 September. The Unionists (the Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies) chose Charles Tuff, the owner of a large firm of contractors. He had been mayor of Rochester from 1900 to 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal Party selected as its candidate Sir Harry Johnston, an African explorer and colonial administrator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Candidates\nThe writ for the by-election was received on 15 September by the mayor, who fixed 18 September as the closing day for nominations, and Wednesday 23 September as polling day. No independent or minor party candidates were nominated, so the election was a two-way contest between Tuff and Johnston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Campaign\nThe Liberals were disappointed that the election was called so soon after the vacancy occurred, because they believed that a longer campaign would help their prospects. Both candidates had issued the election address by 9 September, along with a lot of supporting literature. The two parties hoped to canvass all the borough's electors, but acknowledged that the shortness of the campaign made this target unlikely. The Unionists were reported by The Times newspaper to have a \"near-perfect\" organisation in Rochester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Campaign\nThe main issue in the campaign was tariff reform, over which the Liberal Unionist minister Joseph Chamberlain had recently resigned from the cabinet to campaign for Imperial Preference. The Liberals also focused on the conduct of the Second Boer War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Campaign\nIn the first full week of the campaign, the Unionists decided not to hold a large public meeting, but rather to hold five smaller meetings in different parts of the borough. Speakers were to include Sir William Hart Dyke MP and Horatio Davies MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Campaign\nThe Liberals held the biggest meeting, at the Corn Exchange, but otherwise the meetings organised by the Unionists were better attended. A major theme in the campaign was the question of free trade; Edmund Robertson MP spoke at a Liberal meeting to say that the issue was simply one of taxing food: would the tariffs on food be renewed? Johnston sent a \"personal note\" to Unionist supporters condemning the Unionist government's handling of the Boer War, and accusing them of deliberately throwing away the lives of British soldiers. He called on any Unionists who saw themselves as patriots to abstain rather than elect a supporter of such a government. Extensive canvassing took place on Saturday 19 September, after which both parties reported that the outcome would likely depend on the Labour vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Campaign\nBoth the Tariff Reform League and the Free Trade Association distributed large numbers of leaflets and cartoons, and the Licensed Victuallers Association was actively organising in support of the Unionists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034326-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Rochester by-election, Campaign\nThe costs incurred by the two candidates were reported in The Times in November 1903: Tuff's campaign had spent \u00a3559 18s 5d, and Johnston's campaign had spent \u00a3636 4s. 4d .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034327-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1903 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1903 college football season. In their first season under head coach Oliver D. Mann, the Queensmen compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents, 110 to 94. The team captain, for the second consecutive year, was Alfred Ellet Hitchner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election\nThe Rye by-election, 1903 was a by-election held in England on 17 March 1903 for the House of Commons constituency of the Rye or Eastern Division of Sussex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Arthur Montagu Brookfield. Brookfield had been MP for Rye since 1885 but he resigned in order to take up the post of HM Consul in Montevideo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives and Unionists selected 54-year-old Edward Boyle who was a barrister and King\u2019s Counsel, as their candidate. Boyle had unsuccessfully contested Hastings at the 1900 general election and had his country seat at Hurst Green in the then Rye constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals chose Charles Frederick Hutchinson, a 53-year-old medical doctor who had retired to Sussex. Hutchinson had been their candidate against Arthur Brookfield at the 1900 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Campaign\nThe opposing candidates adopted classic by-election positions. Boyle defending the Conservative government record, Hutchinson attacking it. One newspaper reported Boyle making his chief appeal \u2018on general grounds\u2019. Rye was a largely rural seat and Boyle chose to focus on agricultural issues praising the Agricultural Rates Act of 1896, which had led to the de-rating of farm land, as a step in the right direction and promising to keep up Brookfield\u2019s campaign to press legislative proposals for the defence of the hop industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0004-0001", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Campaign\nOn the controversial issue of education, following the 1902 Education Act, Boyle took the view that, while this was not a perfect piece of legislation, it was an honest attempt to deal with a difficult matter. Boyle also took a stand against Irish Home Rule stating he was \u2018absolutely against a separate Parliament for Ireland\u2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Campaign\nHutchinson by contrast described the Education Act as a gross injustice to non-conformists and relied on appeals to religion elsewhere in his campaign calling for the maintenance of the Protestant character of the Church of England. In this he was supported by the receipt of a letter from the Reverend R J Campbell, of the City Temple and one the country\u2019s leading non-conformist clergy. The letter urged voters to return Liberal candidates such as Hutchinson to Parliament with a view to a speedy reversal of the current education policy. This focus on religion may have served Hutchinson particularly well at this time as the Weald was said to be one of the few significant pockets of Nonconformity in the rural Home Counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Campaign\nAs a Liberal, it was not surprising when Hutchinson came out in support of Irish Home Rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Campaign\nOn foreign policy, Hutchinson declared himself against European complications and alliances. As a Liberal Imperialist he no doubt saw the future in the context of the British Empire. He supported the taxation of land values, licensing reform, the extension of smallholdings and one man one vote. At a conference held at Hastings by the Sussex Women\u2019s Liberal Association, he promised to support a Bill for women's suffrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Campaign, Election incidents\nThe election turned nasty at some points. A Conservative procession at Battle was attacked by stone and bottle throwers and torches were wrested from their bearers. It was reported that many people were injured. On the other side however a Liberal meeting at Rye was cut short owing to what was described as an onslaught by young Tories and one of Hutchinson\u2019s meetings at Burwash was similarly infiltrated and disrupted by Boyle\u2019s supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Campaign, Election incidents\nBoyle also suffered a couple of setbacks when his motor cars broke down. It was reported that on Friday 13 March (perhaps inevitably on such a date) that he met with his second motor accident, being left stranded on a country road with the induction coil out of gear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Result\nThe result was a win for Hutchinson and the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Result\nRye was a typical mid-term by-election result with public opinion turning against the party in office. It seems that Boyle had been right to try and focus on agricultural issues as one commentator has noted that the import duty on corn (which had been introduced as a Boer War revenue measure in the 1902 budget) was a factor in this and other by-election upsets of the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Result\nOne decisive factor in Hutchinson\u2019s victory may however simply have been better organisation than that of the Unionists. It was reported a week before polling that the Conservative agents seemed complacent and were taking a laissez-faire approach to electioneering. It was noted that they had not held as many meetings as expected and could do with more outside assistance from agents who knew their jobs. It was also reported that the Liberals held 25 meetings across the constituency on the eve of poll, supported by a dozen Members of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0012-0001", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Result\nThis compared with the Tories holding between 12 and 20 eve of poll events, depending on which reports were most accurate, with about six MPs. If there was any sense of complacency in the Conservative camp this presumably flowed from the fact that Rye had long been one of their stronghold seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0012-0002", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Result\nHowever the Tory election agent at least had sensed the danger as he told supporters that a very determined effort was being made by what he called the Radical party to win the seat and he complained that he had had to deal with a mass of misrepresentation and false statements, accusing the Liberals of even circulating untrue statements about Mr Boyle\u2019s religious views.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Result\nWhat is clear is that the Liberals had never previously made such a sustained effort to capture the seat. Complaints were made that they had brought in a number of professional outside agents, paid by other local Liberal associations or by headquarters in Parliament Street, payments to whom were unlikely to be included in the official election expense returns. The press expected questions to be put to the Attorney General on the legality or otherwise of this practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Aftermath\nHutchinson held the seat until 1906 when the Rye reverted to its more usual Conservative representation. After his defeat by George Courthope, Hutchinson did not stand for Parliament again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034328-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Rye by-election, Aftermath\nBoyle was elected in 1906 as MP for Taunton, but held the seat for only 3 years, until his death in 1909 at the age of 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034329-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1903 SAFA Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between Port Adelaide and the South Adelaide Football Club at the Adelaide Oval on 12 September 1903. It was the 8th instalment of the Grand Final of the South Australian Football Association, staged to determine the premiers for the 1903 SAFA season. The match, attended by 14,000 spectators, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 7 points, marking the club's first premiership in its Wharf Pylon guernsey and the club's fourth SAFA premiership victory overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034330-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 SAFA season\nThe 1903 South Australian Football Association season was the 27th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034331-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 San Diego mayoral election\nThe 1903 San Diego mayoral election was held on April 7, 1903 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent Mayor Frank P. Frary was reelected to a second term with a plurality of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034331-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIncumbent Mayor Frank P. Frary, a Republican, stood for reelection to a second two-year term. His reelection was contested by James E. Wadham, a Democrat, and Frank Simpson, a Socialist. Wadham ran on a Democratic Party platform that advocated for public ownership of gas and electricity as well as the development of pueblo lands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034331-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nOn April 7, 1903, Frary was reelected mayor with a plurality of 49.0 percent of the vote. Wadham came in second with 43.7 percent of the vote. This represented an 8.4 percent swing in the Democrat's favor compared to 1901, but was not enough to defeat Frary. Simpson came in third with 7.3 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1903 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Mooney\nThe season opened with a defeat of Mooney School by a 23\u20130 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nSewanee gave the greatest team in Cumberland history its only loss.. Henry D. Phillips plowed through the line for the deciding score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nThe starting lineup was Wheless (left end), L. Kirby-Smith (left tackle), Blount (left guard), Watkins (center), Phillips (right guard), Brong (right tackle), Jones (right end), Scarbrough (quarterback), Colmore (left halfback), E. Kirby Smith (right halfback), Stewart (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn\nSewanee easily beat Auburn 47\u20130. The first half was all Sewanee. Phillips made the first touchdown. After an Auburn fumble, Shaffer made the next touchdown. Phillips soon made the next touchdown. Kirby-Smith the next. In the second half, Auburn played better, but got nowhere near Sewanee's goal. Phillips had three touchdowns in the second half, \"by some of the finest line bucking ever seen here.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Auburn\nThe starting lineup was Wheless (left end), L. Kirby-Smith (left tackle), Harper (left guard), Watkins (center), Phillips (right guard), Brong (right tackle), Jones (right end), Scarbrough (quarterback), Colmore (left halfback), Shaffer (right halfback), Stewart (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nSewanee beat Alabama 23\u20130 in the first match between the two schools since 1896. The game was originally scheduled to be played in Tuscaloosa, but was subsequently moved to West End Park in Birmingham in an effort to increase gate receipts. Phillips made the first score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nThe starting lineup was Wheless (left end), Brong (left tackle), Harper (left guard), Watkins (center), Phillips (right guard), L. Kirby-Smith (right tackle), Jones (right end), Scarbrough (quarterback), Colmore (left halfback), E. Kirby Smith (right halfback), Stewart (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Nashville\nSewanee defeated the Nashville Garnet and Blue 6\u20130. In 1903, Wreidt, the team's coach, resigned and Nashville football was threatened with its end, but it survived for a few more years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 60], "content_span": [61, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nSewanee was defeated by rival Vanderbilt, 10\u20135, the first team to even score on the Tigers. Sewanee was crippled in the first half by the loss of Stewart, who fractured his ankle in a scrimmage before the game. He tried to play through it, but had to be helped off the field. John J. Tigert, later a prominent educator, got Vanderbilt's first touchdown. Sewanee tied the score with a touchdown in the second half. Later, Vanderbilt had the ball at the 4-yard line third down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0009-0001", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\n\"As great a stand of a football elevve was that of Sewaee before Vanderbilt's winning touchdown was made.\" On third down from the 1-yard line the center Perry fell on a fumble. Sewanee protested that the runner was down, but Vanderbilt was awarded the touchdown. \"Vanderbilt, in fact all Nashville, is wild with joy tonight. Sewanee is looking forward to next Thanksgiving.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034332-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Sewanee Tigers football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was Wheless (left end), Brong (left tackle), Harper (left guard), Watkins (center), Phillips (right guard), E. Kirby-Smith (right tackle), Jones (right end), Scarbrough (quarterback), Sawrie (left halfback), Colmore (right halfback), Stewart (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034333-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Shurtleff football team\nThe 1903 Shurtleff football team represented Shurtleff College during the 1903 college football season. The team played at Sportsman's Park in Alton, Illinois. The field was owned by the Western Military Academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034334-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 South Antrim by-election\nThe 1903 South Antrim by-election was held after the sitting Unionist MP William Ellison-Macartney had left the Commons to take up the post of Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint. The Unionists nominated Charles Craig, a first time candidate who defeated a Russellite opponent to win the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034335-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1903 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1903 college football season. The team posted an 8\u20132 record. The team suffered losses to North Carolina and NC State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034336-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 South Meath by-election\nThe South Meath by-election, 1903 was a by-election held on 9 October 1903 for the British House of Commons constituency of South Meath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034336-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 South Meath by-election\nThe by-election was triggered by the death of the Independent Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) James Laurence Carew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034336-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 South Meath by-election\nThe Irish Parliamentary Party nominated David Sheehy, a former member for Galway South, as its candidate. The former member for this constituency, John Howard Parnell, had lost to Carew in the previous general election due to an oversight which led to Carew being elected unopposed. Parnell was nominated as an Independent Nationalist. Sheehy was elected with more than twice the votes of Parnell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034337-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Southern African Customs Union Agreement\nThe 1903 Southern African Customs Union Agreement was a multilateral treaty between the British colonies and protectorates in Southern Africa that created a customs union between the territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034337-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Southern African Customs Union Agreement\nAfter the British victory in the Second Boer War, movements began to unify and consolidate British holdings in Southern Africa. The 1903 Customs Union Agreement was signed by the parties to the Agreement over the course of a month in several different locations. The dates on which it was signed were 6, 12, and 25 May and 3 June 1903, and signings took place in Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg, Douglas, and Salisbury. The Agreement was signed by the governments of the Cape Colony, the Colony of Natal, the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal Colony, and Southern Rhodesia. The Governor of the Cape Colony, who was the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, also signed on behalf of Basutoland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Swaziland was admitted to the union in a supplementary protocol that was agreed to in 1904, while North-western Rhodesia was admitted in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 917]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034337-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Southern African Customs Union Agreement\nThe Agreement established a customs union area with free trade amongst the parties. The success of the customs union encouraged some British residents to seek political unification, which ultimately resulted in the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. (Basutoland, Southern Rhodesia, and Swaziland did not join the political union.) In 1910, the Southern African Customs Union was created as the successor to the 1903 union; however, Southern Rhodesia did not join the 1910 customs union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034338-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1903 college football season. The season began on September 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034338-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\n1903 met difficulty in determining an SIAA champion. Clemson had the best record, but lost to an inferior North Carolina team; and in the game to secure the SIAA title were tied by Cumberland. Clemson's John Heisman pushed strongly for Cumberland to share the SIAA title. Cumberland's strongest victory was its win over Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034338-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nHowever, Sewanee beat Cumberland, yet suffered its only loss to Vanderbilt. Heisman originally challenged the winner of the Vanderbilt-Sewanee game. John J. Tigert was a star player for Vanderbilt. Nash Buckingham rated Kentucky University and Vanderbilt as best in the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034338-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034339-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1903 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their only year under head coach J. Ovey Herpin, the team compiled a 1\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election\nThe 1903 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 26 April and on Sunday, 10 May 1903, to elect the 11th Restoration Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 403 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Background\nThe Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a constitutional monarchy, awarding the King power to name senators and to revoke laws, as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the army. The King would also play a key role in the system of El Turno Pac\u00edfico (the Peaceful Turn) by appointing and toppling governments and allowing the opposition to take power. Under this system, the Conservative and Liberal parties alternated in power by means of election rigging, which they achieved through the encasillado, using the links between the Ministry of Governance, the provincial civil governors, and the local bosses (caciques) to ensure victory and exclude minor parties from the power sharing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Spanish Cortes were envisaged as \"co-legislative bodies\", based on a nearly perfect bicameralism. Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, where the Congress had preeminence. Voting for the Cortes was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Congress of Deputies, 95 seats were elected using a partial block voting in 27 multi-member constituencies, with the remaining 308 being elected under a one-round first-past-the-post system in single-member districts. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nIn constituencies electing eight seats or more, electors could vote for no more than three candidates less than the number of seats to be allocated; in those with more than four seats and up to eight, for no more than two less; in those with more than one seat and up to four, for no more than one less; and for one candidate in single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0003-0002", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Congress was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants, with each multi-member constituency being allocated a fixed number of seats: 8 for Madrid, 7 for Barcelona, 5 for Palma and Seville, 4 for Cartagena and 3 for Alicante, Almer\u00eda, Badajoz, Burgos, C\u00e1diz, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, Huelva, Ja\u00e9n, Jerez de la Frontera, La Coru\u00f1a, Lugo, M\u00e1laga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza. The law also provided for by-elections to fill seats vacated throughout the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Senate, 180 seats were indirectly elected, with electors voting for delegates instead of senators. Elected delegates\u2014equivalent in number to one-sixth of the councillors in each municipal corporation\u2014would then vote for senators using a write-in, two-round majority voting system. The provinces of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia were allocated four seats each, whereas each of the remaining provinces was allocated three seats, for a total of 150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0004-0001", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe remaining 30 were allocated to a number of institutions, electing one seat each\u2014the Archdioceses of Burgos, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; the Royal Spanish Academy; the Royal Academies of History, Fine Arts, Sciences, Moral and Political Sciences and Medicine; the Universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; and the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country from Madrid, Barcelona, Le\u00f3n, Seville and Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0004-0002", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nAn additional 180 seats comprised senators in their own right\u2014the Monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age; Grandees of Spain of the first class; Captain Generals of the Army and the Navy Admiral; the Patriarch of the Indies and archbishops; as well as other high-ranking state figures\u2014and senators for life (who were appointed by the Monarch).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034340-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of each House of the Cortes\u2014the Congress and one-half of the elective part of the Senate\u2014expired five years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The Monarch had the prerogative to dissolve both Houses at any given time\u2014either jointly or separately\u2014and call a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election\nThe St Andrews Burghs by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, Vacancy\nHenry Torrens Anstruther had been Liberal Unionist MP for the seat of St Andrews Burghs since the 1886 general election. He resigned on taking up the position of a Director of the Suez Canal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Liberal Unionist since they gained it in 1886. They easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Unionist Association selected 44-year-old Major William Anstruther-Thomson as their candidate to defend the seat. He served in South Africa from 1901-1902 where he was commandant of the district of Knysna in 1901, and Inspector of Concentration Camps in Transvaal in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 45-year-old Captain Edward Charles Ellice as their candidate to gain the seat. He was cousin and heir of Edward Ellice, a previous MP for the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 17 September 1903, just days after the previous MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, Campaign\nEllice, the Liberal candidate, declared himself against Home Rule for Ireland and also declined to support the disestablishment of the church in Scotland, both Liberal policies. This made his campaign less distinguishable from the Liberal Unionists. However, the candidates did differ on the question of trade, Ellice supported the Liberal position of support for Free trade while Thomson supported Tariff Reform as being advocated by leading Unionist Joseph Chamberlain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034341-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 St Andrews Burghs by-election, Aftermath\nAnstruther-Thomson changed his name in 1904 to Anstruther-Gray. At the following general election, he re-gained the seat, the result was;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034342-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1903 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the American League with a record of 65 wins and 74 losses, 26\u00bd games behind the Boston Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034342-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034342-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034342-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034342-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034343-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1903 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 22nd season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 12th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 43\u201394 during the season and finished 8th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034343-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034343-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034343-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034343-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034343-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034344-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 St. Xavier Saints football team\nThe 1903 St. Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented St. Xavier College (later renamed Xavier University) during the 1903 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20133 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 121 to 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034345-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Stanford football team\nThe 1903 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1903 college football season and was coached by James F. Lanagan, a former Stanford baseball player, in his first season coaching the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034345-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Stanford football team, Game summaries, California\nThe 1903 Big Game was the last to be played on a neutral field in San Francisco. It ended in a 6\u20136 tie. Beginning with the 1904 Big Game, the game was alternated between the home field of each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034346-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe 1903 Stetson Hatters football team represented the private Stetson College in the sport of American football during the 1903 college football season. The team claimed a state title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034347-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1903 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the eighth season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. G\u00f6teborgs IF won the tournament by defeating G\u00f6teborgs FF in the final with a 5\u20132 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034348-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1903 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 99 to 67. George H. Brooke was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034349-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Swiss referendums\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by GiantSnowman (talk | contribs) at 20:10, 18 March 2020 (Cleaned up using AutoEd, date formats per MOS:DATEFORMAT by script). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034349-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Swiss referendums\nFour referendums were held in Switzerland during 1903. The first was held on 15 March on a federal law on tariffs, and was approved by 59.6% of voters. The second, third and fourth were all held on 25 October concerning an amendment to the federal criminal law, a popular initiative on Swiss residents electing the National Council and an amendment to article 32bis of the constitution. All three were rejected by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034349-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Swiss referendums, Background\nThe referendums on tariffs and the federal criminal law were optional referendums, which required only a majority of the public vote. The referendum on the changes to National Council elections was popular initiative and the referendum on the constitutional amendment was a mandatory referendum, both of which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034350-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1903 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034351-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 TCU football team\nThe 1903 TCU football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. TCU finished the season 0\u20137 overall. They played their home games in Waco, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034352-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tamworth state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Tamworth on 4 April 1903 because of the bankruptcy of Raymond Walsh (Progressive).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034353-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tasmanian state election\nThe 1903 Tasmanian state election was held on 2 April 1903 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Women got the right to vote at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034353-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Tasmanian state election\nElliott Lewis, leader of the Ministerial group, entered the election as the incumbent Premier of Tasmania. At the election, the group lost 10 seats and Lewis lost his seat. The Opposition led by William Propsting won government. The Workers' Political League (the future Australian Labor Party) fielded candidates for the first time, winning three seats. John Earle became leader of the parliamentary party in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034354-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tempe Normal Owls football team\nThe 1903 Tempe Normal Owls football team was an American football team that represented Tempe Normal School (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Frederick M. Irish, the Owls compiled a 2\u20130 record, shut out both opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 33 to 0. The team won games against the Phoenix High School (18\u20130) and the Phoenix Indians (15\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034355-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tennessee Docs football team\nThe 1903 Tennessee Docs football team represented University of Tennessee College of Medicine as an independent during the 1903 college football season. The team was beaten by the Cumberland Bulldogs, co-champions of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), 86 to 0. The Tennessee Docs also lost to Ole Miss 17 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034356-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1903 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was coached by Hubert Fisher in his second and final season at Tennessee. The Volunteers went 4\u20135 overall with a record of 2\u20134 in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034357-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas\u2014now known as Texas A&M University as an independent during the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034358-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1903 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034359-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tie Cup Final\nThe 1903 Tie Cup Final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 4th. edition of the international competition organised by Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. As its previous editions, the final was contested by two teams from Argentina, Alumni (third consecutive final contested) and Rosario A.C. (fourth consecutive final).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034359-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Tie Cup Final\nThe match, held in Sociedad Sportiva Argentina stadium, was won by Alumni 3\u20132 after extra time, winning its 2nd. title in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034359-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThe cup was contested by nine teams, with five playing in the Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n, two from Rosarian League and two playing in Uruguayan league. Flores could not register in the tournament while Estudiantes (BA) declined to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034359-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nIn the first round, Alumni achieved a large victory over arch-rival Belgrano A.C. (6\u20131) at Quilmes stadium while Rosario A.C. had thrashed Rosario Central 5\u20130 in Plaza Jewell. In semifinals, Alumni defeated Club Nacional de Football (1\u20130 at Parque Central) while Rosario A.C. beat Quilmes 2\u20130 in Plaza Jewell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034359-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nAlthough Rosario A.C. did not win the Cup, the club was in the road to consolidate not only as the main team in its city of origin but one of the strongest teams in Argentina, with four consecutive international finals played. Nevertheless, the club would abandon the practise of football in the 1910s, focusing on rugby union and field hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034360-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1903 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 14th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034360-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nTwo-Mile Borris won the championship after a defeat of Lahora De Wets in the final. It was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034361-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Toronto Argonauts season\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jamesefraser (talk | contribs) at 16:30, 23 October 2019. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034361-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1903 Toronto Argonauts season was to be the club's 18th season of organized league play since its inception in 1873. However, the Argonaut Football Club resigned in protest from the senior series of the Ontario Rugby Football Union on the eve of the season after the ORFU Executive Committee rejected the club's petition against the Union's decision to reinstate two ineligible players on opposing clubs. As a result, the club did not participate in league competition in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France\nThe 1903 Tour de France was the first cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper L'Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L'\u00c9quipe. It ran from 1 to 19 July in six stages over 2,428\u00a0km (1,509\u00a0mi), and was won by Maurice Garin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France\nThe race was invented to boost the circulation of L'Auto, after its circulation started to plummet from competition with the long-standing Le V\u00e9lo. Originally scheduled to start in June, the race was postponed one month, and the prize money was increased, after a disappointing level of applications from competitors. The 1903 Tour de France was the first stage road race, and compared to modern Grand Tours, it had relatively few stages, but each was much longer than those raced today. The cyclists did not have to compete in all six stages, although this was necessary to qualify for the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France\nThe pre-race favourite, Maurice Garin, won the first stage, and retained the lead throughout. He also won the last two stages, and had a margin of almost three hours over the next cyclist. The circulation of L'Auto increased more than sixfold during and after the race, so the race was considered successful enough to be rerun in 1904, by which time Le V\u00e9lo had been forced out of business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Origin\nAfter the Dreyfus affair separated advertisers from the newspaper Le V\u00e9lo, a new newspaper L'Auto-V\u00e9lo was founded in 1900, with former cyclist Henri Desgrange as editor. After being forced to change the name of the newspaper to L'Auto in 1903, Desgrange needed something to keep the cycling fans; with circulation at 20,000, he could not afford to lose them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Origin\nWhen Desgrange and young employee G\u00e9o Lef\u00e8vre were returning from the Marseille\u2013Paris cycling race, Lef\u00e8vre suggested holding a race around France, similar to the popular six-day races on the track. Desgrange proposed the idea to the financial controller Victor Goddet, who gave his approval, and on 19 January 1903, the Tour de France was announced in L'Auto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Origin\nIt was to have been a five-week race, from 1 June to 5 July, with an entry fee of 20 francs. These conditions attracted very few cyclists: one week before the race was due to start, only 15 competitors had signed up. Desgrange then rescheduled the race from 1 to 19 July, increased the total prize money to 20,000 francs, reduced the entry fee to 10 francs and guaranteed at least five francs a day to the first 50 cyclists in the classification. After that, 79 cyclists signed up for the race, of whom 60 actually started the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Origin\nG\u00e9o Lef\u00e9vre became the director, judge and time-keeper; Henri Desgrange was the directeur-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, although he did not follow the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Rules and course\nThe 1903 Tour de France was run in six stages. Compared to modern stage races, the stages were extraordinarily long, with an average distance of over 400\u00a0km (250\u00a0mi), compared to the 171\u00a0km (106\u00a0mi) average stage length in the 2004 Tour de France; cyclists had one to three rest days between each stage, and the route was largely flat, with only one stage featuring a significant mountain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0007-0001", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Rules and course\nThe cyclists were not grouped in teams but raced as individuals, and paid a fee of ten francs (\u20ac87.50 at 2003 prices) to compete in the race for general classification, or five francs to enter a single stage. As the stages were so long, all but the first started before dawn: the last stage started at 21:00 the night before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Rules and course\nThe first Tour de France crossed no mountain passes, but several lesser cols. The first was the col des Echarmeaux (712\u00a0m (2,336\u00a0ft)), on the opening stage from Paris to Lyon, on what is now the old road from Autun to Lyon. The stage from Lyon to Marseille included the col de la R\u00e9publique (1,161\u00a0m (3,809\u00a0ft)), also known as the col du Grand Bois, at the edge of St-Etienne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Rules and course\nIn 1903, it was normal for a professional cyclist to hire pacers, who would lead them during the race. Desgrange forbade this: it was originally intended that in the final, longest, stage pacers would be allowed, but this was rescinded after the fifth stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Rules and course\nTo ensure that the cyclists rode the entire route, stewards were stationed at various points around the course. The yellow jersey for the leader in the general classification had not yet been introduced, but the leader was identified by a green armband.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Rules and course\nThe fastest eight cyclists on each stage received a prize between 50 francs and 1,500 francs, varying per stage. The fourteen best cyclists in the general classification received a prize from 3,000 francs for the winner to 25 francs for fourteenth place. The remaining seven cyclists to finish in the general classification each received 95 francs, 5 francs for each of the 19 days that the race took, provided that they had not won more than 200 francs in prize money and did not have an average speed below 20\u00a0km/h (12\u00a0mph) on any stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Participants\nIn contrast to modern stage races, a cyclist who gave up during a stage was allowed to start again the next stage, although he would no longer be in contention for the general classification. Thus Hippolyte Aucouturier, who gave up during the first stage, was able to return, and won the second and third stages. Charles Laeser, winner of the fourth stage, had not completed the third stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Participants\nSixty cyclists, all professionals or semi-professionals, started the race, of whom 49 were French, 4 Belgian, 4 Swiss, 2 German, and one Italian; 21 of them were sponsored by bicycle manufacturers, while 39 entered without commercial support. 24 other cyclists took advantage of the opportunity to enter specific stages: one rode in both the second and fourth stages, and additionally three cyclists took part in the second stage, one in the third stage, fifteen in the fourth stage only, and a further four only competed in the fifth stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe pre-race favourites for the victory were Maurice Garin and Hippolyte Aucouturier. Garin dominated the race from the start by winning the first stage, a 471\u00a0km (293\u00a0mi) parcours from Paris to Lyon. The stage started at 15:16, and the cyclists initially rode with a speed of 35\u00a0km/h. The first cyclists abandoned after around 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi). At 23:00, Garin and Emile Pagie, leading the race, reached the control point in Nevers. Garin expected at that point that they would finish at 8:00 the next morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0014-0001", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nDuring the night, Garin's main rival, Aucouturier, had stomach cramps, and was unable to finish the stage. Also during that first stage, the first breach of the rules occurred: Jean Fischer had used a car as pacer, which was illegal. Pagie fell down, but got up again; he and Garin kept leading the race during the night. Around 9:00 in the morning, both reached Lyon. Garin got away from Pagie, and finished one minute ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nAlthough Aucouturier had abandoned in the first stage, and so was not eligible for the general classification, he could still start the rest of the stages. In the second stage, Aucouturier was able to win the sprint. In the third stage, the cyclists who were competing for the general classification started one hour earlier than the other cyclists, including Aucouturier. At the end of that stage, a group of four cyclists had broken away, and Eug\u00e8ne Brange won the sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0015-0001", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nAucouturier finished 27 minutes later, but this meant that he had run the course 33 minutes faster, so he was declared the winner of the stage. Garin retained the lead, helped by a crash of second-placed Pagie in the second stage, which eliminated him from the race. In the fourth stage, Aucouturier had a clear lead and seemed set to win a third successive stage, but was caught using the slipstream of a car, and was removed from the race. Swiss Charles Laeser (who had abandoned in the 3rd stage) took the victory, becoming the first non-French winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0015-0002", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nAs in the third stage, the cyclists departed in two groups, and Laeser was in the second group because he was no longer contending for the general classification. Laeser finished more than 50 minutes after a group of six cyclists, but he had travelled the distance 4 minutes faster than them, so he was declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nAt that point, Garin was leading, with \u00c9mile Georget almost two hours behind. In the fifth stage, Georget had two flat tires, and fell asleep when he stopped at the side of the road to rest; he failed to finish. Thus Garin extended his lead by winning this stage, carrying nearly three hours' advantage into the final day's racing. Garin had requested other cyclists in the leading group to let him win the stage, but Fernand Augereau refused to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0016-0001", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nGarin then had Lucien Pothier throw down his bicycle in front of Augereau, who fell, and Garin then bent Augereau's rear wheel. Augereau quickly obtained a spare bike and continued to the finish, however Garin easily won the sprint. Augereau still received a prize of 100 francs from Velo-Sport Nantes for the fastest final kilometer of the stage in the Nantes velodrome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe last stage was the longest, at 471\u00a0km (293\u00a0mi), and ran from Nantes to the small town of Ville-d'Avray, which lies between Versailles and Paris, instead of at the Parc des Princes velodrome. This was because of a bylaw forbidding road races to end on cycling tracks (a bylaw subsequently repealed in light of the race's success). Garin took his third stage win, and sealed overall victory by 2 hours 59 minutes 31 seconds: this remains the greatest margin of victory in the Tour de France. After celebrating with champagne, the riders cycled to Parc des Princes, where they made several laps of honour before an adoring crowd, to the sound of a bugle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Results, Stage results\nIn 1903, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate whether the stage included mountains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Results, General classification\nThere were 21 cyclists who had completed all six stages. For these cyclists, the times taken for each stage were added up for the general classification. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the winner. The cyclists officially were not grouped in teams; some cyclists had the same sponsor, even though they were not allowed to work together,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034362-0020-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Aftermath\nThe circulation of L'Auto increased significantly due to this event; a special edition of 130,000 copies was made after the race was over, and normal circulation increased from 25,000 to 65,000. The big success made sure that the Tour de France was scheduled again for 1904. The cyclists had also become national heroes. Maurice Garin returned for the 1904 Tour de France but his title defence failed when he was disqualified. With the prize money that he won in 1903, which totalled 6,075 francs, (approximately US$40,000 and GBP\u00a323,000 in 2006 values) Garin later bought a gas station, where he worked for the rest of his life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034363-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3\nThe 1903 Tour de France was the 1st edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 1 July and Stage 3 occurred on 8 July with a flat stage to Toulouse. The race finished at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034363-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 1\n1 July 1903 \u2014 Paris (Montgeron) to Lyon, 467\u00a0km (290.2\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034363-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 1\nThe inaugural stage of the Tour de France departed from the Cafe au R\u00e9veil-Matin, in the south-eastern Paris suburb of Montgeron, at 3:16\u00a0p.m. The route headed south through Fontainebleau, Corbeil, Melun, Montargis, Nevers, Moulins, Lapalisse and Roanne, before arriving in Lyon. The riders had raced through the evening and night, to arrive from about 9 a.m. on the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034363-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 2\n5 July 1903 \u2014 Lyon to Marseille, 374\u00a0km (232.4\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034363-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 3\n8 July 1903 \u2014 Marseille to Toulouse, 423\u00a0km (263\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034364-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6\nThe 1903 Tour de France was the 1st edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 1 July and Stage 4 occurred on 12 July with a flat stage from Toulouse. The race finished at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034364-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6, Stage 4\n12 July 1903 \u2014 Toulouse to Bordeaux, 268\u00a0km (166.5\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034364-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6, Stage 5\n13 July 1903 \u2014 Bordeaux to Nantes, 425\u00a0km (264.1\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034364-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6, Stage 6\n18 July 1903 \u2014 Nantes to Paris, 471\u00a0km (293\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034365-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1903 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034366-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Tusculum Pioneers football team\nThe 1903 Tusculum Pioneers football team represented Tusculum College during the 1903 college football season. They played two games against Baker-Himel School, losing the first and winning the second. It was the third season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034367-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1903 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 16 August to 24 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 24 June to 27 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 23rd U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. British Laurence Doherty became the first non-US winner of the men's championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034367-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's singles\nLaurence Doherty (GBR) defeated William Larned (USA) 6\u20130, 6\u20133, 10\u20138", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034367-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nReginald Doherty (GBR) / Laurence Doherty (GBR) defeated Kreigh Collins (USA) / Harry Wainder (USA) 7\u20135, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034367-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nElisabeth Moore (USA) / Carrie Neely (USA) defeated Miriam Hall (USA) / Marion Jones (USA) 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034367-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles\nHelen Chapman (USA) / Harry Allen (USA) defeated Carrie Neely (USA) / W. H. Rowland (USA) 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034368-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nLaurence Doherty defeated defending champion William Larned in the Challenge Round 6\u20130, 6\u20133, 10\u20138 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1903 U.S. National Championships. Doherty had defeated William Clothier in the All Comers' Final, which was delayed by a day due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034368-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA. The entry list consisted of 97 players which was slightly smaller than that of the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034369-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nElisabeth Moore won the singles tennis title of the 1903 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating reigning champion Marion Jones 7\u20135, 8\u20136 in the challenge round. Moore had won the right to challenge Jones by defeating Carrie Neely 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, from June 24 through June 27, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1903 U.S. Open was the ninth U.S. Open, held June 26\u201329 at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, west of New York City. Willie Anderson won the second of his four U.S. Open titles in a playoff over David Brown. The championship was played on the original course at Baltusrol, now known as the Old Course, which no longer exists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf)\nAnderson led after each of the first three rounds, with a six-shot lead after 54 holes, but carded 82 in the final round on Saturday afternoon. Brown's 76 equaled them at 307 total, eight strokes clear of the field. The playoff was moved to Monday because Sunday was reserved for member play, and was played in a heavy rainstorm. Anderson took a two-stroke lead at the turn, but Brown managed to tie after 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf)\nAt the next hole, Brown made a seven after his tee shot went out of bounds, but Anderson only gained a single stroke after three-putting for a six. At 16, Brown made a six to Anderson's five, and both made fours on the last two holes; Anderson ended at 82, two shots ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf)\nAnderson had won in 1901 and was the first to win the U.S. Open twice; it was the first of three consecutive titles, a feat yet to be repeated. His four U.S. Open wins set a record which has been equaled by three others: Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf)\nDonald Ross, who would become known as one of the greatest golf course architects, designing several courses that hosted future U.S. Opens, had his best U.S. Open finish with a 5th place showing. Baseball Hall of Famer John Montgomery Ward played in his first of two U.S. Opens here, finishing in 56th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe Old Course at Baltusrol hosted the U.S. Open again a dozen years later in 1915, then was plowed under three years later in 1918 by course architect A. W. Tillinghast to create the Upper and Lower Courses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf), Past champions in the field\nDid not play: Harry Vardon (1900), Fred Herd (1898), James Foulis (1896).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034370-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nAmateurs: Douglas (322), Reinhart (325), Travis (326), Brokaw (333),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Croker (348), Carnegie (353), Kellogg (356), Gillespie (357),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tappin (359), Watson (360), Ward (363), McDonald (372).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034371-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1903 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 16 to 22 August 1903. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034372-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1903 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1903 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach John Walker, compiling a 4\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034373-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1903 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034374-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were elections in 1903 to the United States House of Representatives:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York\nThe 1903 United States Senate election in New York was held on January 20, 1903, by the New York State Legislature to elect a U.S. Senator (Class 3) to represent the State of New York in the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nRepublican Thomas C. Platt had been re-elected to this seat in 1897, and his term would expire on March 3, 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nAt the State election in November 1902, 28 Republicans and 22 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1903-1904) in the State Senate; and 89 Republicans and 61 Democrats were elected for the session of 1903 to the Assembly. State Senator Patrick F. Trainor who had been re-elected, died on December 25, 1902, and his successor Peter J. Dooling was elected only after the senatorial election, on January 27. The 126th New York State Legislature met from January 6 to April 23, 1903, at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Republican caucus\nThe Republican caucus met on January 19. 25 State senators and 84 assemblymen attended, and State Senator William W. Armstrong presided. The caucus re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Thomas C. Platt almost unanimously. A single vote was cast for U.S. Secretary of War Elihu Root by Assemblyman William A. Denison of Jefferson County. Besides Denison voting against Platt, a small number of anti-Platt men did not attend the caucus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0003-0001", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Republican caucus\nBoss Platt had forced the nomination of Attorney General John C. Davies to the New York Supreme Court in the 5th District, against the local Republican organization's wishes who accused Davies of incompetence. Davies was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Watson M. Rogers although the 5th District was heavily Republican. Thus boss Platt's power began to wane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Democratic caucus\nThe Democratic caucus met also on January 19. All 62 State legislators attended, and Assemblyman Charles W. Hinson, of Erie County, presided. They nominated John B. Stanchfield unanimously. Stanchfield had been Mayor of Elmira, and was defeated when running for Governor of New York in 1900 by Republican Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nThomas C. Platt was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected. Three Republican anti-Platt men, State Senators Edgar T. Brackett (28th D.), Elon R. Brown and Nathaniel A. Elsberg (15th D.), voted for Elihu Root.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nNote: The votes were cast on January 20, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 21 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034375-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in New York, Aftermath\nPlatt remained in the U.S. Senate until March 3, 1909 when he retired. In January 1909, Elihu Root was chosen by the Republicans to succeed Platt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034376-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1903 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on January 20, 1903. Boies Penrose was re-elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034376-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Results\nThe Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 20, 1903, to elect a Senator to fill the term beginning on March 4, 1903. Incumbent Republican Boies Penrose, who was elected in 1897, was a successful candidate for re-election to another term. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034377-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in South Carolina\nThe 1903 South Carolina United States Senate election, held January 27, 1903 to select the U.S. senator from the state of South Carolina, was predetermined by the Democratic Party primary election held on August 26, 1902, and September 9. Democrats were so overwhelmingly dominant that their nomination was tantamount to the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034377-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in South Carolina\nPrior to the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislature and not through the direct election by the people of the state. However, the Democratic Party of South Carolina organized primary elections for the U.S. Senate beginning in 1896 and the General Assembly would confirm the choice of the Democratic voters. Tillmanite Democrat Asbury Latimer won the Democratic primary and was elected by the General Assembly for a six-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034377-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Democratic primary, Campaign\nIn the special election of 1897, the Conservatives were without a candidate so in 1902 four candidates vied for the support of Conservatives: Dan S. Henderson, William Elliott, George Johnstone and John J. Hemphill. The two remaining candidates in the race, Representative Asbury Latimer and former Governor John Gary Evans, were strong Tillmanites. However, they held strongly opposing views and a duel almost ensued between the two while campaigning at St. George on July 12. A fight did indeed break out between Latimer and Hemphill when they were campaigning in Gaffney on August 14. Latimer took offence to an accusation by Hemphill and struck him. Hemphill was unable to strike back because Latimer quickly left the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034377-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Democratic primary, Campaign\nOn August 26, Latimer and Evans emerged as the top two candidates in the field and were to face each other in a runoff election on September 9. The Conservative candidates had garnered more votes combined than the combined vote of Latimer and Evans, but their inability to coalesce around a single candidate prevented a Conservative from winning the election. Evans was widely disliked by Conservatives in the state so they threw their support behind Latimer and he easily won the runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034378-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1903, in eight states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034378-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 United States gubernatorial elections\nKentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Mississippi held their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both elected its governors to a single-year term, which they would abandon in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034378-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Iowa, following a 1904 amendment to the constitution moving the election schedule, the governor's term was lengthened to three years. Elections would be held in even-numbered years from the 1906 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034379-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 University of Florida Blue and White football team\nThe 1903 University of Florida Blue and White football team represented the University of Florida at Lake City in the sport of American football during the 1903 college football season. This was not the modern Florida Gators of the University of Florida in Gainesville, which begins in 1906, but one of its four predecessor institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034380-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 University of New Mexico football team\nThe 1903 University of New Mexico football team was an American football team that represented the University of Dayton as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach Walter McEwan, the team compiled a 3\u20130\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034381-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 University of Utah football team\nThe 1903 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its fourth and final season under head coach Harvey Holmes, the team compiled a 3\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 125 to 87. Quarterback Jimmy Wade was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034382-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1900 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 4th. season of top-flight football in Uruguay. Nacional won its second title after beating CURCC at a final match due to both teams had finished in the first position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034382-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a round-robin championship. It involved seven teams, and the champion was Club Nacional de Football. This would be their second national conquest and the second consecutively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034382-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nWith respect to the previous edition, the tournament featured the incorporation of Montevideo Wanderers. There was no promotion or relegation for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034383-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1903 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1903 college football season. In their second season under head coach George P. Campbell, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20130 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 78 to 0. The season included the first game in the Utah State\u2013Wyoming football rivalry with the Aggies defeating the Cowboys, 46\u20130, at Logan, Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034384-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 VFA season\nThe 1903 Victorian Football Association season was the 27th season of the Australian rules football competition. For the first time in its history, the VFA introduced an annual finals series to determine the premiership. The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club, after defeating Richmond in the challenge final; it was the first premiership in the club's history, after having competed in the Association since its inaugural season in 1877.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034384-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 VFA season, Association membership\nThe size of the association was increased from nine to ten teams in 1903, with the Preston Football Club \u2013 which had won the previous three Victorian Junior Football Association premierships \u2013 elevated to senior level and admitted to the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034384-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 VFA season, Premiership\nThe Association introduced a finals system to determine the major premiership for the season. Finals had been used by the rival Victorian Football League since its establishment in 1897, but this was the first time it had been used by the Association. The finals were played according to the amended Argus system \u2013 the system which had been in use in the League since 1902, except with a slight variation that the League would not adopt until 1907; in summary:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1903 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 12 September 1903. It was the 6th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1903 VFL season. The match, attended by 32,263 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 2 points, marking that club's second successive premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final\nGerald Brosnan had a chance to win Fitzroy the premiership with a set shot for goal off the last kick of the game but missed narrowly to give Collingwood back-to-back flags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final\nCollingwood's Jim Addison, despite playing in just his third game, was the only multiple goalkicker. Both Ern Jenkins and Bert Sharpe of Fitzroy were celebrating their 100th VFL games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nAfter the home-and-away season (which lasted for seventeen matches, including the \"first round\" of fourteen matches and a \"second round\" of three matches), Collingwood was top of the ladder with a record of 15\u20132 and a percentage of 159.4; Fitzroy finished second with a record of 14\u20133 and a percentage of 171.6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nThe finals were contested using the variation of the amended Argus system seen between 1902\u20131906. Fitzroy faced fourth-placed Geelong in the First Semi-Final, and won by 52 points, and Collingwood faced third-placed Carlton in the Second Semi-Final and won by four points. Collingwood and Fitzroy then faced off to decide the premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nUnder the variation of the Argus System in use between 1902\u20131906, the club with the best record in all matches (including finals) could have challenged for the premiership if it had not won this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nHowever, the team that won this game would have become the team with the best record, depriving the other team of the right to challenge, meaning the winner of this match would automatically win the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nEntering the match, Collingwood had a record of 16\u20132, and Fitzroy had a record of 15\u20133, but a superior percentage. Therefore, a Collingwood win would have their 17\u20132 record have ranked above Fitzroy's 15\u20134, and while a Fitzroy win would have left both clubs level on 16\u20133, Fitzroy would have been ranked above Collingwood on percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034385-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nThis is different from the ruling which would have been used under the more widely known variation of the Argus System, which was in use from 1907\u20131930. In that variation, the team with the best record in matches excluding finals had the right to challenge; as Collingwood had the best record after 17 weeks, it would have retained the right to challenge regardless of finals results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034386-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL season\nThe 1903 Victorian Football League season was the seventh season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034386-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1903, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034386-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034386-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 17 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1903 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended \"Argus system\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034386-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL season, Premiership season, Round 2\nThe match between Geelong and Carlton, originally to have been played at Corio Oval, was postponed due to a railway strike. It was played between Rounds 13 and 14, and was opportunistically moved to the Sydney Cricket Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034386-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 VFL season, Grand final\nCollingwood defeated Fitzroy 4.7 (31) to 3.11 (29). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034387-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1903 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their 13th season of organized football. The Keydets finished a short year at 2\u20131 led by first-year head coach Bill Roper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034388-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 VPI football team\nThe 1903 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1903 college football season. The team was led by head coach Charles Augustus Lueder and finished with a record of five wins and one loss (5\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034388-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1903 football team according to the roster published in the 1904 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. James R. Henry coached Vanderbilt for one season in 1903. His squad finished the season with a 6\u20131\u20131 record. The season was marred only by the upset loss to Cumberland. John J. Tigert and Bob Blake were both Rhodes Scholars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season\nAfter the last game of the 1902 year, Walter H. Watkins announced his resignation of his position as head coach of the Vanderbilt football and baseball teams in order that he devote attention to the study of law exclusively. Vanderbilt made an effort to secure the services of coach Neil Snow, who was the University of Nashville (Peabody) coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nCumberland upset the Commodores 6\u20130, the first time Cumberland ever scored on Vanderbilt. Four minutes after the game started, Waterhouse had the decisive touchdown. M. O. Bridges had his right collarbone broken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Pritchard (left tackle), Brown (left guard), Perry (center), Patterson (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Bryan (right end), Kyle (quarterback), D. Blake (left halfback), Hamilton (right halfback), Tigert (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Alabama\nVanderbilt, outweighing Alabama 15 pounds to the man, beat Alabama 30\u20130, in the first all-time meeting between the schools at Dudley Field. Frank Kyle starred with runs of 35, 30, 50, and 48 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Alabama\nVanderbilt took a 12\u20130 halftime lead after first half touchdowns were scored first by Ed Hamilton and followed by John J. Tigert. The Commodores then closed the game with three touchdowns in the second half scored by Hamilton, Dan Blake and Bob Blake for the 30\u20130 victory. Tigert converted all five PAT's in their victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Alabama\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Graham (left tackle), Brown (left guard), Perry (center), Patterson (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), G. Jones (right end), Howell (quarterback), Kyle (left halfback), Hamilton (right halfback), Tigert (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nJones and John J. Tigert starred as the Tennessee Volunteers were beaten 40\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Pritchard (left tackle), B. Brown (left guard), Perry (center), Patterson (right guard), Graham (right tackle), D. Blake (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Tigert (left halfback), Jones (right halfback), Hamilton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgia\nThe Georgia Bulldogs could not check Vanderbilt's end runs and were easily beaten 33\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nVanderbilt gave rival Sewanee its only loss, 10\u20135, the first team to even score on the Tigers. Sewanee was crippled in the first half by the loss of Stewart, who fractured his ankle in a scrimmage before the game. He tried to play through it, but had to be helped off the field. John J. Tigert, later a prominent educator, got Vanderbilt's first touchdown. Sewanee tied the score with a touchdown in the second half. Later, Vanderbilt had the ball at the 4-yard line third down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0010-0001", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\n\"As great a stand of a football elevve was that of Sewaee before Vanderbilt's winning touchdown was made.\" On third down from the 1-yard line the center Perry fell on a fumble. Sewanee protested that the runner was down, but Vanderbilt was awarded the touchdown. \"Vanderbilt, in fact all Nashville, is wild with joy tonight. Sewanee is looking forward to next Thanksgiving.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Pritchard (left tackle), Brown (left guard), Perry (center), Patterson (right guard), Graham (right tackle), D. Blake (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Tigert (left halfback), Bryan (right halfback), Hamilton (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034389-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Postseason\n1903 met difficulty in determining an SIAA champion. Clemson had the best record, but lost to an inferior North Carolina team; and in the game to secure the SIAA title were tied by Cumberland. Clemson's John Heisman pushed strongly for Cumberland to share the SIAA title. Cumberland's strongest victory was its win over Vanderbilt. However, Sewanee beat Cumberland, yet suffered its only loss to Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034390-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1903 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their second year under head coach Harry Howard Cloudman, the team compiled a 4\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034391-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1903 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1903 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was Martin Caine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034392-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1903 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034393-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 WAFA season\nThe 1903 WAFA season was the 19th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034394-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wabash football team\nThe 1903 Wabash football team was an American football team that represented Lake Forest College in the 1903 college football season. In Ebin Wilson's 2nd year as head coach, Wabash compiled a 9\u20133 record, and outscored their opponents 274 to 74. Notable games were against Shortridge High School, Indiana, Purdue, and Notre Dame. Games for the \"Indiana football championship\" were recognized as Notre Dame, Indiana, Purdue, DePauw, Earlham, and Franklin, in which Wabash compiled a 3\u20133 record against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034394-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Wabash football team\nIn the contest with Shortridge, Wabash was up 12\u20130, when the college decided to send in an African-American right guard named Gordon. Upon seeing this, Captain Clark, right halfback of the Shortridge team, refused to play any longer and left the field. According to The Indianapolis Journal, the rest of Shortridge's team acted as gentlemen, and agreed to continue playing. The crowd was also \"bitterly disappointed at the actions of Clark and he was denounced on all sides.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034394-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Wabash football team\nOn October 6, Rose Polytechnic made it known that they would not play Wabash if they permitted Gordon to play in the contest. In response to this, the game was cancelled, and head coach Ebin Wilson asserted that they would play Gordon in every game for the remainder of the season, citing his great importance to the Wabash team. On October 20, Hanover also announced they would not play Wabash if Gordon was allowed to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034394-0001-0002", "contents": "1903 Wabash football team\nThe Guard, hearing this latest news, decided to resign from the Varsity team, so as they would be to play the rest of their season. Wabash accepted the resignation but insisted they had the right to put any member of their football team into play, and would force this proclamation on every upcoming opponent. Gordon would play in a few more varsity games throughout the remainder of the season, put in against Earlham in the last five minutes, and against Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034395-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Waratah state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Waratah on 5 December 1903 because of the resignation of Arthur Griffith (Labour) to unsuccessfully contest a seat in the Senate at the 1903 federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034397-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team\nThe 1903 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. Led by second-year head coach William B. Seaman, the team compiled a record of 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034398-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1903 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1903 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach James N. Ashmore and compiled a record of 3\u20133\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034399-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Senators season\nThe 1903 Washington Senators won 43 games, lost 94, and finished in eighth place in the American League. They were managed by Tom Loftus and played home games at the American League Park I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034399-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Senators season\nWashington had finished in sixth place in each of the previous two seasons (the first two seasons of the American League's existence). However, they fell to eighth and last in 1903. Their only star player, Big Ed Delahanty, got drunk and fell off a bridge into Niagara Falls midway through the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034399-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Senators season\nThe Senators' pitching had always been bad, and indeed, they would allow the most runs in the AL, but without Delahanty the offense sputtered to a halt. Their collective batting average was .231, bad even for the dead-ball era, and no one drove in more than 49 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034399-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034399-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034399-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034399-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034400-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington University football team\nThe 1903 Washington University football team represented the Washington University in St. Louis during the 1903 college football season as an independent. Led by first-year head coach L. W. Boynton, the Washington University compiled a 4\u20134\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 109 to 103.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034401-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Washington football team\nThe 1903 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1903 college football season. In its second season under coach James Knight, the team compiled a 6\u20131 record, shut out five of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 63 to 11. William Spiedel was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034402-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1903 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1903, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including the twelve city councillors, also elected biannually. John Aitken, the incumbent Mayor, sought re-election and retained office unopposed with no other candidates emerging. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034403-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1903 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Harry E. Trout, the team compiled a 7\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 146 to 45. The team's only loss was to Ohio State by a 34\u20136 score. Harry M. Seamon was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season\nThe 1903 Western Conference football season was the eighth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season\nMichigan and Minnesota were conference co-champions, both compiling undefeated seasons with the exception of a 6-6 tie when the two teams played each other. The tie between Michigan and Minnesota gave rise to the tradition of the two teams' playing for the Little Brown Jug. In the chaos that ensued when the Minnesota crowd rushed onto the field at the end of the game, the Wolverines left their water jug behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season\nThe next day, custodian Oscar Munson brought the jug to Minnesota's athletic director; they painted the jug brown and wrote on it, \"Michigan Jug \u2013 Captured by Oscar, October 31, 1903.\" According to legend, Yost sent a letter asking for the jug to be returned, and Cooke wrote in response: \"We have your little brown jug; if you want it, you'll have to win it.\" Yost returned with his team in 1909 to reclaim the jug, and the two teams have awarded the jug to the winner of their annual rivalry game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season\nMichigan compiled an 11\u20130\u20131 and outscored opponents 565 to 6, and Minnesota went 14-0-1 record and outscored opponents 656 to 12. All of Michigan's victories were shutouts, and 13 of Minnesota's victories were shutouts. The 1903 Michigan team was the third of Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams and has been recognized retrospectively as a co-national champion (along with Princeton) by the National Championship Foundation. Michigan's high scorer was fullback Tom Hammond with 163 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nNo Western Conference schools participated in any bowl games during the 1903 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nThirteen players were chosen as first-team players on at least four of the 1903 All-Western college football teams named by the following eight selectors: Billy Mac aggregate (BMA), a team selected by aggregating the choices made by ten critics in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit, Billy Mac (BM) in The St. Paul Globe Chicago Inter-Ocean (CIO), Chicago Record-Herald (CRH), Chicago Tribune (CT), Fred Lowenthal (FL), former star football player at University of Illinois, The Minneapolis Journal (MJ), and Walter Camp (WC). (Players unanimously chosen by all eight selectors are listed in bold.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034404-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nThe following players were selected as first-team players by at least one selector for the 1903 College Football All-America Team. (Consensus first-team selections designated in bold.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034405-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team\nThe 1930 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team represented Western Illinois University in the 1903 college football season as an independent. In the first season in school history, Western Illinois compiled a 0\u20132\u20131 record. Their head coach was unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1903 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\n1903 was a pivotal year for sports at the Western University of Pennsylvania. The hockey team was not sanctioned in 1902 and did not attempt to form a team for the 1902-1903 season. Basketball was played intramurally rather than intercollegiately. The baseball season was cancelled after a few games due to eligibility questions surrounding several players. Consequently, the prospects for a successful football season were dim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nIn late September Fred Crolius, the 1902 football coach, who was put in charge of the Western University's athletics, hired Arthur \u201cTexas\u201d Mosse from Warrensburg Teachers College in Warrensburg, Missouri as permanent physical instructor (i.e. football coach and other duties as assigned). Coach Mosse played college ball at Kansas and had coached the Warrensburg Teachers College team two years to a record of 11-4. The man knew his football but the 1903 season had too many obstacles to overcome. The entire team never practiced at one time. Certain days the Medical students would practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0001-0002", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nOther days the Collegiates and the Law students would attend. The faculty did not make things easy for the students to attend practice. The student body gave little support to the team that did show up and play the games. Attendance was so bad that the administration ceded the home field for the final two games to the visitors so they would not have to pay rent for the stadium grounds. The final record was 1-8-1 and WUP had been outscored 262-25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0001-0003", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe November Courant criticized the University's lack of investment into a sports program befitting a school the size of WUP. A training table for the athletes and class schedules that allowed practice time were strongly suggested. On December 7 at a meeting of the Athletic Association Coach Mosse agreed to coach the 1904 team. The Association promised two thousand dollars specifically to get the football program up to speed. They suggested a five dollar rise in tuition to go directly to the Athletic Association to be used for football only until it was making money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0001-0004", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThen the remaining sports would get some funding. The Alumni Association met on December 16 and presented the plan to the students of the engineering and collegiate departments. The response was overwhelming and the prospects for a total sports program were in place. Exposition Park was secured for all the 1904 home football games. The football fortunes of the Western University of Pennsylvania were finally going to be noticed nationwide. But the WUPs would first have to endure a horrible 1903 football season. In its first season under head coach Arthur Mosse, the team compiled a 1\u20138\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 262 to 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nOn October 3 the WUP eleven traveled to Morgantown, West Virginia for the Backyard Brawl. The Mountaineers were deep in WUP territory on their first possession when Charles Castro fumbled. WUP halfback Illtid Page recovered and raced the length of the field for a touchdown. Carpenter kicked the goal after and the WUPs led 6-0. The Mountaineers dominated the remainder of the game. Charles Castro and Paul Martin each scored two touchdowns to lead West Virginia to a 24-6 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0002-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia\nThe WUP lineup for the game against West Virginia was Huntermark (right guard), Curt Leidenroth (right tackle), Charles Ertzman (right end), Thomas Crea (center), Martin (left guard), Miller (left tackle), Palmer (left end), Carpenter (quarterback), Edwards (right halfback), Illtid Page (left halfback) and Jackson (fullback). The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half. West Virginia finished the season with a 7-1 record under head coach Harry E. Trout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 87], "content_span": [88, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia Conference Seminary\nOn their return trip to Pittsburgh, the WUP eleven stopped in Buckhannon, West Virginia to play the West Virginia Conference Seminary team. Edward Trax scored the lone touchdown of the game to secure the Western University's only win of the season by a score of 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 107], "content_span": [108, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nOn October 10th with six new starters in the lineup, Coach Mosse and the WUP contingent arrived in Beaver Falls, Pa. to take on the Geneva College football juggernaut . More than fifteen hundred boisterous Geneva rooters were not disappointed. The WUP eleven made two first downs. The Covenanters scored ten touchdowns. Joe Thompson scored six. With the score 57-0, both teams agreed to stop the carnage after only twelve minutes into the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0004-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Geneva was Byron Stroud (left end), Miller (left tackle), Reed (left guard), Michael Dinger (center), Ray Alexander (Right guard), Curt Leidenroth (right tackle), Charles Gans (right end), Carpenter (quarterback), Illtid Page (left halfback), John Edwards (right halfback) and Edward Trax (fullback). During the game Edward Ord replaced Reed at left guard. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twelve minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nHeavy rains flooded the Colosseum grounds on October 17 and Coach Mosse was forced to cancel the home opener with Grove City College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Manchester Athletic Club\nSince the Grove City game was cancelled, the WUP set up a practice game with the Manchester Athletic Club for October 20. Coach Mosse substituted freely and tried new plays. WUP fullback Curt Liedenroth fumbled twice which led to two first half Manchester touchdowns. Manchester fullback Elson recovered the first fumble and plunged into the end zone on the next play for the first score. He missed the goal kick. A few plays later end L. Broderick picked up Leidenroth's second miscue and dashed forty yards for the second Manchester touchdown. Elson converted the goal after and Manchester led 10-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0006-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Manchester Athletic Club\nThe WUP offense finally scored on a fifteen yard dash by John Edwards early in the second half. The final score was 10-6 in favor of Manchester A.C. Incidentally, for some unknown reason, the Western University did not want to play a game versus Pittsburgh College (Duquesne University). Pittsburgh College heard the rumor and stocked the Manchester roster with their players. Duquesne lists this game in their record book.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0006-0002", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Manchester Athletic Club\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Manchester A. C. was Byron Stroud (left end), Theo Starzynski (left tackle), Edward Ord (left guard), Thomas Crea (center), Robert Hinchman (Right guard), Reed (right tackle), John Edwards (right end), Carpenter (quarterback), Illtid Page (left halfback), Porter Wall (right halfback) and Edward Trax (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: George Glass replaced John Edwards at right end; John Biggert replaced George Glass at right end; John Edwards replaced Porter Wall at right halfback; and Curt Leidenroth replaced Edward Trax at fullback. The game consisted of twenty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 95], "content_span": [96, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bellevue Outing Club\nOn October 21 another tuneup prior to the State College game was played against the Bellevue Outing Club. Bellevue was the Champion of the Western Pennsylvania 100 pound class. In the first half, the WUP offense moved the ball to the Bellevue five-yard line and turned the ball over on downs. On the next play the defense tackled quarterback Shaw of Bellevue in the end zone for a safety. WUP led 2-0 at halftime. Shaw made amends as he ran the second half kickoff back for a touchdown. Shaw's goal kick after was successful and Bellevue won the game 6-2. The WUP lineup for the game against Bellevue was Byron Stroud (left end), Theo Starzynski (left tackle), Edward Ord (left guard), Thomas Crea (center), Robert Hinchman (Right guard), Reed (right tackle), John Edwards (right end), Carpenter (quarterback), Illtid Page (left halfback), Porter Wall (right halfback) and Edward Trax (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 91], "content_span": [92, 988]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe two practice games were to no avail as the State College football team came to the Colosseum and annihilated Coach Mosse's team. Since the State College lineup had three \u201cprofessionals\u201d, Coach Mosse inserted himself into the lineup. Ironically, his fumble led to the first State touchdown by Carl Forkum. State College would score nine more touchdowns in the game. Carl Forkum scored four plus nine extra points, Irv Thompson scored three, Irish McIlveen scored two and Smith added one to make the final score 59-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0008-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nWUP lost to State College for the sixth straight time and was outscored 173-4 in the series. The WUP lineup for the game against Penn State was Byron Stroud (left end), Starr (left tackle), Thomas Aye (left guard), Michael Dinger (center), Andrew Cloak (Right guard), Miller (right tackle), Clyde McGogney (right end), Carpenter (quarterback), Arthur Mosse (left halfback), John Edwards (right halfback) and Curt Leidenroth (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Hinchman replaced Miller at right tackle; Illtid Page replaced John Edwards at right halfback; Edward Trax replaced Curt Leidenroth at fullback; and John Biggert replaced Edward Trax. The game consisted of twenty minute halves. Penn State finished the season with a 5-3 record under head coach Daniel A. Reed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Geneva\nOn October 31, the undefeated and unscored upon Geneva Covenanters arrived at the Colosseum to play the rematch with the WUP eleven. Geneva had no trouble keeping their record intact as they scored five touchdowns. Their staunch defense kept the WUP backs out of the end zone and the final score read 32-0. Joe Thompson and Jud Schmidt each scored two touchdowns for the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0009-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Geneva\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Geneva was Byron Stroud (left end), Starr (left tackle), Robert Hinchman (left guard), Michael Dinger (center), Huntermark (Right guard), Curt Leidenroth (right tackle), George Glass (right end), Shaeffer (quarterback), John Biggert (left halfback), Porter Wall (right halfback) and Edward Trax (fullback). The game consisted of twenty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 77], "content_span": [78, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bucknell\nThe game scheduled against Bucknell University on November 3, 1903 was cancelled by the WUP administration because they would not pay the $1,000 fee that Bucknell demanded as a guarantee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, East End Athletic Association\nThe East End AA agreed to play the WUP on November 3. The game was late starting because Coach Mosse had difficulty finding eleven men to play. The contingent that did play gave their best but the East Enders were too strong. The WUP offense was shut out for the fourth time and the WUP defense surrendered five touchdowns. The final score read 28-0 in favor of the East Enders. Because the crowd was so sparse, the WUP officials cancelled the remaining home games and rescheduled them as road games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 100], "content_span": [101, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0011-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, East End Athletic Association\nThe WUP lineup for the game against the East End AA was Byron Stroud (left end), Starr (left tackle), Michael Dinger (left guard), Thomas Crea (center), Huntermark (Right guard), Edward Trax (right tackle), George Glass (right end), Shaeffer (quarterback), Illtid Page (left halfback), John Biggert (right halfback) and Curt Leidenroth (fullback). The game consisted of twenty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 100], "content_span": [101, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Grove City\nThe WUP eleven traveled to Grove City, Pennsylvania on November 7 to meet the Grove City Wolverines. The WUP defense played a strong game. The Wolverines had the ball in WUP territory most of the first half but were unable to score. In the second half Grove City drove the ball to the WUP fifteen yard line but again the WUP defense stiffened and Grove City's fullback Locke missed a field goal. After an exchange of punts, the WUP offense secured the ball on their forty yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0012-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Grove City\nFrom there the backs were able to advance the ball in short plunges and end runs to the thirteen yard line of the Wolverines as time ran out. The final score read 0-0. The WUP lineup for the game against Grove City was Byron Stroud (left end), Starr (left tackle), Robert Hinchman (left guard), Michael Dinger (center), Huntermark (Right guard), Curt Leidenroth (right tackle), Mason (right end), John Edwards (quarterback), Illtid Page (left halfback), John Biggert (right halfback) and Edward Trax (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Cropp replaced Robert Hinchman at left guard; Robert Hinchman replaced Curt Leidenroth at right tackle; Shaeffer replaced Mason at right end; and Curt Leidenroth replaced Edward Trax at fullback. The game consisted of twenty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Marietta\nThe WUPs closed out their dismal season with a trip to Marietta, Ohio to take on the Pioneers of Marietta College. In the first half the WUP offense fumbled on more than one possession allowing the Pioneers to easily score thirty-four unanswered points. After halftime, Marietta played their substitutes and scored two more touchdowns. Late in the game, the WUP defense blocked a punt and recovered the ball on Marietta's fifteen yard line. A few plays later Illtid Page plunged into the end zone from the three for the only WUP touchdown of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0013-0001", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Marietta\nJohn Edwards kicked the goal after and the final result was Marietta 45 \u2013 WUP 6. The WUP lineup for the game against Marietta was Byron Stroud (left end), Starr (left tackle), Robert Hinchman (left guard), Thomas Crea (center), Huntermark (Right guard), Curt Leidenroth (right tackle), Illtid Page (right end), John Edwards (quarterback), Cropp (left halfback), John Biggert (right halfback) and Edward Trax (fullback). The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Westminster (PA)\nThe game scheduled with Westminster College on November 7 was moved to November 21 in New Wilmington, Pa. On November 20, the WUP management cancelled the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034406-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1903 Western University of Pennsylvania football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034407-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1903 William & Mary Orange and White football team was an American football team that represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1903 college football season. Led by Harold J. Davall in his first and only season as head coach, the Orange and White compiled an overall record of 1\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034408-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Willoughby state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Willoughby on 9 September 1903 because of the bankruptcy of George Howarth (Liberal Reform).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034409-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1903 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 22 June until 1 July. It was the 27th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034409-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Frank Riseley / Sydney Smith, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034410-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Harold Mahony and Major Ritchie 8\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champions Frank Riseley and Sydney Smith 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1903 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034411-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Gentlemen's Singles\nFrank Riseley defeated Major Ritchie 1\u20136, 6\u20133, 8\u20136, 13\u201311 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Laurence Doherty defeated Riseley 7\u20135, 6\u20133, 6\u20130 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1903 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034412-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Ladies' Singles\nDorothea Douglass defeated Ethel Thomson 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 in the All Comers' Final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1903 Wimbledon Championships. The reigning champion Muriel Robb did not defend her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034413-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1903 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1903 college football season. It was head coach Arthur Hale Curtis first year in charge of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034414-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1903 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 20 and 21 March 1903 at the ice rink Market Place in Saint Petersburg, Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034414-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThere was no defending champion. No one won at least three distances and so no World champion was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034414-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034415-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 1st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Antwerp, Belgium, in conjunction with the 27th Belgian Federal Festival, on 14-18 August 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034416-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034416-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place from February 20 to 21 at the Yusupovsky Garden in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire and was timed to 200-year Jubilee of Saint Petersburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034416-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 World Figure Skating Championships\nCarried out of the competition for the second time won the pairs competition sporting a pairs: Christina von Szabo / G. Euler (1st place) and brother and sister Mizzi Bohatsch / Otto Bohatsch (2nd place) both of Austria. Third place is left for a couple of Berlinger / Stahlberg from Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series\nThe 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. It matched the American League (AL) champion Boston against the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four. The first three games were played in Boston, the next four in Allegheny (home of the Pirates), and the eighth (last) game in Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series\nPittsburgh pitcher Sam Leever injured his shoulder while trap-shooting, so his teammate Deacon Phillippe pitched five complete games. Phillippe won three of his games, but it was not enough to overcome the club from the new American League. Boston pitchers Bill Dinneen and Cy Young led Boston to victory. In Game 1, Phillippe struck out ten Boston batters. The next day, Dinneen bettered that mark, striking out 11 Pittsburgh batters in Game 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series\nHonus Wagner, bothered by injuries, batted only 6-for-27 (.222) in the Series and committed six errors. The shortstop was deeply distraught by his performance. The following spring, Wagner (who in 1903 led the league in batting average) refused to send his portrait to a \"Hall of Fame\" for batting champions. \"I was too bum last year\", he wrote. \"I was a joke in that Boston-Pittsburgh Series. What does it profit a man to hammer along and make a few hits when they are not needed only to fall down when it comes to a pinch? I would be ashamed to have my picture up now.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series\nDue to overflow crowds at the Exposition Park games in Allegheny City, if a batted ball rolled under a rope in the outfield that held spectators back, a \"ground-rule triple\" would be scored. 17 ground-rule triples were hit in the four games played at the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series\nIn the series, Boston came back from a three games to one deficit, winning the final four games to capture the title. Such a large comeback would not happen again until the Pirates came back to defeat the Washington Senators in the 1925 World Series, and has happened only 11 times in baseball history. (The Pirates themselves repeated this feat in 1979 against the Baltimore Orioles.) Much was made of the influence of Boston's \"Royal Rooters\", who traveled to Exposition Park and sang their theme song \"Tessie\" to distract the opposing players (especially Wagner). Boston wound up winning three out of four games in Allegheny City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series\nPirates owner Barney Dreyfuss added his share of the gate receipts to the players' share, so the losing team's players actually finished with a larger individual share than the winning team's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series\nThe Series brought the new American League prestige and proved its best could beat the best of the National League, thus strengthening the demand for future World Series competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Background, A new league\nIn 1901, Ban Johnson, president of the Western League, a minor league organization, formed the American League to take advantage of the National League's 1900 contraction from twelve teams to eight. Johnson and fellow owners raided the National League and signed away many star players, including Cy Young and Jimmy Collins. Johnson had a list of 46 National Leaguers he targeted for the American League; by 1902, all but one had made the jump. The constant raiding, however, nixed the idea of a championship between the two leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0007-0001", "contents": "1903 World Series, Background, A new league\nPirates owner Barney Dreyfuss, whose team ran away with the 1902 National League pennant, was open to a postseason contest and even said he would allow the American League champion to stock its roster with all-stars. However, Johnson had spoken of putting a team in Pittsburgh and even attempted to raid the Pirates' roster in August 1902, which soured Dreyfuss. At the end of the season, however, the Pirates played a group of American League All-Stars in a four-game exhibition series, winning two games to one, with one tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0008-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Background, A new league\nThe leagues finally called a truce in the winter of 1902\u201303 and formed the National Commission to preside over organized baseball. The following season, the Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates had secured their respective championship pennants by September. That August, Dreyfuss challenged the American League to an 11-game championship series. Encouraged by Johnson and National League President Harry Pulliam, Americans owner Henry J. Killilea met with Dreyfuss in Pittsburgh in September and instead agreed to a best-of-nine championship, with the first three games played in Boston, the next four in Allegheny City, and the remaining two (if necessary) in Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0009-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Background, A new league\nOne significant point about this agreement was that it was an arrangement primarily between the two clubs rather than a formal arrangement between the leagues. In short, it was a voluntary event, a fact which would result in no Series at all for 1904. The formal establishment of the Series as a compulsory event started in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0010-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, The teams\nThe Pirates won their third straight pennant in 1903 thanks to a powerful lineup that included legendary shortstop Honus Wagner, who hit .355 and drove in 101 runs, player-manager Fred Clarke, who hit .351, and Ginger Beaumont, who hit .341 and led the league in hits and runs. The Pirates' pitching was weaker than it had been in previous years but boasted 24-game winner Deacon Phillippe and 25-game winner Sam Leever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0011-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, The teams\nThe Americans had a strong pitching staff, led by Cy Young, who went 28\u20139 in 1903 and became the all-time wins leader that year. Bill Dinneen and Long Tom Hughes, right-handers like Young, had won 21 games and 20 games each. The Boston outfield, featuring Chick Stahl (.274), Buck Freeman (.287, 104 RBI) and Patsy Dougherty (.331, 101 runs scored) was considered excellent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0012-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, The teams\nAlthough the Pirates had dominated their league for the previous three years, they went into the series riddled with injuries and plagued by bizarre misfortunes. Otto Krueger, the team's only utility player, was beaned on September 19 and never fully played in the series. 16-game winner Ed Doheny left the team three days later, exhibiting signs of paranoia; he was committed to an insane asylum the following month. Leever had been battling an injury to his pitching arm (which he made worse by entering a trapshooting competition). Worst of all, Wagner, who had a sore thumb throughout the season, injured his right leg in September and was never 100 percent for the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0013-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, The teams\nSome sources say Boston were heavy underdogs. Boston bookies actually gave even odds to the teams (and only because Dreyfuss and other \"sports\" were alleged to have bet on Pittsburgh to bring down the odds). The teams were generally thought to be evenly matched, with the Americans credited with stronger pitching and the Pirates with superior offense and fielding. The outcome, many believed, hinged on Wagner's health. \"If Wagner does not play, bet your money at two to one on Boston\", said the Sporting News, \"but if he does play, place your money at two to one on Pittsburg.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0014-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThursday, October 1, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0015-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe Pirates started Game 1 strong, scoring six runs in the first four innings, and held on to win the first World Series game in baseball history. They extended their lead to 7\u20130 on a home run by Jimmy Sebring in the seventh, the first home run in World Series history. Boston tried to mount a comeback in the last three innings, but it was too little, too late; they ended up losing 7\u20133 in the first ever World Series game. Both Phillippe and Young threw complete games, with Phillippe striking out ten and Young fanning five, but Young also gave up twice as many hits and allowed three earned runs to Phillippe's two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0016-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nFriday, October 2, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0017-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nAfter starting out strong in Game 1, the Pirates simply shut down offensively, eking out a mere three hits, all singles. Pittsburgh starter Sam Leever went 1 inning and gave up three hits and two runs, before his ailing arm forced him to leave in favor of Bucky Veil, who finished the game. Bill Dinneen struck out 11 and pitched a complete game for the Americans, while Patsy Dougherty hit home runs in the first and sixth innings for two of the Boston's three runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0017-0001", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe Americans' Patsy Dougherty led off the Boston scoring with an inside-the-park home run, the first time a lead-off batter did just that until Alcides Escobar of the Kansas City Royals duplicated the feat in the 2015 World Series, 112 years later. Dougherty's second home run was the first in World Series history to actually sail over the fence, an incredibly rare feat at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0018-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nSaturday, October 3, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0019-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nPhillippe, pitching after only a single day of rest, started Game 3 for the Pirates and didn't let them down, hurling his second complete-game victory of the Series to put Pittsburgh up two games to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0020-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nTuesday, October 6, 1903, at Exposition Park (III) in Allegheny, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0021-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nAfter two days of rest, Phillippe was ready to pitch a second straight game. He threw his third complete-game victory of the series against Bill Dinneen, who was making his second start of the series. But Phillippe's second straight win was almost not to be, as the Americans, down 5\u20131 in the top of the ninth, rallied to narrow the deficit to one run. The comeback attempt failed, as Phillippe managed to put an end to it and give the Pirates a commanding 3\u20131 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0022-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nWednesday, October 7, 1903, at Exposition Park (III) in Allegheny, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0023-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nGame 5 was a pitcher's duel for the first five innings, with Boston's Cy Young and Pittsburgh's Brickyard Kennedy giving up no runs. That changed in the top of the sixth, however, when the Americans scored a then-record six runs before being retired. Young, on the other hand, managed to keep his shutout intact before finally giving up a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth. He went the distance and struck out four for his first World Series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0024-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nThursday, October 8, 1903, at Exposition Park (III) in Allegheny, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0025-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nGame 6 was a rematch between the starters of Game 2, Boston's Dinneen and Pittsburgh's Leever. Leever pitched a complete game this time but so did Dinneen, who outmatched him to earn his second complete-game victory of the series. After losing three of the first four games of the World Series, the underdog Americans had tied the series at three games apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0026-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nSaturday, October 10, 1903, at Exposition Park (III) in Allegheny, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0027-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nThe fourth and final game in Allegheny saw Phillippe start his fourth game of the Series for the Pirates. This time, however, he wouldn't fare as well as he did in his first three starts. Cy Young, in his third start of the Series, held the Pirates to three runs and put the Americans ahead for the first time as the Series moved back to Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0028-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 8\nTuesday, October 13, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0029-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 8\nThe final game of this inaugural World Series started out as an intense pitcher's duel, scoreless until the bottom of the fourth when Hobe Ferris hit a two-run single. Phillippe started his fifth and final game of the series and Dinneen his fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0029-0001", "contents": "1903 World Series, Matchups, Game 8\nAs he did in Game 2, Dinneen threw a complete-game shutout, striking out seven and leading his Americans to victory, while Phillippe pitched respectably but just couldn't match Dinneen because his arm had been worn out with five starts in the eight games, giving up three runs to give the first 20th-century World Championship to the Boston Americans, Honus Wagner striking out to end the Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0030-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Composite line score\n1903 World Series (5\u20133): Boston Americans (A.L.) over Pittsburgh Pirates (N.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0031-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Series statistics, Boston Americans, Batters\nNote: GP=Games played; AB=At Bats; H=Hits; Avg.=Batting Average; HR=Home Runs; RBI=Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0032-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Series statistics, Boston Americans, Pitchers\nNote: G=Games played; GS=Games started; ERA=Earned run average; W=Wins; L=Losses; IP=Innings pitched; H=Hits; R=Runs; ER= Earned runs; BB=Walks; SO= Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0033-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Series statistics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Batters\nNote: GP=Games played; AB=At Bats; H=Hits; Avg.=Batting Average; HR=Home Runs; RBI=Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034417-0034-0000", "contents": "1903 World Series, Series statistics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pitchers\nNote: G=Games played; GS=Games started; ERA=Earned run average; W=Wins; L=Losses; IP=Innings pitched; H=Hits; R=Runs; ER= Earned runs; BB=Walks; SO= Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 66], "content_span": [67, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034418-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1903 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1903 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach William McMurray, the team compiled a 3\u20132 record and was outscored by a total of 63 to 32. Julius Merz was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034419-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11\u20131 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11\u20136 score to Princeton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034419-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Yale Bulldogs football team\nFour Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team. Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick, and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034420-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 Yukon general election\nThe 1903 Yukon general election was held on January 13, 1903. The council was expanded to elect five of the ten members to the Yukon Territorial Council. The election was fought along party lines even though the council was limited in its powers and played an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034420-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 Yukon general election, Distribution\nThe Yukon was divided up into three electoral districts by the Yukon Territorial Council. The two rural districts were named Districts No. 1 and No 2. and each elected two members while Whitehorse became its own electoral district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034420-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 Yukon general election, Distribution\nAfter the election the validity of the election was called into question because the Yukon council might have overstepped its authority dividing up the Yukon into electoral districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034421-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 ball in the Winter Palace\nThe 1903 ball in the Winter Palace (Russian: \u041a\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044e\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0431\u0430\u043b 1903 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430, lit. \"Costume ball of 1903\") was a luxurious ball during the reign of the Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. It was held in the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, in two stages, on February 11 and 13. All the visitors were in bejeweled 17th-century style costumes, made from designs by the artist Sergey Solomko, in collaboration with historical experts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034421-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 ball in the Winter Palace\nGrand Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch recalled the occasion as \"the last spectacular ball in the history of the empire\u00a0... [ but] a new and hostile Russia glared through the large windows of the palace\u00a0... while we danced, the workers were striking and the clouds in the Far East were hanging dangerously low.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034421-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 ball in the Winter Palace\nThe entire Imperial family posed in rich 17th-century costumes, Tsar Nicholas as Alexis, the Tsaritsa Alexandra as Maria Miloslavskaya, in the Hermitage Theatre, many wearing priceless original items brought specially from the Kremlin, for what was to be their final photograph together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034422-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 college baseball season\nThe 1903 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1903. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034422-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 college baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1903 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034423-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 college football season\nThe 1903 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Princeton as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1903 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan\nThe year passes quietly, without any internal disturbances, and nothing more is heard, or at least made public, about the attempt of Russia to establish direct intercourse between its own and the Afghan frontier officials for commercial purposes. The amir appoints his brother, Sardar Nasrullah Khan, commander-in-chief, and he orders the construction of a line of fortified serais from Dacca to Kabul, from Kabul to Kotal Manjan, in Badakhshan, from Kabul to the Oxus, and from Balkh to Bala Murghab, on the Russian frontier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan, February 4, 1903\nMaj. Henry McMahon, the British officer appointed to settle the boundary dispute between Persia and Afghanistan, reaches the Helmand, and is joined by the Afghan commissioner on February 12. The work is said to proceed satisfactorily. A joint Afghan and British commission was appointed to demarcate the boundary between the two countries, from Nawa Kila, where Richard Udny left off in 1895, to the Peiwar, where Mr. Donald began on the Kurram side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan, Early 1903\nThe amir is compelled to abandon his project of forming a bodyguard of Afridis owing to the jealousy which it excited, and those who were enlisted are disbanded and sent back to their homes, and their rifles are taken back from them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan, September 1903\nThere is a severe outbreak of cholera at Kabul, which proves fatal to more than one of the amir's leading officials. The amir himself remains in Kabul throughout the outbreak, doing his utmost to allay the alarm, and personally superintending sanitary reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan, October 1903\nThirty-six sepoys are tried by court-martial at Kabul on charges of inciting to rebellion, and are put to death in the presence of all the troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan, October 16, 1903\nThe amir holds a great durbar in honour of his accession, and speaks in praise of the mullahs, whom he is said to greatly favour generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034424-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 in Afghanistan, Late 1903\nIt is reported that the amir's half-brother, Mohammad Omar, is suspected of intriguing against him, and that there is a serious dispute between the amir and Mohammad Omar's mother about family jewels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034425-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Argentine football\n1903 in Argentine football saw champion Alumni win its fourth consecutive league championship. On 26 July 1903 Alumni lost its first league game in four years. Flores A.C., which had left the Association in 1898, returned to the competition under the name \"Club Atl\u00e9tico de Flores\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034425-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in Argentine football, Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe championship was expanded to a 6 team league format in 1903, with each team playing the other twice. In February 1903 the association changed its name from \"The Argentine Association Football League\" to \"Argentine Football Association\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034426-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1903 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034427-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034427-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1903 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034427-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1903 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034428-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Australian soccer\nThe 1903 season was the 20th season of competitive association football in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034428-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in Australian soccer, Cup competitions\n(Note: figures in parentheses display the club's competition record as winners/runners-up.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034432-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Brazilian football\nThe 1903 season was the second season of competitive football in Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034433-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1903 in music in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034435-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canada, Historical Documents\nSaint John Globe correspondent covers canoe trip down Saint John River above Fredericton, N.B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034435-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canada, Historical Documents\nHalifax Morning Chronicle correspondent provides humorous profile of New Westminster, B.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034435-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canada, Historical Documents\nGold, fraud and foxes in news from New Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034435-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canada, Historical Documents\nDespite late planting and her husband working off-farm, newly immigrated woman and sons bring in successful harvest in Saskatchewan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034435-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canada, Historical Documents\nExplorer's last words as he starves to death on Labrador expedition that his wife later completes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034436-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canadian football, News\nThe Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) adopted the Burnside Rules which reduced teams to 12 men per side, put into play the snap-back system of moving the ball, required the offensive team to gain 10 yards on three downs, abolished the throw-in from the sidelines, permitted only six men on the line, stated that all goals by kicking were to be worth two points, and the opposition was to line up 10 yards from the defenders on all kicks. The rules were to be made uniform across the country as quickly as possible. The Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU), Quebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) and Canadian Rugby Union (CRU) refused to adopt the new Rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034436-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canadian football, News\nQRFU and CRU reduced their rosters from 15 to 14 players. CRU ruled that possession could not go beyond three scrimmages unless during the third scrimmage the ball was moved five yards on a run or a kick. Ottawa returned to the QRFU and the Manitoba Rugby Football Union (MRFU) moved to a fall schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034436-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = games played, W = wins, L = losses, T = ties, PF = points for, PA = points against, Pts = points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034436-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 in Canadian football, Playoffs\nNo Dominion Final was played this year due to a rules dispute over the newly adopted Burnside Rules used by the ORFU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034437-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1903 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034438-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in China\nThe following lists events that happened during 1903 in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034440-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in El Salvador\nThe following lists events that happened in 1903 in El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034445-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Italy, Events\nThe year is marked by the return of Giovanni Giolitti as Prime Minister. He will dominate Italian politics until World War I, a period known as the Giolittian Era in which Italy experienced an industrial expansion, the rise of organised labour and the emergence of an active Catholic political movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034446-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Japan\nEvents in the year 1903 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 36 (\u660e\u6cbb36\u5e74) in the Japanese calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034447-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1903 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034447-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe 15th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034447-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 in New Zealand, Events, September\n26 September \u2013 New Zealand is the first country in the world to pass a Wireless Telegraphy Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034447-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 in New Zealand, Sport, Boxing\nThe Bantamweight division is included in the national championships for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034449-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Norwegian football\nThe 1903 season was the 2nd season of competitive football in Norway. This page lists results from Norwegian football in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034450-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1903 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034455-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1903 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034458-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Swedish football\nThe 1903 season in Swedish football, starting January 1903 and ending December 1903:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034460-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034462-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in architecture\nThe year 1903 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034464-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1903 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034466-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1903 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034467-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in film\nThe year 1903 in film involved many significant events in cinema.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034468-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in jazz\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 63.143.205.78 (talk) at 16:36, 16 November 2019. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034468-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034469-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034470-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1903 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034471-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in music\nThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034472-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in paleontology\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by BHGbot (talk | contribs) at 22:53, 18 June 2020 (WP:BHGbot 6 (List 5): fixed sort key; WP:GENFIXES). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034472-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034472-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named dinosaurs\nErroneously thought preoccupied by Haplacanthus Agassiz, 1945 and renamed Haplocanthosaurus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034473-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034473-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034475-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034476-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in science\nThe year 1903 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034477-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in science fiction\nThe year 1903 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034477-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 in science fiction, Awards\nThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034478-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in sports\n1903 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034479-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1903 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave\nThe 1903 papal conclave followed the death of Pope Leo XIII after a reign of 25 years. Some 62 cardinals participated in the balloting. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria asserted the right claimed by certain Catholic rulers to veto a candidate for the papacy, blocking the election of the leading candidate, Cardinal Secretary of State Mariano Rampolla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave\nOn the morning of the fifth day, on its seventh ballot, the conclave elected Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, who took the name Pius X.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Background\nThe pontificate of Leo XIII came to an end on 20 July 1903 after 25 years, longer than any previous elected Pope, except his predecessor Pius IX; together, they had reigned 57 years. While Pius had been a conservative reactionary, Leo had been seen as a liberal, certainly in comparison with his predecessor. As cardinals gathered, the key question was whether a pope would be chosen who would continue Leo's policies or return to the style of papacy of Pius IX.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0003-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Background\nOf the 64 cardinals, 62 participated, the largest number to enter a conclave up until that time. Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano was the only elector with previous experience of electing a pope. Health prevented Michelangelo Celesia of Palermo from traveling and Patrick Francis Moran of Sydney was not expected before August 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0004-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Balloting\nWhen the cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel, attention focused on Cardinal Secretary of State Mariano Rampolla, though cardinals from the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires preferred a candidate more closely aligned with their interests, which meant relatively hostile to France and republicanism and less supportive of the social justice advocacy of Leo XIII. They were persuaded that their first choice, Serafino Vannutelli, who had been a Vatican diplomat in Vienna, was not electable and settled on Girolamo Maria Gotti instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0005-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Balloting\nAfter a first day without balloting, the cardinals voted once each morning and once each afternoon. The first ballots were taken on the second day of the conclave, and that afternoon's ballot had 29 votes for Rampolla, 16 for Gotti, and 10 for Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, and others scattered. Some of the Germans thought that Gotti's appeal was limited and decided to support Sarto as their best alternative to Rampolla, who otherwise appeared likely to win the two-thirds vote required, which was 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0005-0001", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Balloting\nAs the cardinals were completing their third set of ballots on the morning of 2 August, Cardinal Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna de Kosielsko, the Prince-Bishop of Krak\u00f3w and a subject of Austria-Hungary, acting on instructions from Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, exercised the Emperor's right of jus exclusivae, that is, to veto one candidate. At first there were objections and some cardinals wanted to ignore the Emperor's communication.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0005-0002", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Balloting\nThen Rampolla called it \"an affront to the dignity of the Sacred College\" but withdrew himself from consideration saying that \"with regard to my humble person, I declare that nothing could be more honorable, nothing more agreeable could have happened.\" Nevertheless the third ballot showed no change in support for Rampolla, still with 29 votes, while the next two candidates had switched positions, with 21 for Sarto and 9 for Gotti. Several cardinals later wrote of their disgust at the Emperor's intervention, one writing that it left a \"great, painful impression on all\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0005-0003", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Balloting\nThe afternoon tested the remaining sympathy for Rampolla, who gained a single vote, while Sarto had 24 and Gotti fell to 3. The precise impact of the Emperor's intervention is difficult to assess, since Rampolla continued to have strong support for several ballots. Yet one contemporaneous assessment held that \"After calm reflection, those who had voted for Rampolla up to this time had to consider that an election against the expressed wish of the Emperor of Austria would at once place the new Pope in a most unpleasant position.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0005-0004", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Balloting\nThe fifth ballot on the morning on the fourth day (3 August) showed Sarto leading with 27, Rampolla down to 24, and Gotti at 6, with a few still scattered. Sarto then announced that the cardinals should vote for someone else, that he did not have what was required of a pope. The movement toward Sarto continued in the afternoon: Sarto 35, Rampolla 16, Gotti 7. On the morning of 4 August, on the seventh ballot, the conclave elected Sarto with 50 votes, leaving 10 for Rampolla and 2 for Gotti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0006-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, Balloting\nSarto took the name Pius X. Following the practice of his two immediate predecessors since the 1870 invasion of Rome, Pius X gave his first Urbi et Orbi blessing on a balcony facing into St. Peter's Basilica rather than facing the crowds outside, a symbolic representation of his opposition to Italian rule of Rome and his demand for a return of the Papal States to his authority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034482-0007-0000", "contents": "1903 papal conclave, End of the veto\nOn 20 January 1904, less than six months after his election, Pius X issued the apostolic constitution Commissum Nobis which prohibited the exercise of the jus exclusivae. Where previous popes had issued rules restricting outside influence on the cardinal electors, Pius used more thorough and detailed language, prohibiting not only the assertion of the right to veto but even the expression of \"a simple desire\" to that effect. He set automatic excommunication as the penalty for violating his strictures. He also required conclave participants to swear an oath to abide by these rules and not allow any influence by \"lay powers of any grade or order\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034483-0000-0000", "contents": "1903 water riots\nThe 1903 water riots took place at Port of Spain on March 23rd in the then British colony Trinidad and Tobago. As a result of the riots, the Red House, which was the seat of the Executive and Legislative Council was destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034483-0001-0000", "contents": "1903 water riots\nAt around 1900, Trinidad had a high consumption of water. In 1874 the yearly water consumption per citizen was twice as high as in London. Following the building of national waterworks infrastructure, the Government passed an ordinance that increased the cost of water, enacting the installation of water meters in private homes. A number of public meetings had been held to protest the increase, culminating in a demonstration on 23 March in Brunswick Square, located outside the Red House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034483-0001-0001", "contents": "1903 water riots\nProtesters threw rocks at the building, smashing windows (including a historical stained glass window commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus) and causing members of the legislature to hide under tables for protection. The protesters then set the lower floor on fire, at which time police opened fire on the crowd, killing sixteen people, and injuring forty-two others (among which, two teenagers and one child). The fire completely gutted the Red House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034483-0002-0000", "contents": "1903 water riots, Further reading\nThis Trinidad and Tobago article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034484-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Aberdeen F.C. season\nAberdeen F.C. competed in the Northern League and Scottish Cup in the 1903\u201304 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034484-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Aberdeen F.C. season, Overview\nIt was Aberdeen's first season in Scottish football, the club having been established in April 1903 following a merger of three local clubs, Orion, Victoria United and the original Aberdeen F.C.. Aberdeen failed to gain election to the Scottish First Division and did not apply to join the Second Division. They were placed in the Northern League along with eleven other clubs from the North of Scotland. The club finished third in the league, but lost their first Scottish Cup tie to Alloa Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034485-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Army Cadets men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Army Cadets men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Joseph Stilwell, coaching his second season with the Black Cadets. The team captain was Horatio Hackett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034486-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034486-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season, Season\nArmy began their program in the spring semester of the 1903\u201304 school term. Captain Edward Leonard King, the head coach of the football team, agreed to coach the ice hockey team as well. The team began its oldest rivalry against the Royal Military College of Canada (then called Kingston Military Academy), winning the first meeting 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034487-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 Football League season was Aston Villa's 16th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era. In locally organised competition, Villa beat Small Heath in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034487-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Aston Villa F.C. season\nDuring the season Howard Spencer was captain of the club. Arthur Lockett, such a key figure in the Stoke side the previous season, signed for Villa. Jack Windmill signed from Halesowen Town making his debut on 7 November 1903 in a 3\u20131 home win against Newcastle United. Bert Hall scored six goals in his nine league outings in the 1903\u201304 season. He was noted as being a hard working outside left player who teamed up well with Joe Bache.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034488-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Union Saint-Gilloise won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was Blackpool F.C. 's seventh season (fourth consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fifteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season\nNew signings included forwards Charles Bennett and Fred Pentland and midfielder John Rooke. Out during the close season had gone Jack Birchall, Walter Cookson, Harold Hardman, Harry Stirzaker, Henry Parr, and Lorenzo Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season\nCharles Bennett was the club's top scorer, with nine goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe season began with a 3\u20130 defeat at Woolwich Arsenal on 5 September in front of a crowd of 12,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAnother defeat followed seven days later, 0\u20132 at home to Barnsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool picked up their first point of the season on 19 September, in a goalless draw at Lincoln City, and the following week chalked up their first victory: 4\u20131 against Stockport County at Bloomfield Road. Fred Pentland, John Rooke, Jack Scott and Jack Parkinson scored the hosts' goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0006-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nTwo consecutive defeats ensued \u2014 1\u20132 at Chesterfield on 3 October, and 1\u20134 at home to Bolton Wanderers on 10 October. Pentland scored the Seasiders' goal in each game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0007-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nPentland made it five goals in four games when he netted twice in a 4\u20131 victory at Burnley on 17 October. Geordie Anderson and Edward Threlfall were the other Blackpool scorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0008-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nFour consecutive defeats followed \u2014 0\u20133 at home to Preston North End in the first West Lancashire derby of the season, 1\u20132 at home to Leicester Fosse (Carthy getting Blackpool's goal), 1\u20133 at Gainsborough Trinity (William Anderton), and 0\u20135 at Bristol City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0009-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBack-to-back victories over Glossop North End followed: 1\u20130 (Bennett) and 3\u20132 (Anderson twice, Bennett) on Christmas Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0010-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe next day, Bradford City visited Bloomfield Road, and the Bantams returned to Yorkshire with both points after a single-goal victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0011-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nAnother defeat followed on New Year's Day, 0\u20133 at Bolton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0012-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nOn 2 January, Woolwich Arsenal travelled to Lancashire and were held to a 2\u20132 draw. A Jackson own-goal and Marshall McEwan (with his first and only goal for the club) were the Seasiders' scorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0013-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA week later, Blackpool met Barnsley at Oakwell, and that match also finished 2\u20132. Bennett scored both for Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0014-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool obtained their first victory in five games at home to Lincoln City on 16 January. Scott and Parkinson found the net for the hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0015-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nStockport County avenged their 4\u20131 defeat at Bloomfield Road back in September with a 2\u20131 victory in the reverse fixture on 23 January. Birkett netted his first of the season for the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0016-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA goalless draw at home to Chesterfield at the end of the month was followed two weeks later by a 5\u20130 home defeat at the hands of Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0017-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool licked their wounds and returned to winning ways in the following game \u2014 a 4\u20131 victory at home to Burton United. Geordie Anderson scored a hat-trick, and Bennett scored the other, his fifth of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0018-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA second consecutive victory occurred when Grimsby Town visited Bloomfield Road seven days later. Two penalties (one from Birkett; the other, Scott) and Bennett gave 'Pool both points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0019-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA thirteenth defeat for Blackpool in their 24 games followed \u2014 1\u20135 at Leicester Fosse, Bennett again finding the net for Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0020-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBennett made it four in four in the next game, a 2\u20131 victory over Manchester United at Bloomfield Road. Rooke, with his second strike of the season, was the other Blackpool scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0021-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nRemaining consistently inconsistent, Blackpool endured another heavy defeat on 12 March \u2014 0\u20135 at Burslem Port Vale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0022-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nSeven days later, Blackpool hosted Gainsborough Trinity and edged a three-goal game. Bennett and Threlfall got the Seasiders' goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0023-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA visit to Burton United on 26 March saw the spoils shared in a 1\u20131 draw. Rooke scored Blackpool's goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0024-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nBlackpool made it three games unbeaten (tying their season record) with a single-goal victory over Burslem Port Vale at Bloomfield Road, Geordie Anderson finding the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0025-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThree defeats followed \u2014 0\u20131 at home to Bristol City and, two days later, 0\u20134 at Grimsby Town and 1\u20133 at Manchester United. Stanley Spencer scored Blackpool's goal in the latter game, in what was his only appearance for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0026-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nA 23 April visit to Bradford City proved fruitful, as Blackpool won 2\u20130, with Rooke getting bot goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0027-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Season review\nThe season was rounded off with the return leg of the West Lancashire derby against Preston North End. In front of their own fans, Preston won by a single goal, giving them the Division Two championship in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034489-0028-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the first season in Bradford City A.F.C. 's history, having been founded on 29 May 1903 and then elected into the Football League to replace Doncaster Rovers in the Second Division. They finished in 10th position in the league and reached the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nBradford City were formed following a series of meetings during the first half of 1903 and replaced the former rugby league club of Manningham, whose Valley Parade ground they used. The club had already signed six players before they were accepted into the league before the rest of the side were later signed by a five-man committee. The board directors appointed Robert Campbell as the club's first manager. Bradford City's first game ended in a 2\u20130 defeat at Grimsby Town and the first home game resulted in another loss to Gainsborough Trinity. Club captain Johnny McMillan finished the top goalscorer with 14 league and two FA Cup goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Background\nOrganised league football had been played in the West Riding of Yorkshire since 1894 in the West Yorkshire League, but no side from the county had played in the Football League. So on 30 January 1903, Scotsman James Whyte, a sub-editor of the Bradford Observer, met with Football Association representative John Brunt at Valley Parade, the home of the city's rugby league side Manningham Football Club, to discuss establishing a Football League club within Bradford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0002-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Background\nIn May, Manningham's committee decided to swap codes from rugby to association football and so the Football League decided to invite Bradford City to join their league in a bid to introduce association football to the West Riding, the main sport in which was rugby league. The League voted in favour of replacing Doncaster Rovers, who had finished the 1902\u201303 season in 16th position in the Second Division, with Bradford City even though Bradford had yet to play a single game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nEven before Bradford City were guaranteed a place in the Football League, the club made its first acquisitions by signing Jack Forrest and Ben Prosser from Stoke on 1 May. These were followed by four more players joining the club; Sam Bright, George Robinson, Peter O'Rourke and Jimmy Millar. Despite not having enough players to field a full side, four club representatives travelled to London by the end of May for a league management committee meeting, when the club was elected into the Second Division. Money was raised to fund the club, including at least \u00a32,000 from sponsors, a balance of \u00a3500 from Manningham FC and proceeds from a summer archery tournament. Bradford City also took over Manningham's Valley Parade ground for their home fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nThe four-strong party which visited London, as well as newly elected Alfred Ayrton made up five members of a 13-man sub-committee which controlled club affairs. The first five, who also included J.\u00a0Brunt, J.E. Fattorini, A.J. Foxcroft and J.T. Whyte, were responsible for first team matters. On 20 June, the club directors appointed former Sunderland secretary-manager Robert Campbell as Bradford City's first manager from a shortlist of 30 applicants. Campbell's role was to coach the players, helped by trainer George Cutts. Ayrton, who had been president of Manningham FC, became the club's first chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, Pre-season\nBradford played no recorded pre-season friendlies. Instead, Campbell and Cutts, decided on the first selection for the opening game of the season with Grimsby Town by playing a series of Whites v Stripes games between professionals already signed by the club and amateur players. The first squad was signed at a cost of \u00a3917 10s 0d, with the players choosing Johnny McMillan as their own captain. Millar, a defender signed from Middlesbrough, was chosen as vice-captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0006-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, September\nBradford City's first league game was at Blundell Park against Grimsby Town on 1 September 1903, on a sunny Tuesday evening in front of 10,000 fans. The pioneering team consisted of Arthur Seymour in goal, defenders Willie Wilson, Fred Halliday, George Robinson, Jimmy Millar and Thomas Farnall with Richard Guy, John Beckram, Jack Forrest, Johnny McMillan and John Graham in attack. Graham, Beckram and Guy all came close to giving City an opening day lead, but Grimsby scored through Archie Dunn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0006-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, September\nAfter City were reduced to ten men because of an injury to Guy, Fred Rouse doubled Grimsby's lead in the second half; Grimsby finished the victors 2\u20130. Four days later, City hosted their first home at Valley Parade against Gainsborough Trinity. The game attracted 11,000 spectators even though there was no covered accommodation for fans. Among the spectators was Bradford's Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. City lost 3\u20131 with Guy scoring the club's first ever league goal, but they also had a goal disallowed and missed a penalty. The Bradford Daily Argus reported that the goal was \"greeted with a shout which awoke babies on the distant hillsides of Bolton and Eccleshill. The match highlights were shown in Bradford's St George's Hall later in the same evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0007-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, September\nBradford won their first game in the league in their third game of the season, with a 2\u20130 victory against Burton United at Peel Croft. A week later, they won their first game at their Valley Parade home by defeating Bristol City 1\u20130. McMillan scored in each game, with Forrest also scoring against Burton. They finished the month with a 3\u20131 loss at Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0008-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, October\nBradford played only two league games during October. The first ended in a 5\u20132 defeat to Burslem Port Vale; the second \u2013 on 24 October \u2013 finished in a 3\u20131 victory to Bradford against fellow Yorkshire side Barnsley. Instead, City played their first games in the FA Cup in the club's history. The first qualifying round match and the club's debut in the competition was a 6\u20131 victory against Rockingham Colliery with six different City players on the scoresheet. City progressed through the following two qualifying rounds against Mirfield United and Worksop Town, with all three games being held at Valley Parade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0009-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, October\nDuring October, City also hosted an inter-league game between the English and Irish Leagues at Valley Parade. Although the ground was not up to high standards, the Football League was keen to encourage football in Bradford. An estimated 20,000 supporters attended the match which finished with a 2\u20131 victory for the Football League. The club also made their first signing since the start of the season, bringing in forward Thomas Drain from Scottish side Maybole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0010-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, November and December\nCity went another two weeks before playing again when their FA Cup run came to an end with a 2\u20131 defeat at their fellow Second Division side Chesterfield in the fourth qualifying round. They returned to league action on 21 November against Bolton Wanderers, nearly a month since their win against Barnsley. Drain, who had scored on his debut against Barnsley, scored Bradford's first ever hat-trick, but the game finished in a 3\u20133 draw. A week later, Drain scored for the third successive league match but City lost 3\u20132 to Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0011-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, November and December\nBradford played six games during December, with the first two ending in draws against Preston North End and Stockport County. On 19 December, City defeated Leicester Fosse 4\u20130 at Valley Parade. It was City's highest league victory of the season with McMillan scoring his side's second hat-trick of the campaign. City finished the month with three games in the space of four days. They first lost 4\u20131 to Woolwich Arsenal on Christmas Day, before a 1\u20130 victory at Blackpool. The year finished with a draw against Port Vale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0012-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, January, February and March\nAt the turn of the new year, City were defeated by Gainsborough Trinity, before they completed their first double by defeating Burton United 3\u20130. Two draws followed \u2013 against Bristol City and Manchester United. City extended their unbeaten run by winning all three matches during February, with victories against Glossop, Barnsley and Lincoln City. Each victory finished 2\u20131 with Beckram, Drain and Robinson all scoring twice during the month. The club's six-game unbeaten run came to an end in the return fixture at Glossop, with further defeats following against Stockport County and Chesterfield. The three-game losing streak was overturned with a 3\u20130 win over Burnley; Graham scored twice to become the third player to score more than one goal during a league game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0013-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, April\nCity packed in eight games during April to complete the league season. On 1 April, they lost to Lincoln City and then the following day they lost to Preston North End. A third game in four days finished in a 1\u20131 draw with Chesterfield. The first victory of the month came in the reverse fixture against the club's first ever league opponents Grimsby Town. City lost 1\u20130 to Bolton Wanderers before a 2\u20131 victory followed against Leicester Fosse, with McMillan scoring one of the goals. The final two matches both ended in defeats without City scoring; first to Arsenal, then to Blackpool. City finished 10th at the end of the first season recording 31 points from 34 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034490-0014-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bradford City A.F.C. season, Review, April\nTeam captain McMillan finished as the club's top scorer with 14 goals. He played 32 games, with goalkeeper Seymour, half-back Robinson and forward Graham all being ever-presents. With the advent of league football in Bradford, thousands of people came to home games, resulting in the club's end-of-season receipts totalling \u00a33,896. It resulted in a small operating loss from the first season, but donations helped the club record a profit of \u00a339 in their first season in the Football League. Following the end of the season, the club released six players and also sold Guy to Leeds City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1903\u201304 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. Despite leading the division in September 1903, disruption behind the scenes and the suspension of manager Dick Molyneux for the final month of the season led to a 13th-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDirectly after the end of the dire 1902\u201303 season, the Brentford committee decided to act and appoint a first team manager. Dick Molyneux became the first official manager in the club's history and arrived at York Road having served as manager at Everton for 12 years, with a CV boasting one Football League First Division championship and two FA Cup runners-up medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0001-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nOne of the first major changes Molyneux enacted was to request that the board raise funds to pay adequate summer wages for the playing squad, which would put an end to the failures of previous seasons, when the board waited until almost before the beginning of the season to transfer players in, so as to cut down on off-season wages. Due to the majority of clubs conducting their transfer business shortly after the end of the season, the tactic meant that Brentford were always short on transfer options, when conducting business close to the beginning of the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0001-0002", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe board raised \u00a3330 in donations (equivalent to \u00a335,700 in 2021) and Molyneux set about building a 16-man all-professional squad which could compete in the Southern League First Division. Of the previous season's squad, only goalkeeper Tommy Spicer, inside left Percy Turner and outside left Tosher Underwood were retained and by early June 1903, Molyneux had signed an almost entirely new XI. Brentford's colours were changed for the first time since the mid-1890s, with the old claret and blue replaced by a kit consisting of gold shirts with blue stripes, white shorts and black socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDick Molyneux's team started season strongly, reaching top spot in the First Division after five matches. The demands on the small squad led Brentford to fall back into mid-table and a goalkeeping crisis suffered in early 1904 exacerbated the problem. Molyneux brought in former trialist John Bishop and paid him money to play, an illegal move as Bishop was a serving soldier with the Scots Guards and therefore an amateur player. After his third appearance, Bishop returned late to barracks, was reported to his commanding officer and then made a statement in writing about his involvement with Brentford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0002-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe statement was passed on to the FA, who fined Brentford \u00a325 and suspended director Bill Dodge for two years and manager Molyneux for the final month of the season. With secretary William Lewis in caretaker charge, the Bees took one point from the remaining five matches of the season to finish in 13th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034491-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034492-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 British Home Championship\nThe 1903\u201304 British Home Championship football tournament was a low-scoring affair, won by a powerful England side who were followed by the unfancied Irish in second place. The tournament was played during the second half of the British domestic season and was, for the time, low-scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034492-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 British Home Championship\nEngland began well, with a hard-fought draw with Wales and a 3\u20131 victory over Ireland in their opening games. Scotland were unable to match this success, only managing draws against both sides. The Irish recovered from their early loss in their draw with Scotland and managed to beat the Welsh 1\u20130 in Bangor to claim second place. In the final game, England and Scotland played out a close encounter which England won 1\u20130 thanks to a goal by Steve Bloomer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034492-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 British Home Championship\nThis was the first time in tournament history that either England or Scotland finished below second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034493-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 7th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034493-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter two seasons of diminishing returns, Brown continued to find ways to get worse. While their record was approximate to the year before, the Brunos didn't score a single goal against a collegiate opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034494-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The Bisons team captain of the 1903\u201304 season was Pat Cheeseman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was Burslem Port Vale's sixth consecutive season (tenth overall) of football in the English Football League. The club went the whole season without recording an away win, part of a club record 29 away games without victory. With the new rule of the direct free kick introduced, Arthur Rowley also wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to score from a free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe first team was firmly established, and the players had been together for some years. The financial crisis that loomed over the club was held at bay by an FA Cup run and by selling a promising young winger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nA rather quiet pre-season saw no major signings or departures, and hopes were built of an improvement on last season's ninth-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe first game of the season was on 7 September 1903 against Bolton Wanderers, where Arthur Rowley wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to score from a direct free kick. Five days later the Vale beat Manchester United 1\u20130, and their season got going \u2013 albeit very slowly. Four games later they found their second victory \u2013 against new boys Bradford City, however by October they had racked up just five points from their opening eight games. A seven-game unbeaten run saw them surge up the table towards the end of 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0003-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThis run ended at Gainsborough Trinity, but could be justified by the fact that they had played three games in four days. They went on to muster just one point from seven games to find themselves back in the danger zone as players looked towards their promising cup run rather than the league itself. An inconsistent end to the season followed, though picking up points from eight of their last twelve games was enough to ensure safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0003-0002", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nOn the final game of the season 20,000 Woolwich Arsenal fans turned up to watch their team claim the championship, however the \"Valeites\" hung on for a draw, with Harry Cotton in remarkable form, and a goalless draw was enough to hand the league title to Preston North End. Port Vale were one of only two teams to take a point home from London that season. This was even more surprising considering that Vale went the whole season without recording an away win, and had to rely entirely on their home form to stay in the league. They finished two points ahead of the re-election zones, and were twenty points shy of promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nAdrian Capes was top scorer for the fourth consecutive season with seventeen goals, fourteen of them coming in the league. Tom Simpson contributed fifteen goals, and would only score thirteen more Football League goals in his entire career. Goalkeeper Harry Cotton missed just two games, as did right-back Ernest Mullineux; Harry Croxton, Arthur Rowley, Billy Heames, George Price, Bert Eardley, W. Perkins, and Joseph Holyhead made up the first of the first team \u2013 who each made a minimum of 35 out of 42 possible appearances in all competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nAgain attendances were disappointing, and to improve the financial outlook players were sold as early as October, when a highly promising Tom Coxon signed to nearby Stoke for \u00a3200. Their FA Cup clash at Southampton saw them rake in a \u00a3491 share of gate receipts. A loss of \u00a339 was recorded on the season, and raising wages and falling gate receipts were only off-set by the income from transfers and cup runs. Recognizing this, the directors insisted that a controversial policy of selling on players had to be adopted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034495-0006-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn September the club were eliminated in both county cup competitions by Stoke by three goal margins. The \"Valeites\" found rather more success in the FA Cup, though had to win four matches to reach the First Round, at which point they were eliminated by Southampton of the Southern Football League. On the way they racked up a 6\u20130 home win over Stockport County in the Fourth Qualification Round Replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034496-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ralph Jones, coaching in his second season with the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034497-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1903\u201304 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034498-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Anthony Chez, coaching his second season with the Bearcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034499-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Colgate men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his fourth season. The team finished with an overall record of 12\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034500-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Columbia Lions men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Columbia Lions men's basketball team represented Columbia University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1903\u201304 season. The team finished the season with a 17\u20131 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034501-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034501-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but E. H. Updike served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034501-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034501-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Schedule and Results\n\u2020 Yale records the score of the game as 5\u20132.\u2021 Cornell records the score of the game as 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034502-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season. The Aggies completed the season with a 6\u20133 record against mostly local high schools. The Aggies were members of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034503-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Cornell men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Cornell men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034503-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter playing a single game during the year, Cornell mothballed its ice hockey program until it could produce an ice rink closer to its Ithaca, New York campus. The program would remain shuttered for two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034503-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Cornell men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Cornell University did not formally adopt 'Big Red' as its moniker until after 1905. They have been, however, associated with 'Carnelian and White' since the school's Inauguration Day on October 7, 1868.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034504-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1903\u201304 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, who played without a head coach, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034505-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the eleventh season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where they would finish in 5th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would progress to the quarter-finals and take eventual champions Celtic to two replays before being defeated. This would be the first season where Dundee would wear their now common look of navy shirts, white shorts and navy socks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034506-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 East Stirlingshire F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was East Stirlingshire Football Club's fourth season in the Scottish Football League, being admitted to the Scottish Football League Second Division. The club also competed in the minor Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup\nThe 1903\u201304 FA Cup was the 33rd season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Manchester City won the competition for the first time, beating Bolton Wanderers 1\u20130 in the final at Crystal Palace, through a goal scored by Billy Meredith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had two preliminary rounds, five qualifying rounds, an intermediate round, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Intermediate round\nThe Intermediate Round featured ten games, played between the ten winners of the Fifth Qualifying Round, and ten teams given byes. Manchester United, Bristol City, Preston North End, Woolwich Arsenal, Barnsley and Grimsby Town from the Second Division were entered automatically into this round, as were non-league Reading, Bristol Rovers and New Brompton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Intermediate round\nThe other Second Division sides had to gain entry to this round through the earlier qualifying rounds. Burton United and Bradford City were entered at the First Qualifying Round stage, with Bradford going out in the Fourth Qualifying Round. Glossop were entered at the Second Qualifying Round, but a walkover was awarded to their opponents, Heywood. The others, Blackpool, Burnley, Burslem Port Vale, Chesterfield, Gainsborough Trinity, Leicester Fosse, Lincoln City and Stockport County were entered at the Third Qualifying Round stage, with only Gainsborough and Burslem Port Vale reaching the intermediate round from these.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Intermediate round\nThe ten matches were played on 12 December 1903. Four matches went to replays, with two of these going to a second replay and one of these, the Manchester United \u2013 Small Heath game, then went to a third replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0006-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. 17 of the 18 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Bolton Wanderers from the Second Division, and non-league Southampton, Portsmouth, Millwall Athletic and Tottenham Hotspur. They joined the ten teams who won in the intermediate round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0007-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 6 February 1904. Four matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0008-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Second pound proper\nThe eight Second Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 20 February 1904. There was one replay, between Derby County and Wolverhampton Wanderers, played in the following midweek fixture, but this was again drawn and went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0009-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 5 March 1904. Two matches were drawn and replayed in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0010-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Semi-finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 19 March 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034507-0011-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FA Cup, Final\nThe Final, the first all-Lancashire final since the start of the competition, took place at Crystal Palace on Saturday 23 April 1904. The 32nd FA Cup final was contested between Manchester City and Bolton Wanderers. Manchester City won 1\u20130. The goal was scored by Billy Meredith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034508-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the fifth season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034508-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Barcelona season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1903\u201304 season was their eleventh season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who took over the chairmanship at the AGM for the third time in the club's history. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Overview\nWith over 40 active footballers and over 70 patron members Basel were the second largest club in Switzerland at this time, larger was only Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich. Basel's first team played in the Serie A and the second team in the Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Overview\nDaniel Hug (the team's most prominent, their best and their largest player) was named as team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. Together with goalkeeper Paul Hofer, the players Alphonse Schorpp, Eugen Strauss, Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer, Ernst-Alfred Thalmann and Emil Hasler, Hug was one of many early national team players who came from the Basel team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe team played just one pre-season friendly at home against Grasshopper Club. There was another mid-season friendly against local lower tier Nordstern Basel. During the winter break Basel played two more friendly matches. These were the return game against the Grasshoppers which was drawn 6\u20136 and also an away game against west group team Montriond Lausanne which was won 3\u20132. At the end of the season Basel played against group winners Old Boys, which was played as warm up the finals. They also played a match against French club Mulhouse, which was lost 6\u20138, the highest scoring game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe Swiss Serie A season 1903\u201304 was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Floria Biel/Bienne, and two further teams from Basel, Old Boys Basel and Fortuna Basel. Having lost their first six games of the season, local team Fortuna Basel opted out of the league season after the New Year and gave forfait for all their remaining games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0004-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Overview\nFC Basel ended their ten games with five victories, two draws and three defeats in third position in the league table, obtaining 12 points, scoring 28 and conceding 25 goals. The Young Boys and the Old Boys ended level on points and so a play-off match was arranged. The Old Boys won the play-off 3\u20132 and therefore qualified for the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Overview\nIn the finals St. Gallen first drew 1\u20131 against group west winners Servette, then they won 1\u20130 against central group winners Old Boys and because the Old Boys beat Servette 2\u20130, St. Gallen won their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0006-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034509-0007-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 FC Basel season, Notes, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Most of the documentation is missing.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034510-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Football League\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the 16th season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034510-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034510-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034510-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season, 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034511-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe French Rugby Union Championship of first division 1909-04 was won by SBUC that beat Stade Fran\u00e7ais in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034511-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nSBUC: Jean Guiraut, Pascal Laporte, Maurice Bruneau, Ren\u00e9 Gorry, H\u00e9lier Thil, Jean Rachou, Andr\u00e9 Lacassagne, Albert Branlat, Jacques Duffourcq, Pierre Terrigi, Carlos Deltour, Edmond Froustey, Louis Mulot, Camille Galliot, Marc Giacardy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034511-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nStade Fran\u00e7ais: Alexandre Pharamond, G. Barry, Stuart Forsyth, Francis Mouronval, Henri Marescal, Bernard Galichon, Henri Amand, Charles Beaurin-Gressier, Allan Henry Muhr, J.Tolson, Andr\u00e9 Verg\u00e8s, Pierre Gaudermen, Georges J\u00e9r\u00f4me, G. Poirier, Pierre Rousseau", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034512-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 7th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034512-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nA year after graduating, Alfred Winsor returned to Harvard as the program's first full-time head coach. Windsor's return didn't change anything for the Crimson as they again won all of their games and claimed their second consecutive Intercollegiate championship. Princeton was forced to forfeit the game against Harvard on January 23rd due to the Tigers being unable to participate. This game was only counted as a forfeit for the Intercollegiate Hockey Association standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034513-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1903\u201304 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034514-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1903\u201304 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished tenth out of 14 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034515-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Powers, coaching the crusaders in his third season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034516-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Willis Koval, who was in his 2nd and final year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034516-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034517-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his fifth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034518-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1903\u201304 comprised 8 teams, and Linfield won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034519-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 KBUs Fodboldturnering, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Boldklubben Frem won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034520-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its sixth season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served his 6th year. The Jayhawks finished the season 5\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034521-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Kentucky State men's basketball team competed on behalf of the University of Kentucky during the 1903-1904 season. During the season, Kentucky would continue to struggle under the leadership of senior Claire Saint John. The Wildcats would only win one game against the Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball and lose all four games to Kentucky University and Georgetown College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034522-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Madrid FC season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was Madrid Football Club's 2nd season in existence. The club played some friendly matches against local clubs. Madrid FC also played their second-ever match outside of the Community of Madrid against Athletic Bilbao in Bilbao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034522-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Madrid FC season\nThey also played in the Campeonato de Madrid (Madrid Championship) and the Copa del Rey. Madrid FC merged with Moderno Football Club on 30 January 1904 and contested these championships under the name Madrid\u2013Moderno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034522-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Madrid FC season, Summary\nSome of Madrid FC's best players left to join the newly formed Athletic Club Sucursal de Madrid (now Atl\u00e9tico Madrid) during the season. This precipitated a merger with Moderno FC on 30 January 1904 in order to survive. Carlos Padr\u00f3s was elected president post-merger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034522-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Madrid FC season, Competitions, Copa del Rey\nThe 1904 Copa del Rey was organized by the newly formed Madrid Football Federation. Originally, three teams were to participate, and the Federation invited Athletic Bilbao representing Biscay and Espanyol representing Catalonia. Madrid was to be represented by the winner of a preliminary round between Club Espa\u00f1ol de Madrid and Madrid-Moderno (a merger of Madrid CF and Moderno FC). The three teams were to contest the cup in a round-robin format. Before the tournament Espanyol, unhappy with the competition system, announced they would not go to Madrid. Then two more teams from Madrid, Moncloa FC and Iberia Football Club, were admitted in the competition, forcing a change to the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034522-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Madrid FC season, Competitions, Copa del Rey\nThe match between Club Espa\u00f1ol de Madrid and Madrid-Moderno ended in 5\u20135 draw. The captains of both teams agreed not to play extra time, but failed to reach an agreement on when they should replay the match. Espa\u00f1ol wanted to play the next day, but Madrid-Moderno refused, citing the rules of the tournament which stated that a replay could not be played less than 48 hours after the previous game. The next day Club Espa\u00f1ol went to replay the match, but Madrid-Moderno did not appear. The regional federation, whose president Ceferino Birdalone happened to be president of Club Espa\u00f1ol as well, ruled in favor of Espa\u00f1ol, and they were declared winners of the match eliminating Madrid FC from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034523-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was Manchester City F.C. 's thirteenth season of league football and first season in the top flight of English football. Following their promotion, City made an immediate challenge for the league championship, falling at the last hurdle but finishing creditably second. They did, however, take the FA Cup in the same season, winning their first major trophy of their existence and becoming the 19th winner in the trophy's 33rd year with a 1\u20130 victory over Bolton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034524-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was Manchester United's 12th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034525-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 team finished with a record 2\u20135. It was the first year for head coach Wilbur P. Bowen. Wilbur Bowen became Eastern Michigan's first athletic director in 1903. The team captain was Wilbur Morris and C.B. Jordan was the team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034525-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team, Schedule\n1.Media guide list game on 1/28 and the school year book list 1/31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034525-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team, Schedule\n2. EMU list the score as 14-34 while MSU list the score as 10-62.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034526-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University for the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The school was known as State Agricultural College at this time. The head coach was Chester Brewer coaching the team his first season. The team captain was Edward Balbach. The team finished the season with a 5\u20133 record as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034526-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Schedule\n1. Michigan State Media Guide list score as 62-10, while Eastern Michigan Media Guide list score as 34-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034527-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Montreal Wanderers season\nThe 1903\u201304 Montreal Wanderers season was the first season of play of the new Montreal Wanderers ice hockey club of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The club won the inaugural championship of the also-new Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) and challenged for the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034527-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Montreal Wanderers season, Team business\nThe club was organized from players from the Montreal Hockey Club and the Montreal Victorias. At the organizational meeting of December 3, 1903, the club selected its colours of red and white and selected the initial directors of the team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034527-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Montreal Wanderers season, Team business\nThe club had formed over a dispute over the control of the Montreal Hockey Club. The Wanderers nickname was a namesake of the Montreal Wanderers team which played in the Montreal Winter Carnival hockey tournament in 1884. The club joined with teams rejected for membership in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) and helped found the Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) on December 5, 1903. Many of the early Wanderers had been members of the Montreal Hockey Club team of 1902, which won the Stanley Cup. That team had been known as the \"Little Men of Iron\" because of the players' tenacity and small stature, and the nickname carried over to the new club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034527-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Montreal Wanderers season, Regular season\nThe Wanderers, formed from players of the 1903 Stanley Cup champion Montreal Hockey Club, were the class of the league and went undefeated. Jack Marshall led the league in scoring, scoring 11 goals in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034527-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Montreal Wanderers season, Regular season\nKen Mallen started the season with Cornwall but joined the Wanderers, playing two regular season games and the Cup challenge. He would leave after the season to become a professional in the International League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034527-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Montreal Wanderers season, Stanley Cup challenge\nThe Wanderers first Stanley Cup challenge was played against the Ottawa Hockey Club on March 2, 1904, resulting in a 5\u20135 tie game. The Wanderers would refuse to continue the series unless the tie was replayed in Montreal, and forfeited the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034528-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team represented the University of Nebraska during the 1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was R.G. Clapp, coaching the huskers in his first season. The team played their home games at Grant Memorial Hall in Lincoln, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034529-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1903\u20131904 was contested by seventeen teams participating in three divisions. This season, the western division had been split in two, creating the Eerste Klasse West-A and the Eerste Klasse West-B. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the three divisions of the Netherlands. HBS Craeyenhout won this year's championship by beating Velocitas and PW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034530-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Football League\nThe 1903\u201304 Northern Football League season was the fifteenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034530-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the ninth season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe League Champions were Bradford and the Challenge Cup Winners were Halifax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nKeighley and Huddersfield were demoted from the top division and replaced by Wakefield Trinity (Champions) and St. Helens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nAs the top two teams had finished level on points and Points Difference had not been introduced as a tie breaker yet, despite having a worse points difference, Bradford contested a play-off with Salford, that Bradford won 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nIn the Second Division, Manningham and Stockport were replaced by Pontefract, reducing the competition to 17 teams. Birkenhead Wanderers dropped the Wanderers from their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe second promotion place had to be decided by a play-off as Points Difference had not yet been introduced as a tie breaker. St. Helens beat Holbeck 7-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0006-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Internationals\nOn 5 April 1904, the first ever International Rugby League match took place between England and Other Nationalities. It was played at Central Park, Wigan, having originally been scheduled for New Year's Day in Oldham. England lost 3-9 in a twelve sided match, with the opposition made up of ten Welshmen and two Scots. The crowd numbered just 6,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034531-0007-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nHalifax beat Warrington 8-3 in the final at Salford's The Willows before a paying crowd of 17,041, plus 1,000 additional guests, to become the second team to record back-to-back Cup wins. Halifax wouldn\u2019t reach another final until 1921 nor win the Cup again until 1931.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, the club's 19th season of play, lasted from December 30, 1903, until March 11, 1904. Ottawa resigned from the CAHL after four games and played only Stanley Cup challenges for the rest of the season, winning them all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Team business\nThe Club moved to a new rink installed at the Aberdeen Pavilion, which provided 4,000 seats, more than Dey's Rink could provide. A partnership was struck with the Central Canada Exhibition Association which received 40% of the gross receipts and provided facilities. The Club contributed $500 to the installation of the rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nThe season started out with Ottawa winning their first four games. A home game with Quebec was postponed when Quebec could not travel due to a severe snowstorm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nIn their third game against the Victorias at Westmount's arena, the Ottawa team arrived 1\u00bd hours late due to a loss of their baggage. The game was called at midnight due to a curfew, with Ottawa ahead 4\u20131, with 16 minutes left to play. Ottawa and the Victorias had disagreed on substitution for injured players instead of 'recuperation time' and the Victorias used 43 minutes of injury time, which the Ottawa club complained was a stalling tactic to get the game canceled as Ottawa was ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nOne week later, the League met to reschedule the Quebec-Ottawa game. At the meeting, the League levied a $10 fine against Ottawa for its lateness to the Victorias game, and a fine to the Montreal Shamrocks for lateness to a game in Ottawa. The League then discussed the Ottawa-Victoria match and ordered it to be rescheduled. J. P. Dickson, Ottawa's representative to the meeting, had proposed that it only be played if the match mattered in the standings and threatened to take Ottawa out of the league if the league went ahead and forced the game to be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0005-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nThe threat failed, and Dickson called a meeting of the Club back in Ottawa to discuss the situation. The Club executive, against Bob Shillington's wishes agreed to pull the Club out of the league. The team executive was concerned about losing its status as Stanley Cup champions over the matter and consulted with P. D. Ross who agreed that the Cup would stay with Ottawa. The Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) was consulted and Ottawa would join the FAHL for the next season. The Club then submitted its resignation from the CAHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0006-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Highlights\nAfter leaving the CAHL, the Ottawas played only one game other than a Cup challenge, an 18\u20141 exhibition win over the Ottawa Capitals of the FAHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0007-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Season, Results\n\u2020 Ordered to be replayed but never replayed as Ottawa resigned from league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0008-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Winnipeg vs. Ottawa\nBefore the CAHL season started, Ottawa defended the Cup against the Winnipeg Rowing Club in a best two-of-three series played in Ottawa 9\u20131,2\u20136,2\u20130 (2\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0009-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Winnipeg vs. Ottawa\nThe first game was filled with rough play, with Alf Smith knocking out Joe Hall with a stick hit to the head and knocking out Nick Bawlf. Hall returned to the game and Hall and Smith fought, leaving Hall with a five stitch cut and Smith a four stitch cut. Westwick scored four goals, Frank McGee three. The Ottawa fans booed Ottawa for their rough play. After the game, Winnipeg captain Billy Breen said it was the 'dirtiest game of hockey he had ever played.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0010-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Winnipeg vs. Ottawa\nThe second game was tame by comparison. Because of the injuries of the first game, Winnipeg needed replacements and added Tammy Hamber of the Toronto Argonaut Rowing Club. Ottawa did not play a rough game and Winnipeg won by a 6\u20132 score. There was speculation that Ottawa had let up to ensure a lucrative third game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0011-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Winnipeg vs. Ottawa\nIn the third game, Winnipeg showed that it was capable of keeping up with Ottawa. Smith missed the game to be replaced by Billy Gilmour. The game was scoreless after the first half. Frank McGee scored the winning goal and Suddy Gilmour scored a second goal to clinch the game with seven minutes to play during a power play. Hamber was protested by Ottawa, although he was allowed to play. Referee Trihey was confronted by rough play in the first half, which he countered with ever-increasing penalties to players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0011-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Winnipeg vs. Ottawa\nAccording to the Gazette report on the game, at one point only three Ottawa players were on and four Winnipeg players, meaning seven were sent off. During the break between the first and second halves, the ice was not cleaned. The audience numbers were down and this was attributed to the Ottawa Post Office being on fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0012-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Toronto vs. Ottawa\nNext, Ottawa would defeat the Ontario Hockey Association champion Toronto Marlboros in a two-game total-goals series, played in Ottawa, 6\u20133,11\u20132 (17\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0013-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Toronto vs. Ottawa\nIn the first game, the Marlboros led the Ottawas 3\u20131 after the first half before the Ottawas scored five in the second half to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0014-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Toronto vs. Ottawa\nIn the second game, Ottawa led by 6\u20130 at the half, leaving the result not in doubt. The crowd was estimated at 1500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0015-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nA two-game series between the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Hockey Club was arranged, for the Stanley Cup and the FAHL championship. The teams played the first game in Montreal to a tie of 5\u20135. Montreal refused to play overtime, demanding that the game be considered a no-contest and proposed that the series start over as a best two-of-three series. The Cup trustees demanded that the series continued as scheduled and the Wanderers abandoned the challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0016-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nAccording to the Gazette, the game saw \"the dirtiest game ever seen between two senior teams at the Arena.\" Thirty-six penalties were called. Leahy was injured and replaced by Mallan. James Strachan, president of the Wanderers was quoted as saying that the Wanderers would not go to Ottawa and play with Dr. Kearns as referee. Ottawa took a 2\u20130 lead, before the Wanderers scored five in a row. The Ottawas came back with three, the final goal by Frank McGee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0017-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nThe Wanderers demanded a replay of the game to be held in Montreal, which Ottawa refused. The series was cancelled, with Ottawa claiming the FAHL championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 79], "content_span": [80, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0018-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Brandon vs. Ottawa\nTo finish the season, Ottawa played a series with Brandon Wheat City, champions of the Manitoba & Northwestern Hockey Association. Ottawa would win the two-game series 6\u20133, 9\u20133 (15\u20136), held in Ottawa on March 9\u201311. Brandon wanted to add Clint Bennest and Joe Hall of Winnipeg for the series, but the Cup trustees disallowed the additions as the players had already played for Winnipeg in a challenge against Ottawa. Lester Patrick, in a foreshadowing of the 1928 Stanley Cup Finals, took over for a few minutes when goaltender Dugald Morrison was penalized in game one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 77], "content_span": [78, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034532-0019-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Ottawa Hockey Club 1904 Stanley Cup champions, Stanley Cup engraving\nCyclone Taylor scratched 'Fred W. Taylor' over the official engraving of '1904 Ottawa'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 103], "content_span": [104, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034533-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034534-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the first season of competitive association football in the history of Plymouth Argyle Football Club, an English football club based in Plymouth, Devon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034535-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Primera Fuerza season, Overview\n1903-04 was the first season when the Mexican championship was played under a normal league system. Defending champions Orizaba only managed to place fourth. The new champions were Mexico Cricket Club San Pedro de los Pinos, who from 1894 to 1903 had played under the name Mexican National Cricket Club. This club was founded in the small town San Pedro de los Pinos, which now lies in the outskirts of Mexico City. The line-up of Mexico's second national champions, which was mainly British, included the three brothers Bruce, \"Jack\" and Walter Willy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034535-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Primera Fuerza season, League standings, Top goalscorers\nPlayers sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034536-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034536-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe Tigers' season was highlighted by a three-game set against Yale in Pittsburgh where Princeton came away with an even split. Princeton was forced to forfeit the game against Harvard on January 23rd due to the Tigers being unable to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034537-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 RPI men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 RPI men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034537-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter two years of trying, RPI won its first official game against Union College. After the third consecutive season of just one game the program was shuttered. It would return after two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034537-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Rensselaer's athletic teams were unofficially known as 'Cherry and White' until 1921 when the Engineers moniker debuted for the men's basketball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034538-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season is the 30th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034538-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 31 competitive matches during the 1903\u201304 season. The club finished fourth in Scottish League Division One, five points behind champions Third Lanark. Rangers was equal on points with third placed Celtic and a point behind second placed Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034538-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe Scottish Cup campaign ended in a 3\u20132 cup final defeat to the club's Old Firm rivals. A Finlay Speedie brace was not enough to win them the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034539-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1903\u201304 Rugby Union County Championship was the 16th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time. Kent won the competition for the second time defeating Durham in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034540-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Scottish Cup\nThe 1903\u201304 Scottish Cup was the 31st season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic when they beat Rangers 3\u20132 in the final. The fixture may have been the point when the 'Old Firm' term began to be used in media to denote the relationship between the clubs, due to the increasing frequency of their meetings and the mutual commercial benefits of the growing rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034541-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1903\u201304 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034542-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Scottish Division One\nThe 1903\u201304 Scottish Division One season was won by Third Lanark by four points over nearest rival Hearts. The top division of Scottish football expanded from 12 to 14 teams, and Airdrieonians and Motherwell joined the division having finished first and second in Division Two the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034543-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1903\u201304 Scottish Division Two was won by Hamilton Academical, with Ayr Parkhouse finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034545-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team represented Seton Hall University during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The team finished with an overall record of 2\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034546-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1903\u201304 Sheffield Shield season was the 12th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034547-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 Football League season was Small Heath Football Club's 12th in the Football League and their 4th in the First Division, having been promoted from the Second Division as runners-up in 1902\u201303. After spending much of the season in the relegation places, they won six of the last nine matches to finish in 11th place in the 18-team league. They also took part in the 1903\u201304 FA Cup, entering at the intermediate round (between the qualifying rounds and the rounds proper) and losing in that round to Manchester United after three replays. In locally organised competition, they lost to Aston Villa in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034547-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Small Heath F.C. season\nTwenty-three players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Forward Charlie Athersmith played in 37 matches over the 38-match season. Billy Jones and Freddie Wilcox were joint leading scorers with eight goals, all of which came in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034548-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Southern Football League\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the tenth in the history of Southern League. Division One, expanded up to 18 teams, was won by Southampton for the 6th time in history. Watford finished top of Division Two, earning automatic promotion, the first time that test matches had not been held. No clubs applied to join the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034548-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 18 teams contest the division, including 15 sides from previous season and three new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034548-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of eleven teams contest the division, including 4 sides from previous season, one team relegated from Division One and six new clubs in Division Two this season, all of which were reserve teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034549-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1903\u20131904 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's ninth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 30th in the club's history. After the previous year's relegation from the first division, St Helens were able to earn promotion at the first attempt, finishing second behind Wakefield Trinity in Division 2. St Helens also competed in the end-of-season South West Lancashire mini-league, in which they finished third. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the second round by Halifax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034550-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1903\u201304 season was Stoke's 15th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034550-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Stoke F.C. season\nAny hopes Stoke fans had that last season's achievement of finishing sixth would signal a change in the club's fortunes were short-lived as the 1903\u201304 season was another poor one for Stoke. The team was in a hard relegation battle again and for the third time in four seasons Stoke required a final day escape and again they survived. Stoke drew the final match 1\u20131 with Derby County giving Stoke one more point than relegated Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034550-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nOff the pitch, Stoke's financial problems continued after spending \u00a32000 on a roof for the Butler Street Stand meaning that the season's budget was spent before a ball was kicked. Stoke did receive some support from the church who agreed to provide a 21-year lease on the Victoria Ground enabling Stoke to continue improving their ground. Hopes for similar improvements on the pitch however were short-lived as the 1903\u201304 season was another poor one for Stoke and their supporters. The team were in deep relegation trouble from Christmas onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034550-0002-0001", "contents": "1903\u201304 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nArthur Lockett such a key figure in the side last season signed for Aston Villa, and although one or two other players were drafted in few looked to have any real class. Stoke's best signing was that of Fred Rouse from Grimsby Town who would eventually be sold for a profit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034550-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nBy January 1904 Mart Watkins had followed Lockett to Villa and at Easter time there was certainly an element of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu about the position the club were in. West Bromwich Albion were sitting bottom of the table with 21 points from 30 games whilst Stoke were above them with the same number of points and matches played, while Liverpool had 22 points and Derby 23. Again it all came down to the final match of the season and yet again Stoke survived, a point against Derby was enough to keep Stoke up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034550-0004-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke lost 3\u20132 at home to Aston Villa in the first round in front of 15,000 spectators with Stoke's goals coming from George Baddeley and Sam Higginson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034551-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Swiss Serie A\nStatistics of association football in Switzerland during the 1903\u201304 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034552-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Syracuse Orangemen men's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The head coach was John A. R. Scott, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034553-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034554-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 WPHL season\nThe 1903\u201304 WPHL season was the seventh season of operation for the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. Four Pittsburgh-area teams competed in the season, in which all games were played at the Duquesne Gardens. However, the Pittsburgh Keystones withdrew from the league on January 17, 1904. The season concluded with the Pittsburgh Victorias having the best record in the league and being named league champions. It would be the team's only league title. The season also marked the final WPHL season until 1907 as the city formed the Pittsburgh Professionals a professional club to compete in the International Professional Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034555-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represents the University of Washington during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034556-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1903\u201304 Welsh Amateur Cup was the fourteenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Wrexham Victoria who defeated Druids Reserves 4-2 in the final, at Oswestry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034557-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u201304 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represents the University of West Virginia during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The team captain was Otis Cole. The Mountaineers finished with an overall record of 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034558-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Western Football League\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the 12th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034558-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Western Football League\nTottenham Hotspur were the champions of Division One for the first time, and along with all the other members of Division One, also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions were newcomers Bristol City Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034558-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nOne new club joined Division One, which remained at nine clubs after Millwall Athletic left the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034558-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nFour new clubs joined Division Two, which was increased from eight clubs to 10 after Cotham Amateurs and St George left the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034559-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034560-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1903\u20131904 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Dr. James C. Elsom, coaching his sixth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034561-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1903\u201304 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034561-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nDue to poor ice conditions, Yale played only a single game at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034561-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, George Mohlman served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034562-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States\nThe 1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States began in December 1903, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034562-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Regular season, Conference winners\nNOTE: The Western Conference (the future Big Ten Conference) did not sponsor an official conference season or recognize a regular-season champion until the 1905\u201306 season. In 1903\u201304, Chicago (7\u20130) finished with the best winning percentage (1.000) and Purdue (11\u20132) and Wisconsin (11\u20134) with the most wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 99], "content_span": [100, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034563-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in Belgian football\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the ninth competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034563-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official division existed at the time, split into two leagues. It was called Coupe de Championnat (Championship Cup) and its winner was decided after a final round between the first two clubs of each league. The league A was not completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034563-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in Belgian football, Overview\nIt was also the first competitive season of the now famous Daring Club de Bruxelles. At the end of the season, one of the new clubs (namely Olympia Club de Bruxelles) withdrew from the league. It was decided that there will be only one league the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034563-0003-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in Belgian football, Overview\nOn May 1, 1904, Belgium played its first official match against France at the Stade du Vivier d'Oie, home of the Racing Club de Bruxelles. This match was viewed by around 1,500 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034564-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in English football\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the 33rd season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034564-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in English football\nFor the first time ever, a London (and Southern) team, Woolwich Arsenal, were promoted to the First Division and made the league's reach nationwide. They joined champions Preston North End in the top flight, after the Lilywhites beat arch-rivals Blackpool in the final game of the season to clinch the championship. Bradford City replaced Doncaster Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034564-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034565-0000-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in Scottish football\nThe 1903\u201304 season was the 31st season of competitive football in Scotland and the 14th season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034565-0001-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nCeltic were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 3\u20132 win over Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034565-0002-0000", "contents": "1903\u201304 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nVale of Clyde were winners of the Junior Cup after a 3\u20130 win over Parkhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034566-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\n1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 4th year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034566-0001-0000", "contents": "1904, Births, September\nDaniel Prenn (7 September 1904 \u2013 3 September 1991) was a Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player who was Jewish. Lou Moore, American race car driver, team owner (died 1956)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [6, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034567-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034567-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). Originally, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis, but from 1904 an additional member was granted to each ward resulting in the election of ten members, out of a total of twenty, every three years. At the intervening election, one member continued to be elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034567-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1904. It was preceded by the 1903 election and followed by the 1905 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1901 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034567-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nIn line with an increase in the population a number of additional seats had been granted by the County Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1904 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach W. A. Blount, in his second season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa and at West End Park in Birmingham, Alabama. In what was the twelfth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of seven wins and three losses (7\u20133, 5\u20133 SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Florida Agricultural\nTo open the 1904 season, Alabama defeated Florida Agricultural College 29\u20130 at Tuscaloosa. In the game, Alabama touchdowns were scored by William LaFayette Ward (2), Chamberlain, Auxford Burks and Frank Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Florida Agricultural\nThe starting lineup was: J. V. Boyles (left end), C. P. Butcher (left tackle), Harvey Sartain (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), Guy Redden (right guard), Gates (right tackle), George Spigener Wilcox (right end), R. R. Cummings (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Floy Hall (right halfback), William LaFayette Ward (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nIn what was their first Birmingham game of the season, Alabama were shutout by the Clemson Tigers 18\u20130 at the West End Park. Puss Derrick gave the Tigers a 6\u20130 lead with his ten-yard touchdown run early in the first half. Joe Holland then made the final score 18\u20130 behind his pair of second half touchdown runs. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Clemson to 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Mississippi A&M\nA week after their loss to Clemson, Alabama led the Aggies of Mississippi A&M (now known as Mississippi State University) 10\u20135 in the second half when the Aggie squad left the field and forfeited the contest after a disputed call on the field. The Crimson and White took a 10\u20130 lead into halftime behind touchdown runs by Auxford Burks and Frank B. Clark. In the second half, Mississippi cut the Alabama lead in half after they scored on a short touchdown run. The game then ended later in the half after the Aggies disputed a referees call and subsequently forfeited the contest. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi A&M to 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Nashville\nIn what was the only all time match-up against the University of Nashville, Alabama shutout the Garnet and Blue 17\u20130 at Tuscaloosa. Alabama took a 5\u20130 lead in the first half behind a short Auxford Burks touchdown run. In the second half, the made the final score 17\u20130 behind a short Frank B. Clark run and a 45-yard run by Burks that saw him escape six tackles en route to his second touchdown of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Nashville\nThe starting lineup was: Guy Redden (left end), W. C. Oates (left tackle), T. A. McDaniels (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), Harvey Sartain (right guard), C. P. Butcher (right tackle), Aubrey Boyles (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Frank B. Clark (right halfback), S. W. McClesky (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nAt Tuscaloosa, Alabama defeated Georgia 16\u20135 and registered their first all time win against the Bulldogs. The Crimson White scored all of their points in the first half and took a 16\u20130 lead into halftime behind a pair of C. P. Butcher touchdown runs and another by Auxford Burks. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Georgia to 1\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nThe starting lineup was: George Spigener Wilcox (left end), W. C. Oates (left tackle), T. A. McDaniels (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), Harvey Sartain (right guard), C. P. Butcher (right tackle), Aubrey Boyles (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), W. E. Lewis (right halfback), S. W. McClesky (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAt Birmingham, Alabama was defeated by Auburn 29\u20136 and lost what was billed as the \"Alabama State Championship.\" Alabama scored their only points in the second half on a Harvey Sartain touchdown run. The victory bought Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 1\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe starting lineup was: George Spigener Wilcox (left end), W. C. Oates (left tackle), Guy Redden (left guard), James C. Gwin (center), Harvey Sartain (right guard), C. P. Butcher (right tackle), Aubrey Boyles (right end), W. S. Wyatt (quarterback), Auxford Burks (left halfback), Floy Hall (right halfback), S. W. McClesky (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nOn Thanksgiving Day in Birmingham, Tennessee beat Alabama 5\u20130. McAllister scored on a play Tennessee used throughout the game, where he put his foot on the guard in front of him and had the other backs hurl him forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, LSU\nHampered by injuries, LSU was beaten in Baton Rouge by Alabama 11\u20130. Butcher and Ward scored Alabama's touchdowns. The \"feature play of the game\" was a fake kick by LSU. Staudinger made 55 yards before Wyatt tackled him, saving a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tulane\nAlabama met Tulane at Athletic Park in New Orleans and won 6\u20130. Sartain scored Alabama's touchdown. Tulane once drove to the 5-yard line, but lost the ball on downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Pensacola Athletic Club\nIn Pensacola, Alabama won over the Pensacola Athletic Club 10\u20136. The Pensacola Team was composed of former players from Yale, Harvard, Army, Navy, Notre Dame, and Carlisle alongside high school athletes from Pensacola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034568-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Pensacola Athletic Club\nWyatt scored two touchdowns for Alabama in the first half. Ward also sustained a broken nose during the game. Just before the end of the first half, Garrett scored for Pensacola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034569-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Albion football team\nThe 1904 Albion football team, sometimes known as the Albion Methodists, was an American football team that represented Albion College in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) during the 1904 college football season. In its first season under head coach Walter S. Kennedy, Albion compiled a 7\u20130\u20131 record, held every opponent scoreless, outscored opponents by a total of 206 to 0, and won the MIAA championship. The team's victories included games against two future Division I FBS programs, a 4\u20130 victory over otherwise undefeated Michigan Agricultural (now Michigan State University) and a 68\u20130 victory over Michigan State Normal (now Eastern Michigan University).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034569-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Albion football team\nThe team played its home games at Winter\u2013Lau Field in Albion, Michigan; the field was built in 1900 with funds donated by John Winter and Oliver Lau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034570-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1904 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at the at the London Rifle Brigade Drill Hall in Islington, London, England from 16-19 March 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034570-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 All England Badminton Championships\nHenry Norman Marrett made a clean sweep of victories by winning the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles. Ethel Thomson retained her women's singles title and teamed up again with Meriel Lucas to win the women's doubles. Lucas had missed the 1903 competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034570-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 All England Badminton Championships\nThe venue made six courts available and the event was extended to four days in order to include an England v Ireland international match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034571-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 18th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034571-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, Ulster Senior Football Championship\nCavan were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the All-Ireland semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 91], "content_span": [92, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034572-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the seventeenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034572-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nKerry led 0-4 to 0-2 at half-time and Dick Fitzgerald scored the only point of the second half to secure victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034573-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1904 was the 18th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Kilkenny won the championship, beating Cork 1-9 to 1-8 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034573-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034573-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. The winners are declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034574-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1904 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 17th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1904 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held on Maurice Davin's land in Carrick-on-Suir on 24 June 1906 between Cork and Kilkenny. Kilkenny won by a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034575-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 All-Western college football team\nThe 1904 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1904 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034576-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 American Medical football team\nThe 1904 American Medical football team was an American football team that represented the American College of Medicine and Surgery of Chicago, in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034577-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1904 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 13th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 9 and ended on September 24. The 1904 championship had a 6 team league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034577-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nFlores did not register to play the tournament after a poor performance in the last season. Estudiantes de Buenos Aires was promoted to Primera by the Association after the good campaigns made in lower divisions and the contribution made by the club to the practice of football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034577-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nBelgrano A.C. was the champion, ending a run of four consecutive titles for Alumni. The club won the tournament 6 fixtures before the end of the season, when the squad beat Quilmes by 4-0 with the following line-up: J. W. Howard; George N. Dickinson, H. J. Reeves; C. Edgard Dickinson, Harold T. Ratcliff, H. Frasser; H. A. Ruggeroni, Norman G. Forrester, H. B. Knight, S. Riobo\u00f3, E. Frilling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034578-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Argentine presidential election\nThe Argentine presidential election of 1904 was held on 12 June to choose the president of Argentina. Manuel Quintana was elected president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034578-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Argentine presidential election, Background\nRiding high after another term of prosperity and important diplomatic accomplishments such as the May 1902 Pact with neighboring Chile over a border dispute and Foreign Minister Luis Drago's settlement of imminent war between the German Empire and Venezuela, President Roca enlisted Congressman Manuel Quintana as the PAN standard bearer. Within the PAN itself, some dissent was evident over Roca's dominance. These voices rallied behind former Presidents Carlos Pellegrini (as an Autonomist) and Jos\u00e9 Evaristo Uriburu (as a Republican). The UCR maintained its boycott, and the aging Quintana was selected by the electoral college on 12 June 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034578-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Argentine presidential election, Background\nThe year's legislative elections were more historically significant than the headline presidential selection: the Buenos Aires district of La Boca elected Alfredo Palacios, the first Socialist Congressman in the western hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034579-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Arizona football team\nThe 1904 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second season under head coach Orin A. Kates, the team compiled a 3\u20131\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 66 to 48. The team captain was Burrell R. Hatcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034580-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1904 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Ancil D. Brown (a former player and coach at Syracuse), the Razorbacks compiled a 4\u20133 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 133 to 68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034581-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1904 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Robert Boyers, the Cadets compiled a 7\u20132 record, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 27. The team's two losses were to Harvard and Princeton. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034581-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Army Cadets football team\nFive members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are: center Arthur Tipton (WC-1, CW-1); back Henry Torney (CW-1); end Alexander Garfield Gillespie (WC-2); halfback Frederick Prince (CW-2); and tackle Thomas Doe (WC-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election\nThe Ashburton by-election, 1904 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 7 January 1904 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the British House of Commons constituency of Ashburton in Devon. It was triggered by the death of the sitting Liberal Party MP Charles Seale-Hayne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election\nThe election was contested by the Conservative and Liberal parties and won by the Liberal candidate, Harry Trelawney Eve, with a majority of 1,476 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the death on 22 November 1903 of the sitting Liberal Party MP Charles Seale-Hayne, who had held the seat since the 1885 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe Liberals adopted Harry Trelawney Eve KC, a 57-year-old barrister who practised at the Chancery Bar. Eve had connections with Devon. He owned land in the county at Yarner Wood near Bovey Tracey and farmed it professionally, taking a particular interest in the breeding of South Devon cattle. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the county in 1903 and his wife came from Torquay. He identified himself as a Radical and a supporter of Free Trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nThe Conservative candidate was Sir Richard Harrison, a recently retired professional soldier, educated at Harrow School. Sir Richard was aged 66 years, had a home in Brixham and owned a farm in Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Issues, Trade\nEve, having from the outset adopted the traditional Liberal stance as a Free Trader, made the most of this position to attack government policy on tariff reform and to warn that this would lead to taxes on food. Harrison supported the government line, arguing that this was the only effective way to deal with the unfair competition to which British industry and trade were being subjected by foreign countries and that it would maintain a strong home manufacturing base to guarantee full employment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0005-0001", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Issues, Trade\nHarrison received a letter of support from Joseph Chamberlain arguing that agriculture was one of the industries which had suffered most from unrestricted imports and contending that tariff reform proposals would not add a penny to the cost of living while helping farmers and allotment holders. It was reported that the arguments concerning cheap food found most resonance among the town-dwellers of the constituency and the agricultural labourers, a traditional source of strength for the Liberal Party in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0005-0002", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Issues, Trade\nThe attempts of the Tariff Reform League to hold a public meeting in Newton Abbott during the election campaign proved a bit of a disaster. The meeting was first disrupted by about a hundred Radicals singing political songs, causing the speakers to delay but then a fight broke out in the hall and the meeting had to be abandoned for fear of violence to the speakers. Once the speakers had withdrawn the fighting got worse and a lot of damage was done. However The Times reported that Newton Abbott had a reputation for rowdyism at times of political excitement and the incident was unlikely to affect the outcome of the election but it did note that the future meeting of the Tariff Reform League had been postponed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Issues, Education\nThe Education Act 1902 provided Eve with a campaigning issue to appeal to his traditional supporters. The Act handed over responsibility for education from local school boards to borough or county education authorities. The Act also brought voluntary schools under some control of the government, giving them funding. The nonconformist and dissenting religionists, who were by and large Liberal supporters, resented this funding of Anglican and Roman Catholic church schools from the general rates. \u2018No Rome on the Rates\u2019 was the rallying cry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0006-0001", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Issues, Education\nEve raised this subject early in the election campaign, at his adoption meeting, realising its resonance for committed Liberals and their traditional constituency of nonconformist church and chapel-goers. The Liberals also hoped to pick up votes from Conservative nonconformists. Harrison took a neutral line on the 1902 Act. He said it had been controversial but was now law and should be given a complete and fair trial, while being monitored for discrimination against particular religious groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Issues, The Armed Forces\nIn the aftermath of the Boer Wars and given his own military background it was not surprising that Harrison felt comfortable dealing with issues around the armed forces. He supported the proposals being contemplated to reform the administration of the War Office and he favoured the introduction of a comprehensive scheme to improve the strength, efficiency and organisation of all Britain\u2019s military \u2013 particularly the navy. These measures were the subject of Royal Commissions established in 1902. The Esher and Norfolk Committees eventually bore fruit in certain reforms brought in by the Conservative Hugh Arnold-Foster in 1904-05 but ironically major reform had to wait until the new Liberal government of December 1905 and the implementation of the Haldane Reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Result\nEve held Ashburton for the Liberals with a majority of 1,476. The size of the majority was larger than expected, doubling Seale-Hayne\u2019s majority at the 1900 general election. The Times commented that the government clearly needed to do more in agricultural constituencies to persuade voters of the value of protectionism. The fact was that the Conservative government re-elected in 1900 and which first came to office in 1895 was by now appearing stale and weary to the electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0008-0001", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Result\nThe government would in the year following the by-election give up the ghost and allow the creation of a Liberal administration in December 1905, an administration which would go on in the general election of January\u2013February 1906 to secure a landslide mandate from the electorate. In the sixty by-elections between 1895 and 1905 the Liberal poll went up, overall, by 30% and the Unionist poll went down by 7%. That trend had gathered momentum since 1902, the year of the Education Act and the imposition of a tax on corn \u2013 the two major campaign issues of the Ashburton by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034582-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Ashburton by-election, Result\nEve retained his seat at the 1906 general election with a majority of 1,289. He resigned the seat in 1907 to become a judge in the Chancery Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1904 Atlantic hurricane season featured no tropical cyclones in the months of July and August. The first tropical cyclone was initially observed in the southwestern Caribbean on June\u00a010. After the first storm dissipated on June 14, the next tropical cyclone was not detected until September\u00a08. The sixth and final system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone offshore South Carolina on November\u00a04. Two of the six tropical cyclones existed simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season\nOf the season's six tropical storms, four of those strengthened into a hurricane. None of them deepened further into a major hurricane, which is a tropical cyclone that reaches at least Category 3 on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. The Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project also indicated but could not confirm the presence of four additional tropical depressions throughout the season. However, the reanalysis added a previously undetected hurricane in late September and early October to the Atlantic hurricane database\u00a0(HURDAT). The first and second systems left the most significant impacts during this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0001-0001", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe first storm brought heavy rainfall to eastern Cuba, causing flooding that left widespread damage and at least 87\u00a0deaths. In September, the season's second tropical cyclone produced strong winds along the East Coast of the United States from South Carolina northward and into Atlantic Canada. There were at least 18\u00a0deaths and $2.5\u00a0million (1904\u00a0USD) in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 30, the third lowest value at the time and the lowest since 1864. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nThe first storm of the season was observed by ships over the southwestern Caribbean on June\u00a010, about 65\u00a0miles (105\u00a0km) east-southeast of Isla de Providencia. Moving north to north-northeast, the depression strengthened slowly, reaching tropical storm intensity by early on June\u00a012. After curving to the northeast, the storm strengthened further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0003-0001", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nIt became a Category\u00a01 hurricane on the modern day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale on June\u00a013, several hours before peaking with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,003\u00a0mbar (29.6\u00a0inHg), both estimated by Ram\u00f3n P\u00e9rez of the Cuban Institute of Meteorology in 2000. Shortly thereafter, the hurricane made landfall near Pil\u00f3n in Granma Province, Cuba. Early on June\u00a014, the cyclone weakened to a tropical storm. It soon emerged into the Atlantic Ocean, but continued weakening, falling to tropical depression intensity and dissipating over the southeastern Bahamas late on June\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane One\nIn Jamaica, the slow moving storm brought over 10 inches (250\u00a0mm) of rainfall to the western portions of the island. Subsequent flooding inundated a number of roads and washed away several bridges, isolating some areas. Heavy precipitation also fell in eastern Cuba, with the city of Santiago de Cuba observing about 14\u00a0in (360\u00a0mm) of rainfall in only five hours. About 150\u00a0homes were damaged or destroyed, while many mines and roads and railways were impacted. El Corbe was also among the cities most devastated by the storm. Low-lying areas of the city were completely destroyed, as were bridges, railroad bridges, and railways. At least 87\u00a0deaths occurred, with some sources estimating that over 250\u00a0people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nAfter a three-month lull, the next tropical storm was first observed about 420\u00a0mi (680\u00a0km) northeast of Barbados on September\u00a08. The storm moved northwestward for several days and slowly strengthened. By 12:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a012, the system became a hurricane. Six hours later, it peaked with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). The hurricane made landfall on Cedar Island, South Carolina, at the same intensity around 13:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a014. A barometric pressure of 985\u00a0mbar (29.1\u00a0inHg) was observed at landfall, the lowest in relation to the system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0005-0001", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nAbout five hours later, the cyclone weakened to a tropical storm and curved sharply northeastward. Weakening and losing tropical characteristics, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over the Delaware Bay early on September\u00a015. The remnants briefly restrengthened into a powerful extratropical cyclone, equivalent to a Category\u00a01 hurricane, before dissipating over Nova Scotia later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nIn South Carolina, three fishing boats sank offshore Charleston, drowning several people, while another ship capsized, causing three deaths. Two additional drownings occurred in North Carolina offshore Wrightsville Beach. A tornado spawned by the storm destroyed about 20\u00a0homes and damaged several other structures, including a few ginneries at a cost of $25,000, and downed telephone and electrical poles between Mount Olive and Faison, as well as causing a fatal injury. Two other tornadoes in the state caused similar damage. Some areas of the Carolinas experienced heavy rainfall, with 8.9\u00a0in (230\u00a0mm) in Smiths Mills, South Carolina. In Maryland, strong winds caused extensive damage to trees, power lines, and crops. A death from electrocution occurred in Baltimore. Numerous vessels in the Chesapeake Bay were damaged, beached, or capsized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nNine deaths occurred in Delaware, eight after a tugboat sank and another after a schooner ran aground. In Lewes, strong winds deroofed homes and businesses, while telegraph and telephone lines and trees were downed. Heavy rainfall in Philadelphia and New York City inundated many streets and basements. Winds up to 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) in New York City shattered hundreds of windows and downed numerous trees and wires. One man died after being struck by a cast iron fire escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0007-0001", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nAt New York Harbor, 19\u00a0barges broke loose from their moorings and several smaller ships were washed ashore during the storm, while 15\u00a0vessels suffered damage or were grounded at Boston. Throughout southern New England, strong winds resulted in widespread damage to trees and power lines. Damage in the United States reached at least $2\u00a0million. In Atlantic Canada, powerful winds disrupted telephone and telegraph services. A woman was killed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when a tree fell on her. The winds aided firefighters battling a large blaze in Halifx, which ultimately caused about $500,000 in damage. Several incidents involving ships being sunk, run aground, or forced to return to port occurred throughout Atlantic Canada, including in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nBased on observations and continuity, it is estimated that a tropical depression developed in the southwestern Caribbean Sea about 120\u00a0mi (195\u00a0km) east-southeast of Isla de Providencia at 00:00\u00a0UTC on September\u00a028. Moving slowly northwestward, the depression intensified into a tropical storm about 24\u00a0hours later. Early on October\u00a01, based on observations from the steamship Ellis, the cyclone strengthened into a hurricane. Shortly thereafter, the storm began curving west-northward and peaked with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0008-0001", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Three\nHowever, it soon began to weakened and fell to tropical storm early on October\u00a02. Around 06:00\u00a0UTC on the following day, the system made landfall near the Belize\u2013Mexico border with winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). Observations from Mexico suggest that the cyclone weakened to a tropical depression around 00:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a04 and dissipated over Chiapas about 18\u00a0hours later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe next storm was first observed by ships early on October\u00a012, while located about 185\u00a0mi (300\u00a0km) south-southeast of Morant Point, Jamaica. After initially moving westward, the storm gradually curved northward over the next few days. It strengthened slowly, becoming a hurricane around 12:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a015. Early on the following day, the cyclone made landfall in Cuba near Trinidad, Sancti Sp\u00edritus, with winds of 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h). The system weakened to a tropical storm while crossing the island, before emerging into the Atlantic Ocean near the Straits of Florida late on October\u00a016. However, early on October\u00a017, the storm re-intensified into a hurricane. At 05:00\u00a0UTC, the hurricane attained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 989\u00a0mbar (29.2\u00a0inHg), which was observed by a weather station in Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 938]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nAround 08:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a017, the cyclone struck Key Largo, Florida, while still at peak intensity. It weakened to a tropical storm four hours later. The storm then drifted slowly northwestward across South Florida and began executing a cyclonic loop. Late on October\u00a018, the system emerged into the Gulf of Mexico near Boca Grande as a minimal tropical storm. The storm moved southwestward, southeastward, and then east-northeastward. It failed to re-intensify over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in mainland Monroe County at 10:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a020 with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h). Around 18:00\u00a0UTC, the cyclone emerged into the Atlantic near Miami Beach and weakened to a tropical depression. Continuing east-northeastward, the storm crossed the northern Bahamas, striking Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands. By 18:00\u00a0UTC, the cyclone dissipated about 90\u00a0mi (140\u00a0km) northeast of the Abaco Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 964]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nIn Cuba, the storm dropped heavy rainfall, leaving \"significant damage\" due to flooding. Much of the impact in Florida was concentrated in the Miami area. Several homes were unroofed in the northern sections of the city and in \"Colored Town\", an African American neighborhood today known as Overtown. A few local hotels were structurally impacted, while many businesses were damaged. Winds also defoliated shrubbery and downed trees and signs. Trees and electrical poles were downed as far north as Fort Lauderdale, leaving some power outages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0011-0001", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nSome citrus and pineapple crops were damaged throughout South Florida, while low-lying vegetables were ruined considerably due to flooding. Offshore Florida, three sailing vessels were wrecked in the storm \u2013 the British Melrose, the German Zion, and the American James Judge. The crews of Zion and James Judge reached shore safely, but the Melrose sank offshore in heavy seas with the loss of seven crewmen. The survivors were left clinging to wreckage for nearly four days before being rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nData from ships on October\u00a019 indicated the presence of a tropical storm about 1,195\u00a0mi (1,925\u00a0km) northeast of Barbuda. After initially moving southwestward, the storm briefly curved west-northwestward on October\u00a020, shortly before turning northward. Around 12:00\u00a0UTC on October\u00a021, the cyclone obtained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,005\u00a0mbar (29.7\u00a0inHg), the latter of which was observed by a ship. The system then curved northwestward and began accelerating. By 00:00\u00a0UTC, the storm transitioned into an extratropical cyclone while located about 365\u00a0mi (585\u00a0km) south-southeast of Sable Island. The extratropical remnants continued rapidly north-northeastward until dissipating south of Greenland on October\u00a023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nThe final storm of the season was detected over the Bay of Campeche based on observations from M\u00e9rida, Yucat\u00e1n, on October\u00a031. The station recorded a barometric pressure of 1,005\u00a0mbar (29.7\u00a0inHg), the lowest known in relation to the system while it was a tropical cyclone. Initially moving northwestward, the storm curved northeastward early on November\u00a01. It intensified slightly throughout the day, peaking with maximum sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) around 00:00\u00a0UTC the next day. Thereafter, the cyclone began weakening while approaching the Florida Panhandle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034583-0013-0001", "contents": "1904 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six\nAround 12:00\u00a0UTC on November\u00a03, the storm made landfall near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h). It tracked across the Florida Panhandle, southern Georgia, and coastal South Carolina before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone just offshore South Carolina. The extratropical remnants continued rapidly northeast until dissipated near Newfoundland late on November\u00a06. Winds up to 36\u00a0mph (58\u00a0km/h) were observed in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Pensacola, Florida. The storm produced light to moderate rainfall across the Southeastern United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1904 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe team went undefeated, winning all five of its regular season games. It also won two \"practice\" games against Montgomery and the University of Florida. The Tigers defense was nearly perfect, outscoring opponents 73\u201311 in regular season play and completing three shut outs (five counting the practice games). This was the first undefeated Auburn team since 1900 and was the fourth time the Tigers went undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe squad was coached by Mike Donahue in his first year as a head football coach. Donahue coached two separate times at Auburn (1904\u20131906 and 1908\u20131922) before moving to LSU. He also served as athletic director, basketball coach, baseball coach, and track coach during his tenure. Donahue still ranks second on Auburn football coaches' all-time career win list and third in winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Before the season\nAuburn hired former Yale substitute quarterback Mike Donahue. Humphrey Foy recovered from a broken collarbone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Schedule\n\u2021The October 4, 1904, game against the University of Florida was considered a practice game by Auburn and is not included in the official record of 5\u20130 for the season. Furthermore, the institution known as the University of Florida in 1904 was located in Lake City, Florida, and was previously known as Florida Agricultural College. It was one of four colleges combined to form the modern-day University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, under the Buckman Act passed by the Florida Legislature in May 1905. Since the present-day institution known as the University of Florida did not exist prior to 1905, it does not recognize this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, at Clemson\n\"The game was slow. Neither team was at its best.\" Humphrey Foy went around end on a double pass for an 18-yard touchdown, the game's only score. \"Referee Beaver says it was one of the fiercest of games and that Clemson's defense was superb but the team lacked snap and ginger.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, at Clemson\nThe starting lineup was Wilkinson (left end), Streit (left tackle), Ringey (left guard), Butler (center), Moon (right guard), Jones (right tackle), Patterson (right end), Perkins (quarterback), Foy (left halfback), Reynolds (right halfback), Lacey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Nashville\nAuburn easily defeated Nashville 10\u20130. \"Foy and Reynolds gained ground every time they were given the ball... The Auburn team is 50 per cent stronger now than it was at this time last year, and Coach Donohue is doing wonderful work with his material.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Nashville\nThe starting lineup was Patterson (left end), Streit (left tackle), Bigney (left guard), Butler (center), Moon (right guard), Jones (right tackle), Wilkinson (right end), Perkins (quarterback), Foy (left halfback), Reynolds (right halfback), Lacey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\nDonahue's Auburn team beat first year head coach John Heisman's Georgia Tech 12\u20130, making two touchdowns in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\nThe starting lineup was Wilkinson (left end), Street (left tackle), Braswell (left guard), Butler (center), Moon (right guard), Jones (right tackle), Patterson (right end), Perkins (quarterback), Reynolds (left halfback), Foy (right halfback), Lacey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nAuburn beat Alabama 29\u20136. Auburn used a delayed buck effectively. On this play, blockers swept around end, faking the ball. The ball carrier then drove through the line for substantial gains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia\nAuburn closed the undefeated season with a 17\u20135 win over the Georgia Bulldogs. For the first score, Lacey ran in a 5-yard touchdown. Georgia answered with its own score. Lacey drove in another touchdown later, before the half ended. Lacey again got a 5-yard touchdown in the second half to make it 17\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034584-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Auburn Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia\nThe starting lineup was Patterson (left end), Streit (left tackle), Braswell (left guard), Butler (center), Moon (right guard), Hughes (right tackle), Wilkinson (right end), Perkins (quarterback), Foy (left halfback), Reynolds (right halfback), Lacey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election\nThe Ayr Burghs by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. The constituency included the Ayrshire burghs of Ayr and Irvine and the Argyllshire burghs of Campbeltown, Inverary and Oban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Vacancy\nCharles Orr-Ewing had been Unionist MP for the seat of Ayr Burghs since the 1895 General Election. He died of heart failure on 24 December 1903 at the age of 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Unionist since they gained it in 1895. They easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Candidates\nThe local Unionist Association selected 53-year-old George Younger as their candidate to defend the seat. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. In 1897, he became chairman of George Younger and Son, the family brewing business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 42-year-old Joseph Dobbie as their candidate to gain the seat. He was educated at the Ayr Academy and the University of Edinburgh and was in favour of social reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 29 January 1904, 36 days after the previous MP died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Campaign\nThe most prominent issue of the day was the campaign that leading Unionist, Joseph Chamberlain was running to get his government to introduce protectionist trade measures. His Tariff Reform League made a habit of taking their message to each by-election that occurred. However, the Unionist candidate, George Younger, was a committed supporter of Free Trade rather than Tariff Reform. The league nevertheless set up operations in the constituency to promote the issue which made the Unionist message in the campaign confusing. Younger, unhappy with their presence, got the Unionist Association Chairman to contact Unionist HQ in London to complain. As a result, the Tariff Reform League ceased campaigning and left the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Result\nThe Unionist supporting Spectator magazine concluded that \"Whichever way we look at the election, it is impossible to dial cover any evidence of Scotland's conversion to Protection.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034585-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Ayr Burghs by-election, Aftermath\nAt the following General Election the Unionists re-gained the seat. The result was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034586-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Baylor football team\nThe 1904 Baylor football teamwas an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach Sol Metzger, the team compiled a 2\u20135\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 106 to 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034586-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Baylor football team\nMetzger was brought to Baylor following successes with his previous football teams as both player and captain. At Andover, \"the leading preparatory school of the East\" at the time, he played two years of football. He subsequently attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was selected as captain of the freshman football team; after two years of varsity football, the senior was selected as captain of the varsity team and graduated with honor from Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034586-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Baylor football team\nIn March 1904, the Southwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was formed, encompassing:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034586-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Baylor football team\nFollowing the season, Lester, a right tackle for Baylor, was selected to the All Southwestern football team as a substitute, and center Townes was noted as the greatest rival in the Southwest to Texas's center Glascock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034587-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Belgian general election\nPartial general elections were held in Belgium on 29 May 1904. The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 38 of the 81 seats in the Chamber of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034587-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Belgian general election\nUnder the alternating system, Chamber elections were only held in the provinces of Hainaut, Limburg, Li\u00e8ge and East Flanders and Senate elections were only held in the remaining five provinces, being Antwerp, Brabant, Luxembourg, Namur and West Flanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034588-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Bethany Terrible Swedes football team\nThe 1904 Bethany Terrible Swedes football team represented Bethany College during the 1904 college football season. The team notably beat Oklahoma 36\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034589-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Bingara state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Bingara on 14 September 1904 because Samuel Moore had been appointed Secretary for Mines in the Carruthers ministry. Until 1904, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. On this occasion a poll was required in Bingara, Glebe (James Hogue) and Tenterfield (Charles Lee) and all were comfortably re-elected. The four other ministers, Joseph Carruthers (St George), James Ashton (Goulburn), Broughton O'Conor (Sherbrooke) and Charles Wade (Gordon), were re-elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034590-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Birthday Honours\nThe 1904 Birthday Honours were announced on 9 November 1904, to celebrate the birthday of King Edward VII that day. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034590-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Birthday Honours\nThe list was published in The Times on 9 November 1904, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 8 November 1904 and 11 November 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034590-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034591-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Americans season\nThe 1904 Boston Americans season was the fourth season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished first in the American League (AL) with a record of 95 wins and 59 losses, 1+1\u20442 games ahead of the New York Highlanders. The team was managed by Jimmy Collins and played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds. The Americans were set to play the National League (NL) champion New York Giants in the 1904 World Series; however, the Giants refused to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034591-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Americans season, Regular season\nPrior to the regular season, the team held spring training in Macon, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034591-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Statistical leaders\nThe offense was led by Buck Freeman, who hit 7 home runs and had 84 RBIs, and Freddy Parent with a .291 batting average. The pitching staff was led by Cy Young, who made 43 appearances (41 starts) and pitched 40 complete games with a 26\u201316 record and 1.97 ERA, while striking out 200 in 380 innings. The team had two other 20-game winners; Bill Dinneen (23\u201314) and Jesse Tannehill (21\u201311).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034591-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Season standings\nThe team had three games end in a tie; September 13 at Philadelphia, September 14 vs. New York, and September 15 vs. New York. Both ties against New York were the second games of doubleheaders. Tie games are not counted in league standings, but player statistics during tie games are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034591-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034591-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034592-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1904 Boston Beaneaters season was the 34th season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034592-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034592-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034592-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034592-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034592-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand\nThe 1904 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was the sixth tour by a British Isles rugby union team and the third to New Zealand or Australia. It is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand\nLed by Scotland captain David Bedell-Sivright and managed by Arthur O'Brien the tour included 19 matches, 14 in Australia and 5 in New Zealand. Four of the fixtures were test matches\u00a0\u2013 three against Australia and one against the New Zealand All Blacks. The Lions won all three Australian tests but lost the All Blacks' game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand\nThis was the first time that a British team played both Australia and New Zealand in the same tour. It was also the last series until 1989 in which Australian matches were the major component; in between the only Australian fixtures were those appended onto a longer New Zealand tour. The team's captain, Bedell-Sivright, a veteran of the 1903 tour of South Africa, was requested to lead the team by England's Rugby Football Union. Bedell-Sivright broke his leg in the opening match of the New Zealand leg of the tour and Teddy Morgan took over the captaincy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand\nThe uniforms wore by the Lions remained the same than previous tours, blue used in thick hoops and the red and white in thin bands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand, Test details, Australia 1st Test\nAustralia: Jack Verge, Charlie White, Jack Hindmarsh, Stan Wickham, Charlie Redwood, Lew Evans, Snowy Baker, Alec Burdon, Eric Dore, Frank Nicholson (c), Billy Richards, Denis Lutge, Thomas Colton, Harold Judd, Patrick Walsh British Isles: Christopher Stanger-Leathes, Willie Llewellyn, AB O'Brien, Rhys Gabe, T Morgan, P Bush, Frankie Hulme, Darkie Bedell-Sivright (c), DH Trail, D Dobson, S Bevan, Stuart Saunders, SN Crowther, B Swannell, Boxer Harding", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand, Test details, Australia 2nd Test\nAustralia: Jack Verge, Stan Wickham (c), Phil Carmichael, Doug McLean, Snr., Charlie Redwood, John Manning, Snowy Baker, Alec Burdon, Allen Oxlade, Voy Oxenham, Alex McKinnon, Denis Lutge, Puddin Colton, Harold Judd, Patrick Walsh British Isles: AB O'Brien, Willie Llewellyn, Rhys Gabe, Pat McEvedy, T Morgan(c), P Bush, Tommy Vile, Reg Edwards DH Trail, D Dobson, S Bevan, Stuart Saunders, SN Crowther, B Swannell, Boxer Harding", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand, Test details, Australia 3rd Test\nAustralia: Charlie Redwood, Fred Nicholson, Frank Futter, Stan Wickham (c), Doug McLean, Snr., Lew Evans, Francis Finley, Jack Meibusch, Allen Oxlade, Billy Richards, Blue Dixon, Denis Lutge, Jim White, Harold Judd, Patrick Walsh British Isles: AB O'Brien, Willie Llewellyn, Rhys Gabe, Pat McEvedy, T Morgan(c), P Bush, Tommy Vile, Reg Edwards DH Trail, D Dobson, S Bevan, Burnett Massey, SN Crowther, Blair Swannell, Boxer Harding", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 86], "content_span": [87, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034593-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand, Test details, New Zealand\nNew Zealand: RW McGregor, Duncan McGregor, Eric Harper, ME Wood, Billy Wallace, Billy Stead (c), Patrick Harvey, Dave Gallaher, George Tyler, Paddy McMinn, WS Glenn, Tom Cross, BJ Fanning, George Nicholson, Charlie Seeling British Isles: AB O'Brien, PF McEvedy, Willie Llewellyn, Rhys Gabe, T Morgan (c), P Bush, Tommy Vile, RJ Rogers, DH Trail, Denys Dobson, Sid Bevan, RW Edwards, SN Crowther, Blair Swannell, Arthur Harding", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034594-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1904 Brooklyn Superbas finished in sixth place with a 65\u201397 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034594-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034594-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034594-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034594-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034594-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034595-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1904 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season\nThe 1904 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the sixth season of the league. Teams played an eight-game schedule. This was a tumultuous year as Ottawa resigned in February and defaulted four games. The Quebec Hockey Club placed first to take the championship. Quebec did not play for the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season\nAlso, prior to the start of the season a rival hockey league, the Federal Amateur Hockey League was started, with the Montreal Wanderers taking most of the 'Little Men of Iron' from the Montreal Hockey Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nAs the Wanderers had signed players from Montreal, it was forbidden for teams to play games against FAHL teams, and for team officials to participate in FAHL activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThis season saw several impressive rookies including Frank Patrick for Montreal Victorias, Ernie (Moose) Johnson for Montreal and Alf Smith and Jim McGee for Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe season started out with Ottawa winning their first four games. However, in their third game against the Victorias, the Ottawa team arrived 1\u00bd hours late. The game was called at midnight, with Ottawa ahead 4\u20131. After a game where the Shamrocks arrived late in Ottawa, the League levied fines against the Shamrocks and Ottawa, and ordered the Ottawa-Victorias game to be replayed. Despite a threat from Mr. Dickson of Ottawa that Ottawa would resign if the game was to be replayed, the League continued to demand that the game be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe Ottawa club offered to play it if it had a bearing on the league championship, but this was not acceptable to the league. In the end, Ottawa resigned from the league and the league considered the final four games to be forfeits. This overshadowed a great season from Quebec, which won the CAHL season with a record of 5\u20131 (plus two wins by forfeit).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges\nOttawa would leave the CAHL in mid-season, leaving Quebec to win the league. The Stanley Cup did not pass to the Quebec Bulldogs based on their league championship. The Cup trustees decided that the Cup went with Ottawa. Quebec refused to make a challenge for the Stanley Cup, arguing that the Cup belonged to the CAHL season winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Winnipeg vs. Ottawa\nBefore they resigned from the CAHL, Ottawa HC defended the Cup against the Winnipeg Rowing Club in a best two-of-three series played in Ottawa 9\u20131,2\u20136,2\u20130 (2\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 61], "content_span": [62, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Exhibitions\nAfter the season, the Montreal Victorias travelled to New York city, to play against Brooklyn Crescents and the New York Wanderers. The Victorias tied Brooklyn 8\u20138 and lost to the Wanderers 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Ordered to be replayed but never replayed as Ottawaresigned from league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engraving, Stanley Cup engraving\nCyclone Taylor scratched 'Fred W. Taylor' over the official engraving of 'OTTAWA 1904/Ottawa vs Wanderers'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 62], "content_span": [63, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engraving, Montreal Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nA two-game series between the Montreal Wanderers from the FAHL and Ottawa from the CAHL was arranged, for the Stanley Cup. The teams played the first game in Montreal to a tie of 5\u20135. Montreal refused to play overtime, demanding that the game be considered a no-contest and proposed that the series start over as a best two-of-three series. The Cup trustees demanded that the series continued as scheduled and the Wanderers abandoned the challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 70], "content_span": [71, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engraving, Montreal Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nAccording to the Gazette, the game saw \"the dirtiest game ever seen between two senior teams at the Arena.\" Thirty-six penalties were called. Thomas Leahy was injured and replaced by Ken Mallen. James Strachan, president of the Wanderers was quoted as saying that the Wanderers would not go to Ottawa and play with Dr. Kearns as referee. Ottawa took a 2\u20130 lead, before the Wanderers scored five in a row. The Ottawas came back with three, the final goal by Frank McGee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 70], "content_span": [71, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engraving, Montreal Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nThe Wanderers demanded a replay of the game to be held in Montreal, which Ottawa refused. The series was cancelled, with Ottawa retained the Stanley Cup championship. Ottawa then joined FAHL in the offseason. || }", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 70], "content_span": [71, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034596-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 CAHL season, Stanley Cup engraving, Brandon Wheat City vs. Ottawa\nBrandon Wheat City Hockey Club, the Manitoba League champion challenged for the Cup in a best two-of-three series. It was scheduled only days after the Montreal Wanderers challenge (Coleman page. 98\u201399)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 70], "content_span": [71, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034597-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1904 Calgary municipal election was held on December 12, 1904 to elect a Mayor and nine Aldermen to sit on the twenty-first Calgary City Council from January 2, 1905 to January 2, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034597-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Calgary municipal election\nNominations closed on December 5, 1904. Incumbent Mayor Silas Alexander Ramsay did not contest the election and instead constested an Aldermanic position in Ward 1. This resulted in incumbent Ward 1 Aldermen John Emerson defeating his opponents and incumbent Aldermen William Henry Cushing and James Abel Hornby to become the 15th Mayor of Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034597-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors within a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034597-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Calgary municipal election, By-election\nWilliam Leigh Bernard declined the office of Aldermen and his seat was declared unclaimed on January 2, 1905. James Abel Hornby was elected in by-election as Aldermen for Ward 1 on January 18, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034598-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1904 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1904 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach James Hopper and compiled a record of 6\u20131\u20131. This marked the team's inaugural season at California Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress\nThe 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress was the first major international chess tournament in America in the twentieth century. It featured the participation of World Champion Emanuel Lasker, who had not played a tournament since 1900 and would not play again until 1909. After the tournament Lasker moved to America and started publishing Lasker's Chess Magazine, which ran from 1904 to 1907. However, that was not the only chess magazine spawned by the tournament. The Daily Bulletins produced by Hermann Helms proved so popular that Helms started the American Chess Bulletin as a direct consequence of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0000-0001", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress\nVolume 1, Issue 1 of the magazine was devoted to Cambridge Springs. Helms was somewhat more successful than Lasker as a publisher and American Chess Bulletin would be edited and published by Helms from 1904 until his death in 1963. The surprising upset victory of Frank Marshall marked his rise to prominence in American chess and he would eventually reign as champion of the United States for twenty-six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress\nCambridge Springs 1904 marked the end of Harry Nelson Pillsbury's chess career. He would not play another tournament before his death in 1906 at the age of 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Background\nA small town in northwestern Pennsylvania, Cambridge Springs seems like an unlikely location to hold an international chess tournament. However, back in the early 1900s Cambridge Springs was a flourishing resort town due to a couple of geographic oddities. The primary factor was location. At first glance nothing seems remarkable about the town, but in fact it is located on the Erie Railroad line, halfway between New York and Chicago, which made it an ideal stopover location for railway patrons. The secondary factor was the local mineral springs which were visited by numerous people seeking to improve their health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Background\nIn 1895 William D. Rider Jr. started construction on what he hoped would be the greatest hotel between Chicago and New York City. The mammoth hotel was not completed until 1897. When finished, the hotel featured over five hundred rooms in a seven-story structure spanning five acres. Features included a theater for five hundred, where the chess tournament was held, a ballroom, a solarium, two gymnasiums, bowling alleys and an indoor pool. The hotel grounds were equally impressive, featuring a nine-hole golf course and a man-made lake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Background\nRider was a successful publicist for his hotel, and the chess tournament of 1904 was an outgrowth of those efforts. Over two hundred reporters from around the world were present at the Rider Hotel. Financed primarily by Rider and the Erie Railroad Company, the tournament received additional support from Professor Isaac Leopold Rice as well as by selling tournament bulletins to chess clubs around the country. It was originally intended that the chess tournament be a yearly affair; however, Rider died in 1905 and the prospect of future tournaments died with him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Background\nCambridge Springs was the most important chess tournament that took place in the year 1904. It was the first major international tournament in America since the Sixth American Chess Congress of 1889. There would not be another tournament of the same stature in America until the New York 1924 chess tournament. In 1998 the U.S. Chess Championship returned to Cambridge Springs and the tournament was held in one of the few hotels remaining from the railroad resort era, the Riverside Inn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Participants\nAll of the world's top players were invited to the tournament. G\u00e9za Mar\u00f3czy was unable to attend due to his career as a mathematics teacher. Siegbert Tarrasch, having finished behind Lasker at Hastings and Nuremberg, was carefully avoiding tournaments in which Lasker was participating. In fact the two would not face each other in a tournament until the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, eighteen years after their last meeting at Nuremberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Participants\nWhile most of the players were seasoned international veterans, four of the competitors, Barry, Fox, Hodges and Lawrence, participated in an international tournament for the first time at Cambridge Springs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Participants\nThe players could be roughly divided into two groups, eight Europeans and eight Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Participants\nThe Europeans and Marshall would all arrive in America on a single steamship, the S.S. Pretoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Main tournament\nThe tournament started on April 25, 1904, and ended on May 19, 1904. It was a single-round-robin tournament where each player would play one game against the other players, for a total of fifteen games. Games were played on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Wednesday was for adjourned games and Saturdays were for Rice Gambit consultation games. Games started at 10:00\u00a0am and played until 3:00\u00a0pm and then continued at 5:00\u00a0pm to 7:00\u00a0pm if necessary. The time control was 30 moves in 2 hours, then 15 moves per hour. There was a \"grandmaster draw\" rule that prohibited draws of less than 30 moves, unless the draw was forced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Main tournament\nJanowski, Marshall and Teichmann all started the tournament very strongly. After six rounds Janowski led with 5\u00bd points, followed closely by Marshall and Teichmann with 5. Teichmann became ill and would only score an additional 1\u00bd points in the remaining nine rounds. Marshall and Janowski continued their torrid pace through the ninth round where they both had eight points, followed by Lasker in third with 6\u00bd. In the tenth round however, Janowski started to falter and lost two games in a row, including one to Fox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Main tournament\nGoing into the 15th and final round Marshall was in first place with 12 points, but he was only one point ahead of Janowski, who in turn was only one point ahead of Lasker. Marshall played black against Fox who was up a pawn after 20 moves. However, Fox quickly blundered a rook and Marshall won. Meanwhile, Janowski and Lasker were playing against each other for second place. Janowski, with a one-point lead, only needed a draw with the white pieces to clinch the second prize. Janowski launched a very spirited attack against Lasker's king, which was stuck in the center of the board. Lasker was up to the challenge though, and built a defense that turned back Janowski's attack and eventually won the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Main tournament\nMarshall finished first, undefeated with 13/15, and with his last round victory Lasker tied Janowski for second place with 11/15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 68], "content_span": [69, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Tournament crosstable\nIn addition $700 was distributed among the non-prize winners, in accordance with the number of points scored by each player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Brilliancy prize\nThe Baron von Rothschild contributed $100 for a brilliancy prize. Initially it was voted to split this into two prizes of $60 and $40. However, in the end four prizes were actually awarded:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Brilliancy prize\nFirst prize ($40) was won by Schlechter for his defeat of Lasker. Second prize ($25) went to Napier for his win against Barry. Third and fourth prizes ($35) were split by Janowski for his victory over Chigorin,and by Delmar for his victory over Hodges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Brilliancy prize\nThe game that won third place, , was not one of the games initially submitted for the prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0018-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Brilliancy prize\nTen games were submitted for the prize (winners are in bold):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0019-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Pillsbury's revenge\nOne of the most famous games of the tournament was Pillsbury's revenge against Lasker. This game is actually more famous for the folklore that surrounds it than for the game itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0020-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Pillsbury's revenge\nThe story starts in St. Petersburg, 1896 when Lasker beat Pillsbury in a magnificent game which won the brilliancy prize. Immediately after the game Pillsbury is convinced his 7th move was a mistake and an alternate move would have led to an advantage. Dr. J. Hannak, Lasker's biographer, describes Pillsbury's preparation:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0021-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Pillsbury's revenge\nThat very night, after his shattering defeat, Pillsbury sat down for many hours, analysing his new idea and satisfying himself that indeed it would have given him the advantage. During the next weeks and months he burned a good deal more midnight oil in the privacy of his room, analysing his new variation as thoroughly as he knew how; but he did not tell anybody about it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0021-0001", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Pillsbury's revenge\nSince the opening concerned was a variation of the Queen's Gambit very popular in those days, Pillsbury had countless opportunities to give his new line the practical test; but he would not waste his precious discovery on any of the small fry, thereby divulging his great secret; he would spring that surprise on no one less than Lasker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0022-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Pillsbury's revenge\nFinally, eight years after his initial defeat, Pillsbury has the opportunity to unveil his improvement against Lasker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0023-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Pillsbury's revenge\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c5 5. Bg5 cxd4 6. Qxd4 Nc6 (see diagram) 7. Bxf6! gxf6 8. Qh4 dxc4 9. Rd1 Bd7 10. e3 Ne5 This knight move is a mistake. Tarrasch recommends (10...f5 11.Qxc4 Bg7 12.Qb3 Bxc3+ 13.Qxc3 Qa5) while modern engines prefer(10...f5 11.Qxc4 Qb6 12.Rd2 0-0-0) 11. Nxe5 fxe5 12. Qxc4 Qb6 13. Be2 A positional pawn sacrifice that Black probably should have declined with Rc8. 13... Qxb2 14. 0 -0 Rc8 15. Qd3 Rc7 16. Ne4 Be7 17. Nd6+ Kf8 18. Nc4", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0023-0001", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Pillsbury's revenge\nQb5 This move is given incorrectly as Qb4 by some sources. 19. f4 exf4? 20. Qd4! White now has a large advantage. 20... f6 21. Qxf4 Qc5 22. Ne5 Be8 23. Ng4 f5 24. Qh6+ Kf7 25. Bc4 Rc6 26. Rxf5+ Qxf5 27. Rf1 Qxf1+ 28. Kxf1 Bd7 29. Qh5+ Kg8 30. Ne5 1\u20130 Black will get mated in six moves at most.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0024-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Cambridge Springs Defense\nThe Cambridge Springs Defense of the Queen's Gambit Declined takes its name from this 1904 tournament. It was played in three games: , and . The results were not good as Black only scored a single draw and two losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0025-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Cambridge Springs Defense\nDespite these results and the fact that the variation did not truly originate at Cambridge Springs, the name Cambridge Springs Defense is still used today to refer to this variation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0026-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Rice Gambit Tournament\nAlong with the main tournament a special Rice Gambit consultation tournament was contested on three consecutive Saturdays, April 30, May 7 and May 14. This is widely attributed to Rice's sponsorship of the main tournament. It is not clear if the players received additional compensation for playing in the Rice Gambit tournament or if it was considered part of their responsibilities for entering the main tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 75], "content_span": [76, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0027-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Rice Gambit Tournament\nOverall, the Rice Gambit \"won\" the tournament with a score of four wins, one loss and two draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 75], "content_span": [76, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034599-0028-0000", "contents": "1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress, Rice Gambit Tournament, Round two\nIn the third round the four man teams dissolved and three two man consultation games were played instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 86], "content_span": [87, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034600-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1904 Campeonato Paulista, organized by the LPF (Liga Paulista de Football), was the 3rd season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top association football league. S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic won the title for the 3rd time. no teams were relegated and the top scorers were S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic's Herbert Boyes and Charles Miller with 9 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034600-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Campeonato Paulista, System\nThe championship was disputed in a double-round robin system, with the team with the most points winning the title. The last-placed team would dispute a playoff against a non-league team, Internacional de Santos, to remain in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034601-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Canadian federal election\nThe 1904 Canadian federal election was held on November 3, 1904 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 10th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier led the Liberal Party of Canada to a third term in government, with an increased majority, and over half of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034601-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Canadian federal election\nSir Robert Borden's Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives were unable to challenge the Liberals effectively, and lost a small portion of their popular vote, along with four seats, including his own. Borden re-entered parliament the next year in a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034601-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Canadian federal election\nThis was the last election until 1949 in which parts of the Northwest Territories were granted representation. Most of the settled regions of the NWT entered Confederation as the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan on 1 September 1905, although its MP's continued to sit as representatives of the old ridings until the 10th Parliament's dissolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034601-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Canadian federal election, National results\n* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034601-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Canadian federal election, Results by province\nxx - indicates less than 0.05% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034602-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Colony parliamentary election\nElections for the House of Assembly were held in Cape Colony in 1904. The election was a victory for the Progressives under Leander Starr Jameson, who had first achieved prominence for his role in the ill-fated Jameson Raid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034602-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Colony parliamentary election\nThe incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Sprigg had been elected in 1898 as a Progressive, however the Progressives had been wracked by internal divisions. Whilst most of the party had been able to reconcile under Jameson, Sprigg and his Commissioner of Public Works Arthur Douglass, had been forced to contest the election as Independent Progressives. Both of them would lose their seats to Progressive candidates. The election also saw former Prime Minister William Schreiner lose his seat. Sprigg would resign as Prime Minister some days after the last results were announced, and was succeeded by Jameson. Following the election James Tennant Molteno would be replaced by John X. Merriman as leader of the South African Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034602-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Colony parliamentary election\nThirteen constituencies were uncontested. Following the election of 95 members, Act 4 was passed, which gave a further twelve seats to the House. These were elected through by-elections in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake\nThe 1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake struck 10 kilometres (6.2\u00a0mi) north of Cape Turnagain on the morning of 9 August with a magnitude estimated at 6.8 Ms and 7.0\u20137.2 Mw It was felt throughout the North Island and upper South Island, with many communities within a 500 kilometres (310\u00a0mi) radius reporting noticeable ground shaking. Heavy damage occurred to the landscape and personal property and one man died. It was the largest to strike New Zealand since the 7.0 Mw\u202f North Canterbury earthquake in 1888.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Tectonic setting\nNew Zealand lies along the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe 1904 earthquake struck approximately 40 kilometres (25\u00a0mi) to the west of the Hikurangi Trench, on the shallow plate interface between the Pacific and Australian plates, approximately 16\u00a0km beneath the surface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Epicentre\nInitially when the earthquake struck, the given epicentre being Cape Turnagain was only an estimation. The earthquake was recorded on the worldwide Milne seismograph network and on other seismographs in Europe, but very few of these still exist to this day. Seismograph data of the earthquake was held at stations in Melbourne and Honolulu, as well as various sites across New Zealand. It was with those recordings that seismologists could confirm that the true epicentre of the earthquake was indeed Cape Turnagain, only being about 10\u00a0km off from the estimation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake caused massive amounts of damage to the surrounding landscape, with landslides being reported in an area of over 3,500\u00a0km2 between Napier and Featherston. Liquefaction and sand fountains were also reported in several towns, including Napier, Porangahau and Carterton. Property damage occurred on a mass scale, with cracked walls, broken windows and fallen chimneys being the most common structural problems. In Gladstone, a hillside house was completely destroyed, and multiple buildings across the lower North Island burnt down. Personal items such as cutlery, glassware and furniture were reportedly damaged from as far afield as Wellington and Wairoa, both about 180 kilometres (110\u00a0mi) from the epicentre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage\nThe ground damage recorded in the Cape Turnagain earthquake is noted for being distinctly different from other earthquakes in the area, such as Hawke's Bay in 1931, Pahiatua in 1934 and Masterton in June and August 1942. For example, there were more widespread landsliding and a larger amount of liquefaction. The distribution of landscape deformation such as landsliding was very extensive (about 3,500\u00a0km2) and significant landslides were triggered at considerable distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage, Landslides\nHeavy rockfall was recorded along the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa coastline, where the moment magnitude of the earthquake was MM7 and MM8. The cliffs from Cape Kidnappers to Bluff Hill, at Blackhead, Cape Turnagain as well as the inland McLaughlin cliffs and hills in the Pohangina Valley had severe rockfall occur. There was also a reported rockfall from the Hatepe pumice cliffs in Lake Taupo, 215\u00a0km away, where estimated shaking from the event was only MM3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage, Landslides\nNumerous landslides were reported in and around Herbertville, and on the summit of Puketoi Range near Masterton. Tauweru, also near Masterton, reported rocks and boulders of up to 1 metre in diameter tumble down hill with some small landslides occurring. In Napier, several tonnes of rock fell from Bluff Hill during the earthquake and smaller slips continually occurred for at least three days with each passing aftershock. Many landslides also occurred near Wimbledon, with the largest landslide being near the top of Sergeant's Hill, about a 40\u201350-meter wide slump gave way, taking down hundreds of trees with it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage, Liquefaction\nLiquefaction occurred at 12 distinct sites, all within a 120\u00a0km radius of the epicentre. These sites were at Napier, Taradale, Tutaekuri River, Otane, Tukituki River, Porangahau Township, and Porangahau Beach (all within Hawke's Bay),and Herbertville, Castlepoint, Whakataki, Gladstone, and Carterton (all within the Wairarapa). One eyewitness report from Napier stated \"A gentleman who was driving along the beach road at the time of the disturbance, happened to look over to the Whare-o-Maraenui reserve, where he saw large quantities of mud thrown 10\u00a0ft into the air in several places.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage, Liquefaction\nAn excerpt from the Manawatu Evening standard of 12 August read: \"Following the earthquake shock and fall of earth off the cliffs at Gladstone, innumerable small holes appeared on the flat adjacent, spouting bluish mud and sand like miniature geysers. They ceased when the shake was over\u2026. When the rumbling commenced \u2026 the river seemed to rise from its bed and fall back again, and the bridge swayed and reeled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0009-0001", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage, Liquefaction\nMcLaughlin's cliffs seemed to stagger, and then some thousands of tons of face fell with a roar into the Makaha creek, forcing the water over the flat, and strewing the land with eels and small trout. Mud and water shot into the air from a hundred holes in the earth around \u2013 like miniature volcanoes\u2026. James Green, who was digging out an embedded rock nearby, was thrown violently, the ground opening under him a foot wide, spurting mud and water over him\u2026. The flat presents an interesting spectacle, being punctured by numbers of small volcano-like craters, through which the mud and water spouted.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage, Fires\nSeveral fires ignited after the earthquake. In Waipawa, Tamumu School burnt down, as did two houses in Wanstead and Tawataia. Several other fires burnt on, but were extinguished before extensive damage could be done.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034603-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake, Damage, Casualties\nThe earthquake caused a few injuries, although the exact number of injured is unknown. The death of an elderly man near Eketahuna was reported, \"presumably from stroke or heart attack.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election\nThe sixth elections for Cardiganshire County Council took place in March 1904. They were preceded by the 1901 election and followed by the 1907 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election, Overview of the Result\nThe election was dominated by the controversy over the Education Act and the funding of church schools. In some quarters, candidates were described as 'Progressive' or 'Sectarian' rather than on party lines. However, as in previous elections, there was a large Liberal majority, which was assured once the unopposed returns had been confirmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nEight aldermen retired, all of whom were Liberals apart from Sir Marteine Lloyd. Peter Jones, J.M. Howell, Walter T. Davies and the Rev T. Mason Jones stood in the election but were not re-elected aldermen. Sir Marteine Lloyd, Evan Richards and Rev John Williams were re-elected without facing the electorate. John Powell stood down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aeron\nJ.M. Howell, whose term as alderman had come to an end, was elected unopposed for a seat that was previously held by a Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Nantcwnlle\nDr Evan Evans, sitting member for Felinfach, switched to Nantcwnlle, allowing retiring alderman Walter Thomas Davies to contest Felinfach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 63], "content_span": [64, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nOnce again a number of aldermen who had not faced the electorate were elected. Evan Richards was elected aldermen for a third term (although he had not faced the electorate since 1892) and Sir Marteine Lloyd and the Rev John Williams for a second term. The other five aldermen were new appointments, including Thomas Morris who had not contested the election. Peter Jones (an alderman since 1889 although he had always sought re-election) and J.M. Howell (an alderman since 1898) were two prominent figures who were re-elected as councillors but not as aldermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections\nAt Cilcennin and Llanfarian Conservative candidates were elected unopposed to fill Liberal vacancies. While one local paper said it 'spoke well' of the Liberals to allow political opponents to take the two seats, including that previously held by the sitting Liberal MP, it also reflected the decline of partisan politics in the county since 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034604-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Aberaeron by-election\nFollowing Lima Jones's election as alderman, three candidates contested the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 79], "content_span": [80, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034605-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1904 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1904 college football season. The school started their program in 1895 and began playing against Ivy League schools. Within the next twenty years they became one of the strongest football teams in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034606-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthen Rural District Council election\nThe fourth election to the Carmarthen Rural District Council was held in March 1904. It was preceded by the 1901 election and followed by the 1907 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Carmarthen Board of Guardians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034606-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthen Rural District Council election\nThere were a number of unopposed returns in the rural parishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034606-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Ward Results, Llanfihangel Abercowin (one seat)\nDavid Thomas, the member since 1894, submitted a nomination but then withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 96], "content_span": [97, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034606-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Ward Results, Trelech a'r Betws (two seats)\nThe vicar of Trelech, Rev William Henry Jones, a member of the previous council, submitted a nomination but withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034606-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Carmarthen Board of Guardians\nAll members of the District Council also served as members of Carmarthen Board of Guardians. In addition six members were elected to represent the borough of Carmarthen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034606-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Carmarthen Board of Guardians\nFor the first time since 1894 there was a contested election and although the election was fought on denominational rather than party political lines, the two church candidates were also supported by the Conservative Association. At the recent county council election there had been a close contest between Fuller-Mills and David Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election\nThe sixth election to the Carmarthenshire County Council was held in March 1904. It was preceded by the 1901 election and followed by the 1907 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Overview of the Result\nThe Liberals retained a strong majority with a majority of members returned unopposed. From the outset the election was dominated by the debate over the implementation of the 1902 Education Act, which was fiercely opposed by the radial wing of the Welsh Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Candidates\nThe election was fought on more explicitly political lines, largely as a result of the way the education question dominated the election. Following the nominations, the Liberals already had a majority due to the number of candidates returned unopposed. These included all eight candidates in the Llanelli Urban area, including Joseph Roberts, who was returned unopposed for the division previously represented by the veteran tinplate leader, Tom Phillips, who retired due too ill-health.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Candidates\nSeveral sitting members, mainly Anglican landowners, changed their political allegiance due to the Education question. These included J.W. Gwynne-Hughes of Tregib (Llandeilo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Contested Elections\nThere were only a small number of contested elections and the majorities were small in most instances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Contested Elections\nAs at previous elections, retiring aldermen were not required to seek re-election. The aldermen who retired at the election were", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of Results\nThis section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. In some cases there is an ambiguity in the sources over the party affiliations and this is explained below where relevant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of Results\nThis table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 51 councillors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results\nIn view of the controversy over education candidates stood as Unionists rather than Conservatives. However, the label Unionist has been used only for those former Liberals who stood under this banner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results, Llanboidy\nDavid Thomas had been elected as a Conservative in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results, Llandilo Rural\nWilliam Jones had been elected as an Independent at previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results, Llanegwad\nGwynne Hughes had previously sat as a Liberal and failed to defend the seat as an Unionist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results, Llanybyther\nWilliams was one of two Liberal candidates in 1901 when both polled the same number of votes and Williams lost on the toss of a coin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward Results, St Clears\nDr Thomas had sat as a Conservative but was said to have fought this election as a 'radical'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 69], "content_span": [70, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nIn addition to the 51 councillors the council consisted of 17 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the elections the following nine aldermen were elected (with the number of votes recorded in each case).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034607-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nAll the elected aldermen were supported by the majority of members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034608-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Case football team\nThe 1904 Case football team represented the Case School of Applied Science, now a part of Case Western Reserve University, during the 1904 college football season. The team's head coach was Joseph Wentworth. Case won its third consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034609-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team\nThe 1904 Central Oklahoma Bronchos football team represented Central Normal School during the 1904 college football season. The Central squad finished the season with a record of 2\u20133. Boyd Hill served as the program's first head coach and brought the first victory to the Central campus, a victory over Oklahoma City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034610-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Challenge Cup\nThe 1903\u201304 Challenge Cup was the 8th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034610-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Challenge Cup\nHalifax became the second team to record back-to-back Cup wins but would not reach another final until 1921, nor win the Cup again until 1931.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034610-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was contested by the Halifax and Warrington clubs at the Willows in Salford on Saturday 30 April 1904, in front of a crowd of 17,041. Halifax retained their title beating Warrington 8\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado\nThe 1904 Chappaqua tornado was an intense tornado that struck northern Westchester County, New York during the afternoon of Saturday, July 16, 1904. As of 2019, this tornado ranks as the strongest tornado to touch down in the county, ranking as F3 on the modern-day Fujita Scale. The tornado formed around 3:30\u00a0pm EST within a severe thunderstorm near Chappaqua, New York. The tornado quickly began to produce damage in the hamlet, destroying several structures and killing two people. Homes were knocked off their foundations and rolled over along the tornado's path. By 4:00\u00a0pm EST, the tornado dissipated and left $100,000 (1904 USD; $2.4\u00a0million 2009 USD) worth of damage in its wake. Hail associated with the same storm cell also inflicted damage upon a few structures. The tornado is known as the worst disaster in the history of Chappaqua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado, Synopsis\nDuring the afternoon of July 16, 1904, a severe thunderstorm produced a strong tornado that touched down around 3:30\u00a0pm EST in Chappaqua, New York. Residents reported the first indication of the thunderstorm was a large black cloud approaching the region. The sky was reportedly completely dark as torrential rain and high winds commenced. Intense lightning and loud thunder prompted people to seek shelter in their cellars. The tornado tracked directly through Chappaqua before moving towards the Hudson River. Upon reaching the river, the tornado became a waterspout that was powerful enough to uncover the river bed below it. The waterspout eventually dissipated by 4:00\u00a0pm EST. The tornado was later rated as F3 on the modern-day Fujita scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado, Impact\nBlack as night without a starCame pitchy darkness on men's eyes,And then great hailstones from the skiesRattled aroundAnd with reboundDrove creatures mad in ChappaquaThe awful grandeur of the sceneImpressed him so it made him cleanForget himself,His house and peltAnd all his goods in Chappaqua", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado, Impact\nAt the time of the tornado, roughly 1,000 people lived in the hamlet of Chappaqua. Five homes and three barns were destroyed by the tornado and two people, 80-year-old Mrs. Mary Hibbs and an unknown woman were killed; six additional people were injured. Orchards in the path of the tornado were completely destroyed and greenhouses were leveled. The severity of lightning during the storm caused many women to faint according to The New York Times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado, Impact\nThe five homes destroyed were wood-frame, two-and-a-half-story buildings, one of which was lifted off its foundation and flipped over before falling to the ground, being demolished on impact. One of the home's occupants was killed after the chimney fell on her. Another person died from shock after seeing her home destroyed. The other four homes were all located within 0.5 miles (0.80\u00a0km) of each other. One of the destroyed homes belonged to Walter Snarles; he saw the tornado approaching his home and saved his life by jumping out a window before the home was rolled over by the tornado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado, Impact\nAnother home belonged to Mrs. Hester Cox; she sustained minor bruises after her home was also rolled over. Nearby, the home of Mr. Marrow was also destroyed; at the time of the tornado, he, his daughter and his niece were inside. The home was turned over on its side; debris injured the two girls, knocking the niece unconscious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado, Impact\nA barn belonging to Charles Dodge was destroyed, while the Kensico Cemetery sustained significant hail damage. All the glass on one of the conservatories was shattered. Within hours after the tornado, nearby firefighters rushed to the hamlet to assist victims of the storm. During the nighttime hours, they patrolled the streets and watched over destroyed homes to prevent looters from stealing any valuable items left in the debris. Property damage from the tornado was estimated at $100,000 (1904 USD) and five families were left homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034611-0005-0001", "contents": "1904 Chappaqua tornado, Impact\nFollowing an assessment of the damage, debris from destroyed homes was found upwards of 3 miles (4.8\u00a0km) from Chappaqua, including a marriage certificate. A calf was picked up and tossed roughly 0.25 miles (0.40\u00a0km) before landing in an open field unharmed. Two plants were also thrown roughly 2 miles (3.2\u00a0km) by the tornado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034612-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Chertsey by-election\nThe Chertsey by-election, 1904 was a parliamentary by-election held on 7 July 1904 for the British House of Commons constituency of Chertsey. It was caused John Arthur Fyler, who stepped down because of bankruptcy. The candidates were Lord George Bingham (Conservative) and Thomas Sadler (Liberal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034612-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Chertsey by-election, Campaign\nSadler stated that the Government had lost the confidence of the country by the mess and muddle both home and abroad. Sadler considered that the passage of the Education Act violated the great principle of public control of the expenditure of public money. Sadler was supported by the Trades Union Congress, for his promise to support legislation to remedy the Taff Vale decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034612-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Chertsey by-election, Campaign\nBingham (Conservative) argued that a change of the Government would be disastrous to the British Empire. Bingham also expressed his agreement with the fiscal policy of the Prime Minister, and said that the Chinese Ordinance was the only possible course towards the solution of the problem of the proper development of the Transvaal. Prime Minister Arthur Balfour agreed on this, and gave his support to Bingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034612-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Chertsey by-election, Results\nIn the end, the Conservatives won, although its majority was reduced:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034612-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Chertsey by-election, Methods of campaigning\nBingham was not too pleased with the methods of campaigning of the Liberal Party. Charles Spencer-Churchill, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, also criticized the campaign in Chertsey. \"I must own,\" he said, \"that the election has been characterized by some of the most appalling falsehoods that have ever disgraced a public platform. Nothing to sacred to some kind of people. Even hymns and the prayerbook are not too sacred for their manipulation. If Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's party is going to carry out this kind of practice future either it must be sadly out of his control, or else he has lent himself and his party a kind practice which degrading to public and political life.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034613-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1904 Chicago Cubs season was the 33rd season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 29th in the National League and the 12th at West Side Park. The Cubs finished second in the National League with a record of 93\u201360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034613-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034613-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034613-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034613-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034614-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1904 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1904 Western Conference football season. In their 13th season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 10\u20131\u20131 record, finished in third place in the Western Conference with a 5\u20131\u20131 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 410 to 44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034615-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034615-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034615-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034615-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034615-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1904 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished third in the National League with a record of 88\u201365, 18 games behind the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Cincinnati Reds had made steady improvements over the past two seasons, and were looking to improve even more in 1904, as they were hoping to contend for the National League pennant. The Reds won only 52 games in 1901, however, they improved to 70 in 1902, and 74 in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nJoe Kelley returned for his third season as player-manager of the team, as he took over first base on a permanent basis after Jake Beckley joined the St. Louis Cardinals. Thirty-one-year-old rookie Fred Odwell joined the team after spending the 1903 season with the Louisville Colonels of the American Association, while another rookie Miller Huggins, took over the starting job at second base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nCy Seymour led Cincinnati with a .313 batting average, while hitting a club high five home runs, and drove in 58 runners. Tommy Corcoran hit only .230, but he managed to hit two home runs and have a club best 74 RBI. Rookie Miller Huggins led the Reds with 96 runs, while he hit .296 with two homers and 30 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Jack Harper had a breakout season, as he won a team high 23 games, while posting a 2.30 ERA in 35 starts. Noodles Hahn had poor run support, as he only had a 16\u201318 record, however, Hahn had a 2.06 ERA in 35 games, 34 of them starts. Win Kellum and Tom Walker each won 15 games each, with ERA's of 2.60 and 2.24 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nCincinnati began the season with a mediocre 8\u20137 record after fifteen games, however, the Reds won their next eight games to move into second place, just half a game behind the first place New York Giants. Cincinnati continue to play good baseball, winning seven of their next ten to improve to 23\u201311, and take a 1.5 game lead over the Giants and Chicago Cubs for first place in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Reds, Giants and Cubs continued their battle for first place going into the month of June, but then the Giants got red hot, and Cincinnati, nor Chicago, could keep up with New York. The Reds had a 13\u201316 slump to drop their record to 36\u201327, falling into third place, 11.5 games behind the Giants. As the season went on, the Cubs, Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates battled for second place, but all three teams were well behind New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nOn August 7, the Reds, Giants and Pirates were in a three team deal, which included Cincinnati sending Mike Donlin to New York, while the Reds acquired Jimmy Sebring from Pittsburgh. The team continued playing good baseball for the remainder of the season, finishing with a record of 88\u201365, good for third place in the National League, 18 games behind the Giants. The Reds 88 wins was their highest since they won 92 games in the 1898 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034616-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034617-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1904 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Amos Foster, the Bearcats compiled a 7\u20131 record. Alfred McCray was the team captain. The team played its home games at Carson Field in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election\nThe City of London by-election, 1904 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 9 February 1904 for the House of Commons constituency of City of London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election\nThe by-election was triggered by the disqualification of the sitting Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Hon. Alban Gibbs. The 57-year-old Gibbs was re-elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Vacancy\nGibbs had been an MP for the City of London since the 1892 general election, when he was elected to succeed his father Hucks Gibbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Vacancy\nAlban Gibbs and his brother Vicary (MP for St Albans) were partners in the family business Antony Gibbs & Sons. This firm had organised the sale to the Admiralty of the two Swiftsure-class battleships, Triumph and Swiftsure, which had been constructed in England for the Chilean Navy. Financial difficulties prevented Chile from completing the purchase, and they were bought for the Royal Navy to prevent them from being purchased by Russia, which had made a cash offer for them. Vicary Gibbs told his constituents that if the ships had passed into the hands of a rival nation, the balance of power would have been significantly altered, and that Britain would have fallen behind in naval power relative to its rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Vacancy\nHowever, in organising the sale, the two brothers had disqualified themselves from sitting in the House of Commons, under the terms of the House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1782 (22 Geo. III, c. 45)which debarred MPs from accepting contracts from the Crown. Vicary Gibbs told his constituents on 18 January that he would resign from the Commons by taking the Chiltern Hundreds, and then present himself for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Vacancy\nOn 26 January Alban Gibbs told the City of London Conservative Association that his seat would become vacant on the first day of the new session of Parliament, but he was unsure whether this would happen through taking the Chiltern Hundreds, or by some other means. The Association's chairman, Sir John Puleston, moved a vote of thanks to Gibbs for rendering such a \"patriotic service\" to the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Writ\nWhen Parliament reassembled, neither of the Gibbs brothers applied for the Chiltern Hundreds. Instead they both wrote to the Speaker on 1 February to inform him of the contract. Their letters were read to the Commons on 2 February, and the writs were moved the following day. The writ for the City of London was opposed by the South Donegal MP J. G. Swift MacNeill, who moved an amendment to establish a Select committee to investigate whether the two MPs were actually disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0005-0001", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Writ\nThis, he said, was the procedure followed in relation to Baron Rothschild in 1845, and of Sir Sydney Waterlow in 1869; in each case the Speaker had suspended the Motion for the Writ until the question had been considered by the committee. The Speaker disputed MacNeill's assessment, but when MacNeill sustained his objection, the writ was adjourned for debate on the following day. MacNeill similarly objected to the writ for St Albans, and debate on it was also adjourned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Writ\nDebate resumed on 3 February, when MacNeill submitted that the Gibbs brothers were brokers, and should not necessarily be deemed to be contractors. He believed that it was for the House itself to decide whether the brothers were contractors within the meaning of the Act. This view was opposed by the Home Secretary, Aretas Akers-Douglas, who argued that there was a crucial distinction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0006-0001", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Writ\nAkers-Douglas pointed out that in the previous cases the members concerned had opposed disqualification and wanted to defend the right to retain their seats, whereas the Gibbs brothers wanted to vacate their seats and defend them in by-elections. He argued that the two men had acted in good faith, and that it would be wrong to leave the constituencies unrepresented while the question was decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Writ\nThe amendment was put and defeated. The writs were then issued for both the City of London and St Albans by-elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Nominations\nAfter notifying the Speaker of his disqualification, Gibbs published a brief address \"to the electors of the City of London\", which was published as an advertisement in The Times newspaper on 3 February. He told voters that having been obliged to vacate his seat, he intended to offer himself for re-election. Gibbs stated that his \"views on political matters are so well known to you that it is unnecessary for me to dwell on them here\", but he did venture a cautious comment on the then-current controversy between free trade and protectionism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0008-0001", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Nominations\nHe pledged his support for the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour on fiscal policy, but professed \"the greatest sympathy for the Imperial Policy by which Mr Chamberlain proposes to bind the Empire together\". By contrast, his brother Vicary was less equivocal, telling voters in St Albans that if re-elected he would support Chamberlain's proposals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Nominations\nThe nominations day was set as Tuesday 9 February, with polling to be on Saturday 13 February if the seat was contested. However, The Times reported that there was \"no probability of a contest\", and when the returning officers received nominations at the Guildhall on 9 February Gibbs was indeed unopposed. His election was announced from the Guildhall at 1pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Nominations\nHis brother was not so lucky. Vicary Gibbs faced a strong campaign from his Liberal opponent at the St Albans by-election, and was narrowly defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Aftermath\nTwo years later, at the general election in January 1906, Gibbs was one of two Conservatives re-elected for the City of London with a large majority over their Liberal opponents. However, the outgoing Prime Minister Arthur Balfour had been defeated in his Manchester East. After consulting with leading Conservatives in the City of London, Gibbs wrote to Balfour on 24 January offering to resign his safe seat to allow Balfour to stand, and the following day Balfour sent a telegram accepting the offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034618-0011-0001", "contents": "1904 City of London by-election, Aftermath\nGibbs resigned from the Commons on 14 February by the procedural device of appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead. At the resulting by-election on 26 February, Balfour was returned with 78.9% of the votes. In September 1907, Gibbs succeeded his father as Baron Aldenham, and took his seat in the House of Lords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034619-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1904 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Under first year head coach Shack Shealy, the team posted a 3\u20133\u20131 record. Joe Holland was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034620-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cleveland Naps season\nThe 1904 Cleveland Naps season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the American League with a record of 86\u201365, 7\u00bd games behind the Boston Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034620-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034620-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034620-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034621-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Colgate football team\nThe 1904 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second season under head coach Buck O'Neill, the team compiled an 8\u20131\u20131 record. F. Gorham Brigham was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034622-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1904 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1904 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team\nIn Dan McGugin and Mike Donahue's first year as head coach, Vanderbilt and Auburn shared the SIAA championship, challenging John Heisman's eminence in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Composite overview\nHenry D. Phillips and John Scarbrough were both unanimous selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nC = received votes for a composite selection put together by John de Saulles using the teams of Grantland Rice, W. R. Tichenor, Heisman, and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nH = selected by John Heisman, coach at Georgia Institute of Technology. He had a first and second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor in the Atlanta News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nGR = selected by Grantland Rice in the Atlanta Journal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nNB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWJE = selected by William J. Ewing in the Nashville American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nEC = selected by Edwin Camp, in Illustrated Sporting News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034623-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWK = selected by Willis Keinholz, head coach at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034624-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Colombian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Colombia in 1904. The result was a victory for Rafael Reyes of the Conservative Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034624-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Colombian presidential election, Electoral system\nThe 1886 constitution changed the presidential electoral system from one where a candidate had to win a majority of states to be elected (or be elected by Congress if no candidate won a majority of states), to a two-stage system. Voters meeting literacy and property requirements (which were not required for local and regional elections) elected members of an electoral college, who in turn elected the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034625-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach John H. McIntosh, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20134\u20131 record, finished last in the CFA, and were outscored by a total of 125 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034626-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1904 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1904 college football season. Dave Cropp led the team to a mark of 3\u20131 in the CFA and 6\u20132\u20131 overall in his second and final season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034627-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Colorado gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034627-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Colorado gubernatorial election\nAccording to the tabulated results, Democratic nominee Alva Adams defeated incumbent Republican James Hamilton Peabody with 50.64% of the vote. Peabody successfully contested the results based on allegations of Democratic voter fraud in Denver and was installed as Governor on March 17, 1905 after Alva Adams had served for over two months. Peabody, who also faced election fraud allegations against himself, resigned the same day. Republican Lieutenant Governor Jesse Fuller McDonald then ascended to the governorship. This episode caused Colorado to have three different Governors within a time span of 24 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034628-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe 1904 Columbia Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its third season under head coach Bill Morley, the team compiled a 7\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 120 to 68. Robert Stangland was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034628-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe team's roster included W. E. Metzenthin at quarterback and Tom Thorp at tackle. Metzenthin was selected as a first-team All-American by the New York Herald, and Thorp was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney, and the New York Sun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034628-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Columbia Blue and White football team\nColumbia's sports teams were commonly called the \"Blue and White\" in this era, but had no official nickname. The name \"Lions\" would not be adopted until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034628-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe team played its home games at the American League Park, a baseball park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, and also the home field of the New York Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034629-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1904 college football season. This was the ninth year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by third year head coach Edwin O. Smith, and completed the season with a record of 5\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034630-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Connecticut gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee Henry Roberts defeated Democratic nominee A. Heaton Robertson with 54.88% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey\nThe Copa del Rey 1904 was the second staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey\nThe competition was played in 1904 in Madrid. It was notable for its chaotic development and the fact that Athletic Bilbao won the trophy without playing a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey, Details\nOriginally, three teams were to participate, one for each region. The newly formed Madrid Football Federation, who organized the competition for the first time (the previous tournament was organized by Madrid CF), invited Athletic Bilbao representing Biscay and Espanyol of Barcelona representing Catalonia. Madrid was to be represented by the winner of a preliminary round between Club Espa\u00f1ol de Madrid and Madrid-Moderno (a merger of Madrid CF and Moderno). The three teams were to contest the cup in a round-robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey, Details\nBefore the tournament Espanyol, unhappy with the competition system, announced they would not go to Madrid. Then two more teams from Madrid, Moncloa FC and Iberia Football Club, were admitted in the competition, forcing a change to the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey, Details\nThe competition started on March 13, 1904, but on March 19 the problems started. The match between Espa\u00f1ol of Madrid and Madrid-Moderno ended tied at 5\u20135. The captains of both teams agreed not to play extra time, but failed to reach an agreement on when they should replay the match. Espa\u00f1ol wanted to play the next day, but Madrid-Moderno refused, saying that under the rules of the tournament a replay could not be played less than 48 hours after the previous game. Next day Espa\u00f1ol went to play the replay, but Madrid-Moderno did not. The regional federation, whose president Ceferino Birdalone happened to be president of Espa\u00f1ol as well, ruled in favor of Espa\u00f1ol, who were declared winners of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey, Details\nWhile the Cup final was originally scheduled for March 26, the inclusion of Moncloa and Iberia in the tournament at the last minute necessitated an extra qualifying game and delayed the final. On March 27, Espa\u00f1ol and Moncloa faced one another. Espa\u00f1ol were winning 1-0 when by chance their defender Herm\u00faa was injured. He was diagnosed with a broken tibia and fibula. The referee then decided to suspend the match, at which point Espa\u00f1ol claimed the victory. During a meeting of the Madrid Association of Football Clubs, the president of the organization proposed to accept the claim, but as he was as Chairman of the claimant club his proposal was rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey, Details\nTo resolve the conflict, a lottery was held, which favored Espa\u00f1ol, and named them as finalists. But this team had not won the regional heats: they had tied one game and had not completed the other, which led Athletic to file a complaint. Faced with this problem and unable to quickly solve the case, coupled with the rush of players from the Basque club to return to their occupations, the Madrid Association decided to award the cup to Athletic as defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034631-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey, Final Copa del Rey\nThe qualification of Espa\u00f1ol was disputed. Athletic, who were not required to qualify, were declared winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034632-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey Final\nThe 1904 Copa del Rey Final was the second final of the Copa del Rey. It was supposed to be played in 1904 in Madrid. This edition was notable for its chaotic development and the fact that Athletic Bilbao won the trophy without playing a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034632-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Copa del Rey Final, Match details\nClub Espa\u00f1ol de Madrid had tied one game and had not completed the other game in 1904 Copa del Rey, which led Athletic to file a complaint. Faced with this problem and unable to quickly solve the case, coupled with the rush of players from the Basque club to return to their occupations, the Madrid Association decided to award the cup to Athletic as defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034633-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cork City by-election\nThe Cork City by-election, 1904 took place in Cork City (UK Parliament constituency) on 19 August 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034633-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cork City by-election\nIt followed the passage of the Land Purchase (Ireland) Act 1903, fought for by Cork MP William O'Brien of the Irish Parliamentary Party. In this he was opposed by his colleagues in the party for having achieved Land Reform before Home Rule. In disgust, O'Brien closed his newspaper the Irish People and resigned his seat on 1 January 1904. Eventually the writ was moved to fill the vacant seat and O'Brien was nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034633-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Cork City by-election\nThis by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Ireland-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034634-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1904 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 18th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034634-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cork Senior Football Championship\nLees won the championship following a defeat of Fermoy in the final at Cork Park. This was their sixth title overall and their third title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034635-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1904 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 18th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034635-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nSt. Finbarr\u2019s won the championship following a walkover from Castletownroche in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first title in five championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034636-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1904 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1904 college football season. In their third, non-consecutive season under head coach Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled a 7\u20133 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 226 to 92.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034637-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 County Championship\nThe 1904 County Championship was the fifteenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 9 May to 5 September 1904. Lancashire won their second championship title, while six times champions Yorkshire finished in second place. The previous season's winners, Middlesex, finished in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034638-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cuban parliamentary election\nMid -term parliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 28 February 1904 in order to fill half the seats in the House of Representatives. The Conservative Republican Party won the most seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034639-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Cumberland Bulldogs football team\nThe 1904 Cumberland Bulldogs football team represented Cumberland University in the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), compiling a 3\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034640-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Currie Cup\nThe 1904 Currie Cup was the seventh edition of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034640-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Western Province for the sixth time, who won all six of their matches in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034641-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Dallas municipal election\nThe 1904 Dallas Municipal election was a mayoral and municipal election in Dallas, Texas. The election was held on April 5, 1905. In this election Bryan T. Barry won against an unknown candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034642-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1904 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second season under head coach Fred Folsom, the team compiled a 7\u20130\u20131 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored opponents by a total of 143 to 13. David Main was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034643-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 DePauw football team\nThe 1904 DePauw football team was an American football team that represented DePauw University in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034644-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Delaware gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Though incumbent Republican Governor John Hunn was eligible to run for re-election, he declined to do so. Instead, as the intra-party battle in the Republican Party between the Addicks and anti-Addicks factions continued, Hunn stepped aside to avoid additional conflict. The Addicks, or Union Republicans, nominated Henry C. Conrad for Governor, while the anti-Addicks, or Regular Republicans, held out with their own ticket and nominated Joseph H. Chandler for Governor. On October 12, 1904, the two factions united and agreed to jointly nominate industrialist Preston Lea, a favorite of the Regular Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034644-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Delaware gubernatorial election\nIn the general election, Lea faced Chandler, the erstwhile candidate of the Regular Republicans, who refused to step aside for Lea and continued his campaign, and former State Senator Caleb S. Pennewill, the Democratic nominee. Lea ended up defeating his opponents by a decisive margin, though somewhat reduced from Hunn's victory in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention\nThe 1904 Democratic National Convention was an American presidential nominating convention that ran from July 6 through 10 in the Coliseum of the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall in St. Louis, Missouri. Breaking with eight years of control by the Democratic Party's reform wing, the convention nominated conservative Judge Alton B. Parker of New York for president and Henry G. Davis of West Virginia for vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention\nThe Democratic ticket lost in the November 1904 presidential election to the Republican Party and its ticket of Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Convention history, Opening\nThe 1904 Democratic National Convention was opened at two minutes past noon on July 6 in the Coliseum of the old St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall by James K. Jones, chair of the Democratic National Committee. Following the reading of the official call of the convention and delivery of an opening prayer, John Sharp Williams of Mississippi was named the honorary chairman of the gathering, emblematic of a return to power by the conservative Bourbon wing of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Convention history, Opening\nThe traditionalist Southerner Williams delivered an opening speech but was hindered by a voice unable to reach all of those assembled in the convention hall, many of whom, according to a contemporary press report, \"kept up a constant hum of conversation that smothered Mr. Williams\u2019s voice.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Convention history, Presidential nomination\nAfter the second straight defeat of Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan in the 1900 presidential election, the conservative allies of former President Grover Cleveland regained power within the party. However, with the popularity of President Theodore Roosevelt, many of the most prominent Democrats, such as Cleveland and former Attorney General Richard Olney, refused to run. Additionally, Maryland Senator Arthur Pue Gorman alienated many in the South by opposing Roosevelt's policies in Panama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Convention history, Presidential nomination\nIn this atmosphere, in advance of the convention conservative Democrats coalesced around New York Court of Appeals Judge Alton B. Parker, an ally of former New York Governor David B. Hill. Parker hoped to one day sit on the United States Supreme Court, but was convinced to run by Hill, and the Parker campaign was backed by conservative business interests. With the reform wing around Bryan and the ethnic political machine of Tammany Hall unable to agree upon a single alternative candidate, Parker was seen by many contemporary observers as a prohibitive favorite to win the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Convention history, Presidential nomination\nEight names were placed in nomination: Alton B. Parker, William Randolph Hearst, Francis Cockrell, Richard Olney, Edward C. Wall, George Gray, John Sharp Williams, and Nelson A. Miles. Representative Williams thanked the North Dakota delegation for its generosity but declined to be a candidate. Over the objections of Bryan, Parker defeated New York Congressman Hearst on the first ballot. In a further defeat for Bryan, the Democrats adopted a conservative platform far different from the policies espoused in 1896 and 1900. However, Bryan would re-take control of the party in the 1908 Democratic National Convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Convention history, Presidential candidates\nChief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination\nWith Democratic prospects in the November election appearing bleak, most prominent politicians expressed no interest in the vice presidential nomination, or declined when asked to consider it. The names of several lesser-known individuals were mentioned, including businessman Marshall Field of Illinois, former Representative John C. Black of Illinois, Representative James R. Williams of Illinois, attorney John W. Kern of Indiana, Edward C. Wall of Wisconsin, David Bost of Wisconsin, Governor Alexander Monroe Dockery of Missouri, and attorney Joseph W. Folk of Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination\nFour names were placed in nomination: Henry G. Davis, James R. Williams, George Turner, and William A. Harris. Davis, a wealthy, 80-year-old former Senator, was given the honor in the hope he would finance part of the campaign. Davis did not donate as much as party leaders had hoped, but his contributions still represented a third of the party's entire expenditure on the presidential campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination, Closing and notes\nAfter nominating the ticket of Parker and Davis, the convention adjourned sine die at 1:30 pm on Sunday, July 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034645-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Democratic National Convention, Vice Presidential nomination, Closing and notes\nThe 1904 Democratic National Convention took place simultaneously with the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 84], "content_span": [85, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034646-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1904 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second season under head coach Alfred W. Debo, the team compiled a 4\u20132 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 76 to 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034647-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Detroit Tigers season\n1904 was the fourth year for the Detroit Tigers in the American League. The team finished in seventh place with a record of 62\u201390 (.408), 32 games behind the Boston Americans. They played ten tie games, which is the major-league record. The 1904 Tigers were outscored by their opponents 627 to 505. The team's attendance at Bennett Park was 177,796, seventh out of the eight teams in the AL. In the year before Ty Cobb's arrival, pitcher George Mullin had a higher batting average than any of the team's regulars at .290.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034647-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034647-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034647-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034647-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034648-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Devonport by-election\nThe Devonport by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned two Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034648-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Devonport by-election, Vacancy\nJohn Lockie had been Conservative MP for one of the seats of Devonport since the 1902 Devonport by-election. He resigned at the age of 43 and died in January 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034648-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Devonport by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since he gained it in the 1902 Devonport by-election. Both Devonport seats had been Liberal from 1892-1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034648-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Devonport by-election, Candidates\nThe local Conservative Association selected 53-year-old Sir John Jackson as their candidate to defend the seat. He was a contractors for Public Works. He completed the Admiralty Docks at Keyham, Devonport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034648-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Devonport by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 54-year-old John Benn as their candidate to gain the seat. Benn was active in the London Dock Strike of 1889, and, as an increasingly prominent London politician, was elected in 1892 as the Liberal Party candidate for St George Division of Tower Hamlets. He was narrowly defeated at the general election in 1895. As a London County Councillor, he helped introduce electric trams to London's streets in 1903. He served as Chairman of the London County Council from 1903-04.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034648-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Devonport by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 20 June 1904, just days after the previous MP resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034649-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Dickinson football team\nThe 1904 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20133\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 219 to 53. Professor Forrest Craver was chosen as the team's head football coach; he had been the captain of Dickinson's 1897 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034650-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Douliu earthquake\nThe 1904 Douliu earthquake (Chinese: 1904\u5e74\u6597\u516d\u5730\u9707; pinyin: 1904 ni\u00e1n D\u01d2uli\u00f9 d\u00eczh\u00e8n) struck central Taiwan with a magnitude of 6.1 at 04:25 on November 6. The quake caused widespread damage and killed 145 people, making it the fifth deadliest earthquake of the 20th century in Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034650-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Douliu earthquake, Technical details\nAt 04:25 of the morning of 6 November 1904, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake centred on the town of Xingang, Chiayi County, shook towns in present-day Yunlin County, Chiayi County, and Tainan City. Despite the relatively light magnitude, the shallow depth of the temblor (7\u00a0km) coupled with the fact that it struck in a populated area meant that casualties were heavier than might be expected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034650-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Douliu earthquake, Technical details\nThe earthquake was one of the first major quakes in Taiwan to be monitored using seismographs that were introduced by the Japanese. This enabled government officials to pinpoint the magnitude, epicentre and hypocentre of the earthquake with more accuracy than ever before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034650-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Douliu earthquake, Technical details\nThe quake was felt throughout the island, and Japanese officials recorded sandblasting and soil liquefaction at several sites in the affected area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034650-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Douliu earthquake, Damage\nAccording to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau, there were 145 deaths, with 50 people seriously injured and 107 people less seriously injured. As a result of the quake 590 dwellings were completely destroyed, while a further 1,085 dwellings were partially destroyed. The cost of damage was assessed at the time as \u00a5105,155 (1904 Japanese yen). The worst affected area was Shink\u014d subprefecture (\u65b0\u6e2f\u652f\u5ef3) (Xingang, Chiayi), where 85 of the deaths occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034651-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1904 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second season under head coach W. J. Monilaw, the team compiled a 5\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 213 to 165.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034651-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe team played its home games at Haskins Field. The stadium was dedicated by Governor Albert B. Cummins on October 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034652-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 East Dorset by-election\nThe East Dorset by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034652-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 East Dorset by-election, Vacancy\nHon. Humphrey Sturt had been Conservative MP for the seat of East Dorset since the 1891 By-Election. His succession to the peerage as Baron Alington came on 17 February 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034652-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 East Dorset by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since they gained it in 1886. They held the seat at the last election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034652-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 East Dorset by-election, Candidates\nThe local Conservative Association selected 47-year-old Charles Van Raalte as their candidate to defend the seat. He was Mayor of Poole in 1903. Van Raalte was of Dutch descent and lived locally on Brownsea Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034652-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 East Dorset by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 29-year-old Hon. Charles Lyell as their candidate to gain the seat. Lyell was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Forfar and Kincardine Artillery Militia in 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034652-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 East Dorset by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 16 March 1904, 27 days after the previous MP went to the Lord's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034653-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 East Florida Seminary football team\nThe 1904 East Florida Seminary football team represented the East Florida Seminary in the sport of American football during the 1904 college football season. Though the school was located in Gainesville, Florida, it was not the modern University of Florida but one of its predecessor institutions. Intercollegiate football was not as a well-established sport in Florida at the time, so seasons typically consisted of a few games against in-state schools or athletic clubs. East Florida Seminary's team played three games in 1904 - home-and-home losses against the Stetson Hatters along with a road victory over the Cadets of the South Florida Military Institute in what may have been the first organized football game played in Polk County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034653-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 East Florida Seminary football team\nThe 1904-1905 academic year was the last for the school. The Florida legislature reorganized the state's system of higher education the following year, and the East Florida Seminary was consolidated along with four other state-supported institutions to form the new \"University of the State of Florida\", which established its own football program in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034654-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1904 municipal election was held December 12, 1904 for the purpose of electing a mayor and eight aldermen to sit on the Edmonton City Council, as well as five public school trustees and five separate school trustees. It was Edmonton's first election as a city, and the first in which there were eight aldermanic positions instead of six. Because of this new composition of city council, all aldermanic positions were elected instead of only half as had been the case in previous elections and would again be the case in subsequent elections. Accordingly, even though Edmund Grierson, Charles May, and Joseph Henri Picard had been elected to two-year terms in the 1903 election, their terms were truncated. May and Picard decided to stand for re-election, while Grierson did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034654-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Edmonton municipal election\nIn order to re-establish staggered aldermanic terms, the top four finishers were elected to two-year terms while the next four were elected to one-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034654-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nThere were 743 ballots cast in the 1904 election. Information on the number of eligible voters is no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034654-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nArthur Cushing, H A Gray, Kenneth McLeod, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034654-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nNicolas Dubois Dominic Beck, J Bilodeau, H Morel, Joseph Henri Picard, and J Pomerleau were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034655-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 English cricket season\n1904 was the 15th season of County Championship cricket in England. Lancashire went through the season unbeaten and clinched the Championship title. Lancashire drew ten games, but their 16 wins were still more than any other team could muster. Defending champions Middlesex fell to fourth place, losing two successive matches to Kent and Nottinghamshire in June to have a negative percentage five games into the season. They did eventually win nine games, though, which was enough to take them past everyone bar Yorkshire and Kent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034655-0000-0001", "contents": "1904 English cricket season\nYorkshire were two losses from sharing the Championship with Lancashire, and drew with the Champions on both occasions; despite Lancashire following on in their match at Headingley, Johnny Tyldesley made an unbeaten century from number three to draw the game. However, even a win in this match could not have given Yorkshire the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034655-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 English cricket season, County Championship, Final table\nThe final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034655-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 English cricket season, South Africans tour\nThe South Africans toured England during the season, playing 22 matches. Most of them were against regular first-class sides, but there were also matches against an England XI (with five players who had already played Test cricket), against Marylebone Cricket Club (with two Test players) and a South of England side with five Test players. The tourists won ten of their 22 matches, and lost two, against Worcestershire and Kent. They did not manage to beat any of the top four sides in the Championship, though; they drew with Lancashire and Yorkshire (twice), lost to Kent and tied with Middlesex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034655-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 English cricket season, South Africans tour\nFrank Mitchell, the South Africans' captain, also played first class cricket for Yorkshire during the season, which helped him score more than 1,000 first class runs in the season. 839 of those were made for South Africa; Louis Tancred (1217) and Maitland Hathorn were the two players to make more than 1,000 runs for South Africa only. On the bowling side, pace bowler Johannes Kotze headed the attack, claiming 104 wickets in his 22 matches for South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034656-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 16 and 17 in Davos, Switzerland. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034656-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 European Figure Skating Championships\nThese were the first European Figure Skating Championships after two years. In 1902 and 1903, the Europeans were scheduled to be held in Amsterdam. In 1902, the championships were cancelled due to no ice. In 1903, the championships were cancelled in Amsterdam also due to no ice but were transferred to Stockholm. There the Europeans were cancelled because there was only one contestant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034657-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1904 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held in Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris, on the Seine on a day in the middle of August. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+). The 1904 Summer Olympics had been held in St. Louis, United States, just two weeks prior but no European rowers had attended (apart from auxiliary events that are not considered Olympic events).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final\nThe 1904 FA Cup Final was a football match between Bolton Wanderers and Manchester City on 23 April 1904 at Crystal Palace in London. The showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (better known as the FA Cup), it was the 33rd Cup final, and the tenth at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final\nEach team progressed through four rounds to reach the final. Manchester City were a First Division team chasing a league and cup double; Bolton Wanderers were a mid-table Second Division team. Consequently, most observers anticipated a Manchester City win. In a close match featuring strong defensive play, Manchester City won 1\u20130. The goal, scored by Billy Meredith, was disputed by those with Bolton sympathies, who believed Meredith to be offside. The victory gave Manchester City their first major honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Build-up\nThe final was held at Crystal Palace, the tenth final played at the venue. Neither club had previously won the competition. Bolton reached the final in 1894, but were beaten comfortably by Notts County, losing 4\u20131 at Goodison Park despite a strong performance by goalkeeper John Sutcliffe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Build-up\nIn their passage to the final Manchester City faced opposition from the top division in all but one round. Second Division Woolwich Arsenal, City's opponents in the second round, were the exception. Sunderland were defeated 3\u20132 at Hyde Road in the first round, and the visit to Arsenal yielded a 2\u20130 win. A club record crowd of 30,022 watched the quarter-final against Middlesbrough, but a 0\u20130 draw meant a replay at Ayresome Park was required, which City won 3\u20131 to set up a semi-final against The Wednesday. Two goals from Turnbull and one from Meredith gave City a 3\u20130 win at Goodison Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Build-up\nBolton's cup run started slowly, with a replay required to overcome non-league Reading. A 4\u20131 victory over Southampton secured a quarter-final berth at Sheffield United. As a Second Division team with a poor away record, Wanderers were clear underdogs in the quarter-final, particularly in view of Sheffield United's strong home form. Nevertheless, Bolton prevailed 2\u20130 courtesy of goals by Sam Marsh and Billy Yenson. At this point Marsh had scored in every round of the competition. A 1\u20130 defeat of Derby County in the semi-final took Bolton to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Build-up\nThough Lancashire was a football stronghold in the early years of the professional game, providing a large proportion of Football League teams, the cup final had never been contested between two Lancashire clubs until the 1904 final. 30,000 supporters from the region travelled to London, sparking press reports of records for north\u2013south rail travel. Lacking alternative accommodation, several thousand slept on the platforms at Euston and St Pancras. A jovial atmosphere built up, with the Manchester Industrial Boys Band playing Hiawatha. However, in London itself, the match received less attention than a final featuring a southern team would have done. Tickets in an uncovered stand cost 5s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Build-up\nPrior to the match the teams both stayed in the suburb of West Norwood, within walking distance of Crystal Palace. Manchester City arrived on 21 April, and were joined the following day by the Bolton Wanderers, who had spent the earlier part of the week at a training camp in Norbreck, near Blackpool. London's Morning Leader described the relaxed nature of the Manchester City players, commenting that \"they might have been a tug of war eleven out for a holiday\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Build-up\nThe majority of observers, including The Times correspondent, expected a win for Manchester City, as they had performed strongly over the League season, lying second in the First Division on the day of the final, whereas Bolton were a mid-table Second Division side whose most talented forward, Boyd, was sidelined through injury. Manchester City had one injury worry, Billy Holmes, who had missed the previous league match after sustaining an injury against Nottingham Forest. George Livingstone, initially a doubt, was passed fit well in advance. When the final line-ups were announced, both teams had one change from the semi-finals. For Bolton, Boyd was replaced by Clifford, who had not played in any of the previous rounds, and Archie Freebairn switched to Boyd's usual flank \"with a view to coping with Meredith\". For Manchester City, Sam Ashworth replaced Holmes. Both teams played 2\u20133\u20135, the standard formation of the period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 962]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Match\nThe match took place in good weather, with the crowd approximately 62,000. Dignitaries present included Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, Colonial Secretary Alfred Lyttelton, Postmaster General Lord Stanley and Lord Kinnaird. Also in attendance were cricketers WG Grace, GL Jessop and CB Fry, plus several members of the Australian cricket team. Also in attendance was Willie Maley, brother of Manchester City's manager Tom and manager of Celtic whose team had won the Scottish Cup the week before by beating Rangers 3-2 Manchester City entered the field of play first, led by captain Billy Meredith, with the Bolton team emerging shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0008-0001", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Match\nManchester City won the toss, and elected to play towards the southern end of the ground in the first half, with the wind at their backs. The opening exchanges were fairly even, the Athletic News reporting that \"For some time there was little to choose between the rivals\", but that \"Manchester were the more systematic and scientific\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Match\nTwenty minutes into the game, a pass to the right wing by George Livingstone eluded Bolton's Archie Freebairn, and reached Meredith, who dribbled beyond Bob Struthers for a run on goal. He shot to goalkeeper Davies' left, scoring the opening goal. Reporters with Bolton sympathies, such as ex-Bolton secretary JJ Bentley, claimed the goal to be offside, though the Bolton players made no appeal to the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0009-0001", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Match\nThe goal led to one over-exuberant Manchester City supporter invading the pitch, and subsequently being escorted away by police, though in contrast to the modern image of the football hooligan, the Sporting Chronicle reported that the man was then allowed back onto the terraces, as the police had been impressed by the level of devotion that he had demonstrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Match\nBolton had the majority of possession in the second half, aside from a ten-minute spell, but the performance of the Manchester City defence limited Bolton's goalscoring opportunities. The Manchester Evening News singled out Herbert Burgess for particular praise in this respect, writing that City had \"considerable reason to be thankful to their left-back, Burgess... ... the famous International played a game which has rarely been surpassed\". The Bolton Evening News took a rather different view, claiming that physical play by Burgess provoked the ire of the crowd. Bolton's adoption of \"kick and rush\" tactics resulted in a spell of pressure, but to no avail. Bolton's best chance came in the final five minutes, a shot by White which \"missed by inches\". The match finished 1\u20130, giving Manchester City their first major honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 856]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nManchester City captain Meredith received the trophy from the serving prime minister, Arthur Balfour, a patron of the club. Alfred Lyttelton then made a speech praising the efforts of the two teams. Lyttelton, a former footballer himself, compared the play in the final with the match he played for the England team against Scotland in 1877. Noting that \"the game is a good deal changed\", he emphasised how the final had demonstrated the importance of teamwork, in contrast to his day when \"each man played for himself\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nWhile most of those in attendance behaved well, with few reports of disturbances, later in the day several young men \"with provincial accents\" appeared at a west London police court charged with drunken disorder. Due to \"offence caused by 'scrimmage'\", they were issued with fines averaging 10s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034658-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 FA Cup Final, Post-match\nManchester City did not return directly to Manchester, but instead went to Liverpool, as the club's final league fixture was scheduled for Monday afternoon at Everton. At this point Manchester City were still in contention for the league title. However, a 1\u20130 defeat at Goodison Park eliminated City from the title race and confirmed The Wednesday as champions. The team arrived in Manchester in that evening, and travelled to the Town Hall to commence a victory parade. From the Town Hall, the parade travelled to Ardwick Conservative Club, via Deansgate, Market Street and Ardwick Green. The number of people lining the route was five times as many as had attended a recent visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season\nThe inaugural 1904 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from January 6 until February 24. Four teams played a six game schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season\nThe FAHL had been formed on December 5, 1903. Three of the four teams had been rejected for membership by the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL), while the fourth \u2013 the Montreal Wanderers \u2013 was a new team composed of disillusioned players from two Montreal-based CAHL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season, Regular season\nIn their first season as a franchise, the Wanderers would dominate the regular season, going undefeated. Due to an unusual twist, the Wanderers would have to share the league championship with the Ottawa Hockey Club (HC) of the CAHL (see below).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nJack Marshall of Wanderers would score six goals against the Capitals on January 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season, League championship and Stanley Cup challenge\nJust days after the FAHL regular season was finished, the reigning Stanley Cup champion Ottawa Hockey Club (HC) left the CAHL and joined the FAHL. The Wanderers, FAHL regular season champions, immediately played Ottawa HC for the combined Stanley Cup/FAHL championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 63], "content_span": [64, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season, League championship and Stanley Cup challenge, Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nA two-game series between the Montreal Wanderers from FAHL and Ottawa Hockey Club from CAHL was arranged, for the Stanley Cup. The teams played the first game in Montreal to a tie of 5\u20135. Montreal refused to play overtime, demanding that the game be considered a no-contest and proposed that the series start over as a best two-of-three series. The Cup trustees demanded that the series continued as scheduled and the Wanderers abandoned the challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 85], "content_span": [86, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season, League championship and Stanley Cup challenge, Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nAccording to the Gazette, the game saw \"the dirtiest game ever seen between two senior teams at the Arena.\" Thirty-six penalties were called. Leahy was injured and replaced by Mallan. James Strachan, president of the Wanderers was quoted as saying that the Wanderers would not go to Ottawa and play with Dr. Kearns as referee. Ottawa took a 2\u20130 lead, before the Wanderers scored five in a row. The Ottawas came back with three, the final goal by Frank McGee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 85], "content_span": [86, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season, League championship and Stanley Cup challenge, Wanderers vs. Ottawa\nThe Wanderers demanded a replay of the game to be held in Montreal, which Ottawa refused. The series was cancelled, with Ottawa retained the Stanley Cup. championship. Ottawa then joined FAHL in the offseason..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 85], "content_span": [86, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034659-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 FAHL season, Exhibition\nAfter the season, the Wanderers travelled to Michigan to play the Portage Lakes Hockey Club pro club. The Wanderers lost to Portage Lakes 8-4 and 9-2 in a series dubbed the \"World Championship\" locally. The Wanderers next travelled to Pittsburgh to play the Pittsburgh Victorias. Pittsburgh won 4-2, and 6-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team\nThe 1904 Florida State College football team represented Florida State College (FSC) in the sport of American football during the 1904 college football season. The team, led by head coach Jack Forsythe, posted a 2\u20133 record and won the State Championship with victories over Stetson and the University of Florida at Lake City With no formal nickname or mascot, the Florida State College football team was known simply as the \"Florida State College Eleven\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Before the season, Uniforms\nThe Florida State College Eleven wore gold uniforms with a large purple F on the front. As with most college teams of the period, their pants were lightly padded, but their upper bodies were largely unprotected. Leather helmets with ear guards covered their heads, and shoehorn-shaped metal nose guards were strapped across their faces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Before the season, Coaching staff\nDuring the summer, W. W. Hughes turned over coaching duties to Jack Forsythe, who had played at Clemson the previous season and had never served as a head coach. Why Hughes surrendered his position is unclear, but that autumn his salary was increased, signifying that his academic duties increased. Jock Hanvey, who had been Forsyth's teammate at Clemson, served as an assistant coach. The team's captain was Dan Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 1: Georgia Tech\nThe season opened with a 35\u20130 defeat at the hands of coach John Heisman's Georgia Tech team. At the start of the contest, Georgia Tech tried line bucking to no avail. Then a run off tackle by Tech's fullback Clarke went 70 yards for a touchdown. Lob Brown and Davies played well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 1: Georgia Tech\nThe starting lineup for Florida State was: Johnston (left end), Liddell (left tackle), Mullin (left guard), Williams (center), Buckholz (right guard), McCord (right tackle), Pulliston (right end), Murray (quarterback), Watson (left halfback), Wells (right halfback), and Walther (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 2: Florida\nFlorida State College's 23\u20130 victory over the Blue and White of the University of Florida at Lake City was its third shutout in a row over their in-state rivals. Fans in Lake City were bitterly disappointed, and a local newspaper urged that \"the university team should be made stronger before it attempts to play again. Florida State scored a touchdown in a \"hotly contested\" first half, and three more in the second half. Time of game: First half, 25 minutes; second half, 20 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 3: Savannah Athletic Association\nThe Savannah Athletic Association, \"always considered one of the strongest in the South\", was larger and more experienced than Florida State team, but their 6\u20130 victory \"was hard won\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 95], "content_span": [96, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Jacksonville Consolidated\nThe first half was played without either team scoring. Florida State started the game with a fumble by Liddell on kickoff and was held where he caught it. Florida State was driving towards Jacksonville's goal, when Jacksonville recovered the ball on a Florida State fumble. Florida State got the ball back, thanks to a fumble by Yancey. On the thirty-yard line, Jacksonville's Jones tackled a Florida State player and forced a fumble, which Florida State lost. After Jacksonville gained yardage, an effort to send the ball around the left end of Florida State resulted in a loss of ten yards. Yancey again lost several yards, but by a technicality kept possession of the ball instead of a turnover on downs. Yancey, Jones and Kennedy then commenced a rapid advance of the ball by a series of fierce bucks. The first half ended with the ball in Jacksonville's territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 961]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Jacksonville Consolidated\nIn the second half, there was a decided improvement by Jacksonville and an apparently falling off in the defensive work of Florida State. Jacksonville was getting into weak points of Florida State and managed to advance a little more rapidly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Jacksonville Consolidated\nJones was standing on Jacksonville's fifteen-yard line when Florida State kicked off and he caught the ball. A dash through center for a fake run was followed by a sudden dart through right tackle, catching the opposing team almost unaware. Good interference from Curran and others, and a clever direction of his route by Kennedy assisted Jones in making the touchdown. Jones caught the ball fair, and his run was \"as fleet as that of a deer\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0009-0001", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Jacksonville Consolidated\nWhen he started out, Florida State expected him to break through center, as he was making rapid strides in that direction, Florida State bunched for the center and left the ends practically unprotected. Once around the center of the Florida State line and between tackle and right end, Jones had almost clear sailing. There were but two efforts to tackle him but they were successfully met. Jones jumped one of the tackles and Curran guarded him against the second. The Florida State and Jacksonville players raced with Jones for the goal, but were unable to catch him. \"Those who had been waving aloft the Jacksonville colors went wild with enthusiasm, and there was a din which lasted until Yancey had succeeded in kicking the goal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Jacksonville Consolidated\nAfter the touchdown by Jones, the ball was returned to the center and Jacksonville kicked off to Florida State. The ball was caught by Puleston, who carried it from the 16-yard line to the 30-yard line. Florida State again made attacked Jacksonville's defensive line, gaining fifteen yards when again Florida State lost the ball on a fumble. Jacksonville had possession and moved down the field. Florida State's defense was able to hold Jacksonville back, though they were unable to get the ball on downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0010-0001", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Jacksonville Consolidated\nThere were a number of controversial calls in this part of the game, as to whether the line of scrimmage had been properly marked, but Jacksonville managed to retain the ball until within twenty yards of the goal line, when it was fumbled. Florida State recovered the ball, but lost it on downs before gaining much yardage. There were then three minutes on the play clock, and the Jacksonville made a vigorous effort to score, failing to do so in only about four yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 4: Jacksonville Consolidated\n\"It was a great game, and the best that has been seen in Jacksonville for several years. The Tallahassee team is a strong one, and has been well coached and thoroughly seasoned by the contests with other colleges.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 5: Stetson\nTwelve minutes into the game, Stetson \"crossed Florida State's goal,\" making the score 6\u20130. Then Florida State \"seemed to wake up.\" Vincent Green, a substitute at left end, scored Florida State's first touchdown \"by a magnificent buck.\" Later, Florida State's right end, J.K. Johnston, ran forty-five yards to make the score 12\u20136. Shortly before halftime, Guyte McCord scored Florida State's third touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Season summary, Week 5: Stetson\nIn the second half \"neither side succeeded in scoring,\" and Florida State won 18\u20136. The victory made Florida State \"State Champions\" for the 1904 season. Captain Dan Williams was \"borne off the field in triumph by his comrades.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, End of the program\nIn 1905, Florida's state legislature passed the Buckman Act, which completely reorganized the state's system of higher education and consolidated most state colleges and universities into a few new institutions. Florida State College ceased to exist, and its Tallahassee campus became home to the new Florida Female College (later changed to the Florida State College for Women), ending the football program. After a year of transition, the new \"University of the State of Florida\" opened in Gainesville in 1906, and Jack Forsythe, FSC's last head coach, was hired as UF's first head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 60], "content_span": [61, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034660-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida State College football team, Roster\nThe original lineup played the entire game, both offense and defense. Substitutes replaced injured players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034661-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Florida gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Democratic nominee Napoleon B. Broward defeated Republican nominee Matthew B. MacFarlane with 79.16% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034662-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Fordham football team\nThe 1904 Fordham football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. Fordham claims a 22\u20136 record, though College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record as 4\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034662-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Fordham football team\nFred L. Smith was the coach for the second year. Fullback Edward Glennon was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034662-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following six games are reported in Fordham's media guide, CFDW, and contemporaneous press coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034662-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following are additional games reported in the Fordham media guide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034663-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Gateshead by-election\nThe Gateshead by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034663-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Gateshead by-election, Vacancy\nSir William Allan had been Liberal MP for the seat of Gateshead since the 1893 Gateshead by-election. He died on the 28 December 1903 at the age of 66.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034663-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Gateshead by-election, Electoral history\nGateshead had returned Liberal candidates at every election since the seat was created in 1832. Since 1886 their only challengers had been Liberal Unionists. Allan's third and final election win in 1900 was his widest;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034663-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Gateshead by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 20 January 1904, just 23 days after the death of Allen. The campaign was therefore very short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034663-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Gateshead by-election, Result\nDespite the fact that this was a January by-election, the voter turn out was well up on the previous election. The Liberals held the seat, slightly increasing their vote share:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034663-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Gateshead by-election, Aftermath\nIn 1904 Morpeth was elected to the House of Commons for Birmingham South, a seat he held until 1911, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. Johnson was re-elected at the 1906 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034663-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Gateshead by-election, Aftermath\nJohnson's majority had increased in line with the swing to the Liberals across the country. He continued to take the Liberal whip in the Commons until 1909 when he switched to the Labour Party group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034664-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Geneva Covenanters football team\nhe 1904 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. Led by Smith Alford in his first and only year as head coach, the team compiled a record of 1\u20134\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034665-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 George Washington Hatchetites football team\nThe 1904 George Washington Hatchetites football was an American football team that represented George Washington University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Alexander Rorke, the team compiled a 4\u20132\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034666-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1904 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1904 college football season. Led by Joe Reilly in his first year as head coach, the team went 7\u20131 and claims a Southern championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034667-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1904 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of University of Georgia during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 1\u20135 record. After a victory in the first game of the season against Florida, the team lost five straight, including losses to rivals Georgia Tech and Auburn. Georgia also lost its fifth game in a row to Clemson to close the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034668-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Georgia Tech football team\nThe 1904 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. This is the first year for Georgia Tech under coach John Heisman. Lob Brown was the school's first consensus All-Southern player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034669-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship\nThe 1904 German football championship was the second competition to determine the national champion of Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034669-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship\nThe competition was not fully played, however, as the German Football Association (DFB) aborted it due to a protest by Karlsruher FV. Karlsruhe had protested the fact that matches had not been played on neutral ground as was stipulated by the rules. The DFB had already ignored this rule for financial reasons in the previous year, but this time Karlsruhe argued that some of their players could not travel to the match in Berlin and this had caused Karlsruhe's defeat. As a result, the championship was annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034669-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship\nAs in the previous season, all champions of local and regional associations were allowed to enter the competition, but clubs from outside Germany were excluded. Eight clubs eventually entered the competition, two more than in the year before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034670-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship Final\nThe 1904 German football championship Final was to decide the winner of the 1904 German football championship, the 2nd edition of the German football championship, a knockout football cup competition contested by the regional association winners to determine the national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034670-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship Final\nThe match was supposed to be played on 29 May 1904 in Kassel between VfB Leipzig, the title holders, and Britannia Berlin. However, the final was not played, as the German Football Association (DFB) canceled it due to a protest by Karlsruher FV. Karlsruhe had protested the fact that matches had not been played on neutral ground as was stipulated by the rules. The DFB had already ignored this rule for financial reasons in the previous year, but this time Karlsruhe argued that some of their players could not travel to the match in Berlin, and this had caused Karlsruhe's defeat. As a result, the championship was annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034670-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship Final, Route to the final\nThe German football championship was an eight team single-elimination knockout cup competition, featuring the champions of the regional football associations. There were a total of two rounds leading up to the final. For all matches, the winner after 90 minutes advances. If still tied, extra time was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034670-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034670-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship Final, Cancellation\nShortly before the final, Karlsruher FV filed a protest with the DFB, questioning the validity of this championship. The DFB had not complied with the championship rules stating that the games must be played at a neutral venue. Karlsruhe was eliminated in the quarter-finals with a 1\u20136 defeat to finalists Britannia Berlin. Karlsruhe argued that they had lost due to the match taking place in Berlin, as some of their starting players could not get permission from their employers to leave for the match, which would have been necessary for the long journey to Berlin and back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034670-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 German football championship Final, Cancellation\nIn addition, Karlsruhe questioned the travel expenses; Karlsruhe had asked for a refund of the 2nd class train tickets from the DFB, but this only applied to 3rd class tickets. The DFB, at its annual Bundestag in Kassel on the day of the final, decided in the morning to cancel the championship final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034670-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 German football championship Final, Cancellation\nOn the same day, the reigning DFB president Ferdinand Hueppe, as representative of DFC Prag, resigned from his position at the DFB, a day after joining FIFA. Ironically, the new chairman of the DFB selected on that day was Karlsruhe teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe, the president of the Southern German Football Association and long-time chairman of Karlsruher FV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election\nThe Glamorgan County Council election, 1904 was the sixth contest for seats on this authority in south Wales. It was preceded by the 1901 election and followed by the 1907 election. Glamorgan was by far the largest county in Wales in terms of population. Glamorgan County Council had been established by the Local Government Act 1888, the first elections being held in early 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the result\nAs in most parts of Wales, the Liberal Party was once again triumphant and won a majority of the seats. In 1904 the majority of the seats were uncontested, in contrast to the position at previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the result\nResults are drawn from a number of sources. They include a number of newspapers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Contested elections\nIn the Rhondda district, the local paper stated that 'no truer manifestation of good faith and respect for the retiring County Councillors could have been shown than that eight of them were returned unopposed.' There were only two contested elections in the valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberavon\nJohn Morgan Smith held on to the seat he had held since 1889 by a mere two votes. At previously elections he had described himself both as a Conservative and Independent and had been returned unopposed on several occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberdare Town\nRetiring alderman J.W. Evans was returned unopposed. Retiring councillor David Hughes did not stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cadoxton\nThis was a contest in which the controversy over the education rate featured and the sitting member, a Roman Catholic, was defeated by the clerk of the former School Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Briton Ferry\nJenkin Hill recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cwmavon\nTwo Liberals, a sitting alderman and sitting councillor, opposed each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cyfarthfa\nThomas Thomas recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Gadlys\nGriffith George, who had previously served on the Aberdare School Board and Aberdare Urban District Council had been invited to contest the seat three years previously but had declined. Parker then stood and came within 41 votes of victory. There was some criticism of George for opposing Parker at this election but he held on to win by 96 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Llwynypia and Clydach\nJames Evans, grocer, elected following Richard Lewis's election as alderman in 1901, was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Maesteg\nThe same two candidates had faced each other in 1895. On that occasion, Barrow had won and was elected as alderman for a three-year period. Jenkin Jones was then returned at a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Neath (South)\nAt the previous election, Trick had stood as a Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Newcastle\nT.J. Hughes, first elected in 1889, had served as an alderman since 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pentre\nE.T. Davies, auctioneer, had been elected at a by-election following Elias Henry Davies's appointment as alderman in 1902. He was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Sketty\nJohn Davies had been defeated in the two previous elections but was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treforest\nJames Roberts had won the seat at a by-election following the death of the previous member, David Leyshon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0018-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treherbert\nEnoch Davies, returned in 1901 following William Morgan's re-election as alderman, was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0019-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Trealaw and Tonypandy\nD.W. Davies, the member since 1898, was returned unopposed for the second successive election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0020-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Tylorstown and Ynyshir\nSitting councillor Dr T.H. Morris stood down to allow Alderman W.H. Mathias to be returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0021-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ystrad\nClifford Cory, the member since 1892, was once again returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0022-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nIn addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1904 election, there were eleven Aldermanic vacancies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034671-0023-0000", "contents": "1904 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nThe following aldermen were appointed by the newly elected council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034672-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Glebe state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Glebe on 10 September 1904 because James Hogue had been appointed Chief Secretary in the Carruthers ministry. Until 1907, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. On this occasion a poll was required in Bingara (Samuel Moore), Glebe and Tenterfield (Charles Lee) and all were comfortably re-elected. The four other ministers, Joseph Carruthers (St George), James Ashton (Goulburn), Broughton O'Conor (Sherbrooke) and Charles Wade (Gordon), were re-elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034672-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Glebe state by-election\nVincent Taylor was considered a vexatious candidate. He was a candidate at the 1901 election for Sydney-King, receiving 4 votes. and the for the Belmore Ward of the Sydney City Council, receiving just 3 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034672-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Glebe state by-election, Aftermath\nThese were the final ministerial by-elections as the Constitution of New South Wales was amended to exempt any office of the executive government created by an Act of Parliament from being an office of profit under the crown, disqualifying a person from sitting in parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034673-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Goldey College football team\nThe 1904 Goldey College football team represented Goldey College (now known as Goldey\u2013Beacom College) in the 1904 college football season as an independent. They compiled a record of 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034674-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe 1904 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally titled the V Coupe Internationale, was a motor race held on 17 June 1904 on the Homburg Circuit in Germany. The race consisted of four laps of the circuit to make the total distance 527\u00a0km (327.46 miles). A German entry had won the previous year's edition of the race, which meant that the rights to host the race fell to the Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD). Germany were to attempt to defend the Gordon Bennett Cup against France, Great Britain, Austria and Italy, and each country was represented by three entries, with the car that finished the race in the shortest time winning the race on behalf of his country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034674-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe race was won by L\u00e9on Th\u00e9ry driving a Richard-Brasier and representing France in a time of five hours and 50 minutes. Camille Jenatzy driving a Mercedes and representing Germany finished in second place and Henri Rougier driving a Turcat-M\u00e9ry and representing France finished in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034674-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nThe Times reported the 1904 Gordon Bennett motor race took place in Germany on June 17, over 342 miles (550\u00a0km), consisting of four laps of a course in the Taunus Forest, in the vicinity of Bad Homburg. (The venue was suggested by Kaiser Wilhelm II.) From Saalburg the course ran north to Usingen, where there was a control point (for observation by course marshals), then through Gr\u00e4venwiesbach to Weilburg, where there was a second control point, then past Allendorf and Obertiefenbach to Limburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034674-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nThe Obertiefenbach-Limburg stage was the fastest of the event, enabling speeds of up to 150\u00a0km/h (93\u00a0mph). At Limburg there was another control point. From there, the route was by way of Kirberg and Neuhof, where there was a very bad turn, then Idstein where there was another control point. It then ran through Glash\u00fctten to K\u00f6nigstein (a control point), then through Friedrichshof and the Oberursel control point to the Homburg control point and back to Saalburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034674-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nOfficiating were Baron von Molitor of the Automobilclub von Deutschland, the official starter, and M. Tampier of the Automobile Club de France, who was timekeeper. The chronographs for timing the event were supplied by the Anglo-Swiss firm of Stauffer, Son & Co. Officials from the other competing counties were also present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034674-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Gordon Bennett Cup, Race report\nThere were 18 starters from eight countries, including three British entrants. The first car started from Saalburg at 7 a.m. The winner was France's Leon Th\u00e9ry, who accomplished the four laps in 5 h 50 min 3 s, an average speed of 58.62\u00a0mph (94.34\u00a0km/h). With each of his lap times within 3 minutes of the other, he earned his nickname of \"the Chronometer\". Jenatzy was second, driving a Mercedes. The only British competitor placed was Sidney Girling driving a Wolseley. Australia's Selwyn Edge, the 1902 winner who again drove a Napier, was reported to have held a good position during the first two laps, but was disqualified on lap three after receiving outside assistance due to tyre problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034675-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Grand National\nThe 1904 Grand National was the 66th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 25 March 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034675-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Grand National\nThe winner, Moifaa, was the first ever non-British/Irish winner of the race. He ran in the race again the following year, when he was owned by the King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034675-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Grand National, Media Coverage and Aftermath\nShortly after his victory, a story emerged from the United States that the Grand National winner had come to England, the survivor of a ship wreck. The popularity of the story of the Robinson Crusoe Grand National winner gained weight through the decades and has been retold many times in books and on television regarding the race, with some versions telling of super equine feats of fifty mile swims to safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034675-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 Grand National, Media Coverage and Aftermath\nWhile Moifaa is known to have sailed from Australia to England without incident, the story is not totally without a grain of truth as another New Zealand bred competitor in the 1904 National, Kiora had indeed been shipwrecked on its way to England. The horse had swum nearly half a mile through stormy seas to a reef before being rescued in a very exhausted state the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034676-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Grant football team\nThe 1904 Grant football team represented the Chattanooga campus of U.S. Grant Memorial University\u2014now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2014as an independent in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034677-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Guatemalan presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Guatemala in July 1904. The result was a victory for Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who received all but three of the valid votes. He assumed the presidency on 15 March 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034678-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1904 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1903 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7\u20132\u20131 record under first-year head coach Edgar Wrightington. Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Daniel Hurley, as a first-team selection to his 1904 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034679-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1904 Haskell Indians football team represented the Haskell Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034680-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Haverford football team\nThe 1904 Haverford football team was an American football team that represented Haverford College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 144 to 27. Norman Thorn was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034681-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1904 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034681-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Holy Cross football team\nIn their second year under head coach Frank Cavanaugh, the team compiled a 2\u20135\u20132 record. Timothy Larkin was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034681-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Holy Cross football team\nAccording to college records, Holy Cross played all of its home games at Holy Cross Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts. Contemporary reports suggest that one of the home games, a heavily hyped October 22 date with Dartmouth, may have been played at the team's former home stadium off campus, the Worcester Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1904 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-second series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 9 January and 19 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), Edgar Elliot (Sunderland), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), EJ Vivyan (Devonport Albion), EW Dillon (Blackheath) PS Hancock (Richmond), WV Butcher (Bristol), GH Keeton (Richmond), Vincent Cartwright (Oxford Uni. ), Jumbo Milton (Bedford GS), NJ Moore (Bristol), Frank Stout (Richmond) capt., Charles Joseph Newbold (Cambridge Uni. ), BA Hill (Blackheath), PF Hardwick (Percy Park)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Wales\nWales: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff) capt., Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Newport), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Dick Jones (Swansea), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), John William Evans (Blaina), Arthur Harding (London Welsh), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David John Thomas (Swansea), Sam Ramsey (Treorchy), George Boots (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), T Simpson (Rockcliff), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), EJ Vivyan (Devonport Albion), EW Dillon (Blackheath) PS Hancock (Richmond), WV Butcher (Bristol), GH Keeton (Richmond), John Daniell (Richmond) capt., Jumbo Milton (Bedford GS), NJ Moore (Bristol), Frank Stout (Richmond), Charles Joseph Newbold (Cambridge Uni. ), BA Hill (Blackheath), PF Hardwick (Percy Park)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Ireland\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), CG Robb (Queen's Uni, Belfast), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), Harry Corley (Wanderers) capt., Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), TTH Robinson (Wanderers), FA Kennedy (Wanderers), Jos Wallace (Wanderers), Jas Wallace (Wanderers), CE Allen (Derry), Alfred Tedford (Malone), M Ryan (Rockwell College), J Ryan (Rockwell College), F Gardiner (NIFC), RS Smyth (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Scotland\nWales: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Cliff Pritchard (Newport), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Newport) capt., Dicky Owen (Swansea), Dick Jones (Swansea), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Arthur Harding (London Welsh), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Harry Vaughan Watkins (Llanelli), Edwin Thomas Maynard (Newport), David Harris Davies (Neath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Scotland\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), GE Crabbie (Edinburgh Acads), LM MacLeod (Cambridge University), JS MacDonald (Edinburgh University), AA Bissett (RIE College), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), GO Turnbull (Edinburgh Wanderers), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), EJ Ross (London Scottish), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), David Bedell-Sivright (West of Scotland), LHI Bell (Edinburgh Acads)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nIreland: J Fulton (NIFC), CG Robb (Queen's Uni, Belfast), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), Harry Corley (Wanderers) capt., JE Moffatt (Old Wesley), TTH Robinson (Wanderers), ED Caddell (Dublin University), Jos Wallace (Wanderers), Jas Wallace (Wanderers), CE Allen (Derry), Alfred Tedford (Malone), M Ryan (Rockwell College), P Healey (Limerick), F Gardiner (NIFC), GT Hamlet (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Scotland\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), Alec Boswell Timms (Cardiff), LM MacLeod (Cambridge University), JS MacDonald (Edinburgh University), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), JB Waters (Cambridge University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), WM Milne (Glasgow Acads), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), David Bedell-Sivright (West of Scotland), LHI Bell (Edinburgh Acads)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nIreland: MF Landers (Cork Constitution), CG Robb (Queen's Uni, Belfast), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), GAD Harvey (Wanderers), HB Thrift (Dublin University), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), FA Kennedy (Dublin University), Jos Wallace (Wanderers), Henry Millar (Monkstown), CE Allen (Derry) capt., Alfred Tedford (Malone), RW Edwards (Malone), HJ Knox (Dublin University), F Gardiner (NIFC), GT Hamlet (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. Wales\nWales: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Cliff Pritchard (Newport), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Newport) capt., Dicky Owen (Swansea), Dick Jones (Swansea), Sid Bevan (Swansea), Howell Jones (Neath), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Arthur Harding (London Welsh), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), Harry Vaughan Watkins (Llanelli), Edwin Thomas Maynard (Newport), Charlie Pritchard (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), JE Crabbie (Edinburgh Acads), Alec Boswell Timms (Cardiff), LM MacLeod (Cambridge University), JS MacDonald (Edinburgh University), Jimmy Gillespie (Edinburgh Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), JB Waters (Cambridge University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), WM Milne (Glasgow Acads), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), David Bedell-Sivright (West of Scotland), HN Fletcher (Edinburgh University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034682-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. England\nEngland: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), T Simpson (Rockcliff), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), EJ Vivyan (Devonport Albion), EW Dillon (Blackheath) PS Hancock (Richmond), WV Butcher (Bristol), GH Keeton (Richmond), John Daniell (Richmond) capt., Jumbo Milton (Bedford GS), NJ Moore (Bristol), Frank Stout (Richmond), Charles Joseph Newbold (Cambridge Uni. ), Vincent Cartwright (Blackheath), PF Hardwick (Percy Park)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034683-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Horsham by-election\nThe Horsham by-election of 1904 was held on 11 November 1904. This resulted in the election of the Conservative, Viscount Turnour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034684-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee Frank R. Gooding defeated Democratic nominee Henry Heitfeld with 58.74% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034685-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Illawarra state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Illawarra on 9 January 1904 because of the death of Archibald Campbell (Liberal Reform).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034686-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1904 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1904 Western Conference football season. Coached by Arthur R. Hall, Justa Lindgren, Fred Lowenthal, and Clyde Matthews, the Illini compiled a 9\u20132\u20131 record and finished in fourth place in the Western Conference. Guard Charles A. Fairweather was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034687-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034687-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Richard Yates Jr. was denied renomination by his party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034687-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee Charles S. Deneen defeated Democratic nominee Lawrence B. Stringer with 59.09% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034687-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Results\nThe Democratic state convention was held on June 15, 1904, at the State Armory in Springfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034687-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results\nThe Republican state convention was held from May 12 to 20 and, following a recess, from May 31 to June 3, 1904, at the State Armory in Springfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034687-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results\nThe results of the balloting were as follows (fractions ignored until 39th ballot):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034687-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results\nFollowing the 79th ballot, Lowden moved that the nomination of Deneen be made unanimous, which was carried viva voce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034688-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. It saw the election of Republican nominee Lawrence Y. Sherman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034688-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results\nFollowing the ballot, Smith withdrew his name and moved that the nomination of Sherman be made unanimous, which was carried.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 79], "content_span": [80, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034689-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1904 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1904 Western Conference football season. In their seventh season under head coach James H. Horne, the Hoosiers compiled a 6\u20134 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 116 to 84.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034690-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Indiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904 in all 92 counties in the state of Indiana. Frank Hanly was elected governor over his Democratic opponent, John W. Kern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034690-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Indiana gubernatorial election, Nominations\nHanly reentered politics in 1904, and won the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana. Democrats once again nominated John W. Kern for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034690-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Indiana gubernatorial election, Campaign\nThe election was hard-fought by Hanly, who delivered excoriating speeches against the Democratic party which he referred to as \"unholy\", and \"great only its ability to destroy.\" He called their election campaign \"selfish\" and said they ran it only so they could \"obtain the flesh pot of office.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034690-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Indiana gubernatorial election, General election\nHanly was elected Governor of Indiana, defeating John W. Kern by 84,364 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034691-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1904 International Cross Country Championships was held in St Helens, England, at the Haydock Park Racecourse on 26 March 1904. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald. Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034691-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 46 athletes from 4 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034692-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 International Lawn Tennis Challenge\nThe 1904 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the fourth edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup, and the first edition to be played outside American soil. As defending champions, the British Isles team played host to the competition, which featured teams from Belgium and France for the first time. Belgium and France would play for the right to challenge the British Isles for the cup. The ties were played at Worple Road (the former site of the All England Club) in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom from 27 June to 5 July. Despite Malcolm Whitman giving his word that an American team would enter, the Americans failed to make a challenge before the 7 March deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034693-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1904 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1904 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034694-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1904 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their third season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled a 7\u20132 record, shut out six of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 248 to 48. Preston Daniels was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034694-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as \"New State Field\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034695-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Isle of Thanet by-election\nThe 1904 Isle of Thanet by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of the Isle of Thanet on 7 October 1904, following the death of Conservative Party MP James Lowther. It was successfully defended for the Conservative party by Harry Marks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034695-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Isle of Thanet by-election, Vacancy\nConservative Party MP James Lowther Lowther died on 12 September 1904, triggering a by-election to fill the vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034695-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Isle of Thanet by-election, Electoral history\nThe Isle of Thanet seat had been held by the Conservative party since its creation in 1885. In the 1900 general election Conservative candidate James Lowther was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034695-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Isle of Thanet by-election, Candidates\nIn anticipation of a forthcoming general election, the local Liberal association, about 6 months earlier, had selected 44 year old Joseph King as their candidate. He lived in Surrey, where he had previously been elected to the county council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034695-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Isle of Thanet by-election, Campaign\nThe usually Conservative supporting newspaper The Times, took a position in opposition to the Conservative candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034695-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Isle of Thanet by-election, Aftermath\nMarks would go on to represent the constituency until retiring in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034696-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Italy on 6 November 1904, with a second round of voting on 13 November. The \"ministerial\" left-wing bloc remained the largest in Parliament, winning 339 of the 508 seats. The papal ban on Catholics voting was relaxed for the first time, and three Catholics were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034696-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general election, Electoral system\nThe election was held using 508 single-member constituencies. However, prior to the election the electoral law was amended so that candidates needed only an absolute majority of votes to win their constituency, abolishing the second requirement of receiving the votes of at least one-sixth of registered voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034696-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general election, Historical background\nAfter Giuseppe Saracco resignation as Prime Minister, Giuseppe Zanardelli was appointed as new head of the government; but he was unable to achieve much during his last term of office, as his health was greatly impaired. His Divorce Bill, although voted in the Chamber of Deputies, had to be withdrawn on account of the strong opposition of the country. He retired from the administration on 3 November 1903 and died on 26 December 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034696-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general election, Historical background\nThe long-time liberal leader Giovanni Giolitti succeeded to Zanardelli. He courted the left and labour unions with social legislation, including subsidies for low-income housing, preferential government contracts for worker cooperatives, and old age and disability pensions. However, he, too, had to resort to strong measures in repressing some serious disorders in various parts of Italy, and thus he lost the favour of the Socialists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034697-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general strike\nThe 1904 Italian general strike occurred in September 1904, marking the first general strike ever in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034697-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general strike\nThe strike was called by the Chambers of Labor in several cities in response to several killings of striking workers, culminating in the shooting of a miner in Buggerru, Sardinia. Participation was strongest in the north and the Po Valley. The government headed by Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti ordered local authorities to intervene as little as possible, predicting that the strike would die down on its own, which it did. Nevertheless, it shook public confidence in the strength of the state and the middle class's support for Giolitti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034697-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general strike\nThe country would experience many general strikes in the years following 1904, with additional general strikes in 1905, 1906, 1909, 1911, and 1914.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034697-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general strike, Further reading\nThis article related to a strike action or other labor dispute is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034697-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Italian general strike, Further reading\nThis Italian history article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034698-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Japanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Japan on 1 March 1904. The Rikken Seiy\u016bkai party remained the largest in the House of Representatives, winning 133 of the 379 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034698-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Japanese general election, Electoral system\nThe 379 members of the House of Representatives were elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on prefectures and cities. Voting was restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034699-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1904 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach A. R. Kennedy, the Jayhawks compiled an 8\u20131\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 179 to 38. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Albert Hicks was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034700-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034701-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee Edward W. Hoch defeated Democratic nominee David M. Dale with 57.92% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034702-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1904 Kentucky Derby was the 30th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1904. This year in Derby history is notable for several important firsts. Elwood, the winning horse, was owned by Lasca Durnell which marked the first time a female owner won the Derby. The winner was bred by Emma Holt Prather of Faustiana Stock Farm in Nodaway County, Missouri and was the first time a Derby winner was bred by a woman. In addition, Elwood was the first winner bred in the state of Missouri and through 2020 no other winner has been bred in that state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034703-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1904 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034704-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1904 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 16th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034704-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nTullaroan won the championship after a 6-14 to 1-06 defeat of Piltown in the final. This was their eighth championship title overall and their first title in two championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034705-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1904 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of the Louisiana State University during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034706-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Lafayette football team\nThe 1904 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled a 7\u20132 record. Joseph Morrison was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034707-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1904 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their tenth season in existence. The team finished 9-0 and were unscored upon. Latrobe laid claim to Pennsylvania's pro football title at the season's end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034708-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Lehigh Brown and White football team\nThe 1904 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its third season under head coach Samuel B. Newton, the team compiled a 1\u20138 record and outscored opponents by a total of 236 to 52.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034709-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1904 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 14th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034709-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nCappamore won the championship after a 3-07 to 1-05 defeat of Ballingarry in the final. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election\nThe first seat for the new ward of Old Swan, and the second seat for Wavertree West were up for election for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1901 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nAt the meeting of the Council on 9 November 1904, the terms of office of seventeen alderman expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nThe following seventeen were elected as Aldermen by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) on 9 November 1904 for a term of six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nIn his place, Councillor Thomas Bland Royden (Conservative, Kensington, elected 16 December 1903) was elected as an alderman for the Sefton Park East ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.11 Kensington, 23 November 1904\nCaused by the election of Councillor Thomas Bland Royden (Conservative, Kensington, elected 16 December 1903) as an alderman on 9 November 1904", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034710-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 7 St. Domingo, 17 January 1905\nThe resignation of Councillor Joseph Bennett Colton (Conservative, St. Domingo, elected 1 November 1902) was reported to the Council on 4 January 1905", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034711-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Llandeilo Rural District Council election\nThe fourth election to the Llandeilo Rural District Council was held in March 1901. It was preceded by the 1901 election and followed by the 1907 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Llandeilo Board of Guardians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034711-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Llandeilo Rural District Council election\nThere were a number of unopposed returns in the rural parishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034711-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Boundary Changes\nFollowing the formation of Ammanford Urban District Council in 1903, the number of seats for the Betws and Llandybie parishes were reduced as parts of these parishes formed the new Urban District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034712-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 London County Council election\nAn election to the County Council of London took place on 5 March 1904. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Progressive Party retained control of the council, with a slightly reduced majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034712-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 London County Council election, Campaign\nSince the 1901 London County Council election, the electorate for the council had increased by 19,221, the increase being in the outlying boroughs, while most inner city boroughs lost voters. Turnout was also reported as being higher in the outer boroughs. All the seats were contested other than Deptford and Greenwich, which were held uncontested by the Progressive Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034712-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 London County Council election, Campaign\nThe main issue at the election was education policy, as the London School Board was to be abolished and its powers absorbed by the council. The Times argued that the Conservative Party candidates had undoubted loyalty to the Church of England, whereas the Progressive Party candidates might have sympathy towards dissenters. Other issues were the attitude of candidates towards the employment of Chinese immigrants in South Africa, and the purchase of the county council of some rails manufactured in Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034712-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 London County Council election, Results\nThe Progressive Party lost one seat, while the Municipal Reform Party gained four, and independents fell from four seats to one. Nine members of the School Board won seats on the new council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034713-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 1904 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 5, 1904. Incumbent Meredith P. Snyder was defeated by Owen McAleer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034714-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1904 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute\u2014now known as Louisiana Tech University\u2014as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach E. G. Pierce, Louisiana Industrial compiled a 1\u20133 record. The team's captain was Glenn M. Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034715-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Louisiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on April 19, 1904. Like most Southern states between Reconstruction and the civil rights era, Louisiana's Republican Party had virtually no electoral support. As Louisiana had not yet adopted party primaries, this meant that the Democratic Party convention nomination vote was the real contest over who would be governor. The election resulted in the election of Democrat Newton C. Blanchard as governor of Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034716-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 12, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034716-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Maine gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Governor John Fremont Hill did not seek re-election. Republican candidate William T. Cobb defeated Democratic candidate Cyrus W. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034717-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1904 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 14 to October 10, 1904. The Boston Americans and New York Giants finished atop standings for the American League and National League, respectively. There was no postseason, as the Giants declined to meet the Americans in a World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034717-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Major League Baseball season\nRegular-season schedules were increased this season from 140 games to 154 games, with each team now playing the other seven teams in the same league 22 times apiece; this scheduling would be used through the 1918 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034717-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Major League Baseball season\nThe St. Louis Browns and Detroit Tigers played 11 consecutive games against each other in September\u2014the first six in Detroit and the final five in St. Louis\u2014the most games played consecutively between two teams in major league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034718-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1904 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1904 college football season. Marshall posted a 1\u20133\u20133 record, being outscored by its opposition 16\u201326. Home games were played on a campus field called \"Central Field\" which is presently Campus Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034719-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1904 college football season. In their third and final season under head coach D. John Markey, the Aggies compiled a 2\u20134\u20132 record and were outscored by all opponents, 62 to 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034720-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1904 college football season. The team was coached by Matthew W. Bullock and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1904 season was Bullock's first as head coach of the Aggies. He would leave the team following the season, but return to coach again in 1907. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 5\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034721-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican Governor John L. Bates ran for a third term, but was defeated by Democratic nominee William L. Douglas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034721-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Massachusetts-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034722-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 125th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1904 during the governorship of John L. Bates. George R. Jones served as president of the Senate and Louis A. Frothingham served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034723-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Massevitch\n1904 Massevitch (prov. designation: 1972 JM) is a background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 9 May 1972, by the Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. The uncommon R-type asteroid has a rotation period of 5.3 hours and measures approximately 16 kilometers (9.9 miles) in diameter. It was later named after Russian astrophysicist Alla Massevitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034723-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Massevitch, Orbit\nMassevitch orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.5\u20132.9\u00a0AU once every 4 years and 7 months (1,662 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.07 and an inclination of 13\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as 1949 JH at Goethe Link Observatory in 1949, extending the body's observation arc by 23 years prior to its discovery observation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034723-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Massevitch, Naming\nThis minor planet was named after Russian astrophysicist and astronomer Alla Genrichovna Massevitch (born 1918), vice-president of the Astronomical Council of the former USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences). In the former USSR, Massevitch organized the optical tracking of artificial satellites in Earth's orbit. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 (M.P.C. 3936).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034723-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Massevitch, Physical characteristics\nThe moderately bright R-type asteroid has a surface that strongly absorbs in the olivine and pyroxene spectral region, which give it its very reddish color.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034723-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Massevitch, Physical characteristics, Rotation period\nIn September 2014, a rotational lightcurve of Massevitch was obtained from photometric observations taken at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory (E09) in Coonabarabran, Australia. It gave a rotation period of 5.394 hours with a brightness variation of 0.30 magnitude (U=3\u2212)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 58], "content_span": [59, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034723-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Massevitch, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo\nAccording to the surveys carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, Massevitch measures 13.50 and 18.19 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo of 0.161 and 0.581, respectively, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.176 and a diameter of 18.25 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034724-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Massillon Tigers season\nThe 1904 Massillon Tigers football season was their second season in existence. The team finished with a record of 7\u20130 and won their second Ohio League championship in as many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034725-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Melbourne Cup\nThe 1904 Melbourne Cup was a two mile Group One handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 1 November 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034725-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Melbourne Cup\nFranklyn Barrett filmed the Melbourne Cup. This was the first time the Melbourne Cup had been filmed from start to finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034726-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Melbourne by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Melbourne in Victoria on 30 March 1904. This was triggered by the Chief Justice of the High Court (sitting as a Court of Disputed Elections) declaring invalid the election of Sir Malcolm McEacharn to the seat in the 1903 federal election. The writ for the by-election was issued by the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives on 15 March 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034726-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Melbourne by-election, Background\nThe 1903 federal election took place on 16 December. Sir Malcolm McEacharn had held the seat for the Protectionist Party since the 1901 election, and was re-elected with a slim 77 vote majority. McEacharn's opponent in 1901 and 1903 was Dr William Maloney, a medical doctor, social worker and reform agitator who had run for the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034726-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Melbourne by-election, Background\nFollowing the declaration of McEacharn's election, Maloney petitioned the Court of Disputed Elections, alleging that the applications for 303 ballot papers had been improperly attested by persons unqualified to do so, including police constables, sergeants and other unqualified persons. In addition, 66 postal ballots were examined, and were likewise ruled invalid as having been recorded on material other than ordinary ballot papers. In all, between 240 and 250 \"bad votes\" were cast for McEacharn, easily negating his 77-vote majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034726-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Melbourne by-election, Background\nThe Chief Justice took the view that if the votes had been informal through any fault of the voters concerned, the votes would have been voided and Maloney elected. However, as the informality had arisen through the fault of Commonwealth electoral officers, he would have to rule the election invalid, thus triggering a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034726-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Melbourne by-election, Aftermath\nA 2.86% swing towards Labour saw Dr Maloney elected, and the seat of Melbourne was held by the ALP until 2010. Following his defeat, McEacharn abandoned not only politics but Australia, leaving the country in 1905 and moving to Wigtownshire in Scotland, where he purchased the ancestral home of the Earl of Galloway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034727-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Memphis Egyptians season\nThe 1904 Memphis Egyptians season represented the Memphis Egyptians baseball team in the Southern Association and won their second consecutive league pennant. The team played its games at Russwood Park. The team's manager was Lew Whistler. The team used a bear, Natch, as a mascot, chained to a tree in Overton Park, which led to the founding of the Memphis Zoo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season\nThe 1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season was the 31st season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. It was the fifth season run for clubs that represented a district. Eight clubs (seven representing a district, the remaining club representing Sydney University) competed from May till September 1904. The season culminated in the fourth district premiership, which was won by Sydney University. Sydney University were crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nEight clubs contested the season; seven clubs representing a district and one club representing Sydney University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 23 March 1900Ground: North Sydney OvalCaptain: Charlie White", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 26 March 1900Ground: Sydney Sports GroundCaptain: J Bourke", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Teams\nFormed on 22 March 1900Ground: St Luke's ParkCaptain: Stanley Wickham", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nThe 1904 Sydney Rugby Premiership was the most successful on record. The attendance of the public at the various matches was, on the average, the greatest yet known in Sydney football. In nearly every district there were young players coming into First Grade, developing play through lessons learnt from the games against the visiting British team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nFor the first time in thirteen years, Sydney University carried off the premiership without any question of legitimacy. The team were one of the best during the first round of games, but their performance slipped during the second round. However, the team were worthy premiership winners despite their drop in form. It was a popular victory for the old club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nNorth Sydney finished the season in the runners-up position and could have won the premiership if they had not lost key players to the NSW tour of Queensland. Astonishingly, the team were only able to score 14 tries throughout the regular games compared to over twice that amount for the Varsity. In the end, they lost the premiership by one competition point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Season Summary\nSouth Sydney were considered the most dangerous of all of the teams. They were some of the most cleverest players in the competition displaying control, excellent tackling and smart tactics. Their weak point was their three-quarter line who, if they had performed better, may have given the team the premiership. South Sydney lost the premiership by the slim margin of two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades\nThe MRFU also conducted Second Grade and Boroughs competitions this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Second Grade\nTen teams participated in the Second Grade competition: the eight First Grade clubs entered a team each, in addition two Boroughs clubs, Gipps and Manly, were permitted to each enter a team. At the end of the regular games, North Sydney finished at the top of the ladder. The season concluded with a final between Sydney University and Glebe. The game resulted in a scoreless draw, with both teams declared joint premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034728-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Metropolitan Rugby Union season, Lower Grades, Boroughs Competition\nEighteen teams participated in the Boroughs Competition. The teams were split into two divisions of nine teams. In Division A was North Sydney, Willoughby, Mosman, Manly, East Sydney, Surry Hills, Redfern, Balmain and Gipps. In Division B was Marrickville, University, Waterloo, Rockdale, Glebe, Annandale, Leichhardt, Rozelle and Ashfield. At the end of the regular games, North Sydney finished at the top of Division A and Marrickville finished at the top of Division B. The final saw East Sydney beat Marrickville 6 points to 5 to take the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034729-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Mexican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Mexico in 1904. Incumbent Porfirio D\u00edaz was the only candidate for the presidency, and was re-elected with 100% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034730-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1904 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1904 college football season. Under new head coach Arthur Smith, Miami compiled a 1\u20135 record, being outscored 12\u2013283.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034731-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1904 college football season. In their second year under head coach Chester Brewer, the Aggies compiled an 8\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 380 to 16, including a 104 to 0 victory over Hillsdale College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034732-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1904 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Daniel H. Lawrence, the Normalites compiled a record of 6\u20132. However, they were outscored by a combined total of 159 to 121, as a result of routs at the hands of Albion (0\u201368) and the University of Michigan freshman team (0\u201343). Sherman R. Wilson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1904 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1904 Western Conference football season. In the team's fourth season under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the Wolverines compiled a perfect 10\u20130 record and outscored opponents 567\u201322. The 1904 team was the fourth of Yost's legendary \"Point-a-Minute\" teams. Michigan's games were of varying length from 22\u00bd minutes to 70 minutes. Over the course of ten games, Michigan played 476 minutes of football and averaged a point scored for every 50.3 seconds played. The team included future College Football Hall of Fame inductee Willie Heston, who scored 20 touchdowns for 100 points that season; touchdowns were worth five points under 1904 rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 33, Case 0\nMichigan opened the 1904 college football season on October 1 with a 33\u20130 win over Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science. The game was played in 20-minute halves, and the Wolverines scored 22 points in the first half. Numerous substitutions were made at half-time, and the backup players added 11 points in the second half. Fullback Frank Longman scored three touchdowns in the game, and Willie Heston, Walter Rheinschild, and Joe Curtis scored one touchdown each. Tom Hammond converted three extra point kicks. Heston's touchdown came on a 75-yard run. Case managed only one first down in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 33, Case 0\nThe Michigan players appearing in the game were: John Garrels (left end), Joe Curtis (left tackle), Henry Schulte (left guard), Ted Hammond (starting center), Germany Schulz (right guard), Roy Beechler (starting right tackle and substitute at center), Smull (substitute at right tackle), Tom Hammond (starting right end), Harry Patrick (substitute at right end), Fred Norcross (starting quarterback and substitute at right halfback), Walter Becker (substitute at quarterback), Willie Heston (starting left halfback), William Dennison Clark (substitute at left halfback), Ted Stuart (starting right halfback), James DePree (substitute at right halfback), Frank Longman (starting fullback), and Walter Rheinschild (substitute at fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 48, Ohio Northern 0\nIn the second game of the 1904 season, Michigan defeated Ohio Northern, 38\u20130, in a game consisting of halves of 20 and 15 minutes. Willie Heston scored three touchdowns and had runs of 45, 32, 35 and 30 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 95, Kalamazoo 0\nIn the third game of the season, Michigan defeated Kalamazoo College, 95\u20130, in a game consisting of two 20-minute halves. Heston scored six touchdowns and had long touchdown runs of 65, 70, 85 and 65 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 72, Physicians & Surgeons 0\nIn the fourth game of the season, Michigan defeated the Physicians & Surgeons team 72\u20130 in a short mid-week game lasting only 22\u00bd minutes, a 15-minute first half and a 7\u00bd minute second half. Quarterback Fred Norcross scored four touchdowns, and Heston scored three. Norcross had touchdown runs of 67, 35 and 90 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 92], "content_span": [93, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 31, Ohio State 6\nMichigan defeated Ohio State, 31\u20136, in a game consisting of 30-minute halves in Columbus, Ohio. Heston scored three touchdowns, bringing his season total to 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 72, American Medical School 0\nFor its sixth game of the season, Michigan played a short mid-week game against the American Medical School. The game consisted of a 20-minute first half and a 3\u00bd minute second half. Right halfback Clark led the scoring with four touchdowns. Weeks scored three touchdowns. Heston was limited to a single touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 94], "content_span": [95, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 130, West Virginia 0\nThe most lopsided score in Michigan football history. In a game consisting of 25 and 20-minute halves, the Wolverines scored 22 touchdowns and 20 extra points (which would have resulted in a margin of 152-0 under modern scoring rules). Joe Curtis alone accounted for 49 points with six touchdowns and 19 extra points. The undefeated 1904 team won Michigan's fourth national championship and scored 567 points in 476 minutes of football, averaging a point every 50.3 seconds. For the first time in the 1904 season, Heston did not score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 28, Wisconsin 0\nMichigan played its first full-length game (two 35-minute halves) of the season against Wisconsin. Michigan won the game, 28\u20130. Heston and Carter each scored two touchdowns, and Norcross added another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 36, Drake 4\nIn its ninth game, Michigan defeated the team from Drake by a score of 36\u20134. The game was played in two 25-minute halves. Curtis led the scoring with 16 points on two touchdowns and six extra point kicks. Willie Heston did not play in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 22, Chicago 12\nMichigan concluded an undefeated season with a 22\u201312 win over the University of Chicago on November 12. The game, played in 35-minute halves, featured several College Football Hall of Fame inductees, including Walter Eckersall and Hugo Bezdek for Chicago and Willie Heston and Germany Schulz for Michigan. Heston, Eckersall and Bezdek each scored single touchdowns, but the lead scorer was Michigan's Tom Hammond with 17 points on three touchdowns and two extra points. Heston finished the season with 20 touchdowns for 100 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034733-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 13 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1904 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034734-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 1, 1904. Republican nominee Fred M. Warner defeated Democratic candidate Woodbridge Nathan Ferris with 54.09% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034735-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1904 Western Conference football season. In their fifth year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 13\u20130 record (3\u20130 against Western Conference opponents). The 1904 Minnesota team has been recognized as a college football national champion by the Billingsley Report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034735-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 146 point victory over Grinnell represents both the largest point total and the largest margin of victory in Gopher football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034735-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nTen Minnesota players were recognized on the 1904 All-Western college football team: quarterback Sigmund Harris (COL-2, CT-2, MJ-1); halfbacks Otto Nelson Davies (COL-1, CT-2, MJ-1) and James Edward Kremer (COL-2); fullback Earl Current (CT-2, MJ-1); end Bobby Marshall (COL-2, MJ-1); tackles Percy Porter Brush (CRH, CT-2, MJ-2) and George Leland Case (MJ-2); guards Walton W. Thorpe (COL-1, CRH, CT-1, DFP, DT, MJ-1, SLR, WC) and Daniel D. Smith, Minnesota (CT-2); and center Moses Strathern (MJ-1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034735-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nTwo players also received recognition on the 1904 College Football All-America Team. Quarterback Sigmund Harris received third-team honors from Walter Camp, and guard Walton Thorp received first-team honors from Illinois coach Fred Lowenthal and third-team honors from Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034735-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nNotably, Minnesota did not play undefeated Michigan in 1904, despite the teams being members of the Western Conference. Both teams received acclaim as national champion for the 1904 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034736-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1904. Democratic Party of Minnesota candidate John Albert Johnson defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger Robert C. Dunn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034737-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1904. Incumbent Lieutenant Governor Ray W. Jones of the Republican Party of Minnesota defeated Minnesota Democratic Party challenger Fendall G. Winston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034738-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034739-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Missouri State Normal football team\nThe 1904 Missouri State Normal football team represented the Missouri State Normal School\u2014Third District\u2014now known as Southeast Missouri State University\u2014located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri during the 1904 college football season. The team did not have a coach and outscored their opponents 22\u20130 en route to an undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034740-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1904 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1904 college football season. The team compiled a 3\u20136 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 130 to 50. John McLean was the head coach for the second of three seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034741-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Missouri gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904 and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee, Joseph W. Folk, over the Republican candidate, former Mayor of St. Louis Cyrus Walbridge, and several other candidates representing minor parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034742-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Montana football team\nThe 1904 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1904 college football season. They were led by second-year head coach Hiram Conibear, and finished the season with a record of three wins and two losses (3\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034743-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Montana gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Montana gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034743-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Montana gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Joseph Toole was re-elected, defeating Republican nominee William Lindsay and Socialist nominee Malcolm G. O'Malley with 53.79% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034743-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Montana gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Montana elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034744-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Moscow tornado\nThe June 29, 1904 Moscow tornado was only one of three disastrous tornadoes that occurred in central Russia in recorded history (1984 Yaroslavl tornado occurred June 9, 1984, in Ivanovo with Yaroslavl regions and 2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado occurred in Krasnozavodsk 3 June 2009, located in Moscow region). The 1904 disaster started as a thunderstorm in Tula region. It travelled northward, passing through eastern suburbs of Moscow into Yaroslavl region. When the cloud approached remote Moscow suburbs, it formed three tornado funnels, destroying suburban settlements and Lefortovo district within the city itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034744-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Moscow tornado, Contemporary reports\nThe main tornado was recorded by thousands of witnesses in Moscow, but few outside of the city. The Dean of Sukhanovo church reported that the cloud passed some 18 kilometers west from his town, through the villages of Kapotnya (200 homes destroyed), Chagino (65 out of 67 homes) and Khokhlovka; all three of these settlements are now within Moscow city limits. Nearer suburbs of Lyublino and Karacharovo were completely demolished too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034744-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Moscow tornado, Contemporary reports\nMany witnesses in Moscow, including the journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky, report the same picture of the advancing storm: an unusual black cloud, 15\u201320 kilometers wide, advanced from south-east at estimated 25 meters per second (no instrumental wind readings were made). The tornado was preceded by a hailstorm and a sudden drop in temperature. Two black funnels, one from the sky, the other from the ground, merged into a wide tornado with a yellow fire-like light in the middle. Witnesses mistook this light for an explosion at some oil tanks that, indeed, were close to the path of tornado, but were spared from destruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034744-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Moscow tornado, Contemporary reports\nThe tornado broke into the city proper in Lefortovo District, destroying the freight yard of the Kursk railroad, then shaving off the Annenhof Forest \u2013 an old, neglected park in Lefortovo (north of the present-day Aviamotornaya subway station). It passed through the Lefortovo barracks, tearing roofs from masonry buildings, passed over the Basmanny District into Sokolniki Park and left the city in a northward direction. Apparently, the tornado faded away, thus destruction in the densely populated Basmanny was far less than in Lefortovo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034744-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Moscow tornado, Present-day assessment\nModern scientists rate the 1904 tornadoes at F2\u2013F3 in the Fujita scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034744-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Moscow tornado, Present-day assessment\nTotal damage is estimated at 3,000 single-family homes (Razuvaev), while the loss of life was not properly counted (Gilyarovsky reported seeing only one dead). The disaster occurred in the middle of the Russo-Japanese War, and clearing the rubble and counting the bodies was not a top priority; police reports and formal damage assessments were not published due to war-time censorship. Many of the victims are presumed to be squatters in suburban parks and the Annenhof Forest, which was cleared of fallen trees years after the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034744-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Moscow tornado, Other tornadoes\nOther tornadoes were recorded in 1945 in Moscow and in 1951, 1956, 1970, 1971, 1984 (during the tornado outbreak of 9 June), 1987, 1994, and 1997 in Moscow Oblast 100\u00a0km south-east from Moscow (near Zaraysk). Another was seen in June 2009 near Sergiyev Posad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034745-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1904 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their only year under head coach Dave Fultz, the team compiled a 3\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034746-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team\nThe 1904 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team represented the University of Nashville during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034747-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1904 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Paul Dashiell, the Midshipmen compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record, shut out six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 149 to 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1904 college football season. The team was coached by fifth-year head coach Walter C. Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nNebraska entered 1904 on a 24-game winning streak, a stretch that included undefeated seasons in 1902 and 1903. Thety extended the winning streak to 27 games before losing to Colorado on October 8th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBarta, Frank GBarwick, Leonard QBBell, Johnny HBBender, Johnny HBBenedict, Maurice QBBerry EBorg, Charles CBurns, Donald RTCotton, Charles RTCraig, Hugh HBDenslow, Lloyd EEager, Earl HBFenlon HBHunter, Fred RGJohnson, William EKnapp QBLundin, Alford LTMarsh, Earl HBMason, Cyrus LTMason, John FBMcDonald, Gil QBMills, Leslie GReddick QBRichardson LTRobinson ERyan EScallon LTSpeer RGStandeven EWeller, John HB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Grand Island\nDespite playing its starters only in the second half, Nebraska beat Grand Island 72\u20130 in the second-largest victory in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Lincoln High\nNebraska shut out Lincoln High in a pre-season exhibition game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Grinnell\nOn a rainy, muddy day in Lincoln, Nebraska registered its fifth consecutive shutout victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Colorado\nColorado became the first team to shut out Nebraska in four years, ending the Cornhuskers' winning streak at 27 games. NU had three opportunities inside of CU's 10-yard line, but failed to score on any of them, and Colorado defeated Nebraska for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Lincoln Medics\nNebraska defeated the Lincoln Medics 29\u20130 in an exhibition game that was the only meeting between the schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Knox\nDespite just one day off since scrimmaging the Lincoln Medics, NU shut out Knox 34\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nAfter a one-year break, NU's series with Minnesota resumed in Minneapolis. The Gophers scored first, but Nebraska tied the game shortly afterward, the first time a team scored against Minnesota in 12 games. A late Minnesota touchdown gave the Gophers a 16\u201312 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Haskell\nNebraska's only points in an upset loss came after recovering a Haskell fumble in the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034748-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Illinois\nNU faced Illinois to end the season for the second consecutive year. Illinois took an early lead and never let Nebraska take control of the game, but the Cornhuskers held on to win 16\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034749-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034749-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor John H. Mickey won re-election to a second term, defeating Democratic and Populist fusion nominee George W. Berge with 49.67% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034750-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Overview\nIt was contested by 9 teams, and MTK Hung\u00e1ria FC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034751-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1904 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Bruce Shorts, the team compiled a 3\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034751-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team, Previous season\nThe Sagebrushers finished the 1903 season 2\u20134\u20132. Head coach Allen Steckle resigned and was replaced by Bruce Shorts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034752-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1904 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1904 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under the direction of first-year head coach G. B. Ward, the team finished with a record of 2\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034752-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and four points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034752-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThis was the final season that New Hampshire faced Exeter Academy and Andover Academy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034752-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe New Hampshire College Monthly reported that Carl T. Fuller scored New Hampshire's first-ever points from drop kick in the Tufts game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034752-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nNew Hampshire's second team (reserves) defeated the second team of Portsmouth's Maplewood Athletic Club, 22\u20130, and defeated Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine, 5\u20130. The sophomore team (class of 1907) defeated Sanborn Seminary in Kingston, 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034752-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nAn end-of-season banquet was held in neighboring Newmarket on October 26; 13 players were awarded varsity letters. The College Monthly noted that the average weight of players on the team was 153.538 pounds (69.644\u00a0kg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034752-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire football team, Roster\nThe team photo consists of all 13 lettermen, plus head coach Ward and the student team manager. Two of the players in the back row have nose armor around their necks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034753-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee John McLane defeated Democratic nominee Henry F. Hollis with 57.83% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034754-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee Edward C. Stokes defeated Democratic nominee Charles C. Black with 53.50% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034755-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1904 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1904 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 42 to 33. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034756-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New South Wales state election\nThe 1904 New South Wales state election was held on 6 August 1904 for all of the 90 seats in the 20th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. For the first time, women were entitled to vote. Both adult males and females were entitled to vote, but not Indigenous people. The 19th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 16 July 1904 by the Governor, Sir Harry Rawson, on the advice of the Premier, Thomas Waddell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034756-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 New South Wales state election\nThis election saw the size of the Legislative Assembly reduced from 125 to 90 seats as a result of the 1903 New South Wales referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034756-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 New South Wales state election, Results\nNew South Wales state election, 6 August 1904\u200aLegislative Assembly << 1901\u20131907 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034756-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 New South Wales state election, Retiring members\nNote: Orange Liberal MLA Harry Newman died on 1 June. Deniliquin Independent MLA Joseph Evans died on 5 July. Due to the proximity of the election, no by-elections were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034757-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1904, announced at the time as the Indian Honours, were appointments to various orders and honours of British India. The list was published in The Times on 1 January 1904, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034757-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034757-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 New Year Honours\nA list of appointments to the Royal Victorian Order was announced in the London Gazette on 29 December 1903. These were not included in the New Year Honours list, as the individuals had already received their decorations in late 1903. They have been added to the end of this page to show the most complete picture of orders awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034757-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season\nThe 1904 New York Giants season was the 22nd season in franchise history. They led the National League in both runs scored and fewest runs allowed, on their way to 106 wins and the pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season\nThe first modern World Series had been played the previous year, but manager John McGraw and owner John T. Brush refused to play the American League champion Boston Americans in a 1904 World Series. They would change their position the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season, Regular season\nThe Giants had little offensive firepower in this pitching-dominated era but scored using a balanced lineup and a lot of small-ball tactics formerly employed by manager McGraw in his playing days. The lineup featured three of the top five stolen base leaders in the majors: Bill Dahlen, Sam Mertes, and Dan McGann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season, Regular season\nThey also had one of the greatest pitching duos of all-time in Joe McGinnity and Christy Mathewson, who each had arguably the greatest seasons in their Hall of Fame careers. They combined for 68 wins \u2013 a 20th-century record for two pitchers on the same team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034758-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season\nThe 1904 New York Highlanders season, their second in New York and fourth overall, finished with the team in second place in the American League with a record of 92\u201359. The team was managed by Clark Griffith and played home games at Hilltop Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Regular season, The name\nThe first verified use of the alternate nickname \"Yankees\" (a synonym for \"Americans\", the team being American Leaguers) occurred on April 7, 1904, when a spring training story from Richmond, Virginia carried the headline \"Yankees Will Start Home From South To-Day.\" The New York Evening Journal screamed: \"YANKEES BEAT BOSTON\". The casual use of that nickname suggests it was already in the popular lexicon, although \"Highlanders\" would continue to be the primary (and equally unofficial) nickname for several more years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Highlanders were in the thick of the American League pennant race throughout the season, leading by two games as late as September 20. This led to the New York Giants announcement that they would not play in the World Series, since they considered the Highlanders to be only a \"minor league\" team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Regular season, Season summary\nOn the final day of the season at Hilltop Park, New York pitcher Jack Chesbro threw a wild pitch in the ninth inning, giving the Boston Americans the win, and the 1904 AL pennant. Even though it was Boston who stole the pennant on the final day, the Giants stuck to their word and their refusal prevented the World Series from being played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Regular season, Season summary\nIt would be a century later, in 2004, the next time Boston directly eliminated the Yankees from title contention, when they did so in the final game of the 2004 ALCS, a hundred years later in a repeat of sorts of the events of that year, the beginning of a long rivalry between the two clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034759-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election\nThe 1904 New York state election was held on November 8, 1904, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer, the state engineer, the chief judge and an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, History\nThe Prohibition state convention met on June 14 and 15 at Oswego, New York. Henry W. Wilbur was Temporary Chairman until the choice of Alfred L. Manierre as Permanent Chairman. They nominated John McKee, of Brooklyn, for Governor; Alden W. Young for Lieutenant Governor; James C. Carpenter, of New York City, for Secretary of State; Ira W. Littlefield, of Watertown, for Comptroller; C. A. Shipplebein, of Glens Falls, for Treasurer; and George E. Hillman, of Rochester, for Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, History\nThe Socialist Labor state convention met on July 7 at 2, New Reade Street in Manhattan. They nominated Daniel De Leon for Governor; Boris Reinstein, of Buffalo, for Lieutenant Governor; Anton Metzler for Secretary of State; James A. Trainor, of Syracuse, for Comptroller; Harvey A. Santee, of New York City, for Treasurer; Frank E. Passanno for Attorney General; and Orcus A. Curtis, of Buffalo, for the Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, History\nThe 1904 Democratic National Convention nominated the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker for U.S. President. Upon accepting the nomination, he resigned his judicial office on August 5, and a month later Democrat Edgar M. Cullen was appointed by Republican Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., to fill the vacancy, as part of a cross endorsement deal to elect also Republican associate judge William E. Werner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, History\nThe Republican state convention met on September 14 and 15 at Saratoga, New York. Jacob Sloat Fassett was Temporary Chairman until the choice of George R. Malby as Permanent Chairman. The convention was marked by the fight between the two Republican bosses: Governor Odell and Thomas C. Platt. Odell's candidate, the incumbent Lieutenant Governor Higgins, was nominated by acclamation after Platt's man, Ex-Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff, withdrew. All other candidates were also nominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, History\nOn September 16, the Populist State Committee selected a ticket to be circulated to gather the necessary signatures for the petition to file the ticket. They nominated Alfred J. Boulton for Governor; Charles Spaulding, of Buffalo, for Lieutenant Governor; Orsen L. Drew, of Rochester, for Secretary of State; Louis Manz, of Rochester, for Comptroller; Frank S. Rose, of Albany, for Treasurer; John F. Gaffney, Utica, for Attorney General; Simon G. Levy, of New York City, for State Engineer; Edward N. Heath, of Buffalo, for Chief Judge; and Augustus Babcock, of Binghamton, for associate judge of the Court of Appeals. The petition was filed with the Secretary of State in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic state convention met on September 21 at Saratoga, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, Result\nThe incumbents O'Brien, Kelsey, Van Alstyne and Cullen were re-elected. The incumbent Cunneen was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034760-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 New York state election, Result\nThe Republican, Democratic, Social Democratic and Prohibition parties maintained automatic ballot status (necessary 10,000 votes), the Socialist Labor Party lost it, and the re-founded People's party did not attain it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034761-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Newfoundland general election\nThe 1904 Newfoundland general election was held on 31 October 1904 to elect members of the 20th General Assembly of Newfoundland in the Newfoundland Colony. The Liberal Party led by Robert Bond formed the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034762-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 News of the World Match Play\nThe 1904 News of the World Match Play was the second News of the World Match Play tournament. It was played from Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 October at Mid-Surrey Golf Club. 32 players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 18 holes, except for the final which was over 36 holes. The winner received \u00a3100 out of a total prize fund of \u00a3240. J.H. Taylor defeated Alfred Toogood 5 & 3 in the final to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034762-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 News of the World Match Play, Qualification\nEntry was restricted to members of the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA). Qualification was by a series of 36-hole stroke-play competitions; one for each of the five PGA sections. The Southern section had 16 qualifiers, the Northern section had 6, the Midland 5, the Scottish section 3 and the Irish section 2. In the event of a tie for places there was a playoff. Compared to 1903 the Northern section had one additional qualifier and the Scottish section one less.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034762-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 News of the World Match Play, Format\nThe format was unchanged. Matches were over 18 holes except for the final which was over 36 holes. Extra holes were played in the event of a tied match. Two rounds were played on the first day, two more on the second day with the final on the third day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034762-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 News of the World Match Play, Prize money\nPrize money was increased to \u00a3240 with the addition of 8 \u00a35 prizes for the losers in the second round. The winner received \u00a3100 and a gold medal, the runner-up \u00a330 and a silver medal, the losing semi-finalists \u00a315 and a bronze medal, while the third round losers received \u00a310 and the second round losers received \u00a35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election\nThe Normanton by-election, 1904 was held to elect a member to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, Vacancy\nThe death of Benjamin Pickard the sitting Lib-Lab Member of Parliament for Normanton in 1904 meant a vacancy and a by-election in the division. Since 1885 the Yorkshire Miners Association had had an agreement with the Liberals allowing them nominate the candidate for elections to Parliament. Pickard had held the seat at each election under this arrangement since the 1885 general election and generally supported the Liberals in Parliament in return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, Lib-Lab successor\nMiners\u2019 officials were expecting a contest between their president John Wadsworth and their treasurer Fred Hall. However, there was a third candidate, William Parrott, another Yorkshire Miners Association official. Although he had been canvassed as a possible candidate he was not expected to put his name forward as he was thought to be committed to a different constituency. However, by the time the miners were asked to vote, the names of all three men were on the ballot paper. Parrott was selected and abandoned his candidature for the Liberals in East Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, Lib-Lab successor\nThe Liberals again decided not to oppose the miners\u2019 candidate and the Independent Labour party also chose not stand a candidate. Parrott, as a member of the Liberal Party, could anticipate the votes of the general body of Liberals in his seat as well as the support of the miners. In addition he had a strong and close association with the late MP, Benjamin Pickard, through his work as a trade unionist going back nearly 30 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The by-election issues\nThe election was called for 1 March 1904. The Conservatives selected a London man, Marcus R P Dorman to oppose Parrott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The by-election issues\nParrott\u2019s election address emphasised four points. First he wanted an amendment of the law to secure greater freedoms for trade unions. He was particularly arguing for the restoration of the law on trade unions to what it had been before the Taff Vale case. His next policy opposed the 1902 Education Act. He regretted the abolition of school boards elected by ratepayers in their district, which had been popular with radicals and their replacement by local education authorities under the control of county or borough councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The by-election issues\nNonconformist electors objected that their local taxes were being used to support the teaching of religious views to which they were opposed, \u2018Rome on the Rates\u2019 was their rallying cry. Anglican and Roman Catholic church schools, supported by public funds, were not under public control and teachers in these sectarian schools were subject to religious tests. Parrott\u2019s third policy priority was fiscal reform, in particular opposing a levy on the export of coal, as coal-owners were cutting wage rates and laying off miners to pay for this tax. Finally he was strongly in favour of the temperance movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The by-election issues\nIn addition to these points, Parrott made clear during the campaign that he was strongly opposed to preferential tariffs and in favour of the traditional Liberal policy of Free Trade, which was largely thought to favour working people with cheap food. Also, the constituency had about 800 Irish electors who were expected to vote for Parrott. As a Liberal he was believed to be in favour of Home Rule but the religious aspects of the education issue complicated matters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The by-election issues\nDorman's campaign mostly consisted of his defence of the Conservative government and trying to convince the miners and other workingmen that he had their interests at heart. He was in favour of taxation reform to protect British markets and opposed the immigration into Britain of what he described as destitute aliens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The campaign atmosphere\nOn the whole it was reported as being a quiet campaign compared with some. There was the usual round of public meetings but with the preponderance of outside help and speakers being on the Lib-Lab side and the Conservative candidate suffering more at the expense of hecklers at his events. A later report indicated that Dorman had more or less had to cope single-handedly with very few outside speakers coming in to support his candidature. It was also reported that support for Parrott from Parliamentary speakers had been less than anticipated with many village meetings in the mining areas having been only sparsely attended but this was not helped by the weather which was generally cold and snowy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The campaign atmosphere\nOne interesting aside, the two candidates took part in a football match on Saturday 27 February between teams from Normanton and Dewsbury, with Dorman kicking off the first half and Parrott kicking off the second. The result is not reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The campaign atmosphere\nOn polling day the weather continued cold and there was light snow in the air but the snow was not severe enough to interfere with the election. Parrott toured the constituency in a carriage and pair, Dorman had the use of a motor-car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The result\nDespite worries that there might be some apathy in the electorate in view of the previous Lib-Lab domination of the seat and a slow turn-out in the early part of the day Parrott polled 6,855 votes to Dorman's 2,909; a majority of 3,946 (from an electorate of 14,898). This was a larger vote than Pickard had received in all the five previous elections since 1885 and a larger majority than Pickard had ever achieved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034763-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Normanton by-election, The result\nParrott served as MP for Normanton until his death in November 1905. He was succeeded as MP by his former Yorkshire Miners Association colleague Fred Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034764-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1904 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1904 college football season. They comped a record of 3\u20131\u20132 and outscored their opponents 89 to 11, with the majority of those points coming from the season-opening blowout of Guilford, 59\u20130. This was first and only season as head coach of the Aggies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034765-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1904 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1904 college football season. The team captain for the 1904 season was R. S. Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034766-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 North Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Democratic nominee Robert Broadnax Glenn defeated Republican nominee Charles J. Harris with 61.72% of the vote. At the time, Glenn was an attorney and former member of the state Senate, while Harris was a businessman and former member of the United States Industrial Commission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034767-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1904 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. It was their first season under new head coach A. L. Marshall. Each of their wins and losses were shutouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034768-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 North Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee Elmore Y. Sarles defeated Democratic nominee Marthinus F. Hegge with 70.71% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034769-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 North East Lanarkshire by-election\nThe North East Lanarkshire by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034769-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 North East Lanarkshire by-election, Vacancy\nSir William Henry Rattigan had been Liberal Unionist MP for the seat of North East Lanarkshire since the 1901 North East Lanarkshire by-election. He died on 4 July 1904 at the age of 62.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034769-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 North East Lanarkshire by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Liberal Unionist since they gained it in 1901;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034770-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1904 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1904 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Dixie Fleager and played their home games at Glidden Field, located on the east end of campus. The team finished the season with a 5\u20130 record. Alvin Farr was the team's captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034771-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1904 Northwestern Purple football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1904 Western Conference football season. In its second season under head coach Walter McCornack, the team compiled an 8\u20132 record and finished in a tie for fifth place in the Western Conference. The team's sole losses were to Chicago and conference co-champion Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034772-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 1904 Norwegian Football Cup was the third season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The tournament was open for all NFF member clubs and organised by defending cup winner Odd. Four teams joined this competition. Odd won their second consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election\nThe Norwich by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Vacancy\nSir Harry Bullard had been Conservative MP for the seat of Norwich since the 1895 general election. He died on 26 December 1903 at the age of 62.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since they gained it in 1895. They held the seats at the last election, unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Candidates\nThe local Conservative Association selected 35-year-old Ernest Wild as their candidate to defend the seat. He was born in Norwich and attended Norwich School. He was a Barrister who had been called to Bar at Middle Temple in 1893. He had been Judge of the Norwich Guildhall Court of Record since 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 39-year-old Norfolk born, Norwich solicitor Louis Tillett as their candidate to gain the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Candidates\nThe local Independent Labour Party selected 36-year-old Norfolk born George Roberts as their candidate. He had joined the Independent Labour Party in 1886. He was elected to the Norwich School Board in 1889. He was Secretary of the Typographical Association and President of Norwich Trades Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 15 January 1904, just 20 days after the previous MP died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Result\nThe Spectator magazine, known for its Conservative sympathies felt that \"There can be little doubt that the election was fought mainly on the fiscal issue, and the result is all the more encouraging to the opponents of Protectionism in that\u2014to quote from the Times\u2014\" both the Liberal and the Labour candidates were free traders, their united votes showing a majority of more than four thousand against the advocate of fiscal reform.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034773-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Norwich by-election, Aftermath\nAt the following General Election the Conservatives also lost the other seat, the result was;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034774-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1904 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1904 college football season. In its first season with Louis J. Salmon as coach, the team compiled a 5\u20133 record and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 127 to 94.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034775-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Ohio Medical football team\nThe 1904 Ohio Medical football team was an American football team that represented the Ohio Medical College in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034776-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Ohio Northern football team\nThe 1904 Ohio Northern football team was an American football team that represented Ohio Northern University during the 1904 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 471 to 98. The team averaged nearly 50 points per game but was shut out by Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034777-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1904 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034778-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1904 college football season. This was the fourth year of football at A&M and the team did not have a head coach. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. They finished the season 0\u20136. The Aggies did not score a point all season. This season also marked their first game against the Oklahoma Sooners, their longest tenured rival, in the Bedlam Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034779-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1904 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1904 college football season. In their only year under head coach Fred Ewing, the Sooners compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 204 to 96. This would be the first year that the Sooners would play Oklahoma A&M in the Bedlam Series. This game is known as the infamous Ball in the Creek Game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034780-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1904 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The season was up-and-down, featuring a 69\u20130 loss to SIAA champion Vanderbilt and 114\u20130 defeat of Southwestern Baptist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034781-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Open Championship\nThe 1904 Open Championship was the 44th Open Championship, held 8\u201310 June at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. Jack White won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up James Braid and J.H. Taylor, both former champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034781-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Open Championship\nFor the first time, the Open was scheduled for three days; the final day remained at 36 holes, but the first two rounds were now over two days. Those within nineteen strokes of the leader made the 36-hole cut, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034781-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Open Championship\nThe opening round on Wednesday was cold and windy, which led to some high scoring. Robert Thomson led with 75 after reaching the turn in 34. He was a shot ahead of amateur John Graham Jr. and Harry Vardon. It was less windy on Thursday for the second round, and Vardon led on 149, followed by Thomson on 151 and Graham on 152. James Sherlock set a new record for the Open with 71, while Willie Park Jr. scored 72; 52 players were within nineteen strokes of Vardon and made the cut at 168 or better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034781-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Open Championship\nOvernight rain and light winds made for some low scoring on Friday. Braid set a new Championship record with a 69 in the third round, reaching the turn in 31. White has the second best score with a 72. After the morning round, Braid led on 226 with White on 227; Vardon was at 228 after a disappointing 79.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034781-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Open Championship\nWhite, one of the early starters in the afternoon, scored 69 for 296. Braid also played well but his 71 left him a shot behind. He holed a long putt at the 15th but a four at the short 16th left him too much to do. Taylor was the last player with a chance to catch White but needed a 67 to do so. Starting 3-3-2, he reached the turn in 32. However, like Braid, he took four at the 16th and also ended up a shot behind. His 68 was another new Open record. White's total of 296 was yet another, the first total under 300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034782-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Allen Steckle, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 119 to 22. The Aggies defeated Washington (26\u20135) and Utah State (45\u20130), and lost to Oregon (5\u20136), and the Multnomah Athletic Club (10\u201311). Bert Pilkington was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034783-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1904 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1904 college football season. It was the Webfoots' eleventh season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Richard Shore Smith. They finished the season with a record of five wins and three losses (5\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034784-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n1904 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) was the first water polo championship hold in Hungary. It was organised by the swimming division of the Hungarian Athletes' Association. There were four participating teams in the championship. There was only one round. All the matches were held in Cs\u00e1sz\u00e1rf\u00fcdd\u0151 during the first three weekends of September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034784-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\nBest team of the previous years, MUE did not take part in the championship, because some swimmers were not satisfied with the leadership in connection with the Olympics held in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034784-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election\nThe Oswestry by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Vacancy\nGeorge Ormsby-Gore had been Conservative MP for the seat of Oswestry since the 1901 Oswestry by-election. On 26 June 1904 he succeeded his father as third Baron Harlech and entered the House of Lords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since it was created in 1885. They easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Candidates\nThe local Conservative Association selected 39-year-old William Bridgeman as their candidate to defend the seat. He was a prominent Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council and had no link with the town's area, although his country home, Leigh Manor, Worthen, was then in the same constituency. He was assistant private secretary to Henry Holland, the Colonial Secretary (1889\u20131892), and then to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1895 to 1897. In 1897 he became a member of the London School Board, and in 1904 he was elected to the London County Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 42-year-old Allan Heywood Bright as their candidate to gain the seat. He had been the Liberal candidate at the previous election in 1901. Previously he had contested Exeter in 1899 and 1900. He had a residence at Weston Rhyn near Oswestry. The Times noted that he had \"nursed the constituency assidiously of late\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 26 July 1904, 30 days after the previous MP went to the House of Lords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Result\nThe count was conducted the following morning and the result declared at lunch-time. Crowds filled the Bailey Head \u2013 so much so that it was thought advisable to announce the result in private to prevent trouble. The Liberals gained the seat from the Conservatives:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Result\nThe result was \"a great surprise for both Conservatives and Liberals alike\". Bright believed that the electorate had rejected the government, and that \"the whole of Shropshire politics had been simply a policy of Tory bluff and the people seemed to have got tired of it\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034785-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Oswestry by-election, Aftermath\nThe same two candidates met again at the following General Election, the result was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034786-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Pahiatua by-election\nThe Pahiatua by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Pahiatua, a rural seat at the south-east of the North Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034786-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Pahiatua by-election\nThe by-election was held on 28 July 1904, and was precipitated by the death of sitting Liberal member of parliament John O'Meara. The election was won by Bill Hawkins who stood as an independent Liberal. Former Wairau MP Lindsay Buick was selected by the government as the official Liberal candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034786-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Pahiatua by-election, Notes\nThis New Zealand election-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034787-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1904 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the ninth\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 3 April 1904 and stretched 268\u00a0km (167\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Hippolyte Aucouturier from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034788-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Pembrokeshire County Council election\nThe sixth election to Pembrokeshire County Council was held in March 1904. It was preceded by the 1901 election and followed by the 1907 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034788-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Overview of the result\nOnly a small number of seats were contested and, as a result, 29 members were returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034788-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Fishguard\nYorke stood as an Independent although elected as a Conservative in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034788-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Milford\nDr Griffith had stood as a Liberal in 1892 and a Liberal Unionist in 1895.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034788-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Election of aldermen\nAldermen were elected at the first meeting of the new council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034789-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1904 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1904 college football season. The team finished with a 12\u20130 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation. They outscored their opponents 222 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034790-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Penn State football team\nThe 1904 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1904 college football season. The team was coached by Tom Fennell and played its home games on Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034791-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Peruvian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Peru in 1904. Jos\u00e9 Pardo y Barreda of the Civilista Party was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034792-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Athletics season\nThe 1904 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing fifth in the American League with a record of 81 wins and 70 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034792-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034792-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034792-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034792-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034792-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034793-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe following lists the events of the 1904 Philadelphia Phillies season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034793-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034793-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034793-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034793-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034794-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert\nThe 1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert is an invert error on a postage and revenue stamp issued by New Zealand which is considered to be the country's rarest stamp. The centre vignette is inverted in relation to the outer frame. The stamp was discovered in a schoolboy album in 1930 and no other copy has been found since then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034794-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert\nThe 4d stamp depicts Lake Taupo in New Zealand's North Island. It was part of the first pictorial series originally issued in 1898 but reissued in different colours and sizes in 1899 and 1900. The same design was used for a 1d value issued in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034794-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert, Previous owners\nIn 2010 NZ Post deposited the stamp in the New Zealand national museum Te Papa on a long term loan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034795-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1904 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 23rd season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 18th in the National League. The Pirates finished fourth in the National League with a record of 87\u201366.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034795-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034795-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034795-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034795-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034795-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034796-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 26 June 1904. The result was a victory for the Regeneration Party, which won 100 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034797-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Prima Categoria, References and sources\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034798-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe 1904 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on December 7, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034798-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe election was won by the governing Liberals, led by incumbent Premier Arthur Peters. Peters' own election in the district of 2nd Kings was almost in doubt, due to a tie vote of 515 votes each for him and his Conservative opponent; following a judicial recount, a by-election was held where Peters was acclaimed as the district's Assemblyman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034798-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Prince Edward Island general election\nPeters died in January 1908, and was succeeded as Premier by Francis Haszard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034798-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe opposition Conservatives, led by John A. Mathieson, lost one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034798-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Prince Edward Island general election, Members Elected\nThe Legislature of Prince Edward Island had two levels of membership from 1893 to 1996 - Assemblymen and Councillors. This was a holdover from when the Island had a bicameral legislature, the General Assembly and the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034798-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Prince Edward Island general election, Members Elected\nIn 1893, the Legislative Council was abolished and had its membership merged with the Assembly, though the two titles remained separate and were elected by different electoral franchises. Assembleymen were elected by all eligible voters of within a district, while Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034799-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1904 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1904 college football season. The team finished with an 8\u20132 record under second-year head coach Art Hillebrand and outscored its opponents by a total of 181 to 34. Princeton tackle James Cooney was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1904 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034800-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Puerto Rican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Puerto Rico in 1904. Since they were held under the colonial rule of the United States, only municipalities were able to democratically elect their representation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034801-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1904 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1904 Western Conference football season. In their second season under head coach Oliver Cutts, the Boilermakers compiled a 9\u20133 record, finished in sixth place in the Western Conference with a 1\u20132 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 176 to 66. D. M. Allen was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034802-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Quebec general election\nThe 1904 Quebec general election was held on November 25, 1904, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Simon-Napol\u00e9on Parent, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Edmund James Flynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034802-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Quebec general election\nIt was Parent's final election. Due to internal dissension within his party, he resigned in 1905, and was succeeded as Liberal leader and premier by Lomer Gouin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034802-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Quebec general election, Further reading\nThis Quebec history article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election\nElections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 27 August 1904 to elect the members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Ministerial Party maintained government with the continued support of the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election, Background, Resignation of the Philp government\nRobert Philp had been Premier since December 1899, and had been re-elected at the 1902 election. On 9 September 1903, the government put a bill for taxation proposals to the assembly, which was passed by a narrow margin of only two votes (33\u201331). With several Ministerialists voting against the proposals, Philp moved to adjourn the assembly. The following day, Philp announced he could no longer govern with self-respect, and had tendered his resignation to the Governor, Sir Herbert Chermside. Labour leader William Browne was sent for, and endeavoured to form a ministry, but on 15 September informed the Governor that he had been unable to do so. On Browne's recommendation, the assembly's Speaker, Arthur Morgan, was sent for and commissioned to form a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election, Background, Resignation of the Morgan government\nOn 7 June 1904, opposition member James Cribb rose as the last speaker in the address-in-reply to the Governor's speech, and raised an amendment which was a motion of no confidence in the Morgan ministry. Debate over the amendment continued for two weeks, with the vote taking place on 22 June. The amendment was not passed by one vote: 36 against, 35 for. Subsequently, Morgan tendered the resignation of himself and his ministry, recommending a dissolution of parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election, Background, Resignation of the Morgan government\nThe Governor refused and sent for Robert Philp, who declined to resume the premiership, and announced that a caucus meeting of his party would elect a new leader. On 28 June, the Opposition caucus elected Sir Arthur Rutledge as its leader, and he was commissioned by the Governor to form government. On 7 July, Rutledge told the house he had returned the commission to the Governor, as he had been unable to form a ministry. Morgan and his ministers, who had remained in their positions until the appointment of their successors, again requested a dissolution which was granted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 80], "content_span": [81, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election, Background, Sir Arthur Rutledge\nThe Ministerialist sitting member in Nundah, Thomas Bridges, faced a formidable opponent in the person of Sir Arthur Rutledge. Rutledge had been a Wesleyan minister in New England and solicitor in Brisbane, before entering the Queensland parliament, where he rose to the office of Attorney-General and accepted a knighthood in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0003-0001", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election, Background, Sir Arthur Rutledge\nAs part of his strategy to become Premier, Rutledge decided not to re-contest his Maranoa electorate in favour of an electorate closer to Brisbane, and chose the semi-rural seat of Nundah which, he assumed, would be easily won by a man of his political experience, especially as it was already held by a fellow Ministerialist. Many large business houses backed Rutledge, as did the editor of the Brisbane Courier (Rutledge's son-in-law Charles Brunsdon Fletcher was the editor of the Brisbane Courier until 1903).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0003-0002", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election, Background, Sir Arthur Rutledge\nHis public meetings were packed with prominent religious and political leaders, in contrast to a low-key campaign run by Bridges based on his community service and commitment to keep the cost of railway tickets low. Contrary to every prediction, Bridges won the election by 253 votes. This humiliating loss ended Rutledge's political career, and he accepted an appointment as district judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034803-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Queensland state election, Results\nQueensland state election, 27 August 1904Legislative Assembly << 1902\u20131907 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034804-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Reading by-election\nThe Reading by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034804-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Reading by-election, Vacancy\nGeorge Palmer had been Liberal MP for the seat of Reading since the 1898 Reading by-election. He resigned from Parliament in 1904, due to advancing deafness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034804-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Reading by-election, Electoral history\nSince the Reading constituency was created in 1885 it had been closely contested between Liberal and Conservative; The Conservatives winning in 1885, 1886 and 1895 and the Liberals in 1892, 1898 and 1900. The Liberal victor on each occasion was Palmer, who was a very well known biscuit manufacturer in the town. At the last election he had won narrowly;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034804-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Reading by-election, Result\nThe Liberals held the seat with an almost identical result to the previous election;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034804-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Reading by-election, Aftermath\nKeyser did not stand for parliament again. At the following General Election, Isaacs was re-elected;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention\nThe 1904 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held in the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on June 21 to June 23, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention\nThe popular President Theodore Roosevelt had easily ensured himself of the nomination; a threat had come from the Old Guard favourite Ohio Senator Mark Hanna, the loyal kingmaker in Republican politics, but he died early in 1904, which ended any opposition to Roosevelt within the Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention\nThere were also very informal talks with future president William Howard Taft about trying for the nomination, but Taft refused these motions as evidenced by a letter to Henry Hoyt, the Solicitor General, in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention\nRoosevelt was nominated by 994 votes to none, while the only other serious opponent to Roosevelt, Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, was nominated for vice president by acclaimation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention, Platform\nThe 1904 Republican platform favored the protective tariff, increased foreign trade, the gold standard, expansion of the Merchant Marine and strengthening of the United States Navy; it also praised Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention, Vice Presidential candidates\nAs Theodore Roosevelt had ascended to the presidency following the death of William McKinley on September 14 1901, he served the remainder of McKinley's term without a vice president as the 25th Amendment had not yet been passed. This also left the Convention with the task of choosing a running mate for Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention, Vice Presidential candidates\nEntering the convention, Senator Charles Fairbanks of Indiana was considered the likely favorite for the vice presidential nomination, but the Roosevelt administration favored Illinois Representative Robert R. Hitt or Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio; Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon of Illinois also had support among the delegates, but Cannon had no desire to leave his position in the House. After the administration decided not to launch a fight over the nomination of Fairbanks, he was nominated by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention, Speakers\nThere were significantly fewer speakers at the 1904 convention than there are at a typical convention today. This is because the convention at the time was much lower in viewership (as there were not the mass media devices of TV or radio at this time only those actually invited saw it). Also, this was before the primary era so the delegates were expected to nominate the candidate at the actual convention as well as more typical tasks such as electing the chairman and handling other business which varies in importance at the Republican Convention today. Nonetheless, there were speeches by the following individuals at the 1904 Republican National Convention:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034805-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Republican National Convention, Speakers, Thursday, June 23\nRoosevelt and his running mate Charles Fairbanks, were unanimously nominated but unlike candidates today they did not give convention speeches instead having individuals give nominating speeches for them. Roosevelt's nomination speech was made by former New York Governor Frank S. Black and it was seconded by Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge. Fairbanks's nomination speech was made by Iowa Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver and seconded by New York Senator Chauncey Depew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034806-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1904 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its seventh year under head coach Marshall Tyler, the team compiled a 2\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034807-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee George H. Utter defeated Democratic incumbent Lucius F. C. Garvin with 48.94% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034808-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1904 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1904 college football season. Led by Harry Wall in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 1\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034809-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Riverina by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Riverina on 18 May 1904. This was triggered after the result at the 1903 election, which had seen Free Trade candidate Robert Blackwood narrowly defeat Protectionist MP John Chanter, was declared void due to allegations of electoral irregularities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034810-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Rollins Tars football team\nThe 1904 Rollins Tars football team represented Rollins College in the sport of American football as an independent during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034811-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Rossendale by-election\nThe Rossendale by-election, 1904 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Rossendale in Lancashire on 15 March 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034811-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Rossendale by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal MP, Sir William Mather. Mather, who was 66 years old in 1904, had been Liberal MP for Salford and Manchester Gorton before winning Rossendale at a by-election in 1900. He had already announced that he would not stand at the next general election believing it would be held earlier in the Parliament elected at the 1900 general election owing to the weakness of the Conservative government. The government determined to hang on however and Mather decided to resign. He chose the traditional route of applying for the Chiltern Hundreds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034811-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Rossendale by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe Rossendale Liberals had already selected as their candidate Lewis Harcourt in anticipation of Mather\u2019s standing down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034811-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Rossendale by-election, Candidates, Unionists\nThe local Conservatives had not expected a by-election and did not have a candidate in the field. Rossendale was a traditionally Liberal seat. It had been held by the Liberals since its creation for the 1885 general election with only the interlude of 1886-1892 when it was represented by the former Liberal MP the Marquess of Hartington having switched to the Liberal Unionists. The Unionists were forced to look as far abroad as Wimbledon for a candidate, approaching Colonel T Mitchell who was the brother of the Tory MP for Burnley but he declined to stand. They next turned to Mr John Whittaker, a cotton trader from Wilpshire, near Blackburn but he too declined to fight the seat. In the event the Conservatives were unable to find anyone willing to contest a Liberal stronghold, citing the serious state of the Lancashire cotton industry as the reason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 911]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034811-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Rossendale by-election, Candidates, Labour\nThe Labour Party considered putting up a candidate. They first approached Daniel Irving, a leading socialist from Burnley, but he said he was too busy working for Henry Hyndman another prominent Labour politician. In the end, like the Conservatives, the Labour Party chose not to contest the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034811-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Rossendale by-election, Issues\nIt being an uncontested election, topical political issues were not subject to public debate. However, Harcourt did issue an election address in which he stated that his main concerns were taxation, Chinese labour in South Africa, education and temperance. He also confirmed his position as an out-and-out free trader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034811-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Rossendale by-election, The result\nHarcourt was returned unopposed. He held the seat until 1917 when he became a peer. In the ensuing by-election the seat was held for the Liberals by Sir John Henry Maden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034812-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1904 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1904 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Alfred Ellet Hitchner, the Queensmen compiled a 1\u20136\u20132 record and were outscored by their opponents, 202 to 16. The team captain was Robert W. Cobb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034813-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Ryde state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Ryde on 23 January 1904 because of the resignation of Frank Farnell (Independent Liberal) who had been appointed Chairman of the Fisheries Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034814-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1904 SAFA Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the Jubilee Oval in Adelaide on 17 September 1904. It was the 9th annual Grand Final of the South Australian Football Association, staged to determine the premiers for the 1904 SAFA season. The match, attended by 15,000 spectators, was won by Norwood by a margin of 4 points, marking the clubs thirteenth premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034814-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 SAFA Grand Final, Jubilee Oval\nThe 1904 SAFA Grand Final was the only instance of a South Australian state league grand final being held at Jubilee Oval. Jubilee Oval at the time was the host grounds of the Royal Adelaide Show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034814-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 SAFA Grand Final, Match Summary\nThe 1904 Grand Final was a memorable one for Norwood who were down by 35 points at three-quarter time against traditional rival Port Adelaide. Norwood then produced an extraordinary burst of football with a goal by centre half forward Dean Dawson followed by two goals each from full forward, Bill Miller and half forward flanker, Stan Robinson. Norwood was only two points down with a minute remaining. Tommy Gibbons held a mark on a seemingly impossible angle. His kick sailed through the goal posts to give Norwood a four-point victory 9.8 to 8.10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034815-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 SAFA season\nThe 1904 South Australian Football Association season was the 28th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034816-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Saint Louis Blue and White football team\nThe 1904 Saint Louis Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University during the 1904 college football season. In their sixth and final season under head coach Martin J. Delaney, the team compiled an 11\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 344 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034817-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Samos earthquake\nThe 1904 Samos earthquake struck Greece on August 11 with moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Four people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034817-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Samos earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThe earthquake registered a magnitude of 6.8 on the moment magnitude scale. Between the main shock and an aftershock that followed three days later, 540 houses were destroyed on Samos, then an autonomous part of the Ottoman Empire. Four people were killed. Damage extended to Patmos and Anatolia, while shaking from the earthquake reached from offshore Chios and Santorini to \u00d6demi\u015f and Ayd\u0131n in Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034817-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Samos earthquake, Geology\nAlong its source fault, the earthquake created 46\u00a0km (29\u00a0mi) of ruptured rock and had an average displacement of 1.2\u00a0m (3\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in). It originated from oblique-slip faulting. The island of Samos disconnected from Anatolia, and the strait between them is less than 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) in width. The island itself is a horst, and a large fault runs along the island's NW-W coast. Tectonic uplift is noticeable at the shores of Samos, likely linked to historic earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034817-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Samos earthquake, Seismic history\nWithin the last two centuries, Samos has experienced multiple powerful earthquakes registering above magnitude 6.0. Six such earthquakes were recorded during the 19th century and two more in the 20th. Analysis indicates three earthquakes before the 19th century in circa 200 BC, 47, and 1761. An earthquake in 1476 may have devastated the island to the extent that its occupants, the Genovese, evacuated. Uplift from the 6th century implies another earthquake circa 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising\nThe Sasun uprising or Sasun rebellion of 1904 (Armenian: \u054d\u0561\u057d\u0578\u0582\u0576\u056b \u0565\u0580\u056f\u0580\u0578\u0580\u0564 \u0561\u057a\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0582\u0569\u056b\u0582\u0576\u0568, Sasuni yerkrord apstambut'yun\u0115, literally Second Sassoun resistance) was an uprising by Armenian militia against the Ottoman Empire in Turkey's Sason region in 1904. The empire wanted to prevent the formation of another semi-autonomous Armenian region in the eastern vilayets after its defeat in the First Zeitun Rebellion. In Sason, the Armenian national liberation movement recruited young Armenians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Background\nThe Social Democrat Hunchakian Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation were two elements of the Armenian national movement which were active in the region. The first Sasun resistance was led by the Armenian national movement's militia, which belonged to Hunchak. According to Cyrus Hamlin, the Armenians triggered hostilities. Conflicts continued between the Armenian fedayeen (Armenian irregular forces) and the Muslim Ottomans in Armenian villages. Many Armenians were compelled to accept Islam or Orthodoxy; the latter was protected by the Russian consulate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Background\nIn spring 1902 a representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Vahan Manvelyan, was sent to Sason to negotiate a ceasefire with the Turks, to occupy the area and concentrate forces for a larger revolt to be led by Manvelyan and local activist Hrayr Tjokhk. This consolidation continued during 1902 and 1903. In May 1903, a militia led by Gorgos \"Marrik\" arrived in Sasun. Vahan and Hrayr considered it too small, and sent a party east with a request for more troops. In September a group of 150 fedayeen, led by Khan and Onik, was sent. At the Persian-Turkish border, it was surrounded by Turkish artillery troops and almost completely destroyed. In February 1903 in Sofia, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) agreed to send troops to Sason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Background\nBy this time, approaches to Sasun had been blocked by a division of the 4th Corps of the Ottoman army (eight battalions, later increased to fourteen). The total force comprised as many as 10,000 soldiers and policemen, in addition to 6,000\u20137,000 irregular Kurdish cavalry. Armenian forces consisted of 200 guerrillas under the command of Vahan, Hrayr and Andranik, along with Kevork Chavoush, Murad of Sebastia, Keri and others. Untrained peasants in 21 villages also took up arms, swelling the insurgency to 1,000. Andranik suggested inciting a general revolt in Armenia which would disperse the Turkish forces; Hrayr objected that an Armenian revolt, unsupported by other factions of the Ottoman Empire, would be doomed and suggested concentrating on the defense of Sasun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nThe first military action was undertaken by Kevork Chavush against local Kurds (Kor Slo) to prevent an attack on five Armenian villages in Kurdish-occupied territory. On January 17, 1904, with groups of Murad Sebastatsi and Seyto he attacked the Kurds, who (with Turkish troops) retreated to Pasrur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nThe western ARF and the Catholicos tried to organize diplomatic pressure on Turkey. The Catholicos appealed to the great powers; English and French ambassadors in Constantinople had audiences with the sultan, but the Russian ambassador stood aside. The sultan agreed to send armies for the maintenance of law and order to Sasun. The ambassadors offered to negotiate on the sultan's behalf with the insurgents in Sasun. However, the Russian ambassador delayed; by the time they arrived in Sasun, military action was at fever pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nBy March 20, 1904, the Turks had finished preparations for addressing the uprising, and armies had plundered a number of boundary villages (which, by order from Hrayr, did not resist). Local residents were imprisoned and tortured, but the Ottomans were unable to learn about the insurgents' plans. The Armenians plan of action was: Hrayr would defend Aliank and Shenik; Andranik, in Tapyk, would impede the Turks advance on Gelieguzan; Kevork Chavush would defend Ishkhanadzor, and Murad of Senastia, Akop Kotoian and Makar Spagantsi would defend Chaji Glukh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nOn April 2 the Turks began an unsuccessful attack with mountain guns. On April 10, the W\u0101li of Bitlis arrived with troops and the Armenian bishops of Bitlis and Mu\u015f. On April 11, the second battle began. About 7,000 Turkish horsemen rode into the village of Shenik; the Armenians closed in on them at the rear, trapping the Turks between Armenian positions in front and on the right and snow-capped mountains at the left. After a four-hour fight the Turks abandoned their horses and weapons and retreated into the mountains, pursued by the Armenians. On April 12, Surb Arakelots monastery prior Arakel presented a decree from the Catholicos recommending that the Armenians surrender in exchange for amnesty. The Armenian leaders, requesting a delay in responding, evacuated and burned several villages in Gelieguzan overnight. At dawn on April 13, the Turks began a new approach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nThe defense was split into two groups: one (under Sepukh and Murad of Sebastia) moved towards Brlik, and another (under Hrayr) moved into the mountains. Eight companies of Turks and 4,000 Kurdish horsemen attacked Gelieguzan, and Hrayr was killed at the beginning of the battle. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting began; from the eastern side of the village, Andranik and his troops struck in the Turkish rear. The Turks retreated, sustaining (according to press reports) as many as 136 deaths; the Armenians had seven killed and eight wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nOn April 14, the Turks unsuccessfully attacked again with reinforcements; by April 16, the residents of Ishkhanadzor had retreated to Talvorik. The Turks tried to cut off their path, but with the help of local troops they broke through. On April 17, a new attack (which also repulsed) was begun. On April 20, the Turks surrounded Gelieduzan with a mass artillery bombardment and fedayeen (led by Andranik) retreated to Talvorik by night. Up to 20,000 people (the population of five evacuated villages) fled\u2014some to the mountains and others to the Mush plain\u2014and were slaughtered. Talvorik held out until May 6, falling to Turkish reinforcements. Two hundred fedayeen between \u0422\u0430lvorik and Gelieguzan resisted until May 14 before retreating. The Turkish victory was accompanied by brutality:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nWomen have been stolen, their breasts cut off, their stomachs ripped, children impaled, old men dismembered. Young girls withdrew in uncountable set\u00a0... since May 5th, Turkish armies have wiped out one village after another in Berdakh, Mkragom, Alikrpo, Avazakhiubr and Arnist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Armed conflicts\nAccording to estimates, from 3,000 to 8,000 people were killed and 45 villages destroyed. To hide traces of genocide from European observers, the W\u0101li of Bitlis gave orders to cut corpses into pieces and throw them into the Tigris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034818-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Sasun uprising, Aftermath\nThe sultan decreed that Armenians were forbidden to return to Sasun; after diplomatic protests he relented, and 6,000 Armenians returned to the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034819-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1904 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034820-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1904 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1904 college football season. Captain Gene Oliver played against Georgia with a broken jaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034821-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904, to elect the governor of the state of South Carolina. Governor Duncan Clinch Heyward faced no opposition in the Democratic primary nor the general election to win a second two-year term as governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034821-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nGovernor Duncan Clinch Heyward faced no opposition from South Carolina Democrats and avoided a primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034821-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election was held on November 8, 1904, and Duncan Clinch Heyward was reelected governor of South Carolina without opposition. Turnout increased over the previous gubernatorial election because there was also a presidential election on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034822-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles N. Herreid declined to run for re-election to a third term. Clark County State's Attorney Samuel H. Elrod won the Republican nomination to run as Herreid's successor, and he faced Democratic nominee Louis N. Crill, the former President of the State Senate, and former U.S. Congressman Freeman Knowles, the Socialist nominee. For the first time since 1894, the Democratic and Populist Parties nominated separate candidates. Ultimately, the split in the two parties did not prove dispositive; Elrod defeated Crill and the other candidates in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034822-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nIn the lead-up to the Republican convention, speculation swirled around several names: Secretary of State O. C. Berg, former Attorney General Coe I. Crawford, State Senator J. E. McDougall, Clark County State's Attorney Samuel H. Elrod, and State Representative H. P. Packard of Spink County. At the convention, however, Elrod emerged as the consensus pick and the other candidates ceased their campaigns. Nonetheless, Crawford was nominated by his supporters and the contest continued; Elrod ended up defeating Crawford, receiving 778 votes to Crawford's 226.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034822-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Democratic conventions\nAt the Democratic convention, former State Senate President Louis N. Crill was nominated by acclamation, receiving his party's nomination. This time, however, the Democratic Party did not fuse with the Populist Party, with the parties nominating separate candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034823-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1904 college football season. The season began on September 24 with conference member Sewanee hosting the Mooney School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034823-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\n1904 saw new coaches Mike Donahue at Auburn and Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt, both of which posted undefeated conference records. McGugin remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points. Both McGugin and Donahue were inaugural inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame. The SIAA forbade a postseason contest between Auburn and Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034823-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034823-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, All-Southern team\nThe composite All-Southern team compiled by John de Saulles included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 85], "content_span": [86, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034824-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Southwest Texas State football team\nThe 1904 Southwest Texas State Sootball team was an American football team that represented Southwest Texas State Normal School\u2014now known as Texas State University\u2013as an independent during the 1904 college football season. This was the inaugural season for Southwest Texas State football program. The team had no head coach and finished the season with a record of 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034825-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1904 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their only year under head coach Edwin F. Gayle, the team compiled a 2\u20130\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034826-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Sowerby by-election\nThe Sowerby by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034826-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Sowerby by-election, Vacancy\nJohn William Mellor had been Liberal MP for the seat of Sowerby since the 1892 General Election. Aged 69, he chose to retire from parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034826-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Sowerby by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Liberal since creation in 1885. They easily held the seat at the last election, with a reduced majority:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034826-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Sowerby by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 47 year-old Accrington businessman, John Sharp Higham as their candidate to defend the seat. He was Mayor of Accrington from 1899\u20131901. The local Conservative Association selected 24 year-old William Simpson-Hinchliffe as their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034827-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Spring Hill Badgers football team\nThe 1904 Spring Hill Badgers football team represented the Spring Hill Badgers of Spring Hill College during the 1904 college football season. The Fort Morgan soldier outweighed the team by twenty pounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election\nThe St Albans by-election of 1904 was a parliamentary by-election held in England in February 1904 for the House of Commons. It elected a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of St Albans, a county division of Hertfordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election\nIt was the first contested parliamentary election in St Albans since 1892. The two-way contest was dominated by the contemporary debate between free trade and tariff reform, and fought with the assistance of the major national organisations on both sides of that divide. It also reflected the wider national divide between high church Conservatism and nonconformist Liberalism. After a campaign marred by several incidents of unrest, the Liberal Party candidate narrowly won the seat from the Conservatives, who had held the seat since its creation in 1885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Vacancy\nThe vacancy was caused by the disqualification from the Commons of the sitting Conservative MP Vicary Gibbs, who had held the seat since 1892. He had been returned unopposed in 1895 and 1900, but was disqualified in February 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Vacancy\nHe and his brother Alban (an MP for the City of London) were partners in the firm Antony Gibbs & Sons, which had organised the sale to the Admiralty of two pre-dreadnought battleships built in England for the Chilean Navy, in order to avoid them being sold to a rival power when Chile did not complete the purchase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0003-0001", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Vacancy\nHe told his constituents that if the ships had passed into the hands of a rival nation, such as Russia (which had made a cash offer for them), the balance of power would have been significantly altered, and that Britain would have fallen behind in naval power relative to their rivals. The two warships, Triumph and Swiftsure, were purchased by the Royal Navy on 12 March 1903, and served through the First World War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Vacancy\nHowever, by managing the sale to the Admiralty the brothers disqualified themselves from the House of Commons, under provisions of the House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1782 (22 Geo. III, c. 45) which debarred MPs from accepting contracts from the Crown. Vicary Gibbs told his constituents on 18 January that he would resign from the Commons by taking the Chiltern Hundreds, and then present himself for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Vacancy\nHowever, since the Gibbs brothers were already disqualified, he did not need to take the usual step of disqualifying himself by taking the Chiltern Hundreds, and in letters of 1 February 1904 he and his brother both informed the Speaker of the contract. Vicary Gibbs noted that \"I am advised that by so doing I have, under an Act of George III, vacated my seat in Parliament\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Vacancy\nHis letter was read to the Commons on 2 February, and the writ was moved the following day. The polling date was set as 12 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Candidates\nBoth Gibbs and the Liberal Party prospective candidate John Bamford Slack were campaigning in the constituency before his disqualification was formalised. The Times newspaper reported on 20 January that the by-election was unlikely to be contested by the Liberals,but at a meeting on 24 January the St Albans Liberals adopted Slack as their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Candidates\nSlack was a 46-year-old solicitor, and a prominent Wesleyan Methodist. Born in Ripley, Derbyshire, he was educated at the University of London and had qualified as a solicitor in Derbyshire in 1880, where he was elected as a Liberal member of the first Derbyshire County Council. He had practised in London since 1889, becoming by 1904 a partner in the firm of Monro, Slack and Atkinson of Queen Victoria Street. He was a Liberal Party activist in the boroughs of Holborn and St Pancras. A noted temperance campaigner, he became a member of the Wesleyan Church's annual conference, President of the Local Preacher's Association, and an active member of the West London Mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives selected 50-year-old Gibbs to defend the seat which he had just vacated. The Eton-educated Gibbs was a City of London businessman, son of Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and a wealthy landowner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign\nThe dominant issue in the campaign was the debate between free trade and protectionism. The Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies were split on the issue of \"tariff reform\", a form of selective protectionism promoted by Joseph Chamberlain as Imperial Preference. Gibbs had told supporters in January that if re-elected he would support Chamberlain's proposals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign\nBy contrast, Slack had proclaimed himself from the outset as a supporter of free trade. At the meeting in St Albans on 23 January when he was selected, he described Chamberlain's policy as \"retrograde, mischievous, and ruinous for the country and the empire\", pledging himself to oppose protective tariffs, no matter what they were called. He said that the two big issues facing an incoming Liberal government were land and drink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Supporters\nSlack was assisted in his campaign by the Free Trade Union, who established an office in St Albans in late January, and organised a series of meetings. He also received the support of the Church Association, an evangelical group who had submitted a list of questions to both candidates regarding ritualism. They were satisfied with Slack's replies on all points, and unhappy with those from Gibbs, so they threw their weight behind the Liberals, claiming that they could mobilise 600 votes. Incensed by Gibbs's vote against the Church Discipline Bill in 1899, and buoyed by their success in other recent by-elections, they prepared for an \"active crusade\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Supporters\nBoth candidates were joined by notable supporters. On 3 February, Frederick Halsey addressed a meeting at St Albans in support of Gibbs, who deplored the destruction of local industries by \"unfair foreign competition\". The next day, Lewis Vernon Harcourt addressed a large Liberal demonstration in St Albans, telling the crowd that the Tariff Commission was a caucus of manufacturers and traders trying to corner supplies and swell their profits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Supporters\nThe divisions's licensed victuallers met in St Albans on 3 February under the auspices of the Hertfordshire Brewer's association. After considering responses from the two candidates to questions about compensation when licences were withdrawn, they unanimously decided to support Gibbs. The Times reported that the division's 273 licence-holders were likely to vote accordingly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Supporters\nMeanwhile, the Liberals secured the support of the Postal and Telegraph Clerks, the Workmen's National Housing Council, and the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic printers. Slack's campaign kept up a schedule of six or seven public meetings each night, with queues of carriages and motor cars leaving St Albans every night to carry speakers to other parts of the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Supporters\nBy Monday 8th, tariff reformers were reporting growing support among the artisans of St Albans. The town's principal industries were boot-making, printing, straw hats and bonnet-making, and silk, and the latter two had both been hit by foreign competition. The protectionists argued that the trade could be restored by tariffs. The Liberals responded with literature asserting that protection would increase the cost of living for working people, but sought their gains elsewhere. The agricultural labourers had traditionally voted Liberal, and were considered unlikely to change, while the heavily unionised personnel of the Great Northern Railway at Hatfield were expected to support Slack. The Liberals hoped to increase their support amongst the division's many nonconformists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Tensions and disorder\nOn Saturday 6 February, The Times reported that a \"spirit of active antagonism\" was developing between the two campaigns. Conservatives had been removed from the Liberal demonstration earlier in the week, and had retaliated by packing two Liberal meetings in St Albans on Thursday 4th. They heckled the speakers, and in one case closed Slack's meeting with a vote of support for Gibbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Tensions and disorder\nTensions continued when David Lloyd George addressed a meeting at St Albans drill hall on Saturday. His condemnations of the Conservative government were interrupted, and the hecklers expelled. Outside the hall, a crowd of those excluded from the meeting banged the doors, threw stones onto the roof, and when Slack arrived halfway through the meeting he was pelted with eggs. The meeting's chairman publicly appealed to Gibbs to restrain his supporters, but to no avail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0017-0001", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Tensions and disorder\nWhen Lloyd George left the meeting, he required a police escort to pass through the crowd, and despite the protection of stewards and bodyguards his carriage was lifted off the ground by protesters. He escaped serious injury, but left with his face and clothing splattered with eggs, and to avoid another mob which had gathered at the railway station, his train left early. The police were unable to restrain the crowds, and Slack also required bodyguards when he left the meeting. He insisted that the egg-throwers were not local people, but \"blackguards hired by a certain corrupt organisation to come down here to corrupt St Albans\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0018-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Tensions and disorder\nGibbs and his agent both wrote to Slack and his agent expressing regret for the disturbance, and promising to assist in keeping order at further Liberal meetings. The Liberal agent, Mr W. Bernthal, wrote to the local representatives of the Tariff Reform League, excusing them from any blame for the disorder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0019-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Tensions and disorder\nOn Tuesday 9 February, the St Albans City Corporation discussed the disorder. Liberal councillors condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\", and called for prosecution of the ringleaders. However, the Chief Constable advised against issuing a summons before polling day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0020-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Nominations\nThe two candidates were nominated at the town hall in St Albans on Tuesday 9 February. Gibbs received 33 nominations, signed by railway workers, straw hat makers, farmers, and others. Slack's 20 nominators included the Church Association, trade unions, and other organised bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0021-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Nominations\nThe final days of the campaign were more peaceful. On Wednesday 10 February, Gibbs spent most of the day with farmers at the weekly market in St Albans, while Slack toured some of the city's major businesses and addressed workers on the Midland Railway. In the evening, the Conservatives held a meeting of 3,000 people at the drill hall, where the principal speaker was Sir Robert Hermon-Hodge, the MP for Henley. Slack received letters of support from John Morley MP and from the Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0022-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Nominations\nOn Thursday, the final day of campaigning, both parties insisted that their canvassing returns showed them winning by a narrow margin. Gibbs visited polling stations at several towns near St Albans, and in the afternoon returned to the city to address the workers at Dangerfield's colour printing works. However, Gibbs had not replied to an enquiry from the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) as to whether he would support the Trade Disputes Bill introduced to the Commons by James Mellor Paulton on 5 February. Slack had confirmed his support for the measure, so the TUC asked electors to vote for Slack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0023-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, The campaign, Nominations\nIn an eve-of-poll telegram, Slack was told by H. H. Asquith that his victory would be a \"triumph for the cause of free trade and progress\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0024-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Result\nPolling took place on Friday 12 February. The weather was fine in the morning, but the afternoon brought heavy rain and gales. Roads were flooded in many places, and many of the motor cars which had been engaged to bring voters to polling stations were unable to make the journey. The downpour was thought by both sides to have considerably weakened the Liberal chances of success, because although a high turnout was expected, the rain made it impossible for many working class voters to travel to the poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0025-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Result\nThe result was announced from the balcony of the town hall in St Albans on Saturday 13th, by the High Sheriff. Despite the bad weather, Slack had won a narrow victory,with a majority of 132 votes (1.4% of the total). Out of the division's 11,518 registered electors, 9,423 (81.5%) had cast valid votes, with a further 41 spoilt ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0026-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Result\nThe announcement was greeted by cheering from the crowd, and speeches from the candidates, in which they thanked their supporters and the Sheriff. Gibbs said that although he had worked as hard as he could, his health had been poor. Slack also thanked his opponents for their courtesy during the campaign, and after a meeting at the St Albans Liberal Club he went to Clarence Park recreation ground to kick off for the St Albans Football Club at a match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0027-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Aftermath\nSlack did support the Trade Disputes Bill at second reading, but held the seat for less than two years, until his defeat at the general election in January 1906 by Hildred Carlile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0028-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Aftermath\nIn the landslide victory for the Liberals, the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists had a net loss of 211 seats,and St Albans was one of their few gains. Slack was knighted in 1906, and remained a prominent Liberal until his death in London in February 1909, aged 51. He remains the only Liberal MP elected for St Albans since the county constituency was created in 1885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034828-0029-0000", "contents": "1904 St Albans by-election, Aftermath\nGibbs contested Bradford Central in 1906, but never returned to Parliament. He remained prominent in Tariff Reform issues, served on the boards of many companies, and co-authored the 1911 edition of The Complete Peerage. He became a notable horticulturalist in his garden at Elstree, and in January 1932 he died at his London home, aged 78.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034829-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1904 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the American League with a record of 65 wins and 87 losses, 29 games behind the Boston Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034829-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034829-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034829-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034829-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034829-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034830-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1904 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 23rd season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 13th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 75\u201379 during the season and finished 5th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034830-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034830-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034830-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034831-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Stanford football team\nThe 1904 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1904 college football season. James F. Lanagan was in his second year as head coach of the team, which played its home games at Stanford Field in Stanford, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034831-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Stanford football team\nStanford allowed only 10 points all season\u2014in two 5\u20130 losses\u2014and did not allow a point in seven victories and one scoreless tie. The five consecutive wins at the end of the season, combined with eight consecutive wins in the 1905 season, stood as Stanford's longest winning streak for more than 100 years; it was tied by the 1939\u20131940\u20131941 teams, and broken by the 2010\u20132011 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034831-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Stanford football team\nThe Big Game against California was the first Big Game to be played at the home field of one of the teams rather than at a neutral site in San Francisco; Stanford defeated California 18\u20130 at California Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034832-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe 1904 Stetson Hatters football team represented the private Stetson College in the sport of American football during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics\nThe 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St.\u00a0Louis, Missouri, United States, from August 29 to September 3, 1904, as part of an extended sports program lasting from July 1 to November 23, 1904, located at what is now known as Francis Field on the campus of Washington University in St.\u00a0Louis. This was the first time that the Olympic Games were held outside Europe, and the first time they were held in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics\nTensions caused by the Russo\u2013Japanese War and difficulties in traveling to St.\u00a0Louis resulted in very few top-class athletes from outside the US and Canada taking part in the 1904 Games. Only 62 of the 651 athletes who competed came from outside North America, and only between 12 and 15 nations were represented in all. Some events subsequently combined the US national championship with the Olympic championship. The current three-medal format of gold, silver and bronze for first, second and third place was introduced at the 1904 Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Background\nChicago, Illinois, won the bid to host the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the organizers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis would not accept another international event in the same timeframe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Background\nThe exposition organization began to plan for its own sports activities, informing the Chicago OCOG that its own international sports events intended to eclipse the Olympic Games unless they were moved to St. Louis. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, stepped in and awarded the Games to St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, The Games, Highlights\nBoxing, dumbbells, freestyle wrestling and the decathlon made their debuts. The swimming events were held in a temporary pond near Skinker and Wydown Boulevards, where \"lifesaving demonstrations\" of unsinkable lifeboats for ocean liners took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, The Games, Highlights\nOne of the most remarkable athletes was the American gymnast George Eyser, who won six medals even though his left leg was made of wood, and Frank Kugler won four medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, The Games, Highlights\nChicago runner James Lightbody won the steeplechase and the 800\u00a0m and then set a world record in the 1500\u00a0m. Harry Hillman won both the 200\u00a0m and 400\u00a0m hurdles and also the flat 400\u00a0m. Sprinter Archie Hahn was champion in the 60\u00a0m, 100\u00a0m and 200\u00a0m. In this last race, he set an Olympic record in 21.6, a record that stood for 28 years. In the discus, after American Martin Sheridan had thrown exactly the same distance as his compatriot, Ralph Rose (39.28\u00a0m), the judges gave them both an extra throw to decide the winner. Sheridan won the decider and claimed the gold medal. Ray Ewry again won all three standing jumps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, The Games, Highlights\nThe team representing Great Britain was awarded a total of two medals, both won by Irish athletes. The top non-USA athlete was Emil Rausch of Germany, who won three swimming events. Zolt\u00e1n Halmay of Hungary and Charles Daniels of the United States each won two swimming gold medals. Galt Football Club from Canada won the gold medal in football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, The Games, Highlights\nThe organizers of the World's Fair held \"Anthropology Days\" on August 12 and 13. Since the 1889 Paris Exposition, human zoos, as a key feature of world's fairs, functioned as demonstrations of anthropological notions of race, progress, and civilization. These goals were followed also at the 1904 World's Fair. Fourteen hundred indigenous people from Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, East Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America and North America were displayed in anthropological exhibits that showed them in their natural habitats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0008-0001", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, The Games, Highlights\nAnother 1600 indigenous people displayed their culture in other areas of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (LPE), including on the fairgrounds and at the Model School, where American Indian boarding schools students demonstrated their successful assimilation. The sporting event itself took place with the participation of about 100 paid indigenous men (no women participated in Anthropology Days, though some, notably the Fort Shaw Indian School girls basketball team, did compete in other athletic events at the LPE). Contests included \"baseball throwing, shot put, running, broad jumping, weight lifting, pole climbing, and tugs-of-war before a crowd of approximately ten thousand\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0008-0002", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, The Games, Highlights\nAccording to theorist Susan Brownell, world's fairs \u2013 with their inclusion of human zoos \u2013 and the Olympics were a logical fit at this time, as they \"were both linked to an underlying cultural logic that gave them a natural affinity\". Also, one of the original intentions of Anthropology Days was to create publicity for the official Olympic events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Sports\nThe 1904 Summer Olympic program featured 16 sports encompassing 94 events in 17 disciplines. Swimming and diving are considered two disciplines of the same sport, aquatics. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Sports, New sports\nBoxing made its Olympic debut at the St. Louis Games. The sport has since featured at every Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Stockholm Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Sports, Demonstration sports\nBasketball, hurling, American football and baseball were featured as demonstration sports. Gaelic football was also an unofficial demonstration sport at the 1904 Olympics. There was a demonstration bout of women's boxing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Sports, Demonstration sports\nWater polo is also mentioned in the games reports for the 1904 Summer Olympics. At the time it was not considered to be a demonstration sport, but, as of 2020, the IOC does not include it in its records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Venues\nFive sports venues were used for the 1904 Summer Olympics. The venues included Glen Echo Country Club, the first golf course constructed west of the Mississippi River, which had opened in 1901. Three Olympic sports were hosted at Forest Park, the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition which was being held concurrently with the Olympics: the Life Saving Exhibition Lake at Forest Park was used for the diving, swimming, and water polo events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Venues\nCreve Coeur Lake became the first park of St. Louis County in 1945. The Lake has hosted rowing regattas since 1882 and still hosts them as of 2010. Francis Olympic Field and Gymnasium are still in use on the Washington University in St. Louis campus as of 2021. An ornamental gate commemorating the 1904 Games was constructed outside the stadium immediately after the Exposition. A swimming pool was added to the gymnasium in 1985. Forest Park, constructed in 1876, is still in use as of 2021 and attracts over 12 million visitors annually. Glen Echo Country Club remains in use as a golf course today as of 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Participating nations\nAthletes from twelve nations competed in St. Louis. Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of known competitors for each nation. Due to the difficulty of getting to St. Louis in 1904, and European tensions caused by the Russo-Japanese War, only 62 athletes from outside North America participated in the Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Participating nations, Disputed\nSome sources also list athletes from the following nations as having competed at these Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count\nThese are the top ten nations to win medals at the 1904 Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0018-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nThe nationalities of some medalists are disputed, as many American athletes were recent immigrants to the United States who had not yet been granted US citizenship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0019-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nIn 2009, historians from the International Society of Olympic Historians discovered that cyclist Frank Bizzoni, believed to be an American, was still an Italian citizen when he competed in 1904: he was granted US citizenship in 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0020-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nThe International Olympic Committee also considers Norwegian-American wrestlers and gold medalists Charles Ericksen and Bernhoff Hansen to have competed for the United States. However, In 2012, Norwegian historians found documentation showing that Ericksen did not receive American citizenship until March 22, 1905, and that Hansen probably never received American citizenship. The historians have therefore petitioned the IOC to have the athletes registered as Norwegians. In May 2013, it was reported that the Norwegian Olympic Committee had filed a formal application for changing the nationality of the wrestlers in the IOC's medal database; as of August 2021, no decision has yet been made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0021-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nFrancis Gailey competed in 1904 as an Australian. He immigrated to America in 1906, sailing to San Francisco in the SS Sonoma, and worked as a banker in California, living for a time in Ontario, Canada, where he married Mary Adams, and finally settled in 1918 in southern California, managing orange-grove plantations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0022-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nMulti-medalist Frank Kugler of Germany, a member of the St. Louis Southwest Turnverein team, was granted US citizenship in 1913.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0023-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nGustav Tiefenthaler was born in Switzerland, but the family moved to the United States when he was young. He represented the South Broadway AC in St. Louis. At the Olympics, Tiefenthaler wrestled one bout and lost, but earned a bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0024-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nThe IOC lists also French-American Albert Corey as an American for his marathon silver medal, but (together with four undisputed Americans) as part of a mixed team for the team race silver medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034833-0025-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics, Medal count, Notes on medalists\nThe IOC counts one gold, one silver, and two bronze medals won by the American fencer Albertson Van Zo Post for Cuba instead of the United States: the IOC also shows Charles Tatham as Cuban for individual fencing events and American for the team event, but he was an American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034834-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe 1904 Summer Olympics were held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904, as part of the St. Louis World's Fair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034834-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics medal table\nA total of 651\u00a0athletes from 12\u00a0nations participated in 94\u00a0events in 16\u00a0sports at these games. This list includes medals awarded in each of those events, excluding those awarded in the sport of water polo, which is mentioned in the games reports for the 1904 Summer Olympics but which currently is not included in the International Olympic Committee's medal database. The United States won all three medals in that competition, with a New York team taking first place, a Chicago team taking second, and a team from Missouri taking third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034834-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics medal table\nNine participating nations earned medals, in addition to two medals won by mixed teams. In the early Olympic Games, several team events were contested by athletes from multiple nations. Retroactively, the IOC created the designation \"mixed team\" (with the country code ZZX) to refer to these groups of athletes. During the 1904 games, athletes participating in mixed teams won medals in athletics and fencing. Some athletes won medals both individually and as part of a mixed team, so these medals are tabulated under different nations in the official counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034834-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe United States won 239 medals, setting a record that still stands today. The Soviet Union came closest to beating the record with 195 medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics and currently is in second place. The Soviets, however, won a record 80 gold medals, surpassing 78 golds won by the Americans in 1904. However, the United States subsequently won 83 gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics, setting another all-time record. Gold medals were awarded to event winners for the first time at the 1904 games. Prior to that, a silver medal was awarded to first-place finishers and a bronze medal to second-place finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034834-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Summer Olympics medal table, Medal table\nThis is the full table of the medal count of the 1904 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). There are sources, besides the International Olympic Committee (IOC), that display variations in the medal totals, but as the governing body of the Olympic Games, the IOC is considered the most authoritative source for the purposes of this article. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by the IOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034835-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1904 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the ninth season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte IS won the tournament by defeating Djurg\u00e5rdens IF in the final with a 2\u20131 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034836-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1904 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. The team compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 187 to 28. George H. Brooke was the head coach", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034836-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe team featured drop kicker Wilmer G. Crowell. He made a 40-yard field goal against Lehigh, and 55-yard and 48-yard field goals against Franklin & Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034837-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1904 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1904 college football season. The head coach was Charles P. Hutchins, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034838-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 TCU football team\nThe 1904 TCU football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. Le by C. E. Cronk in his first and only year as head coach, TCU compiled a record of 1\u20134\u20131. They played their home games in Waco, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season\nThe 1904 Tacoma Tigers season was the first season for the Tacoma Tigers baseball team after relocating from Sacramento, California. Playing in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCL), the Tigers compiled a 130\u201394 record and won the pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season\nThe team had been the Sacramento Senators in 1903. Mike Fisher, sometimes spelled Mique Fisher, was the team's owner and manager. In December 1903, Fisher announced he was moving the team to Tacoma, Washington. Fisher said at the time that the team was unable to make money in Sacramento.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season\nThe 1904 PCL season was divided into two parts with a plan to have the leader in the first part play the leader in the second part in a championship series. Tacoma had the best record in the first part of the season. In a controversial decision, one of Tacoma's victories over Portland was disallowed, creating a tie with the Los Angeles Angels for the second part. The Angels and Tigers then met in a championship series in the first half of December 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season\nIn the 10-game series, Tacoma won five games, Los Angeles won four games, and one game ended in a tie with the game being called due to darkness at the end of the ninth inning. Because neither team won a majority of the ten games, the decision was put to PCL's directors to award the pennant. On December 15, 1904, the directors met in San Francisco and awarded the pennant to Tacoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Pitchers\nBobby Keefe, a native of Folsom, California, played for Sacramento in 1903 and followed as the team relocated to Tacoma. He appeared in 55 games in 1908 and compiled a 34\u201315 record with a 2.40 earned run average (ERA). He went on to play for the New York Yankees in 1907 and for the Cincinnati Reds in 1911 and 1912.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Pitchers\nOrval Overall, a native of Farmersville, California, played his first season of professional baseball in 1904. He appeared in 61 games and compiled a 32\u201325 record with a 2.78 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Pitchers\nBill Thomas, a native of Florin, California, was also a member of the Sacramento club in 1903. In 1904, he appeared in 55 games for Tacoma, compiling a 27\u201324 record with a 2.87 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Pitchers\nJim St. Vrain, a Missouri native, spent a portion of the 1903 season with the Tacoma baseball team in the Pacific Northwest League. In 1904, he appeared in 38 games for Tacoma, compiling an 18\u201313 record with a 3.16 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Infielders\nThe 1904 Tacoma team was led by an infield that included shortstop Truck Eagan. Eagan, a San Francisco native, played for Sacramento from 1901 to 1903. In 1904, he led the PCL with 24 home runs, nearly double the home run count of the runner up. He also led the team, and ranked third in the PCL, with a .311 batting average in 736 at bats. He also had 49 doubles, six triples, and a .492 slugging percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Infielders\nThe Tigers received strong support from three other infielders, each with at least 200 hits as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Infielders\nTwo players shared principal responsibility at the catcher position. Charlie Graham, a Sacramento native, had played for Sacramento in 1902 and 1903. In 1904, Graham appeared in 149 games and compiled a .246 average. Wallace Hogan, a native of Santa Clara, had played for Sacramento since 1901. In 1904, Hogan appeared in 127 games with a .206 batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Outfielders\nCenter fielder Mike Lynch, a Minnesota native, had played for the Tacoma team in the Pacific Northwest League in 1901 and 1903. He briefly played for the Chicago Orphans during the 1902 season. In 1904, he appeared in 219 games for Tacoma, led the club with 51 doubles, tallied 204 hits, and compiled a .254 batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Outfielders\nLeft fielder George McLaughlin, a San Francisco native, had played for the Sacramento team since 1899. During the 1904 season, he appeared in 226 games, tallied 206 hits and six home runs, and compiled a .257 batting average and a .356 slugging percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Outfielders\nRight fielder Charles Doyle, a native of San Jose, California, had played for Sacramento since 1898. In 1904, he appeared in 181 games and had a .233 batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; SLG = Slugging percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034839-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Tacoma Tigers season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034840-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tempe Normal Owls football team\nThe 1904 Tempe Normal Owls football team was an American football team that represented Tempe Normal School (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Frederick M. Irish, the Owls compiled a 4\u20130 record, shut out all four opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 116 to 0. The team won games against the Phoenix High School (two games: 15\u20130, 30\u20130) and the Phoenix Indians (two games: 24\u20130, 47\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034841-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tennessee Docs football team\nThe 1904 Tennessee Docs football team represented University of Tennessee College of Medicine as an independent during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034842-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1904 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by its fourth new coach in six years, Sax Crawford, who coached the team for a single season. On November 24, Tennessee beat Alabama for the first time in school history. Fullback Sam McAllester wore a belt with handles, and was thrown by teammates for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034843-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Democratic nominee James B. Frazier defeated Republican nominee Jessie M. Littleton with 55.72% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034844-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tenterfield state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Tenterfield on 14 September 1904 because Charles Lee had been appointed Secretary for Public Works in the Carruthers ministry. Until 1907, members appointed to a ministerial position were required to face a by-election. These were generally uncontested. On this occasion a poll was required in Bingara (Samuel Moore), Glebe (James Hogue) and Tenterfield and all were comfortably re-elected. The four other ministers, Joseph Carruthers (St George), James Ashton (Goulburn), Broughton O'Conor (Sherbrooke) and Charles Wade (Gordon), were re-elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034844-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Tenterfield state by-election\nRobert Pyers (Progressive) was the former member for The Richmond which had been partly absorbed by Tenterfield for the August 1904 election and Pyers had been defeated by Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034845-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034846-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1904 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1904 college football season. In their second year under head coach Ralph Hutchinson, the Longhorns compiled a 6\u20132 and outscored opponents by a collective total of 219 to 88.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final\nThe 1904 Tie Cup Final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 5th. edition of the international competition organised by Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final\nArgentine Rosario A.C. beat Uruguayan side, CURCC (the first team of that country to play a final as the previous editions had been contested only by Argentine sides) at Flores Old Ground stadium by 3\u20132 after extra time, winning its second title in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nTwelve teams took part of the competition, 8 from Argentina and 4 from Uruguay, after Flores and Montevideo Wanderers desisted to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nIn quarter finals, Rosario A.C. had beaten Rosario Central 2\u20130 (E.C. Jewell, Wells) in Plaza Jewell. The club then thrashed Barracas A.C. (that had previously eliminated Alumni) 5\u20133, also in Plaza Jewell. Rosario A.C. was losing the match 2\u20133 with only 19 minutes remaining to play. Uruguayan footballers Gaudencio Pigni and brothers Carlos and Bol\u00edvar C\u00e9spedes (that had escaped from their country due to the Civil War) played for Barracas A.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nOn the other hand, CURCC had become finalist after beating Albion (4\u20130), Nacional (2\u20131) and Lomas (4\u20131) on successive stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThis final was the last relevant match played at Flores Ground, a field that could not host a large number of spectators due to its poor infrastructure. Because of that (and the cold weather) only 1,200 persons attended the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nRosario scored the first goal in the 10th minute when Le Bas shot to the CURCC's goal after a pass by Parr. In the second half, Camacho ran to the goal, being fouled by Wells when he was about to shot. Pena converted the penalty kick to goal for the 1\u20131 tie, which would be the final score within the 90 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nAn extra time of 30' had to be played to crown a champion. In the 5th minute, Wells scored the 2nd goal for Rosario. The rest of the match saw Rosario shooting to CURCC goal but their kicks were stopped by Uruguayan goalkeeper Villalba. With only 5 minutes remaining, Alberto Le Bas scored the 3rd goal for the local squad. Three minutes later, Aniceto Camacho scored the 2nd for CURCC for the definitive 3\u20132 result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034847-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThis achievement contributed to consolidate Rosario Athletic as the strongest team of Rosario, being the first team from the city to win an international competition. Nevertheless, the club would abandon the practise of football in the 1910s, focusing on rugby union and field hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034848-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1904 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 15th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034848-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThurles won the championship after receiving a walkover from Lahorna de Wets in the final. It was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034849-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Toledo Athletic Association football team\nThe 1904 Toledo Athletic Association football team was an American football team that represented the Toledo Athletic Association in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034850-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1904 Toronto Argonauts season was the club's 18th season of organized league play since its inception in 1873. The team finished in a three-way tie for first place in District 1 of the senior series of the Ontario Rugby Football Union with two wins and two losses, and lost the resulting tie-break semi-final game to the Toronto Rugby Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034850-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season\nFor the 1904 season, the ORFU senior series was configured into two three-team districts, the champions of which faced each other in a playoff to determine the league champions. By virtue of tie-break victories over the Argonauts and Peterborough, the Toronto Rugby Club were crowned District 1 champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France\nThe 1904 Tour de France was the second Tour de France, held from 2 to 24 July. With a route similar to its previous edition, 1903 Tour de France winner Maurice Garin seemed to have repeated his win by a small margin over Lucien Pothier, while Hippolyte Aucouturier won four of the six stages. But the race became a victim of its own success, plagued by scandals; cyclists were accused of having taken trains during the race. Twelve cyclists, including the first four of the final classification and all stage winners, were disqualified by the Union V\u00e9locip\u00e9dique Fran\u00e7aise (UVF). Henri Cornet, originally the fifth-place finisher, was awarded the victory four months after the race. The problems caused the Tour de France to be provisionally cancelled, and subsequently the 1905 Tour de France was run with different rules from the 1903 and 1904 editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe initial Tour de France of 1903 had been a large success, and it was quickly decided to organise it again in 1904. The route was identical, with the same six stages. The rules were the same as in 1903, with one exception: cyclists could not enter in just one stage, but had to join for the entire race. The favourites for the victory were Garin, Pothier and Aucouturier, who had performed well in the 1903 Tour de France. Among the competitors was Henri Paret who, at 50 years old, still holds the record of oldest Tour de France cyclist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nIn the 1903 Tour de France, the organisation guaranteed that the first 50 cyclists in the final general classification would earn at least 5 francs per day. In 1904, if not more than 50 cyclists would finish, also cyclists who dropped out during the race would still get 5 francs for the days they had been in the race. This rule was added to attract cyclists who otherwise would not enter, because the Tour needed enough competitors to remain credible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nIn the first stage, the riders fell after only a few kilometres. Lipman broke a finger, and became the first rider to abandon this Tour. Around 100\u00a0km in the race, Lucien Pothier lost ten minutes to the main group, led by Maurice Garin, because of a broken bicycle. In Cosne, at 174\u00a0km, Pothier had reached the leading group. Aucouturier had lost more than one hour at that point. Just before the next control post in Nevers, Aucouturier fell on his face, and continued the race covered in blood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0003-0001", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nIn the last part of the race, Maurice Garin and Lucien Pothier rode away from the others. They were attacked by four masked men in a car, but still finished as the first two, with Garin beating Pothier by 50\u00a0m. The many flat tires and crashes of Aucouturier, seemingly the results of sabotage, gave him a time loss of several hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nAfter the stage, three cyclists were punished: Aucouturier and Samson received fines of 500 and 250 francs, Aucouturier for having a cyclist not in the race following him, Samson for riding in the slipstream of a car. Chevallier, who had finished third, was disqualified for resting in a car for 45 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nDuring the stage, Ferdinand Payan had been disqualified. Some sources indicate he was helped by a motor, other that he was helped by riders not in the race. In that first stage, Garin had asked the race official Lef\u00e8vre for food, which was illegal. Lef\u00e8vre, who knew that Garin was the star of the race, broke the rules and gave him the food, because he did not want to be responsible for Garin leaving the race because of hunger. The news that Garin had received illegal help quickly spread, and caused the fanatical crowd to take action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nFor the second stage, the organisers had made the option to postpone the start by two hours, in case the mistral wind was making cycling difficult. This was not necessary, so the riders started at midnight as planned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nDuring this stage, Antoine Faur\u00e9 lead close to his hometown, and 200 fans tried to stop the rest of the cyclists from following him. Garin hurt his hand during the incident, and Giovanni Gerbi was knocked unconscious, and had to give up with broken fingers. The situation was only solved after race officials fired shots in the air. Further on, nails and broken glass had been spread along the road, which caused many flat tires. Because of this help, Faur\u00e9 was the first on top of the Col de la R\u00e9publique, but was taken over by the favourites later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0007-0001", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nAucouturier won the sprint. When the riders reached Marseille, they complained that there had been too many incidents in this stage, and the stage results should be cancelled. In the last part, they had been stopped by a large group of cyclists. Maurice Garin had been attacked, and his arm had been injured: he finished the stage steering with only one hand. There was so much confusion at the last controle post, that the exact arrival times of the cyclists were not recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nIn the third stage, the Tour reached N\u00eemes, near the home town of Payan, whose fans were angry because of his disqualification. They threw rocks at the riders, and barricaded the road. The cyclists had troubles passing through N\u00eemes, and several were injured. The most important event for the general classification was when C\u00e9sar Garin's bicycle was broken by attackers; he had to find a new bicycle, which took him 15 minutes. Further on, nails and broken glass were spread along the road. Many riders punctured, but there were no serious falls. The cyclists passed this part walking. After N\u00eemes, a leading group of five cyclists was formed: Maurice Garin, Pothier, Aucouturier, Cornet and Beaugendre. Aucouturier and Cornet escaped, and Aucouturier won, beating Cornet in the sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nThe fourth stage was run without the incidents that plagued the first three stages. Pothier, Maurice and C\u00e9sar Garin and Beaugendre reached Bordeaux together, and the stage was decided by the final kilometre in the velodrome, where Pothier recorded the fastest time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nIn the fifth stage, nails on the road again causing punctures. As mechanical assistance was not allowed, Cornet had to ride the last 40\u00a0km on two flat tires. Aucouturier won this stage, his third one, but was way behind in the general classification, which Garin lead, with only 28 seconds margin to Pothier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Race incidents\nIn the sixth stage, Aucouturier, Garin and Dortignac escaped in the last kilometres. Aucouturier signed first at the control post in Ville-d'Avray. From that point, the race was neutralised until the velodrome Parc-des-Princes, where the riders would ride the final kilometre. At the moment that the riders arrived in Paris, it started to rain. The organisers decided together with the cyclists to exclude the final kilometre from the race, and make the control post in Ville-d'Avray the end of the race. This made Aucouturier the winner of the stage. Maurice Garin finished second, which made him the overall winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Initial results before disqualifications\nInitially, Maurice Garin was declared the winner, having led the race from start to end. Hippolyte Aucouturier won four stages. In total, 27 cyclists finished. For each cyclist, the times they had needed in each stage was added up for the general classification. The cyclist with the least accumulated time after the last stage was the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Disqualification\nDuring the race, nine riders were excluded because of, among other actions, illegal use of cars or trains. The Tour organisers were happy with the result, but the Union V\u00e9locip\u00e9dique Fran\u00e7aise (UVF) started an investigation after complaints from other cyclists. Their investigative committee heard testimony from dozens of competitors and witnesses, and, in December 1904, disqualified all the stage winners and the first four finishers (Maurice Garin, Pothier, C\u00e9sar Garin, and Aucouturier). Ten of those disqualified were banned for one year, Maurice Garin for two years and the remaining two for life. In total, 29 riders were punished. The reasons for the disqualification were never made public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Disqualification\nFifth-placed Henri Cornet, aged 19, then became the youngest ever winner of the Tour. Cornet had also been warned after he had received a lift by a car. Only 15 cyclists from the original 27 that finished were not disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Disqualification\nFollowing the disqualifications, the Tour de France came nearest in history to being permanently cancelled. The race organiser Henri Desgrange, said he would never run the race again because it had been overtaken by the \"blind emotions\" of those who attacked or helped riders as they passed. Desgrange was also upset that the UVF had imposed judgement on his race when he had already disciplined riders as he saw fit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Disqualification\nAn angry exchange ensued between Desgrange and the UVF but the letters and the detailed complaints that led to the UVF's actions were lost when the Tour de France archives were transported south in 1940 to avoid the German invasion and were never seen again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Disqualification\nUntil the end of his life, Garin always said that he was the rightful winner of the 1904 Tour de France, but according to Les Woodland, Garin confessed to a friend that he had cheated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0018-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Final results\nAfter the disqualifications, the first four cyclists of the initial classification were disqualified. In the new classification, only 15 cyclists had finished:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034851-0019-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Aftermath\nBecause of the scandals associated with this Tour, Desgrange wanted to stop the race. He however changed his mind, and the rules were changed to prevent cyclists from cheating: the 1905 Tour de France would be decided with a points system. Tour de France 1904 winner Cornet would enter the Tour de France for seven more times, but would never again play an important role.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034852-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3\nThe 1904 Tour de France was the 2nd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 2 July and Stage 3 occurred on 13 July with a flat stage to Toulouse. The race finished at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 23 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034852-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 1\n2 July 1904 \u2014 Paris (Montgeron) to Lyon, 467\u00a0km (290.2\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034852-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 1\nLucien Pothier and C\u00e9sar Garin were disqualified after the Tour and Pierre Chevalier was eliminated after the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034852-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 2\n9 July 1904 \u2014 Lyon to Marseille, 374\u00a0km (232.4\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034852-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3, Stage 3\n13 July 1904 \u2014 Marseille to Toulouse, 424\u00a0km (263\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034853-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6\nThe 1904 Tour de France was the 1st edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 2 July and Stage 4 occurred on 17 July with a flat stage from Toulouse. The race finished at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 23 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034853-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6, Stage 4\n17 July 1904 \u2014 Toulouse to Bordeaux, 268\u00a0km (166.5\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034853-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6, Stage 5\n20 July 1904 \u2014 Bordeaux to Nantes, 425\u00a0km (264.1\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034853-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Tour de France, Stage 4 to Stage 6, Stage 6\n23 July 1904 \u2014 Nantes to Paris, 471\u00a0km (293\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034854-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Trinity Blue and White baseball team\nThe 1904 Trinity Blue and White baseball team represented the Trinity Blue and White baseball team of Trinity College in the 1904 college baseball season. The team was led by left-handed pitcher Arthur Bradsher's 13 wins. Chadwick led the team in batting average with .338", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034855-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1904 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034856-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Tusculum Pioneers football team\nThe 1904 Tusculum Pioneers football team represented Tusculum College during the 1904 college football season. They played two games, against Bingham and Carson\u2013Newman, and lost both. It was the fourth season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034857-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1904 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 21 August to 31 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 21 June to 25 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 24th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034857-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles\nHolcombe Ward (USA) defeated William Clothier (USA) 10\u20138, 6\u20134, 9\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034857-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nHolcombe Ward (USA) / Beals Wright (USA) defeated Kreigh Collins (USA) / Raymond Little (USA) 1\u20136, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034857-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nMay Sutton (USA) / Miriam Hall (USA) defeated Elisabeth Moore (USA) / Carrie Neely (USA) 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034857-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles\nElisabeth Moore (USA) / Wylie Grant (USA) defeated May Sutton (USA) / Trevanion Dallas (USA) 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034858-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nHolcombe Ward defeated William Clothier 10\u20138, 6\u20134, 9\u20137 in the All Comers' Final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1904 U.S. National Championships. Defending champion Laurence Doherty did not defend his title in the Challenge Round. The event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034859-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMay Sutton won the singles tennis title of the 1904 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating reigning champion Elisabeth Moore 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the challenge round. Sutton had won the right to challenge Moore by defeating Helen Homans 6\u20131, 6\u20131 in the final of the All Comers' competition. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 21 through June 25, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034860-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1904 U.S. Open was the tenth U.S. Open, held July 8\u20139 at Glen View Club in Golf, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. Defending champion Willie Anderson won the third of his four U.S. Open titles, five strokes ahead of runner-up Gilbert Nicholls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034860-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. Open (golf)\nAnderson shared the lead with Stewart Gardner at 75 on Friday morning, but a 78 in the afternoon dropped him two behind after 36 holes. In the third round on Saturday morning, Fred Mackenzie shot 74 to take a two-stroke lead over Anderson and Gardner after 54 holes. Mackenzie and Gardner fell back in the afternoon; Mackenzie's 80 took him down to third and Gardner's 85 dropped him to sixth. Anderson had 72 for the lowest round in U.S. Open history, and his 303 also established a new championship low. Nicholls posted a 73 in the final round to finish ascend the leaderboard to second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034860-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. Open (golf)\nAnderson was the first to successfully defend a U.S. Open title, and he would become the first to win three straight the following year, yet to be equaled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034860-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. Open (golf)\nFor the first time, the U.S. Open adopted a cut after 36 holes, eliminating those more than fifteen shots behind tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034860-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. Open (golf), Past champions in the field\nDid not play: Harry Vardon (1900), Willie Smith (1899), Fred Herd (1898), Joe Lloyd (1897).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034860-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nAmateurs: C. Egan (329), Hunter (331), Edwards (332), Phelps (348), Clingman (349), W. Egan (363)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034861-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1904 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in London, United Kingdom from 3 to 10 September 1904. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034862-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1904 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1904 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Harvey Holmes, compiling a 6\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034863-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1904 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034864-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections\nElections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1904 to elect members of the 59th Congress, and coincided with the election to a full term of President Theodore Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034864-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections\nRoosevelt's popularity swept many Republican house candidates into office, cementing their majority over the opposition Democratic Party. Because Roosevelt came from a liberal wing of the Republican Party, his ideology was prevalent among freshman representatives. Progressive Republicanism mobilized a new base of support and proved to be especially popular among the Protestant middle-class workers who held jobs in business or in the front offices of industrial facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034864-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections, Election summaries\nThe previous election of 1902 saw 3 Independent Republicans elected in the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034864-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections, Early election dates\nIn 1904, three states, with 8 seats among them, held elections early:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034864-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates, New Mexico Territory\nNew Mexico Territory elected its non-voting delegate November 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 97], "content_span": [98, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034865-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1904 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 8, 1904. Republicans won the three Democratic-held districts, giving California an all-Republican House delegation, which it would maintain until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034866-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nElections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for three seats in the 59th Congress were held November 8, 1904, alongside the election for President and the election for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034866-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Background\nIn 1902, all three districts were uncontested, with two incumbents being re-elected and one freshman Representative being elected to the newly created 3rd district. In 1904, the Republicans and the Socialists ran against the dominant Democrats in all three districts, without success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034866-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Election results\nRobert Wyche Davis (D) in the 2nd district did not run for re-election in 1904. He had served for four terms, first being elected in 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 82], "content_span": [83, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 8, 1904 to elect seven representatives Representatives for one two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. All five incumbents who ran were re-elected and the open seats in the 2nd congressional district and 6th congressional district were retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation thus remained solely Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Congressman George Swinton Legar\u00e9 of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1903, defeated two Republican challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Theodore G. Croft of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1904, did not seek re-election. James O'H. Patterson won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican Isaac Myers in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Wyatt Aiken of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1903, defeated I.H. McCalla in the Democratic primary and Republican John Scott in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Joseph T. Johnson of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1901, defeated Republican challenger J.D. Adams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman David E. Finley of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1899, defeated T. Yancey Williams in the Democratic primary and Republican C.P. White in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Robert B. Scarborough of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1901, opted to retire. J. Edwin Ellerbe, brother of former South Carolina Governor William Haselden Ellerbe, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican E.H. Deas in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034867-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Asbury Francis Lever of the 7th congressional district, in office since 1901, defeated Republican challenger C.C. Jacobs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034868-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States elections\nThe 1904 United States elections elected the members of the 59th United States Congress. It occurred during the Fourth Party System. Republicans maintained control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress. For the first time since the 1828 election, no third party or independent won a seat in Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034868-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States elections\nIn the Presidential election, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated Democratic judge Alton Parker from New York. Parker, a conservative Bourbon Democrat, won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot, as former President Grover Cleveland and former presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan both declined to run. Roosevelt dominated both the popular vote and the electoral college, carrying every state outside the South. Roosevelt, who succeeded William McKinley after the latter was assassinated in 1901, became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency and later win election to the presidency in his own right. The election also saw Florida hold the first presidential primary, although Florida delegates were not bound by the results of the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034868-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States elections\nRepublicans won major gains in the House, boosting their majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034868-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States elections\nIn the Senate, the Republicans picked up one seat, and maintained a commanding majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034869-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1904, in 33 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 8, 1904 (except in Arkansas, Georgia, Maine and Vermont, which held early elections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034869-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Wyoming, a special election was held following the death of Governor DeForest Richards in April 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election\nThe 1904 United States presidential election was the 30th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election\nRoosevelt took office in September 1901 following the assassination of his predecessor, William McKinley. After the February 1904 death of McKinley's ally, Senator Mark Hanna, Roosevelt faced little opposition at the 1904 Republican National Convention. The conservative Bourbon Democrat allies of former President Grover Cleveland temporarily regained control of the Democratic Party from the followers of William Jennings Bryan, and the 1904 Democratic National Convention nominated Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Parker triumphed on the second ballot of the convention, defeating newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election\nAs there was little difference between the candidates' positions, the race was largely based on their personalities; the Democrats argued the Roosevelt presidency was \"arbitrary\" and \"erratic.\" Republicans emphasized Roosevelt's success in foreign affairs and his record of firmness against monopolies. Roosevelt easily defeated Parker, sweeping every US region except the South, while Parker lost multiple states won by Bryan in 1900, as well as his home state of New York. Two third-party candidates, Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party and Silas C. Swallow of the Prohibition Party, each took over 1% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election\nRoosevelt's popular vote margin of 18.8% was the largest since James Monroe's victory in the 1820 presidential election, and would be the biggest popular vote victory in the century between 1820 and Warren Harding's 1920 landslide. With Roosevelt's landslide victory, he became the first presidential candidate in American history to receive at least 300 electoral votes in a victorious campaign in which the votes have not been disallowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination\nAs Republicans convened in Chicago on June 21\u201323, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt's nomination was assured. He had effectively maneuvered throughout 1902 and 1903 to gain control of the party to ensure it. A dump-Roosevelt movement had centered on the candidacy of conservative Senator Mark Hanna from Ohio, but Hanna's death in February 1904 had removed this obstacle. Roosevelt's nomination speech was delivered by former governor Frank S. Black of New York and seconded by Senator Albert J. Beveridge from Indiana. Roosevelt was nominated unanimously on the first ballot with 994 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination\nSince conservatives in the Republican Party denounced Theodore Roosevelt as a radical, they were allowed to choose the vice-presidential candidate. Senator Charles W. Fairbanks from Indiana was the obvious choice, since conservatives thought highly of him, yet he managed not to offend the party's more progressive elements. Roosevelt was far from pleased with the idea of Fairbanks for vice-president. He would have preferred Representative Robert R. Hitt from Illinois, but he did not consider the vice-presidential nomination worth a fight. With solid support from New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, Fairbanks was easily placed on the 1904 Republican ticket in order to appease the Old Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination\nThe Republican platform insisted on maintenance of the protective tariff, called for increased foreign trade, pledged to uphold the gold standard, favored expansion of the merchant marine, promoted a strong navy, and praised in detail Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nIn 1904, both William Jennings Bryan and former President Grover Cleveland declined to run for president. Since the two Democratic nominees of the past 20 years did not seek the presidential nomination, Alton B. Parker, a Bourbon Democrat from New York, emerged as the frontrunner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nParker was the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was respected by both Democrats and Republicans in his state. On several occasions, the Republicans paid Parker the honor of running no one against him when he ran for various political positions. Parker refused to work actively for the nomination, but did nothing to restrain his conservative supporters, among them the sachems of Tammany Hall. Former President Grover Cleveland endorsed Parker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nThe Democratic Convention that met in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 6\u20139, 1904, has been called \"one of the most exciting and sensational in the history of the Democratic Party.\" The struggle inside the Democratic Party over the nomination was to prove as contentious as the election itself. Though Parker, out of active politics for twenty years, had neither enemies nor errors to make him unavailable, a bitter battle was waged against Parker by the more liberal wing of the party in the months before the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nDespite the fact that Parker had supported Bryan in 1896 and 1900, Bryan hated him for being a Gold Democrat. Bryan wanted the weakest man nominated, one who could not take the control of the party away from him. He denounced Judge Parker as a tool of Wall Street before he was nominated and declared that no self-respecting Democrat could vote for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nInheriting Bryan's support was publisher, now congressman, William Randolph Hearst of New York. Hearst owned eight newspapers, all of them friendly to labor, vigorous in their trust-busting activities, fighting the cause of \"the people who worked for a living.\" Because of this liberalism, Hearst had the Illinois delegation pledged to him and the promise of several other states. Although Hearst's newspaper was the only major publication in the East to support William Jennings Bryan and Bimetallism in 1896, he found that his support for Bryan was not reciprocated. Instead, Bryan seconded the nomination of Francis Cockrell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nThe prospect of having Hearst for a candidate frightened conservative Democrats so much that they renewed their efforts to get Parker nominated on the first ballot. Parker received 658 votes on the first roll call, 9 short of the necessary two-thirds. Before the result could be announced, 21 more votes were transferred to Parker. As a result, Parker handily won the nomination on the first ballot with 679 votes to 181 for Hearst and the rest scattered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nAfter Parker's nomination, Bryan charged that it had been dictated by the trusts and secured by \"crooked and indefensible methods.\" Bryan also said that labor had been betrayed in the convention and could look for nothing from the Democratic Party. Indeed, Parker was one of the judges on the New York Court of Appeals who declared the eight-hour law unconstitutional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nBefore a vice-president could be nominated, Parker sprang into action when he learned that the Democratic platform pointedly omitted reference to the monetary issue. To make his position clear, Parker, after his nomination, informed the convention by letter that he supported the gold standard. The letter read, \"I regard the gold standard as firmly and irrevocably established and shall act accordingly if the action of the convention today shall be ratified by the people. As the platform is silent on the subject, my view should be made known to the convention, and if it is proved to be unsatisfactory to the majority, I request you to decline the nomination for me at once, so that another may be nominated before adjournment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nIt was the first time a candidate had made such a move. It was an act of daring that might have lost him the nomination and made him an outcast from the party he had served and believed in all his life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nFormer Senator Henry G. Davis from West Virginia was nominated for vice-president; at 80, he was the oldest major-party candidate ever nominated for national office. Davis had received the nomination because it was believed he could deliver his state for the Democrats. Davis had an honorable career in politics and was also a millionaire mine owner, railroad magnate, and banker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nParker protested against \"the rule of individual caprice,\" the presidential \"usurpation of authority,\" and the \"aggrandizement of personal power.\" But his more positive proposals were so backward-looking, such as his proposal to let state legislatures and the common law develop a remedy for the trust problem, that the New York World characterized the campaign as a struggle of \"conservative and constitutional Democracy against radical and arbitrary Republicanism.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination\nThe Democratic platform called for reduction in government expenditures and a congressional investigation of the executive departments \"already known to teem with corruption\"; condemned monopolies; pledged an end to government contracts with companies violating antitrust laws; opposed imperialism; insisted upon independence for the Philippines; and opposed the protective tariff. It favored strict enforcement of the eight-hour work day; construction of a Panama Canal; the direct election of senators; statehood for the Western territories; the extermination of polygamy; reciprocal trade agreements; cuts in the army; and enforcement of the civil service laws. It condemned the Roosevelt administration in general as \"spasmodic, erratic, sensational, spectacular, and arbitrary.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0018-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Socialist Party nomination\nThe Election of 1904 was the first election in which the Socialist Party participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0019-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Socialist Party nomination\nThe Socialist Party of America was a highly factionalized coalition of local parties based in industrial cities and usually was rooted in ethnic communities, especially German and Finnish. It also had some support in old Populist rural and mining areas in the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0020-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, Nominations, Socialist Party nomination\nProminent socialist Eugene V. Debs was nominated for president and Benjamin Hanford was nominated for vice-president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0021-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nThe campaigning done by both parties was much less vigorous than it had been in 1896 and 1900. The campaign season was pervaded by goodwill, and it went a long way toward mending the damage done by the previous class-war elections. This was due to the fact that Parker and Roosevelt, with the exception of charisma, were so similar in political outlook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0022-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nSo close were the two candidates that few differences could be detected. Both men were for the gold standard; though the Democrats were more outspokenly against imperialism, both believed in fair treatment for the Filipinos and eventual liberation; and both believed that labor unions had the same rights as individuals before the courts. The radicals in the Democratic Party denounced Parker as a conservative; the conservatives in the Republican Party denounced Theodore Roosevelt as a radical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0023-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nDuring the campaign, there were a couple of instances in which Roosevelt was seen as vulnerable. In the first place, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World carried a full page story about alleged corruption in the Bureau of Corporations. President Roosevelt admitted certain payments had been made, but denied any \"blackmail.\" Secondly, in appointing George B. Cortelyou as his campaign manager, Roosevelt had purposely used his former Secretary of Commerce and Labor. This was of importance because Cortelyou, knowing the secrets of the corporations, could extract large contributions from them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0023-0001", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nThe charge created quite a stir and in later years was proven to be sound. In 1907, it was disclosed that the insurance companies had contributed rather too heavily to the Roosevelt campaign. Only a week before the election, Roosevelt himself called E. H. Harriman, the railroad king, to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of raising funds to carry New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0024-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nInsider money, however, was spent on both candidates. Parker received financial support from the Morgan banking interests, just as Bourbon Democrat Cleveland had before him. Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston millionaire, charged that New York state Senator Patrick Henry McCarren, a prominent Parker backer, was on the payroll of Standard Oil at the rate of twenty thousand dollars a year. Lawson offered Senator McCarren $100,000 (equivalent to $2.9 million today) if he would disprove the charge. According to one account, \"No denial of the charge was ever made by the Senator.\" One paper even referred to McCarren as \"the Standard Oil serpent of Brooklyn politics.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0025-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nTheodore Roosevelt won a landslide victory, taking every Northern and Western state. He was the first Republican to carry the state of Missouri since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868. In voting Republican, Missouri repositioned itself from being associated with the Solid South to being seen as a bellwether swing state throughout the 20th century. The vote in Maryland was extremely close. For the first time in that state's history, secret paper ballots, supplied at public expense, and without political symbols of any kind, were issued to each voter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0025-0001", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nCandidates for Electors were listed under the presidential and vice presidential candidates for each party; there were four parties recognized in the election: Democratic, Republican, Prohibition, and Socialist. Voters were free to mark their ballots for up to eight candidates of any party. While Roosevelt's victory nationally was quickly determined, the election in Maryland remained in doubt for several weeks. On November 30, Roosevelt was declared the statewide victor by just 51 votes. However, as voters had voted for individual presidential electors, only one Republican elector, Charles Bonaparte, survived the tally. The other seven top vote recipients were Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0026-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nRoosevelt won the election by more than 2.5 million popular votes, making him the first president to win a primarily two-man race by more than a million votes (Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, received >1,000,000 more votes than the second-place finisher in the popular vote, but this was only because the democrats were split into 3 factions). Roosevelt won 56.4% of the popular vote; that, along with his popular vote margin of 18.8%, was the largest recorded between James Monroe's uncontested re-election in 1820 and the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920. Of the 2,754 counties making returns, Roosevelt carried 1,611 (58.50%) and won a majority of votes in 1,538; he and Parker were tied in one county (0.04%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0027-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nThomas Watson, the Populist candidate, received 117,183 votes and won nine counties (0.33%) in his home state of Georgia. He had a majority in five of the counties, and his vote total was double the Populist's showing in 1900 but less than one eighth of the party's total in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0028-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nParker carried 1,133 counties (41.14%) and won a majority in 1,057. The distribution of the vote by counties reveals him to have been a weaker candidate than William Jennings Bryan, the party's nominee four years earlier, in every section of the nation, except for the deep South, where Democratic dominance remained strong, due in large part to pervasive disfranchisement of blacks. In 17 states, the Parker\u2013Davis ticket failed to carry a single county, and outside the South carried only 84.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0029-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nThis was the last election in which the Republicans won Colorado, Nebraska, and Nevada until 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0030-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Geography of results\nResults by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034870-0031-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election, General election, Close states\nMargin of victory between 5% and 10% (3 electoral votes):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034871-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Alabama\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034871-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Alabama\nAlabama was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034872-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034872-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nArkansas was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034873-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in California\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in California took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034873-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in California\nCalifornia voted for the Republican incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt, in a landslide over the Democratic challenger, New York judge Alton B. Parker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034874-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Colorado\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034874-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Colorado\nColorado was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034874-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Colorado\nRoosevelt's victory in Colorado was part of a national landslide. He was the only Republican candidate to win the state between 1888 and 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034875-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034875-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nConnecticut overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Connecticut by a margin of 19.97%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034876-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Delaware\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034876-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Delaware\nDelaware was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034877-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Florida\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 8, 1904. Voter chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034877-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Florida, Background\nWith the disenfranchisement of African-Americans by a poll tax in 1889, Florida become a one-party Democratic state, which it was to remain until the 1950s, apart from the anti-Catholic vote against Al Smith in 1928. Unlike southern states extending into the Appalachian Mountains or Ozarks, or Texas with its German settlements in the Edwards Plateau, Florida completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034877-0001-0001", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Florida, Background\nThus Florida's Republican Party between 1872 and 1888 was entirely dependent upon black votes, a fact graphically seen when one considers that \u2013 although very few blacks in Florida had ever voted within the previous fifty-five years \u2013 at the time of the landmark court case of Smith v. Allwright, half of Florida's registered Republicans were still black. Thus disfranchisement of blacks and poor whites left Florida as devoid of Republican adherents as Louisiana, Mississippi or South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034877-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Florida, Background\nNevertheless, Florida's one-party Democratic rule was to be marginally interrupted in the 1900s by considerable Socialist and Populist growth, centred in Tampa and Jacksonville, and southern Lee County with its \"Koreshan Unity\" sect Immigrants and farmers fearing loss of tenure were able to give Eugene Debs, in the second of his five Presidential runs, over ten percent of the vote in several counties of South Florida, and Populist Thomas E. Watson substantial votes in many pineywoods counties. However, this did not threaten the Democrats' monopoly on statewide power except in Calhoun County which Democratic nominee Alton Parker held by just two votes and William Jennings Bryan was to lose in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034878-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Georgia\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the wider United States Presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034878-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nFollowing Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen, doing so in the early 1870s. This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment \u2013 chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns. The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034878-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background\nHowever, politics after the first demobilization by a cumulative poll tax was chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly the Populist Party, gained support amongst poor whites and the remaining black voters in opposition to the planter elite. The fact that Georgia had already substantially reduced its poor white and black electorate two decades ago, alongside pressure from urban elites in Atlanta, and the decline of isolationism due to the success of the Spanish\u2013American War, meant the Populist movement substantially faded in the late 1890s. However, Populism would revive in 1904 when it became clear a conservative would be nominated by the Democratic Party, whilst Watson did not find it difficult to get a somewhat demoralized party\u2019s nomination over William V. Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034878-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Georgia, Vote\nWatson would campaign in the state in August, but as Georgia had not voted Republican even during Reconstruction neither major party candidate visited the state. Watson would collapse from his campaigning at the end of September, No polls were taken until October 29, by which time the state was naturally viewed as certain for Parker. Parker would eventually win Georgia with over five-eighths of the vote, although he declined by about three percent from William Jennings Bryan\u2019s performance four years previously. Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and Watson ran a very close race for second, with the President edging the Populist for this position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 57], "content_span": [58, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034879-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Idaho\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034879-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Idaho\nAlthough the Republican Party had not carried Idaho in any of the state\u2019s three previous presidential elections, at state level the Gem State had begun in 1902 to be very much a one-party Republican state, which it has largely remained since apart from the New Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s. Moreover, Democratic nominee Alton Brooks Parker\u2019s defense of the Gold Standard, which harked back to Grover Cleveland, aroused no enthusiasm in Idaho. Nor did his opposition to Roosevelt\u2019s policy of imperialism in the Pacific, whilst Roosevelt\u2019s strong efforts to regulate big businesses were extremely popular in the remote Northwest. Parker was also affected by the perception that the Bryan Democrats had failed severely as a party of reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034879-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Idaho\nAs a result, Roosevelt was able to achieve the first-ever Republican victory in Idaho by an overwhelming margin \u2013 40.38 percentage points \u2013 in the process emulating William Jennings Bryan\u2019s 1896 sweep of all Idaho\u2019s counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034880-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Illinois\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 27 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034880-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Illinois\nIllinois was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034881-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Indiana\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 15 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034881-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Indiana\nIndiana was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034882-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Iowa\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034882-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Iowa\nIowa was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034883-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Kansas\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Kansas voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034883-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Kansas\nKansas was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034884-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Kentucky\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034884-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nEver since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones, although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP had carried the state only once \u2013 by a very marrow margin in 1896 when northern parts of the state were affected by hostility towards William Jennings Bryan, and state native John M. Palmer drew votes from the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034884-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Kentucky, Background and vote\nKentucky was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. Despite Parker losing nationally in a landslide, he marginally improved on Bryan\u2019s win from 1900, although doing less well than predicted a week beforehand, when polls suggested Parker would win by 22 thousand votes or twice his actual plurality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 73], "content_span": [74, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034885-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034885-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nLouisiana was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034886-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Maine\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034886-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Maine\nMaine overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Maine by a margin of 38.95%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034887-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Maryland\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034887-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Maryland\nThe winner in Maryland depended on the votes, supposedly due to the \u201cWilson Law\u201d designed to make it easier for Democrats to cast ballots for both Presidential electors and Congress by a simple turning down of a single fold in the ballot paper. Seven electoral votes were won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia, while the Republican nominees, President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, won the popular vote and one electoral vote. Roosevelt\u2019s popular vote margin is the second-closest presidential election margin by number of votes on record, behind Henry Clay's four-vote 1832 win, also in Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034888-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034888-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMassachusetts voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 20.68%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034889-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Michigan\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034889-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nFollowing the Panic of 1893 and the Populist movement, Michigan would turn from a competitive Republican-leaning state into a rigidly one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party. The dominance of the culture of the Lower Peninsula by anti-slavery Yankees would be augmented by the turn of formerly Democratic-leaning German Catholics away from that party as a result of the remodelled party\u2019s agrarian and free silver sympathies, which became rigidly opposed by both the upper class and workers who followed them. A brief turn of the strongly evangelical Cabinet Counties toward the Populist movement in the 1896 United States presidential election would reverse itself following the return to prosperity under President William McKinley, so that these joined in Republican hegemony until the Great Depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 882]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034889-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Michigan, Background\nIn the 1894 elections, the Democratic Party lost all but one seat in the Michigan legislature, and the party would only make minor gains there for the next third of a century. Unlike the other states of the Upper Midwest, the Yankee influence on the culture of the Lower Peninsula was so strong that left-wing third parties did not provide significant opposition to the Republicans, nor was there more than a moderate degree of coordinated factionalism within the hegemonic Michigan Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034889-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nAlthough Michigan\u2019s few Democrats had cast their vote for eventual nominee Alton Brooks Parker, they ultimately did nothing to campaign for him during his fall campaign, as polls consistently showed that Michigan would vote overwhelmingly Republican. Incumbent Republican Theodore Roosevelt did briefly visit the state during his campaign, but did no extensive work because the state was believed so safe. Predictions of a Roosevelt margin of 200,000 were conservative as in the end he defeated Parker by over 227,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034889-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Michigan, Vote\nRoosevelt carried all 83 of Michigan\u2019s counties, and furthermore carried them all by double digits; his lowest vote share in any county was 56.95%, in Monroe County. Parker broke forty percent only in Monroe County and thirty percent in just fourteen counties. In most of the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula, Roosevelt carried over eighty percent of the vote, and in two counties even exceeded ninety percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 58], "content_span": [59, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034890-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Minnesota voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034890-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nMinnesota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. The ticket won the state by a margin of 55.14%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034890-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nRoosevelt carried all of Minnesota's counties, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to do so. No Republican would sweep all of the state's counties again until Warren G. Harding in 1920. In addition, with 73.98% of the popular vote, Minnesota would be Roosevelt's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont and North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034891-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034891-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nMississippi was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034892-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Missouri\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 8, 1904. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034892-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Missouri\nMissouri voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won the state by a narrow margin of 3.91%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034892-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Missouri\nWith his victory, Roosevelt became the third Republican presidential candidate to win Missouri, but the first one since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868. In voting for the GOP, Missouri repositioned itself from being associated with the Solid South to being seen as a bellwether swing state throughout the twentieth century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034893-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Montana\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034893-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Montana\nMontana overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Montana by a landslide margin of 20.42%. It was the first time Montana was won by a Republican candidate since it was won by Benjamin Harrison in 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034894-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034894-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nNebraska was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 37.94 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034895-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Nevada\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034895-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Nevada\nNevada was won by the Republican ticket of incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt (NY) and Senator Charles W. Fairbanks (IN) by a margin of 23.79%, roughly mirroring the results of the national popular vote. After the state had voted overwhelmingly for James B. Weaver and William Jennings Bryan during the three previous elections, Roosevelt claimed the state for the Republican Party for the only time between 1888 and 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034895-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Nevada\nRoosevelt won every county in the state, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to do so; this has since only been repeated by Richard Nixon in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1984, and George H.W. Bush in 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034895-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Nevada\nFollowing this election, Nevada would eventually become a bellwether that has reflected the result in 26 of the 29 presidential elections since (the exceptions were in 1908, 1976 and 2016).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034896-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034896-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nNew Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 22.28%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034897-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. New Jersey voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034897-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nNew Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate incumbent Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia Also in the running was the Socialist Party candidate, Eugene V. Debs, who ran with Ben Hanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034897-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nRoosevelt carried New Jersey with 56.68% of the vote to Parker's 38.05%, a victory margin of 18.63%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034897-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nLike much of the Northeast, New Jersey in the early decades of the 20th century was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1892. While winning a landslide victory nationwide, Roosevelt easily held New Jersey in the Republican column in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034897-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nOn the county level map, Roosevelt carried 17 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in 7 counties. Parker's most significant win was urban Hudson County, which he won along with the 3 rural counties in western North Jersey, Warren, Sussex, and Hunterdon, which had long been non-Yankee Democratic enclaves in the otherwise Republican Northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034897-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nAmidst Roosevelt's nationwide landslide, New Jersey's election result in 1904 made the state less than 1% more Democratic than the national average. Roosevelt's victory in New Jersey was underwhelming in part because of Alton Parker's popularity in the New York City area, his victory in New York City spilling over to allow him to win heavily populated urban Hudson County, New Jersey just across the Hudson River, which is part of the New York City metro area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034898-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New York\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 39 electors to the Electoral College, who selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034898-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New York\nNew York was the home state of both major party nominees, Republican nominee, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt and Democratic nominee, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. The Empire State was won by Roosevelt and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, defeating Parker and his running mate Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. Also in the running was the Socialist Party candidate, Eugene V. Debs, who ran with Ben Hanford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034898-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New York\nRoosevelt carried New York with 53.13% of the vote to Parker\u2019s 42.28%, a victory margin of 10.85%. Debs finished a distant third, receiving 2.28% of the vote in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034898-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in New York\nWhile New York would continue its Republican dominance of the Fourth Party System, with the Empire State being the home state of both major party candidates in 1904, the state\u2019s results were relatively close despite Roosevelt\u2019s nationwide landslide. The state was about 8 points more Democratic than the national average primarily due to Alton Parker\u2019s popularity in the New York City area, with Parker winning majorities in Manhattan, The Bronx, and Queens, and winning a plurality on Staten Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034899-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034899-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nFollowing the overthrow of its Populist/Republican fusion government by white Democrats in the 1898 Wilmington coup d\u2018etat, North Carolina would see a radical restructuring of its politics due to the disenfranchisement of its large African-American population. These African-American voters had provided a substantial proportion of Republican Party support ever since that party first appeared in the state following Reconstruction. However, unlike the Deep South, even without black voting the Republican Party retained substantial support from whites in the mountain and northwestern Piedmont areas that had resisted secession and viewed the Democratic Party as a \u201cwar party\u201d. This would allow the GOP, without threatening statewide Democratic hegemony, to gain one-third of the statewide vote in general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034899-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nThis radically altered Republican Party would turn almost overnight towards a \u201clily-white\u201d strategy based on attempting to appeal to businessmen who found the Democratic Party too anti-business and too favourable to using low-cost black labor instead of whites. The GOP had to some extent followed this strategy in the years before black disenfranchisement because it wanted to appeal to the state\u2019s budding industrialists, who were critical of Democratic policies favoring free trade over high tariffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034899-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nAlthough this strategy had allowed William McKinley to retain almost the same share of North Carolina\u2019s reduced electorate in 1900 that he had won with large-scale black voting in 1896, Republican nominee Theodore Roosevelt would decline substantially in 1904, due to a shift to a more pro-business Democratic candidate and opposition to Roosevelt\u2019s hosting of Booker T. Washington. The Republicans were reduced to their traditionally Unionist mountain strongholds, with the exception of former Populist Senator Marion Butler's home county of Sampson, which persisted in its newfound Republican orientation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034899-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote\nNorth Carolina was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034900-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034900-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nNorth Dakota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. The ticket won the state by a margin of 54.73%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034900-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nWith 75.12% of the popular vote, North Dakota was Roosevelt's second strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034901-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Ohio\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034901-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Ohio\nOhio was decisively won the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, with 59.75% of the popular vote. The Democratic Party candidate, Alton B. Parker, garnered a meager 34.32% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034902-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Oregon\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034902-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Oregon\nThis election would solidify Oregon as a one-party Republican bastion, which it would remain at a Presidential level apart from the 1910s GOP split until Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to power in 1932, and apart from a very short New Deal interlude at state level until the \u201cRevolution of 1954\u201d. Democratic representation in the Oregon legislature would never exceed fifteen percent during this period, and no Democrat other than Woodrow Wilson would henceforth carry even one county in the state before the Great Depression. Republican primaries would become the chief mode of competition: indeed Oregon became in this election year the first Western state to utilize the direct primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034902-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Oregon\nPresident Roosevelt was extremely popular in Oregon because of his policies of reforming the railroads, creating a Department of Commerce and Labor and conserving the forest resources that were at the time heavily exploited by big business. Parker's re-emphasis on the Gold Standard, which harked back to Grover Cleveland, aroused no enthusiasm in Oregon. Nor did his opposition to Roosevelt's policy of imperialism in the Pacific, with the result that Parker's showing was the worst-ever by any major-party nominee in Oregon except for his mentor Cleveland twelve years previously. At the same time, Roosevelt's performance remains the best ever by any Presidential candidate since Oregon's statehood in 1859. Parker did not win thirty percent in a single county, and overall took just a little over nineteen percent of Oregon's ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034902-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Oregon\nSocialist nominee Eugene V. Debs, whose campaign focused on trust-busting and the evils of monopoly, traveled all around the nation in a charismatic campaign that netted him over four hundred thousand votes nationwide. Although he did not outpoll Parker in any Oregon county, Debs nonetheless received over eight percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034903-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 34 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034903-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nPennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 40.67%. His record is the best presidential performance in Pennsylvania election history, and Parker carried just 6 rural counties largely populated either by Pennsylvania German voters historically opposed to the Civil War and to the pietism of the Republican Party, or by Appalachian mountaineers sympathetic to the South in that war. Roosevelt was the first ever Republican victor in the historically Democratic counties of Northampton and Sullivan in the anti-Yankee northeast and German Lutheran York in the Appalachian south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034904-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034904-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nRhode Island overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Rhode Island by a margin of 24.42%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034905-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 8, 1904. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034905-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nSouth Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker, over the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt. Parker won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 90.74%, due to the nearly complete disfranchisement of the black majority that was the Republican Party's sole support in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034906-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034906-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nSouth Dakota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. The ticket won the state by a margin of 49.42%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034906-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nWith 71.09% of the popular vote, South Dakota would be Roosevelt's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, North Dakota and Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034907-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034907-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote\nFor over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee was divided according to political loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and Wayne voted Republican \u2013 generally by landslide margins \u2013 as they saw the Democratic Party as the \u201cwar party\u201d who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034907-0001-0001", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote\nContrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state\u2019s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction. After the disfranchisement of the state\u2019s African-American population by a poll tax was largely complete in the 1890s, the Democratic Party was certain of winning statewide elections if united, although unlike the Deep South Republicans would almost always gain thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034907-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote\nAlthough the GOP had lost by only single figures in the previous two elections, the shift to a more conservative Democratic candidate and opposition to Roosevelt\u2019s hosting of Booker T. Washington meant that the state swung slightly \u2013 though significantly given the extremely deep partisan loyalties \u2013 against the GOP to Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034908-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Texas\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Texas voters chose 18 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034908-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Texas\nTexas was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. As of the 2020 election, this was the last election which Duval County voted for the Republican candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034909-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Utah\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 8, 1904, throughout all forty-five contemporary states as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034909-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nIn its first presidential election during its statehood year, Utah \u2013 with its large reserves of silver \u2013 had voted five-to-one for Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan, who ran on a platform of monetizing silver. However, with a revived economy, Utah moved much closer to the national mainstream in the ensuring 1900 election, as pre-statehood Republican Party hostility to the dominant LDS church gradually disappeared after the outlawing of polygyny in 1890.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034909-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nIn between Utah\u2019s second and third presidential elections, newly elected but unseated senator and Mormon apostle Reed Smoot went much further towards reversing the nineteenth-century hostility of the Republican Party to the Latter Day Saints. At a time when most traditional Protestant congressmen were opposed to Smoot being seated because religious influence was feared, Mormon prophet and LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith said explicitly that members of the LDS Church should in political matters obey their consciences. Smoot \u2013 although a Republican \u2013 had been targeted by both major parties in the two years between his election by the Utah Legislature in 1902 and the 1904 presidential campaign, but he corresponded consistently with incumbent president Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034909-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nSmoot\u2019s work was one factor allowing Roosevelt to sweep twenty-six of Utah\u2019s twenty-seven contemporary counties and carry the state by 28.55 percentage points, which even in the largest landslide since the beginning of widespread popular voting for presidential electors made Utah 9.73 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large. Another was that Parker himself was hostile to Mormon polygyny, still another was the popularity in the West of Roosevelt\u2019s conservation and trust-busting policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034909-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background\nRoosevelt\u2019s percentage of the popular vote and margin would be bettered by no Republican in Utah until Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s re-election in 1956.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034910-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Vermont\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034910-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Vermont\nVermont overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Vermont by a landslide margin of 59.13%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034910-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Vermont\nWith 77.97% of the popular vote, Vermont would be Roosevelt's strongest victory in terms of percentage of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034911-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Virginia\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034911-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Virginia\nVirginia voted for the Democratic candidate, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker over the Republican candidate, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt. Parker won the state by a margin of 24.90%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034912-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034912-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nThis election would solidify the State of Washington as a one-party Republican bastion, which it would remain at a Presidential level apart from the 1910s GOP split until Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to power in 1932, and more or less continuously at state level during this era. Democratic representation in the Washington legislature would during this period at times be countable on one hand, and no Democrat other than Woodrow Wilson in 1916 would henceforth carry even one county in the state before Catholic Al Smith carried German-settled Ferry County in 1928. Republican primaries would take over as the chief mode of political competition when introduced later in the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034912-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nPresident Roosevelt was extremely popular in Washington State because of his policies of reforming the railroads, creating a Department of Commerce and Labor and conserving the forest resources that were at the time heavily exploited by big business. Parker's re-emphasis on the Gold Standard, which harked back to Grover Cleveland, aroused no enthusiasm in Washington State. Nor did Parker's opposition to Roosevelt's policy of imperialism in the Pacific, with the result that Roosevelt's performance remains the best ever by any Presidential candidate since Washington's statehood in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034912-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nParker did not win one third of the vote in a single county, and overall took just a little over nineteen percent of Washington State's ballots. In fact, with 69.95% of the popular vote, Washington would be Roosevelt's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034912-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nSocialist nominee Eugene V. Debs, whose campaign focused on trust-busting and the evils of monopoly, travelled all around the nation in a charismatic campaign that netted him over four hundred thousand votes nationwide and almost nine percent in radical Washington State. In two counties Debs indeed outpolled Parker \u2013 a fate that would befall several other Democratic nominees in the state during the next two decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034913-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034913-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nWest Virginia was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Despite the 13 point victory in the state, it was 5% more Democratic than the national average, making the state close by comparison to the national standard of margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034914-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034914-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote\nWisconsin during the Third Party System was a Republican-leaning but competitive state whereby historically anti-Civil War German Catholic counties stood opposed to highly pro-war and firmly Republican Yankee areas. However, following the Populist movement, whose inflationary monetary policies were opposed by almost all urban classes and viewed as dangerously radical by rural German Catholics, Wisconsin\u2019s upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled from William Jennings Bryan\u2019s agrarian and free silver sympathies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034914-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote\nWisconsin would henceforth become almost a one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party. The Democratic Party became entirely uncompetitive outside the previously anti-Yankee areas adjoining Lake Michigan in the eastern part of the state. As Democratic strength weakened severely after 1894 \u2013 although the state did develop a strong Socialist Party to provide opposition to the GOP \u2013 Wisconsin developed the direct Republican primary in 1903 and this ultimately created competition between the \u201cLeague\u201d under Robert M. La Follette, and the conservative \u201cRegular\u201d faction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034914-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote\nNeither Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt nor Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker would campaign in Wisconsin, as the state had been amongst the most Republican in the nation in the presidential elections in both 1896 and 1900. No official polls were taken in the state, but Frederick W. Cotzhausen, a lifelong Milwaukee Democrat, said during October that the state would vote strongly for Roosevelt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034914-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote\nWisconsin would vote powerfully for Roosevelt, who defeated Parker more than two-to-one, and beat William McKinley\u2019s 1896 performance by almost four percent. Roosevelt was the first Republican to carry Calumet County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 74], "content_span": [75, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034915-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nThe 1904 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034915-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nWyoming was won by the Secretary of War Theodore Roosevelt (R\u2013New York), running with the 26th Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, with 66.72 percent of the popular vote, against Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton Parker (D\u2013New York), running with Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, with 29.08 percent of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team\nThe 1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team represented the University of Florida in Lake City in the sport of American football during the 1904 college football season. This was neither the modern University of Florida nor the modern Florida Gators, but a team fielded by one of its four predecessor institutions that had been known as Florida Agricultural College until 1903. The were led by player-coach Marvin O. Bridges, whose brothers also played on the squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team\nIn an attempt to grow the previously semi-organized football program and make it more competitive with established programs across the south, the Blue and White scheduled the most challenging slate of opponents of any Florida school up to that time. The squad struggled as a result, going winless and failing to score a single point in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team\nThe difficult 1904 season would be the final campaign for the program, as the University of Florida in Lake City ceased to exist after the 1904-1905 school term. The Florida legislature consolidated the school with three other state-supported institutions per the Buckman Act of 1905 to establish the modern University of Florida in Gainesville. When the new university first fielded a football team in 1906, no players or coaches from the 1904 Blue and White were associated with the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Before the season\nVarious public and private colleges in Florida had organized football teams before 1904, but the programs were informal, and schedules usually consisted of a few games played against in-state colleges and local athletic clubs in venues that were little more than open fields. The University of Florida at Lake City sought to jump-start its football program by playing the most ambitious schedule of any Florida school to date. The \"Blue and White\" had never faced off against an out of state opponent, but they assembled a 1904 slate which featured road games against several established southern football programs, including Mike Donahue's first Auburn squad and John Heisman's first team at Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 74], "content_span": [75, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1904 Schedule\nThe entire schedule was played in October. To reduce travel costs, the team played four road games during a two and a half week train trek through Alabama and Georgia. They returned to Lake City in mid-October and concluded the season with their lone home game, a match-up with in-state rival Florida State College on October 21. The slate proved too ambitious for the fledgling program, as the squad went winless and did not score a single point over the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nThe season opened with a 29\u20130 loss to Alabama. Touchdowns were scored by William LaFayette Ward (2), Chamberlain, Auxford Burks and Frank Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nThe starting lineup was: Weller (left end), Buck (left tackle), T. Cason (left guard), Keene (center), Bratton (right guard), T. McGuire (right tackle), B. H. Bridges (right end), McDonnell (quarterback), R. Cason (left halfback), B. T. Bridges (right halfback), C. McGuire (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 80], "content_span": [81, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe October 4, 1904 game against the University of Florida was considered a practice game by Auburn and is not included in the Tiger's official record of 5\u20130 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 79], "content_span": [80, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Florida-Georgia dispute\nThe Florida team next traveled to Macon, Georgia to face the Georgia Bulldogs and lost 52-0. The University of Georgia still counts this game as a win against the Florida Gators even though the modern University of Florida did not yet exist, adding another layer of intrigue to the Florida\u2013Georgia football rivalry. UGA sports historian Dan Magill sums up Georgia's attitude: \"That's where Florida was back then. We can't help it if they got run out of Lake City.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 96], "content_span": [97, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech\nOnly a single first down was scored on Tech, a 77\u20130 loss. The starting lineup was: Zealius (left end), Bratton (left tackle), T. McGuire (left guard), Keene (center), O'Berry (right guard), Rowlett (right tackle), R. Woller (right end), R. Cason (quarterback), Clarke (left halfback), Bridges (right halfback), C. McGuire (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 85], "content_span": [86, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Florida State College\nThe Blue and White had reason for optimism coming into their last game of the season against the Florida State College Eleven (FSC). They were finally playing a home game, they had beaten FSC in Lake City in 1902, and FSC had been beaten soundly by Georgia Tech in the only game they'd played of their 1904 slate. This was not first meeting between FSC's player-coach Jack Forsythe and Marvin Bridges, his counterpart for the Blue and White; Forsythe was a player on the Clemson Tigers team that tied Bridges' Cumberland Bulldogs in a 1903 battle which was dubbed the SIAA championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 94], "content_span": [95, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Florida State College\nTheir 1904 match-up was not nearly as close; the Blue and White were shut out again and lost 23-0. As a newspaper account reported, \"The people of Lake City had expected at least one victory after a long series of defeats encountered by the university and were greatly disappointed. The university should be made stronger before it attempts to play again.\" FSC would go on to beat Stetson and lay claim to a \"state championship\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 94], "content_span": [95, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1905 season\n1905 was a year of transition. The Florida legislature had completely reorganized the state's system of higher education with the passage of the Buckman Act. The University of Florida in Lake City was consolidated with three other state colleges (including Florida State College) to form the new \"University of the State of Florida\", a school for men in Gainesville, while the campus of Florida State College in Tallahassee was transformed into a school for women. Construction began immediately on a new campus in Gainesville, but it would not be ready until the fall of 1906, so classes were offered at the existing Lake City campus during the 1905\u201306 academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 68], "content_span": [69, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1905 season\nThe hybrid University of Florida in Lake City attempted to field a football team in the fall of 1905 but was unsuccessful. Five contests against small colleges in Florida and Georgia were scheduled, but four were cancelled because too many players were deemed to be \"behind in their studies\" by university president Andrew Sledd, who sought to increase the academic rigor of the new institution. The last game of the 1905 season against the Julian London Institute kicked off in Jacksonville but was never completed. Florida's squad refused to take the field for the second half after discovering that the opposing team included a professional player, and the game was suspended with Florida leading 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 68], "content_span": [69, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034916-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1905 season\nThe University of the State of Florida completed its move to Gainesville for the 1906\u201307 academic year. When the school finally completed its first football game on October 13, 1906, their coach was former FSC head coach Jack Forsythe, and no player who had played a game for the Lake City Blue and White was on the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 68], "content_span": [69, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034917-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 University of New Mexico football team\nThe 1904 University of New Mexico football team was an American football team that represented the University of Dayton as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Walter McEwan, the team compiled a 1\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034918-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Utah football team\nThe 1904 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its first season under head coach Joe Maddock, the team compiled a 7\u20131 record, shut out six of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 301 to 38. Quarterback Jimmy Wade was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034918-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Utah football team\nThe team shut out three opponents in eight days in three cities: on October 29 at Denver (12\u20130); on October 31 at Wyoming (23\u20130); and on November 5 at home against the soldiers from Fort Douglas (107\u20135). The team's 107 points against Fort Douglas was a school record at the time and remains the second-highest point total in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034918-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Utah football team\nOn November 19, 1904, Fred Bennion kicked a 55-yard field goal that was a school record until 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034918-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 University of Utah football team\nCoach Maddock had been a star tackle on Michigan's 1902 and 1903 Point-a-Minute teams. Maddock was hired in February 1904 by University of Utah president Kingsbury upon the recommendation of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost. Maddock was promised \"complete control\" of the Utah football team after graduating from Michigan in June. Maddock arrived in Salt Lake City to begin his coaching responsibilities on September 10, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034919-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their third season under head coach George P. Campbell, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20138 record and were outscored by opponents by a total of 253 to 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034919-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe season featured a three-week trip to the west coast during which the Aggies played and lost five road games against Washington (0\u201345), Oregon Agricultural (0\u201345), Multnomah Athletic Club (0-29), Stanford (0-57), and Nevada (5-24). Prior to 1904, the Aggies had never played a game outside the state of Utah and had never played more than six games in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034919-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nFullback Roy Egbert was one of the bright spots in the Aggies' 1904 season. At the end of the season, he was chosen by his teammates to be captain of the 1905 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034920-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Utah gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee John Christopher Cutler defeated Democratic nominee James Moyle with 49.97% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season\nThe 1904 Victorian Football Association season was the 28th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club in controversial circumstances, after minor premiers Richmond forfeited the challenge final in protest at the appointment of umpire. It was North Melbourne's second premiership in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season\nThe home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nThe challenge final for the major premiership was scheduled for Saturday, 1 October at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground. However, on Wednesday 27 September, Richmond informed the Association that it would not play the final if Mr Allen was appointed as the umpire. The Association refused to appoint an alternative umpire, so Richmond refused to play; accordingly, the match was scratched and North Melbourne was awarded the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nAllen was regarded by all of the clubs in the Association, including Richmond, as one of its most competent and unbiased decision-makers, and he was accordingly appointed to umpire in all four finals in 1904; but he had drawn criticism for his poor control over rough play in two of the semi-finals, which ultimately led to Richmond's protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nBefore the third quarter in the semi-final between Richmond and North Melbourne on 10 September, Richmond accused several of the North Melbourne players of wearing iron spikes in their boots, and raised its complaint with Allen. North Melbourne captain Noonan refused to allow Allen to inspect his players' boots, and after a delay of about fifteen minutes, play resumed without North Melbourne's boots having been inspected. Richmond went on to lodge a complaint to the Association against Allen for failing to insist upon the inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nAccording to Association secretary Mr T. J. Evans, Allen had inspected the North Melbourne players' boots prior to the team leaving the pavilion, and that Noonan had refused to submit to a second inspection on the grounds that it was only minutes later. Noonan was reprimanded by the Association for the refusal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nAllen was formally appointed as umpire for the challenge final on Wednesday, 14 September, with no objections from the Richmond delegate present at the appointment. During the week, Allen personally received a sarcastic letter from Richmond secretary, Mr Peckham-Beachcroft, in which was enclosed a book of rules; this letter was submitted by Allen to an Association general meeting on Saturday 17 September. On Tuesday, 20 September, the Association first received correspondence from Richmond regarding its complaint against Allen's handling of the boot inspection in the semi-final; the letter was dated Tuesday 13 September. On Saturday 26 September, Allen umpired the semi-final between Footscray and North Melbourne, and attracted heavy criticism for keeping poor control over the game, allowing too much rough play, and permitting North Melbourne to engage in persistent time-wasting tactics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 942]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nAccording to Peckham-Beachcroft, the Richmond captain and several of its players had become concerned about Allen's lack of control over the game, so they did not wish to take the field against North Melbourne under those circumstances. As a result, the committee informed the Association on Wednesday 27 September that it would not play the match unless Allen's appointment as umpire were overturned and he be replaced by another candidate. Richmond lobbied the Association to make a new appointment to as late as the evening of Friday 30 September, but the Association refused to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0006-0001", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nThis was in large part because there had been no procedural irregularity with Allen's appointment; Richmond had objected to Allen's performances by letter, but the Richmond delegate present at Allen's appointment had raised no objections. Some delegates, most vocally Mr Harris from West Melbourne, were also motivated by ensuring that one club should not be allowed to dictate to the entire Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nAs gate takings from finals were divided amongst the clubs, Richmond's refusal to play had a financial impact felt across all ten clubs. Williamstown, for example, recorded in its 1905 annual general meeting that its bank balance was almost \u00a320 poorer as a direct result of the cancelled final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034921-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final\nThis incident remains the only time that an Association team has forfeited a premiership-deciding final. Port Melbourne nearly staged a walk-off during the second quarter of the 1967 Division 1 Grand Final which would have resulted in a forfeit, but in that case the club committee intervened to ensure the team continued to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 42], "content_span": [43, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034922-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1904 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 17 September 1904. It was the seventh annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1904 VFL season. The match, attended by 32,688 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 24 points, marking that club's third premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034922-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL Grand Final, Right to challenge\nThis season was played under the amended Argus system. Fitzroy was the minor premier, and Carlton had finished second. The teams both qualified for this match by winning their semi-finals matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034922-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL Grand Final, Right to challenge\nIf Carlton had won this match, Fitzroy would have had the right to challenge Carlton to a rematch for the premiership on the following weekend, because Fitzroy had the best record in the league. The winner of that match would then have won the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034923-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL season\nThe 1904 Victorian Football League season was the eighth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034923-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1904, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034923-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034923-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 17 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1904 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended \"Argus system\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034923-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 VFL season, Grand final\nFitzroy defeated Carlton 9.7 (61) to 5.7 (37). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034924-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1904 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their 14th season of organized football. The Keydets compiled a 3\u20135 record in Bill Roper's second and last season as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034925-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 VPI football team\nThe 1904 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1904 college football season. The team was led by their head coach John C. O'Connor and finished with a record of five wins and three losses (5\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034925-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1904 football team according to the roster published in the 1905 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his first season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played six home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record of 9\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1904 Vanderbilt team scored an average of 52.7 points per game, the most in college football that season, and allowed just four points, all surrendered in their game against Missouri-Rolla. The team had a strong claim to the Southern championship, as the elevens of Georgetown and Virginia played few southern schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season\nThe Commodores hired former Michigan guard Dan McGugin, a protege and son-in-law of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost. Like Yost, McGugin utilized a short punt formation. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff once wrote \"The plain facts of the business are that McGugin stood out in the South like Gulliver among the native sons of Lilliput... There was no foeman worthy of the McGugin steel.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season\nVanderbilt alumnus Myles P. O'Connor wrote of Dan Blake, who \"played left half for Vanderbilt, '04, being taken from left end, which position he played in '03. End is his position; he is heavy, weighing about 170, is fast, a good tackler, advances the ball well, and is a fair punter.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi A&M\nIn his first career game, McGugin's team defeated Mississippi A&M, 61\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgetown\nIn the second week of play, Georgetown of Kentucky was defeated 66\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi\nVanderbilt defeated Mississippi 69\u20130. Both sides had players removed for roughness. \"The whole South read that 69\u20130 score and gasped.\" McGugin remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi\nThe starting lineup was D. Blake (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Sibley (left guard), Stone (center), Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), I. Brown (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Costen (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Hamilton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Missouri Mines\nThe Commodores beat the Missouri Mines 29\u20134. All scoring was done in the first half. The Missouri school once got the ball on Vanderbilt's 8-yard line. Unable to go any further, Wilson dropped back and made an 18-yard drop kick, the only points scored on the Commodores all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Missouri Mines\nThe starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Pritchard (left guard), Stone (center), Sibley (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Costen (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Hamilton (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Centre\nVanderbilt easily beat Centre 97\u20130. The first score came on Vanderbilt's kickoff to Centre. Dan Blake recovered the ball for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Centre\nThe starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Pritchard (left guard), Patterson (center), B. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Haygood (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nThe Commodores defeated the rival Vols 22\u20130. Ed Hamilton and Manier alternated against Jones Beene, easily taking care of him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nThe starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Pritchard (left guard), Patterson (center), B. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Haygood (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Nashville\nVanderbilt defeated the Nashville Garnet and Blue 81\u20130. Capt Biddle of the Nashville team said \"We were outclassed too far in weight, besides were not as aggressive as Vanderbilt. Their line bucking was not to be denied, and after they had thrown their weight on our line, it weakened and went to pieces.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Nashville\nThe starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Stone (left guard), Patterson (center), B. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Haygood (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nVanderbilt faced rival and previously undefeated Sewanee Tigers for the championship of the south. Vanderbilt won 27\u20130. Vanderbilt's backfield starred. Dan Blake had many gains, and Honus Craig twice had his jersey torn from his body. The 6,500 attendants made the crowd a sea of colors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Stone (left guard), Patterson (center), T. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0018-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Postseason\nA postseason match between Vanderbilt and Auburn to decide a Southern championship was forbidden by the SIAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034926-0019-0000", "contents": "1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Personnel, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Vanderbilt's lineup during the 1904 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics a short punt formation while on offense, with the quarterback under center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034927-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1904 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their third year under head coach Harry Howard Cloudman, the team compiled a 1\u20135\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034928-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 6, 1904. Incumbent Republican John G. McCullough, per the \"Mountain Rule\", did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate Charles J. Bell defeated Democratic candidate Eli H. Porter to succeed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034929-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Victorian state election\nThe 1904 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on 1 June 1904 to elect 55 of the 67 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The other 12 seats were uncontested. The election was in one and two member districts, using first past the post (plurality) voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034929-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Victorian state election\nIt was the first election to be held since the passing of the Constitution Act 1903 (also known as the \"Constitution Reform Act\"). Its changes included reducing the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 95 to 67. In addition to the geographically defined electorates, there was now a single member \"public officers and railway officers\" electorate in the Legislative Council; and a one-member \"public officers\" and a two-member \"railway officers\" electorate in the Legislative Assembly. Members of the public service had previously not been eligible to stand as candidates without first resigning. Under the changes, they could stand while a state employee, and if successful in winning a seat, would have a leave of absence while an MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034929-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Victorian state election, Background\nMinisterialists were a group of members of parliament who supported a government in office but were not bound by tight party discipline. Ministerialists represented loose pre-party groupings who held seats in state parliaments up to 1914. Such members ran for office as independents or under a variety of political labels but saw themselves as linked to other candidates by their support for a particular premier or government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034929-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Victorian state election, Background\nThomas Bent was elected on 16 February 1904 leader of the Commonwealth Liberal Party, replacing Premier William Irvine who went into federal politics, and went into the election as the incumbent Premier. At the June 1904 election Bent won a comfortable majority with 35 of the 67 seats, and the Labour Party became the second largest party in the Assembly with 17 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034929-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nVictorian state election, 1 June 1904Legislative Assembly << 1902\u20131907 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034930-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1904 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1904 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was Patrick O'Connor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034931-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1904 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034932-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 WAFA season\nThe 1904 WAFA season was the 20th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034933-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wabash Little Giants football team\nThe 1904 Wabash College football team was an American football team that represented Wabash College during the 1904 college football season. In Frank Cayou's first season as head coach, the team compiled a 4\u20134 record. This was the year Wabash adopted the Little Giants name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034934-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team\nThe 1904 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. Led by third-year head coach William B. Seaman, the team compiled a record of 5\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034935-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington Agricultural football team\nThe 1904 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1904 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Everett Sweeley, and compiled a record of 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034936-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington Senators season\nThe 1904 Washington Senators won 38 games, lost 113, and finished in eighth place in the American League. They were managed by Malachi Kittridge and Patsy Donovan and played home games at National Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034936-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034936-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034936-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034936-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034937-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington football team\nThe 1904 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1904 college football season. In its third season under coach James Knight, the team compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 113 to 66. Fred McElmon was the team captain for the second time, having also been captain in 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034938-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034938-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee Albert E. Mead defeated Democratic nominee George Turner and Socialist nominee David Burgess, with 51.34% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034938-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Washington gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Washington elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034939-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1904 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034939-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nIn 1904 John Aitken, the incumbent Mayor, was re-elected to office as Mayor of Wellington, beating challenges from both Thomas Wilford and Thomas William Hislop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034940-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 West Cavan by-election\nThe West Cavan by-election, 1904 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of West Cavan on 11 June 1904. The election was caused by the death of the sitting member, Thomas McGovern) of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Only one candidate was nominated, Vincent Kennedy of the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was therefore elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034941-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 West Monmouthshire by-election\nA by-election was held in the West Monmouthshire constituency in 1904 following the death of the seat's incumbent MP Sir William Vernon Harcourt. Thomas Richards was elected in his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034942-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1904 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its first season under head coach Anthony Chez, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record but was outscored by a total of 233 to 99. (The overall point totals were skewed by a 130\u20130 loss to Michigan.) Paul H. Martin was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034943-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 West Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1904, to elect the governor of West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034944-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Western Australian state election\nElections were held in the Australian state of Western Australia on 28 June 1904 to elect 50 members to the state's Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034944-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Western Australian state election\nThe election resulted in a hung parliament. The Labour Party, led by Robert Hastie, won 22 seats, while the governing Ministerialists won 18 seats, and independents won 12 seats. Walter James, who had been premier since July 1902, initially continued on in the role after the election. The Labour Party elected a new leader, Henry Daglish, on 8 July. Daglish successfully moved a motion of no confidence on 2 August, and after James's resignation became premier on 10 August. He was Western Australia's first premier from the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034945-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Western Conference football season\nThe 1904 Western Conference football season was the ninth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034945-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034945-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nNo Western Conference schools participated in any bowl games during the 1904 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034945-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nEleven players were chosen as first-team players on at least four of the 1904 All-Western college football teams named by the following eight selectors: Collier's Weekly (COL), Chicago Record-Herald (CRH), Chicago Tribune (CT), Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit Tribune (DT), The Minneapolis Journal (MJ), The St. Louis Republic (SLR), and Walter Camp (WC) in Collier's Weekly. (Players unanimously chosen by all eight selectors are listed in bold.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034945-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nThe following three Western Conference players were consensus first-team players on the 1904 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (later renamed the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1904 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe alumni of the Western University of Pennsylvania realized they needed to organize an Athletic Association to reverse the state of athletics at the school. WUP was determined that the 1904 football season would not be a replay of 1903. On December 7th a formal group was established and the elected executive committee members pledged to raise money to place a winning football team on the field. Coach Mosse agreed to coach the team. His vision was to have at the least an athletic dorm and training table for the players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0001-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe Association promised to raise two thousand dollars and on December 16th executive committee member Samuel Hunter presented the plan to the Collegiate and Engineering students. He also suggested that the students contribute by adding a five dollar fee to their tuition. The initial money would benefit the football program until it was turning a profit and then the money would benefit all the sports. The student response was positive. The new Chancellor Samuel B. McCormick and the faculty were supportive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0001-0002", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nPirate owner, Barney Dreyfuss leased the use of Exposition Park for the home games for a percentage of the gate. While the alumni and students were raising money, Coach Mosse was actively recruiting some college football veterans. When school opened in the fall the following players were enrolled in the University and competing for positions on the team: Henry Boisseau and Leslie Waddill from Missouri State Normal; Omar Mehl from Washburn College; Joe Thompson, Joe Edgar, Jud Schmidt, Arthur McKean and Walter East from Geneva College; Theodore Perry from State College; and Walter Ritchie from Illinois Wesleyan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0001-0003", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nCoach Mosse and Manager Charles Gans managed to put together a ten-game schedule that only had one road game. The Western University hired Frank Hinkey to assist Coach Mosse in late October. The ex-Yale captain was the line coach for two weeks. The culmination of all this hard work by the Administration, Alumni Assn., students, and head coach Arthur Mosse was winning the unofficial 1904 Football Championship of Western Pennsylvania. In its second season under head coach Arthur Mosse, the team compiled a 10\u20130 record, shut out nine of its opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 406 to 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nOn October 1, Grove City College visited Exposition Park to play the 1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team. More than 1500 spectators ventured to the stadium for the opening game of the season. The engineering and collegiate students were in school and attended in force. Edwin McKee of the engineering department led the cheering section. Grove City received the opening kick and moved the ball against the WUP defense for two first downs and then turned the ball over on downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe WUP offense showed its potential as Jud Schmidt, Joe Thompson and Omar Mehl moved the ball to the thirty-five-yard line. On the next play, Thompson scampered around left end behind the blocking of Mehl and Schmidt for a touchdown. Joe Edgar kicked the goal after and the score was 6-0 in favor of WUP. After an exchange of possessions the WUP offense again had the ball deep in Grove City territory but were unable to score and the first half ended 6\u20130. In the second half, Grove City had the ball on offense for only three downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0002-0002", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nJoe Thompson scored a touchdown from five yards out on the WUP's second possession. Edgar was good again on the point after. The formidable WUP offense advanced the ball to the Grove City ten yard line as time was called with the final score WUP 12- Grove City 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0002-0003", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Grove City was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Henry Boisseau (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Rugh at quarterback; and Walter East replaced Henry Boisseau at right end. The game consisted of one twenty-minute half and one fifteen-minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nThe Purple of Mount Union College were the opponents on October 11. The pomp surrounding the student body cheering was more impressive than the game itself. All students were attending classes and had football fever. A large contingent of students led by a brass band marched into the stadium. The medical students mounted a skeleton on a donkey and he was the star of the parade. At halftime, the students serenaded the players with \u201cHail, Hail, the Gang's all Here\u201d. The WUP offense scored twelve touchdowns. The Mount Union eleven was totally outmanned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0003-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nCaptain Joe Thompson played substitutes for the second half and backfield subs Rosser and Springer each scored two touchdowns. The only negative was that Joe Edgar missed five goal kicks. The WUPs won the game 67\u20130 to the delight of about two thousand fans. The WUP lineup for the game against Mount Union was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0003-0002", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nSubstitutions during the game were: Walter Ritchie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback; Curt Leidenroth replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard; Rosser replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback; Charles Springer replaced Omar Mehl at fullback; William Elliott replaced Calvin Marshall at right tackle; and Thomas Crea replaced Theodore Perry at left end. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nAs in previous years, the game on October 15 against Westminster College drew a large crowd of about twenty-five hundred raucous fans to Exposition Park. Similarly to the game four days prior, the WUP offense dominated the game. The WUP offense scored seven unanswered touchdowns. Joe Thompson scored three, Omar Mehl scored two (one on a one hundred yard dash) and Calvin Marshall and Jud Schmidt each scored one. One paragraph in the Pittsburgh Press aptly recapped the action:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe best play of the day occurred about the middle of the second half. Locke had kicked off to Schmidt on the 10-yard line where he was downed without a gain. On the next play, Mehl broke through the left side of the line, and ran 100 yards for a touchdown. The work of the entire W. U. P. team was good, but that of Joe Thompson, \"Jud\" Schmidt, Mehl and Perry was splendid. Thompson scored three of the touchdowns, and only once did Schmidt fail to gain when given the ball. Ritchie handled the team in good shape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nJoe Edgar was successful on only three of seven goal kicks. The final score read 38-0. The WUP lineup for the game against Westminster was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Curt Leidenroth (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Waldy Zieg replaced Curt Leidenroth at left guard for the second half. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe trip to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania on 22 October to do battle with the Covenanters of Geneva College was the only road game of the season for the Universities. The Pittsburg Press summed up the action best:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\n\"Although there was little brilliant playing on either side, this resulted from the fact that WUP did not need to exert herself, and Geneva was unable to do so. WUP had by far the superior team work, and showed far greater experience.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe starting lineup for the WUP eleven had three players who were the stars of the strong 1902 and 1903 Geneva teams: Joe Thompson, Joe Edgar and Jud Schmidt. The twelve hundred fans cheered hard for the Covenanters but this WUP contingent was too strong. Joe Thompson and Omar Mehl each scored two touchdowns and Jud Schmidt added another. Joe Edgar was successful on all five goal kicks to make the final score 30-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0009-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nSince the Genevans were not congenial hosts and treated both the WUP fans and team poorly, the second half was cut short nine minutes by Captain Thompson. The WUP starting lineup for the game against Geneva was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Henry Boisseau (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one sixteen-minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna\nThe weekday game with Susquehanna University drew mostly students. The WUP eleven were too strong offensively and easily scored forty points. The River Hawks made three first downs in the first half. They fooled the WUP defense with a fake punt for a sizable gain, but the WUP defense stiffened and kept their shutout streak intact. Joe Thompsom, Omar Mehl, and Jud Schmidt scored touchdowns. Substitutions were made at halftime and the Chancellor's son James McCormick relieved Schmidt at halfback. His first carry resulted in a fifty-yard touchdown scamper. Late in the game Walter East also scored from midfield to the delight of the fans. The only disappointment of the day was the faculty at the Pennsylvania College for Women refused to allow their ladies to accept the invitation to attend the game. The Pittsburgh Gazette reported:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 922]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna\n\"The crowd was small, the W.U.P. students forming the large part of it. The 200 girls from the Pennsylvania College for Women did not appear, and there was a disappointed crowd of boys, who wanted to \"get a look at them\" as one put it. The faculty vetoed their going, and the ladies were real angry. A note was sent by them, stating why they were not at the game, but promised they would accept the invitation for Thanksgiving when W.U.P. will play State.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Susquehanna was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0012-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Curt Leidenroth replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard; Schwartz replaced Joe Edgar at right guard; William Elliott replaced Calvin Marshall at right tackle; Frank Rugh replaced Walter Ritchie at quarterback; Charles Springer replaced Joe Thompson at left halfback; and James McCormick replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal\nIn spite of rumors that the Normal lineup might have some players not registered as students, coach Mosse was looking forward to playing the game so he could gauge his team for the upcoming West Virginia and State College tussles. WUP Chancellor McCormick wanted assurance that, in fact, the players were students and formally protested any nonstudent playing. H.W. Harmon, Director of Athletics at California State Normal, assured him that their lineup would be students. The pregame drama was all for naught as the WUP eleven steamrolled the Blaze 40-0 in front of thirty-two hundred noisy spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0013-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal\nOn the first play from scrimmage Smith, the star back of Normal, raced for a twenty-yard gain but broke his wrist while being tackled. The Normal eleven were stunned and the WUP offense proceeded to score four first-half touchdowns and led 23-0 at halftime. The WUPs scored three more touchdowns in the second half and substitutes received plenty of playing time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0013-0002", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal\nThe WUP lineup for the game against California Normal was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0013-0003", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Curt Leidenroth replaced Arthur McKean at center; Schwartz replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard; William Elliott replaced Leslie Waddill at right tackle; Henry Boisseau replaced Walter East at right end; Charles Springer replaced Joe Thompson at left halfback; and James McCormick replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Waynesburg\nOn a rainy November 5th the winless Waynesburg Yellow Jackets played a twenty-minute first half and fifteen minute second half against the second string of the unbeaten WUP juggernaut. Coach Mosse was resting his starters for the West Virginia game. The WUP scrubs were so excited they scored fourteen touchdowns - Charles Springer led the way with four; James McCormick scored three; Walter Ritchie and Henry Boisseau each scored two; and Frank Righter, Ted Perry and Waldy Zeig each scored one. Waynesburg made one first down and defensively could not stop the WUP offensive machine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0014-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Waynesburg\nThe one thousand WUP rooters who ventured to Exposition Park were treated to an impressive offensive display. The final score was 83-0. In the second half WUP halfback Charles Springer broke his shoulder and was out for the rest of the season. The WUP lineup for the game against Waynesburg was Thomas Crea (left end), Frank Righter (left tackle), John Sullivan (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Elliott (right tackle), Walter Ritchie (right end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Charles Springer (left halfback), James McCormick (right halfback) and Gilbert Miller (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0014-0002", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Waynesburg\nSubstitutions during the game were: Schwartz replaced Joe Edgar at right guard; Henry Boisseau replaced Walter Ritchie at right end; Walter Richie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback; Ted Perry replaced Charles Springer at left halfback; Charles Springer replaced Gilbert Miller at fullback; and Waldy Zieg replaced Charles Springer at fullback. The game consisted of one twenty-minute half and one fifteen-minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nOn November 8th the boisterous students of WUP were led into Exposition Park by a band for the 1904 edition of the \u201cBackyard Brawl\u201d. Close to four thousand fans were in attendance. Coach Mosse inserted his well-rested first string lineup against the visitors from Morgantown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers defense could not stop the WUP offense. In the first five minutes of play, WUP quarterback Frank Rugh was ejected for fighting and replaced by Walter Ritchie. The WUPs were not deterred as Joe Thompson, Omar Mehl and Jud Schmidt all scored more than one touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0015-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nOmar Mehl delighted the crowd with a seventy-three-yard dash to the end zone in the second half. The WUP defense did not allow West Virginia to penetrate their side of the field. Numerous West Virginia fumbles resulted in short touchdown drives for the WUP offense. Joe Edgar was successful on eight of nine goal kicks. The WUP students and fans were more than satisfied. The final score read 53\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0015-0002", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game with West Virginia was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Rugh at quarterback; Henry Boisseau replaced Ted Perry at left end; and Curt Leidenroth replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard. The game consisted of thirty-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0016-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany\nOn November 19, in front of a sparse crowd, the WUP second team played a short (two fifteen-minute halves) game against the Bethany College eleven. The scrubs scored only four touchdowns as Bethany's defense gave them some problems. Gilbert Miller scored two touchdowns. Henry Boisseau and James McCormick each scored one. John Sullivan had an off day and only made one goal kick out of four. The WUP defense had no trouble controlling the Bethany offense and kept them out of the end zone. The final tally was 21-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0016-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany\nCoach Mosse wanted to keep his first team healthy for the battle with State College on Thanksgiving Day, but they did practice some signals during the halftime break to the delight of the fans. The WUP lineup for the game against Bethany was Thomas Crea (left end), Frank Righter (left tackle), John Sullivan (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Schwartz (right guard), William Elliott (right tackle), Edward Trax (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Henry Boisseau (left halfback), James McCormick (right halfback) and Gilbert Miller (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Walter East replaced Edward Trax at right end; Waldy Zieg replaced John Sullivan at left guard; Calvin Marshall replaced William Elliott at right tackle; and Leslie Waddill replaced Frank Righter at left tackle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 882]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0017-0000", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nAll of the football fans in Pittsburgh had Thanksgiving Day circled on their calendar. Could the unbeaten, unscored upon Western University finally beat the 6-3 State College eleven? State College had lost to eastern heavyweights Yale, Penn and Navy. The State College lineup was missing three starters due to injury \u2013 running back Carl Forkum, tackle Andy Moscrip and end Charles Campbell. The WUP lineup was healthy and well prepared. The students paraded to the stadium behind a band of forty instruments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0017-0001", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe light drizzle probably kept the crowd from totaling ten thousand but did not dampen the enthusiasm of the fans that braved the weather. The WUP defense held the Lions on their opening drive and forced a punt. The WUP offense led by their strong backfield of Joe Thompson, Jud Schmidt and Omar Mehl marched the ball down the field. Jud Schmidt finally scored from the half yard line. Joe Edgar was successful on the goal kick after and WUP led 6-0. WUP received the ensuing kickoff but the State College defense forced a punt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0017-0002", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nOn first down Irish McIlveen fumbled and Frank Rugh recovered for the WUP on the State College nineteen yard line. On third down, Omar Mehl scored from eleven yards out. Edgar was again successful on the goal kick. After an exchange of possessions, Jud Schmidt broke loose on a sixty-seven-yard scamper deep into State College territory. Three plays later Schmidt punched the pigskin in from the three and WUP led 17-0 at halftime. Mehl scored his second touchdown early in the second half. Coach Mosse made wholesale substitutions to get everybody enough playing time to qualify for a letter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034946-0017-0003", "contents": "1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nState College halfback Irish McIlveen scored a touchdown late in the game to make the final score 22-5. The WUP lineup for the game against Penn State was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Henry Boisseau replaced Ted Perry at left end; Curt Leidenroth replaced Arthur McKean at center; Frank Righter replaced Waltert East at right end; Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Rugh at quarterback; and James McCormick replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of thirty-five-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034947-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1903 William & Mary Orange and White football team was an American football team that represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1903 college football season. Led by first-year head coach J. Merrill Blanchard, the Orange and White compiled an overall record of 3\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034948-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wilmot by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Wilmot in Tasmania on 26 February 1904. This was triggered by the death of former Premier of Tasmania and federal Free Trade Party MP Sir Edward Braddon on 2 February 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034948-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Wilmot by-election\nThe by-election was won by Free Trade candidate Norman Cameron (a former member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and who had represented Tasmania in the Australian House of Representatives until he was voted out in the 1903 federal election), against John Cheek for the Protectionist Party. Voting was not compulsory in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034949-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1904 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 20 June until 29 June. It was the 28th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1904. The entry for the men's singles rose to 62, beating the 1880 record of 60. All ten courts (rather than Centre Court only) were 'dressed' with a surround of canvas 3 feet (90\u00a0cm) high. The balls and equipment were provided by Slazenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034949-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Frank Riseley / Sydney Smith, 6\u20131, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034950-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nFrank Riseley and Sydney Smith defeated George Caridia and Arthur Gore 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Riseley and Smith 6\u20131, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1904 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034951-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nFrank Riseley defeated Major Ritchie 6\u20130, 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Laurence Doherty defeated Riseley 6\u20131, 7\u20135, 8\u20136 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1904 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034952-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nCharlotte Sterry defeated Agnes Morton 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Dorothea Douglass defeated Sterry 6\u20130, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1904 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034953-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1904 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1904 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034954-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034954-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Robert M. La Follette defeated Democratic nominee George Wilbur Peck and Social-Democratic nominee William A. Arnold with 50.55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034954-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Bibliography\nThis Wisconsin elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034955-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 6 and 7 February 1904 at the ice rink Gamle Frogner Stadion in Kristiania, Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034955-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThere was no defending champion. Petter Sinnerud won all four distances and became World Champion, but after it was found that he had once participated in a professional match in the United States, against the rules of the ISU, he was disqualified. Sigurd Mathisen, who originally came second, was declared World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034955-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034956-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual event sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034956-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place from February 23rd to 24th in Berlin, German Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 World Series\nIn 1904, there was no World Series played between the champions of the two major leagues, the Boston Americans (now the Boston Red Sox) of the American League (AL) and the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants) of the National League (NL). Boston had clinched their second consecutive AL championship, while New York won the 1904 NL title by a wide margin of 13 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0000-0001", "contents": "1904 World Series\nWith still no formal arrangement in place between the two leagues regarding the staging of the World Series, the Giants under owner John T. Brush refused to play against a team from what they considered an inferior league. The resulting criticism from fans and writers caused Brush to reverse course during the offseason and lead the effort to formalize the World Series between the two leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 World Series, Background\nDue to a business rivalry between the two leagues, especially in New York, and to personal animosity between Giants manager John McGraw and American League president Ban Johnson, the Giants declined to meet the champions of the \"junior\" (or \"minor\") league. McGraw said his Giants were already the world champions because they were the champions of the \"only real major league\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 World Series, Background\nDuring spring training in March 1904, Giants owner John T. Brush said \"there will never be a series\" between the New York-based teams\u2014his Giants of the National League and the American League's New York Highlanders\u2014in response to a preseason offer from Highlanders co-owner Frank J. Farrell. In July 1904, as reported in Sporting Life, Brush stated that his NL club would not play the AL club \"if each wins the pennant in its respective league\", in contradiction of a preseason agreement for a championship series between the leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0002-0001", "contents": "1904 World Series, Background\nAt that point in the season, the Giants were comfortably on top of the NL standings, and the Highlanders (now the New York Yankees) were just 1+1\u20442 games behind the Boston Americans. The AL race went down to the wire, and the Highlanders temporarily took over first place on October 7 when they defeated Boston. But the Americans won three of their four remaining games to clinch the AL pennant, and finished 1+1\u20442 games ahead of the Highlanders (who lost three of their final four games) in the final standings of October 10. The Giants, who had won the NL by a wide margin (13 games), stuck to and broadened their plan, refusing to play any AL club, either the champion Boston team or the crosstown New York team, in the proposed \"exhibition\" series (as they considered it).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 World Series, Summary, Boston Americans\nBoston had defeated National League champion Pittsburgh in the 1903 World Series, a contest arranged by the two champion clubs, not by the leagues themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 World Series, Summary, New York Giants\nThe Giants maintained that the rules for the World Series were haphazardly defined. In the 1903 series, as well as postseason series between the National League and the American Association in the 1880s, the rules for a given season's \"World's Championship Series\" had been whatever the two participating clubs had agreed upon. The World Series was not a compulsory event and was not governed by an authoritative body, thus the Giants were free to refuse to participate in such an event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 World Series, Summary, New York Giants\nStung by criticism from fans and writers, Brush drafted rules that both leagues adopted in mid-February 1905. The rules compelled the two winning clubs to participate and governed the annual determination of sites, dates, ticket prices and division of receipts. These new rules essentially made the World Series the premier annual Major League Baseball event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034957-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 World Series, Aftermath\nBoston slumped in 1905, while New York repeated its NL championship and won the 1905 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics. The two teams eventually met in the 1912 World Series with the Red Sox winning in eight games (Game 2 was a tie). The Series has been played every year since except 1994, when a 232-day players' strike ended the season in mid-August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034958-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 World Wrestling Championships\nThe first World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship was organized on May 23rd 1904 in Vienna, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary, just eight years after the first modern Olympics and eight years before the foundation of the International Wrestling Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. 26 wrestlers from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Bohemia and Hungary participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034959-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1904 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1904 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach William McMurray, the team compiled a 4\u20131\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 97 to 35. J. Gillespie was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034960-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming gubernatorial special election\nThe 1904 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Shortly after he began his second term in 1903, Governor DeForest Richards died in office, elevating Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton to the Governorship and triggering a special election in 1904 to fill the balance of Richards's term. Chatterton ran for re-election, but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by Bryant B. Brooks. Former Congressman John E. Osborne, the former Territorial Governor, was nominated by the Democratic Party. Aided by President Theodore Roosevelt's landslide victory over Democrat Alton B. Parker in the presidential election, Brooks overwhelmingly defeated Osborne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034960-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming gubernatorial special election, Party conventions\nAs the Republican convention began on May 18, 1904, former State Representative Bryant B. Brooks was seen as having a slight edge over acting Governor Fenimore Chatterton, with the leading rumor that the Laramie County delegation held the balance of power and favored Brooks over Chatterton. Ultimately, the contest between Brooks and Chatterton was not close, with Brooks defeating the incumbent Governor on the first ballot with 83 votes to Chatterton's 41.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034960-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming gubernatorial special election, Party conventions\nMeanwhile, as the Democratic convention began on September 7, 1904, several candidates were seen as likely nominees: former Congressman and Territorial Governor John E. Osborne; former State Senator William H. Holliday, the 1894 Democratic nominee for Governor; Robert H. Homer, a former territorial legislator; and W. Dean Hays, with Osborne seen as the frontrunner. After several days of indecision, Osborne\u2014who had been reluctant to run\u2014allowed himself to be nominated and he was approved by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 62], "content_span": [63, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034961-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming state elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 8, 1904. Two special elections were held: one for Governor and one for State Treasurer. In the gubernatorial election, acting Governor Fenimore Chatterton ran for re-election but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by Bryant B. Brooks, who won the subsequent special election over Democrat John E. Osborne. In the special election for State Treasurer, Republican William C. Irvine, who was appointed to the office by Governor Chatterton, successfully won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034961-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming state elections, Governor\nOn April 28 1903, Republican Governor DeForest Richards died in office, elevating Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton to the governorship. Chatterton sought re-election in the special election that followed, but lost renomination to Bryant B. Brooks. In the subsequent general election, Brooks defeated Democratic nominee John E. Osborne by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034961-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer\nLess than a year into his four-year term as State Treasurer, Henry G. Hay resigned from office in September 1903 to accept a position with the United States Steel Corporation. A special Republican convention was convened to name Hay's replacement, and the convention settled on William C. Irvine, whose name it recommended to Governor Fenimore Chatterton to appoint as Hay's successor. Chatterton, though not obligated to follow the convention's recommendation, did so, and Irvine served until the 1904 special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034961-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer\nIn 1904, Irvine ran for re-election. He was renominated at the Republican convention, and faced former State Representative Horace C. Alger, the 1898 Democratic nominee for Governor. He overwhelmingly defeated Alger, winning the right to finish the final two years of Hay's term as Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034962-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1904 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1904 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 10\u20131 record under first-year head coach Charles D. Rafferty. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 220 to 20 score with the only loss being by an 11\u20136 score to Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034962-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 Yale Bulldogs football team\nFour Yale players (quarterback Foster Rockwell, end Tom Shevlin, tackle James Hogan, and guard Ralph Kinney) were consensus picks for the 1904 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections\nThe United States Senate elections of 1904 and 1905 were elections that coincided with President Theodore Roosevelt's landslide election to a full term. Party share of seats remained roughly the same, when including vacancies and appointments, and the Republicans retained a significant majority over the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections\nAs these elections were prior to ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, senators were chosen by state legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections\nThis was the last election cycle until 1996 which featured a presidential candidate who won re-election without securing coattails in the Senate in either of his presidential runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 58th Congress, Special elections\nIn these elections, the winners were seated during 1904 or in 1905 before March 4; ordered by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 115], "content_span": [116, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 58th Congress, Special elections\nIn this election, the winner was seated March 4, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 115], "content_span": [116, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0005-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 58th Congress, Early elections\nIn these elections, the winners were seated March 4, 1907 in the 60th Congress; ordered by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 113], "content_span": [114, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0006-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Races leading to the 59th Congress\nIn these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1905; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0007-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 59th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were elected in 1905 after March 4; sorted by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0008-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe 1905 election in New York was held on January 17, 1905, by the New York State Legislature. Republican Chauncey M. Depew had been elected to this seat in 1899, and his term would expire on March 3, 1905. At the State election in November 1904, large Republican majorities were elected for a two-year term (1905-1906) in the State Senate, and for the session of 1905 to the Assembly. The 128th State Legislature met from January 3, 1905, on at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0009-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York\nLate in 1904, Ex-Governor Frank S. Black tried to be nominated to succeed Depew. Black was supported by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., but after intense fighting behind the scenes, Odell finally dropped Black and accepted Depew's re-election which had been supported by his fellow Senator Thomas C. Platt and Speaker S. Frederick Nixon. The Republican caucus met on January 16. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Chauncey M. Depew unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0010-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York\nThe Democratic caucus met also on January 16. They nominated again Smith M. Weed who had been the candidate of the Democratic minority in the U.S. Senate election of 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0011-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York\nChauncey M. Depew was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0012-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York\nNote: The votes were cast on January 17, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 18 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0013-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nThe election in Pennsylvania was held on January 17, 1905. Incumbent Philander C. Knox was elected by the Pennsylvania State Assembly to his first full term in the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0014-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nRepublican Matthew Quay was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate in the previous election in January 1901. He served until his death on May 28, 1904. In June 1904, Republican Philander C. Knox was appointed to serve out the remainder of Quay's term, ending on March 4, 1905, when he began a term in his own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034963-0015-0000", "contents": "1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nThe Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and Senate, convened on January 17, 1905, to elect a Senator to serve the term beginning on March 4, 1905. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034964-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 college baseball season\nThe 1904 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1904. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034964-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 college baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1904 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034965-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 college football season\nThe 1904 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan, Minnesota, and Penn as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034965-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 college football season\n1904 was a big year for the South. It was the first year for: Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt, Mike Donahue at Auburn, and John Heisman at Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan\nInternal peace is not disturbed during the year, but there are, as usual, frequent rumours of quarrels in the amir's family and of reconciliations. Early in the year it is reported that the amir has removed his half-brother, Mohammad Omar, from the governorship of Kabul, and placed him and his mother, Bibi Halima, under close surveillance. Later on it is stated that the mullahs have brought about a reconciliation, and that Mohammad Omar has been placed in command of the troops in Kabul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0001-0001", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan\nThere is some quarrelling between Russian and Afghan soldiers owing to the former destroying some guard-houses erected along the border of Turkestan, but there is no actual outbreak, and the amir at once sends officials of position to inquire into the matter. Owing to the generally oppressive action of the Russians some 4,000 of the Turkoman and Jamshid tribes migrate to Herat, where the amir grants them the Zulfikar Pass territory as their place of residence. Several of the leading followers of Ayub Khan return to Afghanistan and others petition the amir to be allowed to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904\nThe amir injures his hand whilst snipe shooting, and the viceroy at his request sends his own doctor to Kabul to treat him. The treatment is entirely successful, and the amir's pleasure at this is possibly helpful in paving the way for the despatch of the special mission under Louis Dane, the Indian foreign secretary, which leaves Peshawar on November 26 and reaches Kabul on December 12. Its work is reported to be progressing very satisfactorily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904\nThe nature of this work is not made public, but it is not difficult to conjecture what must be the most important points in the discussion between the amir and Mr. Dane. In the first place, Russia, despite her Far Eastern difficulties and disasters, has by no means lost sight of Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0003-0001", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904\nBoth in Turkestan and the north and towards Herat in the south the Russian railway system is fast being completed to within striking distance of the frontier; the question of direct commercial relations between Russian and Afghan officials on the frontier appears to be still open, and Russia can easily create local trouble whenever it suits her to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0003-0002", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904\nNo doubt the amir likes to know what help Britain would give him in a case of \"unprovoked aggression,\" and, on the other hand, the Indian government likes to know how far the amir can defend himself, what number of troops he can put into the field, and what is their state of efficiency. The relations of the amir and of the Indian government with the tribes on the North-West Frontier also require further adjustment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034966-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904\nA formal settlement was arrived at when what is known as the Durand Boundary was agreed on, and the present amir at first seemed anxious that the work of demarcating this boundary should be completed, but latterly he appears to have changed his mind, and the work has been suspended. Lastly, it is thought that an endeavour might be made to secure greater facilities for trade between Afghanistan and India. Whilst the foreign secretary is engaged in important work with the amir at Kabul the amir's eldest son, Inayatullah Khan, is paying a visit to the viceroy at Calcutta. As he is only a lad of sixteen his visit is only regarded as a social one, but one which may bear good fruit later if he comes to the throne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034967-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Argentine football\n1904 in Argentine football saw Belgrano A.C. winning the Argentine championship ending a run of four consecutive titles for Alumni. Estudiantes de Buenos Aires was promoted to Primera by the Association after the good campaigns made in lower divisions and the contribution made by the club to the practice of football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034967-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in Argentine football\nFlores did not register to play the tournament after a poor performance in the last season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034967-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 in Argentine football, Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1904 championship had a 6 team, league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034967-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 in Argentine football, International friendlies\nEnglish team Southampton toured on Argentina that year, playing several friendly matches v. clubs and combined teams. It was the first time a professional British team visited Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034968-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034969-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034969-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1904 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034969-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1904 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034970-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Belgium\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in the Kingdom of Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034972-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Brazilian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 1904 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 3rd season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034973-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1904 in music in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034975-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Canada, Historical documents\nGreat Toronto Fire and its aftermath, in eyewitness accounts and critical postmortem", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034975-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in Canada, Historical documents\nAnaconda, B.C. forest fire starts in \"dry brush several feet thick\" made of fallen trees amid much scrubby pine and fir killed by smelter smoke", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034975-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 in Canada, Historical documents\nDubious story about people smuggling prompts editorial on journalistic accuracy", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034975-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 in Canada, Historical documents\nManitoba Free Press special Christmas issue contains goose quill pen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034976-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1904\nThe value of a Try (touchdown) was increased to five points and Goals from a Try was reduced to one point in the ORFU. The QRFU adopted a rule by Tom (King) Clancy of Ottawa that a team must make five yards on its third scrimmage to keep possession of the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034976-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034977-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034978-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in China\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034980-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in France, Arts and literature\nThe unofficial art mouvement of Fauvism (Fauves is the French word for \"wild beasts\"). Henri Matisse (1869\u20131954) was the leader of the small group, with other major artists including Andr\u00e9 Derain (1880\u20131954) and maurice de Vlaminick (1876\u20131958). The mouvement was never made official with documents signed by members of a list of criteria in order for work to be considered Fauvism, but it was simply a small group of mainly French painters who used brilliant colour and unexpected brushstrokes, similar to the German Expressionism mouvement. Matisse created the Fauve style after experimenting with post-impressionistic painters, such as Gauguin, C\u00e9zanne and Van Gogh, as well as the Neo-impressionism of Cross, Signac and Seurat. All these painters inspired Matisse to reject 3D uses of spaces and use colour and mouvement to create 2D planes of space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034982-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in India, Events\nWhen the Raliegh Bill became an act, it was called Indian Universities, 1904 (Aswathi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034984-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Italy, Events\nThe Giolittian Era. During his second and third tenure as Prime Minister (1903\u20131905 and 1906\u20131909), Giovanni Giolitti courts the left and labour unions with social legislation, including subsidies for low-income housing, preferential government contracts for worker cooperatives, and old age and disability pensions. Economic expansion was secured by monetary stability, moderate protectionism and government support of production. Foreign trade doubled between 1900 and 1910, wages rose, and the general standard of living went up. Nevertheless, the period was also marked by a sharp increase in the frequency and duration of industrial action, with major labour strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034986-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034986-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe 15th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034989-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1904 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034993-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034996-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Swedish football\nThe 1904 season in Swedish football, starting January 1904 and ending December 1904:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034997-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1904 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00034999-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in architecture\nThe year 1904 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035001-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in association football\nThe following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1904 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035003-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1904 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035003-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in baseball, Champions\nWorld Series: New York (NL) declined challenge by Boston (AL)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035004-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 1904 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035006-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035007-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035008-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1904 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035009-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in music\nThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035010-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035010-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in paleontology, Synapsids, Eutherians, Cetaceans\nA protocetid. Replacement name for Mesocetus Fraas, 1904 (non van Beneden, 1880).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035011-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035011-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035013-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035014-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in science\nThe year 1904 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035015-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in science fiction\nThe year 1904 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035015-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 in science fiction, Awards\nThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035016-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in sports\n1904 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035017-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1904 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035020-0000-0000", "contents": "1904 petition to the Chemical Society\nThe 1904 petition to the Chemical Society was a petition written by 19 female chemists setting out the reasons why they should be afforded the status of Fellow of the Chemical Society. The petition is of importance as it eventually led to the admission of women as Fellows of the Society (one of the Societies that amalgamated to become the Royal Society of Chemistry), as well as identifying prominent female chemists working in Britain at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035020-0001-0000", "contents": "1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Context\nThe Chemical Society was founded in 1841, but several attempts to allow the admission of women as fellows were unsuccessful. Attempts at change included a legal challenge based on the ambiguous language of the Society\u2019s Charter in 1880, which was defeated because the issue of admitting women as fellows \"was not expedient at the present time\", followed by an attempt in 1892, defeated by a Council vote of 8 to 7. However, after the election of Marie Curie as a Foreign Fellow of the Society in 1904, 19 women signed a petition for admission of women as Fellows. The petition was organised by three of its signatories: Ida Smedley, Ida Freund, and Martha Whiteley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035020-0002-0000", "contents": "1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Petition contents\nThe petition was addressed to the President and Council of the Chemical Society. It highlighted that in the previous thirty years that there were \"about 150 women\" who had appeared as authors on some 300 papers published by the Society. It listed the number of papers in the Journal of the Chemical Society in the periods 1873 - 1882 (20 papers), 1883 - 1892 (33 papers), 1893 - 1902 (142 papers), and 1903 to August 1904 (50 papers). They continue that as the Society deemed it fit to publish the work completed by female chemists, that they should help support this work by enabling \"free access to chemical literature and by the right to attend the meetings of the Society\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035020-0003-0000", "contents": "1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Signatories\nThe network that allowed these women to co-sponsor the petition has been examined. Smedley, Freund, and Whiteley led the petition. Smedley attended the King Edward VI High School as did Thomas and Hartle. Freund was a demonstrator and a lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge between 1887 and 1912, as were Elizabeth Eleanor Field, Dorothy Marshall, and Mildred Gostling. Thomas, Field, Whiteley, and Gostling spent time at Royal Holloway College, from where there were two additional petitioners: Margaret Seward and Sibyl Widdows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035020-0003-0001", "contents": "1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Signatories\nClare de Brereton Evans and Millicent Taylor attended the Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham and Taylor had connections with the University of Bristol, where Emily Fortey and Katherine Williams studied. Lucy Boole studied at the London School of Medicine for Women and Katherine Burke studied at University College London under the supervision of William Ramsay - both of these women knew de Brereton Evans. Grace Toynbee studied at the University of Birmingham, and was possibly connected with Hartle. Two petitioners Edith Humphrey and Alice Smith have unknown connections to the remainder, but it is proposed that they were connected by male chemists keen to promote their cause, such William Ramsay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035020-0004-0000", "contents": "1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Outcome\nAfter the petition was received, William Tilden, the President of the Chemical Society in 1905, led agreement from Council that the Petition should be acted upon and that the Society's byelaws should be modified to give qualified women all the privileges of fellows, except for the power to hold office or vote at meetings. However, when this was put to a vote, only 45 fellows showed up, and the motion was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035020-0004-0001", "contents": "1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Outcome\nThe subsequent discussions led to an eventual compromise in 1908 that women be admissible as \"Subscribers\" which would allow attendance at ordinary meetings, the use of the library, and the receipt of Society publications. Only 11 women joined as \"Subscriber\" in the period 1908 - 1919, when the category was abolished. After World War I, at an extraordinary general meeting on 8 May 1919, the Society under its then President James Dobbie resolved that women should be admitted on the same terms as men, and the corresponding byelaw was passed in 1920. The first woman fellow admitted was Ida Smedley (Mrs Maclean).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035021-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Aberdeen F.C. season\nAberdeen F.C. competed in the Scottish Second Division and Scottish Cup in season 1904\u201305.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035021-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Aberdeen F.C. season, Overview\nSeason 1904\u201305 was Aberdeen's second season and their first in Scottish League football. They failed to gain election to the First Division in 1904, but successfully applied to join the Second Division. The team abandoned their white jerseys for a new black and gold strip this season. The Pittodrie attendance record was broken in January when 16,000 spectators watched as Glasgow club Queen's Park visited Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup. In the league, Aberdeen finished seventh out of twelve clubs. In the cup, they won through to round three after wins over Queen's Park and Bathgate, but lost to Third Lanark at Cathkin Park. Tom Ruddiman finished as the club's top scorer with ten goals from 15 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035022-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Arizona during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Orin A. Kates, coaching his first season with the Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035023-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Army Cadets men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Army Cadets men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The team captain was Harold Hetrick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035024-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035024-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season, Season\nIn Army's second season the team played its first intercollegiate game, albeit against a very short-lived team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035025-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 Football League season was Aston Villa's 17th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035025-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Aston Villa F.C. season\nDuring the season Howard Spencer and Joe Bache shared the captaincy of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035025-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Aston Villa F.C. season\nEvents surrounding the February 1905 match away to Small Heath highlighted their Coventry Road ground's inadequacies. The official attendance was given as 28,000, though with the gates closed before kick-off, thousands scaled walls or forced entrances in order to gain admission, and the actual attendance was estimated at anything up to 35,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035025-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Aston Villa F.C. season\nAston Villa won the FA Cup competition for the fourth time, beating Newcastle United 2\u20130 in the final at Crystal Palace, through two goals scored by Harry Hampton. The man of the match was Aston Villa's prolific scorer Billy Garraty, great-great grandfather of footballer Jack Grealish, who was born only a few miles from the now Villa Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035026-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Belgian First Division, Overview\nThis season saw the two Groups merged back into one National Division: this was also the last season before promotion and relegation was introduced with the creation of the \"Promotion\" Division. It was contested by 11 teams, and Union Saint-Gilloise won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was Blackpool F.C. 's eighth season (fifth consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fifteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season\nNew signings included Edgar Chadwick, from Liverpool, Bob Crewdson, who would go on to make over 200 league appearances for the club, and Hugh Morgan, from Accrington Stanley. Teddy Duckworth, after a season with West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers, returned to the club. Out went Geordie Anderson, who retired, John Rooke and Fred Pentland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nThe campaign began with a goalless draw at home to Leicester Fosse on 3 September. It wasn't until their fifth game that Blackpool recorded their first victory. It came at Lancashire neighbours Burnley \u2014 Alfie Kearns scoring the only goal of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nTheir next victory did not come until 3 December, just over two months later, 4\u20131 at home to Glossop. They won their next fixture, at home to Bradford City, before managing only one point from their three festive games. A New Year's Eve defeat left them with only thirteen points from a possible 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nAfter an FA Cup First Round exit to Bristol City, 1905 started with a bang: 6\u20130 and 2\u20130 home wins over Barnsley and Burnley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nThree victories in five games lifted them briefly, but then six defeats in their final nine games saw them finish fourth-bottom, albeit twenty points clear of bottom club Doncaster Rovers, who failed in their attempt to be reelected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season, Player statistics, Appearances, League\nNo appearances: William Anderton, Charles Bennett, Teddy Duckworth and Alfred Wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035027-0007-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035028-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the second in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035028-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nReserve manager Peter O'Rourke took over for the last few games of the season, leading them to 5 wins and a draw in the last six games of the season, and helping them to avoid possible re-election. He became permanent manager shortly afterwards. The club finished 8th in Division Two, and reached the 1st round of the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035029-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1904\u201305 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. In its first season at Griffin Park, the club finished in 14th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035029-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nIt was a summer of fundraising for the Brentford board during the 1904 off-season, with the club needing to raise money for the work being undertaken at its new Griffin Park ground. \u00a3600 was raised (equivalent to \u00a365,100 in 2021) to pay summer wages for the squad and manager Dick Molyneux was once again able to sign new players soon after the end of the 1903\u201304 season, with goalkeeper Walter Whittaker, half back Jimmy Tomlinson and forwards John Boag, Fred Hobson, Frank Oliver, Alex Walker and Joe Warrington being signings of note.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035029-0001-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nMolyneux's biggest transfer coup was that of forward Tommy Shanks, who returned to Brentford after 18 months away and off the back of a season in which he had scored 25 goals in Woolwich Arsenal's Football League Second Division triumph. The summer wages allowed full backs Jock Watson, Tommy Davidson and half backs James Bellingham, Jimmy Jay and George Parsonage to be retained, which on paper made the Bees' 1904\u201305 Southern League First Division squad arguably the club's strongest yet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035029-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThough the season proved to be a slight improvement on the previous one, with two more points won, but finishing one place lower in 14th, Brentford's first season at Griffin Park was a disappointment. Though he finished the season as top scorer and became Brentford's second international player, forward Tommy Shanks could not recreate his prolific form of the previous season and scored just seven goals. The Bees reached the intermediate round of the FA Cup for the third successive season, but could not find a way past fellow First Division club Reading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035029-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035030-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 British Home Championship\nThe 1904\u201305 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations. It took place in the second half of the 1904\u201305 football season and saw England win the championship for the third time in a row with two victories and a draw. Wales, despite losing to England, came in second as part of a strong run which would result in victory at the 1907 British Home Championship. Scotland and Ireland came joint third with two points a piece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035030-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 British Home Championship\nEngland and Ireland kicked off the competition in February 1905 with a hard fought 1\u20131 draw in Middlesbrough. In early March, Wales and Scotland began their tournaments with Wales easily beating the Scots in Wrexham and taking the top of the table. Scotland responded to the defeat with a 4\u20130 rout of the Irish in their second game, and England then moved to the head of the table with a 3\u20131 victory over the Welsh at home. England then beat Scotland in London to make them winners unless Wales could win against Ireland in Belfast. In the culminating match the Welsh played hard and scored twice, but it was not enough to secure victory and the championship went to England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035031-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Brown men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035031-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe downward spiral for Brown's ice hockey team continued as they again won no games against college teams. This season brought a new low as the Brunos lost every game they played and established two program worsts; the 15 goals Brown surrendered to Harvard are the most goals against in the history of the program and the 14-goal deficit is the worst goal differential the program has ever seen (as of 2019).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035032-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The Bisons team captain of the 1904\u201305 season was George Cockill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was Burslem Port Vale's seventh consecutive season (11th overall) of football in the English Football League. A poor season, the club had to apply (successfully) for re-election. The club had to continue their policy of selling their best players to survive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nAn extremely poor defence saw some embarrassing scorelines away from home, and the lack of a consistent goalscorer was also a cause for concern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nA rather quiet pre-season saw no signings of note, however past player, outside-right Dick Evans re-signed from Southampton in September. This return was ended in his second game of the season \u2013 a Staffordshire Senior Cup defeat to Wolves \u2013 when he suffered a career-ending injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe first game of the season saw 5,000 turn up to witness a 2\u20132 draw with Manchester United, this positive start soon ended as despite going their first four games unbeaten, the club had to wait until their ninth match for their first victory. On 5 November 1904, the club's record 29 away games without a win streak came to an end with a 3\u20130 victory at Grimsby Town. The next match saw Liverpool win 2\u20131 thanks to a goal that never actually crossed the line \u2013 the referee had to leave the pitch under escort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0003-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nFollowing the sale of key players in December, the form of the \"Valeites\" took a hit as from 4 December to the end of February they recorded just two victories \u2013 both against West Bromwich Albion. This run included heavy defeats at Manchester United and Burnley. In February the club's revival was helped by new signing Robert Carter, as six of the last seven home games were wins. Despite this they still suffered on their travels, taking an 8\u20131 hammering at Anfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe club finished in sixteenth place, though their 27 points saw them just one point off Blackpool, and six points off seventh place. Burton United and Doncaster Rovers both finished well below Vale, and at the end of the season both Vale and Burton were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nDick Allman was top scorer with a pitiful eight goals, though scoring proved to be a team effort to give Vale a reasonable total of 47 league goals. However, in defensive terms the season was awful, their 72 conceded would always guarantee a battle against dropping into the lottery of the re-election zones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nAllman left for Reading at the season's end. Harry Croxton was an ever-present, and other regulars included goalkeeper Harry Cotton, and outfielders Sam Whittingham, Joseph Holyhead, George Price, and Adrian Capes. Manager Sam Gleaves stepped down at the end of the season, and was given the position of director, his replacement was former player Tommy Clare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0007-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nThe financial outlook was as grim as ever, as directors were forced to sell Ernest Mullineux and Tom Simpson to Bury for \u00a3600 and \u00a3200 respectively. This gave the club a season profit of \u00a3140, and reduced club debt to just \u00a333, however gate receipts had fallen by \u00a3150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035033-0008-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nThe club came up against tough competition in both county cup competitions, losing 1\u20130 to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the First Round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup. They found rather more success in the Birmingham Senior Cup, where Vale defeated rivals Stoke with a Tom Simpson hat-trick at home, following a goalless draw at the Victoria Ground. This achievement was less significant due to a slight from Stoke, who only sent out their reserve side. Following this success the club lost in the semi-final to Second Division rivals West Bromwich Albion. The club yet again failed to qualify for the FA Cup, losing narrowly to Barnsley in the qualification stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035034-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Butler University during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Edgar Wingard, coaching in his first season with the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035035-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1904\u201305 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035036-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team\nThe 1904\u201305 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team represented the Christian Brothers College High School (then known as college) during the 1904\u201305 college soccer season. The team, along with Haverford were declared co-champions by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football League. Additionally, the program was selected to participate as the local representative in the soccer tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics in November. In the Olympics, the program earned the silver medal after losing to Canadian club, Galt, and defeating American club, St. Rose Parish. To date, they are the only college/high school soccer program to have ever earned an Olympic medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035036-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team, Squad\nThe following players were known to have played for the university during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035036-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035037-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Amos Foster, coaching his first season with the Bearcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035038-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Colgate men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his fifth season. The team had finished with an overall record of 10\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035039-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Columbia Lions men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Columbia Lions men's basketball team represented Columbia University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1904\u201305 season. The team finished the season with a 19\u20131 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Two players were named to the first-ever college basketball All-American team at the end of the season: Harry Fisher and Marcus Hurley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035040-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035040-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but E. H. Updike served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035040-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035041-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season. The Aggies completed the season with a 3\u20133 overall record. The Aggies were members of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges and ended the season with a 0\u20131 record with a loss to Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035042-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1904\u201305 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, who played without a head coach, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035043-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the twelfth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where they would finish in 8th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would lose to Heart of Midlothian in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035044-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 East Stirlingshire F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was East Stirlingshire Football Club's fourth season in the Scottish Football League, being admitted to the Scottish Football League Second Division. The club also competed in the minor Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035045-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 F.B.C. Juventus season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the 6th season in the existence of Juventus. Juventus won their first league in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup\nThe 1904\u201305 FA Cup was the 34th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Aston Villa won the competition for the fourth time, beating Newcastle United 2\u20130 in the final at Crystal Palace, through two goals scored by Harry Hampton. The man of the match was Aston Villa's prolific scorer Billy Garraty, who was born only a few miles from the now Villa Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had two preliminary rounds, six qualifying rounds, an intermediate round, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe Intermediate Round featured ten games, played between the ten winners of the Sixth Qualifying Round, and ten teams given byes. Manchester United, Bristol City, West Bromwich Albion, Burnley and Grimsby Town from the Second Division were entered automatically into this round, as were non-league Reading, Portsmouth, Bristol Rovers, Plymouth Argyle and Millwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, Intermediate Round\nThe other Second Division sides had to gain entry to this round through the earlier qualifying rounds. Glossop, Blackpool, Burton United, Gainsborough Trinity, Leicester Fosse and Doncaster Rovers were entered at the Third Qualifying Round stage, with only Blackpool, Leicester and Gainsborough reaching the intermediate round from these. Chesterfield, Barnsley, Bradford City, Lincoln City and Burslem Port Vale were all entered at the Sixth Qualifying Round stage, with only the latter losing in that round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. The 18 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers from the Second Division, and non-league Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur. They joined the ten teams who won in the intermediate round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 4 February 1905. Seven matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture. Two of these went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0007-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, Second round proper\nThe eight second-round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 18 February 1905. There were two replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0008-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe four quarter final matches were scheduled for Saturday, 4 March 1905. The Preston North End \u2013 The Wednesday game was drawn, and replayed on 9 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0009-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, Semi finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 25 March 1905. Aston Villa's match with Everton was drawn and thus replayed four days later. Aston Villa won and went on to meet Newcastle United in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035046-0010-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FA Cup, Final\nThe Final was contested by Aston Villa and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Aston Villa won 2\u20130, with Harry Hampton scoring both goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season\nThe 1904\u201305 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from December 31, 1904, until March 3. Teams played an eight-game schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, League business\nThe Ottawa Hockey Club, who officially joined the FAHL prior to the end of the last season, played its first full season in the league. Montreal Le National left the league and joined the rival Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL). Ottawa had negotiated with the CAHL to return, along with the Wanderers joining, but this was turned down. The Ottawa Capitals also left the FAHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Pre-season\nThe Wanderers played an exhibition series in New York City in December 1904. One game, versus the New York City Athletic Club, was noted for its rough play by the Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Regular season\nThe newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club won the league championship \u2013 and retained the Stanley Cup \u2013 with a record of seven wins and one loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nOttawa's Frank McGee scored five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Regular season, Results\n\u2020 Ottawa HC lock down League Championship, retain Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nThe Klondike Hockey Club, in a letter dated August 24, 1904, from team president Weldy Young, a former Ottawa player, issued a challenge to the Ottawa Hockey Club. The Dawson City team had won no championships and was not a member of any recognized senior league, yet Stanley Cup trustees P.D. Ross and JohnSweetland approved the challenge. Author Paul Kitchen has speculated that the series was approved because Young knew both Ross and federal government minister Clifford Sifton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0007-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nIn January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets travelled 4,000 miles (6,400\u00a0km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19, 1904, and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). The team was no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeated them in the first game, 9\u20132. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in game two, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, which included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes, and a 23\u20132 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Final game to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0008-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nSeveral players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec. Randy McLennan had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario. Another player has Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, \"formerly of the Yukon\", had played for Brandon Wheat City in their 1904 challenge of Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0009-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nA. Coleman lists spelling as Lorne Hanna, other spellings include Hannay (Reddick's spelling) and Hanney (in The Globe article)B. Coleman lists E. Butterworth as referee. However, Boyle is recorded as complaining about Stiles missing off-side calls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0010-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nThe score was 9 to 2 but Ottawa might have increased its proportions had they set to work to run up a score on the men who had travelled 4,000 miles from the far north in quest of the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0010-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nDuring the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing against the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north. While defeated to-night, it is undoubtedly the fact that the team will be a different proportion in the second game on Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0011-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nThe visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates. In fact had it not been for the fact of Forrest's presence in the Dawson goal the score against them might have been a great deal larger. Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0012-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nAfter the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. There is a Stanley Cup legend that after the banquet, the Stanley Cup was drop kicked into the frozen Rideau Canal nearby and retrieved the next day. However, Bill Westwick, Ottawa Journal sports editor and the son of Silver Seven player Rat Westwick, and NHL commissioner Frank Calder both deny it ever happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0013-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage Thistles\nIn March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Ottawas. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9\u20133. However, he returned to lead Ottawa to 4\u20132 and 5\u20134 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee returned in game two, with his good forearm wrapped in a cast, and only a light bandage on his broken wrist, to decoy the Thistles. Alf Smith scored three goals in game two on slow ice, which the Thistles claimed was salted to slow down the Thistles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035047-0013-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage Thistles\nThere was hard ice in game three, and the lead exchanged hands several times. The Thistles led 2\u20131 at halftime and 3\u20132 midway through the second half. Ottawa took a 4\u20133 lead, before Tommy Phillips scored his third of the game to tie the score. However, McGee came through with the winning score late in the game to win it for Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 76], "content_span": [77, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035048-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the 6th soccer season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035048-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Barcelona season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1904\u201305 season was their twelfth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who was chairman for the second consecutive year. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season, Overview\nEugen Strauss was team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. The team played just two pre-season friendlies, one in France against Mulhouse and one in Z\u00fcrich against Grasshopper Club. The game against Mulhouse was won 8\u20131 the return match four months later in the Landhof was only drawn. The match against the Grasshoppers ended in a defeat. In the winter break the team travelled to Germany. They played against 1. FC Pforzheim on Christmas day and were defeated 7\u20133. On boxing day they played a game against Karlsruher FV and managed a draw. At the end of the season the team travelled again to Germany and were defeated 5\u20131 by Freiburger FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe seventh league championship, Swiss Serie A season 1904\u201305, was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Weissenb\u00fchl Bern and Old Boys Basel. This season was a sportingly very disappointing season for Basel. There were just two victories from eight games, both times against Weissenb\u00fchl Bern. The away game was won 9\u20132 and the return match 3\u20130. Weissenb\u00fchl Bern lost all their eight games and were relegated at the end of the season with a goal tally of five scored and 52 conceded. Basel's other six games all ended in defeats and they landed in second last position in the group table, scoring 18 and conceding 20 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season, Overview\nIn the central group Young Boys Bern and the Old Boys Basel ended the season level on points as they did the year before and so a play-off match was arranged (see also foot note below). This time the Young Boys won the play-off with 2\u20131 and therefore they qualified for the finals. In the finals Grasshopper Club won both their matches and became Swiss champions for the third time in seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season, Results, Serie A, Central group league table\nNB: the match FC Basel - Young Boys Bern ended with the final score 3-4. Falsely, however, the result was originally reported as a 4-4 draw. Thus Old Boys would have finished in first position and were nominated as participants for the finals. After the mistake was noticed the W-D-L records and points totals in the league table were corrected and the necessary play-off match was arranged. However, the total goals remained without modification and consequently this leads to the fact that most older sources list the goal records for Young Boys and FC Basel as 35-11 and 19-20 respectively. Obviously this is arithmetically incorrect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035049-0007-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 FC Basel season, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Most of the documentation is missing.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035050-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Football League\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the 17th season of The Football League. Woolwich Arsenal were the first London club to feature in the top flight of English football since its inception in 1888\u201389.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035050-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035050-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035050-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035051-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1904-05 French Rugby Union Championship was won by SBUC, who defeated Stade Fran\u00e7ais in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035051-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1904-05 championship was the second consecutive time the two teams had met in the final match, with SBUC victorious on both occasions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035051-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nSBUC: Jean Guiraud, Pascal Laporte, Maurice Bruneau, Marc Giacardy, H\u00e9lier Thil, Campbell Cartwright, Andr\u00e9 Lacassagne, Max Kurtz (cap), Marcel Laffitte, Jacques Duffourcq, Alphonse Mass\u00e9, R.Dachicourt, Jaur\u00e9guiber, Louis Mulot, Herman Gross-Droz", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035051-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nStade Fran\u00e7ais: Henri Marescal, Charles Vareilles, Stuart Forsyth, Francis Mouronval, Pierre Mouronval, Lhuerre, Guy de Talenc\u00e9, Charles Beaurin, Allan Henry Muhr, Camille Galliot, Andr\u00e9 Verg\u00e8s, Marcel Communeau, Georges J\u00e9r\u00f4me, A. Bertjemann, Paul Dedet", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035052-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Galatasaray S.K. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was Galatasaray SK's first. Galatasaray SK did not join the IFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035053-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035053-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nIn December of 1904 Harvard constructed two rinks inside the recently completed Harvard Stadium, allowing for the increasingly popular ice hockey team to be viewed by a large number of spectators. The Crimson played six games at home during the year, utterly dominating their opponents; Harvard outscored the visitors 74\u20137 including setting an all-time program record (as of 2019) in their first intercollegiate game by eviscerating MIT 25\u20130. The game saw double hat-tricks from both Callaway and Wilder as well as a goal from MIT's Tylee...on his own net. In the 18\u20130 drubbing of Springfield, Richard Townsend set a program record with 8 goals in the game, a feat he almost duplicated with a 7-goal game against Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035053-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the third straight year Harvard finished undefeated, claiming another intercollegiate title, and extending their winning streak to 26 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035054-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Haverford Fords men's soccer team\nThe 1904\u201305 Haverford Fords men's soccer team represented Haverford College during the 1904\u201305 IAFL season. It was the Fords fourth season of existence. The Fords competed in the IAFL as well as in the ACCL, and won both the IAFL National Championship, the predecessor to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship as well as The Manheim Prize, for winning the ACCL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035054-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Haverford Fords men's soccer team\nThe Fords became the first team to win an Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association title, which is considered by American soccer historians to be the first formal national championship given to a college soccer program. Haverford finished with six wins, one defeat and three draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035054-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Haverford Fords men's soccer team, Roster\nThe following players played on Haverford's roster during the 1904\u201305 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035055-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1904\u201305 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035056-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1904\u201305 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished fifth out of 14 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035057-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Powers, coaching the crusaders in his fourth season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035058-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 IPHL season\nThe 1904\u201305 IPHL season was played by teams of the International Professional Hockey League. It marked the first season in the league\u2019s history. It\u2019s also the only season the Calumet-Laurium Miners won the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035059-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Zora G. Clevenger, who was in his 1st year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a first-time member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035059-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 5\u201312 and a conference record of 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035060-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his sixth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035061-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1904\u201305 comprised 8 teams, and Glentoran won the championship after a play-off with Belfast Celtic ( Championship Playoff: Glentoran-Belfast Celtic 3-1 ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035062-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Istanbul Football League\nThe 1904\u201305 \u0130stanbul Football League season was the first season of the league. HMS Imogene FC won the league for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035063-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 KBUs Fodboldturnering, Overview\nIt was contested by 6 teams, and Kj\u00f8benhavns Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035064-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its seventh season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served his 7th year. The Jayhawks finished the season 5\u20136. Future Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen played for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035065-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Kentucky State men's basketball team competed on behalf of the University of Kentucky during the 1904-1905 season. The team finished with a final record of 1-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035066-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MHA season\nThe 1904\u201305 Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) season was won by the Rat Portage Thistles. After the season the Thistles challenged Ottawa for the Stanley Cup, but lost in a three-game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035066-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nTom Phillips returned to the Thistles after attending McGill University and a year in Toronto. Phillips brought along goaltender Eddie Giroux, with whom he had played with in the 1903\u201304 season for the Toronto Marlboros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035066-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MHA season, Stanley Cup Challenges\nAfter the season, the Thistles challenged the Ottawa Hockey Club in Ottawa", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035066-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MHA season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa\nIn March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Senators. The Ottawa star Frank McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9\u20133. However, he returned to lead the Senators to 4\u20132 and 5\u20134 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee scored the winning goal in the third game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 66], "content_span": [67, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035067-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035067-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter having to cancel their entire 1903\u201304 season due to poor weather conditions, MIT returned to the ice in January of 1905. Unfortunately, the weather again forced them to cancel their first game of the season against Brown. When they did finally play a game, they came up against a juggernaut in Harvard and lost one of the most lopsided games in college hockey history (0\u201325). After that initial embarrassment the team settled down and won their next five games, albeit against non-college opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035067-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but P. S. Crowell served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035067-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035068-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Madrid FC season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was Madrid Football Club's 3rd season in existence. The club played some friendly matches against local clubs. They also played in the Campeonato de Madrid (Madrid Championship) and the Copa del Rey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035068-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Madrid FC season\nMadrid FC remained unbeaten throughout the season winning both the Campeonato de Madrid and the Copa del Rey for the first time. The only match the club did not win was a 1\u20131 draw in a friendly against Athletic Club Sucursal de Madrid. Madrid FC defeated Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final securing the first official title in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035069-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was Manchester City F.C. 's fourteenth season of league football and second consecutive season in the top flight of English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035070-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was Manchester United's 13th season in the Football League. United finished 3rd in the Second Division. The Reds also competed in the FA Cup, but failed to get past the Intermediate Round stage, losing to Fulham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035070-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nManchester United entered the 1904\u201305 FA Cup at the Intermediate Round stage and were drawn at home to Fulham on 14 January 1905. The match finished 2\u20132, with goals from Tommy Arkesden and Charles Mackie. The replay was played four days later away at Craven Cottage, and ended scoreless. On 23 January, Fulham and United played a second replay at the neutral venue of Villa Park, which Fulham won by a single goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035071-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 team finished with a record 6\u20133. It was the second year for head coach Wilbur P. Bowen. The team captain was Edward O\u2019Brien and the team manager was Herbert Chapman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035071-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team, Schedule\n1. Media guide shows score of 12-44 and yearbook shows 14-54. 2 . EMU shows score of 22-29 and Adrian shows score of 20-19. 3. EMU doesn't show this game but Adrian does.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035072-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The school was known as State Agricultural College at this time. The head coach was Chester Brewer coaching the team in his second season. The team captain was Foley Tutle. They finished the season 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035073-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1904\u20131905 was contested by eighteen teams participating in two divisions. The western division had been divided during the last two seasons, but was combined again. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating PW 4-1 and 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035074-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Football League\nThe 1904\u201305 Northern Football League season was the sixteenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035074-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035075-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the tenth season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035075-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nOldham won their first Division One Championship whilst Warrington won the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035075-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nHolbeck and South Shields dropped out, reducing the competition to 15 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035075-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nBirkenhead resigned after 4 games, the results of which were struck out of the table. They lost all four games, conceding 93 points and scoring none.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035075-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nOn 4 March 1905, a record 11 tries were scored by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers in the Northern Union Challenge Cup. In this same match the record for most points in a match, 53 (11t, 10g) by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035075-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nAt the end of the season, all division one and division two clubs. except Lancaster, were elected to the new single top division, the NRFU Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035075-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nWarrington beat Hull Kingston Rovers 6-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 19,638 to win the Cup at their third attempt in a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, the club's 20th season of play, lasted from January 7, 1905, until March 11, 1905. Ottawa won the league championship of the Federal Amateur Hockey League and successfully defended its Stanley Cup championship against all challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nAfter resigning from the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) in January 1904, the club made plans to join the FAHL. However, before the season started, the club investigated returning to the CAHL and to helping create a merger of the FAHL with the CAHL. The teams of the CAHL were opposed to both initiatives and the club played the season in the FAHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nTwo personal tragedies occurred during the off-season. Jim McGee died in a horse-riding accident in May. The McGee family did not wish Frank to continue to play hockey with only one good eye but Frank chose to play the season. Harvey Pulford's wife Annis died giving birth to a son in December 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nIn December 1904, the Ottawas signed an agreement to return to Dey's Rink for season and Stanley Cup play. The Ottawas had been unhappy with the Aberdeen Pavilion and the Dey's Rink management agreed to arena improvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nBouse Hutton was ruled ineligible by the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union (CAAU) to play amateur ice hockey. He had played with the Ottawa Capitals Lacrosse Club, which was ruled to be a professional team. In addition, he had a severe case of quinsy. Hutton retired from ice hockey, continuing in lacrosse. Dave Finnie took his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nHarry Westwick who also had played lacrosse, was deemed eligible by the CAAU to play ice hockey for Ottawa, but was considered a professional by the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). This meant the cancellation of an exhibition between the Toronto Marlboros and Ottawa prior to the season as Ottawa refused to play without Westwick. The Dey's Rink still charged the Marlboros for rental of the rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nSuddy Gilmour did not return for this season, as he went to work lumbering in the Gatineaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0007-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season\nThe Club won the league championship with a record of seven wins and one loss. The first game, on January 7 versus the Wanderers, was attended by Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, the Governor-General of Canada. Grey dropped the puck for the first face-off. It was the first display of ice hockey that he attended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0008-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nFrank McGee scored five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0009-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Scoring\nAn \"own goal\", by Garnet McDonald of Cornwall, in the February 24, 1905 game was also recorded for Ottawa. After a shot by Hamby Shore was stopped, McDonald \"in a zealous effort to clear, only batted it in.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0010-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nThe first interest in a challenge from Dawson City was indicated in a letter from Weldy Young to the Ottawa Citizen, in 1900. The Stanley Cup trustees received a letter from G. T. Kirkson and C. Shannon of Dawson on June 7, 1901, challenging the then-champion Winnipeg Victorias. After P. D. Ross wrote back to Dawson, nothing further was heard from the Dawson club until September 9, 1904, when Ross received a challenge from Young for a Dawson City All-Star team to challenge the Silver Seven. Ross authorized the challenge in December 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0011-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nIn January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets travelled 4,000 miles (6,400\u00a0km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19, 1904, and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). They were no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeated them in the first game, 9\u20132. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in game two, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, which included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes, and a 23\u20132 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Final game to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0012-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City\nSeveral players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec. Randy McLennan was from Glengarry County, Ontario and had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario. Another player had Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, \"formerly of the Yukon\", had played for Brandon Wheat City in their 1904 challenge of Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0013-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game one\nA. Coleman lists spelling as Lorne Hanna, other spellings include Hannay (Reddick's spelling) and Hanney (in The Globe article)B. Coleman lists E. Butterworth as referee. However, Boyle is recorded as complaining about Stiles missing off-side calls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0014-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game one\nThe score was 9 to 2 but Ottawa might have increased its proportions had they set to work to run up a score on the men who had travelled 4,000 miles from the far north in quest of the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0014-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game one\nDuring the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing against the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north. While defeated to-night, it is undoubtably the fact that the team will be a different proportion in the second game on Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0015-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game two\nThe visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates. In fact had it not been for the fact of Forrest's presence in the Dawson goal the score against them might have been a great deal larger. Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle, and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0016-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game two\nAfter the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. There is a Stanley Cup legend that after the banquet, the Stanley Cup was drop kicked into the frozen Rideau Canal nearby and retrieved the next day. However, Bill Westwick, Ottawa Journal sports editor and the son of Silver Seven player Rat Westwick, and NHL commissioner Frank Calder both deny it ever happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0017-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage\nIn March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Senators. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9\u20133. However, he returned to lead the Senators to 4\u20132 and 5\u20134 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee returned in game two, with his good forearm wrapped in a cast, and only a light bandage on his broken wrist, to decoy the Thistles. Alf Smith scored three goals in game two on slow ice, which the Thistles claimed was salted to slow down the Thistles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0017-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage\nThere was hard ice in game three, and the lead exchanged hands several times. The Thistles led 2\u20131 at halftime and 3\u20132 midway through the second half. Ottawa took a 4\u20133 lead, before Tommy Phillips scored his third of the game to tie the score. However, McGee came through with the winning score late in the game to win it for Ottawa. Nearly 11,000 attended the series, and sell-outs left spectators outside of Dey's Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0018-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game one\nOttawa played game one without two of its top players: Frank McGee and Billy Gilmour. In the Montreal Gazette report, the Thistles' speed was praised, saying that \"once one of the Thistle players had broken away he was hardly in any danger of being caught by an Ottawa forward.\" Rat Portage scored first but Ottawa scored twice to gain the lead. Si Griffis then scored three consecutive goals to put the Thistles ahead 4\u20132 at the half. In the second half, the Thistles continued their dominance, scoring four straight before Ottawa replied. Phillips scored his final goal to make it 9\u20133 for the Thistles. The game was played with two referees and the game was described as the \"cleanest game played in Ottawa this season.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0019-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game two\nThe second game was played on heavy, wet, ice. This was considered a disadvantage to the Thistles, who were unable to play their style of game, having only skates suited to fast ice. Bolstered by the return of McGee and Gilmour, Ottawa played a game of \"trickery and rough tactics\" that they were known for. Griffis opened the scoring at 16 minutes of the first half. A minute later, Smith responded, tying the score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0019-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game two\nHooper scored for Rat Portage two minutes later to put the Thistles again into the lead, but this was countered by two goals from Ottawa's Smith and Gilmour to put Ottawa ahead 3\u20132 at the half. In the second half, only Ottawa was able to score, as Ottawa's Smith completed his hat trick at 18:45 to cement the game for Ottawa. McGee did not score, but did his part to intimidate the Thistles with stick work, drawing four penalties. Dey's Rink was jammed, filled with 3,500 spectators, leaving approximately 1,000 outside on Gladstone Avenue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 91], "content_span": [92, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0020-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game three\nThe third game was played on hard, fast ice unlike game two. McGee came to the fore in scoring, scoring a hat trick, including the game and Cup winner with two minutes to play. In the first half, Phillips of Rat Portage scored twice to put the Thistles ahead 2\u20131 at the half. Smith of Ottawa opened the scoring in the second, matched by Hooper eight minutes later. McGee and Westwick scored to put Ottawa ahead 4\u20133 but Phillips tied it at 4 with four minutes to play. McGee won the game with his third goal, converting a pass from Pulford with two and a half minutes to go. The Montreal Gazette report praised the quality of the game and Harvey Pulford in particular.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0021-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Ottawa Hockey Club 1905 Stanley Cup champions, Players\n\u2020 Substitute/on team picture/dressed, but did not play&-Missing from the team picture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035076-0022-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Ottawa Hockey Club 1905 Stanley Cup champions, Stanley Cup engraving\nWeldy Young, a former member of the Ottawa team in the 1890s, and the captain of the Dawson City team, engraved his name on the Cup with a pen knife. He had missed playing for Dawson as he was working in the federal election, although he did arrive in Ottawa during the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 103], "content_span": [104, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035077-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035078-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the second competitive season in the history of Plymouth Argyle Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035079-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Primera Fuerza season, Overview\nPachuca won the Mexican national championship for the first time in 1905, if only because their goal average (goal ratio) was better than that of British Club (Mexico City). A Mexican triumph this was not, however, as all of Pachuca's players were British, many of whom had gained experience playing in the English leagues. The champions' line-up included the three brothers \"Stan\", \"Charly\" and \"Jack\" Dawe, as well as outside right \"Willie\" Rule and wing half-back \"Jack\" Rabling. Goalkeeper Charles Quickmore was a priest and minister of the Protestant mine churches in Mexico. Orizaba, Mexican champions in 1903, could no longer play in the league as the travels involved would have been too long and would have taken too much time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035079-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Primera Fuerza season, League standings, Top goalscorers\nPlayers sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035080-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035080-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe Tigers played a program low of six games during the season and were only able to win one game against lowly Brown. The team would not play so few or win so few games until the season after World War I. Princeton played all of its games at the St. Nicholas Rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035081-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season is the 31st season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035081-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 33 competitive matches during the 1904\u201305 season. The team finished joint top of the league with Celtic, equal on points but with better goal difference. Since the concept of goal difference was not considered both teams played a Championship play-off which Celtic won 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035081-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe Scottish Cup campaign saw the team reach the final where they played Third Lanark. The final ended in a draw and Rangers lost the replay 1\u20133 at Hampden Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035082-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1904\u201305 Rugby Union County Championship was the 17th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035082-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Rugby Union County Championship\nDurham won the competition for the fourth time defeating Middlesex in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035083-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Scottish Cup\nThe 1904\u201305 Scottish Cup was the 32nd season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Third Lanark when they beat Rangers 3-1 in a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035084-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1904\u201305 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035085-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Scottish Division One\nThe 1904\u201305 Scottish Division One season was won by Celtic. They and Rangers had finished the league campaign level on 41 points, and a play-off at Hampden Park (doubling up as a fixture in the minor Glasgow Football League) was arranged to decide the championship. An English-based referee was drafted in to officiate at the match due to increasing tensions between the two groups of supporters and controversies in recent matches between the sides. Celtic won 2\u20131, with Jimmy McMenemy and Davie Hamilton scoring the decisive goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035085-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Scottish Division One\nThe 'Old firm' clubs (a term recently employed for the growing commercial draw of the frequent fixtures between them) had already been involved in two other unusual matches during that season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035086-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1904\u201305 Scottish Division Two was won by Clyde with St Bernard's finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035088-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1904\u201305 Sheffield Shield season was the 13th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035089-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Small Heath F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 Football League season was Small Heath Football Club's 13th in the Football League and their 5th in the First Division. In third position in the 18-team league, only one point behind the leaders, with eight matches remaining, they gained only four points from the sixteen available, and finished seventh. They also took part in the 1904\u201305 FA Cup, entering at the first round proper and losing to Portsmouth in that round. In locally organised competition, they won the Birmingham Senior Cup for the first time, defeating West Bromwich Albion by seven goals to two. After this season, the club entered a primarily reserve team for this competition, which had previously not been permitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035089-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Small Heath F.C. season\nNineteen players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were nine different goalscorers. Goalkeeper Nat Robinson, full-back Frank Stokes and forward Benny Green were all ever-present over the 35-match season. Billy Jones was leading scorer with 16 goals, all of which came in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035089-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Small Heath F.C. season\nAt an Extraordinary General Meeting held in March 1905, it was proposed that, Small Heath being the only major football club in the city since Birmingham St George's had folded in 1892, the club should be renamed Birmingham City F.C. The shareholders were not in favour, though they were prepared to go as far as plain Birmingham Football Club instead. Even this was a step too far for some; one reporter referred to \"the Small Heath club now masquerading as Birmingham\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035089-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Small Heath F.C. season\nEvents surrounding the February 1905 match with Aston Villa highlighted the Coventry Road ground's inadequacies. The official attendance was given as 28,000, though with the gates closed before kick-off, thousands scaled walls or forced entrances in order to gain admission, and the actual attendance was estimated at anything up to 35,000. The Birmingham Daily Mail reported \"a constant stream of vehicles to the ground, while the trams were disgorging their freights at Muntz Street every two or three minutes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035089-0003-0001", "contents": "1904\u201305 Small Heath F.C. season\nInside, \"the swaying of the mass of spectators rendered the placing of additional supports against the barriers a necessary precaution\", and children were passed overhead and placed on the pitch for their own safety. The following Monday the same newspaper commented that had space been available, another ten or fifteen thousand spectators might well have attended, as \"hundreds of people found the doors closed against them, and probably there were thousands who would not go to the ground in view of the inevitable crush.\" The club's landlords would neither sell the freehold of the ground nor allow its expansion, so the directors began planning to move to a new home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035090-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Southern Football League\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the 11th in the history of Southern League. Bristol Rovers won Division One for the first time and Fulham reserves finished top of Division Two. Division Two club Clapton Orient were the only Southern League club to apply for election to the Football League, and were successful after a decision was made to expand the League to 40 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035090-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 18 teams contest the division, including 17 sides from previous season and one new team. Watford returned to Division after one season of absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035090-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of 12 teams contest the division, including 8 sides from previous season and four new teams, three of which were reserve teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035090-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nOnly one Southern League club, Clapton Orient of Division Two, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. Although they were not elected in the first round, it was later agreed to expand theFootball League from 36 to 40 clubs and all the unsuccessful candidates except Doncaster Rovers were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035090-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Southern Football League, Football League elections\n* Chelsea had played no games, nor had any players when they were elected. Hull City had been formed in 1904, but had only played friendly matches during the 1904\u201305 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035091-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1904-1905 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's tenth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 31st in the club's sporting history. A year after gaining promotion back to the first division, ST Helens once again struggled, and finished second-bottom to suffer another relegation. St Helens also competed in the end-of-season South West Lancashire mini-league, but could only finish fourth out of six. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the second round by Broughton Red Rose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035092-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1904\u201305 season was Stoke's 16th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035092-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Stoke F.C. season\nThere was no relegation worries for Stoke this season due to the First Division being expanded to 20 clubs for the 1905\u201306 campaign. Stoke struggled for consistency and finished in a mid-table position of 12th after picking up 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035092-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nThe summer of 1904 saw a further exodus of players, including Arthur Capes who left for Bristol City and Leigh Richmond Roose who went to Everton. There was now a distinct lack of quality players available within the club and with these two major departures, the now despondent Stoke supporters saw very little hope of improvement out on the pitch. Tom Holford took over captaincy whilst Jack Whitley arrived as first choice 'keeper from Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035092-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nJames Sheridan an Irish International forward also came in from Everton, but never fitted in at the Victoria Ground although he did win an Ireland cap whilst at Stoke becoming the clubs first capped Irishman. Jack Hall another recruit signed from Newark, in October 1904 and his seven goals were only exceeded by Fred Rouse who was top scorer with 12. Not being able to field a settled forward line was a major problem for manager Horace Austerberry and 12th place in the division was the final outcome in an inconsistent season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035092-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke went out of this season FA Cup in the second round after being well beaten 4\u20130 at home to Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035093-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Swiss Serie A, Central\nNB: the match FC Basel - Young Boys Bern ended with the final score 3-4. Falsely, however, the result was originally reported as a 4-4 draw. Thus Old Boys would have finished in first position and were nominated as participants for the finals. After the mistake was noticed the W-D-L records and points totals in the league table were corrected and the necessary play-off match was arranged. However, the total goals remained without modification and consequently this leads to the fact that most older sources list the goal records for Young Boys and FC Basel as 35-11 and 19-20 respectively. Obviously this is arithmetically incorrect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035094-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Syracuse Orangemen men's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The head coach was John A. R. Scott, coaching his second season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035095-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 10th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035095-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nDue to a lack of ice facilities, many programs were suspended starting in 1904. The schools to cease their ice hockey teams includes Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College and Williams College. Most would eventually restart their programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035096-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1904\u201305 Welsh Amateur Cup was the fifteenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Esclusham White Stars who defeated Bangor Reserves 4-0 in the final, at Wrexham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035097-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represents the University of West Virginia during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The team captain was James Gronninger. The Mountaineers finished with an overall record of 6\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035098-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Western Football League\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the 13th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035098-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Western Football League\nPlymouth Argyle were the champions of Division One for the first time, and along with all the other members of Division One, also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions were Bristol Rovers Reserves, who completed the season unbeaten in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035098-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nTwo new clubs joined Division One, which was increased to 11 clubs from nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035098-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nOne new club joined Division Two, which remained at 10 clubs after Paulton Rovers left to join the Somerset Senior League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035099-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1904\u20131905 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Emmett Angell, coaching his first season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035100-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team\nThe 1904\u201305 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1904\u201305 college basketball season. Coached by W. Yates in their first ever season, the Cowboys went 1\u20130, winning their lone game on April 21 against Laramie Town Team by a score of 17\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035101-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1904\u201305 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 10th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035101-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nYale played a majority of their games at home for the first time in four years. Yale did not play any team from the Pittsburgh area for the first time since 1898 due to the collapse of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035101-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nYale entered the final game of its season with the opportunity to win the intercollegiate championship, however, Harvard once again stymied the Elis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035101-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, Charles Goodyear II (the son of business magnate Charles W. Goodyear) served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035102-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States\nThe 1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States began in December 1904, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035102-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Regular season, Conference winners\nNOTE: The Western Conference (the future Big Ten Conference) did not sponsor an official conference season or recognize a regular-season champion until the 1905\u201306 season. In 1904\u201305, Chicago (9\u20133) finished with the best winning percentage (.750) and Wisconsin (10\u20138) with the most wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 99], "content_span": [100, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035102-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Awards, Helms College Basketball All-Americans\nThe practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928\u201329 season. The Helms Athletic Foundation later retroactively selected a list of All-Americans for the 1904\u201305 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 111], "content_span": [112, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035103-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Belgian football\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the tenth competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035103-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Belgian football, Overview\nOnly one official division existed at the time. It was called Division I. The season was not completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035103-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Belgian football, Overview\nAthletic and Running Club de Bruxelles withdrew at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035103-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Belgian football, National team\nBelgium won its first official game against France on May 7, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035104-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in English football\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the 34th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035104-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in English football, Events\nStockport County were replaced by Doncaster Rovers in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035104-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in English football, Events\nAt the end of the 1904\u201305 season, the First Division was expanded to include 20 teams, sparing Bury and Notts County from relegation to the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035104-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in English football, Events\nManchester City, the previous season's FA Cup winners, were discovered to have been paying their players up to \u00a36 or \u00a37 per week instead of the legal maximum of \u00a34 per week. The club's influential winger Billy Meredith was accused of bribing Aston Villa player Alex Leake and was faced with an 18-month ban from The Football Association, who further rebuked the club by dismissing five of its directors and banning a total of 17 players from ever playing for the club again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035104-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035105-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Scottish football\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the 32nd season of competitive football in Scotland and the 15th season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035105-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division One\nCeltic became the champions after a playoff victory against Rangers after the two teams finished level on points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035105-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division One\nThe above table was slightly incorrect. Most reference books have the score for the game 19 November 1904 as Hearts 2 Port Glasgow Athletic 0. The actual score was 5\u20130. Therefore, Hearts should have 3 more goals and Port Glasgow 3 more in the against Column. Incorrect version that appears in most reference books.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035105-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division Two\nTwo teams were promoted from Division Two this season, as next season's Division One capacity increased to sixteen teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035105-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nThird Lanark were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 3\u20131 replay win over Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035105-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nAshfield were winners of the Junior Cup after a 2\u20131 win over Renfrew Vic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035106-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Turkish football\nThe 1904\u201305 season was the first season of organized football in Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035106-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Turkish football\nThe Istanbul Football League featured only four clubs at the time: Moda FC, HMS Imogene FC, Elpis FC, and Cadi-Keuy FC. The first champions of league football in Turkey was Imogene, a team made up of Englishmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035106-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u201305 in Turkish football\nThe first league of Turkey lasted for 55 years until it was replaced with the Turkish First Football League (now Turkcell Super League).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival\nThe 1904\u20131905 Welsh revival was the largest Christian revival in Wales during the 20th century. It was one of the most dramatic in terms of its effect on the population, and triggered revivals in several other countries. \"The movement kept the churches of Wales filled for many years to come, seats being placed in the aisles in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Swansea for twenty years or so, for example. Meanwhile, the Awakening swept the rest of Britain, Scandinavia, parts of Europe, North America, the mission fields of India and the Orient, Africa and Latin America.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Background\nThe last previous revival in Wales was in 1859, but this followed other developments. From 1850 onwards Christianity in Wales was markedly less Calvinistic in form. A generation of powerful biblical preachers ended, as leaders such as Christmas Evans (1766\u20131838), John Elias (1744\u20131841) and Henry Rees (1798\u20131869) died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Background\nBetween 1859 and 1904, there were local revivals in Cwmafan (1866), Rhondda (1879), Carmarthen and Blaenau Ffestiniog (1887), Dowlais (1890) and Pontnewydd (1892).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, New Quay and Blaenannerch\nA prominent leader of the Revival was the Methodist preacher of New Quay, Joseph Jenkins, who arranged a conference in New Quay in 1903 with the theme to deepen loyalty to Christ. After a meeting in February 1904, the regular Sunday meetings as well as the newly founded midweek meetings became lively and members of Joseph Jenkins' church went to other nearby towns and villages to 'witness' to the effects of how accepting Christ's message had influenced their lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, New Quay and Blaenannerch\nIn September a conference was held at Blaenannerch. It was reported that 'massive blessing' was upon this conference and the news quickly spread throughout the area and beyond. The South Wales Daily News picked up on the events and reported that \"the third great revival was afoot through the nation! \"\u2014the other two being the Welsh Methodist revival and the 1859 Methodist revival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 66], "content_span": [67, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0005-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Ammanford\nIn November 1904 Jenkins was invited as guest preacher at meetings in Bethany, Ammanford, the church of Nantlais Williams. When the appointment was arranged, there was no news yet of the conversions in New Quay and Blaenannerch, but an extra meeting was hastily arranged on the Sunday afternoon so that Joseph Jenkins could tell about the events there. Williams is recorded to have said that he was worried that there would be no interest in such a meeting and he was sceptical what the turnout would be; but when he arrived, he could only just squeeze into the chapel to hear Jenkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0006-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Ammanford\nIt had been arranged that Jenkins was to preach on the Monday night before his return to New Quay. The church was again full with people professing their faith in Jesus. Perhaps the most dramatic turn was when one of the crowd announced, \"Another meeting like this will be held here tomorrow night\u2026\" That meeting was again well attended and went on until the early hours of the morning. Despite already having been ordained as a minister, on that weekend in November 1904 Williams had a conversion experience, on the Saturday night prior to Jenkins' arrival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0007-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, North Wales\nIn December 1904 Joseph Jenkins embarked on three months of preaching and professing in areas of North Wales. Many meetings were held in Amlwch, Llangefni, Llanerchymedd, Talysarn, Llanllyfni, Llanrwst, Denbigh, and Dinorwig, and some students at the University of Wales Bangor were converted. But perhaps the most conversions were seen in Bethesda; another leader of the revival, J. T. Job, described the meeting held in Jerusalem, Bethesda on 22 December 1904 as \"a hurricane\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0008-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor\nEvan Roberts was a young man influenced by the stories and experiences that were happening in New Quay and Blaenannerch. He decided to go to Newcastle Emlyn for ministerial training, and arrived in the revival in south Ceredigion. The news of the mass conversions in New Quay and Blaenannerch had already spread to Newcastle Emlyn and were a distraction for a man who had been sent there to study. Seth Joshua, another prominent leader of the revival, came to the area to hold meetings, which Roberts attended eagerly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0009-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor\nAfter his three months training at Newcastle Emlyn he was to return to Loughor to start his ministry. He claimed to have direct visions from the Holy Spirit: very specific visions, such as the number 100,000 representing the souls God intended to use him to save. As the revival unfolded Roberts is said to have depended increasingly upon what he considered the guidance of the Holy Spirit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0010-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor\nResponse to Roberts' ministry was initially slow, but soon the crowds turned out and the meetings were carried on until the early hours of the morning. After the meeting at Loughor, Roberts assembled a team and went on a tour of the South Wales valleys to spread the revival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0011-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor\nRoberts did not take well the decline of the revival, and the frustration of great expectations of a worldwide revival that had arisen in his team, and afterwards fell into depression. He was then housed by a friend in England at Leicester, and co-wrote a book with his friend's wife Jessie Penn-Lewis, War on the Saints, believed by some to be heretical because of its use of the term \"possession\" to describe demonic spirits' potential effect on believers, from which he dissociated himself after he recovered from depression and the book was severely criticised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0011-0001", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor\nIn 1913, when Roberts's mother was dying, his brother Dan tried to see him to ask him to visit his mother. Roberts refused contact. Eventually \"Awstin\", the reporter of the revival, gained access. There were rumours that Roberts was being held prisoner by the Penn-Lewises. Roberts spoke freely about how God was preparing him for his next great work, and sent, via \"Awstin\", \"God's message to the churches of south Wales\". Because of Roberts's treatment of his mother the message was ignored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0012-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Aberdare\nAberdare became a major centre of the revival and the first area that Evan Roberts visited following his initial meetings at Loughor. In the Aberdare area, the revival aroused alarm among ministers for the revolutionary, even anarchistic, impact it had upon chapel congregations and denominational organization. In particular, it was seen as drawing attention away from pulpit preaching and the role of the minister. The local newspaper, the Aberdare Leader, regarded the revival with suspicion from the outset, objecting to the 'abnormal heat' which it engendered. Trecynon was particularly affected by the revival, and the meetings held there were said to have aroused more emotion and excitement than the more restrained meetings in Aberdare itself. The impact of the revival was significant in the short term, but in the longer term was fairly transient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 908]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0013-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Role of newspapers\nFor the first time, the newspapers had a role in this revival. The Western Mail and the South Wales Daily News, Wales' daily newspapers, spread news of conversions and generated an air of excitement that helped to fuel the revival. The Western Mail in particular gave extensive coverage to Roberts' meetings in Loughor. The articles were gathered together and published as a series of seven pamphlets, including copies of picture postcards of the revivalists that were published at the time. The contents of the final pamphlet are credited by some as killing the revival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0013-0001", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Role of newspapers\nPeter Price, a minister from Dowlais, wrote a letter that was very critical of Evan Roberts. Price wanted to distinguish between the genuine revival that he believed was going on and a sham revival he associated with Evan Roberts. The pamphlet contains many letters in support of Evan Roberts (the majority), and a few supporting Price. Vyrynwy Morgan gives further letters supporting Price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0014-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Interpretations\nThe Welsh revival has been described not as an isolated religious movement, but as very much a part of Britain's modernisation. The revival began in late 1904 under the leadership of Evan Roberts (1878\u20131951), a 26-year-old former collier and minister in training. The revival lasted less than a year, but in that time 100,000 people were converted. Begun as an effort to kindle non-denominational, non-sectarian spirituality, the Welsh revival of 1904-05 coincided with the rise of the labour movement, socialism, and a general disaffection with religion among the working class and youths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0014-0001", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Interpretations\nPlaced in context, the short-lived revival appears as both a climax for Nonconformism and a flashpoint of change in Welsh religious life. The movement spread to Scotland and England, with estimates that a million people were converted in Britain. Missionaries subsequently carried the movement abroad; it was especially influential on the Pentecostal movement emerging in California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0015-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Interpretations\nUnlike earlier religious revivals based on powerful preaching, the revival of 1904\u201305 relied primarily on music and on alleged supernatural phenomena as exemplified by the visions of Evan Roberts. The intellectual emphasis of the earlier revivals had left a dearth of religious imagery that the visions supplied. The visions also challenged the denial of the spiritual and miraculous element of Scripture by opponents of the revival, who held liberal and critical theological positions. The structure and content of the visions not only repeated those of Scripture and earlier Christian mystical tradition but also illuminated the personal and social tensions that the revival addressed by juxtaposing Biblical images with scenes familiar to contemporary Welsh believers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035107-0016-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 Welsh revival, Interpretations\nThe after-effects of the revival were considered by Vyrynwy Morgan in the final chapter of his book, which gives the figures for convictions for drunkenness in the county of Glamorgan for the years 1902 to 1907, supplied by the police. There is a near 50% reduction after the revival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035108-0000-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar\nThe 1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar was an uprising in Madagascar that lasted from 17 November 1904 to 30 August 1905. Its causes laid in French disregard for Malagasy culture, executions without trial by French administrators, heavy taxation, and forced labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035108-0001-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar\nMalagasy Protestants tended to support the uprising, while Malagasy Catholics tended to oppose it. For this reason, a large amount of Catholic churches were burned down by the rebels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035108-0002-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar, Timeline\nIt began on 17 November 1904, when Sergent Vinay, chief of the military post of Amparihy, was stabbed to death by a group of Malagasy rebels in his cabin in the village of Marotsipanga. The murderers included a chieftain named Mahafiry and his two sons Imoza and Fandrana. Upon sharing the news of the murder on 19 November, Mahafiry convinced locals in Amparihy to join him in an uprising against French rule in Madagascar. Rebel military decisions at that point came to be handled by 2 indigenous corporals, Kotavy and Tsimanindry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035108-0002-0001", "contents": "1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar, Timeline\nA subsequent French punitive expedition by Lieutenant Baguet would end up being a disaster for the French, with the French assault on Amparihy being repelled and with Baguet being killed. Kotavy's exploits in the Battle of Amparihy transformed him, almost overnight, from a French deserter to a revolutionary leader aimed at overthrowing French rule in Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035108-0003-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar, Timeline\nHaving defeated the French at Amparihy, the rebellion spread to Midony, Ranotsara, Befotaka, and Begogo. At Begogo, the rebels massacred a group of French soldiers. In late November, the rebels reached the district of Vondrozo and the French post at Bemahala. On 2 December, a rebel attack on Vatanato was barely repelled after reserves aided the French defenders. That defeat notwithstanding, the rebels captured Ranomafana (2 Dec), Isaka (3 Dec), Esira (3 Dec), Itapert (4 Dec), Fort Dauphin (4 Dec), and Menambaro (6 Dec). The rebel advance was marked by widespread looting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035108-0004-0000", "contents": "1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar, Timeline\nHowever, rebel victories were not to last. On 23 November, A military expedition under Captain Quinque encompassing 100 guns was dispatched from Vangaindrano towards Begogo and Ranotsara. On 2 December, Quinque's forces defeated the rebels at Ambiliony and subsequently captured the villages of Ranotsara and Begogo. From Ranotsara, Quinque's forces advanced on Ihosy, where they massacred 18 civilians. The French attempted to follow up these victories by defeating Kotavy's forces at Iobomary, but were unsuccessful, with Kotavy repelling every assault and still controlling the village by March 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035108-0004-0001", "contents": "1904\u20131905 uprising in Madagascar, Timeline\nHowever, with resources dwindling, Kotavy was forced to retreat to a better defensive position, and on 15 March his forces retreated to Papanga, to the northwest of Ranotsara. Eventually Kotavy had to also abandon Papanga and had to hide in the forest of Farahigelahy, northwest of Amparihy. After the information regarding his whereabouts was given to the French by one of his captured supporters on 19 August, Kotavy was finally arrested on 30 August in Sandravinany. After the fall of Kotavy, other rebel leaders quickly surrendered, ending the revolt. Kotavy was executed on 5 September. Despite another uprising in 1947, Madagascar would remain under French rule until 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035109-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\n1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1905th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 905th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 5th year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 6th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1905, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035109-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\nAs the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland. Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers in Annalen der Physik (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035110-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 (band)\n1905 was a political hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C., formed in 2000. The band featured dual male and female vocals, their music drew inspiration from a combination of early 1980s UK anarcho-punk bands such as Crass, Zounds, The Mob as well as folk and hardcore punk. The band has been cited as a major influence on several bands including Defiance, Ohio and modern screamo acts like I Would Set Myself on Fire for You and post-hardcore band Pygmylush, among others. The band broke up in 2005 after the release of their only album \"Voice\", released on Exotic Fever Records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035111-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 (film)\n1905 (\u4e00\u4e5d\u3007\u4e94, Ichi Ky\u016b Zero Go) was a Japanese film to be directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Shota Matsuda, and Atsuko Maeda. Originally scheduled to be released in late 2013, on 25 February 2013, it was announced that production of the film had been cancelled before filming could start due to difficulties with Tony Leung's involvement exacerbated by the Senkaku Islands dispute and the bankruptcy of Prenom H on 20 February 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035111-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 (film), Plot\nIn 1905, during the waning years of the Qing Dynasty, at a time when numerous Chinese revolutionaries traveled to Japan as students to study modernization, Yan Yunlong (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), a loan shark, travels to Japan to collect overdue debts from five men. Meanwhile, Tamotsu Kato (Shota Matsuda) is a member of Houkokukai, an ultra-nationalist group, who is also searching for the same five men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 17], "content_span": [18, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035111-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 (film), Production\nPlans for the film were made in 2009. Although the film was a Japanese production, approximately 90% of dialogue was to be in Chinese. Filming was scheduled to start in November 2012, in various locations in Japan and Taiwan. The film was scheduled to be released in Fall 2013. During the filming process, the set in Taiwan was to recreate Yokohama as it appeared in 1905. The film was backed by Hong Kong-based film studio Sil-Metropole, and was to be co-distributed by Shochiku and Prenom H. The project was estimated to cost $10 million, and was Kurosawa's largest film to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035112-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 AAA Championship Car season\nThe 1905 AAA National Motor Car Championship consisted of 11 points-paying races, beginning in The Bronx, New York on June 10 and concluding in Poughkeepsie, New York on September 29. There were also at least two non-championship events held during the year. This was the first year that the AAA Contest Board (then known as the Racing Board) officially recognized a National Champion in American Championship Car competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035112-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 AAA Championship Car season\nThe 1905 AAA National Champion was Barney Oldfield. For reasons unclear, but likely due to a change in attitudes and opinions by AAA officials about the dangers of racing following several serious accidents, no national championship was officially recognized again until 1916.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035112-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 AAA Championship Car season, Leading National Championship standings\nIn 1951, Victor H\u00e9mery, winner of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup, was retroactively awarded a national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035113-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035113-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). Originally, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis, but from 1904 an additional member was granted to each ward resulting in the election of ten members, out of a total of twenty, every three years. At the intervening election, one member continued to be elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035113-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1905. It was preceded by the 1904 election and followed by the 1906 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1902 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1908. There were contested elections in three of the five wards. In both the Gadlys and Town wards the sitting members were returned unopposed after the Trades and Labour Council resolved not to run candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035113-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Aberdare Urban District Council election, Results, Blaengwawr Ward\nHaving come within 71 votes of Howell at the 1904 county election, Treharne's supporters had been hopeful of success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1905 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was Alabama's 13th overall and 10th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach Jack Leavenworth, in his first year, and played their home games at both the University of Alabama Quad in Tuscaloosa and the Birmingham Fairgrounds in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of six wins and four losses (6\u20134 overall, 4\u20134 in the SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Before the season\nFor the 1905 season, point values were different from those used in contemporary games. In 1905 a touchdown was worth five points, a field goal was worth four points and a conversion (PAT) was worth one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Before the season\nThe team was captained by Auxford Burks, the school's \"first running back hero\" who would \"carry whole teams on his back.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Maryville\nBurks starred in the opening win of 17 to 0 over Maryville. A number of Alabama turnovers kept the game scoreless through halftime. T. S. Sims scored the first touchdown and Burks added a 95-yard return for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nAlabama was no match for Vanderbilt, losing 34\u20130. Honus Craig was the star of the game. Quarterback Frank Kyle was severely injured, knocked unconscious and taken to the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was Lanier (left end), Neb (left tackle), McDaniel (left guard), Moody (center), Sims (right guard), Sartain (right tackle), Patton (right end), Smith (quarterback), Burks (left halfback), Ware (right halfback), Peavy (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\n\"The overworked Burks, who appeared to bear the entire brunt of Alabama's offense,\" collapsed on the field during the second half of a 12 to 5 loss to Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Clemson\nAlabama lost to Clemson for the last time until the 2016 national championship 25\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035114-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Auburn\nBurks scored in the 30 to 0 victory over Auburn in what was then the largest crowd ever to see a game in Birmingham (4,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election\nThe 1905 Alberta general election was the first general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada on November 9, 1905, to elect twenty five members of the Alberta legislature to the 1st Alberta Legislative Assembly, shortly after the province was created out of the Northwest Territories on September 1, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election\nThe Alberta Liberal Party of Alexander C. Rutherford won twenty three of the twenty five seats in the new legislature, defeating the Conservative Party, which was led by a young lawyer, Richard Bennett, who later served as Prime Minister of Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election\nPrior to the 1905 election the two political parties saw numerous changes and defections, In Alberta a host of former Liberal-Conservative MLA's jumped ship to the Liberals, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed the Liberal provisional government prior to the election. The Conservatives had no strong leader to rally around at the time as Frederick Haultain had moved to Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Government in the North-West Territories\nIn 1867, with Confederation, the new Dominion of Canada sought to expand westward and fulfil the provision of the British North America Act providing the option to admit Rupert's land to the Dominion. In that same year, Canada's Parliament expressed this desire to the United Kingdom and soon after entered into talks with the Hudson's Bay Company to arrange for the transfer of the territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Government in the North-West Territories\nAfter the Deed of Surrender was enacted, the United Kingdom transferred ownership of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company to the government of Canada. However, integration of the territories into Canadian Confederation was delayed by the Red River Rebellion around the Red River Colony. Eventually the territories were admitted into Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870, as the North-West Territories; barring the area around the Red River Colony, which was admitted into Canadian Confederation as the province of Manitoba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Government in the North-West Territories\nThe unelected Temporary North-West Council was formed under the Temporary Government Act, 1870, but the first appointments by the Government of Canada were delayed until November 28, 1872. The unelected body existed until October 1876 when it was replaced by the 1st Council of the North-West Territories, which consisted of appointed members, but with provisions for election of members when a district of an area of 1,000 square miles (2,600\u00a0km2) had 1,000 people an electoral district could be set up. This created a patchwork of represented and unrepresented areas, and there was no official or independent boundaries commission, all electoral law at the beginning was under the purview of the Lieutenant Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Government in the North-West Territories\nThe first by-election occurred on March 23, 1881, in the Lorne district with Lawrence Clarke being elected to the Council. The election was conducted by voice vote, a qualified elector would tell the returning officer at a polling station who he was going to vote for and the results would be tallied. Under the terms of the Act eligible electors were males who had reached the age of majority, which was 21 years of age at that time. The act specified that electors must be bona fide males who were not aliens or unenfranchised Indians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0006-0001", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Government in the North-West Territories\nElectors must also have resided in the territory for at least 12 months to the day of the writ being dropped. The ad hoc by-election system continued to operate until 1888 when the Temporary North-West Council was replaced with an elected, responsible government through a Legislative Assembly selected in the 1888 North-West Territories general election. Robert Brett, the representative for the Red Deer district was appointed the Chairman of the Executive Committee, the defacto Premier of the North-West Territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Government in the North-West Territories\nThe 1898 North-West Territories general election brought party politics to the Territories as Frederick W. A. G. Haultain's Liberal-Conservative Party defeated Brett's Liberal Party to form government. The beginning of party politics in the Territories sparked controversy and was not done through any Grass roots movement or formed on traditional ideological lines, and was done by Haultain in such a way that there was very little visibility to the public until years later after the party system began to mature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 83], "content_span": [84, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Drive to provincehood\nThe earliest calls for Alberta's provincial autonomy came from Robert Brett in 1896, when he proposed the formation of a new province from the District of Alberta and District of Athabasca. However, Brett's proposal did not gain support, and was opposed by Premier Haultain who preferred the Territories form one large province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0008-0001", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Drive to provincehood\nIn 1900, Haultain secured unanimous approval of a resolution asking the Government of Canada to make an inquiry into the terms for provincial status of the Territories, and a year later Haultain and Arthur Sifton met with federal cabinet and submitted a draft constitution for a new province in the North-West Territories. Wilfrid Laurier's government was not prepared consider the proposals, concerned about the difficult questions surrounding religious education, delegation of authority, and general apathy towards provincehood of Western Liberal Members of Parliament such as Frank Oliver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Drive to provincehood\nThe 1902 North-West Territories general election only served to press the issue of provincehood. The Territories were under growing financial stress from limited revenue generation authorities and rising immigration. Haultain's government was reelected in a chaotic and partisan election, although despite the divisions, the Assembly continued to agree that provincial autonomy was a pressing concern. During this time, Robert Borden, leader of the federal Conservative Party began to support provincehood for the Territories. Frustrated in negotiations with the federal Liberal government, Haultain became increasingly identified with the Conservative Party and campaigned for it in the 1904 federal election. Despite Haultain's influence, Laurier's Liberals were re-elected and captured 58 per cent of the vote in the North-West Territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 908]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Drive to provincehood\nLaurier had promised during the election that his government would address the issue of provincial status, and despite efforts by Frank Oliver to downplay the benefits of autonomy through his Edmonton newspaper the Bulletin, the Liberal government's Speech from the Throne to start the 10th Canadian Parliament committed the government to action on the question of autonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Terms of provincehood\nThe federal government drafted a bill for consultation, the bill provided for the establishment of two new provinces, retained federal ownership of public lands and resources, and provided financial terms which historian Lewis Thomas described as \"not ungenerous\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Terms of provincehood\nHowever, the greatest opposition came with clauses providing education rights to minority faiths through separate schools with the right enshrined to establish schools and be provided public funds. The Laurier government had previously been embroiled in similar controversial schools question in Manitoba a decade earlier, which resulted in the Laurier-Greenway compromise and the removal of minority school rights in Manitoba, much to the opposition of French-Canadians and the Catholic Church. The Haultain government had been engaged in a progressive reduction of the minority faith education privileges, with only eleven separate schools in operation by 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0012-0001", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Terms of provincehood\nMinister of the Interior and the Western Liberal representative in Cabinet Clifford Sifton, who had been travelling away from Ottawa during the drafting of the bill returned to Ottawa to resign his portfolio in protest, while Finance Minister William Stevens Fielding considered resigning as well. The education matter was highly controversial in English Canada, eliciting responses from Liberal newspapers and stoking fears for Liberal unity, however in the Territories the issue was not seen as significant. Instead the main issue in the Territories was the location of the new provincial capital and ownership of public lands and resources. The bill was amended to provide minority faiths the right to separate schools under provincial control. As for continued federal control of natural resource rights, the provinces were each promised $375,000 annually with a provision for population growth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 964]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Terms of provincehood\nThe selection of the new provincial capital became a driving issue, with the finalized Alberta Act identifying a \"provisional\" capital in Edmonton, with the final capital to be chosen by the new provincial government, against he competing interests of Calgary. Calgary had the advantage of having a slightly larger population and located in a more densely populated part of the province, while Edmonton was the geographic centre of the province. Edmonton had a strong advantage with the presence of Frank Oliver in cabinet, and a promise from Member of Parliament for Strathcona Peter Talbot that he would \"fight to the finish\" to ensure the provisional capital was in either Edmonton or Strathcona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Terms of provincehood\nThe electoral districts for the first provincial election were established in the Alberta Act. The final layout favored northern Alberta with one additional district, despite Oliver and Talbot being aware that more than 1,000 more voters south of the Red Deer River participated in the 1904 Territorial election. Calgary Liberal Charles Stuart argued that a non-partisan commission would be best to establish the boundaries, but was willing to back down when it became apparent the federal Liberals would not implement such a commission. Despite opposition from Calgary Conservatives and Liberals, Oliver and Talbot continued to support the electoral boundaries favouring Northern Alberta, and Laurier kept the boundaries in place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Appointing a Lieutenant Governor and Premier\nAn interim government was appointed to handle the affairs of the new provinces from the date of confederation on September 1, 1905, and the election in November 1905. Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories Am\u00e9d\u00e9e E. Forget was appointed to the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan while staunch Liberal George H. V. Bulyea a former member of the Territorial Legislature was appointed to the Lieutenant Governor role in Alberta. Frank Oliver was considered for the role of Alberta's first Premier, but instead sought the role of Minister of the Interior in Laurier's government instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0015-0001", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Appointing a Lieutenant Governor and Premier\nTalbot was also strongly considered by Laurier and other members of the Liberal Party for Alberta's first Premier. Talbot however, was not a wealthy individual and stated that politics was beyond his financial means and strength, and instead sought a position in the Senate, which he was appointed to in 1906. Historian Lewis Thomas states that he believes that Laurier would have appointed Talbot the first Premier of Alberta if he had showed interest in the position. The next candidate was Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the member of the North-West Territories Assembly for Strathcona, although Laurier remained quiet on the decision, leading to some speculation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Appointing a Lieutenant Governor and Premier\nSpeculation on the future Premier ended when Rutherford was named the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party on August 13, 1905, and a few days later Haultain announced he would remain in Saskatchewan to form a provincial rights party. Similarly, R. B. Bennett, a young Calgary lawyer was chosen as the leader of the Alberta Conservative Party shortly after on August 16, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0016-0001", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Appointing a Lieutenant Governor and Premier\nHistorian Lewis Thomas argues that Laurier's decision to remain silent on naming a Premier helped weaken Haultain's position as the heir apparent, and if Laurier had named Rutherford earlier, Haultain and his supporters of non-partisan government could have mounted a stronger protest and campaign. Laurier's appointment of staunch Liberals in Bulyea, Forget, Rutherford and Walter Scott ushered in party politics to the new prairie provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Background, Appointing a Lieutenant Governor and Premier\nOn September 2, 1905, Lieutenant Governor Bulyea in his first official act called on Rutherford to form the provincial government, and was sworn in as Alberta's first Premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 87], "content_span": [88, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Issues, Capital city\nSection 9 of the Alberta Act prescribed that the seat of government would be held in Edmonton, but provided authority to the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta to move the capital. Essentially, naming Edmonton as a temporary capital until a decision could be made by the elected provincial government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Issues, Capital city\nThe competition for the provincial capital was fierce between Calgary and Edmonton. At events in Edmonton, Liberal Attorney General Charles Wilson Cross assured the crowds that Edmonton would remain the capital, while his Conservative candidate William Antrobus Griesbach stated that all thirteen northern conservative candidates supported Edmonton as the capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Issues, Capital city\nAt the same time, Conservative leader Bennett told crowds in Calgary that if elected, his conservative government would establish the capital in Calgary. Bennett's Liberal opponent and Minister of Public Works William Henry Cushing pledged to bring the capital to Calgary, earning him the endorsement of the Calgary Albertan published by William McCartney Davidson. Meanwhile, the Calgary Herald opposed Cushing, and argued that the federal liberals were \"directed toward the destruction of that commercial and industrial supremacy\" of Calgary, and accused the provincial liberals of being puppets of the federal party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0021-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Issues, Capital city\nResidents of Red Deer made an effort to position the community as a compromise capital, located approximately halfway between the two competing cities. Although the small community and disinterest from federal elected officials hampered Red Deer's efforts for being considered a viable capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0022-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Issues, Capital city\nAfter the election resulted in an overwhelming Liberal majority, Premier Rutherford announced the location of the capital city was to be chosen by an open vote of the Legislature. The Calgary Board of Trade and newspapers recognizing the uphill battle to be named capital gave very little effort in rallying Calgarians and southern Albertans to the cause. Furthermore, Red Deer's elected member John Thomas Moore, who was chosen as the man \"most likely to secure the capital\", was largely ineffective as he left for the east after the election to attend to personal business. On April 25, 1906, Cushing made a motion in the Legislature to move the capital to Calgary, a second motion was made by Moore to move the capital to Red Deer. A vote was held, with eight members voting for Calgary and a majority 16 voting for Edmonton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0023-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Issues, Education\nAfter bitter debate across Canada, the proposed Alberta Act was amended by Laurier in second reading on March 22, and later passed by the 10th Canadian Parliament with provisions providing minority faiths the right to separate schools under provincial control. Alberta conservatives rallied against the education provisions, but the party and leadership declined to make the repeal of the provisions an issue in the campaign. The Alberta liberals chose to campaign on accepting the decisions of parliament in regards to the schools issue, and instead focus on \"an efficient system of public schools\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0024-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign\nThe writ for the election was issued on October 19, 1905, with the election scheduled to take place three weeks later on November 9. Liberal William Bredin was the only candidate acclaimed, with no contest necessary in the Athabasca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0025-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign, Liberal\nRutherford began his term as the appointed Premier by forming a cabinet inclusive of all the major regions of the province. Charles Wilson Cross of Medicine Hat was appointed Attorney General, William Henry Cushing of Calgary as Minister of Public Works, William Finlay of Edmonton as Minister of Agriculture, and Leverett George DeVeber of Lethbridge as Minister without a portfolio was added to cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0026-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign, Liberal\nThe Liberal platform was adopted at the party convention in Calgary in October 1905. Recognizing the party was chosen to form government prior to the election, and the friendly relations with the Liberal federal government, the Liberal platform skirted mild and controversial issues. The issues of separate schools and public lands were not addressed, and instead the convention noted adherence to \"the principle of Provincial rights\" as the party policy. The Liberals instead sought an efficient system of public schools supported by taxation and regulated by the provincial government. The Liberals responded to conservative calls for public ownership of utilities by recognizing that public ownership was desirable and should be considered. The platform also advocated for agricultural industry, and was against incurring provincial debt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0027-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign, Liberal\nThe Liberal Party received support from the Calgary Albertan newspaper, as well as Oliver's Edmonton Bulletin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0028-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign, Conservative\nWith the exodus of Haultain to Saskatchewan, the Conservative movement was in desperate need of a new charismatic leader to face the incumbent Liberal party, which they found in the young Calgary lawyer R. B. Bennett. The province was politically divided on geographic grounds, with Edmonton and northern Alberta leaning towards the Liberal Party, and Calgary and southern Alberta leaning more conservative. Calgary and southern Alberta's conservative leaning was linked to the presence of the Canadian Pacific Railway which was generally regarded as exercising influence on behalf of the conservative movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0029-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign, Conservative\nThe Conservative Party policy focused on protesting the federal government retaining public lands and resources, develop government owned utilities such as telephone lines, and advocated for government construction and maintenance of roads and bridges. While Griesbach sought and Edmonton conservatives sought to demand Edmonton as the provincial capital, the party took no official position on the matter. The party did not take an official stance on the issue of separate schools for minority faiths being included in the Alberta Act, owing to the influence of Bennett and Senator James Lougheed. Although Bennett did make a speech decrying the federal government including the separate school provisions as an attack on provincial rights. Historian Lewis Thomas describes the Conservative platform as being \"defensive\", lacking initiative of the liberal platform and seeming almost non-partisan in nature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 962]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0030-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign, Conservative\nThe personality and character of Conservative leader Bennett became one of the central issues of the campaign. Liberal newspaper Edmonton Bulletin pointed out Bennett's employment as a solicitor for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Bell Telephone Company and Calgary Water Power Company were used to illuminate a \"corporation connection\" with Bennett and the Conservative party. Similar concerns were raised by the conservative leaning Calgary Herald prior to Bennett's confirmation as leader. Historian Lewis Thomas describes the Liberal strategy to connect Bennett to the Canadian Pacific Railway as successful, noting many in Alberta resented the corporation for a myriad of reasons. Bennett did receive a surprising endorsement from Bob Edwards the publisher of the Calgary Eye-Opener, who had previously published stories critical of Bennett and his employer, the Canadian Pacific Railway. Although Edwards contended that Bennett was a poor leader who sought \"non-entities and spineless nincompoops as followers\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 1069]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0031-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Campaign, Conservative\nThe Edmonton Bulletin also ran a number of stories alleging corruption in the Conservative Party. The Bulletin accused the Calgary Conservative organizer William L. Walsh of attempting to bribe Daniel Maloney to run as a candidate in the St. Albert constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0032-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Electoral boundaries\nThe boundaries of the electoral districts for the first Alberta general election were prescribed in the Alberta Act (Canada) and were a source of controversy with accusations of gerrymandering in favour of the Liberal Party and northern Alberta. Calgary based newspapers the Calgary Herald, Calgary Albertan, and Eye-Opener made claims that the borders constituted preferential treatment for Edmonton and northern Alberta. Prime Minister Laurier had received assurances that the distribution was fair from Alberta Members of Parliament Talbot and Oliver, but when word of Calgary's opposition reached Ottawa, Laurier summoned Talbot to explain the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0032-0001", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Electoral boundaries\nOn May 19, 1905, Talbot spent the morning convincing Laurier that the distribution was fair, Laurier agreed, but remained cautious and asked that the boundaries be submitted to a commission of judges for review. Laurier called a second meeting with Talbot on May 28 after receiving correspondence from Calgary Liberals, but was once again put at ease with Talbot's explanation, and the concept of the judicial commission for review was likewise put to rest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0033-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Electoral boundaries\nConservative Member of Parliament for Calgary Maitland Stewart McCarthy made no effort to advance Calgary and southern Alberta's claims for fair representation until June 20, 1905, much to late to make a difference. In the two hour speech, McCarthy called for 15 seats in southern Alberta and 10 in northern Alberta, and demanded a judicial commission to oversee the boundaries. However, McCarthy made no effort to participate in the early drafting process of the Alberta Act, instead hoping for an invitation to participate, one which never came from Oliver, the brunt of his efforts came too late in the drafting process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0034-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Electoral boundaries\nThe question of whether there was population based gerrymandering returns different responses. Historian Lewis Thomas notes the final layout favored northern Alberta with one additional district, despite Oliver and Talbot being aware that more than 1,000 more voters south of the Red Deer River participated in the 1904 Territorial election. Alexander Bruce Kilpatrick notes that the census results from 1906 shows that if the 38th township is chosen as the dividing line (City of Red Deer), there were 93,601 persons in northern Alberta and 87,381 in southern Alberta, with an additional 4,430 residing in the 38th township. Kilpatrick claims that people misconstrued where the population of the Strathcona census district lived, assuming most were south of the 38th Township, when a significant majority were in fact north of the township.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 903]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0035-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Electoral boundaries\nKilpatrick however, describes the layout of the electoral districts as \"blatant manipulation of the electoral map to suit a particular purpose\". In particular Kilpatrick claims that Oliver designed the constituencies to maximize the influence of Edmonton, the borders did not align with the previous constituencies from the North-west Territories legislature, and instead was drawn to have several ridings touching the city's borders. At the same time, Calgary did not have the same advantages in design, and was reduced from two seats in the North-west Territories Legislature to one in the new Alberta Legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0036-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Voting and eligibility\nVoter and candidate eligibility requirements remained in place under the rules set by the North-West Legislative Assembly under The Territories Elections Ordinance. The right to vote was provided to male British subjects who were 21 years of age or older, and had resided in the North-West Territories for at least 12 months, and the electoral district for the three months prior to the vote. The vote took place on November 9, 1905 with polls open between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0037-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Voting and eligibility\nIn 1905 Albertans would vote by marking an \"X\" on a blank sheet of paper using a coloured pencil which corresponded to candidate whom they wished to vote for, red for Liberal and blue for Conservative. Scrutineers were able to contest the eligibility of a person voting, the voter would then be required to fill out a form with their information which would be deposited in an envelope along with their ballot. The voter would then be required to return within two days to contest the objection to a Justice of the Peace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0038-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Irregularities, Calgary\nThe election in 1905 was a bitter one, especially in Calgary and Southern Alberta where the Liberals were accused of vote tampering and interfering with Conservative voters. Recounts especially in Calgary took almost a month and saw the result swing back and forth. The scandal led to the arrest of some key Liberal organizers, including William Henry Cushing's campaign manager, who had been a returning officer at a Calgary polling station. A liberal organizer was convicted of bribery for paying a voter $10 not to defend his ballot which was challenged during the count. The Calgary contest was eventually called for Cushing with a margin of 37 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0039-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Irregularities, Peace River\nThe Peace River electoral district was contested between Liberal James Cornwall and Independent Lucien Dubuc. Dubec received the greater number of votes, but the election results were overturned by the Executive Council in mid-January due to significant irregularities, leaving the seat vacant. A new election was held on February 15, 1906. An appeal was launched into the legality of Cabinet deciding on the legitimacy of an election, which was upheld when Judge David Lynch Scott found the court had no jurisdiction unless delegated by the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0040-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Election, Irregularities, Peace River\nThomas Brick declared his candidacy in the new election for the Liberals after being asked to run by a large group of people who appeared at his homestead. He faced James Cornwall who attempted to re-win his seat and he also ran under the Liberal banner. The runner up candidate from the original 1905 election Conservative candidate Lucien Dubuc did not run again leaving a rare two-way race under the same party banner. Thomas Brick would go on to defeat James Cornwall in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0041-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Aftermath\nThe Liberal Party under Premier Rutherford dominated the election, capturing 22 of the 25 available seats in a landslide victory, while Bennett's Conservative Party captured a mere two seats and Bennett himself was not successful in Calgary. The Liberals were confident that they would form a majority government prior to the election, but had not expected so many seats. Liberal MP Talbot estimated the Liberals would capture 18 seats. The Conservatives did not expect the defeat, being successful in nominating candidates in 22 of the 25 ridings and have entrenched support in southern Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0041-0001", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Aftermath\nThe conservatives attributed their defeat to the Roman Catholic vote which was felt to be sympathetic to Laurier for his support of separate schools, with Bennett himself attributing his loss in Calgary to Roman Catholic influences, labour vote and his time traveling outside of the district. Bennett quickly resigned his position as leader and temporarily retired from politics. Conservatives also attributed the loss to non-Anglo-Saxon voters. However, the Conservative victories by Cornelius Hiebert in Rosebud, and Albert Robertson in High River went against this trend. Hiebert, a Russian-born Mennonite, won in his constituency, while Robertson was aided by a third candidate syphoning votes from the incumbent Liberal opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035115-0042-0000", "contents": "1905 Alberta general election, Aftermath\nHistorian Lewis Thomas argues the Liberal landslide was due to the incumbent position of the Liberal government which in its two months had not been tested with scandal or policy, making it difficult for effective opposition and criticism, all the while being able to maintain all the powers of patronage an incumbent would have. The Liberals effectively exercised the machinery of government from both the provincial and federal level, with Thomas noting a few surviving written suggestions for Liberal appointments. Furthermore, Thomas argues the strong positions taken by the Conservative Party on provincial right to control the school system and public lands did not make a significant impression on voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035116-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1905 All England Open Badminton Championships was a badminton tournament held at the London Rifle Brigade Drill Hall, London, England, from March 1 to March 5, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035116-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 All England Badminton Championships\nHenry Marrett retained his men's singles title. Ethel Thomson and Meriel Lucas won a third women's doubles crown after retaining their title. Lucas also won her second singles title. There were no entries from Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035117-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 19th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kildare were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035117-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe four provincial championships were played as usual; the four champions joined London in the All-Ireland Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035117-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nAs the Leinster Championship was not finished by the time London was supposed to play their quarter-final, Dublin was nominated to face them. When Kildare won the Leinster Championship, they were deemed to have defeated London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 96], "content_span": [97, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035118-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the eighteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035118-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nKildare's seventeen players consisted of Clane players in the forwards and Roseberry players in the backs. Kildare led 0-6 to 0-1 at half-time and Jack Connolly's goal secured victory. For the first time, the telephone was used to relay news of victory back to the winning county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035119-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1905 was the 19th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Kilkenny won the championship, beating Cork 7-7 to 2-9 in a replay of the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035119-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nQuarter-finals: (3 matches) These are two lone quarter-finals involving the Leinster and Ulster representatives and Glasgow and Lancashire. The provincial champions are on one side of the draw. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the All-Ireland semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035119-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the two quarter-finals join the Munster and Connacht representatives to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035119-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035120-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1905 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 18th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1905 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held on 14 April 1907 between Cork and Kilkenny. Cork won the first game, but after an objection was raised about Cork keeper Daniel McCarthy being a reservist for the British Army, a replay was ordered, won by Kilkenny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035121-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 All-Western college football team\nThe 1905 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1905 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035122-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Ambartsumian\n1905 Ambartsumian, provisional designation 1972 JZ, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 May 1972, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. The asteroid was named after theoretical astrophysicist Victor Ambartsumian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035122-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Ambartsumian, Orbit and classification\nAmbartsumian orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9\u20132.6\u00a0AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,211 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.16 and an inclination of 3\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as 1932 FC at Simeiz Observatory in 1932, extending the body's observation arc by 40 years prior to its official discovery observation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035122-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Ambartsumian, Physical characteristics\nAccording to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Ambartsumian measures 8.0 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.23. When using a generic diameter-to-magnitude conversion, it has a diameter of 7\u201317 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 12.8 and an albedo in the range of 0.05\u20130.25, which accounts for both the brighter stony as well as for the darker carbonaceous spectral types. As of 2017, Ambartsumian's composition, rotation period and shape remain unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035122-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Ambartsumian, Naming\nThis minor planet was named after Soviet\u2013Armenian theoretical astrophysicist Victor Ambartsumian (1908\u20131996), founder of the Soviet School for Astrophysics, president of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, director of the Byurakan Observatory, and president of the IAU (1961\u20131964). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 (M.P.C. 3937).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035123-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 American Medical football team\nThe 1905 American Medical football team was an American football team that represented the American College of Medicine and Surgery of Chicago, now a part of Loyola University of Chicago in the 1905 college football season. It is likely that American Medical played more contests, but no more against major college teams. In their single known major collegiate contest, American Medical suffered one of the most lopsided defeats in the history of college football, a 0\u2013142 count against Notre Dame. This was the last year American Medical fielded a football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election\nThe Appleby by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Vacancy and electoral history\nRichard Rigg had been Liberal MP for the seat of Appleby since the 1900 general election. Rigg aged only 23, had a large majority of 11.4%. This was a surprise, since Appleby had previously returned only Conservatives since 1885. Rigg resigned from the Liberal party on 25 November 1904 because he found himself in agreement with the Conservative government on so many key issues. The result at the last election was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Candidates\nWhen Rigg announced his resignation from the Liberal Party he also announced his intention to resign his seat and seek re-election as a Conservative. However, the local Conservative Association had already selected 46-year-old Major George Noble as their candidate to re-gain the seat at the next general election. Noble was the heir to his father's baronetcy. He had been educated at Harrow School and Sandhurst Military Academy. He was in the 13th Hussars, fought at Lucknow and served in the South African War being invalided home in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0002-0001", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Candidates\nNoble was not willing to stand down and allow Rigg a straight fight against a new Liberal candidate. Rigg thus found himself in a difficult situation. The Conservatives had already chosen a candidate and the Liberals were selecting his replacement. Faced with this dilemma, he decided not to resign his seat but to go abroad. He claimed that the \u201cruffianism\u201d of Liberals angry at his defection of the party had made him ill, and he went to an unnamed continental health resort to recover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Candidates\nOn 14 December 1904, the local Liberal Association selected 42-year-old Leif Jones as their new candidate to hold the seat. Born Leifchild Stratten Jones on 16 January 1862 in St Pancras, London, the fifth of the six children of the Reverend Thomas Jones (1819\u20131882), an Independent clergyman, formerly of Morriston, Swansea, and Jane Jones, daughter of John Jones of Dowlais. His older siblings were David Brynmor (b. 1851), Annie, John Viriamu (b. 1862) and Irvonwy; his younger brother was Morlais Glasfryn. His brothers David Brynmor Jones and John Viriamu Jones would both achieve prominence in public life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Candidates\nIn 1867, when Leifchild was five years old, his mother died, and in 1869 his father left London, for health reasons, moving firstly back to Swansea (1870\u20131877) and afterwards to Melbourne, Australia (1877\u20131880), where Leifchild was educated at Scotch School. Afterwards Leifchild became a student at Trinity College, Oxford. He was Private Secretary to the Countess of Carlisle, a prominent prohibitionist campaigner. As a temperance campaigner Leif Jones was sometimes referred to as 'Tea-leaf Jones'. He was an experienced candidate having previously fought Westminster in 1892, Leeds Central in 1895 and Manchester South in 1900. He started to work the constituency even though Rigg had yet to resign from parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Candidates\nRigg returned to England in February 1905, and resigned his seat on 11 February 1905 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He told the Annual Dinner of the Carlisle Conservative Club \"I am proud to be one of you now ... I have the satisfaction of feeling that what I have done was conscientious and right.\" He had also decided not to contest the subsequent by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 2 March 1905, just 19 days after Rigg's resignation. The weather during the campaign saw rain and snow. Jones launched his campaign by condemning the Chinese Labour Act, the Education Act 1902 and Joseph Chamberlain's fiscal proposals. The main national issue at the time was the decision of the Unionist Government to abandon free trade to advocate the introduction of tariff reform. Noble launched his campaign by not fully endorsing Chamberlain's tariff reform programme, stating he was opposed to any fiscal scheme that would raise the price of food.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Result\nEven though women did not have the vote, disappointed Tories blamed them for their defeat. \u201cThere can be no shadow of doubt,\u201d declared Josceline Bagot, Conservative MP for neighbouring Kendal, \u201cthat Major Noble\u2019s defeat was caused by the efforts of wives who feared the introduction of protection.\u201d A month after the by-election, Noble wrote to Appleby Conservatives that \u201chis health had failed\u201d and his doctors had sent him on vacation to Gibraltar and Tangier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035124-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Appleby by-election, Aftermath\nIn October 1905 Noble had made the long-expected announcement that he would not stand, blaming \u201cmy own shortcomings as a candidate\u201d. The Conservatives chose a new candidate but Jones clung on to the set by just 3 votes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035125-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1905 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 14th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 7 and ended on September 24 The 1905 championship was expanded to include 7 teams, who played in a league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035125-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nAlumni was the champion, winning its 5th league title in six seasons. The squad won the tournament after a 1-1 draw v. Estudiantes de Buenos Aires, one fixture before the end of the season. The line-up for that match was: Jos\u00e9 Buruca Laforia; Carlos Carr Brown, Jorge Gibson Brown; Andr\u00e9s Mack, Patricio Barron Browne, Ernesto Brown; Gottlob Eduardo Weiss, Juan J. Moore, Alfredo Brown, Eliseo Brown, Eugenio Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035125-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nA new team, Reformer, from the city of Campana, registered to play the tournament. The team made a poor campaign, finishing the season with 60 goals conceded in 12 matches played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035126-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Arizona football team\nThe 1905 Arizona football team was an American football team that represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach William M. Ruthrauff, the team compiled a 4\u20132 record and shut out its first four opponents, but were then outscored by two California colleges, 96 to 5. The team captain was John M. Ruthrauff. The team was declared the Arizona Territory champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035127-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1905 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1905 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Ancil D. Brown, the Razorbacks compiled a 2\u20136 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 50 to 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035127-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nAt the outset, the University of Arkansas being known as the \"Arkansas Cardinals\" is in all likelihood a misnomer. The \"cardinal\" referred to the color cardinal and not the red bird. Moreover, as early as the first game of the 1905 season, news media reports specifically refer to the University of Arkansas football team as the \"Razorbacks\", pre-dating the University of Arkansas' official statement regarding how the University of Arkansas became the Razorbacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035128-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1905 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1905 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Robert Boyers, the Cadets compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record, shut out three opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 104 to 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035128-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Army Cadets football team\nArmy's losses were to Virginia Tech, Harvard, Yale, and the Carlisle Indians. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets and Midshipmen tied at six. Halfback Henry Torney was honored as a consensus first-team player on the All-America team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035129-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Ashfield state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Ashfield on 16 August 1905 because of the resignation of Frederick Winchcombe (Liberal Reform) who took an extended trip to Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1905 Atlantic hurricane season featured five known tropical cyclones, two of which made landfall in the United States. The first system was initially observed near the Windward Islands on September\u00a06. The last system to dissipate, the fourth storm, transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on October\u00a011, while located well southeast of Newfoundland. These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic. Between October\u00a05 and October\u00a010, the fourth and fifth system existed simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season\nOf the season's five tropical cyclones, only one reached hurricane status, the fewest since 1890. Furthermore, that storm strengthened into major hurricane, which is Category\u00a03 or higher on the modern-day Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. This storm, which was the fourth and strongest hurricane of the season, peaked at Category\u00a03 strength with 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h) winds. It was also attributed to at least six fatalities after sending a rogue wave across the steerage of the steamer Campania. The first storm also resulted in two deaths after a schooner wrecked in Barbados.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 28, the lowest value since 1864. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nThe first storm of the season, already at tropical storm intensity, was identified on September\u00a06 to the east of Grenada. A small storm, it quickly passed through the southern Lesser Antilles early on September\u00a07. The next day, the storm weakened to a tropical depression before dissipating as a shallow but large system. A schooner sailing from Bridgetown to Suriname encountered heavy seas just a day out of port and turned back. It was thrown onto the pierhead and wrecked. The captain and a crewman were swept overboard and drowned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two\nHURDAT indicates that a tropical storm originated to the northeast of the Windward Islands on September\u00a011. Steadily tracking towards the west-northwest, the storm gradually intensified, reaching its peak intensity with winds estimated at 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) on September\u00a013. After turning northwestward, the system slowed and began to weaken. By September\u00a016, the storm weakened to a tropical depression and dissipated shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nBased on weather reports from the Weather Bureau Office in New Orleans, Louisiana, a tropical storm was first observed about 20\u00a0miles (30\u00a0km) north-northwest of Swan Island on September\u00a024. The storm strengthened slightly before making landfall near Punta Allen, Quintana Roo around 1200\u00a0UTC on September\u00a025. Early on the following day, the system emerged into the Gulf of Mexico and headed north-northwestward. At midday on September\u00a026, it peaked with sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h). The storm re-curved north-northeastward late on September\u00a028, while approaching the Gulf Coast of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0005-0001", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nAt 1000\u00a0UTC the next day, this system made landfall in extreme southwest Vermilion Parish, Louisiana at the same intensity. The storm slowly weakened inland and dissipated over Arkansas on September\u00a030. Strong winds and rough seas were reported along the central Gulf Coast of the United States, forcing ships to remain in port.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nOn October\u00a01, a tropical depression developed in the southwestern Caribbean Sea. Moving slowly north-northeastward, it reached tropical storm status early on October\u00a03. The following day, the storm curved northeastward. Kingston, Jamaica recorded rainfall as the system bypassed the island. Late on October\u00a05 and early on October\u00a06, the storm passed through the Windward Passage. Eastern Cuba was affected \"with some force\", but damage was not significant. Entering the Atlantic Ocean, the system passed through the southeastern Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands without causing damage. While centered about halfway between Bermuda and Turks and Caicos Islands, the storm strengthened into a Category\u00a01 hurricane on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nLater on October\u00a08, it deepened to a Category\u00a02 hurricane, while passing south of Bermuda. The island experienced gale-force winds with gusts reaching hurricane force, but damage was apparently minimal. Early on October\u00a09, the storm intensified into a Category\u00a03 hurricane and peaked with winds of 120\u00a0mph (195\u00a0km/h). On October\u00a010, it weakened to a Category\u00a02 and then became extratropical early the next day. The steamer Campania encountered the remnants of the storm and was reported to have been struck by a large rogue wave, which was described as \"disastrous.\" The ship roll and water moved across the steerage, sweeping five passengers into the ocean, they presumably drowned. At least 30\u00a0other people were injured, one of them fatally. The extratropical remnants dissipated over the Labrador Sea on October\u00a013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035130-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nA tropical storm was first observed in the Gulf of Mexico on October\u00a05, while located about 105\u00a0miles (170\u00a0km) north of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. The storm strengthened slowly while crossing the Gulf of Mexico and peaked with sustained winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) early on October\u00a08. At 1700\u00a0UTC on the following day, it made landfall near Morgan City, Louisiana at the same intensity. The system quickly weakened inland and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over Mississippi on October\u00a010. The extratropical remnants dissipated over Virginia on October\u00a011. The remnants of this storm brought heavy rains to the Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035131-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Auburn Tigers baseball team\nThe 1905 Auburn Tigers baseball team represented the Auburn Tigers of the Auburn University in the 1905 college baseball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035132-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1905 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035133-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Auckland City mayoral election\nThe 1905 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1905, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035133-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nIncumbent mayor Edwin Mitchelson decided to retire and not seek re-election. Arthur Myers was elected as Auckland's new mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035134-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Australasian Championships\nThe 1905 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament played on Grass courts in Melbourne, Australia at Warehouseman's Cricket Ground. The tournament took place from 21 November through 25 November 1905. It was the inaugural edition of the Australasian Championships and consisted of a men's singles and men's doubles competition. The men's singles event had a field of 17 players and was won by Australian Rodney Heath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035134-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Australasian Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRandolph Lycett / Tom Tachell defeated E.T. Barnard / Basil Spence, 11\u20139, 8\u20136, 1\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035135-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Australasian Championships \u2013 Singles\nRodney Heath defeated Albert Curtis, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1905 Australasian Championships. The event was played on Grass courts in Melbourne, Australia at Warehouseman's Cricket Ground. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and took place in November 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035136-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand\nThe 1905 Australia tour of New Zealand was a collection of rugby union games undertaken by the Australia side against invitational and national teams of New Zealand. It was the first Wallaby overseas tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035136-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand\nAustralia played a total of seven games in New Zealand, with 3 wins and 4 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035136-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand, Matches\nComplete list of matches played by Australia in New Zealand:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035136-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand, Matches, Wellington RFU\nWellington RFU: G. Spencer; M. Winiata, J. O'Leary, E. Wrigley; M. Sharpe, A. Ramsden; E.H. Dodd, E.H. Watkins, T. Cross, H.R. Wright, J. Spencer (capt), A.A. Wylie, C. Gillespie, W. Warner, W. HardhamAustralia: A.P. Penman; S. Wickham (capt), P. Carmichael, B. Smith; C. Russell, E.A. Anzelzark, M. Dore; A. Burdon, E.A. Oxlade, J. Clarken, H.A. Judd, P. Burge, W. Hirschberg, B.I. Swannell, C. Murrin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035136-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand, Matches, Canterbury\nCanterbury: S. Turtill; F. Fryer, A.E. Love, G. Gray; J. Weston, D. Fraser; P. Burns; D. Horgan, Shannon, Murray, G. Chambers, Gaffuey, Carlton, C. Pearce, W.J. WalterAustralia: S. Wickham; L.M. Smith, A. Penman, B. Smith, D. McLean; A. Anlezark; D. More; A. Burden, Lucas, A. Oxlade, W. Richards, E. O'Brien, W. Hirschburg, B. Swannell, C. Murwin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 67], "content_span": [68, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035136-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand, Matches, New Zealand\nNew Zealand: E. L. Watkins, E. H. Dodd, T. Cross, E. Purdue, J. C. Spencer (capt), A. R. H. Francis, C. A. Purdue, A. F. McMinn, G. F. Burgess, W. E. Smith, C. M. Gilray, E. Wrigley, R. Bennet, D. G. Macpherson, H. S. Turtill Australia: A. Burdon, A. M. Oxlade, J. C. Clarken, H. A. Judd, E. W. Richards, W. Hirschberg, B. Lucas, B. I. Swannell, M. J. Dore, E. A. Anlezark, D. J. McLean, F. B. Smith, L. M. Smith, S. M. Wickham (capt), A. P. Penman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035137-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Barcelona City Council election\nThe 1905 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 12 November 1905, to elect half of the Barcelona City Council. 26 out of 50 seats were up for election (1 was a vacant seat).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035137-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system\nThe number of seats of each council was determined by the population count, according to the 1877 Municipal Law. As Barcelona had more than 200,000 inhabitants, the number of seats composing the city council was 50. The municipal law also established that half of the seats had to be renewed every two years. Therefore, in these elections 25 seats had to be renewed. Additionally, any vacant seat would also be renewed. The municipality was divided in 10 multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the city districts. Seats were elected using limited partial block voting. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected. In districts electing. Voting was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 927]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035137-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Barcelona City Council election, Electoral system\nThe Municipal Law allowed the King of Spain to elect directly the Mayor of Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election\nThe Barkston Ash by-election, 1905 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Barkston Ash, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on 13 October 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the death, on 18 September 1905, of the sitting Conservative MP Sir Robert Gunter. Gunter had been seriously ill with neuritis and phlebitis since June 1905 and had been unconscious for several days before his death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Electoral history\nBarkston Ash was a safe Tory seat. It had been represented by Gunter since it was created in 1885. Gunter had been unopposed at the 1900 general election and also in 1895. The last contest had come in 1892, with Gunter winning easily;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Candidates, Conservatives\nBecause of ill health, Gunter had told his local party in 1903, that he would be standing down as MP. They had then selected 35 year old George Lane-Fox, an Eton and Oxford educated barrister and a member of the West Riding County Council to be their candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe Liberals had already selected 32 year old Joseph Andrews, a barrister from Leeds to fight the next general election. They adopted Andrews as their by-election candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Candidates, Other\nThere was speculation that an Independent candidate, Henry Liversidge, would also stand. Earlier in 1905 he announced an intention to contest the next election as a Lib-Lab candidate, but on the platform of tariff reform. It was subsequently reported that no Tariff Reform League or other candidate would be standing specifically on that issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Campaign\nThe political tide seemed to be flowing against the Tory government of Arthur Balfour. In 1903 they had lost five seats in by-elections, in 1904 another seven and six seats had been gained by the Liberals in by-elections so far in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Campaign, Tariff Reform\nAlthough no tariff candidate entered the field, the issue of protectionism was one of the great issues of the day. Whereas the question of Irish Home Rule had dominated political debate in earlier elections, the \u2018dumping\u2019 of foreign goods on British markets and the struggle between tariff reformers and free traders was now seen as a prime election battleground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0007-0001", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Campaign, Tariff Reform\nThe Free Trade Union, founded in 1903 to safeguard the free import of food and raw materials and oppose the policy of protection as a barrier to good relations within the British Empire had acquired a reputation for intelligent and effective electioneering on behalf of Liberal candidates and had moved some key organisers into the Barkston Ash constituency to offer support to Andrews and to campaign and produce literature and posters for him. The Liberals played the Free Trade card for all it was worth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Campaign, Agricultural labour\nThere was a strong mining community in the south of the constituency which traditionally supported the Liberals and a substantial suburban house-holder vote spreading out from Leeds, which together with the farmers and landowners could usually be relied upon to vote Conservative. This meant the agricultural labourers held the key to the result. Both candidates courted the votes of the rural worker, Andrews emphasising the value of Free Trade in keeping food prices cheap whereas Lane-Fox appealed to the traditional conservatism of rural people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Campaign, Religion\nBoth candidates also, despite denials were keen to attract votes from the sizeable Roman Catholic minority in the area. The Liberals denounced the Education Act 1902 and hoped for Catholic voters to be sympathetic to Irish Home Rule in support of their co-religionists in Ireland although as the campaign wore on they became vulnerable to attack on the administration of the Education Act by the Liberal controlled West Riding County Council. The Tories looked to the well-established local Catholic community to remain true to their family traditions and support the Conservative establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Campaign, Foreign affairs\nGovernment policy abroad gave the Liberals little to campaign on. There was a distinct strain of English patriotism in the Yorkshire character and the area had provided strong support over the fighting of the Boer War. The only area left to exploit was the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa gold mining operations and the allegation that so-called coolies were being forced to work under conditions no better than those of slaves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Result\nThe result of the by-election was announced the following day in front of the Selby Museum. The Liberals gained Barkston Ash from the Conservatives by a majority of 228 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Result\nIrish Nationalist MP T. P. O'Connor called the election \"a victory for Ireland\" because \"of the firmness with which (voters) refused to Abandon Ireland\" and \"have buried the infamous attempt to weaken Ireland by a Redistribution Bill.\" It was another indication of how the electorate across the country, even in such a traditional Tory constituency, had grown tired of the Conservative government which had been in office for ten years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0012-0001", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Result\nIt was this swing of the pendulum, rather than the specific policy issues or personalities of the candidates, which was responsible for the Liberal victory \u2013 although the question of tariff reform was clearly an influential element in the result and the campaigning efforts of the Free Trade Union played their part in stimulating the electorate and getting them to the polls in greater numbers than their opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Aftermath\nDespite the 1906 Liberal landslide Lane-Fox was returned to parliament three months later and the constituency remained in Tory hands thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035138-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Barkston Ash by-election, Aftermath\nAs the Commons were not sitting at the time of the by-election, Andrews was one of the few people in history to be elected to parliament but never to take their seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035139-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Baylor football team\nThe 1905 Baylor football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first season under head coach Archie R. Webb, the team compiled a 1\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 159 to 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035139-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Baylor football team\nBeginning in 1905, the team's home games were played at Carroll Field, between the Carroll Science Building and Waco Creek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035139-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Baylor football team, Season summary, Nov. 30 vs. TCU\n\"The game [that] decided the local championship and was witnessed by the largest crowd ever seen on Carroll field\" began with a first half that \"was the most spectacular ever played on a local gridiron.\" In that twenty-minute first half, each team's defense held the other's offense scoreless. The game began with TCU receiving the kickoff and advanced from their 20-yard line to Baylor's 15 when the latter recovered a fumble. Baylor's own drive advanced to TCU's 40-yard line, but likewise fumbled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035139-0002-0001", "contents": "1905 Baylor football team, Season summary, Nov. 30 vs. TCU\nTCU's next possession brought them to the Baylor 2, but they couldn't convert and Baylor got a turnover on downs. Baylor also could not convert and TCU got the ball forty yards back by a punt, but returned it to the Baylor 5 before fumbling again; Baylor again had to punt, as did TCU, and the half ended scoreless. In the 30-minute second half, TCU scored three touchdowns and made the first and third tries, for seventeen points, while Baylor struggled on defense and offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 58], "content_span": [59, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035140-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Belfast North by-election\nThe 1905 Belfast North by-election was held on 14 September 1905 when the incumbent Irish UnionistMP, Sir James Horner Haslett died. It was retained by the Unionist candidate Sir Daniel Dixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035141-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Bennett Medical football team\nThe 1905 Bennett Medical football team was an American football team that represented Bennett Medical College in the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035142-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Birthday Honours\nThe 1905 Birthday Honours for the British Empire were announced on 30 June, to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII on 9 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035142-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035143-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Bolnai earthquake\nThe 1905 Bolnai earthquake occurred in or near the Asgat Sum of Zavkhan Province in Mongolia on 23 July. The earthquake has been estimated at 8.25 to 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035143-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Bolnai earthquake, Background\nThe Bolnai earthquake is believed to be a strike-slip rupture of a branch of the Bolnai Fault, extending about 300 to 375 km along the fault, and possibly an additional 80\u00a0km of the Teregtiin Fault. The fault displacement during the earthquake was greater than 6 m, and possibly as much as 11 m, and the duration is estimated at about two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035143-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Bolnai earthquake, Background\nThe Bolnai earthquake was preceded in two weeks by the Tsetserleg earthquake, and is considered a part of the same general crustal movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035143-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Bolnai earthquake, Damage\nThere are few records of the immediate effects of the earthquake due to the remoteness of Mongolia in 1905. However, rockslides were reported in the nearby mountains, and supposedly \"two lakes, each of eight acres in size, disappeared\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035143-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Bolnai earthquake, Popular Culture\nLasting damage of the earthquake can be seen in the Mongolia special of the Amazon Prime motoring show The Grand Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035144-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Americans season\nThe 1905 Boston Americans season was the fifth season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished fourth in the American League (AL) with a record of 78 wins and 74 losses, 16 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics. The team was managed by Jimmy Collins and played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035144-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Statistical leaders\nThe offense was led by Jimmy Collins with 65 RBIs and a .276 batting average, and Hobe Ferris with six home runs. The pitching staff was led by Cy Young, who made 38 appearances (33 starts) and pitched 31 complete games with an 18\u201319 record and 1.82 ERA, while striking out 210 in 320+2\u20443 innings; and Jesse Tannehill, with 37 appearances (32 starts) and 27 complete games with a 22\u20139 record and 2.48 ERA, with 113 strikeouts in 271+2\u20443 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035144-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Season standings\nThe team had one game end in a tie; June 22 vs. Chicago White Sox. Tie games are not counted in league standings, but player statistics during tie games are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035144-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035144-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035145-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1905 Boston Beaneaters season was the 35th season of the franchise. The Beaneaters finished seventh in the National League with a record of 51 wins and 103 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035145-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035145-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035145-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035145-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035145-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035146-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1905 occurred on Tuesday, December 12, 1905. Democratic candidate John F. Fitzgerald defeated Republican candidate Louis A. Frothingham, and four other contenders, to win his first term as Mayor of Boston. Primary elections had been held on Thursday, November 16, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035146-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Boston mayoral election\nDaniel A. Whelton, who had become acting mayor upon the death of Mayor Patrick Collins in September 1905, did not run for the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035147-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Brighton by-election\nThe Brighton by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It was one of only eight ministerial by-elections in the UK not to be retained by the incumbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035147-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Brighton by-election, Vacancy\nGerald Loder had been Conservative MP for the seat of Brighton since the 1889 Brighton by-election. He vacated his seat upon appointment as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury so as to seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035147-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Brighton by-election, Electoral history\nBrighton returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. The seat had been Conservative since they gained it in 1885. They easily held both seats at the last election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035147-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Brighton by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives re-selected 44-year-old Gerald Loder to defend the seat. He was private secretary to the President of the Local Government Board (Charles Ritchie) from 1888 to 1892 and to Lord George Hamilton (the Secretary of State for India) from 1896 to 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035147-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Brighton by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 42-year-old Ernest Villiers as their candidate. He was ordained as an Anglican priest. After three years as a curate in Halifax, he became rector of Haveringland, Norfolk. He resigned from holy orders to pursue a political career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035147-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Brighton by-election, Aftermath\nAt the following General Election, the Liberals gained the other seat from the Conservatives, the result was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035148-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1905 Brooklyn Superbas fell to last place with a franchise-worst 48\u2013104 record, costing manager Ned Hanlon his job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035148-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035148-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035148-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035148-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035148-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned Run Average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035149-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1905 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election\nThe Buteshire by-election, 1905 was a by-election held on 3 March 1905 for the British House of Commons constituency of Buteshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Vacancy\nThe election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting Conservative MP, Andrew Murray. Murray held the post of Secretary of State for Scotland with a seat in the Cabinet. In January 1905, Murray was appointed Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session and was given a seat in the House of Lords. At the previous General Election, he had withstood the Liberal challenge:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Candidates, Unionists\nThe Conservative Party selected Edward Theodore Salvesen, the Solicitor General for Scotland, as their candidate. Salvesen had fought the Leith Burghs seat as a Unionist at the general election of 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Candidates, Liberals\nThe Liberals re-selected their candidate from the 1900 general election Norman Lamont. Lamont came from a prominent and wealthy local family with lands in Argyll and a plantation in Trinidad. His father had been Liberal MP for Buteshire from 1865\u20131868.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Candidates, Tariff Reform candidate\nIt was reported that at one time it looked likely there would be a three-cornered contest. A Mr. Sinclair, a convinced tariff reformer had issued an address to the electors as soon it had become known there was a Parliamentary vacancy. However Sinclair decided not to stand. It soon became clear that his supporters were content with the selection of Salvesen by the Tories as he was a member of the Tariff Reform League and had stated that if necessary he would be prepared to see the policy of Joseph Chamberlain on Imperial Preference adopted in full measure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Issues, Tariff Reform\nSalvesen took advantage of his position as a Tariff Reformer to consolidate his support among the Unionist voters. A significant number of Buteshire electors were middle-class merchants and others doing business in Glasgow but who had villa residences in towns in the constituency like Rothesay and Millport and good number were Unionist supporters who were generally favourable to tariff reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0005-0001", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Issues, Tariff Reform\nConservative efforts to win the election was particularly focused on these voters as it was felt that apathy in this key part of the electorate had been responsible for the narrowness of Graham's win over Lamont at the 1900 general election. Lamont campaigned as a traditional Liberal free trader, although he was challenged on his previous support for a form of retaliatory duty to protect West Indian sugar producers from unfair foreign competition, which policy he now renounced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Issues, Chinese labour\nAfter the Boer War the government of Arthur Balfour had agreed to let the owners of the South African gold mines bring in thousands of indentured labourers of Chinese ethnicity to work in the mines. They lived under harsh conditions, in compounds they were not allowed to leave, worked long hours for little reward and were subject to corporal punishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0006-0001", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Issues, Chinese labour\nThe issue was taken up by the Liberal Party under the slogan of 'Chinese slavery' both as a crusade for humanitarianism but also to exploit fear amongst British workers that the Conservative government might allow similar immigration to Britain, threatening British jobs. The issue was raised in Buteshire but was given an added salience because it was alleged against Lamont that the Coolie labour (as it was referred to in Edwardian times) on his West Indian property were similarly indentured and that it was hypocritical of him to object to the practice in the Transvaal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0006-0002", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Issues, Chinese labour\nLamont was able to deflect this attack by showing he had removed the indenture system when he succeeded to the property and that the workers were now retained in an arrangement akin to being tenant farmers. His supporters also made political capital from the fact that Lamont had been the subject of what they chose to characterise as an unwarranted and brutal assault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Issues, Home Rule\nThe question of Irish Home Rule was an ever-present in the election. The letter of support which Balfour sent to Salvesen for publication highlighted the difference between the parties on this issue. Lamont seemed to think Balfour's intervention on Home Rule strengthened the Liberal vote however. He was said to have received the votes of the Irish catholic electors, who numbered around 200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Issues, Other issues\nApart from the specific points of conflict mentioned above, the by-election was fought principally on the basis of the government candidate defending the government record and the opposition candidate promoting the need for change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Result\nThe result of the by-election was a gain for the Liberals, albeit by a narrow margin. Lamont turned a Unionist majority of 195 at the previous general election into a Liberal majority of 34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Result\nIn this context Lamont's collection of the Irish vote seems particularly significant and perhaps the resolve of this constituency to come out and vote on the issue of Home Rule was stiffened by Balfour's focussing on it in his letter of support to Salvesen. However, Salvesen stated after the election that the Unionist vote had polled at its full strength and Buteshire should be seen in the context of the general political trend of the time which since 1902 had been decidedly against the government. Buteshire was the fifteenth by-election gain by the Liberals from the Conservatives since 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035150-0010-0001", "contents": "1905 Buteshire by-election, Result\nThe government, which had been in office since 1895, was widely seen as tired and divided and the Liberal opposition was united around key policies on free trade and education, as well as being sustained by a new approach to questions of social reform, the New Liberalism of thinkers such as Thomas Hill Green, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse and J A Hobson as well as by dynamic, radical politicians such as David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill who had defected from the Tories in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season\nThe 1905 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the seventh and final season of the league. Teams played a ten-game schedule. This year saw the addition of two teams, Montreal Westmount and Montreal Nationals. Montreal Nationals had previously been in the FAHL. Montreal Victorias won the league championship with a record of 9\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season, League business, Executive\nAt the league meeting, new franchises were granted to Montreal Westmount and Montreal Le National. Grand Trunk, Three Rivers and Montreal Wanderers were turned down. Ottawa representative J.P. Dickson attended the meeting to try to arrange a return to the league by Ottawa on condition that Wanderers were accepted also. This was turned down, partly because the league had decided to have exclusively amateur players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season, Pre-season\nQuebec Hockey Club went to New York City in December 1904 for an exhibition series against tha amateur teams of New York at St. Nicholas Rink. Quebec lost to New York Wanderers 5-3 and defeated the New York Athletic Club 7-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nMontreal Hockey Club's captain, Archie Hooper died before the season of complications stemming from a February 1903 ice hockey game injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nThis season saw several impressive rookies including Art Ross for Montreal Westmount and Ernie Russell for Montreal. Lester and Frank Patrick played together for Montreal Westmount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nThe league had a lot of scoring. The league leader, Russell Bowie of Victorias scored 27 goals in eight games. On January 7, Shamrocks and Westmount combined for 24 goals in a Shamrocks 14\u201310 win. On February 18, Fred Brophy, the Westmount goaltender, decided to get in on the act and rushed the length of the ice to score against Paddy Moran of Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nMontreal Le National lost their first four games by a combined score of 6\u201342 and withdrew from the rest of the schedule, defaulting the rest of their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035151-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 CAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nMontreal Victorias won the season with a record of 9\u20131, but could not make a satisfactory arrangement with the Stanley Cup trustees and would not play in a challenge against Ottawa. The Victorias were granted a best-of-three series by the trustees, but declined, demanding a sudden-death game or two-game, total-goals series, which was not agreed to by the trustees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035152-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Calabria earthquake\nStriking southern Italy on September 8, the 1905 Calabria earthquake had a moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The first major earthquake of the 20th century, it severely damaged parts of Lipari, Messina Province and a large area between Cosenza and Nicotera and killed between 557 and 2,500 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035152-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Calabria earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake affected the Calabria region, destroying as many as 25 villages, and 14,000 homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035153-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1905 Calgary municipal election was held on December 11, 1905 to elect a Mayor and twelve Aldermen to sit on the twenty-second Calgary City Council from January 2, 1906 to January 14, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035153-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Calgary municipal election\nNominations closed on December 4, 1905 with incumbent Mayor John Emerson and Aldermen John Rawlings Thompson nominated for Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035153-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors with a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035153-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Calgary municipal election, By-elections\nWard 4 Alderman David Carter (1863\u20141906) died on July 1, 1906, John Goodwin Watson was acclaimed as Alderman for Ward 4 on July 23, 1906. His nomination by the Fourth Ward Ratepayers' Association came after a strenious meeting which almost led to violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035153-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Calgary municipal election, By-elections\nJohn Smythe Hall resigned as Alderman for Ward 2 effective November 30, 1906. No by-election was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035154-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1905 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1905 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach J. W. Knibbs and compiled a record of 4\u20131\u20132. This was Cal's last season of football until 1915, though rugby continued in this period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035155-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1905 Campeonato Paulista, organized by the LPF (Liga Paulista de Football), was the 4th season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top association football league. Paulistano won the title for the 1st time. no teams were relegated and the top scorer was Germ\u00e2nia's Hermann Friese with 14 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035155-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Campeonato Paulista, System\nThe championship was disputed in a double-round robin system, with the team with the most points winning the title. The last-placed team would dispute a playoff to remain in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035156-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Canton Athletic Club season\nThe 1905 Canton Athletic Club season was their inaugural season in the Ohio League. The team finished 8\u20132, giving them second place in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035157-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1905 Carlisle Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first season under head coach George Washington Woodruff, the team compiled a 10\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 354 to 44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election\nThe Carlisle by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election, Vacancy and electoral history\nThe sitting MP, Rt Hon. William Gully resigned due to ill-health and was raised to the peerage with the title of Viscount Selby, of the City of Carlisle. He had been Liberal MP for the seat of Carlisle since the 1886 General Election. Since 1895 he had been Speaker of the House of Commons. The seat had been Liberal since 1868. After Gully became Speaker in 1895, the Conservatives, in accordance with the traditions of the time, chose not to oppose him at the 1900 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election, Candidates\nThe Carlisle Liberal Association selected 53-year-old Frederick Chance as their candidate to defend the seat. Chance was from a long-established family of businessmen and politicians in Carlisle. He ran the family's cotton-manufacturing firm in the town, Ferguson Brothers, and served as Mayor of Carlisle in 1904, before becoming a member of Cumberland County Council. Both his grandfather Joseph Ferguson and his uncle Robert Ferguson had been Members of Parliament (MPs) for the borough of Carlisle and he was a brother-in-law of Sir Henry Seton-Karr, the MP for St Helens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election, Candidates\nThe Carlisle Conservative Association selected 42-year-old Lancelot Sanderson as their candidate to challenge for the seat. Sanderson was a barrister of the Inner Temple, he was appointed Recorder of Wigan in 1901 and took silk in 1903. He was also a cricketer. He played two first-class matches; the first for Lancashire in 1884, and the second for the Marylebone Cricket Club four years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 14 July 1905. The small Carlisle branch of the Social Democratic Federation chose to play no part in the election and gave no advise to electors. Richard Bell, the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants sent a message urging working men not to support the Conservative candidate, stating that a vote for him would be against all labour members and the interests of labour. The constituency included about 700 Irish and Roman Catholic voters, so the issue of Irish Home Rule played a part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election, Campaign\nChance, the Liberal candidate, did not fully support party policy of granting home rule to Ireland. As a result, the Irish Parliamentary Party chose not to give him their support and advised the Irish electors in Carlisle to remain neutral. The North of England Temperance League announced that as no candidate supported banning the sale of alcohol, they could not recommend either to the Carlisle electors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election, Result\nThe Liberals held the seat and won the largest majority in the history of the constituency:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035158-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Carlisle by-election, Aftermath\nChance was re-elected unopposed in 1906, and held the seat until the January 1910 general election, when he did not stand again. Sanderson was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Appleby division of Westmorland at the January 1910 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035159-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Case football team\nThe 1905 Case football team represented the Case School of Applied Science in the American city of Cleveland, Ohio, now a part of Case Western Reserve University, during the 1905 college football season. The team's head coach was Joseph Wentworth. Case won its fourth consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035160-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1905 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1905 college football season. Football returned to the school after having been discontinued for the 1904 season due to budgetary constraints. Charles Tambling was the team's coach. The team compiled a 7\u20131 record, including victories over Michigan State Normal, later renamed Eastern Michigan University (13\u20130), the Elsie Giants (5\u20130), Ferris (35\u20132 and 10\u20130), and the Midland Athletic Club (51\u20130). The team's only loss was suffered on November 4, 1904, by a 12\u20136 score against Alma College at Mount Pleasant, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035161-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Challenge Cup\nThe 1904\u201305 Challenge Cup was the 9th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035161-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Challenge Cup\nWarrington, the previous year's beaten finalists, won the Cup at their third attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035161-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was contested by Warrington and Hull Kingston Rovers at Headingley in Leeds on Saturday 29 April 1905, in front of a crowd of 19,638. Warrington beat Hull KR 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035162-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1905 Chicago Cubs season was the 34th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 30th in the National League and the 13th at West Side Park. The Cubs finished third in the National League with a record of 92\u201361.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035162-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035162-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035162-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035163-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1905 Chicago Maroons football team represented the University of Chicago during the 1905 Western Conference football season. In coach Amos Alonzo Stagg's 14th year as head coach, the Maroons finished with an 11\u20130 record (7\u20130 Western) and outscored opponents 271 to 5. The Maroons were retroactively named national champions by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the National Championship Foundation, and the Houlgate System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035164-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1905 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team was an American football team that represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago in the 1905 college football season. Their only game was a 0\u201330 loss against Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035165-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035165-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035165-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035165-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1905, Democrat Edward F. Dunne defeated Republican John Maynard Harlan and Socialist John Collins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election\nThis was the final regularly-scheduled Chicago mayoral election for a two-year term. Subsequent elections have been for four-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nIncumbent Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. had, shortly after his 1903 reelection, declared that he would not seek an additional term in 1905. While there was a possibility he could reverse course and seek another term, by 1905 he was facing declining prospects of winning nomination to a fifth consecutive term. Labor unions had come out in support of municipal ownership of the city's streetcars, a stance that Harrison had neither adopted nor was keen on adopting. He was out-of step with the political tides on this issue, as both parties had come to regularly support the idea of municipal ownership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0002-0001", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nMunicipal ownership was a particularly immensely important item to the city's reformers. Harrison had also fractured political relations during the course of the 1904 elections, particularly having made an enemy of William Randolph Hearst and his allies by opposing Hearst's campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Additionally, many Chicagoans were growing impatient with Harrison's inability to resolve the city's traction issue. Even before this rise in public dissatisfaction towards his mayoralty, Harrison had only eked out a relatively narrow margin of victory in the city's previous mayoral election. Thus, Harrison decided to announce that, on November 21, 1904, he would indeed not be seeking a fifth consecutive term as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nAt the same time that Harrison was seeing a decline in his political prospects, Edward F. Dunne began to rise in prominence. On June 26, 1904, at a Democratic Party picnic, Dunne delivered a speech in which he criticized Harrison for not towing the party's line in its support municipal ownership. Rumors immediately arose that he would challenge Harrison by running as an independent candidate, but Dunne denied this, declaring that he was a loyal Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nFormer judge William Prentice (a leader of the Chicago Federation of Labor) said that he would run as an independent candidate in support of municipal ownership unless Dunne was the Democratic nominee. In November 1904 Dunne declined a nomination from the Municipal Ownership League to run for mayor as a third-party candidate under their banner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nMurray F. Tuley of the Municipal Ownership League heralded a January draft effort to convince Dunne to run for the Democratic nomination, issuing an open letter on January 15, 1905 calling on Dever to run. On January 23, 1905 delegations from 23 of Chicago's 35 wards urged Dunne to run. Dunne declared he was willing to accept the nomination, but that he would not resign his seat as a judge until he began campaigning. He also pledged to accept no corporate donations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nDunne had an easy path to the nomination. While the Harrison-aligned Democratic Central Committee did not issue any endorsement, Dune was strongly supported by both the Bryan-Altgeld and Hearst wings of the party. He experienced no strong opposition from the ward bosses or from the Sullivan-Hopkins wing of the party. Despite receiving strong buzz as a prospective candidate, alderman William Emmett Dever did not run against Dunne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nAt the party's February nominating convention, Dunne was nominated by acclamation. In his acceptance speech he declared that his central issue as mayor would be implementing municipal ownership of the city's streetcars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nTo compete with Dunne, then the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Republicans nominated maverick Republican John Maynard Harlan. Republicans hoped that Harlan might be able to capture some of the support that Dunne would otherwise capture from supporters of municipal ownership. Harlan had campaigned in 1897 on a platform strongly supporting municipal ownership. However, unlike Dunne, Harlan did not back immediate municipal ownership in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nIn addition to previously having run a third-party effort 1897, Harlan had run for the Republican nomination in 1901 and in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nHarlan had served an Alderman for two years (1896 through 1898), and was the son of then-sitting United States Supreme Court Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Socialist primary\nThe Socialists were coming off of a strong performance 1904 United States presidential election in Illinois. Despite this, the party had initially pledged that it would not run its own mayoral candidate if Dunne were to run. However, despite Dunne's presence atop the Democratic ticket, the party nominated John Collins for mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nA judge on the Cook County Circuit Court, Dunne had no prior executive experience. His positions were relatively mainstream among municipal reformers (\"social reformers\" and \"urban liberals\") . Like other municipal reformers, Dunne favored having political power be shared with the lower echelons of society rather than being exclusively held by the upper echelons. He also was supportive of labor unions. He was tolerant towards ethnic and cultural diversity and also tolerant towards those with disabilities and impairments. He was a contemporary with progressive leaders of both parties in other American cities, including Tom L. Johnson, Samuel M. Jones, Mark Pagan, Hazen Pingree, and Brand Whitlock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nDunne was so passionate about municipal ownership that he aspired to, ultimately, have his life be remembered most for two things: being the mayor that would bring municipal ownership to Chicago's transit system and for being the father to his thirteen children. He strongly favored immediate municipal ownership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nDunne's lack of campaign experience did not hamper him, as he ran a very strong and well-organized campaign. To drive turnout among Democratic voters, Dunne held party rallies in each of the city's wards and delivered remarks aimed at appealing towards strong-Democrats, as well as remarks aimed at winning over the city's ethnic voters. Dunne worked to unite the various wings of the party around support for immediate municipal ownership. Dunne also made active efforts to court independent voters, with the goal of winning-over at least 50,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nDunne largely avoided endorsing or opposing the reelection campaigns of several ward bosses. However, he did endorse a few that had strongly supported immediate municipal ownership and oppose a few that had opposed it. For instance, in the 19th Ward he supported immediate municipal ownership proponent Simon O'Donnell's challenge to John Powers, an opponent of immediate municipal ownership. Even then, however, he only went as far as lending his support to O'Donnell, and did not directly criticize Powers. In the First Ward, where Michael Kenna enthusiastically backed both Dunne and immediate municipal ownership, Dunne returned the favor by endorsing Kenna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nIn 1905, Harlan did not support immediate municipal ownership. While de supported making \"ample provision for municipal ownership and operation\", he stated that he believed that this could only be implemented at a later date when, \"the city can be legally and financially able to successfully adopt it\". This differed from his past stance on municipal ownership, and was quite similar to the stance that Carter Harrison Jr. had held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nSome reformers supported and campaigned on behalf of Harlan. However, many reformers that had supported Harlan's previous 1897 campaign supported Dunne's candidacy instead. Many were dissatisfied with his sudden change in position on the traction issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nHarlan garnered the support of Harold L. Ickes, William Kent, Raymond Robbins, and Graham Taylor, who together formed the \"Non Partisan Harlan Club\" to support his candidacy. They supported Harlan due to his strong support for a new municipal charter and out of disapproval of Dunne's political alliances with the Democratic political bosses of the city's wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nNot only was Harlan opposed by notable figures that had endorsed him in 1897, but he also found significant levels of support from groups which had opposed him in 1897. These included the city's business and banking community, establishment members of the Republican Party, and Republican-leaning newspapers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nDunne's number of votes was the most votes any candidate had ever received in a Chicago mayoral election, up to that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035166-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nDunne received 64.99% of the Polish-American vote, while Harlan received 29.73% and Collins received 4.78%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike\nThe 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike was a sympathy strike and lockout by the United Brotherhood of Teamsters in the summer of 1905 in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The strike was initiated by a small clothing workers' union. But it soon spread as nearly every union in the city, including the Teamsters, supported the job action with sympathy strikes. Initially, the strike was aimed at the Montgomery Ward department store, but it affected almost every employer in the metropolitan region after the Teamsters walked out. The strike eventually pitted the Teamsters against the Employers' Association of Chicago, a broad coalition of business owners formed a few years earlier to oppose unionization in Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike\nThe strike was a violent and deadly one. Riots erupted on April 7 and continued almost daily until mid-July. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of striking workers and their supporters would clash with strikebreakers and armed police each day. By late July, when the strike ended, 21 people had been killed and a total of 416 injured. It was the second-most deadly labor dispute in 20th-century American history, surpassed only by the East St. Louis Riot of 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike\nCourt testimony in late summer revealed that various businessmen (including the general manager of Montgomery Ward) had taken bribes to lock out their workers. The testimony also revealed that union leaders had asked for and received bribes to end their strikes. The testimony significantly undercut public support for labor unions, and the strike quickly collapsed. The strike is generally considered to have lasted 103 days from the date the Teamsters entered the fray on April 6 until its conclusion on July 19, when most unions voted to withdraw from the dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike\nThe strike is considered one of the most important of early 20th century American history because of its violence, the strength and depth of inter-union solidarity, and the way it dramatically weakened public support for unions nationwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Background\nThe Employers' Association of Chicago (the EA) was formed in 1902 during a strike against telephone equipment manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Background\nIn January 1902, Brass Molder's Union Local 83 struck Stromberg-Carlson and Western Electric, seeking to win the closed shop in collective bargaining negotiations. The employers locked out the workers and brought in strikebreakers. Union members began to physically attack the strikebreakers. On May 7, 1903, the union struck the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company. Kellogg Switchboard, too, locked out its workforce and hired strikebreakers. The Teamsters Joint Council of Chicago, a citywide organization of all Teamster locals in the Chicago area, began a sympathy strike on June 24, 1903. The three employers sought injunctions against the sympathy strike, which they won on July 20, 1903. The Brass Molders' strike collapsed soon afterward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Background\nDuring this strike, the Employers' Association of Chicago was formed. John G. Shedd, vice-president of Marshall Field & Company, was the primary force behind the organization of the group. Shedd became the group's first president. Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was the EA's first vice-president; grocery store president Frank H. Armstrong of Reid, Murdoch & Company the second vice-president; and William E. Clow, president of plumbing manufacturer J.B. Clow & Co. the secretary. The EA's goal was to secure the open shop, resist unionization, and break unions in workplaces where they existed. The EA was heavily funded by the city's banks and by large companies such as Rand McNally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Background\nThe Teamsters quickly became the target of the EA. The Teamsters were one of the largest unions in Chicago. But since the Teamsters controlled the city's transportation network, the union's support was also critical to the success of any other union's job action. In early 1904, the Teamsters aligned all their contracts to expire simultaneously on May 1, 1905. The EA then passed a resolution on June 16, 1904, declaring that no employer would sign a contract with the Teamsters after May 1, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nOn December 15, 1904, 19 clothing cutters at Montgomery Ward went on strike to protest the company's use of nonunion subcontractors. The manager of the fabric cutting room for Montgomery Ward & Co. at the time of the initial incident was C.V. Boller. The Montgomery Ward company locked the remaining workers out. Sympathy strikes by several tailors' unions broke out, as did sympathy strikes by other unions. By April, 5,000 workers were on the picket line, with all 26 local members of the National Tailors' Association (a coalition of clothing manufacturers and retailers) struck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nThe Teamsters engaged in a sympathy strike on April 6, 1905, adding another 10,000 members to the picket lines. Teamsters President Cornelius Shea targeted Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company in particular, as these were the leaders in the National Tailors' Association. The sympathy strike had not occurred earlier in the year for fear it would have imperiled the candidacy of Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne for Mayor of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nViolence broke out and continued almost daily until mid-July. Riots occurred on April 7 when Montgomery Ward attempted to use wagons driven by strikebreakers to deliver raw materials and finished goods. The most serious that day involved 1,000 striking workers and sympathizers, who attacked several heavily guarded wagons on Union Street. On April 29, a crowd of 1,000 striking workers and sympathizers clashed with police, and three people were shot and two stabbed. Mayor Dunne immediately banned the carrying of firearms. On May 4, a riot involving more than 5,000 people coursed through the city's streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0010-0001", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nStrikers hurled bricks and stones, and assaulted any African American or wagon driver caught on the streets. Police, strikers and strikebreakers used clubs and firearms against one another. During a stone-throwing melee on the Rush Street bridge, strikebreakers opened fire on striking workers, leading to one death. \"Slugging\"\u2014the beating of non-union workers or union members who crossed picket lines\u2014became common.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nThe EA mustered its substantial resources to break the Teamsters' support for the striking tailors. The EA collected $250,000 (about $6.7 million in 2017 dollars) from its members to hire strikebreakers. The EA also raised $1 million (about $27 million in 2017 dollars) to establish, on April 13, the Employers' Teaming Association-a new company which, within a matter of weeks, bought out a large number of team owners and imported hundreds of African American strikebreakers from St. Louis to work as teamsters and drive the wagons. Mark Morton, president of Morton Salt and an EA member, convinced the railroads to pressure the remaining team owners to lock out their Teamster members as well. In response, the unions organized a boycott of all banks involved in the fundraising efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nWith the garment workers' strike all but forgotten, the tailors' union asked that the other unions end their sympathy strikes. The Teamsters, the critical union in the strike, agreed to do so if the employers would agree to rehire all striking workers. But on April 23, Montgomery Ward declared it would defer to the decision of the Employers' Association, and the EA announced a day later that no striking workers should be rehired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nInfuriated, the Teamsters called another 25,000 members off the job on April 25, 1905, paralyzing grocery stores, warehouses, railway shippers, department stores and coal companies. On April 30, the EA and its members then sued nearly every union involved in the strike. Local and state courts issued numerous injunctions against the unions, ordering them to stop picketing and return to work. Historians point out that court actions strongly favored the employers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0013-0001", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nWhen a wagon owner refused to do business with Montgomery Ward for fear the Teamsters would picket him, a court forced the team owner to do business with the retailer or be found in contempt of court. In another case, a judge seated a grand jury whose foreman was A. A. McCormick, the reactionary publisher of the Chicago Evening Post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nThe writs were sweeping in nature. One of the first, if interpreted literally and enforced, would have stripped the unions of their rights to strike:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\n:You are enjoined and restrained from in any manner molesting, interfering with, hindering, obstructing or stopping any of Montgomery Ward & Co.'s agents, servants and employ\u00e9s in the lawful operation and business of the company at Chicago or elsewhere, and also from molesting, interfering with, hindering, obstructing or stopping any person going to or from the company's place of business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nOn April 29, 12 prominent labor leaders in Chicago\u2014including Charles Dold, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor; Shea; and 10 other local Teamster presidents\u2014were indicted on six counts of conspiracy to restrain trade, commit violence, and prevent citizens from obtaining work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nThe unions appealed to President Theodore Roosevelt on May 7, asking him to investigate the causes of the strike. The unions also requested that the president refuse to send troops to Chicago before investigating the status of the strike first. On May 10, Dold, Shea and other strike leaders met with Roosevelt personally in Chicago. Roosevelt refused to mediate an end to the strike, denounced the use of violence in the strike, and warned the labor leaders to settle the strike quickly before federal military intervention was needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nWith no collective bargaining negotiations scheduled, much of the strike's activities occurred in the courts in May, June and July. Shea refused to appear in court to provide pre-trial testimony regarding the April 29 indictment. When threatened with jail for contempt of court, he finally appeared but answered all questions with variations of \"I don't know.\" The injunctions also began having an effect. In late May, nearly all the building trade unions in Chicago agreed to return to work, significantly weakening the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nShea's handling of the strike came under fire from the executive board of the international Teamsters union. On May 27, the board removed Shea from day-to-day control of the strike and transferred that authority to itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike\nAfter these developments, talks to end the strike began. Agreement was reached on a wide range of issues between May 24 and June 2. But despite threats by Shea to call 8,000 truck drivers out on strike, clothing stores unaffiliated with the EA refused to break ranks and settle with the Teamsters. The strike continued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0021-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike's end\nThe strike ended not through the efforts of the EA or the unions, but due to the allegations of graft made by John C. Driscoll. At the time, Driscoll was secretary (the highest officer) of the Team Owners' Association, the employer group which had locked out the Teamsters after the sympathy strike which began on April 6. On June 2, the grand jury led by McCormick heard testimony by Driscoll. Driscoll claimed that he had taken at least $10,000 in bribes from Thorne and executives at other companies to force the unions out on strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0021-0001", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike's end\nDriscoll also alleged that the Teamsters and other unions had demanded bribes to end the strike, that the bribes had been delivered, and that Driscoll had skimmed portions of these bribes into his own pocket. $50,000 in canceled checks were produced in court to support Driscoll's claims. Driscoll's accusations unleashed a flood of allegations by other witnesses. Shea and another Teamsters leader, Albert Young, accused Thorne and other employers of offering them bribes to strike business competitors, and offered evidence in court of previous bribes which the Teamster leaders had accepted (and which had led to large strikes). Thorne and other employers countered that Shea and other union leaders had asked for bribes ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 to call off the current strike. On June 3, the grand jury returned bribery and conspiracy indictments against Shea and 19 other union leaders, but none against the employers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 975]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0022-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike's end\nThe development was not unsurprising. Each side knew the other was taking bribes early in the strike. Charges of bribery were levied against the leaders of the strike as early as April 16, but were generally ignored. The unions levied their own accusations of bribery against the employers during legal hearings on May 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0023-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike's end\nThe evening of June 3, Thorne swore out arrest warrants for Shea on charges of criminal libel for making in-court accusations of bribery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0024-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike's end\nThe arrest infuriated Shea. Late that evening, having made bail, he convened an emergency meeting of the Teamster executive board. Ensuring that primarily his supporters attended the meeting, Shea pushed through several resolutions calling for the end to peace talks, reaffirming support for the strike, and praising Shea's handling of the strike. Although negotiations with the employers had nearly reached complete agreement, Shea withdrew his negotiators and repudiated the tentative agreements which had been reached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0025-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike's end\nShea was arrested again on June 5, this time for failing to pay bond regarding the June 3 conspiracy indictment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0026-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Strike's end\nAlthough the bribery accusations undercut both sides, public support for the unions suffered most. While nearly every union continued to support the strike publicly, most sent their members back to work by the end of June. The Teamsters continued to support the strike, but various divisions of the union also went back to work in June and July. By August 1, 1905, the strike was over and the employers ended the lockout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0027-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Impact\nThe strike significantly strengthened the EA, which in the next few years fiercely attacked the Teamsters and other unions for corruption. By the mid-1920s, unionization rates in Chicago had fallen dramatically, and even the once-powerful Chicago Teamsters unions had shrunk to a small, relatively ineffective force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0028-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Impact\nThe strike also caused public support for unions throughout the U.S. to fall. By 1910, due to the publicity surrounding Driscoll's allegations as well as widespread labor-related violence, American labor unions had lost much of the sway over public opinion they once held. In many ways, some scholars argue, labor unions in the United States never recovered this support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0029-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Impact\nNearly half the Teamster members who went on strike were not rehired. Most were blackballed and had to find work outside the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035167-0030-0000", "contents": "1905 Chicago teamsters' strike, Impact\nCornelius Shea, although indicted three times, was never convicted of any crimes in connection with the 1905 strike. A serious challenge to his control of the Teamsters emerged in August 1905, but he was able to beat back the opposition through a combination of vote fraud and bribery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election\nThe Chichester by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. It was held on 2 June 1905 after the incumbent Conservative MP Lord Edmund Talbot was appointed as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and he was obliged to stand again in a ministerial by-election. It was retained by Talbot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election, Vacancy\nLord Edmund Talbot had been Conservative MP for the seat of Chichester since the 1894 Chichester by-election. He was appointed as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and he was obliged to stand again in a ministerial by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since creation in 1868. Lord Edmund Talbot held the seat at the last election, unopposed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election, Electoral history\nTalbot had always been returned unopposed. The last contest in the constituency came in 1892, when the Conservative out-polled the Liberal by nearly two to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election, Candidates\nThe local Conservative Association re-selected 50 year-old Lord Edmund Talbot as their candidate to defend the seat. The local Liberal Association selected 33 year-old John Ernest Allen as their candidate to challenge for the seat. Allen was a Barrister-at-law, who had been educated at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities where he gained a Master of Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 2 June 1905, the day after the 1905 Whitby by-election. On the eve of poll, the Liberals gained Whitby from the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election, Result\nThe Conservatives held the seat with their lowest majority since 1885:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035168-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Chichester by-election, Aftermath\nAt the following General Election, Talbot again held the seat, the result was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott\nThe Chinese Boycott of 1905 was a large-scale boycott of American goods in Qing dynasty that began on 10 May 1905. The catalyst was the Gresham-Yang Treaty of 1894, which was an extension of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. An indirect cause was the years of violence against Chinese immigrants, most recently in San Francisco plague of 1900\u20131904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott\nThe boycott lasted for almost one year and garnered support from all major Chinese organizations. It came to an end when the Qing government revoked its support for the boycott. Ultimately the boycott did not change any discriminatory laws in the US; however, the Chinatown raids eventually ceased. The boycott extended across to the Chinese diaspora in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott, Causes, US legislative history on excluding Chinese\nThe Chinese were brought to the U.S. under a contract system to help with the construction of the pacific coast railroad. A treaty negotiated by the Secretary William H. Seward called The Burlingame Treaty of 1868 allowed unlimited freedom for the Chinese to immigrate to the United States. The treaty also prohibited the U.S. from meddling into China's internal affairs as well as granted American citizens privilege in China. By 1880 The U.S. modified the treaty to restrict the immigration of Chinese workers with the approval of China. Two years later in 1882 congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act that required Chinese immigrants residing in the United States to carry identification papers with them at all times. Extensions of the act include the 1888 Scott Act, 1892 Geary Act and, 1894 Gresham-Yang Treaty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 73], "content_span": [74, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott, Causes, US legislative history on excluding Chinese, 1894 Treaty\nThe 1894 Gresham-Yang Treaty automatically extended for 10 years after its expiration on December 7, 1904 unless further negotiation was made. It was the further negotiation in May 1905 at Beijing that sparked the boycott. Just before the boycott, US sent her new ambassador, William Woodville Rockhill, to Beijing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 86], "content_span": [87, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott, Causes, Violence against Chinese immigrants\nFirst it was Boston Chinatown immigration raid in 1903. Then San Francisco plague of 1900\u20131904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott, The boycott\nThe boycott originated when the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of San Francisco called upon the people of China to pressure the United States into treating the Chinese immigrants in America better. Afterwards, telegrams were sent out by Tseng Shao-Ching, leader of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce to merchants to boycott American products; if the merchant refuse, the boycott committee would ensure that they follow their instructions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott, Timeline\nChinese immigrants were brought to the U.S. under a contract system to help with the construction of the Pacific Coast railroad. The Burlingame Treaty of 1868 was negotiated by Secretary William H. Seward allowed unlimited freedom for the Chinese to immigrate to the United States. A majority of Chinese migrated out of China to go to the United States suffered a huge amount of discrimination and prejudice compared to Chinese who have gone to other countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott, Timeline\nSeveral events lead up to the boycott of 1905. These events were regarded as attempts to expel the Chinese from America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035169-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Chinese boycott, Organizations involved\nThe boycott drew support from many major Chinese organizations, including", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1905 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the National League with a record of 79 wins and 74 losses, 26 games behind the New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Reds were coming off a third-place finish in 1904, as they went 88\u201365, eighteen games behind the powerful New York Giants. The 88 wins by Cincinnati was their highest total since 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nPlayer-manager Joe Kelley returned for his fourth season. Kelley moved from first base to the outfield, as the Reds acquired first baseman Shad Barry from the Chicago Cubs very early in the 1905 season. Some other new faces on the team included pitcher Orval Overall, who went 32\u201325 with a 2.78 ERA in 56 starts with the Tacoma Tigers of the Pacific Coast League in 1904, and pitcher Charlie Chech, who joined Cincinnati from the St. Paul Saints of the American Association. Chech had a 27\u20138 record in 35 starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nCy Seymour had a career season, leading the National League with a .377 batting average, 219 hits, 40 doubles, 21 triples, and driving in 121 runs. Seymour also had eight home runs, second on the club. Fred Odwell led Cincinnati with nine home runs, while he had a .241 average and drove in 65 runs. Miller Huggins hit .273 with a homer and 38 RBI, while scoring a team best 117 runs and walking 103 times. Tommy Corcoran hit only .248, but he had two homers and drove in 85 runs. Barry also played well following his trade from the Cubs, hitting .324 with a homer and 56 RBI with Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nWith Noodles Hahn missing most of the season due to an injury, Bob Ewing emerged as the ace, going 20\u201311 with a 2.51 ERA. Orval Overall went 18\u201323 with a 2.86 ERA in 39 starts in his rookie season, while Charlie Chech went 14\u201314 with a 2.89 ERA in his first season. In limited action, Hahn was 5\u20133 with a 2.81 ERA in thirteen games, eight of them starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe Reds got off to a bad start in 1905, going 12\u201316 in their opening twenty-eight games, sitting in fifth place, 10.5 games behind the New York Giants. To make matters worse, the Reds lost ace pitcher Noodles Hahn to an arm injury. Cincinnati stayed around the .500 mark until going on an eight-game winning streak to up their record to 32\u201324, and found themselves in third place, 6.5 games back. The team then won only three of thirteen games to fall back into fifth, 14.5 games behind the Giants. The Reds played out the rest of the season in fifth place, as they finished with a 79\u201374 record, 26 games behind New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035170-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035171-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1905 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Amos Foster, the Bearcats compiled a 4\u20133 record. William Foley was the team captain. The team played its home games at Carson Field in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035172-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 City of Wellington by-election\nThe 1905 City of Wellington by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of City of Wellington, a multi-member urban seat at the bottom of the North Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035172-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 City of Wellington by-election\nThe by-election was held on 6 April 1905, and was precipitated by the death of sitting Liberal member of parliament George Fisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035172-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 City of Wellington by-election\nThe by-election was won by Fisher's son Francis Fisher who stood as an Independent Liberal. Fisher beat Charles Izard and John Hutcheson. Izard would be successful in the Wellington North electorate in the 1905 election later in the year, and Hutcheson had previously represented the electorate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035172-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 City of Wellington by-election, Results\nFisher would represent the electorate until his defeat at the 1914 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035173-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1905 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Under first year head coach Eddie Cochems, the team posted a 3\u20132\u20131 record. Puss Derrick was the captain. John de Saulles rated Clemson as the third best team in the SIAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035174-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cleveland Naps season\nThe 1905 Cleveland Naps season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the American League with a record of 76\u201378, 19 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics. The Naps were 52-29 on July 24th, and held a three game lead in the American League, but they were only 24-49 after that point, and finished two games under .500 after having been 23 games over .500", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035174-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035174-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035174-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035174-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035174-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035175-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Colgate football team\nThe 1905 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its third season under head coach Buck O'Neill, the team compiled a 5\u20134 record. Walter Runge was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035175-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Colgate football team\nAfter the 1905 season, Buck O'Neill left Colgate to become head football coach at Syracuse. He was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035176-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 College Baseball All-Southern Team\nThe 1905 College Baseball All-Southern Team consists of baseball players selected at their respective positions after the 1905 college baseball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035177-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1905 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1905 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly and Caspar Whitney for Outing Magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1905 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Virginia Tech, an independent school, lost only to Navy and claims a southern championship for 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Consensus eleven\nThe All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nC = consensus of newspapers published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWRT = selected by W. Reynolds Tichenor of Auburn, published in the Atlanta Journal. He had a first and second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nH = selected John Heisman. It had a second and third team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nBW = selected by Bradley Walker, celebrated southern official. He had a first and second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nHY = selected by coach H. C. Hyatt of the University of the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nAL = selected by coach Jack Leavenworth of the University of Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nAJ = An attempt at a composite by the Journal, \"players most favored by experts\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nWMR = selected by professor W. M. Riggs of Clemson University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nNB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. He picked Vanderbilt's whole eleven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nM = selected by a Memphis writer. His first team was Vanderbilt's eleven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035178-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nRR = selected by coach R. R. Brown of Washington and Lee University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035179-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1905 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach John H. McIntosh, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20134 record and were outscored by a total of 95 to 67.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035180-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1905 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1905 college football season. The team left the Colorado Football Association, becoming an independent, only to return to the CFA for the following season. As of 2015, CU terms this decision as \"rules/membership disputes.\" Head coach Willis Kienholz led the team to an 8\u20131 record in his only season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035181-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe 1905 Columbia Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Bill Morley, the team compiled a 4\u20133\u20132 record and was outscored by a total of 109 to 77. The team's three losses were to undefeated national champion Yale, undefeated Penn, and Princeton. John R. Fisher was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035181-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Columbia Blue and White football team\nColumbia's sports teams were commonly called the \"Blue and White\" in this era, but had no official nickname. The name \"Lions\" would not be adopted until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035181-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Columbia Blue and White football team\nThe team played its home games at the American League Park, a baseball park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, and also the home field of the New York Yankees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035182-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Columbus, Ohio mayoral election\nThe Columbus mayoral election of 1905 was the 55th mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio. Incumbent Republican mayor Robert H. Jeffrey retired from office after one term. Democratic party nominee De Witt C. Badger defeated Republican party nominee Winfield Scott Potter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035183-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1905 college football season. This was the tenth year that the school fielded a football team. The Aggies were led by fourth year head coach Edwin O. Smith, and completed the season with a record of 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035184-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game\nThe 1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game was a college football game between Cooper College (now Sterling College) and Fairmount College (now Wichita State University) played on October 6, 1905, at Association Field in Wichita The game was played at night under gas lamps as a demonstration by the Coleman Company and was the first night football game played west of the Mississippi River. Fairmount won by a score of 24\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035184-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game, Aftermath\nSeveral other attempts had been made in the eastern United States toward the means of playing football at night, beginning in 1892 with the first night football game that ended at halftime. Since that game, other attempts in the east grew to be successful, but this was the first time such an attempt was made west of the Mississippi River. The use of lighting was considered successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035185-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Copa de Honor Cousenier\nThe 1905 Copa de Honor Cousenier was the final match to decide the winner of the Copa de Honor Cousenier, the 1st. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by Uruguayan side Club Nacional de Football and Argentine team Alumni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035185-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Copa de Honor Cousenier\nThe match was held in the Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo, on September 10, 1905. Nacional beat Alumni 3\u20132 with goals by Rinc\u00f3n (2) and de Castro, achieving its first Cousenier trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035186-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Copa del Rey\nThe Copa del Rey 1905 was the 3rd staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035186-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Copa del Rey\nThe competition started on April 16, 1905, and concluded on April 20, 1905, with the last group stage match, in which Madrid FC lifted the trophy for the first time ever with 2 victories over San Sebasti\u00e1n Recreation Club and Athletic Bilbao. The three teams entered in the competition to dispute the tournament playing against each other in three games. Catalonia championship was not over and could not send a participant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035187-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Copa del Rey Final\nThe 1905 Copa del Rey Final was the third final of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. The match took place on 18 April 1905 at the Hip\u00f3dromo, Madrid. The match was contested by Athletic Bilbao and Madrid CF. Madrid was awarded the trophy for the first time after defeating Athletic Bilbao 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035188-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cork City by-election\nThe Cork City by-election, 1905 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of Cork City on 14 June 1905. The vacancy arose because of the death of the sitting member, J. F. X. O'Brien of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Only one candidate was nominated, Augustine Roche representing the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035189-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1905 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 19th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035189-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Cork Senior Football Championship\nFermoy won the championship following a defeat of Carbery Rangers in the final. This was their fifth championship title overall and their first title since 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035190-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1905 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was supposed to be the 19th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship, however, due to a delay in the completion of the 1904 championship it never took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035190-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nSt. Finbarr's were subsequently awarded the title after winning the 1906 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035191-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1905 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1905 college football season. In their fourth, non-consecutive season under head coach Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 173 to 59. Two Cornell players received honors on the 1905 College Football All-America Team: guard Elmer Thompson (Walter Camp, 2nd team); and George Walder (New York Globe).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035192-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 County Championship\nThe 1905 County Championship was the sixteenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 4 May to 4 September 1905. Yorkshire won their seventh championship title, while the previous season's winners, Lancashire, finished in fourth place. The number of participants was expanded from fifteen to sixteen, with Northamptonshire gaining first-class status, having previously played with some success in the Minor Counties Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035193-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cuban general election\nGeneral elections were held in Cuba on 1 December 1905. Tom\u00e1s Estrada Palma won the presidential election, whilst his Moderate Party won all twelve seats in the Senate and 31 of the 32 seats in the House of Representatives, winning 27 of the 63 seats. Voter turnout was 74.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035193-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Cuban general election, Aftermath\nThe election results were highly contested and accusations of fraud were made. Registration of voters by local electoral boards resulted in an electoral roll of 423,313, a figure American Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon declared to be 150,000 names too high. According to American professor Russell H. Fitzgibbon, La Discussion, a leading moderate newspaper, protested about electoral fraud. According to a Taft Bacon report of 1906, Freyre de Andrade, a Cuban minister, told American commissioners that it was \"impossible to hold an election in Cuba without fraud\" and that thousands of extra names had perhaps been added \"out of spirit of mischief.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035193-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Cuban general election, Aftermath\nIn 1906 American President Theodore Roosevelt created a Peace Commission following the Cuban rebellions of the summer of 1906. The commission was sent to Cuba to investigate the situation and \"attempt to restore peace and re-establish law and Order.\" The Peace Commission found that the congressional elections of 1905 had been \"so tainted by fraud as to render them illegal\". Taft subsequently suspended the Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035194-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Cumberland Bulldogs football team\nThe 1905 Cumberland Bulldogs football team represented Cumberland University in the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), compiling a 3\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035195-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1905 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its third season under head coach Fred Folsom, the team compiled a 7\u20131\u20132 record, shut out six of ten opponents, and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 34. David Main was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035196-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 DePauw football team\nThe 1905 DePauw football team was an American football team that represented the DePauw University in the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035197-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1905 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. Jerry Girardin was hired in mid-October as the team's head coach. The team initially had a schedule with six opponents. However, on November 9, the college's president, Rev. Kellinger, refused to allow the football team to play the Detroit University School and declared that football \"as it is played today is altogether too rough\" and that the game was also too expensive. In response, coach Girardin said he would never coach a team of the college again. The team was then disbanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035198-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit Tigers season\n1905 was the fifth year for the Detroit Tigers in the American League. The team finished in third place with a record of 79\u201374 (.516), 15\u00bd games behind the Philadelphia Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035198-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season\nThe 1905 Tigers were outscored by their opponents 602 to 512, the largest negative run differential ever for a Major League team with a winning record. The team's attendance at Bennett Park was 193,384, eighth out of the eight teams in the AL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035198-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035198-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035198-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035198-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035198-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035199-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Dickinson football team\nThe 1905 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1905 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20134 record and outscored opponents by a total of 122 to 72. J. William Williams was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035200-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Dominion Championship\nThe 1905 Dominion Championship was a Canadian football game that was played on November 25, 1905 at Rosedale Field in Toronto, Ontario that determined the Senior Rugby Football champion of Canada for the 1905 season. The Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU) champion Toronto University team defeated the Quebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) champion Ottawa Rough Riders in an 11\u20139 comeback victory to win their second Dominion Championship. This was the third appearance in the title game for Varsity and the fourth appearance for the Rough Riders while also being their first loss in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035200-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Dominion Championship, Background\nThis was the first national championship game played since 1902 since there had been disputes for the previous two years as to which rules to play under. The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) champion Hamilton Tigers finished their season with a 6\u20130 record and challenged the Rough Riders for the Dominion Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035200-0001-0001", "contents": "1905 Dominion Championship, Background\nHowever, the Tigers did not want to travel to Ottawa to play the game and the Rough Riders did not want to go to Hamilton, so the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU) banned the Tigers from playing in the game (the Tigers also played with Burnside rules whereas the Rough Riders played with traditional rugby-style rules). With a third straight year of cancellations looming, the CRU reached a rules compromise with this game whereby the first half of the game would be played under QRFU rules and the second half would be played under CIRFU rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035200-0001-0002", "contents": "1905 Dominion Championship, Background\nThe differences were primarily scoring-based, with trys worth four points and goal worth two points in the QRFU and trys being worth five points and goals being worth one point in the CIRFU. Additionally, in the first half, teams needed to gain five yards on third down while in the second half, teams needed 10 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035201-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1905 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1905 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach John L. Griffith, the team compiled a 4\u20134 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 151 to 141.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035202-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1905 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035203-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Dublin Corporation election\nAn election to Dublin Corporation took place in March 1905 as part of that year's Irish local elections. The election saw a small revival for Labour representatives, whilst the Unionist representation was cut by half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035204-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Dutch general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Netherlands on 16 June 1905. The Liberal Union remained the largest party, winning 34 of the 100 seats in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035205-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Ecuadorian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Ecuador in 1905. The result was a victory for Lizardo Garc\u00eda, who received 93% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035206-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1905 municipal election was held December 11, 1905 for the purpose of electing a mayor and four aldermen to sit on the Edmonton City Council, as well as five public school trustees and five separate school trustees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035206-0000-0001", "contents": "1905 Edmonton municipal election\nThere were eight aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: John R. Boyle and Thomas Bellamy were both elected to two-year terms in 1904 and were still in office (although Boyle, elected MLA in the 1905 provincial election, was to resign in May 1906), while Robert Mays and David Latta - who had been appointed to replace the resigned Charles May and Kenneth McLeod, respectively - were also still in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035206-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nThere were 993 ballots cast out of 1900 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 52.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035206-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nW D Ferris, H A Gray, A E May, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035206-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nNicolas Dubois Dominic Beck, J Bilodeau, Wilfrid Gari\u00e9py, Joseph Henri Picard, and O Tessier were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election\nThe Elgin Burghs by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election, Vacancy\nAlexander Asher had been Liberal MP for the seat of Elgin Burghs since the 1881 Elgin Burghs by-election. He died on 5 August 1905, causing a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Liberal since the party was founded in 1859. They easily held the seat at the last election, with a comfortable majority;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 8 September 1905, 34 days after the death of the previous MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election, Result\nThere was a large swing of over 11% to the Liberals who comfortably held the seat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election, Result\nThe result was the biggest victory that the Liberals had ever had in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election, Aftermath\nSutherland was re-elected at the following General Election. The result was:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035207-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Elgin Burghs by-election, Aftermath\nRose-Innes was not his opponent and instead contested West Lothian in 1906, the 1907 Jarrow by-election and Middleton in 1910 without success. Sutherland remained as the MP until his death in 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035208-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 English cricket season\n1905 was the 16th season of County Championship cricket in England. England defeated Australia 2\u20130 in the Test series and Yorkshire pipped defending champions Lancashire for the championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035208-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 English cricket season, County Championship\nYorkshire and Lancashire fought throughout the season; Lancashire were the first team to beat Yorkshire, in their ninth game, when hundreds from Reggie Spooner and Johnny Tyldesley helped Lancashire to an innings victory at Old Trafford. Lancashire went unbeaten until July, their fifteenth game, when Surrey overcame them at Aigburth, but Yorkshire were behind on the table with three losses before their match with Yorkshire at Bramall Lane. With Walter Brearley taking seven for 35 in the first innings, Lancashire took a lead of 101, but Wilfred Rhodes turned it around with 74 and four for 49. Lancashire could still have managed to take the title with wins in their final games, but a loss to Gloucestershire at Bristol while Yorkshire avoided defeat meant the title went to Yorkshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035208-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 English cricket season, County Championship\nThis season saw Northamptonshire join the Championship; they played twelve matches, beating Derbyshire and Hampshire to avoid the wooden spoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035208-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 English cricket season, County Championship, Final table\nThe final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035208-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 English cricket season, Ashes tour\nAustralia toured England in 1905, playing 35 first class matches around the British Isles. They only lost three of them, beating both champions Yorkshire and runners-up Lancashire, but two of the lost matches were Tests, and they drew the other three to lose the series 0\u20132. England's captain, Stanley Jackson, not only won the series, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035208-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 English cricket season, Ashes tour\nAustralia only took a first-innings lead in one of the matches, the first, and then Archie MacLaren responded with his highest career Test score of 140 before Bernard Bosanquet took eight for 107 and bowled England to a 213-run victory. The second Test only reached the third innings, with no play possible on the final day, while Australia survived 91 overs for the loss of seven wickets in the drawn third Test. In the fourth Test, however, they lost nine wickets for 51 on the final day, after being asked to follow on 249 behind. They lost by an innings and 80 runs, thus conceding an unassailable lead in the series before the final Test, where England made 430 and 261 for six declared to draw the game. The Australians' only other loss came at Leyton to Essex in June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035209-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1905 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 22nd in Bonn, German Empire. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles. The competitors performed only compulsory figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035210-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1905 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on 27 August on the Ghent\u2013Terneuzen Canal in the Belgian city of Ghent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035211-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 FA Cup Final\nThe 1905 FA Cup Final was contested by Aston Villa and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Aston Villa were victorious, winning 2\u20130, with Harry Hampton scoring both goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035212-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Fijian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Fiji on 22 March and 8 April 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035212-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Fijian general election, Background\nThe previous general elections had been held in 1871. Although fresh elections had been due to take place in 1873, they were cancelled after protests from Europeans about the plans to let Fijians vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035212-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Fijian general election, Background\nIn 1904 a new Legislative Council was established, consisting of ten official members from the civil service, six elected Europeans and two Fijians chosen by the Governor from a list of six candidates provided by the Council of Chiefs. Although Indo-Fijians were able to vote in municipal elections, voting practices in the community were considered suspect and the Governor noted that he \"did not consider it necessary to provide for the representation of the Indians and Pacific Islanders because they had shown themselves open to corruption at the municipal elections.\" Instead, the Indo-Fijian community was represented only by the Agent-General for Immigration, one of the six civil servants in the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035212-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Fijian general election, Electoral system\nThe new constitution originally envisaged six elected members elected from four constituencies, of which two were geographic (the two-seat constituency of Suva and the one-seat constituency of Levuka) and two based on profession (a two-seat constituency of people involved in cultivating land for anything except sugar with at least 100 acres and a one-seat constituency for directors and managers of sugar companies). People involved in cultivating land were not eligible to vote in the geographic constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035212-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Fijian general election, Electoral system\nHowever, prior to the elections, the electoral system was revised to combine the two non-geographic constituencies into a three-seat \"Planters\" constituency, which covered all of Fiji except Levuka and Suva. Voting was held in the Planters constituency on 8 April and in Suva on 22 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035212-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Fijian general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections Josefa Lala and Joni Madraiwiwi were appointed as the Fijian members. Lala died later in the year and his place was taken by Kadavu Levu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035212-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Fijian general election, Aftermath\nJames Murray resigned during the term of the Council. In the subsequent by-election, Simeon Lewis Lazarus defeated H. Shaw by 105 to 62 votes, with four informal votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election\nThe Finsbury East by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Vacancy\nThe vacancy came about due to the death of the sitting member, Henry Charles Richards on 1 June 1905. Richards died in a London nursing home of heart disease, aged 54. He had been Conservative MP for the seat of Finsbury East since the 1895 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since Richards gained it in 1895 from the Liberals. He easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased vote share:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives selected Nathaniel Cohen as their candidate to defend the seat. He had contested the 1900 general election as Conservative candidate for Penryn and Falmouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association re-selected 53-year-old Allen Baker to challenge for the seat. He was a Canadian- born engineer, specialising in machinery for the confectionery and bakery industries. He was a Quaker. Baker followed his father's professional footsteps and entered the family engineering business. In 1879 they set up business in Finsbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Candidates\nAs Quakers, the Baker family tried to run a model business taking a paternal interest in the welfare of their workforce and introducing schemes such as shorter working days, encouraging employees to participate in health and insurance plans and fostering a relaxed approach on the shop floor, perhaps to the detriment of profits. Baker and Sons also had connections to the motor car industry and in around 1902, the company held an agency for the American car manufacturers Stevens-Duryea. Baker had represented East Finsbury on the London County Council (LCC) as a Progressive since 1895. During his time on the LCC he acted as Chairman of the Highways Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 29 June 1905, 28 days after the death of the previous member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Campaign\nThe Liberal campaign was launched with a visit from leading Liberal MP John Burns to speak on Allen Baker's platform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Campaign\nThe two candidates throughout the campaign were on the most cordial of terms. However, they differed on the key issue of trade. Cohen supported Chamberlain's Imperial Preference campaign for Tariff Reform. Allen Baker's Canadian background helped him to counter this policy in support of Free trade. At the previous General Election, Allen Baker had opposed the Boer War and that stance now seemed to be of help to his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Campaign\nOn the eve of poll, David Lloyd George who spoke at Allen Baker's final meeting wound up the Radicals to a frenzy of excitement with one of the greatest of his election speeches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Result\nPolling Day was wet, which usually told against the Liberal Party, but they gained the seat and recorded a massive 14.2% swing:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Aftermath\nAt the 1906 general election, Baker and the Liberals held the seat with a slightly reduced majority:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035213-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Finsbury East by-election, Aftermath\nCohen did not stand for parliament again, however he served on the London County Council representing the City of London from 1907 to 1911.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035214-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Fordham football team\nThe 1905 Fordham football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. Fordham claims a 12\u20133\u20131 record, though College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record as 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035214-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Fordham football team\nEugene McGee, a former Fordham tackle who graduated in 1902, was hired in September 1905 as the team's coach following the resignation of Fred Smith. Quarterback Howard Gargan was the team captain from 1905 to 1907 and took over as head coach in 1908. The team played its home games at Fordham Field in The Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035214-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following seven games are reported in Fordham's media guide, CFDW, and contemporaneous press coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035214-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following are additional games reported in the Fordham media guide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State\nThe 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and State (French: Loi du 9 d\u00e9cembre 1905 concernant la s\u00e9paration des \u00c9glises et de l'\u00c9tat) was passed by the Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1905. Enacted during the Third Republic, it established state secularism in France. France was then governed by the Bloc des gauches (Left Coalition) led by Emile Combes. The law was based on three principles: the neutrality of the state, the freedom of religious exercise, and public powers related to the church. This law is seen as the backbone of the French principle of la\u00efcit\u00e9 (secularism). It is however not applicable in Alsace and Moselle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, History\nPrior to the French Revolution of 1789 \u2014 since the days of the conversion of Clovis I to Christianity in 508 AD \u2014 Roman Catholicism had been the state religion of France, and closely identified with the Ancien R\u00e9gime. However, the revolution led to various policy changes, including a brief separation of church and state in 1795, ended by Napoleon's re-establishment of the Catholic Church as the state religion with the Concordat of 1801.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0001-0001", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, History\nAn important document in the evolution toward religious liberty was Article Ten of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, stating that \"No one may be disturbed on account of his opinions, even religious ones, as long as the manifestation of such opinions does not interfere with the established Law and Order.\" The 1871 Paris Commune had proclaimed state secularism on 3 April 1871, but it had been cancelled following the Commune's defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, History\nAfter the 16 May 1877 crisis and the victory of the Republicans at the following elections, various draft laws requesting the suppression of the Concordat of 1801 were deposed, starting with the 31 July 1879 proposition of Charles Boysset. Beginning in 1879, the French state began a gradual national secularization program starting with the removal of priests from the administrative committees of hospitals and boards of charity, and in 1880 with the substitution of lay women for nuns in hospitals. Thereafter, the Third Republic established secular education with the Jules Ferry laws in 1881\u20131882, which were a significant part of the firm establishment of the Republican regime in France, with religious instruction in all schools forbidden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, History\nIn 1886, another law ensured secularisation of the teaching staff of the National Education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, History\nThe 1901 Law of Associations, which guaranteed freedom of association, also enabled the control of religious communities and, notably, limited their influence on education. In 1903, while former Catholic seminarian Emile Combes was minister, a commission was selected to draft a bill that would establish a comprehensive separation between the state and the churches. Its president was the former Protestant pastor Ferdinand Buisson, and its minute writer, Aristide Briand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, History\nOn 30 July 1904, the Chamber of Deputies voted to sever diplomatic relations with the Holy See following the sanctioning by the Holy See, of two French bishops (Albert-L\u00e9on-Marie Le Nordez and Pierre Joseph Geay) who had declared themselves Republicans and in favour of conciliation with the Republic. The relationship was not reestablished until 1921, after the Senate accepted a proposition brought by Aristide Briand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Effects\nThe 1905 law put an end to the government funding of religious groups by France and its political subdivisions. (The state had previously agreed to such funding in the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801 as compensation for the Revolution's confiscation of Church properties.) At the same time, it declared that all religious buildings were property of the state and local governments and made available for free to the church. Other articles of the law included the prohibition of affixing religious signs on public buildings, and laying down that the Republic no longer names French archbishops or bishops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Effects\nPope Pius X condemned the law in the February 1906 encyclical Vehementer Nos as a unilateral break of the 1801 Concordat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Effects\nAlsace-Lorraine is still governed by the 1801 Concordat which recognises four religions, but not secularism. When the 1905 legislation superseded the Concordat elsewhere in France, Alsace-Lorraine was part of the German Empire; thus, the 1905 law has never applied there. Similarly, the law has never been applied in the overseas Department of French Guiana as it was a colony in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Effects\nAlthough the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State initially was a particularly \"painful and traumatic event\" for the Catholic Church in France, the French government began making serious strides towards reconciliation with the Catholic Church later during the 1920s by both recognizing the social impact of organized religion in France and amending the law itself through new legislation and rendering court decisions that were favorable to organized religion in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0009-0001", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Effects\nIn 1921 the Catholic Church and French State began a series of negotiations for \"pacification of law\" in respect to both civil and canon law to create a harmonious day-to-day working relationship. These negotiations culminated in 1926 when Aristide Briand negotiated the Briand-Ceretti Agreement with the Holy See whereby the state reclaimed a role in the process of choosing diocesan bishops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Effects\nPope Pius XII later supported what he called, \"la l\u00e9gitime et saine la\u00efcit\u00e9\". At Vatican II through the encyclical Gaudium et spes the Church recognized a belief in a non-confessional state, that the Church should not be involved in politics and that there should be a fair separation of powers marked by co-operation for the benefit of society. The Catholic Church recognizes the principle of secularism through its 2004 Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, based on the principles of Luke 20:25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Effects\nPope John Paul II first condemned the secular governments and called for \"the public profession of Christianity,\" but upon the 2005 centennial of the 1905 law he made more conciliatory statements, including: \"The non-confessionality of the State, which is a non-involvement of the civil power in the life of the Church and of the different religions, as in the spiritual domain, enables all the parts of society to work together in the service of all and of the national community\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 72], "content_span": [73, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Politics\nThe leading figures in the creation of the law were Aristide Briand, \u00c9mile Combes, Jean Jaur\u00e8s and Francis de Pressens\u00e9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Politics\nThe 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State declared that cathedrals remained the property of the state and smaller churches that of the local municipal government. Those public authorities had to hand over the buildings to religious organizations (associations cultuelles) representing associated formed of laymen, instead of putting them directly back under the supervision of the church hierarchies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Politics\nThese laymen associations created under the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State were independent legal entities having rights and responsibilities in the eyes of the law in all matters appertaining to money and properties formerly owned in France by organized religions: churches and sacred edifices, ecclesiastical property, real and personal; the residences of the bishops and priests; and the seminaries. These laymen associations were also authorized by the law to act as administrators of church property, regulate and collect the alms and the legacies destined for religious worship. The resources furnished by Catholic liberality for the maintenance of Catholic schools, and the working of various charitable associations connected with religion, were also transferred to lay associations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 898]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Politics\nImplementation of the law was controversial, due in some part to the anti-clericalism found among much of the French political left at the time. The law angered many Roman Catholics, who had recently begun to rally to the cause of the Republic, supported by Leo XIII's Inter innumeras sollicitudines 1892 encyclical (Au Milieu des sollicitudes) and the Cardinal Lavigerie's toast in 1890 favour of the Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0015-0001", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Politics\nHowever, the concept of la\u00efcit\u00e9 progressively became almost universally accepted among French citizens, including members of the Catholic Church who found greater freedom from state interference in cultural matters, now that the government had completely stripped itself of its former Catholic links. The Affaire Des Fiches produced a considerable backlash, after it was discovered that the Combes government worked with Masonic lodges to create a secret surveillance of all army officers to make sure devout Catholics would not be promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Politics\nA few French politicians and communities have more recently questioned the law, arguing that, despite its explicit stance for state secularism, it de facto favors traditional French religions, in particular the Catholic Church, at the expense of more recently established religions, such as Islam. Indeed, most Roman Catholic churches in the country were built well before the enactment of the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, and thus are maintained at full public expense, although not always on time and to the extent that the church would like.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035215-0016-0001", "contents": "1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Politics\nWith the exception of the historically anomalous Alsace-Lorraine, followers of Islam and other religions more recently implanted in France instead have to build and maintain religious facilities at their own expense. This was one of the arguments used by Nicolas Sarkozy, when he was Minister of Interior, to controversially argue in favour of funding other cultural centers than those of Catholicism, Protestantism and Judaism. In 2016, President Hollande proposed a temporary ban on foreign funding for mosques and shut down at least 20 mosques found to be \"preaching radical Islamic ideology\". These actions are consistent with Title V, Articles 26, 29, and 35 of the law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 73], "content_span": [74, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035216-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1905 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their first season under head coach Archibald Leech, the Covenanters compiled a 4\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035217-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 George Washington Hatchetites football team\nThe 1905 George Washington Hatchetites Colonials football team was an American football team that represented George Washington University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their first season under head coach Charles A. Barnard, the team compiled a 3\u20134\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035218-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1905 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1905 college football season. Led by Joe Reilly in his second year as head coach, the team went 2\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035219-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1905 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 1\u20135 record for the second straight year. The season included the second straight loss to John Heisman's Georgia Tech team (he became head coach there in 1904) and the sixth straight loss to Clemson. The only win came over non-conference opponent Dahlonega. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' final season under the guidance of head coach Marvin M. Dickinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035220-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team\nThe 1905 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team represented the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1905 college baseball season. Craig Day pitched 12 complete games. The game of the year was the victory over Duke and Arthur Bradsher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035221-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 1905 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. This is the second year for Georgia Tech under coach John Heisman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035222-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship\nThe 1905 German football championship was the third time clubs in Germany competed for the national title under the auspices of the German Football Association (DFB). There were eleven entries into the competition, marking a new record. For the first time, the holders were given an automatic spot in the competition, taken by VfB Leipzig who had won the 1903 German football championship and had reached the final in the year before, when the competition was annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035222-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship\nThe large number of participants and the differences in strength persuaded the DFB to hold preliminary rounds before the quarterfinals. However, the dire financial situation of Schlesien Breslau and VfB Leipzig led to those two teams not travelling to their matches. New matches were scheduled, making for a confusing schedule and semifinals with only three teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035222-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship\nBoth finalists appeared for the first time with Union 92 Berlin winning their only national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035222-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship, Competition, Second qualifying round\nBreslau did not travel to Leipzig, citing financial reasons. Magdeburg were then scheduled to play Eintracht Braunschweig instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035222-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship, Competition, Quarter-finals\nVfB Leipzig did not travel to the match citing financial reasons. Braunschweig were instead scheduled to play Union 92 Berlin who had originally received a bye to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035223-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship Final\nThe 1905 German football championship Final decided the winner of the 1905 German football championship, the 2nd edition of the German football championship, a knockout football cup competition contested by the regional league winners to determine the national champions. The match was played on 11 June 1905 at the Weidenpescher Park in Cologne. Union 92 Berlin won the match 2\u20130 against Karlsruher FV for their 1st German title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035223-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship Final, Route to the final\nThe German football championship was an eleven team single-elimination knockout cup competition, featuring the champions of the regional football associations. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. For all matches, the winner after 90 minutes advances. If still tied, extra time was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035223-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 German football championship Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035224-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 1905 Giro di Lombardia was the 1st\u00a0edition of the Giro di Lombardia, a classic one-day cycle race organised by La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy. The single day event was held on 12 November 1905. It was won by Italian Giovanni Gerbi of the Maino team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035224-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Giro di Lombardia, The race\nThe race started with 55 riders. Giovanni Gerbi made his winning move at a railroad crossing. He jumped up the crossing and back onto the course and rode ahead, while a few riders behind crashed. Gerbi stretched his advantage to forty minutes. Of the riders that began the race, 12 finished the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035225-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Goldey College football team\nThe 1905 Goldey College football team represented Goldey College (now known as Goldey\u2013Beacom College) in the 1905 college football season as an independent. They compiled a record of 1\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035226-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup, formally titled the VI Coupe Internationale, was a motor race held on 5 July 1905 on the Auvergne Circuit in France. The race consisted of four laps of the mountainous 137.35-km (85.35-mile) circuit, to make the total distance 549.4\u00a0km (341.4 miles). A French entry driven by L\u00e9on Th\u00e9ry had won the previous year's edition of the race, which meant that the rights to host the race fell to the Automobile Club de France (ACF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035226-0000-0001", "contents": "1905 Gordon Bennett Cup\nFrance were to attempt to defend the Gordon Bennett Cup against Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Italy and the United States, and each country was represented by three entries, with the car that finished the race in the shortest time winning the race on behalf of his country. This meant the largest field of any Gordon Bennett race with 18 entries competing on behalf of six countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035226-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Gordon Bennett Cup\nTh\u00e9ry, driving a 96\u00a0hp Richard-Brasier, won in a time of seven hours, 2 minutes and 42 seconds, an average speed of 77.98\u00a0km/h (48.45\u00a0mph), to become the only driver to win two Gordon Bennett Cup races. His victory was the fourth Gordon Bennett win by an entry representing France. Felice Nazzaro and Alessandro Cagno, both driving FIATs and representing Italy, finished second and third respectively, Nazzaro finishing nearly 17 minutes behind Th\u00e9ry with Cagno a further two minutes back. The third Italian representative, Vincenzo Lancia, was fastest over the first two laps in his FIAT, but broke down with radiator problems during his third lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035226-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Gordon Bennett Cup\nThe race took place on the doorstep of the Clermont-Ferrand headquarters of Michelin, and the Richard-Brasiers and FIATs were fitted with Michelin tyres. Gustave Caillois finished fourth in the second Richard-Brasier, nearly six minutes behind Cagno but over 36 minutes ahead of Christian Lautenschlager, the best-placed German representative driving a Mercedes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035226-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Gordon Bennett Cup\nCharles Rolls, driving a Wolseley, was the best-placed British representative, finishing eighth, while only one representative each from Austria and the United States finished, Edgar Braun coming home tenth in a Mercedes, and Herbert Lyttle twelfth and last in a Pope-Toledo, nearly two and a half hours behind Th\u00e9ry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035226-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Gordon Bennett Cup\nChronographs for timing for the event were again supplied by the Anglo-Swiss firm of Stauffer, Son & Co.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035226-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Gordon Bennett Cup\nAfter the race, the ACF announced its intention of not staging the Gordon Bennett Cup the following year, instead organising a race in which no limit could be placed on the number of cars a country could enter: the Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035227-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Grand National\nThe 1905 Grand National was the 67th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 31 March 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035227-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Grand National\nIt was won by Kirkland, a 6/1 shot that had been trained in Wales. He was the first Welsh-trained horse to have won the Grand National, and was ridden by Frank Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035228-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Grant football team\nThe 1905 Grant football team was an American football team that represented the Chattanooga campus of U. S. Grant Memorial University (now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) during the 1905 college football season. In its 2nd year under head coach Walter Hullihen, the team compiled a 6\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035229-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Greek legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Greece on 20 February 1905. Supporters of Theodoros Deligiannis emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, with 144 of the 235 seats. Deligiannis remained Prime Minister after the election, but he was assassinated on 13 June and was succeeded by Dimitrios Rallis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election\nThe Hampstead by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Vacancy\nThomas Milvain had been Conservative MP for the seat of Hampstead since the 1902 Hampstead by-election. Milvain resigned the seat when he was appointed Judge Advocate General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since it was created in 1885. They easily held the seat at the last election;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Candidates\nThe local Conservative Association selected 63-year-old John Fletcher as their candidate to defend the seat. Fletcher had good local connections. He was a member of the Hampstead Board of Guardians from 1876 to 1898. He was an elected member of the London County Council representing Hampstead for the Conservative backed Municipal Reform Party from 1889 to 1904. He served as one of the Council's deputy chairman from 1900 to 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected George Frederic Rowe as their candidate to gain the seat. Rowe had been the Liberal candidate in the 1902 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Campaign\nRowe launched his campaign on 11 October with a public meeting at Hampstead Town Hall, sharing a platform with the London Liberal MP, Thomas Macnamara. On 13 October he held his second public meeting at Brondesbury Hall. Fletcher's campaign, slower off the mark, sought to build upon his strong local links. He supported the Unionist government in its policy positions. He advocated the reduction in Irish representation in the UK parliament. The Hampstead Temperance Council had invited both candidates to address their meeting, but Fletcher chose not to attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0005-0001", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Campaign\nThe HTC gave its support to Rowe and Fletcher responded by seeking the support of local licensed victuallers. Rowe's third public meeting at West Hampstead Town Hall featured Leo Chiozza Money the Liberal candidate for neighbouring Paddington. Fletcher's first public meeting in Haverstock Hill, had him sharing a platform with Nottingham MP, Edward Bond and Keighley candidate William Mitchell Acworth. Polling Day was fixed for the 26 October 1905. As Fletcher was a supporter of protectionism, Rowe received the endorsement of the Hampstead Free Trade League. On 23 October Winston Churchill who had left the Conservatives and joined the Liberals primarily because of the free trade v protectionism issue, addressed a public meeting organised by the Hampstead Free Trade League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Result\nThe Liberals massively reduced the majority of the Conservatives, thanks to a swing of 11.9%:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035230-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Hampstead by-election, Result\nThe result should have been a good indicator to Unionist Prime Minister Arthur Balfour that the mood in the country was swinging behind the Liberals. He soon chose to resign as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035231-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1905 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1905 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8\u20132\u20131 record under head coach Bill Reid, who had coached Harvard in 1901. Walter Camp selected two Harvard players (tackle Beaton Squires and guard Francis Burr) as first-team players on his 1905 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected three Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr, tackle Karl Brill and halfback Daniel Hurley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035232-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1905 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Boyd Hill, Haskell compiled a 5\u20134\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 102 to 78.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035233-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1905 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035233-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Holy Cross football team\nIn their third year under head coach Frank Cavanaugh, the team compiled a 2\u20135\u20132 record. George S.L. Connor was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035233-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Holy Cross football team\nAccording to college records, Holy Cross played all of its home games at the newly renamed Fitton Field baseball stadium on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts. Contemporary reports suggest that one of the home games, the crosstown rivalry game with WPI, was played at the team's former home stadium off campus, the Worcester Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1905 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-third series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 14 January and 18 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship\nWales won the Championship and the Triple Crown for the fourth time. Nine months later the 1905 Wales team faced and beat the touring New Zealand team, in a match dubbed 'The Game of the Century'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nWales: George Davies (Swansea), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Dan Rees (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Newport) capt., Dicky Owen (Swansea), Dick Jones (Swansea), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Arthur Harding (London Welsh), David Jones (Treherbert), Harry Vaughan Watkins (Llanelli), Will Joseph (Swansea), Charlie Pritchard (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nEngland: SH Irvin (Devonport Albion), SF Coopper (Blackheath), John Raphael (Oxford Uni), FH Palmer (Richmond), EW Dillon (Blackheath) FC Hulme (Birkenhead Park), WV Butcher (Bristol), TA Gibson (Northern), WLY Rogers (Blackheath), BA Hill (Blackheath), JL Mathias (Bristol), Frank Stout (Richmond) capt., Charles Joseph Newbold (Blackheath), Vincent Cartwright (Blackheath), William Cave (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), JE Crabbie (Edinburgh Acads), JL Forbes (Watsonians), LM MacLeod (Cambridge University), JS MacDonald (Edinburgh University), Patrick Munro (Oxford Uni), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), Anthony Little (Hawick), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), WM Milne (Glasgow Acads), A Ross (Royal HSFP), WP Scott (West of Scotland) capt., RS Stronach (Glasgow Acads), HN Fletcher (Edinburgh University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nWales: George Davies (Swansea), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Dan Rees (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Newport) capt., Dicky Owen (Swansea), Billy Trew (Swansea), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Arthur Harding (London Welsh), David Jones (Treherbert), Harry Vaughan Watkins (Llanelli), Will Joseph (Swansea), Charlie Pritchard (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nIreland: MF Landers (Cork Constitution), Basil Maclear (Cork County), JE Moffatt (Old Wesley), GAD Harvey (Wanderers), HB Thrift (Dublin University), TTH Robinson (Dublin University), ED Caddell (Dublin University), Jos Wallace (Wanderers), Henry Millar (Monkstown), CE Allen (Derry) capt., A Tedford (Malone), HG Wilson (Malone), HJ Knox (Dublin University), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), GT Hamlet (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nEngland: CF Stanger-Leathes (Northern), SF Coopper (Blackheath), HE Shewring (Bristol), T Simpson (Rockcliff), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB) FC Hulme (Birkenhead Park), WV Butcher (Bristol), J Green (Skipton), WLY Rogers (Blackheath), G Vickery (Aberavon), JL Mathias (Bristol), Frank Stout (Richmond) capt., Charles Joseph Newbold (Blackheath), Vincent Cartwright (Blackheath), WM Grylls (Redruth)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nScotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), WT Ritchie (Cambridge University), Alec Boswell Timms (Cardiff), LM MacLeod (Cambridge University), Rh McCowat (Glasgow Acads), Patrick Munro (Oxford Uni), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Carlisle), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), WM Milne (Glasgow Acads), A Ross (Royal HSFP), WP Scott (West of Scotland) capt., RS Stronach (Glasgow Acads), MR Dickson (Edinburgh University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nIreland: MF Landers (Cork Constitution), Basil Maclear (Cork County), JE Moffatt (Old Wesley), GAD Harvey (Wanderers), HB Thrift (Dublin University), TTH Robinson (Dublin University), ED Caddell (Dublin University), Jos Wallace (Wanderers), Henry Millar (Monkstown), CE Allen (Derry) capt., A Tedford (Malone), HG Wilson (Malone), HJ Knox (Dublin University), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), GT Hamlet (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nWales: George Davies (Swansea), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Willie Llewellyn (Newport) capt., Dicky Owen (Swansea), Anthony Windham Jones (Mountain Ash), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Arthur Harding (London Welsh), David Jones (Treherbert), Harry Vaughan Watkins (Llanelli), Will Joseph (Swansea), Jack Williams (London Welsh)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nIreland: MF Landers (Cork Constitution), Basil Maclear (Cork County), JE Moffatt (Old Wesley), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), HB Thrift (Dublin University), TTH Robinson (Dublin University), ED Caddell (Dublin University), Jos Wallace (Wanderers), Henry Millar (Monkstown), CE Allen (Derry) capt., A Tedford (Malone), HG Wilson (Malone), HJ Knox (Dublin University), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), GT Hamlet (Dublin University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nEngland: JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), SF Coopper (Blackheath), John Raphael (Oxford Uni), T Simpson (Rockcliff), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB) AD Stoop (Oxford Uni), WV Butcher (Bristol), TA Gibson (Northern), Jumbo Milton (Camborne School of Mines), SH Osborne (Harlequins), JL Mathias (Bristol), Frank Stout (Richmond) capt., Charles Joseph Newbold (Blackheath), Vincent Cartwright (Blackheath), CEL Hammond (Harlequins)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035234-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nScotland: DG Schulze (London Scottish), WT Ritchie (Cambridge University), Alec Boswell Timms (Cardiff) capt., GAW Lamond (Bristol), T Elliot (Gala), Patrick Munro (Oxford Uni), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Carlisle), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), JC MacCallum (Glasgow Acads), A Ross (Royal HSFP), WP Scott (West of Scotland), RS Stronach (Glasgow Acads), HG Monteith (Cambridge University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035235-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Hungarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 26 January and 4 February 1905. The result was a victory for the Party of Independence and '48, marking the first time the Liberal Party had lost power since 1875. Because of bad decisions after the elections, the Parliament was dissolved in 1906. Franz Joseph I of Austria ignored the result and instead of the victorious allied opposition he kept Istv\u00e1n Tisza in power, and then on 18 June he nominated baron G\u00e9za Fej\u00e9rv\u00e1ry mashal (the captain of his Hungarian bodyguards) as acting Prime Minister, which deepened the crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035235-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Hungarian parliamentary election, Results\n1: The 27 MP left the Liberal Party led by Gyula Andr\u00e1ssy JR.. At the end of 1905 they founded the National Constitutional Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035236-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1905 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1905 Western Conference football season. In their second season under head coach Fred Lowenthal, the Illini compiled a 5\u20134 record and finished in last place in the Western Conference. Tackle/halfback C. J. Moynihan was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035237-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1905 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1905 Western Conference football season. In their first season under head coach James M. Sheldon, the Hoosiers compiled an 8\u20131\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 240 to 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035238-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1905 International Cross Country Championships was held in Dublin, Ireland, at the Baldoyle Racecourse on March 25, 1905. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035238-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 International Cross Country Championships\nComplete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035238-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 48 athletes from 4 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035239-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 International Lawn Tennis Challenge\nThe 1905 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the fifth edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. As defending champions, the British Isles team played host to the competition. The World Group ties were played at Queen's Club in London, England from 13\u201319 July, and the final was played on 21\u201324 July. Britain retained the Cup for their third championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035239-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Teams\nAustralasia, a combined Australia-New Zealand team, and Austria joined the competition for the first time. The United States returned after a 1-year hiatus, and France would return for their second year. For the first time, a \"World Group\" tournament was held to determine which team would challenge the British Isles for the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy\nThe 1905 International Tourist Trophy was an automobile motor race held on 14 September 1905 on closed public roads along the Highroads Course on the Isle of Man. It was organised by the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland, and was the first time that what became known as the RAC Tourist Trophy was awarded. The race lasted over six hours and was won by John Napier, driving an Arrol-Johnston. Percy Northey finished second in a Rolls-Royce, while the Vinot-Deguingand driver Norman Littlejohn was third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy\nPrior to the Tourist Trophy the Isle of Man had hosted the English trials for the Gordon Bennett Cup as the English government had banned motor racing on its roads. The Automobile Club wanted to run an event to help develop fuel efficiency in motor cars and opted to use the same route as had been used for the trials. In order to make the event relevant to those cars on general sale they imposed rules to prevent specialist race cars from entering, though there were complaints that the rules were too restrictive and detracted from the spectacle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy\nThere were 58 entrants but only 42 of these started the race. Less than half of the cars completed the full 208.5 miles (335.5\u00a0km) and there were more retirements due to mechanical failures and crashes than a lack of fuel. The top three were separated by just over five minutes, while the final finisher took almost three hours longer than Napier. The event was held again in 1906 though the overall distance covered was shortened to around 160 miles (260\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background\nAt the start of the twentieth century motor racing was banned on English roads, and although the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland (later renamed the Royal Automobile Club) had lobbied the British government to remove speed limits and allow provision for motor racing in England the Motor Car Act 1903 only raised the speed limit to 20 miles per hour (32\u00a0km/h) and did not repeal the ban on racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background\nBritish cars and drivers had nonetheless been successful during the 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup, and as such the Automobile Club wanted to host the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup in Britain. After their failure to persuade the government to allow racing in England the 1903 race had been held in Ireland under the provision of the Light Locomotives (Ireland) Act, but this had been a one-off, and the Automobile Club did not manage to get the law extended for further races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background\nAs such, when the Automobile Club wanted to hold trials for the 1904 Gordon Bennett Cup to establish three vehicles to represent England at the race in Germany they approached the Manx legislature, the Tynwald, in early 1904 and proposed to hold the trials on the island. The Highway (Light Locomotives) Bill was rushed through the Tynwald in March 1904 but only allowed racing for three days during that year, specifically for the Gordon Bennett trials to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background\nThe following year, after further lobbying from the Automobile Club, the bill was renewed as the Highways (Motor Car) Bill, without a fixed term. The bill gave provision for six days of racing to take place; three for the Gordon Bennett trials in the spring, and three for the Tourist Trophy in the autumn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background, Course\nThe course used for the race was the same as had been used for the 1904 and 1905 Gordon Bennett trials, a 52.125-mile (83.887\u00a0km) course featuring over 420 corners which followed much of the modern day Snaefell Mountain Course, known as the Highroads Course (or Highlands). The lap began at Quarterbridge in Douglas and proceeded down the A5 road towards Castletown, then back up the A3 to Ballaugh where it then headed towards Jurby along the A10, but turned onto the A13 towards Ramsey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0005-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background, Course\nFrom Ramsey the course followed the A18, commonly known as the Mountain Road, back to Douglas. The elevation of the Isle of Man was challenging for the cars; the course rose from being barely above sea-level at Douglas to 1,384 feet (422\u00a0m) at Brandywell. Many parts of the course were nothing more than rough tracks. In order to minimise disruption to the public two footbridges were built over the roads of the course, one at Kirkmichael and the other at Ramsey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background, Cars\nThe cars were subject to a number of criteria: the chassis had to weigh between 1,300 and 1,600 pounds (590\u2013730\u00a0kg), they were required to have a wheelbase of at least seven point five feet (2.3\u00a0m), and to carry a load of 950 pounds (430\u00a0kg), including the driver, an optional passenger, and ballast. Additionally, the car had to be able to carry four people, including the driver, and the model of car had to be available for sale for at least a month after the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0006-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background, Cars\nInitially, it was decided that each car was only allowed to use one imperial gallon (4.5\u00a0l) of fuel per 25 miles (40\u00a0km) of the race, but due to the conditions, this was altered to one imperial gallon per 22.5 miles (36.2\u00a0km). Most of the cars opted to use Continental tyres; just the Maudslays and Napiers used Palmer, the Whites and Swifts used Dunlop, while the Wolseley and Darracq vehicles used Michelin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background, Cars\nThe rules were introduced in an attempt to make the cars more representative of the touring cars that members of the public could drive. In many ways they were successful; Charles Rolls' 20 horsepower Rolls-Royce was one of the more powerful of the cars to enter the Tourist Trophy, but in contrast, during the 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup he drove a 2,200-pound (1,000\u00a0kg) Wolseley which generated 112 horsepower. However, a number of manufacturers were put off from entering the contest due to the upper weight limit imposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0007-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Background, Cars\nIt was opined in The Graphic that this excluded the \"kind of cars that were really wanted\", as they suggested that the chassis of \"an ordinary four-cylinder touring car, such as is sold to the public\" weighed 1,792 pounds (813\u00a0kg). Although it had been originally suggested that the number of foreign entries should be limited, with no more than two foreign cars for every five British entries, no such restrictions were imposted, but it was decided to give special prizes for cars entirely British-built. While the majority of cars were British, there were also entries from France, including a Vinot-Deguingand and a Peugeot and the United States, including a pair of White steam cars and a Cadillac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Practice\nOf the 58 original entrants to the event, ten pulled out before the entry list was published, generally because they either could not reduce the weight of their car sufficiently to be within the limits, or they could not achieve the required fuel efficiency. The first of the cars to arrive on the Isle of Man was the 16 horsepower Minerva, entered by Charles Rolls, but driven by E. H. Arnott, which arrived more than two weeks before the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0008-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Practice\nDuring the weeks before the race the cars were tested around the island's roads, during which Arnott managed the fastest circuit of the course. There were also a number of accidents during the practices; Ernest de Wilton crashed his Swift into a stone wall near Castletown, causing significant damage to the car. Although it was repaired in time there was a miscommunication between de Wilton and the race organisers, and de Wilton did not present the car for inspection in time to be entered into the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0008-0002", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Practice\nAnother of the competitors, A. McCormack in a Gladiator, hit some cows after coming off the road, and caused such damage to the car's brakes that it could not be repaired in time for the race. On the Sunday prior to the race local residents were upset that forty of the cars were driving the course, and meetings were held where they expressed their indignation that it was a \"desecration of the sanctity of the Sabbath\". Three days prior to the race, the organisers began weighing the cars and filling them with the specified amount of fuel. The Mors car which was to have been driven by Dorothy Levitt never arrived on the island, and so Levitt was unable to take part in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report\nDue to the limited fuel allowance, the cars were towed to the start line by horses. The first car, a Rolls-Royce being driven by Charles Rolls, started at 9\u00a0am, and the following 41 cars were released at one minute intervals. Due to the fuel-saving nature of the event most of the drivers began the race by letting their car coast down the initial slope under its own momentum before engaging gear. Early on the first lap of the race Rolls heard a crunching noise from his gear box and the car stopped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0009-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report\nHe claimed that upon investigation he discovered that small nuts and screws had been dropped into the gearbox, which had smashed a gear. Rolls claimed that this \"was a common trick abroad\" but voiced surprise at it happening in an English race. There was further speculation of foul play when it was discovered that Arnott's Minerva had been tampered with; two spark plugs had been smashed and an air valve bent, causing his engine to overheat. Before the race Rolls and Arnott had been two of the favourites, and The Automobile magazine said that \"this unfortunate incident has greatly detracted from the success of the race.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report\nEarly in the race John Downie crashed into a pub in Ballasalla, but the car did not sustain extensive damage and he was able to continue the race. At Keppel Gate on the Mountain Road, Frederick Bennett, who had been unable to take part in the practice sessions and therefore did not know the course very well, approached a corner with too much speed in his Cadillac and crashed, ripping off two of the wheels. Bennett managed to stay in the vehicle and avoided serious injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0010-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report\nAnother driver to go off the track was J. Hadley in his Wolseley, who also carried too much speed into a corner, leading him to drive off through a hedge and into a field. The Thornycroft driven by Tom Thornycroft had been following closely behind, and the two cars collided during the incident, damaging one of the Thornycroft's rear wheels. Napier in his Arrol-Johnston made the quickest circuit of the first lap in one hour, 32 minutes and 36 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report\nDuring the second lap a number of drivers were forced to retire with broken wheels. Both Darracq drivers, A. Rawlinson and Algernon Lee Guinness, suffered from the issue; Rawlinson broke his in Ramsey, while Lee Guinness hit a well at Hilberry. A. J. Dew also broke a wheel, but continued the race in W. H. Warren's car; both being entered by J. W. H. Dew. A fourth driver, in one of the White steam cars, succumbed to the same problem, while A. J. Hancock crashed his Vauxhall into a tree, also breaking a wheel. Napier was once again the quickest driver around the circuit, followed by Percy Northey in a Rolls Royce, and Norman Littlejohn in the Vinot-Deguingand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report\nAfter his earlier crash Downie retired on the third lap with a broken wheel, while Thornycroft, who had also had first lap trouble, was forced to stop with a broken rear axle. Over the final two laps a number of cars ran out of fuel, and of the 42 starters only 18 completed the race. The first car to finish was the Rolls Royce of Percy Northey. He had started twenty minutes ahead of Napier's Arrol-Johnston so Napier had to finish within twenty minutes of Northey in order to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0012-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report\nHe did so, passing the finish line eighteen minutes later, having run the fastest lap of the race at the end to win by just over two minutes. Napier's time was 6 hours 9 minutes 14.6 seconds, followed by Northey in 6:11:23 and Norman Littlejohn in a French Vinot-Deguingand, in 6:14:32.4. The three drivers had been consistently the quickest throughout the race and were separated by just over five minutes. The next quickest driver was E. J. C. Roberts in the second of the Arrol-Johnstons, but he was over 25 minutes behind his victorious team-mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Race report, Ancillary incidents\nAround an hour after the start of the race, three children were struck by car driven by one of the race officials on a side road from Quarter Bridge Road, near the finish line. None sustained serious injuries; two of them had cuts dressed, while the third rushed back to watching the racing. Another, more serious, accident occurred on the Snaefell Mountain Railway, which had been transporting people up the mountain to watch the racing. A tramcar that had been descending the railway had broken down, and a second car had stopped close behind it. A third tram, on rounding the bend above them, was unable to stop in time and collided into the rearmost car, which was then propelled into the car in front of it. Minor injuries were sustained by some of the passengers, though none were serious.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Post-race and legacy\nOpinion as to the success of the race was divided in the press; The Automobile magazine declared that \"it must be said that it was a success\", while The Yorkshire Post went even further, claiming that \"the end of the monster racing-car is in sight\". They suggested that racing cars were only useful to help develop technology for ordinary cars, and that the cars used in the Gordon Bennett races and similar were no longer relevant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0014-0001", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Post-race and legacy\nAlong with the withdrawal of France and Britain from the Gordon Bennett races, and the amount of support for the Tourist Trophy, they commended the Automobile Club for \"[recognising] the changed conditions of affairs.\" In contrast, Filson Young of The Manchester Guardian was strong in his criticism of the event. He opined that it had been a disappointment, though it had \"never many possibilities as a spectacle\" due to the fact that the cars only passed each point four times during the day. Though he conceded that the concept of the race had been admirable he felt that the cost of fuel was negligible in the running of a motor car and that other factors, such as general reliability over a thousand or more miles, were more important.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035240-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 International Tourist Trophy, Post-race and legacy\nThe Tourist Trophy was held on the Isle of Man again in each of the subsequent three years. The race remained four laps, but was run over a shorter course of around 40 miles (64\u00a0km). Charles Rolls won the 1906 event, while Napier finished over an hour behind in his Arrol-Johnston. After further races on the Isle of Man in 1914 and 1922, the event moved to Dundonald in Northern Ireland. The \"Tourist Trophy\" moniker became more closely associated with the Isle of Man TT motorcycle races, which began in 1907 and have continued to run on the Isle of Man ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035241-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1905 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 26 April 1905 as part of that years local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035242-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1905 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1905 Western Conference football season. This was John Chalmers' third and final season as head coach of the Hawkeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035243-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1905 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled a 6\u20133 record, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 203 to 93. Preston Daniels was the team captain. Don Stoufer was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035243-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as \"New State Field\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035244-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kanchenjunga expedition\nThe 1905 Kanchenjunga expedition was a Himalayan mountaineering expedition aimed to climb to the summit of Kanchenjunga, which would ultimately only be achieved in 1955.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035244-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Kanchenjunga expedition\nThe expedition was an idea of the Swiss doctor and photographer Jules Jacot-Guillarmod. In April 1905 he proposed his plans to the British occultist Aleister Crowley, with whom he had participated in Oscar Eckenstein's K2 expedition in 1902. Crowley agreed to join because as the climbing leader he would have the opportunity to break the altitude record. The record at the time was held by either William Woodman Graham, Emil Boss and Ulrich Kaufmann on Kabru (7,315 m), a widely contested, but possibly accurate claim, or Matthias Zurbriggen on Aconcagua (6,962 m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035244-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Kanchenjunga expedition\nJacot-Guillarmod recruited two of his countrymen, Alexis Pache and Charles-Adolphe Reymond, while Crowley recruited his hotelkeeper in Darjeeling, the young Italian Alcesti C. Rigo de Righi, as transport officer. On July 31 the five left with three Kashmiri servants (who had been in the K2 expedition as well), and about 230 local porters. Armed with Douglas Freshfield's map of the range and Vittorio Sella's pictures, created during a circumnavigation of the massif in 1899, Crowley planned to climb the southwest face of Kanchenjunga over the Yalung Glacier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035244-0002-0001", "contents": "1905 Kanchenjunga expedition\nWhen Camp IV was made above this glacier, the team had fallen apart: Jacot-Guillarmod especially was shocked by Crowley's arrogant behavior and brutal treatment of the (barefooted) porters. Camp V was still made around 6,200 m, and on September 1, Crowley, Pache, Reymond and a group of porters made it to about 6,500 m before a small avalanche forced a nervous retreat. In his autobiography, Crowley claimed they reached about 25,000 feet or 7,620 m and proclaimed to have held the altitude record until the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition reached 8,320 m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035244-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Kanchenjunga expedition\nThe next day Jacot-Guillarmod and De Righi attempted to depose Crowley from expedition leadership. The argument could not be settled, and Jacot-Guillarmod, De Righi, and Pache decided to retreat from Camp V to Camp III. At 5 pm they left with four porters on a single rope, but a fall precipitated an avalanche that killed three porters as well as Alexis Pache. People in Camp V heard \"frantic cries\" and Reymond immediately descended to help, but Crowley stayed in his tent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035244-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Kanchenjunga expedition\nThat evening he wrote a letter to a Darjeeling newspaper stating that he had advised against the descent and that \"a mountain 'accident' of this sort is one of the things for which I have no sympathy whatever\". The next day Crowley passed the site of the accident without pausing nor speaking to the survivors and left on his own to Darjeeling, where he took the expedition funds, which mostly had been paid by Jacot-Guillarmod. The latter would get at least some of his money back after threatening to make public some of Crowley's pornographic poetry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035244-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Kanchenjunga expedition\nThe 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition was the first to succeed in reaching the summit, starting off on the same route as pioneered in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035245-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kangra earthquake\nThe 1905 Kangra earthquake occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra region of the Punjab Province (modern day Himachal Pradesh) in India on 4 April 1905. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the surface wave magnitude scale and killed more than 20,000 people. Apart from this, most buildings in the towns of Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035245-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Kangra earthquake, Background\nThe calculated epicenter of the earthquake lies within the zone of thrusts along the front of the Himalayas formed by the continuing collision of the Indian plate into the Eurasian plate. Underthrusting of the Indian subcontinent beneath Tibet along a 2,500\u00a0km long convergent boundary known as the Main Himalayan Thrust has resulted in the uplifting of the overriding Eurasian Plate thus, creating the long mountain range parallel to the convergent zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035245-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Kangra earthquake, Earthquake characteristics\nThe magnitude 7.8\u20137.9 earthquake struck the western Himalaya in the state of Himachal Pradesh at an estimated depth of 6\u00a0km along a very shallow dipping thrust fault, likely on the Main Himalayan Thrust detachment. The rupture area is calculated at 280\u00a0km \u00d7 80\u00a0km. The rupture did not reach the surface, therefore, is considered a blind thrust earthquake. A more recent study in 2005 estimated the rupture zone at 110\u00a0km \u00d7 55\u00a0km while still not breaking the surface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035245-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Kangra earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake reached its peak Rossi\u2013Forel intensity of X in Kangra. About 150\u00a0km away from this zone to the southeast, an area of increased intensity reaching VIII was recorded. This unusually high intensity away from the earthquake in the Indo-Gangetic Plain included the cities Dehradun and Saharanpur. It was felt VII in towns like Kasauli, Bilaspur, Chamba, and in neighboring Pakistan including Lahore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035245-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Kangra earthquake, Damage\nAs many as 100,000 buildings were reported to have been demolished by the earthquake. At least 20,000 people are estimated to have been killed and 53,000 domestic animals were also lost. There was also major damage to the network of hillside aqueducts that fed water to the affected area. The total cost of recovering from the effects of the earthquake was calculated at 2.9 million (1905) rupees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035246-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1905 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their second season under head coach A. R. Kennedy, the Jayhawks compiled a 10\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 250 to 26. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Arthur Pooler was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035247-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035248-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kendall Orange and Black football team\nThe 1905 Kendall Orange and Black football team represented Henry Kendall College (later renamed the University of Tulsa) during the 1905 college football season. The team compiled a 1\u20133 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 62 to 10. The team played only one intercollegiate football game, a 6\u20130 loss to Epworth University. The other three games were against Fort Smith High School (a 5\u20130 victory) and the Cherokee Male Seminary (two losses by scores of 0\u201338 and 5\u201318).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035249-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1905 Kentucky Derby was the 31st running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 10, 1905. The field was reduced to only three competitors when Dr. Leggo and McClellan scratched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035250-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1905 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035251-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kentucky University Pioneers football team\nThe 1905 Kentucky University Pioneers football team represented Kentucky University, today known as Transylvania, during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035252-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1905 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 17th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035252-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 3 June 1906, Erin's Own won the championship after a 5-06 to 2-08 defeat of Tullaroan in the final. This was their first championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035253-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Kingswinford by-election\nThe Kingswinford by-election, 1905 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Kingswinford, Staffordshire held on 3 July 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035253-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Kingswinford by-election\nIt was triggered by the death of incumbent MP William George Webb. It was won by Conservative Henry Staveley-Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035254-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1905 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035255-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Lafayette football team\nThe 1905 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its third season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record, shut out seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 313 to 55. Frank Newberry was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup\nThe 1905 Lancashire Cup was the inaugural year for the rugby league Lancashire Cup competition. The cup was won by Wigan who beat Leigh in a replay at Wheater's Field, Broughton, Salford by a score of 8-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup, Background\nFollowing the great schism of 1895 which led to the formation of rugby league there was an interest in a competitive competition for clubs based in Lancashire. Prior to the breakaway from rugby union this was something that had been discouraged as it was feared that competition would lead to professionalism, as had happened in other sports like Association Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup, Background\nThere appears to be very little, if any, details of how this came about, or any details of any of the instigators or of any campaign, but the County Cups became the last part of what would become known as the four cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup, Background\nThe competitions were played on the same basis as was the Challenge Cup, i.e. a free draw with matches played on a sudden death straight knock-out basis, and with the final played (usually) on a neutral ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final\nThe attendance was 10,000 and receipts \u00a3200. The initial final (which had taken place 9 days earlier at the same venue) had ended in a 0-0 draw before a crowd estimated at 16.000 and receipts of \u00a3400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * Chadderton was a junior (or amateur) club from Oldham", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035256-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments\n2 * Wheater's Field was the home ground of Broughton Rangers with a capacity of 20,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035257-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1905 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their tenth season in existence. The team finished 8-0 and were unscored upon. As a result, Latrobe claimed the Pennsylvania professional football title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035258-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Lehigh Brown and White football team\nThe 1905 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Samuel B. Newton, the team compiled a 6\u20137 record and was outscored by a total of 201 to 154. The team played its home games at Lehigh Field in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035259-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia in 1905. In the presidential election Arthur Barclay of the True Whig Party was re-elected. He defeated former President William D. Coleman, who ran on the People's Party ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035260-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1905 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 15th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035260-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nCaherline won the championship after a 3-05 to 2-02 defeat of Rathkeale in the final. It was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on Wednesday 1 November 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election\nThere were three new seats: the first seat for Fazakerley, the third seat for Wavertree West and the second seat for Old Swan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election\nThis election saw the first Socialist and Labour Councillors elected to the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1902 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Election, 13 June 1906\nCaused by the resignation of Alderman William Edward Willink (Conservative, Wavertree West, elected 9 November 1903) was reported to the Council on 2 May 1906, in his place, Councillor Simon Jude (Conservative, Netherfield, elected 1 November 1903)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.18 Castle Street, 18 December 1905\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor John Thomas Wood (Conservative, Castle Street, elected 2 November 1903) was reported to the Council on 6 December 1905", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 89], "content_span": [90, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.17 St. Anne's,\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Isaac Caton Glover (Conservative, St. Anne's, elected 1 November 1904) which was reported to the Council on 7 February 1906", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.4 Fairfield, 19 April 1906\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Frank John Leslie (Conservative, Fairfield, elected 1 November 1905) which was reported to the Council on 4 April 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.25 Brunswick, 15 May 1906\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Thomas Byrne (Liberal, Brunswick, elected 1 November 1904) which was reported to the Council on 2 May 1906", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035261-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No.8 Netherfied, 5 July 1906\nCaused by Councillor Simon Jude (Conservative, Netherfield, elected 1 November 1903) being elected as an alderman on 13 June 1906", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035262-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Liverpool Everton by-election\nThe 1905 Liverpool Everton by-election was held on 22 February 1905 after the resignation due to ill health of the incumbent Conservative MP Sir John Archibald Willox. It was retained by the Conservative candidate John Harmood-Banner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035263-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Los Angeles Angels season\nThe 1905 Los Angeles Angels season was the third season for the Los Angeles Angels playing in the Pacific Coast League (PCL). The Angels compiled a 120\u201394 record and won the PCL pennant. They defeated the Tacoma Tigers, five games to one, in the PCL championship series. Jim Morley was the team's manager and owner, and Pop Dillon was the team captain. The team played its home games at Chutes Park and Prager Park in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035263-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Los Angeles Angels season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; SLG = Slugging percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035263-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Los Angeles Angels season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035264-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1905 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute\u2014now known as Louisiana Tech University\u2014as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach J. U. Bragg, Louisiana Industrial compiled a 0\u20131 record, losing their only game to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The team's captain was J. P. Pope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035265-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Luxembourg general election\nPartial general elections were held in Luxembourg on 13 and 20 June 1905, electing 21 out of 48 members of the Chamber of Deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035266-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1905 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 14 through October 14, 1905. The New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Giants then defeated the Athletics in the second modern World Series, four games to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035266-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Major League Baseball season, Events\nFor the first time in Major League history, two teams with over 100 losses played each other, when the Brooklyn Superbas (100 losses) and Boston Beaneaters (100 losses) met in their final series of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035267-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1905 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1905 college football season. Marshall posted a 6\u20132 record, being outscored by its opposition 43\u201398. Home games were played on a campus field called \"Central Field\" which is presently Campus Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035268-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1905 college football season. In their first season under head coach Fred K. Nielsen, the Aggies compiled a 6\u20134 record and were outscored by all opponents, 131 to 66. Coach Nielsen had a full-time job with the State Department while coaching football. Curley Byrd, who went on to be Maryland's head coach from 1911 to 1934 and its university president from 1936 to 1954, played on the 1905 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035269-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1905 college football season. The team was coached by Walter Craig and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1905 season was Craig's only as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 3\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035270-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1905 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1905. Incumbent Democratic Governor William L. Douglas did not run for re-election. Republican Lt. Governor Curtis Guild Jr. won the open election, defeating attorney Charles W. Bartlett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035271-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 126th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1905 during the governorship of William Lewis Douglas. William F. Dana served as president of the Senate and Louis A. Frothingham served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035272-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Massillon Tigers season\nThe 1905 Massillon Tigers football season was their third season in existence. The team finished with a record of 9\u20130 and won their third Ohio League championship in as many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035273-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1905 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1905 college football season. Miami compiled a 4\u20133 record during the season. Every game of the season is listed by Miami to be a shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035274-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1905 college football season. In their third year under head coach Chester Brewer, the Aggies compiled a 10\u20132 record and outscored their opponents 349 to 75.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035275-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1905 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1905 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Daniel H. Lawrence, the Normalites compiled a record of 4\u20134 and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 157 to 81. The team lost to Olivet College by a 69 to 0 score. William N. Braley was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1905 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1905 Western Conference football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines played their home games at Regents Field. After winning the first 12 games of the season by a combined score of 495\u20130, the team lost the final game of the season by a score of 2\u20130 against the University of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Pre-season\nThe 1905 football team returned 11 varsity letter winners from the 1904 team. The only letter winners not returning from 1904 were Willie Heston and Babe Carter. Center Germany Schulz, who had played as a freshman in 1904, was expected to be the best center in the west during the 1905 season. The line also returned \"Octopus\" Graham, Henry Schulte, and Joe Curtis. Fred Norcross also returned as the team's starting quarterback. In the backfield, several players were in competition to replace Heston at left halfback. Tom Hammond returned at right halfback. At fullback, Frank Longman sustained a knee injury that was expected to keep him on the sidelines for the early part of the season. Track star John Garrels had shown promise in 1904 and was the fastest man on the Michigan team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 65, Ohio Wesleyan 0\nIn the first game of the 1905 season was played on a warm day with the field at Ferry Field in excellent condition. Michigan defeated the team from Ohio Wesleyan University 65-0 and was reported to have \"over, through and around\" the opposition. Fred Norcross ran for 144 yards in the first half, including a 70-yard touchdown run. Hammond was Michigan's high scorer with 25 points on four touchdowns (five points each) and five point after touchdown kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 65, Ohio Wesleyan 0\nThe game was played in halves of 18.5 minutes and 15 minutes. In the first game, Michigan scored 65 points in 33.5 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Love (left guard), Clement (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Stuart (right end), Norcross (quarterback), Dunlap (left halfback), Workman (right halfback), Hammond (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 44, Kalamazoo 0\nIn the second game of the season, played at Ferry Field, Michigan defeated the team from Kalamazoo College 44-0. Despite the one-sided score, The Michigan Alumnus complained, \"The whole offensive work was ragged and spiritless, the warm weather having much to do with this.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 44, Kalamazoo 0\nThe game was played in halves of 20 minutes and 15 minutes. Through two games, Michigan had scored 109 points in 68.5 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Love (left guard), Clement (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Stuart (right end), Norcross (quarterback), Dunlap (left halfback), Workman (right halfback), Rumney (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 36, Case 0\nThe third game of the season matched Michigan against Case. With most of the game played by the \"scrubs,\" Michigan defeated Case 36-0. In his first start at left halfback, Paul Magoffin had a 75-yard run against Case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 36, Case 0\nThe game was played in halves of 20 minutes each. Through three games, Michigan had scored 145 points in 108.5 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Ohio Northern 0\nMichigan played its fourth consecutive home game against Ohio Northern on October 11, 1905. The game was played on a wet field, and Michigan's play was described by The Michigan Alumnus as ragged. A highlight of the game was John Garrels' 65-yard run, \"using the straight arm with good results.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Ohio Northern 0\nThe game was played in halves of 19 minutes and 10 minutes. Through four games, Michigan had scored 168 points in 137.5 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Love (left guard), Clement (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Stuart (right end), Norcross (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Workman (right halfback), Weeks (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 18, Vanderbilt 0\nIn the fifth game of the season, Vanderbilt, coached Yost's former player and assistant coach Dan McGugin, traveled to Ann Arbor. Michigan won the game 18-0. The game was played in halves of 25 minutes each. Through five games, Michigan had scored 186 points in 187.5 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Schulte (left guard), Schultz (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), Stuart (right end), Norcross (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), T. Hammond (right halfback), Weeks (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Cancelled game with Denison\nMichigan had planned a mid-week game against Denison University for Wednesday, October 18, 1905. That game was cancelled due to rain and the wet condition of Ferry Field. The Michigan Alumnus noted: \"It is not often that Michigan shirks the dampness, but [Fielding] Yost and [Fred] Norcross feared to risk injuring any player so soon before the Nebraska game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 31, Nebraska 0\nOn October 21, 1905, Michigan faced Nebraska. Although the final score was 31-0, The Michigan Alumnus noted that Michigan did not score in the first half and observed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 31, Nebraska 0\n\"Seldom has a more exciting contest been witnessed on Ferry Field . . . For the first time in the season the apostles of the 'hurry-up' gospel met foemen worthy of their very best efforts.\" The publication credited Michigan's second half scoring on Keene Fitzpatrick's training which lad left the Wolverines in \"splendid physical condition.\" Tom Hammond scored 16 of Michigan's points on a touchdown, three point after touchdown kicks, and two field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 31, Nebraska 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 minutes each. Through six games, Michigan had scored 217 points in 257.5 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 70, Albion 0\nAfter the Nebraska game, Michigan faced Albion in a mid-week game in Ann Arbor. Despite the 70-0 score, and being held on downs only once, The Michigan Alumnus found the performance to be less than ideal: \"The playing was rather ragged, the team work being decidedly below standard.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 70, Albion 0\nThe game was played in halves of 25 minutes and 14.5 minutes. Through seven games, Michigan had scored 287 points in 297 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Love (left guard), Shultz (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), Newton (right end), Barlow (quarterback), Weeks (left halfback), Kanaja (right halfback), and Embs (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 48, Drake 0\nOn October 28, 1905, Yost faced another of his pupils. Willie Heston, who had accepted the position of head coach at Drake, brought his team to Ann Arbor. The Drake team was reported to have played \"pluckily,\" but was \"crippled and badly outclassed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 48, Drake 0\nThe game was played in halves of 25 minutes and 20 minutes. Through eight games, Michigan had scored 335 points in 342 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 48, Drake 0\nAt the end of October, The Michigan Alumnus wrote that the team's \"ragged work\" had \"marred\" the early games. With the team's tendency to fumble, the publication wrote that \"one would have thought the Wolverines' fingers had been greased.\" In comparing it to Yost's prior teams, the Alumnus wrote: \"It is not, perhaps, the best team which Yost has ever coached. In all probability the team of 1901 could defeat it by two or three touchdowns.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 33, Illinois 0\nOn November 4, 1905, Michigan played its first road game of the season against Illinois. The running and punting of Alfred Barlow, substituting at quarterback, were reported to be features of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0021-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 33, Illinois 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 minutes each. Through nine games, Michigan had scored 368 points in 412 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Schulte (left guard),Schultz (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), H. Hammond (right end), Workman (quarterback), T. Hammond (right halfback), Magoffin (left halfback), Clark (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0022-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 40, Ohio State 0\nThe Wolverines returned to Ann Arbor for their November 8 game against Ohio State. Michigan played many of its substitutes in the game, starting Barlow at quarterback and Fred Newton at fullback. The game featured a 105-yard run by Barlow, described as \"the longest ever seen on Ferry Field.\" Barlow returned a missed dropkick from five yards deep in Michigan's endzone. Almost tackled at the 40-yard line, Barlow was aided by his teammates' blocking and returned the ball all the way for a touchdown. A large number of Ohio State fans attended the game, and the supporters of the two schools were reported to be on such friendly terms that the Ohio State band played \"Men of Yost,\" and the Michigan supporters \"returned the compliment by giving the Ohio yell.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0023-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 40, Ohio State 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 minutes each. Through ten games, Michigan had scored 408 points in 482 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 81], "content_span": [82, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0024-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 12, Wisconsin 0\nOn November 18, 1905, Wisconsin traveled to Ann Arbor. In front of a crowd estimated at nearly 18,000 people, Michigan won by a score of 12-0. During the second half, a temporary bleacher with 2,000 persons on it collapsed. Three or four spectators sustained \"more or less severe injuries,\" but none were killed. A warning was given before the collapse that the timber was weakening, the statement was reported to have not been taken seriously. Frank Longman scored both of Michigan's touchdowns, and Tom Hammond converted on both point after touchdown kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0025-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 12, Wisconsin 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 minutes each. Through 11 games, Michigan had scored 420 points in 552 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Schulte (left guard), Schultz (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), H. Hammond (right end), Norcross (quarterback), Weeks (left halfback), T. Hammond (right halfback), Longman (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0026-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 75, Oberlin 0\nOn November 25, 1905, Michigan defeated the Oberlin Congregationalists 75-0. The Michigan Alumnus noted that Oberlin came close to scoring in the game: \"It was a comedy that was almost turned into a tragedy when the plucky Congregationalist end, Featherstone, got away with the ball. Barlow missed him, and had not Schultz succeeded in reaching him Michigan would surely have been scored on.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0027-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 75, Oberlin 0\nThe game was played in halves of 25 minutes and 19 minutes. Through 12 games, Michigan had scored 495 points in 596 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Garrels (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Clement (left guard), Schultz (center), Graham (right guard), Love (right tackle), H. Hammond (right end), Barlow (quarterback), Patrick (left halfback), Clark (right halfback), Embs (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0028-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Chicago 2, Michigan 0\nThe game, dubbed \"The First Greatest Game of the Century,\" broke Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak and marked the end of the \"Point-a-Minute\" years. The 1905 Michigan team had outscored opponents 495-0 in its first 12 games. The game was lost in the final ten minutes of play when Denny Clark was tackled for a safety as he attempted to return a punt from behind the goal line. Newspapers described Clark's play as \"the wretched blunder\" and a \"lapse of brain work.\" Clark transferred to M.I.T. the following year and was haunted by the play for the rest of his life. In 1932, he shot himself, leaving a suicide note that reportedly expressed hope that his \"final play\" would atone for his error at Marshall Field in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0029-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Chicago 2, Michigan 0\nThe game was played in halves of 35 minutes each. Through 13 games, Michigan scored 495 points in 666 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0030-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Scoring summary\nThe following chart accounts for the 495 points scored by the 1905 football team and is based on the box scores published in 1905 by the Detroit Free Press\" and The Michigan Alumnus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0031-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 15 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1905 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035276-0032-0000", "contents": "1905 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Reserves\nThe following 25 players received \"R\" letters for their participation on the 1905 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election\nThe Mile End by-election was a Parliamentary by-election for the seat of Mile End, Tower Hamlets, in the east end of London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Vacancy\nSpencer Charrington had been Conservative MP for the seat of Mile End since the seat's creation at the 1885 general election. He died on 11 December 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Electoral history\nCharrington easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Candidates\nThe local Unionist Association selected 43-year-old Liberal Unionist Harry Levy-Lawson as their candidate to defend the seat. He was the son and heir of Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham. Levy-Lawson was looking to make a return to parliament after a break of ten years. He had sat as a Liberal for St Pancras West from 1885 to 1892 and for Cirencester from 1893 until his defeat in 1895. He had also sat on the London County Council representing St Pancras West from 1889 to 1892.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Candidates\nWith a general election expected to take place in the near future, Charles Clarke, who had been the Liberal candidate last time had been selected to contest the seat of Peckham. The local Liberal Association had to choose a new candidate and selected 38-year-old businessman Bertram Straus as their candidate to challenge for the seat. Straus was well known in the constituency as he was one of the two sitting members who represented Mile End on the London County Council. In fact Strauss had represented Mile End since 1898, winning three elections in the process. Straus also had experience of fighting parliamentary elections having contested Marylebone West at the 1900 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Candidates\nThe Social Democratic Federation wanted to contest the election but could not secure a willing candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 12 January 1905, just 32 days after the previous MP died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Campaign\nThe Unionist Governments aborted 1904 Aliens Bill featured in the campaign. The Unionist campaign put the Aliens Bill at the centre of their plans. The Liberal candidate, Straus, who had at first followed party policy in opposing it, later sought to distance himself from the position the Liberal party took in opposing the measure. He declared that he was in favour of excluding \"undesirable\" aliens. This was understood to target Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe. There was quite a large Jewish community in Mile End. Given that Straus was himself a Jew, this might have seemed an odd position for him to take. There had in fact been a reduction of over 500 voters in Mile End compared with the figures of 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Result\nThe Liberal Unionist Levy-Lawson held the seat for the government:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Result\nStraus revealed that he felt that Liberal party opposition to the Aliens Bill may have robbed him of the chance to pull off a sensational victory. The Unionist government was able to force through the Aliens Act 1905 later that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035277-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Mile End by-election, Aftermath\nWhen a general election was held in the following year, Straus again faced Levy-Lawson at Mile End and managed to unseat him to become Member of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035278-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1905 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1905 Western Conference football season. In their sixth year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 10\u20131 record (2\u20131 against Western Conference opponents), shut out 9 of 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents 542 to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035279-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035280-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1905 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1905 college football season. The team compiled a 5\u20134 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 94 to 79. John McLean was the head coach for the third of three seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035281-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Montana Agricultural football team\nThe 1905 Montana Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1905 college football season. In its second non-consecutive season under head coach A. G. Harbaugh, the team compiled a 1\u20132\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 98 to 45. The 1905 team was the first in program to play opponents from outside Montana, facing teams from the University of Idaho, Washington State College, and Utah Agricultural College. Clinton Wylie was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035282-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Montana football team\nThe 1905 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1905 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Frederick Schule, and finished the season with a record of two wins and three losses (2\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035283-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Montenegrin Constitutional Assembly election\nNational Assembly elections were held in Montenegro on 27 November 1905. They were the first elections in the country's history, and were called to elect a National Assembly that would approve a constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035283-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Montenegrin Constitutional Assembly election, Background\nPrince Nicholas issued a manifesto on 5 November announcing the establishment of a representative assembly with free elections. One member was elected from each of the 56 military districts of the country, with a further four members elected from Cetinje, Nik\u0161i\u0107, Podgorica and Ulcinj.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035283-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Montenegrin Constitutional Assembly election, Aftermath\nThe new Parliament of Montenegro was opened in Cetinje on 19 December, where a first liberal constitution was proclaimed, converting the Principality of Montenegro into a constitutional monarchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035283-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Montenegrin Constitutional Assembly election, Aftermath\nThe government was appointed by the prince and consisted of six ministers and three ecclesiastical deputies representing the Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church and Muslims. Elections to the first Parliament were held the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035284-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Morris Park 5\nThe 1905 Morris Park 5 was the first race in the debut national motor car championship held by the American Automobile Association. It was contested at the Morris Park Racecourse, in the Bronx, New York around a 1.39 miles (2.24\u00a0km) dirt oval. The cars completed three-and-a-half laps for a distance of 5 miles (8.0\u00a0km) in total on June 10, 1905. The race was won by Louis Chevrolet in a 90-horsepower Fiat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035284-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Morris Park 5, Format\nThe championship race featured three-and-a-half laps of the dirt oval track at Morris Park Racecourse, to total 5 miles (8.0\u00a0km). The track, converted from a horse racing course, was 1.39 miles (2.24\u00a0km) long, and loosely egg shaped; with the corner at one end being tighter than the other. Entries were open to drivers of any nationality, and the race was not handicapped. Prize money was awarded to the first two drivers; the winner collected $150, while the runner-up gained $60. Points for the national motor car championship would also be awarded; four points to the winner, two points to second place, and a single point to the driver in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035284-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Morris Park 5, Background\nIt was expected that the championship race would attract a field of famous racing drivers; The Philadelphia Inquirer listed Barney Oldfield, Charles Basle, Henry Ford, Webb Jay and George C. Cannon as probable entrants just over a week before the race, though none of the five eventually took part in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035284-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Morris Park 5, Race\nThere were just four entries in the five-mile race, which was an open to all categories without any handicapping. Major C. J. S. Miller, in his Renault, was unable to start the race due to a gasoline feed failure. The remaining three cars started on the back straight. Louis Chevrolet led the race from start to finish in the 90-horsepower Fiat, which was significantly more powerfully that his rivals; Guy Vaughn was racing in a 40-horsepower Decauville, while Dan Wurgis had a 32-horsepower Reo Bird.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035284-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Morris Park 5, Race\nBy the time they passed the grandstand for the first time, Chevrolet already led by 200 yards (180\u00a0m), and he extended that to 440 yards (400\u00a0m) on the second lap. Chevrolet completed the race in 4 minutes and 48 seconds. Vaughn was second for most of the race, holding a lead of around 60 yards (55\u00a0m) ahead of Wurgis, but as they started the final lap, he dropped away and coasted to a stop on the back straight with a broken gasoline feed pipe. Wurgis finished in second in 5 minutes and 30 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 24], "content_span": [25, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035284-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Morris Park 5, Other events\nThe five-mile race was part of a day of races and time trials at the Morris Park Racecourse. The day began with Chevrolet attempting to break the world record for the fastest mile with a flying start. Using the same car as the previous record had been set in, owned by Major C. J. S. Miller. He completed one lap to get up to speed, and then began his timed attempt on the back straight. Despite having to shut the power off completely around the corners, Chevrolet improved on his previous time, setting a new record of 52.2 seconds, shaving three-fifths of a second off the old record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035285-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe 1905 College Basketball All-American team, as chosen retroactively by the Helms Athletic Foundation. The player highlighted in gold was chosen as the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year retroactively in 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035286-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1905 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their only year under head coach Marshall Mills, the team compiled a 3\u20133\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035287-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1905 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1905 college football season. In their second season under head coach Paul Dashiell, the Midshipmen compiled a 10\u20131\u20131 record, shut out eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 243 to 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1905 college football season. The team was coached by sixth-year head coach Walter C. Booth and played its home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. The team competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nBooth retired from coaching following the 1905 season, departing Nebraska with a 46\u20138\u20131 record. His 46 wins were a school record until 1966, when he was passed by Bob Devaney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBarta, Frank GBarwick, Leonard QBBender, Johnny HBBenedict, Maurice QBBorg, Charles CBurns, Donald TCotton, Charles RGCraig, Hugh HBDenslow, Lloyd EEager, Earl HBGraves, Elliot HBHunter, Fred RGJohnson, William ELundin, Alford TMason, Cyrus LTMason, John FBMcDonald, Gil EMills, Leslie QBMorse, C.L. QBNelson, Thomas GRinger, John LGSchmidt, Francis HBTaylor, Robert RGWeller, John HBWenstrand, Ralph GWilson, Harry HB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Grand Island\nBooth missed Nebraska's season-opening win with an illness. This was the final meeting between Grand Island and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Lincoln High\nThis was the eighth and final exhibition game between Lincoln High and Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, South Dakota\nSouth Dakota's only points came after returning a fumble for a touchdown. Nebraska dominated the remainder of the game to win 42\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Knox\nNebraska defeated Knox 16\u20130 in what was described as \"another early season walk through warm up game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Michigan\nNebraska met Michigan for the first time in 1905, the final season Michigan played at Regents Field. The Wolverines were led by Fielding H. Yost, marking the first time NU had played one of its past head coaches. Michigan pulled away after a scoreless first half to win 31\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Creighton\nA week after a humbling loss at Michigan, Nebraska set new program records for points scored and margin of victory in a 102\u20130 win over Creighton in Omaha. NU scored more points in the second half than in the first despite an enormous lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nAfter a three-year hiatus, Nebraska renewed its series with Iowa State. NU shut out the Cyclones 21\u20130 in heavy rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nNebraska shut out Coloraso in front of 4,012 fans, a school record for a non-Thanksgiving Day crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035288-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Doane\nNebraska claimed a sixth state championship with a 43\u20135 victory over Doane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035289-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\nFinal standings of the Hungarian League 1905 season. The championship title of the unbeaten Post\u00e1s was withdrawn half year after the last match, due to a bribery scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035290-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team\nThe 1905 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. The team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035290-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team, Previous season\nThe Sagebrushers finished the 1904 season 3\u20133. Head coach Bruce Shorts resigned and the team did not have a replacement head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election\nThe New Forest by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. It was the last by-election of the 27th Parliament to take place before the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Vacancy\nHon. John Douglas-Scott-Montagu had been Conservative MP for the seat of New Forest since the 1892 general election. His father, Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu died on 4 November 1905. He succeeded his father as Baron Montagu of Beaulieu and entered the House of Lords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since it was created in 1885. There had not been a contested election in the seat since 1892. The voting figures then were;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 6 December 1905, 32 days after the vacancy became known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Campaign\nThe two most prominent issues at the time of the by-election were Irish Home Rule and Tariff Reform. The issue of Home Rule was one that had split the Liberal Party back in 1886 with the Liberal Unionist's joining with the Conservatives to oppose it. The issue of Tariff reform was one that was currently dividing the Conservative Party, who had seen many of their Free Trade supporters leave to join the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Campaign\nLeading Liberal Unionist, Joseph Chamberlain had managed to persuade Conservative Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour and the party as a whole to support the introduction of trade tariffs on imports. The Liberal Party argued that these measures would increase the cost of food. Divisions within the government on this issue and others widened and on 4 December 1905, two days before polling day, the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour collapsed and he resigned as Prime Minister. Liberal Leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman then formed a government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Result\nThe Conservatives narrowly held onto the seat but the fact that the Liberals had polled far better than they had in 1892 when the Conservatives nationally fell short of an overall majority, was a good indicator that the Liberals could win the next General Election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Result\nThis is how The Saturday Review viewed the result: \"The New Forest Division of Hampshire has returned Mr. Compton the Conservative by a small majority; reduced, still a majority. A seat or two does not make a world of difference just now, and we could half wish that the New Forest electors had shown the grace to welcome the new Prime Minister by returning his supporter, Sir Henry Hobart. It would have been a pretty form of congratulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0006-0001", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Result\nHowever we can congratulate Sir Henry Hobart \u2014 a really earnest Liberal and very anxious to sit for a Hampshire constituency - on his good fortune\u00a0; it is not every man to whom is given, as Sir Henry will be, the chance to have a second shot within a month or so.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035291-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 New Forest by-election, Aftermath\nAs Parliament was not sitting at the time, Compton was unable to take his seat. Prime Minister Campbell-Bannerman then dissolved parliament and called a General Election, at which Compton was defeated by Hobart:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1905 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1905 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 2\u20134\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team\nIt is unclear if the team had a head coach. The New Hampshire College Monthly made several references to the team's captain and the team's student manager, but did not mention any coach. An article in The Burlington Free Press mentions \"Coach Lord, who has charge of their team this year, was [the] star Yale end of 1902.\" This looks to be an errant and outdated reference to G. B. Ward, who coached New Hampshire's 1904 team and then began practicing law in Connecticut in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0001-0001", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team\nNew Hampshire's media guide lists Edward Herr as coach of the 1905 through 1907 teams. However, he was a student at Dartmouth College during the 1905\u201306 academic year, and upon his hiring to coach Vermont football for the 1908 season, it was noted that he had been coach at New Hampshire for the prior two years (1906 and 1907). Herr was first mentioned in the October 1906 edition of the College Monthly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and four points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThis was the first season that the team played a schedule where all of its opponents were other college teams; since the program started in 1893, each season's schedule had included some high school, prep school, or athletic association teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe September 30 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Brown football programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe October 28 game was the fourth meeting of the New Hampshire and Maine football programs. The score is listed as 16\u20130 in the New Hampshire football media guide and in contemporary news reports of 1905; College Football Data Warehouse and the Maine football media guide list it as 12\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nNew Hampshire's second team (reserves) lost to Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, 15\u20130; lost to Lowell Textile in Durham, 5\u20130; and lost a rematch with Brewster Academy in Durham, 15\u201310. On November 18, the varsity defeated a team of alumni, 12\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035292-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 New Hampshire football team, Roster\nThe team photo consists of all 13 lettermen, plus the student team manager. The College Monthly noted that the average weight of players on the team was 156.5 pounds (71.0\u00a0kg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035293-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1905 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1905 college football season. In their sixth year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 96 to 0. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035294-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New Orleans Pelicans season\nThe 1905 New Orleans Pelicans season represented the New Orleans Pelicans baseball team in the Southern Association and won their first league pennant, finishing with a record of 84 \u2013 45. An outbreak of yellow fever resulted in a quarantine of New Orleans. The Pelicans were forced to play most of their games out of town. The team was led by pitcher Jimmy Dygert and Otto Williams. The team also included Ted Breitenstein, George Rohe and Erve Beck. Breitenstein went 21\u20135, and Dygert put up a record of 18\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035295-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1905, announced at the time as the Indian Honours, were appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India. The list was published in The Times on 2 January 1905, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035295-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season\nThe 1905 New York Giants season was the franchise's 23rd season, and the team won their second consecutive National League pennant. They beat the Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season, Regular season\nThis team featured three Hall of Fame players \u2013 catcher Roger Bresnahan, and pitchers Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity \u2013 along with Hall of Fame manager John McGraw. Mathewson won the pitching triple crown and then had one of the greatest World Series performances of all-time, with three shutouts in six days. Only six men pitched for the Giants in 1905. The offense, led by \"Turkey\" Mike Donlin, scored the most runs in the majors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season, Regular season\nOn June 29, Archie \"Moonlight\" Graham, made famous through the novel Shoeless Joe and subsequent movie Field of Dreams, made his lone major league appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035296-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Giants season, 1905 World Series\nNL New York Giants (4) vs AL Philadelphia Athletics (1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035297-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Highlanders season\nThe 1905 New York Highlanders season was a season in American baseball. It was the team's third season in New York and fifth overall. The Highlanders finished in sixth place in the American League with a record of 71\u201378. The team was managed by Clark Griffith and played its home games at Hilltop Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035297-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035297-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035297-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035297-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035297-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election\nThe New Zealand general election of 1905 was held on Wednesday, 6 December in the general electorates, and on Wednesday, 20 December in the M\u0101ori electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 16th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 412,702 voters turned out, with 396,657 (83.25% of the electoral roll) voting in the European electorates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election, Changes to the electoral law\nThe 1903 City Single Electorates Act declared that at the dissolution of the 15th Parliament, the four multi-member electorates would be abolished and replaced each with three single-member electorates. It was also the year absentee voting was introduced for all electors unable to be in their own electorate on election day. The first Chief Electoral Officer was appointed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election, Changes to the electoral law\nAccordingly, the multi-member urban electorates of City of Auckland, City of Christchurch, City of Dunedin and City of Wellington were abolished and replaced with the following single-member seats:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election, Changes to the electoral law\nNine of these twelve electorates had existed before. Wellington Central, Wellington North, and Dunedin North were established for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election, Historic context\nIn 1905 a progressive faction within the Liberal Party started to form in opposition to Liberal leader Richard Seddon's policies. They announced that they would stand in the election as the New Liberal Party, however an accusation against Seddon's son, when disproven saw most of the dissidents return to the Liberal Party, and of the four New Liberals (George Laurenson, Francis Fisher, Harry Bedford and Tommy Taylor) that stood in the election only Laurenson and Fisher were returned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election, Historic context\nThe freshly created Independent Political Labour League also contested the election as a breakaway faction from the Liberals. It was the first of many steps of a gradual move by urban labourers shifting allegiance to an independent working-class political party. Previously, most workers had supported the Liberal Party, which since the 1890s had attempted to gain Trade Union support by appointing union representatives to the party's governing body. The IPLL did not perform well, gaining only 3,478 votes nationwide with no candidates elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election, Historic context\nThe Rev Frank Isitt was the Prohibition candidate for several South Island electorates, and came second in two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035298-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand general election, Electorate results\nThe following are the results of the 1905 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035299-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia\nThe 1905 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia was the fifth tour by the New Zealand team to Australia and the first in their own country. Three matches were played against Australian teams and four against provincial sides in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035299-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia, Matches\nComplete list of matches played by New Zealand during their tour:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035300-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 News of the World Match Play\nThe 1905 News of the World Match Play was the third News of the World Match Play tournament. It was played from Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 October at Walton Heath Golf Club. 32 players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 18 holes, except for the final which was over 36 holes. The winner received \u00a3100 out of a total prize fund of \u00a3240. James Braid defeated Tom Vardon 4 & 3 in the final to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035300-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 News of the World Match Play, Qualification\nEntry was restricted to members of the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA). Qualification was by a series of 36-hole stroke-play competitions; one for each of the six PGA sections. The Southern section had 16 qualifiers, the Midland and Northern sections had 5 each, the Scottish section 3, the Irish section 2 and the Welsh section 1. In the event of a tie for places there was a playoff. Compared to 1904 one entry was allocated to the new Welsh section with the number of qualifiers from the Northern section being reduced to five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035300-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 News of the World Match Play, Format\nThe format was unchanged. Matches were over 18 holes except for the final which was over 36 holes. Extra holes were played in the event of a tied match. Two rounds were played on the first day, two more on the second day with the final on the third day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035300-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 News of the World Match Play, Prize money\nThe winner received \u00a3100 and a gold medal, the runner-up \u00a330 and a silver medal, the losing semi-finalists \u00a315 and a bronze medal, while the third round losers received \u00a310 and the second round losers received \u00a35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035301-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Normanton by-election\nThe 1905 Normanton by-election was held on 27 November 1905 after the incumbent Liberal-Labour MP William Parrott died. The seat was retained by the Liberal-Labour candidate Frederick Hall. Hall was a local councilor and chairman of the Rawmarsh School Board. who was sponsored by the Miners Federation of Great Britain and would in 1909 take the Labour whip. Hall was unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035302-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1905 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1905 college football season. in George S. Whitney's first and only season as head coach, the Aggies compiled a record of tied 4\u20131\u20131. They tied North Carolina, the third consecutive draw in the rivalry, and outscored their opponents 66 to 10 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035303-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1905 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1905 college football season. The team captain for the 1905 season was Foy Roberson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035304-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1905 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035305-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 North Donegal by-election\nThe 1905 North Donegal by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of North Donegal on 15 June 1905. The vacancy arose because of the death of the sitting member, William O'Doherty of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Only one candidate was nominated, John Muldoon representing the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election\nThe North Dorset by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election, Vacancy\nJohn Wingfield Digby had been the Conservative member for the seat of North Dorset since the 1892 general election. He died on 25 December 1904 at the age of 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since they gained it in 1892. They easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives selected 26-year-old Sir Randolf Baker to defend the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 37-year-old Arthur Walters Wills as their candidate. He took honours in law in 1890. As a Barrister-at-law, he was called to Bar in 1894 and joined the Western Circuit. He was standing for parliament for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for 26 January 1905, 32 days after the death of the previous MP. The Liberals launched a by-weekly newspaper, the \"North Dorset Elector\" for the campaign. Religion still played its part in the campaign. Speaking at a meeting of the Blandford Free Church Council, Dr Clifford endorsed the Liberal candidate stressing his opposition to the Unionist government's 1902 Education Act that used taxpayer money to fund protestant schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election, Result\nNorth Dorset became the 15th Liberal by-election gain of the parliament from the Unionists. It was the second by-election gain in Dorset in less than a year. It was also the second Liberal by-election gain of the month. The national press reporting of the result varied, depending on the political bias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035306-0006-0001", "contents": "1905 North Dorset by-election, Result\nThe Liberal papers saw omens for a future general election; The Daily Chronicle said \"When by-elections are frequent, when they take place in all parts of the country, and when they exhibit a uniform tendency, it is impossible not to see in them evidence of the general trend of political opinion.\" The Daily News said \"The Government are smitten all over the field; but we suspect that after Lancashire their worst beating will come from agricultural England.\" The Conservative papers remained in denial; The Times implied the Conservatives could regain North Dorset because they managed to do so in 1892 when they started further behind the Liberals. The Times also believed that the Unionist case for Tariff Reform would win over voters at the next general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035307-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 North Kildare by-election\nThe 1905 North Kildare by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of North Kildare on 14 February 1905. The vacancy arose because of the death of the sitting member, Edmund Leamy of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Only one candidate was nominated, John O'Connor representing the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035308-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1905 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1905 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Harry Sauthoff and played their home games at Glidden Field, located on the east end of campus. The team finished the season with a 3\u20131\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035309-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Northwestern Purple football team\nThe 1905 Northwestern Purple football team represented Northwestern University during the 1905 Western Conference football season. Walter McCornack, in his third season at Northwestern, was the team's head coach. The Purple's home games were played at the new Northwestern Field in Evanston, Illinois. They were members of the Western Conference. They finished the season 8\u20132\u20131, and 0\u20132 in Western Conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035310-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 1905 Norwegian Football Cup was the fourth season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The tournament was open for 1905 local association leagues (kretsserier) champions, except in Kristiania og omegn where a separate cup qualifying tournament was held. Odd won their third consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum\nA referendum on retaining the monarchy or becoming a republic was held in Norway on 12 and 13 November 1905. Voters were asked whether they approved of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly self-ruling country. The Storting had wanted to offer the throne to Prince Carl of Denmark, but the prince insisted that the Norwegian people have a chance to decide whether they wanted to retain a monarchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum\nThe proposal was approved by 78.9% of voters. Following the referendum, the Storting formally offered the throne to Carl on 18 November; Carl accepted, assuming the throne as King Haakon VII. The new royal family arrived in Norway on 25 November. King Haakon and Queen Maud were crowned in a ceremony in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on 22 June 1906. Haakon became Norway's first separate monarch in 518 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum, Summary\nOn 7 June 1905, the Storting approved the dissolution of the union with Sweden; as a result, Swedish King Oscar II abdicated as King of Norway. He refused the reconciliation offer to allow a Swedish prince to take the Norwegian throne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum, Summary\nThe Storting thus turned to the Danish Prince Carl, the second son of Crown Prince Frederick. In addition to the positive personal qualities, it was pointed out that he was Scandinavian and would understand the Norwegian language and culture. Through Princess Maud, he had close ties to the United Kingdom and the British royal family, and an heir-apparent to the throne was already guaranteed through his son, the two-year-old Prince Alexander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum, Summary\nIn Norway, it was debated whether the country should remain a monarchy or become a republic. Prince Carl demanded that the issue should be submitted to a referendum, as he wanted an assurance that a majority of the population wanted Norway to remain as a monarchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum, Summary\nEnig i Stortingets bemyndigelse til regjeringen om at opfordre prins Carl af Danmark til at lade sig v\u00e6lge til Norges konge? (Do you agree with the Storting's authorization to the government to invite Prince Carl of Denmark to become King of Norway?)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum, Summary\nA majority voted in favour of monarchy, and on 18 November the Parliament formally elected Prince Carl as king. The Speaker of Parliament sent him a telegram offering him the throne of Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035311-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian monarchy referendum, Summary\nThe prince accepted the election, and on 25 November 1905 the new Norwegian royal family landed at Vippetangen in Christiania (Oslo). He took the name Haakon and gave his son the name Olav, names that linked the new royal house to the Norwegian kings from the Middle Ages. On 22 June 1906, King Haakon VII and Queen Maud were crowned in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035312-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum\nA referendum on dissolving the union with Sweden was held in Norway on 13 August 1905. Dissolving the union, which had been in place since 1814, was approved by almost 100% of voters, with just 184 voting against the proposal out of over 371,000 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035312-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum, Background\nOn 27 May 1905 the Storting passed a bill supported by the government of Christian Michelsen calling for the establishment of separate Norwegian consulates. Under the terms of the union, Norway and Sweden shared a common foreign policy. King Oscar II vetoed the bill. Rather than countersign it as the King demanded, the government resigned. Oscar refused to accept the resignations, claiming he could not form a replacement government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035312-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum, Background\nOn 7 June the Storting declared the union dissolved on the grounds that Oscar had effectively abandoned his functions as King of Norway by failing to appoint a new government. The Swedish government was prepared to dissolve the union, provided that the Norwegian people agree to it in a referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035312-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum, Background\nThe question put to the voters (only men had suffrage in Norway at the time) was whether they approved of the \"already completed dissolution of the union\" (\u00abden stedfundne Opl\u00f8sning af Unionen\u00bb). The wording of the question was carefully considered to make it clear that the Storting considered the union to be out of force even if the Swedish government insisted that it could be dissolved only upon mutual consent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035312-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum, Background\nThe Storting announced the referendum on 27 July, in anticipation of the Swedish demands, thereby avoiding the appearance that it had been scheduled in response to demands from Stockholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035312-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum, Background\nAlthough women did not have a vote, Norwegian suffragists started a campaign to collect signatures in favor of the dissolution and were able to present 244,765 signatures in favor of the dissolution within two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035312-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum, Aftermath\nThe referendum was followed by negotiations in Karlstad. The two countries reached an agreement on 23 September, which was approved by the Norwegian and Swedish parliaments on 9 October and 13 October, respectively. Oscar gave up all claims to the Norwegian throne on 26 October. In November, Prince Carl of Denmark was elected as Norway's first independent king in over five centuries, assuming the throne as Haakon VII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035313-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1905 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1905 college football season. In its first season with Henry J. McGlew as coach, the team compiled a 5\u20134 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 312 to 80.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035313-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Notre Dame football team\nThe Wabash Little Giants traveled to South Bend on October 21 that year, and defeated Notre Dame 5\u20130. The upset is the Fighting Irish's only home-field loss in 125 games between 1899 and 1928. The very next game, Notre Dame scored its most points ever against American Medical, winning 142 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035314-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1905 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University during the 1905 college football season. The Buckeyes compiled an 8\u20132\u20132 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 197 to 63 in their second season under head coach Edwin Sweetland. Denison forfeited their game on October 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035315-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 1905 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1905. Democratic nominee John M. Pattison defeated incumbent Republican Myron T. Herrick with 50.53% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035316-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1905 college football season. This was the fifth year of football at A&M and the team's head coach was F. A. McCoy. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. They finished the season 1\u20134\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035317-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1905 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1905 college football season. In their first year under head coach Bennie Owen, the Sooners compiled a 7\u20132 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 229 to 59. This was first year that the Sooners defeated the Texas Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035318-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1905 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team had no coach and did not score a point, losing to Cumberland and in the Egg Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035319-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Ontario general election\nThe 1905 Ontario general election was the 11th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on January 25, 1905, to elect the 98 Members of the 11th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (\"MLAs\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035319-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Ontario general election\nThe Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney, defeated the Ontario Liberal Party, led by Sir George William Ross, bringing to an end the control of the government that the Liberal Party had exercised power for the previous 34 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035319-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Ontario general election, Further reading\nThis elections in Canada-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035320-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Open Championship\nThe 1905 Open Championship was the 45th Open Championship, held 7\u20139 June at the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. James Braid won the Championship for the second time, five strokes ahead of runners-up Rowland Jones and John Henry Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035320-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Open Championship\nAll entries played 18 holes on the first two days; those within fourteen strokes of the lead made the cut for the final two rounds on Friday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035320-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Open Championship\nStrong winds and hard ground conditions made scoring difficult on all three days, with few rounds under 80. Sandy Herd, Taylor, Walter Toogood, and Harry Vardon co-led after the first round at 80. Scoring improved slightly on Thursday and Jones' 77 put him in the lead with 158; he was followed by Braid on 159 and James Kinnell and Arnaud Massy on 161. Just 45 players made the cut at 172 and better, including a sole amateur John Graham Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035320-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Open Championship\nIn the third round on Friday morning, Braid's 78 extended his lead to six shots over Kinnell, Massy, and Taylor. Jones took 87 and dropped eight strokes behind Braid. Scoring 81 in the afternoon, Braid was never challenged; he reached the turn in 38 and despite taking six at the 15th and 16th holes, came back in 43. A 78 moved Jones up to a second place tie with Taylor, five strokes behind the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035321-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Allen Steckle, the Aggies compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 166 to 28. The Aggies defeated Washington State (29\u20130), Willamette (28\u20130), and Washington (16\u20130), and lost to California (0\u201310), Oregon (0\u20136), and the Multnomah Athletic Club (5\u20136). Bert Pilkington was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035322-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1905 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1905 college football season. It was the Webfoots' twelfth season, they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Bruce Shorts. They finished the season with a record of four wins, two losses and two ties (4\u20132\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035323-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n1905 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) was the second waterpolo championship in Hungary. There were one round of matches with four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035323-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035324-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1905 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the tenth\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 23 April 1905 and stretched 268\u00a0km (167\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Louis Trousselier from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035325-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1905 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1905 college football season. The Quakers finished with an undefeated 12\u20130\u20131 record in their fourth year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included a 6 to 0 victory over the Carlisle Indians, a 12 to 6 victory over Harvard, a 23 to 0 victory over Columbia, a 6 to 5 victory over Cornell, and a 6\u20136 tie with Lafayette. The 1905 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 259 to 33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035325-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Penn Quakers football team\nSix Penn players received recognition on the 1905 College Football All-America Team. They are: end Izzy Levene (WC-3; NYW; NYG); tackle Otis Lamson (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYW; NYG; NYEP; NYT; NYG); guard F. Hobson (NYEP; NYG); center Robert Torrey (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW; NYG); quarterback Vince Stevenson (NYW); and halfback H.W. Sheble (WC-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035326-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Penn State football team\nThe 1905 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1905 college football season. The team was coached by Tom Fennell and played its home games on Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season\nThe 1905 Philadelphia Athletics season was a season in American baseball. The team finished first in the American League with a record of 92 wins and 56 losses, winning their second pennant. They went on to face the New York Giants in the 1905 World Series, losing 4 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season\nThe pitching staff featured three future Hall of Famers: Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank, and Chief Bender. Waddell easily won the pitching triple crown in 1905, with 27 wins, 287 strikeouts, and a 1.48 earned run average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season, Regular season\nThe A's offense scored the most runs in the league. Slugger Harry Davis led all players in home runs, runs scored, and runs batted in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season, Regular season, Birth of the Elephant mascot\nAfter New York Giants' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Ben Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the Athletics, had a \"white elephant on his hands\", manager Connie Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series. McGraw and Mack had known each other for years, and McGraw accepted it graciously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 80], "content_span": [81, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035327-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Athletics season, 1905 World Series\nNL New York Giants (4) vs AL Philadelphia Athletics (1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035328-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1905 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in Major League Baseball. The Phillies finished fourth in the National League with a record of 83 wins and 69 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035328-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason, City Series\nIn the 1905 pre-season City Series against the Athletics, the two teams played eight games between April 1 and 12, 1905, alternating games between the A's Columbia Park and the Phillies' Philadelphia Park. The Phillies won the third, fifth, seventh, and eighth games as the teams split the 1905 series four games to four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035328-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035328-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035328-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035328-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035328-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035329-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Philippine local elections\nLocal elections were held for provincial and municipal posts throughout the Philippine Archipelago on January 15, 1905. Famous lawyers and doctors including the rich and the wealthy, political families were elected. Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osme\u00f1a Sr. were elected as the first Filipino provincial governors of Tayabas and Cebu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035330-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1905 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 24th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise. The Pirates finished second in the National League with a record of 96\u201357.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035330-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035330-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035330-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035330-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035330-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035331-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 12 December 1905. The result was a victory for the Progressive Party, which won 109 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035332-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Prima Categoria, Regulation\nFollowing the affiliation to the FIFA, the Italian Football Federation improved its championship with new regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035332-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Prima Categoria, Regulation\nThe challenge round was abolished and a national final group was introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035332-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Prima Categoria, References and sources\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035333-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours\nThe 1905 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were awards announced on 9 December 1905 to mark the exit of Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour, who resigned on 5 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035333-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035334-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1905 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1905 college football season. The team finished with an 8\u20132 record under third-year head coach Art Hillebrand and outscored its opponents by a total of 229 to 45. Princeton fullback Jim McCormick was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1905 College Football All-America Team. Tackle James Cooney was also selected as a first-team All-American by The New York Times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035335-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1905 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1905 Western Conference football season. In their first season under head coach Albert E. Herrnstein, the Boilermakers compiled a 6\u20131\u20131 record, finished in fourth place in the Big Nine Conference with a 1\u20131\u20131 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 177 to 30. H. L. Thomas was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035336-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1905 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its eighth year under head coach Marshall Tyler, the team compiled a 3\u20133\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035337-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1905 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1905. Incumbent Republican George H. Utter defeated Democratic nominee Lucius F. C. Garvin with 53.30% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035338-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1905 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1905 college football season. Led by first-year head coach E. A. Dunlap, Richmond compiled a record of 3\u20135\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035339-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Rous state by-election\nA by-election was held in the New South Wales state electoral district of Rous on 11 February 1905. The by-election was triggered by the death of John Coleman (Liberal Reform).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution\nThe Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led to constitutional reform (namely the \"October Manifesto\"), including the establishment of the State Duma, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution\nThe 1905 revolution was spurred by the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, which ended in the same year, but also by the growing realization by a variety of sectors of society of the need for reform. Politicians such as Sergei Witte had failed to accomplish this. While the Tsar managed to keep his rule, the events foreshadowed those of the Russian revolutions in 1917, which resulted in the overthrow of the monarchy, execution of the imperial family, and creation of the Soviet Union by the Bolsheviks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution\nSome historians contend that the 1905 revolution set the stage for the 1917 Russian Revolutions, and enabled Bolshevism to emerge as a distinct political movement in Russia, although it was still a minority. Lenin, as later head of the USSR, called it \"The Great Dress Rehearsal\", without which the \"victory of the October Revolution in 1917 would have been impossible\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes\nAccording to Sidney Harcave, four problems in Russian society contributed to the revolution. Newly emancipated peasants earned too little and were not allowed to sell or mortgage their allotted land. Ethnic and national minorities resented the government because of its \"Russification\" of the Empire: it practised discrimination and repression against national minorities, such as banning them from voting; serving in the Imperial Guard or Navy; and limiting their attendance in schools. A nascent industrial working class resented the government for doing too little to protect them, as it banned strikes and organizing into labor unions. Finally, university students developed a new consciousness, after discipline was relaxed in the institutions, and they were fascinated by increasingly radical ideas, which spread among them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes\nAlso, disaffected soldiers returning from a bloody and disgraceful defeat with Japan, who found inadequate factory pay, shortages, and general disarray, organized in protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes\nTaken individually, these issues might not have affected the course of Russian history, but together they created the conditions for a potential revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes\nAt the turn of the century, discontent with the Tsar\u2019s dictatorship was manifested not only through the growth of political parties dedicated to the overthrow of the monarchy but also through industrial strikes for better wages and working conditions, protests and riots among peasants, university demonstrations, and the assassination of government officials, often done by Socialist Revolutionaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes\nBecause the Russian economy was tied to European finances, the contraction of Western money markets in 1899\u20131900 plunged Russian industry into a deep and prolonged crisis; it outlasted the dip in European industrial production. This setback aggravated social unrest during the five years preceding the revolution of 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes\nThe government finally recognized these problems, albeit in a shortsighted and narrow-minded way. The Minister of the Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve said in 1903 that, after the agrarian problem, the most serious issues plaguing the country were those of the Jews, the schools, and the workers, in that order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes\nOne of the major contributing factors that changed Russia from a country in unrest to a country in revolt was \"Bloody Sunday\". Loyalty to the tsar Nicholas II was lost on 22 January 1905, when his soldiers fired upon a group of people, led by Georgy Gapon, who were attempting to present a petition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Agrarian problem\nEvery year, thousands of nobles in debt mortgaged their estates to the noble land bank or sold them to municipalities, merchants, or peasants. By the time of the revolution, the nobility had sold off one-third of its land and mortgaged another third. The peasants had been freed by the emancipation reform of 1861, but their lives were generally quite limited. The government hoped to develop the peasants as a politically conservative, land-holding class by enacting laws to enable them to buy land from nobility, by paying small installments over many decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Agrarian problem\nSuch land, known as \"allotment land\", would not be owned by individual peasants, but by the community of peasants; individual peasants would have rights to strips of land to be assigned to them under the open field system. A peasant could not sell or mortgage this land, so in practice he could not renounce his rights to his land, and he would be required to pay his share of redemption dues to the village commune. This plan was intended to prevent peasants from becoming part of the proletariat. However, the peasants were not given enough land to provide for their needs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Agrarian problem\nTheir earnings were often so small that they could neither buy the food they needed nor keep up the payment of taxes and redemption dues they owed the government for their land allotments. By 1903 their total arrears in payments of taxes and dues was 118 million rubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Agrarian problem\nThe situation worsened, as masses of hungry peasants roamed the countryside looking for work, and sometimes walked hundreds of kilometres to find it. Desperate peasants proved capable of violence. \"In the provinces of Kharkov and Poltava in 1902, thousands of them, ignoring restraints and authority, burst out in a rebellious fury that led to extensive destruction of property and looting of noble homes before troops could be brought to subdue and punish them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Agrarian problem\nThese violent outbreaks caught the attention of the government, so it created many committees to investigate the causes. The committees concluded that no part of the countryside was prosperous; some parts, especially the fertile areas known as the \"black-soil region\", were in decline. Although cultivated acreage had increased in the last half century, the increase had not been proportionate to the growth of the peasant population, which had doubled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0014-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Agrarian problem\n\"There was general agreement at the turn of the century that Russia faced a grave and intensifying agrarian crisis due mainly to rural overpopulation with an annual excess of fifteen to eighteen live births over deaths per 1,000 inhabitants.\" The investigations revealed many difficulties but the committees could not find solutions that were both sensible and \"acceptable\" to the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Nationality problem\nRussia was a multi-ethnic empire. Nineteenth-century Russians saw cultures and religions in a clear hierarchy. Non -Russian cultures were tolerated in the empire but were not necessarily respected. Culturally, Europe was favoured over Asia, as was Orthodox Christianity over other religions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Nationality problem\nFor generations, Russian Jews had been considered a special problem. Jews constituted only about 4% of the population, but were concentrated in the western borderlands. Like other minorities in Russia, the Jews lived \"miserable and circumscribed lives, forbidden to settle or acquire land outside the cities and towns, legally limited in attendance at secondary school and higher schools, virtually barred from legal professions, denied the right to vote for municipal councilors, and excluded from services in the Navy or the Guards\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Nationality problem\nThe government's treatment of Jews, although considered a separate issue, was similar to its policies in dealing with all national and religious minorities. Historian Theodore Weeks notes: \"Russian administrators, who never succeeded in coming up with a legal definition of 'Pole', despite the decades of restrictions on that ethnic group, regularly spoke of individuals 'of Polish descent' or, alternatively, 'of Russian descent', making identity a function of birth.\" This policy only succeeded in producing or aggravating feelings of disloyalty. There was growing impatience with their inferior status and resentment against \"Russification\". Russification is cultural assimilation definable as \"a process culminating in the disappearance of a given group as a recognisably distinct element within a larger society\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Nationality problem\nBesides the imposition of a uniform Russian culture throughout the empire, the government's pursuit of Russification, especially during the second half of the nineteenth century, had political motives. After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian state was compelled to take into account public opinion, but the government failed to gain the public's support. Another motive for Russification policies was the Polish uprising of 1863. Unlike other minority nationalities, the Poles, in the eyes of the Tsar, were a direct threat to the empire's stability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0018-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Nationality problem\nAfter the rebellion was crushed, the government implemented policies to reduce Polish cultural influences. In the 1870s the government began to distrust German elements on the western border. The Russian government felt that the unification of Germany would upset the power balance among the great powers of Europe and that Germany would use its strength against Russia. The government thought that the borders would be defended better if the borderland were more \"Russian\" in character. The culmination of cultural diversity created a cumbersome nationality problem that plagued the Russian government in the years leading up to the revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nThe economic situation in Russia before the revolution presented a grim picture. The government had experimented with laissez-faire capitalist policies, but this strategy largely failed to gain traction within the Russian economy until the 1890s. Meanwhile, \"agricultural productivity stagnated, while international prices for grain dropped, and Russia\u2019s foreign debt and need for imports grew. War and military preparations continued to consume government revenues. At the same time, the peasant taxpayers' ability to pay was strained to the utmost, leading to widespread famine in 1891.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nIn the 1890s, under Finance Minister Sergei Witte, a crash governmental programme was proposed to promote industrialization. His policies included heavy government expenditures for railroad building and operations, subsidies and supporting services for private industrialists, high protective tariffs for Russian industries (especially heavy industry), an increase in exports, currency stabilization, and encouragement of foreign investments. His plan was successful and during the 1890s \"Russian industrial growth averaged 8 percent per year. Railroad mileage grew from a very substantial base by 40 percent between 1892 and 1902.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0020-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nIronically, Witte's success in implementing this program helped spur the 1905 revolution and eventually the 1917 revolution because it exacerbated social tensions. \"Besides dangerously concentrating a proletariat, a professional and a rebellious student body in centers of political power, industrialization infuriated both these new forces and the traditional rural classes.\" The government policy of financing industrialization through taxing peasants forced millions of peasants to work in towns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0020-0002", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nThe \"peasant worker\" saw his labour in the factory as the means to consolidate his family's economic position in the village and played a role in determining the social consciousness of the urban proletariat. The new concentrations and flows of peasants spread urban ideas to the countryside, breaking down isolation of peasants on communes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0021-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nIndustrial workers began to feel dissatisfaction with the Tsarist government despite the protective labour laws the government decreed. Some of those laws included the prohibition of children under 12 from working, with the exception of night work in glass factories. Employment of children aged 12 to 15 was prohibited on Sundays and holidays. Workers had to be paid in cash at least once a month, and limits were placed on the size and bases of fines for workers who were tardy. Employers were prohibited from charging workers for the cost of lighting of the shops and plants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0021-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nDespite these labor protections, the workers believed that the laws were not enough to free them from unfair and inhumane practices. At the start of the 20th century, Russian industrial workers worked on average an 11-hour day (10 hours on Saturday), factory conditions were perceived as grueling and often unsafe, and attempts at independent unions were often not accepted. Many workers were forced to work beyond the maximum of 11 and a half hours per day. Others were still subject to arbitrary and excessive fines for tardiness, mistakes in their work, or absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0021-0002", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nRussian industrial workers were also the lowest-wage workers in Europe. Although the cost of living in Russia was low, \"the average worker's 16 rubles per month could not buy the equal of what the French worker's 110 francs would buy for him.\" Furthermore, the same labour laws prohibited organization of trade unions and strikes. Dissatisfaction turned into despair for many impoverished workers, which made them more sympathetic to radical ideas. These discontented, radicalized workers became key to the revolution by participating in illegal strikes and revolutionary protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0022-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nThe government responded by arresting labour agitators and enacting more \"paternalistic\" legislation. Introduced in 1900 by Sergei Zubatov, head of the Moscow security department, \"police socialism\" planned to have workers form workers' societies with police approval to \"provide healthful, fraternal activities and opportunities for cooperative self-help together with 'protection' against influences that might have inimical effect on loyalty to job or country\". Some of these groups organized in Moscow, Odessa, Kiev, Nikolayev (Ukraine), and Kharkov, but these groups and the idea of police socialism failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0023-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Labour problem\nIn 1900\u20131903, the period of industrial depression caused many firm bankruptcies and a reduction in the employment rate. Employees were restive: they would join legal organizations but turn the organizations toward an end that the organizations' sponsors did not intend. Workers used legitimate means to organize strikes or to draw support for striking workers outside these groups. A strike that began in 1902 by workers in the railroad shops in Vladikavkaz and Rostov-on-Don created such a response that by the next summer, 225,000 in various industries in southern Russia and Transcaucasia were on strike. These were not the first illegal strikes in the country's history but their aims, and the political awareness and support among workers and non-workers, made them more troubling to the government than earlier strikes. The government responded by closing all legal organizations by the end of 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0024-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\nThe Minister of the Interior, Plehve, designated schools as a pressing problem for the government, but he did not realize it was only a symptom of antigovernment feelings among the educated class. Students of universities, other schools of higher learning, and occasionally of secondary schools and theological seminaries were part of this group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0025-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\nStudent radicalism began around the time Tsar Alexander II came to power. Alexander abolished serfdom and enacted fundamental reforms in the legal and administrative structure of the Russian empire, which were revolutionary for their time. He lifted many restrictions on universities and abolished obligatory uniforms and military discipline. This ushered in a new freedom in the content and reading lists of academic courses. In turn, that created student subcultures, as youth were willing to live in poverty in order to receive an education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0025-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\nAs universities expanded, there was a rapid growth of newspapers, journals, and an organization of public lectures and professional societies. The 1860s was a time when the emergence of a new public sphere was created in social life and professional groups. This created the idea of their right to have an independent opinion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0026-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\nThe government was alarmed by these communities, and in 1861 tightened restrictions on admission and prohibited student organizations; these restrictions resulted in the first ever student demonstration, held in St. Petersburg, which led to a two-year closure of the university. The consequent conflict with the state was an important factor in the chronic student protests over subsequent decades. The atmosphere of the early 1860s gave rise to political engagement by students outside universities that became a tenet of student radicalism by the 1870s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0026-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\nStudent radicals described \"the special duty and mission of the student as such to spread the new word of liberty. Students were called upon to extend their freedoms into society, to repay the privilege of learning by serving the people, and to become in Nikolai Ogarev's phrase 'apostles of knowledge'.\" During the next two decades, universities produced a significant share of Russia's revolutionaries. Prosecution records from the 1860s and 1870s show that more than half of all political offences were committed by students despite being a minute proportion of the population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0026-0002", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\n\"The tactics of the left-wing students proved to be remarkably effective, far beyond anyone's dreams. Sensing that neither the university administrations nor the government any longer possessed the will or authority to enforce regulations, radicals simply went ahead with their plans to turn the schools into centres of political activity for students and non-students alike.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0027-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\nThey took up problems that were unrelated to their \"proper employment\", and displayed defiance and radicalism by boycotting examinations, rioting, arranging marches in sympathy with strikers and political prisoners, circulating petitions, and writing anti-government propaganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0028-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Causes, Educated class as a problem\nThis disturbed the government, but it believed the cause was lack of training in patriotism and religion. Therefore, the curriculum was \"toughened up\" to emphasize classical language and mathematics in secondary schools, but defiance continued. Expulsion, exile, and forced military service also did not stop students. \"In fact, when the official decision to overhaul the whole educational system was finally made, in 1904, and to that end Vladimir Glazov, head of General Staff Academy, was selected as Minister of Education, the students had grown bolder and more resistant than ever.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0029-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Rise of the opposition\nThe events of 1905 came after progressive and academic agitation for more political democracy and limits to Tsarist rule in Russia, and an increase in strikes by workers against employers for radical economic demands and union recognition, (especially in southern Russia). Many socialists view this as a period when the rising revolutionary movement was met with rising reactionary movements. As Rosa Luxemburg stated in 1906 in The Mass Strike, when collective strike activity was met with what is perceived as repression from an autocratic state, economic and political demands grew into and reinforced each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0030-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Rise of the opposition\nRussian progressives formed the Union of Zemstvo Constitutionalists in 1903 and the Union of Liberation in 1904, which called for a constitutional monarchy. Russian socialists formed two major groups: the Socialist Revolutionary Party (founded in 1902), which followed the Russian populist tradition, and the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (founded in 1898).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0031-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Rise of the opposition\nIn late 1904 liberals started a series of banquets (modeled on the campagne des banquets leading up to the French Revolution of 1848), nominally celebrating the 40th anniversary of the liberal court statutes, but actually an attempt to circumvent laws against political gatherings. The banquets resulted in calls for political reforms and a constitution. In November 1904 a Zemsky Congress (Russian: \u0417\u0435\u043c\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0441\u044a\u0435\u0437\u0434) - a gathering of zemstvo delegates representing all levels of Russian society - called for a constitution, civil liberties and a parliament. On 13 December\u00a0[O.S. 30 November]\u00a01904, the Moscow City Duma passed a resolution demanding the establishment of an elected national legislature, full freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. Similar resolutions and appeals from other city dumas and zemstvo councils followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0032-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Rise of the opposition\nEmperor Nicholas II made a move to meet many of these demands, appointing liberal Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirsky as Minister of the Interior after the July 1904 assassination of Vyacheslav von Plehve. On 25 December\u00a0[O.S. 12 December]\u00a01904, the Emperor issued a manifesto promising the broadening of the zemstvo system and more authority for local municipal councils, insurance for industrial workers, the emancipation of Inorodtsy and the abolition of censorship. The crucial demand - that for a representative national legislature - was missing in the manifesto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0033-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Rise of the opposition\nWorker strikes in the Caucasus broke out in March 1902. Strikes on the railways, originating from pay disputes, took on other issues and drew in other industries, culminating in a general strike at Rostov-on-Don in November 1902. Daily meetings of 15,000 to 20,000 heard openly revolutionary appeals for the first time, before a massacre defeated the strikes. But reaction to the massacres brought political demands to purely economic ones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0033-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Rise of the opposition\nLuxemburg described the situation in 1903 by saying: \"the whole of South Russia in May, June and July was aflame\",including Baku (where separate wage struggles culminated in a citywide general strike) and Tiflis, where commercial workers gained a reduction in the working day, and were joined by factory workers. In 1904, massive strike waves broke out in Odessa in the spring, in Kiev in July, and in Baku in December. This all set the stage for the strikes in St. Petersburg in December 1904 to January 1905 seen as the first step in the 1905 revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0034-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nIn December 1904, a strike occurred at the Putilov plant (a railway and artillery supplier) in St. Petersburg. Sympathy strikes in other parts of the city raised the number of strikers to 150,000 workers in 382 factories. By 21 January\u00a0[O.S. 8 January]\u00a01905, the city had no electricity and newspaper distribution was halted. All public areas were declared closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0035-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nControversial Orthodox priest Georgy Gapon, who headed a police-sponsored workers' association, led a huge workers' procession to the Winter Palace to deliver a petition to the Tsar on Sunday, 22 January\u00a0[O.S. 9 January]\u00a01905. The troops guarding the Palace were ordered to tell the demonstrators not to pass a certain point, according to Sergei Witte, and at some point, troops opened fire on the demonstrators, causing between 200 (according to Witte) and 1,000 deaths. The event became known as Bloody Sunday, and is considered by many scholars as the start of the active phase of the revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0036-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nThe events in St. Petersburg provoked public indignation and a series of massive strikes that spread quickly throughout the industrial centers of the Russian Empire. Polish socialists\u2014both the PPS and the SDKPiL\u2014called for a general strike. By the end of January 1905, over 400,000 workers in Russian Poland were on strike (see Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905\u20131907)). Half of European Russia's industrial workers went on strike in 1905, and 93.2% in Poland. There were also strikes in Finland and the Baltic coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0036-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nIn Riga, 130 protesters were killed on 26 January\u00a0[O.S. 13 January]\u00a01905, and in Warsaw a few days later over 100 strikers were shot on the streets. By February, there were strikes in the Caucasus, and by April, in the Urals and beyond. In March, all higher academic institutions were forcibly closed for the remainder of the year, adding radical students to the striking workers. A strike by railway workers on 21 October\u00a0[O.S. 8 October]\u00a01905 quickly developed into a general strike in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0036-0002", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nThis prompted the setting up of the short-lived Saint Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Delegates, an admixture of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks headed by Khrustalev-Nossar and despite the Iskra split would see the likes of Julius Martov and Georgi Plekhanov spar with Lenin. Leon Trotsky, who felt a strong connection to the Bolsheviki, had not given up a compromise but spearheaded strike action in over 200 factories. By 26 October\u00a0[O.S. 13 October]\u00a01905, over 2 million workers were on strike and there were almost no active railways in all of Russia. Growing inter-ethnic confrontation throughout the Caucasus resulted in Armenian\u2013Tatar massacres, heavily damaging the cities and the Baku oilfields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0037-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nWith the unsuccessful and bloody Russo-Japanese War (1904\u20131905) there was unrest in army reserve units. On 2 January 1905, Port Arthur was lost; in February 1905, the Russian army was defeated at Mukden, losing almost 80,000 men. On 27\u201328 May 1905, the Russian Baltic Fleet was defeated at Tsushima. Witte was dispatched to make peace, negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth (signed 5 September\u00a0[O.S. 23 August]\u00a01905). In 1905, there were naval mutinies at Sevastopol (see Sevastopol Uprising), Vladivostok, and Kronstadt, peaking in June with the mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0037-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nThe mutineers eventually surrendered the battleship to Romanian authorities on 8 July in exchange for asylum, then the Romanians returned her to Imperial Russian authorities on the following day. Some sources claim over 2,000 sailors died in the suppression. The mutinies were disorganised and quickly crushed. Despite these mutinies, the armed forces were largely apolitical and remained mostly loyal, if dissatisfied\u2014and were widely used by the government to control the 1905 unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0038-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nNationalist groups had been angered by the Russification undertaken since Alexander II. The Poles, Finns, and the Baltic provinces all sought autonomy, and also freedom to use their national languages and promote their own culture. Muslim groups were also active, founding the Union of the Muslims of Russia in August 1905. Certain groups took the opportunity to settle differences with each other rather than the government. Some nationalists undertook anti-Jewish pogroms, possibly with government aid, and in total over 3,000 Jews were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0039-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution\nThe number of prisoners throughout the Russian Empire, which had peaked at 116,376 in 1893, fell by over a third to a record low of 75,009 in January 1905, chiefly because of several mass amnesties granted by the Tsar; the historian S G Wheatcroft has wondered what role these released criminals played in the 1905\u201306 social unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0040-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution, Government response\nOn 12 January, the Tsar appointed Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov as governor in St Petersburg and dismissed the Minister of the Interior, Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirskii, on 18 February\u00a0[O.S. 5 February]\u00a01905. He appointed a government commission \"to enquire without delay into the causes of discontent among the workers in the city of St Petersburg and its suburbs\" in view of the strike movement. The commission was headed by Senator NV\u00a0Shidlovsky, a member of the State Council, and included officials, chiefs of government factories, and private factory owners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0040-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution, Government response\nIt was also meant to have included workers' delegates elected according to a two-stage system. Elections of the workers delegates were, however, blocked by the socialists who wanted to divert the workers from the elections to the armed struggle. On 5 March\u00a0[O.S. 20 February]\u00a01905, the commission was dissolved without having started work. Following the assassination of his uncle, the Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich, on 17 February\u00a0[O.S. 4 February]\u00a01905, the Tsar made new concessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0040-0002", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Start of the revolution, Government response\nOn 2 March\u00a0[O.S. 18 February]\u00a01905 he published the Bulygin Rescript, which promised the formation of a consultative assembly, religious tolerance, freedom of speech (in the form of language rights for the Polish minority) and a reduction in the peasants' redemption payments. On 24 and 25 May\u00a0[O.S. 11 and 12 May]\u00a01905, about 300 Zemstvo and municipal representatives held three meetings in Moscow, which passed a resolution, asking for popular representation at the national level. On 6 June\u00a0[O.S. 24 May]\u00a01905, Nicholas II had received a Zemstvo deputation. Responding to speeches by Prince Sergei Trubetskoi and Mr Fyodrov, the Tsar confirmed his promise to convene an assembly of people's representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0041-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nTsar Nicholas II agreed on 2 March\u00a0[O.S. 18 February] to the creation of a State Duma of the Russian Empire but with consultative powers only. When its slight powers and limits on the electorate were revealed, unrest redoubled. The Saint Petersburg Soviet was formed and called for a general strike in October, refusal to pay taxes, and the en masse withdrawal of bank deposits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0042-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nIn June and July 1905, there were many peasant uprisings in which peasants seized land and tools. Disturbances in the Russian-controlled Congress Poland culminated in June 1905 in the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a insurrection. Surprisingly, only one landlord was recorded as killed. Far more violence was inflicted on peasants outside the commune: 50 deaths were recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0043-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nThe October Manifesto, written by Sergei Witte and Alexis Obolenskii, was presented to the Tsar on 14 October \u00a0[O.S. 1 October]. It closely followed the demands of the Zemstvo Congress in September, granting basic civil rights, allowing the formation of political parties, extending the franchise towards universal suffrage, and establishing the Duma as the central legislative body. The Tsar waited and argued for three days, but finally signed the manifesto on 30 October\u00a0[O.S. 17 October]\u00a01905, citing his desire to avoid a massacre and his realisation that there was insufficient military force available to pursue alternative options. He regretted signing the document, saying that he felt \"sick with shame at this betrayal of the dynasty\u00a0... the betrayal was complete\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0044-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nWhen the manifesto was proclaimed, there were spontaneous demonstrations of support in all the major cities. The strikes in Saint Petersburg and elsewhere officially ended or quickly collapsed. A political amnesty was also offered. The concessions came hand-in-hand with renewed, and brutal, action against the unrest. There was also a backlash from the conservative elements of society, with right-wing attacks on strikers, left-wingers, and Jews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0045-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nWhile the Russian liberals were satisfied by the October Manifesto and prepared for upcoming Duma elections, radical socialists and revolutionaries denounced the elections and called for an armed uprising to destroy the Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0046-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nSome of the November uprising of 1905 in Sevastopol, headed by retired naval Lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt, was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included terrorism, worker strikes, peasant unrest and military mutinies, and was only suppressed after a fierce battle. The Trans-Baikal railroad fell into the hands of striker committees and demobilised soldiers returning from Manchuria after the Russo\u2013Japanese War. The Tsar had to send a special detachment of loyal troops along the Trans-Siberian Railway to restore order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0047-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nBetween 5 and 7 December\u00a0[O.S. 22 and 24 November], there was a general strike by Russian workers. The government sent troops on 7 December, and a bitter street-by-street fight began. A week later, the Semyonovsky Regiment was deployed, and used artillery to break up demonstrations and to shell workers' districts. On 18 December\u00a0[O.S. 5 December], with around a thousand people dead and parts of the city in ruins, the workers surrendered. After a final spasm in Moscow, the uprisings ended in December 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0047-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Height of the Revolution\nAccording to figures presented in the Duma by Professor Maksim Kovalevsky, by April 1906, more than 14,000 people had been executed and 75,000 imprisoned. Historian Brian Taylor states the number of deaths in the 1905 Revolution was in the \"thousands\", and notes one source that puts the figure at over 13,000 deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0048-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results\nFollowing the Revolution of 1905, the Tsar made last attempts to save his regime, and offered reforms similar to most rulers when pressured by a revolutionary movement. The military remained loyal throughout the Revolution of 1905, as shown by their shooting of revolutionaries when ordered by the Tsar, making overthrow difficult. These reforms were outlined in a precursor to the Constitution of 1906 known as the October Manifesto which created the Imperial Duma. The Russian Constitution of 1906, also known as the Fundamental Laws, set up a multiparty system and a limited constitutional monarchy. The revolutionaries were quelled and satisfied with the reforms, but it was not enough to prevent the 1917 revolution that would later topple the Tsar's regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0049-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Creation of Duma and appointment of Stolypin\nThere had been earlier attempts in establishing a Russian Duma before the October Manifesto, but these attempts faced dogged resistance. One attempt in July 1905, called the Bulygin Duma, tried to reduce the assembly into a consultative body. It also proposed limiting voting rights to those with a higher property qualification, excluding industrial workers. Both sides\u2014the opposition and the conservatives\u2014were not pleased with the results. Another attempt in August 1905 was almost successful, but that too died when Nicholas insisted on the Duma's functions be relegated to an advisory position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0049-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Creation of Duma and appointment of Stolypin\nThe October Manifesto, aside from granting the population the freedom of speech and assembly, proclaimed that no law would be passed without examination and approval by the Imperial Duma. The Manifesto also extended the suffrage to universal proportions, allowing for greater participation in the Duma, though the electoral law in 11 December still excluded women. Nevertheless, the tsar retained the power of veto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0050-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Creation of Duma and appointment of Stolypin\nPropositions for restrictions to the Duma's legislative powers remained persistent. A decree on 20 February 1906 transformed the State Council, the advisory body, into a second chamber with legislative powers \"equal to those of the Duma\". Not only did this transformation violate the Manifesto, but the Council became a buffer zone between the tsar and Duma, slowing whatever progress the latter could achieve. Even three days before the Duma's first session, on 24 April 1906, the Fundamental Laws further limited the assembly's movement by giving the tsar the sole power to appoint/dismiss ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0050-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Creation of Duma and appointment of Stolypin\nAdding insult was the indication that the Tsar alone had control over many facets of political reins\u2014all without the Duma's expressed permission. The trap seemed perfectly set for the unsuspecting Duma: by the time the assembly convened in 27 April, it quickly found itself unable to do much without violating the Fundamental Laws. Defeated and frustrated, the majority of the assembly voted no confidence and handed in their resignations after a few weeks on 13 May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0051-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Creation of Duma and appointment of Stolypin\nThe attacks on the Duma were not confined to its legislative powers. By the time the Duma opened, it was missing crucial support from its populace, thanks in no small part to the government's return to Pre-Manifesto levels of suppression. The Soviets were forced to lay low for a long time, while the zemstvos turned against the Duma when the issue of land appropriation came up. The issue of land appropriation was the most contentious of the Duma's appeals. The Duma proposed that the government distribute its treasury, \"monastic and imperial lands\", and seize private estates as well. The Duma, in fact, was preparing to alienate some of its more affluent supporters, a decision that left the assembly without the necessary political power to be efficient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0052-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Creation of Duma and appointment of Stolypin\nNicholas II remained wary of having to share power with reform-minded bureaucrats. When the pendulum in 1906 elections swung to the left, Nicholas immediately ordered the Duma's dissolution just after 73 days. Hoping to further squeeze the life out of the assembly, he appointed a tougher prime minister in Petr Stolypin as the liberal Witte's replacement. Much to Nicholas's chagrin, Stolypin attempted to bring about acts of reform (land reform), while retaining measures favorable to the regime (stepping up the number of executions of revolutionaries).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0052-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Creation of Duma and appointment of Stolypin\nAfter the revolution subsided, he was able to bring economic growth back to Russia's industries, a period which lasted until 1914. But Stolypin's efforts did nothing to prevent the collapse of the monarchy, nor seemed to satisfy the conservatives. Stolypin died from a bullet wound by a revolutionary, Dmitry Bogrov, on 5 September 1911.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0053-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, October Manifesto\nEven after Bloody Sunday and defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Nicholas II had been slow to offer a meaningful solution to the social and political crisis. At this point, he became more concerned with his personal affairs such as the illness of his son, whose struggle with haemophilia was overseen by Rasputin. Nicholas also refused to believe that the population was demanding changes in the autocratic regime, seeing \"public opinion\" as mainly the \"intelligentsia\" and believing himself to be the patronly 'father figure' to the Russian people. Sergei Witte, the minister of Russia, frustratingly argued with the Tsar that an immediate implementation of reforms was needed to retain order in the country. It was only after the Revolution started picking up steam that Nicholas was forced to make concessions by writing the October Manifesto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0054-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, October Manifesto\nIssued on 17 October 1905, the Manifesto stated that the government would grant the population reforms such as the right to vote and to convene in assemblies. Its main provisions were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0055-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, October Manifesto\nDespite what seemed to be a moment for celebration for Russia's population and the reformists, the Manifesto was rife with problems. Aside from the absence of the word \"constitution\", one issue with the manifesto was its timing. By October 1905, Nicholas was already dealing with a revolution. Another problem surfaced in the conscience of Nicholas himself: Witte said in 1911 that the manifesto was written only to get the pressure off the monarch's back, that it was not a \"voluntary act\". In fact, the writers hoped that the Manifesto would sow discord into \"the camp of the autocracy\u2019s enemies\" and bring order back to Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0056-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, October Manifesto\nOne immediate effect it did have, for a while, was the start of the Days of Freedom, a six-week period from 17 October to early December. This period witnessed an unprecedented level of freedom on all publications\u2014revolutionary papers, brochures, etc.\u2014even though the tsar officially retained the power to censor provocative material. This opportunity allowed the press to address the tsar, and government officials, in a harsh, critical tone previously unheard of. The freedom of speech also opened the floodgates for meetings and organized political parties. In Moscow alone, over 400 meetings took place in the first four weeks. Some of the political parties that came out of these meetings were the Constitutional Democrats (Kadets), Social Democrats, Socialist Revolutionaries, Octobrists, and the far-rightist Union of Russian People.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 892]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0057-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, October Manifesto\nAmong all the groups that benefited most from the Days of Freedoms were the labor unions. In fact, the Days of Freedom witnessed unionization in the history of the Russian Empire at its apex. At least 67 unions were established in Moscow, as well as 58 in St. Petersburg; the majority of both combined were formed in November 1905 alone. For the Soviets, it was a watershed period of time: nearly 50 of the unions in St. Petersburg came under Soviet control, while in Moscow, the Soviets had around 80,000 members. This large sector of power allowed the Soviets enough clout to form their own militias. In St. Petersburg alone, the Soviets claimed around 6,000 armed members with the purpose of protecting the meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0058-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, October Manifesto\nPerhaps empowered in their newfound window of opportunity, the St. Petersburg Soviets, along with other socialist parties, called for armed struggles against the Tsarist government, a war call that no doubt alarmed the government. Not only were the workers motivated, but the Days of Freedom also had an earthquake-like effect on the peasant collective as well. Seeing an opening in the autocracy's waning authority thanks to the Manifesto, the peasants, with a political organization, took to the streets in revolt. In response, the government exerted its forces in campaigns to subdue and repress both the peasants and the workers. Consequences were now in full force: with a pretext in their hands, the government spent the month of December 1905 regaining the level of authority once lost to Bloody Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0059-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, October Manifesto\nIronically, the writers of the October Manifesto were caught off guard by the surge in revolts. One of the main reasons for writing the October Manifesto bordered on the government's \"fear of the revolutionary movement\". In fact, many officials believed this fear was practically the sole reason for the Manifesto's creation in the first place. Among those more scared was Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov, governor general of St. Petersburg and deputy minister of the interior. Trepov urged Nicholas II to stick to the principles in the Manifesto, for \"every retreat\u00a0... would be hazardous to the dynasty\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0060-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Russian Constitution of 1906\nThe Russian Constitution of 1906 was published on the eve of the convocation of the First Duma. The new Fundamental Law was enacted to institute promises of the October Manifesto as well as add new reforms. The Tsar was confirmed as absolute leader, with complete control of the executive, foreign policy, church, and the armed forces. The structure of the Duma was changed, becoming a lower chamber below the Council of Ministers, and was half-elected, half-appointed by the Tsar. Legislations had to be approved by the Duma, the council, and the Tsar to become law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0060-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Russian Constitution of 1906\nThe Fundamental State Laws were the \"culmination of the whole sequence of events set in motion in October 1905 and which consolidated the new status quo\". The introduction of The Russian Constitution of 1906 was not simply an institution of the October Manifesto. The introduction of the constitution states (and thus emphasizes) the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0061-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Results, Russian Constitution of 1906\nThe Constitution did not mention any of the provisions of the October Manifesto. While it did enact the provisions laid out previously, its sole purpose seems again to be the propaganda for the monarchy and to simply not fall back on prior promises. The provisions and the new constitutional monarchy did not satisfy Russians and Lenin. The Constitution lasted until the fall of the empire in 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0062-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Rise of political violence\nThe years 1904 and 1907 saw a decline of mass movements, strikes and protests, and a rise of overt political violence. Combat groups such as the SR Combat Organization carried out many assassinations targeting civil servants and police, and robberies. Between 1906 and 1909, revolutionaries killed 7,293 people, of whom 2,640 were officials, and wounded 8,061. Notable victims included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0063-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Repression\nThe years of revolution were marked by a dramatic rise in the numbers of death sentences and executions. Different figures on the number of executions were compared by Senator Nikolai Tagantsev, and are listed in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0064-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Repression\nThese numbers reflect only executions of civilians, and do not include a large number of summary executions by punitive army detachments and executions of military mutineers. Peter Kropotkin, an anarchist, noted that official statistics excluded executions conducted during punitive expeditions, especially in Siberia, Caucasus and the Baltic provinces. By 1906 some 4,509 political prisoners were incarcerated in Russian Poland, 20 percent of the empire's total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0065-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Ivanovo Soviet\nIvanovo Voznesensk was known as the 'Russian Manchester' for its textile mills. In 1905, its local revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Bolshevik. It was the first Bolshevik branch in which workers outnumbered intellectuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0066-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Poland\nThe 1905-1907 revolution was at the time the largest wave of strikes and widest emancipatory movement Poland had ever seen, and it would remain so until the 1970s and 1980s. In 1905, 93.2% of Congress Poland's industrial workers went on strike. The first phase of the revolution consisted primarily of mass strikes, rallies, demonstrations \u2013 later this evolved into street skirmishes with the police and army as well as bomb assassinations and robberies of transports carrying money to tsarist financial institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0067-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Poland\nOne of the major events of that period was the insurrection in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a in June 1905, but unrest happened in many other areas too. Warsaw was also an active centre of resistance, particularly in terms of strikes, whereas further south the Republika Ostrowiecka and Republika Zag\u0142\u0119biowska were proclaimed (tsarist control was later restored in these areas when martial law was introduced).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0067-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Poland\nUntil November 1905, Poland was at the vanguard of the revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire despite the vast military numbers thrown against it; even when the upheaval began its downfall, larger strikes happened more often in Poland than they did in other parts of the Empire in the years 1906\u20131907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0068-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Poland\nDue to its reach, violence, radicalism, and effects, some Polish historians even consider the events of the 1905 revolution in Poland a fourth Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0069-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Finland\nIn the Grand Duchy of Finland, the Social Democrats organised the general strike of 1905 (12\u201319 November\u00a0[O.S. 30 October\u00a0\u2013 6 November]). The Red Guards were formed, led by captain Johan Kock. During the general strike, the Red Declaration, written by Finnish politician and journalist Yrj\u00f6 M\u00e4kelin, was published in Tampere, demanding dissolution of the Senate of Finland, universal suffrage, political freedoms, and abolition of censorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0069-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Finland\nLeo Mechelin, leader of the constitutionalists, crafted the November Manifesto: the revolution resulted in the abolition of the Diet of Finland and of the four Estates, and to the creation of the modern Parliament of Finland. It also resulted in a temporary halt to the Russification policy that Russia had started in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0070-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Finland\nOn 12 August\u00a0[O.S. 30 July]\u00a01906, Russian artillerymen and military engineers rose in revolt in the fortress of Sveaborg (later called Suomenlinna), Helsinki. The Finnish Red Guards supported the Sveaborg Rebellion with a general strike, but the mutiny was quelled within 60 hours by loyal troops and ships of the Baltic Fleet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0071-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Estonia\nIn the Governorate of Estonia, Estonians called for freedom of the press and assembly, for universal suffrage, and for national autonomy. On 29 October\u00a0[O.S. 16 October], the Russian army opened fire in a meeting on a street market in Tallinn in which about 8 000-10 000 people participated, killing 94 and injuring over 200. The October Manifesto was supported in Estonia and the Estonian flag was displayed publicly for the first time. Jaan T\u00f5nisson used the new political freedoms to widen the rights of Estonians by establishing the first Estonian political party \u2013 National Progress Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0072-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Estonia\nAnother, more radical political organisation, the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Union was founded as well. The moderate supporters of T\u00f5nisson and the more radical supporters of Jaan Teemant could not agree about how to continue with the revolution, and only agreed that both wanted to limit the rights of Baltic Germans and to end Russification. The radical views were publicly welcomed and in December 1905, martial law was declared in Tallinn. A total of 160 manors were looted, resulting in ca. 400 workers and peasants being killed by the army. Estonian gains from the revolution were minimal, but the tense stability that prevailed between 1905 and 1917 allowed Estonians to advance the aspiration of national statehood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0073-0000", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Latvia\nFollowing the shooting of demonstrators in St. Petersburg, a wide-scale general strike began in Riga. On 26 January\u00a0[O.S. 13 January], Russian army troops opened fire on demonstrators killing 73 and injuring 200 people. During the middle of 1905, the focus of revolutionary events moved to the countryside with mass meetings and demonstrations. 470 new parish administrative bodies were elected in 94% of the parishes in Latvia. The Congress of Parish Representatives was held in Riga in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035340-0073-0001", "contents": "1905 Russian Revolution, Latvia\nIn autumn 1905, armed conflict between the Baltic German nobility and the Latvian peasants began in the rural areas of Livonia and Courland. In Courland, the peasants seized or surrounded several towns. In Livonia, the fighters controlled the R\u016bjiena-P\u00e4rnu railway line. Martial law was declared in Courland in August 1905, and in Livonia in late November. Special punitive expeditions were dispatched in mid-December to suppress the movement. They executed 1170 people without trial or investigation and burned 300 peasant homes. Thousands were exiled to Siberia. Many Latvian intellectuals only escaped by fleeing to Western Europe or USA. In 1906, the revolutionary movement gradually subsided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035341-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1905 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1905 college football season. In their second, non-consecutive season under head coach Oliver D. Mann, the Queensmen compiled a 3\u20136 record and were outscored by their opponents, 99 to 44. The team captain was Harold F. Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035342-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1905 SAFA Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. North Adelaide beat Port Adelaide by 44 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035343-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 SAFA season\nThe 1905 South Australian Football Association season was the 29th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035344-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Saint Louis Blue and White football team\nThe 1905 Saint Louis Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University during the 1905 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Tommy Dowd, the team compiled a 7\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 267 to 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035345-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 San Diego mayoral election\nThe 1905 San Diego mayoral election was held on April 4, 1905 to elect the mayor for San Diego. John L. Sehon was elected mayor with a majority of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035345-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIncumbent Mayor Frank P. Frary declined to run for reelection. Three candidates campaigned for the open seat: Dan Jones, a Republican, John L. Sehon, a Democrat running on the Non-Partisan ticket, and W.J. Kirkwood, a Socialist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035345-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nOn April 4, 1905, Sehon was elected mayor with a majority of 52.7 percent of the vote. Jones came in second with 35.9 percent of the vote. Kirkwood came in third with 11.3 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035345-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nDuring the campaign, it was questioned whether a retired army officer such as Sehon was eligible for civil office. Fearing that his opponents would attempt to lock him out of office, Sehon broke into City Hall in the middle of the night of the first day of his term to forcibly take possession of the office of the mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035346-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Saskatchewan general election\nThe 1905 Saskatchewan general election was the first provincial election in the newly created Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on 13 December 1905 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Walter Scott led the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan to victory over the Provincial Rights Party of Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, and became the first Premier of the new province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035347-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Serbian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 10 July 1905. The result was a victory for the Independent Radical Party, which won 81 of the 160 seats. Ljubomir Stojanovi\u0107 remained Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035348-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1905 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado\nThe 1905 Snyder, Oklahoma, tornado was a powerful tornado that struck the town of Snyder, Oklahoma, in Kiowa County on Wednesday, May 10, 1905. The event was one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the state of Oklahoma. The cyclone killed 97 people, making it the second most deadly tornado in Oklahoma history. The tornado was part of a larger, multiple-day tornado outbreak that hit several states across the Midwestern United States, including Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Meteorological synopsis\nThe tornado was caused by a strong low pressure system that developed across the Rocky Mountains, near Denver, Colorado. Another storm was also located across Wyoming on May 9. Tornadoes formed on that day across several Plains states including Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The Colorado storm system then moved toward the Central and Southern Plains on the next day and affected areas slightly to the east of the area affected on May 9. A new trough of low pressure developed in the vicinity of the southern storm. It later moved across the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Meteorological synopsis\nAs happened on numerous other occasions, such storms produced a large moist and warm flow from the Gulf of Mexico as well as much instability in the atmosphere. Being in May, storm systems produced large contrasts of temperatures, which added more ingredients for the development of powerful thunderstorms with possible damaging tornadoes. Such was the case on May 10, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Snyder tornado\nPrior to the Snyder tornado, a first tornado developed at 6:45 PM CST near Carmel in Greer County, which is about one hour northwest of Wichita Falls, Texas. This tornado killed at least 10 people. Numerous homes, farmsteads and a school house sustained heavy damage or were destroyed. The tornado lifted near Lock (in Jackson County). A second and more destructive tornado touched down just after 8:00 PM CST near the Kiowa/Greer County line and merged with the remnants of the first cyclone. It also proceeded northeast across the Red River Valley and Otter Creek region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Snyder tornado\nAt around 8:45 PM CST (after dark), it struck the town of Snyder, killing 97 people. Structures in the western and northern part of the town were completely demolished, with some homes being swept away. One hundred homes were leveled and 150 were badly damaged. The tornado lifted northeast of Snyder shortly after 9:00 PM CST. Another tornado from a different supercell, which previously killed two in Elk City in Beckham County, killed three more in Quinlan, Oklahoma, which is about two hours northeast of Snyder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Aftermath\nIn 1905, only telephones and telegraphs existed which made recovery efforts difficult, especially since both methods of communications were knocked out by the tornado. People had to walk to surrounding regions in order to get help and assistance. In the coming days, several neighboring towns across southern and central Oklahoma assisted in the recovery efforts, with doctors being assigned and many supplies shipped in by trains towards the devastated region. One of the doctors to respond to the area was Doctor George Fowler Border, of Mangum, Oklahoma, founder of the first hospital in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Records and similar events\nThe Fujita scale was not established at that time, but due to the heavy damage, the tornado has been retroactively rated F5. In recorded history, the tornado was one of the deadliest in the state of Oklahoma. At the time the event occurred, it was the second deadliest F5 tornado ever, being surpassed by the 1899 New Richmond tornado which killed 117 (and still stands as the deadliest in Wisconsin history and 9th overall in the United States). The Snyder tornado was the deadliest in Oklahoma history until it was surpassed by the Woodward County tornado on April 9, 1947, which killed at least 181. It still stands today as the 2nd deadliest tornado ever in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Records and similar events\nAnother tornado, rated F4, was recorded in the immediate area on May 1, 1954. The tornado, which originated from North Texas, did not cause any fatalities in the Snyder area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035349-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Snyder tornado, Records and similar events\nOther similar outbreaks, which had the same meteorological dynamics, include the 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak - which killed 102 including 80 in Udall, Kansas, the 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak - which killed at least 54, including 42 in Wichita Falls, the Andover tornado outbreak - which killed 21, including 4 in Wichita and 13 in Andover, Kansas, the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak in 1999 - which killed 48 in and around Oklahoma City, Wichita and southern Tennessee, and the Greensburg, Kansas, outbreak in May 2007 - which killed 14, including 10 in Greensburg, Kansas. This last tornado was the first EF5 tornado under the new Enhanced Fujita scale, that started in the USA on February 1, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035350-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 South Australian state election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Kerry Raymond (talk | contribs) at 05:20, 20 June 2020 (\u2192\u200etop: oz tags, replaced: \u2192 {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035350-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 South Australian state election\nState elections were held in South Australia on 27 May 1905. All 42 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent conservative government led by Premier of South Australia Richard Butler in an informal coalition with the liberals was defeated by the United Labor Party (ULP) led by Leader of the Opposition Thomas Price. Each of the 13 districts elected multiple members, with voters casting multiple votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035350-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 South Australian state election\nThe first ministry formed after the 1902 election by John Jenkins, who resigned prior to the 1905 election. Richard Butler took the parliament into the 1905 election. Prior to the election, a new party formed. The rural stockowners and graziers were concerned at the concentration of the Australasian National League (ANL) on the metropolitan electorates and urban issues. In 1905, these interests formed the Farmers and Producers Political Union (FPPU), which had a conservative political agenda, and was absolutely opposed to franchise reform. It was essentially the rural wing of the ANL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035350-0002-0001", "contents": "1905 South Australian state election\nThere were four distinct blocs at the election, with the over-riding issue that of franchise reform for the Legislative Council: the ULP, a liberal group of franchise reformers led by Archibald Peake, the Butler moderateconservatives with some FPPU support, and an \"extreme conservative\" group led by John Darling at the core of the ANL. There was no \"Liberal\" party, but there was a relatively cohesive liberal group among both independent members and candidates. The Liberal and Democratic Union would not be formed until the 1906 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035350-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 South Australian state election\nThe ULP, on the fewest seats prior to the election, in just one election became the single largest party, increasing their primary vote to 41.3 (+22.2) percent and increasing their representation from five to 15 seats, winning 11 of the 12 city seats (four at the last election) from the three city multi-member electorates, Adelaide, Port Adelaide and Torrens, with a policy of development and progress, expansion of business and honest government: \"they would not be frightened by the nonsense that had been talked about socialism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035350-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 South Australian state election\nAfter the new lower house first met, the ULP forced the incumbent conservative Butler government to resign with the support of several disaffected non-ULP MPs, forming the Price-Peake administration minority government. Peake sought the alliance stating \"the only difference between us is a difference of degree and of speed\". It was the start of the first stable Labor government in the world. A year later at the 1906 election, the ULP would increase their primary vote to 44.8 (+3.5) percent and increase their representation from 15 to 20 seats, just two short of a parliamentary majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035351-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1905 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1905 college football season. The team was led by Christie Benet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035352-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1905 college football season. The season began on September 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035352-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nOne publication claims \"The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when Dan McGugin and Captain Innis Brown, of Vanderbilt went to Atlanta to see Sewanee play Georgia Tech.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035352-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 112], "content_span": [113, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035352-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, All-Southern team\nThe composite All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 85], "content_span": [86, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035353-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election\nThe Southern Rhodesia Legislative Council election of 1905 was the third election to the Legislative Council of Southern Rhodesia. The Legislative Council had, since 1903, comprised fifteen voting members: the Administrator of Southern Rhodesia ex officio, seven members nominated by the British South Africa Company, and seven members elected by registered voters from four electoral districts. The Resident Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia, Richard Chester-Master, also sat on the Legislative Council ex officio but without the right to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035353-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election\nThe election was to have taken place on March 6, 1905 but in the event all the places were filled by unopposed nominations on February 6 and so no poll was taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035353-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Results\nNote: Raleigh Grey was absent during the whole of the 1906 session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035353-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Nominated members\nThe members nominated by the British South Africa Company were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 71], "content_span": [72, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election\nThe 1905 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 10 September and on Sunday, 24 September 1905, to elect the 12th Restoration Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 404 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Background\nThe Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a constitutional monarchy, awarding the King power to name senators and to revoke laws, as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the army. The King would also play a key role in the system of El Turno Pac\u00edfico (the Peaceful Turn) by appointing and toppling governments and allowing the opposition to take power. Under this system, the Conservative and Liberal parties alternated in power by means of election rigging, which they achieved through the encasillado, using the links between the Ministry of Governance, the provincial civil governors, and the local bosses (caciques) to ensure victory and exclude minor parties from the power sharing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Spanish Cortes were envisaged as \"co-legislative bodies\", based on a nearly perfect bicameralism. Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, where the Congress had preeminence. Voting for the Cortes was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Congress of Deputies, 98 seats were elected using a partial block voting in 28 multi-member constituencies, with the remaining 306 being elected under a one-round first-past-the-post system in single-member districts. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nIn constituencies electing eight seats or more, electors could vote for no more than three candidates less than the number of seats to be allocated; in those with more than four seats and up to eight, for no more than two less; in those with more than one seat and up to four, for no more than one less; and for one candidate in single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0003-0002", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe Congress was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants, with each multi-member constituency being allocated a fixed number of seats: 8 for Madrid, 7 for Barcelona, 5 for Palma and Seville, 4 for Cartagena and 3 for Alicante, Almer\u00eda, Badajoz, Burgos, C\u00e1diz, C\u00f3rdoba, Granada, Huelva, Ja\u00e9n, Jerez de la Frontera, Las Palmas, La Coru\u00f1a, Lugo, M\u00e1laga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza. The law also provided for by-elections to fill seats vacated throughout the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nFor the Senate, 180 seats were indirectly elected, with electors voting for delegates instead of senators. Elected delegates\u2014equivalent in number to one-sixth of the councillors in each municipal corporation\u2014would then vote for senators using a write-in, two-round majority voting system. The provinces of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia were allocated four seats each, whereas each of the remaining provinces was allocated three seats, for a total of 150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nThe remaining 30 were allocated to a number of institutions, electing one seat each\u2014the Archdioceses of Burgos, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; the Royal Spanish Academy; the Royal Academies of History, Fine Arts, Sciences, Moral and Political Sciences and Medicine; the Universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; and the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country from Madrid, Barcelona, Le\u00f3n, Seville and Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0004-0002", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system\nAn additional 180 seats comprised senators in their own right\u2014the Monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age; Grandees of Spain of the first class; Captain Generals of the Army and the Navy Admiral; the Patriarch of the Indies and archbishops; as well as other high-ranking state figures\u2014and senators for life (who were appointed by the Monarch).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035354-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date\nThe term of each House of the Cortes\u2014the Congress and one-half of the elective part of the Senate\u2014expired five years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The Monarch had the prerogative to dissolve both Houses at any given time\u2014either jointly or separately\u2014and call a snap election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035355-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Spring Hill Badgers football team\nThe 1905 Spring Hill Badgers football team represented the Spring Hill Badgers of Spring Hill College during the 1905 college football season. The season was affected by a yellow fever quarantine. \"As the mosquito is now pretty well under control, there is a strong probability that next year the college eleven will not be hampered by quarantine restrictions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035356-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Square (Yekaterinburg)\n1905 Square (Russian: \u041f\u043b\u043e\u0449\u0430\u0434\u044c 1905 \u0433\u043e\u0434a), also translated as the Square of 1905, is a square in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It is the oldest square in Yekaterinburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035356-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Square (Yekaterinburg), History, Imperial era\nThe area arose in the early years of the construction of Yekaterinburg and soon became the central place of trade. In 1745-1747 a wooden Epiphany church was built on the square. In 1771-1774, next to the church on the square, a two-story stone Epiphany Cathedral was built. The square became the center of revolutionary events of the early 20th century. On 1 May 1905, the first political demonstration and rally took place on the square. On 19 October 1905, students and gymnasium students entered the square to discuss the \"Highest Manifesto for the Improvement of Public Order\", published by Emperor Nicholas II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035356-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Square (Yekaterinburg), History, 1917-1919\nOn 26 October 1917, the Bolsheviks declared victory in the October Revolution from the area here. The square was inaugurated with its current name days later, when the newly appointed Soviet authorities in the city who took power as a result of the Revolution renamed the square after the victims of the 1905 Russian Revolution. During the Russian Civil War, the first Red Army detachments went to the front from the square. In 1918, the Red Guards who died in battle with the chieftain Dutov were buried in the square. On 14 July 1919, the first parade of the Red Army took place on the square after the city's liberation from the Czechoslovak Legion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035356-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Square (Yekaterinburg), History, Since 1920\nIn 1928, a 5-storey residential building was built on the north side. In 1930, the Epiphany Cathedral was demolished by decision of the City Council. In 1929-30, two lines were laid at the Yekaterinburg tram near the square. In 1967, a side extension was made to the building of the Conservatory, where the concert hall of the Conservatory was located. Since December 1991, the Administration of the City of Yekaterinburg has been located on The square. In 1994, the Yekaterinburg metro station was opened. In 2008, during the replacement of old paving stones, numerous burials were discovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035356-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Square (Yekaterinburg), History, Since 1920\nIt is assumed that, basically, they belong to the clergymen buried at the Cathedral. A few days later, prayers were held at this place by the ministers Temple of Innocent of Moscow. On 8 March 2012, the reconstruction of the Passage building began, which actually turned into a demolition of the building and cutting down the Square at the Passage, which caused heated discussions and protests of the citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035356-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Square (Yekaterinburg), Events on the square\nSince 1947, New Year's Eve celebrations have taken place on the square. Before 1991, military parades of the Yekaterinburg Garrison and demonstrations of workers in honor of May 1 and Revolution Day took place on the square. Since the fall of the USSR, the only parades that take place on the square are in honor of Victory Day. An example of this was the first of many Victory Day Parades to be held in 1975. On 29 December 1989, a protest took place on the square in front of the City Council building, protesting the actions of the National Communist Party of the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035356-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Square (Yekaterinburg), Notoriety\nThe existence of the square goes back over 200 years. The centrepiece of the area is the Exaltation of God Cathedral, which at the time, had a bell tower which rose to a height of 88 metres, the highest point in the city. Other landmarks include a statue of Vladimir Lenin. During his tenure as First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Communist Party, Boris Yeltsin worked on the square in one of the administrative buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035357-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Browns season\nIn the 1905 St. Louis Browns season they finished 8th in the American League with a record of 54 wins and 99 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035357-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035357-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035357-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035357-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035357-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035358-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1905 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 24th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 14th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 58\u201396 during the season and finished sixth in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035358-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035358-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035358-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035358-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035359-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Stalybridge by-election\nThe Stalybridge by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035359-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Stalybridge by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the succession of the sitting Conservative MP, Matthew White Ridley to his father's viscountcy on 28 November 1904. Ridley had been MP for Stalybridge since the 1900 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035359-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Stalybridge by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since they gained it in 1885. They held the seat at the last election, with a reduced majority, the smallest majority since before they gained it:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035359-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Stalybridge by-election, Campaign\nAlthough the vacancy was known on 28 November 1904 Polling Day was fixed for 7 January 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035359-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Stalybridge by-election, Aftermath\nAt the following General Election Cheetham and Travis-Clegg faced each other again. The Liberal held onto he seat with a reduced majority:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035360-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Stanford football team\nThe 1905 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1905 college football season. In head coach James F. Lanagan's third season, Stanford went undefeated. The team played their home games at Stanford Field in Stanford, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035360-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Stanford football team\nThe 1905 season marked the first meeting between Stanford and USC. Consequently, Stanford is USC's oldest existing rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035360-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Stanford football team\nThe Big Game between Stanford and Cal on November 11, 1905, was the first played at Stanford Field, with Stanford winning 12\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035360-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Stanford football team\nFollowing the 1905 season, Stanford, responding like other American universities to concerns about the violence in football, dropped football in favor of rugby. Despite having no knowledge of the sport, Lanagan was retained as the rugby coach, spending time in Vancouver, British Columbia, to study the sport, and coached for three seasons. He also served as Stanford's baseball coach from 1906 to 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035360-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Stanford football team\nStanford would not play varsity football again until the 1919 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035361-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe 1905 Stetson Hatters football team represented the private Stetson College in the sport of American football during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035362-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1905 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the tenth season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte IS won the tournament by defeating IFK Stockholm in the final with a 2\u20131 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035363-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1905 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1905 college football season. The team compiled an 8\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 218 to 22. George H. Brooke was the head coach. The team's only loss was to undefeated Penn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035364-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Swedish general election, Results\nOnly 30.6% of the male population aged over 21 was eligible to vote. Voter turnout was 50.4%, the first time it had ever been higher than 50%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035365-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Swiss copyright referendum\nA referendum on copyright was held in Switzerland on 19 March 1905. Voters were asked whether they approved of a federal resolution on revising article 64 of the constitution, defining the protection rights of inventors. It was approved by 70.4% of voters and a majority of cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035365-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Swiss copyright referendum, Background\nThe referendum was a mandatory referendum, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035366-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Swiss federal election\nFederal elections were held in Switzerland on 29 October 1905. The Free Democratic Party retained its majority in the National Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035366-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Swiss federal election, Electoral system\nThe 167 members of the National Council were elected in 49 single- and multi-member constituencies using a three-round system. Candidates had to receive a majority in the first or second round to be elected; if it went to a third round, only a plurality was required. Voters could cast as many votes as there were seats in their constituency. There was one seat for every 20,000 citizens, with seats allocated to cantons in proportion to their population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035366-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Swiss federal election, Results, Summary\nVoter turnout was highest in Schaffhausen (where voting was compulsory) at 96% and lowest in Zug at 20%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035367-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1905 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1905 college football season. The head coach was Charles P. Hutchins, coaching his second season with the Orangemen. Despite the name, Syracuse Orangemen wore blue and gold uniforms. This has caused confusion among new fans, and many fans believe a change in uniform color is in order. However, the blue and gold uniform was worn before the name. Originally, the Syracuse Orangemen were called The Syracuse Blueboys. During one of their games, students from the university poured orange paint onto the field during halftime. The students were reprimanded, but the paint stayed on the field. The prank became well-known by university students, and they nicknamed their team as the Syracuse Orangeboys. Unable to shake the nickname from their records, The Syracuse Blueboys changed their name to Syracuse Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 936]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035368-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 TCU football team\nThe 1905 TCU football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. Led by first-year head coach, Emory J. Hyde, TCU compiled a record of 4\u20134. The team's captain was H. H. Knight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035369-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tempe Normal Owls football team\nThe 1905 Tempe Normal Owls football team was an American football team that represented Tempe Normal School (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Frederick M. Irish, the Owls compiled a 0\u20133 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 28 to 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035370-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1905 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. James DePree, a University of Michigan grad, served the first of his two seasons as head coach at Tennessee. This was the Volunteers' first season without a win in Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association play since 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035371-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035372-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1905 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the Texas Longhorns baseball team of the University of Texas in the 1905 college baseball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035373-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1905 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1905 college football season. In their second year under head coach Ralph Hutchinson, the Longhorns compiled a 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035374-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 1905 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel Academy in the 1905 college football season. This was the first year of intercollegiate football at The Citadel, and the team hired Syd Smith to be the first coach. The Board of Visitors would not permit the cadets to travel outside the city of Charleston for games, and all games are believed to have been played at Hampton Park at the site of the old race course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035375-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tie Cup Final\nThe 1905 Tie Cup Final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 6th. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by the same teams than the previous year, Argentine Rosario A.C. and Uruguayan CURCC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035375-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Tie Cup Final\nIn the final, played at Sociedad Sportiva Argentina in Palermo, Buenos Aires, Rosario beat CURCC 4\u20133 in extra time, winning its second consecutive title and the third by then. Rosario also held the record of consecutive finals played, with five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035375-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThis edition was contested by 10 clubs, 9 from Argentina and only one from Uruguay. Playing in a single-elimination tournament, Rosario A.C. beat Rosario Central 2\u20130 at Plaza Jewell in the Rosarino zone, qualifying to the semifinal, where they beat Belgrano 3\u20130 also in Plaza Jewell. On the other hand, CURCC directly entered in semifinal, where they defeated Alumni 1\u20130 at Parque Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035375-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThe final was held in Sociedad Sportiva Argentina on September 3, 1905, with a high attendance. On 8 minutes Wells scored the first goal after goalkeeper Carbone failed to catch a shot by Le Bas. The second goal came soon after when Parr scored after a pass from Ricardo Le Bas from the left side while Carbone tried to stop the shot. CURCC replied with Camacho scoring after a pass from Pena. In the second half, the Uruguayan team forced the draw when Camacho headed the ball to the goal after a failure of Knight. Only two minutes after, Zibecchi shoot for the third goal of CURCC, which went to a 3\u20132 win after having recovered from a 0\u20132 disadvantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035375-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nNevertheless, referee Jordan awarded Rosario a penalty after Mazzulo touched the ball with his hand. Wells scored to tie the match, 3\u20133. That was the final result on 90 minutes so an extra time was played to determine the champion. On overtime, CURCC scored another goal that was annulled by the referee alleging foul to defender Knight. After that play, Stocks ran carrying the ball and after dribbling some adversaries, shot it to CURCC's goal. The ball hit the underside of the crossbar, bouncing down toward the line and was throwed out by Carbone. Referee Jordan conceded the goal to Rosario, causing CURCC players to leave the field in disagreement with his decision. Meanwhile, CURCC supporters jumpered into the field so the match was suspended with Rosario winning 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035376-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1905 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 16th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035376-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nTwo-Mile Borris won the championship after receiving a walkover from Lorrha in the final. It was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035377-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1905 Toronto Argonauts season was the Argonaut Football Club's 8th season of organized league play since joining the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035377-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Toronto Argonauts season\nOn August 22 the members of the rival Toronto Rugby Club decided to merge with the Argos, a decision that was made official at a joint meeting of the two clubs on August 28. The combined team operated under the name \"Toronto-Argonaut Rugby Football Club\" and played in the traditional \"double-blue\" uniforms of the Argonauts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035377-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Toronto Argonauts season\nRetaining the services of Toronto RC manager W. A. Hewitt and a number of his players, the \"Tor-Argos\" finished in second place in the senior series of the ORFU with four wins (two by forfeit) and two losses, while the first-place Hamilton Tigers qualified for the Dominion playoffs by winning the series with a perfect record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035377-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Toronto Argonauts season, Regular season\nThe London Rugby Club withdrew from the series in Week 3, most of the players having resigned after back-to-back losses to Hamilton by a total score of 108-6. This decision resulted in a pair of default wins for the Argonauts and the Toronto Victorias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France\nThe 1905 Tour de France was the third edition of the Tour de France, held from 9 to 30 July, organised by the newspaper L'Auto. Following the disqualifications after the 1904 Tour de France, there were changes in the rules, the most important one being the general classification not made by time but by points. The race saw the introduction of mountains in the Tour de France, and Ren\u00e9 Pottier excelled in the first mountain, although he could not finish the race. Due in part to some of the rule changes, the 1905 Tour de France had less cheating and sabotage than in previous years, though they were not completely eliminated. It was won by Louis Trousselier, who also won four of the eleven stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nAfter the 1904 Tour de France, some cyclists were disqualified, most notably the top four cyclists of the original overall classification, Maurice Garin, Lucien Pothier, C\u00e9sar Garin and Hippolyte Aucouturier. Maurice Garin was originally banned for two years and Pothier for life, so they were ineligible to start the 1905 Tour de France. Of these four, only Aucouturier (who had been \"warned\" and had a \"reprimand inflicted\" on him), started the 1905 Tour. They were disqualified by the Union V\u00e9locip\u00e9dique Fran\u00e7aise, based on accusations of cheating when there were no race officials around. In 1904 Tour, it was difficult to observe the cyclists continuously, as significant portions of the race were run overnight, and the long stages made it difficult to have officials everywhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nBecause these disqualifications had almost put an end to the Tour de France, the 1905 event had been changed in important ways, to make the race easier to supervise:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe first cyclist to cross the finish line received 1 point. Other cyclists received one point more than the cyclist who passed the line directly before him, plus an additional point for every five minutes between them, with a maximum of ten points. In this way, a cyclist could not get more than 11 points more than the cyclist that crossed the finish line just before him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nAs an example for this point system, the result for the first seven cyclists in the first stage is in this table:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe other important introduction were the mountains. One of Desgrange's staffers, Alphonse Stein\u00e8s, took Desgrange for a trip over the Col Bayard at 1,246 metres (4,088\u00a0ft) and the Ballon d'Alsace at 1,178 metres (3,865\u00a0ft), that had an average gradient of 5.2% with 10% at some places, to convince Desgrange to use these climbs in the route. Desgrange accepted it, saying that Stein\u00e8s would take the blame if the mountains would be too hard to climb. In the two previous editions, the highest point was the Col de la R\u00e9publique at 1,145 metres (3,757\u00a0ft). In 1905, Desgrange chose to overlook this, and focused instead on the introduction of the Ballon d'Alsace, because he saw that he had missed the opportunity for publicity previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThere were two categories of riders, the coureurs de vitesse and the coureurs sur machines poin\u00e7onn\u00e9es. The riders in the first category were allowed to change bicycles, which could be an advantage in the mountains, where they could use a bicycle with lower gears. The riders in the machines poin\u00e7onn\u00e9es category had to use the same bicycle in the entire race, and to verify this, their bicycles were marked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Participants\nBefore the race started, 77 riders had signed up for the race. Seventeen of those did not start the race, so the Tour began with 60 riders, including former winner Henri Cornet and future winners Ren\u00e9 Pottier and Lucien Petit-Breton. The riders were not grouped in teams, but most of them rode with an individual sponsor. Two of the cyclists\u2014Catteau and Lootens\u2014were Belgian, all other cyclists were French. Leading up to the start of the Tour, Wattelier, Trousselier, Pottier and Augereau were all considered the most likely contenders to win the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Race overview\nDespite the rule changes, there were still protesters among the spectators; in the first stage all riders except Jean-Baptiste Dortignacq punctured due to 125\u00a0kg of nails spread along the road. The first stage was won by Louis Trousselier. Trousselier was serving the army, and had requested his commander leave for the Tour de France; this was allowed for 24 hours. After he won the first stage and led the classification, his leave was extended until the end of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0008-0001", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Race overview\nFrom 60 starting cyclists, only 15 cyclists reached the finish line within the time limit; 15 more reached the finish after the limit and the rest took the train. The Tour organiser Desgrange wanted to stop the race, but was persuaded by the cyclists not to do so, and allowed all cyclists to continue with 75 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the second stage, the first major climb, the Ballon d'Alsace, made its debut. Four riders were the fastest climbers: Trousselier, Ren\u00e9 Pottier, Cornet and Aucouturier. Of those four, Trousselier and Aucouturier were the first to be dropped, and Cornet had to drop in the final kilometers. The top was therefore reached first by Ren\u00e9 Pottier, without dismounting, at an average speed of 20\u00a0km/h. Cornet, who reached the top second, had to wait 20 minutes for his bicycle with higher gear, because his support car had broken down. Later Aucouturier caught Pottier, and dropped him, and won the stage. Pottier became second in the stage and led the classification. Seven cyclists did not reach the finish in time, but they were again allowed to start the next stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the third stage, Pottier had to abandon due to tendinitis. The lead was back with Trousselier, who also won the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the fourth stage, the C\u00f4te de Laffrey and the Col Bayard were climbed, the second and third mountains of the Tour de France. Julien Maitron reached both tops first, but Aucouturier won the stage. Trousselier finished in second place, still leading the overall classification, although with the same number of points as Aucouturier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the fifth stage, Trousselier won, and because Aucouturier finished in twelfth place, Trousselier had a big lead in the general classification. After the fifth stage, Aucouturier could no longer challenge Trousselier for the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the seventh stage to Bordeaux, Trousselier punctured after only a few kilometers. The rest of the cyclists quickly sped away from him, and Trousselier had to follow them alone for 200\u00a0km. A few kilometers before Bordeaux, Trousselier caught up with the rest, and even managed to win the sprint. Louis Trousselier kept his lead until the end of the race, winning five stages. Trousselier was accused of bad sportsmanship: he reportedly smashed the inkstands of a control post to prevent his opponents from signing. Unlike the 1904 Tour de France, no stage winners, nor anyone from the top ten of the general classification, were disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Results, Stage results\nIn the first and last stage, the cyclists were allowed to use pacers. All the 11 stages were won by only three cyclists:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Results, General classification\nThe cyclists officially were not grouped in teams; some cyclists had the same sponsor, even though they were not allowed to work together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Results, Other classifications\nPautrat was the winner of the coureurs sur machines poin\u00e7onn\u00e9es category, having used the same bicycle through the whole event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Results, Other classifications\nThe organising newspaper L'Auto named Ren\u00e9 Pottier the meilleur grimpeur. This unofficial title is the precursor to the mountains classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Aftermath\nThe tour organisers liked the effect of the points system, and it remained active until the 1912 Tour de France, after which it was reverted to the time system. In 1953, for the 50-years anniversary of the Tour de France, the points system was reintroduced as the points classification, and the winner was given a green jersey. This points classification has been active ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Aftermath\nThe introduction of mountains in the Tour de France had also been successful. After the introduction of the Vosges in the 1905 Tour de France, in 1906 the Massif Central were climbed, followed by the Pyrenees in 1910 and the Alps in 1911.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Aftermath\nThe winner Trousselier received 6950 Francs for his victory. The night after he won, he drank and gambled with friends, and lost all the money. In later years, Trousselier would not win a Tour de France again, but he still won eight more stages and finished on the podium in the next year. The unofficial mountain champion of the 1905 Tour de France, Pottier, would be more successful in the next year, when he won the overall classification and five stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035378-0021-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Aftermath\nFor L'Auto, the newspaper that organised the Tour de France, the race was a success; the circulation had increased to 100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035379-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 6\nThe 1905 Tour de France was the 3rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 9 July and Stage 6 occurred on 20 July with a flat stage to Toulouse. The race finished in Paris on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035379-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 6, Stage 1\n9 July 1905 \u2014 Paris to Nancy, 340\u00a0km (211.3\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035379-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 6, Stage 2\n11 July 1905 \u2014 Nancy to Besan\u00e7on, 299\u00a0km (185.8\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035379-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 6, Stage 3\n14 July 1905 \u2014 Besan\u00e7on to Grenoble, 327\u00a0km (203\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035379-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 6, Stage 4\n16 July 1905 \u2014 Grenoble to Toulon, 348\u00a0km (216\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035379-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 6, Stage 5\n18 July 1905 \u2014 Toulon to N\u00eemes, 192\u00a0km (119\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035379-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 6, Stage 6\n20 July 1905 \u2014 N\u00eemes to Toulouse, 307\u00a0km (191\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035380-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 7 to Stage 11\nThe 1905 Tour de France was the 3rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 9 July and Stage 7 occurred on 22 July with a flat stage from Toulouse. The race finished in Paris on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035380-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 7 to Stage 11, Stage 7\n22 July 1905 \u2014 Toulouse to Bordeaux, 268\u00a0km (166.5\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035380-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 7 to Stage 11, Stage 8\n24 July 1905 \u2014 Bordeaux to La Rochelle, 257\u00a0km (159.7\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035380-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 7 to Stage 11, Stage 9\n26 July 1905 \u2014 La Rochelle to Rennes, 263\u00a0km (163\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035380-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 7 to Stage 11, Stage 10\n28 July 1905 \u2014 Rennes to Caen, 167\u00a0km (104\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035380-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Tour de France, Stage 7 to Stage 11, Stage 11\n29 July 1905 \u2014 Caen to Paris, 253\u00a0km (157\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035381-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Trinity Blue and White baseball team\nThe 1905 Trinity Blue and White baseball team represented the Trinity Blue and White baseball team of Trinity College in the 1905 college baseball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035381-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Trinity Blue and White baseball team\nBradsher missed a perfect game against Mercer due to a miscue by his shortstop in the second inning of his 22 strikeout, no-hit, no walk, ten inning performance. The game of the year was the loss to Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035381-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Trinity Blue and White baseball team\nJohn Heisman chose Bradsher as his premier player and captain for his All-Southern team. Barringer led the team in batting average with .253", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035382-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tsetserleg earthquake\nThe 1905 Tsetserleg earthquake occurred in or near the Tsetserleg Sum of Kh\u00f6vsg\u00f6l Province in Mongolia on 9 July 1905. The earthquake has been estimated at 7.9 to 8.3 on the moment magnitude scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035382-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Tsetserleg earthquake, Background\nThe Tsetserleg earthquake is believed to be a strike-slip rupture of a branch of the Bolnai Fault, extending about 190\u00a0km. The fault displacement during the earthquake was greater than 5 m, and the duration is estimated at about one minute. However, this interpretation is contested; field surveys after the earthquake show a complex rupture not necessarily characteristic of a strike-slip mechanism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035382-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Tsetserleg earthquake, Background\nThe Tsetserleg earthquake was followed two weeks later by the Bolnai earthquake, and is considered a part of the same general crustal movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035382-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Tsetserleg earthquake, Damage\nThere are few records of the immediate effects of the earthquake due to the remoteness of Mongolia in 1905. However, rockslides were reported in the nearby mountains, and supposedly \"two lakes, each of eight acres in size, disappeared\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035383-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1905 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035384-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Tusculum Pioneers football team\nThe 1905 Tusculum Pioneers football team represented Tusculum College during the 1905 college football season. They played one game, winning against the Bristol YMCA. It was the fifth season in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035385-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1905 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 22 August to 31 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 20 June to 24 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 25th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035385-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's singles\nBeals Wright (USA) defeated Holcombe Ward (USA) 6\u20132, 6\u20131, 11\u20139", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035385-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's singles\nElisabeth Moore (USA) defeated Helen Homans (USA) 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035385-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nHolcombe Ward (USA) / Beals Wright (USA) defeated Fred Alexander (USA) / Harold Hackett (USA) 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035385-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nHelen Homans (USA) / Carrie Neely (USA) defeated Marjorie Oberteuffer (USA) / Virginia Maule (USA) 6\u20130, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035385-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles\nAugusta Schultz (USA) / Clarence Hobart (USA) defeated Elisabeth Moore (USA) / Edward Dewhurst (USA) 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035386-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nBeals Wright defeated defending champion Holcombe Ward in the Challenge Round 6\u20132, 6\u20131, 11\u20139 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1905 U.S. National Championships. Wright had defeated Clarence Hobart in the All Comers' Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035386-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035387-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nElisabeth Moore won the singles tennis title of the 1905 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating Helen Homans 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20131 in the final of the All Comers' tournament. May Sutton was the reigning champion but did not defend her title in the Challenge Round. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 20 through June 24, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035388-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1905 U.S. Open was the 11th U.S. Open, held September 21\u201322 at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, northeast of Boston. Willie Anderson won his third consecutive U.S. Open title, and his record fourth overall, two strokes ahead of runner-up Alex Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035388-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. Open (golf)\nSmith was the co-leader with Stewart Gardner at 156 after the first 36 holes on Thursday. Following the third round on Friday morning, Smith led Anderson by a shot, but a third consecutive 80 in the afternoon dropped him to second place. Five strokes back after the second round, Anderson closed with 76 and 77 for 314, two strokes ahead of Smith. Scoring conditions at Myopia were very difficult; the lowest score posted was 75, by 1897 champion Joe Lloyd in the opening round. His next best was 83 in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035388-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. Open (golf)\nAnderson's feat of three consecutive U.S. Open titles remains unmatched, while his four wins were later equaled by three others: Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus. Anderson played in the next five editions with three top-five finishes and was eleventh in his last appearance in 1910; he died four months later at age 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035388-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 U.S. Open (golf), Past champions in the field\nDid not play: Harry Vardon (1900), Fred Herd (1898), James Foulis (1896).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035389-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1905 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Antwerp, Belgium from 16 to 23 July 1905. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035390-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1905 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1905 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Harvey Holmes, compiling a 6\u20133\u20131 record. The Stanford game was USC's first outside Southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035391-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035392-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were several special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1905 during the 59th United States Congress. There were no 1905 elections to the 58th United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035393-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThe 1905 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held during January 1905. Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge won election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035393-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nAt the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a majority vote of the combined houses of the Massachusetts General Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035393-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Background\nIn the 1904 legislative elections, Republican maintained an overwhelming majority. The Senators-elect included 34 Republicans and just six Democrats, and the Representatives-elect included 164 Republicans and 66 Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035393-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Nominating caucuses\nLodge faced no opposition for the Republican nomination. At the caucus on January 12, his name was placed into nomination by Senate President William F. Dana, and seconding speeches were made by Speaker of the House William F. Frothingham and Representative William Salter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York\nThe 1905 United States Senate election in New York was held on January 17, 1905. Incumbent Senator Chauncey Depew was re-elected to a second term in office. He was renominated unanimously after former Governor Frank S. Black dropped his challenge, and easily won the election given the Republican Party's large majorities in both houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nRepublican Chauncey M. Depew had been elected to this seat in 1899, and his term would expire on March 3, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nAt the State election in November 1904, large Republican majorities were elected for a two-year term (1905-1906) in the State Senate, and for the session of 1905 to the Assembly. The 128th State Legislature met from January 3, 1905, on at Albany, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Republican caucus\nLate in 1904, Ex-Governor Frank S. Black tried to be nominated to succeed Depew. Black was supported by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., but after intense fighting behind the scenes, Odell finally dropped Black and accepted Depew's re-election which had been supported by his fellow Senator Thomas C. Platt and Speaker S. Frederick Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Republican caucus\nThe Republican caucus met on January 16. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Chauncey M. Depew unanimously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Candidates, Democratic caucus\nThe Democratic caucus met also on January 16. They nominated again Smith M. Weed who had been the candidate of the Democratic minority in the U.S. Senate election of 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nChauncey M. Depew was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Result\nNote: The votes were cast on January 17, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 18 to compare nominations, and declare the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035394-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in New York, Aftermath\nDepew remained in the U.S. Senate until March 3, 1911. In 1911, Depew was defeated for re-election by Democrat James A. O'Gorman after a deadlock of two months and a half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035395-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1905 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on January 17, 1905. Incumbent Philander C. Knox was elected by the Pennsylvania State Assembly to his first full term in the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035395-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Background\nRepublican Matthew Quay was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate in the previous election in January 1901. He served until his death on May 28, 1904. In June 1904, Republican Philander C. Knox was appointed to serve out the remainder of Quay's term, ending on March 4, 1905, when he began a term in his own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035395-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Results\nThe Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and Senate, convened on January 17, 1905, to elect a Senator to serve the term beginning on March 4, 1905. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 59], "content_span": [60, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035396-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held on November 7, 1905, in four states. Virginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year. Massachusetts and Rhode Island at this time held gubernatorial elections every year, which they would abandon in 1920 and 1912, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035396-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Ohio, following a 1905 amendment to the constitution moving the election schedule, the governor's term was lengthened to three years. Elections would be held in even-numbered years from the 1908 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035396-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 United States gubernatorial elections, Notes\nThis American elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035397-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 University of New Mexico football team\nThe 1905 University of New Mexico football team was an American football team represented the University of New Mexico as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first season under head coach Martin F. Angell, the team compiled a 5\u20131\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 90 to 45. Wales A. Smith was the team captain. Coach Angell was a professor of physics and mathematics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035397-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 University of New Mexico football team, Roster\nThe roster of the 1905 University of Mexico football team included the following players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035398-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 University of Utah football team\nThe 1905 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its second season under head coach Joe Maddock, the team compiled a 6\u20132 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 260 to 74. Tackle Henry \"Pete\" Peterson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035398-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 University of Utah football team\nOn October 28, the team defeated the soldiers from Fort Douglas by a score of 129 to 0, an outcome that remains both the highest point total and largest margin of victory in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035399-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1905 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 5th season of top-flight football in Uruguay. CURCC won its 3rd. league title, after winning all matches played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035399-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a round-robin championship. It involved five teams, and was marked by the death of Nacional symbol footballers, Carlos and Bolivar C\u00e9spedes, due to the smallpox epidemic in June of that year. In turn, the lackluster performance of Albion hinted that the end was near for this institution, which did not fit with semi professional practices that began to appear in some institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035400-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1905 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1905 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach George P. Campbell, the Aggies compiled a 2\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 48 to 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035401-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 VFA season\nThe 1905 Victorian Football Association season was the 29th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club, after defeating minor premiers North Melbourne by 25 points in the challenge final on 7 October. It was Richmond's second VFA premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035401-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 VFA season, Association membership\nThe Association membership was unchanged in 1905, but the Essendon Town Football Club changed its name to the Essendon Football Club at its annual general meeting in March, feeling entitled to do so as the only senior club playing its games in the town of Essendon at the time. As a consequence of this, there were two distinct senior Essendon Football Clubs with the same name playing in Melbourne from 1905 until 1921: one in the VFL, based in East Melbourne; and one in the VFA, based in Essendon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035401-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 VFA season, Association membership\nAt the time, the two Essendon clubs were typically known as Essendon (Association) and Essendon (League), Essendon (V.F.A.) and Essendon (V.F.L. ), or Essendon (A.) and Essendon (L.) to distinguish them from each other where confusion was possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 39], "content_span": [40, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035401-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 VFA season, Premiership\nThe home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035402-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1905 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1905. It was the 8th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1905 VFL season. The match, attended by 28,000 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 13 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory and second in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035402-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL Grand Final, Background\nthe home-and-away season of 1905, Collingwood had dominated, losing only two games, one of them in the opening round to Fitzroy and the other to Essendon in the fourteenth round. Fitzroy had been on top until the return match between the two sides in the eighth round, but slumped a little during the latter half of the season with losses to Geelong and Carlton, plus a draw with South Melbourne. In the finals, however, Fitzroy had bounced back against Essendon, whilst Collingwood had failed badly against the Blues - losing by 46 points, which was a big margin at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035402-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL Grand Final, Background\nSeptember 1905 was by far the coldest September ever known in Melbourne since records began in 1855. The average maximum temperature was 13.53\u00a0\u00b0C (56.35\u00a0\u00b0F) and the average minimum 5.6\u00a0\u00b0C (42.1\u00a0\u00b0F) as against averages up to 1996 of 17.08\u00a0\u00b0C (62.74\u00a0\u00b0F) and 7.7\u00a0\u00b0C (45.9\u00a0\u00b0F). The result was that, although no rain actually fell during the game, the frequent showers earlier in the month were never able to evaporate before the match was played, leaving the MCG very heavy and soft all through. Combined with a biting cold wind and temperatures of around 11\u00a0\u00b0C (52\u00a0\u00b0F), this made conditions very difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035402-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL Grand Final, Background\nNo goals were scored in the first quarter, and only one behind in the last. In the third quarter, however, Fitzroy's superior pace and power allowed it to kick three goals with the wind, which gave it a comfortable winning margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035402-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL Grand Final, Background\nAs in 1927 and 1960, the 1905 Grand Final saw the losing team kick the lowest score for the entire season. In fact, with the exception of the 1927 Grand Final and two games in 1906 and 1908, no V/AFL match has had a lower aggregate score than the 1905 Grand Final's 6.11 (47). Only one match since (Footscray versus Fitzroy in 1953) has had as few as seventeen aggregate scoring shots. Apart from the 1960 Grand Final, Collingwood has not kicked a lower score since 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035403-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL season\nThe 1905 Victorian Football League season was the ninth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035403-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1905, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035403-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035403-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1905 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended \"Argus system\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035403-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 VFL season, Grand final\nFitzroy defeated Collingwood 4.6 (30) to 2.5 (17). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035404-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1905 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their 15th season of organized football. VMI had their worst winning percentage in team history, with a 2\u20135\u20131 record under coach Ira Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team\nThe 1905 VPI football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1905 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Sally Miles, the team went 9\u20131 and claims a Southern championship. The team had the most wins in a Virginia Tech season for many years to come, and defeated rival Virginia for the first time. Tech outscored its opponents 305 to 24. Hunter Carpenter scored 82 of those points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Before the season\nThe team reported for practice on September 1. \"Never in the history of the school have prospects for a winning team been so bright.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, Cumberland\nIn the second week of play, VPI beat Cumberland 12\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at West Point\nThe upset of the week was VPI's 16\u20136 win over Army. Carpenter was the star of the game, and made a kick from placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at West Point\nVPI's starting lineup was: Webber (left end), Willson (left tackle), Diffendal (left guard), Stiles (center), Strickling (right guard), Hines (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Nutter (quarterback), Treadwell (left halfback), Carpenter (right halfback), Harlan (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, Gallaudet\nVPI \"had no trouble\" in beating Gallaudet 56\u20130. The starting lineup was Webber (left end), Varner (left tackle), Diffendal (left guard), Stiles (center), Stickling (right guard), Hynes (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Harris (quarterback), Nutter (left halfback), Carpenter (right halfback), Hollan (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 49], "content_span": [50, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, North Carolina\nVPI defeated North Carolina 35\u20136. Carpenter made \"several sensational runs.\" During the second half VPI \"scored almost at will.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at Virginia\nHunter Carpenter had returned to VPI in 1905 for a last shot at beating Virginia in his eighth year of college football. Going into the game, UVA was 8\u20130 against VPI by a cumulative score of 170\u20135. The Cavalier Daily ran a story outlining Carpenter's motives and move from VPI to UNC and back to VPI over the preceding eight years. Virginia accused Carpenter of being a professional player, as he had played college football already for nearly a decade. Carpenter signed an affidavit that he had not received payment to play against UVA and played against a backdrop of recrimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at Virginia\nVirginia fumbled at midfield, and as a result Carpenter eventually got away for a 30-yard gain around left end. Virginia held VPI on downs at the 3-yard line. Virginia's punt had to go high and short to avoid hitting the goal post. Carpenter called a fair catch in order for a free kick, but was tackled anyway, and the penalty brought the ball back to Virginia's 3-yard line. On third down, Murray Harlan skirted end for a touchdown, and Carpenter added the extra point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at Virginia\n\"The second half was even more hotly contested than the first.\" Carpenter \"finally\" got off a long punt, down to Virginia's 5-yard line. VPI blocked Virginia's ensuing punt, and on third down Carpenter dashed through left tackle for the final score. Carpenter was later ejected for throwing the ball at the face of a Virginia defender, but stayed on the sidelines to watch as neither team was able to score against each other. Carpenter left immediately after the game and moved to Middleton, New York, never to return to the Commonwealth. Carpenter retired 1\u20137 against UVA, but the Cavaliers still refused to play VPI again until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at Virginia\nVPI's starting lineup was: Webber (left end), Willson (left tackle), Cunningham (left guard), Stiles (center), Strickling (right guard), Hines (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Nutter (quarterback), Treadwell (left halfback), Carpenter (right halfback), Harlan (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, South Carolina\nVPI beat South Carolina 34\u20130. Captain Lewis asked for the game to be called after eight minutes' phlay in the second half, as the crowd surged on the field and play was impossible. South Carolina did not earn a single first down. Carpenter had one run of 68 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, South Carolina\nVPI's starting lineup was: Webber (left end), Willson (left tackle), Cunningham (left guard), Tomson (center), Strickling (right guard), Hines (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Harris (quarterback), Nutter (left halfback), Carpenter (right halfback), Hanley (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at Navy\nVPI suffered its sole loss of the season against Navy, getting revenge for when Carpenter and VPI won in 1903. VPI scored when Carpenter returned the second-half kickoff 95 yards, after a hand-off from Murray Harlan who caught the kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, at Navy\nVPI's starting lineup was: Webber (left end), Willson (left tackle), Cunningham (left guard), Stiles (center), Strickling (right guard), Hines (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Harris (quarterback), Nutter (left halfback), Carpenter (right halfback), Harlan (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, vs. VMI\nThe season closed with a 34\u20130 win over old rival VMI. \"The story of the contest may be summed up in the statement that the Lexington boys were outclassed.\" The crowd did not exceed 5,000 due to the cold weather. Byrd, Fraser, Harlan, and Beckner were all injured. Nutter, Cox, Harvey, and Harlan starred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Season summary, vs. VMI\nVPI's starting lineup was: Webber (left end), Diffendal (left tackle), Cunningham (left guard), Stiles (center), Stickling (right guard), Hines (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Nutter (quarterback), Cox (left halfback), Hanvey (right halfback), Harlan (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 47], "content_span": [48, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Postseason\nSix players made W&L coach R. R. Brown's All-Southern team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035405-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1905 football team according to the roster published in the 1906 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his second season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played six home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record 7\u20131 overall and 6\u20130 in SIAA, outscoring their opponents 372\u201322 . Vanderbilt played seven home games and won them all including six shutout victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nTheir only loss came on the road to McGugin's old team, Michigan, 18\u20130. From 1903 to 1905 Vandy won 13 consecutive games and was 22\u20132\u20131 in those three seasons. They finish the 1905 season with a 17-game home win streak. The streak reached 26 games before Michigan stopped them on November 2, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season\nThe team was captained by Innis Brown, later a prominent sportswriter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Maryville\nThe season opened with a big win, 97\u20130 over the Maryville Scots. Owsley Manier scored eight touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Maryville\nCoach McGugin said \"The boys went at it hammer and tongs, and, considering the heat and short halves, they put up a fine game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Maryville\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Stone (left guard), Patterson (center), Brown (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), D. Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Alabama\nAlabama was no match for Vanderbilt, losing 34\u20130. Honus Craig was the star of the game. Quarterback Frank Kyle was severely injured, knocked unconscious and taken to the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Alabama\nThe starting lineup was Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Stone (left guard), Patterson (center), Sherrell (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), D. Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Michigan\nIn the fifth game of the season, Vanderbilt suffered its first loss under coach McGugin, to his mentor and brother in law Fielding H. Yost and his Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor 18\u20130. Tom Hammond, Joe Curtis, and John Garrels scored Michigan's three touchdowns. The longest was by Hammond, of 20 yards. Vanderbilt did not make a single first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Michigan\nThe starting lineup was Hamilton (left end), Pritchard (left tackle), Brown (left guard), Patterson (center), Stone (right guard), Taylor (right tackle), B. Blake (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Craig (left halfback), D. Blake (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nVanderbilt beat the rival Tennessee Volunteers by a score of 45\u20130. The Vols were coached by fellow Michigan alum James DePree. Coach McGugin remarked: \"Depree was a very valuable man to Michigan athletics and has lots of friends there who are watching his work.\" Sam Y. Parker sat out the game with injury. Dan Blake made the first three touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee\nThe starting lineup was Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), McLain (left guard), Patterson (center), Sherrell (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), D. Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Texas\nThe Commodores defeated the Texas Longhorns, seen as the strongest of the other contenders for the SIAA, by a score of 33\u20130. \"\"Honus\" Craig, whom no one has ever yet stopped, played probably the greatest game ever put up by a Commodore.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Texas\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Brown (left guard), Patterson (center), Stone (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), D. Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Auburn\nThe Commodores dominated the Auburn Tigers 54\u20130, playing the whole game in their territory. Last season, Auburn and Vanderbilt disputed the SIAA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Auburn\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Brown (left guard), Patterson (center), Stone (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Haygood (quarterback), D. Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Clemson\nThe Commodores beat the Clemson Tigers 41\u20130. Owsley Manier went through for the first two touchdowns. The third was scored by Taylor, a 12-yard run just before the end of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Clemson\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Stone (left guard), Patterson (center), Brown (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), D. Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nVanderbilt crushed a strong Sewanee squad 68\u20134. One publication claims \"The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when Dan McGugin and Captain Innis Brown, of Vanderbilt went to Atlanta to see Sewanee play Georgia Tech.\" John Scarbrough made Sewanee's only points on a 35-yard field goal. On the dedication of Harris Stadium, one writer noted \"The University of the South has numbered among its athletes some of the greatest. Anyone who played against giant Henry Phillips in 1901\u20131903 felt that he was nothing less than the best as guard and fullback. Anyone who ever saw a punt from the foot of J. W. Scarbrough.\" Honus Craig once ran 60 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was B. Blake (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Brown (left guard), Patterson (center), Stone (right guard), Pritchard (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Noel (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035406-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Players, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Vanderbilt's lineup during the 1905 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics a short punt formation while on offense, with the quarterback under center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035407-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1905 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In their first year under head coach George B. Drake, the team compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035408-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1905 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1905 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was William Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035409-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1905 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035410-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 1905 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1905 to elect the governor of Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035411-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 WAFA season\nThe 1905 WAFA season was the 21st season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia. This was the first year where the Grand Final results became a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035412-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wabash Little Giants football team\nThe 1905 Wabash Little Giants football team represented Wabash College during the 1905 college football season. Although the team ended the season with six wins and six losses, the team managed one of its most impressive upsets when it defeated Notre Dame, 5\u20130, at South Bend. It proved to be the Fighting Irish's only home-field loss in 125 games between 1899 and 1928. Notre Dame had originally considered the game a \"practice game\" and expected to win easily when the game was scheduled the previous year, but began to take the team more seriously as the 1905 season developed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035413-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn Ichabods football team\nThe 1905 Washburn Ichabods football team represented Washburn University during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035414-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game\nThe 1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game was a college football game between Fairmount College (now called Wichita State University) and the Washburn Ichabods played on December 25, 1905, in Wichita, Kansas. It marked the first experiment with the forward pass and with the ten-yard requirement for first downs. Despite the game's Christmas Day playing date, It is unclear if the game was considered \"regular season\", \"post season\", or \"exhibition\" in classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035414-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game, Game play\nFairmount College was coached by Willis Bates. The head coach for Washburn that season was John H. Outland, but because he was officiating, it is likely that the coaching duties fell to assistant coach (and next year's head coach) Garfield Weede. The game ended in a 0\u20130 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035414-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game, Game play\nThe conditions for the game were excellent, but neither side was able to approach the other team's goal except by a punt. Only seven first downs were made the entire game\u2014four by Washburn and three by Fairmount. Most of the game was played in the middle of the field, to the disappointment of the fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035414-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game, New rule test, Safer but not \"conducive\"\nBoth teams had played a previous game that same season. What made this second game unique was that it was a test of a proposed rule of play. During the game, each team's offense was required to gain ten yards in three downs instead of four to earn a new first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035414-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game, New rule test, Safer but not \"conducive\"\nThe experiment was considered a failure. Football legend John H. Outland officiated the game and commented, \"It seems to me that the distance required in three downs would almost eliminate touchdowns, except through fakes or flukes.\" The Los Angeles Times reported that there was much kicking and that the game was considered much safer than regular play, but that the new rule was not \"conducive to the sport.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035414-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game, New rule test, Impact\nThree days later, 62 schools met in New York City to discuss rule changes to make the game safer. As a result of that meeting, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, later named the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), was formed and several other rule changes were made to improve safety for players, including the addition of the forward pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035414-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Washburn vs. Fairmount football game, New rule test, First forward pass\nIn his history of the sport of football, David M. Nelson concluded that \"the first forward passes were thrown at the end of the 1905 season in a game between Fairmount and Washburn colleges in Kansas.\" According to Nelson, Washburn completed three passes, and Fairmount completed two. Credit for the first pass goes to Fairmount's Bill Davis, who completed a pass to Art Solter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035415-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team\nThe 1905 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team represented Washington & Jefferson College during the 1905 college football season. The team compiled a 10\u20133 record. Frank Piekarski was the team's coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035416-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington Senators season\nThe 1905 Washington Senators won 64 games, lost 87, and finished in seventh place in the American League. They were managed by Jake Stahl and played home games at National Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035416-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035416-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035416-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035416-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035417-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington State football team\nThe 1905 Washington State football team was an American football team that represented Washington State College during the 1905 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Everett Sweeley and compiled a record of 4\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035418-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington University football team\nThe 1905 Washington University football team was an American football team that represented Washington University of St. Louis as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Charles A. Fairweather, the team compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 159 to 88. The team played its home games at Francis Field, a stadium built as the main stadium for the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035419-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington and Lee Generals football team\nThe 1905 Washington and Lee Generals football team represented the Washington and Lee University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. This was the school's first successful football team, capped by the victory on Thanksgiving over George Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035420-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Washington football team\nThe 1905 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1905 college football season. In its first season under coach Oliver Cutts, the team compiled a 5\u20132\u20132 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 96 to 52. Tom McDonald was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035421-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1905 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1905, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. John Aitken, the incumbent Mayor did not seek re-election. He was succeeded by Thomas William Hislop, who was elected to office as Mayor of Wellington, beating defeating five other candidates. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035422-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wesleyan Methodists football team\nThe 1905 Wesleyan Methodists football team represented Wesleyan University during the 1905 college football season. The team was led by Howard R. Reiter and posted a 7\u20132\u20131 record, losing only to national champion Yale in the first official week of play, before losing to Swarthmore in the final week of play. The game were played at Andrus Field, the oldest continuously used American football field in the world. The team's quarterback was Hall of Famer Harry Van Surdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035423-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 West Down by-election\nThe 1905 West Down by-election was held on 10 July 1905 after the incumbent Irish Unionist Arthur Hill resigned. It was retained by the Unionist candidate Harry Liddell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035424-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1905 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first season under head coach Carl Forkum, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 172 to 44. Paul H. Martin was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035425-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Australian state election\nElections were held in the Australian state of Western Australia in late 1905 to elect 50 members to the state's Legislative Assembly. The main polling day was 27 October, although four remote electorates (Dundas, Gascoyne, Kimberley, and Pilbara) went to the polls on 13 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035425-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Australian state election\nHector Rason, the sitting premier and a member of the Ministerialist faction, had taken office on 25 August 1905 at the head of a minority government, following the fall of the previous minority government led by Henry Daglish of the Labour Party. Daglish resigned as party leader on 27 September, and was replaced by William Johnson on 4 October. At the election, Rason and the Ministerialists recorded a landslide victory, with their gain of 15 seats allowing them to form a comfortable majority government. Eight Labour members lost their seats, including their leader Johnson, who was defeated in Kalgoorlie by Norbert Keenan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season\nThe 1905 Western Conference football season was the tenth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season\nThe 1905 Chicago Maroons football team won the conference championship, compiled an 11\u20130 record, and outscored opponents 271 to 5. The Maroons were retroactively named national champions by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the National Championship Foundation, and the Houlgate System.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season\nMichigan won the first 12 games of the season by a combined score of 495 to 0, but lost the final game of the season by a score of 2\u20130 against Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season\nMinnesota compiled a 10-1 record, shut out 10 of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents 542 to 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nNo Western Conference schools participated in any bowl games during the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans\nThe following Western Conference players were selected as first-team players on the 1905 College Football All-America Team. (Consensus All-Americans displayed in bold).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035426-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players\nEleven players were chosen as first-team players on at least five of the 1905 All-Western college football teams named by the following 10 selectors: Chicago American (CA), Chicago Chronicle (CC), Chicago Daily News (CDN), Chicago Evening Journal (CEJ), Chicago Evening Post (CP), Chicago Record-Herald (CRH), Chicago Tribune (CT), E. C. Patterson for Collier's Weekly (ECP), J. H. Ritchie in Illustrated Outdoor News (JHR), and The Minneapolis Journal (MJ). (Players unanimously chosen by all 10 selectors are listed in bold.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (later renamed the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1905 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe 1904 football season was a tremendous success both on the field and financially for the Western University of Pennsylvania. Coach Arthur Mosse wrote an in depth article for the December 4 edition of the Pittsburgh Press praising all the people in Pittsburgh who contributed to the team's success. He felt that the Western University athletics would continue to succeed with the foundation he put in place and college sports would become an integral part of the Pittsburgh culture. On December 5 the Athletic Committee met to discuss the state of affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0001-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThey were pleased with the work of and probable retention of coach Mosse for the 1905 season. However, the players demanded that teammate Joe Thompson be given the coaching position. This heated debate spread through the alumni, faculty and student body. The Collegiate and Engineering departments wanted coach Mosse, the Dental and Medical departments were rooting for Joe Thompson. Some faculty and alumni feared the transferring of star players if Thompson left school. No solution was reached at the February 3 meeting of the Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0001-0002", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nCoach Mosse continued working toward the 1905 season by setting up a schedule that was approved at the March 3rd Athletic Association meeting, but the naming of the coach was again put on hold. Chancellor Samuel McCormick and trustee George Clapp decided to intervene for the benefit of the University. At the April 7 Athletic Association meeting the problems were addressed and resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. Coach Arthur Mosse was retained for another year and Joe Thompson was named manager and captain of the team. The team played its home games at Exposition Park in Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0001-0003", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nIn its third season under head coach Arthur Mosse, the team compiled an 11\u20132 record, shut out ten of its thirteen opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 435 to 46. Instead of celebrating another successful season on the gridiron, the players again demanded that Coach Mosse not be retained for the 1906 season or they would transfer. And so came another winter of discontent in the Western University Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler YMCA\nA game was arranged with the Butler YMCA on the Butler Grounds for Saturday, September 30 after Grove City College cancelled their scheduled game with the Western University. A number of starters were recovering from injuries since Coach Mosse worked the team hard the week leading up to this practice game. The Butler YMCA proved to be a formidable opponent. On their first possession the Butler boys gained a couple of first downs and were then forced to punt. The WUP offense marched down the field and Jud Schmidt scored a touchdown from inside the five yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0002-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler YMCA\nWalter Zieg kicked the goal after and the score was 6-0 in favor of WUP. On their next possession the WUP backs, Jud Schmidt and Henry Boisseau, worked the ball deep into Butler territory and then fumbled on the Butler ten yard line. Butler gained some yardage but was again forced to punt. The WUP offense was able to gain yardage and was on the Butler four yard line when the halftime whistle blew. Coach Mosse substituted so every player got some playing time. In the second half Butler objected to coaches Mosse and Thompson giving instructions during plays. A minor skirmish was quickly settled. This action aroused the crowd to get close to the action and disrupt play. Neither team was pleased with the fans behavior. The final score read 6-0 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler YMCA\nThe WUP lineup for the practice game against Butler YMCA was Ted Perry (left end), John Turner (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Gilbert Miller (right end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0003-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler YMCA\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Arthur McKean replaced Curt Leidenroth at center; Joe Edgar replaced Yielding at right guard; Quince Banbury replaced Ted Perry at left end; Walter Ritchie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback; Winfred Banbury replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback; Plummer Capwell replaced Omar Mehl at fullback; and Bill Rice replaced Plummer Capwell at fullback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 85], "content_span": [86, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe home opener for the WUP eleven against the Westminster Titans was played at Friendship Park because the Pirates were still in season. The WUP lineup was missing players who were injured in the Butler game and in practice. Rice, Swenson, W. Banbury, Capwell, Klawuhn and F. Griggs were on the injured list. The Pittsburgh Press estimated the crowd at better than three thousand. The WUP students with their horns and cowbells paraded into the stadium behind the Fourteenth Regiment Band. The game was delayed due to an argument about the umpire and the length of each half. Westminster would not play unless Mays Edmondson, former captain of the Westminster team, was the umpire. They also wanted to play fifteen minute halves. Captain Thompson finally agreed to let Edmondson umpire. There would be one twenty-five minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 942]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe lighter Westminster eleven surprised the WUP team with their speed. The Titans advanced the ball to the WUP fifteen yard line but the WUP defense held. The WUP offense then moved the ball five yards at a time to the ten yard line of Westminster. The Titans held the University boys on downs and proceeded to carry the ball back to midfield. Walter Zieg was disqualified for rough play and substitutions were made. The first half ended with Westminster in WUP territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nWestminster quarterback Milton Scott raced eighty-five yards for a touchdown on their second possession of the second half. Locke was successful on the goal kick and WUP was losing 0-6. Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Griggs at quarterback. Art Griggs received the kickoff and returned it to the thirty yard line. The WUP offense went to work and methodically ran the ball down the field. Jud Schmidt, Winfred Banbury and Theodore Perry did the bulk of the ball carrying with Schmidt finally plunging into the end zone for the touchdown. He also kicked the goal after to tie the score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0006-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe WUP defense forced the Titans to punt from deep in their own territory on their next possession. Art Griggs returned the punt to the Titans thirty-five yard line. On the third play from scrimmage Griggs raced thirty yards for the go-ahead touchdown. Schmidt missed the goal after. The game ended forty-five seconds later with the score 11-6 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Westminster was Ted Perry (left end), John Turner (left tackle), Leslie Waddill (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Waldy Zieg (right tackle), Gilbert Miller (right end), Frank Griggs (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions made during the game were: Quince Banbury replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback; Jud Schmidt replaced Waldy Zieg at right tackle; Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Griggs at quarterback; and Art Griggs replaced Joe Thompson at left halfback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Butler A.C.^\nOn October 11th a crowd of five hundred students ignored the heavy rain and cheered on the WUP to a lopsided victory over the Butler A.C. at Exposition Park. The WUPs scored eighteen touchdowns. All the starters scored except the center Art McKean. Butler could not stop the WUP offense. Butler never made a first down. Due to injuries to the Butler roster, WUP tackle Martin played the second half for Butler. The only negative for the WUP was the eleven missed goal kicks. The final score read 97-0. This was the largest margin of victory in Pittsburgh football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Butler A.C.^\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Butler A. C. was Quince Banbury (left end), John Turner (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Leslie Waddill (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback). Substitutes used in this game were John Sullivan, Fred Klawuhn, Charles Springer, Jay Frye, Karl Swenson, Frank Griggs and Plummer Capwell. This game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Butler A.C.^\n^After the WUP played the practice game in Butler, Joe Thompson wanted to play against the same team back in Pittsburgh. The YMCA manager could not honor his request and declined the offer. Another gentleman approached Mr. Thompson and assured him he could bring a strong team to Pittsburgh on the 11th and compete with the WUP eleven. This was not the same team that played so well against the WUP on September 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California Normal/YMCA\nThe California Normal/YMCA football team came to Exposition Park on October 14 and were shellacked by WUP. Close to two thousand spectators watched the WUP backs run through the porous YMCA defense at will. Winfred Banbury scored six touchdowns in the first half, including a 105 yard kickoff return, and WUP led 49-0 at the break. Coach Mosse made wholesale substitutions for the second half, but the WUP offense was still able to score four more touchdowns. The final score was 71-0. Coach Mosse was pleased with team and wrote a paragraph for the Pittsburgh Press:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California Normal/YMCA\n\"I am more than pleased with the showing the boys made today against their heavy opponents, and feel that they are coming back in form. The showing of the additions to our squad, W. Banbury, Griggs and Turner, was particularly gratifying. I wanted to give all the boys a chance to show their worth in today's game, and consequently used nearly all the squad. They all showed up well, and with another week's training I think we will be in good shape to give Cornell a battle royal.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California Normal/YMCA\nThe WUP lineup for the game against California Normal was Quince Banbury (left end), John Turner (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0013-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California Normal/YMCA\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Leslie Waddill replaced Waldy Zieg at left guard; Ted Perry replaced Quince Banbury at left end; Arthur Yielding replaced Joe Edgar at right guard; Frank Miller replaced Walter East at right end; Henry Boisseau replaced Walter Ritchie at quarterback; Omar Mehl replaced Winfred Banbury at fullback; and Winfred Banbury replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 94], "content_span": [95, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0014-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\nOn October 21 Percy Field in Ithaca N.Y. was the site of the game between the Cornell Big Red and the Western University eleven. The Cornell coach was Glen Scobey \"Pop\" Warner, who would coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1915-1923. The Cornell lads outweighed the WUPs by ten to fifteen pounds per man. Coach Mosse was confident his team could compete. The WUP defense held the Big Red to one first half touchdown, but the offense could not sustain a drive. Late in the first half Cornell started a drive from their own forty-five yard line and steadily moved the ball downfield. Cornell halfback Martin scampered the last fifteen yards into the end zone. The goal kick after by Halliday was successful. The halftime score was 6-0 in favor of Cornell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0015-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\nThe WUP eleven produced no offense in the second half and their defense allowed the brawnier Cornell lads to score four more touchdowns. The final score was 30-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0016-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\nThe Pittsburgh Press had summations from each coach. Coach Warner wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0017-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\n\"While we rolled up a rather large score against Mosse's men, the victory was no cinch by any means and had it not been that my boys had the advantage in weight over the Pennsylvanians the score would undoubtedly have been smaller. For a new team, the Smoky City lads showed up remarkably well and they fully lived up to the good word that had preceded their coming. In the first half they played well both offensively and defensively.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0018-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\n\"Well, we were defeated by the Ithacans and although the score looks somewhat bad on paper, I can assure the loyal rooters of WUP that our team played valiantly, although outweighed 15 pounds to the man. We showed our real strength in the first half when we held our opponents down nicely but in the second half the weight against us told and were simply battered down. We are not discouraged in the least and the defeat will only spur us on to renewed vigor.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0019-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Cornell was Ted Perry (left end), John Turner (left tackle), Leslie Waddill (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Winfred Banbury (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Quince Banbury (fullback). Substitutions made during the game were: Omar Mehl replaced Quince Banbury at fullback; Arthur Yielding replaced Joe Edgar at right guard; and after Mr. Yielding got ejected for fighting, Gilbert Miller replaced Arthur Yielding at right guard. This game consisted of thirty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0020-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Dickinson\nFour thousand spectators crammed Exposition Park on October 28 to watch the WUP eleven take on the Red Devils of Dickinson College from Carlisle, Pa.. Dickinson beat Washington & Jefferson the previous Thanksgiving Day, so they had some notoriety. The WUP offense received the opening kickoff and proceeded to sustain an eight minute drive that culminated with a Walter East fifteen yard scamper around left end for a touchdown. Jud Schmidt converted the goal kick after and WUP led 6-0. The rest of the half was a stalemate as both teams were able to move the ball but fumbles, penalties and occasional strong defense prohibited any scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0021-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Dickinson\nEarly in the second half the WUP offense was deep in Red Devil territory. Frank Griggs fumbled on the eight yard line. Dickinson halfback McIntire recovered and raced one hundred and two yards for the touchdown. Paul Davis kicked the goal after and the score was tied. The WUP offense went on another sustained drive that was aided by two Dickinson penalties. Art Griggs scored the go ahead touchdown and Schmidt was again good on the goal kick. WUP led 12-6. After a change of possessions, the WUP offense continued to gain yardage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0021-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Dickinson\nTheodore Perry carried the ball the last ten yards for the score. Jud Schmidt was again successful on the goal kick. A few minutes later Dickinson quarterback Simpson fumbled a punt into the end zone. Theodore Perry fell on the ball for the WUP's last touchdown. Schmidt came through with the goal after and WUP led 24-6. With time running short, Red Devil Captain Paul Davis lined up and kicked a fifty-three yard field goal (worth 4 points in 1905) to make the final score 24-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0022-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Dickinson\nThe WUP lineup for the game with Dickinson was Ted Perry (left end), Miller (left tackle), McKinney (left guard), John Turner (center), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Griggs (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0022-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Dickinson\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Karl Swenson replaced Frank Griggs at quarterback; Omar Mehl replaced Winfred Banbury at fullback; Fred Klawuhn replaced Walter East at right end; Joe Edgar replaced Arthur Yielding at right guard; Arthur Yielding replaced McKinney at left guard; and Leslie Waddill replaced Joe Edgar at right guard. The game consisted of twenty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0023-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nOn November 1 the Mount Union Purple Raiders from Alliance, Ohio met the WUP eleven at Exposition Park for a practice game. Coach Mosse started the scrub team. The second stringers showed their appreciation by scoring five first half touchdowns. Fullback John Mackrell made his first game appearance special by scoring two touchdowns. In the second half Coach Mosse inserted the first stringers into the lineup. Thirty more points were scored against the outmanned Purple Raiders and the final score read 57-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0024-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Mount Union was Quince Banbury (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), C. McKinney (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Arthur Yielding (right guard), John Turner (right tackle), Jay Frye (right end), Karl Swenson (quarterback), Charles Springer (left halfback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), and John Mackrell (fullback). The following players were substituted into the game at halftime: Ted Perry, Gilbert Miller, John Sullivan, Arthur McKean, Calvin Marshall, Walter East, Art Griggs, Plummer Capwell, Jud Schmidt and Winfred Banbury. The game consisted of twenty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0025-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany\nThe Bethany Bison were the opponent on November 4. The WUP team expected some fierce competition from the West Virginians to prepare for the upcoming game with Washington & Jefferson. Coach Mosse started the first string and liked the results as they ran up a score of 42-0 in the first half. Walter East scored three touchdowns\u00a0: two on short plunges and one on a thirty-five yard dash around end. Halfback Jud Schmidt, who had an eighty yard scamper, added two scores. Quincy Banbury scored on a thirty yard dash and Arthur Griggs plunged for a touchdown. The Bethany defense could not slow the WUP offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0026-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany\nWholesale substitutions were made at halftime and the WUP second team could only manage one touchdown by Leslie Waddill in the fifteen minute second half. Jud Schmidt was successful on seven goal kicks and John Sullivan converted the last one. The final score was 48-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0027-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany\nThe WUP lineup for the game with Bethany was Quince Banbury (left end), Gilbert Miller (left tackle), Leslie Waddill (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Arthur Yielding (right guard), John Turner (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Griggs (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0027-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Charles Springer replaced Art Griggs at left halfback; C. McKinney replaced Gilbert Miller at left tackle; Fred Klawuhn replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback; Plummer Capwell replaced Winfred Banbury at fullback; Curt Leidenroth replaced Arthur McKean at center; Jay Frye replaced Walter East at right end; Henry Boisseau replaced Frank Griggs at quarterback; and John Sullivan replaced Quince Banbury at left end. The game consisted of one twenty minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 78], "content_span": [79, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0028-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Franklin & Marshall\nOn November 7 the final tuneup for the Washington & Jefferson game was scheduled with Franklin & Marshall College of Lancaster, Pa. at Exposition Park. Coach Mosse started a lot of second teamers and substituted often. The WUP offense scored three touchdowns in the first eight minutes of play. The last touchdown of the first half was scored by Quincy Banbury on a seventy-five yard scamper. The score at halftime was 23-0 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0029-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Franklin & Marshall\nThe WUP defense only allowed one first down and held the Diplomats scoreless. The WUP offense scored five more touchdowns in the second half to make the final score 53-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0030-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Franklin & Marshall\nThe WUP lineup for the F & M game was Ted Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0030-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Franklin & Marshall\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Plummer Capwell replaced Omar Mehl at fullback; Jay Frye replaced Walter East at right end; Paul Vitte replaced Calvin Marshall at right tackle; C. McKinney replaced Waldy Zieg at left guard; Quince Banbury replaced Ted Perry at left end; and Charles Springer replaced Quince Banbury at left end. The game consisted of one twenty minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 90], "content_span": [91, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0031-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nThe football teams of the Western University of Pennsylvania and Washington & Jefferson College played five games from 1890 to 1895. The WUPs were winless in the series and were outscored 130-12. November 11th 1905 was the first time the game was played in Pittsburgh. On Thursday, November 9, Chancellor Samuel B. McCormick held a meeting of students and alumni to thank them for their support of the team and to encourage wholesome participation in cheering and noise making at the football game against the Red and Black.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0032-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nAfter the meeting eight hundred eager participants paraded to the practice field and cheered for the team. The Western University of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh were ready for Saturday. A special scoreboard was erected to keep the fans informed of the score, down and time remaining. Bleachers were added to the visitors side of the field in anticipation of the large crowd. The Pittsburgh Post mentioned the availability of a program for sale at this game - \u201cA special feature of the afternoon will be the artistic score cards which will be sold in the stands. The cards, which are intended for souvenirs, will contain the statistics of the two teams, the photographs of the coaches, managers and captains and the line-up.\u201d The newly formed WUP band and drum corps would lead the parade of students from Union Station through downtown and into the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0033-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nBoth teams were healthy and at full strength. Over ten thousand people crammed Exposition Park for the game. On the WUPs third possession, Art Griggs returned a punt to the W & J seven yard line. Jud Schmidt carried it into the end zone on the next play. He then kicked the goal after and WUP led 6-0. The WUP offense moved the ball against the tough defense of the Red and Black, but penalties kept aborting the drives. The half came to an end with the WUPs on the W&J thirty-five yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0034-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nOmar Mehl replaced Winfred Banbury at fullback for the second half and did the bulk of the ball carrying. On their first possession of the second half the WUP offense worked the ball to the W&J ten yard line. They were then penalized fifteen yards for holding and turned the ball over to the Red and Black. The staunch WUP defense kept the Red and Black in their territory for the bulk of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0034-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nOn the WUPs next possession they were able to sustain the drive and Omar Mehl carried the ball across the goal for the second touchdown of the game. Schmidt missed the goal kick after. The WUP offense had the ball on the W&J twenty yard line when time was called. The WUPs beat the Red and Black, 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0035-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Washington & Jefferson was Ted Perry (left end), Gilbert Miller (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Griggs (quarterback), Jud Schmidt(right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0035-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Leslie Waddill replaced Waldy Zieg at left guard; John Sullivan replaced Art Griggs at left halfback; Joe Thompson replaced John Sullivan at left halfback; Omar Mehl replaced Winfred Banbury at fullback; Quince Banbury replaced Walter east at right end; and Fred Klawuhn replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of thirty-five minute halves", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0036-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Ohio Medical\nThe Ohio Medical University from Columbus, Ohio was the November 18 opponent. An added incentive for the fans was a scoreboard giving a play by play account of the Yale versus Princeton game. More than two thousand fans attended and the students were led into the stadium by the eighteen piece school band conducted by Oliver Fulton (Class of 1906).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0037-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Ohio Medical\nThe WUP offense scored in the first five minutes on a seventy-five yard scamper by Joe Thompson and the rout was on. The final score was 51-4. The Medics had no answer for the powerful WUP offense. The highlight for the Ohioans was the field goal kicked by halfback Means late in the first half. Walter East, Karl Swenson and Plummer Capwell each scored two touchdowns. Joe Thompson, John Turner and Fred Klawuhn added one each. Coach Mosse substituted frequently and the entire squad finished the game injury free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0038-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Ohio Medical\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Ohio Medical U. was Karl Swenson (left end), Gilbert Miller (left tackle), John Turner (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback). Substitutions made during the game were: Walter Richie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback; Plummer Capwell replaced Winfred Banbury at fullback; Jay Frye replaced Walter East at right end; C. McKinney replaced Gilbert Miller at left tackle; and Ted Perry replaced Karl Swenson at left end. The game consisted of thirty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 83], "content_span": [84, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0039-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nOn Saturday, November 25, the WUP football team took their second road trip of the season. Their destination was Beaver Falls, Pa. to battle the Geneva Covenanters. A special car was attached to the Beaver Falls Express train to accommodate all the students and band members wanting to attend the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0040-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nWUP received the opening kickoff and marched down the field. Winfred Banbury carried the ball into the end zone from the three yard line four minutes into the game. Plummer Capwell kicked the goal after. After an exchange of punts, the WUP offense worked the ball to the three yard line again but were unable to score. After another exchange of punts, the WUP offense moved the ball downfield and were on the four yard line when the half ended with the score 6-0 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0041-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe second half mirrored the first as the WUP offense scored on their first possession. Karl Swenson raced into the end zone from eight yards out for the touchdown. Capwell was again successful on the goal kick after and the WUP lead was 12-0. The Geneva offense could not penetrate WUP territory. The WUP offense was able to reach the Geneva fifteen yard line but fumbled to thwart the drive. The game ended with the WUP eleven on the Geneva thirty yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0042-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Geneva was Karl Swenson (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Arthur Yielding (left guard), Waldy Zieg (center), C. McKinney (right guard), Paul Vitte (right tackle), Jay Frye (right end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Plummer Capwell (right halfback), Charles Springer (left halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback). Substitutions made during the game were: John Mackrell replaced Karl Swenson at left end; Andrew Martin replaced Arthur Yielding at left guard; and Walter Ritchie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0043-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nAlmost ten thousand fans crammed into Exposition Park on a frigid Thanksgiving Day for the WUP versus State College game. The heavy rainfall earlier in the week caused drainage pipes to back up from the Allegheny River and flood the east end of the field from the twenty yard line to the end zone. The sight resembled an ice covered pond. The State College eleven was determined to avenge the previous year's loss to the WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0044-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe first half was a fierce struggle between two evenly matched teams. Late in the half State College had the ball on the WUP twenty yard line next to the pond. The Officials decided to move the ball to the other end of the field for safety reasons. With six seconds left in the half Irish McIlveen plunged into the end zone for the only touchdown of the game. George Yeckley was successful on the goal kick after and State led 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0045-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe WUP offense could not penetrate the State defense in the second half and lost for the second time in 1905. WUP finished the season 11-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0046-0000", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Penn State was Ted Perry (left end), Gilbert Miller (left tackle), Arthur Yielding (left guard), John Turner (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Griggs (quarterback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback), Art Griggs (left halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035427-0046-0001", "contents": "1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Leslie Waddill replaced Arthur Yielding at left guard; Winfred Banbury replaced Omar Mehl at fullback; Joe Thompson replaced Art Griggs at left halfback; Quince Banbury replaced Ted Perry at left end; Fred Klawuhn replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback; and Waldy Zieg replaced Leslie Waddill at left guard. The game consisted of one thirty minute half and one twenty-five minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election\nThe Whitby by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Vacancy\nErnest Beckett had been Conservative MP for the seat of Whitby since the 1885 general election. He succeeded to the title of Baron Grimthorpe on the death of his uncle on 29 April 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since 1885. They held the seat at the last election, unopposed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives selected 39-year-old Gervase Beckett as their candidate to defend the seat. Beckett was the younger brother of the previous MP. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Green Howards in 1884, but resigned his commission in 1886. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars in 1888. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1895 and Captain in 1898, and resigned his commission in 1901", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 36-year-old Noel Buxton to challenge for the seat. In 1896, Buxton acted as Aide-de-Camp to his father during his time as Governor of South Australia. He served on the Whitechapel Board of Guardians and Central Unemployment Body, and was a Member of the Home Office Departmental Committee on Lead Poisoning. Buxton stood unsuccessfully for Ipswich in 1900. He had taken a deep interest in temperance reform and was closely connected with East-end settlement work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Candidates\nDespite his interest in temperance reform, Buxton's candidature ran into problems with the Temperance movement who traditionally were supporters of Liberal candidates. The executive of the North of England Temperance League protested to the Liberal Party leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on account of Buxton's supposed brewery interests. They threatened the Liberal Party that if they did not withdraw Buxton's candidature, the league would actively oppose him. The Liberal Party ignored the threat and Buxton remained as candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Campaign\nBeckett, the Conservative candidate, was happy to support the Unionist Government's 1902 Education Act, despite the fact that it increased rates in parts of the constituency to help pay for Protestant schools. He claimed that agricultural tenants would benefit from rate relief due to the renewal of the Agricultural Rates Act. He was in favour of the Unionist Government's plans to look at introducing trade tariffs. He also opposed Home Rule for Ireland. Beckett's pro-Protestant positions unsurprisingly won him the endorsement of the Whitby Protestant Electoral Council, who had sent questions to both candidates about issues of their concern. Both candidates replies were considered and the council favoured that of Beckett so much that they urged all Whitby's Protestant voters to vote for and campaign for Beckett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Result\nBuxton and the Liberal campaign managed to overcome their difficulties and gained the seat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035428-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 Whitby by-election, Result\nSpeaking on the result, Buxton, the Liberal victor, remarked that the Whitby result was even better than the Liberal victory at Brighton two months earlier. He described the Whitby result as a \"great victory for truth, for the cause of the working man and for liberty throughout the world\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035429-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1905William & Mary Orange and White football team was an American football team that represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1905 college football season. Led by J. Merrill Blanchard in his second and final season as head coach, the Orange and White compiled an overall record of 2\u20134\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035430-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1905 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 26 June until 8 July. It was the 29th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1905. May Sutton was the first overseas winner of a Wimbledon championship. There were 71 entries into the men's singles draw setting a new participation record for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035430-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nLaurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty defeated Frank Riseley / Sydney Smith, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20138, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035431-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nFrank Riseley and Sydney Smith defeated Norman Brookes and Alfred Dunlop 6\u20132, 1\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Riseley and Smith 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20138, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1905 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035432-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nNorman Brookes defeated Sydney Smith 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20131, 1\u20136, 7\u20135 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Laurence Doherty defeated Brookes 8\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1905 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035433-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMay Sutton defeated Constance Wilson 6\u20133, 8\u20136 in the All Comers' final, and then defeated the reigning champion Dorothea Douglass 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1905 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035434-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1905 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1905 Western Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035435-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1905 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 21 and 22 January 1905 at the ice rink Stadspark in Groningen, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035435-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nSigurd Mathisen was defending champion. He did not participate and did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035435-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nCoen de Koning won three of the four distances and became World champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035435-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035436-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 2nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Bordeaux, France, in conjunction with the 31st Federal Festival of France, on April 22-23, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035437-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual event sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035437-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe competition took place on February 5\u20136 in Stockholm, Sweden. These were the last figure skating world championships with only the men's category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series\nThe 1905 World Series matched the National League (NL) champion New York Giants against the American League (AL) champion Philadelphia Athletics, with the Giants winning four games to one, now in a best-of-seven format. Four of the five games featured duels between future Hall of Fame pitchers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series\nGames 1 and 3 were played in Philadelphia; games 2, 4, 5 in New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series\nEach of the five games was a shutout. Three of those, over a six-day span, were pitched and won by Christy Mathewson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Summary\nBefore the Series began, the Athletics were already at a major disadvantage. For the Series, they were without the services of Rube Waddell, who was arguably their best pitcher that year. The reason for Waddell's absence was listed as a shoulder injury from some sort of 'wrestling match' with teammate Andy Coakley, though in years since some have speculated that Waddell was actually bribed or 'paid off' to fake the injury and thus not play in the Series. Philadelphia manager Connie Mack, however, refused to believe this theory, finding it ridiculous.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Summary\nMcGraw had previously referred to the Athletics as a \"white elephant\", which the club defiantly adopted as a symbolic mascot. At the conference at home plate before Game 1, A's team captain Lave Cross gave McGraw a wrapped package, which turned out to contain a toy white elephant. McGraw responded with a big grin, and the crowd laughed. [ Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10, 2005, p.10] McGraw and the Giants would have the last laugh, easily defeating the A's in the Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Summary\nNL New York Giants (4) vs. AL Philadelphia Athletics (1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nMonday, October 9, 1905, at Columbia Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0007-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe opening game was a pitchers' duel between Christy Mathewson and Eddie Plank. Both got out of jams, shutting the opposing offense down. In the Giants' top of the fifth, Mathewson singled, but was forced by Roger Bresnahan, who stole second shortly afterwards. After George Browne popped out, Mike Donlin singled to left, scoring Bresnahan and advancing Donlin to second. After Dan McGann walked, Sam Mertes doubled, bringing home Donlin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0007-0001", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nIn the Athletics' half of the sixth, Ossee Schreckengost doubled and advanced to third on a wild pitch, but did not score, and was the lone runner to reach third base against Mathewson in the entire series. The Giants added an insurance run in the ninth, when Billy Gilbert scored on Bresnahan's single. This was the first of Mathewson's three complete-game shutouts, a World Series record that may never be matched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0008-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nTuesday, October 10, 1905, at the Polo Grounds (III) in upper Manhattan, New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0009-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe A's called on Chief Bender to turn the tables on the Giants. His opponent was 21-game winner \"Iron Man\" Joe McGinnity. The game was scoreless until the top of the third. Ossee Schreckengost, leading off, reached on a Dan McGann's error. Bender sacrificed, moving Schreckengost to second. After a groundout by Topsy Hartsel moved Schreckengost to third, Bris Lord singled to left and drove Ossee home with an unearned run. The slim margin held until the top of the eighth, when the A's put a crooked number on the board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0009-0001", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nWith one out, Schreckengost was once again the catalyst, singling to center. After Bender flied out to right field, Hartsel's double scored Schreckengost all the way from first (helped by an error from Bresnahan), and a single by Lord brought Hartsel home, making it 3\u20130 in favor of the A's with all three runs unearned. Bender continued to cruise, got out of late-inning jams and ended up with a complete game shutout that tied the series at 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0010-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nChristy Mathewson once again took the mound for the Giants in Game 3. Opposing him this time was Andy Coakley, who hit the first batter he faced, Roger Bresnahan, with a pitch. A single to right by Mike Donlin moved Bresnahan to third with one out. Dan McGann singled to right, bringing Bresnahan home. An error by Danny Murphy scored Donlin and put Sam Mertes on base. Bill Dahlen walked, loading the bases with one out, but Art Devlin hit into a double play to end the rally. The Giants put the game away in the top of the fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0010-0001", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nBresnahan walked with one out. George Browne singled and went to second on the throw to third base. Donlin was walked intentionally, setting up a possible inning-ending double play, but things continued to crumble for Coakley and the A's. McGann reached on another error by Danny Murphy, reloading the bases and scoring a run. Mertes singled, reloading the bases and driving in another run. Bill Dahlen hit into a force play at second, scoring Donlin. After Dahlen stole second, Devlin singled, bringing home McGann and sending Dahlen to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0010-0002", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nDevlin then stole second and Dahlen stole home on a double steal, scoring the fifth and last run of the Giants' fifth. They scored two more runs in the top of the ninth, when McGann doubled home Browne and Donlin. Mathewson pitched his second complete-game shutout, giving the Giants a 2\u20131 lead in the series. This was the first 9\u20130 World Series game. The next one had to wait until the Cubs shut out the Tigers by that lopsided score in Game 1 of the 1945 World Series, although Detroit, with Hank Greenberg and Hal Newhouser, ended up taking that series four games to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0011-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nEddie Plank returned for the A's against Joe McGinnity for the Giants in Game 4. Both left men on base in scoring position early on, and kept the game scoreless until the bottom of the fourth, when Sam Mertes led off the inning by reaching on an error by Monte Cross. After Bill Dahlen flied to right Art Devlin grounded out, moving Mertes to second. With two outs, Billy Gilbert singled to left, bringing Mertes home for the only run of the game, McGinnity outdueling Plank 1\u20130 and giving the Giants a three-games-to-one lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0012-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nThe Giants looked to wrap up the series behind the perennial Christy Mathewson, who faced Chief Bender this time. The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fifth, when Sam Mertes scored during a bizarre double play involving Bill Dahlen and Billy Gilbert; with one out, Mertes on third, and Dahlen on second, Gilbert hit a sacrifice fly that scored Mertes, but Dahlen was out attempting to advance to third, and this third out was recorded after Mertes had scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0012-0001", "contents": "1905 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nIn the eighth, the Giants got an insurance run when Mathewson scored on George Browne's ground-out after Roger Bresnahan's double had sent him to third with less than two out. Mathewson then took the mound for the top of the ninth and induced three ground-outs, thereby completing arguably the single greatest performance by any player in World Series history with his third complete game shutout of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035438-0013-0000", "contents": "1905 World Series, Composite line score\n1905 World Series (4\u20131): New York Giants (N.L.) over Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035439-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 World Weightlifting Championships\nThe following is the result of the World Weightlifting Championships tournaments in year 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035439-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 World Weightlifting Championships, Tournament 1\nThe first tournament (6th World Weightlifting Championships) was held in Berlin, Germany from April 8 to April 10, 1905. There were 41 men in action from 4 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035439-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 World Weightlifting Championships, Tournament 2\nThe second tournament (7th World Weightlifting Championships) was held in Duisburg, Germany from June 11 to June 13, 1905. There were 7 men in action from 2 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035439-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 World Weightlifting Championships, Tournament 3\nThe third tournament (8th World Weightlifting Championships) was held in Paris, France from December 16 to December 30, 1905. There were 16 men in action all from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035440-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 World Wrestling Championships\nThe second World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship was organized in Berlin, Germany in April 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035441-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1905 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1905 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach William McMurray, the team compiled a 3\u20134 record and was outscored by a total of 162 to 63. Herbert Kennedy was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035442-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1905 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1905 college football season. The team finished with a 10\u20130 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by Caspar Whitney and Parke H. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup\nThe 1905 Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. 1905 was the inaugural year for the Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition. The cup was won by Hunslet who beat Halifax by a score of 13-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nFollowing the great schism of 1895 which led to the formation of rugby league there appear to be very little interest in a competitive competition organised on a regional basis, at least between clubs based in Yorkshire. Prior to the breakaway from rugby union this was something that had been discouraged as it was feared that competition would lead to professionalism, as had happened in other sports like Association Football. One of the exceptions was the trophy played for by the Yorkshire Rugby Union clubs. \"T'owd Tin Pot\", or officially, the Yorkshire Challenge Cup. The Governing body of the RFU were appalled at the idea, but turned a blind eye as all the proceeds from the final were distributed among various charities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nIt was around 10 years after the \"great schism\" before the idea of a County Cup for the Rugby League game became a reality. There appears to be very little, if any, details of how the introduction of the county cup competitions came about, or any details of any of the instigators or of any campaign, but the County Cups became the last part of what would become known as the four cups. The competitions were played on the same basis as was the Challenge Cup, i.e. a free draw with matches played on a sudden death straight knock-out basis, and with the final played (usually) on a neutral ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results\nFor this inaugural competition, a total of twenty clubs had entered, and so a preliminary round was introduced involving eight clubs, to reduce the number of clubs taking part in the main competition to sixteen, a full complement for a four round knock-out tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final\nThe match was played at Park Avenue in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 18,500 and receipts were \u00a3465.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nPoints Value: Try = 3 points; Goal (any type)= 2 points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 69], "content_span": [70, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0006-0000", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * Featherstone Rovers were at the time a junior/amateur club from FeatherstonE2 * Outwood Parish Church were a junior/amateur club from Outwood (a district to the North of Wakefield) who were playing in the Yorkshire Second Competition (Eastern Section)3 * Saville Green were a junior/amateur club from the East Leeds area4 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives Bramley as the home team (and playing at Barley Mow) but the official Hull F.C. archives give the venue as Boulevard, Hull FC's home ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035443-0006-0001", "contents": "1905 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n5 * Match abandoned after 63 minutes due to \"bad light\"6 * Unknown reason for replayed fixture being reversed instead at Craven Park. 7 * Park Avenue was the home ground of Bradford from 1880 until \"The Great Betrayal\", in 1907. Although the ground capacity is not known it is estimated to have been between 20,000-30,000", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035444-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 Yukon general election\nThe 1905 Yukon general election was held on 12 April 1905 to elect five of the ten members of the Yukon Territorial Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035445-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 college baseball season\nThe 1905 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1905. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035445-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 college baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035446-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 college football season\nThe 1905 college football season had the Chicago Maroons retroactively named as national champion by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the National Championship Foundation, and the Houlgate System, while Yale was named champion by Parke H. Davis and Caspar Whitney. Chicago finished the season 11\u20130, while Yale finished 10\u20130. The Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listed both Chicago and Yale as having been selected national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035446-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 college football season, Notable games, Chicago vs. Michigan game\nIn the final game of the season on November 30, 1905, Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago team and Fielding Yost's Michigan squad met in a battle of undefeated Western Conference powerhouses. The teams played at Chicago's Marshall Field in front of 27,000 spectators, at that time the largest crowd to view a football game. Michigan was 12\u20130 and had a 56-game undefeated streak on the line, while Chicago was 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035446-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 college football season, Notable games, Chicago vs. Michigan game\nThe game was a punting duel between Chicago's All-American Walter Eckersall and Michigan's John Garrels and was scoreless until early in the third quarter when a Michigan punt and Chicago penalty pinned Chicago inside their own ten-yard line. On third down, as Eckersall attempted to punt, he encountered a fearsome rush, but evaded the Michigan tacklers and was able to scramble to the 22-yard line and a first down. After three more first downs, the drive stalled and Chicago was forced to punt again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035446-0002-0001", "contents": "1905 college football season, Notable games, Chicago vs. Michigan game\nEckersall's booming punt carried into the end zone where it was caught by Michigan's William Dennison Clark who attempted to run the ball out. He advanced the ball forward to the one-yard line, but was hit hard by Art Badenoch and then was brought back inside his own end zone by Mark Catlin for a two-point safety. Under the rules of the time, forward progress was not credited, and a ball carrier could be carried backwards or forwards until he was down. The rest of third and fourth quarters continued as a defensive stalemate. Chicago's 2\u20130 victory snapped Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak and gave Chicago the consensus national championship for 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035446-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 college football season, Notable games, Chicago vs. Michigan game\nAs a tragic note to this game, Clark received the blame for the Michigan loss, and in 1932 he shot himself through the heart. In a suicide note to his wife he reportedly expressed the hope that his \"final play\" would be of some benefit in atoning for his error at Marshall Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035446-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 college football season, Notable games, Night football\nDuring the season, the first night football game west of the Mississippi was played in Wichita, Kansas between Fairmount College (now Wichita State University and Cooper College (now Sterling College). The Coleman Company provided lights for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035446-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 college football season, Notable games, Rule experiment\nOn December 25 in Wichita, Kansas an experimental game was played between Fairmount College and Washburn University. The game tested a rule change that required the offense to earn a first down in three plays instead of four. Football legend John H. Outland officiated the game and commented, \"It seems to me that the distance required in three downs would almost eliminate touchdowns, except through fakes or flukes.\" The Los Angeles Times reported that there was much kicking and that the game was considered much safer than regular play, but that the new rule was not \"conducive to the sport.\" Some of the rules for this game were based on the Burnside rules which govern the Canadian game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035447-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1905 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035447-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in Afghanistan, January 1905\nInayatullah Khan finishes his Indian visit, and on his return to Kabul expresses the greatest pleasure at the manner in which he was received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035447-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in Afghanistan, Early 1905\nThe amir issues a proclamation inviting the Hazaras to return, and allowing them until October to do so. A large number of them accordingly return during the summer, and many of the leading supporters of Shir Ali who were exiles in India since his overthrow also seek and obtain permission to return to their homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035447-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 in Afghanistan, Early April 1905\nThe special mission under Louis Dane in Kabul completes its work successfully and returns to India. The only visible result of its labours is the renewal with the present amir, Habibullah Khan, of the treaty formerly made with his father, with an increase of his annual subsidy from twelve to 1.8 million rupees, but the relations between him and Dane were throughout of the most cordial and intimate character, and all matters affecting the interests of the amir and the government of India were fully and freely discussed. It is thought in some British quarters that more might have been obtained from the amir, but it is seen as far better to accept what he was prepared to offer of his own free will than to obtain larger concessions from him by pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035447-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 in Afghanistan, Early April 1905\nSuggestions which have been put forward that there should be a British resident in Kabul, that British officers should be lent to organize the Afghan army, or that railways should be pushed forward into Afghanistan to connect its chief cities with British India, so that they might be at once garrisoned by British troops in case of threatened attack, are all open to the objection that any such steps would arouse the deepest resentment amongst the people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035447-0004-0001", "contents": "1905 in Afghanistan, Early April 1905\nAs it is, Britain secures the friendship and confidence of the amir, who shows the change in his relations with Britain by drawing the arrears of his subsidy, which he had declined to receive for some time, and employing the money to strengthen the defenses of his country. On the evening before the mission left Kabul its members were entertained at dinner by the amir, who had Dane on his right, whilst the other officers were placed between the chief men of his court. This was the first time that he or they had eaten with infidels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035449-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Argentine football\nThe year 1905 in Argentine football saw Alumni crowning Argentine champion, winning its 5th league title in six seasons. A new team, Reformer Athletic Club from the city of Campana, registered to play the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035449-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in Argentine football, Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1905 championship was expanded to include 7 teams, who played in a league format, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035449-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in Argentine football, Argentina national team\nArgentina contested its first official tournament in 1905. The squad played Uruguay for Copa Lipton on 15 August 1905. The game ended 0-0 after extra time and the trophy was awarded to Uruguay as the visiting team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035449-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 in Argentine football, International friendlies\nEnglish team Nottingham Forest toured on Argentina that year, playing several friendly matches v. clubs and combined teams in Buenos Aires and Rosario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035450-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1905 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035451-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035451-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1905 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035451-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1905 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035452-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Belgium\nThe following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Kingdom of Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035454-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Brazilian football\nThe 1905 season was the fourth season of competitive football in Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035455-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1905 in music in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035457-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canada, Historical Documents\nCreation of provinces Saskatchewan and Alberta: details and Prime Minister Laurier's announcement", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035457-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canada, Historical Documents\nHouse of Commons committee chair has idea for local telephone services housed in post offices and provided and taxed by municipalities", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035457-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canada, Historical Documents\nMounties report to Ottawa on dance halls and prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035457-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canada, Historical Documents\nMcGill University principal addresses Canadian Club on role of university in commerce", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035457-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canada, Historical Documents\nDescription of Peterborough Lift Lock on Trent Canal in Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035458-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canadian football\nThe 1905 Canadian football season was the 14th season of organized play since the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU) was founded in 1892 and the 23rd season since the creation of the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) and the Quebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) in 1883. The season concluded with the Toronto University team defeating the Ottawa Rough Riders in the 1905 Dominion Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035458-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1905\nThe Intercollegiate and Quebec Unions refused the Burnside Rules. For championship games, the CRU ruled the teams would use QRFU rules for the first half and the intercollegiate rules for the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035458-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1905\nQRFU moved to four 15-minute quarters; Tries worth five points and Goals from Tries worth one point. CIRFU adopted 10-yard rule for three downs and the ORFU gave captains the option of playing four 15-minute quarters. Goals from the Field were increased to three points and the Fair Catch rule was replaced by a three-yard Punt Return rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035458-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035459-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1905 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035468-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 1900 United States census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 2,420,982, ranking as the ninth most populous state in the country. By 1910, Michigan's population had increased by 16.1% to 2,810,173\t.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035468-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in Michigan, Population, Cities\nThe following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 10,000 based on 1900 U.S. census data. Historic census data from 1890 and 1910 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. In recent decades, all of the state's most populous cities lie in the southern half of the lower peninsula. In 1900, owing largely to an economy based on extraction of natural resources, five of the state's largest cities were located north of 44\u00b0 latitude; in the chart below, these cities are shaded in aqua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035468-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in Michigan, Population, Counties\nThe following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 40,000 based on 1900 U.S. census data. Historic census data from 1890 and 1910 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035469-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1905 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035469-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe Liberal Party are re-elected and formed the 16th New Zealand Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035469-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film\nSee : Category:1905 film awards, 1905 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1905 films", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035469-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 in New Zealand, Sport, Chess\nThe 18th National Chess championship is held in Oamaru. The champion is A.W.O. Davies", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035471-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Norway, Overview\n1905 is the year when Norway regained its independence after the dissolution of the Union between Sweden and Norway. For the first time since 1397 Norway had a national king, after 500 years of political unions with other Scandinavia countries \u2014 the Kalmar Union until 1532, then the united kingdoms of Denmark-Norway until 1814, and finally a personal union with Sweden until 1905. The article Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 covers the events surrounding the break with Sweden in depth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035471-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in Norway, Events\nKing Haakon and crown prince Olav arrive in Norway for the first time in 1905 and are greeted by Prime Minister Christian Michelsen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035471-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in Norway, Events\nThe swearing in of king of Haakon VII in the Parliament of Norway Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035472-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Norwegian football\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by BHGbot (talk | contribs) at 23:06, 18 June 2020 (WP:BHGbot 6 (List 5): eponymous category first, per MOS:CATORDER; WP:GENFIXES). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035473-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1905 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035477-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1905 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035480-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Swedish football\nThe 1905 season in Swedish football, starting January 1905 and ending December 1905:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035481-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1905 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 68]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035482-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1905 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035484-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in architecture\nThe year 1905 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035486-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in association football\nThe following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1905 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035488-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1905 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035490-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035491-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035492-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1905 in motorsport, including the major racing events, racing festivals, circuits that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035493-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in music\nThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035494-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035494-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named dinosaurs\nHas been considered a member of Triceratops, but recent work has indicated it deserved its own genus after all. In 2008 it was renamed Diceratus because Diceratops was preoccupied by a hymenopteran insect Foerster, 1868.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035494-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named dinosaurs\nSame as Tyrannosaurus, this name was rejected because Tyrannosaurus was mentioned earlier in the paper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035494-0003-0000", "contents": "1905 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named dinosaurs\nLance Formation Hell Creek Formation Scollard Formation North Horn Formation McRae Formation Frenchman Formation Denver Formation Laramie Formation", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035494-0004-0000", "contents": "1905 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named dinosaurs\nTyrannosaurus is the largest recognized tyrannosauroid and the most famous dinosaur of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035494-0005-0000", "contents": "1905 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Other archosauromorphs\nPreoccupied by Procerosaurus von Huene, 1902; later renamed Ponerosteus Olshevsky, 2000. Either a bird or pterosaur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 62], "content_span": [63, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035495-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035495-0001-0000", "contents": "1905 in poetry, Works published in other languages, Indian subcontinent\nIncluding all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 71], "content_span": [72, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035495-0002-0000", "contents": "1905 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035497-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035498-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in science\nThe year 1905 in science and technology involved some significant events, particularly in physics, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035499-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in science fiction\nThe year 1905 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035500-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in sports\n1905 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035501-0000-0000", "contents": "1905 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035504-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Aberdeen F.C. season\nAberdeen F.C. competed in the Scottish Football League First Division and Scottish Cup in season 1905\u201306.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035504-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Aberdeen F.C. season, Overview\nThis was Aberdeen's third season overall and their first in the top flight of Scottish football. The club were elected to the First Division despite finishing seventh in the Second Division the previous season. The Wasps struggled in Division 1, finishing 12th out of 18 clubs and suffered an early exit from the Scottish Cup to Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035505-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Army Cadets men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Army Cadets men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The team captain was Harold Hetrick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035506-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035506-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor Army's third season of ice hockey, the program played a majority of games against other colleges for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035507-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 Football League season was Aston Villa's 18th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035507-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Aston Villa F.C. season\nAston Villa started the new year having been defeated by Blackburn Rovers meaning that they had a record of DWL in the three post-Christmas fixtures. January's bad weather meant the trip to Sunderland was postponed until the end of January", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035507-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Aston Villa F.C. season\nDuring the season Howard Spencer was captain of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035507-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Aston Villa F.C. season\nIn February 1905, after 167 league games, Harry Hadley left West Brom to join Aston Villa for a fee of \u00a3250, but played just 11 times before joining Nottingham Forest in April 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035508-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Auburn Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Auburn Tigers men's basketball team represented Auburn University in the 1905\u201306 college basketball season. This was the first men's basketball team ever to represent Auburn University. The team's head coach was Mike Donahue, who was in his first season at Auburn. The team played their home games at The Gymnasium in Auburn, Alabama. They finished the season 5\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035509-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 10 teams, and Union Saint-Gilloise won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035510-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Birmingham F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 Football League season was Birmingham Football Club's 14th in the Football League, their 6th in the First Division, and their first season under the name \"Birmingham\", having previously played as \"Small Heath\". They finished in seventh place in the 20-team league. They also took part in the 1905\u201306 FA Cup, entering at the first round proper and losing to Newcastle United in the fourth round (quarter-final) after a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035510-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Birmingham F.C. season\nTwenty-three players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Goalkeeper Nat Robinson was ever-present over the 44-match season; among outfield players, forwards Benny Green (footballer) and Billy Jones missed two and three matches respectively. Billy Jones was leading scorer with 24 goals, of which 22 came in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035510-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Birmingham F.C. season\nThe Coventry Road ground, by then surrounded by tightly-packed housing, had more than once proved too small to accommodate those wishing to attend. Against Aston Villa last season, \"hundreds of people found the doors closed against them, and probably there were thousands who would not go to the ground in view of the inevitable crush\", and attendance at the FA Cup fourth-round tie against Newcastle was restricted to 27,000 with \"probably 60,000 people anxious to attend\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035510-0002-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Birmingham F.C. season\nThe landlords had raised the rent, but refused either to sell the freehold or to allow further expansion to the ground, and the directors estimated that remaining at Coventry Road was losing the club as much as \u00a32,000 a year in revenue. Club director Harry Morris identified a site three-quarters\u00a0of a\u00a0mile\u00a0(1\u00a0km) nearer the city centre, on the site of a disused brickworks in the Bordesley district, where a new ground could be built. The directors signed a 21-year lease and construction began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035511-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Blackpool F.C. 's ninth season (sixth consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the twenty-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fourteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035511-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe club's league top-scorer accolade was a three-way tie between new signings Jimmy Connor, Harry Hancock and E. Francis, with six apiece. Hancock became the outright top scorer after his three goals during Blackpool's FA Cup run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035511-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nAfter an opening-day victory at home to Burton Albion, Blackpool mustered only three more wins before the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035511-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\n1906 proved slightly more fruitful, with full points achieved over Gainsborough, Glossop, Grimsby Town, Lincoln City, Burslem Port Vale and \u2014 to close the season out \u2014 at Clapton Orient, which ultimately lifted them five places to 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035511-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nIn the FA Cup, it took three attempts to beat Crystal Palace in the First Round. After overcoming Sheffield United in the next round, they were knocked out with a 5\u20130 defeat to Newcastle United at St. James' Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035511-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035512-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the third in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035512-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe club finished 11th in Division Two, and reached the 3rd round of the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035512-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nAt the end of the season, in May 1906, 1,500 people attended a meeting criticising the club's committee. A Commission of Inquiry was appointed and recommended forming a limited liability company to own the club, which was initially rejected before being approved in June 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1905\u201306 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. The mid-table season is best-remembered for the Bees' appearance in the FA Cup proper for the first time in club history. After victories over Football League Second Division clubs Bristol City and Lincoln City in the first and second rounds respectively, Brentford were defeated in the third round by top-flight club Liverpool at Anfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter two successive mid-table seasons in the Southern League First Division and some positive showings in the FA Cup, Brentford manager Dick Molyneux was able to keep the majority of his full back and half back lines together for the 1905\u201306 season. He brought goalkeeper Tommy Spicer back from Leyton as cover for Walter Whittaker and cleared out the forward line, making six new additions, with five of the players possessing Football League experience \u2013 Walter Cookson, Fred Corbett, Willie Cross, Jack Dewhurst and Jimmy Hartley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThree wins in the first four matches of the season put lifted Brentford high in the First Division table, but injury to Fred Corbett and the departure of Jack Dewhurst dropped the club back after successive defeats in late September and early October 1905. Molyneux re-signed forward Fred Hobson as a replacement for Dewhurst and together with fit-again Fred Corbett, the pair began to score regularly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0002-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford's FA Cup campaign got underway in early December with a 4\u20130 fourth qualifying round victory over Southern League Second Division strugglers Wycombe Wanderers, a result which put Brentford in the first round proper of the FA Cup for the first time in the club's history. Brentford were drawn against Football League Second Division high-flyers Bristol City at Griffin Park and came back from a goal down to emerge 2\u20131 victors, with former City player Fred Corbett scoring both the Bees' goals. The best result in the club's history so far was achieved without manager Dick Molyneux, who was confined to his home with a serious illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nIn manager Molyneux's absence, trainer Bob Crone took over the day-to-day running of the team and the FA Cup second round draw produced a home tie versus Second Division club Lincoln City on 3 February 1906, whom Brentford swept aside 3\u20130 to go into the hat for the third round. Though the still-seriously ill Molyneux had not left the club, he was replaced by William Brown in mid-February, who took charge of Brentford's FA Cup third round tie at Anfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0003-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter a week of hard training on Southport beach, the Bees produced a creditable performance in a 2\u20130 defeat and finally received national attention. The end of the cup run left Brentford with the league season to play out and despite never falling below 7th position between December and mid-April, five defeats from the final six matches dropped the club to a 9th-place finish. Former manager Dick Molyneux's contract was cancelled in May and he returned to Liverpool, where he died shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035513-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035514-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 British Home Championship\nThe 1905\u201306 British Home Championship was the 22nd edition of the annual international football tournament played between the British Home Nations. The trophy was shared between the two sides which regularly dominated the competition, England and Scotland who each gained four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035514-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 British Home Championship\nEngland and Ireland began the tournament in February 1906, with England scoring five goals without reply and rising to the head of the table. Wales joined them after their match with Scotland which they won in Edinburgh by 2\u20130. Scotland recovered to beat Ireland by a single goal and England then moved ahead by beating Wales with an identical scoreline in Cardiff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035514-0001-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 British Home Championship\nPlaying for lower rankings, Wales and Ireland fought out a thrilling 4\u20134 draw in Wrexham before the deciding game between England and Scotland at Hampden Park; England needed only a draw to take the title outright, but Scotland played well and in a flowing match triumphed 2\u20131 to share the honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035514-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 British Home Championship\nParts of the Wales vs Ireland match at Wrexham were filmed by the Blackburn company of Mitchell and Kenyon, and is now the oldest surviving footage of an international football match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035515-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brown Bears men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Brown Bears men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program. After the season the team was mothballed for 20 years", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035515-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brown Bears men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the first time Brown played games before the new year. Additionally, the team expanded its schedule to its largest extent in five years. Unfortunately, these changes weren't able to help pull the newly christened Bears out of their funk and the team lost every game for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035515-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brown Bears men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter the season, due to poor ice conditions, poor results in games and a lack of support, Brown suspended its ice hockey program. The team would remain dormant for 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035515-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Brown Bears men's ice hockey season, Schedule and results\n\u2020 Yale records the score of the game as 7\u20133 Yale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035516-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1905\u201306 NCAA men's basketball season. The Bison's team captain of the 1905\u201306 season was G.W. Leach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Burslem Port Vale's eighth consecutive season (12th overall) of football in the English Football League. It was another season spent struggling at the lower end of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nOn the pitch the team allowed goals and narrowly avoided the re-election zone. A poor season on the pitch was more than matched by a hopeless financial season off the pitch, with low attendance figures suggesting that the club could not sustain league football for much longer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nAn expanded league saw an extra four new clubs added to the division, in addition to the replacement for Doncaster Rovers, who failed to gain re-election the previous season. This put the Vale up against Chelsea, Hull City, Leeds City, and Clapton Orient for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe first five games of the season saw a tally of just three points collected, with fourteen goals conceded. This was followed by four wins in five as the club surged up the league, this run included a 3\u20132 win over high-flying Chelsea, where an impressive 6,000 fans turned up. Another barren spell followed, with just one point gained in the following nine games \u2013 in six of these the \"Valeites\" failed to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0003-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nA rare win came on 30 December, with Harry Mountford scoring a hat-trick past Lincoln City \u2013 the first hat-trick a Vale player had scored in close to three years. However the side then proceeded to lose all their matches in January. The last three months saw a revival, and the club managed to win six of their last fifteen games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe Vale finished just outside the re-election zone on goal average, if the ranking was based on goal difference then they would have finished below Chesterfield. Vale lost seventeen of their nineteen away games, never drawing a match away from home, and conceded more on their travels than any other side in the league. Overall the defence was the leakiest in the division, conceding 82 goals in 38 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nHarry Mountford was the club's top scorer with 15 goals, with Robert Carter, Philip Smith, George Price also contributing significantly to the scoring tally. Carter and Arthur Box missed just three matches; Mountford, Price, James Hamilton, and William Cope also hardly missed a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0006-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nThe financial outlook was bleak, poor runs of results saw already low attendance figures plummet. The club's directors therefore took the decision to sell right-half Harry Croxton and inspirational striker Adrian Capes to Stoke in November 1905. There were rumours of the club winding up at the end of the season, though the club would continue in its current form for one more season. Despite selling players and spending frugally the club lost a whopping \u00a3450, with gate receipts falling by \u00a3280 on the previous campaign. Sam Gleaves warned that if supporters failed to turn up for matches then the club would \"inevitably cease to exist\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035517-0007-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, Vale defeated amateur club Oxford City after Oxford failed to make the most of their shooting chances; the Second Round saw Vale eliminated by Gainsborough Trinity at home, despite having organized special training sessions beforehand. In the County cups, Vale knocked out local rivals Stoke (Reserves) at home by 5\u20130 and 3\u20130 scorelines, before receiving 7\u20130 and 5\u20131 thumpings at Birmingham and Burton United respectively at the semi-final stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035518-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Butler University during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter Kelly, coaching in his second season with the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035519-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Carnegie Tech Tartans men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Carnegie Tech Tartans men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035519-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Carnegie Tech Tartans men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team played three games during their inaugural season. The team was prepared to play more matches but scheduling opponents was an issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035520-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1905\u201306 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Chelsea Football Club's first competitive season and first year in existence. Newly elected to the Football League, Chelsea competed in the Second Division. Under the guidance of young player-manager Jacky Robertson, Chelsea finished third in the division earning 53 points (under the two points for a win system), missing out on promotion after a late run of bad form. The Pensioners also suffered from bad luck in the FA Cup, a scheduling conflict forcing them to play a mostly amateur reserve side against non-league Crystal Palace, losing 7-1 in the Third Qualifying Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Formation and pre-season buildup\nChelsea Football Club were founded on 10 March 1905 although the club's early existence was hindered with problems. Since there was already a team named Fulham F.C. in the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham, a name for the club had to be decided. After London F.C., Kensington F.C. and Stamford Bridge F.C. were rejected, the name of the adjacent borough, the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, was settled on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Formation and pre-season buildup\nBlue shirts were adopted for the team by the club's founder and first chairman, Gus Mears, along with white shorts and dark blue socks. Further problems arose when the team were denied entry to the Southern League following objections from Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur, so admission to the Football League was applied for. Their candidacy was endorsed at the Football League annual general meeting on 29 May 1905. Scottish international John Robertson was hired as the club's first player-manager, a half-back who would go on to score Chelsea's first competitive goal in a 1-0 win against Blackpool. After this, the club recruited many established players from other teams, including 22 stone goalkeeper William \"Fatty\" Foulke previously of Sheffield United, and forward Jimmy Windridge who came from Small Heath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Formation and pre-season buildup\nChelsea were one of four new teams to join the Football League, the other three being Hull City, Leeds City and Clapton Orient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, September\nChelsea's first ever league campaign began on 2 September with a trip to Cheshire to face Lancashire Combination champions Stockport County at Edgeley Park. The match was a tight affair against a side with previous experience in the second tier, with County having an Ashton Schofield penalty saved by Chelsea goalkeeper Bill Foulke only for George Dodd to put the ball in from the rebound with half an hour to play to give the hosts two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0004-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, September\nFor their following match on 9 September, The Pensioners once again travelled up north, this time to Lancashire to play Blackpool at Bloomfield Road, gaining their first two points of the season in another close encounter through a late winner from player-manager Jacky Roberston in the 80th minute, who gained the distinction of being Chelsea's first ever league goalscorer. Furthermore, Foulke kept his first clean sheet of the season, registering the club's first ever in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0004-0002", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, September\nTwo days later, Chelsea played their first ever home league match against newly elected Hull City, with the Blues romping to a 5-1 win. David Copeland grabbed a first half brace through goals in the 15th and 40th minutes, in the second half, Jimmy Windridge added a quick-fire double in the 55th and 58th minutes to give the Blues four, with the Tigers then gaining a consolation through Peter Howe before Windridge scored his third, registering Chelsea's first ever league hat-trick. Furthermore, Foulke kept up his heroics with a save from Hull's player-manager Ambrose Langley's penalty, his second in three matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, September\nOn 16 September Chelsea made their way to the West Riding of Yorkshire where they drew 1-1 with Bradford City, who had only switched codes from rugby league two years prior. Played at Valley Parade in front of a large crowd of 17,000, the Blues fell behind to a Wally Smith goal after 62 minutes, but saved a point through a late equaliser from Bob McRoberts in the 85th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0005-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, September\nOn 23 September, Chelsea earned their third win of the league campaign against 2-time FA Cup winners, recent Second Division champions and former First Division side West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge, the 1-0 victory coming courtesy of another McRoberts goal in the 25th minute. Chelsea ended the month with another victory on 30 September, this time in Leicestershire at Filbert Street against Leicester Fosse. The winner coming via Jimmy Robertson in the 10th minute. Playing 6 games and winning 4 of them, Chelsea ended the month with 9 points and in 3rd place, showing very promising form and exhibiting clear potential to mount a strong promotion push in their d\u00e9but season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0006-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, October\nOn 7 October Chelsea began their first cup campaign with a 6-1 drubbing of the 1st Grenadier Guards' football team in an FA Cup First Qualifying Round match at Stamford Bridge, Francis O'Hara opened the scoring after 2 minutes, registering the club's first-ever cup goal, with Jimmy Robertson adding a second shortly after. O'Hara promptly got his second, giving the Blues a 3-0 lead after only 15 minutes. Martin Moran made it 4-0 before Pte. Stanley gave the soldiers a consolation in the 50th minute, however Jimmy Windridge later scored a brace give to Chelsea a wider winning margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0006-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, October\nChelsea maintained their strong league form in Northern Lincolnshire with a convincing 4-1 defeat of Lincoln City at Sincil Bank on 14 October, Windridge opened the scoring in the 30th minute, followed by a Frank Pearson goal two minutes later. McRoberts later added a third and Pearson added a fourth to complete a brace, with William Watson managing a consolation goal for the Imps in the 85th minute. However their seven match unbeaten run in all competitions came to an end on 21 October with the visit of Chesterfield Town to Stamford Bridge, the winner coming from Joe Ball in the 55th minute for a 1-0 win over the Blues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0007-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, October\nIn the Second Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, the Blues travelled to the south of the capital to play fellow Londoners Southern United of the Southern League Division Two at Brown's Ground in Nunhead, Camberwell. The Pensioners won the derby 1-0 courtesy of a Tommy McDermott goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0007-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, October\nFurthermore, defender Bob Mackie kept a clean sheet whilst deputising for Foulke, registering the club's first ever in the FA Cup Two days later, Chelsea suffered their second consecutive league defeat at the hands of Burslem Port Vale at the Athletic Ground in Staffordshire, the Valiants went two goals up via George Price and Harry Croxton in the 9th and 51st minutes respectively. The Blues later pulled a goal back through Pearson, however Robert Carter re-established Burslem's two goal advantage before Moran halved their lead once more with five minutes left, however Chelsea could not find an equaliser. Chelsea ended October having won two cup games and progressing to the Third Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, however a dip in league form saw them to drop to 6th place, denting their promotion hopes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0008-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, November\nOn 4 November Chelsea bounced back from those two league defeats by trouncing Barnsley 6-0 at Stamford Bridge. Pearson opened the scoring in the 25th minute, with Copeland and McDermott adding another two goals in quick succession in the 26th and 32nd minutes respectively, thus giving the Pensioners a 3-0 lead, with all three goals coming within a 7-minute period. Later on McRoberts scored a penalty 5 minutes from half-time to make it 4, Pearson got his second and Chelsea's fifth in the 75th minute, and McDermott also got a brace, adding a 6th in the 90th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0008-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, November\nOn 11 November, the Blues travelled to Clapton, Hackney to face newly elected Londoners Clapton Orient at Millfields Road, once again Chelsea registered a comfortable victory, beating Orient 3-0, Pearson opened the scoring in the 43rd minute, with Copeland adding a second in the 60th minute and Pearson completing his brace in the 75th minute to wrap up the scoring, giving the Blues their first derby win in the league. Additionally, Foulke kept his 5th clean sheet of the league campaign, with Chelsea's newly assembled defence finding their feet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0009-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, November\nChelsea registered their third consecutive league win against former First Division side and Second Division champions several years prior, Burnley at Stamford Bridge on 18 November, the narrow 1-0 victory courtesy of a McRoberts goal in the 70th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0009-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, November\nHowever, due to a scheduling conflict, Chelsea crashed out of the FA Cup in the Third Qualifying Round after they were forced to play Southern League Division Two side Crystal Palace in another cup derby at the FA Cup Final venue, the Crystal Palace Park in Penge, Kent just outside of London on the same day as the league match with Burnley, with Jacky Robertson prioritising the league match, he fielded a mostly amateur reserve side in the cup, losing 7-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0009-0002", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, November\nWilf Innerd opened the scoring for Palace, getting an early brace, followed by two goals from Mart Watkins, whose second was a penalty, to make it 4. Archie Needham and Dick Harker then added a 5th and 6th respectively, with Watkins completing his hat-trick to make it 7. Chelsea did at least manage a late consolation goal through O'Hara. To add to the Pensioners' humiliation, to this day, this defeat is the largest win a non-league side has ever registered against league opposition in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0009-0003", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, November\nChelsea wrapped up the month with a 0-0 draw against newly elected Leeds City at Elland Road on 25 November. Despite Chelsea's unfortunate FA Cup exit, the Blues went undefeated in the league in November, winning 3 and drawing 1 without conceding a goal, taking them back up to 3rd place and back into contention for promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0010-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, December\nChelsea kept up their good form with a 3-0 defeat of Burton United at Stamford Bridge on 2 December, Jimmy Robertson getting the first goal in the 20th minute with McDermott and Moran adding a second and third respectively. On 9 December, Chelsea narrowly defeated Grimsby Town 2-0 at Stamford Bridge, with two late goals coming from Tom McDermott and Jack Kirwan in the 80th and 85th minutes respectively, with Bob McRoberts also having a penalty saved. On 16 December, Chelsea won once again, this time at The Northolme beating Gainsborough Trinity 2-0, Jimmy Robertson scoring the first goal in the 20th minute with Hall later netting an own goal. Foulke once again kept a clean sheet, his 10th of the season after only 16 league games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0011-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, December\nOn 23 December, the Pensioners began a hectic festive period with 3 games in 4 days, the first 2 against promotion rivals. They drew 0-0 with Bristol City at Stamford Bridge, and two days later on Christmas Day, drew with Manchester United at Bank Street by the same scoreline. On Boxing Day, Chelsea travelled to North Road to play Glossop, winning 4-2. The scorers that day were McRoberts, who opened the scoring after 15 minutes for the Blues, with Kirwan following up to make it 2-0. However, Cuffe halved Chelsea's lead 5 minutes before half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0011-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, December\nKirwan scored his second, completing a brace in the 65th minute to make it 3-1 before Cameron reduced their lead to one goal once more. Jacky Robertson finally sealed the win with the match's 6th goal to make it 4-2. Those two goals by Glossop were the first time the Pensioners conceded in 9 matches. Chelsea ended 1905 on a high with a 4-2 win at Stamford Bridge against Stockport County on 30 December, despite falling behind to a Pass goal after a quarter of an hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0011-0002", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, December\nJimmy Robertson scored two goals in succession to give Chelsea the lead before Waters equalised 3 minutes after half-time. Despite this setback Robertson scored once more to complete his hat-trick with Pearson adding a 4th to complete the scoring. Thus Chelsea ended a second successive month undefeated in the league, their run now stretching to 11 matches. With 30 points and in 3rd place, Chelsea maintained a serious promotion push.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0012-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, January\nThe Pensioners began 1906 just as they ended 1905, keeping up their 12-game unbeaten run in the league with a 6-0 hammering of Blackpool on 6 January at Stamford Bridge. Kirwan and Jimmy Robertson made the score 2-0 after goals in the 20th and 30th minutes respectively, Pearson and Moran netted the next 2 goals to give Chelsea 4, Jacky Robertson got the 5th after 55 minutes and Pearson wrapped up the scoring, completing a brace in the 67th minute. On 20 January Chelsea won their 4th consecutive league game, beating Bradford City 4-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0012-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, January\nThe Blues were 2-0 up at half-time courtesy of goals from Jimmy Robertson and McDermott in the 35th and 40th minutes respectively. In the second half goals from Copeland a minute after the restart and from Kirwan in the 65th minute saw Chelsea go 4-0 up. The Citizens however mounted a late, desperate comeback attempt with McMillan scoring their first and Clarke adding a second 2 minutes from time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0013-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, January\nChelsea played their first away match of the year at The Hawthorns against West Bromwich Albion being held 1-1, ending their 4-game winning streak. Pearson opened the scoring for the Blues and Manners later equalised for Albion. Chelsea ended January undefeated in the league for 3 consecutive months showing exceptional form. However Bristol City and Manchester United also kept up their very solid form, keeping Chelsea outside the automatic promotion places, but with 35 points and in 3rd place, Chelsea were well positioned to take the promotion race down to the wire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0014-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, February\nChelsea began the month with a 3-3 draw with Leicester Fosse at Stamford Bridge on 5 February. The Blues raced to a 2-0 lead within 10 minutes with goals by Windridge and Jimmy Robertson in the 2nd and 10th minutes respectively. Hodgkinson got one back for Leicester in the 25th minute before Pearson gave Chelsea a 3-1 half-time lead with a goal in the 42nd minute. In the second half, goals from Blessington and Hubbard saved a point for Leicester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0014-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, February\nOn 10 February Chelsea's astonishing 15-match unbeaten run in the league was brought to a crashing halt at Anlaby Road as the Blues went 4-0 down to Hull City, all the more surprising as the Tigers were beaten 5-1 by Chelsea in September. The goalscorers for Hull were Rushton, who opened the scoring, followed by a brace from Joe Smith with the 4th scored by Gordon. Chelsea mounted a valiant comeback effort however, but it was to prove in vain as they could only manage three goals from Windridge, Jacky Robertson and Jimmy Robertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0015-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, February\nOn 17 February Chelsea were back to winning ways for the visit of Lincoln City to Stamford Bridge, who were beaten 4-2. Pearson's goal in the 1rst minute clearly emphasised Chelsea's intent to put the previous week's result behind them, however Martin equalised for Lincoln. Despite this setback, McDermott and George Key gave Chelsea a secure lead before McRoberts tucked away a penalty with 10 minutes to go to make it 4. Machin grabbed a second for the Imps, however it was too late to mount a comeback. On 24 February Chelsea travelled to the Recreation Ground to defeat Chesterfield Town 2-0. Kirwan and Pearson gave the Blues the win with goals in the 4th and 20th minutes respectively. The Blues finished the month still in third place, with their sights still set firmly on the promotion places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0016-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, March\nChelsea won their 3rd match in a row with a 7-0 thrashing of Burslem Port Vale at Stamford Bridge on 3 March. Jimmy Robertson opened the scoring and McRoberts added the second from the penalty spot after half an hour. Pearson and Jacky Robertson added another 2 to give the Pensioners 4 goals. Moran scored the fifth and Kirwan completed the scoring with a brace, his second coming 40 minutes from time. Furthermore, Bill Foulke astonishingly managed to keep a clean sheet despite the Blues conceding 2 penalties, by saving both of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0016-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, March\nChelsea maintained their winning ways with a narrow 2-1 win against Barnsley at Oakwell on 10 March. Pearson opened the scoring for the Blues with a goal in the 22nd minute, however Wall later equalised for the Reds before Windridge scored the winner for Chelsea in the 58th minute. This win allowed the Pensioners to overtake Manchester United into second place, who had 2 matches in hand however, putting Chelsea in the promotion places for the first time in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0016-0002", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, March\nOn 17 March Chelsea faced Clapton Orient at Stamford Bridge, getting an impressive 6-1 win despite going behind to a Leigh goal after 10 minutes. Windridge opened the scoring for Chelsea followed by goals from Charles Donaghy, Pearson and John Robertson, who scored from 12 yards to make it 4. James Robertson added a fifth before Windridge scored his second to round off the scoring, to secure the Blues' fifth consecutive victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0017-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, March\nHowever, Chelsea's purple patch came to an abrupt end with a disappointing 2-0 defeat to Burnley at Turf Moor on 24 March, with the Clarets securing the win through two first-half goals from Bell and R Smith in the 11th and 21st minutes respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0017-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, March\nChelsea bounced back from that defeat with a 4-0 rout of Leeds City on 31 March at Stamford Bridge, with Pearson getting the opener after half an hour and McRoberts doubling the Blues' led through a penalty in the 40th minute, with McDermott later added a third and Windridge scoring the fourth with a quarter of an hour left to round off the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0017-0002", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, March\nChelsea thus ended the month strongly with 4 wins, however their defeat at Burnley cost them dearly and they ended the month once again just outside the promotion places as Manchester United regained 2nd place after playing their outstanding fixtures. Chelsea could ill afford any more slip ups going into the final month of the season as the promotion race between the Blues, Bristol City and Manchester United began to reach its critical stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0018-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nAt the start of the month, Bristol City led the league with 55 points in 32 matches played, however Manchester United, who had a game in hand, and Chelsea were 6 and 7 points behind the Robins respectively. In 4th place were West Bromwich Albion on 46 points and 32 matches played, who also still had a very real chance of clinching second place. On 7 April Chelsea faced Burton United at Peel Croft and secured a very important 4-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0018-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nWindridge opened the scoring after 10 minutes and later added a second before Hunt halved the Pensioners' lead 3 minutes before half-time. James Robertson then added Chelsea's third to restore the two goal cushion before Burton once again halved their lead through a Bradshaw goal, however the victory was confirmed by Windridge's 3rd, completing his second hat-trick of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0018-0002", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nElsewhere Bristol City drew with Burnley, thus giving Manchester United, who registered a victory over Clapton Orient, and Chelsea's title hopes a shot in the arm, West Bromwich Albion lost heavily to Hull City however, seriously denting their fragile promotion push. On 13 April Chelsea played promotion rivals Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in a make or break match for both sides. The contest finished in a hard-fought 1-1 draw attended by 67 000 spectators, with Peddie opening the scoring for United in the 67th minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0018-0003", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nMcDermott equalised for Chelsea with 10 minutes to play, keeping the Pensioners' promotion hopes alive. However, Bristol City won their match against Gainsborough Trinity, taking advantage of the draw between their closest rivals to increase their lead at the top, whereas West Bromwich Albion suffered another heavy defeat, this time to Barnsley, all but ending their promotion hopes. The following day Chelsea travelled to Blundell Park to face Grimsby Town where they could only muster a disappointing 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0018-0004", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nThe Mariners took the lead through Robinson 5 minutes before half-time, and Jacky Robertson rescued a point for Chelsea with a last-minute equaliser. Bristol City and Manchester United both won against Leeds City and Burnley respectively, with both sides edging away from Chelsea, who desperately needed to win their next match two days later. Furthermore, Bristol City's victory meant that Chelsea could mathematically no longer win the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0019-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nFor a third match in a row Chelsea failed to win, drawing 0-0 at home with Glossop, whereas Manchester United defeated Gainsborough Trinity to establish a 3-point lead over the Blues, putting their promotion hopes in serious jeopardy as they still had a game in hand over them. In the meantime, Bristol City recorded their third consecutive win against Grimsby Town. On 21 April Chelsea once again performed poorly, losing 3-1 at home to Gainsborough Trinity, despite going into the lead through Mackie after 10 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0019-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nThe Trinity goals coming via Smith 2 minutes before half-time and Morley with half an hour left, who later added a third. To add insult to injury McRobert had a penalty saved by Bagshaw. This loss coupled with Manchester United's victory over Leeds City, clinched the promotion spot for Manchester United. Bristol City also won their match against Burton United to win the Second Division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035521-0019-0002", "contents": "1905\u201306 Chelsea F.C. season, Month by month review, April\nThus Chelsea, who began April with a strong chance of promotion completely faded away, failing to win four matches in a row, condemning themselves to a 3rd-place finish, and another season in the second tier. In their final match of the season on 28 April, Chelsea travelled to Ashton Gate to face newly crowned champions Bristol City. In a close affair the champions came away with a 2-1 victory with goals from Gilligan in the 10th minutes and Burton in the 57th, with Chelsea grabbing a late goal 2 minutes from time through Pearson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035522-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Amos Foster, coaching his second season with the Bearcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035523-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Colgate men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his sixth season. The team had finished with an overall record of 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035524-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 10th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035524-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nGraduate student and former varsity player Rudolph Von Bernuth served as the team's coach while K. M. Spence served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035524-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035525-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season. The Aggies completed the season with a 6\u20133 overall record. The Aggies were members of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035526-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Crystal Palace F.C. season\nCrystal Palace F.C. 's first official league season started in Division Two of the Southern League, which consisted mainly of other clubs' reserve sides alongside Grays United, Leyton, Southern United and St. Leonard's and was a successful one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035526-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Crystal Palace F.C. season\nThe Palace opening match was against Southampton Reserves, and approximately 3,000 people paid 6d to stand or a shilling to sit. Palace led 3\u20130 after 30 minutes, before fading and losing 3\u20134. However, that was the club's only defeat in the League all season, and Crystal Palace won the championship and were promoted to the Southern League First Division. The season included a run of 17 straight victories, and a 9\u20131 win over Grays United at Crystal Palace. Attendances for the season were regularly between 2,000 and 3,000 although 4,000 watched the 1-1 FA Cup tie against Blackpool. Palace also secured their record victory in this season, a friendly against West Beckenham on 24 February 1906 which Palace won 17\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035526-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Crystal Palace F.C. season, FA Cup\nAs a brand new club Crystal Palace had to qualify for entry into the first round proper of the FA Cup. In the first qualifying round Palace were drawn at home against Clapham. The match saw Palace run out 7-0 winners, with William Watkins scoring the first ever hat-trick. The next round saw Palace overcome the 2nd Grenadier Guards and earn a draw against Chelsea in the third qualifying round. Chelsea at the time were a big draw, fielding the famous goalkeeper, William Foulke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035526-0002-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Crystal Palace F.C. season, FA Cup\nSadly, Chelsea were obliged to fulfil a League fixture on the same day, and chasing promotion from the Football League Second Division, decided to concentrate on the league. They fielded a reserve side against Palace who duly ran out 7-1, with Watkins scoring another hat-trick. The ease of this victory saw the FA change the rules to ensure clubs always fielded their strongest sides. Palace then dispatched Luton Town in the fourth and final qualifying round to ensure a place in the First Round Draw. Here they were paired with Blackpool, and the tie was eventually settled in a second replay at neutral venue Villa Park after both teams failed to make home advantage pay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035527-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball team represented Dartmouth College in intercollegiate basketball during the 1905\u201306 season. The team finished the season with a 16\u20132 record and were named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Player George Grebenstein was named a consensus All-American as well as the national player of the year at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035528-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season was the inaugural season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035528-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season, Season\nJoining in with the majority of other future Ivy League teams, Darthmouth began playing ice hockey with the 1905\u201306 season. The genesis of the team was a result of the efforts of four students from the Cambridge area: Addison Brooks, Eugene Brooks, John Crocker and Warren Foote. All four would eventually serve as captain for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035528-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Dartmouth College did not possess a moniker for its athletic teams until the 1920s, however, the university had adopted 'Dartmouth Green' as its school color in 1866.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035529-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball team represented the University of Delaware during the 1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season. In the first season in school history, Delaware compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record. Their coach was Samuel Saunder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035530-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1905\u201306 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, led by first year head coach Walter S. Brokaw, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035531-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University during the 1905\u201306 men's college basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 29th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Qualifying Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Scottish Combination League and the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season\nIn June 1905 Dumbarton Football Club was reformed with applications being made to the SFA and the Scottish Combination League for admission. Once accepted, Dumbarton joined their neighbours Renton in the Combination but Vale of Leven had been elected to the Second Division of the Scottish League, and their place was taken by Stenhousemuir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nThe first game of the new season took place at Boghead on Tuesday 15 August against a strong Rangers XI in a friendly fixture and in a confident display the debut of the revived Sons of the Rock was a success, running out 3-1 victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nDumbarton\u2019s first competitive game in over four years was played at Boghead in a league fixture against local rivals Renton on 19 August. The Sons strongest XI was present for this Combination League tie and despite being goalless at the interval Dumbarton piled on the pressure in the second half to win comfortably 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nPerhaps trying to take as much advantage of their new status as possible Dumbarton played two midweek friendlies on 23 and 24 August against Queen\u2019s Park (home) and Vale of Leven (away) respectively. In the first against old rivals Queen\u2019s Park the team showed one change with James Stevenson (ex Notts County) coming in place of Crawford. The game was evenly contested and finished in a 3-3 draw. In the second against neighbours Vale a number of new players were given tryouts but despite this Dumbarton challenged the Second Division team strongly only losing out 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nOn 26 August it was back to league business with an away tie against Alloa Athletic. Crawford returned but this time Stevenson replaced McMurray at inside left. Dumbarton started strongly but it was Alloa who established an early 3-0 lead. Dumbarton however came back and by half time had reduced the arrears to 4-2. A goal each was secured in the second half and Dumbarton lost 5-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0006-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nThe first weekend of September saw Dumbarton drawn away in the Qualifying Cup to Lanarkshire side Carfin Emmett, although by agreement the sides decided to play at Boghead. Walker replaced Davie in goals and John Temple (ex Dumbarton Corinthians) came in at left back. The changes did not seem to hinder the Sons as they strolled to a 4-0 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0007-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nThe following Saturday it was a league tie in Ayrshire against Galston. The teams showed a couple of changes with Hendry replacing Cairney at left half and trialist Hoall took Stevenson\u2019s place at inside right. In a disappointing match Dumbarton manage to snatch a point with a late goal in a 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0008-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nOn 16 September Dumbarton had a hard task as they were drawn against Second Division side Hamilton Academical in the second round of the Qualifying Cup. Offers had been made by Hamilton to switch the venue but Dumbarton decided that the locals deserved to have their favourites at home. Davie returned in goal as did McMurray at inside left. Nonetheless it was the Accies who took the tie 2-0 and advanced to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0009-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nA week later another Lanarkshire side visited Boghead \u2013 Dykehead on league business. There was a reshuffle in the Dumbarton team with Hendry returning in place of Colquhoun and a debut for McLachlan at left half. Unfortunately the changes did not have the desired effect and in a disappointing game Dykehead left with both points after a 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0010-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nAfter two home defeats it was hoped that Dumbarton\u2019s third home fixture on the trot would bring better results. Three new faces were introduced \u2013 Richard Oldcorn in goal and Francis McCormack on the left wing who had both impressed in the Qualifying Cup tie for Carfin despite the result, and McHarg (ex Ayr Parkhouse). The opponents were Ayr Parkhouse and on the day Dumbarton got back into winning ways with a 4-0 victory \u2013 and that despite losing McCallum to injury 10 minutes into the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0011-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nSo at the end of September Stenhousemuir led in the league with 8 points from their four matches. Dumbarton were in 5th with 5 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0012-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nAt the beginning of the month the Dumbartonshire Football Association reformed and agreed to play the county championship by way of a league involving Dumbarton, Renton and Vale of Leven with home and away ties \u2013 the top two then playing off for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0013-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nOn 7 October Dumbarton played their return league fixture against Renton at Tontine Park. Anderson was introduced in place of McHarg, with Crawford and McMurray returning to the team. In a tough contest the Sons just got the better of their county neighbours by 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0014-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nA week later Dumbarton entertained Thornliebank at Boghead for their league fixture. The Sons were never troubled and eased to a 3-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0015-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nAfter a free Saturday, Dumbarton continued their league campaign with an away tie against Bathgate. An unchanged side turned out. The visitors adapted to the muddy conditions much quicker but a brilliant display by the Bathgate keeper kept the score at the interval at 1-1. The keeper continued to thwart the Dumbarton front men until at last a winner was found and a valuable 2 points gained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0016-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nSo Dumbarton now had pushed up the league, and though Stenhousemuir still led with 12 points from 7 matches, Dumbarton were just a point behind having played 8 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0017-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nA full strength team turned out on 4 November at Tontine Park to play Renton in their first fixture of the Dumbartonshire Cup. A close tussle was expected and so it seemed up till the interval when the score was goalless. In the second half however there was only one team in it as Dumbarton strolled to a 6-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0018-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nThe following weekend Dumbarton entertained league leaders Stenhousemuir at Boghead. Once again an unchanged squad took to the field and in muddy conditions took control from the start. Just one goal ahead at the interval Dumbarton pushed hard in the second half and added another three for a comfortable 4-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0019-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nOn 18 November Dumbarton travelled to Ayr to play the Parkhouse in their return fixture. McCallum replaced Colquhoun but the change had no effect on the Dumbarton confidence as they ran out winners by 5-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0020-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nA week later it was back to Boghead to welcome Royal Albert in the league. Unfortunately the referee failed to turn up but the teams agreed to play a friendly. Dumbarton had a new face in the front line, Alex Lockhart (ex Dumbarton Harp) taking Anderson\u2019s place. The Larkhall club began well and scored first but Dumbarton equalised before the interval. As had been the case in recent matches Dumbarton moved up a gear in the second half and put on another three goals to win by 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0021-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nSo as November ended Dumbarton maintained their 2nd place still a point behind Stenhousemuir, but with the game in hand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0022-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nDumbarton\u2019s winning streak stretched back to September when their last loss was at home against Dykehead. So on 2 December the Sons were looking for revenge when they visited Shotts to play the Dykehead team in the return fixture. As it was following a close match the home side took the spoils in a 3-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0023-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nThe following Saturday Dumbarton were to have played Bathgate in a league fixture but due to a clash of cup commitments, the Sons instead played a friendly against King\u2019s Park at Boghead. On the day Dumbarton had no difficulty in getting back to winning ways and comfortably brushed aside the Stirlingshire men 5-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0024-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nOn 16 December Dumbarton travelled to Ochilview Park to visit the league leaders Stenhousemuir. A few weeks previously the Sons had dispatched the Warriors by 4-0 but even with their strongest team available the task was a challenging one. In the game Dumbarton began furiously and had two goals disallowed for offside before Lockhart scored. However before the interval Stenhousemuir equalised. In the second half the match swung to and fro but in the end the Sons ran out 4-3 winners \u2013 thus ending Stenhousemuir\u2019s unbeaten home record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0025-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nFollowing the recent postponement, Dumbarton welcomed Bathgate to Boghead in the league on 23 December. Dumbarton brought in Dumbarton Corinthian Tom Kelso at right back in place of Mitchell but as it happened the defence were rarely troubled in an easy 4-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0026-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nA week later Dumbarton were again at home, this time to Queens Park Strollers. While the Combination League had for some time welcomed the second XIs of a number of \u2018big\u2019 league sides, the only one left was the second team of the Hampden Park amateurs. In an exciting game in front of a large crowd the Sons had a single goal victory, a victory which could have been much greater but for the excellent display of the Queens Park keeper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0027-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nSo as 1905 ended Dumbarton were still in second place with 19 points from 13 games. (During the month Thornliebank had been expelled from the league and all their results expunged including the win gained by Dumbarton in October.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0028-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nFor the New Year holidays Dumbarton arranged a friendly with Second Division front runners Clyde on 3 January at Boghead. Despite miserable conditions the confidence of the Dumbarton team continued as they cruised to a 6-3 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0029-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nAfter a weekend ruined by winter weather, Dumbarton played their postponed league tie against Royal Albert on 13 January at Boghead. In the friendly played in November when the referee failed to appear the Sons won 4-1, and on this occasion with a full strength team they went one goal better and took both points with a 5-1 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0030-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nThe same team turned out the following Saturday for a friendly fixture with Combination rivals Stenhousemuir at Boghead. In the league encounter in November Dumbarton had eased to a 4-0 win- and for the second week in a row they bettered their previous score by a goal by winning 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0031-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nOn 27 January Dumbarton entertained Renton in the return fixture of the Dumbartonshire Cup. Robert Ferguson trialled at right bank but otherwise a full strength team was available. On the day the home team won easily by 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0032-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nAt the end of the month in addition to topping the county league, Dumbarton had at last reached the top of the Combination league with 21 points from 14 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0033-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nOn 3 February Dumbarton returned to league business and it was again Royal Albert that provided the opposition, but this time at Larkhall. John Brander (ex Clydebank Corinthians) appeared at inside left in place of McMurray. A tougher tussle was envisaged but on the day the Sons were the better side and won easily by 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0034-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nA week later, Ferguson replaced Temple at left back as Galston made the return trip to Boghead. The Ayrshire side had taken a point from Dumbarton in the first fixture, but despite holding the Sons to a 2-1 interval lead, the home side eased to their tenth successive win by scoring a further three goals in the second half, to win 5-2 \u2013 Crawford netting a hat trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0035-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nWith no competitive fixture, Dumbarton played host to Second Division side Abercorn on 17 February. In a close encounter it was the Sons who came out on top by the only goal scored by McCormack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0036-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nFor the second successive week there was no league or cup fixture to play, but on 24 February Dumbarton played Clyde in a friendly at Boghead. The Sons had already defeated their opponents in January by 6-3, but this encounter was a much closer affair. The home side led at the interval 1-0, only for Clyde to equalise early in the second half. Dumbarton came back again to lead 2-1 but before time was called Clyde levelled matters at 2-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0037-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nSo as February came to an end Dumbarton were still at the top of the league with 25 points from 16 games. Stenhousemuir were a point behind with a game more played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0038-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nOn 3 March Dumbarton visited Cathkin Park to play Queen\u2019s Park Strollers. In the home league tie the Sons had won by the only goal, but since that time the teams had differing fortunes in the league in that while Dumbarton topped the league the Strollers were anchored at the bottom. On the day the result was never in doubt, the Dumbarton men trouncing their opponents by 6-1 \u2013 new boy Bob Gordon scoring one of the goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0039-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nAfter a free week, Beith made the trip to Boghead to play the first of the league fixtures between the clubs. Beith were the reigning league champions but results this season had been hard to come by. A strong Dumbarton team swept aside any challenge that Beith mustered and won by 3-0, McCormack scoring all three goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0040-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nOn 24 March, the first of the county ties against Vale of Leven took place at Boghead in front of an \u2018enormous\u2019 crowd. With an unbeaten run of 14 games Dumbarton were the undoubted favourites over their Second Division rivals, but with a disappointing display from the forwards, Vale took the spoils by the only goal of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0041-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nOn the final day of March Dumbarton travelled to Beith to fulfil their return league fixture, knowing that a single point would secure the Combination championship. The full strength team were not leaving anything to chance and matched the score of 3-0 gained a fortnight earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0042-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nSo the championship flag would fly at Boghead next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0043-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nDumbarton followed up a free week by entertaining Johnstone at Boghead in a friendly on 14 April. A full strength home side took no pity on their opponents and gave them a sound thrashing by 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0044-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nThe following Saturday Dumbarton travelled to Millburn Park to play the return county fixture with Vale of Leven. Having lost the home tie by the single goal to their Second Division opponents in March, the Sons were anxious to level matters. However despite having most of the game it was the Vale who again scored the only goal of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0045-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nAt the end of the league part of the county championship, Renton, Vale of Leven and Dumbarton had each won two of their four games but by means of the worst goal average it would be Renton that would miss out on the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0046-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nThe final of the Dumbartonshire Cup was played on 5 May against Vale of Leven at Tontine Park. Having lost both of the qualifying matches by a goal to nil the question was would it be third time lucky? Unfortunately it was a case of a third 1-0 defeat and Vale retained the county championship for a further year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0047-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nThe following Thursday evening the Sons travelled once again to meet Vale of Leven, this time in a benefit match for a former Vale player George McKinlay, and at last a victory was recorded by 2-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0048-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nThe last game of Dumbarton\u2019s season was played on 12 May with a friendly against Renton at Tontine Park. Renton went into a two goal lead early in the second half, but the Sons fought back to gain a 2-2 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0049-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nFollowing the winning of the Combination league, Dumbarton applied for admitted to the Second Division of the Scottish League. The committee met on 22 May to decide on the \u2018ups\u2019 and \u2018downs\u2019 and in the case of the Second Division, the bottom two clubs (including Vale of Leven) were up against 11 clubs from other affiliated leagues (including Dumbarton and Renton). On the vote Vale retained their place and Dumbarton would join them. Results as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0050-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Match results, Scottish Combination League, Final league table\nNote: Amongst others, the return fixture between Dumbarton and Alloa Athletic was never played, presumably as the result would not have affected the outcome of the league championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 93], "content_span": [94, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035532-0051-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics\nReforming after a five year gap meant a completely new team required to be built and local interest was keen \u2013 and so at the beginning of the season the first XI shaped up as follows- goal: Charles Davie (ex Renton) \u2013 backs: Harry Mitchell and David McGregor (both ex Renton) \u2013 half backs: Alex McCallum, John Crawford (both ex Renton) and Thomas Cairney (ex St Mirren) \u2013 forwards: James Stewart (ex Ashfield),William Speedie (ex Renton), Peter McMillan, Alex McMurray (ex Motherwell) and William Colquhoun (ex Dumbarton Harp).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035533-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the thirteenth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where they would finish in 7th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would lose to Celtic in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035534-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ethnikos G.S. Athens season\n1905-06 was Ethnikos' first season of organised football, competing in the very first Panhellenic Championship, in which the club came first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035534-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ethnikos G.S. Athens season, Squad\nAppearances and goals include the Panhellenic Championship, Olympic Games and friendly matches, of which statistics are known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup\nThe FA Cup 1905\u201306 was the 35th staging of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Everton won the competition for the first time, beating Newcastle United 1\u20130 in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup\nThe Crystal Palace versus Chelsea tie in the third qualifying round led to the Football Association changing the rules. The tie was scheduled to be played on 18 November 1905, and Chelsea were also obliged to play a Football League game against Burnley F.C.. Chelsea were chasing promotion from the Second Division, and so they fielded a full strength side in the league and sent a reserve team to Palace. Palace won the fixture 7-1 in front of a crowd of 3,000. As a result of the outcry, the Football Association amended their rules such that teams must always field their strongest side in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, four qualifying rounds, four proper rounds, and the semi-finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, First round proper\n29 of the 40 clubs from the First and Second divisions joined the 24 clubs who came through the qualifying rounds. Of the League sides not given byes to this round, Chelsea, Hull City, Leeds City and Clapton Orient were entered at the First Qualifying Round. Chelsea and Leeds City went out in the Third Qualifying Round (to Crystal Palace and Hull City respectively), while the other two teams qualified. Barnsley, Bradford City, Burslem Port Vale, Burton United, Gainsborough Trinity, Glossop and Stockport County were put into the Fourth Qualifying Round, with only Glossop going out, to Brighton & Hove Albion. Sixteen non-league clubs joined the eight League sides in winning through to the First Round Proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, First round proper\nTo replace the missing League teams, eleven Southern League sides were given byes to the First Round to bring the total number of teams up to 64. These were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0006-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, First round proper\n32 matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 13 January 1906. Six matches were drawn and went to replays in the following midweek fixture, of which one went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0007-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe sixteen second round matches were played on Saturday, 3 February 1906. Six matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture. One of these, the Brighton & Hove Albion \u2013 Middlesbrough match, went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0008-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe eight third-round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 24 February 1906. There was one replay, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0009-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, Fourth Round Proper\nThe four quarter final matches were scheduled for Saturday, 10 March 1906. The Newcastle United \u2013 Birmingham game was drawn, and replayed on 14 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0010-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 31 March 1906. Everton and Newcastle United won to meet in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035535-0011-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FA Cup, Final\nThe Final was contested by Everton and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace, on 21 April 1906. Everton won 1\u20130, the goal scored by Alex \"Sandy\" Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035536-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FAHL season\nThe 1905\u201306 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from December 27, 1905, until February 28, 1906. Teams were to play an eight-game schedule, but due to the failure of the Montagnards, some teams played only 6 or 7 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035536-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FAHL season, Regular season\nWith the loss of their top two teams, Ottawa and Wanderers, the quality of the FAHL declined. The teams were replaced with the Ottawa Victorias and Smiths Falls Seniors clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035536-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nThe Montagnards would be completely overwhelmed 26\u20130 by Brockville in their final game on February 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035536-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FAHL season, Regular season, Highlights\nOtherwise, the season was low scoring, with the notable outstanding debut of goaltender Percy LeSueur of Smiths Falls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035536-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FAHL season, Playoffs\nAfter the season ended, Smiths Falls challenged the Ottawa Senators for the Stanley Cup. Ottawa would win the series 2\u20130. After the series, Ottawa would hire Percy LeSueur of the Smiths Falls team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035537-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 7th season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035537-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Barcelona season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035538-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1905\u201306 season was their thirteenth season since the club was formed. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who was chairman for the third consecutive year, in his third presidential term. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel, Basel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035538-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Basel season, Overview\nDaniel Hug was team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. Basel played six pre-season friendlies, three at home in the Landhof and three away. Two of the teams that Basel hosted were from Gemany Freiburger FC and 1. FC Pforzheim. During the winter break the team travelld to Germany to play an away game against Mannheimer FG 1896. They also travelled to Italy and played twice against Genoa CFC, winning 5\u20131 on New Years Eve and 5\u20134 on New Years day. After the league season the team again travelled to Italy and played twice against AC Milan, winning 5\u20132 on Easter Sunday and 5\u20131 on Easter Monday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035538-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe Swiss Serie A season 1905\u201306 was divided into three regional areas, a west, a central and an eastern, where as the east was divided into two groups. Basel were allocated to the central group together with Young Boys, FC Bern and Old Boys Basel. The league was played one match in October, two in November and again one match in February and two in Match. This season was disappointing for the team, because it resulted in solely two victories from six matches. Both victories were against local rivals Old Boys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035538-0002-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Basel season, Overview\nBasel ended the qualification to the finals in bottom position in the group table. In their six championship matches they scored 11 and conceded 17 goals. Young Boys Bern qualified for the finals, which were played in April and May. East group winners won both their final pairings and became Swiss champions for the first time in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035538-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035538-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 FC Basel season, Notes, Sources\n(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in \"Basler Fussballarchiv\" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Most of the documentation is missing.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035539-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Football League\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 18th season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035539-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035539-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Football League, Final league tables\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035539-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Football League, Final league tables\nDuring the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season 1893\u201394, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894\u201395 season and until the 1920\u201321 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035540-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1905-06 French Rugby Union Championship was won by SBUC that beat Stade Fran\u00e7ais in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035540-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 French Rugby Union Championship\nIt was the third final in three years for that team, and was the third victory of the Bordeaux club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035540-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 French Rugby Union Championship\nIn the same year was created the second division championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035540-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nSBUC: L\u00e9on Lannes, Carlos Deltour, Louis Soul\u00e9, Alphonse Mass\u00e9, Jacques Duffourcq, Robert Blanchard, Marcel Laffitte, Louis Mulot, Andr\u00e9 Lacassagne, Mazi\u00e8res, Maurice Leuvielle, Maurice Bruneau, Pascal Laporte, H\u00e9lier Thil, Henri Martin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035540-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nStade Fran\u00e7ais: Georges J\u00e9rome, Marcel Communeau, Edouard Miranowicz, Andr\u00e9 Verg\u00e8s, Albert Cuill\u00e9, Charles Beaurin, Pierre Rousseau, G. Poirier, Guy de Talanc\u00e9, Henri Amand, Charles Vareilles, Paul Maclos, \u00c9mile Lesieur, Augustin Pujol, Julien Combe", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035541-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Galatasaray S.K. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Galatasaray SK's 2nd in existence. Galatasaray SK did not join the IFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035541-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Galatasaray S.K. season, Friendly Matches\nKick-off listed in local time (EEST)Kick-off listed in local time (EEST)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035542-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The team finished the season with an overall record of 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035543-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035543-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor the fourth straight year Harvard finished undefeated, claiming the intercollegiate title. While their winning streak came to an end at 30 their intercollegiate winning streak was continued at 20 games. Harvard entered the game against Yale with both teams undefeated in conference play. Harvard scored 3 times in the first half but were equaled by the Elis in the second. Because the victory would win the IHA championship the game continued on through four scoreless sessions before Richard Townsend ended the game in the fifth 5-minute overtime. The title game possessed the most overtime periods Harvard has ever played, however, because regulation was only 40 minutes, the game time was swiftly surpassed once the college game shifted to three 20-minute periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035544-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Haverford Fords men's soccer team\nThe 1905\u201306 Haverford Fords men's soccer team represented Haverford College during the 1905\u201306 IAFL season, and the 1905\u201306 ACCL season. It was the Fords fifth season of existence. The Fords entered the season as the defending ISFA National Champions and successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035544-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Haverford Fords men's soccer team\nDespite a losing record across all matches, Haverford accumulated a 3\u20130\u20131 record in the ISFA Tournament which guaranteed the Fords their national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035544-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Haverford Fords men's soccer team, Roster\nThe following players played on Haverford's roster during the 1905\u201306 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035544-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Haverford Fords men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035544-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Haverford Fords men's soccer team, Statistics, Top goalscorers\nHaverford junior, Sigmund Spaeth, lead the Fords with eight goals throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035545-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1905\u201306 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035546-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1905\u201306 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished eleventh out of 16 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035547-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Powers, coaching the crusaders in his fifth season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035548-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 IPHL season\nThe 1905\u201306 IPHL season was played by teams of the International Professional Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035549-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035549-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nGym manager and instructor Leo Hana, was put in charge of building the basketball program. The first University of Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, led by its playing captain Roy Riley, beat Champaign High School January 6, 1906, two weeks before Hana was able to replace Riley with a \u201cprofessional\u201d coach. Elwood Brown became Illinois\u2019 first basketball coach January 20, 1906. In the first season of Illinois basketball the Illini went 6-8, 3-6 in the Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035550-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Zora G. Clevenger, who was in his 2nd and final year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035550-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 7\u20139 and a conference record of 2\u20132, finishing 3rd in the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035551-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his seventh season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035552-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1905\u201306 comprised 8 teams, and Cliftonville and Distillery shared the championship after two drawn play-off matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035553-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Istanbul Football League\nThe 1905\u201306 \u0130stanbul Football League season was the second season of the league. Cadi-Keuy FC won the league for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035554-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Isthmian League\nThe 1905\u201306 Isthmian League season was the first in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035555-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 KBUs Fodboldturnering, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Boldklubben af 1893 won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035556-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its eighth season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served his 8th year in that capacity. The Jayhawks finished the season 12\u20137, their first winning record since the 1898\u201399 season. Phog Allen, who would later become the Jayhawks head coach, played on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035557-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Kentucky State men's basketball team competed on behalf of the University of Kentucky during the 1905-1906 season. They started their season and had winning record (3-2 in the first three fives games) for the first time in their history. Afterwards, however, they would lose 7 of 9 of the rest of their games to finish 5-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035558-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Leeds City F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Leeds City's second season in existence and their first season in the Football League, having competed in the West Yorkshire League during the previous season. Leeds City finished sixth in the Second Division on 43 points. They also took part in the FA Cup, where they were eliminated in the Third Qualifying Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035559-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 MHA season\nThe 1905\u201306 Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) season was won by the Kenora Thistles, successfully defending their championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035559-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 MHA season, Playoff\nKenora defeated Winnipeg to take the league title. Kenora challenged for the Stanley Cup, however the challenge was not played until the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035560-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 7th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035560-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nHopes were high after MIT produced a winning season in 1905 but from the start the '06 team had trouble. Two games to be played in New York City were announced for the Christmas break but as it turned out the matches were never arranged. The college newspaper laid the blame at the feet of team manager Benjamin Sharpe who responded with a defense that no such announcement had been made. The paper stood by its statement and used reports from three Boston-area papers as corroboration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035560-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035561-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Madrid FC season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Madrid Football Club's 4th season in existence. The club played three friendly matches including their first international match against French club Gallia FC. They also played in the Campeonato de Madrid (Madrid Championship) and the Copa del Rey. Madrid FC won both competitions becoming the first club to successfully defend both titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035562-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Manchester City F.C. 's fifteenth season of league football and third consecutive season in the top flight of English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035562-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Manchester City F.C. season\nAt the end of the season, Manchester City were investigated by the FA for allegations of awarding players bonuses, which was at the time against FA regulations. Consequently, the club were found guilty and seventeen players were fined, suspended from football until 1 January 1907 and were banned from representing Man City in future. The club was forced to shed most of its players, including its best performers and early club legends such as Billy Meredith, Sandy Turnbull and Billie Gillespie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035562-0001-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Manchester City F.C. season\nThough several players followed guidance and moved to Manchester United (then not a rival but a fellow community club) or other league clubs, Gillespie refused to play his fine and instead moved to America. In addition to this, manager Tom Maley was banned from football for life, and left the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035563-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Manchester United's 14th season in the Football League. United finished second in the Second Division and gained promotion to the Football League First Division for the 1906\u201307 season. In the FA Cup, United reached the fourth round, where they were defeated by Woolwich Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035563-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nManchester United entered the 1905\u201306 FA Cup at the First Round Proper stage and were drawn at home to Staple Hill on 13 January 1906. United dominated the match, winning 7\u20132 with a hat-trick from Clem Beddow and two goals from Jack Picken; Jack Allan and Harry Williams scored the other two goals. In the Second Round, United were drawn at home to Norwich City on 3 February 1906. Harry Moger kept the Canaries off the score sheet, while United saw goals from Alex Downie, Jack Peddie and Charlie Sagar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035563-0001-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup\nThe Reds then faced Aston Villa at home in the Third Round stage on 24 February. 35,500 fans watched United defeat Villa 5\u20131 to reach the Fourth Round for the first time in their history; Picken scored a hat-trick for United, while Sagar scored two goals. United were drawn at home to Woolwich Arsenal in the Fourth Round. The match was played on 10 March, but goals by Peddie and Sagar would not be enough, as Arsenal advanced the next round with three goals of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035564-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 team finished with a record 4\u20135. It was the third year for head coach Wilbur P. Bowen. The team captain was Roy S. Sprague.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035564-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team, Schedule\n1. Media guide list opponent as Detroit Athletic Club but yearbook list CMU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035565-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1905\u20131906 was contested by sixteen teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. HBS Craeyenhout won this year's championship by beating PW 3-2 and 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035566-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball team represented Niagara University during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Charles McGrath, coaching his first season with the Purple Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035567-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Football League\nThe 1905\u201306 Northern Football League season was the seventeenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035567-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Football League\nA Championship Match between the Professional Champions, Sunderland A, and the Amateur Champions, Bishop Auckland, was played on 28 April 1906. The match was a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035567-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035568-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1905\u201306 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 11th season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035568-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nLeigh won the Championship for the first time this season and Bradford their first Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035568-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThe two divisions were combined into one competition, with Lancaster dropping out to reduce it to 31 teams. Clubs from the same county all played each other, and arranged inter-county matches as and when they could. Because not all clubs played the same number of matches positions were decided on percentages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035568-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nFeatherstone Rovers, who were an amateur team at this time knocked a professional side out of the Challenge Cup, when they beat Widnes 23-2 in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035568-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThere was no county league competition this season. The inaugural Rugby league county cups took place this season, and Wigan beat Leigh 0\u20130 (replay 8\u20130) to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hunslet beat Halifax 13\u20133 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035568-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nBradford beat Salford 5-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 15,834 to win the Cup in their first appearance in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, the club's twenty-first season, saw the Silver Seven defend their Stanley Cup championship in two challenges, but lose the Cup in a league playoff with the Montreal Wanderers. The Club moved to the new Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA) formed in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nOttawa joined with the teams of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) and the Wanderers of the Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) to form one league with the top clubs of both leagues. The FAHL continued, but the CAHL folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nOttawa brought in Harry and Tommy Smith, brothers of player-coach Alf Smith. Frank McGee retired before the season, but returned to play seven of the ten games and the ECAHA playoff before retiring for good. Goaltender Dave Finnie retired and was replaced by Billy Hague.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nManager Bob Shillington sold his druggist business in November 1905 and made plans to leave for Haileybury, Ontario to join the mining business he had invested in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season\nAgain, the league was high scoring, with Harry Smith scoring 31 goals in 8 games, and Frank McGee scoring 28 goals in 7 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0005-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nHarry Smith scored 6 in one game, 5 in another, topped by 8 against the Shamrocks on February 17. McGee would equal the 8 goals in a game feat against Montreal HC on March 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0006-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nOn February 25, Tommy Smith joined the club from the Ottawa Victorias of the FAHL and all three Smith players played together for the first time on the forward line with McGee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0007-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Challenges\nThe Ottawas played two Cup challenges during the regular season, defeating Queen's College of Kingston, the OHA champion, and defeating Smiths Falls the FAHL champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0008-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, Smiths Falls vs. Ottawa\nIn the first game, Frank McGee scored five goals, but Smiths Falls matched each score until Alf Smith scored with two minutes to play. This was the first appearance of Percy LeSueur in Stanley Cup play, playing for Smiths Falls. LeSueur was described as \"one of the cleverest goal-keepers ever seen.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0009-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, Smiths Falls vs. Ottawa\nIn the second game, over 5,000 attended the game. It turned out to be one-sided, with Ottawa outscoring Smiths Falls 4\u20131 in each half. McGee scored four for Ottawa, making a total of nine for the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 68], "content_span": [69, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0010-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nAs the season produced a tie for the season championship, the defending champion Ottawas and Wanderers played a two-game playoff, with the winner being awarded the Stanley Cup. The series took place on March 14 in Montreal and March 17 in Ottawa. The Wanderers would win the series 9\u20131, 3\u20139 (12\u201310) in dramatic fashion..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0011-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nOttawa was installed as 2\u20131 betting favourites, but the Wanderers upset the bookies. In the first game in Montreal, the Wanderers dominated Ottawa, as Ernie Russell got four goals, Frank Glass got three and Moose Johnson would get two for a 9\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0012-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nAfter the first game, the Ottawas would replace their goalie Billy Hague with the Smiths Falls goalie Percy LeSueur in to play his first game for the club. Despite being down by eight goals, interest in Ottawa for the return match was high. Rush seats on sale the day of the game produced a throng that caused the ticket seller's glass to break. The venue, Dey's Arena, was modified to hold more spectators, including setting up temporary bleachers, removing the grandstand which had been used as a press box, and the installation of a press box attached to the rafters. Over 5,400 would attend the game and the top $2 tickets were being sold for $10. Betting interest was high, including one $12,000 bet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0013-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nAfter twelve minutes, the first goal was scored by the Wanderers' Moose Johnson to increase the goal lead to nine. Ottawa's Frank McGee, Harry Smith, and McGee again scored before half-time, cutting the deficit to 10\u20134. Harry Smith would score to open the second half, followed by Rat Westwick. Then Westwick scored again to make it 10\u20137 before Harry Smith scored three straight goals to make the score 9\u20131, evening the series with ten minutes to play to tie the series, causing a five-minute standing ovation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0013-0001", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nWith seven minutes to play Smith was sent off for the rest of the game and Lester Patrick would score with ninety seconds to play to put the Wanderers back in the lead. Patrick would ice the game with a goal with a few seconds to play. The Silver Seven reign was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0014-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nThe Toronto Globe called it the \"greatest game of hockey ever played on Canadian ice, or any other.\" The Sporting News would later dub it the \"Greatest Hockey Game in History.\" Moose Johnson would end up with the Governor-General's top hat. It had been knocked of the Earl Grey's head, and a fan had snatched it up, giving it to Johnson later in the dressing room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0015-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nOttawa had won Stanley Cup challenges that season, which meant that the 1906 season would have two Stanley Cup holders: Ottawa until March, and Montreal Wanderers for the balance of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0016-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Ottawa Hockey Club January 1906 Stanley Cup champions, Coaching and administrative staff\nNo team picture including all executive has been found for 1906 Ottawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 123], "content_span": [124, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035569-0017-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Ottawa Hockey Club January 1906 Stanley Cup champions, Stanley Cup engraving\nBetween 1903 and 1906 Ottawa engraved each of the ten Stanley Cup series they won, and teams they played, on the outside of the bowl. The first eight series were listed separately, but both of the 1906 series are listed together in same space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 111], "content_span": [112, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035570-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035571-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the third competitive season in the history of Plymouth Argyle Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035572-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Primera Fuerza season, Overview\nIn Mexico, the 1905-06 season saw the first club from the capital - Reforma Athletic Club- win the Mexican championship. This club, though dominated by Brits, did also allow native players. It was remarkable that in 20 league matches there were 16 where at last one or both sides failed to score. Champions Reforma had two excellent full-backs in the brothers Robert and Charles Blackmore, while most of their goals were not scored by a forward but by right half-back Charles Butlin. Mexico Cricket Club, which had changed name to San Pedro Golf Club, were runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035572-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Primera Fuerza season, League standings, Top goalscorers\nPlayers sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035573-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 7th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035573-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter a poor season, Princeton returned to a more normal 13-game slate and rebounded with six victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035574-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season is the 32nd season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035574-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 33 competitive matches during the 1905\u201306 season. The side finished fourth in the league, twelve points behind champions Celtic, despite only collecting one win from the final six matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035574-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe Scottish Cup campaign began at Arthurlie then Aberdeen before the side were knocked out away to Port Glasgow Athletic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035575-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1905\u201306 Rugby Union County Championship was the 18th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035575-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Rugby Union County Championship\nDevon won the competition for the third time defeating Durham in the final. It was Durham's seventh consecutive final appearance, Adamson was carried off and taken to hospital leaving Durham with just fourteen players for the majority of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035576-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 SEGAS Championship\nThe 1905\u201306 SEGAS Championship was the first organised Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association competition to take place in mainland Greece. It took place in March 1906. It was not organised by the HFF and as such it is not recognised by it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035576-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 SEGAS Championship, Season summary\nAll 3 matches took place at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome between March and April 1906. Ethnikos G.S. Athens won the championship after beating the other two teams with a 3-0 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035576-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 SEGAS Championship, Teams\nAll 3 teams were from Athens or Piraeus, despite it being called a Panhellenic Championship, which would imply the competition was nationwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035577-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Scottish Cup\nThe 1905\u201306 Scottish Cup was the 33rd season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Heart of Midlothian when they beat Third Lanark 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035578-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1905\u201306 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035579-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Scottish Division One\nThe 1905\u201306 Scottish Division One season was won by Celtic by six points over nearest rival Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035580-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1905\u201306 Scottish Division Two was won by Leith Athletic with East Stirlingshire finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035580-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Scottish Division Two\nDue to expansion next season there are eighteen teams in Division One and twelve teams in Division Two. This meant Clyde and Hamilton Academical were promoted to the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035582-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1905\u201306 Sheffield Shield season was the 14th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035583-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Southern Football League\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 12th in the history of Southern League. Fulham won Division One and Crystal Palace finished top of Division Two. No clubs were relegated from Division One as it was expanded to 20 clubs the following season. No clubs applied to join the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035583-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 18 teams contest the division, including 17 sides from previous season and one new team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035583-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of 13 teams contest the division, including 9 sides from previous season and four new teams, all of them are newly elected teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035584-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1905-1906 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's eleventh in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 32nd in their history. After finishing 12th in Division 1 the season previous, St Helens were expected to take part in Division 2 from 1905. However, the two divisions became one 31-team Championship, saving the club from relegation. They finished in a fairly respectable 14th. In the South West Lancashire League, St Helens finished fifth in a six-team league. In the Challenge Cup, the club did not even make the first round proper, as they were defeated by Rochdale in the Preliminary Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035585-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1905\u201306 season was Stoke's 17th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035585-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Stoke F.C. season\nIt was a good season for Stoke as they started well winning their first five matches and with a number of good local players in the team playing regularly. Stoke's form did eventually drop and they finished in 10th position a much improved finish from previous seasons. However it would be a case of 'calm before the storm' for Stoke and their supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035585-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nFor the 1905\u201306 season, the First Division was extended to 20 clubs. Stoke enticed goalkeeper Leigh Richmond Roose back to the club whilst James Bradley departed for Liverpool. The 'Potters' started the season off in fine style winning their opening five matches to go top of the league table for the first time in their history\u2013and they remained there for five weeks. Horace Austerberry seemed to have found the right line-up and managed to keep it settled for the first seven matches. The crowds improved steadily and they reached the 12,000 mark as Stoke began to play well at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035585-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nIn early November Sheffield Wednesday were well beaten 4\u20130 with Ted Holdcroft scoring twice, to bring his goals tally to six in ten games unfortunately for Holcroft it was also his final goals of the season. Stoke's decent form continued but George Baddeley injured his knee on boxing day and Stoke's form began to drop. They eventually finished in 10th position with 39 points 12 behind champions Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035585-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke again went out of the cup in the second round this time losing 1\u20130 to Birmingham after beating Blackburn Rovers by the same score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035587-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The head coach was John A. R. Scott, coaching his third season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035587-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team, Schedule\n*The 1/12/1906 meeting against Williams ended with a forfeit from Williams, giving Syracuse the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035588-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 11th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035588-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nDue to a lack of success and home ice facility, Brown suspended its ice hockey team after the season. It would be another 20 years before Brown would field another team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035589-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 University of Virginia men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 University of Virginia men's basketball team represented the University of Virginia during the 1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States. The team was led by first-year head coach Henry Lannigan, and played their home games at Fayerweather Gymnasium in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now known as the Virginia Cavaliers, the team did not have an official nickname prior to 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035590-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1905\u201306 Welsh Amateur Cup was the sixteenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Buckley Engineers who defeated Porthmadog 3-1 in a replayed final, at Welshpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035591-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represents the University of West Virginia during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The team captain was Shelby Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035592-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Western Football League\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 14th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035592-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Western Football League\nQueens Park Rangers were the champions of Division One for the first time, after finishing bottom of the league the previous season. Along with all the other members of Division One, they also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions for the second season in succession were Bristol Rovers Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035592-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nNo new clubs joined Division One, which remained at 11 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035592-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nTwo new clubs joined Division Two, which remained at 10 clubs after Swindon Town Reserves left the league and Warmley disbanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035593-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1905\u201306 season. The team finished the season with a 4\u20131 record. This was the first season in program history for William & Mary, whose nickname is now \"Tribe.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035594-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035595-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1905\u20131906 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Emmett Angell, coaching his second season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035596-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team\nThe 1905\u201306 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1905\u201306 college basketball season. Coached by W. Yates in his and the team's second season, the Cowboys went 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035597-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1905\u201306 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 11th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035597-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nYale was one of the strongest teams in college hockey, stopping fellow collegiate team from scoring in five of their eight games. Unfortunately, the Elis still could not overcome their rivals from Harvard. Yale pushed the Crimson into overtime in their final game but Harvard managed to win its seventh consecutive match against the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035597-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, C. Buchanan Stuart served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035597-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Schedule and Results\n\u2020 Brown records the score of the game as 3\u20131 for Yale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035598-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States\nThe 1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States began in December 1905, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035598-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Awards, Helms College Basketball All-Americans\nThe practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928\u201329 season. The Helms Athletic Foundation later retroactively selected a list of All-Americans for the 1905\u201306 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 111], "content_span": [112, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035598-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Coaching changes\nA number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 81], "content_span": [82, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035599-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Belgian football\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 11th competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035599-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Belgian football, Overview\nIt is the first season with a relegation system due to the creation of the second division. Beerschot AC was relegated at the end of the season and replaced by second division qualifier SC Courtraisien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035599-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Belgian football, National team\nBelgium won its first official game against France on May 7, 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035599-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Belgian football, Final league tables, Promotion\nIn the first phase of the championship, 4 provincial leagues were played, with the following qualifiers for the final round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035600-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in English football\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 35th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035600-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in English football, Events\nFollowing the increase in size of the Football League from 36 clubs to 40, and with Doncaster Rovers having been relegated from the Second Division, four new clubs were elected into the league, along with Stockport County who had won the Lancashire Combination. These new clubs were: Chelsea, Hull City, Leeds City and Clapton Orient. Crystal Palace were formed this year but failed to gain election to the Football League by one vote and instead started their existence in the Southern League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035600-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in English football, Events\nBristol City, the only non-London League side south of Birmingham at the time, is promoted to the First Division as champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035600-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in English football, Events\nMarch 1906 - Aston Villa signed outside right, Herbert Kingaby from Clapton Orient, for the then undisclosed fee of \u00a3300 (2012: \u00a327,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035600-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035601-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Scottish football\nThe 1905\u201306 season was the 33rd season of competitive football in Scotland and the 16th season of the Scottish Football League..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035601-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division Two\nNext season there are eighteen teams in Division One and twelve teams in Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035601-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nHearts were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 1\u20130 win over Third Lanark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035601-0003-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nDunipace were winners of the Junior Cup after a 1\u20130 win over Rob Roy in a replayed final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035601-0004-0000", "contents": "1905\u201306 in Scottish football, Scotland national team\nScotland were joint winners of the 1906 British Home Championship with England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035602-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u20131906 Costa Rican general election\nThe 1906 Costa Rican general election was held during the presidency of Ascensi\u00f3n Esquivel Ibarra. Ibarra openly supported candidate Cleto Gonz\u00e1lez V\u00edquez. Other candidates were former president Bernardo Soto Alfaro, former State and Police Secretary Tob\u00edas Z\u00fa\u00f1iga Castro, the also former State Secretary (during Bernardo Soto's administration) M\u00e1ximo Fern\u00e1ndez Alvarado and former justice and Foreign Secretary Ezequiel Guti\u00e9rrez Iglesias. Difference were more personal than ideological as all candidates except Guti\u00e9rrez were liberals, and the election had a strong \"anti-cletista\" component. This \"anti-cletismo\" was what united the opposition and talks about a common joint front occurred but it was not applied. Guti\u00e9rrez was candidate of the conservative \"Democratic Union\", the party that emerged from the now outlawed Catholic Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035602-0001-0000", "contents": "1905\u20131906 Costa Rican general election\nElections on this period were indirect. The first round of voters were all male citizens who had an income \"according to their social status\" and knew how to read and write, which considering that Costa Rica had very high literacy standards for the time and the economic requirement was very ambiguous meant around 60% of the male population could vote. These first level voters choose the Electors who normally had other requirements (particularly, owning properties or having college degrees which meant most of them were middle to high class) and the Electors elected the President, members of Congress and municipal authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035602-0002-0000", "contents": "1905\u20131906 Costa Rican general election\nThus, after the first-level election Electors could be pressured into changing the candidate they were supposed to support. After the first round Fern\u00e1ndez and Soto endorsed Zu\u00f1iga who seem to be the most likely option to defeat Gonz\u00e1lez, however, arguing \"public order\" reasons Ibarra essentially made a crack-down on the opposition declaring martial law and exiling Fern\u00e1ndez, Soto and Zu\u00f1iga who ended up in New York. After Gonz\u00e1lez was proclaimed president they were allowed to come back although Zu\u00f1iga retired from politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035603-0000-0000", "contents": "1905\u20131906 census of the Ottoman Empire\n1905\u20131906 census of the Ottoman Empire was the last population count. This census effort concentrated on Iraq and Arabian peninsula as European and Anatolian has well established. Ottoman government decided to perform the count in three months compared to years during the ones performed 19th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035604-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\n1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 6th year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035605-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 (album)\n1906 is the first album by South African music project Bambata. The name of the album refers to the Zulu rebellion against the English in the Colony of Natal (modern Kwazulu-Natal) in 1906, led by Chief Bambatha kaMancinza (ca. 1860\u20131906?). The Zulu rebelled against a poll tax introduced by the English.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035605-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 (album)\nThe album was a result of collaboration between Sipho Sithole, director and founder of the Native Rhythms Productions, Philangezwi Bongani Nkwanyana, Mathufela Zuma and Bheki Khoza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035605-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 (album)\n1906 was nominated for three categories in the South African Music Awards 2001:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel)\n1906 is a 2004 American fictional historical novel written by James Dalessandro. With a 38-page outline and six finished chapters, he pitched it around Hollywood in 1998 for a film by the same name, based upon events surrounding the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Background\nJames Dalessandro grants his book was partially inspired by a 1989 non-fiction work by Gladys Hansen, curator of the Museum of the City of San Francisco. When looking for research materials in 1996, he found Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 in a bookstore. He also explained use of meticulous personal research. Book scenes with people lying in shock in Golden Gate Park after the quake while surrounded by their possessions was inspired by fact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 (novel), Background\nEnrico Caruso was found wandering in the park, having slept the night there after the Palace Hotel was destroyed. Dalessandro granted a lot of research but use of imagination as well. The novel's depictions were pieced together from letters and observations. In reflecting on how some persons took bathtubs out of their damaged homes, placed them on roller skates, and then filed the tubs with possessions, he noted that the displaced persons would save what was valuable to them... their favorite skillet, grandfather clocks, and pets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0001-0002", "contents": "1906 (novel), Background\nWhen asked to describe 1906 San Francisco, Dalessandro offered that it was \"Paris and part Dodge City\", expanding that at the time the city \"was urbane and sophisticated\" while at the same time being The Barbary Coast and fistfights. In handling the then-existing corruption and investigations in San Francisco, he condensed actual situations that had developed over many months into a shorter timespan and with a changing of names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0001-0003", "contents": "1906 (novel), Background\nDalessandro also notes that his researches found the claimed death toll of 478 persons killed by the quake and fire, held as an official count for over 100 years, to be inaccurate. In 2005 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors granted a petition from he and Hansen, and raised the count to over 3,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 24], "content_span": [25, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Synopsis\nSet during the time of the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, this novel is a story of corruption, romance, revenge, rescue, and murder, based on recently uncovered facts that stand to change the understanding of what actually occurred in the weeks and days before and after the earthquake of April 18, 1906. In a narrative told by reporter Annalisa Passarelli, the novel describes Gilded Age-era San Francisco from the opulent mansions on Nob Hill to the gambling, prostitution and crime-ridden Barbary Coast to the arrival of Enrico Caruso and the San Francisco Metropolitan Opera. The central plot of the novel circles around the ongoing battles between political and cultural factions before the earthquake, and even as the city burns afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 22], "content_span": [23, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Synopsis\nAnnalisa Passarelli is a music critic for The Evening Bulletin and is secretly helping the police gather evidence of corruption related to the incumbency of Mayor Eugene Schmitz. Chief of Detectives Byron Fallon hopes to arrest the corrupt mayor, police chief, and city attorney in one fell swoop, but is killed when investigating a waterfront murder. After his death, his son Hunter, a Stanford graduate and amateur detective, steps up to accept his father's mission. Hunter's brother Christian co-leads The Brotherhood, an association of honest police who are dedicated to overthrowing city corruption. Annalisa and Hunter appeal to The Brotherhood for assistance and incriminating evidence is secured, while at the same time the two grow fond of each other. Before the information can be acted upon, the earthquake strikes and the city is thrown into chaos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 22], "content_span": [23, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Critical response\nPublishers Weekly wrote that the book was an \"imaginative and dense interplay\" of both fact and fiction surrounding the events of the great quake. While observing that the through plot and numerous sub-plots, the storyline generally worked. It was offered that the author used \"too many B-movie theatrics\" and the love story portion of the book suffered. Those weaknesses aside, the reviewer wrote \"there's plenty of suspense to keep readers turning pages to the bittersweet conclusion.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 31], "content_span": [32, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Critical response\nSan Francisco Weekly decried the mixing of real persons with fictional, as it was felt that the combining of fiction with fact by attributing fictional dialogue to actual persons works to the detriment of history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Critical response\nContrarily, Kirkus Reviews offered that Dalessandro's mixing of historical fact with fiction \"pays off with an exciting and vivid depiction of history.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 31], "content_span": [32, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Concept\nThe original idea for a screenplay came to Dalessandro when researching 1906 as a prequel to his 1993 historical mystery novel Bohemian Heart. He had finished a 38-page outline and six chapters of the novel when his manager suggested the success of Titanic would make the project salable. When the concept was pitched to production companies in July 1998, there was an instant bidding war, and within 24 hours a script had been sold to Warner Bros. Pictures. Film producer Len Amato wanted Dalessandro to write at least three drafts. After completing the drafts, Dalessandro return to writing the novel, and published it in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 48], "content_span": [49, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Film pre-production\nThe estimated budget of the film adaptation was $200 million. Due to the massive size and scale of the project, the film was being financially backed by Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar and Warner Bros. Pictures. The project would have been the first time Pixar had been involved in a live-action film, and the first collaboration with Disney and Warner Bros. since The Prestige", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 60], "content_span": [61, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Film pre-production\nBrad Bird, was announced as the director. He paused his work on the project after being approached by Pixar management to direct and co-write the 2007 animated film Ratatouille, before officially signing onto the 1906 project in March 2008, at which time Warner Bros. reserved all sound-studios available on their Burbank lot for production. However, later that spring, Warner Bros. quietly released the reservations while Brad Bird continued rewriting the screenplay in order to lessen the massive scope of the story.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 60], "content_span": [61, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Film pre-production\nIn 2009, MTV News reported that director Brad Bird had been scouting locations. Information from Dalessandro indicated that the film would likely be shot in Vancouver, New Zealand or Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Film pre-production\nIn 2011, it was reported by Brad Bird that the film project was still being developed. The issues he raised was his difficulty in narrowing the scope of such a manner as to be true to the story within the constraints of practical film length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 60], "content_span": [61, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Film pre-production\nI don\u2019t know. It\u2019s all about getting the story to work, and the canvas is so big on it that it\u2019s easy to bust down its movie-sized walls and go rampaging throughout the countryside. The problem has always been scaling it and containing it in a movie-sized length. It\u2019s really a movie that wants to be a miniseries. But if you did it as a miniseries, then you\u2019d have to do it for the small screen, and the story demands to be told on a big screen. So we\u2019re still working on it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 60], "content_span": [61, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Film pre-production\nIn February 2012, it was revealed that a rewrite of Dalessandro's script had been completed by Michael Hirst, and Brad Bird was now rewriting it yet again. Disney and Pixar have left the project, which is now in limbo at Warner Bros. Pictures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 60], "content_span": [61, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035606-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 (novel), Potential film adaptation, Possible resurrection\nIn June 2018, Bird mentioned the possibility of adapting the book as a TV series, and the earthquake sequence as a live-action feature film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 62], "content_span": [63, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035607-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035607-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). At this time, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035607-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in April 1906. It was preceded by the 1905 election and followed by the 1907 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1903 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035607-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThree of the four wards were contested, with Labour candidates returned unopposed at Aberaman and Blaengwawr. The election was not said to have been fought on political lines with a backlash against retiring members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035608-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Alabama Crimson White football team\nThe 1906 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was Alabama's 14th overall and 11th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach J. W. H. Pollard, in his first year, and played their home games at both the University of Alabama Quad in Tuscaloosa and the Birmingham Fairgrounds in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of five wins and one loss (5\u20131 overall, 3\u20131 in the SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035608-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Maryville\nAlabama opened the 1906 season against Maryville College at Tuscaloosa, and defeated the Maryville Scots 6\u20130. In the game, the lone touchdown was scored in the first quarter on a ten-yard run by P. B. Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035608-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nAlabama's 78\u20130 loss to Vanderbilt still stands as the record for most points allowed by Alabama in a game and most lopsided Alabama loss. In the game, the Commodores led 57\u20130 at the half, and Alabama attempted to cancel this game after seven of their regular players were sidelined by injury but Vanderbilt refused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035608-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Alabama Crimson White football team, Season summary, Auburn\nAgainst Auburn, Pollard unveiled a \"military shift\" never before seen in the south. Star running back Auxford Burks scored all of the game's points in a 10\u20130 victory. Auburn contended Alabama player T. S. Sims was an illegal player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035609-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Alabama gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1906, in order to elect the Governor of Alabama. Democratic incumbent William D. Jelks was term-limited, and could not seek a second consecutive term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035610-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake\nThe 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred at 00:11 UTC on August 17. It had an estimated seismic moment of 3.8 x 1028 dyn cm\u22121, equivalent to a magnitude of 8.35 on the moment magnitude scale. This earthquake was followed thirty minutes later by the 1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake in Chile, but the two events are not thought to be linked. Due to the remote location, there are no reports of damage associated with this earthquake. A transpacific tsunami reported from Japan and Hawaii was triggered by the Chilean event, rather than the Aleutian Islands earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035610-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe Aleutian Islands are a volcanic arc lying above the convergent boundary where the Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Earthquakes in the area are caused by movement along the plate interface (such as the 1965 Rat Islands earthquake), normal faulting within the outer rise and within the subducting slab. The earthquake's epicenter lies close to a major break in the Aleutian chain, between the Andreanof Islands to the east and the Rat Islands to the west, along what is known as the Amchitka channel. In this region there is evidence for a tear in the lithosphere of the descending slab. It is thought that this tear is caused by the unusually sharp curvature of this part of the arc coupled with the interaction of Bowers Ridge in the over-riding plate with the subduction zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035610-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake, Earthquake characteristics\nAnalysis of this earthquake using modern techniques has been possible due to the large collection of seismograms recording this event published in 1907. They came from 78 stations around the world and included details of the characteristics of the individual seismometers. The focal mechanism of the earthquake has been determined from the seismograms as a normal faulting event within the subducting slab, with a large component of left-lateral strike-slip faulting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035610-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake, Earthquake characteristics\nA tsunami was recorded in both Japan and Hawaii in the hours following the earthquake. A run-up of 3.5\u00a0m (11\u00a0ft) reported from Maui was too early to be related to either of the earthquakes. Based on the estimated focal mechanism of the Aleutian Islands event and the timing of the observed run-ups, the tsunami is thought to have resulted from the earthquake in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035610-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake, Relationship to the 1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake\nThe short time interval between these two major earthquake has raised the possibility of the event in Chile being triggered in some way by the earlier earthquake in the Aleutian Islands, particularly as the later event occurred during the passage of the wavefronts of its body waves through the epicentral area. However, this is regarded as most likely coincidental.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 80], "content_span": [81, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035611-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1906 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at the London Rifle Brigade Drill Hall, London, England, from March 1 to March 5, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035611-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 All England Badminton Championships\nEthel Thomson and Meriel Lucas won a fourth women's doubles crown and third consecutive after retaining their title. There were two mixed doubles handicap events due to the excessive number of entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035612-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 20th year of the Gaelic football competition. The competition was between the winners of the four provincial championships with Dublin as the All-Ireland champion for that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035612-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Results, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nBecause the Leinster championship was still underway when the quarter-final was to be played, Kildare was nominated to represent Leinster. When Dublin beat Kildare in the Leinster final, they were declared the champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 96], "content_span": [97, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035613-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the nineteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035613-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nDublin trailed 0-3 to 0-2 at half-time, but came back to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035613-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was the third of five All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1900s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035614-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1906 was the 20th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Dublin 3-16 to 3-8 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035614-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nQuarter-final: (1 match) This is a lone match between the Leinster and Ulster representatives. One team is eliminated at this stage while the winners advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035614-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the lone quarter-final join the Munster and Connacht representatives and London, who receive a bye to this stage of the championship, to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035614-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035615-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1906 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 19th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1906 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, on 27 October 1907 between Dublin, represented by club side Faughs, and Tipperary, represented by club side Thurles. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 3-16 to 3-8. Tipperary extended their unbeaten record in All Ireland Finals to seven wins out of seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035616-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 All-Western college football team\nThe 1906 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035617-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1906 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 15th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The 1906 championship was expanded to include 11 teams. The teams were split into two groups with each team playing the others in their group twice. The two group winners played in a championship decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035617-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe season began on April 29 and ended on October 7 San Isidro, Argentino de Quilmes and San Mart\u00edn A.C. (from the homonymous city) made their debuts in Primera. Belgrano A.C. also registered a \"B\" team (named \"Belgrano Extra\") to play the tournament. Alumni regaining the Argentine championship for the 6th time in seven seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035618-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nThe 1906 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1906 college football season. The Razorbacks compiled a 2\u20134\u20132 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 70 to 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035618-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Arkansas Cardinals football team\nIn January 1906, Arkansas hired Frank Longman, who had played at the fullback position under Fielding H. Yost at Michigan, as the football coach. Longman remained the football coach at Arkansas for two years before moving on to Notre Dame where he led the Fighting Irish to an 11\u20131\u20132 record during the 1909 and 1910 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035619-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1906 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1906 college football season. The Cadets compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record, shut out four opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 59 to 37. Henry Smither was the coach in the first game of the season, and Ernest Graves, Sr. was the coach in games two through nine. The team's setbacks included losses to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035619-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Army Cadets football team\nTwo Army players were honored by either Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are tackle Henry Weeks (WC-3, CW-2) and guard William Christy (WC-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot\nViolent attacks by armed mobs of White Americans against African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia began on the evening of September 22, 1906, and lasted through September 24. The events were reported by newspapers around the world, including the French Le Petit Journal which described the \"lynchings in the USA\" and the \"massacre of Negroes in Atlanta,\" the Scottish Aberdeen Press & Journal under the headline \"Race Riots in Georgia,\" and the London Evening Standard under the headlines \"Anti- Negro Riots\" and \"Outrages in Georgia.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0000-0001", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot\nThe final death toll of the conflict is unknown and disputed, but officially at least 25 African Americans and two whites died. Unofficial reports ranged from 10\u2013100 black Americans killed during the massacre. According to the Atlanta History Center, some black Americans were hanged from lampposts; others were shot, beaten or stabbed to death. They were pulled from street cars and attacked on the street; white mobs invaded black neighborhoods, destroying homes and businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot\nThe immediate catalyst was newspaper reports of four white women raped in separate incidents, allegedly by African American men. A grand jury later indicted two African Americans for raping Ethel Lawrence and her aunt. An underlying cause was the growing racial tension in a rapidly-changing city and economy, competition for jobs, housing, and political power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot\nThe violence did not end until after Governor Joseph M. Terrell called in the Georgia National Guard, and African Americans accused the Atlanta Police Department and some Guardsmen of participating in the violence against them. Local histories by whites ignored the massacre for decades. It was not until 2006 that the event was publicly marked \u2013 on its 100th anniversary. The next year, the Atlanta massacre was made part of the state's curriculum for public schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Background, Growth of Atlanta\nAfter the end of the American Civil War and during the Reconstruction era, there was violence of whites against blacks throughout the South, as whites reacted to emancipation of blacks, subsequent black criminality, and political empowerment of freedmen. Increased tension also resulted from whites competing with blacks for wages, although the latter were usually restricted to lower-level jobs. Atlanta had developed rapidly, attracting workers for its rebuilding and, particularly from the 1880s as the \"rail hub\" of the South: workers from all over the country began to flood the city. This resulted in a dramatic increase in both the African-American population (9,000 in 1880 to 35,000 in 1900) and the overall city population (from a population of 89,000 in 1900 to 150,000 in 1910) as individuals from rural areas and small towns sought better economic opportunities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 929]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Background, Growth of Atlanta\nWith this influx and the subsequent increase in the demand for resources, race relations in Atlanta became increasingly strained in the crowded city. Whites expanded Jim Crow segregation in residential neighborhoods and on public transportation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Background, African-American advancements\nFreedmen and their descendants had gained the franchise during Reconstruction, and whites increasingly feared and resented their exercise of political power. African Americans had established prosperous businesses and developed an elite who distinguished themselves from working-class blacks. Some whites resented them. Among the successful black businessmen was Alonzo Herndon, who owned and operated a large, refined barber shop that served prominent white men. This new status brought increased competition between blacks and whites for jobs and heightened class distinctions. The police and fire department were still exclusively white, as were most employees in the city and county governments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Background, African-American advancements\nState requirements from 1877 limited black voting through poll taxes, record keeping and other devices to impede voter registration, but many freedmen and descendants could still vote. But both major candidates played on racial tensions during their campaigning for the gubernatorial election of 1906, in which M. Hoke Smith and Clark Howell competed for the Democratic primary nomination. Smith had explicitly \"campaigned on a platform to disenfranchise black voters in Georgia.\" Howell was also looking to exclude them from politics. Smith was a former publisher of the Atlanta Journal and Howell was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0006-0001", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Background, African-American advancements\nBoth candidates used their influence to incite white voters and help spread the fear that whites may not maintain the current social order. These papers and others attacked saloons and bars that were run and frequented by black citizens. These \"dives\", as whites called them, were said to have nude pictures of women. The Atlanta Georgian and the Atlanta News publicized police reports of white women who were allegedly sexually molested and raped by black men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, The Clansman and tensions\n\"Historians and contemporary commentators cite the stage production of The Clansman [by Thomas Dixon, Jr.] in Atlanta as a contributing factor to that city's race riot of 1906, in which white mobs rampaged through African-American communities.\" In Savannah, where it opened next, police and military were on high alert, and present on every streetcar going toward the theater. Authorities in Macon, where the play was next to open, asked for it not to be permitted, and it was not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 57], "content_span": [58, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Newspaper report and attacks\nOn Saturday afternoon, September 22, 1906, Atlanta newspapers reported four sexual assaults on local white women, allegedly by black men. A grand jury later indicted two for the rape of Ethel Lawrence and her aunt. Following this report, several dozen white men and boys began gathering in gangs, and began to beat, stab, and shoot black people in retaliation, pulling them off or assaulting them on streetcars, beginning in the Five Points section of downtown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0008-0001", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Newspaper report and attacks\nAfter extra editions of the paper were printed, by midnight estimates were that 10,000 to 15,000 white men and boys had gathered through downtown streets and were roaming to attack black people. By 10 pm, the first three blacks had been killed and more were being treated in the hospital (at least five of whom would die); among these were three women. Governor Joseph M. Terrell called out eight companies of the Fifth Infantry and one battery of light artillery. By 2:30 am, some 25 to 30 blacks were reported dead, with many more injured. The trolley lines had been closed before midnight to reduce movement, in hopes of discouraging the mobs and offering some protection to the African-American neighborhoods, as whites were going there and attacking people in their houses, or driving them outside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 864]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Newspaper report and attacks\nAlonzo Herndon's barbershop was among the first targets of the white mob, and the fine fittings were destroyed. Individual black men were killed on the steps of the US Post Office and inside the Marion Hotel, where a crowd chased one. During that night, a large mob attacked Decatur Street, the center of black restaurants and saloons. It destroyed the businesses and assaulted any black people within sight. Mobs moved to Peters Street and related neighborhoods to wreak more damage. Heavy rain from 3 am to 5 am helped suppress the fever for rioting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Newspaper report and attacks\nThe events were quickly publicized the next day, Sunday, as violence continued against black people, and the massacre was covered internationally. Le Petit journal of Paris reported, \"Black men and women were thrown from trolley-cars, assaulted with clubs and pelted with stones.\" By the next day, the New York Times reported that at least 25 to 30 black men and women were killed, with 90 injured. One white man was reported killed, and about 10 injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Newspaper report and attacks\nAn unknown and disputed number of black people were killed on the street and in their shops, and many were injured. In the center of the city, the militia was seen by 1 am. But most were not armed and organized until 6 am when more were posted in the business district. Sporadic violence had continued in the late night in distant quarters of the city as small gangs operated. On Sunday hundreds of black people left the city by train and other means, seeking safety at a distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Defense attempts\nOn Sunday a group of African Americans met in the Brownsville community south of downtown and near Clark University to discuss actions; they had armed themselves for defense. Fulton County police learned of the meeting and raided it; an officer was killed in an ensuing shootout. Three militia companies were sent to Brownsville, where they arrested and disarmed about 250 blacks, including university professors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Defense attempts\nThe New York Times reported that when Mayor James G. Woodward was asked as to the measures taken to prevent a race riot, he replied:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Defense attempts\nThe best way to prevent a race riot depends entirely upon the cause. If your inquiry has anything to do with the present situation in Atlanta then I would say the only remedy is to remove the cause. As long as the black brutes assault our white women, just so long will they be unceremoniously dealt with.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Events, Defense attempts\nHe had gone around the city on Saturday night trying to calm the mobs, but was generally ignored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Grand Jury\nThe Fulton County Grand Jury today made the following presentment:\"Believing that the sensational manner in which the afternoon newspapers of Atlanta have presented to the people the news of the various criminal acts recently committed in this county has largely influenced the creation of the spirit animating the mob of last Saturday night; and that the editorial utterances of The Atlanta News for some time past have been calculated to create a disregard for the proper administration of the law and to promote the organization of citizens to act outside of the law in the punishment of crime.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Total fatalities\nAn unknown and disputed number of African Americans were killed in the conflict. At least two dozen African Americans were believed to have been killed. It was confirmed that there were two white deaths, one a woman who died of a heart attack after seeing mobs outside her house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Discussions\nOn the following Monday and Tuesday, leading citizens of the white community, including the mayor, met to discuss the events and prevent any additional violence. The group included leaders of the black elite, helping establish a tradition of communication between these groups. But for decades the massacre was ignored or suppressed in the white community, and left out of official histories of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nThe New York Times noted on September 30 that a letter writer to the Charleston News and Courier wrote in response to the riots:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nSeparation of the races is the only radical solution of the negro problem in this country. There is nothing new about it. It was the Almighty who established the bounds of the habitation of the races. The negroes were brought here by compulsion; they should be induced to leave here by persuasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nThe New York Times analyzed the populations of the ten states in the South with the most African Americans, two of which were majority black, with two others nearly equal in populations, and African Americans totaling about 70% of the total white population. It noted practically the difficulties if so many workers would be lost, in addition to their businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0022-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nAs an outcome of the massacre, the African-American economy suffered, because of property losses, damage, and disruption. Some individual businesses were forced to close. The community made significant social changes, pulling businesses from mixed areas, settling in majority-black neighborhoods (some of which was enforced by discriminatory housing practices into the 1960s), and changing other social patterns. In the years after the massacre, African Americans were most likely to live in predominately black communities, including those that developed west of the city near Atlanta University or in eastern downtown. Many black businesses dispersed from the center to the east, where the thriving black business district known as \"Sweet Auburn\" soon developed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0023-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nMany African Americans rejected the accommodationist position of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute, believing that they had to be more forceful about protecting their communities and advancing their race. Some black Americans modified their opinions on the necessity of armed self-defense, even as many issued explicit warnings about the dangers of armed political struggle. Harvard-educated W. E. B. Du Bois, who was teaching at Atlanta University and supported leadership by the \"Talented Tenth\", purchased a shotgun after rioting broke out in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0023-0001", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nHe said in response to the carnage, \"I bought a Winchester double-barreled shotgun and two dozen rounds of shells filled with buckshot. If a white mob had stepped on the campus where I lived I would without hesitation have sprayed their guts over the grass.\" As his position solidified in later years, circa 1906\u20131920, Du Bois argued that organized political violence by black Americans was folly. Still, in response to real-world threats on black people, Du Bois \"was adamant about the legitimacy and perhaps the duty of self-defense, even where there [might be a] danger of spillover into political violence.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0024-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nElected in 1906, Governor Hoke Smith fulfilled a campaign promise by proposing legislation in August 1907 for a literacy test for voting, which would disenfranchise most blacks and many poor whites through subjective administration by whites. In addition, the legislature included provisions for grandfather clauses to ensure whites were not excluded because of lack of literacy or the required amount of property, and for the Democratic Party to have a white primary, another means of exclusion. These provisions were passed by constitutional amendment in 1908, effectively disfranchising most blacks. Racial segregation was already established by law. Both systems under Jim Crow largely continued into the late 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0025-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Responses\nAfter the Great War (World War I), Atlanta worked to promote racial reconciliation and understanding by creating the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in 1919; it later evolved into the Southern Regional Council. But most institutions of the city remained closed to African Americans. For instance, no African-American policemen were hired until 1948, after World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035620-0026-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlanta race riot, Aftermath, Remembrance\nThe massacre was not covered in local histories and was ignored for decades. In 2006, on its 100th anniversary, the city and citizen groups marked the event with discussions, forums and related events such as \"walking tours, public art, memorial services, numerous articles and three new books.\" The next year, it was made part of the state's social studies curriculum for public schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 184.161.199.129 (talk) at 23:09, 7 February 2020 (\u2192\u200eAccident). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck\nThe 1906 Atlantic City train wreck occurred in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sunday October 28, 1906, when a West Jersey and Seashore Railroad electric train fell off a draw (swing) bridge, drowning 53 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Accident\nThe newly-constructed bridge crossed The Thoroughfare, a creek separating Atlantic City from the mainland. On Sunday, October 28, 1906, the bridge had been opened to allow a small vessel to pass. The signals protecting the bridge were interlocked and so the signals showed clear only after the bridge was back in place for rail operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Accident\nAt 2.20 p.m., the first eastbound train, which had left Camden an hour earlier, attempted to cross, but as it moved onto the bridge at a speed of 40\u00a0mph it derailed. After bumping along the ties (sleepers) for a few seconds the first two cars plunged 15 feet into the water. With doors shut and connecting doors closed, the passengers had very little chance to escape. The trailing car remained hanging from the bridge superstructure for a brief time before it slipped into the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0003-0001", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Accident\nThe brakeman traveling in this third car rushed to open the rear door as soon as the train left the rails and held it open to allow many passengers to escape, with only one or two escaping from the first two cars. Both men and women broke windows in attempts to get free, several returning selflessly to rescue others as well as themselves. It was to the rear car that rescue efforts were soon directed, both from boats and from ropes let down from the bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Accident\nA crowd of between 5,000 and 10,000 gathered within 30 minutes, many of whom had been expecting the arrival of relatives and friends on the train, the terminal being but a short distance away. Fortunately 14 passengers had left the train at the previous stop, Pleasantville, but in all, 53 people drowned in the tragedy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Cause\nThe operation of the bridge had been tested after electrification of the line only one month before, and a westbound train had already crossed without incident after the opening of the drawbridge. Investigation revealed later that the interlocking of the signals worked only on the bridge's lateral positioning, not on its height. To disengage, the bridge was raised slightly, but on that occasion, it had not returned to the correct level. The weight of the westbound train had depressed the bridge, so allowing it to pass, but the same had not happened for the eastbound, leaving two of its shiny new carriages totally submerged in thirty feet of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035621-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Cause\nThe accident resulted in what is regarded as the first press release when public relations expert Ivy Lee, working with the Pennsylvania Railroad, parent company of the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad, convinced the company to present a statement to journalists at the scene of the accident. The New York Times printed the release word-for-word on October 30, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1906 Atlantic hurricane season was an average season. It featured twelve tropical cyclones, eleven of which became storms, six became hurricanes and three became major hurricanes. The first storm of the season, a tropical storm in the northern Caribbean, formed on June 8; although it struck the United States, no major impacts were recorded. July saw a period of inactivity, with no known storms. However, in August, the streak of inactivity ended with two storms, including a powerful hurricane. September brought three storms, including a deadly hurricane, with catastrophic impacts in Pensacola and Mobile. October included three storms, with a powerful hurricane that killed over 200 people. The final storm of the season impacted Cuba in early November and dissipated on November 9. The season was quite deadly, with at least with 381 total recorded deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 898]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nPrior to the advent of modern tropical cyclone tracking technology, notably satellite imagery, many hurricanes that did not affect land directly went unnoticed, and storms that did affect land were not recognized until their onslaught. As a result, information on older hurricane seasons was often incomplete. Modern-day efforts have been made and are still ongoing to reconstruct the tracks of known hurricanes and to identify initially undetected storms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nIn many cases, the only evidence that a hurricane existed was reports from ships in its path, and judging by the direction of winds experienced by ships, and their location in relation to the storm, it is possible to roughly pinpoint the storm's center of circulation for a given point in time. This is the manner in which all of the eleven known storms in the 1906 season were identified by hurricane expert Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez-Partag\u00e1s's reanalysis of hurricane seasons between 1851 and 1910. Partag\u00e1s also extended the known tracks of three other hurricanes previously identified by scholars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0001-0002", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe information Partag\u00e1s and his colleague uncovered was largely adopted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic hurricane reanalysis in their updates to the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), with some slight adjustments. HURDAT is the official source for such hurricane data as track and intensity, although due to a sparsity of available records at the time the storms existed, listings on some storms are incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 163, the highest total since 1893. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nThe first storm of the season formed on June 8, south of western Cuba, attaining its peak winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) by June 9. On June 10, a weather station in Havana reported a minimum air pressure of 1002 mbar (hPa; 29.59 inHg); however, the minimum pressure of the system itself is unknown. On June 12, the system caused the sinking of a schooner; however, all on board the schooner were rescued. The system continued traveling north-northwestward, making landfall near Panama City on June 13, quickly weakening to a tropical depression as it moved inland. The system became extratropical by June 14, dissipating shortly thereafter; no deaths and injuries are known to have been caused by the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThis first hurricane of the season's effects were first noted in Santa Clara, Cuba, where rainy and windy conditions were observed on the afternoon of June 14. Several vessels sank during the hurricane during the early morning hours of June 15. The system was thought to have entered the Florida Straits during the evening. The system began to travel towards the west-northwest, steadily strengthening into a hurricane by the afternoon. On June 17, a minimum pressure of 979 mbar (hPa; 28.91 inHg) was recorded, as the hurricane passed over southern Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nThe hurricane slowly intensified as it traveled offshore, continuing to strengthen throughout the day on June 17, eventually reaching Category 2 status by June 18. As the storm headed northeastward, the hurricane began to weaken, becoming a tropical storm by June 21. The system turned toward the east-southeast on June 21, later recurving towards the east-northeast on June 22. It weakened to a tropical depression by June 23, transitioning into an extratropical cyclone later that day. Impacts caused by the hurricane were minimal\u2014a boat was partially dismantled at Key West, and a wharf at Coconut Grove was also damaged. In addition, the schooner Hidie Feroe sank, although her crew was later rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nThis tropical storm was previously unidentified until modern research by Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez-Partag\u00e1s revealed the storm in 1997. The tropical storm is believed to have originated as a tropical depression in the North Atlantic on August 22. By August 23, the depression had intensified into a tropical storm, with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h). The system further intensified into a powerful tropical storm on August 24, with winds of 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h). However, the storm began to weaken, and it transitioned into an extratropical storm on August 25, with winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe fourth storm of the season was believed to have originated as a tropical storm off the coast of Africa on August 25. The storm slowly intensified, eventually reaching hurricane status on August 28. As the storm headed west-northwestward on August 31, it passed by the Lesser Antilles as a Category 2 hurricane. The storm became a Category 3 hurricane on September 2 as it passed north of the Dominican Republic. The storm further intensified into a Category 4 hurricane on September 5, located east of the Bahamas. Throughout the day on September 6, the hurricane began to curve northward. During the evening, it weakened to Category 3 status and began to travel northeastward on September 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Four\nThe hurricane maintained its intensity and passed northwest of Bermuda on September 9, where winds reached 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h) and air pressures fell to 988 mbar (hPa; 29.18 inHg). The storm continued to weaken, eventually becoming a Category 2 hurricane on September 11; at this time, the Koenigin Luise measured an air pressure of 950 mbar (hPa; 28.06 inHg). The system became extratropical later during the day, and lost its identity on September 12 in the North Atlantic near the British Isles. As a result of warnings in advance, little damage was caused by the hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe fifth storm of the season formed on September 3 in the western Atlantic. It drifted west-northwestward, slowly gaining intensity, and turned northwest on September 8. However, the tropical storm then changed course and began to head west-northwest on September 11 as it slowly intensified. By September 12, the tropical storm had intensified to a minimal hurricane, and began to turn towards the north-northwest on September 13. It attained its peak winds of 90\u00a0mph (145\u00a0km/h) on September 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0009-0001", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nAs it maintained its intensity on September 15, the hurricane began to turn westward while it continued to approach the coast of South Carolina on September 17. The hurricane made landfall near Myrtle Beach later on September 17, and quickly weakened to a tropical storm as it moved inland. The storm dissipated as a tropical depression on September 18 over Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five\nThe hurricane caused moderate impacts \u2014 two hundred people were stranded at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. At Charleston, South Carolina, winds of 46\u00a0mph (74\u00a0km/h) were recorded, in addition to a barometric pressure of 997 mbar (hPa; 29.44 inHg). Many small buildings were damaged in Charleston; damage in the city totaled to $1,000, while at the town of Georgetown, damage was estimated to be around $15,000. The Laura encountered the hurricane, and three of the crew of four were killed. A schooner called the Seguranca and its crew were also impacted by the hurricane; the crew on board survived without food for two days. Overall damage to shipping and crops in the Carolinas was moderate; seven people were killed, and at least $2,016,000 (1906 USD) in damage was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six\nThe sixth hurricane of the season originated as a tropical depression on September 19 in the southwestern Caribbean Sea. The following day, the depression intensified into a tropical storm. It continued to intensify steadily, eventually reaching hurricane status on September 24 as it exited the Yucat\u00e1n Channel. The hurricane continued to intensify as it moved north-northwest and attained Category 2 intensity in the Gulf of Mexico. During the afternoon, the storm intensified further into a major hurricane. At this time, the hurricane was 300 miles (485\u00a0km) west-northwest of Cuba. The hurricane maintained intensity and continued to drift north-northwest, and weakened to a Category 2 hurricane as it made landfall near Pascagoula, Mississippi, on September 27. The hurricane weakened as it moved inland, quickly weakening to a tropical storm by September 28. The storm became extratropical on September 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 967]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six\nThe hurricane caused severe damage along the Gulf Coast. Many marine vessels were blown ashore or sunken in Pensacola, and railroads in the city were severely damaged. Numerous wharfs were damaged or destroyed, and many roofs were torn off buildings. Three forts in the vicinity of Pensacola suffered damage. Electricity in the city was shut off. A total of 25 people were killed in Pensacola. Mobile and surrounding areas suffered similar damage, including destroyed timber, smashed windows, and sunken watercraft. In Mississippi, over 300,000 cotton bales were ruined during the hurricane, amounting to $12,000,000 in damage. Damage in New Orleans was minimal; however, Lake Pontchartrain overflowed, flooding the city. The hurricane killed a total of 134 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven\nThis tropical storm was previously unidentified and was not considered a tropical storm until research by Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez-Partag\u00e1s in 1997. The storm is believed to have originated west of the Canary Islands in the northeastern Atlantic on September 22. The tropical storm moved west-southwestward for several days, maintaining its peak winds of 70\u00a0mph (115\u00a0km/h); however, the storm began to curve early on September 26 and traveled directly westward before curving northward during the afternoon. The tropical storm continued to change course, turning west-northwestward by September 28. The transitioned to an extratropical system on October 1, and reached England on October 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical depression\nA tropical depression developed over the eastern Caribbean on September\u00a026. The depression moved generally westward and likely peaked with maximum sustained winds of 35\u00a0mph (55\u00a0km/h). By September\u00a030, the depression curved west-northwestward and dissipated near Cuba's Cabo San Antonio on the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nThis hurricane originated on October 4 near Barbados as a \"cyclonic perturbation\"; however, no closed circulation was evidently associated with the system. Barometric pressures began sinking in Panama as the system drifted westward, and it was considered a tropical storm by October 8. As the storm headed west, it rapidly strengthened; the storm became a hurricane on October 9 and intensified into a major hurricane on October 10. As it began to curve northwestward, the hurricane made landfall in Nicaragua, and weakened to a tropical storm on October 11. It began to drift north-northwestward later that day, intensifying into a minimal hurricane as it drifted into the Gulf of Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nHowever, the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm again on October 14 as it moved overland, and began to curve north-northwest, restrengthening to a major hurricane by October 17 while it was west-southwest of Cuba. The hurricane made landfall over Cuba on the evening of October 17. The hurricane passed over southern Florida near Pigeon Key and Downtown Miami on October 18. The hurricane continued traveling north-northwest; however, it was forced to re-curve south-southwest, as a result of a high-pressure area. The hurricane weakened to a tropical storm overland, eventually becoming a tropical depression. The system meandered into the Gulf of Mexico, making a final landfall in Central America on October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eight\nThe hurricane wreaked havoc throughout its path \u2014 crops in Central America suffered severe damage, and rainfall destroyed many roads and bridges in Nicaragua. In Cuba, at least 29 people were killed, and tobacco crops in the country were ruined. The most severe damage was caused in Florida \u2014 the state suffered more than $420,000 in damage and more than two hundred people were killed. Of the people killed in Florida, 135 were workers on the Florida East Coast Railway, and more than 70 people were drowned near Elliott Key after two steamers sank. Throughout its path, damage caused by the hurricane totaled to at least $4,135,000 and at least 240 deaths were recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nine\nA tropical storm was believed to have formed from a low-pressure area, possibly on the tail end of a cold front on October 14. The storm moved westward; however, it began to curve west-southwestward on October 15, as it reached its peak winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h). The storm continued to trek towards the west-southwest on October 16, later making landfall in eastern Florida on October 17 as a tropical depression. No damage is known to have been caused by the tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ten\nThe tenth storm of the season formed on October 15 as a tropical storm east of the Bahamas and north of Hispaniola. The tropical storm moved northwest, but changed direction and began to curve northeastward on October 17. As the storm moved eastward, it slowly strengthened; the storm attained its peak winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) on October 18. The tropical storm headed directly eastward on October 19, and dissipated in the open Atlantic on October 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035622-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Eleven\nThe final storm of the season started as a tropical depression on November 5, located in the Caribbean, south of Cuba. It strengthened into a tropical storm later during the day as it curved northward, and the storm turned towards the northeast on November 6. As it approached Cuba, the storm briefly attained hurricane status; however, as the hurricane made landfall over Cuba, it weakened to a tropical storm. The storm drifted over the Bahamas as a minimal tropical storm on November 8 while it traced east-northeast. It continued to weaken, and transitioned into an extratropical storm on November 10. No damage is known to have been caused by the hurricane. Its path, its intensity, and the time of the year in which it formed are very similar to those of Hurricane Katrina of 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035623-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1906 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035624-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Auckland City mayoral election\nThe 1906 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1906, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035624-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nIncumbent mayor Arthur Myers was overwhelmingly re-elected against challenger Albert Bradley. The contest was marked by little interest with the result being regarded as a foregone conclusion. Consequently there was a low turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035625-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Australasian Championships\nThe 1906 Australasian Championships (now known as the Australian Open) was a tennis tournament played on the grass court at Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand the event is a part of the Grand Slam. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 26 to 31 December 1906. Anthony Wilding won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035625-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Australasian Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRodney Heath / Anthony Wilding defeated Cecil C. Cox / Harry Parker, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035626-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Australasian Championships \u2013 Singles\nAnthony Wilding defeated Francis Fisher, 6\u20130, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1906 Australasian Championships. This event (now known as the Australian Open) was a tennis tournament played on twelve grass courts in Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand. The tournament, part of the Grand Slam, was held from 26 to 31 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035627-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian Senate elections referendum\nThe Australian referendum of 12 December 1906 approved an amendment to the Australian constitution related to the terms of office of federal senators. Technically it was a vote on the Constitution Alteration (Senate Elections) Bill 1906, which after being approved in the referendum received the royal assent on 3 April 1907. The amendment moved the date of the beginning of the term of members of the Senate from 1\u00a0January to 1 July so that elections to the federal House of Representatives and the Senate could occur simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035627-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian Senate elections referendum\nThe 1906 vote was the first referendum ever held in the Commonwealth of Australia and concerned the first amendment proposed to the constitution since its enactment. The referendum was held in conjunction with the 1906 federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035627-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian Senate elections referendum, Overview\nPrior to the amendment the constitution provided, in section 13, that Senate term would begin on 1 January and end on 31 December. By 1906 it was felt to be unlikely that Senate terms would generally coincide with House of Representatives terms, and that for this reason a change would be beneficial. The proposed amendment provided for Senate terms to begin on 1 July and end on 30\u00a0June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035627-0002-0001", "contents": "1906 Australian Senate elections referendum, Overview\nOdger's Australian Senate Practice noted that the main reason for the change was to enable simultaneous elections to be held in March, which at the time was considered the most likely period in which Federal elections would be held. The amendment was uncontroversial, dealing with the mechanical matter of how to rotate Senate terms, and Robert Menzies later observed that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035627-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian Senate elections referendum, Overview\nAlthough the amendment has not hindered the holding of simultaneous elections, it has had one unintended consequence. Because two-thirds of Commonwealth elections have been held in the months between September and December, there have been numerous instances of incoming Senators being required to wait many months before taking their seats. Those elected on 3 October 1998, for instance, were required to wait 270 days before doing so, and those elected on 21 August 2010 were required to wait 314 days before doing so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035627-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian Senate elections referendum, Referendum results\nQuestion: Do you approve of the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled 'Constitution Alteration (Senate Elections) 1906'?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 63], "content_span": [64, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035627-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian Senate elections referendum, Changes to the text of the constitution\nSection 13 - (removed text stricken through; substituted text in bold):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 84], "content_span": [85, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election\nThe 1906 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 12 December 1906. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Protectionist Party minority government led by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin retained government, despite winning the fewest House of Representatives votes and seats of the three parties. Parliamentary support was provided by the Labour Party led by Chris Watson, while the Anti-Socialist Party (renamed from the Free Trade Party), led by George Reid, remained in opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election\nWatson resigned as Labour leader in October 1907 and was replaced by Andrew Fisher. The Protectionist minority government fell in November 1908 to Labour, a few days before Reid resigned as Anti-Socialist leader, who was replaced by Joseph Cook. The Labour minority government fell in June 1909 to the newly formed Commonwealth Liberal Party led by Deakin. The party was formed on a shared anti-Labour platform as a merger between Deakin, leader of the Protectionists, and Cook, leader of the Anti-Socialists, in order to counter Labour's growing popularity. The merger didn't sit well with several of the more progressive Protectionists, who defected to Labour or sat as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election\nThe merger would allow the Deakin Commonwealth Liberals to construct a mid-term parliamentary majority, however less than a year later at the 1910 election, Labour won both majority government and a Senate majority, representing a number of firsts: it was Australia's first elected federal majority government, Australia's first elected Senate majority, the world's first Labour Party majority government at a national level, and after the 1904 Watson minority government the world's second Labour Party government at a national level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election, Significance\nIt was the third federal election in Australia following the adoption of the federal government. The election was largely important as it would demonstrate which of the parties (if any) could hold together a stable government after the unstable second term of the previous one, which saw four different governments in power. It would also see if all parties could survive the implementation of protectionist policies which differentiated the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0003-0001", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election, Significance\nThis was also the first election where all seats for the House of Representatives were voted for via a First-past-the-post system (at previous elections some states voted as one electorate, using a bloc vote), and the first time that Tasmania was divided into separate electorates. The election result was the continuation of a Protectionist government led by Deakin and supported by Labour, which remained in power largely due to the unwillingness of the Anti-Socialist Party to support a vote of no confidence against it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election, Significance\nGeorge Reid adopted a strategy of trying to reorient the party system along Labour vs non-Labour lines \u2013 before the election, he renamed his Free Trade Party to the Anti-Socialist Party. Reid envisaged a spectrum running from socialist to anti-socialist, with the Protectionist Party in the middle. This attempt struck a chord with politicians who were steeped in the Westminster tradition and regarded a two-party system as very much the norm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election, Significance\nSince the Protectionist primary platform of government tariffs had been dealt with by previous governments, the party had become somewhat redundant. Those who remained were largely supporting the Party's leader, Alfred Deakin, rather than its policies. Of the three, the Labour Party, led by Chris Watson, now had the most realistic chance of becoming the dominant party after their gains in the 1903 election and after their leading status in the four minor states they were looking to make the same type of gains in Victoria and New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035628-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Australian federal election, Significance\nThe first federal referendum in Australia's history was held in conjunction with the election. The proposed alteration to the Constitution, to change the start date of Senators' terms from 1 January to 1 July, passed in all states and was carried.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election\nThe Basingstoke by-election of 1906 was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Arthur Frederick Jeffreys and was won by the Conservative candidate Arthur Salter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election\nThe Basingstoke division of Hampshire, returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election, Vacancy\nArthur Jeffreys had been Conservative MP for the seat since the 1887 Basingstoke by-election. He died on 14 February 1906 at the age of 57, just days after being re-elected at the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Conservative since it was created in 1885. They held the seat at the last election by a very small majority;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives chose barrister Arthur Salter KC as their candidate. The local Liberal Association re-selected 24 year-old Harry Verney who had been their unsuccessful candidate at the general election. A third candidate, Ernest Polden, came forward. He described himself as an Independent Liberal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election, Result\nThe Conservatives held the seat with a slightly increased majority. The intervention of the Independent Liberal candidate proved to be crucial as he took enough votes away from the Liberal candidate to enable the Conservative to hang on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election, Aftermath\nFour years later, at the general election, Salter comfortably held the seat for the Conservatives against a new Liberal challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035629-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Basingstoke by-election, Aftermath\nVerney switched to contest Buckingham where he was elected in December 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035630-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Belgian general election\nPartial general elections were held in Belgium on 27 May 1906. The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 50 of the 85 seats in the Chamber of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035630-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Belgian general election\nUnder the alternating system, elections were only held in five out of the nine provinces: Antwerp, Brabant, Luxembourg, Namur and West Flanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035630-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Belgian general election\nThe Catholic Party lost its majority in the Chamber of Representatives for the first time since 1884.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035631-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Beloit football team\nThe 1906 Beloit football team represented Beloit College in the 1906 college football season. In Charles A. Fairweather's first season, Beloit compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record, and defeated Lake Forest, Northern Illinois, and Milwaukee Medical College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035632-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Birthday Honours\nThe 1906 Birthday Honours for the British Empire were announced on 29 June, to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII on 9 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035632-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035633-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Bodmin by-election\nThe Bodmin by-election, 1906 was a by-election held on 24 July 1906 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bodmin in Cornwall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035633-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Bodmin by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was triggered by the unseating of the town's Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Thomas Agar-Robartes, as a result of an election petition alleging illegal payments to potential voters. The success of the petition was controversial, as the presiding Judge, Justice Grantham, himself a former Conservative MP, was already facing criticism for a decision on an election petition in the Great Yarmouth constituency which had been considered unduly favourable to the Conservatives. A censure motion was outstanding in Parliament at the time of the decision, but the Government decided not to proceed with it. Five years later, he was censured in Parliament by the then Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, as a consequence of some comments to a jury in a case in Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035633-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Bodmin by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal candidate was Freeman Freeman-Thomas, who had lost his Hastings seat in the recent general election. The Liberal Unionist was George Sandys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035633-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Bodmin by-election, Campaign\nThe brother of the unseated member toured the constituency, urging voters to avenge the result of the petition by voting Liberal. The Unionists alleged that the Government was planning to make up to 20,000 soldiers unemployed, a claim rejected by the Secretary of War, Richard Haldane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035633-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Bodmin by-election, Result\nThe Liberal candidate won with a slightly reduced majority (down from 1,172 to 1,093) on a somewhat smaller turnout than at the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035633-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Bodmin by-election, Aftermath\nSandys went on to become Conservative MP for Wells from 1910 to 1918, and his son Duncan Sandys later became an MP and cabinet minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035634-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich Giorgi\nThe 1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich Giorgi took place on September 20, 1906 (Julian calendar) when Tsarevich Giorgi, 2,200 ton steamship measuring 285 feet led by captain Sinkevich, was travelling from Odessa to Batum carrying vast amounts of money. The ship stopped off at Novorossiysk, Sukhum and New Athos for wage deliveries. Twenty-five Bolshevik gunmen led by Joseph Stalin slipped aboard armed with Mausers and grenades. At 1:15 am they and four renegade sailors took over the ship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035634-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich Giorgi\nStalin said: \"We're revolutionaries through and through, not criminals. We need cash for the Revolution and we'll take only Treasury funds. Obey my commands and ther'll be no bloodshed. But if you're thinking of resisting, we'll kill you all and blow up the ship.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035634-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Bolshevik raid on the Tsarevich Giorgi\nThey stole at least 16,000 roubles, Stalin left each sailor a 10 rouble tip for not resisting. The officers were held hostage in a lifeboat till all the cash was delivered, the sailors then rowed the Bolsheviks ashore. The alarm was not raised for seven hours, none of them were caught.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035635-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Americans season\nThe 1906 Boston Americans season was the sixth season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished last in the eight-team American League (AL) with a record of 49 wins and 105 losses, 45+1\u20442 games behind the Chicago White Sox. The team played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035635-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Americans season, Regular season\nPrior to the regular season, the team held spring training in Macon, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035635-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Statistical leaders\nThe offense was led by Chick Stahl with 51 RBIs and four home runs, and Myron \"Moose\" Grimshaw with a .290 batting average. The pitching staff was led by Cy Young, who made 39 appearances (34 starts) and pitched 28 complete games with a 13\u201321 record and 3.19 ERA, while striking out 140 in 287+2\u20443 innings. Jesse Tannehill was the only member of the starting rotation with winning record, at 13\u201311, while Bill Dinneen had the rotation's lowest ERA, at 2.92.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035635-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Season standings\nThe team had one game end in a tie; April 18 vs. New York Highlanders. Tie games are not counted in league standings, but player statistics during tie games are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035635-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035635-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035636-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Beaneaters season\nThe 1906 Boston Beaneaters season was the 36th season of the franchise. The Beaneaters finished eighth in the National League with a record of 49 wins and 102 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035636-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035636-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035636-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035636-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035636-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035637-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Brazilian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Brazil on 1 March 1906. The result was a victory for Afonso Pena of the Mineiro Republican Party, who received 97.9% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035638-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held under the 1891 constitution, which provided for a 16-member Court of Policy, half of which was elected. The Court included the Governor, seven government officials (the Attorney General, the Government Secretary, the Immigration Agent General and the Receiver General, together with three other appointees). The eight elected members were elected from seven constituencies; Demerara East, Demerara West, Essequebo North Western, Essequebo South Eastern, Berbice, City of Georgetown (2 members) and New Amsterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035638-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nIn addition, six \"Financial Representatives\" were also elected in six single member constituencies; Demerara, Essequebo North Western, Essequebo South Eastern, Berbice, Georgetown and New Amsterdam. Together with the Court of Policy, the two groups formed the Combined Court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035638-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 British Guiana general election, Electoral system\nThe franchise was restricted on the basis of a minimum income level, and women could not vote; as a result, only 1.19% of the population were entitled to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035638-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 British Guiana general election, Results\nTen of the elected members were pro-reform candidates, including seven who were members of the People's Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035639-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 British Isles heat wave\nThe 1906 British Isles heat wave occurred across the British Isles in the months of August and September. The heat wave had a comparable intensity to the 1990 heat wave. From 31 August to 3 September, the temperature in the UK exceeded 32\u00a0\u00b0C (90\u00a0\u00b0F) consecutively over most of the UK on these four days. In September, CET Central England and Birmingham recorded a highest temperature of 31.5\u00a0\u00b0C (88.7\u00a0\u00b0F), and Oxford recorded a highest temperature of 33.1\u00a0\u00b0C (91.6\u00a0\u00b0F), the Oxford high surpassed in 1911 with a temperature of 33.4\u00a0\u00b0C (92.1\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035639-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 British Isles heat wave\nThe 2nd of September was the hottest day of the month, as temperatures reached 35.6\u00a0\u00b0C (96.1\u00a0\u00b0F) in Bawtry, and remains the hottest September temperature of any day in the UK and the eighth-hottest day overall in the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035639-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 British Isles heat wave\nScotland had temperatures reaching 32.2\u00a0\u00b0C (90.0\u00a0\u00b0F) at Gordon Castle, Moray, while Northern Ireland had temperatures reaching 27.8\u00a0\u00b0C (82.0\u00a0\u00b0F) in Armagh, County Armagh, both recorded on 1 September 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035640-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1906 Brooklyn Superbas saw Patsy Donovan take over as the team's manager. However, another poor season led to a fifth-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035640-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035640-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035640-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035640-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035640-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035641-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1906 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035642-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1906 Calgary municipal election was held on December 10, 1906 to elect a Mayor and twelve Aldermen to sit on the twenty-third Calgary City Council from January 14, 1907 to January 2, 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035642-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Calgary municipal election\nArthur Leslie Cameron was elected Mayor of Calgary for the second time, his first occurring in the 1897 Calgary municipal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035642-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors with a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035642-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe requirements for a candidate to be eligible to run for the office of Mayor or Aldermen included being a male or female over the age of 21. Property ownership requirements included owning real property with an assessed value of $200, or tenants of real property with a value of $400, or income in the amount of $400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035642-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Calgary municipal election, Background\nAll Aldermen candidates for Ward 3 and Ward 4 were acclaimed upon the close of nomination on December 3, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035642-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Calgary municipal election, Background\nRichard Addison Brocklebank was convinced to run as a candidate for Mayor in November prior to the election, he did so with the backing of Labour on the condition he would run as an independent. In order to be eligible as a candidate for the Mayoral election, Brocklebank resigned from the License Commission a day prior to the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035643-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 California gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 California gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. James Gillet won the 1906 election and became the governor of California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035643-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 California gubernatorial election, General election results\nThis California elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035644-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Carioca\nThe 1906 Campeonato Carioca, the first edition of that championship, kicked off on May 3, 1906 and ended on October 28, 1906. It was organized by LMF (Liga Metropolitana de Football, or Metropolitan Football League). Six teams participated. Fluminense won the title for the 1st time. No teams were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035644-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Carioca, System\nThe tournament would be disputed in a double round-robin format, with the team with the most points winning the title. The last-placed team would dispute a playoff against the champion of the second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035645-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1906 Campeonato Paulista, organized by the LPF (Liga Paulista de Football), was the 5th season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top association football league. Germ\u00e2nia won the title for the 1st time. No teams were relegated and the top scorers were Germ\u00e2nia's Hermann Friese and Internacional's Le\u00f4nidas with 7 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035645-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Paulista, System\nThe championship was disputed in a double-round robin system, with the team with the most points winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035645-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nBefore the start of the championship, a split happened between the players and officials of Paulistano, with many of the former leaving to join AA das Palmeiras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035645-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nThe previous champions went out of the running for the title quickly, as Paulistano was still trying to rebuild its team and S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic was in decline, so the title was mostly disputed between Palmeiras and Germ\u00e2nia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035645-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nAfter a string of poor performances, capped with a 1-9 loss to Internacional, S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic withdrew from the championship. Later, Mackenzie also withdrew, after the school shut down its sports department.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035645-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nAfter AA das Palmeiras' last match, against Internacional, which would have secured the title for them, Internacional reported AA das Palmeiras to LPF claiming irregularities on ticket sales, and despite the fact that no irregularities were proven, LPF expelled AA das Palmeiras from the league and Germ\u00e2nia were declared champions instead. As a consequence, AA das Palmeiras broke with LPF, with both only reconciling in 1909, and the 1906 championship being struck from the league's records upon their reconciliation. However, years later, FPF retroactively declared all of LPF's Paulista championships as official, including the 1906 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035646-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Canadian census\nThe 1906 Canadian census was the first of a series of special conducted by the Government of Canada conducted covering the rapidly expanding Northwest Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. These censuses were conducted every ten years from 1906 to 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035646-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Canadian census\nThe paper records of responses were microfilmed and the original paper forms were destroyed. The microfilm has since been scanned and converted into a series of images which are now available online at the Library and Archives Canada web site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035646-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Canadian census\nThe previous census was the nationwide 1901 census and the following census was the nationwide 1911 census.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035647-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Canton Bulldogs season\nThe 1906 Canton Bulldogs season was their second season in the Ohio League. The team finished 10\u20131, giving them second place in the league. The championship series between the Bulldogs and the Massillon Tigers was rumoured to be fixed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035648-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1906 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1906 college football season. The Indians were coached by Bemus Pierce in his 1st year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 9\u20133, outscored opponents 244 to 40. Vanderbilt had one of the first big upsets from the south when it defeated Carlisle 4 to 0. 1906 was the first season with a legal forward pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035649-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game\nThe 1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game, played November 22, 1906, was a college football game between the Carlisle Indians and Vanderbilt Commodores. Vanderbilt defeated the northern school by a single, 17-yard Bob Blake field goal, Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin described the win as \"the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season.\" The 1906 Vanderbilt team had one of the greatest seasons in school history, once rated by Innis Brown as the best the South ever had.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035649-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game, Background\nOn November 11, Vanderbilt accepted a challenge of the Carlisle team for a game in Nashville. The Indians were given the choice of November 22, 23, or 24. The Nashville Banner predicted it would be \"the greatest game the south ever saw.\" The game started forty-five minutes late to accommodate the large crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035649-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game, Background\nOne source claims the Carlisle Indians failed to receive supplies on the trip to Nashville, including their receiving carboys emptied of water. \"The Indians had the poorest kind of accommodations at Nashville, and on account of the change of water every one of them became ill.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035649-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game, Game summary\nFrank Mount Pleasant had four field goal attempts, but missed them all. John Heisman wrote \"Manier bucked the Indians' line. Costen handled the ball surely and well downed Mt. Pleasant in his tracks on most of Blake's punts...I am still convinced that outside Yale and Princeton, the Commodores would have an even break with any other team in the country.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035649-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game, Aftermath\nAtlanta Constitution sporting editor A. W. Lynn wrote \"The general surprises are numerous enough, but the largest particular one was the Commodore\u2013Indian contest, when Vanderbilt took off the greatest honors ever falling to the lot of a southern football team in the hardest battle ever fought on a southern gridiron. Edwin Pope's Football's Greatest Coaches describes the game as the first intersectional triumph of the south. Vanderbilt running back Honus Craig called this his hardest game, giving special praise to Albert Exendine as \"the fastest end I ever saw.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035649-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game, Players\nThe starting lineup for Vanderbilt was V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); McLain (left guard); Stone (center); Chorn (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); D. Blake (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035650-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Challenge Cup\nThe 1905\u201306 Challenge Cup was the 10th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035650-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Bradford (at the time Bradford Park Avenue) and Salford at Headingley, Leeds in front of a crowd of 15,834 on Saturday 28 April 1906. Bradford won the Cup in their first appearance in the final by a score of 5-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1906 Chicago Cubs season was the 35th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 31st in the National League and the 14th at West Side Park. The team won the National League pennant with a record of 116\u201336, a full 20 games ahead of the second-place New York Giants. The team's .763 winning percentage, with two ties in their 154-game season, is the highest in modern MLB history. The 2001 Seattle Mariners also won 116 games, but they did that in 162 games with a .716 winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season\nIn a major upset, the Cubs were beaten by the Chicago White Sox in the 1906 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nLed by new manager Frank Chance, the Cubs dominated the NL. They led the league in both runs scored and fewest runs allowed by large margins. Their record of 116 wins has never been beaten, although it was tied by the 2001 Seattle Mariners (who played a longer 162-game season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nThe team included four future Hall of Famers: manager and first baseman Chance, second baseman Johnny Evers, shortstop Joe Tinker, and pitcher Mordecai Brown. Brown finished second in the NL in wins to Joe McGinnity, but his 1.04 ERA set a major league record. Although the record was broken by Dutch Leonard in 1914, Brown's mark still stands as the National League record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nThe pitching staff led the majors with a team earned run average of 1.76. Six members of the pitching staff had double digit victories \u2013 Mordecai Brown (26), Jack Pfiester (20), Ed Reulbach (19), Carl Lundgren (17), Orval Overall (12), and Jack Taylor (12). In addition, Mordecai Brown set a major league record with the lowest earned run average attained with at least 250 innings pitched (1.04). The offensive star was third baseman Harry Steinfeldt, who led the NL in both hits and RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nThe team's .763 winning percentage also set a modern-era record, and was the best overall since 1885. However, it set neither a National League record nor even a franchise record, as the 19th-century White Stockings finished with better records on three occasions (1876, 1880, and 1885). The all-time major league record belongs to the 1884 St. Louis Maroons of the Union Association at .832.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nOn August 9, Jack Taylor threw the last of a major league record 187 consecutive complete games that he pitched (not counting appearances as a relief pitcher), a streak that began in 1901 when Taylor was pitching for the Chicago Orphans. Taylor had been re-acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals on July 1, having been traded to the Cards after the 1903 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035651-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Cubs season, 1906 World Series\nAL Chicago White Sox (4) vs NL Chicago Cubs (2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035652-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1906 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1906 college football season. In their 15th season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 4\u20131 record, finished in fourth place in the Western Conference, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 175 to 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035653-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1906 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago (P&S) in the 1906 college football season. The team played at least two contests, against an undefeated Notre Dame, and Chicago Veterinary College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season\nThe 1906 season was the seventh season overall for the Chicago White Sox, and their sixth season in the major leagues. The Sox won their second American League pennant and their first World Series championship. The Sox won 93 games, a plateau they would not reach again until the 1915 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season, Regular season\nThe 1906 White Sox team became known as the Hitless Wonders when they won the American League pennant despite posting the lowest team batting average (.230) in the league. The team had been in fourth place by the end of July, 7\u00bd games behind the defending champion Philadelphia Athletics, when they went on a 19-game winning streak that drove them into first place. No American League team would beat the 19-game winning streak for almost 100 years. The team made up for their lack of hitting prowess by leading the league in walks, hit batsmen and sacrifice hits. The White Sox pitching staff had a league-leading 32 shutouts and the second lowest earned run average in the league. The White Sox then defeated their cross-town rivals, the heavily favored Chicago Cubs in the 1906 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035654-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Chicago White Sox season, 1906 World Series\nAL Chicago White Sox (4) vs NL Chicago Cubs (2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035655-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Chilean presidential election\nThe Chilean presidential election of 1906 took place through a system of electors, and resulted in the election as President of Pedro Montt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035655-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Chilean presidential election, Results\nThis Chilean elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1906 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the National League with a record of 64\u201387, 51\u00bd games behind the Chicago Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Reds were coming off their fourth consecutive winning season in 1905, as they had a 79\u201374 record, however, the team finished in fifth place, twenty-six games behind the pennant winning New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nCincinnati made a number of moves in the off-season, including replacing Joe Kelley as manager with Ned Hanlon. Kelley would remain with the Reds as an outfielder. Hanlon had previously managed the Brooklyn Superbas from 1899\u20131905, leading them to the National League pennant in 1899 and 1900. Hanlon also managed the Baltimore Orioles from 1892\u20131898, leading them to three straight NL pennants from 1894\u20131896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Reds traded away third baseman Harry Steinfeldt to the Chicago Cubs for pitcher Jake Weimer. Weimer had a record of 18\u201312 with a 2.26 ERA in 33 games with the Cubs in 1905 after recording two straight twenty win seasons in 1903 and 1904. The team also traded away infielder Al Bridwell to the Boston Beaneaters for third baseman Jim Delahanty and pitcher Chick Fraser. Delahanty hit .255 with five homers and 55 RBI with Boston in 1905, while Fraser had a 14\u201321 record with a 3.28 ERA in his only season with the Beaneaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe team had a poor start to the season, as Cincinnati had a 10\u201320 record after thirty games, sitting in seventh place, 11.5 games behind the Chicago Cubs. A six-game winning streak brought the Reds up to fifth place, however, a 2\u201311 skid in their next thirteen games dropped Cincinnati back to seventh place, 15.5 games behind the Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0004-0001", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nAs Cincinnati was dropping out of the pennant race, the team made some trades, dealing pitcher Orval Overall to the Cubs for pitcher Bob Wicker and $2,000, trading outfielder Cy Seymour to the Giants for $12,000, and trading away infielder Shad Barry and pitcher Carl Druhot for outfielder Homer Smoot. Cincinnati finished the season with a 64\u201387 record, their first losing season since 1901, finishing 51.5 games behind first place Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nMiller Huggins had another solid season at second base, leading the team with a .292 batting average, 159 hits and 81 runs. Catcher Admiral Schlei had a break out season, hitting .245 with a team high four homers and 54 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nOn the mound, Jake Weimer anchored the staff, going 20\u201314 with a 2.22 ERA in 41 games, starting 39 of them. Bob Ewing went 13\u201314 with a 2.38 ERA in 33 games, striking out a team high 145 batters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035656-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035657-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cincinnati football team\nThe 1906 Cincinnati football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach William Foley, the Bearcats compiled a 0\u20137\u20132 record. Edward Adams was the team captain. The team played its home games at Carson Field in Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035658-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Circuit des Ardennes\nThe 1906 Circuit des Ardennes was a Grand Prix motor race held at the 53.5 mile Bastogne circuit on 13 August 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035659-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1906 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Under first year head coach Bob Williams, the team posted a 4\u20130\u20133 record and 4\u20130\u20131 in SIAA. Fritz Furtick was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035659-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Clemson Tigers football team\nHeralding one of the best defenses in the South for the season, the Tigers allowed no touchdowns scored by their opponents in seven games, and only 4 points scored overall. The team tied with Vanderbilt for the SIAA title, but few writers chose them over the vaunted Commodores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035659-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Davidson\nIn Davidson, Clemson had its third scoreless tie of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035659-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\nClemson closed the season with a 10\u20130 victory over John Heisman's Georgia Tech team. Fritz Furtick scored Clemson's first touchdown. An onside kick got the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035659-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\nClemson's first forward pass took place during the game. Left end Powell Lykes, dropped back to kick, but lobbed a 30-yard pass to George Warren instead. Baseball star Ty Cobb attended the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035659-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Clemson Tigers football team, Season summary, Georgia Tech\nThe starting line up was Coagman (left end), Lykes (left tackle), Gaston (left guard), Clark (center), Carter (right guard), McLaurin (right tackle), Coles (right end), Warren (quarterback), Allen (left halfback), Furtick (right halfback), Derrick (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035660-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cleveland Naps season\nThe 1906 Cleveland Naps season was a season in American baseball. The team finished third in the American League with a record of 89\u201364, 5 games behind the Chicago White Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035660-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035660-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035660-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035660-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election\nThe Cockermouth by-election, 1906 was a by-election held on 3 August 1906 for the British House of Commons constituency of Cockermouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was triggered by the death of the town's Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Wilfrid Lawson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election, Electoral history\nAt the last General Election in January, the result was;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal candidate chosen to defend the seat was Captain Frederick Guest. Thirty-one-year-old Guest was a former Conservative who had followed his cousin Winston Churchill, for whom he worked as private secretary, into the Liberal Party in 1904 in support of the policy of Free trade. At the previous General Election in January, he was Liberal candidate for Kingswinford where he came second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative candidate was Sir John Randles, who had held the seat from 1900 until losing narrowly in the general election in January. Forty-eight-year-old Randles was an industrialist in the coal and steel business.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election, Candidates\nThere was also a third candidate, Robert Smillie of the Independent Labour Party. Forty-nine-year-old Smillie, in 1893 was a founding member of the Independent Labour Party. He had been President of the Scottish Miners' Federation since 1894. He had stood unsuccessfully for parliament on a number of occasions since 1894. At the previous General Election in January, he was Labour candidate for Paisley when he came third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election, Result\nTurnout was only slightly down since the general election, when only two candidates had run, and although the Conservative vote fell slightly, the Liberals lost much more, probably due to the intervention of Smillie. The result was a gain for the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035661-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Cockermouth by-election, Aftermath\nSir John Randles lost the seat again in the December 1910 election, this time to Sir Wilfred Lawson, son of the former MP. Frederick Guest was eventually returned as a Member of Parliament for East Dorset in the January 1910 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035662-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Colgate football team\nThe 1906 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Warner, the team compiled a 4\u20132\u20132 record. Ralph Knapp was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1906 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1906 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly, Caspar Whitney for Outing Magazine, the New York World, the New York Sun, The New York Times, the New York Mail, and Charles Chadwick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\nThe 1906 college football season was a year of change. Following controversies in 1905 over the increase of violence and professionalism in college football, a number of rule changes were implemented in 1906. The most lasting change introduced in 1906 was the forward pass. Several of the players selected as All-Americans in 1906 gained attention for their use of the new tactic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\nThese include Eddie Dillon, the first Princeton quarterback to make use of the forward pass, and Yale's Paul Veeder and Bob Forbes who combined for one of the first important pass plays, a play described in one history of the game as follows: \"The only other significant pass that season was thrown by Yale, which gained a first down that led to victory over Harvard, when Paul Veeder threw thirty yards to Bob Forbes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\nThe Eastern powers dominated the game of college football in 1906, and players from the Ivy League dominated the All-American selections. Both the Princeton Tigers and the Yale Bulldogs finished with undefeated seasons and played each other to a 0\u20130 tie on November 17, 1906. Out of 15 players recognized in the NCAA Record Book as consensus All-Americans for the 1906 season, 13 played for Ivy League teams, and 7 played for Princeton or Yale. Only two players from \"western\" schools were first-team selections\u2014quarterback Walter Eckersall from the University of Chicago and center William Thomas Dunn from Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\nThe only unanimous first-team All-American in 1906 was Yale end Bob Forbes. Other players who were named to the first team by at least five of the eight selectors reflected below were end Caspar Wister of Princeton (6 first-team designations), tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow of Yale (7 selections), guard Francis Burr of Harvard (7 selections), guard Elmer Thompson of Cornell (5 selections), center Clarence Hockenberger of Yale (5 selections), and halfback Hugh Knox of Yale (5 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\nThe Washington Post in December 1906 wrote of the difficulty involved in selecting eleven players for an All-American team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\n\"A big problem confronts the person who this year undertakes to select eleven men for a football team which he wishes to call the best in the country. There are more good men than ever before, among the minor elevens, because, with a premium, placed on speed rather than on weight, the lighter men have had a better opportunity to distinguish themselves. It would be possible to pick at least three teams which would make things mighty interesting for each other. The East has completely eclipsed the West this season, and that somewhat simplifies matters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0005-0001", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\nThe Western teams failed to grasp the possibilities of the new rules and players of that section who were brilliant last year did not get an opportunity, to shine this year in the new game. Walter Eckersall, of Chicago, appears to be the only Westerner who has a right to be in the All-American team this fall.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\nIn announcing his All-American team, Caspar Whitney wrote that he had weighed character as a factor in his selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035663-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-America Team, Overview\n\"This eleven is chosen, after a season's observation, with a view to collecting the most resourceful, strongest all-round team under the new rules. No man whose amateur status is a matter of question or whose play has been unsportsmanly is eligible to this national team, which, in keeping with its honorary nature, I endeavor to confine to sportsmen.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1906 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. For some, the SIAA champion 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team made up the entire team. It would produce eight of the composite eleven. Owsley Manier was selected by Walter Camp third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team, Consensus eleven\nThe All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nC = selected by consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nAWL = selected by A. W. Lynn, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nMCA = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nPW = selected by Percy Whiting of Illustrated Outdoor News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nDM = selected by Dan McGugin head coach at Vanderbilt University, with information from Bradley Walker, southern official.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035664-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nF = selected by Jack Forsythe for a game in Savannah on Christmas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035665-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Claude Rothgeb, the Aggies compiled a 1\u20132\u20131 record, tied for last place in the CFA, and were outscored by a total of 21 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035666-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Colorado Mines Orediggers football team\nThe 1906 Colorado Mines Orediggers football team was an American football team that represented the Colorado School of Mines as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 3\u20130\u20132 record, shut out four of its five opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 61 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035667-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1906 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1906 college football season. The team returned to the Colorado Football Association after a season as an independent. Frank Castleman led the team to a mark of 1\u20131\u20132 in the CFA and 2\u20133\u20134 overall in his first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035668-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Colorado gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Colorado gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Republican nominee Henry Augustus Buchtel defeated Democratic nominee Alva Adams with 45.59% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035669-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Connecticut Aggies football team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1906 college football season. The Aggies were led by first year head coach George H. Lamson, and completed the season with a record of 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035670-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Connecticut gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Republican nominee Rollin S. Woodruff defeated Democratic nominee Charles Frederick Thayer with 54.83% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035671-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cootamundra state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Cootamundra on 28 July 1906 because of the resignation of William Holman (Labour). John Norton blamed Holman for a series of articles in The Worker commenting on Norton's unnatural silence over the land scandals involving Paddy Crick and William Willis. Norton made a personal attack on Holman in parliament, challenging him to resign and both would contest Holman's seat of Cootamundra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035671-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Cootamundra state by-election\nThe Surry Hills by-election was held the previous week. John Norton was a candidate, however he was defeated and withdrew from the contest for Cootamundra. H. V. Evatt argues that the most likely explanation for Norton's attack was to remove Labour's best debater at a critical time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035672-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Copa de Honor Cousenier\nThe 1906 Copa de Honor Cousenier was the final match to decide the winner of the Copa de Honor Cousenier, the 2nd. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by Uruguayan side Club Nacional de Football and Argentine team Alumni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035672-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Copa de Honor Cousenier\nThe match was held in the Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo, on September 16, 1906. It ended tied (11) so a playoff was scheduled for October 14 in the same venue. Alumni won the re-match 3\u20131, taking revenge from the previous edition and winning its first Copa Cousenier trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035673-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Copa del Rey\nThe Copa del Rey 1906 was the 4th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035673-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Copa del Rey\nThe competition started on April 9, 1906, and concluded on April 11, 1906, with the last group stage match, in which Madrid FC lifted the trophy for the second time ever with 2 victories over Recreativo de Huelva and Athletic de Bilbao. The three teams entered the tournament played playing all against all in three games. The X Sporting Club, Catalonia championship did not want to travel to Madrid to play the tournament for economical and internal reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035673-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Copa del Rey\nAlmost all of the Recreativo de Huelva team players were English.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035674-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Copa del Rey Final\nThe 1906 Copa del Rey Final was the 4th final of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. The match took place on 10 April 1906 at the Hip\u00f3dromo, Madrid. The match was contested by Athletic Bilbao and Madrid CF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035674-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Copa del Rey Final\nMadrid CF lifted the trophy for the second time with a 4\u20131 victory over Athletic Bilbao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035675-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1906 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 20th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035675-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 10 March 1907, Fermoy won the championship following an 0-08 to 0-00 defeat of Carbery Rangers in the final. This was their sixth championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035676-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1906 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 19th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035676-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nSt. Finbarr\u2019s were the defending champions from 1903 because the 1905 championship wasn\u2019t completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035676-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nSt. Finbarr\u2019s won the championship following a 2-9 to 0-6 defeat of Ballymartle in the final. As a result of this victory they were also awarded the 1905 championship title. Consequently, this was their fourth championship title overall and their third title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035677-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1906 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1906 college football season. In their fifth, non-consecutive season under head coach Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled an 8\u20131\u20132 record, shut out 6 of 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 237 to 37. Three Cornell players received honors on the 1906 College Football All-America Team: guard Elmer Thompson (Walter Camp-1, Caspar Whitney-2); center William Newman (Whitney-1); and fullback George Walders (Whitney-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035678-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 County Championship\nThe 1906 County Championship was the seventeenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 3 May to 30 August 1906. Kent won its first championship title, while the previous season's winners, Yorkshire, finished in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035679-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Croatian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia on 3, 4 and 5 May 1906. 45,381 people were entitled to vote in the elections. People's Party gained 37 seats, Croat-Serb Coalition 32 seats, and Star\u010devi\u0107's Party of Rights of Josip Frank won 19. On 30 April Nikola Toma\u0161i\u0107, leader of the People's Party, renounced his candidature and left politics for a short time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035680-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Currie Cup\nThe 1906 Currie Cup was the eighth edition of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035680-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Western Province for the seventh time, who won all seven of their matches in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035681-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Danish Folketing election\nFolketing elections were held in Denmark on 29 May 1906. The result was a victory for the Venstre Reform Party, which won 56 of the 114 seats. Voter turnout was 69.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035682-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Danish Landsting election\nThe Danish Landsting election of 1906 was held on 21 September 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035682-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Danish Landsting election\nOf the twelve constituencies the seats representing constituencies number\u00a01 (the city of Copenhagen), number\u00a02 (Copenhagen County, Frederiksborg County and Holb\u00e6k County), number\u00a04 (Bornholm County), number\u00a07 (Hj\u00f8rring County and Aalborg County) and number\u00a09 (Aarhus County, Randers County and parts of Viborg County) were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035683-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Danish local elections\nThe Danish regional elections of 1906 were held in January 1906. 438 municipal council members were elected among the middle class. An additional 6 municipal council members were elected in Copenhagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035684-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1906 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its fourth and final season under head coach Fred Folsom, the team compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record and shut out seven of ten opponents, but was outscored by a total of 87 to 72. Quarterback John Glaze was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team\nThe 1906 Davidson Wildcats football team represented Davidson University in the 1906 college football season. According to Fuzzy Woodruff, the team threw the first forward pass in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nIn the first game of the season, Davidson and the Tar Heels fought to a scoreless tie in Charlotte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nIn 1906, the Davidson football team made history. Prior to a game against Georgia, the Davidson coaching staff took note of the new rule that made a forward pass a legal play. During the game, the team completed several short passes over the middle and ended up winning 15\u20130. Fuzzy Woodruff gives the team credit for being the first team in the South to complete a forward pass in his book, \"The History of Southern Football.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nThe starting lineup was Sadler (left end), Walker (left tackle), Sentz (left guard), Edgerton (center), Spicer (right guard), Allen (right tackle), Huntington (right end), Elliott (quarterback), Miller (left halfback), Denny (right halfback), McKay (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech\nLob Brown was responsible for the win over Davidson by a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nDavidson gave Clemson its third scoreless tie of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team, Game summaries, VPI\nVPI beat Davidson 10\u20130, all the scoring done in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035685-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Davidson football team, Game summaries, VPI\nThe starting lineup was: Sadler (left end); Walker (left tackle); Lentz (left guard); Egerton (center); Whittaker (right guard); Spicer (right tackle); Huntington (right end); Elliott (quarterback); Denny (left halfback); Miller (right halfback); McCoy (fullback)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035686-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1906 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its second season under head coach Edward J. Ryan , the team compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 52 to 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035686-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe football team had disbanded during the 1905 season. In early October 1906, the college faculty decided upon further consideration to allow students to participate in sports, on the condition that the athletic association bear all expense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035687-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit Tigers season\n1906 was the sixth year for the Detroit Tigers in the American League. The team finished in sixth place with a record of 71\u201378 (.477), 21 games behind the Chicago White Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035687-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season\nThe 1906 Tigers were outscored by their opponents 599 to 518. The team's attendance at Bennett Park was 174,043, seventh out of the eight teams in the AL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035687-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035687-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035687-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035687-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035688-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Dickinson football team\nThe 1906 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 3\u20134\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 64 to 59. J. William Williams was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035689-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Dominion Championship\nThe 1906 Dominion Championship was a Canadian football game that was played on December 1, 1906, between the Hamilton Tigers and the McGill University Seniors, that determined the Senior Rugby Football champion of Canada. The Ontario Rugby Football Union champion Tigers defeated the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union champion McGill squad 29\u20133 to their first Dominion Championship. This was the second appearance in the title game for the Tigers with the first coming in 1897. This was the first and only appearance of a McGill team in the Dominion Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035689-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Dominion Championship, Background\nIn 1905, the Tigers refused to travel to the home of the Quebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) champion Ottawa Rough Riders that year and were banned by the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU) from playing in the Dominion Championship despite having a perfect record. In 1906, the CRU stated that if the Tigers wanted to qualify for the Dominion Final, they would have to defeat the 1906 QRFU champion Montreal Club by Quebec rules and the 1906 CIRFU champion McGill University club by college rules. At the time, the ORFU played with Burnside rules. Despite these challenges, Hamilton defeated Montreal 11\u20136 in the Dominion Semi-Final before dominating the Dominion Final against McGill and coasting to a 29\u20133 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035690-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1906 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Pell, the team compiled a 2\u20134\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 62 to 41.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035691-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1906 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035692-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Dulwich by-election\nThe Dulwich by-election, 1906 was a by-election held on 15 May 1906 for the British House of Commons constituency of Dulwich in South London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035692-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Dulwich by-election\nThe by-election was triggered by the resignation of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Dr Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, who was moving back to South Africa where he had previously lived for many years. The Unionist candidate was Bonar Law, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade who had lost his seat in the Liberal landslide in the February general election. The Liberal Party candidate was David Williamson, who had also contested the February election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035692-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Dulwich by-election, Result\nThe Conservative majority increased by over 900 votes, which the Times attributed not only to Bonar Law's candidature but also to the unpopularity of the Government's Education Bill, suggesting that the Catholic vote, estimated at 700, had gone mostly to the Conservatives as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035693-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Dundee fire\nIn July 1906, the city of Dundee was the site of a large fire caused by the ignition of a bonded warehouse. The fire, which burned for 12 hours, has been described as the most destructive fire in the history of Dundee. The fire was described by an eyewitness as sending \"rivers of burning whisky\" through the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035693-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Dundee fire, Background\nJames Watson and Co. were wholesale whisky merchants whose premises occupied a large site in Dundee on the corner of Trades Lane and Seagate. In 1906 about 300 people were employed by the firm. Watson and Co. were based at 97 Seagate with Customs Bond No. 4 next door at 99 Seagate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035693-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Dundee fire, The Fire\nAn employee of James Watson & Co. was passing the building on the evening of 19 July 1906 when he noticed smoke emerging from its roof. The building was soon ablaze and large vats of whisky caught fire and exploded, leading to flaming alcohol raining down on surrounding streets and buildings. The fire quickly spread to other buildings. The premises of another whisky merchant in nearby Candle Lane were also destroyed. So bad was the inferno that firefighters had to be called from Edinburgh to help fight it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035693-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Dundee fire, The Fire\nThe fire attracted thousands of spectators who gathered to watch the blaze and the sight of 'rivers of blue-flamed whiskey flowing into street drains'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035693-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Dundee fire, Aftermath\nAt the time of the fire it was estimated that \u00a3450,000 worth of damage had been caused. The following year's Dundee Directory reported that the fire had 'desolated a large portion of the neighbourhood' around Seagate, Trades Lane and Candle Lane, and that as a result a large area for building operations had opened up. New bonds designed by David Baxter were built on the site in 1907 and are now listed buildings. Whisky blending at Watson's Bond ceased in 1981 and the bonds closed in 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season\nThe 1906 ECAHA season was the inaugural season of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA). Six teams played a 10-game schedule. The Ottawa HC and Montreal Wanderers tied for the league championship with a record of 9\u20131, while the Montreal Shamrocks didn't win a single game. The Senators and the Wanderers then played a two-game playoff for the league championship and the Stanley Cup, and the Wanderers won 9\u20131,3\u20139 (12\u201310) on goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Regular season\nThe Ottawas played two Cup challenges during the regular season, defeating Queen's College of Kingston, the OHA champion, and defeating Smiths Falls, the FAHL champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nThis season saw many new players. Wanderers brought in Lester Patrick, Ernie Johnson and Ernie Russell and Ottawa brought in Harry and Tommy Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nFred Brophy, of Montreal HC, repeated his goal-scoring performance from the goaltender position in a game against Montreal Victorias on March 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nAgain, the league was high scoring, with Harry Smith scoring 31 goals in 8 games, Russell Bowie scoring 30 goals in 9 games, and Frank McGee scoring 28 goals in 7 games. Mr. Smith scored 6 in one game, 5 in another, topped by 8 against the Shamrocks on February 17. Mr. McGee would equal the 8 goals in a game feat against Montreal HC on March 3. Seven players scored at least 5 goals in a single game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup challenges\nThe Ottawas played two Cup challenges during the regular season, defeating Queen's College of Kingston, the OHA champion, and defeating Smiths Falls, the FAHL champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, Queen's University vs. Ottawa Hockey Club Silver Sevens\nThe lopsided score of the first game gave indications that the series would be quickly over. One interesting emergence was that of Marty Walsh. Walsh would help hold Ottawa to a 5\u20133 lead scoring two goals. In the game's second half, Ottawa broke away after the score was made 5\u20134 with nine unanswered goals. Ottawa would win game one by a score of 16\u20137. The game featured many multiple goal scorers; Westwick, McGee, A. Smith and H Smith would all score four goals for the Senators, and Richardson, Dobbson, and Walsh would each score two for Queen's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 84], "content_span": [85, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nAs the season produced a tie for the season championship, the defending champion Ottawas and Wanderers played a two-game playoff, with the winner being awarded the Stanley Cup. The series took place on March 14 in Montreal and March 17 in Ottawa. The Wanderers would win the series 9\u20131, 3\u20139 (12\u201310) in dramatic fashion..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nOttawa was installed as 2\u20131 betting favourites, but the Wanderers upset the bookies. In the first game in Montreal, the Wanderers dominated Ottawa, as Ernie Russell got four goals, Frank Glass got three and Moose Johnson would get two for a 9\u20131 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nAfter the first game, the Ottawas would replace their goalie Billy Hague with the Smiths Falls goalie Percy LeSueur in to play his first game for the club. Despite being down by eight goals, interest in Ottawa for the return match was high. Rush seats on sale the day of the game produced a throng that caused the ticket seller's glass to break. The venue, Dey's Arena, was modified to hold more spectators, including setting up temporary bleachers, removing the grandstand which had been used as a press box, and the installation of a press box attached to the rafters. Over 5,400 would attend the game and the top $2 tickets were being sold for $10. Betting interest was high, including one $12,000 bet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nAfter twelve minutes, the first goal was scored by the Wanderers' Moose Johnson to increase the goal lead to nine. Ottawa's Frank McGee, Harry Smith, and McGee again scored before half-time, cutting the deficit to 10\u20134. Harry Smith would score to open the second half, followed by Rat Westwick. Then Westwick scored again to make it 10\u20137 before Harry Smith scored three straight goals to make the score 9\u20131, evening the series with ten minutes to play to tie the series, causing a five-minute standing ovation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0010-0001", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nWith seven minutes to play Smith was sent off for the rest of the game and Lester Patrick would score with ninety seconds to play to put the Wanderers back in the lead. Patrick would ice the game with a goal with a few seconds to play. The Silver Seven reign was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nThe Toronto Globe called it the \"greatest game of hockey ever played on Canadian ice, or any other.\" The Sporting News would later dub it the \"Greatest Hockey Game in History.\" Moose Johnson would end up with the Governor-General's top hat. It had been knocked off of the Earl Grey's head, and a fan had snatched it up, giving it to Johnson later in the dressing room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Playoffs, ECAHA Playoff\nBecause of the need for the play-off, no challenges were made against western teams until the following winter. Ottawa had won Stanley Cup challenges that season, which meant that the 1906 season would have two Stanley Cup holders: Ottawa until March, and Montreal Wanderers for the balance of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings\nThe 1906 Stanley Cup was presented twice by the trophy's trustee William Foran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings\nThe Ottawa Hockey Club never did engrave their names on the Cup for their championship season, while the Wanderers engraved their names on the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings\nThe following Ottawa Hockey Club players and staff were eligible to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings, Coaching and administrative staff\n1906 Montreal WanderersThe Wanderers never did engrave their names on the Cup for their championship season, while the Wanderers engraved their names on the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 76], "content_span": [77, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings, Coaching and administrative staff\nThe following Wanderers players and staff were eligible to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 76], "content_span": [77, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings, Coaching and administrative staff\n(Team picture includes 8 players in uniform, and 10 members in suites, plus a mascot. The Mascot's name remains unknown.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 76], "content_span": [77, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings, Stanley Cup engraving\nWanderers engraved their name on top outside of the bowl. They included both challenges series, plus date and scores that goes all way around the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035694-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings, Stanley Cup engraving\nBetween 1903 and 1906 Ottawa engraved each of 10 Stanley Cup series they won, and teams they played outside the bowl. The first 8 series were listed separately, but both of the 1906 series are listed together in same space.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035695-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 East Aberdeenshire by-election\nThe East Aberdeenshire, by-election 1906 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of East Aberdeenshire in the County of Aberdeen in Scotland on 28 February 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035695-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 East Aberdeenshire by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal MP, James Annand on 6 February 1906. Annand had been an MP for only a few days and died before he had an opportunity to take his seat, so becoming one of the shortest-serving MPs in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035695-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 East Aberdeenshire by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberals chose James Murray of Aberdeen, a 55-year-old art collector who was Chairman of the Aberdeen Art Gallery, as their candidate. The Unionists met on 24 February and decided not to stand a candidate. Annand's opponent at the 1906 general election, the Liberal Unionist, Archibald White Maconochie, who had been the local MP from 1900 till 1906, declined to stand again and the Unionists felt it was inadvisable to bring a stranger into the constituency at short notice after their recent defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035695-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 East Aberdeenshire by-election, The result\nThere being no other candidates putting themselves forward Murray was returned unopposed. He held his seat until January 1910 United Kingdom general election when he stood down from Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035696-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 East Denbighshire by-election\nThe East Denbighshire by-election of 1906 was held on 14 August 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Samuel Moss, in order to become a county court judge. It was won by the Liberal candidate Edward Hemmerde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035697-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 East Tyrone by-election\nThe East Tyrone by-election of 1906 was held on 5 July 1906. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, Patrick Doogan. It was won by 18 votes by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Tom Kettle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035698-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Ecuador\u2013Colombia earthquake\nThe 1906 Ecuador\u2013Colombia earthquake occurred at 15:36 UTC on January 31, off the coast of Ecuador, near Esmeraldas. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 8.8 and triggered a destructive tsunami that caused at least 500 casualties on the coast of Colombia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035698-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Ecuador\u2013Colombia earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe earthquake occurred along the boundary between the Malpelo Plate, formerly considered the northeastern part of the Nazca Plate, and the North Andes Plate. The earthquake is likely to be a result of thrust-faulting, caused by the subduction of the Coiba, Malpelo and Nazca Plates beneath the North Andes and South American Plates. The coastal parts of Ecuador and Colombia have a history of strong megathrust earthquakes originating from this Malpelo-North Andes plate boundary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035698-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Ecuador\u2013Colombia earthquake, Damage\nThe greatest damage from the tsunami occurred on the coast between R\u00edo Verde, Ecuador and Micay, Colombia. Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the tsunami vary between 500 and 1,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035698-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Ecuador\u2013Colombia earthquake, Characteristics, Earthquake\nThe rupture zone for this earthquake was 500\u2013600\u00a0km (310\u2013370\u00a0mi) long, and encompassed those for the earthquakes of 1942 (Mw=7.8), 1958 (Mw\u202f=7.7) and 1979 (Mw\u202f=8.2). The lack of overlap between the three more recent events suggest the presence of minor barriers to rupture propagation along the plate boundary. Although these three events ruptured the same area of the plate boundary overall, they released only a small fraction of the energy of the 1906 earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035698-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Ecuador\u2013Colombia earthquake, Characteristics, Tsunami\nThe maximum recorded run-up height was 5\u00a0m (16\u00a0ft) in Tumaco, Colombia. At Hilo, Hawaii a 1.8\u00a0m (5\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in) run-up height was recorded for this event. The tsunami was also noted in Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, California and Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 58], "content_span": [59, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035698-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Ecuador\u2013Colombia earthquake, Future seismic hazard\nBecause the sequence of three earthquakes that ended in 1979 did not release as much energy as the 1906 event, it has been suggested that an earthquake of similar magnitude to that in 1906 was likely in the near future. However, analysis of the amount of slip associated with the three later events suggest that they have released most of the accumulated displacement across the plate boundary since 1906. Finally, on 16 April 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred in the same area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035699-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1906 municipal election was held December 10, 1906 for the purpose of electing a mayor and four aldermen to sit on the Edmonton City Council, as well as five public school trustees and six separate school trustees. There were eight aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled: Robert Manson, Joseph Henri Picard, and Samuel Smith had been elected to two-year terms in 1905, and were still in office. William Antrobus Griesbach had also been elected to a two-year term, but resigned to run for mayor. Accordingly, the fifth place aldermanic candidate in the 1906 election - Morton MacAuley - was elected only to serve out the remaining year of Griesbach's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035699-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nThere were 1221 ballots cast in the 1906 municipal election. The number of eligible voters is no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035699-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nW D Ferris, H A Gray, A E May, Alex Taylor, and Hedley C. Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035699-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nWilfrid Gari\u00e9py, E J Hart, Prosper-Edmond Lessard, Joseph Henri Picard, S Schultz, and O Tessier were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035700-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Eifion by-election\nThe Eifion by-election of 1906 was held on 5 June 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, John Bryn Roberts to become a county court judge. It was won by the Liberal candidate Ellis William Davies,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035700-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Eifion by-election\nRoberts' decision to resign in 1906 and accept the offer of the county court judgeship has been seen by some as an escape from the coming radical Liberal politics with which he found little favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035701-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 English cricket season\n1906 was the 17th season of County Championship cricket in England. The title was decided in the final round of matches with Kent County Cricket Club finishing just ahead of Yorkshire. George Hirst completed a unique \"double Double\" of 2,385 runs and 208 wickets. Tom Hayward broke Bobby Abel\u2019s 1901 record for the most runs scored in a first-class season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035702-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1906 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 28th and 29th in Davos, Switzerland. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035703-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1906 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held in the Italian commune of Pallanza on Lake Maggiore on 9 September. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035704-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Eye by-election\nThe Eye by-election of 1906 was held on 6 April 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Francis Seymour Stevenson. It was won by the Liberal candidate Harold Pearson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035705-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 FA Cup Final\nThe 1906 FA Cup Final was contested by Everton and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Everton won 1\u20130, the goal scored by Alex \"Sandy\" Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035706-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nThe 1906 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team was an American football team that represented Fairmount College (now known as Wichita State University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its second season under head coach Willis Bates, the team compiled a 7\u20131\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035707-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Faroese general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 18 July 1906. The result was a victory for the Union Party, which won 12 of the 20 seats in the L\u00f8gting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035708-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Finnish championships in aquatics\nFrom 1906 to 1926, the Finnish Swimming Federation did not arrange a dedicated national competition, but spread out the hosting duties of the championship events to multiple clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035708-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Finnish championships in aquatics, Swimming, Men, 200 metre breaststroke\nCederberg's time would have been the world record later when FINA was founded, but they refused to ratify it because he wore swimming briefs instead of a racing suit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035708-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Finnish championships in aquatics, Swimming, Women, 100 metre freestyle\nElsa Lingonblad became the first to win an official Finnish championship in aquatics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane\nThe 1906 Florida Keys hurricane was a powerful and deadly hurricane that had a major impact on Cuba and southern Florida. The fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the season, the storm formed from a system near Barbados on October 4. By October 8, it had intensified into a tropical storm, and made landfall as a hurricane in Central America. The hurricane traveled towards Cuba, making landfall and wreaking havoc on the island. The storm then made a third landfall in the Florida Keys during the evening of October 18. At least 240 people were killed as a result of the hurricane, and damages totaled at least $4,135,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane\nOf the 240 people killed during the storm, 135 were workers on the Florida East Coast Railway. The hurricane eventually led to the end of pineapple production in the Florida Keys for commercial purposes in 1915, although this was amplified by two further hurricanes in the following years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe hurricane originated from a \"cyclonic perturbation\" near Barbados on October 4, as reported by local newspapers. On October 5, no closed circulation was evident in the system. In Col\u00f3n, Panama, a report was sent to the Weather Bureau, reporting sinking barometric pressures on October 6. It was recognized as a tropical storm early on October 8, with winds of 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h), while located in the southwestern Caribbean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nAs the system continued to move west on October 9, it strengthened into a hurricane, and while it began to curve toward the west-northwest, further strengthening occurred, as it intensified into a Category 2 hurricane. The hurricane made landfall in Nicaragua on October 10 as a Category 3 hurricane. The system quickly weakened to a tropical storm as it traveled west-northwestward on October 11, later passing over the Gulf of Honduras. It later struck Belize on October 13 as a strong Category 1 hurricane on October 13, tracking north-northwestward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe system weakened into a tropical storm by October 14 but restrengthened into a Category 1 hurricane by October 16. As the hurricane began to turn northeastward, it continued to intensify, attaining Category 3 status by early October 17. The hurricane continued to approach Havana during the day, and the hurricane's center passed east of Havana during the evening. The hurricane passed over southern Florida on the morning of October 18 moving northeastward, and over the next few days turned north and slowed down to the east of South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0004-0001", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe hurricane began to weaken as it was forced to curve south-southwestward, striking Florida again as the result of a high-pressure area. The system eventually weakened to a tropical depression over Florida, and traced southwestward into the Gulf of Mexico. On October 23, the remnants of the hurricane struck Central America and dissipated on October 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Preparations and impact, Central America\nThe town of Bluefields suffered moderate damage during the hurricane, including downed trees and damage to roofs. In western Nicaragua, widespread flooding damaged roads and disrupted the construction of a port in Corinto. In Matagalpa, many plantations were severely damaged, in addition to the destruction of bridges and roads in the city. Several landslides occurred, leading to the destruction of many hills. In addition, local crops suffered much damage, including much of the local banana and rubber crops. A large wave measuring 15 feet (4.6\u00a0m) caused by the storm was described off Nicaragua, and caused brief disappearances of the Seal Cays. Along the Mosquito Coast, the town of Prinzapolka was nearly wiped out by the hurricane. Damage to fruit plantations in Costa Rica totaled $1,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Preparations and impact, Cuba\nHavana sustained major damage from the hurricane, with 50 houses destroyed, and cable operators in Miami, Santiago, and Jamaica were unable to reach telegraph services in the city. The wall of the American legation was blown down. Vedado's sea baths were severely damaged. Havana's streetcar service was temporarily disrupted by the storm. Trees were blown down in the parks of Havana. Twenty people were killed in the city, while in Bataban\u00f3, nine people were killed, with many others missing. In Matanzas, the location of the United States' 28th Infantry, tents were destroyed and there was widespread damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0006-0001", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Preparations and impact, Cuba\nHowever, nobody was killed or injured in the city. In San Luis, tobacco crops were ruined, and 150 tobacco barns in the Alqu\u00edzar municipality were destroyed. The sugar crop in Pinar del R\u00edo Province survived well during the hurricane. In the La Guria section of Cuba, the banana crops were completely destroyed. Rivers topped their banks throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nIn Miami, over 100 houses were destroyed, and the Episcopal and Methodist churches were completely destroyed. The jail in Miami was nearly completely dismantled, and the prisoners were evacuated. In Fort Pierce, the Peninsula and Occidental railcar sheds collapsed, with the roofs blown away. A two-story brick saloon was destroyed during the hurricane. The Miami telegraph office reported street flooding in the city, and that the telegraph office was flooded. Damage in Miami amounted to $160,000. In Key West, houses and trees were knocked down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0007-0001", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nIn St. Augustine, the tide was described as the \"highest in ten years,\" where streets were flooded throughout the city. At least 70 passengers on the steamers St. Lucia and Peerless drowned during the storm near Elliott Key. The steamers Campbell and the Sara were destroyed near the Isle of Pines, and the Elmora sank. Telegraph lines were also down south of Jupiter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nThe effects of the hurricane were most severe on the Florida East Coast Railway, where at least 135 people died, 104 of them on Houseboat No. 4, one of the railway's boats. Many of the workers were swept to sea on barges and flatboats; however, the steamer Jenny rescued 42 workers, who were dropped off at Key West, while another 24 were sent to Savannah, Georgia. The railway's losses totaled about $200,000. Construction was disrupted for a whole year by the storm, as equipment was reassembled and repaired. Many farmers on the Florida Keys suffered large losses; orange groves and fields of pineapples were devastated by the storm. Six lives were lost on plantations in the Keys. At the government wharf, the Fessenden was damaged during the hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Aftermath\nFollowing the hurricane, all workers of the Florida East Coast Railway were provided with wooden barracks on land, and several additional safety measures were enforced. The hurricane eventually led to the end of the commercial production of pineapples in the Florida Keys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035709-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida Keys hurricane, Aftermath\nIn 1947, Project Cirrus attempted to use the method of cloud seeding in a hurricane. Approximately 180 pounds (82\u00a0kg) of crushed dry ice were seeded into the 1947 hurricane. The system was successfully seeded; however, soon after the seeding, the hurricane changed course and traced toward Charleston, South Carolina. Following the seeding, the project was cancelled and numerous lawsuits were filed as the result of the sudden change of the path in the storm. However, the similar path of this hurricane prevented the success of the lawsuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team\nThe 1906 Florida football team was the first team fielded by the new University of Florida, which was established in 1905 and opened its Gainesville campus for the 1906-1907 academic year. Florida was a member of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) but was not yet affiliated with an athletic conference. The new university did not yet have on-campus sports facilities, so the school's football and baseball teams played most of their home games at a municipal park in Gainesville known simply as The Baseball Park for their first five years of existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team\nThe University of Florida did not adopt the \"Gators\" nickname for its sports teams until 1911, so early Florida football teams were known simply as \"Florida\" or the \"Orange and Blue.\" The 1906 squad was nicknamed \"Pee Wee's Boys\" in honor of their player-coach, Jack \"Pee Wee\" Forsythe, a former Clemson Tigers lineman who played for coach John Heisman from 1901 to 1903 and played end for Florida. Previously, Forsythe had been the head coach as Florida State College in Tallahassee, which had ended its football program when it became Florida Female College in 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team\nThe 1906 squad played an eight game schedule - five contests against local athletic clubs and three against nearby private colleges, with two games played in Gainesville. Florida finished its inaugural season with a 5\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Background\nThe modern University of Florida was created in 1905 when the Buckman Act consolidated four smaller state-supported institutions to create a university for men in Gainesville. One of those four predecessor schools was Florida Agricultural College in Lake City, which had fielded a football team intermittently since 1899 and adoped the name \"University of Florida\" in 1903. The Lake City school's 1904 team scheduled attempted to jumpstart the program by scheduling an ambitious slate against southern powers such as Auburn and Georgia. The attempt was not successful, as the team went 0-5. The school ceased to exist after the 1904-05 school year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Background\nAfter the Buckman Act in 1905, the new University of Florida used the FAC campus in Lake City for one school year while its new campus in Gainesville was under construction. The school hired coach C. A. Holton and was ready to play its first season, but due to a variety of problems, the squad was only able to complete one half of football. Several games were cancelled due to a large number of players being declared academically ineligible by university president Andrew Sledd, and a potential state championship with Stetson never materialized due to disputes over location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0004-0001", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Background\nFlorida finally took the field for their last scheduled game, a contest against the Landon Institute of Jacksonville in which Florida held a 6-0 lead at halftime. However, it was discovered during the intermission that Landon's squad included professional players, and Florida's team refused to resume the game. The season was described by Tom McEwen as \"lame duck, confusing, and troubled.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Background\nThe captain of the 1905 team was William M. Rowlett. Of all the players from the earlier predecessor teams of the Florida Gators, only tackle William Gibbs of the 1905 Lake City team is known to have played for the new university's team in Gainesville in the fall of 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Background, Rule changes\nAt the end of 1905, there was a national push to abolish college football due to reoccurring violence during games and the deaths of several players. Football was a sport that had degenerated into dangerous tactics such as: the flying wedge, punching, kicking, piling-on, and elbows to the face. Almost any violent behavior was allowed. Fatalities and injuries mounted during the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Background, Rule changes\nAs a result, the 1906 season was played under a new set of rules. The rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more open and less dangerous style of play. An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA, approved radical changes including the legalization of the forward pass, allowing the punting team to recover an on-side kick as a live ball, abolishing the dangerous flying wedge, creating a neutral zone between offense and defense, and doubling the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Background, Rule changes\nOwing to the new rules, Coach Forsythe employed the Minnesota shift, an offensive system that attempted to confuse the defense through misdirection rather than simply attempting to push ahead with brute force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Gainesville A. C.\nThe University of Florida beat the Gainesville Athletic Club 16\u20136, the Gainesville team scoring on a fumble recovery in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Mercer\nIn the second week of play, coach E. E. Tarr started Mercer's early winning streak over Florida with a 12\u20130 win. Florida played its first game in Macon. A fumble changed the momentum of the second half. Mercer's Dickey ran 40 yards around right end for the touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Mercer\nThe starting lineup was Clarke (left end), Neilson (left tackle), Earman (left guard), Barrs (center), Wissen (right guard), Rodder (right tackle), Graham (right end), Thompson (quarterback), Forsyth (left halfback), Corbett (right halfback), Hancock (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Rollins\n\"Pee Wee's Boys\" beat the Rollins Tars 6\u20130 in their first intercollegiate game played in Gainesville, Florida on October 26, 1906. The game was played on a baseball field just north of where Florida Field is today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Rollins\nThe game was scoreless in the first half, Florida getting the win late. Roy Corbett ran 25 yards around left end for the game's only touchdown. Shands kicked goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Riverside A. C.\nFlorida beat the Riverside Athletic Club of Jacksonville 19\u20130. Shands scored by catching a 15-yard forward pass. The goal was kicked by Forsythe, who was the star of the game. Hancock also scored a touchdown, and Gibbs snuffed out a trick play. Florida scored once more in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Savannah A. C.\nThe Florida team suffered a defeat to the Savannah Athletic Club, 27\u20132. Savannah outweighed Florida by some 30 pounds, and Florida was proud of giving Savannah a better game than Stetson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035710-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Florida football team, Season summary, Rollins\nRollins won the second game, 5\u20130. Again neither team scored until the final few minutes. Donald Cheney scored Rollins' touchdown. Coach Forsythe resigned to accept a position as player-coach with the Riverside team, and the team disbanded only to later reunite under interim coach and ROTC Lieutenant L. R. Ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035711-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Fordham football team\nThe 1906 Fordham football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. Fordham claims a 15\u20135 record, though College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record as 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035711-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Fordham football team\nFred L. Smith was the team's coach for a third, non-consecutive year. Quarterback Howard Gargan was the team captain from 1905 to 1907 and took over as head coach in 1908. The team played its home games at Fordham Field in The Bronx and at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035711-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following eight games are reported in Fordham's media guide, CFDW, and contemporaneous press coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035711-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following are 12 additional games reported in the Fordham media guide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035712-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Franklin Baptists football team\nThe 1906 Franklin football team represented Franklin College of Indiana in the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix\nThe 1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, commonly known as the 1906 French Grand Prix, was a motor race held on 26 and 27 June 1906, on closed public roads outside the city of Le Mans. The Grand Prix was organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF) at the prompting of the French automobile industry as an alternative to the Gordon Bennett races, which limited each competing country's number of entries regardless of the size of its industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0000-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix\nFrance had the largest automobile industry in Europe at the time, and in an attempt to better reflect this the Grand Prix had no limit to the number of entries by any particular country. The ACF chose a 103.18-kilometre (64.11\u00a0mi) circuit, composed primarily of dust roads sealed with tar, which would be lapped six times on both days by each competitor, a combined race distance of 1,238.16 kilometres (769.36\u00a0mi). Lasting for more than 12\u00a0hours overall, the race was won by Ferenc Szisz driving for the Renault team. FIAT driver Felice Nazzaro finished second, and Albert Cl\u00e9ment was third in a Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix\nPaul Baras of Brasier set the fastest lap of the race on his first lap. He held on to the lead until the third lap, when Szisz took over first position, defending it to the finish. Hot conditions melted the road tar, which the cars kicked up into the faces of the drivers, blinding them and making the racing treacherous. Punctures were common; tyre manufacturer Michelin introduced a detachable rim with a tyre already affixed, which could be quickly swapped onto a car after a puncture, saving a significant amount of time over manually replacing the tyre. This helped Nazzaro pass Cl\u00e9ment on the second day, as the FIAT\u2014unlike the Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard\u2014made use of the rims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix\nRenault's victory contributed to an increase in sales for the French manufacturer in the years following the race. Despite being the second to carry the title, the race has become known as the first Grand Prix. The success of the 1906 French Grand Prix prompted the ACF to run the Grand Prix again the following year, and the German automobile industry to organise the Kaiserpreis, the forerunner to the German Grand Prix, in 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background\nThe first French Grand Prix originated from the Gordon Bennett races, established by American millionaire James Gordon Bennett, Jr. in 1900. Intended to encourage automobile industries through sport, by 1903 the Gordon Bennett races had become some of the most prestigious in Europe; their formula of closed-road racing among similar cars replaced the previous model of unregulated vehicles racing between distant towns, over open roads. Entries into the Gordon Bennett races were by country, and the winning country earned the right to organise the next race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0003-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background\nEntries were limited to three per country, which meant that although the nascent motor industry in Europe was dominated by French manufacturers, they were denied the opportunity to fully demonstrate their superiority. Instead, the rule put them on a numerical level footing with countries such as Switzerland, with only one manufacturer, and allowed Mercedes, which had factories in Germany and Austria, to field six entries: three from each country. The French governing body, the Automobile Club de France (ACF), held trials between its manufacturers before each race; in 1904 twenty-nine entries competed for the three positions on offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background\nWhen L\u00e9on Th\u00e9ry won the 1904 race for the French manufacturer Richard-Brasier, the French automobile industry proposed to the ACF that they modify the format of the 1905 Gordon Bennett race and run it simultaneously with an event which did not limit entries by nation. The ACF accepted the proposal, but decided that instead of removing limits to entries by nation, the limits would remain but would be determined by the size of each country's industry. Under the ACF's proposal, France was allowed fifteen entries, Germany and Britain six, and the remaining countries\u2014Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and the United States\u2014three cars each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background\nThe French proposal was met with strong opposition from governing bodies representing the other Gordon Bennett nations, and at the instigation of Germany a meeting of the bodies was organised to settle the dispute. Although the delegates rejected the French model for the 1905 race, to avoid deadlock they agreed to use the new system of limits for the 1906 race. But when Th\u00e9ry and Richard-Brasier won again in 1905, and the responsibility for organising the 1906 race fell once more to the ACF, the French ended the Gordon Bennett races and organised their own event as a replacement, the Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track\nA combined offer from the city council of Le Mans and local hoteliers to contribute funding to the Grand Prix persuaded the ACF to hold the race on the outskirts of the city, where the Automobile Club de la Sarthe devised a 103.18-kilometre (64.11\u00a0mi) circuit. Running through farmlands and forests, the track, like most circuits of the time, formed a triangle. It started outside the village of Montfort, and headed south-west towards Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0006-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track\nCompetitors then took the Fourche hairpin, which turned sharply left and slowed the cars to around 50 kilometres per hour (31\u00a0mph), and then an essentially straight road through Bouloire south-east towards Saint-Calais. The town was bypassed with a temporary wooden plank road, as the track headed north on the next leg of the triangle. Another plank road through a forest to a minor road allowed the track to bypass most of the town of Vibraye, before it again headed north to the outskirts of La Fert\u00e9-Bernard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0006-0002", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track\nA series of left-hand turns took competitors back south-west towards Montfort on the last leg of the triangle, a straight broken by a more technical winding section, near the town of Connerr\u00e9. Competitors lapped the circuit twelve times over two days, six times on each day, a total distance of 1,238.16 kilometres (769.36\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track\nTo address concerns about previous races, during which spectators crowding too close to the track had been killed or injured by cars, the ACF erected 65 kilometres (40\u00a0mi) of palisade fencing around the circuit, concentrated around towns and villages, and at the ends of lanes, footpaths and roads intersecting the track. The planking used to avoid the towns of Saint-Calais and Vibraye was installed as an alternative to the system used in the Gordon Bennett races, where cars passing through towns would slow down to a set speed and were forbidden to overtake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0007-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track\nSeveral footbridges were erected over the track, and a 2,000-seat canopied grandstand was built at the start and finish line at Montfort. This faced the pit lane on the other side of the track, where the teams were based and could work on the cars. A tunnel under the track connected the grandstand and the pit lane. The road surface was little more than compacted dust and sharp stones which could be easily kicked up by the cars, and to limit the resulting problem of impaired visibility and punctures the ACF sealed the entire length of the track with tar. More was added to the bends of the track after cars running on them during practice broke up the surface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars\nTen French manufacturers entered cars in the Grand Prix: Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard, Hotchkiss, Gobron-Brilli\u00e9, Darracq, Vulpes, Brasier (the successor to Richard-Brasier), Panhard, Gr\u00e9goire, Lorraine-Dietrich and Renault. Two teams came from Italy (FIAT and Itala) and one (Mercedes) from Germany. With the exceptions of Gobron-Brilli\u00e9 and Vulpes, which each entered one car, and Gr\u00e9goire, which entered two cars, each team entered three cars, to make a total field of thirty-four entries. No British or American manufacturers entered the Grand Prix. The British were suspicious that the event was designed as propaganda for the French automobile industry; British magazine The Motor quoted French daily newspaper Le Petit Parisien as evidence of this supposed lack of sportsmanship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars\nThe ACF imposed a maximum weight limit\u2014excluding tools, upholstery, wings, lights and light fittings\u2014of 1,000 kilograms (2,205\u00a0lb), with an additional 7 kilograms (15\u00a0lb) allowed for a magneto or dynamo to be used for ignition. Regulations limited fuel consumption to 30 litres per 100 kilometres (9.4\u00a0mpg\u2011imp; 7.8\u00a0mpg\u2011US). Every team opted for a magneto system; all used a low-tension system except Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard, Panhard, Hotchkiss, Gobron-Brilli\u00e9, and Renault, which used high-tension. Mercedes, Brasier, Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard, FIAT and Gobron-Brilli\u00e9 used a chain drive system for transmission; the rest used drive shafts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0009-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars\nAll entries were fitted with four-cylinder engines; engine displacement ranged from 7,433 cubic centimetres (454\u00a0cu\u00a0in) for the Gr\u00e9goire to 18,279 cubic centimetres (1,115\u00a0cu\u00a0in) for the Panhard. Exhaust pipes were directed upwards to limit the dust kicked up off the roads. Teams were allowed to change drivers and equipment, but only at the end of the first day's running, not while the race was in progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars\nMichelin, Dunlop and Continental supplied tyres for the race. In the Grand Prix's one major technical innovation, Michelin introduced the jante amovible: a detachable rim with a tyre already affixed, which could be quickly swapped onto the car in the event of a puncture. Unlike in the Gordon Bennett races, only the driver and his riding mechanic were allowed to work on the car during the race, hence carrying the detachable rims could save time and confer a large advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0010-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars\nThe conventional method of changing a tyre, which involved slicing off the old tyre with a knife, and forcing the new tyre onto the rim, generally took around fifteen minutes; replacing Michelin's rims took less than four. The FIATs each used a full set, while the Renaults and two of the Cl\u00e9ment-Bayards used them on the rear wheels of their cars. As carrying each rim added 9 kilograms (20\u00a0lb) to the weight of the car over conventional wheels and tyres, some teams\u2014such as Itala and Panhard\u2014could not carry them without exceeding the weight limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars\nThe Grand Prix name (\"Great Prize\") referred to the prize of 45,000 French francs to the race winner. The franc was pegged to the gold at 0.290 grams per franc, which meant that the prize was worth 13\u00a0kg of gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nRoads around the track were closed to the public at 5\u00a0am on the morning of the race. A draw took place among the thirteen teams to determine the starting order, and assign each team a number. Each of a team's three entries was assigned a letter, one of \"A\", \"B\", or \"C\". Two lines of cars formed behind the start line at Montfort: cars marked \"A\" in one line and cars marked \"B\" in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0012-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nCars assigned the letter \"C\" were the last away; they formed a single line at the side of the track so that any cars which had completed their first circuit of the track would be able to pass. Cars were dispatched at 90-second intervals, beginning at 6\u00a0am. Lorraine-Dietrich driver Fernand Gabriel (numbered \"1A\") was scheduled to be the first competitor to start, but he stalled on the line and could not restart his car before the FIAT of Vincenzo Lancia, who was next in line, drove away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0012-0002", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nRenault's lead driver, the Hungarian Ferenc Szisz, started next, and behind him Victor H\u00e9mery of Darracq, Paul Baras of Brasier, Camille Jenatzy of Mercedes, Louis Rigolly of Gobron-Brilli\u00e9 and Alessandro Cagno of Itala. Philippe Tavenaux of Gr\u00e9goire, scheduled next, was unable to start; the only other non-starter was the sole Vulpes of Marius Barriaux, which was withdrawn before the race when it was found to be over the weight limit. The last of the thirty-two starters\u2014the Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard of \"de la Touloubre\", numbered \"13C\"\u2014left the start line at 6:49:30\u00a0am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nItala driver Maurice Fabry started the fastest of the competitors; he covered the first kilometre in 43.4\u00a0seconds. Over the full distance of the lap Brasier's Baras was the quickest; his lap time of 52\u00a0minutes and 25.4\u00a0seconds (52:25.4) moved him up to third position on the road and into the lead overall. A mechanical problem caused Gabriel to lose control of his car at Saint-Calais; he regained control in time to avoid a serious accident but was forced to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0013-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nBaras maintained his lead after the second lap, but fell back to second the next lap as Szisz took over the lead. As the day grew hotter the tar began to melt, which proved to be a greater problem than the dust; it was kicked up by the cars into the faces of the drivers and their mechanics, seeping past their goggles and inflaming their eyes. The Renault driver, J. Edmond, was particularly affected: his broken goggles allowed more tar to seep past and rendered him nearly blind. His attempts to change the goggles at a pit stop were rejected by officials on the grounds that equipment could not be replaced mid-race. Nor could another driver be substituted; he continued for two more laps before retiring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nFIAT driver Aldo Weilschott climbed from fourteenth on lap three to third on lap five, before his car rolled off the planks outside Vibraye. Szisz maintained the lead he had gained on lap three to finish the first day just before noon in a time of 5\u00a0hours, 45\u00a0minutes and 30.4\u00a0seconds (5:45:30.4), 26\u00a0minutes ahead of Albert Cl\u00e9ment of Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard. Despite a slow start, FIAT driver Felice Nazzaro moved up to third position, 15\u00a0minutes behind Cl\u00e9ment. Seventeen cars completed the first day; Henri Rougier's Lorraine-Dietrich finished last with a time of 8:15:55.0, 2+1\u20442 hours behind Szisz. All the cars that were competing the next day were moved into parc ferm\u00e9, a floodlit area guarded overnight by members of the ACF, to prevent teams and drivers from working on them until the following morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nThe time each car set on the first day determined the time they set off on the second day, hence Szisz's first-day time of 5\u00a0hours and 45\u00a0minutes meant he started at 5:45\u00a0am. Following the same principle, Cl\u00e9ment began at 6:11\u00a0am and Nazzaro at 6:26\u00a0am. This method ensured that positions on the road directly reflected the race standings. A horse, which had been trained before the race to be accustomed to the loud noise of an engine starting, towed each competitor out of parc ferm\u00e9 to the start line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0015-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nAs neither driver nor mechanic could work on their car until they had been given the signal to start the day's running, Szisz and Cl\u00e9ment began by heading directly to the pit lane to change tyres and service their cars. Cl\u00e9ment completed his stop more quickly than Szisz, and Nazzaro did not stop at all, and so Cl\u00e9ment closed his time gap to Szisz and Nazzaro closed on Cl\u00e9ment. Jenatzy and Lancia, who were both suffering eye problems from the first day, had intended to retire from the race and be relieved by their reserve drivers. As planned, \"Burton\" took over Jenatzy's car, but Lancia was forced to resume in his street clothes when his replacement driver could not be found when the car was due to start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nHotchkiss driver Elliott Shepard, who finished the first day in fourth, less than four minutes behind Nazzaro, spent half-an-hour working on his car at the start of the second day, fitting new tyres and changing liquids. On the eighth lap, he ran off the wooden planking at Saint-Calais but was able to resume; a wheel failure later in the lap caused him to run into a bank of earth and forced him to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0016-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nPanhard driver Georges Teste crashed early in the day and retired, as did Claude Richez of Renault; the sole Gobron-Brilli\u00e9 of Rigolly suffered radiator damage on lap seven and was forced out of the race. After two laps' running on the second day, second-placed Cl\u00e9ment had established a 23-minute lead over Nazzaro, but this was reduced to three minutes on the following lap. Despite Nazzaro passing Cl\u00e9ment on lap ten, a refuelling stop for the FIAT soon after put Cl\u00e9ment back in front. Nazzaro passed again, and led Cl\u00e9ment into the last lap of the race by less than a minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nSzisz's Renault suffered a broken rear suspension on the tenth lap, but his lead was so great (more than 30\u00a0minutes) that he could afford to drive cautiously with the damage. He took the black flag of the winner at the finish line after a combined total from the two days of 12:12:07.0; he had also been quicker on the straight than any other driver, reaching a top speed of 154 kilometres per hour (96\u00a0mph). He finished 32\u00a0minutes ahead of second-placed Nazzaro, who was in turn 3\u00a0minutes ahead of Cl\u00e9ment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0017-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nJules Barillier's Brasier was fourth, ahead of Lancia and Panhard driver George Heath. Baras\u2014whose first lap was the fastest of any car during the race\u2014was seventh, ahead of Arthur Duray of Lorraine-Dietrich, \"Pierry\" of Brasier, and \"Burton\". The last finisher, the Mercedes driver \"Mariaux\", was eleventh, more than four hours behind Szisz. Rougier, who had set the fastest lap of the day with a time of 53:16.4, had retired on lap ten after a long series of punctures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0017-0002", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Race\nOf the other retirements, H\u00e9mery, Ren\u00e9 Hanriot (riding mechanic Jean Chassagne) and Louis Wagner of Darracq suffered engine problems; the radiators on the cars of Rigolly of Gobron-Brilli\u00e9, Xavier Civelli de Bosch of Gr\u00e9goire and Cagno of Itala failed; Pierre de Caters of Itala, Shepard and Hubert Le Blon of Hotchkiss, A. Villemain of Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard and Vincenzo Florio of Mercedes withdrew after wheel failures; Gabriel of Lorraine-Dietrich, \"de la Touloubre\" of Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard and Henri Tart of Panhard retired because of other mechanical problems; and Fabry of Itala, Weilschott of FIAT, Teste of Panhard, Richez of Renault and Jacques Salleron of Hotchkiss suffered crash damage. Edmond of Renault was the only competitor whose retirement was the result of driver injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy\nThe top three finishers were escorted to the grandstand to collect their trophies. In an interview after the race, Szisz reflected on the \"anxiety\" he had felt as he drove the final laps: \"I feared something small which would take away victory at the moment when it had seemed to be won.\" The prestige Renault gained from Szisz's victory led to an increase in sales for the company, from around 1,600\u00a0cars in 1906 to more than 3,000 a year later, and increasing to more than 4,600 in 1908. But the race had not proven the superiority of the French motorcar; an Italian car had finished second and only seven of the twenty-three French cars that had started the race finished it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy\nReflections on the race by the organisers and the media generally concluded that the Grand Prix had been a poor replacement for the Gordon Bennett races. In part, this had been because the race was too long, and the system of starting the race\u2014with each car leaving at 90-second intervals\u2014had meant that there had been very little interaction between the competitors, simply cars driving their own races to time. The ACF decided that too much pressure had been put on drivers and riding mechanics by forbidding others to work on the cars during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0019-0001", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy\nIt was also felt that the outcome of the race had been too dependent on the use of Michelin's detachable rims. Cl\u00e9ment had driven the only Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard to not have the rims, and it was thought that this contributed to Nazzaro passing him on the second day as he stopped to change tyres. Despite this, the ACF decided to run the Grand Prix again the following year. The publicity generated by the race prompted the German governing body to organise a similar event that favoured their own industry. The forerunner to the German Grand Prix, the Kaiserpreis (Kaiser's Prize) was raced in 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035713-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy\nThe conference held in 1904 to consider the French proposal for a change in formula to the Gordon Bennett races led to the formation of the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR; the predecessor of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile), the body responsible for regulating international motorsport. Although a smaller race held in 1901 had awarded the \"Grand Prix de Pau\", the 1906 race outside Le Mans was the first genuinely international race to carry the label \"Grand Prix\". Until the First World War it was the only annual race to be called a Grand Prix (often, the Grand Prix), and is commonly known as \"the first Grand Prix\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035714-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 French legislative election\nThe 1906 general election was held on 6 and 20 May 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035714-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 French legislative election\nThe elections produced an increased majority for the governing coalition between the Radicals (PRRRS) and the left Republicans (ARD), which had held power under the premierships of Maurice Rouvier and Ferdinand Sarrien since January 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035714-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 French legislative election\nSarrien resigned on 20 October for reasons of health. Georges Clemenceau, also a Radical, replaced him, and remained premier until July 1909, after which he went on to become one of the longest-serving French Prime Ministers. The Bloc des gauches formally dissolved with Clemenceau's coming to power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035714-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 French legislative election, Electoral System\nBy the law of 13 February 1889 [fr], French legislative elections would take place utilising a first past the post system to elect one deputy in each constituency to the Chamber of Deputies (France), with some arrondissements being divided into multiple constituencies, though most containing only one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035715-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Galway Borough by-election\nThe Galway Borough by-election of 1906 was held on 3 November 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, Charles Ramsay Devlin, in order to return to Canada. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Stephen Gwynn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035716-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 George Washington Hatchetites football team\nThe 1906 George Washington Hatchetites Colonials football team was an American football team that represented George Washington University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Wilmer G. Crowell, the team compiled a 4\u20133\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035717-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1906 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1906 college football season. Led by Joe Reilly in his third year as head coach, the team went 6\u20131. Branch Bocock was the team's quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035718-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1906 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 2\u20134\u20131 record. Georgia\u2019s only victories in the 1906 season came against Mercer and Auburn. The season included Georgia's third straight loss to Georgia Tech and the seventh straight loss to Clemson. During the 1906 season, the forward pass was legalized and the team tried to use this new play, however, an errant pass contributed to the loss to Davidson. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' first season under the guidance of head coach Bull Whitney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035719-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team\nThe 1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team represented the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1906 college baseball season. Star players in 1906 included captain and outfielder Chip Robert, shortstop Tommy McMillan, and pitchers Ed Lafitte and Craig Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. In the third season under coach John Heisman, Georgia Tech posted a 6\u20133\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Before the season\nIn no small part thanks to Heisman, the forward pass was legalized in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 65], "content_span": [66, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Maryville\nUnder the new rules, Maryville surprised Tech with a tie, 6\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Maryville\nThe starting lineup was: Hightower (left end), Monroe (left tackle), Bell (left guard), Luck (center), Henderson (right guard), McCarty (right tackle), Hill (right end), Robert (quarterback), Davids (left halfback), Means (right halfback), Sweet (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, North Georgia\nIn the second week of play, Tech defeated North Georgia 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Grant\nAgainst Grant, Tech won 18\u20130. The game proved a punting duel between Brown and Grant's Reupert. The highlight of the game was a 40-yard punt return for a touchdown by Tech's Hightower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Sewanee\nSewanee defeated Georgia Tech 16\u20130. The game's account is the first involving the jump shift. The starting lineup was Brown (left end), Luck (left tackle), Bell (left guard), Monroe (center), Smith (right guard), McCarty (right tackle), Hill (right end), Robert (quarterback), Hightower (left halfback), Davies (right halfback), Sweet (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Davidson\nLob Brown was responsible for the win over Davidson by a 40-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nBrown also helped in the victory over rival Auburn, the school's first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia\n\"Tech's cup of joy overflowed\" as they defeated rival Georgia 17\u20130. An ambitious game with Vanderbilt was scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nVanderbilt defeated Tech in the rain and mud of Atlanta 37\u20136. Lobster Brown scored Tech's points. Atlanta Constitution sportswriter Alex Lynn wrote after the game that Owsley Manier was: \"the greatest fullback and all round man ever seen in Atlanta.\" He again scored five touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nThe starting lineup was: Brown (left end); McCarty (left tackle); Snyder (left guard); Monroe (center); Henderson (right guard); Luck (right tackle); Brown (right end); Robert (quarterback); Davies (left halfback); Hightower (right halfback); Adamson (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Clemson\nThe season ended with a disappointing, 10\u20130 loss to Clemson. Fritz Furtick scored Clemson's first touchdown. Baseball star Ty Cobb attended the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035720-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Postseason\nAt season's end, Brown was elected captain for next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035721-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 German football championship\nThe 1906 German football championship was the fourth competition for the national championship of Germany. Held under the auspices of the German Football Association (DFB), eight teams competed for the title. For the first time only champions of regional football associations were admitted to the championship, excluding champions of local associations such as the Verband Magdeburger Ballspielvereine (Association of Magdeburg ballgame clubs). An exception was the situation in Berlin where two associations \u2014 the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine (VBB) and the M\u00e4rkischer Fu\u00dfballbund (MFB) \u2014 existed. Both their champions were admitted, as were defending champions Berliner TuFC Union 92. This led to three teams from Berlin competing in the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035722-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 1906 Giro di Lombardia was the second edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 11 November 1906. The race started and finished in Milan. The race was won by Cesare Brambilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035723-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Goldey College football team\nThe 1906 Goldey College football team represented Goldey College (now known as Goldey\u2013Beacom College) in the 1906 college football season as an independent. In three games played, Goldey went winless, being outscored 0\u201338 in contests against Wilmington High School, the Delaware Reserves, and the Washington Reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035724-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand National\nThe 1906 Grand National was the 68th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 30 March 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season\nThe 1906 Grand Prix season is regarded as the first Grand Prix racing season. It marked the advent of two iconic races: The French Grand Prix and the Targa Florio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe season started with the first ever motor-race in Cuba, won by Victor Demogeot in a 1904 80-bhp Renault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nTo raise the profile of Italian motorsport, the wealthy 23-year old Conte Vincenzo Florio devised a course across the middle of his native Sicily. The circuit ran from Campofelice di Roccella on the northern coast up 3,600 feet (1,100\u00a0m) into the Madonie mountains to Petralia Sottana before returning to the coast. The roads at this time were unsealed and very rudimentary and windy. The race would be three laps of the 150 kilometres (93\u00a0mi) circuit. Florio went to great lengths to promote the event, commissioning a solid gold trophy and having an elaborate grandstand installed for VIPs at Petralia Sottana, overlooking the valleys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nCars had to cost less than 20000 French francs (FF) and had to be one of at least least ten built. They could have engines of any size, but had to be under 1300kg in weight. There were ten entries in this first edition, including five Italas. Vincenzo Lancia, in the sole FIAT, took the lead initially before being forced to retire when a stone punctured his fuel tank. Itala team-mates Alessandro Cagno and Ettore Graziani then vied for the lead before the experience of Cagno showed through and he pulled away to win the inaugural Targa Florio. He had covered the 447km in 9hrs 33 minutes, finishing 32 minutes ahead of Graziani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe French Automobile Club (ACF) had grown more dissatisfied with the format of the inter-nation Gordon Bennett Cup. Each nation would enter a 3-car team for those races, but France had many more manufacturers than the other competing nations. In 1906, as current holders, it was the turn of the ACF to host the next Gordon Bennett race. Instead it proposed a new race with far larger Grand Prix (\u2018Big Prize\u2019) of FF100,000 (equivalent to about \u20ac400,000 in 2015) to the winner, and open to all car-companies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0004-0001", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nInterest from manufacturers was high and in October 1905, promoted by the sports newspaper L\u2019Auto, tenders were opened to the French auto clubs for hosting rights. The newly formed Automobile Club de la Sarthe, forerunner of the ACO, won the contract, starting construction on a 103km triangular circuit to the east of Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe inaugural French Grand Prix took place on the weekend of 26-27 June. Cars had a maximum weight of 1000kg (excluding lights, wings and upholstery) and sufficient gasoline was allocated for a fuel consumption of 30 litres per 100km. Run over the two days, the cars had to run six laps of the circuit each day, locked up overnight, for a total distance of 1240km. Twelve manufacturers entered, most in 3-car teams, with nine from France, two from Italy (FIAT and Itala) and Mercedes from Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0005-0001", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe fastest cars were the Brasier team, but at the end of the first day, it was the 13-litre Renault AK of Ferenc Szisz \u2013 a Hungarian \u00e9migr\u00e9 now resident in France \u2013 that led. He had taken 5 hours 45 minutes, at an average speed of 107 km/h. Second was Albert Cl\u00e9ment in his Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard ahead of Felice Nazzaro in the 16.2L FIAT. All three teams were greatly helped by the installation of the new Michelin detachable-wheel units that saved about ten minutes at each pit stop for changing tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0005-0002", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nSzisz carried on his advantage into the second day to win, taking a total of just over twelve hours to complete the 12 laps, at an average speed of just over 100 km/h. Nazzaro got up to finish second ahead of Cl\u00e9ment. Over the course of the race, as the sun melted the newly-laid tar and the road-surface broke up, tyre changes were common. Szisz himself needed 19 tyre-changes during the course of the race \u2013 good pitwork had brought him victory. It established Renault and their car sales rose from 1600 in 1906 to 3000 in 1907 up to 4600 in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nA large contingent of European drivers, including Nazzaro, Cagno and Louis Wagner, had entered the American Vanderbilt Cup race in October. In response, an elimination race was organised beforehand to select the five drivers to represent the US in the main race. A new circuit through New York city was set up, but yet again, crowd control was a constant problem with one spectator run over and killed when crossing the track during the race. The end of the race was signalled with a black and white chequered flag, marking the first instance that format was used. Frenchman Louis Wagner won in a Darracq, but yet again the crowd surge onto the track after the race endangered the remaining speeding cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe final new race of the year was also promoted by L\u2019Auto. The Coupe de l\u2019Auto was developed to promote engineering advances. Regulations dictated the size of single and two-cylinder Voiturette engines with a minimum weight of 700kg. It was a true endurance race, with cars having to do eight laps of the 20-mile Rambouillet circuit, west of Paris, each day at an average speed of at least 30 miles per hour (48\u00a0km/h) for six days to qualify for the race itself on the 7th day. Georges Sizaire won in his own car \u2013 an 18hp Sizaire-Naudin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nAt the end of the year, Vincenzo Lancia founded his own car-company, while still staying on as a FIAT works-driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035725-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Grand Prix season, Season review\nIn 1906 Charles Jarrott, a British amateur racing driver, wrote the book \"Ten Years of Motors and Motor Racing\" about the years of open-road city-to-city racing. He noted then \"The result is that only men who make it their business to drive these cars can hope to be successful... the curse of commercialism is the ruin of every sport\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035726-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Grant football team\nThe 1906 Grant football team was an American football team that represented the Chattanooga campus of U. S. Grant Memorial University (now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) during the 1906 college football season. In their first year under head coach Arthur Rieber, the team compiled a 3\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035727-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Greek legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Greece on 26 March 1906. Supporters of Georgios Theotokis emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, with between 112 and 114 of the 177 seats. Theotokis remained Prime Minister after the election, having originally assumed office on 21 December 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035728-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1906 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1906 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 10\u20131 record under second-year head coach Bill Reid. The team won its first ten games by a combined 167\u201320 score, but lost its final game against rival Yale by a 6\u20130 score. Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, guard Francis Burr, as a first-team player on his 1906 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr and tackle Charles Osborne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035729-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1906 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach John H. Outland, Haskell compiled a 2\u20135 record and was outscored by a total of 96 to 53. Coach Outland was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and is the namesake of the Outland Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035730-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Haverford football team\nThe 1906 Haverford football team was an American football team that represented Haverford College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20130\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a total of 138 to 33. Norman Thorn was the head coach. He had been the captain of the 1903 Haverford team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035731-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Helsinki bank robbery\n1906 Helsinki bank robbery was an armed robbery on 26 February 1906 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. A branch of Russian State Bank was robbed by members of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party to fund Bolshevik revolutionary activities in Russia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035731-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Helsinki bank robbery\nThe robbery was organized by Russian revolutionary Nikolay Burenin and executed by a gang of 15 Latvian revolutionaries who killed a guard and escaped with 170,743 rubles (equivalent to around US$1.7 million in 2013). Burenin was a concert pianist who was playing in Tampere on the same evening. On their way to meet him, three gang members were captured in the village of Kerava after one Russian gendarme was shot dead. The gang leader J\u0101nis \u010coke and three other robbers were able to reach Tampere where they handed the money over to Burenin. He later fled with it to the United States on Maxim Gorki's fund raising trip as his personal secretary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035731-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Helsinki bank robbery\nJ\u0101nis \u010coke was captured three days later in Tampere. He managed to kill three people including one policeman before he was arrested. \u010coke was sentenced to three life sentences plus 19 years. He died of pneumonia in June 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035732-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Hillsdale Dales football team\nThe 1906 Hillsdale Dales football team represented Hillsdale College in the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035733-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1906 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035733-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Holy Cross football team\nIn their only year under head coach George W. King, the Crusaders compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record. George S.L. Connor returned for a second year as the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035733-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at the Fitton Field baseball stadium on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035734-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1906 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-fourth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 13 January and 17 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035734-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1906 Championship was little more than a footnote to the 1906 season, overshadowed by the excitement and excellence of the Original All Blacks, who had almost completed an \"invincible\" tour of the British Isles. This was to be followed in late 1906 by the first Springbok tour. The South Africans lacked the tactical finesse of the New Zealand team but they brought new standards of fitness, physique and blistering running pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035734-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1906 season is normally classified as a draw, but technically is given to Ireland as they scored the highest in-game points, despite a worse points difference than Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035734-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Home Nations Championship\nAlthough not officially part of the tournament until 1910, a match was arranged with the French national team which was played during the Championship against England. This was the first encounter between France and England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035734-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal was worth four points, while a goal from mark was reduced from four to three points this season. Penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035735-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nThe 1906 Sanitary Board Election was supposed to be held on 22 January 1906 for the 2 unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035735-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nOnly ratepayers who were included in the Special and Common Jury Lists of the years or ratepayers who are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations were entitled to vote at the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035735-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong sanitary board election\nThere were only two candidates therefore there was no formal election was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon\nThe 1906 Hong Kong typhoon was a tropical cyclone that hit Hong Kong on 18 September 1906. The natural disaster caused property damage exceeding a million pounds sterling, affected international trade, and took the lives of around 15,000 people: about 5% of the then Hong Kong population (a total of 320,000 people).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Meteorological history\nThe Hong Kong Observatory recorded the 1906 typhoon as having a velocity of 24 miles per hour (39\u00a0km/h) when the eye of the typhoon was 30 nautical miles (56\u00a0km) distant and it had a wind force of 6 Bft taken as limit, about 100 miles (160\u00a0km) in diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Meteorological history\nThe Royal Observatory had recorded the 1896 typhoon (29 July) with a velocity of 108 miles per hour (174\u00a0km/h) when the eye of the typhoon was of 47 nautical miles (87\u00a0km; 54\u00a0mi) distant, and with a wind force 6 taken as limit, about 500 miles (800\u00a0km) in diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Preparations\nThe Royal Observatory Hong Kong gave less than a thirty-minute warning of the typhoon, in which time it was already close to Hong Kong waters. A black drum (an official warning to be issued for tropical cyclones from Hong Kong Observatory since 1884) was hoisted at 8:40\u00a0am, before the typhoon gun was fired for its harbour warning. By 9:00\u00a0am, the ferries had ceased to operate and quite a few of the foreign steamer captains and their sailors were stuck on land, unable to quickly reach their vessels to take any necessary precautions. The barometer showed a rapid drop from 29.74\u00a0inHg to 29.28\u00a0inHg between 8:00\u00a0am and 10:00\u00a0am, within two hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Preparations\nThere were two reports from Shanghai observatory regarding an advance warning of the 1906 typhoon:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact\nWithin two hours of high tide, property damage occurred to the housing properties on the land and the shipping vessels in the port, and an estimated 4,000\u201310,000 lives might have been lost in the colony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Hong Kong\nBroken glass and roof tiles were thrown everywhere. Tree branches were torn and some trees were even uprooted. The tram lines on Hong Kong Island stopped operation when some of its electric wiring bars were obstructed. The Peak Tram's service was also discontinued for two hours after 10\u00a0am, due to the signalling cables getting damaged and the track along Bowen Road being covered. The Botanical Gardens had their trees and flowering plants broken down while the glass house and the zoological department were intact among the havoc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Hong Kong\nAt West Point many warehouses, including those from Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Jebsen & Co. were unroofed and their main door and front walls were stripped out. The mat-shed roof covering from Blake Pier, Queen's Statue Wharf and Star Ferry Wharf in the Central District collapsed. The bamboo scaffolding structure for the, then-new, General Post Office completely crashed to block the approaching road nearby. Similarly, the then-new Supreme court building also had its site erection suffering from damage to its structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents\nAlong the praya from West Point (Sai Wan) to East Point (Causeway Bay), many sampans and lighters were damaged and broken down into pieces, the sea passage was obstructed by the floating objects from boat wreckage. Within two hours of the typhoon strike, some European and Chinese bystanders rescued more than 700 people that had fallen from the capsized boat at Wan Chai and East Point (Causeway Bay) areas. From the Kowloon Wharf, the Docks to Sham Shui Po waterfront, sampans and cargoes could not escape the damage and destruction, scattering down the praya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0007-0001", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents\nThere were casualties in shipwrecks near Kowloon Star Ferry Wharf, such as from two river steamers of Kwangchow and Hong Kong, both sunk in the storm with crews and passengers aboard, causing the loss of 300\u2013400 lives. The Wingchai ferry, heading for Macao with 200 passengers on board, was driven back by the typhoon and took refuge at Stonecutters Island and later drifted to the rocks; about twenty of those died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents\nA few local steamers were sunk outside the Hong Kong harbour. The Mirs Bay ferry (Albatross) sank near the Ninepin islands, with 120 passengers dead. The Sam-chun ferry (Ying Fat) sank near Kap Shui Mun, with 100 passengers dead. A Macao steamer, Heungshan, drifted to Sau-chau, near Lantau Island with 500 passengers on board, and was rescued the next day, with a few casualties. Another Macao steamer, Kinshan, was grounded ashore near Castle Peak. A third Macao steamer, Perseverance, having discharged all its passengers at Chung Chow, sank upon its return and only one crew member survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents\nIt was estimated that nearly half of the Chinese boating population and their 5,000 licensed watercraft in the colony were struck in this natural disaster. Many people living in houseboats with their families in fishing villages along the coast were mostly affected. Once the typhoon abated, the police and military rescues began as they searched for the injured and retrieved the dead. The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, a charitable organisation, donated coffins for the burial of the corpses uncovered from the ruins and shipwrecks. There were said to be more than 1,500 unclaimed bodies by the end of September 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath\nThe governor praised the deeds from many European and Chinese citizens to perform life-saving rescues, and agreed to develop an early warning system to be in place for the Hong Kong Observatory for future typhoon alerts. The governor reported they had received emergency relief funds from overseas Chinese in San Francisco of HK$10,000 and local Chinese donations of HK$80,000 within just few days of the calamity, among many others, from the efforts of the Tung Wah Hospitals Group, Po Leung Kuk, and the District Watchmen Committee. Initial contemporary reports estimated a loss of life of 'about 10,000', and later reports suggest it was 16,000, or '5% of the 320,000-strong population in Hong Kong at that time'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath\nThe British military authority approved a team of 150 people to help the colonial government clear up the wreckage in the port. Meanwhile, the 1906 typhoon had exerted a great blow and delay to the Hong Kong cargo shipping business, an estimated 2,983 fishing boats and 670 ocean-going vessels were broken up and the wharf and warehouse facilities damaged, suffering from a million dollar loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath\nA report of committee appointed to enquire whether earlier warning of the typhoon of 18 September 1906 could have been given to shipping was chaired by Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, KC (Hong Kong Attorney General of 1902\u20121906) and together with three more members (Lieutenant Butterworth of the Royal Navy, Mr Skottowe of Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., and Captain Sommerville, Steamship Master of SS\u00a0Tean), they met and gave their findings to the Hong Kong Governor on 23 October 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035736-0012-0001", "contents": "1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath\nThe committee reviewed the conflicting evidence, and reported that they did not find any indication of a typhoon approaching Hong Kong before 7.44\u00a0am on 18 September (Tuesday morning), and that warning by the hoisting of the Black Drum (indicating an existence of a typhoon to the east of the Hong Kong within 300 miles) on the Tuesday morning was performed as soon as possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election\nThe Huddersfield by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election, Vacancy\nSir James Woodhouse had been Liberal MP here since the 1895 General Election. He resigned upon his appointment as the Rail and Canal Traffic Commissioner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat had been Liberal since Woodhouse re-gained it in 1895. It had been a marginal seat but Woodhouse had won with a bit to spare in 1895 and 1900. They narrowly held the seat at the last election, following the intervention of a labour candidate;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 43 year-old temperance campaigner Arthur Sherwell to defend the seat. The Conservatives retained 38 year old journalist John Foster Fraser as their candidate. 37 year old Thomas Russell Williams who had stood as a candidate of the Labour Representation Committee at the general election also re-stood, but this time as the candidate of the Labour Party. Although Huddesfield raised, he worked as a Mill manager in Keighley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election, Campaign\nPolling Day was fixed for the 28 November 1906. The Conservative and Labour challengers started with an advantage as their names were known from having contested the constituency nine months earlier. The Liberals had received a setback, losing Cockermouth to the Conservatives in a by-election three months earlier. Liberal candidates in other by-elections had also seen their vote share fall from its general election high-point. In Huddersfield, since the general election, the Liberal association had undergone re-organisation and had substantially increased its membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0004-0001", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election, Campaign\nWilliams the Labour candidate was regarded as a quasi-Marxist socialist and struggled to relate his stances to local trade unionists who wanted firm policy commitments from him. Sherwell, the Liberal candidate supported giving women the vote. Despite this, the Women's Social and Political Union set up a local campaign office to campaign against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election, Result\nThe Liberals held the seat with a slightly reduced majority;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035737-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Huddersfield by-election, Aftermath\nThe Labour party decided that after two contests, Williams was not a good candidate, so changed him for another for the next election, only to see their share of the vote drop further. The Huddersfield Liberals were able stifle the growth of the Labour Party up to the First World War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035738-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Hungarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 29 April and 8 May 1906. The parties of the allied opposition received 87.96% of the vote. The main party of the opposition, the Party for Independence and '48, received an absolute majority alone (61.26%). However the party failed to govern effectively as cleavages in the party led to several splits and due to the compromise made with Franz Joseph I of Austria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035739-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Frank R. Gooding defeated Democratic nominee Charles Stockslager with 52.18% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035740-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1906 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1906 college football season. In their second non-consecutive season under head coach Justa Lindgren, the Illini compiled a 1\u20133\u20131 record and finished in fifth place in the Western Conference. Halfback Ira T. Carrithers was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035741-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1906 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1906 college football season. In their second season under head coach James M. Sheldon, the Hoosiers compiled a 4\u20132 record, finished in a tie for seventh place in the Western Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 109 to 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games\nThe 1906 Intercalated Games or 1906 Olympic Games was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated in Athens, Greece. They were at the time considered to be Olympic Games and were referred to as the \"Second International Olympic Games in Athens\" by the International Olympic Committee. However, the medals which were distributed to the participants during these games are not officially recognised by the Olympic Committee and are not displayed with the collection of Olympic medals at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Origin\nThe first Intercalated Games had been scheduled by the International Olympic Committee in 1901 as part of a new schedule, where every four years, in between the internationally organised Games, there would be Intermediate Games held in Athens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Origin\nThis was a compromise: after the successful Games of Athens 1896, the Greeks suggested they could organise the games every four years. Since they had the accommodation and had proven they could hold well-organised games, they received substantial public support. However, Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the International Olympic Committee, opposed this: he had intended for the first Games to be in Paris in 1900. After Paris had lost the premier\u00e9 Olympics, de Coubertin did not want the games to be permanently hosted elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Origin\nUnfortunately, the 1900 Games were overshadowed by the Exposition Universelle, whose organizing committee disagreed with de Coubertin's ideas to such an extent that he resigned. The organization of the 1900 Games was haphazard by today's standards, and although some events, such as archery, drew widespread attention, many others were poorly attended. Historians' opinions still differ over which events should be considered \"Olympic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Origin\nConsequently, the IOC supported the Greek idea by granting them a second series of quadrennial games in between the first series. All of the games would be International Olympic Games: the difference was that half of them would follow Coubertin's idea of \"organisation internationale\", while the other half would follow the Greeks' idea of a permanent home with the Greek NOC as experienced organisers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Origin\nThis was a departure from the ancient schedule, but it was expected that, if the ancient Greeks could keep a four-year schedule, the modern Olympic Movement could keep a two-year schedule. As 1902 was now too close to be logistically workable, and Greece experienced political and economic difficulties, the 2nd Olympic Games in Athens were scheduled for 1906, and the IOC as a whole gave the Greek NOC full support for the organisation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Improvements\nThe 1906 Games were quite successful: unlike the Games of 1900, 1904 or 1908, they were not stretched out over several months, and unlike 1900 and 1904, they were not overshadowed by an international exposition. Their crisp implementation was most likely instrumental in the continued existence of the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Improvements\nThe Olympic Games of 1906 will go down in athletic history as the most remarkable festival of its kind ever held. They exceeded in every way the successful Olympic Games of 1896 ... The scenes and incidents and everything in connection with the Olympic Games of 1906 made an impression that will never be forgotten and it is hoped that future Olympic Games will be up to the standard of the ones of 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Improvements\nThese, along with various other changes, are now accepted as tradition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Games\nThe Games were held from 22 April to 2 May 1906, in Athens, Greece. They took place in the Panathenaic Stadium, which had already hosted the 1896 Games and the earlier Zappas Olympics of 1870 and 1875. The games excluded several disciplines that had occurred during the past two games; it was unclear whether they ought to have been part of the Olympic Games. Added to the program were the javelin throw and the pentathlon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Games, Opening\nThe games included a real opening ceremony, watched by a large crowd. The athletes, for the first time, entered the stadium as national teams, marching behind their flags. The official opening of the games was done by King George I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Games, Closing ceremony\nSix thousand schoolchildren took part in possibly the first ever Olympic closing ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Participating nations\n854 athletes, 848 men and 6 women, from 20 countries, competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Medals awarded\n78 events in 14 disciplines, comprising 12 sports, were part of the 1906 Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035742-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Intercalated Games, Medal count\nThese medals were distributed but are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035743-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1906 International Cross Country Championships was held in Caerleon, Wales, at the Caerleon Racecourse on 10 March 1906. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035743-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 International Cross Country Championships\nComplete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035743-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 44 athletes from 4 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035744-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 International Lawn Tennis Challenge\nThe 1906 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the sixth edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. As defending champions, the British Isles team played host to the competition. For the first time, the ties were not all played at the same location. The \"World Group\" ties were played at the Newport Athletic Club in Newport, Monmouthshire, England from 7\u20139 June, and the final was played at Worple Road (the former site of the All England Club) in Wimbledon, London, England on 15\u201318 June. Britain retained the Cup for their fourth championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035745-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1906 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1906 college football season. This was Mark Catlin Sr.'s first season as head coach of the Hawkeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035746-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1906 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1906 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 22 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035746-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa Senate election\nA statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1906 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035746-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1906 elections were the last in Iowa before primary elections were established by the Primary Election Law in 1907. The general election took place on November 6, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035746-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 42 seats to Democrats' 8 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035746-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 18 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035746-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1906 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 36 seats and Democrats having 14 seats (a net gain of 6 seats for Democrats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035747-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1906 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled a 9\u20131 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 268 to 30. The Cyclones won their first four games by a combined score of 194 to 0, and their only loss was to Minnesota by a 22-4 score. R. E. Jeanson was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035747-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as \"New State Field\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035748-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Albert B. Cummins defeated Democratic nominee Claude R. Porter with 50.18% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035749-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 1906 Italian Athletics Championships were held in Milan. it was the 1st edition of the Italian Athletics Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035750-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1906 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their third season under head coach A. R. Kennedy, the Jayhawks compiled a 7\u20132\u20132 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 148 to 55. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Prentiss Donald was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035751-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035752-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Edward W. Hoch defeated Democratic nominee William Alexander Harris with 48.24% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035753-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1906 Kentucky Derby was the 32nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1906. The field was reduced to six competitors when Creel was scratched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035753-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Kentucky Derby\nIt was the first Kentucky Derby timed to fifths of a second instead of fourths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035754-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1906 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by J. White Guyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035755-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1906 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 18th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035755-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nMooncoin won the championship after being awarded the title by the County Board. They had earlier drawn with Tullaroan in the final. This was their third championship title overall and their first in six championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035756-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1906 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035757-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Lafayette football team\nThe 1906 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled an 8\u20131\u20131 record, shut out six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 223 to 36. Erastus Doud was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035758-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1906 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their eleventh season in existence. The team finished 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035759-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Lehigh Brown and White football team\nThe 1906 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Byron W. Dickson, the team compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 150 to 108. The team played its home games at Lehigh Field in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035760-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Leicester by-election\nThe Leicester by-election of 1906 was held on 30 March 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Henry Broadhurst. It was won by the Liberal candidate Franklin Thomasson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035761-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Liechtenstein general election, Electors\nElectors were selected through elections that were held between 18 and 21 July. Each municipality had two electors for every 100 inhabitants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035761-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nThe election of Oberland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 28 July in Vaduz. Of Oberland's 118 electors, 115 were present. Oberland elected seven Landtag members and three substitutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035761-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Liechtenstein general election, Results\nThe election of Unterland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 30 July in Mauren. Of Unterland's 74 electors, 73 were present. Unterland elected five Landtag members and two substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election\nOne councillor was elected for each of the thirty-four wards. A total of fourteen councillors were elected unopposed, and twenty councillors were elected in contested elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election\nThe Liverpool Protestant Party lost all three of the seats that they had won in the 1903 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1903 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 5 December 1906\nCaused by the death of Alderman Thomas Evans (Conservative, elected 9 November 1901).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 95], "content_span": [96, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 5 December 1906\nIn his place, Councillor Louis Samuel Cohen (Conservative, Breckfield, elected 1 November 1905) was elected by the Council as an alderman on 5 December 1906", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 95], "content_span": [96, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic election\nThe death of Alderman Joseph Ball JP (Conservative, elected as an alderman on 9 November 1901) on 11 August 1907 was reported to the council on 4 September 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035762-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 6 Breckfield, 23 January 1907\nCaused by Councillor Louis Samuel Cohen (Conservative, Breckfield, elected on 1 November 1905) being elected by the Council as an alderman on5 December 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035763-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 London local elections\nLocal government elections took place in London on 1 November 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035763-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 London local elections\nAll council seats in all 28 metropolitan boroughs were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035763-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 London local elections\nThe results were a landslide victory for the Conservatives, who stood as Municipal Reformers. Prior to the election, a central Municipal Reform Committee had been formed in September 1906, and the new organisation absorbed the former Moderate Party, who formed the opposition to the Progressives on the county council, as well as groups on the borough councils that opposed what they termed the \"Progressive-Socialist Party\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035763-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 London local elections\nThe Municipal Reformers won 22 boroughs. This compared to three for the Liberals, who stood as Progressives, two for Independents and the nascent Labour Party losing its only borough, Woolwich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035764-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 1906 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 4, 1906. Arthur Cyprian Harper was elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035765-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1906 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute\u2014now known as Louisiana Tech University\u2014as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Zack T. Young, Louisiana Industrial compiled a record of 2\u20131\u20133. The team's captain was H. T. Hair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035766-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 10, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035766-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Maine gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor William T. Cobb was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Democratic candidate Cyrus W. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035767-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1906 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 12 to October 14, 1906. The Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The White Sox then defeated the Cubs in the World Series, four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035767-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Major League Baseball season, Season information\nThe Chicago Cubs won a record 116 games while losing only 36. Their .763 winning percentage remains the highest in the modern (two-league) era. They were led offensively by third baseman Harry Steinfeldt whose 176 hits, .327 batting average and 83 RBIs were all a team-best; Steinfeldt also had 29 stolen bases. The Cubs' pitching staff consisted of Ed Reulbach, Carl Lundgren, Mordecai Brown and left-hander Jack Pfiester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake\nThe 1906 Manasi earthquake (\u739b\u7eb3\u65af\u5730\u9707), also known as the Manas earthquake occurred in the morning of December 23, 1906, at 02:21 UTC+8:00 local time or December 22, 18:21 UTC. Its estimated magnitude was 7.9\u20138.3 on the moment magnitude scale and 8.3 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. The epicenter of this earthquake is located in Manas County, Xinjiang, China. An estimated 280 to 300 people died and another 1,000 more were injured by the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe Tien Shan mountains in Central Asia formed as a result of the thrusting and folding of continental crust during the Late Cenozoic era. Around this time, the Indian subcontinent is colliding with Asia along a 2,500 km long convergent boundary known as the Main Himalayan Thrust. The ongoing collision of India into the Eurasian Plate has resulted in extreme internal deformation of the continental crust. Deformation has induced large-scale intraplate shear and thrust faulting far from the plate boundary. Thrusting along the Tien Shan mountains has shortened the crust by an average velocity of 13\u00b17 mm/yr. In some areas such as the Western Tien Shan, the shortening rate is as high as 23 mm/yr, however in the northern region, that rate is much slower at just 6 mm/yr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake occurred as a result of thrust faulting within the fold and thrust belt beneath the northern flanks of the Tien Shan range. Specifically, it occurred on the Southern Junggar Thrust, a 45\u00b0 south-dipping thrust fault that becomes a detachment fault, and later a steep reverse structure as it dips further beneath the Borohoro Mountains, a subrange of the Tien Shan. The fault is part of the Huoerguosi\u2010Manas\u2010Tugulu fold and thrust belt, and breaches the surface with three segments, laterally offset by 5 to 10 km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0002-0001", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake\nModern interpretion of the rupture believes it broke all three segments of the fault. Research suggests that the Manasi earthquake had a 150 km by 75 km rupture area and an average fault slip of 3.5 \u00b1 2 meters at depth. This would correspond to a moment magnitude in the range 7.8 to 8.3, the most plausible magnitude for the event. The earthquake's focal depth is not well known due to the lack of local seismic instrumentation at the time, values from Chinese earthquake catalogues give a range from 12 to 30 km depth. An analysis of focal depths for other earthquakes in the area published in 2004 obtained an average figure of 20 km, therefore the 1906 earthquake likely nucleated at this depth. The same research also proposed that the earthquake rupture initiated on the steep reverse fault and later onto the detachment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake\nPaleoseismology has revealed that very few earthquakes on the scale of the 1906 event has occurred in the past. The average recurrence interval for large earthquakes is estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake\nThe deep blind reverse fault responsible for the rupture triggered small surface scarps with heights 0.2\u20130.5 meters to form at the surface. These surface breaks are associated with the Huoerguosi\u2010Manas\u2010Tugulu fold and anticline zone. During the deep earthquake rupture process, the fold and anticline zone began picking up motions, resulting in a surface rupture. In addition to the surface scarps, zones of uplift and folding were also observed 45 km away from the epicenter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake, Impact\nThe earthquake had a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. In the villages of Shizijie, Bajiahu, Niujuanzi, Zhuanglangmiao, Xidatang, Shichang, in Boluotonggu, and the mountain areas around Dazimiao and Reshuiquanzi, many wood and mud houses collapsed while those that remained intact were tilted. More than 2,000 homes were destroyed, resulting in more than 280 people dying. Many temples were also completely destroyed. Surface fissures tore through the ground, ranging from 0.2 meters to one meter wide, and up to several kilometers long. The earthquake also triggered landslides and opened wide cracks near the mountains. The earthquake also caused slumping channel banks some 5 to 15 km long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035768-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Manasi earthquake, Impact\nIn Shawan County, an estimated 30% of all residential infrastructures collapsed but there were no fatalities. The nearby city of Changji reported some damage to its temples during the shaking. In Wusu, many homes constructed of mud and wooden beams also collapsed. The walls of some old homes cracked as a result of the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035769-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Manukau by-election\nThe Manukau by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Manukau, a seat in the north of the North Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035769-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Manukau by-election, Background\nThe by-election was held on 6 December 1906, and was precipitated by the death of sitting MP Matthew Kirkbride who had held the seat since the 1902 election. The election was won by Frederic Lang who stood as an independent conservative. His sole opponent was George Ballard of the Liberal Party, who contested in the Government's interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035770-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1906 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1906 college football season. Marshall posted an undefeated 4\u20130\u20131 record, outscoring its opposition 56\u20135. Home games were played on a campus field called \"Central Field\" which is presently Campus Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035771-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1906 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Fred K. Nielsen, the Aggies compiled a 5\u20133 record and were outscored by all opponents, 98 to 73. Coach Nielsen had a full-time job with the State Department while coaching football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035772-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by George E. O'Hearn and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1906 season was O'Hearn's only as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 1\u20137\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035773-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Governor Curtis Guild Jr. was re-elected for a second one-year term, defeating Suffolk District Attorney John B. Moran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035773-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Party nominations\nJohn B. Moran won the Prohibition Party, Independence League, and Democratic Party nominations by acclimation. Incumbent Governor Curtis Guild Jr. won the Republican nomination without opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035774-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 127th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1906 during the governorship of Curtis Guild Jr.. William F. Dana served as president of the Senate and John N. Cole served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035775-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Massillon Tigers season\nThe 1906 Massillon Tigers football season was their fourth season in existence. The team finished with a record of 10-1 and won their fourth Ohio League championship in as many years. However a scandal, revolving around the Tigers championship game against the Canton Bulldogs, tainted the 1906 title and, along with escalating player salaries, reportedly helped ruin professional football in Ohio until the mid-1910s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035776-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Meishan earthquake\nThe 1906 Meishan earthquake (Chinese: 1906\u5e74\u6885\u5c71\u5730\u9707; pinyin: 1906 ni\u00e1n M\u011bish\u0101n D\u00eczh\u00e8n) was centered on Moe'akhe (Chinese: \u6885\u4ed4\u5751; Pe\u030dh-\u014de-j\u012b: M\u00f4e-\u00e1-khe\u207f), Kagi-cho, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Meishan, Chiayi County, Taiwan) and occurred on March 17. Referred to at the time as the Great Kagi earthquake (Chinese: \u5609\u7fa9\u5927\u5730\u9707; pinyin: Ji\u0101y\u00ec D\u00e0 D\u00eczh\u00e8n), it is the third-deadliest earthquake in Taiwan's recorded history, claiming around 1,260 lives. The shock had a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035776-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Meishan earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake struck at 06:43 local time on 17 March 1906, at a focal depth of 6 kilometres (4\u00a0mi). The event created the Meishan fault, a fault with a length of 25 kilometres (16\u00a0mi) stretching through modern-day Chiayi County. Aftershocks continued throughout the day, hampering rescue efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035776-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Meishan earthquake, Damage\nReports vary slightly, but according to the official Central Weather Bureau summary, the casualties and damage were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035776-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Meishan earthquake, Damage\nFusakichi Omori, a pioneering seismologist from Japan who arrived shortly after the earthquake believed that the high number of casualties was due to the construction of the local houses. Loosely cemented with mud, the combination of sun-dried mud brick walls and heavy roofing beams was thought to be responsible for many dwellings collapsing, killing or injuring the inhabitants. He also found evidence of soil liquefaction, and stated that the town of Bish\u014d (Meishan) had been completely destroyed by the quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035776-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Meishan earthquake, Damage\nOmori's figures give slightly different casualty rates, and very different statistics for building damage:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035776-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Meishan earthquake, Reaction\nI was there soon after, and had a profound feeling of sadness on seeing whole streets covered with fallen beams and other debris; on seeing, too, so many traces of the awful suffering on every side. Within Ka-gi city, and a limited area around, 1,216 persons were suddenly thrust out into the eternal world. Not fewer than 2,306 persons were seriously injured, and 13,259 houses laid low. The great mysterious Power then tore the earth into deep, open chasms in several places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035776-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Meishan earthquake, Reaction\nThe Japanese colonial authorities in Taihoku (Taipei) sent teams of medical personnel to assist, and Campbell reported that shortly after the earthquake reconstruction efforts were well advanced. At the time some writers suggested a link between the Meishan quake and the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which occurred a month later, while some religious groups linked it not only with the San Francisco disaster, but also an earlier earthquake in Cambria, Italy and other natural disasters as a sign of the end-times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035777-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Mercer Baptists football team\nThe 1906 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University in the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They finished with a record of 1\u20134 and were outscored by their opponents 32\u2013163.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035778-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Mesopotamia uprising\nThe 1906 Mesopotamia uprising was an uprising of Mesopotamian tribes in the Ottoman Empire, fought due to the refusal of the Ottoman government to allow for 10 day truce to investigate losses in the Yemeni Expedition of 1905. The uprising saw tribes holding up navigation across the Tigris River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035779-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1906 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1906 college football season. Led by coach Arthur H. Parmelee in his first year, Miami compiled a 1\u20135\u20131 record, being outscored 16 to 55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035780-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1906 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Chester Brewer, the Aggies compiled a 7\u20132\u20132 record and outscored their opponents 195 to 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035781-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Henry Schulte, the Normalites compiled a record of 5\u20130\u20131, shut out four of six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 52 to 11. Leroy N. Brown was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035781-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nHenry Shulte began his association with Michigan Normal in 1905 as the school's track coach. He had been a football player at the University of Michigan on Fielding H. Yost's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams from 1903 to 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035781-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nIn early October 1906, Michigan Normal reported record enrollment with 1,000 students having enrolled on the first day (quintupling the prior first-day enrollment of 200); total enrollment was expected to reach 1,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1906 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1906 college football season. The team's head coach was Fielding H. Yost in his sixth year at Michigan. The team compiled a record of 4\u20131 and outscored opponents, 72 to 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1906 season was played under two sets of new rules. First, the rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more \"open\" and less dangerous style of play. The changes included the legalization of the forward pass and allowing the punting team to recover an \"on-side\" kick as a live ball. Second, the Big Nine Conference enacted new rules, including a rule limiting teams to five games (a drastic reduction from the 13 games played by Michigan in 1905) and prohibitions on the \"training table\" and pre-season training before the start of the academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team\nAlso before the season began, university officials ruled that two of the stars from the 1905 team, Germany Schulz and Walter Rheinschild, were academically ineligible to compete in football. Despite the setbacks, Michigan won its first four games by a combined score of 72 to 13. The season opener against Case Scientific School was the first game played on the new Ferry Field. During the bye week before the final game of the season, Michigan's captain Joe Curtis sustained a severely broken leg in a practice game against the \"scrub\" team. The Wolverines lost their final game to the Penn Quakers, 17\u20130, at Philadelphia's Franklin Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team\nTwo Michigan players, Joe Curtis and fullback John Garrels, were selected as first-team All-Western players. Garrels, who had broken world records in the discus throw and the high hurdles, was also selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nOn October 6, 1906, Michigan opened its season with a 28\u20130 victory over the team from Cleveland's Case Scientific School. The game was the first played at the newly completed Ferry Field and attracted a crowd estimated at 2,000 persons. The Detroit Free Press called the field \"a beauty.\" The game was the 10th meeting between the two programs. Michigan had won all nine of the prior games by a combined score of 298 to 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nFullback John Garrels scored the first touchdown on the new Ferry Field. The score was set up when Case's fullback, Wagar, attempted a punt from deep in Case's territory. After a bad snap, Jack Loell broke through the line and tackled Wagar at Case's five-yard line. Garrels then scored on \"two straight line bucks.\" Joe Curtis missed the extra point kick, and Michigan was unable to score again in the first half. Case threatened once in the first half, when Case's quarterback, Reimenschneider, returned an on-side kick to Michigan's 20-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0005-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nWagar's attempt at a field goal for Case was unsuccessful, and Michigan led, 5\u20130, at halftime. In addition to scoring the first touchdown, Garrels handled punting responsibilities; one of his punts carried 60 yards. He also kicked an extra point and had the longest end run of the game for a 28-yard gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nMichigan scored four additional touchdowns in the second half. Reimenschneider fumbled the opening kickoff to start the second half, and Michigan recovered the ball at Case's 20-yard line. After the turnover, Michigan quarterback Harry Workman ran for a touchdown. Michigan's third touchdown was set up by a poor punt by Case from behind its own goal line. A penalty was tacked on, and Michigan got the ball at the Case 10-yard line. Workman again ran for the touchdown. Clarence Schenk scored Michigan's fourth touchdown on a \"cross buck\" from the five-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0006-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nThe final touchdown was scored by Arthur \"Waukegan\" Wright, a substitute right tackle who was described as \"the 'pompadour' haired medic from Illinois,\" on a 35-yard run following an on-side kick. A rule change enacted in 1906 allowed the punting team to recover a punt as a live ball. The Detroit Free Press described Wright's touchdown as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\n\"Garrels made an on-side punt to the Case thirty-five yard line. Wright brought the ball to his breast after the bound as if it was his long-lost child, and was saving it from the kidnappers. Three Case men tried to stop him as he was making the run for his fireside home, but he seemed to have a through ticket without a punch, and scored the first touchdown of the year on the new rules.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nJoe Curtis kicked two extra points, and Garrels kicked one. On defense, Michigan did not allow a first down on the ground, Case's only first downs coming on an on-side kick and off-side penalties against Michigan. Michigan did not attempt a single forward pass against Case, leading the Detroit Free Press to write, \"Michigan did not uncan it because it is not fermented enough in this climate to make it look good.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nAfter the game, Case's coach, Wentworth, opined that Michigan's 1906 team was \"30 per cent weaker than any other team that Yost has coached here.\" Yost said, \"I am satisfied. My men did as well as I expected. The only star in the game for Michigan was Johnnie Garrels. . . . Not once during the game did Case make its distance on regular football. They tried the forward pass twice, but both times were thrown back for big losses.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nMichigan's lineup against Case was Davis (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Patrick (left guard), Loell, (center), Graham (right guard), Ruby and Wright (right tackle), Embs and Newton (right end), Bishop and Lewis (quarterback), Workman (left halfback), Schenk (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). Chase of Michigan served as referee. Raymond Starbuck of Cornell was the umpire. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State\nFor its second game, Michigan defeated Ohio State, 6\u20130, before a crowd of 6,000 spectators at University Park in Columbus. A special train carried eleven coaches full of Michigan fans to Columbus, arriving one hour before the game started. The game was the eighth meeting in the Michigan\u2013Ohio State football rivalry, with Michigan having won six of the prior meetings and tied once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State\nThe game began shortly after 2:40\u00a0p.m., on a cool, but not uncomfortable Saturday afternoon. The game was scoreless for the first 56 minutes of play, as Michigan's offense struggled. The Chicago Daily Tribune attributed the sluggish offensive performance to the fact that Michigan's halfbacks, Ivan Steckle and Paul Magoffin, \"were not in the best of shape,\" having arrived in Columbus on an excursion train a few minutes before the game began. They were rushed to the football field in an automobile and arrived in poor condition. Neither Magoffin nor Steckle had played in the season opener against Case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State\nWith four minutes remaining in the game, John Garrels kicked a field goal from a difficult angle at the Ohio State 25-yard line to give Michigan a 4-0 lead. Garrels had attempted four earlier field goals in the game, all unsuccessful. The Chicago Daily Tribune noted, \"Evidently the Wolverines placed all their reliance on Garrels, for the big fellow was constantly trying goal shots.\" With two minutes remaining, Ohio State's fullback, Gibson, attempted a punt from behind his goal line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0013-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State\nGibson dropped the ball on a poor snap from the sub center, Claggett, and fell on it, resulting in a safety that accounted for Michigan's final two points. On defense, Michigan held Ohio State to four first downs in the game. The Chicago Daily Tribune praised Jack Loell as \"a whirlwind at center\" who \"sustained the heaviest attack of the Ohio backs and drove two of his opponents to the side lines and a third to making the poor pass which gave Michigan the last two points.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State\nMichigan's lineup against Ohio State was Newton (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Eyke (left guard), Loell, (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Embs (right end), Bishop (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Steckle and Kanaga (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). Wrenn of Harvard served as referee, and Hoagland of Princeton was the umpire. The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nOn October 27, 1906, Michigan defeated Illinois, 28\u20139, before a crowd estimated at close to 5,000 persons at Ferry Field. The game was the fifth between the two schools. Michigan had won all four of the prior games by a combined score of 62 to 5. The game was also Michigan's only contest in 1906 with a member of the Big Nine Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nThe game began at 2:37\u00a0p.m., and was played on a soggy field resulting from \"a constant rain of fourteen hours.\" The rain continued throughout the game, resulting in a slippery ball and numerous fumbles. Illinois turned the ball over four times on fumbles, and Michigan did so three times. In the Detroit Free Press, Joe S. Jackson wrote: \"All during the game there was a heavy rainfall. . . .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0016-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nWith a strong west wind driving this on a slant into the faces of one set of players, and down the necks of all the spectators the joy of the day was not extreme.\" On the first play of the game, John Garrels ran 90 yards for a touchdown. Joe S. Jackson wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\n\"Seldom does one see a run of ninety yards to a touchdown. . . . On the first kick-off, . . . Garrels got the ball on his own twenty-yard line. For twenty yards he went through the weaving mass of players, practically alone. Then interference began to form. Once or twice he was grabbed at, but shook off the tackler. How he got through is a marvel, unless the rain, beating directly into the faces of the Illini, partially blinded them. . . . He had gone by twenty-one men, friends and foes, when he touched the ball down behind the Illinois goal posts.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nJoe Curtis kicked the extra point, and Michigan led, 6\u20130. Illinois scored a touchdown after a poor punt from deep in Michigan territory gave Illinois the ball at Michigan's 20-yard line. The umpire, Wren of Harvard, then called a 15-yard penalty against Michigan for \"sideline coaching,\" moving the ball within two or three yards of the goal line. From there, Pinckney ran for the touchdown, but Green missed the extra point, and Michigan led, 6-5. The touchdown was the first allowed by Michigan since 1904. Before the half had ended, Joe Curtis scored a second touchdown for Michigan. The extra point failed, and Michigan led, 11\u20135, at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nIn the second half, Moynihan kicked a field goal for Illinois from the 40-yard line, narrowing Michigan's lead to 11\u20139. Michigan responded with three additional touchdowns. Curtis scored on a 20-yard run and then kicked the extra point to give Michigan a 17-9 lead. A short time later, Brooks of Illinois fumbled an on-side kick by Garrels, and Fred Newton fell on the loose ball behind Illinois' goal line. Michigan's final touchdown was set up by a 60-yard punt by Garrels that rolled almost to the goal line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0019-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nBrooks was tackled at the five-yard line, and Illinois immediately sought to punt the ball out of danger. Joe Curtis leaped into the air at the 10-yard line, blocked the kick, and recovered the ball for Michigan's final touchdown. The extra point failed, and Michigan led, 28\u20139. According to Joe Jackson's account, the final ten minutes \"was all punting, and enthusiasm began to ooze out as the rain oozed in.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nJoe Curtis was Michigan's scoring leader with 18 points on three touchdowns and three extra points. The 1907 Michiganensian opined that the team was \"at its best\" against Illinois, with \"eleven men in every play.\" Seward Cramer in the Detroit Free Press wrote that Yost had \"three truly great players\" in Garrels, Curtis and Loell. He noted the Curtis \"played like a fiend\" and called Loell \"the find of the year.\" Cramer also expressed surprise at the improvement over the prior week: \"Never has any such improvement been seen in a team in seven days time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0020-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nLast Saturday, at Columbus, Michigan played a loafing, listless game. The backs did not get into their plays with any quickness. Something was wrong with the machinery, and during the past week Yost has taken apart the old machine, rearranged the gearing and put in a new driving wheel that makes the whole thing run so much more smoothly that the team that played Ohio State would look like a traction engine beside an easy running tourist auto.\" Michigan's trainer, Keene Fitzpatrick opined that the team was 50 to 75 percent better against Illinois than it was the prior week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nMichigan did not attempt any forward passes, but Illinois completed two passes \"in beautiful style,\" demonstrating \"how good the pass may be if it is gotten away with.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0022-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nMichigan's lineup against Illinois was Curtis (left end), Loell (left tackle), Eyke (left guard), Clement (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Newton (right end), Workman and Bishop (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Rumney (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). McCornack of Dartmouth served as referee with Wrenn of Harvard as umpire and Starbuck of Cornell as linesman. The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0023-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nOn November 3, 1906, Michigan defeated Vanderbilt, 10\u20134, in front of a crowd of 10,000 at Ferry Field. The game matched Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost against his former player and brother-in-law, Dan McGugin. McGugin's 1906 team was the dominant team in Southern football, defeating Alabama (78\u20130), Texas (45\u20130), Mississippi (29\u20130), Georgia Tech (37\u20136), and the Carlisle Indian School (4\u20130). Between 1905 and 1907, Vanderbilt lost only three games \u2013 all three of them to Michigan. On the night before the game, 4,200 students attended a mass meeting at University Hall. McGugin and Yost both spoke to the crowd and agreed that the game would be one of the closest played in Ann Arbor in many years. D. G. Fite, father-in-law of both McGugin and Yost, traveled from his home in Tennessee to watch the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0024-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nJohn Garrels put Michigan ahead with a field goal from the 25-yard line. On the preceding drive, Garrels had completed a 15-yard forward pass to Bishop, the first legal forward pass completed by Michigan under the new rules. Michigan led, 4\u20130, at halftime. Early in the second half, Vanderbilt tied the score with a field goal by Dan Blake from the 30-yard line. The game remained tied at 4\u20134 until the closing minutes. With two minutes left in the game, Garrels ran 68 yards for a touchdown. The Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: \"Garrels, on a fake kick, with splendid interference by Hammond, Curtis, and Workman, ran Vanderbilt's left end at lightning speed for sixty-eight yards and a touchdown.\" Curtis kicked the extra point, and Michigan led, 10\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0025-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nGarrels, who scored nine of Michigan's ten points against Vanderbilt, was an outstanding athlete. He broke world records in the discus throw and high hurdles and won two medals in the 1908 Summer Olympics \u2013 a silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles and a bronze medal in the shot put. Following the Vanderbilt game, The Pittsburg Press wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0026-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\n\"Garrels is the best fullback in the West, and probably has no equal in the country. Weighing 200 pounds, he is a wonderfully speedy runner, capable of covering the 100 yards in 10 seconds. He is a fine punter, place and drop kicker, tackles well, and is a great line plunger.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0027-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt\nMichigan's lineup against Vanderbilt was Curtis (left end), Loell (left tackle), Eyke (left guard), Clement (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick and Newton (right tackle), H. Hammond (right end), Workman (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Bishop (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). Elder of Penn State served as referee with Neil Snow of Michigan was the umpire and Eldridge of Michigan as the head linesman. The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0028-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Injury to Joe Curtis\nIn the first four games of the 1906 football season, Joe Curtis started two games at left end and two games at left tackle. Michigan won those games by a combined score of 72 to 13. Curtis had been one of the leading scorers on Michigan's \"Point-a-Minute\" teams of 1904 (86 points on 11 touchdowns and 31 extra points) and 1905 (105 points on 15 touchdowns and 30 extra points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0029-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Injury to Joe Curtis\nCurtis's final game for Michigan was to have been the season finale against Penn. On November 10, 1906, one week before the Penn game, Curtis suffered a severely broken leg during a practice game. Curtis had not planned to play in the game, but the varsity was playing \"listlessly\" and had been held to a 0\u20130 score by the scrubs. Accordingly, Curtis put himself in the lineup at left end for the final three minutes in hopes of inspiring the team. The injury occurred as Curtis carried the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0029-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Injury to Joe Curtis\nAn end on the scrub team, Langley, fell trying to keep from being \"boxed out.\" Curtis tripped on Langley and fell into a half somersault. In an attempt to protect his ankle, Curtis gathered his leg under him while in the air. The mass of players \"fell in a heap on poor Curtis. 'Snap' went his left leg at a point between the knee and ankle. The noise of the breaking of the bones could be heard distinctly in the bleachers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0030-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Injury to Joe Curtis\nTrainer Keene Fitzpatrick walked onto the field to examine Curtis and quickly saw that the leg was broken. In what the Detroit Free Press described as \"one of the most touching scenes ever witnessed on a football field,\" the crowd of 1,000 sitting in the bleachers fell silent and Michigan's quarterback, Harry Workman, \"was seen to come out of the bunch of standing players, put his hands to his face, and break down and weep like a child.\" A surgeon who was in the stands came onto the field, examined Curtis, and called for an ambulance. The crowd sat silently as Curtis was \"carefully placed on a stretcher\" and into the hospital wagon. As the crowd finally walked slowly up State Street, the \"gloom was awful.\" The Detroit Free Press wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0031-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Injury to Joe Curtis\n\"Big Joe Curtis \u2013 one of the best fellows who ever went to college \u2013 who was acknowledged to be the best tackle in the west, and who was preparing himself to play the game of his life against Pennsylvania, the last college game in which he could ever participate, and who was practically certain of recognition for the All-American team, is down and out on the eve of what was to be the great climax of his spectacular football career. . . . ' G-L-O-O-M' spells Ann Arbor tonight.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0032-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Injury to Joe Curtis\nDue to the seriousness of the injury, Curtis was hospitalized for several weeks and did not play in the Penn game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0033-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nMichigan concluded its season on November 17, 1906, with a 17\u20130 loss to Penn in front of a crowd of nearly 26,000 spectators at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The game was the second between Michigan and Penn. Penn won the first game in 1899, 11\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0034-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nThe start of the game was delayed by half an hour after Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost sought a ruling that Penn's \u201ctackle back\u201d play (in which the tackle dropped back into the backfield as a ball carrier) was illegal under the new rules. The referee, Kelly, agreed with Yost and informed the Pennsylvania team. The Quakers refused to take the field in light of the ruling, and twenty minutes of wrangling followed. Yost reported after the game that the umpire Langford finally approached Yost and said, \"Now, Mr. Yost, you act the gentleman and go on the field.\" According to the Detroit Free Press, the officials ruled that the play was legal if the a guard or tackle had both feet or both hands up to the line of scrimmage and waited until the snap to receive the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0035-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nWith many of its best players either injured or academically disqualified, Michigan played an inexperienced group against Penn. Left guard Sam Davison was playing his first game for the Wolverines. Jack Loell replaced Curtis at left end and played his first game as an end. Walter Eyke and Fred Newton played only their second games at tackle, and Carl Clement played his third game at center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0036-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nWith Curtis out of action, the Penn team focused on John Garrels. Early in the game, Michigan kept the ball in Penn territory, and Garrels narrowly missed a field goal from the 45-yard line. Also early in the first half, Penn's right tackle Gaston shoved Garrels to the ground after he had punted. The blow nearly knocked Garrels out of the game, and the head linesman called a penalty of 30 yards and ejected Gaston from the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0036-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nThe Chicago Daily Tribune wrote that \"Gaston slugged Garrels, knocking the big acting captain 'silly' for a few minutes and dazing him for the entire half.\" After the game, Michigan's trainer, Keene Fitzpatrick noted that \"Garrels' face is badly disfigured for the time being.\" The Tribune also reported that Penn's fullback Hollenbach had kneed Michigan halfback Paul Magoffin in the face.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0037-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nIn the Detroit Free Press, Seward Cramer wrote: \"The Pennsylvania men watched [Garrels] above all others, and he could not make a move that was not followed. . . . Eleven times did Johnny Garrels try the famous fake play that has worked against every other team this season. He would form for a punt and then try a dash for the harbor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0037-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nBut Scarlett and Levine, the scout boats, would intercept him, and in ten plays of this character he was thrown for a total loss of sixty-five yards, and in only one did he get away with the goods for any substantial gain. That was a run of twenty yards around Pennsylvania's left end.\" Cramer blamed the \"almost total lack of interference\" for Garrels' inability to gain through Penn's line. A soggy field was also blamed for slowing Garrels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0038-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nPenn's first touchdown was set up by a forward pass that took the ball to Michigan's 25-yard line. Penn then faked a field goal, and Hollenbach ran the ball to the two-yard line. Folwell then scored, and Penn led, 6\u20130, at halftime. At the start of the second half, Yost again protested the Penn's \"tackle back\" play in which the tackle was deployed in the backfield. The Penn team refused to accept Yost's interpretation and told him, \"Take your team and go home.\" Rather than risk a disruption in the relations between the schools, Yost opted to lead his team back onto the field for the second half. Penn's captain and right halfback Green scored two touchdowns in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0039-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nIn a post-game interview, Coach Yost said: \"Pennsylvania outplayed us. There are all sorts of 'buts' and 'ifs' that might be put in, but even if they were the Quakers would have a good margin over us. Our line could not hold them, therefore our back field could not do anything on the offense.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0040-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nIn the Detroit Free Press, Joe S. Jackson wrote that Michigan fans considered the game the first real loss ever suffered by a Yost-coached team, the 2\u20130 loss to Chicago in 1905 having been dismissed as a fluke. Jackson noted, \"However, Ann Arbor may now cut out the proud boast referred to. For a Yost-coached team was beaten today, and it was beaten good.\" The Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: \"The Quakers simply trapped the Wolverine, slaughtered him, ripped off his hide, scraped it, and pegged it up to dry in the sun.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0041-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Penn\nMichigan's lineup against Penn was Loell (left end), Eyke (left tackle), Davison (left guard), Clement (center), Graham (right guard), Newton (right tackle), Hammond (right end), Workman (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Bishop and Rumney (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). Kelly of Princeton served as referee with Langford of Trinity as the umpire and Foltz of Brown as the linesman. The game was played in 30-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0042-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nTwo Michigan players, Joe Curtis and John Garrels, were selected as first-team players on the All Western team of the Chicago Daily Tribune. The Tribune chose Curtis as a tackle even though he had been moved to end so he could be drawn back to run with the ball, in light of a rule change the prohibited a tackle from being drawn back behind the line unless he was five yards back of the line of scrimmage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0042-0001", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nGarrels was chosen at fullback because of his \"ability to kick and catch punts, to buck the line, or run the ends and dodge in the open.\" The Tribune opined that \"Garrels is almost as valuable to a team as Eckersall, and if the eastern critics are nonpartisan they will place upon the All-American team Garrels at full back and Eckersall at quarter back.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0043-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nNo Michigan players received first-team All-American honors from Walter Camp or Caspar Whitney. However, Garrels was selected as a second-team player by Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0044-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Varsity letter winners\nThe following 14 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1906 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035782-0045-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Reserves\nThe following 23 players received \"R\" letters for their participation on the 1906 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035783-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Fred M. Warner defeated Democratic candidate Charles H. Kimmerle with 60.88% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035784-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Mid Cork by-election\nThe Mid Cork by-election of 1906 was held on 31 December 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent MP, D. D. Sheehan, who had been expelled from the Irish Parliamentary Party. Sheehan ran as Independent Labour and was elected unopposed. He remained as MP for the constituency until 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035785-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1906 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1906 college football season. In their sixth year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4\u20131 record (2\u20130 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored all opponents 47 to 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035786-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Minnesota Senate election\nThe 1906 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6, 1906, to elect members to the Senate of the 35th and 36th Minnesota Legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035786-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Minnesota Senate election\nThe Minnesota Republican Party won a large majority of seats, followed by the Minnesota Democratic Party and the People's Party. The new Legislature convened on January 8, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035787-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1906. Democratic Party of Minnesota candidate John Albert Johnson defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger A. L. Cole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035788-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1906. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Adolph Olson Eberhart defeated Minnesota Democratic Party challenger Lloyd G. Pendergast and Prohibition Party candidate Ole Lokensgaard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035789-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane\nThe 1906 Mississippi hurricane was a deadly and destructive hurricane during the 1906 Atlantic hurricane season. The fourth hurricane of the season, the system was originally observed in the western Caribbean on September 22; however, modern research revealed that the system became a tropical depression on September 19. The system slowly intensified, eventually becoming a major hurricane by September 24. The system made landfall near Pascagoula, Mississippi, during the evening of September 27, devastating the cities of Pensacola and Mobile and the state of Mississippi. Damage totaled to at least $19,221,000, and more than 134 people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe first documented information on the storm places it in the western Caribbean Sea on September 22, although modern reanalysis of this storm identifies it as a tropical depression on September 19. The storm drifted north from the Yucat\u00e1n Channel on September 24, while it was a weak hurricane with winds of 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h). The hurricane was south-southwest of Havana by morning, and as it drifted north-northwestward during the evening hours of September 24, the system intensified into a Category 2 hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Meteorological history\nThe hurricane was documented to have been about 300 miles (480\u00a0km) west-northwest of Cuba on September 25. Near this area, the hurricane had intensified further into a Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h). The system finished its passage into the Gulf of Mexico by September 27. During the afternoon, the hurricane made landfall near Pascagoula, Mississippi, as a Category 2 hurricane. The hurricane moved inland, weakening to a Category 1 hurricane and eventually to a tropical storm. The storm weakened to a tropical depression, and dissipated on September 29 as it transitioned into an extratropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nThe city of Pensacola suffered the most severe damage caused by the storm. Several tugboats, vessels, fishing boats, and other watercraft were tossed along the shore of the city. Large numbers of trees were uprooted and the roofs of houses were torn off. At its highest, the storm surge of the hurricane was 8.5 feet (2.6\u00a0m) above the normal tide, the highest recorded in the city at the time. The city's waterfront was completely flooded, along with some houses near the waterfront. Muscogee wharf was partially destroyed, broken into two pieces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0003-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nOn either side of the wharf, railroad tracks had been washed away. A total of 39 freight cars carrying coal were also washed away. In addition, the grain elevator of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was destroyed during the hurricane. A timber boom was demolished during the hurricane, leaving wood and debris on the beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nAlong Intendencia Street, several cottages were flooded; in some areas, the floodwaters were 10 feet (3.0\u00a0m) deep. The southern end of West Main Street was completely inundated and was swept away. There was devastation between Barcelona and Perdido streets, with several boats wrecked. Between Palafox Street and Wright Street, many houses' roofs were torn away. Rail service in and out of Pensacola was severely affected; one train arrived several hours later than scheduled, and it was said that it had to stop \"every few yards\" in order to remove trees and debris covering the track. Between Magnolia Bluff and Milton, the track was destroyed and the Escambia Bridge was partially demolished. The fishing industry of Pensacola was estimated to have suffered at least $500,000 in damage. Many wharfs had been completely destroyed during the hurricane. Electricity was shut off during the hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 961]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nFort Barrancas, Fort Pickens, and Fort McRee suffered severe damage. At Forts Pickens and Barrancas, damage was estimated to be around $10,000. In the Bayou Grande area of Pensacola, the tide was estimated to be about 12 feet (3.7\u00a0m) above normal. At the intersection of Cedar and Baylen streets, oyster boats, steam tugs, wood, and other debris were scattered. A boat identified as the Wolverine was tossed into a lot near the corner. Trees and chimneys were blown down, and a tin roof was peeled off a house as a result of strong winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0005-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nOn the 26th port, one bark was completely destroyed, while another eleven were tossed around. A schooner that sank during the hurricane was tipped over. At the 38th port, 29 schooners were thrown ashore, and another sixteen were completely destroyed. Only eight of the 36 lumber barges floated, while three of eight tugs were floating, and of those three of them were wrecked. Other debris was scattered around the city, including pieces of shattered glass. A fire occurred at a hotel in Pensacola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nAt the navy yard of Pensacola, all but three boats\u2014the Isle de Luzon and two \"water boats\"\u2014were either sunk or thrown ashore. A steel dock owned by Spain was untouched, but areas surrounding it were littered with debris. In the towns of Wosley and Warrington, waterfronts were severely damaged and some houses washed away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0006-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Florida\nAt Pensacola Bay, the tide was 10 feet (3.0\u00a0m) high; at East Bay, the tide was measured at 9 feet (2.7\u00a0m); at St. Andrews Bay, the tide was 6 feet (1.8\u00a0m) high; and at Apalachicola Bay, the tide was 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) high. The damage caused in the city totaled to at least $2,620,000, while the damage within the vicinity of the city amounted to more than $1,230,000. The total damage caused within Pensacola and the surrounding areas totaled to greater than $3,850,000. The hurricane was considered the worst in the city in 170 years. However, there was widespread praise by residents and newspapers for the Weather Bureau for tracking the hurricane and issuing storm warnings three days before the storm made landfall. A total of 35 people were killed in Pensacola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Louisiana\nIn New Orleans, observations at the backwater of the Mississippi River indicated a storm surge of about 6 feet (1.8\u00a0m) in height on the morning of September 27. The highest sustained winds recorded during the storm in New Orleans were measured at 49\u00a0mph (79\u00a0km/h), while the minimum pressure recorded was 987 mbar (hPa; 29.15 inHg). In the town of Burrwood, a wharf was impacted by the hurricane's storm surge. In addition, local crops and railroads suffered severe damage. Lake Pontchartrain overflowed during the hurricane, with its waters 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) above normal levels, flooding New Orleans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0007-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Louisiana\nTelegraph wires were down in New Orleans after the hurricane, resulting in the loss of contact with the city. Chimneys were blown down in the city; and a resort along Lake Pontchartrain was underwater, and many houses were swept away near the hotel. Telephone service in New Orleans went down during the hurricane. It was reported that Fort St. Philip was flooded by boaters along the Mississippi River. The hurricane set a new 24-hour-record for rainfall at Colliston, where rainfall amounted to 4.55 inches (11.6\u00a0cm) accumulated during the hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Alabama\nThe lowest air pressure recorded in Mobile was 977 mbar (hPa; 28.84 inHg). At the highest point, the tide was measured at 9.87 feet (3.01\u00a0m), while the maximum sustained wind during the hurricane reached 94\u00a0mph (151\u00a0km/h). About twenty small buildings and houses were destroyed by the hurricane's winds. Most of the buildings in the city were either slightly or moderately damaged. Some shingles and roofs were blown off, while telegraph wires were down, along with other services that required electricity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0008-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Alabama\nIn the Mobile River and Bay, a total of eleven steamships, seventeen barks and schooners, and 12 tugboats, had either been sunk or blown ashore. About 6.4 inches (16\u00a0cm) of rain was measured during the hurricane. In the areas surrounding Mobile, approximately half of all timber to be converted into turpentine was destroyed, and between 5 and 35 percent of other wood had been destroyed. The hurricane caused at least $1,650,000 in damage throughout Mobile. Telegraph wires were cut off from Mobile after the hurricane, resulting in the loss of communication with the city. It was estimated that five thousand houses were damaged in Mobile during the hurricane. The steamer Camp Carney was thrown onto St. Francis Street. Between Franscati Street and Three Mile Creek, all wharves were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Alabama\nAt the Christ Church Cathedral in Mobile, about $40,000 in damage was suffered, while at the St. Francis Baptist Church, damage totaled to about $10,000. Several steamers sank during the storm, including the J. P. Sehuh, Mary E. Staples, Mary S. Blees, Cama, Overton, Hattie B. Moore, City of Camden, and numerous others. One child was killed in Mobile. At Fort Morgan, many trees fell, roofs caved in, and windows were \"smashed as though of tissue paper\". Telegraph buildings in the city were flooded and moderately damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0009-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Alabama\nFive hotels suffered damage totaling to $21,000, while the Southern Supply Company, which was headquartered in the city, suffered $100,000 in damage. The fort's port suffered about $100,000 in damages. Six civilians were killed at the fort. Between Flomaton and Pensacola, railroad tracks of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad were torn up and blocked by trees. The section of railroad tracks between Georgian and Graceville was affected by similar damage. The railroad cancelled all services following the hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 60], "content_span": [61, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Mississippi\nIn Scranton, the steamer Winona reported a minimum air pressure of 965 mbar (hPa; 28.50 inHg). Lieutenant B.L. Brockway speculated that Scranton was near the center of the hurricane at the time, due to the low pressure readings. At Biloxi, Moss Point, and Mississippi City, communications were not received. However, Moss Point reported that floodwaters were 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) deep before communications were lost. In Macon, a hotel had been demolished during the hurricane, resulting in the deaths of two people. Jackson and Brookhaven suffered a loss of at least 300,000 cotton bales, amounting to $12,000,000 in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0010-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Mississippi\nIn Vicksburg and McComb, many buildings were damaged, along with damage to shipping in Vicksburg, with a broken dock. The railroads and trees of Monticello suffered moderate damage: the railroad tracks were covered in trees, and service was suspended east of the town. In Hattiesburg, many cabins were blown down during the storm. Damage in Hattiesburg amounted to $300,000. In McNeil, one person was killed by a tree that was blown down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Mississippi\nAt the Horn Island lighthouse, the hurricane killed the lighthouse keeper and his wife and daughter. In addition to the death of the three at the lighthouse, it was noted that the schooner Daisy had been dismantled there, with one person killed. A person who was climbing a small tree was thrown away by the wind and drowned. Several people were trapped in their homes after a creek topped its banks. A warehouse and four other buildings were destroyed, while a bank's roof was blown off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035790-0011-0001", "contents": "1906 Mississippi hurricane, Preparations and impact, Mississippi\nA train near Brookhaven was washed away along the tracks of the Mississippi Central Railroad, resulting in the injury of five people. 25 schooners along the Mississippi coastline were completely destroyed. Two barks, the Nuremberg and Hercules were destroyed during the hurricane. Mandeline, owned by Norway, was filled with water, while Sigrav suffered severe damage, completely torn apart. A boat known as the Florine was washed ashore. A total of 78\u00a0fatalities occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035791-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1906 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 5\u20132\u20131 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 94 to 79. W. J. Monilaw was the head coach for the first of three seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035792-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Montana football team\nThe 1906 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1906 college football season. They were led by second-year head coach Frederick Schule, and finished the season with a record of two wins and four losses (2\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035793-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Montenegrin parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 27 September 1906, electing the country's first Parliament. The result was a victory for the People's Party, the first political group in Montenegro, which won 51 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035793-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held under the electoral law passed on 24 June. The new National Assembly of Montenegro (parliament) consisted of 62 elected members (6 from small towns and 56 from captaincies) and 14 appointees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035793-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Aftermath\nThe newly elected Parliament met for the first time in Cetinje on 31 October. \u0160ako Petrovi\u0107-Njego\u0161 was elected as the first President of the Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035793-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, the People's Party formed the first party-led government with Marko Radulovi\u0107 as Prime Minister. In February 1907, Andrija Radovi\u0107, also an People's Party member, replaced Radulovi\u0107 as the head of the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035794-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe 1906 College Basketball All-American team, as chosen retroactively by the Helms Athletic Foundation. The player highlighted in gold was chosen as the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year retroactively in 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035795-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1906 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their only year under head coach Douglas Church, the team compiled a 0\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035796-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Naef\n1906 Naef (prov. designation:1972 RC) is a stony vestoid asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 5 September 1972, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Observatory near Bern, Switzerland. It was later named after Swiss banker and amateur astronomer Robert Naef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [9, 9], "content_span": [10, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035796-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Naef, Orbit and classification\nNaef orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.1\u20132.7\u00a0AU once every 3 years and 8 months (1,335 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 6\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at Zimmerwald, as previous observation at Turku Observatory (1943 VF) and McDonald Observatory (1952 DG1) in 1943 and 1952, respectively, remain unused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035796-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Naef, Physical characteristics\nAccording to observations by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer's NEOWISE mission, Naef measures 7.9 and 8.1 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo of 0.23, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.40 and calculates a diameter of 6.6 kilometer with an absolute magnitude of 12.5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035796-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Naef, Physical characteristics\nNaef is a vestoid or V-type asteroid, with its spectral type comparable to that of the group's namesake, 4 Vesta. V-type asteroids are less common than the abundant S-type asteroids, but they are similar in their stony composition, except for their higher concentration of pyroxenes, an aluminium-rich silicate mineral. PanSTARRS' photometric survey has characterized it as a SQ-type that transitions to the Q-type asteroids.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035796-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Naef, Physical characteristics\nFour rotational lightcurves, obtained during 2005\u20132009, gave a well-defined rotation period between 11.01 and 11.03 hours, and a brightness variation of 0.92\u20130.95 magnitude (U=n.a./3/n.a./2+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 35], "content_span": [36, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035796-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Naef, Naming\nThis minor planet was named after Swiss banker Robert A. Naef (1907\u20131975) from Z\u00fcrich, an ardent amateur astronomer, who produced the yearly observers almanac, Der Sternenhimmel, since 1940. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 (M.P.C. 4157).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 9], "section_span": [11, 17], "content_span": [18, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035797-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1906 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1906 college football season. In their third season under Paul Dashiell, the Midshipmen compiled an 8\u20132\u20132 record, shut out nine opponents (including a scoreless tie with Bucknell), and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 149 to 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Amos Foster and played its home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. The team competed as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nPrior to replacing the retiring Walter C. Booth at NU, Foster compiled an 11\u20134 record in two years coaching Cincinnati. Foster left Nebraska following the season and was quickly offered his old job at Cincinnati, but declined, instead accepting an offer to coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nFollowing the 1905 season, United States President Theodore Roosevelt urged Among the new rules adopted in 1906 included the legalization of the forward pass, an increase in the distance required to get a first down, the abolishment of the dangerous flying wedge, and the establishment of a neutral zone between the offense and defense at the line of scrimmage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBenedict, Maurice EChaloupka, William FBCooke, Harold QBCornell GCraig, Hugh FBDenslow, Lloyd EDrain, Dale QBEwing, Henry LTHarvey, James E/LTJohnson, William ELittle, Ernest (Merle) EMason, John LTMatters, Thomas LTMcDonald, Gil QBRice, John RTSchmidt, Francis ETaylor, Robert RGVoss RTWeller, John HBWilke, C.R. C", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nNebraska's 35-game home field winning streak, dating back to the beginning of the 1901 season, was broken when Iowa State beat NU 14\u20132. Only a late safety prevented Nebraska from being shut out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nMinnesota shut out the Cornhuskers in Minneapolis for the second consecutive year in a game that remained scoreless until after halftime. Minnesota finished the season as co-champion of the Big Nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Creighton\nNebraska shut out Creighton in Omaha in the final game between the two teams. NU defeated all other in-state teams for the third year in a row to claim another state championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nKU defeated a sloppy Nebraska team in the first game in a streak of 107 consecutive seasons the two teams played, still an NCAA record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Chicago\nNebraska was shut out by Chicago, then a member of the Big Nine Conference, in the first meeting between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035798-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Cincinnati\nFoster's former team traveled to Lincoln in what is still the only game ever played between Cincinnati and Nebraska. The teams were scheduled to play in 2020, but the game was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cincinnati and Nebraska are scheduled to meet for the second time in 2025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035799-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035799-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor John H. Mickey did not stand for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035799-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee George L. Sheldon defeated Democratic and Populist fusion nominee Ashton C. Shallenberger with 51.27% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035800-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Nevada gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Nevada gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Silver John Sparks defeated Republican nominee Jason F. Mitchell with 58.54% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035801-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1906 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1906 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under first-year head coach Edward Herr, the team finished with a record of 2\u20135\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035801-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThis season introduced several rules changes, most notably legalization of the forward pass (with restrictions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035801-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and four points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system, and games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035801-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe Vermont game in Manchester was attended by Governor of New Hampshire John McLane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035801-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nNew Hampshire's second team (reserves) lost to Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, 11\u20135, and defeated Mohawk Athletic Club of Portsmouth, 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035801-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire football team, Roster\nThe team photo consists of 14 players\u2014likely all of the team's lettermen\u2014plus coach Edward Herr and the student team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035801-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire football team, Roster\nIn December 1908, center Carl Chase and another student drowned while canoeing in the nearby Great Bay. Quarterback John J. Ryan later played for Dartmouth College, where he captained the 1910 Dartmouth football team; he subsequently became a college sports coach, including two seasons each with the Wisconsin football team and the Marquette basketball team. Right end Edson D. Sanborn later coached the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) personnel of the 1918 New Hampshire football team that competed in place of the varsity. Team manager Leon Dexter Batchelor later became a horticulture professor and served as director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035802-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Republican nominee Charles M. Floyd defeated Democratic nominee Nathan C. Jameson with 49.79% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035803-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1906 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1906 college football season. In their seventh year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 71 to 12. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035804-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1906 were appointments by Edward VII to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 December 1905 and 2 January 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035804-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035805-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Giants season\nThe 1906 New York Giants season was the franchise's 24th season. The team finished in second place in the National League with a 96-56 record, 20 games behind the Chicago Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035805-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035805-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035805-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035805-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035805-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035806-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Highlanders season\nThe 1906 New York Highlanders season, its fourth in New York and sixth overall, finished with the team in 2nd place in the American League with a record of 90\u201361. The team was managed by Clark Griffith and played its home games at Hilltop Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035806-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035806-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035806-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035806-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035806-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 New York Highlanders season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election\nThe 1906 New York state election was held on November 6, 1906, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state engineer, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, History\nThe Socialist state convention met on June 2 at the Workingmen's Educational Building at 247, East Eighty-fourth Street in New York City. Morris Hillquit was chosen Permanent Chairman. They nominated John C. Chase for governor; Gustave Adolph Strebel for lieutenant governor; Henry L. Slobodin, of New York City, for attorney general; William W. Arland, of Corning, for secretary of state; John E. O'Rourke, of Rochester, for comptroller; William W. Passage, of Brooklyn, for treasurer; and R. R. Hunt, of Schenectady, for state engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, History\nThe Prohibition state convention met on September 5 at Binghamton, New York. They nominated Capt. Henry M. Randall, of Port Jefferson, for governor; Freeman H. Bettys, of Rochester, for lieutenant governor; Charles Richards, of Oswego, for secretary of state; Levi Hoag, of Binghamton, for comptroller; Robert L. Stokes, of Brooklyn, for treasurer; Walter Farrington for attorney general; and Victor C. Mott, of Buffalo, for state engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, History\nThe Independence League state convention met on September 11 and 12 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. They nominated William Randolph Hearst for governor; Lewis S. Chanler for lieutenant governor; John S. Whalen for secretary of state; John Ford for attorney general; Dr. C. H. W. Auel for comptroller; Frank L. Getman for state engineer; and did not nominate anybody for treasurer. After the nomination of Hearst, Chanler and Whalen by the Democratic state convention, the other nominees retired, and on September 29, the Independence League's Executive Committee substituted the Democratic nominees Jackson, Glynn, and Skene on the ticket, and added Hauser for treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, History\nThe Republican state convention met on September 25 and 26 at Saratoga, New York. Boss Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. favored Ex-Governor Frank S. Black, Governor Frank W. Higgins favored his Lt. Gov. Bruce, but after the intervention of President Theodore Roosevelt, the convention nominated Charles E. Hughes for governor. Merton E. Lewis was nominated for comptroller, and all the other incumbent state officers were re-nominated, all by acclamation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, History\nThe Democratic state convention met on September 25, 26 and 27 at Buffalo, New York. Lewis Nixon was Temporary and Permanent Chairman. William Randolph Hearst was nominated for governor on the first ballot (vote: Hearst 309, William Sulzer 124, John Alden Dix 17). All other candidates were nominated by acclamation, among them the Independence League nominees Chanler and Whalen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, Result\nThe Democratic/Independence League fusion ticket was elected with exception of Hearst who was rejected by a large part of the Democratic voters, especially in New York City. Although Republican Hughes was elected governor, this election ended a Republican era in state politics which had lasted a dozen years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, Result\nThe incumbents Bruce, O'Brien, Mayer, Wallenmeier and Van Alstyne were defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035807-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 New York state election, Result\nThe Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Prohibition parties maintained automatic ballot status (necessary 10,000 votes), the Independence League attained it, and the Socialist Labor Party did not re-attain it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035808-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election\nThe New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election 1906 was held to choose the next leader of the New Zealand Liberal Party. The election was won by Awarua MP and incumbent deputy leader Joseph Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035808-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election, Background\nRichard Seddon had assumed the leadership on the death of John Ballance in 1893. As Ballance's deputy there was little opposition to this and Seddon claimed the leadership (and therefore premiership) initially on an interim basis. However, no formal leadership vote was held and Ballance's preferred successor, Robert Stout was never able to contest the leadership officially. Seddon proved to be a popular figure with the masses and continued to lead the Liberal's for a further 13 years until his death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035808-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election, Background\nSeddon died at sea and William Hall-Jones was acting Prime Minister in his absence at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035808-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election, Candidates, Joseph Ward\nWard had been a Member of Parliament since 1887 and had been a part of the cabinets of both John Ballance and Richard Seddon. Most saw Ward as Seddon's natural heir. Of all the Liberal MPs, he was the most well known to the public a trait necessary for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 75], "content_span": [76, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035808-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election, Candidates, William Hall-Jones\nHall-Jones had been left in an awkward position following Seddon's death. While Seddon was in Australia and Ward was in Britain, he was acting Prime Minister. In the confusion following Seddon's death, he informed the Governor General that he had formed a new ministry, near identical to Seddon's, and would only act as Premier until the Liberal caucus elected a new leader. This did nothing to stop speculation in the press that Hall-Jones might abstain from relinquishing power as Seddon had done before him. Ultimately he did not accept nomination for the leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 82], "content_span": [83, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035808-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election, Result\nAs Ward was the only officially nominated candidate, Ward was elected unopposed as leader by the caucus. Hall-Jones continued as acting leader and Prime Minister until Ward returned to New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 58], "content_span": [59, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035808-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 New Zealand Liberal Party leadership election, Aftermath\nWard would remain the leader of the Liberal Party until he relinquished the role in 1912, following the disappointing result of the 1911 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035809-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 News of the World Match Play\nThe 1906 News of the World Match Play was the fourth News of the World Match Play tournament. It was played from Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 October at Notts Golf Club. 32 players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 18 holes, except for the final which was over 36 holes. The winner received \u00a3100 out of a total prize fund of \u00a3240. Sandy Herd defeated Charles Mayo 8 & 7 in the final to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035809-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 News of the World Match Play, Qualification\nEntry was restricted to members of the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA). Qualification was by a series of 36-hole stroke-play competitions; one for each of the six PGA sections. The Southern section had 16 qualifiers, the Midland and Northern sections had 5 each, the Scottish section 3, the Irish section 2 and the Welsh section 1. In the event of a tie for places there was a playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035809-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 News of the World Match Play, Format\nThe format was unchanged. Matches were over 18 holes except for the final which was over 36 holes. Extra holes were played in the event of a tied match. Two rounds were played on the first day, two more on the second day with the final on the third day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035809-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 News of the World Match Play, Prize money\nThe winner received \u00a3100 and a gold medal, the runner-up \u00a330 and a silver medal, the losing semi-finalists \u00a315 and a bronze medal, while the third round losers received \u00a310 and the second round losers received \u00a35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035810-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Armagh by-election\nThe North Armagh by-election of 1906 was held on 16 November 1906. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Unionist MP, Edward James Saunderson. It was won by the Irish Unionist candidate William Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035811-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1906 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1906 college football season. In Willie Heston's first and only season as head coach, the Aggies compiling a record of 3\u20131\u20134, outscoring their opponents 100 to 10. The four ties are the most in program history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035812-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1906 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1906 college football season. The team captain of the 1906 season was Foy Roberson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035813-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1906 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Gil Dobie, the team compiled a 5\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 236 to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035813-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe season was part of a 10-game winning streak that began in 1905 and ended in 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035814-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Democratic nominee John Burke defeated incumbent Republican Elmore Y. Sarles with 53.20% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035815-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Galway by-election\nThe 1906 North Galway by-election was held on 28 February after the MP elected in the general election in January 1906, Thomas Higgins, died before his election declaration at the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035815-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 North Galway by-election, 1906 general election\nHiggins, originally from Monivea, who was chairman of Tuam Board of Guardians and a member of Galway County Council, was selected as the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate by the United Irish League (UIL) convention on 5 January 1906 to contest the 1906 general election. He had been President of the constituency branch of the UIL since 1900.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035815-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 North Galway by-election, 1906 general election\nTaken ill on the night of the election (25 January 1906), he died as the result of a heart attack in Guy's Hotel, Tuam, at 1.30am the following morning (26 January 1906).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035815-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 North Galway by-election, 1906 general election\nAs was widely expected, Higgins topped the poll at the election count, which was held later on the day of his death, beating the incumbent MP, John Philip Nolan, who had stood as an Independent Nationalist. Higgins, who received 2,685 votes (Nolan took 1,064), was posthumously declared elected by the county sheriff, the returning officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035815-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 North Galway by-election, By-election\nThe 25-year-old Richard Hazleton, a Blackrock District councillor who had unsuccessfully contested South County Dublin in the 1906 election, was selected as the Irish Party Parliamentary Party candidate. As the only candidate nominated for the resulting by-election, and was therefore elected unopposed when nominations closed on 28 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035815-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 North Galway by-election, Similar by-elections\nThe remarkable circumstances surrounding the election led the Irish Independent to comment that \"candidates have died before the actual election, but we doubt if ever such a case as the present has occurred before, where a candidate has died after the poll has been taken and before the result has been declared\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035815-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 North Galway by-election, Similar by-elections\nThis circumstance occurred again to Noel Skelton in 1935, and to Sir Edward Taswell Campbell and Leslie Pym in 1945; however, all of them were candidates for re-election. Thomas Higgins is the only MP to be newly elected posthumously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035816-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Kilkenny by-election\nThe 1906 North Kilkenny by-election was held on 3 March 1906 after Joseph Devlin resigned. Devlin had been elected for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1906 general election for both North Kilkenny and West Belfast. As he could only take one seat he chose West Belfast, so creating a vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035816-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 North Kilkenny by-election\nThe seat was retained by Michael Meagher who stood for the Irish Parliamentary Party. The by-election was uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035817-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 North Leitrim by-election\nThe 1906 North Leitrim by-election was held on 28 February 1906 after Patrick Aloysius McHugh resigned. McHugh had been elected for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1906 general election for both North Leitrim and North Sligo. As he could only take one seat he chose North Sligo, so creating a vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035817-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 North Leitrim by-election\nThe seat was retained by Charles Dolan who stood for the Irish Parliamentary Party. The by-election was uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035818-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Northern Illinois State Normal football team\nThe 1906 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1906 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Nelson A. Kellogg and played their home games at Glidden Field, located on the east end of campus. The team finished the season with a 4\u20132\u20131 record. Warren Madden was the team's captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035819-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 1906 Norwegian Football Cup was the fifth season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The tournament was open for 1906 local association leagues (kretsserier) champions, except in Kristiania og omegn where a separate cup qualifying tournament was held. Odd won their fourth consecutive title. This was the first final attended by the Norwegian majesties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035820-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Norwegian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Norway between 5 and 27 August 1906, with a second round held between 26 August and 22 October. It was the first parliamentary election in Norway since the end of the union with Sweden a year earlier. A Two-round system was used at this election for the first time. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 73 of the 123 seats in the Storting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035821-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Notre Dame football team\nThe 1906 Notre Dame football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035822-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Nova Scotia general election\nThe 1906 Nova Scotia general election was held on 20 June 1906 to elect members of the 34th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035822-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Nova Scotia general election, Further reading\nThis Nova Scotia\u2013related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035822-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Nova Scotia general election, Further reading\nThis elections in Canada-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035823-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Ohio Green and White football team\nThe 1906 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Arthur McFarland, the team compiled a 7\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 158 to 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035824-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1906 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University during the 1906 college football season. The Buckeyes compiled an 8\u20131 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 153 to 14 in their first season under head coach Albert E. Herrnstein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035825-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1906 college football season. This was the sixth year of football at A&M and the first under Boyd Hill. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. They finished the season 1\u20134\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035826-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1906 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1906 college football season. In their second year under head coach Bennie Owen, the Sooners compiled a 5\u20132\u20132 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 124 to 36. Oklahoma scheduled two games in Kansas City, Missouri, against the Kansas City Medics on October 23 and the Kansas City Athletic Club on October 27, but both games were cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035827-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1906 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Games with Tennessee on October 27 and with Arkansas on November 17 were canceled. This the first season of the legal forward pass. James C. Elmer of Ole Miss caught the first forward pass in the history of the Egg Bowl rivalry. Elmer's kicking accounted for 13 points in a 29\u20135 rout. For the first time the game marked the end of the season for not one but both teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035828-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Open Championship\nThe 1906 Open Championship was the 46th Open Championship, held 13\u201315 June at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Defending champion James Braid won the Championship for the third time, four strokes ahead of runner-up J.H. Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035828-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Open Championship\nThere was no qualifying competition. All entries played 18 holes in pairs on the first two days with all those within 14 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035828-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Open Championship\nThe feature of the opening round on Wednesday was the play of the amateurs. John Graham Jr. led with a 71, while Robert Maxwell was amongst those tied for second on 73 with Robert Whitecross and Hugh Watt, both from Dirleton Castle Golf Club, a further shot behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035828-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Open Championship\nTaylor and Harry Vardon came to fore in the second round on Thursday. Taylor was out in 41 but came back in 31, despite three-putting the last. Vardon was only a shot worse with a 73. Taylor led on 149, with Vardon and Graham on 150; 72 players were within 14 shots of Taylor and made the cut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035828-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Open Championship\nTaylor's third round 75 on Friday morning was good enough for him to retain the lead by a stroke over Rowland Jones and three over Braid and Vardon. In the final round that afternoon, Jones scored a disappointing 83 to drop out of contention, while Taylor scored 80 and Vardon 78. Only two players bettered 77, Walter Toogood with a 71 and Braid with a 73, but Toogood was already out of the picture after an 83 in the morning. Needing a 76 for victory, Braid reached the turn in 38 and after more steady play he was left with two fives at the last two holes to win. A 45-foot (14\u00a0m) putt for a three at the 17th hole secured the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035828-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Open Championship, Past champions in the field\nDid not enter: Jack White (1904), Harold Hilton (1892, 1897).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 51], "content_span": [52, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035829-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Fred Norcross, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20131\u20132 record, held six of seven opponents scoreless, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 78 to 4. The Aggies played to scoreless ties against Oregon and Washington and lost to Willamette (0\u20134). Herb Root was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035830-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1906 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1906 college football season. It was the Webfoots' thirteenth season; they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Hugo Bezdek. They finished the season with a record of five wins, zero losses and one tie (5\u20130\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035831-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Oregon gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on June 4, 1906 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. The election matched Republican James Withycombe against incumbent Democrat George Earle Chamberlain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035832-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n1906 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) was the third waterpolo championship in Hungary. There were one match with two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035832-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035833-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Pagoda riots\nThe 1906 Pagoda riots refer to violent clashes which erupted in Port Louis on the island of Mauritius between 1900 and 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035833-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Pagoda riots, Events prior to the 1906 riots\nThe Cantonese and the Fukienese were the only two clans of Chinese people which held political and cultural power which their leader Hayme firmly established in Mauritius. The mixed-blood clan of Hakkas or Macayah had a much lesser influence in society as they arrived on the island after the Cantonese and the Fukienese. Hayme was succeeded by Afan Tank Wen who was the ethnic leader until his death in June 1900. The town had been a relatively peaceful settlement, as the previous serious civil disorder dated back to more than 50 years earlier in the form of the 1850 Yams\u00e9 Ghoon Riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035833-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Pagoda riots, Clash of rival clans\nAfan Tank Wen's death enabled the Hakkas to question the Cantonese clans' stronghold on political and cultural matters in Port Louis where most people of Chinese origins resided. Soon the three clans started to aggressively fight for leadership over Cohan Tai Biou Pagoda which was regarded as the religious and political headquarters of the Chinese community living in Mauritius. As a result there were frequent violent clashes between members of the rival clans. The pagoda, which is located at Les Salines in Port Louis, is also known as Kwan Tee Pagoda and was built in 1842, thus making it the oldest such institution in the Southern Hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035833-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Pagoda riots, Supreme Court ruling\nEventually the Supreme Court of Mauritius intervened by issuing a decree on 21 June 1906 to resolve the conflict. The court stipulated that the Cohan Tai Biou pagoda would be managed by a committee of 15 members from all 3 rival clans. Furthermore the pagoda's presidency would have a tenure of 1 year to be held by a member of each of the 3 different Chinese ethnic groups in rotation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035833-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Pagoda riots, Aftermath of Supreme Court ruling\nThe novel requirement to share power among the 3 rival clans broke the tradition of vesting absolute authority in a single elected leader. It affected the long-held mechanism of maintaining unity within the community. Besides it reduced the leader\u2019s prestige when negotiating with the colonial government, thus eroding Chinese community's influence in Mauritius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 52], "content_span": [53, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035834-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe following article presents a summary of the 1906 football (soccer) season in Paraguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035834-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nShortly after the foundation of the governing body of football, the Liga Paraguaya de F\u00fatbol (known today as Asociaci\u00f3n Paraguaya de F\u00fatbol) on June 18, the first championship was organized with the participation of the five original founding clubs and Club 14 de Mayo. The first match was played on July 8 between Olimpia and Guaran\u00ed, resulting in a 1-1 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035834-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nSalvador Meli\u00e1n of Guaran\u00ed has the honor of being the first scorer in Paraguayan league history, while Miguel D\u00edaz of Olimpia was the second scorer in the 1-1 tie match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035834-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Paraguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Liga Paraguaya results\nGuaran\u00ed was the first Paraguayan champion. The tournament was played between six teams in a two round all-play-all system, being the team with the most points at the end of the two rounds the champion. Guaran\u00ed played 10 games, winning 8, drawing 2 and not losing any of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035835-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1906 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the 11th\u00a0edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 15 April 1906 and stretched 270\u00a0km (168\u00a0mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Henri Cornet from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035836-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 1906 Paris\u2013Tours was the third edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycle race and was held on 30 September 1906. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Lucien Petit-Breton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035837-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1906 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1906 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 7\u20132\u20133 record in their fifth year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included a 24 to 6 loss to the Carlisle Indians, a 17 to 0 victory over Michigan, and a scoreless tie with Cornell The 1906 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 186 to 58.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035837-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Penn Quakers football team\nEight players on the 1906 Penn team received recognition on the 1906 College Football All-America Team. They are ends Izzy Levene (WC-3; CW-2; NYS-2; CC-2; NYT-2) and Hunter Scarlett (NYM-1), tackle Dexter Draper (WC-2; NYS-1; NYT-2), guard Gus Ziegler (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-2; CC-2; NYM-1; NYT-2), center William Thomas Dunn (WC-1), and halfbacks Bill Hollenback (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYM-1), Bob Folwell (NYT-1) and Edward Green (NYT-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035838-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Penn State football team\nThe 1906 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College\u2014now known as Pennsylvania State University\u2013as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by Tom Fennell and played its home games on Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035839-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican governor Samuel W. Pennypacker was not a candidate for re-election. Republican candidate Edwin Sydney Stuart defeated Democratic candidate Lewis Emery, Jr. to become Governor of Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035840-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Persian legislative election\nThe first Iranian legislative election held in July 1906 after Iranian Constitutional Revolution by a sentence from Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035841-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Athletics season\nThe 1906 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing fourth in the American League with a record of 78 wins and 67 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035841-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035841-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035841-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035841-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035841-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035842-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1906 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in Major League Baseball. The Phillies finished fourth in the National League with a record of 71 wins and 82 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035842-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035842-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035842-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035842-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035843-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1906 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 25th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 20th in the National League. The Pirates finished third in the league standings with a record of 93\u201360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035843-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035843-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035843-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035843-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035843-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season\nThe 1906 Portland Beavers season was the fourth season in the history of the Portland Beavers baseball team. The 1906 team won the Pacific Coast League (PCL) pennant with a 114\u201358 record (.663 winning percentage). The team played its home games at Vaughn Street Park. The 1906 season was the first in which the team played under the name \"Beavers\", having been previously known as the \"Browns\" and \"Giants\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season\nThe 1906 Beavers were selected in 2003 by a panel of minor league experts as the sixth best team in the PCL's 100-year history. The team was also ranked No. 31 by Minor League Baseball in its ranking of the 100 greatest minor league teams in baseball history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season\nThe Beavers were in Oakland, California, when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California. The season was interrupted for five weeks after the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season\nThe team was owned by Judge William Wallace McCredie, who later represented the State of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives. McCredie also served as the club's president while his son, Hugh, was the business manager and his wife, Alice, managed the ticket office. His nephew Walt McCredie played in the National League, batting .324 in 1903, but joined the Portland club as player-manager in 1904 after his uncle became the owner. Walt McCredie was both the manager and one of the starting outfielders in 1906, leading the team to the pennant while also compiling a .306 batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season\nThe star of the team was outfielder Mike Mitchell. Mitchell was credited by Bill James as having one of the best outfield arms of the Deadball Era. In 1906, he won the PCL batting championship with a .339 batting average and also led the league in home runs and slugging percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season\nEnon Califf, Ben Henderson, and \"Vinegar Bill\" Essick led the pitching staff. Califf, an Oregon native, compiled a 34\u201314 record with 40 complete games and a 2.17 earned run average (ERA) in 53 games (46 as a starter). Henderson went 29\u201310 with 38 complete games and a 1.60 ERA in 41 games. Essick led the PCL with a .760 winning percentage (19 wins, 6 losses).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; SLG = Slugging percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035844-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Portland Beavers season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike\nThe 1906 Porto Alegre general strike, also known as the 21-day strike, was the first general strike in the history of Rio Grande do Sul. Between 3 and 21 October, about five thousand workers abandoned their work, demanding the reduction of the workday to eight hours. The movement was initiated by anarchists, who had started a strike on August 26 at Jacob Aloys Friedrichs marmoraria demanding the eight-hour day. Soon after the strike statement, they founded the Marbles Union and called the other workers in Porto Alegre to join the movement. Throughout September, the city's working class remained solidarity to paralyze marble production, and on October 3, several sectors decided to declare themselves on strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike\nFaced with the paralysis of several sectors - including metallurgical, stevedores, masons, tram workers and textiles, the local entrepreneurship met under the leadership of Alberto Bins to establish an agreement that granted the workers a nine hour workday, which initially was not accepted by the strikers. During the strike, the socialists Francisco Xavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco emerged as leaders of the movement, bringing the anarchists in their direction and driving the creation of the Workers' Federation of Rio Grande do Sul (FORGS), which would become the most important organization of the Ga\u00facha working class during the first Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike\nThe bosses remained uncompromising and the strike began to empty themselves from October 17, when several workers, pressured by the economic difficulties arising from so much time paralyzed, began to return to work, accepting the nine-hour workday. On the 21st, the local press declared the movement to have ended. Despite the original demand was not met, the reduction of the working day was seen as a partial achievement, and the strike helped to strengthen class consciousness and the organization of Porto Alegre's workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Background\nAccording to historian Joan Bak, the 1906 general strike in Porto Alegre was initiated in a context in which at least three elements stand out: the introduction of new modalities of production, which disrupted the familiar habits of artisan labor; the growing introduction of the female workforce in the work environment; and the transformation of hermetic ethnic communities into more heterogeneous communities, which were to be recognized as a working class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Background\nUntil the beginning of the twentieth century, in most Porto Alegre companies, a typical organization of manufacturing workshops, with a relatively small number of employees and a hierarchy of functions based on talent and in the time of professional learning. This working environment brought possibilities of hierarchical ascension to employees, as well as allowed a greater proximity between them and their bosses, favoring paternalist social relations. The workers of the first workshops and industries were almost always qualified male artisans, in general European immigrants or descendants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0003-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Background\nEntrepreneurs generally hired only fellow countrymen in an attempt to accentuate ethnic solidarity and camouflage class differences. Linguistic barriers eventually isolated the immigrant workers from those that spoke Portuguese, reinforcing cultural ties between bosses and employees. Black people and mesti\u00e7os, even if they formed an important part of the population of the city, were relegated to unqualified and poorly paid work, while many entrepreneurs hired only workers of European origin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Background\nIn the early 1900s, an expansion of industry and the most traditional social relations between boss and employee have begun to modify with the emergence of large factories. As a result of this process, some craftsmen blamed the machines for having taken them from their former work and complained that they were working more and earning less. Establishments which employed more than 50 workers became more common, concentrated especially in metallurgy, clothing production, furniture and food.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0004-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Background\nAccording to Bak, \"these establishments have become a first battlefield of conflicts for changes in social production relations\", including the first strikes, until then always circumscribed to only single establishments. With the appearance and expansion of new factories, the female workforce also became increasingly employed. At the socks and corset factory of the Fabril Porto-Alegrense company, one of the largest and most mechanized of the city, three-quarters of the workforce was composed of women, who worked for low wages and in unhealthy conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Background\nAs a consequence of this initial process of industrialization, Porto Alegre went through rapid urban growth. The population of the city, from 52,000 inhabitants in 1890, had doubled in 1910, and new urban districts have also emerged in that period. The expansion of the city was mainly to the north and east. The Fourth District Zone - current neighborhoods of S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o and Navegantes - emerged as the first industrial region of the city, where there was a working class presence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Background\nAs a result of these rapid transformations, dense and hermetic ethnic communities began to transform into more heterogeneous communities with mixture of ethnic and class identities. While at first the organizations of the working class were marked by ethnicity, as early as 1896, the International Working League congregated Portuguese, German and Italian speakers. At the beginning of the twentieth century, anarchist militants began to organize unions by occupation, although at first, some offices were identified with certain ethnicities - the Italians predominated among shoemakers; the Germans, in turn, among the metallurgists, Hatters and Joiners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nOn August 26, 1906, three marble workers of Jacob Aloys Friedrichs - Henrique Faccini, Carlos Jansson and Arthur do Vale Quaresma - gave him a letter in which they demanded the eight-hour workday. The demand of the eight-hour workday was not a novelty in the labor movement: gaucho socialists had already demanded it since 1897, when the policy appeared in the program of the Rio Grande do Sul Socialist Party; also in 1906, between April 15 and 22, it was held in the Rio de Janeiro, which placed the fight for eight hours on the agenda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0007-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nMilitants of the labor movement, especially anarchists, considered that the eight-hour journey would help reduce unemployment and allow workers to organize and educate themselves in their free time, making their class consciousness grow. Although Rio Grande do Sul had not sent representatives to the Workers' Congress, the Anarchists of Porto Alegre took note of the proposals approved at the meeting, and inspired by Congress, decided to start a movement for eight hours. Henrique Faccini and Andr\u00e9 Arjonas, signatories of the letter delivered to Friedrichs, were anarchist militants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nThe marble workers, as well as other craftsmen, possessed their own tools and were qualified, which made them difficult to replace. However, they worked 11 hour days. In the letter delivered to Friedrichs, the marble workers were identified as a working class and justified their demands arguing that this measure would give them \"some time for moral and intellectual development\". The employees of Friedrichs believed that he was the most suitable for introducing the eight-hour workday in the city and expected a favorable response from their boss, otherwise they were willing to take a \"different resolution\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nDespite the respectful and cordial tone of the letter, which did not display hostility or revolutionary ardor, considering Friedrichs as an \"honest man\" and \"laborious and acquiescent with everything that is fair and that has always treated them well\". The threat of a \"different resolution\" irritated the boss. The next morning, August 27, Friedrichs found only one employee in the marmoraria; all others, even apprentices, were absent. Through an informant who declared himself neutral, he knew that his employees would only return to work after they know the answer to the request presented the day before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0009-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nThen there was a deadlock: Friedrichs said that while his employees \"did not go back to work and wait calmly\" their response, \"could wait indefinitely.\" He established their return to work as a condition of his response to employees and stated that the issue \"no longer revolved around the eight-hour workday,\" with which Friedrichs had already \"conformed intimately,\" but for his \"authority of Master and employer\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nThe strikers stayed firm for a week. At the end of this period, Friedrichs reported that he was to reduce the working day to nine hours and imposed an ultimatum: if workers rejected this proposal, they should remove their instruments from work until seventeen hours the next day. The marble workers named a commission to reach an agreement with Friedrichs, who remained uncompromising. The Commission, in turn, stated to the boss that workers would go on strike while their demands were not met.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0010-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nOn the next day, a group of strikers tried to withdraw their tools from the workshop, but the boss refused to deliver them and asked for police protection. The workers convinced the police that they were only claiming what already belonged to them and, when the police gave up, they entered quietly in the establishment, they collected their belongings and left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nOn September 10, the socialist Francisco Xavier da Costa offered to mediate the conflict, writing Friedrichs and arguing that it would be \"absolutely impossible to reach an agreement between you and your former workers, provided that you do not have the benevolence of meeting what they have requested, that is - the reduction of labor to eight hours daily.\" Despite being Brazilian and mesti\u00e7o, Xavier da Costa had ties with the German-speaking community and had already acted as mediator between bosses and employees in the strike of the wiring and tissues company in the previous year. For these reasons - and also in an attempt to strengthen his leadership in the local labor movement and block the advancement of the anarchists - he tried to seek a negotiated exit to the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Marbles strike\nDuring the month of September, almost all the workers of the city remained in solidarity with the strikers. On September 25, nine marble workers, including Henry Faccini, embarked down to Rio de Janeiro, where they would be employed in the eight-hour regime. Representatives from various associations of workers attended the port in a demonstration of support for the marble workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nSoon after the strike statement, the marble workers founded the Marbles Union and called the workers of the city to join the fight, through a manifesto in which they asked for the adhesion of the local operations to the idea of the eight hour day. On September 9, the masons and hatters responded to the call by organizing their own unions. Textile workers and tailors also began to organize and the union of the metallurgists was encouraged to enter into action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0013-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nXavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco, the main socialist leaders from Porto Alegre, began to organize workers' rallies inciting the workers to fight for the eight-hour day. The first of these rallies occurred on September 11. On the 20th of the same month, when the city celebrated the Farroupilha Revolution, Xavier da Costa, Carlos Cavaco and the German Socialist Jos\u00e9 Zeller-Rethaler spoke to workers. On the 23rd, a Sunday, Xavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco promoted a new rally in Customs Square in the center of Porto Alegre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0013-0002", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nXavier da Costa spoke on the antagonism between the working class and the bourgeoisie; Cavaco attacked \"the stupid bourgeoisie and its extravagances\" while the workers faced misery. He also talked about the workers' movement in Germany and France and emphasized the need for local initiatives to unite in a federation. In addition, he advised workers to physically resist the demands of the \"potented exploiters, if necessary, raising barricades in the middle of the streets and demanding their ideals with an olive branch in one hand and the other, if necessary, a dynamite bomb.\" Along the strike, Cavaco was the only leader that publicly advised the use of violence against bosses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nWith the arrival the month of October, workers in other industrial sectors joined the marble workers. On day 3, in the morning, the metallurgists gathered at the Railroad Cafe, on rua Volunt\u00e1rios da P\u00e1tria, where they decided to join the strike and demand, beyond the decrease of working hours, a salary increase. On the same day, the workers of the Phoenix foundry, the foundry and shipyard of Alberto Bins, the Arb\u00f3s & Salvador furniture factories, the shipyards of Jos\u00e9 Becker and the foundry of Jacques Max adhered to the strike, according to Jornal do Commercio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0014-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nThe next day, the workers of the Silva S\u00f3 & Son Iron Foundry and the pairs that worked in the works of the American bookstore also joined the movement. At the Kappel & Arnt Furniture Factory the workers did not get to strike, since the owners of that establishment advanced in the negotiations and, in accordance with those of Arb\u00f3s & Salvador factories, reduced the workday to an average of nine hours daily, which was accepted by both factories workers. The workers of Arb\u00f3s & Salvador, which the day before had adhered to the strike, returned to work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nXavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco, in an attempt to direct the movement, divided into the functions of advertising and organization of the strike. On October 3, while Xavier da Costa participated in the Metallurgical Meeting at the Railroad Caf\u00e9, Cavaco made an address at the Union headquarters in the Morro S\u00e3o Pedro to Masons and Woodworkers, counseling the greatest calm and whole order in the peaceful resistance they should offer to bosses. According to historian Benito Schmidt, the change in the tone of the speeches - especially by Carlos Cavaco - must be attributed to the wish of the socialist leaders in attracting the sympathies of other social groups to the cause of workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nOn the afternoon of the 5th, industrialists, contractors and merchants held a meeting to find a means of solving the impasse with the workers. At that meeting, Alberto Bins emerged as a leader, then becoming the most influential articulator of the employer group. Most entrepreneurs agreed to establish a nine-hour workday. Faced with this, Bins proposed that this workday be adopted unanimously by all bosses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0016-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nEntrepreneurs established an agreement establishing that the nine-hour workday proposal would not be modified; whereas the workers who took part in the strike could not be accepted at another establishment within the period of thirty days, provided that they did not exhibit any justification of their former bosses; and the appointment of a commission to deal with the police chief Pedro Afonso Mibielli in order to ensure that workers willing to abandon the movement could return to work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0016-0002", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nBins also proposed the creation of a society of industrialists, whose function would be to \"deliberate every time their interests were at stake.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0016-0003", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nThe patron position became clear in the declarations of Bins to the Correio do Povo of the day 7: tending him, nor \"in old Europe, where the socialist party, after the Catholic is the strongest, has not yet been able to impose his will\", and that the adoption of the eight-hour workday in the Gaucho capital \"would constitute this fact a victory of such a nature, which would put the bosses in the position of clerks of his workers, who, tomorrow, would judge in the right to make new impositions.\" The offer of the nine-hour workday meant, still according to bins, a proof of the benevolence of entrepreneurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nThe proposal of the nine-hour workday was not accepted by the workers and, on the same day, Xavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco announced the foundation of Workers' Federation of Rio Grande do Sul (FORGS). At first, anarchists did not participate in FORGS. It is not clear whether the libertarians were left aside at the foundation of the federation or if they decided not to adhere to it. Anarchists were already organized in the International Workers' Union, founded in the previous year, and the creation of FORGS was partly an opposition movement to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0017-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nDespite the public demonstrations of the working class unions around the demand of the eight-hour workday, from the start of the general strike there were conflicts between anarchists and socialists. In one of the most tense moments of this conflict, the anarchists were expelled from a meeting that had been summoned by the Socialists at the headquarters of the Medret Union Society. These conflicts were based on, as well as personal disagreements, various conceptions about the way the strike should be conducted, despite the common goal. Socialists wanted to subordinate the strike to their command, presenting themselves as the \"bosses\" or \"directors\" of the movement. The anarchists, in turn, rejected the idea of a centralized organization and defended the use of direct action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 856]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nOn October 8, entrepreneurs did publish in the press a warning announcing return to work from the 10th, establishing the nine-hour workday and stating that \"if it is not accepted by the above time, they strictly declare that they will close their factories and will support the workers until a new deliberation.\" On the same day, Xavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco led a demonstration in the neighborhood of Navigantes, where about four thousand workers met to demonstrate opposition to the proposal of the industrialists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0018-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nDuring the march, a group of female workers went to Cavaco's meeting offering flowers and asking him to go to the tribune, which he did, speaking between accounts of demonstrators. Manifestations, however, were not always peaceful and orderly. On the 5th, a group of about a thousand strikers forced the staff who worked in the works of Caixa d'Agua and the Reservoir of Intendance, in Moinhos de Vento, to abandon the service under threat of beatings, and remained gathered there all afternoon, raising a large red flag at the top of the hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0018-0002", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nOn the same day, another group of strikers was able to avoid some workers to return to work at the spinning and tissues factory of Manoel Py, which addressed the police chief Pedro Mibielli to request the dispersion of the piquet line. Even in the presence of the police, the strikers maintained the attitude taken, and the factory could not be reopened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nThe female presence on the strike was highlighted by the local press. O Correio do Povo stated that the number of working women between the strikers was \"huge, and about them, especially, they sought and managed to exert influence and dominance over the campaign promoters.\" The large number of women strikers publicly evidenced a new reality: the growing hiring of women's labor in industries. The workers joined the movement very early and as a group. On October 5, the \"feminine element of the proletariat\" of the textile, clothing and candy industries joined workers on strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0019-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nSubmitted to a rigid discipline in factories and receiving lower wages than men, women had a visible participation in the public statements of the strike, marching together through the city streets demanding the eight-hour workday and tearing red dresses to make ties that they wore on their chests as a class symbol, contributing to these manifestations becoming \"street and theater shows\". However, not all women were strike enthusiasts. On October 14, O Correio do Povo reported that women strikers organized \"flocks to attack and assault the workers who returned to the factories.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nAt the height of the strike, the number of striking workers reached five thousand. However, not all sectors participated in the movement. On October 8, graphic workers held a meeting at the Vit\u00f3rio Emanuele II Vitary Association, aiming at the Foundation of the Graphics Union. Despite the large number of attendants, graphic workers decided not to adhere to the strike, since they already worked under the eight-hour regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0020-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nOn the same day, Victor Barreto, owner of Progresso Industrial, invited his employees to a meeting at night, where they could declare themselves on strike, but that of his part, he was not willing to make deals. His employees, in turn, stated that they had nothing to complain, because they were satisfied not only with the job they had but also with the freedom of what they enjoyed, exalting the kind form by which they were treated by their bosses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nOn October 10, as they had announced, entrepreneurs reopened their establishments, supported by police forces. However, most of the workers did not return to work. In the spinning and tissue company, which employed 400 workers, only 25 went to the service; in the factories of Alberto Bins, no one attended work. The determination of workers in continuing the strike is explained by the difficulty of replacing their labor. Qualified workers knew that they could not be easily replaced in the limited local market, since most of the Porto-Alegrense industry employed only specialized labor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0022-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nIn the face of the impasse in the negotiations, Carlos Cavaco received two anonymous letters in a threatening tone, which advised him to abandon the leadership of the movement. Cavaco, as a form of defense and self-promotion, exposed the letters in the door of the Railway Cafe, drawing the attention of the curious. Seeking to bring an end to the conflict, some entrepreneurs established separate agreements with their workers, lacking the agreement signed at the meeting on the 5th and indicating divergences between the employer group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0022-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nOn October 9, the workers of the quarries of Cesar Ognibene, Ant\u00f4nio Divan, Ant\u00f4nio Locatelli, Swedo Janson and Di Gian Pietro Giovanni released a manifesto in the Petit Journal, stating that they obtained the eight-hour workday and thanking the owners for the \"grandiose and just grant\". Gregory da Silva, Attilio Santa Catharina, Jo\u00e3o Bertotti, Hugo Ferrini and Oscar Teichmann, also agreed to reduce working time in their establishments. Nicolau Rocco, owner of the famous Rocco Confectionery, in addition to granting eight hours to his employees, opened a subscription to assist the strikers and contributed with 100,000 reis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0023-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nDespite these partial victories, the economic situation of the strikers became delicate after more than a week stopped. Some butchers and retailers stopped selling IOUs to strikers, persuaded by entrepreneurs who intended to oblige workers to give in to hunger. Trying to remedy economic difficulties, Carlos Cavaco conducted a literary conference for the benefit of strikers, \"certain dealer\" offered the workers ten bean bags and a FORGS commission started to prepare resistance funds, acquiring money, food and sending requests for help to other localities. The Workers' Union of Pelotas and the workers of Cruz Alta answered the call of FORGS and sent resources to cheerful port strikers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0024-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nThroughout the strike, the state and municipal governments were limited to the vigilance of the manifestations and the defense of employees who wanted to work, without intervening in negotiations between bosses and employees. Influenced by the positivism of Auguste Comte, the Gaucho governors defended the \"incorporation of the proletariat to modern society,\" provided that within the established order, and the non-intrusion of the public authorities in the relations between capital and work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0024-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Generalization of strike\nThe local press, especially O Correio do Povo, adopted a hostile posture in relation to the strike, accusing foreign workers of the rare cases in which the strikers crossed the line between peaceful protest and violence. On October 16, for example, the newspaper noticed that two young employees of the wiring and tissue factories were assaulted by two strikers \"of German origin,\" and accused \"two German subjects\" - the Socialists Wilhelm Koch and Zeller-Rethaller - of being the main \"promoters and instigators of the movement\". Other moments, O Correio do Povo accused foreign strikers of ingratitude and disloyalty for protesting in the country that had given them prosperity and social mobility, using the \"savings and properties obtained from wages earned here\" to support them in a strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 868]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0025-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nThe economic difficulties faced by the strikers, the internal divergences between anarchists and socialists and the intransigence of the bosses ended up wearing the movement. The police also banned the organization of workers' rallies at factories, so that they did not exercise coercion over those who abandoned the movement and returned to work. Xavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco sought to give an honorable end to the movement. On October 13, Xavier da Costa met with Alberto Bins and proposed the reduction of the workday for eight hours and 45 minutes as a condition for the end of the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0025-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nEntrepreneurs did not accept the proposal because they understood that the requirement of a quarter of an hour was just to humiliate the industrialists. Entrepreneurs decided to maintain the offer of nine hours and, if needed, close their establishments. According to Alberto Bins, the factories could re-establish the ten-hour workday and \"oblige, by hunger, the workers return to work.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0026-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nOn the 17th, according to the Jornal do Commercio, the workers who were on strike began to return to work, \"how much some exalted seek all the means of deviating them from factories,\" although recognizing that some of the most important shopping and industrial establishments of the city - such as the property of Alberto Bins - remained stopped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0026-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nA little earlier, on the 14th, the same newspaper pointed to the existence of two postures between foreign workers relating to the continuity of the strike, mixing ethnic and ideological criteria, in stating that the Germans, \"which are socialists, understand that they must return to work, accepting what has been proposed by industrialists\", while the \"Polish and Italians, anarchists, are opposed to work.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0027-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nOn the 18th, entrepreneurs reported a notice reaffirming the maintenance of the nine-hour day and communicating that \"will only be understood in regulation and other internal issues with commissions composed exclusively from their respective factories or works.\" Due to the intransigence of entrepreneurs, the strikers had no choice but to accept the nine hour day. Xavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco, however, sought to preserve the organization of the working class and their leadership positions at the time of return to work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0027-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nOn the 19th, at the headquarters of FORGS, there was a meeting of commissions in charge of solving the continuation of the strike. Xavier da Costa and Cavaco defended the return to work. For these leaders, the most important thing was to keep the gains already achieved by the movement: the reduction of the workday to nine daily hours, and the salary increase obtained by some sectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0028-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nThe local press declared the end of the strike on October 21, announcing that the workers would return to work the following day. However, many workers involved in the strike - especially the most qualified - did not want to go back to work, preferring to set up small workshops or transfer to other locations. The Union of the Hatters of Rio de Janeiro had to provide passages to the workers of this craft interested in working in that city, and on October 15, still during the movement, workers at the Tcheiron Hats factory departed to Rio. On October 26, After the end of the strike, some groups of workers embarked for Rio de Janeiro, S\u00e3o Paulo and Buenos Aires. The marble workers, for their part, did not conform to the agreement and kept striking, managing to achieve the eight-hour workday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0029-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nDespite this the Jornal do Commercio said, on October 18, that employees who returned to work were greeted \"affectionately\" by the bosses, the workers' press denounced a series of abuses and persecutions in the return to work. At the socks factory, a woman was fired for offering a bouquet of flowers to a chief striker and the bosses only accepted the return of their employees after each of them asked them \"please\"; at the factory spinning and tissues, the wages of the strikers were reduced and women complained of ill-treatment by their supervisors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0029-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, The strike, Return to work\nOn November 15, the anarchist newspaper A Luta denounced that the entrepreneurs in the city decided to adopt \"a kind of work libraries\", a bosses' list of dismissed workers which indicated the reason for their dismissal, and which would be required by \"too many bosses to whom the unemployed worker would ask for work.\" In total, about one hundred workers were fired for having participated in the strike. In the face of the persecution, the possibility of restarting the stoppage. However, the strike was not resumed, since much of the employees were accepted in their factories or workshops and the nine-hour workday was fulfilled by their bosses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0030-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Results\nThe strike ended with partial victories for the workers, with the reduction of the working day to nine hours, and some sectors, such as that of the marble workers, were able to achieve the enforcement of the initial claim of the eight-hour workday. The movement also reinforced class solidarity among the workers of Porto Alegre, that for the first time occupied the public space of the city to claim their demands and made it visible the existence of a class conflict in a context marked by the advancement of capitalist production relations. On the other hand, entrepreneurs were also forced to organize and take ordinary steps when signing an agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0031-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Results\nAccording to historian Isabel Bilh\u00e3o, the greatest achievement of the movement is \"in the fact that it engenders the foundation of various workers' entities, the cohesion of some existing and the rearticulation of others.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0031-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Results\nIn addition to the establishment of the FORGS - which ultimately extended to the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and become the most important organization of the Gaucho working class - the movement saw the creation of the Marbles Union, the Masons' Union, the Union of Madeira Workers, the Union of Carpenters, the Union of Hatters, the Union of Weavers, the Union of Tailors and Gr\u00eamio Das Graphic Arts. Among the associations already existing and who have been strengthened from the strike, were the International Workers' Union, where the anarchists were organized, and the Allgemeiner Arbeiter Verein, an association of German socialist workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0032-0000", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Results\nAlthough it strengthened the organization of the city's workers, on the other hand the strike also consolidated the split between anarchists and socialists. Socialists sought to maintain the movement within the limits of the constituted order, establishing trading channels with entrepreneurs and emphasizing the importance of partial achievements. After the end of the strike, the Socialists were politically strengthened, especially Francisco Xavier da Costa and Carlos Cavaco, who led the stoppage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035845-0032-0001", "contents": "1906 Porto Alegre general strike, Results\nThe anarchists, although they have driven movement with their demand of the eight-hour workday from the stoppage in the Aloys Friedrichs workshop, were allied with the direction of the strike and did not take part in the foundation of the FORGS. Even so, they continued to encourage the mobilization and organization of workers from the bases, challenging the proposals and attitudes of the socialists, especially the recognition of them as legitimate workers' interlocutors, and did not agree with the negotiated solution between entrepreneurs and the socialist leadership. Despite this, they saw the reduction of the workday to nine hours a partial achievement and recognized the importance of the movement to strengthen the class consciousness of the gauchos workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035846-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Prima Categoria, Final round, Results\n(*) The match was suspended on 1\u20130 and repeated in a neutral ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035846-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Prima Categoria, Footnotes\nThis article about an Italian association football competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 31], "content_span": [32, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035847-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1906 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1906 college football season. The team finished with a 9\u20130\u20131 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation. They outscored their opponents 205 to 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035848-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1906 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Myron E. Witham, the Boilermakers compiled an 0\u20135 record, finished in last place in the Big Nine Conference with an 0\u20133 record against conference opponents, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 86 to 5. W. A. Wellinghoff was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035849-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Queanbeyan state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Queanbeyan on 24 November 1906 because the seat of Alan Millard (Liberal Reform) was declared vacant because he was convicted of a felony, misappropriating \u00a35 of a client's money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035850-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Democratic nominee James H. Higgins defeated incumbent Republican George H. Utter with 49.92% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035851-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1906 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College\u2014now known as the University of Richmond\u2014as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1905 college football season. Led by second-year head coach E. A. Dunlap, Richmond compiled a record of 6\u20135\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035852-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Rollins Tars football team\nThe 1906 Rollins Tars football team represented Rollins College in the sport of American football as an independent during the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in the Russian Empire from 26 March to 20 April 1906 to elect the 497 members of the State Duma. The elections returned a significant bloc of moderate socialists and deputies from the liberal Kadet party, both of which demanded further reforms following the 1905 Russian revolution. For this reason, it is sometimes called the Duma of Public Anger (\u0414\u0443\u043c\u0430 \u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0433\u043d\u0435\u0432\u0430).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election\nDue to its hostility to the autocratic Tsarist government, the elected Duma was dissolved by Nicholas II only ten weeks after first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Background\nThe State Duma was created in a wave of violent attacks against imperial officials and public upheaval, which culminated in a national strike in October 1905 as part of the Russian Revolution of 1905. This paved the way for Russia's first parliament. With the nation's infrastructure all but paralyzed, Tsar Nicholas II signed a historic manifesto of 17 October 1905, promising civil rights to the population and creating Russia's first elected state legislature. This parliament, named the duma, would have the right of veto over laws, meaning that no bills could become law without the duma's approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Background\nThe elections were boycotted by the some socialist groups and the Bolsheviks. Among the political parties formed were the peasant leaders' Labour Group (Trudoviks), liberal-intelligentsia Constitutional Democratic party (the Kadets), the less liberal Union of October 17 (the Octobrists), and the positively reactionary Union of Land-Owners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Background\nThe Kadets wanted the reforms introduced in the October Manifesto to go further, desiring a written constitution and guarantees of a constituent assembly. The Kadets campaigned on a platform advocating a ministry responsible to the Duma and possessing its confidence, the introduction of a four tail suffrage (direct, secret, universal and equal), with no discrimination as to religion, nationality, class or sex, the abolition of the death penalty and an amnesty for political prisoners. Their primary political aim was to build the duma into a strong, popular body similar to the British House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Background\nIncoming Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin aimed to use the Duma to pass considerable reform. He hoped that land reform would modernise Russia and make it more competitive with other European powers. He also hoped to introduce reforms that would increase industrial output, which later became very successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Voting system\nThe electoral laws were promulgated in December 1905 and introduced franchise to male citizens over 25 years of age, and electing through four electoral colleges. The elections were therefore not universal as they excluded women, soldiers, officers and some nationalities. Nor were they equal since the constituencies differed greatly in size, and six curia were established which gave much more weight to the votes of landowners and peasants (those most loyal to the Tsar) than workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Voting system\nThe voting system was further complicated by the fact that representatives were not always directly elected. Only nobles elected their representatives directly to the duma, while the rest of voters elected representatives to an electoral 'college', which in turn elected duma members. As a result, 1 noble's vote was equivalent to 2 townsman\u2019s votes, 15 peasant votes and 45 urban worker votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Composition\nAs official records are vague about the party composition of the Duma, these figures must be understood as educated guesswork. Among the Leftists, Kadets alleged that 2 members belonged to the Social-Democrats and 17 were Socialist Revolutionaries. This was despite the fact that the Social Democrat and SR parties both boycotted the elections. More recent records have shown that there were 17 Menshevik Social Democrats, who collaborated with the Kadets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Composition\nThere were over 100 members who did not affiliate themselves with any party. Most of these deputies were leftist peasants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Composition, Elected members\nOut of the 36 Duma members from the Congress Kingdom, 34 were Poles who subsequently joined the Polish Club. Another 19 Polish Duma members were elected in Belarus and Ukraine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Composition, Elected members\nThere were also twelve Jewish deputies. The Jewish Labour Bund had made an electoral agreement with the Lithuanian Labourers' Party (Trudoviks), which resulted in the election to the Duma of two (non-Bundist) candidates in the Lithuanian provinces: Shmaryahu Levin for the Vilnius province and Leon Bramson for the Kaunas province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0011-0001", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Composition, Elected members\nAmong the other Jewish deputies were Maxim Vinaver, chairman of the League for the Attainment of Equal Rights for the Jewish People in Russia (Folksgrupe) and cofounder of the Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets), Nissan Katzenelson (Courland province, Zionist, Kadet), Moisey Ostrogorsky (Grodno province, Kadet), attorney Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum (Minsk province, Zionist, Kadet), Mikhail Isaakovich Sheftel (Ekaterinoslav province, Kadet), Bruk Victor Jacobson. Three of the Jewish deputies joined the Labour faction, the nine other joined the Kadet fraction. According to Rufus Learsi, five of them were Zionists, including Shmaryahu Levin, Victor Jacobson and Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Composition, Elected members\nTwo out of twelve, Grigori Borisovich Iollos (Poltava province) and Mikhail Herzenstein, both from the Constitutional Democratic Party, were assassinated by the Black Hundreds antisemite terrorist group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Majority\nAlthough no one party held a majority of seats after the election, the Kadets became the leading party in the First Duma, and formed a voting majority by virtue of a union with the Trudoviks to their left, some groups representing ethnic minorities, and about 20 non-party deputies. This loose voting coalition would hold together for the entirety of the First Duma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Fundamental Laws\nIn April 1906, only weeks after the election, the Sergei Witte's Cabinet issued the Fundamental Laws of 1906, setting the limits of this new political order. The tsar was confirmed as absolute leader, with complete control of the executive, foreign policy, church, and armed forces. The State Duma was shifted, becoming a lower chamber below the reformed State Council of Imperial Russia, which had been the Russian legislative body since 1810. Legislation had to be approved by the Duma, the Council and the emperor to become law \u2013 but in \"exceptional conditions\" the government could bypass the Duma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0014-0001", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Fundamental Laws\nThe Fundamental Laws introduced a special provision, Article 87, which allowed the government to ex officio issue new legislation during breaks between sessions of the State Duma. Later on, Tsar Nicholas II would frequently use this provision in order to carry out the laws that had not been supported by the State Duma. The tsar also maintained his rights on ministers' appointments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Session\nThe State Duma (and the State Council - the upper house) convened for the first time on 27 April 1906. On 10 May Sergey Muromtsev, a Law Professor at the Saint Petersburg University, was elected President of the Duma. Professor Muromtsev, a leading figure of the liberal Kadet party, tried to maintain some degree of order and dignity in this difficult assembly. He was much praised for the way he chaired the debates, always keeping to the strictest legality, but always pursuing a constitutional and anti-autocratic agenda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Session\nThe anti-autocracy was evident from the first days of the First Duma. In response to the Tsar's opening speech on 5 May, the assembly called for amnesty for political prisoners, real political freedom and equality. Eight days later, the chairman of the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Ivan Goremykin, rejected all these claims. The State Duma in turn adopted a resolution of non confidence of the government and demanded Prime Minister Goremykin's resignation. During the 72-day session of the First Duma, a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the government were filed. Only two laws were passed: a ban on capital punishment and measures to help provinces that had been hit by a famine. The latter was the only law initiated by the government which was approved by delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Session\nThe issue discussed most by the First Duma was land reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Dissolution and protests\nDue to the growing tensions between the State Duma and Tsar Nicholas II's Council of Ministers, prominently Prime Minister Goremykin, the assembly was dismissed by Imperial ukase after only 10 weeks, on 21 July 1906. The Tsar said that instead of drawing up laws, the deputies were investigating the authorities and thereby intruding on his authority. The government was also angered by the passing of the vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Ivan Goremykin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Dissolution and protests\nIn a sign of frustration at the dissolution, members of the liberal Cadets party declared that the elected Duma should continue its work and proposed that it should retreat to Vyborg, Finland. Duma representatives subsequently released the Vyborg Manifesto, which criticised the government and called for citizens to protest by refusing to join the army or pay taxes. Despite the hopes of the Kadets and the fears of the government, there was no widespread popular reaction to the Vyborg Manifesto. However, an assassination attempt on Pyotr Stolypin led to the establishment of field trials for terrorists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0019-0001", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Dissolution and protests\nFor signing this Vyborg Appeal, the Cadets (including Duma President Muromtsev) were arrested and imprisoned for some months - and consequently excluded from future Duma elections and made ineligible to vote. This paved the way for an alternative makeup for the Second Duma of 1907, and greatly reduced the power of the Cadets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035853-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 Russian legislative election, Aftermath, Dissolution and protests\nSome analysists have asserted that the dissolution of the First Duma by the government was a mistake, since it had a strong centre and could perhaps have acted effectively with the government given time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 70], "content_span": [71, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035854-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Rutgers Queensmen football team\nThe 1906 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Frank Gorton, the Queensmen compiled a 5\u20132\u20132 record and outscored their opponents, 123 to 30. The team captain was Douglas J. Fisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035855-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 SAFA Grand Final\nThe 1906 SAFA Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Port Adelaide beat North Adelaide by 60 to 39.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035856-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 SAFA season\nThe 1906 South Australian Football Association season was the 30th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035857-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football team\nThe 1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Eddie Cochems, the team compiled a perfect 11\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 407 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035857-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football team\nThe forward pass became legal in 1906, and Saint Louis is credited by some with having thrown the first legal forward pass in a September 5, 1906, game against Carroll College. Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that \"E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light.\" Halfback Bradbury Robinson led the team's early passing attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035858-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese Constitutional Assembly election\nGrand and General Council elections were held in San Marino on 25 March 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035858-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese Constitutional Assembly election\nThe Arengo was reconstituted on 25 March, meeting in the Basilica del Santo Marino, and restored its own power to elect the Grand and General Council. It then elected a new Council, with the elected members setting out the conditions for general elections later in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035859-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese citizenry meeting\nThe Sammarinese Citizenry Meeting of 1906 was a session of the Arengo (assembly of all householders) in San Marino. It was the first such meeting in three centuries. It ended oligarchic rule and resulted in the first modern democratic elections in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035859-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese citizenry meeting\nSince the Middle Ages the Meeting (Arengo in Italian) had been declared the supreme authority of the Republic. However, during the 17th century, the Meeting created the Princely and Sovereign Council to rule the country. The Council itself refused for centuries to convene the Meeting, passing a law introducing the co-option of its members, so to become fully independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035859-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese citizenry meeting\nAt the beginning of the 20th century, the Sammarinese Socialist Party called for the restoration of democracy in the country. After some delays, the Meeting was summoned on 25 March 1906 in the main Parish Church. Householders were asked whether the system of co-option of councillors for life should continue, and whether the size of councils should be proportionate to the population of the communities they represented. The first proposal was rejected by 90.65% of voters and the second was approved by 94.89%. Consequently, the first-ever elections in the country were held on June 10, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035859-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese citizenry meeting, Results, Maintaining the co-optation\nDo you want to maintain the oligarchic co-optation of the Council?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035859-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese citizenry meeting, Results, Council apportionment\nDo you want to equally divide the council seats between the city and the countryside?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035860-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese general election\nGeneral elections were held in San Marino on 10 June 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035860-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese general election, Electoral system\nThe electoral law to was passed on 5 May by the Council elected in March. All householders and graduates over 25 years of age could vote. The republic was divided in nine multi-member constituencies according to their population; the City of San Marino had 22 seats, Serravalle had 12 seats, Faetano had 6 seats, Acquaviva, Chiesanuova, Domagnano and Montegiardino had 4 seats, and Fiorentino and San Giovanni had 2 seats", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035860-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese general election, Electoral system\nAll councillors were elected in their constituency using a plurality-at-large voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035860-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Sammarinese general election, Results\nElected candidates belonged to the liberal group which had supported the democratic action of the citizenry meeting or were members of the sole organised party, the Sammarinese Socialist Party, which claimed to have won 29 seats. These two factions formed the first democratic government of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake\nThe 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12\u00a0a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High-intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. More than 3,000 people died, and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high on the lists of American disasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The strike-slip fault is characterized by mainly lateral motion in a dextral sense, where the western (Pacific) plate moves northward relative to the eastern (North American) plate. This fault runs the length of California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, a distance of about 810 miles (1,300\u00a0km). The maximum observed surface displacement was about 20 feet (6\u00a0m); geodetic measurements show displacements of up to 28 feet (8.5\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake\nThe 1906 earthquake preceded the development of the Richter magnitude scale by three decades. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the quake on the modern moment magnitude scale is 7.9; values from 7.7 to as high as 8.3 have been proposed. According to findings published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, severe deformations in the earth's crust took place both before and after the earthquake's impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0002-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake\nAccumulated strain on the faults in the system was relieved during the earthquake, which is the supposed cause of the damage along the 450-kilometre-long (280\u00a0mi) segment of the San Andreas plate boundary. The 1906 rupture propagated both northward and southward for a total of 296 miles (476\u00a0km). Shaking was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and as far inland as central Nevada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake\nA strong foreshock preceded the main shock by about 20 to 25 seconds. The strong shaking of the main shock lasted about 42 seconds. There were decades of minor earthquakes\u00a0\u2013 more than at any other time in the historical record for northern California \u2013 before the 1906 quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0003-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake\nPreviously interpreted as precursory activity to the 1906 earthquake, they have been found to have a strong seasonal pattern and are now believed to be due to large seasonal sediment loads in coastal bays that overlie faults as a result of the erosion caused by hydraulic mining in the later years of the California Gold Rush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake\nFor years, the epicenter of the quake was assumed to be near the town of Olema, in the Point Reyes area of Marin County, due to local earth displacement measurements. In the 1960s, a seismologist at UC Berkeley proposed that the epicenter was more likely offshore of San Francisco, to the northwest of the Golden Gate. The most recent analyses support an offshore location for the epicenter, although significant uncertainty remains. An offshore epicenter is supported by the occurrence of a local tsunami recorded by a tide gauge at the San Francisco Presidio; the wave had an amplitude of approximately 3 inches (7.6\u00a0cm) and an approximate period of 40\u201345 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake\nAnalysis of triangulation data before and after the earthquake strongly suggests that the rupture along the San Andreas Fault was about 500 kilometres (310\u00a0mi) in length, in agreement with observed intensity data. The available seismological data support a significantly shorter rupture length, but these observations can be reconciled by allowing propagation at speeds above the S-wave velocity (supershear). Supershear propagation has now been recognized for many earthquakes associated with strike-slip faulting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake\nRecently, using old photographs and eyewitness accounts, researchers were able to estimate the location of the hypocenter of the earthquake as offshore from San Francisco or near the city of San Juan Bautista, confirming previous estimates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake, Intensity\nThe most important characteristic of the shaking intensity noted in Andrew Lawson's (1908) report was the clear correlation of intensity with underlying geologic conditions. Areas situated in sediment-filled valleys sustained stronger shaking than nearby bedrock sites, and the strongest shaking occurred in areas of former bay where soil liquefaction had occurred. Modern seismic-zonation practice accounts for the differences in seismic hazard posed by varying geologic conditions. The shaking intensity as described on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale reached XI (Extreme) in San Francisco and areas to the north like Santa Rosa where destruction was devastating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks\nThe main shock was followed by many aftershocks and some remotely triggered events. As with the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake there were fewer aftershocks than would have been expected for a shock of that size. Very few of them were located along the trace of the 1906 rupture, tending to concentrate near the ends of the rupture or on other structures, away from the San Andreas Fault itself, such as the Hayward Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0008-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks\nThe only aftershock in the first few days of near M 5 or greater occurred near Santa Cruz at 14:28 PST on April 18, with a magnitude of about 4.9 MI. The largest aftershock happened at 01:10 PST on April 23, west of Eureka, California, with an estimated magnitude of about 6.7 MI\u202f, with another of the same size more than three years later at 22:45 PST on October 28 near Cape Mendocino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks\nRemotely triggered events included an earthquake swarm in the Imperial Valley area, which culminated in an earthquake of about 6.1 MI\u202f at 16:30 PST on April 18, 1906. Another event of this type occurred at 12:31 PST on April 19, 1906, with an estimated magnitude of about 5.0 MI\u202f, and an epicenter beneath Santa Monica Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Damage\nEarly death counts ranged from 375 to over 500. However, hundreds of fatalities in Chinatown went ignored and unrecorded. The total number of deaths is still uncertain, but various reports presented a range of 700\u20133,000+. In 2005, the city's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in support of a resolution written by novelist James Dalessandro (\"1906\") and city historian Gladys Hansen (\"Denial of Disaster\") to recognize the figure of 3,000 plus as the official total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0010-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Damage\nMost of the deaths occurred in San Francisco itself, but 189 were reported elsewhere in the Bay Area; nearby cities, such as Santa Rosa and San Jose, also suffered severe damage. In Monterey County, the earthquake permanently shifted the course of the Salinas River near its mouth. Where previously the river emptied into Monterey Bay between Moss Landing and Watsonville, it was diverted 6 miles (9.7\u00a0km) south to a new channel just north of Marina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Damage\nBetween 227,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless out of a population of about 410,000; half of those who evacuated fled across the bay to Oakland and Berkeley. Newspapers described Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, the Panhandle and the beaches between Ingleside and North Beach as covered with makeshift tents. More than two years later, many of these refugee camps were still in operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake and fire left long-standing and significant pressures on the development of California. At the time of the disaster, San Francisco had been the ninth-largest city in the United States and the largest on the West Coast, with a population of about 410,000. Over a period of 60 years, the city had become the financial, trade, and cultural center of the West; operated the busiest port on the West Coast; and was the \"gateway to the Pacific\", through which growing U.S. economic and military power was projected into the Pacific and Asia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0012-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Damage\nOver 80% of the city was destroyed by the earthquake and fire. Though San Francisco rebuilt quickly, the disaster diverted trade, industry, and population growth south to Los Angeles, which during the 20th century became the largest and most important urban area in the West. Many of the city's leading poets and writers retreated to Carmel-by-the-Sea where, as \"The Barness\", they established the arts colony reputation that continues today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Damage\nThe 1908 Lawson Report, a study of the 1906 quake led and edited by Professor Andrew Lawson of the University of California, showed that the same San Andreas Fault which had caused the disaster in San Francisco ran close to Los Angeles as well. The earthquake was the first natural disaster of its magnitude to be documented by photography and motion picture footage and occurred at a time when the science of seismology was blossoming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Damage, Other cities\nAlthough the impact of the earthquake on San Francisco was the most famous, the earthquake also inflicted considerable damage on several other cities. These include San Jose and Santa Rosa, the entire downtown of which was essentially destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fires\nAs damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were even more destructive. It has been estimated that up to 90% of the total destruction was the result of the subsequent fires. Within three days, over 30 fires, caused by ruptured gas mains, destroyed approximately 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. Some were started when San Francisco Fire Department firefighters, untrained in the use of dynamite, attempted to demolish buildings to create firebreaks. The dynamited buildings themselves often caught fire. The city's fire chief, Dennis T. Sullivan, who would have been responsible for coordinating firefighting efforts, had died from injuries sustained in the initial quake. In total, the fires burned for four days and nights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fires\nDue to a widespread practice by insurers to indemnify San Francisco properties from fire, but not earthquake damage, most of the destruction in the city was blamed on the fires. Some property owners deliberately set fire to damaged properties, to claim them on their insurance. Capt . Leonard D. Wildman of the U.S. Army Signal Corps reported that he \"was stopped by a fireman who told me that people in that neighborhood were firing their houses...they were told that they would not get their insurance on buildings damaged by the earthquake unless they were damaged by fire\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fires\nOne landmark building lost in the fire was the Palace Hotel, subsequently rebuilt, which had many famous visitors, including royalty and celebrated performers. It was constructed in 1875 primarily financed by Bank of California co-founder William Ralston, the \"man who built San Francisco\". In April 1906, the tenor Enrico Caruso and members of the Metropolitan Opera Company came to San Francisco to give a series of performances at the Grand Opera House. The night after Caruso's performance in Carmen, the tenor was awakened in the early morning in his Palace Hotel suite by a strong jolt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0017-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fires\nClutching an autographed photo of President Theodore Roosevelt, Caruso made an effort to get out of the city, first by boat and then by train, and vowed never to return to San Francisco. Caruso died in 1921, having remained true to his word. The Metropolitan Opera Company lost all of its traveling sets and costumes in the earthquake and ensuing fires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fires\nSome of the greatest losses from fire were in scientific laboratories. Alice Eastwood, the curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, is credited with saving nearly 1,500 specimens, including the entire type specimen collection for a newly discovered and extremely rare species, before the remainder of the largest botanical collection in the western United States was destroyed in the fire. The entire laboratory and all the records of Benjamin R. Jacobs, a biochemist who was researching the nutrition of everyday foods, were destroyed. The original California flag used in the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt at Sonoma, which at the time was being stored in a state building in San Francisco, was also destroyed in the fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Fires\nThe fire following the earthquake in San Francisco cost an estimated $350\u00a0million at the time (equivalent to $7.67\u00a0billion in 2019). The devastating quake leveled about 80% of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Response\nThe city's fire chief, Dennis T. Sullivan, was gravely injured when the earthquake first struck and later died from his injuries. [ Nash, Jay R. Darkest Hours, p.\u00a0492] The interim fire chief sent an urgent request to the Presidio, a United States Army post on the edge of the stricken city, for dynamite. General Frederick Funston had already decided that the situation required the use of federal troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0020-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Response\nTelephoning a San Francisco Police Department officer, he sent word to Mayor Eugene Schmitz of his decision to assist and then ordered federal troops from nearby Angel Island to mobilize and come into the city. Explosives were ferried across the bay from the California Powder Works in what is now Hercules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Response\nDuring the first few days, soldiers provided valuable services like patrolling streets to discourage looting and guarding buildings such as the U.S. Mint, post office, and county jail. They aided the fire department in dynamiting to demolish buildings in the path of the fires. The Army also became responsible for feeding, sheltering, and clothing the tens of thousands of displaced residents of the city. Under the command of Funston's superior, Major General Adolphus Greely, Commanding Officer of the Pacific Division, over 4,000 federal troops saw service during the emergency. Police officers, firefighters, and soldiers would regularly commandeer passing civilians for work details to remove rubble and assist in rescues. On July 1, 1906, non-military authorities assumed responsibility for relief efforts, and the Army withdrew from the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0022-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Response\nOn April 18, in response to riots among evacuees and looting, Mayor Schmitz issued and ordered posted a proclamation that \"The Federal Troops, the members of the Regular Police Force and all Special Police Officers have been authorized by me to kill any and all persons found engaged in Looting or in the Commission of Any Other Crime\". In addition, accusations of soldiers themselves engaging in looting also surfaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0023-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Response\nEarly on April 18, 1906, retired Captain Edward Ord of the 22nd Infantry Regiment was appointed a Special Police Officer by Mayor Eugene Schmitz and liaised with Major General Adolphus Greely for relief work with the 22nd Infantry and other military units involved in the emergency. Ord later wrote a long letter to his mother on the April 20 regarding Schmitz's \"Shoot-to-Kill\" Order and some \"despicable\" behavior of certain soldiers of the 22nd Infantry who were looting. He also made it clear that the majority of soldiers served the community well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0024-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nProperty losses from the disaster have been estimated to be more than $400\u00a0million in 1906 dollars. This is equivalent to $8.76\u00a0billion in 2019 dollars. An insurance industry source tallies insured losses at $235\u00a0million, the equivalent to $5.15\u00a0billion in 2019 dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0025-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nPolitical and business leaders strongly downplayed the effects of the earthquake, fearing loss of outside investment in the city which was badly needed to rebuild. In his first public statement, California governor George Pardee emphasized the need to rebuild quickly: \"This is not the first time that San Francisco has been destroyed by fire, I have not the slightest doubt that the City by the Golden Gate will be speedily rebuilt, and will, almost before we know it, resume her former great activity\". The earthquake itself is not even mentioned in the statement. Fatality and monetary damage estimates were manipulated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0026-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nAlmost immediately after the quake (and even during the disaster), planning and reconstruction plans were hatched to quickly rebuild the city. Rebuilding funds were immediately tied up by the fact that virtually all the major banks had been sites of the conflagration, requiring a lengthy wait of seven-to-ten days before their fire-proof vaults could cool sufficiently to be safely opened. The Bank of Italy had evacuated its funds and was able to provide liquidity in the immediate aftermath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0026-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nIts president also immediately chartered and financed the sending of two ships to return with shiploads of lumber from Washington and Oregon mills which provided the initial reconstruction materials and surge. In 1929, Bank of Italy was renamed and is now known as Bank of America. Eleven days after the earthquake a rare Sunday baseball game was played in New York City (which would not allow regular Sunday baseball until 1919) between the Highlanders (soon to be the Yankees) and the Philadelphia Athletics to raise money for quake victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0027-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nWilliam James, the pioneering American psychologist, was teaching at Stanford at the time of the earthquake and traveled into San Francisco to observe first-hand its aftermath. He was most impressed by the positive attitude of the survivors and the speed with which they improvized services and created order out of chaos. This formed the basis of the chapter \"On some Mental Effects of the Earthquake\" in his book Memories and Studies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0028-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nH. G. Wells had just arrived in New York on his first visit to America when he learned, at lunch, of the San Francisco earthquake. What struck him about the reaction of those around him was that \"it does not seem to have affected any one with a sense of final destruction, with any foreboding of irreparable disaster. Every one is talking of it this afternoon, and no one is in the least degree dismayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0028-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nI have talked and listened in two clubs, watched people in cars and in the street, and one man is glad that Chinatown will be cleared out for good; another's chief solicitude is for Millet's 'Man with the Hoe.' 'They'll cut it out of the frame,' he says, a little anxiously. 'Sure.' But there is no doubt anywhere that San Francisco can be rebuilt, larger, better, and soon. Just as there would be none at all if all this New York that has so obsessed me with its limitless bigness was itself a blazing ruin. I believe these people would more than half like the situation.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0029-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nThe earthquake was crucial in the development of the University of California, San Francisco and its medical facilities. Until 1906, the school faculty had provided care at the City-County Hospital (now the San Francisco General Hospital), but did not have a hospital of its own. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, more than 40,000 people were relocated to a makeshift tent city in Golden Gate Park and were treated by the faculty of the Affiliated Colleges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0029-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nThis brought the school, which until then was located on the western outskirts of the city, in contact with significant population and fueled the commitment of the school towards civic responsibility and health care, increasing the momentum towards the construction of its own health facilities. Finally, in April 1907, one of the buildings was renovated for outpatient care with 75 beds. This created the need to train nursing students, and, in 1907, the UC Training School for Nurses was established, adding a fourth professional school to the Affiliated Colleges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0030-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nThe grandeur of citywide reconstruction schemes required investment from Eastern monetary sources, hence the spin and de-emphasis of the earthquake, the promulgation of the tough new building codes, and subsequent reputation sensitive actions such as the official low death toll. One of the more famous and ambitious plans came from famed urban planner Daniel Burnham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0030-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nHis bold plan called for, among other proposals, Haussmann-style avenues, boulevards, arterial thoroughfares that radiated across the city, a massive civic center complex with classical structures, and what would have been the largest urban park in the world, stretching from Twin Peaks to Lake Merced with a large atheneum at its peak. But this plan was dismissed during the aftermath of the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0031-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nFor example, real estate investors and other land owners were against the idea due to the large amount of land the city would have to purchase to realize such proposals. City fathers likewise attempted at the time to eliminate the Chinese population and export Chinatown (and other poor populations) to the edge of the county where the Chinese could still contribute to the local taxbase. The Chinese occupants had other ideas and prevailed instead. Chinatown was rebuilt in the newer, modern, Western form that exists today. The destruction of City Hall and the Hall of Records enabled thousands of Chinese immigrants to claim residency and citizenship, creating a backdoor to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and bring in their relatives from China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0032-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nWhile the original street grid was restored, many of Burnham's proposals inadvertently saw the light of day, such as a neoclassical civic center complex, wider streets, a preference of arterial thoroughfares, a subway under Market Street, a more people-friendly Fisherman's Wharf, and a monument to the city on Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0033-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nThe earthquake was also responsible for the development of the Pacific Heights neighborhood. The immense power of the earthquake had destroyed almost all of the mansions on Nob Hill except for the James C. Flood Mansion. Others that hadn't been destroyed were dynamited by the Army forces aiding the firefighting efforts in attempts to create firebreaks. As one indirect result, the wealthy looked westward where the land was cheap and relatively undeveloped, and where there were better views. Constructing new mansions without reclaiming and clearing old rubble simply sped attaining new homes in the tent city during the reconstruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0034-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nReconstruction was swift, and largely completed by 1915, in time for the 1915 Panama\u2013Pacific International Exposition which celebrated the reconstruction of the city and its \"rise from the ashes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0035-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath\nSince 1915, the city has officially commemorated the disaster each year by gathering the remaining survivors at Lotta's Fountain, a fountain in the city's financial district that served as a meeting point during the disaster for people to look for loved ones and exchange information.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0036-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Housing\nThe Army built 5,610 redwood and fir \"relief houses\" to accommodate 20,000 displaced people. The houses were designed by John McLaren, and were grouped in eleven camps, packed close to each other and rented to people for two dollars per month until rebuilding was completed. They were painted navy blue, partly to blend in with the site, and partly because the military had large quantities of navy blue paint on hand. The camps had a peak population of 16,448 people, but by 1907 most people had moved out. The camps were then re-used as garages, storage spaces or shops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0036-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Housing\nThe cottages cost on average $100 to put up. The $2 monthly rents went towards the full purchase price of $50. Most of the shacks have been destroyed, but a small number survived. One of the modest 720\u00a0sq\u00a0ft (67\u00a0m2) homes was purchased in 2006 for more than $600,000. The last official refugee camp was closed on June 30, 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0037-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Housing\nA 2017 study found that the fire had the effect of increasing the share of land used for nonresidential purposes: \"Overall, relative to unburned blocks, residential land shares on burned blocks fell while nonresidential land shares rose by 1931. The study also provides insight into what held the city back from making these changes before 1906: the presence of old residential buildings. In reconstruction, developers built relatively fewer of these buildings, and the majority of the reduction came through single-family houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0037-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Housing\nAlso, aside from merely expanding nonresidential uses in many neighborhoods, the fire created economic opportunities in new areas, resulting in clusters of business activity that emerged only in the wake of the disaster. These effects of the fire still remain today, and thus large shocks can be sufficient catalysts for permanently reshaping urban settings.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0038-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Relief\nDuring the first few days after news of the disaster reached the rest of the world, relief efforts reached over $5,000,000. London raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Individual citizens and businesses donated large sums of money for the relief effort: Standard Oil gave $100,000; Andrew Carnegie gave $100,000; the Dominion of Canada made a special appropriation of $100,000 and even the Bank of Canada in Ottawa gave $25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0038-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Relief\nThe U.S. government quickly voted for one million dollars in relief supplies which were immediately rushed to the area, including supplies for food kitchens and many thousands of tents that city dwellers would occupy the next several years. These relief efforts were not enough to get families on their feet again, and consequently the burden was placed on wealthier members of the city, who were reluctant to assist in the rebuilding of homes they were not responsible for. All residents were eligible for daily meals served from a number of communal soup kitchens and citizens as far away as Idaho and Utah were known to send daily loaves of bread to San Francisco as relief supplies were coordinated by the railroads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0039-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Insurance payments\nInsurance companies, faced with staggering claims of $250\u00a0million, paid out between $235\u00a0million and $265\u00a0million on policyholders' claims, often for fire damage only, since shake damage from earthquakes was excluded from coverage under most policies. At least 137 insurance companies were directly involved and another 17 as reinsurers. Twenty companies went bankrupt, and most excluded shake damage claims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0039-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Insurance payments\nLloyd's of London reports having paid all claims in full, thanks to the leadership of Cuthbert Heath, more than $50\u00a0million and the insurance companies in Hartford, Connecticut, report also paying every claim in full, with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company paying over $11\u00a0million and Aetna Insurance Company almost $3\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0040-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Insurance payments\nAfter the 1906 earthquake, global discussion arose concerning a legally flawless exclusion of the earthquake hazard from fire insurance contracts. It was pressed ahead mainly by re-insurers. Their aim: a uniform solution to insurance payouts resulting from fires caused by earthquakes. Until 1910, a few countries, especially in Europe, followed the call for an exclusion of the earthquake hazard from all fire insurance contracts. In the U.S., the question was discussed differently. But the traumatized public reacted with fierce opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0040-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Insurance payments\nOn August 1, 1909, the California Senate enacted the California Standard Form of Fire Insurance Policy, which did not contain any earthquake clause. Thus the state decided that insurers would have to pay again if another earthquake was followed by fires. Other earthquake-endangered countries followed the California example. The insurance payments heavily affected the international financial system. Gold transfers from European insurance companies to policyholders in San Francisco led to a rise in interest rates, subsequently to a lack of available loans and finally to the Knickerbocker Trust Company crisis of October 1907 which led to the Panic of 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0041-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Aftermath, Economy\nA 2020 study found that cities that were more severely affected by the earthquake \"experienced lower population increases relative to less affected cities until the late 20th century.\" The author attribute this to migrants opting not to go to severely affected cities while migrating to the American West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0042-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Centennial commemorations\nThe 1906 Centennial Alliance was set up as a clearing-house for various centennial events commemorating the earthquake. Award presentations, religious services, a National Geographic TV movie, a projection of fire onto the Coit Tower, memorials, and lectures were part of the commemorations. The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program issued a series of Internet documents, and the tourism industry promoted the 100th anniversary as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0043-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Centennial commemorations\nEleven survivors of the 1906 earthquake attended the centennial commemorations in 2006, including Irma Mae Weule (May 11, 1899 \u2013 August 8, 2008), who was the oldest survivor of the quake at the time of her death in August 2008, aged 109. Vivian Illing (December 25, 1900 \u2013 January 22, 2009) was believed to be the second-oldest survivor at the time of her death, aged 108, leaving Herbert Hamrol (January 10, 1903 \u2013 February 4, 2009) as the last known remaining survivor at the time of his death, aged 106. Another survivor, Libera Armstrong (September 28, 1902 \u2013 November 27, 2007), attended the 2006 anniversary, but died in 2007, aged 105.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0044-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Centennial commemorations\nShortly after Hamrol's death, two additional survivors were discovered. William Del Monte, then 103, and Jeanette Scola Trapani (April 21, 1902 \u2013 December 28, 2009), 106, stated that they stopped attending events commemorating the earthquake when it became too much trouble for them. Del Monte and another survivor, Rose Cliver, then 106, attended the earthquake reunion celebration on April 18, 2009, the 103rd anniversary of the earthquake. Cliver (October 9, 1902 \u2013 February 18, 2012) died in February 2012, aged 109.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0044-0001", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Centennial commemorations\nNancy Stoner Sage (February 19, 1905 \u2013 April 15, 2010) died, aged 105, in Colorado just three days short of the 104th anniversary of the earthquake on April 18, 2010. Del Monte attended the event at Lotta's Fountain on April 18, 2010, and the dinner at John's Restaurant the night before. 107-year-old George Quilici (April 26, 1905 \u2013 May 31, 2012) died in May 2012, and 113-year-old Ruth Newman (September 23, 1901 \u2013 July 29, 2015) in July 2015. William Del Monte (January 22, 1906 \u2013 January 11, 2016), who died 11 days shy of his 110th birthday, was thought to be the last survivor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035861-0045-0000", "contents": "1906 San Francisco earthquake, Centennial commemorations\nIn 2005 the National Film Registry added San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906, a newsreel documentary made soon after the earthquake, to its list of American films worthy of preservation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035862-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Scottish Cup Final\nThe 1906 Scottish Cup Final was played on 28 April 1906 at Ibrox Park in Govan (today part of Glasgow) and was the final of the 33rd season of the Scottish Cup. Heart of Midlothian and Third Lanark contested the match, won 1\u20130 by Hearts thanks to an 81st-minute goal from George Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035863-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Serbian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 11 June 1906. The result was a victory for the People's Radical Party, which won 91 of the 160 seats. Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 remained Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035864-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Sewanee Tigers football team\nThe 1906 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035865-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Sheriff of London Charity Shield\nThe 1906 Sheriff of London Charity Shield was the ninth Sheriff of London Charity Shield, contested for the first time by Liverpool F.C. and the 8th time by Corinthian. The match was eagerly anticipated due to Corinthian having only lost a single match in the season and Liverpool being widely regarded as among the best teams in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035865-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Build-up\nBefore the game, both sides were understood to be eager to secure the trophy, with the Corinthians being particularly anxious to possess it after having had to surrender it the year before to Sheffield Wednesday. Liverpool were described by The Morning Post as being \"the most consistent professional side of the year\", while the Corinthians were described by the Evening Mail as having \"one of their greatest years\" and by The Sportsman as having had \"an exceptional season\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035865-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Build-up\nReports suggested that despite strong winds, the weather conditions were perfect and that both sides were at full strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035865-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match\nThe first goal of the game by Hewitt was described by the Staffordshire Sentinel as a \"brilliant goal\", while both keepers had many shots to save during the 1st half. Liverpool led 2-0 at half-time with goals from Hewitt and Raybould.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035865-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match\nThe display from Corinthian was regarded as disappointing, only looking dangerous when the game was near concluded. Liverpool's performance in the 2nd half was superb, adding a further 3 goals to the single one scored by S. S. Harris for Corinthian. It was difficult to pick out any individual performances, as according to the Globe newspaper, \"the defence was perfect, the forwards worked with ease and precision, while the halves, especially Raisbeck, were much too good for the Corinthian forwards\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035865-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Match\nThe game would be the only time Liverpool contested the Sheriff of London Charity Shield in what would be the penultimate contest in the competition. Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird presented the shield and medals to the victors. A gate receipt revenue of \u00a3776 was also a new record for the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035866-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 South Australian state election\nState elections were held in South Australia on 3 November 1906, apart from the Northern Territory, which voted on 10 November. This was a double dissolution election, and in the South Australian House of Assembly, all 42 seats were up for election. The incumbent United Labor Party (ULP) government led by Premier of South Australia Thomas Price with coalition partner the Liberal and Democratic Union (LDU) led by Archibald Peake, defeated the conservative opposition led by Leader of the Opposition Richard Butler. Each of the 13 districts elected multiple members, with voters casting multiple votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035866-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 South Australian state election, Background\nThe ULP became part of a unique \"lab-lib\" government, the Price-Peake administration minority government, following the 1905 election. The ministry was a coalition between the ULP led by Price, and the liberal group led by Peake. The deadlock over the franchise issue continued with the Legislative Council. After yet another attempt at reform, rejected by the Council, Price resigned his ministry, but when Butler, as leader of the opposition, was unable to form a ministry, Price/Peake remained in office. After more conflict with the Council, Price and Peake obtained an early election, and campaigned as a \"ministerial alliance\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035866-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 South Australian state election, Background\nAt the same time, Peake agreed to pressure from within his group to form a new party \u2013 the Liberal and Democratic Union (LDU). This drew its membership from small wheat farmers, and at this stage, the LDU was firmly in favour of franchise reform, willing to be in coalition with the ULP, and opposed to both the conservative Australasian National League (ANL) and the Farmers and Producers Political Union (FPPU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035866-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 South Australian state election, Background\nThe ULP, on the fewest seats prior to the 1905 election, in just one election became the single largest party, increasing their primary vote to 41.3 (+22.2) percent and increasing their representation from five to 15 seats. After the new lower house first met, the ULP forced the incumbent conservative government to resign with the support of eight liberals. It was the start of the first stable Labor government in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035866-0002-0001", "contents": "1906 South Australian state election, Background\nIn 1906, the ULP as the single largest party increased their primary vote to 44.8 (+3.5) percent with their seat representation increasing from 15 to 20 seats in the 42-member lower house, falling short by just two seats of a parliamentary majority. The ULP won all 12 city seats from the three city multi-member electorates, Adelaide, Port Adelaide and Torrens, with a policy of development and progress, expansion of business and honest government: \"they would not be frightened by the nonsense that had been talked about socialism\". The ULP continued to govern with the support of the LDU until Premier Price's death in 1909, after which Peake formed a minority government until the 1910 election when the ULP formed South Australia's first majority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035867-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina, United States. Martin Frederick Ansel won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 89th governor of South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035867-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe South Carolina Democratic Party held its primary for governor on August 28 and Martin Frederick Ansel emerged as the frontrunner. Ansel was vocal in his opposition to the Dispensary system set up by Ben Tillman and instead favored the local county option established by the Bryce law in 1904. His chief rival, progressive reformer Richard Irvine Manning III, sought to maintain a statewide Dispensary and work to remove all the corrupt officials in it. The public sentiment at the time felt that nobody with even the best intentions could clean up the Dispensary and therefore Ansel won the Democratic runoff on September 11 against Manning. He essentially became the next governor of South Carolina because there was no opposition in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035867-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election was held on November 6, 1906, and Martin Frederick Ansel was elected the next governor of South Carolina without opposition. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was much less than the previous gubernatorial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035868-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Governor Samuel H. Elrod ran for re-election, but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by former Attorney General Coe I. Crawford. In the general election, Crawford was opposed by the Democratic nominee, former State Representative John A. Stransky of Brule County. Crawford had little difficulty defeating Stransky in a landslide, largely matching Elrod's margin of victory from two years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035868-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican convention\nIn January 1906, former Attorney General Coe I. Crawford, who unsuccessfully ran for Governor in 1904, announced that he would challenge Governor Samuel H. Elrod for renomination, queueing up a contest between the insurgent wing of the party, led by U.S. Senator Robert J. Gamble, and the stalwart wing of the party, also referred to as the \"machine.\" As county delegates were elected to the convention, Crawford-affiliated delegates won a clear majority, though both sides claimed that they would win. In the end, however, Crawford defeated Elrod at the convention by a wide margin, winning 893 votes to Elrod's 476, with Crawford's political allies winning the convention's nomination, as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035868-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Democratic conventions\nIn the weeks leading to the Democratic convention in June 1906, no clear frontrunner for the Party's nomination emerged. Former Governor Andrew E. Lee was mentioned as a possibility, though he declined to run. Former Hughes County Sheriff and former Deputy U.S. Marshal Ben Ash and former State Representative John A. Stransky were the other two potential candidates. Stransky ended up winning the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035869-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nThe 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1906 college football season. The season began on September 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035869-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nAt the end of 1905 football looked about to be abolished due to all of the reoccurring violence during games. Football was a sport that had degenerated into dangerous tactics such as: the flying wedge, punching, kicking, piling-on, and elbows to the face. Almost any violent behavior was allowed. Fatalities and injuries mounted during the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035869-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nAs a result, the 1906 season was played under a new set of rules. The rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more open and less dangerous style of play. An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA, approved radical changes including the legalization of the forward pass, allowing the punting team to recover an on-side kick as a live ball, abolishing the dangerous flying wedge, creating a neutral zone between offense and defense, and doubling the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035869-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nAccording to Fuzzy Woodruff, Davidson tossed the first legal forward pass in the South in the win over Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035869-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season\nClemson and Vanderbilt tied for the SIAA title, but few writers chose the Tigers over the vaunted Commodores. Coach Dan McGugin called the Carlisle victory \"the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season.\" For some, Vanderbilt's eleven was the entire All-Southern team. Running back Owsley Manier was the first Southern player chosen third-team All-American by Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035869-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Results and team statistics\nPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 95], "content_span": [96, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035869-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Awards and honors, All-Southern team\nThe composite All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 104], "content_span": [105, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035870-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1906 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their only year under head coach Herbert McNaspy, the team compiled a 1\u20130\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035871-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 St George's, Hanover Square by-election\nThe St George's, Hanover Square by-election of 1906 was held on 15 June 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Heneage Legge. It was won by the Liberal Unionist candidate Alfred Lyttelton, who was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035872-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Browns season\nThe 1906 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Browns finishing 5th in the American League with a record of 76 wins and 73 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035872-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035872-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035872-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035872-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035873-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1906 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 25th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 15th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 52\u201398 during the season and finished 7th in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035873-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035873-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035873-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035873-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035874-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 State of the Union Address\nThe 1906 State of the Union Address was written by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, on Monday, December 3, 1906. He did not speak directly to the 59th United States Congress. He said, \"The readiness and efficiency of both the Army and Navy in dealing with the recent sudden crisis in Cuba illustrate afresh their value to the Nation. This readiness and efficiency would have been very much less had it not been for the existence of the General Staff in the Army and the General Board in the Navy; both are essential to the proper development and use of our military forces afloat and ashore.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035875-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Stetson Hatters football team\nThe 1906 Stetson Hatters football team represented the private Stetson College in the sport of American football during the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035876-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Surry Hills state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Surry Hills on 21 July 1906 because of the resignation of John Norton (Independent). Norton blamed William Holman for an article in The Worker commenting on Norton's unnatural silence over the land scandals involving Paddy Crick and William Willis. Norton made a personal attack on Holman in parliament, challenging him to resign and both would contest Holman's seat of Cootamundra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035876-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Surry Hills state by-election, Aftermath\nThe Cootamundra by-election was held the following week, however Norton withdrew from the contest. H. V. Evatt argues that the most likely explanation for Norton's attack was to remove Labour's best debater at a critical time. Norton returned to parliament at the 1907 election for Darling Harbour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035877-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet\nThe 1906 Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet was the eleventh season of Svenska M\u00e4sterskapet, the football Cup to determine the Swedish champions. \u00d6rgryte IS won the tournament by defeating Djurg\u00e5rdens IF in the final with a 4\u20133 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035878-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Swansea earthquake\nThe 1906 Swansea earthquake hit near the town of Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales on 27 June. It was one of the most damaging to hit Britain during the twentieth century, with a small area reaching an intensity of VII on the Medvedev\u2013Sponheuer\u2013Karnik scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035878-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Swansea earthquake, Location, date and time\nAt 9.45am on 27 June 1906, a powerful earth tremor was felt across much of South Wales, its epicentre being placed just offshore of Port Talbot. The quake, which struck just a few weeks after the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, was felt as far afield as Ilfracombe, Birmingham and southwest Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035878-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Swansea earthquake, Cause\nSwansea is located near the southwestern ends of two major fault structures; the Neath Disturbance and the Swansea Valley Disturbance, movement on either of which or on any of several adjoining faults may have caused the quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035878-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Swansea earthquake, Magnitude\nThe magnitude of the earthquake was measured at 5.2 on the Richter magnitude scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035878-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Swansea earthquake, Impact\nThe earthquake was felt by many people, though recorded injuries were minimal: a young man, Thomas Westbury, and a three-year-old boy, Thomas Lewis, were hit by falling bricks and a girl was injured by the toppling of tin plates at Cwmavon. Reports told of bricks falling from chimneys across the city and the Mumbles lighthouse \"rocked on its foundations.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035879-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Swarthmore Quakers football team\nThe 1906 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20132 record. George H. Brooke was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035880-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Swiss foodstuffs referendum\nA referendum on foodstuffs was held in Switzerland on 10 June 1906. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new federal law concerning foodstuffs and basic commodities. The proposal was approved by 62.6% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035880-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Swiss foodstuffs referendum, Background\nThe referendum was an optional referendum, which only a majority of the vote, as opposed to the mandatory referendums, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035881-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1906 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1906 college football season. The head coach was Frank \"Buck\" O'Neill, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035882-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 TCU football team\nThe 1906 TCU football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. Led by Emory J. Hyde in his second year as head coach, TCU compiled a record of 2\u20135. They played their home games in Waco, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035883-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Targa Florio\nThe 1906 Targa Florio was the inaugural running of the Targa Florio, an open road endurance automobile race held in the mountains of Sicily near Palermo. Founded by wealthy Sicilian wine producer, Vincenzo Florio, it was held at Madonie on 6 May 1906 and run over 3 laps of the 92.473 mile circuit, totalling 277.42 miles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035883-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Targa Florio\nThe entry list was badly affected by a dock strike in Genoa but the race was won by the Italian driver Alessandro Cagno in an Itala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035884-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tasmanian state election\nThe 1906 Tasmanian state election was held on 29 March 1906 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035884-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Tasmanian state election\nJohn Evans became Premier of Tasmania on 12 July 1904 and was the incumbent premier at the election. At the election, Labour increased its seats to 7, and now held the balance of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035885-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tempe Normal Owls football team\nThe 1906 Tempe Normal Owls football team was an American football team that represented Tempe Normal School (later renamed Arizona State University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their eighth and final season under head coach Frederick M. Irish, the Owls compiled a 0\u20132 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 22 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035886-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1906 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1906 college football season. James DePree served his second and final season as head coach at Tennessee. Roscoe Word, a three time captain for the Volunteers, became the team's first assistant coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035887-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Democratic nominee Malcolm R. Patterson defeated Republican nominee Henry Clay Evans with 54.42% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035888-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035889-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1906 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1906 college football season. In their second year under head coach H. R. Schenker, the Longhorns compiled a 9\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a collective total of 201 to 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035890-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 The Castlereagh state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of The Castlereagh on 24 November 1906 because of the death of Hugh Macdonald (Labour).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035891-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 1906 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel Academy in the 1906 college football season. This was the second year of intercollegiate football at The Citadel, with Ralph Foster serving as coach. The Board of Visitors would not permit the cadets to travel outside the city of Charleston for games, and all games are believed to have been played at Hampton Park at the site of the old race course. The 1906 season saw several milestones. This was the only Citadel team to finish undefeated and to shut out all of its opponents. This was also the season in which blue and white were adopted as school colors for athletic competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035892-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tie Cup Final\nThe 1906 Tie Cup Final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 4th. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. For the fifth time since 1900, there were two Argentine teams in the final, Alumni and Belgrano A.C., both from the Belgrano neighborhood, that also had a strong rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035892-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Tie Cup Final\nThe match was held in the former stadium of Quilmes Atl\u00e9tico Club (located on Guido and Sarmiento streets), on 30 August 1906. Alumni won its third Tie Cup trophy after beating Belgrano A.C. 10\u20131, the highest result in the history of the Tie Cup finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035892-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Tie Cup Final\nIt was the last edition played under a group stage. Since 1907, the Tie Cup would be contested by the winners of the respective competitions in each country, Copa de Competencia Jockey Club (Argentina) and Copa de Competencia (Uruguay), playing a unique match to decide the champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035892-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nPlaying in a single-elimination tournament, Alumni beat Estudiantes (BA) 4\u20132 in Palermo, Reformer (3\u20132 in Campana), Belgrano Extra (presumibably a second team of Belgrano A.C.) 2\u20131 at Sociedad Sportiva Argentina. In semifinals, Alumni defeated Uruguayan Montevideo Wanderers 2\u20130 at Estadio Gran Parque Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035892-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nOn the other hand, Belgrano beat San Isidro 6\u20130 as visitor, Quilmes (2\u20132 at San Mart\u00edn, 5\u20133 in Quilmes), reaching the semifinal where the squad defeated Rosario Central 5\u20132 in Quilmes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035892-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Tie Cup Final, Overview\nThe final was played at Quilmes A.C. Stadium, and Alumni easily defeated Belgrano with a 10\u20131, achieving the highest score in a Tie Cup Final. Eliseo Brown was the keyplayer of the match, scoring 5 goals. According to media coverage, Alumni made a great performance, with the team showing coordinated movements (specially from its attacking players, who were absolutely effective showing great accuracy in their passing and shots).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035893-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1906 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 17th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035893-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThurles won the championship after a 4-11 to 3-06 defeat of Lahorna de Wets in the final. It was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035894-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1906 Toronto Argonauts season was the Argonaut Football Club's 9th season of organized league play since joining the Ontario Rugby Football Union 1898, and its final season playing in the ORFU senior series. The team finished in second place in the series with four wins and two losses, while the Hamilton Tigers qualified for the Dominion playoffs by winning the series with a perfect record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035894-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Toronto Argonauts season\nAfter playing the 1905 season under the name \"Toronto-Argonauts\" following a merger with the Toronto Rugby Club, on September 7 the club decided to revert to the simpler \"Argonaut Rugby Club\" name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035894-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Toronto Argonauts season\nHaving managed the club to a 4-2 record in 1905, W. A. Hewitt returned for a second season as manager in 1906. On September 26 the club announced the appointment of Chaucer Elliott as coach, making Elliott the first coach in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France\nThe 1906 Tour de France was the fourth of the edition Tour de France, and second to use the point system. Taking place from 4 to 29 July the total race distance was 4,637 kilometres (2,881\u00a0mi) run over 13 stages, with the winner averaging 24.463 kilometres per hour (15.201\u00a0mph). New in this year were the mountain climbs in the Massif Central. Like its predecessors, it still had cheating and sabotage taking place. Four competitors were disqualified for taking trains as a shortcut and spectators threw nails in the road. However, this did not stop Ren\u00e9 Pottier from taking a big lead in the first stages. Free of tendinitis that plagued his 1905 chances, he dominated the entire race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nTour organiser Henri Desgrange had been happy with the increased length of the 1905 Tour de France, and decided to put even more stages in the 1906 version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe introduction of mountain stages had also been successful, so this year not only the Vosges were included, but also the Massif Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe increased length made it possible to follow the borders of France, and in 1906 the perimeter was closely followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe points system in the 1905 Tour de France had been successful enough in reducing cheating, so the Tour organisers used it again in the 1906 Tour de France, with a few changes: whereas in 1905, time differences still had some effect on the points distribution, in 1906 time differences were unimportant, and points were only given for the order in which the cyclists finished. The winner of the stage received one point, the second rider two points, et cetera. After the eighth stage, only 16 cyclists were remaining, and the results from the first eight stages were recalculated, with only the remaining cyclists, and the points were redistributed among the remaining riders in accordance with their positions in those stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe first stage ended in Lille and the second stage started in Douai; this was the first time that a stage did not start where the previous stage ended. Also for the first time, the Tour went outside France: in the second stage, Germany (Alsace-Lorraine was then part of Germany) was visited, then several days later Italy (Ventimiglia) and Spain (Irun) too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Innovations and changes\nThe 1906 Tour also saw the introduction of the flamme rouge (red flame), a red flag that indicates that the cyclists only have one kilometre to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Participants\nThere were 100 cyclists signed up for the race, but only 76 of them came to the start. One of the absentees was Henri Cornet, winner of the 1904 Tour de France. Four cyclists were Belgian, one was Luxembourgian (later winner Fran\u00e7ois Faber), two were German, and the rest were French. Louis Trousselier, winner of the 1905 Tour de France, was present. The riders were not grouped in teams, but some cyclists had the same sponsor, even though they were not allowed to work together. Before the race started, most was expected from Cadolle, Aucouturier, Georget, Pottier, Trousselier, Dortignac and Petit-Breton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Participants\nAs in 1905, the cyclists were divided in two categories, the coureurs de vitesse and the coureurs sur machines poin\u00e7onn\u00e9es, where the riders in the first category were allowed to change bicycles, which could be an advantage in the mountains, where they could use a bicycle with lower gears. In 1905, sponsors had not been so enthusiastic about entering their cyclists in this category, but in 1906 they had learned that it had a commercial advantage to have cyclists starting in the poin\u00e7onn\u00e9es category, because the average French citizen could identify more with them. In 1906, more than half of the cyclists started in the poin\u00e7onn\u00e9es category, including Lucien Petit-Breton, one of the pre-favourites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Race overview\nAs in previous years, the spectators tried to assist their preferred riders by trying to impede their opponents. On the first stage, nails had been thrown on the road, and all cyclists except Lucien Petit-Breton punctured. This stage was won by Emile Georget in a sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the second stage, Ren\u00e9 Pottier, who had shown his climbing abilities in the previous edition, aimed for the victory. He was stopped after 175 kilometres (109\u00a0mi) with mechanical failure, and he lost 58\u00a0minutes. The other main contenders worked together to stay away from Pottier, but Pottier chased them for 200 kilometres (120\u00a0mi), caught them 25 kilometres (16\u00a0mi) before the finish, and even left them behind, winning the stage with a margin of 1'30\" on Petit-Breton and more than 9 minutes on the rest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the third stage, four cyclists (Julien Gabory, Henri Gauban, Gaston Tuvache and Maurice Carrere) were disqualified for taking the train. The Ballon d'Alsace, which had been the first real mountain in the Tour de France the previous year, was featured again. Just as the year before, it was mounted first by Pottier. The stage was also won by Pottier, more than 45 minutes ahead of the rest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Race overview\nPottier also won the fourth stage. In the fifth stage, he was leading by one hour at the halfway point. A cycling legend says that he decided to stop, entered a bar and ordered a bottle of wine, and drank it almost completely. When he saw the first other cyclists passing by, Pottier mounted his bicycle again, went after them, and won the stage. By this point, Pottier was leading the overall classification firmly. The winner of the 1905 Tour de France, Louis Trousselier, had had a bad first half of the Tour, and was many points behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0012-0001", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Race overview\nTrousselier rediscovered his form in the second half of the race, won the 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th stages, and was challenging the second place of Georges Passerieu. Passerieu defended his position by winning the 12th stage. In the last stage, Pottier showed his strength by winning the stage, after finishing together in Paris with Passerieu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Results, Stage results\nAfter the 13th stage, the race was followed by two timed exhibition laps on the Velodrome in Paris, the result of which was not counted for the overall classification. The winner was Emile Georget, who finished the 1,332 metres (4,370\u00a0ft) in 2:07.20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Results, General classification\nOne hundred cyclists had entered for the 1906 Tour de France; only 82 of them showed up at the start. Only 49 cyclists finished the first stage, and the number of active cyclists quickly fell to 37 in stage two, 29 in stage three, until 16 after stage eight. At that point, the points given in the first eight stages were redistributed among the remaining riders in accordance with their positions in those stages. At the end of the Tour de France, only 14 cyclists finished. The cyclists were not grouped in teams; some cyclists had the same sponsor, but they were not allowed to work together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Results, Other classifications\nLucien Petit-Breton was the winner of the \"machines poin\u00e7onn\u00e9es\" category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Results, Other classifications\nThe organising newspaper l'Auto named Ren\u00e9 Pottier the meilleur grimpeur. This unofficial title is the precursor to the mountains classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Aftermath\nThe Tour organisers did not make many changes the rules or route for the next race, because they had worked in the 1906 Tour de France. The revised points system would be kept in this form until 1911, only to be changed a little bit in 1912 before being replaced by the time system in 1913. The flamme rouge that was introduced in 1906 to indicate the final kilometre of a stage was kept and is still in use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Aftermath\nRen\u00e9 Pottier would not defend his title in the 1907 Tour de France, because he would commit suicide before, after discovering that his wife had had an affair while he was riding the Tour. Petit-Breton and Georget would start again in the 1907 Tour and duel for the overall victory, which would be won by Petit-Breton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035895-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Aftermath\nTo honor Pottier's achievements on the Ballon d'Alsace, a monument was placed for him on top of that mountain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7\nThe 1906 Tour de France was the 4th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 4 July and Stage 7 occurred on 16 July with a flat stage to Toulouse. The race finished in Paris on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7, Stage 1\n4 July 1906 \u2014 Paris to Lille, 275\u00a0km (170.9\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7, Stage 2\n11 July 1906 \u2014 Douai to Nancy, 400\u00a0km (248.5\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7, Stage 3\n14 July 1906 \u2014 Nancy to Dijon, 416\u00a0km (258\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7, Stage 4\n16 July 1906 \u2014 Dijon to Grenoble, 311\u00a0km (193\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7, Stage 5\n18 July 1906 \u2014 Grenoble to Nice, 345\u00a0km (214\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7, Stage 6\n20 July 1906 \u2014 Nice to Marseille, 292\u00a0km (181\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035896-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 7, Stage 7\n20 July 1906 \u2014 Marseille to Toulouse, 480\u00a0km (300\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035897-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 8 to Stage 13\nThe 1906 Tour de France was the 4th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 4 July and Stage 8 occurred on 18 July with a flat stage from Toulouse. The race finished in Paris on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035897-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 8 to Stage 13, Stage 8\n18 July 1906 \u2014 Toulouse to Bayonne, 300\u00a0km (186.4\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035897-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 8 to Stage 13, Stage 9\n20 July 1906 \u2014 Bayonne to Bordeaux, 338\u00a0km (210.0\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035897-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 8 to Stage 13, Stage 10\n22 July 1906 \u2014 Bordeaux to Nantes, 391\u00a0km (243\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035897-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 8 to Stage 13, Stage 11\n24 July 1906 \u2014 Nantes to Brest, 321\u00a0km (199\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035897-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 8 to Stage 13, Stage 12\n26 July 1906 \u2014 Brest to Caen, 415\u00a0km (258\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035897-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Tour de France, Stage 8 to Stage 13, Stage 13\n29 July 1906 \u2014 Caen to Paris, 259\u00a0km (161\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035898-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Tulane Olive and Blue football team\nThe 1906 Tulane Olive and Blue football team represented Tulane University during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035899-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. National Championships (tennis)\nList of champions of the 1906 U.S. National Championships tennis tournament (now known as the US Open). The men's tournament was held from 21 August to 29 August on the outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. The women's tournament was held from 19 June to 23 June on the outdoor grass courts at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, PA. It was the 26th U.S. National Championships and the second Grand Slam tournament of the three played that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035899-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nHolcombe Ward (USA) / Beals Wright (USA) defeated Fred Alexander (USA) / Harold Hackett (USA) 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035899-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nAnn Burdette Coe (USA) / Ethel Bliss Platt (USA) defeated Helen Homans (USA) / Clover Boldt (USA) 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035899-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles\nSarah Coffin (USA) / Edward Dewhurst (AUS) defeated Margaret Johnson (USA) / J.B. Johnson (USA) 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035900-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nWilliam Clothier defeated defending champion Beals Wright in the Challenge Round 6\u20133, 6\u20130, 6\u20134 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1906 U.S. National Championships. Clothier had defeated Karl Behr in the All Comers' Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035900-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe event was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., USA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035901-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. National Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nHelen Homans won the singles tennis title of the 1906 U.S. Women's National Singles Championship by defeating Maud Barger-Wallach 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final of the All Comers' tournament. Elisabeth Moore was the reigning champion but did not defend her title in the Challenge Round. The event was played on outdoor grass courts and held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Wissahickon Heights, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia from June 19 through June 23, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035902-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1906 U.S. Open was the twelfth U.S. Open, held June 28\u201329 at Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. Alex Smith won the first of his two U.S. Open titles, seven strokes ahead of runner-up Willie Smith, his younger brother and the 1899 champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035902-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. Open (golf)\nWillie Anderson, three-time defending champion and club pro at Onwentsia, was the heavy favorite. He trailed Alex Smith by two strokes after the first 36 holes on Thursday, and by three after the third round on Friday morning, but an 84 that afternoon dropped him to a distant fifth. Smith posted rounds of 73-74-73-75 for 295, a U.S. Open record and the first sub-300 winning score. Not only did his brother Willie finish in second, his brother-in-law James Maiden tied for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035902-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. Open (golf)\nSmith's win marked the end of a streak where Scottish-born players won seven consecutive major championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035902-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. Open (golf)\nFor the first time, no player from the inaugural U.S. Open in 1895 participated. Horace Rawlins, the first champion, had played in every edition until this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035902-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. Open (golf), Past champions in the field\nDid not play: Harry Vardon (1900), Fred Herd (1898), Joe Lloyd (1897), Horace Rawlins (1895).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035902-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nAmateurs: Egan (313), Wood (327), Hunter (332), Sellers (337), Potter (342).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035903-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1906 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Geneve, Switzerland from 29 July to 5 August 1906. Four events for men were contested, two for professionals and two for amateurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035904-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 USC Methodists football team\nThe 1906 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1906 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Harvey Holmes, compiling a 2\u20130\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035905-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 USFSA Football Championship\nStatistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1906 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election\nThe 1906 United Kingdom general election was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election\nThe Liberals, led by Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won a landslide majority at the election. The Conservatives led by Arthur Balfour, who had been in government until the month before the election, lost more than half their seats, including party leader Balfour's own seat in Manchester East, leaving the party with its fewest recorded seats ever in history. The election saw a 5.4% swing from the Conservative Party to the Liberal Party, the largest-ever seen at the time (however, if only looking at seats contested in both 1900 and 1906, the Conservative vote fell by 11.6%). This has resulted in the 1906 general election being dubbed the \"Liberal landslide\", and is now ranked alongside the 1931, 1945, 1983, 1997 and 2001 general elections as one of the largest landslide election victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election\nThe Labour Representation Committee was far more successful than at the 1900 general election and after the election would be renamed the Labour Party with 29 MPs and Keir Hardie as leader. The Irish Parliamentary Party, led by John Redmond, achieved its seats with a relatively low number of votes, as 73 candidates stood unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election\nThis election was a landslide defeat for the Conservative Party and their Liberal Unionist allies, with the primary reason given by historians as the party's weakness after its split over the issue of free trade (Joseph Chamberlain had resigned from government in September 1903 in order to campaign for Tariff Reform, which would allow \"preferential tariffs\"). Many working-class people at the time saw this as a threat to the price of food, hence the debate was nicknamed \"Big Loaf, Little Loaf\". The Liberals' landslide victory of 125 seats over all other parties led to the passing of social legislation known as the Liberal reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election\nThis was the last general election in which the Liberals won an absolute majority in the House of Commons, and the last general election in which they won the popular vote. It was also the last peacetime election held more than five years after the previous one prior to passage of the Parliament Act 1911, which limited the duration of Parliaments in peacetime to five years. The Conservative Party's seat total of 156 MPs remains its worst result ever in a general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nA coalition between the Conservative and Liberal Unionist parties had governed the United Kingdom since the 1895 general election. Arthur Balfour had served as Prime Minister from 1902 until 5 December 1905, when he chose to resign over growing unpopularity. Instead of calling a general election, Balfour had hoped that under a Liberal government, splits would re-emerge; which would therefore help the Conservative Party achieve victory at the next general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nThe incoming Liberal government chose to capitalise on the Conservative government's unpopularity and called an immediate general election one month later on 12 January 1906, which resulted in a crushing defeat for the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview, Conservative unpopularity\nThe Unionist government had become deeply divided over the issue of free trade, which soon became an electoral liability. This culminated in Joseph Chamberlain's resignation from the government in May 1903 to campaign for tariff reform in order to protect British industry from foreign competition. This division was in contrast to the Liberal Party's belief in free trade, which it argued would help keep costs of living down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview, Conservative unpopularity\nThe issue of free trade became the feature of the Liberal campaign, under the slogan 'big loaf' under a Liberal government, 'little loaf' under a Conservative government. It also commissioned a variety of posters warning the electorate over rises in food prices under protectionist policies, including one which mentioned that \"Balfour and Chamberlain are linked together against free trade\u00a0... Don't be deceived by Tory tricks\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview, Conservative unpopularity\nThe Boer War had also contributed to the unpopularity of the Conservative and Unionist government. The war had lasted over two and half years, much longer than had originally been expected, while details were revealed of the existence of concentration camps where over 20,000 men, women and children were reported to have died because of poor sanitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview, Conservative unpopularity\nThe war had also unearthed the poor social state of the country in the early-1900s. This was after more than 40% of military recruits for the Boer War were declared unfit for military service, while in Manchester alone; 8,000 of the 11,000 men who had been recruited had to be turned away for being in poor physical condition. This was after the 1902 Rowntree study of poverty in York showed that almost one-third of the population lived below the 'poverty line', which helped to increase the calls for social reforms, something which had been neglected by the Conservative and Unionist government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview, Conservative unpopularity\nThe Conservative and Unionist Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, had been blamed over the issue of 'Chinese Slavery', which was the use of Chinese-indentured labour in South Africa. This became controversial among the Conservative Party's middle-class supporters, who saw it as unethical, while the working-class also objected to the practice, as White emigration to South Africa could have created jobs for the unemployed in Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview, Conservative unpopularity\nProtestant Nonconformists were angered when Conservatives pushed through the Education Act 1902, which integrated denominational schools into the state system and provided for their support from taxes. The local school boards that they largely controlled were abolished and replaced by county governments that were usually controlled by Anglicans. Worst of all, the traditionally better-endowed and socially superior Anglican schools would thus receive funding from local taxes that everyone had to pay. One tactic was to refuse to pay local taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0012-0001", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Overview, Conservative unpopularity\nThe school system played a major role in the Liberal victory in 1906, as Dissenter (nonconformist) Conservatives punished their old party and voted Liberal. However, the Liberals were conscious of the call to fair treatment their victory had in the counties and neither repealed or modified the 1902 law. Another issue which lost the Conservatives nonconformist votes was the Licensing Act 1904. Although the legislation aimed to reduce the number of public houses, it proposed to compensate brewers for the cancellation of their licence, leading many who adhered to temperance to denounce it as a \"brewers' bill\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Results\nResults of London (and the Croydon county borough double-seat) and the seven W. and N. divisions, seats, of administrative Middlesex", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Analysis\nThe election of 1906 led eventually to old-age pensions, the Trade Boards Act of 1909 which applied minimum wages to the 'sweated trades', the redistributive 1909 'people's budget', the introduction of labour exchanges, the National Insurance Act of 1911, and the Parliament Act of that year which removed the House of Lords' veto on legislation from the Commons\u00a0...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0014-0001", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Analysis\nThough the eventual achievements of the parliament elected in 1906 were remarkable, the election was something of a fluke; the scale of the Liberal victory was in direct proportion to the scale of preceding Tory blunders but it exaggerated the degree of dependable Liberal support in the country. The subsequent elections in January and December 1910, during the crisis over the people's budget, saw the number of Liberal MPs reduced to 275 and 272 respectively, while Conservative support recovered and the party, together with their Liberal Unionist allies, took 273 and then 272 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Analysis, Notable results\nThe landslide Liberal victory led to many Conservative and Unionist MPs losing what had previously been regarded as safe seats. This resulted in prominent Conservative ministers being unseated including former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. Only three of the Conservative cabinet which had served until December 1905 (one month before the election) held onto their seats, the outgoing: Home Secretary Aretas Akers-Douglas, Chancellor Austen Chamberlain (Liberal Unionist), Secretary of State for War H.O. Arnold-Forster who changed to that allied party before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Analysis, Notable results, Manchester East\nArthur Balfour, who entered the general election as the Conservative Party leader and had until the month before been Prime Minister, unexpectedly lost his seat in the Manchester East constituency, a seat which he had represented since 1885. The result in Manchester East saw a large 22.4% swing to the Liberal candidate Thomas Gardner Horridge, much larger than the national 5.4% swing to the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Analysis, Notable results, Manchester East\nThe Liberal candidate in Manchester East had been helped by a pact with the local Labour Party. Horridge said of his victory that \"East Manchester is essentially a Labour constituency and the great Labour party has supported my candidacy very thoroughly and very loyally\". He also said that \"[Manchester East constituents] have returned me, I take it, first to uphold free trade, next to deal with Chinese labour, and after that to support legislation on the lines laid down in the programme of the Labour party, with which I am heartily in accord\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Analysis, Notable results, Manchester East\nBalfour's unseating became symbolic of the Conservative Party's landslide defeat. The result has since been called one of the biggest upsets in British political history and remains the only instance of a former Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition losing their seat in a General election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035906-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election, Analysis, Gladstone\u2013MacDonald pact\nPrior to the 1906 general election, the Labour and Liberal parties negotiated an informal agreement to ensure the anti-Conservative vote was not split between the two parties. The Gladstone\u2013MacDonald pact agreed in 1903 meant that, in 31 of the 50 seats where Labour Party candidates stood, the Liberal Party did not put up a candidate. This proved helpful to both parties, as 24 of Labour's 29 elected MPs came from constituencies where the Liberal Party agreed not to contest, while the pact allowed the Liberals to concentrate resources on Conservative/Liberal marginal constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035907-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election in Ireland\nThe 1906 United Kingdom general election in Ireland was held in January 1906. Ninety-nine of the seats were in single-member districts using the first-past-the-post electoral system, and the constituencies of Cork City and Dublin University were two-member districts using block voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035907-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 United Kingdom general election in Ireland\nIn the election as a whole, the Liberal Party won a clear majority in the election across the United Kingdom and Henry Campbell-Bannerman was appointed as Prime Minister. This was the first time since the split in the Liberal Party in 1886 that they governed without the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035908-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections\nElections to the United States House of Representatives in 1906 were held for members of the 60th Congress, in the middle of President Theodore Roosevelt's second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035908-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections\nAs in many midterm elections, the President's Republican Party lost seats to the opposition Democratic Party, but retained a large overall majority. Dissatisfaction with working conditions and resentment toward union busting among industrial laborers in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest caused these groups to turn out to the polls in large numbers in support of the Democratic Party. However, gains in these regions were not enough to remove the Republican majority or the firm support that the party held among the middle class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035908-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections, Election dates\nIn 1906, three states, with 8 seats among them, held elections early:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035908-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections, Election dates\nOklahoma was admitted in 1907 and held its first congressional elections on September 17, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 69], "content_span": [70, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035908-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates, New Mexico Territory\nNew Mexico Territory elected its non-voting delegate November 6, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 97], "content_span": [98, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035909-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1906 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1906. All eight districts remained Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035910-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida\nElections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for three seats in the 60th Congress were held on November 6, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035910-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, Background\nFlorida was represented by three Democrats in 1906, continuing their long-term domination of politics in Florida (and other Southern States). In the previous election, the Democratic candidate had faced a Republican and a Socialist opponent. In 1906, in contrast, the Socialists ran candidates in the 1st and 3rd district, while the Republicans ran a candidate in the 2nd district, so that each district had only two candidates running. All three incumbents ran successfully for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 76], "content_span": [77, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 6, 1906, to select seven Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. All seven incumbents were re-elected and the composition of the state delegation remained solely Democratic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman George Swinton Legar\u00e9 of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1903, defeated Republican challenger Aaron P. Prioleau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman James O'H. Patterson of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1905, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican Isaac Myers in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Wyatt Aiken of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1903, defeated Julius E. Boggs in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Joseph T. Johnson of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1901, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican David C. Gist in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman David E. Finley of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1899, defeated Thomas J. Strait in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman J. Edwin Ellerbe of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1905, was unopposed in his bid for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035911-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 7th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Asbury Francis Lever of the 7th congressional district, in office since 1901, defeated Republican challenger Aaron D. Dantzler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035912-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United States elections\nThe 1906 United States elections elected the members of the 60th United States Congress. It occurred in the middle of Republican President Theodore Roosevelt's second (only full) term, during the Fourth Party System. Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035912-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 United States elections\nDemocrats won several seats in the House, but Republicans retained a solid majority in the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035912-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 United States elections\nIn the Senate, Republicans won moderate gains and maintained their commanding majority in the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035912-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 United States elections\nThis marked the most recent time in which a sitting two-term Republican president retained both chambers of Congress after his second midterm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035913-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held in 1906, in 28 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 6, 1906 (except in Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon and Vermont, which held early elections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035913-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Iowa, the gubernatorial election was held in an even-numbered year for the first time, having previously been held in odd-numbered years with the previous election taking place in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035913-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Oregon, the gubernatorial election was held in June for the last time, moving to the same day as federal elections from the 1910 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035914-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 University of New Mexico football team\nThe 1906 University of New Mexico football team was an American football team represented the University of New Mexico as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its second season under head coach Martin F. Angell, the team compiled a 3\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 59 to 30. Bernard H. Crawford was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035915-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 University of Utah football team\nThe 1906 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its third season under head coach Joe Maddock, the team compiled a 6\u20131 record, shut out six of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 170 to 6. The team played its home games at Cummings Field in Salt Lake City. Fred Bennion, who later served as the team's head coach, was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035916-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1905 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 5th. season of top-flight football in Uruguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035916-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nThe tournament consisted of a round-robin championship. It involved six teams, and the champion was Montevideo Wanderers, being the first time that a club other than CURCC or Nacional won the Primera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035916-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nAs a curiosity during this championship, Nacional presented two teams to the competition, their official team and a second team formed by substitutes players, which was called \"Nacional B\". This was the first and only time in the editions of the Uruguayan Championships that a club participated with two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035917-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1906 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) during the 1906 college football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach George P. Campbell, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20131 record but were outscored by a total of 51 to 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035918-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 VFA season\nThe 1906 Victorian Football Association season was the 30th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the West Melbourne Football Club, after defeating Footscray in the close final by eleven points. It was the first and only premiership won by West Melbourne during its nine-season stint in the VFA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035918-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 VFA season, Premiership\nThe home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035918-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 VFA season, Notable events, Interleague matches\nThe VFA's second match against the S.A.F.A. was originally scheduled to be played on an otherwise vacant day in the Melbourne football calendar, with a bye week in both the League and Association, and the V.F.L. team playing in Ballarat. However, the VFL made a change by shifting two of its 4 August matches onto 11 August, much to the VFA's chagrin, severely affecting the crowd at the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035919-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1906 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1906. It was the 9th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1906 VFL season. The match, attended by 44,437 spectators, was won by Carlton by a margin of 49 points, marking that club's first VFL premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035919-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nAfter the home-and-away season (which lasted for seventeen matches, including the \"first round\" of fourteen matches and a \"second round\" of three matches), Carlton was top of the ladder with a record of 14\u20133 and a percentage of 153.5; Fitzroy finished second with a record of 13\u20134 and a percentage of 153.3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035919-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up\nThe finals were contested using the variation of the amended Argus system seen between 1902\u20131906. Fitzroy faced fourth-placed Essendon in the First Semi-Final, and won by 36 points, and Carlton faced third-placed Collingwood in the Second Semi-Final and won by ten points. Carlton and Fitzroy then faced off to decide the premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035919-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nThe winner of this match would automatically win the premiership; no team had the right to challenge for the premiership this season. Under the variation of the Argus System in use between 1902\u20131906, the club with the best record in all matches (including finals) could have challenged for the premiership if it had not won this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035919-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nHowever, whichever team won this game would have become the team with the best record, depriving the other of any right to challenge. Entering the match, Carlton had a record of 15\u20133, and Fitzroy had a record of 14\u20134 but a superior percentage (155.6 to Carlton's 151.2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035919-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nIn the event of a Carlton win, Carlton's 16\u20133 record would have ranked above Fitzroy's 14\u20135, but in the event of a Fitzroy win, both clubs would have been level on 15\u20134, but Fitzroy would have been ranked above Carlton with a superior percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035919-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL Grand Final, Lead-up, Right to challenge\nThis is different from the ruling which would have been used under the more widely known variation of the Argus System, which was in use from 1907\u20131930, with the exception of 1924. In that variation, the team with the best record in matches excluding finals had the right to challenge; as Carlton had the best record after 17 weeks, it would have retained the right to challenge, regardless of finals results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035920-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL season\nThe 1906 Victorian Football League season was the 10th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035920-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1906, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no \"reserves\", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035920-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL season, Premiership season\nEach team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035920-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 17 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1906 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended \"Argus system\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035920-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 VFL season, Grand final\nCarlton defeated Fitzroy 15.4 (94) to 6.9 (45). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035921-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 VMI Keydets football team\nThe 1906 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their 16th season of organized football. The Keydets went an even 4\u20134 under second-year head coach Ira Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035922-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 VPI football team\nThe 1906 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1906 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Sally Miles and finished with a record of five wins, two losses, and two ties (5\u20132\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035922-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 VPI football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1906 football team according to the roster published in the 1907 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake\nThe 1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake hit Valpara\u00edso, Chile, on August 16 at 19:55 local time. Its epicenter was offshore from the Valpara\u00edso Region, and its intensity was estimated at magnitude 8.2 Mw. This earthquake occurred thirty minutes after the 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake\nMuch of Valpara\u00edso was destroyed; there was severe damage in central Chile from Illapel to Talca. The earthquake was felt from Tacna to Puerto Montt. Reports said the earthquake lasted four minutes. A tsunami was also generated. The earthquake killed a reported 3,882 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake\nThe record of previous seismic activity includes major earthquakes in 1647, 1730 and 1822. The 1906 disaster was predicted by Captain Arturo Middleton, Chief of the Chilean Army Meteorological Office, in a letter that was published in El Mercurio, one week before it occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake\nAdmiral Luis G\u00f3mez Carre\u00f1o ordered the shooting of at least 15 people, who were caught looting after the earthquake. A Board for Reconstruction was formed some weeks after the earthquake. The Seismological Service of Chile was also created.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Background\nChile lies above a convergent plate boundary, an area where the Nazca Plate under the Pacific Ocean is subducted or moved beneath the South American Plate. In the region around Valparaiso, the rate of convergence is about 70\u00a0mm/yr. As these two plates converge, it drives the Nazca plate with massive movements called megathrust earthquakes. The 1906 event was one of many large earthquakes in Chile along this plate boundary. Earthquakes can originate at the plate interface itself or within either the subducting or overriding plates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Background\nCiting the conjunction of Neptune with the moon, Captain Arturo Middleton, Chief of the Chilean Army's Meteorological Office, predicted the earthquake in a letter published in the Valpara\u00edso newspaper El Mercurio on August 6. Captain Middleton was severely criticized in the following days, and was described as \"ignorant and obscurantist.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Earthquake characteristics\nOn August 16, 1906, at 19:55 local time, while most Chileans were dining, a subterraneous sound was heard, and before it ended, the first tremor occurred, lasting about four minutes. The second tremor occurred at 20:06 and, although it lasted only two minutes, was much more violent. There were numerous aftershocks: at least 56 of them occurred during the first 24 hours after the beginning tremors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Earthquake characteristics\nThe magnitude of the earthquake has been estimated to be 8.4 ML, 8.2 Mw or Ms = 8.2\u20138.3. The energy release has been re-evaluated with an estimated seismic moment of 2.8 x 1028, equivalent to a magnitude of 8.26 Mw\u202f. The rupture length of the earthquake has been estimated at about 200\u00a0km with a focal depth of about 40\u00a0km. The focal mechanism has been assessed using contemporary seismograph records from five stations, which were published soon after the earthquake. The data suggest that the earthquake was probably along the subduction interface. Modelling of a tsunami using these source parameters shows that this earthquake was the origin of the transpacific tsunamis recorded that same day in Hawaii and Japan, rather than the almost contemporaneous 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Earthquake characteristics\nThe 30-minute time gap between the Aleutian and Chilean earthquakes is thought to be coincidental, with no causal link between the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake caused damage throughout Central Chile, from Illapel to Talca. There were several destructive fires in El Almendral (from Plaza de la Victoria to Cerro Bar\u00f3n), Mercado Cardonal, Teatro de la Victoria (Victory Theatre), the Intendencia, the Maritime Government in Sotomayor Square and the Fiscal Dock at the port.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake was also felt in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The newspaper El Mercurio reported in its August 17 edition that \"the earthquake was produced in a violent way since its beginning, and provoked an indescribable panic through all the four thousands of inhabitants of Santiago and an unprecedented terror in the last years. Two or three-story buildings, even the most solid ones such as the National Congress, were swinging like a vessel in the sea. The shakings were so strong that many people thought the earth was going to open itself in deep and long strips.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Damage\nAccording to the University of Chile, there were 3,882 deaths. The earthquake left more than 20,000 injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Damage\nOn August 19, Admiral Luis G\u00f3mez Carre\u00f1o was appointed Plaza Port Chief. G\u00f3mez ordered the distribution of water and food, removal of corpses and demolition of buildings in risk of collapse, from a tent in Plaza de La Victoria. Adm. G\u00f3mez ordered the shooting of at least 15 people who had committed crimes during the aftermath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Relief efforts\nDespite the state of the city, authorities quickly organized themselves into relief groups. Firefighters from other cities of Chile, including Santiago, Concepci\u00f3n and Talcahuano, moved to Valpara\u00edso to help the local Fire Bureau. Physician Jos\u00e9 Grossi worked to counteract the plagues that followed the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Relief efforts\nOn August 25, President Germ\u00e1n Riesco and President-Elect Pedro Montt arrived at Valpara\u00edso. They arrived there by train, on foot, or horseback to survey the magnitude of the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Relief efforts\nSome weeks after the earthquake, a Board for Reconstruction was formed, using money received from other countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Aftermath\nIn 1906, the Seismological Service of Chile (Servicio Sismol\u00f3gico de Chile) was created. Its first chief executive was Fernand de Montessus de Ballore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035923-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Valpara\u00edso earthquake, Aftermath\nThe effects of this historic seismic event in the Valpara\u00edso rupture zone would be studied and measurable in the context of further seismic activity in this vicinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his third season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the Commodores played seven home games in Nashville, Tennessee at Curry Field, and finished the season with a record of 8\u20131 overall and 5\u20130 in SIAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1906 Vanderbilt team had one of the best seasons in the school's history, outscoring opponents 278\u201316. Innis Brown rated the 1906 team as the best the South ever had. Vanderbilt won all of its home games, finishing the season on a 23-game home win streak. Their only loss came on the road to western power Michigan, 10\u20134; the game had been tied until the closing minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nSeven of the Commodores' eight wins came by shutout \u2013 only two teams scored on them all season. Several teams failed to gain a single first down against the Commodores. The team most notably defeated northern power Carlisle by a single Bob Blake field goal 4\u20130. Back Owsley Manier was selected third-team All-America by Walter Camp, the South's first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season\nNotable losses from the 1905 team included Bachelor of Ugliness Ed Hamilton, captain Innis Brown, and quarterback Frank Kyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season, Rule changes\nAt the end of 1905 football looked about to be abolished due to all of the reoccurring violence during games. Football was a sport that had degenerated into dangerous tactics such as: the flying wedge, punching, kicking, piling-on, and elbows to the face. Almost any violent behavior was allowed. Fatalities and injuries mounted during the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season, Rule changes\nAs a result, the 1906 season was played under a new set of rules. The rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more open and less dangerous style of play. An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA, approved radical changes including the legalization of the forward pass, allowing the punting team to recover an on-side kick as a live ball, abolishing the dangerous flying wedge, creating a neutral zone between offense and defense, and doubling the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 1: Kentucky State\nIn a 28\u20130 win over Kentucky State College to open the season, Owsley Manier scored three touchdowns and the Commodores as a whole rushed for 630 yards. G. A. Hall had a 33-yard punt return for a touchdown. The Commodores were penalized several times. Kentucky never had a first down and had to punt after second down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 1: Kentucky State\nThe starting lineup was: Stone (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); King (left guard); Wynne (center); Sherrill (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); Crawford (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 2: Mississippi\nVanderbilt easily beat Mississippi 29\u20130. Like McGugin, Mississippi's coach Thomas S. Hammond was a Michigan alumnus. One account reads: \"whatever hopes the spectators had of seeing a close and exciting football game today when Vanderbilt faced Mississippi were shattered in the very first five minutes of play.\" The stars of the contest were Dan Blake and Honus Craig. Mississippi failed to gain a single first down. Umpire Henry D. Phillips kicked Joe Pritchard out of the contest for roughing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 2: Mississippi\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); E. Noel (left tackle); McLain (left guard); Stone (center); Chorn (right guard); Pritchard (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); D. Blake (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 3: Alabama\nThe only loss of the year for the Alabama Crimson Tide was its biggest ever loss to Vanderbilt, 78\u20130. Seven of Alabama's regular players were out with injuries. Vanderbilt executed several onside kicks from scrimmage. Owsley Manier scored five touchdowns as: \"the back field frequently went twenty-five or thirty yards over the line\". Alabama was held to just a single first down. Due to injuries, Alabama had not wished to play, and: \"the comparatively few who came to see them play were scarcely rewarded by seeing touchdowns made every two minutes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 3: Alabama\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); McLain (left guard); Stone (center), Chorn (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); D. Blake (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 4: Texas\nVanderbilt romped over the Texas Longhorns 45\u20130. Sam Costen had a run of 61 yards, Dan Blake one of 52, and Vaughn Blake 42. Two other touchdowns were had by Vanderbilt but referee Bradley Walker called the team back for holding. The Texas men seemed equal to Vanderbilt's in physique, yet they too failed to net a first down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 4: Texas\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); Chorn (left guard); Stone (center); McLain (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); Craig (left halfback); D. Blake (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Michigan\nOn November 3, Vanderbilt lost to the Michigan Wolverines by a 10\u20134 score. The game remained tied at 4\u20134 until the closing minutes. The Masonic Theater in Nashville was crowded with those who had come to see the game detailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Michigan\nBefore the game, Michigan coach Fielding Yost said: \"I have said right along that the Vanderbilt team would come nearer beating us than any team ever did... In Craig, Blake, and Manier I think Vanderbilt has the three greatest backs of any one team in the country.\" On the night just before the game, 4,200 students attended a mass meeting at University Hall. McGugin and Yost both spoke to the crowd and agreed that the game would be one of the closest played in Ann Arbor in many years. D. G. Fite, father-in-law of both McGugin and Yost, traveled from his home in Tennessee to watch the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Michigan\nJohn Garrels put Michigan ahead with a field goal from the 25-yard line. On the preceding drive, Garrels had completed a 15-yard forward pass to Bishop, the first legal forward pass completed by Michigan under the new rules. Michigan led, 4\u20130, at halftime. Early in the second half, Vanderbilt tied the score with a field goal by Dan Blake from the 30-yard line. With two minutes left in the game, Garrels ran 68 yards for a touchdown. The Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: \"Garrels, on a fake kick, with splendid interference by Hammond, Curtis, and Workman, ran Vanderbilt's left end at lightning speed for sixty-eight yards and a touchdown.\" Curtis kicked the extra point, and Michigan led, 10\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Michigan\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); Chorn (left guard); Stone (center); McLain (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); Craig (left halfback); D. Blake (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 77], "content_span": [78, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 6: Rose Polytechnic\nThe 33 to 0 win over Rose Polytechnic proved the surprise of the season. Owsley Manier again scored five touchdowns, but he also: \"probably prevented the visitors from scoring by his clever defensive work.\" Bob Blake kicked four extra points and a 20-yard field goal from placement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 6: Rose Polytechnic\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); McLain (left guard); Stone (center); Chorn (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); D. Blake (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Georgia Tech\nVanderbilt defeated coach John Heisman, who had helped legalize the forward pass, and his Georgia Tech team in the rain and mud of Atlanta 37\u20136. Lobster Brown scored Tech's points. Atlanta Constitution sportswriter Alex Lynn wrote after the game that Owsley Manier was: \"the greatest fullback and all round man ever seen in Atlanta.\" He again scored five touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Georgia Tech\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); McLain (left guard); Stone (center); Chorn (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); D. Blake (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0022-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 8: Carlisle\nOn Thanksgiving, the Commodores reached the season's high point and beat the Carlisle Indians 4\u20130. Just a week before the contest, Vanderbilt negotiated a game with Carlisle to fill an open date. The Nashville Banner predicted it would be: \"the greatest game the south ever saw.\" The game started forty-five minutes late to accommodate the large crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0023-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 8: Carlisle\nVanderbilt won by a single, 17-yard Bob Blake field goal 4\u20130. In the first two minutes of play, the Indians drove the ball to Vanderbilt's 3-yard line, but the Commodores line held and they got no further. Frank Mount Pleasant, one of the first regular spiral pass quarterbacks, attempted four field goals, but missed them all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0024-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 8: Carlisle\nAtlanta Constitution sporting editor A. W. Lynn wrote: \"The general surprises are numerous enough, but the largest particular one was the Commodore\u2013Indian contest, when Vanderbilt took off the greatest honors ever falling to the lot of a southern football team in the hardest battle ever fought on a southern gridiron. John Heisman wrote: \"Manier bucked the Indians' line. Costen handled the ball surely and well downed Mt. Pleasant in his tracks on most of Blake's punts...I am still convinced that outside Yale and Princeton, the Commodores would have an even break with any other team in the country.\" Vanderbilt running back Honus Craig called this his hardest game, giving special praise to Albert Exendine as: \"the fastest end I ever saw.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0025-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 8: Carlisle\nOne source claims the Carlisle Indians failed to receive supplies on the trip to Nashville, including their receiving carboys emptied of water. \"The Indians had the poorest kind of accommodations at Nashville, and on account of the change of water every one of them became ill.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0026-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 8: Carlisle\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); McLain (left guard); Stone (center); Chorn (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarterback); D. Blake (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0027-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 9: Sewanee\nDespite Vanderbilt's strong record, the Sewanee Tigers were undefeated and felt cause for optimism in the effective Southern championship. One account recalls: \"A high authority on foot-ball said the other day: Vanderbilt is not invincible, by a good deal. The Sewanee \"Tigers\" are going to Nashville on Thursday to prove that fact.\" Vanderbilt struggled, but still won 20\u20130. \"With Vandy making only 20 points\u2013Vandy was stale, was the explanation.\" After the big win over Carlisle, \"a matter-of-course feeling pervaded the entire game.\" The first score of the game came on a 25-yard field goal. The first touchdown came from Owsley Manier. In the second half, Bob Blake made a 22-yard field goal, and Manier got another touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 804]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0028-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Week 9: Sewanee\nThe starting lineup was: V. Blake (left end); Pritchard (left tackle); McLain (left guard); Stone (center); Chorn (right guard); E. Noel (right tackle); B. Blake (right end); Costen (quarter); D. Blake (left halfback); Craig (right halfback); Manier (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0029-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Post-season\nVanderbilt won an SIAA championship. Coach McGugin called the Carlisle victory \"the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0030-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Post-season\nDan Blake, Owsley Manier, and Joe Pritchard all graduated. Manier went on to receive an M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and played one season on the football team. \"But his effectiveness at Pennsylvania was lessened by the attempt of the coaches to change his style of bucking a line from the low, plunging dive to running into it erect, knees drawn high and great dependence upon his companion backs to \"hike\" him.\" At Penn he was shifted to halfback, and mostly used for swift plunges into the line. Penn defeated Michigan, exacting revenge for the multiple losses suffered by Manier to Michigan at Vanderbilt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0031-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Post-season\nDan Blake went on to coach at Hopkinsville High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. While there he was manager of the electric light and gas plants of the Kentucky Public Service Company. Pritchard coached at LSU for part of one season and was later a Presbyterian dental missionary at Luebo in the Congo until he was forced to return to the United States due to poor health sometime before 1915.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 53], "content_span": [54, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0032-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Post-season, Awards and honors\nFor some, Vanderbilt's eleven was the entire All-Southern team. Fullback Owsley Manier was selected third-team All-America by Walter Camp. This makes Manier the first Southern player to make any of Camp's teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0033-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Post-season, Legacy\nIn 1911, Innis Brown rated the 1906 team as the best the South ever had. Sportswriter Joe Williams recalled \"I suppose the first great Southern team was Vanderbilt of 1906.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0034-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Personnel, Depth chart\nThe following chart provides a visual depiction of Vanderbilt's lineup during the 1906 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics a short punt formation while on offense, with the quarterback under center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035924-0035-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Personnel, Scoring leaders\nIn 1906, touchdowns were worth 5 points and field goals 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035925-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Cup\nThe 1906 Vanderbilt Cup was a motor race held on a 29.7 mile street circuit on Long Island, New York on October 6, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035925-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Cup\nJust like the 1906 Vanderbilt Elimination Race, this race was stopped as the crowd invaded the course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035926-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Elimination Race\nThe 1906 Vanderbilt Elimination Race was a motor race run to decide which five cars would represent the United States in the international 1906 Vanderbilt Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035926-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Elimination Race\nThe race was run on September 22, 1906, over ten laps on a 29-mile course near Westbury, Long Island, New York. \"Crowded excursion trains followed one another from midnight until long after the race had started, discharging thousands at Mineola, Westbury, Hicksville and other stations about the course. Country people from miles around journeyed to the course until the multitude numbered more than 100,000. At least 5,000 automobiles, carrying gay parties of men and women lined the course.\" The race started at 06:00 in the morning with cars leaving at one-minute intervals. Mongini, Matheson, burst a tire on the first lap, hitting a telephone pole. He and his mechanic Green were thrown from the car but suffered only bruising. When Tracy crossed the finish line the race was stopped due to the crowd invading the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035926-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Vanderbilt Elimination Race\nThe following team was chosen to represent America: Joseph Tracy (100-hp. Locomobile), Hubert LeBlon (115-hp. Thomas), H.N. Harding (50-hp. Haynes), Frank Lawell (110-hp. Frayer-Miller), and J. Walter Christie (50-hp. Christie). \"Only the first three covered the full course, and Lawell and Christie were given places on the team; the former owing to the fact that he was still running when the race was called off, and the latter owing to the disqualification of Lyttle (Pope-Toledo), for being towed.\" During the elimination contest: \"Lawell was closely pressing Christie for the fifth place.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035927-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Vermont Green and Gold football team\nThe 1906 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their second year under head coach George B. Drake, the team compiled a 5\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035928-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 4, 1906. In keeping with the Republican Party's \"Mountain Rule\", incumbent Republican Charles J. Bell, did not run for a second term as Governor of Vermont. At the start of the year, Percival W. Clement and Fletcher D. Proctor were the leading candidates for the Republican nomination. When it became clear that Proctor had the support of the delegates, Clement ended his campaign for the nomination. He filed as an Independent candidate for the general election and was subsequently endorsed by the Democratic Party. In the general election, Proctor easily defeated Clement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035929-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1906 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1906 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was Charles McGeehan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035930-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1906 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035931-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 WAFA season\nThe 1906 WAFA season was the 22nd season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035932-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 WSPU march\nThe 1906 WSPU march on 19 February 1906 was the first march held in London to demand the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom. Organized by Sylvia Pankhurst and Annie Kenney of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the event saw around 300\u2013400 women march through central London to the House of Commons. It was held to coincide with the King's Speech and the opening of Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035932-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 WSPU march\nTwo hundred women from Bow, Bromley, Canning Town and Poplar in the East End marched to Caxton Hall, near the Commons, from St. James's Park tube station. There, Emmeline Pankhurst heard there was no mention of votes for women in the King's Speech and led the women on another march to the Commons Strangers' Entrance. Over the following two hours, the women were allowed to enter in groups of 20 to lobby their MPs. The Daily Mirror reported the event on page 5: \"Voteless Women. 3,000 [sic] Demonstrators March Behind a Red Banner. Smiling but Earnest.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035932-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 WSPU march\nEmmeline Pankhurst saw the march as the beginning of a militant women's suffrage movement. The women \"were awake at last\", she wrote. \"They were prepared to do something that women had never done before\u2014fight for themselves. Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035933-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team\nThe 1906 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. Led by second-year head Frank Piekarski, Washington & Jefferson compiled a record of 9\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035934-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington Senators season\nThe 1906 Washington Senators won 55 games, lost 95, and finished in seventh place in the American League. They were managed by Jake Stahl and played home games at National Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035934-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035934-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035934-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035934-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035934-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035935-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington State football team\nThe 1906 Washington State football team was an American football team that represented Washington State College during the 1906 college football season. The team competed as an independent under first-year head coach John R. Bender and compiled a record of 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035936-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington football team\nThe 1906 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under coach Victor M. Place, the team compiled a 4\u20131\u20134 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 49 to 35. Owen Crim was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck\nThe 1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck occurred on the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) at Terra Cotta station in Washington, D.C., on December 30, 1906, at 6:31 in the evening, when a locomotive pulling six empty cars crashed into the back of a passenger train in dense fog, killing 53 people and injuring more than 70.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, Accident\nThe local train, consisting of three wooden cars, was traveling from Frederick, Maryland, and was fifteen minutes late. It was just pulling out of Terra Cotta station (near the site of the current Fort Totten Metro station) when it was struck from behind by a \"special equipment train\", No 2120, traveling at full speed, about 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h). The heavy locomotive, which sustained very little damage, ploughed through the rear two cars, sending bodies and debris flying for a quarter of a mile on both sides of the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, Accident\nThe accident is described in the book Undergraduate Days 1904-1908 by Frank Kuntz, recounted by a fellow student at the nearby Catholic University of America:\u00a0 \"Then came a terrible noise which he described as a combination of an explosion, escaping steam, breaking wood, groaning brakes and human screams. It was so loud it could be heard on the campus and all over Brookland\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, Aftermath\nAccording to The New York Times, \"One of the cars of the wrecked train was split in two and left in halves on either side of the track. The butchery of the passengers was one of the most frightful things in the history of railroading. They were cut into pieces and portions of their bodies scattered all along the track\" Small fragments of remains from several victims were commingled on their delivery to a local morgue; these commingled remains were buried in a single grave at Glenwood Cemetery with one monument, the expense paid by the B&O. The five crewmembers, Harry H. Hildebrand (engineer), Ira C. McClelland (fireman), Ralph Rutter (brakeman), Frank S. Hoffmeir (conductor) and William A. Norris (baggagemaster), of the train that hit the passenger train were all arrested at the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, Aftermath\nDespite its nearness to the capital, Terra Cotta station was an isolated place, just serving a few houses of employees of the nearby Potomac Terra Cotta Company. The first help came from Brookland about a mile away, and it took nearly an hour for a relief train to arrive from Washington to begin taking away the dead and injured (and a further hour before it departed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, Causes\nThe entire Metropolitan branch operated by the \"absolute block system\", which should have prevented any other train from entering a \"block\" of track when it is occupied. The empty train should have been stopped at Takoma Park until the passenger train had moved out of the block at University. The operator at Takoma Park stated that his signal lights were burning red (\"danger\") when the empty train passed, corroborated by three other people. The engineer claimed he slowed down and looked for the signal, but could not see it. In such a situation he should have stopped, and yet he continued running at great speed. The operator immediately telegraphed the operator at University station:\u00a0 \"No. 2120 has gone by my red light, going like hell\". The tower operator at University station confirmed that he received the message.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 871]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, Causes\nOne misunderstanding that contributed in large part to the disaster was that Takoma Park station was closed between 6:30\u00a0pm and 6:30\u00a0am each day, when no signals would have been displayed; in these circumstances the previous block (controlled by signals at Silver Spring) extends beyond Terra Cotta. No. 2120 had received a clear signal from Silver Spring, so the engineer believed he was cleared through to University. Further inquiries also revealed that the engineer had been on almost continuous duty for 33 hours and had not had a full night's sleep for 57 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035937-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, Causes\nFour men were charged with manslaughter\u00a0\u2014 the engineer, conductor, brakeman and fireman of train 2120\u00a0\u2014 but after a lengthy trial all were found not guilty due to lack of evidence. Nonetheless, the Interstate Commerce Commission blamed them, claiming all were negligent. It did reserve some criticism for management, though having received \"evidence indicating that the railroads have overworked and poorly paid men manning these safety devices and that, in the effort to rush traffic, men on trains are encouraged to be careless about heeding danger signals\". The ICC also banned wooden body passenger car construction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035938-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1906 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1906, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035938-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nThomas William Hislop, the incumbent Mayor, sought re-election and retained office unopposed with no other candidates emerging. The mayoral contest coincided with a vacancy on the Wellington City Council following the resignation of councillor Arthur Gibbs triggering a by-election. Nine candidates contested the seat which was ultimately won by ex-councillor John Smith Jr. who had unsuccessfully stood for mayor against Hislop the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035939-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1906 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Carl Forkum, the team compiled a 5\u20135 record and outscored opponents by a total of 192 to 74. Thomas Leahy was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035940-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Westbury by-election\nThe Westbury by-election, 1906 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Westbury in Wiltshire on 26 February 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035940-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Westbury by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal MP, John Fuller. Fuller had been appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, one of the formal titles held by government Whips and under the Parliamentary rules of the day had to resign and fight a by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035940-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Westbury by-election, Candidates\nFuller had been MP for Westbury since the general election of 1900 and had held the seat with a majority of 1,476 votes or 16.4% of the poll at the 1906 election just a month earlier. In all the circumstances, the Conservatives declined to stand a candidate against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035940-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Westbury by-election, The result\nThere being no other candidates putting themselves forward Fuller was returned unopposed. He held his seat until 1911 when he resigned to take up appointment as Governor of Victoria in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035941-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Western State Hilltoppers football team\nThe 1906 Western State Hilltoppers football team represented Western State Normal School (later renamed Western Michigan University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Tubby Meyers, the Hilltoppers compiled a 1\u20132 record and were outscored by their opponents, 28 to 26. In addition to serving as the head coach, halfback Tubby Meyers was the team captain for the first of three consecutive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035941-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Western State Hilltoppers football team\nThe team's first game was a 21\u20130 victory over Wayland High School from Wayland, Michigan, on October 13, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035941-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Western State Hilltoppers football team\nThe school's first intercollegiate football game was a 14\u20130 loss to Kalamazoo College on November 3, 1906. Two weeks later, the team lost, 14\u20135, to Michigan State Normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035941-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Western State Hilltoppers football team\nOn November 12, 1906, the team, the first for the school, was honored at an oyster dinner hosted by the manual training department with 15 women, all students from the domestic science department, as hostesses. Brown and gold pennants were presented to each guest, and a miniature brown and gold football was placed on every plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team\nThe 1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (later renamed the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nThe 1905 Western University of Pennsylvania football season was successful record-wise and financially. The Arthur Mosse led team finished the season with an 11\u20132 record. Its only losses were to Eastern powers Cornell and State College. But two days after the State College defeat newspapers from Philadelphia, Pa. to South Bend, Indiana had headlines describing trouble within the Western University football team. The feud between Coach Mosse and Joe Thompson for control of the team that started at the conclusion of the 1904 season was not settled as satisfactorily as people were led to believe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nJoe Thompson and his clique vowed to leave school if Mosse was retained for the 1906 season. Coach Mosse returned to his farm in Kansas and left the coaching decision up to the Athletic Association. Joe Thompson resumed his Law studies and coached the Pittsburgh High School team. Meanwhile, the Athletic Association and Administration of the Western University of Pennsylvania were monitoring the national uproar against football due to nineteen player deaths and over one hundred and thirty serious injuries that occurred during the 1905 season. Columbia, Duke and Northwestern canceled football after the 1905 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0001-0002", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nStanford and Cal switched to the tamer rugby. President Roosevelt encouraged changes in the rules. An intercollegiate conference met and legalized forward passing, abolished mass formations, created the neutral zone line of scrimmage, and designated ten yards to be gained for a first down. The Western University agreed with the rule changes. It adopted a four-year eligibility rule and eliminated professionalism in all their school athletics. The Athletic Association was reorganized to consist of a 13-member committee. Each of the five school departments were represented by a faculty and student member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0001-0003", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap\nIn addition there was one member from the Board of Trustees, one alumni member and the Chancellor. This committee controlled Athletics at the Western University of Pennsylvania. At the April meeting of the Athletic Association Edgar R. Wingard, the Athletic Director at Butler University, was named Athletic Director and football coach at WUP. Mr. Wingard was a graduate of Susquehanna University and post graduate of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. In its first season under head coach Edgar Wingard, the team compiled a 7\u20134 record, shut out seven of its eleven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 229 to 55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 67], "content_span": [68, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler A. C.\nOn September 23 Coach Edgar R. Wingard took his team to Butler, Pa. to meet the Butler A.C. WUP received the opening kickoff. With Walter Ritchie at quarterback the offense marched down the field and Winfred Banbury carried the ball into the end zone in the first three minutes. After three possession changes the WUP offense had the ball at midfield. Quincy Banbury proceeded to scamper 55 yards for the second touchdown. The halftime score was 10-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler A. C.\nKarl Swenson replaced Walter Ritchie at quarterback and Coach Wingard used plenty of substitutes in the second half. Butler started the half by earning their initial first down, but then they were forced to punt. Swenson marched the WUP offense downfield and Fred Klawuhn scored the touchdown. Both Karl Swenson and Charles Springer also scored for the University eleven to make the final score 25-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler A. C.\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Butler A. C. was Quince Banbury (right end),Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Arthur Yielding (right guard), John Turner (center), C. McKinney (left guard), Paul Vitte (left tackle), Ed Noble (left end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Winfred Banbury (left halfback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0004-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Butler A. C.\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Karl Swenson replaced Walter Ritchie at quarterback; Ted Perry replaced Ed Noble at left end; Gilbert Miller replaced Calvin Marshall at left tackle; John Shuman replaced John Turner at center; James McCormick replaced Quince Banbury at right end; and John Mackrell replaced Omar Mehl at fullback. The game consisted of fifteen minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 86], "content_span": [87, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nAfter the rain passed through town on September 29, Westminster College and WUP played the home opener at Exposition Park. The inclement weather kept the attendance to about five hundred loyal students and fans. The offense led by Walter Ritchie took the opening kickoff and marched steadily downfield. John Mackrell scored the first touchdown and Walter Zieg kicked the goal after. After a change of possessions Ritchie was injured and replaced by Karl Swenson. Five plays later Swenson carried the ball into the end zone for the second touchdown in less than 10 minutes. Zieg was successful on the goal kick after. Westminster tried a forward pass but Mackrell intercepted and the half came to an end with WUP ahead 12-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe second half was a defensive struggle. Both offenses were able to gain yardage but the defenses would stiffen to stop the drives. Right guard Arthur Yielding hurt his shoulder and was replaced by C. McKinney. Late in the game, Swenson was able to sprint ten yards around end for the final score of the game. Westminster then fooled WUP with a fake punt and gained thirty yards but the WUP defense was able to keep the Titans out of the end zone. The final score was 17-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Westminster was Quince Banbury (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Arthur Yielding (right guard), John Shuman (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Gilbert Miller (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), John Mackrell (left halfback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0007-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster\nSubstitutions made during the game were: Karl Swenson replaced Walter Ritchie at quarterback; C. McKinney replaced Arthur Yielding at right guard; Leslie Waddill replaced Gilbert Miller at left tackle; Munhall replaced John Shuman at center; Charles Springer replaced Omar Mehl at fullback; and Charles Clancey replaced John Mackrell at left halfback. The game consisted of one twenty minute half and one fifteen minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 82], "content_span": [83, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Hiram\nThe Hiram College Terriers football team, after their train arrived several hours late, was welcomed to Pittsburgh by inclement weather and a superior WUP offensive machine. Due to the poor weather, only a few fans were in the Friendship Park bleachers to cheer on their team. The Hiram defense could not stop the WUP offense and gave up twelve touchdowns. The WUP offense tried the forward pass and was very successful. The highlight was Raymond Forcer, WUP substitute end, catching a pass and scampering fifty yards for his first touchdown of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0008-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Hiram\nSix more players scored touchdowns: Fred Klawuhn and Charles Clancey each scored three; Homer Roe scored two; John Mackrell, James McCormick, and Karl Swenson each scored one. Waldy Zieg added five extra points and Karl Swenson one to reach the final score of 66-0. Coach Wingard substituted so that all twenty-three team members saw playing time. Hiram made one first down the entire game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Hiram\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Hiram was Homer Roe (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Paul Vitte (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), John Mackrell (left halfback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback). The following substitutes were utilized at some point during the game: James McCormick, Maurice Goldsmith, Leo Eggington, Andrew Martin, John Shuman, C. McKinney, Gilbert Miller, Karl Swenson, Edgar Chatham, Charles Clancey, Ed Noble, and Ray Focer. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 76], "content_span": [77, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nOctober 13 was a beautiful fall day for football. The football field layout at Exposition Park was altered and bleachers erected to give the student section a better view of the on field action. Close to 2,500 fans were in attendance and at least four hundred WUP students were led into the stadium by a marching band and \"Chief Rooters\" Bill McCandless and Doc Ryder. The opponent was the Allegheny College Methodists from Meadville, PA. Captain Gilbert Miller and John Mackrell were injured and did not play. Calvin Marshall stepped in as acting Captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe WUP offense was basically unstoppable as it produced eleven touchdowns. Omar Mehl, Fred Klawuhn and Leo Eggington each scored two. Leslie Waddill, Charles Clancey, Homer Roe, Van Miller and Joseph Campbell each added one. Waldy Zieg had a banner day kicking as he converted eleven goal kicks after and two field goals to personally account for 19 points. The WUP defense held Allegheny to no first downs. The final tally was 74-0. Coach Wingard was able to give everyone some playing time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Allegheny\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game against Allegheny was James McCormick (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Paul Vitte (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Karl Swenson (quarterback), Omar Mehl (left halfback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), and Charles Clancey (fullback). The following substitutes were utilized at some point during the game: Leo Eggington, Van Miller, John Shuman, C. McKinney, Homer Roe, Ray Focer, Charles Springer, John McElhinny, Edgar Chatham, and Joseph Campbell. The game consisted of twenty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carlisle\nOver five thousand fans attended Exposition Park to witness the Bemis Pierce led Carlisle Indians take on Coach Wingard's Western University eleven on Saturday, October 20. The band and students marched through town and into the stadium. Carlisle was the first of the supposed hard games on the WUP schedule for 1906 and the football public were eager to see how the University lads would stack up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carlisle\n\"The contest clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of the forward pass when attempted by a fast team. The Indians gave an exhibition of this new play which will be seldom if ever again equaled on a gridiron this season. Time and time again this play proved successful and when line plunges were needed the WUP line was unable to withstand the redskin onslaught. That the university line needs strengthening there is no doubt, and if a respectable showing is expected against Wash-Jeff and State considerable changing will be necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carlisle\nThe defeat of the local lads was a bitter pill for the spectators, but it was somewhat atoned for by the first-class exhibition on the part of the Carlisle men. The forward pass and the onside kick, as well as an exhibition of field goal kicking was included in their repertoire. When it is considered that the three men in the backfield, as well as five men on the line can negotiate 100 yards in 10.5 seconds or less, the agility of the entire Indian team can be understood.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carlisle\nOn the Western U. 's second possession Karl Swenson fumbled and Carlisle halfback Mt. Pleasant recovered. The Carlisle offense quickly advanced the ball to the WUP ten yard line. Three plays later Gardiner plunged into the end zone from the one for the Indians first touchdown. Mt. Pleasant kicked the goal after. Walter Ritchie replaced an injured Karl Swenson at quarterback but the WUP offense had to punt the ball back to Carlisle. A forward pass advanced the ball deep into WUP territory and two running plays later Wauseka was in the end zone for the second Carlisle touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0016-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carlisle\nMt. Pleasant booted the ball through the uprights and Carlisle led 12-0. After an exchange of punts, Carlisle had the ball on the WUP fifty yard line. Five plays later Little Boy plowed through the center of the WUP defensive line for a six-yard touchdown and Mt. Pleasant capped the first half scoring with his third goal after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carlisle\nThe WUP offense did not fare any better in the second half against the strong Carlisle defense. The WUP defense played better and only gave up a thirty-yard field goal by quarterback Libby. The final score read Carlisle 22 - WUP 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carlisle\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game against Carlisle was Quince Banbury (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Arthur Yielding (right guard), Paul Vitte (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Karl Swenson (quarterback), Omar Mehl (left halfback), Fred Klawuhn (right halfback), and Winfred Banbury (fullback). The following substitutes were utilized at some point during the game: John Turner, Charles Springer, John Mackrell, Charles Clancey, McKeown, John Shuman, Walter Ritchie, and James McCormick. The game consisted of twenty-five minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 79], "content_span": [80, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carnegie Tech\nThe first meeting with city rival Carnegie Tech took place on October 27, 1906 at Exposition Park in the rain, sleet, and snow. Carnegie Tech opened for business in 1905 and started football in 1906, by popular demand of the student body. Dr. Challinor was the first coach. Attendance was sparse, but the enthusiasts were treated to a tight first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carnegie Tech\nThe WUP was only able to score one touchdown in the first half. Defense ruled as neither offense could generate any sustained drive in the inclement weather. WUP tackle Leslie Waddill fell on a Tartan fumble in the end zone for the lone WUP score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carnegie Tech\nCoach Wingard changed the lineup for the second half. Walter Ritchie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback and led the team on four touchdown drives. McKeown replaced Irish Clancy at fullback and scored the first touchdown of the second half. Winfred Banbury, Homer Roe and Johnny Mackrell scored the other touchdowns. McKeown added a field goal and two goal kicks after to make the final score 31\u20130 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0022-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carnegie Tech\nIn spite of the lopsided score, the WUP coach was not happy with the line play and on Monday October 29 hired John A. Moorehead, former Yale player, as assistant coach. The media and fans were used to the WUP offense running up the score on weak teams. The Pittsburgh Press headline read: \"Poor Play By The WUP Team - Did Not Try Very Hard Against Carnegie Technical School- Scored Once in First Half.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0023-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carnegie Tech\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game against the Tartans was Jay Frye (right end), Leo Eggington (right tackle), Arthur Yielding (right guard), John Turner (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), James McCormick (left end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Charles Springer (left halfback), Winfred Banbury (right halfback), and Charles Clancey (fullback).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0023-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Carnegie Tech\nSubstitutions made during the game were: C. McKinney replaced Waldy Zieg at left guard; Walter Ritchie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback; Paul Vitte replaced Leo Eggington at right tackle; Homer Roe replaced Jay Frye at right end; John Mackrell replaced Charles Springer at left halfback; and McKeown replaced Charles Clancy at fullback. The game consisted of twenty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0024-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\nOn November 3 the WUP lads traveled to Ithaca, N.Y. to play the strong Cornell team led by coach Glenn Warner. Cornell received the opening kick off and was forced to punt by the WUP defense. WUP fumbled the punt and Cornell recovered. The WUP defense held and forced a punt but quarterback Walter Ritchie was tackled in the end zone for a safety. The Big Red then marched down the field and scored on a forward pass to Earle from three yards out. Cook was successful on the goal kick after. Winfred Banbury gave the WUP fans hope as he dashed forty yards with an interception, but the offense could not penetrate the Cornell defense. Late in the first half Cornell fullback Walders kicked a fifty-yard field goal to make the score 12\u20130 at the break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0025-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\nCornell scored on their first possession of the second half. Halfback Earle raced around right end for a forty-five yard touchdown. After a WUP fumble deep in their territory Cornell scored its final touchdown on a pass play to Gibson. Cook was again good on the goal kick after and the final tally was 23-0. Cornell would finish the season with an 8-1-2 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0026-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Cornell\nThe WUP starting lineup[ for the Cornell game was Fred Klawuhn (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), John Shuman (right guard), John Turner (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Omar Mehl (left halfback), Winfred Banbury (right halfback), and Charles Clancey (fullback). The only substitution made was C. McKinney replaced John Shuman at center. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0027-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nThe eighth edition of the \u201cBackyard Brawl\u201d took place on November 10 at Exposition Park. The ladies from the Pennsylvania College for Women and all Pittsburgh area high school seniors were guests of the University. Fifteen hundred students and fans braved the blustery winds and cheered on their team. The WUP team was heavily favored. Coach Wingard did not use his first string backfield because the Washington & Jefferson game was next on the schedule. The WUP offense led by substitute quarterback McKeown managed to score three touchdowns and win the game 17-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0028-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nOn the WUPs first possession, halfback Charles Springer plunged into the end zone for the first touchdown. Halfback Winfred Banbury scored on a pass play late in the first half and fullback Clancy raced sixty-five yards for the last score late in the second half. The WUP defense played well and shut out their sixth opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0029-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\n\"WUP showed disheartening form yesterday in the game with West Virginia University, and while they managed to defeat the up-river boys by the score of 17-0 the result was far from pleasing to the local adherents in view of the crucial test to come next Saturday in the Washington and Jefferson game. The representatives of the Blue and Gold played ragged football from the time the whistle blew for the kick-off, and while there were flashes of good football displayed by them, as a rule they did not play anything like the game they are capable of.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0029-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nThe chief trouble was their proneness to fumble, especially at critical times. By hard work they would manage to rush the ball down to within striking distance of the coveted goal, when then chance to score would be thrown to the winds by a miserable fumble or bad play.... The public pay to see good football and do not relish the idea of paying good prices to see a team composed mostly of scrub players go up against a team of the caliber of that of the West Virginia University. Had the regular team been in the game the score should have been at least double what it was, and the public would have been satisfied that they had witnessed a good exhibition of the fascinating sport.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0030-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia\nThe starting lineup for the game against West Virginia was Fred Klawuhn (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), C. McKinney (right guard), John Turner (center), A. McKeown (left guard), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), S. McKeown (quarterback), Charles Springer (left halfback), Winfred Banbury (right halfback), and Charles Clancey (fullback). Substitutions made during the game were: John Shuman replaced A. McKeown at left guard; John Mackrell replaced Charles Springer at left halfback; and Paul Vitte replaced Leslie Waddill at left tackle. The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one twenty minute half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 84], "content_span": [85, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0031-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nThe Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football squad traveled to Pittsburgh for the second year in a row to do battle with the Western University lads. The 6,000 fans who braved another rainy Saturday were treated to a great defensive game. The WUP offense spent most of the first half in W & J's territory but were unable to score. Penalties and fumbles stymied both teams' efforts. Both defenses continued to do well in the second half. Late in the game umpire Okeson called slugging against WUP halfback Lloyd McKeown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0031-0001", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nThe assessment was half the distance to the goal, which placed the ball on the WUP twenty yard line. The Red and Black worked the ball to the twelve yard line and Kerr Price tried a field goal. Omar Mehl blocked the kick but WUP was offside. Mr. Price was successful on his second try and broke the scoreless tie. In the waning moments of the game, the WUP offense rushed the ball to the Red and Black four yard line. Omar Mehl was unable to penetrate the Red and Black defense as time ran out. The final read 4\u20130 in favor of Washington & Jefferson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0032-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\n\"Although defeated, W. U. P. was by no means disgraced, and the showing they made against the team which had been touted as an easy winner was indeed remarkable. Their line held like a stone wall, and the Red and Black men soon found this out to their sorrow. Time and again they would throw their backs against the mighty line of nerve and muscle, but the impression they would make could hardly be noticed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0033-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nThe usual gesture at the conclusion of this rivalry game was the rewarding of the game ball to the victorious team. Neither the WUP Captain nor Coach Wingard handed the ball to the Red and Black after the game and the newspapers criticized the WUPs for unsportsmanlike conduct. Finally on Tuesday Coach Wingard had Manager Arthur mail the ball to Coach Piekarski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0034-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Washington & Jefferson\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game against Washington & Jefferson was Fred Klawuhn (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), C. McKinney (right guard), John Turner (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Charles Clancey (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Karl Swenson (quarterback), Lloyd McKeown (left halfback), Winfred Banbury (right halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions made during the game were Henry Boisseau replaced Karl Swenson at quarterback and John Mackrell replaced Lloyd McKeown at left halfback. The game consisted of thirty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 93], "content_span": [94, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0035-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nOn November 24 approximately three hundred die-hard fans braved the cold and strong wind to watch WUP play the Grove City Wolverines. Coach Wingard used plenty of substitutes to keep the WUPs healthy for the upcoming State College game. Halfback John Mackrell was the offensive star of the game, as he rushed for three touchdowns. He scored two in the first half. The first was on a forty-yard scamper and he bettered that two minutes later with a seventy yard touchdown jaunt. The score at halftime was 12\u20130 in favor of WUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0036-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nGrove City was able to move the ball offensively but the WUP defense kept them out of the end zone. Both Grove City and WUP missed field goals and had problems with fumbling. Mackrell and Ralston scored second half touchdowns for the WUP eleven on short line plunges to make the final score 24-0. The WUP defense recorded its seventh shutout of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0037-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City\nThe WUP lineup for the game against Grove City was James McCormick (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Artur Yielding (right guard), John Turner (center), C. McKinney (left guard), Charles Clancey (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Lloyd McKeown (left halfback), John Mackrell (right halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback). The following players were substituted into the game: Homer Roe, Leslie Waddill, John Shuman, Leo Eggington, Quince Banbury, Buck, Charles Springer, and Samuel Ralston. The game consisted of twenty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0038-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nMore than eight thousand fans spent their Thanksgiving Day at Exposition Park. They watched the WUP football team battle the visiting (7-1-1) State College eleven. State College's only blemishes on their record were a 10\u20130 loss to Yale (9-0-1) and a tie with Gettysburg (7-1-2). The entire game was a defensive struggle. In the first half State College had the ball inside the ten yard line twice but the WUP defense stiffened with two goal line stands. State College also missed two first half field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0039-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe WUP offense managed to get into field goal range three times in the second half but could not convert. For fifty seven minutes the teams played to a scoreless tie until Winfred Banbury, WUP halfback, was penalized for slugging and sent to the bench. The assessment was half the distance to the goal, which placed the ball on the WUP nine yard line. State halfback Bill McCleary carried the ball into the end zone on third down and kicked the goal after for a 6-0 State College lead. The game ended some seconds later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035942-0040-0000", "contents": "1906 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State\nThe WUP starting lineup for the game against Penn State was Fred Klawuhn (right end), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), C. McKinney (right guard), John Turner (center), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Charles Clancey (left tackle), Ted Perry (left end), Karl Swenson (quarterback), Lloyd McKeown (left halfback), Winfred Banbury (right halfback), and Omar Mehl (fullback). The following substitutions were made during the game: John Shuman replaced C. McKinney at right guard; John Mackrell replaced Winfred Banbury at right halfback; Arthur Yielding replaced John Shuman at right guard; and James McCormick replaced Fred Klawuhn at right end. The game consisted of thirty minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035943-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Westland by-election\nThe Westland by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Westland, a semi-urban seat at the west coast of the South Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035943-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Westland by-election\nThe by-election was held on 13 July 1906, and was precipitated by the death of sitting MP, Prime Minister Richard Seddon. The seat was won by his son, Thomas. His sole opponent was Henry Michel, former Mayor of Hokitika.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035944-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 William & Mary Orange and White football team\nThe 1906 William & Mary Orange and White football team was an American football team that represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1906 college football season. Led by H. W. Withers in his first and only season as head coach, the Orange and White compiled an overall record of 2\u20136. .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035945-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1906 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 25 June until 5 July. It was the 30th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035945-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nFrank Riseley / Sydney Smith defeated Laurence Doherty / Reginald Doherty, 6\u20138, 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035946-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nFrank Riseley and Sydney Smith defeated Clement Cazalet and George Simond 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 6\u20134 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty 6\u20138, 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1906 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035947-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nReigning champion Laurence Doherty defeated Frank Riseley 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1906 Wimbledon Championships. Riseley had defeated Arthur Gore in the All Comers' Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035948-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nDorothea Douglass defeated Charlotte Sterry 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion May Sutton 6\u20133, 9\u20137 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1906 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035949-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1906 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1906 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035950-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035950-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor James O. Davidson won re-election, defeating Democratic nominee John A. Aylward and Socialist nominee Winfield R. Gaylord, with 57.39% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035951-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 1906 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 24 and 25 January 1906 at the ice rink Pohjoissatama in Helsinki, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035951-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nCoen de Koning was defending champion. He did not participated and did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035951-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThere was no World champion declared, no one won three of the four distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035951-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules\nOne could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035952-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035952-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 World Figure Skating Championships\nMen's competition took place on February 4th in Munich, German Empire. Ulrich Salchow did not participate because he feared that the judgement would not be fair in Gilber Fuchs' hometown Munich. Ladies' competition took place from January 28th to 29th in Davos, Switzerland. It was the first World Championships in figure skating for ladies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series\nThe 1906 World Series featured a crosstown matchup between the Chicago Cubs, who had posted the highest regular-season win total (116) and winning percentage (.763) in the major leagues since the advent of the 154-game season; and the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox, known as the \"Hitless Wonders\" after finishing with the worst team batting average (.230) in the American League, beat the Cubs in six games for one of the greatest upsets in Series history. This was the first World Series played by two teams from the same metropolitan area. (The home teams alternated, starting with the NL team being home in Game 1.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series\nThe teams split the first four games; then the Hitless Wonders (a name coined by sportswriter Charles Dryden) exploded for 26 hits in the last two games. True to their nickname, the White Sox hit only .198 as a team in winning the series, but it beat the .196 average produced by the Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series\nIn Game 3, Ed Walsh struck out 12 Cubs, breaking the previous record of 11 set by Bill Dinneen in 1903.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series\nThe 1906 Series was the first to be played between two teams from the same city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0003-0001", "contents": "1906 World Series\nTo date, it remains the only World Series played between the two Chicago teams (in fact, it would be another 102 years before both Chicago teams would qualify for the playoffs during the same season, as this was next accomplished in 2008), and one of only two Series (the other being the 1944 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns) played outside New York City that featured two teams from the same city (although the 1989 World Series was played between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, which are roughly 10 miles (16\u00a0km) apart).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series\nThis is also the most recent World Series where both teams were making their first appearance in the Fall Classic, and since the Washington Nationals made it into the World Series in 2019 as the last National League team (leaving the Seattle Mariners as the only current MLB team without an appearance in the Fall Classic) there is currently no such makeup possible\u2014at least until new franchises are accepted into MLB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Summary\nAL Chicago White Sox (4) vs. NL Chicago Cubs (2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nTuesday, October 9, 1906, at West Side Grounds in Chicago, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nCub starter Mordecai \"Three-Fingered\" Brown was chosen for his dominance against White Sox starter Nick Altrock. Both were perfect through three innings. The Cubs put a runner on second in the bottom of the fourth inning, but couldn't score. In the top of the fifth, George Rohe tripled to lead off, then scored on an error at home when Patsy Dougherty reached on a fielder's choice. The Sox scored a second run in the top of the sixth. Altrock walked, and was sacrificed to second base by Ed Hahn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0007-0001", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nFielder Jones then singled to center but Altrock was thrown out at the plate, Jones taking second on the throw home. He took third on Cub catcher Johnny Kling's passed ball, and Frank Isbell drove him home with a single. The Cubs struck back in their half of the sixth. Kling walked and Brown singled with nobody out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0007-0002", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nAfter Solly Hofman sacrificed the runners to second and third, Altrock's wild pitch scored Kling and sent Brown to third, giving him little margin for error with only one out, but he got Jimmy Sheckard to pop out and Frank Schulte to ground out to end the threat. He pitched beautifully for the rest of the game, allowing only one more Cub to reach second, retaining the 2\u20131 lead for a Game 1 Sox win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nWednesday, October 10, 1906, at South Side Park (III) in Chicago, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nEd Reulbach was called on for the Cubs to face White Sox hurler Doc White. After matching 1\u20132\u20133 first innings, things started to fall apart for White. After cleanup-hitting first baseman Frank Chance led off the top of the second with a strikeout, third baseman Harry Steinfeldt singled to left field and shortstop Joe Tinker beat out a bunt. Cubs second baseman Johnny Evers then reached on a two-base error by White Sox second baseman Frank Isbell, scoring Steinfeldt for an unearned run and moving Tinker and Evers to second and third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0009-0001", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nCatcher Johnny Kling was then intentionally walked to load the bases and bring up the pitcher, still with only one out. Reulbach squeeze-bunted Tinker home for a second unearned run, moving Evers to third and Kling to second with two out. Solly Hofman followed with an infield single to shortstop Lee Tannehill, scoring Evers for a third unearned run, but when Kling tried to score from second, he was thrown out at home plate, ending the rally. The Cubs added a fourth unearned run in the third, ending Doc White's day on the mound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0009-0002", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe Sox scored in the bottom of the fifth inning with an unearned run, thanks to a wild pitch and an error. The Cubs scored three more runs, all earned, in the sixth and eighth to win Game 2 7\u20131 and tie the Series at one game apiece. Reulbach pitched the first one-hitter in World Series history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nThursday, October 11, 1906, at West Side Grounds in Chicago, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nAfter allowing two first-inning hits, Sox starter \"Big Ed\" Walsh didn't give up another and struck out 12, giving the Sox a 2\u20131 edge in the series. After Fred Schulte's first inning two-out double, Walsh retired the next 25 of 27 Cub batters to face him. Third baseman George Rohe cracked a two-out, bases-loaded triple to left in the top of the sixth off Jack Pfiester for the only runs of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nFriday, October 12, 1906, at South Side Park (III) in Chicago, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\n\"Three-Fingered\" Mordecai Brown pitched 5+2\u20443 innings of no-hit ball for the Cubs before settling for a two-hitter to even the series once more at two games apiece. Nick Altrock was the hard-luck loser, with the only run of the game coming on Johnny Evers' two-out single in the top of the seventh scoring Frank Chance. The Sox put the tying run on second base in the top of the ninth thanks to a two-out walk and a passed ball, but Frank Isbell grounded out to end the threat. The game took just 96 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nSaturday, October 13, 1906, at West Side Grounds in Chicago, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nGame 5 was a wild affair with a total of 18 hits, ten walks, six errors, two hit batsmen, three wild pitches and a steal of home. The Cubs allowed a first inning run to the Sox, then scored three of their own to take an early lead. The Sox tied the game in the third on George Davis' theft of home on the front end of a double steal and then took the lead for good with a four-run rally in the fourth and held on for the victory to take a 3\u20132 lead in the series. A 12-hit attack led by Frank Isbell's four doubles were enough to overcome six errors committed by the porous Sox defense. \"Big\" Ed Walsh earned his second win of the series, although he needed three innings of relief help from Doc White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nSunday, October 14, 1906, at South Side Park (III) in Chicago, Illinois", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nMordecai Brown, pitching on only one day of rest, didn't make it out of the second inning as the Hitless Wonders White Sox stunned the 116\u201336 Cubs in the Series finale. The Sox battered Brown for seven runs on eight hits while getting a solid pitching performance from Doc White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0017-0001", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nAlthough the Cubs scored a run and loaded the bases in the ninth, White got Frank Schulte to ground out for the final out of the series and the White Sox won the World Series over the powerful Cubs, who would compensate by winning the next two World Series from young Ty Cobb, Hugh Jennings and the Detroit Tigers even though they fell far short of 116 wins in 1907 or 1908, for the last Cub World Series wins in over a hundred years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nThis game is notable for being the only time the Chicago White Sox have ever clinched a postseason series at home. It remained the only time a Chicago-based team had ever clinched a series at home until the Cubs won the 2015 NLDS on their homefield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035953-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 World Series, Composite line score\n1906 World Series (4\u20132): Chicago White Sox (A.L.) over Chicago Cubs (N.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035954-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 World Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1906 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Lille, France on March 18, 1906. There were 33 men in action from 4 nations. It was the 9th World Weightlifting Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035955-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1906 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1906 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach William McMurray, the team compiled a 1\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 35 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035956-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming gubernatorial election\nThe 1906 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Governor Bryant B. Brooks ran for re-election to a second term. After winning renomination against some intraparty challengers, he faced State Senator Stephen Keister in the general election. Brooks was ultimately able to win re-election by an overwhelming margin, setting a record for the largest majority in a state gubernatorial election, which would not be exceeded until Governor Stanley Hathaway's re-election in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035956-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming gubernatorial election, Party conventions\nAs the Republican convention began on August 29, 1906, Governor Brooks was seen as a heavy favorite for renomination, but several challengers to Brooks emerged, including State Treasurer William C. Irvine, banker Thomas A. Cosgriff, and L. G. Phelps. Despite the strong challenges, however, Brooks was renominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035956-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming gubernatorial election, Party conventions\nAs the Democratic convention began on September 13, 1906, Democratic leaders reported that they had \"difficulty finding prominent democrats willing to take places on the ticket,\" with State Senator Stephen Keister named as the likeliest candidate for Governor. Keister was ultimately nominated, and the Democratic Party adopted a platform endorsing William Jennings Bryan as a candidate for President in 1908 and supporting the direct election of U.S. Senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035957-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming state elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 6, 1906. All of the state's executive officers\u2014the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction\u2014were up for election. Republicans held onto all statewide offices by landslide margins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035957-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor DeForest Richards ran for re-election to a second term, and was renominated at the Republican convention. In the general election, he faced Cody Mayor George T. Beck, whom he defeated in a landslide to win a second term. However, several months into Richards's term, he died in office, elevating Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton to the governorship and triggering a special election in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035957-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton, who briefly served as acting Governor following DeForest Richards's death, declined to run for re-election. Former Cheyenne Mayor William R. Schnitger, was nominated by the Republican convention for Secretary of State unanimously after he was not selected as the nominee for State Treasurer. At the Democratic convention, current Cheyenne Mayor Daniel W. Gill received the party's nomination. In the general election, Schnitger defeated Gill overwhelmingly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035957-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming state elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor LeRoy Grant ran for re-election to a third term. He was renominated by the Republican convention and faced Albany County Clerk Thomas J. Dayton, the Democratic nominee, in the general election. Grant was re-elected in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035957-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican Treasurer William C. Irvine was barred from seeking a second consecutive term due to term limits. At the Republican convention, Edward Gillette, a railroad superintendent and a former civil engineer, was nominated as Irvine's replacement. In the general election, Gillette faced former State Representative James M. Lobban, the Democratic nominee. Gillette defeated Lobban in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035957-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nIncumbent Republican Superintendent Thomas T. Tynan ran for re-election to a third term, but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by Converse County Clerk Archibald D. Cook. In the general election, he faced Democratic nominee May Hamilton, whom he defeated in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035958-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1906 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1906 college football season. The team finished with a 9\u20130\u20131 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Caspar Whitney, and Parke H. Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup\nThe 1906 Yorkshire Cup was the second in the Rugby Football League club tournament's history. It was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the English county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup\nThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup\n1906 was the second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup\nThis year there were two new clubs to contest the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup\nBradford won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 8-5", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup\nThe match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 10,500 and receipts were \u00a3286", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nBrighouse Rangers, Castleford (1896) and Normanton left the league and the three non league clubs from last season were not invited, but they were replaced by junior/amateur club New Blackpool. This resulted in an overall decrease of five clubs, leaving a total of fifteen entrants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThis, in turn, resulted in one bye in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nPontefract resigned after 8 league matches and their record was expunged, but by this time, they had played (and lost) in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 69], "content_span": [70, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * This was a record score at the time in the competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n2 * New Blackpool is/was a junior/amateur club from ? (possibly Leeds area - can anyone shed light on this\u00a0?)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035959-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n3 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections\nThe United States Senate elections of 1906 and 1907 were elections which had the Republican Party gain three seats in the United States Senate, expanding their majority to more twice that of the opposing Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections\nAs these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 59th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were seated during 1906 or in 1907 before March 4; ordered by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 59th Congress\nIn this election, the winner was seated March 4, 1909 in the 61st Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections leading to the 60th Congress\nIn these regular elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1907; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 100], "content_span": [101, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 60th Congress\nIn these elections, the winners were elected in 1907 after March 4; sorted by election date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Alabama\nThe two new senators, John H. Bankhead and Joseph F. Johnston, were named \"alternate\" senators at the state Democratic primary in 1906. The men who would beat them both died so Bankhead and Johnston were elected in their places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Alabama, Class 2, Alabama (Regular, Class 2)\nFive-term Democrat John Tyler Morgan was re-elected January 22, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Alabama, Class 2, Alabama (Special, Class 2)\nMorgan died June 11, 1907, just three months into his sixth term. Democrat John H. Bankhead was appointed June 18, 1907 to continue the term, pending a July 16, 1907 special election, which he won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Alabama, Class 3, Alabama (Regular, Class 3)\nTwo-term Democrat Edmund Pettus was re-elected early on January 22, 1907 for the term that would begin in 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035960-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 and 1907 United States Senate elections, Alabama, Class 3, Alabama (Special, Class 3)\nPettus died July 27, 1907, even before his new term was supposed to begin. Democrat Joseph F. Johnston was elected August 6, 1907 both to finish the term and to the next term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 90], "content_span": [91, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035961-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 college baseball season\nThe 1906 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1906. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035961-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 college baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1906 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season\nThe 1906 college football season was the first in which the forward pass was permitted. Although there was no clear cut national championship, there were two teams that had won all nine of their games as the 1906 season drew to a close, the Princeton Tigers and the Yale Bulldogs, and on November 17, 1906, they played to a 0\u20130 tie. St. Louis University finished at 11\u20130\u20130. The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Princeton had been the best college football team of 1906. Other selectors recognized Yale as the national champions for 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nAlthough his nearsightedness kept him off the Harvard varsity squad, Theodore Roosevelt was a vocal exponent of football's contribution to the \u201cstrenuous life,\u201d both on and off the field. He helped revive the annual Harvard\u2013Yale football series after it had been canceled for two years following the violent 1894 clash that was deemed \u201cthe bloodbath at Hampden Park.\u201d His belief that the football field was a proving ground for the battlefield was validated by the performance of his fellow Rough Riders who were former football standouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\n\u201cIn life, as in a football game,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthe principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!\u201d In 1903, the president told an audience, \u201cI believe in rough games and in rough, manly sports. I do not feel any particular sympathy for the person who gets battered about a good deal so long as it is not fatal.\u201d He summoned the head coaches and representatives of the premier collegiate powers\u2014Harvard, Yale and Princeton\u2014to the White House on October 9, 1905. Roosevelt urged them to curb excessive violence and make an example of fair play for the rest of the country. The schools released a statement condemning brutality and pledging to keep the game clean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nFollowing the 1905 season, Stanford and California switched to rugby while Columbia, Northwestern and Duke dropped football. Harvard president Charles William Eliot, who considered football \u201cmore brutalizing than prizefighting, cockfighting or bullfighting,\u201d warned that Harvard could be next, a move that could have been a crushing blow to the college game. Roosevelt wrote in a letter to a friend that he would not let Eliot \u201cemasculate football,\u201d and that he hoped to \u201cminimize the danger\u201d without football having to be played \u201con too ladylike a basis.\u201d Roosevelt again used his bully pulpit. He urged for radical rule changes, and he invited other school leaders to the White House in the off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nAn intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), approved radical rule changes for the 1906 season. They legalized the forward pass, abolished the dangerous flying wedge, created a neutral zone between offense and defense, and doubled the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs. Georgia Tech coach John Heisman had seen the forward pass attempted in 1895 in a Georgia vs. North Carolina game, and lobbied for its legalization starting in 1903. After unsuccessfully attempting for three years to convince Rules Committee chairman Walter Camp to legalize the play, Heisman enlisted the valuable support of committee members John C. Bell and Paul Dashiell instead. Finally, in 1906, the Rules Committee, college football's governing body at the time, legalized the forward pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 926]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nThe American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee met at the Murray Hill Hotel in New York City beginning January 12, 1906, to create measures \u201cfor squelching brutality and all forms of unnecessary roughness.\u201d Numerous changes were made, the primary one being the legalization of the forward pass. Various persons are given credit for the suggestion. Heisman. Bell, and Dr. J. William White were later credited with designing rules that would permit a pass, yet still be acceptable to a majority on the rules committee. Among the other rule changes made for the 1906 season included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nEven with the approval of a forward pass, the rules for American football in 1906 were still significantly different than the ones of a century later, as many of the present rules (100-yard field, four downs to gain ten yards, 6-point touchdown and 3-point field goal) were adopted in 1912. The rules in 1906 were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0006-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nAlthough a forward pass was made legal, that play in 1906 was still a risky business, because an incomplete attempt would result in stiff penalties \u2014 15 yards back from the spot from which the pass was thrown on first or second down. If the defense committed a foul, the 15 yard penalty didn't apply to the offense, but the defending team was not penalized either. In addition, a pass could not be caught more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, nor beyond the goal line (the end zone had not yet been invented).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0006-0001", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nThe passing game in the west (typified by St. Louis University) was closer to today's version than that in the east; the quarterback would fire the ball directly to an open receiver. The style used by Yale and Harvard, recounted later by a referee of the day, Horatio B. Hackett, was \"the ball is thrown high in the air and the runner who is to catch it is protected by several of his teammates forming an interference for him.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0007-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, New rules to save football\nNot everyone was impressed with the improved version of college football, particularly in California. \"I do not believe the present experiment in American college football can survive,\" said the President of the University of California, Benjamin Ide Wheeler. He added, \"In my opinion, the whole country will within five years be playing the Rugby game.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0008-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, September\nThe Yale Bulldogs had enjoyed a 10\u20130\u20130 record in 1905, shutting out all of their opponents except for the Princeton Tigers, whom they had allowed a touchdown. In the West, the Michigan Wolverines, coached by Fielding \"Hurry Up\" Yost, had shut out their first 12 opponents, before playing the 9\u20130\u20130 University of Chicago Maroons. Chicago not only avoided a shutout, but handed Michigan a 2\u20130 loss. In the South, Georgia Tech had gone 6\u20130\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0009-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, September\nSeptember 5 marked the first use of the forward pass in a college football game. In its 22\u20130 win over Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on a Wednesday afternoon, St. Louis University unveiled a new offensive style. SLU's coach, Eddie Cochems, had his team secretly practice the play. Though the first attempt was incomplete (resulting in a turnover), the next one was successful, as Bradbury Robinson threw to Jack Schneider, who then ran the rest of the way for a touchdown. St. Louis would go on to an 11\u20130\u20130 record, outscoring its opponents 407\u201331, including Marquette (30\u20130), Kansas (34\u20132), Drake (32\u20139) and Iowa (39\u20130).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0010-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, September\nThe season began in earnest on September 22, with some of the more powerful teams holding their lesser opposition scoreless, and on their home field. Harvard beat Williams 7\u20130, Carlisle over Villanova 6\u20130, Dartmouth defeated Norwich 5\u20130. Penn State had a 24\u20130 win over Lebanon Valley. In the west, Kansas had an 18\u20130 victory over William Jewell College. In one of the few games where both teams scored, Holy Cross hosted Massachusetts in Philadelphia and won 6\u20134. Harvard played a midweek game on September 26, beating Bowdoin 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0011-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, September\nOn September 29, Princeton opened its season with a 24\u20130 win over Villanova, and Penn beat Lehigh 32\u20136. At West Point, the United States Military Academy (\"Army\") won 12\u20130 over Tufts. The universities of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts were all shut out by, respectively, Harvard (17\u20130), Dartmouth (8\u20130), Brown (12\u20130) and Williams (5\u20130). Penn State, Swarthmore and Dickinson all registered 26\u20130 wins over, Allegheny, Johns Hopkins and Lebanon Valley, respectively. Pitt defeated Westminster 17\u20130. Colgate and Cornell played to a 0\u20130 tie at Ithaca, while out west, another Cornell (of Iowa) lost to Iowa State, 81\u20130. Carlisle went one better, beating Albright 82\u20130. In the South, Georgia Tech and Maryville tied 6\u20136 in Atlanta, and Davidson and North Carolina were scoreless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0012-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nOctober 6: Harvard won its fourth game, but its 27\u20136 win over Bates took the Crimson out of the ranks of the unscored upon. Meanwhile, other teams recorded their third consecutive shutouts. Swarthmore beat visiting Villanova 4\u20130, and Penn State won at Carlisle by the same 4\u20130 score. Dartmouth bested Holy Cross, 16\u20130 and Princeton beat Stevens 22\u20130. Army over Trinity (24\u20130), Yale had opened its season midweek (October 3, 21\u20130 over Wesleyan) and then beat Syracuse (51\u20130) (Wesleyan itself lost 17\u20130 to Brown).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0012-0001", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nIn the west, Iowa State's team beat Coe College 36\u20130 on Friday, then Des Moines 45\u20130 the next day. Maryville, at that time a regular southern opponent powerhouse, lost at Alabama, 6\u20130; two days earlier, it had lost to Ole Miss 16\u20136. Michigan opened its season with a 28\u20130 win over visiting Case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0013-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nOctober 13: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown remained unscored upon, as did Lafayette, Pittsburgh and Swarthmore. Playing on 3 Saturdays and 2 Wednesdays, the Princeton Tigers played five games in fifteen days (Sep 29 to Oct 13), beating Villanova, Stevens, Washington & Jefferson, Lehigh (52\u20130), and in Annapolis on this date, a 5\u20130 win over Navy. Brown had beaten Massachusetts 17\u20130 on a Wednesday afternoon. Yale defeated Holy Cross 17\u20130 and Maine 4\u20130. Swarthmore eked out a win at Penn, 4\u20130. Harvard, 5\u20130\u20130 but not scorefree, defeated Massachusetts 21\u20130. Army and Colgate played to a 0\u20130 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0014-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nIn the West, Kansas defeated Arkansas 37\u20135 and Nebraska beat Drake 5\u20130. In the South, Vanderbilt defeated Ole Miss at home, 29\u20130 and Texas beat TCU 22\u20130. Georgia Tech beat Tennessee-Chattanooga 18\u20130 to reach 2\u20130\u20131. Clemson opened its season with a 0\u20130 tie with visiting Virginia Tech. Other colleges stayed unscored upon, but against smaller opponents (Iowa State 32\u20130 over Morningside, Mississippi State 62\u20130 over Marion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0015-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nOctober 20: Yale stayed unscored on with a 10\u20130 win over Penn State, and Dartmouth beat Massachusetts 26\u20130. Princeton, however, gave up points in a 32\u20134 win over Bucknell. Swarthmore beat GWU 17\u20130. Harvard had a 44\u20130 win over Springfield. Lafayette defeated North Carolina in Norfolk, VA, 28\u20136. Brown was handed its first defeat, a 14\u20130 loss at Pennsylvania, while Pitt lost to Carlisle, 22\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0016-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nAfter warming up with small colleges, Iowa State won at Nebraska, 14\u20132, while Kansas beat visiting Oklahoma 20\u20134. Michigan won at Ohio State, 6\u20130. In the South, Vanderbilt handed Alabama a 78\u20130 loss. After tuneup wins against Mooney and Rhodes, Sewanee won at Georgia Tech, 16\u20130. Clemson beat Georgia 6\u20130, and played a Thursday afternoon 0\u20130 tie against NC State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0017-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nOctober 27: Yale stayed unscored on, with a 12\u20130 win over Amherst. Harvard won at Army, 5\u20130. Swarthmore yielded a score in a 19\u20134 win over Gettysburg. Lafayette beat Colgate 17\u20136. Dartmouth and Williams College played to a 0\u20130 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0018-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, October\nKansas beat Colorado, 16\u20130 but Iowa State lost at Minnesota, 22\u20134, and Missouri lost its first outing against a large school, falling 26\u20134 at Iowa. Michigan beat visiting Illinois, 28\u20139. Vanderbilt beat Texas, 45\u20130. Mississippi State and LSU played to a 0\u20130 tie. Sewanee had beaten Auburn 10\u20135 in a Friday afternoon game at Birmingham. Georgia Tech beat Davidson 4\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0019-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nNovember 3 The Yale Bulldogs traveled to West Point, and finally yielded some points, with the Army Cadets taking a 6\u20130 lead at halftime. Yale made no first downs, but won the game anyway. Clarence Alcott blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown to tie the game 6\u20136 on the point after. With two minutes left, Bigelow of Yale kicked a 35-yard field goal (for 4 points) from a steep angle, and a 10\u20136 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0020-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nUnbeaten Princeton (7\u20130\u20130) and Dartmouth (5\u20130\u20131) met in New Jersey, and it was no contest. The Princeton Tigers shut down the Big Green, 42\u20130 with seven touchdowns. Harvard beat Brown 9\u20135 (on a field goal with three minutes left) to reach 8\u20130\u20130 as well. Swarthmore defeated Amherst, 21\u20130, and Lafayette beat Washington & Jefferson 14\u20136, to stay unbeaten. Carlisle defeated Syracuse, 9\u20134 in a game in Buffalo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0021-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nOut West, previously unbeaten Kansas traveled to meet St. Louis to match their rushing game against Eddie Cochem's pass attack. St. Louis made all the points, including the safety, for a 34\u20132 win. Vanderbilt (4\u20130) traveled to Ann Arbor to take on Michigan (3\u20130), and lost, 10\u20134. Sewanee visited Tennessee at won, 17\u20130, while Georgia Tech pasted Auburn 11\u20130. Clemson had its 3rd 0\u20130 tie, this one with Davidson, for a 1\u20130\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0022-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nNovember 10 In the East, the number of unbeaten and untied teams went from five to just three: Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Lafayette and Penn played to a 0\u20130 tie in Philadelphia; the Quakers drove 59 yards to the one, but were held by Lafayette's goal line defense. At Annapolis, Swarthmore lost at Navy, 5\u20134, the result of a touchdown against a field goal. Before a crowd of 25,000 Harvard beat visiting Carlisle, 5\u20130, and Yale beat Brown by the same score Princeton won at West Point, 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0023-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nIn the South, Sewanee stayed unbeaten with a 35\u20130 win in New Orleans over Tulane (followed two days later by a 24\u20130 in over Ole Miss in Memphis). Vanderbilt beat Rose-Hulman College, 33\u20130 to reach 5\u20131\u20130 and Georgia Tech won at Georgia, 17\u20130. Clemson beat Tennessee 16\u20130. Texas A&M played TCU a second time; the first time around, TCU lost 42\u20130, and the second contest was a 22\u20130 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0024-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nNovember 17 The big game of the season (making the front pages the next day) was at Princeton, New Jersey, where 26,000 watched Yale and Princeton (both 8\u20130\u20130) faced off at Osborns Field. Both teams tried out the forward pass, described in The New York Times as \"these spectacular new\u2013fangled plays\". Yale crashed the Princeton line in the final minutes, gaining at least 4 yards on each carry, but time ran out just as the Bulldogs reached the ten yard line, and the game ended in a 0\u20130 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0025-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nHarvard became the last unbeaten and untied team, as its 22\u20139 win over Dartmouth gave it a record of 10\u20130\u20130. Princeton's season was over, but the annual Harvard\u2013Yale game was still to be played. Cornell (7\u20131\u20131) hosted Swarthmore (7\u20131\u20130) and came away with a 28\u20130 victory. Previously unbeaten Lafayette (6\u20130\u20131) hosted 4\u20133\u20130 Syracuse and was upset, 12\u20134. Penn State beat Dickinson in Williamsport, PA, 6\u20130. In Philadelphia, 15,000 watched the visiting Michigan Wolverines lose 17\u20130 to the Pennsylvania Quakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0026-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nIn the West, Kansas played at Nebraska, winning 8\u20136 to extend its record to 7\u20131\u20131. Iowa State beat Grinnell 25\u20136 to reach 7\u20131\u20130. Carlisle visited Minnesota and won 17\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0027-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nIn the South, Sewanee beat Maryville to reach an 8\u20130\u20130 record, and Vanderbilt beat Georgia Tech 37\u20136 to reach 6\u20131\u20130. Their annual game was set for Thanksgiving Day, which in 1907 fell on November 29. Texas A&M won at Tulane, 18\u20130, and two days later won at LSU, 22\u201312, to reach 5\u20130\u20130. The Alabama\u2013Auburn game ended with Bama winning 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0028-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nNovember 24 The big game of the season was Harvard (10\u20130\u20130) at Yale (8\u20130\u20131). A crowd of 32,000 in New Haven saw the Crimson\u2013Blue meeting, described as \"a game as has seldom been seen on any field,\" with both sides relying heavily on the forward pass. . Paul Veeder threw a pass and Clarence Alcott jumped high to catch it at the 3 yard line for a first down. Two plays later, Tom Roome forced his way through the line for Yale's touchdown. A Harvard fumble in the closing minutes was recovered by the Bulldogs, who were 12 yards from goal when the whistle blue. Final score: Yale 6, Harvard 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0029-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nWith that final game, both Yale and Princeton closed their seasons with identical 9\u20130\u20131 records, nine wins each and their own 0\u20130 tie. Other games played that day were Lafayette's 33\u20130 win over Lehigh, and Penn State 10\u20130 over West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0030-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nThanksgiving Day, November 29, 1907, was the next best thing to post-season play, as rivals met on the holiday. Cornell and Penn played to a 0\u20130 tie and Lafayette beat Dickinson 26\u20136 and Penn State won at Pittsburgh, 6\u20130, giving both teams an 8\u20131\u20131 finish. In the West, Iowa State won at Drake, 7\u20130, and Texas beat Texas A&M 24\u20130. Both teams finished at 9\u20131\u20130. Further West, college football wasn't yet played on the Pacific Coast; the big game there had been Stanford's 6\u20133 win at Berkeley over California\u2014in a rugby game attended by 10,000 fans", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035962-0031-0000", "contents": "1906 college football season, November\nIn Nashville, Sewanee (8\u20130\u20130) and Vanderbilt (7\u20131\u20130) met on Thanksgiving for the South's biggest game. Vandy, whose only loss was its visit to Michigan, handed the Sewanee Tigers a 20\u20130 defeat. Alabama crushed Tennessee, 51\u20130, to finish 5\u20131\u20130, while the Vols' record was 1\u20136\u20132; the win, and one of the ties, was against American College. Clemson won at Georgia Tech, 10\u20130, closing its season unbeaten, though not untied (4\u20130\u20133).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035963-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1906 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035963-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in Afghanistan\nThere are no internal disturbances and no disputes with foreign neighbours during the year. Even the usual rumours of differences and intrigues within the royal family have ceased. All its members are apparently on excellent terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035963-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 in Afghanistan, Summer 1906\nThe amir makes a three months' tour of inspection through Jalalabad and the adjoining districts, and during his absence Sardar Nasrullah Khan acts as governor of Kabul with considerable success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035963-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 in Afghanistan, September 15, 1906\nThe relations between the amir and the government of India having continued to be most friendly, the amir holds a great durbar at Kabul, in which he informs his chiefs of the viceroy's invitation to him to visit India, and of his acceptance of it. He explains that the visit will be purely one of friendship and courtesy, all political questions having been finally settled by the treaty of 1905. By the close of the year the amir, with his escort and a large following of chiefs, has reached the frontier, and his visit passes off most satisfactorily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035964-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Argentine football\n1906 in Argentine football saw Alumni regaining the Argentine championship for the 6th time in seven seasons. The team also won the local Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires and internationals Tie Cup and Copa de Honor Cousenier, obtaining four titles within the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035964-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in Argentine football\nSan Isidro, Argentino de Quilmes and San Mart\u00edn made their debuts in Primera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035964-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 in Argentine football, Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1906 championship was expanded to include 11 teams. The teams were split into two groups with each team playing the others in their group twice. The two group winners played in a championship decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035964-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 in Argentine football, Argentina national team\nArgentina national team won their first trophies, on 15 August 1906 they won 3-2 against Uruguay in Montevideo to win the 2nd edition of Copa Lipton, in October they defeated Uruguay again to win the inaugural Copa Newton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035965-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1906 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035966-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035966-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1906 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035966-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1906 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035967-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Belgium\nThe following lists events that happened during 1906 in the Kingdom of Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035969-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Brazilian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 1906 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 5th season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035969-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Paulista\nMackenzie abandoned the competition, its matches were canceled and the points in the remaining matches were awarded to the club's opponents. S\u00e3o Paulo Athletic matches were canceled, as the club abandoned the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035970-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1906 in music in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035972-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canada, Historical Documents\nReconciling rules on homesteading and traditional Doukhobor communal practice is complicated by poverty, religious freedom and squatting", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035972-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canada, Historical Documents\nHardships and success of Barr Colony settlers at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035972-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canada, Historical Documents\nBritish printers complain of being tricked into breaking Winnipeg strike", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035972-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canada, Historical Documents\nSave Manitoba elk and moose from \"the white man's lust for killing\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035973-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canadian football\nThe 1906 Canadian football season was the 15th season of organized play since the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU) was founded in 1892 and the 24th season since the creation of the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) and the Quebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) in 1883. The season concluded with the Hamilton Tigers defeating the McGill University Seniors in the 1906 Dominion Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035973-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1906\nSpecifications were first made for the size of football, where the ball had to be 11 inches long, 23 inches in circumference and 13 3/4 ounces in weight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035973-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1906\nGoals from the Field and Free Kicks were increased to four points in the ORFU. Games were four 15-minute quarters in length. CIRFU lowered Goals from the Field to four points and Free Kicks to three points. Calgary City Rugby Football Club was formed March 14 at Calgary City Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035973-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1906\nThe Manitoba Rugby Football Union saw the four teams play an unbalanced schedule. Each team could earn a maximum of 30 points on the season. The value for a win was determined by the formula (30 divided by number of games scheduled). The Winnipeg Football Club was awarded 5 points per win; the Winnipeg Rowing Club and the St.John's Rugby Football Club were awarded 6 points per win and the Brandon Football Club was awarded 7.5 points per win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035973-0004-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canadian football, Canadian football news in 1906\nThe Winnipeg Rugby Football Club had difficulty getting a full team to show up to games and they folded midway through the season. The Winnipeg Rugby Football Club defaulted one game to each of the other teams. The final game of the season between the Rowing Club and the St.John's was not played as the Winnipeg Rowing Club had already been crowned as champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035973-0005-0000", "contents": "1906 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035974-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1906 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035978-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in France\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Dawnseeker2000 (talk | contribs) at 01:51, 22 June 2020 (date format audit, minor formatting). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035982-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Italy, Events\nThe Italian film industry takes shape, led by three major organizations: Cines, founded in 1906 in Rome; and the Turin-based companies Ambrosio Film, founded by pioneering filmmaker Arturo Ambrosio in 1906, and Itala Film. Other companies soon followed in Milan and Naples, and these early companies quickly attained a respectable production quality and were able to market their products both within Italy and abroad. Giosu\u00e8 Carducci is the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1906 \"not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035984-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1906 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035984-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in New Zealand, Events, June\n10 June: Prime Minister Richard Seddon died suddenly in office of a heart attack, ending a 13-year premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035984-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 in New Zealand, Events, August\n6 August: Sir Joseph Ward was sworn in as Prime Minister, taking over from acting Prime Minister William Hall-Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035984-0003-0000", "contents": "1906 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film\nSee : Category:1906 film awards, 1906 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1906 films", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035985-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Norway, Events\nThe coronation of King Haakon VII and Queen Maud on 22 June 1906", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035986-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Norwegian football, Class A of local association leagues\nThe champions qualify to the 1905 Norwegian cup (The exception being Nordenfjeldske, which was not yet a NFF member).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035987-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1906 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035991-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1906 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035994-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Swedish football\nThe 1906 season in Swedish football, starting January 1906 and ending December 1906:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035995-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1906 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 68]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035996-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1906 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00035998-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in architecture\nThe year 1906 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036000-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in association football\nThe following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1906 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036002-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in baseball\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Torsodog (talk | contribs) at 22:33, 16 February 2020 (\u2192\u200eSeptember). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036002-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1906 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036002-0002-0000", "contents": "1906 in baseball, Champions\nInter-league playoff: Chicago (AL) declined challenge by New York Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036004-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036005-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036006-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1906 in motorsport, including the major racing events, racing festivals, circuits that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036006-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in motorsport, Annual events\nThe calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had own significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036007-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in music\nThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036008-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036008-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in paleontology, Arthropods, Insects\nA Vespidae wasp, with three species P. florissantia, P. gillettei, and P. scudderi", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036009-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036009-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in poetry, Births\nDeath years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036011-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036012-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in science\nThe year 1906 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036013-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in science fiction\nThe year 1906 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036013-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 in science fiction, Awards\nThe main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036014-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in sports\n1906 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036015-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 in the Congo Free State\nThe following lists events that happened during 1906 in the Congo Free State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036018-0000-0000", "contents": "1906 malaria outbreak in Ceylon\nThe 1906 malaria outbreak in Ceylon, was a major malaria outbreak in Ceylon during the early twentieth century. The first cases were reported in the early 1900s but not officially recorded until 1906. Malaria has been prevalent on the island since the 3rd century B.C. Malaria is caused by single-cell microorganisms of Plasmodium group. This disease is commonly spread by the female Anopheles mosquito. Most Anopheles mosquito species are native in Sri Lanka. There are four main mosquito species on the island including: Anopheles culicifacies, Anopheles subpictus, Anopheles annularis and Anopheles varuna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036018-0001-0000", "contents": "1906 malaria outbreak in Ceylon, History\nIn pre-colony era there no written records of malaria-related cases in Sri Lanka. Early 13th century small details founded Polonnaruwa Kingdom (1056\u20131236) as recorded by Buddhist monks write in the chronicle Mahavams. There was no such record of malaria-related cases Anuradhapura Kingdom (377 BC\u20131017 AD) period but an unclear illness report found from Anuradhapura era written stone inscriptions in Sri Lanka. It never recognizes malaria-related illness. Under the Dutch colony period Dutch Ceylon (1640\u20131796) located Southern Province (exclude Hambanthota district) in the wet zone reported unknown disease spread. It is called kale una or forest fever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036018-0001-0001", "contents": "1906 malaria outbreak in Ceylon, History\nBecause most illness reported near forest areas. First official record found in British Colonial period (1796\u20131948) malaria spread rapidly reaching a major epidemic in 1934 to 1935. It is called \"The Great Malaria Epidemic\". During that time estimated five million people infected with disease and approximately 80,000 people died. British Government launch project called Anti- Malaria campaign. It started in 1911 but effected in 1934. First Campaign launch located in Kurunagala District. British Ceylon honored first country has been free from malaria since the 1940s. 70 years no one cases reported in Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036019-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Aberdeen F.C. season\nAberdeen F.C. competed in the Scottish Football League First Division and Scottish Cup in season 1906\u201307.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036019-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Aberdeen F.C. season, Overview\nThis was Aberdeen's fourth season overall and second in the top flight. Aberdeen finished 11th out of 18 clubs in the First Division, but were knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Renfrewshire club Johnstone after a replay. New signings included Irish international Charlie O'Hagan from Middlesbrough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036020-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Army Cadets men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Army Cadets men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Harry Fisher, coaching his first season with the cadets. The team captain was Lewis Rockwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036021-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036021-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season, Season\nArmy's third season in ice hockey brought about its first losing record. The Cadets played so poorly at the end of the year that they were shutout by two secondary schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036022-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 Football League season was Aston Villa's 19th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036022-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Aston Villa F.C. season\nVilla signed Bobby Evans in the summer of 1906 for a fee of \u00a330 from Wrexham-the Welsh club then playing in the Birmingham and District League. While at Villa Evans continued to add to his tally of Welsh caps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036022-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Aston Villa F.C. season\nAston Villa started the new year with a 0-1 defeat to Manchester United. The following month they recorded their biggest victory of the season beating Sheffield Wednesday 8-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036023-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Auburn Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Auburn Tigers men's basketball team represented Auburn University during the 1906\u201307 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States college basketball season. The team captain was C.W. Woodruff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036024-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 10 teams, and Union Saint-Gilloise won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036025-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Birmingham F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 Football League season was Birmingham Football Club's 15th in the Football League and their 7th in the First Division. They finished in ninth place in the 20-team league. They also took part in the 1906\u201307 FA Cup, entering at the first round proper and losing in that round to Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036025-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Birmingham F.C. season\nTwenty-six players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Forwards Benny Green and Billy Jones were ever-present over the 39-match season; full-back Frank Stokes and half-backs Billy Beer and Walter Wigmore missed only one, and three other players exceeded 30 appearances. Billy Jones was leading scorer with 15 goals, all of which came in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036025-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Birmingham F.C. season\nThe last league match at the Coventry Road ground, which no longer met the club's needs, was played on 22 December 1906. Birmingham beat Bury 3\u20131. The last goal was scored by Arthur Mounteney, and the Birmingham Daily Post described how", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036025-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Birmingham F.C. season\nAt the conclusion of the match the band played \"Auld Lang Syne\", and the crowd silently left the ground which has been the home of the club for so many years and the scene of many brilliant victories and many heartbreaking defeats, and of an uphill struggle from which the club, thanks to the courage of the directors, has at length emerged triumphant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036025-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Birmingham F.C. season\nWithin months the ground had been demolished and the land cleared for housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036025-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Birmingham F.C. season\nConstruction of the St Andrew's Ground, in the Bordesley district some three-quarters\u00a0of a\u00a0mile\u00a0(1\u00a0km) closer to the city centre, had taken less than a year from leasing the land to official opening on Boxing Day 1906. Heavy overnight snowfall put the ceremony, and the scheduled match against Middlesbrough, at risk. Dozens of volunteers, including members of the club's board, worked all morning to clear the pitch. The game finally kicked off an hour late, finishing goalless in front of 32,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036025-0005-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Birmingham F.C. season\nThe Birmingham Daily Post editorial next day suggested that \"the fact that so many spectators attended under such adverse conditions augurs well for the step that the directors have taken\", and that the directors were \"to be congratulated in having provided their supporters with a ground second to none in the country\". The Football Association chose the ground to host the FA Cup semi-final in March 1907 between Sheffield Wednesday and Woolwich Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036026-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Blackpool F.C. 's tenth season (seventh consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the twenty-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing thirteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036026-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Blackpool F.C. season\nWilliam Grundy was the club's top scorer, with eight goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036026-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nIt took nine games for the Seasiders to chalk up their first victory. It occurred on 20 October at home to Glossop Town. Only three more wins were procured before the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036026-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nOf the eighteen fixtures that took place in 1907, Blackpool won seven, drew six and lost five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036026-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis\nBlackpool's FA Cup campaign ended where it started: at West Ham United in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036026-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out\nThe following players left after the final game of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036027-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the fourth in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036027-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe club finished 5th in Division Two, and reached the 3rd round of the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036027-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nDuring the season there was talk of a merger with city rivals Bradford (Park Avenue). A meeting was held on 28 May 1907, with the proposal being rejected by 1,031 votes against to 487 for.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036028-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1906\u201307 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. The highlight of the mid-table season was a run to the third round of the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036028-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nFollowing the death of Dick Molyneux, William Brown was appointed Brentford secretary-manager on a permanent basis at the end of the 1905\u201306 season, having initially been appointed interim manager in February 1906. He retained the Bees' nucleus of players (Watson, Jay, Parsonage, Tomlinson, Corbett, Underwood, Greaves, Shanks) and brought in a new goalkeeper (Williams), two full backs (McConnell and Taylor), half back Haworth and four new forwards (Greechan, Hagan, McAllister and Pentland).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036028-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford were a model of inconsistently throughout the Southern League First Division season, only winning consecutive matches on two occasions. Key forward Tommy Shanks went on strike early in the season and was transferred to Leicester Fosse for \u00a3250, which weakened the forward line. Fred Pentland proved to be an able replacement and finished as second-leading goalscorer behind Fred Corbett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036028-0002-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe highlight of the mid-table season was a run to the third round of the FA Cup for the second consecutive season, though the Bees were denied a first appearance in the fourth round after being taken to a replay by Southern League First Division strugglers Crystal Palace and then suffering defeat at Griffin Park. Brentford finished the season \u00a3150 in profit (equivalent to \u00a316,000 in 2021), the first time the club had done so since turning professional in late 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036028-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036028-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad, Left club during season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036029-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 British Home Championship\nThe 1906\u201307 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations. For the first time ever it was won undisputed by the Welsh team, who secured two victories and a draw to take them to the top of the table. They were followed by England and Scotland, who both played well but could not overhaul the Welsh points advantage. All three teams beat Ireland, who finished without a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036029-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 British Home Championship\nAs usual, England and Ireland began the tournament, England winning a close game by a single goal from Harold Hardman. In Belfast during the second match, despite a close contest and five goals, Wales managed to beat the Irish 3\u20132 and join England at the top of the table. Wales then beat Scotland in a surprise result, winning 1\u20130 in Wrexham by a goal from veteran Grenville Morris to become tournament favourites. Scotland recovered in their second game with a three-goal rout of Ireland, finishing a miserable tournament for the Irish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036029-0001-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 British Home Championship\nWales and England then played, the Welsh needing a win to take the competition undisputed whilst a draw would leave them waiting for the result of the England versus Scotland game. In the event the match finished 1\u20131 and England played Scotland in Newcastle needing a win to draw level with Wales. In the event, Scotland proved too good and the game finished with a 2\u20132 draw, handing the championship to Wales for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036030-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The Bisons' team captain was James Lose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Burslem Port Vale's ninth consecutive season (13th overall) of football in the English Football League. The club resigned from the league on 14 June 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nOn the pitch the team put in win or lose performances, and went for a club record 20 games \u2013 from 10 September 1906 to 19 January 1907 \u2013 without sharing the points (nine wins, eleven losses). Another record was set with a 7\u20131 win over Irthlingborough Town in the First Round of the FA Cup \u2013 their highest ever margin of victory in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season\nThe club folded at the end of the season after the chairman decided that the club had no viable future. However Cobridge Church immediately took on the name of Port Vale, and worked their way back to the Football League for the 1919\u201320 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nDespite the club's ever-worsening financial situation, Vale managed to bring back former top scorer, and former England international, Billy Beats; he was appointed captain upon his return. Gambling that big signings would attract big crowds, right-back Hughie Dunn was also brought in from Bristol Rovers; inside-right William Dodds signed from Southwick; with former player Tom Coxon returning from Middlesbrough. Sam Bennion took charge of team affairs after Tommy Clare's wages were too high to maintain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nThe club started the season well, with three wins in their opening six games; 6,000 turning up for the opening game of the season. This was followed by four defeats on the bounce, but by winning five of their ten games in November and December the club put themselves in a decent position by Christmas. The club were two different sides at home and away, thumping Stockport County 5\u20130 at home and losing 6\u20130 at Burnley. Their first away win in ten months came at Blackpool on 22 December. They on to win just four league games in 1907, though did pick up points in the majority of their matches, going on a streak of six draws in ten games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nAs had been the case in recent campaigns Vale just evaded a place in the re-election zones, finishing two points above the (potential) drop. For the second successive season the \"Valeites\" had the weakest defence in the league, conceding 83 goals in the league. Again they were poor on their travels, losing sixteen of their nineteen games away from home. Back at the Athletic Ground they lost just three games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division\nBilly Beats was top scorer with fifteen goals in all competitions; he was ably assisted by William Dodds, Tom Coxon, Robert Carter, and Harry Mountford, who all hit double figures. An extremely settled side, only nineteen players were used in the league, with Dodds a league ever-present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nThe club had a good campaign in the FA Cup, picking up their biggest ever win in the competition with a 7\u20131 trouncing of Irthlingborough Town. They took First Division Notts County to a replay in the Second Round, before losing comprehensively 5\u20130 at Trent Bridge. Nevertheless, both rounds attracted 10,000 supporters at Vale, a great boost to the club's ailing finances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0008-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the Staffordshire Senior Cup the club almost exclusively used their reserve players, but managed to reach the semi-finals, where they were knocked out by Aston Villa Reserves. To reach they semi-final they had to overcome struggling league rivals Burton United, though this took two replays to accomplish \u2013 a 7\u20130 romp followed 3\u20133 and 1\u20131 draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0009-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Financial collapse and closure\nOn 18 May 1907, Robert Audley and Sam Gleaves appealed to the directors to pump more money into the club, and appealed in The Sentinel for local supporters to donate. This appeal was met with resounding indifference and so the club resigned from the Football League on 14 June 1907. The Football Association had already issued their fixture list (which had pitted Port Vale against relegated Stoke for the first time) and were furious with the club for quitting so suddenly at such a late stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0010-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Financial collapse and closure\nRobert Audley justified the decision to quit the league by pointing out that the season's \u00a3200 loss was as good a figure as could be expected in the future, with the past seven campaigns taking in an average of \u00a31,500, supplemented by an average of \u00a3400 in transfer takings. He claimed \"this total could not be expected to pay the expenses of a league club\", especially with creditors closing in, the bank refusing an overdraft, and summer wages to be paid. That so few came forward to help the club in its time of need came to be the final straw for Audley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0011-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Financial collapse and closure\n\"To the few hundreds of loyal supporters, I tender my best thanks for their support and I join in their regrets that sufficient financial support could not be found to continue the club.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0012-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Financial collapse and closure\nMany of the players joined Stoke, as well as newly elected Oldham Athletic, and Burslem Port Vale was finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 69], "content_span": [70, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0013-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Cobridge Church\nPort Vale's history would have ended at this point, had it not been for an unexpected twist. North Staffordshire Church League champions Cobridge Church were accepted into the North Staffordshire Federation League, still a very minor league. Joint-secretaries Millward and E.C.Brundrett had very big ambitions however. They sought permission from the Football Association to change the club's name to Port Vale and bought the old club's ground. To signify their roots they renamed their reserve side to Cobridge Church.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036031-0013-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Cobridge Church\nTechnically the Port Vale of before 1907 was a separate entity to the Port Vale of after 1907, however spiritually the club continued its existence from its 1876 founding onwards. In December 1908, a group of ex-directors, led by Sam Bennion, bought into the club, meaning that the new club played at the same ground, had similar owners, a similar name, and played continuously from 1906\u201307 to 1907\u201308 and beyond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036032-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Butler University during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Art Guedel, coaching in his second season with the Bulldogs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036033-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Carnegie Tech Tartans men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Carnegie Tech Tartans men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036033-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Carnegie Tech Tartans men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team played three games during the season, two against fellow colleges. Carnegie Tech did not records the scores or results of their games, those statistics come from their opponents' records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036034-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1906\u201307 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division and the Scottish Cup, winning both competitions. The Celtic team did not concede a goal in any of their first six league matches, a record which stood until beaten by Rangers 114 years later, at the start of the 2020\u201321 Scottish Premiership season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036035-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team represented the University of Chicago in intercollegiate basketball during the 1906\u201307 season. The team finished the season with a 21\u20132 record and were named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation. This was the first of three consecutive seasons that Chicago claimed the Helms national championship. The team played their home games on campus at Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036035-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Chicago Maroons men's basketball team\nBoth Albert Houghton and John Schommer were named All-Americans. For Schommer, it was his second straight All-American honor; for Houghton, it was his first and only time being honored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036036-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Amos Foster, coaching his third season with the Bearcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036036-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe opponents and scores of six of the games is incomplete. Though the overall record is known, only the details of the following three games are on record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036037-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Colgate men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his seventh season. The team had finished with an overall record of 9\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036038-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Columbia men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 11th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036038-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nCoolican served as coach while former player Rudolph Von Bernuth acted as his assistant. H. T. Applington served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036038-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036039-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1906\u201307 collegiate men's basketball season. The Aggies completed the season with a 5\u20137 overall record. The Aggies were members of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges where they ended the season with a 0\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036040-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036040-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter laying fallow for two years the men's team returned to the ice. The Big Red played their first official home games this season at a rink constructed on Beebe Lake. While the season was short the fact that the icers had resurfaced was enough to provide some optimism for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036041-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Crystal Palace F.C. season\nCrystal Palace started their second season in a new division, having gained promotion from the Southern League Division Two the previous season. There were a number of personnel changes this season, with Archie Grant and captain Ted Birnie moving to Chelsea and George Walker going to New Brompton. Palace's hat-trick hero in their FA Cup exploits of last season, Walter Watkins, also moved on to Northampton Town. In their places Palace brought in a number of new faces. Charles Ryan joined from Nunhead, Thomas Wills from Newcastle, Bill Forster from Sheffield United and Bill Ledger from Pryhope Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036041-0000-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Crystal Palace F.C. season\nWilf Innerd was made captain and played in all but one of the club's League and Cup matches. The club struggled to find their feet on the new division, and failed to score in 13 of their matches, finishing the season in 19th position, one place off the bottom. This was enough to ensure safety though, as for this season there was no relegation. Palace again called on a number of amateurs from the local area and beyond, including Henry Littlewort. Littlewort, who made his only appearance for the club this season, would go on to win a gold medal with the British Football team in the 1912 Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036041-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Crystal Palace F.C. season, FA Cup\nAfter their exploits in the FA Cup the previous season, Crystal Palace were entered into the Cup in the final qualifying round by the Football Association. They drew Rotherham County, overcoming them 4-0 at Stamford Bridge. The match was a home tie for Palace, but due to their Crystal Palace ground already being booked for a rugby international the club had to have the tie moved. The next round, the first round proper, saw them drawn against the biggest club of the time, Newcastle United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036041-0001-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Crystal Palace F.C. season, FA Cup\nUnbeaten at home in over a year, and unbeaten at home in the Cup since the previous century, Newcastle were expected to easily defeat Palace, but in the first great FA Cup shock, Palace went to Newcastle and won 1-0. The second round saw Palace defeat Fulham in a replay, and then the club took Brentford to a replay and won that too. Drawn at home against Everton in the quarter finals, Palace took a 1-0 lead, but were unable to hold on and drew 1-1 in front of their highest crowd to date of 35,000. In the replay at Goodison Park Palace lost 4-0 and another good cup run was at an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036042-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036042-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter a brief debut in 1906, Dartmouth's ice hockey team played a fuller schedule in their second campaign. The Greens played most of their games on the road but that didn't stop them from posting their first winning record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036042-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dartmouth men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Dartmouth College did not possess a moniker for its athletic teams until the 1920s, however, the university had adopted 'Dartmouth Green' as its school color in 1866.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036043-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Drake Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Drake University in the 1906\u201307 college basketball season. The team is led by first year head coach C.A. Pell. This was also Drakes first season of collegiate basketball. They finished with a 2\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036044-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1906\u201307 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, led by 2nd year head coach Walter S. Brokaw, played their home games at Main Building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036045-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University during the 1905-06 men's college basketball season. The head coach was Wilbur Wade Card and the team finished with an overall record of 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 30th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Qualifying Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nThe season opener was played at Boghead in a friendly against a strong Queen\u2019s Park side on 15 August. The Sons were at full strength and included their two new signings. Proceedings commenced with the unfurling of the Combination championship flag won last season. Up to the interval play was even with both teams scoring a goal, but in the second half Dumbarton came into their own and McMurray scored the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nThree days later Dumbarton travelled to Edinburgh to play St Bernards in their first league encounter. An unchanged side took to the field but the Sons were to find that life in the Second Division was to be a stiff challenge as the interval was reached three goals down. There was no more scoring in the second half and Dumbarton returned home 3-0 losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nOn 25 August Dumbarton entertained Ayr Parkhouse at Boghead, who like the Sons had been promoted from the Scottish Combination. Despite the team showing one change as Edward Kane (ex Airdriehill Juniors) replaced Cairney at left half, the home side were confident of earning their first league points, and so it was as McMurray and Gordon both scored a brace in a 6-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nThe first fixture in September saw Dumbarton drawn away to Renton in the first round of the Scottish Qualifying Cup. Both teams played their full strength squads but it was the home side who would advance to the next round after a close contest ended 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nOn 8 September Dumbarton rang the changes for their league fixture against Leith Athletic at Boghead. Alex Cameron (ex Maybole), John Gibb (ex Cowdenbeath), John Hope (ex Queen\u2019s Park) and Ben Walker (ex Strathclyde juniors) all came into the front line. As expected the new forwards took a while to settle and in a tight game it was the Edinburgh side who took both points in a 2-1 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nThe following week Dumbarton entertained Wishaw Thistle in a friendly. The forwards were more recognisable with Hope and Walker of the new boys retaining their places. And the changes did the trick as the Sons easily disposed of their opponents by 4-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nOn 22 September the return league fixture against Leith Athletic was played at Logie Green. Dumbarton gave new signing from Albion Rovers, John Chapman, his debut at centre forward. In a close contest it was Leith who took the points by the only goal of the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0008-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nA week later league leaders Vale of Leven were visitors to Boghead. Brander took Walker\u2019s place at inside left in an otherwise unchanged side. As expected the contest was an exciting one and it was Dumbarton that managed to snatch both points in a 2-1 win, with new boy Chapman scoring his first goal for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0009-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nSo at the end of September Vale of Leven still led the league with 8 points from 6 matches. Dumbarton were in 7th with 4 points from 5 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0010-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nOn 5 October Dumbarton were on the road to Falkirk to play East Stirling in a league fixture. An unchanged team was available and in an exciting game full of goals it was the Sons who came out on top by 4-3, wingers Hope and McCormack claiming a brace each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0011-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nThe following week it was a trip to Arthurlie on league business. Once more an unchanged side attempted to make it three wins in a row. Dumbarton started strongly particularly as Arthurlie played a man short for the first 20 minutes but it wasn\u2019t to be and the home side struck three times without reply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0012-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nDespite the disappointment of the previous game no changes were made to the team as Dumbarton made the trip to Paisley to play Abercorn in the league. For the second week in a row Dumbarton started the game facing 10 men, but this time made the advantage pay by scoring twice before the 11th man turned up after 20 minutes. Two more goals were scored before the interval and McCormack completed the rout in the second half for an impressive 5-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0013-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nOn 27 October Dumbarton were down to play at Cowdenbeath in the league. Unfortunately for Cowdenbeath they were also committed to play a Fife Cup match against East Fife and as neither of the opponents would withdraw, Cowdenbeath split their forces to play both games. Dumbarton added Matt Teasdale from Old Kilpatrick at inside left but despite the supposed weakness it was Cowdenbeath who took both points in a 3-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0014-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nSo October ended with Vale of Leven leading the league with 14 points from 10 games. Dumbarton had improved to lie in 5th place with 8 points from 9 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0015-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nOn the first Saturday of November Dumbarton were visited by Albion Rovers for their first league encounter. Charles O\u2019Neill, an ex Dumbarton Corinthian, was added at right half in place of Bob Gordon, while Gordon took Kane\u2019s place at left half. And it was O\u2019Neill who scored Dumbarton\u2019s goal 15 minutes into the game. Stevenson had to retire injured 20 minutes into the second half but the Sons held out for a 1-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0016-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nDumbarton rang the changes on 10 November for the visit of Arthurlie to Boghead. William Robertson (ex Dumbarton Corinthians) came in at inside right in place of Brander with injured Stevenson\u2019s place at centre half taken by Cairney, and Duncan came in for Chapman at centre forward. Arthurlie had easily won their home tie in October but it was Dumbarton who made home turf count by winning 3-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0017-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nA week later Dumbarton travelled to Coatbridge to play Albion Rovers. Again changes were made to the team with Mitchell returning at right back, Ritchie taking Cairney\u2019s place at centre half and Brander being preferred at centre forward. The game at Boghead a fortnight previously was a close tussle and this one was no different. The Sons crossed over a goal to the good, but the Rovers equalised in the second half and while the visitors regained the lead the homesters came back again. Even when the Rovers went down to 10 men due to injury, the advantage was not taken by Dumbarton and at full time the score was tied at 2-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0018-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nOn 23 November Dumbarton made the short trip to Millburn Park to play rivals Vale of Leven. Charles Grant (ex Dumbarton Corinthians) was introduced at left half, Chapman returned at centre forward and McCormack was rested at outside left and replaced by Brander. The Boghead fixture in September had been a tough encounter and this turned out to be a similar story. In the first half Vale scored twice assisted by a strong wing but after the interval the Sons made the conditions tell and came back with two goals, the game ending 2-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0019-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nThe result meant that Dumbarton held 3rd place in the league with 14 points from 13 games, a point behind Vale of Leven in second, and also a point behind leaders Leith Athletic, but who had 3 games in hand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0020-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nDecember opened with a home league tie against Abercorn. McCormack returned to his usual spot on the left wing while Brander took over from Chapman at centre forward, and Kane returned at left half. The visitors turned up a man short and played with 10 men, but due to some brilliant work on the part of Abercorn\u2019s keeper Kerr, it wasn\u2019t till 15 minutes into the second half that McCormack scored for the Sons. To their credit Abercorn equalised, and despite having most of the play, Dumbarton could not find a way past Kerr. So for the third week in a row the result was a draw \u2013 1-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0021-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nOn 8 December Dumbarton travelled to Ayr to play Parkhouse in the return league fixture. Among the changes to the team were: William Crichton from Dumbarton Corinthians trialled in goals, while Johnny Hill (ex Clydebank juniors) took over at centre forward. Hope was rested on the right wing his place taken by Chapman and Stevenson returned from injury. A strong wind assisted the Sons in the first half yet at the interval the score stood tied at 2-2. However despite the conditions, Dumbarton put on a further three goals in the second half to win 5-2 \u2013 with new boy Hill scoring a hat trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0022-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nA week later it was a trip to Fife to play Raith Rovers in the first league tie. With both Oldcorn and Hope returning to their positions the team was at full strength. On the day Dumbarton played a superior game and with two goals in each half cruised to a 4-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0023-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nOn 22 December Boghead was the venue for the first league fixture of the season against Ayr United. The team that took to the field showed just one change with Mitchell returning at right back but it took no time for the Sons to gain the lead, Hill scoring after two minutes. Dumbarton maintained the upper had throughout the game and handed their visitors a sound 6-1 thrashing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0024-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nIt was another home league tie on 29 December as Cowdenbeath came to fulfil the return fixture. Ritchie was again back in at right back and O\u2019Neill took Gordon\u2019s place at right half. The first encounter had been close with the Fife team scraping home by the odd goal in five but this time there was no doubt as to the winners as Dumbarton trounced the visitors 4-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0025-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nSo as 1906 came to an end, on the back of a nine game unbeaten run Dumbarton sat at the top of the league with 23 points from 18 games. This however did not tell the full story particularly in the cases of Leith Athletic in 3rd with 20 points but from only 15 games and more especially in the case of St Bernards in 5th place with 16 points but with just 9 games played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0026-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\n1907 started with confidence with a trip to Ayr to face the team that Dumbarton had comprehensively beaten 6-1 just two weeks earlier. Gordon returned to right half but otherwise it was an unchanged team. While the play was fairly even the Dumbarton forwards performed poorly and in the end the roles were reversed from the first game as Ayr romped to a 5-0 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0027-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nOn 12 January Dumbarton faced East Stirling at Boghead. The Sons had won the previous encounter at Falkirk and following the forwards display the previous week changes were made with Robertson and Duncan coming in at inside and outside left respectively. In addition Crichton replaced Oldcorn in goal. As it was the changes failed to have the desired effect and in a disappointing display the visitors departed with both points in a 2-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0028-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nA week later, Dumbarton took a rest from competitive matches to play neighbours Renton in a friendly at Boghead. Dumbarton were anxious to gain revenge for the Qualifying Cup defeat in September and fielded Forrester, a Glasgow junior, as a trialist, in goals. Leading by a goal at the interval, the Sons rattled in another three in the second half to win by 4-1 \u2013 all four goals coming from Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0029-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nWith a free Saturday on 26 January, the month came to an end with Dumbarton slipping to 2nd in the league with 23 points from 20 matches, 3 behind Vale of Leven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0030-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nOn 2 February Dumbarton welcomed Raith Rovers to Boghead for their return league fixture. Gordon replaced Temple at left back while O\u2019Neill took Gordon\u2019s place at right half. Teasdale and McCormack returned on the left side of the attack. The Sons were back to their best and with two goals in each half eased to a 4-0 win \u2013 with Hill scoring his second league hat trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0031-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nThe following Saturday Dumbarton headed out to face their neighbours and rivals Vale of Leven in a friendly. Both teams still had their eyes on winning the league and this was an opportunity to show the strength of their respective claims. A number of changes were made to the Sons team including a trialist at centre half but it was the Vale who completely outclassed Dumbarton on the day by winning 7-1 \u2013 Dumbarton\u2019s heaviest defeat of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0032-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nOn 16 February, facing another week free from league or cup commitments, Dumbarton were visited by a strong St Mirren \u2018A\u2019 side. Two new faces were introduced \u2013 Alex Fraser from Duntocher Hibs and Brown from Queens Park Strollers. On the play during the game the Sons were well worth their 3-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0033-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nIt was back to league duty on 23 February as Dumbarton played their final league encounter against St Bernards at Boghead. If there was to be any chance of the title then this game was a \u2019must win\u2019 \u2013 although the visitors had similar aspirations. Fraser retained his place in goal, with Grant and Lockhart coming back into the team. Unfortunately Dumbarton were to find the St Bernards goalkeeper in superb form and could find no way past, and in the end two first half goals were enough for the visitors to take both points in a 2-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0034-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nSo at the end of the month Dumbarton maintained 2nd place with 25 points from their 22 games. Vale of Leven were still on top 2 points ahead with a game to play, but it was St Bernards who looked to be favourites for the title lying in 4th with 22 points but with still a massive 8 games left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0035-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nWith the league commitments at an end, Dumbarton turned their attention to the county championship which began on 2 March with an away trip to Vale of Leven. Mitchell returned in the defence as did Brander to the attack. A few weeks previously the Vale had taught the Sons a lesson in scoring and while play was much more equal this time it was again Vale of Leven who took the game by 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0036-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nOn 9 March, Dumbarton played a friendly against Alloa Athletic at Boghead. A number of the Sons regulars were out due to injury and a couple of trialists were played, including Brown from Queens Park Strollers. Despite the weaknesses Dumbarton cruised to a 5-2 win with Brown notching a hat trick while Hill got the other two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0037-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nAfter a free weekend, Dumbarton returned to county cup duty with a home game against Renton. New signing John Muirhead (ex Partick Thistle) was introduced at centre forward, with Hill switching to the left wing. The new looking front line got to work right away and by the interval were three goals to the good. Renton came back a bit in the second half but at the final whistle Dumbarton had the win by 3-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0038-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nOn 30 March Ayr Parkhouse were the opponents in a friendly fixture at Ayr. Brown was again trialled as was a Govan junior, Medlock. The opponents also gave a number of new faces a try out and in a quiet game it was the Sons who came out on top by 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0039-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nThe return county cup fixture against Vale of Leven was played at Boghead on 5 April. The team was unchanged from that which played against Renton two weeks previously. The game was an exciting one and despite chances at both ends the interval arrived goalless. Two minutes into the second half and Hill scored Dumbarton\u2019s opener. Then Ritchie and Kidd of the Vale were ordered from the field. Twenty minutes from the end the visitors lost another player to injury. Despite the loss, Vale were awarded a penalty just before the end, which they converted to salvage a 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0040-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nA week later, the return county tie against Renton was played at Tontine Park. A number of changes were made with Gordon taking suspended Ritchie\u2019s place in the defence, Cairney stepped in at left half and Duncan returned on the right wing. A win was essential to qualify for the final and in the end the 3-1 victory was well deserved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0041-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nAfter a free week, Dumbarton met Vale of Leven on 26 April in the final of the Dumbartonshire Cup at Tontine Park. The team was unchanged other than Hope coming back in place of Muirhead who had returned to Partick Thistle. In a rousing tie Dumbarton had most of the play but the scoring was restricted to the last 10 minutes when Hill opened for the Sons. This stung the Vale into action and just before the final whistle they secured a goal for a 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0042-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nOn 4 May both teams returned to Tontine Park to replay the county final. Dumbarton were unchanged other than Hill returning to centre forward and Hope switching to the left wing. Once again the Sons started strongly and within the first 10 minutes were 2-0 in front. The Vale got one back before the interval but it was not until ten minutes from full time that they managed to secure a draw from a penalty kick \u2013 the result being 2-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0043-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nSo for the third week running Dumbarton and Vale of Leven met at Tontine Park and this time it would be played to a finish. Dumbarton introduced Alex McCulloch (Renfrew Victoria) in defence and Peter Taylor (Dumbarton Harp) in the attack. Once again the Sons had the majority of the game but could not find a way past the Vale keeper. At full time the score stood at 0-0 and so a further 30 minutes were played without any scoring. Then after retiring for 15 minutes another half hour\u2019s play ensued where the Vale scored twice without reply \u2013 and so retained the county championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0044-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nThe bottom three clubs from the First Division and 5 clubs from the Second Division, including Dumbarton (who had finished in 4th place) were up for election. As it was the 'status quo' was preserved with the existing 'top flight' teams maintaining their status, and Dumbarton having to accept another season in Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0045-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Transfers, Players out\nIn addition Alex Lockhart, Alex McMurray and John Temple played their last 'first XI' games in Dumbarton colours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036046-0046-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton lost in the second round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036047-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the fourteenth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where they would finish in 2nd place, 7 points behind champions Celtic. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would lose to Renton in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036048-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ethnikos G.S. Athens season\n1905-06 was Ethnikos' second season of organised football, competing in the second Panhellenic Championship, in which the club came first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup\nThe 1906\u201307 FA Cup was the 36th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The Wednesday won the competition for the second time, beating holders Everton 2\u20131 in the final at Crystal Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, Calendar\nThe format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, four proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, First round proper\n36 of the 40 clubs from the First and Second divisions joined the 12 clubs who came through the qualifying rounds. Of the League sides not given byes to this round, Burslem Port Vale, Glossop and Burton United were put into the Fifth Qualifying Round, and each one won. Clapton Orient were placed in the Preliminary Round, but their opponents, Grays United, were given a walkover. Nine non-league clubs joined the three League sides in winning through to the First Round Proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, First round proper\nSixteen non-league sides were given byes to the First Round to bring the total number of teams up to 64. These were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, First round proper\n32 matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 12 January 1907. Thirteen matches were drawn and went to replays in the following midweek fixture, of which four went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, Second Round Proper\nThe 16 Second Round matches were played on Saturday, 2 February 1907. Five matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture. One of these, the Blackburn Rovers \u2013 Tottenham Hotspur match, went to a second replay the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, Third round proper\nThe eight Third Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 23 February 1907. There were three replays, played in the following midweek fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0008-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, Fourth round proper\nThe four Fourth Round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 9 March 1907. The Crystal Palace \u2013 Everton game was drawn, and replayed on 13 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0009-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 23 March 1907. The Wednesday and Everton won to meet in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036049-0010-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FA Cup, Final\nThe Final was contested by The Wednesday and Everton at Crystal Palace. Sheffield Wednesday won 2\u20131, with goals by Jimmy Stewart and George Simpson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036050-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FAHL season\nThe 1906\u201307 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from December 28 until March 6. The four teams were to play a twelve game schedule, but the season ended early when two teams resigned from the league \u2013 the Montreal Montagnards over a dispute with a league ruling, and Cornwall HC when their top scorer, Owen 'Bud' McCourt, died following an on-ice brawl with the Ottawa Victorias. Ottawa were awarded the season championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036050-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FAHL season, Season\nMorrisburg HC joined the league for the season, but was not of the same calibre as the others and did not win a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036050-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FAHL season, Season, Highlights\nCornwall defeated Ottawa Victorias on February 15. Ottawa protested the game, as Cornwall players Degray and McCourt had also played two games that season with the Montreal Shamrocks in the rival Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA). The FAHL ordered the match be replayed, in Cornwall, on March 6, and did allow McCourt to play for Cornwall. During an on-ice brawl at the rematch, McCourt was struck in the head by the hockey sticks of two or more Ottawa players and knocked unconscious. McCourt died the next day, and Cornwall resigned from the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036050-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FAHL season, Season, Highlights\nThe Montagnards also used two players from the ECAHA's Montreal Shamrocks when they played Cornwall on February 25, winning the game 7\u20133. When Cornwall was told by the FAHL that they must replay Ottawa for using ECAHA players on February 15, they protested the February 25 game on the same grounds. When the FAHL agreed, the Montagnards refused to play the rematch and resigned from the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036050-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FAHL season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036051-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 8th season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036051-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Barcelona season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season\nThe FC Basel 1906\u201307 season was their fourteenth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who was chairman for the fourth consecutive year. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Overview\nDaniel Hug was team captain for the second season in a row. Hug was Basel's most prominent and their largest player and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. Basel played five pre-season friendlies, two against German team Freiburger FC, two against German team Karlsruher FV and one against Swiss team Grasshopper Club. Four of these games ended with a defeat, only one ended in a victory. During the first half of the season they played another two friendlies, again one against the Grasshoppers and one against Montriond Lausanne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0001-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Overview\nDuring the winter break the team travelled to Frankfurt and played against FC Hermannia on Christmas day and against FSV Frankfurt on boxing day. Further winter break friendlies were played away against Freiburger FC and at home in the Landhof against Cantonal Neuch\u00e2tel. After the season Basel played two friendly games against Winterthur, who had been runners-up in the east group. The team then travelled to Italy and won both friendlies against AC Milan on Easter Sunday 31 March and Easter Monday 1 April by four goals to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Overview\nThe Swiss Serie A season 1906\u201307 was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Together with Young Boys, FC Bern, Aarau and the Old Boys, Basel were allocated to the central group. Basel played their first four games away, losing the consecutive games against Young Boys and Old Boys both 3\u20134. However, winning the next four consecutive games they climbed the table. As it came to the last group game of the season, at home against the Old Boys, Basel were leading the table two points ahead of their opponents. However, in this last match despite a two-goal lead, the goals being scored by Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer and Max Senn, their local rivals turned the game and won three goals to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Overview\nSubsequently it came to a play-off to see who would advance to the finals. The play-off match was interrupted in the 50th minute due to a storm and following the restart it ended in a 1\u20131 draw. Thus, it required a reply one week later and this was also drawn 1\u20131. They played 2x 10 minutes extra time, but neither team scored. Therefore, both teams agreed to play a further 15 minutes, but neither team scored. Another week later it then came to a second replay which Basel decided with 4\u20131 for themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Overview\nBasel advanced to the finals for the first time in their history. The final was played as a round robin tournament. In the first match they were beaten 1\u20135 by west group winners Servette and in the second 2\u20133 by Young Fellows Z\u00fcrich. Servette won the deciding match and became Swiss champions for the first time in the clubs history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Results, Serie A\nThe Serie A was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. The winners of each group played a final round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036052-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 FC Basel season, Results, Serie A, Finals\nThe winners of each regional groups, east, central and west played a final round robin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036053-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Football League\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 19th season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036053-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Football League, Final league tables\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the same form that they can be found at the RSSSF website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036054-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 French Ice Hockey Championship\nThe 1906\u201307 French Ice Hockey Championship was the first ice hockey championship staged in France. Sporting Club de Lyon won the championship by defeating Club des Patineurs de Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036055-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1906-06 French Rugby Union Championship was won by SBUC who beat Stade Fran\u00e7ais in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036055-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 French Rugby Union Championship\nFor the 4th time the final was between these teams and the fourth success of SBUC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036055-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 French Rugby Union Championship, Quarts of final\nThey was arranged by region. In the Seine region, Stade fran\u00e7ais beat Le Havre AC (13-0), in the Loire regions the US du Mans won with US Cognac (10-6). In the Rh\u00f4ne region FC Lyon won for forfeit of the other teams and S.B.U.C. was the Garonne region champion winning with S.O.E.T. Tolouse (18-0).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036055-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nSBUC \u00a0: Louis Mulot, Alphonse Mass\u00e9, Marc Giacardy, Jacques Duffourcq, Marcel Laffitte, Robert Blanchard, Herman Gross-Droz, Augustin Hourdebaigt, Jacques Gommes (cap), Henri Lacassagne, Maurice Leuvielle, Maurice Bruneau, Pascal Laporte, H\u00e9lier Thil, Henri Martin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036055-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nStade Fran\u00e7ais \u00a0: Pierre Rousseau, Marcel Communeau, Georges J\u00e9rome, Charles Beaurin, Francis Mouronval, Pierre Mouronval, \u00c9douard Mirenowicz, Henri Marescal, Bernard Galichon, Alexandre Pharamond, Paul Sagot, Paul Maclos, Charles Vareilles, Julien Combe", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036056-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Galatasaray S.K. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Galatasaray SK's 3rd in existence and the club's 1st in the Istanbul Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1906-07 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States college basketball season. It was the first men's team in Georgetown basketball history. Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at the Washington Light Infantry Armory at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in downtown Washington, D.C., finishing the season with a record of 2-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Founding of the team\nMaurice Joyce had introduced the new sport of basketball to Washington, D.C., in 1892 \u2013 the year after its invention by James Naismith \u2013 and had fostered its development there over the next 15 years as Director of Physical Education at the Carroll Institute; he also had spearheaded the move to reduce the size of teams from nine players on the court for each side to five, which Naismith and a national rules committee approved in 1897.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0001-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Founding of the team\nAlthough an intramural basketball game took place at Georgetown in 1904, the sport otherwise remained unknown at the school until the autumn of 1906, when Georgetown hired Joyce as its athletic director with an eye toward developing a men's basketball program. After the football season ended later that autumn, Joyce oversaw tryouts for a basketball team; ultimately four undergraduates and three Georgetown University Law School students made the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Founding of the team\nThe team had no head coach, the only team in Georgetown men's basketball history that did not have one. Instead, college student Lou Murray was elected student manager of the team, responsible for providing leadership, monitoring the team's finances, and scheduling games and practices \u2013 roles now performed by the school's athletic department and coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0002-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Founding of the team\nThe role of student manager would remain a prominent one in the seasons to come, as even after Joyce became the team's first formal head coach the following season, he and future head coaches for many years limited their role to that of teacher and faculty advisor, available to the team during games merely to offer advice if the players asked for it; it was not until the late 1920s that the modern role of the head coach as in-game leader emerged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nThe new basketball team began practices early in January 1907, and Murray arranged a game against highly rated Virginia and three against George Washington for the first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0003-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nThe first intercollegiate game in Georgetown history took place on February 9, 1907, before a large crowd at the Washington Light Infantry Armory; center Richard Downey scored a game-high eight points and held the opposing center scoreless throughout the game, and Virginia managed only a single field goal in the second half thanks to the defense of forwards Sam Simon and Harold Schumm, allowing Georgetown to extend a 10-9 halftime lead into a 22-11 upset victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nThe next game \u2013 on February 27, 1907 \u2013 was against George Washington, whose star forward Fred Rice was ill and unable to play. After Georgetown took a 16-11 lead at the half, George Washington head coach E. Blanchard Robey spotted Rice in the crowd and convinced him to enter the game when play resumed. With Rice in the game, the Hoyas failed to score in the second half; Rice made the basket that tied the game at 16, and George Washington went on to hand Georgetown its first intercollegiate loss, 18-16. It was the first time that George Washington had defeated its crosstown rival Georgetown in any intercollegiate event, and the raucous celebration George Washington fans started in the stands continued in the streets of Washington as they left the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nGeorge Washington came to the Washington Light Infantry Armory for Georgetown's third game on March 2, 1907, witnessed by a crowd of 1,100 \u2013 enormous for a college athletic event in Washington by 1907 standards. Basketball's rules were not as clearly established in 1907 as they later became, and the game was delayed for an hour while Joyce and Robey negotiated over them. The crowd occupied itself with loud cheering during the delay, and the cheering became louder after the manager of a theater next door threatened to have play stopped if the crowd continued to make so much noise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0005-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nFred Rice played poorly in the first half, missing all five free throws he attempted and scoring no field goals, and Georgetown led 8-4 at halftime. Rice scored the first five George Washington points of the second half to reduce the Hoyas' lead to 10-9. With Georgetown leading 15-13 with less than a minute to go, George Washington held the ball for the final shot in an attempt to tie the game and force overtime, but the shot went through the basket after time had expired. This time, a Georgetown celebration spilled out into the streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nGeorgetown's fourth and final game of the season, also against George Washington, was postponed until March 16, 1907. By then some of Georgetown's players had left the basketball team to take part in spring sports, and Fred Rice starred in a 22-10 (or 24-10) George Washington victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036057-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nWhen George Washington decided not to field a basketball team for the 1907-08 season, Joyce convinced Fred Rice to enroll in Georgetown University Law School and play for the Hoyas. Rice would go on to star for Georgetown for three seasons before graduating from the Law School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036058-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Georgia Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The team finished the season with an overall record of 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036059-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 10th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036059-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season\nHarvard's unbeaten streak was finally ended in 1907. The Crimson ice hockey team lost twice during the season, suffering their first defeat since March 15, 1902. The loss to Princeton also ended Harvard's four-year reign as Intercollegiate Hockey Association champion as the Tigers were able to finish undefeated in league play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036060-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Haverford Fords men's soccer team\nThe 1906\u201307 Haverford Fords men's soccer team represented Haverford College during the 1906\u201307 IAFL season, and the 1906\u201307 ACCL season. It was the Fords sixth season of existence. The Fords entered the season as the two-time defending ISFA National Champions and successfully defended their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036060-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Haverford Fords men's soccer team\nDespite a losing record across all matches, Haverford accumulated a 3\u20130\u20131 record in the ISFA matches which guaranteed the Fords their national title, as having the best record amongst collegiate programs. Much of their losses came against local senior sides and professional cricket clubs that fielded soccer teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036061-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1906\u201307 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036062-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1906\u201307 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished eleventh out of 18 clubs in the Scottish First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036063-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 IAAUS men's basketball season\nThe 1906\u201307 IAAUS men's basketball season began in December 1906, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036063-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 IAAUS men's basketball season, Awards, Helms College Basketball All-Americans\nThe practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928\u201329 season. The Helms Athletic Foundation later retroactively selected a list of All-Americans for the 1906\u201307 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 85], "content_span": [86, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036063-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 IAAUS men's basketball season, Coaching changes\nA number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036064-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 IPHL season\nThe 1906\u201307 IPHL season was played by teams of the International Professional Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036065-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036065-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nFrank Loyer Pinckney took over the coaching reins from Elwood Brown for the 1906\u20131907 season. After a very promising start to the season, where more than 100 student athletes tried out for the team, Pinckney had three freshman declared ineligible by the Western Conference. Due to this unfortunate circumstance, the Fighting Illini played the season with a depleted lineup and finished the season with the worst record in the history of the school. The decision to make freshmen ineligible gave Pinckney the same problem Brown had faced one season earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036066-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was James M. Sheldon, who was in his 1st and only year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036066-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 9\u20135 and a conference record of 0\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036067-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1906\u201307 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his eighth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036068-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1906\u201307 comprised 8 teams, and Linfield won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036069-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Istanbul Football League\nThe 1906\u201307 \u0130stanbul Football League season was the third season of the league. Cadi-Keuy FC won the league for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036070-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Isthmian League\nThe 1906\u201307 Isthmian League season was the second in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036070-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Isthmian League\nIlford won the title. At the end of the season Casuals, Civil Service and Ealing Association resigned from the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036071-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 KBUs A-r\u00e6kke, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Kj\u00f8benhavns Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036072-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its ninth season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served in his 9th year. Naismith would retire after the season. The Jayhawks finished the season 7\u20138. Phog Allen, who would later become the Jayhawks head coach, played on the team. The season marked the beginning of the Jayhawks two biggest rivalries, the Border War with Missouri and the Sunflower Showdown against Kansas State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036072-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Popular culture\nThe Jayhawks March 11 game against Missouri, the first in the rivalry, was featured in the opening scene of the 2014 film Jayhawkers, as well as a conversation between James Naismith and Phog Allen about coaching after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036073-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Kentucky State men's basketball team competed on behalf of the University of Kentucky during the 1906-1907 season. The team finished with a final record of 3-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036074-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Lancashire Cup\nThe 1906\u201307 Lancashire Cup was the second year that the competition was conducted and saw two clubs fight it out for the right to hold the trophy. This year, the cup was won by Broughton Rangers who beat Warrington at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire), by a score of 15-6. The attendance for the final was 14,048 and receipts \u00a3392.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036074-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Lancashire Cup, Background\nFor this season\u2019s competition, Morecambe had left the league and no junior/amateur club were included, but in their place were new league entrants, Wigan Highfield. This resulted in there being 13 teams in the competition (one less than the preceding year) which resulted in three clubs awarded byes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036074-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Lancashire Cup, Fixtures and results, Final, Teams and scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036074-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Lancashire Cup, Notes\n1 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036075-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036075-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a head coach but William Kelly served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036075-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season\nThe 1906\u201307 Manitoba Professional Hockey League (MPHL) season would see the 1906 MPHL champion Kenora Thistles challenge the Montreal Wanderers in a Stanley Cup challenge in January and win the MPHL championship, only to lose the Cup in a challenge in March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Regular season\nThe Winnipeg Hockey Club and Winnipeg Victorias left the league which now accepted professionals openly. The teams organized an amateur league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Regular season\nTeams played ten games, except for Kenora, which played the Stanley Cup challenge. As a consequence, the standings were adjusted to account for the challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Regular season\nAfter the Thistles won the Stanley Cup in Montreal, the team played exhibitions in Ottawa and Toronto. In the Ottawa game Billy McGimsie suffered a career-ending shoulder injury. At the time, it was not described as serious, only a \"badly bruised and slightly dislocated shoulder\". He played in the Thistles' next exhibition in Toronto on January 25. The team signed Fred Whitcroft to replace him. Kenora signed Alf Smith and Rat Westwick of Ottawa, whose season with the ECAHA was already over, for the final game of the season and the playoffs to play in place of future Hall of Famers Art Ross and Joe Hall who were back playing for Brandon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Playoff\nKenora would play and win the MPHL playoff against Brandon to successfully defend the Cup, winning a best-of-three series 2\u20130. Hall and Ross played for Brandon in the series, while Smith, Westwick and Whitcroft played for the Thistles. At the time of the series, the acting Stanley Cup trustee William Foran had already declared Smith and Westwick ineligible for the challenge series. After the series was over, the Manitoba League registered their disapproval over Mr. Foran's decision to exclude the players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Stanley Cup challenges\nAs the Thistles were Manitoba champions for 1906, they were accepted as Stanley Cup challengers. However, the challenge did not take place until January 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. Kenora at Montreal\nThe Thistles played the Montreal Wanderers in a Stanley Cup challenge during the season, defeating the Wanderers 4\u20132 and 8\u20136 on January 17\u201321. Aided by future Hockey Hall of Famers Tom Hooper, Tommy Phillips, and Art Ross, the Thistles came away with 4\u20132 and 8\u20136 victories for a combined score of 12\u20138 to win a two-game total goals series. A \"ringer\", Ross was a member of the Brandon Wheat City team and was signed by Kenora for just the challenge games. Brandon's Joe Hall also signed for the challenge games and returned to Brandon afterward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 77], "content_span": [78, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. Kenora at Winnipeg\nKenora went ahead and used Alf Smith and Rat Westwick of Ottawa for the challenge, against the wishes of Stanley Cup trustee Mr. Foran. The series was supposed to start on March 21 in Kenora, but Montreal protested the use of Smith and Westwick, and also wanted to play the series in Winnipeg. Foran ruled that both players were ineligible. The clubs went ahead and started the series on March 23 in Winnipeg. Mr. Foran was notified by the press (inaccurately) that Montreal had dropped its protest and that the clubs intended to play anyway. Mr. Foran threatened to take the Cup back to Ottawa:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 77], "content_span": [78, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0008-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. Kenora at Winnipeg\nIf the two clubs ignore the instructions of the cup trustees by mutually agreeing to play against Westwick and Smith when both were positively informed these men were ineligible to participate in the present cup matches, the series will be treated as void, and the cup will be taken charge of by the trustees. It will remain in their possession till the various hockey leagues can educate themselves up to a standard where decent sport will be the order of the day.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 77], "content_span": [78, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0009-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. Kenora at Winnipeg\nThe teams went ahead and played the series. However, Mr. Foran changed his mind after the Wanderers won the Cup, stating that the Wanderers could keep the Cup, because they had not rescinded their protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 77], "content_span": [78, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036076-0010-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 MPHL season, Kenora Thistles - January\u2013March 1907 Stanley Cup champions, Stanley Cup engraving\nKenora engraved their name inside the bowl of the Stanley Cup. 1907 Thistles of Kenora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 102], "content_span": [103, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036077-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Madrid FC season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Madrid Football Club's 5th season in existence. The club played some friendly matches. They also played in the Campeonato Regional de Madrid (Madrid Regional Championship) and the Copa del Rey. Madrid FC won both competitions for the third consecutive season becoming the first club to achieve the feat. However, the results of the Campeonato de Madrid were later annulled by the Madrid Football Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036077-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Madrid FC season, Competitions, Copa del Rey, Final\nAlthough intended to be a round-robin tournament, at the end of the group stage, Madrid FC and Club Vizcaya finished tied at 6 points. A tiebreaker final was contested on 30 March to determine the winner of the 1907 Copa del Rey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036078-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Manchester City F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Manchester City F.C. 's sixteenth season of league football and fourth consecutive season in the top flight of English football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036078-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Manchester City F.C. season\nFollowing City's punishment for the awarding of players bonuses, then a misdemeanour in the FA regulations, the club was forced to start half from scratch for the 06\u201307 season, and in the first four games alone ten players made their club debut, with another six players donning the shirt for the first time over the course of the season. Consequently, the club's previously strong league form suffered a huge hit and the club struggled to a 17th-place finish, a full 12 places lower than their previous finish and five points off relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036078-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Manchester City F.C. season\nOf note was that the first game of this season is believed to have been played under the highest temperature recorded in English football - 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2\u00a0\u00b0C). By the end of the game, City had only six players left on the pitch - five others had had to leave the field of play suffering from heat exhaustion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036079-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Manchester United's 15th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036080-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 team finished with a record of 2\u20138. It was the fourth year for head coach Wilbur P. Bowen. The team captain was C.P. Steimle and the team manager was E.A. Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036080-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team, Schedule\n3. Adrian shows the game being played on March 15, EMU shows no date. EMU shows March 15 being against CMU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 72], "content_span": [73, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036081-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team represented University of Missouri in the 1906\u201307 college basketball season. The team was led by first year head coach Dr. Isadore Anderson. The captain of the team was H.A. Henley. This was Missouri's first season of collegiate basketball. They finished with a 10\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036082-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 NYU Violets men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 NYU Violets men's basketball team represented New York University during the 1906\u201307 collegiate men's basketball season. The team finished with an overall record of 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036083-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 National Association Foot Ball League season\nStatistics of National Association Foot Ball League in season 1906\u201307.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036084-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\nThe 1906\u201307 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I was contested by 8 teams, and Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036085-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Netherlands Football League Championship\nThe Netherlands Football League Championship 1906\u20131907 was contested by seventeen teams participating in two divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating PW 5-3 and 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036086-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball team represented Niagara University during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Jack Reed, coaching his first season with the Purple Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036087-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Football League\nThe 1906\u201307 Northern Football League season was the eighteenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036087-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 11 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season\nThe 1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 12th season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Rule changes\nDuring a meeting held on 12 June 1906 at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, the members of the Northern Union agreed to adopt two rule changes that would distinguish the sport thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0001-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Rule changes\nThe Northern Union, motivated by the need to appeal to spectators to improve the game's finances and ensure its survival, and inspired by the attacking style of rugby displayed by the New Zealand rugby union team during their 1905 tour of Britain, revisited two areas of the game that were the focus of much debate: the optimum number of players per team and how play should continue once a tackle had been completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nHalifax won their second Championship in this season and Warrington their second Challenge Cup in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThis season also saw the introduction of the Championship Play-offs at the end of the season. Similar to the current Grand Final system in today's Super League, it involved the top four clubs playing in two semi finals (1v4, 2v3) and then a final with the winners being declared champions. This system was used until 1961-62.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nLiverpool City joined, but Brighouse Rangers, Castleford, Millom, Morecambe, and Normanton withdrew, reducing the competition to 27 teams. Pontefract resigned from the league and folded after 8 matches, and their record was expunged (8P 3W 5L 63PF 154PA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nLiverpool City became the first of only six teams to record no wins in a league season. Three of the others were in wartime leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nBradford had been playing at the Park Avenue ground until this year. A decision by the Park Avenue Directors to form a professional association football (soccer) club forced Bradford rugby club to reform and relocate at Greenfield Stadium later adding \"Northern\" to their name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary\nThere was no county league competition this season. Broughton Rangers beat Warrington 15\u20136 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Bradford F.C. beat Hull Kingston Rovers 8\u20135 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 60], "content_span": [61, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036088-0008-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup\nWarrington beat Oldham 17-3 in the final at Wheater's Field, Broughton, Salford before a crowd of 18,500 to win their second Cup in three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 59], "content_span": [60, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season\nThe 1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season lasted from January 3 until March 10. Ottawa placed second to the Montreal Wanderers who went through the season undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season\nFrank McGee of Ottawa retired to pursue his government career. Tommy Smith moved to Pittsburgh to play as a professional. Percy LeSueur returned after playing the final 1906 playoff game and became the starting goaltender. Billy Hague would play with the Ottawa Victorias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nA major battle took place for the game between the Senators and Wanderers on January 12. Stick work was the order of the day as Charles Spittal of Ottawa knocked Cecil Blachford in the head, Alf Smith hit Hod Stuart in the head and Harry Smith broke Ernie Johnson's nose. The Wanderers would still win, 4\u20132. Blachford, Johnson and Stuart all required hospitalization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nAfter the game, a special league meeting was called to hand out discipline, with Victorias and Wanderers wanting Spittal and Alf Smith suspended for the season. The players were not suspended, leading the league president Mr. McRobie to resign, leaving D'arcy McGee to take over as president. Ottawa had threatened to leave the league, and, under an agreement between the two teams, the Wanderers would have left the league also.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights\nOn the next visit of the Ottawa team to Montreal, to play the Victorias, the three Ottawa players were arrested by Montreal police. Eventually Alf Smith and Spittal were fined $20 for their actions and Harry Smith was found not guilty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Exhibitions\nPrior to the season, Ottawa travelled to Winnipeg for a series of exhibition games against Manitoba league teams including the Kenora Thistles, who then came east to play a challenge in Montreal. On December 31, the Ottawas defeated Kenora 10\u20135. On January 1, the Ottawas were defeated by the Winnipeg Strathconas 9\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Exhibitions\nAfter the Kenora Thistles defeated the Wanderers for the Stanley Cup, they played an exhibition game against Ottawa in Ottawa on January 23. Kenora, without defenseman Art Ross, lost to Ottawa 8\u20133. Harry Smith scored four goals and Harry Westwick scored three for Ottawa. In the game Billy McGimsie suffered a career-ending shoulder injury. At the time, it was not described as serious, only a \"badly bruised and slightly dislocated shoulder\". He played in the Thistles' next exhibition in Toronto on January 25. The Ottawa Victorias' Charlie Ross joined Ottawa for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036089-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Exhibitions\nAfter the season, Harry Westwick and Alf Smith joined the Thistles for the last few games of the MHL season, and the Thistles' unsuccessful Stanley Cup challenge against the Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036090-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 5\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036091-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the fourth competitive season in the history of Plymouth Argyle Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036092-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Primera Fuerza season, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and Reforma won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036092-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Primera Fuerza season, League standings, Top goalscorers\nPlayers sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036093-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036093-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nBeginning with this season the undergraduates at Princeton were limited to just two sports during one school year. As a result, several players who had tried out for the team in recent years were ineligible to play for the ice hockey team. Despite this setback the team was well represented with many returning members from a year before. Counterbalancing the dearth of players was the team's new practice facility located on Lake Carnegie, the first home venue the Tigers' possessed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036093-0001-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter a decent showing in three early games Princeton had to cancel it's Holiday road trip to Norfolk, Virginia and were limited to a single practice game over the winter break. While there was worry that the lack of play would inhibit the team's ability to compete against conference opponents the Tiger's won both games in early January. The fast start was then buoyed by the addition of Thomas Howard as coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036093-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nPrinceton's third conference game came to define their season as the Tigers were able to take down four-time defending champion Harvard 4\u20133. The victory was the first for Princeton over the Crimson and set the icers up for a chance at their first championship. In their final game against Yale the teams battled fairly evenly throughout the extended game (25-minute halves were used rather than the normal 20-minute halves) but a goal by Joshua Brush put the Tigers ahead for good and gave Princeton its first Intercollegiate Hockey Association Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036093-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season\nJ.G. Thomas served as team manager with F. Leake as his assistant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 56], "content_span": [57, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036094-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 RPI men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 RPI men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036094-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season\nAfter a two-year absence the RPI ice hockey team returned to varsity status and put together its first season of more than one game. Rensselaer's first two games came at the end of December on a visit to Pittsburgh where they split against local universities. The next match didn't happen for over a month but when they hit the ice again the cherries were able to defeat Army to finish with a winning record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036094-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 RPI men's ice hockey season, Season\nNote: Rensselaer's athletic teams were unofficially known as 'Cherry and White' until 1921 when the Engineers moniker debuted for the men's basketball team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036095-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season is the 33rd season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036095-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 37 competitive matches during the 1906\u201307 season. The side finished third in the league, ten points behind champions Celtic, after winning 19 of the 34 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036095-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe Scottish Cup campaign was ended at the hands of the league champions after a 3\u20130 home defeat. Rangers had beaten Falkirk and Galston en route to the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036096-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1906\u201307 Rugby Union County Championship was the 19th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036096-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Rugby Union County Championship\nDevon and Durham won the competition after being declared joint champions following two drawn matches. It was Durham's fifth success and Devon's fourth. It was Durham's eighth consecutive final appearance. In the final S P Start scored an injury time try for Devon to force a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036097-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 SEGAS Championship\nThe 1906\u201307 SEGAS Championship was the second championship organized by SEGAS and the Hellenic Olympic Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036097-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 SEGAS Championship, Overview\nThe competition was held in a cup-like format. All 3 matches took place at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome. Ethnikos won the championship, after beating Akadimaikon Gimnastirion 2-1 in the final. Note that Akadimaikon Gimnastirion was the Athenian University's football team. The other 3 contestants were the same with the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036097-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 SEGAS Championship, Teams\nAs with last year all teams came from Athens or Piraeus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036098-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Cup\nThe 1906\u201307 Scottish Cup was the 34th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic when they beat Heart of Midlothian 3\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036099-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season\nThe 1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036099-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season, History\nGlasgow District and Edinburgh District drew nil-nil in the Inter-City match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036099-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season, Results, Inter-City\nGlasgow District: H. A. Spencer (Glasgow HSFP), William Campbell Church (Glasgow Academicals), J. A. Findlay (Kelvinside Academicals), Tennant Sloan (Glasgow Academicals), Jimmy Dobson (Glasgow Academicals), A. Carr Frame (Glasgow Academicals), A. H. Gallie (Glasgow Academicals), William Patrick Scott (West of Scotland), William Thomson (West of Scotland), W. C. Currie (West of Scotland), George Frew (Glasgow HSFP), R. M. Mather (Clydesdale), R. W. Cassels (Kelvinside Academicals), R. B. Waddell (Glasgow Academicals), H. G. Wilson (Glasgow University)Edinburgh District: John Simson (Edinburgh University), H. J. Scougal (Watsonians), John Forbes (Watsonians), J. M. McKeand (Edinburgh Academicals), A. D. Anderson (Edinburgh Academicals), D. Cotterill (Edinburgh Academicals), J. B. Stewart (Institution), David Bedell-Sivright (Edinburgh University), James MacKenzie (Edinburgh University), Jock Scott (Edinburgh Academicals), J. French (Institution), George Sanderson (Royal HSFP), J. M. Usher (Edinburgh Wanderers), Louis Moritz Speirs (Watsonians), John MacCallum (Watsonians)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 1142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036099-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nNorth of Scotland District: C. Rennie (Panmure), M. Williamson (Aberdeen GSFP), P. Watson (Panmure), M. Nicoll (Panmure), J. Ovenstone (Panmure), J. E. McIntyre [captain] (Panmure), C. F. Aitken (Kirkcaldy), D. Nicoll (Panmure), D. M. Mitchell (Panmure), H. Fullerton (Panmure), G. Kirkby (Kirkcaldy), J. Scott (Perthshire), P. Black (Dundee HSFP), H. Mill (Aberdeen University), J. Pope (Aberdeen GSFP)South Western District: S. Hendry (Bearsden), A. McPherson (Ayr), W. Lang (Greenock Wanderers), J. J. Ramsay (Greenock Wanderers), J. L. C. Gudgeon (Ayr), James Reid Kerr [captain] (Greenock Wanderers), J. McFadzean (Ayr), F. Lyle (Greenock Wanderers), R. S. Smith (Lenzie), C. J. McIntyre (Greenock Wanderers), A. J. Gray (Ayr), A. Drew (Craigielea), T. R.C. Clough (Ayr)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036099-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nSouth of Scotland: J. T. Robson (Jed-Forest), D. Brown (Gala), G. S. Scott (Gala), Shannon (Hawick), W. Drummond (Melrose), W. McCrirrick (Gala), Renilson (Jed-Forest), J. Arthur (Gala), J. Aitchison (Gala), W. Jardine (Jed-Forest), J. Scott (Langholm), W. McVitie (Langholm), G. Johnstone (Hawick), J. E. Fairbairn (Melrose), Wight (Jed-Forest)Anglo-Scots: Douglas Schulze (London Scottish), Alex Purves (London Scottish), Maurie Walter (London Scottish), George Cunningham (London Scottish), D. F. Moir (United Services), Ernest Simson (London Scottish), Patrick Munro (London Scottish), Irvine Geddes (London Scottish), J. R. Simson (London Scottish), Geoffrey Gowlland (London Scottish), D. A. Hutchinson (London Scottish), J. D. Young (London Scottish), H. Munro (London Scottish), T. S. Jobson (Sandhurst), W. P. Cowper (London Scottish)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036099-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nCities: G. H. Urquhart (Royal HSFP), H. J. Scougal (Watsonians), George Cunningham (London Scottish), J. L. Forbes (Watsonians), J. Douglas Brown (Gala), A. C. Frame (Glasgow Academicals), J. B. Stewart (Institution), J. C. McCallum (Watsonians), Louis Moritz Speirs (Watsonians), William Thomson (West of Scotland), J. M. McKenzie (Edinburgh University), J. French (Institute), R. B. Waddell (Glasgow Academicals), George Sanderson (Royal HSFP), Jock Scott (Edinburgh Academicals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036099-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Districts season, Results, Other Scottish matches\nProvinces: D. G. Schulze (London Scottish), D. F. Moir (United Services), D. G. McGregor (Pontypridd and Watsonians), M. W. Walter (London Scottish), A. L. Purves (London Scottish), P. L. H. Noble (United Services), J. E. McIntyre (Panmure), L. C. Geddes (London Scottish), H. G. Monteith (London Scottish), H. Milne (Aberdeen University), Cecil Abercrombie (United Services), W. B. Jardine (Jed-Forest), G. C. Gowland (London Scottish), J. D. Young (London Scottish), J. W. Alexander (Cambridge University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 66], "content_span": [67, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036100-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Division One\nThe 1906\u201307 Scottish Division One season was won by Celtic by seven points over nearest rival Dundee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036101-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1906\u201307 Scottish Division Two was won by St Bernard's, with Ayr Parkhouse finishing bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036103-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1906\u201307 Sheffield Shield season was the 15th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe\nThe 1906\u201307 South Africa tour of Europe was a collection of friendly rugby union games undertaken by the South Africa national team against the four British Home Nation teams. The tour also took in several matches against British and Irish club, county and invitational teams before finally travelling to France to play the national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe\nThis was the inaugural South Africa tour and is recognised as the event that coined the phrase Springboks as a nickname for the South African team. The sports-themed South African novelty song \"The Springboks' Waltz\" was released in 1906 to commemorate the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe\nThe 1906 Springboks were \"the first national team to utilize the 3\u20134\u20131 formation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe\nThe tour was extremely successful for the South Africans which helped garner respect from the Northern Hemisphere teams and established South Africa as a formidable rugby playing country. In the tests played the team would only lose to Scotland and drew against England. The South African defeat of Wales was a shock to many critics and ended the international careers of some of the greatest Welsh players of the time. Out of 29 matches played, South Africa won 26, lost two and drew one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match summary\nComplete list of matches played by the Springboks in Europe:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Devon\nDevon: F Lillicrapp (Albion), AJR Roberts (Exeter), J. Schulz (R.N. College, Dartmouth), De Smidt (Plymouth), F SCott (Bristol), R Jago (Albion), J Peters (Plymouth), W Mills (Albion), SG Williams, (Albion), J Cummings (Albion), EW Roberts (R.N. College, Dartmouth), TS Kelly (London Harlequins), GD Roberts (Exeter), Dix (R.N. College, Dartmouth), G Farr, (Torquay)South Africa: AF Marsberg, JD Krige, JA Loubser, FJ Dobbin, P Roos (capt. ), WA Burger, PA le Roux, DJ Brink, WC Martheze, JWE Raaff, WS Morkel, JG Hirsch, A Stegmann, HW Carolin, DF Morkel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Devon\nThe South African match against Devon is noted for events that occurred before the game began. On the day Devon fielded England international James Peters, the first black player to be capped for his country. On learning they would be facing a black player, the South Africans refused to take to the field. The South African High Commissioner, who was in the crowd, approached the Springboks and successfully persuaded them to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Newport\nNewport: Dai Boots, Reg Plummer, WH Gunstone, S Adams, WR Thomas, Walter Martin, Tommy Vile, Charlie Pritchard capt., Edwin Thomas Maynard, Jehoida Hodges, William Dowell, Ernie Jenkins, H Davies, Harry Wetter, George BootsSouth Africa: AF Marsberg, JD Krige, JS le Roux, FJ Dobbin, P Roos (capt. ), WA Burger, PA le Roux, DJ Brink, AC Stegmann, JWE Raaff, HA de Villiers, DC Jackson, D Brooks, DS Mare, DF Morkel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 71], "content_span": [72, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0008-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Glamorgan\nGlamorgan: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Hopkin Maddock (London Welsh), Billy Trew (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Cardiff), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh) (capt. ), H Toft (Swansea), Dicky Owen (Swansea), John Alf Brown (Cardiff), G Northmore (Cardiff), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Dai Jones (Aberdare), Jack Williams (London Welsh), Will Joseph (Cardiff), H Hunt (Cardiff), Dick Thomas (Mountain Ash)South Africa: AF Marsberg, JA Loubser, JD Krige, FJ Dobbin, P Roos (capt. ), WA Burger, DJ Brink, AC Stegmann, JWE Raaff, HA de Villiers, D Brooks, HW Carolin, DF Morkel, WS Morkel, WA Millar", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0009-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Scotland\nScotland: JG Scoular, KG MacLeod, T Sloan, MW Walter, ABHL Purves, LL Greig capt., P Munro, HG Monteith, IC Geddes, JC MacCallum, David Bedell-Sivright, GM Frew, LM Spiers, WP Scott, WH ThomsonSouth Africa: AFW Marsberg, AC Stegmann, HA de Villiers, JD Kriege, JA Loubser, HW Carolin capt., FJ Dobbin, WAG Burger, HJ Daneel, DJ Brink, D Brooks, JWE Raaff, AF Burdett, WS Morkel, DS Mar\u00e9", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0010-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Ireland\nIreland GJ Henebrey, HB Thrift, RPC Gotto, James Cecil Parke, Basil Maclear, TTH Robinson, ED Caddell, A Tedford, CE Allen capt., HS Sugars, GT Hamlet, M White, G McIldowie, HG Wilson, JJ Coffey South Africa: SJ Joubert, AC Stegmann, JH Hirsh, JD Krige, JA Loubser, DC Jackson, HW Carolin, WAG Burger, HJ Daneel, AF Burdett, PJ Roos capt., WC Martheze, DFT Morkel, WS Morkel, PA Le Roux", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 71], "content_span": [72, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0011-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Wales\nWales: John Dyke (Penarth), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff) capt., Rhys Gabe (Cardiff), Johnnie Williams (Cardiff), Percy Bush (Cardiff), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Will Joseph (Swansea), George Travers, (Pill Harriers), Dai Jones (Treherbert), Arthur Harding (London Welsh), Jack Jenkins (London Welsh), Jack Williams (London Welsh), Charlie Pritchard (Newport), Dick Thomas, (Mountain Ash) South Africa: AF Marsberg, S Joubert, HA de Villiers, JD Krige, JA Loubser, DC Jackson, FJ Dobbin, P Roos capt., WA Burger, HJ Daneel, PA le Roux, DJ Brink, WC Martheze, JWE Raaff, WS Morkel", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0012-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Wales\nBefore the game hopes were high that the Welsh would be able to see off the South African threat. As one commentator wrote, \"There was nothing in the South African's play to forbid Welsh hopes of repeating their success of last season...\", harking back to Wales' famous victory over the All Blacks. When a Glamorgan XV team, which contained many Welsh caps that were to face South Africa, could only manage a drew against Gloucester, it caused some people to re-think the team's chances of winning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0012-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Wales\nThis caused an outcry for Welsh star, Gwyn Nicholls, to come out of international retirement to face South Africa. Even the South African players' voiced their disappointment at not facing Nicholls on the pitch. When Billy Trew withdrew from the Glamorgan XV against Monmouthshire on 22 November, Nicholls was the surprise replacement, and a few days later Nicholls told the Daily Mirror that he intended to \"have a shot at the Springboks\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0013-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Wales\nOn the day of the match, South Africa were without some of their star players, including lead try scorer Stegmann, who had suffered a leg strain in the Belfast encounter. However, captain and talisman Paul Roos was back in the squad though sporting a heavy pad on his injured shoulder. The weather on the day was dry and the hard pitch suited the visitors. After an aggressive but blunt opening from the hosts, the South Africans found their pace and quickly took advantage. By half time the tourist were 6\u20130 ahead with tries from Joubert and Loubser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0013-0001", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Wales\nGwyn Nicholls had a particularly poor game, wasting a panicked kick from Marsberg in the first half and throughout the game he and Gabe were so tightly marked that they were ineffective. In the second half it was a Nicholls error that handed the Springboks their third try when he caught a high ball safely, only to release it into open play. 'Klondyke' Raaff dribbled the ball away and scored a try that Joubert duly converted. The final result was 11\u20130 to the visitors; the majority of Welsh crowd were silenced by such a terrible result, though enough good-will was shown to carry captain Roos, and the constantly impressive Marsberg from the pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0014-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Wales\nAfter the games there were many ramifications for the Welsh team. The papers stated that the weakness shown by the forwards, and too many old players in the pack, were the reasons for the poor Welsh display. The Welsh Rugby Union reacted to the press comments by dropping many of the players from international rugby. Those players that would never again represent their country included, Dai Jones, Will Joseph, Gwyn Nicholls and Jack Williams; just one year after the legendary game against the All Blacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0015-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, England\nEngland: JGG Birkett, A Alcock, EJ 'John' Jackett, Freddie Brooks, CH Shaw, R Dibble, W Mills, HE Shewring, T Simpson, BA Hill, VH Cartwright, TS Kelly, J Green, AD Stoop, R JagoSouth Africa: SJ Joubert, AFW Marsberg, HA de Villiers, SC de Melker, JA Loubser, DC Jackson, FJ Dobbin, WA Millar, HJ Daneel, DJ Brink, PJ Roos capt., JWE Raaff, DFT Morkel, WS Morkel, PA Le Roux", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 71], "content_span": [72, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0016-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Monmouthshire\nMonmouthshire: Jack Roberts (Blaina), Llew Llewellyn (Pill Harriers), John Hart Evans (Pontypool), Jack P. Jones (Pontypool), Billy Bowen (Abertillery), James Jones (Pontypool), Dai Beynon (Pontypool), Ernie Williams (Pontnewydd), George Travers (capt.) (Pill Harriers), Jake Blackmore (Abertillery), Jim Webb (Abertillery), Rees Thomas (Pontypool),Jack Foley (Brynmawr), Jack Jones (Cwmbran), Jack Jenkins (London Welsh)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 77], "content_span": [78, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0017-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Llanelli\nLlanelli: G. Thomas, William Richard Arnold, Rhys Gabe, G. Rowe, W. Thomas, H. Thomas, D. Lloyd, J. Auckland, Harry Vaughan Watkins, H. Cole, G. Dobbs, J. Watts, Nathaniel Walters capt., W. Cole, T. EvansSouth Africa AFW Marsberg, JA Loubser, JG Hirsch, HA de Villiers, AC Stegmann, DC Jackson, FJ Dobbin, PJ Roos capt., WAG Burger, WA Millar DJ Brink, D Brooks, HJ Danell, DFT Morkel, JWE Raaff", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0018-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Llanelli\nThe Springboks had a magnificent reception from a crowd of 15,000. The South Africans started on an attack, but the Llanelli forwards soon rallied, resulting in a try that placed the Welshmen ahead. For the remainder of the first half the Springboks persistently pressed, eventually succeeding in piercing the Welsh defence, resulting in a converted try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0019-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Llanelli\nThe Springboks were leading 5 to 3 at the interval. After the start of the second half the Welsh made a determined effort, but the Springboks forwards gained supremacy which they maintained. Towards the end of the game the Springbok scored with a succession of backline movements, resulting in two tries for Loubser. One of these tries was converted and a penalty goal was added, for the 16 to 3 final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 72], "content_span": [73, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0020-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, Cardiff\nCardiff: Bert Winfield, Cecil Biggs, Rhys Gabe, Gwyn Nicholls, Johnnie Williams, Percy Bush capt., Reggie Gibbs, Dickie David, Alfred Brice, G Northmore, Jack Powell, F Smith, John Alf Brown, J Casey, Billy O'NeillSouth Africa: AFW Marsberg, JA Loubser, JG Hirsh, HA de Villiers, AG Stegmann, DC Jackson, FJ Dobbin, PJ Roos, capt., WA Millar, DFT Morkel, DJ Brink, HJ Daneel, PA le Roux, JWE Raaff, DS Mare", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 71], "content_span": [72, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036104-0021-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe, Match details, France\nFrance does not include this match in its official records and no caps were awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036105-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Southern Football League\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 13th in the history of Southern League. Fulham won Division One for the second time in a row and were elected to the Football League. No other teams were applied for election to the Football League. Southend United won Division Two, but there was no promotion or relegation between the divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036105-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Southern Football League, Division One\nA total of 20 teams contest the division, including 18 sides from previous season and two teams promoted from Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036105-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Southern Football League, Division Two\nA total of 12 teams contest the division, including 8 sides from previous season and four new teams, all of them are newly elected teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036105-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nOnly one Southern League club, Fulham, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. They offered midland clubs \u00a315 and northern clubs \u00a320 in expenses for travelling to London and were successful, topping the ballot, and replaced Burton United in the League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036106-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Sport Lisboa season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 3rd season in existence and the club's 1st competitive season, still under the name Sport Lisboa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036106-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Sport Lisboa season\nThis season, Benfica finished second to Carcavelos SC in the Campeonato de Lisboa, the only official competition at the time, composed of four teams. Benfica's most memorable match of the season was the 2\u20131 win against Carcavelos, a team that was filled with English players and that was unbeaten since 1898.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036107-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 St Helens RLFC season\nThe 1906-1907 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's twelfth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 33rd in their history. The club finished 22nd out of 27 in the Championship, whilst, in the South West Lancashire League, St Helens finished bottom. In the Challenge Cup, the club were knocked out in the first round by Swinton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036108-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Stoke F.C. season\nThe 1906\u201307 season was Stoke's 18th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036108-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Stoke F.C. season\nAfter flirting with relegation for quite a while Stoke's luck run out in 1906\u201307 as they were relegated, finishing bottom of the First Division with 26 points five away from safety. It was a bad season for Stoke and would be the start of a troubled period for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036108-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League\nAfter a good 1905\u201306 season, the 1906\u201307 campaign ended in tears and sorrow for Stoke supporters, as the team finished bottom of the First Division and were relegated for the first time. They dropped to the foot of the table early in the new year and stayed there winning just 4 of the last 16 fixtures. Finance was bad and Fred Rouse left for Everton in a \u00a3600 deal in November much to the annoyance of the fans. Defence was a problem for Horace Austerberry and he used 28 players including 4 amateurs. Stoke scored just 41 goals in 38 matches and there was hardly a bright spot throughout the season and Stoke entered the Football League Second Division for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036108-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke's poor league form was not helped by three matches against West Bromwich Albion after drawing 1\u20131 and 2\u20132 West Brom won 2\u20130 in the second replay at Villa Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036110-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 12th season of collegiate ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036110-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season\nAfter a few years away Cornell, Rensselaer and Western University of Pennsylvania restarted their programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036111-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 University of Virginia men's basketball team\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by PrimeBOT (talk | contribs) at 22:14, 20 June 2020 (\u2192\u200eSchedule: Task 30 - remove deprecated parameter in Template:CBB schedule entry). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036111-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 University of Virginia men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 University of Virginia men's basketball team represented the University of Virginia during the 1906\u201307 IAAUS men's basketball season. The team was led by second-year head coach Henry Lannigan, and played their home games at Fayerweather Gymnasium in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now known as the Virginia Cavaliers, the team did not have an official nickname prior to 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036112-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Welsh Amateur Cup\nThe 1906\u201307 Welsh Amateur Cup was the seventeenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Buckley Engineers who defeated Aberystwyth 2-1 in a replayed final at Newtown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036113-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represents the University of West Virginia during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The team captain was Earl Mason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036114-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western Football League\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 15th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036114-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western Football League\nDivision One was split into two sections of six clubs, with the winner of each section playing each other in a Championship decider. Fulham won Section A and West Ham United won Section B, with West Ham winning the decider 1\u20130. Fulham left the league at the end of the season as they were elected to the Football League for 1907\u201308. Chelsea, who made their first and only appearance in the league this season, were competing in the Football League at the same time. All the other member clubs of Division One also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions for the first and only time were Staple Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036114-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One\nOne new club joined Division One, which was increased from 11 to 12 clubs and split into two sections of six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036114-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One, Championship decider\nAt the end of the season, the winners of the two sections played a match to decide the overall champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 81], "content_span": [82, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036114-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two\nThree new clubs joined Division Two, which remained at 10 clubs after Salisbury City, Bristol East and Chippenham Town left the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036115-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western University of Pennsylvania men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Western University of Pennsylvania men's ice hockey season was the 3rd season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036115-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western University of Pennsylvania men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, David Johns served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 74], "content_span": [75, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036115-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Western University of Pennsylvania men's ice hockey season, Schedule and Results\n\u2020 Rensselaer records the score of the game as 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 88], "content_span": [89, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036116-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1906\u201307 season. The team finished the season with a 1\u20134 record. This was the second season in program history for William & Mary, whose nickname is now \"Tribe.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036117-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Williams Ephs men's ice hockey season was the 4th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036118-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1906\u201307 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was Emmett Angell, coaching his third season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036119-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season\nThe 1906\u201307 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 12th season of play for the program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036119-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season\nThe team did not have a coach, however, C. Buchanan Stuart served as team manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036120-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in Belgian football\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 12th competitive season in Belgian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036120-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in Belgian football, Overview\nCS Vervi\u00e9tois was relegated to the second division at the end of the season and was replaced by second division champion Beerschot AC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036120-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in Belgian football, Final league tables, Promotion\nIn the first stage, 4 provincial leagues were played, with the following qualifiers for the final round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036121-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in English football\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 36th season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036122-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in Scottish football\nThe 1906\u201307 season was the 34th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 17th season of the Scottish Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036122-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division Two\nNote: Cowdenbeath were docked two points for fielding an ineligible player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036122-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup\nDivision One champions Celtic were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 3\u20130 final win over Hearts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036122-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u201307 in Scottish football, Junior Cup\nStrathclyde were winners of the Junior Cup after a 1\u20130 win over Maryhill, after two drawn games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0000-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams\nThe Stanford rugby teams of 1906 to 1917 represented Stanford University as the school's only football program during those years, replacing American football with rugby union. The school had played American football from 1892 to 1905, but in 1906, concerned with the growing levels of violence in football, Stanford and other universities changed to rugby. Stanford played twelve seasons of rugby, during which it played other college teams, club teams from the United States, Canada, and Australia, as well as the New Zealand national team and Australia national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0000-0001", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams\nDespite the team's success, it became clear that other schools were not adopting rugby in large numbers, and after rival California returned to football in 1915, Stanford faced a limited number of potential opponents; and after a year of playing neither sport officially due to World War I, the school returned to American football in 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0001-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Switch to rugby\nAmerican football in the early 1900s had become increasingly violent; with no forward pass, the ball carrier would be typically pushed and pulled up the field by his own players in massive formations that often resulted in serious injuries. In 1905, 18 deaths, three at the college level, were attributed to football; 159 serious injuries were also reported, 88 at the college level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0002-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Switch to rugby\nReform was demanded by such voices as U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who decried the brutality and foul play of the game, and called a meeting of school presidents to discuss the issue. As a result, before the next season began, new rules were put in place to discourage such play. The forward pass was also introduced to open up the game and reduce the role of dangerous mass formations. Despite the planned changes, a number of universities banned the sport for the coming year, including Columbia, NYU, and Northwestern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0003-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Switch to rugby\nSeveral universities on the West Coast, led by California and Stanford, replaced the sport with rugby. At the time, the future of football was very much in doubt and these schools believed that rugby would eventually be adopted nationwide. Other schools that made the switch included Nevada, St. Mary's, Santa Clara, and USC (in 1911). However, due to the perception that West Coast football was inferior to the game played on the East Coast anyway, East Coast and Midwest teams shrugged off the loss of the teams and continued playing football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0003-0001", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Switch to rugby\nWith no nationwide movement, the available pool of rugby teams to play remained small. The schools scheduled games against local club teams and reached out to rugby powers in Australia, New Zealand, and especially, due to its proximity, Canada. The annual Big Game between Stanford and California continued as rugby, with the winner invited by the British Columbia Rugby Union to a tournament in Vancouver over the Christmas holidays, with the winner of that tournament receiving the Cooper Keith Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0004-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Return to football\nIn 12 seasons of rugby, Stanford was remarkably successful: the team had three undefeated seasons, three one-loss seasons, and an overall record of 94 wins, 20 losses, and 3 ties for a winning percentage of .816. However, after a few years, the school began to feel the isolation of its newly adopted sport, which was not spreading as many had hoped. Students and alumni began to clamor for a return to football to allow wider intercollegiate competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0004-0001", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Return to football\nThe pressure at rival California was stronger (especially as the school had not been as successful in the Big Game as they had hoped), and in 1915 California returned to football. As reasons for the change, the school cited football rule changes, the overwhelming desire of students and supporters to play football, interest in playing other East Coast and Midwest schools, and a patriotic desire to play an \"American\" game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0005-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Return to football\nCalifornia's return to football increased the pressure on Stanford to also change back in order to maintain the rivalry. Stanford played its 1915, 1916, and 1917 \"Big Games\" as rugby against Santa Clara and California's football \"Big Game\" in those years was against Washington, but both schools desired to restore the old traditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0005-0001", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Return to football\nThe onset of World War I gave Stanford an out: in 1918, the Stanford campus was designated as the Students' Army Training Corps headquarters for all of California, Nevada, and Utah, and the commanding officer, Sam M. Parker, decreed that football was the appropriate athletic activity to train soldiers and rugby was dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0006-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Return to football\nAfter the war, Stanford resumed its football program and relegated rugby to a minor sport. Several Stanford rugby players who played during those years\u2014including Daniel Carroll, Dink Templeton, Morris Kirksey, Erwin Righter, John Patrick, and Charles Doe\u2014went on to win a gold medal for the United States in rugby at the 1920 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0007-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1906 season\nIn its first season of rugby, Stanford retained head football coach James F. Lanagan as its first rugby coach. Lanagan had coached the football team for three years, including an undefeated 1905 season. With no experience playing or coaching rugby, Lanagan initially offered his resignation, but Stanford insisted he stay on, so he traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia to study the sport. Stanford won its first five games, including two wins over a visiting club team from Vancouver. As winners of the first Big Game against California played as rugby, Stanford competed against Vancouver-area club teams for the Cooper Keith Trophy, losing two games and tying one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0008-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1907 season\nIn Stanford's second season of rugby, Jimmy Lanagan returned as coach and the team finished 8\u20134. Stanford continued its series with Nevada, Vancouver, and Victoria and added games against Bay Area club team the Barbarians and a Los Angeles club called the Castaways. Stanford won its second Big Game rugby match, earning a second straight tournament in British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0009-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1908 season\nLanagan returned for his final year as Stanford's coach and the team finished 12\u20132, winning not only its third consecutive Big Game, but also going on to win the Cooper Keith Trophy in the end-of-season Vancouver tournament. Stanford added two games against San Francisco's Olympic Club and played a final game against the Australian national team, the Wallabies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0010-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1909 season\nFollowing Lanagan's departure, George Presley was named Stanford's new rugby coach. Presley played one year of rugby under Lanagan in 1906 and had been an assistant coach in 1907 and 1908. Presley also coached Stanford's baseball team. Stanford won its first eight games\u2014seven by shutout\u2014but then lost Big Game for the first time in seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0011-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1910 season\nIn Presley's second year as coach, Stanford was led by Ben Erb and Jim Arrell. The season was almost identical to the previous year: the team won its first seven games by shutout, and then lost Big Game to undefeated California. Stanford led in that game 6\u20130, but did not score again as California won 25\u20136. This Big Game is recognized as the first intercollegiate game to feature card stunts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0012-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1911 season\nIn the 1911 season, Stanford went 10\u20133 and added USC to the schedule, as the school dropped football in favor of rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0013-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1912 season\nIn Presley's last year as coach, Stanford finished with a 5\u20133\u20131 record, its worst record of the rugby era. Stanford avoided a fourth straight loss in the Big Game by tying California. Despite an outstanding 30\u20138\u20131 overall record as coach, coach Presley was 0\u20133\u20131 against the Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0014-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1913 season\nFloyd C. Brown succeeded George Presley as coach. Like Presley, Brown had played for and served as an assistant under the previous coach. Stanford finished with an 8\u20133 record, including its first Big Game win in five years, led by Danny Carroll, who had won a gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics as a member of the Australia national rugby union team and who was now earning a degree in geology from Stanford. Stanford played its final rugby game against USC, who returned to American football the next year, and suffered two blowout losses to the famed New Zealand All Blacks, who were on a North American tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0015-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1914 season\nBrown's second year as coach was the best in Stanford rugby history: the team was undefeated entering the Big Game at California, who was also undefeated. A record crowd of 26,000 turned out to see Stanford defeat the Bears, 26\u20138. This would be the last Big Game for several years as California returned to football for the 1915 season. Despite Stanford's success in rugby, the previous year's humiliating defeats to the All Blacks and the switch by rivals USC and California to football intensified the sentiment for Stanford to switch back as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0016-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1915 season\nBy 1915, there was only one other U.S. college playing intercollegiate rugby: Santa Clara. The rest of Stanford's schedule was made up of local club and all star teams. The team played to a scoreless tie with the Olympic Club team to start the season, but recovered to win the rest of the games on the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0017-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1916 season\nIn their last full season of rugby, Stanford won all its games except the \"Big Game\" against Santa Clara, played for the second year at Ewing Field in San Francisco. This was Stanford's first loss since 1913.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0018-0000", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1917 season\nLike the two coaches before him, Stanford's new head coach Jim Wylie was a former Stanford player. He had also been a member of the New Zealand All Blacks team that had crushed Stanford's team in 1913. But with World War I imminent, Stanford played just one game, the \"Big Game\" against Santa Clara, winning 15\u201311. This was also Stanford rugby's last game as a major sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036123-0018-0001", "contents": "1906\u20131917 Stanford rugby teams, Season results, 1917 season\nThe following year, Stanford president Ray Lyman Wilbur canceled all intercollegiate athletic events due to students' enlisting in the military for the war, and due to Stanford's designation as the regional headquarters of the Students' Army Training Corps. When Stanford reformed a team in 1919, the school returned to American football as its major gridiron sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036124-0000-0000", "contents": "1907\n1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar\u00a0and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 907th year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 7th year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 8th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1907, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036125-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThe Aberdare Urban District Council was established in 1894 and covered the parish of Aberdare. Its responsibilities included public health, sanitation, roads and public works generally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036125-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nThere were five wards, namely Aberaman (also known as No. 5 Ward), Blaengwawr (also known as No. 4 Ward), Gadlys (also known as No. 2 Ward), Llwydcoed (also known as No. 1 Ward), and the Town Ward (also known as No. 3 Ward). Originally, one member was elected from each ward on an annual basis, but from 1904 an additional member was granted to each ward, resulting in the election of ten members, out of a total of twenty, every three years. At the intervening election, one member continued to be elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036125-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Aberdare Urban District Council election\nAn election was held in March 1907. It was preceded by the 1906 election and followed by the 1908 election. The term of office of members elected at the 1904 election came to an end and those elected were to serve until 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036126-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Aberdeen South by-election\nThe Aberdeen South by-election of 1907 was held on 20 February 1907. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, James Bryce, being appointed British Ambassador to the United States. It was won by the Liberal candidate George Esslemont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036126-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Aberdeen South by-election\nFred Bramley, who stood for the \"Aberdeen Labour Representation Committee\", was not officially endorsed by the Labour Party or the Scottish Workers' Representation Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036126-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Aberdeen South by-election, Campaign\nEsslemont, the Liberal candidate, supported extending the right to vote to women. Despite this, the Women's Social and Political Union set up a local campaign office to campaign against him. This put the WSPU in conflict with local women's suffrage campaigners who supported Esslemont.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036127-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe 1907 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 15th overall and 12th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach J. W. H. Pollard, in his second year, and played their home games at the University of Alabama Quad in Tuscaloosa, the Birmingham Fairgrounds in Birmingham, Highland Park in Montgomery and at Monroe Park in Mobile, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of five wins, one loss and two ties (5\u20131\u20132 overall, 3\u20131\u20132 in the SIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036127-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nAlabama played several games of note during the season. Their 54\u20134 loss to Sewanee is the last time Alabama allowed an opponent to score 50 points in a regulation game (the 2003 team lost 51\u201343 to Tennessee in a game that went five overtimes). The victory over LSU at Monroe Park marked the first ever Alabama home game played in Mobile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036127-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, 1907 Iron Bowl\nAlabama's 6\u20136 tie with Auburn was both the only tie in the history of the Iron Bowl and the last meeting between the two teams for forty years. Auburn was a 3 to 1 favorite going into the game, due to their earlier victory over Georgia and the fact that they had lost to Sewanee by only 6 points while Alabama lost to Sewanee by 50. Alabama missed a chance to win when a 15-yard field goal attempt failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036127-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, 1907 Iron Bowl\nSpeculation as to why the Alabama\u2013Auburn series was discontinued was originally thought to have been done as a safety precaution due violence both on the field and amongst the fans in the 1907 game. Instead, the game was canceled due to a disagreement between the schools on how much per diem to allow players for the trip to Birmingham, how many players each school should bring and where to find officials, and by the time all these matters were resolved, it was too late to play in 1908. For forty years the two teams failed to play each other, even though they were in the same state and members of the same conferences. Finally, pressure from the state legislature resulted in the renewal of the rivalry in 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036128-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1907 All England Open Badminton Championships was a badminton tournament held at the London Rifle Brigade Drill Hall, Islington, London, England, from March 3 to March 6, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036129-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 21st staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin won their tenth All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036129-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format\nThe four provincial championships were played as usual; the four champions joined London in the All-Ireland championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036130-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the twentieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036130-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nDublin's train to Tipperary was delayed, so the match started late. They won convincingly, six points to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036130-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt was the fourth of five All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1900s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036131-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1907 was the 21st series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Kilkenny won the championship, beating Cork 3-12 to 4-8 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036131-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The four provincial representatives made up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while the two winning teams advance to the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036131-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036131-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Results, All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThis semi-final was played before the Leinster championship had been decided. When Kilkenny beat Dublin in the Leinster final, they took Dublin's place in the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 94], "content_span": [95, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036132-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 20th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, on 21 June 1908, between Kilkenny, represented by a club side from Mooncoin, and Cork, represented by a club side from Dungourney. The Munster champions lost to their Leinster opponents on a score line of 3-12 to 4-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036132-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe game was regarded as the best All-Ireland decider up to that point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036133-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Massillons season\nThe 1907 All-Massillons football season was their fifth season in existence. The team was the 1907 incarnation of Massillon Tigers and finished with a record of 7-0-1 and won their fifth Ohio League championship in as many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036134-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Western college football team\nThe 1907 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1907 college football season. One player, Germany Schulz, was also a consensus All-American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036134-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 All-Western college football team, Key\nBold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 43], "content_span": [44, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036135-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Anglesey by-election\nThe Anglesey by-election, 1907 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Anglesey in North Wales on 21 August 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036135-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Anglesey by-election, Vacancy\nUnder the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The Anglesey by-election was caused by the appointment of the sitting Liberal MP, Ellis Griffith as Recorder of Birkenhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036135-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Anglesey by-election, Candidates\nEllis Griffith fought the seat again in the Liberals interest. It was reported that the Conservatives were not expected to oppose his re-election. There was not yet any tradition of candidates from organised labour contesting elections in this part of the country and no nominations were put forward against Griffith who was therefore returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036136-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1907 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 16th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on April 21 and ended on November 11. The 1907 championship featured eleven teams, with each team playing the other twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036136-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nAlumni regained the championship winning its 7th first division title in eight seasons. The squad crowned champion after thrashing San Isidro by 5-1 at Ferro C. Oeste stadium. The line-up for that match was: T. Duncan; Juan Domingo Brown, Jorge Gibson Brown; Guillermo R. Ross, Carlos Lett, Ernesto Brown; Gottlob Eduardo Weiss, Alfredo Brown, Juan Brown, Eliseo Brown, J. Henry Lawrie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036136-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe relegation system was established since this tournament. Barracas A.C. withdrew after 7 fixtures and was disaffiliated by the Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036137-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nThe 1907 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1907 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Frank Longman, the Razorbacks compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 110 to 73. Although team lore indicates that the program adopted the \"Razorbacks\" nickname in 1910, the nickname was already in use during the 1907 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036138-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1907 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1907 college football season. In their second season (first full season) under head coach Henry Smither, the Cadets compiled a 6\u20132\u20131 record, shut out six of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 125 to 24. The team's only two losses were to Cornell and to Navy in the annual Army\u2013Navy Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036138-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Army Cadets football team\nTwo Army players were honored by either Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are guard William Erwin (WC-1, CW-1) and tackle Henry Weeks (WC-3, CW-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036139-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlanta Crackers season\nThe 1907 Atlanta Crackers season represented the Atlanta Crackers baseball team in the Southern Association and won the team's first league pennant. The team was managed by Billy Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036139-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlanta Crackers season\nThis was the Crackers first season playing at Ponce de Leon Park. The team's road uniforms featured faint red lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036139-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlanta Crackers season\nDode Paskert led the league with six home runs. The team also featured Roy Castleton, Lou Castro, Dutch Jordan, and Syd Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1907 Atlantic hurricane season was a very inactive hurricane season. Only five tropical storms formed, and none of them reaching hurricane strength. This season is one of only two that did not produce any hurricanes (the other being 1914). Of the season's storms, three made landfall, all of them on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The first storm of the season formed on June\u00a024, while the final dissipated on November\u00a012. Damage from the storms were minimal, and no deaths were reported. Due to the lack of modern technology, including satellite imagery, information is often sparse, and four additional systems could have formed during the season. A documentation for four possible storms during the season exists, although it has not been proven that these systems were fully tropical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nPrior to the advent of modern tropical cyclone tracking technology, notably satellite imagery, many hurricanes that did not affect land directly went unnoticed, and storms that did affect land were not recognized until their onslaught. As a result, information on older hurricane seasons was often incomplete. Modern-day efforts have been made and are still ongoing to reconstruct the tracks of known hurricanes and to identify initially undetected storms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0001-0001", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nIn many cases, the only evidence that a hurricane existed was reports from ships in its path, and judging by the direction of winds experienced by ships, and their location in relation to the storm, it is possible to roughly pinpoint the storm's center of circulation for a given point in time. This is the manner in which all of the five known storms in the 1907 season were identified by hurricane expert Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez-Partag\u00e1s's reanalysis of hurricane seasons between 1851 and 1910. Partag\u00e1s also extended the known tracks of three other hurricanes previously identified by scholars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0001-0002", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe information Partag\u00e1s and his colleague uncovered was largely adopted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic hurricane reanalysis in their updates to the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), with some slight adjustments. HURDAT is the official source for such hurricane data as track and intensity, although due to a sparsity of available records at the time the storms existed, listings on some storms are incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season was one of only two Atlantic seasons without a storm of hurricane intensity (winds of 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h) or higher), the other being the 1914\u00a0season. In addition, the maximum winds recorded from the first tropical storm were also the highest of the season; it also broke the record for the weakest \"most intense\" storm on record for an Atlantic hurricane season. Reanalysis also indicated that four additional systems could have developed during the season. No deaths occurred during the season and damage was minimal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season's activity was reflected with an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 163, the third lowest total since the beginning of HURDAT records in 1851. ACE is a metric used to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated at six-hour increments in which specific tropical and subtropical systems are either at or above sustained wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h), which is the threshold for tropical storm intensity. Thus, tropical depressions are not included here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nThe first identified tropical storm of the season is listed in the Atlantic hurricane database as having formed on June\u00a024, positioned in the western Caribbean; the estimate for this location was based on ship reports, although the information was insufficient to guarantee an accurate position. It initially meandered west-northwestward, though began to turn northwest during the latter half of following day. Late on June\u00a026, it passed between the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula and Cuba, and subsequently entered the Gulf of Mexico shortly thereafter. The tropical storm continued to slowly intensify, and started to make sharp curve towards the northeast on June\u00a028.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One\nThe storm traveled east-northeastward paralleling the Gulf Coast of the United States, and eventually made landfall on the Florida panhandle early on June\u00a029. It weakened slightly as it traversed inland, and entered the Atlantic Ocean just offshore Georgia during the morning. At this point, the storm attained its peak intensity of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h), though it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone within the six hours that followed. Late during the day, the extratropical storm reached New Jersey, and entered Maine on June\u00a030. The 2003 reanalysis made only minor adjustments to the storm's intensity and track created by Partag\u00e1s and Diaz, which included moving the point of landfall westward and increasing windspeeds on June\u00a029 based on readings received in Jacksonville, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two\nBased on information from historical weather maps, it appeared that eastward-moving lower-atmospheric flow was present between September\u00a016 and 17, though a closed circulation did not appear to be present. On September\u00a018, the system developed into a tropical depression between the Bahamas and Florida while it moved west-northwestward. After swiftly crossing the southern portion of the state, it strengthened into a tropical storm on September\u00a019 over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, and attained its peak intensity of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h) early during September\u00a020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0006-0001", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Two\nIt began turning north on September\u00a021, and made landfall on the Mississippi coast on September\u00a022. The storm weakened as it moved inland, and curved east-northeast later during that day, only to transition into an extratropical cyclone shortly thereafter. The storm lost extratropical characteristics over Virginia on September\u00a023. As there were no reports of strong winds near the point of landfall, Partag\u00e1s had doubt as to whether or not this storm was a tropical storm, as the most intense winds were recorded when the system was classified as extratropical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nThe system that would eventually develop into a tropical storm was first noted by a ship north-northwest of Veracruz on September\u00a023. It was recognized as a tropical storm on September\u00a027 while it was located above the Bay of Campeche, and moved northeastward, and slowly accelerated as it intensified. By September\u00a028, it was moving east-northeastward at 24\u00a0mph (39\u00a0km/h), and simultaneously attained its peak intensity of 50\u00a0mph (85\u00a0km/h). At this point, it remained just offshore the Florida panhandle, and moved inland shortly thereafter on September\u00a029. It plowed through northern Florida and southeastern Georgia while maintaining its intensity and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone off the coast of North Carolina on September\u00a029. The remnants of the storm merged with a cold front the following day while situated south of New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 911]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three\nStorm warnings were issued on September\u00a028 for the shorelines of Louisiana and Mississippi, but the states did not receive strong winds. The maximum gust from the storm was 46\u00a0mph (74\u00a0km/h), which was recorded at Pensacola, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four\nThe fourth tropical storm of the season was first detected by a ship on October\u00a017 southwest of Bermuda; in the HURDAT database, this date was considered to be the formation date, although the entire lifespan of the storm is unknown due to a lack of data on the system itself. It initially moved east-northeastward, though later began to turn northeastward on October\u00a018. The storm curved slightly towards the east-northeast on October\u00a019, and became extratropical later that day before its dissipation on October\u00a020. The storm maintained its peak winds of 50\u00a0mph (85\u00a0km/h) for most of its lifetime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036140-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Five\nThe final tropical storm of the season was previously unidentified until reanalysis by Partag\u00e1s. It formed on November\u00a06 while moving south-southwestward, though took a sharp turn towards the west-southwestward on November\u00a07. The following day, it took another sharp turn, this time towards the north-northwest, while it had winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h), which were the maximum estimated winds for the storm. It continued on this path until November\u00a011, when it turned once more, this time towards the north-northeast. It evolved into an extratropical cyclone the following day. The storm was considered to be a tropical storm based on reports of unusually warm waters near 70\u00a0\u00b0F (21\u00a0\u00b0C) which were accompanied by strong winds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036141-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1907 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Coached by Willis Kienholz, Auburn recorded a 6\u20132\u20131 record in its 16th season of intercollegiate football. The Tigers averaged 26.4 points per game on offense and gave up only 4.3 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036141-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Auburn Tigers football team\n1907 was the last season before a 40-year hiatus in the Iron Bowl series between Auburn and Alabama. The two teams did not meet on the gridiron from 1908 to 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036142-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Auckland City mayoral election\nThe 1907 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1907, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036142-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nIncumbent mayor Arthur Myers was re-elected with a huge majority over two challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036142-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nThree extra seats on the Auckland City Council were to be filled than at last municipal elections after the Council having by special order increased the membership from 12 to 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036143-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Australasian Championships\nThe 1907 Australasian Championships (now known as the Australian Open) was a tennis tournament played on Grass courts at Auchenflower in Brisbane, Australia. The event is a part of the Grand Slam. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 18 to 24 August 1907. Horace Rice won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036143-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Australasian Championships, Finals, Doubles\nWilliam Gregg / Harry Parker defeated Horace Rice / George Wright 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036144-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Australasian Championships \u2013 Singles\nHorace Rice defeated Harry Parker, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1907 Australasian Championships. The event (now known as the Australian Open) was a tennis tournament played on Grass courts in Brisbane, Australia. The tournament was held from 18 to 24 August", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036145-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Australian Labor Party leadership election\nThe Australian Labor Party held a leadership election on 30 October 1907, following the resignation of Chris Watson. The party elected Andrew Fisher as its new leader, ahead of three other candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036145-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Australian Labor Party leadership election\nWatson had been chosen as the party's inaugural leader in 1901, and led Labor to the 1903 and 1906 federal elections. He announced his intention to resign the leadership on 24 October 1907, which was attributed to his \"physical and mental fatigue, together with his wife's ill health and her objections to his frequent absences from home\". Financial considerations may have also played a part. There was little appetite within the party for a change in leadership, and some of his colleagues tried to convince him to stay on as leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036145-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Australian Labor Party leadership election\nThe Labor caucus met at Parliament House, Melbourne, on 30 October to elect a new leader. Four candidates were nominated \u2013 Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes, William Spence, and Lee Batchelor. All except Spence had served in cabinet during the 1904 Watson Ministry, the Labor Party's only previous experience in government. Batchelor withdrew before the first ballot, which saw Spence eliminated. Fisher then won a majority on the second ballot. Hughes proposed that a third ballot be held so that Fisher could be elected unopposed. This result was what was reported to the press, and the fact that there had been other candidates was not revealed until a number of years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036146-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Baltimore mayoral election\nThe 1907 Baltimore mayoral election saw the election of J. Barry Mahool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036147-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Banffshire by-election\nThe Banffshire by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036147-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Banffshire by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Alexander William Black on 29 December 1906. He died from injuries received in the Elliot Junction rail accident, forcing a by-election early in 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036147-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Banffshire by-election, Electoral history\nBlack had been Liberal MP for the seat of Banffshire since the 1900 General Election. The seat had been Liberal since they gained it in 1837. They had easily held the seat at the last election, with an increased majority;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036147-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Banffshire by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected 31-year-old Walter Waring to defend the seat. Waring was the son of Charles Waring, former Liberal Member of Parliament for Poole. He was unsuccessful Liberal candidate in Wigtonshire in the 1906 general election. The Conservatives chose 39-year-old William Whitelaw as their candidate. Whitelaw was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth, but lost his seat at the 1895 general election and was defeated when he stood again in 1900. He was a director of the Highland Railway (HR) since 1898, and Chairman of the HR since 1902.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036147-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Banffshire by-election, Result\nThe Liberals held the seat with a slightly reduced majority;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036147-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Banffshire by-election, Result\nThe Liberal vote share of 67.3%, though less than in 1906, was higher than any other Liberal vote share since before 1885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036147-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Banffshire by-election, Aftermath\nWaring was re-elected at the following general election against a new Conservative opponent;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036148-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Baylor football team\nThe 1907 Baylor football team was an American football team that represented Baylor University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its first season under head coach Luther Burleson, the team compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 105 to 91.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036148-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Baylor football team\nBaylor's December 6 game at LSU was the team's first ever east of the Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036148-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Baylor football team, Background\nThe trustees of the Baylor University have just abolished football games in that institution, and there will be no more intercollegiate or class games. The roughness of the game, coupled with the tendency to unfair playing, is the reason given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036148-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Baylor football team, Background\nThe trustees of the Baylor University have just reinstated football after prohibiting the game for a year. The student body brought strong pressure to bear, but some of the trustees were loath to permit the game. Track athletics have not proven as popular as had been hoped. The action of Baylor is interesting in view of the attitude of several other educational institutions in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036148-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Baylor football team, Background\nBaylor University did not field a team in 1906. Due to the violence of football, the sport was banned by the Board of Trustees in May 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036148-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Baylor football team, Background\nUnder student pressure and a lack of interest in the school's athletics team, the trustees lifted the ban the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike\nThe Belfast Dock strike or Belfast lockout took place in Belfast, Ireland from 26 April to 28 August 1907. The strike was called by Liverpool-born trade union leader James Larkin who had successfully organised the dock workers to join the National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL). The dockers, both Protestant and Catholic, had gone on strike after their demand for union recognition was refused. They were soon joined by carters, shipyard workers, sailors, firemen, boilermakers, coal heavers, transport workers, and women from the city's largest tobacco factory. Most of the dock labourers were employed by powerful tobacco magnate Thomas Gallaher, chairman of the Belfast Steamship Company and owner of Gallaher's Tobacco Factory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike\nThe Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) later mutinied when ordered to escort the blackleg drivers of traction engines used to replace the striking carters. Order was eventually restored when British Army troops were deployed. Although largely unsuccessful, the dock strike led to the establishment of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike\nFormer Irish Labour Party leader Ruairi Quinn described the Belfast strike as having been a \"major event in the early years of the trade union movement\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Background to the strike\nBelfast in the early 20th-century was a flourishing centre of industry with shipbuilding, engineering and linen-manufacturing the main sources of the city's economic lifeblood. Its skilled workforce of shipyard workers and engineers earned wages and enjoyed working conditions comparable with the rest of the United Kingdom. Additionally, they enjoyed the security of trade union membership. For the unskilled workers, such as dock labourers and carters, it was a completely different story. They worked up to 75 hours a week in conditions which were dangerous and unsanitary, without holidays. The pay was low and employment was erratic and uncertain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0003-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Background to the strike\nUnlike the skilled workers, these labourers had no trade union to look after their interests. The men who worked in the docks lived in Sailortown, a community adjacent to the Docks which had a population of 5,000, excluding the transient sailors who swelled the numbers. This mixed Protestant and Catholic populace was packed into tiny streets of red-bricked terraced houses that were built between the docks and York Street. They were damp, airless, overcrowded and poorly lit. Poverty, hunger and disease was rife. Women and children were compelled to work long, arduous hours in the linen mills and cigarette factories. Most families in Sailortown had men who were merchant seamen; with boys as young as 14 going off to sea. The other men obtained unskilled work on the waterfront as dockers, carters and coal heavers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Background to the strike\nBy this time there were 3,100 dock labourers, 2,000 of whom were casual workers or \"spellsmen\" hired on a daily basis at low pay. Whilst Protestants and Catholics held the same jobs, the sectarian attitudes which dominated every aspect of life in Belfast ensured that Protestant dockers worked in the cross-channel docks where employment was more regular whilst Catholic dockers were made to work in the more dangerous deep sea docks, where the casualty rate was the highest. They were also the first to be laid off when labour cutbacks were required. Author John Gray in his book, City in Revolt: James Larkin and the Belfast Dock Strike of 1907 described the differences in wages earnings and the standard of living between the skilled and unskilled workers as \"a yawning abyss, unequalled anywhere else in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Background to the strike\nIt was into this environment and social milieu that trade union leader James Larkin (a Liverpool-born Irish Catholic) arrived in January 1907. He was sent to Belfast by James Sexton, head of the National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL), with the aim of bringing the dock workers and carters into the union. Addressing crowds of people on the steps of Belfast's Custom House, he vociferously articulated the grievances of the working classes. Due to his charismatic personality and considerable oratorial skill, Larkin succeeded in unionising the unskilled Protestant and Catholic workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nBy April 1907, Larkin had recruited 2,000 workers into the NUDL union; in May the number had reached 4,500. The massive wave of labour strikes which would bring chaos to Belfast throughout the summer commenced on 26 April at Samuel Davidson's Sirocco Engineering Works in East Belfast with a walk-out by non-union workers demanding higher wages. The union members amongst Sirocco's employees were promptly sacked and the rest of the workers were each obliged to sign a document pledging not to join a trade union. The next strike occurred on Queen's Quay by employees of the coal merchant Samuel Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0006-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nThis was after he had dismissed union members from his workforce and Larkin called for the rest of the coal workers to go on strike. On 6 May, dockers working on the SS Optic owned by Belfast Steamship Company also went out on strike after refusing to work alongside non-union members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nMost of the dockers in Belfast were employees of magnate Thomas Gallaher who owned Gallaher's Tobacco Factory and served as chairman of Belfast Steamship Company. Gallaher and Kelly were forewarned about the strike, and had sent to Dublin for 50 blackleg dockers and coal heavers to fill the strikers' places. Feeling that a strike was premature at this point in time, Larkin sent the dockers and coal heavers back to work. Upon their return, however, the men discovered that they were locked out with the imported blacklegs working in their stead. The locked-out NUDL dockers and coal heavers proceeded to force the blacklegs away from the Belfast Steamship Company's sheds and the coal merchant's quay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nAlthough Kelly gave in and recognised his workers' rights to union membership, when Gallaher sacked seven women for attending a meeting held by Larkin, one thousand female employees of his tobacco factory walked out of their workplace in a display of solidarity on 16 May. They marched to a strike meeting held that afternoon in Corporation Square. The women, however, were compelled to return to work the following day. Although Larkin had called on them to join a trade union, neither the NUDL nor any other trade union could admit such a high number of new members at one time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0008-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nAdditionally, no financial assistance was available to the women, many of whom had families to support. Thomas Gallaher refused to recognise the NUDL and had hundreds of blackleg dockers working on Donegall Quay under the protection of the RIC and troops deployed by Belfast's Lord Mayor Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury. Larkin denounced Gallaher in speeches as an \"obscene scoundrel\". Gallaher for his part lamented that \"the whole business is, I think, due to the uprising of socialism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nIn mid-June 500 coal heavers from other firms went out, demanding higher wages. As the end of June approached, more than 3000 dockers were on strike, including 300 from the cross-channel companies, most of which were owned by powerful British railway magnates. As unrest among Belfast's workers grew, the strike soon spread from the docks and quays to the rest of Belfast with shipyard workers, firemen, sailors, iron moulders, and transport workers joining the dockers. Between 5,000 and 10,000 people turned out to attend the strike meetings that were held daily outside the Custom House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0009-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nThe NUDL demanded an increase in wages along with union recognition and better working conditions, all of which Gallaher and the other shipping bosses adamantly refused to grant. At this stage, however, the dockers' strike was hampered by the strong police and military presence on the quays. On 1 July, Larkin decided to lead the striking dockers in a march to Belfast City Hall to put their case before the council chamber who were in session.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0009-0002", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nAccording to a newspaper report, the dockers were \"marshalled in a long column of fours, and headed by Mr. Larkin they marched in military order through the streets gathering an immense crowd at their heels\". The politicians inside City Hall had to perforce admit a delegation of dockers to their meeting, but they would not make any concessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nThe tide suddenly turned in the dockers' favour when carters on the railway company quays refused to transport goods unloaded from the ships by the Dublin blackleg dockers. On 4 July after submitting a general pay claim, Larkin called the thousand remaining carters of Belfast, who were employed by the 60 firms of the Master Carriers Association, out on a sympathy strike. Gallaher and the other employers had no means of getting their merchandise out of the port.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0010-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout\nThe Belfast Newsletter commented on the situation with the following words: \"It was remarkable to see the stagnation which existed from the Custom House to the Clarendon Dock. With the exception of an isolated van or lorry driven by the obvious amateur, there was scarcely a sign of life or movement\". Soon afterwards engineers and boilermakers were striking; workplaces all over the city stopped production and shut down. The strike escalated into bitter violence when shipyard workers burnt company vans, hurled rocks at the police and attacked blacklegs with \"shipyard confetti\" which consisted of rivets, nuts and bolts. Blackleg workers had to be billeted aboard a ship in the Belfast Lough for their own safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Solidarity between Protestants and Catholics\nThe strike was characterised by unrest in working class areas of Belfast and solidarity across the sectarian divide. Given that Protestants made up the majority of Belfast's workforce, most of the strikers and local strike leaders were in fact, Protestants, although Catholics comprised a significant number. Specifically, three-quarters of Belfast's carters and three-fifths of its dockers were Protestants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 83], "content_span": [84, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Solidarity between Protestants and Catholics\nThat July Belfast experienced the most unusual Twelfth ever witnessed before or since. Instead of the traditional rioting and sectarian clashes which typically accompanied the Orange Order parades, the strike leaders gave public speeches defending the workers' interests against all forms of sectarianism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 83], "content_span": [84, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Solidarity between Protestants and Catholics\nOn the Shankill Road, a Protestant area of the city and a regular scene of sectarian clashes, on 26 July 100,000 workers marched in support of the strike in a parade that featured flute bands from both Unionist and Nationalist traditions, a very rare occurrence. The parade ended at a mass rally held outside City Hall, where 200,000 demonstrators had gathered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 83], "content_span": [84, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Solidarity between Protestants and Catholics\nAlthough it involved members of both the Protestant and Catholic communities, the Irish Unionist Alliance establishment opposed the strike and subjected Larkin to a sectarian campaign of condemnation, aimed largely at coaxing Protestant workers away from the strike. Larkin did however secure the support of the Independent Orange Order, an offshoot of the mainstream Orange Order which at the time had close ties to the Protestant labour movement. Larkin was joined in public meetings by the Independents' Grand Master, R. Lindsay Crawford. Crawford encouraged workers to stand firm for the sake not only of organised labour, but also of \"the unity of all Irishmen\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 83], "content_span": [84, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Police mutiny\nThe police mutiny broke out when the RIC were ordered to play a more participative role during their routine escort of traction engines driven by blackleg carters through the city. Blackleg carters had been recruited to drive the traction engines that had been sent to Belfast to deliver the goods which had been unable to leave the port due to the striking carters. The traction engines, equipped with makeshift armour, were almost always blocked en route by flying pickets. The RIC were enlisted to provide an escort for the blackleg carters, who constantly came under attack. In one incident in East Belfast, a crowd of shipyard workers threw a telegraph pole at a blackleg carter and his traction engine. The merchandise he had been transporting ended up in the nearby Connswater River.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Police mutiny\nThe policemen, however, received no extra pay for the hazardous duty which left them vulnerable to attack nor for the regular breaking up of strikers' pickets; both of which threatened to alienate them from their own communities, and in some cases their own families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0017-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Police mutiny\nOn 19 July, RIC Constable William Barrett refused to sit beside the blackleg driver of a traction engine who had been promised personal police protection by his employer. After flatly refusing to obey District Inspector Thomas Keaveney when the latter ordered him to accompany the driver, he was promptly suspended. In response, 300 angry policemen attended a meeting at Musgrave Street Barracks and declared their support for the strike. A brawl instantly broke out inside the barracks when Barrett resisted attempts by RIC officers to arrest him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0017-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Police mutiny\nThis led to another 800 policemen (about 70 per cent of the police force) joining the mutiny. They refused to offer any protection to the blacklegs, made no further attempts to disperse the strikers' pickets and Larkin persuaded them to carry out their own strike for higher wages and better pensions. In 1907, policemen's pay in Belfast ranged from \u00a366, 16 shillings to \u00a378 per annum. This was a wage just marginally above that earned by the best-paid dockers and carters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0017-0002", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, Police mutiny\nAt the request of the Lord Mayor, extra British Army troops and cavalry were immediately deployed to Belfast to restore order, taking command of strategic areas such as the Docks and city centre; on 1 August nine warships sailed into Belfast Lough and martial law was quickly imposed in the city. On 2 August, four days before the police were due to go on strike, the leaders of the mutiny along with 200 dissident policemen were transferred from Belfast. Barrett and six other constables were dismissed from the RIC. The day after Barrett's dismissal, the strikers carried him from one police barracks to another; a mass demonstration followed where he addressed a crowd of 5,000 people, mainly striking workers. The police mutiny, however, was effectively crushed without their threatened strike having taken place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0018-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, End of the strike\nThe Dock strike was ultimately ended on 28 August not by Larkin but by James Sexton, the overall head of the NUDL in Britain and Ireland. Sexton found the 10 shillings a week strike payments that had to be made to the dockers crippling high and, fearing that the union might be bankrupted, negotiated with the employers before agreeing to terms that amounted to capitulation by the NUDL. These separate negotiations with the other employers left the dock labourers isolated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0019-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, End of the strike\nIn the weeks leading up to the strike's termination, the Unionist press had begun to employ scare-mongering and other divisive methods to alienate the Protestant strikers from their Catholic counterparts by alluding to Irish nationalism and socialism. It also published allegations that although the Protestant strikers had largely borne the brunt of the hardships that ensued during the strike, the Catholic strikers had received larger cash payouts by the Dockers' and Carters' Strike Fund. The Irish Home Rule Movement, which had been put aside during the lockout, once again emerged as a potential threat to Irish Unionists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0020-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, The lockout, End of the strike\nIn mid-August during the course of a riot in the lower Falls Road, two Catholics were killed by soldiers. This struck a serious blow to working-class unity. Despite the removal of the Army from the Falls Road area the following day, working-class solidarity was damaged beyond repair. Future Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gunrunner Frederick Crawford expressed the following sentiments in a letter he wrote to a friend regarding the Falls Road riot: \"what a blessing all the rioting took place in the Catholic quarter of the city. This branded the whole thing a nationalist movement\". The Belfast Telegraph, as well as Unionist and Nationalist politicians, quickly took the opportunity to exploit the centuries-old sectarian divisions and the two striking groups inevitably drifted back into their former sectarian camps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0021-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Legacy\nThe defeat of the strike saw a move towards a more Irish-based trade unionism, with the Irish Transport & General Workers Union (ITGWU) established the following year in response to the events of Belfast. This also helped to ensure a significant increase in trade union membership amongst northern Catholics, who before the strike had tended to be less unionised than their Protestant counterparts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0021-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Legacy\nSuch a move was seen as a problem by leading figures in the Roman Catholic Church, not least the anti-socialist Cardinal Michael Logue who warned his flock that \"socialism as it is preached on the Continent, and as it has commenced to be preached in these countries, is simply irreligion and atheism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0022-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Legacy\nFor Larkin the strike was seen as something of a triumph despite its unsatisfactory ending and it had served to establish his reputation. He would move south the following year and found that the authorities were frequently loathe to confront him, given his tough reputation and the spectre of the police mutiny that had accompanied the Belfast strike. As a result, Larkin enjoyed a high success rate in labour disputes until the Dublin Lock-out of 1913. The Sligo Dock strike of 1913 was one example of these successes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0023-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Legacy\nThe industrial action attracted much attention, including that of John Maclean, a Scottish Marxist who came to prominence as a leader of the Red Clydeside group. Maclean was in Belfast from 1 to 3 August along with Victor Grayson and he spoke before large crowds of striking workers. Maclean was impressed by what he saw in Belfast, feeling that the strike would represent the moment in which sectarian divisions were put aside in favour of working class unity in Ireland. Furthermore, his brief time in Belfast reinvigorated his enthusiasm for the trade union movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0023-0001", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Legacy\nFrom his base in Glasgow Maclean had become disillusioned with trade unionism as the Glasgow dockers' unions were small and made up only of highly skilled workers who adopted the superior attitude of a \"labour aristocracy\". However the Belfast unions had a mass membership and for Maclean this pointed the way forward for unions as instruments of real social change and as such he took up his pen in support of the Belfast strike. Maclean would later become an enthusiastic supporter of Irish nationalism, and in declaring his support for the First D\u00e1il he suggested that it was the culmination of a new struggle that had begun with the 1907 Dock strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0024-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, Legacy\nFormer Irish Labour Party leader Ruairi Quinn described the Belfast Dock strike as having been a \"major event in the early years of the trade union movement\". In Belfast and Dublin, statues of James Larkin were erected in his honour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the event, a stained glass window depicting the dock strike was unveiled at Belfast City Hall by the Lord Mayor, Pat McCarthy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036149-0025-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast Dock strike, In film\nThe Belfast Dock strike featured in the 2012 television series Titanic: Blood and Steel; however, it contained many glaring historical inaccuracies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036150-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Belfast North by-election\nThe Belfast North by-election of 1907 was held on 17 April 1907. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Unionist MP, Daniel Dixon. It was won by the Irish Unionist candidate George Clark. North Belfast had previously been a marginal seat with the Labour candidate, William Walker, coming within 500 votes of winning on the two previous occasions. In order to win over Protestant votes, Walker made clear that he was opposed to Home Rule", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036151-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Birmingham Tramway accident\nThe 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident was a fatal tram accident which occurred on 1 October 1907 in the city of Birmingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036151-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Birmingham Tramway accident, Events\nA tram operated by City of Birmingham Tramways Company Ltd was going downhill on Warstone Lane in the Jewellery Quarter area of the city when its brakes failed and it ran away. At the junction of Warstone Lane and Icknield Street it overturned at high speed and skidded until it stopped on the other side of the street, smashing into the pavement. Two people died and 17 were injured. It is the deadliest tram accident in the area covered by the modern West Midlands county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036151-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Birmingham Tramway accident, Events\nThe tram's brakes were later found to have been faulty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036152-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Birthday Honours\nThe 1907 Birthday Honours for the British Empire were announced on 28 June, to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036152-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Birthday Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036152-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Birthday Honours, The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)\nThe following honours were gazetted at the same time, but were described as marking the 50th anniversary of Military Operations in India, 1857", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 101], "content_span": [102, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036153-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Blayney state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Blayney on 12 January 1907 because Paddy Crick (Progressive) resigned from Parliament after findings of corruption made by a Royal Commission. Crick had also been expelled from the Legislative Assembly for outrageous behaviour in the chamber, however he was returned in the resulting by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036153-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Blayney state by-election\nThe Royal Commission handed down an interim report in May 1906, which found that 50% of the sums received by a land agent Peter Close were paid to Crick whilst he was Minister for Lands. The Legislative Assembly proposed to immediately deal with Crick, however the Speaker ruled that the Assembly could not deal with the matter as it might prejudice his criminal trial. Instead the assembly amended its standing orders and suspended Crick pending the outcome of his criminal trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036153-0001-0001", "contents": "1907 Blayney state by-election\nThe jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict, and the Attorney General declined to prosecute the matter again as evidence before the Royal Commission had been ruled inadmissible in his criminal trial. Crick then submitted his resignation from parliament, however before it was accepted the assembly passed a motion that he was guilty of conduct that rendered him ineligible to sit as a member. Rutledge and Nairn stated this was due to old scores being paid off, while Anne Twomey stated that this motion was passed to influence future voters not to vote for Crick. In any event Crick did not nominate for the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036153-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Blayney state by-election, Aftermath\nPaddy Crick was struck off the roll of solicitors on 23 August 1907 because of the evidence before the Royal Commission. He challenged the validity of his suspension in the Supreme Court and was successful before the Full Court, however this was overturned on appeal to the Privy Council which held that the Legislative Assembly was the sole judge whether an \"occasion\" had arisen that affected the orderly conduct of the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036153-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Blayney state by-election, Aftermath\nCrick stood for parliament again at the September 1907 election for Surry Hills but was unsuccessful. He died the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036154-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Americans season\nThe 1907 Boston Americans season was the seventh season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished seventh in the American League (AL) with a record of 59 wins and 90 losses, 32+1\u20442 games behind the Detroit Tigers. Including spring training, the team had five different managers. The team played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036154-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Statistical leaders\nThe offense was led by Bob Unglaub (62 RBIs), Bunk Congalton (.286 batting average), and Hobe Ferris (four home runs). The pitching staff was led by Cy Young, who made 43 appearances (37 starts) and pitched 33 complete games with a 21\u201315 record and 1.99 ERA, while striking out 147 in 343+1\u20443 innings. No other pitcher had a winning record; Cy Morgan had a 6\u20136 record with 1.97 ERA in 16 games (13 starts).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036154-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Americans season, Regular season, Season standings\nThe team had six games end in a tie; June 21 vs. Chicago, July 22 at Chicago, September 9 vs. Philadelphia, September 13 at Philadelphia, September 30 vs. Chicago, and October 5 at New York. Tie games are not counted in league standings, but player statistics during tie games are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036154-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036154-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Americans season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036155-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Doves season\nThe 1907 Boston Doves season was the 37th season of the franchise. Before the season, longtime Boston Beaneaters owner Arthur Soden sold the team to the Dovey Brothers. The team quickly became known as the Boston Doves, after the brothers. One bright spot during a 90-loss season came on May 8, when Big Jeff Pfeffer pitched a no-hitter in a 6\u20130 home win over the Cincinnati Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036155-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Doves season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036155-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Doves season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036155-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Doves season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036155-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Doves season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036155-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston Doves season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036156-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1907 occurred on Tuesday, December 10, 1907. Republican candidate George A. Hibbard defeated Democratic candidate John F. Fitzgerald, the incumbent Mayor of Boston, and John A. Coulthurst, an Independence League candidate. Primary elections for each party had been held on Thursday, November 14, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036156-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston mayoral election\nThis was the final Boston mayoral election for a two-year term, and that was partisan in nature; a new city charter adopted in 1909 made the mayoral term four years, and made Boston municipal elections non-partisan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036156-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Boston mayoral election, Results\nNote: In October, John A. Coulthurst was selected as the Independence League candidate, and he resigned his position as secretary of the Democratic state committee. His still garnered some votes in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036157-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Brigg by-election\nThe Brigg by-election of 1907 was held on 26 February 1907. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Harold Reckitt. It was won by the Conservative candidate Berkeley Sheffield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election\nThe 1907 British Columbia general election was the eleventh general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election called on December 24, 1906, and held on February 2, 1907. The new legislature met for the first time on March 7, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election\nThe governing Conservative party won a second term in government, with almost half the popular vote, and a majority of the seats in the legislature, increasing its number of seats by 4 to 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election\nThe Liberal Party lost 4 seats in the legislature, despite winning about the same share of the popular vote that it had in the 1903 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election\nThe Socialist Party won one additional seat to bring its total to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election, Results\n* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election, Results\n1 One Conservative candidate, R. McBride, who contested and was elected in both Dewdney and Victoria City, is counted twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election, Results\n2 Organized in 1906. Not the same as the Canadian Labour Party of B.C. which contested the 1924 election. Sometimes referred to as \"Independent Labour Party\" by the newspapers which creates some confusion with the situation in Nanaimo City and Newcastle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036158-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 British Columbia general election, Results\n3 Although the candidates in Nanaimo City and Newcastle called themselves \"Independent Labour\" candidates, the Conservative press described them as \"Liberal-Labour\" candidates. They did have Liberal support in both cases and no Liberals were nominated for either District. They were also repudiated by the Victoria branch of the Canadian Labour Party of BC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036159-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Brooklyn Superbas season\nThe 1907 Brooklyn Superbas finished in fifth place, with another losing season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036159-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036159-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036159-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036159-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036159-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Brooklyn Superbas season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036160-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1907 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036161-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Bury St Edmunds by-election\nThe Bury St Edmunds by-election of 1907 was held on 24 August 1907. The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Frederick Hervey who become the Fourth Marquess of Bristol. It was won by the Conservative candidate Walter Guinness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036161-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Bury St Edmunds by-election, Campaign\nThe by-election was a strong campaigning ground for the suffragette movement and the Women's Social and Political Union made it a target for propaganda sending high level members, including Gladice Keevil, Nellie Martel, Emmeline Pankhurst, Aeta Lamb, Rachel Barrett and Elsa Gye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036162-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Calabria earthquake\nOn October 23, 1907, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Calabria, at a depth of 33.0\u00a0km. in the area of Gerace-Siderno, on the southeast coast of Calabria. The event caused 167 deaths and major damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036162-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Calabria earthquake\nThe epicentral area included only one town (Ferruzzano), where many houses collapsed almost completely, and 158 persons, or 8% of its population, were killed. Ferruzano had been hit as well in the 1905 Calabria earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036162-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Calabria earthquake\nAlmost a month later, on November 17, 1907, the area of Ferruzzano, Brancaleone and Bianco was hit again. On January 23, 1908, the area was hit again by an earthquake. People had to camp in the fields or in nearby subterranean grottos. In Ferruzzano new houses built after the earthquakes of 1905 and 1907 resisted the shocks of the 1908 Messina earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036163-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Calgary municipal election\nThe 1907 Calgary municipal election was held on December 9, 1907 to elect a Mayor and twelve Aldermen to sit on the twenty-fourth Calgary City Council from January 2, 1908 to January 2, 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036163-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors with a voter's designated ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036163-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Calgary municipal election, Background\nThe election became a bitter affair with the Calgary Herald supporting Mayor Cameron and the Morning Albertan supporting Alderman Simon John Clarke. The Morning Albertan called Clarke \"a man who does things\" and claimed the city's financial position would have been better under his stewardship, while criticizing Cameron for closed council meetings and \"autocratic rule\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036163-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Calgary municipal election, Background\nafter the Morning Albertan charged Mayor Cameron with engineering the bylaw to form a commission in order to provide himself a well paying job. The Morning Albertan claimed the commission bylaw was crafted in a in camera City Council meeting was held to form the commission with three members each paid $2,500, Mayor Cameron, Alderman Harry William White and Alderman Arthur Garnet Graves. The charge was contrasted with the City Council decision to layoff 250 public works employees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036163-0003-0001", "contents": "1907 Calgary municipal election, Background\nAlderman White refuted the charges against Mayor Cameron in the Morning Albertan, going so far as to offer $1,000 if the writer (whom the Morning Albertan acknowledged as publisher William McCartney Davidson) could provide evidence for his claims. Claims also surfaced in the Calgary Herald that as Alderman, Simon John Clarke paved numerous sidewalks throughout the city without authorization or report from City Council or the relevant committees. The Calgary Herald claimed that Clarke and his agents paid for the article in the Morning Albertan, which the Morning Albertan refuted by publishing affidavits of Clarke and his agent J.Y. Byers the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036163-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Calgary municipal election, Background\nClarke campaigned on record as Alderman including his role as Chairman on the Public Works Committee, the election of a commission, municipal meetings open to the public, and financial restraint during difficult times. While Cameron ran his record extending the waterworks system, improvements to St. George's Island, and missing only one City Council meeting in the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036163-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Calgary municipal election, Results\nElection results as reported by the Calgary Herald and Morning Albertan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036164-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Campeonato Carioca\nThe 1907 Campeonato Carioca, the second edition of that championship, kicked off on May 5, 1907 and ended on October 27, 1907. It was organized by LMSA (Liga Metropolitana de Sports Athleticos, or Metropolitan Athletic Sports League). Four teams participated. Botafogo and Fluminense won the title for the 1st time and 2nd time, respectively. No teams were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036164-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Campeonato Carioca, System\nThe tournament would be disputed in a double round-robin format, with the team with the most points winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036164-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Campeonato Carioca, Championship\nThe championship would be disputed by four clubs instead of the previous year's six, as Bangu and Rio Cricket declined to participate, although they were still affiliated to the league. In addition to that, early in the year, Football & Athletic changed its name to Internacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036164-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Campeonato Carioca, Championship\nAfter not showing up to a match against Botafogo, Internacional was expelled from the league, Fluminense, Paysandu and Rio Cricket also left the league in solidarity, effectively disbanding it. At the time, Botafogo and Fluminense were tied in points, and since the tiebreaking criteria were unclear, the title went officially unawarded until 1996, when FFERJ declared both of them Carioca champions of 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036165-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1907 Campeonato Paulista, organized by the LPF (Liga Paulista de Football), was the 6th season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top association football league. Internacional won the title for the 1st time. No teams were relegated and the top scorer was Internacional's Le\u00f4nidas with 8 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036165-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Campeonato Paulista, System\nThe championship was disputed in a double-round robin system, with the team with the most points winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036166-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cardiganshire County Council election\nThe sixth elections for Cardiganshire County Council took place in March 1907. They were preceded by the 1904 election and followed by the 1910 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036166-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Cardiganshire County Council election, Overview of the Result\nAs in previous elections, there was a Liberal majority, with 36 of the elected members being Liberals and 12 Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036166-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Cardiganshire County Council election, Gains and Losses\nThe Liberals gained two seats, one at Aberystwyth where Captain Thomas Doughton regained the seat in No.1 Ward which he had previously held between and the other at Llanllwchaiarn where sitting alderman Rev William Griffiths ousted the siting councillor Evan Lewis by four votes. In turn, however, they lost three seats. At Llanrhystud the previous Conservative member regained the seat he lost three years before while two major landowners won significant victories. The Lord Lieutenant, Herbert Davies-Evans won at Llanddewi Brefi while J.C. Harford of Falcondale narrowly captured Llanwnen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036166-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen\nEight aldermen retired, all of whom were Liberals apart from Sir Marteine Lloyd. Peter Jones, J.M. Howell, Walter T. Davies and the Rev T. Mason Jones stood in the election but were not re-elected aldermen. Sir Marteine Lloyd, Evan Richards and Rev John Williams were re-elected without facing the electorate. John Powell stood down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 61], "content_span": [62, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036166-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberystwyth Division 4\nFossett Roberts retained the seat he won at a by-election in 1905, in a contest dominated by accusations about nonconformist ministers' involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036166-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Cardiganshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen\nFive aldermen who had not faced the election were re-appointed, together with David Evans, who had lost by two votes at Llanwnen to J.C. Harford, another retiring alderman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036166-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Nantcwnlle by-election\nFollowing the election of W. Jenkin Lloyd as alderman, a Liberal candidate retained the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 80], "content_span": [81, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036167-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Carlisle Indians football team\nThe 1907 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1907 college football season. The Indians were coached by Pop Warner in his sixth year as head coach, last coaching the school in 1903. The team compiled a record of 10\u20131 and outscored opponents 267 to 62.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036167-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Carlisle Indians football team\nJim Thorpe, undersized even for the Indians, persuaded Warner to allow him to try out for the team. Thorpe immediately impressed his coach and secured a starting position on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036167-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Carlisle Indians football team\nEnd Albert Exendine was a consensus All-American. In the game against Chicago, fullback Pete Hauser threw a 40-yard pass to Exendine, who ran out of bounds, around spectators and players, and back on the field for the catch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036167-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Carlisle Indians football team\nHauser became a star during the 1907 season. In an early game, he scored a touchdown and kicked a field goal in a 10\u20130 victory over Villanova. In October 1907, Hauser ran for a touchdown and kicked to goals after touchdown, scoring eight points, in Carlisle's 14\u20136 victory over the team from Syracuse University. In November 1907, The New York Times wrote that Hauser handled kicking duties for Carlisle, returned punts, and was also \"the mainstay of the defense.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036167-0003-0001", "contents": "1907 Carlisle Indians football team\nThat same month, Carlise defeated the Harvard football team, then one of the top teams in the country, by a 23\u201315 score in front of a crowd of 30,000 spectators in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The New York Times wrote that Hauser's end runs were \"marvels\" and that he was able to circle the Harvard ends \"at will.\" Carlisle's 1907 season ended with an 18\u20134 victory over Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons football team. Hauser was described as \"a one-man wrecking crew\" against Chicago, as he kicked two field goals and an extra point and threw a 50-yard touchdown pass as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036167-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Carlisle Indians football team\nOn October 26, 1907, Carlisle beat a Penn team that had won every other game and was declared national champion. The \"national champions\" lost 26\u20136, before an overflow crowd of 20,000 at Franklin Field. Hauser's most historic moment in this game. At a time when forward passes were generally short tosses, Hauser threw a pass 40 yards, hitting his receiver in stride.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036167-0004-0001", "contents": "1907 Carlisle Indians football team\nIn her history of Native Americans in football, Sally Jenkins called Hauser's long, 40-yard spiral pass against Penn one of the \"three or four signal moments in the evolution of football\" and \"the sporting equivalent of the Wright brothers taking off at Kitty Hawk.\" The Philadelphia North American compared it to the \"puny\" passes of the day, called it \"a lordly throw, a hurl that went farther than many a kick,\" and predicted that Hauser's throw would be \"talked of often this year.\" Hauser's secret was throwing the ball in a spiral, allowing it to travel farther downfield. Carlisle head coach, Pop Warner, said that Hauser was credited as the first football player to throw a spiral pass and could \"hit his ends on the dead run with uncanny accuracy.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036168-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthen Rural District Council election\nAn election to the Carmarthen Rural District Council was held in March 1907. It was preceded by the 1904 election and followed by the 1910 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Carmarthen Board of Guardians. Around half the members were returned unopposed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036168-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Ward Results, Llanarthney (two seats)\nStephen Stephens, a member of the Council since its formation, was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 86], "content_span": [87, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036168-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Ward Results, Llanddowror (one seat)\nNo candidate was nominated therefore the sitting member, Benjamin Thomas, was deemed to be re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 85], "content_span": [86, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036168-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Carmarthen Board of Guardians\nAll members of the District Council also served as members of Carmarthen Board of Guardians. In addition six members were elected to represent the borough of Carmarthen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036168-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthen Rural District Council election, Carmarthen Board of Guardians\nThere was a contested election which saw the five retiring members re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election\nThe seventh election to the Carmarthenshire County Council was held in March 1907. It was preceded by the 1904 election and followed by the 1910 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Overview of the result\nThe Liberals retained a strong majority. With a few exceptions, members were returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Boundary changes\nThere were minor boundary changes leading to the creation of two additional wards, namely Ammanford and Llandissilio. The new Ammanford ward, which comprised the urban district of Ammanford was created by the division of the Bettws Ward into two. Significant population growth had taken place in the eastern part of the county as a result of the growth of the anthracite coal trade but demands for further additional wards to be formed in the Llanelli district were rejected. The second new ward was at Llandissilio in the western part of the county, on the Pembrokeshire border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0002-0001", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Boundary changes\nIt was formed out of portions of the existing Whitland and Llanboidy wards. There was less unanimity in favour of the new Llandissilio ward than was the case at Ammanford, and there were suggestions that an additional rural ward was being created to counterbalance the new industrial ward at Ammanford. A proposal for a third new ward, at Newchurch on the outskirts of Carmarthen was rejected in due course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Boundary changes\nAs a result of these boundary changes, the Council included 53 elected members as opposed to 51 previously. The number of aldermen remained at 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Contested elections\nThere were only a small number of contested elections and the majorities were small in most instances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results\nThis section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. In some cases there is an ambiguity in the sources over the party affiliations and this is explained below where relevant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results\nThis table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 51 councillors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward results, Llanfihangel-ar-Arth\nThe sitting member was elected on the casting vote of the returning officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036169-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of aldermen\nIn addition to the 51 councillors the council consisted of 17 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the elections the following eight aldermen were elected (with the number of votes in each case).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036170-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team\nThe 1907 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology during the 1907 college football season. The head coach was Joseph H. Thompson serving his first season with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036171-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nThe 1907 Central Michigan Normalites football team represented Central Michigan Normal School, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1907 college football season. Football was reinstated after one year's absence, and Ralph Thacker, who had played fullback for Olivet College the prior year, was named coach of the football team. Bruce Stickles was selected as the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036171-0000-0001", "contents": "1907 Central Michigan Normalites football team\nAlthough the Central Michigan football media guide reports that the 1907 football team compiled a 2\u20134 record, including a loss to Alma College, the contemporaneous newspaper report on the Alma game reports it as a victory for Central by a 13 to 0 score. Accordingly, it appears that the correct record of the 1907 football team was 3\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036172-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Challenge Cup\nThe 1906\u201307 Challenge Cup was the 11th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036172-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Warrington and Oldham at Wheater's Field in Broughton, Salford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036172-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Challenge Cup\nThe final was played on Saturday 27 April 1907, where Warrington beat Oldham 17\u20133 at Wheater's Field in front of a crowd of 18,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036173-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Championship of Australia\nThe 1907 Championship of Australia was an Australian rules football match that took place on 28 September 1907 at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, South Australia. It was the fourth edition of the Championship of Australia with it being the first since the 1896 edition, also in Adelaide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036173-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Championship of Australia\nThe championship was contested by the premiers of the VFL (Carlton) and the premiers of the SAFL (Norwood) in one match which was played in a front of a crowd of 13,000. After a slow start which featured only three goals, Norwood would go to win the match by 32 points with Leonard Chamberlain scoring five goals as Norwood won their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036173-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Championship of Australia\nFuture Premier of South Australia Lionel Hill and South Australian Attorney-General Shirley Jeffries were members of the victorious Norwood side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036173-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Championship of Australia, Background\nThe Championship of Australia began in 1888 as a three-game series between the VFA champions at the time (South Melbourne) and the SAFA champions in Norwood with Norwood winning the series 3\u20130. This would be the only Championship of Australia to be played as a series, with the following three editions (1890, 1893 and 1896) all being played as one game matches with the Victorian teams winning two of those matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036173-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Championship of Australia, Background\nNorwood qualified through to the Championship of Australia by taking out the South Australian Football League on 21 September 1907. They defeated Port Adelaide by 28 points (8.7 to 3.9) in a crowd of 26,000 people which was a South Australian record. Bahr, E. Lewis and W.R. Miller scored two goals for Norwood. Also in the same game, Carlton qualified through to the final by defeating South Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In front of a crowd of over 45,000 people, Carlton would win by 5 points (6.14 to 6.9) to record their second premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036173-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Championship of Australia, Match, Summary\nThe match was 13,000 which also included the governor, George Le Hunte and his lady. After two points were scored in the opening minutes, the opening goal of the match came from C Gwynne from an assist of E Lewis. Carlton responded with goals from George Topping and Alex Lang brought the score levels at quarter time. The second quarter was a tight hustle with the balance of play being even until halftime, with Norwood being slightly ahead at the break (3 points) with scores being 3.8 to 3.5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036173-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Championship of Australia, Match, Summary\nThe second half saw the home team raise their confidence in what The Argus described as a huge surprise with the first three minutes of the third quarter seeing three goals to the host side. The dominance of the Norwood centre showed with the ball only passing the centre line, three or four times for a single point after the bell for Carlton, while Norwood in response scored seven goals. After Norwood scored an early goal at the start of the last quarter, Fred Jinks delivered Carlton's first goal in two quarters, to generous cheers through the crowd. Carlton would go on to score four more goals to win the final quarter and reduce the final margin to only 32 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036174-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Chattanooga Moccasins football team\nThe 1907 Chattanooga Moccasins football team represented the University of Chattanooga\u2014now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2014as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team finished its six-game schedule without a win, scoring only one touchdown in the entire season. A seventh game was scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, November 28, in Chattanooga against Southwestern Presbyterian of Clarksville, Tennessee. However, the game was cancelled on November 27 because of Chattanooga's poor performance on November 26 against the 12th Cavalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036175-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1907 Chicago Cubs season was the 36th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 32nd in the National League and the 15th at West Side Park. It was the first season that the Chicago Cubs became the franchise's name officially. The team finished in first place in the National League with a record of 107\u201345, 17 games ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was their second straight NL pennant. The Cubs faced the Detroit Tigers in the 1907 World Series, which they won four games to none (with one tie) for their first World Series victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036175-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036175-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036175-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036175-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036176-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago Maroons football team\nThe 1907 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1907 college football season. In their 16th season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 4\u20131 record, finished in first place in the Western Conference with a 4\u20130 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 147 to 42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036177-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team\nThe 1907 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036178-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago White Sox season\nThe 1907 Chicago White Sox led the American League for much of the first half but finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036178-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago White Sox season\nChicago allowed the fewest runs in the AL. The pitching staff was led by Ed Walsh, who paced the circuit in innings pitched (422.1), complete games (37), and earned run average (1.60).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036178-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036178-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036178-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036178-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036178-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1907, Republican Fred A. Busse defeated Democratic incumbent Edward F. Dunne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election\nThis was the first mayoral election to a four-year term in Chicago's history, as terms had been extended from two to four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nDunne was able to defeat a challenge from Carter Harrison Jr. for the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nHarrison had secured support from a number of ward bosses (including Robert Burke and John Powers) as well as the Sullivan-Hopkins wing of the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nOn February 21, Dunne won the primary held at the Democratic convention. He won 624 votes to Harrison's 259.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nThe Republican nomination was won by Chicago Postmaster Fred A. Busse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nThe few speeches Busse delivered when seeking the mayoralty had focused primarily on the desire to adopt a business-style approach to government and to develop a \"greater Chicago\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nBusse was the sort of candidate which many Republicans had been hoping to nominate for mayor. He was a loyal party member who was scandal-free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nThere was some hope that Busse, being of the son of German immigrants, might also be a candidate that could appeal to some of Chicago's traditionally-Democratic ethnic voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nDuring his time in government, Busse had proven himself to be a competent individual that had made himself accessible to constituents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nBusse had made few rivals during his time in government. He was considered to be a relatively unobjectionable personality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nWhile Busse was the North Side Republican political boss, he had refrained from involving himself in the corrupt activities which often accompanied machine politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nSeeing themselves as having strong odds of taking back the mayoralty for the first time in more than a decade, the Republicans believed Busse was an individual that the party could unite around.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nThe election campaign was particularly contentious. Additionally, a large amount of cash was expended in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nThe Chicago Traction Wars was an ongoing controversy in Chicago. As a result, a key issue in the election was transit. Busse supported the Settlement Ordinances of 1907, while Dunne was against them and was instead in favor of immediate municipal ownership. A voter referendum on the ordinance was held coinciding to the mayoral election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nBusse supported the proposed new municipal charter that was awaiting ratification in the state legislature, while Dunne strongly opposed it. To appease the concern of the city's ethnic community, which were opposed to the ordinance's impact of imposing Sunday dry laws on Chicago, Busse promised the United Societies that, in exchange for their support, he would lobby the state legislature to also pass legislation give Chicago amnesty from state liquor laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nEarly into the campaign Busse received a minor injury in a train crash while traveling back to Chicago from Washington, D.C. Republican newspapers fostered the public's sympathy for Dunne, contrasting the healthy Dunne with a maimed Busse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0017-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nBusse held delivered no speeches and attended no rallies during the general election campaign. A man who disliked public speaking, Busse used his injuries as an excuse to avoid it during the election. Instead, surrogates such as Illinois Attorney General William H. Stead campaigned on Busse's behalf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0018-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nRepublicans tried to paint Dunne as being a creature of the political machine. Dunne in fact was, by the standards of the era, not strongly connected with machine politics. While accusing Dunne of this, Republican ignored their own candidate's involvement in machine politics. Republicans accused Dunne of corrupt vote-buying, while at the same time defending Busse against similar accusations by declaring him to be someone who \"just simply helps the sick and poor and lightens the load of poverty\" by handing out jobs, cash, and coal (from his coal company) to constituents on the North Side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0019-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nA hot button issue which Busse's camp did not seize upon was the School Board, the composition of which had undergone a radical change in the previous two years due to appointments Dunne had made to the dismay of the city's Republican business community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0020-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nDunne entered the general election as a vulnerable incumbent. Dunne had upset many voters by taking stances which many, variably, regarded to either be too extreme or too moderate. The Democratic Party had not solidified its support behind his candidacy, weakening Dunne's chances of a general election victory. Dunne had also made enemies of a number of Democratic ward bosses, losing key allies that otherwise might have helped deliver him votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0021-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nDunne was regarded by some to be a socialist. Under his mayoralty, some critics considered Chicago to be the \"most radical city in America\" Critics characterized his administration as having been composed of \"long-haired friends\" of Dunne and \"short-haired women.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0022-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nDunne's positions were relatively mainstream among municipal reformers (\"social reformers\" and \"urban liberals\") . Like other municipal reformers, Dunne favored having political power be shared with the lower echelons of society rather than being exclusively held by the upper echelons. He also was supportive of labor unions. He was tolerant towards ethnic and cultural diversity and also tolerant towards those with disabilities and impairments. He was a contemporary with progressive leaders in other American cities, including Tom L. Johnson, Samuel M. Jones, Hazen Pingree, and Brand Whitlock. He was also a contemporary of progressive Republicans such as Jersey City mayor Mark Pagan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0023-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nDunne's campaign strategy was to stress party loyalty in traditionally Democratic wards and to promote his stance on municipal ownership in the wards where it had appeared to assist his 1905 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0024-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nThe only newspapers to support Dunne's candidacy were those owned by William Randolph Hearst. This created another problem for Dunne, with Dunne needing to defend the fact that he was supported by the polarizing Hearst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0025-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nMaterials opposing Dunne and supporting the Settlement Ordinances were distributed by two political action committees. These were the Chicago Non-Partisan Traction Settlement Association (funded by the Real Estate Board and the Commercial Association, who were also sponsoring the Plan of Chicago) and the Straphanger League. Traction and liquor interests (both of which opposed Dunne) also spent heavily in the municipal elections, expending as much as $600,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0026-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nThe public debate about traction became very heated during the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0027-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nThe Chicago Tribune backed Busse's candidacy, while newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst's company backed Dever. Several lawsuits were filed for libel relating to newspaper coverage during the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0028-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nBusse's number of votes was the most votes any candidate had ever received in a Chicago mayoral election, up to that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0029-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nIn the coinciding referendum, voters approved the Settlement Ordinances. The results by ward showed a 90% correlation between the mayoral election and the Settlement Ordinances referendum results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0030-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nBusse received 31.89% of the Polish-American vote while Dunne received 65.44% and Koop received 2.29%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0031-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nThe German American vote was seen as having gone overwhelmingly to Busse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0032-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nThe election result was closer than many Republicans had been anticipating. Many Republicans believed Busse would win by a margin of between 30,000 and 40,000 votes, considerably greater than the mere 13,000 vote margin he actually won by.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036179-0033-0000", "contents": "1907 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results\nIn coinciding elections, Republican John R. McCabe defeated Democrat Thomas F. Little for City Clerk and Democrat John E. Traeger defeated Republican Edward C. Young for City Treasurer. Additionally, Republicans won both seats on the Superior Court of Cook County that had coinciding elections. Republican O.J. Novak won the coinciding special election to fill a vacant seat on the Sanitary District's board of trustees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1907 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the National League with a record of 66\u201387, 41\u00bd games behind the Chicago Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season\nThe Reds posted their second straight losing season in 1907. They won two more games than they had in 1906, when they finished 51\u00bd games behind the Chicago Cubs. Cincinnati brought back manager Ned Hanlon for a second season, while the team made some trades during the off-season to continue with their rebuilding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Personnel changes\nWith third baseman Jim Delahanty purchased by the St. Louis Browns, the Reds' new third baseman was 23-year-old Mike Mowrey. Mowrey had seen limited playing time with the Reds in 1905 and 1906, appearing in twenty-eight games. Shortstop Tommy Corcoran, who was with Cincinnati from 1897, was purchased by the New York Giants, leaving the Reds with 25-year-old Hans Lobert to play the position. Lobert had a solid season in 1906 with the Reds, hitting .310 in 79 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0002-0001", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Personnel changes\nCatcher Larry McLean, who was also twenty-five, beat out Admiral Schlei for the starting catcher position, while 27-year-old rookie Mike Mitchell won a spot in the outfield. McLean spent the 1906 season with the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League, where he hit .355, while Mitchell hit .339, splitting time between the Stockton Millers of the California League, and the Beavers in the PCL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Pitching\n24-year-old pitcher Andy Coakley, who spent the previous five seasons with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League, also joined the Reds. Coakley had gone 7\u20138 with a 3.14 ERA with the A's in 1906, and had his best season with Philadelphia in 1905, when he went 18\u20138 with a 1.84 ERA in 35 games. Another new player for the Reds was first baseman John Ganzel. Ganzel, who was thirty-three years old, had not played in the major leagues since 1904 with the New York Highlanders of the American League, where he hit .260 with six homers and 48 RBI. In 1906 with the Grand Rapids Wolverines of the Central League, Ganzel hit .323 with thirteen home runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe new look Reds saw the same results though, as for the second straight year, the team had a 10\u201320 record after thirty games, as Cincinnati sat in sixth place, 14.5 games behind the Cubs. During a game on May 8, Big Jeff Pfeffer of the Boston Doves threw a no-hitter against the Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe team played better ball over the next few weeks, going 18\u201314 in their next thirty-two games, however, they still sat in fifth place with a 28\u201334 record, 19 game behind the Cubs. A slump of 5\u201317 during the next twenty-two games saw the Reds sink to seventh place, 29.5 games behind the Cubs with a 33\u201351 record. Cincinnati then played just under .500 baseball for the rest of the year, going 33\u201336 in their last sixty-nine games, to finish the season with a 66\u201387 record, good for sixth place for the second straight season, as they were 41.5 games behind the pennant winning Cubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nMitchell had a solid rookie season, leading Cincinnati with a .292 batting average with a team high 163 hits. Mitchell also hit three homers, and drove in 47 runners. McLean batted .289 with no homers and 54 RBI, while Ganzel hit .254 with two home runs and a team best 64 RBI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Regular season, Season summary\nOn the mound, Bob Ewing had a great year, despite posting a record of 17\u201319, as he led the staff with a 1.73 ERA in 41 games, starting 37 of them, while throwing 32 complete games. Coakley tied Ewing in wins, as he was 17\u201316, while posting a 2.34 ERA in 37 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036180-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036181-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cisleithanian legislative election\nA legislative election to elect the members of the 11th Imperial Council were held in Cisleithania, the northern and western (\"Austrian\") crown lands of Austria-Hungary, on 14 and 23 May 1907. They were the first elections held under universal male suffrage, after an electoral reform abolishing tax paying requirements for voters had been adopted by the Council and was endorsed by Emperor Franz Joseph earlier in the year. However, seat allocations were based on tax revenues from the States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036181-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Cisleithanian legislative election, Electoral system\nUnder the shadow of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and large-scale demonstrations organized by the Social Democrats, the emperor to placate the public had a reform of the former five-class suffrage system, drafted by Minister-President Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn. His successor, Baron Max Wladimir von Beck, pushed it through against fierce resistance from the Austrian House of Lords and the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036181-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Cisleithanian legislative election, Electoral system\nElections in the constituencies of \"the Kingdoms and Lands represented in the Imperial Council\" were held according to a two-round system. If no candidate received the required absolute majority on May 14, only the two candidates receiving the most votes survived to the second round. on May 23. The 516 representatives of the constituent crown lands were thus elected, 130 from Bohemia, 106 from Galicia, 64 from Lower Austria and 49 from Moravia. The numerous political associations were again split according to ethnicity (\"nations\"), with a result that no government could ever rely on a stable majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036181-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Cisleithanian legislative election, Results\nThe right-wing Christian Social Party emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, holding 95 of the 516 seats, followed by the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria with 50 seats. The former won most rural constituencies in Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg). It also achieved the majority in the capital, Vienna, benefitting from the popularity of the Christian Social mayor, Karl Lueger. In the German constituencies of Bohemia and Moravia and in Carinthia, the German national parties (German People's Party etc.) did well. The Social Democrats had their strongholds in the cities other than Vienna: Graz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Brno and Linz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036182-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Kingdom of Dalmatia\nThe 1907 Cisleithanian legislative election was held in May 1907 in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in eleven single-seat constituencies by universal male suffrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036183-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Margraviate of Istria\nThe Cisleithanian legislative election, 1907 was held in 1907 in the Margraviate of Istria by universal male suffrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036184-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1907 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College during the 1907 college football season. Under first year head coach Frank Shaughnessy, the team posted a 4\u20134 record. Mac McLaurin was the captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036185-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cleveland Naps season\nThe 1907 Cleveland Naps season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the American League with a record of 85\u201367, 8 games behind the Detroit Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036185-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Cleveland Naps season, Offseason\nIn March 1907, Detroit Tigers manager Hughie Jennings offered Ty Cobb to the Cleveland Naps in exchange for Elmer Flick. The Naps refused the deal. Cobb went on to win the first of nine consecutive batting titles, and the Tigers won the AL pennant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036185-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036185-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036185-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036185-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Cleveland Naps season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036186-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Colgate football team\nThe 1907 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its second season under head coach Bill Warner, the team compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record. W. Lynn Housemann was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036187-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 College Baseball All-Southern Team\nThe 1907 College Baseball All-Southern Team consists of baseball players selected at their respective positions after the 1907 IAAUS baseball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036188-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1907 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose basketball teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team\nThe 1907 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Fielding Yost selected Bob Blake for his All-America first team. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nBold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nC = selected by a consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nDM = All-SIAA eleven selected by Dan McGugin, coach at Vanderbilt University, for Spalding's Football Guide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nH = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nD = selected by Mike Donahue, coach at Auburn University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nNB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036189-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 College Football All-Southern Team, Key\nNY = selected by \"a well-known New York authority on sports.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 44], "content_span": [45, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036190-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Colne Valley by-election\nThe Colne Valley by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036190-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Colne Valley by-election, Vacancy\nSir James Kitson had been Liberal MP for the seat of Colne Valley since the 1892 general election. He was created Baron Airedale on 17 July 1907 and resigned to take a seat in the House of Lords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036190-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Colne Valley by-election, Electoral history\nThe seat was re-gained from the Liberal Unionists in 1892:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036190-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Colne Valley by-election, Candidates\nThe local Liberal Association selected Philip Bright to defend the seat. He was the son of John Bright the famous Free-trader. The Conservatives selected 35-year-old barrister, Granville Charles Hastings Wheler, later 1st (and last) Baronet of Otterden, as their candidate. He had contested Osgoldcross at the last general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036190-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Colne Valley by-election, Candidates\nTwenty-six-year-old Victor Grayson stood as an Independent Labour candidate, having been nominated by the Colne Valley Labour League. This was the local branch of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), but the ILP and Labour Party both decided against backing Grayson's candidacy. Grayson was born in Liverpool and became an apprentice engineer. He joined the Independent Labour Party and toured the country giving lectures, becoming a well-known orator despite having a stammer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036190-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Colne Valley by-election, Aftermath\nWheler was elected at Faversham at the next general election. Grayson was defeated by a new Liberal candidate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036191-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1907 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team represented Colorado Agricultural College (now known as Colorado State University) in the Colorado Football Association (CFA) during the 1907 college football season. In their second season under head coach Claude Rothgeb, the Aggies compiled a 0\u20134 record, finished last in the CFA, and were outscored by a total of 77 to 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036192-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Colorado Mines Orediggers football team\nThe 1907 Colorado Mines Orediggers football team was an American football team that represented the Colorado School of Mines as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team compiled a 5\u20131 record, shut out four of its six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 175 to 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036193-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Colorado Silver and Gold football team\nThe 1907 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1907 college football season. Head coach Frank Castleman led the team to a mark of 2\u20132 in the CFA and 5\u20133 overall in his second and final season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036194-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Columbus, Ohio mayoral election\nThe Columbus mayoral election of 1907 was the 56th mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1907. Republican party nominee Charles A. Bond defeated Judge and Democratic party nominee Thomas A. Duncan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036195-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Connecticut Aggies football team\nThe 1907 Connecticut Aggies football team represented the Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1907 college football season. The Aggies were led by second year head coach George H. Lamson, and completed the season with a record of 2\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036196-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa de Honor Cousenier\nThe 1907 Copa de Honor Cousenier was the final match to decide the winner of the Copa de Honor Cousenier, the 3rd. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by Uruguayan side CURCC and Argentine team Belgrano A.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036196-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa de Honor Cousenier\nThe match was held in the Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo, on October 20, 1907. Belgrano beat CURCC 2\u20131, winning its first Copa Cousenier trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036197-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey\nThe Copa del Rey 1907 was the 5th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036197-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey\nThe competition started on March 24, 1907, and concluded on March 30, 1907, with the Final Playoff, in which Madrid FC lifted the trophy for the third time in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036197-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey, Participants\nThe tournament reached a new record of participants. Eleven teams registered to participate: FC Barcelona, Moderno of Guadalajara, Recreativo de Huelva, San Sebasti\u00e1n Recreation Club, Athletic de Madrid, Excelsior of Madrid, Hispania of Madrid, Madrid FC, Club Bizcaya (merger of Athletic de Bilbao and Uni\u00f3n Atl\u00e9tica Vizca\u00edna), Hamilton FC of Salamanca and Vigo FC. Moreover, the Catalan regional champion, X Sporting Club, was invited but again refused to participate for internal and financial reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036197-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey, Participants\nAt the last minute, FC Barcelona and San Sebastian RC did not attend the event, while the organization dismissed Moderno Guadalajara. The four teams of Madrid played preliminary rounds to choose one single representative of Madrid region. Madrid FC won the preliminary rounds and qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036197-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey, Tiebreaker Playoff Final\nAlthough a round-robin tournament, a final match was played to decide the winners of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036198-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey Final\nThe 1907 Copa del Rey Final was the 5th final of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. The match took place on 30 March 1907 at the Hip\u00f3dromo, Madrid. The match was contested by Club Bizcaya and Madrid CF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036198-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey Final\nThis match was not exactly a final, as the tournament was a round-robin tournament. Nevertheless, both teams finished with 6 points, son this tiebreaker playoff final was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036198-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Copa del Rey Final\nMadrid FC lifted the trophy for the third time in a row and thus won the trophy in property.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036199-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1907 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 21st staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036199-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 2 February 1908, Lees won the championship following a 0-07 to 1-02 defeat of Macroom in the fina. This was their seventh title overall and their first title since 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036200-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1907 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 20th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036200-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nDungourney won the championship following a 5-17 to 0-3 defeat of Castletownroche in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first title in five championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036201-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1907 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1907 college football season. In their first season under head coach Henry Schoellkopf, the Big Red compiled an 8\u20132 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 176 to 45. Four Cornell players received honors on the 1907 College Football All-America Team: tackle Bernard O'Rourke (WC-2; CW-2; NYP; CF); guard Elmer Thompson (WC-2; CW-2; NYH; NYW; NYP; FY-1, AFR); end Charles H. Watson (CF); and halfback Edward L. McCallie, Cornell (NYW).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036202-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 County Championship\nThe 1907 County Championship was the eighteenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 2 May to 2 September 1907. Nottinghamshire won its first championship title, while Worcestershire and Yorkshire tied for second place. The previous season's winners, Kent, finished in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036203-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Dartmouth football team\nThe 1907 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its first season under head coach John C. O'Connor, the team compiled an 8\u20130\u20131 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 150 to 10. Quarterback John Glaze was the team captain. The team played its home games at Alumni Oval in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036204-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Delaware football team\nThe 1907 Delaware football team was an American football team that represented Delaware College (later renamed the University of Delaware) as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In the its first year under head coach E. Pratt King, the team compiled a 0\u20135\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036205-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit College Tigers football team\nThe 1907 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its first season under head coach George A. Kelly, the team compiled a 1\u20133 record and was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 59 to 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 1907 Detroit Tigers won the American League pennant with a record of 92\u201358, but lost to the Chicago Cubs in the 1907 World Series, four games to none (with one tie). The season was their 7th since they entered the American League in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Offseason\nIn March 1907, Detroit manager Hughie Jennings actually offered Ty Cobb to the Cleveland Naps in exchange for Elmer Flick. The Naps refused the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe 1907 season was the first year the Tigers won the American League pennant. Their 1907 record of 92\u201358 was the team's best record to that point. Led by Ty Cobb, who led the American League in batting average (Cobb's first batting crown), RBIs, and slugging percentage, and Sam Crawford, who led the league in runs scored and extra base hits, they scored 89 more runs than any other team in the American League and outscored their opponents 694 to 532. They finished 1\u00bd games ahead of the A's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe 1907 Tigers' winning percentage ranks as the 9th best in team history, as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Catchers: Boss Schmidt and Fred Payne\nCatching duties were split between Boss Schmidt (67 games), Fred Payne (46 games), and Jimmy Archer (17 games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 94], "content_span": [95, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Catchers: Boss Schmidt and Fred Payne\nSchmidt hit .244 in 1907. As a young man, Schmidt worked in the coal mines and was a skilled brawler who fought an exhibition match with the heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. Schmidt also beat Ty Cobb in at least two fights. In the second fight, Schmidt knocked Cobb unconscious but admired Cobb's resiliency, and the two became friends until Schmidt's death in 1932. Schmidt never wore shinguards and could force nails into the floor with his bare fists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 94], "content_span": [95, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Infield: Rossman, Downs, O'Leary, Coughlin, and Schaefer\nFirst baseman Claude Rossman played for the Tigers from 1907 to 1909. In 1907, Rossman hit .277 and had 69 RBIs\u2014third most on the team after Cobb and Crawford. Rossman had a peculiar emotional quirk where he sometimes froze and could not throw the ball when he became excited. Runners would lead off first to draw a throw from the pitcher, then run to second when Rossman froze. He was 28 when he played his last major league game and died at age 46 in a New York hospital for the insane where he had been a patient for several years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 113], "content_span": [114, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Infield: Rossman, Downs, O'Leary, Coughlin, and Schaefer\nRed Downs and Germany Schaefer platooned at the second base position for the Tigers in 1907 and 1908. Downs hit .219 in 1907 with 42 RBIs and 28 runs scored. In March 1932, Downs and another man robbed a jewelry store at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Downs was convicted of first-degree robbery and sentenced to five years to life. He was paroled after 3\u00bd years and returned to Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 113], "content_span": [114, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Infield: Rossman, Downs, O'Leary, Coughlin, and Schaefer\nGermany Schaefer was a backup second baseman and utility infielder for the 1907 Tigers. He played 74 games at second base, 18 at shortstop, and 14 at third base. Schaefer is remembered more for his antics than for his performance on the field, including trying to steal first base (from second base) and, coming to bat in the rain with a raincoat and boots (to persuade the umpire to call the games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 113], "content_span": [114, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0008-0001", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Infield: Rossman, Downs, O'Leary, Coughlin, and Schaefer\nSchaefer was a pioneer of baseball clowning, and his vaudeville act with teammate Charley O'Leary was inspiration for the MGM musical film \"Take Me Out To The Ball Game\" starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. In 1919, a little over a year after Schaefer played his last game, he died at age 42 of tuberculosis at the sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 113], "content_span": [114, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Infield: Rossman, Downs, O'Leary, Coughlin, and Schaefer\nCharley O'Leary was Detroit's starting shortstop from 1904 to 1907. In 1907, he hit .241 and scored 61 runs. On September 30, 1934, O'Leary pinch hit for the St. Louis Browns at age 51 and became one of the oldest players to collect a hit and score a run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 113], "content_span": [114, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Infield: Rossman, Downs, O'Leary, Coughlin, and Schaefer\nThird baseman Bill Coughlin, known as \"Scranton Bill\", was named team captain in 1907 and 1908. He was a light-hitting defensive player, who never hit higher than .252 for the Tigers. His 232 putouts in 1901 is the 8th highest single season total in history by a major league third baseman. He is also one of the few MLB players to have stolen 2nd base, 3rd base and home in a single game. Coughlin was also the maestro of the hidden ball trick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 113], "content_span": [114, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0010-0001", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Infield: Rossman, Downs, O'Leary, Coughlin, and Schaefer\nAlthough no known comprehensive list is known to exist of all times when the hidden ball trick has worked, Coughlin reportedly pulled it off seven times (and at three different positions) \u2013 more than any other player in MLB history. In Game 2 of the 1907 World Series, Coughlin caught Jimmy Slagle with a hidden ball trick, the only one in World Series history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 113], "content_span": [114, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Outfield: Cobb, Crawford and Jones\n1907 was Ty Cobb's first season as an every-day starter. He won his first batting crown with a .350 average and led the American League in RBIs (119), slugging percentage (.468), hits (212), total bases (283), stolen bases (49), and runs created (106).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Outfield: Cobb, Crawford and Jones\nRight fielder Sam Crawford, known as \"Wahoo Sam\", was one of the greatest sluggers of the deadball era and still holds the major league records for triples in a career (309) and for inside-the-park home runs in a season (12) and a career (51). He finished his career with 2,961 hits and a .309 batting average. Crawford was among the AL leaders in hits, RBIs, extra base hits, slugging percentage, and total bases every year for twelve consecutive years from 1905 to 1915. In 1907, Crawford finished second in the AL in batting average (.323) behind Cobb, and led the league in runs scored (102) and extra base hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Outfield: Cobb, Crawford and Jones\nDavy Jones played for the Tigers from 1906 to 1912. With Cobb and Crawford solidly entrenched in the outfield, Jones was forced to battle for the third outfield spot with Matty McIntyre each year from 1906 to 1910. As a speedy leadoff man, he was a reliable run scorer with Cobb and Crawford following him in the lineup. Jones' speed also made him a fine outfielder, with tremendous range In 1907, he finished second in the AL with 101 runs. In his three World Series for the Tigers, Jones played in 18 games, had a .357 on-base percentage, scored 8 runs, and had a home run in the 1909 World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Pitching: Mullin, Killian, Siever, and Donovan\n\"Wild Bill\" Donovan was the Tigers ace in 1907 with a 25\u20134 record\u2014the best win percentage in Tigers' team history. On May 7, 1906, Donovan stole second base, third base, and home on the front end of a double steal and also hit a triple in the same game. In June 1923, Donovan died in a train wreck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 103], "content_span": [104, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Pitching: Mullin, Killian, Siever, and Donovan\nEd Killian led the team (and was 2nd in the AL) with a 1.78 ERA and compiled a 25\u201313 record. As of the end of the 2009 season, Killian's career ERA of 2.38 is the 26th-best in MLB history. Killian also holds the record for fewest home runs allowed, giving up only 9 in his entire career. At one point, Killian pitched a record 1001 innings (from September 1903 \u2013 August 1907) without allowing a home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 103], "content_span": [104, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Pitching: Mullin, Killian, Siever, and Donovan\nGeorge Mullin won 20 games in 1907, but he also lost 20 games. His ERA of 2.59 was the highest among the four Detroit starting pitchers. Mullin holds the Detroit Tigers franchise record for innings pitched (in a career and in a season) and has the second most wins in the team's history. He also pitched the team's first no-hitter; had five 20-win seasons (including a league-leading 29 wins in 1909; twice hit over .310 as a batter); and ranks 7th in major league history for fielding assists by a pitcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 103], "content_span": [104, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0017-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, The players, Pitching: Mullin, Killian, Siever, and Donovan\nThe fourth Tiger starter was Ed Siever who had a 2.16 ERA in 1907 with a record of 18\u201311. Siever's Adjusted ERA+ of 191 for the 1902 Tigers is the second-best (after Hal Newhouser) in Tigers franchise history for a pitcher with more than 150 innings pitched. (See Detroit Tigers award winners and league leaders) Ironically, Siever won fewer games in 1902 than he did any other full season he played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 103], "content_span": [104, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0018-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Player/Manager Hughie Jennings\nHughie \"Ee-yah\" Jennings led the Tigers to three consecutive American League pennants, in 1907\u201308\u201309. Jennings continued to manage the Tigers through the 1920 season, though his team never won another pennant. During his years as Detroit's manager, Jennings became famous for his antics, mostly in the third base coaching box, which variously included shouts of \"Ee-Yah\", and other whoops, whistles, horns, gyrations, jigs, and grass-plucking. The \"Ee-Yah\" whoop became his trademark and was accompanied with waves of both arms over his head and a sharp raising of his right knee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0018-0001", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Player/Manager Hughie Jennings\nIn 1907, he was suspended for taunting opponents with a tin whistle. The \"Ee-Yah\" shouts continued and became such a trademark that Jennings became known as Hughie \"Ee-Yah\" Jennings, and Detroit fans would shout \"Ee-Yah\" when Jennings would appear on the field. (See also Jack Smile, Ee-yah: The Life And Times Of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall Of Famer)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0019-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Player/Manager Hughie Jennings\nBehind the antics was a great coaching mind. Connie Mack called Jennings one of the three greatest managers in history, along with John McGraw and Joe McCarthy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0020-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0021-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0022-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0023-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0024-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, Awards and honors, Players ranking among top 100 all time at position\nThe following members of the 1909 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 of all time at their position, as ranked by The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0025-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, World Series summary\nIn the 1907 World Series, the Chicago Cubs beat the Tigers 4 games to none (with one tie). With pitching dominance over the Tigers and Cobb, the Cubs allowed only three runs in the four games they won, while stealing 18 bases off the rattled Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0026-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, World Series summary\nIn Game 1, Tigers pitcher Bill Donovan struck out twelve Cubs in 12 innings. The Tigers scored three runs, in part due to three Chicago errors, in the 8th inning and held a 3\u20131 lead going into the bottom of the 9th. The Cubs loaded the bases on a single, walk and infield error with one out. Detroit conceded a run on a ground ball for the second out and Cub player-manager Frank Chance then used pinch-hitter Del Howard to bat for Joe Tinker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0026-0001", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, World Series summary\nHoward struck out against \"Wild\" Bill Donovan (25\u20134 in the regular season) but the ball got away from catcher Boss Schmidt, allowing Harry Steinfeldt to score the tying run. Donovan got the next batter but the damage to Detroit has been done. The teams then played three scoreless innings before the game was called on account of darkness and declared a tie, a first for the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0027-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, World Series summary\nIn Game 2, George Mullin, a 20-game winner and loser for Detroit in 1907 and who had walked over 100 batters in each of his last five seasons, issues a bases-loaded walk in the 2nd inning to tie the game at 1\u20131. Chicago scored two more in the 4th on a single, sacrifice bunt, RBI single, stolen base and double to take a 3\u20131 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0028-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, World Series summary\nIn Game 3, Cubs pitcher Ed Reulbach scattered six hits as Chicago jumped on Tiger starter Ed Siever for four runs on seven hits in only four innings. Johnny Evers had three hits, including two doubles, as the Cubs took a 2\u20130 lead in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0029-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, World Series summary\nIn Game 4, Detroit held a 1\u20130 lead on a triple by Ty Cobb and an RBI single by Claude Rossman before a rain delay in the 5th inning. When play resumed, Chicago baserunners reached via an error and a walk. After Joe Tinker sacrificed, pitcher Orval Overall drove both runners home on a single to right field. The Cubs scored three more in the 7th without hitting the ball out of the infield on four bunts (two for hits) and two ground balls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0030-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, World Series summary\nIn Game 5, Chicago wrapped up the series with a 2\u20130 victory as Mordecai Brown pitched a seven-hit shutout. The Cubs scored a run in the first inning on a walk, stolen base and RBI single by Harry Steinfeldt and scored again in the 2nd on an error, a single, a double-steal and a ground ball out to drive in the final run. Detroit had runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out in the 4th inning, but could not score and never seriously threatened after that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 62], "content_span": [63, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0031-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, Postseason player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036206-0032-0000", "contents": "1907 Detroit Tigers season, World Series, Postseason player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036207-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Dickinson football team\nThe 1907 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team compiled a 3\u20134\u20132 record and was outscored by a total of 202 to 34. Joseph Pipal was the head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036208-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Dominion Championship\nThe 1907 Dominion Championship was a Canadian football game that was played on November 30, 1907 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec that determined the Senior Rugby Football champion of Canada for the 1907 season. This was the first championship game to feature the newly-created Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) champion, which was the Montreal Football Club. Montreal defeated the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) champion Peterborough Club in a 71\u201310 blowout victory to win their second Canadian Championship. This was the eighth appearance in the title game for Montreal and the first and only appearance for Peterborough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036208-0000-0001", "contents": "1907 Dominion Championship\nNotably, referee Russell Britton admitted after the game that there was a scoring error when a touch-in-goal (one point) was given to Montreal when it should have counted as a try (five points). While the score should have been 75\u201310, it was officially recorded as 71\u201310. This was the highest scoring Dominion championship/Grey Cup in Canadian football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036208-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Dominion Championship, Background\nThe Intercollegiate Union did not allow the CIRFU champion Ottawa College to play Montreal for the Dominion title, in solidarity with a decision made by the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union (CAAU). The CAAU alleged that IRFU players were professionals and would not allow college teams to play against them. The CAAU also decreed that they would ban any teams from playing an intercollegiate team that had also played against an IRFU team. A match had been scheduled for November 23, 1907 between Peterborough and Ottawa, but only if it were for Dominion honours. Because Peterborough intended on playing Montreal in a championship game if they won, and Ottawa could not play Montreal if they won, the match was cancelled. While a home-and-home series was considered, ultimately this sudden death game was scheduled for November 30 instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036209-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Dorris Motor Car Company Building\nThe 1907 Dorris Motor Car Company Building is a factory and industrial warehouse located at what is now 4059 \u2013 4065 Forest Park Avenue in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The building was originally constructed in 1907 as an automobile factory for the Dorris Motor Car Company and was modified in 1909 with the addition of a third story. It was the headquarters and manufacturing facility for the company until 1926, and the company played a significant role in the establishment of St. Louis as an automotive assembly and parts manufacturing center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036209-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Dorris Motor Car Company Building\nIn 1926, the Dorris Motor Car Company officially went out of business, but the building has seen subsequent use. It held the Brauer Brothers Manufacturing Company's shoe factory for many years. After the Brauer Brothers Manufacturing Company moved out, the space was used for retail purposes by a furniture store. It then sat vacant for years. In 2004, it was renovated for use by the Center for Emerging Technologies, a startup incubator that is now called the CIC@CET. The building is undergoing further renovation today for continued use by the CIC@CET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036210-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1907 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1907 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Charles Pell, the team compiled a 3\u20134\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 74 to 61.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036211-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1907 Drexel Dragons football team did not have a head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season\nThe 1907 ECAHA season was the second season of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA). Teams played a ten-game schedule. The Montreal Wanderers won the league championship going undefeated, with their only loss of the season coming in a Stanley Cup challenge series with Kenora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, League business, Executive\nNationals and Grand Trunk applied for franchises but did not get three-fourths approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Regular season\nFrank McGee of Ottawa retired to pursue his government career. The Wanderers added two professionals, Riley Hern from the Portage Lake-Houghton pros and Hod Stuart from the Pittsburgh pros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Regular season\nPrior to the season, Ottawa travelled to Winnipeg for a series of exhibition games against Manitoba league teams including the Kenora Thistles, who then came east to play a challenge in Montreal. The Montreal Victorias hosted the St. Nicholas Hockey Club from New York in an exhibition on December 22, 1906, defeating them 16\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nA major battle took place for the game between the Senators and Wanderers on January 12. Stick work was the order of the day as Charles Spittal of Ottawa knocked Cecil Blachford in the head, Alf Smith hit Hod Stuart in the head and Harry Smith broke Ernie Johnson's nose. The Wanderers would still win, 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nAfter the game, a special league meeting was called to hand out discipline, with Victorias and Wanderers wanting Spittal and Alf Smith suspended for the season. The players were not suspended, leading the league president Mr. McRobie to resign, leaving Darcy McGee to take over as president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nOn the next visit of the Ottawa team to Montreal, to play the Victorias, the three Ottawa players were arrested by Montreal police. Eventually Alf Smith and Spittal were fined $20 for their actions and Harry Smith was found not guilty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Regular season, Highlights\nThe scoring championship was close, with Ernie Russell of the Wanderers placing first with 42 goals in 9 games, and Russell Bowie scoring 38 in 10 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup challenges\nThe 1907 season had two Stanley Cup champions, Montreal Wanderers and Kenora Thistles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. New Glasgow at Montreal\nThe Wanderers played one Stanley Cup challenge before the season, defeating the New Glasgow Cubs in a two-game series 10\u20133, 7\u20132, December 27\u201329, 1906. This was the first series in which professional players played for the Stanley Cup, as the Wanderers and other teams in the ECAHA were starting to mix amateurs with pros in their squads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 80], "content_span": [81, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. Kenora at Montreal\nThe Wanderers played one Stanley Cup challenge during the season, losing to the Kenora Thistles 2\u20134, 6\u20138 on January 17\u201321. Aided by future Hockey Hall of Famers Joe Hall, Tom Hooper, Tommy Phillips, and Art Ross, the Thistles came away with 4\u20132 and 8\u20136 victories for a combined score of 12\u20138 to win a two-game total goals series. Hall and Ross were borrowed from the Brandon Wheat City team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 75], "content_span": [76, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. Kenora at Montreal\nFor Montreal, these were their first games after their donnybrook with Ottawa on January 12. Centre Cecil Blachford, who had been knocked out in the Ottawa game, did not play. Johnson and Stuart, who had required hospitalization, did play. Ernie Russell substituted for Blachford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 75], "content_span": [76, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup challenges, Wanderers vs. Kenora at Montreal\nAfter the series, the Thistles played an exhibition game in Ottawa on January 23. The Thistles lost 8\u20133 to Ottawa. Harry Smith scored four goals and Harry Westwick scored three for Ottawa. In this game Billy McGimsie suffered a career-ending shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 75], "content_span": [76, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup challenges, Brandon Wheat City vs. Kenora Thistles at Winnipeg\nAfter returning home, Kenora had played the balance of the MPHL season. Montreal Wanderers won the ECAHA regular-season champions and challenged to regain the Stanley Cup. Challenge was excepted. However Brandon and Kenora finished tied for first in the Manitoba League. So a best of three game series was upset to see who the Manitoba League Champion and who defended the cup again the Montreal Wanderers. After losing McGimsie, Si Griffis and Tom Hooper also went down to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 93], "content_span": [94, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0013-0001", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup challenges, Brandon Wheat City vs. Kenora Thistles at Winnipeg\nKenora signed three players to bolster its team: Alf Smith and Rat Westwick of Ottawa, and Fred Whitcroft of Peterborough to finish the season. (All three were future Hall of Fame inductees.) By the time of the MPHL playoff, Stanley Cup trustee William Foran notified Kenora that Smith and Westwick were ineligible for the challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 93], "content_span": [94, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Playoff\nKenora would play and win the MPHL playoff against Brandon to successfully defend the Cup, winning a best-of-three series 2\u20130. Hall and Ross played for Brandon in the series, while Smith, Westwick and Whitcroft played for the Thistles. At the time of the series, the acting Stanley Cup trustee William Foran had already declared Smith and Westwick ineligible for the challenge series. After the series was over, the Manitoba League registered their disapproval over Mr. Foran's decision to exclude the players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Playoff, Montreal Wanderers vs. Kenora Thistles at Winnipeg\nKenora dressed Smith and Westwick for the challenge anyway and Montreal filed a protest with Foran. Foran ruled that both players were ineligible. The series was supposed to start on March 20 in Kenora but did not. One report was that the ice in the rink was too poor to play on and the rink was closed. The clubs went ahead and started the series on March 23 in Winnipeg instead, with Smith and Westwick playing. Foran was notified by the press (inaccurately) that Montreal had dropped its protest and that the clubs intended to play anyway. Foran threatened to take the Cup back to Ottawa:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 78], "content_span": [79, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Playoff, Montreal Wanderers vs. Kenora Thistles at Winnipeg\nIf the two clubs ignore the instructions of the cup trustees by mutually agreeing to play against Westwick and Smith when both were positively informed these men were ineligible to participate in the present cup matches, the series will be treated as void, and the cup will be taken charge of by the trustees. It will remain in their possession till the various hockey leagues can educate themselves up to a standard where decent sport will be the order of the day.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 78], "content_span": [79, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0017-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Playoff, Montreal Wanderers vs. Kenora Thistles at Winnipeg\nThe teams went ahead and played the series. However, Foran changed his mind after the Wanderers won the Cup, stating that the Wanderers could keep the Cup, because they had not rescinded their protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 78], "content_span": [79, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0018-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Playoff, Montreal Wanderers vs. Kenora Thistles at Winnipeg\nAfter the series, the Wanderers returned to Montreal with the Stanley Cup. The Cup was stolen from Montreal photographer Jimmy Rice's home and held for ransom. No ransom was paid, and the Cup was returned to Rice. It was used as a geranium planter until the fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 78], "content_span": [79, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0019-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages\nNote: GP = Games played, GA = goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 58], "content_span": [59, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0020-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings\nThe 1907 Stanley Cup was presented twice by the trophy's trustee William Foran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0021-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings\nThe Thistles never did engrave their names on the Cup for their championship season, while the Wanderers engraved their names on the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0022-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings\nThe following Thistles players and staff were eligible to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0023-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings, Stanley Cup engraving\nKenora engraved their name inside the bowl of the Stanley Cup. 1907 Thistles of Kenora.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036212-0024-0000", "contents": "1907 ECAHA season, Stanley Cup engravings, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe following Wanderers players and staff were eligible to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 64], "content_span": [65, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036213-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 East Wicklow by-election\nThe East Wicklow by-election of 1907 was held on 29 July 1907. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, Denis Joseph Cogan. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate the previous MP for North Donegal, John Muldoon, who was unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036214-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Echuca by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Echuca on 10 July 1907. This was triggered after the result at the 1906 election, which saw Anti-Socialist candidate Albert Palmer narrowly defeat Protectionist MP Thomas Kennedy by just 32 votes. This election was declared void by the Court of Disputed Returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036214-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Echuca by-election\nPalmer was re-elected at the by-election with an increased majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036215-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal by-election\nOn August 6, 1907, Morton MacAuley, an alderman on Edmonton City Council, resigned from council. Since his term was not due to expire until December, the city held a by-election on August 26. George Manuel defeated James D. Blayney by a count of 482 votes to 370 votes, and was elected to fulfill Macauley's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1907 municipal election was held December 9, 1907, for the purpose of electing a mayor and five aldermen to sit on the Edmonton City Council, Alberta, Canada as well as five public school trustees and six separate school trustees. There were also four proposed bylaws put to a vote of the electorate concurrently with the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Positions to be elected\nThere were eight aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled: Cameron Anderson and Wilfrid Gari\u00e9py had been elected to two-year terms in 1906, and were still in office. James Walker had also been elected to a two-year term, but resigned, and had been replaced by Daniel Fraser, who was also still in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Positions to be elected\nThomas Daly had been elected to a two-year term in 1906, but resigned and hadn't been replaced. Accordingly, the fifth place aldermanic candidate in the 1907 election - Herman McInnis - was elected only to serve out the remaining year of Daly's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Mayoral nominations\nThe candidates for mayor were former mayor John Alexander McDougall and incumbent councillor Joseph Henri Picard. McDougall was nominated by William Short, Arthur Cushing, J C Dowsett, W R West, A E Jackson, and J W Huff. Picard was nominated by William Antrobus Griesbach, Thomas Bellamy, George Manuel, William Thomas Henry, W J Graves, T P Hobson, and G K Allen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Campaign\nThe election showed some signs of nastiness, as an anonymous letter (signed by a Mr. \"Graybrook\") attacking mayoral candidate McDougall was published in the Edmonton Journal. The letter accused McDougall of demanding an unfairly inflated price for land the city intended to buy from him, and of making pledges to reduce municipal taxes without being sufficiently familiar with the city's financial situation. The letter's writer was eventually exposed as being incumbent mayor William Antrobus Griesbach, who was not seeking re-election but who was supporting McDougall's opponent, Picard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Endorsements\nThe East End Ratepayers' Association endorsed George S. Armstrong, John Galbraith, William Clegg, and Isaac Lane for election as aldermen. All four men had signed on to the association's platform, which included", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nThere were 1679 ballots cast in the 1907 municipal election. The number of eligible voters is no longer available, but the Edmonton Bulletin noted on the day of the election that \"both Mssrs. McDougall and Picard have excellent organizations, and almost every available vote is being brought in.\" It further asserted that the city's two polling stations were inadequate, and that the new council should create additional polling stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees\nA Butchart, W D Ferris, H A Gray, A E May, and Alex Taylor were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees\nWilfrid Gari\u00e9py, E J Hart, Prosper-Edmond Lessard, Joseph Henri Picard, S Schultz, and O Tessier were elected. Detailed results are no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Bylaws\nThe following bylaws were voted on concurrently with the 1907 election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Bylaws, Bylaw 153\nA bylaw to authorize an agreement between the Municipality and American Oil Co.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Bylaws, Bylaw 112\nA bylaw to grant Cyrus S. Eaton and Matt E. Springer a special franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Bylaws, Bylaw 111\nA bylaw to grant N.W. Gas and Co. a special franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036216-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Bylaws, Bylaw 105\nA bylaw to raise the sum of $50,000 to be paid to City Hospital by way of a bonus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036217-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 English cricket season\n1907 was the 18th season of County Championship cricket in England. Nottinghamshire won their first official title. England played their sixth Test series against South Africa but it was the first to be held in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036217-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 English cricket season, South African tour\nThis was the fourth South African tour of England following those in 1894, 1901 and 1904. The 1907 tour was the first to feature Test matches between England and South Africa in England, although the teams had played Tests in South Africa since 1888\u201389. England won the series 1\u20130 with two matches drawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036217-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 English cricket season, Minor Counties Championship\nAn entirely new system of scoring was adopted for the Minor Counties Championship in 1907. With Oxfordshire dropping out and Lincolnshire and Worcestershire Second Eleven coming in, the twenty-one Minor Counties clubs were split into four divisions \u2013 North, Midlands, East and West \u2013 and a system of semi-finals between division leaders and a final was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036217-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 English cricket season, Minor Counties Championship, North\nOne match between Lancashire Second Eleven and Staffordshire was abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 63], "content_span": [64, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036217-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 English cricket season, Minor Counties Championship, West\nMatches with no first innings result are ignored when calculating maximum possible points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036217-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 English cricket season, Notes\nThe match between Middlesex and Lancashire at Lord's was abandoned when it was found the pitch was trampled by impatient spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036218-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1907 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 26th and 27th in Berlin, German Empire. Elite figure skaters competed for the title of European Champion in the category of men's singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036219-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1907 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Rhine. Generally referred to as being held in Strasbourg, the International Rowing Federation website implies that the championships were based in Kehl on the opposite side of the Rhine to Strasbourg. Either way, both towns were at the time part of the German Empire. The competition was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036220-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 FA Cup Final\nThe 1907 FA Cup Final was contested by The Wednesday and Everton at Crystal Palace. Sheffield Wednesday won 2\u20131, with goals by Jimmy Stewart and George Simpson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036220-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 FA Cup Final\nThis was the second time that the previous winner had reached the final and failed to win it, the first time being in 1883 when Old Etonians lost to Blackburn Olympic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036220-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 FA Cup Final, Road to the Final\nEvertonHome teams listed first. Round 1: Everton 1\u20130 Sheffield United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036221-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nThe 1907 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team was an American football team that represented Fairmount College (now known as Wichita State University) as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its third season under head coach Willis Bates, the team compiled an 8\u20132 record, shut out six of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 296 to 44.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036221-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team\nOn November 11, 1907, the team tallied the largest point total in school history, defeating the team from the newly-formed Oklahoma Christian University by a score of 111 to 0. In a game lasting only 45 minutes (25-minute first half and 20-minute second half), the Wheatshockers averaged 2.5 points per minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036222-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Faroese alcohol referendum\nA four-part referendum on alcohol was held in the Faroe Islands on 6 November 1907. Voters were asked whether they approved of the trading and serving of beer, wine and spirits. All four proposals were rejected by voters. Following the referendum, prohibition was introduced in 1908 on all beverages with an alcohol content above 2%. An attempt in 1973 to overturn this ban was rejected in another referendum, but it was eventually lifted in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036222-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Faroese alcohol referendum, Background\nIn 1907 the L\u00f8gting voted to hold a consultative referendum on banning alcohol. All men and women over the age of 25 were entitled to vote, the first time women had been able to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036223-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e Esports\n1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e Esports (Turkish: 1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e Espor) is the esports department of Fenerbah\u00e7e. It was established on 14 October 2016 by the 1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e Association in the district of Levent, Istanbul, Turkey. The department currently has teams competing in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, League of Legends, Valorant, FIFA, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Dota 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036223-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e Esports, League of Legends, History\nIt was founded October 14, 2016, when the 1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e Association, chaired by Ali Ko\u00e7, took over all the rights of the SuperMassive TNG team in the Champions League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036223-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e Esports, League of Legends, History\nAfter sweeping SuperMassive 3\u20130 in the 2019 TCL Winter finals, 1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e qualified for the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational as Turkey's representative in the play-in stage. The team was placed in Group A of the first round of the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational play-in stage, along with Vietnamese team Phong V\u0169 Buffalo, Australian team Bombers, and Argentine team Isurus Gaming. 1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e ended the group round robin with a 4\u20132 record, tying Phong V\u0169 Buffalo for 1st and forcing a tiebreaker match, which 1907 Fenerbah\u00e7e lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036224-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish Athletics Championships\nThe following are the results of the 1907 Finnish Athletics Championships. The games, known as Kalevan kisat in the Finnish language, were first held in 1907 in Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036225-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish championships in aquatics\nFrom 1906 to 1926, the Finnish Swimming Federation did not arrange a dedicated national competition, but spread out the hosting duties of the championship events to multiple clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland on 15 and 16 March 1907. They were the first parliamentary election in which members were elected to the new Parliament of Finland by universal suffrage and the first in the world in which female members were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nThe election followed the parliamentary reform of 1906 which replaced the Diet of Finland, which was based on the Estates and had its institutional roots in the period of Swedish reign, with a modern unicameral parliament of 200 MPs. The reform was agreed upon after a general strike in Finland in 1905 during which demands for a parliamentary reform arose especially among the Socialists. This coincided with similar development in Russia which too saw a general strike and, after the Russo-Japanese War, the birth of a new institution, the Duma. This background explains why Emperor Nicholas II of Russia allowed the parliamentary reform in Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nAll political factions of Finland reached an agreement on the reform and the first elections were set for 1907. The 1906 reform ended the first period of attempted Russification in the Grand Duchy of Finland which had begun in 1899 and seen such dramatic episodes as the assassination of Nikolai Bobrikov, the Governor-General of Finland, in 1904.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nBefore the election of 1907 the legislative power in the Grand Duchy had been vested in the Diet of the Estates, an age old institution of four Estates (the nobility, the clergy, the burghers and the peasants) deriving from the period of Swedish rule and representing only a small portion of the people. This kind of institution had become quite ancient by the early years of the 20th century. The new unicameral parliament was to have 200 MPs, all elected by universal and equal suffrage of citizens over 24 years of age. Women as well were allowed to vote and stand for election; Finnish women were the first in Europe to receive these rights. Previously only New Zealand and South Australia had approved universal female suffrage, and Finland was the second to grant women the right to stand as candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe voting system was designed to allow voters the choice between a simple list vote and expressing more particular preferences. A voter could vote for a party list of candidates by marking it with a red line. Alternatively, the voter could rank up to three names from among the candidates on any one list in order of preference. Even further, a voter could vote for up to three persons from outside the lists by entering their names. The D'Hondt method was used to allocate seats after the list votes, preference votes and off-list votes were put together according to a somewhat complex procedure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Campaign\nThe language strife of Finland was an important issue in the late 19th and early 20th century Finnish politics. Thus the first political parties of Finland, the Finnish Party and the Swedish Party, were born respectively around Fennoman and Svecoman ideas. A Liberal party was founded but soon also dissolved. The Finnish party was later split in the supporters of the \"Old Finns\" and the \"Young Finns\" who founded a party of their own. An even more important event was the founding of a Socialist party in 1899.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0005-0001", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Campaign\nFirst called the Finnish Labour Party, it adopted the name Social Democratic Party of Finland in 1903 and sought the support of urban working class and the rural landless population. Universal suffrage was naturally very important for these groups since they had no political power in the Diet of the Estates. In 1906 the Agrarian League was founded to represent the interests of peasants and in the same year the Swedish Party adopted its present name, the Swedish People's Party. The topics of the campaign into the election touched for example social issues and the parties' stances to the Russification attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Results\nThe results of the first parliamentary election in Finnish history were somewhat a surprise for the traditional parties; the Social Democrats emerged as clear winners, winning 80 of the 200 seats, making them the largest faction in Parliament. Of the right-wing or centre-right parties the Finnish Party gained the most seats with 59, followed by the Young Finnish Party with 26 and the Swedish People's Party with 24. The Agrarian League won only nine seats but in the following years its support grew rapidly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Results\nAs a result of the election the representatives of workers and the landless people became the largest group in the parliament, whereas previously they had no political representation whatsoever in the legislative body. Women too gained representation; 19 female MPs were elected. They became the first female MPs in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Aftermath\nThe joy of the Social Democrats over their victory proved to be short lasting. The second period of attempted Russification in the Grand Duchy of Finland began the following year and the Russian Emperor dissolved the Parliament of Finland on numerous occasions in 1908-1917. During World War I the parliament did not convene for a long time. Thus the Social Democrats were not able to push through most of their desired reforms during these final years of the period of Finland's autonomy, despite being able to keep their position as the largest party in all elections of this period. As a result, many Socialist supporters lost their initially high hopes for the parliament elected by universal suffrage. This in turn was one factor among others in the development which led to the Finnish Civil War in 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036226-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Finnish parliamentary election, Aftermath\nThe 100th anniversary of the first Finnish Parliament was recently selected as the main motif for a high value commemorative coin, the \u20ac2 100th Anniversary of the Finnish Parliamentary commemorative coin, minted in 2006. The obverse shows the silhouette of a woman's and a man's hands, and below the hands ballots being inserted in a ballot-box. On the reverse, two stylized faces in the centre part, one male and the other female, separated by a thin curved line is depicted. They symbolize the equality of genders, as does the fact that the pictorial subjects on both sides are equal in respect to the centre of the coin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team\nThe 1907 Florida football team represented the University of Florida during the 1907 college football season. The season was Jack Forsythe's second as the head coach of the University of Florida football team. The Orange and Blue lost to the Mercer Bears for the second season in a row, beat the Rollins College Tars in Gainesville, Florida, and tied the Tars on their home field in Winter Park, Florida. Forsythe's 1907 Florida football team posted an overall record of 4\u20131\u20131 in their second varsity season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Before the season\nOnly four men from the 1906 team returned. Captain Roy Corbett was also the athletics editor of the Florida Pennant. The team featured newcomer William A. Shands, future state senator and namesake of Shands Hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Season summary, Mercer\nThe season opened with the Mercer Baptists beating Florida 6\u20130. Sam Jameson, son of Mercer president S. Y. Jameson, sustained a broken collarbone while tackling a Florida player. Mercer scored on a blocked kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Season summary, Columbia\nNext, Florida gained a 6\u20130 upset win over Columbia Agricultural College of Savannah. After a scoreless first half, Roy Corbett ran 65 yards to set up a touchdown run by coach Forsythe. Forsythe also averaged 45 yards per punt. The win led to a parade in the streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 52], "content_span": [53, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Season summary, Rollins\nAgainst the Rollins Tars, Florida won 9\u20134. Merchants in Gainesville closed the stores from 3 to 4:30 p. m. to allow their workers to attend a State Championship game. \"Grit\" Gibbs played with a fever which turned out to be malaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Season summary, Rollins\nClarence Boyer made a placekick in the first half for Rollins. In the second, Florida got a touchdown on an 8-yard run by Jim Shands and a 35-yard drop kick from Mal Haughton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Season summary, Riverside A. C.\nFlorida beat the Riverside Athletic Club 21\u20130 in Jacksonville. Forsythe repeatedly ran for gains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Season summary, Riverside A. C.\nIn a rematch, Florida beat the Riverside Athletic Club 17\u20130 in Gainesville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036227-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Florida football team, Season summary, Rollins\nIn a rematch, Florida fought Rollins to a scoreless tie in Winter Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036228-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Fordham football team\nThe 1907 Fordham football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. Fordham claims a 18\u20131\u20131 record, and College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record at 6\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036228-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Fordham football team\nFred L. Smith was the team's coach for a fourth and final year. Quarterback Howard Gargan was the team captain and took over as head coach in 1908. The team played its home games at Fordham Field in The Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036228-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following eight games are reported in Fordham's media guide, CFDW, and contemporaneous press coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036228-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Fordham football team, Schedule\nThe following are 12 additional games reported in the Fordham media guide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036229-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Franklin & Marshall football team\nThe 1907 Franklin & Marshall football team was an American football team that represented Franklin & Marshall College during the 1907 college football season. The team compiled a 4\u20136 record. Vere Triechler was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036230-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Franklin Baptists football team\nThe 1907 Franklin Baptists football team represented Franklin College of Indiana during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036231-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 French Grand Prix\nThe 1907 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Dieppe on 2 July 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036231-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 French Grand Prix, The Race\nThirty-eight cars set off at one-minute intervals to complete 10 laps of a 48-mile (77\u00a0km) circuit on a triangular circuit near the city of Dieppe. The field was led away by Vincenzo Lancia's Fiat. The race was run under a fuel consumption limit of 30 litres per 100 kilometres (7.84 miles per US gallon; 9.42 miles per imperial gallon). Louis Wagner led the race for the first three laps. After Wagner retired on lap four, Arthur Duray took the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036231-0001-0001", "contents": "1907 French Grand Prix, The Race\nDuray set the fastest lap, with an average speed of 75.40\u00a0mph (121.34\u00a0km/h), and led the race until his retirement on lap nine. Felice Nazzaro's Fiat led from this point until the finish, completing the race over six and a half minutes ahead of second placed Ferenc Szisz. Nazzaro's average speed was 70.6\u00a0mph (113.6\u00a0km/h) for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036231-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 French Grand Prix, The Race, Death\nAlbert Cl\u00e9ment died in a crash during practice while driving his Cl\u00e9ment-Bayard. His place in the race was taken by 'Alezy'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036232-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Geneva Covenanters football team\nThe 1907 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1907 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Arthur McKean, the team compiled a record of 4\u20135\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036233-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 George Washington Hatchetites football team\nThe 1907 George Washington Hatchetites Colonials football team was an American football team that represented George Washington University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In their first season under head coach Fred K. Nielsen, the team compiled a 2\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036234-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team\nThe 1907 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1907 college football season. Led by Joe Reilly in his fourth year as head coach, the team went 3\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036235-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1907 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1907 college football season. The Bulldogs compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record, including victories over Mercer, Auburn and Clemson. The victory over Clemson ended a seven-game losing streak to the Tigers. However, the season included Georgia fourth straight loss to Georgia Tech. One of the players on the 1907 team was quarterback George \"Kid\" Woodruff, who would become Georgia's head football coach in 1923.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036235-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe team started the season under the guidance of head coach Bull Whitney, but the season became marred by the \"Ringer\" controversy. At that time, there were no football scholarships, but enthusiastic alumni often raised money to pay professional players who were referred to as \"ringers.\" After the 1907 game with Georgia Tech, it was revealed that there were at least four ringers on the Georgia and Georgia Tech teams. Thereafter, Georgia completed the season without its ringers and without Bull Whitney, who was forced to resign. Branch Bocock actually coached the last three games of the 1907 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036236-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team\nThe 1907 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team represented the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1907 IAAUS baseball season. The team featured pitcher Ed Lafitte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036237-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 1907 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036238-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 German federal election\nFederal elections were held in Germany on 25 January 1907. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a clear plurality of votes, they were hampered by the unequal constituency sizes that favoured rural seats. As a result, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 101 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won only 43. Voter turnout was 84.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036238-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 German federal election\nThis election was known as the \"Hottentot Election\" due to the scandal over the ongoing genocide of the Khoisan people in German South West Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036239-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 German football championship\nThe 1907 German football championship was the fifth season in which teams competed for the national championship title. Six teams qualified to reach the final stages of the competition, and the winners were Freiburger FC, defeating Viktoria 89 Berlin 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036239-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 German football championship\nFor Freiburger FC it was the sole appearance in the German championship final. Viktoria 89 Berlin made its first of four final appearances in 1907, going on to win the 1908 and 1911 championships as well as losing the 1909 final in between.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036239-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 German football championship\nViktoria's Helmut R\u00f6pnack and Freiburg's Phillip Burkart were the top scorers of the 1907 championship with four goals each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036239-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 German football championship\nSix clubs qualified for the competition played in knock-out format, the champions of each of the six regional football championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036240-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 1907 Giro di Lombardia was the third edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 3 November 1907. The race started in Milan and finished in Sesto San Giovanni. The race was won by Gustave Garrigou of the Peugeot team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election\nThe 1907 Glamorgan County Council election was the seventh contest for seats on this local authority in south Wales. It was preceded by the 1904 election and followed by the 1910 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Overview of the result\nAs in most parts of Wales, the Liberal Party again won a majority of the seats. The Conservatives made a slight advance, notably in the western part of the county where they also held on in a number of industrial wards where the influence of paternalism remained strong. A more striking factor was the advance of Labour candidates in several areas and there were also Liberal members who were returned under a 'progressive' banner with support from the labour movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Retiring aldermen\nAll eleven retiring aldermen were Liberals, or Lib-Lab members as the Conservatives and their allies had been denied any seats on the aldermanic bench since the 1901 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Contested elections, Aberdare, Mountain Ash and Merthyr districts\nThere were only two contested elections in the Aberdare district, and both were more personal than political. It was noted that the labour movement did not show the same interest in county elections than in those for the district council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 105], "content_span": [106, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Contested elections, Bridgend and Maesteg districts\nThere were only two contested elections in this area and in one of those, a candidate had withdrawn too late in the day and polled very few votes. The contest in Maesteg was a particularly lively one and was influenced by the political struggles in Mid Glamorgan where Vernon Hartshorn was an increasingly influential figure. Hartshorn instigated the candidacy of the local federation solicitor who defeated a candidate closely allied to the coalowners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 91], "content_span": [92, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Contested elections, Swansea, Pontardawe and Port Talbot districts\nIn these areas the Conservatives performed well, mainly at the expense of the Liberals and also holding off Labour challenges in Pontardawe and Loughor. Labour took Cwmavon from the Liberals by a substantial majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 106], "content_span": [107, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberavon\nJ.M. Smith held on to the seat he had held since 1889 by a far more comfortable majority than three years previously. His opponent, a Liberal in 1904, now stood as a Labour candidate. The result was greeted by what was said to be the liveliest crowd seen in Aberavon for many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberdare Town\nDavid Hughes, first elected in 1901 when he ousted David Price Davies, and re-elected in 1904 at a by-election following John William Evans's re-election as alderman, was again returned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Blaengwawr\nJohn Howell, first elected in 1895, was returned unopposed after G.A.Treharne withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cadoxton\nThis was a contest in which the controversy over the education rate featured and the sitting member, a Roman Catholic, was defeated by the clerk of the former School Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Briton Ferry\nJenkin Hill recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cowbridge\nThe sitting member, a timber merchant at Pendoylan, who had captured the seat three years previously, was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Gadlys\nGriffith George was opposed by Charles Vicary who described himself as a 'progressive' and a trade union candidate. Vicary claimed that there were no differences between him and George on a number of issues and denied George's claims that the contest was a sectarian one owing to Vicary being a churchman. George, first elected in 1904, held the seat by a far more comfortable majority than at his initial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Llwynypia and Clydach\nJames Evans, grocer, elected following Richard Lewis's election as alderman in 1901, was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Loughor and Penderry\nLlewelyn, sitting member and a member of the authority since its formation, was opposed by W. E. Morgan, miners' agent in the Western District of the South Wales Miners' Federation and a well known labour leader. Llewelyn, in view of his status as a landowner and employer, attracted widespread support and favourable reports of his public meetings appeared in the Cambrian newspaper. At the election, Llewelyn was said to have majority support in Gorseinon and Gowerton, although Tirdeunaw was said to favour Llewelyn. After his defeat, Morgan stated that as a working man he had only been campaigning for a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Maesteg\nThis was a fierce contest between Evan Davies, solicitor to the local miners' union and described by opponents as the Federation candidate and J.P. Gibbon, chairman of Maesteg Urban District Council and a local mineral agent. Davies responded to attacks by describing Gibbon as the candidate of North's Navigation collieries who had not been adopted by any public meeting or organisation Vernon Hartshorn played a prominent role in Davies's campaign and even brought Adela Pankhurst to address his final meeting, something which was not welcomed universally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Margam\nThe Liberal candidate, who captured the seat three years previously, narrowly held on. The Conservatives had been confident of victory and the result was said to have been witnessed by one of the largest crowds seen in Port Talbot for many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0017-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Neath (South)\nAt the previous election, Trick had stood as a Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0018-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ogmore\nThe sitting member, a timber merchant of Porthcawl, was returned unopposed after the former member, J.D. Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, declined to oppose him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0019-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ogmore Valley\nDavid John Thomas, surgeon of Nantymoel, was returned unopposed. A mass meeting of workmen at Nantymoel had decided not to field a labour candidate and to concentrate on the district elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0020-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pentre\nE.T. Davies, auctioneer, had been elected at a by-election following Elias Henry Davies's appointment as alderman in 1902. He was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0021-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pontardawe\nHaving defeated the Liberal candidate by won vote only in 1904, the sitting member, Frank Gilbertson was now opposed by a Labour candidate, Johnny James, check weigher at Cwmgors Colliery. James fared less well than his predecessor, however, in seeking to oust Gilbertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0022-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Sketty\nJohn Davies had been defeated in the two previous elections but was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0023-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treforest\nJames Roberts had won the seat at a by-election following the death of the previous member, David Leyshon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0024-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treherbert\nEnoch Davies, returned in 1901 following William Morgan's re-election as alderman, was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0025-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Tylorstown and Ynyshir\nSitting councillor Dr T.H. Morris stood down to allow Alderman W.H. Mathias to be returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0026-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ystrad\nClifford Cory, the member since 1892, was once again returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0027-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nIn addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1907 election, there were twelve Aldermanic vacancies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0028-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Election of aldermen\nThe following aldermen were appointed by the newly elected council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0029-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberavon\nJ.M. Smith held on to the seat he had held since 1889 by a far more comfortable majority than three years previously. His opponent, a Liberal in 1904, now stood as a Labour candidate. The result was greeted by what was said to be the liveliest crowd seen in Aberavon for many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0030-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Aberdare Town\nDavid Hughes, first elected in 1901 when he ousted David Price Davies, and re-elected in 1904 at a by-election following John William Evans's re-election as alderman, was again returned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0031-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Blaengwawr\nJohn Howell, first elected in 1895, was returned unopposed after G.A.Treharne withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0032-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cadoxton\nThis was a contest in which the controversy over the education rate featured and the sitting member, a Roman Catholic, was defeated by the clerk of the former School Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0033-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Briton Ferry\nJenkin Hill recaptured the seat he lost three years previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0034-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Cowbridge\nThe sitting member, a timber merchant at Pendoylan, who had captured the seat three years previously, was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0035-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Gadlys\nGriffith George was opposed by Charles Vicary who described himself as a 'progressive' and a trade union candidate. Vicary claimed that there were no differences between him and George on a number of issues and denied George's claims that the contest was a sectarian one owing to Vicary being a churchman. George, first elected in 1904, held the seat by a far more comfortable majority than at his initial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0036-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Llwynypia and Clydach\nJames Evans, grocer, elected following Richard Lewis's election as alderman in 1901, was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0037-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Loughor and Penderry\nLlewelyn, sitting member and a member of the authority since its formation, was opposed by W.E. Morgan, miners' agent in the Western District of the South Wales Miners' Federation and a well known labour leader. Llewelyn, in view of his status as a landowner and employer, attracted widespread support and favourable reports of his public meetings appeared in the Cambrian newspaper. At the election, Llewelyn was said to have majority support in Gorseinon and Gowerton, although Tirdeunaw was said to favour Llewelyn. After his defeat, Morgan stated that as a working man he had only been campaigning for a week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0038-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Maesteg\nThis was a fierce contest between Evan Davies, solicitor to the local miners' union and described by opponents as the Federation candidate and J.P. Gibbon, chairman of Maesteg Urban District Council and a local mineral agent. Davies responded to attacks by describing Gibbon as the candidate of North's Navigation collieries who had not been adopted by any public meeting or organisation Vernon Hartshorn played a prominent role in Davies's campaign and even brought Adela Pankhurst to address his final meeting, something which was not welcomed universally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0039-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Margam\nThe Liberal candidate, who captured the seat three years previously, narrowly held on. The Conservatives had been confident of victory and the result was said to have been witnessed by one of the largest crowds seen in Port Talbot for many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0040-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Neath (South)\nAt the previous election, Trick had stood as a Conservative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0041-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Newcastle by-election\nThe Conservative won a surprising victory in an election largely fought on the issue of education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0042-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ogmore\nThe sitting member, a timber merchant of Porthcawl, was returned unopposed after the former member, J.D. Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, declined to oppose him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0043-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ogmore Valley\nDavid John Thomas, surgeon of Nantymoel, was returned unopposed. A mass meeting of workmen at Nantymoel had decided not to field a labour candidate and to concentrate on the district elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0044-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pentre\nE.T. Davies, auctioneer, had been elected at a by-election following Elias Henry Davies's appointment as alderman in 1902. He was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0045-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Pontardawe\nHaving defeated the Liberal candidate by won vote only in 1904, the sitting member, Frank Gilbertson was now opposed by a Labour candidate, Johnny James, check weigher at Cwmgors Colliery. James fared less well than his predecessor, however, in seeking to oust Gilbertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0046-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Sketty\nJohn Davies had been defeated in the two previous elections but was now returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0047-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treforest\nJames Roberts had won the seat at a by-election following the death of the previous member, David Leyshon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0048-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Treherbert by-election\nEnoch Davies, originally returned in 1901 following William Morgan's re-election as alderman, was re-elected after a close fight with another Liberal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0049-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Trealaw and Tonypandy\nD.W. Davies, the member since 1898, was returned unopposed for the second successive election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0050-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Tylorstown and Ynyshir\nSitting councillor Dr T.H. Morris stood down to allow Alderman W.H. Mathias to be returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036241-0051-0000", "contents": "1907 Glamorgan County Council election, Results, Ystrad\nClifford Cory, the member since 1892, was once again returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036242-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand National\nThe 1907 Grand National was the 69th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 22 March 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036242-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand National\nThe race was won by Eremon, an 8/1 bet ridden by jockey Alf Newey and trained by Tom Coulthwaite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036242-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand National\nTom West finished in second place, Patlander was third and Ravenscliffe fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036242-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand National\nTwenty-three horses ran and all but one returned safely to the stables. Kilts was fatally injured in a fall at the first fence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season\nThe 1907 Grand Prix season was the second Grand Prix racing season. It saw a blossoming of circuit events, with the shift from the inter-city races. The popularity of the inaugural French Grand Prix and Targa Florio saw those events held again. The new Kaiserpreis was the first major motor-race held in Germany. This year also saw a number of voiteurette races as the number of specialist small-engine cars grew which gave close, exciting racing very popular with spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season\nFelice Nazzaro, former chauffeur for Vincenzo Florio, was the pre-eminent driver of the year by winning the Targa Florio, Kaiserpreis and French Grand Prix in his FIAT. With Alessandro Cagno (Itala) and Ferdinando Minoia (Isotta-Fraschini) winning the Brescia races it signalled the rise of Italy as the leading motorsport nation over France, that had dominated during the first decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season\nThis year also saw the opening of the first purpose-built racing circuit at Brooklands southwest of London, England on the estate of British entrepreneur Hugh F. Locke King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe success of the first Targa Florio the previous year had been built up since, and 45 cars arrived in Sicily from Italy, France and Germany. Tens of thousands of spectators arrived for the race. In an exciting race, Louis Wagner in his Darracq pursued the FIATs and Italas. But when the Darracq broke its half-shaft on the rough mountain roads, the Italians took the victory. Felice Nazzaro (FIAT) won from his teammate, Vincenzo Lancia, with Maurice Fabry (Itala) in third and Arthur Duray (Lorraine de Dietrich) fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe German Kaiserpreis Rennen was held on a 117km circuit in the Taunus Mountains north of Frankfurt. It was part of the circuit used for the 1904 Gordon Bennett Cup. The ADAC regulations stipulated the race was cars of a maximum of 8-litres and 1165kg in the hope of attracting cars which more closely resembled touring cars. Such was the interest, with 92 entries, that two 2-laps heats were held to get a final 20 qualifiers for the 4-lap final. FIAT dominated the race with Lancia winning the first heat and Nazzaro the second, before he went on to win the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nGreat Britain had a universal speed limit of 20\u00a0mph (32\u00a0km/h) on the open road and did not allow motor-racing on public roads, as on the continent (however these laws did not apply in Ireland or the Isle of Man). Therefore, constructed at his own expense, Hugh F. Locke King established the first purpose-built racetrack in the world at Brooklands on his estate in Surrey. A pear-shaped course, with banking at each end, it was 2.75\u00a0mi (4.43\u00a0km) long and 100\u00a0ft (30\u00a0m) wide. It opened on 28 June with Selwyn Edge setting a new 24-hour distance record of 1,581\u00a0mi (2,544\u00a0km). The first full race meeting was on 6 July with six races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nAlthough the inaugural Grand Prix had made an impact, it had not been a financial success for the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and they declined to host this year\u2019s event. Instead, it was held at Dieppe on the northern coast. The French Automobile Club (ACF) also modified the regulations and format. In an effort to limit the trend for ever-increasing engine size in pursuit of power, the ACF dictated a fuel-consumption formula allowing 30 litres of gasoline per 100km (or 9.4 mpg). The race was 10 laps of a roughly triangular circuit from Dieppe to Eu, Londini\u00e8res and back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0006-0001", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThough initially of better quality roads, the surface soon broke up. Lancia had his Fiat run out of fuel on the last lap while in 3rd position. But once again it was Nazzaro who claimed the victory. His 16.3-litre FIAT completed the 770km in 6 hours and 47 minutes, at an average speed of 114 km/h. The 1906-winner, Ferenc Szisz, in a 12.8-litre Renault was second. The Coup de la Commission Sportive was held at the same time as the Grand Prix, but over 6 laps rather than 10, starting three hours later, and with a slightly lower fuel allowance. This race was won by de Langhe in a Darracq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThe Belgian Automobile Club presented its Circuit des Ardennes weekend in three formats: there were only 6 entrants in the race run to the ACF rules (won by the Belgian Baron Pierre de Caters in a Mercedes). The alternative race, using the Kaiserpreis regulations had 23 starters. Belgian car-company Minerva scored a 1-2-3 finish, headed by the British Baron John Moore-Brabazon. Finally there was the Liederkerke Cup. This time Moore-Brabazon finished second behind Porlier also in a Minerva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nSimilarly, the Italians ran the Coppa Florio to the two regulations. Ferdinando Minoia, in an Isotta Fraschini, won the third Coppa Florio, run to the Kaiserpreis rules, while the next day Alessandro Cagno in his 18-litre Itala won the ACF-based Coppa della Velocit\u00e0 di Brescia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nMeanwhile, in the United States, with ongoing issues with crowd-control the Vanderbilt Cup was not run this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036243-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Grand Prix season, Season review\nThere were still several inter-city races held: in June Arthur Duray in his Lorraine-Dietrich won the Moscow to St. Petersburg race in Russia. Perhaps the most epic though was the Peking to Paris race. Sponsored by French newspaper Le Matin, five cars started the 15000km trial in June. The Italian Conde Scipione Borghese arrived in his Itala exactly two months later and two months ahead of the next finisher, a French De Dion-Bouton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036244-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Halifax by-election\nThe Halifax by-election, 1907 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 6 March 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036244-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Halifax by-election, Vacancy\nUnder the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The by-election in Halifax was caused by the appointment of the sitting Liberal MP, John Henry Whitley as a Junior Lord of the Treasury, the formal title given to the government\u2019s junior whips in Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036244-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Halifax by-election, Candidates\nWhitley, who had held the seat since 1900 fought the seat again in the Liberal interest. Halifax was a constituency at that time returning two members and there was recent history of both Liberal Unionist and Labour Party MPs being elected there. However the Unionist members met on 2 March to consider whether or not to run a candidate and decided to do so only if Labour contested the election. Later that day Labour announced they would not oppose Whitley and there being no other nominations, Whitley was therefore returned unopposed on 6 March 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036245-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1907 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1907 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7\u20133 record under first-year head coach Joshua Crane. Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback John Wendell, as a first-team player on his 1907 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Wendell and center Patrick Grant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036246-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Haskell Indians football team\nThe 1907 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Bemus Pierce, Haskell compiled a 2\u20136\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 167 to 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036247-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Hexham by-election\nThe Hexham by-election of 1907 was held on 27 March 1907. The by-election was held due to the succession to the barony of Allendale of the incumbent Liberal MP, Wentworth Beaumont. It was won by the Liberal candidate Richard Durning Holt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036248-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Holy Cross football team\nThe 1907 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036248-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Holy Cross football team\nIn their first year under head coach Timothy F. Larkin, the Crusaders compiled a 1\u20137\u20132 record. Cleo A. O'Donnell was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036248-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Holy Cross football team\nHoly Cross played its home games at the Fitton Field baseball stadium on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship\nThe 1907 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-fifth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 12 January and 16 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship\nAlthough not officially part of the tournament until 1910, a match were arranged with the French national team which was played during the Championship against England. This was a repeat of England's first encounter with France which had been played during the 1905/06 season, but on this occasion hosting France on British soil for the first time in the national team's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, Additional matches outside the Championship, Scoring system\nThe matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal was worth four points, while a goal from mark and penalty goals were worth three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 91], "content_span": [92, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nWales: Bailey Davies (Llanelli), Johnnie Williams (Cardiff), John Hart Evans (Pontypool), Rhys Gabe (Cardiff), Hopkin Maddock (London Welsh), Reggie Gibbs (Cardiff), Billy Trew (Swansea), Dicky Owen (Swansea) capt., James Watts (Llanelli), George Travers (Pill Harriers), Charlie Pritchard (Newport), John Alf Brown (Cardiff), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Tom Evans (Llanelli), William Dowell (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. England\nEngland: John Jackett (Leicester), SF Coopper (Blackheath), JGG Birkett (Harlequins), HE Shewring (Bristol), FS Scott (Bristol), AD Stoop (Harlequins), RA Jago (Devonport Albion), CH Shaw (Moseley), Basil Hill (Blackheath) Capt., J Green (Skipton), TS Kelly (Exeter), LAN Slocock (Liverpool), WA Mills (Devonport Albion), WMB Nanson (Carlisle), John Hopley (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nScotland: T Sloan (Glasgow Acads), MW Walter (London Scottish), DG McGregor (Pontypridd), KG MacLeod (Cambridge University), ABHL Purves (London Scottish), LL Greig (US Portsmouth) capt., ED Simson (London Scottish), IC Geddes (London Scottish), GA Sanderson (Royal HSFP), GM Frew (Glasgow HSFP), JC MacCallum (Watsonians), LM Speirs (Watsonians), WP Scott (West of Scotland), Bedell-Sivright (Edinburgh University), HG Monteith (Cambridge University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Wales\nWales: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Johnnie Williams (Cardiff), John Hart Evans (Pontypool), Rhys Gabe (Cardiff), Hopkin Maddock (London Welsh), Reggie Gibbs (Cardiff), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Billy Trew (Swansea) capt., James Watts (Llanelli), George Travers (Pill Harriers), Charlie Pritchard (Newport), John Alf Brown (Cardiff), Jim Webb (Abertillery), Tom Evans (Llanelli), William Dowell (Newport)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nIreland: C Thompson (NIFC), TJ Greeves (NIFC), Basil Maclear (Monkstown), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), HB Thrift (Dublin University), TTH Robinson (Wanderers), ED Caddell (Wanderers), RE Forbes (Malone), M White (Queens's College, Cork), W St J Coogan (Queens's College, Cork), A Tedford (Malone) capt., HG Wilson (Malone), JA Sweeney (Blackrock College), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Ireland vs. England\nEngland: John Jackett (Leicester), HM Imrie (Durham City), AS Pickering (Harrogate), WC Wilson (Richmond), HE Shewring (Bristol), RA Jago (Devonport Albion), J Peters (Plymouth), CH Shaw (Moseley), SG Williams (Devonport Albion), J Green (Skipton) capt., TS Kelly (Exeter), LAN Slocock (Liverpool), WA Mills (Devonport Albion), G Leather (Liverpool), Jumbo Milton (Camborne School of Mines)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nScotland: DG Schulze (London Scottish), MW Walter (London Scottish), DG McGregor (Pontypridd), KG MacLeod (Cambridge University), ABHL Purves (London Scottish), P Munro (London Scottish) capt., ED Simson (London Scottish), IC Geddes (London Scottish), GA Sanderson (Royal HSFP), GM Frew (Glasgow HSFP), JC MacCallum (Watsonians), LM Speirs (Watsonians), WP Scott (West of Scotland), Bedell-Sivright (Edinburgh University), HG Monteith (Cambridge University)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Scotland vs. Ireland\nIreland: C Thompson (NIFC), TJ Greeves (NIFC), Basil Maclear (Monkstown), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), HB Thrift (Dublin University), TTH Robinson (Wanderers), ED Caddell (Wanderers), CE Allen (Derry) capt., HS Sugars (Royal HSFP), W St J Coogan (Queens's College, Cork), A Tedford (Malone), HG Wilson (Malone), JA Sweeney (Blackrock College), F Gardiner (NIFC), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nWales: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Johnnie Williams (Cardiff), John Hart Evans (Pontypool), Rhys Gabe (Cardiff) capt., David Phillips Jones (Pontypool), Percy Bush (Cardiff), Dickie David (Cardiff), James Watts (Llanelli), George Travers (Pill Harriers), Charlie Pritchard (Newport), John Alf Brown (Cardiff), Billy O'Neill (Cardiff), Tom Evans (Llanelli), William Dowell (Newport), Arthur Harding (Swansea)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, Wales vs. Ireland\nIreland: WP Hinton (Old Wesley), TJ Greeves (NIFC), Basil Maclear (Monkstown), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), HB Thrift (Dublin University), TTH Robinson (Wanderers), FMW Harvey (Wanderers), CE Allen (Derry) capt., M White (Queens's College, Cork), HJ Knox (Lansdowne), A Tedford (Malone), HG Wilson (Malone), JA Sweeney (Blackrock College), F Gardiner (NIFC), GT Hamlet (Old Wesley)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nEngland: John Jackett (Leicester), AW Newton (Blackheath), JGG Birkett (Harlequins), WC Wilson (Richmond), HE Shewring (Bristol), SP Start (United Services), J Peters (Plymouth), CH Shaw (Moseley), GD Roberts (Harlequins), J Green (Skipton), TS Kelly (Exeter), LAN Slocock (Liverpool), WA Mills (Devonport Albion), EW Roberts (RNE College) capt., SG Williams (Devonport Albion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, The matches, England vs. Scotland\nScotland: DG Schulze (London Scottish), T Sloan (Glasgow Acads), DG McGregor (Pontypridd), KG MacLeod (Cambridge University), ABHL Purves (London Scottish), P Munro (London Scottish) capt., ED Simson (London Scottish), IC Geddes (London Scottish), GA Sanderson (Royal HSFP), GM Frew (Glasgow HSFP), JC MacCallum (Watsonians), LM Speirs (Watsonians), WP Scott (West of Scotland), Bedell-Sivright (Edinburgh University), JMB Scott (Edinburgh Acads.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, French matches, England vs. France\nEngland: H Lee (Blackheath), TB Batchelor (Oxford University), JGG Birkett (Harlequins), D Lambert (Harlequins), HE Shewring (Bristol), TG Wedge (St. Ives), AD Stoop (Harlequins), CH Shaw (Moseley), Basil Hill (Blackheath) capt., J Green (Skipton), TS Kelly (Exeter), LAN Slocock (Liverpool), WA Mills (Devonport Albion), WMB Nanson (Carlisle), John Hopley (Blackheath)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036249-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 Home Nations Championship, French matches, England vs. France\nFrance: H Issac (Racing Club de France), C Varseilles (Stade Fran\u00e7ais), P Maclos (Stade Fran\u00e7ais), H Martin (Stade Bordelais Universitaire), Gaston Lane (Racing Club de France), A Hubert (Association Sportive Fran\u00e7ais), A Lacassagne (Stade Bordelais Universitaire), A Verges (Stade Fran\u00e7ais), H Poirier (Universite de France), P Mauriat (Lyon), Marc Giacardy (Stade Bordelais Universitaire), AH Muhr (Racing Club de France), Marcel Communeau (Stade Fran\u00e7ais) capt., C Beaurin (Stade Fran\u00e7ais), J Dufourcq (Stade Bordelais Universitaire)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036250-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Hornsey by-election\nThe Hornsey by-election of 1907 was held on 5 June 1907. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Charles Balfour. It was won by the Conservative candidate Lawrence Dundas, who was unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036251-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 IAAUS baseball season\nThe 1907 IAAUS baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS), a forerunner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), began in the spring of 1907. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036251-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 IAAUS baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1907 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036252-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1907 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1907 college football season. In their second non-consecutive season under head coach Arthur R. Hall, the Illini compiled a 3\u20132 record and finished in third place in the Western Conference. Halfback Lion Gardiner was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036253-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Imperial Conference\nThe 1907 Imperial Conference was convened in London on 15 April 1907 and concluded on 14 May 1907. During the sessions a resolution was passed renaming this and future meetings Imperial Conferences. The chairman of the conference was British prime minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036253-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Imperial Conference\nThe conference decided to cease referring to self-governing British colonies as colonies and conferred upon them dominion status. Canada and Australia were referred to as dominions in the conferences statements while Newfoundland Colony and the Colony of New Zealand were granted dominion status by royal proclamation on 26 September. Natal and Cape Colony would unite with the two Boer colonies of Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony, which had been given self-government in 1907, to form the Union of South Africa as a dominion in 1910.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036253-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Imperial Conference\nThe possibilities of Irish Home Rule and self-governance for India were also discussed. Imperial preference was raised but rejected by the British prime minister due to British support for free trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036253-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Imperial Conference, Participants\nThe conference was hosted by King-Emperor Edward VII, with his prime ministers and members of their respective cabinets:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036254-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1907 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1907 college football season. In their third season under head coach James M. Sheldon, the Hoosiers compiled a 4\u20132 record, finished in a tie for last place in the Big Nine Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 85 to 57.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036255-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1907 International Cross Country Championships took place on March 23, 1907. The race was held at the Glasgow Agricultural Society Show Grounds, Scotstoun in Glasgow, Scotland. It was the first year that athletes from France competed in the event. Race results, and medallists were published in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036255-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 56 athletes participated from five countries:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036256-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 International Lawn Tennis Challenge\nThe 1907 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the seventh edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. As defending champions, the British Isles team played host to the competition. After several years of more varied competition, only Australasia and the United States would challenge for the cup. Australasia won both ties, and became the third nation to win the cup. The ties were played at Worple Road (the former site of the All England Club) in Wimbledon, London, England from 13\u201324 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036257-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Invercargill mayoral election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Schwede66 (talk | contribs) at 22:57, 19 November 2019 (tidy up). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036257-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Invercargill mayoral election\nThe 1907 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 25 April 1907 as part of that years local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036257-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Invercargill mayoral election\nIncumbent mayor William Benjamin Scandrett was re-elected to a fourth consecutive term, defeating former mayor John Stead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036258-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1907 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036259-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1907 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In their first season under head coach Clyde Williams, the Cyclones compiled a 6\u20132 record, shut out four of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 138 to 40. Ralph McElhinney was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036259-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nBetween 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as \"New State Field\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036260-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Isle of Man TT\nThe 1907 Isle of Man TT races were the inaugural International Tourist Trophy for motor-cycles held on the Isle of Man. The event was held on Tuesday 28 May 1907 over the St John's Short Course consisting of a Single Cylinder and a Twin-Cylinder class. The race was ten laps of the 15\u00a0mile 1,430\u00a0yards course, a total race distance of 158 miles 220 yards (226.071 km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036260-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Isle of Man TT\nAt 10am on the Tuesday 28 May 1907, 25 riders started in pairs in a time-trial format for the road-legal touring motorcycles with exhaust silencers, saddles, pedals and mud-guards. On lap 1, Jack Marshall riding a Triumph suffered a fall and Frank Applebee Junior a puncture to his 5\u00a0hp Rex machine. By lap 2, Stanley Webb riding a 5\u00a0hp Triumph had to stop at St. Johns to adjust a drive-belt and retired on lap 3 with an engine exhaust-valve problem. At the compulsory 10\u2011minute replenishment stop, Oliver Godfrey had to retire when his 5\u00a0hp Rex motorcycle caught fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036260-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Isle of Man TT\nThe Single Cylinder class race was won by Charles R. Collier riding a Matchless in 4\u00a0hours, 8\u00a0minutes and 8 seconds at an average race speed of 38.21\u00a0mph. His brother Harry Collier, also riding a Matchless, had problems with an engine seizure on lap 2 and eventually retired on lap 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036260-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Isle of Man TT\nThe Twin-Cylinder class and overall race was initially led by Rem Fowler riding a Norton. On lap 1, Fowler completed the course in 23\u00a0minutes and 19 seconds, in second place was Billy Wells in a time of 23\u00a0minutes and 21 seconds and Charlie Collier in the single-cylinder class with a time of 23\u00a0minutes and 45 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036260-0003-0001", "contents": "1907 Isle of Man TT\nThe overall lead fell away as Fowler suffered a number of problems with drive-belts and spark-plugs, and on lap 7 crashed at nearly 60\u00a0mph due to a burst tyre at the \"Devils Elbow\" on the Kirk Michael to Peel section of the course. Fowler nearly gave up, but was told by a spectator that he led the twin-cylinder class by 30\u00a0minutes from Billy Wells and went on to win at an average race speed of 36.22\u00a0mph and set the fastest lap of the race at 42.91\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036260-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Isle of Man TT, 1907 International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy\nTuesday 28 May 1907 \u2013 10 laps (158 miles 220 yards) St. John's Short Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036261-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 1907 Italian Athletics Championships were held in Rome. it was the 2nd edition of the Italian Athletics Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036262-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Jarrow by-election\nThe Jarrow by-election of 1907 was held on 4 July 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036262-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Jarrow by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Charles Palmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036262-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Jarrow by-election, Electoral history\nAt the 1906 general election Palmer had had a straight fight with Labour;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036262-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Jarrow by-election, Candidates\nThe sitting Liberal MP, the 84-year-old Sir Charles Palmer, had announced that he did not intend to stand for Parliament at the next election and the local Liberals had already selected Spencer Leigh Hughes as his replacement. Hughes\u2019 opportunity to get into Parliament came quickly as Sir Charles died on 4 June 1907 thus causing a by-election at which Hughes was adopted as Liberal candidate. Hughes faced, Labour, Conservative and Irish Parliamentary Party opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036262-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Jarrow by-election, Aftermath\nFor Curran, it was a short-lived triumph as he was unseated by another Liberal at the following General Election in January 1910. Rose-Innes did not stand for parliament again. In 1909 Hughes was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate at the 1909 Bermondsey by-election. The Irish Nationalists never again ran a candidate in Jarrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036263-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kaiserpreis\nThe 1907 Kaiserpreis was a Grand Prix motor race held at Taunus on 13\u201314 June 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036264-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1907 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1907 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach A. R. Kennedy, the Jayhawks compiled a 5\u20133 record (1\u20131 against conference opponents), finished in third place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 111 to 57. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Carl Rouse was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036265-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kansas State Aggies football team\nThe 1907 Kansas State Aggies football team represented the Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036266-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1907 Kentucky Derby was the 33rd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1907 over a muddy track. The field was reduced to six competitors when Arcite and Boxara scratched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036267-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team\nThe 1907 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College\u2014now known as the University of Kentucky\u2014during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036268-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nThe 1907 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1907. Republican nominee Augustus E. Willson defeated Democratic nominee Samuel Wilbur Hager with 51.17% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036269-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1907 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 19th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036269-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 2 August 1908, Tullaroan won the championship after a 2-06 to 1-03 defeat of Mooncoin in the final. This was their ninth championship title overall and their first in three championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake\nThe 1907 Kingston earthquake which shook the capital of the island of Jamaica with a magnitude of 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale on Monday January 14, at about 3:30\u00a0p.m. local time (20:36 UTC), is described by the United States Geological Survey as one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history. Every building in Kingston was damaged by the earthquake and subsequent fires, which lasted for three hours before any efforts could be made to check them, culminating in the death of about 1,000 people, and causing approximately $30\u00a0million in material damage ($833.25\u00a0million in 2020). Shortly after, a tsunami was reported on the north coast of Jamaica, with a maximum wave height of about 2 m (6\u20138\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake, Tectonic setting\nJamaica lies within a complex zone of faulting that forms the boundary between the Gon\u00e2ve Microplate and the Caribbean Plate. To the east of the island the main fault is the Enriquillo\u2013Plantain Garden fault zone while to the west the main structure is the Walton fault zone, both major sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip faults. The transfer of plate boundary displacement between these major fault zones takes place on a series of NW-SE trending faults, such as the Wagwater Belt. The overall tectonic setting is one of transpression at this restraining bend in the plate boundary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake, Damage\nThe greatest damage occurred at Kingston and at Buff Bay and Annotto Bay on the northern coast. Eighty-five percent of buildings in Kingston were destroyed by the shaking, which was followed by a fire that destroyed parts of the business and warehouse districts. The Elder-Dempster passenger steamer Port Kingston, which was under repair in Kingston Harbour at the time, was threatened by fire on the nearby wharf. A rapid temporary repair allowed her to be moved to the safety of an unaffected railway wharf. A suspension bridge was destroyed at Port Maria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake, Characteristics, Earthquake\nThe main shock lasted for about 35 seconds after some minor initial tremors and was accompanied by a roaring sound. The intensity of the shaking grew quickly to a first and strongest climax. The intensity then lessened before again reaching a second weaker climax. There were eighty aftershocks recorded up to 5 February, while the strongest of all was recorded on 23 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake, Characteristics, Earthquake\nThe epicenter of the earthquake is not well constrained. The only seismograph in Jamaica at the time was put out of action by the earthquake. The rupture may have been on an eastward continuation of the South Coast Fault Zone, within the Wagwater Belt or in the Blue Mountains. The greatest felt intensity was noted for areas built on unconsolidated sands and gravels. To the east of Kingston, along the Palisadoes, there were sandblows and surface faulting associated with areas of subsidence and flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake, Characteristics, Tsunami\nAfter the earthquake, tsunami were observed along much of the north coast of Jamaica at Hope Bay, Port Antonio, Orange Bay, Sheerness Bay, Saint Ann's Bay, Buff Bay, Port Maria and Annotto Bay; there were also some reports of waves along the south coast. Seiches were reported in Kingston Harbour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0005-0001", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake, Characteristics, Tsunami\nThe level of the sea at Annotto Bay was reported to have initially dropped by more than 3 metres (9.8\u00a0ft), as the sea withdrew a distance of about 80\u00a0m (260\u00a0ft), before returning at a height of about 2 metres (6\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in) above normal, flooding the lower parts of the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036270-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston earthquake, Aftermath\nThe Port Kingston, the only passenger ship in Kingston Harbour, was used as a makeshift hospital, with improvised operating theatres in three parts of the ship and on the adjoining wharf. Kingston Public Hospital, despite loss of its water supply, continued to function throughout the following night. Three United States Navy warships, the battleships USS\u00a0Indiana and USS\u00a0Missouri and the destroyer USS\u00a0Whipple, landed men and supplies on 17 January, although an offer of eight surgeons was rejected by Governor of Jamaica Alexander Swettenham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election\nThe 1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Kingston upon Hull West on 11 November 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election\nThe seat had been held for the Liberal Party by members of the Wilson family since its creation in 1885, and the by-election was won by the Liberal candidate Guy Greville Wilson, who was the brother of the outgoing Member of Parliament (MP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election, Vacancy\nThe seat had become vacant when the sitting MP Charles Wilson succeeded to his father's peerage as the 2nd Baron Nunburnholme. He had held the seat for less than two years, having been elected at the 1906 general election after the retirement from the Commons of his father Charles Henry Wilson, who had held the seat since 1885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal candidate Guy Greville Wilson DSO, was a former officer in the British Army, and a director of the family shipping company Thomas Wilson Sons & Co..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative Party candidate was Sir George Trout Bartley, a cockney who had been the founder of the National Penny bank and was MP for Islington North from 1885 until his defeat in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election, Candidates\nThe Labour Party nominated a candidate for the first time: James Holmes, who had been an unsuccessful candidate in Birmingham East at the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election, Aftermath\nBartley did not stand for Parliament again. Wilson held the seat (with much increased majorities) until the constituency was abolished in 1918. He then rejected the coalition coupon which he had been given, and was heavily defeated at the 1918 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036271-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Kingston upon Hull West by-election, Aftermath\nThe Labour Party did not contest Kingston upon Hull West again in either of the 1910 elections. Holmes stood again only one more time, at the Crewe by-election in July 1912, but came a poor third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036272-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Knox Old Siwash football team\nThe 1907 Knox Old Siwash football team represented the Knox College of Illinois during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1907 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The season was the first year under coach Edgar Wingard. It was also the first year at LSU for star player, Doc Fenton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team, Before the season\nFenton, who was from Scranton, Pennsylvania, had been heavily recruited by Wingard to play at LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Louisiana Tech\nThe Tigers opened the season in grand fashion, at State Field, by beating Louisiana Tech 28\u20130. A highlight of that game was a 90-yard touchdown run by Doc Fenton. It was Louisiana Tech's only loss on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Texas and Texas A&M\nThis win was followed by losses on the road at Texas and Texas A&M. After these losses, LSU went on to win 4 straight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Arkansas\nThe 17\u201312 win over Arkansas was the school's first over the school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Alabama\nThat 4 game winning streak was broken by a loss to Alabama. In the contest against Alabama, LSU led for most of the game because of two safeties. Alabama scored late in the game from an 85-yard punt return to win the game 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team, Postseason, Bacardi Bowl\nTheir last game of the season was in an appearance at the Bacardi Bowl. This was LSU's first bowl game, and the first time any U.S. football team played in a foreign country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036273-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 LSU Tigers football team, Postseason, Bacardi Bowl\nThis game, played in Cuba against the University of Havana resulted in a 56\u20130 victory for LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036274-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Lafayette football team\nThe 1907 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record, shut out five opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 198 to 50. Charles Ellicott was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036275-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Latrobe Athletic Association season\nThe 1907 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their twelfth and final season in existence. The decrease in community interest and the change of the team from the professional ranks to a local amateur status in 1907, coincided with John Brallier's last year as a player, all led to the team folding. The team finished 5-2-2 in 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036276-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Lehigh Brown and White football team\nThe 1907 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its second season under head coach Byron W. Dickson, the team compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 198 to 45. The team played its home games at Lehigh Field in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036277-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Liberian constitutional referendum\nA referendum on extending the term length for the President, Senators and members of the House of Representatives was held in Liberia on 7 May 1907. It lengthened the terms of all such officials: the President (two years to four), House of Representatives (two years to four), and the Senate (four years to six).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036278-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia in 1907. In the presidential election Arthur Barclay of the True Whig Party was re-elected for a third term. It was the first time a President had been elected to a four-year term, as all had previously served for two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036279-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1907 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 16th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036279-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nCaherline won the championship after a 3-08 to 0-01 defeat of Ballyagran in the final. It was their third championship title overall and their second title in succession. It remains their last championship triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election\nThis was the first Liverpool City Council election in which women stood as candidates\u00a0: Miss Harriet Mary Johnson stood as an independent in the Dingle ward and Miss Ellen Robinson stood as a Liberal in the West Derby ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, Election result\nThe significant number of uncontested seats means that these statistics should be taken in context.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nComparisons are made with the 1905 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Election, 9 November 1907\nAt the meeting of the Council on 9 November 1907, the terms of office of fifteen alderman expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Election, 9 November 1907\nThe following seventeen were elected as Aldermen by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) on 9 November 1907 for a term of six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 74], "content_span": [75, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Election, 9 November 1907, Aldermanic Election, 2 September 1908\nCaused by the resignation of alderman Sir Robert Alfred Hampson (Conservative, elected as an alderman on 9 November 1907) was reported to the Council on 1 July 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 113], "content_span": [114, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Election, 9 November 1907, Aldermanic Election, 2 September 1908\nIn his place Councillor John Gregory Taggart (Irish Nationalist, Vauxhall, elected 1 November 1907) was elected as an alderman by the Council on 2 September 1908", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 113], "content_span": [114, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Election, 9 November 1907, Aldermanic Election, 21 October 1908\nFollowing the death of Alderman Edward Paull (Liberal, elected as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1904) on 25 September 1908, his place was taken by Councillor Richard Robert Meade-King (Liberal, Vauxhall, elected 1 November 1905) when he was elected as an alderman by the Council on 21 October 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 112], "content_span": [113, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, By-Elections, No.8 Netherfield, 26 November 1907\nCaused by the election as an alderman of Councillor William Watson Rutherford MP (Conservative, Netherfield, elected 1 November 1905) on 9 November 1907", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 86], "content_span": [87, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, By-Elections, No.9 Everton, 26 November 1907\nCaused by the election as an alderman of Councillor Edward Lewis Lloyd JP (Conservative, Everton, elected unopposed 1 November 1906) on 9 November 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, By-Elections, No.27 Warbreck, 26 November 1907\nCaused by the election as an alderman of Councillor Richard Kelly JP (Conservative, Warbreck, elected 1 November 1907) on 9 November 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, By-Elections, No.19 St. Peter's, 19 December 1907\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor Alexander Armour (Liberal, St. Peter's, elected 1 November 1905) on 6 November 1907, which was reported to the Council on 4 December 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, By-Elections, No.19 St. Peter's, 15 April 1908\nCaused by the death of Councillor Henry Miles (Liberal, St. Peter's, elected 1 November 1907) on 21 March 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, By-Elections, No.10 Low Hill, 15 April 1907\nCaused by the resignation of Councillor John McEvoy (Liberal, Low Hill, elected 1 November 1905) which was reported to the Council on 1 April 1907,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036280-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool City Council election, By-Elections, No.15 Vauxhall, 16 September 1908\nCaused by Councillor John Gregory Taggart (Irish Nationalist, Vauxhall, elected 1 November 1907) being elected as an alderman by the Council on 2 September 1908.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036281-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election\nThe Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, 1907 was a by-election held in England on 27 September 1907 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Kirkdale, a division of the city of Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036281-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Vacancy\nThe seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), David MacIver had died on 1 September 1907, aged 67. He had held the seat since being elected unopposed at a by-election in 1898,having previously been MP for Birkenhead from 1874 to 1885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036281-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal Unionist candidate was 63-year-old Charles McArthur, who had been the MP for Liverpool Exchange from 1897 until his defeat at the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036281-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Candidates\nThe Labour Party candidate was 42-year-old John Hill, a Scottish trade unionist who unsuccessfully contested Glasgow Govan at the 1906 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036281-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Result\nOn a slightly increased turnout, the result was a narrow victory for McArthur, who slightly increased his majority of that won by McIver in 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036281-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Aftermath\nMcArthur held the seat at the January 1910 general election, but died in office later that year, triggering another by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036281-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Liverpool Kirkdale by-election, Aftermath\nHill did not stand for Parliament again, but became general secretary of the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders in 1909, and served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036282-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Llandeilo Rural District Council election\nThe fifth election to the Llandeilo Rural District Council was held in March 1907. It was preceded by the 1904 election and followed by the 1910 election. The successful candidates were also elected to the Llandeilo Board of Guardians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036282-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Llandeilo Rural District Council election\nThere were a number of unopposed returns, especially in the rural parishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036282-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Llandeilo Board of Guardians\nAll members of the District Council also served as members of Llandeilo Board of Guardians. In addition, three Guardians were elected to represent the Ammanford Urban District which was established in 1903. A further three Guardians were elected to represent the Llandeilo Urban District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036282-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Llandeilo Rural District Council election, Llandeilo Board of Guardians, Ammanford (three seats)\nThe three sitting members, including Henry Herbert, a Guardian for nearly forty years, were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 101], "content_span": [102, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036283-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 London County Council election\nAn election to the County Council of London took place on 2 March 1907. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. For the first time, the Progressive Party lost control of the council, being defeated by the recently formed Municipal Reform Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036283-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 London County Council election, Campaign\nThe electorate had increased by 109,934 compared with the 1904 London County Council election, as it had been determined that tenants were entitled to vote, provided that they lived in separate tenements which were not directly controlled by the landlord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036283-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 London County Council election, Campaign\nThe Municipal Reform Party stood a full slate of 118 candidates, although The Times noted that only 14 of those candidates were existing councillors. There were 109 Progressive candidates, 12 Social Democratic Federation or independent socialist candidates, nine independents, eight Labour Party candidates, four independent Catholic candidates, and two Labour Progressive candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036283-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 London County Council election, Results\nThe Municipal Reform Party won 79 seats on the council, a gain of 45 compared with the performance of the Moderates in 1904. The Progressive Party fell from 83 seats to only 38, and the only other candidate elected was an independent, who held their seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036283-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 London County Council election, Results\nThe Progressives blamed their defeat on high spending by the Municipal Reform Party, with the support of the Daily Mail and Daily Express and the fact that they had increased rates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season\nThe 1907 Los Angeles Angels season was the fifth season for the Los Angeles Angels playing in the Pacific Coast League (PCL). The Angels compiled a 115\u201374 record and won the PCL pennant. The team played its home games at Chutes Park and Prager Park in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season\nHenry Berry was the team's manager. In January 1907, he also purchased a controlling interest in the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Pitchers\nPitcher Dolly Gray was the dominant pitcher in the PCL in 1906. He appeared in 53 games and led the league with 32 wins and a 1.71 earned run average (ERA). He ranked second in the league with 216 strikeouts. Gray had five 20-win season for the Angels between 1903 and 1908. He went on to play for the Washington Senators from 1909 to 1911.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Pitchers\n\"Sleepy Bill\" Burns appeared in 42 games finished third in the PCL with a 2.10 ERA and fifth with 24 wins. Burns went on to play five seasons in the majors from 1908 to 1912.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Pitchers\nJudge Nagle was the Angels' No. 3 pitcher. Contemporary records indicate that he compiled a 16\u201314\u20131 record with 50 strikeouts. Baseball-Reference.com indicates he had a 16\u201312 record with a 2.26 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Pitchers\nFranz Hosp compiled a 12\u20137 record with a 2.73 ERA and 56 strikeouts in 23 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nFirst baseman Pop Dillon appeared in 181 games. His batting average of .304 was the best among the Angels and third best in the PCL. He tallied 192 hits, 34 stolen bases, and 30 doubles. Defensively, his .988 fielding percentage was the best among the league's first basemen who played more than 13 games. He tallied 1,889 putouts, 128 assists, and 25 errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nRight fielder Gavvy Cravath appeared in 182 games, compiled a .303 batting average, tallied 186 hits, scored 106 runs, and stole 50 bases. He tied for first in the PCL with 45 doubles and tied for second with 10 home runs. He also played well in the outfield, tallying 287 putouts, 41 assists, and 9 errors in 173 games in the outfield for a .973 fielding percentage. He later played 11 seasons in the majors, leading the National League in home runs six times between 1913 and 1919.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nLeft fielder Walter Carlisle appeared in 179 games, led the PCL with 14 home runs and 114 runs scored, and finished second with eight triples. He also stole 39 bases. Defensively, he tallied 320 putouts, 18 assists, and 16 errors for a .955 fielding percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nCenter fielder Rube Ellis appeared in 171 games. He compiled a .239 batting average with 29 stolen bases, 15 doubles and seven triples. He tallied 315 putouts, 18 assists, and 14 errors for a .960 fielding percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nCurt Bernard appeared in 141 games for the Angels, 94 at second base and 47 in the outfield. He compiled a .271 batting average with 35 stolen bases, 23 doubles, and 77 runs scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nKitty Brashear appeared in 159 games, 95 at second base and 65 at third base. He compiled a .270 batting average with 36 stolen bases and 30 doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nThird baseman Jud Smith appeared in 118 games. He compiled a .243 batting average with 20 stolen bases. He tallied 161 putouts, 294 assists, and 30 errors for a .938 fielding percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nShortstop Del Delmas appeared in 175 games. He compiled a .227 batting average with 25 stolen bases and 23 doubles. He led the league's shortstops with a .938 fielding percentage, tallying 311 putouts, 581 assists, and 59 errors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Position players\nThe team's catching duty was shared by Wallace Hogan (109 games) and Bobby Eager (83 games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Statistics, Batting\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; SLG = Slugging percentage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036284-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 Los Angeles Angels season, Statistics, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036285-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Louisiana Industrial football team\nThe 1907 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute\u2014now known as Louisiana Tech University\u2014as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach George L. Watkins, Louisiana Industrial compiled a record of 9\u20131. The team's captain was Dave Caldwell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036286-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1907 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 11 to October 8, 1907. The Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Cubs then defeated the Tigers in the World Series, four games to none (with one tie).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036286-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Major League Baseball season\nThe Philadelphia Phillies set a Major League record for the fewest at bats by a team in a season\u20144,725.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036287-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Maltese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Malta on 20 May 1907. All candidates were elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036287-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Maltese general election, Background\nThe elections were held under the Chamberlain Constitution, with members elected from eight single-member constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036287-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Maltese general election, Results\nA total of 7,091 people were registered to vote, but no votes were cast as all candidates were unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036288-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Manitoba general election\nThe 1907 Manitoba general election was held on March 7, 1907 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036288-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Manitoba general election\nThe result was a third consecutive majority government for the Conservative Party of Manitoba, led by premier Rodmond Roblin. Roblin's electoral machine won 28 seats, against 13 for the opposition Manitoba Liberal Party under new leader Edward Brown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036288-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Manitoba general election, Post-election changes\nBeautiful Plains (James H. Howden appointed to cabinet, March 16, 1907), March 26, 1907:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036288-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Manitoba general election, Post-election changes\nBrandon City (Stanley McInnis appointed to cabinet, June 26, 1907), July 16, 1907:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036288-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Manitoba general election, Post-election changes\nBrandon City (dec. Stanley McInnis, November 4, 1907), November 25, 1907:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036288-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Manitoba general election, Post-election changes\nPortage la Prairie (Hugh Armstrong to cabinet, November 19, 1908), November 30, 1908:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036288-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Manitoba general election, Post-election changes\nVirden (dec. John Agnew, November 9, 1908), January 9, 1909:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036289-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Marquette Blue and Gold football team\nThe 1907 Marquette Blue and Gold football team was an American football team that represented Marquette University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Cody Clark, the team compiled a 6\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036290-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1907 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1907 college football season. Marshall posted a 3\u20132\u20131 record, outscoring its opposition 38\u201335. Home games were played on a campus field called \"Central Field\" which is presently Campus Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036291-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Maryland Aggies football team\nThe 1907 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1907 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Charles W. Melick, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20135 record and were outscored by all opponents, 61 to 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036292-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Maryland gubernatorial election\nThe 1907 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036292-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Maryland gubernatorial election\nDemocratic candidate Austin Lane Crothers defeated Republican candidate George R. Gaither, Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036293-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts Aggies football team\nThe 1907 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1907 college football season. The team was coached by Matthew W. Bullock and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1907 season marked Bullock's return to the Aggies, as he had previously coached the team during the 1904 season. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 5\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036294-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 5. Incumbent Republican Governor Curtis Guild Jr. was re-elected for a third one-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036294-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe election was noted for the split in the Democratic Party and the very strong third-party performance for Independence Party nominee Thomas Hisgen. Hisgen actually received more votes than the Democratic ticket, though Democratic nominee Henry M. Whitney received more votes than Hisgen when considering votes Whitney received on three independent tickets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036294-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Campaign\nThe contest for the Republican nomination was seen as a referendum on the Roosevelt administration. The Massachusetts political establishment, led by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor Guild, was solidly in support of Roosevelt, Lodge's close personal friend. Republican critics of Governor Guild included State Senator Arthur M. Taft, over the governor's allegedly insufficient support for the protective tariff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036294-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nIn a poll taken of the Democratic state legislators in May, 25 favored Whitney and 8 favored Bartlett, with 5 scattering and 32 noncommittal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 74], "content_span": [75, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036294-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Convention\nThe Democratic convention was held in Springfield on October 5. Whitney delegates gained control of the convention hall and barred Bartlett delegates from entry. The Bartlett delegates assembled themselves to nominate their candidate and adopt their own platform. Bartlett's supporters were generally aligned with the presidential campaign of William Jennings Bryan, while Whitney's were in opposition to Bryan's third campaign for the Democratic nomination. Bartlett supporters also cited seniority and Whitney's support of the merger of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and Boston and Maine Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036294-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Aftermath\nWhitney's nomination led Grenville MacFarland, the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, to resign his post and his membership in the State Committee. MacFarland felt that Whitney represented corporate interests over \"true Democratic principles\" in his support of the merger of New York, New Haven and Hartford with Boston and Maine railroads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036294-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign\nThe split in the Democratic Party assured Guild of re-election in the normally Republican state. Guild ran a quiet, positive campaign emphasizing his record in office, largely ignoring his three main opponents. He characterized his party's record as: \"a larger amount of progress legislation, a larger amount of radical reorganization of state institutions, and for a larger amount of new appointments than has ever occurred before in any similar period in the whole history of the commonwealth.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 69], "content_span": [70, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036295-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 128th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1907 during the governorship of Curtis Guild Jr.. William D. Chapple served as president of the Senate and John N. Cole served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036296-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Mercer Baptists football team\nThe 1907 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University in the 1907 college football season. They finished with a record of 3\u20133 and were outscored by their opponents 28\u2013170.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036297-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1907 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1907 college football season. Led by coach Amos Foster in his first year, Miami compiled a 6\u20131 record, shutting out four opponents and outscoring them 120 to 37.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036298-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team\nThe 1907 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1907 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Chester Brewer, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents 127 to 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036298-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOn October 12, 1907, the Aggies lost to Michigan by a 46 to 0 score at Ferry Field. It was the third game in the Michigan - Michigan State football rivalry. Michigan had won the two prior meetings by a combined score of 158 to 0. In 40 minutes of play, Michigan scored eight touchdowns and did not allow a single first down to be made by the Aggies. Team captain Paul Magoffin made his first appearance of the season and scored five touchdowns. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 73], "content_span": [74, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036299-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team\nThe 1907 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1907 college football season. In their second season under head coach Henry Schulte, the Normalites compiled a record of 3\u20132, shut out three of five opponents, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 72 to 13. The team defeated Central Michigan Normal School (later renamed Central Michigan University), 38\u20130. Ashley P. Merrill was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1907 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1907 college football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost in his seventh season at Michigan. The team finished the season with a record of 5\u20131, allowing an average of one point per game. The team did not give up a single first down in its first four games and won its first five games by shutouts, outscoring its opponents by a combined score of 107 to 0. In the final game of the season, the Wolverines lost, 6\u20130, to the Penn Quakers. The Quakers were in the early stages of a 23-game winning streak that was broken by the 1909 Michigan team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team\nCenter Germany Schulz was selected as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp. In 1951, Schulz was selected as the greatest center in football history in a poll conducted by the National Football Foundation and became one of the initial inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame. Halfback Paul Magoffin was the team captain and led the team in scoring with 35 points and seven touchdowns. Right tackle Walter Rheinschild was the second leading scorer with 25 points. Five Michigan players received All-Western honors: Schulz, Magoffin, Rheinschild, \"Octy\" Graham, and Harry S. Hammond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nMichigan opened its 1907 season with a 9\u20130 victory over the team from Cleveland's Case Scientific School. The game was played in front of a crowd estimated at 3,000 persons at Ferry Field. The game was the 11th meeting between the two programs, and Michigan had won all 10 of the prior games by a combined score of 319 to 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nThe game was scoreless in the first half. Michigan drove the ball to the Case 15-yard line early in the second half, and \"Octy\" Graham drop-kicked a field goal from the 20-yard line to give Michigan a 4\u20130 lead. Later in the half, Jack Loell scored the game's only touchdown on a five-yard run. On defense, the Wolverines did not allow Case to convert a first down. On offense, fumbles and a lack of success in forward passes stymied several drives. The Michigan Alumnus wrote that \"Michigan's offensive playing fell far below the high standard of its defense.\" The Alumnus also noted that \"Schulz was a rock at center and Loell and Rheinschild alternating at tackle and fullback both did splendid work.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case\nMichigan's lineup against Case was Casey (left end), Crumpacker (left tackle), Watkins and Primeau (left guard), Schulz, (center), Graham (right guard), Loell and Rheinschild (right tackle), Evans and Witmire (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Miller (left halfback), Rumney and Lehr (right halfback), and Rheinschild and Loell (fullback). Rowe of Michigan served as referee and umpire. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan Agricultural\nIn the second week of the season, Michigan defeated Michigan Agricultural, 46\u20130, at Ferry Field. It was the third game in the Michigan \u2013 Michigan State football rivalry. Michigan had won the two prior meetings by a combined score of 158 to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan Agricultural\nIn 40 minutes of play, Michigan scored eight touchdowns and did not allow a single first down to be made by the Aggies. Team captain Paul Magoffin made his first appearance of the season and scored five touchdowns. Walter Rheinschild scored two touchdowns, and Jack Loell scored one. \"Octy\" Graham converted six of eight extra point kicks. Right end Harry S. Hammond was praised for his punting, as several of his kicks spiraled for 50 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0006-0001", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan Agricultural\nOn offense, the Wolverines had used the forward pass with \"great success\" early in the game, but abandoned it with the game in hand, saving it for a time of \"greater necessity.\" The Chicago Daily Tribune wrote that, \"Michigan used the long forward pass from Loell to the ends with telling effect.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan Agricultural\nMichigan's lineup against the Aggies was Miller and Witmire (left end), Casey (left tackle), Embs (left guard), Schulz, (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild and Crumpacker (right tackle), Hammond (right end), Wasmund and Sullivan (quarterback), Magoffin and Miller (left halfback), Allerdice and Rumney (right halfback), and Loell and Rheinschild (fullback). Eldridge of Michigan served as referee. The game was played in 20-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Wabash\nOn October 19, 1907, Michigan defeated the Wabash Little Giants, 22\u20130, at Washington Field in Indianapolis. The game was the first and only meeting between the schools. Although the bleachers were mostly filled with Wabash supporters presenting \"a solid front of red\", the game was also attended by a large gathering of Michigan alumni wearing \"maize and blue.\" As the Michigan team ran onto the field, Michigan's \"brass band\" led the alumni in \"The Victors.\" Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin (who was also Yost's brother-in-law) and Col.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0008-0001", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Wabash\nJ.B. Fite of Nashville (the father-in-law of Yost and McGugin) sat on the Michigan bench during the game. Wabash's head coach Francis M. Cayou was a member of the Omaha tribe and had played quarterback for the Carlisle Indians. According to the Chicago Daily Tribune, Wabash's cheer leader directed the Wabash fans to \"yell in praise of the redskin coach, 'Cayou that's who, who's who, Cayou. Who's he, big chief! Ugh.'\" The Little Giants compiled a record of 10\u20133\u20131 during the 1906 and 1907 seasons under Cayou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0009-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Wabash\nThe game was played under clear skies in what the Chicago Daily Tribune described as \"ideal football weather.\" Dave Allerdice returned the opening kickoff 90 yards, but he fumbled on the next play from scrimmage. After neither team scored through most of the first half, Michigan recovered a fumble at the Wabash 30-yard line. Walter Rheinschild scored the touchdown shortly before the end of the half. \"Octy\" Graham kicked the extra pint, and Michigan led, 6\u20130, at halftime. The Michigan Alumnus gave credit to the Little Giants, who were outweighed by almost 20 pounds per player, for holding Michigan to a single touchdown in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0010-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Wabash\nEarly in the second half, Dave Allerdice kicked a field goal, but the points were not allowed. Michigan later drove 40 yards on two 20-yard runs by Walter Rheinschild and Paul Magoffin. Magoffin's run was good for a touchdown, and Allerdice added his second extra point. Michigan led, 12\u20130. On the next drive, Michigan took the ball to Wabash's one-yard line, but was held on downs. Wabash was then forced to punt from behind its own goal line, and Jack Loell blocked the punt, and Prentiss Douglass recovered the ball for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0010-0001", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Wabash\nHarry S. Hammond kicked the extra point, and Michigan led 18\u20130. Graham added a field goal from the 45-yard line. Graham's kick hit the goal bar, but bounded across for four points. With Michigan ahead 22\u20130, Coach Yost played his substitutes and called a punting game for the remainder of the game. The Michigan Alumnus reported that the game was marked by \"numerous spectacular plays\" and \"the new style of open play.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0011-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, vs. Wabash\nMichigan's lineup against Wabash was Miller and Witmire (left end), Casey (left tackle), Embs and Flanagan (left guard), Schulz, (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), Hammond (right end), Wasmund and Sullivan (quarterback), Magoffin and Douglass (left halfback), Allerdice and Rumney (right halfback), and Loell (fullback). Esterline of Purdue served as referee. The game was played in 35-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0012-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nOn October 26, 1907, Michigan defeated Ohio State, 22\u20130, in front of a crowd of 7,000 spectators at Ferry Field. The game was the ninth meeting in the Michigan\u2013Ohio State football rivalry, with Michigan having won seven of the prior meetings and tied once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0013-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nThe game was played in a cold rain and stiff wind, resulting in numerous fumbles and an inaccurate kicking game. Michigan's offense tried 10 forward passes in the game with seven completions for gains of 20 to 40 yards. The passes were thrown by William Wasmund and Dave Allerdice with Walter Rheinschild and Paul Magoffin as the principal receivers. Most of the first half was fought between midfield and Ohio State's 15-yard line. Near the end of the first half, Michigan began to employ its passing attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0013-0001", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nJack Loell scored the first touchdown on a short run, and \"Octy\" Graham kicked the extra point. In the second half, Magoffin caught a forward pass from Wasmund and eluded Ohio State's tacklers on a 40-yard touchdown play. Michigan missed the extra point and led, 11\u20130. Rheinschild later ran for a touchdown. The extra point kick failed, and Michigan led, 16\u20130. Rheinschild then scored a second touchdown on a forward pass from Wasmund, with Rheinschild running 40 yard after the catch. Allerdice converted the extra point. The Michigan Alumnus wrote that \"the Yost 'style' of passing received a thorough vindication.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0014-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nThe game ended with Michigan in possession of the ball at the Ohio State one-yard line, poised to score another touchdown. After four games, the defense had not allowed a point to be scored or a first down to be gained. The Michigan Alumnus noted: \"It is doubtful if any team in the country today can boast of four games played without yielding a single first down. Michigan's defense is all that could be desired.\" The Chicago Daily Tribune wrote: \"On defensive Michigan was solid as a rock.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0015-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nMichigan's lineup against Ohio State was Rumney and Witmire (left end), Casey (left tackle), Embs (left guard), Schulz, (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), Hammond (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Magoffin and Lehr (left halfback), Loell and Allerdice (right halfback), and Douglass and Sullivan (fullback). McCornack of Dartmouth served as referee. The game was played in 35-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0016-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nOn November 2, 1907, Michigan defeated Vanderbilt, 8\u20130, in front of a crowd of 8,000 at Dudley Field in Nashville. The crowd was the largest up to that date to see a football game south of the Mason\u2013Dixon Line. The game was \"a big society event in the south\", and the elite of Nashville, Chattanooga, and Memphis were in attendance. Students from every college and preparatory school in Tennessee, including Belmont College and \"other seminaries\", also attended the game. The game matched Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost against his former player and brother-in-law, Dan McGugin. Owing to the relationship between Yost and McGugin, the two teams played nine times between 1905 and 1923, with Michigan winning eight games and tying one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0017-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nThe game was played under clear skies and warm weather, the temperature being too warm \"for the invaders' liking.\" Michigan drove deep into Vanderbilt territory on several drives, but was unable to push the ball across the goal line. \"Octy\" Graham scored all of Michigan's points, converting on two of three field goal attempts. The tide of the game was set when Vanderbilt's quarterback, Sam Costen, dropped six of the first punts he received. Two of Costen's fumble led to Michigan's field goals. The first score was set up when Costen fumbled a punt at the Commodore's 15-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0017-0001", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nRumney recovered the fumble, and Graham kicked a field goal from the 25-yard line. Graham's second field goal was set up when Costen fumbled another punt, this one recovered by Prentiss Douglass at the 35-yard line. Michigan drove to the five-yard line, where Vanderbilt took over on downs. On the possession that followed, Vanderbilt was unable to gain, and Michigan took over at the 15-yard line after Vanderbilt was forced to punt from behind its goal line. After three runs failed to gain the yardage for first down, Graham converted his second field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0017-0002", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nIn the second half, Michigan played a punting game. Right end Harry S. Hammond ran for a 35-yard gain on a fake kick for the longest gain of the game. In the closing minutes of the game, Jack Loell led a drive to Vanderbilt's one-yard line when time expired. Michigan attempted four passes, all incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0018-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nThe game most prominently featured a duel between star German centers. The Michigan Alumnus wrote: \"'Germany' Schulz was far and away the star of the game. In his usual style he was in every play, tackling runners for loss, falling on the ball in fumbles, and opening wide holes in the line for Michigan gains. . . . [ H]e showed conclusively that he has no equal in the keystone position.\" A Nashville source wrote \"In the duel of centers, Stone of Vanderbilt, had the best of \"Germany\" Schulz. Michigan's massive center. Stone's play was spectacular all the way.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0019-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Vanderbilt\nMichigan's lineup against Vanderbilt was Rumney (left end), Embs (left tackle), Casey (left guard), Schulz, (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), Hammond (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Douglass and Allerdice (right halfback), and Loell (fullback). Bradley Walker of Virginia served as referee, and Neil Snow of Michigan was the umpire. The game was played in 35-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0020-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Penn\nMichigan concluded its season on November 16, 1907, with a 6\u20130 loss to Penn in front of a crowd of nearly 20,000 spectators in Ann Arbor. After leaving the Big Ten Conference, Michigan played annual rivalry games against Penn at or near the end of the season. Penn was one of the dominant football programs of the era, winning seven national championships between 1894 and 1912 (including the 1908 national championship). The loss was the first sustained by Michigan at Ferry Field. Penn's left guard Gallagher scored the game's only touchdown, and right end Scarlett kicked the extra point. A controversial ruling resulted in a touchdown by Michigan being called back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0021-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Penn\nMichigan's lineup against Penn was Rumney (left end), Casey (left tackle), Embs (left guard), Schulz, (center), Graham (right guard), Rheinschild (right tackle), Hammond (right end), Wasmund (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Allerdice and Miller (right halfback), and Watkins and Loell (fullback). Murphy of Brown served as referee. The game was played in 35-minute halves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0022-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nAt the end of the 1907 season, several Michigan players were recognized on the All-American and All-Western teams. Germany Schulz was the only Western player included on Walter Camp's All-American first team in Collier's Weekly. Camp also recognized Harry S. Hammond and Paul Magoffin with honorable mention on his All-American team. E. C. Patterson of Chicago picked the All-Western team for Collier's. He selected Schulz and Hammond as first-team All-Western player and included Magoffin and \"Octy\" Graham as second-team selections. The Michigan Daily published a consensus All-Western team based on its averaging of the All-Western teams and included four Michigan players on the consensus team: Schulz, Magoffin, Hammond, and Walter Rheinschild.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036300-0023-0000", "contents": "1907 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Starters\nThe following 12 players received varsity \"M\" letters for their participation on the 1907 football team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036301-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe 1907 Milan\u2013San Remo was the 1st\u00a0edition of the Milan\u2013San Remo, a classic one-day cycle race organised by La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy. The single day event was held on 14 April 1907 and stretched 288\u00a0km (179\u00a0mi) from Milan to its end in Sanremo. The winner was Lucien Petit-Breton from France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036301-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Milan\u2013San Remo\n33 riders rode the 288\u00a0km course, starting at 4am.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 70]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036301-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Milan\u2013San Remo, Organisation\nEugenio Costamagna (manager of La Gazzetta dello Sport) was the man with the vision. After being approached by the Unione Sportiva Sanremese with idea of finishing a cycle race in San Remo, Costamagna decided on Milan as a starting point, connecting the hub of the Italian cycling industry with the hub of tourism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036301-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Milan\u2013San Remo, Organisation\nA route was decided on that included Passo di Turchino and Costamagna had no idea if the route was humanly possible. He invited top cyclists of the time to test the course in the 1907 edition of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036301-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Milan\u2013San Remo, Organisation\nThe race rules made the event even harder; no changing of bicycles, no supplies or accessories and no team support was allowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036301-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Milan\u2013San Remo, The race\n62 riders had signed up to ride, but at 4am on 14 April 1907 it was cold and windy and only 33 riders set off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036301-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Milan\u2013San Remo, The race\n90\u00a0km into the race Giovanni Gerbi, known as \"the red devil\", attacked the lead group through the sleet on the climb of the Turchino gaining 3 minutes by the summit. He was caught by Gustave Garrigou in Savona. Gerbi decided to play the team card and waited for his Bianchi teammate Lucien Petit-Breton. The three entered the outskirts of San Remo together. Gerbi then impeded Garrigou allowing Petit-Breton to attack and gain a lead of a minute and winning the first ever Milan - San Remo. Gerbi finished ahead of the angered Garrigou who complained to the jury and was subsequently promoted to second. The fourth placed Luigi Ganna arrived over thirty minutes later. Only 14 riders finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036302-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1907 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1907 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 2\u20132\u20131 record (0\u20131\u20131 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored all opponents 55 to 52.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036303-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1907 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036304-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Mississippi College Collegians football team\nThe 1907 Mississippi College Collegians football team represented Mississippi College as an independent during the 1907 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036305-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Mississippi gubernatorial election\nThe 1907 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1907, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat James K. Vardaman was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036305-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic primary election was held on August 1, 1907, with the runoff held on August 22, 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036305-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Mississippi gubernatorial election, General election\nIn the general election, Democratic candidate Edmond Noel, a former state senator, ran unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036306-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1907 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1907 college football season. The team compiled a 7\u20132 record (1\u20131 against MVC opponents) and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 278 to 41. W. J. Monilaw was the head coach for the second of three seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036307-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Montana football team\nThe 1907 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1907 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Albion Findlay, and finished the season with a record of four wins, one loss and one tie (4\u20131\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036308-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Montenegrin parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 31 October 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036308-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Background\nThe elections were boycotted by the People's Party (The Club members), which had complained of intimidation and claimed that they had been portrayed as hostile to Prince Nicholas. The offices of the People's Party's journal in Nik\u0161i\u0107 was wrecked on two occasions, whilst a caf\u00e9 known to be a meeting place of People's Party members was also attacked. The newly-formed royalist True People's Party (The Rightists) were supported by the royal court and the army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036308-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Montenegrin parliamentary election, Aftermath\nThe newly elected National Assembly of Montenegro (parliament) met for the first time on 21 November 1907. Following the elections, 150 members of the boycotting People's Party (NS) were arrested for alleged treason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036309-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe 1907 College Basketball All-American team, as chosen retroactively by the Helms Athletic Foundation. The player highlighted in gold was chosen as the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year retroactively in 1944.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036310-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 NYU Violets football team\nThe 1907 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In their first year under head coach Herman Olcott, the team compiled a 5\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036311-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1907 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1907 college football season. In their first and only season under Joseph M. Reeves, the Midshipmen compiled a 9\u20132\u20131 record, shut out eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 118 to 34. A. H. Douglas made Walter Camp's third-team All-America, the second Southerner ever to have done so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1907 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach William C. \"King\" Cole and played its home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nPrior to the season, Nebraska joined the MVIAA, the first time since 1897 the Cornhuskers had been a member of a conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nBaekley PLAYERBarkley PLAYERBeltzer, Oren EBentley, Orlando QBBirkner, Hugo HBBurleigh PLAYERChaloupka, William RTCollins, Sydney CCooke, Harold QBEwing, Henry LGFrum, Sidney RGHarte, Louis RGHarvey, James EJohnson, Frank EKroger, Ernest FBMatters, Thomas LTMiller, A.H. RTMinor, Harry HBPatton EPerrin, Dale CPrice PLAYERWeller, John HB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Peru State\nNebraska held Peru State without a first down in Cole's first game, also the first meeting between the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota\nNebraska scored first after a Minnesota fumble, but a pair of field goals gave the Golden Gophers the lead and another victory over NU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nA second-half touchdown gave Nebraska a 10\u20139 win over Iowa State. On a late Cyclones field goal attempt, the ball hit the ground short of the uprights and bounced through. Because of this, Iowa State lists this game as a 13-10 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0006-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Kansas\nThis was Nebraska's only conference game in 1907, as the Cornhuskers had recently joined the MVIAA and were unable to schedule the other teams with such short notice. The 16\u20136 win gave NU a share of the conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0007-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Doane\nThe Cornhuskers shut out Doane 85-0, the largest margin of victory in Antelope Field history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036312-0008-0000", "contents": "1907 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Saint Louis\nSaint Louis shut out Nebraska 34\u20130 in the only meeting between the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036313-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 New Hampshire football team\nThe 1907 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1907 college football season\u2014the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Under second-year head coach Edward Herr, the team finished with a record of 1\u20135\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036313-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nScoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and four points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system, and games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036313-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nThe September 21 game was the first meeting between the New Hampshire and Norwich football programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036313-0003-0000", "contents": "1907 New Hampshire football team, Schedule\nNew Hampshire's second team (reserves) defeated Berwick Academy in Berwick, Maine, 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036313-0004-0000", "contents": "1907 New Hampshire football team, Roster\nA team roster published early in the season had 32 names; after the season, 13 players plus the student team manager were awarded varsity letters:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036313-0005-0000", "contents": "1907 New Hampshire football team, Roster\nIn December 1908, Carl Chase and another student drowned while canoeing in the nearby Great Bay. Edson D. Sanborn later coached the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) personnel of the 1918 New Hampshire football team that competed in place of the varsity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036314-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThe 1907 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1907. Republican nominee John Franklin Fort defeated Democratic nominee Frank S. Katzenbach with 49.28% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036314-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results\nThe Republican State Convention was held in Trenton on September 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036314-0002-0000", "contents": "1907 New Jersey gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Results\nThe Democratic State Convention was held in Trenton on September 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036315-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1907 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1907 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 3\u20130 record and outscored opponents by a total of 88 to 6. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036315-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team\nThe team was undefeated for the third consecutive year. During the 1905, 1906, and 1907 seasons, the Aggies compiled a 10\u20130 record under coach Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036316-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 New South Wales state election\nThe 1907 New South Wales state election was held on 10 September 1907 for all of the 90 seats in the 21st New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. Both adult males and females were entitled to vote, but not Indigenous people. The 20th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 19 August 1907 by the Governor, Sir Harry Rawson, on the advice of the Premier, Sir Joseph Carruthers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036316-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 New South Wales state election, Results\nNew South Wales state election, 10 September 1907\u200aLegislative Assembly << 1904\u20131910 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036317-0000-0000", "contents": "1907 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1907 were appointments by Edward VII to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00036317-0001-0000", "contents": "1907 New Year Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}}